In my shopping cart...#5

Well, same assumption as always, if I had the money, I would get....

http://www.dmusastore.com/p-3695-sara.aspx

Comfy and pretty shoes from Dr. Marten's. I like chunky heels. They always look comfy.

http://www.topshop.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?beginIndex=0&viewAllFlag=&catalogId=33057&storeId=12556&productId=2539832&langId=-1&sort_field=Relevance&categoryId=208523&parent_categoryId=203984&pageSize=20&siteID=Hy3bqNL2jtQ-nGFPAsxWeMBtjm.y16D1nA&cmpid=aff_ls_tsus&_$ja=tsid:21416|prd:Hy3bqNL2jtQ

Pretty dress, even prettier if worn with petticoats. I lovelovelove puffy skirts. If only I dared to wear them.

http://www.disneystore.com/nightmare-before-christmas-organic-cotton-expressions-jack-skellington-tee-for-women/mp/1287633/1000038/

This shirt appeals to me, I do not know why. It is cheap, by the way, only S$12. But, not available here. Pity. >:/

http://www.strapya-world.com/categories/2331_3258_2354/sort3d/page1.html

A duper cool watch that requires you to dial 117 before it tells you the time! So much cooler than the regular watch! Furthermore, you must dial it the retro way! I used the retro phone in Hokkaido before, it is fun and wacky! I want!

http://www.irregularchoice.com/shop/womens/product/4248/j-kelly.html?offset=58

I like this. It is cute. The best thing is, you can probably DIY it with mod podge after wearing it for a while or when you get sick of being plain jane. 

That's all for today, Ciao!

Rebecca:)

Gastronomic Journey to the moon

Well, I have been eating rather good food the last few months. In Lynette's words, my tum-tum is happy. However, as happy as it has become, it means that it is growing bigger too! Time to go on a special diet!:/ I am not a avid photographer, so do not expect too many pictures!

Oysters from Trader's Hotel. They are too big, and if my guess is not wrong, grown in freshwater. So the taste is not very strong. But look at the size! For someone who can eat 20 oysters, I have to say that these were big. I stopped after the tenth. I like eating it with a wedge of lemon. Since these were not salty, I found that adding a few grains of slat makes it more delish!

 I lovelovelove eating home alone because I get to cook whatever I like to eat and eat wherever I want, which is in front of the computer. This is Korean chacharoni (jajangmyun in Korean). It is instant noodles by the way. Veggies and tomatoes not included. It would have tasted better with kimchi, but I did not have those at that point of time. Although it does not look good, but it is really yummy:)

 My mummy bought me these! Yumyumyum, one of my favourite ice-cream shops, but sososo expensive!(money fly away) :'( It comes with a funny story though because my mum seldom eat ice-cream. We passed by the ice-cream shop at Citilink, they were selling two cups of ice-cream for $4, which is a good buy because it is so expensive on normal days, so I asked my mummy,"Can I have a cup of ice-cream? Preetty please? We share!" My mum told me I can have both, so I got blue one(forgot the name) and the berry one. My mom was holding the cup of ice-cream and I told her to try it. Lo and behold, she liked it(rare!!!) and she ate it all up:/ I ate the blue one, which was really good too. But I wanted the berry one so after dinner we got two more cups for my brother and I and I finally got to eat the berry one too. Yay to me! Two cups of yummy ice-cream in a day!

Another of my home alone meals. Aglio Olio! Nomnomnom! >.< One of my favourites:) You know, I swear it is the camera. DSLRs make everything look good, so even though this do not look like much, it is yummy because this picture was taken from my phone.  I know the previous sentence is very incoherent, but that is the way I think and I am currently to lazy to correct it! Hmmpf.

I went to Shabira's house for lunch today for Hari Raya. I love her mummy's cooking, especially the mutton. Oh god, it was good. I got a good deal because I got to have one more piece of mutton from Sha's friend because she did not like mutton and I gave my chicken to Sha because I do not like chicken, so I was happy I did not need to eat it.(Sneaky me, but it was a win win situation!) I do not have any photos, but I was annoyed by her sister's friend because he kept saying how women should all learn to sew and become virtuous wives. Oh my, what a annoying Male Chauvinist Pig.

Well, that's all, I know it has been a long time since I posted, but I was busy as a bumble bee. Studying is tough job. Ciao!

Rebecca :)O= [can you see my happy belly?]

I miss YOG!

Well, I know I have been missing lately. I was too lazy to post anything. Heh heh. It has officially been a year since the inaugural YOG in Singapore!!! Sigh. How fast time passes even if you are not having fun. I really missed the times we had. I did not take many pictures though. I should have! I was too busy entertaining random athletes, not like some people who was so busy taking pictures. I know you like meeting people all over the world, I do too. But you should know where are your priorities. You are there to entertain then, not really take lots of pictures with them! Argh. Whatever la >P I had a GREAT, MARVELOUS, WONDERFUL, (Insert similar adjectives here)^5 time! I gained really a lot of experience planning stuff and I learnt a hell lot of things about different kinds of people. From those who ignore you, irritate you, are very irresponsible, unreasonable, you said it, I think I got it. Oh well, I think you are not really interested in my rambling anyway, so I shall just get to the pictures, shall I? Please note that these pictures were taken from a old 9MP camera, so the quality is ridiculous:/

So this was the place where I was for 4 days. I was a World Culture Village(WCV) Host! In this WCV, there are many booths representing the different countries. My school was in charge of GERMANY! Anyway, only authorised personnel were able to enter for security purposes and they check your bags and you have the scan your tags before entering. So I think it is cool that I was there. Heh heh! So I thereby give you a peek into the WCV!

I photoshopped this a long while back, so technically, I did not do anything much. I just blurred the background and removed some freckles. I am glad to say that those were my good face days:) I did not even make any eyes bigger. Har har. This is a picture of the two in-charge! Josephine(left) and myself. Obviously I am the one with the bigger face, and I was the ''camwhorer''. It did not help that the picture was very nicely taken, my face is still big. I had braces then. I do not like smiling with braces. Glad to have them off now :D Compare the face width. Eww.

I know this is unclear, but I cannot help it:/ I told you the camera was lousy. I admit that I reduced the size of my face here by quite a bit. My face actually looks okay! Big face, Moonface!<---From the faraway tree, one of my favorite children's books ever! Anyway, this picture was with athletes from Antigua-Barbuda. I am pretty sure this is on one of the last days, because I had badges on my lanyard. I kept the lanyard, but I think it is tarnishing:(

This is a picture with Karla and her fellow swimmer Kevin! I was supposed to bring her around Singapore, but because she had to go to Pulau Ubin for her ''adventure'' and subsequently I had school, we could not meet :'( Pity. I was so excited. They are from Guatemala. Look at the badges they have on their lanyards! According to Karla, it is something like a tradition. Each athlete is given a lot of badges on their way here and they trade badges. So she has many many of them. Me thinks it is a cool way to interact. I managed to get some from the athletes! Yay me! The largest one was the Taipei pin. It had two backings. I had fun with the Taiwanese athletes  They said that Singaporeans Chinese cannot make it:/

Here are two Chinese atheles. I remember the guy went on to win a medal. This was also when I felt that my Chinese was terribly bad :/ He was struggling to make the friendship band. Oh, I forgot to mention. The athletes came to the booth and learn about Germany, they also got to do some handicrafts like make friendship bands. If you look carefully, you can see the friendship bands on some of the athletes wrists:) I remember I had difficulty teaching the Chinese guy how to tie it in Chinese-___-|| Josephine got to wear a German costume which belong to a German intern from the embassy. Lucky:) I like that kind of dresses, especially the bodice. I am not being feminist, but I swear, girls can do friendship bands better than guys. There are two designs, the Chinese staircase and diagonal. I usually let them choose which one do they wanna learn, but when I see some of the guys, I go like, hmmm, I think you should do this one. Because you will see,  a girl can do it in 30-40 minutes, a guy does it in about half a day. Haha! Especially the really tall ones. Tall=big hands=big fingers= not good for handling threads.

Okay. Two Aussie and one German. I am too lazy to type out the entire conversation, but I think they spent 2 hours in the booth! :) I was telling the German athlete how to tie the friendship band the entire time. And yes, that was all he did. The girl managed to do the friendship band and paint a buddy bear!

I reallyreallyreally missed those times. If Singapore ever organise something like this again, I hope that I will get the opportunity to volunteer again:)

Well, I really need to get back to work now so I will stop here. Ciao!

Rebecca ['',]

I feel a change...

Well, as the title states, I can feel a change in me. It is so weird, but in a good way. As I have been saying, I have been staying back to do my homework and revise my subjects to pull up my grades after being traumatized in this recent BT. It really woke me up. I have turned over a new flower(why leaf when flowers are so much better?) and threw most of my bad habits away. Anyway, that is not the main point. The point is, I am changing. I can feel it. I am starting to enjoy studying again! It is so freaky. I mean, I still get dejected sometimes when I get stuck at a question, but I can ask my classmates and we will ponder over it together. It is quite fun. This realization dawned upon me as we were having Chemistry remedial(for the whole class as we[minus one guy] sucked at the subject) My classmate Lynette:) and I were marking our MCQ questions together and we compared the questions we got wrong. I tried to explain to her and vice visa. It is really funny when we both got the question wrong and we stared very hard at the computer screen to decipher what did the model answer mean.  It was really funny. I had not had so much fun checking answers before when most of my answers are wrong. I learnt much more in that 1.5 hours than in a normal lesson.

It made me realize that everything can be enjoyable when you do it with the right people. I am glad my classmates are like that. Although we may hurt each other unintentionally sometimes, but we still care for each other. I confess, I used to always fall asleep during lessons and when the teacher ask me questions, I am grateful that both the Josephines sitting beside me will try whisper the answer to me. Even if the answer is wrong, I felt warm inside. Thank you so much dearies. I appreciate it. I think they are so used to doing it that even when I am awake and did my tutorial and have the answer, they will still whisper their answer to me. Hehe:) Old habits die hard.

But anyway, the main point of this blog post is actually to tell you I think studying makes me gu-gu(insane in Singlish) Guess what did I do today??? I stayed in school for night study, and decided I wanted to JOG today. I feel fat. My dad called me to tell me he wanted to jog to my school then we walk home together. But I wanted to jog too so I asked him to wait for me to come home. He said, ''Why don't you jog home?'' I was like, :O ''Crazy! Carry my heavy bag and jog home?'' In the end, we decided that he will bring my running gear to school and I will leave my stuff in school, only bringing my wallet and phone home. So, for the first time in my school bag's life, it is camping in school. I am home. It feels very satisfying to jog actually because I always had an aversion to jogging(long story). Maybe it is due to the stress I am experiencing now or the feeling of fatness. It does not seem so much a torture as it used to. Maybe it was the fact that it was at night and the weather is cooling. I do not know. All I know is, I am glad my father came to run with me today. I needed that. Thank you daddy:) But do not expect this to be an often occurrence as I am generally a lazy person that dislikes the sun. I only jog at night.

This brings me to another point. I usually hug my bag and sleep on the bus in the mornings. I need the bag to sleep. How am I going to get my morning nap tomorrow? Hmmm. Anyway, the soccer teacher saw my dad and myself in jogging gear at school and he was looking at my dad up and down, up and down. Maybe it is because my father ran 9 km before he met me. No wonder I waited so long for him. Haha.

Anyway, after a bout of bad luck, things are finally looking better. I am slowly but surely recovering from the cold, I started to like studying again and my parents are not scolding me recently. I guess they have seen my efforts towards my studies. In case you are wondering what bad things happened to me, here goes(warning:BLOOD)
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Actually, this is my own fault because I left my needles hanging on my curtains after sewing a few buttons  because I was to lazy to walk to the sewing kit to keep it.

Other than this, I had a paper cut, was late for school three times in three weeks with only one chance left for the next three weeks, wasted $10 on taxi fare and still ended up in school late(most painful) and spent almost half of my allowance on taxi fare so that I will not be late for school.

I should not complain right? I live an exciting life. But please let it be less exciting till the first of December. My heart might not be able to take it. I am growing old. Haha.

That's all. This a a prime example of a very long post. Thank you for listening to me(if you did) I wonder if anyone's life more exciting then mine? Till next time, ciao!

Rebecca:)