Dear Yins,
I think you need free weekends if you have to work so hard during the week. At any rate, it did not seem like a comfort zone to me with the lack of appreciation for the hard work and effort you have put in. You will find something better soon, I am confident particularly with this stint of work experience and by keeping in close contact with your agent - do not wait for her to call but call her regularly to show your interest after a much needed break. Let me know if you need any financial help - your ee ee is always here for you, no questions asked. Love and hugs and keep warm and away from crowds with 'flu.
Dr Ooi Giok Ling
Professor
National Institute of Education
Nanyang Technological University
1 Nanyang Walk
Singapore 637616
and
Adjunct Professorial Fellow (Institute of Policy Studies)
Yinny was Joshing around @ 1:38 PM
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My gorgeous niece, one of the loves of my life:
I can't wait to spend Christmas with her :)
Yinny was Joshing around @ 7:58 PM
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Yinny was Joshing around @ 7:14 PM
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A new edition to the family:
Christmas is coming!!
My favourite (manufactured) smells:
I just realised that I can do this with Photobucket:
I feel so swaku *lol*.
New Fossils for each of us:
I know one has only 2 arms but one can never have too many watches...nor handbags...but that'll take up a whole other blogpost altogether...
Another blue box (from the new shop at Chadstone this time - we had to queue to get in):
This time it's a pendant:
I know I'm a lucky girl.
Today I saw the most atrocious thing in Chadstone. Juin and I were queuing up (I suddenly feel like I'm back in Singapore again - queue to get everywhere) to get a table in the Lindt Cafe when suddenly this waiter came up to the queue and offered everyone free chocolates because it was going to be a long wait. There were 2 aunties (from Hong Kong) who were queuing up in front of me - not only did they grab as many free chocolates as they could from the waiter, they even went into the store and helped themselves to some more from the 'pick and mix' area, where customers can select their own chocolates to purchase. OMG!! I was so disgusted with their behaviour!! The Aussie couple behind me with their 2 kids were pretty gross themselves. When the waiter offered them chocolates, they sniffed at it and said, "What flavours are these?" The waiter replied, "Dark chocolate, mint and orange." Then the wife said in a sarcastic voice, "Oh, then no flavours for children?? No thanks then." So the waiter had to apologise and went and grabbed some 'child-friendly flavours' from the 'pick and mix' area. OMG!!! What happened to just appreciating and thanking people for FREE EXPENSIVE CHOCOLATE!!!??? The funniest thing happened after that though. The waiter came back to us with paper cups filled with the most delicious hot chocolate to apologize for the long wait. In the end we decided to walk away from the long queue (we had already been standing there for half an hour), but for our time spent there queuing we got free chocolates and hot chocolate LOL!!!
Ahhhh Monday again tomorrow *sucky*. I hope you guys have a good week. Christmas is coming!!! :)
Yinny was Joshing around @ 7:26 PM
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Ok, so Amy, Sangee, Cheryl and I had bought Britney's Circus Tour tickets months ago and we were pretty psyched to be a part of it. So on Friday the 13th Nov we headed down to the Rod Laver Arena (yup, 7 years in Melbourne and I've never once been inside it) for some action.
I've followed Britney's career since I was 13 years old. That's 11 close to 12 freaking years. Granted, she's a crap singer and a crazy person sometimes (well most times) but there's just something about her music that's catchy and fun and it goes 'round and 'round your head until your brain sometimes wants to beg it to stop.
Britney's never been down under in her entire life so we were quite lucky to be able to catch a glimpse of her. Check her Circus tent out selling all sorts of merchandise. We wanted to get t-shirts but unfortunately they were so freaking expensive ($50 each) and fugly that we just couldn't make ourselves do it.
That's us in our seats farrrrrrrrrr away from the action. The crazy people who paid for the action paid $500 - $1500 for arm's length seats. We were cheapskate so we bought the 2nd cheapest seats. The only time I'm going to pay for those is if I actually get to touch Britney or if she gives me a lap dance at least.
Let's play a game I like to call 'Spot Britney' (geddit? Cuz she's so small she's like a spot?? Awww comeon that was lameass funny)!:
See how there are 3 stages in the 360*C arena?? Britney had to divide herself between 3 stages all whilst twirling around 4 sides so that everyone could get a 25% glimpse of her face and spend the other 75% of her song watching her backside.
Curtain of sparks come down after Britney's last song
I have to say, I wasn't impressed. You know, people made a HUGE deal out of her lip-synching during the concert. Like dude, as if she's ever sung live in public EVER! I can't believe people are shocked to hear this! They must have been living in a parallel universe all this while where there's this Britney who can sing beautifully and perfectly live *doh!*. The only song she sang live was 'Everytime' and she didn't even finish it. I have to say that it sounded very similar to the CD version though. Hmm.
Anyways, I was annoyed because we were there at 8pm right, because that's when the concert was supposed to start. So yes, the opening act, DJ Havanna Brown, supposedly the best DJ in Australia, but no one's ever heard of her, started off on stage doing one of her awesome mixes which included songs from Black Eyed Peas and Lady Gaga (at that point Sangee and I almost wished we were at a BEP's concert). Did I mention that she looked like Lady Gaga? She was on-stage for a whole 20mins doing what DJs do best, standing behind the turntable and occasionally running from stage to stage trying to rev up the crowd.
And then she disappeared and we were left sitting there in the quiet for 40mins just waiting for something to happen.
When something finally happened, Britney said only 2 sentences to the crowd the whole concert. There were also long costume changes, sometimes with her Circus acrobats and dancers to entertain us (sorry pals, I know you're working your butt off more than Britney is and you're getting paid a lot less, but reality is, no one's here to see you) and sometimes there was nothing on stage but a screen playing videos of her. These were really anti-climax moments which kindda killed the mood for me. Of course it didn't help that we were sitting right at the back and could hardly see her - lucky she's blonde or else it'll be even tougher.
The good parts of the concert were that her dancing was fantastic, as usual, and that even though she's now a mom and she's been through a whole hell lot (esp the crazy parts), she's still got IT. I don't really know what 'IT' is, but she's got IT. I wouldn't pay to watch her again, but I didn't regret watching her this once. And of course, the fun-nest bits were hanging out with mah chicks and watching Amy boogie down to 'I'm a Slave 4U' like she was in a nightclub.
Rod Laver, smoking up after the concert
After that we went to supper at China Bar @The Glen 'cos we were starving and guess who we met?
A fellow Britney fan (check out his t-shirt with the tour dates)!
What a night.
Yinny was Joshing around @ 1:37 PM
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Me (to Juin): Go get ready or else we'll be late for the bus
Picks up a comb to brush my hair
Juin: *smiles*
Me: What?
Juin: You're beautiful
(Now everybody say 'awwww')
Yinny was Joshing around @ 1:29 PM
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OMG it's FREAKING HOT it's not funny!!!
I don't ever remember Spring feeling like a furnace...It's like 34*C at the moment - my skin feels like the top layer is going to burn itself off.
I don't think I'm going to survive this Summer. America, please come soon!!
On a brighter note, Britney bitch is coming to Melbourne!!!! Woooohooooo!!! Amy, Sangee and I are gonna catch her last concert in Melbourne this Friday!! Haha!! I heard that people have been complaining that she lip-synches and stuff...but I knew that all along. It must have been 10 or 11 years since she broke onto the scenes with 'Baby one more time'. Gosh she is my era! I grew up listening to her LOL. So excited...will post up pictures once it's over :)
Rest of the week is going to be crazy hawt, so lather up the sunscreen and drink lots of fluids!! Speaking of sunscreen, we went to the beach last weekend:
The water was so damn clear and the sand was littered with seashells
Harlow Mr. Crab!
Can you spot the starfish??
Mentone Beach
It was a lovely, sunny day. The beach was awesome!! The water was so clear and the beach was so clean. I got a nice arm tan but my legs, for some reason, refuse to tan. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Will have to try again sometime later.
Yinny was Joshing around @ 4:01 PM
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Dearest EE,
It's been a month since you've been gone and things are still the same. Feels like just yesterday that I was still massaging your legs and talking to you and you smiling at me. I think many of us have not moved on - definitely not Ma and I. Ma called me up last night to tell me that because her life has revolved around you for the last 2.5 years, she feels empty now, especially when she has free time, she thinks of the times you and her spent together.
I understand because I feel the same too, although I've been away for so long that I remember the precious 2 months that I had with you best. You are always with me in my thoughts, even when I am temporarily distracted by work or other things, whenever I have an idle moment, be it sitting in the train on the way to work or before going to bed, you are there with me every single time.
People say that no one is indispensible, but you are irreplaceable, at least in my heart. I still feel that gaping hole and sometimes I'm in this place where I'm all alone, wondering what it would be like if you hadn't contracted cancer. You would have seen Tian Ji and Zheng Xi go to Uni. I know you wanted the world for them, like every mother does for their children. You would have retired and gone to see more of the world like you always enjoyed, with Ma and Uncle Kog. You would have come to my wedding - you promised me that you would - I badly wanted you to meet Juin so that he can see why I idolize you so much. You would have held my children and loved them with all your heart like you love me and all your nephews, nieces, grand nephews and grand nieces.
I think of these things and it hurts so much because every day that you are not around I feel a day lost. I had so much faith in God that He wouldn't take you because you are the last one to ever deserve to have to go through so much pain and suffering. I watched you every day and my heart broke into a million pieces, but I could do nothing but watch helplessly from outside. I am so, so sorry that your last 2 and a half years were spent in and out of hospital, needles sticking everywhere, operations, medication, hair loss etc until eventually your condition deteriorated until you did not even have energy to speak, let alone move. I know you hated these things so much. You deserved so much more but you didn't get to enjoy it, that's what kills me the most.
I hope you are happy now and not feeling too lonely without us there in Heaven. Just know that we miss you dearly and will always, always love you.
Love,
Yinsy
Yinny was Joshing around @ 7:50 PM
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