Christmassy Silent night..

Christmas is over!

I am semi glad actually.

It's not that I dislike christmas or anything, but because I preferr a simple christmas affair.

Because I wanted christmas to be quiet and simple, we bought log cake, honey baked ham with apple sauce orcranberry sauce, and he made my favourite Leonard brewed chicken soup!

Council matters took up most of my time, and 

Wham! 
It's Christmas week!
Panicking - I was like "oh my gawd, oh my gawd" i' haven't gotten anyone anything!
Ha ha. I ran around frantically like a mad woman, picking pressies for mommy, bro, sis and dad, Leonard and folks and friends.

Shopping for presents became a one day event, and it went pretty smoothly until I got to daddy's pressie!

It's so difficult to present shop him, that i reckon it would be easier to step into the kitchen to whip up a sumptous meal.

(i'm speaking from a kitchen retard's point of view)

I was desperate. a list of stuff flew across my head.. Handkerchief, personalised lighter, wallet, shirt, socks, bag blah blah..
Daddy is rather fussy. He never wear shirts without pocket - to put his ciggies and pen in there... and mommy wouldnt allow me to get any ciggies related items like ash tray, lighter.

Eventually, being super desperate and all, I finally settled for a nice leather wallet set, that comes with a matching leather swiss arm knife. Cool huh?
While Da and I decided to get mommy a nice white top, and the both of us just chose what we wanted and we just paid for it.

Leonard and I decided against a gift exchange, but I saw stuff that he would like, a tee shirt, and a door stopper with a dog sitting on it, nothing much, just got them because the tee is nice, and the stopper is cute.

Guess what?

I ended up getting a Guess watch that I fancied!

I feel bad, with him being broke and all, he shouldn't have gotten me the watch. 
I'm happy, but guilty at the same time. 
Dilema!

I received a cat charms bracelet from his mom! 
Absolutely loving the meows!

Michelle got me a book, titled " why man can only do one thing at a time, and women never stop talking." Ha ha. So sweet about her.

I love the Christmas season, but this particular one so happens to be a really busy one, which killed joy alittle.

Council meeting on 23rd dec,
I had to print Orientation banner on the 24th dec,
and today, I went to check on the embroidery for the council tee in the afternnon.
I am such a slave to the council. =(

I wonder if it's just me, or does everyone agree that Christmas isn't like Christmas anymore. The seasonal festive mood is lacking.

Holidays just don't feel the same anymore. =(

In lieu of the festive season, I drew a christmas tree on my hand with henna dye. Mommy says my hands just look dirty from afar.

Hmpf.
I am also itching to stick a pair of reindeer antlers on pix!e, like the hamsters in the scrooge movie.

So cute!

But if i really do it, pix!e will end up being really pissy with me. Ha haha.

Family Dinner tonight consist of cold crab and the usual christmassy food like ham, roast chicken, salad ...

I am so stuffed that I believe I am going into a food coma soon.

Merry Christmas!

A TagBoard!

Look!

I've gotten myself a tagboard!

Do drop me a hi in there.

Da is amazed about how erm "colorful" my blog is. She thought all the colorful font was generated by the template!

Chey! i'm taking the credit for the colorful fonts alright!

For I am Daphne the rainbow.

Everything has to be visually enticing, otherwise I'll convulse and die!

I'm supposed to be asleep, but I am feeling waaaayy too hyper to be asleep! 
Still hyper from zouk!
What's worst, I have to get my ass to school by 9 tomorrow!

I discovered that looking after lil' bro is never easy. 
Lost my patience, and the lil monkey pissed Leonard off - by getting his finger prints all over the car.. including the roof.
What's worst, was that leonard just waxed the car all by himself, and it's all ruined.

But the poor silly kid has no idea what wax is mah, so im like so stucked in a dilema!
it's difficult to explain to a kid what a car wax is, and why it's important for the car.. and the amount of hardwork my boyfriend invested in it.
sigh... Bad bad situation.

I feel bad, yet there's nothing i can do, except to redeem myself by volunteering to wax the car?
But mr nice, the mazda lover says "no need".Hee hee.

I think he declined my offer because I might do a bad job out of it.

Then, there's the constant phone call that i get from my aunt!

She calls me many times a day to check that my brother is alright, to make sure that his sisters are not mistreating him!

Any more calls from her, and I'll personally send him over to her place, just so that she'll stop calling, and watch over him herself.

That and I would be able to enjoy myself!

It's only the second day that mommy's gone, and i'm already missing her!
I want my mommy back!
I hate having to worry about the brother's meals constantly.

-

I made him lunch, watered and fed him well, while I went around with an empty stomach, 
( I know I could have eaten too, but 12.30pm is too early for my tummy to function).

I woke up damn early, to make him a nice sandwich toasted to perfection with lots of melted cheese oozing out, only to end up with burnt fingers and a big mess in the kitchen to clean up.
The cheese melted onto the toaster, hardened..and i had a hard time scrubbing.
I want my mommy back!!! Boo boo!

* I've decided against homecooked meals! Scrubbing and washing pans is too much work.
Gonna just stick to buying meals back from now on. 
so tired.

Anger Management

You know how I'm very short fused by nature.
Lately, I am learning to take things easy with my frustrations aimed towards school work, and mainly people.

Leonard says that i'm an angry girl, and it is not right to be cursing and swearing about other people.


but bottling up is just going to give me lots and lots of pent up anger.
I just need to get it out of my system.


That, and my character judgement of people can be rather spot on alright.

Note to self:

I should always trust what my instincts tells me.

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Mommy's heading off to Hong Kong for work today, and I have to take charge of lil' bro.
Dreading the huge responsibility involved.
For starters, just like custody, Da and I would have to decide on who will care for the little bro on what days and such.

I intend to bring the little brother along when Quacks and I are out on errands, then bring him along for dinner at NYDC for Winston's birthday (hopefully winst wouldn't mind), then bring him home before heading out to Zouk.

Since both Da and myself would be at Zouk, the best option would be to get the brother to sleep early. Hahaha.

Figured that I could bring the lil man out for rollerblading session.
toughen up the boy, for he looks like tofu.

Mommy will be back on the 18th, and daddy will be back on the 19th!

The both of them will be meeting in Hongkong for a little rendevous for a night or a day.. despite different work schedules!  
they both deserve a break from family affairs!
=)

So Near..Yet so Far...!

Results are finally out today.

Turns out that i've passed 2, and failed 2 .

Feeling shitty at the moment.

Contemplating if I should go over to school tomorrow to make an appeal.
Doesn't seems like an easy task.

From what the seniors shared, I'll have to attend a heart to heart talk with the Department head.


Shit!
Mommy's gonna be upset to know that i've failed again, and I'll have to bear with the usual string of rattles


 "see la.. play play play, never study", or " waste time la" etc. 


My fail mark is at borderline. 49.
Rwar!
It's so dumb to have to retake just because i'm 1 point short!
Waste money as well.
Stupid.
I guess the most frustrating part would be where you're feeling helpless, and at the mercy of whoever he might be. There's totally nothing you can do to save yourself, but yet you can't take it lying down! What am i supposed to do?

Hopefully, the school might be feeling charitable, allowing me pass or something, provided that i do extra assignment or sub paper or something? The odds of it happening, it as good as waiting for diamonds or gold to drop from the sky.

Sigh..guess the best I can do for now, is to hope for the best and shut up and pray hard.

Half bald Daphne

After what seemed like a million years, I have finally gotten myself a haircut.

No thanks to the favour I did for a certain hairdresser who NEVER kept his word.

I'm NEVER gonna help that thankless soul EVER.

I did him a favor on a 15 minutes notice, and it seems like the bugger forgot all about it the second I stepped out of NEXT salon.

He needed to give me a blunt straight cut - think old school china girls in their one length short hair, and promised he'll layer my hair soon, and throw in a treatment session as a gesture of appreciation.

Guess what? 
It's been more than 2 months, and NOTHING came through!

I hounded him, and he kept giving me stupid excuses, and I promise that this bugger by the name of IZOC, will never get far in his career, simply because he is irresponsible!

I despise people like this. So disgusting!

Anyway, my current hair woe at the moment  - I got no more hair post layering! 

wha lau. 

While Leonard was having his haircut, his stylist kept making digs at my ugly blunt cut. I gave up, and told her that she may layer my hair.

The shampooing at REDS is terrible

The haircut was a nightmare.

I've got nothing against changes, but I do believe I've been spoilt by Blitz 
The hair cut does not suit me, and it's terribly overlayered.
It feels as if I'm bald now.

*Bawls*

The shampoo girl was horrible.

she washed my hair as if it was some filthy clump of seaweed, 
scalded my scalp with the hair dryer, and used the hairdryer to whip my face multiple times with my fringe, while drying my hair. Good Gawd!

Followed by the not so satisfactory haircut.

I am also promptly reminded about my previously bad experience with Reds at Suntec

2 years ago.

Lydia, Gloria, Jenice and myself decided to get our hair done for our Diploma show.

Both Lydia and I envisioned ourselves with simple classic chignon or plait or french bun etc. and ended up we ended up with a snail like shell bun for Lydia, and Medusa for myself. So embarrassing!


I seriously think that haircut is not something that I can do on a whim and fancy!
I learnt that I have to pick my hairdresser carefully, just like how I cannot anyhow go on a date with a random stranger. 
Weh.

Not every stylist suits my preference, and the lesson is, no matter how adventurous I am by nature, it is always better to stick to people that I trust.
Other wise, it's bad hair day for the next couple of months.  
Such bond with the hairstylist is hard to explain.
For now, i'll just have to sit around, and wait for my hair to grow out, and I seriously swear that I have been spoilt rotten by Blitz.


I'm sorry Kate. I wont do it again.
*bawls*

Ooh! the long awaited Mazda .....

Quack's parents bought us tickets to catch the Mama Mia! showing at the Esplanade.

The show was awesome, and it was my first time watching anything in the Esplanade. It was just disappointing that there was no DVD/VCD on sale, or I would have gotten them for mommy.
Weh..

I decided to skip the weekly Mambo, as the queue at Zouk is insanely long, therefore the decision to catch some rest at home instead.

Imagine being squashed by sweaty people / throttled on by people who are dancing with 2 left feets. Clubbing can be hazardous at times.

The highlight of the week would be Quack's Mazda 3! 
Naturally, We're all glad and excited that it's finally arrived, as it was appalling, just thinking about how long it took, for him to collect it, with bad service from the sale person and all.

That aside, new car = show and tell, so the usual suspects all had a go with joy rides, and the usual talk like the engine sounds funny, or the brakes making loud noise, whether to smoke the lights,add eyelides, change to a shorter antenna, blahblahblah.

It's practically like girls on similar topics! Do you think i should get my eyelids fixed, or would this color suit my eyes, am I walking funny, getting fat and so on.

Thinking about it now, I guess I was being PMS-sy, and acting daft, but I was getting quite upset that the Car's getting more air time than I am.

Haha! Yes well, girls are such unpredictable and unreasonable creatures, but I have since gotten over it, and I am totally fine with the car now! Lalala.

Never realized how tiring it is just to travel around, and I am in serious need of sleep. I barely slept for 2-3 hours before i had to rush out, for the Council Meeting in preparation for the coming Orientation! 


Brain's not functioning at this moment. 
Shall update soon!