shopping session and my lovely sam soon

I went shopping today! Bought jeans, undies, bags etc. I'm so going to be broke again!
I saw a dress that i fancied. But the lady at Bugis refused to give me a $5 discount, so i stepped out of the store. Yeah, i'm unreasonable, But it's my right isn't it?

Hmpf!

Met up with Ben for lunch and gossip session today, then went over to Coach to get my leather bag reconditioned.
Unfortunately, Coach doesn't do after sales servicing, Oh Joy! So i made a wasted trip down to their store.
After spending a few hundred bucks on a leather bag, the least they could do is to clean up ur bag as a way of saying thank you ain't it? Dumb asses!

I'm pretty stuck onto the recent Korean Drama, my lovely Sam Soon that's being aired on Channel U. I caught a few random episodes on Channel 55 a few months ago, but didnt managed to finish watching everything from the first episode to the last. So it's definitely a good time for me to watch the telly! Ya da ya da!

The show's rather hilarious.Kept me laughing for an hour everynight... got mom and dad hooked onto the show too. Hee hee hee.

I'll be off to the leadership camp on Saturday... hope it wouldnt be too torturous. Daphne is not one who fancies running around. In fact, i've already met my exercise quota for the year.
Attending 2 initiation day is like all the exercise you ever see me doing...
But for this year, *drum rolls* i've got an extra keep fit session to attend.
Cheers to having nice aching legs ya?

Bash. Phone. Dad

Picture taken in the VIP room.
Left to right: Yunwei, Waiyan, Grace,Kaili and me!!!!




More pictures here, left to right,
Grace the airstewardess, Waiyan the senior airstewardess, YW the GI Jane, Zoe the sailor girl and me!!!!






Look it's me!
I'm up on stage presenting prizes to the contestants.
It's the only picture that YW took for me, while im on stage..

I think this picture makes me look like i've got nice Loooooonng Legs! I like it! *giggles*












The Bash is finally over! It was definitely a busy night for me, runinng around like a mad woman, trying to get things organised.
I had fun taking pictures with friends, as well as random strangers!
Ha! It wouldnt have been possible without my dear VP-kenny, as well as the rest of my remaining EXCOs who made it possible like Steph, Viv, Agacia, Fi, YW, YL, Gary, Lailin, Robin as well as Mich Wong, and not forgetting the rest of my councillors who have contributed lots of time and effort with the publicity and the actual day itself. I love you all!!!! muarks!

Not forgetting the one person who silently toook in all my tantrums, standing by me when i was upset and stressed....fetching me to and fro to places like arab street to return and borrow costumes, post bash partying etc...

I slept like a baby after the event, and i'm proud to exclaim to the world that i'm now in the Semi-Retirement stage! Hahah! The next big thing that's occuring in my life would be....

My phone! my nokia 7610 has served me well for the past 2 years plus. =(
But it's time for the sweet pinkie to go...
it's beginning to give me problems, and so i figured before the problem deteriorates, it's best that i let it go.... So now, i'm having this huge dilema about the next choice of phone.

3G or not?
I'm looking at the nokia N72 because it's pretty and pink, and reminds me alittle of my 7610, but it's a non 3G phone!The next in line would be the nokia N73 mainly because of it's functions and it's 3G.

So what would it be? function vs design... Arhhhh it's giving me a headache.
*
Dad's hospitalised, because he underwent a day surgery to have 4 stents inserted into his arteries.
The doctor said "100% clogged on one artery, and 90% clogged for the other!"
How did he survive til today? I'm baffled. Must have surpressed alot of discomfort that he's experienced, keeping it all to himself all these while...

I dont know if it's a male phenomena to act "hero", gritting and bearing with all that pain...but it worries me alot, when he acts as if nothing's happening.
So we'll see how well he recovers, and hopefully that he'll be a good boy, lie in bed and rest for the 2weeks, until he gets well.
As for the time being, i guess he'll have to quit smoking, and not fly back to China too soon.

Ringmistress!

Ringmistress costume! I got mine at no. 1 costume, Costume house.

But many have been telling me that i look more magician like *sulks*
i edited the picture, and i kinda fancy the effect that i've created! Blurred the background, and the only focus would be me! Ho ho ho!

I'll dress up tomorrow, and i'll take loads of pictures to upload! Lalala!

Bash preparations

It's been a hectic week for me. Which explains for the lack of entries for days!

I've uploaded some of the pictures and this pic, is Soooo random!
It was taken while i was battling with monsters on the Xbox 360!

Everytime i "died" i'll scream Shit! and make funny faces, and he decided to take a picture of it. Well, i realised that it's probably a better depiction of me, as compared to my usual smiley toothy pictures. ha! Unglam, but defintely 100% Daphne!



In conjunction to the promoting and marketing of RMIT's coming school bash At DXO, we decided to dress up the some of my councillors in various occupations, to create hype and publicity.
I've got the pilots, the SIA air stewardess, the Construction workers, Cleaners, Char Siew Uncle, Prisoners, Kinky Nurse and so on, parading around the school distributing flyers!


In this picture, we were about to head back to the council room, to take a lunch break! Talking about having fun while at Work, Council's the best at juggling them!





A shot with the boys after their "duty". All except for Johnny the Ah long! He's the loan shark for the day, with his "tattoos", his "gold chain' and his old school Pager!!! Hoo!!


Went mad on Thursday, shuffling around everywhere, from Bali Lane near Arab street: where Masquerade, the costume rental place a visit, to Aliwal street, the other end of Arab Street: where no. 1 Costume for more options of costumes.

no doubt No.1 costumes has a larger variety of costume to rent from, but the service rendered was horrible, i'll cite inflexible management, zero business accument sense and lazy as the main reasons.
I tried striking up a "preferred costume house" deal with them, but they said no, coz it'll be too much of a trouble for them.
Little request such as the extending of rental days, came rather unwillingly too.

After i was done with No.1 costume house, Zoe, Mich and i went over to Raffles City to collect the premiem Gift sets that Skin Food has decided to sponsor us, as part of the prizes for the Pageant Queen and King, followed by our next destination - Wisma, where Sony Ericsson/Club Orange Roadshow booth is at. We collected the stuff, then headed over to School for my final Bash meeting!

Horrid Day it was, Woke up at 8 to be at Arab street at 10, only to have my first meal at 5pm.
I'm so glad Bash is tomorrow! I need sleep and lots of rest!

Arrghhhh!!!

A typical sunday with unusual thoughts

A Sunday afternoon with Zoe proved to be bad for the bank account. We met up, hung out at Bakerzin, indulged ourselves, went shopping and i easily spent slightly less than $200 today.

I bought shoes, bags and a culotte, and i just purchased a new ribbon top online. They are so cute!!!! Zoe bought this cute peasant dress. Of course it's not all leisure, we did source for potential sponsorships everytime we enter a shop that looks rather enticing and hopeful. Haa!

I'll be off to Blitz again tomorrow, to get my hair color changed. Whoo pee!

During my endless chatters with Zoe, it dawned upon me that im not done with my lesson on expectations yet. My expectations for my closed ones, friends whom i rely heavily on, as well as Boo.

As most would probably realise, im pretty much a friend snob, with exceptionally high expectations of those surrounding me, and the most recent Myers Briggs Type indicator test that i took, would double confirm that i am exactly the type that expects people to know what im thinking of.

I have no patience for those who're dumb, and unable to comprehend my train of thought. Yep it's so true! Yup, i'd dare say that those who surrounds me have been highly trained in the art of guessing what moody Daphne wants.. Hahah!

Now back to the expectation part. On my way home post shopping binge, I thought to myself that it's important for me to learn to juggle my expectations.

To have high expectations of my circle of trusted, i'll get really shattered, should they fail me in any event, coz they're supposed to be the ones who knows me best, the ones whom i rely heavily on, the ones who will protect me, when im in trouble or depressed. The ones whom i share my deep darkest secret with.

To lower, or to have no expectations of my circle of closed ones, it'll mean that i'll have lost hope in them, generally giving up on them, coz they are no longer worth my time, my effort and most importantly Trust. Just like the show "meet the parents" The circle of trust is everything to me, so in any event if the trust is broken, it will absolutely hurt badly.

Which, back to my point of juggling expectations, would be very important to safeguard my emotions, my pride and my sanity. But how? How is one able to juggle?
At the moment, the easiest and surest way would be like the ancient weighing scale. Add on bit by bit, til it balance.

To learn to trust people bit by bit. They'd lose points if they hurt or betray me, but i wouldnt be too eager with the rewarding or adding up either.. (as im neither generous nor impractical. Face it, i've got a damn good memory, with the exception of exam or school related subjects, so it's impossible to forget a bad day)

Yup it's an unfair world out there, and many would probably point out to me that i'm impractical with my expectations, but at the end of the day, i am my very own judge, with my own set of harsh rules and expectations. I'll adjust them after each bitter lesson learnt.

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a cookie day

urgh!
I thought it'll be sweet and fun to bake cookies for the Boo as a cute surprise.
Went to Holland Village spent slightly under a hundred on pet supplies ( yes you'll never realise how expensive a little guinea pig would cost you, until you start raising a 5mths old pig. She's now slightly under 3 years old.).
I went to cold storage to get the necessary cookie ingredients then went home for dinner.

I started on the cookie after coming home from work. (It's 1 am in the morning BTW, when i started on mission cookie)
I got slightly distracted by the cockroach that scuttled across the kitchen.
Yikes! Sprayed it with lots of Shiedtox. Well Da did warn me that we're having some roach infestations of sorts before she left for malaysia. *sigh*

Washed my hands, got started with the cookie mission. Took out the ingredients and started measuring them...
Opps. How much is 3/4 cup of butter exactly?
I went online to search for some sort of conversion rate to enlighten me.
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I'd say that cookie mission was doomed right at the start.

I spilled the brick of chocolate when i dumped it into the microwave to melt it.
Half of it went onto the table, while the remaining half went to the cookie.

Couldn't locate the baking powder, so i skipped it, after all since i'm using multi purpose flour, i thought to myself. (yeah i got confused with self raising flour, in case you're giving me the eyebrows)

I begin mixing my mixture up, the chocolate smelt good, and there i was, as the machine was churning, envisioning a really pretty chocolate and orange cookie, smiling to myself. Half orange, half chocolate, just like the ones that are sold in the supermarkets.

Sigh. The mixture turned up nothing near a cookie micture. It's more of a sludge.

Oh well, i thought to myself, it might turn out looking better, after baking it.
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Met Boo for supper, and we had Dim Sum at Mong Kok. He sent me home, i showed him what my sludge of a cookie became...

"oops it looks like lagsane"
Yeah, the "cookie" joined together, looking more like a marbled brownie cake.
Used a spoon to scoop the "cookie" and it tasted absolutely like shit.

Boo asked " where's the orange?"

I sweared i added half an orange into the mixture. Pulp and juice, and alittle rind, after all, the recipe called for 1 tablespoon of Zest.

Boo explained to me that Orange Zest is a nicer name for the skin of Orange.
He also said that my next batch of cookie would definitely turn out better. =(

Ahhh im a pathetic cookie maker. There isnt going to be another next time!
I'm shattered! Boo!

Worst of all, i spent double the time washing and cleaning up the mess that i've created, than the time spent on making cookies. Bah!



Psst! I caught The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo drift.
It's good, the drifting, and i fancy th weird tokyo drift song that they played, when the drifting carpark is used. It's by the Teriyaki Boyz.
Haha! Definitely a must watch.

It's bed time.. ZzzzzzZZ..