sunshine

So I chopped off whatever tail I had and I'm back to spunky ole fierce-if-not-smiling me :D Less adventurous with hairdresser-hopping now since I've found no. 7 :) Sadly when I go back I can't take him with me lol.

I already feel browner from awhile in the Sun this afternoon, seeing our boxes sealed, indexed and packed into the container for shipping back to sunny Singapore.


First Bollywood song to enter my itunes!
Give me some sunshine
Give me some rain
Give me another chance I wanna grow up once again


I watched "3 Idiots" twice in the past week. My fave Bollywood movie! Even better than "Slumdog Millionaire"! Haha.


Summer summer summer! My slippers saw the light of day for the first time this year heh. More peaches coming out too yay! But noooo it's getting too hot too soon. Lol. I want my even tan.

A good book: The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

A good movie (though it ends rather abruptly): Before Sunset
Some quotes from Before Sunset:

"The true work of improving things is in the little achievements of the day."

"The people that are the most giving, hardworking and capable of making this world better usually don’t have the ego and ambition to be a leader. They don’t see any interest in superficial rewards, they don’t care if their name ever appears in the press. They actually enjoy the process of helping others. They’re in the moment."

I cannot tolerate bad grammar. Sad to say, many netizens are guilty of that. It makes comprehension so much harder although you get the gist. Only realized that our English is actually so poor when I started researching on the GE and reading people's blog/forum posts. Here in China we're admired for having learned at least 2 languages, and being able to speak English fluently. But it's like being a jack of all trades, yet a master of none. Highly regrettable to not be able to achieve a decent mastery or international standard of either language, given that we're brought up learning both English and Chinese from young. We can't compare with PRCs when it comes to the Chinese language and we can't express ourselves as well as the Americans when it comes to the English language. It's like we're neither here nor there. Guess only Singlish makes us special. The beauty is in being able to ID a Singaporean when you hear one, regardless of where in the world you are, and being able to speak among ourselves without being understood by non-locals. I can't even say that I have perfect sentence structure and extensive vocab, but at least I try hard to be grammatically correct and cohesive, with complete sentences, proper spelling and punctuation. There's a difference between spoken and written English and we should strive to improve at least the latter since our slang is already so deeply ingrained(?) in us.

Not looking forward. Not looking forward to going back. :( 40 days to the last Friday of intern. Oosh. I hate packing for good. Can't believe I used to be so excited over packing when we were going overseas, to the point that I'd start maybe 1 week in advance? Haha. Now I just can't help but procrastinate. Wish everything could just teleport or apparate or whatever.


It's a gloomy day with rain threatening. Which explains why I'm home so early. I need it to be sunny to be in the mood for gai-ing or just being out. I hate Air China cos they're mean to foreign students :( And I hate SQ and Cathay for not allowing guitars on board. Lol. Such a dilemma...



Let's make myself happy with some photos!


Never knew flowers could make me so happy :D It's troublesome to post with blogger so that was just a lil preview! Now I understand why my mummy puts fake tulips to decorate my balcony at home. Lol.

I feel old. Just 2 consecutive days of play and I know I have to sleep in on Sunday. Haha. Need to catch up on rest. It’s ironic how life actually seems more tiring after the exams. Lol. But we’re tired from playing, not studying, and that’s enough justification :D Can't believe I managed to chiong 2 wks Korea and Japan just a few months ago.

Bruised my shoulder trying to climb a tree at the Botanic Gardens the day before. But the flowers, so bright and cheery, made me really really happy :) Woke up at 5+am to go to the outskirts yesterday. There’s this really cool historic village which is 500 years old and is the place they shot the oath-taking in 投名状. Inspired me to watch the movie again haha. Pity there was on-and-off rain, which got us really dirty cos it kinda rained dirt, and it got really windy and cold at times but a trip away from the city, and away from FZ, was a nice change. It would have been really pretty in Winter, imagining the snow-covered roofs.


I can’t believe we’ve 6 weeks left to the end of our internship here. Man I’m not looking forward to going back. Yet I’m already kind of sick of Beijing haha. I think I need a change of environment yet again. It’s like you can’t wait yet the clock is ticking too fast.