was out in the afternoon, when i got bombarded with smses about orientation and RA. for awhile, i was so tired that i threw the hp aside, and refused to look. but guilt and the unease at work left undone crept up and i still ended up replying. sigh.

yes, so i got myself into a mass of work, which i blatantly refused to face even after i reached home at 4.30pm. so i watched tv, helped out with the housework, ate, cut and painted my nails, watched somemore tv. until 8.30pm..when i reluctantly left the couch, into the study room.

and immediately, i was hurled back into the mass of emails to reply, and work accordingly. and after replying, replies were thrown back immediately, and more work had to be done. on and off. on and off. on and off. orientation. election. RA. deadlines and deadlines. i could view, respond to, reply, and view, respond, reply, and blah all over again and again, and work for 4 hours straight.

and i had to cancel a girly saturday out bcoz of the mountain of work (during holiday) piled above me.

i amaze myself. by working like that in the hols. i swear if i get paid for all 3, i'll be rich by october. but then,

dreams, are just dreams,
when they're stuck inside your head.

on a brighter note,
i get to drink clam chowder!! *happy*
and i finally bought new lingerie! *happy happy*

TIRED!!!

Been out since 8.30am, and only reached home at like 11pm!

Testing, meeting mabbie, election comm meeting, meeting deardear.

Woo!

And still had election + orientation stuff to do after i reached home and bathed. Now then just finished O_O

And i just checked email to realise that RA submission deadline is 10 aug, and we hafta submit all the data and results by 4 aug. which is less than 2 weeks away. which means we have to complete our testing by 30 july. which means we hafta test like 10-20 more kids within like, 4 days?!?

And looking at the unearthly timing, i heard a neighbour DRILLING something like 10min ago. wth!

I desperately need to cut my nails. But i'm so not gonna sacrifice my precious slumber for that. Coz tmr will be another full day out.

SLEEP!!

I still think i'm happier being busy like that, then being eng eng cheng cheng like for the past week. *everyone gives tingting weird look*

Yay! My new hp finally arrived! And i took more than 1 or 2 hours transferring my contacts over. *faints* And it's touch screen! Wahaha. I didn't even know before that =X Gotta get used to the keypad though. Abit small. Oh and the camera left me so awestruck! Haha, but gorgor thinks i'm just being sua ku =X

Anyways, i haven't finished exploring. Letting it charge overnight now. Hee. Tmr come home then explore liao. Lalala~ HAPPY! ^^

*

Oh, and huiyu ernie me went for klunch ytd! WHEE! finally after so long!! haha. was quite fun, although we didn't jump around. Haha. It was more the leng jing type of fun. And it was very funny.. hahaha. Sadly, though, we forgot to CAMWHORE!!! =(

Yay. that reminds me. I shall find ppl to camwhore with me tmr with the new hp! nyahaha. Camwhore reminds me of BERT btw. Lol. Quick come back from Darwin, and we'll engage in your fav hobby at Kuishinbo! =)

Lalala~ Did i mentioned i miss my Lulu? *grins*

i wish..

Oh wow! Been busy going out this week, since it's a week of no RA! =D

Went back to school with mabbie on thurs to hand in bursary forms, and did some NBS study thingy. haha. Then we went to Bugis!! yay! hehe. Walked around, and toured Bugis Street in half an hour or sth, then emerged with a cute $10 tee, and M&Ms ear studs! waahaha. ^^

Went to Debbie's (my ex SP colleague) house on Friday!! haha. She welcomed me at the LRT station with her dog, Sasha!! hahaa it's quite cute. Jack Russel - same breed as the Starhub dog, Sparky. Lol! Yeap, we went back to her house, talked for like an hour or two, had lunch with her sis watching movie (I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry!), baked a Banana Chocolate Chip cake, chatted somemore in her room, chatted at the pool side drinking Banana Smoothie (blended with banana, ice, milk, coffee powder, chocolate chips, and sprinkled with oreo, milo powder, and hersheys chocolate syrup - full of yummyness and sin! =D) , ate cake, and went home! hehee. very very fun and happy day! ^^

that's my pretty Debs with her dog Sasha! hahaa. it's a sexist dog that doesn't like guys. We took a polaroid together too, but i'm lazy to scan it in. heh.

Oh, and i realised for the second time (first time was also go her house), how mafan LRT is. They got East and West Loop, that goes to different places. And you have to be careful not to take the wrong train, coz sometimes each platform serves two trains. I used the word 'sometimes' coz one of the train goes into one platform before 3pm, and goes into another platform after 3pm. -_-''' Why can't they just make up their mind? =X *gives weird look* and to make it worse, they have exotic station names that all end with "gam", "gang", "kang", "pang" and such. So you can't really tell what stop they are announcing when you have your ipod earphones on. And i don't understand why they still announce the station name when the station is NOT IN SERVICE and they don't even stop there -_-'''

Yea, and i was wondering why they had to built the LRT there, until...
i saw this for continuously 4 or 5 stops.
Yeap, so the tribes living there must be very grateful for the rise of LRT.

Actually, I am too, when I have to get to Deb's house occassionally... haha. Coz she lives at Yio Chu Kang (LRT station Fernvale), and me at Pasir Ris, but after waiting for bus, and bus ride, and waiting for LRT, and LRT ride, and walking, i reach her house in like 45-50min. Yay! =)

Haha. Today was a great day too!! ^^

Met deardear in the morning for a swim. Hee. Then hung around Tampines until 3pm, when i met my darling Tal! ^^ heh. then we went to eat tepanyaki, walked around, watched movie (Chi Bi!!/Red Cliff - like, FINALLY! ^^), walked around somemore, and went home. hahaha. so happy!! ^^ really love chatting with and going out with her, but we're always busy, so only meet like once or twice a year usually =( hee, but was a happy day today!! ^^








Heh, i have a pretty friend right? ^^

WHEE!! happy girl!! ^^

i will stop looking at online shopping sites.
i will stop looking at online shopping sites.
i will stop looking at online shopping sites.

yes, i will.

bbq photos! duno why the quality lidat..jul's camera supposed to be very good! and it's PINK!!! what happened?? hahaa.

jiaying hueyhui =)

fish production team. aluminium layer, sambal chilli spreader, fish defroster.

the girls-qiqi who was late! =(

JY, jy, and yam. the belated bday stars! haha. looked like wedding cake cutting =X

EVERYONE!! =)

after eons and years of waiting... i finally ordered my hp online!! ^^ it's arriving next tues! wheee!! it's promo price now, $98! hehe. then plus $100 coz of my dumb 12mth upgrade, and minus $30 for special online 9pm-9am order. yay. so it's $168! okay, so it's not exactly the cheapest price i can get, but it's better than $338 ok. but all the colours look quite dull and boring, so i ended up choosing black. coz i saw the green one before looks quite ugly, and the blue one looks ugly online. hahaha. owells. NEW HP!!! ^^

oh met up with deardear and friends just now. was niceee (: heh. just simple dinner, and alot of talk that's all. but i was happy to see deardear!! hehe.

lalalaaa~

school's reopening in 2 weeks! HOLY!! =(( *depressed look* i was beginning to enjoy life. hahaa. so sian. wish RA money would come in now, so i can shop more!! hahaa. okay. i hope RA money keeps coming in until Dec, so i can do xmas shopping!! mwahahaha. okay, bimbos are not strictly bimbos, they plan ahead ok.

lalalaaa.

i shall end abruptly. hahaah!

i had the most horrible dental visit of my life today!

i've had fillings done, teeth pulled out, injections to the gum, etc etc... but i always thought i was a brave girl who merely winced at the disgusting metal running through and hitting against my teeth, needles being sunk into my gum, and water and other such metallic-tasting, revolting liquids being sprayed all around my mouth.

but i had my worst dental nightmare ever today. he dug mercilessly in between the crevices, and into my gums, sprayed horrible stinging liquid all about my mouth without any warning, and sprayed and pressed more horrible bits of whatevers all around my mouth and hard against my teeth til they hurt like hell, shoved the metal thing all around my mouth without caution that i felt my tongue and sides of the mouth were being slightly sucked in by it, and had to pull them away from it myself. and no, he didn't stop when i grimmaced in pain, gripped my own fingers tight, and started tearing.

no, i didn't had to grip anything before, and i certainly have never teared during a visit to the dentist ever before. i daresay in my more than 10years worth of visit to the dentists, i've never met such a rough and anyhow-clean dentist. seriously, no matter how much i hate going to the dentist, my teeth always feel much cleaner and on better form after a trip there. but today, was the first time my teeth feel worse after a visit; like it had been randomly dug at and shoved in with bits of stuff every other tooth.


i am so boycotting that dentist!

and having phobias of dentists for quite awhile...

yay! manic is gonna overthrow elections! (:

ahhh what a weekend! =]

went back to school on sat morning for psych orientation dry run, and some filming. rather hot and tiring. we did our filming in tutorial rooms, and we were dressed up in white trashbags, complete with wristbands to fit the theme of Siao Lang Keng. and we attempted making noise and breaking out of the err, tutorial rooms. =X yea so happens they decided not to on the air-cond in the tut rooms, so we were hot like hell while filming. not to mention the number of NGs. not to mention i have good friends *ahem* like xian who recommend me to be No. 1 Leading Siao Lang and laugh hysterically at the camera before knocking it down. then so happens good friend No. 2 amos filmed my mouth only while i was laughing unglamly. and good friend No. 3 suggested posting the video on youtube after it was done editing. yeap, so thanks to my many many good friends, the whole Psych Year 1 cohort, and possibly the whole world, is going to know me as No. 1 Siao Lang from NTU Psych Year 3. *deardear's tries hard to comfort me voice rings in background: "it's okay. you can find better friends.." yea, right. not easy when i've to see xian like, for-ever. =[

yeap, hanged around having lunch and chatting after that, before heading over to jp to loiter and meet up with the boyfriends, and clementi to meet the rest. down to meimei's hse (i'm secretly in love with her room!) for manic and co. bbq! it's bbq without charcoal! haha the pit runs on electricity or sth, so basically we just pay for the gas. quite neat, though the chicken wings don't get done evenly most of the time. haha. and many many credits to the disgruntled meimei who had to do grocery shopping alone with her maid on friday night thanks to the ppl who pangseh her (not me!). *bows* xie xie mei meiiiiiiiiii. hahaa. nwaes, there was jieyang and augustine and the rest of the boyfriends. but deardear left before the fire started coz he gotta gan chang to two more bday celebrations. haha. so the rest of us just ate, made noise, laugh, chat, tear and lay aluminium foil, wait for fish to defrost, spread sambal chilli, wrap fish, etc.. hahaaa. and we celebrated bobo, jy and JY bdays! ^^ and we played funny games that coerced stephie to bring *ahem* to qiqi party! lol. and for once, i nv zhong forfeit at all! WOOHOOO! ^^

yeap, a fun night, and photos with jul. will post them when she posts them. hahaha. =)

and ytd was a funny day. haha.

i went for tuition in the morning at my cousins' place in yew tee. then met deardear close to 2pm at bugis to have lunch and went bai bai. then we went back to his house coz he had to rush a report, and i had my RA and psych orientation stuff to settle as well. so we ended up leaving his house to celebrate our 7 months only at 8pm! -_-''' hahahaha.

then we only know wanna go for icecream at this place in katong, but didnt know where to go for dinner. plus i couldn't go home too late, so we grabbed kfc to eat on the bus -_-''' hahaa. then went down to katong in search of our ice cream shop, but got lost. we overshot, got off the bus, crossed to the opposite side and took the bus back, alighted, and walked back and fro somemore to find the place. *faints* and in one of the buses, there was this luggage tied to a handrail, and we were standing beside it, at first thinking it belonged to the man beside it. but the man alighted!! and the luggage looked so suspicious swinging around on its own. and deardear noticed that it seemed to be empty coz if got stuff inside would be too heavy to swing when the bus jerk. then we were getting pretty freaked out, coz nobody seemed to be affiliated to the luggage. then i noticed it had a price tag on it, so suggested it was somebody buy new luggage, tied it to the handrail so don't have to keep holding on to it, then went to the back or upper deck of the bus to sit down or sth. anyhow, it was damn scary, and fortunately, we alighted after one or two more stops, coz my heart was starting to thump pretty fast. plus after we alighted to look for the place, we found ourselves walking around a rather creepy katong at night, with all the old private houses and stuff. and i went like "deardear, we're never going to move here right?" "of coz not lah!" *phew* hahaha.

yea, and finally we found our place... Ice Cream Chefs! haha it's pretty good i think. they dump your selected ice cream into a rock pan, and start stir frying it with mixings of your choice, like marshmallow, sunflower seeds, maltesers, corn flakes, fruit loops, peanuts, etc.. yeap, watch the youtube video in their blog link to get an idea of what i mean. they got a huge variety of mixings to choose from. haha and it's quite special i guess. wanna go back again some other time!! =)

yea. it's a simple and happy day although we spent very little time out =] but i guess we're the lazy kind of couple that don't mind staying home to nua or just do our stuff tgt as long as we get to spend the time tgt! =) and then we like to eat eat eat, and watch movies occassionally, and i like to pull my deardear out shopping!! ^^ haha sounds like some introductory paragraph -_-'''

alrights. i shall learn how to be a better girlfriend! and i love my nice perfect darling boyfriend! Happy 7 months!! =) and many more 7 years to go!! ^^

finally got reunited with my darling bobo again ytd nite. hahaa so happy~~ ^^

went for wsc, and there were only me her alvis yx. wahaha~ cool hor. admittedly, i haven't been there for the last two months and only turned up last night coz of bobo =X hahaa. but being there made me happy! the boys that were there the last time we went have mostly been 'released' already..and even one of the not so fast released de also got transferred to another better blk liao! feel quite happy for them =) new batch of boys were quite easy to handle and nice too :) i have so much more to say about them but am bounded by the usual procedural stuff.. =X yups, shall keep everything to myself. haha. but i must say, bobo is off to a good start taking over! i think she's very responsible and does her part very well! =) jiayou bobo!!

met up with mabbie at tm after my testing as well, and just walked around abit, sat down to chat abit and blah. haha we went into Face Shop, and i wanted to buy eyeliner and eyeshadow. but mabbie had the member card for further discount, and didn't bring it with her. so i took some time nicely doing up my eyes with my eyeshadow, and left the shop with made-up eyes, but without buying anything! -_-''' haha felt quite bad but bwah! will go back another day with the member card ma! =X

met up with deardear as well! for dinner after his work and before my wsc, and he waited for me to go home together too! ^^



[edited coz too personal after this]

i've gotta be the happiest girl ever! :))

wheeeeeee! i hereby officially announce...

I'M GETTING MARRIED!!! I'M AN EXPERIENCED CHILD RESEARCH ASSISTANT!!! ^^

no, although it's not as happy as getting married, but still... I'M DAMN HAPPY!!! =D

wahaha.. after close to 2 months of free labour, lots of sai kang, fun, and testing, today, the monster dowager q finally sent down orders to get us paid!! WHEEEEE!! ^^

okay, for those who don't know, we're only supposed to get paid if we're experienced. so her highness told us that she'll start paying us after we've tested 10 kids (the field of research is child cognition). but of coz, there's alot alot of preparation(aka sai kang, e.g. photocopy auntiejiejie) to be done before we can start our testing! yeap, but we were quite contented enough (at least xian and i were, haha.) to start from scratch so that we could learn everything. yeap, and so close to 2 months of hard work and grumbling paid off, and i finally started testing my 11th kid today (the one who beat up ah gong wuahahaa)!! whee! ^^ and so did the rest of them~ more or less lor. and her monster highness was there to observe us today, and was nice enough to just offer to start paying us for the month of July onwards! yay!! finallyyyyy. just when we were all turning broke from travelling expenses! *phew!*

okay, am so glad we're working under Q. she's really a very very nice and thoughtful monster! =) at least our welfare is very well taken care of! hehe. and about welfare, the more xian xian ruminate, the angrier she gets about Monkey G! lol. okay, i shall not elaborate. =p

yeappp. so testing these few weeks are at Tampines. so tingting is a happy girl! coz she can miss the train 10 times, and still reach home earlier than xianxian! wuahahaha! but nvm, xianxian has her welfare well taken care of, so that makes her a happier girl! :)

we've been testing very smart kids these few days! hahaaha. can't say much, but there was one who beat up ah gong, and another super hyper one. quite interesting, huh? hahaa. was looking thru' the hyper video after i got home, and realised it looked quite funny. hahaha! yeap, but throw in a few such kids here and there, and we stepped out of the place totally drained at the end of the day. *phew!*

but tingting is still a happy girl! heh. feel a sense of satisfaction!! =D lalalaaaa. *dances around* hehe. plus after shopping too much, extra allowance comes in handy! ahaaaha. yea, probably only comes in handy in September liao. it's alright, birthday season is kicking up soon.. either i earn more money to buy presents, or i sever all ties with all turning 21 pre- and post- 2nd september! wuahahaa! tingting is such a smart girl!! ^^

oh, and other stuff includes deardear starting his attachment this week! yay! so far everything's been going well for him, and i'm very happy for him too! hehe. and then there's the psych orientation dry run coming up, and i hope to bits everything just goes well. bwahh!

alright, enough rambling. i'm getting too high. ahaaa~ tchao! (=

yay! went to the nation day parade (NDP) preview with deardear ytd! heh his sis fren gave tix. and i think it was very very niceee!! =) the floating stage is damn cool i think, and i like the erm pre-parade segment? haha i duno wad segment is that..but it's the part before all the colourful exotic props and costumes all that come out. the air and water show all that. heh.

but the hosts and all that were very unprepared i think. hahaha. but it's damn cool! the 5 hosts arrived in JET SKIs!!! =O hahaha tio stunned. i think that's like making full use of the performing grounds. they have alot of such stunts on the water. haha how come they never reserve such an honour for the president? =X anyway, i absolutely love the air show too!! SO PRETTYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!! =) heh. but the songs all that not that fantastic ba, i feel. and all the 'MPs' and 'president' all that is so cui..coz not the actual show, so it's all simulated. then the emcee will always go "pls stand to welcome the arrival of our cabinet ministers, stimulating" *faints* haha then some random student in white wearing a huge board over him with CM written on it walked out, and all the audience laugh like hell. hahahhaa! only the 'president' one slightly better.. after "stimulating", a guy wearing the full suit and tie came out.

eh but everything was really very cool la. but we left about 3/4 into the main segment of the parade to avoid the crowd. which was kind of thank goodness we did, coz when we left already alot of ppl outside took some time to get out liao. then we walk until somewhere near Marina Square there liao, and the fireworks started going off. heh and everybody stopped walking and stood there to watch, and the traffic wardens had quite a hard time i guess (but i swear they were looking at the fireworks too! haha). and we saw those who didn't get the tix brought mats and stuff, and lay it on the grass patch outside MS, and watched the fireworks all that from there, like family picnic style! haha so creative right.

anyway, if you're wondering why i'm ranting on and on without any absolute proof, photos are in toolbox's camera..so i don't have them with me now. hahaa. and i don't think i'll post them anytime soon, or ever coz im gonna be real busy soon!! =(

i think i'm about booked every single day with tuition, RA, psych orientation, manic bbq, deardear, and all sorts of stuff! =XX which reminds me, bobo will be back in less than 12hours' time!! ^^ erm, so there's no escape from wsc anymore =XX hahaa

anyway, one week from now is deardear and i's 7th month, and jul and cy's 6th year anniversary!! hahaah. i'm quite excited about it actually (eh about the 7th month, not the 6 years. haha! =p), though 7 months is not exactly a half-yearly or yearly or wedding day or what. haha but somehow i'm just happy and excited about it! =D hehe. i guess every day, month, moment with him i'm just happy and excited half the time ba. *blush blush* LALALAAAAAAAAAAAAA. =p

yay. i seriously think my deardear rocks! WHEEEEEEEEEE!!! =)) according to all, TINGTING is a super hyper and short attention span girl =( and bert wonders how deardear ever puts up with my madness for so long. haha so i think my deardear rocks and i uber rocks even more to have such a lovely boyfriend! =)) of coz the supporting rock cast includes the golden matchmakers xian and ss for extending a helping hand(s) (one hand each??!) to contribute to my current state of happiness!! ^^

ok, i think i'm just rambling on and on. but i do want to stress, i really have a fantastic and understanding boyfriend, and i love him to bits! no, seriously. you're like the bestest and the last! =)

yay! today was another great day out!! =)

hehe. pulled deardear along to meet mabbie before meeting bert lj for lunch! we went to town again and shopped at mango!! wahahah~ 2nd markdown liao! so happy!! ^^ then went bugis to meet bert lj for lunch. hehe. then lj went back to work, and the 4 of us went SHOPPING again!! bugis st! hahaa tried so many stuff =P hehe. then went haji lane after that to look around too.. the stuff there were quite nice!!! but already spent quite alot of money, and the prices there are much higher, so didn't get anything there. heh. but yea, really nice if you are going for above $50 range.. but the staircases are quite scary.. i was clinging on to deardear half the time!! =X

quotes: "huiting 好像在学走路" =XX

hahaha..

anyway, i had lots of fun today, though was eventually very tired.. =) i love deardear, love mabbie, love bertie, love waiyu!! =)))

yay! past few days were great =)

haha. monday went to deardear's hse to hang out in the morning, and play with mascara with his xiaomei. wahahah~ makeup lesson.. i'm slow in picking up though =X hahaha.

then in the evening, met xian to go testing. and it was the most horrible testing ever.. the girl was damn difficult to test!! all the tests don't work well on her, plus she got short attention span and keep running around the house!! and to top that all up, her chinese name is called TINGTING -_-''''''''' hahahaaa~

and tuesday morning woke up early to accompany deardear to the doctor =X he's sick after back from japan =(( yeap then waited quite long, and had lunch after that, then i went back to school to meet xian (again!) to do data entry. hahaha we did the longest excel sheet ever!! hahaha so amazing~ just horizontally, it's over 200cells liao~ O_O hahaha so scary!! we took like 3 hours to come up with the template!! =Xx courtesy of monster q who threw us to figure out ourselves =XX

yea and today i met deardear after lunch at je to check out his attachment location! haaha he's starting his attachment next week liao.. wheee! you ren yang wo le!! lol. AS IF. i must be very good to yang if one person's attachment money can cover both our expenses. hahahaa. but nwae, attachment is nice! i wouldn't mind a temp spin off from academic life, yet still doin stuff related to what you're supposed to be learning =)

anyway, we lingered around IMM, and headed down to town to catch the 5pm Incredible Hulk. and we were supposed to meet ernie at 7pm, but he ended his stuff early so we had to COAX him to join us for our movie! wahahaa.. yeap i swear i'm blacklisting orchard shaw lido. it's damn terrible. my neck turned stiff, and my legs and back were itching from the weird seats, and more than half the time i thought i was gonna turn deaf. haha the show was not bad though =)

yeap and we ate and walked around abit after that, mostly chatting over dinner and looking at ernie's US photos. haha the two of them then proceeded to talk about BLEACH and outcasted me =( hahahaa~

yay! happy wk, and more happy days to go! =)