yesterday for some reason i decided to check my LNAT registration because i was wondering why i hadn't got any confirmation or follow-up for the test which i took almost TWO MONTHS AGO and to my horror i realised that i had given them an "invalid UCAS number". like how the hell was i supposed to know that they wanted the UCAS application number and not the personal ID which i hadn't even been issued at that time??? and apparently, if you don't give them the right UCAS number the unis might not be able to access your LNAT scores. excellent- if i am a failure in life i will blame it all on this shitty UCAS system.

in happier news...

did you know that shopping can really breathe vigour into your life? since i've been putting in a good 5 hours or so everyday, i feel more energised and positive. it's kinda like a drug except that it doesn't destroy your nervous system and stuff like that. the only thing is that town has gotten a bit boring already since i've seen almost all of the stores and somehow everything seems to be grossly overpriced these days. even SHOES look the same after a while! and on friday i found an almost 50% storewide sale at mango raffles city but was instantly put off when i got into the store because it was so packed that there wasn't any space to breathe or move, and there were at least 30 people queueing for the changing rooms!! plus, when i went to taka, wisma and isetan, i realised that they were selling EXACTLY THE SAME THING everywhere, and people were just lapping up all the puke-coloured camisoles like they were the key to nuclear power or something. oh well, they were really cheap though...

oh and my sister and i went perfume sampling and concluded that mixing all the body shop scents together- Create Your Own Fragrance, they call it - induces a very potent migraine. so far my favourites are still Clinique Happy and CK Eternity Moment. Chanel no.5 is very classic too but i think it's a bit too mature, although nicole kidman does look really good in the ads. she's like sultry in a sophisticated and not slutty way. oh and on guys i love the Bvlgari Aqva and Alessandro Dell Acqua and CK Eternity. i dunno why but CK always smells good :p the bad part was that after we were done sniffing the scents we smelt like we'd just walked through 10 000 perfume counters, which of course we had but that doesn't dismiss the dirty looks people were giving us all the way home.

and walking around orchard these days, you can't get 100 metres without seeing a couple giving each other a really public display of affection. and the worst are the ah lians and ah bengs who can't be more than 14 years old and stand around outside MRT stations sucking each other's ears. like, get a room already. i think if i were mandy i would be saying that i feel like bashing their heads together real hard. and btw i'm not being sour grapes or anything, it's just that these are KIDS and if this is what they do in public, you can only imagine what they do in private. they're like my LITTLE SISTER's age and i would get cardiac arrest immediately if i ever saw her mouth attached to some guy's neck. that's too disgusting to even think about. and imagine if like these little lians and bengs had kids- who'll pay for their education? are they even old enough to buy condoms??? doesn't it just gross you out?

oh and speaking of mandy, they other day i met up with some NY friends- we were supposed to have lunch but started arguing in front of thai express and ended up at gelare instead. which was like a mini victory for me and jeanne but since mandy seemed pissed we all kept quiet and pretended that we actually really did want those thai glass noodles. anyway i'm really glad that some good things do last because the bitching session that day was quite cathartic, especially since we never seem to run out of mean things to say about old classmates. we might be mean old bitches, but at least we're open about it and we're not vindictive. i mean, mostly we're not! =D

merry christmas all!

the past week has been quite eventful, a pity since i've been too tired/lazy to blog much:

1. i signed up for driving! i still have to sit for the basic theory test on the 6th though, which means that i won't be a hazard on the roads anytime soon. which is probably a really good thing because i predict i'll be one of those irritating woman drivers who forget to indicate and make crazy swerves every few minutes to avoid knocking down old ladies or driving up dividers. i'm not a good candidate for driving so i suspect my mom is only encouraging me because she wants me to take over the job of chauffering people around. i bet my parents will never even let me touch their cars till i'm like 30 or something. OH and i nearly failed the eyesight test, which is the step that's even BEFORE registering for the theory test. because there were like a sequence of Es rotated through 360 degrees, so that they looked like M 3 W to me. so when the woman asked me which direction the E was facing, i was like 'there's no E! there's only a 3!!' and then she looked at me really weirdly and was like 'maybe you want to try again'. at which point i saw this sign right next to the test machine which said "E: facing right. M: facing down" and so on. since half the room was already looking at me after i insisted there was NO E after the first try, that was quite embarrassing, yes.

2. my back surgery's been put off! yay. actually i'm seeing this chiropractor now who's supposed to manipulate my spine till it's almost straight again. i'm not sure if i believe him but i guess it's worth a try. the only problem is that he says that people like me have "enzyme deficiencies" which means that our bodies can't absorb certain enzymes which results in our spine being screwed. really!!! and so to correct this i'm supposed to go on some shitty "alkalanarian diet" which is shitty because it only includes vegetables and salmon and trout and tofu and legumes and NOTHING ELSE. so i'm supposed to stop eating bread and cheese and anything dairy and meat and processed stuff and fruits- basically everything that tastes good is bad. :( :( :( :( :( i bet even cows get to eat better stuff! :(

3. having a christmas party on saturday! me and erica are organzing one for our classmates at my place and the theme's RETRO. don't ask me why but we just thought it'd be cool. haha. anyway we're sure not everybody will come so if you're reading this and you know me and you'd like free food on christmas eve, send me an sms or something! 'tis the season to be jolly, after all :)

4. went out with iris and darryl and mingkai on tuesday and we ended up going to the esplanade to rent movies cos darryl smartly forgot to buy tickets for king kong sneaks earlier. and while we were browsing through the titles i saw this one called "the Thin Man" and i was like, 'hey darryl, isn't this what you want to be?' and then he burst out in really HUGE LOUD laughs and the librarian came over and told us to shut up. and after that we got told off again when we found this vcd called "Since You Went Away" and darryl was making fun of me and iris. so we nearly got thrown out of the library. how embarassing omg. we're like a bunch of 3 year olds or something ugh.

5. someone's booking out on friday! finally!!! i was initially really sad about the whole 2 weeks shit especially since it's like the christmas season and it's supposed to be happy and full of celebrating with favourite people and stuff, but i'm ok now :) too bad his phone has already run out of battery so he can't call anymore though :( oh and apparently paul says he looks sexy with 1 micrometre of hair. i think it'll take some getting used to but luckily i liked david beckham when he went skinhead so i think i'm partial to people with no hair. can't wait to see for myself though!

sigh.

feeling kinda depressed now because mark just enlisted today. it's like suddenly i don't have someone to laugh with and talk to all the time, and the realisation of this really sucks. especially since it's only been like just over a week after the As and almost everyone is out doing gay coupley stuff. yesterday he was telling me that he felt more "terminal disease" symptoms about going to NS than he did before the start of the As, so we went to j8 and bought like 4 full bags of junk food and just spent the evening eating like pigs and going through all the last-minute stuff he needed to pack for today. and as we were walking to the supermarket he commented that going supermarketing "transcends" couplehood and that shopping for clothes and stuff in orchard is for noobs. i'll miss all his stupid comments. and i canNOT imagine him without hair or doing his own laundry or WEARING BOOTS AND CARRYING A RIFLE. omg. i just hope he'll be safe and come back quickly from this shitty NS thing!

my dad was trying to cheer me up just now and started telling me all these retarded stories about his BMT days like how his sergeant made him clean the toilet with his toothbrush and how he caught a small black snake and kept it as his pet in a matchbox. and i should be glad that it's not so bad these days because at least they're allowed handphones and everything is less strict so i've nothing to worry about. but then again they can't charge their phones so he has to like ration his phone use so that it can last till christmas. that seems like SUCH A LONG WAY :( and now i seem like such a whiny irritating girl but i can't help it cos i miss him i really do!

anyway. in happier news-

prom was on tuesday and i'm sorta glad that it's over because it means an end to last minute prom stuff like getting shoes and altering dresses. it's like i never knew trying to look good took so much work! i guess shopping for stuff is fun when you're just casually browsing through stuff, but when you know you HAVE to get certain things and you're working with a deadline, it sorta gets less fun after a while. doing hair was cool though! i went to the salon with aud in the afternoon and asked the stylist to give me a curly bun, and felt like i was getting royal treatment when she was washing my hair and then wrapping it around the curling iron and painstakingly pinning it up with lots of gel. although, having the pins stuck into my scalp and washing the gel out at 4 am in the morning was NOT cool. but i was happy with the way it turned out because i thought it looked quite princessy and chic! it reminded me a bit of the way i'd have to sit down and have my ballet teacher smother my head with gel while bunning my hair up before ballet exams. except that there was no stupid netting involved and i didn't come out looking like i had a burnt hamjingpeng surgically attached to the back of my head. HAHA. maybe one day i'll try to do the curly bun thing myself and perhaps it might even turn out less shitty than all previous attempts to self style with the curling iron have been :p

oh and because we booked early we somehow were upgraded to a deluxe suite at the ritz for the same price as a standard room! and it was HUGE with like a separate living area and king sized bed and a GIGANTIC toilet. there were 2 sinks and a tub and a shower and a cubicle for the toilet bowl and a closet with a safe! and darryl happily announced that he had a bubble bath in the tub at 4 in the morning without drawing the blinds on the huge window that was right next to the tub. i shudder to imagine what view anyone looking into the room then must have got! oh and the pillows were like super comfy and there were TWO tv sets and a fax machine!! damn fucking cool!

and just now a few of us had dinner at fish & co for walker's farewell cos she's leaving for UK on monday. i had the seafood platter with erica and the squid is DAMN good!! it's like a bit burnt and sambal-ish with a bit but not too much cream. and the prawns were huge and tasted excellent too! i think it might actually be as worthwhile as the swordfish collar which is really HUGE, especially when they give you mutant swordfishes like the ones hongyi got last week. it was so much that he actually couldn't finish it, imagine that! anyway after dinner we walked around orchard and nic did stupid stuff like wear a santa hat and dance at random intervals and the rest of us tried to walk away and pretend we didn't know her. then we took neoprints at heeren where we totally bullied colin cos he was the only guy and went mad drawing in unibrows and face warts on people at the editing booth. i'll miss walker because she's always been my aunt agony and someone i'd complain to and get advice for guy problems.

sigh it seems like there are just too many people to miss :( maybe it's time to start on that 3rd box of chocolate...