all the apricots and peaches stood up and shouted, "WHaT SAY YOU?"


lundi, août 30, 2004

i'm at a loss for words. the olympics is over! so that marks the end of my late night crusades and the end of dark eye rings. anyway, i'm sorta over khorkina, but ... am still in love with all the gymnasts. like nicoleta daniela sofronie is the cutest eva. i crush anna pavlova who's my age. basically, ALL of them rock! i idolise them too much i think. got them all down on tape. heh. hoping to upload them somehow. anyway. my dad's gone... sobs. next see him in dec i think. apparently the apartment there is HALF the size of this house now. how am i gonna stay there i ask u. oh wells. off to do pw rubbish.

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dimanche, août 22, 2004

yay new album!

the olympics

the legends


cARly patterson! the event that made history :)


khorkina. still a champ.

this is my chinese name in russian

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jeudi, août 19, 2004

gym gym gym! i couldn't not post this... so privacy can wait!

i'm so in love with gym! so mesmerised! i wish i could flip flip flip. i wish i was a gymnast. i wish i was russian. oh i wish i was svetlana khorkina!

i think i have a hugeeee crush on her! and other than her, i have a crush on all the gymnasts!! they're all 1) pretty 2) lovely lovely smiles 3) lovely eyes 4) they can flip like nobody's business
gosh ah, and did you see the american gymnasts? theyre amazing tumblers! and pretty! :) :) and add on to that, i love the american tracksuits. i have to get my hands on one. if not, the replica.

actually i adore this year's romanian team too. oana ban is so cute and -whoa- powerful, and catalina p. is just great. stands a good chance in the all-round perhaps? [anyway, am kinda disappointed by susilo's loss, but i do think he is a very nice earnest guy, from what he said after the match. no prob ron! you still rock]

was just watching yesterday's women's gym team finals, and i was thinking to myself, ooh, khorkina looks like.. umma thurman cum gwyneth paltrow. interesting huh? but i've just been inspired to pick up the oh-so-difficult russian language. in fact, i gave myself a russian name 4 years back when my khorkina craze first emerged :) i'll leave u to guess the name.

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mercredi, août 18, 2004

took early leave from school today.. well well. got home and napped for three full hours.
last night's swimming was fantastic! phelps' fly was soooo good its no wonder he broke the record :) but on the other hand, i was rather upset, thorpey didn't pull it off for the 4by200 mens freestyle relay. thought he'd do his spectacular end catch-up but.. naww. sigh. but i felt kinda happy for the us team too and phelps was just gleaming.. his innocent little boyish smile. heh. i wish his neck and ears weren't so fat and big.
btw there's this rather interesting theory from yilin's friend on why thorpey wears a full body suit. gosh i wish i never had to think of it but, he suggested that thorpey had a full forest of chest hair to hide! aHHH!! no way i cant imagine. in fact, i shan't imagine. i'd rather not.
so the craze over wang nan has disappeared, but it's still very alive for khorkina and thorpey, andrea raducan has disappeared from the scene.. which is kinda sad cos that means she'll never get to get back the golds she lost for some rather unfair punishment in my view. sigh.

anyway, i figured i'd stop writing here once and for all till i get the code to privatise this. discovered that this dumb site pops up in yahoo if u type my name or whatever, and so do a million other sites of mine. how annoying. can't anyone here lead a proper life of privacy anymore? this internet age freaks me out. yes. so there, i'll be updating my lj till i password protect this place, lj will be a friends-only so for the non-lj users and subsequently when i get this blocked, drop me a line for the username and password. you know it, my hotline 9040---- or mail to mingen65@hotmail.com (much to everybody's delight, hotmail has finally expanded its mailbox limit).

so, goodbye world as i block myself from the penetrating eye of the public critic. adios!

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mardi, août 17, 2004

set my alarm for 8 this morning to call the ops room... just to cancel my flight. also set at 6 for my medicine but decided to just sleep through till 8. so my dose was 2 hrs late. heh. and apparently back at hte flying club im not the only one who's sick because auntie winnie was like "you're also sick ah?" ha ha but she was quite nice about it and sounded a little too cheery for the fact that i was sick. well well.

ah, another miracle. i emailed the ymca a few weeks back aobut my lost/stolen card and they said awright just bring a photo and your ic and ten bucks to replace the card. -thankfully- i procrastinated till today, i went down all ready, even made a detour to draw money (coincidentally at the very atm machine where the thief tried to draw a 1000bucks from my dbs account), and i got there... and there was this whole big confusion about huh huh "does she have to fill in another form.." and so on. and finally the lady checks the pc and tells me they've actually sent out a new card yesterday. so it just so happened that they changed the look of the y-cards so... haha. no replacement fee needed.

in addition i made my ezlink today.. like.. FINALLY. i can stop paying adult fare for nothing. yes and the service was kinda. whoa. fast. less than 5 minutes and i get my personalised card. wow~ now my wallet is starting to get fat again, got my moi card 2 weeks back, my ic on sat, my ezlihnk and y-card today, and i set up a new acc with uob today :) heh heh. well it's about time ehs. sigh, still wish i didn't have to cancel my flight today... still regretting the fact. but on the bright side, i got 2 days off school :)

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lundi, août 16, 2004

i found it i found it! :) :D okay here's the gist of it. im eating my fish oil (for my sinus btw) and my nose starts to drip. i rush to my room to grab the tissue from my side table. i sit on my bed to blow my nose.
i sit on something hard. i look. lo and behold! it is my little battery box with my simcard in it! :) hurray! so its as if God just placed it there for me because im pretty sure i looked on my bed just now and it wasn't there. thank u God i see reason for me to become more than just a sunday christian. pull me back from where im backsliding.

anyway, my rubbish bin is filled with kleenex and.. tinted royal golds, a variety of tissues coming from the different tissue boxes in my room. i've been sneezing and nose running non-stop today i feel sick with a horrible headache. and my nose and sinuses are about to drop off. the next sphinx. doubt will be going to school tomorrow then. so much for a block off pe for attaining napfa gold. anyways. finding back my sim is enough to make up for the misery im wallowing in right now.

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dimanche, août 15, 2004

oh man i am such a freak lar
i think i just lost another phone
lost another sim card
-- lost all my contacts once again.
what is wrong with me why am i becoming so darn absent minded? something's wrong with me.
for sure.

i'm flying fourth wave on tuesday anyway. yAy! i'm so happy first time i'm getting that slot. and.
okay i should be mourning. for my lost sim card. please contact me on my starhub line in the meantime cos it's the m1 line i've misplaced.

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my crush is back! khorkina my hero! the queen of uneven bars and the best of the best! the tall and elegant, the light footed, the pretty! :) watched a.gym and my my my my love for her has not gone away even after 4 years! take a look at this: http://www.olympic-eurogym.demon.nl/russia/khos/khos.htm , http://www.nbcolympics.com/athletebios/5013859/detail.html

and also, new pple to take note of: anna pavlova (Àííà Ïàâëîâà), maria kriuchkova. either i've missed the romania ukraine china qualifications or it hasn't shown yet. i wonder how andrea raducan is...

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less than a quarter of a baguette and 3 slices of plain bread. that lasted me till about 1830. and that was because i had a flight today. couldn't sit through the computer briefing, and didn't finish it in the end. just knew i was gonna flunk the sortie. went to the ops room and realised that it was teo a.h. taking me today-- m.singh wasn't around. anyway, there were two other 129 pple doing the fourth wave with me.. im the most screwed up i gues.

anyway. mdm teeo was really nice. motherly.. but a little naggy. but.. hahaha she gave me 5 for everything except .. taxying. goodness, i almost taxied the plane off the road after landing and she toldme to brake, i jammed on the damn brakes it was so sudden i stopped the plane. so ends up i got a 4 for that. other than that, she said i was really good with the plane in the air. though initially i screwed up i totally blanked out-- increased power (supposed to pitch down yaw right) instead i eased the control column backward and jammed on the left rudder pedal... and guess what happened. well.

those funny pple yq, chris, wiz, sam, they waited for me.. ha ha.. to go eat prata. a little on the high side after the whole thing cos i spent the previous evening really tensed up... the bus uncle didn't start the van yet, and we figured since we'd have had to wait another 15mins, might as well walk out and make him feel guilty. so we did.. then one of the kind sirs was driving his cefiro out and gave all 5 of us a ride out. needless to say, prata was... sheer bliss :)

also collected my new ic today.. yikes i don't like it. i wish i had my old one back. the pic has been moved up and there's an extra security feature below it... of my. face. and i couldn't remove a certain name of mine. there isn't any bloodtype anymore either. so now u know. if i get knocked down on the road and am left bleeding there, nobody would know my bloodtype = no immediate transfusions. so. everybody, my bloodtype's A+!! please get that down on paper somewhere!

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mercredi, août 11, 2004

dear sarah: YEap! let's go k :) get the rest too. and i noe how and where to get the best view too.

clocked my all time slowest for 2.4 today with the time of 13.49 i am and was so upset but didn't say nothing after the run since pple there were already doing worse but im sure we all felt terrible. even joyce beat me by a second why am i still blogging when i have to finish up nana's outline mr lims maths by 2030

if i want to watch singapore idol.
ha ha i think maybe james will be shown tonite but .. and mr banana man whoohoo i saw him when i was there he was such an attention seeker but funny yeah. oh and was talking to pat mei yesterday she said she'll be down probably in dec hopefully i dun miss her since i'l be jetting off to japan soon but anyay she is going to be graduating this oct! gawsh so tt means she'll be smtg like... a sophomore by the time we even do our a'levels. oh this system is so darn stupid. ahhhh anyway gotta run now. history outlines! history outlinesss!! oh which reminds me before i forget narinda approved my leave for the 9/11 c.a. so good luck u pple while u struggle with the dang paper i'll be surfin down under! ahahahaha

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lundi, août 09, 2004

wenta watch the fireworks at the bay yesterday evening. couldn't find a decent spot or the space to walk. man... when i finally found some place to stand and the fireworks started... guess what. there was a big fa t tree standing in the way, exactly blocking the view of the artsy thing. the rest of the background was just the plain night sky. how spectacular.
temper running high-- the odour of thousands of bodies squeezed together,
the cry of little kiddos and the contrasting chuckling of others... oh boy,
and then the burst of the fireworks reminded me of the beauty that still existed in certain forms, and its capability of enlightenment.
i left the crowded scene,
30 minutes of suffering, 7 minutes of enjoyment.
but it sure was worth the wait.
from the unpatriotic me comes the most unlikely well-wish: happy national day!

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all apricots reserve their right to be eaten
all peaches plead to be savoured
and the apricots and peaches agree that together, they make the perfect dessert
and indeed, they did.