改名了！

After much thought and consideration, I've decided to change my summer blog's address.

So please change your links (if any) to this brand new one.

Hmms.

I getting more and more grouchy because the pain just won't go away after many many days.

What's wrong?

Still ouch-ing

Gum at the wisdom tooth is infected and I'm telling you it still hurts after two days of medication.

Arghh.

I don't feel like doing anything.

And I'm still unemployed!! =(

Pedra Branca, Singapore

Ta-daaaa.


So now this is ours.

Now Singapore has more land area.

Which is 691.7 sq km + the area of a football field. Great.

But soon enough, Singapore will get a larger surface area due to reclamation.

BEFORE

AFTER

Diamond-shaped to tadpole-shaped. I can't wait till we turn into a frog and jump off to somewhere. Hur hur, hur hur, not funny.

Looks NUM to me though. Ooops.

The International Court of Justice ruled that Pedra Branca belongs to Singapore. Now that we've got sovereignty over the tiny island, we're slightly bigger now!! Hurray!

However, there are two other pieces of land/rocks very near Pedra Branca. Middle Rocks and South Ledge. Middle Rocks is now Malaysia's and South Ledge still has no owner. ICJ stated that South Ledge will belong to whichever country the territorial waters lie in. I don't know.

The funny thing about South Ledge is that you can only see it when the tide is low. Therefore, let's say if South Ledge is ours, then at high tide, Singapore is smaller. At low tide, Singapore is bigger! Hurray!


Do you know?

There are several locations in the world that are named Pedra Branca too. An island by Tasmania in Australia, and also another town in Brazil. And I think some more places.

Pedra Branca refers to 'white rock' in Portuguese. Another name for Pedra Branca is Pulau Batu Putih in Malay. But they spell it as puteh instead of putih.

The International Court of Justice is at The Hague in the Netherlands. I was scratching my head, totally no idea where The Hague is. Den Haag.

Ouch

Toothache =(

For those born on May 8, 1987

Celebrated Yi Xin's and Felix's belated birthdays (they were both born on the same day, fortunately or unfortunately)

16 May 2008. Afternoon. Yi Xin.

We had a walk at Orchard and Central before ending up at the lousy Pasta de Waraku for dinner. The one at Marina Square is so so so much better. Pweee. No QC.

And after dinner we went to E! Hub in Pasir Ris (since we all live in Pasir Ris or Tampines) to chill. And found out that the drink-and-chat places there seem to close at 11 p.m.

So much for chilling. But we managed to stay at The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf till about 2335.


More photos.



18 May 2008. Evening. Felix.

Party was at Felix's house.



And here he is wearing one of the shirts we got him.

The MJCSB people who came, plus Kimberly and Candice who left earlier =(


More photos.

Many gatherings

10 May 2008. Night.

Geeks!

NUSWS D&D 2008.

Photos here and here.



11 May 2008. Early morning.

Overslept and took a cab with Annie to the airport. To send Ismy and Michelle Ho off. They were going for a summer programme at University of Waterloo, Canada. More here.




11 May 2008. Late morning.

Went to meet Ai Lin, Amy and Juli for brunch at Marutama Ramen. All photos here.

The food there is fabulous! As in, only three types of ramen but still very good. Quite a number of side dishes to choose from though.

And after that Juli left and the rest of us went to Haagen Dazs at Clarke Quay for a looooooong chat and we left.








11 May 2008. Evening.

Shun's 21st birthday party~!

It was really enjoyable (seriously!) bit*hing with the girls and of course to entertain each other and laugh over all sorts of things. I love my girls =)

And Shun's cake was an ice-cream cake from Gelare. I haven't eaten ice-cream cakes in a looooong while. Not that I particularly liked them. But it's just that there's no cream!

Kanye West, yo

12 May 2008. Evening.

Met Nathalie, Pin Xuan, Samuel, Wilson and Yu Ming (who left in the middle of dinner) at Raffles place for a meal at Shokudo. It's like Marche, Japanese style. As if I've been to Marche. Haha.

I had something grilled chicken drizzled with what tasted like teriyaki sauce with an egg in the middle on top of rice. And it wasn't fastastic. But there were a lot of things I wished I had tried there. Oh never mind haha.

After dinner we walked around and made our way past the Esplanade to the Merlion, then to Boat Quay and then finally settled down in Clarke Quay's Central's Starbucks. Just sat around and chatted and took lotsa photos.

Geeks!

It was NUSWS' dinner and dance just now, i.e. last night, and it was quite enjoyable except boredom at some point hahahah but that's alright!

I realise I didn't eat much. Maybe I'm not that greedy after all. I'm still not hungry. The only full and proper meal I had today was Big Breakfast Meal at the golden arches.

Anyway, during the day I was thinking that it's either I carry this geek thing off or I'll just be an utter nutcase. Ghastly. HAHA.

But I think it was alright. I feel that I was a cross between a countryside girl from the 60's and a fashion faux pas but who cares we had fun hoho.

Oh I was nominated for best dressed geek! Didn't win though =P HAHAA.

I'll upload the photos on Facebook...which won't be so soon.

Here's a preview.


Love and many many many many thanks to Joan who lent me her specs!

China's sentiments

Which I find hard to understand.

I was streaming an English video on a China-based video-sharing website (ahem) which is like a Chinese Youtube and because the vid is in English, the person who upload the video clips put subtitles to it.

And you know all the Olympics-related news and political issues that have been taking place.

So, the person who uploaded the clip felt so strongly about these that s/he had to comment. I.e., what I saw during a change of scenes were these.





And as you can see, the video was totally unrelated to the subtitles.

I shall not attempt to translate my apologies if you can't read.

Anyway, I think the one about Sarkozy is funny. What a dumb way to criticize him though I have no idea what it meant but surely nothing good.

That was a bit emo. =\

So unlike me, right?