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  • 319: things will be great when you’re downtown 

    r 11:29 am on November 11, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    London was wonderful, even though I arrived with a heavy heart on Wednesday night following a pretty bad weekend. It was Guy Fawkes Day and I had loads of fun watching the fireworks coming up from random houses on the bus from Stansted into downtown London. I spent a lot of money shopping and spent half a day in Topshop alone (no kidding) and picked up something like 20 tops and/or dresses and trying them on endlessly before narrowing it down to just two; saving my money for the Boxing Day sales! I was so tempted to buy so many things because Topshop stuff is lovely and I miss it so much now that I don’t get to shop there regularly anymore. Had to keep restraining myself from getting things (“No, it’s winter now… and you’ll only get to wear that six months later when you get back,” and then a voice goes: “But it’s pretty! And you might not be able to find it again! And it’s summer all year round back home anyway! Cost-per-wear!”) including this grey blazer which cost 60 pounds (I didn’t!).

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    • cher 10:35 am on November 12, 2008 Permalink

      waaa you sound like you’re having a lot of fun. i will be in london for boxing day sales tooo! :)

  • 315: almost, but not quite 

    r 5:24 pm on October 23, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    Traipsing around Italy pretending to be fashionistas on our limited budget. We were on our way to Prada.

     

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    • nurul 11:49 pm on October 24, 2008 Permalink

      omg are those tartan tights? sooooooo cute!!!!

    • clarisse 8:18 am on October 25, 2008 Permalink

      haha yes they are! the number of tartan/plaid/checked things i have is quite insane…

    • Shuks 1:28 am on October 27, 2008 Permalink

      VENICE IS GORGEOUS RIGHT :):):) and how come you dont look cold at all >.<

    • clarisse 11:40 pm on October 27, 2008 Permalink

      HAHA cos it wasn’t cold at all!

  • 303: japan: dancing in tokyo 

    r 9:47 pm on August 10, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    So – here is the last part. We spent three nights in Tokyo, but it was effectively two and half days left because we flew off in the morning. Less words before the cut now because there is just so much more to see in pictures.

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    • nurul 9:49 am on August 13, 2008 Permalink

      japan! japan! i love japan. =( i am suffering from post-apcc depression.

      the gardens are so incredibly beautiful! bubbles! and the greasers are hilarious omg.

      also, yes to the lack of kat-tun advertising. they were going to perform in fukuoka and i swear no one who wasnt interested knew about it(and thought i was some crazy fan because i was telling the locals about it).

      ooh yes to the regional variations. i tried both hiroshima-style and regular okonomiyaki when i went to hiroshima with my host family. seriously i eat twice as much as ayaka.

    • rui(min) 12:41 pm on August 13, 2008 Permalink

      coooooool picture!! hahaha :D

    • clarisse 2:55 pm on August 13, 2008 Permalink

      Yes I know, I love Japan too :( I want to go back again!

      The greasers are amazing. They’re so old! And just cool and alk;djgfdg it is good to have such a life.

      It can’t be that they’re only big in Tokyo, because they held like 33 concerts and it was all packed. That being said there are a lot of fans who go to multiple concerts… BAH. DID YOU SEE, PI APPEARED! I hope that makes it into the DVD :D

      Your host family sounds very rich, by the way. The kaiseki! Random trips to Hiroshima! My host family wanted to go but we had no time. Bah.

      ruimin: YES! HAHA. I remember you took the one in York.

    • nurul 10:47 pm on August 14, 2008 Permalink

      I KNOW! seriously you know what i want to see? i want matsujun at a kattun concert making snarky comments about their clothes. have you been watching maou?

      is the kaiseki the posh tofu restaurant? haha that was ayaka’s aunt. who perhaps is rich. hm. the going to hiroshima was compulsory cos ayaka’s in hiroshima uni and she had an exam that morning. hiroshima is amazing. i’ll put pics up on facebook soon.

      btw. why are you leaving so soon?! =(

    • clarisse 11:49 pm on August 14, 2008 Permalink

      I just watched the NEWS Pacific con MC where Sho and Nino appeared and it was so cute. Even though I don’t particularly like NEWS or Arashi that much, but concert MCs are always pretty funny. Matsujun with KAT-TUN adjjgdfgfg sorry he would just snipe at Jin and Jin would snipe back at him and Kame would just stand there laughing his head off. :/

      … yeah it is. Show me pics of Hiroshima, yay! XD

      I don’t know. My term starts 1 September, but arrival days are 22 and 23 August. The following week is like Welcome Week i.e. orientation without the camp, but I don’t know that I’ll go for all of it… :X haha.

  • 299: shopping 

    r 2:32 am on August 3, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    My J brand jeans came! I like them a lot and they fit pretty well. Unfortunately I bought the one with the leg opening slightly too wide… so I will have to alter them to narrow it down. 

    RZ is on her way to Copenhagen now! So excited. Soon it will be my turn.

     
  • 297: ajdhfkjhgjkhg dying 

    r 10:05 pm on July 29, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    The product you’ve been waiting for

     
  • 293: japan: osaka city riots 

    r 12:29 am on July 12, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    18- 21 May.

    So, finally, here is Osaka. Most of what they say about Osaka is totally true. It’s a merchant town, and it’s filled with people who love food, love being happy, love being loud and funny and living life. It’s kind of like being Hokkien on crack. Being Japanese, they’re naturally polite, and really really willing to help. They’re the sort of people that, when you are standing alone on the train platform surrounded by your luggage, an elderly lady will totter over to you asking, 大丈夫か? (Are you all right?). At this point most of what you can say merely consists of ああ、はい (Ah, yes) which is really rude now that I think about it. Yet the same elderly lady, when getting onto the train, will fight you tooth and nail to get in and give you a not-so-friendly push if you dawdle too long at the entrance. Osaka people are always hurrying everywhere; not in the same way as Tokyo or the big cities, where everyone needs to look like they have something very important to do. Here it is pure unadulterated rush. 

    We spent four days in Osaka, and they were a good four days. We visited temples and parks, castles, got lost, did lots of shopping, checked out Kennedy’s wildly expensive t-shirts, gawked at more wildly expensive merchandise, ate and walked, and ate, and ate non-stop. 

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    • lifangyi 2:07 am on July 12, 2008 Permalink

      Waaah! It is so orgasmically pretty. Your pictures are amazing and now I feel a NEED to go Japan. It’s a serious NEED.

    • cher 11:37 am on July 12, 2008 Permalink

      your pictures are damn nice!! what camera did you use??

    • clarisse 1:00 pm on July 12, 2008 Permalink

      fangyi: yah i know what you mean, i want to go back there nownownownownow! i want to LIVE there!

      cheryl: hmm it’s a canon ixus 60. it’s been working fine for the past two years but i spilled soy sauce on it in tokyo and now the zoom is wonky cos it’s stuck. i am really sad.

    • rui(min) 7:51 pm on July 13, 2008 Permalink

      what a great picture post! 10/10.

    • clarisse 11:33 pm on July 13, 2008 Permalink

      haha yes i think osaka is the most colourful out of all the cities… but that might just be the flowers talking.

      eh, your pictures look v nice too leh. i want to go to paris too :(

  • 291: it’s a bright, bright, bright, sunshiney day 

    r 4:53 pm on June 27, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    I must say; it’s so hot it’s not even funny. I can just sit here and start sweating for no reason. I hate hot weather. And summer. And whatever arghhh.

    I haven’t done anything these few days. I met Nurul to do our nails yesterday so now my nails are grey. It looks cooler than it sounds. I think. Other than that, I’ve only been meeting J for dinner and making full use of my Internet’s temporary connection to Megaupload (I have never been able to download anything from there before. Ever. J says it’s where all the porn is stored and MU has probably cleared all its servers so that horny Singaporeans don’t get to access it anymore…) to download 34689475968 episodes of everything. 

    I now have on-going series (what is the plural?!) of Osen, Zettai Kareshi, Last Friends, and Nodame Cantabile. Also I found the subtitled version of the Hana Kimi special. GO ME! I now have a drama collection to rival Isaac’s. Who is obsessed with Nakama Yukie. Watching Gokusen for all the wrong reasons. Tsk.

    Pictures of the super wonderful bento/don I ate the other day:

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    • nurul 7:37 pm on June 28, 2008 Permalink

      OMG MEGAUPLOAD IS CLEAR?!?!?! wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!

      yayy im quite happy with my shiny fingers too! =)) -huggg-

    • nurul 7:41 pm on June 28, 2008 Permalink

      oooh and ive found kattunx3. all is well with the worldddd~

    • clarisse 1:36 am on June 29, 2008 Permalink

      yes the more i look at my nails the more happy i feel.

      and, kat-tun x3; finally :) it is really entertaining.

  • 289: japan: yokohama city lights 

    r 7:11 am on June 22, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    It’s early in the morning now, and as usual, I can’t sleep. The sky is red and you know what they say about red skies in the morning and red skies at night. Tonight the moon is full, as it was last night, but tonight the moon hung low behind the tree outside my house and I had to look harder to find it. It’s just like most things, which disappear without you noticing in the hope you’ll look ever harder for them. 

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    This post is about Yokohama, with which I think I might have a special love affair. This is not to say that I didn’t love all the other cities I went to, but that they mean different things to me. Tokyo is the place of childhood and dreams, mainly because I went there so many times when I was younger, though as you grow older you discover its ever-increasing adult attractions. Osaka was all about food and relaxation and just generally having fun doing everything and nothing. Kyoto was full of history, but Yokohama…

    Yokohama is full of lights and romance. Yokohama is the place you bring girls to when you want to impress them. It doesn’t seem like much because it’s so near Tokyo and it’s so easy to overlook, but it retains that particular, off-centre, sort of feeling. It’s near but not too near. It has its own voice, its own attractions, its own history. Some people say Chinatown wasn’t too interesting; sometimes you just need to know where to look. Stepping into Minato Mirai is fascinating precisely because we’re at an age where we can appreciate it, still: the free theme parks, ferris wheels, lights across the sea, the red brick warehouses and the smoke curling up from beneath the windows. It seriously is the number one place to bring a girl on a date. It is so romantic you can choke. 

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  • 288: japan: tokyo story 

    r 2:22 pm on June 14, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    Erm. I’m sorry this took so long, but there were really a lot of pictures. 

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    • charlene 8:32 pm on June 14, 2008 Permalink

      the photos look wonderful!!!!
      AND, most of all, the two of you look incredibly japanese
      like in a
      i-am-born-here-i-speak-japanese-etc kinda way O_O

  • 287: and she takes me away to that special place 

    r 12:09 am on June 11, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    Right now I feel giggly and happy.

     

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    • pak 8:54 am on June 11, 2008 Permalink

      is it the tee and shukee band?

    • nurul 10:30 am on June 11, 2008 Permalink

      what! they played! and never asked me!
      anyway, glad interning is working out, dear.

    • Shuks 8:03 pm on June 11, 2008 Permalink

      ARGH! did they change the name?!? boo i’ve been replaced :(

    • clarisse 1:14 am on June 13, 2008 Permalink

      pak: not shuki anymore!

      nurul: we imbibed alot of alcohol. it was probably better you did not see us in our drunken state.

      shuki: yah you are. the new singer is better than i expected, though as a guy he can’t hit all the high notes, but given the songs they play it’s not that surprising and he’s not bad really. and they sound a lot better now. can’t figure out if it’s because they all changed guitars…

    • dandelionwine 2:57 am on June 13, 2008 Permalink

      what’s the lineup like now? is kelvin still on drums with tee on lead?

    • nurul 2:11 pm on June 13, 2008 Permalink

      =( people are abandoning me in favour of alcohol. -weeps- haha.

    • Shuks 4:04 am on July 16, 2008 Permalink

      people are abandoning me, fullstop :(

  • 286: just a case of… history repeating 

    r 10:07 pm on June 9, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    I like these. A lot. I feel like they could make me 5 inches taller without the pain. Some people probably think they are ugly. Anybody still in the UK willing to bring them home for me please tell me XD

    Times like these I’m very happy that J is like 6 feet tall so I can wear all the heels I want.

     
    • ~ 1:31 am on June 10, 2008 Permalink

      :D:D

    • nurul 10:57 am on June 10, 2008 Permalink

      haha everyones still in the uk other than me. ask them la. where is it from, btw?

    • gery 9:14 am on June 12, 2008 Permalink

      did you get my message on msn?

  • 282: 写真を撮って、いいですか? 

    r 10:58 pm on May 17, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    Just a quick post: in Yokohama now, heading to Osaka tomorrow morning.

    Everybody loves Japan, yes? I am no exception. I wish I could stay here forever, but we all know that’s not possible. However I thoroughly indulged my fangirl self ogling cute boys everywhere (and the girls are so pretty) including random Kanjani8 Nissin Cup Noodle advertisements in the subway, caved in and bought two KAT-TUN DVDs (haha did you know Johnny’s Entertainment has their own separate section in HMV?) and a magazine (the one where the photo below appears) while my boyfriend dragged me all across Harajuku and Shibuya shopping and looking for his weird obscure underground shops. Oh, and he bought about half of Uniqlo as well. Also, I have overheard more conversations about the merits of Akanishi vs Kamenashi vs random Japanese celebrity from girls with their boyfriends than I can count. Starbucks is freaking everywhere.

    Today was good: Yokohama is a pretty place. Pictures when I come back; the night lights are beautiful. I’ve also sat more rollercoasters than I can count, including the ones in Disneyland (the parade was magical omg, but I got sunburnt haha) and some random super drop rollercoaster in Yokohama today, in a free theme park no less!

    Lots of food. Ate orgasmic sushi at Tsukiji it’s like food porn. Really can die. And my Japanese is super bad it’s so embarrassing.

    More when I get internet again.

     
  • 279: dinner with cleavageman j 

    r 3:20 am on May 9, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    Did I ever tell you I love Muji food? Like, not the clothes, but the random selection of weird and wonderful foods they stock up near the back. Like plum cheese tarts and black pepper cheese bites. Yum. 

    I should be buying less since I’ll be in Japan in a few days, but I can’t help it. Anyway yesterday concluded the neverending series of birthday parties (surprise, and otherwise).

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    • nurul 6:23 am on May 9, 2008 Permalink

      OMG is this why jinx was all ‘hurhur have you seen jin and kame acting as a couple on cartoon kat-tun’ on my facebook?!?! ohhh seriously. i cannot take it anymore. how come i dont know anyone this cute?! this is so frustrating! ahahahahaha. no i havent watched it. i am trying to stem my obsession! it is not healthy!! seriously, have just discovered kame’s solo: 16 seconds, and am madly in love.

    • dandelionwine 7:24 am on May 9, 2008 Permalink

      sauce.

    • supermango 11:27 am on May 9, 2008 Permalink

      yes probably ;) akame is so attractive i don’t understand how it’s possible when they’re not even gay

      it seems a bit weird because an article came out in The Television (some weekly jap mag, like 8 days which reports on TV the following week) going on and on about AKAME: JIN IS KAME’S GIRLFRIEND!!!!! and everyone was like omg it’s just like the old times when jin was the nurse and kame was the doctor. obviously everyone got too excited because as you can see from the caps, it wasn’t really as dramatic as that.

      i love 16 seconds!!! when i first downloaded it it was off limewire when i was still blindly searching for things, anything KAT-TUN related. then when i SAW THAT CHAIR DANCE. did you know he LICKS the chair when he finishes??!?! how is that supposed to keep anyone sane? he really knows how to work a crowd…

      go look for the translation of the lyrics; they are actually very sad. i think he wrote them himself… not sure though. he has this thing for putting very sad lyrics into fake-happy tunes so it becomes a fake-happy song. ahh i don’t know how to explain it.

      SIHNY HAPPY SPARKLY BOYS ♥

    • nurul 6:37 pm on May 9, 2008 Permalink

      yeahhh. seriously everyone loves akame. what jin and kame playing doctor? OMG?! wth?
      ahhh do you have it on mp3? send to me!! yeah i know i stopped breathing. he is so slutty. thank goodness.
      actually tt does seem quite kame, the whole fakehappy thing. which is quite sad. happy sparkly sad boys = win. =))

    • supermango 11:13 pm on May 9, 2008 Permalink

      yes i do have it i’ll email it to you soon!

      and yes to the jin/kame doctor/nurse skit. jin looks so good as a girl it is unbelievable. how does one person look so girly and manly in just different hairstyles? do not understand.

      the skit is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njo2t4mOg6Y&NR=1

    • nurul 5:35 am on May 10, 2008 Permalink

      amazing you are incredible. also, do you know where i can find niji by nino? cant find it anywhere.
      haha okay i just watched ep 57, seriously, do you watch it without subs? i couldnt find a subbed one, since obviously its too early, but ya it seems quite funny. though kames hair a bit the funny now ah.
      and i watched the akame nurse/doctor skit. SERIOUSLY. jin looked good. which is REALLY STRANGE. and oh man the puppy bit at the beginning. am very amused by the mass hyperventilation of the fans whenever akame touch/ say something to each other.

    • supermango 11:44 am on May 10, 2008 Permalink

      okay i’ve emailed it to your yahoo address.

      hmm no… try the arashi lj comms they probably have a ton of stuff like that. and yah i watch it without subs. it’s a bit hard to understand but i can get by.

      in their younger days there were a lot of these skits. there’s another one floating around somewhere of KAT-TUN being a family where kame is the dad and jin is the mother. although the nurse/doctor wins because their characters flirt with each other so outrageously. hahahaa.

    • nurul 5:00 pm on May 10, 2008 Permalink

      i love you, seriously.
      haha okay yayyy im trying to spread japanese love to my flatmates. they are resisting. though,ah, seriously, everyone is a sucker for hyd.
      whoa okay i dont understand anything. will wait for subs.
      i know! ive just watched tt. the yellow helmet of happiness, right. akame are actually pretty good in it! kames just bouncing off the walls. hahaha the nurse/doctor is just… omg….

    • supermango 5:28 pm on May 10, 2008 Permalink

      i didn’t really like HYD that much… and i’m not a matsujun fan so it was difficult to keep watching when he was the main character and he got the most screen time. i liked the other three much better (oguri shun aside, the other two were really interesting… especially in HYD2) and predictably i was rooting for hanazawa rui … but oh well. not resolved even in the movie it seems.

      the part with ueda and kame was very funny. all the random sounds! and the mikes haahaha.

      kame’s hair looks bad. when he takes pictures in magazines with his new haircut it makes him look washed out and old and tired whereas the 1PG hair was so goooood. and also around mid 2007 when he was doing the cartoon kat-tun II you tour. ahhhhh.

    • nurul 3:40 pm on May 11, 2008 Permalink

      hmm i think if you dont know anything about jdramas,though, you watch the first episode of hyd and go.. OMG! so its good for spreading the love. then as people get used to it you can ’suggest’ anythingelse. haha. matsujun has an annoying face, but hes a pretty good actor. the movie is just going to be madness, evidently. since its got explosions, casinos and what looks like the grand canyon?! haha.
      oh yeahh the 1pg hair was love.
      anyway, have fun in japan, love!!

    • supermango 4:18 pm on May 11, 2008 Permalink

      i was going to ask how come you were awake at such odd times at night when it occurred to me that it’s really already something like 8am in england. obviously waking up early is more foreign a concept to me than staying up late…

      i liked the first few episodes of HYD. maybe cos it focused on hanazawa? hahaha the first jdrama i watched in full (that wasn’t on tv) was water boys. then… the rest is history. :D yes i saw the HYD trailer! can’t wait! even though it’s probably going to be angsty + love triangle again. i hope the other two guys get a bigger role. matsujun is a pretty good actor yes i agree (compared to the rest of the johnny’s boys anyway… besides nino maybe) so i guess it makes up for the fact that he can’t sing. at all.

      leaving tmr! so excited.

    • nurul 11:45 pm on May 11, 2008 Permalink

      hahaha. well, i’ve slept from 7 to 7 and now its 430pm and im sleepy again. i know you dont sleep as much as you should. so dont go being a pot.
      actually ive never watched waterboys. hmmm. perhaps i should.
      i love akira in hyd, btw. hes so adorable. i might even like him more than rui, really. because rui really does get kind of boring. except tt its oguri shun. who is beautiful. and now has a girlfriend! fun!
      how can you forget kame! kame can act! seriously i think kame’s acting is pretty amazing. and considering the crazy roles hes played from nobuta to 1pg, its incredible.
      haha i thought i was the only one who thought tt matsujun cant sing. his solos are how annoying. and hes all nasal. eeeek.
      i am like! how envious! and happy for you! seriously, okay, you be safe. and happy! its japan! glorious, amazing, shiny and beautiful japan!

    • clarisse 11:55 pm on May 11, 2008 Permalink

      you’re going too, so don’t be envious. and you’ll be there during their SUMMER TOUR. *envious
      wonder if any of the APCC people are KAT-TUN fans…

      hmmm i think kame’s acting is not matsujun level yet, but it’s pretty good! waay better than yamapi. hahaha oh but matsujun’s acting was pretty bad in kindaichi. not that i was really paying attention to him because kindaichi is worth watching for its own sake. :D

      water boys is pretty funny and there are a lot of half-naked guys. but if you’ve watched one you’ve watched all (just like gokusen) but it’s still pretty good. partly because yamada takayuki is a really good actor.

      yes akira! i found myself hoping he would get together with tsukushi’s friend, whose name i cannot remember now. ah well.

    • dandelionwine 8:16 am on May 12, 2008 Permalink

      i love how no one else comments here hahahahaha

    • nurul 1:06 am on May 13, 2008 Permalink

      *ignorespak*

      haha! even if they were fans, i dont think anyone would be able to skive off and watch them. anyway theyre only in fukuoka a week after i leave. and apcc doesnt allow you to stay on!!!

      havent watched kindaichi. okay you should make me a list of the things you think i should watch then next year when im bored i’ll watch them. hee hee. yamapi gets REALLY GOOD ROLES even though his acting isnt great. its quite sad. also, did you know tt apparently yamapi hit 7th on some poll for the best looking asian male. kame was 4th. im shocked! why is yamapi so attractive to so many people?!

      are you mixing akira up with soujiro who actually has the whole issue with the best friend? akira’s the one with the crazy mom and twin sisters.

    • dandelionwine 8:56 am on May 13, 2008 Permalink

      ):

    • neuroneuster 6:52 pm on October 18, 2008 Permalink

      HAHAHAHA!
      The ad lib is the most crackiest and stupidest!
      Especially Jin.
      His laugh, he always wanted to laugh.
      And Junno acting was a quite amazing.
      I never thought he can be that serious.
      The way he said ” We live in different world ”
      sometimes matched. HAHA.

  • 278: and now for something completely different 

    r 3:25 pm on May 6, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    I’ve been trying to plan for Japan this past week. So I got a notebook, copied down my accommodation and flight details, listed a million things to do and see (and eat !!!!). That includes Disneyland and USJ which are touristy like hell, but I’m a kid only once and who cares right? Finally getting to go with someone other than my parents. It never strikes you how shitty being an only child is until you actually get to a theme park and you have to go on all the rides alone. Bah. 

    I’m halfway through Osaka. There’s still Tokyo, Yokohama, and Kyoto to look up. And funnily enough, my boyfriend has been put in charge of the shopping destinations. 

    … what? Turnabout is fair play, no?

     

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    • lucas; 9:12 pm on May 6, 2008 Permalink

      LOL if I’d had gone to Japan I’d be living my waking hours at TVTokyo and dentsu’s biddings. But I’ve not actually caught a series while it still aired; usually I wait for all the episodes to be screened before watching on live streaming. Can’t stand the suspense.

    • nurul 11:37 pm on May 6, 2008 Permalink

      omg have you seen the dues vid… includes kame dirty dancing and akanishi licking himself… seriously, i nearly fainted…

      haha will you be there when their new cd comes out? help me get one, ok? i think tts the only thing i want. ahhhh sounds super fun you lucky, lucky girl!!!!

      MY EXAMS ARE FINALLY OVER!!!!

    • supermango 12:23 am on May 7, 2008 Permalink

      haha yes i saw it… there are GIRLS! in a johnny’s video! and kame is grinding some girl!!!! OMG. his costume seriously sucks ass though i don’t know what possessed him to become a michael jackson wannabe… and jin’s hair looks really off/hot at the same time. the tongue and the chewing gum just killed me though omg haha

      i preordered the limited edition but you can still get the regular ed i think. it only comes out on june 4th and i’ll be back by then already so i can’t buy it there.

    • nurul 1:20 am on May 7, 2008 Permalink

      I KNOW!!! seriously….its like… whoaaaaa

      obviouslyits making me speechless so im not going to keep talking about it. haha.

      oh okay no problem. i’ll try to get it when im there, then. so how did you preorder the limited edition? wait. you preordered the limited edition and youre getting it shipped to sg?? OMG i thought you were going to pick it up in jp while you were there! ohhh you win, risse. you are T3H ULT1M4T3 F4NG1RLZZZZZZZZ.

      i’ll be back when you are!!! yayyyyyy. when are you leaving?

    • supermango 2:51 am on May 7, 2008 Permalink

      this PV is making me very happy. the last good one was real face which is really saying alot…

      i preordered it online and shipping is free to SG! yes i did make a post about being weak awhile ago since i got conned into buying it but the upside is that now i know that the 8 mins of pure deliciousness in HIGH DEFINITION is going to be in my grubby little hands soon hur hur it’s all about the boys. omg i can’t wait i’ll probably spazz all over jin -_-

      you’re going to japan too?? WHEN!!! but anyway yah. it is only available for public consumption on june 4th so …. maybe HMV will stock it. they are quite onz about these things.

      anyway! leaving 12th, next monday. will be back 27th

    • nurul 4:44 am on May 7, 2008 Permalink

      what! what! SHIPPING WAS FREE TO SG?!?!??! DAAAAAAAMN. arghhhh i swear its 8 minutes of OHMYGOODNESS -faint- and thats from a fancam with crap sound. hd is going to be so much better. like seriously, how much hotter can these guys get???? though honestly, akame tend to get put into the worst outfits. jap defn of outstanding.

      ohh hee hee hee this is my subtle way of saying tt IM GOING TO THE APCC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      (alotofdramaabtmoe,i’lltellyouwhenigetback)

      oh okay im back on the14th, i’ll see you after you come back then! ohh and i’ve gotten you chocolate that tastes like draco malfoy, though if you dont get the reference when you see it im going to eat it myself.

      much love!

    • dandelionwine 10:57 am on May 7, 2008 Permalink

      wed thurs fris sats = naruto bleach macross frontier code geass r2 respectively.

      if i m not mistaken.

    • supermango 7:40 pm on May 8, 2008 Permalink

      sorry this is late reply BUT

      YOU ARE GOING TO FUKUOKA!!!! omg the amount of !!!s is insufficient to convey my (our?) excitement HUR HUR WHY DIDN’T YOU TELL ME EARLIER???

      then we could go together JUST LIKE WE SAID WE WOULD

      MOE is a bitch. i hate them. they probably hate me too. they are SO anal-retentive. they are #1 on the list of reasons why i really hate civil servants (even though my friends are going to turn into them)

      talking about sparkly costumes have you seen kaizokuban live? its their concert in 2005 and they apparently designed the costumes themselves, so predictably ueda is walking about with this gigantic pirates hat (looks pretty cool really) while JIN HAS ROADKILL. what’s with him and fur and little dead animals?! i do not understand. he probably thinks its sexy… and there is way too much stuff that just floats about and does nothing. like a random wrap around their waists. or some weird stuff. ahhhh but who cares

      please don’t tell me the chocolate is ferret-flavoured.

      yesasia.com gives free shipping. if you run fast enough to the website now you may be able to catch it :D

    • nurul 6:30 am on May 9, 2008 Permalink

      aiyoh because i also only knew a few days ago. theyve been having a long discussion with moe who has basically disowned me. its all very wtf.
      i know, right. sigh. im thinking maybe go back and volunteer? random ang mohs appear to do it sometimes, so we shld be able to also.
      hmm no i dont think ive seen it,though the description of the costumes seem familiar. okay seriously, i think jin actually has made a lot of bad wardrobe choices. like what is it with his stylist and regularly putting him in a skirtwrapthing? he should fire his stylist. ueda actually generally seems to be quite put together. in a odd way.
      no it is not ferret flavoured. guess again.
      haha no its all gone on yesasia. will just go for the regular edition then. hee hee. im thinking if i can convince my flatmate, she might let me put up a big poster of them in our kitchen next year. mmmmmmm…

  • 266: 你是我的花朵 

    r 8:46 pm on April 7, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    爱你伍佰年!Thank you for the ticket, guys. It was so wonderful. I sat 10 rows from the stage and I got to see every single detail up close, properly, including his 34869759 guitar changes (beautiful guitars too!) and everyone was jumping up and down with lightsticks and generally going crazy. I didn’t sit down at all the whole time, and that was over 3 hours. He gave two encores, there was a lot of fireworks, and random confetti. Whoever said Singaporeans are staid obviously aren’t going to the right concert. Chinese fans are seriously crazy. It was so fun. That said, I have never seen so many Ah Bengs congregated in one area before. Hahaha. 

    #

     

    In other news…

     

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    • eggonheels 9:50 pm on April 7, 2008 Permalink

      who are you going to japan with? (: LUCKY.

    • supermango 10:12 pm on April 7, 2008 Permalink

      jgan! (:

    • ~ 12:24 am on April 8, 2008 Permalink

      你是我的花朵 花朵 花朵

  • 256: i’ve got my mind set on you 

    r 4:25 am on March 5, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    So pretty right? I have been looking at this thing for like 6 months. Really only US$395 :(
     
    Alternatively, the ring is only US$150.
     
    My middle finger is 7.5 and my ring finger 6. Haha.  
     
    • rui 8:41 am on March 5, 2008 Permalink

      hahahahahah this is so weird my bf gave me the ring when he asked me to be his gf

    • doof 10:31 am on March 5, 2008 Permalink

      can you be any more subtler? i help you TWENTY FIFTH OF MARCH

    • ~ 8:38 pm on March 5, 2008 Permalink

      sorry everybody, i got dibs.
      :D HAHAHAHAHA

    • pak 10:50 pm on March 6, 2008 Permalink

      hey gan you know what to do bwahahaha!

    • lifangyi 12:43 am on March 7, 2008 Permalink

      Get married tmr…mwahahhaha

    • dandelionwine 7:33 pm on March 7, 2008 Permalink

      hi guys you have 18 days to start saving up,

    • doof 3:05 am on March 8, 2008 Permalink

      what u waant for your wedding gift ah?

    • neek 9:22 am on March 8, 2008 Permalink

      el oh el risse, can you post some less exxy things on your wishlist pls ;)

  • 248: the night lights remind me of bright eyes 

    r 3:49 am on February 6, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    • danmok 10:22 am on February 6, 2008 Permalink

      your “yummy fish” has a prawn head! HAHA! e pics on my blog not color edited tt’s why it turned out rather shag la.. too many to edit!

    • supermango 12:04 pm on February 6, 2008 Permalink

      you put the prawn head there!!

  • 245: saturday wait, and sunday always comes too late 

    r 1:51 am on January 27, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    Just in case you all thought my life was very exciting, let me bring us all back to the plane of reality.  Which is that: 

    • I have not stepped out of my house today, did not have lunch, and had Macs da-bao-ed for dinner – except at 9.30pm to drive back to school and get my bloody Constitutional Law textbook out of my pigeonhole. 
    • And drive back. 
    • And after all this time, I am still at question 3. 
    • And my grammar is shot to hell because I keep starting sentences with “And”. 
    • And despite not having any prior injuries on the area, my knee really hurts like fuck. Also, my right wrist cracks ominously whenever I move my hand from the keyboard to the trackpad and back. 
    • And that the sole highlight of my day has been to finish the last pack of Wasabi Steamed Potato Crackers that I have in my larder, and realize that instead of the usual 5 in the pack, I have 6! SIX!

     

    I have cheated the evil manufacturers of an extra 1mm thin biscuit! I rule.   

    Naturally I spent most of the day lusting after bags I cannot afford. 

     

     
    • cher 4:00 pm on January 27, 2008 Permalink

      haha i once bought a 75g bag of pretzels that was supp to be 50g. (yes, i actually weighed it.)

    • ruizi 10:28 pm on January 27, 2008 Permalink

      yes bags we cannot afford.

      i will eat air and drink water at restaurants (from the tap, not still nor sparkling thanks) because i will blow my first paycheck on ONE BAG. one that will remind me of the days when i spent 2342402 lectures staring at purse blogs, lusting after them (:

      want to go shopping together when that day comes?

    • supermango 12:15 am on January 28, 2008 Permalink

      yah. confirm will go shopping!

      but it is my resolution to at least save enough to buy one damn bloody nice bag by the end of this year! i will not live my uni life in total uselessness. ahahahaa.

  • 241: something good will come my way! 

    r 5:39 pm on January 13, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    Things that don’t bear thinking about:

    Why I am going back to school tomorrow.

    Why my knee is suddenly acting up and hurting like a bitch today. I can’t bend it or walk properly. WHY?

    Why I have a really bad and horrible throat.

    Why my attempts to eat Penang Laksa at Jalan Bukit Merah have failed. Thrice.

    Why that Miu Miu bag is so expensive.
    (US$285 on eBay, ending today!!! If I weren’t so broke, it’d be mine, for my birthday. Hint.)

    But.

    My timetable this year is pretty sweet.

    After more than a year, I’ve decided what I should name my car. And in the name of spontaneity, I present to you Judy Bloom!

    We are going to get our asses on the dean’s list this year.

     
    • cher 10:38 pm on January 14, 2008 Permalink

      heh is that a reference to judy blume?

  • 230: your life is your life 

    r 1:19 am on December 20, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    Hmm. My current obsession — one that may last very long — shift dresses. Even though I’ve gained a fair bit of weight over the past year (woe) so that now my body is no longer what it used to look like, I have decided that even then, shift dresses can be flattering on not-flat-chested people.

    Is it strange to mourn the loss of your flat(ter) chest? I always thought having bigger boobs looked sort of vulgar, for some reason. And I like the adolescence and androgyny that being flat-chested confers. (This was probably not appropriate public conversation, but who cares) In the meantime while I’m trying to lose weight, let’s make the best of it!

    #

    Went on a pretend-holiday with my mum yesterday. Booked a room at a hotel for a night, and lived utterly decadently. We had lunch at Pontini yesterday before checking in, and after dumping our stuff headed to town and went shopping. In lieu of no holiday, my mum gave me money to spend. Which was a good deal (: We bumbled around, looked at wildly expensive things, my mother dreaming about the day when she could stop buying me things and I’d buy them for her (haha), drinking bubble tea and being totally random. And when we got back, we stopped by 7/11 like we would in any other country for drinks before going up to the hotel. Then my mum decided that since the tea and coffee were complimentary, she’d drink them like a typical Singaporean (her words, not mine), and she couldn’t sleep for the rest of the night.

    Some bad movie about Chinese Americans was playing on Star Movies, while I read half a history book. I think there is something very fascinating about the French Revolution, even though the French still really annoy me sometimes, which is why unknowingly I suddenly have about 5 books on the subject, excluding that hugeass Oxford History of the French Revolution I bought in JC (Sad that I only read it properly after I finished my A-Levels; before that I just read the concluding chapter and winged it haha).

    #

    After I checked out this afternoon, the bf came over and we went to Haji Lane. I picked up a shift dress which I’m intending to wear for my family’s Christmas party (part Yay and part Awkward, for reasons exclusive to the recent past), and a vintage kimono, which I’m intending to dry clean then send to a tailor to convert into a dress. I feel sort of sad chopping off almost half the length of it, because I love the detail at the hem, but there are two little holes at the bottom (which was why it was cheaper) so I’ll find something for it. Maybe the obi.

    The shopkeeper showed me all the old family kimono, the black formal ones with family crests at the chest and intricate embroidery at the bottom. They were beautiful, and old, and I would have liked to buy them, but they didn’t suit my purpose (and they were expensive). And it would be sacrilegious to hack an old family kimono to turn it into a fashion item. Some of them were really lovely, especially those for a young woman’s 20th birthday, a formal celebratory occasion in Japan. I’ve got my eye set on one — I’ll see how the tailoring goes with this one, first.

    It might even be ready to wear for Chinese New Year! (:

    I like all these random DIY projects.

    So, um, any recommendations for a good tailor (not just one who does alterations)?

    #

    I haven’t filled in my exchange application form yet!!! There are 2 more days. Argh.

     
    • ben 2:40 am on December 20, 2007 Permalink

      i was around haji in the afternoon too! for the 2nd time this week. ahah. the shops damn nice right. i want to live in them man.
      you guys should try to food at golden mile food centre if you all haven’t. its awesome, and cheap!

    • rui 3:03 pm on December 20, 2007 Permalink

      where are u planning to go on exchange? how exciting (: (:

    • neek 10:15 am on December 21, 2007 Permalink

      what’s wrong with boobs, they’re fun! they’re like, consolation for the loss of your non-squishy teenaged body. umm yeah. where are you going on exchange? o_O

    • nurul 12:39 am on December 22, 2007 Permalink

      omg where did you find the kimonos?? haji lane rocks. i love the little bead shop they have. ya if you find a good tailor pls tell me. i have a dress i want to cut up. DONT go to the tailor at tanglin mall, i think either ground floor or b1, shes awful, super expensive and super rude. she did my prom dress alterations (made for american chicks, therefor had to take in the top by like… 4inches….) and it came back with a stain on the hem.

    • supermango 2:20 am on December 22, 2007 Permalink

      along haji lane! called japan vintage or something… the shopkeeper is a really nice man!!

    • vintage dress 1:26 am on January 4, 2008 Permalink

      With the 70s and 80s back in style, I just loving vintage clothing from the thrift shops. You can find designers like Chanel and Armani for cheap there.

  • 175: things will be great when you’re downtown 

    r 11:29 pm on July 30, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    top want at the moment: botkier rose satchel :)

    i might actually consider working next holidays as contract staff again just so i can buy this bag. and gayly, i only have to work three weeks! and i’d use it everyday…

    watched the bf play in the gryphons cup over the weekend. randomly (and inappropriately sharing the same line as the previous sentence), the referee for the game he was playing in on sunday was the hottest guy i have ever seen in my life. tall, and tanned, and young, and lovely. and muscular. and handsome. omg. :x there is something very man about playing sports. i don’t know how to explain it haha. :)

    anyway the first day at lee&lee was fun, even though i am appalled that people would pay $6.8m for a penthouse in rochester, but anyway — CBD! morning traffic! peak hours! lots of food! whee! and happy birthday sharmila!

     
    • tilde 7:21 am on July 31, 2007 Permalink

      lucky for me that you didn’t hear the british accent then :D

    • neek 9:37 pm on August 1, 2007 Permalink

      OMG handsome + british accent?! where! where!

      and that’s a nice bag. o_O i want a nice bag too.

  • 174: just go ahead, let your hair down 

    r 3:31 am on July 28, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    today was pretty good. met the girls today and watched the simpsons, which was funny in some parts but still better in half-hour episodes. had a nice dinner (marred by a telephone call, but quickly rectified after) and some really nice dessert. i spent a lot of money today, but it was good. bumped into the a14 people and chatted at macs for a long long time before heading off to chijmes for drinks. and talked a lot more, once the alcohol was all in the system. ’twas good to see everyone again and catch up and talk about stupid things late into the night, sort of high. thankfully no drunken photos.

    watching NDP preview tomorrow courtesy of joel! whee (:

     
    • dandelionwine 2:47 pm on July 29, 2007 Permalink

      .. he told me he didnt have any tickets left

      HOS BEFORE BROS CLRLY

    • supermango 3:33 pm on July 29, 2007 Permalink

      thats cos he gave them to us before you asked

      DUH

  • 169: the timing is quite unusual 

    r 2:35 am on July 3, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    gayly, i realised that it was actually ONE week to hong kong from the last post, not two. i’m flying off on wednesday morning at the horribly ungodly unearthly time of 6.40am. i have severely underpacked. i hope i come back with a lot more things. the shopping better be good because i’ve not bought anything this great singapore sale. BAH.

    my mum bought 2l of venezia ice cream last week. i feel a moral obligation to eat it because no one else will if i don’t.

    i think tanning is one of those things you can’t do too often. i’ve gone to the beach 3 times since i got back from bangkok (and i tanned all week there) every 2 weeks and today i got bored by 4pm. i am also fascinated by the 7% GST. now all the parking charges are like, some weird number ($1.07)! i don’t understand why it is some incalculable number when there are no 1-cents in singapore anymore. perhap it is a ploy to get people to round up their figures so the government can steal a bit of money on the side by taking 40 cents instead of 37. 3 cents x 4 million per day is $120,000! imagine how much they steal in a year! bleh. actually i just punched it into a calculator. the figure is very depressingly $43.8 million.

    anyway, today was a series of unfortunate events because the day totally did not start off on the right track. so we were supposed to go to the beach, and before that have lunch at botak jones at AMK (where we went yesterday and decided to come back because it was good!!!). so off we went. and then while parking head in, i heard a sickening grinding sound come from below the bonnet of my car. which only means one thing. seeing as i was not the one driving, i was very very very grumpy with the bf. thankfully however, it’s one of those places nobody can see (but now you know cos i told you). after that fiasco we walked into the coffee shop only to find out that botak jones is closed on mondays. FAIL. anyway in a bid to not waste time we sat down and ordered bak chor mee. when it came, it took the form of fishball noodles. when pressed for an explanation the bak chor mee auntie just said, “oh, we ran out of bak chor, just now forgot to tell you”. GRRRR. and although the fishballs were nice, the noodles were not. when we got to sentosa, cafe del mar was FULL. on a MONDAY.

    anyway yesterday i went to town and had a nice day because i bought 2 books for 20% off, and then went off to the starbucks at liat towers at midnight (fast becoming my favourite peoplewatch hangout in town, too bad it’s closing). did i mention i hate book covers that have movie references to them? like the virgin suicides cover suddenly became kirsten dunst’s face after the movie came out. i hate those, but mainly because i am vain and i refuse to let people think i bought the book because i watched the movie, especially since this has actually never happened to me. book then movie, or no book at all. grrr.

    randomly i have this urge to eat NYDC’s mushroom madness spaghetti and alot of fish&co food. that must wait till i get back though. ah well.

     
    • ruizi 12:07 pm on July 3, 2007 Permalink

      im sad starbucks at liat towers is closing too :/
      pfft. where will people sit on saturday nights then!

    • play music 5:56 am on September 13, 2007 Permalink

      Hello, nice post. Bookmark it.

  • 168: things to feel glad about even though i did not really buy anything 

    r 5:55 pm on June 26, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    - actually being able to enjoy the rainy cool morning and reading newspapers in my garden. because i am actually AWAKE at 7am
    - buying a new pair of emergency sandals because my shoes fell apart while shopping with mum today
    - this udderly champion moisturiser that smells like milk (haha) called udderly sMOOth with a cow print on the tube!!
    - cakes from my favourite patisserie ever in takashimaya (rive gauche!). haven’t eaten their choc charlotte in so long, and this totally swoon-worthy matcha swiss roll with clotted cream and azuki filling. yum. i have such an anglo-japanese tendency :x

    i am now having two slices of that roll with some wheatgrass and vegetable juice. lest i sound like a freak, this announcement says WHEATGRASS JUICE = ACTUALLY VERY YUMMY!!

    - i am going to nail that pair of jeans from massimo dutti asap (i.e. as soon as all the wannabe aunties get out of my way in the changing room!!!)
    - watching magic school bus
    - watching TOM AND JERRY! (omg so funny)

    amazingly, as an illustration of how hard to see my hair colour is, my mother has not said anything about it. it has been 1.5 days, and she spent the whole day out with me today. however that also means she will not be knowing where all my money has gone. heh heh.

    TO HONGKONG IN TWO WEEKS! better plan my to-find list.
    there is a movie on belle de jour in the making!
    i still want to watch the original belle de jour, currently residing in my cousin’s UK apartment. bleh.

     
    • j ng 12:19 am on June 27, 2007 Permalink

      haha.. i can never understand why you always come over. youve prob shopped the whole place

  • 167: she only drinks coffee at midnight when the moment is not right 

    r 6:12 am on June 26, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    hello all –

    today i took a jump and when i went for a haircut today i dyed my hair violet. this is to say that now 90% of my head is purplish-red, even though that isn’t exactly the colour you expect from hearing “violet”. i wanted dark purple at first, but was informed that since my natural hair colour is the blackest nonsense you can ever find on the face of this planet (i swear, it even looks black when you hold it up to the sun) anything dark and masquerading as subtle would be rendered invisible.

    so now it’s slightly brighter, and is a cross between dark purple and dark red. but you still can’t really see it unless you look carefully and/or see me in sunlight/white light, but that’s the way i like my things to be.

    in addition, the only reason why i am actually up at 6am in the morning is because i woke up at 5 due to a headache that refused to go away. so other than the nice hair, i actually really feel like shit. :(

    ETA: one thing that really irritates me is why do some irritating people manage to be rich at the same time!!! ya, i am jealous. i am so going to buy myself a totally frivolous and beautiful bag the moment i graduate for the heck of it. i have had enough of stupid people buying bags i have been lusting for (5!!!) in one hongkong trip!!!!!

     
    • nurul 10:45 am on June 26, 2007 Permalink

      hi love. ah coolness! i wanted to dye my hair purple! anyway, you will still see my hair for a while! am working up to permanent committment, if that makes sense. and dont worry. i know what you mean. quickly plan a beach thing. i havent seen you yet!

    • rui 7:49 pm on June 30, 2007 Permalink

      yayy purple hair (: it’s reeeeally annoying when hairdye fades though

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