Sunshine Butterfly

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Sep 7 1980
Likes: Arsenal, Technopop, The Cataracs, Adele, Pedro Almodovar, Sodagreen

Quotes:
"If you eat caviar every day it's difficult to return to sausages."
"A football team is like a beautiful woman. When you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful."
"If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all."

Friday, October 28, 2005 @ 12:56 AM

Things are progressing

Things r progressing tis week !!! finally
got a reply from the Swedish Uni

but it's not a confirmation ... they
just advised me to look
for a prof for that uni
... n if the prof
accepts me ... den
I will be admitted into
the sch

after sending out 3 different emails ...
to 3 different persons...
I got a reply!!!

now I'm trying to come out
with my research plans ... so tt I
can convince the prof to accept me
... researching in HIV is
a big ting for me ...
it's realli the oni reason
y I chose to study biology

childhood dreams are v far
away ... but they inspire me
to go this far

I nvr forget all my dreams ... some of
them quite naive ... some of
them not quite possible ...
but what fun is it doing
things that is sure to succeed

I'm a bit of a tough nut ... I nvr
like tings served nicely
for me ... I always love
to fight for the things I wan

n becuz of my insistence
on doing the tings I luv ...
I have earned the warth
of a lot of pple for my apparent
pickiness in looking for a job ...

I'm not picky at all !!! tt is all I
wan to say

in these 2 weeks I'm gg to work
on my research plan ... den
I will keep my fingers crossed

me n my mum are quite opposite characters
... so she has not been happy for me
not appearing too desperate
in getting a job

I believe my purple patch will come ... meanwhile
I will make full use of my time

frenzs have asked me to go on trips
... juz wanna say paiseh to Jayce
for nt being able to go
to Bintan tis time ard ... (v sorrie yah ...
tis is the how many times I miss
ur getaways!!!)

but I have declined other trips juz to be fair
!!! (actualli a combination
of a lot of factors)

Saturday was quite a weekend ...
have two tuitions when b4 I have none
... met a Sec sch frenz after
my tuition

the first ting my frenz commented on
was my hair ...

"A bit punk"

tt wat pal Eugene said as well 2 weeks
ago

I'm wasn't one to be conventional
... becuz pleasing other
pple is not my cup of tea ...
if I like/respect someone ... they will
know it

If I tink u r shit ... u will know as well
... there were a few times I get into
some troubles becuz of tt ...
but I nvr tink there any
pt of hiding my disgust

promised to help him with his SAT ...
there were 2 mothers at the SAT book
sections at Kino so they
asked me wat books they
can get for their children

SAT is an American style exam ... v
fast tempo just like their way of
like ... but there always techniques
to excel in exam

my frenz wasn't in a gud mood so
I was happy to be a
gud listening
ear

we dine @ California Pizza Kitchen, but
the plc is a far cry that it
once was ... the pizza was realli
pathetic ... the first time
I was there with
my cousins... we all liked
the plc n the pizza

I remembered sth he said n I wished
to say this but didn't "Other peoples' world
always seemed much rosier than us,
but everyone has
our small little challenges
n our own
inner strength to
cope with it"

some my sec sch frenzs joined us
after ... but I rushed
home @ 12:40am becuz
I wanted to
catch the last bus

Sunday passed v fast ... I was too
nua to go up n meet up
Cheehong n pals after dinner ...
cuz CK was cmg to
my house to watch
the Chelsea match

I haven't shop for a long time ( I DO Miss
GG shopping with Dick, but we
haven't done tt in a while)... but
once my future has been
sorted out ... it realli
time to celebrate

how soon will it be?? In abt two mths
I hope ... but in the
meanwhile I realli
have to cope with a change in my
lifestyle

journals, journals n journals ... tis yr
I have read like more than
50 journals ... it's like
retribution for 4
yrs of slacking

Thursday was my free day ... so I went
to the theatre to watch "Sympathy
For Lady Vengeance" with pals
BH, SY & KL,a few other
frenzs oso expressed interest
but the movie schedule
made it hard for
me to call pple

"Sympathy For Lady Vengeance" is a
movie I recommend ... it
manipulates ur mind a bit, u
might find yourselves laughing pathetically...
n it technically v v brilliant

no other director will make a better
trilogy than Director Park ... n
I mean every word of it

there were a lot of ladies in their 30s
watching the show ... i tink
it might be because of Lee Young-ae who
acted in 'Jewel In The Palace'

don ask me abt Korean drama serials
... I know nuts abt them ...

but I don have time a lot of
interest ... when I luv doing sth ...
it dominates my life

after the show, it was raining while
we were in the middle of our meal
... I luv gg home when it
raining at nite

the rain always made me feel
a bit poignant, on tt particular nite
I wanted to listen to
songs of FINKL, it a
pity tt the Korean group
has split ... quite a pity

anyone else liked FINKL?? I have
gone back to listen to Chinese
pop these few mths ...
the last time I did that was
during my primary sch days

n tks to GB I knew where to DL
Chinese pops n lyrics ... Tks!!!

I liked the lyrics of this song ...

怎么去拥有一道彩虹
怎么去拥抱一夏天的风
天上的星星笑地上的人
总是不能懂不能知道足够
如果我爱上你的笑容
要怎么收藏要怎么拥有
如果你快乐不是为我
会不会放手其实才是拥有
当一阵风吹来风筝飞上天空
为了你而祈祷而祝福而感动
终于你身影消失在人海尽头
才发现笑着哭最痛
那天你和我那个山丘

那样的唱着那一年的歌
那样的回忆那么足够
足够我天天都品尝着寂寞
才发现笑着哭最痛wo…
如果你快乐再不是为我
知足的快乐叫我忍受心痛

pals ... enjoyr ur weekend ...
it's work n play for me !!!

(P.S. CS - I hope all is well for u over in HK, looking
forward to ur return!!)

Friday, October 21, 2005 @ 3:22 PM

Much abt nothing

tis week was really such ... nothing
exciting to write ... a lot
of paper works, n paper
works suck BIG TIME

for the record, this is the
first time I have tuitions
on all 7 days

not complaining though, becuz
I'm paid ... n I'm
not being paid
peanuts!!!

still it's a lot of work marking
assignments n
sourcing for books ... in
November my
schedule will be
less packed

will I get a job in Nov? Donno,
it realli depends ... but I have
been to two interviews
so far ... n my profs
have been writing
recommendation letter for me

those bureaucrats I donno
y they need so many
stuff ... n becuz
I need the job ... I have
to cater to them ...

i will have my fair share of interviews
b4 I get employed ... n if I get
a job u can ask me for
a treat ... I'm nt too stingy
abt tt

anyway October isn't much ...
nt particularly happening ... I can summarise
my week in a few lines

tuition/movie/Interview/working on my website/
dinner with frenzs

so it's rather bland ... but Dec will
b fun with the $$$ I have saved
so far ... it's all
for a good cause

hope it will be a sunny weekend ahead!!
have fun =)

Sunday, October 16, 2005 @ 12:22 AM

Hell of a week!!!

tis week went well though it was realli
bz ... more bz days ahead I

tis will be a long post ... I wanted to
type sth frm Andrew Matthews
book titled "Making Friends"
... the book is more den tt

I don realli know whether
I have finished the book ... becuz
I din read it from beginning
to end ... anyway I thot
tis piece is rather inspiring ...
n might be useful for
fellow friends who r teaching tuition

It's entitled TEDDY:

......................

The deputy principal at my pri. sch was a man named
Edward Gare. He taught seventh grade, and
strange things would happen to the children
in Teddy's class. They would start to work.

Eleven year old children would spend 4 and five hours a night
studying because they WANTED to! It was a
phenomenon.

He was not an entertaining teacher. He wasn't
a barrel of laughs and he was no
great academic. But Teddy knew how to praise kids,
he knew how to encourage us, he knew
how to care.

Teddy used to give us little merit cards for
effort, merit cards for good work, gold stars,
stamps. He took time for us. He wouldn't
just give a mark of an "A" or a "B".
He would write his own "essays"at
the bottom of our essays, telling
us where we had done well
and where we would improve.

Many of the children who spent a year with
Teddy felt real praise for the first time.
Teddy touched all of us - even
the roughest n the toughest.

Teddy's results were a continuing
affirmation of the power of praise.
He got results because he really cared - he
love those kids - and he could
always find some good somewhere.

.........................

well, I hope could be as a gud

a teacher as Teddy ... though I know
I need to put in more efforts then
what I have put in

tis week was hell of a week... I have
tuitions almost every nite, plus
one written aptitude test, one
interview, administrative
stuff with job
applications

the aptitude test was nothing ...
quite what I expected ...
as for the interview, I don
tink I stand much of a chance

wrapped up tuition for my sec
students; quite pleased
to see tt they have progressed
a lot, much more
than I expected

I still have a few more assignments to
finish before I signed off the year
... it has been quite a year

nxt year, I still donno whether
I will work full time or whether I will
teach tuition full-time ... it
all depends on my overseas university
application

so nothing has been decided ... if I
get to study in the university of my choice
... I think I will just teach tuition
full-time ... it gives me more
time, more $$$ n more freedom
to do things that I want
... while I'm still young

being young is v privilleged ... you are
allowed to mistake without
much consequences ... actualli
life is not as difficult as we think ...
I thot sometimes we just need
to believe a bit more and
smile a bit more for the gray
clouds hovering above us to clear up

Wednesday I was at Gabriel's hse
to scan my resume foto ... he offered
to scan for me when he
realised I din have a
decent scanner at home ...
tks Gabriel!!!

watched Lady Windermere's Fan
at GV Plaza Singapura on Sat ...
only Oscar Wilde's has the
wittiness to write a play
like that ... n only Oscar Wilde
has the intelligence to
write a play that is still
of great relevance tdy

at one time I have a keen interest
in Oscar Wilde ... ask me n
I can tell u a fair bit
of stuff abt him (u can
ask me about Arsene Wenger as well)

but I know nothing about politics
... Politics are dirty books to
keep in ones library

all rite i will end here ... I know this
is a bad piece ... pardon me pls!!! =)

Friday, October 07, 2005 @ 3:47 PM

Y do u sound so xian (bored)??

was chatting on msn with guobao & wenqi ...
n they both said I sound so xian

Yap, I am ...

there are so much to do, n that itself
doesn't inspire much happiness

n I hate paper works ... they
drive me nuts

I have interviews, aptitude test, lotsa tuition,
website submission all coming up
next week

strange it was, last Sat I was
having a merry time with
a group of pals singing in
the karaoke &
den off to double-O

I haven't dance in a long while, but
the feel is still there, after all
ones love for music doesn't
die v easily

all my energy will be unlocked
when I hear v gud
dance music

my tuition employer told me
tt she thot "disco is out
alreadi, I say not quite"

but still it's a v expensive habit !!!
beta to go oni once in a while

Sunday was again tuition day, my
concentration wasn't the
best; still, it's gud to
see tt my students r progressing
fast

Monday was off singing again with
bryan & another frenz ...
quite a gud singing session ...
went to Bryan's home for
hot jacuzzi ... whoa ... it was
gud except a bit hard to breathe

but i have been struggling
with my bz schedule ever
since

I oso donno y I hate
paper work so much ???

but I know I have to do it, which
doesn't really help much

but after october most of my tuitions
will be over ... den mabbe I can
relax a bit

for me, I'm still v grateful to my
tuition boss ... he just
kept arranging tuitions for
me so that I won't be broke ...
n he was happy tt I was
applying for post-grad ... but
ended up like a lot of pple
in the centre knew abt it

oso donno y boss likes me so much
... but still I'm v v thankful

honestly, though I'm a bit xian, i
think my life is heading in
the correct direction

after next week, everything will be beta!!!

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Friday, October 28, 2005 @ 12:56 AM Things are progressing Things r progressing tis week !!! finally got a reply from the Swedish Uni but it's not a confirmation ... they just advised me to look for a prof for that uni ... n if the prof accepts me ... den I will be admitted into the sch after sending out 3 different emails ... to 3 different persons... I got a reply!!! now I'm trying to come out with my research plans ... so tt I can convince the prof to accept me ... researching in HIV is a big ting for me ... it's realli the oni reason y I chose to study biology childhood dreams are v far away ... but they inspire me to go this far I nvr forget all my dreams ... some of them quite naive ... some of them not quite possible ... but what fun is it doing things that is sure to succeed I'm a bit of a tough nut ... I nvr like tings served nicely for me ... I always love to fight for the things I wan n becuz of my insistence on doing the tings I luv ... I have earned the warth of a lot of pple for my apparent pickiness in looking for a job ... I'm not picky at all !!! tt is all I wan to say in these 2 weeks I'm gg to work on my research plan ... den I will keep my fingers crossed me n my mum are quite opposite characters ... so she has not been happy for me not appearing too desperate in getting a job I believe my purple patch will come ... meanwhile I will make full use of my time frenzs have asked me to go on trips ... juz wanna say paiseh to Jayce for nt being able to go to Bintan tis time ard ... (v sorrie yah ... tis is the how many times I miss ur getaways!!!) but I have declined other trips juz to be fair !!! (actualli a combination of a lot of factors) Saturday was quite a weekend ... have two tuitions when b4 I have none ... met a Sec sch frenz after my tuition the first ting my frenz commented on was my hair ... "A bit punk" tt wat pal Eugene said as well 2 weeks ago I'm wasn't one to be conventional ... becuz pleasing other pple is not my cup of tea ... if I like/respect someone ... they will know it If I tink u r shit ... u will know as well ... there were a few times I get into some troubles becuz of tt ... but I nvr tink there any pt of hiding my disgust promised to help him with his SAT ... there were 2 mothers at the SAT book sections at Kino so they asked me wat books they can get for their children SAT is an American style exam ... v fast tempo just like their way of like ... but there always techniques to excel in exam my frenz wasn't in a gud mood so I was happy to be a gud listening ear we dine @ California Pizza Kitchen, but the plc is a far cry that it once was ... the pizza was realli pathetic ... the first time I was there with my cousins... we all liked the plc n the pizza I remembered sth he said n I wished to say this but didn't "Other peoples' world always seemed much rosier than us, but everyone has our small little challenges n our own inner strength to cope with it" some my sec sch frenzs joined us after ... but I rushed home @ 12:40am becuz I wanted to catch the last bus Sunday passed v fast ... I was too nua to go up n meet up Cheehong n pals after dinner ... cuz CK was cmg to my house to watch the Chelsea match I haven't shop for a long time ( I DO Miss GG shopping with Dick, but we haven't done tt in a while)... but once my future has been sorted out ... it realli time to celebrate how soon will it be?? In abt two mths I hope ... but in the meanwhile I realli have to cope with a change in my lifestyle journals, journals n journals ... tis yr I have read like more than 50 journals ... it's like retribution for 4 yrs of slacking Thursday was my free day ... so I went to the theatre to watch "Sympathy For Lady Vengeance" with pals BH, SY & KL,a few other frenzs oso expressed interest but the movie schedule made it hard for me to call pple "Sympathy For Lady Vengeance" is a movie I recommend ... it manipulates ur mind a bit, u might find yourselves laughing pathetically... n it technically v v brilliant no other director will make a better trilogy than Director Park ... n I mean every word of it there were a lot of ladies in their 30s watching the show ... i tink it might be because of Lee Young-ae who acted in 'Jewel In The Palace' don ask me abt Korean drama serials ... I know nuts abt them ... but I don have time a lot of interest ... when I luv doing sth ... it dominates my life after the show, it was raining while we were in the middle of our meal ... I luv gg home when it raining at nite the rain always made me feel a bit poignant, on tt particular nite I wanted to listen to songs of FINKL, it a pity tt the Korean group has split ... quite a pity anyone else liked FINKL?? I have gone back to listen to Chinese pop these few mths ... the last time I did that was during my primary sch days n tks to GB I knew where to DL Chinese pops n lyrics ... Tks!!! I liked the lyrics of this song ... 怎么去拥有一道彩虹怎么去拥抱一夏天的风天上的星星笑地上的人总是不能懂不能知道足够如果我爱上你的笑容要怎么收藏要怎么拥有如果你快乐不是为我会不会放手其实才是拥有当一阵风吹来风筝飞上天空为了你而祈祷而祝福而感动终于你身影消失在人海尽头才发现笑着哭最痛那天你和我那个山丘那样的唱着那一年的歌那样的回忆那么足够足够我天天都品尝着寂寞才发现笑着哭最痛wo… 如果你快乐再不是为我知足的快乐叫我忍受心痛 pals ... enjoyr ur weekend ... it's work n play for me !!! (P.S. CS - I hope all is well for u over in HK, looking forward to ur return!!) back to top?
Friday, October 21, 2005 @ 3:22 PM Much abt nothing tis week was really such ... nothing exciting to write ... a lot of paper works, n paper works suck BIG TIME for the record, this is the first time I have tuitions on all 7 days not complaining though, becuz I'm paid ... n I'm not being paid peanuts!!! still it's a lot of work marking assignments n sourcing for books ... in November my schedule will be less packed will I get a job in Nov? Donno, it realli depends ... but I have been to two interviews so far ... n my profs have been writing recommendation letter for me those bureaucrats I donno y they need so many stuff ... n becuz I need the job ... I have to cater to them ... i will have my fair share of interviews b4 I get employed ... n if I get a job u can ask me for a treat ... I'm nt too stingy abt tt anyway October isn't much ... nt particularly happening ... I can summarise my week in a few lines tuition/movie/Interview/working on my website/ dinner with frenzs so it's rather bland ... but Dec will b fun with the $$$ I have saved so far ... it's all for a good cause hope it will be a sunny weekend ahead!! have fun =) back to top?
Sunday, October 16, 2005 @ 12:22 AM Hell of a week!!! tis week went well though it was realli bz ... more bz days ahead I tis will be a long post ... I wanted to type sth frm Andrew Matthews book titled "Making Friends" ... the book is more den tt I don realli know whether I have finished the book ... becuz I din read it from beginning to end ... anyway I thot tis piece is rather inspiring ... n might be useful for fellow friends who r teaching tuition It's entitled TEDDY: ...................... The deputy principal at my pri. sch was a man named Edward Gare. He taught seventh grade, and strange things would happen to the children in Teddy's class. They would start to work. Eleven year old children would spend 4 and five hours a night studying because they WANTED to! It was a phenomenon. He was not an entertaining teacher. He wasn't a barrel of laughs and he was no great academic. But Teddy knew how to praise kids, he knew how to encourage us, he knew how to care. Teddy used to give us little merit cards for effort, merit cards for good work, gold stars, stamps. He took time for us. He wouldn't just give a mark of an "A" or a "B". He would write his own "essays"at the bottom of our essays, telling us where we had done well and where we would improve. Many of the children who spent a year with Teddy felt real praise for the first time. Teddy touched all of us - even the roughest n the toughest. Teddy's results were a continuing affirmation of the power of praise. He got results because he really cared - he love those kids - and he could always find some good somewhere. ......................... well, I hope could be as a gud a teacher as Teddy ... though I know I need to put in more efforts then what I have put in tis week was hell of a week... I have tuitions almost every nite, plus one written aptitude test, one interview, administrative stuff with job applications the aptitude test was nothing ... quite what I expected ... as for the interview, I don tink I stand much of a chance wrapped up tuition for my sec students; quite pleased to see tt they have progressed a lot, much more than I expected I still have a few more assignments to finish before I signed off the year ... it has been quite a year nxt year, I still donno whether I will work full time or whether I will teach tuition full-time ... it all depends on my overseas university application so nothing has been decided ... if I get to study in the university of my choice ... I think I will just teach tuition full-time ... it gives me more time, more $$$ n more freedom to do things that I want ... while I'm still young being young is v privilleged ... you are allowed to mistake without much consequences ... actualli life is not as difficult as we think ... I thot sometimes we just need to believe a bit more and smile a bit more for the gray clouds hovering above us to clear up Wednesday I was at Gabriel's hse to scan my resume foto ... he offered to scan for me when he realised I din have a decent scanner at home ... tks Gabriel!!! watched Lady Windermere's Fan at GV Plaza Singapura on Sat ... only Oscar Wilde's has the wittiness to write a play like that ... n only Oscar Wilde has the intelligence to write a play that is still of great relevance tdy at one time I have a keen interest in Oscar Wilde ... ask me n I can tell u a fair bit of stuff abt him (u can ask me about Arsene Wenger as well) but I know nothing about politics ... Politics are dirty books to keep in ones library all rite i will end here ... I know this is a bad piece ... pardon me pls!!! =) back to top?
Friday, October 07, 2005 @ 3:47 PM Y do u sound so xian (bored)?? was chatting on msn with guobao & wenqi ... n they both said I sound so xian Yap, I am ... there are so much to do, n that itself doesn't inspire much happiness n I hate paper works ... they drive me nuts I have interviews, aptitude test, lotsa tuition, website submission all coming up next week strange it was, last Sat I was having a merry time with a group of pals singing in the karaoke & den off to double-O I haven't dance in a long while, but the feel is still there, after all ones love for music doesn't die v easily all my energy will be unlocked when I hear v gud dance music my tuition employer told me tt she thot "disco is out alreadi, I say not quite" but still it's a v expensive habit !!! beta to go oni once in a while Sunday was again tuition day, my concentration wasn't the best; still, it's gud to see tt my students r progressing fast Monday was off singing again with bryan & another frenz ... quite a gud singing session ... went to Bryan's home for hot jacuzzi ... whoa ... it was gud except a bit hard to breathe but i have been struggling with my bz schedule ever since I oso donno y I hate paper work so much ??? but I know I have to do it, which doesn't really help much but after october most of my tuitions will be over ... den mabbe I can relax a bit for me, I'm still v grateful to my tuition boss ... he just kept arranging tuitions for me so that I won't be broke ... n he was happy tt I was applying for post-grad ... but ended up like a lot of pple in the centre knew abt it oso donno y boss likes me so much ... but still I'm v v thankful honestly, though I'm a bit xian, i think my life is heading in the correct direction after next week, everything will be beta!!! back to top?