I am starting to feel the pains of being frictionally unemployed. I need a job/allowance for January so badly that I am opening myself up to the idea of being a flyer distributor/telesurveyor, jobs that I previously ignorantly scorned at.

Today was a most lovely day anyhow. Short, tiring, curfewed but sweet. Thank you 6I for pulling me along/inviting me for all the fun despite my bronchial infection and for job-hunting with me, you guys are the best friends anyone could ask for and I really love you all so damn much.

Got to go sleep now else my fever will act up. Still, I am blessed and thankful. Happy New Year everybody (:

"I don't say it often but I'm scared. I can’t stand the fact that you could hurt me. I don’t like being this close, but I love it. You’re my everything and I hate it. Because you have everything you need to break me. And I’m not saying you will, but I am scared."

and the other way round!

HI, UNI APPS REALLY SUCK. i feel like giving up, but that is so weak! hee when this is over i will post nice posts here. yay my new happy blog hahaha no more emo shizz, hello that was so yesterday natalie ong.

Very good I'm halfway there!!! Okay make that 1/3 done la hor. Yay bye!

I have succumbed to every vice in the book ever since my trip abroad messed up my body clock, it is as if someone removed that one Jenga tile that causes all the bricks to fall, I am now sitting in front of the laptop with a bottle of milk tea and an unfinished (!) bag of Ruffles, checking through my email which is honestly the most torturous thing ever. Why are people not replying?! The stress! The agony!

I can totally call myself Japanese now, I paid for things with my Suica card and I slept in the train and I bowed at people and I am going to keep making pin-headed comments until I have saturated you with them as I have saturated my bloodstream with rice wine. I really do love Japan though, or East Asia in general, I am of the same skin colour as everyone (though still slightly fairer though this is bordering on incredulous) and my make-up is considered basic next to all the Shibuya girls. I will never be as gorgeous as them, but it feels so good to go there and fit into everything that I couldn't the last time, except for the ass my ass can't fit into anything Asian.

OK see you in the new year bitchezzz

Repeat after me: 

Tmr before I head over to Zihao's house and spend mindless hours mindlessly counting down to hopefully not another mindless year, I will walk into Kino, stay there at least an hour and finally buy An Invisible Sign of My Own by Aimee Bender or/and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.

And head down to Lavender to pay my fine for losing the collection slip for lost nrics :/ the irony?

And I will not conveniently flag for a cab between these activities.

New Year Resolution: Stop cabbing. Start reading at nights again and stop talking on the phone (YES NAT IT IS INAPPROPRIATE TO CALL ME AT 2) Joke.

On hindsight dance was pretty good today!

HELLO FRIENDS YOU GOT A NEW FRIEND :)

sexy party!

shifting, because this place contains too many emo posts and sad memories. new start new start :) :)

i need a new place! i'm happier than before, i think. i like it this way heehee.

yay take care friends! tomorrow's the last day of 2009! 

I wish there was some sort of tennis/badminton club I can join (can't believe I'm missing the silly racket games we used to have during PE), a reading/book club, a language/cultural club and a current affairs society as well. I kind of miss school. Its like the enrichment in my life's all missing.

Next year is going to be different. I am going to be on my own and ought to find a job to earn my own pocket money even before my internship, as dad has suggested. I've got a togger (I think that is what they call the ibanking equipment), a job, and my own discretion to be financially independent. Last year I was presented with this challenge, but I was far from ready. Now I sure I am.

That's my second big challenge, and like the first, it is one that I must continue to fulfil for the rest of my life. No alternatives. Each day I worry about some sort of imperfection in my life/myself. Yesterday it was my EQ, last night it was my A level grades, today it is my finances.

This morning I was whiny. It felt good.

I am still learning.

So I was typing the previous post and realised I didn't have a cool fb url to link myself to. I started discussing with Kai (imagine our creative juices are pretty dried up by 2 in the morning but) we managed to come up with these

http://facebook.com/doradon'tcallmedoramynameisdoralyn
http://facebook.com/doralynforpresident
http://facebook.com/dorferprez
http://facebook.com/awenotsomebutalotdoralyn

Haha then I saw this    and decided, better not click on anything lest it gets me fired in the future or something...

Updates updates that don't make me sound bimbotic and foolishly in love (denise says my posts are disturbingly chirpy blah blah)

21st-22nd: Farewell Wards esp Jess and Adam :)


Adam


Lambert! (Haha kiddinggg)


Aw I remember when I was still able to carry my own brother..


(Hi Kyle this is who you missed.!)


Dinner with Amrit (in case you were wondering, I was not having a stroke I was tossing my fringe to have it in place)


& of course I made sheepgirl take a final shot with our public train system!

23rd: Track Seniors Farewell+Xmas Party!
Boo Kenneth you haven't uploaded any pictures, now no one can see what fun we had watching Ben Kwok serenade us all with christmas carols then guitar hero ballads, Xinru bowl over Adrian's fence, the fetching banner held up by Adrian's shoes and the comm's funny matching headgear! (Still curious as to who gave out the beer for gift exchange...)

24th: Christmas Eve (and day) at Qiaowei's


Christmas was fun @ Qiaowei's though this is the only picture we actually took in her place..lol. Played a lot of guitar hero and left before midnight to attend


midnight mass (which was beautiful as per uge) then returned later for more noise and yeah noise.

25th-28th: Msia with the family which I will update with appropriate pictures in time as well hahaha. I guess the only thing you need to know was that we didn't get robbed this time! Riding after midnight in Msia is still just as creepy.

29th: Stayed at home all day to edit/complete Harvard stuff. Then Kai skated over (it's his new obsession fad thing, sk8boards..) with starbucks and his fav epsiode of Whose Line Is It Anyway. Sweet (: I meant the starbucks, kiddingggg. And he tried teaching Dom how to skate. So it's official my 10 year old has more hand eye coordination and motor skills than me, the tragedy.

Merry Christmas and more relevantly as of now (5:35 am 30th dec) Happy New Year folks!

PS Remember to feed your fish!
PS to the PS This is not for note to self purposes.

Hello shots of Hanoi/HoChiMinh cos photos say a thousand words and I'm too tired/lazy to use any more words than captions require to dictate my adventure! PS it wasn't that communist, disappointing.


What UP Vietnam and your 1000 year old banyan trees


This is the stairwell to..wait for it. The school library. It totally ties in with the books are old concept, neato.

Cool eh, biker girls! This was our mode of transportation to and fro school for 4 days! In Vietnam, it's really safer to be on a motorbike instead of off it crossing the roads.


My host's house- delightful little 4 storey house, narrow but high.


More of where that came from on facebook! 5 days in Vietnam were..to say the least, awesome because of the food and company. Duc Huong triple Trung Son and double Hai were the best hosts who really took care of me no matter how much chewing gum I had on me and shopping I wanted to do. Vietnam has really sweet and tasty food that doesn't at all seem all that unhealthy because of the veggie they throw at you, and with the traffic conditions I guess the fats are scared out of your system! I guess my only issue with the country was...the women have way too tiny feet, the biggest boots size they had was 7 and I'm at least 7half ughhhh. Okay but enjoyed myself thoroughly (: I will always remember the humanities poledancers and skanky patriotic cheer we came up with then were coerced to chant in front of a class full of hormonal testosterone skillfully morphed into deceiving forms of rowdy teenage boys. Good times!

That's you, needing. I was never able to. We, not just I, who can't carry ourselves must learn, moved on or otherwise. Experiences prevent us from being fools forever.

I stubbornly insist I could do this right again, but I know I am wrong. I don't want to be wrong again, to go through a whole amalgamation of unnecessary emotions. I need to learn, to practice, to get this right. I must remember to read faces and actions, to watch my words. I need to catch myself.

Time and time again I screw up. I am so scared and lost at the face of a challenge I was never able to sense and tackle. I want to be capable now, now now now now now. I want to tackle this, to get it right, to make the waiting/the waited happy.

1 month minyak, your deadline is 1 month.

I'm trying to learn to be coherent. I've been reading a lot for the past week I wish I could share my thoughts with someone. Miss having wx and hj around pft.

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I keep meeting celebrities here, I stood next to Thelma Aoyama on the train yesterday, today didn't have the same luck though. Why don't I ever meet celebrities I want to meet? Russell Brand, please appear in a Tokyo Metro train carriage.

Curse you, ION Orchard. Curse you for not being Shibuya 109, 10 levels of Ladies' Fashion from B2 till L8, with little cafes and salons on the top two floors. My feet are bleeding and I have spent unforgivable sums of money, but I'm going back again tomorrow until I'm convinced I have cleaned off every rack in that building. The pain I experienced and am currently experiencing is unprecedented, this pair of booties are so amazingly adorable, but are designed for the specific purpose of crippling its user. I gave up at around 7pm and got myself a pair of Adidas sneakers that I know you guys are going to hate me, so I can't wait to show them to you ♥.

The family dragged me to Tsukiji Fish Market this morning to eat sushi though, which was obviously the biggest turn-off so far. Acne-ridden otaku flooding train carriages with their body odour can not live up to this turn-off. Why do parents insist on going to fish markets? Were the fish markets in Busan and the Maldives not enough? Was coming to Tsukiji Fish Market on our previous trip not enough? My coat began to smell like fish after a while and I got so mad so when this dude shoved into me on the stairs I screamed at him. Sorry, dude.

I don't want to go back. Don't make me go back, please. Only two days left until my carriage turns into a pumpkin.

I've been stuck here for a whole day but tis possibly my last post. I love you Saigon, from a tourist's perspective at least. Farewell.

Hello from Hoang Hai Long Hotel, Saigon, Vietnam. I wanted to write about how much I love vietnam (I still do!) and how I don't want to go home but I think I'm down with bronchitis. Time to see a doctor ):

Fruzen Yoguz is having 20% off til 31st December! But I will be at camp!!!!!

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I always tell people I eat everything, but hmm. After having time to think about my favourites, I realise I like frozen yoghurt, peanut pancakes, soup (most kinds of cream soup/chinese boiled soup), Tim Tam, Famous Amos cookies, milkshakes (or smoothies), apple crumble, oreo cheesecake, oreo anything, and salmon sushi best. Perhaps not in that order. Notice how none of them are Proper Foods.