one of those nights…

It’s way past three (almost 4 now) and I have to be up by at least 0930 tomorrow morning and I can’t sleep. Or maybe I’m just not trying :P I think I’m starting to take on my mother’s habits of being unable to sleep at night until I get everything that needs to be done, done. I’ve sent all the emails that needs to be sent. I’ve gone through all that needed to be checked. It’s like the days in Singapore on repeat all over again, sigh :)

Been pretty busy driving here and there and I finally got my BMW back. It’s been going to the workshop so often for reasons I don’t even know of- my CD player doesn’t work and my dad got me this gadget that can be placed in the cigarette burner and then connected to my iTouch/pendrive but it doesn’t seem to function well either.. There’s still a few glitches here and there but I’m guessing the technical side was being fixed up. I miss Singapore and my friendsss but so good to see what’s happening here. God is so good and so able.

“The temple is temporary but God is concerned about people.”
Buildings weren’t made to last forever… Never get too busy making the temple/building look good and forget about the people.

Keep fighting the good fight. Change your world-view of God. Fight for what your passionate for and what/who you love!

stranger than your sympathy

Goo Goo Dolls, Taylor Swift, Kelly Clarkson, Kings of Leon. Been listening to my Recently Added playlist on repeat for the whole day since I’ve been on the laptop. My diskspace is almost exploding and I think it’s all the Gossip Girl I’ve been downloading.. I started watching S1 & S2 from buying DVDs but I’ve been converted and started downloading S3 every week now and I don’t know much about the prices of harddisks here in Brunei. I’m thinking of changing to Windows 7 too, if it’s not too expensive. Hmm..

I’ve been going out quite a bit this week and had lunch at Kimchi a few days ago. Finally tried it and I must say that I was quite impressed :) I should’ve taken pictures though but didn’t have a camera with me. Had a bento set sort of thing and their beef soup which was really good- I love Korean soup so would always try them when I get the chance and of course their kimchi was good! It was a little bit pricey but I think quite reasonable la so not much qualms about the pricing. Should try the BBQ soon though yums!

Gonna post some random pictures now because I wasn’t able to the last few times I wanted to blog..

叉燒燒肉飯 from Lucky Restaurant! Loves it :D

老鼠粉 from 88!

This is something I really missed while I was in Singapore, three layer teh si peng :)

Bakuteh fromYit Sum! How I missed you ♥

Celebrating her birthday while still in Singapore in August :)

no smile, smile, no smile, smile :D miss my friends from E198..

Finally can post my picturesssss :D I haven’t been bringing my camera out lately and just got my E71 back from QQ Station cause I went to install the chinese language on it and yayy I can type in Chinese now! heh heh. Alright then that’s all I guess seeeyaaaa all have a good week bye bye ♥

not about food…

I just realized something. I wonder if anyone ever gets confused with my site’s url? I hungry. Does anyone ever think that this blog is about food?!? Haha It just dawned upon me that my site’s url and name could be quite deceiving hahaha. Anyway maybe I’m just too ‘free’ to be thinking about all this -_-

I can’t upload pictures! WHY :( Most people never read unless they see pictures, I know, I’m one of them HAHAHA but I do read okay! I don’t really have nice pictures to psot but .. nyeh. I really should upload pictures out from my 400D. I’m contemplating with myself to get the Nikon D90. Heh heh :) okay way too many gadgets/stuff bought in this one year alone. 2 phones and an iTouch and I had to get my Canon repaired. $$$$$$!

Anyway being in Singapore for the past 6 months has been so good that I don’t have that itch to shop anymore :) My money is spent on food, petrol and buying my easi cards -_- I’m annoyed that I have to keep recharging once every few days; I miss my Prima line although I absolutely hate getting barred. I mean who doesn’t? Ahem.

I’m craving for the scallop fettucine pasta I had at Ngee Ann :( So far I have had:-

• MyOwn’s 老鼠粉 (lao shu fen) and wantan soup!!!!! <3
• Excapade. Like three times! I really don’t like it anymore. Shin Kuishinbo is seriously the best. How I miss you too.
• Ideal’s chicken! I was craving for that while I was in Singapore.
• JOLIBEE SPAGHETTI! I was craving for this too and I will have an overload of that this Saturday @ bowling :D
• Thien Thien Chicken Rice.. Coincidentally I wasn’t craving for this, maybe because I never finish my rice. Heh.
• All-you-can-eat at Capers. I stopped eating the Carbonara for a while but I had it the other day. Really good :) A regular pizza and 4 pastas finished up by two people with a jug of coke and my fave cookies and cream shake. Omg super greedy sia… (Singaporean talk kicking in people)
• The Messy Mud Pie and Mango Strudel at Fleur De Leys. How to lose weight like this???
• Tuna thick toast (my favourite) and waffles at Gripps Cafe along with my lovely 野果奶茶
• Had the same drink at Cheezebox again with a tiny little potato & italian beef cheese baked pie?
• Tried the 老鼠粉 at 88 in Bunut.. It’s not bad as well :)
• Had the kebab at Huaho  Bunut too. So random but yeah didn’t know where to eat.
• I had the koayteow at TK Gadong last week, it’s still good but I still won’t be satisifed until I get my fix from that place opposite Concept :) does it even have a name?! Just Seria Koay Teow? -_-

That’s a lot of food. :\

Maybe this blog is about food after all. HAHAHAHA!

Rubbish, yo. Alright I’m off. Going to shower and meet Yvonne for murtabak :D (food, again, omigaaaad inda boleh tahan eh!)

Love love x

writings;

I guess the main reason why I haven’t been updating this site as much is because I’m on Twitter so often now and I just got a E71 so that makes things much easier since everything’s so on to go with that phone. I find that the Internet connection via this nifty gadget is so much faster than my previous Sony Ericssons. Four years ago after I got my hands on my first Sony, I literally swore off Nokia handsets… Now, four years later, I’m back to Nokia. I will probably keep my word about NEVER heading back to a Samsung phone, ever again.

Anyway my paternal grandma has been in town for the past few days.

Outside the outpatient's department waiting for her turn

We’re not incredibly close but she is the grandparent I am closest to. She stayed with my great grandfather when he was still alive for as long as I’ve known because she and my late grandfather have been separated since before I was born. It was good to see her here although she had to come for checkups for her knee and eye; but if not for her sickness I wouldn’t have had the chance to pray for her. :D

Only thing I regret about this E71 was that I forgot to check if it had the Chinese language in it :( QQ Station was the only outlet that sold the red handset and only Incomm sells the chinese versions. Nyeaaah I’m trying to improve my Chinese so yeah it’s pretty important. Hmm I wonder if there’s any way for me to install it?

Anyway going out in a bit to visit a friend. I’ll hopefully update this space more often even if I still don’t know who actually reads the posts… -_-”

now we stand on holy ground

We always need to do what’s right. Character is dependant on the words people speak. People of integrity will do things even if it embarrasses them, costs them, or inconvenience them. It pays to be a person of integrity because your word is a measure of your character.

“Keep your word even if it costs you.”

Wake up call. Got to put the right things in the right place. Some things are just more important. And this is our second round. Are we really up for the long haul this time? We were childish back then; have we really matured and grown up? Can we take on full responsibility of our own problems and each other’s? I reckon it would be easier to just give up trying to make this work. It takes no effort to fail, no effort to grow weeds. But a lot of hard work to grow great trees. Do you really want to go through this?

sweet electricity ♥

A few interesting things have happened in the span of a few days. Who says nothing interesting happens in the kingdom of unexpected treasures? It wasn’t aptly named as that for nothing :D

Went to Yayasan to pick up a friend from her doctor’s appointment when I parked in the basement and had to walk through HuaHo to get out and saw all the customers and most of the staff looking on towards one direction. I was wondering huh what was going on before I started smelling a particular stench .. I don’t know about you but I really don’t like the smell of blood. I saw this guy who appears to be a worker from Huaho covered from head to toe in blood :/ He looked like his life just passed before his eyes and all the cashier girls were pretty much in shock as they were still bagging groceries for the other customers. What a sight really…

Then there was the infamous blackout which everyone already knows about :P I find it ridiculous how Madang, Berakas and Delima had electricity BUT Jalan Kebangsaan Lama (where I stay) did not! I went out and had dinner instead of staying at home, although driving back through Gadong was a little scary.. however some guy played fireworks in the midst of the darkness, which was pretty cute.

Electricity came back around 2 in the morning but I couldn’t sleep til past 3. I was up on Twitter and Facebook looking at all the different Tweets and status updates concerning the blackout haha. Even my brother called me asking me about it because of the mass reactions. Coffeebean in Bandar was full last night too.. And according to Ranoadidas, Twitter was the most reliable source of updates regarding the blackout. Thank goodness for internet on our mobiles and other places that had wifi connections! Hee to think like almost nobody used Twitter a year ago from today…

I met a freelance photographer while I was at KK last week and his work is pretty awesome. He just did his own line of photography for a local clothes line for women. His website here is quite inspiring in itself and he is really funny too! He was a SOT student in 2007, apparently one of the star students too. Pretty cool :) I found these pictures from his blog to links of photos from other sites:

I have always had a fascination over paper stars :) I think it goes all the way back to 2002. I should make somemore again :D

All her photos are amazing.. Above photography, I think I really need to work on my photo editing skills. I have the programs but they’re not being put into use haha. Whereas I know many people who are just like that but the other way around. Both are good together hand-in-hand though :)

My favourite shot! :)

Outside the new building Glory Christian Centre (GCC) which is currently in the making. It's huge!

Leaving the office now to buy some groceries haha. This is what comes with working for my dad :P

deferred

Been about 2 weeks since I got back and I haven’t really seen that many old, famliar faces. I went to KK just a few days ago, and Miri & Marudi a day or two before that during the Raya weekend so that took up about a week’s time. I’ll be doing some work-related errands for my dad tomorrow :D Pretty excited about it. I used to love doing these kind of oddjobs like going to the bank, paying bills, and random stuff like that in Singapore. Maybe it’s because I quite liked the public transport and all that walking.. Okay minus the horrible weather but it did do me pretty good.

I can’t seem to upload any pictures so this post will just have to wait :)

0456hrs

I think I’ve acquired the body clock of staying wideee awake after midnight and getting sleepy in the late afternoon. I’m officially living another timezone :)

Milk Tea from Mos Burger

My beautiful Sabrina :D who's leaving for the UK on Tuesday; who I will miss very much.

Yummy cheese *slurp* I miss my Pepper Lunch, no matter how ridiculously it's priced at.

Mc Cafe for cheap coffee..

Mushroom Macaroni Pasta from Pastamania. It was my second time there?

The yummiest 椰果奶茶 (coconut jelly milk tea) I've ever had.. Something I was really craving for and only found at the end of my stay! They have pearls everywhere in Singapore but no 椰果 :)

Family ♥

Picture taken from Bernard's site.. but I took the photo hehehe :D

Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition at the Arts Musuem :)

A lot of nom nom wor .. We were a too greedy and ordered a little too much at Asian Kitchen at City Hall. The food there is great though :)

I think that’s all I’ll update. It’s 5:16AM now so I should really get myself into bed and sleep .. although I don’t feel a bit sleepy. Body clock is a bit funny now haha can’t wait for later! Long day ahead hehe. Tata all and Selamat Hari Raya to all Bruneians :) &hearts;

Live Life Fancy Free!

愛讓一切變得更美麗

I finally have the 3.1.1 iTouch update! I’m going to attempt to upload some photos now :)

The view from Keppel Bay. The lights on the beam changes every few minutes. 好浪漫!

I was there with Cheryl and Alex, and popped into Privé to...

..try out their cakes! This is one of the few we tried. Cheryl loves cakes and dessert :D

The pictures are a bit blur because the auto-focus on my phone doesn’t work that well in dim light :\ I’m considering the E71, I think I should invest in a good long lasting phone haha. The next day I met up with Alex, Bernard, Jeremy and Ling (alphabetically lol) at the Arts House Gallery to see the exhibition of the Dead Sea Scrolls! It was quite the experience! Hmm and right now I’m experiencing errors with regards to uploading any more pictures. Til later then :)

I just want you to know

I’m listening to random music playing on my iTunes as everything is on shuffle. It’s miraculously downloading the 3.0 update, which I was trying for almost 2 weeks since I got my iTouch. It will take another hour or so but I don’t want to jinx it by complaining :) I went out with Cheryl, Vuina and Andrew to Mrs Manik’s place to have a good time of catching up and laughing our heads off really… To think of all the horrendous (and I mean it!) news we updated ourselves witha certain beloved school… ahem… I shouldn’t go into much details :)

OMG too late… The download had an error and it just started from zero!! Hahaha this is like the third time. Gonna be as cool about it as I can. Hopefully internet traffic will be better in the wee hours.

It restarted again! HAHAHA I think I should refrain of talking about it! Okay this stops now.

As always, not much has changed in Brunei. I’m looking forward to this Sunday very much though! I’ve been playing my piano a lot since I reached home, mainly because I just really miss my piano feel after playing on a keyboard after 6 months. Not that the keyboard at Expo/JW wasn’t good, because it was an amazing experience… one that I really owe to Eigene and Jessel for; for believing me and giving me a chance to play during SOT especially since CHC’s worship songs are mainly piano-driven songs.. I’ve been trying to master For Janelle and Because of You, two songs that have left a great mark on me before I left..

I’m craving for Mr Bean’s soya ice cream now. It’s really good! Those of you planning to head to Singapore, ya’ll should try that, though I have probably mentioned this before :) I reckon it’s pretty weird for me to be “talking” to people on my blog when I don’t actually know who is reading all this. I don’t have a tag board and not many people comment. Hmm another reason why I don’t update as much though the counter keeps going up! It’s becoming quite freaky to be honest.. (and I know I’ve said this before)

This was a few weeks ago, at The Coffee Connoisseur before cellgroup on a Friday :) English Breakfast is my favourite

I had this after a Saturday night service with Ris and Terence at The Pasta Shop I think. It's at Taka, opposite Mos Burger. Was some set meal and it cost about SGD20? I think it's pretty worth the money :)

On a really gloomy day, the view from Ris' apartment on the 9th floor. Not really "Sunny Singapore" on that day huh?

I can’t seem to be able to upload any more other pictures now probably because I’m still trying to download the iTouch update. I’ll update this site wiht more pictures again soon.

Until then I’m going to make a list of things to do!

• Help dad out clearing his things and filing his papers
• Pick out a course for university (!!!)
• Bug for mom to help me get my license done as soon as possible. I can’t drive and my dad won’t bring me out :(
• Get ready for this Sunday!
• Clear up my luggages and put them away so that I’ll have more space in my room
• Register for my braces in Miri when I go there
• Keep exercising and lose weight X.x
• Practice my scales, do finger exercises and do some sight-reading .. no matter how much I dislike it
• Pick up something to read
• Watch more Taiwanese game shows and dramas to improve Chinese

Seems like quite a bit to do. Have a good week ahead everyone :)