the amazing things ive been up to this Yuletide season! and i have really the people to thank...so all friends' names are in bold! tribute. tree bewt.

listening to the version of She's The One that Snee sent via msn. one of my personal paradoxes, unsolvable as yet, is that while i recognize amazing local talent, i always hesitate in supporting them. this applies to corrine may, electrico etc. even genie zomg. (haha i think only Nash will know who on earth genie is) if you dont know what im talking about, visit http://genie.sg she was performing at plaza sing on xmas eve- despite her dubious talent i must applaud her for the charitable heart that resides somewhere beneath all that commercialized crap. you see? sceptical me strikes again. but yes, other than stef sun, parking lot pimp, corrine may...i dont really know who else is worth idolizing. but i speak from ignorance- somebody expose me now!

Uni Apps has got to be the most trying experience of one's life. get through the Essays and the mandatory period of writer's block, which totally gets to you and freaks your balls out, you can probably get thru childbirth, ns, death, whatever. damn why am i being so bloody insensitive. joking i assure you! forgive me, but did i mention the clock reads 6.02am? and yes the sun is rising...i can almost hear the koel (ms kelly!) and no i did not choose to wake up early for my morning jog- smthing which shld commence pretty soon. no, i was up with the essays that's how sucky it is. but i guess it's something that i chose- i cldve very well not got my hands all itchy and kept my paws off apps, but i succumbed to the temptation of getting accepted early to god-knows-where. and so here i am. wasting away before the computer, day and night, trying to speed up my progress (not happening) so that 2006 can end on a celebratory note. i have a feeling tho, that my first second of 2007 will be spent editing essays (which explains why i am blogging at this time, lest i dont get to before 2006 ends) it sucks to be me u got that right...at last!

ah but can i say i really regret this? nah i guess not. the past week ever since returning from turkey has been great to me. or rather- the people. thanks to them, it was a pretty eventful orgy of outings to town- which explains my last minute dash to the finish now! but im not complaining. actually i am- but there's only me myself and i to blame. but i think this past week has taught me that you can have a life here at home, even when the rain keeps pouring, and the sun dont shine. there's just so much to do aint there!

on Wed, 20 Dec, bumped into Sarah online and what began as an ordinary "hey how are you" convo became a spontaneous outing to borders! haha. borders btw, the most cunning monster american store cuz they keep sending out lucrative coupons that actually only serve to swindle more money out of you, but you fall for it anyway...willingly...at least, that's me. so anw met her there in the evening (was late as usual) and we bumped into Trix! In my excitement, decided to take a photo with her but got warned by borders woman that you cant take photos in store. how ridiculous. the audacity! but anw...thanks to trix and sarah...i finished chalking up $150 and earned my xmas 10% card- which i didnt get to use- but was a thrill earning anw. anw we decided that the 3 for 2 cds deal was too good to pass on and went ahead with it. sarah got damien rice's 9 and timberlake's futuresexlovesounds, and i got corrine may's xmas album for nash. anw somehow we managed to trick the system and were charge on the offer price, not the full cd price, thereby paying a crazily low price for each cd when divided out. ahaha. cheap thrill, and i mean it in both senses of the word. mwhaha. and was telling sarah abt turkey and we felt seriously hungry- headed to far east for some turk kebab but anatolia was closed! so we settled for burger king. later on the streets i made us share a strawberry milkshake, which made sarah convinced that i was trying to plump her up haha. the insecurities of girls- beware all. anw it was a nice walk arnd town- my first time soaking in the xmas decos at night given i was in turkey before that. it really didnt look so tacky at night, after all. not bad. i like the xmas tree fountains...too bad we didnt take a photo. anw after spotting the helen the baby fox dvd at borders and learning that i bought it on impulse, sarah suggested coming over to watch it. and so we did! in the end we didnt finish the movie (a nice one btw, touching and the fox is totally huggable and adorable- good for fur coats and carpets!- again i exercise poor humour. shut up) until it was almost 4am. watched a little bit of tv and contemplated having sarah stay over cuz of the rain. btw my parents werent home that night, which explains the relative freedom i had in bringing guests over at wee hours of the morning. anw being the fine gentleman that i am i escorted ms smith back to pine grove- after climbing my own back gate how sad haha- but i must say the walk in the rain was one walk to rmbr...it had all the potential for a romantic scene haha but dont go thinking silly thoughts. so it was one fruitful night, of doing nothing really in particular, but yet in good company, which i appreciated very much. so really, thanks sarah!