After a lovely weekend of relaxing and pigging out, its time to start work again. On sunday after service, we went to carl's junior with the cg, come the huge onion rings, huge crinkle fries and huge burger, but me and steph shared, so it wasnt too bad. After that, we headed to Ah Chew's dessert and Liang Seah st cos I was craving for almond cream. As if that wasnt enough, we went Mac's and shared a chicken fantastic(which I lovvve), nuggets and milkshake. Oh, the sinfulness of it all...oh well, I went to the gym for a 5km run, so it wasnt too bad. Anyway the coming week would be filled with projects to do, tests to study for and essay to right, so I will be literally piled under with work...sigh, not much of a break there. Oh well.

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I was supposed to blog about Valentine's day, but as I was sick yesterday, with a test today, I had no opportunity to at all, so well, its still not too late. It was a bummer that I was sick yesterday, with flu and headache and nausea, where I slept the whole day away it was amazing that I even managed to study at night, but I made an amazing recovery today, with His Grace. How did I know I recovered, well, my appetite returned to normal...hahah..ate from the indonesian stall at engine canteen, grilled chicken drumstick with curry drenched rice and fiery sambal chilli, where just the day before, the mere thought of food made my stomach turn...

Anyway, Valentine's day was really wonderful, in all sense of the word, though I only got to see my date at night as he had lessons, my whole day was activity packed. I baked in the morning, no surprises there..hahah..I attempted to try something new, in view that it was valentine's day and I wanted to bake something special for a special someone. And recently, I tried this cookie at Spinelli's called the Mexican Wedding Cookie which I absolutely loved, so I decided to try to make that, with a twist, by adding hershey's kisses inside. Interesting right? Well, not so. What was supposed to turn up round became a volano shaped cookie, replete with a black tip(from the kisses), which reminded me somewhat of a part of the female anatomy. Anyway, it happened that Steph liked it better than my other cookies(which I baked as well), so its all for the good. Apart from volcano cookies, a nice name we came up with was hersheys titties...muahah.

Anyway, I sidetracked a little, after baking, I rushed off to Din Tai Feng to meet my aunt and cecilia, colin and baby charlotte who was looking cheruby as usual. Lunch was fantastic, as was the xiao long bao, I literally slurped the soup up. After that, we just walked about at Takashimay, and after that had 'tea' at coffee club. It was just great to be able to hang out with my relatives, whom I seldom see, and especially Dayi, who dotes on me, more than my own mom I much say.

I reached home around evening time, just nice to 'pretty' myself up for my hot date at night, which i was looking forward to with much anticipation, and i was definitely not disappointed, felt very touched by the effort that he put in to it. Well, its true that Vday is very much commercialized, and so over hyped that it kinds of loses its meanings, where restaurants charge a bomb, roses cost a bomb, and suddenly cute-sy little gifts just sprouts up from everywhere that it is sort of an eye-sore. Its also true that you don't need Vday just to show your love, but oh well, I still look forward to it all the same, much like a little kid looks forward to christmas.

He surprised me with a bouquet of roses, I honestly wasnt expecting any, so it was all the more lovely, when you least expect it, and whisked me away to Clark Quay for dinner, and he was so mysterious about where he was bringing me. The place was fuly booked, and as we were late, his reservation was cancelled, so while waiting, we asked a guy selling flowers to take a picture for us. Finally, we got to go in, its called Cafe Iguana, and a Mexican Restaurant cum bar, and I was really really surprised that we went there, cos it was so un-stephen..hahah..with lots of expatriates and kind of loud and noisy, but I loved it, especially the food, which came with condiments. I ordered a burrito, and steph ordered the Fajita. We both ordered a drink each, mine was like a dessert drink, with Tequila, Kahlua and cream. To check out the website, it is at http://www.cafeiguana.com. The night was still not over yet, neither was the surprise. We took a long nostalgic walk back home by the river, and sat down, and thats when he sprang the last surprise on me, this lovely lovely frock that I saw 2 weeks ago at Isetan with him, but didnt buy. I was so thrilled with it, and also amazed that he remembered the design and all..

Amazing nite, its wonderful how far people would go to for those they love, I am simply blessed..

Me at Cafe Iguana 

Our drinks 

My favourite picture  

My burrito 

I feel like I am up to my neck with work now. Feeling the stress level rising as I contemplate my unread readings, essays, projects and midterm tests. Not like I have been idling, I swear I haven't, but sometimes I just wonder where the times has gone to. And some readings are so 'cheem' that they take ages to penetrate my thick skull. But I refuse to stress myself out. And I have been drinking more coffee again lately too, after cutting it from my diet during the holidays. One cuppa daily is the bare minimum, if not I would feel all stoned and well,stoned. Haha. Nothing beats making my own coffee at home, now that I have my very own milk frother, I can make cafe latte, with all the foam on top which I love. Plus some milo to make it into mocha. Its almost become my daily treat.


The week has been good so far, went to julia's room at pgp for some gossip, wished I could have stayed longer though,its so lovely bonding and sharing girly stuff. And on Tues, I went to do my hair, so now, I look like this...

Its a whole new look for me. I was partly convinced by the hair stylist to try something new, and also because I wanted wavy curls for a change. I rather liked this new look, and so did steph who kept laughing at me when he saw me, which made me very self conscious..hahah. And this is how it looks from the back. After doing the hair, steph and I headed to Maxwell market for some fish porridge which came in a huge bowl and was DELICIOUS.

Thats all for now, bed beckons. Super duper long day tmr. With lessons starting at 9am all the way till 2pm, and then faciliation after that to 5.30.

Looking back at my previous two entries, it is so totally incoherent and nonsensical. And I have been so totally not myself the past two days that I affected the people I loved around me. I learnt a very important lesson of communication. I had such a heavy weight inside my heart which I could not confide in anyone about, and as a result, it took a toll on my mood and I became more short tempered and snappy, which was scary cos it made me a totally different person.

But thankfully, it has been resolved, and I feel lighter now that I have chosen to share it, though it took a mighty long time to pry it out of me, but I am glad that he has been so patient with me. Had he left me alone to sulk in 'peace', the anger might have festered and be directed at him for failing to show love and concern, so totally irrational I know, but feelings cant be helped I guess.

Thank you for loving me...

Today hasnt been the best of days
Filled with emotions to the max
Mixture of anger, hurt, sadness
Due to multiple reasons
A culmination of everything
False smiles, fake laughters
To the point when I didnt want to pretend anymore
Contemplating insanely cowardly acts
I am tired of being nice
I just hope I havent lost a dear friend
But sometimes I wonder whether our friendship means anything
Today seems like black wednesday
When everything seems so bleak
The entire day
I am tired
Maybe a good sleep would make it all better
And my sanity would return tomorrow
So many more things I want to say
So many more things that cant be said

I am about to break apart soon
This constant buzzing in my ear
Can I not have peace even in at home
But I forgot, home isnt really home
Am I simply a pawn in the game of chess that you adults play
Am I allowed to run my own life
Or do you own it because I am indebted to you
My own future happiness
Does not depend riches
Luxuries I have now
Are as ephemeral as the passing wind
I know my heart
But I am feeling so troubled
Its really not easy trying to be the peace-maker
No one knows what I am talking about
Writing in riddles that only I understand