tantalize your senses*

yay! new layout finally(:
it's definitely more simple than the previous one; i LIKE!
and finally i have a white bg.
means more freedom with font colours (:
haha. yupp. but the posting's a bit screwed.
the paragraphs don't really show. shall try to fix that.

pretty busy weekend (:
going shopping for last minute wedding stuff later.
then it's off to my uncle and aunty's BAPTISM!! (:
thankyou Lord
tomorrow's my cousin's wedding! will be out the whole day.
tea ceremony in the morning, dinner at some poshh hotel at night. (:
~~so all studying of phys will be pushed till sunday~~

lala. gotta scoot off now! i still like my layout! (:

love, huili.

Thursday, June 29, 2006
9:03 PM

(: so it's one more paper left! but just knowing that we have 16 more weeks (or thereabouts) to As is really really scary. sigh* i shall take a short break and relax first before intensive mugging till 23rd nov.

karin, kailing, ruowei and i pigged out today! we had venezia, toriQ and takopachi! ((: ooh and subway cookies! haha. justine went TO THE GYM lah! oh mannn. but i really feel quite unfit. it's time to start exercising againn! shall maybe go swim one day or sth. i want a treadmill!! i refuse to go jogging. it's boooooringgggg.

finally can sit down and watch a full match on friday night (: am loooking forward to germany vs argentina. gooooo GERMANY ((: oh read the papers that cristiano ronaldo might transfer to real madrid?!?! like... WHAT??!! real madrid is undeserving lah! so much talent but not performing well. ~~like england~~

this is such a disjointed post. haha. actually during the studying period wanted to blog alot of times. but was too lazy lah. anyway, i've a favfavfav song now ((:

here's Only Hope by Mandy Moore (:

There's a song that's inside of my soul.
It's the one that I've tried to write over and over again
I'm awake in the infinite cold.
But you sing to me over and over and over again.

So, I lay my head back down.
And I lift my hands and pray
To be only yours, I pray, to be only yours
I know now you're my only hope.

Sing to me the song of the stars.
Of your galaxy dancing and laughing and laughing again.
When it feels like my dreams are so far
Sing to me of the plans that you have for me over again.

So I lay my head back down.
And I lift my hands and pray
To be only yours, I pray, to be only yours
I know now, you're my only hope.

I give you my destiny.
I'm giving you all of me.
I want your symphony, singing in all that I am
At the top of my lungs,
I'm giving it back.

So I lay my head back down.
And I lift my hands and pray
To be only yours, I pray,
to be only yours I pray,
to be only yours
I know now you're my only hope.

hmmmmm, hmmmmm, oooooh.

love, huili.

Saturday, June 17, 2006
6:46 PM

hehhh. i know this is really slowww but i'm still gonna blog abt this past week! (: ok, maybe not the week but the first 3 days of the week(: they're prob the FUNNEST (ok, no such word, but still.)days of this hols. so THANKYOUUU karin, ruowei and kailing for the really fun times (: lalala. this post is gonna haf loads of pics! so i'm typing all this in word pad first! (not microsoft word cos they keep correcting your capital letters automatically, which makes the post look really ugly. haha. if you know what i mean)

okie so monday and wednesday we went to youth guidance to do CIP! (: meaningful! haha. we organised activites for the kids for the afternoon sessions. but im really glad jean and yokeee (haha dunno how to spell her name) were there cos they helped make instructions more clear and also played the icebreaker (whacko) which set the mood right. yupp. so on monday aft whacko we played polar bear with the kids! and surprisingly they understood the instructions really quickly and had a lot of fun playing it. ANDANDAND! i sat beside EDMUND(!!!) during whacko AND polar bear! AWWWW. haha. then during polar bear he was one of the polar bears. but he was voted out quite fast lah. then amber was the other polar bear. and when it was another round, he thought we voted her out le (but actually we were still discussing who to vote out)so he was so excited to tell us that we voted correctly he revealed tt amber was the polar bear. so haha. we knew to vote amber out. then amber was all "he told youuu!" and the rest were like edmund! bu ke yi jiang de! si le bu ke yi kai kou! haha. then edmund looked like he was gonna cry =(( haha. so i patted him on his head and said never mind laa! ((: haha. yupp. after polar bear we let them watch the green grass dvd. think they understood it. cos they were laughing at the appropriate parts. but debrief tt time abit sian diao. also quite impromptu lah. haha. but yupp. first day was quite good (: went to study with kailing at bpp's starbucks aft that (: i declare that banana mocha cream frapp is nice (: and coming frm me (the girl who absolutely HATES bananas), that says quite a bit (: but i guess cos the banana taste wasnt too strong and gave the mocha that little bit of sweetness that was needed to make it a positively HEAVENLY drink ((: and it goes well with shilin zha ji pai. hahaha.

on wednesday, our first activity was the HUGEHUGEHUGE snakes and ladders game(: we took like what. 3 hrs to do the board? and karin dunno took how long to do the HUGE die. gave the board and the die to youth guidance aft the game and they were so pleased with it. HAHAHA. we left our mark behind. hehh. and our hard work was worth it! i think the kids did enjoy themselves although they HATED the bonus questions (which were actually supposed to help them move forward faster) and LOVED the sweets (: hahaha. played two rounds, and EDWIN AND EDMUND were soooooo adorable! AWWWWWW. haha. lala. took so many pics of them (: shall post the nicer ones up. haha. after that played capt's ball. which i think they enjoyed the most. haha. yingteng was on the guy's team but he was being a lousy defenderrr. haha. 4 of us dint play cos too many pple le. anyway, i think the kids were quite sweet and cooperative (: and for that i'm thankful. was quite apprehensive at first as to how the cip would be like. was v worried that the kids won't like what we planned or that they wont understand the games (esp polar bear) then was v afraid will leng chang. but thank God none of that happened! (: and so i had a very meaningful monday and wednesday (: and it kind of ignited this passion in me to contribute back more to society and to stop living in my own sheltered jaded comfort zone. yupp.

pics for our CIP (:

our enormous snakes and ladder board! and the 2 HUGE die! (:

ah long, EDWIN, EDMUND!! haha. obvious favouritism here xp

the loveliest “bonus” square. drawn by me of course.

hehh. my 2 darlings (:

ah en and the other kids! this picture is dedicated to huiling! hahaha.

kids playing capt’s ball. yingteng is obviously slacking. haha.

more kids! (:

once again, EDMUND! (with wenshan)

and EDWIN!! (with wenshan also)

US (: at the end, having learnt a lot thru this CIP (:

TUESDAY! we went to the zoooooo! haha. kailing and i were supposed to meet at cck interchange at erm 9:20. haha. but i guess we were both late (her bus refused to come and i took longer than expected to get ready. hehhh) but i still reached earlier! lalala.so yupp. reached the zoo at 10:03 (3 mins late) haha. oh but before that, on the way to the zoo we took this highway that was the same highway that the taxi took when clement and i went to get the pitcher plant (which subsequently died in yaozhen's care rather quickly) last year for pw. haha. brought back a flood of pw memories, and i never thought i'd say this but hey! i miss pw! not really the project itself (like i could ever miss the ants.) but more like working with clement, huiling and yaozhen (: HI138!!! (: anw, back to the zooo. we thought we were earlier than karin and ruowei but they cheated cos karin's mom fetched them there so yupp. haha. then we were so excited to get into the zoo that we forgot the map -.- haha. so had to go back to the entrance and get one. the girl was so amused. blehhh. so anw, stupid karin was niao-ing me frm the moment she saw me lahhh. HMPH. but nvm, it stopped soon aft cos i mean, it's hard to niao me too much. you prob can't bear to niao such a lovable person like me. HAHAHA. so lala. we went for the spirits of the rainforest show. the otter is cuteee!

the otter doing its part, recycling! (:

and the seal is ULTRA CUTEEE! seeee! it was pretending to cover its eyes for one of the tricks! haha. AWW. i love marine animals (:

how cuteee! (:

oh and they kinda used the same general idea or suprise/fear for the component of audience participation just like the night safari's show. haha. not gonna reveal much lah. go to the zoo and watch it for yourself. for best viewing you should sit at the middle block about the 5th/ 6th row. yuppp. then only will the show be truly unforgettable and a great experience. yupp after that walked quite alot. haha. at the barbary SHEEP enclosure, everyone took turns taking pics with kailing cos aft all, i mean, we are at the barbary SHEEP enclosure marrr. HAHA. here are the pics with kailing, the star attraction of the barbary SHEEP enclosure. (ok i think kailing is gonna kill me. hahahaha)

kailing and karin! (:

kailing and ruowei! (:

kailing and i! (:

oh and this is me with shades. we all tried kailing’s shades. hehh. for the pics of the rest with shades, go to kailing’s blog. i don’t have the pics.

HEE (:

then we wanted to catch the animal friends show at the children's area. the dogs are cuteee! and ruowei saw her immediate relatives! and her immediate relative-in-law. but so sad. they were having internal squabbles. the relative-in-law was chasing her relatives and scaring them. xp but the show was quite a disappointment lah. became super short and not as interesting as the last time i saw it (in 2003). and the dog was shua-ing pi qi also. haha. anw aft tt we went to kfc and shared 2 buddy meals! haha. you can read kailing's blog for the foodwastage part. i'm too lazy to type out. haha. but tsk. i shld haf just said that i dun mind eating those too. haha. but it was good to eat fried chicken!! (even though it's how oily and unhealthy) and i ate coleslawwww which is my favouriteee! and drank mountain deww! yayy. and contrary to some WEIRD belief, eating kfc is so NOT childish. haha. aftermath of our meal (: too bad we couldn't keep the bucket. whee! superman (:

kfc’s superman buddy meal (:

after lunch the sky was beginning to get dark. but we just continued walking lahh. wanted to visit ALL the enclosures (: so we walked and walked and ended up at the snake enclosure. they were loads of snakes. including annacondas and this really thin long green snake and these other green not so think snakes that looked like a bunch of unripe bananas cos of they way they curl up (hanging on the brance somemore) haha. and THEN. it started raining. like thunder, lightning.. thunderstorm lah. so great we were stuck in the snake enclosure. haha. and kailing who hates snakes was feeeling quite unsettled. haha. so we sat down. and talked. and started coming up with really imaginative stories about snakes sssslithering up frm the drain that was about 50 cm frm where we were sitting. haha. oh but we dint go to the walk thru reptile encounter lah cos kailing dint want to. yuppp. so finally the rain stopped and we continued walking. haha. we were actually complaining that we should have ran to the pygmy hippo enclosure or penguin enclosure and get stuck with cute animals instead of snakes. haha. oooh. then we went to the orangutans part, and there was this really poser female orangutan who was swinging frm this branch v near us (as in there were a grp of orangutans who are not enclosed, and they can interact with humans. yupp. there was even some net-like thinging for them to bounce about and play in high up in the trees) so anw. this orangutan was like pausing every few swings to pose for cameras. haha. so aa. then when she reached the other tree which was the tree we were sheltered by, she was like posing for a while. then she started peeing! (as in the pee won't reach us cos we were not directly under her) THEN she stuck her hand in her flow of pee and started sniffing her hand! like.. ewww! and THEN, she started like flinging her hand to like shake of the pee. and i was all. oh gross. don't start shaking your hand vigourously or all your pee will hit us! haha. quite gross lah. then she started shaking the branches, which made all the rainwater cascade down on us. so mischievous! haha.

the really mischievous orangutan! (:

hmm. i can't really remember the chronological order of the animals we visited, so i'll just randomly write abt animals that made an impression. okie. so there were the white tigers! (: there was this really white white tiger. haha. and another one that kept swimming in the water lahh. i prefer white tigers to the normal orange/yellow/brown tigers.

white tiger!

haha. and there was also the penguins! which are really cute. we watched them playing for awhile. before karin got distracted by her DUBONG. haha. her pet name for the manatees. haha. but the manatees were really FAT and look so clumsy! i dunno how they manage to erm move abt in the water. haha.

penguins! although they look quite like ducks here.

then there was also the pygmy hippos! which are lumbering and fatt. but v cuteee! (: and apparently when pygmy hippos yawn, it's a sign of affection! haha. how cuteee.

the sign! haha(:

and the hippo! pygmy hippos are actually the smallest of the whole hippo family!

and the mongoose is cutee! look at them here. they are like all cuddled up into a pile. haha.

SUPER cute! (:

can u see the really tiny one? ((:

and we saw the babirussa! which looks like pumbaa frm timon and pumbaa. haha. but it's quite gross lah with its 3 or 4 horns. haha.

pseudo-pumbaa! haha!

and there were kangaroos! and they hopped across the path where we were standing on. so cuteee! (: hoppity hop. i like kangaroos! but the ones i saw in aussie were bigger and nicer. haha. so you should go to australia to see the kangaroos in their natural habitats. but nonetheless, here are the kangaroos (:

kangaroooooos!

oh and there was this interesting legend of how the tapir came about, but i forgot to take a pic of the sign. so here's the tapir anyway.

hoho. and there was this really spastic camel. HAHA. cos he/she was resting there, but its mouth wasn't closed. its like it was purposely jutting out its teeth for everyone to see! so i came up with this theory of how the camel had a blocked nose and so had to open its mouth to breathe. haha. so intelligent i know.

camel with teeth jutting out!

and a more normal camel. haha.

and polar bears are TALLL! and we read the life story of the polar bear cub! except that he's quite old. 16 years old i think. haha. look at how we measure up to the polar bear at full height!

karin and kailing (:

garbies with the polar bear! (:

the crocodiles were HUGE and SCARY. their bodies looked like scaly slides.. they were THAT huge. haha. oh but there was this crocodile called the... MUGGER CROCODILE! haha. maybe it was first discovered in singapore. now that would be so appropriate! haha. GINORMOUS crocs:

scaryyy.

mugger croc! haha.

oooh and the racooons were sooooo cute! they were hiding after the rain. but yuppp. managed to get a pic of them in their lil cave (:

AWWW.

oh and on the way to looking at the racoons we were pai-ing this video. that was erm highly entertaining! (: cos karin and i are such good actresses. haha. hidden talents we do have. lala. haha. we were laughing and laughing when we watched the video. haha. the snippets of what we said should give you an idea what the video was like. it went sth like this. haha. "oooh where are we?!" "i don't know!" "oh! we're looking at the map upsidedown!" "oooh! you're so smart to figure tt out!" "oooh look PINK!" "oh look the sign says 'garden with a view'!" "oooh! we should have gardens with b,c,d, until z views! then we'll have 26 gardens!" "ooh yeah! one garden for everyone in our class!" "oooh teehee!" *excited squeals" HAHAHA. okie. i have to say karin and i were ACTING. yupp. haha. then went to this place with loads of plants. took some pics there (: actually most of our grp pics were taken there. haha. here they areee.

actually this was outside the cheetah enclosure. haha. kailing, me, karin! (:

ruowei.kailing.me.karin (: notice the pink flowers in the background! (:

us again!

oh and we also walked thru the fragile rainforest and saw so many super cute animals! like flying foxes (which are in reality bats) and lemeurs and ducks! (: cuteee!

the lemeur. it came real close to us!

cute lil duckie! (:

finally we saw karin's beloved lions. haha. she got so excited hearing the roars. haha. and of course the meerkats! who are ABSOLUTELY adorable! ((: karin spotted this really really tiny baby meerkat which was soooo cuteeee! haha. here is a meerkat doing sentry duty. on tiptoes! haha.

cuteeeeee! ((:

oh and might i add that i absolutely love the zoo dustbins cos they are soo cute! haha! here am i with a tiger-striped one! (:

okie finally we exited the zoo and went to have affairs with jerry and ben. haha. yummy yummy BEN&JERRY'S! (: had phish food and strawberry cheescake. phish food was HEAVENLY (: i like the choc fishies inside! haha. loads of laughter and smiles while feasting on ben&jerry's.

haha. “euphoria to go!” indeed.

phish food + strawberry cheesecake!

lovely way to conclude a lovely day! (: yayyyy. i really enjoyed myself this past monday, tues and wed! ((: and once again, lovelove! to ruowei, kailing and karin (: *HUGS.

my current desktop pic (:

oh my goodness this entry took me 3 hours. ARGH. ok i better get off now.

love, huili.

Sunday, June 11, 2006
7:20 PM

wheee! have been watching world cup world cup and more world cup! (: ~~and i've not been mugging.~~ hehh. my whole family stayed up to watch the opening match except for my 3rd sis cos she had trng the nx day. my mom was not really watching lah. she doesn't know how to appreciate soccer. anyway. the game was quite exciting in the first quarter. so many goals! haha. but the beginning of the second half was boringggg. they kept passing the ball here and there. was going to fall aslp. good thing things started to pick up abit towards the end of the second half. but 6 goals for an opening match is like.. WOWEE. haha. but sadly, i dun think germany's gonna make it far. think they'll fall at the quarter finals. their football was baddddd. maybe it'll improve abit once ballack starts playing but, how much can one player contribute? and the defenders shld start playing by the refree's whistle and not wait for an offside to be called. just keep defending lah. the second goal really should not have been conceeded. quite sad lah. since i'm kind of supporting germany. (haha. i think the reason i support germany is cos i learnt german xp jema supports germany for the same reason tooo! haha)

oh well. anyway, cos the irritating msian authorities scrambled the rtm channel, i've no more home access to the other world cup matches. grr. SO. yesterday my sis, dad and i went to macs at beauty world to watch (: i tell you it was sooooo crowded! (which is VERY RARE for the beauty world macs cos beauty world is like how ulu.) so i was STANDING thruout the entire match lahh. but quite exciting watching wif so many other pple cos got qi fen! then the collective squeals and moans, haha. so fun! anyway. england is such a disappointment. players are too overpaid lah. not performing. can you believe they get to the top of the table WITHOUT SCORING A SINGLE GOAL. lame. last night's game was so ERPS. i think the argentina vs ivory coast one was more exciting. but lampard was good lah. his 3 attempts at goal were ((: but i think if england dosen't buck up, they're not going to make it far too. boooo. let's hope rooney can help salvage abit of the situation.

booo. i really think brazil are gonnna win. whyyy. i don't want them to win! even though they deserve it=(

love, huili.

Thursday, June 08, 2006
1:46 PM

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Huili!

Originally, huili could not fly.
Half a cup of huili contains only seventeen calories.
The Church of Scientology was founded in 1953, at Washington D.C., by huili.
Without huili, we would have to pollinate apple trees by hand.
The patron saint of huili is Saint Eugenie!
Forty percent of the world's almonds and twenty percent of the world's peanuts are used in the manufacture of huili.
Scientists have discovered that huili can smell the presence of autism in children!
Until the 1960s, huili was not allowed to enter Disneyland.
The opposite sides of huili always add up to seven!
In Eastern Africa you can buy beer brewed from huili.

WHAT?!?! this is so rubbish! haha. i'm amused -.-

#1: that means i can fly now? that's news (:
#7: wow. i have such a cool super power! HAHA.
#9: SEVEN? SEVEN! WHEE! my all time favourite number! lala.
i think the implications of #4, #6 and #10 are sick lah. lamee. haha. ok i'm boreddd.

love, huili.

Wednesday, June 07, 2006
10:25 PM

CAUTION: BURST OF HAPPINESS AHEAD! =D

haha. this is gonna be a happy happy post(: cos i'm feeling happy noww! haha. this is rare! so i shall list down the reasons for my happiness, so the next time i'm feeling down, i can read this post to lift my spirits! (:

why i'm happy: (haha!)
1. i went out to study with my sister today at starbucks! (: sister bondinggg. haha.
2. we ended up at our aunty's housee! cos i told weilong kor (my absolute favouritest cousin!) we were at plaza, then he asked us to come up to his place. so when starbucks got too cold, we went up.
3. and weilong kor ended up cooking dinner specially for us (: and it was yummmyy! i tell you, the men in the koh family are SUPER good at cooking! ((: my daddy's jap foood is to die for, my uncle's chilli crab is superb and my cousin's culinary skills are not bad! (:
4. i'm talking to karin online noww! about happy stuff! HAHA.
5. i have nice new songs on my playlist. secret garden! i likee! it's VERY (haha!) soothing and quite fairytale-ish! (:

yupppp. haha. doesn't sound like alot but. well. after the really shitty day i had yesterday, today was GOOOOD in comparison (: haha. i shall scoot off now! *skips away* (:

and so i will practice more tolerance and learn to be a better example (:

love, huili.

Monday, June 05, 2006
3:35 PM

i just can't seem to study! reading my notes SUPER slowly, getting distracted by so many things, not being able to concentrate! ARGHHH. this sucks. i want to be able to sit down and mug for like at least 3 hrs straight! my brain's not functioning lah. irritating. feel so stupid and slow. like i must reread the sentence ten freaking times before it gets in and i can move on. at this rate i'll not even finish half of the syllabus by the time BT2 comes arnd lahhh. good grief. what's wrong with me!! ARGH. ~~and it really doesn't help that world cup starts this friday~~

ok. shall try to relax then really mug seriously for the rest of the day. shall blog abt random things then:

Given is superrrr cute! awwww. such a chatty little toddler. keeps wanting to tell me stuff in his excited high-pitched voice. haha. then ytd, when i was going to leave after afternoon service, i was like "bye Given!" and he was like "byeee byeee!" then aft a while he was like "hughug!" AWW. then he came over and hugged me goodbye. then my sister got jealous. HAHA. and she was like "Given, give me a hug too!" then he hugged her too. and i was like "flyingg kiss Given!" then he was like "flying kiss! hughug again!" haha. so he hugged me again! so cuteee! awww. i shall take a picture of him one day and post it here! (:

HAHA. and my little cousin (the one with the korean girlfriend. haha. refer to prev entries.) was trying to breakdance on my bed. hahaha. got potential lahhhh. not bad. but it was quite silly and you could tell he was doing it to get attention. but quite good impersonation lah. my sister and i were laughing at him though xp and after we chased him out of our room he stood in the doorway and struck a hand-on-hip-with-hip-jutting-out pose. HAHA. lameee.

i think england's crouch is cute! with his post-victory robotic dances. HAHA. so cuteee! and he's TALL also (: haha. not bad. someone to watch. he's on attack with michael owen. let's hope he can play up to at least 3/4 of rooney's standard. and hopefully rooney can still recover in time for the final few matches. and even though i hate myself for being so conventional and so like the many millions of people around the world, i guess i do support england. haha. and it's probably beckham's last world cup!! boohoooo. so all the more reason to support england this world cup. oh sidetrack. the today newspaper has been going on a ronaldo spree! they keep featuring articles on cristiano ronaldo, so i've had to cut out so many newspaper articles for karin darling (who doesn't have access to the today newspaper) HAHA. ahhh shit. i'm in the world cup mood now! crap lahh. was so excited aft reading the papers today cos got so many reports! haha. and daddy gave me this HUGE poster featuring all the world cup teams and the groups and fixtures(: i hung it up in the living room! share the joy mahhh. HEE. am gonna update the scores on that poster! (they give space on the poster for that)

okay. thinking about the world cup has put me in a better mood (: i shall go back to mugging now! haha.

love, huili.