the story of my candied apple

this is my candied apple.

this is me, eating my candied apple.

and this is still me, eating my candied apple.

bye bye candied apple.

…

its week 5.

i’m ALLOWED to be narcissistic.

i’m ALLOWED to be as mood-swingy as i want.

i’m ALLOWED to throw mini tantrums, and then blame it on the fact that it is week 5 and i’m suffering from a severe case of week 5 blues.

except.

i’m nt feeling very blue yet.

i think it the overdose of sugar last night from my cotton candy.

oh, yeah. i bought cotton candy at the guy fawkes fun fair, and ate it all to keep me awake while doing my essay, into the wee hours of the morning.

yes. last minute as usual.

my lack of sleep + too much sugar made my brain like literally go dead during my finance supervision just now.

luckily, my work was decent and the supervisor didn’t kill me when i just stared blankly at him when he asked me what the formula for growth was.

like LITERALLY stared blankly.

stupid moment of the week.

picture perfect?

was watching one of those nigella shows on channel 711 (no, i’m not an old aunty okay audrey teo?) and she inspired me to bake. and burn my hand (s) in the process. but look at my pretty cupcakes! even if they didn’t taste good (which everyone who ate them said they did xD) they look nice =)

ok, ok. they do look a lot better in the picture i took rather than in real life. photogenic cupcakes, i must say.

and the out of shapeness is due to ‘mechanical failure’ (cupcakeholderdidn’twanttocooperate!)

yeah, and that’s probly the last time i’m going to bake this holiday. i’m so lazy.

jiwang-ness with a capital J

i am seriously so sien. and depressed. and jiwang. for no apparent reason.

ok, maybe there is a correlation between me having loads of work and me getting depressed.

the last time i felt like this was when i had that stupid ‘uber exciting’ retail development project on the Grand Arcade and Christ Lane (which i am still boy cotting. hah! i can still shop at lion’s yard/grafton!)

…saya harap orang yang ber-mark saya punya projek tidak baca ini. nanti saya mati.

i don’t want to do work anymore.

i want to just sleep and sleep and sleep and not have to use my brain for anything.

well, maybe to watch phua chu kang on youtube, but other than that, no.

pre-term blues?

oh, my exam time table is out, exams start for me on the 23rd, with papers on the 26, 27 and last one on the 28.

which means i can actually ‘celebrate’ me turning 20. wooo.

except i won’t have anyone to celebrate it with, since everyone is still having their exams.

well, except us land economist that is.

i seriously need to study for tripos, but keep getting stupid supervision work in my inbox.

ughh.

and there’s still THAT stats project *which i really should have done over the holidays*

sigh.

how to study when i keep having to churn out essays like an essay factory?!?!

joanne says i complain to much.

maybe i do.

and i shouldn’t.

workworkwork.

ok, shall stop procrastinating and will go write that paper 4 essay on smth abt sustainable development.

agn.

ugh.

i want to go shopping.

wait, correction.

i NEED to go shopping, less i drive myself crazy.

ok, i shall reward myself by going shopping once i’ve finished my 2 essays and stats project.

sounds like a good deal.

anyhoos, went out for lunch to celebrate zhongshan’s 21st with the other liars, i mean LAWYERS and nicholas.

i (heart) green curry!

…anyways…

shall post up some random pics.

zhongshan

nicholas

wei yang

me

jordan

and since the photographer, ms yong doesn’t have a ‘personal’ picture, i have to put up the only picture of her, which *coincidentaly* has me in it! =)

okays, now really, back to work.

ahhhhh..

i habis my econs work for thursday!

finally!

since i’m on a roll, its on to my law essay.

and then law supervision work.

i can so do this.

oh yeah.

ooh, and i made chicken rice just now! its was really good considering i just ‘agak-agak’ and dumped things i thought chicken rice was made out of. haha.

jings said it was good too, so i’m not being bias.

back to work!

i swear i will stop watching phua chu kang on youtube.

a little something

got this song from wanlin. learnt it during word alive, and despite it being wayyyy over sang in our caravan (basically, every two seconds, you’ll hear someone go “oh, no you never let go”) i think it is an amazing song which really reminds me everytime i whine abt things, that God is ALWAYS with me.

here are the lyrics :

You Never Let Go by Matt Redman

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
Your perfect love is casting out fear
And even when I’m caught in the middle of the storms of this life
I won’t turn back
I know you are near

And I will fear no evil
For my God is with me
And if my God is with me
Whom then shall I fear?
Whom then shall I fear?

(Chorus:)
Oh no, You never let go
Through the calm and through the storm
Oh no, You never let go
In every high and every low
Oh no, You never let go
Lord, You never let go of me

And I can see a light that is coming for the heart that holds on
A glorious light beyond all compare
And there will be an end to these troubles
But until that day comes
We’ll live to know You here on the earth

Yes, I can see a light that is coming for the heart that holds on
And there will be an end to these troubles
But until that day comes
Still I will praise You, still I will praise You

love this song. has been playing on itunes over and and over agn. on loop =)

especially the chorus. God will NEVER let go. can never be reiterated too many times, me thinks XD

anyways, has been a busy weekend, what with the picnic and the post grad dinner thing.

but both events were good. the picnic was fun! especially twister.

and thank God for the weather. NO RAIN!

and also for green curry at the post grad cookout.

ooh. just as i was craving green curry =)

pretty sick of making/looking at wantons tho. won’t be eating it for quite awhile. spent 1 and a half hours standing by my rice cooker making them.

tirreddd.

but have been eating way too much today. so bad. i shall ‘detox’ tmr. since i have no food left in my fridge, to the dome and the salad bar it shall be!

and now, here’s to my 5th econs ‘essay’ of the day. gosh, i love my supervisors.

“5. Do not expect to find a good restaurant in a tourist town. Why or why not?”

this is the actual question. seriously.

i should include personal examples and pictures of our paella in barca.

lol.

i’m sure i’ll get a first for that =)

Ooohh. Aaaah. Waahhh.

You know how sad i have been?

in a total of 6 days, i have left newhall twice.

ooh.

my longest record of staying only in newhall, is 4 days.

straight.

when i’m in newhall, my daily journeys include walks to jings room, which is two staircases away and the occasional walk to ’study’ in the jcr. also, when i’m feeling hardworking and particularly energetic, i take a loooonnnnnnggggg walk to the porter’s lodge to check if i’ve got any mail. its so exciting, i can’t contain my excitement!

seriously.

sad case.

at last, yesterday i decided that it was time to GET OUT.

So the three of us went to makan at nando’s before ’sending’ jings of to london.

that woman, cra-zee.

acting as if she will be gone forever and ever.

but admitedly so, new hall is very different *cough*quiet*cough* without her around.

and when i said to nicholas that its so weird without jings around, he shook his head and said,”I have no idea how you guys are going to last through summer”

ah, well.

anyways, i really should get out more often, before i go crazy and come easter term, i’ll be a social recluse.

and, i just realised that i haven’t talk to anyone either than jings or nicks for a long time.

oh, and here are some random pictures of the term that was.

jo and i when she came to cambs, and here we are with the awesome briyani that we cooked!

when eva and trix came down to cambs. this is taken somewhere in trinity college.

part of the cast and crew after malaysian night.

L-R : chun yiao, jordan, zhong shan, yu shan, khai xiang, nicholas, daniel, bernard, me, jun kai, jing ting, wei yang, andrew

okaayy, my labelling is pretty bad o_0

the celebratory m’night formal at pembroke. the dancers and the instructor!

L-R : jun kai, khai xiang, bernard, wei yang, chern leing, me, alex

(seated) yu shan, wee vien, jing ting, nicholas

and the international formal at churchill

the land economy ‘field trip’ to london. where we spent 4 hours in the bus from cambs to london. madness.

jings and i when we went down to london for ic’s m’night. jakun-ing in the tube station. uber touristy!

our cny eve cook-out

L-R : ian tang, nicholas, wei yang, zhong shan, patrick, jing ting

the flower that jings gave me for v’day. altho it came two days later =)

okays, i should go get some productive studying done now.

wish me luck!