Taylor's Keds sneakers

On a fine morning, I received my teenage magazine as usual, and started flipping the pages of what feels like my textbook. Till I arrived on the page of Taylor's Keds give-away. The question they asked was "What was the latest design of  Taylor Swift's Keds?". If my answer is correct, I'll win a pair of sneakers worth $79. At that point, I thought "What? So I'll just answer this and win a pair of shoes for free. How worth it". I didn't know the answer, even Googled, but the results were fruitless. So picking what seems like the most legit answer, I replied 'polka dots'. Putting the stamp on and placing it in the mail box. I thought for sure I won't get it. But I placed it in anyway as it's worth the try, since that stamp cost only 20 cents. And my mum was trying to clear the stamp box, which has tons of old stamps that we weren't sure if it is still usable. So it was a win-win situation. Clearing a stamp, and having a 1% chance of winning a pair of shoes for free. Ha. Ha.

I forgot about the mail, till one late evening. My dad returned home and he said a letter was addressed to me. I thought that was particular, since I don't receive mail often, and this wasn't the time of the month to receive school letters. Jumping off the couch, I perfected 3 somersault before landing with one knee in front of the table that held the mysterious letter. I, then slowly, and stealthily, place both my hands at the edge of the table and peeked at the suspicious-looking paper, before my mother shouted at me to 'just grab the letter'. Frustrated that my cover was blown, I took it and tore open the part where it says tear - said by no one ever, well, except me. Welcomed by the rows of words, that almost blinded me, I skipped to the most important part of every letter, the bold words. I gasped as I absorbed what was in front of my eyes, I cannot believed it was true....... I was expelled from ninja school. Noooooo.

Hah. Hah. Just joking. The letter said  I won a pair of TAYLOR'S sneakerssss. How exciting.

Wooo.

I received it on Wednesday, and my dad was free on the coming Friday, so today, we went to the company to collect the sneakers! We climbed to the second story of the company building and strolled to the second door on the right. Along the way, there were offices of other magazine company, like the national geographic. Upon arrival, we were greeted by an old woman who doesn't seem too friendly. She demanded my IC and scooted somewhere which I could no longer see her. I waited with my mum at the entrance of the office, or room. and saw the poster of GG and Super Junior with signatures on it. There was also a display box, filled with trophies, which I don't give a damn.

She returned with a letter on her hand, presenting us with this voucher. Apparently, we came here to get another paper, when they can just mail it to me -.-

My dad fetched us to bugis, and from there we took the MRT to takashimaya. I bought Cw's birthday present while I was in bugis. We walked at Kinokuniya and ate ajisen for lunch

We then spent near 15 mins picking out which design of T.S collection. Truthfully, there isn't any that is true to my liking. So I picked the one that has the most value, typical me. The expensive gold one.

Even the box is awesome

Navy blue, with gold polka-dots & cutting. How. Vintage.

I made the shoelace myself hehh.

Overall, the reason why I picked this was because of the guitar pick thingy at the side, it matches the gold cutting of the sneakers. I really like the guitar pick, it adds on to everything of T.S's design.

SO YAY. It's really prettyyyy. It was also the last pair of it's design WOO.

BCR day

We get to stay home and and the teacher teach us through the computer woo. Just woke up and now I'm exploring the different clicks itself. How. Interesting. We had one BCR day last semester. I remembered everyone being kicked out of the room as there was an error in the system. Ahha good times. The teacher then sent a mass sms to us, to get us back in. I have forgotten whether we were able to get back in or not.

I hope the system would encounter an error again so that we can all experience the awesome joy woo. I sound horrible.

Typing this now while waiting for the BCR to download. It's taking so long. I hope it won't be this way when I'm downloading it for the next lesson.

Just a quick thing.

(I thought he was handsome before, but !@#$%^&)

Jor's BD

We went to East Coast to celebrate Jor BD. It's a buffet lunch!! That place is so cool with fish tanks welcoming the guest and a beautiful lay-out of dessert of the buffet table. THAT is when I started wondering "Where's the food?" For all I see is the dessert. Then POW, we gotta order the food from the waiter, but it's still a buffet. The most unique one I've been to.

The dishes in the menu was so classy! It looks like the one you'll get during a wedding banquet. Those that are served in a large plate and we have the small plates, to placed the scooped food onto it. Anyway, the food there is AWESOMEEE. And I felt that it was really worth the price paid as I get to eat a whole lobster. WHOLE. Topped with burnt grated cheese and the lobster itself was huge! Imagine eating that in Jack Place, which can easily cost like $50 or even more.  But we paid like $38.98 for a person, including BUFFET. This meant that we can eat other tons of delicacy besides the lobster itself. HOW worth it.

I ate fried salted prawn, which tasted a lot like prawn topped with potato chips. Mushroom, abalone(even abalone!), shark fin, dong fen, porridge and many many more. Though for some dishes we can only order it once, specifically one serving for one person, but it was enough.8

Lastly, like every good buffet restaurant, the DESSERT. I have to emphasize. Afterall, for every buffet restaurant, the dessert section always have the prettiest display, of puddings, cake and ice cream, though for this restaurant they don't provide ice cream. But they have ice jelly, almond paste and local delicacy, like oneh oneh. They have this one particular dessert in a cup, which contain thai chestnut mixed with coconut. My mum love it a lot. Initially I thought it was strawberry as it was in a deep pink colour, but it turns out to be these small pink little chestnuts. I tried one, it was sweet and crunchy like an apple, and maybe because it is like that, I didn't liked it lol. But it was the prettiest among the other "dessert in a cup".

I manage to take a picture of two dessert in a cup!

Damnn, that is the only photo I took among the beautiful journey of gourmet. I guess I pretty much understood why people love to take pictures of food, for some are so prettily decorated! For those who take a photo of every food they eat, that I still don't understand. The spoon to scoop the inside of the small cup is SHO small and cute! If only I can share the joy. It was the length of my index finger, it was so thin and it's in black! I was so infatuated by the size that I almost stole one home. Haiii

Alone time

Headed to Holland market for breakfast with the little emperor and my aunt. Ate fishball noodles and proceeded home by 1pm. Pretty much watched random videos on youtube and now there is nothing left for me to do, so I'm typing this.

Tomorrow, I'll be starting my lesson for DRIVING. It's the theory lesson first, and after that the practical. Let's pray that I can pass the theory paper, after 4 lessons.

"Time Alone"
That is something I developed after entering poly, more time alone than socialising. I'm not even sure if that's because people are tired to deal with, or I have matured pftt. To start off, I realised it when a group of people asked me out, have fun or sort, and my immediate thought was "I'm not even close to you guys, I rather stay home". And after that I jolted to "Since when did I not anticipate socialising". I'm not a popular person, and I guess that's why if people call me out or smth, I'll agree almost immediately if there is nothing on that day. In the past, though it's just only a year back lol.

Now, when people asked me out, I would cringed internally. Then I'll make up whatever legit reason I can to avoid the meet-up. I don't hate them, or dislike, them. They are great people. Some even respectable. I even like most them. To sort out my thoughts, I'll dedicate this to a specific groups of people. Note: Groups. GroupS.


Why stopped yourself?

Being left out inside a clique.

 When I have nothing else to say, I'll sit there to listen, and eventually when I wanted to say something, more people will express the same thought, so I'm like invisible since there are tons of people making the same comment. At the same time, when I literally have nothing to say. That means I'll stay outside the conversation until something I know comes in. And during the moment when I stay silent, I don't know what to do. I like listening, but eventually, you'll find out that they are not trying to include you inside the conversation. And this sucks. It's true that there are times where I'm "choosing to be left out", but if it's something that I can join in, I really want my thoughts to be heard.

Trying to too hard

 I'll have to think up questions when the situation is awkward. There is bound to be a time when you're stuck alone with this person you're not close with, and he/she is not even trying to make the conversation. I, not all the time, is forced to make the conversation and sometimes I don't even know what to ask. "You have a choice to stay silent like that person, no one is forcing you." I KNOW. And if everyone thinks that way, then this will be an awkward world. Some are fine with being silent, the "in a moment" thing, but I'm not. I would appreciate it a lot if people ask me questions, for this mean they make an effort to even try. And because I liked it if people make an effort, I would do the same to ask them too. That is how you MAKE friends. We are not close, I get it, but at least make an effort to be interested, especially when you are ALONE with someone. I would asked and you would answer, that's that. I'm trying to hard to please you when you're not even trying. Even to people that I've known for so long. I'm NOT that boring. 

Why go ahead?
I genuinely like the people whom I'm going out with

This is simple enough to understand. The number of people I genuinely like is only 3, that number look pathetic. This meant that if they were to call me out, on the day itself even, I'll be like "Leggo" if I have nothing planned. And if we were to go out, it'll be one to one, or in a small group. There won't be any difference going in a big group with like 6-8 people, and then separating into smaller clique inside the huge number. So I rather we both, or three, just hang out. "The more the merrier" only applies to situation needed, like a celebration for example. But If one really wanted a bonding session, having a small clique is actually better. Wait, back to the point, or to summarise, I like having that particular companion to talk to, so for that person, I don't mind hanging out. In fact I'll be excited to hang out. I don't even mind joining a bunch of people I have absolutely no interest in. Well, not all the time. And the occasional time that I did, I would usually cursed myself for making the wrong decision. But I was willing to do it again in the future so, hey, I'm a pretty good friend. Ha. Ha.

Guess that's pretty much all on the pros and cons list.
But, in the end..
I enjoy what I'm doing alone

To perverts, they'll think 'omg fap'. But no. The fact is, I'm more comfortable hanging out in front of my computer, reading manga, staring out the window, playing spy, pretending to be an awesome dancer, singer, actor and.... well, many more to come. Oh shit corny. I just like being in my own thoughts and world, where I can think about everything and anything. I like thinking about the worst case scenario and acting out what I would do in my head. I like the little knick-knacks sitting in my space; The smell of this green tea scent thing on my table; The music playing when I'm stoning in the library; The silence itself in a classroom. Alone. In a solitude environment.  How peaceful.

Here's another round of "I'll end it here".

First formal Presentation

I'm writing this in his lesson, again. The presentation ended, and I guess we fared pretty well. Though his never ending interruption is still there. He was, surprisingly, quiet during my turn. Sure he was distracted with a classmate coming inside the class, but I must really thank him. If not, I'll have to answer his bombing questions. He made some comment on the slides, about some do's and don't, but overall, he remarked that it was pretty well done. Ahhah thank you. I have to say that majority of the slides are done by me, so of course it'll be well-done. Conceited much. So shameless. But I didn't voiced it out, for I can take the credit silently. Plus, the power-point is the easiest part of a presentation and, if I can choose to either present or do the slides, I would rather do the slides. Less trouble for answering the teacher's question, to add on, HIS questions, and some of it doesn't even make sense.

Now he is going through some running number field and object-oriented model. I'll stop here for now, back to his lesson with my eyelid dropping.

Wee no sch

Today's programming lesson was changed to yesterday so woo.

Woke up in the morning and headed to Fajar for breakfast. I had prawn noodles with baguette. And I managed to see little emperor againnnn. He is still sho cute. Honestly, I have never seen a baby cuter than him LOL. I sound conceited.

I did my EIS tutorial and the rough overview of the presentation on Monday! And now I'm typing this as I was bored halfway.

Was listening to T.S album once more, and I guess those songs which were really nice, happens to stay nice. You know how good songs tends to lose the feeling after a few more repeats, but the good ones in her album stays the same and I'm really glad. At least I won't get sick of it after awhile like most songs I heard. My current ones are 'How you get the Girl' and "I know places".

 Here's a really beautiful artwork of one of my favourite artist!

T.S album!!

We are learning about real estate now. Some shit about commercial office and industrial buildings. Such information can never enter my mind. The accounting lesson later is cancelled, and initially, this was suppose to be the last lesson of the day. Butt it was replaced with OOP programming so we have no classes tmr, yay. We'll be doing the group work later for our presentation on Monday, and no we have to wear formal. That means I have to wear the white blouse and black skirt no. Either way, I'm changing out of it after the presentation itself. As if I'm gonna wear that tight skirt the whole day, imagine the trouble I have to go through walking like a model. Not that models are bad, but because I can't walk in a straight line, which is sad.

Now the teacher is going through some sort of shares and warrant.

Re-updating this post now that I'm at home with a lot of free time before I start on my tutorial. Today is apparently ICT day. And the lobby is filled with games, goodies bag and like every cool party, there is helium balloons. That was the highlight - HELIUM balloons. I stole one and took it back home where it will die slowly, and peacefully.

I also managed to steal a goodie bag which contained 'Hello Panda' and maggie mee. And there was this lovely handwritten quote together with all the sweet tidbits.

"The biggest risk you will ever take is not taking one at all" 

And also this awesome ICT 2014 sticker. Which now belong to my daily dairy.

What happened yesterday. 12112014
MY MUM bought me Taylor Swift's 1989 album! I was so hyped when saw it sitting on my study table after a long day. I didn't even utter a word of wanting the album and she bought it for me, it was crazy! I only wanted the 'polariod' of the album, but not really the CD as I don't have a player at home, and the genre in her current album wasn't to my ultimate liking. Still, I was way more happier than I expect myself to be. I guess this was one of the pleasant surprise that all drama or movie tend to feature, of their 'over-dramatic' reaction. Like the 'cover my mouth with both hands' and 'jumping about with excitement' thing. I didn't do both, but it was enough to understand how they feel if I'm the type to do so.

SO yeah, I dug out a CD player and hear what it had to offer. True enough, it wasn't my cup of tea. Though some of her songs were pretty good, the rest are just noises. As much as I appreciate her change in both music and person, I guess I'll still always like her younger style in terms of her music. After-all, I'm a 'slow song' person, but she'll always be one of my favourite artist. Note to self: ONE of the many artist in my book.

The polariods are AWESOME! (as expected) There was so much feel and ambience in them.

A file came with the album! She rock it.

 

Featuring Gakupo