Sunday, December 29, 2013

exco yolo (part 2)

cycling part 1

so i practically spent 99.9% of my holidays with the beloved exco hahaha!
we met up to cycle 2 tuesdays ago and here's how it went.

started the day off with lunch at the marine parade market and then we walked to ecp to cycle :-)
i guess the highlight of the day was probably how our supposedly planned leisure cycling turned out to be a complete cardio workout :P
we cycled from area's c bike shop all the way to changi beach? yeah somewhere there.
and apparently it was a whopping distance of at least 30km!!!
omg i can't even. #excoyolo
anyway thanks freda for biking me around 70% of the time :-)
i swear i have been so much of a burden (like literally because of my weight)...
but yeah nevertheless you still biked me around with no complaints at all :)
lovelove! ;)
and then the other 30% of the time it was nigel hahaha.
it was actually quite funny how nigel had to be "deep in concentration" everytime he was riding.
he seemed so lost in his own thought he nearly didn't see the oncoming bicycle oh my...
but yeah though the bike made a weird "clack" everytime we tried to find our balance but thanks for biking me around too nigel!!
and then the remaining 500m back to the bike shop with gary on the bike was as good as hell....
he kept on swerving violently left and right to scare me tsk omg...
just imagine my endless screams.
ahahahahaha gary you die.
anyway after biking we bus-ed down to the airport because david wanted to get his gary plushie hahaha.
lepak-ed at t3's cbtl and i bought mocha frapp again (better than heaven)...
walked around in the shops and played with this giant globe which we had decided our holiday destination as excofam.
picked out the most random location ever; hawaii.
HAHAHA let's go the beach-each-each guys.
kidding; it'll probably be too expensive and far...
anyway, played monopoly deal at the viewing gallery and xiaohui managed to catch the game...... a little slower than the rest.
hahahaha oops too funny.
so in order for david to buy his gary plushie at $3 we had to spend like $60 at the airport...
ate astons' for dinner to make up his expenses to $60 while he bought a $20 dinner voucher hahahaha.
and the moment when he got his plushie omg his face totally lit up...
like a small kid!
on the train ride back home it was the same situation too :P

that day's photos!


stopped by for ice-cream at a shop while waiting for xiaohui to catch up with us hahah!
yay for the red grape ice cream omg ultimate fave


while waiting still.... more photos :)
as they all started streaming in and catching up... :-)



AND YAY!
full group shot after everyone caught up :-)

this is what you do again while waiting for people to catch up hahahaha keep calm and take pictures.
it was damn shiok to actually be able to ride hands-free while holding on to a speaker to blast music :-)
thanks freda :*


after the 30km cycle we had lunch at burger king and omg wow all that cycling was in vain...
calorie intake x1000 hahaha oops.
but it's okay food doesn't matter; it's the company that does ;)

occasional study meet-ups inbetween

yup so we did meet up for 2 days in between to study at nlb!
productivity wasn't too bad but i had to leave early both days thanks to tuition ugh :/



these were taken at kinokuniya during our lunch break while slacking and looking at books hahaha.
tried to take an artsy-fartsy shot of me reading a book but no it failed 'cos 1) i didn't look studious enough and 2) i looked fat hahahaha.

cycling part 2

so we went back to ecp for a canopy biking competition exactly a week later on the eve of christmas because we signed up for it when we returned our bikes the other time.
went "early" to reccee the place hahaha ended up just sitting there and talking because we arrived way too "early".
we were the first to flag off for the competition and omg it was really funny.
so xiaohui, jasley, gary and i were on one canopy bike while wanrou, nigel, david and freda were on the other.
we had to split paths and find our respective numbers at the allocated areas, but apparently the organisation was quite screwed and they actually swapped a lot of the numbers.
cycled back and forth like some retard and we kept screaming and laughing LOL.
our bike was probably 10x slower than the others'.
while awaiting the results we played heads up and had a lot of fun hahaha!
the emcee had organised some games for us such as who has the... and guess the song.

pretty funny how everytime we sent out a representative we couldn't help but laugh at the crazy things they did.
like hearing freda attempt the highest-pitched scream (and won yay!), gary and wanrou attempting to hold the longest note, jasley and david for smallest eyes (is it?) and nigel and i for the biggest biceps but obviously the both of us automatically walked back to our seats upon hearing the criteria hahaha.
#goodmemories
later to our surprise we discovered we actually won 7th place and a hamper and free dinner!!!!
considering our super delayed timing, we were seriously damn taken aback hahaha!
our other team of 4 won 2nd prize and got a bike and free dinner!
omg the bike's worth like $500?
time to sell for some kaching-kaching!
had a buffet spread for dinner and omg it was probably one of our quietest times together LOL i guess we were all too hungry to speak.
had some song dedication thing and we requested for tonghua and some kpop thing that got wanrou and nigel totally crazy hahahaha.
walked back and forth for at least 1.5hours finding a bike shop thereafter to sell off the bike for $.
but one of them said our bike was only worth "$50".
seriously dude, who you tryna' kid.
but after what seems like forever we also found out that our bike would probably be worth about $300-$400 'cos it's not new-new like, super first-hand, and plus there's no warranty.
but that was good information too though :-)
sigh then again we ain't sure if winning the bike was a good thing or not.
it was such a freaking burden #burdenpatrick
lepak-ed around marine parade while waiting for david's dad to arrive and went crazy with photos and talking too.
went to download oovoo that night and guess what... our countdown to christmas turned into a stay-up-all-night-till-sunrise-at-7.03am video call :O
though there was only me, jasley and gary left but still... #excoyolo #excosuperyolo
MERRY CHRISTMAS XX


while waiting in burger king!
played with david's crazily cool apps like cycloramic omg coolest shit ever!


fredaaaa


rouuuuz


us on the canopy bike thing ahahaha.
nigel was like "wah you all still got time for photo ah! we chiong like mad sia!"
hurhur, you don't say, this is why our bike was 7th place :'D


us with the hamper woohoo yay for 7th place!
there's a truckload of food in the hamper i swear they have all sorts of chips and drinks and weird flour-tasting bebe hahahaha i shall talk about that later!


and that's the 2nd place bike! :)
congrats guysss :)


i look like i have a beer belly here -_-



jasleyyyy


nigeeeeeel


xiaoooohui


garyyyy


that night's oovoo club woohoo! :)


david and his lights hahahaha


at 3:24am with only us 3 left


4.53am


6.39am

WE ARE CRAZY.

secret santa revelation (boxing day)

ran last-minute errands in the morning for ahem.
met xh, david, huixian, gary and jasley for the secret life of walter mitty!!!
bought a small box of popcorn to share and sneaked in the rest of our food from the hamper we won that day into the theatre.
and david actually liked the plain-flour-tasting bebe omg hahahaha srsly!
it was a really cute and adventurous show aww hahaha.
the photography is damn good btw!
not bad a movie ;)
met up with nigel and wanrou after the show and since it was raining we lepak-ed outside the sentosa express gantry area.
played give me rhythm ready go and catching mice but sigh it was pretty much a flop :(
it's okay!!!
geared up for marche at about 5pm hehehe we beat the dinner crowd. (no joke omg the amount of people that came after we left, crowd-bringers hohoho *hairflick*)
shared a rosti and a crepe with jasley and omg their crepes are my absolute favourite :-)
sneaked out my victorian sponge cake and freda's apple crumble for dessert mmmm so good!
revealed secret santa thereafter but sadly my santa joelyn didn't come :(
well anyway, gary's my mortal!
hope you liked all the gifts yeah, from the biscuits to the hot cocoa to the wallet! :)
#nicesantame HAHAHAH.
hope the rest of the exco liked the planners and cards too :)
love y'all!
did some crazy shit there such as k-pop dancing and hiding xh's phone hahaha.
guess i was kinda tired so i didn't talk much...
but yeah the day ended well anyway, thanks exco for making my day so amazing :-)
on a side note my tribal romper came but no it is too small for me omg i'm soooooo sad.
oh well.
photos.



g1 is awesome ;)



booya hahahaha.
#creeps



night-time photo-taking is hard because we had to on our own flashlights or borrow the light emitted from the nearby lampposts argh hahaha sucks
the second photo looks nice though :-)
'cos we all look so happy :)

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a collage of all the selfies of freda and i hahaha too many to post individual so yeah hehe collage for freda! :)
idk what's with the gradient of dark to light though LOLOL.



david and his modelling days hahahaha omg super epic i swear



i like this photo!! ^^
probably because we have symmetrical hair hahah!






too qt for you hahahaha



like this photo too heheh damn cute the hammer!!!


playing with the props we found behind the booths LOLOL



love this one too but my face is so small :( :P


"ohana means family" 

oovoo part 2

had an oovoo session again last night and sigh we stayed up to break our record by a minute hahaha!
7.04am #excoyolo
oovoo, where all the stories are told and our secrets unfold ;)




our ceremonious sunrise photo ;)

xoxo exco yolo

on a side note again, i am super in love with we the kings' latest album somewhere somehow.
can't keep my ears off the tracks ahhh.
even put one of the tracks on my blog ^^v
enjoy!

Friday, December 27, 2013

flaws and scars


i wanted to title this post 'tacenda', but then i realised how much of a contradiction it would have been.
sometimes things are better left unsaid, but now i guess i wanna release some negative energy that has been building up inside of me for a day or so.
sorry that i promised about not having negative posts on my blog, but what's an online diary for if you don't express your inner feelings?
and it's tormenting to hold everything in.
well, i'm not exactly the best at this, but here goes.

i don't know why but recently, i've been feeling rather irked by my ownself.
to be honest i really have no idea what caused this irritation in me (or maybe i do).
it's like there is a self-conflict going on between my head and heart.
since i am an emotionally-driven person, whatever my heart tells me, i will do it.
i'm the follow-your-heart type, but then again my heart never seems to ever tell me the right thing to do, and that's when my head starts to criticize myself and all the flaws that i am gifted (supposedly) with.

you know sometimes i really wished i was a lot less sensitive.
really, screw those emotions, can't i just live without them?
i feel like they're controlling me instead of vice versa.
i don't know how or why but every single little tiny thing that happens around me i get so easily affected.
seriously why?!
stop picking up every single thing and getting so worked up/emotionally affected by it.
and the fact that i am overly attached/easily jealous/unable to let go of shit/really hot-tempered/have mismatched priorities.
stop attaching yourself to friends who will come and go.
stop getting jealous whenever your friends' have broadened social networks.
stop being so petty and hung up on things that are already bygones.
stop flaring up at every single thing you see that doesn't go your way.
stop putting the wrong priorities ahead of what's the most important. (this you should know clearly yourself, jamie)
why jamie why.
there's like this whole list of flaws i can actually come up with about myself, and it's probably never-ending.
guess i've got little self-assurance, that's why i'm feeling this way.
i am such a flawed individual i can't even believe this is me.
it's hard to change this though and tbh i really hate myself a lot for being this damn emotional.
just let me be a cold-blooded creature, can i.
i don't want to be burdened by my own emotions anymore.
i have a lot to ramble on about but no, it is not okay to do it here.
which is another reason why i guess i'm feeling so miserable; i can't find someone i trust enough/who understands me enough for me to unravel everything i have cooped up inside.
i have so much to say but no one's here to listen.
blame myself, for being so hard on things.
but then again, 99% of the people around are glad you actually have these problems.

which leads me to my next point about finding a soulmate.


it is really my wish to find someone who would understand me completely inside out, someone who would accept all my flaws and still adores me for who i am.
it doesn't have to be romantic, but it would be nice if it were.
maybe i've reached the point in life where every girl would dream about what it'll be like to be in love.
it sounds, sweet, and perfect.
no i am not desperately looking for love, because i believe that good things are worth the wait.
if it comes to me, then yeah, i'll receive it with open arms.
if not, i'll just keep waiting; i won't go around finding such a thing on my own.
hopefully the 'wait' wouldn't make things slip away though...
and no, random flings are not my thing.
for now, let me just live in the solace of my music (simple plan's get your heart on - the second coming! has got really relevant songs yet again) and dream of finding my soulmate.

dream on.