in search of dessert

after being here for about 3-4 weeks.... i was craving desperately for yummy dessert of canele's standards.... after searching online, i found the patisserie that pang recommended me of his friend's here in LA. thankfully it was really close by to school. it really abt half an hour, but in US standards its close by heh

while driving in search of this patisserie, i spy this statue.....

on top of a pharmacy!!!

thing is jin patisserie is in venice a part of LA that is near santa monica and its full of really artsy little houses and shops. its really like a cute little village full of artists.

walking in......

there's a tray full of pretty little chocolates to see.......
and i bought these back to try

i was really looking forward and secretly hoping that i could find another canele here. good chocolate a small little shop to chill and eat and get my birthday cake from. but upon tryin their gorgeous cakes.... i think i'll leave the cakes to be admired rather than eaten :(

i have yet to try their chocs but their macaroons were ok. nothing special.... it was a rather disappointing trip

talking abt birthday......

mine is coming up really soon and at the rate things are going i dont think i want to celebrate it. might haf some friends over for drinks but other than that there's really nothing special planned. i think spending time with sarah, gina, johan and my other guy friends back home haf really spoilt me... its no longer all that special without any of them around. no pretty and yummy cake to order from, no good clubs to get drunk at. and to make things worse i think im still in my 2 month depression mode after a change where everything now is so blah.

am really tempted to jus fly to ny to visit matt over the weekend to get away from it all......... or even arizona to see brad but even then the chance of it doesnt look too promising.

for some really odd reason, i feel as if the friends i made in hk, i am so much closer to them. if i were to be in hk this semester i think i would haf thrown a huge party unlike now in cali

shopping damages

now that january's drawing to a close......... ive been back for around a month already and apart from still looking for a new school bag, ive done the following damages haha

a top from club monaco

a pair of sweat pants

a new bikini

and........... a new perfume!!!

haha all this was done while looking for my new school bag! the perfume was sooooooooo expensive! essentially i paid a dollar for every mL used. so every 2 sprays of the perfume is $1....... madness rite? but i love the scent!

so i officially think im nuts for spending so much on the perfume! but oh well.

one thing that i find interesting..... i use to shop to help make myself happier. but this trip, after spending so much, it doesnt make me feel anything anymore haha so i guess shopping no longer helps haha soooooo no more crazy shopping for me :) hahaha we'll see if this semester i'll be able to shop less.

lets all cross our fingers!

the official countdown is 14 more freaking days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! if only time stops now

oh and welcome back to spore gina! wish i was there to pick u up

friendship

it seems that im a little socially retarded...........
when does friendship start and when does it end?

its been brought to my attention recently that friends u make thru ur ex-partner is no longer ur friend anymore. there should not be any contact whatsoever coz it'll be treading into his territory. so what happens if the friends, the ones u met thru ur ex, u get along with them really well and like hanging out with them and get close to them. does it mean that they no longer are ur friends coz of one civil break up? are friendship so political and volatile?

since life is complicated already might as well throw friendship in with the complication too.

what do u think?

hello!

i dont really have anything to blog about these few days coz i lead a boring life.... but i do haf the house this weekend coz all my housemates will not be around... which leaves me allllll alone....... haha already planned to have my friends over on friday and sat nite :)

just want to say hi to all my friends wherever they are and i miss them all......... special shout out to my wonderful friends i made in hongkong. miss all the fun and laughter we had together. pepperdine really isnt that fun now :)

~gina pls smile :) see im writing in purple for u :)

at this moment

i wish i could just pack my things and go away to somewhere where i dont know anyone or to somewhere with sarah, gina, johan

liar liar pants on fire

i hate ending friendships but some are just not worth it anymore.... what pisses me off even more is that some people are able to lie about the silliest things and for goodness what reason. seriously. i have a blog and u read it, dont know why u bother coz i dont write anything serious here just fun stuff for my good friends to read coz they care but u have to lie about not bothering much less about reading it... who cares? its free for all afterall rite. and yet u can accuse me of lying... such bs

guys......................

oh well moving on to other guys that i love.... i miss my brothers. i havent talked to them in forever and one of them is leaving to thailand soon... im sad i din get to talk to them over the weekend coz mom decided to loose my no here in la. haha im sooooo sorry to my dear friends who haf to put up with the shock of picking phonecalls from my mom :p

i love it how girls find my idiotic brothers cute.... but in pictures like these i guess so :)
















i miss them.............. wanna haf them over for my bday

on a brighter note.......

after a pretty horrible afternoon, i came back home to the warmth of my house and my wonderful housemates and even more wonderful dinner with bowei, dingren and sean... the sporean 3some now studying at usc

dinner was sooooo much fun that i nearly choked on my food just laughing and enjoying myself... ive never been very close with these 3 but they've always been more than just hi bye friends so i decided to invite them over for dinner. i prepared sukiyaki and it was yummy! haha ended up making way too much food as usual and the boys at first started out being really hungry to stuffed! it was patrick's first time trying out sukiyaki and he liked it :) haha so far with me i've made him try jap bbq and now jap hotpot.... all the make ur own food before eating kind haha totally forgot to take pics of tonite but im sure the boys will be over soon. and the next time, the plan is for them to stay over. we'll be renting movies and stuffing ourselves silly so that there's no worries of driving back to school. but before that happens, im to visit them in their school and taste dingren's rumoured yummy cooking..... something to look forward to :)

im glad today ended on a happy note

to the person who sent me the comment but deleted it... im guessing i know who u are. in the first place when asked u said u never read blogs but i guess not this time. ur definition of truth can be stretched watever way u want it to be

driving back home today, i decided that its abt time i end all this drama coz ive put up with it way too long already.

good nite everyone... hope ur weekend will be good :)

sigh

maybe its pms, maybe its not but suddenly i feel very lost and lonely.
it seems as if all the people who i once thot were my friends no longer arent. i once prided myself with not having to deal with all the problems of girls by having minimal girlfriends except for 2 best friends. but now i find as if all my guy friends (excepth the gay ones) seem to fail me. i no longer have any confidence in the friends that i pick and choose to get close to.

take for an example, ken. now i chose to stay friends with him but somehow every phonecall we make to each other here is full of him making accusations at me. and as my close friends all know im not the sort to put up with it but somehow i do. im tired from school this semester coz i haf taken up lots of heavy classes and i decided to ask the guys over for dinner on sat. but as usual i was being lazy and only asked one of them to ask the other "guys" of the group to come along etc somehow after the tiring phonecall which i just got off, i find out that ken thinks that i din invite him coz i did not PERSONALLY contact him to ask him for dinner. since when were guys so petty and less easy going? he goes on to say that they ALL decided not to come for dinner was coz he wasnt invited and since alvin and daniel were HIS friends they all dint want to go too. since when did friendship belong to someone? and as far as im concerned ken did not introduce me to alvin i knew him before coming here. true that i might n0t be as warm and inviting if it werent for ken being at claremont but i think i make the effort. i always thought that friends could be made from introduction of a mutual friend and its up to both parties whether they want to be more friendly... does that mean that u can claim this person as ur friend only? then are they not mine?
and all this bullshit of him having to do so much good things for me in spore and therefore i have to be totally indebted to him here. but yet he keeps saying that i din bother to wait more than 15 mins at the airport (he was told by a 3rd party) but yet i know i waited for more than that. din friends choose wat they want to do for the other out of willingness not out of investment so that in the future there's enough owing that the other has to feel indebted?

wat's going on?

to add salt on the wound or rubbing it even more... he has to say that his mom doesnt approve of me and was mean about me in front of him. but yet she decided to gif me earrings for christmas. i never expected parents to be like that.... its pretty simple. if they din like u they wldnt bother being nice to u rite? y still bother? yes i am nice to the family but that's coz i did date him for a bit but i do that to all the families of my exes. if the relationship din work out fine but it doesnt mean that i stop being friends with the family. sigh i dont know anything anymore... but one thing is for sure im returning the gift... there's no point having ken using that as ammunition for further attacks over one damn earring.

im not a gold digger, my family is well to do, i dont see how can ken treat me with such disrespect.

i dont know wat's going on rite now. im so confused. are alvin and daniel playing me for a fool and giving ken one info and me another? or is it just ken over reacting and exaggerating again

im so sick and tired of all this crap. i dont need all this drama that's y i choose guys over girls but maybe its not so smart anymore. maybe i'll just stop being nice and stop asking people over to my house. i was just trying to be nice and was willing to put up with my tiredness so that my friends can come over... its not that i was forcing them over to show off i dont really care. if no one comes over there's no need to clear up... its not the easiest thing to have people over the house. everyone knows that. but somehow i feel today as if the people i invite over to my house are doing me a favour instead.

i really miss all my true, rock solid support back home rite now. friends that i can trust with my life and know that they wont fail me. i dont know who i can look for within the immediate vicinity that i can ask for a hug from, a nice, big, safe bear hug. the nearest that i can think of is brad but he's a little too far... im just tempted to go to the airport now and take the next flight up to see him just so that i can be assured that i do have real friends around and not go crazy here all by myself

let it snow..........

im in the midst of religion class now...... been really tired today but the coolest thing happened this morning!

my car was frosted over!!!!!!! i had to scrap the windshield to get rid of the ice that had frozen over from the light SNOW from last nite!!!!!! how cool is that?

imagine that....... La is snowing! or actually it did snow last nite. as part of the weird world temperature.... Toronto is now experiencing one of their warmer winters in their history meanwhile LA snowed!!!!!! coolness rite?

as all of u can tell im still pretty amused with this snow in LA heh :)

i feel as if its christmas again.... will i get more presents? hehe

if only i haf my darlings with me to share this madness

Introducing my new home!

Introducing the place im going to call home over the next 4 mths.......

its not a pretty house to look at from the outside but it serves its purpose......
to the left of the driveway is a hindu temple! haha.... and they're our only neighbours for miles

the other gate/entrance.... if u look closer
there's a trampoline - a huge one too! im planning to jump as soon as the weather here warms up.... just this afternoon it was hailing ice!

and here are the stupid chickens.... we haf to take care of them
oh and we haf a rooster that goes off at 6 in the morning
another part of the animal farm i live in. Buddy..... after being here for a week its been concluded that this hound is a racist dog.... always barking at everyone coloured! :p (and its really not a joke)

our backyard..... or at least part of it :) if u look on the top left there's a pool there! would haf taken a better pic of the backyard but it was too cold outside today to venture out so far

MOVING INDOORS...............

this is the kitchen.... ive been cooking pretty much everyday so far we'll see how long that keeps up haha. oh and i havent set anything on fire yet
the dinning area

our tv room / living room #1

a study area facing the back of the house. its really pretty but way too cold to be used rite now

living room #2 - patrick uses this as his golf practising area coz there arent really any furniture in it. the piano is ancient and really off key

For the Bedrooms:
Patrick's got the master bedroom.... and its HUGE! the picture doesnt really do justice to the size of the room. it has a tall tall ceiling and a walkin closet and a big tub which i haf yet to use :)

MY ROOM!!!!

oops.... i know its messy but oh well...........

hope u all liked the little tour!

a new year

a new year will start with a new blogspot address.....

sorry i havent been updating my blog since arriving back here in la and i know that im suppose to be posting pictures of my house.... hopfully i'll do it this afternoon

its been really busy here with school and all and i miss everyone back home

back in LA.......

i'm finally back in LA.... not sure if i shd be feeling happy or sad

on one hand its good to be back in LA but then after classes today i realised im really quite blur and forgetful already forgetting all the places in school! and i got to see my house last nite and its AMAZING!!!!! i LOVE it...... its soooo big and pretty im going to be such a homebody this semester... not wanting to leave home. will put up pics of it once i've settled in. patrick says that we shd aim to haf our housewarming party this weekend! woot woot.

but then i think abt all the good times in hk and spore.... i miss everyone back in asia already :( i miss sarah, gina, johan, matt, leo, my brothers and the list can go on and on....... i wish sarah gina and johan were here to check out my first house ever.......

but i guess coming back to la does mean that i get a routine up and running.... meaning that hopefully i get more sleep now. i havent had proper sleep for the longest time ever! i think it lasted from before my finals in hk stretching to spore when i was out lots to eat/club/drink/have fun. this semester's going to be tough coz i haf 3 days with 8am so im really going to haf to be good and sleep early

hopefully i can post some old pics up this time rnd... crossing fingers!

with ivan at his army camp on family day

the two people i love lots on new years.... we were missing gina

my wonderful guys mucking around.... new year's would really not be worth celebrating without them around

at house #2 where leo's just a little drunk by the time sarah and made our way to his place

taken the last nite in hk.... yee's jus a little pink :)

an old post that is long overdued

blogspot is officially pissing me off.... i either do not get any connection and/or i cant upload my pics :(

now that i cant upload any pictures on blogspot... i'll just have to write and write... my posts will be so boring without pictures :p well wat has happened over the past few days.... hung out with sarah on wed after work. its been raining non-stop here so i havent found the incentive to head out. we decided to head down to my fav dessert place canele to hunt for strawberry shortcakes..... unfortunately they were out of it...... :( i guess i haf to go back again one of these days before i leave. we stayed there and talked and talked till they were closing and had to kick us out. after we heading to hacienda to wish jon happy birthday. it was both sarah's and my first time going there and it's a pretty place. the birthday was held outdoors before it started POURING and everyone had to run indoors to prevent from getting drenched. im happy we decided to stay a little longer coz everyone got to witness jon's first puking session of the nite rite after he cut the cake. after sarah and i headed ot zouk to meet kah sian and his other pilot friends.... the crowd there was madness! it started pouring after both of us got into zouk and people were still lining up! out in the rain... they were getting drenched but yet they still held their place. clubbing is really not worth falling sick over! when the crowds started to get on my nerves we moved on to butter factory where we met up with jon and all again. he was still standing when i arrived but within half an hr.... he has ko-ed! haha that was wednesday nite/thurs morning thurs nite..... i got dragged to watch the WORST movie ever!!!! death note 2.......... stupid matt and his reasoning that its the last few times that the few of us would be together here in spore before leaving again blah blah blah...... horrible waste of time when all i wanted to do was to stay home to slp!
for friday it was craziness...... went to watch the new zhang yimou's movie - the curse of the golden flower. i haf to say it was a pretty good movie, lots of boobs that i din knw chinese had but the ending was crap. after met up with johan at acid only to move on to 1 rochester! i finally got to see that place. din stay too long coz i had to go down to zouk to meet up with kah sian for a drink and only one before i had to go down to butter for rachel's bday. all the guys were there so it was fun. thankfully i had the car or else can u imagine how im suppose to travel to all these places to spend time with friends when im leaving so soon. sigh

i dont really want to leave again.

friday was good.... had a FANTASTIC dinner at st julian's. yummy waygu beef for main course and profiteroles for dessert. it was soooooooo good. thanks bernard! bernard's been an amazing friend that ive had for years.... he has literally seen me grow up. he spoils me too :) although we dont see much of each other we still keep in contact. 2006 has been the one year that ive seen him the most since knowing him. heh. now i take more effort to see him every time i come back so that's more than the once a year we wld normally do before i left for cali as 2006 draws to a close i cant stop myself from wishing i haf all my friends around me.... missing all my friends whereever they are. esp miss gina. i really hope u're having fun in hk coz i really miss having u arnd!

~happy new year everyone!

problems

ok so i dont knw if its coz of the earthquake in taiwan or that blogger is having problems... but this site has been giving me problems tt's y the lack of updates.

also i havent been able to upload any pics to accompany my last post. so just check back later when i can finally update my last post to haf pics to make it look prettier.

wishing all a happy new year!

Merry Christmas to all!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!

blogger is having problems so hopfully i wont need to redo this again.....

the past week has been absolutely crazy...... once finals were over it was non stop partying...... party to celebrate finals being over and then party to send people off. and then it was mad rush to spend time with gina before heading back to spore.... where i am now

its been raining non stop here since ive arrived and maybe tt's wat's making me think so much coz i haf no mood to head out of the hse with such a dreadful weather. i miss the idea of hongkong. hk right now has gina.... i miss her so much. christmas has been so different without her... im dreading new year without her. gina's the one person to make new year a wonderful event... its like something's missing rite now. spore's not complete

had a wonderful christmas dinner at M at the fringe.... and then brunch at the landmark for their yummy lychee sorbet... good enuf to compete with iberry yummmm all this with my dear gina before leaving

and my friends that ive met this past semester. fall 2006 has been one huge adventure... meeting different people in a whole new country. i guess as all wonderful things have to come to an end... this semester drew to a close with one party after another celebrating the friendships we've made. the memories made were once in a lifetime and i will not forget them. pepp now seem so bland next to wat ive experienced in the past 4 mths, the people not as interesting. just as ive gotten use to seeing certain people once a day to the least once a week.... now i dont knw when im going to next see them. thinking back i guess i cld haf made life easier and not get too attached to the pple in hk but then i wld be missing out on all the good times i did haf when i was with them. im sad to think that i wont be seeing them soon but yet when i reminisce abt all the time spent together, it puts a smile on my face. im really going to miss them

first it was stuey who left us really early, then tomek the crazy polish and ryan, the americans and lastly the frenchies and italians. the last nite of the italians... giulio, giancarlo and alberto all decided in their drunken stupor to come into my room at 5 in the morning and announced that it was my lucky nite. i was going to be allowed to choose one of the italian stallions to spend the nite with but it ended up being all 3 of them passing out in my room heh :) i gotta love them... the next day for lunch giulio was soooooo sweet to treat me to my last meal at the cafe... bbq pork rice. it was a party downstairs outside of the cafe with the wind blowing. the remaining italians, french and i were all eating their last meal of bbq pork together... a meal that is unforgetable.

hongkong will always be a place that has a special meaning in my heart... not for the place and the people coz i dont really like it but for the meaning it holds to me

but on a brighter note.... i had a wonderful christmas pressie collection this year... did u?
i got......
a pink scarf frm burberry frm my darling
an orange bv bracelet that i really shd stop wearing before i wear it out
a ring frm tiff that i love tons
a pretty snowglobe frm rah rah
a gorgeous bag frm another darling that im so afraid of using in case i dirty it
e cutest teddy that i haf yet named frm nic
beautiful jewellery and toothpaste from matt heh
a keychain frm ts that im going to hang in case i break it when i do use it
a bag frm mom
passport cover frm my practical brother

i love all my gifts!!! thks so much to all my wonderful friends for getting me gifts

~missing all of u who arent with me this festive season

taking a break

hehe so ive jus finished 2 out of 3 really hard finals... got stats tmr and i have absolutely no mood to start studying so im jus taking a break and decided to do this silly survey for the fun of it. for those who knw me... think its true? hahahha jus need to get thru tmr and its PARTY!!!!!!! wanna spend more time with gina before sinclair comesand i need to get more christmas shopping done coz now i've been assigned to get cousins' pressies too the weather is absolutely freezin here and im so smart to leave all my winter wear in la :p so much is going to happen within the next few days....everyone's leaving slowly which means partying before that.... and missing all my friends that ive made hereheading home for christmas and more partying there... not to forget the eating toomoving to my new hse in malibuand then its down to boring school.... BUT i get to see brad in az!

d dear

to my dear friend....
wish i cld be there with u rite now but i realise that u're a strong girl and will be able to get thru this hard time. my prayers go out to you and your family during this period and by the time u haf the time to read this if u ever do ive most probably gotten thru to u in another form. my sincerest condolences goes out to you and your family.

love
pris

Gina's HERE!!!!!!!!!!

its so sad that this weekend has passed so fast and its monday already.....

spent the weekend settling gina in.... stayed over at her place all weekend jus chilling and all. and jus like that im back in school to do some serious studying before i go back to central tmr till wednesday and then its freaking out time!

sarah wishing u were here too....................

a Scottish affair

i've jus gotten back from being dragged (at the very last of last minute) to a rugby dinner. another girl cldnt make it so my friends decided that since im so enthusiastic for anything rugby i'd be the perfect candidate to replace her despite the fact that i have to study! so they whinned and tried to reason their way arnd and i decided to be nice and go :) and im not regretting my choice... thou im back earlier than most of the others coz im suppose to be either studying or slping to be able to get up early tmr to study.. but obviously i got sidetracked yet again :p

it was a scottish christmas celebration... the most tamed rugby event ive ever been to. but by the time i got there all my friends were mostly already drunk so it was fun for me :) stuey, being scottish, danced the nite away.... and ladies here's a tip: scottish guys can definately dance!!! stuey was an amazing dance partner to haf! its crazy the number of scottish dances he knew by heart.

tonite i learnt that scottish dancing involves alot of twirling and twirling and more twirling. this was really dizzy esp if u haf silly guy friends like me to twirl u even more! the whole nite involved us on the dancefloor dancing and twirling and dancing and twirling... it was crazy fun :)

so when u put 2 italians an argentinian and a scottish together.... u haf a crazy ass group of guys on the dance floor making a fool of themselves and their partners :) it was sooooo fun thou... i cldnt stop laughing

on another note: Gina's coming in a few hours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

housing

due to my overwhelming luck or lack of it,
i haf managed to score 2 wonderful housing for next semester!!!!
firstly, housing off campus with my good friends. i havent seen it yet but its suppose to be a great huge house. i have my own room which is suppose to be a good size and its close to campus and its jus good... the driveway can fit up to 10 cars!!!!!!!!
NOW... i find out i haf housing on campus too! a single room! FREAK........... i NEVER thot i would get a single at all!!!! its near impossible with pepp. much less coming in midway thru the academic year..............

i dont knw which to choose! both haf their different pros and cons freak freak freak

if i live on campus i dont haf to deal with parking problems........... but if i live off i can do anyting i want and i like my housemates.

on campus or off?
i dont knw which to decide on.......................

help :s