An Angel Loses It's Wings Every time You Sigh

from the millions of people in the world, i wonder how they go about choosing whose backs they should shoot. and do they also remove the arrows when we have fallen out of love?

If Only We Could...

i love love love this pair of canvas shoe so much!!! love the preppy look. boyfriend showed me this awesome website, and i wanted it at first sight. so he got it for me! :) luckily it fits me. so happy.

Melbourne Thus Far

hello once again, i'm finally back to this page after so many days. reason being, i was occupied with so many things in melbourne...

first meal in melbourne

touched down and i immediately went for lunch with my cousin at ying tai on lygon. my all time favourite asian restaurant in melbourne. spent that day running errands, cleaning up my new house, going to the bank, etc. after one tiring day of work, i went for dinner with rachel & mum for awesome japanese meal, raw sashimi. : )

getting into place

the next day, merrie, cindy and boyfriend arrived. morning was just spent moving my stuff from boyfriend's place to my house, afternoon was spent unpacking and night was just more unpacking. called the movers though, 50 bucks an hour, nice and cheap!

went to ikea with merrie to buy stuff for our house early one morning. the trip there was almost two hours, because we kept missing trams. wasn't an easy trip back though, i was struggling. but after much buying & shifting, i've finally got my room settled. it's red/pink, i love it. :) pictures of it will be up soon...

like finally

and, i finally got my hands on blackberry 9700! pretty isn't it? iphone is still with me, decided not to sell it. anyways, i'm loving bbm, twitter & facebook. with such awesome applications, i guess i won't be blogging often. do checkout my facebook mobile uploads and twitts instead.

cute little things

little cupcakes craving settled at degraves with cindy and rachel one afternoon. i had freddos and max brenner's too. took away an exploding chocolate shot and bought 2 tubs of ice cream yesterday. happy & fat me. :)

korean barbecue

had korean bbq with kim seng, merrie and cindy one night near victoria market. haven't been to korea before, so i still feel that melbourne has the best korean bbq. wanted to go to the previous restaurant we went to, but it was full. luckily the food that night was good too. :)

expensive 2 hours

caught two movies so far and both were so good. watched shutter island with boyfriend and dear john with merrie and cindy. shutter island was such a good thriller, the twist was totally awesome. leonardo dicaprio is such a good actor, love him. everyone should watch it despite it being scary. no ghosts at all. dear john was another of those sad/touching love stories. cried the most in this film compared to a walk to remember, notebook, and if only. the ending wasn't that great though, should have been better. by the way, rachel told me that the words "Dear John" is used when breaking up with your boyfriend, and the words "Dear Jane" is used when breaking up with your girlfriend. don't know how true is that, but cool fact.

ice cubes falling from the sky

the hail that messed everything up. we were shopping at myers, and just as we were about to exit, it started pouring crazily. boyfriend called me all of a sudden, and told me that it was hail and not rain. looked out, and we were shocked. saw people taking pictures, cars stopping under the shelter and large ice cubes and leaves on the roads. apparently, train and tram services stopped, moomba was flushed out, cars were dented and a roof actually collapsed.

not much fun

lectures has started last week, and tutorials this week. i really hope i make new friends. well, in week one, i already have 2 assignments released and i'm struggling with business finance. help.

When Will We Meet Again?

Day 1- 20th

woke up early to pick boyfriend up from terminal 1. waited approximately 40 minutes before i saw him. he gave me a shock, as he appeared from behind, despite me looking out for him at belt number 18. took a cab to his hotel, and he was so disappointed with it. haha! what can you expect with that kind of price? :)

brought him to bugis and orchard for shopping. he said that shopping is so good in singapore compared to indonesia's. we practically went to every single mall, except for paragon, OC, tangs and shaw house. we walked till our legs hurt. snacked while we shopped, and he loves the fried mars bars. so many indonesians in singapore, can you believe that we actually met more of his friends compared to mine in orchard!

thereafter, we met up with his friend, sharon, and others for dinner at spice located near river valley. well, it is a class better than those indian roti prata stalls you find along the road. the price may be a buck or two more expensive, but the food makes up for it. so good. best chocolate banana prata i ever ate in singapore, couldn't even finish it!

Day 2- 21st

boyfriend cabbed to my place to pick me up and off we went to the zoo. he was very reluctant to go, but i forced him. i haven't been to the singapore zoo for almost 7 years, i've heard that it has changed so much and i wanna go check it out myself. indeed, it has changed A LOT, but somehow i expected much better. well, how good can a zoo get right?! but both of us enjoyed the shows, especially splash safari.

it was a long journey back to the hotel. rested awhile before heading to cityhall. brought him to all the malls there and had dinner at shokudo. was supposed to meet up with friends, but all were busy with school work. so, i brought him to esplanade, sat by the singapore river, talked and admired the view (though most of it are still under construction).

Day 3- 22nd

woke up to a pouring rain, and i was so sad as i thought our plans were washed away too. headed over to boyfriend's place and waited till the rain stopped. made our way down to vivo city for some shopping of presents and dinning at dian xiao er. didn't know that food there was good, especially the herbal roast duck! :)

thereafter, we went into sentosa. i wanted to take the luge ride and the chair lift! but he wasn't interested in the luge, he finds it lame. i was so disappointed, but at least he agreed to sit the chair lift down to the beach. walked along the beach and checked out wave house. oh my god man, the surfing thing is so damn cool. we would have done it if we brought an extra change of clothes.

headed back to the hotel, and prepared for dinner with my parents! it was supposed to be the whole family, but siblings couldn't make it at the last minute, which made us freak out more. we didn't know that it was just 4 until we reached jim thompson, a very good thai restaurant located at dempsey hill chosen by papa. both of us were so nervous, but i had to put up a strong front to calm him down. hahaha! after waiting for 15 minutes my parents finally arrived. somehow, their presence calmed us down. immediately, me and boyfriend felt at ease. nice dinner- good food, chat and people. glad my parents like him. :)

Day 4- 23rd

woke up exceptionally early to meet him before he checked out of his hotel. as i had a wedding solemnisation cum buffet lunch to attend at swissotel- equinox, he went over to his friend's place. i will totally blog about the solemnisation soon. wanna see a bridal ferrari? then wait for it! :) anyways, after the whole thing ended, i made my way down to ion to meet up with them. boyfriend did some last minute shopping before we both cabbed down to the airport.

not much photos taken as we were too busy having fun and couldn't be bothered to hold that DSLR, but that's obviously not all the photos we took! want to thank boyfriend for specially making this trip to singapore for me, his parents for allowing him to come, and my parents for letting me spend every single day with him in singapore. :)

time literally flies when you're having so much fun. 4 days just went past like that, so fast. :( anyhow, parting and meeting is a part and parcel of life, we just have to get used to it. again, this leaves me with the question of when are we going to meet again? jakarta or melbourne?

Wide Smiles

boyfriend is arriving in exactly 12 hours! going to pick him up at the airport tomorrow morning and spent time with him for the next 3-4 days. i'm so happy. :) haven't seen him for almost 2 months already. people give me ideas of where to go please, i have none for the third day besides going for dinner with my family.

driving has been extremely good the past 2 days. will finally get to move on to stage 2 practical in my next lesson. preferred my previous week's and today's instructor compared to yester's. anyways, i can proudly say that i drove very far out today. i was just giving a casual comment to my instructor that why do we always take the same route, and he immediately asked me to drive all the way to clementi. at first i thought he was joking, but he wasn't. we drove all the way from bukit batok to jurong to clementi to bukit timah to bukit panjang and then back to the driving school. :)

had a haircut, or shall i say a hair trim with rachel at mazu on monday. silly girl mixed up her theory trials dates which totally caused us a shopping trip in orchard. sigh man. :(

I'm Very Happy

my boyfriend's trip to singapore has been confirmed. though it's only 4 days, but i'm satisfied. it's next week, gonna see him real soon! :)

had my second driving lesson yesterday and my third today. i must say that i've improved a lot, because i managed to get a good instructor (same for both days), mr kk tan. was supposed to get on the main road yesterday, but i didn't know that i've to apply for PDL. so today, i went 30 minutes earlier to apply for it, but they only accept NETS or cash cash, which i don't have! i was panicking, cause i didn't want to be stuck in that circuit again, it would be a wasted lesson. jieying wanted to rush down to help me pay, but it was too late. thank goodness for my nice and helpful instructor. he actually offered to lend and pay the 25 bucks for me to get the PDL! :)

very belated christmas presents that i got for merrie, cindy and rachel. so cute right? :) it's been so long since we last met, and yesterday was a short meet up without cindy. spent the afternoon teaching bryan chew accounting at TCC, luckily i managed to answer all of his questions, if not it would be a wasted trip for him to travel all the way down to plaza singapura. thereafter, went for some mini shopping with the girls, and i bought a very sweet dress!

and i got stalked by this guy yesterday. all the way from outram park mrt station to TCC at plaza singapura. it was quite scary, he stood beside me throughout the train ride, and purposely slowed down his speed to walk behind me until he saw me sitting down in TCC with bryan chew. i wonder how long was he going to follow me, if i wasn't meeting anyone. quite amazed that someone would actually stalk me. by the way, he's cute! i should have totally turn around and smile at him. haha, joking! :)