Sunday, April 26, 2009
You're Stuck and You Don't Know How

To ease my one of my lingering worries, which is the level of my "unfit-ness" or should i say, "unhealthiness", i've decided i need to live life more healthily. haha. Let's just say i don't ever want the vomit of stomach gastric to repeat itself. Plus i don't want to be in a situation that i feel stressed about whether i can pass a fitness test.

So there you go, me living a better, healthier life (ALL THANKS to Meng haha).
Which means:
1) Sleeping earlier
- sleeping at 12 midnight might be normal or even "early" to some, but i usually don't fall in the "norm" category, especially in terms of health, so earlier than that.

2) Having regular meals regularly
- that includes breakfast, lunch, teabreak (i need more nutrition) and dinner. All in the appropriate level for my "development" haha.

and the toughest one
3) Exercising / Working Out
- swimming, running and ensuring i can achieve the minimal no. of pull-ups (and hopefully improve on it - both no. and stamina)

I just hope i can sustain it. Especially since i have a knack of losing "interest" or the "determination" for it quickly, to things like going out with friend or watching television (american idol and hills are pretty addictive nowadays haha).

Let's see how it goes, my ultimate target is 60. (God pls help!!! haha)

Anyways, after a pretty "active" first week, Saturday was sorta rest day. Meetup with Kenny to go to the "renowned" Queensway to buy shoes and shop at IKEA.

First stop was IKEA for lunch. Before we proceeded to windowshop and admire the amazing showcases - we really liked the studio apartment concept (small kitchen with living room just beside, and a good comfy bedroom, all for personal use - and some say small gatherings haha)

random photos there

an interesting angular shot of eiffel tower

It's not weird to sit this way on a chair rights?

seriously. haha

(i want a better roomchair!)

Oh, anyway, i thought it was JUST GREAT to go to IKEA. Especially since i'm SO INTO SWEDISH MUSIC. And Finnish and dutch and danish and name-it-and-you-got-it euro-music. haha. But Sweden pretty much dominates my music playlist now haha.

It's now my second-most desired travel destination after England, London. The combination of the blue and yellow (my fave colour) is so SLICK and COOL. Just like the UK flag. I always knew it was a little wrong for me to be born in small asian Singapore - i belong to Europe! England! haha (ok, enough of my obsession with the UK and Swedish music... haha)

It was on to shoes next at Queensway. After a short tour around the shopping centre, Kenny caught his eye on the pair he wanted. But the shocking find there, was instead something else. Something he had ALWAYS wanted. We walked by an award/medal/plague-making shop and i spotted the OSCAR replica! haha. His desire to own it was indeed palpable -refusing to let it go and holding it like the REAL THANG. Sadly, the price - $65 for the small one, $109 for the big one, was the turn-off factor. But at least now he knows it EXISTS, OSCAR replicas do exist. haha. If only there was the GRAMMY award replica...

We set on for Orchard after he finally got his basic "Jimmy Choo"s. But my legs was quite tired (i ran in the morning hehe) and the afternoon heat was terrible (weather nowadays is so unpredictable), so we walked only for a while before setting for dinner at Spageddies where we had a pretty deep talk about "recurring stuff". haha.

And that's was the week. Simple as it is. More to come i hope haha.

P.S: I must sustain this healthy lifestyle! haha.

Jloe || 2:55 PM || 0 comments

Sunday, April 19, 2009
You Do Everything I Wish I Did

A few things going on the past few days

1) Thurs - Meeting Meng

This time we meet at the other "extreme" end of the MRT route, Raffles Place, which was a killer 18-stops from Kranji MRT. But still, always a pleasure to see Meng. haha. We met to eat at Soup Spoon which Meng had redeemable offers with our small orders. I tried the Velvety Mushroom (the word "Velvet" just seemed so cool and i'm listening to swedish singer Velvet now haha. The fact that the delicious mushroom soup i tried at Changing Appetites on tues cannot be denied as a factor too) but it was so garlic-ky that i could hardly finish half.

After dinner, we strolled all the way to Raffles City and settled down at the basement fountain to continue our chat while sipping on our Bubble teas. Throughout the night of chats, the most shocking revelation from him was that Meng exercised! Something he "conveniently" left out telling me all this time (my reaction was like "since when???") But obviously, i'm the odd one, not Meng. Maybe he never gave me the impression he is living a healthy lifestyle - exercise included. haha. Just that whenever i needed to find an excuse to NOT exercise, which i do so by thinking of someone who is normally healthy and DOESN'T exercise, it would be Meng. Darn!

But i know i know, with my "looming" health problems ("high" blood pressure, indigestion and underweight issues), i probably should REALLY start to take REGULAR exercise seriously (sentosa sun-tanning DOESN'T count lol). Guess it was a good reminder from the one who helped me countlessly during THOSE times (meng should know).

Besides exercise, we lamented about our impending entry into Uni, where there will certainly be big forces of change - to face exams, stress and process of re-socialisation again. Well, i don't wanna think about it here again haha. (though i must say his "the cleverest ones have already left Singapore, so what's left to worry" reasoning when we talked about coping with uni, sorta never crossed my mind. hmmm...)

Well, it was a great night of talk. And i still can't believe he exercises. (God!)

2) Gastric problems. Again.

Months ago, when i first vomitted a whole lot of stomach gastric in the morning, i certainly didn't expect it to repeat again on Friday morning. After a few days of poor appetite, the "unformidable" nauseating feeling came back and i just let it out. haha. Then i tooked the later half of the day off to rest at home. I hate indigestion problems - it's probably the main reason why i'm so thin. Sighs! (which reinforces the need for exercise!)

3) 17 Again.

Since i was returning to dreadful work on Saturday afternoon, i decided i will have an extended Friday again. That would be the third (?) late night out within the past month of so. This time, it was with Ter-weeds. We decided to watch the feel-good guy chick flick 17 Again at yishun before i crashed his house for the night.

The movie was certainly feel-good and funny, though it felt really lame to me at some point (especially the geeky "peacocking" goodfriend and the inner-geek school principal). But it was a nice film which kinda makes you back into school life at 17 - though for me, there was nothing much to reminisce (i would probably not do 17 again, since i know the outcome would be the same. haha)

some random pic as "handsome suit" man at the cinemahaha

Later i settled at his house to watch "The Best Friend's Girl", a DVD we rented, in hopes of seeing a rom-com. It turned out to be pretty "sexual" (and less romantic) but still funny afterall. Besides that, it was basically a chance for HTH talk between us until we both slept haha

4) Safety in You

As mentioned, i returned home after the stayover and bathed before i headed back to office. There was a Safety Day Celebration for my office, which involved all the well, "Banglas" and "Chinamen" working for the company. It was more of a big day for them that for us office workers since obviously they've never experienced any of such "big" events in their life.

Well, always a small reminder that we, being more well-to-do compared to them, should appreciate what we have.

Jloe || 11:07 AM || 0 comments

Thursday, April 16, 2009
Hard to Let Them Out

Was surfing the internet during work (i know it's not allowed...) and chanced upon this blog entry which totally struck me straight on cause i felt exactly the same way.

And i quote (source: xtralicious.com):

"I sometimes have a talk with Germaine before her bedtime just to find out more about her day and what she’s been up to. A few days ago she was feeling a little down because she thinks she does not have many friends. In her words, only two.

I wanted to tell her that you don’t need many friends. You don’t need to be Ms Popular. You don’t need shallow friends who are only in it for insert whatever benefit. Good friends you only need a select few.

I wanted to tell her all this but I did not.

Because I remembered that once upon a time I also needed to fit in, needed to be popular, needed to be in."

If you read my blog entry way back, i actually felt the same way as her friend (read entry: The Little Place In My Heart). I didn't know what motivated me to write that scary confession but i'm glad i did it cause i think friendship is something i view with the utmost importance.

Obviously if you refer to the entry (dated Sep 07), things have changed since then. Thankfully in the better way, which makes me also relate very much to the xtralicious writer that there's always this inner fear that all that i have now (all the friendships which i cherish with every bit of me) is only ephemeral.

I'm always very cautious when i talk about friendship cause we all know things change and more scarily, it has the potential to change fast. Different people go through different experiences and change differently. A good friend to you now might not be a good friend to you in the future.

At this juncture of my life where i sometimes feel semi-vulnerable, i know i am allowed to feel "safe". There are times when painful memories, guilts and worries burden me emotionally. (I'm not sure if it's a mutual feeling - i don't expect my friends to feel the same way as i do towards them. but i put faith in my friends) But these friends who i feel are worth my time, faith and affection have similarly shown me the same.

The past two weeks or so, having fun and really enjoying myself (being myself), i have realised so much about how i feel about the people around me, about how things have changed and probably about how things might be in the future. It makes me treasure all these so much more but at the same time, fear so much that i might lose all these i love so dearly.

But i recognise that "Happiness is Now".

And I wouldn't let the fear ruin my moments.

I'm just truly glad things are the way they are right now.

P.S: From a song i quote "sometimes words stay on the tip of my tongue. it's an easy way but hard to let them out." This is easily one of the toughest entry - it's words that mean the most that i find the hardest to let out.

P.P.S: this is to all the friends who matter so much to me. you know who you are.

P.P.P.S: Thanks, Meng :) Our "little" session sealed my belief on this.

Jloe || 11:22 PM || 2 comments

Tuesday, April 14, 2009
High Rise, Overtime

Today after so long, i've taken leave! The last time i took was for the last time i met Hern before he flew to Australia :( but today's slightly different, but equally important haha.

Leave was taken for the main purpose of doing my university (you should know which one) pre-enrolment medical examination. Since i'm hopeless with directions and bus routes, i had to employ some help and thankfully help came in the form of my "old" friend, all the way back two year ago (around this time?) in SISPEC, Diong (that's his surname lol).

me and my help of the day :)

Diong and i knew each other after both of us went out of course in Sispec and had to face daunting arrows from the "bullies" of our company. Fortunately, we survived to tell the story and well, meet for today haha. We met briefly one year ago (?) but nothing compared to today.

We met early in the morning as the appointment we booked was at 930. Fortunately Diong was around, if not i don't think i would have made it to the medical centre cause we had to take train, bus and walk abit. haha.

The medical checkup went smoothly except my blood pressure. It was abnormally slightly higher. All of you should know how thin i am, though i know that a slim body doesn't immune myself from high blood pressure, so the chance of me with it i think is something i never expected. haha.

Thing was, when we were about to register and pay for the checkup, we were told the NETS machine was spoilt and we could only pay in cash. Just great cause i had less than 10 dollars, not enough to pay for the 30 dollars required. So in the end, Diong and i had to walk across briskly to find the ATM machine (we didn't want to waste time there, we plan the day for shopping...) .

Maybe it was the short "exercise" we did cause when we had to take our blood pressure at the station, we both had high blood pressure. haha. So the nurse was kinda surprised cause both friends did not "pass" the station. (my high end was 136, his 134, way above the normal 120).

So we rested for one minute and retook. Fortunately, Diong passed this time round, but mine shot up even higher (at a high of 144)! Amazing right.

Then on, nothing the nurse or Diong did could calm me down sufficiently to pass the station (while i rested for the third try, both talked to me other stuff, and told me breathe in). My third try was slightly better at 134 but nowhere "normal" but i had to move on the next X-ray station.

The last stop of the checkup was with the university clinic doctor. The doctor i saw was REALLY nice, very friendly and easy to strike a conversation with. Even so, that didn't calm me down (though i really wasn't nervous or anyth. my heartbeat just remained high!). The nice doctor even told me to rest (again) for five minutes while he took a toilet break before we did another blood pressure test. Well, my last try was i guess significantly better around 130.

I swear the doctor was really nice to me and kept saying i was SO CHEERFUL and was so nice to talk to as i describe my medical history and complaint of being thin (though he was the first one ever to say to me "it's normal to be constitutionally thin..."). If every doctor was like that... haha

Well, somehow i felt very talkative today also cause when i was waiting for Diong's checkup (he didn't get my doctor =P) i began chatting briefly with this other friendly-looking guy who was as clueless as us on what to do etc. Before that i was talking to the medical staff who measured my blood pressure (three times nevertheless) and of course to Diong the whole day whom i have not seen over a year (but kept bothering him whenever i have queries about all these univeristy enrolment procedures haha - i swear i'm so clueless sometimes)

Enough of the checkup. (to keep things simple) We went to Marina Square to shop awhile (for me, it was to check out my desired Topman shirt... which i didn't get in the end). Then had the set lunch at Changing Appetites before we continued to Suntec before walking to Bugis. All while talking and catching up :) haha (i seem to have alot to talk about these days... haha)

But other than the "high blood pressure" thing, it is MY NEW WALLET that made my day :) haha. Had always wanted to change out of my current passe Billabong wallet for sometime but never got down to buy a new one. Very thankfully, the one i saw last December at the Wallet shop was still there. But it was the same wallet we saw at BHG, with a whopping 20% discount, that bought me over - and well, made me buy the wallet finally.

I didn't want to spend money anyhow now that times are bad but guess it's a good investment haha. According to Diong, since the wallet is 62 (after my discount, it was 49.20!!! chio and worth it!), it counts down to 15dollars a year, assuming i use it for 4 years. Plus it looks half casual and half mature, kinda the man-boy stage i am in now hahahaha. But definitely time to grow out of Billabong! haha.

A very pleasant day indeed, seeing an old friend, getting my nice new wallet and the whole blood pressure thingy! :)

Jloe || 9:18 PM || 0 comments

Turn On My Inhibitions

Today's entry is momentous since it's the first, and i swear ONLY, time i'll be posting shirtless pics (half-naked just sounds too wrong haha). To save you from any cringe-worthy moments and to save myself from more embarrassment (i refuse to be subjected to Nipplegate!), i have very carefully chosen the pics for today. haha.

Last time when my HQ friends and i went Sentosa, no one remembered to bring camera and i didn't take off my shirt. Yet, this time there were three cameras on set and i took off my shirt (must be that inner shameless exhibitionist me i never knew existed... hmmm~~ haha)

This time, everyone was early and we set on to Sunny Sentosa at ard 9am.

on the train

ter-weeds pregnant with oh-my-tian's child
(Ter's expression is classic in both pics la haha)

this pic is here cause i look smiley nice :)

Back at the beach, it was volleyball over again. Though this time, i think i exerted much less than the other time cause i didn't have to keep running to help get the balls that were "out" (there were more qualified others to do it haha). Plus i was lousy to begin with and nobody shot the ball my way :( haha. Nevermind, sports is not my forte and i know it.

A) BBQ hit the ball - quite unlikely
B) BBQ missed the ball - quite likely
C) BBQ got hit by the ball - VERY likely haha
(ok i didn't know the outcome. but i'm not too optimistic =X haha)

me and my sexyback

This time, Ter-weeds, YT and i even went down into the sea. The water was uber cooling considering it was a very hot day. We swam abit, mostly enjoyed dipping ourselves in the refreshingly cooling seawater and attacking each other by splashing water and "underwater sand assault" haha.

But the moment of the day had to go to this:

yes, shaking tree

Ok what happened was this. They were playing Vball and somehow someone hit the ball so hit it got stuck on the coconut tree. So we tried all means to get it down, shaking the tree and yes, climbing up the tree (fyi - i tried to climb one time, so embarrassingly la) which obviously didn't work very well. So somehow someone thought it was a good idea to throw the basketball we still had to hopefully get the vball down the tree. Great idea cause the Bball ended up on the tree as well. hahaha.

So, with no more "tools", we tried shaking the tree again. By now, we have sorta gain unneeded public attention for our act of stupidity haha. But fortunately one kind soul suggested we use a rope to shake the tree. Probably he was embarrassed for us (guys) too. So we promptly went to borrow one from a lifeguard and got the two balls down. haha. What a malu-fying experience.

After more vballing, soccer and wading in the seawater, we were tired and ready to leave sentosa.

quite evidently

some group shots before we left sunny island

heh hey, no nipplegate :)

this is the CLOSEST you'll see me shirtless

(There you go, no more shirtless pics from now. haha) Anyway, after sentosa, we settled our lunch briefly at Vivocity, after which BBQ, Ter-weeds, Maxim and i stayed on to shop until we dropped (not because of shopping la.).

By the time i got home, i was sun-burnt on my back and on my face(which explains the "Joel Sim is RED HOT" on facebook haha). Though i must say i kinda like that blushed-red sunburnt look. (I look very radiant! haha.)

Well, what a tiring and interesting day it was haha. I am certainly looking forward to my next tan ! Totally ARMED WITH SUNSCREEN!

Jloe || 6:03 PM || 0 comments

We Keep On Rockin'

Well, it was a long and pretty well-spent three-day extended weekend. Shall start on my Friday before i blog on my Sentosa Trip on Saturday.

Met up with Ter-weeds on friday since i've not seen him for some time. Needed to catch up with him in real time. haha. This time round, no "wardrobe clash" (rmb we wore matching clothes coincidentally the other time?), thank God for that then haha - though we both turned up in white shirts (not that's not hardly a problem) and i was wearing jeans and him, his customary berms.

moi jeans :) [dun care abt him haha]

We met up in well.. good old hometown of mine, AMK Hub to watch a movie i won't typically watch - Fast and Furious 4. Cars, action and the macho-angst, if you know me, you should very well why it's not my typical choice. (Rom-com all the way!) But nevertheless, i haven watched an action movie in a while so i agreed (plus i add, i'm SUCH A GOOD FRIEND haha)

The movie turned out pretty engaging with all the car stunts and major actions - i was kept fully awake and interested haha. Still don't see the fascination of guys with cars but well, that's just me.

After that, we proceeded to Bugis for "Xue-Ping" as Terweeds term Shopping haha. And well, more talking. (Which i must stress, in case you misunderstand, I DON'T gossip ALL THE TIME ok! haha.)

cheeky me haha

Once we were hungry, we walked around desperately to find a place for lunch - bypassing the newly opened Iluma - and settled at Burger King by then BBQ joined us. (we didn't take any photo with BBQ =X haha)

Upon satisfying our hunger, we set on for more xue-ping, but this time mainly to look for the right specs for BBQ and Ter-weeds since they both claim they need a change of specs. We went into almost all the Spectacle shops in Bugis Junction but BBQ still prefered his desired $300plus specs he saw elsewhere. (Well, when u set your heart on sth, it's hard to forget it.)

By 4plus, Ter-weeds and i (who met earlier) was damn tired and BBQ had tuition so we eft promptly after BBQ had his early dinner.

but ter-weeds and i still camwhored on our way back :)

i know i look abit grumpy here...

but don't i look GREAT? Seriously. haha

all smiles

It felt good to see Ter-weeds (and BBQ...) again. Especially since something made me feel that as time passes, some friends change much more significantly than you do (and maybe not in tandem). Different experiences and probably distance/infrequency of meetup probably caused what i might term "irreconcilable differences" (not that we are fighting. just not getting the same good-friend "feel" like before).

But right now i'm just glad i'm in the company of friends where we all mutually enjoy each other presence.

Well, that's all for now :) scintillating pics from sentosa up next!

P.S: krys, if you're reading this, thanks! our hills-y chat made my night haha)

Jloe || 5:20 PM || 0 comments

Sunday, April 5, 2009
You Are My Destiny

I don't usually have suppers. And i definitely don't have overnight suppers as well.
But i just had one, and still recovering from the fatique! haha.

You could say, it was friday, AGAIN. haha.

I reached home not long ago - i went to City Hall after work to get something - and logged on to facebook. And then, by fate (haha), Krys was online too and we began talking briefly. Actually i wanna to tell her about my jc enemy but well, she suggested supper first. So being very free, i agreed. With concurrence from Yuk, we three were set to meet for supper at Upper Thomson Road.

So Krys and i met up first, since Yuk is perpetually late (tsk - haha). And Krys ate her favourite Bah Chor Mee while we bitched about stuff in life. Not long after that (this time Yuk's not THAT late), Yuk arrived and we moved on to deserts at Cheeky Chocolate :)

I think the shop lived up to its name caused the three of us were in a meanie mode, "insulting" each other for most of the time. haha. We ordered the chocolate crepe, which "i liked it HOT" (i said it) and the MANJU cake. haha. it's some manja-sth raspberry cake but it sounds so reminiscent of a schmate that the manju cake name was stuck in our minds. haha.

me and manju cake :)

krys

(am i far-too biased?)

Well, we even filmed a video (which is on facebook) of us trying to sing "I'm Yours" by jason mraz, but it was mainly Krys talking non-stop about nothing. I dunno if she even knew what she was blabbering about la haha.

more photos at cheeky chocolate

no difference =X

i love this shot

(cause no one would want to look at yuk here lol haha)

After that, we decided to walk to the park near Krys' house for some HTH (heart-to-heart) talk.

But as it turns out, the park was too quiet and dark and we decided to make a detour to Krys' house instead. (purposely missed out details in between that showed that i was scared of dog barkings at night and yuk was a "useless" friend who can't save us if there's a problem)

So we settled at Krys house where she showed me her baby photos and stuff (i'm on her cupboard, how sweet is that! hahah - though i'm sure the main point was to see herself being pretty in it haha). Yuk was plainly not listening, or the least interested (snatching the photos Krys wants to show me, then throw it any-o-how). But one thing's for sure, we liked to facebook alot cause that was the site we stayed on most of the time for most of the night.

a body-less Yuk, a maid with a lion's mane, and mr conrad :)

We cyber-stalked some people - esp their eye candies (krys' was way better haha) - and bitched about some (for me, it was one of my greatest enemies =X). I hope i don't get retribution. Maybe the two of them will take it for me hahaha.

yuk putting on fake smile with noel the bear.

- yuk is DAMN mean to kryssie's bear -

yuk faking another smile haha

not like me :)

well, it was a good fun night, where we took a few other videos (some also on facebook), and lasted all the way to six plus. By then, i was exhausted. And i had a wedding to attend on Saturday afternoon (no wonder i was so tired during the wedding ha)

a spontaneous night no doubt and another good time together with my jc besties.

now they really have to focus on study (and not think about me. omg, i'm so bhb haha) and we'll meet after their exams!

Jloe || 10:09 PM || 0 comments

Thursday, April 2, 2009
So They Fly Away

Rounding up March right here. To keep it simple, March was a tad bitter and bland. You can probably say i managed to achieve a more "serious" month that before (whether for good or bad. hmmm....)

Well, here goes the short list:

1) Back to Books
With Harry Potter and The Davinci Code going on, i think i should keep the momentum going haha.

2) Catchups
Having not seen Ter-weeds and Meng for a period of time probably made the catchup much more interesting and great. And my dearest Krys and Yuk coming in before the month ends - that was a good (and late... ) friend's night out. More frequent updates from now i hope.

3) Mini-events
My Ex-boss's farewell was nothing spectacular, though seeing Oh-My-Tian in his Britney number was seriously scary. The other was Kenny's 21st birthday party. Well, it was just like any other 21st celebrations.

4) Sentosa!
Ok, this would probably make the highlight of this month haha. It's been ages since i've been exposed to the sun in its entirety. The beach, sports (erm... simple ones la haha) everything felt good.

5) Gatherings
Two major gathering this month, with my CPF ex-colleagues and my current workplace colleagues. Both were buffets so i had the chance to eat alot! (ok, my loss of appetite the past two days has sorta offset any weight gain there was i'm sure.. sad)

There were other less-happier matters that bothered me but well, just get over it and life moves on.

April as it goes, is still pretty much unplanned...

1) shall do more reading...

2) shall dig out for swedish music!!!

3) and see my friends again

i probably should since work has been rough for the past few days.

Well, more updates hopefully...

Jloe || 10:19 PM || 0 comments

music.city.soul

jloe is a serious music addict, with an slight inclination towards swedish and scandinavian music. he will always be mandy moore biggest fan, though currently he has a (huge) soft spot for lauren conrad. in his spare time, he enjoys chatting with friends, watching movies, and basically doing whatever his heart tells him to do. Peace.

SONG OF THE DAY: fibes oh fibes - run to you

Well I can stand and wait,
start a fight,
climb the Empire State
I'm ready, steady, go
Even though you're still miles away
I wanna, I need to, I'm gonna run to you
I'm such a sinner, you're such a star
I'm no beginner, so set the heaven on fire
When there's no turning back from who we are
No matter what we're through
I'm gonna run to you

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