i'd better blog this before i get too lazy and never get to it.

friday was a holiday, so my mom, aunt, and i brought mama out the whole day. long car ride to the home to get her, then to ang mo kio hub to get her hair cut. lunch at new york new york (FAIYA!) and another long car ride to the botanic gardens. the weather was weird there so we ended up running from shelter to shelter. we headed back to my aunt's place for an early dinner, and sent my gran back by 6pm. came home and had a quick shower, then my aunt sent my dad and i to church for prayer meeting.

had really bad cramps on saturday so i stayed home and pretty much sat down the whole day. took lots of meds too. but i couldn't escape going out, cause it was my uncle's birthday. so i went to my aunt's place again for dinner. sat down there the whole time too. heh.

i need to make puppets for VBS now. anyong~

LaTrobe just called me to ask about my (future) application. (super shocker out of the blue.) since they called, i asked whatever i wanted to ask. pretty helpful but not exactly assuring, cause i'm still not sure if my ICCE cert will have any chance of being accepted and i forsee more studying for other certs to get in. sighs, so much to think about.

bangs head on big pink wall and faints.

but on a happier note, i'm really looking forward to change in 2011. my life right now is too status quo socially speaking and i am bored. i think it will be good. please buy me winter clothes for my birthday in 2011. and if i come back fat, well don't laugh at me.

conversation with daddy and mommy.

mom: what's that animal? (on TV)
dad: ded... ded... dedy... what...
mom: no what's that animal?
dad: dunno what ded... ded... *looks at me*
aggie: world's deadliest animals lah.
mom: NO WHAT'S THAT ANIMAL!
dad: oh, bison.

two minutes later--

aggie: pa, you gonna bathe?
dad: ya.
aggie: how long you gonna take? or is that indefinite?
dad: where can be indefinite one???
aggie:*thinks why he replied that way* i said indefinite lah not infinite.
dad: *pauses to think* OHHH hahahahahahhahaha.

daddy so cute.

i am being swarmed by research papers and (lame) stuff like that. *CRIES!*

there's a weird muffled ring in the air that's been going on for a while and i keep thinking it's the rapture or something. yeah, everytime i hear any loud trumpet sound or funny noise, i think it's the rapture and i squint my eyes to get ready to fly. it's hilarious... my mom saw me do it once at the OLD FOLKS' HOME. lol.

pay me $1 if you laughed. :D

quick post, since i'm checking my mail.

tim's at the polyclinic to get his skin disease (ha, that's what i call it) checked out. it itches like mad and it's killing him, so maybe he'll take mc. he says it's worse around the fingers. eee~

bran still has mites, but it's a kind of parasite that all dogs are born with in their blood that's supposed to be dormant but can flare up in times of stress (?). meaning it's not contagious to both humans and other dogs. big phew! given he sleeps on my bed.

ok back to work. :( aiming for 3 tests this week.

tests today were just fine. :) the weather's great too. i'm sort of having a headache from i dunno what, but the done tests and the nice weather overwrite the headache so i'm happy.

i'm still a molting dragon, but nevermind. i figured the more i relax and not think about it, the faster my skin will heal and be normal again.

yesterday i made sushi for my parents. daddy said he thought i bought it! (FAIYA!) sushi is so so so fun to make. i'm gonna buy proper sushi stuff to make more. hoohoo~

last night i called some of the VBS contacts... alot of them cannot come. :( tonight we'll pray for more kids.

thank God that my dad's been able to sell the stuff quite well of late, since there's a special offer. he used to sell 2 or 3 a day, but he's selling like double now. so that's good. ^^

from little angels, that fav photobook of mine.

the rain is so refreshing. it helps me study study. for my two tests tomorrow. *sighs* oh, last night i was awoken by bran, cause he was sitting up on my bed and looking right at me in my face. idk why! i got up and tim was leaving for camp, so i said bye to him. and after that i figured bran wanted to wake me up to say bye to tim.

ha.

VBS is on the week i want to finish my paces for the year. it's on the week that i'll be very busy. uhhhhhhh. i have to push back my work. :(

ooooh i'm tired. american agnes would say, "i'm beat!" i think ...

came back from seeing mama and there were guests at our place! (???) dad and mom's old friends came to talk about something seemingly serious.

mama's doing the same. funny, while praying she suddenly gave me a funny strained face (yalah my eyes open lah.) and then she mouthed "berak!" AHAHA, she pooped. and she recited some peranakan poetry for us too. panton or whatever it's called. it's cool that she can remember them. and she recites them with a certain lively springy tone. i super like being half peranakan!

had dinner with mommy and she started with her introspective emo talk again, as she does everytime i eat with her alone.

M- blah blah realization eureka horizon blah blah ...
A- wah mommy you really like this introspective, emotional kind of talk hor?
M- (thinks...) yahh.

no worries, mommy. honest introspection seems like a good thing to do. just that if you keep talking about it all the time, i get bored.

then we went to watsons and i bought a bunch of facial care stuff because this week, my skin has been --no words to describe because i'm so upset about it--. it's peeling and pocky and it makes me feel like a pimply molting lizard AAAAAAAAAAHH! on top of that it's red. so i'm a pimply molting dragon. 0_0 and my hair has transmorgafied into bristly grass too. so i have concluded that it's a hormonal thing. i must eat more tofu. it has those estrogen mimicking ... things. and estrogen makes people pretty. and i should stop tying.

GOODNIGHT!

nice to see you jamie. you look all just-came-back-from-paris-ish. which is a good thing. :)

geil's doing good with the braces. and our current favourite snack is tau hway.

WEEKEND
roy's birthday was on saturday, so we headed over to his place for lunch, which was awesomely packed with cheesy foods like pasta and pizza. italiano! after that, choir. there were only six of us practicing that day, four guys and my mom and i. but we had some fun playing around and stuff... doing weird stretches. then in the evening mommy went to get a haircut so i accompanied her as usual. made a stop at watsons to buy plasters for my ugly blisters before going home. i have ugly blisters on my feet.
and that was saturday.

today we continued learning about baptist history in the first lesson. the message later on was about whether we think living for God is worth it or not. i got so frozen that i went out halfway to listen from the back. lunch, home, nap, dinner, now.

bran loves fruitloops. idk why.

timmy is coming home tomorrow.

went to KKH just now to check out the speech therapy workshop thing. most of the time i was being introduced to i dunno how many people by my mom. (ha) reached back at around 2.

2 of my favorite t-shirts have disappeared from the face of the planet. boyah!

TREESareGREAT

"Trees are great. They are both meanings of 'great', if you would nutshell the many definitions of the word into just two. They are big and they are awesome. Trees look like hands. Trees look like people. Some are stiff and straight and extremely arrogant. Some seem like they would shade the whole world of they could. Those in between aren't really noticed. Trees look scabby. Like old people's feet. But they're supposed to be that way. They'd be no fun to climb were they slick and smooth. Trees are committed. Well, mostly. They stay in one place for hundreds of years. Sometimes they outlive us.

Trees are great."

today i drew! from my now-favourite photo book titled little angels. will post up pics sometime whenever.

HAPPYFRIEND

after my keep-thinking-of-mama morning, i went to meet geil to accompany her for her braces appointment. so she finally got her braces on! i felt kinda buzzed cause i didn't get to eat lunch. planned to buy something along the way to eat but a delivery came at the last minute, so i had to spend some time opening up the stuff and making sure everything was 'fittable'.

i went in with geil to see her braces being fixed on. at first i stayed outside, but the very nice counter lady told me to just go in so i won't be bored. the counter lady is Filipino too, which i think is why she likes us so much. she's rrrreally nice. anyway, i dunno why, but when i was in the room i was like a total idiot. usually people laugh at my funny answers to their questions, but the doctor didn't laugh at all. so my supposed-to-be-funny answers just turned into stupid answers. AND the doc called me a busybody because he caught me bending over his table checking out stuff when he abruptly came back from attending to another patient. so embarrassing. geil was trying to laugh with the mouth-opening plastic thing on her. hahar!

after everything we went to eat tau hui... tao hway? a very appropriate food for braced people. and i just realized i've been spelling appropriate as appropiate all my life. wow.

mama's not doing good, again. she's really nauseous and stuff. she's going to SGH today. she's so skinny compared to the last i saw her, which is sad. it was actually really sad visiting her. she was glad to see us, but the whole thing was so sad. i tried to just, focus on lifting her spirits by talking to her and occupying her. and i felt like if i just paused my mind to think of how much she wanted to come back home, or if i stilled my heart to feel anything for a moment i would just burst into a pathetic puddle of tears. because she is so pitiful. she should just be getting so much more now. sometimes i wake up in the night and wonder what mama would be thinking if she were awake in her bed, in the home, right at that very same minute i was awake. she would want me to make kopi-o for her and get her ice for her arm.

it really eats me up that i can't take care of her. or rather, that she can't come home when she wants to so much. and i am crying my heart out right now.

i'm making roy's present now.

today we learned a little about baptist history, just briefly up to the 5th century. then aunty janet and i took the kids to chapel. really thankful that today was better. i made up some art and craft for the bored kids that occupied them all the way until the service was over (YES!). they shared blessings, and they thanked God for the simplest of things.. things i often overlook. it was good today. i think.

gonna see mama at the home later. miss her. can't wait to see her.

miss you, jamie.
hope you feel better soon, geil.

oh i forgot to mention that speech therapy day at KKH is next friday.

just vame back from prayer meeting. the message was from james 4: 7-10. very important lessons about the heart's condition of requiring constant and conscientious humbling. i noticed that verse 7 says "submit to God" before saying "resist the devil". i think it only works out if you follow the order. anyways, the lesson was a great reminder.

i bought some stuff for my hairband project.

ladies, check out the chi ma pa ji (skirt pants, or culottes) on this page! it costs S$7, without shipping lah. i'm not sure about the material quality and stuff, so don't hold me liable for that if it's bad. or maybe i'll order it next month and tell you if it's good or not. i think it'll be good for VBS and stuff.

so hard to find good looking, modest clothes.

lunchtime was nice today. met up with geil to go somewhere and had lunch with her. haha, i was gonna post up pics but i read her blog first, and she made the whole thing very vague, so i guessed i should make it vague too. anyway monday will be awesome for her.

zoomskay let's buy those aussie burgers next time. they seem yummier.

very sadly, i couldn't go jalan jalan or to geil's place after that, cause i hadta study for my tests. sad right? sad. ^~^

2D1N was wicked funny today.

ppyong! <3

my teeth aren't straight enough to put in the magic jaw puller-backer band yet. bummer. maybe on the next appointment.

hoping to have lunch with geil at ion on thurs. it's kinda early so i gotta rush my schoolwork, or continue it after i go back home. oh, and this friday is speech therapy day at KKH! mommy's speech therapy friend sent me the info. i shall go. i should lah, although the timing is also quite inconvenient.

i have sudden inspiration to make my own hairbands. well not make, more like decorate them. you know those fancy hairbands people sell nowadays for like, 10-20 bucks? it costs like $4 to make. (i think lah.) so i'm gonna buy some plain bands and decorate them myself.

i need to write an essay on the discovery of neptune for an english related subject. nice.

cozy lunch at geil's place today. we brought micah back home but forgot the keys so roy had to come back too in the end. (sorry roy.) bought nasi lemak, yums! then she let me surf gmarket, haha. no lah i was trying to find her birthday present online. couldn't find anything. :|

we watched the arirang channel for a while, then i went back home. zonked out when i got sleepy and got up for dinner. super relaxed day today.

monday again tomorrow, everybody. ppyong!