IKEA PLUS TANGLIN.

aunty....

we were at ikea at 10 in the morning. bright and early, for our $3 breakfast.

we bought a frame for the paddington bear painting i painted for germaine. it was really nice.

geil's birthday,

p&p day,

gerlynn and i cooked!

panicking to make the fireplace,

bran finding it cozy,

rehearsal tuesday.

Monoday.

Had breakfast with Gerlynn again on Monday. We went back home to paint and watch my favorite-- pride and prejudice. ( kyaaaaaa!) hah. We didn't have enough time to finish it though. Part 2 soon.

After she left I realized I needed to bring the fireplace prop to church tmr! Rushed to cut up the box and paint it. It looks decent enough. Please appreciate it!

I have been wanting to blog pics but i haven't gotten to it just yet.

Tuesday night is dinner with matthias and Gerlynn. Wednesdnay night is dinner at my aunt's. :D sounds prettay good to me. Thursday is ikea in the afternoon and tanglin mall in the evening! And Friday is the Christmas play.

I hope this week goes well. Seems like it will be much fun. Or at least full of small happy moments.

Goodnight!

pride and prejudice: "I do not pretend to possess equal frankness with your ladyship. You may ask questions which I shall not choose to answer."

singlish: "Dunch tell you."

agnes: see what scabies has done to my bellybutton! -scratches bellybutton with finger-
tim: eeee you have scabies?
agnes: -looks at tim-
agnes: -wipes finger on tim-
tim: AAAAAH! MOMMY MOMMY DID YOU SEE WHAT AGNES DID?!!

the scabies mites are housing in my poor naval. the itch is unearthly. :( hope the medicine helps.

i'm in my bubble today. my clair de lune bubble. i'm in it and i plan to stay in it for a while.

mommy bought the liese bubble hair dye for me because i've been wanting it for a while. when i got home nobody was in, only the liese bubble hair dye sitting on the dining table saying, "surprise!"

thanks mommy. :)

yesterday tim was asking me which part i wanted to play in the christmas play we are planning. i told him to give me the wordiest part cos i was afraid the younger ones wouldn't be able to handle it and it would be a MESS. and today i was assigned a part with no words at all. in fact my part wasn't even existant a day ago. we made up Friend 4 today just so i would be of some use. no matter though, cos the kids seem to cope alright. they just need to speak up and ARTICULATE (pls!). acting-wise, well this isn't an audition so who cares how natural it is. i hope it goes well. :)

i'm gonna stay home and hide in my bubble. inconspicuous and kept to myself. just for today.

geil's present hasn't arrived yet. i hope it wasn't delivered when nobody was at home. :| she's 16!

i HAVE to work on the fireplace prop for next week. does anyone have a big cardboard box that you don't want? i need it!

tangled was very very very nice. i admit, i melted in my seat. gerlynn disagrees but i think it's better than how to train your dragon. :D if there is a plush toy of pascal (the chameleon) i am going to buy one and play with it everyday. rapunzel is just, crazy pretty. and flynn ryder. FLYNN RYDERRRRRRR AHHHHHHHHHHHH WHY DOES NO SUCH PERSON EXIST. so much hype over an animated guy. i'm horrible.

i need to call carol to ask if i can join in on the internship after christmas.

christmas time is coming! truthfully, i've never looked forward to christmas so much in my entire life. why was the holiday season always so depressing? well, this year it is not. perhaps it's because a good bulk of the year was already so hard, and now that there is some relief i genuinely appreciate what i have going on for me although it isn't really anything special. i can't really say. but it's a blessing anyhow. if the year was ending badly right now i probably would not be able to put myself back together again. so God does know how much you can handle. that seems to be the glaring lesson of 2010 for me to ponder upon.

:)

on march 16th next year i will get to say, "what an eighteenth year!" i really really want to say that.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GEILAMON!

5 mins into your birthday. :D

i'll take this day to specially thank God for you and letting me meet you, know you, and have you as a great friend. today. your day!

thanks for bearing with me for the past couple of years and cheering me on in the ways you can. i love library afternoons and tao hway breaks and sofa naps with you. hope i've been there for you when you needed me too.

and it's in all honesty that i say that i love you very very much. really! love you geil. :)

on tuesday i went to return shermaine her DVD, and there was this kids' christmas party going on near her place organized by her aunt. i helped them pack up after it finished and had dinner at sher's place. i was supposed to meet ben after dinner later in the evening but he bailed on me. nice.

no harm done though, cos i had more time with shermaine. finally got to catch up with her before she leaves for beloved korea. hope to join her on her internship/observation sessions at KTPH. i have to ask carol when she comes back from malaysia.

TANGLED DATE WITH GERLYNN TOMORROW TO CELEBRATE THE PASSING OF HER EXAMS! finallly we can execute the picnic and ikea plans we made last month.

AND, GEIL'S BIRTHDAY IS COMING REALLY SOON!!!! too bad this year we can't throw her into the sea again. i hope she likes what i bought her. :)

i hope that the rest of the time until school (be it in SG or aus) begins will be nice. in a realistic way you know? like pleasant and smoother-going with just small problems to deal with here and there.

skyping with timmy from the study room to his room while i was doing some studying...

[1:31:32 PM] Agnes Lee: It is important to note that lack of or limited excursion of the hyolaryngeal area was not predictive of how an
individual responded to the surgery
[1:31:35 PM] Agnes Lee: means what
[1:31:58 PM] Timothy Lee: hyolaryngeal area?
[1:32:05 PM] Timothy Lee: you mean hypolaryngeal area
[1:32:14 PM] Agnes Lee: i copy and paste one
[1:32:19 PM] Agnes Lee: how i know correct or not
[1:32:24 PM] Timothy Lee: uh...
[1:32:25 PM] Agnes Lee: i dun even know what it means
[1:32:48 PM] Timothy Lee: means just because the fella has some bulge at the base of the throat doesn't mean he's nt doing well after surgery
[1:33:10 PM] Timothy Lee: oh oh
[1:33:11 PM] Timothy Lee: no no
[1:33:50 PM] Timothy Lee: means just because the fella does NOT have some bulge at the bottom of his throat doesnt mean he's nt doing well
[1:35:44 PM] Agnes Lee: i thought it doesnt prove anything. not it doesnt prove he's not doing well
[1:36:03 PM] Agnes Lee: it just doesnt predict anything
[1:36:06 PM] Agnes Lee: right?
[1:38:00 PM] Agnes Lee: ?
[1:38:07 PM] Timothy Lee: ya
[1:38:11 PM] Agnes Lee: Most favorable results were associated
with patients who have dysphagia of an unknown origin versus patients who have history of a neurological event or
cancer.
[1:38:40 PM] Agnes Lee: means patients with unknown cause of dysphagia responded better to the surgery than the latter right?
[1:39:08 PM] Timothy Lee: yes
[1:39:11 PM] Agnes Lee: walao they write until so chim... sickening.
[1:39:23 PM] Agnes Lee: bread chao da liao
[1:44:41 PM] Timothy Lee: haha
[1:44:45 PM] Timothy Lee: it exploded

i have this habit called "i ask my brother" which i think will never go away. when i am 80 i will still say... "wait, i ask my brother!"

he just reads SO MUCH and i read almost nothing at all. other than my Bible and a very narrow selection of books that suit my liking, which i become obsessive over once i discover and like them.

Acts 11:23 Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord.

it's been a long time since i've had tao hway for breakfast.

last night isa reminded me that i was teaching the kindies for sunday school this morning and i panicked! rushed to read the story and prepare the craft work. at 1:30am i realized i prepared the craft for the wrong lesson and i was SO MAD WITH MYSELF because that's just so typical of me. but i used it anyway cos it wasn't totally irrelevant and it was too late to think up another craft idea.

thank God all went well in the morning and i am still okay with the kids. kudos to sunday school teachers! :)

GET WELL SOON GEIL! you were like, voiceless just now! :( feel better soon. i buy haribo for you after you get well.

mama is dopey and she has become a pooping machine. she's been bombing ALOT lately it's a sign that her internals are not doing good. i wonder what december will bring.

JIAYOU GERLYNN. i'm seriously rooting for you, will be for the next few days. -makes fist-

i couldn't fall asleep last night, i don't really know why. gave up on trying to be sleepy at 7am when i saw mommy getting ready for work. but now she's gone and i'm left feeling sleepy and boggle-eyed. reminds me of the times when i had to get up a million times from the floor to tend to mama. we've come a long way.

i've been having sinus problems every night for the past four nights now. my nose just gets clogged and swollen inside when it comes to sleeping time and it gets drippy. i sound nasal in the day. it's my new voice, hah.

yesterday's lunch date with gerlynn was very nice because she's studying for exams and we haven't been able to meet up as often. the time passed so quickly, it was unreal. it's like this phenomenon how time flies when we finally get to talk. i didn't know there was a good scrapbooking shop at novena. i will take up scrapbooking if i become a tai tai in future. the materials and stuff are.. not cheap.

one day the both of us will publish our book and you will see it at MPH and kino and prologue. hahahahahaha.

we've hired a lady to come and clean my grandma up during the day. change her diapers, bathe her, play with her a bit. i will have to guide her during the next few days, the many likes and dislikes of my grandmother.

then i have to find work of some sort. :)

i'm skipping church camp this year. because i have to settle this home stuff and because we have no money for me to go and because my passport isn't renewed yet. it's okay. next time. i shall have no holiday this year.

yesterday i was running a fever and having all the flu symptoms but i'm alright today. i had a horrid day yesterday because i quarreled with my mother, and it got very ugly.

tomorrow i have a quiznos date. -beams at the thought of a good meal-

to be as honest as possible, i haven't really been in a good state these past few months. and it's very hard to come out and tell people that i feel like a wreck. it's hard to say in detail. but the light of coming change seems to up my spirits somewhat. which is nice and timely.

gmarket has some problem and i can't order geil's present! -roars- is anybody else having the same problem? after placing an order the pop up says there was a connection error.

my parents have decided on getting a helper from NTUC eldercare or something. the past few days have been quite rough with my parents. but it's okay now. hopefully by next week the day-time helper would have started work, and my grandma would take well to her.

things are moving along. in good timing.

i have to do housekeeping today.

this morning i woke up to mama's crying at the break of dawn. i can hear her from the study room now. i don't know if it's because she got louder or my ears got sharper. i can hear her when there's construction going on. or when i have headphones on. "annaaaaaa.....annaaaaaaa..." at night this house sounds haunted, what more because she starts crying at unearthly hours after 12.

i wonder what december will bring. hopefully, happy times. OH TODAY GOT FREE COFFEE AT STARBUCKS RIGHT??! i just remembered! confirm got long queue.