very serious wardrobe crisis.
there this one fave hoodie dress that i got from korea which i dont wear.
bcos i look like a 13 yr old when i do -.-
but i adore it.
need to think of how to work this out ):

anyways, im literally dying from my wardrobe crisis but i cant do anythg abt it, at least not till the bkk trip.
so i can only lament, ogle at lookbook and think of how i can utilise what i have.
except that i cannot, of cos.

i havnt bought clothes since i came back from korea.
hmm. one skirt. thats all. damn sad.

and im utterly hooked onto bluebird vintage.
the blog is so inspiring that i wanna diy everything and turn my bedroom 180 degrees!
now i just need to convince my dad to let me paint my room.
and after seeing her hair, im DEFINITELY keeping my hair.
but my length is at the infamous awkward stage

one of my all time fave singers.
i ADORE him ♥

my phone… is still with that earth wallpaper.
with no songs ):
haix.

today i was a dog watcher cum motivator.
im starting to enjoy lazy saturdays.
and thats very bad.

watched the latest criminal minds and DAMN ITS STILL SO FREAKING GOOD but damn bloody sad.
im going to start on season 1 after iris.
a.n jell is done but im still hooked to the ost.

i will make a point to meet my friends.

what do i want for xmas?
no more organisers pls.
speaking of which, ive alrdy started writing in my new organiser.
yatta! its the one that president got for me ^^
im going to paste random hello kitty stuffs inside.

i miss my polaroid so im going to ask president to pass it back to me soooonnn!
and i have a damn bloody hot date with her.
we’re going to do really cool stuff

just realised, our jb date with the hg gang is actually.. THIS THURSDAY!
gosh time really flies!
i thought its still like a week or two later.

need to get a job, so that next year i can go traveling next yearrr!!!

settled my seaweed fries and ice milo craving today.
but there’s still horlicks ice cream!! hurhur.
and, when is seaweed fries enough?!

ok, im going to go running on monday.
today very paiseh ><

It has been over twenty hours since

Her and me

Were a lump of covers and limbs

On an extremely bony mattress.

I can’t shake the feeling,

Of a quiet, deadly loss

That just flew right by me

Leaving my heart in shambles

Quiet earthquakes,

That are unseen and unfelt,

Only seen in long gashes

In stone walls and wooden staircases

Unseen and unfelt

The way the cracks and the resolve

Appear and vanish

With a touch, a glance, a snort, a smile

I don’t want to lose you

So I say the stupidest things

In the dark

The stupidest, stupidest things.

And I wonder why I think

The night will make you blind

To my words and my quivering heartbeat

And mostly, my fears and hopes

Worse if you remember,

One hundred times worse if you do

Still can’t decide

Which devil I rather have.

Trick or treat, miserable fall weather

And unsaid feelings, admittances

That leave me with open gashes

All over my flesh, bleeding into sheets

Nicky is the cutest doggy in the whole wide world! The WHOLE WIDE WORLD!!!
Lol.
You may stop reading, this is just a mindless babble.
He was sleeping today and he had a dream or something cos he was whining while he was sleeping. That’s so cute. That’s kinda like how I sleep talk.
And just now, I saw a tick on the floor, so I looked in his ears to see if any were in there and I bent down close to him and he licked me all over my face. Which reminds me, I have a video of Nicky licking my face.
We bathed Nicky today, poor guy was traumatised. Refused to come near me after I was done. But I don’t think I washed him very well because he still smells of dog. And he had a piece of shit at his ass.
And he lies down on the floor so cutely, I can’t stand it. I really can’t stand that he’s so cute.
He’s like a teddy bear, I wish I could just cuddle him and sleep.
I wanna gobble him up!

Brought him to Changi beach. This is a picture of him looking pensievely out into the sea. Remind you of anyone?

It does actually amaze me how he and I are quite alike in character.

The Old Man woke me up early today, at 8:30. That’s usually a huge no-no. He knows how precious my sleeping time is when I don’t have school, and waking me up before eleven is unwise.

But today he asked me if I wanted to go Black Friday shopping for the first time ever. I wanted to see how busy the shops were, so I agreed.

The Old Man bought a DVD player. He likes electronics. I bought 10 pairs of colorful socks. ^___________________^ My old socks are all threadbare and so thin that they’re as warming as a pair of tights.

The Old Man threw out my favorite glittery purple striped socks without telling me. TT___TT But I don’t blame him. One sock had a gigantic hole in the bottom.

Yay for sockspam!

I also bought a complete outfit for the formal lunch outing my volunteer group is going on tomorrow. During the awards assembly, Christa — sitting somewhere behind me — poked me in the side and told me that I HAD to wear formal clothes or else she’d inflict bodily harm upon my person (told you she’s a bully XP), so I had no choice but to agree. I hadn’t gone clothes shopping since July, no lie.

That rhyme, by the way, was purely accidental.

I bought a black cardigan and this dress here:

I hate wearing formal clothes to restaurants~

Until next time,

~ Mimi =)

I had a little iPod trauma last night.

So I was chilling, watching videos on Youtube (like the ones in the post below this), charging up my iPod, Massie, when iTunes stopped responding and I had to get the Task Manager out and shut it down.

Massie, who happened to be connected to the computer during this momentary crisis, immediately went into an iPod coma. She was stuck at her fully-charged screen. Time of coma: 11:40 pm.

So what else to do during a moment of iPod crisis but tweet?

findingmaddie: I think my iPod has gone into a coma. This is bad.

findingmaddie: Massie is not recovering from her iPod coma. Crap. Crap crap crap.

findingmaddie: Alice (the shuffle) is fine. She’s compatible with iTunes and all. Massie’s fully charged screen won’t go away.

I tried pressing the center and play buttons at the same time. I also tried toggling the hold switch. Nothing.

findingmaddie: On the bright side, Alice is now synced up to my computer.

findingmaddie: Yay, Alice! I filled her up with more songs. But now I’m kind of scared…because she might be my main iPod now. =/

findingmaddie: Massie is still not showing up on iTunes. Maybe if I plug her into the charger she’ll come out of the iPod coma?

findingmaddie: Charger is not working. Time to take evasive action.

findingmaddie: SHE HAS COME BACK TO LIFE!

findingmaddie: HALLELUJAH! Oh Apple Support, how I love you so.

Turns out I knew what to do the entire time–only I was supposed to press the center and menu buttons at the same time, not the center and play buttons.

findingmaddie: However now I am scared to plug her back into the computer because I don’t want to perform iPod mouth-to-mouth again.

findingmaddie: I plugged her in. Massie is fine. I can continue HOLY CRAP I THINK MY STAIR LIGHTS JUST FLICKERED.

haysgirl2486: @findingmaddie i just saw your twitters about your ipod. the suspense was killing me happy thanksgiving!

maggiesmoment: I’m amused. I love play-by-plays of named technology

findingmaddie: I don’t think they actually flickered…now Massie is charging again when in the middle of her iPod coma she was fully charged. Bah. 

findingmaddie: Apparently there is a difference between Click Wheel, Scroll Wheel, and Touch Wheel iPods.

findingmaddie: If I have a little extra money after the holidays I think I’m gonna invest in a new iPod shuffle. A blue one named Lyra, maybe?

findingmaddie: That’s enough trauma for tonight. The iPods and I are going to bed.

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we missed the bus back to prague! it was otherwise an ‘awesome’ trip. on the first night, we reached generator hostel at about 8pm, settled down into our bunks and our surprisingly clean room, and checked out the surprisingly big and clean toilets and showers. one hour later, CJ came in and we were a little apprehensive about having a new roommate! but our fears were unfounded because we started chatting and very soon were laughing hysterically at anecdotes about our cultural differences. CJ’s american and his parents are brazilian and venezuelan (kinda exotic, huh.), ondrej is obviously czech, kehni’s malaysian and im singaporean so it was a mini little UN gathering of sorts in room 409. we started talking about the american habit of asking, ‘how are you?’ even though many times they aren’t interested in hearing the answer and just walk away before you think of the reply.. and the chinese habit of asking your family/ mostly your grandmother, ‘Have you eaten?’ In chinese, ‘Ni chi le ma?’ That was really funny and strange to CJ, and for the first time, we saw for ourselves how some phrases and habits we take for granted are really kinda quirky. We later started talking about how Czechs and Chinese are similar to the extent that we are humble, modest people. Hahaha. Well, most of the time. Like when someone compliments us, we tend to deflect it by saying, ‘naah, i’m not that good, you’re better.’ or, if someone says, ‘hey, that top looks gorgeous!’ we say, ‘oh, this? i bought it for like 5 euros at a store.’ Whereas americans would obviously say, ‘Hey, you think so too? thanks!’ Haha so well, we learnt from each other and by the end of the trip, I was saying all the ‘thank yous!’ and CJ was going, ‘ohh… you’re better, i’m not that great…’ hahaha.

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CJ also asked, ‘how do you say “You’re Great!” in Chinese?’ We had to think for a while because its not common for chinese to compliment people like that. We’ll say, that looks so cute, or the food was good..or maybe your hair looks very nice today… but not ‘You’re Great!’ Well, so we told him, ‘Ni zhen bang!’ (aka You’re Really Great!) Eventually as he repeated it it sounded more and more like ‘Ni Zhen Pang!’ which means You’re So Fat! So we had to warn him about that scary, treacherous ground he was treading into. Czechs also tend to deflect compliments and be modest, according to its representative Ondrej, because it is the right thing to do not to sound overly obnoxious to our peers. But the difference was that while Chinese parents downplay their children and go, ‘Oh…my daughter’s not that smart lah.. yours is so obedient.. my daughter is so stubborn and lazy…’ Czech parents would go, ‘My son is the BEST!’ And American parents would say, ‘that’s awesome!! Wow!’ for every little non-achievement the child attains, which according to CJ is the source of many social and esteem problems as these children grow up and face real society. Debatable, so, any comments?

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We collected quite a treasure trove of phrases and quotables over the trip, one of my favourites being, ‘It’s kinda whiffy in here!’ Cos CJ is a traumatologist in America, he worked with a doctor who said, ‘my patient’s kinda whiffy, isn’t he?’ He repeated that like 3 times and still nobody got him- apparently he meant, ‘my patient kind of smells, doesn’t he?’ Hahaa. So when we stepped into our hostel room and it smelt, we’d open the window and say, Whiffy’s still in here! Let’s get him out!

Another phrase was, ‘Excuse me German people, Excuse me German people! -Wide eyed- HAAAGEN DAAAZ???  We were hunting down haagen daaz cos we thought it was natural to do- eat german icecream in germany! BUT. We got cheated! Kehni just googled the brand and we realised the name was coined from two senseless words to make it ‘look scandinavian’, Haagen Daaz is basically an American brand!! Who knew that! ‘Haagen Daaz is also commonly mistaken to be a German brand. ‘

‘Daughter Doris Hurley told PBS documentary An Ice Cream Show (1999) that her father Reuben Mattus sat at the kitchen table for hours saying nonsensical words until he came up with a combination he liked. The reason he chose this method, was so that the name would be completely unique and original’ — Thank you, Wikipedia, for providing the facts, and for bursting my bubble! The icecream was reaaly good though, american or german, so no regrets.

mm mmm.

shall leave you here with a sweet tooth thanks ondrej, kehni, CJ for a wonderful and unforgettable trip. I will refrain from cursing Berlin bus inspectors here at the end of the post– maybe next time!

today i spent my better half of the day doing my phone.
and im sure i will continue to do so for the rest of the week.
baby steps, baby steps.

ive been racking my brains thinking what exactly was in my phone prior to the restoration, but i know im still missing some stuff.
tonight, i will get my apps and my contact list up.

tomorrow, i will search for a new theme and have 2 themes.
that will probably last me till next monday or so.

and ive decided that im going to dedicate 2 hours for job searches and applications, an hour for korean, an hour for news and another for housework.
got a little inspired by a blog to do something about my room.
been saying i need a proper wardrobe for the longest time, so maybe its time to do something about it.
so i shall surf around and see how i can diy a wardrobe.
if that really happens, i will be so proud of myself.

but for now, the most pressing thing, is to finish the last ep of the a.n jell! ^^

just… sien…

lots of things to write about,
lots of things to be sien about,
just…
sien…

SO,
Darwin was ok. Saw a couple of wallabies.
Completion ceremony was ok. Didn’t give a speech.
Monash interview was ok. Considering I don’t want it.
Sister’s birthday was ok. Had dinner at Marche.
Flight back was ok. Sexy guy on board.
Nicky’s ok. Smells like dog.
I’m ok. Still alive.

It’s a public holiday where we are. Slept a fair amount this week. Went to Changi beach this morning. Ate egg sandwich for lunch.

For whatever reason, I’m just not in the mood.

Not in the mood for what exactly I’m not sure, but I’m not in the mood.

the easiest jb ever.
just click the button and it will jb. how cool is that.

im up because ive been drifting in and out of sleep, with images of cydia, what packages should i install and the likes throughout the night. gets really confusing with the ko mi nan, huang tae kyung images. its like, the a.n jell members have been hacked? i gave up trying to sleep so now im trying to see what i can do with my phone.

haiya.

and my stiff neck is not any better. and now ive got aching feet too ):