Sudden Realization and Movies Mania

When I woke up this morning and was lazing in bed, It suddenly dawned on me that, I'm turning 23 in less than a month!

Oh dear, age is really catching up. I want to be forever 21.

Oh well, age is just a number. Being young is not tied to a number!

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I was looking at GV's Sneaks and Upcoming movie list and I have so many movies I want to catch!

Like this,

With one of my favorite Hollywood actors. He's easily my sister's TOP TOP favorite actor.


But I have a feeling (by reading the synopsis), it's gonna be gory and gut wrenching bloody.





And definitely this,
nothing can stop me from watching this in the cinema. Absolutely no livestreaming and no downloading please for this one.

Adaptation from the book, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. I'm going to read the book again.

And this, just because I have not seen a Brad Pitt movie for ages and I want to see how he has really aged. ok. That's quite a lame and lousy reason to watch this film. In my opinion, his best film is still Seven Years in Tibet. Not because he looks the best in that film or anything like that. Sadly, He USED to be my favorite Hollywood actor.

Random:

Dive trip to Dayang anyone? Open to SMU students. I want to dive at least once before I start work. Even if it means going back to Dayang again. I want to catch mini sharks and rays which I missed seeing the last trip. =( I was blessed to see an entire school of gi-normous bumphead parrotfish and barracudas but I didn't see the mini sharks which would have been even more awesome.

Youie, if NTU dive team goes to Dayang and nobody wants to go with me on the smu trip, I want to hitch a ride. =D But then again, I don't have a buddy unless I managed to persuade Jax to go along. I need more diver-friends.....

You can tell I'm getting desperate to dive here. The underwater world is just so amazing and beautiful that getting that dive certification is one of the best things that happened in my life. I bet you guys never know this, but Little Mermaid is my favorite Disney Fairytale and it kinda inspired me from young to explore the underwater world. Back then, when I was a kid, I don't think I ever knew such a thing called scuba diving actually existed.

And ultimately, I got my wish fulfilled, a decade later.

Under the sea, Under the sea, darling it's better.

I'm such a Disney fairytale person. Sometimes, I wish I was a little girl again.

You choose to be on the side of me.

I'm not the easiest person to love
I'm often the one who let things go unresolved

Yet you choose
To be on the side of me
On the side of me
Yeah, You choose to be on the side of me
On The side of me

I'm not too proud of some things I've done in my life
Skeletons in my closet are too big for me to hide

Yet You choose to be on the side of me
Blessed Charity
You're on the side of me
Cause everyone needs a friend to hold
When its cold outside and there's no place to go

Yeah everyone needs a friend to hold
all alone, I cry. There's no place to go

I remember when nobody cared
Nobody cared, but, You.

I'm not the easiest person to love
But You, You opened your heart to show me what I'm worth
Cause You choose to be on the side of me

You choose to be on the side of me.

A Walk to Remember.

Watched a re-run on Movie6.net. Actually, this is like my umpteenth re-run of the movie.

I love the "Love is patient, Love is Kind" scene the most. It never ever fail to make me tear (a little)

"Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous, never boastful; nor conceited. It is never rude and never selfish. It does not take offence and it is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people's sins but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope and to endure whatever comes."

1 Corinthians 13

A.k.a The Love Chapter

I wonder, in the world today, how many people know the full meaning of love and how many can honestly say they have experienced for themselves this full measure of agape love.

God is fully capable of agape love and the evidence, the cross.

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It's funny. I preached to Jax about this verse before and how much I like reading it over and over again. And whenever, I get alittle too impatient and grouchy with him, he'll go, "Love is patient, love is kind". Things will be ok after.

To myself: Girl, walk the talk.

Was inspired by the message in church today.

"Life is not a sprint of a race. It is a marathon. Finish well."

"Live life with certainty. Know who you are and Whose you are." A child of God, deeply loved, greatly blessed and highly favored.

Plan A and Plan B

11th Jan, Friday.

As always, Fridays are spent with Jax. Decided to go to Timbre in the night for some daiquiris, pizzas and live music. By the time we drove there, there was a long queue waiting to get in. And being a liveband place, the chances of people leaving anytime soon are pretty slim so he suggested Plan B, which is to go to Zouk where his friend can get us into the members' lounge.

Other than bumping into Derrick (the fashion designer, the one at Yuying's party), it was an uneventful night.

I would rather go to Timbre where we can talk without shouting over the music and just chill out.

Anyway, the rest of the day was rather good in a relaxing manner. Caught Darjeeling Limited which was seriously more like an art film and I fell asleep while watching it. Even Owen Wilson couldn't save the show for me.

I do not appreciate such films.

I'm learning malay now. Haha, after my last attempt at learning Japanese for an entire year, I thought that the days of eagerly learning a new language were long over. Guess I'm wrong.

And the only sentences I vaguely recall are:

Nama Saya Joanna. (My name is Joanna.)

Saya suka makan nasi ayam (I like to eat chicken rice)

Saya tinggal di Bishan (I live in Bishan).

HAHA. I feel like a primary school kid.

Oh another one,

Saya Bahasa Melayu Profesor adalah satu cheeko peh (My Malay professor is a cheeko peh.)

You read that right. He's not your subtle kind of cheeko peh, but right in your face blatant kind.

Day one he asked me in a very suggestive manner if I have a boyfriend and do I "sayang" him?

I said yes, I do have a boyfriend. And I so wanted to tell him to MYOB for that second question.

Rolls eye.

Happy 23rd Birthday, Babe!

Yuying's 23rd at Zouk...

Boyfriends were invited so Jax came along too.

The girls

(Marie, you should know the reason behind the black and white, right?) ;)

The crazy flow of drinks & Shooters.

The boyfriend who made sure I didn't drink more than I ought to. I hate to admit it, but Zouk is actually the place where I first met Jax (seriously, a club is the last place I would like to meet my other half). Haha. But who knows...

Lovely girls, Yuying and Shirong

The Fab "twins", Looking very good.

The long time ago tanning mates =X

While the rest were on the dancefloor, we chilled and took pictures. =)

He just couldn't take it without a taking a shot with the bottle of McCallan when nobody's around.

Last minute impulse buy the day before from F21.

This hilarious "fashion designer" who kinda gatecrashed the party and started dancing in front of us. Shirong, Jax and I were seriously amused and entertained by him. I jokingly asked him to pose for the camera and he sportingly did. Lol. What a character....

Marie & Kevin (another black and white) A very nice black and white. Decided to add the colour back to Marie's top.

Shirong and Qilong (the mystery guy revealed). Heh.

HAHA!

The only un-tomato-fied face. Teehee... ;)


*Just read Marie's blog, we updated the same pictures! Most of them. =D*

To Yuying! Happy Birthday! You're still as beautiful and stunning as ever! Love ya! Keep that radiant glow ;)

New Year Margaritas

HR Folks (FINALLY) gathered at Cafe Iguana for that long awaited glass(es) of Macho Margarita.

They are not called Macho for nothing. Getting the best of both the Mango and Lime Margaritas

May, all hail the Margarita Queen. ;)

Group photo (from the right, Eunice, Li Ping, Gary, Hui Xin's boyfriend,Kenny, Huixin, May and me). Missing the company of both Julez, Qiu Xin, Qihan and Ash. Drinking somehow ain't the same without them.

Desserts at Riciotto. The girls all love the Soffiato (chocolate molten souffle cake). Gary and Kenny couldn't understand why girls are so mad over chocolate. Guys... *shakes heads*

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Cookout at Qihan's place.

I was in charge of cooking mushroom and beef pasta and mini pizzas (the same ones youie did for our cookout). It took the 6 of us 2 hours to prepare just a simple meal of pasta, potato salad, omelette and spicy steamed chicken wings. The best dish, in my opinion is Julez's steamed chicken wings. Everyone gobbled up the chicken wings first.

Movie time. We watched Shutter T_T. Which scared the crap out of me. Haha, but Qiuxin looked more terrfied than me in most of the pictures...

2008

Happy new year! May the year ahead be filled with much joy, love, peace and laughter for all of you =)

2007 came and went like the wind. Yet another wonderful year. December was a great month of chilling out, slacking, shopping, family time and partying.

Girls, we didn't spend much time during the december holidays though. A part of me misses you guys alot. We need to MJ soon. I have a 2 day school week coming up, please come over to my place to hang out ok. Do not make me feel like I planned a 2 day week for nothing. =\


Why the lack of blogging and non-presence online. Oh well, I'm getting very lazy of late. The days when I'm at home, I spend my time watching back to back episodes of Heroes on youku.com. I hardly go online to chat on MSN, Facebook or even online shop. Just a short while ago, I logged onto Facebook and I'm shocked by how much I was Superpoked! I was like, WOW, so many cool functions, and my friends are superpoking me like mad and inviting me to all these applications. So much so that my requests list on my Facebook's homepage is as long as the page itself. And I'm seriously too lazy to cancel all of them. I'm just waiting to see how long it will just go on. So friends, stop sending me invites to join applications. Haha, it's gonna be a vain attempt =\

Back to Heroes... My fave hero, HIRO NAKAMURA! He makes me laugh out loud! The scene where he stood on the rooftop facing Manhattan shouting"Don't worry NEW YORK, I'm going to save you!"in his dorkish Japanese accent is classic. He does look like a carp when he talks. Hehe...His pal, Ando is such a funny dork too. I always love watching the comic reliefs in any shows.

Ok, back to watching Heroes. Just killing time here while waiting for the show to load.