| Sunday, January 29, 2006 |
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i actually really love CNY!!! the bustle of activity in my house is really quite infectious, not to mention melt in ur mouth pineapple tarts, bak kwa and my ah ma's peranakan curry! yummy!
and of course, cos i get to play with all my pretty little cousins!
this is my favourite little girl! janelle!
HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR EVERYONE!~ |
| posted by 3 @ 3:29 PM |
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Happy Chinese New Year everyone! I honestly, truly, deeply wish i was home. if i ever lied about anything before, i'm not lying about this one now.
HAve fun!!!
And i can't take pictures because my dumb ass forgot to bring a travel adaptor so now, all my plugs don't fit and all my electronics are dead too. so no pictures. and no, they don't sell it here so i have to wait till my dad DHLs me a adaptor before anything else can work. so there.. sorrie, u have to wait. but it isn't all that great. i'm not in miami. miami's real nice. but oh well, i miss hawaii... and i'm beginning to think that i might have fallen in love with hawaii as well.
anyways, thomas said happy new year to all chinks.
and i braided my hair today. it looks pretty nice. i think it made me look a lil prettier than i normally am. thomas's sister did it. and its a strange cultural revolution for me.
bye.
nat |
| posted by 3 @ 12:59 PM |
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| Saturday, January 28, 2006 |
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okaaayyy.. 5 weird or random things about myself.
1) like eli, thomas is my very first boyfriend. i met him when i was 18, 2 weeks after my arrival in hawaii and i was deeply swept away by his charms.
2) i still bite my fingernails. and i think the most horrible part of my body are my fingers.. hahaha, surprise surprise, not my big fat wobbily belly.
3) i was a ballerina for 15 years. i got a distinction in grade 8 which i accomplished in jc2. i did elementary and intermediate before my grade 8, so i was actually quite good. just didn't follow the program very much. i performed at the victoria theatre more than 10 times in my life with my first performance at 3 years old.
4) i just finished reading "Invisible Trade" by Gerrie Lim. Its about prostitutes in Singapore and I'm very amazed by the wide array of selection and the spectrum of prices. i am, at this point, a prostitute expert. hahahaa..
5) i like ice cream better than sex.any day.
I'll leave mei to do the tagging. bye.
Nat |
| posted by 3 @ 6:51 AM |
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| Friday, January 27, 2006 |
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everyone's tagging everyone lately! luckily this one is short! so because i have been tagged by jia..
Rule 1: List 5 weird or random things about yourself.
1. i don't take mutton cos when i was in primary school my dad made me eat a mutton curry puff without telling me what meat it was and after i took a bite off he told me i was actually eating (i quote him) "a sheep like baabaa black sheep." and gave me a "hor hor... ure an evil carnivore face". i burst out crying after that. so ya phobia, i dont take mutton up till now.
2. i can't straighten my fingers and they automatically bend backwards crookedly when i extend my palms. i can contort them in strange mutations though.
3. i was never attached till i hit the big 20. alvin is my first boyfriend and im his first girlfriend.
4. i was in chinese dance in primary school and my debut performance was in primary 4, as a frog in a clean and green campaign dance. i had to wear a skin-tight lime green body suit.
5. i only learnt how to cycle when i was 16 and i can't rollerblade or iceskate up till now.
so there! not very weird la huh. just random.
~eli |
| posted by 3 @ 12:12 AM |
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| Thursday, January 26, 2006 |
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Florida is coooooooooolllllddd. like oh my freaking hell kind of cold. and whats more amazing is that its hot and sunny but at the same time, the temperature's cold and its windy. and i only have one jeans and 3 tops. my jacket is the pretty kind of jacket so its actually very useless. i feel defeated.
anyways, i'm not really liking it so far. it so different from the last time i was here. i guess since i was on holiday then, many things were oblivious to me. but now that i'm going to start living here, its like i suddenly begin to pick up on little things. like the weather, the fact that they have NO public transport and that things are pretty cheap around here. i could survive with $500 each month.
but everything crashed when i arrived here and was pulled into the interrogation room at the airport, after i crossed customs. Somehow, this chinese girl ( and there weren't many of us) decided that i should be questioned and therefore, locked me in the airport's interrogation room. there was me, this asian girl, an osama bin laden looking couple and a coupld of black islanders. so the usual questions came, about my working visa, whether i wanted to live in the states after i'm done, did i do drugs, will they find drugs on me .. that kind of melodramatic stuff. eventually, i got let out, half flustered, half afraid. but it all worked out in the end. but really, you don't EVER want to get called or pulled in for interrogation. its scary. even if u didn't do shit and know that they can't find ANYTHING on you.
nonetheless, its been okay. i'm jetlagging like crazy. everything's very far and i'm craving char kway teow. I should have eaten more before i left. cheah.... i hate you tay mei shuang.
nat |
| posted by 3 @ 1:58 PM |
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| Tuesday, January 24, 2006 |
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its always the last few minutes before i walk into the airport gate which is the most heartbreaking. its the seeing everybody for the last time b4 months and the look in my father's eyes which makes it all so horribly difficult.
its like being in hawaii for the first time and watching my parents leave me for the very first time in my life. watching them ride away in a cab while my dad turns his head to wave me goodbye. dang.
thanks to all those who missed victoria's secrets to come send me off. i am forever grateful. and i apologize to all those whom i did not meet during my one month's stay back home. my scheduling and organizing skills were at their all time low this fall.
in the UK now. its blistering cold. slightly annoyed that sherpee left me here in london to rot by myself. but its all good. i had a one hour bus ride to my other airport and i watched the sun rise. i swear watching the sunrise in the minus 4 degrees temperature brings listening to my old school techno a whole new meaning. its like listening to infinity and "sha la la la..... sha la la la la" while watching the day break into its pinks and yellows. its surreal.
and my butt is aching from my 14 hr flight. i'm craving noodles, even ramen would be perfect. but oh well. here's to another 10 hrs in the plane.
my number's still the same. 808 349 5199.
and happy new year everyone! i am very very cold.
nat |
| posted by 3 @ 5:51 PM |
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| Saturday, January 21, 2006 |
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i think boys should stop complaining that we nag them too much. the only reason why we nag is because you boys don't listen to us in the first place. see, it always starts out like this: You'll call us, and say,
"oh man babe i'm so tired i had a long day at work. I think i feel a bit sick."
then we'll say, "really oh no ok let's not meet today then. poorthing baby go back early and rest after work ok?"
"ok babe call you later."
then we'll get a msg half an hour later.
*beep beep* "baby i'm going to meet arun for dinner"
and then two hours later, we'll call because we haven't heard from you.
"hi babe, oh we're still eating still eating. call you back in 5 mins!"
"ok darling dont' go back too late!"
THEN one hour later. "HI baby i'm going to play mahdotz with the boys."
That's when we launch into our entire argument about how it doesn't make sense for you to go mahdotz when you're tired and if you're falling sick you should just go back and rest. but you couldn't care less by now coz you've already decided that you're going to play and its of utmost importance because kaveh/marcus/panda/nick/sherpee/ivan/arun etc etc are leaving etc etc etc etc etc I WANT TO PLAY DOTA WITH MY FRIENDS! OK FINE!
so see. next time boys. listen first. then we won't have to nag. if you're smart enough you'll listen to what we say right at the beginning coz girls are always right. haha and like my sis says, you will die without our nagging.
~mei~ |
| posted by 3 @ 12:29 AM |
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| Friday, January 20, 2006 |
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Dear Friends,
It has come to my knowledge that i'm actually very very rich. I just found out that my parents invested in an insurance policy for me and never touched it and it has grown to a large amount of money. So now now, for all those people who have been mean to me throughout the months, you should start being nice to me.. but then again, i'm not taking the money out so i'm not exactly very rich. hmmmmmm...maybe if you'll like to marry me?
Anyways,i got my results from Raffles hospital. and i'm very very healthy. For all those who were taught to eat fruits and veggies because it makes you strong and healthy,please throw all that away because you can still be a meat and ice cream lover and still be healthy.
And since eli wrote a receipe for all those who would like to lose weight, i should write one for all those who would like to gain weight, like me. Well well, eat loads of carbs, like rice and noodles, kway teow's the most fattening by the way. Avoid fruits and veggies and try not to exercise too much. And then, after you've eaten a heavy heavy meal, just go to sleep. give it a week, and you'll be rounded and chubby like me .. weeeeeeeeeeeeeee....
I just came home from Sydney and to my surprise, i was actually reallly sad to leave. If you haven't realize by now, i'm actually quite a simple person. I'm either happy or sad, hungry or full, its very seldom grey. but anyways, i'll blog about sydney when i finally post my pictures...
Nat |
| posted by 3 @ 5:03 PM |
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I watched a Brady Bunch movie on HBO two days ago and i was completely dumbfounded and the strangeness of the Brady family. Sure I've heard of them before, but this was my virgin experience with them. Whatever possessed the scriptwriter to create such a weird family? At first I thought that maybe the whole point of the show was to portray everybody during that era as being well for lack of a better description, "Brady" but then I realised as I watched on, that everybody else around the Brady family were well, normal. I was completely baffled.
Then i thought about it for a little while longer, (yes it bugged me) and I realised that despite all the strange looks that people gave them and the harsh comments from people on the airplane telling them to stop singing, they were truly in their own little hearts and own little brains, happy. Content to have conversations about hair braiding, content to remain exactly the way they were as long as they had each other. What everyone else thought didn't matter to them.
How nice that must be. Oh the countless number of times I've wanted to break out into song and dance on the train and singalong with my shuffle! How nice that must be!
~mei~ |
| posted by 3 @ 12:33 AM |
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| Wednesday, January 18, 2006 |
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i like the occasional -stay home all day- day but being at home too much makes me all lethargic and slushy. staying in hall last sem was good cos id do work even on free days just cos im in sch and it feels more conducive for studying. home is just comfy. not that its bad, cept for the fact that i become bored but refuse to do my readings cos ill become even more bored and then ill go on an eating frenzy in a bid to have something to do. today i had coffee, a donut, garlic bread, char siew polo bao, 2 boxes of swiss tamby chocolate thins and pistachio thins, m&ms, vanilla hazelnut ice cream, peanut butter softmeal bread. and somewhere in between those i had my mom's homecooked dinner and a slice of papaya which were about the only normal food on my list. well done. im on my road to diabetes i think. i have a very sweet tooth and my friends can attest to that cos i always have something from meiji in my bag. those exquisitely wrapped chocolate or strawberry stuff. and alvin says im the bread queen cos i eat nothing but bread. i can eat 3 breadtalk bread for breakfast. how how how!?!?! i can't find a cure!!! i have a sugary food obsession!!! =(
i decided today that my greatest dream is to open a bakery.
on another note, competition season is back and its time to train harder. every competition seem to leave me with regrets, i could have locked in more, or be more powerful, or just snapped for the tile, or read the route another way. the endless possibilities that climbing involves never fails to amaze and motivate, and the fact that its so impossible to grasp each and every intricacy that a route demands of me makes me feel all inadequate but all the more in want of completing it at the same time. yet in a comp. 4mins is all the time u have for success or failure. i think i was never made out for short and powerful. thats y i like vertical climbs cos i can get in my own zone and think slow and steady. its like i can't sprint but i can do long distances. then again, people only like things they are good at so maybe i like it cos i suck at the other. haiyah! sian. okok i shall not give up. i shall strive to be good at both bouldering and vert. climbing. i shall be an all rounder. ROAR.
it seems more pple on the team are getting the running bug recently and that means ive been having alot of company lately, yay! its quite fun running with a big bunch actually, though solo runs with me and my ipod still gives me a good high. zx, yap, sm, alvin and i are gonna join biathalon in feb! only thing im afraid of is swimming in the sea, i can manage laps in the pool but strip me of vision and im a lost duck. somemore sentosa water so murky, i think i will drown even before i get to run. so im just aiming to complete ahaha.
only 2hrs lect. tmr..days like these i wished i still stayed in hall. travelling all the way to sch just doesnt feel very worth it.
and lately everyone's been asking me why i lost so much weight. i think it wasnt noticeable till recently but if u want tips all i can say is come and climb lor. hahaha. on average, full time climbers and part time students like us train 3 times a week officially, each session lasting at least 4 hrs. on top of that, count in 1 other day of leisure fun climb. thats 4 times of intense exercise a week, already an incredible feat for the average sporean i think. on top of that, some of us run 5-8km, 3 or 4 times a week. also, swim 20 slow laps twice a week for muscle relaxation. doesnt hurt if u have a boyfriend who climbs too. tada! thats y i can eat all the meiji chocolates and breadtalk bread and haagen daaz ice cream i want.
ok i dont feel that bad for bingeing today anymore.
~eLi |
| posted by 3 @ 11:40 PM |
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i came to Sydney with the hopes that i'll go sightseeing and maybe, possibly, shopping. on my first day here, i walked around the city. i saw the sydney opera house, darling harbour and the rocks. i guess i expected much much more but my whole sceanic image disappeared when i got there. it was more of like.. "hmmmmm, sydney opera house, woah... hmmmmm, okay. so whats next?" i suddenly felt like this mindless, unsophisticated teenager who had no appreciate for anything. but in all honesty, sydney's very much a picture postcard place. and i think it ends there.
been spending so much time with my brother and his girlfriend. its been very nice. its quite amazing to see how similar my brother and i are even though we've been living seperate lifes for so many years. they live in a nice house. the kind of house i wished thomas and i could eventually live in. in fact, they lead the lifestyle i wish i would eventually be able to achieve. having coffee all the time, walking their dogs, its such a settled stable lifestyle. i would really love to have something like that.
nat |
| posted by 3 @ 1:11 PM |
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| Sunday, January 15, 2006 |
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i'm in sydney!!! its nice.. very very nice. very expensive too. I doubt my $250 will last me very long. sorrrie guys, no presents...
and i'll post pictures when i'm back. promise. my pictures are way nicer than mei's.
nat |
| posted by 3 @ 9:53 AM |
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| Friday, January 13, 2006 |
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so the entire backlog of pictures is what we did throughout the holidays in brief! these one or two photos don't do the memories justice. If I had my own digicam I'd capture every single moment in its essence! (hello my birthday is on the 29th of march is anyone interested in getting me a digicam? haha) these were the few taken from sister's camera. nat has more but she's too lazy to upload. i'll bug her soon!
~mei~ |
| posted by 3 @ 1:42 AM |
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drinkdrinkdrink!  |
| posted by 3 @ 1:40 AM |
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SD's and Kav's at the Loof! |
| posted by 3 @ 1:40 AM |
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rox nat sis and kav! |
| posted by 3 @ 1:40 AM |
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i'm not seh i'm just um sleepy!! |
| posted by 3 @ 1:39 AM |
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nat never drink also seh. cheah! |
| posted by 3 @ 1:37 AM |
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oh wait here it is from far |
| posted by 3 @ 1:37 AM |
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long long taxi ride in another jammm |
| posted by 3 @ 1:37 AM |
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only half done. will upload the full one when its all nicely healed! |
| posted by 3 @ 1:37 AM |
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baby got his tattoo done! |
| posted by 3 @ 1:36 AM |
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little suckling pigggyy pig pigg.. this little pig cried whee whee whee all the way into our tummies! i'm sorry my veggie friend!!! |
| posted by 3 @ 1:35 AM |
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all smoo one nus! ugh nono my arms aren't that huge in real life!!!!!!! are they? :( |
| posted by 3 @ 1:34 AM |
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ooohh lookee here look who we met at the awesome bedsupperclub!!! |
| posted by 3 @ 1:31 AM |
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cosy little thai restaurant opposite our hotel! |
| posted by 3 @ 1:31 AM |
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little baby elephant exploited. |
| posted by 3 @ 1:30 AM |
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vroom vroom at suanlum. the cars were damn cool! |
| posted by 3 @ 1:29 AM |
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the worm in sis' food on swiss air on the way to bangkok. |
| posted by 3 @ 1:29 AM |
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fried critters they sold for consumption on the street. yum yum. |
| posted by 3 @ 1:29 AM |
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my handsome brother aka gimly. haha |
| posted by 3 @ 1:27 AM |
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sis in her dress during fitting. i dunno why there isn't one of her full length on show day. |
| posted by 3 @ 1:27 AM |
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the horrific hairshow. |
| posted by 3 @ 1:26 AM |
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um. nuff said. |
| posted by 3 @ 1:26 AM |
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threedumblondes!! |
| posted by 3 @ 1:24 AM |
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me and mah babyyyyy |
| posted by 3 @ 1:23 AM |
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nat and thomas! |
| posted by 3 @ 1:23 AM |
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james with his eyes half closed as usual. |
| posted by 3 @ 1:21 AM |
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shisha night. thomas made me take the shot while he posed. |
| posted by 3 @ 1:19 AM |
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sentosa has a chairlift ride. woooo. eli nearly fell off haha |
| posted by 3 @ 1:17 AM |
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boys playing soccer at sentosa. thomas is off slacking at some corner. imagine the look on the little ah bengs' faces when this big black dude approached them to play soccer. sooper funny |
| posted by 3 @ 1:16 AM |
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me and my drinking buddy for the night |
| posted by 3 @ 1:14 AM |
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new year's at xian's house |
| posted by 3 @ 1:14 AM |
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little children with fireworks are dangerous |
| posted by 3 @ 1:13 AM |
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the couple that refused to stop bickering! |
| posted by 3 @ 1:13 AM |
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little children with fireworks are dangerous |
| posted by 3 @ 1:13 AM |
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the broken glass at the stroke of midnight. what a way to usher in the new year! |
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| Thursday, January 12, 2006 |
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i woke up today to the thought that i might abandon my entire life as i've known it by far and start anew. life's obligations just get so tiring after a while. take my hand and run away with me?
~mei~ |
| posted by 3 @ 12:00 AM |
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| Tuesday, January 10, 2006 |
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and the first day of the rest of the semester began today amidst a flurry of activities and a most unprepared me. i'm usually the ivle nerd, checking up on class times and days, downloading lecture slides and notes (mostly just to make myself feel good since i hardly ever read the stuff i download), way before school starts. this time all i could manage was a last minute rush the night before. the urgency just didn't hit me.
perhaps it's because thomas just left today, and the days before he left were filled with attempts at fun-filled singaporean activities. it was good fun having him around tho sometimes you feel like ripping his head off when he annoys you on purpose. i know how nat feels now haha.
and nat, he is by NO means my vicarious boyfriend. i refuse to accept that.
hello thomas! i hope you're not missing the food too much!
its going to be such an exciting year ahead i can just feel it! i pray for sanity and perseverance in the coming semester. it isn't going to be easy trying to climb harder, study harder and work on a concert all at the same time, so here goes nothing!!!!! wheeeee!!!
~mei~ |
| posted by 3 @ 1:26 AM |
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| Tuesday, January 03, 2006 |
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batam was amazing.
christmas eve was nice.
new years eve was smashingly awesome. i loved it i loved it i loved ittttt.....
its been a while since i've been back and i must say the people here are brutal. honestly, i don't understand how my weight or eli's has anything to do with anyone but ourselves. oh nat, you put on some weight, oh your legs aren't so nice, so you have a rounded face.. man, get the fuck out of here man. i'm fat, i look in the mirror every fucking day, i should know that by now. so really, get off it already because u telling me i'm fat doesn't change anything. even if it does boost your ego in a very saddistic manner isn't changing anything as well. i'm warning you. whoever you may be that the next person who tells me i'm fat is really going to get it from me. i'm losing my patience fast and i'm very much frustrated with the whole issue. so please, leave me alone. even if you have nothing better to say, i'll rather you not say anything at all.
thank you very much.
and thomas says that he loves singapore, the food is good and its fucking hot. and he says he'll love me even if i'm fat and that for anyone else who don't know us, please stop staring.
nat |
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| Monday, January 02, 2006 |
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just for the record, that funkygrad stuff, was mostly paraphrased. some stuff was obviously lost along the way because I've only been to krabi to climb natural rocks once. omg. so embarrassing.
mei |
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