I finally got my parents to agree to me dyeing my hair blue! YAY! Lol. I'm still not 100% sure because I don't know if I want to go ahead and bleach my hair but at least I have the green light! Rejoice, world!

Now all I have to do is see if NUS wants me, then I can plan when I'm gonna quit my job and DYE MY HAIR. :D

FASTER, HURRY UP NUS. :(

Big sigh. We had worship practice tonight. I'm supposed to be leading. "Leading". Haha. Turns out, frankly I suck at leading. Capitalise and underline that. Ugh. Under various people's advice and suggestion, I decided okay, I would try it once and see how. And I'm totally crap at it! Haha. Nevermind. At least I tried. Hopefully it won't go too badly this sunday, but I'm never leading again. EVER. Thanks. Lol. Seriously dude. Although I probably don't have to worry about anything. After this sunday, no one's going to ask me to lead worship to a looooooong time. :S

Actually, deep down inside I have the mental capacity of a three year old and shouldn't be trusted with responsibility like... IN ANY SCENARIO. This is evident from the fact that as the older of the Nyam sisters, while I should by birth order be the one taking care of my sister, tonight I TOTALLY forgot to feed both of us dinner (we realised this together while we were walking into the cinema) and happily took her to watch a late night movie instead, which got us home at about 1am. Fun (Yay! Favourite sister!), but not particularly responsible as the elder sister. Haha. Good work, me.

I'm ashamed to admit that my blogging has been less than consistent in the past week or two. But I have a super good reason. I am rediscovering heroes. I mean, I used to watch it whenever it came on tv, but the other day I decided I was going to start watching from season 1 again and follow through the episodes properly.

I've only got up to like the beginning of season 2 (yeah, I know. I'm super slow. :( ) But, O. M. G. I am in love with it, can?!! *hyperventilate. Although I do tend to fall deeply in love with television series and that's what I say about all of them when I start of. And then after a while I get bored and find a new series. I have committment issues. Lol. But yes. Heroes! Yay! Sylar has and always will be my favourite character from the series. But especially after I've watched the series in order. And it's not just because it's Zachary Quinto!


Top 10 reasons why I love Sylar (I actually told liz how I was thinking about blogging about this yesterday, but decided it was too creepy. But my ardent love for Sylar has made me reconsider my previous decision. Haha. For the record, this is just for a laugh okay. I'm not actually in love with a fictional character for all these slightly unsound reasons. I swear. :S I swear!):

1. How good is his pseudonym!??!!!?! Kudos on the best alias ever, Sylar you awesome dude. I would never have been able to come up with such a cool sounding pseudonym on the spot.

2. He's a momma's boy at heart. Aww. Even though he kinda... kills her by accident. It was sweet that he went to visit her and brought her a snow globe from Texas and then made snow for her! :O So nice! Too bad she like flipped out. -.- Stupid woman. If Sylar had made snow for me I would have like asked him to marry me! Hurray!

3. Actually, he's got a good heart. He just wanted to know that he was good enough in the eyes of those he loved. Poor thing. So it wasn't really his fault that he... um... well, murdered all those people. Heh. Although "murder" is such a strong word.

4. His power is the best! It's like the most intellectual power on the show! It's slightly geeky and we geeks are the best. Intelligence makes us sexay. Lol.

5. He's so motivated and focused. He knows exactly what he wants and he goes out and gets it. Okay, okay, to the point where he kills people to obtain power. Slightly power hungry. But still, I think his focus shows he knows what he wants in life and that he's committed to his interests. (I wish I was his interest. Sigh. Haha.)

6. He's SUPER clever. How does he keep so hidden? He must like anticipate every move of everyone after him! Which is literally everyone. And how does he manage to find all the other people with special abilities?! I mean, I guess it would be possible to track them from hear say or from stealing research documents and stuff but it must be super difficult. The other day, I woke up and my mother had left the house and she wasn't picking up her phone and it took me like 45 mins to track her down and realise she had gone for Bible Study Fellowship lunch. 45 MINUTES! To find my OWN MOTHER! Some say his ability to sieve out people makes him even more fearsome as a villian. I say, wow, resourceful. Good work, Sylar.

7. He pretends to be all these people all the time and no one suspects anything! He's like that good an actor. Multi-talented, much?

8. He's so brave. Like he has no friends or family anywhere and he just charges on, dedicated to his sole cause (which is unfortunately, killing people to steal their powers. But that's not the point here. -.-). Such a trooper. You're totally my hero, Sylar.

9. Virtually ALL the characters in the entire series are against him and he STILL always manages to get away. Maybe it's because he's AWESOME.

10. He's so unique and creative. How many serial killers have you heard of that kill their victims by slicing the top of their head off and taking out their brain? None? Thought so. Plus, he's super neat. Like I'm sure he could like crush their skull or something more unrefined like that. But it's always a clean slicing of the top of the head. It's so neat. I like. It says to me, this is a man of order, elegance and class.

Lol. Yes. I will love you forever Sylar... or at least until the end of the week.

At dinner today, I was talking about star trek (again).

Poh poh: Oh, star trek! I always remember Mr. Spock, because he's the doctor.

Poh poh: I like it when they disappear from the space and then, AND THEN APPEAR on earth. I don't know what it's called.
Me: (in horror that she is unable to remember BASIC star trek terminology) HUH!? Okay, okay, try to redeem yourself here. I give you a clue. It's a four letter word.
Poh poh: ... UFO?
Me: FOUR LETTERS. And it starts with a b and ends with a m.
Poh poh: ... Um... space ship?

And we had crew outing today at work! Yay! Haha. My BFF aunties and I just hung out and ate stuff the whole time. Muchly fun. I think my mum was a bit alarmed though when she came to pick me and saw me walking out with my auntie posse (I think there were like 8 aunties with me?). She probably thought I was exaggerating when I told her that all my friends at work at aunties. Like ACTUAL aunties. Haha.

I think I'm marginally flu-ish. I mildly have all the symptoms -- sore throat, fever, aching etc. BUT I haven't managed to watch ANY episodes of Heroes today. And so I'm stuck! I dunno whether to watch or sleep! On one hand, the probability of my being fully sick tomorrow goes up like ten fold if I watch. BUT I LOVE ZACHARY QUINTO SO MUCH, I don't think I could live with myself if I didn't set aside my daily dose of zac-time. :(

Life is full of such difficult choices. Sigh. Lol.

Until today I never realised how much people love a)coke glasses and 2. ice cream. Well, the coke glass thing was actually Wednesday.

As a side note, I’m sorry I haven’t been updating very well. I recently started rewatching heroes (Zachary Quinto!) from season 1 and now I can’t stop. I just like train watch episode after episode after episode. :S No time to waste on blogging!

Anywhos. Yes, so we didn’t have coke glasses in stock on Wednesday because it was the last day of the pink glasses. So there wasn’t much point in ordering in new pink stock, because the next day we were changing to blue anyways. And for the past few weeks my manager seems to keep stationing me as the order-taker so that pretty much seems to be my default station now, so I was cashiering the whole day. And there were soooo many people who actually got so upset that we didn’t have coke glasses that day. There was a lot of “HUH!? NO COKE GLASS!” and “SO I WON’T GET ANY COKE GLASS IF I UPSIZE!!”-ing and people actually decided that they would come again tomorrow instead so they could get the glass then. Not just one, okay, like maybe 10 people? I was so surprised. I mean, it’s not that beautiful a glass.... right?? Maybe I’m just asthetically challenged.

And then today, our ice cream machine was spoilt. Like all it was giving out was hot sundae-mix. Yum. And by “Yum”, I mean Gross. So no ice cream. And I actually saw people’s JAWS DROP in shock and horror (I kid you not) as they went “HUH!? NO ICE CREAM!” (Singaporeans don’t seem very creative with their expressions of shock. Standard “HUH!? NO [insert missing item]!”) The best part was that people usually order ice cream in groups. Anthropological fact that I observed recently. The ice cream tribes gather far away from the counter, then one initiative-taking person will take everyone’s order and then step forward to place the order in. So I would tell the brave representative that I was sorry but we didn’t have ice cream at the moment, watch their world crumble as they realised they couldn’t have macs ice cream that day, and then watch them shuffle back to their little friends and watch that same reaction but like times 5. It was quite amusing to watch how affected they were by the fact that they couldn’t have their mcflurry. Poor things. On the other hand, I was super happy because no ice cream machine means that the probability of me blowing up the mcflurry-making machine drops from about 98% to a safe and assuring 0%. Hurray. I’m thinking of damaging it permanently.

Also, I’m super bummed that Adam lost out to friggin Kris. Ugh. Mum called me and woke me up yesterday and broke the news to me, with a somewhat insensitive “KRIS WON KRIS WON!!!” in light of the fact that she KNOWS I’m a Fanbert. Sigh. It’s okay, Adam. I still love you and that’s all that matters. We’ll be mature about it, take it in our stride. You know, avoid being drawn into the superficial shallowness of stardom... That outfit that Kris was wearing on the results show TOTALLY made him look fat on camera anyways. You looked sooo much better, gf.

Mei bought me this card today.

Sorry the picture's not very good. In case you can't see the words,

"It's our lucky day. Some Doctor is paying us 50 quid (how to get the pounds sign on this blasted keyboard???) just to paint the inside of this old police box."

LOL. Good work mei.

I feel super drained. Mum and mei dragged me shopping after our mid-day sustainance with Dad today. Oh the horror. *cue hands-clutching-at-face-home-alone scream. Towards the end I was getting so disorientated by my kryptonite that is shopping, that I walked into the Dome chalk board. (Mum and mei just laughed hysterically at this. Thank you guys. Glad it was amusing to you.)

I really don't know how the interview went. Like the interviewers gave me very little to know whether I did well or badly. But I answered their questions okay and at least they weren't outraged or anything like that. Or they didn't seem to be anyways. In God's hands now. :] Well, it was always in His hands, but now it's really really up to Him. We will see. I should get my results in a week or two.

Live long and prosper. (Sorry, random I know. But I just HAD to type that SOMEWHERE.)

One written test down, one interview to go.

The joys of IBS have set in, but other than that the day's going well so far, I suppose. The test was quite okay. I finished comfortably in the given time and I felt like I took a good stand. So feeling quite good about it. But I never know how I do in tests so fingers crossed.

My interview seems to be like the last one! I was talking to randoms this morning before the written test and literally I didn't meet a single person with an interview later or even the same time as mine. I'm not sure whether to look at it as a good thing or a bad thing. But lucky interviewers that got me last. End the day with such a fantastic candidate. Lol. Jkjk.

I'm not overly nervous. Slightly, but it's a good nervous so far. Like a keep you on your toes nervous. My nerves are also being dispelled by the fact that I went to watch Star Trek last saturday night with my dad which has rekindled my lost affections for the original series. I LOVE IT!

I think it's meant to be. Star Trek and Me. The movie even came out at exactly the right time! JUST after the doctor who special and the house season 5 finale. So that now I have Star Trek TOS (The Original Series. I'm such a hardcore fan, using obscure acronyms.) to fill up my time. I LOVE LOVE LOVE Spock.

I couldn't find a good picture of Zachary Quinto as Spock. But he did an amazing job as well. Really lived up to expectations. But Leonard Nimoy is irreplaceable. So I'm glad he was in the movie as well. Yay! Anyways, Spock's always been my favourite but I love how they pull all the elements of the character that were accumulated along all those years together in the movie! Trust me to pick the sole main alien character as my favourite. I actually so wanna be a vulcan now. I told some of my friends at church yesterday in a spastic moment of over excitement, who looked quite concerned with my ambitions to change species (to morph into a FICTIONAL species no less). Ppprobably shouldn't have mentioned it in retrospective.

Only one more week until Adam Lambert WINS American Idol! Yay.

I would text in to vote for you if my phone wasn't pre-paid. I hope you still marry me though, you beautiful beautiful man.

People say sometimes in life, crap happens. But rubbish always happens. And that's okay. Take a moment to grieve because we're only human, and treasure what you have left all the more. Take a deep breath, and take courage in the fact that the pain will teach you to appreciate the joy all the more. And God doesn't test us through more trials than we can take. Pain is the painter of character, the partner of wisdom and what makes us human. Struggle out and don't suffer in. Because love and blessings are always abound. Even if sometimes we have to squint to see them around us.

Two weird things today.

1. I keep getting weird results for quizzes on facebook. I got 50% for the "How Well Do You Know Women Quiz"! Okay la. That was actually pretty funny, so I published it. But there are loads of others that I did and got results that were so shameful I couldn't bring myself to publish them. Like I did the "Which Disney Guy Is Right For You?" quiz, and I got Captian Shang from Mulan. :( He's so uncool. I really wanted Aladdin! (Yeeah, it's not weird that I'm talking about these cartoon characters like they're eligible at all.) Then in "Which Type of Music Fits Your Personality?" I got "Pop" which amongst other things adviced that "there are those who will hate you because you mite ignore them or be rude, ect." I take courage in the fact that even though I believe facebook quiz results are usually like the law, this quiz might be slightly inaccurate since who ever made it failed to spell the short form of a three letter contraction (i.e. etc.) correctly. Haha.

This might just be me being a sour grape though.

Anyways. After finding out that I could never have Aladdin it was just downhill from there with all the other quiz results. Under the "What Type of Underwear Are You?" I got that I was a 6-pack of panties which meant I was "truly eccentric" and then when I took Joseph's "Which Member of Justyn's Life Group Are You?" quiz, I got.... den den DEN, Justyn. DIE. Oh the shame. -.- Lol. The only redeeming result that I got was when I did the "Which Disney Character Are You Quiz?" in which I emerged a pleasing "Prince Charming". BUT THEN when I read downwards to look at the insightful explaination-y bit at the bottom, it read.... "Congratulations." FULL STOP. I was like THAT'S ALL?? WHAT THE? Haiz.

2. I'm super tired. It's about midnight now and I just woke up from falling asleep at about 9.30pm. I dunno why I'm so tired. At the rate I'm eating and sleeping (I feel like a bear getting ready for winter hibernation) I really really am going to start g-r-o-w-i-n-g. :S

Meh. Oh well. Okay, I'm going to shower and sleep now.

I got my law test and law/life science interview date for NUS today.

"Interview Schedules

Name ALYSSA NYAM EN MEI
Application number XXXXXXXX

You have been shortlisted for the interview/test for the following course(s). A formal letter or email will be sent to you with details such as the venue, interviewee index number (if available) etc If you are unable to attend the scheduled interview(s), please refer to the procedures on changing the scheduled interview date/time in the interview/test notification letter/email.


Law Test Date/Time:
Mon, 18 May 2009 08:45

Law Double degree interview Date/Time:
Mon, 18 May 2009 15:45

Please note that any changes to your original scheduled interview date and time will not be reflected here."

I actually thought that I hadn't been called for interview already because interviews were meant to be in April and early May and we're pretty much entering not-so-early-May at the moment. But I guess it might be because I have international qualifications. Meh. Mixed feelings about it. But of course part of me is still a little bit proud that I at least got shortlisted. Not just for law but also for the double degree! :D Hi five. Heh. Although really it's all by the grace of God so we'll see how. See where he'll lead me.

But MORE IMPORTANTLY, CREW OUTING ON 26th AND 27th OF MAY (I know right, NUS interview pales in comparision to the wow-factor of *cue hallelujah chorus* CREW OUTING!)!!! I'm super excited. Haha. We're all going to stay over at some Pasir Ris Chalet (the old one apparently. I have on idea where this chalet is so it meant pretty much nothing to me when they told me that. Haha.) and the plan is to either go to Wild Wild Wet or escape theme park. Man, I hope we go to Wild Wild Wet -- my BFF aunties are totally gonna look hawt in their bikinis. Lol. Jk. Unfortunately, the manager has decided that the "student crew" (all crew that are still students) will be in charge of games we play which means I'm part of the games-organising posse. Sigh. I have no idea what to play. My idea of "fun" is watching sci-fi television series, documentaries on the discovery channel and intellectual quiz shows on the bbc. I'm sure the games that I organise are going to be a HUGE hit with the rest of the crew. -.-

Oh, and this is a bit random, but I was watching X-men again on television this tonight, and I couldn't help but notice that my grandpa looks like an asian version of Patrick Stewart. Lol.

Milo (my godparents' rabbit) was gathered to God yesterday. :( Like in the afternoon I think. He was a good bunny. On a considerably more cheerful note, Liz and Kaye introduced me to TTR (TAP TAP REVENGE) yesterday everning. BEST IPHONE GAME EVER!!! Also, my facebook note that I recently did about the people I'd spend a year in the same house with seems to have rendered a much more enthusiastic response than I would have ever thought. Haha.

Aiyoh, my thoughts seem to be all over the place today. Anyways, I went over to Joseph's house today to wrap mothers'-day-flowers with my life group to sell at church tomorrow. But I had to leave half way to go for our family mothers' day lunch so when I came back they were virutally almost finished and didn't really need my help anymore. So I sat down and had a nice deep and meaningful session with Lovely Lionel and Awesome Aunty Soo Ming. It was actually really good timing again. God-sent.

It's just recently I feel like I'm just waiting and waiting. Like I'm waiting for university and I'm waiting for friendships to mature and I'm waiting to learn to drive, to ride my motorcycle, waiting for the weekends so that I hang out with friends... There are moments when I find myself counting down to things. Like I'll think of the number of days left I have to just get through until sunday when I can see my church friends again and have a bit of a good time just messing about. Or more usually, the number of hours left till dinner la. Haha. But yes, feels like I'm wasting a lot of time away. It's not that I'm not doing anything. It's just I don't enjoy what I'm doing in particular. I'm just floating through, going through the motions to pass the time. Drifting, I guess. And it bothers me sometimes. But what hit me most during our conversation today, even though I really didn't dare say much while Aunty Soo Ming was sharing, was that you don't have to know what the heck you're doing or where you're going all the time. I suppose because I've always grown up raised by my super-organised mum that never really occurs to me much. Which is not a bad thing, but it's nice to keep being reminded that it's alright not to be in control all the time. At the end of the day, I know that whatever happens, God has let it happen, and He's let it happen for a reason, according to His plan. And always always His plan is the best that anyone could have for me and if I don't know or don't understand His plan, I don't mind. It doesn't matter. All I have to do is to listen out and obey. Even my devotions recently have been discussing how we should live in the present and not worry, and to surrender ourselves and all our efforts to God fully and stuff like that. Like I said, a lot of these really God-sent messages that have really comforted and encouraged me these past few days. I mean, I'm wasn't upset or sad or anything but I guess I was just feeling a bit aimless. I'm still aimless now, it's just I need (and I really thank God that he keeps helping me out here) to keep being reminded constantly that I shouldn't be bothered by it. I know that God has a plan for my life and I can't wait to find out what that plan is and how He will use me for His work, but I don't have to know what that plan is. I just need to carry out that plan as he guides me through it. I don't even know who I am yet. Haha. My ambitions in life change according to the latest "interesting" job I've thought about and I still have yet to outgrow my "I'll never grow up" phase (very mature. Yes, I know.). And I can't even tell you the exact status of my relationship with God because I don't know what it is. And that's okay. Because I do know that He is my life and I know that no matter how far I slip or fall, He'll always bring me back around to him and I don't ever want to live any other way.

Okay, better curb myself before I start hyper-expositioning again. But that was the gist of my thoughts of the day. Meh, Singapore has made me a gaylord, so soppy. Haha.

P.s. CONGRATS LIZ ON MAKING NUS DENTISTRY AND LIANNE FOR MAKING COUNCIL. REALLY REALLY PROUD OF YOU GUYS! YAY! :D

Firstly, CONGRATS LIZ ON PASSING YOUR DRIVING TEST! But more importantly, as soon as you get a car, I can add you to my list of alternatives-to-public-transport. Good work on making the list (you're so gonna be the envy of the town now), you lucky thing. :]

Anyways, it has come to my attention over the past few weeks that I am almost CONSTANTLY hungry.

What I ate Yesterday
1. I only woke up in time for lunch just before I went in for work at 12pm, so I had to miss breakfast unfortunately. Sigh. Haha. But my maid fried some noodles. It was actually quite a big bowl, but I think it was a bit difficult for her to fry so little so she cooked a bit more (I think it was about 5 fists worth of noodles maybe?) and just gave me a little bowl so that I could take out however much I wanted from the big bowl.

I decided I was quite hungry so I just finished the big bowl. (Okay, to be fair, I'm estimating 5 fists as in 5 of MY fists which are quite small-ish so.)

2. By the time I had my break at around 3.30pm, I was feeling a bit hungry again so I ate a McWings extra value meal. (Actually that's quite a lot over the budget for each person's meal, but I figured everyone always buys food from the canteen outside anyways, so really I'm doing them a favour and helping them meet their meal budget for the month. Otherwise they would have to calculate the balance and then add to dunno what and then the extra little bit of money would probably screw up their financial predictions and all. It would get super complex. Trust me.)

3. After my shift, when I got home at around 9pm, I ate dinner again. And granted that I didn't eat rice because I felt a bit tired and in my mind, sleeping always truimphs eating so I was not in "full form" but I ate some chicken, soup and vegetables.

What I ate Today
1. Before I went to the gym today, I ate some Chai Tao Kwey and half a cranberry-rye bun.

2. And then lunch. YUM. Okay. Mum, Mei and me had lamb cutlets for lunch with mash potatoes and corn:

Cutlet Count
Mum:1
Mei: 2
Me: ... 5

Then I ate my mum's left over mash potatoes because she said she didn't really want it and didn't want to waste it. (filial. Good work, Alyssa.) Then I ate 3 Kwey Pai Tees (can't wait for dinner when I can eat more! They were very yummy.) and finished up the bowl of corn (waste not, want not). I was almost ready to eat dessert. I bought two doughnuts from the donut empire downstairs from the gym and a tub of haagen-dazs strawberry ice cream from the supermarket before coming home, while Mum and I were waiting to go pick mei mei. I love donut empire. And I don't usually buy haagen-dazs cos it's so expensive, but the strawberry ice cream is the best and mum was paying so. Haha. But anyways, yes I digress. So I was almost ready to eat dessert, but Mum was getting a bit worried at this point (I think she doesn't notice ususally how much I eat because I just sit quietly and chew, but today I was telling her how I realised I was almost always hungry so I think she was looking out.) so she's put a time limit on when I can next eat. :( 4.35pm. Don't ask me why 4.35pm. Haha. I think she felt that it needed to be not only at least 2 hours later, but more than 2 hours. So add 5 minutes more.

Mum and Mei are convinced that it's because I hang out too much with the buffet bunch/the picnic posse. But I eat because I'm hungry! I'm not hungry because I eat. :( I told them maybe this meant I was going through a growth spurt! :D

Mei: "Growing spurt. Like Dad? Dad's going through his sideways growth spurt at the moment."

-.- Thanks mei. In any case, I've always been a hungry bunny, but this past few days I've been particularly hungry. So just to be sure I googled "symptoms increased appeitite". Top causes include (in random order):

1. Diabetes
2. Depression
3. Pregnancy
4. Indigestion
5. Marijuana
6. Hypoglycemia
7. Brain Injury
8. Bipolar Disease
9. Tape Worms
10. Brain Cancer

Hmm. Yeah. Actually I don't see why it's so hard to believe that I might be growing taller! Hermit Crabs eat a lot before they moult. Maybe I'm the same leh? YESSSSS! Good arguement, Alyssa. Hi five.

MY FIRST POST FROM MY NEW LAPTOP. Hurray.
My much delayed purchase from when my old laptop crashed like months ago.

I don't actually need one. Which is what I kept telling my parents, but it's probably better for everyone that I just move back into the Fat Den because since I've moved into the main study room, ALL of them have migrated to either the living room or the master bedroom -- at the other end of the house. -.- Haha. Just because I enjoy a bit of music every now and again. A Bit. A BIT!

Oh. And I got to be a cashier at work today. FINALLY. My life is now complete. *sheds a tear. It was just the way I dreamt it would be... and more! Unfortunately, when I went to man the fries station later, I procured a number of burns in my slight over excitement. You can see my battle wounds below. Not very clearly though. But there's line on my wrist and then two marks on my forearm. Ouch.

And I keep forgetting to post these pictures of some failed butter biscuits that my grandmother baked the other day.

Good work, poh. They're beautiful.

I went to visit Liz's blog today and read her entry on our bottle tree park escapade and had a near death experience laughing at the beautiful photos of myself there.

Anywhos, today work was super funny as well. Because of the all the swine flu hoo-ha we kept planning trips to mexico. Then Ah Fen and my BFF auntie decided that actually they wanted to go on a cruise also while they were going to mexico.

Ah Fen: Eh! Auntie, wo yao shang chuang leh! (What she's trying to say here is shang chuan. As in ship.)
BFF: SHANG CHUANG. Ta de ying, ta de ying!!! *laughs hysterically.

The "mystery customer" (which is essentially a consultant dude sent down from the big people in management to assess the service undercover as customers) was also supposed to visit this morning between 9am to 11am so Lee Chin, our 2nd manager was super stressed. Luckily May (who was the cashier) and me (who was the runner, as in the one who gathers all the food and presents it) were super focused:

May: EH alyssa, lai lai, ni kan na ge bai se hong se (he was in a red and white t-shirt) de nan ren. Handsome ma? Handsome ma!? Na bian na bian. *proceeds to push me quite violently in front of her to the cashier. Ni bu yao hen obviously kan la.
Me: *trying to look very nonchalent, whispers back. Na li, na li!???
May: Zuo bian, zuo bian!!!
Me: Oh, kan dao kan dao. Okay la.
May: Ta de girlfriend hen hao kan hor?
Me: Wo kan bu dao leh. Maybe wo qu lobby (clear tables) a xia, then ke yi kan dao ta de face.
Lee Chin: Ahhhh! NO CHIT CHAT. BU YAO KAN NAN REN.
May: EH. Dan shi hor, wo bu shuo hen xing ku leh.

Then later when Lee Chin was talking to me about something (I can't remember what) suddenly May jumped between us and said very loudly "NO CHIT CHAT!". Lol.

There was a lot of other stuff but I can't really remember at the moment. I just remember laughing a lot. OH OH and today was one of the few days where my break was while they were still serving breakfast. So I ordered a Big Breakfast. Yum. Plus, I woke up a bit late today so I packed my 2 slices of french toast and ate that during my break as well. AND on top of that, I exploded the ice cream machine today doing a vanilla cone (it was totally the machine. Not my fault.) so I also ate the mutated ice cream cone I made. And then I had a cup of tea with all of that. Ya. I'm totally not going to get obese. Yesterday post-service, when we went for curry rice they pointed out how this middle-aged muffin top (as in his stomach spills over his pants like... well, like the top of a muffin) indian man crossing the road looked "like he was five months pregnant. Pause. Like... *hysterical laughter." -.- Actually during lunch yesterday I hardly ate, because I was feeling a bit sick (I think I ate yao zha guai too early in the morning. It was super oily some more. Oh well.). I left a lot of rice. I didn't get to finish the last bit of my soya bean also. Not because I didn't want to drink it (I LOVE SOYA BEAN!) but because Kegan split my straw in two by like sort of clapping it in his hands so I couldn't suck the soya bean up without it just draining out the sides. :( I even tried to just shove the whole broken part in my mouth so that I could drink but I had to put so much of the straw in my mouth that it poked the back of my throat and was very painful. To which Kegan's response of remorse was to laugh quite hard. And even though it was only a little little bit left, I felt a longing after that that only another can of Yeo's soya bean could fulfill. So while I was having nasi padang dinner with my family at Zion Road that night (which was super yummy by the way. They use rib eye to make the rendang! :O) I ordered another can. Yay.

Today I feel like I did my part and hugged Singapore and that I'm more Singaporean for it, because today I went to the bottle tree park, which I didn't even know existed until like a few weeks ago when I was Ma-Po-Tou-Fuing with the other ex-A&G interns at crystal jade. But I didn't want to look overly loser (ie. go by myself) so in the end I dragged poor Jason, Liz, Mee Mee and Kegan along with me. And even though we only saw like I think 4 bottle trees or something like that (and two were baby ones so that didn't even look like bottles! :( ) it is now another "interesting singaporean attraction" that I can tick off my "have hugged" list and I revel in the knowledge that I'm a better person for showing my country how much I wuv her.

Also, mousehunt seems to be following me out into reality. Which concerns me slightly since Gnawnia is meant to be pretty much OVERRUN with mice. Today at the bottle tree park, we saw one. Then while I was waiting at KAP for mum to come pick me becuase I didn't want to walk all the way into sunset so late at night, I saw another one sort of bounding down the stairs next to me across the road into the drain. :S

Well, tomorrow is SATs day. In the end I gave up trying to finish the whole practice book, but I got through a good sized bit of it so I'm satisfied. I don' t think you can really study study for it anyways. It's more getting familiar with the style. And I'm pretty comfortable so just trying to keep the nerves well under control and stay focused for tomorrow while sort of just keeping chillaxed until then.

ALSO, I was catching up on my So You Think You Can Dance (Australia) episodes today. I heard Talia won, but when I saw the dances. O. M. G. I love Charlie so so much though. He'll still always be my favourite. Haha.

Sigh, they're all so incredible and all the dances are so beautiful, dude. But Talia's Top 4 performance made me melt.



My favourite dance of the season has to be Talia and Charlie's quickstep from the Top 10 performance though. Sooooo Cute!



AND TALIA AND CHARLIE'S AMAZING, BRILLIANT, FABULOUS, TOTALLY AWESOME FINAL PERFORMANCE. OMG OMG OMG.



Talia's totally different from the shy ballerina type girl at the start of the season!!! Plus, she looks so good. And I can't believe how much energy Charlie has in that dance. He's such a star. And his personality just shines through. *swoon. They're both just utterly completely fantastic. I love them to death. Lol.