it's like there's finally rain after a whole month of drought.

decided to post an update while i'm eating, hoping that i wont get an indigestion from multi tasking... but i reckon i'll get indigestion sooner or later.. due to that whole mountain high load of notes waiting for me to digest.

so yes, the every sem nightmare is back to haunt me again. every sem i end up having to mug my ass off and worry till i start losing my precious hair over the work undone. recess week aint chill week at all. it's the total opp. :X

since the last post, i've been busy with fund raising for my cca... i must say that it was a really amazing business experience and i'm so glad everything turn out fine. i did learn loads from it. i wont even mind doing it again if i have the same team with me. they are such awesome frens to work with. and so those sleepless nights, unnecessary worries and hard selling resulted in my huge pile of undigested notes.

and then the whole of last week was spent celebrating different frens' birthdays. 3 birthdays in a week?!?!? why is everyone born in feb?!?! is apr/may such good months for making babies? lol

anyway i hope the birthday girls had a great time.. coz i had fun attending those parties/surprises.

lessons i learnt from planning surprises are that lying is inevitable for a surprise to be successful. and planning surprise is really hard work that kills so many brain cells esp if u suc at lying. plus anything could go wrong at the end of the day. so whatever that is left of the surprise may be really really pathetic.

lunch hour's up. for now, enough of surprises. back to my books. i've gotta clear my midterms.

i guess it's gonna be another post 'drought'

cya ;)

bday girl 1: carolyn:)

bday girl 2: lari :)

bday girl 3: xiu wen :)

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right now, i feel that my legs are gonna fall off any moment. will be collecting newspapers from the hdb blks next wk.. for fundraising. just went to distribute flyers for that earlier in the day. and omg, while i was walking from hse to hse, i made lots of observations on hdb life.

what i observed:

shirtless men with all sorts of body shape. (ranging frm bamboo thin to bulging fats.)

5pm is a common time for baby feeding.

sat afternoon is a great time for hsewives to iron clothes.

little kids seem to like running around the hse with no underwear on.

cable tv is super popular in hdb.

some have so much confidence in singapore's security that they leave their doors & grills open for strangers to enter.

some grow their own 'manmade' forests outside their hses, while some have mini zoos..

some people are plain hoarders.

hdb estates are like mazes, it's possible to get lost in them.

a rabbit on the loose.

annoying dogs scaring the sh*t out of strangers.

whatever unglam stuff u do can be seen if u dont close the door.

happy wednesday :D

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there's only one word to describe yr 2 sem 2: BUSY. yeah but that word kind of describes every body else's lives too.

recently, i've got to know some new frens from cip.. and when i listen to them talk about the stuff they've done in yr 1.. i was totally amazed. those people dare to dream and take risks. they really have lots of confidence in what they do. despite all the activities they were involved in, they could still excel in their studies. WOW. thats what i called a fulfilling and meaningful uni life, a life i've always dreamt of leading. whatever i did in yr 1 pale in comparison man.

so here's claire making a promise to herself: 2011 has got to be more eventful than 2010. she has got to try out more new things and challenge herself to do stuff she has never thought she would do. in the midst of all these, she hopes to be a better fren to her frens. because she knows that life would never be the same without them :D

she must be a HAPPIER girl in 2011 :D

here's a snapshot of people who make me HAPPY :) :) :)

i'll try to make it a not-too-long post. here goes...

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road trip to malaysia was such a great experience. 2 weeks, 5 destinations. total dist covered 2000 km... right now, my love for driving is way low. driving, esp in singapore, doesnt excite me anymore. every part of the trip was unforgettable... the map reading, getting lost, food tasting, sight seeing, picture taking ...

first stop was fraser hill. love the cooling weather and beautiful old english houses. perfect place to just chill and relax, drink tea, eat scones and enjoy the company of your love ones....

this was taken in the 'old smokehouse'. a great place to have tea :D old english house with beautiful christmas decor. it feels so cosy. couldnt stop snapping photos of the pretty decor. :D

2nd stop: ipoh

a quick 1 day stop at ipoh to try famous ipoh food :D the hotel we stayed in was beyond our expectations. it was newly renovated.. so i think we were the first occupants of the room. spent an afternoon checking out a famous limestone cave.

3rd stop: penang

i have to admit that penang was a food paradise. every meal was something different :D from hawker fare to seafood dinner... it's hard to not put on weight... lol

here's the food we tried in penang... there's a lot more not featured. now imagine the amt of weight i've put on. oh dear. :/

i spent my christmas driving. :S wat a horrible way to spend christmas. :X

4th stop: LANGKAWI!!! my fav destination :D

this is beach paradise!!! the most exciting place ever!!!!!! we spent the most number of days there... so we had time to do EVERYTHING there is to do on the island. haha :D the best parts were the snorkeling and the parasailing...WOOHOO!!! love it :D plus this is the first time i drove a rented car :) cool :D

1 hr boat ride to the 'platform'. best place to snorkel... tonnes of fishes. the view underwater is indescribable. so darn amazing and awesome. a must try!

PARASAILING rocks totally! thats me in the pic :) the view from the top blows ur mind away. not as scary as it seems to be. roller coaster is scarier than this. lol :D

sumptuous seafood dinners end our stop in langkawi with a blast!

last stop: cameron highlands

another cooling destination :D main attractions are the tea plantations, strawberry farms and the hot and steamy steamboat :)

well that wraps up my whole dec holiday :D

how i wish every holz can be that eventful. haha ;)

i realised i really like to use the word 'really'. really? lol!

this was the first time a birthday surprise was so successful. lari and pat planned it so well, they even had to come up with what lies to tell.. that was a lot of effort put in to stop me frm prying at the gift bag with my present in it, esp when lying isnt their forte. i love the gift so much. it was such a timely one.

with those dazzling christmas lights, the two best companions ever and a successful birthday surprise, i couldnt help but feel that this year's birthday has got to be one of best! :D

we started the afternoon off with a sweet fairytale: rapunzel :D

dinner @ chili's. the burgers were HUGE and JUICY!

ending off the night with a snowy christmas tree outside tanglin mall :D

many thanks to lari and pat for the wonderful surprise and the timely gift :) u gals can read my mind man. haha XD

xoxo gals :)

claire's holiday to do list:

1) prep for children day camp.

2) attend the camp.

3) pack all my belongings.

4) find lodging for m'sia road trip.

5) move hse.

6) start exercising or starving to get rid of that extra fats.

7) try to sleep as much as possible.

8) watch harry potter asap.

9) go shopping.

10) write christmas cards for frens.

11) arrange for meet ups with buddies.

12) check out m'sia map.

13) look for modules to take next sem.

14) paint her nails.

15) save that pimply face of hers.

16) find time to blog.

17) hamster photoshoot.

18) get sunglasses.

19) watch tv.

20) build a cardboard playground for her hamsters.

21) find a new handphone.

22) think of what else is there to do. haha :D

happy holidays everyone :D

it's raining right now and i'm feeling so darn annoyed. i spent so much time on metab. thinking that that would be my chance to get an A and save the rest of the modules. but wth. i should never have placed all my hope in my mod. it's like an investment gone wrong. ra... studying for it was useless, a complete waste of time.. because i didnt seem to bring my brain to exam. it really sucs big time when u expect too much. i expected myself to do fine. but it was far from fine. my neurons must have short circuited or something. my luck probably ran out as well. nothing can make up for that disappointment. it's not the first time i screw up an exam.. but it's the expectation and effort invested that made a big difference. i might be going crazy... coz when i try to sleep, those qnses that i did wrongly keep appearing in my brain...

if only this horrible awful day would end soon. but i dont want the other papers to come too.T_T

if the most well prepared paper ended up like this. what will the ill prepared papers be like. :( i dont wanna think abt it. may lady luck be with me man.

things cant get any worse, can it?

why is everything going the wrong way?!!?!