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Me. I turn on 21 January 7, 2009. I am a sunny island native stuck in a place that snows.

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Do some good today!

I found this website and spent alot of time trying to get free rice. haha i think trying to get the high score spurred me to play on more than the fact that i was winning rice for the needy.

tip: keep dictionary.com at hand. haha

click on the link!
Free rice (UN World Food Program)

Exercise => Injury

For the first time in half a year, I exercised. Not just exercise in moderate terms, like taking a 20 minute run or an hour slow jog walk (whatever you call it). I hardcore exercised! I went for this spinning class, which basically is a group cycling class albeit on cycling gym machines where you crank up the intensity and do interval training. Pretty impressed with myself ok, considering i didn't die after i exercised. Although I did have the "kill me now" thought running through my head throughout the 2nd half of the hour.

Anyway, I feel so hungry today because of the exercise I did yesterday. I am pretty sure its the result of me pushing my poor physical fitness limits. I guess the only plus point is that my muscles don't ache or feel sore.

Knowing that I can never have a completely satisfying day because its just not in my karma "record", guess whatttt? exercise led me to this awlfully big bruise on my knee. I stupidly kicked my knee into the lever on the cycling machine. It was a small bruise initially but now it is huge. I don't know how it spread. but i am guessing maybe because I didn't stop cycling after I bruised it, the bruise got worse.

Its the part right above your knee, and it is so annoying because it hurts when you flex your knee.
But I am going to keep exercising, get fit in time for christmas bingeing! haha


Happy Birthday Tan ah Chong!

Hello friend, you are finally twenty. and although you are pleasantly rewarded by exams on your birthday, its a test of strength so YOU CAN DO IT MAN! or you could look at it as an end to happy bubble gummer teen days. ): and to those who are not yet twenty, erhem like the last person who tagged my blog, we all hate your youth. haha.

Highlight of the Day!
I made breakfast that could serve 8 last night and baked it this morning. Its called Blueberry Breakfast Bake! Pretty impressed with myself right now. muaha

I didn't take any pictures (no camera, v budget) , so i basically stole all of this pictures. =X

I even bought a mixer because I realized it was impossible to whip cream cheese with a whisk. This was what happened. I tried using a whisk but after 2 minutes, the cream cheese is as hard as butter. it remained hard and sticky like butter with super glue. NOT DOABLE la. I guess sometimes people tend to be a little too ambitious and a little impractical.

so I walked all the way to buy an electric mixer. TADA
(nvm that amazon was selling it cheaper)

To get the ingredients and tools, I went to 3 supermarkets and a hardware store in total. I swear I have bad organizational skills, walking all over town was clearly not needed. and it made me damn hungry.

Anyway, this is how it went.
First, I cut the baguette, one freaking long one, like the ones in delifrance, into 1/2 inch cubes.
Imagine how long that took me. plus my knife very sucky cause i am so budget, i got a very cheapo knife. haha mine is the green one, cue picture:


Then i whipped the cream cheese with sugar. which is very easy now that I have a hand mixer! then added whopping 8 eggs, a cup of sour cream, vanilla extract and cinnamon, and whipped everything together.

First layer in the baking dish was bread cubes and blueberries. Then I poured the mix over it.




Covered the baking dish with a plastic wrap and put in the fridge overnight. i was so lucky because it could fit exactly into my teeny weeny fridge. *wipes sweat* i cannot imagine if it could not, i can't possibly buy a new fridge!

Woke up one and half hours early just to bake it. It needs to warm to room temp for half an hour, bake for an hour!

While waiting it to bake in the oven, i went online to read reviews about the baking dish that i bought. Pure horror, customers on Amazon reviewed and said it exploded into small shards after taking it out of the oven, and sometimes in the oven itself.

I was so freaked out. When i took it out from the oven, I wore a sweater with hoodie, long pants, and spectacles(to protect eyes as learned in chem labs). I was so afraid it would explode in my hands.

And i had no kitchen gloves, bad foresight really, and i used my winter gloves instead.

Thankfully I am un-embedded with small glass shards and my baking dish is still safely in one piece.

Actually it might be the highlight of the month.
I had 3 midterms last Wednesday, that was clearly the major highlight. And being the very kiasi (translated loosely: scared to die) me this semester, I had not much of a life for quite some time, with all the midterms coming at me, or rather all of us, one after another.

2 more months, to my sunny island. and of course, my lovely friends. and your birthday, you 19 year old babe.

Intrinsic optimism or foolish idealism?

If you could be somebody for a day, who would you be?
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I guess many of us would make a choice more or less dictated by the pleasure that we could derive from being whoever we choose to be.

Popular choices would probably include:
Albert Einstein for unprecedented intelligence.
Bill Gates for wealth.
Steve Jobs for innovation.
Donald Trump for all-rounded accomplishments.
Michael Phelps for fame and olympic-worthy physique.
George Bush for authority and political power.
Hitler for sadistic hedonism.
Or maybe simply a little girl/boy with no worries for that carefree innocence.

Well, I could go on forever, but I'll probably lose you or lose my sanity by then.
But say, we turn things the other way around. Instead, we make choices dictated by the unhappiness that we would derive.

Would you choose to be..
an elderly with Alzheimer's disease?
a patient awaiting death in a hospice?
a starving beggar huddling in the cold of the winter?
an artist forced to conform for the sake of bread and butter?
an employee getting through sky high piles of paperwork?
a soldier whose leg gets blown up by a land mine?
a cutter who sees pleasure in pain?
a child forced to grow up because he lost all of his family overnight?

Haha, probably not. I won't either.
In this world, there is only one Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs, or whoever you can name.
Yet, there are so many nameless people looking for some form of direction in life. And guess what, the majority of us probably fall in that net.

Maybe, it is within all of us - that obstinate refusal to face up to reality. The falsehood created just so we could see the weed as a rose, the coward a knight, and mediocre as extraordinaire. The harbouring of idealism that we can be somebody someday, without even working for it. Success might fall from the sky. I can't be sure. What I can be sure is that when something does fall from the sky, it'll probably hit me on the head hard enough to wake me up.

Meanwhile, I'll just dream a little dream.

Does anyone know the ending of Don Quixote?
I never made it to the ending.