superman returns! besides lord of the rings, this movie was another one to look forward to because of its nostalgic associations. it was a good movie, and superman looked good doing all his super saving. he's the best amongst all the superheros, possibly because his identity isn't associated with an animal. i remember sprawled on my sofa watching christopher reeves save the world on random afternoons, and then there was supergirl too, if any of you remember that series. the superheros of the 80s.

i love you and miss you every second.

i need to cut my hair.

reese buttercups.

wake up to run tomorrow.

dear friends who gave me the topshop voucher for my birthday. can't wait lars. i have already spent it. on a lovely sorta camisole turquoise and black flowery print top with wide black straps and a black tie behind ribbon. and on a preppy fitting white collar slightly puffed-sleeve blue striped polo t-shirt. make a date to see me in it. ha.

you're a wonder in calming my nerves. and so very sweet to come over just to send me to school. monday was good with you in it.

seven dishes amongst us two for teo chew porridge.

cherryade and the bee

mingyao the best threw me a birthday party at his home and the rain, it stopped for me, continuing only after the caterers had left the place. music was coleman hawkin's desdafino and pink martini on the white porch and grassy area and mingyao's mother cooked delicious laksa and carrot cake. a very floaty party where i could gather all my favourite friends together, bathed in catch up dialogue and feed them food and indulge in very very good etoile chocolate cake. i bet everybody wanted seconds! and i sent them off home with goodbye chocolate [meiji, individually wrapped]. thank you all for the great time and the gifts, you make my heart go aww.

hey love, thanks for everything.

and so i think i should value time as i do value the structural beauty of a well-concocted sentence. i've delayed delving into my books and digging out any trace of deeply-buried intellect to read some well-written blogs. words and thoughts can hold me like a spell. i confess i've always had a desire to be really smart - the superintellect, born-brainiac (how does one spell that anyways), the mensa geek queen. a certain level of smartness, i guess, can be cultivated if one is immersed in an atmosphere of critical questioning, taking the trouble to scrutinise life and being bold enough to form opinions, which do not come by if one is lazy (a fault -thinking time is longer than it really is and not being hard enough on oneself). then again, it's not about smart for smarts sake but some level of smarts allows you to see things in different ways, more ways, live life more intensely blah blah blah. i'm easily inspired but it takes a while for me to be an action type. very bad. henceforth i had better 'wake up my idea' (so to speak) or else i am doomed. i need to do some playacting, like take on a pretend-mugger persona, then maybe i will really become one. since my mind works with dramatics, i've just got to hope dramatics makes me a better mugger.

like you know once you lace up your shoes and you have music in your ear, you are back from the run before you know it. meaning, just do it (nike says)

still, i have to do a bit of bland narrative journalling for the record. this mingyao, this boy, this very nice boy. today after i sent some photos for reprinting he sent me to school where i did some research and he went to do some research to 'pimp his ride' and he picked me up again from school and the nicest thing was he called me twice at night cos he said he missed me too much. ah. how to not fall in love liddat.

you don't sleep until you get some work done you hear me. (that was my other persona's soliloquy)

yesterday we were at sentosa with the ym kids - soccer and captain's ball was a great workout. we went to the sony gallery in town to send mingyao's car amp in for repair and had dinner at crystal jade. whilst he went for joh practice at church i went to the national library to do research and popped by re::act's exhibit before it closes today - pretty inspiring exhibit. today we went to terrence and sharon's wedding and terrence's song dedication was so sweet. we didn't stay long during the lunch reception however because mingyao was not feeling well. we went to parkway parade where we we had herbal tea and guiling gao then to his house to rest, after which we decided to go for a short detour to bengawan solo and we drove to the beach to eat our nonya kueh and drink ribena in the car before he sent me home. i have fun with you anywhere. i love the ache (of the soccer game) but hate the way my body is feeling so toxic this week(mental note: i need to run alot this week and drink a lot of water). father's day dinner - we are now going to the coffee shop for zi char.

I love you Sunday song
The week's not yet begun
And everything is quiet
And it's always...

You and me always, and forever

the wannadies

on stereo repeat. i love this song. i got the feeling, it's one of them 'us' songs. i am ALWAYS happy with you. i am truest when i am with you. and everyday i thank God i have you. you're my favourite day of the week. my favourite holiday.

"A simple semantic game may help you commit yourself to an assignment. Use the word problem as infrequently as possible - it has a negative connotation - and substitute the word challenge. Everybody likes a challenge: The word itself hints at fun, games, and competition. When your problem has been transformed into a challenge, it automatically becomes more interesting and manageable." - J Michael Gillete

i got this quote from an architecture blog i frequent. it made good sense to me, confronting my weakness of magnifying problems and not thinking i am good enough. i think deep down i am a pretty positive person, i need to be more motivated, and braver, and remember to draw strength and motivation from the right sources and not cruise along aimlessly. seventeen all the time. as i get older i go throught sifts and by now i should know what i am good at or weak at and to work on those, put the motivation to go for a super run into everything i do. positive builds on positive and negative builds on negative.

impossible is nothing, says adidas.

sunday market in brisbane: barbie and ken and barbie and barbie and barbie...


little girl running on the beach in goldcoast


the brand new superman ride in movieworld. we went three times in a row. i cheated the first time cos i closed my eyes throughout. this one is scary.


the magazine and drinks stand


japanese food in brisbane at soba restaurant!


last meal in brisbane: chinese food is still the best

pictures are we! just some shots of melbourne


park time en route to smith street


mingyao shoots bird at federation square

post-its:

:: on board the plane back i listened to this. it's quite a nice sweet thing to listen to while reading this which mingyao purchased for me at the brisbane airport with his last aussie dollars

:: i bought a bottle of my regular fragrance at duty free to replace the one i broke last christmas.

:: i read an interesting article about edie sedgwick from the reader's digest while listening to the strokes. they have the latest album on audio-on-demand on board so not bad and john lennon's o yoko while sidegazing at someone next to me who was taking a nap and looking so cute whilst at it

:: avalon airport: like an army bunker in the wilderness and our plane was late by more than an hour. don't trust jetst*r. luckily, we had a laptop and gilmore girls that kept us occupied for an hour

:: on the trip back a fiesty australian granny sat next to us. chats about her adventures volunteering for events, her grandchildren, and her gift of her mango ice cream to mingyao which she couldn't have because of her asthma and mutual rants about a certain domestic airline mentioned above and she initiated a hi-five when i won mingyao in a game of battleship after he killed me at a game of reversi and three of us had coffee together in a row

:: barf bags make good emergency love letter pads

:: he loves me much. i know cos he always gives me the window seat. heh. [ref: the wedding singer]

:: such a lot to do on planes and airports

drafting continued:

3rd june, saturday: ilana viet pho for brunch cooler weather poppy orange birkenstocks at last toes and sun factory outlet shopping dinner at sunnybank lobster noodles chinese food

4th june, sunday: breakfast at taiwanese eatery at sunnybank with mm and jerry after sunday morning flea fresh foods market at a driving range smell of hamburgers and oil old barbies for sale tanning in sun silly pictures by car drive to goldcoast jerry and snorkle dpo factory outlets gold and black drifit retro jacket his new black and green and white nikes to replace martin mcfly balcony bbq with giant chunks of lamb and beef with honey and/or lime and salt sprinkle

5th june, monday: walk to queenstreet mall lunch at real jap eatery elizabeth arcade katsu don and best yakisoba myers brunswick chinatown back home for simpsons long cool walk to three monkeys marshmellow coffees and white chocolate and cameral mud cake wink face photo corner seat long walk back home

6th june, tuesday: movieworld no long queues cool superman ride x3 in a row close eyes half close eyes open scream oh s. oh freak you laugh and laugh rides rides scooby doo ride towards end psychedelic lights and depth and music pumping like a cartoon superman keychain dinner sunnybank viet pho hong kong pastries

7th june, wednesday: free wireless internet outside casino and checked by myers sale japanese yakisoba and beef udon again at elizabeth arcade and i forgot what else oh yeah we took an after dinner stroll to the belgium beer pub down by the cbd and had a chimay bleu each with beer batered chips and then home to a sudden emergency of j's twisted finger scare private hospital with tabloid mags in the lounge area

8th june, thursday: yam cha landmark restaurant sunnybank macademias ginger wine factory outets autocar outlets car audio daytripping stones corner garden city opoto dinner timtams

9th june, friday: japanese dinner with mm's boss at soba heavenly ebi tempura scallop sashimi gyozo sushi platter tori karaage grilled mackeral semi cooked beef louis vuitton quickie jb hifi for more car audio daytripping casino ice cream country road camisole queen simpsons dinner at chinatown superbowl

10th june, saturday: morning trip to airport met cute fiesty supergranny on board sitting next to us in the same row visiting children simpsons on board cafe latte magazines family guy king of queens pixiedust love letter on vomit bag battleship gaming and reversi with the champion supergranny hi-five wine gums chapstick extra ice cream mango lolly for dessert

we went to yiling and raymond's wedding dinner tonight. i was really happy attending their wedding because these are two people who have helped and encouraged me a lot the past few years in architecture. they had a separate dinner at the olive ristoranti for close friends. it was an open-air affair with cool breezes. mingyao wore his scribbles smart shirt and i wore a cream camisole with gold pumps and a new light blue long purse with ribbon trimmings that i got at an accessorize factory outlet at bridge road in melbourne. we lounged in the car as we were early and played with hineken stickers. we met sock, guan and samuel, who sat at our table amongst other strangers and it was really pleasant talking to him, reminiscing about the jcya times and sharing school/work experiences. the food was pleasant especially the dessert and best of all i had my favourite partner by my side. two weeks of him all for myself and i still don't get enough. you cute polaroid.

Singaporean featured on the World Health Organisation website. and that's my smart sister! cool. click on feature: diary of a pharmacist: on the hotline

to be elaborated. maybe.

29th may, monday: melbourne airport shuttle san fran lady a apartments queensbury and swanston street red sofa vietnamese pho ice cream jackets white mary janes with slight snakeskin embossed 24hour coles groceery shopping walk up the wrong side of bouverie street and back down the phonecall shock at the lift and up to cute apartment timber strip flooring i like and walk to oxford scholar's pub for guiness draft and cute black world cup ball and chats with dom and vette cooked dinner slow night

30th may, tuesday: late morning an episode of gilmore sit at the park long walk to smith street and the factory outlets dinner at naamlong

31st may, wednesday: lunch with wynnie at dragonboat restaurant for yumcha in chinatown and jaunt about town then to melbourne uni for a look lygon walk and brunetti desserts and to wynnie's apartment with the cool toilet skylight then back to the apartment and an episode of the oc shiva and yvette came by with a pleasant bottle of wine and chat before dinner and then to lygon for pasta then walk to candy store bought gum and peach and cream sheberts and yvette bought gummies walk to inn bar and a beer each and cute ball again reminiscening with huge screen mtvs and those songs of those days happy smiles and funny pictures cold cold cold walk home then run back to the apartment and ice cream again!

1st june, thursday: morning gilmore walked to bridge road in hope for viet pho more factory outlet shopping and forgot about lunch tea time fish and chippery by chinese lady and smuggeled to town in the tram back to apartment for simpsons and walk to casino and late night dinner at naamlong and ice cream

2nd june, friday: to dandenong for a view and city naamlong lunch dpo factory outlet avalon scare and midnight flight to brisbane

to be continued...

the thirst for travel is easily quenched by a short summer holiday. i always seem to travel to countries of cold and snow seasons, desserts, distant cities of familiar freeways and chinatowns. anticipation crescendoes, clouds part in blue and white like a cartoon. wit and laziness in a saucy blend and in a beat of cool frosty adventures with a cheeky companion in his martin mcfly nikes, we thread through the streets and then i'm back. i'm ready for summery camisoles. you're my favourite song. you know who you are. stories to come. now i go for a run in my new gold rimmed nike drifit top.

i'm now in australia, have been since last sunday night! accomplished secret yvette plan where we surprised her at her apartment in melbourne on monday. five great days in melbourne and the chilly cold and now i'm in brisbane till friday evening. more updates when i come back, otherwise, sauntering about town with the trumpeter has been a blast.