MOVING BACK

hahaha. shoot me. but i’m moving back to

www.thoserainydaysandmondays.wordpress.com

see ya there~

the gods heard your prayers!

it worked!

school was cancelled on monday. hehehe. that was Highlight of the Week. 2 days of schoooooool is like…. fantabulous!

i’m feeling really sorry for myself right now. so many pictures, so lazy. lets seee… there’s the everyday food pics, yeliu pics, danshui pics, jiufen pics…. the smuts have been moving out and about! we have also been practicing shooting hoops at those basketball machines. as of this week, some of us (actually only 1 or 2) managed to get pass 300. lets fight for 500 by the end of the exchange! oh oh oh! we have also been ktv-ing!!!! 11 storeys PartyWorld at Ximending. Yes, the rumours are true. Ktv here are indeed cheaper and better. We were greeted by shimmering gold, marble and chandelier at the “lobby”. Waiters greeted us at each level and showed us to our ktv suite with an attached bathroom. 3-4 hours of singing during peak hours + lotsa food set us back about $20. =)

alright. courage! i’ll post up the danshui and yeliu pics since i was the assigned photographer. we’ll wait for the other’s facebook upload on the rest.

淡水 is a little seaside town at the end of one of the metro lines. It’s a really pretty place for viewing the sunset and also to fill your tummy with little goodies from 老街. We got fish crackers, fish balls, “iron eggs”…… From there, we took a little ferry to 漁人碼頭 (Fisherman’s Wharf) which is The Spot to view sunset from. Really romantic since that’s where the lover’s bridge is. but who said its only for lovers… here’s to just-friends.

don’t you wish you were there? 😉

野柳 is a place on the coast with interesting and funky rock formations. rocks can be fun and oh so pweety!

rounding it up with great eats from keelung night market. =)

that’s all.

she’s alive!!!!

yep yep. i am.

haven’t been too busy eating, shopping or doing school work (haha!) or swept away by typhoon just the usual suspects: lazy, procrastination….. and also because of the world’s favourite networking platform: facebook. since the smuts (smuggers in taipei) usually upload everything on facebook, i find myself distancing from my camera. so for smuts pics please view facebook profiles of benedict low, justin yeo and valerie feng. =)

apart from that, i’m really happy to announce that i have confirmed all my classes with ntu and smu. PHEW~! and i’m really happy with all of them! happy doesn’t equals to A+, just mean that i won’t think about skipping class 65% of the time. no promises on the 35%. (btw, the 65% decreases as the weeks fly by) lets take a look at Brenda’s Year 4 Sem 1 Timetable – NTU:

Monday 9.10am – 12.10pm: Exploring Taiwan (GE Science) 
Tuesday 9.10am – 12.10pm: Services Marketing (Marketing Elective)
Tuesday 2.20pm – 5.20pm: Freshwater Ecology (GE Science)
Tuesday 6.30pm – 9.15pm: International Marketing Management (GRS)
Wednesday 10.20am – 1.10pm: Gender and Communication (Corp Comm Elective)

Yes….. 3 classes on Tuesday from 9am – 9pm. That’s the best timetable I can come up with. I really enjoy all the classes though. Seriously. From the bottom of my heart. Probably the most interesting one (so far) in all the semesters in smu. It’s either interesting topics, good prof or both. And if not, its a slack course.  Left with 1 BO, IE and Corp Comm Elective next sem…. So, I’m happy.

Ok, this is supposed to be short post to shout out to the world that i’m alive (and also coz my cup noodles are ready to be eaten). i’ll gather all the pics and post them tomorrow. since there’s gonna be a typhoon (not another one!) and i’m gonna be stuck at home. pray for the safety of those in the badly affected areas and also pray that school will be cancelled on monday. got an assignment yet to be completed. heez.

because we’re bored….

i forgot to mention that apart from valerie and i, justin and aloy also live in the same hostel… val & 1 at room 531, justin at the male dorm right opposite at 522 and aloy at 526. we meet all the time for food…….

 

@ midnight on msn…. trapped indoors because of the typhoon.

 

justbrat says:

roar! like super bored trapped in here

 

brendapanda ♥ says:

hahahah

 

justbrat says:

lets take the cab to some club now

 

brendapanda ♥ says:

WAHAHHAHA

 

brendapanda ♥ says:

u super funny

 

brendapanda ♥ says:

club 531 la

 

justbrat says:

anything la.. or we just blast music at the carpark and have a party there

 

brendapanda ♥ says:

idea leh

 

brendapanda ♥ says:

i can tell you the address of club 531

 

brendapanda ♥ says:

damn haps

 

justbrat says:

are we going to go now?

 

brendapanda ♥ says:

i’m already there leh

 

justbrat says:

!

 

justbrat says:

omg

 

justbrat says:

u’r SO lame

 

brendapanda ♥ says:

HAHA

 

brendapanda ♥ says:

entertain you what

 

if for some reason you din get it…. club 531 = my room.

 

brendapanda in a typhoon..

and she feels like she’ll never be dry again.

i’m part of the welcome party receiving typhoon sinlaku here in taipei. since we’re been getting sporadic rain spells the past couple of days, i feel that i’m constantly in the showers. except for the fact that i’m fully clothed. imagine bathing in your clothes for 4 days. not a good feeling. not to mention that i’ve thrown away my favourite zebra striped flats. sad.

so, i experienced my first typhoon. since i’ve been hiding in my hostel, i would have to say that the experience has been pretty anti climatic. which is a very good thing of course but it would have been interesting to see a few flying bicycles. (think: the flying cows in twister the movie) although we did brave the wind and rain twice during lunch and dinner – running to the hostel opposite to get lunchbox (便當) the 5 mins short walk got me 1. food 2. wet 3. a broken umbrella. there goes my pretty black and white polka dot umbrella ella ella eh eh eh.

so i think we’ve accomplished quite a bit in this short one week. a lot of walking. a lot of food. a alot of bubble tea. i’ll let the pictures do the talking…

as usual, my favourite-est travel companion: paddy boo. yes, i did carry her onboard in my arms and no i did not feel ashamed. nor were there weird stares. =) what can i say. she’s adorable. me love.

street scenes. lots of bicycles and bikes…. i can safely say that i have never seen so many bikes at a traffic light in my little life. its quite a new experience crossing a street and having so many eyes staring at you. yes there are also people in cars but its really different when your “audience” are on bikes.

台大新鮮人. i din realize that freshmen are really literally 新鮮人 in chinese. the school is really old. some parts are not really well kept but the others are really pretty. i think the driveway lined with palm trees on meteor garden (where shan cai is forever cycling down) is actually shot in ntu. u can sorta see it in the last pic of the collage.

other parts of the school. it was really a pretty day (despite the bursts of rain) all green, blue and white. was really nice holding a bubble tea and just sit under the tree to appreciate it all.

night falls = start of the food tour. we began at shi da night market near where we live. deep fried mushrooms (AMAZING!), chicken chop, smelly toufu, bubble tea… anything and everything. haven’t tried the oyster stuff but no worries. i have time. =)

sitting down with our hostel shopping and bubble tea. because the school is so big and we have so much admin stuff to do, we often walk from one end to another and back again. so tiring. oh! and the white bunny is my new pet – benny buttons (10bucks). adorable huh? my room mate (valerie is the girl in red with the ponytail) got one too. since you’ll be seeing these guys on my blog pretty often, lets have a basic intro. first guy with the blur face and holding my laundry basket is Aloy. 2nd bubbly girl is xinyi/cindy who has been here since april so shes the tour guide. justin the blondie is the one holding my bunny. the last pic shows benedict the ktv king. and i’ve told you who valerie is. fellow bunny owner and room mate =)

and since we were talking about food. here’s a little glimpse of what we ate for the past couple of days. good stuff.

first trip on the taipei choochoo (捷運) they’re so neat and organized. everyone really really step to the right on the escalator. in singapore we sorta do when its crowded. but over here, they queue up to get to the right of the escalator. left is purely for people who are walking. and they also queue up to get onto the train. we sorta of scatter around until the train arrives but they stand in line and wait. cool.

destination: xi men ding (西門町) the hangout place for teenyboppers. we just explored the place a little. and it’s far east, bugis, heeren and cine all in one. and when you’re in taiwan… you do what they do….

大頭貼! i haven’t taken these in forever. there were so many shops just doing this. each shop is like 3 storeys and are filled with neoprint machines of all shapes and sizes. amazing. fun too!!! thats us taking pictures of us taking neoprint. hahaha. cheapo.

mister donut! soooo cute la… =)

tadah~ the must-see in taipei. you can see this building from almost everywhere in taipei because there aren’t many high rise buildings here due to the frequets bouts of earthquakes so this one sticks out like a very big thumb. we din go up though because well…. you been up one tall building, you basically been up all. 20bucks to go up…. nah.

woot. its like paragon, taka and dfs all put in one place but make it 20 times more grand and flashy. i expected a gold toilet seat or at least a gold faucet. sadly…. i was disappointed.

and now… for the big concluding pic… the big finish……… !!!!!

I present to you…………..

MY ROOM! home sweet home for the next couple of months. valerie and i really made it homely. from the rugs to the table lamps to the nemo shower curtain….. its a really comfy place now. =)

oh i lied. i have 2 more pics. something valerie and i spotted on our walk back home across the school…

rainbow!!!! the first full and clear rainbow. i’ve never seen one like tat. it was a full semicircle except i can’t take the entire thing on my camera. so pretty. you can really seee the colours. Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet. So pretty.

i won’t be surprise to see carebears bouncing on the clouds.

(:

next post: ktv + wu fen pu wholesale market.

p/s: after a week in taipei and bouncing through the streets, night market, taipei 101 and xi men ding, i have not seen any gorgeous drop-dead people. not saying that they’re not attrative. i just haven’t see the POW WOW kind. maybe when school opens……… there is still hope my friends.

edited to add:

just made a booboo. valerie and i went to do our first laundry. after reading the chinese instructions on the washing machine painstakingly, we dropped in a coin and the water started flowing. when we opened the machine lid to put in our clothes, we found that the previous user’s clothes were still in it. oopsie. some girl just got her laundry washed twice. i just hope she din have any delicates or stuff that will shrink. at least she can be sure that her clothes are pretty clean now.

maybe the first instruction should be: open machine lid to check that machine is empty.

LAST THING:
for some people who read my post, see the food pics and want to kindly remind me not to eat so much good food or drink too much bubble tea. please save it. thanks for those kind and considerate warnings and comments on “wait you get fat” “wah so fattening sia” “eat so much wait fat” “i see you eat a lot ah” “so fattening you also dare to eat ah” “better don’t eat” please take those helpful comments and irritate someone else. =) i’m happy the tubby flabby way i am and i know myself and my ways better than you. afterall i fought anorexia. did you?

the panda connects

i’m connected! internet in my room!

still very lazy to do a proper update because i don’t have many exciting pics. what i’ve been doing so far:

– took a super duper expensive cab from airport to hostel
– checked into the hostel
– mop around feeling super duper lost because i can’t find my friends
– bought mattress for bed
– found my friends!
– walk around looking for dinner (wanton mee)
– bubble tea #1
– bought stuff for the room (table lamp, rug, pillow, hangers…….)
– unpack my stuff
– clean up the room
– shower with cold water (can’t find heater switch)
– read a bit with my new table lamp
– lights out

this morning woke up early for breakfast (amazing ham & egg toast + bubble tea #2), walked around the huge sch. went for a super boring orientation talk. ran out halfway through the talk. set up internet in the room. now blogging. debating whether to go for the exchange students party…. aahhhh.

so far haven’t gotten the taipei vibe.

Summary of day 2: no gorgeous people spotted yet (are gorgeous taipei people a myth?)

the panda has landed

Location: National Taiwan University, Taipei – 3rd Floor computer lab (a computer lab leh!)
Time: 11.42am
Current thought: afraid that the computer beside me is going to explode. its making funky noises. sounds that a computer should not be making.
No. of gorgeous people spotted: 0 (i’m feeling hopeful)
No. of bubble tea drank: 2

i am here. taipei. me.

it was an uneventful flight. i’m here safe and sound. felt a bit lost when i arrived because i couldn’t contact anyone. =( haven’t gotten my taiwan number but i will soon.

my room is now nicely furnished after spending 1400NT buying mattress (the bed came without one), pillow, toilet roll, table lamp……… will tk a pic of it soon.

the school is humongous. i think i’ll get lost in here. but i’ll figure a way out.

i’m not yet connected in my hostel room so gimme some time….

basically, so far so good!

missing everyone. wish you were here.

we go together…

like
rama lama lama
ke ding a de dinga a dong
remembered forever like
shoo bop shoo wadda wadda yipitty boom de boom

Chang chang chang-it-ty chang
shoo-bop
That’s the way it should be
Wha oooh yeah!

i’m going to miss the fwahlala people. 😦 i really can’t imagine smu without them. it’s tough in school and it will be even worse without the laughter and boo-boos they bring. i’ll miss amsie and her bangs and frequent sweet words, calin for her cute auntie-ness, karen for her apologies and wet curry beehoon thing, yiling sob for her booboos/boobs and ridiculous antics (i dunoe how half those things happen), pris for her sian face and lishan just because she’s my shanshine. as lame as it sounds, they complete my smu life. 

the recent farewell/gathering we had was so bittersweet. we all laughed and we all cried. all the funny stories retold and all the usual jabs…. i’ve only known them for about 3 years, a long and sometimes torturous 3 years. it has been great working with them for numerous projects especially fwahlala. the most challenging and the happiest project for me. i don’t really know what else to say except i’m really going to miss all of you and i love you guys to itty bitty bits. thank you so much for everything. ❤

the fooooood. *urrgs*

the twos….

the threes…

the silly…

the sweet…

the group…

and now unto the pekingers. our usual food – korean bbq. it’s always fun meeting up with them and talking about the days in the motherland. because there were only a handful of us in peking, we got rather close and had a lot of fun together… climbing the greatwall… stuffing our face…. singing…. stuffing our face again….  shopping/bargaining…… those days in lao beijing. ❤

the hardworking peking interns

=) oh and huiling. if for some reason (i assure you they’ll be valid reasons) i did not wish you happy birthday on tues, i’m going to wish you an early one now. happy birthday and may you look like you’re 21 for the rest of your life. 🙂

ABC…. Azilah, Brenda, Cindy. 2 names that appear so often in my blog. They have been in my life since we were teenagers unable to watch M18 movies. They’ve been with me since my first bf. and obviously have lasted longer. they’re such a big part of me. we don’t talk all the time nor do we meet up every week but we have such a strong friendship that it doesn’t matter. we know that its never too late, too early or too busy to meet up with each other just because we want to. for some reason, we never take much pictures but it doesn’t matter. i have you guys in my heart. and i know that you’ll be there to stay.. for a very very long time. too bad, you guys are stuck with me. =)

bigmike…. just feel like writing a little to you here since i’ve never done so before. i’m sorry i won’t be around when you move to spore but i’ll see you very soon and you know papa and mama yeo will take good care of you. you also have marcus, cindy, zila, alvin…. i can’t believe the next time i’m in spore, you’ll be standing on the same soil. please don’t flung crab claw at my dad again. welcome to my home.

to everyone else… i’ll see you in taipei!

p/s: i’d like to thank a somebody who complained that he has never made an appearance on this little blog. mr mong, thank you for everything. you have fed me, clothe me (top to toe) and err… entertained me? thank you! (:

edited to add:

i forgot to thank esther, emily, baozhu and eileen for celebrating my bday with me. ive known them for the longest time… way before we were able to watch NC16 movies. thank you so much esther who always make time for me whether is it to go tanning or to walk around town aimlessly. she has been such an amazing friend… someone i can count on to be there on time. always ready to celebrate another birthday and to plan a surprise, she’s the bomb. thank you.

i’m stretched

i can’t believe i’m saying this. i’m really sick of eating. there i said it.

i used to have cravings all the time and i feel hungry at night or rather i just feel like eating something. but for these 2 weeks, with all the farewell here and there, i’ve been eating left and right. i have no time to feel hunger or cravings. i’ve eaten enough for 3 months worth of cravings.

pasta. check check (twice)
sashimi. check check check (thrice)
crab beehoon soup. check (still in my tummy)
durian. check (ditto)
beef horfun/kwayteow. check
korean bbq. check 
and many others in between………

i haven’t stopped eating since last week. its been like mtv non-stop hits. i mean don’t get me wrong. i truly enjoy meeting up with everyone and i really appreciate it all. it’s all really lovely. but i am soooo full…………….. i long for teochew porridge. really. i just want to feel my tummy empty again. its hard to describe the feeling but my tummy is sooooo bloated. i don’t want to think about food. gag reflex. seriously. the thought about eating another buffet makes me teary. i really can take it no more. im not even a big eater to begin with. all these eating is really making me feel very uncomfortable and tubby.

i dun mean to sound whiny and ungrateful. i thank everyone and i love it all. but i can only eat that much rich and heavy food. i’ve never eaten like this before. one big meal at a time. yes. but not 10 mega meals in 2 weeks. it’s not so much the amount of food i eat but more like its all very heavy.

did i mention i’m going for carousel buffet @ royal plaza tmr? i dunoe whether to put a smiley face or a sad one….. can’t get out of it coz its a family thing. oh gawd.

i’ll update on food pics later on. ❤

p/s: what can i do to make my tumtum feels better? =(

life’s little pleasures….

the little simple things in life that puts a smile on my face (:

– getting every little bubble out of my bubble tea (with a bubble tea in hand, this is my current mission)

– popping bubble wrap (my dad used to bring back tons of bubble wrap for me to pop. relieves stress and boredom)

– using metal chopsticks (i have no idea why but metal chopsticks are my fascination. i stole at least 3 pairs when i was in china. i also stole a very cute metal soup spoon yesterday)

– blogging about random happy stuff (such as this)

– solving life’s mysteries with the help of wikipedia (i heart wikipedia. my life will be empty without it)

– waking up to the smell of cooking (except the smell of fried fish.)

– to receive no phonecalls and smses while i sleep (please do not sms me before 12)

– buying and testing out great smelling soap and moisturizer

– washing my hair for the first time after a good haircut

– anything panda (:

– rainy days (provided i’m not planning to get a tan or go out)

– stuffing my face with sashimi

– having maggi mee with meatballs and egg on a rainy day

– boogiewoogie-ing around the kitchen while cooking

– cartoons (:

– dicing mushrooms. (i love to dice button mushrooms. so easy to cut)

– garfield

– fridays and saturdays make me happy

– having a meal with my family

– friends (:

– a good shopping buy

– you reading my blog makes me happy

(: