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do you believe in fortune-telling?
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when my sis was 1 yr old and i was not yet born, my daddy mummy and jiejie went to this fortune-teller to have their fortunes told.. and yesterday, i got to see their reports. because it was in handwritten chinese, i couldn't read half of it and couldn't understand the other. but i must say it was pretty scary.
it's scary when he gets something right, cos that means he might be for real and everything else is going to happen. and it's scary when he predicts something anyway, cos then yu have to worry "is it really going to happen? what if it does? what if it doesn't?" and then yu don't know how to act in the present to make it happen or not.. scary right? so i'm never going to have my fortune told.. cos while i'm not sure it's impossible that the future is decided, i'm pretty sure if it is decided, no amount of amulet-buying can alter its course.. so then if you're going to go about life the same way whether or not you've had your fortune told, then what's the point of getting it told? so i guess i'm sticking to fortune cookies for now..
on a lighter note though, i now know when jie's getting married! haha :)
adelina daydreamed at
10:57 AM
did yu miss me?
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 me florrie fiona joan candy
i'll be back in s'pore in no time!!
just finished packing my luggage.
my flight's tomorrow- 26th may
i'll be staying till 1st july.
i start school 3rd july- WWWWWHHHYYYYYY!!!!!
p/s never u/l-ed any pics before, so i decided to show yu the gals in my tutorial group in med 3.. kinda bummed we won't be in the same tutorial group next yr!
adelina daydreamed at
1:38 AM
25th of May
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i've been busy the past few days, partly cos daddy's here and partly cos ssm presentation's today! it went exactly as we wanted.. good poster presentation but not good enough to put us in the top 4, which means we don't have to do the powerpoint presentation! muahhaha..
anyway today is a very important day cos it's daddy's birthday!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY DADDY!!
i still haven't decided where we should have dinner but after falling sick and having to swallow the chinese medicine he brews i'm pretty sure it'll taste better than his brew.. keke..
oh i ordered a cake yesterday but it's quite a me cake but it's a bit of him too.. i mean, it's chocolate, but it's a bitter chocolate cake (obviously the chocolate part is me and the bitter part is him.. harharhar) and i bought trick candles., the kind that don't go out.. i just like them cos they sparkle a little, actually.. i'm a sucker for fireworks and such.. i think someone whould invent candles that intermittently give off mini fireworks.. heh..
pyromania- noun. An uncontrollable impulse to start fires.
i think daddy suffers as above.. or at least, he has an uncontrollable impulse to play with birthday candles after they've been blown out and after he's eaten a slice of cake.
adelina daydreamed at
4:20 PM
musicals.. lalala..
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it's so hot i need to bathe at least twice a day to be able to tolerate my own skin, so my recent inactivity must be forgiven.. well, there's that.. and then there's the recent re-addiction to anime that was triggered off by watching fruits basket.. late, i know, but there's been some pretty good animes coming out recently too.. like " the melancholy of haruha suzumiya".. ok i sound like a geek so that's all on the subject..
note to all: mother's day is coming!! mummy might be reading this so more on the subject some other time.. keke..
today i went to watch a concert with ollie and judy, haven't seen them since exams.. had dinner at ifc (dan ryan's baby back ribs are still better, but far behind that jap fusion restaurant in sydney still).. and then we walked over to hk city hall to watch "broadway hits in concert" which featured anne runolfsson (soprano), andrea mcardle(mezzo soprano- the original Annie) and michael maguire (baritone) accompanied by the hk philharmonic orchestra.. it was wonderful! i was absolutely spellbound.. it was just a performance of broadway songs from different musicals.. there were familiar and unfamiliar songs, but they were ALL good..
for example the first song thy sung was "be our guest" from beauty and the beast which was really fun, and there was "on the street where you live" from my fair lady which i loved from the movie already, plus i have a weakness for baritones, and it was really well-done..
there were classics like "think of me" and "music of the night" from phantom of the opera which were really well done.. esp. the ending of "think of me".. i could seriously feel the resonance in my eardrums.. and "music of the night" is my fave piece from POTO, esp. the beginning lines.. they also did "all i ask of you", which i'm sure is many people's fave..
there were also funky songs.. "le jazz hot" from victor/victoria, "all that jazz" from chicago, thoroughly modern millie's "thoroughly modern millie", and mamma mia+ dancing queen from mamma mia.. this was really one of the best renditions of dancing queen i've heard.. oh also "new york, new york" at encore which the brass section must have loved.. keke..
"cabaret" from cabaret had funny lyrics.."But when I saw her laid out like a Queen/She was the happiest...corpse...I'd ever seen.." -keke- "but incomparable to "the impossible dream" from Man of LaMancha.. i'd never even heard the song before.. after some googling i have made up my mind to get hold of the movie..
the ending piece was this medley of 3 andrew lloyd webber love songs.. the baritone's part was "love changes everything".. i've heard this song a gazillion times but never paid attention to the lyrics.. but it's really a song that makes you love love huh? :)
anyhow, it was a great concert.. and even though i didn't sleep at all last night, i'm on such a buzz from the concert it's 2am here and i'm still not sleepy! haha.. though i think i'm going to regret it tomorrow..
adelina daydreamed at
12:32 AM
dorian gray
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the day before i went back to the uni to give out questionnaires to non-medical students for this group project that i'm working on. it's been such a long time since i've done something like that.. i think the last time was in j2 selling our book for charity.. can't exactly remember.. anyway i've forgotten how tiring and depressing it can get trying to get passer-bys to pay attention to yu and suffering all that rejection.. the day before wasn't so bad already but it sure brought back some terrible memories.. haha..
however, the experience did make me form a new theory.. the ones most likely to pay attention to yu and actually take the time to fill in questionnaires are guys and pretty girls.. seriously, considering ours was a random sample and there are actually more girls than guys in our uni now, the fact that about 90% of the questionnaires we collected back were from guys just totally proves the point.. and the other 10% were almost all pretty girls.. ok, i don't mean pretty as in gorgeous-features-pretty, but in a neat and knows-how-to-take-care-of-herself pretty.. hair in place, good or at least non-greasy skin, shoes that match their bags, clothes that fit just right etc... yu get the picture..
the WORST of all are the ugly ones who think they're pretty.. with colorful makeup, outlandish clothes that may say fashion, but definitely do not say style.. they either ignore you totally without even a smile or some gesture to decline or they take the questionnaire and after they come out of their class they act as if nothing happened and stare you right in the face like they have nothing to be sorry about.. ugh.
so i am now a firm believer in the 相由心生 idea.. i used to think that it was just something superficial pple used an excuse for their behaviour.. so a big sorry to the previously wronged.. of course that's not to say there aren't those who do use it as a lame excuse.. AND i think this applies more and more as yu grow older.. pleasant people glow as time passes.. and it's that glow that makes them pretty..
adelina daydreamed at
10:52 AM
brokeback
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I wish I knew how to quit you. -jack twist
adelina daydreamed at
7:45 PM
a strange encounter
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today while i was walking on the streets i met 2 cons! well i think they're actually a team, but they were stupid enough to stop me twice.. and that's not the only sign of stupidity they displayed.. what happened was this:
while i was walking along the street this indian fellow came up to me and said "excuse me, miss." This being tsim sha tsui and he being indian i naturally thought he was a tourist needing directions, so kind little me stopped to hear what he had to say.
him: yu are a very lucky girl (gesturing at his forehead i guess to indicate some sign he could read) then some crap i couldn't make out cos of his accent.. and 3 good things will happen to you next month, in may..
this is where i said thank you and walked off.. see don't you think he was realy stupid.. if yu tell me i'm lucky and good things will happen to me you're just making me happy.. shouldn't most cons tell yu some terrible disaster is going to strike and the only way to avoid it is to produce some cash to buy an amulet or something along that line..
anyway the funny thing is 2 min later this other indian come up to me and says"excuse me." now purely for my own amusement i stop to listen to what he has to say. so he goes " you are a very lucky girl.." and it's so funny that i just laugh befre he can continue and tell him" so i've heard" and walk off.. haha.. :)
so i think i've survived my first ever encounter with real-live cons, albeit pretty silly ones.. :)
adelina daydreamed at
5:05 PM
holiday high
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haven't blogged for so long i should jus shut this down but even that's too troublesome.. haha
exams are over and by some miracle i've passed!! seriously thought i was going to fail osces, but it appears my dermatomes were not soo totally off.. or maybe that really was a small bowel enema.. who cares?! haha.. this means i can go back to s'pore in june!! woohoo! can't wait!!! hahaha..
anyhow i've spent the past 9 days in sydney and auckland with jiejie.. and it was wonderful!! i was happy 24/7.. in auckland we stayed with aunty shirley and had tons of time to catch up with angela! i love that everything is still the same.. revisited my childhood holidays.. even bobo is exactly the same! heh..
we finally visited yeye and mama's graves.. i'm really glad we got to do that..
and angela took leave off work to take us shopping.. my favourite hobby.. :) and on our last night she took us to watch dirty dancing, the musical, which absolutely rocked!!
and in sydney we stayed in swissotel which clever daddy booked.. it appears he know his daughters very well.. cos it's smack in the middle of the biggest and best shops in sydney.. seriously..
and we met our cousins ranui and camille whom i've never met before.. actually legend has it i saw them when i was really really tiny but i don't remember, so this counts as a first to me.. and they're really wonderfully nice! haha.. i must have good genes.. keke..
and we spent a day in manly, which is now officially on my must-see list.. i haven't been to the beach for years, and the beach there is perfect.. makes me wanna become a beach bum..
we ate like kings these 9 days too.. kings with a sweet tooth at that too.. that's the best part about visiting relatives.. plus food is amazingly fresh and good in nz and australia.. the coffee, the salads, the seafood.. yum! and their cakes are double the size of those in hk.. hurhur..
anyway 9 days of food and fun is too much to cram into one blog, plus i'm a lazy bum, so no more sharing happy holiday memories and making you all jealous.. jiejie'll probably diligently put up pics and describe to perfection what a fantastic time we had anyway..
adelina daydreamed at
11:43 AM
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