December,

2 weeks since my last paper for finals and I'm lapping up sloth-living and getting way too comfortable with it. Everyday sees me waking up at double- digit hours when the air-condition has been switched off (My mother's method of waking me) and then depositing myself in the adjacent living room, flipping the through cooking shows and slowly getting swallowed up by the couch.

I think this lazing around is an innate talent that I'm secretly proud of.

My December allowance is slowly dwindling to nothing, this is a sign to reflect on my non-existent financial management. I need someone to manage my money for me. On the point of reflection, something has to be done to the swirling mess that is my room. The mess that was once my study table (said woodware now under the possession by my friendly sister) has shifted to my bedside shelf because moving into hall as removed much of my authority of my bedroom and I have little territory that I can claim sovereignty. I look forward to the day (most probably March) when the little tyrant moves in to the next room and brings along her 93845934853 belongings so that I at least have more walking space and a decent attempt at making my room hospitable.

My Ikea catalogue has been abused too many times under my frenzy of trying to create the loveliest bedroom that I can finally call my room. I am obsessed with compartmentalization. I am anal like that. I look forward to the day I can store everything away in boxes. On that notice, my musical carousel arrived in the mail, I am even more stoked!!!




These were taken when Ann and I tried being adventurous after our papers. Let's just say we learnt our lesson:D But we still enjoyed ourselves!

My USS trip with the family next!

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Semester 1

My last paper for finals ended on Tuesday and I couldn't have been any happier.

Whoever said that life in University would be a breeze as compared to the A level's is apparently satisfied with a humble diploma.

The competition here drives you insane. Good is no longer good enough. I have to trade my guts and maybe throw in my pancreas to get a decent grade. But that's not to say I haven't been enjoying myself with life on campus. Tripping around in hall has made life much easier to bear, sleeping when the sun goes up and waking up when its way past breakfast.

Nothing is as good as home though. I miss home badly so I don't myself staying past my second year. I'm also going to get my own room at home which I get to renovated. I have many crazy ideas in my head which I just reproduced on paper. Tumblr has also been feeding my brain with all sorts of jimajam so I am totally stoked on renovating my own space. Also, I miss the privacy of having my own personal space. I am such an anti-social snail.

In other words, my entire week is choked- full of activities and I'm pretty excited. My law babe is coming back home on the 19th and we're finally going to party together!!!

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Love,

Anxiety

About to enter the state of Nirvana because I haven't been doing anything even remotely related to f.u.n.

2 full weeks of solid studying under the influence of coffee is making me jittery and delirious. Oh how I look forward to the end of finals.

1) I really miss cooking.
2) I need new additions to my wardrobe because my dressing has shifted to muted pastels.
3) New experiences to take over old, unhappy ones? I'm taking everything with a pinch of salt!

In other words, I have been indulging in one too many chocolate bars, putting on some weight, and doing secret online shopping, all while imaging what fun I'll have when the exam clock strikes.

Till then, I will be in an intimate relationship with my lecture notes.

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Thicker than water

My sister texted me during class yesterday. It was the first time we actually had a decent conversation. Most of the time at home we show our love to each other through squabbling.

Don't get it wrong. I love my sister to bits and everything, but we're not the long-night-talks, shopping-buddies kind of siblings. But it was a nice feeling, being able to give her advice and such, something I should have done as an older sibling.

Feeling a little down these few days, am glad that at least I'm appreciated by someone.

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Make Up

My Mid-terms are finally over. So right now I am thrilled and totally excited because the week ahead is really going to be busy and fun. I refuse to think about how dreadful the papers and how I was really momentarily stunned by most of the questions. Right now all I have in sunshine and unicorns in my brain.

The weather today is really tempting me with just dating my bedsheets and marrying them.  I haven't done anything productive the entire day besides attempting to make sense of some chunk of words I emailed to my projectmate. Hopefully it looks like something decent that could pass off as my Economics assignment.

My floral skater skirt arrived in mail this morning. I ripped open the package, possessed. Mail makes me happy like that and online shopping triples that. I can't wait to wear it out. There is something about how the skirt flares open like an umbrella when I twirl it around. I feel like a pixie in them. I would love to wear that skirt out for a picnic but I guess tutorials will do fine. Hopefully I don't procrastinate and actually get down to taking pictures once I get Maddie to dorm.

Anyway, I found this picture of my make up tray floating around on my photo and while updating my iTunes it automatically got updated to iPhoto. So here is my post on my make up.

Top, Anti- Clockwise.

1) NARS Blusher in Gina- I got this when I was in Hong Kong last December. Its in the loveliest shade of amber. I had a hard time looking for it because I can't deal with pink blushers. They make me look like a Chinese vampire. It's my most important component of my make up because my face is practically colour-less (By that I mean I just look lifeless and brown all over. I sadly do not have apple cheeks)

2) Blusher Brush from The Body Shop- Got this because its animal-cruelty free! Plus the retracting function is great because otherwise my brushes would be splayed and hairless in a month.

3) The Magnum Volum' Express Mascara from Maybelline- I don't use mascara often because it really kills my eyelashes and makes me feel sleepy. I only put this on for formal dinners and such. Or when my mum nags me to put them on.

4) Jelly Tint from The Face Shop- I love buying lipgloss because they really look so lollipop-like and edible. But most of the time they remain in my basket at home because the colours don't suit me. I can't wear light lipgloss. I can't wear heavy red. So my colour is often purplish red. It smells really good, I want to eat it.

4) Eyeliner Longue Tenure in brown from Sephora- The brush is a lovely thin bundle at the end which is great because I like my eyeliner thin and barely visible. Its really really easy to control and I can wing it or drag it any way I feel like. I don't do black because it makes me look even fiercer than I already am, so I tend to opt for a more natural brown

5) Lip Ice Strawberry- I apply this before my lipgloss because my lips tend to chap really easily. I also realized that putting balm before the gloss makes the colour brighter and last longer.


I'm getting lazier with my make up though, most of the time I can't really be bothered/rushing late to class so I just make do with the blusher and gloss so I don't look like a zombie in class. Thank God for the end of term papers, my relationship with my books need to be put on hold for a bit.

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Stone In The Apple

It's now my 8th week into university and I have neglected my little space in stoneintheapple. I have been too caught up with life in hall, making new friends, adjusting to the new curriculum that sometimes at the end of the day, I feel like time is passing too fast for me and details become blurred. I don't remember what I have doing the past week, the day before, or a few hours ago because everything is snowballing into this gigantic mess of memories that aren't sorted out.

Came across this incredibly lovely site on tumblr that is currently drawing out all the sentimental in me. So steppingflypaper is here to capture the number of tins of tuna I eat in a week, the foodporn I watch on telly and try to re-create, and of course, to rekindle my love for writing, to concretize my memories through photographs.

Finally, this space is also dedicated to a very important person in my life who is approximately 11027.8km away from me but still very very extremely close to my heart. Lim_zhi.qi, if you're reading this, I hope you find immense pleasure from reading about all fun/embarrassing/downright retarded things going on in my life. This is for you, love!