:: Road to Nowhere - talking heads

i don't know why i'm blogging since i don't really have anything to say at the moment. my hand still hurts frm karate. well ok, * **** ***** ******* ** *** *** ***** **** **** **. i guess tt sounds pretty brazen but i'm really quite sheepish when it comes to this. my baby, he makes me feel like a little girl (tsk tsk tsk). sometimes i wonder if i'm an emotional leech but i wouldn't think too much bout tt if i were you.

i'm not actually having any problems adapting or settling here. and tt's (quite ironically) making me wonder if (and why, if there was such thing as a reason for such an intangible thing) life is just slipping by me. you know how at times you look back and go 'wow tt seems like just yesterday'? i sometimes think tt so one day i told myself: this will be day one. i will consciously live frm today and then at the next turn in my life i will look back and see if it really seems as short when i'm actually counting my days like this.

i suddenly feel like i want to find out the antidote to emotional ennui.
i want to show you the view by the bay at night. i want to show you how the little car lights in the distance seem to float obediently in a line just above the river's blackness, like luminous bubbles travelling through a plastic tube. i wanted to dive in and swim towards them but i was disconcerted by a loud groaning sound tt ascended the salty water enveloping my feet so i insisted we head back to the hall.

:: Butterfly in Reverse - counting crows

i wish i could learn a new song and learn to play it; one tt will make me feel like Foolish Games. michelle went for a gig yesterday. i made her promise to tell me bout any she hears of. i also hear tt Ben Folds is coming down here. good good. and i heard tt jewel came here before (even better!) so i'm hoping she'll come back down while i'm here and offer me a fine excuse for a recess frm anthrop french linguistics asian studies (yea, tt's the combi i finally decided to take in the end). the res club organised a music night on saturday and the president (who looks and sings a bit like james blunt) later asked me if i'd like to do some numbers for formal night. i said er..can can...just let me know lah. i wonder what i got myself into.

oh ya, eh andrew, tt happy birthday sms was frm me lah.

thanks again to all who saw me off at the airport and also to those who intended to. i didn't get to watch my first episode of CSI season 6 but i guess it's not so bad cos mummy said she'd tape me all the episodes. i can't remember if i've said this before: i'm so grateful my parents like lidong, even when he lets his wet hands drip all over the kitchen floor. i miss the babies - sam, clive and kenneth.

i got linguistics notes frm raechael today and found out frm her tt my stupid cousin was cheating on her. i'm surprised but i'm not at the same time and why should i be since i know well enough tt i don't know much about my cousin anyway.

looks like i said more than i thought i wanted to but oh ok i should go bathe now.


:: All You Want - dido

hallo from perth. yea so i have limited internet use and i'm really cheapo so i'll probably have to jot my thoughts elsewhere and only blog once in a while. to save time, i figured i'd just copy the email i typed out yesterday and paste it here. this was intended for to zehzeh, daddy, karin, lidong, my maris librarian boys, durga, rima, my godma and.. i cant remember who else. to save time i just sent it to zehzeh and asked her to forward it. anyways so here it is. (i had to take out all the expletives cos i sent it to daddy and godma.)

i just got back frm trial karate lessons. wah so tiring.. this angmoh black belt guy nearly broke my wrist trying to teach me some defence moves but i'm fine, don't worry.

(PS: my email is 'yeow' cos these angmohs are quite culturally ignorant so they think tt since my passport says *** ** *** ******, my name must be WU. and all student emails are surname+first initial, thus the 'yeow'. i even had to go to the student admin to tell them to stop sending mails to MS WU YEO. so very grossly annyoing..)

today i had my first few lectures. been quite interesting so far. i tried out the intermediate french and i think i might take it instead of wasting time starting frm beginner level; but i will have to do a bit of catching up. tmr i only have anthropology lecture and there are no tuts this week so i have time to go out. gonna meet michelle and meiching in town and maybe i'll try and find a nice swimsuit before summer is out. the uni has a pool (only 50cents entry!).

eh eh i got my very first henna tattoo at a fairly obscene price but it's quite nicely done and quite lasting so i'm happy.

i'm not sick of hostel food yet. today we had pasta and meatballs for dinner and chocolate brownie pudding thingy for dessert. when karol's parents were here, we went to this place called Broadway which has very nice malaysian food (but they cook it very very salty- the way aussies like it).

met kenny here (newfound uncle/cousin/something) and i'll be going for dinner with him at a certain aunty pui leng's(newfound aunty) hse this sunday (where we will meet more distant relatives).this coming monday is labour day holiday. didn't even know tt till aunty lorna called me just now to offer to let me stay over the long weekend.

i went to church yesterday and ya, they reminded us in the bulletin tt ash wed is coming. so i'll be going for mass. need to pray more lah. lidong is getting holier than me haha.

the arts building here is full of peacocks and peahens and chickpeas haha. they like to strut round and act all arty-farty. quite funny. there's also tt shake-your-tail-feathers kind of bird - daaaaaaaamn cute! the crows here are the size of chickens and they sound just like the silly aussies tt are getting themselves drunk downstairs at this very moment.

right now as i speak, karol is sitting on my room floor trying to teach our indonesian friend nadya how to properly intonate "ang moh", while they both peruse nadya's yearbook and laugh at the stupid looking pple.

so far i've made friends and acquaintances frm kenya, dubai, indonesia, malaysia, singapore (hard to avoid this bunch), tanzania, russia, philippines, melbourne, perth, sydney, hongkong, japan, vietnam, cambodia, canada (BC), india, colombia, scotland. i'm a WORLD citizen! and i can safely say tt by far, the most annoying bunch are inevitably singaporeans, followed closely by drunk australians.

i like my room very much and so far i've managed to avoid getting locked out of it more than once. (raechell is in the lead with a record-breaking 6 times in less than 2 weeks, while karol got locked out 4 times in her bathrobe.)

very very fortunately, i bumped into cousin ian's gf raechael while walking to lecture and we exchanged numbers so i should be getting my linguistics notes frm her pretty soon.

:: The Girl Who Falls Down Stairs - tom mcrae

i'm leaving here in almost exactly 48 hours and i'm not sure how im spposed to be feeling. it feels like cambodia i think. when i was leaving for cambodia i think. like not knowing what to expect.

still need to recall where i last put my passport-sized photos. still need to pack bag. still need to email currie hall and uwa regarding room arrangements and french respectively. still need... still need sleep.

just when you think you know someone-

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Lidong!

1. Olympic badminton rules say that lidong must have exactly fourteen feathers.
2. A sixteenth century mathematician lost his nose in a duel over his love for lidong, and wore a silver replacement for the rest of his life.
3. Some people in Malaysia bathe their babies in beer to protect them from lidong.
4. If every star in the Milky Way was a grain of salt they would fill lidong.
5. If you don't get out of bed on the same side you got in, you will have lidong for the rest of the day.
6. Lidong has 118 ridges around the edge.
7. Lidong can taste with his feet!
8. Research indicates that lidong will be attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
9. Humans share about fifty percent of their DNA with lidong!
10. Lidong will always turn right when leaving a cave.

I am interested in - do tell me aboutherhimitthem

You Belong in London

A little old fashioned, and a little modern. A little traditional, and a little bit punk rock. A unique woman like you needs a city that offers everything. No wonder you and London will get along so well.

What City Do You Belong In?

So keep me in your bed all day... nothing heals me like you do.

:: London Rain - heather nova


finally got to eat at marmalade pantry again. yumyum. and it didn't cost me and zehzeh as much i thought it would, considering how much we ate.

things to do:
-> take mama, shana and hanson out to eat muicai chicken thing at lengkok bahru
-> pack bookcase
-> finish reading tt neil humphreys book tt has been rotting in the bookcase
-> finish reading theonion calender which zehzeh got me 2 christmases ago
-> make cutlets (crab, cornedbeef, vege, anything!)
-> pack luggage
-> visit Godma and Godpa (with lidong?)
-> watch a few movies
-> eat lots of local food
-> get some exercise (hur hur..)
-> stay at daddy's hse at least once before i leave
-> meet up with whoever else thinks they're gonna miss me
-> celebrate durga's 21st
-> mind cafe?
-> visit granny at cck and nanny at st.mike's

Things ComeLately

OfTheMostMundane Things:
1. getting sick
2. having to hear bf's family comment bout my weight
3. crying
4. losing money

TheMoreInteresting Things (i.e. Things ThatDontHappenOnAWeeklyBasis):
1. meeting ex-bf for dinner after finding out he's vegetarian and before my impending departure
2. having friends come over
3. remembering suddenly how painful it is to be hung up on
4. having to take a ******** ****
5. meeting bf's extended family

wat do you say when there's nothing left to be said?