hey hey! ok today i did my homework, not all of it, but about 1/4 of it. i studied 2 chapters of science and i baked a cake. so the funny thing about the cake was that after we prepared all the ingredients and everything, the mixer couldn't start. so we had to use the whipper thing to whip it. and it was really tiring because it has to be fluffy and smooth and it was by hand. but either way it was still fun to do. then i got the idea of dropping some hersheys kisses into the batter and Sit shredded some on the top. it baked and turned out great. my dad had 2 slices. i had one. so when Siti tried to take out the cake, she turned it over and there were 5 holes there. and then we saw in the cake pan, 5 hersheys stuck onto it. haha. it was good though. crispy on the outside and gooey on the inside.

because we have the cake we're having a light dinner (Siti and myself). so we decided to have lemon chicken! we took some chicken breasts and marinated it in a 1/4 lemons juice, dusted white pepper on it and some light soy sauce, you can use salt too. leave it to marinate for as long as you want and then heat up a pan, place the chicken on it, no oil, and lightly sear it. cook it all the way through and eat it with rice. its tasty and healthy. and i had mac and cheese this afternoon so this is good. you know sometimes i wonder why are most of my posts about food? i have no idea.

the new years coming soon. we got invited to a pot luck but we decided to eat in instead. we havent had the christmas dinner yet and so the dishes are quite christmassy. but my mum said it was still within the 12 days of christmas as a save. we were suppsoed to do it on monday but my brother was going out so we're doing it on friday. yay! oh yeah! last saturday, my dad really drove us through Orchard. it was packed though. he asked us to dress up so that we could walk around (at 9pm) but we never did. it was still nice though. great year.

ok in 5 days time we're going to be sec 2. whoo!! i still remember last year or rather this year, ok the starting of this year, when i first went to the tkg assembly. all the seniors were screaming and i was kinda scared. okok not really, but it was different. and throughout the course of this year, i made many great friends. great great friends. i was lucky enough to get into drama. don't know what i'll be in if i didnt get in. hee. i think i changed quite a lot or maybe not. nah. i definately changed. someway or another. matured! yes. i'm matured. haha. okok. whatever happend this year happened this year and next years a totally different one. and though a very very good friend is leaving, i will always miss you btw, i'm looking forward to new experiences and everything! sec 1 was fun. sec 1 was fun:)

friends forever! cheers!

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hey! its christmas! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

had a wonderful day so far. woke up to go to church this morning, met up with my church friends then had a little church lunch. it was so good i could kill myself for eating so much. because after that i went to Eunice's house for another christmas lunch. ate a lot there too. but the food was great. my favourite was the turkey stuffing. and then i played Uno with her cousins and i just came back. thank you Eunice and Sarah for the great presents! mines not fantastic but hope you like it anyway.

ytd i had to go back to school for a drama meeting. we were deciding on what to make for next years drama sign up. it was so funny and fun. yay drama! after that Lorraine and i went to Parkway and walked around. we ate lunch there and i had this korean barbe which had a lot of oil in it but i still ate it. see how horrible i am! after that we waited for over an hour for the bus 14. and when it came, it came as 3 in a shot. but anyway, it was a fun day.

the day before that we had a ex 6/9ers class gathering to watch kungfu hussle and go bowling. so we met at bugis to watch the show and then we spent dont know how long deciding on whether we should go bowling or not. it was fun. and nice seeing the way Sarah and Gladys "torture" Jomel. takes me back when we were still in p6. i can't bowl. did i mention i can't bowl? i really cant bowl. this was worse than last time. at least last time i could hit something but i couldn't hit anything at all. i had zero's the whole way through. i tried to keep the ball straight but it kept swerving to the side. it was girls against boys and then we had crosslanes and so we had to keep switching and pressing reset and i messed up once. hee. Olivia and Jomel were very nice, trying to teach me how to bowl. but bowling and i dont go together. but still it was very nice of them. thanks guys! then Sarah, Gladys and myself left early and walked to Lavander station. and thats when i realised i gave my ezlink card to Jomel to give to the bowling alley. so i bought a temporory card and went in because Sarah and Gladys were already there. after that we dropped off and waited at Kembangan (sp?) for her. but it was still fun though. we didn't want to walk so we just sat where the head of the train was in skirts. but it was still fun. how many times have i used this word today? fun. haha. i love christmas! i didn't go to Orcahrd though. i wanted to but didn't. Dad says he'll drive there later so i think i'll follow. gonna have another christmas dinner on Monday so we'll see how much i put on. ahh.

i stuck on a song on my friends blog. i have no idea what its called but i think its from One Tree Hill. and its about putting too much food on my plate. haha. okok, merry christmas everyone!

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hey. sick today. i'm having a flu i think. runny nose and everything. well except the fever and cough but i think we're getting there. haha. mm. i'm tired today. not jet lagged type of tired. just you know exhausted. i think its the sickness. it makes your body weaken and one part of your body dies. my legs have died. too lazy to move them anywhere. :)

going to be christmas soon! we're going to have a christmas dinner and i'm attempting to bake a christmas fudge cake for dessert. the recipe i got was pretty simple so i hope i can do this well. yep. coming from the girl who failed home ec! okok i think the failing part was the sewing because my place mat had one piece of cloth on it which was the dress that took up about 1/6 of the space and the trimmings. plus my form wasnt filled out correctly and i failed for that. i still remember every lesson i'd still have to ask Kimmy how to thread in the thread. hee. thanks kimmy! but i liked home ec. the cooking part. d&t was fun too.

oh wow i have to go. very short post today. very sorry. happy holidays! and a very merry up and coming christmas!

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heyhey! ok first thing. i'm hungry. control control. i've eaten fried rice this morning and mixed fruits. and now i'm hungry. dinners only 3 hours away! i can stand it. ok Sit just placed a piece of garlic bread next to me. freshly toasted garlic bread. made with Sit's special garlic cream spread.

ok stop! stop! stop! right. but then again i was the one who asked her to make it for me. and so i cant possibly not eat it. but i cant! i can just imagine myself later tonight reviewing what i ate ( i always do this). "i had fried rice this morning then mixed fruits and Sit had to chop up a hersheys kisses into it when i said i didnt want whipped cream. and then i had garlic bread! bread is bad! all carbos. and then i had dinner. i shouldnt have eaten the garlic bread. i couldve pretty well gotten along without it but no, i had to give in to temptation and eat it!" so now i'm here writing about this with the toast next to the computer. its fragant light scent wavering through the air. oh gosh. i think i'll just smell it. garlic gives off a very strong smell so it'll be enough.

and then theres this other part of me saying "you only live once! you're 13. are you going to eat healthy and lay off the junk food till you die? you're a kid. its only food. whatever type of food it is. so go ahead. just take it. what harm could it do you. come on, its only toast, its not that bad." ahh! i want to. but if its something i will regret then why do it. if only i could just stop and just eat. why cant i just eat. ok i'm not starving myself but why cant i just eat. i'm going for a run later. tho i think it wouldnt help much. oh gosh. the things still infront of me. staring at me and turning stale as i contemplate whether to eat it or not.

i know i know. not that much of a good post right? sorry. but i'm not going to be able to blog for quite a while so i thought i'd just come up with something. so my entry is about a piece of garlic bread. i know, pathetic. but its ok:) bare with me here.

its still there. still giving off the aroma. so now i'm thinking but why should i eat it? besides its really junk food and will be bad for my body. and if i'm tryin gmy best to lose wieght i should perservere and stick to it. if you plan to go on a diet but then eat a piece of fried chicken half way through, it kind off puts away all the work that you've done. i somehow think thats why God made it so easy to put on weight but so hard to lose it. its to control ourselves. one of the seven deadly sins is gluttony. and eating too much means gluttony. the consequence of gluttony is being overweight, and if not, you're skinny. so its not a bad thing to resist it. if i said that i wanted to lose weight these past few months and i'm finally doing it, i should stick to it! if not i'll blame myself and i'll feel " i really shouldnt have done that." and then the next time i try to control my diet and i feel like eating junk again, i'll go " its ok. i ate it before. the most is i'll just feel guilty for a while then i'll start over again." then maybe i'll go crazy and start eating everything and end up in a hospital lying on the bed with tubes everywhere and down my throat to help me breathe and then i cant even get up because i'm too big and then i'll get a heart attack and die! it can happen! it happened before.

k. i'm over dramatising everything again. and then the other part of me goes "you're not eating a bucket of lard dear, its just a piece of toast. why don't you just take one bite. one bite cant hurt. if you didnt feel like eating it then why did you make it? you're not doing anything wrong. you're just eating. people eat to survive. and remember that story you always used to tell about your tummy and what it does when you dont eat? so why arent you. its whole meal bread. its not as bad as white bread. you're going running later so you can burn it off. its ok. its just one piece. so just do it ok?"

its been half an hour and the toast is still there. please let it go bad then i'll have a reason not to eat it. its still ok. its pretty much the same. gosh i'm such a loser. ahh puberty!! (i've said that many times havent i? hee:) ) i think i'm going to go on and argue with myself again. you know its like there are 2 lawyers inside my head going on at each other, defence and offence! or maybe the angel and the devil.

and i have no idea which one is which!

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hi! ok i'm blogging now. thanks once again to Sarah. i just came back last friday. and trust me, a lot happened over the holidays. well ok, not that much, but its still something to write about.

Number 1: i found out what i am allergic to! and had to go through a horrible rash to find out. i'm allergic to crabs. but not all crabs just this particular crab. so the doctor says. or something that the chef used to cook the crab with. anyway i spent the entire next morning wrapped in a blanket so i wouldnt try to scratch myself. okok, i know its gross. but its a true account! my aunty thought i was going hysterical. my eldest aunty- i call her Dai yee. its in cantonese. she's a nurse in Oman and has been for a very long time now. and my mother was scolding me instead of helping really becuase she thought i was losing it. i was mostly slapping myself and jumping up and down (sounds pretty normal right?) but they thought i was going mad. because some people get like that. that was on wednesday. the day of the Singapore Idol finale. i couldnt catch it. and my dad voted. only once tho. but at least he voted. yay Taufik! and somehow i think Sit has a little thing for Taufik. haha.

Number 2: Child phscology(sp?). my baby cousin was over for a few days and my aunt, my youngest aunt- aunty Mei, was working. so we looked after him. we didnt really have much to do. and my little cousin is very smart. course being a fellow child i let him get away with everything. but my mum and Dai yee have a responsibility to look after him. so i mostly watched tv and played with him a bit, cycled on the excercise bike and ran to the bathroom on the second floor. tried to resist the fattening things they brought home and take in as much water as i possibly could (my Dai yee and mum started lecturing me i think the day before about kidney failure and everything. listing out the possible diseases i could get and evrything. so i started drinking more. for myself and also so they'll be happy. hee. i had to go through the entire night of that talk. and my mum is still talking about it. okok.) and then there was this conversation they had with my youngest aunt about my cousin. and his phscology. kind of like how he was testing everybody. how he would only give attention to people who didnt want his attention, how to discipline him and so on. i was mostly reading my books and listening a little bit. i bought 5 new books! yep. i spent about an hour (or less) choosing which ones i wanted though. scrutinising the cover, how big the words were, reading the back... checking the price... :) and so on.

Number 3: ok so living in a house full of women my aunties and mum felt like it was time to teach me about you know, skin care, hair care and so on and so forth. i was taught how to moisturize, how to oil your hair ( i cant do that it gets too oily for me) the proper way to wash your face without getting water all over the place ( which i clean up by the way but they think i should prevent it rather than just cleaning it up.) how to pop your pimles and prevent them from coming back ( i thought them that actually). and did you know vaseline on your eye lashes can make it fuller and thicker? i didnt learn it from them tho, i read that. but i think it must be pretty oily so if it gets into your eyes that'll be trouble. Tyra Banks does it tho. my youngest aount has this skin problem where she gets oil bumps on her skin, they arent pimples. they're just accumilations of oil on your face and then they go hard and you can't get rid of them wihtout laser treatment. so she got it and i lent her my hat ( the one from taka) which i just remembered havent brought home. oh boy. hopefully she'll keep it away form my cousin tho. he was trying to step on it the last time. and my youngest aunt and my eldest aunt were talking about mascara's and everything. going on about how Lancome mascara isn't good anymore and what was. but i must admit, it was pretty fun to take part in. my mum isnt that much of a make up person. so yea, it was fun.

Number 4: the biggest mistake i ever made in my entire life. my aunty made it too. but hers wasnt a mistake, nor was my mums. going through 4 hours of torture. half of the time i was waiting and reading chinese magazines. and you can probably guess, i was just looking at the pictures. the whole "to do or not to do" thing the night and day before. saying "yes i will!" one minute and going " err maybe i wont. nope i wont." and then going "actually, why not? be adventurous right?" and then saying " ahh i dont know!" i won't elaborate much. i'll just shock you guys. i did that to Sit and she screamed. she was ironing and she screamed. i wanted to scream but i screamed that day already. and cried. and sang jazzy songs like Westlife in their new album, that entire night using the magic clean mop as my mike. i know i know. how weird can you possibly get Michelle! right? but hey the mop had a nice swing to it. haha. get it? swing to it? swing... 20s, jazz songs. haha. heh i crack myself up:)

ok so that was mainly it. not very much right? but this trip back was very.. whats the word. educational. yep. and so for now i'm staying at home and pigging out (ah stop it girl!!!)
and watching tv. and i went to church ytd. it was kind of weird. no actually it wasnt. it was ok. i sat next to my dad again, my brother didnt go. hes out of "prison"! when he went in he told my mum something pretty scary.

" they can lock me up, but my mind is free." not exact quote but around the same.

its more philosiphical than scary. but it felt the same. i watched a hindi movie ytd. it had a simple storyline at first, then got complicated. the shows name was "Andaaz". and i remember the leading lady said this;

" a book that is too close to your eyes, you cannot read."

true right? ok anyway this is a very long post so i'll stop now. been away quite a bit this holiday its like Singapore isnt my home anymore. after coming back 2 weeks ago i realised how much i love Singapore. so i'm going to pay tribute to Singapore!

I LOVE YOU SINGAPORE!!! hee. i'm so glad to be home.

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