Christina Aguilera is coming to Singapore for a one night only concert on 30th June!
I know it's prolly old news now, but... SHE'S COMING TO SINGAPORE!!
I've watched her Stripped world tour on DVD, and I tell you, she's one heck of a performer. Her vocals were amazing, the whole show was so entertaining! You know for sure she's not lip-synching because she sorta re-arranges her songs and does acoustic versions for several songs.
Nownownow... her tickets are kinda costly, the cheapest starts from $98 and I don't think the view's very good. Decent seats will prolly be $148. =(
MTV is having a contest to win her tickets.. I hope I'll win it *crosses fingers*
Andandand I hope MTV will give staff discounts for her tickets or even best - have a lucky draw for her tickets like how they did for Spongebob musical!
mercredi, mai 30, 2007
mardi, mai 29, 2007
dimanche, mai 27, 2007
Donuts!!
My initial plan yesterday was to go Holland V with my sister and charlotte to check out the vintage t-shirts at HV/0102, go town to shop and down to Raffles City to queue for donuts from Donut Factory, and to surprise Keller who was hospitalised since Friday.
In preparation for the wait while queueing, I brought my PDA and my current read "The Tipping Point" out. Butbutbut... Bern who was working (due to the SWATCH FIVB Beach Volley World Tour) said there's a doughnut parlour at VivoCity and he offered to queue there for doughnuts (so sweet lah!!).
So in the end, we went to FEP, walkedwalked and bought lots of food (think Chippy fried Mars bar, beer battered fish, sweet buttered toast, milk tea etc). I really don't know how to describe the taste of the fried mars bar. It's.... undescribable, and I don't think I'll be eating it again. HAHAHAHAHA. The fat content of the Mars bar doubles after all that frying.. that's a deterrent. x)
Made a call to mum to ask if Keller's still in the hospital, and you know what? She's discharged! Thank God we made a call before making a wasted trip down, and luckily Bern was still queueing up for the donuts. =P Called him to inform him to go down to my uncle's place instead.
After that, we walked around abit more before we left to go to my uncle's place.
Bern came with the donuts from Vinco!! =D
Here we have: Stormy Peanut, Sweety Cheese, Chocolate Delight, Chocolate Cinnamon, Mighty Almond, Sky Berry, Mon Cherie and many many more! =D
The family have commented that they are pretty good, and my very anal(oops!) aunt said there's no stale taste of oil. And I pretty much enjoyed them too! Heeeee, people please go queue at Donut Factory ok? =D
Oh by the way, go get ur Shrek ears ($2) from McDonalds' for a good cause!
In preparation for the wait while queueing, I brought my PDA and my current read "The Tipping Point" out. Butbutbut... Bern who was working (due to the SWATCH FIVB Beach Volley World Tour) said there's a doughnut parlour at VivoCity and he offered to queue there for doughnuts (so sweet lah!!).
So in the end, we went to FEP, walkedwalked and bought lots of food (think Chippy fried Mars bar, beer battered fish, sweet buttered toast, milk tea etc). I really don't know how to describe the taste of the fried mars bar. It's.... undescribable, and I don't think I'll be eating it again. HAHAHAHAHA. The fat content of the Mars bar doubles after all that frying.. that's a deterrent. x)
Made a call to mum to ask if Keller's still in the hospital, and you know what? She's discharged! Thank God we made a call before making a wasted trip down, and luckily Bern was still queueing up for the donuts. =P Called him to inform him to go down to my uncle's place instead.
After that, we walked around abit more before we left to go to my uncle's place.
Bern came with the donuts from Vinco!! =D
Here we have: Stormy Peanut, Sweety Cheese, Chocolate Delight, Chocolate Cinnamon, Mighty Almond, Sky Berry, Mon Cherie and many many more! =D
The family have commented that they are pretty good, and my very anal(oops!) aunt said there's no stale taste of oil. And I pretty much enjoyed them too! Heeeee, people please go queue at Donut Factory ok? =D
Oh by the way, go get ur Shrek ears ($2) from McDonalds' for a good cause!
vendredi, mai 25, 2007
女人的钱很容易赚！S-A-L-E. This 4-lettered word is women's (or rather, my own) weakness. Yesterday I met Juleen to go check out the L'Oreal private sale. Gosh, the queue was snaking long! We had to wait for quite a bit before we could finally check out the products. I managed to get myself a couple of Biotherm and Vichy products, so I left the place a very happy girl and about 90+ poorer. Hahaha, then popped over to Lucky Plaza to collect the Queen Helene Mint Julep Masque I ordered in a spree. I must really watch my pursestring this month. *nods*
Caught Pirates of the Caribbean yesterday with Bern! It was really good in my opinion, who cares about what Melanie Oliverio (movie critic on PTM) says?! Swashbuckling action and loads of twists and turns in the movie keeps you in your seat entertained. And for some strange reason, movie-goers seem to find the line "Welcome to Singapore" funny. Funny meh? Singapore used to have pirates-infested waters what. And that monkey Jack, is sooo adorable! He really stole the spotlight at several times! :) It would really be good if you're a fan or you have photgraphic memory because there were some references to the previous 2 movies and you'll prolly miss out on the little private jokes if you don't remember the movie. The ending was... unexpected. It must be really painful to be separated from the one you love. I'm hoping that there's a fourth part to it! :)
Andandandand, I've caught Phantom of the Opera! My mum caught it when she was in London and said it was very good and I trust her taste, hahaha. It was brilliant, the transition between scenes was so smooth, the effects were really good, the voices were amazing (haunting even), the costumes were so elaborate and I was so immersed in the story. During the last scene after Christine left with Raoul, the Phantom sat on his chair covered him with a cloak. And when this person came in later and removed the cloak, the Phantom had disappeared, leaving only his mask behind. It's like WOAH! He really disappeared into the thin air! I'm really impressed and really glad that I caught it. It's worth paying good money for good seats to watch a legendary musical on a world-class stage, $130+ well spent. :)
Caught Pirates of the Caribbean yesterday with Bern! It was really good in my opinion, who cares about what Melanie Oliverio (movie critic on PTM) says?! Swashbuckling action and loads of twists and turns in the movie keeps you in your seat entertained. And for some strange reason, movie-goers seem to find the line "Welcome to Singapore" funny. Funny meh? Singapore used to have pirates-infested waters what. And that monkey Jack, is sooo adorable! He really stole the spotlight at several times! :) It would really be good if you're a fan or you have photgraphic memory because there were some references to the previous 2 movies and you'll prolly miss out on the little private jokes if you don't remember the movie. The ending was... unexpected. It must be really painful to be separated from the one you love. I'm hoping that there's a fourth part to it! :)
Andandandand, I've caught Phantom of the Opera! My mum caught it when she was in London and said it was very good and I trust her taste, hahaha. It was brilliant, the transition between scenes was so smooth, the effects were really good, the voices were amazing (haunting even), the costumes were so elaborate and I was so immersed in the story. During the last scene after Christine left with Raoul, the Phantom sat on his chair covered him with a cloak. And when this person came in later and removed the cloak, the Phantom had disappeared, leaving only his mask behind. It's like WOAH! He really disappeared into the thin air! I'm really impressed and really glad that I caught it. It's worth paying good money for good seats to watch a legendary musical on a world-class stage, $130+ well spent. :)
mercredi, mai 02, 2007
My favourite chapter in My Little Prince
It was then that the fox appeared.
"Good morning," said the fox.
"Good morning," the little prince responded politely, although when he turned around he saw nothing.
"I am right here," the voice said, "under the apple tree."
Fox
"Who are you?" asked the little prince, and added, "You are very pretty to look at."
"I am a fox," the fox said.
"Come and play with me," proposed the little prince. "I am so unhappy."
"I cannot play with you," the fox said. "I am not tamed."
"Ah! Please excuse me," said the little prince.
But, after some thought, he added:
"What does that mean--'tame'?"
"You do not live here," said the fox. "What is it that you are looking for?"
"I am looking for men," said the little prince. "What does that mean--'tame'?"
"Men," said the fox. "They have guns, and they hunt. It is very disturbing. They also raise chickens. These are their only interests. Are you looking for chickens?"
"No," said the little prince. "I am looking for friends. What does that mean--'tame'?"
"It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. It means to establish ties."
"'To establish ties'?"
"Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world . . ."
"I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower . . . I think that she has tamed me . . ."
"It is possible," said the fox. "On the Earth one sees all sorts of things."
"Oh, but this is not on the Earth!" said the little prince.
The fox seemed perplexed, and very curious.
"On another planet?"
"Yes."
"Are there hunters on that planet?"
"No."
"Ah, that is interesting! Are there chickens?"
"No."
"Nothing is perfect," sighed the fox.
But he came back to his idea.
"My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored. But if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow. And then look: you see the grain-fields down yonder? I do not eat bread. Wheat is of no use to me. The wheat fields have nothing to say to me. And that is sad. But you have hair that is the color of gold. Think how wonderful that will be when you have tamed me! The grain, which is also golden, will bring me back the thought of you. And I shall love to listen to the wind in the wheat . . ."
The fox gazed at the little prince, for a long time.
"Please--tame me!" he said.
"I want to, very much," the little prince replied. "But I have not much time. I have friends to discover, and a great many things to understand."
"One only understands the things that one tames," said the fox. "Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me . . ."
"What must I do, to tame you?" asked the little prince.
"You must be very patient," replied the fox. "First you will sit down at a little distance from me--like that--in the grass. I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings. But you will sit a little closer to me, every day . . ."
The next day the little prince came back.
"It would have been better to come back at the same hour," said the fox. "If, for example, you come at four o'clock in the afternoon, then at three o'clock I shall begin to be happy. I shall feel happier and happier as the hour advances. At four o'clock, I shall already be worrying and jumping about. I shall show you how happy I am! But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you . . . One must observe the proper rites . . ."
"What is a rite?" asked the little prince.
"Those also are actions too often neglected," said the fox. "They are what make one day different from other days, one hour from other hours. There is a rite, for example, among my hunters. Every Thursday they dance with the village girls. So Thursday is a wonderful day for me! I can take a walk as far as the vineyards. But if the hunters danced at just any time, every day would be like every other day, and I should never have any vacation at all."
So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near--
"Ah," said the fox, "I shall cry."
"It is your own fault," said the little prince. "I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you . . ."
"Yes, that is so," said the fox.
"But now you are going to cry!" said the little prince.
"Yes, that is so," said the fox.
"Then it has done you no good at all!"
"It has done me good," said the fox, "because of the color of the wheat fields." And then he added:
"Go and look again at the roses. You will understand now that yours is unique in all the world. Then come back to say goodbye to me, and I will make you a present of a secret."
The little prince went away, to look again at the roses.
"You are not at all like my rose," he said. "As yet you are nothing. No one has tamed you, and you have tamed no one. You are like my fox when I first knew him. He was only a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But I have made him my friend, and now he is unique in all the world."
And the roses were very much embarassed.
"You are beautiful, but you are empty," he went on. "One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen; because it is for her that I have killed the caterpillars (except the two or three that we saved to become butterflies); because it is she that I have listened to, when she grumbled, or boasted, or ever sometimes when she said nothing. Because she is my rose.
And he went back to meet the fox.
"Goodbye," he said.
"Goodbye," said the fox. "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
"What is essential is invisible to the eye," the little prince repeated, so that he would be sure to remember.
"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important."
"It is the time I have wasted for my rose--" said the little prince, so that he would be sure to remember.
"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose . . ."
"I am responsible for my rose," the little prince repeated, so that he would be sure to remember.
"Good morning," said the fox.
"Good morning," the little prince responded politely, although when he turned around he saw nothing.
"I am right here," the voice said, "under the apple tree."
Fox
"Who are you?" asked the little prince, and added, "You are very pretty to look at."
"I am a fox," the fox said.
"Come and play with me," proposed the little prince. "I am so unhappy."
"I cannot play with you," the fox said. "I am not tamed."
"Ah! Please excuse me," said the little prince.
But, after some thought, he added:
"What does that mean--'tame'?"
"You do not live here," said the fox. "What is it that you are looking for?"
"I am looking for men," said the little prince. "What does that mean--'tame'?"
"Men," said the fox. "They have guns, and they hunt. It is very disturbing. They also raise chickens. These are their only interests. Are you looking for chickens?"
"No," said the little prince. "I am looking for friends. What does that mean--'tame'?"
"It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. It means to establish ties."
"'To establish ties'?"
"Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world . . ."
"I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower . . . I think that she has tamed me . . ."
"It is possible," said the fox. "On the Earth one sees all sorts of things."
"Oh, but this is not on the Earth!" said the little prince.
The fox seemed perplexed, and very curious.
"On another planet?"
"Yes."
"Are there hunters on that planet?"
"No."
"Ah, that is interesting! Are there chickens?"
"No."
"Nothing is perfect," sighed the fox.
But he came back to his idea.
"My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored. But if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow. And then look: you see the grain-fields down yonder? I do not eat bread. Wheat is of no use to me. The wheat fields have nothing to say to me. And that is sad. But you have hair that is the color of gold. Think how wonderful that will be when you have tamed me! The grain, which is also golden, will bring me back the thought of you. And I shall love to listen to the wind in the wheat . . ."
The fox gazed at the little prince, for a long time.
"Please--tame me!" he said.
"I want to, very much," the little prince replied. "But I have not much time. I have friends to discover, and a great many things to understand."
"One only understands the things that one tames," said the fox. "Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me . . ."
"What must I do, to tame you?" asked the little prince.
"You must be very patient," replied the fox. "First you will sit down at a little distance from me--like that--in the grass. I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings. But you will sit a little closer to me, every day . . ."
The next day the little prince came back.
"It would have been better to come back at the same hour," said the fox. "If, for example, you come at four o'clock in the afternoon, then at three o'clock I shall begin to be happy. I shall feel happier and happier as the hour advances. At four o'clock, I shall already be worrying and jumping about. I shall show you how happy I am! But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you . . . One must observe the proper rites . . ."
"What is a rite?" asked the little prince.
"Those also are actions too often neglected," said the fox. "They are what make one day different from other days, one hour from other hours. There is a rite, for example, among my hunters. Every Thursday they dance with the village girls. So Thursday is a wonderful day for me! I can take a walk as far as the vineyards. But if the hunters danced at just any time, every day would be like every other day, and I should never have any vacation at all."
So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near--
"Ah," said the fox, "I shall cry."
"It is your own fault," said the little prince. "I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you . . ."
"Yes, that is so," said the fox.
"But now you are going to cry!" said the little prince.
"Yes, that is so," said the fox.
"Then it has done you no good at all!"
"It has done me good," said the fox, "because of the color of the wheat fields." And then he added:
"Go and look again at the roses. You will understand now that yours is unique in all the world. Then come back to say goodbye to me, and I will make you a present of a secret."
The little prince went away, to look again at the roses.
"You are not at all like my rose," he said. "As yet you are nothing. No one has tamed you, and you have tamed no one. You are like my fox when I first knew him. He was only a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But I have made him my friend, and now he is unique in all the world."
And the roses were very much embarassed.
"You are beautiful, but you are empty," he went on. "One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen; because it is for her that I have killed the caterpillars (except the two or three that we saved to become butterflies); because it is she that I have listened to, when she grumbled, or boasted, or ever sometimes when she said nothing. Because she is my rose.
And he went back to meet the fox.
"Goodbye," he said.
"Goodbye," said the fox. "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
"What is essential is invisible to the eye," the little prince repeated, so that he would be sure to remember.
"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important."
"It is the time I have wasted for my rose--" said the little prince, so that he would be sure to remember.
"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose . . ."
"I am responsible for my rose," the little prince repeated, so that he would be sure to remember.
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