I’ll sing it one last time for you
Then we really have to go
You’ve been the only thing that’s right
In all I’ve done

And I can barely look at you
But every single time I do
I know we’ll make it anywhere
Away from here

Light up, light up
As if you have a choice
Even if you cannot hear my voice
I’ll be right beside you dear

Louder louder
And we’ll run for our lives
I can hardly speak I understand
Why you can’t raise your voice to say

To think I might not see those eyes
Makes it so hard not to cry
And as we say our long goodbye
I nearly do

Light up…

Slower slower
We don’t have time for that
All I want is to find an easier way
To get out of our little heads

Have heart my dear
We’re bound to be afraid
Even if it’s just for a few days
Making up for all this mess

I was halfway through finishing my essay when I decided to do something to my nails. I only had OPI’s “Second Honeymoon”, China Glaze’s “For Audrey” and “Broken Hearted” in my room in school. So I had limited choices, I could either change my nail colour, or create a shattered look for my nails. Or I could do this:

My current nails :) rocking the marshmellow look

So I haven’t sported dual-coloured nails for a while. But I’ve always though that these two colours would go really well together. The first time I got the “For Audrey” from Grace at beautysofly.blogspot.com, I was thinking of using these two colours for a cute modern french manicure. But I still need to perfect my manicure skills. For now, I’ll make-do with this. :)

I used OPI’s “Second Honeymoon” as a base and China Glaze’s “For Audrey” for the diagonal strip across.

OPI's "Second Honeymoon" and China Glaze's "For Audrey"

Here’s how I got the look:

1) I first applied 3 coats of “Second Honeymoon”, but you can apply as many as you like to get the colour you like.

2) Half a brush of “For Audrey” for the diagonal stripe. You could apply it towards whichever direction you’ll like and mirror the directions for your right or left hand, or keep the diagonal directions the same.

3) Top coat and VOILA! :)

Very very simple! Makes me happy :D

:)

So I’m hooked on this song and it’s lyrics since Mabel led it yesterday. It goes like this:

“I Will Follow”

Where you go, I’ll go
Where you stay, I’ll stay
When you move, I’ll move
I will follow…

All your ways are good
All your ways are sure
I will trust in you alone
Higher than my side
High above my life
I will trust in you alone

Where you go, I’ll go
Where you stay, I’ll stay
When you move, I’ll move
I will follow you
Who you love, I’ll love
How you serve I’ll serve
If this life I lose, I will follow you
I will follow you

Light unto the world
Light unto my life
I will live for you alone
You’re the one I seek
Knowing I will find
All I need in you alone, in you alone

In you there’s life everlasting
In you there’s freedom for my soul
In you there joy, unending joy
and I will follow

When I was singing the song, it was easy for me to pledge that I’ll go where God goes, follow Him when He moves and when He stays. But when it came to the lyrics “Who you love, I’ll love” and “How You serve, I’ll serve”, I found hard to sing that with all my heart.

Lord,
Help me with this. I’m not ready to love as You do, neither to serve as you serve.

Your child.

I have confessions to make.
1) I think I started out facing my paper with fear. The fear that my topic won’t be able to span 12-15 pages, single spaced. The fear that LMH won’t like my topic. The fear that someone else would do better than me. The fear that… I don’t know. I didn’t start out right when I was doing my gender essay. I think I didn’t do it justice. I could have done much much better if I had just sat down and prayed before I started anything.

2) As a consequence of 1), or not, I didn’t treat my paper right. I didn’t make use of my time to really think clearly and research properly about what I was going to write. I just dove into it, thinking that it would flow naturally because I had an interesting topic. As if my brain was in my fingers, I just typed, assuming that my arguments and points would make sense. I failed the paper.

Sigh. I would totally understand if I got a C for the paper. But yet, I desperately wish against a C. I need help. And I need to go take a shower and start studying.

Good luck for exams to all who are taking them soon!

Today was my first time back in church after two very very hectic weekends, and a few of us decided to go out for dinner. So delphink, j, jx and me decided to go to East Coast Park for dinner and stumbled upon this Japanese restaurant: Yoshimaru Ramen Bar. I really enjoyed the food, and the company and decided that I would do my first little food review :)

Place: Yoshimaru Ramen Bar at East Coast Park
Specialty: Traditional Hakata Ramen

It was threatening to rain and the claypot rice restaurant that we wanted to try had a waiting list of about half an hour or more, so we just trooped to the ramen bar next door. We managed to score seats for four at the bar.

Looking at the menu, I decided to go for the ramen bar’s speciality, the Traditional Hakata Ramen ($11), which was the ramen topped with chashu pork, soft boiled eggs, cloud-eared mushrooms and spring onions. They had different variations of the basis ramen that one could try, like the Shabu Shabu Beef Ramen ($14), Toasted Garlic Ramen ($13 – which I was quite interested in) and Chanpon Seafood Ramen ($13). They also had a DIY option, to which you can add your choice of ingredients onto a basic bowl of ramen with chashu.

So the waiter took our orders and served us our choice of drink as well as a funny bowl filled with sesame seeds and a pounder. We were quite confused about the bowl cause we didn’t know what it was for. The waiter told us that we should grind the sesame seeds and add it into the ramen. It was quite a fun experience for us to try out which was the correct way to ground the seeds.

When our ramen arrived, I was first captivated by the soft boiled eggs. The egg yolk looked so good, it wasn’t fully cooked and it looked like it was done just right. The egg was soft boiled to perfection! Not only was the egg yolk a tad runny, a thin layer of egg white just around the yolk was just as runny. It was so so good that it deserves two photos. :)

When I eat ramen, what usually makes or breaks the ramen is the taste of the soup, and this soup was awesome. It wasn’t too salty, neither was it bland. The creamy stock was sweetened by the many hours of boiling pork bones. I’m not too much of a carbohydrates girl, but the thin thin noodles were perfect to my taste buds. They didn’t steal the limelight away from the flavorful soup, but complemented it with a slight chewiness that comes from noodles cooked just right.

The slices of pork, or chashu was simply “melt in your mouth” kind of goodness. I really loved the texture of the portion that was given to me. The meat was not overcooked, unlike the many tough, dry and overcooked pieces of chashu I’ve eaten from other ramen places, and was made more yummy by the layers of fat on it. The size of the pieces were quite substantial as well. However, I doubt that every one would get this portion of the meat.

Delphink choose to take the combo meal ($17.90), Traditional Hakata Ramen with mini Unagi Don came with pickles and salad or something? The rice was quite soft, and was tasty when dressed with the teriyaki sauce from the unagi. The unagi was really delicious, except that it was hard to cut through the skin. We eventually gave most of the don to the boys because we were so full from the ramen.

The ramen was really satisfying and would fill up a hungry person. It was a really reasonable price to pay for such an enjoyable meal (oh did I mention a 10% discount for Citibank card members?). It was awesome til the very last drop and I can’t wait to bring my boy to try it soon. :)

Til next time…

Instead, today was the day that I learnt the most important lesson in my life. Not by my teachers, or my lecturers, or my tutors, or the many good theorists that I read in my readings. But from one of the most important people in my life at the moment.

Today I learnt that if you love somebody, let him/her know. Let the world know. Or else, you’ll regret it. Cause the person will leave, and you won’t know what you did wrong. Thankfully, my person loves me too much to leave. But I just want to affirm him again, and again, and again.

Dearie, I love you. I’m really really thankful to have you in my life. For all the little things and big sacrifices that you’ve done for me. For putting me first at all times. You are the best, Shawn Quek, you are.

Then being attention seeking me, I ask the bf: why? And then I’m reminded once more.. No matter how attractive extravagance and spectacles may be, the little things count too. Sometimes, the little things are all one can afford, and sometimes it’s the little things that are more important in the end.

So now I want to make a point to acknowledge the little things my dearest has done for me today.

1) let me know what time he can finish and go back without me asking.

2) delivered an extra jacket, hot coffee and dewberry to me in the igloo of a room when I complained to him that I was cold and hungry. Even though I don’t like dewberry. Hehe.

3) spent a little time just hugging me just before I left his room.

Thank God for blessing me with my boy and making him pretty awesome.

Just was thinking about the people who have sent me wishes.. Some of these people, I haven’t talk to them in many years, haven’t seen them in so long, so even if I see them all the time, I would hardly have conversations with them.. But with fb, even they can sounds like my bestest of friends.. Hmm..

Moving on to my blast of a day:
I came home last night and got a ‘surprise’ from my darling Yunnie :) hence the photo above. Peanut butter cheesecake, a handmade scrapbook card and a B&J’s disposable camera. Cuteness much! :D then waking upon the new day brought me to a family lunch at Jade Restaurant at the Fullerton Hotel with the boyfriends :) that was really nice. And as of now, I’m in the cab stuck in the jam on the way to Hotel Re for my darling Lisha’s 21st party.

Whee! Happy days. Wait til tonight – airdoll blog post and race essay :(

Nor could I ever own what’s mine
When you’re always taking sides
But you won’t take away my pride
No, not this time
Not this time

How did we get here
When I used to know you so well?
How did we get here?
Well, I think I know

The truth is hiding in your eyes
And it’s hanging on your tongue
Just boiling in my blood
But you think that I can’t see

What kind of man that you are
If you’re a man at all
Well, I will figure this one out
On my own

(I’m screaming, I love you so)
On my own
(But my thoughts you can’t decode)

How did we get here?
When I used to know you so well?
How did we get here?
Well, I think I know

Do you see what we’ve done?
We’re gonna make such fools of ourselves
Do you see what we’ve done?
We’re gonna make such fools of ourselves

How did we get here
When I used to know you so well?
How did we get here
When I used to know you so well?

I think I know
I think I know
There is something I see in you
It might kill me, I want it to be true

So, here are my favourite items that were featured on Etsy, and were made specially for the occasion. Enjoy! :)

1) Lovely hairband. I would wear it for wedding receptions and a girls day out. Probably would buy it for Delphink! :)

2) Oooh. A sweet ring that I would get for someone’s 21st.

3) MY FAVOURITE FAVOURITE piece of jewellery. I could wear this necklace on a daily basis.