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introducing to all my female frens out there (ie, if you still havent know), the combat rations of our saf guys! long heard how yucky they taste... but then.... how yucky can 'yucky' be right??? and so my dearest boy brought 2 packets back for me to try after his ICT. lol~ according to him, he'll rather eat so-da-pian than the rations. bro was ard when hubb came over ytd, and i showed him the food asking 'doesnt this look familiar?' and the 1st reaction he gave me was 'eeee'... ~ haha ~ issit tt horrible?? let me give my 2 cents worth ~

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very nicely and compactly packed. comes in 2 packets. one is the main pack and one is the side. basically the main pack includes 2 main meals (as the name goes..) and a packet of dessert. the one tt hubb bought back for me was pasta with chicken and glutinous rice with rendang chicken. actually got a menu de.. i guess diff days diff food ba... looked thru it, not too bad one leii.. as for the side pack, consists of biscuits, various drinks satchets, solid fuel, tissue papers etc.
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tt's the chicken pasta! hahahaah.. it's really interesting how they can pack the food into these packets and enhance the shelf lives to a few years.. no plates or wadsoever... juz eat straight from the pack... it's quite creepy to eat directly from the pack... juz feels very weird to eat main course like tt.... and..... it's even creepier to know tt the food was cooked some yrs back~ the tot really spoils the appetite ~

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but if you pour it out on a plate, it actually looks okay. juz like normal pastas. the taste also not tt bad lar. juz tt the pasta a little soggy and soft and the chicken too dry ~ but the more u eat... the more 'weird' u feel... i guess i know wad 'yucky' meant le la. but then again, which food will not be yucky if you eat alot of it???? hmmmm ~

maybe try the glutinous rice later. heh~ all in all, not tt bad lar.. juz tt the psychological part a bit hard to overcome. eating something tt has been cooked quite some time back... tt tot is a bit hard to digest. i wonder wad kind and how much preservatives are in there ~~~~~ but really interesting lar.. wad more to expect? got main course, got drinks, got biscuits, even tissues also included.. really v thoughtful le ~

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went watch The Incredible Hulk with hubb ytd... if i remembered correctly, the last movie we watched tog was I am Legend. ha ~ eons years ago yeah? no good movies lately leii.. if not for hubb insistence, i wouldnt want to watch Hulk either. quite a crappy movie... seeing 2 huge monsters fighting ....... haii ~~~~ like i say, im never a fantasy person... too practical and realistic i guess. i can never appreciate movies like Lords of the Rings, Harry Potters, Star Wars etc... the kind tt needs a lot of imagination and v far-fetched from real. unfortunately, most block-busters are tt kind of movies.. i guess i can only go for 小品 like comedies or more 'real' movies ~

watched the movie at cathay cineleisure. usually we will go to GV, but this time round, cuz of the free tix, we went watch at cathay. din realise the wide varieties of munchies tt are sold at cathay. seemed to me cinemas r no longer juz a place to watch a movie. we ordered a pizza which was good enuff to be a meal for 1 person. perhaps, in future, cinemas can also sell chix rice, mee siam, laksa and such so tt u can eat and watch at the same time. ha ~ ok, think too much liao ~

our pizza! brought in to us by the vendors slightly after the movie started. hot and yummy!! it's actually quite big, but the pic made it look small.

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tt's me and my hubb in the cinema! din realise my phone has the flash light function only until recently. to think tt im holding on to the phone for almost a yr le!!! tech-idiot, tt's me. the flash quite powerful yeeah, ultra dark also can capture ~ hiak ~~

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End of Mid-yR

yeah! finally completed the 12th OT for this month! im soo sooo proud of myself ~ woohoo~ but no more 12 days pls.... it's toooooo tiring! on average is 3 days per wk. will die.

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june is coming to an end... we are entering the 3rd quarter of the year! it's juz sooo scary~!!! coming august will be my 1st anniversary with the bank le. omg ~

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really super tired... better slp early, enjoy the wkend, and welcome the new month next wk ~ jiayou!!!!!!!!!

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FaThErs' DaY + DaY Out wiTh TriCia

fathers' day this year was spent at Nana Thai restaurant at Far East Plaza on 14 June. my suggestion to go there... wide variety of food, reasonable prices... i will strongly recommend~
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~the wei da deddy who shaved his hair so tt he can accompany the little gal in the 'hair-growing process'. lol~

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and as mentioned, today im on leave. it's really funny. on days when i have to work, how i hope i can juz sleep on and on and on and ignore the alarm clock. but tdy, when i do not have to work, abt 8+ i woke up already. haii~ wad a waste.
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i think i juz need a job tt will allow me to sleep till 8.30am. no need till too late. 8.30am will be ideal :)

anyway, took the little tricia out today. went to meet ah ji for lunch at her workplace @ harbourfront. ma and soh soh went too. hiak hiak hiak~ settled at dragon gate for dim sum. after tt shopped for a while jiu went home le. fun experience. sis has this carrier tt is something like a school bag. you juz need to secure the baby, and then can carry the baby ard like how you will carry a school bag. can be quite tiring and aching after carrying for a while though. but tricia is suuucchhhh a darling. sooo cooperative. sooooo cuuutteee !!!

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~at the restaurant~

~bleah!~

~see?? she loves me!!!~

~cheeze!~

but it's quite weird lar. cuz i think pple will think tt the baby is mine. i wouldnt want pple to misunderstand and talk behind my back ohhh.. heheh ~

and little tricia can now turn on her own and lie on her belly le. crawling wil be next and slowly, she'll be able to stand and walk le! yeah ~~~ then she'll be more fun to play with le. hiak hiak :)

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GroWinG Up

today is the last day of the june hols. nothing to do with me, doesnt affect me.... but somehow, happened to realise something out of it.

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was listening to the radio ytd and this gal called in and mentioned that she's rushing the holiday homework. then the deejay said in the past, during the hols, he'll also play during the early part of the hols and wait till the last min then cheong the homework. then they both agreed tt 'all students are like tt..'

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true. 谁何尝不是呢? in the past, when i was still a student, there's no planning at all. it doesnt matter how much homework there were, all can wait till last minute. it doesnt matter last min can finish or not, juz wait till last min, tt's it. but now, i know how to plan. FTT is in early July, but i have already started studying for it. becuz i know last min definitely cannot finish. i have learnt how to stagger things out, so tt things tt need to be done are not all sqz together till the v last min, but slowly completed bit by bit.

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when i was young, whenever i cannot remember the spelling words, i will get super worrried and start to cry. whenever i forget to bring something to school eg work books, i start to panic. whenever homework cannot be completed, i start to be stress. whenever i cannot understand wad is being taught, i start to get upset. whenever fren A is closer to fren B than me, i will feel tt fren B is snatching my frens....... it never occur to me tt i can talk and explain to the teachers, i can open my mouth and ask the teachers, i can reason with the teachers.... i can slowly take things one at a time.....and tt all are frens, nothing such as snatching my frens.....

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when i was young, i remembered making donation calls without consulting my parents and for the whole period of time, i was soo worried, unsure of how to fork out the money tt i have donated....

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if you ask me do i want to go back to being a child, i will say no. many envied being a child and hoped they can go back to being a child with nothing to worry abt. but for me.... i really don think so. i think for myself, i have more things to worry abt when i was a child than im now. being a child is too helpless. even forgetting bringing a book can cause anxiety. being a child is too vulnerable. even very small matter can also worry alot.

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i can only say tt i enjoy growing up. i enjoy the autonomous, i enjoy being able to make my own decisions, i enjoy having purchasing power and i enjoy knowing how to handle situations and emotions. i'm now possessing sooo many things tt i did not possess when i was a child. things tt bother me alot when i was a child became a piece of cake. juz like how the mole used to bother me.... now tt im older, juz $150, and my prob was solved.

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see wad i mean?

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im soo glad to be a grown-up. im so glad to feel the maturity in myself growing. many things come with age... and i truly thank myself for growing up ~

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BoReD

hubb is having ICT... it's a bored bored sat at home... actually also not tt bored lar. woke up, ate, study FTT, nap, dinner, tv, net, shower, back to FTT then slp......................... even when slacking, time also passes sooo fast ~

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taking leave on monday. time to take a break.

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anyway.... feeling v down ~ think suffering from PMS again ~ siannnz..

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TiReD.....

tdy's supposed to ot de... but too tired... decided not to. actually this mth quite mad, cuz me and colleague actually aiming to ot 12 days which means on average is 3 days per wk. wahhaha ~ super zaii rite?? maybe tt explains my tiredness. but nonetheless, will still work towards the goal. i need the money!!!!!! wahahah ~~~

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think it's time to take some leave and take a break. tot of going away for a while. but where? hmmm...

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BuSy WeeKeNd

wad da hell am i doing here so early in the morning?? i should still be sleeping or sitting on the sofa comfortably watching tv... it's a SAT morning leiiii!!

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but.. no choice.. too many things to do this wkend. later going out with hubb to buy his ICT stuff... then tonite will be father's day dinner... tmr even more busy, 2 weddings to attend. actually 1 is solemnisation @ marina mandarine... the other is wedding dinner @ novotel.. lucky the timing doesnt clash.. go for the solemnisation 1st then after tt to the dinner. i wouldnt want to miss either one! but then... y so qiao on the same day ne???? if diff days then i can enjoy more, no need to rush and can eat more.. hahahhahah.. anyway solemnisation is for my uni fren, anthony.. he's only 2 yrs older?? and already settling down... so scary.. as for the wedding dinner, is for my colleague at work.. all the v best!!!!

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actually even with so many things on, i also don need to wake up so early de rite? the darn thing is.... i was the 'secretary' for the last dept meeting and now, i have to churn out tt bloody minutes!!! argghh ~ how suay... juz when my wkends r full of programs, im stuck with a report.. when im sooo free on wkends, i got nothing to do. wad irony.. worse still, i still have a whole lot to read up on my FTT.... only 2.5wks left.. considering whether to defer it or not.. i don wanna go unprepared.. "when u go unprepared, u are prepared to fail"... wah, lihai ba..?

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anyway, should have used office time to do the minutes.. but.. too engrossed in hitting the targets le.. so no choice, have to bring home to do.. haii... really don like the idea of having my personal time eaten up by work stuff.. i guess im not cut-out to be a nu qiang ren.. or rather, the pay doesnt justify. o well, im digressing.. every meeting will change secretary, it'll be a long time till it's my turn again. so, doesnt matter. juz once in a loooong while... should not complain so much over such small issue.

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ok.. going to eat breakfast 1st b4 i start on the minutes. hope can finish it soon. the meeting was last wk monday... gonna churn it out soon else the bosses will be questioning me le! cannot let tt happen!!!!!

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o yeah, and tis busy wkend is gonna make me missed the zhong yi da ge da and the finals for the wei wo du zhun.. though the latter will have repeat (and no guarantee tt i'll get to watch), but the former no more repeat le!! argghh, y are all gd programmes sqz in this wekend????

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SeeiNg

tdy went eat with hubb at the hawker centre @ chinatown... sitting at the table beside us was an uncle with a young lady. didnt occur to me.. but hubb said he should be those peh-peh with nothing but cpf $ and time. anyway.. it din bother me.. so we juz ordered the food and eat lorr..

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halfway thru the meal, a man suddenly walked towards tt couple. i noticed the man cux he was sitting at the table in front of me all the while. he wasnt anything special, so i tot he juz sat there to take a rest, until he walked over to the couple. and..... he actually asked the couple if he could have the food tt was leftover by them. actually, there really wasnt any leftovers, juz a little bit of horfun left. and he went over to ask if he could have tt bit of food.... at tt pt of time, my tears juz rolled down..... no joke, no exaggeration, no drama... really, my tears juz rolled...

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the peh-peh said there's no more food left. then he told the man to go order the horfun and he'll pay for it.. the man happily went... when the food came, he again asked the peh-peh if he could have tt left-over horfun. the young lady passed the plate over and the man gladly mixed the leftover horfun with the newly cooked horfun and ate. then i overheard the peh-peh asking the man where he came from.. the man then sd he's from indonesia and they started to spk in malay.....

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then, juz b4 the peh-peh left, he gave the man a $10 note. the man then took the other plate tt they left behind and tried to see if there's any meat left.. and the whole plate of horfun, he ate till not a bit left...

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many feelings....feel v sad for the man. he's maybe abt 50+? quite tall, quite gd-built. not shabbily dressed, but can see his outfit is quite old. i saw the desperation in him. after thinking for a while, i tot he mite be a cheat, going ard cheating pple to treat them food.. but then again, he alr got the fresh horfun, y bother to eat the leftovers by strangers? at tt pt, i think he's truly hungry and no $. he's also a human being, with pride and dignity... but yet.. he had to go tt low, to ask pple for leftover food... to eat pple's leftover... i really feel vvvv sad... y is this happening? some pple can have all the luxuries in the world... while some pple cant even afford a single meal... and had to eat food tt is abandoned by total strangers.....

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for those who directly ask pple for $$, they may be cheats. but for the man, i truly feel sorry. 1stly, he did not ask for $. 2ndly, he did not ask for anything except for the food which pple dont want. hence, i think, he's not cheat. wanted to buy him a drink... but did not.. wanted to give him $... but did not... wanted to give him the 2 MARS bar in my bag... but did not... haiii.... im such a failure.. dont even have the guts to help pple...

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as for the peh-peh.. i really admire him. hubb said he got alot of $ wad... true.. but.... so wad? have alot of $ doesnt mean he has to spend on a total stranger rite? i think the peh-peh v magnamious. though small money, but can really c if a person is a person with heart or not... kudos to the peh-peh!

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as for the poor man.. all the v best to him... actually, i also don know wad is he doing in singapore or wad he can do in singapore.. haiii....

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and tdy, went to cut hair. wanted to trim the damaged ends only ... but tt damn woman juz ka-cha my hair w/o anybody biz...! so darn pissed.. i din want so short de... tt woman.. don even bother to ask me.. juz cut and tt's it... arrghh!!!!! there goes my hair which i tried soooo hard to grow.. haiiiiiiiiiiiii

JaPaN DaY 6 & 7 - 16/4/08 & 17/4/08

finally reached the last 2 days of the japan trip. last 2nd day was to disneyland. b4 going, sis kept telling me how fun the disneyland in tokyo is, and perhaps cuz of tt, my expectation was v high. and hence, i will say, im actually quite disappointed when i experienced it myself.

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i will say, it's more or less the same as the one in HK. the themes also quite the same... many said the one in HK is not comparable... but i don feel so leii.. i think it's the same. or maybe, it's not the 1st visit, hence not as fascinated... and as always, the 1st experience will always be more special. hence maybe tt affected my judgement. i think it's a wrong choice to go disneyland. should have gone disneysea instead. the one and only in the world. i still think the guide purposely 'coax' us to go to land instead of sea.... i guess it's easier to bring all of us to the same place and fetch all of us from the same place, rather than some at land, some at sea. o well... wadever.. hopefully next time still got chance then can visit sea.
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basically we only took 2 rides.. the queue is juz toooooo long. queue till soooo sian... we should have used the fast pass once we reached. by the time we decided to use the fast pass, it's still too late le....
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one of the rides tt we rode.. generally the rides are quite kiddish. luckily we tried one thrilling de..but the queuing part is more than enuff to stop us from riding other rides le... so super long..

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the various themes...

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photos with the characters.. many are too hot.. cant even have a chance to go near.. so mostly took with those ulu characters.. better than nothing.. lol~ *

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played this shooting game... cousin esmond is real gd at tt.. marksman.. won us many souvenirs.. tt's us with our score cards.. im the lousiest. neber my flair in shooting games..
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the v beautiful tulips...
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the yummy lunch in disneyland... it's neber easy to order when u cannot communicate with the pple...

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look at the neatly arranged prams.. i wonder y japan is facing the problem of decreasing birth rates.. there are soo many young parents with >1 kids! it seemed to us tt japanese marry early and give birth early and usually, it's more than 1 kid.. if so, how then can there be decreasing birth rates? perhaps, this is only a small part tt we see. afterall, it's in disneyland tt we saw this phenomenon. if we dont see kids, then i think disneyland can close shop liaooo..

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did not manage to catch the fireworks..in summary, nothing v impressive with the tokyo disneyland. to me, it's the same as the one in HK. maybe the one in HK is better.. i think communication plays a v big part.. if u cannot understand the language, it's really v hard to enjoy... so maybe tt's y i think i still prefer the one in HK..

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last day nothing much le. we were brought to this shopping mall to do some last min shopping.. tt's my last lunch in japan.. even the food courts in shopping malls use the vending machine system. u dont order from human beings but from machines.. then they will hand u this device tt is like an alarm clock. when the device sounds, then u go back and collect ur food.. stunned. ~

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our tour guide in japan. someone who always 'warn' us to be on time, to go only straight in and straight out and not turn else we'll definitely lost our way, someone who can be quite crude and too straightforward at times. many complained against him.. but i guess.. i can understand his stress and pressure. ours was a v big grp, with one on wheelchair, and one with walking stick. the itinery was v packed. like wad he said, to us, the itinery is a schedule, but to him and the company, the itinery is a contract. if he fails to deliver wad is in the itinery, we have every right to lodge complains and seek compensation. so seriously, we cant blame him for rushing us, for giving us so little time, for over-emphasizing on being on-time and dont lost our ways etc.. i used to think being a tour guide is fun.. but if u really think deeper, i guess it's one of the worse jobs ever. salut to all tour leaders! o, and i really thank him when we bought the new luggage and had some prob with the luggage. went to the salesperson and as usally, communication broke down! he was the one who helped run in and out of the shop to see how to solve the prob.. can see tt he really did try to help. on tt note, i think he's afterall, quite a nice person.

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the dinner on board.. tt egg was actually the dessert. something like agar agar. interesting ~

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finally back in singapore!

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in summary, i will say i really did not enjoy alot becuz of the many reasons, said or unsaid. basically bought nothing except food, a pair of shoes, and some small souvnirs. am quite glad to come back to singapore at tt pt of time actually. anyway, think it will be quite some time b4 i can travel to japan again le.. so ex.. my bonus almost all gone in this trip.. see how ba.. hopefully the next time i go, i can have a better experience. :)

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4.5 YeaRs

tdy is the 4.5years with my dearest fat boy. im going to say the most common phrase tt can be found in my blog le ~ 'how time flies'............. 4.5 years.. quite impressive. hahah.. must jiayou to maintain the r/s... it's never easy.. esp with someone like me... possessive, hot-temper, paranoid, petty, stubborn, spoilt... i also donnoe wad had the fat boy committed to be stuck with someone like me. sometimes i really think he deserves someone better.. someone who will be nicer to him, who will treat him better than me. but o well, since he's stuck with me, it's juz tooooo bad for him! hahahahahh!!!! okok, i should not say till im like totally useless like tt. at times, im also v nice to him de... horrrr horrrrr???

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anyway... we've decided to start saving together.. actually, v long ago, we also save together de.. but becuz of the many reasons, it stopped. if it never stopped, i think by now we should have saved quite a bit of money le. anyway, it's neber too late to start.. or rather, to restart.

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pink piggy is for the 2 of us to save. brown bearie is for myself to save. slowly slowly, day by day... small amt will also become big amt. hehehhe.. hubby, better rem wad u promised when we decided to save together o... don commit the same mistakes the last time round. jiayou jiayou!!!!

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CreDiT CarDs

it's the beginning of a new month again. mid-yr le... argghh!!!! soooooo fast!!

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dying my hair now.. cant remb when was the last time i dyed it le.. cny??? actually my hair rather damaged le.. i know i shouldnt dye it le.. but... hmm.. the color's really boring lar. tot of changing it then can give myself a new 'mood'. haha.. ~ crap~ thinking of perming also... see how baa~

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GSS...many things i wanna buy... but.. no $$.. haii~ july will start repaying dad's cpf.. more haii~

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in the past, i cannot understand y when using credit cards, pple choose to pay the minimum and not the full amt. y be so silly to bear the interests? but now... i think i can understand le... it's really really very tempting to only pay a minimum of 3% of the o/s instead of the full amt. big temptation. and i guess it's exactly becuz of this temptation tt so many pple r on their way to bankruptcy. o well.

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i guess i really should stop using credit cards. when the bills come, the thought of paying only for the minimum is sooooo great. and i know, if there is once, there will be twice. and b4 u know it, the interests is snowballing and the outstanding is also snowballing. i think it's time to stop. better go back to my good old debit cards. straight away deduct wad i spend, then there will be no temptations at all. mm..

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scv channel 48 is broadcasting this donation show by artistes. live telecast. started in the afternn till now. think it will end at 10pm. which means tt if tdy fly a plane to hk, can also catch the show there. ahaa, interesting tot. ~