Taste of Freedom

Let's make it last forever

15 November 2011. How can I ever forget that night? I felt as though I just stepped out of prison after serving a 10-year sentence. The taste of freedom was sweet to my tongue.

At 3pm that day, I officially completed my GCE 'O' level examination. I didn't have to think about studying for at least two whole months. The first thing I did when I got home was to clear all my books and notes. Xavier discarded two big plastic bags of my worksheets.

My girlfriends came over to my place at 6pm to chill for awhile before leaving for Bugis. We shopped, did manicure and pedicure and had our favourite I ♥ Taimei. We then headed to the cinema to catch You Are The Apple Of My Eye.

It was already midnight when our movie ended. We walked around Bugis for a short while before taking a cab to Somerset. The night was still young. We spent the rest of the night at KBox, singing and dancing and laughing away. It was perfect! At 5:30am, we left KBox and walked to Orchard MRT station. We had breakfast at McDonald's before heading back to my house to sleep. That was a hell of a night out.

That taste of freedom, I will never forget it.

No one can buy it, and only special people can make it.

I Want This To Be My Awakening

I don't know if anyone is reading this but hi, it has been quite awhile. Almost a year has passed since I last blogged and I have a heap of stories to share. In case you're wondering, I am studying in Innova Junior College now. To those who are taking your 'O' levels in a week's time, all the best! Chance on whatever time you are left with and MUG. And to those who will be taking your 'O' levels, START STUDYING NOW. I am not coining a cliche, I am speaking from experience. I regretted not studying...but I didn't regret the fun I had from forsaking my studies (oops). Just a lil advice: if you aren't enjoying your mugging sessions (note that I said mugging and not study cuz we all know that study sessions with friends always turn into something else), DO NOT GO TO A JUNIOR COLLEGE. Most importantly: know what you want!

Omg I swear I have soooooo many things to talk about, but I can't talk about them all in one night cuz I gotta sleep as I have school tomorrow. I shall just briefly talk about my life after O levels and life in a junior college...

I worked as a promoter promoting Popular's E-Assessment at City Hall and Simei. My time at City Hall was fun as I made many new friends. Simei was just crap cuz I was the sole promoter there so yeah I didn't have anyone to talk to. I had the job till the end of December when my contract ended, and then I worked at Forever 21 at 313@Somerset. During my off days, I would sell ice cream door-to-door with Huilin. Yeah I was freaking rich as I was working practically everyday.

Xavier and I eventually became an item, and we had many memorable moments together. We broke up though on March 25. He said his feelings for me faded lol. I had the worst post-breakup depression in my entire life as he was after all my first serious boyfriend. Oh well, the first one is the worst one when it comes to a broken heart. I am still single now btw I FUCKING HATE GUYS. Okay kidding...to a certain extent.

I made a lot of lovely friends in my junior college. My classmates are sweet and my form teacher (civics tutor they call it) is a nice man. He has two really deep dimples and he teaches me H2 Mathematics. But I hated going to school cuz I didn't have any motivation to study. Going to school was a chore. I never hated school this much in my entire life.

Apart from school though, I gotta say that this year has got to be the best year I've ever lived. And yes like in those books you read, I go to booze parties and hang in the middle of the night with booze. I am not an alcoholic and I can hold my liquor (it's a Pinoy thing I guess?).

One really beautiful thing that happened in my life this year was that I am in contact with my church friends again, and that we talk on Whatsapp all the time and hang out every week. Since I stopped going to Catechism (but I still do go to church every week up till now), I drifted from all the church homies. Soooo glad to have them back in my life! Another beautiful thing is that I am in contact with my primary school mates again! I really miss you boys -- Ernest, Gabriel, Raikhal and Alson. To think about it, people whom I stopped contacting 4 years ago are now back in my life. Thank you Lord for that :)

This year was also awesome cuz I got to see Show Luo and Yellowcard and BOYS LIKE GIRLS! I actually had conversations with the boys from BLG omg thinking about it still makes me hyperventilate! They are my most favourite band in the world! The best part.....I MANAGED TO GET GUITAR PICKS FROM BOTH THE BLG AND YELLOWCARD GIG!!!

I don't know if it's just me or if time is really going too fast. But I do know that I have to get my ass in bed now or I'll be damn cranky the next morning. I'll give a detailed update the highlights of the year so far. For now, goodnight.

It's Been A Long Time But I'm Back In Town

Xinpei, Maria, Pantita, Sheela

Last Tuesday, we had a spontaneous shopping date in town. Sadly, we didn't manage to find any clothes that we love so we went home only with new accessories. Still, I had a great time with my dear girls. And I'm especially treasuring our every outings cuz Pantita will be leaving real soon :(

Sheela and Xinpei came over to my place to hang out for awhile before meeting Pantita at Admiralty MRT station. Took the train to Somerset and walked around 313, tryna find pretty clothes to buy. Walked over to H&M, and still found nothing (I still love their coats though).

@ Forever21
@ Forever21
@ Forever21
Sheela and Xinpei trying on ear muffs @ H&M

We went across the street to Cineleisure where we had Artease and shopped at this accessory shop. Pantita, Xinpei and I also pierced our ears hehe.

Artease: Hazelnut milk tea

(it's DAMN GOOD)

Having my helix pierced!
My second helix piercing hehe
Had our helix pierced!
After we finished shopping for accessories and piercing our ears, we walked around Cineleisure, hoping to buy some clothes...but there weren't any that caught our eyes. And OHHHHHHH!!! I only went out with $12.50 cuz I already spent my allowance in town the day before, and guess what! Xavier asked Pantita to lend me 50 bucks...and he'll pay her! So it's like he's giving me 50 bucks to shop! AWWWWWWW! :')

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

It was already 10pm when we were tryna find nice clothes, and almost all the shops were closed. So we took a walk around town, and ended up in a pretty toilet in Paragon! And we just camwhored our time away in there!





My model shots hahahahahaha!








Camwhoring!





After all the crazy camwhoring, we headed back to Woodlands and we had supper at McDonald's. It was already 1am then, and it was raining heavily. We were all talking about how were we going to go home when Xavier my Saviour appeared all of a sudden at McDonald's, all drenched. He actually ran from his house to Causeway Point to send me home, awwww :') He is such a sweetheart I swear! *many many hearts*

Home sweet home

All in all, I had a great day although it was an unproductive shopping! I'll update real soon about shopping at Bugis with Pantita on Wednesday and my job interviews plus chilling with Xavier at VivoCity yesterday.

I'm going to catch the #1 Taiwanese movie, You Are The Apple Of My Eye, with Xav now hehe so I gotta go get ready. Toodles! xoxo

Footloose Marijuana And Everything Random

Yesterday Xavier and I headed down to town and caught Footloose at Cineleisure. Footloose was average, definitely not as nice as Step Up. And they weren't any hot guys, awww. I had Best Fries Forever for lunch, my very first time eating it although I practically live in Cineleisure LOL. Had Gong Cha's pearl milk tea with the fries, it was awesome!

After my lunch, I still felt thirsty so Xav bought me a cup of pearl milk tea (yeah milk tea mania) from Artease. Happiness :D


Well the milk tea isn't as nice as Gong Cha and definitely not comparable with Koi. According to Xavier, it tasted like expired milk LOL.

As our movie starts at 7.25pm, we had almost three hours so spare. We went to Timezone and played some shooting games and the street basketball game, and I suck at them like crazy :( I seriously have zero talent when it comes to arcade games LOL.

After Timezone, we went to H&M and then Heren to...walk hahaha! H&M has sooo many chio winter clothes but it's too hot to wear them in Singapore :( I love woolen shirts, it's damn nice and it looks good on me (cuz it covers my fats well hahahaha). Even my friends go "Maria, this is so you" when they see woolen shirts! Hehehe.

After the movie, Xavier and I went back to Woodlands and had dinner/supper at 888. I was super goddamned full after eating meepo and I felt like crap, so I'm on a diet...for today hehe.

Alrighty, that's all for this post. Shall end off with some camwhore shots hahahahaha! xoxo

Outfit for the day. Heading out of my house :D
Close up hehe

Baby Noel

Hehehe, I decided to blog about my turning seven-year-old baby brother, Noel, because he is so cute and adorable. Well I have nothing much to say actually, just some pictures to share... I love him soooo much!!! ♥ ♥ ♥ Anyway, my mum says we look EXACTLY alike which I don't think so. At all. Well, here are some pictures and you guys can judge for yourselves~ P.S/ I'm not wearing any make up so it's our natural face...haha. But he doesn't want to open his eyes fully, aww :(

Unofficial Party Time

Last Friday was our Social Studies GCE 'O' level paper, which also meant the unofficial end of my O levels for me cuz I'm only left with the MCQ papers and I have a week to prepare for it. So my friends -- Sheela, Pantita, Xinpei, Chaoyi, Xavier -- and I went to AMK Hub to catch In Time and have lunch at Pepper Lunch. It was partay time baby.

In Time was quite good, although it wasn't the best action flick I caught. The story line was interesting though, because it was something different. If you have not checked the movie out, you better do so soon, and you will never regret it!

After In Time, Xinpei and Chaoyi left while Sheela, Pantita, Xavier and I went to catch another movie: Singapore's horror film 23:59. That movie was way better than Paranormal Activity 3, but it wasn't as good as The Maid (you still remember this local horror film from a few years back?). It is worth watching, especially if you're gonna enlist in the army for NS soon, hehe.

Now here's some picture-taking session after 23:59 hahaha :D

Pantita.Sheela.Maria

Sheela.Maria.Pantita

Pantita and I
Anyways, since the night was still young and we did not want to go home just yet, the four of us walked around AMK Hub. Pan shopped while Sheela and I window shopped and Xav just...accompanied us hahaha. We sprayed Davidoff Coolwater perfume on him and he smelt soooo darn good! It is no wonder why Sheela is so in love with that perfume.

Sheela & Pan with their Davidoff
At about 9.30pm, we took a 1-hour bus ride back to Woodlands. I had a great day with my lovely honeys ♥ It'd be better if Xinpei and Chaoyi stayed.....well we had a great time anyway :)

Happy family