2010년 7월 28일 수요일

polyvore

i just discovered a new gem of a site, Polyvore! Basically, its a site that functions somewhat like your online wardrobe, allowing you to 'snip' pictures of clothes/accessories that you fancy from various websites and compile them into a mini collage!



this is what i've done for myself. looks a like amateurish i admit, but its really fun! hehe. try it out! ^^

2010년 7월 20일 화요일

요세 싱가폴 얘들이 진짜 어이없어.
조금 돈이 있어서 넘 도도하고 불구하고 그렇게 지내.

엄청 짜쯩나..

정말..

나중에 싱가폴 어떻게 됄 거야?

그래도 좋은 사람이 있는데 이 그 사람들 나쁜 사람보다 더 많아 바래..

2010년 7월 15일 목요일

to dream or not to dream


You wake up everyday and work from Monday to Friday, and often, Saturday too. If you finish work early, you and your partner go to your parents’ place for dinner and see your child for a few hours. If you work late, you buy a packet of char kway teow from the hawker centre but eat it at home because it’s too warm to eat there. You’re not crazy about the job but you know that if you keep at it, you can afford a car in 3 years’ time, and in 5 years’ time, buy a condo close to the primary school you want to send your kid to. Your conversations with people are either for the purpose of networking, work, or for familial obligations you cannot avoid. On weekends, you play golf with your friends at your country club or watch a movie with your partner. Once a year, you go on a ten day vacation to New York, London, or Paris, and when your children are big enough, Disneyland.

Alternatively, you wake up and you have no idea what is going to happen today, tomorrow, 6 months or a year later. Ironically, because of this uncertainty, all possibilities exist for you. You can be the Prime Minister of Singapore, you can make a movie, you can cook a meal you have never cooked before, eat at a place you have never eaten before, you can color your hair red, you can skip instead of walk, you can volunteer at the school you have always wanted to volunteer at, you can write a book, or you can have a baby even though you don’t have a maid. You have conversations with people who set your heart palpitating and your mind on fire. Your weekday is not so different from your weekend because everyday you are thinking, creating, and more important, imagining.

Most of us recognize the first story and its pursuit of the 5 Cs of “cash, condo, car, country club, credit card.” It is the Plan, which imposes a conclusion on you, and you work in order to make all the pieces fit. A bus stop advertisement I saw recently said it best: “We spend all our youth chasing money, and when we attain it, we spend all our money chasing youth.”

A Dream, on the other hand, carries you on its wings to worlds that your heart and mind have never known.

extracted from Popagandhi


i wonder, how many of us are actually brave enough to chase after the 2nd option. especially in this pragmatic society that is Singapore.

2010년 7월 13일 화요일

[27/12/09] Jisan Forest Ski Resort 지산 리조트

ok.. here's a v v v v backdated post! my first ever ski trip! ^^

we were supposed to go to Kongjinam instead of Jisan. tried calling Kongjinam the night before we were supposed to depart, but to no avail. sooo, we decided to take a gamble & head to Kangnam to wait for the bus. However, we were unable to find the bus stop from which we were supposed to take the bus.. >_<

thank God i spotted the shuttle bus for Jisan - 지산 리조트 and since it wasn't full, the bus driver allowed us on. :) and so, that's how my 1st ever eventful ski trip started off. it took us ard 1 hr to get to the ski resort since it was outside of seoul. however, i wasn't feeling too gd that day. i suspect it was due to the super duper oily food that i had been having for the past few days..



the rolling ski slopes of Jisan

so we decided to sign up for lessons since all of us had no experience in skiing, with the exception of LX. thank God she had the Samsung card, which gave us 50% off everything! :P hehe. and so, we proceeded to undergo 2 hrs of training, which i don't think helped that much. haha. i couldn't stop no matter how i tried & i ended up crashing into the orange barrier. screaming at the same time of course.. i couldn't think y no one came over to help me but just stood and stared.. >_<

but of course, i think esther aka KJI was the ultimate! hehe. she ski-ed (if you could call it skiing) down from the 2nd tier of the ski slopes, but couldn't control herself and ended up sliding under the orange barrier into the training area. haha. n she crashed into the 'mini ski travellator' as well.. hahahah.


the training area


LX


KJI

but i have to say, the ski outfits that were loaned to us were really like military uniforms. plus we had our number tags to boot! haah. straight out from boot camp!




JT & myself!

it started snowing halfway thru & it was really fun! hehe. skiing while the snow fell... hehe. didn't take that many pictures cause my camera decided to be temperamental and not behave... >_< i think its time to trade it in for a new model. ho ho .


falling snow


blurry photo of us taken on the way out of jisan!


snow covered bridge


since it was snowing pretty heavily, we decided to leave early cause it was likely that the roads would be congested. and true enough, instead of the 1 hour that it usually takes to get back to seoul, we took almost 3! since we missed the shuttle bus back to seoul, we had to go back via public transport. n that involved us walking in the snow for ard 30 mins out to the bus stop, taking a city bus to the inter city bus terminal, before transferring to the express bus that brought us back to Seoul. on our way back, the bus was really stuffy and hot.. plus we were all bundled up in our winter wear.. unimaginable.. pfttttt. we saw trucks sprinkling salt on the snow so as to increase friction to prevent accidents from happening. n of course, our bus driver drove v v slowly all the way back to Seoul. partly because of safety and partly because of the huge jam on the highway.

but it was a rather memorable trip all in all! but, the next time, i would like to try tobogganing instead. hahaah. i think its much much safer. the skis were rather cumbersome & jutted out in all the wrong places!

2010년 7월 11일 일요일

the start of something better, i believe...

am finally going for my 1st real interview tomorrow. though its not really sth that i'm THAT interested in, i suppose its a start!! n let it be the start of many more good things to come!

was re-reading some of the entries that kaye & myself posted back in 2008, when we were still in korea, and i realised that we were really happy with the life that we were leading back then. i guess that's y we keep wanting to go back somehow.. i don't know if things will still remain the same, 2 years on, but i would like to believe so. :)

for some reason, i feel more at home in korea than in HK, even though i've lived in both before. perhaps its the air pollution and the practicalness(?) of HK and its people that make me more adverse to living there? i should start exploring other countries soon. n 1st up, will be vietnam! but i don't feel as excited as i felt when i was going to korea/hk. maybe, its still a long way away from the trip for the euphoria to set in? or perhaps its just work. haha. i seem to be using work as an excuse all the time. actually, its the perfect excuse for everything. like how u want to get out of gatherings with people whom you don't really like, u can just say, oh, i'm busy with work. i've a deadline coming up. or if you want to escape those dreaded family gatherings, work is always there for you. its the perfect all encompassing excuse. :)

when can i get out?

2010년 7월 5일 월요일

과거, 요즘, 미래...

가끔식 좀 우울할 때 한국에 있었던 시간을 생각이 나..
다른 사람은 듣기 해도 지치겠지만 내 맘이지.. ㅋ

여행을 다시 가고 싶다.
8월초에 게이랑 배트남에 가기로 했어! 원래 일본과 한국에 가려고 했는데 일 떔에 계획 좀 바꿨어. 좀 섭섭했지만...

지난주에 여가치가 싱가폴에 놀러 왔어.. ㅋㅋ. 괜 오랜동안 안 만나거든! 1.5년 쯤?


(여가치의 조카, 여가치, 나)

만나서 넘 반가워.. ㅎㅎㅎ.

경희대에 만나던 친구들.. 요세 어떻게 지나는지 넘 궁금해.. 좀 게으러서 우리 서로 연락 잘 안 하는데.. 몇 명만 아직 연락하고 있어.. 수연,주영(X2), 사치코, 갑철 오빠, 수경 등...

아... 물라 물라...

많은 사람들 나 왜 한국에 일하고 싶냐고... 그냥 아직 어린니까 해외에서 일하고 싶고 다른 문화를 경험할 겸 다른 나라에서 살고 싶은 뿐이야.. ㅎ

단어 많이 까먹었어.. ㅠㅠ. 안 사용해서 그럴 까? 근데 이상하는데 어제 갑철 오빠랑 채팅할 때 나의 한국어 실력이 올라가라고 저번에 보다 더 자연스럽다고 얘기했거든! ㅋㅋㅋ. 좀 자랑하고 싶어.. ㅋㅋㅋㅋ. 그래도 나의 수준이 그렇게 좋지 않아.. ㅠㅠㅠ. 더 잘 하고 싶은데...

CFA위해서 공부해야 돼.. 이제 부터 진짜 진짜 열심 공부해야 겠다.. 12월까지! 화이팅!! ^^

2010년 7월 1일 목요일

조권 - 고백하던 날

조권 - 고백하던 날

어떻게 말할까 수백 번 생각하느라
잠을 설쳐서 얼굴도 엉망이고
오늘따라 머리까지 맘에 안 들어
하루종일 안절부절

어느새 너를 만나기 한 시간 전
꽃집에 들러 꽃을 좀 사려는데
장미를 살까 다른 꽃 살까
에라 모르겠다 "아줌마 예쁘게 해 주세요."

오늘은 널 만나면
예쁘다고 말하려 했는데
얼굴 보자마자
"내가 꽃 샀으니까 네가 밥 사!"
어쩜 이런 말만 나와

도대체
멍청한 건지 아님 순진한 건지
이렇게 한심한 말만 튀어 나와
사실 내가 하려 했던 말은 말이야
난 널 사랑해

밤새워
연습했던 말 다 잊어 버리고
멋없이 그냥 건넨 꽃다발에도
밝게 웃어주던 많이 좋아하던
넌 천사야 You're my angel


밥 먹고 이런 저런 얘길 나누며
언제 말할까 기회만 엿보다가
지금 할까 지금이야
사실 나 이젠 아무것도 안 들려

내 맘은 너 아니면
안 된다고 말하려 하는데
둘 다 외로운데 한 번 만나볼래
계속 이런 말만 나와

도대체
멍청한 건지 아님 순진한 건지
이렇게 한심한 말만 튀어 나와
사실 내가 하려 했던 말은 말이야
난 널 사랑해

밤새워
연습했던 말 다 잊어 버리고
멋없이 그냥 건넨 내 고백에도
밝게 웃어 주며 고갤 끄덕여 준
넌 천사야 You're my angel


널 사랑해 널 사랑해
밤새 연습하고 하지 못한 말
널 좋아해 널 사랑해
꼭 해주고 싶던 말

도대체
멍청한 건지 아님 순진한 건지
이렇게 한심한 말만 튀어 나와 (너무 한심해)
사실 내가 하려 했던 말은 말이야
난 널 사랑해 (너를 너무도 사랑해)

밤새워
연습했던 말 다 잊어 버리고
멋없이 그냥 건넨 내 고백에도
밝게 웃어 주며 고갤 끄덕여 준
넌 천사야 You're my angel

You're my angel 내가 더 잘할게