s i l l y m e

gave myself a shock just now for nothing haha.. was at the power98fm website for the internet radio link, n there's this publicity thingy for some new burger king drive-thru at east coast..

'Join Shareen on 20 Jan, 2-4pm, for the Grand Opening with lots of fun activities and win prizes!' for a moment, i went, "eh? now.. y on earth would i be there for that?" then it suddenly dawned upon me that they're talking about their DJ who happens to have the same name as i... =P

that's the prob with having a rather unique name.. no training in preparation for others with the same name, haha...

w a k e u p !

wake up, shareen, wake up!!

argh, what am i doing.. seem to be stuck in holiday mood n it's coming to the 4th week of school already... have plenty of tutorials, german homework, some silly fluids continual assessment thingy, application for overseas VIP, module mapping etc to do... yet i'm lost in my world of music n dance.. n now i've even developed a craving for the movies argh...

time to get a grip on my life n reeeaallly get down to work... remind me, yar...

s a l s a 1 0 0 1

phew, finally have a silver of time to jot this entry down.. doesn't help at all when all my tutorials are on tue and wed, it's just a mad rush to complete them right after the lecturer just finished teaching that particular required topic... remember having most of tuts on fris in year 1, sigh, those were the days... =P

anyway, to clear some of that fog in my tagboard... the guy-in-charge of the Salsa1 class by Jitterbugs, organised by NUS SnB Club set the deadline for signing-up as Wed night, but only on Thur night did S decide to join after all, and on Fri morning did Br n another 2 gals also decide to join.. so the guy-ic turned all of them down, much less QH who was thinking of taking a look before joining the class...

informed those who'd already signed up for the class, about the above, by order of appearance, haha.. so only met HZ/TS (wah you just got the longest name) at around 7pm for dinner and he immediately insisted on S taking his place, especially since he's already in another salsa class (by caliente).. so now he has $50 to spend on LAN games haha...

oh man, felt sooo guilty n mean n bad argh... firstly, had to tell S about what the guy-ic said; then now TS came all the way downtown from campus and he's not going for the class after all, n him having decided to join this as his 2nd class when nobody else wanted to join; then suddenly asking S to rush back downtown for the class... =S

the class was quite fun!! tho slightly more serious than at thumper (totally different setting i suppose)... woah, have a few reeeally tall guys (rotation basis too)... only irritating thing is that at every point in time there'll be about 2 gals who're without a partner (maybe that's cos i think of the guys who could've joined n filled up the gaps in the guys-line)... learnt slightly different moves, which reminds me of the dancefloor at thumper on wed, where ppl seemed to be dancing with all different styles yet they could change partners rather seamlessly... cool...

after class, there's one dance studio where they play salsa music and the floor's open to anyone to practise their dance moves.. quite cool, especially when you don't feel so intimidated by pro-ppl cos everyone's a student there after all.. danced a tiny-bit, then we had to leave soon tho... yay, can't wait for fri!!

s a l s a

Yay!! the class for salsa 1 offered by NUS SnB club, by Jitterbugs @ Millenia Walk is finally open! =) yippee! sorry, kinda delirious lately haha.. so 1st class starts this fri! n i don't have proper shoes yet, oh dear... n don't seem to have time to get new shoes before that too argh...

went to Thumper with some of my friends tonight haha... can't believe things worked out so well.. =P only found out about that place online a few days ago (incidentally J did too!) and wasn't sure whether salsa nights are every wed with free lessons too, so emailed them, but no reply.. so decided to trust the website which says that it's every wed at 7.30pm, and planned to reach around 8pm cos didn't expect things to move fast in a club till slightly later...

TS was so worried that we wouldn't be allowed in cos of his attire, n we were quite worried about the age limit too, but somehow, nobody approached us nor said a word when we entered! n when we 1st went in, they had just started the class! really quite fun, the steps aren't that scary as they look actually haha.. kept rotating partners n quite amusing to see all sorts of people there.. ;)

n only upon reaching home and getting online, did i receive an email from the salsainsingapore yahoogroups i subscribed to, that thumper's back with their salsalicious nights starting this wed (today) at 8pm.. my goodness, what luck... so i wonder whether they teach new stuff every week for 1 month, then send out that email again... =P can't possibly go for anymore wed nights though, cos of nusso rehearsals sigh.. oh well, at least there's salsa 1 class on fris! yay!

n u t s

dunno what's with me these days -- been laughing a greeaaaat deal... =D maybe cos the stress hasn't started settling in yet.. or maybe i'm changing slightly without even realising it... tend to slip into laughing fits at a much higher frequency than before... =P

M claims that it must be cos J wished me a 'Lustiges Neues Jahr!' which translates as 'Funny New Year!' instead of a happy one haha...

or maybe it's just cos i'm getting much more comfortable with my friends now that there's no bars held in joking around...

whatever it is, i'm just so happy that my jaw n muscles around the tummy ache from all that laughing haha... =P

t u t o r i a l b a l l o t i n g

Yay!!! i can't believe that i actually managed to get all the tutorial slots i wanted, in the very 1st round of balloting! was almost bracing myself for more trouble that i had to go through, especially after that fluid mech 2 and GAP module clash rubbish... well, god is good, i must say.. =P

n i'm going to be taking all tutorials with friends i'm close to too! how cool is that... both our GAP lects n tuts r gonna be with most of the stuttgarters haha.. M n i could hardly believe it at first too.. it's gonna be one crazy sem! heez... looking forward to it, can't believe it...

(try counting the number of times i used the word 'believe' in this post, haha..)

l i n k s

here's some super super useful links i've found via some friends...

http://radioblogclub.com: search for songs you love and create your own playlist to listen to them... can even blog songs, muahahaha... kudos to S!
for goth music lovers, here's 'Bless the Child' by Nightwish, another group you might like to search for is Leave's Eyes (but not as popular somehow)...


http://www.pandora.com: search for your fav artistes or songs and they'll play similar songs.. great way to discover more songs that suit your taste... can't remember who intro-ed it to me some time last year...

http://www.peekvid.com: watch videos of TV serials, anime etc, all arranged nicely for you, don't have to go through the hassle of searching for them on youtube... thanx to K!

p n w

oh man oh man oh man...

just led my first p&w session with J today... i dunno what to say, man... totally had no confidence at all at first, considering that i've never really been open to P&W until last year... well, gotta say that J's been really great trying to train us, always encouraging n enthusiastic.. ;)

never really been quite a good participant at P&W sessions in the 1st place, not the statue of stamford raffles kind though, so this was quite a leap for me... definitely an eye-opener... had quite some fun practising with the band.. =) u guys rock!! can actually feel us growing closer to each other.. an encouraging sign.. just nice for DOR too haha...

i really should stop being limelight-shy.. dared not sing too loud etc in the fear of slipping up cos i'm so very inexperienced at this.. came across as too soft n lacking in energy.. think we were trying too hard not to be nervous and keeping ourselves from shaking, to concentrate on how to add the punch to the P&W session heez... =P well, there's always a first time.. so who's next? ;)

n e w s e m

reflecting upon the past sem, it feels like i was putting effort where it didn't pay off.. but of course there were pleasant surprises too... evens out, i suppose.. god works in mysterious ways, yar?

anyway, i'll have to really work harder this sem and try to inch back my CAP that's been slipping a bit too precariously... remember being able to wake up and reach school by 10am latest everyday during the study period for the 1st 2 sems, but kinda failed quite miserably at it last sem.. grrrghhh.. gotta get my discipline back!

shall be taking on this sem by its horns!!

direct from picasa

testing testing.. =P blogging this direct from picasa.. quite cool huh... ;) i simply LOVE magritte! surrealism sooo rocks! wanted to put this on my wall, but the resolution's not good enough, sadly... 

h o l i d a y s o v e r

yupz, there goes the hols once again..

'twas one fast-paced by enjoyable break for me.. =) lots of singing n organising n losing my voice.. most importantly was my friends..

one month is seriously too short, but i suppose just gotta make do with it n be rejuvenated for the coming sem... alles gute!

out

woahz.. can't believe i've been out practically almost everyday lately... picking up stuff to see me through the sem (not talking about books and notes of course), meeting up with friends... simply so much to do!

had a nice relaxing kaffee und kuchen with S yesterday, cleared up some stuff i've been thinking about.. =) saw like 2 groups of ppl whom i know around that area too haha...

picked up some blouses with ML as my fashion consultant today ;) then had dinner at cafe cartel at cineleisure, and guess what? we were beginning on our meal when the gal and guy at the table behind me stood up to leave, when I noticed that it was M! haha.. small world huh.. seems like ML did mumble something about whether she's M, but i didn't hear, so no response, and ML thought she looked more mature than the M she knows haha.. so didn't realise till they were leaving.. ;)

ooh.. the carbonara and lagsane were insanely sinful.. =P n really filling too haha.. didn't notice the time flying till we finished eating, n we had decided to walk to esplanade during dinner.. good exercise too.. ;) nice view n breeze up at the rooftop... talked and laughed soooo much on the way too..

feel so blessed to have such wonderful friends.. =D

salsa anyone? (thinking of the classes in school, but no news on IVLE yet)

pic galore!

i'm dreaming of a white xmas... haha.. just some long-overdue posts now... took this with my choc at vivocity when i was there with M that day... it's just a shopfront! haha... so white, it reminds me of Lydia... auw..

gender bender! doesn't it look cool? haha.. went to alleybar with quite a no of CSS ppl after Xmas Celebrations, and just ordered that... the mix sounded interesting -- bailey's, jim bean, curacao (haha not very sure) and dunno wad else.. when it came in this tiny little shot glass amidst everyone else's lumbering cocktail glasses, everyone was so shocked (including me).. they were going "Shareen! are you sure you're not too stressed or something? bu2 yao4 xiang3 bu4 kai1 leh..." haha.. then everyone started whipping out their cameras and handphones to take pics of it... only when i checked the menu again, did i realise that it was under the list of shooters but i hadn't noticed earlier haha.. didn't drink it down in one gulp though.. no worries, was totally sobre after that haha..

the grand cathay

was there to watch death note 2 with D and MJ... we didn't even know that it was being screened at the Grand Cathay for that movie slot.. =P quite hilarious, how we even got there... actually wanted to watch the one at 4pm at Cathay Cineleisure, but we didn't notice the time till it was 4pm, so too bad, had to go for the next one at 4.40pm... by the time we reached cineleisure, there were only 3 seats left at the front row corner, so we went to check availability of tix at The Cathay for the 5.20pm show at the Coke cafe booth thingy (never knew!).. decided to settle on 3 seats at the front row but right in the middle, but couldn't use the 2 vouchers i had there!

so one of the ladies at the counter had this ingenious idea of us purchasing the ticket for the seat in the middle and rushing down to The Cathay to use the 2 vouchers.. cos most prob nobody would want to sit alone on either side, haha.. so we rushed down in the rain (with umbrellas of course) and it actually worked! haha..

The Grand Cathay is quite cool... decked out in black and deep dark red.. hmmz i'm starting to like that combi haha.. just like my dark chocolate phone and 2 of my blouses.. =P anyway it's like a small stage sort of thing with curtains and all haha.. n MJ kept claiming that it feels 3d or in omnitheatre cos the screen was curved n we're blocked by nothing...

disturbing

ain't it disturbing, if dreams are just a figment of your subconscious mind? especially when you get disturbing dreams... then you start wondering how-on-earth did your mind come up with all that.. oh man.. or maybe sometimes it's better not to think so much about stuff.. =P and to sleep at most 8h, in order to deprive the mind of going on overdrive haha...

bidding

it's the time of the year to tear out your hair before school even starts! it's not just about what modules you wanna take, it's about clashes and even modules that aren't even offered this sem...

and K n i r sttiiiillll waiting for a reply from the profs we emailed about the GAP (German for Academic Purposes) and Fluid Mechanics II clash... hope we get a reply before tomorrow when bidding closes...

oh well, i should be grateful that i don't have to go through the full course of bidding like the arts students.. =P

planning to take a SS module, Changing Landscapes, with a number of friends... anyone else? ;)

new blog skin!

whoopee!! finally managed to get my new blog skin up! it's downloaded from www.blogskins.com of course.. =P the day when i can do one up myself...will be the day i learn java.. haha..

had so many problems changing the template cos somehow it doesn't seem so compatible with the new blogger account thingy, so ended up having to copy my entries 1st, delete my blog in that new blogger account, create a blog with the same address in my old blogger account (that i never used for my own blog, but for shared ones) and pasted the entries there... phew.. what lengths i went to.. but at least it works now yippee!!

purple sooo rocks... ;)

almost chose an evanescence one, found quite a nice one, like all of it, the words, the layout, but don't really like the pic with their faces haha... maybe i'll replace that pic with another pic someday for my next blogskin..

meanwhile, enjoy this simply n totally purple one!!

happy new year!

woahz, there goes another year... fast and furious haha.. recalling all the beginning of my years, this year's is really kinda different... and in a good way too! much less frustration and uncertainties brought over from the old year.. pray that this year will be kind on all my friends and loved ones...
it's been a long time since i've celebrated new year's day.. it's been mostly staying at home and wishing friends online a happy new year, except for one year in which i went to orchard with some of my rv sec3/4 friends and it was like hell broken loose... O.o
spent this year's at city hall area, and thankfully, it was much much saner than orchard... phew... went for mass at cathedral with S and met J there! sadly they weren't playing the pipe organ for that mass.. =S haha.. then went over to Esplanade's Ichiban Boshi for dinner, my goodness, the sashimi is still as heavenly as it was the last time i dined there! so fresh yet so full of flavour.. mmm... =P can't believe we finished dinner only barely before 10pm (when the 1st round of fireworks were supposed to come on) heez.. well, ain't eating about enjoying the food and company? ;)
esplanade waterfront was seriously milling with people.. people watching the free concert, people standing around, people sitting on the grass or concrete floor reading newspapers etc... found a spot to stand and watch but nothing happened for 10+min, then it started raining! sigh.. there was this mad squeeze to the entrance to esplanade, and as if that wasn't enough, there was another human jam at the underground passage from esplanade to citilink mall.. people packed shoulder-to-shoulder, hardly enough oxygen in circulation, you could practically taste the tension and frustration in the air... the perfect conditions for a stampede, but thankfully nothing of that sort happened..
after moving at an average of 5 cm/min, we finally breathed relatively-fresher air.. rushed all the way to the church of sts peter and paul to catch the band that's representing mm for the revive countdown and carnival, to find that they were only still at the adoration bit.. oh well, at least we didn't go through that near-hell to have missed it.. =P seems like the programmes got pushed back slightly, maybe cos of the rain.. they still managed to perform 2 songs out of the planned 3, at least.. other than the slight imbalance in sound volumes (which god-knows-why always happens even with sound checks), it was totally awesome! praise the lord for such wonderful peepz in mm!
did the countdown itself at spp, but it didn't really feel like a new year at first, it was only after thinking to myself "oh, it's the new year already!" then suddenly there was this internal switch of perspectives (erm, not sure whether this makes sense, but kinda difficult to describe this feeling)... it suddenly felt as if all the worries of the past year can finally be left behind and this is gonna be one new year to discover and tame... fresh possibilities, new challenges, all waiting to be taken on.. fewer restrictions? somehow felt more freedom.. heez, this may all sound kinda silly, like it's just a thing of the mind that's gone beyond midnight, but yar, it did feel so..
anyway, headed back to raffles city where the car was parked, but the mall was closed by then, so had to go down by the long and winding way that the cars go by haha.. woahz, it was one wait to just get out of the place... then went to macs for some food and chat..
woke up only around 2pm today haha... some haywire schedule i'm on this hols.. =P but if i must say, it's been a tiring but really fun one.. =)

1st or 360th entry?

a new home for all my rantings and ravings and gushings and everything else!! heez... can't believe i've finally decided to move my blog over to blogger after so many years on opendiary... all my old entries are still there though, at http://www.opendiary.com/entrylist.asp?authorcode=A328822&mode=date... or search for moi~ at www.opendiary.com... finally can post pictures easily! even picasa has a link to blog pics! haha...
will be doing up this blog soon, when i have the time.. hmmz, ain't this supposed to be the hols? but seem busier than ever, but at least it's mostly with stuff that i enjoy... =) haven't had any entries this hols, time to start those fingers dancing over the keyboard!