the ball is round....

*yawn* today's an extrememly sleeeeeppppyyyy day!!! after writing my super long and lengthy blog, i plopped myself down in front of the tv to wait for the start of The Match between Portugal and Greece... exciting man!!! i didnt manage to catch the full match of any of the euro'2004 matches!!! but... as 2.45am drew near, my eyelids started to flutter and i felt as though someone was sitting on my eyelids... heavy heavy heavy.... *snores* AARGHH!!!! i was so sleepy tt i kept dozing off!!! 25 min into the game, all that my drowsy mind had registered was that the players keep tripping and falling down (smthg which i absolutely detest when i watch soccer matches!!!) and that the greek goalkeeper made a spectacular save! his name's is.... erm nikkoupolis or smthg??? all the greek players have super looooonnnng names! besides that, i was slping throughout the 25 min and only remembered the large-as-dishes earrings that ronaldo was wearing ehhee.... *sorrow* i gave up. switched off the tv, dived into bed, slept like there's no tmr...zzz

10 hrs later, i can be found floundering in my bed... heeeheee the pig in me refuses to get up!!! though i wasnt really sleepy anymore... oh but the weather's great for lazing in bed!!! there was a nice strong breeze and the air smells of rain... *blissful* until i became too cold and dragged myself out of my snuggly bed... *pout* immediately after that, huili The Slug slugged around the house slowly, snailing here and there and ending up finally at my table where i proceeded to snailishly finish writing comments in my photo album... yay!!! FINALLY finish writing all the little interesting titbits of news that i didnt want forgotten... mooched around somemore, and ended up eating the dumpling my daddy made yesterday... haha too lazy to source for food downstairs!! =PPP

and then, The Slug became The Couch Potato!!! haha i potatoed in front of my tv watching the japanese drama serial Kindaichi files... about this teenage detective who's really good at solving mysteries!!! not bad, was quite exciting and not too scary for my scaredy-cat heart... hmmm what should i do after the show ended?? i pondered over this for awhile... *clogs were turning super slowly today in my head hee* couldnt decide whether to watch The Journey To The West rerun or get on with my book (Lord of the Rings)... hahaa the bed beckons... dived into bed again with my book!!! (sorry i'm a weak-willed person =P)

i was floating in dreamland already lorrrr, but was rudely awakened by the telephone!!! argh!!! after which i decided to do myself a favour and do smthg more substantial than sleeping my days away! full of resolve i logged onto the internet. woohoo!!! online album from sijin!!! yayayayay love photos man!!! the first album contains lotsa "ugly faces", in sijin's own words... hehehe. got hers, huitings, lao ban's, jeremy's, tay zar's, lin tun's ugly faces ahahha was quite farnie... esp. huiting's and lao ban's!! the second album was quite sad to look through, cos it contained photos of the trip, most of them taken during the period when i fell ill... boohoo!!! felt equally sad yesterday as i flipped through the photos which were taken in the outlying villages... dont care!!! next year i'd bring truckloads of vitamins to gobble so that i wont fall sick and miss out on all the important events!!!! grrr.

before going lot 1 to meet ah ma and yiqing, i decided to read my own blog. after the tedious 6 hr non-stop frantic writing, i have yet to read what i wrote. so huili the narcissist started to read her own blog and couldnt stop!!! ahahah seems like i've managed to capture the essence of the trip (for me at least) and its so addictive to just keep on reading and walk down memory lane! oops a daisy that's why i became late for the gathering... *sheepish*

we went to siam kitchen, and ah ma being very ah marish, promptly asked about discounts and promotions teehee. ordered green chicken curry, some stir-fry chicken, spicy kangkong and braised tofu.... hmmmmm yummy!!!! but we were engrossed in giving yiqing a running commentary of our myanmar trip while she looks through my album that we didnt start eating for at least 15 min after the food arrive!! ahha tink i'd grow thinner just lugging the 2 mammoth albums around... can feel my arm muscles growing wowee!!! throughout the meal, we keep yiqing up to date with how our lives had changed after myanmar... like how both me and ah ma had phobia of orchard for the first few days after coming back, and how we were scared of venturing out of the house!!! ahaha and how evrything looks so foreign and modern to us... weird right!! after all we've lived in s'pore all our lives!! and have been to myanmar for only 2 weeks!!! =D we then told yiqing all about our burmese friends, and gossiped non-stop!! haha like how ye naing win asked us to call him ah gong when he knew that we were calling ah ma ah ma.... suspicious hor?? was he trying to tell us smthing i wonder... *chuckles* then ah ma was quite horrified teehee... =P hmmm ah ma says that ye naing win already has a "target", (wah sounds like air-rifle practice lor) but he wants to get rich before he goes after her or smthg like that... hmmm to that i can only say: why leh?? think guys' thinking is super different from us girls... love is love mah, isnt it very clear-cut? it has nothing to do with material stuff like wealth and possesions, or anything to do with superficialities like looks and appearances... hmmm at the end of the day, i guess evry individual just want to be with the one person you really love, regardless of whether he/she is ugly, beautiful, fat, thin, poor, rich. else the marriage vows will not have the "for better or worse" part in it. and if you keep tinking you need to prove yourself before you feel worthy enough to express your feelings, tink the person you like will already be attached to smone else... and if the person you like cannot accept you for who you are, if there's a criteria that you have to fulfill that includes having a mansion and 5 cars, then i would say that is not love, and you suffer no loss not being with that person... *wisely* haha i sound very nun-nish, dont care! =P

we went on to less thought-provoking topics! yiqing told us all abt her china tour, and the breathtaking scenery that had her captivated... wah sounds like she had a really good workout during the trip too!!! walked tens of km within a few days, and had to jostle through narrow pathways and risk getting stampeded on... whew! i can still remember the beautiful scenery i saw in china too!! but was quite young then, so didnt really savour the beauty of undisturbed nature... sigh. how come s'pore only have concrete buildings leh?? very sad hor. =( then she showed us photos of her hongkong trip... and hey! i saw the photo taken at 6am when me and xinling went to see them off... i had long hair! wow. look so different leh!!! luckily i chopped off my hair b4 i went myanmar ah, tink i'd have died if i have long hair during my fever!!! probably would have tear out all my hair!

ahh! highlight of the dinner!!! gossip. i finally told yiqing and ah ma about the person i used to like last yr, but which i've kept realli tight-lipped about... guess i feel ok now about letting them know, since it's been 7 whole months since i got over him!! was quite liberating, hee, and had a gd laugh over it since yiqing managed to guess who it was a long time ago (but i always refuse to confirm teehee) lets just call him A. A was a really gd friend whom i smhow started to like due to the power of suggestion... heh. we can get long very well!! even now when i no longer have special feelings for him... he's a super gd friend to have around! but i realise that our ideals r different, esp our outlook on love... hmmm apart from the fact that i'm not his type of girl, he seems quite... should i say cynical? about love. i believe in fairytales!!! but he once told me he dont believe true love exists. i was horrified!!! i see true love as an old couple strolls by slowly, hand in hand. i see true love when a devoted husband stays lovingly by the side of his terminally-ill wife who does not even recognise him anymore. i see true love between my parents, who can argue heatedly like a volcanic eruption but yet always, always manage to sort out their differences and accept each others' shortcomings. i believe in happy-ever-afters, maybe cos i grew up watching beauty and the beast, the little mermaid, snow white... but to a certain extent, i guess its hard to believe strongly in ever-afters in this society of ours, where divorces are common... =( sigh. well, really hope this good friend of mine finds happiness!!! oh but hope he recognises it when it knocks on his door... =P don't just base evrything on looks lah ok!!! (hope he reads this smday...)

hehe after we told yiqing how different and gentlemanly the burmese ppl are, she asked: how abt the s'pore guys who went on the trip with all of u??? hhah the discussion that ensued is out of bounds sorry... cos we dont want to get beaten up hehehe... hmmm both me n ah ma voted one guy as the Most Promising!!! ought to feel flattered haha but we can't disclose his identity... =X
belongs to a rare breed, will make a gd husband and dad we tink... gentlemanliness, check! haha =D tink i'd set up a "marry to myanmar" agency for s'porean girls hee, bet i'd earn pots of money!!! not tt s'pore guys cannot make it lah, just they don't seem to have that rustic charm of helping girls carry stuff and open doors etc anymore... but yiqing commented that s'pore girls will feel suspicious if a local guy does all these, which i must admit is true!! ahha cos it's REALLY very rare to find guys like tt in s'pore hohoho... =P

halfway through our juicy gossip session, ah gong came to find ah ma... hee. me n yiqing were quite naughty, we teased ah gong about bringing ah ma to look at flats!!! ah ma told us before he came tt he took her to look at The Pinnacle, Duxton showflats!!! woohoo!!! i can foresee wedding bells ringing in the near future... exciting!!!! poor ah gong, hope we didnt traumatise him heh. and ah ma being ah ma, told us not to give her useless things like rice-cooker etc when she gets married, she wants MONEY!!! wah ah ma, how can like tt!!! tell us what to give you... tsktsk!!! i'd just give you an autographed poster of myself lor muahahahah *beams* don't care i want to be bridesmaid!!! but guess it will be another 4 yrs before ur wedding takes place rite?? good... enough time for me to become a super model size hehee...

wahhh... we were the second last grp of ppl to leave the restaurant!! feel really broke, *sob* yesterday nydc, today siam kitchen... have to eat grass tmr liao!!! else go rob a bank... hmm i'd need accomplices, those interested pls contact me!!! =D oh yar, must write about the GIGANTIC rat i saw below my flat before i got into the elevator!!! it was bigger than the kittens in letpabya... *faintz* i thought it was a cat at first!!! my god. so disgusting!!!! *shudder*

and so ends another day... watched the news report abt the greek victory over portugal, felt quite sad for the portuguese (esp when they show ronaldo's pained expression) but at the same time, elated for the greeks! the taste of victory must be really sweet for them, esp since they are such a tiny country compared to the rest and its only the second time they competed in the eurocup... ah, there can be miracles!!! thought that the portuguese fans showed very good sportsmanship, bravely accepted the so-near-yet-so-far loss of the championship and found inner strength in themselves to cheer the team for having made it to the finals at least... =) the ball is indeed round! anything can happen on the soccer field, nothing's 100% guaranteed... guess tt's what makes life interesting huh? you never know till you try... so... what are we waiting for?? live your life with no regrets. =D