Gabrielle: December 2009

Monday, 28 December 2009

The Wedding I

Ok, 26th December was the wedding and yes it took the whole day and i was so exhausted and worn out i slept for 11 hours straight.

First, i woke up at 7am in the morning to bathe, and then prepare the food and decoration, last minute touch-ups for the morning tea ceremony. I was told first to cut the cake, which we bought from the market, which again is an idiotic process, cause there were 3 boxes, then i cut the first 2 with the box taken out, which turned out to be a mess, then for the 3rd box i cut the cake with the box still intact then she came running along and saying: Why are you cutting the cake with the box ? No wonder your cakes are cut so ugly. Then i just turned back and said, i cut the first 2 without the box and as you can see it sucks like hell so i'm trying to change a way. Then she shut up. Sickening. The cakes were frozen so she tells me to just leave them there to thaw then cut, which would make my life easier. So i lay my knife down, then she said, i think you cut now lah, later no time. WTF, can you make up your mind then tell me ? Then i stare at her before cutting the cake, then she DU LAN me, ok lah ok lah.

Then, wash and lay out the fruits. There are purple and green grapes from Turkey, Strawberries from Korea and Cherry Tomatoes from Malaysia. So ok, i washed them, and then put into the huge platter in accordance to colour spectrum, so it started with the purple grapes, then the green ones, then the tomatoes, then the strawberries, in order of colour intensities. Then she came along and grabbed one strawberry and put it in the middle of the green and purple grapes, straight in the border of the two. Then i got really pissed cause the colour is all wrong, and i, being very very sensitive to colours, and very very merticulous with what i do, and HATE IT when people interfere with my profession (then, my profession is a fruit platterer). So i went like MA~ then she just left the lonely berry on the border and left with AIYA ANHYTHING LAH ANYTHING LAH YOU DECIDE LAH. like duh i decide lah, I AM the platterer. if you don't like my style of plattering, you do yourself. Since little i have hated people when they interfere with my work, like how my mum used to draw on my drawing assignments to make them better, i would just scream and deny her help because its MY work, even if i fail or get zero its MY creation, MY creation. its the life that i gave to the paper, not yours.

Then after that she managed to scavage a pack of leftover candies from the newlyweds room, should be the leftovers of the doorgifts, so she told me to divde them equally and put them into two bowls, which we borrowed from the neighbor. they were pretty crystal bowls and i divded them as equally as i could and shuffled them around to acquire homogenuity (oh i love my english) and lay them out on the table.

Then here comes my father's-brother's-wife, coming along, being the first to arrive. She brags ALOT about things that are not true and do not exist, about her daughter in SwissCottage having a scholarship, being second best in singapore, like crap that would happen. Just ignore her, and then asking about my course, i said Biomedical, she keep on saying Biotechnical, sickening asshole that doesn't know or appreciate science nor having acquired the ability to differentiate 'medical' from 'technical'. And she isn't anybody great or anything ok, she works in Banquet, as what i don't know and don't care. And she goes like : Oh i have a doctor and lawyer cousin but still don't have a cousin in the biomedical field like you, hope you'll be the first. Like what the hell was she trying to say ? And if i remember correctly last year at chinese new year she was telling me about love, like WTH does she know about love ? She married my uncle like, really randomly ? and i don't see love between them like really, all i see is tolerating and avoidance.

So i left her to feud for herself and i went to change to this really old looking dress that, yes i bought and don't like it anymore. sorry dress i'm not that sweet and gentle type. then i added a cardigan cause i wasn't confident of my flabby arms.

Then everybody came along and the bride came, which my mum told me not to look at her when she comes cause...its a tradition. Oh ok i'm ok with traditions. Then all the attention went to the bride and the tea ceremony began, with me, holding this lacy-pink-girly-sissy-looking petite bag to hold the ang baos. it took really long and then at last we found ourselves waiting for the last person to serve tea to, my eldest brother. So the photographer can't wait anymore cause she is charged on an hourly basis, being $50/hr, good money eh ? Then i called and called and called but nobody picked up until all of us given up and just waited quietly until he and her wife and his son arrived, so everybody back to positions and snap, ok, go have buffet.

The buffet was manned by 2 staff, one older and one younger, seems like the older one is guiding the younger one about all the stuff, like really basic steps like o-p-e-n--t-h-e--c-a-n--a-n-d--p-u-t--u-n-d-e-r--t-h-e--f-o-o-d. its the silver can with the white wax that catches fire and burns to warm the food. so they were taking quite a long time and i'm suppose to sign the receipt and go find cash, and when i'm both with both the tasks, they are still happily taking pictures of their masterpiece, later i asked it was for company feedback and quality & service control. oic, i thought they were so proud of their work. hehe. then they continued covering the food and stuff then i hand them the money and i was done, so i ate the bee hoon with the curry chicken oh man it was good! while chatting with my pri 5 cousin. oh she piano grade 5 already !!! jia you rachel ! and in choir too! wow we have alot to chat, she's in alto :)

so after i changed into my gown for the dinner i went out with rachel and her mum to the salon, which kinda hard to find.

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Tuesday, 15 December 2009

TopOne

Ok, that's the name of a karaoke, and also the name of a brand of bread, where you can find on your friendly supermart rack. but Gardenia tastes better.

Ok, got up at 8.30am, was excruciatingly hard to pull myself out of bed, as i love it too much to part. then applied glue on my eyelashes which i will try to put on later. and then went to brush my teeth and wash my face, put on the makeup, and realise that i look really bad with faux eyelashes, hence just had mascara.

so went out of the house with cam, score book, and all necessary things. i was going to choir practice tonight so hence the scorebook.

So got there and no one had reached, i was the earliest, as usual ~

So i went to Four leaves and bought some bread, while keeping in touch with KY, or he'll be left all alone waiting at the gantry, where we're supposed to meet. So the mini breads are SO cute, and i bought a potato sausage bread, which is VERY delicious and VERY filling, oh lord it is very very filling. it has a layer of mashed potatoes with a layer of meat underneath and this combination is wrapped in the soft bread dough. oishi. i was full the moment i had down my throat and trust me it is no bigger than your friendly pencil sharpener.

and then i bought a strawberry, custard decorated bread, which later found out that nothing was inside but the strawberry was very fresh and juicy. Perks up my sleeping tongue. then foolish little KY bought a hotdog minibread, which has no originality to my two new precious findings.

then called AL several times to confirm her location and her knowledge of where Mc is located. and later she came and bought Mc for breakfast as well as KY. then we proceeded to the K.

They haven't open yet, so we had to wait outside for a little while.

After getting our room 206, we went to SING. Oh i had a great time singing and drinking laughing and sleeping. then i had to leave for choir.

Told Isa that i would meet her at 6pm at the toastbox, then later changed to Pastamania, since the serving is decent there and she eats quite alot. i considered Soup Spoon but it isn't filling enough her i guess. then waited and waited till KY and AL came down to say hi and they're leaving for Yoshinoya.

Then Isa came and we ate. she had some Bah Chor Linguini while i had the weirdest thing on earth. it was like dumplings, something like ravioli but its not called that way. then the filling was spinach and something really really starchy, like grains or something. the whole dish was tasteless so i had to put alot of cheese powder to eat it.

So we reached and J was not there, we were cheated, he wasn't even suppose to be there. its our own sectional-like kinda thing when we're not even told. hai,but if we were told we wouldn't even go.

so had to plan for Isa's concert and SH's Ngee Ann band concert and tomorrow going to watch movie with daph and rini !!!

posted by gabrielleteng at 00:42 0 Comments

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Her Birthday

Ok, yesterday was my second-future-sis-in-law's birthday.

We went to the supermart to buy curtains for the newly-about-to-wed and then we settled for something grey with buttons ontop to secure the curtain to the metal stick-like-protruding-support-thingy.

Then we went to buy nutella! oh they are having a promotion, the smallesr sized one, which is selling at $3 something, is selling at $1.95, its cheaper to buy small bottles than one huge one. So, we bought 6, or was it 5, bottles of nutella and it was 30% cheaper when buying the small bottles to one huge bottle. then we bought mangka, a type of tropical fruit, at $5. and then some fresh, from the container iced broccoli.

Then, to celebrate her birthday, we went to eat swensens!!! I had Chicken fillet, they had a nicer name for it, starts with M, and i forgot what it was. its super juicy, and i find it a little too oily and greasy that i could not really finish with ease. I was so full i didn't want to eat for the next few days. then my bro's wife to be had crayfish spaghetti, while my bro and mum had some singapore styled spicy spaghettis.

then sis-in-law-to-be wanted some ice cream, she ordered cookies and cream while i had super chewy chocolate ice cream ! both with strong, rich flavours, they blended well. the total bill was $80 something dollars, oh yeah we ordered some calamari too. but i grabbed the romanine leaves as soon as the dishes came. haha i had to get rid of the grease.

then went home packed the room and fell asleep suddenly, slept for 3 hours. i really need to diet to balance the guilt of eating so much these days.

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Saturday, 12 December 2009

Shopping

Today is such a fruitful day!

Started with 送大礼, a ceremony, bringing pig trotters, plates with dates and dried fruits, and many other weird stuff to the bride's house and then bringing back 6 boxes of cakes and alot of towels and i got ang pao. hahaha! oh yes, 龙凤烛, two candles to symbolise the couple, where the bride's mum will keep the dragon and release the phoenix, so called 'xiu leng pang hong', symbolising that the daughter is someone else's business already, no need to bother and they got a new son haha!!!

then got home and prepared to go out again to shop with aunt and mum and mum's friend. they want to go cck lot one, ayia i tell you lah, aunties, in their heads, only have OG, BHG and cck lot one and chinatown. its like there is no where else to shop in the world.

ok so anyway, we got there and ate Wan Zai, i had Pork Fillet Cheese Broiled Casserole, which is damn big a serving and is VERY filling. and then the others got fried rice and some almond paste. then we went to buy clothes and shop.

So i got a dress from Cocoon, a tube dress costing me $158, which is serious serious heart pain. and a top from G3, something like a corset with cashmere laid underneath, costing me $49.90, which again is heart pain. and then bought jeans from bossini, which are damn cheap, two at $52 ! so everyone go buy jeans from bossini now !!! its really cheap and the material and cutting is awesome. i tried the one at Sense, (i was looking for skinnies) and its nice but really really tight and is at $69.90, and then i tried the Levis, which is at $159.90, which had ordinary so-so cutting. can you imagine Levis had only so-so cutting ? ok then i gave up and we went to have tea.

So back to Wan Zai again, which i duno why they like it so much, i had Ginko Barley white beanstick soup, which is a hot dessert, and is quite nice, just a little too overcooked. and the others had white almond paste, black sesame paste, gui ling gao which is some jelly.

then we went back to finding my jeans then i was so tired (i woke at 8am to get ready for the ceremony, i slept at 1 last night uploading pics to fb) and then i just wanted to go home. then while we were making our way out of the mall, i saw bossini having promotion so i got attracted.

then after this phillipino-very-enthu salesgirl guided me to buying straight cuts. cause the skinnies has only light blue ones, which i really hate that light blue colour, i prefer dark ones. so i tried it on and its cutting is something like a skinnie, which sounds really weird but it worked out great. so i bought one and my mum bought one too.

then back home now, trying on the tube dress, the top, the jeans. oh they look fabulous!

now what i need is a necklace, a pair of nice earrings, a clutch, some eyebrow trimming, some blackhead removal and pore minimizing, some whitening to the sunburns and heat rashes i got yesterday, seamless panties, eyeliner, somewhere to do mani and pedicure, somewhere to do my hair and makeup. that sound like alot of work.

oh ok nevermind. how i wish everyday is like this, shopping and eating and shopping!

posted by gabrielleteng at 20:46 0 Comments

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Sunday, 6 December 2009

Study

Ok, my mum is being such an idiot again.

Last night i told her that i will not make it to medical school anymore because of my extremely bad Sem 1 results.

I got 2.13, hence even if i get 4 for the rest of the Sems, which is not likely to come true, i would only get a maximum of 3.6 at the end of poly, which is only applicable for science courses.

Then she goes on blabbering about she never seen me study before at home and i never work hard and all that crap. i study in the wee hours of the night therefore she can't see me studying and with all that studies and CCA and other events to juggle i try to make time for family where i won't do any studying and accompany her for some time.

And then now she is accusing me of not studying.

I studied ok ? i really did and the syllabus is REALLY hard in Stage A ! There are far more chapters and there is AP Chem , which i am really bad at, and then the maths teacher teaches like shit and the BI is hard to me while the A&P is really huge mem work that i have not tried before. So what the hell is wrong ? i think looking at i am quite relieved that i actually managed to live through all that hell.

And then she AlWAYS i really mean ALWAYS, all the way from the day i was born she had been doing this : when the results come out bad she scolds me, and then when the results come out good, she will say 'i never see u study u still can get this kinda grade, its just that u're lucky'. So no matter what i do, its just luck or anything. And then she didn't discipline or remind me or encourage me to study, meaning she did not participate in any sections of my life that has anything that has got to do with studying, and now she say that i don't do well.

You, know, its like the Chem teacher teaches you chem and u fail chem and then the maths teacher comes along scolding u that u didn't study at all and u're lazy. Like what hell is that going to do with the maths teacher ?

I will never forget that i had a buddy in pri sch, called Xin Yi, she's a sweet little innocent quiet girl that is gentle and smart. Her mum give her plenty of assignments and encourages her to study and she did better than me in pri sch. And then we go home together and do all the things little girls did together. Then my mum would always scold me whenever the results come out, saying that she got better grades than me, she is prettier than me, she is more gentle than me, she is so sweet and petite and loving while she can just irk at the sight of me. YES she said that ok, i'll never forget one night she said "ni zhen de hen tao yan!" while i was crying and all.

Then the years go by and she doesn't really help me in my homework and then i struggled by myself and one day we went through PSLE. And u know what ?

I got better grades than her.

She did badly and when to ShuQun Sec while i went HuaYi, and i believe u have heard of the notorious ShuQun. I was overjoyed, not because i get to go to HY, which i didn't want to go at all, i wanted some other sch, which i forgot what, but it is the fact that i triumph. I went home, telling my mum the fact that i got better grades than Xin Yi, guess what ?

'So what if you get better than her ? You must compare yourself to people better than you like blah blah blah (some better ppl lah huh, like Xin Yi's brother, who went RiverValley). You compare yourself to ppl that are worse than you so what ? like this you'll never improve you know.'

That was what she gave me. DAMN FUCKED UP RIGHT ?

Then i emphsized that i got BETTER GRADES THAN XINYI and then she just keep quiet, or repeat her speech above. She has NEVER gave me a word of encouragement this whole life i think she won't too. I thought she would improve with the help of religion but then, its all the same.

So she was saying that its all because i don't work hard so i can't go to medical school, (and anyways, its just a dream for me, i didn't see it coming true and even if it comes true she can't afford to let me study for a whole damn bloody 6 years with $4000 every Sem, which boils down to $48000 at the end of the whole thing.she doesn't have the money.) and then i told her that it was IMPOSSIBLE to improve 3.6, because its the MAXIMUM that i can go. Its fixed, if anybody who is reading this can know how to pull it up further please tell me. then she continued saying that if i work hard then i can do it, if i work harder than i can do it. She doesn't know a single thing and who is she to criticise me ? She didn't even finish her primary school and she wants me to do this and do that and to accomplish this and to accomplish that ?

And then yesterday she came running and said
She : i want you to decorate the living room for the wedding, so i leave this whole thing to you. I : i can't
She: why cannot ?
I : I don't know how to.
She : Why you don't know how to ?
I : You didn't nuture me with areas in art and interior design.
She : Why this kinda thing need to nuture one ? not born one meh ?
I : You didn't send me to design classes nor did you born me a genius in art, So what you are doing now is sitting a kid who doesn't know the piano in front of one and telling him to play whilst he never learnt, and then reprimanding him that he doesn't know the piano.

And anyway, Mademosielle, you didn't give birth to a genius, nor made the effort to nuture one so DO NOT ASSUME that i came to this world knowing everything on earth and stop treating your daughter as if she's some all rounder genius. AND THEN reprimanding her for not knowing this things. If you do not sow, you do not reap. You did not bring me up like other rich kids do with all that piano, ballet, swimming, golf, etiquette, polo, horse-riding courses and now you expect me to know all that ? I would love to learn music as i'm really sick of the conductor telling me that i don't know music and its sickening. I would love to learn ballet because i will be more graceful, with less slouching, and become more flexible. And i would love to learn all that but did you give me an oppotunity ? NO.

And anyway the living room is way too awful to decorate. I would want to throw all the furniture away and get new ones and then remove the tile and get paraque flooring and then repaint the walls. Do you, Mademosielle, want to do that ?

And yesterday that sickening father of mine barged into my conversion with my future sister in law, saying that at night i on the light at the living room and the light reflects off the tile and goes into his room through the space at the bottom of the door and disturb his sleep.

Another lunatic after my mum. I am leading such a hard life. I should applaude myself for living till now.

And then he say he is going to buy a lamp for me and i say i don't want, because the living room is cluttered enough for this kinda things and its not neccesary. Its not that i am feeling bad for the fact that he had to fork out money but all this is just to create a fiasco to attract attention for him and not the fact that he cared for me or anything. And its his money, not mine, so why should i feel sad ? He has emptied all his CPF to buy stocks so if anything happens to him, I don't give a damn. *smiles*

And then he blabbers on, using vulgar on my mum's name, and then scolding me that i'm just like my mum, like to on lights at night (don't u only lights at night when its dark?). And then when HE CARES FOR ME (which is like fucking shit u're just trying to get attention while i'm just a little part in your play) i give him that kinda attitude (which i am not giving, i just give a flat face) and don't appreciate his actions. FUCK OFF U ASSHOLE, I AM NOT A FUCKING CHESS PIECE ON YOUR BOARD.

Then he walks away while i turn to my future sister in law, saying that of course i'm like my mum like duh she gave birth to me. Then he "HUH ? WHAT U SAY ?" then i "OF COURSE I'M LIKE HER LAH SHE GAVE BIRTH TO ME LEH, OR ELSE LIKE WHO ? LIKE U MEH ?"

kannina. then this morning i see the table lamp on the side table. i work on the coffeetable and u expect me to bend the lamp all the way to the coffeetable or shift it there ? Tons of wires you know ?

So now, whosoever is reading this, do you think that i lead a human-like life ? i think i'm living on the edge where everyday is like war. And the best thing that could happen to me ?

Is that he dies.

posted by gabrielleteng at 11:02 0 Comments

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Monday, 28 December 2009

The Wedding I

Tuesday, 15 December 2009

TopOne

Her Birthday

Saturday, 12 December 2009

Shopping

Sunday, 6 December 2009

Study

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