to my dearest lokcoks:

i was thinking of smsing.. then emailing.. then using the lokcok's wordpress to blog.. but i realised i still dunno how to post in wordpress!! haha

kkk i'm really lagging there.... lol

but i seriously click here and there still dun see where that allows me to post anything cuz also no like sign in thing??

so due to time.. it's 356am now and it's pouring outside.. and i need to get up like 7 later to start doing some procedures before moving into my new old HDB in bedok reservior..

do come visit me soon after --- hopefully i'll be able to quickly settle down and move things over..

anw.. i just really wanna say..

THANK YOU U GUYS!!!

u guys are AWESOME..

despite kevin's little slip of finger.. sending the wrong sms to me.. i was still surprised!!

like seriously!!

i had no idea till i saw the instructions on kevin's car and the function room after waiting for my brother to finally be 'free' to go watch movie with me..

i stopped expecting much from kevin's wrong sms cuz i tot since i going out with my brother he'd probably tell the people who were suppose to be somewhere 'there' that i was going out.. haha

so i really was just expecting to go watch movie..

dear fellow dhs lokcoks!! u GUYS ROCK!

man.. i really had no idea..

and all these time even during exams i was like thinking of how to celebrate my 21st birthday cuz everyone's like still having exams.. or gonna go overseas.. den also like in the end tot just suan le juz spend my 21st with my family.. which is fine with me.. i'd take it as a special day to be spent with just my family alone.. den wait till u all finish exams and come back to singapore den have a post celebration or sth..

i dunno man.. i mean.. i was pretty lost for words.. and actually felt quite paiseh when i saw u guys hiding behind the table tennis table.. haha.. tt's why i was probably as wad sc, hs said "wooden".. no reaction..

though there's little reaction outside.. i really feel it inside.. i wanted to say like a thousand words.. but i'd fine it hard to express it openly.. and to even find the words to describe my feelings..

perhaps now that im back alone in my own world.. it could be a little easier for me to reveal some feelings here..

ur appearance here tonight made me feel loved once again.. it reaffirmed me that i am not alone.. that there are ppl who still care about me and love me..

and i love u guys too..

so much things i want to say.. i wish i could..

maybe little by little..

maybe one day...

well.. in any words..thank you all!!

i love my present.. i hope to be able to ride it to my new house.. i hope my parents would let me.. and i hope there's a place to keep the bicycle.. and if i were to park it outside of the house.. plz may no stranger or bad person attempt to hurt my bike in anyway, anytime..

ooh.. i like the pink shirt too leh!! tt's so me.. im not saying the pink.. but i'm kinda like into these graphic or slogan type of simple cutting shirts..

i never tot myself as a pink girl.. even though my walls are always in pink.. just in different shades.. i always thought i was a blue and black kinda person..

hey but guess wad? i actually do like the shirt for a fact that it's pink! cuz i dun have a pink shirt.. and i juz realised recently tt i've accept pink into my list of favourite colours!! recently i was into violet purple and lime green.. but about 2 or 3 days ago i started using a proper water bottle and it's pink! and i actually like it! i LOVE the pink bottle! so yea come on and pink me up! what ever!! haha..

thanks lokcoks for everything.. and getting my brother to fool me.. kevin too.. i had no idea he was playing along while i was on the phone with him and he and sc were probably smsing too..haha..

this little surprise means a whole bunch of lot to me..

thanks..

Love, lynne.

HAppy 21st BirtHDay KeVin!!

preparing my boi's bday present and thinking about his party stuff (though i didnt really help much) have taken a whole lot more time then my assignments!

it's just minus the graded stress factor... though it's also no easy task in getting the presents.. i cracked my head crazy...

yea u can probably see the crooked line across my skull... and check out my dead braincells...

i'd wanna say wad i did but i cant in case he reads my blog before i pass him his presents.. but wad are the chances since he'll be stuck doing project all the time?

shant take any..

anw today i tried to surprise him at national lib..

quite dumb doing this alone.. i felt like some spy.. and it was 30mins to closing.. and the librarian was like looking at me suspiciously.. wondering why i was roaming around looking though the books.. not browsing the books.. but looking THROUGH the gaps between the shelved books..

i tried to figure out how to get his attention.. trying to sound urgent.. any it was like 15mins till closing..i smsed him:

eh! are u still at the lib!? help me find investment book at 332.67 and photocopy chap 5 can??

my mum needs it!!!

continue to spy from afar.. worried that i will be seen.. but totally undue cuz he is juz sooooooo blur... i quickly put the 21 voucher booklet in an empty spot, eye level, on the shelf at the investment location.. and hid a few shelves away..

saw my silly boi walk 1 round around that shelf.. and stopped at the wrong side looking for the book. den i hurriedly smsed a more precise location. 332.673!!

he eventually found the right location.. but he's eyes never fell on the present i had displayed there.. worried a someone or a librarian might see it before him...

well.. he nv actually found it.. so i stood right behind him and waited for him to notice my presence.. which also took a while.. lol...

eventually he saw me, and i had to personally pass him the gift.. and den brought him to ibis hotel where my parents were already waiting for dinner..

the place was called 'the tastes of singapore'. a unique gimick meant for foreigners.. and would not really attract any locals.. i wonder y mum wanted to try out..

it only serves the standard chinese, malay, and indian local dishes.. like lotong, laksa, mee goreng. prata. hananiese chicken rice, nasi lemak, satay, popiah, rojak, carrot cake.....

and they all are served in real mini portions.. quite cute actually.. but SO NOT WORTH IT... the price is like the same as the normal sized ones u can get at the hawker.. or even more ex!!! summore if u wanna eat local food like bak ku teh.. surely is the hawkers or coffee shops that have better ones.. cuz traditional and more expeirence in cooking them wad.. compared to the chefs here... who can only roughly do the dishes like wad they are suppose to be.. but not taste like damn good... well.. get wad i mean?? lol..

and the salesgirl goes....

"one doulah, one doulah!"
"one doulah, one doulah!"

the china girl at the Qbread outlet at eunos mrt shouts outside the store.

i saw her again today. or maybe it's another girl, but they sure sound the same. "one doulah. one doulah!"

today i arrived home early. right after school. right after handing in my HMT assignment, that has caused me many nights and days of rest and play.

i alighted 154, right in front of a mr bean store. and mr bean himself was beaming at me.

i always desired to get a pancake from there. cheese, kaya, chocolate, tuna.. mmmm...

today, i walked into the store. a few others went in at the same time. i stood in front of the glass that intervened between me and those soft steamy pancakes.

there, printed on a piece of laminated paper, scotch-taped to that glass, was:

cheese $ 1.10
red bean $ 1.00
chocolate $ 1.10
blueberry $ 1.10
kaya $ 1.00
peanut $ 1.00
tuna $ 1.20 (prices were rougly like that, i just anyhow match their relative prices.)

inflation? i vaguely remember there used to be 90cents. correct me if i'm wrong.

i left.

there was more variety at the 'one doulah' breadshop.

i used to like the bread from there. i love bread.
i've bought bread from there more than often since it charged its bread and cakes at a dollar.

it's a growing trend now isn't it? with bread shops everywhere applying the $1 gimmick.

if was a astounding feeling entering Qbread. the entire store was packed neatly with buns and bread and cakes, trays all fully filled.

i noticed something different though today. everything was much smaller. this does not help that i already knew they were compromising on their quality because their bread had lesser toppings for the past few months. and now they compromise on quantity too??

i ended up buying 2. as usual. despite the fact i was trying to cut my spendings and refusing to pay $1.10 for the pancake.

the $1 certainly works in inducing consumers to buy more than 1 product.

walking back, munching my almond custard pie which turned out to be banana walnut, i was intrigued by my logics that Qbread's profit to cost ratio would probably increase.

from my own observation, the number of consumers have increased. i always have to queue for payment.

people will not buy just one. i have to buy 2 now that it is $1. i used to be able to buy just 1.

but how much are consumers actually saving? 10, 20, 50 cents?

on the surface, that's what Qbread wants us to think.

but most certainly, and with today's shrink in size, it's definitely that Qbread's cost per bun is lower. therefore they will earn equal, if not more profits per bun. and since consumers with inherent kiasu-ness buy more than they would if at normal prices, who's not to agree that Qbread will triumph in this economic recession?

mr bean on the other hand have kept their sizes of their pancakes constant (my own assumption). though i thought the bean shaped tarts did look a tint larger. validation for their inflated prices?