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planned bpal orders
- liz x 2
- stormhold (kenneth)
- eisheth (geri)
- tristran (kenneth)
- titania????
ordered jan 8! gimme cns!

1. being forced

friday night - karaoke
instead of clubbing we went to karaoke.. T___T the good thing was it had some korean songs. and the alcohol certainly helped.

saturday morning - clean cupboards
my mum made me clean all my cupboards with jif.
lc: 世界上的灰尘没地方住，我要给它们一个家。
mum: 你不要那么好心，等到你有你自己的家才让它们住。这是我家。
lc: T____T
but on the upside, i found my copy of sophie's world which i thought i'd given away... i was on the verge of getting another copy.

saturday afternoon - made to clean the floors with a toothbrush!

sunday morning - had to wake up at 530am to help my mum T___T

sunday afternoon - forced to sing karaoke again.
7 hours this time. T_________T


2. i love lev grossman's the magicians. really, really identifying with quentin coldwater. and i love his style.

And on and on, and it all sounded completely, horribly plausible. Any one of a thousand options promised - basically guaranteed - a rich, fulfilling, challenging future for him. So why did Quentin feel like he was looking around frantically for another way out? Why was he still waiting for some grand adventure to come and find him? He was drowning - why did he recoil whenever anybody reached down to help him? The professors Quentin talked to about it didn't seem concerned at all. They didn't get what the problem was. What should he do? Why, anything he wanted to!

this sentiment echoes throughout the book - that real world is so much less than what one expected when you're still just growing up. the promises of satisfaction and reward if you achieve such-and-such, and then after that... what? this is pretty much how i've been feeling about my life for the past 3 years, once the state educational system ceased to do my thinking for me. for 21 years i believed: if you work hard, you'll be successful, and with that comes happiness, enveloped in that kind of perfect life you read about in novels with happy endings. at the end of it.... there's nothing. maybe i passed judgement too quickly. maybe i gave up too soon. who knows? or maybe i read too many storybooks and am still living in my own la-la land. yah. this is highly plausible. zzzz

pronounced 山々　as やまざま


...


ok i'm ready to go shoot myself and my short-circuited brain now.

back at work! i wanna drink teh cino & eat chicken murtabak with my friends x_x

package tracking:
1. bottle purchase from lab (liz, titania)
2. sarajane's TAL circle ( lionheart, charisma, blockbuster, stfu)
3. ajevie's lupercalias & dd circle
4. fairynymph's retail only circle (U, cthulhu, banshee beat)

my favourite scoop shop got a bunch of new posters.







dinner on friday night: fatty pork cheeks is love.

i ate this. mini melon pan snack by bourbon, filled with melon cream. IT SUCKS! a waste of my 200 calories. :(

i miss kobeya's melon pan. i wanna go work in the kobeya factory. .____.

for some reason bpal's recently collaborated with a host of cool retailers to release these new scents. i really shouldn't get these considering i just spent $120 on decants last week. but. but. but. oh, fuck it.


Banshee Beat (dark delicacies exclusive)
A tousled, sexy mix of patchouli, vanilla, and hemp.
vanilla! vanilla! that's enough reason to get it, isn't it? hemp. will i smell like a druggie? do i care? there's vanilla! ok i'm getting this.


Sweet Life (dark delicacies exclusive)
A luxurious blend of gardenia, pikaki, ylang ylang, and Casablanca lily
i googled pikaki. it's a hawaiian flower. too floral. pass.


Ü (Mütter Museum exclusive)
A mélange of balsams, leathers, and raw vanilla designed to evoke images of unearthed secrets and dusty, ancient libraries.
*___* VANILLA. and balsam. can i equate that with resin? hmm. in any case, i need to visit this museum when i go to philadelphia again.

Their one-of-a-kind treasures include:
The plaster cast of the torso of world-famous Siamese Twins, Chang & Eng, and their conjoined livers
Joseph Hyrtl's collection of skulls
Preserved body of the "Soap Lady"
Collection of 2,000 objects extracted from people's throats
Cancerous growth removed from President Grover Cleveland
Tallest skeleton on display in North America

It's like some kind of wunderkammer! *___*
wanna buy this for the vanilla. and because the store selling it shares the same space as the tallest skeleton on display in North America. actually that doesn't sound like such a big deal.


Malignant Dreams of Cthulhu in Love (thinkgeek exclusive)
An amorphous mix of oppressive, piceous ritual incense, macerated kelp, sea salt, sticky dark ocean plants, and… mixed chocolates.
considering how i didn't like ANY of the pirate scents (jolly roger, mary read, caliban, plunder...) i don't think i'll like this either. kelp and sea salt? no......... nothing in the description appeals to me but the name! the name! it's such an awesome name. lovecraft would be proud. and it's got a pretty label.

lc: wahahhaa. i'm glad i finally got some exercise!
a: you call that exercise? i think you need some serious exercise man.
lc: what are you talking about? dancing IS exercise.

anyway. i made a domokun. :D
pictures later!

it's finally friday! after a looong week of 6am starts... i decided to make use of my free afternoon by doing some much-needed shopping. most of my clothes have been ruined by my dad's 1337 bleaching skills.

walked down the whole of orchard road without finding a single thing to buy T___T the 4-storey forever21 at somerset 313 is actually pretty tiny. but chock-full of young girls! i feel really old.. i guess now that i am 25 i should develop a classier sense of fashion. went to borders again and read days of war, nights of love. my own copy. so far, i prefer it to evasion, which is about dumpster diving and train hopping and shoplifting. i don't know. i can see where the writer is coming from but i can't agree with his lifestyle. andrew called to ask me to the kings of convenience live. apparently there's a new show so people who didn't manage to get tickets for the first show should load sistic now.

since i was in the area, i signed up for class with den sensei again, on thursdays. first step towards self-improvement in 2010! in the lift, this guy asked if i just finished class and we talked a little. his smile was cute :D i texted maria to tell her i was joining her class, and she texted back お帰り! *feels loved* i'm looking forward to hearing sensei's stories next week!



i'm in love with this biscuit tin. it's by sanna annukka for M&S. i went to 3 different M&Ss to look for it....... DID NOT FIND. *sob



i also looked at dummy models of the new LG lollipop phone! told j i really wanted it because... it's endorsed by big bang and he said that's a silly reason for wanting a phone. true. BUT IT'S SO CUTE TOO! and it's a flip phone! awww man i want one. it's $800. maybe i should wait till i go to seoul to buy one? the red one isn't available here anyway. *can't read korean wtf*

then i went over to united square for dinner with geri, ken, dorothy and sam. acquired eating animals. YAY~~~ i love JSF! i still have a huuuuge stack of reading material. why am i such a slow reader? T___T

AUTUMN MOON OF THE MIRROR STAND
Honey, quince, vanilla, white cognac, Spanish mandarin, and golden tobacco.

KISS AMONGST DISCARDED TISSUES
Blackberry, white gardenia, burnt mandarin rind, Indian musk, khus, and white musk.

LOVERS IN A CARP STREAMER
Cranberry, thyme, teakwood, mint, cedar, tobacco flower, and red currant.

NEEDLEWORK
Oolong tea, lilac, sheer musk, crushed ginger, wisteria, delphinium, and lavender.

PINK MOOD
Vanilla, star anise, cherry blossom, peony, violet leaf, and neroli.

PENIS ADMIRATION
Lilac, ho wood, smoky vanilla, galbanum, and tonka.

UNVEILED
Red bush tea, vanilla, white peach, golden amber, mandarin, lotus root, and myrrh.

SMUT 2010
Three swarthy, smutty musks sweetened with sugar and woozy with dark booze notes.

retail therapy for me please!!