i finally got to stay at home the entire day! woohoo.
the mexican party was a blast. had a lot of fun.
week 9 is coming up…
Oct
06
Frivolous Fel and I went to catch Modern Love on Sunday. Why is Fel Frivolous? (Even it starts with F so a good fit for her when she introduces herself) SHE HAS A TEST ON MONDAY which she has a lot to study for but she is still going to watch a movie. The intriguing thing is that she will still perform.
Anyway, just a little on the romantic comedy.
Modern Love is a slightly odd format of a film within a film, which some might find disturbing, or contrived. The sub-film: Modern Love features the ever excellent but sadly underutilized Alexandra Lamy (Marianne) gets off to a bad start with gallery director and Brad Pitt look alike Stéphane Rousseau (Vincent) but everything works out "just like in the movies" in the end. Highlights are Vincent’s knight on white charger rescue of Lamy at the altar and the excellent duet sung in sign language – a classic piece of cinema.
In the real world things are not so easy as we followed the tangled lives of cute but boyish Bérénice Bejo (Elsa) Stéphane Debac (Jérôme), France’s fairytale princess the Duchess of Savoy Clotilde Courau (Marie) who anglophones will probably know from Piaf and Pierre-François Martin-Laval (Eric). Eric is the author of the film within the film but is brutally dumped by Courau before a brief encounter with Bejo.
There is a funny sequence at a Party where Bejo meets Debac who is her ideal man (doesn’t like football, good looking, sensitive, improbably lives on a boat in the center of Paris). It is obvious to the viewer that we are not in Kansas, Toto but Bejo manages to dig a deep hole. However in the end no-one in the "real world" really ends up happy.
All very gallic, in the end one wishes for more of the musical escapism of Lamy and Rousseau.
Fel and I concluded that the perfect man you thought may not be the one for you. Then it dawned on me that I’m thankful I’ve got God because He will know who the perfect match is for me. I have heard of many people with prayer lists for God for their perfect man but sometimes not all turns out to be in their man. Then you wonder if God makes mistakes but no… because they still are very happily together. God knows who is the perfect match for you and many a times not entirely the man you have listed.
Modern love is so much portrayed as one that is so easily destroyed.
OK back to reality! Start of the week and projects galore!!!
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James 1:23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass
Oct
03
Two classes tomorrow but I think I’m just going to skip one of them. Really tired from all the late night outs. I’m so old I can’t take it anymore:P HAHA.
Let’s start recounting my drinking days!
Tuesday in the middle of work with lotsa chips – bad idea! Wednesday was drinks at Wine Connection and Butter Factory. Thursday lotsa drinks and food at Harry’s. Friday more food and drinks at Hog’s breath and the Loof! I can feel the extra inch round my waist already. So, I am not allowed to drink on Saturday!
It feels like I’m on exchange all over again!
The credit crunch is making me feel really bleak about my future. I don’t know if I can get a job at all. Not confident at all.
This half a semester has been really wonderful. In fact, I think it is good to just focus on studies. Perhaps it is also because the modules that I have this semester are really applicable and useful. In addition, I finally don’t just think of making more money any more. Not like I earn a lot from part time.
I have definitely changed in subtle ways. In ways that I am shocked to recognize it as well after exchange.
I’ve developed the love for wine.
Living by the weeks now.
Sep
11
Was still thinking that it would be so troublesome to change my email! Always hate the trouble to email the others and tell them and then msn change as well.
But been receiving too many funny messages on MSN that keeps asking me to view their blogs. I have no clue how they got my email but NOT once have I clicked on them. No need to click can also guess what funny stuff is on there. It can average to 3 messages EVERY TIME I get on MSN. I wonder if it is cuz of ebuddy. Anyway, this time it better work.
Then there are the benefits actually. I get to access my gmail on my iTouch now! muahah. On top of that, I get to consolidate my emails and find out which ones I should delete. Save for the fact that I have to take the trouble to regroup them but maybe that will help me group my contacts more effectively! Heh. Oo and hopefully less spam emails on gmail as well. Sometimes taking the step and effort to make a change may not be that bad after all!
Aug
18
all so unreal
i’m back!
start of school.
been cooping and sleeping at home to recover from the time difference and also to run away from the reality of life 
i wonder how many read this blog sometimes but some people did surprise me by telling me they did. thanks for reading my blog! hehe.
sleepover at pam’s place was a bonding session and good to see all of my best girl friends! they made my life in smu so much easier. while there were a lot of crazy talking and realizations, i think we have all grown and changed in our own ways. we have evolved but i hope that our evolving friendship will still keep us together.
seeing the tj friends was a relieve from the stress i felt today in school.
i miss cph and looking back, i wished i could have done more but i never regretted going there. hopefully, all the lessons learnt stays and maybe i’ll go back to cph. there is no coincidence in this world. 
a long list of things to do. 
can’t wait for the new cupboards. it takes forever to find anything and i refuse to pack cuz it makes no difference!
there are better changes in the family.
Lord, pls provide me with the strength and wisdom for the rest of the sem!
Aug
07
the libraries here are amazing. the rustic feel, rows of old and tall bookshelves, sliding ladders and creaking floors just brings you to another world just like what you see in the movies. it is something so common for them yet so dear to us. we only have unfeeling libraries with prolly at most 50 years of history. i found another thing that i’ll miss here.
black diamond looks like this really modern piece of architecture but on the inside, it has all the history you can’t imagine. it is situated right next to the canal so you can imagine a good book, a cup of coffee, the sun shining and the occasional breeze simply makes life so much more bearable!
Aug
05
yes. finally. the long awaited moment. or is it.
i hope as time goes by the changes that have been made, be it good or bad, can be seen when i return. yes that is evidence of my exchange and experience.
i can’t help but already develop feelings for this place. the sense of tiresome still surfaces ever so often and i don’t know if it is because i’m leaving this place or is it because i’m just so tired from living here.
there are so much i want to write down but it is so difficult to express all these feelings that has occurred over the span of time from the last entry. been really bad at updating this blog.
i can’t help but feel jittery about returning home. not because i don’t want to but how i have to adapt back to my old environment after 7 months here. will i easily slip back or will i start to complain. maybe that is a good way to start.
and for sure, i have to move on with my life. he hasn’t been replying to my emails anymore and that is something i thought he will do. shortlived happiness. silly me. i wonder what the future beholds yet i can only hope for the better and do my best in creating the life that i want, living a Godly life, or can i?
all these doubts are killing me.
but i know i should be ready to take on the challenges back on singapore.
6 more days before i get on the flight bound for singapore. 13 hrs of flight.
i’m going to try to savour these last days.
Jul
21
yes. when things are looking too bright, the law of gravity applies. there will be something that will fall.
i was basking in love and fun in the past two weeks after some sad departs. and now, my bike is stolen.
i’ve got feelings for this bike. it’s been with me to many parts of copenhagen, rain or shine.
my heart sank when i saw the familiar lock that is cut on the floor.
whoever that has stolen my bike, i hope your hands are rotting now.
he has left. perhaps forever. maybe it is easier if we don’t even keep in contact.
too many things have lost and it is difficult to recover them.
met some wonderful peeps here who have made my time here.
20 days to my return to singapore. just want to make the best out of it now.
