the random adventures of jojo

We all know how much I love spontaneity (or so I like to think) and when I chanced upon this video, I nearly went mad feeling happy! Haha, quite literally actually. I couldn’t stop smiling and squealing and essentially feeling like I was going to burst.

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In a bid to score brownie points with my parents, Pinkie bought a whole duck from the famous place in London to bring back for them. AHAHA ok la ok la, he’s being nice! Very nice, actually.. considering how heavy the duck is, and how troublesome it is to bring it back. He has to freeze it and pack it so that it won’t spoil on its journey home to me me me me me!!

I was on the phone with him yesterday, before he went to buy the duck…

jojo: Remember to get them to pack the duck and the sauce separately k.. Otherwise the duck will spoil!
kelv: Ohhhh.. okay
jojo: Oh and yea, make sure that the duck is completely cold before you put it into the freezer too..
kelv: Ya, that one I know la. I’m not stupid leh.. But anyway even if the fridge spoils, then spoil lo!
jojo: EH WTH! It’s the duck that will spoil, not the fridge la! AHHAHAHA!!
kelv: Oh. Ohhh… Heh heh heh

AHAHAHAHAHA damn funny! Hehe.

His exams are over and it was madly evident as he spoke to me yesterday. He kept going on and on and laughing at everything. Yay!

2 more days!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By the way, I played badminton today (shocking, I know) and now I am insanely hungry. Sheesh!

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I’m in my brother’s room lying on his bed using my laptop because 1) we’re bored and 2) he had instant noodles just now – the smell made me walk in. HAHA.
He just messaged me on MSN and said Hi, so I had no choice but to reply “burp” whilst burping in real life too.

SO ANYWAY, I know I said I’d post a proper post about a week ago but never got round to it because well, lazing around got the better of me.

For the benefit of those I haven’t had the chance to personally update yet, and for people like Tania who stalks me and apparently feels connected to her friends here through their blogs, HELLO! Haha.

Since a week ago, I’ve been officially unemployed! Hehe. Yea, I know I sound exceptionally cheerful about being jobless – that’s because I am! I was at SPOON Creative as an Accounts Executive. No, not dealing with financials but with clients. Essentially account servicing. It was 7 months there, and I swear, after this stint, I really am never going to take a up a job purely because of the money again.

It’s not the company was bad or I couldn’t get along with the people there. Quite the contrary actually. Everything was good – the bosses, colleagues, hours.. I just hated my job scope. I initially took up the job because I wanted exposure into the design industry before I go ahead with my studies, and I couldn’t apply for the post of a designer because of a host of reasons, much as I would love to.

Liwei told me of the opening for an AE, and I went ahead to apply because given my background, it’s something that I can handle. It was after a couple of months when I realised I couldn’t carry on with the job because I was getting increasingly bored and frustrated with the job scope. I never blogged about it because I think it’s flipping unprofessional to bitch about it openly on your blog.

The people at SPOON were what made the 7 months bearable, and ultimately a whole lot of fun especially in the last 3 months or so. We’d constantly drive out for lunches because we’re all just so sick of the food at Tiong Bahru Market, which is right next to us. The constant yelling and shrieking in the office was insanely fun because everyone’s crazy.

When it was time for me to leave, I didn’t think that I’d miss them and feel as sad as I do about not seeing them everyday. Beyond the crazy fun we have in the office, they’re also a bunch of madly sweet people who’d drive out and travel with me when I had to get admission stuff done for school (which I’ll talk about in abit). If you didn’t already know, I really was very very touched when all of you took the time off even when you had work to do to have lunch farther away just so I had a convenient way of going to get my stuff done.

Over the months, I think I started to care and love them more than I thought I would. A couple of my Saturdays have also been spent with Charmaine, Roy and Liwei as well as Charm’s 2 cousins cos we’d all babysit them together. I loved those Saturdays and I really would like more to come.

I miss the Spoonsters, as they’re affectionately called.. I miss the morning JOLENEAREYOUHUNGRY!!!!s, and the constant LIWEISHUTUPLAa.

And although I really did feel like killing Liwei many times during the 7 months, he can be undeniably sweet:

tube:
for about 5 – 6 years i’ve only been a virtual friend to you
and vice versa.
and suddenly you are part of my working life
and suddenly you are gonna go off again
i just feel like someone stole ice cream from me

On my last day at work, Charm and Roy cancelled their date night dinner to have dinner with me – thank you!! I really do appreciate it; it made me happy hehe. Charm, Roy, Liwei, Andee and myself headed to the Fish Bistro at Hillcrest where I finally had my cod fish!!! I’d been craving for it for AGES. Sighhh, unfortunately it was much too fishy for me so my cod fish craving is still unsatisfied. The food there is really good though!!

We headed to Klee after that, this tucked away bar at Portsdown. It’s a really lovely place where they don’t have a menu and the bartenders will mix up something for you. The strawberry sake cocktail is AWESOME. Plus, they’re really nice. Photos another time!

Before we left office on my last day, we took tons of photos with Photobooth!! I love how they’re all crazy and fun-loving. My favourite kind of people to work with!

And here are the mad Spoonsters…

Liwei and myself!

With neoprints that we all took months ago during lunch! haha!

Me with the panda that they all got me for my birthday!! And Liwei with..... Fluffy. HAHAHA!!

AHAHAHA OMG LIWEI IS RETARDED!

yea, we fight everyday at work.

My cute panda! And the fake bread that Liwei tricked Charm into eating before. AHAHA!

Charm joins in! (pronounced sharm k)

haha omg charm is damn cute

Everybody! (yeaaa..) That's Roy at the back, and Andee with half a face

everyone with half a face...

LOL, i love how everyone always has different expressions in the photos!!

THAT'S MY SMUDGED EYELINER AT 8PM not eyerings k!!!!!!!!

Beefcake Seah.... and a pregnant-looking Charm. AHAHAHA

ooh rollercoaster!

ooh birdie! and superandee. ahahah

one of my fav photos! LOOK AT CHARM HAHAHAHAHAHA!!

bloop. liwei is a chinese vampire?

Grandpa Andee and his grandkids

HAHAHA OMG i'm laughing while blogging la!!!

And by then, I was laughing like mad. PLEASE LOOK AT CHARM. HAHAHAHA

WHAT IS SEEMINGLY A NORMAL PHOTO.

One of my favourites because everyone's just doing their own thing!

Hahahahaha!! Damn, posting the photos up was very fun! I was laughing like a crazy seal in front of my Macbook whilst trying to format this entry. Hahaha, I MISS THE SPOONSTERSSSSS. I’m sure we’ll meet soon! Hehe.

So what happens now that I am jobless? Heh heh heh.. Lots of slacking and lazing around, of course! My sleeping pattern’s whacked but no matter, they’ll be back to somewhat normal next week, YOU KNOW WHYYY? *annoying face*

Because………..

Before I go on – LASALLE’s Degree course takes 4 years, including the Foundation Year. Year 3 (which is the fourth year) is the Degree year, i/e if you stop studying after Year 2, you’ll graduate with a diploma.

When the interviewer kindly offered me direct entry into Year 1, I was thrilled! I’d found out during the interview that what will be taught in Year 1 will be fine with me, even without taking the Foundation Year. Praise God! I thank God also for His presence with me, for when I walked into the interview room an immediate sense of calm fell upon me.

I’m incredibly excited to be going back to school! With that excitement also comes anxiety – I worry that I won’t get used to having to do assignments and projects when I get home. For the past 3 years, when I get home all I do is unwind and go online for fun! Sheesh. Hahaha..

Oh, and I also worry about making new friends. AHAHAHA. Oh shuddup, don’t laugh at me! It’s trueeee.

Despite the nerves, my screwed sleeping pattern and having no income, I’m way excited for what is to come, as well as being very happy that Pinkie is coming home in 4 days! His exams end tomorrow, after stretching over a period of one month. Mad.

I cannot cannot cannot cannot wait to squish you. HEE HEE!

And now that I’ve FINALLY blogged this super long crazy post of updates on my life, I will reward myself with Timtams + cold milk! LIFE IS GOOOOOD! =))

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*bimbotic mode*

I finally got down to getting myself a pot of gel eyeliner to try out and see what the fuss is about! Tested a few brands at various counters and settled for Maybelline’s. Most gel eyeliners only come in black or brown, and I couldn’t find one that was in between. I can’t do jet black for my eyeliner because I end up looking scary – my poor MAC pencil liner has been sitting around feeling useless.

I never did like liquid eyeliners because I couldn’t control it. Also didn’t quite like the look of it. When I heard about the gel eyeliners, I figured I’d give it a go.

Settled for Maybelline’s liner in black because it wasn’t as dark as the other brands, which I liked. I know a lot of people don’t like that though. They also have it in a brown that’s really quite nice, nicer than the other browns I’ve seen so far.

I just tried applying it for fun, and my verdict? It’s INSANELY easy to apply! The liner just glides on smoothly, and it’s really easy to control with the brush. I just used the free brush that came with the Maybelline one, and it works fine. I was surprised when I first applied it on my eyes actually – feels very different from liquid application. It also looks a little more natural than liquid liners.

My eyes are usually lined with pencil – Anna Sui’s in brown, mixed with Shu Uemura in gray. I only line the lower lid, which is again, different from almost everyone I know. I don’t line the top usually because despite having single eyelids, my top lid is stupidly “deep set” so you can’t see the liner anyway.

Although I adore the application of the gel eyeliner, I doubt I’ll be going out of the house in it anytime soon. Not until I get enough practice anyway. I’m totally not used to the way it looks and the effect it achieves. Very happy with my purchase today though! Yay! I think I will head back and get the brown pot too!

Now, I really should get some sleep. Can you believe this – I’m actually sleepy!! At 330am! That’s a whole 3 hours earlier than what’s been the norm this past week! Haha. I had a great day, and I’m looking forward to another awesome day tomorrow! I’ll be meeting my ex-colleagues from Spoon and going to have brunch!!!!!!! *bounces around*

On that note, I couldn’t get a dress I tried on today because of the weight I put on. Totally unflattering in the pretty dress. *sigh* HOW IS THIS FUNNY??? My boyfriend couldn’t stop laughing when I told him about this! Pftttt!!

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It’s almost 5 in the morning.

5 minutes ago, my dad came into my room to pass me the MOS Clubbers Guide 2009 CD that he bought, to pass to Pinkie because he realised he cannot listen to…….. those songs. Thank God. At least that’s one person less around me listening to trance. *grimace*

4.55am. My dad came to pass me a CD at 4.55am. It sounds ridiculous, but my heart breaks at this, only because I know he is doing so because he cannot sleep.

An hour ago, he was in my room telling me about his day at work.
Some people deserve to die. Rather, they don’t deserve to live, or have what they have anyway. Seeing my dad unable to sleep at 4 in the morning when he has a whole day of meetings the next day at work is insane. I pray all these gets sorted out soon. Prayer works, right?

Alex (yes, Kelv’s evil friend) asked me how I was on MSN earlier today. How am I? I was at a loss as to how to reply him. So I asked him why he asked. A string of text followed which didn’t answer my question but it didn’t matter anymore. I tried to answer his question but he said I wasn’t answering it.

Tired. Stoned. Don’t feel much about anything. Sian.

He said that wasn’t answering his question, and I suppose it’s true. I need to figure out the mess in my head. Something tells me I’m afraid to. The other day after speaking with Van online, we talked briefly about what was bothering us. I didn’t particularly want to get into the conversation any deeper than the surface, but it happened to scrape past just a lil.

And what’s scary is that just from that little bit of conversation came a lot of unspeakable heartache on my part. I don’t know what to do, and I’m not sure what I want anymore. I’m not even sure I want to face this.

There will always be periods of feeling far away from God, but somehow, this time feels different and I don’t mean that in a good way either. Things feel different. People feel different. Where are you? My heart is breaking and it’s useless to keep telling me that you are there to walk with me, not when I feel so alone. It is also completely pointless to tell me that ultimately I live for God and not anyone else when you are the ones who are making that difficult. Those words seem so empty now so I’d rather not hear them.

What makes me even sadder is that somehow along the way, the 8 days that I have left to countdown feels different as well. It tears me apart to feel this way and I’m not even sure what’s happening. I tell myself that things will be better in abit, things will be better… right?

Some days I wonder why I keep wanting to hear words spoken out loud to convey their meanings.
Is it REALLY simply because Words are my 2nd love language, or because everything else doesn’t give me enough security to just trust you?

So then what’s the difference and significance of words and actions?
Words serve to encourage.
Actions serve to support.

They come as a package – one cannot be without the other. If you just speak, what use is it? And if you just carry out actions without supporting, you get the task done but leave hearts to be broken. WHAT’S THE POINT????

I’m tearing up whilst typing this – I didn’t expect all these words and text to appear; I’d wanted to do a simple 3 liner post.

I wanted to say that I should just learn to bite my tongue, keep quiet and not bug you.

I hate feeling this alone.
Spare me empty words and superficial are you okays please.

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Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.

It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails.

Verses so familiar to everyone, verses that have appeared on my blog more than just a couple of times. And yet, today when I saw that as Tim’s nick on MSN, I was reminded again of how powerful love is, and what I should be doing.

Tim said he wants to live by these verses, and I was reminded that we all have much to learn. God is love, but have we truly made that conscious effort to keep loving? What do you understand by Love?

Today I was just reminded again, of how to love unconditionally and how I haven’t exactly been a good example of that. I’m not perfect, and I am fully aware, but I do my best to love you as best as I can – I’m sorry for the times when I fail to love like this.

Hey boy, I 1Cor13 you.

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Strangely enough, one of my photo sets is called angels and demons. They were photos of angel statues at a cemetery at the backyard of a small church in Cityhall – no demons.

The movie completely took me by surprise, just because I thought it was really really well done. I was drawn fully into the movie for the whole 2 hours and a bit, not gazing off bored like I usually get at some point in most movies. The plot was awesome, thanks to Dan Brown although I never read the book. I probably wouldn’t think the movie is as great as it is because no matter how well movies are done, I usually prefer the book. Perhaps because I think words by great storytellers have more power than movie makers. Words play with your own imagination and messes with your mind but for movies, it’s just there in your face with nothing more.

That said, Angels and Demons was an excellent movie. The scenes and editing were well planned, cut to the right moments without being too draggy and ‘loose’. It was a thrill-ride for 2 hours (perhaps because I scare easily) and I was curled up in my seat tensed. Poor Steph lost feeling in her fingers because I was grabbing them. Haha my left hand also lost feeling because of some awkward position I was in, trying to cover my ears. Oh stop laughing at me! If only you could see me in the cinema. Hahaha.

The last movie I gushed about like this was Batman’s The Dark Knight. Awesome stuff.

Ling bought Dawn, Steph and myself dinner at Manhattan Fish Market, and I am convinced I’ve gained 2KG + several clogged arteries. They ordered a side of garlic butter mussels, which they all enjoyed. I didn’t take the mussels cos I don’t like em, but the sauce…. oh, the sauce! It was used as a dip for everything else on the table, much to Ling’s horror.

Her healthy eating habits was in despair as Dawn and I drowned everything on the table in the garlic butter sauce. Her favourite phrase for the night was, “devoured the garlic butter sauce!” Hahaha.

Our dinner topic brought much laughter and hilarious expressions on Ling’s face, much to my delight. I love her insane expressions and her reactions to pretty much everything. Hehe.

I should really be asleep but I’m feeling a little off from the hugeass amount of food I had today. I’m also worried about dreaming up Angels and Demons scenes. Sigh, I hate dreams you know?

To you, they’re just dreams and it’s silly to get upset over them.. but you know what? I’m not you.
We all each have our own idiosyncrasies, and as much as I possibly can, I try to accept yours. Please please don’t judge my weaknesses based on your standards for the very simple reason – I’m not you. I never will be. This may seem silly to you, but as long as it doesn’t feel silly to me (bad dreams honestly feel anything but silly) and means something to me, I fail to comprehend the lack of support or comfort or love, whichever you’d want to call it, despite the lack of understanding. It feels just like taking a child’s irrational fear of something you yourself are not afraid of and mocking it.

Oh well.. Just rest well, get well and study well. I’m still here.
I just want you back here – just simply happy to be back, happy to be home, happy to be with me.
I love you.

Things will get better in my head (heart?).
Right?
I need some loving.

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No no, am not quitting Twitter! Hehe. I’ve decided to take out the posts on my blog that log my tweets, though. They stress me out because now my entire page is entry after entry of tweets!

Ok fine. I just think it looks ugly to have so many points listing my tweets. Haha. Plus, I had to use LoudTwitter when the Twitter Tools plugin for WordPress stopped working all of a sudden. Sigh.. My tweets still appear in my side bar, though.

Alternatively, you can find me on twitter @rumpledoodles!

Aside from tweets, do drop by and say Hi here! My tagboard is back in my sidebar!! Oh, but I like comments more. Hahaha ok enough rambling – stay tuned, because I have possible good news for my readers!!! *excited* I do wanna hear from you, though! It feels insane and lonely blogging to no one cos I don’t hear from you guys as much as I would like, so leave a comment and say Hi! Don’t be a stranger, yo.

As promised, I will have a nice long proper update after this week. YAYNESS! jojo is gonna be back blogging proper soon! *bounces around*

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I think it’d be nice to have consecutive nights where I don’t go to bed with neither a) leaky eyes nor b) a heavy heart.

where have they gone?

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