hello pple, please go to my lil' shop at http://hershoppe.livejournal.com to support! my friend sheryl and i are selling off things which we bought online and cannot fit... but rest assured they're really nice and we're selling them off only cos they can't fit us well. they're not worn or altered :)

I'm amused by a message in my facebook inbox...

Guy XX:
Hi,

I'm sorry but do i know you? you appear here in my facebook as "awaiting friend confirmation" but i don't remember having added you and i rarely forget a face... i'm truly sorry if i've forgotten u from somewhere.

Anyway, cute pictures of your niece there. Regards.

Fiane Lo:
Today at 12:55am

Hello,

You appear in my facebook under Friend Request. And it comes with this message:

"Hi, care if i add u as a fren? no worries, i'm just looking to know more ppl. ^^"

Not sure if you've added wrongly some time ago, but in any case, I've not confirmed the request as I don't recognise you either. :)

Cheers,
Fiane

Guy XX:
Today at 7:50am
Hi,

ah... now i remember... that was really embarrassing. so sorry about that. =(


Errr. okay. I have 68 friend requests waiting in my facebook now, and I don't know where all these pple come from! Some look like they're from India, Middle East, Japan, France, and some are girls too! Some of the foreign guys look hot but i seriously won't add them.. hahah. Any of u have the same encounter? Do pple just drop off friend requests everywhere and then forget about them subsequently? It's a funny world :)

my family and friends have been keeping me company and sane over the past few days. :)

it made me see how blessed i am to have these pple care so much for me. and i'm also very fortunate that i'm suddenly getting calls from pple i haven't met in a long long time asking to catch up, all at this time, without them even knowing about what happened. times like this, i really believe that God exists and is watching over me.

wed was a nice little dinner with colleagues i haven't met in awhile, though i was so tired after work i was falling asleep. thurs was a quiet dinner with michy. fri was clubbing with the girls at butter. long time since i clubbed and really let my hair down. miss those drinking sessions of the past, getting drunk n having good laughs. we're already planning for next fri. i must get drunk this time! sat was ballet under the stars with ceci, a very crowded affair and the stage was soo far away but good performance nonetheless. it was followed by prawning n bbq-ing prawns till 3am! i was totally zombified. ceci was positively happy and excited about the prawning. we caught 15 prawns altogether!!! anw, thank u babe for accompanying me so much and being here for me when i most need it even though i've not been the best of friend in my opinion. appreciate it. :)

today was family time at my granny's, followed by going over to my auntie's house for a huge dose of my new baby niece, RACHEL! :) i love her name, and i really love her too. took so many photos of our baby princess and she was lovely and happy. feel so happy for bryan. although this was untimely and he'd need alot more time to settle in, i can already see that he has developed some fatherly qualities and i'm proud of him. can't help remembering those days when bryan was small and we grew up together for a good few years. i really took care of him and looked upon him as my baby brother. it's hard to believe how time flies and look at him now, a proud father. sigh i miss our childhood, yet again. feeling melancholic.

it's sunday night again. more catch ups to do next week. but it's gonna be a busy week ahead, esp with assignment deadline very soon. i haven't started! gasp.

it's 5.45pm and i'm going out for dinner with my mum later but i'm already hungry beyond reason!! *rarrr* lunch was miserable today with only steamed fish and rice. i could eat a cow now.

june was a good break, with a generally nice trip to redang, albeit with some hiccups here and there and some unhappiness along the way. but no regrets going. finally went there with sheryl after so much talk and excitement both of us went thru since days from long ago. planning was rushed and flustered (and done by both of us as usual). june was a HOT time for trips like this so we were plain fortunate to have gone at all. i miss the swimming and riding waves with sheryl.

other updates...

i changed my hairstyle!! have straight hair with bangs now. my colleagues couldn't recognise me at first. like really couldn't recognise. my dear michy first thought i was an intern sitting at fiane's desk, and she bumped into me in the toilet and walked past. sheesh. received various comments, the funniest of all being "sailormoon". GAWD. and stupid junxiang (yes you!) couldn't recognize me at first and said i looked UGLY. sheesh. but i'm generally quite happy with my new hair. it's no longer as bone straight as the first few days and looks more natural now :)

on the work front, i'm gonna be burnt this july and august. one assignment deadline on 27 july, research presentation mid-august and another huge assignment deadline on 31 august. sobs and i've no idea how to do them. getting tougher and tougher.

and i'm rushing psych reports for my pupils now like no business. realised that i've completed my cases a tad toooo vigorously last semester, as i just spoke to fellow colleagues and realise that they don't pack so many cases in their school visits and hence they don't close their cases so soon. now i've 12 psych reports and 10 coming my way once i finish off the parents' feedback. my supervisor's breathing down my neck and all the schools are rushing me. i'm highly stressed. booo. some unhappiness encountered with my supervisor partly cos of this as well, making me feel rather blue over the past two weeks.

also in the midst of writing a proposal to propose some nationwide screening assessment process for dyslexia... and it's killing me seriously. damn tough to write and i'm stuck. so technical. have to report on all our research studies which were carried out over the past 2 years, stats (luckily got male colleague helping me), and the very technical stuff about literacy and language assessments. we're all just waiting for this proposal to finish up, so that we can hold a meeting with external parties. i'm seriously procrastinating this abit too long..... but i can't help it when i don't know how to write it. arghhhhh... and i really dunno whether this proposal will go through with the external party. really have alot of doubts about this assessment process... i'm not sure how ethical or even how valid this is..... but yet we are at the point of no return. and being at the bottom of the food chain, i can only advocate it even though i hardly believe in it. ironic?

okay enough about work!! feel super sianz especially on a sunday night... the monday is looming near and i really have nothing to look forward to in work anymore. very sad to say. all the paperwork and crazy workload is killing my motivation to help children... i must constantly keep myself on track. arghhh

anyway, i have two tickets to ballet under the stars for next sat. bought it under moe promotion and was super excited to go. was intending to go with him but things are going badly now... might sell the tix in the end. i really think it'd be a nice event. some things are just not fated.

ok i think my post is turning depressing again... gonna go have dinner soon. enjoy the rest of sunday evening :)