5:04PM -feeling good. Happy!-

As usual, whole holiday has been rotting n slacking at home... haha... really super no life... almost everyday visiting Amore (fitness centre)... had been taking up Yoga n Pilates lessons... actually wanted take up Aerobics de... but it seem veri stress with this two lessons le... haha.. Yoga is more on concentration and flexibilty of the body... Pilates is abt making ur body firmer and sleeker... Both makes alot on arms and legs.... haha...

Started 3 weeks ago... at first, gt body ache lo... guess i haven't been working out for a super super long time le... haha... Now still not so bad... getting used to it le... Every tues yoga lesson seem to be the stressful one... i think i m the younger among the people here... but u noe wat all the rest are really good lo... u can see the aunties balancing themselves strongly using 2 hands... blancing the whole body on 2 hands... OMG! i was like strangling lo. haha... the instructor said that been tall was my disadvantage! hai sad sia... today, whole lesson was on balancing using diff styles on 2 hands... i can only make it for a few... the rest was like OMG! haha... nvm i guess i will go on trying... :)

Tml gt Pilates class... it's more consistent ... lessons are more or less the same... so this one not so bad... managable.. haha... Was think abt which one to continue when sch starts... but i guess most probably i might be continuing my Yoga classes... haha... see first la...

ok le la... gng eat dinner le... enjoy the last few days of holiday ba... :)

*5 more DAYS!*

12:02PM -reading "A Bend in the Road"-

Just wann share wif u all a extracted part from this book.

Read the below:

There r ghosts and there is love,

N both r present here,

2 those who listen, this tald will tell

The true of love n if it's near

Harris Presser had been born in 1843 of a owners of a small candle-making shop in downtown New Bern. Like many young men of the period, Harris wanted to serve for the Confederacy when the War of Southern Independence began. Because he was an only son, however, both his mother an father begged him not to go. In listening to their wishes, Harris irrevocably sealed his fate.

Kathryn Purdy was only seventeen, and like Harris, she was also an only child. Her parents owned both the hotel and the logging mill, and were the wealthiest family in the town. They didn't associate with the Pressers, but both families were among those that stayed in the town after New Bern fell to Union forces in 1862.

...they fell in love...

Despite the war n the occupation, Harris n Kathryn began meeting by the Neuse River on early summer evenings, just to talk, and eventually Kathryn's parents found out. They were angry n forbade their daughterto see Harris anymore, since Pressers were regarded as commoners, but it had the effect of binding the young couple even closer together. But it wan't easy for them to see each other. In time, they devised a plan, in order to escape the watchful eyes of Kathryn's parents. Harris would stand in his parents' candle shop down the street, watching for signal. If her parents were aslp, Kathryn wld put a lighted candle on the sill, and Harris would sneak over. He would climb the massive oak tree right outside her window and help her down. In this way, they met as often as they could, n as the months passes, they fell deeper n deeper in love.

By now, the Union forces were tightening their grip on the South-the news from Virgina was grim, and there were rumors that General Lee was gng to swing down with his army from northern Virigina and try to retake eastern North Carolina for the Confederacy. A curfew was instituted and anyone caught outside in the evening, especially young men, was likely to be shot. Unable now to meet with Kathryn, Harris contrived to work late in his parents' shop, lighting his own candle in the store window so that Kathryn would know he was longing to see her. This went on for weeks, until 1 day, he smuggled a note to Kathryn thru a sympathetic preacher, asking her to elope with him. If her ans is yes, she supposes to put 2 candles in the window-one is said that she agreed, n the 2nd as a signal for when it was safe for him to come n get her. That night 2 candles were lit, n desprite all the odds, they were married that night under a full moon, by the same sympathetic preacher who'd delivered the note. All of them had risked their lives for love.

But unfortunely, Kathryn's parents discovered another secret letter that Harris had written. Enraged, they confronted Kathryn with what they knew. Kathryn defiantly told them that there was nth they can do. Sadly, she was only partly right...

A few days later, Kathryn's father, who had a working relationship with th Union colonel in charge of the occupation, contacted the colonel and informed him that there was a Confederate spy in their midst, someone in contact with General Lee, who was passing the secret information abt the town's defenses. In light of rumors abt Lee's probable invasion, Harris Presser was arrested in his parents' shop. B4 he was taken out to hang, he asked for 1 flavor-a candle to be lighted in the window of his shop- and it was granted. That night, from the limbs of the giant oak tree in front of Kathryn' bwindow, Harris Presser was hanged. Kathryn was heartbroken, n she knew her father had been responsible.

She went to see Harris's parents n asked for the candle that had been burning in the window the night that Harris died. Overcome by grief, they hardly knew wat to make og the strange request, but she explained tt she wanted sth to remember 'the kindly young man who'd always been so courteous to her'. They gave her n that night she lit up both candles n set them on the windowsill. Her parents found her the nxt day. She'd committed suicide by hanging herself from the same giant oak tree...

Those candles burned all night n the following day, until they were nth more than little knobs of wax. But still they burned. In the nxt night, then the nxt. They burned for 3 days, as long as Kathryn n Harris had been married, n then they went off. The following yr on Harris n Kathryn's anniversary, Kathryn's unused room mysteriously caught fire, but the house was saved. More bad luck followed for Purdy family. In finanical ruin, Kathryn's parents moved away, abandoning the house. But...

People sweared that they could see the canles buring in the window above. Others would swear there was only one... but that another was buring in another abandoned building down the street... the only people who see them r young couples in love. Whether or not u two will see them, depend on ur feelings for each other.

This is only a extracted part that i had taken out from this book... found it quite interesting, so wanna share with u all... hope u all enjoy :)

6:39PM -rotting at home-

During this holiday, i tot of alot of things... so many that tots started to run thru my mind... everyday... I m not a person who is gd at handling relationships... all sorts... friends... sister... parents... A person who dun think b4 she tok... really sometimes really hate myself... why can't i just be more sociable... just like my sister... she gt alot of friends... she dun hv the problem of making new friends... totally opposite of my character... r we really sisters??? hahhahaha :)

I haven't been nice to u guys... also tease and make fun of u all... I am not good at expressing my feeling but i can tell u guys that i m really glad to hv friends like u all... someone to joke, crap and lame with... haha... 2 and a half years le... noe u all for so long le... haha... guess u all had enough of my craps... haha... though my jokes may not be as lame as goldfish but.. shld be too far away from hers.. haha.. really had great fun with u all lo....

Sometime really find that been a wonderful person is really hard... i nv meet my expectations b4... nv... dunno why... everyday slacking and rotting... dun even noe wat's my goals and where to go to... dad always say," One must have dreams to motivate oneself". What is my dreams??? Maybe i noe wat but i really need someone to give mi some directions... :)

now gng to watch tv le... take care guys... have a nice holiday

Count down: 24 more days to the end of freedom... hahaha

12:08AM -back from class gathering cum pam's b'dae celebration-

Just reached home not long ago... shower le... but now dun feel like slp though abit tired.... Tonite was a fun night... sth diff compared to my tv nights... haha... In fact, this is my first time out having fun with friends til so late... had great fun! :)

We met up at cityhall... actually shld be Marina Bay de but last min dap called to tell mi change place le... I was like super early... haha... but nvm la... i walked around... then at 635PM stood at the MRT station to wait for the rest...

We went eat buffet... hahaha... i super lousy... ate onli 1 plate of meat, i sian le... haha... was full then... usually i dun eat so much meat for dinner de... haha... tonite i was special... all of us was chatting and laughing... haha... yu cheng told us quite a few of funni experience.. haha... veri funni... sat there til abt 9 plus... then we went off to walk around and took alot of pictures... quite fun

Went home at abt 10 plus... jonathan and sarah were like agruing abt which way to get to the MRT station.. haha... both of them were so funni... but really happy to see them smiling... haha... in the end jonathan won... haha... he gt the short path to the MRT station but... haha... still we gt our direction wrong... haha...

Reached tampines at 11:30PM... took a bus and reached home at 11:45PM... haha... today was a great day... or shld i say ytd nite was a great nite... haha...

Anyway, hope pam and the rest enjoyed the gathering... :)

take care guys! Good nitez :)

8:34AM -drinking lemon water-

Morning! :)
Yesterday was a good day... Finally went swimming! hahha... but Tampines Swimming Complex close for upgrading...Reopening on 1 Sept 2005! that is like a lot of months lo... haha... wonder wat they gng to do to the swimming pool... haha...

But still mi and vanessa took bus 31 to bedok swimming complex... reached there at abt 1015AM... was quite empty... no people around... haha... then we went to change and got down to the water... As usual the water was cold but veri cooling... saw alot of dragonfly around... haha... Mum say coz raining days so will have alot of dragonfly... but nvm la... who cares abt them... I swam abit... then was discuss with vanessa on the free style... haha... coz both of us dun noe how to turn our heads up to breathe... tried a few time... gt part it correct le ba... We went shower at abt 1130AM...

After then we went for lunch at the coffee shop near bedok interchange... i ate western food, sauage bacon with egg... haha... i love the western food there... then vanessa ate chicken rice... Actually planned to bring vanessa to chai chee to eat the tom yam soup that i had the other day... but she cannot take sour stuff... so nv go... Then we came back to TM...

Vanessa went to Sebanwang to buy Sun yanzi's album for her bf's brother... the free shirt wa black in colour... not veri nice...i prefer the white one that my sis had... then we went around.... i bought a hair clip and bought my sis a heart shape thing to hang on her phone... I think she will like it... hope so ba... at century square, we saw this stall selling small and cute plates of food.... but this food is just for display... had dim sum, cakes... veri cute...

Reached my place at abt 215PM... then we watched the "shi zhi lu kuo" -shld be spell like that ba :) then we chatted from 3 plus to 5 plus gng 6... tok abt alot of stuffs... but i can't remember wat now... haha.... short term memory la... haha....

Then after she left at abt 6.30PM, Isetan called mi... i went to pick up my dress... haha... finally gt it le... so happy...

ok le... i stop here gt to go see jia xuan le... think she woke up AGAIN! slp only abt 30 min lo... hai

Take care! :)