you must be wondering what on earth im saying in the heading, it is a quote from midsummers night dream. shakespear's language's pretty cool. the meaning's actually just a simple 2 words. 'you shortie!' haha, i hope that i can use this on someone in the future, but i have to grow taller before i can do that! oh, but i bet she/he will catch no ball, all the better!
this past week has been the same, study a bit, use com a bit and most importantly, play guitar! however, now's a little different, cos dad sings along with the guitar. heh, i dun usually sing along when i play a song, so dad does the vocals. n boy, he's real good. and cos if his powerful voice, im tempted to sing along too, so i sing.. rare moments in the life of lisa ong! we sing songs ranging from christian tunes to some oldies like tears in heaven and michael learns to rock (my all time FAVOURITE!). playing the guitar (plus singing) helps me lifts my spirits, it's pretty therapeutic for study blues. on tues night, i played guitar for two and a half hours straight! thank God my fingers didn't ache or worse, break! and this activity is so addictive that i usually plan to do it only for 15 mins, then it drags to 30 mins, then soon it will be an hour... that's how i ended up playin two and a half hours long of guitar. ADDICTION, the culprit.
my dad' real happy too, he wants my family to perform for anniversary. LOL. but not bad, he and mom can sing, da jie the keyboardist, er jie the violinist and i the guitarist. the instrumental range is a little weird, but actually, they still combine strangely well enough. btw, my dad wants to do a chinese song. oh horrors! but i just realised, im not going to open my mouth, just strum the guitar, that's it! :)
Friday, July 31, 2009
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Mama's birhtday celebration
since im done with chinese listening comprehension exam, i have the time to blog a little. though i dun think i would do really well for o level chinese, however, the process itself helped me to be more interested and passionate about the language. and that's something new for me.
now, to mama's birthday celebration on 17th july! her birthday is in fact on 18th july, same as nat and isaac. anyway, i shall just let the pictures do the talking. :)
before dinner. mama's osteoporosis has really taken its toll on her, she used to be taller than me. :(
dinner at nakorn kitchen ( i almost said chicken.. lol) the food's very flavoursome.
my beloved cousie samuel! he likes to raise his hand while taking pics, for no reason.
again hand raised. i decided to do a fleming. no reason too.
samuel was attracted to the exercise trampoline
on the way up!
landed. sheer jubilation. he sure is one active little man.
the marble cake! i helped mum bake the cake, and i did all the decorations, with a little help from samuel. hehe, i realised i do very very complicated decorations. maybe i was trying to use up all the choc. haha.
ohana (extended).
grandma and her grandkids. er jie not around cos she went night cycling. so naughty.
mama looks so happy, like a queen who has it all!
mama, mum and auntie hannah.
now, to mama's birthday celebration on 17th july! her birthday is in fact on 18th july, same as nat and isaac. anyway, i shall just let the pictures do the talking. :)
before dinner. mama's osteoporosis has really taken its toll on her, she used to be taller than me. :(
dinner at nakorn kitchen ( i almost said chicken.. lol) the food's very flavoursome.
my beloved cousie samuel! he likes to raise his hand while taking pics, for no reason.
again hand raised. i decided to do a fleming. no reason too.
playing happy family. old past time, but it makes u think hard!
samuel was attracted to the exercise trampoline
on the way up!
landed. sheer jubilation. he sure is one active little man.
the marble cake! i helped mum bake the cake, and i did all the decorations, with a little help from samuel. hehe, i realised i do very very complicated decorations. maybe i was trying to use up all the choc. haha.
mama so chio! hair so black, teeth all naturally white. lol, i joked that if one said the above phrase too quickly before thinking, it would be hair so white, teeth naturally black.
ohana (extended).
grandma and her grandkids. er jie not around cos she went night cycling. so naughty.
mama looks so happy, like a queen who has it all!
mama, mum and auntie hannah.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Birthday picnic + ck on 11 july
yay! saturday was indubitably fun! well, more accurately, the fun really started on friday night. when i baked the banana choc cake with mom. btw, the cake was done from scratch, even the template for the words were cut out by me. heh, just goes to show how passionate i am about baking. anw, much must be credited to mom, she led the reigns in the baking process, she's so experienced, i feel so priveleged for her to be my mom. :) this is how the cake turned out:
notice the 'holes' for the letters B,D,R,A they are circular, that's cos i overlooked this when i did my template, so mom ingeniously came up with inserting chopsticks. the only imperfection about that is the chopstick sinking in (cos the choc is still soft and warm, hmmm... :) ), yep, so it looked a little uneven there. plus when i was removing the template, which was strewn with chopped pistachio nuts, from the cake, i couldn't stop laughing at the way mom was meticulously holding the chopsticks, trying as hard as she could to prevent them from sinking too much. that sent specks of pistachios glittering the forbidden areas. but that couldn't be helped. wow, i really went to this detail to describe the small imperfections of the cake. i guess the theory that women are more concerned about the details is certainly true after all. :)
now to the main content of this entry. on sat morning, nat came to my house to laze. i did not want to touch my work cos i knew i wouldn't be able to concentrate. so we ate up my unfinished breakfast and started viewing childhood pictures. heh, we were so amused but how happy carefree we looked, and remembering how close our families were, my fav pic is all of us girls (excluding nichelle) jumping on a king sized bed at one church camp. i was only 5 then! boy, i silky hair then... hehe. btw, we saw hui qi too, on the 'log' pic. she was so chubby. :)
by then, dad had come to fetch us. i rmb lying to huiqi and joanne that we were on the way there when we were actually snugly viewing photos. LOL. just couldn't resist the lure of memories.
we reach changi beach at about 12.45. joanne and josiah were there alr, picnic stuff all set up. okay, to cut to the main point, we ate, drank, fellowshipped, played frisbe, volleyball, bridge, bang, sang songs with guitar accompaniment, took pics to our hearts content. time passed too slowly, cos we were using it too quickly.
at 3.45, ck finally started, we sang ck songs while waiting for the july babies to come. we they were all finally here, we sang the song, and they blew the candles. we all did our part, everything went smoothly. i received feedback that the cake was great. well, thank God. :) and mommy! :)
exhortation followed. josiah was trying to drive the points about unity and meaningfulness home. heh, can't help but fondly remember the part when his expression changed upon seeing a pair of otters (silly me, i kept thinking it was oysters, until mom corrected me at home). then everyone suddenly jumped up in curiosity, but the otters were scared away by this sudden movement and padded back the waters.
subsequently, we played 3 games that were related to the exhortation. i like the 2nd one most. it was most challenging, although my team faced the embarrassment of singing with our mouths full of water. i cheated. :)
after a little while of rest time, hui qi gave out presents to the july babies. then we ended ck the most regular way - captains ball. and the game ended in the same disturbing way, noelene's leg had a wound from carelessly banging into a dustbin during the game. to me, i felt that this uncannily parallels what happeded last week. this is pretty disconcerting. :(
last but not least, we headed for dinner and changi village. i didn't eat cos uncle beng young came to fetch us. :) i wasn't hungry anyway.
yep that sums up ck last sat. i decided to talk about it here cos it is an exceptional case. :) plus huiqi wants me to blog. i've done a loooooooong post here, maybe you could read one word at a time so that i wouldn't have to blog again before my o's. haha!
notice the 'holes' for the letters B,D,R,A they are circular, that's cos i overlooked this when i did my template, so mom ingeniously came up with inserting chopsticks. the only imperfection about that is the chopstick sinking in (cos the choc is still soft and warm, hmmm... :) ), yep, so it looked a little uneven there. plus when i was removing the template, which was strewn with chopped pistachio nuts, from the cake, i couldn't stop laughing at the way mom was meticulously holding the chopsticks, trying as hard as she could to prevent them from sinking too much. that sent specks of pistachios glittering the forbidden areas. but that couldn't be helped. wow, i really went to this detail to describe the small imperfections of the cake. i guess the theory that women are more concerned about the details is certainly true after all. :)
now to the main content of this entry. on sat morning, nat came to my house to laze. i did not want to touch my work cos i knew i wouldn't be able to concentrate. so we ate up my unfinished breakfast and started viewing childhood pictures. heh, we were so amused but how happy carefree we looked, and remembering how close our families were, my fav pic is all of us girls (excluding nichelle) jumping on a king sized bed at one church camp. i was only 5 then! boy, i silky hair then... hehe. btw, we saw hui qi too, on the 'log' pic. she was so chubby. :)
by then, dad had come to fetch us. i rmb lying to huiqi and joanne that we were on the way there when we were actually snugly viewing photos. LOL. just couldn't resist the lure of memories.
we reach changi beach at about 12.45. joanne and josiah were there alr, picnic stuff all set up. okay, to cut to the main point, we ate, drank, fellowshipped, played frisbe, volleyball, bridge, bang, sang songs with guitar accompaniment, took pics to our hearts content. time passed too slowly, cos we were using it too quickly.
at 3.45, ck finally started, we sang ck songs while waiting for the july babies to come. we they were all finally here, we sang the song, and they blew the candles. we all did our part, everything went smoothly. i received feedback that the cake was great. well, thank God. :) and mommy! :)
exhortation followed. josiah was trying to drive the points about unity and meaningfulness home. heh, can't help but fondly remember the part when his expression changed upon seeing a pair of otters (silly me, i kept thinking it was oysters, until mom corrected me at home). then everyone suddenly jumped up in curiosity, but the otters were scared away by this sudden movement and padded back the waters.
subsequently, we played 3 games that were related to the exhortation. i like the 2nd one most. it was most challenging, although my team faced the embarrassment of singing with our mouths full of water. i cheated. :)
after a little while of rest time, hui qi gave out presents to the july babies. then we ended ck the most regular way - captains ball. and the game ended in the same disturbing way, noelene's leg had a wound from carelessly banging into a dustbin during the game. to me, i felt that this uncannily parallels what happeded last week. this is pretty disconcerting. :(
last but not least, we headed for dinner and changi village. i didn't eat cos uncle beng young came to fetch us. :) i wasn't hungry anyway.
yep that sums up ck last sat. i decided to talk about it here cos it is an exceptional case. :) plus huiqi wants me to blog. i've done a loooooooong post here, maybe you could read one word at a time so that i wouldn't have to blog again before my o's. haha!
Friday, July 10, 2009
Lighter burden!
oh man! i was so dying for today's school to end. cos it's really tedious! 6 subjects packed together in a day is just too much for me to handle. and furthermore, the fun prospect of tmr made it worse, i couldn't concentrate much in class. my last lesson was lit, and mrs dhaliwal was finishing up on the funnyman bottom, but i still couldn't wait. when it was all over, i scooted home, yeah, im that excited!
tonight, im going to bake the cake. i pray to God that nothing goes wrong! unfortunately, it will not be a creamed cake, for 2 reasons. 1. cream will not hold out without refrigeration, so the logistics is a problem. 2. my mom does not wanted us to indulge in any less than proper behaviour - hazing. however hard i persuaded her, she just did not buy the cream. so sorry folks. anyway, i have suggested to bake an equally cool cake, that is banana chocolate cake! it is one of my all time favs, especially when mom bakes it. :) plus i'll make sure that there's superabundant choc for everyone to enjoy, if everything goes well with my health crazed mom.
im looking forward to having a blast tmr! :) thanks be to huiqi and joanne for organizing the event. plus ck will be great too! i presume...
tonight, im going to bake the cake. i pray to God that nothing goes wrong! unfortunately, it will not be a creamed cake, for 2 reasons. 1. cream will not hold out without refrigeration, so the logistics is a problem. 2. my mom does not wanted us to indulge in any less than proper behaviour - hazing. however hard i persuaded her, she just did not buy the cream. so sorry folks. anyway, i have suggested to bake an equally cool cake, that is banana chocolate cake! it is one of my all time favs, especially when mom bakes it. :) plus i'll make sure that there's superabundant choc for everyone to enjoy, if everything goes well with my health crazed mom.
im looking forward to having a blast tmr! :) thanks be to huiqi and joanne for organizing the event. plus ck will be great too! i presume...
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
National pride
wow, i can't believe i am back at it - blogging. anyway i can't help but feel a huge sense of pride for my country singapore. we have done so well in the current AYG! heh, 9 gold's really unbeliveable, but definitely possible. apart from our country, i find south korea the next country to watch. they have fantastic soccer players as well as swimmers. not to forget the female sprinter sunae, they are so charming. :)
okay, i shall follow what my heart says and deviate off topic. i have a fatal attraction. or is it curiosity? i can't take it anymore. tsk tsk..
im getting worse at writing. i dun understand what im writing! duh!
okay, i shall follow what my heart says and deviate off topic. i have a fatal attraction. or is it curiosity? i can't take it anymore. tsk tsk..
im getting worse at writing. i dun understand what im writing! duh!
Monday, July 6, 2009
Randomness
i realise i have become super lazy when it comes to blogging... tsk tsk. even the church camp post can't be bothered to finish. cos i tend to go so much into detail that i find it a little redundant. then i get upset with myself and stop. whenever i go online, i would rather watch the korean drama the man who can't get married..
well, these past few weeks have had a few highlights, but i shall limit myself talk about the more relevant stuff. and i have decided to blog for ppl who faithfully read my blog. i hope seeing a myraid of words will appease them...
night cycling at east of singapore.
first time i ever cycled a good 40km. i was not alone, about 30 others from ck + cks accomplished the same feat. haha, it was supposed to be a good bonding session for me with everyone, but it turned out that i got too kiasu and cycled in front most of the time. and nat was likewise, so i ended up bonding even more with her. lol, i quite had enough her alr.. anw, nat and i became a little nuts and started singing our favourite songs together. our favourites for that night were do re mi and how you solve a problem like maria. we kept singing the part
'How do you solve a problem like Maria?How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?How do you find a word that means Maria?A flibbertijibbet! A will-o'-the wisp! A clown!'
and then we will burst out in hysterical laughter. you may think it old fashioned, but it was pretty fun in the circumstances, it took the tiredness off us.
okay, i think i shall just talk about this. ck is really much a part of me now. or is it just nat.. church is getting more and more great. with friends and all. :)
well, these past few weeks have had a few highlights, but i shall limit myself talk about the more relevant stuff. and i have decided to blog for ppl who faithfully read my blog. i hope seeing a myraid of words will appease them...
night cycling at east of singapore.
first time i ever cycled a good 40km. i was not alone, about 30 others from ck + cks accomplished the same feat. haha, it was supposed to be a good bonding session for me with everyone, but it turned out that i got too kiasu and cycled in front most of the time. and nat was likewise, so i ended up bonding even more with her. lol, i quite had enough her alr.. anw, nat and i became a little nuts and started singing our favourite songs together. our favourites for that night were do re mi and how you solve a problem like maria. we kept singing the part
'How do you solve a problem like Maria?How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?How do you find a word that means Maria?A flibbertijibbet! A will-o'-the wisp! A clown!'
and then we will burst out in hysterical laughter. you may think it old fashioned, but it was pretty fun in the circumstances, it took the tiredness off us.
okay, i think i shall just talk about this. ck is really much a part of me now. or is it just nat.. church is getting more and more great. with friends and all. :)
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