with the w550i *_* it's so charming, drop-dead gorgeous.... i'm melting.

hooraaayyyy! so many presents xD so happy jumping around it's making me dizzy so i decided to blog some so i'll sit still.

lots of lovely stuff i've got. thank uuu alllll. :) you ppl put in so much thought into my presents! they're all really wad i wanted :D thank uuu thank uuuu.
did the usual christmas thingy! on xmas eve, we had a family party and the food is just GORGEOUS. there was freshly sliced ham, kiesh (howeva u spell tat. it's this omelette thingy), pasta, tons of finger food, salad, argh. so much stuff was left over, it lasted us 4 more meals. yum :p
had games with all my cousins and :) christmas is never really christmas without your family. I LOVE THEM ALLLLLL. oo. then i saw this really accurate xmas card that rote: "The spirit of Christmas is Joy, The message of Christmas is Hope, and the meaning of Christmas is Love." so true so true :) thank you, Jesus, for coming down to be with us and give us a way to heaven :) amen!

merrrry boxing day, youuu! :)

O holy night
The stars are brightly shining
It is the night
Of our dear Savior's birth

Long lay the world
In sin and error pining
'Till He appeared and the soul felt its worth

A thrill of hope
The weary soul rejoices
For yonder breaks
A new and glorious morn

Fall on your knees
O hear the angels' voices
O night divine
O night when Christ was born
O night divine
O night
O night divine

( i like the highlighted line the most x)

(hot stuff done by this person called heise in deviant art.)


lack of sleep + lack of food = grumpy clara.

aft a terribly long sch day ytd, (9-5) i had to go help out at a play practice for cell. helped sing christmas carols, got to know another desmond and a guy called wai yeew (pronounced Why, youuuu! hahaha :)....and i cant rmb the rest of the shepherds/wise mens' name cos they all haf chim chinese names. of all places, they had to meet at marine parade, so by the time i got home from rehearsal i was just dragging my feet around. but, oh, temptations. my brother had lotr, The Return of the King on, and i just had to watch it.

today, i woke up late, so on an empty stomach i rushed to sch and by the time i got there, half the lecture was gone. aft tat had to rush to animation room to do animation before eating, cos lots of ppl were going for the animation rooms, and we were afraid we might not get a place. i know i was grumping but i really cldn't help it. being sleepy and terribly hungry at the same time isn't a good feeling. thank you, aman, for knowing wad's rong with me :) haha. (although you bit my arm, you really do love me! :)

made my way home like a beggar, with my shoulders slopped and slanted, but who cares. like fiona always says, there are no handsome guys around so why bother to be graceful and elegant?

the house was dead silent when i came back, so i assumed no one was home. even the computer chair was empty, and my daddy wld normally be on it if he were home. so i scooped the pasta & sauce(presumably left for me) into a bowl, left it on the dining table, and went into the hall to get the papers. when i came back, the bowl was gone. so i tot i left the bowl in the kitchen, but no matter how i looked, there was no bowl of pasta o_o omg. tat was when i started to panic, thinking i've become senile and i can't even rmb where i put my pasta. aft walkin 3 times round the dining table and kitchen and feeling anxiously bewildered, =_= my daddy magically appeared from his room carrying my pasta and smiling cheekily =_= see. i wasn't lying when i said my dad's hobby is disturbing me.

"Hahahaha. :D didn't you know i took your pasta?"

"=_= Noooooo. I tot i've become so forgetful i even forgot where i put my bowl. Gimme back!"

"Hahahahaha. So lousy, u."

But, forgiven. Cos my dad makes the best white sauce in the world xD! totally made my day. although the 'base' is taken from a bottle, but aft he adds minced meat, prawns, mushrooms and magic, it takes wonderful enough to be sold. i think my dad cld make lots of money selling his food o_o! yum.

my darling tagged me on this, so here goes:

THREE NAMES YOU GO BY:
1. Clara
2. Yan yan
3. Yanny

THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU HAVE HAD:
1. zoogles
2. cloud nine
3. (erm...i don't have so many)

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. eh. my nose?
2. my tough gastric-free stomach
3. my skin is not very sensitive, so i can put all sorts of nonsense on it :)

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU DON'T LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. fat arms :(
2. short fingers
3. gigantic forehead

THREE PARTS OF YOUR HERITAGE:
1. China
2. Singapore
3. hong kong? (or wherever cantonese came from)

THREE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU:
1. ghost shows
2. zombie shows
3. creeeeepy crawlies

THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS:
1. a bath with nicely scented shampoo & facial wash
2. ice water
3. sleep

THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:
1. big tshirt from aus.
2. fbt shorts
3. pretty undergarments. hur hur.

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE SONGS (currently, anyway):
1. Collide - Howie Day
2. Di Yi Ci (first time) - Guang Liang
3. New World - Larc~En~Ciel

THREE BOOKS YOU ARE CURRENTLY READING:
1. Bridgeman's Life drawing (hur hur :p)
2. Under Cover by John Bevere
3. my Bible

THREE THINGS YOU WANT IN A RELATIONSHIP:
1. to be very much at ease (can be silent and yet not feel awkward)
2. humor!!!
3. communication!!! (aka, to be my best friend.)

TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE (in no particular order):
1. I eat anything edible.
2. I can be serious and not cranky, but when I'm cranky I'm always serious.
3. I read people well.

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS ABOUT THE PREFERED SEX THAT APPEAL TO YOU:
1. Broad shoulders
2. Height!!!!!!!
3. funky hair

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES:
1. daydreaming
2. shopping
3. disturbing my mum :P (if u're wondering why not my dad....it's cos his hobby is disturbing me.)

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO REALLY BADLY RIGHT NOW:
1. To go watch a movie with suntec gang + sq + pang + kl + jk
2. To go on a shopping spree
3. To drink macdonald's ice lemon tea

THREE CAREERS YOU'RE CONSIDERING/YOU'VE CONSIDERED:
1. storyboard artist/art director
2. be an animator (2d & 3d)
3. to be a medic

THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO ON VACATION:
1. Venice (again!)
2. Japan
3. New Zealand

THREE KIDS' NAMES YOU LIKE:
1. Isaac - it means laughter :D
2. Zechariah - it means Jehovah (God) Remembers in Hebrew
3. Amber - colour of kenshin's eyes when he angry. hur hur. :p

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE (at least, not immediately BEFORE):
1. Serve God well.
2. To skydive.
3. To win an Oscars for best animation :p hur hur.

THREE WAYS THAT YOU ARE STEREOTYPICALLY A BOY:
1. I'm clumsy and a little crude
2. I don't like romance comedies, cheesy or not.
3. I'm egoistic.

THREE WAYS THAT YOU ARE STEREOTYPICALLY A GIRL:
1. I like cute stuff (NOT HELLO KITTY & those silly cartoons)
2. I'm a earring, bag & clothes fanatic
3. I cry when the movie is touching. ( i even cried during the movie I Not Stupid *_*)

THREE FEMALE CELEB CRUSHES:
1. eh eh eh.Naima from America's next top model ?
2.
3.

THREE MALE CELEB CRUSHES:
1. Takeshi Kaneshiro - oh~!!! His gorgeous Highness. love~~
2. Hyde - who cares if he's short. he's so hot with his deeeeeep voice and mohawk do!
3. Richard Gere - the most charming old man EVER.

Tagg:
Qy
Kl
Aud
jk

stumbled onto this blog while browsing for feet drawings : http://arteliance.blogsome.com/ it's really quite interesting, with a lot of ideas and opinions on art and design.

feelin lazy, so no picture from my window today. and man. T_T my wishlist keeps expanding. :( i feel so greedy. nothing much to yak abt today. just felt like typing stuff. hmm. ok. i confess: i skipped typo today. hur hur. bad girl.

and oh my goodness. my hse is like, a total mess now that my maid's gone. books piled on the table, magazines & newspapers all over the floor...

Cause you and I both loved what you and I spoke of
and others just read of and if you could see now
well I'm almost finally out of.I'm finally out of, finally,
well I'm almost finally, finally, finally out of words.

she shrugged it off
said she had nothing to say
because he had nothing to feel
she carried the air
they never realised
so different

(picture from my window : looks like there's a face in the cloud, no?)

i went for dg camp!!! woohoo xD !!!

one thing i gotta say. church camps are just so different from other camps. while in most camps you starve, in church camps you're stuffed T_T.

~~ so saturday came and we all gathered at the rooms opposite our church at marine parade at 1 ! had games at east coast till 5+, showered, slacked around - (played toggle x) !!! i'm quite good :p) - then had dinner. cos of the games, all of us were starved, but ba. noble me and sab were chosen to go help carry the food up. some guys were supposed to deliver some (very yummy) left overs of a wedding for us to eat, so me sab rach pea waited downstairs while the others upstairs happily ate away beehoon & kway teow....

7.00 pm, they said, "We're coming!"

7.30 pm, "We'll be there soon!"

7.45pm, "We're coming!"

garrrrrrr. sooo like my daddy la! GUYS. They're forever coming but never here.
so when they finally arrived, they came with tons of food (:p oh joy!):
brown and white choco tarts, strawberry pastries, sotong balls, fantastic tuna sandwich (food at weddings are just different :), sun kui, and i cant rmb wad. just loads and loads of food.

so from being starved we all became stuffed cos it's such a waste to throw such gorgeous food away, thus aft dinner all our bellies were portruding. we then had a session where u're supposed to realise your talents/strengths and learn to make better use of it in the future. everyone had a piece of paper pasted on their backs and everyone had to take turns writing good stuff abt each other.

the weirdest comment i got was, "..cute like a panda."
o_o like since when were pandas cute? i think she just meant my black eyes make me look like one T_T sob. but on the account she put the word 'cute' in front :p hehe. forgiven.

and....barely 2 hrs aft dinner, a bus chartered us off to geylang to haf supper! we went to the famous soya bean place beside the equally famous beef kway teow place. (isn't my vocab just fab?) and...of cos. we were all bloated but hell! we went there specially to eat soya stuff! wad a waste if we don haf our fullest fill rite? haha.

tadaa~~!!! xiao long bao, endless cups of soya bean drink, bean curds, mian xian, you tiao and pork floss pastry appeared on our table. *gobble gobble* pea even ordered soya drink with raw egg and sugar :S the egg is like, really raw, and you just beat it into the hot soya drink. it sounded so gross but i took a sip of it and didnt seem to have any diff from the normal drink. nessa ordered the same thing, just with salt. i'm like "EEEEeeeewwwww!!!!!!!!!" like the raw egg thingy isnt gross enuff =_=

took a bus back, and there was still more games. T_T finally slept at 3 am, and woke up at 7.30. within 15 min of waking up we were brought to eat our breakfast when we all felt we just ate our supper a minute ago. camps are sooo fattening. had a crazy breakfast chortling away....and aft slacking for abt 2 hrs, we had lunch T_T i have no idea how sab managed to eat finish hers.

andddd....off to the max pavilion at expo!!! garr. found out city harvest church is like rite beside ours =_= i noe we're all christians but *pouts* i'd like my own territory. hurhur. sounds cooler. well, great worship session today!!! God was right there with us. the only complaint i have is tat the music is soooo freakin loud. like some giant rock concert. craziness! happiness :) !

(picture from my window)

i just found out yesterday that my maid's going home not because my parents wanna save money, but because my parents didnt like her. papa only told me ytd cos she went out shopping and was safely out of ear shot. so now she's on her way...flying home thinking it's because we're in difficult situations tat's why she's going home. :( i really kind of liked her, but i guess it's rite that my parents are sending her home aft all the stuff my daddy told me.

well, one month without a maid (a former maid is comin back to work for us end of dec) and i don't know how i'm gonna survive... x( and all you ppl without a maid, reading my blog, don't you dare call me spoilt! while you might not have a maid, you don't have to do the housework ok T_T !!! sob. whereas in my case, once the maid is gone i'll have to do some chores. this time round, i'm gonna sweep and mop the floor T_T princess indeed.

well, off to dg camp :) ! my hmwk's so screwed, but heck :p i already missed a camp last week, not gonna miss this one!

THE BIG MOVE~!!!! expo expo expo here i comeyyy~

garr. went swimming with aud as usual today :( but i was so out of form. swam like, less than half the amount i normally swim and was swimming at snail pace. i'm wondering if it's because i feel so darn sleepy or it's just matters of the heart.

yesterday was a rather interesting day. during animation class, i realised i'm one of the few (or only one?) that mr bhakta calls by name. whenever he gives an explanation to a grp of us, he'll ask me, only me, "Clara, do you understand?" in a nice smiley manner, of cos.
its startin to make me wonder if i haf the word 'dense' or 'wols' written across my face. x(

there was also an interesting article about the link between artists, sex and schizophrenics in the Life! newspaper ytd.
the reporter writes: "..British psychologists released a study...the average artist has twice as many sexuals partners as non-artists. They also found that artists shared key behavioural traits with schizophrenics....Schizophrenia, which stems from the Greek words 'shattered mind', is a mental illness characterised by defects in the perception of reality."

so :S alright. now we artists are not only sexual, we're half-nuts too. The reporter totally disagrees with the results of this study, thank God. bonkers results they are! seriously, artists are serious and morally upright ppl :) i'm one perfecto~ example. (aman will account for tat. hurhur) if the study's really true, with spore pushing so hard for the arts scene here, "Singapore could well end up as a nation with as many artists as morally bankrupt schizophrenics." as Clara Chow writes. mmm....all claras haf such brilliant minds. i'm considering naming my child clara too~! haha. oh dear. i'm loving myself too much xD

but garr. one part of the article spills the beans about every artists' secret. quoting from british artist dino chapman, "(asserting that artists often lead boring lives, Chapman added) The truth is that artists aren't that special. People just like to think so - especially artists. They don't deny it because the industry thrives on this very premise (and it makes them feel loved and important)."
so there. i'm not special. boo hoo hoo.

alright now. i'll be serious and start what i really want to write. my maid's going home and i can't bear to let her go :( i love bak kus and she's more like my friend. bawled my eyes out and i'm feeling better but it's just all so bitter. just a few days before she was notified she was to go home, she saw one of my assignments and she went "Yan yan, can u draw for me? I give u your first job ok? i want a big big picture (and gestures the size of it)...u colour than i buy from u ok? anything also can!...sunset, the beach...:D"

haha. i was feeling over the moon when she said tat. my first job as a designer! and it's just so differrent when u're doing something just to get an A compared to when u're doing something for someone you really care abt. i said i'd do it for her during my hols, but my hols aren't even here and she's flying off. it doesnt feel that bad when there are tons of things to do and ppl ard, but when it's quiet, tat's when reality starts sinking in and you know she's going to go. no more cheery hellos when i reach home, no more beehoon just the way i like it, no more water bottles by the window when i go to sch, no more just knowing she's there :( maid? what maid? my friend's leaving me as an early xmas gift.

sad things aside, there's a dg camp this weekend xD one that i can go to!
( :( turns out they're also goin to indo for a retreat from the 12th-14th dec....i wonder if they rmb tat i'm still schling and i'm not able to go :((( )
and....woots!! this weekend will be my church's first week at our new & bigger space..........
EXPO!!! :)
the move is termed "The Big Move" and there's a pretty tshirt abt a mustard seed tat comes along with the move xD no matter how i look at it, it beats having to travel all the way to marine parade. hoho

God has His ways of blessing me ^_^

now everybody knows that the people from the land of my ancestors are a grudge-bearing, aggressive and unreasonable lot who just can't forget the past although those ppl that hurt them are probably long dead.

i just read the papers and all this debate about zhang ziyi playin a geisha is the ultimate SILLY. ok....so she's playin the role of a geisha getting toyed by the jap, but this is acting. =_= it's not like she's converted into a geisha and wants to hook on only japs.

someone even commented that killing zhang is not enough. like, where's his logic? can't they tell how zhang is bringing fame to china as one of the few asian faces to make it big in hollywood? i can understand where they're coming from, seeing that spore was also invaded by the jap, but those babarians are dead. full stop.

what are they afraid of? that the ghosts of jap invaders would come mock them in their dreams? the ghosts wld probably know better than to waste their time. i think they'd just float to the theatres and enjoy a good movie adaptation from a good book.

Jesus loves the little children
all the children of the world!
red and yellow
black and white
they are precious in his sight
Jesus loves the little children of the world!

today, i woke up at 8am!!!
(horrors! what in the world is going on that made clara wake up at 8 on a saturday?!!)

goodie me was being a filial daughter. :p papa needed help cos my mum was off for church camp so i followed him to the market to be a coolie for the morning. all i did was carry bags of stuff, actually. i simply stood like a dummy while my daddy chose piles and piles and piles (i never knew we ate so much) of vege and pork and whatever not. i think i was very much of a hindrance to the other ppl at the market, cos they kept sayin
"xiao mei, rang lu hor." ('little girl, give way hor.')
:( i don't really like the smell and the wetness of it all, but kl said something that made me think.
"...liddat who want to marry you."
sob. must i go to the market to get ppl to marry me? lol. maybe if my other one is a butcher :s...

anyway, fiddled with my camera today:


the trees around my house are so green :) haha. just realised that. praise the Lord! :)


my D grade g and B- grade M. final result: C !!!


:( the box of the lao po bing (wife's biscuit) from hong kong that i didn't get to eat cos my maid ate up my share :( anything but my food!!! :(


the box was so pretty i cldn't help but take a picture of it. hoho :P


when cats go bad
not a pic i took, and no link to my life, but it's so cute i cldn't help but post it up xD

he said, i feel down
and my heart sank.
he said, what can i do?
and i wanted to hold his hand.
he said, there are ups and downs,
and i knew he wasn't talking about up.
he said, pray for me,
and my heart cried out.
he sighed,
and my soul ran for help.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUDREEEEYYYY~~!!!! xD (30th december)

wooots! had such a tiring and fattening day yesterday. haha. aft 2 hrs of lecture, i rushed to holland v to meet up with sq and aud....for haagen dazs ICE CREAM. hoho :p and we didnt even need to pay. :p

in total, i ate gigantic scoops of: raspberry sorbet, tiramisu, midnight cookies & cream, strawberry cheesecake, strawberry, and raspberry icecream :p o man, it felt so damn good eating icecream for lunch. haha. yuuummmy!

aft lunch we went down to orchard to catch potter (sucky fast-forward version of book, and its ALL about harry =_=; but the effects are gooody!) while watching.....i had XXL crispy fried chicken for dinner. haha. i think i put on, like 4kg yesterday.

was totally zonked and tired out from all the shopping and running about. oo! and i managed to buy my sis her bday pres x) it's a blue charm bracelet, consisting of crystals and stones. :) it's so pretty i want one myself! haha. probably a red one though. anyway, she loved it! haha. she was like 'Ooo!' when she saw it, and when i said 'Must wear ah...'
she went 'Of course!!' :) happy happy!

today's drawing was.....not good. drawing hands and feet sucks.
mr edwin showed us his works again today. GORGEOUS. he even designed the costumes for the coming chingay's! he's drawn for magazines, like young generation, our sec.sch txbk....he gotta be freakin rich.

andddd....xD haha. it feels so good to overhear ppl saying good things about you. i've toned down today, but yesterday i was really on a natural high high high. haha. i am pretty, so are you! x)))