I am addicted to watching YouTube videos, someone help me! I keep watching videos of musicals and music videos and dance videos and I just want to dance! I can't keep still right now, much less concentrate on my work. I just want to turn and twirl and spin around in circles until I get dizzy and colapse on my bed. And then I'm going to jump right up and start all over again.
Oh my goodness, I have so much energy right now, it's astounding. And no, I didn't drink any Red Bull, though maybe the chocolate and ribena and blueberry tea might have something to do with my current level of enery.
I'm going to be watching "Disney Princesses on Ice" tomorrow! Maybe that's adding to my excitement. I'm really really looking forward to seeing Natasha. I've got so much to tell her, but I have a feeling she's got a lot more to tell me.
I'm not quite on top of the world or walking on air, but I do feel oh-so-good. I feel like everything is going to work out and life is truly worth living. Oh this is great, I'm spinning around and living my life, and everything is so beautiful.
And it is.
Saturday, March 14, 2009
I Love High School Musical
I have been watching High School Musical clips on Youtube back to back, night after night. I love love love love love HSM3 and I am going to buy the extended version DVD and keep it forever and I am going to end the sentence here.
I am actually considering the purchase of a HSM3 pencil case.
Yes, yes, I am twenty-one-to-be, but I love my Disney movies all the same. Speaking of twenty-one, I'm back to planning for my party again, and I am so excited about it! Right now, my biggest headache is the cost, and this ties in with the guest list issue as well. Part of me is thinking, it's a once-in-a-lifetime event, so why not just invite everyone? It's very tempting, but I may have to live on canned beans for the next six months. (Or something cheaper. They're raising the prices of everything these days.)
I would love to share more details of my party, but nothing's confirmed yet. So I'll just end my post here.
Maybe I could do a prom theme for my party, and have everyone dress up in suits and dresses. And I'll play the soundtrack from the movie. What do you think?
It's like catching lightning
The chances of finding
Someone like you
It's one in a million
The chances of feeling
The way we do
And with every step together
We just keep on getting better
So can I have this dance
Can I have this dance
One of my favourite duets ever. Ah, what wouldn't I give, to dance in the rain and sing a duet with someone I love.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
TGIF
I am so grateful that it is finally a Friday. I am going to sleep in till late morning or early afternoon, and then I will attend to matters that I have been neglecting all week. My desk is on its way to being cluttered again, and there is a whole assortment of things waiting to be cleared away. After that, there are some chores that need to be done.
I wonder if I could find the time to go for a manicure and/or pedicure. If it is possible, I would like to head down to the gym as well, for a nice, relaxing jog. And hopefully I will get to do a little shopping in the evening. The bag I usually bring to school, has had quite a bad tear. While I can still use it, I worry that the tear will worsen very soon. And so... it is time to get a new bag! (Cue gleeful smile.)
What else is there to be done? Oh, work. I will fit that in somewhere.
I wonder if I could find the time to go for a manicure and/or pedicure. If it is possible, I would like to head down to the gym as well, for a nice, relaxing jog. And hopefully I will get to do a little shopping in the evening. The bag I usually bring to school, has had quite a bad tear. While I can still use it, I worry that the tear will worsen very soon. And so... it is time to get a new bag! (Cue gleeful smile.)
What else is there to be done? Oh, work. I will fit that in somewhere.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Life At This Point
Natasha has given me a pretty, belated Valentine's Day gift. It is a little cross pendant and a chain, from Perlini's Silver. I am going to wear it tomorrow, and I will take a picture of it soon.
School is crazily hectic now. There is a French test tomorrow, and before that, my Gender Studies presentation. I really look forward to Friday, so that I can sleep in.
School is crazily hectic now. There is a French test tomorrow, and before that, my Gender Studies presentation. I really look forward to Friday, so that I can sleep in.
Friday, February 27, 2009
More Than Numbers
Agence France-Presse - 2/25/2009 4:58 AM GMT
Crisis could cost Singapore 99,000 jobs: DBS
Singapore could lose a total of 99,000 jobs during the current recession, with more than half of the cuts in the key manufacturing sector, an analysis by local bank DBS said Wednesday.
"There will be a net loss of about 99,000 jobs due to the current recession and we also expect this to stretch into 2010", the bank said in its report.
Unemployment is likely to hit 4.8 percent this year and peak at 5.0 percent by the middle of 2010, it said.
"Labour markets are expected to deteriorate further," DBS added.
"The manufacturing sector is expected to be the worst hit with job losses of about 58,000 as the global recession chokes up demand for our manufactured exports."
The bulk of output from Singapore's manufacturing sector ends up as exports to the world's major economies, but recessions in those markets have severely affected local factories.
DBS said it has also downgraded its growth outlook for the city-state to a contraction of 4.8 percent this year from 3.8 percent previously, due to the "sharp collapse in global demand and export sales."
An "aggressive" stimulus package totalling 20.5 billion Singapore dollars (13.4 billion US) will only cushion the blows from the recession, the bank said.
Latest official data in Singapore said the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose to 2.6 percent in December, and companies laid off 7,000 workers during the last three months of 2008.
Singapore's worst recession occurred in 1964, just before independence, when the economy shrank 3.8 percent.
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Yes, this is indeed depressing. Beyond the fact that there is a recession currently going on, the very nature of this article is hardly cheery.
So we "could lose a total of 99,000 jobs". Well I'm no analyst but I'm quite sure that also means that 99, 000 people could be unemployed for a certain period of time, and 99, 000 families could be nagatively affected by having one less income in the household, or the only income in the household could be gone just like that.
99, 000. Are these mere numbers to you?
I look at the numbers in the article and I refuse to write them off as mere statistics. These are people we are talking about here. People with spouses, children, parents, friends. People with lives.
Someone you know and care about could be unemployed later this year. Perhaps he or she is married, or is in a steady relationship. When he or she is unemployed, plans have to be postponed. Plans have to be changed. Plans have to be cancelled. Everything changes.
Yes, this is a crisis that we are facing. But in the midst of this crisis, lie not numbers, but people.
Crisis could cost Singapore 99,000 jobs: DBS
Singapore could lose a total of 99,000 jobs during the current recession, with more than half of the cuts in the key manufacturing sector, an analysis by local bank DBS said Wednesday.
"There will be a net loss of about 99,000 jobs due to the current recession and we also expect this to stretch into 2010", the bank said in its report.
Unemployment is likely to hit 4.8 percent this year and peak at 5.0 percent by the middle of 2010, it said.
"Labour markets are expected to deteriorate further," DBS added.
"The manufacturing sector is expected to be the worst hit with job losses of about 58,000 as the global recession chokes up demand for our manufactured exports."
The bulk of output from Singapore's manufacturing sector ends up as exports to the world's major economies, but recessions in those markets have severely affected local factories.
DBS said it has also downgraded its growth outlook for the city-state to a contraction of 4.8 percent this year from 3.8 percent previously, due to the "sharp collapse in global demand and export sales."
An "aggressive" stimulus package totalling 20.5 billion Singapore dollars (13.4 billion US) will only cushion the blows from the recession, the bank said.
Latest official data in Singapore said the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose to 2.6 percent in December, and companies laid off 7,000 workers during the last three months of 2008.
Singapore's worst recession occurred in 1964, just before independence, when the economy shrank 3.8 percent.
***********************************************************
Yes, this is indeed depressing. Beyond the fact that there is a recession currently going on, the very nature of this article is hardly cheery.
So we "could lose a total of 99,000 jobs". Well I'm no analyst but I'm quite sure that also means that 99, 000 people could be unemployed for a certain period of time, and 99, 000 families could be nagatively affected by having one less income in the household, or the only income in the household could be gone just like that.
99, 000. Are these mere numbers to you?
I look at the numbers in the article and I refuse to write them off as mere statistics. These are people we are talking about here. People with spouses, children, parents, friends. People with lives.
Someone you know and care about could be unemployed later this year. Perhaps he or she is married, or is in a steady relationship. When he or she is unemployed, plans have to be postponed. Plans have to be changed. Plans have to be cancelled. Everything changes.
Yes, this is a crisis that we are facing. But in the midst of this crisis, lie not numbers, but people.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Happy Valentine's Day
Belated Valentine's wishes to all! Hope you have spent your Valentine's Day surrounded by loved ones.
Aren't these roses simply breathtakingly beautiful, all ninety-nine of them?
I would like to say that those are mine, but they are not. My sister, Amy, was the one who received this bouquet. My own bouquet, while not as grand, but it is equally beautiful.
A pretty pink card from Pei Min.
My other gift, a lovely necklace which is quite heavy. I feel the strain on my neck and shoulders whenever I lean forward.
And my very own Valentine.
"I can stop, and catch my breath
And look no further for happiness
I will not turn again
'Cos my heart has found its home"
-Dido, Look No Further
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Birthday Plans
I have been looking at the websites of a few caterers and feeling hungry. The pictures of the food looked simply divine. I am actually most excited about the food right now.
The year of twenty-one. This is really exciting, as my friends and I are planning our birthday bashes. I am positive that I shall have a lot of fun this year, eating good food and enjoying exciting company.
Ah, all is good.
The year of twenty-one. This is really exciting, as my friends and I are planning our birthday bashes. I am positive that I shall have a lot of fun this year, eating good food and enjoying exciting company.
Ah, all is good.
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