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Sunday, April 29, 2007 @10:41 PM



so this is what we did on the last day of school. took random pictures at random places. this is one of our favourite corners in the whole of NUS. the lobby of AS7. man that place where we slogged our lives away for the shakespeare module. or just sat there and ate because we didnt want to smell of the deck which is sadly no longer in existent. i want my ice lemon tea, my pineapple green apple juice, my yong tau foo!!. i hate school.

anyway the book we are holding in our hands is entitled The House and its Head, a hilarious book with incest, adultery. a father who can stop remarrying, a daughter who tries to fight authority but fails, a second daughter who is one scheming b*****, a nephew who seduces uncle's wife. infanticide and lots and lots of melodramatic and gossipy neighbours. but it is a hilarious book. well. i dont think we all finished it. heh.

oh well, Dracula (the original version that is) is really kinda exciting and intriguing to read. haha.


Tuesday, April 24, 2007 @1:37 AM

so miche hasnt been the good girl she's supposed to be, but she doesnt care. miche went out with the girls on sat night after hr first paper. and char, val and al when you get older, we are not going home at midnight alright. haha. val had her first taste of alcohol, a virgin lime margerita and a non-virgin mango magerita. at the end of the second drink, she was kinda red. haha she said that my sex on the beach tasted like cough syrup. haha. oh well. here are the pictures!



al.val.char.nalli.judith. 3 generations of ij debaters.
missing van, leigh.


cant believe they made me cam whores like them.
al.val.char are total cam whores.

they wanted a picture of us and our drinks.
so mango magerita, lychee martini, mango margerita and snowball

miche's sleeping pattern and biological clock is scrwed up again. sighs. back to studying for metafiction

Thursday, April 19, 2007 @5:53 AM

i am up trying to read some book called the weather in the streets. it isnt that bad. and i am also up partly because my nap at 5 pm turned into a long sleep. haha. oh well. papers start on sat so i have to study or at least try to.
anyway as i read the text i am reminded of teddy's latest girlfriend. see teddy is my junior from drama and no, teddy isnt his real name. i started calling him teddy because he was like my real life teddy bear, knd nice huggable. haha he used to feed me back stage and we used to fall asleep on the couch that was the prop for the last scene in cyrano. oh yeah he washed my hands for me when we were painting sets. hah so yeah. those were the fun days.
see, teddy is a very traditional kind of guy. he is the kind who believes that the guy should provide and protect the girl no matter what. he used to get upset with me when i insisted on paying for my own lunch and dinner. he is extremely kind and attentative as well. he spent the entire time during his promotional exams looking after the girl he was in love with because she was hospitalised. in the end, he had to re-take his promtionals at the beinning of j 2 and lost all his s papers. so yeah anyway, yeah his latest girl friend. the way she greeted that night was quite funny jins was trying not to laugh. so was i. in retrospective, i feel bad. hahah oh well.
anyway, two months or one and a half months into the relationship, he has already bought her a handphone, a digital camera and paid half for her pda. the last girlfriend he had, "swindled" two spa trips to Rasa Sentosa and whenever she is upset, he takes her on shopping sprees, he pays for everything.
why are all these people my friends and not my boyfriends??? meir says it is because i dont like them. hahah maybe that is true. but still....i should stop going for the broody artistic intellectual types. cause they really dont do much except brood and be narcissistic about themselves.
okay, miche is going back to read the book.

Monday, April 16, 2007 @12:11 AM

it has been said that every girl dreams of the perfect wedding since the day they could think and i wonder how true it is. in fact i seldom think about how my wedding will be or should be like until i actually attend wedding dinners. in fact in recent years i have attended so many wedding dinners that it is no longer a novelty, in fact it only seeks to remind me how pathetic i am because i am still single and alone. but that is for another post.

i literally just came home from my uncle's wedding dinner. like erm 10 mins ago, i just got out of the dress. attending his wedding dinner reminded me of the various things i will/will not have at my own wedding dinner. if i get married that is.

  1. NO cheesy pictures of us when my husband or I were young.
  2. NO corny videos of what happened that very morning.
  3. NO terrible test of my husband at my own door wheen he comes to get me. i am sure that renee, meir, janelle, denise, nat and some of the ij girls will not let that happen. in fact i foresee them going.
    "so what is michelle's favourite book?" "who is her favourite philosopher and quote a line"so and so forth. hahah will mark and luke be part of the jie mei tuan? heheh
  4. All emceeing at the wedding dinner will be done in impeccable english and mandarin. heh. i will get sam and josh to be the emcees. sam will speak in chinese! HAHA driel, jake,john, drian, jinsheng , joe can be the bouncers! hahaha.
  5. dinner will be an international buffet affair. no common chinese food.
  6. people dont need to dress up at my wedding dinner. too cliche and passe. you can all come in tee shirts and shorts, cause i will have it at the beach. well it is either this or ritz carlton. heh
  7. free flow of alcohol. come on do you expect me not to have alcohol???

hahah what a wonderful dream, find me a boyfriend first and maybe SOME of this will happen. =)

okay, miche had a little too much red wine, but come on i have not had a single drop of alcohol since new year's . i need to drink you know.

hey al, when are you free? i wanna bring you out.


Wednesday, April 11, 2007 @7:56 PM

today at 1650 hours, i stood at dr ang's pigeon hole on level 6 of AS5 and slipped in the last of the essays I will ever write as a literature undergraduate at NUS. it was the final assignment i will ever hand in as a student of the department. when i finished my essay this afternoon at 1500 hours, i feel strangely happy. in fact i was so happy that i skipped my way to bus stop, it has been a long time i ever skipped.

yet, i feel reluctantly happy. because the end of this semester is different from the end of the all the other semesters combined. the end of this semester is the end of my career as an full time student. NIE does not count. this is the end of what 16 years of studying. woah. i am kind of amazed at myself, for being able to endure for so long. haha.

these last four years in university hasnt exactly been a fun or smooth ride. everytime someone tells me that i will miss the times i had in university, i stop and think for a while. yeah i will miss certain things such as hanging out at AS7 and doing stupid things. i will miss laughing with the gang. but i dont think i will exactly miss the experience of uni life anyway. from not wanting to be in NUS to finally graduating, i guess i have managed to pull through it all. i have to acknowledge that if i had bothered to do my essays a few days before the deadlines, to read through the first draft i write and not hand it in. i would have done exponentially better than i am doing now. but having said that, in exchange of my grades, i have gotten so much more out of life.

my last year in university mirrored my first year in it. not exactly happy time or a happy experience, in fact a large part of my freshmen year and senior year was spent in depression. serious depression that had opposite effects. in my first year, my depression caused me to binge on food, unhealthy food. the amount of coke i drank that one year alone is kind of scary. hahah i ballooned so much it wasnt funny. but this last academic year was different, i guess because it was the last year of school i kinda threw myself into work and got myself so engrossed in the different works i have been doing that i have not been able to get properly. yeah okay find, i admit i lost weight, i was inclined not to believe it unless the check up at Raffles Medical confirmed it. by the way, i grew taller by two centimetres and i have a picture of my lungs somewhere at my work station in the council. haha.

the second and third year of uni were relatively uneventful. haha i remember my second year was the one where the kids all performed spectucularly at JGs. hehe the one semester that i did not regret doing badly for. it was in my second and third year of uni that i got to know the gang and got to know them better and it is amazing how we have become such fast friends over the last two years of uni. haha. if there is one thing i would not forget i would not forget how we are so self-entertaining. and no, if anyone ever calls us weird, we are not. eccentric yes, eclectic yes, self-reflexive yes, self-entertaining yes. strange no. abnormal no. hahah. but yeah, we are one of a kind.

So standing or rather sitting here in front of the computer, i realise that i have the blessing and fortune of not having to worry about my career. it is good and it is bad. i am rather ambivalent about it. but i guess it is a happy problem.

so yes, this is the end of my four years in NUS. from the first paper 500 words on psychoanalysis on texts (i remember i wrote on Franz Kafka's The Trial) to the last one 4000 words on metafiction in The Athenian Murders and A Void, the gang and i have come a long long way. with the last essay hand in, i guess it is perhaps time to say goodbye.

Saturday, April 07, 2007 @3:46 PM

Extremely hilarious Star Wars M&Ms stuff. okay i am two years behind, but i think of star wars every time i see sam. haha.




Friday, April 06, 2007 @12:58 AM

random words in my head as i attempt to finish up my re-readings of my readings for my ISM. see stupid miche read everything twice through but never got down to writing. so stupid miche has to read everything again, just so she can finish the thing tonight. but thank goodness and God bless miche, tomorrow is Good Friday. (good sight i say) so i can afford to do work the whole day cause i am only due to leave the house at 6.

so yeah. random words in my head. i am very bo liao.

Eat me! eat me! HAHAHAHAHAH

find me my decipher of enigmas.

谁自顾自地走

goodness, miche is losing her mind.

alessa, admit it, you miss me.

MICHELLE SHAM, come back NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW. hate you. hahahah

PROFILE
miche:highly eclectic personality:stationery junkie
loves notebooks, the smell of printed-paper and ink makers.
her first love in life is basketball.
enjoys the intellectual adrenaline of debating, the beauty of theatre and music.
loves rainy days and blue skies
an avid reader, collector of teddy bears.
wants to build an dog sanctuary.
finds solitude extremely soothing
loves writing/typing/texting in lower case.
highly interested in the theories of Fredrich Nietzsche and existentialism.
fan of German language and culture.
finds the fact that she is a cusp a unique feature of her life
God, friends, and family feature strongly in her life.
she likes referring to herself in third person, something most of her friends find freaky
has a death wish or so she thinks.

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jajung
jeannie
jennifer
ji hyun
john leo caines
josh
joy
j.low
kaleni
leigh-anne
mark tan
melissa
meirlin's earrings enteprise
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mishelle
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paul
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sam
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birthday tree
the boss - 4 Jan
Elvin - 8 Jan
Gill - 10 Jan
WeiXiang - 13 Jan
Sam - 14 Jan
the grosmer - 26 Jan
Aaron - 1 Feb
Ben Yap - 2 Feb
Hiu Tung- 5 Feb
Ja Jung - 7 Feb
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Teddy - 23 May
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Jiajia - 31 May
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Celine - 25 Sept
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Wint - 30 Sept
Ren - 1 Oct
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Sharm - 8 Oct
Marky - 10 Oct
the owl - 13 Oct
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the eeyore - 23 Oct
Xiaodi - 28 Oct
Bo Lui - 30 Oct
Victoria - 4 Nov
Van - 14 Nov
Hai Ming - 19 Nov
Sun Min - 26 Nov
Zin Mee - 28 Nov
J Low - 29 Nov
Joy - 5 Dec
Nian Ting - 7 Dec
Luke - 27 Dec
Andy gom/Jhi Sheng - 31 Dec

50 things before miche dies

1. tell all the people she loves, that she loves them dearly.
2. send a personalised note/letter/gift to all her good friends and people who have touched her life, telling them how important they are and how they have made her life worthwhile.
3. spend a quiet but meaningful evening with her parents.
4. spend a quiet but meaningful evening with her god-family.
5. save a stray dog or two.
6. travel to prague.
7. give my teddy bears away.
8. try to write a decent poem or short story.
9. pay attention in class for once.
10. learn to forgive herself and those who have perhaps done her wrong.
11. drive to thailand.
12. walk down orchard road dressed in pink and purple only.
13. picnic by the beach
14. finish reading "dreams of the red chamber" in chinese
15. get the giant teddy bear i always wanted.
16. perform one last time
17. buy a dress / skirt
18. watch a cheesy, tacky, gawdy comedy - BRUNO or TROPIC THUNDER
19. pat a snake
20. throw a party on a bus
21. sky dive and bungee jump
22. walk all around singapore - halfway there
23. eat nothing but vegetables for a week - kinda stop eating
24. burn all her photos, diaries and letters. delete this blog.
25. cry with all her might
26. be happy and try to stay happy till the end
27. be amazed by the simple things in life
28. sleep at least 8 hours per day and not more than 10 for a week
29. write a letter to johnny depp
30. plant something
31. be a organ donor, give whatever can still be used. (not my liver though, too much alcohol in it)
32. get blind drunk, like seriously blind drunk
33. draw/paint/compose a last picture
34. she hates taking pictures, but yeah, take a picture with all her loved ones.
35. be totally ladylike for a whole day. (i.e. dont swear, curse or be mean)
36. cycle to changi and back.
37. attend church everyday
38. take all the bus services available in singapore
39. get 2 tattoos
40. buy cup noodles and eat them by the roadside. well i ate by the beach, doesnt count right
41. colour her hair in multi-hues
42. draw up a will
43. climb a tree
44. remember to smile.
45. compete in one last basketball tournament
46. debate competitively one last time
47. eat all the gelato she wants
48. eat all the dairy products she wants
49. celebrate the life that's been
50. Thank God.
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