Today was my pre-birthday celebration heh heh.



Spent a bit of the day in MBS.

I had such high hopes for the harry potter exhibition but it turned out pretty bad. It's all either clothes worn by the cast or just props. The creatures were pretty impressive but I had expected to see sets. Like of their azkanban or nurmengard. Or maybe a replay of the more stunning scenes.

But oh well. The andy warhol exhibit was pretty good though. This is the man who was most probably single-handedly responsible for revolutionizing pop art and popularizing simple everyday objects as art.

I saw his favourite work, I have a picture somewhere but anyway,


As it turns out, they really got together and planned something!

It was my first time in Marché's and it's a very strange experience. I love it hahah. Were deciding our course of action and we settled on pool. Left in a bit and we took a bus home together and we talked so much so happily so sadly. I adore my 2 girls.

My birthday this year is so minutely small compared to gathering everyone last year but hey, I need only so little people in my life. I've sent each of them respectively my thank you whatsapps crafted in great detail and soaked in massive emotions. I'm such a wonderful human being.



If my day was good, then my night was mother fucking great.

Impromptu decision to club and bel was on as always and we headed down to Avatar after she picked me up from cck. God she really is the new-found goddess of my life. Night was actually pretty bad at first, read on.

1. Avatar: Bel showed the wrong IC leading her to be bounced out, and even after we met a couple of guys who opened bottles and could bring us in, the bouncer still recognized the 18 year old her and refused us
2. MINK: Cover charges were no longer available and honestly the place looked too old for my taste but anyway we intended to open a bottle but there were cockups. Found another bigger group of guy friends who had friends and bottles inside and waited for a guestlist that took too long, so we decided to cab to clarke quay
3. Helipad: It was already coming 2am and the chick at the counter told us the club is closing in 45 minutes and it really isn't worth going in anymore.
4. Zirca x Rebel: It was already 3 fucking am and most probably the crowd would've been thinned, either way $28 cover for 2 hours was ridiculous.

But my god is good and my god is great and things worked out so fucking beautifully.

I think this is standard protocol hahah. Me and bel will always face cockups till 2am and we'll be quietly convinced our night is fucked before the god of parties throws us a bone and gives us the night of our lives.

Avatar and mink were still out of the equation but hey at least we made friends and I had birthday wishes everywhere from just smoking outside so it ended things well there. Finally headed back to clarke quay.

Helipad's chick let us free in since we were so near closing time. Met people in the club and got more birthday wishes and birthday shots (you have to understand with my shit alcohol tolerance, shots are a big deal to me) and some stranger poured this sweet alcohol directly into my mouth and it's not too bad.

Bel was really sober and I do hate seeing my friends sober so we went out to smoke after dancing for a bit and decided to go to zirca (she has a personal vendetta against zirca bouncers) AND OUR NIGHT WAS SAVED.

Met 2 chicks there, Shirleen and Tristal. Tristal was motherfucking crazy and I was quickly infested by her high and we had even more drinks and shots so everything was splendidly a blur of chicks and dancing and alcohol. I also conquered the zirca cage thing with them hahaha hazel would've never stepped foot there.

Tonight was a girl night for me. I just stuck around to bel and tristal and shirleen and bel's guy was convinced I'm a lesbian and I kissed all 3 of them to reiterate it heh. I hate all guys in clubs

I love rebel's music. I can never get sick of it. Give me avalon give me helipad give me butterfactory I'll flip them all off for one night with rebel. Also I need to go to zouk soon. Anyway everything was over and done and we finally went home, spent and happy heh.



She crashed at my place for the rest of the night.

It was nice staying up for a while just talking. Things we have in common, things we feel about in common. Things we can't change, things we can't help. It seems that after-club hours are reflection hours.

Today I showed her you.

You and all your perfection, your mohawk, your earholes, your ink, your 2tooth smile, your flawless face, your perfect height, you looking like a stunner in a blazer -- all the things I want in a man, yet no longer. I am recounting your jokes to her but I stop mid-smile. You're foreign now. And just like the rest, one day I won't even know you anymore.

Have you really disappointed me to the point of no return?

Fell asleep badly after sending her in a cab home.

"I wonder if it’s possible to have a love affair that lasts forever." — Andy Warhol

Spent today scouring for a party dress!

Thank very much to ed who accompanied me through far east then bugis to absolute no avail since I couldn't find a single thing I wanted. But we managed to find our way to the intercontinental skylounge and my god was it beautiful.







Didn't want to leave.

I could get used to this. Lounging all day in front of a beautiful landscape of bugis, having my favourite smoothie and reading a book or getting my friends over to make chat like classy darlings and doze off on their svelte-figured bed. Please let me have a loft at home somehow when I'm older.

I get one of these blog-blocks sometimes where the day/night was so fucking amazing I can't be arsed to type it down because 1) it is now immortalized in my rapidly deterioating memory and 2) it's too good to be in words but thanks to 1), I probably should write it down.

Spent afternoon trying to get my dessert fix with kristian.

I cannot find the place after a good half an hour of walking down and desperately bothering junwei but he has a wrose memory than I do so we were both hopelessly lost. Finally found that place and has since fixed my craving with high hopes in velvet ropes.

Pretty sure it was during pool at scape when I met another of bel and kristian's friend. I forgot his name. But nonetheless I went on my merry way after giving them directions to holiday inn. My god the directionally confused I have as friends hahah.

Then it was finally the night, where I decide my course of action.



Decided to fuckitandgo despite 101 warnings in my head about how awkward it will be, how I really don't like avalon, how costly it will be to head home or club hop after, how I'd have to pacify my mum after.

As it turned out, alcohol builds friendships.

Engineering in fact comes into the equation of Helpful Things on a Club Night as I met fellow retainee adrian who bought an excursion out to avalon hahaha and managed to secure ariel's late friend a guestlist into the night. THANK YOU ENGINEERING.

After lots of alcohol and lots of cigarettes we finally grew fledged into party mode, or at least me la, it's kinda hard to think when my mind is blurred out from the smoke and the alcohol and ooo is that a shiny butterfly.

Tengyi and aaron decided to disappear just as the high kicked in and me, ariel and leanne spent a little bit of the night on a parapet waiting for them and I was unbalanced and kept falling between into the bushes behind me and to the ground in front of me. I also must have loudly said some bad jokes and shamed confessions and THANK GOD YOU WONDERFUL GIRLS WERE WITH ME.

Thanks to my low alcohol tolerance (I'm really good with getting high. other people blow so much dough on trying to get high enough and I can get that same fly with a $20 gin from 7-11. alcohol hates me) I WAS HIGH AS SHIT AND COULDN'T WALK TO SAVE MY LIFE.

Hence thank you tengyi for all the help with walking and stairs.

The rest of the night was a fucking delicious blur of fun, more alcohol, bad jokes, class A jokes, chicks I wanted to kiss, leanne and ariel being absolutely beautiful and exotic dancers, aaron being sleepy and tengyi being a surprisingly strong man.

Had wanted to go home but it was 5am so I respectfully pacified my mum and with her wishes, decided to go to for breakfast at seah im. So me, ariel, tengyi and aaron actually sat a train through bayfront to harbourfront royally stoned.

We had breakfast and then saw a cab and I cannot remember much at this point because I was half asleep in the cab but I remember smiling a loving goodbye smile to ariel and telling tengyi to take care and stumbling out of the cab after I told aaron to sleep early. Even in my semi-conscious state I'm a caring fairy.

Comatosed till forever.

(at some point, most probably 4am, leanne left and I remember me holding onto her bag and telling her not to go and WHY DO PEOPLE ALWAYS LEAVE ME but hahah she left.)

(also at some point bryan texted me and convinced me rebel was absolutely fucking full and to stay at avalon. so thankfully I didn't head over in a fit of wild avalon rage.)

(also at some point a 175cm Caucasian tried to lead me and my friends out of the club since we were all getting out to drink and smoke and he kept trying to tell me his 175cm woes. boo fucking hoo try being 30cm shorter)

(also at some point I danced on the stage and my shoe soles came right off and I lost my balance and thank god the 2 girls and tengyi were around.)

(also at some point this blog entry is supposed to end. it shall be now-

The engineering gods decided to take my soul today.

Went to school at 8freakingam with max, wilson and thilda and they were extremely sweet to me. Our conversations were mostly along the lines of these:

"Okay Nicole, I'm going to teach you this once"

"Didn't I teach you this just now?"

"I TAUGHT YOU THIS ALREADY OKAY"

"OH MY GOD YOU DID THE EXACT SAME QUESTION JUST NOW HOW CAN YOU FORGET"

"I think Nicole you just go take mc la, now still got time."

"Nicole if you can't, just give up."

"Nicole.. STOP SLEEPING STOP WHATSAPPING STOP IT."

"If you fail you can be the 1st 5-year plan poly student sia hahaha."

And the line of the day:

"Nicole I think after this, we go with you to SIM, go take application form ok."

Thank you god for my friends.

Thinking about it though, if I fail this I would truly need to spend half a decade in Ngee Ann. What the fuck Ngee Ann better look at me and think "she's so tragic and sad, let's pass her" and let me go through please please.

But I sincerely am thankful to wilson especially for staying till 8am to 6pm to teach someone as hopeless as me. And max for staying through the whole morning to test my very limited knowledge. But of course la, I still did pretty badly. I think I hate ECE more than cancer.



Had to take and share this picture.

The backview is so MBS-y and nothing like the hell that is Ngee Ann. I love the sunrays the seemingly bridge like structures the little bonsai-like trees ahhh. I need to go to marina bay sands soon. For my harry potter exhibition and to soak up the glorious view there.

My a&f shirt is here!



And I am in love with it heh.

Rushed to orchard today to meet aaron for last minute appg revision. I overslept a bus stop and because I've been in a pretty insane mood lately, instead of being mad I was crazily happy.

The walk down from 313 to ion and it was the happiest stretch of road I've walked in the longest time. I've been away from town for so long that it was ecstatically liberating to revel in every single sensory taste that orchard gave me. The breeze the view the air the road the lights the signs the people EVERYTHING.

So I was probably midway in "glad I came: a nicole rendition" when I met aaron and he's very annoyed by the idea that I'm happier than him or something hahaha. These few days I've been singing so much I scare myself.

God save me tomorrow.

Bugis with Hazel and Syahirah!



(1st: my new tribal piece with my old love;
2nd: horrific hair condition but my beautiful waterfall hairstyle of the day!)

Also previously mentioned, I have made acquaintances everywhere and hence it was extra fun cruising along the street saying hi again to everyone and asking about everything and learning new things about their shops. Also was shamelessly on a food hunt despite syahirah's fasting (am I going to hell?)

One of these shopkeepers was this lady with an exquisite half-sleeve and I couldn't resist asking her what is it. This led to a 10 minute gossip session on the best and worst tattoo parlours in Singapore and which parts of our bodies are we going to start on next. Hahah a tattoo truly unlocks strange conversation fodder.

My thigh tattoo is a really lucky one. Stroked and wanted by the arm of a half-sleeve by a lady who's mercilessly hot with the voice of laced sugar. You lucky little ink.



Syahirah bailed on me and hazel's potential dinner date :(

Was supposedly dinner with jon and his a&f friend hence desperately tried to keep hazel with me by selling said a&f friend and it worked badly but our friendship worked well so heheheh the wonderful girl stayed with me till the dinner date.

I finally bought my charles and keith ipad clutch. Now my dreams of going around haji lane and orchard looking for smoothie and cupcake spots to chill at with my electronic books are a prettier reality.



Yogurt cream fries is god-sent.

So anyway, because we had a lot of time to kill, we decided to chill at starbucks. But of course, this is Bugfreakingis and there's too much to do so we went around exploring and decided to be ahlians for a day. Ending result:



Are we cute or what!

My first ever neoprint with just hazel and it turned out weird because we both already have big eyes (ENHANCED OR NOT IS NOT YOUR CONCERN) and the machine decided to go a notch up and bloated our eyes further.

Worked out badly hahaha. But awww it was fun to design them and everything again! Was really intent on retaking but we saw the $12 price sign and instead cursed loudly and decided to go eat instead.

Dinner was now cancelled so it's me and hazel on a dinner date at V8. Went pretty well actually, were planning after-dinner activities since I was pissed and she thinks I need alcohol, but I turned out nonchalant after a while so all's cool and we went home happy!

My tolerance is running uncontrollably low.

I'm about 2 months away from getting legitimately expelled. God save me and my determined/ mindless 200km/h drive into a doomed future in McDonalds saying "would you like to upsize your meal for 50cents?".