Olivia’s journal

XANGA ARCHIVE

2004

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THE ONE WITH A DIGICAM, 2 MOBILE PHONES AND A DISHONEST YOUNG MAN Something unfortunate happened last Sunday night. Just typing about it now makes me feel upset. However, I've seem…

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THE ONE WHERE THE STRESS LEVELS GO OTT Some days, even when you are meant to be relaxed, at the heart of security, it doesn't happen that way. I am truly truly stuck. Unable to con…

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THE ONE WITH SCRAMBLED SALMON, ENGLISH BREAKFAST AND FREE WIRELESS INTERNET I'm sitting at Coffee Bean, sipping English Breakfast Tea, after my "salmon-over-scrambled-eggs" breakfa…

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THE ONE WHERE LIV NEEDS A FUCKING BREAK Some days you feel you just need a break. A break from everything that drives you crazy. A break from life as you don't want to see it. Toda…

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THE ONE WHERE RAY HAS APPENDICITIS, I GET A DIGICAM AND WE MEET A GOOD SAMARITAN So for those who are in the loop, they are aware that Ray got admitted into hospital last Wednesday…

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THE ONE WITH MANY RELATIVES AND A FUNERAL My grandaunt passed away last wednesday. It was probably the fastest yet longest week in my life. (I know that's a silly paradox, but its …

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THE ONE WITH THE FAMILY GATHERING For as long as I can remember, we've gone to God-grandma's place for mooncake festival. The story goes that when my mom was young, some fortune te…

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THE ONE ABOUT WEEKENDS Generally, I like weekends... I mean who doesn't? It's the time of the week where there is no need to get up early, no need to worry about work, no need to l…

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THE ONE WITH 7 NEON TETRAS, 3 SUCKERFISH, 8 GUPPIES AND 2 BABY GUPPIES So last week, Ray bought me a fish tank. Together with the fishtank, we acquired 7 neon tetras, 5 female gupp…

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THE ONE ABOUT THE LOST POST Sometime last week, I was on the hiptop, typing a nice long post regarding online communities. Unfortunately, someone called me midway, I ended up chatt…

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THE ONE AFTER HELL WEEK It would be impossible to describe what the past week was like. Working from daybreak until late night everyday. Surviving on 2-3 hours of sleep everyday, e…

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THE ONE WHERE THOUGHTS ARE SORTED OUT Looking back over the past 2-3 weeks, I find that my life spinned out of control due to the conflicts I was feeling. Sometimes I find it is ha…

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THE ONE WHERE LIV FINALLY FEELS SOME LOVE He came over and apologised. AFTER I had gone over to his place, packed up all my stuff and lugged it all back to mine. Not sure how thing…

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THE ONE WHERE LIV GETS TOLD TO GO HOME I don't get it. I really don't. What is the big deal about me staying over at Ray's place? After a hard day's work, all I want is to relax an…

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THE ONE WITH THE HOSPITAL STAY For those who were not in the loop, Ray got hospitalised last Sunday night. It was around 8 pm when he started feeling pain in his tummy and at ard 1…

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THE ONE WITH THE NEW LAPTOP IT HAS ARRIVED! This is the 1st entry made with the use of Piglet. Yes, I have decided to be unoriginal and name my new baby piglet. If that makes me a …

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THE ONE WITH THE HYSTERICAL MOM For those who are vaguely familiar with my mom, you'll know she met a guy on ICQ, went to America and got married in Elvis' Little White Chapel in V…

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THE ONE WITH THE WEDDING DINNER PREPARATIONS So I've been invited to a wedding dinner this coming saturday. I have known Daniel(or as we knew him back then - Yogurt) since I was li…

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THE ONE AFTER THE BOWLING EVENT My 1st event was a near disaster... Apparently I did not confirm the T-shirt orders with the printers and so at 12 noon on Friday, we had NO T-shirt…

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THE ONE BEFORE THE BOWLING EVENT As some of you know, I now work for an Events Company. This means that some people decide to hold an expensive party and I end up coordinating it f…

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Worked out yesterday with William at 7 am becos he wants to get fit too! I think I'm beginning to infect the people around me! 20 mins walk/jog/run20 mins rowing20 mins steppers1 x…

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Mondays really suck! Can't actually believe I got up at 7 am this morning to go to the gym. Was a bit slacker then usual today, owing to the crowd at the gym. Lots of students who …

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Got up late on Saturday morning, but still managed to get to the gym in the afternoon. 20 mins jog/walk20 mins rowing20 mins cycling10 mins climbing stairs6 x 15 abs press4 x 15 si…

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One ENTIRE week has gone by and I haven't gone to the gym at all! Not once! That's bad issn't it? *sigh* I caught a cold that developed into full blown flu. I sound like crap now a…

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GYM THIS MORNING!!!This morning's workout:20 mins walk/jog20 mins rowing2 x 15 dumbbell weights2 x 15 arms press2 x 15 side abs2 x 15 abs press Feels good that I went to the gym I …

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Something from Kewei's site... SummaryOlivia Tan, your responses indicate that you are a very persuasive person. You prefer not to handle details or to be bound by rigid structure.…

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Missed gym today... was due to the late night I had last nite... Fantasia Barrino won American Idol! But I still think Latoya London was betta... Will go to gym tmr! Packed my gym …

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In the mornings, when you are staring blury eyed at everyone else on the train... you get this And after staring for too long, you suddenly realise it's your stop already... That's…

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GYM UPDATE! 25 mins run/jog/walk20 mins rowing10 mins cycling2 x 15 arms press3 x 15 abs press2 x 15 side abs press I actually got up at 7 am today and went to the gym much earlier…

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Another morning at the Gym! For all you skeptics, I have done it. I have gone to the gym a second time! YAY! The workout for today: 20 mins rowing20 mins cycling2 x 10 arm presses3…

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WE HAVE ACHIEVED TAKEOFF! Yes, I went to the gym this morning! YAY! Here was the workout 10 mins jogging10 mins cycling20 mins rowing 1 x 10 biceps press2 x 15 abs press Breakfast …

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Lunch = wanton noodles plus half cup of OJ. Dinner = porraige wif vege and egg. So far my plan is going well... Now I just need to go to the gym tmr morning!

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Starting a new HEALTH plan today. Have to keep a journal to tabulate how it goes. My target is to get back into that pair of jeans I wore when I was 18. That's like 6 years ago! Wh…

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On the MRT, on my way home from work right now. Yes, I left work early today, but only because I am on medical leave. I went to the doc yesterday and he gave me 2 days medical leav…

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Sitting in the doctor's waiting room with Ray, awaiting an appointment that was meant for 1 hour ago. So we were late and others were early. It's still just a tad frustrating to ha…

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Sitting in the doctor's waiting room with Ray, awaiting an appointment that was meant for 1 hour ago. So we were late and others were early. It's still just a tad frustrating to ha…

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Here I am typing away on my hiptop again. I spent the journey to work today chatting with mom and Denny on yahoo messanger. It made the time on the mrt seem to fly. Like zoom zoom,…

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Sitting here, on the bed semi-surfing on my hiptop while Ray is playing Gunbound. I've actually been playing very little GB recently. I've not been playing a lot of things. Just ha…

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I am currently blogging using this new mobile device "Hiptop". If you go to www.hiptop.com, you will find that this is somewhat a cross between a pda, mobile phone and a hell of a …

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Good Morning everyone! It is Monday morning again and I'm back at my desk at 10 am. It has been a wonderful weekend, filled with interesting activities for once. Friday night was p…

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If you ever read this... Thank you Alex... Thank you for making things right, for telling me all you did and for sharing this night with me. It made my day and made me realise how …

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Once again technology and the Internet gives me a shock. Someone contacted me today via Friendster. Someone whom I have not seen or heard from in a dozen years. Someone whom I was …

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I've never been one of those who work well on Mac. Ever since I started work almost 2 weeks ago, I have been getting used to working with the cute iMac that has been provided for m…

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Sold my car! Sold my computer! Paid my rent! Everything reeks of closure. I'm happy and sad at the same time. Perth has been a good home for the past 2.5 years. Will miss it somewh…

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I lived thru a garage sale, tons of packing and carting various heavy textbooks, old lecture notes, dead monitor and printer to their unfortunate burials. It is finally the time fo…

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What a riot. Of all places that robbers chose to flee to, they chose Tekong! HAHA, big mistake! Big hunt for robbers who fled to Tekong By Ben Nadarajan NEARLY 700 soldiers and pol…

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Not sure why, but due to my intense need to find the truth, I started taking some quizzes. I know these quizzes are silly and they don't represent anything, but I just wanted to fe…

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Someone remarked that I always seem to blog when I'm extremely depressed or unhappy. Either that or when I am over the moon about something. I guess that can be considered true. I'…

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Feeling slightly better today. Have a list of things to do. Going to concentrate on getting it done. Will get to speak to Ray tomorrow, so I won't be so unhappy. I tend to live for…

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I feel so utterly miserable. I don't know why and I don't know how... all I know is my life feels like it's at the end... Everything I am trying to do right goes wrong. Everytime I…

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1 mth has passed since I last wrote... and boy, has alot of things happened. The most important thing right now is that I'm back in Australia and I'm here to pack up and go home. S…

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Sometimes life feels so strange... I think my family has the history of a soap opera... the major dramas that happen are enough to make a fulltime serial with plenty of episodes...…

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Have been bringing my grandma all around Singapore and helping Ray's family to move apartments over the last 2 weeks... I have not had a single second of "personal time" Every minu…

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Happy Birthday To Me! It rained all day and I only got to soak in the pool while it poured... but at least it was semi happy...

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I am home! *dance* *cheer* Surprisingly, the house is in an ok condition. Livable. Althought I would like to clean it up a bit over the next few days. My brother's keyboard is gros…

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Bought my airticket today... Spent all $503 on it. Still wondering if I did the right thing... but well, only time will tell... Most of my friends are pretty excited about seeing m…

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Let the light shine down on those who believe. For miracles do happen, albiet littles ones spaced far apart...

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I haven't had so many crying fits in a day... Just that I've been so miserable today, my life is at it's utmost low point... When Denny called me, I simply just poured my heart out…

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Do you know what it means to be lonely at night? To sleep in a King sized bed with nothing but pillows and blankets? To yearn for a warm body to curl up to? Everyone calls me Liv..…

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Somedays I seriously ponder about life and the meaning of it. Somedays I'm not so philosophical and just hate life altogether. So anyways, today, I am depressed. Not so much becaus…

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obsessive compulsive Which Personality Disorder Do You Have?brought to you by Quizilla And I actually agree!

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I have a problem. Now mind you, it's not a very big one, but it's a problem nevertheless. I find myself increasingly unable to tolerate silly people. And it amazes me how many of t…

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