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It’s a new year, a new chapter for me. Doing my Masters, it’s something I’ve dreamnt of doing for the longest time, but I didn’t expect it to happen so quickly.

First day of school officially starts in 18 hours, I’m not even sure if I am prepared for this. I have to be. There’s no way I’m going back to being a administrative slave at the bottomest of the food chain. I hunger for knowledge, for power, for so much more. *sigh*

I was initially afraid that I don’t have many “student type”clothes, like bermudas, slippers, t-shirts, singlets. Basically things I would wear to the market. And since I don’t go to the market very often, I don’t have many “student type” clothing. Luckily, I met my new classmates at the orientation last week and most of them are older than me and are working adults. I guess I can stick to my heels and skirts after all!

Gambatte Priss!!

He’s got the brains, he’s got the looks…. He’s none other than Colin Teo!

I met Colin when he was doing his internship at my last company, and he’s funny, witty, nice and friendly! So go to Freeze College Magazine’s website and vote for him now! Support the only Singaporean and the only Asian that got short listed as Mr Harvard Freshman… don’t be tempted by the other cutie contenders okay?

Hometown: Singapore (no it’s not in China)
Favorite Color and why: Black, because it’s mysterious and has a bit of every color in it
Harvard Girls are the best because they could be reading quantum chromodynamics one moment and dancing the next
The first thing I think when I wake up in the morning is I want to go back to sleep another 30mins
When I grow up I don’t want to be like George Bush
If I was given a million dollars and told I had to spend it by tomorrow, I would quit school, buy my mum a car, then set up a hedge fund with the remaining money and retire in Tuvalu, or somewhere where no one can really find me.
I most resemble a chili pepper: small but fiery, you don’t know till you’ve tried it
Describe your ideal date night. I’m traditional: Dinner, Walk, and Sealed with a kiss
What’s your most embarrassing date moment? When my date and I decided to share a chocolate with our mouth then kiss. No, it didn’t turn out like the movies, we had chocolate all over our faces.
What’s the most romantic thing you’ve ever done? I’m in a long distance relationship now, I left one present a month with my good friend to pass to my sweetheart.

Tags: colin, contest, harvard, vote

I wonder if this is news because the victim is a Bangladesh worker or because the weapon is a Ferrari, or perhaps both. I don’t think it’s really news worthy because there are hundreds and possibly thousands of car accidents in Singapore every year.

AN Indian national was killed on Saturday after he was hit by a Ferrari along Clementi Road.

Mr S Raja, a 22-year-old construction worker, was crossing the street near the Japanese School at about 8pm when he was struck by the sports car.

He was flung several metres and died on the spot from severe head injuries.

He was crossing the street with a colleague from construction firm Sato Kogyo. The other man was not injured in the collision.

The 37-year-old driver of the Ferrari was arrested and is assisting police with investigations.

The car had a shattered windscreen and a damaged front bumper. Its left rear-view mirror was also ripped off.

According to the New Paper, a co-worker said Mr Raja had been in Singapore for almost two years and was looking forward to going home after earning some money.

‘Now it will never happen,’ he said.

Perhaps the symbolization of the rich striking down the poor sounds scandalous? Ferrari killed construction worker versus Toyota killed middle class man, I guess the first one sounds more.. like… news?

It’s sad that even different deaths have different weightage on the news metre. Like the girl that was killed in the Mumbai terrorist attack, her death was worth quite a few front page headlines on Straits Times. I’m not trying to be insensitive about other’s misfortunes, but honestly speaking, people die every second around the world, but some deaths are just more noteworthy? Who’s the insensitive one now…. think about it….

At times I hope my death would be announced around the world, so people can weep for me and remember that I, Priscilla, was once a living being. However, I fear that the only way for my to achieve that is if I die a very sad death. I always have silly thoughts, and one of them super silly one… Please don’t let my death be on front page of a national news paper about how I died stupidly! Haha… Something like “Girl climbed out of Singapore Flyer and attempted to escape the capsule due to clautrophobia”, or maybe “Girl got leg stuck in an escalator, rolled down the said escalator, broke her neck and died”

I’m just plain weird. I hope I don’t die a weird death though.

Tags: death, news, newspaper

I’ve been submitting articles for Gadget3.com and you should check out my latest entry on my Hong Kong trip.

I attended the Asia Game Show 2008 in Hong Kong, it was a coincidence that I was there during that period so I made sure I included it in the itinerary. I went there not knowing what to expect, just knowing that there will be many interesting things there to see. I thought of getting a few souveniers for my friends that lie anime and games, but there wasn’t much things to buy there.

I love my super cute rabbit hat I bought there but I don’t think I’ll ever dare wear it out in Singapore because the chances of bumping into someone you know on the streets is just too high… >,<

Go to Gadget3.com to read the full article

Tags: cosplay, gadget3, game

I read an very interesting article on Life! section of the Straits Times today, so for those who don’t read the papers regularly, I’m going to type out the entire section -_-!

A fellow blogger typed out the article so I’m just going to extract it from her blog instead of typing them out *lazy*

Question 3: Gong Li became a Singapore citizen because

A. The Peking Duck served in Singapore is tastier
B. She wants to be the first in line for the Great Singapore Sale
C. Little Guilin in Bukit Batok is more spectacular than the Three Gorges Dam in China
D. She is married to a singaporean and spends some of her time here

Question 10: Britney Spears was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance in January last year because

A. The nuclear submarine was not available
B. To travel in a cab, you have to wear underwear
C. Somebody mistook her for Lindsay Lohan
D. She was behaving erratically

Question 19: Edison Chen (right) was forced to flee Hong Kong early last year because

A. He owes money to Eric Tsang, who often plays a gangster boss in movies
B. People were laughing at him for appearing for only half a second in The Dark Knight movie
C. He took explicit photos of several hot-babe celebs
D. Andy Lau kept pestering him to help him repair his computer.

Question 20: Why was Oprah Winfrey mad at herself?

A. She made only $250 million last year
B. Her weight ballooned to 90KG
C. She blames herself for giving out American cars nobody wants to the live audience in her TV show
D. Barrack Obama did not make her Vice president

LOL! I applaud Life! for writting such an interesting piece, it has been ages since I actually laughed out loud reading Straits Times. This year, we have seen many disasters around the world, be it man-made or natural ones, it has been very upsetting reading the papers about people’s sufferings and death. Sometimes I think I should feel indifferent about these news, but I really can’t help but to get all emotional reading about such things. Life is so fragile and so short, we really have to treasure what we have

It’s almost the end of 2008, and there’s only one more thing left to do for this year…. Welcoming the new year of 2009!!!

I remember once, I was a young and adventurous soul, I decided to celebrate the new year at Orchard Road. Boy, was that a mistake. The crowds will drown you out, there’s no handphone signal, everyone’s pushing to go somewhere - though I’m not sure where because everywhere’s as packed. I was 15 years old. It was a disaster. haha

Well, 31st December is actually my dearest sister’s birthday, so we’re going to celebrate by eating out… not sure where will we be counting down, but we’re definitely going to try avoid the crowds! It’s difficult to find shopping centres in Singapore that is not crowded on weekends, it’s harder to find happening places to count down without getting bumped around like a pin ball.

I guess I’ll either be spending it at friend’s house or at home with my family Hope everyone will have a fun and exciting new year count down and don’t get too drunk partying!!!

I’m so drained from shopping in Hong Kong the past week! I don’t think I’ve ever spent this extravagantly ever before in my life, and for once, I’m not living like a stingy poor person. Haha.

Over the years, many people have told me that money’s not everything, or that qualifications are not important. Yes, richness can be subjective. If you’re brought up eating kopitiam, an occasional meal at Swensen’s or NYDC might be a luxurious treat, but if you’re brought up with a silver spoon in your mouth… you’ll want to taste all the delicacies in the world.

This trip made me remember how nice it is to have the spending power to eat whatever I want and buy whatever branded products. A slight consolation that appeals to my inner poor person was that most of the branded shops in Hong Kong were on sale! I can never resist shopping for bargain on sale items

Tags: gucci, hong kong, money

We played mahjong last week and we had the honor to play with Cho’s new set of Hello Kitty Golden Glittered Mahjong tiles!!!! They’re so pretty!!! But the tiles are a little small, so it’s quite difficult to grab them properly… nonetheless it was shiok seeing these pretty golden shiney things between your fingers.

I heard you can get them from Raffles Place MRT for about SG$200. I’m not sure which shop exactly, but if anyone interested I could ask my friend

Tags: hello kitty, mahjong

Shopping, shopping and more shopping!

I’ll be in Hong Kong for a week… This is my second night in Hong Kong, and already I’m so tired out from all the shopping. My sis, cousin and I went to Ocean Park today, and shopped the whole afternoon away……

too tired to blog any pictures today……..

*yawns*

I was at SITEX 2008 on Thursday, 26 November - the FIRST day of SITEX!

I knew exactly what I was looking for so it didn’t take me long to find it…

I bought my new pink Casio Exilim Z1080 for S$249 !

You can read more about my purchase at Gadget3.com ! Yes, I’m now a Gadget3.com blogger!

Now I’ll explain my choice of camera. Sab actually bought the Canon E1 even though she told me it looks silly just one week ago!! Well, I think my Casio Ex-Z1080 was a better bargain hehe

Canon E1

Casio Ex-Z1080

The many reasons why I always buy older models is simply because we can never catch up with technology! It was just about two years ago that I bought my 5 megapixel Kodak digital camera for more than S$500, and one year later it was quite worthless as 10 megapixel soon became the acceptable standard. I’ve definitely learnt my lesson in that we have to get something that is averagely good, but not too expensive.

See, besides point and shoot, I don’t need touch screen or any of the other funky features that other digital cameras offer, paying $249 for a camera seems reasonable and even if my camera is worthless in two years, well, it wasn’t worth much to begin with?

Tags: camera, pc show, shopping, sitex 2008