Everyone is fighting their own battles

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
Everyone is fighting their own battles ♥

Boy we go together like peanuts and paydays and molly and reggae

Monday, June 27, 2011
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SAY HI TO MY GOOD FRIENDS :D

I have about like I don't know how many pooh bears <3 Loves <3<3<3

Anyway spent my day packing my entire room. I'M DONE. Feel so organized and incredibly proud of myself. For now, its time to have a date with exchange rates. UGH. I'm so excited. Can you tell :/

OH I'M GOING TO THE ZOO IN 2 WEEKS. CAN'T WAIT (Y)

Been wanting to go there since forever. Hahaha.

Let our hearts ignite

Sunday, June 26, 2011
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And so on Saturday night, I begged, yes I literally begged my parents to take me out. Couldn't spend another second in the house facing my books. Seriously. My brains had reached that point of absolute saturation I knew looking at another sheet of econs, something on exchange rate or BOP was going to turn me off so terribly. And yes, my dear parents very readily, to my surprise, might I add, agreed! And thus, we set off on our little food hunt. Well, we were supposed to go to FIKA because I was craving for their ooh so delicious crepe. (Yumyumyum) But eventually decided against it because mummy wasn't in an adventurous mood. But honestly, how adventurous do you have to be to eat Swedish food.

Okay fine, maybe it wasn't because she was not adventurous but really due to me loosely classifying anything swedish as ikea-ish which made her go, 'EW LET'S NOT,' and evidently, everything else I said after that was pretty much useless because in her head FIKA was just another cheap low class yucky place, which I can assure you is not. Hahaha.

So, this was the beginning of our really awesome possum night, where we nearly had Spanish cuisine, really because I insisted on trying something new. Hahaha. BUT then I got reminded of the uh not so appetizing Tapas in Spain a few years back and so we decided against it. But even then, I still had to steal a shot there because the place had incredible ambience! It was like the survivor's scene where the guy, I forgot his name, Jeff something goes 'The tribe has spoken pass me your torch' (Or something to that extent) and snuffs the flame out. Hahaha.

And so we eventually landed ourselves at Rakuichi Japanese Restaurant, which served the most gastronomic Japanese dishes I have ever tasted. Pretty pricey, but worth every single cent, well dollar in this case.

Baby brother and I <3 He's trying to be darfvader (?) I still haven't learnt how to spell this name properly. Hahahaha.

Us again! <3 Love him to bits. He's my bestest friend in the entire world <3<3<3

Daddy Carman and I <3

Yummiest Eel ever. I think it was braised. A really refreshing taste from the usual commonplace barbecue/sweet sauced Eel.

Soba! My favourite <3 With extra heapings of spring onion. Love it that way. Crunchy with a distinctive taste.

Okay, I didn't even get to taste much of this. Just one soup spoon of it plus my fav string mushrooms and the next moment everything was gone! D:

Barbequed Meat Sushi. Omg the second from the left just blew me away. It had cheese lightly melted over it, but it was really milky I was just so drawn into the flavours and rich textures of the meat and cheese coming together. Pure genius <3

Okay, this dish wasn't spectecular at all. The fish was pretty cold, hard, and not very tasty, Expected better. Gave this a pass after like a tiny bite. Haha.

Chawamushi!! Yummy! It didn't have that overpowering yolk taste that some have. And that was so much good stuff in it. Not your average, SAKE chawamushi, not that I have a problem with eating at those kinda places, I guess it is a pretty good alternative when you are really craving for cheap Jap food.

The entire dish disappeared within 5 seconds. Nuff said.

Parents devoured it. Don't get me wrong, I love salads. Really. Cedele ones especially. But that plate of veggies didn't look a single bit appetizing to me. It seemed like the chef merely threw some random leaves tog tossed and served it.

THIS WAS SUPER AWESOME. OMG. THE TEAPOT SOUP. Best I ever had!! Hahaha. And the whole array of small little dishes, it was like Japanese food haven. I like alot <3

Not going to rave much about this. Hahaha. But the yellow thing you see, is egg! Egg sushi. Not the ones you see every other day with this sweet egg on top bounded with a thin strip of seaweed to some rice. In fact for this, the rice is inside. And it tastes amazing. Not a great fan of all that sweet egg, and this wasn't so I was really happy. Hahaha.

The freshest, yummiest and best proportioned sashimi ever. Comparable to the ones I had in Japan.

After a while, the food stopped coming and ever since my mummy got her on fb, she has ~~been addicted to taking pics~~, understood the beauty of capturing every special moment on camera/film. I am not kidding. EVERY MOMENT, special or not. Its really cute whenever she sees something she would pass me the camera and be all hurry take take take, as if the object currently under her affection would escape. Love her lots.

QT PIE making funny faces <3 Hahaha.

Sab, mummy and I. Love his cute smile. Hahaha.

Mummy and C.

Mummy and Daddy! <3

The family. My family <3

Marcus, was at home, studying, supposed to be at least. Haha.

Sweetie pie and Daddy!

OH OH AND I SAW THIS REALLY CUTE ANG MOH GUY. Hahaha. Yeah he's way older. Spare me please. But seriously, hey gd lookin'

(the one on the right, just in case you were wondering...)

Then my parents wanted to have coffee/dessert. So we headed to Jones the Grocer. But alas! There was nothing much left. And thus we headed to Margarrita, but not before snapping a few shots. Hahaha. What did I say about capturing memories ;)

Daddy and I! (:

Mummy and QT pie! <3

Mummy and I <3

The dessert we eventually had. Some floury deep fried pastry with dark chocolate. Nothing too spectecular honestly. It was rather heavy. Won't go back for seconds.

And that marks the end of the funnest day I had the whole week. (Minus the nastiness of some stuff happening, which left me awake for the whole night trying to fix it.) Not kidding.

OKAY I KNOW MY LIFE IS SAD NOW. Give me 19 weeks. I will go absolutely crazy. That is of course if I don't go crazy before A levels end.

Let's set fire to the rain

Thursday, June 23, 2011
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And I have never even been more determined to prove my worth.

I don't know where all this fire is coming from but I'm sure glad I have rekindled it. I know I will need lots of it to make this turn out victoriously.

Hunger, drive, determination.

I'm a fighter and I won't back down in times of adversity.

Fight harder, fight stronger van.

I am currently engaged in a battle with myself, overcoming my own fears and if you ever had to fight yourself, you would know that is the toughest battle ever.

Please keep me in prayer! <3

On a lighter note, I passed my BTT (:

One step closer to getting my driver's licence! (Y)

Only thing is that you know in BTT they have all that 'at a cross junction, which car gives way to which' and all that kind of questions, I was just wondering how I'm able to think fast enough to decide if I'm supposed to give way or not!!!!

AND OMG A LIZARD WAS LURKING IN MY SHOWER AREA YTD. GROSS TTTM!!!!! D: Sprayed it with both the soft and hard shower spray of water but it still survived!!!! DOUSED IT WITH GOAT'S MILK SOAP AND IT DIED. HA. I WIN.

Back to work! Toodles dear friends (: Have a blessed day!

Oh oh my Theme Song for the Year: Super chick ONE MORE. CLICK IT!!!!

After I'm done with this essay, I shall post up pictures taken during Father's Day!! (:(: Wait for it!

Ooh I just found a way to tweak my posts dates, so it seems as if I've been blogging religiously. Scroll down to 19th June for my Father's Day post!

And, make this chance count

Wednesday, June 22, 2011
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20 MORE WEEKS TO A's.
I know I can do this.

and with God's strength, emerge victorious.

Push Harder and Faster Van.

It's like singing in the wind, or writing on the surface of the lake

Sunday, June 19, 2011
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HAPPY FATHER'S DAY DEAREST DADDY.

And so we decided to surprise daddy dearest, with a home cooked lunch by the 3 of us. Just the kids. I'm not a kid, but you get what I mean. Mummy was the one who had to bring him out after church on the pretext that M and C were busy having tuition and they shld get coffee. I bet daddy was initally rather disappointed because usually when it's Mother's day, or smth, me being the oldest would have planned everything in advance, and booked tables at wherever we decided was going to be worthy of our occassion. And this time I hadn't and my daddy was all 'Oh maybe I should book for lunch,' Silly him, as if I would ever forget to do something for my daddy.

Here's C being completely useless while M and I were in the kitchen 'whipping', I would choose to believe, dishes up for lunch. We did a 4 course lunch so the timing of the food had to be perfect.

Mummy and Daddy patiently awaiting for the food. See that black plate in the middle of them?? That's the BEFORE appetizer!!

Loser C, making good use of himself by taking pictures. Hahaha. Love this dear brother of mine, so cute <3

M's appetizer. Some blanched veg with salmon dipped in lemon juice.

A family protrait! With M's eyes half closed as usual. This is the first time I have seen my daddy actually smile when taking pictures with US.

Broccoli Soup with pine nuts, and fried asparagus.

Because my daddy has a heart condition no cheese for him! But the bro's had a sliver of cheese to go with it (:

M's tomato pasta with no cheese!

This was when M was slogging behind the scenes to come up with the pasta. Mummy and I! <3

Daddy and I. SEE that slight smile?!?!?!

Mummy Daddy and I <3<3<3

Mummy, Daddy and I again! <3

And yet again! Hahahaha.

M's cream pasta which was way too cheesy for my liking. But it was real good (:

M looking like darfvader ( CORRECT MY SPELLING PLS, I'm positively certain I spelt this wrongly)

Mummy, Daddy and M! (:(:(:

And finally, frozen yogurt!!! I actually made the frozen yogurt! It's incredibly easy. Seriously. Pity I have been way too lazy to fix the oven and so I didn't exactly bake anything. Haha.

I guess all I really want to say, is thank you for having been the most amazing father ever. Yeah true that I only have one father and therefore regardless of what you do you're technically speaking the best dad that I can ever have. But the point is, thank you for having been that pillar of strength, in this 'can get rather chaotic family'. We don't exactly get father daughter moments, and are not even close to begin with, but I must say to do something that makes you happy is one of the greatest joys. Maybe it's because you're always the one giving, materially and non materially, meaning to say, giving in to mummy regardless of who is in the right. I really do respect you and am in complete awe of your intelligence. I really hope that one day I will be able to make you proud of me and I'm sorry to have let you down with my A level results. And on the day when I can even emulate a fraction of your intelligence, it would be incredibly monumental for me. Thank you daddy for all that you have done for me, by the sidelines, I love you, and I hope even though I don't express it very much to you, you would be able to feel it. Love you very much!

♥Vanessa Koh♥

Gongshang Primary School

Cedar Girls' Secondary School

Victoria Junior College Arts

Singapore Management University ♥