Leona Lewis - Better in time

Thanks to 18-yr old cousin, I finally found out name of this song...! And was bluetoothed the mp3 hehe :P Was pretty surprised cousin was so willing to splurge money from part-time job on some sleek Samsung touch-screen phone that cost him over $300...

Anyway, here's the beautiful song and MTV if you are interested (somehow embedding is disabled for this video)... Leona Lewis has a great voice...

If all goes as planned, I might finally be getting some new cute curtains for my room in the next month or so :) However, home seems to be headed towards chaotic "personal-enclave" style of furnishing, since family members have pretty different tastes/ preferences and cannot come to consensus... And it's terribly difficult to create consistent, modern look for old place unless occupants want makeover badly enough to sink in the $$ for a drastic makeover... Since we rarely receive visitors, I suppose it's alright as long as I'm relatively happy with my part of the home... :P Have to give and take and cannot impose own preference on rest of family members (though I would love to haha). It's also cool that parents let me do what I want for own room, so I shall get my earthy tone colors... hehe. Dunno leh, will feel uncomfy if things dun look right to me. Amusing how sis is really a lot less particular in this aspect-- like ask her to buy nicer (in my opinion), non kid-print bedsheets befitting her age but she just not willing to fork out single cent... Though it's but a tiny detail in everyday life, falling asleep on pretty bedsheets also happy leh :)

Minshuku = Min + Shu + Khoo ;)

Past few days have been religiously spent researching for Japan trip and looking up accommo. Esp accommo for popular destinations, which was being snapped up pretty quickly (though I was rather doubtful abt everything being booked up so quickly and was quite slack initially... :P) Hardworking a bit and finish booking everything then can rest :) We're halfway there....

So anyway today the ingenious Shu asked if Jap style farmhouse = minshuku (BTW minshuku = hiragana pronunciation for 民宿 = something like homestyle lodging/inn) and highlighted its semblance to our names... It was so brilliant cos at that moment it just hit me that hey, we're so fated to stay at a minshuku together...!! Cos not as if we're being intentional abt fitting bits of our names in... Min is always min; shu has always been shu... Well, J you are a bit out, but hey, with a little twist you still fit in quite snugly... ;)

Alright, maybe all of you think I'm weird... But to me, it's just such a cute coincidence.

Lovely long weekend...

It was such a great long weekend :) Exercised, researched for trip, learnt (went for photography and jap class), explored (Little India & indian food with the family), chilled out and watched two movies (Tokyo!@The Picturehouse and I Capture The Castle at home :P) Though it's back to work tmr morning, I wun have too long a week since I'm on do-nothing-leave come Thurs and Fri. Life feels good...

The family was atypically adventurous on Sat and decided on a spontaneous outing to Little India. Mum has apparently never set foot in Little India proper all her life...! It was great that they chose to go down during the Deepavali festivities period... cos it was a lot more re4 nao4 than usual! However, I was almost smothered by the crowds... We brought home addictive crunchy muruku snacks... and have been unable to resist them the past few days... Now the sinful keropok-ish stuff is almost half gone.... :(

Alas, it was also an indulgent weekend. Need to jian3 fei2 in coming weeks...