All night show with just you in the crowd

It takes me more than a week after the MSU finals to actually write a post about it and post pictures of events that happened after too.

Lately I've just wanted to have some space and time to myself instead of answering to the beck and call of people on my phone, over msn, or whatever means of communication. Luckily for me, I'll be flying to australia in a few days where I'll get that much needed quiet.

The lead up to the MSU finals was rather frustrating and more or less overshadowed all the fun I had during the pageant for me. From all the silly predictions on missosology to the rumors and all the phone calls from the new paper that were made, it just took the fun out of a pageant. Yes you have a group of girls, yes there's only one crown, but it doesn't mean you have to end up enemies or hating one another or coming out feeling sour about everything. It affected all the girls, and I suppose by the finals we were just trying to have fun and make the moments last though the damage had been done. In any case, I had my share of fun with Syasya my love :) as well as newfound friends like Jeanine, Ethel, April and all. You girls made it enjoyable and I wanna thank you for being the amazing people you are :)

Dave, one of the official photographer's has processed his photos so here's the link to his flickr site http://www.flickr.com/photos/davios/sets/72157614997959483/

and here are the ones I took in the minimal time we had backstage as well as during the last rehearsal :)

SAMMY : I had one like this with you and now it's Sya's turn!! lol and in case you need a reminder the picture i'm talking about is the following one!

in all queenly grace =P

back to MSU photos...

this is called letting loose when all the stress gets to you

With Patricia our amazing trainer :)

the top 5 were Cheryl, Rachel, April, Jeanine , and I. I think it would've been more exciting if they had called the numbers randomly instead of numerical order. I also got the question I was dreading the most and didn't have an answer to, which was What's the biggest lie you've ever told and why? I did start off with a "wellllllll I can't say I've lied before so...." but nobody laughed! =(  My sad attempt at a joke. Anyway I ended up talking about this third grade math test I took. On hindsight, the better answer would've been to have said that MSU meant nothing to me and how I don't want to represent Singapore at miss universe because THAT would've been a rather big lie. Oh yeah, and someone took our bouquets from our chairs after we changed out of our evening gowns.

In any case, CONGRATULATIONS RACHEL (though this is very belated lol)!! Do us proud in Nassau!!

So after the pageant, I headed to zouk to meet the boys and jeanie and tabs and co for keegen's birthday cum post party kinda thing =) Photo credits to louisa and me

boys doing some weird cheer thing they do in the army O_o

who looks more innocent? =P

a lot of forced drinking and 5 seconds of vodka that night.

the girls

YEAH close friendships from pageants/contests DO last...like the one I have with oh so wonderful Tabs =)

Week after was spent sleeping and meeting up with people before everybody leaves for summer.
KINKS day out =)

I got my shot with jeanie's sexy umbrella too! =P

Presenting to you: JIGGLE JO

JOYKO "MOMO" HOTTBUTTCHEEKOS

BOBO THULSKINKME

and yours truly KOKOKINS

Next up are photos from Butter with the MSU girls when we decided to take Ethel out on her first clubbing experience since she turned 18 not long ago =)

I had fun dancing that night and we had to persuade Rachel to come out on the dance floor...lol.

And to wrap up this post, here're pictures from a meet up with Tabs, Sophie, and Cassandra with whom I did the new paper new face in 2005 =) We had an interesting conversation over soup and later at star bucks too hahaha

she who stole my shawl but whom I love anyway

Sophie only you can carry off bangs above your eyebrows without looking dorky ha. And i'm gonna be getting bangs real soon too!

our jumpshot didn't work out as well

And at the end of the night she STILL has my shawl on.

I have so much to do and so little time before I fly off. This has been a long post so I"ll save my thoughts for another one sometime soon. Oh and yeah to end it off with something funny, last night I was in an msn conversation with some of the artillery boys planning what to do today because they were free. And we took so long deciding what to do or when to meet and Gabe said "For officers we're not so good at planning for a day out, how do u expect me to plan for war?"

Hahahaha. Sometimes I just wanna bring a camcorder along when I hang out with them. (nor do I know why my font has turned this way or how to fix it as much as i've tried to).

Waiting for Saturday

So four tests are down and there's only public admin in asia left on Thursday. It's crazy having to juggle finals and MSU at the same time but I realized I'm the type of person who lives on this kind of adrenaline (which involves freaking out and running, literally, all the way to kent ridge hall from the faculty of arts just to make it to my voice exam on time. And I was late because Tabs and I woke up later than planned, and yes I slept over at Tabs' place cuz she lives nearer school than I do and 8am exams are just killer to wake up for. But of course you know what happens when you have two girls sleep over =P more talking and less sleeping)

Came back home, met ming for lunch for a bit and then headed back home to crash. If you count the amount of sleep I've had over the past two days it comes up to a total of SIX HOURS. So much for gaining weight.

Last night the MSU girls had our speech training and also tried on the new bikinis for the swimsuit segment along with the singapore shawl that each of us would be walking with. Shelly's shawls are amazing and INCREDIBLY BEAUTIFUL! I'm so happy with the shawl I got because it's so colorful and I was practicing with it before the others had arrived and it was just so pretty :) I'll let the pictures do the talking.

with Gina

Jeanine and Rachel

full body with our shawls - I felt somewhat short yesterday because I didn't wear heels to practice (whatwith all the tests in school and stuff I just didn't have time to stuff in extra heels into my already bulging backpack)

Cheryl, whom I've never seen around campus and so we've decided to try and meet up for lunch SOMETIME next semester in school :)

Hui Ting

Rachel, who's also an ex new face girl. Haha Angelia if you're reading this we'll do you proud!

The one who calls me Otaku. She is my spongebob. Ha ha :)

Shee Yan, Gina, and Jacelyn

And then dinner arrived =D (sya I hardly took pictures with you yesterday!! =(   )

With ever so sweet Ethel =) Indeed you'll be a history maker chica! You're an amazing person =)

I just can't wait for Thursday's test to be over! Emiko over and out!

Dodos and Global Warming

YIMING IS BACK!

I just had to note something really funny down because while I was about town today with Alvin I think we were talking about global warming or something...no wait, yeah we were talking about how he tried to kill a small spider that was crawling near my tray. Grateful for getting ridof the spider no doubt, but I told him every organism is important and contributes to our ecosystem. Then he asks why then hasn't the exitnction of dodos affected us severely and I said "just you wait, one day you'll see how the extinction of dodos has contributed one way or another to global warming". Yeah that's emiko with zero sleep and constant studying for exams for you right there.

Disclaimer: I'm usually not this silly. I'm just very sleep deprived.

Oh yeah on another note, you're getting on my nerves. Nevermind. I have better things to do than sit here and be a hater.

SIX days and counting to MSU finals!

I know this is kinda late but there's the MSU CHARITY CAR WASH happening later today at 10am until noon at the SAFRA club at Mt Faber. So if you've got the time, please head down as the girls will be washing cars with proceeds going to Club Rainbow. Club Rainbow is a charity supporting children who are terminally ill. They're also involved in a lot of family-support activities and movements and you'll definitely be contributing to a great cause by getting your car washed. I strongly believe that childhood is something that ought not to be violated and every child deserves a chance at a good life, so please if you've got time, go down and support this event. Your donation and time will be greatly appreciated =)

I regret that I won't get to be at the car wash because I have an exam on monday morning and I haven't even touched my notes for that particular class yet. =(

It's always important to give back to society just as it is important to return your trays after eating at fast food chains. Besides, children are our leaders of tomorrow and it's important to give them their due respect and to give them means to explore who they are so that they can contribute to the world too.

I need to get cracking on Singapore's Foreign Policy. and fast. Test is on monday and I'm nowhere near prepared. Then tuesday is Voice studies, and wrapping up the exams for this academic year will be public admin in asia on thursday evening.  --- BRING ON THE NERD----

Emiko over and out =)

Have a great week ahead everybody!

One Bean To Rule Them All

So it's two tests down and three left for me. It just feels like thursday won't come soon enough, and after that on Saturday night is of course an even bigger thing aka the finals for miss singapore universe. Muchos exciting!! More so because I've been waiting for this since I turned 18.

On another note, welcome to my blog, readers from gossipgalore! (this is so random, I know. But I've been getting a lot of visits from this site)

Emiko's brain is in the process of burning out because she's already done two tests, and has the hardest two ever coming up, namely Singapore's Foreign Policy, and her most dreaded class, Public Policy in Asia. *shudder*

Last night was enjoyable after the test because a couple of my classmates from one of my theater classes and I went for dinner. Then we went to Ben & Jerry's to get ice cream and talk on the outside deck of vivo.

As for the title of this post, it's referring to mine and Debs' theory of Ben & Jerry's "guess the number of beans in the bag" contest! She took out a couple of beans from the sack just to play with them and then I asked "wonder if that'll affect the answers of those who guessed BEFORE you stole a couple of beans Debs". Ho hum. The things we do to keep ourselves amused.

And the things I do to.... yeah, well, forget it.

I think Yiming gets back in about 7 hours from Taiwan with his cadets. Thank you for making my day on Friday (i think??) and calling! :)

E  I   G  H  T  DAYS AND COUNTING TO THE BIG NIGHT!

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