great way to pamper myself after a day of hard work :)

all these activites are what i hope to do in dec holz:

night cycling

cycling whole day in pulau ubin

having a barbecue dinner with tricia,lari,shermomo,jieying

have a mahjong session with my friends

play pool

go to board games cafe

go for the perak trip with oacians

meeting up with friends over meals

watch movie

picnic

i wonder how many of these wishes will actually be fulfilled. can anyone help me fulfill them?

p.s.: i think this pensieve is overflowing. will need a bigger one. xiuwen can u get me a new penseive? haha ^^

anyway, i seriously fear for my little bro. he is going to take his psle real soon. but he doesnt seem to sense the urgency. still taking his own sweet time to do work... although he has done tonnes of exam papers(a lot more than all the other 3 sisters) the quality his essays are still horrible. esp chinese. he just dont get how impt psle results are... it kindof decides ur future. at least which jc u go to... with all the ridiculous integrated programmes, linking all the prestigious schs.. getting into top jcs using o lvl score is harder than ever. right now, i bet he thinks that mum and dad are out to torture him, making his life miserable... haiz...

i gtg have dinner now. back to mugging soon. bleah :X

i will be climbing mt kinabalu....,

i will be going wide water rafting....,

with my family this dec holz.

air tickets have been booked, so no chickening out :P

i hope i survive :)

what a great holz to look forward to. YAY!

anyway, as usual i spent my time mugging at home with my siblings. we call ourselves wong mugging clan.. haha.. it can be fun to study tgt. knowing that we are all working hard tgt is a motivation for me to persevere and not lose out to any of them....lol :D

today, we had homemade popiah for lunch. yum yum :) everyone made their own popiahs. i think our popiahs tasted better than those sold outside. we came up with several variations too, like using lettuce as a wrapper instead, or wrapping it like a japanese handroll... or adding salad cream instead of sweet sauce. i ate quite a few... i guess i wont be eating popiah anytime soon... we still have quite a bit of leftovers.

ingredients used in making the popiah.

the rest of my family members refuse to let me take their photos. oh well, here's grace and i.. haha...

there was a report on yahoo news on a taiwanese lady blogging about her 100 kisses. haha.. i went to read her blog. it's quite interesting to read about her different kisses from random guys. It feels like i am reading a 'bimbo' storybook... rather entertaining. all the guys seem to look gd too... haha...

i'm kind of scared of driving... i made so many dangerous mistakes in one weekend: going over kerbs, almost colliding with another car and turning onto the wrong lanes. T_T it seems that my driving has become lousier... oh crap.

right now, i feel like reading time traveler's wife and the lost symbol. i feel so tired after mapping 10 chaps of organic chemistry. i hope all of it went into my brain... i still have so many other modules to work on. one recess week isnt enough. i cant imagine how hard i will have to study for my year end exams... :X i hope my efforts will pay off *crosses fingers*

what is the last thing i do before sleeping? switch on my laptop and visit 3 websites.

what do i do during my free time? switch on my laptop and visit 3 websites.

i am crazy. really crazy... i need to stop going online, checking out my virtual crops, or my email, or my blog.

i shall attempt to stop blogging until my mid terms are over...

time is running out. got to run....

p.s.: good luck to all those who have mid term exams too :D

tue was roy, ian, and euods birthday. wed is waikit's birthday. thurs is anna's birthday. whoa.... thats a lot of people. thank goodness there's facebook birthday reminders :)

celebrated roy's 21st birthday in sch as an og. the card that marzuki made was really nice. there were no candles, so we used pokey sticks.

bdae boy and seniors

bdae boy and og mates

a shot that i thot was worth posting.. haha...

pris and me :) i think i look really smiley and happy in this photo. haha :D

i am so not looking forward to my 20th or 21st birthday. haha.. still a long way to go. i dont wanna grow up!

had 2 near death experiences lately. i bet good luck is coming my way. haha... da4 nan4 bu4 si3, bi4 you3 hou4 fu2 :D

my dad is planning to torture us this dec. i fear for my life this coming dec holz... maybe i will be stuck on mount kinabalu(coz i am afraid to walk downslopes) or stranded in the padas river while river rafting. lol :D

after reading someone's blog, i feel like eating potato salad

had subway's teriyaki chicken sandwich for 3 meals in a row. 6-inch sandwich for around $3.70 :D haha.. super good deal

making the library my second home. :) home sweet home

for exams to be over.

to go sing k with my sisters

to meet up with the glutts

to hang out and chat with my friends

to drive around by myself

for year end holz to arrive...

and the list goes on and on......haha

random thoughts that come to my mind: aka claire's theories

from a stats student's point of view:

at this point in time, u may feel that the next sentence is not true. your hard work will pay off; u reap what u sow... therefore if u put in a lot of effort, u will do well. assuming that u will live till the age of 80 years old(even though facebook said u will die when u r 30 yrs old.. haha), it means that u have only lived for 1/4 of ur lifetime. the number of downs u have experienced in ur life so far may seem to be a lot; u dun seem to see the delicious fruits of ur labour. u start to wonder why u should continue to work hard. imaqgine if u gave up, wouldnt ur life be even worse? it is highly possible that ur sample size is not big enough. ?!? maybe, at the age of 80 years, when u count the total number of ups and downs, u will realise that there are more ups than downs.....

from an econs student's point of view:

if there is no incentive for being upset, then why should i feel sad? if worrying doesnt solve my problems, then why should keep on worrying? if being pessimistic brings about negative externalities and harm to myself, then why should i continue to be a pessimist? why waste scarce resources(in this case, its the limited energy that i have) on these? since i am given a choice(being a rational "producer"), i will choose to be happy, worry-free and optimistic, only then will i be able to achieve allocative efficiency :)

from a drama addict point of view:

u never know what is coming up in life. HOPE might just be round the corner :)

p.s: mid term exams are just round the corner. i hope my good luck will last long enough.

do i make sense? haha.. i guess i'm the only one who understands this post.

i finally managed to meet up with lari, shermin and tricia(aka pat) for lunch, as a whole group. jieying couldnt join us because she said she had green boogey in her nose. hope she's feeling better. lari looked shagged and tired. she really does... and she lost weight again. at this rate, we wont be able to see lari anymore if she stands behind a lampost.. haha.. too skinny. lari, EAT MORE!!! RELAX!!!

we talked over lunch... haha.. basically everyone was ranting abt their own set of problems and worry. we realised that we kept worrying about the future, doubting whether we have chosen the right paths... and what is at the end of our paths. in the midst of worrying about the uncertain future, we probably neglected the present. shouldnt we take a step at a time, focus and enjoy the present? so that in future, we won't look back and regret. i think that when we share our worries and doubts with one another, we realise that we are not the only ones facing those problems. we help each other look at the problems from a different perspective. it feels comforting to know that they will always be there for me when i need a listening ear.

had a surprise meeting on thurs :) met xin ying(bunny) in nus. haha... i was really glad.. haven seen her for a long time.

and then today, tricia and i helped out at the grant a wish booth. the grant a wish project is really meaningful... i hope the chidren will love their presents :) after manning the booth, the two of us went to holland village starbucks to chill and relax.. haha.. its a pity they dont have banoffee pie. i tried the apple crumble cheesecake...

it was very yummy. drinking mocha frappe from my starbucks tumbler( a gift from tricia's parents) saved me 50 cents :D

:D i had a wonderful time at starbucks.. haha..

returned to school for lecture....

skipped a tutorial... because it was a waste of time....

returned home...

checked my lsm 1102 CA1 results....

received a pleasant surprise....

life is filled with shocks and surprises... maybe the recent bad luck would mean that good things are going to happen..... i certainly hope so. :)

Perspective makes you wonder what would happen if we all gave thanks for everything we have, instead of worrying about what we don't have.( or in this case, all the unluckiness and difficulties we have in studies, in life). Change your perspective and change your life.... from now on, i'm gonna work towards this goal... be a happier claire bear :D

the dark and gloomy rain clouds are clearing.....

adm building

photo taken by me :)

jump shot 1

jump shot 2

maybe it was because i haven done cip/good deeds for a long time

or maybe i am just plain unlucky......

my left eyelid has been twitching quite often these past few 2 weeks. i have been experiencing bad luck for the past 2 weeks. everything that can go wrong has gone wrong. are these just plain coincidences or wat? eating the red eggs that yili gave me was not of much use...

for the x number of times, claire has dropped her slipper while walking. she has to backtrack to retrieve her slipper. how embarassing can that be?

while waiting at a busstop full of people, water starts to drip from the shelter. the water drips on claire. no one but claire.

people has been stepping on claire's slippers for the nth number of times

claire has seen bus 151 driving pass her for the y number of times when she is waiting for the annoying traffic light to turn green so that she can cross the road

the events mentioned above are some of the unlucky events that have happened to me. can this get any worse? i certainly hope not.

i truly understand why people always say that u nid to tell more lies just to cover one up.

i felt very comforted to meet the eil step family again.. haha... mei kwan and i had to pretend to be interested in going to the adm building just to buy more time for xiuwen to deco the room. Every sentence of mine was a lie. yili really believed everything that we said. haha...

ntu looks big and new. at least bigger and newer than nus. haha... the hall rooms are much bigger too... then we had super cheap($5!!!) steamboat for dinner... if only we could stay over in their rooms... that would be awesome. :D we could probably tlk thru the night...ranting abt sch and life.. or have htht. those that stay in hall dont seem to sleep at all... i heard that they sleep after midnight everyday... lol.. their lives must be super eventful, unlike mine( i seriously intend to make nus sci lib my second home- anyone that wants to look for me in sch should try gg to the lib first. haha)

evil step family portrait taken in xw and yili's room :)

i love them to bits <3