bits and pieces of my life

'drought'

2011-02-21T12:42:00.004+08:00

my previous post was 1 month ago...

it's like there's finally rain after a whole month of drought.

decided to post an update while i'm eating, hoping that i wont get an indigestion from multi tasking... but i reckon i'll get indigestion sooner or later.. due to that whole mountain high load of notes waiting for me to digest.

so yes, the every sem nightmare is back to haunt me again. every sem i end up having to mug my ass off and worry till i start losing my precious hair over the work undone. recess week aint chill week at all. it's the total opp. :X

since the last post, i've been busy with fund raising for my cca... i must say that it was a really amazing business experience and i'm so glad everything turn out fine. i did learn loads from it. i wont even mind doing it again if i have the same team with me. they are such awesome frens to work with. and so those sleepless nights, unnecessary worries and hard selling resulted in my huge pile of undigested notes.

and then the whole of last week was spent celebrating different frens' birthdays. 3 birthdays in a week?!?!? why is everyone born in feb?!?! is apr/may such good months for making babies? lol

anyway i hope the birthday girls had a great time.. coz i had fun attending those parties/surprises.

lessons i learnt from planning surprises are that lying is inevitable for a surprise to be successful. and planning surprise is really hard work that kills so many brain cells esp if u suc at lying. plus anything could go wrong at the end of the day. so whatever that is left of the surprise may be really really pathetic.

lunch hour's up. for now, enough of surprises. back to my books. i've gotta clear my midterms.

i guess it's gonna be another post 'drought'

cya ;)

bday girl 1: carolyn:)

bday girl 2: lari :)

bday girl 3: xiu wen :)

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2011-01-20T09:34:00.000+08:00

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awesome idea, at least i think it is.

2011-01-15T23:34:00.005+08:00

i have this really cool idea to celebrate my 21st birthday. yeah i know my birthday's far far away, but i just got a little carried away while i think of ways to surprise my frens on their 21st birthdays. i wanna try out 21 new things before 9 dec. so that on my birthday, i can post 21 photos of each of the things i've done. haha.. but the prob is what things can i do? how to come up with 21 things? any suggestions? i feel so excited just thinking abt my plan.

right now, i feel that my legs are gonna fall off any moment. will be collecting newspapers from the hdb blks next wk.. for fundraising. just went to distribute flyers for that earlier in the day. and omg, while i was walking from hse to hse, i made lots of observations on hdb life.

what i observed:

shirtless men with all sorts of body shape. (ranging frm bamboo thin to bulging fats.)

5pm is a common time for baby feeding.

sat afternoon is a great time for hsewives to iron clothes.

little kids seem to like running around the hse with no underwear on.

cable tv is super popular in hdb.

some have so much confidence in singapore's security that they leave their doors & grills open for strangers to enter.

some grow their own 'manmade' forests outside their hses, while some have mini zoos..

some people are plain hoarders.

hdb estates are like mazes, it's possible to get lost in them.

a rabbit on the loose.

annoying dogs scaring the sh*t out of strangers.

whatever unglam stuff u do can be seen if u dont close the door.

card making :)

2011-01-12T19:25:00.002+08:00

card making is therapeutic. haha.. it gives me a sense of satisfaction. :) but my creativity is limited. so i find it really hard to come up with new designs. wonder how shu ning can always come up with ideas for her craft business.

happy wednesday :D

go watch this!!!

2011-01-11T11:42:00.005+08:00

YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL. LOVE THIS SHOW TO BITS. after watching this, rest assured u'll feel torn between the 3 guys(bad grammar. but u know what i mean right?). who to like?!?!?!?! all of them!!! they just blow ur mind away. u'll love the ost too. :D it doesnt hurt to start the new year going crazy over a sweet fantasy right? haha. if u really heed my advice and watch it, tell me abt it kaes. ;)

here comes the new year. 2011. hurray.

2011-01-11T10:39:00.003+08:00

to be honest, i'm not a fan of new year. i dont get the point in celebrating the start of a new year since it means more stress and uncertainties coming my way. plus the usual annoying bidding period makes the 1st week of 2011 miserable. oh well... that still cant change the fact that 2011 is already HERE. the only SILLY consolation i have for myself is that my siblings and i believe that 2012 will be the END OF THE WORLD. we'll all die then. so might as well enjoy 2011. lol.

there's only one word to describe yr 2 sem 2: BUSY. yeah but that word kind of describes every body else's lives too.

recently, i've got to know some new frens from cip.. and when i listen to them talk about the stuff they've done in yr 1.. i was totally amazed. those people dare to dream and take risks. they really have lots of confidence in what they do. despite all the activities they were involved in, they could still excel in their studies. WOW. thats what i called a fulfilling and meaningful uni life, a life i've always dreamt of leading. whatever i did in yr 1 pale in comparison man.

so here's claire making a promise to herself: 2011 has got to be more eventful than 2010. she has got to try out more new things and challenge herself to do stuff she has never thought she would do. in the midst of all these, she hopes to be a better fren to her frens. because she knows that life would never be the same without them :D

she must be a HAPPIER girl in 2011 :D

here's a snapshot of people who make me HAPPY :) :) :)

happy whirlwind holz

2011-01-03T00:18:00.019+08:00

YAY!!! :D finally back from my 2 weeks long malaysia road trip. 1 more week to the start of a new semester; 2nd day into the new year 2011.

i'll try to make it a not-too-long post. here goes...

b4 the road trip, i was busy with the children's day camp. i guess it went rather smoothly and well despite the little hiccups here and there. really glad that the children liked it. their smiles really made everything worthwhile... they made my holiday more meaningful :) hopefully they will be more obedient this coming sem since they got to know us better. the only pity is the fact that as an organiser, i didnt get to interact much with the kids(i really wish i could). oh well, it cant be helped right? too bad i cant post photos of those kids, they are really super cute, though they can be rather mischievous at times. but i can post a photo of those people with big hearts :D haha.. i meant the lovely volunteers. lol

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next... i had another birthday surprise. :D i must say that pris is a really lousy liar(thats a compliment kaes). haha.... it didnt take too long for me to find out what was going on. lol.. my beloved lecture buddies brought me to marina barrage for a birthday picnic. it was so so so so so AWESOME! there were beautiful flowers, a cake made of pancakes and dried fruits, warm sparkling juice, home-cooked food, great company, stunning scenery and a whole lot of camwhoring. it was like a dream come true. you have no idea how blessed i feel, to be able to have them as my lecture buddies. couldnt have survived those horrible semesters in sch without them... i'm glad i was able to meet true friends for life even in uni..

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road trip to malaysia was such a great experience. 2 weeks, 5 destinations. total dist covered 2000 km... right now, my love for driving is way low. driving, esp in singapore, doesnt excite me anymore. every part of the trip was unforgettable... the map reading, getting lost, food tasting, sight seeing, picture taking ...

first stop was fraser hill. love the cooling weather and beautiful old english houses. perfect place to just chill and relax, drink tea, eat scones and enjoy the company of your love ones....

this was taken in the 'old smokehouse'. a great place to have tea :D old english house with beautiful christmas decor. it feels so cosy. couldnt stop snapping photos of the pretty decor. :D

2nd stop: ipoh

a quick 1 day stop at ipoh to try famous ipoh food :D the hotel we stayed in was beyond our expectations. it was newly renovated.. so i think we were the first occupants of the room. spent an afternoon checking out a famous limestone cave.

3rd stop: penang

i have to admit that penang was a food paradise. every meal was something different :D from hawker fare to seafood dinner... it's hard to not put on weight... lol

here's the food we tried in penang... there's a lot more not featured. now imagine the amt of weight i've put on. oh dear. :/

i spent my christmas driving. :S wat a horrible way to spend christmas. :X

4th stop: LANGKAWI!!! my fav destination :D

this is beach paradise!!! the most exciting place ever!!!!!! we spent the most number of days there... so we had time to do EVERYTHING there is to do on the island. haha :D the best parts were the snorkeling and the parasailing...WOOHOO!!! love it :D plus this is the first time i drove a rented car :) cool :D

1 hr boat ride to the 'platform'. best place to snorkel... tonnes of fishes. the view underwater is indescribable. so darn amazing and awesome. a must try!

PARASAILING rocks totally! thats me in the pic :) the view from the top blows ur mind away. not as scary as it seems to be. roller coaster is scarier than this. lol :D

sumptuous seafood dinners end our stop in langkawi with a blast!

last stop: cameron highlands

another cooling destination :D main attractions are the tea plantations, strawberry farms and the hot and steamy steamboat :)

well that wraps up my whole dec holiday :D

how i wish every holz can be that eventful. haha ;)

i realised i really like to use the word 'really'. really? lol!

this year's birthday may be the best.

2010-12-05T11:16:00.006+08:00

yeah i know it's not my birthday yet. but it's approaching. haha.. birthdays are like normal days. it's funny how i usually end up spending my birthday sleeping at home. because everyone assumes that i'll be out on my birthday.

this was the first time a birthday surprise was so successful. lari and pat planned it so well, they even had to come up with what lies to tell.. that was a lot of effort put in to stop me frm prying at the gift bag with my present in it, esp when lying isnt their forte. i love the gift so much. it was such a timely one.

with those dazzling christmas lights, the two best companions ever and a successful birthday surprise, i couldnt help but feel that this year's birthday has got to be one of best! :D

we started the afternoon off with a sweet fairytale: rapunzel :D

dinner @ chili's. the burgers were HUGE and JUICY!

ending off the night with a snowy christmas tree outside tanglin mall :D

many thanks to lari and pat for the wonderful surprise and the timely gift :) u gals can read my mind man. haha XD

xoxo gals :)

most hectic holz ever.

2010-12-05T10:45:00.002+08:00

this has got to be my busiest holiday ever. just 3 days into my holz and i'm already wishing i could just stay home and sleep. just take a look at my holz to do list, i wonder if i'll even feel well rested at the end of the holz. one thing's for sure, holz will pass even before i know it.

claire's holiday to do list:

1) prep for children day camp.

2) attend the camp.

3) pack all my belongings.

4) find lodging for m'sia road trip.

5) move hse.

6) start exercising or starving to get rid of that extra fats.

7) try to sleep as much as possible.

8) watch harry potter asap.

9) go shopping.

10) write christmas cards for frens.

11) arrange for meet ups with buddies.

12) check out m'sia map.

13) look for modules to take next sem.

14) paint her nails.

15) save that pimply face of hers.

16) find time to blog.

17) hamster photoshoot.

18) get sunglasses.

19) watch tv.

20) build a cardboard playground for her hamsters.

21) find a new handphone.

22) think of what else is there to do. haha :D

happy holidays everyone :D

annoyed.demoralised.

2010-11-23T21:00:00.004+08:00

it's raining right now and i'm feeling so darn annoyed. i spent so much time on metab. thinking that that would be my chance to get an A and save the rest of the modules. but wth. i should never have placed all my hope in my mod. it's like an investment gone wrong. ra... studying for it was useless, a complete waste of time.. because i didnt seem to bring my brain to exam. it really sucs big time when u expect too much. i expected myself to do fine. but it was far from fine. my neurons must have short circuited or something. my luck probably ran out as well. nothing can make up for that disappointment. it's not the first time i screw up an exam.. but it's the expectation and effort invested that made a big difference. i might be going crazy... coz when i try to sleep, those qnses that i did wrongly keep appearing in my brain...

if only this horrible awful day would end soon. but i dont want the other papers to come too.T_T

if the most well prepared paper ended up like this. what will the ill prepared papers be like. :( i dont wanna think abt it. may lady luck be with me man.

things cant get any worse, can it?

why is everything going the wrong way?!!?!

jurong bird park

2010-11-03T10:29:00.013+08:00

haha..i've just gone to universal studios on thurs and 2 days later, i'm at jurong bird park. i feel like a tourist, visiting all these tourist attractions and burning a hole in my pocket.

it has been more than 10 years since i stepped into bird park. cant remember how it looked like before. anyway, i was there to recee it so that we can plan an amazing race for the kids. when i was looking through my files, hoping to find ideas i can recycle from past amazing races i've planned, i realised that i've never managed to witness any of them. Something always happens to me right before the race, either a sprained ankle or a fever..(i bet shuning rmbs the best, coz she's always the one that has to take over) too much of a coincidence eh.. but hopefully this wont happen again this time.

so as i was saying.. bird park seems to have undergone a major revamp. plus they have tonnes of birds. u name it, they have it. they must have pumped in lots of creativity and money. the park isnt very big. alot smaller than the zoo, thats for sure. the waterfall's still there. The aviaries are more interesting than the caged birds. haha.. my fren and i was so afraid that the birds may shit on our heads... we could really get up close with the birds...which was really quite amazing but somewhat scary. cause i'm not a great fan of winged creatures. and it was another wonderful opportunity to take photos. it was another day of awesomeness. i enjoyed being a 'tourist'. perhaps i should go to underwater world and night safari next time :D for now, it's time to hit the books again :)

scarlet ibis. oh boy, they are so red. i rmb reading about them in a sec sch lit text.

u can buy food to feed the lories. they will FLOCK to u.

fav photo :) lory loves to splash around in water :)

this pelican is HUGE. never knew pelicans were that big. and they dont look like those in the cartoon.

lory eating orange. i wonder if it's sunkist brand. haha.. lories are the best birds to take photos of. they are so bright and colourful. and they pose for u. haha

crown pigeon. weird bird.

weirdest pattern bird. some type of malaysian peacock if i'm not wrong.

enough birds for now. cya again in dec.

SPOILER ALERT: universal studios

2010-11-03T09:50:00.013+08:00

yeah, i know i have been complaining about my hectic schedule.. how i dont have time.. bla bla bla.. but some things are more impt than studying right? lol. anyway, pat's family came to visit and invited me to go universal studios with them. that was decided many months ago....

and so the day finally came. i was super excited. perhaps i expected a bit too much, i expected the park to be a little bigger, with more rides, and scarier rides. oh well, almost everything fell short of my expectations. nonetheless i had fun. it was worth going, but i dont think u'll see me back there anytime soon. not until they open up the Battlestar Galactica rides, which are the stars of the park. oh and if they can make the whole place air conditioned, THAT WOULD BE REALLY GOOD.

the park has a thousand and 1 things u wanna take photo of or take photo with. i just kept snapping away. it really feels like i'm in a movie land. totally cool! if u haven been there yet, go check it out. at least for once :D u can cover all the rides in 1 day :D

this can be found outside universal studios. so even if u dont enter the park, you can still it take photos with it :)

woah. candytree :)

this mummy ride is the best ride! lots of awesome effects that scare and amaze you!dont take this ride first though. coz it makes the other rides seem lousy.

photo with marilyn monroe.. haha i think she's a slightly chubbier version though.

this panda is the most popular mascot. have to queue for a long time before we got this photo :)

well, thats about it. more photos on fb. let me end off this post with my fav photo.

@ national geographic, vivo city

-all photos posted here are taken by nicole, pat's sister :)

Halloween donuts

2010-10-27T23:15:00.002+08:00

these donuts look too good to be eaten. i want to frame them up. haha:D

this furball makes me happy

2010-10-27T23:09:00.006+08:00

accidentally spilled the hamster food on the floor. decided to get the hamster to clean it up. i thot it would be thrilled.. but it wasnt that interested with the food on the floor. oh well..

when's the last time u've seen this?

2010-10-24T16:29:00.005+08:00

mum's been packing and throwing things out recently. found this ancient looking floppy disks in the cupboard. thought i'll take a pic of them before throwing them out.

and there's always time to take photo of this cute ball of fur. its cuteness is killing me.

not so good for now.

2010-10-24T16:03:00.003+08:00

my life didnt turn out too well after recharging. mid term results were either average or poor. even lab reports were bad. nothing seems to be going the right way at all. :( and there's heaps of work undone and unrevised. 4 more weeks to exams.. and as the sem ends, i just get busier and busier, be it cca/sch work. everything's dreadful.

things feel bad. i just know it.i can feel it in my bones. usually out of the 5 mods, there will be 1 or 2 that i'm confident of doing relatively well at least. but right now everything seems kind of bleak. all thanks to the CAs. it's not as if i didnt study hard for it :(

i never knew planning for a short camp for kids could be so much work. most of the work came from fundraising. and i'm not even in that comm. all thanks to my big mouth. dunno why i had to tell them my hse got oven. i must be out of my mind. on fri, pris and i had to bake cookies. we baked till 2 am. that day was a rotten day. nothing was going right. at first we couldnt reproduce the same cookie. the cookie tasted weird.. not like the one we tried baking the week before for sampling. i guess back then it must be beginner's luck. coz no matter how we tried, it just tasted diff. when we finally mass produced it, thinking that all was well, we realised only at the end that all along we have been underbaking it. 11 mins instead of 12mins. had to put everything back in the oven cause we were afraid the cookies were too soft. our worries didnt end there. coz we didnt have extra cookies, so if we break any, we wouldnt have enough. and we did break a few. o.O i think that wont be the end of our cookie adventure. but this baking has made me realise how much i dislike baking and cookies. wont be touching cookies for a really long time. not even subway cookies.

recharged.

2010-10-03T21:39:00.006+08:00

woah! i had an AMAZING weekend amidst this crazy semester.

first up was the dinner on thurs. had the opportunity to chat about non sch related topics with the people i meet everyday= my lecture buddies. without them, classes would be so boring.. and i probably wouldnt have survive in school till now. we celebrated pei jin's birthday at island creamery... a great place to reminisce about the good old sec and jc days... :D

i love this photo, even though none of us are looking at the camera. but i think that made this photo different and special. having a wall full of photos as a background was great. the light was right, and making this photo black and white prevents the photo from looking too cluttered with colours.

next up was the sleepover with xw, sf, yili and xj. it was children's day that night. so we decided to watch toy story 1, a show that all of us watched when we were in pri sch?! toy story is such a great show cause it made me laugh.(i aint easily amused by animations.. but this one has that funny factor.)this show's a classic man. everyone loves it, including me. :D

and then i spent sat and sun watching ANTM cycle 14.

what can i say, tyra totally rocks. no wonder so many gals look up to her. the photoshoots, the ideas and concepts of the challenges, the makeovers were so cool! the only part that i disliked was the catfights, the stupid quarrels.

i'm glad i finished watching cycle 14 :) it was an eye-opener. to see the transformations and how self confidence is so so so important cause it can make an ugly/ordinary person look good.

anyway, here's a shot of all the contestants :)

the black girl standing in between the girl in green and the girl in red won. :)

ooh.. here's another photo i wanna share...

my hamster started to stink again. so it's time for it to take a bubble bath :)

aaw.. isnt it cute? it's a rather obedient model :D

bathing my hamsters make me happy :D at least they aint stinky for now XD

tmr marks the start of my race. i've to make sure i get my As.

to infinity and beyond!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! mug hard kaes!go for it!

recharge.

2010-09-29T22:37:00.006+08:00

i just had 2 mid terms and finished 2 lab reports. i'm so glad i made it out. alive. the past week was horrible... i was constantly in an emo state, plus i was memorizing metabolic pathways everyday...

i even had to wrap up my disgusting recess week with 2 lab reports. super drain at the moment. for the first time, i really overworked my brain. it feels rather fried right now. i bet thousands of chemical reactions took place in my brain while i sat for my test... overheated perhaps. awful headaches mark the end of my papers. oh well, i've got the rest of the week to recharge. before i start running again. it's a long way ahead... so i better start soon...

coz i've got a feeling that time isnt on my side.

but before all that mugging starts, i've got sleepover and dinner to look forward to. plus nice korean+chinese hits on radio every night!

warning: it's gonna be an emo post.

2010-09-21T22:35:00.005+08:00

i'm emitting lots of negative vibes now. super vexed. partly due to the mountain high pile of work i've yet to clear and partly because i've got a lot of rubbish stuck in my brain. if grace read this, she'll probably think that i've nothing better to do... wasting my time thinking abt all these insignificant stuff.

but i need to empty my thoughts. even the radio is talking abt emo topics like: how do u define happiness.. and they just played mayday's song: u're not truly happy. T_T

anyway, someone made a comment about me.. and that got me started thinking about what impression i'm leaving on my friends or to strangers. on my way back home, that super long walk back... i cant help but think about what my other friends have said about me before(i kind of let my imagination run wild)...is there anyone that can tell me straight in my face what kind of person do i appear to be? do i appear to be angsty(i realise there's no such word in dictionary)? too direct? is too direct good? or has my directness turned into plain rudeness? are people irritated by my nagging or complaints? do i appear to be a very unhappy person? [i'm really not kaes.]

but if someone were to really point out my mistakes... and tell me how i should improve to be a better person or perhaps a better friend to others, would i listen? this is so complex. relationships between people are so hard to understand.

right now, i feel like a rotten friend. cause xue en's gonna leave for cambridge on tues.. but i cant even meet her before she leaves. we kept postponing the meet up... and now it's too late.. :(

have i mentioned this b4? (i have really bad memory)that i've always wondered whether anyone would detect my presence if i wasnt around. and that i've always feared that if i never take the initiative to start a conversation, no one will talk to me. and that if i dont suggest to meet up, no one would ask me out. aarh. this sucs. depressing ttm. what is this man? mid life crisis ah?!

there's one thing i'm dead certain, i care too much about what others think.

how i wish i had pat's great listening ear, lari's appreciativeness, xw's demureness, yili's sincerity, sf's sense of humor, xj's sweetness, mk's innocence, jy's kindness, shermin's smiliness, grace's guts...

hmmph. i guess it's gonna be a better day tmr.

i hope i haven made u too emo. :X

blame the emo songs for making me super emo.

the last line is so true.

little dreams of mine.

2010-09-15T23:53:00.013+08:00

so what do u do when u're bored? when u're stoning or day dreaming, what do u think about? most of the time i find myself in dreamland, having these little wishes/dreams. blogs and dramas are the source of my inspirations... even if these dreams dont come true.. i feel happy just thinking about them.. and imagining how each one would turn out to be. :D

pillow fights. it'll be really cool to have a slumber party.. and engaged in a pillow fight with my bestest buddies! no feathers though. cotton pillows preferred.

find a spot in the wilderness. or under a really big beautiful tree's shade. lay on the picnic mat, read a book, play a game and have afternoon tea. take a short nap and wake up to see the sunset...

pack my bag and go backpacking with my friends . travel to as many countries as possible and immerse myself in others' culture.

i wanna be able to take photos that will make ppl smile, and remind them of the great times they had. i want to be able to feel the happiness coming from the photos.

i want a really cool and big kitchen. with lots of funky and colourful kitchen gadgets! cooking will be such a joy!

at least 1 night stay in a local hotel. preferably MBS. cause i want to swim in this pool.. and chill out by the pool while admiring singapore's skyline.

go for a spin/road trip with friends. with a convertible car, blasting music, aviator shades and most importantly a GPS. haha.. wont that be the perfect weekend getaway?!?!

trying out new and special recipes with my friends. and hopefully everyone will love the food!

sit at a beautifully furnished cafe, sipping coffee and watching the crowd go by for the whole day. bet it'll feel good just to laze around and watch people :D

stay in a caravan with my family.

swinging on the hammock, with the cooling sea breeze blowing in my face( minus the fishy stench of from the sea though), listen to relaxing music.

that's how ppl enjoy life right? :)

now i can go to bed feeling really happy ^^

life goes on..

2010-09-12T22:51:00.003+08:00

5 weeks of sch had passed. 1 week left to recess week,(is it me or does sem 1 always seem to pass so quickly?!)and i'm so dreading this coming week.

it's the week that assignments and reports start pouring in. and horrible news like "THERE'S GONNA BE A MID TERM EXAM WORTH ??% WHEN RECESS WEEK ENDS"..

it sucs when u know the road ahead is bumpy, yet u have no choice but to take that path. so far, i know i have 2 lab reports + 2 mid terms coming up, plus that whole load of mind maps to complete and notes to go through. eew... and this is what happens when u have been slacking for a long period of time. i guess sometimes it's better not to know anything at all in advance. ignorance is a bliss.

hopefully, the week ahead would be more bearable than i imagined it to be. i really wish so.

wouldnt it be nice to go on a picnic with a bunch of frens to chill out?

frens forever. i promise.

2010-09-11T00:50:00.004+08:00

feel so blessed to have them as my buddies. i always have fun even if we just meet for a simple lunch. i guess with the right bunch of frens, it doesnt matter where i am or what i do...because just being around them makes me feel so happy :D

learning in progress.

2010-09-05T00:31:00.012+08:00

just returned(ok, perhaps not just. 3hrs ago..) from my senior's 21st birthday party @ southbank condo. southbank has such an awesome swimming pool! great place to take lots and lots of photos. had a great evening honing my photography skills. tweaked the colours of some photos to make them look(at least in my opinion) better. how i wish i had a dslr... it's a pity some photos were blur.. probably due to my shaky hands and the lack of light later in the evening. nonetheless, i had so much fun. :)

since many guests were really late, pris and i went around the swimming pool to snap as many shots as possible. we even deliberately posed in some photos... haha.. probably appeared retarded to the others. love the natural lighting from the sunset. here's some of my practice shots. :D

the pretty birthday girl!

nice candles. i think they're made by her.

sweet couple. i love taking photos of couple.

pris by the pool. the colour wasnt very nice, probably because there's not enough lighting. so i changed it to black and white. and it turns out looking better than before.

always so funny!

cool photo.

off to bed now. mozzies are attacking me!!!!!!!!!!!!

week 3 = mundane

2010-08-25T23:59:00.006+08:00

first thought that came to mind was the fact that in 3 weeks time, it will be recess week. which also means the half a semester would have passed. time sure flies doesnt it?

life has been pretty much the same as the previous 2 weeks. the only difference is that i've banned myself from fb, for a week. if i use fb this week, i would have to pay grace 5 bucks. i cant believe i have to resort to such means just to control myself. it's not like there's anything to do on fb. i dont hunt for mouse, trap ghosts, harvest virtual crops or set up virtual restaurant. it's just that fb is the first website i access every time i turn on my computer. and then i'll continue surfing the internet... for hours and hours....

now, with this ban, i only spend 15 minutes on the computer everyday. and i'm glad i'm starting to read my textbooks. there's so much to read.. and understand. the more i read, the more i realise i dont understand a LOT of things. human bodies are really super duper complex systems. lots of metabolic pathways occurring in our body every moment.

that day when i attended bioinformatics lab, i felt so noob. computer noob. to think i've been using computer for such a long time, and yet i dun even know how to use command prompt. all i know is to surf net. urgh. felt so lost and helpless, like how old folks are, when they learn how to use computers. -.-

when was the last time u read the newspapers? i felt so ashamed of myself, for not reading the newspapers... and that a pri 5 kid knows more about the current affairs than me. i bet i cant even hold a decent intellectual conversation about current affairs with a working adult. :( can u? i bet most youngsters stop reading newspapers after they finish their A lvls. cause it's not gonna be tested. so why bother? in the end, we become ignorant fools who are only mugging blindly. and the only news we know, is probably the latest celebrity gossip.

it's gonna be my first time attending a 21st birthday party. i aint a great fan of birthday parties... i just dont see how anyone can enjoy birthday parties. thinking of who to invite is already a pain. imagine if u missed someone out, or someone feels offended because u never invite him/her... plus u dont really get to interact with ur friends because u're just hopping around to say hi to everyone. u could also end up neglecting some friends while entertaining the rest. not to mention the expenses for organising a birthday party... -.- i'm so not gonna have a 21st birthday party. it's really hard to decide what present to get too. what would be a practical and meaningful gift? what would u want to have for ur 21st birthday?

the caffeine isnt wearing off yet. i'm so wide awake even though it's 1.18am. :(

shall end off this post wishing my dear little brother a happy ~~birthday~~ belated birthday!

homemade brownie :D yummy!!!

milo toast! here's to a better future. LOL

night rider

2010-08-18T12:18:00.003+08:00

everytime i go for night cycling, i go with the oacians. all my night cycling memories are filled with oacians. last friday, i went night cycling with my uni juniors(the orientation grp. the start of the night was filled with flashbacks. getting off at bedok, taking 196...the underpass... the ECP... going to tanjong rhu bridge, seeing the singapore flyer... cycling down nicoll highway...

after going to tanjong rhu bridge, we took a different route. it was a new experience to cycle to town... we cycled to rochor to eat the supposedly famous tao huay.. and then we slacked at smu.. having another htht session.. and then we head to fort canning park.. we even manage to meet celebrity alvin ng at kallang riverside park! haha.. and my juniors managed to take a photo with him.

really exciting night. it was a pity we didnt managed to catch sunrise.. because it started to rain at 6am...
the ride back on 196 was surprisingly shorter than we expected. it was great to catch up with my pri sch classmate. i cant believe she said i became more rough and tomboyish. since when lor? did i?

here's a group photo to end off this post :)

the usual must take photo spot. haha :D

i realised my cam sucs at taking photos at night :( perhaps i'm using the wrong function.

i dont wanna be claire.

2010-08-18T12:00:00.004+08:00

alright, it's the second week of school and what has claire done?
well, at least she borrowed her textbooks... and.. i think that's all she has done.
4 days of school on the first week felt really long. overloaded with information, and worries... that is really not a very nice way to start a semester. after that 4 days, claire was drained. perhaps it was due to the long break, that made her stamina deteriorate. she just wants to laze in bed the whole day doing nothing. absolutely nothing at all... watching the clouds go by.. even till now, the 2nd week of school, she's still lazing around.

work has started to pile up, u have no idea how many promises she broke in this week. promises to herself about how she's going to wake up early, start reviewing her notes, reading the textbooks, or even starting on her mindmaps. claire totally lacks discipline and motivation. if she doesnt find them soon, she's gonna be so dead for the rest of the sem. and can u believe that with such a lousy attitude towards studying right now, she's even considering whether to join another ocip. my goodness.. what is she thinking?!

she's so awfully disgusting that i dont even wanna be her. at least for this sickening moment as i am typing this blog post. because she has just wasted another perfect morning.

she better take control of her life soon, before it gets out of hand.

here comes my 2nd yr in uni...

2010-08-10T21:51:00.002+08:00

yes. sch has started for nus students. the day before, i dreamt that i was late for sch because i forgot to print my timetable. every time when sch starts, i suffer from pre-sch syndrome. ok, or at least i think i do. i start dreaming about sch... and have butterflies in my stomach... etc. a really bad way to start the first day of sch. plus the first week of sch is always the week i complain the most.from past experiences, i can complain about every single thing. the weather, my timetable, the profs' horrible accent... the early mornings.. the peak hour..the lunch crowd.. the awful lunch.. etc. u name it, i complain abt it. haha... i guess it's gonna be the same this time. since thats the way i destress... and then after the first week, i would kind of accept everything.. esp that disgusting timetable of mine. by then... i think i'll start to enjoy my time in sch a lot more... and most probably before i know it, i will be busy studying for tests... chionging assignments... LOL.

what can i say man.. i'm just so predictable.
hopefully this sem can be as fulfilling and fun as the previous sem. :D
well, for a start, i'm gonna go night cycling with my og this fri :)

cheers!

awesome 2 weeks!

2010-08-10T20:47:00.009+08:00

i know i haven been blogging... thats because i was really busy the past 2 weeks. these last 2 weeks of sch holidays were spent on science orientation week (SOW)...

at the start of the camp... i was a little worried. i had no idea how to be a ra ra senior... i kept wondering what i could do to make this orientation camp a great one for the juniors. if i were them, what type of senior would i like? a super enthu one?

it was hard being someone i wasnt. especially being high and enthu in front of a bunch of people i dont really know yet. thank goodness after spending some time with the juniors, i got to know them a little better... and once i get pally wally with everyone, i became auto high. haha...

plus i had peijin, pris, and caifang... the fellow snrs to accompany me. <3>

i was really lucky to have my pri sch classmate in my og as a freshie. super coincidental...

at first my og was a little cold. as in the freshies werent really mixing around.. luckily the og became closer after the games... and the mood and atmosphere were a lot better on the last day of camp part 1: @ sentosa... and i was glad that the freshies did enjoy the camp. the 2nd part of orientation week included FIC (freshmen inauguration ceremony), rag and flag day.

our og managed to get the 'most amt collected' prize. haha.. all of us were rather surprised with the results. the prize was $200 swensen's voucher :D

and then on the last day of the camp, everyone attended rag. all i had was admiration for all the raggers. the floats were amazing... being able to witness the rag competition live was just amazing. i could feel the sci faculty spirit... the unity. everyone and everything was AWESOME! and the best part was that sci fac managed to win 7 awards, thus claiming the overall champ award aka the chancellor shield. everyone just went crazy.. we were shouting cheers at the top of our voices... at that point in time.. u have no idea how proud i was to be a part of science faculty. it was mind blowing. i'm glad our efforts paid off. the rag wrapped up the whole sci orientation week. it was a really nice way to end the camp. and then there after... i was busy catching up on my sleep.. and uploading hundreds of photos on facebook. thats one of the cons of bringing a camera.. nonetheless, i enjoyed being able to capture those priceless expressions on each and everyone of my og mates' faces.

this SOW will be one of my most memorable experiences in my uni life. even though the camp is over, i will always rmb the friendships that i've forged, the happiness i felt, and the satisfaction i derived from helping the freshies adapt to uni life. i just hope that this og will stay tgt forever.

there are so so so many photos i wanted to post... but thats not possible. so i'll just stick with these few.

last day of camp. end of rag! JEDIs FTW!

taking lots of photos while waiting for the performance to start. :)

super funny shot! haha.. pamela never fails to make me laugh.

my 3 best buddies. lecture mates/og mates/fellow snrs

<3>

everyone loves jumpshots!

fellow JEDIs. i think the whole OG is here. lol!

may the force be with us always...

start of the curse and swear period again.

2010-07-21T23:43:00.002+08:00

every time before semester starts, we have the curse and swear period: bidding for modules. it sucs totally... creates unnecessary worrying..and stress. just swapping groups can be a headache. people just cant make up their minds. everyone keep saying 'maybe'. confirm already still pang seh ppl... so horrible. have they thought about how dreadful it feels to be pang seh at the last minute? they should just put themselves in others' shoes. this 'every man for himself' behaviour is so ugly. no wonder in the adults' world... it's so cruel...

anyway, these few days i've been rotting at home. procrastinating. u have no idea how much i wish i was at work. at least i'm not wasting my time/life away. everyday i tell myself to read up on what modules to take... and in the end, i always find myself watching dramas, checking fb. this fb thing is really scary.. i think i'm addicted to it...

watching drama the whole day is crazy. i think i'm old already. previously, i can watch for many hours and feel alright. but these two days, i get a really bad headache after watching for some time. anyway, i finished 偷心大聖P.S.男. i really like the show. i have to admit blue is probably not the hottest/ most shuai guy.. but he has got the charisma... very attractive.. haha.. and sonia's so pretty. not to mention there's james and bianca. both of them look great on screen too..

i like the storyline, the part about dreams... while watching, i really envy sonia so much.. cause she has a dream and she can fulfill it... plus she has someone that loves her so so so much... and everything boils down to doing something that u really like in life, and that becomes your source of happiness. i think it's hard to describe the feelings in english. but basically i just feel so touched and envious while watching the show. i kind of feel sad for myself... for not having a dream... for being so short sighted... only concern about doing well in my studies.

there's more to life than grades isnt it? is it applicable in singapore context?

i really want to lead a happy and fulfilling life.

2010-07-20T10:08:00.005+08:00

best temp job ever!

2010-07-17T16:57:00.014+08:00

the last week of work was the best week ever!!! filled with lots of outings and meals with colleagues. for the past few weeks at work, i look forward to meet everyone everyday... we take lots of photos and hang out tgt and before u know it, everyone feels so attached to each other...

i'm missing them already. wonder what my coming Monday will be like...

well, let the photos do the talking. :D i feel so happy just looking at these photos. these fond memories can last me a lifetime :)

starting from wed night... we had a farewell singing session. i was laughing throughout the whole session. a really funny bunch of people!

on thurs, i had korean lunch with my 3 fav colleagues. knew them since last year. they never fail to make me smile :)

later that day, we had laksa steamboat for dinner.... the food was so good... but super sinful. we even had dessert at bakerzin after dinner. OMG. so much calories! awesome night though!

on fri (my last day of work), there was a mini farewell party organized for daniel(an intern leaving on the same day as me) and i. followed by phototaking session at the rooftop of MND building :)

all the permanent staff :)

all the interns and me :D

we were the founders of ccs youth club... haha

later in the afternoon, we had a desserts party :) and even my boss(the one on the right) came to join. he played UNO with us too!!! i had my supervisor( the guy on the left) and boss to take a photo tgt, coz they look like brothers. they are really really nice people :D

this kind of summarize what i did during my temp stint.

all the super duper wonderful people i've met. love all of them to bits!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this few weeks, everyone had so much fun tgt... and we were all so sad that we most prob wont meet each other after we leave ccs... esp the interns because most of them study in overseas universities... so i drew the 6 of us(founders of ccs youth club) on the whiteboard. this pic drew so much attention. so many people loved it and even some directors came into the meeting room just to see it. they even told me not to rub it off so soon... erm ok... i guess they really need some youthfulness and joy in the office :) to make sure we continue to stay in touch, i even started a fb grp: ccs youth club. haha...

the 6 founders of ccs youth club ^^

this holiday of mine rocks totally!

i ran out of words for the title.

2010-07-10T19:04:00.009+08:00

from the last post till now.... i went to sing k with my colleagues.... met up with the jumpers for dinner.... watched an amazing football match ( argentina vs germany) and a disappointing match ( germany vs spain) attended seniors prep camp..fell sick... became the 'director' of intern/temp staff/youth... attended a presentation at ajc..played table soccer in office...

dinner with esf at paragon.

all the k pros. i think the ability to sing matures with age. all of them sing so well...it was really an 'ear' opener. haha... got to hear a lot of songs from other generation/era... plus hokkien songs... and i got to see the non-office side of my colleagues. very fun people to be with :D

closest buddy in office :)

most likable person in office :) she's so so so nice :D i cant stop smiling everytime i see her ^^

dinner with jumpers @ v8 cafe in bugis junction. so happy that so many turned up... our initial plan of cycling was canceled... so we just met for dinner. had to leave slightly earlier to catch germany play against argentina... so didnt manage to talk more to the jumpers.. the germany and argentina match was so good! so worth it to watch. in order to watch it, i cab from bugis to west coast Mcs. the fare was so ex...coz there's traffic jam. it was more ex than my dinner :( but it was still worth it. i only missed the first 10 mins of the match and they already scored 1 goal.

the start of this week, i moved out of my working cubicle. due to the lack of cubicles in office, i end up having a meeting room all to myself. such a big room... even normal staff dont get that luxury. haha :D the only bad thing is that i have to shift to another room (ex-director's room which is currently the photocopy room)if anyone needs to use the meeting room. although it's troublesome to move around... it's quite enjoyable to change working environment after some time. and everyone just comes to my 'office' to slack... haha.. and they start calling me 'director' of intern/temp/youth... lol..

on wed, i attended sow snr's prep camp. was a little apprehensive at first.. coz the whole group is made up of cliques. everyone seems to know each other.. the games are quite fun...it made me feel like a freshman again. it's a pity my team aint that close yet. hopefully we'll be closer during actual camp...
the fear factor games were bad. i ended up eating dried frogskin and dried frogs mixed in raw egg. bleah.. gross to the max. i really admire the guys for eating most of the horrible mixture. eew :S

took a day off from camp. attended my company's presentation at ajc :) a very diff experience. looking at the students from an external presenter's point of view. felt so old cause all the students are younger than me. and although i wasnt the one who presented, the teacher still gave me a ajc teddy bear :) so cute ^^

later in the afternoon, there was a foosball aka table soccer intra office competition. super fun and exciting. work productivity in office was probably at an all time low... haha... cause everyone was watching...

oh and the germany vs spain match was so so so disappointing... so irritated with the octopus. urgh... this was the first time i felt so attached to a football match. i really feel so sad. hopefully tonight, they would put up a great fight and win uruguay...

1 more week of work left. on fri, when i was resting at home.. thanks to my swollen lymph nodes, i felt so bored. imagine if i didnt have a holiday job.. i would probably die of boredom at home... i'm so looking forward to going to office right now cause i have so many friends in office. i'm so gonna miss them when i leave next fri.

got to go bathe and rest before waking up for the 2.30am match. watching at Mcs is so much more enjoyable than watching the match at home. :)
go germany!

wat a looooooooooooooooong post.

9 days flew by just like that.

2010-07-01T21:38:00.005+08:00

oh dear, the holidays seem to be ending... :( which means sch's gonna start. :S

last fri, there was an alumni nanyang guides gathering at nygh. great opportunity to meet up with my batch mates :) we always said we would meet up soon... but we always end up postponing the meeting...
first thing i noticed about everyone... was that everyone. yes i mean EVERYONE had long hair. oh man... i'm the only short hair gal :) i promise that i'm never gonna grow my hair long man... i'm sticking to my short hair forever.

being in nanyang, looking at the old photos and the familiar faces... reminded me of the fun i had in nanyang, those wonderful guiding memories. for a moment, i felt so old... looking at the juniors reminded me of how we used to be called green horns. haha :D i felt so happy when i saw ms ng. she still looks like the same old ms ng... she made such a great impact on my life... after dinner, glutts went to island creamery :) the ice cream rocks! but i still prefer daily scoop :)
it was a pity that pauline didnt come. haven talked to her for ages. she must be mugging or watching tv.. haha.. shall call her up real soon :)

renice and gao min are the best jnrs ever.

suat and shu are my swallow mates. haha.. first two frens i made in guides.

... and then on tues... i met up with esf. we met for dinner... although the dinner was great.. cause we shared so many diff dishes... but i think meeting up in the hall is a lot more fun. :D everyone shared their stories... i just love to listen to them talk. they have exceptionally exciting and happening lives!

i have been so tired these 9 days.. partly because i had been joining my dad at the west coast Mcs to watch football... till 12 plus... and then work has been kind of stressfull(i think i am the cause of my stress :X) so i end up drinking a cup of super thick coffee everyday to stay awake. thank goodness there's always cheap and delicious lunch to look forward to.. and the wonderful new frens i've made in office :) plus the uno sessions...and all that snooping around the pantry looking for snacks... etc. :D mrt rides are enjoyable thanks to the time traveller's wife( i finished that already. i like the story.. but i am gonna rate it m18. not suitable for kids) and i'm currently reading a book on how to improve ppt presentations. the book is really useful.. hopefully my boss gives it to me :) :) :)

lunching buddies :) this group just gets bigger and bigger each day.

well i guess thats how my past 9 days flew past. i just handed in my timesheet today! cant wait to receive my pay :)
two more weeks of work... and i'm free :D will be attending prep camp next wk.. i hope it wont disappoint me...

off to bed now :) bye!

oh and we adopted 2 hamsters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! they seem quite retarded compared to my previous hamster. -.-

wahahahahahaha

2010-06-21T21:20:00.003+08:00

feeling so happy now! cause my family likes the mango sago pomelo dessert i just made :) i have lots more in the fridge. how to finish? yay!!!!!!!! successful attempt! :D

whee :)

and we got ourselves a camera at the pc show :) the irony is that after we bought it, none of us went out since then. so we had zero chance to use it. o_o

current fav chinese dessert!

2010-06-19T23:38:00.002+08:00

Mango Sago Pomelo 杨枝甘露

it tastes so good! i'm so into desserts right now :) i feel like making all my fav desserts!!!!!!!!!! who want to eat? i make for you :D

a random saturday

2010-06-19T12:50:00.004+08:00

today i woke up, looked into the mirror and decided that it was time for a run. it has been 9875784 months since i exercised. lari's plan/ goal to exercise during semester time was never fulfilled. and i dont think it will be even in the sems to come.
i've always thought of embarking on some sort of exercise regime. but that thought just stayed in my head, never materialized. even today's run doesnt mark the start of that regime. i just realised that the other interns in the office are exercising regularly. except me. is exercising the latest in thing now? never knew so many people are into it.

gtg off for lunch now :) i'm starving...
it's gonna be a quiet and relaxing saturday :) enjoy your weekend ^ ^

no hard feelings kaes

2010-06-18T23:55:00.004+08:00

just came back from dinner with lari at jurong point... it was such a coincidence that we met at a random traffic junction near my workplace this morning. so we decided to celebrate this coincidence. amazing isnt it? how affinity works...

as usual we talked about work and life... and somehow i mentioned about how mean i was. at least i think i am. for some reason, i dunno what... i feel that i'm treating my boss like crap. seriously, i really dont mean it... he's a really nice and friendly boss...he definitely deserves better treatment... but i always give him 'duh' responses and the 'roll my eyes' look.(as if he just asked the lamest qns on earth) :( i just cant help it. and then lari said that i treat benjy the same way too. oh man... i tried to be nicer... but my mouth and face always work faster than my brain. by the time i remind myself to be nice, i already gave that 'roll eyes' look. :S haiz..

i wonder why that happens...i dont treat the rest like this...i reckon it's because the two of them are over friendly guys.thats their only common characteristic. the only constant. maybe i dunno how to talk to over friendly guys...maybe i'm scaring the guys away.
just hope i didnt offended them in any way with my o.O responses. lari says it doesnt matter even if i scared them away..... lol :)

oh well, 'being nice to everyone' shall be my next week's aim. haha.. i'm coming up with crappy and lame aims. u can tell how bored i am...

have u watched silent hill before? it's showing now... and it's so weird... i have no idea what's going on...

thurs and fri were great. i'm doing what i like now :) feeling so satisfied and happy :D and i had a wonderful lunch today with the interns.. so glad to know them better :)

off to bed ^ ^ sweet dreams~

leading a working-auntie kind of life

2010-06-16T22:31:00.006+08:00

for the past few days, my life is just a routine. life gets monotonous, boring because there's a lack of goal. not that i hate it or anything. but when i try to imagine myself, perhaps 6 years down the road, stuck in a 9 to 5 office job,leading my current working life, it scares me. i do enjoy the time spent with my colleagues, the small talks with them while scanning docs, or along the corridors...the lunches... but it's not adding enough colour to my life.

i'm so glad that i'm currently doing familiar things.no awful stats or econs journals or studies to digest.. :D i became the official slides churner :) it's a little hard to put together a set of slides with content that you are not familiar with at all. Using the most basic tool: microsoft ppt 2003?(i would really prefer 2007 version, cause it has cool effects that gives your slides more oomph)and the awful company ppt template, i have to make the presentations professional and engaging. My brain juices are drying up, and i'm so tired just trying to live up to my boss's expectations. somehow, i'm lucky that he thinks that my slides are good, even though i myself am not convinced. and then this becomes a vicious cycle, because he thinks i did a good job, so he expects more and better slides the next time, and so i have to meet his higher expectations and then i will be more stressed and then eventually i produce something that is better.. then he expect even even more... so my stress level will just keep increasing... :(

or perhaps i'm just thinking too much... maybe i'm just stressing myself out unnecessarily. maybe subconsciously, i keep pushing myself to do better because i want to hear the praises. i like that gratification. maybe i'm a sucker for stress... but dont you agree that it feels so good when u manage to overcome that stress and do a really good job?
thats probably why i find myself staying in office even though it's past my office hours or bringing work home to complete.. and staying up till 2am just to finish data entry. it's a little crazy because sometimes i think i'm more enthusiastic and committed than a perm staff...

that enthusiasm in work is giving me less free time. free time at home is so precious. i dont even have the time and mood to catch my fav dramas online. and i've been sleeping at 12 plus waking up at 7am everyday... (i dont even slp that late and wake up that early every sch day)isnt it sch holidays?!? the thought of being in office again in 8 to 9 hours time is just scary. it's like i work slp then work again. omg. what kind of holiday is that? time passes so quickly... if i dont start doing something meaningful during this period of time, i will so regret it when holz end. it's already halfway through the holz!!! :S

claire! take control of ur life. add colour to it!!! be yourself, inject some youthfulness into your mundane life. stop leading that working auntie kind of life!!!
u dont need anymore premature ageing. o.O

i dunno whether i should allow myself to rant or try to control it. i dun wanna be seen as someone with a lot of negative vibes... how ah?

i wanna help shuning sew stuff. coming up with new designs should be really interesting:) maybe that could help inject some fun into my life. shu, u need help?

deadlines

2010-06-10T08:26:00.002+08:00

more and more work are coming in... all their deadlines just overlap each other... everyone is making use of this available worker to clear stuff that they have to do...
being kind to them means being unkind to myself. i couldnt bring myself to reject them, partly because the satisfaction i derive from helping them out is greater than that from helping my boss. doing corp comm stuff is much more relaxing too...at least i know what i am doing(sometimes i am better than them at it).. eg. ppt slides or excel spreadsheets... and my work is appreciated. but for my main work under boss, i always have to read the articles that i have zero interest in... and after all that hard work i put in, my work may not be fully utilised.. and not really appreciated...

and i hate the fact that my boss assumes that coming from a prestigious school means i am smart. thats totally wrong. he thinks that my chinese must be very good since i come from nygh. what crap is that?!?! urgh. i hate false expectations!

i'm so so so so so tired. i just wanna sleep in....

shoe woes

2010-06-09T09:08:00.002+08:00

my poor feet. every single muscly is aching. and my calf muscles are aching too. thanks to my grey HIGH heels. just wearing them for one morning killed my feet. in order to not ill treat my feet any further, i set out to buy a pair of covered flats last night when i met up with shuning, ailin and carolyn. was so excited when i found nice simple flats at only $15.90!!!!

BUT, today when i wore them... my feet died again. it's either because i'm not used to wearing covered shoes... or the shoes are slightly too small.. or my damn feet grew bigger overnight. it was fine when i trid them on last night... :( but if i bought 1 size larger, my shoe will be slipping off when i walk. ahh...
WHY IS IT SO HARD TO FIND NICE FITTING SHOES?!?!?!

hopefully my new shoes expand in size soon enough... hang in there poor feet.
now i know why slippers is my best friend. at least my toes could breathe :)

first day of work

2010-06-08T08:23:00.002+08:00

so was it like what i expected? yes, most of it was.
everyone did comment on how tanned i became, and i'm so proud and happy abt that fact. was a little disappointed when the first colleague i met in the morning asked if i grew fatter. she said my face look rounder. NNOOOO!!!!! :(

i expected myself to lunch with my usual lunch buddies... but since mj asked me to join them. i did, not knowing who the them were. i dreaded lunch... the whole group was made up of young people.. fresh grads. but it turned out alright in the end... a bit awkward and left out at times... but i still survived.

currently sitted at the worse seat ever.. everyone esp the big shots can see what is on my computer screen when they walk pass... leaving me zero chance to skive. (not that i have the time to skive) esp when i was given so much work plus a short deadline on the first day. plus a whole load of reading. it is really torturous to read papers or journals or articles on stuff that i have zero interest in such as stats. staying awake while reading is a big feat. second day of work and i'm already drinking lots of coffee to keep myself awake. my goodness..

plus my 'just right' height shoe is spoiling... forcing me to wear my 'super high' heels to work. my feet are dying... i definitely need to buy a pair of flats ASAP!
well all these rants seem so negative... but they are the hard facts of life. i'm sure in future, i might have to do boring work at some pt in time... so this is the time to get used to such crap...

meet ups with friends and having a source of income keeps me motivated :) i really hope i can make more new friends in office. well time to start work! :D
gonna meet ailin, shu ning and carrot later! whee :)

lovin holz...

2010-06-06T22:30:00.003+08:00

watching breaking magician's code now. feel so cheated... when i know how the trick is actually carried out... magicians are just really good actors or and tricksters..

anyway, before i digress further....
i spent my whole friday afternoon at ailin's house playing monopoly. ailin's monopoly is super cool... no paper money involved, everyone owns a credit card and all transactions are carried out with the cards. the denominations of money is in thousands and millions. i was super unlucky. 99% of the time, i was on meiying's and ailin's properties... i just kept paying money till i became bankrupt. ailin and meiying were enjoying being millionaires....nonetheless, i had lots of fun.

and then it was dinner with patricia and lari :D we celebrated her birthday. i'm still waiting for busy lari to post the photos... great dinner, great company :)

on sat, i met up with waikit and lizhen to sing k. teo heng brought life to katong mall.... it's booming with business. everyone loves teo heng! haha :D we sang and sang and sang.. till we didnt know what else to sing.. haha :D so shiok!!!
and then i met up with 2 jumpers (tc and liuying) to have dinner at parkway parade. at first i was afraid we would run out of stuff to talk abt... but those worries were so unnecessary.. we had so much stuff to talk abt.... endless topics... we could go on forever and ever... so enjoyable!!! i love talking to them... cant wait for next sat to come, then i can meet other jumpers too :) whee!!!!!!!!!!!!

in 10 hrs time, i'm gonna be back in my old office. back in tanjong pagar, doing part time job.waking up early, wearing boring office wear, squeeze on sardine packed trains... reading story book... i'm gonna meet the people i worked with last yr. i wonder who are still around.. and what has changed....i can predict what the aunties are gonna ask... and say.....
stuff like: what did u do? why do u look so dark? hows uni life? what are u studying? etc....
hopefully i can bring some youthfulness and happiness into the office.. lighten things up a little... make their office life less boring.. haha :D
i just hope there wont be awkwardness...

tomorrow is gonna be a good day. i just know it :D
(next drama episodes coming out tmr!!! currently following 3 tw dramas!!!)

i've mastered it!

2010-06-04T10:53:00.006+08:00

dumping festival? or do u call it dragon boat festival.. whatever it is.. it's just round the corner... :D
mum decided to wrap rice dumplings.. so i get to help out :D
after many tries, i finally mastered the art of wrapping nice triangle pyramid shape rice dumplings :) super successful! looks simple, but it's really hard to get it right!
whee....currently waiting for the dumplings to be cooked ^^

thats my mum, hard at work :D dumpling wrapping shifu!

closed up shot of my beautiful dumpling :)

i wrapped all of these and more :)

gonna meet meiying and ailin later at ailin's hse. wonder what are we gonna do the whole afternoon....

will be meeting pat and lari in the evening for dinner at tao :D gonna use up all my leftover vouchers. most prob wont be gg there for a very long time....

oh and i managed to get a temp job at my old office :) yay!!! cant wait for pay day. haha.. starting work next mon!

3 days in genting ^^

2010-06-02T13:41:00.003+08:00

within 5 hrs after i return from vietnam, i was on another holiday trip. going to genting has been the norm since young. that was before our crazy mountain climbing holidays. we haven been there for quite a few years already. this time i'm the driver!!!!!! i drove for 6 hrs straight. it was crazy, it was my first time driving at 120km/hr, overtaking so many vehicles at that speed.. had cars tailgating me...feeling sleepy while driving... super exciting!!!!! plus the sun was shining at me.. i was sun tanning myself while driving. chewed lots of gum to keep myself alert and awake. the upslope was horrible.., it was hard to control the amount the force i used to accelerate... plus the cars tailgated me once i slowed down a little... and down slope was scary too.. so afraid that the brakes would become too hot.. my dad says that the brakes wont function that well when they are too hot. the whole drive was just mind blowing. the return trip was another 6 hrs of driving. a really good experience. cant believe i'm a little sick of driving already.

from this trip, i realised that all of us have grown up. we used to collect the tickets and used them to exchange presents. but that was so dumb... wasting so much money just to get a lousy toy or stationery. we could put that money to better use. and queueing up 1 hr for each ride, knowing that the actual ride is just 2 mins long... was a complete waste of time too. the snacks such as cup corn, candy floss etc were no longer as cheap as before. paying so much at the funfair booths ( those shoot the bottles and get a teddy bear games...) was senseless too... what were we thinking when we were young?! we end up having more fun playing pool than catching fish from the pond(we used to do that everytime)... we end up enjoying massages(shoulder and foot) more than swimming...

i guess we wont be visiting genting for the next few years....perhaps the next visit would be of a different purpose, not to check out the theme park... but to check out the casino... ^^

<3<3<3

more photos ^^

2010-06-02T10:59:00.023+08:00

managed to take a photo with each jumper using my handphone :)

homestay kids :) they were teaching me vietnamese... love them lots^^

group shot on the mountain in dalat :)

program team!!! we are the ones who met up everyweek to discuss the prog for this trip :) we work so well tgt^^ closest team among the jumpers.

feeling cold? or having a bad hair day? just wear ur hoodie! we're the hoodie gang.

something similar to the sentosa luge.. we took this to see the waterfall.

waterfall in dalat ^^

cable car ride in dalat:D

right after cable car ride :) group photo ^^

view from the top of a mountain in dalat :)

this is the cu chi tunnel... we had to duck walk thru the tunnels. super narrow and dark. this is the first time i wished i had shorter legs. definitely not for those who are claustrophobic.

most of the tunnels are already enlarged for tourists. this is the actual size. a foreigner got stuck in it.

from the top of marble mountain. a part of danang city :)

by the river... in danang ^^ beautiful riverside...

light from heaven?! lol.. one of the caves found in marble mountain in da nang.

cham island, an off shore island of da nang. quite deserted.. a bit like survivor. haha :D it's so quiet and peaceful. we have the whole beach to ourselves.

lazing on the beach chairs... enjoying life.

love this shot <3

也许在城市里。。我们忘了如何开心的笑和跳跃。。

beautiful sunset in long an.

let the photos do the talking ^^

2010-06-01T23:58:00.014+08:00

the school we stayed at and taught at

6am in long an province. the village we stayed in.

most locals wear masks, coz it's really dusty when u're walking along the streets. each of us got one too. but i never ever wear it. it's far too hot!

one of the classes i taught. :)

we always go out to grab cold drinks tgt:) i bet the auntie made a lot of money from us...

the kids just come and attach themselves to u :D so cute!!!

this is the traditional dance team. we wore trad costumes for the traditional hat dance. omg.. the shirt pattern very old fashion. but the top has a super high slit to the chest area. and it is so translucent. :S felt like i've aged 50 years when i wore that.

best teammate, busmate, sleepmate, washing clothes mate, singing mate, dancing mate... ever :D everyone says that marilyn look like my twin sister. dont we look like we're on an amazing race? lol :)

best scenery in long an :)

we visited this church in dalat :) cooling weather plus beautiful church.. great place for wedding photos :D haha

i love jump shots! taken in dalat :)

still have a lot more photos of the retreat. shall post them later in the day. time to go to bed :)

i wanna jump again!!!

2010-06-01T22:22:00.005+08:00

the sequence of my posts seems to be a little mixed up. but who cares?!

i spent 18 days in vietnam. 18 carefree days, with no worries, with lots of laughter and happiness, with lots of precious and memorable moments and with a whole bunch of super nice jumpers! the best 18 days ever!

this trip had been so wonderful. i love every minute of it... it's one of those trips that will leave a huge impact and even after many years down the road, i guess i will still remember the time spent in vietnam with my fellow jumpers, just like the chiang mai cip trip.

there's so much things about the trip i wanna share, i dun even know where to start. there's just too much to write.

the best part about this trip is that i could leave my city life behind. life in vietnam was so simple, it made me appreciate every simple thing i have. knowing that i have clean bathing water, a working toilet, a plastic fan, a simple home cook meal, clean clothes etc. can make me feel so happy.

our living conditions in the village were a lot better than expected. the whole city is more developed and cleaner than i expected. and of course the weather was hotter than i expected.the only good thing about the unbearable heat was that it gave me nice tanned skin :D although it's supposed to be the rainy season, there was no rain at all... erm i think it only rained once throughout the 18 days. and that rain only lasted 1 min. bathing didnt make a difference because u start perspiring profusely again right after stepping out of the toilet. plastic fan and mosquito repellent became my best friends. just couldnt live without them. ice was a luxury. cold drinks were daily necessities. i craved for rice and bread(noodles are the most common food available).

so everyday in vietnam, when we were in the village, we woke up at 6am, have breakfast, start teaching, have lunch, teach again, have dinner, practise concert items, have debrief, sleep at 11pm. such a simple life, it probably appears boring to u.. but it was so fulfilling. we spent our free time playing catch, piggy backing, riding bicycles with the children...the innocent smiles on the children's faces were the best rewards after a tiring day of work. they remind me of the worry free life i used to have. the kids were so lovable! we took lots of photos with them, and they even asked for all of our autographs. it was as if we were super stars. i only hope that we did made a difference to the kids' lives.

i had so many first time experiences:
bathing with a teacup, making mango icecream, love mango, love mangosteen, finish drinking a coconut by myself, wearing viet traditional costume, dancing viet traditional dance, wearing viet hat, drinking one whole can of beer by myself, ride a motorcycle, learn how to identify stars, ride a speed boat, jetty jumping, see blue starfish, camped on an island, speak vietnamese, viet ktv, drink viet beer, visit shrimp farm, doing manicure, witness a love story etc.

then came the retreat. the whole team spent 4 days in the highlands, dalat. lots of sightseeing, bonding sessions, and beautiful sceneries. the visit to dalat marks the end of our whole cip trip. some of us then spent a day in ho chi minh city. we visited the famous Củ Chi tunnels (dug during viet war). we took a domestic flight to da nang, a city near beautiful beaches. climbed the marble mountains, spent a night on an offshore island and did snorkeling.

vietnam jump was a blast. it was so worth it. i missed the place and most of all the people and my fellow jumpers. cant wait for post celebration to come! thinking about it makes me feel so excited. looking forward to receiving the rest of the photos too:D if u ever have a chance to go for overseas cip trip, go for it! it's the best type of holiday ever!!! :D

I WANNA JUMP AGAIN!!!

back home ^^

2010-06-01T21:15:00.004+08:00

alright, it's time to blog again...
have been back in singapore since sunday...was totally overwhelmed by the number of emails i received from facebook, and the amount of photos posted online. the whole team took 21 gb of photos + some priceless videos!!?! have no idea how i'm gonna get them from the photographer.

first sms that greeted me on monday morning was my results. there was improvement, but not as good as i expected, especially my core bio modules. i'm supposed to be doing better in my bio modules.. coz they 're my major. but it turns out otherwise. i'm still far away from my goal of getting into the dean's list. wonder when i'll be able to hit that target. oh well, i guess i have 3 more years to catch up! jia you!!!

was a little disappointed about the fact that i still haven gotten a holiday job..feeling kind of broke. have been rotting at home watching drama serial from day to night for the past two days. so lazy to move my ass... so lazy to blog. currently looking for new shows to watch, cause i've finish my current supply. thought of hitting the malls to check out the GSS, but haven got enough money. plus i'm just too lazy to move out of the house. everyone else seems to be so busy with work, dating or jetting off to other places. i better start looking for something meaningful to do, before the sem starts. wont want to waste this precious 3 months break.

well, so thats exactly what i have been doing so far. how bout you? what have you been doing so far? hope u're having a great holiday ;) cant wait to meet up with everyone! ;D

off to vietnam :)

2010-05-10T00:38:00.003+08:00

will be flying off to vietnam for overseas cip in 6 hours time. just finished packing my bag. will be returning on the 28th may. so excited :D i hope we can make a difference to the locals lives, enjoy ourselves... and forge new friendships... hopefully everything proceeds smoothly.. :D

off to bed :) i dont think i can sleep though. driving to airport later :) woots!

banner finally done :D

2010-05-08T18:54:00.003+08:00

so what exactly have i been doing weekly at nuh?
this quilt banner!!! it's finally done :D i'm so happy.. haha :D
every week, when i volunteer at nuh, we'll get the patients to design and decorate the small pieces of cloth. leave their 'mark' in the hospital :D and yesterday, kar wai, lari and i came together and sewed them all together. the banner is gonna be hung up at the paed's ward according to benjy. sewing was fun, but very tedious even though we used sewing machine. once again i put my sewing skills to good use :) wouldnt have done it without kar wai and lari's help though. cant wait to see the banner in the hospital :) i hope it brightens up all the patients' day!

i'm so glad it's over ^^

2010-05-06T10:07:00.004+08:00

wow. i survived my first year of university (*gives myself a pat on the back!) time just flew past, i cant believe i finished two semesters already. thats kind of scary...
it's like i managed to gain enough experience points, allowing me to level UP. lol :D

anyway, i ended my exams yesterday, feeling so relieved. so glad that exams are over, at least for now. reading week was well utilized. had so much motivation to study..but i guess that was because there were so much stuff that were not yet in my brain just 1 week before exams. i felt so dead man... spent most of my awake hours in the school library.. even during the weekends(science library rocks! it's the best :D so homely.)... thank goodness my studying mates were there :) pris and peijin! and i met new studying mates: xiao da and eunice.. all four of them are such great studying partners...they make mugging sessions a lot less lonely. the cakes and frappes at spinelli kept me going too, i spent so much money on food during reading week. but it was well spent.. haha :D

while i was at the lib, there were many medicine students around. i really admire their determination and will power to study. they mugged just as hard as us.. turning up at the lib everyday, and yet their exam only start on may 12th. i seriously admire their stamina. 2 weeks in the lib was the max for me already. if my exams dragged on any longer... i probably would lose steam already. i bet their bell curve( if there is one) or exam papers must be damn hard. coz there's probably no one in medicine that doesnt study that hard right? how to separate the pros from the super pros. lol :D

and so after my last paper, i went out with pris to watch ironman2 at iluma. the cinema is so new... and cosy.. plus the mall isnt crowded at all. loved the show totally. i just dunno what to say about tony starks. on one hand i totally want to give him a tight slap because he's such a super egoistic guy that creates so much problems for everyone, but on the other hand i just envy him so much cause he gets to do everything and anything he wants. oh man, but at the end of the day, u just forgive him for being so egoistic, because he's really that brilliant. creating new elements? crazy. who in the world does that?! thank goodness its fiction, i wouldnt want to memorise an extra element on my periodic table. -.- haha..

after movie, it was dinner at jap restaurant. my fav sashimi set. plus dessert at a cafe outside iluma. pris and i were like talking about orientation. it feels as if orientation week was last week. how did we survive uni year 1?! how did we get to know each other when so far we only took a module together... in a few months time, we'll be attending orientation camp again, but this time round, as seniors... haha.. and we even thought of the modules that we'll probably be taking even before next sem even start?! thats crazy.. haha :D what an enjoyable and relaxing night, even though i did burn a hole in my pocket. but who cares? this is good life!

the start of the holidays just means that i'll be super busy everyday. thats why i'm like blogging today and not procrastinating. if i have time, the first thing i would do is to watch DRAMAS. did that last night. watched till 3am..(i was rewatching it: bai quan nv wang) in the end i couldnt sleep after that cause i became so excited..:X gonna go out later to nuh to settle cip stuff.. plus thai dinner tonight! yay! so looking forward to it :D

well i guess thats about it for now. gonna watch more dramas before leaving the hse. cya kaes :D

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!

p.s.: i'll be flying to vietnam from 10th may to 28th may. driving to genting from 28th may to 30th may. by the time i return, it's june :D

to xiuwen: we've got to meet! when is everyone free? lets meet when i come back. or will u guys be flying off to somewhere?

sick. sad.

2010-04-17T13:18:00.004+08:00

down with fever. sucs totally. just when i felt so motivated to study for my exams, i fell sick. thanks to the unbearable heat and the super cold libraries.. plus the late nights plus increasing stress due to the fact that exams are in 1 week time!!!

it has been a really tiring week for me. with thai oral, thai writing test, and practical exam. so glad that they're all over. i still have a 1000 word essay to finish. :(

i cant wait for all these to be over... even after exams are over.. i'll be super busy man. flying off to vietnam for about 3 weeks for cip. from the end of my exams(5th may) to the day i fly off (10th may) i have so much non leisure activities lined up. bleah... dont even have time to enjoy... when i return, i'll have to worry about my results.. which are released on 31st may.. haiz..

i really hope i can finish revising for exams in 1 week. hopefully i can still rmb the stuff i memorised during the CAs. well, i guess at this point in time, i can only expect the worst and hope for the best.

2010-04-13T23:17:00.002+08:00

aww.. so sweet... <3

LOVIN' THAI once again.

2010-04-13T22:40:00.006+08:00

haha.. i'm so fickle minded... in the previous post i was dreading it.. coz of oral! but now that oral is over( it was quite good coz we got the topic we prepared for), i'm loving it again. rigt now, how i wish everyone around me could speak thai.. so that i can converse with them in thai.. haha :D my siblings are getting a bit irritated by my thai.. they say it sounds like i m spewing vulgarities. -.- a bit crude... maybe i'm not getting the tones right...

anyway, today is songkran day! aka po1 shui3 jie2
i attended the nus songkran celebration last sat. it was great fun. there was a concert put up by the thai club. they invited a thai pop band... the band was highlight of the concert!.. nice songs(even though i couldnt understand what they were singing).. and the lead male singer was so shuai! haha.. super charismatic... the drummer was very pro too..haha...all the performances were linked together by a skit. the skit was put up by the thai lang lvl 4 and 5 nus students. they could speak so fluently. i would have thought they were thais. i was so amazed by their ability to speak thai.. and so inspired to continue taking thai after this sem... truly admire them...lol :D and then after the enjoyable concert, there were lots of delicious thai food... the phat thai was the best. and for dessert, mango sticky rice totally rocks! (usually i dont eat mangoes. but everyone said it was damn good. so i tried it.. and fell in love with it :D)
once again, my thai class buddies. plus my dearest ?aacaan

and my fav thai dessert :)

mango sticky rice (khaaw niaw ma muang):D

SUK SAN WAN SONGKRAN! happy songkran day :D

!!! it's less than two weeks to finals. but i still have essay and prac exam this week. and chunks of stuff to cramp into that small pathetic brain of mine. things look really bad. during times like this.... giving up seems to be an easy way out.... BUT imagine the consequences man... it's crazy...

i need to see some light at the end of the tunnel again!

what makes me really frustrated.

2010-04-07T19:39:00.002+08:00

i realise the thing that really makes me super sian, stress, irritated and flip is not having a lot of work to do. in fact i like having lots of stuff to do. as long as i see progress. the part i hate is when the stuff i embark on stands still. no progress..... not seeing progress just kills my motivation totally. URGH!!!!! poor efficiency turns me off totally!
eg. thai... at first, when i knew nothing about this language.. i felt so good when i could rmb all the new words. that sense of achievement is my motivation. then right now... i'm totally dying. spent the whole day practising thai with my oral partner. super duper sian. plus the unbearable heat...and the muscle ache in my back and shoulder. :( motivation level = 0 !!! OMG!!! HOW?!?! I NEED TO FIND MY MOTIVATION, COZ MY ORAL IS NEXT WEEK!!! AHHHH!!!???!!?

right now i'm so mad with myself... how i wish i could find the motivation i had in studying physio on monday. had dinner alone, studied alone in the lib till 10pm before returning home alone.. then stayed up late alone to finish some readings..i felt a little lonely, but i had a clear goal and lots of motivation. even after studying, i still felt very alive and awake. didnt even need caffeine to keep myself awake. in fact the more i study the happier i become. oh man.. if only everyday is as productive as that day. i probably wont need to stop by my blog to rant. haha :D

i must be crazy to like working. too much free time drives me nuts too. still thinking of stuff to fill up my 3 months holz. wonder who would want to hire me to work for only 1.5 months.. :(

i feel a lot better already :) great place to rant. haha :) plus the nice daily scoop icecream that made my day :) whee :D time to get back to work!

horrible week coming up soon. it's less than 3 weeks to final exam!!!!!!!

;D confession of a workaholic-to-be

TUMBLR ROCKS!!!

2010-04-04T14:55:00.007+08:00

have u heard of tumblr? it's so cool... haha..
for those who are just as noob as me.. it's like blogspot.. but most ppl post pictures and quotes instead of about their life on tumblr...
it's really addictive, because u end up browsing thru everyone's posts.. u just keep pressing and connect to others' tumblrs too.. :D
hey shu, i thot u might like to take a look at this site :)
http://www.welivenow.org/

oh and i found this on one of the tumblr.. haha quite funny..

hahaha... i like this one too :D

thas y i've got to stop surfing.. and go back to my books :)
it's really fun.. go check it out :D

SHERO!

2010-04-03T16:36:00.003+08:00

have u heard their new album??!?!?! some of the songs are quite nice :)
more new songs to sing during next k session :D

drama update

2010-04-03T16:22:00.003+08:00

new drama. currently airing in taiwan :)

synopsis:
After the famous author Xia He Jie literally crashed the movie premier that supermodel Amanda attended, he was sentenced to 158 hours of community service in a kindergarten. And thus, it began the most hellish 158 hours of his life. There he met Ma Xiao Qian, a teacher who not only didn't fall for his charming personality like the rest of the female population, she made him suffered for every minute of his community service. What he didn't know was that Xiao Qian was a former neighbor who he had bullied relentlessly as a child. Now, she is bend on revenging for the miserable childhood that she endured under his tyrannical reign.

what i think: story plot is the cliche type. the ordinary girl who is the former neighbour will end up with the famous author. in the show they incorporated all the factors that make an idol drama popular, eg. rich/successful man falling in love with ordinary girl(so that many girls can relate to it.. and fantasize abt it.. thinking that one day they may be like the main actress), include some hokkien dialogues, fight a lot at first but fall in love unknowingly... etc

i started on this partly becoz down with love ended. needed something else to alleviate my drama withdrawal symptoms...apparently the ratings for this show is higher than that of down with love. this show is definitely not the super funny type. most people may not know the lead actors and actresses ba... but so far so good. quite interesting. i like the theme song too :D worth watching :)

dont understand why the guy must always be rich/successful/powerful.. while the girl is ugly/ordinary/poor... why cant it be the other way round?

my beloved thai classmates :D

2010-04-03T16:14:00.002+08:00

yay :D group photo taken during songkran workshop :) the female in grey shirt and white pants is my ?aacaan! suay maak kha! a few others are missing though...
chan chccp rian phasaa thay kap phuan!

there was a sweet wrapping contest. haha.. my group won. lol, our grp name: dii maak (very good) lol..

so much fun! :)

2010-04-03T10:15:00.006+08:00

hell weeks are finally over. haha... i should have blogged a lot earlier.. but when i have more time on hand, i end up doing a lot of other stuff except blogging. haha... anyway, this week(super slack & fun week) is coming to an end! :( spent the whole of yesterday playing mahjong and monopoly with my family.. when was the last time u played games with ur family? lol :D my fam rocks totally!

anyway since the last blogpost, i received two outing photos from my friends :) most of the time, i'll only post about the activity when i receive the photos. haha....

we attended nus ge yao concert. ailin was performing. she could sing really well.. haha there were two other people who were very good too. some were not as good but u can see the amount of effort they put in so it was still commendable. but there was 1, who totally cant sing well.. yet didnt seem to put in his best effort. he sang 3 songs! a torture for the audience. lots of foreign talent attended the concert... i must say that the lyrics and melodies of the songs were really professional. u would never have guessed that they were the works of the students. lots of substance. great concert :)

the most recent outing: wen to tao's with pat, lari, shermin and jieying!!! haha.. manage to drive there!!!!!!! :)super exciting. great dinner as usual. thank goodness there were no red beans in my tiramisu! lol :D i'm glad everyone enjoyed the dinner..

oh and for nuh cip, we started on another project, quilt banner!!! spent quite a lot of money at spotlight.. not on cloth, but on fabric paints.... i am determined to make the project a success.. if not all the money we spent will go to waste :X but so far so good. everyone seems to like the idea.. and we managed to make a few pieces already :) oh and Angie(a patient) finally got discharged!!!!!!! yay! she's a really nice and smart girl, i am very happy for her :) but i wonder who am i gonna play with next session.. lol :D the thought of making an impact on someone's life just makes me feel super happy :D

if u want to make ur stuff smell nice, take a small piece of paper and drip a bit of ur fav fragrance on it. put it in eg. ur notebook... and ur notebook will smell as lovely as mine. haha.. my fren say i'm nuts.. coz everytime i open my notebook, i'll sniff at it.. like a glue addict.. wahaha...

on thurs, there was a songkran(the thai festival: po shui jie) cultural session... we sang thai songs, danced and wrapped sweets...oh and pour water over the four face buddha... haha hoping that we'll be blessed with cap 5... lol :D it was very fun.. and the best part was we took lots of photos with our ?aacaan(teacher)... and interacted with our classmates :D everyone is so lovely and friendly.. i love the thai culture a lot... cant wait to go bangkok with my thai frens.. hopefully we can go visit our teacher too :D oh and i just found out that my han yu pin yin sucs ttm now. coz of thai... keep getting the tones wrong :S thats the only con in learning thai.

yeah.. so many fun activities in the past week... time to stop playing already! with ca next week, thai oral and biodiversity practical exam round the corner, and finals too, i better start mugging my ass off....still thinking of a best place to study in. home / library? library.

cool gift; cool mall :D

2010-03-27T23:59:00.005+08:00

gifts given to the guests during weddings are getting more and more interesting.
check this out: a deck of poker cards with cute pictures printed on them :)

hey peeps, have any of you gone to iluma before?it's opp bugis junction. i've been wanting to blog abt iluma but it always slipped my mind. anyway, iluma is a place that looks atas(high class). both inside and outside. i love the design of the place.. haha.. there's a really big arcade with lots of new machines on lvl 6 i think. oh and it's cinema is different. not the usual golden village, shaw or cathay.. haha :D the coolest part should be the computer gaming shop. the biggest gaming centre in singapore... with 200 high end computers... and the lastest computer games... it should be the best place to play such games.. haha.. and it's only $3 bucks for 2 hrs!!! super cheap! i bet thats the cheapest leisure activity in town!!!
the only prob is.. i dunno how to play the games!!!!! haha.. anyone who can teach me? lol:D oh, the jap food over there is quite worth it too.. thats according to my dad. sashimi set ftw!!!!!!!

it's nice exploring new places :D have u been to all the new malls in town?! lolXD

taking a breather

2010-03-24T20:49:00.007+08:00

here i am, after a whole day of self studying in the lib with peijin :D
not tired but happy with my progress today:) the more i study the more excited i become :) haha must be crazy.
anyways, just thought of posting these two photos in this short post. i still have lots of work to do... if there's thai test tmr.. i'm so dead. havent memorised 3 lessons worth of vocab. i'm lagging behind. :X
oh well... i'm half way thru my hell week :) i'll survive somehow :)

wonderful dinner with the girls @ ntu sakae :D too bad there's no dinner buffet.. haha:D

attended jieying's concert :) wonderful music! wonderful people to be with :)

yesterday's volunteering session was great fun!!!!! haha..it's nice to get to know the patient better and become their friend :D yay! looking forward to the next wk :)we took photos.. it's a pity i cant post the photos.. (according to lari :()

ok thats all for now.. gtg :) gg with carrot and shuning to watch ailin sing this fri! oh changi beach practical on fri will be fun too!

meanwhile, check out this website http://megperotti.com/blog/costa-rica-poolside-thoughts/
:D the photos will make u feel happy!

random rants

2010-03-15T09:48:00.003+08:00

oh it's just some random rants...

i'm not sure if u have this problem....

i find it really hard to find a suitable product for myself... eg. shampoo and facial cleanser

it's frustrating because my hair is a bit greasy.. so i tried to use oil control shampoo.. but in the end right now my hair is too dry.. and it's frizzy.. not the result i intended to have.... :X

so should i use normal shampoo or oil control ones... ?

as for my face, same problem. i reckon my skin is oily and dry. yes such combination does occur.. (i learn this in my cosmetics class) but usual facial cleanser are either for oily skin or dry skin. so how? which should i use? i'll end up with either dry skin that itches... or oily skin that looks disgusting and pimple prone.

anyways rants aside, dinner on sat was great :) revisited tao's restaurant, this time with dear pris :) fav dish was still the steak. i dont think i'm ever gonna order any other main course other than that because it's the best!!!!!!!! every bite is heavenly. even pris agreed.. haha... summer peach tea was refreshing and nutritious... but this time, i didnt enjoy the tiramisu. they tried to be creative and added red beans!!!?? to the tiramisu. in the end i was so distracted by the weird red beans in my dessert, i totally didnt savour my tiramisu :( after dinner, i went to pris hse... she showed me some blogs she visits... the blogs were really cool... bloggers who blog about their fashion styles.. a bit over the top though... and then there were those who blogged about cooking recipes... ooh but my favourite were those by wedding photographers :D i think in US, they like to take engagement photos :) kindof like informal wedding photos.. the back grounds are always so nice... they pay attention to every single detail.. colour coordinating everything.. simple yet elegant. so beautiful!

if interested, check this out :D http://www.jessicaclaire.net/index.cfm/StartRow/6

i'm just disgusted by the actions of some people. haiz... i wonder what i did to be associated with such people. definitely not my friend if i was given a choice.

gonna send mum and grandpa off to the airport later... skipping classes just because of that?!

haha.. i think it's because i get to drive to changi airport. wahahahaha...i am totally crazy about driving!! i bet the happiest day of my life would be the day i own my own car! haha

busy crazy week ahead.!!! monday: which is today, i'm suppose to have lectures... but i'm gonna use the remaining time to chiong some work. tues.. i have nuhcip :) wed there's cip dinner.. thurs, there's vietjump meeting.. fri there's jieying's concert right after lab session... omg.. and coming weekend i have to do an essay within 24 hrs... not to mention i need to chiong out my pr2202 project.. plus the 80 qns!?!?! quiz!!! and there's a gek test next week.. and i have to memo more thai words too... ah!!!!!!! and it's already wk 9... how many more weeks? more to final exams??? ok i'm gonna hyperventilate :S so what am i still doing now?!?!?!?! blogging??!?!?!?!?!

completing all these, and at the same time battle my procrastinating bug, overcome my drama addiction and the new addiction of reading blogs and tweets... i must be out of my mind.

p.s.: @secret stalker(xw) of my blog[apparantly there are quite a few secret spies/stalkers around]: stayover was great :D haha thanks for the sharing...although urs was not really juicy at all compared to u know who. wahahaha most stunning reply i've ever heard.

having my mum's beehoon for breakfst now. tastes great. <3>

i'll tell u if i survive the next time i blog. lol :D

2010-03-13T16:04:00.002+08:00

HATE IT! HATE IT! HATE IT! HATE IT! HATE IT!

sucks ttm! i am so looking forward to it... and minutes ago, i just fell from above! that disappointment is so great.. it spoils everything. but i have no one to blame but myself. becoz i was the one who expected so much. i just hope history doesnt repeats itself. the more i think and hope for something to happen, the more it wont happen. wat rubbish is this man!!!!?!?!?!?! step on my toes and i will bite u man.

having a hell lot of work to do and not understanding the conversations in thai podcasts just make me even more piss!!! i think i need eye candies to make my anger dissipate!!!

adding colour to my boring life

2010-03-11T23:58:00.002+08:00

right now, i have two things that keep me going and make me look forward to.

1) weekly nuh cip session

2) vietJUMP project

well so far so good :)at least i have some other activities apart from studying... i'm enjoying them because of the nice and friendly people i get to meet during the sessions. and the greatest draw is that both give me a great sense of satisfaction. if u r happy and doing something u like, u'll never feel tired.. haha :D planning for vietjump just reminds me of the good old chiang mai trip.

i wanna travel to many many countries.. it'll be cool to pop over to the other parts of vietnam...

or perhaps i should go bangkok... practise my thai with the locals :)

apart from these, i'm finally gonna be able to meet esf over at ntu! havent seen them for a long time.. maybe i shd stayover again :) traveling back home at night alone just turns me off totally..

plus i'll be going to tao again :) this time with pris... i miss their succulent steak :D

chan ca pay rian phasaa thay. phrug nii tuun nccn hok nalikaa saam sip naathii :)

chan rak rian phasaa thay :D (i will go study thai lang. tmr wake up @ 6.30am. i love study thai lang) whee :)

就想賴著妳

2010-03-05T15:38:00.005+08:00

我超爱这部戏!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
爱死了!!!哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈

怎么会有这么可爱的小孩子呢? 超可爱!!!!!!!

这么甜蜜的情侣 :) 好幸福!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

我兴奋到快要窒息了:D

2010-03-04T22:34:00.001+08:00

东西有没有那个价值就要看拥有它的人懂不懂得珍惜它, 在乎它. 我相信总有一天, 我也会遇到一个懂得珍惜我, 在乎我的人. 不管我有没有钱, 不管我漂不漂亮, 他都会永远爱我.

-杨果

that piece of awful memory stuck in my brain

2010-03-04T21:21:00.002+08:00

a level results are going to be released tomorrow... i cant believe it's already 1 year since i received my results. so much things have happened since then. i bet many receiving results tmr wont be able to sleep well tonight. u could be the one jumping for joy or the one crying your heart out... lots of things will change because of that piece of result... all i know is that the day i received my a level results was the saddest day of my life so far. it was an awful memory. i know i'm being real stupid being bothered by my results... but i just cant help it. i thought i dealt with that already. and everything is a thing of the past, if that's true then why do i still feel disappointed when people talk about a lvls. oh well i guess that awful memory just serves as a reminder, a reminder for me to make sure i do even better so that i'll never have such awful memories again. so to those who are taking their a lvls this year... or any major exams in the future, good luck kaes :D make sure u never regret what u ever did. dont ever have that awful memory... it sucs totally.

我觉得我最渴望被他人认同与肯定. 这种感觉真好. :)

quick updates

2010-03-03T22:54:00.004+08:00

have been looking at ingredients of handwashes for the past hour. right now, i think i can tell the use of each ingredient. thats for my perfumes and cosmetics module project. really hope that we can score in this module... lectures are getting dry and boring. i haven't seriously sat down and revised the topics covered at all... i guess perfumes and cosmetics arent my cup of tea. haha :D

as for thai, i came up with a way to make myself memorise all the vocab. haha... put the vocab onto small cards. then anyone and everyone can just draw a card and test me :) whee.. quite successful.. at least i am enjoying learning thai... even though i kind of screwed up my first listening compre. :S but there is a great sense of satisfaction when i manage to figure out what they are saying in thai, and that keeps me going :) my friends get to learn some thai words too :)

today, i accompanied a friend to go collect her dean list cert. it made me decide to make that my goal in uni. haha.. that is to get at least one dean list cert(this is given every sem) in my four years(hopefully i qualify for honours) of uni education. wonder if that is ever gonna come true..

wat's next? oh i got into vietnumJump, an ocip project. i just realised that uni projects are usually carried out over 2 months. as in the period given for planning. thats really scary... these ppl must be very efficient.. i hope i can cope with that. and guess wat?! i realised that a friend(marilyn!!! wat a coincidence!)that went with me to chiangmai cip is also in vietnumJump.. haha.. thats what i call affinity.. thank goodness she's going too.. and so far the people on the team are very friendly and nice. hopefully i'll have a great experience :)

oh and yesterday i went for nuh cip(adolescence hub) for the first time. i usually deal with younger kids... but this time these patients are older.. so it was quite different. i didnt really know what to talk to them, because every topic/question seems possible to be linked to their illness.. but the session was fun! feel so happy after that. and the patient said she enjoyed it :D nearly got owned by a 11 yr old girl in scrabble... haha.. i am looking forward to the next session :D yay!

i seriously have no affinity with carolyn... she should really consider changing her hp. cant sms and cant call properly. haiz.. there goes my chance of hitching a ride from her to school or back home......... lol :)

i am currently addicted to down with love. although it is only aired once a week(right now it's epi 3/4) but i think the drama was leaked in china... no idea what happened.. but i can find the other episodes on youtube.. haha.. so i am at epi 8 already :) the more i watch, the more i like ella.. she's cute and innocent. always so optimistic and funny :D needless to say, i am once again torn between the male lead and the 3rd party. it's always like this. emotional turmoil.. haha :) dont u just love that feeling?

remember i mentioned before the girl who blogs(in chinese) about kissing 100 male strangers? i've been reading her blog...(she talks about her life in france...) it's really interesting and right now she has published a book about her experience. i wonder if singapore bookstores have the book.. haha

everytime i blog, i realised i have lots to write. and all of a sudden i feel like sewing. making felt chocs again :) :) :)

happy happy happy :) i love meaningful life :D

an interesting dining experience

2010-02-28T11:40:00.006+08:00

i finally have the time to blog last week's dinner..

last week was my maternal grandpa's birthday. we had birthday dinner at tao's restaurant. it's at paradiz centre. it's a 7 course dinner at the price of only $25!!!!! it's super worth it... a small comfy restaurant, with very friendly waiters, great variety of food to choose from, not a buffet... everyone has his/her own individual portion... presentation of the food was pretty... u cant help but take photos of all the food they serve...

most importantly the food was delicious. best steak i have ever eaten. so juicy, not tough at all...

everything was just fantastic :) very satisfied. usually it's 29 bucks ++ but they sell vouchers for 25 bucks each if u buy a booklet of 10 vouchers. i bought a booklet of vouchers...so who's interested to go there to eat? give a shout :D

modern pacific cuisine. savour the taste of style :) haha

for more details check out this website...

http://www.taos-restaurant.com/menu.html

some of the food we tried...

my cousins, grace and i :) the tall people :D

well, it's the end of weekends again...

end of chinese new year....

i wonder what next week will be like.. lol :D

friends that i can always count on :)

2010-02-21T17:30:00.003+08:00

feel so blessed and happy to have friends like them. even though we end up on different paths, we always make an effort to meet up at least once every holiday. when anyone goes overseas for holiday, she'll remember to get the rest some souvenirs too... we never forget each others' birthdays and we always have stuff to talk about everytime we meet. although we are not able to be there for each other physically, i'm sure i can count on them when i need help. we know each other so well and it's friendships like this that are truly precious. it'll be fun to meet up with them even when we are 30, or 40 or even 70 years old... haha...

i hope we stay like this forever and ever. love ya gals :)

right shu?

p.s. the pastas at the pasta shop opened by sakae at wheelock place has lots of interesting pastas. worth trying :) but not the coolers they serve. lol :D

a short post

2010-02-20T18:05:00.002+08:00

first time visiting an og friend's hse. gambled a lot and lost quite a bit too...

but it was still fun :) i like going to ppl's hse :D haha...

just a random thought.... people nowadays dont seem to exchange house number, and definitely not house address... sometimes, you dont even know what is your friend's surname or full name... do you even know all of your friends' full names?! what kind friend is that? the only thing u know about your friend is their emails, facebook...and handphone number?!? if her phone died, it would be impossible to find out what happened her..haha

i foresee that in the near future, wedding invitations, funerals, or any special occasions will be posted as facebook event. haha.. imagine this: dear ..., u have a facebook invitation to ... wedding. please indicate whether u are attending, maybe attending or not attending. pls indicate if u wish to send a virtual wedding gift. haha

how sad is that ...

does address/telephone book still exists? anyone still using such things?

give a shout if u are.... :)

p.s. no, i am not getting married anytime soon.[if thats what u r thinking] dont be crazy... o.O

weirdness

2010-02-18T21:25:00.002+08:00

have u seen this

or this before?

sweet moments

2010-02-17T23:46:00.004+08:00

these moments are perfect. these moments are swensen.

lol... sounds familiar?! anyway, watched valentine's day with pat and jieying :) it was a light hearted and sweet movie.. featuring lots of eye candies.. lol :D

the trailer of the lightning thief looked good... but apparently those who watched it found it childish and disappointing. thats how we ended up watching valentine's day.

after movie, we met lari and decided to lunch at swensen.. 1 for 1 treat was indeed a good deal. even after ordering an earthquake, we spent less than 15 bucks in total :D we took lots of photos.. many were repeats..... people sitting around might think that we were tourists.. lol :) anyway, recess week seems to be ending soon... dreads :X i still got tonnes of work to do..

after so many days of mahjong sessions and going out with friends.. i finally have a free day: tomorrow! that seems to be the only free day left to study... :/

may tmr's studying be a fruitful one.

my lovely friends :D

greetings :)

2010-02-14T22:33:00.005+08:00

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY EVERYONE!!!!!!

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR TOO!!!!!

latest purchase :)

2010-02-13T15:32:00.007+08:00

my 3.5 inch=9cm?!!!!! grey velvet heels!!!! :D ok fine i know it looks kind of ordinary. and u must think i am crazy to buy such high heels given my height. but i still bought it on impulse even though i know i wont be wearing it...at least not that often i guess. o.O i just love the shoes... :D

they make me irrational :)

been out shopping these two days. last minute shopping for cny clothes is never ever successful. just wasted so much energy. i have no idea what ppl these days are wearing. the clothes look weird.. either too baggy.. like potato sack, if not it would be too tight... probably look like rice dumpling if worn... or it's too revealing.. or it's too short to be a dress, yet too long to be a shirt. in the end, i bought the pair of shoes that would most probably be safely hidden in my cupboard. wat was i thinking?! no wonder ppl say love is blind.. haha my love for heels :) woots:D

met up with pris for dinner yesterday. great dinner :) food gives me immediate satisfaction :D unlike shopping... lol :D

cny coincides with recess week( actually i think sch is just super evil and cunning to cheat us of our well deserved break by shifting recess week forward!) have lots of other activities during the week though: meeting up with friends to makan :)
well, it's gonna be a busy week ahead, and i am so looking forward to it :)

next up would be reunion dinner right at home tonight :) steamboat plus salmon sashimi plus yu sheng plus shark fin soup(real one ok!) plus choc brownie for dessert :)

off i go to watch the last episode of hai pai tian xin :) bye :D

have a great reunion meal everyone!!!!!

.....

2010-02-07T23:23:00.003+08:00

crap oh crap oh crap.
feeling dreadful right now all thanks to my procrastination and underestimation.
plant physio test this coming tues.. and my revision is still far from done. every lesson, i took down bits of notes here and there. and when the time comes to consolidate of those pieces, i realised it is quite a significant amount. the worse part is i didnt take down notes for one lecture. in the end, there is this gap regarding c3/c4/cam plant cycles... that i dont really understand. and my notes are so messy... hard to find out what i wrote during lecture :( i just see lots of arrows+scribbles on pathetic pieces of crumpled notes. i thought plant physio wont be too demanding coz we learnt some stuff abt photosynthesis in jc already..but i totally underestimated the whole thing. T_T

to add on to my horrible plant physio revision, i have thai test on the same day too :(
i think its listening compre! haiz... at the usual talking speed, plus a whole chunk of words... i think all will sound like greek man... :(

this whole studying thing seems like a game of chess, or perhaps a battle. underestimating your enemies will be the cause of my doom. a wrong step or wrong strategy could also kill me. i wonder if reading Sun Tzu's The Art of War(孫子兵法) would help.. lol :D i guess i'm just driving myself crazy.

off i go... back to my battle!!!
there's a price to pay for everything i do. blogging right now is going to cost me my beauty sleep......

quick updates

2010-02-03T11:34:00.006+08:00

it's week 4 already! in one and a half weeks time it'll be chinese new year! whee :D this cny is going to be different.. coz we wont be visiting anyone..that also means no red packets for this year :( talking abt cny, i haven even got any new clothings.. feeling super sad abt that fact. there is just no time to go shopping, thanks to the micro bio test i have this fri and the physio test next tues... hopefully last minute shopping on wed can be fruitful.

right now, thai lessons are the most interesting. time passes super fast in class and both the teacher and students are friendly and nice :D the whole environment is just great :)

went out with the og yesterday to celebrate marzuki's birthday. my lessons ended at 12pm.. so i waited for everyone else till 8pm... was revising my work in the library..(half revising, half dozing off -.-) was quite surprised that there were quite a lot of people in the library even after 6pm. was a little intimidated by them because 90% of them were med students... met carolyn in lib. feel so sad for her car, coz she accidentally reversed into a pillar and now the ~~pillar~~car has a very slight dent. hey shuning and ailin! if u see this, we r thinking of having cny meetup kaes :D i told carolyn to organise. haha... so she wont get lost :)

anyway, as i was saying, we went to vivo to celebrate marzuki's birthday. took so long to decide what to eat. only started eating at 9pm! i was starving man.. dun ever think that a bunch of guys would be more decisive than girls. was rather amused by the lame jokes during the dinner. we went to the top level of vivo to cut the cake :D it was really windy and nice... just like marina barrage :) but of course i prefer marina barrage.. haha :) well the whole thing ended at 11pm... as usual og outing always ends late... by the time i reach home it was 12 plus.... thank goodness, today i have no lesson!!! :D i still nid to get used to not speaking that much(not being myself) during og outing. it's just that everyone is talking. and no one seems to be listening. thats the time i practise shutting my mouth up. lol :D

ought to be studying right now. but obviously i got distracted somehow by the internet. just started twittering recently. maybe i'll be sick of twitting after some time. but right now, i just feel like expressing all the random thoughts that appear in my mind. following people's twitter seems like stalking people though. a bit weird. if u have twitter, give a shout at my tagboard kaes :)

do u think anyone ever cares about whatever i am saying? what is the basic courtesy when u make a friend? maybe different people have different standards. or maybe it's just me being too oversensitive. if i wasnt around, would anyone miss me at all? hate it when my emo self takes over. bleah :X

happy thing to look forward to: singing k during cny with the usual bunch :D

group photo :) the turnup was really good. happy 22nd birthday marzuki!

off to lunch, back to work :)

RA!!!! i nid to vent my frustration.

2010-01-27T21:55:00.002+08:00

i am super duper pissed and irritated right now! i have no idea why the more i try to be neat and pack my stuff.... i end up forgetting where i left them. the more i pack the worse it becomes. in fact when it is all in a mess, i know where to find my belongings.... it's there in that pile of rubbish! i seem to be always wasting time looking for my things.... urgh.. that is damn frustrating!!!!!!!!!!

where in the world can it be!!!!!!! for a moment, i thought the blogger website was messing around with me too, refusing to let me sign in. when 1 thing goes wrong, everything seems to be going wrong too!!!!!!!!!!! feeling much better after venting my frustration right here. >_< !!!

an attempt to blog in chinese

2010-01-26T19:13:00.006+08:00

Just thought of blogging in Chinese. Typing in Chinese is tougher than I thought probably because I haven’t done that since 98750984750894 years ago. Urgh.. so disappointing. (I have no idea how ailin does it with ease… and can still sound humorous in Chinese)

上个星期呆在家里真是闷死了。Channel 8 最近11.30pm都在播放一些台湾偶像剧。篮球火才刚播完，接着就是斗牛，要不要? 。无聊的我闲着没事做就上网把斗牛在重新看了一遍。俩天内把17集看完，够利害吧！好久没看贺军翔演戏了，差一点就忘了当初我有多么地喜欢他。。。在戏里，沈若赫超帅又超酷，什么都难不倒他（世界上应该没有这么完美的人吧 :D），迷死人了。我每次看戏都会爱上男主角，还真的是见一个爱一个嘞，哈哈！对于不喜欢长头发的我来说，如果我走在街上看到长发的男生，八成会觉得他耍什么酷吧（丑死了！），但我却觉得戏里的沈若赫（即使头发还蛮长的）酷毙了！这应该就是double standard 吧！哈哈！戏里的李威也不赖哦！能有这样贴心的大哥哥照顾，伊胜雪(hebe) 可超幸运的！但这些都是戏里的剧情啦。。。

新的一周刚开始，我就有一大堆的功课等着我去复习。。。（必须把全部的资料消化掉）this sounds funny because I meant to say digest the contents of my tb?! :S 这已经是开学的第3周了，我却还没进入状况，昨天还意外地发现一周后我会有考试！！！今天第一次上泰语课，觉得泰语还蛮难学的。光是学拼音就足以闹出超多笑话了。看来想考个 ‘A’ 是难如登天吧。。。[我的天啊，我弟刚刚在我旁边脱袜子，臭死了！:( ]

这周末可能会有小学同学的聚会。好久没见到他们了，不知道会不会有让我看了跌破眼睛的人，哈哈。好期待！想当年，爱霖和我在小学时根本就没有交谈，现在却是无所不谈的好朋友。。。忽然觉得自己好老哦 :X 哈哈！不知道到时候会不会有 awkward silence。。毕竟我小学时很少与同学们说话（和现在的我相比，简直是天渊之别, 有时还必须提醒自己要shut up)，所以在班上交的朋友也蛮少的。

Well, I guess it’s time to end off… I’ve got a hell lot of work waiting for me to complete…(to think I spent so much time typing this post.. :X) hopefully tomorrow’s free day will be well spent :) bye!

你听了杨丞琳和罗志祥的新专辑吗？真的很好听！:)

watch out for the STRESS wave!!!

2010-01-20T17:17:00.003+08:00

these days, i am posting two posts at 1 time because i dun like to lump everything tgt.. haha.. and it's because of the stupid title o.O lol

anyway,tuts and lab starts only next week.. so i have lots of free time on hand now. for this week, i didnt have to go to school on tues, wed and fri.. haha :D it feels weird to have nothing to do.. especially when everyone else has work piling up already. :X i have this horrible feeling about the coming week... and of course the weeks to come. this sem seems to be a very rushed one... everything is moving at a crazy pace...

imagine whatever that is coming up(stress!) as a huge wave. there you are standing on the shore with your eyes closed... you know it is coming.. approaching... and before you can run away from it, you find it crashing onto you already. when you open your eyes, you find yourself in the middle of it.(rushing out reports and mugging for exams!) and then you just have to struggle and swim for your survival....(racing against time!) dreadful feeling... maybe by this time next week, i will be staying up till dawn just to finish lab reports... :X (i heard that this time the prac lab report is in essay form.. and we have to hand it in in 24 hrs time right after the practical:S)

i guess i just have to get used to it. and hope that the interesting content will make things a lot easier. :)

if only i knew how to surf... haha.. i could ride the waves :D (reminds me of zac lim)......

good start :)

2010-01-20T16:44:00.004+08:00

one and a half weeks of sem 2 just past... bidding has ended too...
so far, so good :D as of now, i haven't attended a lecture that make me feel bored or sleepy. haha...i mentioned about taking chem spectroscopy in the previous post,but the first lecture gave me a shock of my life(i cant imagine myself passing the module at all! :S) and made me look for alternatives immediately. it was the last round of bidding, so everyone was playing show-hand. with only 20pts in the g acct, my only choice was thai language which was selling at 1 pt. i'm starting thai classes next week, hopefully it's not too bad... :) whatever the case, i'm sure it's 1000000X better than chem spectroscopy!

perfumes and cosmetics class is quite interesting. every lecture, we get to smell different perfume samples..(most of them smell awful though.. :X) haha... the lecturers are engaging and very friendly. and luckily for me, i found two other friends who are taking it too :) not bad for a module gg at 1 pt :)

and then there is my favourite module this semester which is modern tech in medicine and health. lots of videos to watch.... even with some physics content(i dun like physics that much), it's still really really worth taking!get to learn how endoscopy, laser, xray, radiotherapy, ultrasound etc works :D haha..i love the lessons.. because i learn so much from the lecturer :)

as for biodiveristy and physiology... i cant really tell whether it will be interesting.. because for phhysiology we are learning photosynthesis.. which was taught in jc..and the teacher looks kindof fierce. nid to take down a lot of notes too :( for biodiversity, its gonna be an old man lecturer next lecture which is tmr...

well, i guess this is a good start since i am looking forward to the interesting lectures :D

i was there to witness it!

2010-01-11T23:45:00.008+08:00

sunset on the mountain :)this looks prettier than the sunrise. haha.. so i posted this only ;D

mountain edge....

we took a lot of photos of different peaks. but everything looks the same to me.haha.. my favourite one was these donkey ears on mt kinabalu.(haha.. this is the only one i could distinguish :D isnt it cute?)

i'm so glad we made it to the top(low's peak)!!!! u cant really tell from the photo though. super unglam shot cause we were super exhausted and cold. i had a hard time smiling.. :)

going down the rock surface of the mountain. we were above the clouds!!!!!!!

i thought this shot of grace was the coolest! would have done it if there were still energy in my jellified legs :D haha...

more photos to come...............next time

i think i'm addicted to adventure holidays :D how bout scuba diving next time? lol dream on.....

got to sleep now. 8am chem spectroscopy tomorrow........
maybe i'll get to watch sherlock holmes with my siblings tmr :)

back to climbing stairs

2010-01-11T23:10:00.003+08:00

one of the many flight of steps we had to climb during the trip :)

today marks the start of semester 2 of my first year in university. i attended 3 2hr lectures back to back from 10am to 4pm. my goodness... i wonder how i am gonna survive that kind of timetable every monday and thursday... haha.. humans are good at adapting.. so i'll make it through the sem.. somehow :D

the start of this new sem feels like moving from jc1 to jc2. haha.. going to sch thinking that at the end of the semester there's gonna be an "'A' lvls" waiting for me again. thats just gross :X

the modules are totally new to me... and some of them are just not what i expected. this semester i'm gonna be doing more quantum physics stuff?!?! wavelengths.. spectroscopy..(not really what i am gd at :S) and then there's perfumes and cosmetics...(yeah thats a module too. unexpected right?) plus bio stuff: animals, microorganisms and plants.... plus lots more essay writing... :S

these new stuff makes me feel like i am back to square 1 again. back to the first step. if u imagine the whole semester workload as a flight of stairs... then right now i am back at ground level again. throughout the sem, i'll make my way up, but it requires a hell lot of effort and perseverance. my intelligence will determine the speed and ease of my climb. by the end of the semester, my cap would tell me how much i manage to climb... i'm only hoping that this semester's climb would be an interesting and fruitful one than the previous climb. oh well.. i guess i just have to like whatever that's gonna be taught and go to lectures with an open mind. it cant be that bad right?

in life, u may not always get to do the things that u like. but u can always try to like the things u do :)

have fun climbing :D

drunk? i dont think so.

2010-01-09T12:26:00.004+08:00

last night after dinnering with taz, i joined my dad and mum for a drink at sunset tavern. ok fine, i guess i was being the light bulb. :S wanted to try a new cocktail... but all of them look weird :X so end up ordering singapore sling again(my dad say that was nice). when the drink came, i was kindof shocked. the glass of cocktail was a lot bigger than i expected. coz the one i tried in sabah was a lot smaller. a taste of it.. and a thought came to my mind: eew.. taste like conc cherry syrup.the sabah one tasted a lot less conc and not that sweet. the drink was more drinkable when i had delicious calamari to go along with it. i managed to finish everything.. coz it isnt that cheap. haha... anyway, drinking makes me feel sleepy.(i have no idea why ppl who drink in tv dramas still have so much energy to do all sorts of funny stuff?!) so off to bed i go.. thinking that everything is fine. only to wake up at 2 am due to this throbbing headache. i couldnt sleep at all.... urgh.. totally regretted drinking... but it was just a pathetic cocktail, wat harm could it have caused? obviously my body didnt like it.. coz the next thing i knew, i was throwing up my dinner(say cheese! fish and chips) and alcohol into the toilet bowl. eew.. gross to the max. is this wat hangover is all about? how come my body is so retarded.. dont ppl in tv shows puke immediately right after they drink? the headache didnt subside... so panadol came to the rescue. dont know what time i manage to sleep. it was just dreadful... :( right now, i can still feel the lingering taste of alcohol. urgh!

taste of regret.
no more alcohol for the time being.

when i told my dad about it, he said that's a good experience. at least u know what it's like to have a hangover. drink more to train ur tolerance for alcohol. oh great :X what advice is this.. haha

hey friends, thanks :)

2010-01-08T00:37:00.004+08:00

when things look really bad, having friends that offer a lending hand really matters a lot. even if he or she cant really solve the problem, the concern they show makes one feel a lot better.

they make whatever that lies ahead a lot less daunting. thanks :) i really appreciate it :D

even though i dunno whether i can get my mods successfully in the next rd(i hope i can) i am a lot happier now :)

T_T

2010-01-07T21:57:00.004+08:00

feeling dreadful right now because of the stupid cors bidding thing! that thing really drives me up the wall. urgh! screw it man...

just thought i post this photos up before i go find more mods. sucs ttm.>_<
shermin's and jieying's bdae celebration. hope they liked it :D

life seems to have more shocks than surprises installed for me. bleah :X

sundaes :)

2010-01-05T11:57:00.002+08:00

fancy some delicious sundaes? come check out buttercake and cream at sunset way!

a great way to start the new year :)

2010-01-04T16:15:00.006+08:00

this is the best new year's day of my life.. haha.. coz i always stay at home on 1st jan. felt really happy to be able to spend the whole of 1st jan night cycling with the oac gang :D
it's always fun to hang out with them.... we cycled from ecp to tanjong rhu.. to lau pa sat.. to marina barrage...and back..
the view at marina barrage was amazing... lying down on the benches to look at the night sky.. the kites flying so high.. as if they were competing with each other to see who reaches the moon first.. i just felt like lying there the whole night. it was so windy... the christmas lights at marina side were so pretty too... i just felt so blessed to be out there witnessing all the pretty sceneries... haha... :D
everytime we stopped, we took photos and played poker cards...
sunrise at ecp was amazing too... the lack of sleep made us a little cranky... haha but i think everyone had fun :D and thanks to char, we got a ride back home :) whee...
what a great way to spend 1st jan :) love ya guys :D

my fav family photo :)

2010-01-01T18:37:00.002+08:00

somehow the family photos taken overseas... in the wild turns out to be a lot more beautiful and natural than those taken at the studios.
i love this photo a lot!

note to self: haha... i wonder when i can finish picking out the nice photos from the whole album of 500 over photos... and combine them into collage.

i love sleepover!

2010-01-01T17:53:00.005+08:00

i spent new year's eve night at xw and yili's place :) had a great sleepover... all of us literally slept... haha...
we had dinner at nearby tze char stall... the wait is super long... all the dishes came except the veg.... as if they need to plant and harvest the kang kong before serving to us.. bleah. xw said the stems look thick. i think some neighbour helped to fertilized the crops.. haha.. anyway, we had sparkling juice(only $2.95 a bottle!!!!! they were seriously trying to clear stocks) and sushi (maki) and potato chips... and london choco roll for supper... the highlights of the sleepover were the htht...(everyone except me have tonnes of juicy news to share) and the sleeping part. haha... the room was so cosy... and then we watched UP... but almost everyone was falling asleep while watching.... i think the aim of the sleepover was to count down to 2010 tgt... but the irony was that none of us was looking forward to the new year at all...haha.. so countdown was a total failure...
nonetheless, i was really glad and thankful to be able to spend my last moments of 2009 with esf :) i love them to bits :D
hope that we'll meet up real soon :)

i wonder how much the sparkling juice company is paying us to advertise for them.. :D

all of us sitting on yili's comfy bed :)

up next: night cycling tonight with oacians... whee :P

back in one piece

2009-12-29T00:19:00.003+08:00

i am finally back from my trip to sabah. back to this fast paced life of mine.
before i find time to talk about my torturous climb, there are just so many things that i have to do...(u've no idea how proud of myself i was when i conquered mt kinabalu. wahahahaha....and how glad i was when i'm back in one piece. lol :P)

eg. stop myself from shitting. (i.e. i got diarrhoea on the last day of my trip :X)totally spoil my plans... ra.. i so wanna watch avatar again(this time in 3D) thanks to the stupid diarrhoea, i had to live on just water for 2 days :(

eg. choosing modules. i HATE it man...(such a pain) i have no idea what to take.. there are just too many considerations...
and then the thought of not being able to pull my cap up next sem just scares me... for a moment, i thot i did fine for my exams and that my cap is kindof average. but then when i got to know a few friends cap, i feel super uneasy... no wonder most people dun tell others their cap. u really must have the guts to face it when u are at the bottom of the list again. urgh... i guess ignorance is a bliss. the main point is, i better mug like there's no tmr next sem. if not i'm doom. an easier alternative would just be to be contented with whatever my little intelligence can achieve.(can u understand this crappy feeling?!?!)

eg. to get ready for sch...(stop going out everyday... )

eg. have a plan of what i want to achieve next year. (i hate thinking abt this too)

and right now... i need to get some sleep.. before the round 0 of cors bidding starts in 8.5 hrs :(

can someone pls give me a direction in life? if only i had the compass that jack sparrow has... haha :D

season greetings....

2009-12-18T13:22:00.003+08:00

[Japan, Hokkaido :)]

MERRY CHRISTMAS in advance to everyone!!!!!!!
have a joyous Christmas!!!!!

new discoveries :)

2009-12-18T12:13:00.004+08:00

did u know u could actually wear ur sch uniform to a wedding dinner and still look kind of good in it. haha... it's possible, my little sis did just that. a white top and her turquoise sch skirt. join the two pieces with a black stretchable nice belt. with covered flats, u'll look nice :)

every walt disney movie production seems to convey a message(i.e. the moral of the story) watching princess and the frog with shuying and cherry(its only $6!!!) just made me think about how i used to like all the princess stories :) the storyline is always so simple, and sweet... knowing that the princess will always live happily ever after with the prince, and that hard work will always pay off.. and that kind hearted ppl will be blessed with good life... aww... it makes u think about your childhood..haha.. which was not many years ago(i bet i sound like an old grandmother.. haha :D) hey dun u think it's kind of sad that as u grow up, u discover that all these stories arent true and that it is the total opposite from reality? i bet everyone loves fairytales right? lol :D

anyway, met up with my doris, JIAYIN!!!!, ailin, meiying yesterday. it was really fun to hang out with them... i havent seen jia yin for such a long time :) haha missed her drama rants... there is no one else that promotes nice dramas to me by telling me synopsis... she's the best drama buddy!!!!!! haha.. and then i discovered that she's a great shopping buddy too.. haha.. the dress that she picked for meiying was so pretty... i love that dress too!!! i think it's nice to shop with her(shopping guru :D) because she dares to try all types of styles... and she gives constructive feedback :D it was a pity that we forgot to take photos tgt. :( hey seriously i think i discovered a lot of new stuff yesterday: like having double eyelids look really funny on me..(we went daiso and bought the paste on stickers.. haha.. it was so hilarious to see double eyelids on me and ailin... lol :D i must say i prefer my single eyelids a lot more :) ooh... and then we went arcade to play... and we spent a lot.. the shooting game was just so addictive that we spent almost 20 bucks just on 1 game. thats just crazy man... and then i tried ddr for the first time. and it was such an embarrassment.. coz my feet cant coordinate at all... haha.. and i have no idea why do ppl love Häagen-Dazs® ice cream that much that they are willing to pay $5.50 for just 1 scoop!!!!!????? oh and i tried out the soup spoon at vivo city :) whee... its not bad.. but the soup is far too thick. dun order the set, coz u'll never be able to finish it... i should have trusted ailin's words... :P oh and mango has SALE!!!! but the shop is so packed with shoppers.. the fitting room queue is super long... all the clothes are in a mess... totally turns me off even though i saw some nice and cheap pieces :(

i still have quite a bit of stuff to pack for my trip tmr. wont be back till 27th dec :) urgh.. imagine the christmas gatherings that i will miss... :( when i come back it's time to get ready to welcome year 2010.. and of course sem 2 of my first year in uni. i do hope that i will learn new stuff about myself during my trip :) haha.. anyway, thats all for now :)

outing, outings, more outings

2009-12-14T21:30:00.002+08:00

met up with taz last thurs... haven had an og outing for a very long time... as usual there was only two girls: pris and i... haha..the only reason why we went was because we wanted to take this opportunity to meet each other... lol :D apparently even with so many guys(i thot guys wld be more decisive when it comes to deciding what to eat or do. but that's not the case), we took ages to decide. after dinner, we went to sing kbox. i didnt know they had a package frm 8pm to 12am... cost a bomb even though it was ladies night... teo heng still rocks! i didnt really know how to use the kbox remote anymore... haha.. anyway, this k session was just filled with lots of old songs that i dunno how to sing at all. the guys seem to live in a diff era. o.O that was the first time i stayed out so late.. (there's no bus and mrt at all.. haha.. gd excuse for cabbing home) reached home at 1.30am. i was damn scared to be scolded by my dad.. cause the next day i went out again.. :X

friday night was spent with ailin, carolyn and shu ning at ion orchard :) the Christmas tree was so beautiful... the lightings were great... u could really feel the joyous and festive atmosphere :D the blessed feeling :)

i spent the whole of sat preparing for the bbq at night. there was so much food! haha.. whatever animal u name, we have it :) (chicken, mutton, beef, stingray, squid, prawns, clams) omg i cant believe we ate so much... in addition we had otah, garlic bread, salad, bananas(shermin brought them; it was a total distraction) and a BEST EVER CHOC CAKE!!!!! that was the best man.. haha... birthday surprise frm pat, lari and shermin :) i think the surprise was quite successful.. but lari's acting is really too lousy..(quote frm grace) it was a great dinner... but i think we should cut down on the amt of meat next time....

on sun, i met maygin @ plaza sing... we both agree that it was much more convenient to meet up when she was staying at sunset way... we felt so bad to sit at the restaurant for so long..... cant wait for her to move back to clementi park:)

and then today, i just rotted at home. currently watching america's next top model cycle 13 :D this cycle is for petite models( their definition for petite is actually 5 feet 6 inches which is around 1.67m... thats crazy... isnt that considered tall in asia? did u know that tyra banks is about 1.77m?!?!?! and those models are always wearing super tall heels...) they keep saying that 1.67m is short... makes me really feel like becoming taller by wearing heels...(oh man, i love those beautiful heels to bits)

what else is there to do in singapore? what recreational activities? i am running out of ideas and activities to do with my friends. i have at least 3 diff grps of friends
that suggest going to east coast park to cycle.... :X
4 more days before flying off to kota kinabalu :) when i come back, my holz would be nearly over and it will be time for bidding again :( i am so not looking forward to that part...
well i guess thats all for now :)

p.s.: did u know that they are gonna to remove the parking poles next year? ^^

Happy Birthday Claire!!!

2009-12-09T10:20:00.005+08:00

birthday is just another normal day.what defines my 19 year on earth is the stuff i did in year 2009. i think this is the year that i've experienced the most changes and i'm really glad that i have survived these changes and learnt a lot from them.(a big thank you to those who have been contributing to my 19th year memory.. haha) hopefully every year that comes along will be better than the previous one... :D

it is dreadful to be reminded that i'm ageing. haha.. doris told me to enjoy my last year as a teen. :X (it's not like i have a vampire bf like edward that makes me so particular about being older..its just the thought of being closer to an auntie age scares me..wahahahahaha juz kidding :D jacob rocks!!!!)u gals out there are older than me!!!!!!! hahahahahahahahahaha....!!!!!!

time to go do my favourite activity: WATCH ONLINE VIDEOS!!!!!!! haha
真不愧是个宅女!!! :D

another peaceful day at home

2009-12-09T09:48:00.005+08:00

i haven blogged for the past few days.. very busy and tired. finally had a day of rest yesterday.. spent it at home watching drama serials :) haha.. and i'm gonna spent my birthday at home too:D i love the feeling of just rotting at home.. saves energy, saves time... haha..

anyway, last sunday i visited shu ning at red dot museum.. there were a lot more stalls than usual... many nice and interesting products. everytime i go to tanjong pagar, i will think of the 6 months of work experience i had... haha.. and my fav yong tau foo stall at amoy street... i really wanna eat it again. had sushi buffet with esf, it was nice to hear sharings from everyone about sch life...i miss those days when we were back in sch mugging tgt... haha.. we decided to count down to the 2010 tgt at their hostel :) whee.. i'm so looking forward to that!

and then on monday, lari and i went on a date to science centre to check out bodyworld:) our tickets allowed us to view the other science centre exhibits too.. it was so awesome and cool... lari and i were like the pri sch kids... oohing and ahhing at the interesting exhibits(eg. optical illusions)... i think we tried out every interactive exhibit in the science centre.. haha.. my favourite was the exhibit that could produce cloud rings.. the rings of cloud formed were beautiful, but it was a pity that we couldnt capture them on the camera :(

the bodyworld exhibition was an eye opener too... haha.. the human bodies look really artificial actually..(haha shermin, definitely wont be grossed out coz it looks just like plastic figure)the dissections are very intricate. lari and i went around collecting the ink stamps of the different organs(those were for the kids who were doing those activity worksheets)... at some point in time, i was so hungry, i even told lari that the model of the blood capillaries of the chicken looks like chicken floss dyed red. and the cross section of the giraffe looks like ham to me... haha
we spent about 5 hours in the science centre... :D we were suppose to go vivocity to have dinner with shermomo and get myself a birthday prezzie.. but the stupid headache of mine refuse to go away.. so the plan was scraped :X

well, i think thats about all i did in the past few days :) after today, it will be outing everyday till the end of this week... :)

sidenote: i can totally understand how it feels when one puts in effort to organize something only to find that everyone backs out at the last min. haiz...i guess it cant be helped.

the past two days...

2009-12-06T11:16:00.002+08:00

on friday, i met up with ailin, jeslin and meiying to go to paris ris beach. it was very early in the monrning.. ailin and i had dinner the night before... and we met again in less than 12 hrs. but we still had lots to talk abt.. haha.. i never ever run out of stuff to say to her... :) anyway, it was kind of ridiculous because all of us spent a lot of time to travel to pasir ris beach, only to realise that it was super high tide and it was impossible to build sandcastles at all. we ended up playing bridge the whole morning... then at 1 plus, we met doris at katong shopping centre for lunch and k session. at least that was what we intended to do.. but there was no available rooms.. so i headed home right after lunch while ailin, doris and jeslin went to marina square to check out k box.

on sat night, i attended a wedding dinner :) finally wore my new black dress.. i have been looking for an occasion to wear it.. haha... the dinner was good... usual stuff that u eat at wedding dinners... i love the dessert(yam paste & ginko nuts)and the sharks fin soup!!!!! when i was looking at the wedding photos and videos, i was reminded of the show: 'we got married'... those photos were much more interesting than the ones we usually see... taken at botanic gardens, fullerton hotel, etc. the wedding got me thinking about how i would want my wedding to be in future.. haha... i think i am just crazy...

anyway, i am so looking forward to the sushi buffet with esf later at tanjong pagar... thinking of going earlier to find shuning at maad... :D thats all for now :)

a hole in my pocket

2009-12-04T16:43:00.004+08:00

yesterday i watched new moon with pat at shaw lido. all i can say is that edward and bella cant act for nuts... there were quite a few scenes of bella and edward just staring at each other.. they look totally expressionless..and edward looks totally cold and stony.. everytime he appears, his purpose is to kiss bella.. that's just dumb.. and bella is no better.. the only nice part is that jacob is so nice and warm.. he just looks so friendly and cuddly.. haha.like a furry bear.. the werewolve pack makes the show more bearable too.. haha... i see no reason why any guys would wanna watch new moon.. it's really just for fan girls.. lol:D

anyway, met up with lari for lunch at fish & co. super satisfied and full... and then we moved on to kino to buy the lost symbol and diary planners :) saved quite abit of money because pat had the kino member card :)lari and i also bought the same pair of flats frm charles and keith.. haha.. same size too :) her shoes were giving her so many blisters... later on we decided to experience the life of a tai tai.. haha.. go starbucks and drink frappe.. that is really how we enjoy life.. sit there and talk... while we were at starbucks, one of the staff suddenly rang a bell and shouted... i think they were giving out free tall frappe... we didnt really know what was going on until a super long queue started to form beside our table... we felt kindof cheated.. the staff could have told us beforehand, then we could save the frappe money and buy a slice of cake instead... (a slice of apple crumble cheese cake and a cup of mocha frappe is my perfect high tea:))lol:D

later in the evening, i met up with ailin and shuning at clarke quay... we walked up and down clarke quay,looking for a korean restaurant, only to realise that it was at boat quay.. urgh.. in the end we manage to find a korean restaurant at the central :) the food was good. it was the first time i tried the stoneplate rice thing. really yummy XD

the whole day of eating good food and buying stuff made a hole in my pocket. but i must say it was money well spent. because spending quality time with my friends is priceless!!!!! :)

finally free...but not for long

2009-12-02T23:10:00.003+08:00

my exams are finally over!!!!!!! yay :) feeling really relieved that it's over. pre exam period was mostly spent in the sci library. before each paper, i stepped into the exam hall telling myself i can do it, but i always leave the hall feeling uneasy and disappointed. the exam questions are unexpected. they test the nitty gritty stuff, which i didnt think was very important so i didnt pay much attention to it/ their questions are supper tricky... basically i never leave an exam hall feeling good abt it at all.. no matter how much i prepared. that just sucs totally. it makes u question urself whether u really did study enough/ or maybe u r just the turkey among the eagles. i hate to think about the results i'm gonna get. the worst part of it is that i'm on some mountain when the results are released.

right now i am trying to not think abt it. i really hope that my results will prove that my worries are uncalled for.

uni holidays are the best. no holiday homework at all.. :)

today is mum's birthday. i finally fulfilled one of the things i want to do: sing k with my family. teo heng had this 6 hrs package for $32, and so we sang for 6 hrs straight. it was crazy... too much of an activity makes one sick of it too... i dun think i am going to go sing k anytime soon... i bet people find it weird that the whole family goes sing k.. haha.. diff age grps.. diff language.. my mum sings the old songs.. my little sis sings the eng and korean songs.. i sing chinese.. grace sings a bit of everything.. haha.. and my bro sings the tv oldies :D ended the day with a delicious seafood dinner :)

oh, i went to cut my hair AGAIN on the day of my last exam and i totally regretted cutting it!!!!! i look perfectly fine frm the back but the fringe just sucs. AAHHHHH my hair is driving me mad!!!!!!! i feel like hiding at home everyday.. but i am meeting different groups of friends every single day.

i'm gonna watch new moon tmr with pat. i'm not expecting anything frm the movie. just though it would be nice to see how different it is frm the book :)
dinner with shuning and ailin tmr at clarke quay :) wonder what's nice to eat over there?
i am hoping that i can find nice flats at orchard tmr. better not tell me the design i like doesnt have my size anymore. that always happen to me. well i guess thats abt it... this whole week is a very very busy week :D

cant wait to meet the esf for sushi buffet on sun... haha.. then we can discuss our sleepover at their hostel :D whee...!!!!!

p.s.: my bro is got back his psle results. i think he's gonna get into catholic high. yay :D