Ceiling = Xiling

hi there!!

2007-07-29T19:00:00.001+08:00

wow...didn't realise that i haven't update my blog for almost 2 months!! anyone missed me? or has everyone stopped reading my blog? hee...

many things has happened these 2 months, let's see...

1. i started working on 4th june. think a lot of ppl are stunned or puzzled by my choice. i gave up the phd offer and a chance to pursue a career in research to go into civil service. well, somehow, even though i like research and i've always thought i'll go into research, i've decided to choose a different path simply because i don't see my future in it. staying in a lab, working till the wee hours, reading tons of papers, reading books that are only half english (to non-scientific ppl) simply don't appeal to me as a life career. civil service is a start, a place where i believe i can learn useful stuff and a place where i can stop at to think about my next move.

2. my 2nd year anniversary with my dear...spent on superstar virgo where most of the other cruisers spent their entire time in the casino haha...

3. my first pay slip. not counting those for the part time jobs previously. and i'm enjoying myself immensely, spending a lot on cute/pretty stuff to decorate my cubicle at work, clothes, make up, accessories etc...not to mention a meal for my family and my dear hee...

4. the highlight - convocation. a time of mixed feelings...feel so sad to leave the school, my schooling life, 4 years with the godiva girls. everything just comes back to us on this day. godiva girls must always stay in contact with each other!!

5. the launch of the final book of harry potter. which my dear got for me when he was in china, at a price $13 cheaper than if i buy locally. wow, the book is amazing, exciting and captivating, i simply can't keep my hands, or eyes for that matter, off the book.

alright, got to go...i promise to update more regularly k...cya!!

back from korea!!

2007-05-31T12:28:00.000+08:00

anyone missed me???

well, apparently my little niece, xiaoxin, didn't...she didn't pick me up at the airport!! hmph, no gifts for her...xuanxuan did come, with my mum and bro...more chocolates for her haha...

korea was not bad...i like my tour group, they were all very nice and easy-going people. even though the 7 of us created so much trouble and they had to keep waiting for us, they did so without complaints...thanks!! but, i think the itinerary wasn't exactly that good...there were days when we had to travel like mad and there were days when we reached back the hotel at 6pm...

shopping was disappointing, stuff there are so expensive and not exactly to my taste. so ended up, i bought lots of food (seaweed, dongfen, tidbits, chocolates) back. the honey was most worth the money, i think. 1.2kg of pure honey for 57SGD.

food there was great though, i enjoyed every single meal...don't dare to weigh myself now, i'm scared i'll be shocked by the numbers that appear.

well...message me if you wan to see photos, i haven't upload them yet cause my bro brought the card reader out...

oh anyone on to go shopping for GSS? i haven't shopped enough!!

alright, one post before i leave...

2007-05-22T11:42:00.000+08:00

long time haven't update here...not that i was busy or what, i guess i was just too lazy and don't feel like spending so much time on blogging. somemore, it's not as if i can write to my heart's content here...there're so many things that can't be published online...

ok, a few updates:

1. fyp is finally over!! poster presentation is over too!! and since the day i handed in my thesis, i haven't stepped into my lab again...guess that's how much i like my lab...but i hope i don't get too lousy a grade for my fyp...afterall, my honours grade depends a lot on that and i don't want to get a lower grade just because i screwed up on my fyp...prays hard.

2. sbs dnd is over too...18th may at asian civilisations museum...not bad, quite fun, i enjoyed myself very much. and lucky me, i won the fifth prize!! a 1Gb mp3 player from Shiro...it's so pretty, can view videos, photos, text files, has a fm tuner and the sound quality is good! i gave it to my dear, who has been using my old 128Mb mp3 player for the past 1 and half years...i like the ez link card and personalised cashcard too!! thanks sbs dnd organising committee...
ooh and mark proposed to jo after the dnd!! and our dear jo said yes!! haha...jo certainly didn't let us down, she's the first among all of us to get married!! who's next? yanling? sharon? yulei?

3. something i'm quite sick of...a lot of people, practically everyone, have been asking me if i'm going to accept the ntu phd scholarship and continue studying my phd at ntu. even the sbs office is rushing me to make my decision by sending me a personalised email asking me to indicate my acceptance asap. come on leh, the deadline is 7th june leh, not today or tomorrow. what's the hurry? i hate it when people rush me to make a decision as big as this and i certainly do not appreciate everyone asking me about it whenever we are on the topic of graduation, work or further studies. i finally understand how peck yean felt when everyone was asking her about how her astar scholarship thing is getting along.

4. in about 12 more hours, i'll be on the plane to korea for a 7-day vacation, will be back on 29th night. graduation trip...hmm mixed feelings, i look forward to going to korea. but i don't really look forward to some other stuff...haven't even go and there's already so much conflict and 'landmines'. i just want an enjoyable holiday with my close friends, but i think it's pretty much impossible now. i just hope nothing much happens and i'll be able to hold back my tongue.

alright so much for now...will update again when i'm back. so long~~

guess what?

2007-04-16T14:19:00.000+08:00

i'm in school now, waiting like an idiot for my boss to come to work.

it's 2.19pm.
i've been waiting since 9.25am.
and i've emailed him last friday to ask if he'll be around on mon morning so that we can discuss about my report.

and he is not here yet!!!

call him, he don't answer.
sms him, he don't reply.
i've just emailed him.

i desperately need to talk to him to get back my draft and discuss the parts he said i need to change.

where the hell is he???
how much longer do i have to wait???

it's a long long journey...

2007-04-13T10:48:00.000+08:00

well, i've had enough of complaining about my fyp supervisor, so shall not tarnish my blog with him..let's focus on my work instead. rushed through the whole of last week to get some reasonable results and analysis and endured a few late nights to finish up my report, just so that i can hand in my first draft on wednesday. and i think it's very badly written, i hope he'll be nice enough to point out my mistakes instead of letting me die an awful death...it's my final report and i don't want to get a lower grade for honours because of it!!

can you imagine it? that's practically the end of my academic life in NTU...handing in my fyp thesis means graduation!! and graduation means unemployment!! haiz...i hope i can find a job soon. don't feel like going on grad trip with the thought of unemployment bugging me.

speaking of grad trip, guess where i'm going? K-O-R-E-A! yeah, wow...not really looking forward to the trip because of some reasons, but still, money paid, so go lor...

oh yah, happy birthday to ms aw...quite belated, but better than none hor...haha...
ooh py gor gor (hee), xiaoxin loves your cake, when are you making another one again?

some updates

2007-03-09T22:19:00.000+08:00

a small diversion - well...i guess i simply won't understand what some people are thinking or why some people have to poke their noses into matters that doesn't concern them at all...

graduation trip - i want to go to a lot of places!!!!!!! haiz...but i've no money...i've only enough to go on 1 trip but i want to go with my friends as well as my dear too...but i don't have enough cash to go twice!!! and somemore, i think my mummy will scold me if i go for 2 holidays in a span of 3 weeks...how how how???

fyp - getting a major headache over this...the contamination problem persists and i'm so jittery over it...i mean, i can't get any work done if i don't get my cells. and somemore, today i realised that we've been using the dishes meant for bacteria work to grow my cells...no wonder they don't grow well. but general store doesn't have the dishes that i need!! so have to resort to other means, trying it out for the first time tmr, i hope it works fine. if tmr's experiment go well, hopefully i'll have some pretty decent results for my thesis. else i really don't know how i am going to churn up 5000 words worth of rubbish for the thesis...prays hard.

explosion in lab!!

2007-03-02T22:37:00.000+08:00

oh wow...something exciting happened in lab...

this new indian guy doing phd in my lab was doing some experiment involving some high pressure (not very sure about what he was doing too, only knew he was using the gas faucet to induce a very high pressure in a big glass bottle filled with methanol)...then apparently the bottle couldn't take the high pressure and the bottle exploded!! mind you, it was a very very very big bottle...so when it exploded, it was deafening and shocked all of us. and the glass shattered with an impact that was so great that we found glass near the bacteria culture room...and to think that yinling, meilin and i were standing so near when the explosion happened, it was real lucky that we didn't get hurt...but anyway, that guy got hurt, a couple of very deep cuts on his face (very near his eyes!! lucky him!!) but he bleed a lot...at a point, he even fainted for a couple of minutes...and he got methanol and blood all over him...scared all of us...so this girl from yinling's lab hurriedly helped us call ambulance and they came and sent him to the hospital...the rest of us got to work to clean up the damage...wonder how he is now?

well...a good example of the dangers lurking in a research lab...so everyone, please be careful!! make sure you read up on everything you are doing and listen to other people's advice!! while we were talking when cleaning up the lab, i realised that guy didn't really know what he was doing, and another guy from my lab already told him that what he was doing was quite dangerous but he insisted on doing it, hence the accident...so everyone, accidents can be prevented!! be careful k!!

today is simply not my day

2007-02-12T19:03:00.000+08:00

what else is there to say?

1. i dropped some breakfast onto the floor of the lab office.
2. i forgot to book the culture hood and ended up had to squeeze into the time of other people.
3. i dropped my papers all over the floor.
4. i even spilt one whole tube of my protein sample!!!!!!!!!!

what the hell, man...

1 entire tube of my precious protein sample...gone just in a flick of the fingers. stupid stupid stupid me...and to think i took pains working on it the whole day. luckily though, i only spilt 1 sample, the other 3 were fine. but!! quite pointless to continue on because no more comparison can be done. have to repeat again, luckily my supervisor has a lot of cells that he can give me...phew, so i don't have to wait a week to repeat it. that's the only lucky part, i guess...

but still, today's not my day...i hope the night goes better.

-_-"

2007-01-25T13:55:00.000+08:00

can't believe i was so blur...

i was splitting cells just now and initially i was planning to split 1 flask into 2, so i only uv-ed 2 flasks. my supervisor, just a minute before i went in to do my work, told me to split into 3 flasks instead of 2...i happily nodded my head and went in...when i came out, i realised i've only split into 2 flasks...blurness on my side...don't know what i was thinking then...haiz...so now, i'm short of a flask of cells...

was a bit unhappy with the 2 year 2 students in our lab yesterday. see, i've been bringing my dear's laptop to lab everyday these past 2 weeks...and yesterday, just before i went out for lunch, i switched it off, but when i came back after lunch and after doing some work in lab, i realised it was switched on. asked around then realised is those 2 students on-ed it because i think they want to use the internet. was quite pissed off lah...year 2 guys already and they still don't know how to ask for permission to use other people's stuff. luckily they do not know the password so obviously they can't use it haha. but still quite pissed off lah...i don't mind close friends using or if you ask, i'll let you use, but they did not ask at all...neither did they admit to switching it on when they heard me asking the others. and not a word of sorry from them lor...so i told them i don't like people who i don't really know touching my stuff, especially expensive stuff and stuff that are borrowed...and if they want to touch, at least ask me first. but still, no apology...and one of them still jokingly asked "can touch?" and touched the laptop. so imagine how pissed off i was at them lah...stupid childish guys...

wow...

2007-01-21T16:29:00.000+08:00

yeah wow...haven't realised it's been such an awfully long time since i last blogged...lack of time? nope, except for lab work, i'm pretty free...nothing to write about? probably...afterall, who wants to read about cells, proteins, MS all day long?

speaking of my cells, they died again...both cell lines died on the same day and were brutally killed with bleach and thrown down the sink. which means i'm left with nothing. yes, nothing, no cells, no proteins. back to square one. but luckily i managed to get a set of results when they were growing happily. but 1 set!! not enough!! i have at least 10 sets of results to get!! and i need to repeat that 1 set!! but, there's nothing i can do now except to patiently wait for them to grow again. 13 weeks left to thesis deadline, i'm worried that i won't be able to finish my experiments and get good enough results.

but, i'm actually enjoying my fyp very much...i like the people in my lab a lot, they're a bunch of happy and easy-going people and we can chat about a lot of stuff, not just lab stuff...and meilin said that she thinks we're quite lucky to be in such a lab where the people are so nice. yeah, i guess the colleagues are an important part of the working life...they either make your life heaven or they turn your life into hell...but, 2 indians joined our lab for their phD studies and now, our lab is getting more and more crowded, not to mention the new equipment that took up such a big area in the lab. speaking of the 2 indians, i find the girl quite weird. i've only spoken to her a few times, but she gives me the impression that she thinks she's still living in india...yeah, not to blame since she just came over. but her thinking is quite childish, not applicable to singapore's living style at all and yet, she still dares to call me a child!! i guess it's probably because she comes from a rich family in india.

alright, enough of the boring stuff...let's switch to another topic, away from lab work...

i'm super pissed off with SBStransit these few weeks...it all began with me and my dear waiting 1hour for bus 143 outside haw par glass tower. i was so angry because all the other buses came and went, so there was obviously no jam, and when the bus came, it was packed to the brim that we almost couldn't get on. so i did what singaporeans loved to do...i complained. and when they replied, it was some insincere-sounding automated reply. obviously, i got even more mad. so i shoot back and brought up more issues of passengers waiting super long for the buses. and that stupid guy dared to reply me that he knows of the problems!! fine. i'm very happy that you know the problems, fix them then. do something about it! you increase my bus fares every year, expecting me to pay so much for service that is getting poorer? SBStransit is a bus company that is providing service to the public, they shouldn't focus so much on profit-making. you have problems getting the buses to run on schedule, dispatching buses on time, hiring bus drivers, oil prices increasing, fix them!! like yanling always say, don't make your problems my problem. you caused me to be late for lab, i almost missed the time to 'operate' on my cells (my cells have to be incubated for not more and not less 16 hours, you know?) and had to redo my whole experiment which will take me days...who is going to be responsible for this? and don't say i was late because i was late. i left the house at 8am and i waited till 830am till the bus came. my dear mummy saw me waiting like an idiot every morning, she's the best witness. and now, it's either they blocked my emails (only after 2 emails from me?) or their mailbox is so full of complaints they my mails keep bouncing back. this just goes to show how seriously they take the feedback of the public.

i'm utterly disappointed in SBStransit.

fyp? on leave.

2006-12-27T21:53:00.000+08:00

yeah, decided to take a break from fyp after 2 more days of rotting in the lab. since there won't be anything to do for the next 2 days, i've decided not to go as well...but most probably have to go back during the long weekend...i sincerely hope that my cells will grow well throughout these few days. please don't let anything go wrong with them!!

just back from bangkok...great weather, great food, but too bad, i fell ill and couldn't really enjoy the last bit of hols. but, contrary to many people, i think that hong kong is a better place to shop in. think the thai style of fashion isn't cut out for me :-( i miss hong kong for all the shopping!!

oh yeah, a reminder to the bs gals...hurry confirm about 31st dec!!

happy birthday to me...

2006-12-20T19:09:00.000+08:00

haven't logged into blogger for quite long and i actually had to pause to recall my username and password.

first, heartfelt thanks to my bunch of bs gals for the wonderful surprise at swensens yesterday. u gals are great!!

also thanks to mummy, aunty, worms, my dear and everyone else for the nice nice ang baos, presents and sms wishes...was quite surprised that some old friends who i haven't met in a long time remembered my birthday. happy happy...even though some people purposely chose to ignore me for the whole day (you know who you are) hahaha...

had a really memorable birthday celebration this year and once again, thanks to all who made it happen.

next, updates on my fyp...

in fact, there's nothing much to update...basically all i've done this week, monday to wednesday, is to sit there, read papers, plan my experiments and write out my protocols.

why? long long story...

my poor cells which i've cultured for almost a week were cruelly thrown away by the RA because it was contaminated by some fungi or parasite that happily invaded our incubator. so that means all our cells in the incubator had perished. so, on monday, boss decided to clean out the incubator with formaldehyde, which is so smelly and stinging to the eyes. (by the way, too much exposure to it is potentially carcinogenic.) anyway, this formaldehyde took more than an overnight flushing of carbon dioxide to remove. tuesday afternoon came and went and our culture room was full of formaldehyde fumes. haha...that means no one dared to step into the room to use the culture hoods at all. tuesday evening, we took a risk and decided to culture some cells and they ended up dead this morning :-( so basically, today i sat there, doing nothing, feeling like an idiot...until i got so pek chek, i decided to call it a day at 230pm. no point sitting there trying to act busy when actually i'm bored to death.

almost 2 weeks since i've started fyp and i haven't even cultured my cells. vvvvv pek chek with the NO progress.

hopefully, i can start to culture my cells tmr.

on a happier note, come this friday this time, i'll be in bangkok. looking forward to the trip.

hols

2006-12-05T19:51:00.000+08:00

only one week of hols, must make good use of it...

and it's already tuesday!!

spend sunday at the chalet with the bs gals...first time that i drove from jurong east to pasir ris with someone else besides my dear in the car. yanling and jo!! i hoped i didn't scare the wits out of you 2...

our bbq...out of the many guests that we invited, only zhanrui turned up. thanks for the honour!! the bbq food was one of the best that i've ever had...yanling's mum and ah ma really did a good job at marinating the chicken wings and the fish and prawns that my father bought were really fresh...but most importantly, i think the ones who were bbq-ing were skillful hahaha...a big round back to praise ourselves...perhaps, we were all in a good mood, so eat anything we also think is good haha...also thanks to everyone for celebrating my birthday although it's still a long way to go...but i have to go choose and almost pay for my own cake!! hmph, yi dian cheng yi dou mei you...anyway, yanling jie jie, i've been buying presents for everyone's birthday, i can guess what my own birthday present from you guys will be haha...and i got it right bingo. anyway, thank you very much!! but so bu she de change my earphones, i've been using it for so long, like it very much even though the wires are coming out and one of the phones is spoilt...

anyway, think we all had fun at the chalet, especially since so many of us stayed over...taking a midnight stroll together, playing sparklers, taking lots and lots of photos, timing each other for the shower, spending the whole night talking and gossiping about everything and anything until 6am...i really had fun. how i wished we could be like that forever...

and if that's not enough, we continued ktv-ing at marina square after we checked out of the chalet. and shichun aka mr colin joined us!! cool isn't it? he hurt his thigh so couldn't join us for the chalet and he was so paiseh that he didn't go to the chalet, so he joined us for ktv. it was also the first time that we ktv-ed with siew kee...they both had excellent voices...

high high high...

so high that i fell right aslp after having dinner with my dear and spoilt the evening...so sorry...

and i spent the whole day in bed today...so there goes my tuesday! getting to be like a pig already...cannot, tmr must get some stuff done.

anyone knows when the exam results will be out?

end of exams!!!

2006-12-03T10:52:00.000+08:00

finally, after 3 full weeks of exams, it's over!!!

that's my last exam in ntu, given that i passed all lah...which i sincerely hoped that i will. my first 3 papers were fine, my last 3 papers sucked (*sorry!)...even structural biology, easily the easiest paper of all sucked (*sorry!). a lot of memory work involved and i can't remember a lot of the stuff...maybe i didn't put in enough effort. hope i will pass all my papers...

went for emil chau's 20th anniversary concert last night...it was the longest concert i've ever been to. the concert started promptly at 8.05pm and ended at 1130pm *faintz* sat till i was so tired...somemore, he sang a lot of songs that i don't know in the begining, so it was quite boring. luckily he is a good entertainer, so i didn't fall asleep. ooh and someone proposed to his girlfriend during the concert!! somehow, that guy managed to get emil chau's help to sing 明天我要嫁给你啦, and while he is singing, words from the guy to the girl were flashing on the big screens and they ended with 'dear, will you marry me?' so sweet...then they both went up on stage and the guy proposed to her in front of everybody. of course, the girl said yes lah...who would reject in front of everybody? come to think of it, even if she really wanted to reject, she won't reject and embarrass the guy in front of so many people. it's really a mean trick on the guy's part to get the girl to definitely say yes...haha...

it's 11am sunday now, just sent yanling off to her meeting and now waiting for km to wake up and come fetch us. yeah...going chalet!! so happy...no more exams, no more mugging, more of fun, joy and laughter...i hope it'll be fun later. think it's going to be one of the few last gatherings we are going to have together in ntu.

cool picture, isn't it? my whole bunch of friends who've struggled through these four years with me...

almost choked...

2006-10-31T21:38:00.000+08:00

...on a strepsils...

*faintz* strepsils also can choke...haha, was talking to xinyi and sharon while popping one and somehow, it just went all the way down...what went wrong?

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believe it or not, 2 more weeks and the exams are here...

so fast!!

and i have lessons till the end of next week, which essentially means there's only 1 weekend and 3 weekdays for full study before my first paper...sianz...and the worse thing is i don't understand a single word of what i am reading!! how to go to exam hall like that??!!!

haiz...need help...need tuition...need more time...

it's already my last semester, don't wish to do badly...

and i think i'm getting sick again...my throat feels weird and so sore...no, exercise didn't take it away :-( but anyway, thanks to my dear for buying lunch for me and my friends today hee...gotta get back to studying...

tagboard to cbox

2006-10-15T22:20:00.000+08:00

well...apparently my tagboard has been giving me some problem, keep prompting me to sign in whenever i open my blog. and i guess it's the same problem with some other friends too...hey people, i postulate is the tagboard problem!! so change it to some other like chatterbox or cbox k...

yanling, guess who i saw at holland village today?

2006-10-13T22:46:00.000+08:00

did you guess correctly?

yup yup...it's your favourite tutor, prof lzx!! believe it or not, km and i were eating happily at sushi tei at the counter seats, and he came in and just happened to sit right next to us!! stunned...

and guess who he is with?

the girl who we saw was with him that day at the minimart...and we were saying they seemed quite close...remember?

and guess their relationship?

well, i also don't know, BUT it's an intimate relationship...that, anyone can tell for sure...ask me if you want to know why hahaha...

sometimes, time really doesn't mean anything

2006-10-12T10:06:00.000+08:00

isn't it puzzling why 2 individuals, who have enjoyed almost 10 years of friendship, couldn't understand each other's actions or speech?

let me see...

2006-10-08T20:41:00.000+08:00

when was the last time i blogged?

22nd sept...

that was just before term break and the start of my nightmares...

have been really really really busy with business plan, presentation, tutorial quiz last week...going to be busy with test, tutorial quiz, presentaion this coming week. haiz...it's a vicious cycle that never ends.

anyway, i'm really happy that we've finally finished the business plan. simply nightmarish two weeks. the presentation for that module is fun and i think we did a great job!! well, considering we spent so much time and effort, of coz it's great!! haha...but the business plan wasn't so fun. had a horribly hard time compiling and editing the whole plan, and it doesn't help that i had to keep rushing them...special thanks to our ceo peck yean who spent the last two days working like hell with me, to jo who designed the logo and created so much fun when we were working on friday. but something i have to conclude, it's fun working with friends, but there're its cons too.

and thanks to my dear...for everything during the past two weeks...i owe you a big big meal...

alright, back to work now...looking forward to a day, anyday when i can slack without feeling 'work undone'...i guess that'll be the holidays, haiz...

start of term break = start of nightmare

2006-09-22T23:28:00.000+08:00

haiz...i just can't imagine one whole semester without term break.

think i'll die of exhaustion. i simply have no motivation and nothing to look forward to this whole semester...imagine having to go back to school everyday 9am to 5pm during term break in order to clear a 3AU module...and the rest of the class cleared the module during the 3-month break!! haiz...all the school's fault...they never tell us about this module earlier, else i won't have gone to hong kong. they only told us after i've paid all the money and bought air tickets to hong kong!! haiz...super no motivation, but luckily sharon, huiyi, peck yean, jo and yulei are in with me, so at least it won't be that bad, hopefully...at least we had some fun discussing it today...hahaha

but still, no term break :-(

went for cardiolatino class with jo today...super fun!! the pace was a bit fast though and i realised my sense of coordination is actually very bad...my legs and hands don't go together!! but i like the class and the instructor (though she keeps making some weird jokes)...think will go for more of such classes...nice to work out and sweat...

exactly a week later...

2006-09-10T23:29:00.000+08:00

millions of thanks to my dear sbs friends for the big big bottle of lemon honey water...hee don't worry, i finished it...didn't waste any of your efforts, even though i heard tales of how some just drank from the bottle to taste, how some squeezed the lemon, how some cut the lemon...

finally feeling much better now, after a couple of weeks of intense coughing, running nose (and eyes?), sore throat and fever that bugged me for the last few days...thanks for all the concern. come to think of it, i think yihan might be right when he speculated that some virus had leaked from the labs...really a lot of people are down with the same symptoms lately...haha

spent the last 2 days at sheraton towers sitting there and watching mr ong busy...well, congratulations to mr ong for a successful exhibition held. and thanks to my friends - weiting, sharon & alex, huiyi & minjin, yida & family and even my father - for going down and keeping me company.

seem to be saying a lot of thanks today...haiz...i guess that's the only word i can say now...

T-H-A-N-K-S

exercise on a sunday morning...

2006-09-03T20:47:00.000+08:00

when i am sick?

yes...

i think i am mad...coughing like mad and still wake up so early to go for kickboxing lessons at parkmall.

struggled through the first 15 minutes of the lesson due to sudden lack of breath...haha turned pale and cold and almost scared poor yanling to death. but as the lesson proceeds, it became better...in fact, i was so enjoying myself towards the end of the class even though i couldn't keep up with the tempo...guess my sense of coordination is horrible.

conclusion? nice workout, but i think my whole body will be aching like hell tmr...can't bear to think about it...

came home feeling so tired that all i want to do is to hurry up wash my clothes and rest...who knows, there lays a bucket of clothes in the bathroom...idiotic is the person who washed halfway and left them there, more idiotic is the person who was at home and refused to finish washing them.

irritating.

1st september

2006-09-01T10:46:00.000+08:00

happy teachers' day to all the teachers out there...

haha...wanted to go back njc yesterday, but came down with cough, sore throat and fever, so can't go...hee poor sharon bought the presents for the teachers already, and now end up we have to keep them for ourselves...

met with one irritating episode on the bus today. this girl was blasting her mp3s on her handphone out so loud that everyone on the bus could hear what she's playing *faintz* no wonder most of the people had earphones stuck into their eas when i board the bus. and it just so happened that my mp3 player ran out of batteries and i had to tolerate her loud blasting until she alighted. haiz...such unconsiderate behaviour...

long time never update

2006-08-12T10:33:00.000+08:00

indeed, it's been a long time...2 months?

yup, back from hong kong about 2 weeks ago...busy unpacking and marvelling over all the stuff i bought. didn't realise that i've bought so much stuff until i started packing and unpacking. in the end, all our luggages were overweight. me - 24.9kg, huiyi - 25.9kg, jo - 27.7kg...luckily we met a kind soul in front of us who wasn't checking in anything, so he let us hitch his luggage limit. so, we don't have to pay any overweight charges...

first week of school only and i'm already feeling the stress of being a final year student. seems like there's going to be lots of presentations and essays and weekly assignments for this semester. i ended the first week of lesson with 20 odd papers to read *faint*...speaking of essays, i have this presentation/essay for my genetics course and we have to go and sign up for the particular slots that we want to work on. i simply can't believe that by tuesday morning, practically half the slots were already taken up when the email was only sent on wednesday afternoon. haiz...fierce competition? or simply kiasu-ness?

and the fyp allocation system is really so unfair...anyone has any lobang to find external fyp for bio science students?

on a happier note, the fireworks on tuesday and friday were simply breathtaking. i like yesterday's...think singapore's performance on tuesday simply isn't up to the standard. i hope today's will be better (yes, i'm going marina today again...hee)

and thanks to sharon, sarah, grace, qiuhui for all the little gifts you've brought from beijing, france, usa and japan...wow, so many of us went abroad this hols...hope you guys like the coins and chocolates huiyi, jo and i brought back from hong kong too...

sidetracking a bit...it's ok to complain at times, but i simply don't think that friends are the outlets for you to vent your frustration on...vvv upset by someone, but going to let it pass...hope there won't be any similar incidents in the near future. meanwhile, i'm getting back to my papers...jia you everyone!!

last post in singapore

2006-06-15T13:03:00.000+08:00

flying off at 640am friday morning, which happens to be tmr morning. argh...that means i have to wake up at 3 plus *faintz* why does the flight have to be so early???

anyway, i've set up a new blog for the hong kong trip (just click), so dear friends, please refer to that blog for updates in hong kong. as for this blog, i'll still be updating from time to time. shall not neglect my nice nice blog hee...

nothing to do now, waiting for xiaoxin to wake up so i can take a nice nice photo with her. i'm really afraid that she'll forget who i am when i come back in 6 weeks, so i'm going to print a photo of me and her and paste it where she can see everyday. haha...

anyway, i will miss everyone and everything here...especially my family, xiaoxin, my dear and the food.

p.s. last night, i lost my 4 leaf clover pendant...a big THANK YOU to the gals for walking with me to look for it. the good news is, i've found it!! it's at home, tucked away in a corner and mummy didn't see it. so happy to find it, i'll be extra careful not to lose it again.

unexpected night of events

2006-06-09T11:55:00.000+08:00

the day began just like any other day and i was looking forward to going out for dinner with my dear. he said he wanted to reward me for getting good grades for my exams, but the ironic thing is, my grades are not good!! argh...guess it's a consolation dinner instead. anyway guess where we went?? we went to this nice nice place called the ark club. it's that kind of place where there are ppl singing and customers just go in to listen to them sing. yeah, that's a 民歌餐厅. wow...nice ambience, pretty good food, prettily served drinks and 3 singers entertaining us. and the best thing is since it's a weekday, there were only 3 tables occupied. so we get the full attention of the singers. have time and love chinese pop songs? try spend a night there...

so after that, we happily went back to my house where we were intending to watch a record of the 9pm show (today's the last episode!!)...but things took an unexpected downturn here, little precious xiaoxin came down with very high fever, 39.6C when i took her temperature at home...so we decided that it's too high and quickly brought her to NUH children's emergency for consultation. don't know why that girl, just step in only then started crying at the top of her voice and kept refusing to let them take her temperature and pulse rate and stuff...ooh they took her temperature and it was 39.8C...so she kept on crying non-stop for about an hour while we waited for her to pee cause the doc wanted to see if there's any infection. aiyoh, the plastic bag that was meant to contain the urine kept falling off cause she kept moving around, so end up we waited for 3 hours also didn't manage to do the test. but at least, she got better and started to play around the whole room. i think that's the first time she's still wide awake and playing at 3am in the morning.

haha...come to think of it, it's quite funny...the way she cry, she cried till she shook and jerked, like there are people torturing her like that, when all we wanted is to take her temperature. and there's this lady doc who is so cute, she's a bit boyish and she kept shaking her legs when she's talking to us *faintz* and another funny thing is every nurse and doc there kept calling me mummy and kaimin daddy *faintz* and when we told a doc we were not, he was like where's the parents? 'at home' *blur look* huh? what are they doing at home? 'sleeping' *another blur look* haha it took some time for them to realise that my mummy is babysitting her grandchild. phew, anyway we left the hospital at 3am, after 3 hours of waiting and once we got home, we all surrendered to mr chew's beckon to play chess.

ooh and i'm going for another vaccination later *faintz*

-= counting down - 6 more days to hong kong =-

last day at PC show

2006-06-04T23:00:00.000+08:00

phew...finally the end of the PC show.

my legs are already breaking after all those standing...but i must say, the PC show is an interesting place where you can get lots of good bargains!! how good? you might ask...as good as a $1000 slash off the offered price of samsung LCD TVs. wow...of course, that was like right at the end of the show. but still, it's cheap!! the only thing i don't like is that there's too many people and they don't even have the courtesy to give way when you are carrying stuff that are kilograms heavy.

ooh and i got into a heated argument with one of the salesgirl from samsung. i was looking at their mp3 players and she commented that samsung mp3 players are the best both in appearance and quality and that creative mp3 players can't be compared to theirs because her friend's creative mp3 player spoilt easily. i was like, how can you based on only one case then conclude creative is lousy? and how could you say that the products you're selling is the best whereas other brand products are lousy? even if you want to do business also not like that mah...it's just like kfc cannot criticise mcdonalds and mcdonalds cannot criticise kfc. feel so much like knocking her head!! and to add on, i've used 2 or 3 samsung handphones and all didn't make it through the first year without having to go to the service centre. and it's not just me, a lot of my friends have the same problem. again, i'm not saying samsung phones are bad, i love samsung phones, that's why i keep using them. i'm just trying to say that each brand and each product have their pros and cons...so don't generalise.

alright, off to hang my clothes.

ooh, tmr i'll be doing street survey at orchard!! come find me if you're free...ben and jerry's voucher for each completed survey!!!

first day at PC show

2006-06-01T22:51:00.000+08:00

physically tiring...

my legs are breaking from standing for more than 8 hours and giving out paper bags. i have 4 paper cuts on my hands and some faint slashes on my arms. *faintz*

but the good thing is it's so happening at the PC show, it's not boring at all. and there are so many cheap cheap bargains all around. oh no, i'm so tempted!! ooh i want to get a new sd card though...kingston 1Gb $43, 2GB $81...which one should i get??

and i can't stand my school's clerk again. she sent an email to us, telling us our forms are ready for collection and she said to collect them by today. hello?? as if we're so free, we'll sit in front of the computer waiting for her email all day long. she sits in front of the computer all day doesn't mean others do the same. and even though we're on hols, also doesn't mean we are free all day. don't know what is going on in her head.

going off...3 more days of standing. btw, if you happen to go the the PC show, come chit chat with me!! i'll most probably be standing (again!!) at one of the entrances.

x men III - don't read if you are planning to watch

2006-05-30T23:22:00.000+08:00

just watched x men III today...hmm alright show, nothing too exciting or fabulous or fanciful or glamourous, but it wasn't that bad too.

i just don't like the ending. i don't understand why wolverine had to kill poor jean grey. why didn't he keep an extra syringe of the cure for her so that she will become normal again?

my thoughts after the show -
it may be scary to be different from the rest of the people around you. people gossip, people are fearful and they may look at you differently. but i don't think there is a need to hide. keeping secrets is difficult and the only one suffering is you yourself. besides, secrets aren't forever. one day, they'll be exposed. so what's the point? just happily accept the differences and live on simply, especially if you choose to be different. why care about what others think or say (whether to you or behind your back), don't you gossip about other people too?

IRO + GO + night safari

2006-05-30T00:17:00.000+08:00

first was to IRO to find mr always-on-sick-leave-or-out for-lunch-or-on-leave...as usual, he was on sick leave. then there was these 2 clerks at the counter. one of them, i already blacklist meaning i don't like her. the other, i've never seen before. anyway, i left IRO hating these two women. simply rude and non-service-line material. they shouldn't be sitting at the reception counter.

next was to my school's GO. also very sianz, cause the vice dean was just standing there and i jsut wanted his signature but the school clerk kept insisting that we cannot do the credits transfer for a module and insist we go find another module. so we went to search and we came up with no similar modules. we went back and practically the whole office went out for lunch and the only person there did not even look up when we rang the bell so many times. when finally someone came out, she kept our forms and told us that the school clerk will email us when they are ready. wth...that means i have to make another boring trip back to school just for a signature. sometimes really don't know what they are thinking...something so simple yet they have to make it seem so difficult. and i just received an email saying the module is not suitable and she wants us to go back to school to get the form back to make corrections. why can't she just cancel it for us???

luckily the trip to night safari was refreshing and enjoyable. hee...nice nice place. some animals were simply adorable although the big animals were a bit terrifying. but i still think the animals are so poor things, to be kept in such a small confined area and have to endure the curious looks of so many visitors each day. they have like lost all their instinct and survival skills...keeping animals in the zoo is a good way to ensure they are protected and to prevent them from getting extinct. but it defies the rule of 'survival of the fittest'...the animals are losing their 'wildness'. do we really need so many of such 'domesticated' animals?

bad experience at the doctor...

2006-05-26T23:14:00.000+08:00

went for flu jab today...bad bad experience...

first, the nurse couldn't understand me when i told her i'm allergic to neomycin and she kept misinterpreting it for some other drugs. so i have to spell it out for her *faintz* don't know is i can't pronounce or she don't understand.

next, the doc didn't check my allergy properly before administering the jab...after i had the jab, jo found out that the jab was not suited for ppl allergic to neomycin and she came into the room, telling me about it...but too late!! i've had the jab already...argh, so end up the doc apologised for the blunder and asked me to stay back for half an hour to see if i developed any allergy symptoms...luckily, there wasn't any...i think hor, is not the jab contain neomycin, it's probably just that the jab isn't exactly suitable, so it's probably alright!! cross my fingers, let's hope nothing happens.

argh

2006-05-25T13:08:00.000+08:00

heavens knows what is wrong...i spent the whole night tossing and turning in bed, wishing all the nightmares will go away. i know i'm dreaming, but try as i could, i couldn't wake up. and now, i'm feeling soooo tired. and to add on it, both mummy and i are feeling feverish and back aching, symptoms of fever. argh...don't know who pass to who one...and i still have to go for flu jab tmr!!! what a bad start to the day.

but i had a great time last night, thanks to cherin, yihan, zhiliang and zhixiong.

wednesday

2006-05-24T13:50:00.000+08:00

went to watch the da vinci code on monday...hmm a bit disappointed because they changed major parts of the story and the movie deviates from the book. i don't understand why movies that originate from books always have this problem of deviating too much. why can't they 'zhong yu yuan zhu' a bit more? but the movie was not bad, i like the way it was presented.

yesterday was getting bored with nothing much to do...yes, i'm still slacking at home. so went to the library with jo to plan our trip. hee pretty much planned out, think huiyi will get a shock when she sees how packed the schedule is...haha we are two crazy girls. then a job agency called us and we went down to tanjong pagar where we bought brownies cause jo insisted they are at half price. and yup they are at half price, but the brownies aren't as good leh...both my bro and i found them too sweet. and fyi, we are both severely sweet-toothed.

and my dear went off to redang with his friends last night, will only be back on fri night...

and xiaoxin is going to rasa sentosa for a short stay while her parents celebrate their anniversary.

and practically everyone else is still at IA, working, interning, holidaying...

so yup, now is the perfect time to start what i should be working on...the websites...*faintz* please give me some inspiration.

new blog!!

2006-05-22T15:03:00.000+08:00

hee...how do you like my new blog?

spent about 2 hours this morning making changes to this template i found at blogskins...very cute hor and it's so sunny and happy looking. i like. but i also like my previous blog layout, so sad to say good bye to it...

but there's something wrong with the colour scheme, give me more time to edit them. and there are some stuff which i've forgotten how to do already, i need more time to explore...hee meanwhile, can start on another website i've been assigned to.

ooh poor xiaoxin is sick...vomited twice and 'lao sai-ed' twice...seldom see her so lethargic-looking haha...get well soon!

hee...

2006-05-16T22:40:00.000+08:00

watched poseidon today at the new cathay cineplex...wah not bad, nice place, good cinema, except that practically all the shops are not yet open and the place is a bit ulu...but got ben & jerry's hee...and the show's not bad, pretty exciting...i thought it would be like titanic and when the ship sank totally about 15 minutes into the show, i was like thinking "huh? then what else are we going to watch?" but no! the exciting and interesting part only starts then...nice nice...but hor, the cinema was super cold and watching them soaked in the freezing sea water didn't make me any warmer...so everyone, pls remember to bring jacket if you are going there...

i'm looking at a big pile of books on my table now, thanks to my dear...hmm, i wonder which book is worth starting on first...but first, let me finish angels and demons, which i'm reading for about the 4th time hee...hey ppl, i think angels and demons is a nicer book than the da vinci code, perhaps because i like the arguments about science and faith in it...and it comes before the da vinci code. read it!!

to my dear worms, are we still meeting up this saturday? mama worm abandoned us le!! =( ooh since little worm is only free at night, why not we just meet for dinner and talk...long time since our last gathering...any suggestions where to go? somewhere not so expensive please...

and acacia, not i don't want to recommend but they replied through email, and the only that called me, you won't be interested 'cause is night work =P let's jia you together k!!

yay...can get the samsung software to work le, so here are the photos!!

2006-05-13T23:05:00.000+08:00

Rupert's son, edward...isn't he adorable?? and he looks so much like rupert...beautiful eyes...and his mother is a pretty local chinese who doesn't look chinese at all...i wonder how rupert won her heart haha...

nice saturday

2006-05-13T22:29:00.000+08:00

spent the whole afternoon at the grand hyatt hotel today, enjoying the nice ambience and high tea...hee, no lah...we were 'employed' by our school to be student helpers at the 'psycho-students-to-join-our-school' high tea session...our duties comprised of marshalling the prospective students around and to answer any queries they have. quite fun there, since we have practically nothing to do...so we stood around and chit chat, enjoying the nice high tea buffet there...haha, i like the high tea session, there was endless supply of food on the tables...but hor, there was also some unhappiness...'cause there was this auntie who was so rude to us when we asked her to move upstairs for the reception. wah...i don't need to know that her daughter is the top student in malaysia. so what if she's the top student in malaysia...go UK or USA to study lah, why come singapore...and she was so rude when yanling told her she can bring her food upstairs and continue eating. as if walking a few steps to the escalator will kill her...so what if you are rich. all kinds of people exist in this world, cannot stand them...

but the reception was not bad...haha, at least we got to talk rubbish with many of the professors and get paid for it haha...i realised JT is actually quite a humourous character!! he was so cute when he was asking why students would want to go for the accelerated program to graduate half a year earlier so that they can start work and make money hee...and rupert's 6-month-old son is sooooooo adorable, he has such beautiful eyes, shall upload his pic when i get the samsung software working (speaking of samsung, how can they post un-updated files on the web? i spent hours dl-ing them only to realise they're not complete...and now, i cannot upload my photos in my hp to my pc!! and they're not responding to my emails!! i've emailed them twice!! what is wrong with their customer service??!!!)...ooh and peter preiser's kids were there too...btw, he has 3 of them, i didn't see the oldest one, i saw the second son who is 4 years old and the baby boy who is only 10 months old but looks 2 years old. my god, the baby boy is soooooo big in size!! must have inherited most of his genes from his daddy.

after the high tea session, i went dinner with mr ong at mcdonalds...haiz...there was these 2 ladies sitting beside us at mcdonalds and they, like, have never been into a fast food restaurant. haha they can't even distinguish between the small, medium and large drinks, so funny...and how can you expect good service from a fast food joint? who will ever ask you where you are sitting so that they can bring you your food? most of the time, they'll just walk around trying to recognise you, that's fast food for you!

anyway, i'm so happy now...there're 2 durian cakes in my fridge now, i'm not going to let mr ong take 1 home!!! hahaha...

p.s. i just checked samsung website and the file is working now!! looks like they're still doing their job, but at a super slow pace (nearly a month)...

no job, no money but still spending like mad...

2006-05-12T11:03:00.000+08:00

i know i'm not the only one, but please let me complain...

i spent $170+ on 3 tops and a pair of jeans yesterday in a matter of half an hour...thanks yanling for shopping with me. luckily a major part is covered by the vouchers i have and i only have to fork out ~1/3 of the $170. alright, that's the end of my esprit vouchers...ooh i like the tops that i've bought, especially the pink one haha...shall take a photo of it when i feel like it...

but that is bad!! i've no job and no income but i'm spending like mad...argh...and i hate slacking at home doing nothing. see? only first week of slacking and i'm already sick and sick of it...haha...and my previous lab supervisor said a month is too short for me to do any projects in his lab, so he's not taking me back. instead, he asked me to rest and enjoy before my trip *faintz*. and despite the number of temporary jobs i've applied to, all replied saying they need people till at least end of june *cry*. i've already overspent this month and i predict i'll be spending even more in the second half of the hols...haiz...anyone have any part time jobs, please recommend.

i'm falling sick...

2006-05-10T22:31:00.000+08:00

perhaps i should just say i'm sick...

flu, sore throat plus a bit of fever...just when i was so happy that i didn't fall sick this exams period, i have to fall sick after my exams. haiz...i hope it goes away soon. i don't like the feeling in my neck.

haven's spend a day at home this week.
monday went school hand in report and went to a vegetarian steamboat buffet to celebrate huiyi's birthday. give me some time, i'll post the photos soon, but shall not malu huiyi by posting that of huiyi and her bf, msn me if you want to see what mingjin looks like haha...i hope huiyi enjoys the surprises haha...even though her bday card is still with me, blur me forgot to give it to her!!
tuesday went to bank. speaking of the bank, i have to blog this. i wanted a bank statement of MY account and i happily thought i could get it from the bank, certified true copy. but the staff at the bank told me they have to charge me $20 for a month's worth of statement, which means i have to pay $60 for what i want. i stared big-eyed back at her and couldn't believe what i heard. why on earth do i have to spend $20 for a statement of MY account? and some more, this information can be easily downloaded from internet banking. i simply don't understand this. it's like how we wanted to buy a small candle from a bakery but was rejected outright and was told it's the rule. what kind of stupid people set this kind of stupid rules...
wednesday (today), i went out for lunch with my dear's family and went his home for dinner. hmm seems like we kept eating...haha no lah, we watched some tv too.
tomorrow, i need to go meet my insurance agent and back to school (yucks) for a briefing.

haiz...seems like i really won't be at home this week...haha

i'm so amazed at myself

2006-05-08T01:47:00.000+08:00

i spent the whole day of my first day of hols, friday, in school drawing graph and trying to interpret them. and i spent the whole of sunday sitting in front of my computer, writing my report and drawing more graphs.

mistakes after mistakes, confusion after confusion.
i finally finished my report, at 1.30am in the morning. and i started at 11am!! i'm so amazed at how concentrated i was today. haha...i didn't leave my seat at all except to go to the toilet, bath and eat.

my god...i hate this report. i hate the teacher more. but no choice, i need this report to pull up my grade for this module, which i hate to think about. haiz...

i do wonder how yanling survived through all her last minute report rushing sessions.

but sharon reminded me...this would be the last report i have to write for SBS, of course not including my honours thesis. but sharon hor, i think next semester will be worse leh...all presentations. and speaking of next semester, i have to choose 5 PEs out of 7 PEs. not much of a choice right? well, neurobiology is out, i can't decide the other that is a no-no...don't feel like taking everything...they took out all the TCM modules and the module i've always wanted to take, they moved it to a year 3 module which means we can't take, unless we take it in semester 2 next year. wth...

well...i'm going to collapse...night everyone!! those still pia-ing reports, jia you!!

exams over!!

2006-05-06T13:34:00.000+08:00

i can't believe i'm spending the first few days of my hols in front of the computer, slaving over my report.

exams over but nothing to be happy about though...i still have a report dued on monday...shit, and i haven't even started writing it. plotting all those graphs, interpreting them and reading through the information that the others have found took up the whole of yesterday. phew, aren't i glad that we are splitting up the work among the few of us...and today, i'm in absolutely no mood to do it. think i shall start tonight...going out later for MI-3...haha my report shall be my MI-4...i'll be so happy when i finally hand it in on monday.

speaking of this report, die die also must do a good job, because i think i did quite bad for the paper (my last paper)...so now must use this report to retain as much of my CA marks as possible...

post-exams blues...haha suddenly i don't have to spend all day poring over notes after notes...i do hope i do well for certain modules...pinning all my hopes on them haha...

ooh milky, no lah, i'm sure i don't know as much as you, you've afterall studied biology all the way from sec school till now leh...but still, you reminded me, i'm pretty amazed at how i got through year 1. from then on, it was much better. remembered my year 1 modules...haha, i've absolutely no idea what a nucleotide is...i guess it's the challenge of learning new stuff that's so fun. of course, minus the exams.

k lah...enough crap for now.

2006-05-02T19:56:00.000+08:00

it's weird...

but why do i feel a bit down and perhaps, a tinge of jealousy tugging?

i'm perfectly happy now and i shouldn't be feeling this way.

why?

what a joke

2006-04-28T22:34:00.000+08:00

sidetracking a bit first...think my 308 paper is a gone case too...

back to the topic...

i'm pretty amused by the news lately.

tell me.

how often do you see big shots appearing at mrt stations, bus stops, coffeeshops, wet markets smiling brilliantly and trying to shake everyone's hand or pat everyone's back?

how often do you see people waving their hands and standing at the backs of lorries with loudspeakers blaring in 7 different languages?

how often do you get home visits from those big shots?

it's all buzzing away with activity in the other part of the country even as i am typing this now, but look at the part where i live in. it's dead silence...not a single poster, not a single soul in sight. the happenings on the news i'm watching seems to be happening in another country far far away.

gone case today

2006-04-24T19:45:00.000+08:00

my paper today was a total flop.

one look at the questions and i almost fainted. the theory questions looked foreign to me and i only know a few parts...and the calculations, i guess still ok ba, but that 4 point assymmetrical model...i really have no idea how to do. so confusing!! any clever and kind souls know how to do, please enlighten me. thanks...and what the hell lor, 5 10mark questions and 10 5m questions to be done within 2 and half hours...you think i so li hai meh...

i knew i won't do well for this paper, but i just didn't expect it to be so horrible...

*i hate comptational biology and modeling*

shall go study hard for my next killer paper...cancer!! here i come!!!

fried ice cream

2006-04-23T19:38:00.000+08:00

hee...feel like blogging this...so funny...

suddenly had a craving for fried ice cream last week, so we went to the chinese restaurant at chevrons on saturday. that was the only place where i knew had fried ice cream. the other place was tiong bahru market, but the other i was there, i couldn't find the stall. anyway, so we went chevrons. and it was so funny, 'cause we only wanted to buy 2 fried ice cream, but the waitress was so fast in serving us and they seemed to think it was funny that we came especially for 2 fried ice cream. hee...we were so paiseh while waiting for our order. so much so that we ran off, forgetting to take our umbrella and the waitress had to run after us to return us. haha...that was such an unique dessert.

share a song

2006-04-21T14:22:00.000+08:00

i like this song, so much so to the extent that i'm repeating it on my mp3 while studying now. for your information, i'm studying in school right now hee...i think it has beautiful lyrics, the tune is catching and it has a very touching feel to it.

我要快乐 -- 张惠妹

又被爱伤了一遍

无所谓当作成长

刚刚走开的人

烟还点着味道却淡了

我并不是天生爱寂寞

却比任何人都多

就算把世界给我

我还是一无所有

我要快乐我要能睡的安稳

有些人不抱了才温暖

离开了才不恨我早应该割舍

我要快乐哪怕笑的再大声

心不是热的全都是假的

只有眼泪是真的

把从前想了一遍

谢谢了伤我的人

想做乐观的人

每种雨声听了都不冷

我并不是天生爱寂寞

却比任何人都多

就算把世界给我

我还是一无所有

我要快乐我要能睡的安稳

有些人不抱了才温暖

离开了才不恨我早应该割舍

我要快乐哪怕笑的再大声

心不是热的全都是假的

我的决定是对的

p.s. thanks ms py for the agar agar...pretty leh...but made me shout and run like mad woman also -_-" nvm, next time treat you back.

finally here and over

2006-04-20T22:38:00.000+08:00

weird title right? especially when it's refering to exams...

normally, i'm not such an enthusiatist for exams. but this time round, i've no idea why i'm looking so forward to the start of the exams. imagine 2 weeks ago, i was still so stressed out when rushing all the reports and fearing there's no time to finish studying all my modules. 2 days ago, i can't wait for today to come so that we can just get it over and done with. and now, i'm in absolutely no mood to study. what the hell...i still have 4 more papers to go! i must get my momentum back.

anyway, the point i'm trying to make is, i'm glad that my exams have finally started today with the a-lot-to-study-but-nothing-is-clear developmental biology. (hee...i realised i do like developmental biology. it's something i can understand and imagine, unlike structural biology or biophysics or whatever.) my exams started late this semester, there are people who have already finished 3 papers and people who have already finished all their papers. but, whatever, i'm not them, so let's not compare.

today's paper...hmm it's alright i guess, except for the first part (the 24 true and false questions). 24 questions and i only know 4, horrible hor? the rest? tikam lor...it's either true or false, so i have 50-50 chance of getting it right haha...anyway, there wasn't any time for me to think so much too, so just choose ba...today i really did write to the last minute, until the examiner says pens down...i'm simply amazed at how much crap i have. and i'm so happy that the 3 questions that xinying and i discussed this morning came out, exactly the way we discussed, what a stroke of luck...i just hope the luck follows me through the subsequent papers.

i need wonders for my next 2 papers...

which means, i gotta study right now. haven't touched my books since i got home at 7 plus.

=)

2006-04-17T20:17:00.000+08:00

got a pleasant surprise today...hee i wasn't expecting there to be an exam welfare package for me this semester, but there it is! i just got it today...all thanks to my dear... here's a picture of it and the card...

and guess what it is??

hee giant sized chocky sticks, strawberry flavoured...just right to feed me when i'm studying.

thank you mr, ong...

super bored

2006-04-17T00:09:00.000+08:00

i am so bored!!!

can someone please save me??

and tell me an efficient and effective way to study??!!!

H
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M
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p.s. i guess you can tell how bored and stressed i am =P

update

2006-04-09T09:49:00.000+08:00

for ms py, who complains that we don't update our blogs.

this week is happening.

first, the unhappiness between me and mr ong. i'm really sorry about this, i don't mean to make you sianz or disappointed or sad or whatever, but it's not the right time now...i hope you understand.
second, celebrating sharon's and qiuhui's birthday in school on friday...shall upload some photos when i got them. py! hurry up go upload them...
third, celebrating sharon's birthday at fish and co on saturday night. amazingly, all the bfs turned up. again shall upload the photos when i got them. yulei! hurry go upload them...finally got to see sharon's bf in person in the context of sharon's bf hee...next time want to see another one...hmm i seem very kpo hor, no no, should say i guan xin my friends hee...
last but not least, giving my dear heart attacks in the car the whole week haha...all the way from school to home, from tiong bahru to home, from jp to school, from ikea to home, from ps to home...sorry, i will try to improve.

oh yah and it's last week of school...*faintz* which means exams will be here soon. my first paper is only one and a half weeks later and i'm not even halfway through my revision, die...py jo sharon yanling, go school study with me k...i need help!!

and i realise my school really have a very weird way of planning things. why are they planning lessons in july?? when everyone is having intersemestral GEs, exchange programs, FOCs etc...and having lessons in the middle of our hols means working and internships will be a problem. do they really believe that having all the foreigners having their lessons in sept will solve the problem? how about singaporeans who have other commitments? haiz...i can't imagine the number of emails my vice dean will be getting telling him of internal switches. haha...he better not shoot us emails saying that it's so messy that he messed up everything.

ok...going out now...study hard everyone!

perhaps it's just me part 2

2006-04-04T17:26:00.000+08:00

funny hor, how there can be a part 2 to such a depressing topic.

but there simply is.

i mentioned in my last post that i hoped today will be a better day. i guess it did turn out to be a better day.

sms is a wonderful creation, i love my handphone for that. i guess i'm better at writing than talking when it comes to communicating about my feelings, that's probably why i prefer msn and sms to talking on the phone. i hate talking on the phone. we can't see each other's expressions and movements and misunderstandings arise so easily. but as i said, it's probably just me. i don't say how i feel and what i want. perhaps i really have no idea how to say.

but anyway, i guess i have to change, to learn to communicate better and to say out what is in my heart and mind. sometimes, i simply don't understand. why is it so easy for me to speak so freely to my friends, but so hard to talk to him. he says i care too much about his reactions and that i shouldn't keep myself from speaking my mind because of that. but is it that easy?

i don't normally cry in front of others cause i don't believe that crying can solve matters but today i realised that crying does help to sooth emotions. sorry and thank you.

i'm a lucky girl. i know i am and i should try harder to remember that.

p.s. alice i miss you a lot too, must meet up! and peck yean, i am not mother pooh and definitely not your tow kay doing your sai kang and i know you are in the resource room now because i'm also in the resource room. and thanks yanling's sms though i only just saw it

perhaps it's just me...

2006-04-03T22:25:00.000+08:00

i miss my jc days, when things were much simpler and happier then.

today isn't good. was a bit upset about some stuff and i think it's stupid of me to get upset over them. but i really hate it when people don't care and don't say. forget it, i'm giving up. but perhaps, it's just me.

watched v for vendetta (i like the show, was very philosophical though i didn't really understand it. ) with my dear today with the free tickets i won (did i tell you how lucky i was?)...frankly, i was very happy when he turned up today with a chocolate rose and my favourite chocolates. but i never did expect things to end like that...i guess it's me again...i'm so sorry.

i hope tmr will be a better day.

p.s. i formated my pc and lost all of you guy's blog addresses, stupid me forgot to save them...please msn me or drop me a tag! thanks...

divert from reports

2006-03-30T22:18:00.000+08:00

tuesday -
hee happy birthday to mr pooh...haha, i think some people thought i was mad when i brought pooh to school on that day but it's not so common that pooh can go out and take a breather, i guess he did enjoy himself a lot...even though he can't taste any of the food or cake haha...

today (thursday) -
had a horrible quiz today...the past few days of studying like no use like that...it's so demoralizing...shall buck up and study harder for exams!! jia you, everyone!

bad day today

2006-03-27T22:43:00.000+08:00

stupid lab early in the morning spoiled my whole day...

simply can't believe it...qiuhui and i were the first to reach the labs this morning at 830am and guess what? we were locked out...nvm, we wait...and when the doors were finally opened, we ended up waiting for more than 1 hour for them to finish setting up the apparatus. ok, i won't deny it, it was pretty interesting watching them and we had a good chat too...and when we thought we finally can start on our labs, he had to announce that he's taking too long to tie the tissues and he only managed to tie one, so in the end, there's only one set of apparatus set up, for a class of approximately 30 to 40 students...wth. so what happened finally was that he demostrated the experiment, skipping many steps in the protocol due to lack of time, and we all crowded around the small 15" computer screen, trying to see the output. *faintz* obviously, we didn't get to see much and since he's so soft-spoken, we didn't catch what he was saying too...and when he finished all he wanted to do and announce lab's over, some people were stunned as they didn't even realise he had come to the end. haiz...what an uneventful lab session. i hate this, especically the fact that he wanted us to come so early and we ended up waiting and waiting and waiting.

anyway, that spoiled my mood for the entire day, so much so that i don't even feel like staying back today even though school ended earlier (yeah, 1 hour lecture from a guy who used to give long lectures, and thanks for the slides that were in german...grace!! where are you???!!!) i simply want to come home and crash. and indeed, a couple of hours with the tv did cheer me up considerably. hee...wonders upon wonders...

k lah, finished complaining...going back to my worms, flies and frogs again...

feel like blogging, so here i am!

2006-03-26T15:06:00.000+08:00

i'm going crazy,if not totally, but halfway there already...

worms, fruitflies and frogs...these 3 animals have been occupying my head since don't know when and i know i'll be super glad when thursday is over. can you believe it? i have a quiz this coming thursday!! when exams are ony like 2 weeks away? it's good in a way that i'm studying for exams at the same time though, but there are so many small small details to memorise!! my harddisk don't have so much space and my readings are piling up...HHEEELLLLPPPPP!!!!!!

had a nice time last night flipping through old photos and seeing just how weird i look in the past. short hair, curly hair, with fringe, without fringe, layered hair, with specs, without specs, wearing those dresses that only little girls would wear, socks pulled high, posing the same by tugging at my dress in every pic, the clothes i used to like so much, my old toys that are no longer around, my secondary school classmates, my jc classmates, my eca friends, people who i used to be very close with but are no longer in my life...haha the little kiddish me back then...

it's good to reminisence on the past sometimes.

work work and more work

2006-03-22T23:55:00.000+08:00

i really think i'm complaining too much lately...or perhaps, i've always been full of complains. i must not complain so much and devote my energy to finishing all my work early.

have been loaded down with plenty of difficult lab reports to write. and they don't stop. they just keep coming and coming because we have 2 lab sessions every week and we have to write reports for all the labs...i think everyone is practically dying and fuses are short. jia you everyone. it will all be over before we know it...haha...

quoting ms py, time management!!!

exams in about 4 more weeks...and haven't started any revision. this is bad...

hihi

2006-03-14T20:59:00.000+08:00

supposed to be working on my report now, but i'm stuck at one question...

hee...see below for the pictures i took when i went to biopolis on saturday. cool place with cool names for the buildings and cool interior designs...i like. hee...

well...haven't been feeling too well these past week. first is the relapse of some old stuff which left me feeling both physically and mentally unwell. sorry if i've been nasty or rude or whatever to you. and now, i have an ulcer just inside my lip. so painful i can't even eat without feeling pain. and i'm hungry :( haiz...bad week overall, stressful with all the work coming, upset when i find that i haven't been making full use of what little time i have, angry because i haven't been feeling good...argh, forget it, i'm writing rubbish...think i should go slp already...

time to start count down to exams...i need to start work.

2006-03-14T20:58:00.000+08:00

biopolis sign at the entrance...weird hor, my first thought on seeing the sign is that the sign is too small and the 3 figures are too big...haha the words look like they'll be hidden by the bushes soon...

2006-03-14T20:57:00.000+08:00

map of biopolis...the names of the buildings are so cool - proteos, genome, matrix, centros, chromos, nanos and helios...

2006-03-14T20:56:00.000+08:00

enlarged map

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place where the talk was held...matrix building

2006-03-14T20:54:00.000+08:00

we found this design on the wall inside matrix building adn we were very impressed and enticed by it...can you see what's so special about it?

2006-03-14T20:53:00.000+08:00

did you find out why? hee...this design is actually made up of the seven buildings in biopolis and the pictures each building featured are parts of the cells and tissues, eg red blood cells, mitochondria, myosin and actin, nucleus...
it's so simple, yet so creative...

2006-03-14T20:52:00.000+08:00

a simplifed DNA model near the escalator...

2006-03-14T20:51:00.000+08:00

the DNA structure that amazed us even more...see how pretty it is!

2006-03-14T20:48:00.000+08:00

it's painstakingly made up of small coloured balls that represent the atoms in the DNA...the work is so good, we can even see the hydrogen bonds between the purines and pyrimidines!

2006-03-14T00:33:00.001+08:00

and even the toilet signs are equally pretty...they are again made up of the 7 buildings in biopolis...it's like playing tangram haha...

2006-03-14T00:33:00.000+08:00

handicap toilet sign

ridiculous uncle in lwn

2006-03-01T14:02:00.000+08:00

the above named uncle made me so angry yesterday morning that i have to write to vent my anger...well, friends around me have already heard about the story how the ridiculous uncle made me angry so i'm not going to repeat it again. all i want to say is, 3 years in school already, i don't believe i don't even know how to print my notes properly. and genius as i am, which i am not, i don't have the ability to print my notes in such a way that one slide is vertical and the next horizontal. stupid stupid stupid ridiculous uncle!!! blacklisted...

alright, forget about the stupid uncle...

guess what? no lessons again today...and guess what? 2 tutorials cancelled for the next two days. sometimes, i do wonder what i've learnt in this semester. 7 more weeks to exams and here i am, wondering what i should study for exams. haiz...it's time to start mugging. i need motivation!

for ms sharon...

2006-02-26T18:25:00.000+08:00

well, i know i just said i'm going to do my assignment, but i chanced upon this on ms sharon's blog...since she asked me to continue, i will gladly oblige. haha...

Questions:

1) whether I like female or male --
hmph, even if you don't know me well, you'll know that i'm not a lesbian. so of course the answer is males lah...if you insisted on me listing out female, the only female i've ever thought would make a good boyfriend is ms py.

2) 8 criteria for my ideal partner --
well this is a bit tough, because i've always thought it comes in a whole package, you have to accept all the faults along with the good points. there's no ideal partner in this world.
a) most important, must love me sincerely with everything he has and accept me for who i am.
b) have to be honest with me...actually honesty is something that every relationship (not necessarily boy-girl) needs. i ask for honesty in my friendships too.
c) no bad habits, please. i can't stand someone who chain-smokes, uses drugs, speaks vulgarly, doesn't bathe regularly, doesn't shave, is untidy, or doesn't have basic table manners.
d) should be able to treat my family and friends equally good.
e) must be able to give me the freedom i like. i like being free to be able to do what i want without having to report to someone else. to be honest, 8 months into my current relationship, and i haven't gotten used to having to tell my other half where i am, what i am doing, what i planned to do, who i'm going out with...oops, not complaining here hor...just that it takes adjustment and it's not easy.
f) this should be pretty high up on my list...he must be able to make me laugh, must be able to make me happy, must be able to humour me, must be able to give in to me, even when i'm very upset or angry or when i'm being ridiculous. i'm not difficult to humour, as long as the person is right. hee...
g) must be focused and knows what he wants out of his life. i don't appreciate a guy who spends his time playing games all day long and not knowing what he wants to achieve eventually.
h) the last thing of course, he must be someone i love with all my heart too. there're billions of people in this world, it's a miracle if you are able to find someone who you love and who loves you back. must cherish!

3) list out 8 friends whom I hope to see them doing this in their blog too
well, i've no idea who is still reading this...sharon has already done this, so let's see...josephine, yanling, yingru, kaimin, cherin, cheesiong, weiting (your name is already on siqi's list too). hmm don't know who should be the last one...alice haven't blogged for ages, i don't know if mitchell has a blog, i don't know if grace is reading this, and i don't think the others whose blogs i'm reading have my blog address...so i'll leave the last one open, just drop me a note at my tagboard if you decide to be my last person. hee...

god...i can't believe i've spent almost half an hour on this! work work work...

term break is over!

2006-02-26T17:41:00.000+08:00

one week of term break...it should be the time for studying, normally, i would have started my revision during this time, but not for this semester. i haven't even finish my assignment!!!

no idea what's wrong with me...perhaps i've been going out too frequently, for ktv, for shopping, for dinners, for some work in school (basically everyday from morning to night, so term break doesn't necessarily mean more time! and my mummy doesn't even know i'm having term break until i mentioned it on, i think, thursday? haha...). on top of going out everyday, i've been spending many nights watching tv, dvds etc with mr ong, so that means no studying too. and when i'm free, i sleep (no idea why too, but i don't seem to be getting enough sleep...) or i play with xiaoxin. and suddenly, with a blink of an eye, term break is over! and i didn't get any revision done. i wonder why i bought my revision booklets at the start of term break. well, i guess i wouldn't have studied much too, because i've no idea what i should study for with weird lessons in this semester. but that is no excuse, i need to start studying fast. but first, i need to finish my assignment.

diverting a bit...

last night at a market place near my house, i witnessed something that made me realise why it is almost impossible for singapore to become a gracious society.

it was a crowded night and all the parking lots near the market was occupied. mr ong and yours truly were about to get the car and leave when we saw lots of people standing beside the road, looking at some happenings in the middle of the road. being the busybodies we were, we went forward to have a look (afterall, it was right in front of where we parked the car.). we saw a man and a woman, both in their, i think, fifties, standing beside their cars and screaming at each other. the woman's car was in front and the man's car was behind. initially, we thought it was some accident, that's why they are arguing. but no, we couldn't find any dents on either cars and they doesn't seem to be arguing about any compensation or stuff. then we heard from the other watching uncles that they were fighting for a parking lot that was blocked by the man's car. apparently, the woman wanted to park there and she was blocked by the man's car. and the man refused to move an inch to let her park. the woman moved back an inch, the guy moved back an inch; the woman moved front an inch, the guy moved front an inch; and of course, vice versa. i've no idea what the heck those two were thinking, but it's a huge carpark. there's plenty of lots further in, why can't they just move in? end up they stopped there and blocked the whole stream of cars behind. amazing, isn't it? people like this actually exist. interestingly, some car behind apparently didn't realise that there's a fight for the parking lot and the driver just conveniently parked into that lot. but even so, those two cars refused to move. i don't understand what they are fighting for, or is there a rule that says that the first one to move away loses the fight? what fight is there in the first place? is there really a matter of win and lose in this situation?

well, we stood and watched for about 10 minutes, afterwhich we got bored of all these pettiness and decided to leave. i guessed the whole matter ended when we vacated our parking lot. some uncles who lived in the region and were watching the show decided to take things in their hands and started directing the traffic. so we managed to make our way out, i guess the woman took our lot and the guy moved further in. what irks me most is that while we were on our way out and the woman proceeded to park, the man attempted to move forward, i presume, to block her again. well, and he was stopped by the nice uncles who were directing the traffic. i've no idea what happened afterwards, but it couldn't have been a pretty sight.

all those talk about graciousness and all those advertisements about road courtesy...

rubbish.

jc class gathering

2006-02-22T01:10:00.000+08:00

hee met up with huiyi, sharon, siqiao and nijun for a ktv session this afternoon and dinner at breeks with stacey, hanrong, reza, sir liang and derrick...

wooh...happy birthday siqiao! i believe we all had a very enjoyable session gossiping and chatting with the girls and guys though service at breeks was bad and we didn't manage to get siqiao's birthday present. sorry girl, tell us what you want and we'll get it for you k?

well, i'm tired, shall not blog much...take a look at the photos ba...

2006-02-22T01:09:00.000+08:00

nijun...long time nv see her already...so happy she came today...

2006-02-22T01:06:00.001+08:00

derrick and reza...i must learn from sir liang, derrick is single, hot and available!! haha...

2006-02-22T01:06:00.000+08:00

group photo...where's sir liang? hee he's the photographer!

2006-02-22T01:04:00.000+08:00

sir liang and me...

another original composition i like, i like this better than the other...

2006-02-20T00:16:00.000+08:00

外太空

你已经离开再也回不来
留下这情债你忘了做交待
将你的影子从记忆剪碎
和你有过每个情节我尝试去忘怀
我的爱已经跌入深渊被伤害
我上不来我好失败

晤。。。觉得地球上真爱并不存在
这次我真的付出一切我也期待
可惜人类不懂爱
外太空无边无际
E.T. 我也可以去爱
晤。。。我感觉呼吸成分已稀薄
相信累积的怨气不停地蔓延
越放不开越往黑暗里栽
莫非真爱是在外太空以外

one of the orginal compositions by the contestants

2006-02-20T00:15:00.000+08:00

想你，爱你。。。爱你，想你

雨嘀嗒嘀嗒下个不停
泡杯咖啡等你现在你在那里
找个理由骗一骗自己
内心早已刻上你的名

雨嘀嗒嘀嗒下个不停
背着背包等你可有带伞出去
不要淋了一身雨
看你生病我会心疼的

想你爱你只想贴近你
心里装进去的思念是你
爱你我无能为力的想你
想着你爱着你

爱你想你想你来贴近
希望你把我塞进你心里
希望能永永远远在一起
想你我只想爱你

Impresario 2006

2006-02-19T21:51:00.000+08:00

went for impresario 2006 last night because i heard the performing guest artiste is junyang and kelly. notice that i put junyang's name first instead of kelly's. did you guess it? yeah, i went to the concert to see junyang.

but...i feel so cheated after the concert! first, they only hanged kelly's poster outside the auditorium. next, i waited till so late for junyang to come out for a mere 10 minutes. and worse of all, junyang didn't sing much! he only sang a duet with kelly, full stop. he didn't sing any singles at all...soooooo disappointing. and i was still looking so forward to seeing him. but the whole focus was on kelly instead. and i must say this, kelly didn't sing live for the first song! and the mtv for her song wasn't good. she should have gotten someone else to film in it instead of being the lead herself. well...i just think she's not pretty enough to have her face enlarged so big...wooh, sensitive issue hor, this is just my own comments, anyone reading this please don't get offended. anyway, i'm so disappointed that junyang didn't sing on his own!!!

however, the concert was good overall...i like the girl who came in first in vocal solo, she have a powerful voice and the song she chose was hard, impressive. another part i like is the original compositions. i especially like 2 songs composed by the participants. shall post the lyrics soon...look out!

haha...ok, shall stop here for now, gotta go home already...shall continue when i get home...cya!

2006-02-18T12:09:00.001+08:00

precious moments figurine...

back again

2006-02-18T12:09:00.000+08:00

i realised i've fallen into the routine of updating my blog only once a week. well...shall try my best to update more, but i guess i've been pretty busy with school work and some other stuff for the past few weeks. either that or i simply don't have the blogging feeling.

first, let me complain a bit about school. i'm really getting pretty frustrated with my lecturers. let's not talk about the way they post slides, because i admit i'm fussy about the layout of my notes. that's my own problem, so shall not blame them. but i simply don't understand why they don't want to post their tutorial questions early so that we have time to do them properly. it's not just one or two lecturers, it's practically the whole bunch of them who always post the tutorial questions the day or two days before the tutorial classes. so it ends up that we all have to rush through two tutorials the night before the classes. and i hate this. i'm not like some people who can go to classes without doing their work, neither do i like to go to classes without knowing what's going on and just listen. i like to finish my tutorials before every class, so it always ends up in me still struggling with my tutorials late in the nights. i know everyone is facing the same problem, but our lecturers doesn't seem to realise their late postings are causing trouble. another problem is they like to post notes either very late in the night or vey early in the morning. some are even better, they think that the coordinator will help them post, so they didn't post. *faintz* i've lost track of how many first half-hour lessons i've missed in order to print notes. i'm so glad it's the hols now...i need a break from all this stuff and i need to start studying if i still want my grades.

some communication problems yesterday and today...yes, i know it's early but i'm already quite sianz about something. i know i triggered yesterday's quarrel, there are things i won't tell others about, there are also things i want to talk about but don't know how to bring up, there are also things i know what i want but don't know how to tell others what i want. confusing hor? haiz...anyway, i think my dear is quite ke lian...i triggered the argument, he got angry and unhappy, i got angry and unhappy, and it always end up with him comforting me...hee think sharon was quite right when she said i'm the petty girl in this relationship and that he always have to give in to me. and oh yah, i'm going to impresario tonight and junyang is going! but i can't use my camera due to assumptions and a lack in communication :-(

on a happier note, did you enjoy your valentine's day?

hee i know many of my friends had a wonderful experience that day (so many people spending their first valentine's day with someone else), so did i...the pizza lunch cum birthday celebrationswith the bs girls was fun. thank you mitchell for the nice balloon (which is now standing beside my monitor) and thank you peck yean for the beautiful lily (which is also beside my monitor but it's wilting, nvm though i have a nice photo of it). and of course, thank you my dear for dinner and everything else. shall post photos when i get back my sd card...

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flowers from my dear...thanks!!

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hee...pooh balloon from mitchell...thanks thanks!

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beautiful lily from peck yean! thanks girl...

2006-02-18T12:07:00.000+08:00

my first valentine's day present, sweetly handmade...pretty hor?

guess what?

2006-02-11T23:45:00.000+08:00

it's saturday night and i'm not at home!

i came out gui hun...

haha, no lah...i'm staying over at my sister's house tonight 'cause she say she need help carrying the stuff down for xiaoxin's party tomorrow...i doubt she needs much help now, since no need to get the cake anymore. but nvm, it's nice to stay over at another place sometimes.

the past week have been pretty relaxed in terms of school work but i was busy with something else...well, a lot of hiccups along the way, but i guess everything did turn out ok...

hee...went back to njc on thursday to get some teachers to write me a recommendation letter. mr lim, he hor, bth him leh...from the moment he saw us till we parted, i lost track of the number of times he exclaimed "wah lau"...he never used to use such vulgarities! haiz...think he's been corrupted by my njc juniors...but still, he's still one of my favourite teachers! i'm looking so forward to his good news regarding a new member of his family...and mr goh also, haiz...still don't want to get married and kept insisting that we should get married before him. come on lor, we are like 10 years younger than him! i don't care, i must wait till i get his ang pao ...haha...

haiz...4 tutorials and 2 reports due next week...i'm so glad i have monday morning and wednesday free. but there are other stuff to do too! cross my fingers, hope there's enough time.

anyway, happy birthday to my darling xiaoxin. i hope there's more good news coming! stay tuned...

early morning

2006-02-01T23:51:00.000+08:00

and i'm pretty bored, so here's an analysis of my name haha...

Your name of Xiling gives you a very happy-go-lucky, spontaneous nature. - not bad, though i call it a bo-chup attitude
You see the humorous side of many situations and can laugh at yourself as well as at others. - quite true
This name gives you a musical, artistic nature and you would do well in any occupation in the entertainment field. - err...sorry but i can't see any artistic talent in me, can't sing, can't play instrument, can't draw, can't design
You have many friends because of your generous, happy nature, but if crossed you have a quick temper, although your annoyance does not last too long. - the fist part isn't true but the second part is
You do enjoy an argument and will at times say things just to get others going and then you sit back and enjoy the debate. - eh...do i?
You lack system and order and find it very difficult to budget and save money. - hmm...this only occurs occasionally...normally i'm a very thrifty person.
This name creates a nature that can be the life of the party, but many times you can become involved in emotional situations against your better judgment. - ???
Your compassionate nature causes you to be too generous and you often give more than you can afford to. - in what sense?
You are too fond of sugars and starches, thus you could have a weakness in your liver, kidneys, or skin, creating pimples or eczema. - perfectly true...no wonder my pimples won't heal completely haha...
While this name gives you a wonderful personality, and attracts much love and friendship, it is far too emotional and scattering an influence and will not allow the material accumulation nor personal happiness you should have. - wah cursing me leh...but i don't think a name can decide how much happiness i will get eventually. like what juliet said,"what's in a name? a rose by any other name will smell as sweet." ooh, did she say that? haha...somemore, you can't measure happiness. and i'm a very happy girl now.

i'm getting crapy...should get back to my report le, else someone's going to start nagging again =P

happy chinese new year everyone

2006-02-01T12:15:00.000+08:00

realised i haven't been blogging for quite some time, seriously, i've no idea what i've been busy with...there's simply no motivation to blog.

well, it's CNY! happy new year everyone!!

CNY this year doesn't hold much meaning for me, mainly because i can't go around visiting relatives and friends as in other years. so it ended up with me being a good girl and staying at home for all three days, well maybe not all three days since we did go out walk walk during the first and third day. but everywhere is choked full with people and it's so tiring trying to justle around with everyone. i hate crowds, especially crowds where i don't know anybody. anyway, i think this hols is too long, i'm bored stiff...i'm complaining like mad now, and i know when school starts again, i'll complain like mad again. haiz...so contradicting.

anyway, recommend a good japanese buffet restaurant to you guys, kuishin bo at sun tec city tower 1 level 4...good food, nice ambience, great service. click here for opening hours: http://www.kuishinbo.com.sg/

waiting for some friends to come my house now, i hope they don't lose their way...hee

p.s. if you're wondering why i'm so free today, my school is having an extended holiday till thursday. 2 extra holidays (now you know why i'm saying this cny hols is so long.)...we were guessing that it's because some president of india is coming to our school for a visit and the school management doesn't want us to be around to destroy the reputation of the school. haha...

2006-01-21T13:30:00.000+08:00

hmm...i wonder how many people still read my blog now...

not that i really care how many people reads...i just find this place a good spot to record events i want to remember and to pass messages to friends who are still reading this...hee...

there's this really weird feeling haunting me, and it's really, well, weird. i don't know why or how or what had happened, but things just aren't the same anymore. i haven't been talking as much as i would have liked to some people, i haven't been going out enough with the same some people, i don't seem to have the chance to spend enough quality time with the same some people 'cause there'll always be others around. i'm missing these some people, but somehow, i have the feeling that my feelings are not being reciprocated. i'm losing some precious friendships and i've no idea why...i hope it's just a phase and things will get along soon.

i've been pretty irritatable these couple of days, especially in class. irritated with my professors for posting lecture notes and tutorials at such a late time, irritated with the same professors for posting the notes in such an user-unfriendly style and wasting my time editing them, irritated when people disturb me in class precisely at the moment when i was trying to catch what the professors are saying. and at the moment when i'm irritated, i don't talk. i simply ignore. and i'll start complaining like crazy afterwards...hee poor sharon, she's always my complaining victim. that's a bad attitude and a bad habit, i know...but why don't i have the urge to change? well, perhaps i should...

chinese new year is coming and i haven't gotten any new clothes. i wonder if i should since there's supposed to be no new year for me this year. no point in getting new clothes since it's a strict no-red, no-orange, no-yellow, no-pink, no-purple, no-bright-colours dress code. i'm getting sick of white and blue and black and brown all day long. perhaps i should get some more white or blue or black or brown clothes...imagine wearing black for cny and not being reprimanded by the superstitious elderly for once.

don't mind me, i'm getting a little insane...

2 concerts and 1 movie in 3 days...

2006-01-15T23:32:00.000+08:00

friday night: EEE night
i've no idea what he did, but mr zhiliang managed to get us all complimentary vip tickets, so we had an amazingly good view of the stage. well...the mike did not do lee hin justice, it was spoilt and his singing was disturbed. and despite our continual efforts at sms-ing, he did not manage to clinch the title of EEE superstar. i guess other people were sms-ing at a much 'hiong' rate...whatever it is, well done lee hin!

saturday night: stefani sun's concert
i like the design of the stage.
her live singing had improved tremendously.
her singing is much more touching now.
she wasn't exactly a good dancer, but the efforts were there.
she's a born entertainer.
i enjoyed the concert very much.
p.s. i enjoyed the drives before and after the concert very much too...haha

sunday: 'in her shoes'
hey everyone, go watch this show.
it's a family show, it brought tears to my eyes, i like it very much, and i'm sure it can touch your heart too...
i especially like a saying from a poem that maggie read at her sister's wedding
"i carry your heart with me; i carry it in my heart."

a bit bored...

2006-01-11T22:27:00.000+08:00

...so decided to blog a bit. please don't mind me if you find me typing nonsensical rubbish (hee...i imagine salil bose will say,"rubbish is already nonsensical. you don't have to add the word 'nonsensical' in this statement." haha...)

hmm...think i'm really very boliao now...

hee something pretty interesting that i want to share. we had our first lab session on monday and guess what? our lecturer presented us with two plates of worms each and told us to observe them for the lab. hee, our job is to differentiate between the males and the females, try to locate where the males are (they are pathetically little, i couldn't even find a single male on one of the plates. i guess nature is not called mother nature for nothing.), pick out the worms for propagation, pick out one male and one female and try to matchmake them, and lastly observe their (hmph, put in a nice way) mating process (put in a crude way, watch them having sex). i think i killed quite a number of worms in the process, haiz...haha somehow, everyone is so fascinated with their mating process. poor worms...they're having their privacy intruded on by us, haha and under a microscope somemore.

had a nice dinner with kaimin at dan ryans on monday...ooh i love the big big brownie with the big big scoop of ice cream. thank you for the unexpected nice nice dinner...

mummy's birthday yesterday, so we went out for dinner at a chinese restaurant. thank you my darling brother for the treat. hee...

and today was a off-day for me...no, i didn't self-declare off. i didn't have lab today, so it's an extended holiday! somehow, all the free days and holidays are all cramped into january. after january, it's going to be rare for us to have a holiday :-(

back to school tomorrow...i hope bro remembers to print the notes for me...

laughter is the best medicine

2006-01-08T00:30:00.000+08:00

this saying is so right...i'm feeling much better already. haha...

thanks a million to my dear worms for the fun and laughter-filled outing tonight at settlers cafe. it's great that we have a 100% turn up rate tonight and even greater that we all had such ridiculous, nonsensical laughter and fun. i really enjoyed myself very much and hee, it was refreshing, so much different from all the other outings we had. i like the place too, let's go again some other day.

*i love my worms*

hee...

first week of school

2006-01-06T22:08:00.000+08:00

been sick the entire week...in fact, i've been sick since the new year...why doesn't it seem to get any better? must be due to the stupid weather...

hee must talk a bit about today's lecture...that guy is perfect, perfectly boliao...10 minutes lecture to give us the course outlines. imagine those who came in late 10 minutes, haha...the moment they stepped into the LT, they can step out le...and that's our only lesson today lor, waste our time traveling...why can't he just post the slides online and cancel the lecture?

anyway, we ended up at the new hall 3 for a 1-hour tour give by dear peck yean...hall 3 looks cool, with all the security and stuff, it sure looks like a condo...and i like py's room, pretty airy...

haiz...crapping again, pls don't mind me...

i'm bored...

2006-01-02T12:55:00.000+08:00

first day of the new year and i'm down with flu
second day of the year and i'm already half bored to tears
save me please

so sorry to huiwen for canceling last minute, but i really don't think i'm up to exposing myself to the hot sun today.

had a wonderful last few days of the past year slacking like mad and shopping like mad...i doubt there'll be much time for such luxuries once school reopens, which so happens to be tomorrow.

only one wish for the new year: i hope it will be better than last year =P

the past week

2005-12-29T13:04:00.000+08:00

haven't been blogging for quite some time...have been busy with kids' world right after my birthday celebrations and followed unceremoniously by, my grandfather's demise.

kids world was fun...my kids were adorable and did not give me much trouble although they were talkative. phew...i'm glad they listened to what i said and were disciplined enough to apologise when i got angry and scolded them. and my volunteers were equally fun and trustworthy. i had to go late and leave early on the last day to go to the hospital and had to rely on them to take care of everything, but they had no complains too...despite the fact that i was quite pissed off with some of them for playing chess and ignoring the kids on the first day, i must say they are really a very nice bunch of people. i had tremendous fun those three days. thank you very much.

well...last night of kids world, my grandfather left us...he was old and sick, i guess his leaving is probably a relieve. but nevertheless, it's one person short in our family and in our neighbourhood. even the shop uncle couldn't believe it when i told him we are preparing for my grandfather's funeral. think my sister is right when she wrote in xiaoxin's blog that it is very seldom that we get to all come together as a family. yesterday went to collect his ashes and i was thinking maybe in life, we should try our best to be happy and to bring joy to others...afterall, we all end up as a small pile of white bones. ooh and saw my tai gong's, tai ma's and my 4th uncle's (this is an uncle i've never known) tablets at the columbarium. first time i saw my uncle's photo...

anyway, thank you everyone for all the concern shown these few days.

anyway, i know i promised to post my birthday's photos by last weekend, but forgive me k...here they are http://ceilingbirthday.blogspot.com/

my weekend

2005-12-18T22:05:00.000+08:00

saturday - my birthday celebrations
well...watch out for more updates. now too tired and no time to post my photos, which somehow looked so blur! haiz...i'll post everything up after kids' world, by saturday i promise hee...
anyway, a big thank you to everyone who turned up and those who didn't manage to turn up but still sent your best wishes (i felt them haha)...special thanks to some people, namely sharon, peck yean, mitchell, xinning, huiwen, yida, kaimin and my family! will talk more when i have more time and jing sheng.

sunday - kids' world garang guni
haiz...gotta wake up so early and go hougang for the garang guni. luckily pamela offered to drive derrick, lee hin and me there, thank you pamela! haiz...garang guni is ever so tiring and so not profitable. but one good thing is it makes you realise that there are plenty of kind souls in singapore too! and i've no idea how, but i got 2 long scratches on my leg. idiot...and i didn't even realise it until someone saw me bleeding. argh. anyway, i'm dead tired now...still 4 more long days to go, i hope i can survive through without any more accidents.

when something goes wrong...

2005-12-15T22:20:00.000+08:00

...the rest follows suit. and i might add, totally unconnected things go wrong at the same time.

the last week was busy...with kaimin coming back on sunday, entertaining mr yida while my house underwent repainting works on monday and tuesday, kids' world dry runs on wednesday and today , and tomorrow noon have to make some stuff for my party on saturday and attend huiwen's birthday party at night. do i ever have a free moment? yeah guess so, else i won't be typing this out now. guess next week will be even more busy, with kids' world taking up practically the whole week.

speaking of kids world...i'm amazed at how inefficient we are at getting things done. not that things don't get done, but the working rate is low. we practically spent the past 2 days doing nothing at the dry runs. well, not exactly nothing, but it's just that things can be done much much faster. but poor irene, derrick and weijia...they're overworked. and well...there are some stuff which i find troubling, shall not bother so much over those. i have too much on my mind le...

well...quite a number of issues happened these past few days which left me feeling sad, confused, upset, irritated etc. but i must emphasize, i am not angry, really really not angry at anyone or anything, no matter which issue it is. i understand that some things need adjusting to, people have the right to talk and form their own opinion. i just want to know what exactly happened 'cause it's affecting other matters too and being the 38 girl i am, i just want to know. haha...anyway, i hope i didn't hurt anyone in the process of solving the problems.

back from genting and kl

2005-12-09T20:13:00.000+08:00

hee...i've created another blog to post all my photos. so go to the below address for the updates.

http://gentingkltrip.blogspot.com/

happy birthday grace

2005-12-04T22:20:00.000+08:00

grace's birthday party...hee quite fun, got games one haha, and the cake is pretty!! the only thing...i got 2 legfuls of mosquito bites when waiting for the bus on the way home :-(

and thanks xinying for the unexpected...erm, you-know-what. greatly appreciated and i definitely won't forget the uniqueness and surprise. haha...haiz...too bad this girl cannot come for my party, i was hoping to introduce my brother to her!

off to malaysia tmr. cya when i get back on friday!

a quick update

2005-12-03T10:03:00.000+08:00

hee 2 more days and i'm off to genting/kl. and i'm so looking forward to it haha...anyone wants dou sha bing? msg me before i go hor...haha

hmm this week has gone like a hurricane, so fast, so swift, i wonder what i've done in these 7 days. hee...like nothing at all. i've been slacking like mad. reading storybooks, reading magazines, reading newspapers, watching tv, watching vcds, playing with xiaoxin, going out with friends, going out with mummy, making cookies, drawing up my guest list for my birthday, inviting my guests, searching for the right cake, searching for the right caterer, deciding on the right food, vm meetings and spending money...haiz, sometimes i hate holidays. holidays mean going out and going out means spending money. already, i've spent quite a bit on clothes, bags, birthday presents, invitation card stuff and some others. if this goes on, by the time i get back from malaysia (which happens to be just next fri), i'll be broke. and i still haven't found a nice dress for my birthday. i hope the shopping in kl is really as good as what so many people have been telling me hee...