I'm UP and OUT

A very disconnected title. Wanna say that I am OUT of some very depressing phase and UP and ready for some serious exam revision.

Prof Kwamme surprised us by "pom-ing" us with an extra assignment that is due next Tuesday, which coincidentally is also the date of the "much-awaited" and "very-not-prepared" LSM test. A 3 page critique on a 31-page valuation report. I almost couldnt believe my eyes when I saw this announcement in IVLE. Wah pengz, Wah piangz.

1. I dreamt of someone weird yesterday. I have never spoken to him before and he is not somebody that I think of day and night. And yet, he appeared in my dreams yesterday. Was at someone's birthday party and he was playing some very intellectual game with me. A game about colour-matching and shape-matching. ~Weird. But it was a nice dream! Cos the party was fun, i think.

2. I bought a new lecture pad yesterday. It has some interesting stuff on the cover.

Heart-broken (:-...

Oh no! #:-0
Sick Comment :-(*)

Partied all night #-)

Totally unbelievable :-C

Hats off your great idea d:-)

Hair in a Mess #:-)

Big Wet Kiss :-X

Fuzzy Face *:*

Hey :->

I'm tipsy but happy %-)

Verry Happpy :-))

Pig :@)

Tongue-tied :-&

Baboon :-8)

Oh :-o

My lips are sealed :-#

Wink ;-)

Innocent o:-)

Seeing Double ::=))

3. One fine evening, had dinner with Alex at Indulgz. Verrrrrry Nicccce. www.indulgz.com

(Click on the "extra" tab for more photos by Xiaxue)

Anyway, the ambience was very nice. There was one particular table specially decorated for couples. Walked past it when i went to the restroom and I kept looking at the table... Verrry Pretty.. I was telling her, perhaps I should just grab any of my guy friends one day and visit that restaurant. Who cares if its a couple table, as long as I get to dine at that pretty table. LOL. Heres some pictures...

I liked the idea of serving iced water in wine bottles. Ok, mayb I'm ulu but so far I ve not seen any restaurant serving iced water like this.

Anyway, had the chance to dine at Esmiridas with Goodrich colleague quite long ago. I liked the way they served their garlic bread! Its placed vertically on the stand and u need to stand up from your seat in order to pinch a piece of the top part!

Such serving peculiarities enhances the dining experience and makes u remember that place!


Fried Mushrooms with Garlic Mayo..Very very nice, but only for those garlic lovers. P.s the mushroom juice spurts out for every bite! I am not exaggerating it like how KFC did for their Shrooms Burger...

I had this Fried Pasta With Cream Mushroom Sauce.

I can only say that its an interesting attempt... But i was only so-so..
Alex's Carbonara! Very creaaaammmy..

We had choc fondue for dessert! Not an ardent fan of choc, but its nice! Better than the one we had at some hotel, where they added some alcohol into the choc and in my opinion, spoiled the taste of choc instead of enhancing it.

4. What a sumptous dinner, thus brought us to the Tampines Stadium for some jogging on Monday evening! But exams are coming... meaning I cant go exercising with her so often! Sigh, I can imagine me balloooning after exams..


Alright, what a long entry.

I shall commmence on my LSM webcast.

r.e.s.p.e.c.t

i'm nt asking for a life of diamonds and gems.
i'm nt asking for a life of unconditional love or beyond that.
i'm asking for due respect. if i dun even get it, y are you asking for that?

Some very random stuff in life.

Biofluids test: Done, good!
GEM2000 presentation: Done, "shakes head" Always feeling angry at myself after GEM tutorial. Why do I always get tongue-tied?

Anyway, zj was asking me how often do i use the camera function of my phone. Here's how often and how random:
My sis friend gave her this a Christmas Present last year. I like to squeeze it cos its very adorable. Now, it has fallen off its key chain.
Apoptosis: Programmed Cell Death. How beautiful and miraculous this death is. This is my favourite chapter of the whole series of LSM lecture and I decorated this heading so well before I started revising.
After writing 1 sentence. I thought of death and then blood and thus explains the "reddish" add-ons to the previous. It became too ugly after I added to much stuff and I tore the whole page off my notebook. 画蛇添足.

I think white roses are very pretty. Yellow roses too. So anyway, I was very bored while going home one day and I walked into an accessories shop and bought this. I am waiting for my hair to grow long enough for me to tie. ( Ignore the LSM notes at the background, I was listening to webcast)
Enough of LSM. I was revising for MLE and I wrote this down, and instantly was very amazed by what I wrote.
"For every 'up', there will be a 'down' "
Cliche, but therapeutic.
Finished masterpc of Lijuan's huge birthday card. 3 "P"s. Pinkish, Piglet-ish, and Purplish
Reflection in the ceiling. Joycie and Yuxin look abit deformed.


Bee's Happy Bee-O-Day Card.
I like the mao-mao... But.. they make my nose itch.

Was doing Bee's birthday card at Bugis Shaw Tower?/Building? Subway and I did this snapshot. Trying to say: Yuxin's fingers really very long! As if this isnt a fact that I've known for years.
Me want long fingers, me dont want fingers with "pinkie that can bend w/o other fingers bending"
Joyce with Burp aka CT aka anonymous. Why must he always give this kind of face when i take pictures for him??? Seems like we were all busying playing while yuxin was hard at work. No kay!

Part 2. the number: forty

As I read, I discover the significance of number forty and lent. I must have been sleeping during BK class in secondary school.

"If i cant love, even, the one who loved me most. How can i even claim to love someone else.."

最近的笑容好勉强 眼泪好真实 我也不想
有时希望有另一个世界 让我不必理会种种的敷衍塞责 无奈
变态的想在那个世界 搞定所有的功课测验试验 不被打扰
好像缩头乌龟

爆发
那天， 我把这两年来累计的耐性与恶性纵容， 终止了
我骂了我学生 她实在是不听话 每一个补习像成了“不息”，要我“不息”的叮咛
好累 有时真是想放弃
抱着一份责任感， 放弃好像不对，纵容又何常是办法?
不知所错

我也不想抱怨
我也不想迷惘
为何快乐有时很虚假，悲伤却那么真实
好可怕

Grumble with a capital G

Was planning my work schedule for the next few days on the train. Seems like alot of catching up to do. Especially for LSM and I have 2 GEM questions due for presentation next week. ( Eeek, debate was bad today.)
Biofluids tests and GEM tests. Eeeek.
I got very mad with the Biofluids lecturer today. Whats the point of giving us 6 tutorial questions to attempt when the lecture notes does not provide us with any clue on how to answer the questions. And whats the point of going through only 2 questions on the spot with us, leaving the remaining 4 untouched and no answers are given. Like how hardworking I am, i attempted the questions, knowing that I am 99.9% gg to be wrong, and yet he is not going to provide me with any solutions? What the hell, I am so going to send him an email and express my dissent. Even though I know most probably what the reply would be: "To encourage active self-learning, no solutions will be provided and you are encouraged to attempt the questions on their own. " I hope he proves me wrong.
I dont know whats wrong with the module planning of BN1901. Its certainly one of the most unstructured module that I've ever taken in NUS. Alright, I am pinning all my hopes on the lecturer for the last part: Biomechanics.

Its........
1 month to the exams! No, im not excited.

Life's so jumbled.
Something irks me when i look at the mirror everyday.
the dove campaign has failed on me, utterly.


i've to complain otherwise i'll m nvr gg to make it.
Consecutive 2 days of chionging to labs inbtwn lessons has really taken a toll on me.
and dont provoke me after a day of lab, n i mean 1 full day. u nvr know i m going to steal any reagent n put it in ur coffee the next day.

Finally...

After a series of correspondence between the NUS VIP in-charge, Institute for Infocomm Research VIP in-charge and my UROP mentor Han Hui, I have finally managed to withdraw from EG1602 -VIP.

Itchy hands la! Sign up for UROP and then sign up for VIP again.
Was so shocked when I read the clause: Once you have been shortlisted or accepted by the company, you will not be able to withdraw, otherwise it will constitute a F-Grade on your EG1602.
So shocked when I read that I have been shortlisted for interview. Was still gloating a few weeks back that Humanyx rejected me.

Anyways, alls settled and I can focus on my UROP during the semester break. Joyce! I will be joining you to go school during the holidays! And to the same fac somemore!

Have been emailing the NUS VIP since Friday and it was till 5 mins ago that I got the confirmation regarding the withdrawal and that tomorrow I need not go down for interview! Wasted my $$$ on a pair of new pants from G2000. Ouch leh, not cheap.

Finally...

After a series of correspondence between the NUS VIP in-charge, Institute for Infocomm Research VIP in-charge and my UROP mentor Han Hui, I have finally managed to withdraw from EG1602 -VIP.

Itchy hands la! Sign up for UROP and then sign up for VIP again.
Was so shocked when I read the clause: Once you have been shortlisted or accepted by the company, you will not be able to withdraw, otherwise it will constitute a F-Grade on your EG1602.
So shocked when I read that I have been shortlisted for interview. Was still gloating a few weeks back that Humanyx rejected me.

Anyways, alls settled and I can focus on my UROP during the semester break. Joyce! I will be joining you to go school during the holidays! And to the same fac somemore!

Have been emailing the NUS VIP since Friday and it was till 5 mins ago that I got the confirmation regarding the withdrawal and that tomorrow I need not go down for interview! Wasted my $$$ on a pair of new pants from G2000. Ouch leh, not cheap.

愛的主旋律 - 卓文萱+小鬼

Dont know why, the lyrics here is different from the version now.. Anw, xiao gui's suit is very nice here!

I have been reading a blog: GodsRhinos these few days.

Started all because of curiosity. Curiosity of the power of religions and how it shapes the character of the devotees ( in this case, Catholics) and how god has a constant influence on them. They see in every aspect of their life the help and support from god. Even the most trivial things in life seemed significant when he comes into play. I was particularly awed by a few entries, on how the beautiful evening scenery while on your way home from school is a piece of god's magnificent work. Equally amazed yet shocked on how priesthood is actually one of the choices they are thinking of making after obtaining their bachelor degree. I sensed a total different "level" out there, when majority are thinking of jobs that secure a "ricebowl" when we graduate as well as finding your life partner to spend the rest of your life with (hopefully). On the otherhand, they are burying such thoughts and i read, priests are supposed to go through this discernment process where god shall be your one and only partner, as I interpreted.

As i quote "as god grows exponentially and i diminishes", something went into my head.
No, I m not going to convert, neither am i agreeing with everything i read from the blog.
I am just inspired by how I should perhaps be more appreciative, as i sometimes overlooked, towards ordinary things that we take for granted in life.
On how some things happened not because of what I am, what I did, but rather an interplay of alot of forces. And suddenly i see, i seemed so small.

Before i've decided on how to continue writing.. this shall be Part1.

... to be continued

Sometimes, i dunno if all these are just sour grapes..

放纵和溺爱好像大麻
它会得寸进尺
一时的快乐，无视于即将接踵而来的狮子大口
最后， 无法收拾的残局
那又是溺爱者的错 还是。。
贪图心的错

Lijuan, guess what?!
I heard something very familar during my Life Science webcast just now.
"blud-stream".
Does this remind us of our old days during JC? Hahaha..

Happyness, happiness

I'm interested in this. Anyone too?http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/thepursuitofhappyness/medium.html

:: u've got a dream. u've got to protect it ::

Finders Keepers

Thats my sis. Dad came home today with this big sack of garlic. He said he found it on the road, apparently a few sacks have dropped off from a lorry. Finders keepers and a few others were taking a few sacks back home too. It weighed about 8kg! Dad says its probably worth 20 - 30 odd bucks. What a gain. But we couldnt finish such a big sack too, hence mum is distributing some to her market friends tomorrow. Haha.

I found something today too. Huimin gained from my find too. (:

Sad.
Han Hui:

"I performed protein quantification on the Day 3 cell lysate we collected. As compared to previous patient samples, there seems to be quite abit of differences in the amount of protein collected per micromilliter. Hence in order to minimise any differencence due to our harvesting techniques, I will perform all the cell harvesting for this batch of patient samples. You are still welcome to observe. "

I must have missed out alot of cells during harvesting that day. Sad. So now, I really can ONLY observe.

Surfing.

"Perhaps the only good thing that happened was we met Jeremy" -Meisi.
Yuenling: nods.

Anw, things went all wrong from the point when Meisi waited for Bus 36 for 25mins and me about 15mins at Changi Airport T2. An empty 36 came to T2 bus-stop and I boarded it only to find Meisi's bus directly behind it. And because buses "rest" for about 10mins before departing from T2, mine left before Meisi. And we reached the East Coast Sea Sports Centre only at 2.40pm when the intended meeting time was 2pm!

It was sunshine all the way in the morning until 2.30pm when it started drizzling and then raining and then raining heavily, lucky thing theres no lightning or0 thunder. Big Sianded.
Claimed our rental equipment and decided to go out to sea despite the rain. Hahas, the last time i touched the sail was like 3months ago and all was unfamilar!

Was lucky to meet Jeremy who was also conducting a lesson with another group of people and he sort of gave us some tips when we couldnt surf properly :)
I managed to sail further this time and without falling too frequently! I shall attribute this to the better rental boards compared to the class boards.. Afterall, we paid to have it.

The wind was intermittent and kept changing its direction. Had a hard time figuring out where should I position the head of the board so that I can sail outwards instead of backwards. The rain was on and off too. At one point of time when I was at my furthest out, the rain became too heavy and the wind died. :( Had to do self-rescue and do butterfly stroke back. Arms ache! So the 2 hour session went : Hoist Sail, Balance, Sail, ah-too-far-liao-scared, Drop sail, Sit on board rest, Hoist Sail, Sail Back or Self-Rescue.
And right after we went back onshore and kept the equipment, the sun came out and the wind become obedient. Grr.

Seriously, spent 1/2 of my strength on carrying the equipment from storage to the shore and then back. They were so heavy! One of the step of setting up the equipment is to "poke" and secure the sail on the board. Too heavy liao and thus I couldnt insert it in and an i/c of the centre came and helped me. He made a joke:"Its a man thing. I know its crude, but its a man thing" I din realise it was a dirty joke until Meisi told me at the end of everything -_-

Still, it was fun.
I'm glad I tried windsurfing. ( i know this should come right after i took the course, but the satisfaction only came today)

I just fell asleep while listening to my LSM webcast just now. Rare.

I'm so exhausted by school and the lists of activities going on. Tired.

Impulsive purchase yesterday was an adidas jacket, not regretting. Happy.

Other pictures tell a thousand words. This tells 3 words. Happy Birthday Joyce!

of mpshs and mpshs and mpshs.

I have had all my midterms this semester at MPSH so far.
Something ridiculous happened today. Warning: Afghanistan Terrorism has spread its wings to The Copying Syndicate. (TCS)
I know integrity runs low in examination venues such as lecture theatres and "cheating" takes place in the form of disregard to this statement made by the inviligator : Put down your pens. Time's up. Ok, I've seen somebody gotten his CHEATsheets confiscated during my year 1 exams. But, something ridiculous happened today, just because I "geh kiang" finished my paper early and dint cover it up properly.
Anyways, after a mapping done by zj who sat behind me and the TCS member, we had identical answers for every question. + TCS member 1 whispered answers to TCS member 2 during the exam! I was contemplating whether to raise my hands and raise the issue with the "zuobo" invilgilators, they stopped whispering and I decided to 睁一只眼闭一只眼。(Because I dint know that the source of answers was me then! GRR)
Ended up having 3 identical copies of answers with some ridiculously wrong answers. ( Tell me, how can Oxygen form 6 covalent bonds!??)

Anws, heres as excerpt of the TCS members conversation, re-enacted by mr zj and me.
Zj: Aiyah, y is 6!?! 2 lah
Me: No la, 2 meh? The person wrote 6 leh! ( points to the right)
Zj: U copy wrongly liao la
Me: Really!?! Aiyah . Suay

Lesson Learnt:
1) Cover up your answers properly when you have decided to stone after finishing
2) Copy also must copy from the right person. ( I must have LOOKED smart just now)
3) Dont think ALL scholars are smart and hardworking.

Disclaimer: I have no idea which nationality they are from. just that they resembled Agfh people. No discrimination against any race, just discontent from someone whose answers got copied.

I learnt to play a new game using poker cards yesterday!
Its called: In Between. I think its more exciting than Ban Lat esp this year Ban Lat I've not yet to Ban Lat yet. ( cos i painstakingly brought the cards to weixiang's party, nobody wanna play with me. Points fingers... Alright, theres not much space to play too. So joycie's party, we have a room to ourselves, right? RIGHT? right!?! )
And then everyone should self-entertain and play In Between with me! Pluuuuuuueeeze..

Anyway, some scv movie channel was on preview today and I sat glued infront of the teevee. Managed to finish the one and only chapter of ma3501 mid-term.
Better go finish the mock paper and turn in early today.

I was somehow reminded of an incident that happened a few weeks ago in campus, or rather, when i was leaving campus.

I boarded 95 at the busstop before Com Centre and hence it was rather empty and saw a jc friend of mine. Greeted by a more-than-friendly smile ( she looked real happy when she saw me), I went to sit beside her and started the usual chat for 2 friends who haven seen each other since 2 years ago.. She was as talkative as those times back in jc. ( Oh no, back in kindergarten. Ya, I knew her since then and we were once caught talking during class by the teacher. So diu-lian! But we sort of lose contact till we met in TJ again.)

So we saw another senior at the SOC bus-stop and by then the 95 is quite packed. So !amazingly!, she placed her bag on the seat in front of us to "chope" seat for him! Omg, I felt like burying my head under the seat when everyone walked past the seat and gave a weird expression: So inconsiderate, whose bag is this???
And he had to be one of the last few to board the bus and that friend of mine actually shouted for his name to motion him to the seat in front of us. When i persuaded her against that, she actually said that its ok. Ah, I really felt like jumping out of the bus window.

At the mrt platform while trying to board the train, she was shovelling against all the passengers who were alighting and managed to get into the cabin much faster than my senior and I. I was really amazed.

Thinking about it, she hasnt really changed. Since kindergarten, since JC, and since CO days...
and I wonder when will she change. Some of her inconsiderate acts really irked me last time, and I havent forgotten about them yet. Haiz.

I was somehow reminded of an incident that happened a few weeks ago in campus, or rather, when i was leaving campus.

I boarded 95 at the busstop before Com Centre and hence it was rather empty and saw a jc friend of mine. Greeted by a more-than-friendly smile ( she looked real happy when she saw me), I went to sit beside her and started the usual chat for 2 friends who haven seen each other since 2 years ago.. She was as talkative as those times back in jc. ( Oh no, back in kindergarten. Ya, I knew her since then and we were once caught talking during class by the teacher. So diu-lian! But we sort of lose contact till we met in TJ again.)

So we saw another senior at the SOC bus-stop and by then the 95 is quite packed. So !amazingly!, she placed her bag on the seat in front of us to "chope" seat for him! Omg, I felt like burying my head under the seat when everyone walked past the seat and gave a weird expression: So inconsiderate, whose bag is this???
And he had to be one of the last few to board the bus and that friend of mine actually shouted for his name to motion him to the seat in front of us. When i persuaded her against that, she actually said that its ok. Ah, I really felt like jumping out of the bus window.

At the mrt platform while trying to board the train, she was shovelling against all the passengers who were alighting and managed to get into the cabin much faster than my senior and I. I was really amazed.

Thinking about it, she hasnt really changed. Since kindergarten, since JC, and since CO days...
and I wonder when will she change. Some of her inconsiderate acts really irked me last time, and I havent forgotten about them yet. Haiz.

How nice of him to wish us 学业进步. He's African btw. Anyways, I really need the 学业进步 to bless me for all the upcoming tests next week. Yes, I'm temporarily forgetting that I owe this lecturer a presentation next week.. (Howhow.. Me no time do the presentation larh..)

The mid term tests spark off the neverending chasing of work that is going to last till 2nd May.. Tests put a halt to all revision for lectures and tutorials and the yada yada 明日复明日， 万事成蹉跎..

On a happier note, this coming Monday morning will be the commencement of my UROP research Day 3. ( Day 0 is supposed to be yesterday but Han Hui was nice enough to spare me from travelling all the way from Tampines down to Kent Ridge).

Start of the UROP means that I will be running trips down to Medicine Fac for a few times each week, still, I m looking forward to it. And to strike a balance between 1) Observing important procedures of the experiment and 2) go for Maths lect, I chose the former. However, this transforms to higher independency of the "already-very-independent" independent learning.

Following weeks will be a period of no procrastination. gogogo!

My sista's friends are coming to bai nian tomorrow at 9am.. and it leaves me with no choice but to wake up before they reach. Argh. Okies, jiayous to 2 more chaps of cell bio before I shout

!Hurray and then proceed to Ma3501 and then MLE and then GEM. boohoohoo.

a night of the poor dudes with the rich dudes in a rich dude setting

Setting: Ritz Carlton Greenhouse Buffet ( This is gonna be the single most expensive meal I 've ever had! ( apart from all the Wedding Dinners..) Many thanks to the birthday girl -Andrea!) ++ Live music !!

A pleasant meal with great food and dessert though sometimes the topics drift to some rich-men's haven that i simply envy and just play my part in listening. My parents are nvr going to give me a HSBC/Citibank supplementary card, not to say DBS Black Card and yada yada.. My parents are not going to buy me a car to drive even if i get my driving license one day.. I'll not walk into a shop and buy something from it without taking a glance at the price tag..

Yada yada, sensing the sour grapes out of me? You are so so right!

While forcing yours truly to imagine and believe in the many joys in life, apart from the $$ related stuff, YES THERE ARE, but its just human nature to yearn for something and to dream of enjoying such extravagancies in life. Why not, and i may work towards it one day.

还好人穷志气不穷！

Last but not least, Happy Birthday my dear friend!

恭喜恭喜！ 新年快乐！

To welcome the new year, i bought a phone for myself!

Its neither Nokia 7373 and Nokia 7390..but Sony Ericsson K800i. What a sudden change of decision. Haha. Anyway, I have changed its theme to the L'Amour Collection. Pretty!

Anyways, since its a GOOD camera phone.. I have some pictures to share! (:

My new bedsheet! Hehs. I buy a new bedsheet everyyear and choosing its design is my favourite. So bright, so alive!

Everybody wishes for good fortune in the coming year and my mum glued an extra ignot to the original one 财神爷 was already holding. I wanted to glued a third one, but that'll cover his face then. The device on the right is a present from my 姨妈. When its shaken, small papers bearing numbers will float in the liquid and its will drop in the golden bowl the 财神爷is holding if the aiming is good enough, or if you're lucky enough and come up with numbers for betting 4D.

(so shiok to have a good camera phone now! yay.. )

my mum and sis is off to grandma house for reunion lunch.. and I am trapped back at home because the deliveryman is going to come with my new printer.

Once again, Happy Chinese New Year!

got a bear-hug

Along came this bear when huimin ivan and i were walking towards the lt for our gem lecture after lunch. Her gestures were very clumsy and 笨笨 and hence very cute! So we stopped her and took a picture of her and with her. Is a donation drive for some needy organisation so we dontated some money too and got a "beary-good" hug (:

got a bear-hug

Along came this bear when huimin ivan and i were walking towards the lt for our gem lecture after lunch. Her gestures were very clumsy and 笨笨 and hence very cute! So we stopped her and took a picture of her and with her. Is a donation drive for some needy organisation so we dontated some money too and got a "beary-good" hug (:

girl, u either make or break

how many more instances in life do i have to struggle with this.

thechinesenewyear

get into the festive season mood! my neighbours are having an 'unofficial" decorate-your-corridor mini competition. Reminds me of the annually decorate-your-classroom CNY decoration back at ahs.
Every storey has got CNY decorations and different pattern and every year the design changes (omg i sound so auntie and mountain tortoise) But I'm quite amused by it and I wanted to go to every storey and snap pictures of the decorations but my mum says my neighbours will think I am some weird person going around every door to take pictures. So i ended up taking pictures of the rest of the block frm the 9th floor and hence everything seems so small. Its really pretty if you see it for yourself.

Helped my mum put up the 2 red pineapples and 2 yellow pineapples and 2 运财童子 on the door. ( see 1st picture)

So 可爱. Its like one floor starts the trend and the rest says : "I cant lose out" and day by day as CNY approaches, I see more red lanterns and whatnot popping out.

I was going to buy my lunch today.. walking at my void deck and 2 people walked past me and said: " eh, this block very pretty hor? look at the last storey!"

And hmm.. the last floor deco is really very coordinated! The neighbours are sure working hand in hand cos theres 1 red pineapple every 2metres apart.

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Not sour grapes.. but I'm really glad that my VIP application wasnt successful.. Cus I got my UROP (: and a nice mentor.
But "Rejected by Company" sounds abit 残忍. Only Humanyx replied.. Hello!?! What is Insitute of Bioengineering doing?
I shall try VIP next holidays.

Anyways..just saw the Dean's List for BIE for last semester. There were only 3 pple. 3 girls. 3 RJ girls. And then, all of a sudden, i felt dumb. Sigh.

U know.. if theres such thing called 开窍, it sure happened during p6 and i think “关窍” occurred after A levels.

p.s peter jus told me that 715 is a gay.. n of all gay partners.. he chose someone that i dont like.. no discrimination against gays..but jus sad ma.
to peter, wad if one day i tell u jade seah is a les.
to yix, wad if one day i tell u thomasong is a gay.
to my sis, wad if one day i tell u wu zun is a gay.

The photos are in my dad's phone. Phone got bluetooth no IR. And my dad's away.
Laptop at service center. Laptop got built-in IR.
PC got no built-in IR.
My phone has IR but no bluetooth.

erm, how to decorate this post with photos?
kies, apart from telling me to buy a new handphone ( i know i know) .. this seems to be a like a riddle to solve.
How to upload my pictures!?!
Eh.....
I got a bluetooth adaptor though.

我是神童

i exclaimed the above when my pc was repaired.

I called the Dell technical helpline for some serious help in hope of replacing some parts of my PC, cos its seriously new and it spells trouble when prompts to run chkdsk /r appear like after hmm.. 5 months of purchase. So the technician asked me to run checks on the systems and hardware and we found no problem and she says she suggests a reformat which is not covered warranty! She says to bring it to a local shop and do a reformat. Reluctant I am, I booted from the cd-rom again and did a chkdsk /r. I was so afraid that it wont work but it worked! Woohoo, so my pc is well again.
But then..problems appearing after only 5 months of purchase sounds abit disappointing.

And then when I wanted to print my lecture notes. I was apalled to see my printer not working! *^%^$$%$%^ So I became very pekchek and while being pekchek and being abit rude to my mum who kept interrupting me while i was doing the troubleshooting.. I decided to take a nap to cool off the anger.. Tadang! When I woke from the nap and tried again.. I realised it was the problem of the black ink cartridge which HP-not original. Haha.. I changed it and the problem was solved. (: Printer's well again.
It says lifetime guarantee on the cartridge so I'm going to write a complain email and ask for a replacement. Yay. Lets see when I ll write it.

Sent in my laptop to the Fujitsu service centre today.. The laptop is a fan of fluorescent colours I say... It will turn fluorescent pink, yellow, green... suddenly when I am, lets say, watching youtube.. Haha... And.. I spotted dead pixels...
So the person say he is going to replace a new lcd screen for me. .So.. no laptop for these 2 weeks. ( Heng I din buy a lcd screen protector..)

你是阳光但是却能照进半夜里...哇..

After 2 days of fun and sleep and eating from parties, i weighed myself on the weighing scale and found myself heavier by 1kg. Yes, I am that conscious. But I want it down down down so i planned to run in the evening.

And I also planned to finished my maths tutorial, study for gem quiz, catch up on the piling stack of Lsm2103, and then bake a cake, all before 7.30pm before the Superstar Finals starts.

And then, indeed I finished my tutorial, finished studying and finished baking a cake. But i din go run! I fell asleep! grah.

Baking the chocolate cake dint take long because it was from a pre-mix. All I had to do was to mix alot of ingredients together..and stir stir stir.. but i hated washing though..
All was well until I fumbled at the last step.. While taking out the already baked cake out of the pan.. I dont know why..It broke into 2 pcs when I was overturning it into a plate. 好伤心.
But anyway, its funny why i dont like chocolate, i dont really like eating chocolate cake but then I baked it anyway.

It just like I ate Subway Meal that day with... F&N Orange Drink and White Choc Macademia Cookie. I just din feel like choosing the normal Iced Tea and Chocolate Chip Cookie lar.

my butt hurts!

Da jia.. I fell down, down the stairs.. And indeed I felt down all day after I fell down the stairs.
I wasnt looking at other people, I was concentrating on walking down the stairs outside LT4 and Huimin said she heard a soft "Ah.." and I was sitting-slipping down the stairs.
Boo. Now my arms and butt hurt. Not abrasive injuries.. Is internal injuries.. Big Big Blue Black!Ugh. Sad. Why am I so 冒失?
Spank me if I talk down the stairs walking. I mean, walk down the stairs talking.

Something extraordinary happened during MLE lecture today..
The lecturer was teaching as about dislocations in materials.. edge dislocations, screw dislocations etc. He was showing a diagram on screw dislocations when a guy raised his hand and asked: Sir, can you explain whether exactly is it being screwed?
Cannot take it, we all burst out in laughter... I bet Prof Zhang doesnt know what we were laughing at. Poor him.

an observation

jus a wonder, how do you guys arrive at the IVLE homepage?
an observation tells me that different people do it differently.. not like how i assumed..

I made an asssumption that everyone will simply type "ivle.nus.edu.sg" at the address bar for thats what I usually do.
Or on a simpler note, just save it under Bookmarks or Favourites.

But I observed..
That actually my friend types IVLE+ NUS in the search bar of Google. Obviously the first result will be the right one.. and clicks on that link to bring her to the homepage of IVLE.

That my lecturer actually types "nus.edu.sg" in the address bar which brings him to the NUS homepage where there is a link to IVLE.

So how do U do it?
Interesting huh.

心情愉快

Went for Samuel's 21st birthday party at his house yesterday.
Alot of friends, from AHS, TJC, Seasports, NS, church and relatives came. Wah... So many people! Such a blessed boy. But most of them were glued to the TV set watching the match between Msia and Sg.. Haha.
Only a few from 1703 went.. but finally after 2 years after graduation I finally met Cody! We dug out pictures from jc and saw how all of us had changed! (: for the better.
Zhengyi drove us home in his dad's lorry and since the back was not sheltered, the wind was blowing directly at us but this made us very 心情愉快! The accompany and the breeze was the cause of it all! We were all laughing throughout the journey. (: Then it rained suddenly on PIE. So we took out umbrella and hilarious it was! Anyway, kudos to Zhengyi's driving skills! But.. due to his horlan-ness... he constantly needs someone to tell the directions to him! So was quite hilarious to see how Jianxin was shouting from the back to tell him the directions to get out of the private estate maze. And why why I know why he needs a walking street directory beside him... Cus they say he doesnt even know how to get to Marina Sq.. BY FOOT. Oh my.

Last last.. I like the wallet that we gave to Samuel so much! Then again, I think I've always liked presents that I give...

An excerpt from theRidge Jan07 Issue

Libra ( September 24- October 23)

Looks like you're in for a pretty nerve-racking year, or so they say. What else can being 'a regular tightrope walker this year' mean? Career-wise, you're 'motivated to succeed at whatever you do and dramatic advancement in your career is very likely' and 'you are recognized as a natural conduit for manipulating the acquisition and distribution of resources.' Smells of stress, pressure and everything nice but if that is what works for you.... astrology.com says: 2007 is a big one for you! Relationships this year however do not sound like a good idea. You'll be having a hard time finding someone or being with someone. That happens to everyone, isnt it? All in all: sounds like a year for your career. There is no time or place for love, sorry.


Maybe I should threaten the writer and force her to edit the article. At least make 2007 look like a more welcoming year for me. Ugh. Dont say sorry.

one of the most frequent questions tt i ask my mum, y din u let me learn the piano when i'm young? no spare cash, she said.
if i ll hav a kid, i let him/her learn it and ask the piano teacher to teach me as well.

Disappointment.

I typed "u0505602" in the userid box jus now while trying to log into Blogger. I think this has happened to bee before, right?

I just realised that I have 2 tests next week! No good!

I woke up today full of anticipation.

First, to check my NUS xchange account for replies from Prof Phan regarding my project. But no! He hasnt replied. I wonder why he replies so promptly to Sandip and is so sluggish in replying to me. Nono.. he doesnt reply me. He replies to Sandip and cc it to me. Dont tell me he is 重男轻女. This i cannot tolerate.

Second, Huimin and I planned a trip to WWW today in order to utilise my free tickets. I woke up today only to see an sms saying that she feels very tired and wishes to cancel the trip. Anything too last min, I dislike. So disappointed. So i finally decided that maybe I really cant find anyone to go with me before the tickets expire on 3rd Feb ( and in view that I've 2 tests next week..... ) :( So.. I have decided to give them away.. rather than leaving them to rot in my wallet. To you who are reading now.... are you interested? 2 tickets worth i think 12++ each! First come first serve. ( Somehow I ve got a gut feeling that they ll continue rotting in my wallet and I wont be able to give it away. :o(
Girlfriends, bring your boyfriends!
Boyfriends, bring your girlfriends!

Last sem i took sc1101 that came across like sc4101.
I think this sem's gem2000 has readings that constantly displays the chim-ness of gem4000. I've been trying hard whole day making side notes on what each paragraph means but at the end of it all.. they just seem senseless, not to say the sentence structures are so difficult to comprehend.
If the purpose of such readings are to educate/inform people more about a topic, why then did they write in english that reads like italian, french, german and wad-not to me. Why cant they write like normal textbooks?
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I finally emailed the prof regarding my interest in UROP.. but i haven told Angeline about my decision on nt gg for CSC special project if i get into UROP.. the only reason for the delay is that I do feel quite bad for agreeing to run for OC together yet engaging myself in other project.
Academic, future-wise: UROP
Interest-wise: UROP
Friendship-wise: CSC
Oh no.. I think I better discuss with the prof regarding the time committment for UROP ..if i do get his approval for participation, so that I can plan around the schedule and decide whether time will allow for CSC.
Guess VIP will have to wait till next May.

free thrill before i start work.

inspired by a post from www.mrbrown.com.
if your life was a movie, what would the soundtrack be?
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle.
3. Press play.
4. For every question, type the song that's playing.
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button.
6. Don't lie

Here's my life according to my player.

Opening Credits : Xin Yu by Jay Chou
翻开印在明信片上的牵挂 那伤心原来没有时差.... Melancholic. Wahs. Opening credits so 悲哀.

Waking Up : Tian Kong by Yuan Wei Jue Xing
我静静的望着天空 试着寻找失落的感动 只能用笑容 期待着雨过天晴的彩虹... Waking up everyday to forget yester"years" & yesterdays' troubles and 期待彩虹.. thats how it should be isnt it.. 说的容易...

First Day At School : Zuo Yi Tian De Ni by Jolin Tsai
Let me 断章取义... " 不想不想再被你看轻 可是我始终还不够聪明... 一切努力都是零 ..."
Does this spell trouble for my this semester's cap?! Oh no... Keke.

Falling in Love : Superman (its not easy) by Five For Fighting
I dont know why the words in bracket are included in the title in my ipod. Erm.. What do i have to say? ....

Fight Song : Chao Kou Ai by Chao Kou Ai Yue Tuan
Ok, I was quite glad a sad song dint appear in this question. 拿一点斗志出来！

Breaking Up : Worn Me Down by Rachael Yamagata
Not applicable... But anyway... here's the lyrics
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/rachaelyamagata/wornmedown.html
A song about break-up indeed.

Prom : Shou By Karen Mok

Life's ok : Wei Ni Zheng Fu Quan Shi Jie by 183 Club
life would not be GREAT, not only OK .. if someone says 我会为你征服全世界 （：

Mental Breakdown : Li Xiang Qing Ren by Rainie Yang
" 好想知道 你的一百分会给怎样的人.." 想到mental breakdown..

Driving : Pure Love by 183 Club
Not applicable too..

Flashback : That I would be good by Stefanie Sun
Yes...I ll be good.. I ll make better decisions if i could go back in time.

Getting Back Together : Addicted by Simple Plan
And so I'm addicted to you? I broke up with you? And we got back together and we got married? Cos I'm addicted? See next qn.. my 守候 paid off.. haha

Wedding : Shou Hou by 5566
See previous.

Birth of Child : Sway by Bic Runga

Final Battle : I Just Called to Say I Love You by Stevie Wonder
Final battle = 示爱??? Lols.

Death Scene : Venus by Stefanie Sun
I'm your venus. I'm your fire at your desire..
So is death scene at a disco or in a fire???? Touchwood anw.

Funeral Song: Shi Jie Wei Yi De Ni by Cao Ge
People play songs that the deceased love during funerals? and I love this song to bits, alright.

End Credits : Vindicated By Dashboard Confessional
why so angry?? haha first impresssion when i heard this song..


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i think this is more of a test of how well u can crap linking up all the songs.. as u can see i gave up on some.. haha...

疑‘祸’

铺路。 看见远方的道路似乎不是很平坦， 在我还没绊倒时， 先为我自己收集修路的材料，铺路。

//我似乎找不回以往的冲劲， 叹息。希望， 一切都会有新的转机。

//我对距离感感到可惜，不解。

我还是继续不解。

冒失鬼

Followed by the thumb drive, laptop, orgchem text, library books incidents ( in chronological order) ... I left my ear phones in the computer cluster today..
I am sad over losing it. I used to be quite upset over losing a pen or pencil though they are not expensive stuff. I wont buy an identical one to replace it, its not worth it. I wont buy something lao-pok to lan(4) yu(1) chong(1) shu(4).. but im nt pampering my ears with something to ex too. See what shall catch my eye tomorrow.

Bottomline: I hope i can find them tomorrow. Believe in the integrity of engine students and... argh.. i jus dont like it that i lost something..
Pretty upset. Pretty irritated over my carelessness. yyyYyyyYYyyYYYyYYyyyyYYyyyY

Rains. Faints. Quick Updates (:

I was having mixed feelings when I woke up today to see this crappy weather as described by mesi.
I told myself that I will not start any studying unless i finished my storybook. So i stayed at home whole day today, thanks to the rain huh, and finished it up. Wells, not exactly whole day. But yeah, I finished reading it and thought it was a well-structured and interesting book :) So at night it took me longer than usual to finish reading a 10pg LSM article: Birth of Complex Cells and did a summary page on it.
I regretted having pizza for dinner. Because my sis agreed to treat us to pizza, i volunteered to make the call and when they reject to deliver because of the rain, I dont know why i readily agreed to pick em up at TM at a discount of 20%. 好有闲情逸致. Haha. And now Im feeling so full and nauseous after dinner. But I din eat alot! Dont know why.
Channel 5 played the premiere of Day After Tomorrow, today. I din manage to catch it cos I was out picking up the pizzas..so i recorded it. I dislike mediacorp's tv schedules on Sunday. It simply has NOTHING interesting. Ok, perhaps for occasional english movies.
I'm returning ct's Be With You tmr, so my sis watched it for the final last time. I happened to join her in front of the tv set, and she happened to be viewing it with chinese subtitles. I was rather amused to find out the Mio's chinese name is 阿菱. You guys know how rare the 2nd character of my chinese name is.. u see pple with 零灵玲... but mine is so rare. Hence, I was rather amused. But I dont want to be so kelian like her.
Oh and I did my assignment 2 for gem2000. The item that i window-shopped for was Biore Perfect Oil Control Facial Wash. Fyi, Carrefour was the most expensive store compared to Watsons and Guardian. Haha, I wasnt expecting that actually.
Went for CSC day on Saturday.. took care of the little kids again. This time was a boy who kept running about. Had to chase after him at the Arts Forum. Imagine chasing him at the big big stairs at Forum, tired lehs.. And he refuses to tell us even if he is going to the toilet. Made us chase after him until the door of the toilet. So hyperactive. I'm sure I was a nice little girl when i was their age. And cute too. (: Realised I dont really know how to take care of the elderly.. Maybe I should learn. Anw, was feeling quite undecided whether I should run for OC for the special projects. Hmm..

Life's abit boring.. but thats because tutorials haven set in.

随性

it suddenly struck me tt playing jenga is all about selecting the zero-force member.. okay.and maybe steady hands.

im still looking forward to sch each day at least until now.. but according to someone.. im already 4 days behind! not a good prophecy.

'a word is not crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought, and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used'


-im battling between ma3501 notes and curious incident of the dog. haha....

gem two thousand

the lecturer posted some questions and we are expected to answer them and submit them to the workbin.

a) You are travelling with three separate items: a hawk, a three-week old chick, and a few grains of corn in an open bag. The grains of corn in the bag constitute one item. You come across a foot-bridge which you are allowed to cross with only one item at a time. How will you safely cross the bridge with all the three items. CLEARLY STATE YOUR ASSUMPTIONS AND EXPLAIN YOUR ANSWER.

Assumptions: 1) Hawk eats only chick and not corn. 2) Chick only eats corn. 3) The hawk does not fly away or the chick does not wander away when I am not around.

In first trip, bring chick over. In second trip, bring the corn over and on the way back bring the chick back. In third trip, bring the hawk over. Finally in the fourth trip, bring the chick over. All three items will be safely brought over.

b) There are 20 pheasants (birds) on a tree and you fire a gun to kill one of them. How many are left? (EXPLAIN YOUR ANSWER AND YOUR ASSUMPTIONS

Assumption: All birds on the tree are capable of flying.
Ignoring the dead bird, no birds are left on the tree because they were frightened by the gunshot and flew away.

Funny, i was able to view the answers of the rest who submitted. Though everyone got the same answer.. almost everyone had different assumptions! i thought it was fun! Haha.. what will be your assumptions?

and then.. he had assignment 2 for us to be completed before 16/01/07 and it must be submitted to the workbin again..

ASSIGNMENT FOR LECTURE 2

Go for window shopping with intention of finding the price of a particular item, e.g. HP Financial calculator, model 12C. Each student should choose a different item. Visit three shops in the same shopping mall/arcade/complex that sell the item that you have chosen. Record the price at which the item sells in each of the shops that you visited. Post your findings in the workbin. The following details are required:

i) Your name & matriculation number.

ii) The ITEM chosen for the window shopping.

iii) Date & time of the visit (Window shopping must be done on the same day).

iv) Names of the shops visited

v) Price at each shop.

I was joking to chongtang maybe the item i ll shop for will be a pilot pen. Then, i ll go to Popular and Times Bookshop in TM.. Haha.. but no 3rd shop in TM sells stationery alr..
So.. i think I shall go look for handphones... Yep.. theres Starhub, M1 and Singtel in TM.... Haha..

i guess the lecturer jus wants to illustrate to us 'price' is not equal to 'worth' since prices vary from point to point and from time to time.. see how nokia 7390 price plunges from 428 to 249 and shoots back to 428 again. sighs.

anw.. the module is : foundations of real estate appraisal...
until now.. its qt cute.. i entered the lecture theatre at 1.45pm for the lecture.. the speakers were playing some angmoh hip-hop music.. until the lecturer-kwamme entered at 2.10pm then he stopped the music.
For a moment.. i thought i entered the wrong theatre- science of music? or.. new media ? narh. jus joking.

Its 1015 in the morning.. but it feels like 7am cos it has been raining raining raining.. I had a full 9 hours of sleep.. ShioK! Haha have to treasure this before tutorials starting turning full-blown.
This sem is gonna to be quite free with tuesdays starting at 2 and wednesdays free! Woot!

Yesterday was first day of the sem.. and i skipped half of the MLE lecture.. cos he was talking stories non-stop.. Starting from why we need to study Materials Science Engineering.. then moving on to why the promising yr1mech engine students need to study this.. then to why chem engineers need to study this and when i left i think he covered these 2 departments only.. Im so not waiting for him to move to: why bioengineers need to study this..blah blah blah
So zj n i left. When I walked to the ISB stop.. I saw Nhat Linh boarding the bus and heading back to her hall too! Tsk.

Maths lecture was equally "drift-able"..

Why why why.. No more interesting lecturers like the C.c Ko?
I'm pinning my hopes on lsm2103 later today.. Becos in his introductory ppt lecture notes.. there was a slide teaching us how to print notes.! Mus click: Handouts -> 6 per page -> Pure Black and White.
If he is going to deliver an interesting lecture later.. he's CUTE.
If not.. he's DUH.

I think I sounded qt happy/high school has started.
Actually.. I'm a little. Haha

Wait .. look at this!
http://www.cheng.cam.ac.uk/research/groups/biochem/yln.html

Its 1015 in the morning.. but it feels like 7am cos it has been raining raining raining.. I had a full 9 hours of sleep.. ShioK! Haha have to treasure this before tutorials starting turning full-blown.
This sem is gonna to be quite free with tuesdays starting at 2 and wednesdays free! Woot!

Yesterday was first day of the sem.. and i skipped half of the MLE lecture.. cos he was talking stories non-stop.. Starting from why we need to study Materials Science Engineering.. then moving on to why the promising yr1mech engine students need to study this.. then to why chem engineers need to study this and when i left i think he covered these 2 departments only.. Im so not waiting for him to move to: why bioengineers need to study this..blah blah blah
So zj n i left. When I walked to the ISB stop.. I saw Nhat Linh boarding the bus and heading back to her hall too! Tsk.

Maths lecture was equally "drift-able"..

Why why why.. No more interesting lecturers like the C.c Ko?
I'm pinning my hopes on lsm2103 later today.. Becos in his introductory ppt lecture notes.. there was a slide teaching us how to print notes.! Mus click: Handouts -> 6 per page -> Pure Black and White.
If he is going to deliver an interesting lecture later.. he's CUTE.
If not.. he's DUH.

I think I sounded qt happy/high school has started.
Actually.. I'm a little. Haha

从此以后不再 让心情被超载
心中的警铃说 我不能继续在发呆
期待着的明天 会是更美好的未来

how well is your 危机意识？

I keep telling myself tomorrow's a better day, day after day. im like fishing for glad little nothings amongst the mundane to make each passing day/month/yr a more worthwhile history.
owells, perhaps i lack excitement in my life, again.
maybe, the start of a new sem will help.
maybe, piling up of tutorials and surprise tests might help. Haha. Great joke and tough luck, girl.

Saw Cruz's post about Lasik.
and hence decided to check out its price... mayb it shall be my 21st birthday present..

Lasik

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Oh and chalet photos are up.. they re so random i realised..

Chalet 030107-040107

Went for tuiton today.
She had a CME assignment to do and she asked me for ideas. Instructions is to draw a picture that motivates you or someone to 克服困难，勇往直前。
I told her to draw a night sky full of stars and write: 天上没有我们抓不到的星星. -> points to blog header.
Then.. she said that I grabbed it from a movie, so its not valid.
Hence I suggested drawing a rainbow with a sun and wrote: 雨后一定会有美丽的彩虹。
Yes, i ended up drawing the rainbow for her.
Now.. tts how cliche it is.. but who hasnt held on to this belief and before.. n thats how strong certain words jus works to power up our will and determination.
And for another 老掉牙的 saying.. for every up there's a down. :)

Chalet was great. Thanks Clement for the brownies and taking the trouble to book the room..and joycie for the discount coupon, Weixiang,ct,jeffery for setting up the fire and us us us girls as the umbrella models..and also a special mention for jeffery for the 有缘的鸡翅膀.. haha. And thanks everyone who came! Lol.. i make it sound like im the host.. nono..im only one of the protagonist who showered the responsibility on clement to make it a successful affair!

Went for tuiton today.
She had a CME assignment to do and she asked me for ideas. Instructions is to draw a picture that motivates you or someone to 克服困难，勇往直前。
I told her to draw a night sky full of stars and write: 天上没有我们抓不到的星星. -> points to blog header.
Then.. she said that I grabbed it from a movie, so its not valid.
Hence I suggested drawing a rainbow with a sun and wrote: 雨后一定会有美丽的彩虹。
Yes, i ended up drawing the rainbow for her.
Now.. tts how cliche it is.. but who hasnt held on to this belief and before.. n thats how strong certain words jus works to power up our will and determination.
And for another 老掉牙的 saying.. for every up there's a down. :)

Chalet was great. Thanks Clement for the brownies and taking the trouble to book the room..and joycie for the discount coupon, Weixiang,ct,jeffery for setting up the fire and us us us girls as the umbrella models..and also a special mention for jeffery for the 有缘的鸡翅膀.. haha. And thanks everyone who came! Lol.. i make it sound like im the host.. nono..im only one of the protagonist who showered the responsibility on clement to make it a successful affair!

Accountants do closing at end of every financial year.
Authors write conclusion at every closing chapter.
Bloggers do closing at end of every living-year.
(narh, im just doing a simple-simon-says... )

2006 was a year spent half in hall and half back at home. Living at home certainly brings an increment to the number of hours of work i can devot truly to work as compared to hall. I did zero ironing, zero laundry, zero sweeping, zero mopping in the later part of the year. Thanks Mum! But i also spent a significant amount of hours each day in front of the pandora's box.
Had a few weeks of term time adjusting to the lack-of-room-to-run-to-during-free-time. But all's well growing towards the end of the term. Have to thanks xl,zj and huimin!
Results wise? Haha.

Had a trip to Hongkong fully sponsored by myself. Thanks to the number of jobs i held on to, i was like a busy bee throughout the holidays. But each working experience is still an experience.. maybe not so adequate in terms of actualy work-knowledge kind of experience, but its nevertheless qt an experience to improve interpersonal relationship.

2006 found me with more courage to approach strangers and talk to them. Huimin and I were studying at Engin Macs one day for our signal tests and we walked over to J&J as a self-rescue attempt and to power up our question bank.
Huimin was also a stranger whom I met on the train one day.

It was also a year I found myself with emerging emotional stresses and strains each day and there were several counts of me refusing to go home after school and went for a walk alone. And hence my wish for next year is to catch more happy bugs! Retail therapy sometimes worked and hence I came up with a notebook with most of the spending receipts taped to it. It started the time i came back from my hongkong trip..
A work on the calculator amounted to SGD1877.3
excluding normal meals and transport..
Meaning it includes clothes, accessories, bag and lame stuff i bought to entertain myself,
the hongkong trip, textbooks, presents to foods, meals spent at restaurants, entertainment excluding movies, but inclusive of kbox sessions, mind cafe etc.
Even though this amount is only for the later part of FY, the bulk is from the hk trip and TEXTBOOKS!

End of closing

I woke up feeling sad today all because of a dream.
I dreamt that I was back in NUS, riding in the NUS ISB, moving from science to arts. The bus passed by the 1st stop of YIH and we saw smoke coming out from the overhead bridge that brings us from YIH to MPSH. Apparently, construction was going on over there and a small fire broke out. I saw a security officer rushing over there and apparently the NUS president rushed over there too. I saw people struggling to put out the fire using an extinguisher. But I ve seen none of the people in real life before.
I was sms-ing to joyce to tell her about what I saw when she told me she was in the ISB behind.
As the bus was between the 2nd YIH and Central Lib stop, I turned my head and witnessed a big explosion. Was a vivid clear image in the dream.
Somehow I got to know that both joyce and I managed to escape from death as our buses were already safely far behind at the site of explosion. In my dream, i still came up with a reason for the explosion. Apparently, the fire had elevated the temperature of some gas pipes running along the bridge and ignited the explosion. Woah.
I felt very sad for the people who died from the accident just because they just happened to be there when it occured and the people trying to salvage the fire. If the shuttle bus was any slower, I wouldnt have escaped at all.
I woke up feeling v sad even though it was jus a dream. Perhaps because thanks to pete who kept reminding me to treasure life through his nick, amplified by the real-life story in 1 litre of tears.
It was 7am when i woke and was lying on my bed thinking about the dream when suddenly the fan came to a stop. The filter motor in the fish tank stopped functioning. Yes, thats how drama. The lightbulb at the altar has fused and tripped the electricity of the entire house. So my mum phoned my dad who was at work and i did something to the safety-dunno-wad-device and power was back again.
I fell back to sleep.

pandora's box.

Just finished watching Rumour Has It starring Jennifer Aniston and Kevin Costner.
Nono, its not from peekvid or youtube or... u name it.
My sis borrowed the dvd from her friend.

does not matter where u r but who u're with.
I like the episode of triumph in the skies today and I know i ll like the one on Monday better :)

Next up: Keeping It Mum

random.

life's nothing more than a great joke.
u lament and cry and then laugh at what a great joke it has been.

okays.. so its been like 3 days after the release of results n im finally prepared to blog about it.
I thought the C+ from my SS will be the first and last i ll see in my transcript. Apparently no, ive no idea wad did i write during my fluid mechanics paper that had such detrimental effects.. owells, maybe its the mid-term then. From the other point of view.. it might have been slightly encouraging to see the no. of As growing each semester.

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Just finished reading Marker. Quite a nice read and im glad i got on my hands on it after reading lsm1401 and py1105. Otherwise I wldnt have understood, like clement said, whats "pulmonary edema" and "microarrays" and more more more. Its a thriller but the suspense wasnt what I would have expected. I was rather more amazed by how the forensics did their pathology on the dead and the detailed description of the std procedures and how different people have died in ways that looked homicidal at first but examined to be accidental. Ya.. like how we say.. u cannot be definitive abt anything until concrete evidence proves it.
Wild guesses jus doesnt work.
If I were to forget everything from physio, hyper/hypokalemia is going to be the one thing I 'd remember and brillantly.. this was the basis of the manner of homicide.

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i hope i'll catch a happy bug tmr.
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so here comes the resolution for 2007 and its the first time im actually doing a resolution.
not in any specific order... in 2007.. i wan to:

- i said jus now, up the number of As nxt semester and no more of C+
- make it a habit to LISTEN
- be less irritatable
- be nicer to my parents and sibling
- to remember to switch off the lights of any room im leaving.
- be more persistent abt my jogging plans
- catch more happy bugs in 2007
- equip myself with a new skill, like.. i dunno what at the moment but will think of one as the yr progresses.

I'll wish everyone an early happy new year here.

Haha... Rmbr i said I ll post the pic of "the toy" up. I din 300 jumps with this.. （ u hook the circle with one ankle and spin the ball in horizontal circular motion and the other leg does the skipping whenever the string passes by.. )

my left knee was feeling all weird today cos of the wet and rainy weather i guess ( old liao... ) so i decided to let it do some stretching and exercise.

so i took my toy out and after tt my knee felt worse... so now i have 2 big tiger balm plaster over it.

完蛋

my usual left-eye double eyelid and right-eye single eyelid has evolved to right eye left eye both double eyelid. thanks to the more than adequate sleep i clock each day. when school term starts.. its gonna be the single eye double eyelid again. haha.

Been living on an unhealthy diet for the past few days, which means I ll need to eat more leafy
greens and less carbo for the next few days..

Caution: Dont read on if you are feeling hungry now.

It all started from the bbq from 1703 gathering and bbq at camp. Then the day after I came back from camp, I ate Ramly Burger from the interchange pasar malam cos my sis said was very nice + Crab Nuggets from Old Chang Kee for lunch. I think I had fried rice for dinner after that. No vege!
Then somehow the day we celebrated ct's birthday.. Had baked rice at V8 + plus some xxxx and then at night at Billy Bombers with Alex. Filled to the brim.
Then.. the next day after Joyce's concert I asked mum for supper cos I only had yam cake for dinner and my stomach was growling... I had fish burger. Gahs. Guilty.
And today after Clement's church event.. i had a late dinner at Macs.. I ate Fillet.. shucks. And I helped my mum made fried wonton for lunch and I kapok-ed some of it.

I think i must detoxify my gut for a few days by having real plain food before I balloon...
And then I ll go and eat ban mian. Cos I haven ate ban mian for very long! Haha.

Merrrrrrie Xmas to Alllll....

peekvid mania

When A Stranger Calls, Happy Feet and The Holiday is out on peekvid.
:)

晕倒

Surprise No. 1: I came home from camp that day and checked my nusmail acct and was shocked to find a SEP offer to me to NZ but i missed the acceptance deadline. While feeling all dui and undecided whether to persist and send an email for case-by-case consideration.. I decided to reject that offer. So tts it, im not gg

Surprise No. 2: The phone that I m eyeing dropped its price from 428 to 249! But before i could take any action, the price shot back again. 0_0

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Anws.. went to Bugis V8 cafe to celebrate ct's birthday today and shopped arnd for a while before meeting Alex. Saw this B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L bracelet at Dashing Diva, i like it very much.. Yes..Its 一见钟情.. But I decided not to buy.. Save $.. cos' its 13bucks for a bracelet..I think I can make do better wif that 13 bucks I saved. But yes.. its green.. I m still not over with that colour.

Bought a very special calculator for alex's xmas pressie...and we went Borders.. cos theres a 40% discount for 4 books purchased. So the 13 bucks i saved on the bracelet.. I spent on a book.. hahas.. tell me its a more worthwhile spend. So i got a novel .. and she got all History, classics, Lit Book... So intellectual huh... Haha.. I said im gg to blog abt this: She actually highlights while she read her Hitler Book...Im qt amazed.. So serious for leisure reading..

Orchard crowd was bad. But theres sth qt innovative abt it. When a silly man blows a whistle.. the light shines.. the traffic comes to a halt and all pedestrian can hog the roads and dance n do whatever on the roads for 1 min..at the junction end of Taka. Qt interesting, i felt..
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Thats all for today.. I waiting for photos frm 1703 gathering n camp n today to come in.. So i can blog with pictures.. haha

its bout SHARING......

ask me what i got as my 1st xmas pressie this yr.
60 candy stics! Haha.. but I dont dare to eat leh.. Not for obvious health reasons.. but cos I really don dare to eat cos its cherry-flavoured. So i guess this crosses out ct, joyce, lj too..

I ll spread the joy. Who wants to eat? I m glad to share :)
Sis helped by sharing 10 with her other friends.. Now, do I have 50 other friends to help me out with it? Or one single soul wana sweep it all? Lols. Dun let it go to a waste ma..

oh ya, im back.
yuenz -> bee: wads with the animal names??? haha but i like mine. i say ure CAT!

1st attempt @ windsurfing

Day 1

Managed to derive some laughter out of those slipping/falling off the board albeit the tired arms after countless attempts to climb back up the board again and hoist the sail again. Not easy. Weather was good today, wind was fine today but the sea was rather choppy. Pls, no rain for tomorrow again! :) Hope I ll surf better tomorrow and move further out away from the shore..

Samuel told me he was there all along in the sea sports centre but was in the shop all along hence din managed to see him.. otherwise he could have given me some pointers cus the instructor was too busy with others liao...

Haha.. No pictures of me surfing or rather.. falling into the sea.. but i tell u, im very 红 now.. I forgot to apply sunscreen on the back of the palms and they were burnt! Weird... I have burnt palms and normal arms. And... I was rather happy when I look into the mirror over at the toilets at the centre cos my face still looks alright. But.. I went home and was amazed to see it getting redder and redder by the hour... Reaction time was rather slow.-_- But ok la.. I look very radiant now. Lols.

Day 2

Shall update when I come back from camp on wed. Really hope I can say I managed to surf far far!

Till then, see ya!

I dont like rainy days.

It kept me trapped in my house, cos I dun wanna BRAVE the rain.

Reason No.1:
Went Ikea that day and thunder started roaring when I reached the bus-stop. I could have taken 27 for 3 stops and I would have reached Ikea. But to avoid the rain and play it safe, I took a bus to the interchange and took their shuttle bus so that it ll bring me right to the entrace of Ikea. In the end while I was waiting for the shuttle bus under that pathetic shelter that served no use during heavy rain, I got wet as well. 多此一举 is so apt.

Reason No.2:
I spent the whole day at home again. Wallet empty, big rain = no mood to step out of the hse.
(But I found a new entertainment: This thing, I used to play with it when I was back at my old house, where there is more room for this activity. Something like horizontal skipping and its fun. Shall take a picture nxt time and I bet alot of u all haven seen it before! Anws.. i did 200 jumps with it.. yays)

Reason No.3:
How to surf on rain days arh? And then they'll make the class listen to all the theories and not being able to hands-on at all? No-no! I dont want ...... Not cheap eh....

Reason No.4:
Camps on rainy days = outdoor activities cancelled and let's play ice-breakers and indoor games. Narh, I wan to have fun...

Now, be good and dont rain anymore.
if u must, rain at night and i ll sleep tight

wahs very the preeeeeeti lehs.

its just a plain ring at first sight.
but no.... its love at first sight .

To Grow With Love (肥田喜事) Themevideo

Episode 14 and running... :) Nice theme song.. and I wonder y Mediacorp drama theme songs no longer leave a deep impression in me anymore. Im quite amazed by the 20kg she put on for this show..

angles.

enuff said bout him.

guess i shld stop all my head-over-heels over 琛哥. lols.

anws.. was having qt a diff time planning timetable for my next sem.. cos i 'd be rather busy over nxt few wks.. ( joyce... realised that our chalet falls on Round 2A.. how ah? DE got wireless?.. n bring laptop to chalet = everybody "live" msn in the room lehs.)
this time, it isnt about planning round a tight lecture/tutorial timetable.. cos no more labs and 2 modules have no tutorial.. so im pretty much free for a yr2 student still holding on to 2 lvlone modules.
this time, its about planning round a tight exam timetable.. haha can i tolerate 4days of consecutive papers? considering I was alr so "cui-ed" by the end of 3rd paper this sem. + + I dont think i ll like having 2 papers in 1 day.
Da Jias.. i alr dont know what 2 more breadths/UE/gem to take liaos... so jio me if you all need friends to take together...or rather put it this way, i need friends to take modules together with me.
But sometimes it isnt too bad taking a module alone also.. like my soci.. get to know more friends..jus tt exam nobody to discuss with you the timing only and theres a risk of remembering the wrong time slot. sheesh.

enuff said bout him.

guess i shld stop all my head-over-heels over 琛哥. lols.

anws.. was having qt a diff time planning timetable for my next sem.. cos i 'd be rather busy over nxt few wks.. ( joyce... realised that our chalet falls on Round 2A.. how ah? DE got wireless?.. n bring laptop to chalet = everybody "live" msn in the room lehs.)
this time, it isnt about planning round a tight lecture/tutorial timetable.. cos no more labs and 2 modules have no tutorial.. so im pretty much free for a yr2 student still holding on to 2 lvlone modules.
this time, its about planning round a tight exam timetable.. haha can i tolerate 4days of consecutive papers? considering I was alr so "cui-ed" by the end of 3rd paper this sem. + + I dont think i ll like having 2 papers in 1 day.
Da Jias.. i alr dont know what 2 more breadths/UE/gem to take liaos... so jio me if you all need friends to take together...or rather put it this way, i need friends to take modules together with me.
But sometimes it isnt too bad taking a module alone also.. like my soci.. get to know more friends..jus tt exam nobody to discuss with you the timing only and theres a risk of remembering the wrong time slot. sheesh.

向左走， 向右走

went vivo once again and walk walk. once again i din complete every corner of the "city". once again i forgot to bring camera. 琛哥was there lor! 715 was there lor! Nakata also there lor! @St James for the Star Awards..

anw.. these few days.. a long-lost pri sch fren of mine started a task of finding all my classmates in jyps 6/10 for an honorable task of organising a class outing.. hmm wonder how it ll be like.. anws.. thats not the main point.. I saw his friendster photo and he seems to be in the air force! Wa. 琛哥！ Haha.

发霉

Seems like Mega-this Hyper-that Integrated-this is the "in" thing now.
Carrefour strike years ago and is apparently successful till now, then came Giant.
KMart failed terribly in Tampines Century Sq.
Then, came Vivo and the word "Big" just flashes in my mind even before I went there.
Then, the very big NTUC in Amk.
Now, there is Ikea Tampines.. Big BIg BIG.
So a week later theres Courts Warehouse in tampines and a couple of weeks later, a Giant HyperMart.

Honestly, I feel quite sad for the small neighbourhood shops.
The MINImart at the block beside mine is going to face some tough competition from the Giant HYPERmart.. (lol. look at the CAPS) which is supposedly to be 1 or 2 bus stop distance away from my house and then the new NTUC which is going to replace Cold Storage at the CC. Wahs. Ke Lian.

Somehow.. it is no longer lucrative to open a shop selling stationery, furniture in heartlands. Try opening Sweettalk PaoPaoCha, Budget Lelong Shop, HairSalon, Bakeries... at least i think they're not so kelian as compared to stationery and furniture shop..... (Imagine an old grandpa holding onto an old stationery shop.. business aint good cos every student is rushing to Popular to get their stationery.. Arghs so kelian but yet i wont buy any pens from the shop cos they ll be too old and the ink would have probably dried up. Sad hor. Sigh)

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Today i broke my cycle of having an activity each day. The first day after my exam I went jogging, followed by cycling.. and then jogging every evening. But today I felt so lazy..Lazy Saturday and thus "nua" my evening away..
Haha.. guess its hard to persist this an-activity-a-day cycle.
I lack discipline. Argh.

I din feel as happy as I thought I might be after the exams.
Maybe it was because of my new hair.. or maybe its just some thinking crisis which might be over soon.

I find it hard to make things beautiful. And whenever this thought comes, I ll try reminding myself to magnify the happiness tt occurs each day. Sometimes I succeed, other times i fail. Today, belonged to "the other times".

Money, is indeed the root of all evil. But yet, we cant do without it.

Mixed feeling of guilty+任性+angry+无奈。

of ambitions.

[I would have jumped jumped jumped everyday and drank milk diligently everyday if I had watch Triumph In the Skies earlier.. Like probably K2? LoL. I would have eat carrots and maintain daily required dosage of Vitamin A. So that I will be taller now and will not have to wear specs! Nonono, i dont wan to be an air-stewardess. I wan to be a pilot! Cool man. Haha... this called 异想天开。 ]

And I wouldnt be frowning now.... 20 years of age... I dont think I know what I want to be, or its either I had decided what I want to be, wasnt too sure and then gave up in the end.. We develop hobbies and interests.. do we develop an ambition?

How does someone decide on his/her ambition? What causes the ambition to sprout?

I am envious. Of those working and fighting towards their ambition.

Meanwhile, let me just enjoy the view en route to search. I'll just try to make it as beautiful as it can be.

琛哥.... wahaha

I failed to resist the temptations of 冲上云霄 every night and I end up in front of the TV smiling to myself whenever 亦琛 appears on the screen. :) lol...he's not handsome... his hairdo cannot make it...
but he's smart in his captain uniform! and he is very rational, has a good temper, and he takes care of people very well... He has this u-try-hard-and-u-ll-still-find-hard-to-understand-him kind of mysterious air around him...
Ah... SET! I wan him as my prince! Haha.

Monday last paper..
A-cha Fighting!