school has started! and so has the cycle of buying textbooks and rushing to print notes. i hate this period of the semester. buying textbooks are so expensive and so we photocopy instead. but most of the time, i find that i dont use these notes. just following the crowd in case i need them. haha... the guys my age are also starting their uni life this year. everywhere i go, i find myself scanning the crowd for anyone that looks familiar. havent seen many people though.
this semester's timetable is filled with long breaks, meaning i have long days. wasted my 5 hours today talking to secondary school friends. crashed hui's strtegic management lecture. i actually found it interesting. guess its the first lecture so i could understand what was being taught. the lecturer spoke clearly and loudly unlike many of the foreign lecturers i have encountered. it feels good to learn something i dont have exams for.
i wanna stay in my beloved hall 16! tired of travelling. *sobz*

met up with a few friends yesterday. could finally get out of the house after the jap exam. which, by the way, was quite managable. the essay topic was quite lame though. 'what would you do with a million dollars?' seems liek some beauty pageant question. amazed by my own crapping skills.
back to yesterday...our plans for the night failed miserably at first. we wanted to go mind's cafe but yesterday evening was exceptionally crowded. cinema was damn crowded too. luckily we managed to get 3rd row seats(again!) for the lake house. its quite a nice movie. the house is so nice with glass all around and a maple tree in the middle. but as the plot has to do with 2 people living in 2 different times, it can get quite confusing. i can never fully understand the logic of time travel shows. wait a minute, there's no logic!

this has to be the funniest picture i've ever seen! cant do maths? make use of the english then. genius!

last sat was hui's birthday celebration at aranda chalet. i had alot of fun there cos i knew most of her friends. had a great time talking to the gals. the chalet was big and very nice, though there were only 2 rooms and 5 gals had to sleep on 1 bed. dunno how they did it. i didnt sleep the whole night and paid the price the next day. first time i felt so tired after one night without sleep. felt like a zombie the whole day and couldnt even do my homework properly. getting old? haha... but looking at hui's chalet, it makes me feel like celebrating my own birthday too. i could feel her happiness and i guess she's really lucky. whatever she had wished for, she got it that night. either all her friends knew her that well or she's very predictable. haha...being her friend, i would rather give credit to us. what shall i do for my birthday...
my jap lessons has ended. quite sad actually cos i enjoyed those lessons. and this means that school is starting. sigh...i think of the six modules and i'm reluctant to start school. yesterday's oral was a disaster. listening was a little better. i was the first to be tested and i was so nervous that i couldnt say anything properly. forget how to convert the different forms of verbs and could only leave it to my instinct. so disappointed with myself. i want an A!

just had an enjoyable time last sunday at the zoo with some of my cns friends. its like being a child again, on an excursion in our primary school days. so many animals to see and i forgot my camera! argh!! the cutest were the otters. they ran around in 1 big group and would stop in front of the people to 'pose'. after awhile, they would run to another coner and 'pose' again. models of the animal world. we also fed the kangeroos, though i nearly stepped on one of their tails. one of my friends sugested going back to the zoo together 10 years later. by then we would be in our 30s and probably married with children. lol... tracia shared with us her stories about her observations of teachers in classes. teachers are so noble! not that i didnt know that before but i rarely hear of first hand experiences from teachers themselves. it is so difficult being a teacher now. children are over protected and teachers also have to be creative to come up with new and interesting classes.they have my respect!

another interesting thing is that i got to speak to two japanese businessmen on tuesday. i met them at orchard when they asked for my help in buying tickets at the mrt station. i was so excited in speaking japanese and it will be good practise for my oral and listening exam next week. but i forgot all that i've learnt and all i could manage was a few words and broken sentences. there were so many questions i wanted to ask but the words just couldnt form. in the end, a girl sitting next to the men in the mrt joined in the conversation. she must think i'm an idiot for struggling to speak in such broken japanese when they could speak perfect english. i also had to pay full attention when they speak so that i could understand what they were talking. it was a good experience though.

this brings me to my next topic. i'm currently reading 'tuesdays with morrie'. its quite a meaningful book about the author talking to his sociology professor who was dying. they talked about many issues in life. many of the things are actually what we know we should do but have difficulty doing or not wanting to do. the professor termed this 'tension of the opposites'. there was one passage in which he said we must always be with the person we are with. that means to give them our utmost attention when they are talking and not think about something else or look elsewhere. that is a problem i sometimes face. sometimes i have problem paying attention and will tend to space out if the conversation is too long and only pulling myself back to answer 'uh-huh'. do you guys have this problem too? it seems such an easy task to listen but few people can do it. to listen with utmost attention and sincerity. sometimes people dont need advice to their problems but just a listening ear.

shh...listen...

my mentor just told me that there may not be work in the lab for awhile. though i welcome the occasional break, i wanna learn more in lab. besides, i have nothing to do at home. dunno what i'll do if i didnt have jap lessons. jap2 is more difficult with all the forms of verbs. the more i learn, the more i'm confused by the particles. but learning jap is still fun. and i have yanfen for company. the people in jap1 class are still the best!
went out with some sbs friends for steamboat to celebrate vincent's bdae. sbs people always seem to have steamboat outings. it was quite fun. just hope that there will be more gals next time. looking forward to this weekend!

just changed my blogskin and i love the picture. but what's the problem with the sidebar?? hate this html thingy. just cant get anything right.
oh yeah, this month's world cup month. bazil didnt get into the semis! i was so surprised. bet alot of people must be cursing at their losses now. football just doesnt interest me

after last week's rest, i'm working hard this week. everyday work till about 6pm. so tiring... learnt one thing though, i learnt how to play carom during our many incubation periods. we had a sucess rate of about one insert per week for our cloning. according to the prof, its quite good. being a researcher sure needs alot of patience! have to repeat the same experiments over and over without getting tired of failure. but today has been not suceessful at all! repeated the damn experiment twice, each taking hours, and yet there were no reults. not even unfavourable ones. sigh...
i finally got to meet up with my jap class friends last saturday after one year. too bad a few of them couldnt come at the last minute. hopefully more people can turn up next time. our group seems to be getting smaller. but i had fun that day!

i'm tired out today, though not from work. just as i reached school this morning, my mentor messaged me saying i need not come today. isnt it kind of late?!! so i ended up going shopping with the other two girls. started off going to the guan yin temple in bugis to have last minute prayers for tomorrow's release of results. then we proceeded to shop in bugis to orchard, from 9am to 5pm. office hours for a different purpose. my legs are killing me now.
then on the way home, my friend told me that results are out already. wasnt prepared to know my results today but actually i have no feelings about it this semester. my mind was blank except for a little worries for biochem. it turned out alright. not good but ok. very very slight improvement from last sem, though i still cant get rid of the C. that will be my aim for next sem(even that seems difficult to me). surprised for biochem...there must be moderation.
hmm...how to spend my free day tomorrow?

watched Over The Hedge yesterday. great movie! its one of the funniest cartoons i've ever seen. the whole theater was roaring with laughter. the movie is about a group of animals which woked up after their winter hibernation to find their forest being invaded by humans. in came the street-wise racoon to teach them about the human world, in a way that was actually making fun of humans. like 'cars are vehicles that humans invented as they are losing their ability to walk'. we went to tcc at boat quay after that. the second floor was really cool. filled with comfortable bean bags, its a great place to relax with friends.
just checked my time table for next semester. it sucks totally! i'm having 6 core modules plus lab. my days are packed from 8.30am to 5.30pm except for wednesdays. the exam schedule is not good either. how am i going to survive next sem?? sigh...better enjoy my hols now.

went to chalet on tuesday. i was abit skeptical at first cos only 8 people were going. a few others couldnt make it. but it turned out to be fun! the chalet was a BIG bungalow house under IDA which chulei's aunt got for $90 for 4 nights. so cheap! the house was quite new, modern looking with a natural wood feel. there was even a pond outside with a circular area containing 2 bbq pits. the living room was big with a high ceiling and a huge plasma tv. chulei preprared cold soba for dinner. and we had round 2 of instant noodles and various ingrediants. sitting round the table, it feels like we're having a family dinner.
next was probably the highlight of this chalet -- mahjong! 4 experts and 4 beginners. just nice to have a personal tutorial of the game. i took over vincent's feng shui seat and we won quite abit. vincent was a first time player but he picked up the game very fast and has extremely good luck. he managed to get 'hua hu' which is the set of 8 flowers! darren, though he was playing with 3 beginners, lost to everyone. thanks to him, we got free breakfast. haha... we played from 9pm to 3.30am and it was only 1 round. so dead tired that everyone just wanted to end the game. though there were 4 bedrooms, all 5 of us slept in 1 bedroom. feels like i've gone back to hall. only slept 2 hours before we all had to rush to school or work.
going to meet up with hui and guys later. so many movies to watch now. no time and money. haha... sw and mz, when to watch da vinci?? i also wanna watch x-men.
*hope this thurs gathering with the jap people will actually make it. its been postponed too long!*

i'm bOrEd...now stuck in sbs resource room cos there's nothing for me to do in lab. started to work in valarie lin's lab last week. hours are quite flexible cos it depends on what you have to do for that day. but i'm working for no pay. still have to pay for meals and transport. sigh... still blur blur, trying to make sense of the experiments and doing what my mentor tell me to do. hope i can learn something. quite sian to have to come school everyday. and i'll always look forward to going home to watch my 'e zuo ju zhi wen'. thats the only relaxing time at the end of the day. i love the show so much!! zheng yuan chang shuai dai le! haha...didnt even like him in the past. didnt know why jh so crazy about the show, but now i know. i'm finishing it soon though. nothing more to look forward to after work. in need of more new dramas to watch. sounds like a sad life huh. i still have a chalet with the few hall friends tomorrow. too bad limin and huihsien not coming.

tadaima~ just came back from japan two days ago. i had alot of fun and saw many things. gonna try to put everything to words now.
i stayed in hokkaido for the first four nights. it is supposed to be spring now but the weather was still quite cold. especially up in the mountains where the wind is strong, our fingers would be numb beyond feeling. there were still some snow left from the previous week. first time i see snow, though most of it has become dirty ice.

our first two nights were spent in a hot spring resort. it was a new experience for me to go down to the onsen. had to have alot of courage cos we had to be fully naked. but you could see japanese from ages four to 60+ and it was pretty normal for them. they could let their young sons see their bodies without any problem. i even chatted with a kawaii boy in the pool. the outdoor pool was especially refreshing. its so relaxing to soak in the hot water in the cold air.

after two days of mountain scenery, we went to the town of Otaru. the buildings there are all very nice. their streets are lined with a mixture of traditional styled japanese buildings and european styled shophouses. i was surprised to learn that hokkaido is influenced greatly by european culture cos of their location. their houses are mostly european style instead of the tradtional ryokan even in the countryside.

next up was Sapporo city, capital of Hokkaido. at night, the buildings are all lit up with neon lights. it is very difficult to find rubbish bins on the streets but surprisingly, the streets are even cleaner than singapore's. there's no rubbish at all. singapore has much to learn.

Hakodate, port city of Hokkaido. i finally saw sakura blooms!!! it wasnt much, only a few isolated trees. if only i could see the mankai, the whole park would be covered in pink. we also went to the fish market. the seafood is all very fresh but i'm sick of eating seafood for one week. not much of a seafood fan. i tried the squid ink ice cream. not very special actually but i love their ice cream. i can eat it everyday even if its freezing cold. finally got to eat ramen from those roadside stalls too. oishii desu ne~ but actually the real japanese food is not as nice as those in singapore. we are too accustomed to the singaporean taste. and the food is so expensive! a normal meal usually costs at least $10. even though things are expensive, tehy dont have to worry cos the main tourists and consumers in japan are the japanese themselves. they buy things like they are free.

we went to Tokyo for the last day. shopping time!! Harajuku is like the bugis street of singapore. all the people are dressed up very fashionably. some of the clothes are quite affordable if they are on sales. regret not buying more. at night, we took the subway to Shinjuku. the metro system is so complicated that having a map wont help. you can also sense how fast paced and stressed city life is. the people are all walking so quickly that you also feel obliged to keep up to prevent from getting in people's way. anyway, the night life in Shinjuku is very 'happening'. its actually quite a sleezy place. the street is lined with sex toy shops or night clubs and karaoke joints. there's not only gals club but boys club. their pictures will be shown outside the building for customers to choose. there will also be guys in black suits and carrying transparent umbrellas (it was raining that day), trying to get female customers. they are supposed to be handsome but they look more like ah bengs. i saw a few men whom i think are members of the yakuza. all of them had gold chains and drive expensive cars.

on the whole, i find the japanese very friendly people. had the chance to talk to some of them with my mediocore japanese. communication is abit of a problem. but with some japanese and english plus alot of pointing, we could barely manage. the most important phrase during shopping is 'kore wa ikura desuka?', meaning 'how much?'

the japanese are also experts in pakaging and service. all the things are wrapped up so nicely you just cant resist buying. they are also very generous with their samples. they give out whole chocolates and large portions of cakes as samples. something that cant be done in singapore or they would probably incur a loss. as for service, they are very patient and helpful. we were in a shopping centre when we got lost in the underground system. it was closing time and we panicked. we asked the manager for directions and he immediately left his post to lead us all the way out. pei fu! in any case, dont ever try to take taxi in japan. you'll suffer from high blood pressure just looking at the meter. i travelled for 4km and paid S$30. a 60km trip will cost you what it takes for a nice trip to bangkok plus shopping! their apartments are equally expensive. my tour guide stays in the outskirts of tokyo in an apartment the size of 4 tatami mats (1 mat=90x180cm). her rent is 70,000 yen (100 yen = $1.40) per month!

ok, finally ended. thanks if ur're still reading. haha...hope to go japan again. next time with friends!

woohoo~ exams have finally finished! one month of studying and late nights have come to an end. not that i mind late nights. haha... only slept for 3 hours this morning. a little tired now but i'm trying not to sleep so i can sleep on the plane later. doesnt feel like i'm gonna board the plane in 6 hours time. one luggage havent unpack have to pack another.
had alot of fun yesterday! after the paper and some rest, we went to buy ingrediants for our steamboat dinner. there were 7 of us and me and jh being the only gals, we prepared almost everything. too bad alot of people couldnt make it but it was still quite fun. we ate in our hall's tv lounge. felt guilty cos we couldnt finish the food.
after dinner, we went to meet the rest of the gals from hall 16 and 4 other friends to go ministry of sound. its my first clubbing trip! wouldnt have been able to go if we were not staying in hall. realised that clarke quay is very beautiful at night. according to hui, there were not many people there yesterday. but the place was still very crowded to me. all the smoke and loud music thumping...not really my cup of tea. but if there's a chance for everyone to go again, i will. danced to retro and RnB music. not very good at dancing leh. jh's friend say we not drunk enough. haha...cos we didnt drink alcohol at all. everyone is dressed so nicely. can see all kinds of people there, including those guys who cant keep their hands off drunk gals. and i was so surprised to see jk and nigel there. jk was so high~ dancing on the platform like a transformed person. haha...
reached back hall at 3am and shared 2 bowls of instant noodles with the rest. then only slept at 6.30am with four of us sharing 2 beds. feels like chalet. my last night in hall le...so she bu de. all the wonderful memories and friendships forged. this has been the best sem in my 2 years of university. really very happy this sem, feel like i finally have a life. thanks to my roomies and jh!! finishing lab reports are alot easier with our discussions.
will miss our times together!

came home yesterday evening and i was so dead tired. kept sleeping all the way. but i still slept at 3am at night. haha...it has become a habit. now i'm hooked on er zuo ju zhi wen. loved the japan drama last time. the taiwan version is even sweeter, just as unlikely to happen in real life. so slack now. havent studied since my last paper. i wanna play mahjong with them tonight~ but have to go back tomorrow. sigh...

209 paper was a killer. to me at least. i didnt know how to do most of the paper. mind totally blank. the previous night, i drank a can of red bull which kept me up the whole nite. only slept 2 hours on that day! then day before exam too tired to study le. hai...markers please be lenient. hai...enjoy myself first.
enjoyed myself today! but spent alot of money too. went to the hair salon after my paper. then went kbox at jurong east at night with jh, hh and cl. we sang from 10pm to 3am! so high~ but really very expensive. $18.90++ excluding cab fare. so fun... tonight is my last night in my room. so sad to see the room empty. kel they alln playing mahjong on sun. wonder if i can come back. abit guilty for not going home for so long. so many things that i've not yet done in hall. never even go out for supper with friends.
must not forget i still have a last paper on wed!

its 1 am and i just finished my supper. very unhealthy lifestyle...sleeping late and having late night suppers. or you can say sleep early cos the earliest i've slept for these past few weeks is 3am. hai...killed by the virology paper today. i couldnt do alot of the questions. so many questions from lecture 1, which i thought wasnt important. now going to die for friday's biochem. i need more memory space!
i didnt go home last weekend. mz asked if i missed home and my answer is...no. maybe abit bad but i really dont miss home. maybe its only one weekend and its comfortable enough here. but its not fun. eating and finding a place to study is a problem. can see a different side of the university without the crowd. and the absence of the cleaners is clearly pronounced. whole canteen become so dirty.
although i dread friday's paper, i'm also looking forward to the end of it! i'm gonna slack and not care about the last paper for the moment. so many programmes lined up that i think i wont be at home much. i wanna stay in hall this friday and next wedesday~ will be going out with hall friends. but i think my parents will nag. besides i'm flying off on thursday. no time!
sigh...3 more days. back to studies...

sad...hui moved out today. the room seems weird without her stuff. but i had an enjoyable last night crapping till morning. so relaxing to just stand on the rooftop and enjoy the morning breeze. soon, we'll all be moving out. she bu de~

help~ why cant i seem to concentrate on studying after the immune paper. feel so drained...

i have a good news! i got my jap2!! so happy~ haha...will be going with yanfen. poor mei cant take with us. at least i got company. class starts on june 19th. then will be an intensive 1 month. but now i have problems applying for internship. all my friends applying this hols. will any company accept me for 1 month?
had my first exam paper on thurs. this whole week, i've been studying at sbs with my friends till late night. quite lucky cos can ask my friends questions and half of the exam paper came out from past year's and tutorials. hopefully i wont have problems with the other papers. after that paper, i felt so happy. as if the whole exam was over. the worst is yet to come...
celebrated jy's bdae at cartel. the organiser say meet at 11.15am. who celebrate bdae so early?? anyway, the bdae person gave a treat. he got an ipod nano as a present. so good, i also want~ at least its something he can use.
why so many people's bdae in april? i'm supposed to be studying!

i went for sijia's bdae chalet yesterday. my flu miraculously recovered upon reaching tampines. but please dont put me in charge of presents again. there was the usual crapping session. victor commented that boyfriends are always the slaves at birthday parties. but as a boyfriend, isnt it right for you to serve your girlfriend's guests??
Dian's back from australia!! now working in a child psychology clinic and research assistant. so amazing... i always thought that people say its difficult to work as a psychologist in singapore. walid offered me a ride home on his bike and i declined. haha...i wasnt as relaxed as he thought i was when i rode pillion last time. all a bunch of nerves. going to miss weiling's bbq tonight. must start studying!
another piece of good news from my friend. he was successful in getting an internship in yes93.3! congrats! i saw his resume which was really impressive. i really admire his spirit and passion for the field of his study. he'll take the initiative to get internships to try all everything in the mass comm field. he knows what he wants and will take action to persue his dreams. some people just talk about their dreams but do nothing about it. that's only day-dreaming.
unlike him, i dont know what i want and have no plans for the future. can only take one step at a time right now...
all the best for the future

something amusing happened yesterday. i was walking in the campus when i passed by this girl. she gave me a look like she knew me and asked if i lived on tampines st xx. i was so surprised because i dont even know her. then she said she used to see me at the bus stop every morning in brown uniform. that would be my secondary school days! is her memory that good or have i not changed at all??
monday's immuno test was a disaster. the teacher had to remind us that there could be more than 1 answer for the mcq questions. this resulted in me putting down all those extra answers and end up those answers are redundant. worst thing was that 1 mark will be deducted for wrong answers. will i end up with a negative score? moral of the story - sometimes its good not to know the instructions.
these few days have been studying for exams but really li bu cong xin. i cant remember what i've read. all those stupid mechanisms for 209. can die~ and now i'm sick as well. wondering if i should go to sijia's bdae chalet tomorrow. cant eat anything. so many friends are sick too. everybody's stressed.
jia you and take care of yourselves!

yesterday's heavy rain spoiled my swimming plans. the rain was so heavy that parts of the hall were flooded. heard that my coursemate was very nice and swept the water away frm lm's corridoor. didnt expect he'd do such a thing. today i cant go swimming again. sigh...
the trip has been confirmed. i'll be going japan with my mum and aunt! its a dream come true. will the little jap i've learnt be of help? haha...dont think so. i hope that we'll manage to see the sakura blooms. heard that this year's weather is warmer and the flowers has opened earlier.
quite sad though that my bro not going. no one to share my excitement with. he's taking his o levels this yr and my dad dont allow him to go. actually if i were him, i'll be so jealous and upset. 1 week doesnt make much of a difference. my dad wants to get him tuition and through yu,i got ny. feels weird that i'll be seeing him every week at my house. i'm such a lousy sis. maths quite good but cant teach my bro. i really dont know how to teach. sometimes he also dont accept my method and say its different from what's taught in school. stubborn like i was last time

yea~i've finally gotten rid of the irritating music,after receiving many complaints. haha...so should have no problem now. just came back from limin's birthday bbq in hall 12. i feel so full now... so many friends' birthdays this month. i'm going to go broke. exams are in 3 weeks and i still have 2 more reports to go. how am i going to study for immuno quiz next week?! last week still play basketball. never play match before. so tiring, but so fun! ok must concentrate...i'll be going on a tour on the 4th! 1 day after exams! looking forward...this shell be my motivation!

havent blogged in a long time. cos nothing worth mentioning has happened. haha... well, i am loving hall life right now. i love the room so much and of cos staying with my friends. just too bad i dont have key then always have to trouble people. but staying in hall has made school life more interesting. i'm now closer to some of my coursemates. went to our school's bbq last tue. sbs always has free food for us. lol... and the people here are making me exercise more. where they find all the energy for running, badminton, floorball, swimming etc?? i went running with them twice now. its considered a miracle. haha... last time i die die also wont go running. really hope can stay in the same hall next sem. who wants to stay with me?? sigh...now starting to sense tension in the air cos exams are less than a month away. sw, must start our studying le. hee... back to the good old airport. just wanna add something, when there's people, there's bound to be clash of ideas. not saying you have to accept them but i guess since the majority already decided, you just have to think of why they chose that. easier to get the job done mah. gd luck for ur projects!

now is the middle of my term break. havent got down to any serious studying. i must start tomorrow! sw and mz are so busy...disappointed that we cant go out. nan de that our hols are on the same week. anyway, jia you gals, for all your tests! met up with sw today to study. ended up not studying much. hee...more of chatted as usual and the strawberry cheesecake was great! we were supposed to study in the national library but they didnt allow us to bring books or notes into the reference section (according to the security, "not even a quarter textbook!!"). but what's worse was that the whole library didnt even have the books we wanted. then i was surprised to see jk there. stupid guy call me siao eh. hair looks cool though. i wanna take jap with them~~ sigh...miss the times when i see hui studying jap.
gal, after listening to wad u say today, i'm really happy for u. hope everything works out well! zhu ni xing fu~

it was les's b'dae yesterday and we went to her house for buffet dinner. it served indian cuisine but what i didnt expect was a prata counter with a chef. we could choose from a range of ingrediants and order. there was even chocolate syrup as topping and it was so delicious. there were so many people there that i havent seen in a long time; all the s09 and first 3 months classmates. it was really fun talking to them and i ended up not spending time with my sec sch friends. last week, i went with hui and wanyu to get her present. bought a very modern-looking rocking chair. made her a card with the photo. its amazing what photoshop can do to make the colours so nice. wanyu designed a redemption coupon. i just love the whole thing. how i wish can just keep it in our hall. haha... hope you love it les. happy b'dae!

i finally moved into hall this week!! its so new and nice. long long table so i have space. staying in hall will never be the same again. and have so many friends here. just the problem of water though. the water is so dirty, dont like to drink it. i kinda miss sleeping at home too...
yesterday we went to buy les's present. love it so much. hee... i hope les likes it too. here's happy bdae in advance!

today's new year's eve!! been looking forward to it especially after this week's late nights over assignments. can finally rest for 4 days without thinking about school. mum bought a laptop for me yesterday. i said it wasnt necessary but i really liked it alot. but now hui said i might not be able to connect to internet in hall. is it going to be a waste of money?? sigh...i was supposed to stay with lihui next week but now daryl is gonna stay with her. oh well, i was indecisive so cant blame her. thought it would be quite fun with her and colin next door, though the room very small. i was so amazed by her cleaning yesterday. she had scrubbed the floors and gave the walls a fresh coat of paint. at least now the room looks bright and decent. gonna move in to hui's room soon. looking forward~
xin nian kuai le~

HaPpY BiRtHdAy To ShIwEn!!!

went to mind's cafe yesterday to pre-celebrate sw's bdae. it was really fun but we could only stay for 2 hrs. really cheap too. paid $5 for gaming and free flow drinks. we all went crazy yesterday, took alot of funny photos. walked to bugis for dinner at pasta mania. really had a gd time today.
decided to stay hall for this sem. but where should i stay? hall 16 is new, air-conditioned and with yu and hui. hall 10 is a single room with lihui and colin next door. really wanna stay with them actually but dont really like the room. how?

have been so tired this week. like deprived of sleep. why? cos i cant sleep early at night. then the next morning i cant wake up. hate all those 8.30 lectures. i cant keep myself awake, especially for bioinformatics. how to survive this sem??
i got a surprise on thursday night. my mum came home with 2 free tickets for sun yan zi's concert! i went with hui yesterday. so excited, first time go to this kind of concert. but we had to walk to the indoor stadium from kallang cos the bus was havent arrived after so long and no cabs will take us. walked with 3 other people along the way cos we were not sure of the way. sure upped our anticipation along the way. the stadium was packed and we were sitting in the second block. the stage was in the center so we could see quite reasonably. then sun yan zi appeared from the rising stage singing feng zhen. think she sang about 20 songs with 3 encores and 8 costume changes. the whole concert was great with fast and slow songs. i loved fir's songs and tanya's duet with yanzi. but the atmosphere wasnt really that high till the encore. the concert seemed to end so quickly after 2.5 hrs. i wanna go concert again~ yanzi rocks!

the first week of school has just ended and already i can sense that this sem will be no less stressful. there was a reading list for the lec on tuesday. on thursday, me and my friends went to look for the textbooks. i thought it was very early already. but no, out of the five books, we only found one. the rest has already been borrowed. my gosh, all these ppeople all so kiasu... i heard that people already went to borrow the books after the lec on tuesday. i hate this...
meanwhile, i'm still going out this week. completed my new year clothes shopping. made cheese cake with sw and mz. it turned out like biscuit crumble with cream cheese and choc chips though. lol... met up with theo and my guitar friends today. i was so blur. forgot to bring my ic and ez link card out, so went back twice for them. then when i reach the mrt station, i realise i didnt bring my wallet. only had 10 bucks to last the day. luckily they all gave me treats. thanks to you all!

this is my 100th post in this blog. haha... just came back not long ago from meeting my sec sch friends. so nan de, all of us were able to meet today. finally got to go pepper lunch after waiting for so long. but i find it quite a disappointment. it wasnt as nice as i thought. but i feel blessed these few days. been going out alot to celebrate my bdae. so end up eating alot too. going to turn fat at this rate. thanks to all my friends for making my bdae wonderful!
going to start sch on tues. have to wake up at 6 again. why do i have so many 8.30 lessons?? hope i wont be stressed out this sem and can finally get an A. best wishes to everyone for 2006. may everyone be happy and healthy~

yesterday afternoon, i went to meet up with sw and mz. miss sw so much. she bought souvenirs back for us from disneyland. about 10 different designs of cute little keyrings. i had the first choice and i chose one with winnie the pooh, piglet, tigger, eeyore hanging from it. mz and i thought it was the cutest. i really liked it alot. but, the careless me had to lose it. yup, i LOST it. barely hours after i got it. think it must have dropped out of my pocket. i tried to retrace our steps but couldnt find it anymore. probably some lucky kid picked it up.

sw, so sorry for losing it. thanks though...

gosh, time flies. i'm 1 year older today and hols have come to an end. hit 20 and i'm feeling old oredi.

*hope next year will be a wonderful year*

had a a wonderful xmas weekend this year! first off was friday when i went shopping with meizhen at orchard. it was bursting with people at wisma and taka. cant imagine what it would be like on the eve. we went to far east where thankfully there wasnt any crowd. tried the tian bu la(tempura) from the taiwan xiao chi. dont ever eat it cos it just tasted like fried fish paste with flour or something. yucks... but i managed to buy clothes. thanks to shiwen and meizhen for 'sponsering' my shirt. =)
sat was the first xmas eve i spent with friends. orchard would be nice with the lights and festive spirit but squeezing with the crowd is really not my cup of tea. so we went to marina bay for steamboat. we were split into two tables with the 3 guys, hui and me and the other table with ling, nana and their boyfriends. it kinda felt like we were going out seperately. but i had alot of fun, all the laughter and eating. but of cos, we stank of smoke at the end. after teh meal, the 5 of us went to city hall for ice cream. city hall wasnt crowded. in fact the mrt station was quite empty. still early perhaps? too bad iz had to book in or we could have gone esplanade. just love sitting at that place.
xmas day was spent with my family as we had our own party at my aunt's place. my mum had lots of last minute shopping to do and we had a mad rush for gifts 1 hour before. clearly, many people was also in a fluster, crowding the wrapping station. the party was good. gifts exchage and more food!!
now left the last week of hols and its my bdae week! must enjoy more. haha... though its belated, merry xmas!

feel so so relieved today~ xin zhong de shi tou zhong yu ke yi fang xia. cos i passed all my subjects! i was so worried for advanced cell bio that i had trouble sleeping yesterday. but yeah, i got a C+! thanks to dr ky. still didnt managed to get an A though. will i even manage an A in the 4 years? whatever...whoo~

yesterday, the class of p6/1 was finally back at qiaonan. 8 years have passed by so quickly. we waited at the canteen for the rest to arrive. so many faces, familar yet foreign. many of the girls have grown so pretty, making the guys go 'wah, chio!' as they walked in. about 25 out of the 43 in the class turned up. not bad i think. its amazing that we could get together now. our class was really united, cos everybody treasured our times here. this gathering was planned months ago by vic and seng. friendster has proved to be very useful locating everybody. only 2 people were like missing and uncontactable. some others have returned abroad. but yesterday was really fun. our form teacher and chinese teacher came too. we went up to our old classroom, sat round in a circle to update ourselves. kind of like orientation... everybody seems to be doing very well. we have future doctors, dentists, pharmacists, engineers, music players etc. all among us. we shared past gossips and toured the school.
but the whole day was like shifting tables. cos everywhere we went,we had to shift tables to accomodate the whole group. laughed so much yesterday cos of weiling and walid. walid would laugh at whatever weiling said and we would laugh at walid's laughter. created so much noise. and seng, he brought us to his 'fave spot', which was some secluded corner at tm's top floor beside a 'cage' with rubbish dumps. like what kind of place is that to sit and talk??
we spent the rest of the night at safra talking about the past 8 years of our life. everybody's love life seems pretty drama. or are all love stories as dramatic? yesterday was also the first time i sat on a motobike. walid sent me home but i was kinda nervous. gripped the side of the bike like my life depended on it, till the plastic cut into my hand. he was going quite fast but i enjoyed the wind. but i still prefer to stick to the car. lol...
yesterday was the first gathering but i believe many more will come. the kind of pure friendship in primary school is hard to come by and i'll treasure it. so mrs choo, watch out. cos we'll be raiding your house in the new year!

by this time tomorrow, sw will be on a plane to hongkong. so xian mu, she'll be gone for almost a month. gonna miss u. haha... enjoy your trip and take care~

sw and mz finished their exams yesterday. went to watch chicken little. didnt know it was the opening day. i had already heard the stupid song at mc donald's for 1 month. the show was entertaining but the plot really stupid. didnt think it was worth 8 bucks.
went swensens's after that and saw julian hee shooting outside! he was wearing a suit and i think he looked quite shuai. though mz say his face look fat. there were only a few crew members and he kept walking up and down across the busy road. seems awkward and blocking people's way. lol...
talking about stars, i was surprised that nic was out after the first round in star idol. didnt think he was great but didnt expect him to get kicked out so fast either. thought he had alot of fans. proved that good looks are not everything...

finally,i got to watch harry potter last wed. bought the tix at ps for 5.30. the lady assured me very good seats. but when we tried to go in at 5.30, we found out the tix were for 9.30pm! (T.T) the blur auntie gave us the wrong tix and blur me didnt check after buying. luckily they managed to get good seats for us at 6.30. this forth sequel was highly anticipated. especially after reading the book, i can imagine how spectacular the movie will be. the movie was really exciting, though i'm a tad disappointed that they left out the quidditch match. they left out some details too but they managed to round up the plot nicely. emma watson is soo pretty!

yeah~exams finally finished. now suddenly so free, a bit weird. haha...hope can find a part-time job this hols. yesterday's paper was so disastrous. i really hope i can pass. hai...never have i before felt so panicked during an exam because i dont know what to write. really zhen bu hao shou. but its over now. i can only hope for the best.
the only thing i like about exams is that it is only during this period that i get to see friends i dont usually meet. only during exams will i see hui everyday and sw every saturday to study. without them, i'll be too lazy to go out. haha...its very boring to study alone. so thanks and sw, jia you. faster finish your exams and we can watch harry potter!

supposed to be studying now but here i am in access lab typing this. hai... feeling sian cos i'm alone in school again. dont really like being alone most of the time. but, i have a paper tomorrow!! left 3 more papers, 7 days to freedom~ this week is going to be a killer week. last sat, went to airport to study with sw and we were so unlucky. we were chased out of 2 locations. in the end, we got tired and left early. we actually got chased out by an auntie from t2 foodcourt at 4pm. the canteen was empty but the auntie kept telling us that we cant study there. its the rules and the canteen is for staff to eat. she was so relentless that we got fed up. cant they be more flexible?? its cos of us students that the canteen actually has some business. dont know what they thinking...
hai...hope someone will come keep me company...

jia you for the exams!! hang in there~

my computer seems to be having problems. its like it has a mind of its own; shutting down suddenly and restarting when i want it to shut down. is it mocking at me?? hate this computer.
yesterday was the last day of the semester. had my french oral and 204 test. did quite well for my french test. think oral should be fine too. though i made some mistakes and said places in english. my group had 3 persons so we took longer. it seemed like an eternity with never-ending questions. sometimes we had to continue our answer on that of the previous person's. she asked me why i liked singapore. didnt really have much choices of an answer left so i just made up something. vocab so limited. so glad no listening or i'll just miss out everything. but i'm quite relaxed about french cos i adopted a dont-really-care attitude. but it seems better. stress-free... not so for my core though. i hate studying for cell bio. someone help me~
this sem no one to study with me. and i'm feeling less motivated with each sem. dont really feel happy. felt left out from my usual group of friends this sem. maybe cos i'm always going for french during breaks. end up missing alot from their conversation topics. and they are all so smart. really cant catch up when they discuss school work so feel stressed around them sometimes. sometimes feel like i have nothing to say. sigh...i was hoping to get closer to one of them. maybe i think too much ba. now have to concentrate on studying. gambatte!

had my french role play last week. lucky to have role play instead of oral. just have to memorise the script. my script was quite short so i had no problem. hee... but i think all the groups didnt understand totally what everyone else was talking about. we're just performing for the teacher.
my friends always ask 'isnt it tough that u're taking french on top of ur core? french is so difficult...'. french is difficult but i still enjoy languages more than my core. languages are so fun to learn. besides, i've become used to the teaching style in french class. its different from japanese but both styles have their good points. i think i learn more vocab in french, verbs especially. the teacher always teach us extra things, sometimes from level 2. japanese class was more speed learning and conversation practice. can see the difference between french and japanese teachers too. the french are more easy-going with a better command of english. they enjoy the arts. japanese are more particular about puntuality and rules. always very polite. very interesting to learn all these.
oh yah, very excited. i met sijia in ntu. she's my primary school best friend. we chatted all the way home. so much to catch up on. victor is organising a class gathering at the end of the year to be held at our old classroom. isnt it cool if it can really take place?

finally went out with my friends yesterday. met up with my dmn friends. went to the nasi padang shop at killiney road. we shared 6 dishes for 5 people. i liked the beef rendang but hui thinks its too hard. gal, getting old oredi is it? teeth cant bite. lol...have to thank the guys for treating. actually wanted to watch corpse bride after dinner but tickets were sold out. heard its a nice movie. oh well, save my $9.50. then we wanted to go hagen diaz for the chocolate fondue. only remembered that near far east have. where else in orchard got hagen diaz?? have to ask shuhui next time. but we didnt get to eat it after the long walk too. too many people le. so ended up slacking outside shaw cinema. enjoyed myself though i have a sore throat now. argh...too many people sick in the lecture hall. next time must find new places to go!!

feel so restless lately. havent gone out to relax with my frens since dunno when. the outing with my japanese classmates keep getting postponed cos of our damned assignments. one after another. haiz... was really looking forward to meeting them. didnt even go out during the last hols except to nus to study with shiwen and meizhen. pathetic huh. but there's really nice to study.
started playing with maple story during the hols. was attracted by its cute characters so i tried to play my first rpg. its not very exciting actually, except when you get cool stuff or level up. i guess that's why people are addicted to gaming. think i'll lose interest after awhile though. and i only told one person i was playing and now all the guys know i'm playing. hai...
got back my french test last week. i got a 17/20! really surprised. thought i'll do badly for the compo and questions sections. maybe i can get an overall good grade afterall. hee...
went to swensens to celebrate my mum's birthday. really coincidence cos i saw willie with his family having dinner too. then jy came to meet wy, hk and yy. havent seen the guys in a long time so it was great to catch up abit. seems like they are planning a xmas party.

who can calm my restless soul?

whew, havent blogged in a long time. yr 2 sch life has been pretty busy so far. so much more to study. hate advanced cell bio. yucks... stupid lecturer gave us a scientific journal to read and answer questions. finally handed in the assignment. think i didnt do very well for yesterday's french test too. cant remember french as well as i did for japanese.
looking foward to holidays this week~

i attended my great grandmother's funeral yesterday. she passed away last wednesday, at the age of 96. its quite amazing to see the whole extended family have dinner together. though i think many people didnt come. i saw relatives i've never seen before. my grandma is the only child alive. but the families of her other 3 brothers came too. my nephew would be the 5th generation.
we went through elaborate rituals, with the taoist priests chanting prayers. they sang in a hokkien dialect incomprehensible to me. i was quite amazed by the 'musicians'. one could beat the drum, sound the gong and sing at the same time. i didnt know my greatgrandma well but as the females went in to kneel down, i saw my grandma cry and tears came to my eyes too.
but funerals seem to have become more commercialised. we even had the choice of what prayer package we want. of cos, more prayers will be more expensive. and its quite sad that the whole family only comes together in occasions like this.

goodbye greatgrandma...

changed my blogskin more than 1 week ago but feel like changing it again. hee... dont like the harry potter music. skipped my bs203 tutorial today. so stupid to go for 1 hour lesson just to see the tutor write answers on the board.
anyway, i had a great time at sentosa on sunday. went with the s09 classmates. expected more girls to go though. end up me,shiwen and joy were the only girls. i thought i wouldnt enjoy myself cos i'm not close to the guys. we paid $5 each to rent the volleyball and facilities at siloso beach. i totally sucked at playing volleyball. couldnt even serve over the net. hai... but after that we went kayaking. woohoo~ damn fun. i've been waiting a long time for this. i paired up with dennis. realised all of them are quite strong kayakers. after all dennis and jerome was from dragonboat team. we raced with damian and minsiang's boat and came in second. at least not last. haha...i changed kayak and rowed with weixiong for awhile. the waves were quite strong and were pushing us to shore. then when our boat became paraqllel to the waves, we capsized. lol... hope to go kayaking again. 5 hours in the sun and i'm red like a lobster. pain~

first week of school is ending. its been quite a slack week. went to mabel's house for the naruto marathon and steamboat dinner with some of the cns people. she's living alone in the two storey house. a bit creepy actually, especially when we told ghost stories after dinner. i couldnt sleep myself.
very sad that this semester couldnt get jap2 for my ge. really wanted to continue taking before i forget everything. i got marketing instead. though i was interested, now seems abit heavy to take with my core. it'll be good to take but i'm kinda reluctant now. yesterday, i went for 8 hours of lessons. reached home at 9pm. that would be the time i'll reach home if i got my jap. i crashed lihui's french class in the afternoon and junjie's jap class in the evening. french class was interesting and the teacher was good. its was in the same class as my jap last sem. sat back in the same seat too. but french pronounciations are all so difficult and confusing. my interest was not deep enough. good experience though. jap class was very fast paced. i forgot some things already and sometimes couldnt keep up with the over zealous class. i preferred suzuki sensei and my previous class. this teacher was lively but there seems to be something missing. i miss my class...in any case, both french and jap have no more vacancies. sigh...

tomorrow is the start of a new semester le. holidays have come to an end. hope i can do better this semester. slacked for 3 months le, hope my mind havent become rusty. now printing lecture notes. its so fustrating. argh...when will i learn not to try to print at home. this printer always give me problems. like printing one page onto 3 pages. sigh...13 more pages to go...
spent my last day of holidays with my family. we tried a bit of archery just now. its quite fun but very tiring on the left arm. not enough strength. haha... my first shot flew off on the floor. but i managed to hit the target later.
yesterday, i met up with meizhen and shiwen. bought my first shirt during the hols. couldnt resist the urge. haha... and i highlighted my hair. but seems like its not obvious enough. the actual colour looked much darker than what the hairdresser showed me. anyway, still prefer myself with shorter hair.

school's starting next week, so i'm gonna enjoy myself first. though i've been doing that for the past 3 months. i forgot my ntu password! how blur can i be. now i've to go to the IT centre for the second time this year to reset it. sigh...cant even check my timetable now.
anyway, met up with some of the cns people for lunch yesterday. jinhan's treat. haha... we went to this cafe in cineleisure. think its called friends. replaced the previous lips cafe. the food was quite good. they were having the student promo, from 2 to 6pm. damn cheap. for $5.90, you get to choose a main course and also free flow of soup. drinks are an additional 60 cents. really good bargain considering the original price of the main course alone range from $7.90 to $11.90. students can consider going. after lunch, i played pool for the first time. haha... its not as easy as i thought it would be. not very fun to play. maybe my skills too lousy. the only balls i can hit in is the white one. hwai quan almost gave up teaching me. now looking forward to our naruto screening~

went to marina twice in 3 days. first was sat's outing with the jap class people. didnt expect it'll only be the 5 of us. so shelved our plans for steamboat and went to sakae instead. ate alot there, including something gross. they took a plate of snails and persuaded me to try too. the thought of eating it was really gross but i think i put too much wasabi, i couldnt really taste the snail. still, one is enough. *bleah* but i had alot of fun that day. we went to esplanade after dinner and started a phototaking frenzy. the main exhibit is always really good for taking photos.

yesterday,went to marina again to celebrate hui's bdae with the gals. now all the poly people graduate. they are working or planning to study. feels like we've all grown up. haha...den went with hui to visit wanyu at work. she and zhiwei so eng there. should i help out during national day too?
p.s.can someone teach me how to post the photos nicely?

just came back from cns camp last evening. so tired, only slept 3 hrs a day. but i really enjoyed myself. got to know all these nice people through this camp. i was supposed to be under logistics, but somehow i became helping the sports programmers more. didnt know how to help logistics. dont even know how to set up the pa system. and there were already 4 guys. they wont let us girls carry the heavy things. first day we had the amazing race at school. not really fun being station master. i was there to keep jiafang company. she's one hyper girl with her infectious laughter. spent the time crapping while waiting for the teams. spent the night at little bodhi temple. the temple was kinda like chalet, air-con super cold. on the second day, 10 of us in the advance party went to changi chalet in the logistics minivan. we really packed the van with equipment and there's hardly space for 7 people in the back. me and lihui had to lie on the things near the back door. the aloha chalets were so big and old with 4 or 5 bedrooms. there was one room with a small nursary at the back. it had a broken cot in it. quite creepy actually. it was really fun setting up the haunted house together. but we all found it quite funny during the trial. lol...i was one of the scarers hiding under the bed. took a whole 3 hrs for all the freshies to finish. so damn tired being a ghost. but it took away any fear i had of the house. but we had to attend buddhist talks everyday. all of us were so tired, cant help nodding off. think i actually slept during 1 meditation session. one nus lecturer was quite inspiring though. learnt alot. jinhan, our logistics leader was quite protective of us subcommers. probably made a few people unhappy. but i wanna say i think they all did a great job and i really like all the people there. had a great time!

to my dear hui, wish u an early happy birthday! hope you can find a bf soon so u can be sure no there's someone to celebrate ur bdae !! be happy alwayz~

whew...the week is finally over. last weekend, i went more another two days of trial camp. running the amazing race again is not fun. this time, i went with a couple of seniors. the games were more or less the same and i already knew all the answers to the clues. the day at changi wasnt so bad. think the night walk will be quite exciting with an ending climax at the 'haunted house'.
met hui,gary,jy and iz for dinner at suntec fish n co after the trial camp. can we not go there again? haha... then gary had on his army specs and could see that he had tried to style his hair abit. but his specs still made him look somewhat nerdy. i enjoyed myself at dinner but was abit distracted. my mum had called to say they were sending my bro to hospital cos he felt dizzy and fell, hitting his head on the floor. so it doesnt seem right that i should be enjoying myself. was quite worried cos head injury is quite serious. plus he also vomitted.
but he's ok now. discharged after 4 nights stay. thanks to u all for your concern. one thing i'll like to say is that changi hospital is very inefficient. they doctors are mostly young, many under training. some not even confident of taking blood samples. they didnt explain my brother's condition or what they were doing. they only came once a day. then said that maybe my brother was too tall. crap. it was my dentist who explained to me. how ironic. the radiologists took two days to come up with the x-ray report. the result? they were still not sure if the line shown in the x-ray is a crack or a blood vessel. so they only sent him for a brain scan after that. i think its pretty fustrating for patients. alot of people were complaining in the ward. wonder if other hospitals are like that. so dear frens, please take care of yourselves.
that aside, i went to watch war of the worlds today(finally!). it was really great and exciting. its like a computer game. the aliens zapping all the humans with their light beams. but i didnt really catch the ending. how come the aliens all suddenly collaspe? did they catch bird flu or something? overall its a nice movie so go watch if you havent.
looking forward to camp tml~

last sat i went for the bbq that sharon organised at east coast. we had actually invited alot of people but most of them couldnt make it at the last minute. so we had a record breaking of...5 people! luckily we didnt buy too much food. sharon was very well prepared. she brought everything from cutlery to knife and even a marker to write our names on the cup. i had fun bbqing the chicken fillet and marshmellows. the best that i have ever bbqed. mei mei marinated the fillets with mc donald's chilli and pepper. looked like something out of seoul garden. not a bad creation. lol...the sky was filled with stars that night. it was really nice and nan de. i jus love stars. then mei mei said our planned trip to sentosa with our jap classmates have to be cancelled. so disappointed... wanna go sentosa. oh well

second thing, i finally plucked out 2 of my wisdom teeth yesterday~ 2 down, 2 more to go. the pain was bearable actually but my body was tensed throughout the 1 hour. though numbed from pain, i was not numbed from all feelings. i could still feel the dentist drilling and cutting the tooth into half before forcibly pulling it out. i used to be very afraid of going to the dentist and i'll cry and sulk everytime. so i thought that i'll never have to pull out another tooth after my last milk tooth dropped. now got wisdom teeth. why call them wisdom teeth when they are useless anyway. now my left cheek is swollen and according to colin, i'm probably like a half chipmunk. have to miss out on the movie outing tonight. i wanna watch initial D and war of the worlds!! anyone wanna watch with me?

this week has been quite busy. the painters came for three days to paint our whole house. now my house has become so colourful. hee...but i think its quite nice. the living room and other common areas are painted lilac. my room sunshine yellow. my brother's room bright orange and my parents' room sky blue. i keep changing colours for my room but decided on the yellow in the end. i like my room. : )
this morning i went to the dentist and missed out on ying's invitation to watch batman. but at least this week can meet shiwen. take out ur braces even more pretty le wor. then the bad news is i've got to take out all my wisdom teeth before they push my other teeth. how?? i damn scared... haiz...*prays there'll be no pain* i'll need all the courage i can get

Trial Camp
It has been a busy week. think i went out almost everyday. watched star wars on fri with my mum and bro. didnt think it was so great. and padme never seems to age from episode one. weird...can father anakin's children somemore. met up with ying and xiuhui on sat too. went shopping at orchard. suppose to meet the guys too but they so lazy dont wanna go to town. hai...wait till they go army, wanna go out also cannot. going out with the gals so much easier.
went to the ntu buddhist society trial camp yesterday. just joined the logistics sub commitee. i was quite skeptical at first, whether it will be some religious camp with buddhist classes. but it turned out alright. i had fun. we played some ice breaker games. the people were nice. especially since my group consisted mainly of non-buddhists too. the morning was filled with introduction to buddhism and we were taught the different ways of prostrating, puja chanting and watched some video. not what i'll find interesting so i sat out on the video. the people there were mostly seniors though, going on to final year. so when we played the amazing race, they asked me to guess the clues and places. cos i was the closest to being a freshie. we went around the whole ntu. tiring k, all the stairs and the hot sun. woke up at 5.30 to go sch. havent got up so early before. quite surprised that the mrt got quite alot of people too. where are they going so early on a sunday morning?? overall, the day was fun. will look forward to the real camp. just too bad they scrapped going to sentosa this year

Wild Wild Wet~
i had a great time at wild wild wet yesterday! the place was kind of expensive considering there were so little rides. but the water was so inviting in the hot weather. there were not many rides so we went on them over and over again. we went on the ulah lah(float ride for 6 pple) so many times until the station master got tired of us. we sat till we finally got a perfect picture for the camera. lol... the samsung ride was most exciting but it wasnt so scary after the first time. on the first time, two of us had difficulty sitting properly on the float, creating much laughter. it looks kind of obscene if you are standing at the back. seeing 2 people sitting facing each other trying to push themselves up on the float with their legs apart. haha... after that we lazed around in the jacuzzi. shiok~ singapore should build a bigger water theme park in the integrated resort next time

Guitar Concert
went to TPJC guitar concert last friday. so glad i went. yixi,thanks for the treat. surprised to see chantel and jennifer there too. the concert was so good, especially the ensemble. they won gold at syf this year. they had a decent instructor. ours looked liked some street musician. and they had uniforms. that made them look alot better. but most of all, their skills surpass ours by so much more. they played songs like First Love and She Will Be Loved. It was really great. and i got to meet up with the guitar people after so long. especially my cousin. haha...people who didnt know wont be able to tell that we're cousins. we went to have prata after that. the food wasnt that delicious but i had a great time anyway.

This is not a good day. ok, maybe its not that bad but i still dont feel good. first of all, my results are out. i had hoped that i can get all Bs but after the papers i lowered it down to C for some subjects. then my genetics came out with a D. a big fat D. now i got no As at all in my 1st year, with the exception of jap that is. but having A for jap is no use cos the results arn't counted for it. i'm upset cos i i studied hard for e genetics paper and i knew i could do it. if only i had voiced up to ask the lecturer what the questions meant. i knew he talked to another student for 5 mins about the question. i was straining to hear him but i still didnt dare ask. i have never been so conscious about my grades till i got to uni. maybe cos no matter how badly i did last time, i know i'll do ok in the end. and i never ranked that low among my peers before. in uni now, its different. i'm surrounded by all these smart people. some who even complain that they didnt get enough As to get into director's list. i did the worst among my friends. sigh... kk,i know. enough ranting. gotta buck up next sem.
secondly, mum said last night that some of my relatives and coousins will be driving up to Kota Tinggi(is this how u spell?) this mon. gonna go to the waterfall there and spend the afternoon. but cos they are meeting at 6am, my dad said no way is he giving up his sleep and it'll be tiring for him to drive up. and continued that he is old and not as energetic as before. dont get me wrong, i'm not blaming my dad. i know its tiring for the driver and 6am is damn early. but i'm just disappointed. i badly wanna get out and go on holiday. no matter how short. and i wanna see the waterfall. haiz...this is the 2nd chance we missed this year. first was club med. i wanna go there too~
third... i'm feeling kinda cooped up. not that i dont go out but mostly i've just been looking for jobs. its getting on my nerves. why is it so hard to get a job?? first AP Comm calls me and gives me hope. then they tell me that they are updating their database. why update when they dont have available jobs? then last mon, recruit express called with a job offer. i accepted and waited for confirmation. its been % days and still no calls. sigh...can give up already

Swensen's
Met up with the jap class people yesterday evening after yet another disappointing day of job searching with meizhen. Felt like i wasted the whole afternoon. The dinner was something to look forward to. But only 6 people came today. Junhui didnt join us due to miscommunication on me and meimei's part. We were all waiting for him and luckily, we saw him at the mrt station with his friends! He had no idea we were meeting. So coincidental! We gave kairong his b'dae present. Picked out a cream coloured long sleeved shirt. Lucky never buy the purple one. Haha... Then went Swensen's for dinner.Sat there talking and taking pics for like 2 hrs plus until the waiter asked if we want to order some more food. Went to esplanade after that. Too bad the rooftop was closed. There was actually a stretch selling hawker food at the ground level. Can check it out sometime. We sat by the river and talked somemore. Found out that June Kit is actually a very romantic guy and very sweet to his gf. The things he did for her are like wow. He actually made a snow globe with a rose inside for her. So sweet~ His views on certain issues are also different from some guys. Though he claims its his caveman thinking, it has impressed us gals. Zhen ren bu lou xiang!
Then in the front hall, we saw a very nice artwork. There were many strings of transparent acrylic puzzle pieces hanging from the ceiling. And there were green spotlights around, giving it a green glow. Hopefully i can post some photos soon.
And looking forward to our next meeting~

Bowling again
went to bowl again with meizhen. spent alot of money yesterday. and i did a super embarrassing thing. totally throw all my face. luckily we were at the end of the alley and the guy next to us helped me so i didnt have to inform the personnel. so paiseh! after bowling, we went to suntec for lunch and had the ice cream waffle at gelere. really splurge today.
if u all know any openings for temp jobs pls tell me...i need a job~

Bored~
I'm bored to tears at home...so many people working, nobody free to meet up. i need a job. haiz... if only i could take jap this sem. yun and ling, when can we meet up? havent seen ling in ages~

finally did some exercise yesterday. played badminton at safra with shiwen and meizhen. so shiok, we didnt even have to pay. haha... then went up to bowl. so happy~i finally got a decent score. my score was always under 50 last time. now can hit 100. got a strike and some spares too. shiwen was the best, can get strike while throwing the ball and talking on the phone at the same time. next time we go play again k. we went to TM for lunch. TM is really the place to meet people. i saw so many familiar faces, even jiang jing(my jc form teacher). lol...lucky he nv see us. we were getting a manicure done. i never thought i will go do a manicure. i quite like my nails. chose a shiny pearl pinkish colour. and the person drew red flowers on my thumb. but its like so not me. i'm not used to it. and i keep thinking that i'm bleeding whenever i glance at my hands. anyway, i enjoyed myself yesterday.

Freedom~
finally! i finished all my exams. today's paper wasnt that good. but i'm numb from it after wed's paper. stupid blogger blanked out on me after i typed the super long entry on wed. argh...really upset over the genetics paper. made so many mistakes. cos i didnt trust my instincts or interpreted the question wrongly. haiz...but anyway, i have all the time in the world now. time to get a job. i wanna go on holiday...qifen's in korea, weixiao in taiwan, jeff in tioman. and so many other friends going bangkok.
anyway, i wanna share an interesting story i heard on radio the other day. its not exactly a story but an experiment by an american scientist. he trapped a fly and a bee in a glass jar and put them in the dark. after some time, he shone a light at the top of the jar while leaving an opening at the bottom. guess which of them will escape and which will die in the jar?
the answer is the fly will escape while the bee dies. although the bee has a higher order of intelligence, most of it is based on logic. it only does things based on what it knows. so its logic is that the escape route must be where the light is. it will fly towards the light and fly around it until it finaly dies without finding the opening. cos in its world, it does not know anything such as glass. determined creature but inflexible. haha...
the fly on the other hand, has a lower order of intelligence. it does not know the logic of flying towards light. instead, it will just fly around ramdomly around the whole jar till it finds the opening. it will be able to escape very quickly.
so we must be flexible. if something fails, find another way till we find the solution. dont be bent on using the same method over and over. be the fly and not the bee. haha...

1 more week!
sat for my cell bio paper today. 2 down, 2 more to go. today's paper was really bad. couldnt remember alot of stuff. left at least 10 marks blank. haiz... i'm more worried about next week's papers. genetics and biochem,metabolism. not exactly the most exciting to study.
God, please bless me with the wisdom and strength to get over this week.
Lady Luck, please shine on me...

Basketball Finals At Changkat
accompanied my brother to go watch the basketball match at changkat cc just now. tamp changkat vs tamp central. actually didnt plan to stay for long cos we didnt really get good seats and i should be studying! but the match was quite exciting so i watched for the whole 40 mins. changkat won 41 to 36. there were a few good players. all can jump so high and touch the rim. then see so many steals, fakes, rebounds and layups. some of them pass the ball without looking. and some can shoot 3 pointers very well. really nice. too bad competition cant slam dunk. saw one cute guy too. haha... how i wish i can play like that too. havent touched a ball since jc i think.

Cheeze Prata~
went NUS to study with my dear shiwen yesterday. think i can be quite familiar with nus le. haha...like go there alot of times. the campus is nicer. not so many slopes to climb. shiwen, u cut ur fringe very cute leh. even more like xiao mei mei. haha... the environment was quite nice for studying. we ba zhan a tutorial room to ourselves. but i think we talked a bit too much. after that, we went to the prata shop near fass. i think the cheese prata is very nice~ so much better than the one at canteen a. but quite expensive though, and have to wait very long. tried some of shiwen's ginger milk tea too. it has a...special taste. haha...never tasted anything like that before. craving for cheese prata now...

Start Of Exams!!
Just had my first paper today. Should be the easiest among all my papers--jap. haha...It was alright except for the compo part. Suppose to write 15 sentences about university studies. Like huh, how to write. Think everybody talk more about their jap class. With the exception of kairong. Haha...what he wrote was so funny. Had my listening and oral last week too. The listening compre was disasterous but i think i did well for oral.
Well, the easy part is over. Now for my core modules. Scared...it seems so difficult. So much to study. Cant seem to concentrate on studying this sem. It'll be worse if i didnt go school to study. Had been spending a considerable amount of time with my jap friends. Really fun studying with them. Then always get a lift home from them. Haha...so shiok. But after today, everyone got their own exams. Hope qifen does organise an outing after exams. Will be looking forward to it.
In the meantime, good luck to all those having exams! I must ganbatte!

Last Jap Class

Yesterday we had our last jap lesson. Took alot of photos. We even dragged a guy from the corridor to help us take a class photo. Jasmine and junhui didnt come today though. We signed a card for her but due to our very limited jap vocabulary, we could only write in broken english and japanese. Everyone was using 'omoshiroii' and 'arigatou gozaimasu'. lol. June kit wrote her name very nicely in kanji on the envelope. We really like her alot. She made the class so interesting. And its due to her pair work that we could know each other better. The class people are so fun too. There's always laughter and much chatter in jap class. Everybody liked it more than their core modules. We're lucky cos the other classes dont seem to be so close. I'm going to miss the class sooo much. Its thanks to this class that i've made so many friends. I think that we really you yuan. There are so many of them who were secondary school friends or bmt mates who never got close to each other till this class. 9 of us went for dinner at pizza hut after class. Really had alot of fun. Especially when all of us shouted out 'itadakimasu!' before eating. Lucky not many people there. Hope we'll meet up again after the exams. Going to miss going home with kairong, qifen and weixiao. Some of us are going to take level 2 next sem. But too bad the 3 of them cant join us. The girls are going to graduate! Oh wells, tian xia wu bu san zhi yan xi. At least i had a memorable time. G03 rocks!
Sorry if i bored u with my ranting. Havent been blogging much lately. Exams are coming and there's nothing much interesting. Haha...oh yah, i was surprised when i saw nic in the newspaper. He got second for the glamour quest. But i think he looked better than the winner. lol. Good luck to those who's going to have exams! 1 more month to the end. Gambatte!

i failed my cell biology test. haiz...it was an mcq test. how could i have failed it? though i only failed by 1 mark but still... i did study for it. and stupid kenneth yu's qns are all so tricky. he asked which has the greatest rate of uptake of endocytosis. i chose pinocytosis. ans was RME. how was i supposed to know that he was talking about the rate saturation pt?? argh... depressed

sianz...the sch system sucks. i'm not allowed to take jap level 2 during the special sem cos i havent taken the exam. thats so lame. i think they can clearly see from the mid term test results who will and will not fail. now i'll probably have to wait till next yr cos it'll be too heavy to study with my core modules. sucks... by then i'll forget everything. hai...what GE shall i take now?? tml going for half hr lab session. i have to travel 3 hrs to and fro for a half hr session?! sorry, i cant help but complain

had a gathering with my uni frens on wed. went to sharon's house for a steamboat lunch. there was so much food~ and kawei can really eat. haha... sharon's son, joel was very cute too but he was quite shy and only played with kawei and lihui. he only asked for kawei jie jie. had fun that day playing mahjong and looking at sharon's photos. she looked really good in her wedding photos.
yesterday, i met up with shiwen and meizhen. i slept at 6am in the morn so i was late. chatted with shiwen online till 4.30 and those damn mosquitos were keeping me awake. then when i arrived, i just laughed out when i saw that all 3 of us were wearing red tops and denim bottoms. so qiao~ we had lunch at pasta mania and shiwen was all excited about the opening of 'howl's moving castle' too. we decided to watch it. i couldnt resist it, didnt wanna wait another week. haha... the show was gd, though the age of the gal seems to keep changing and i was kinda confused. the movie was very different from the original storybook. they took away alot of details but added alot of new things. the love element was stronger too, making it draggy towards the end. but the show was quite funny. i like the dog, the castle and howl. haha...so shuai. anyway, i enjoyed myself.

i had a wonderful weekend. on fri, i met up with the gals after sch. went to phin's steakhouse at cineleisure to celebrate les's belated bdae. was sooo hungry after the 4 hr prac. the food there is delicious~ or mb i'm too hungry. haha... i had the grilled chicken with black pepper sauce. yummy~ too bad ling couldnt join us. havent seen her for so long.
on sat, 8 of us went to our pri sch teacher's hse to bai nian. the grp is getting smaller each yr. but its gd meeting up again, esp sijia,victor and ghee seng. we had a fun time playing cards at her hse. it was more like a memory game where we had to shout out each other's names. the loser had to drink bacardi coke or wadeva liquor they wanted. victor drank this apricot brandy that tasted like pi pa gao plus cough syrup to me. yuck. ichwan being muslim, couldnt drink so he ate love letters instead. after everything, he had finished 1/4 of a full bottle of love letters and had a stomachache. lol... mrs choo's daughter was so cute. we have been seeing her since she was born. or rather like once a yr. haha...
the exciting part was when we were about to leave. from the staircase, we saw thick smoke coming from the big field behind(the field behind blk 495 dat spanned all the way to pasir ris, beside esso station and highway.) but there was no fire yet. ghee seng decided to call the police and we stayed around to wait. in the next hr, we saw the start of a huge bush fire. at first, there was just a small fire in the middle of the field. then it started spreading round the trees and formed a ring of fire and started spreading outwards. then the wind came and the fire grew bigger, consuming everything in its path. we waited for 40 mins before the civil defense finally arrived. so slow~ the sun was a blazing hot ball in the sky and when the smoke rose to cover it, it turned bright red. the smoke went up to 12 stories high. wish i could post the pics up. anyway, my pt is dat the firemen were so inefficient. when they arrived, 3 firemen went in to survey the situation. they were strolling in and out, as if there wasnt a fire raging beside them. mb the area was a little inaccesible but cant they do sth more productive? by now the fire was oredi reaching the canal, no pt saving it. the firemen finally did sth. a crowd of them went in and stomped the edge of the fire out with their feet. nope, u didnt get me wrong. it was totally ridiculous. then another crowd went in and lashed at the fire with long black blankets or sth, all the while with 2 civil defense pple taking photos. then they gave up. finally, one hose was connected and water flowed out half an hr after they arrived. i tink its totally ridiculous. they took so long to arrive just to stamp out the fire with their feet? we could have ran in and done dat when we saw the first signs of smoke. sigh...i wish there will be rain in the east soon. the spate of forest fires are leaving a smoke smell at nite. hot hot hot~

went to yum cha with hui n yun on sat. hui n me made the decision to go out at like 2 am. haha... cant stand staying at home. too bad furama didnt have their high tea during new yr. but yum cha was quite gd too. though i miss the xiao long bao at ding tai feng. yum~ cant imagine hui nv heard of it before. after dat went orchard cos yun wanted to look for a v day present for her bf. her bf wanted a surprise, so she got a pair of cute socks for him. haha...
today is valentine's day... and i'm sick. haha... been so weak ever since i came uni. or rather since i left jc. really need to start exercising soon. and the jap teacher really trying to make me blur today. she had to bombard me with so many qns. y?? other pple only get asked 1 qn. hai...i managed to scrape thru the conversation. the test is on thurs!! back to v day, i really miss the times in jc. everyone would exchange small gifts like chocs n cards. the guys in jc 1 S10 even bought stalks of roses for all the gals. though they spoilt the mood by just passing them down the row. haha... there was no such thing today in uni. just the canteen filled with pink heart shaped balloons that fly into ur face when u walked past. dont have a date today either. never had one. but not that i really mind though. like mei mei, her bf told her today dont go out k. its kinda sad, but i guess v day is afterall just a comercialised celebration so that flower sellers and restaurants can rip u off. wad matters is dat ur loved one is with u everyday rite? ^.^
here's wishing everyone attached a happy valentine's day. may ur love be everlasting. and to all my frens, a happy friendship day. thanks for being there~
i love you, wo ai ni, aishiteru, sa rang hae you, je t'aime! add on to the list~

firstly, wanna wish everyone a happy new yr!! had an ok new yr this yr i guess. as usual, didnt get alot of hongbaos but this yr i dont really care. ate so much this yr. had our reunion dinner at home ourselves so couldnt finish all the food. my gambling luck was quite gd this yr. hee... but i didnt bet alot so didnt win much. we played blackjack and i actually got the blackjack 5 times in 1 nite! i nv had better luck. but i kept losing towards e end. my uncle hu zhuang, he was super lucky and got double aces at e last round. everyone had put their highest stakes and in e end had to pay triple. hai... but i dont really like visiting my dad's relatives. they are all relatives dat we only see once a yr. and they all speak in teochew. my teochew totally sucks and all i could do is nod and smile periodically. the silence can be killing sometimes. den my uncle showed me the photos he took during his phuket operation(he's in the police). the destruction is devastating. the hotel room had 1 whole tree stuck thru the balcony in the 2nd floor. and the 7-eleven store dat i went before, only the signboard on its concrete frame is left now. sad...
yesterday(fri) was e 3rd day of new yr and yet i have a full day. sianz... nic came by to say hi. and su yin they all were saying he's still e most shuai guy in sbs. he is, with his model looks and swimmer built. but he's so diao er lang dang. not studying, not working, just rotting away at home. dun understand how he can stand not doing anything. anyway, we were supposed to go watch howl's moving castle~ but in the end decided to postpone. the sneak previews are only out till sun. after dat have to wait till 24th. ah well, i've oredi waited for so many mths anyway. nearly thot they were not going to screen it in spore. but luckily, its hayao miyazaki. how can they not show it. haha... today supposed to go out to. go visiting and play mahjong. but...no one's hse is free. hai...so sad, goin to stay at home. and mum's in thailand. lucky her.
another thing i wanna say. jus now gary asked me to help him search forinfo on ntu courses. he's interested in e chem course. i went to search and hell, i was interested myself. its quite similar to nus jus dat u get to study more elective modules. and compulsary modules in phy, math and chem. the advantage is dat u can op for industrial attachment and still do the honours research project. can do specialised modules in medicinal chem too. and they get to study communications and business modules. plus the honours programme. all this w/o the troublesome bidding system in nus. though nus would definitely be more established in the sciences. hai...if only it was offered 1 yr earlier. best of both worlds. can do chem and bio w/o worry of no bio background. now, the subjects are getting more and more difficult. i'm really scared for genetics. it was interesting at 1st but now its like crap. argh...i really hope i can do well

last fri i went to hui's hostel to stay over. she stayed just beside judith. hall 7 was quite old compared to kawei's hall 10, especially the toilet. but overall it was quite ok. her area was oso much quieter. feel so sad, cant stay in hall. hai...tired of the travelling but home is more comfortable i guess. was so tired after rushing my reports on thur nite. so fri jus slacked at her hostel, watching american idol. it was so funny~ omg, cant imagine the big guy with a woman's voice and he can be so proud of it.
the next day went for jap class. again there's information overload with all the verbs and chinese new yr conversation. but the most angry thing was after class. that stupid jeff said he wanted to go home with me. but i waited so long for him only to leave myself. as expected, he overslept. by like 3 hrs past our meeting time. argh...cant stand him.
tml's new yr's eve~ so sad still got class. sian... but here's wishing everyone a happy new yr! hope u get lots of hongbaos~