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~

argh...i feel terrible~ woke up with 2 swollen eyes and a body full of rashes this morn. i scared myself looking in the mirror. so damn itchy! and the red patches are so damn ugly! dunno wad's wrong. i nv had any allergies. i'm so not going to step out of the hse today. cant face anyone in my state. hai...
had my jap class on thur. the new yr's make up is on next sat at 9am. so early~ hope can go hui's hall stay. so long nv bunk with my dear. haha... now jap is getting more difficult. all the different sentence structures and long words. a simple 'i didnt study' is said as ' iie, benkyou shimasendeshita'. is dat long or wad. and all the timings and prices are driving me crazy. dun like numbers... but jap is still fun. nth much to study. haha... and dorcas taught me how to say 0 to 10 in french! so fun. but i dun tink i'll learn e language. its so difficult. the pronounciation and spelling is so different.
hoping the rashes will go away asap...

Whew, the past 3 days have been jam packed, especially yesterday! Was out the whole of yesterday. And i finally did my new yr clothes shopping. Still can buy more. haha... shopped for shiwen's present in bugis with meizhen on thur. bought this perfume, really nice and sweet smell. then the lady sprayed another perfume on my wrist. spray so much~ the scent took 2 hrs to wear off and start smelling nice.
yesterday, i went for the t4 gathering. we went for the dim sum buffet at miramar hotel. the food was ok but the service wasnt so gd. it wasnt as bad as i thought. then they started being lame and came up with alot of biological pick up lines. things like 'i'm an enzyme, will u be my substrate?' and 'u are like my mitochondria, without u, i wont have the power to live'. ok, i noe its lame but its quite funny. then us 7 gals squeezed into lian ya's car to go orchard where i met up with mum and aaron. tried alot of new yr goodies at the fair. then one of the promoters recognised me as dmn senior. so surprised. (ling,it was ur red cross junior, shi xian or sth.) after dat went for S09 gathering at hongxuan's hse. damn funny lor, they bought all the bbq stuff but not the fire starters. the fire didnt get going till quite late. but it was fun, seeing all the gals. was so tired when i got home. david,lucky i didnt join u all for cycling. i'm not exactly a morning person. haha...

Went out with the dmn pple today. Hui, yun, ling, gary, izhar and jy. Its been a long time since we last went out together. Actually planned to watch movie at PS. But yun and iz watched Meet The Fockers le. The rest doesnt seem interesting. Sianz... So we went to TCC at cineleisure. The environment and drinks were nice except for hui's. She mixed her raspberry and coffee layers in the drink and it turned out...weird. Went shopping after that and the guys just stood outside the shops talking. Didnt really talk to them today and felt bad that they always have to wait outside. Dont like to go shopping with guys. Orchard was so crowded~ and i havent bought my new yr clothes. Hai...no time le. Gary and jy left after dinner and we went shopping at bugis. Still i returned home empty handed...Dont like shopping with crowds.
School has been boring at times. The days seem so long especially after the long journey. But i've more or less gotten used to it, sleeping on the journey or reading manga. Its interesting to watch the people on the train sometimes. This sem, i'm beginning to talk to more people and andre's group has just asked me to join them for a dim sum buffet outing. Was quite surprised since i only talk to her or renchun. Jap class has been fun. I hope we get to learn more.
I also found out alot more people who blog. Its getting more and more popular. But i find that the things that i blog about are just mundane things about my life. Which is nothing interesting. But well, its just some kind of outlet for me. Dont really have to care about it i guess. But i shall try to write about more meaningful stuff. Till then, sayounara~

hmm...i have alot to say in this entry. first let me say that i jus had one of my best bdae ever. cos i actually managed to meet up with all my close frens and received alot of gifts too. most importantly, i have gained back the 2 friendships which i thought i really have lost. and i'm jus really happy abt that.i met up with shiwen and meizhen last thur and had dinner with my family at crystal jade. the claypot chicken there is nice~
but the bbq on new yr's eve was more or less a flop. it was raining most of the time. the guys were bbqing with umbrellas. yun and nana left so early. but the weather was ok after they left. talked to ying and gary most of the nite. but i left hungry. then weiyong's frens were at the chalet, me and hui didnt feel like staying anymore. felt so tired so i went home with gary,ying and les. i was hoping i could catch the last episode of inuyasha but it turned midnite jus as i reach home. so tired~
now is the new yr of 2005 and i hope that this will be a great yr for all of us. i have alot of wishes this yr. i'm greedy. haha... i hope that all my frens will remain close to me. i hope that i can be happy. i hope that i can do well in sch. i hope for everyone to be healthy. i hope this yr will be better than the last. think thats about wad everyone wants. sianz...tml starting sch~ i'm happy that i got my jap elective. on a more serious note, i feel really sad for the victims of the tsunami. i have never been more touched by any news than this one. this tragedy happened so close to home and people i know luckily escaped unscathed. i shudder to think what would have happened if they were caught in it. so this goes out to all the victims. may you all rest in peace...
happy new year everyone~

i'm 19 today. sigh...18 sure sounds nicer. haha... this week was full of treats and dinners. i had my last day of work on tue. my dear colleagues ordered pizza and kfc to treat me and the other part time guy from the shipping dept. $120 worth of food for 10 pple... couldn't finish all that food. then i met yixi and guirong for dinner. they insisted on giving me a treat at marche. but i was still full from lunch so didnt eat much. but at least i dont feel so bad. haha... we went to esplanade and slacked at the roof terrace. its become one of my fave places. then we walked down to raffles place to take the mrt. had a great time catching up with them.
yesterday, i met up with the gals for dinner at pasta mania. they gave me a bag for a present. tks all of u.love ya hui put it in a pure milk shoulder bag. she wont help me carry~ i look weird carrying a shoulder bag and a sling bag. call herself my dear. haha... cya all tml for the bbq~

Christmas is here~ had an enjoyable day at office yesterday. received so many presents and the christmas lunch was very nice. the lasagna was superb. i was surprised that my colleagues even gave me presents. only worked there for like 2 weeks.but it has been boring these two days. no work orders came in cos of the holidays in the france main branch. got nth to do besides filing. sian... looking forward to the family party tml~
Merry Christmas everyone!

just got back from work today. had an admin job at loyang. and it sucked!! i was doing filing for most of the day. so sian... they gave me piles and piles of invoices to sort out and file in the oredi overloaded files. sickening... only until the last hr did they give me a stack of reciepts to key into the com. had to rush thru everything so dat i dont have to do OT. i'm so not going to enjoy this job. 2 weeks and 4 days to go...
checked my results just now. so happy i passed everything. woohoo~ got B for biophysics, organic chem and biochem. got C for modern bio and computing. i was quite disappointed in organic chem and computing. didnt finish the organic paper. sigh... but i'm just glad i passed modern bio!
went out with the gals yesterday to celebrate yun's bdae. had lunch at swensons. too bad i was too full for ice cream. haha... used to go to the airport branch to celebrate my bdaes when i was young. we gave yun a pink leaf-shaped lamp. very nice~ though the box was kinda big. but at least we helped her carry. so gd of us rite? haha... happy bdae yun!