cerise

finito

2011-01-08T00:04:00.004+08:00

has it been 18 days since the last post? it IS the last day of work today. !!

hectic hectic day it's been. i shouldn't accumulate so much junk in my locker next time.

i won't miss the work, but i'll sure miss my o&g ladies...and my angmoh ladies...

and it begins..

2010-12-14T21:52:00.003+08:00

the countdown starts... 18 days of work till i begin clearing my annual leave. how quickly 6 months have passed - at least that's how it feels till i start thinking through all the days i feel like i'm just going through the motion of reading case notes, sign referral, sticky label, see the patient, document, stamp, next patient please..

not that it'd be any different elsewhere, but well it's all about exposure.

which then means it won't be too long before i'm leaving home sweet home. i don't feel ready, don't feel excited (why??) and don't really look forward to it all that much. maybe it's not near enough yet.

and i feel like i've become so rusty after leaving school. if i had to see neuro patients? oh no fml. it's like the only thing i think i'm good at is getting people out of bed post operatively. fml x 2.

i don't want to go but i have to..

there is hope yet~

2010-11-27T22:24:00.001+08:00

OMG curtin stadium you are so great because you run BA classes!! i don't have to hunt high and low for fitness first outlets in perth anymore because i can do ba in the school gym!!!

:) :) :)

attack!

2010-11-27T22:14:00.001+08:00

this is insane! there must be a good 200 people inside lol.

i will miss BA alot when i'm not in sg next year :'( - even this track, my least favourite.

don't drink if you're red..

2010-11-14T15:37:00.005+08:00

have you heard of friends saying that one's body is responding to increased alcohol levels better if your face flushes? the usual theories: blood vessels are dilating to clear the alcohol faster, better response, etc. so that's supposedly good right?

or so we thought.

apparently facial flushing is due to the accumulation of the immediate metabolic products of alcohol (acetaldehyde). this arises when there is impaired/insufficient production of the enzyme acetaldeyde dehydrogenase (ALDH2) - responsible for breaking down acetaldehyde.

mmm looks good... (credit mangotribe)

according to wiki, research shows that facial flushing occurs because of ALDH2 deficiency, and "an ALDH2-deficient drinker who drinks 2 beers per day has 6 to 10 times the risk of developing oesophageal cancer as a drinker not deficient in the enzyme".

which puts me right in the category of ALDH2-deficient people. facial flushing didn't use to apply to me when i had my first drinks, but i've noticed that it is increasingly apparent the more i drink (the more occasions, not the more volume of drinks taken).

in my case, whether it's a pint of beer, a glass of wine, one whisky green tea, all elicit the same reaction: red face red ears red neck.

asians are apparently also more susceptible to facial flushing. it's good, cos then there are lower incidences of alcoholism because it acts as a barrier to drinking more once the redness sets in.

dear red faced friends, better don't drink too much~! lol.

Yiruma

2010-11-07T16:40:00.000+08:00

beautiful..

dinner & draw

2010-10-10T16:16:00.010+08:00

ever wondered why annual dinner functions are called 'dinner & dance'? there's hardly any dance involved in such occasions - not in sg at least.

a quick google search yielded few relevant results; dictionary.com defines a D&D as: "a formal social gathering that includes a dinner followed by dancing".

dancing

as the emcee for the evening quipped, D&D should represent 'dinner & draw' in the local context instead. lol. i think it's true, if there's no lucky draw then perhaps lesser people would turn up.

anyway i thought the emcee did a good job entertaining the guests, otherwise i think the night couldn't have been more bland. which i attribute to the fact that i've gotten quite used to my new camera.

i was lazy and so brought the trusty digicam, only to find the venue horribly dim (why dim the lights before dinner starts??) and photos came out incredibly underwhelming.

quick snap with lights on

so i set my camera down on the table for a good 99% of the evening. which left me with like 15 shots in total. not good, considering it's a night for camwhoring with pretty dresses :(

hate flash in darkness.

i had to take a few shots to commemorate my maiden cheongsam (which i love!) - if i'm getting married, i'm doing so in one!

please look at the contrast, latter photo is with editing and looks so blah. maybe my editing sucks, but the point is that i can have nicer shots with little effort using a dslr.

i'm just grumpy i didn't bring the big camera. :'(

kiddo

2010-10-05T22:30:00.002+08:00

conducted my first antenatal class today - must have been amusing for the participants to see little girl teaching them stuff about pregnancy.

fml. front row people were giggling away (!!!)

cheongsam

2010-09-26T14:29:00.004+08:00

am mighty excited over my new dress - company d&d is in 2 weeks' time. funny to think how i'd intended to wear a simple dress to the dinner (and in the process going against the theme of international flight). well, the dress is western, i argued to my colleagues. LOL.

then i figured it would be a good time to perhaps get a cheongsam as i can always wear it for other occasions; it's pretty timeless isn't it.

of course, zhang ziyi i am not; the piece i eventually settled on is now in the process of being altered at the problem areas and taken in at the top.

designer lady: " i will need to loosen it a little at the waist and hips, i know it's too tight because i can see your belly button"

me: "damn."

ah, but when it has a better fit i am hopeful that it'll be flattering, not something which makes me so insanely self conscious. first piece i tried on was really nice, but i could not breathe properly :x

an excerpt from vivienne tam:

"The way the cheongsam shapes the body is unique. The collar makes the wearer hold her head up high, totally realigning her posture and separating the head from the body; she looks proud, and a little bit up in the clouds. The narrow cut holds the body in, but the slits at the hem liberate the legs. The body is revealed, every movement means more."

i simply felt faint and breathless donning this piece :(

cannot wait to collect my dress next week cannotwaitcannotwaitcannotwaitcannotwait~!

zap!

2010-09-21T21:48:00.003+08:00

i'm constantly amazed by what microwave ovens can do. hmm. maybe it's me (or my mum, who threw away a perfectly fine microwave a few years ago; it was apparently taking up valuable real estate in the kitchen), or the fact that i don't really have to depend on microwaves for cooking (fortunately!).

the last time i used it was in perth, where we cooked rice in like 15 mins everyday. after that, i never used it again. today, it resurrected my three-day old chocolate covered j.co donut that was as stiff and rigid as a donut ever wished it wouldn't be.

it took me 30 secs to figure out how to make it run: randomly poked around and settled on "bread" and it zapped for 40 secs. i thought it would take much longer. but that was all it took and out came all the coffee cream (boohoo) but what remained was gooey chocolatey goodness. almost as good as new.

i hope my life doesnt sound so sad that a microwave oven would make my day. LOL.

u2 live

2010-09-04T21:10:00.001+08:00

when will u2 ever come to sg... when i googled 'U2 singapore' the top few listings were of the clothing store. bummer.

new hobby

2010-08-21T23:44:00.002+08:00

slowly discovering the chill in a slow, unharried read on a lazy saturday night.

catching up

2010-08-15T20:24:00.009+08:00

the thing with happily snapping away is, that you have to sieve through the hundreds of photos and keep only the better ones (i do not own a terabyte of hard disk space, unfortunately).

epicurious

note so self: save edited photos in larger filesize next time

itacho yummmmyy sushi omnomnom

luv it joyce!

edit/ strangely, it's pixelated in thumbnail sizes here, but clear when clicked upon and blown up. hmm.

work is incredibly tiring but enjoyable, what would i do if i didn't see any babies for physio?? it gets boring when i see one too many pairs of legs for teds.. i am getting the hang of carrying babies and telling a hungry cry when i hear one. (not to mention feeding and changing clothes with puke on them).

come friday, i mostly run on auto cos i'm just so tired :x can't talk about having to work saturdays as well.

i will sleep early tonight, so monday will be great. hitting rsw on saturday; half price tickets make up for the absence of the battlestar roller coaster.

안녕! (ps joyce constance and i are learning our way through korean)

passed!!

2010-07-25T12:07:00.008+08:00

there has been little work-life balance the past few weeks - not a good thing :( but things are looking up, mainly because i have finally passed my lifesaving course! that certainly takes away most of the stress from the last couple of weeks. it would be really wasted (if not dumb) if i couldnt go do my conversion because i couldnt pass a swimming test.

i may not be them, but at least i can go to curtin now..

on a totally different note, i have been reading dan brown's angels and demons (you very most likely would have heard of it, read the book or caught the movie). i picked it up at a clearance sale for 8 bucks, but it proved to be a very good read :) i seldom read, much less enjoy a book as much as i did angels and demons.

while i now realise how horrible the movie was compared to the book, i do think that tom hanks was a good choice for robert langdon's role. all throughout the book i felt his look fitted that of robert langdon rather well. haha!

i know the book's been out for ages and all, but it's never too late to start reading it right? i enjoyed reading the da vinci code way back in sec 4 as well (perhaps if i didnt spend the precious study time reading the book, i may have scored 6 points in my O levels, ha ha!), so i am very tempted to check out digital fortress and deception point sometime soon.

inexplicable

2010-07-02T22:56:00.004+08:00

helping a pregnant mother is not the same as helping a patient who's not; there's just something strangely humbling and immensely gratifying about trying your best to help improve the stats reflected by 3 individual heartbeats on a single monitor.

work and 30 rock

2010-06-06T21:17:00.005+08:00

work starts tomorrow and I don't feel prepared. uh-oh. i spent too much time watching 30 rock the past 2 days.

sure wish my work days won't be so full of 'surprises' like liz lemon's!

4 quarters make a whole :)

2010-06-06T20:30:00.004+08:00

back!

2010-06-04T02:16:00.003+08:00

i'm back from a very awesome 10 day annapolis-boston-nyc-dc holiday! finally met my brother in the flesh (havent seen him in almost 2 years) and some of his friends & tutors.

the flight to and fro is indeed quite exhausting; in fact, my right lower limb is kinda swollen from sleeping through the entire last leg of the journey from tokyo to singapore. i didnt even get up to go to the loo. thoughts of DVT and the possible latent presentation of symptoms are quite disturbing. yikes.

i have a million photos to sort through (4 cameras!!).

i have paperwork on uni acceptance uncompleted.

i have yet to collect my work jackets and will not be able to do so before work starts.

i start work on monday.

DIE.

graduation

2010-05-20T23:11:00.004+08:00

braving all that crap together for 3 years only makes me sad on a happy day like this, because it will never be the same again

love the depth of field in this one, and our smiles :)

eat NYC

2010-05-16T16:53:00.000+08:00

as with all travels, there will spring a list of must-sees, must-buys etc, but one of the highlights of my first visit to NYC is also what to eat there! i read some overseas food blogs regularly - no-calorie indulgence :p namely david lebovitz, smitten kitchen, tartelette, and the amateur gourmet.

since the amateur gourmet, who lives in NYC, chalks up many recommendations while eating his way through the city, i went through many of them and shortened the list to a number which would be manageable (time and logistics-wise) during our 3 and a half days there. (i mean, i like food but wouldn't waste time travelling 1 hr to eat some famous bagel or hotdog - well, actually i would if i had the luxury of time, but we sadly do not have this time round) - i'm sorry nathan's hotdog.

the new york bagel
hot from the oven, cream cheese, smoked salmon. mmmMMmm.

can you see the cream cheese omg. credit: the amateurgourmet

cafe sabarsky , pizza & dessert
the cafe looks so quaint! and the coffee & desserts.... i think it's on the list for when we go to central park. keke.

i guess pizza is quintessentially american/new york (i'm not sure), so we should try some while we're there. but yea i'm pretty sure it beats pizza hut/canadian 2-for-1 right? to make it a triple whammy, it's nice to know that billy's bakery is 2 streets down from pizza place, so we can do dessert after dinner wahaha!

i would love to go to the magnolia bakery, but just look at this. i'm sure my parents would agree with adam, who mentioned that "we still have our pride" and i am not going to wait in line like that.

credits

BUT i have just discovered that it has other outlets in rockefeller centre (which we are going to, to try to get into the Top of the Rock for a view of NYC), so i may get to eat my cupcakes afterall. i'd think the downtown outlet in the video is THAT crowded cos of SITC. conclusion: this one i think i can do with, i can do without.

then there's Cafe Lalo, where my brother had a great breakfast last year and sang praises of the ambience and food. i checked out the website, it has an obscene amount of food items on the menu. and cakes. dessert. breakfast. i'm sold!

You've Got Mail came here to film some scenes :) nymag

pulled pork sndwich - i don't know the origins of this (i.e. which country's sandwich would be considered authentic), but who cares, all I know is that I'll come closer to sniffing this sinfully delicious mound of tender, roasted pork that is shredded and mixed with some magical tangy sauce and piled high on soft, lightly toasted bread in NY, than I'll ever be in Singapore. oink!

baby back ribs - no idea where to go for this, but I'll find out somehow! watching too much man vs food puts me in a mood for meat! uh oh..

nuna & dongseang :)

2010-05-15T18:44:00.002+08:00

they have got nice chemistry :) hyori looks kinda different though.. somewhat western?

no fancl love

2010-05-15T10:30:00.002+08:00

i'm bummed that there are no fancl outlets at narita airport, where i will be transiting next week on the way to washington. boo. it's pretty much cheaper to get fancl products in japan; anyone going to japan anytime soon??

daddy replied this when he told me he couldn't find any cafes to have coffee in transit: "dum dum, cafe just behind the gate" haha!

3 days to graduation, 6 days to the states!

baby you'll be famous;

2010-05-14T11:39:00.003+08:00

cute!

hydrophobia

2010-05-12T22:55:00.003+08:00

i've disliked the water for a long time - it makes me feel incredibly small, and helpless. i took swimming lessons when i was a kid, maybe 7 or 8? but i didn't complete any swimming tests cos once, my coach left me to bubble under the water (like, the bloop bloop blooooop kind of potential drowning) and didn't save me, shattering whatever little confidence i had in the water - so i stopped going for lessons.

why am i not the kid in this picture.

so along the way i still managed to learn abit of breaststroke - good for maybe 1 or 2 laps hahaha. fast forward 15 years later, i'm back at yck sc for lessons from who else, the coach who let me bubble helplessly in water. keke.

lifesaving credit is required for enrollment into curtin's programme, which is why i need to do this. how the s**t am i supposed to save someone when i cant save my own life in water. LOL. i hope i will pull through this safely and not rob the pool of too much water. like, check out how much i drank today.. zzz.

i must say though, wan hui is a great impromptu swimming coach who introduced sidestroke and inverted breaststroke to me haha.

isn't this so much easier? lol.

gonna crash, legs feel like jelly and arms are aching. round 2 tmr :x

OUCH. ouch. ouchhh.

2010-05-11T20:52:00.010+08:00

went for a random facial today, after shaping my eyebrows at my usual place.. it's the first facial i've had in about 3 years (i went to ny skin solutions previously, but got very put off due to their hard sell tactics. besides, their facials didn't really do anything for my-then complexion).

so then i've been having this weird breakout of acne/pimples? i suspect the beautician had a field day extracting them. i think i worked quite some muscles today - all tensed up due to the pain.

now my face looks like a mosquito feeding ground. spots swollen from the squeezing and poking :( they hurt when touched man!! hope everything clears soon :( :( graduation's in a week's time sobsob.. i don't wanna look like dots.

shall sleep early to save my skin.

sigh. a happy collage to make me happier. dear hair, i miss you!

countdown

2010-05-10T10:23:00.003+08:00

4 days till daddy flies to the US, 6 days till brother's graduation, 8 days till my graduation and 11 days till the US, i can't believe the trip is coming soon, after all that planning :)

see nyc in the flesh, eat the food featured on amateurgourmet (more on that later). oh yea!

pay attention!

2010-05-09T15:36:00.002+08:00

was at the launch of the curtin masters program for manip on saturday, mainly to kaypoh around, and to explore options for future studies (hopefully).

also present were some familiar faces, namely dr. christine pickard who is the director of international programs at curtin's school of PT (and who had kindly picked us up personally to bring us to curtin for our half day sit-in at practicals), and a/prof steve edmonston, who wan hui and i found mighty familiar. we concluded that it was his practical which we had attended last year in perth. haha!

anyway, it would be difficult to concentrate in class if your tutor looked somewhat like this (albeit older and slightly more bulky), wouldn't it? hehe.

credit

and for the record, some people (you know who you are) actually came up with ideas that shouldn't be mentioned here.

change

2010-05-07T15:29:00.003+08:00

so i changed the template again. lol. why? because i wanted the title of each post to be able to show (the previous one didn't allow that and i didnt know enough about html to edit it).

at the same time, too lazy to temper around with templates so i used this, which didn't require much tinkering around before it was ready to use.

unexpected email

2010-05-05T15:42:00.005+08:00

received an email from S.K last night, which came as a pleasant surprise. S.K had taught us for a semester in Year 2, and he was one of the more memorable and fun cum nice cum helpful part-time tutors we had. what was more surprising was that he still remembers us, and even dropped an email to find out how we're doing. is that awesome or what?

anyway, i took the chance to send him some photos from our casting practical with him, which i realised was in Oct 2008. 2008!! that's a year and a half ago. was it that long ago?? i think 2009 was just so packed and crazy, there just wasn't time to stop and think huh.

i remember it was halloween, hence the pose with the casting saw. haha!

oh we looked so young :)

one year older..

2010-05-02T21:22:00.003+08:00

happy birthday daddy, please stay happy and healthy always!

call me slow, but i just discovered picnik. haha. better and faster than photobucket. it has great features like vignetting and film grain, which i added to the photo :)

overcrowding

2010-04-29T23:42:00.003+08:00

those promoters at MRT stations, outside shopping centres, I'm sure you've seen a few of them ever so often. i usually don't have a problem with them cos they're just trying to make a living too and as long as they don't bug me, i'm fine.

the thing is, it seemed like they were out in full force in town today. i got approached by 5 different sets of people/companies just walking in the vicinity of somerset station. there are several types of such people selling their products:

1. Dressed in officewear, clipboard (mini or full size) with survey/client particulars form: they disciminate by your dressing (and hence, your financial status, maybe?). i really think so! on days i'm in my lokkok outfit (eg. tshirt shorts slippers messy hair), they don't even bother turning to look at me. when i was dressed more presentably today and carrying 2 shopping bags on top of my tote bag, one worker even signalled to her coworker with widened eyes to "quick, ask her!". it was written all over her face.

2. Teenagers who pop up from nowhere: they seriously freak me out. they kinda blend in the crowd, then when you unknowingly walk past them, they POP UP with a BIG SMILE and approach you: "hello! are you singaporean?" or "hello! can help me?". two such groups jolted me out of my thoughts while i was walking along the road today. actually, i don't know what they're selling. i was honestly too shocked by their greeting. lol. is it meant to be a shock tactic???

i'm sure there are many other types but these 2 stand out the most to me now (recency effect huh). oh yea, there's those who sell $2 tickets, presumably "for charity" but i've heard that they get cuts out of each ticket sold. which is why i usually donate to the buskers/elders selling tissue. ensures that your help for such people who need them, reaches them unadulterated.

uh-oh.

2010-04-16T22:50:00.003+08:00

a random thought: i suddenly couldn't recall the 7 steps in handwashing and had to google it to refresh my memory. fml.

a sure sign that i should start revising since i'm not starting work yet...

new book!

2010-04-08T21:09:00.004+08:00

Ready For Dessert from David Lebovitz on Vimeo.

i am so lusting after this!! the latest offering by david lebovitz. i love reading his blog, he often has interesting and funny stories about food, the french and being an american living in paris. he has now compiled his favourite recipes from his earlier books (and now out of print), revamped them and included them in this latest gem.

photo from http://www.davidlebovitz.com/

stop salivating!!

my source of income will be cut off from next month :( aiming to start working in June when i'm back from the US, so I will be an unemployed person consuming resources like air, food and water for the next 2/12. sigh. many things need vitamin M..

toying with the idea of colouring my hair..

fangirling

2010-04-02T00:32:00.004+08:00

i want to go for 장근석's fan meeting in singapore! hahahaha. what a fan girl. he's getting so insanely popular (like, whole of asia), tickets cost $250 (plus, only limited to 100 tickets). yes, aaron kwok's concert here only sells at $88 - $228 a pop.

i do wish he would stop doing things to his face though. he's starting to look abit scary in You're Beautiful.. the guyliner and clothing in the show don't help o.O

and these 2 aren't even the worse pictures~ is it the weight loss or the surgical intervention? lol.

chiong ah!!

2010-03-29T12:23:00.006+08:00

my bangkok trip was rather fruitful (read: spent alot) and it was relatively peaceful and business as usual during the days we were there. we covered the things that bangkok is to a typical tourist: shopping (whenever we could), had pretty good seafood at somboon and oyster bar, full body massage..

waiting to check in

in addition we also went to this tailor which looked really atas.. it was not only after i had returned to singapore and googled it that i found that the shop seems to have quite a good reputation. the service was great too. i'm generally quite happy with my 2 shirts save for some sizing issues (seems abit too big), but it's still a good deal for a tailored shirt.

where we went for massage. love the shop name haha!

on the way to Siam Discovery Centre, we saw one lone lorry of red shirts haha. the situation there was totally different from what was reported on the news. this, i think, because the news teams mostly focus on the heart of the protests and not the area surrounding it as a whole. we were actually quite close to the government areas where the people were gathering, but they were well contained. and even when the odd few were on the roads, there was order.

we discovered this shop, Big! Loft which had interesting items on sale, including some really cute Holga cameras (which i did not get, because it cost about 40 sgd each, including a plastic casing which i assumed was a waterproof csing). I would definitely consider getting one if i go back anytime soon. haha.

outside Big! Loft, totally tired but always ready for a photo :)

at the siam ocean world; my favourite people in PT :)

this was a really good seafood platter (based on the oysters and scallops on the bottom deck; i did not have the prawns and crab so i don't know if it's as good as the raw stuff). at 80 sgd, i don't know, too expensive? average? but the scallop was the absolute best thing i've eaten. even better than the one i tried in hokkaido.

can you see my look of satisfaction

lastly, this was where we went for good and cheap seafood. it's very much like zichar dishes with rice, but in air conditioned comfort. the prawn dishes seem to outshine the fried curry crabs that the restaurant is famous for. haha.

one month has passed since i finished my last paper in school! good times always fly past so quickly. results have come out, so I am in the midst of applying for a university. there is a great shortage of spaces! Please, curtin, please?

corinne's birthday; hanging out; growing fat

2010-03-18T19:01:00.007+08:00

some pics from corinne's birthday (i don't have the lovely ones taken using her awesome portrait lens, so there are only a few).

birthday girl with her very awesome pendant + necklace!

the crabmeat linguine, which was very good; chocolate fudge cake

pity about the service though, the wait staff were rather rude and honestly, what is wrong with wanting to take a photo of the restaurant logo that is printed on the placemat?? i wouldn't go back even though the food was good.

and then some from the korean makan last week. will try kim's family restaurant in the future~!!

heh.

cheesecake - love this shot cos it was taken without looking thru the viewfinder

fat cheeks; really good iced mocha (which also contributes to said fat cheeks)

updates..

2010-03-18T18:29:00.005+08:00

falling hopelessly for too-romantic-to-be-true korean dramas :x my one true indulgence heehee! (it has always been like that for me when i watch them! since like, 7-8 years ago?)

i am forming really poor sleeping habits . think: sleeping at 2-3am and waking up at 10-11am. heh. that's on a good day!

in the midst of planning for the US trip to visit bro, it's really a headache to have to plan the itinerary on one's own without knowing a single s*** about the place. ha. but at least the dates are somewhat in place now :D we're planning to do an annapolis-niagara falls-nyc thingy.

starting to get excited about the trip! :)

oh, and i'm off to bkk tomorrow, please hope for me that the reddies will be nice and peaceful over the weekend :x

finally!

2010-03-10T21:22:00.005+08:00

i've finally stopped hesitating and got me my baby! check him out below:

it's aka the Rebel T1i (i love that name so much more than "500D") and i chose it over the newly released canon S90 (much talked about for its nostalgia mode and low light shooting capabilities etc) - due in part to corinne's urging which was the final push that i needed - to take the step up to a dslr instead of getting another point & shoot (albeit super powerful) cos i still have my ixus.

i'm glad i got a heads up about its functions from the really helpful staff at the shop. no hard selling, only genuine service & advice. what you need to get consumers buying! especially in these days where good service is rarer than poor ones.

the trade off was that i spent three and a half hours at the place just testing the cameras and set-up because the place was running at least 3 - 4 customers at any time, with just 2 staff. add in the customers popping by for a chat with the owner, that makes a really busy time for them! gotta be prepared to wait while toying with the camera.

leslie demonstrating the functions - what i call high definition photography lol. does nothing for your face.

nonetheless i've been happy with my purchase and playing around with the settings :) it's alot more intuitive and easier to use than other brands so i've nothing to complain, for now i'm a happy girl ^^

studying the manual!

heh :)

back from outer space

2010-02-26T14:35:00.007+08:00

it's been a long time..

yes i am still alive and havent forgotten this place. what now, i wonder? school's out (not just the usual end-of-exams but THE END. before i hit the working world for awhile.)

oddly, it's not the exhilaration of impending graduation which overwhelms me. it's a sense of loss. loss of direction. no more trudging to school and hanging around in the corridor we so love/hate, complaints, ploughing through deadlines numbering in the tens over a mere 3 or 4 weeks..

we all go our own ways from here, scattered around sg in different hospitals, different settings and each doing our own thing. but the one thing i can take heart in is that many of us have grown so much over the 3 years - honestly in year 1, i didn't think the class would be where it is today.

so to pt0702, may you all learn even more wherever you are working and be better physios because this is only the beginning. it has been a good 3 years with you.

2NE1

2009-09-02T20:05:00.002+08:00

this is the finest i've seen them! minus all those psychedelic colours and mop-hair. cheers!

Her Morning Elegance / Oren Lavie

2009-05-26T19:24:00.001+08:00

what a creative video! idea apparently been stolen by some korean singer for his mv. the original is definitely better.

sch's been insane. welcome to yr 3.

2009-05-04T17:36:00.002+08:00

saturday was daddy's birthday, which gave us a nice occasion to stuff our faces at the rose veranda. loved the setting, desserts and tea but the spread of food was quite small :( but most importantly, i think dad enjoyed his day with the family.

lovely china for lovely tea

grandma n auntie rita. check it out she's trying to hide her tummy with her napkin ha ha!

got to fill in a form "for internal auditing purposes". and to get cake and 60% discount. ha.

everyone's happy :) i tink we were laughing at the small cake.

cute plate. matches the teacup and teapot n everything. even the napkin! sweet.

me mum will kill me for this. haha. no pics of my aunt cos she'll definitely kill me if i posted any.

what is this? if you know it, you know it. haha.

only one wish, that daddy will stay healthy and happy always!

2009-04-19T15:01:00.002+08:00

go see this it's so funny and cute ;)

http://worldsfunniestvideo.blogspot.com/2007/06/will-ferrell-and-pearl-landlord.html

2009-04-18T11:21:00.008+08:00

sch's starting in approx 44 hours :( hello, year 3.

i'm back frm korea and it was more of a revisit to the place from 7yrs ago. but i did manage to catch the cherry blossoms and eat my fill of kimchi ha!!

tour grp was big - 40 including tour guide. gee. i dun like big grps.

but nonetheless it was fun, it's always fun to take off with my folks and take in some cool air unlike the convection-oven-like kinda air in sg now. speaking of weather, there was this grp of pple who wore winter coats and GLOVES during the trip. oh cmon....LOL. what a sight. it's spring alr...were they hibernating n woke up forgetting to update their wardrobe? qt paiseh la.

this was on the plane - how come a short flight feels so torturous to me now? could hardly stand the 6hr flight. lol. old alr ah?

instructions for preparing ur bibimbap. lol. so cute. it was surprisingly good for a flight meal.

so first stop on arrival was nami island. flight to cheju was full so we waited for an evening flight. the place is brimming with tourists la. singaporeans in particular....

nami island was where parts of winter sonata was filmed...the pine trees....the snowmen...

found this v sweet. 2 sisters having so much fun on a little pedal car :)

dun play play. still got replica snowmen on the bench after so many years ha ha...

so beautiful..

there are lots of piles like this all over the place. a stone is stacked on top each time someone makes a wish.

cute :)

big bang gets lots of love in their homeland!

i have a photo of this from 7 years back w my bro. it's exactly the same :)

is it too bhb to say tt i like this shot? lol.

we climbed this

cute schoolgirl!

random, but this is kind of like the pig whose meat u'll see in the kurobuta black pork tonkatsu that u guys chomp on. lol.

we went to the teddy bear museum which was quite cute! creative and quite entertaining. maybe it's just me la huh. i have a soft spot for teddies. try n see who these bears are!

i love the one on the right the best. oh einstein!! so cute!!

er, superman?

linus says tt bears should not have boobs.

it's the bears from princess hours

da chang jin getting married. LOL.

and this, is the most expensive teddy in the world:

costs 200 million won

hello teddy! he's as tall as i am (NOT taller hor...he's standing on a small platform). there was a bigger bear outdoors, abt 2m or slightly more? too bad e pic was taken by the tour photog and is in hard copy so i cant put it here. lazy to scan!

haha

ok these 2 are unrelated, but left one is the jajangmian that they eat - i always imagined tt it'd taste much nicer than what i had. oh well. right one is the wriggling octopus tentacle that the shopowner cut for me. i ate it! after it drowned itself in the soya n wasabi. lol. looks damn gross la. it wriggled out of the saucer oh man. but tastes ok leh! maybe too much soya sauce on it alr :p

spread of sashimi, korean style. this is only 2/3 of wad there was, here was a sashimi boat too. i very much prefer the jap style sashimi!! can u believe we actually spat out all the abalone sashimi cos it was so unpalatable? geez. and the sea urchin? ewww.

hee.

we look stunted here. must be the guy who took e photo. tsk.

our cute guide, annie.

i'd wanted to do a separate post with all the flora we saw there. many cherry blossoms, tulips and stuff. it's spring! so happy to hit the cherry blossom wave.

2009-04-01T21:13:00.003+08:00

i love the feeling of clearing out, cleaning and arranging the things in my room. lol. i spent 6 hours cleaning out my cabinet, accumulated a bag of things to give to the salvation army and felt immensely satisfied at the sight of the much neater cupboard. lol. it must be in the genes - my mum is a cleaning fiend.

2009-03-28T12:26:00.003+08:00

ok this is a little late again but HAPPY BIRTHDAY LINUS :) 21 is the time when aging begins... ha ha...

so anyway we had an unpleasant experience at ps cafe and let's just say we won't be likely to return there anytime in the near future. maybe we just weren't angmoh or ABC looking, that's why. however good the food is, if the service isn't good then i don't think it'll be an enjoyable dining experience.

stairway from dunno-where. carpark perhaps?

birthday boy

chicken in a basket

ahaha too bad that was e clearest shot of ur pork ribs.

and we all know who's good at the falling boulders game...

nonetheless i hope you had fun and a great evening right before the comp :)

and i'm glad that the wait wasn't for nothing: your boys are champs - i think that's the biggest present that you can get this year :)

2009-03-23T22:07:00.002+08:00

school's out! (and holidays are in.. hehe) so much that's done, so much to do...

1. most of the guys have ord-ed by now. magic number feb 12th for you :)

2. clinicals are over!! inpatients are more fun than outpatients at the moment... it's darn busy though, so much that there's no time to sit to rest except during lunch. how come i never lose weight despite running about all day?? enjoyed my time at SLH and NUH though :) the shui jiao at nuh canteen is damn good btw. like DARN GOOD.

3. surprise dinner organised by linus-bernie/jea/yl :) i read the long list of email correspondence on fb! pretty funny to read cos yours truly was like so unsuspecting for once. haha. can't be helped since it was a pretty hectic week at slh.

4. monopoly date with jea/co/gen/jo too bad i had to leave so soon :( would have stayed on to camwhore. if not for the fact that i had to go back to the hosp cos of my scatterbrain.

5. corinne's birthday! happy happy birthday corinne!! (i noe it's late here. but eh i went to her party ok. and wished her in person. haha) it was a cosy party at fairmont with her good friends. the desserts were like so pretty la! :) eh i dun want to copy/paste photos from fb leh. tsk.

6. gma's birthday! dinner with the family (but missing my bro). he'll just have to make do with skype. haha.

7. met char to catch he's just not that into you and also super super super filling lunch at sketches. zomg. fatfat!! always fun with you gal!! looking forward to june/july :) we need that picnic!! :D

i'm so going to enjoy my holiday to the fullest. and to make it as productive as possible :) so far for the past 3 days it's been working :)

2009-02-23T23:38:00.001+08:00

this is awesome!

2009-02-01T11:15:00.002+08:00

happy birthday dear friend! 21 already.. :) the party had great ambience!

2009-01-31T11:24:00.002+08:00

time to dust off the cobwebs here... things are getting so busy it's almost impossible to keep track of things happening...so i won't haha. school's out but there's still attachment to think (and worry) about. and for those that i don't meet up with often enough to catch up (sorry!!!!) i'll be starting year 3 in april alr. damn. so fast. it's really scary lor.

and that's probably when i'll disappear from everybody's radar since the much-feared final year project aka FYP comes crashing down on us. we've alr gotten our topic. sheesh. "lucky" draw. plus the clinical-exams-clinical sort of schedule. eeks.

maybe next cny we'll be miserable like the yr 3s this yr. nooo.... cny is my fav holiday!!

meanwhile before clinicals start and before exam results come out i'll enjoy my 2 wk break first. some r&r, charlotte's back in sg, night out with the pals and etc. pple jio me out pls!! :)

oh yea, almost forgot to wish everyone gong xi fa cai!

huat ah~!

2009-01-10T10:17:00.003+08:00

electric city

one for the internet modem, one for the router, one for the desk light, one for the fan, one for the computer, one for the telephone power, one for the telephone modem. brilliant :)

people are funny sometimes... switched landline operator to starhub cos subscription's free compared to e 10-odd dollars a yr with singtel. but all good things come with t&c's. at starhub, we only get 1 phone port (cos of the need for the voip thingamajig). but with a paying subscription with singtel, u can plug as many phones as u like, as long as u have that phone plug thingy.

so yeah, being ever partial to paying less, we decided to change to starhub for e landline. which = 1 phone only in the living room = eyesore since the big phone is right smack in the middle of the counter (according to my mom) PLUS i have to walk all e way outside to make a call. LOL.

solution? purchase a new phone which comes with a cordless handset. voila! base station? in my room. good & bad huh :s look at that mess of wires!! 3 more sets of wires and 1 more modem. had to tag the plugs with stickers for identification. lol.

gadget corner below my table. the wires look disturbing.

ever read about sockets overheating & ctatching fire? they could well use mine as a perfect example. lol. just kidding! i'm not insane. the adaptor comes with mini switches to reduce unnecessary usage of power n minimise overheating.

oh did i mention that the phone cost 70 bucks?

2009-01-01T15:05:00.002+08:00

goodbye 2008. hello 2009 :)

there were thrills and spills this - no-, last year, the happy and the sad ones but i shan't say too much. just decided to be thankful for all the good things and leave it at that. good things like my friends and family.

jo/jea/joyce/yiling/bernie/gen/corinne for always taking the time to organise an outing (sms intensive i know) even though we are all so busy with school and life.

jo/reuben/leon who always drop by with a msg or two to let me know i'm remembered and all our late night suppers (and that super bdae in july!!!). and advice abt certain things hehe. daryl who always 'hey's me on msn to talk. haha.

wh/cj/wx who are always there for me to crap with and bitch abt other people.

rosyth pple who still come for gatherings. going strong leh!

family for just being around and supportive, even just a laugh can do so much. i miss my brother tho. he's currently spending his new year in chicago where it's pretty cold.

and you, the new addition to my life. thankful that somehow things happened and fell into place. :)

so that shall conclude my 2008, even tho i've got many pictures to post up but i don't have the time or energy to do so. of course let's hope for an even better 2009 on all fronts! work, love, family blah blah. all rounded goodness. cheers.

2008-12-23T21:23:00.006+08:00

(these)graceful people

clinicals ended last friday, dinner with the family today was supposed to be a happy one. spoilt by 2 _________ (insert whatever expletive you can think of from your vocab here, please) animals. 2 people, but i couldn't possibly classify them as humans.

you see, my grandma was with us, and walking slowly along the long corridor at raffles hotel. i'm holding her on the right, and my aunt on her left. said corridor is empty, save for us, and so we walk at our own pace. i didn't really notice, but there were 2 people behind us, and i was alerted to their presence by a loud "tsk, walk also must crowd the whole walkway".

this, followed by a rude overtaking manoeuvre from the 2 beings into our path, 1 walking with a rather discernible gelek of the hips, if u noe what i mean, the other one more beefy and bordering on metrosexual. just looks weird to me. shudder.

me: "well, i'm sorry that old people can't walk as fast as young ones!" (i said it loudly, of course, for them to hear.)

guess what, gelek actually turned around with a swivel of his hips, and said in a "gentle" voice that:
"even if you're walking slowly, you don't have to take up the whole walkway you know".

me: "oh so young people can't even afford to be a little considerate and take a few extra steps or slow down a little?"

the f**kinging gelek, actually backtracking on his steps, together with a gesturing of his hands: "you can walk slowly, but do you have to block the way like that?"

my aunt: "but we need to be holding my mother here"

gelek: "okay, (points to me and my aunt) you can hold one here and one here, but (pointing to my mom, who's next to my aunt) do you have to be walking here and block the way? you can walk to the side what." proceeds to swivel ONCE MORE and continues on his way

me (really pissed now and thinking WTF): "young man, one cannot be so disgraceful and disrespectful to elders!"

metro pig turns around: "for your information, i think we are about the same age"

(bwahahahaha. oh don't flatter yourself... chronologically yes, but mentally? probably not. thinking back, i should have said that in his snort face)

both faggots saunter ahead of us, only to be refused entry at the buffet cos the restaurant was 5 mins from opening time.

what the hell is wrong with these animals? f**king rude? check. indignant and obnoxious? check. disgraceful? check. making you go RARRRRRR!!!!!? check.

if only they could just say "excuse me" right from the beginning, guess what we would have gladly given way and very likely apologise for having blocked them. i guess those words don't exist in their brains which are smished with egocentric thoughts. but what truly angered me is their apathetic and indignant behaviour, and their outright lack of graciousness. thus the word disgrace. should make the word a-grace instead. in medical terms, akinesia: lack of movement, aphasia: lack of speech, so lack of grace is agrace right?

seeing their fat mother at the table stuffing her face with xmas goodies from the buffet table (ok i'm being indicriminate in finding faults with anything and everything to do with them, but just allow me yeah? the 2 bastards made me cry. i did so out of sheer disbelief that someone - or rather people - can say such things), i felt like going up to her and offering her some advice:

"mdm, just one word of advice: you may want to work a little on your walking from now on, lest one day your son finds that you're walking too slowly and blocking his way"

and one more thing, at the buffet, the asshole actually walked to the area near my table, which was at the other end from his, just to give me a dirty look. whaaaatt???

i think though, metro pig was offended cos i told them to be graceful and respectful to elders while calling his fellow animal friend "young man" when they're obviously much older than i am. LOL.

one day, just one day, if you find that you can't walk as well as before, it will come back and bite you in the ass. for someone will make you feel useless for being unable to as so much walk without inconveniencing someone else. i hope you walk well, asshole.

2008-11-30T12:29:00.001+08:00

:) :)

2008-11-22T22:15:00.001+08:00

didn't get to catch up much on posts since the last time. 1st week at kkh is over! a couple of thrills and spills, but i do hope there'll be a decent grade for wk 1's ax :s and he did say he'd be stepping up the drills in wk 2! *bites nails*

so far the place is ok, and every tues afternoon is hydrotherapy. how cool is that. inappropriate for me to take pics inside tho. it's basically a swimming pool but only abt 1.2m (good news for me!!!) with a ramp at e side leading into the water. special wheelchairs can be wheeled in, i think.

he got me to take a patient and asked me to do whatever i thought was appropriate. how to train vmo in water??? lol. in the end it turned out ok i tink...for our mediocre level of knowledge... sobs. bone building class was kinda torturous for the kinda unfit me. sigh.

anyway.. continuing with the stuff that i've missed out on posting... determined to catch up. 19th oct was wx's birthday. ah pek turns 22! lol. cake from pine garden. triple chocolate? i only rmb that it was v nice. ha ha!

haha!

the same day was jayden's 1st bdae celebration. he's too cute! i got to carry him, but i think he didn't like it very much. while working at kk, i get to see a fair number of babies and toddlers almost everyday. and many of them are cute beyond words. haha. like seriously!!! i instantly melt when i see them. sigh. i want a baby in the family to play with!

after the birthday party

it was mom's bdae on the 25th! lunch was at carousel. i'd heard quite alot abt it, so we decided to give it a try. the offering of hot cooked food was slightly different from e usual ones u get at other buffets, it's more exotic i'd say. and more creative. but the sashimi and seafood wasn't anything to die for, sadly. the deco is nice tho. and we had one more person at the table :) but missing my bro :(

singing the birthday song over skype. lol. what would we do without skype... excuse the wet hair pls.

cake was the ice cream one frm swensen's, and i shant elaborate on the arduous journey we went on to get it delivered home. LOL.

flowers from my mom's colleagues. love the colours!

that's my colour! :)

on halloween we were out, and i think the thing about dressing up in costumes and all is kind of catching up in spore? or maybe i just haven't been out much on previous halloweens.

haha. ramen at waraku! and chilling out at tcc. i love that outlet. so nua. lol.

lights at night

i had 2 buffets in 2 weekends - following carousel, we went to the line the following week, courtesy of auntie jessie. yayness! the food here is whoa. it's when one cent money one cent goods is pretty apt for describing the spread and yumminess in a positive manner. haha. too bad my stomach isn't very big for food eaten in one sitting, so i took a bit of almost everything. lolz. sampling.

the super fresh sashimi and oysters! this was only round 1 sashimi. ;)

mains were good, but the pics werent very interesting. there was a whole salmon, super good satay, roast duck, indian food, western...blah blah.. skip to desserts!

didnt have much space left in my stomach so i only got these 3: macarons, creme brulee and some raspberry chocolate sponge finger

it actually looks nicer than it tastes. lol

pretty :)

after that i go cut my hair. i love the greenery in the shop haha. quite unique! and there's bobo! :D

bobo is the first dog that comes to me without me having to do anything. so friendly! he immediately put his paws on my legs once i squatted down to play with him. ha. so cute.

his eyes are emotional blackmail, in my brother's words when describing the dogs that he sees over at annapolis.

i got to go to the kpop concert the other day! mighty thanks to vinitha who got tickets and invited me along.

vin :)

starting!!

zomg andy was the emcee, along with this other plastic girl and some spore dj. plastic cos of cosmetic surgery! her nose is so done, the only thing i saw of her profile was her nose (we were sitting at the side of the stage you see...so only side views of the celebs were prominent). too bad the pics werent v gd cos of this overhead beam that was blocking the stage. restricted view!! :(

that's junjin preparing behind e props. lol. our restricted view seats gave unrestricted backstage view. lol.

chae yeon is super pretty and hot. pity abt her a-go-go get up tho.

the super V.O.S! only 2 songs but i'm totally sold on their voices. been looking for their album!

not into the group, but only suh in young. 3rd from left. part of e ant couple on wgm. keke. she's pretty n hot!

andy acting cute with young girls. haha.

sunitha and friend. do you see double? vinitha and sunitha are twins! :)

we got to do a casting session with seng kwee for neuro, and i must say it's super fun! i got casted twice keke. one for demo, one for wh to do. haha. here's how it's done:

stocking-like material to protect the skin

roll layers of cotton around the stocking..not too thick, not too thin! btw it's warm la. it really traps air and keeps the heat in. can't imagine how uncomfortable it'd be without aircon.

add extra cushioning n padding for the bony parts

after that goes on the plaster of paris or pop for short. it's in bandage form but it has to be soaked in water when ready to use. super clever! so....after the cast is completed... how do u guys think a cast is removed?

1) hammering the cast open
2) using a jacksaw to saw it open
3) plucking the arm/leg out - no need to cut!

actually the answer is none of the above. e one we used was a cast saw...it's not as scary as it sounds and looks tho.

cast saw

everyone freaking out when told how a cast is removed. lol.

it's cool. the blade only rotates 7.5 degrees clockwise, then anti clockwise and clockwise again... so it wont cut ur skin if it briefly touches the skin. of cos, if u keep it there, ur skin will be cut. lol.

cut carefully... it can still transmit heat and vibrations to the arm and cause burns!

start pulling it apart

and peel away, through the layers of plaster n cotton

it's out! added a sticker from photobucket cos i dun wanna get in trouble for posting other pple's faces w/o permission. haha.

pals :)

sk is so cute. lol.

cast must have autograph right?

class pic! i like this.

last mon was dr uma's last day. i'll miss her! but i think she's ready to enjoy life... haha. wish her all the best!

haha cute card!

last sat was jea's bdae, so happy birthday girl! tho it's kinda belated here. marina barrage is quite cool. but i don't think it's somewhere that people would go to beyond one or two times. it's kinda out of the way w/o a car and there isn't much going on in the vicinity. good for a first time look-see tho :)

last sun i dad let me drive to baikohken, near raffles place. wad can i say... 2 things: firstly, experienced drivers cant stand inexperienced ones. and secondly, braking beyond a certain measure will throw everything in the car forward. but in all fairness to yours truly, the 2nd case was due to some ass who decided to squeeze his car in at the last minute on e expressway. i guess i could have been more vigilant... sigh. back to baikohken, the miso ramen is darn yummy. i shld have ordered tt!!

and i started this week at kkh, with a very yummy "lunch" haha! thank you.... it really meant alot! :)

so many ingredients!

last night was interesting, first time at thumper's. cosy, classy and with a great live band and singers. i even got to meet ivy from primary sch. haha. but i don't think she rly recognised me. lol.

21 year old ;)

xmas is coming!

and supper was fun. haha.

woohoo i managed to update everything roughly. lol.

2008-11-13T00:08:00.002+08:00

it's been a long time since i had a proper post. since sch started, in fact. ha. 5 weeks since the semester started, next 5 weeks i'm gonna be at kkh. i finally get where i wanna go, but i'm scared! clinical attachments are always daunting for me. scared i'll step on e sups' toes or smthg. ah well. we shall see..

alot has been happening since sch started, i finally understand what it's like to be packed for most days of the week, now i usually get sundays off only. ha. er ok i promised i'd post about e prata outing with jea yl n bernie last month (last month!! 11th Oct, to be exact) , we took a truckload of pics (as usual...girls ma..).

the pratahouse's food isn't fantastic (casuarina curry's is tons nicer!) but for the accessibility, it wins hands down. so there. maybe years later when i can take the car out on my own la huh. haha.

prata or ij girls? lol.

these are the more normal and sane ones out of the whole lot we took.

we are damn spontaneous, we walk over to thomson plaza and browse random shops (lol the unmentionables and ntuc finest, among others. LOL). haha. can only do that with them! haha :)

sweet :)

dinner before leon flies off to the land of curry (read: india) for 5 wks! 5 whole weeks!!! he's 2 weeks down as of yesterday. 3 more to go. haha. ate at tonkichi, it's really nothing special at all. like remarkably unremarkable. lol. should have gone elsewhere... :(

therefore there's only 1 pic at tonkichi. pretty girl :)

adjourn to here

some cheesecake thingy (chocolate, of course)

red juice

they are busy talking...

and them too...

me? i sit quietly and eat the cake. lol. poor leon was visibly upset over his small little flask of hot chocolate thingy which melts over the burner. haha. quality la not quantity! gerlat you know?? wish we'd hang out longer... but everyone's got things to do so we leave pretty early. :( i love this bunch of people!

gotta continue with the pics tmr. so tired! pimples and dark circles galore :'(

2008-10-30T19:02:00.000+08:00

:)

that's for you!

2008-10-16T09:36:00.004+08:00

i finally got my driving license! all hail 3.45pm slots :)

2008-10-12T18:08:00.008+08:00

back frm phuket! a truckload of photos as usual. i must say it was a good 3 odd days we had tgt! we started the trip by reaching the boarding gate abt 5 mins before it closed hehe. abit of running involved there! airasia isn't too bad, for short flights like e one we had. any longer, i think my neck will suffer :s

airport to hotel - a whole van to ourselves!

first step onto the glorious beach! way too bright n sunny lol.

our nice room :)

wx's naughty room. ha ha ha...the toilet mirror can be opened! and there's no lock for it. keke.

hotel lobby. it's a small n cosy hotel separated from the beach by a single main road.

our favourite pancake auntie. it's seriously good, we had this everyday! haha. trust wh, it's good ;)

banana n maple syrup

beer haven, and that isn't from the hotel, it's e minibar we stocked up by ourselves (but i should add that this is only on the first night. there was some restocking done)

our hotel, taken from the beach

first night! :D

second day out on patong beach! :) check out our ray bans LOL.

parasailing! the operator is sitting on the strings of the parasail, and he has no harness attached. respect!

hotel pool

nightlife!

on the third day we went snorkeling! sort of like island hopping but u get to go into the water and look at corals n fishes. was hesitant at first cos your truly ain't exactly a star swimmer, but i think i managed it ok, thanks to the lifejacket wahahaha. the package had 3 prices - 1600, 2000 or 3000 baht. boy were we glad we didn't do the 1600 baht one. u'll see later why lol.

we set off from this nice pier! some marine club place. nice nice :)

our boat! with 3 honda vtec engines may i add. lol. e crew wore hot pink tees, which go nicely with the boat's colour scheme ha ha

off we gooooo

boat guide: "you are a lucky man!"

it was a 45 minute ride out to phi phi island, so of cos we had time to camwhore n spam the sunblock.

front of the boat

the 1600 baht boat uses an engine like this - it's got a propellor attached at the far end which is placed in e water. LOL. it can be manoueuvred out of the water to change direction hahaha! scary stuff. 1600 baht gets you a sampan-like boat similar to this, but it's a covered one.

we pull up closer to phi phi le (part of phi phi islands) - apparently leonardo dicaprio filmed the beach here.

limestone cliffs

happy!

the very friendly guide on the boat. mr tic! haha. funny guy and pretty helpful as well. he speaks many languages too!

mr tic insisted we take many photos here. haha. once when the boat is departing, and once more when the boat has turned around (this is e back of the boat)

:)

fishessss

in between we would stop to go snorkeling in e water, the first place was incredible to me. water was deep and blue, huge corals and everything...the fishes every colour imaginable. there were rainbow coloured ones! pink purple green and others. i surely don't regret going for this man! love love love

third stop for snorkeling. the waters weren't as nice as the first cos we came on shore. had lots of fluorescent green fishes with black stripes here. n corals, clams and the HUGE sea urchins!

back at the pier

last dinner in phuket! sadly it wasn't very nice for the price we paid :( seafood dinner - we could only afford 2 tiger prawns, pineapple rice, tom yum goong, and a fish. ha ha ha...4 prawns would set u back by 1600 baht... which comes to 70 SGD. but well the prawns were huge 2 were good.

dessert after dinner. i'm pink.

after dinner we finally stopped to take a look at this hanging on the wall at the hotel lobby. a photo collage of the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami.

i guess there and then the photos struck smthg in us. i never rly gave it much thought when i first arrived in phuket, it never struck me that this bustling and beauutiful place was indeed the very same place which was ravaged by mother nature almost 4 yrs back. sure, i'd seen photos in the papers back in 2004, but there i was on wednesday standing at the very same lobby which saw vehicles washed right in by the waves, everything crushed by the impact of the water.

and these photos are very powerful, i thought to myself. the wave of sadness lingered on the rest of the night, it's indeed very sad that such a scary thing could happen in the blink of an eye, and yet incredibly encouraging and moving at the same time, that the people of phuket have picked themselves up in the wake of the tsunami and put their home back together. even when we were there we saw several brick houses being built.

back home :)

holiday aside, i think we had a pretty close shave over e wkend, no? but thankfully it turned out ok (i hope!) and it didn't mar the great wkend we had.

*spoiler alert*

btw i caught burn after reading (BRAD PITT and GEORGE CLOONEY) wahoo! sadly i didn't manage to make much sense of the show - brad pitt got killed off way too early in the show and the plot didn't make sense after the first 45 mins maybe? plus the ending left us going, "huh? like that finish alr ah?" , "den the cd how?". it felt like the cd was not the main point of the plot anymore at the end, like it was an excuse to bring all the characters round in a circus of tricks and stunts. lol. but i did enjoy and applaud brad pitt's acting chops. he is too funny man!

chad: Osbourne Cox? I thought you might be worried...about the security...of your shit.

ha ha ha...

2008-10-04T20:57:00.004+08:00

this was some week :)

been out with the peeps!

smushy goodness

eating near mustafa last week, this was where we encountered a pretty dramatic scene (ok la not really v drama but it's alr pretty exciting for sg). so we were eating by the roadside (u can see tt in the pic above) and we suddenly heard a sound which turned out to be a passenger punching the window of e taxi that he had alighted from. the crazy guy smashed the window ha ha. but thanks to the invention of tempered glass, the window simply crumbled into little pieces rather than into shards of glass.

after some ranting by the guy he boarded a cab stopped behind leon's car (!) and good thing leon had the great sense to run over and drive away before the guy boarded e cab. poor cabby drove several rounds ard the place without a front passenger seat window, and the cops came shortly after. lol.

chocolate waffle & warm chocolate cake

sticky date pudding

this was last night at thomson, the chocolate dishes were yummy! can't say the same for my sticky date pudding tho. it was only so-so. shall try the one from marmlade pantry next time. before that was bak kut teh at balestier, what a coincidence cos we met wai yee and her friends who were eating there. heh so we didn't have to wait for a table! ;) got her to thank.

heading for phuket on monday! hopefully the weather will be great and we'll have a blast :)

2008-09-30T23:09:00.000+08:00

so this is how it feels like :)

2008-09-29T22:14:00.002+08:00

this is too funny! this is how boys bake stuff. LOL.

2008-09-28T22:16:00.002+08:00

this cannot be! am quite devastated by the way ferrari squandered away their pole and 3rd position. so much for swapping the lollipop man for the high technology indicator at the pit stop. i reckon they'll revert back to manual labour after this.

and kimi's mistake in e 4th last lap was simply the icing on the cake! boo. he fought so hard from the boondocks after massa's incident, only to crash in 4th position. it's going to be near impossible for him to retain his championship :(

props to alonso who fought back from 15th when he probably thought that all was lost, and the underdogs like timo glock and kazuki nakajima, who surprisingly drove really well!

crazily eventful race in sg i guess. now, what'll be up for next yr? rain?

2008-09-25T21:14:00.005+08:00

eventful 2 days :) central and clarke quay was love, we rly camwhored huh. while i wasn't rly wowed by e pork cutlet curry rice which was a tad too tough, the company certainly made up for it :D a pity i haven't exactly figured out wad my cam can do for such dim lighting. next time, perhaps it'll be better.

my fav jo pok :)

joyce is the great pretender. she's looks like she's smiling at e pic in her cam but it's actually cos she knows i'm taking a pic of her :p n e waiter failed to answer my qn on why there's mango flavoured curry.

my food

toilet shot

after dinner, having fun on the cute seats at central (and in the process providing entertainment for the shoppers walking by)

i like the people walking by in the background. nice pic!

pretty girls

er...ok.

unfortunately joyce had to leave first after tt.... we 3 roamed e place and ended up at marrakesh which has pretty good ambience..tho i wish e layout of the tables would be better.

e waiters are nice n friendly

normal and deranged. i'm normally, well, just normal, seldom the latter

drinks; e napkin rose that e waiter folded for jea. ehh no fair sia.

the easily amused.

last night was mighty fun jea aren't you glad u came??? hee. i have a sore throat now. and pretty deprived of sleep.

on the bus; notice the change in height. and check out tt guy behind me. haha! he's trying to siam the camera.

dang i just hate it when i forget dates or events that the people who matter to me have. i'm so sorry i forgot! :( i'm no longer good with keeping track of dates. hai. off to bed now. good luck mr security blanket!

2008-09-23T00:21:00.003+08:00

i wonder if this stark new look has surprised any of you... :) i got daryl to thank, i've been looking at bikiniboy's designs ever since he changed his layout qt awhile back. and i love it. changed e date to pink and widened the entry box, that's all the changes i made to it. which is very little compared to my previous ones. haha.

i'm so looking forward to my next piece of pink ;)

2008-09-21T21:28:00.002+08:00

btw, if you are into songs by abba, do catch mamma mia! ! heck, even if you aren't into their songs, watch it anyway! it's nice! i enjoyed it :)

pierce brosnan and meryl streep. nice.

2008-09-21T12:31:00.009+08:00

back from the polyforum, which was more time wasting than it was productive. the planning could be a whole lot better without so many slots for discussion in between activities. grr. having said that, it was fun at the hort park (but only during the time we were actually doing smthg - making our terrariums and not sitting around sleeping).

and the time we spent bowling and playing pool.... i think that's where i brought away the most memories. oh well. i've said this before, i guess i went into this with a poor impression of some pple in the group but i must say i was pleasantly surprised by many of them once i started talking to them. never judge a book by a cover eh.

e sat before was alex's bdae thanks for e invite alex :) e food was great, tho i only ate e appetisers. hope u had a great 20th!

good stuff

after tt had to meet jo to buy some stuff. and i proceeded to blow more $ on stuff. haha. it was nice just to spend some time alone with my cheese girl :D

wore this thing for 3 n 1/4 days

makan place. do not be fooled by appearances. it's nt wine it's coke. deflated and diluted at that. what did i say abt nt judging a book by its cover?

2nd day was at the hort park and the only exciting thing tt happened the 5 plus hours we were there was e 1 hr + terrarium workshop n taking pics of the pretty flowers there. *yawn*

my fave pic

stars on the ground :)

my terrarium - got more pics on that in a later post :D

i so want this in my garden next time.

following hort park was more waiting and slacking, at elias cc for the dialogue w MPs of punggol pasir ris. boring. but oh the food was darn good. i think only cos the ministers were there that's why. kriston catering.

pool thereafter when we got back to e chalet was darn fun! i was surprisingly pocketing the balls like never before. haha.

thursday must have been the most slack but most excruciating. sitting around with nth in particular to do. zzz.

presentation day

our posters! i actually worked photoshop to help make it. but super basic stuff of cos. but then, i didn't have a hand in the deco tho. lol.

presentation dry run. our man jacques rogge! :)

torch boy

joanna, kai tian, hadi, shane. check out our Spore youth olympic games tee yo.

kq n matthew

1.5m vs 1.9m; the coolest facilitator ever :D

he's the one who told everyone that they couldn't put values more than 1.9m or less than 1.5m in the 'height' category on the indemnity form. LOL. cos no one's taller than him or shorter than me.

mdm rostina

godwin muscle man, lester

legend yi jie n quek

slackers united :D

this is the best man.

well i guess the forum wasn't all that bad cos of all the wacky people in our subtheme, who made it memorable, but i doubt everyone'll stay in contact for very long, as always, when everyone returns to their own lives in e various polys. nonetheless it was wonderful meeting these people! now just let me get back to my holidays.....

2008-09-13T12:08:00.005+08:00

have been away for a short while! didnt really feel like an entry in e past few wks...but now i've got a whole load of things to write about. haha.

e past week was kind of tiring, been back in school. yes, SCHOOL. even tho it's the hols. for the poly forum thingamajig. which also partly contributes to the lack of posts. more on that later.

eh so e hols started off pretty well, taking time to r&r and just rot. haha. i've been watching we got married, it's scripted definitely but damn sweet all the same. alex and shinae go :) alex is too too cute in this part of one of the episodes. pretty pretty shinae!

well then there was this midnight rugby thing, i was assigned to this team from hk, they're called comvita. lotsa huge pple eh. cute too! (lol) we were bewildered to see them duct taping their ears, like they go several rounds ard the circumference of their head! ha. i'm sorry to that handsome guy whose head i helped to tape, cos the tape kept falling out halfway when he went on to the field. OOPS. hey his sweat made it less sticky lar.

my handsome guy is on the extreme right (good thing u cant see the tape)

it was at sa, the astroturf is great. tho we didnt rly understand e game it was still fun to watch. esp the girls! nothing short of a catfight! ha. also, the team was rly rly nice they treated us as tho we were real physios alr, "hi, my knee hurts here, can you help me?" like wow! they speak so politely and looks like they rly trust us. haha. i'm only sorry we couldnt be of more help with our limited knowledge at the moment.

say hello to brownie again!

emo kia

was over at wh's place to book our tickets to phuket and e hotel. i would just like to complain that airfares are too expensive. maybe it's cos i'm paying for it myself now and not my parents, i don't know. budget airlines arent all that cheap actually, cos of taxes. my flight back cost smthg like 37 bucks, but e tax amounts to almost $200 for a return trip. anyway, i just hope things in thailand will settle down so we can go :s

stayover at leon's.

dimsum! eh when we going to eat the jian dao jian?? bring me leh!

haha :)

breakfast - the raw fish is good! and e zhok too. we must go again!

trs' day in school. so much food! wx u're dead everyone will keep asking u to cook ur jap curry when we have potluck from now on ;) and joce will have to keep baking her cakes. ha.

dinner after cycling at ecp last fri. this bingeing has got to stop. lol. we couldnt finish it tho. leon your engine stall leh.

and this arrived from anapolis last sat! e first package from my bro. my mom ordered this starter kit for herself while they were still in anapolis. sadly, the other stuff she ordered for me didn't come through in the order :( it's mineral makeup. looks pretty good!

poly forum. i must say i've been pretty impressed by what my group has come up with, even tho the final product hasnt been completed yet. i went in with a certain mindset, partly cos of the first impression i was given by the participants in the initial meeting in june.

it's been one discussion after another for the past 5 days. things started off kinda rocky, everyone pretty much came in with a shaky foundation on the concept of the sg youth olympic games in 2010. but hey, things change and after the talk by the running machine that is mr c. kunalan, who talked qt abit on wad we were supposed to be focused on, i guess things got better. he's a really funny guy btw! and looks amazingly fit at his age.

things picked up on thurs and fri cos we were rushing out e presentation content.

ha ha this is rly good

our too-cool facilitator serenading the group. he sang 3 and a half songs, cos halfway he forgot the lyrics to one of his songs! ha. so funny.

one of the groups came up with the proposed mascots for the syog, and they're good! i was quite impressed. looks good to me! it would look even nicer but these were painted on t shirts so they're abit rough ard the edges. but still cute.

this is my (and almost everyone's) favourite! reon :)

she looks sad haha.

presentation outline...

so i guess it's been fine so far, hopefully next wk will be even better.

2008-08-24T21:47:00.003+08:00

hmm exams are over! actually on thurs to be exact. had a great time at brewerkz then at e place cj brought us to. haha. gotta thank her sis cos we didn't have to pay! now i noe how to play one more game...heh. and where else can i pee while to cj singing? LOL

calzone (which is like a pizza dough with fillings in it), whitebait, mac and cheese (which tastes like crap. to be safe, dun order their pasta!)

totally didn't like the beer we ordered, qt nauseating to tell the truth. luckily wh drank it for me. but i liked the fruitbeer tho. raspberry :)

friday had the luxury of finally actually sleeping without any worries and lazing ard the whole day. then a nice dinner at waraku compliments of linus. ha. too bad it was soooo crowded! food was good and came promptly tho! :)

yest met the 2 boys for dinner but cos we were kinda late (6? but its a sat nite and we didnt reserve) cafe iguana was packed they gave us some crappy table along the walkway. so we ended up at brewerkz (again, for me). new york pizza, chicken wings, tacos and i found a beer i like. haha. wheat beer.

sheesh my face turns red at the slightest amt of alcohol! one mug and half a goblet of leon's later my face was ridiculously red i scared myself in front of the mirror in the toilet. zzz.

had yummy mushroom soup from soup spoon today. :D

i tot i had alot of pics to post but i realised they're all pretty random. of the time wx brought us to the nice nice tcc outlet that is rly great for chilling out and we did our ms case study presentation stuff there after stuffing ourselves with food and drinks. hah.

my honest to goodness mint choc frappe, and smoked salmon-smthg-prawn pasta

pumpkin soup, hazelnut latte, not-so-fantastic but pretty tiramisu

at macs drive through with leon & reuben; hot chocolate

i started on drying the flowers weeks ago, and abt 1-2 wks ago they were done! obviously my bouquet wrapping skills leave much to be desired, but i tried okay.

and i've finally got my ext hd. burnt a hole in my wallet tho. but its so small and nice! sleek. i like.

erm cant think of anything else to post abt atm, everything in the past 2-3 weeks have flown by in a flurry. my bro's gone to annapolis, i've cried my eyes out (super emo what with exam stress and him going), spent many sleepless nights cos i didn't study hard during the sem and crammed when exams were near :s, popped one too many vit c tablets and essence of chicken which leaves me feeling totally exhausted after its "effects" have worn off. i even drank coffee twice to keep awake. which is qt a feat considering i dun rly drink it, unless its coffeebean's black forest ice blended or tcc's mint choc frappe :)

but its been a great wkend from thurs to sun, had quite abit of fun out with people who matter. joanne! where are you! we need to meet soon! and of cos ij pple :)

but i realise now tt my hols have started, uni pple have just started sch. bummer.

2008-08-15T19:28:00.002+08:00

well well spore has finally landed an olympic medal since the one from tan howe liang from an eternity ago, 48 years to be exact. haha. the crowd was cheering on the sg team like mad, i guess cos the players were all from china. hah. how sad.

if only sg could produce a true blue singaporean winner, i think the pride would be tenfold what sg would feel for feng tianwei and co. when they return. that said, i must say the underdog really swept everyone away with the fighter in her.

now i'm no table tennis expert, but even to an untrained eye like mine, her fighting spirit really blew me away and i'm suitably impressed by her performance. cool, calm, yet aggressive when the need arises. hopefully she'll blaze a trail in spirit for future singaporean athletes in the olympics to come. meanwhile, r-e-s-p-e-c-t for this 21 year old youngster.

btw, the korean opponent was REALLY good in her defense. like whoa. her backhand saves were awesome. kudos to her for holding her own against the higher seeded feng tianwei.

2008-08-11T17:47:00.004+08:00

now i really should be studying for physio and everything right now but i really couldn't resist talking about this.

with all that olympic fever going on, my main priority in catching sports is in rhythymic gym (but of course). and to me, no other contender this year is more deserving than anna bessonova. she won the bronze in athens in 2004 (when alina kabaeva took gold, but i don't really have respect for sportspeople who dope, no matter what they say) and without a doubt she'll be after that piece of gold and jade this round.

well then comes along evgenia kanaeva whom i havent heard of until recently. lol. maybe i have been out of touch but yeah...i saw a couple of videos and she's good with lots of potential for growth since she's young, no doubt about it but hey come on youtubers are comparing her to anna b. wth. she's good yea (the hoop routine at the european championship was pretty good!), but she doesn't come close to the superb combination of grace and extreme technical abilities that anna possesses.

plus, (maybe i'm biased or what), but it feels like she tries to be like anna a little (too much). aww come on. the triple/quadruple split jumps are so anna. haha. kanaeva probably needs some time to establish her own style of doing routines i guess. anna? she's too cool for words. looking at her routines you'd just exclaim (to yourself at the computer screen) "that's SO her!"

my point? i'm just grumpy that people are comparing two gymnasts when i feel that there's no base for comparison at all. anna's in her own league. ha. perhaps pple may say there's no need to defend anna bessonova at all if she's as good as i claim and i agree with that. i'm just writing what i feel about this whole comparison thing.

because youtube is hating me again, i can't embed the vid. so click on

kanaeva for her great hoop routine (cool turn at 0:19; nice catch at 0:31). i wish she'd go higher on her toes when doing her turns, she'd look even better. maybe her ankles are weak or injured, i dunno.

and then on

anna bessonova to watch the queen of this generation's r gym (the start to the routine is pure style; at 0:57 she lets go of the hoop and grabs it again while pirouetting followed by the awesome catch with her legs at 1:04 THEN the 4 grand jetes at 1:17.) ok looks like i'm really biased here. haha. to be fair, yes she did lose her balance some at 0:28 and the couple of seconds after that. which isn't too cool.

it isnt one of her greatest routines but i have no time to go dig those up now. i'll post the spine chilling-ly good ones next time. :D one more reason to love her? i share the same birthday as her!!! (although diff years) LOL.

anya for gold in beijing!!!

2008-08-11T11:46:00.000+08:00

Return to Pooh Corner
Written and performed by: Kenny Loggins

Christopher Robin and I walked along
Under branches lit up by the moon
Posing our questions to Owl and Eeyore
As our days disappeared all too soon
But I've wandered much further today than I should
And I can't seem to find my way back to the Wood

So help me if you can
I've got to get back
To the House at Pooh Corner by one
You'd be surprised
There's so much to be done
Count all the bees in the hive
Chase all the clouds from the sky
Back to the days of Christopher Robin and Pooh

Winnie the Pooh doesn't know what to do
Got a honey jar stuck on his nose
He came to me asking help and advice
And from here no one knows where he goes
So I sent him to ask of the Owl if he's there
How to loosen a jar from the nose of a bear

It's hard to explain how a few precious things
Seem to follow throughout all our lives
After all's said and done I was watching my son
Sleeping there with my bear by his side
So I tucked him in, I kissed him and as I was going
I swear that the old bear whispered
 "Boy welcome home"

Believe me if you can
I've finally come back
To the House at Pooh Corner by one
What do you know
There's so much to be done
Count all the bees in the hive
Chase all the clouds from the sky
Back to the days of Christopher Robin
Back to the ways of Christopher Robin
Back to the days of Pooh

<3

2008-08-10T15:07:00.004+08:00

lump in my throat...

ok it was worse than a mere lump in my throat. despite all my attempts at sucking it in, the tears still flowed like crazy.

well there's still skype i guess. just takes some getting used to... all the best my dear ole brother! i'll try to protect your room from the hands of the room-packing mom. :)

[to those who have never experienced the powers of mothers who have the ability to swipe away every single speck of dust from sight, throw away things which are deemed either to be:

1) useless

2) occupying unnecessary space
3) collecting dust,

before proceeding to pack away whatever's passed the abovementioned criterion into the unknown crevices of the drawers and cupboards (in e process ruining our chances of ever finding them ever again), good for you. LOL.]

i promise i'll try to hold her back and defend ur room, but no promises since my strength is only half of ours combined.

love

gahh big fat swollen eyes now with triple eyelids o.o

2008-08-06T18:37:00.002+08:00

boo. 3 more days...

:(

2008-08-03T11:48:00.002+08:00

in the midst of all that celebrating and freaking out over pract exams, i think i neglected to write that i failed my tp test. hai. and of all places to screw up, i did so at the parallel parking. circuit didn't give me any problems in e past. haha. garnered enough points to fail there and then. how did i manage such a feat? i'm amazing :) LOL. maybe i should take heart in the fact that my actual driving isn't all that bad?

such an illustrious score to remember my first tp by :)

2008-07-30T23:35:00.001+08:00

woahh. finally finished e slew of pract tests. not expecting anything fantastic at all... :(

the past few days and the weekend just flew by in the blink of an eye. it was a good tuesday anyway, many thanks to everyone who wished me. starting from woon jiun (from pri 6. PRIMARY 6! i cant even rmb some pple from pri 6. lol. he actually rmbs my bdae every yr, and i'm sure i'm not e only one he wishes on their bdae), charlotte dear, winston (who still calls me xiao jie. lol), daryl, debbie, wh, cj, bernie, jea, dev, sara & shu ting (from pri 6 class also wahah) and linus. fb wishes from jo pok, yl, srini, aha wai ling etc. cj, wx and wh for the presents (AHEM, that thing is not wearable!) and the class for singing birthday song after epa pract. lol. and not forgetting my 3 besties who made the birthday night out really beautiful and memorable.

as always, loaded with photos :)

at vienna. my hair's on e oyster!!

:D

preparing e stuff

cake! yummy ice cream cake. with candles that don't extinguish heh

amused. it's the CO2!! lol.

pretty flowers!!

no flowers...just 2 cups...i mean tealight holders... :)

the 4 forks were damn expensive (price of a lychee martini). thanks reuben!

mess i made on the table. oops.

haha so cute

we had fun playing with the huge packet of sparklers! and throwing them into e air while the last bits burned out. and throwing lightsticks also. haha.

these saved the day when the seabreeze proved to be too much for the tealights! sorry that leon and reuben spent so much on the candles but only used 2...haha. sell to joanne for her hall thingy lah.

lovely people :)

2008-07-30T22:25:00.001+08:00

hmm. the flowers were lying on my table for e whole weekend, meanwhile i went a little overboard with taking photos of them. can practise my phototaking skills. haha. i read somewhere the best way to improve on photo taking skills would be to take pictures of anything and everything that one sees. haha. think doing that would be abit extreme for me tho. ha.

still good after 3 days!

e last pic was taken after 1 day of drying under the sun. i'm hoping they'll dry nicely. but the smaller light pink ones aren't holding up as well as the fuchsia ones :(

i like this pic, of the usual sidekicks in bouquets. i dun actually know the name of it! even tho i've seen it a million times. :s

hanging upside down to dry

my improvised mobile flower dryer. LOL. (i can just hang it at any window which has the sun coming through!)

my brother gave me an awesome present!

i may not be good enough to replicate some of the stuff in it, but just looking at the recipes make me happy :) of course, there are quite a few i hope to try making, given the occasion and available time and most importantly, the people to eat them.

happy!

along with the book was a cubee of the stormtrooper from star wars! haha....it's made from a cut out printed on paper, but the cool thing is that no glue/staples or anything of the sort that affixes one surface to another is required. it's like folding a paper box. check it out here: cubeecraft

he made e stormtrooper for me cos it was one of the few characters i could recognise from the whole array! most of the others were from cartoons before my time. lol.

the head of mr stay puft from ghostbusters

some presents... thanks you guys.

2008-07-26T11:33:00.002+08:00

happy birthday leon and joanne! hope you all enjoyed yesterday as much as i did. ha. food was good (thanks reuben!!!) company was good so it was great :) appreciate it lots!

guys

girls

2008-07-22T18:34:00.004+08:00

i am so f_cked for the next 8 days or so. neuro pract thurs, physio pract fri, TP test fri, cp pract mon, ms pract tues, neuropsych ica wed. 5 tests in 5 consecutive schooldays? i'm wondering how many bottles of brands' essence of chicken i'm gonna need. and number of joss sticks i'm gonna have to burn to save my ass.

MS on tues? i'm so going to die for that. i think i can prepare to throw smoke bombs everywhere. think it'll be best if i throw it straight at her face? :(

my tp test's on friday and i don't feel the least bit confident at all. yeah they all say my driving's ok, but i keep making stupid mistakes. like crossing the stop line, yeah without stopping. and mounting the curb. and passing dangerously past cars. what the hell is wrong with me :s my parking used to be spot on but now i've lost my mojo.

there's no brake pedalllll....

only saving grace for today was that my package from amazon has arrived. it was a pretty smooth process using vpost to ship it over for me, and while it took a little over 2 wks to arrive, it saved me alot of $$ compared to if i were to buy e loot from appleshop...i'd hate to say it but it's so damn overpriced there.

haiz.

2008-07-12T19:53:00.006+08:00

it was finally my brother's commencement on thursday! super super proud of him :) especially upon seeing him in his robe and mortarboard on stage receiving his scroll (even though we all know there's nothing inside the cardboard scroll container hah!).

well there's the next one to look forward to seeing in 2 yrs' time when he wears his painter's cap at st john's college haha.

valedictorian spoke quite well (well i guess that would almost be a prerequisite, no?) but we all detected some hints of arrogance and falsies in his speech. but overall pretty ok in terms of the theme of his speech, which was about being small.

so we went to take a family portrait at nBYn, the photo place which was in the news a few months back for their hardsell tactics (which also helped convince my mom into signing a package with them). we're aiming to use up the contracted amount asap (before they go bust or something and we don't get our $$ back).

yeah i know the step the step...

with grandma

girls in the family

halfway through my hairstyle changed cos i went with my mom and dad into the dressing/make up room and the prc pple kept bugging me about trying on one of their cheesy costumes (think jap kimono / korean hanbok / getai sequinned stuff / blah blah blah) and letting them plaster some cheap makeup on me. so i just let them pin my hair up. i think i can do better than them, considering i had to hold up the desired amount of hair for them to clip up. i thought they were supposed to help make me look good.

pardon the lame hand on the hip thing. i didn't wanna do it i swear. so cheesy lah!!

this has got to be one of my favourites. look at my grandma!! so cute ahahaha. :D

well, looking at the raw photos they don't look half bad, but they aren't fantastic either. i prefer the first photog's style but the second room was brighter and gave a fresher look (too bad the second photog had the more cheena style of taking photos, like more candid and kinda lame). i just hope that the end products of the big photos turn out good.

oh my god it's 29 days till he goes to the US of A. yes, sadly the countdown has begun :(

2008-07-08T20:00:00.003+08:00

i am swamped with upcoming ICAs and practical tests but i am finding it hard to get my engine going. need some divine help here! stats, physio, neuro, cp tests in the next 3 wks. and the neuro, driving and cp pract tests fall on thurs, fri and mon of wk 15/16. arghh. i cant believe i mounted the damn curb during s course today. circuits are supposed to be my thing. (well, maybe not anymore, huh) at least the instructor was funny. he's like a talk cock king. i got the same guy from 2 wks ago. everytime i have him, my lesson for the day is rly poor in performance. dun let me see him on the 25th.

smthg funny that i got off peabody's website. she hates 4th of july for various reasons, and this was an example in one of her points on why she hates the day.

Worker #1:”Happy 4th of July”
Me:”Thanks, but I am Canadian and don’t celebrate it.”
Worker #1: “You don’t? Is that just you or all Canadians?”
Me: “All of Canada does not celebrate it.”
Worker #2 looking at worker #1 like he is a moron. Which he is.
Worker #1: “What other countries don’t celebrate the 4th of July?”
Worker #2 again stares at worker #1 in disbelief.
I go to answer but worker #2 chimes in.
Worker #2: “Dude, no one else celebrates 4th of July except us.”
Worker#1: “Really, why?”
Worker #2: “Dude, you did graduate from high school, right?”
Worker #1 nods yes.
Me: “Because the 4th of July is The United States Independence Day. There is no need for other countries to celebrate it.”
Worker #1: “Oh, I thought it was like Christmas.”
Me: “No, Jesus doesn’t care about who celebrates America’s independence.”
Worker #2 laughs, Worker #1 looks confused.
I leave.

lol. americans.

2008-06-29T17:49:00.001+08:00

2008-06-27T19:52:00.005+08:00

tiring week. went to TTSH rehab ward at amk to do neuro ax yesterday. wasn't exactly in the best of moods in that weather and....nvm.

well the other day i read on corinne's blog in her post on her visit to hokkaido and she mentioned this ishiya cookie thing. my uncle and his family went around the same time as her, and guess what? they did indeed buy the cookies from there! haha.... it's quite nice, but as with all (ok, most) jap food like these, the packaging nearly always makes the food look alot better than it tastes. haha.

pretty packaging. it looks big but actually it's not, cos it fits in my palm. :) you can see the chocolate layer in the middle. haha.

ok i realised it was quite bo liao of me to take so many pics of a silly cookie. i was bored studying epa you see. so do let me indulge in such antics ya?'

ordered pizza in the other sunday, well let's just say i took this pic to remind me how much to order for the family next time...

the extra box is for the chicken wings. lol. these were for erm, 14 pple? still too much actually cos there were leftovers.

we played wii at cine on the last day of the break, and hip diner has good waffles. tastes better than gelare's imo, since gelare's standard seems to be dropping and it's pretty ex. this is a good alternative!

smthg not food related, and more likely to induce food out of my throat, we learnt how to insert the suction catheter on thursday. didn't really feel scared, except when i was lying down and wh held the tube in front of my face. LOL.

if i wanna be drama i can say that my life flashed past me at that instant the tube was going down past my tongue.....down my throat.... all the while trying hard to swallow with the tube and trying not to gag, while tears start pooling in my eyes.

but that would be describing everything in great detail and in the process potentially amplifying the scariness of the process....it's really not that bad although i did gag once or twice and the jelly did sting my nose a bit....i must say it's really very cool though! (maybe some people will think i'm crazy upon reading this).

a pic of the tube. obviously the white plastic thing doesn't go in my nose/mouth.

so what we did was to slide it down our partner's throat through the mouth, and another time through the nose. haha. i think it sounds gross. it's not that bad after all....once you have tried it a few times and get the hang of it. i'm sorry to wh for koochi-ing her septum the first 2 times i tried putting it in her nose. rofl.

today i was walking along the underpass and this elderly man was playing the tune to moon river.... which reminded me of when i watched the show breakfast at tiffany's a couple of weeks ago...i got it from wx and i'm glad i did! there's just something about audrey hepburn that draws you to her and you can't really bring yourself to shift your gaze from her when she's on the screen. her doe-eyed look maybe...or the way she carried herself in the show.

singing moon river in the show

so it was a "ahhh, now i know why she was such an icon" moment i had after watching the show. haha. of course, it would be in this show that she revolutionised the little black dress that all women in the world have come to love.

famous pose, and isn't she so pretty!!

and now moon river is on my repeat list. ha.

Moon River, wider than a mile,
I'm crossing you in style some day.
Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker,
wherever you're going I'm going your way.
Two drifters off to see the world.
There's such a lot of world to see.
We're after the same rainbow's end--
waiting 'round the bend,
my huckleberry friend,
Moon River and me.

2008-06-22T14:11:00.002+08:00

La La La Human Steps - Amelia

is she human at all? so perfect it sends chills down my spine.

I thought jea had showed me this before when we were talking about it yesterday, but i must have gotten it wrong. i havent seen this before, jea! haha.

there's 9 parts in all but of course i'm not gonna post all....

2008-06-21T23:58:00.007+08:00

back from amjad, which was like 100 minutes of super intense pointe work, lightning-speed pirouettes and chaînés, all with rapid arm flailing packed in, non-stop. very very unlike any of the other conventional ballets.

boy we we surprised to hear at beginning of the perf that ginny gan was going to dance tonight along with the LLLHS dancers! but too bad we didnt see too much of her (partly cos we couldnt recognise which was her and which was the other chinese dancer from the company. haha.) i spotted her just at one of the ending poses before she ran offstage. lol

she's now a full fledged sdt dancer! so awesome :) i rmb her as the r. gym goddess in ij, with her lovely arch and extensions. maybe i'll catch her in dec's show.

i loved the part where the guy danced with the 2 girls, dance was great and so was the music. imagine the 2 vioinists standing in front on stage at each of the 2 corners while the girls were dancing! beautiful.

also the pdd by the 48 year-old andrea lady and the guy was like whoa! how'd she dance like a firecracker at that age?? then there was the chinese dancer with super duper chaînés which were so fast and accurate.

but my favourite part has got to be the guy en pointe (who happens to be the handsome guy i pointed out to jea in the programme booklet). eh...his name dominic santia (i got it from the programme). he rocked the pointe shoes! :) guys have arches like that too??? haha...but i found it a little disturbing that he did like a sort of pdd with another guy. seems weird. but this must be the one ballet where the guys are extremely well dressed! the suits they wore were like s-h-a-r-p man....

here's a summary kinda vid on the show...too bad the quality isn't very good at all..

overall it was quite exciting to watch, i was holding my breath at some points cos the dancers were just going through their pirouettes-arabesque-pirouette thing at 100Hz! so did the males' turns! they must have done a hundred or two when combined... lighting was really stark and focused all the attention on the dancers.

hmm i feel like a critic. haha. but i'm grossly under-qualified to be one, in any case. it's just my 0.001 cent's worth, what i managed to understand of this rly abstract and deconstructed ballet. LOL. i think i'm a convert after watching this. respect for the dancers man....

one thing though: what in the world do those 3 disc-shaped screens symbolise??? the pearls, white sheets, random girl lying covered in vines.....

2008-06-14T17:32:00.006+08:00

it's world blood donor day! and with the 2 complimentary tickets jea and i went to the zoo. it's probably been 10+ years since i last went there....so long ago that i cant rmb when was the last time i was there.

lovely white tiger

look at those teeth!!!

army of red butts

oh no jea you look just like them...glad u found ur friends :)

not sure if it's inuka...

well the zoo suddenly doesn't seem that huge anymore....must be my size relative to the compound when i was young and when i'm 20 now. heh. we took about 4 hrs to finish seeing everything. not too long actually....

he's smiling at me!! :D with his mouth full of grass. this is the oldest resident at the zoo.

amazingly we managed to navigate our way around pretty ok, considering we didnt have a map and only stopped at those wooden maps constructed along the way. :D but we took quite a while to find the elephants. haha. when it was all along right THERE in front of us. haha. must have been distracted by jea's friend we saw cos we made a right turn off the main track when she talked to him. lol. halfway through i also saw joyce with lim jie. haha. what a coincidence.

super nice PINK vine-like thingys hanging from the trees...

among the many things we saw: shitting rhino, horny monkeys and australian outback area opened with the help of steve irwin (too bad he's gone :( my fav croc hunter).

4 hours, $7.50 chinese mixed rice for me, $7.50 meatball pasta for jea and $13.80 b&j banana split later, we emerge tired and sticky (insane humidity!). and i had a blister on my foot :( again.

near the exit

ben & jerry's. actually i think it's pretty much overhyped, their ice cream. it's neither extremely delicious nor premium compared to other brands....i say it's abt the same as all those ice cream you find outside.

photobucket is so cool! they have lots of options for you to edit and beautify your pics. i noticed it awhile ago but only got down to trying it now. enhances your pics indeed! and since i was at it i tried adding my own watermark, cos, u know, my photography skills are so awesome, someone might wanna pass off my work as his own. YEAH RIGHT. lol.

ain't the white hibiscus lovely.

erm. i think this is a pineapple flower la. lol. it's a miniature version of the pineapple and it's so colourful with purple buds coming out of it, so i think it's the flower la huh. note: i've checked with my mom, this is indeed the flower of the pineapple! you can eat it....apparently they put it in the traditional rojak :)

another flower. compare with and without e black borders. certainly makes a diff eh?

on thurs the session was totally unexpected man. tot it's only 1 sch. but actually all the schs came. lol. most exciting thing was the F1 stimulator. i read abt it in the papers. really cool! the chairs move with the video game. like when u crash ur car it really shakes you up. haha. too bad i didn't get a chance to try it. zzz.

arcade

the whole thing wasnt rly exciting, but i hope the actual thing will be. if not it'll be like a damn waste of time. well, at least my group has a cool facilitator. ha ha...really too cool. i hope facilitators for the group don't change. so we could at least have some fun and not be so uptight abt stuff.

2008-06-08T19:43:00.003+08:00

it was a nice fri and sat. ate SO MUCH. met leon for dinner, we were supposed to go to chomp chomp but it was qt crowded. well we'd have gotten a table if we waited long enough, but we adjourned to newton instead.

afterwhich jo finished her tuition so we picked her up and went to this place with mass dining. LOL. al azhaar?? not sure about the spelling. indian/chinese/western/anything kind of food. insane amt of things to eat! note to self: their ice kachang looks toxic and the teh-peng is weird. damn weird. it tastes like wad ice kachang is supposed to taste like.

yeah leon expresses the taste of the ice kachang the best.

banana split with quite-unripe bananas and lots of whipped cream.

do these look artistic?? i didnt know my face was in there. i only see gluttony.

and next morn we met again. get well soon reuben! wish you could catch kungfu panda with us...think you'd enjoy the show cos its funny :D at marina square i got to eat qi ji popiah again!!! haven't eaten that since like.....i stopped working at citibank? which was more than a year ago. its seriously the nicest popiah i've eaten.

dinner we went to maxwell..cant believe we were eating such unhealthy stuff again.. the ho kee porridge is really good man.

glad i met jo and leon (2/3 of the besties) for the most part of fri evening and sat and reuben (the other 1/3) for sat morning. you guys really make my day. somehow i just feel so at home and comforted when we're tgt. takes the shitty parts about school off my mind for awhile. thanks leon for driving us all over the place this wkend!

2008-06-04T21:14:00.005+08:00

crap week sorta over. research meth ica, comms presentation, ms pract and cp pract tests all over. tired!

ms. gone. with the wind :( feel like banging my head against the wall.

2 wk break up ahead not gonna be much. with all the projects on hand there is barely a break to speak of.

sat/sun was the sundown marathon! and cj completed her 42km in a very respectable timing, mighty proud of her :) i dont think i could ever run any distance anywhere close to that. haa. respect. and dev did well too, he was back in around 4 hours. it was an ok first exp, marathon at night, but i doubt i'd be back volunteering anytime soon in the future sundowns to come.... unless, of course, it's for some physio rubdown.

it was nurul's 21st too! cake was good. we had a hard time fending off the ants launching their attack on the peppermint mousse cake. lol.

like heck we barely had anything to do! after the 2 rounds of flag offs.... it was just stoning. and stoning. for like five hours on the beach. watching the faster batch of 42-ers coming in. then also saw the first female 84-er finishing in style. then a whole lot of 42-ers thereafter. which then saw the heavy downpour just as we were about to leave. zzz.

i did say i was bored.

and also the week before was the special olympics screening for the kids, that was really tiring. how many 6 MWT did we do!!! (ok la i didn't do too many, definitely lesser than some of the others, but still...haha) definitely v tiring to chase after them in between stations. haha. well. good experience.

functional reach test

it's not easy dealing with them and really requires alot of patience. there's some things we as noobie physio students, or as 3rd parties interacting with children/teens this special for that matter probably don't realise we shouldn't do, but i shant go into details...

my butt and cj's profile. haha. and orange shirt guy. and abit of wh's face. i'm doing the sit to stand with him btw. didn't mean to pose like that.

what else.... the forum is costing me 50 bucks. like, that could probably have helped sustain me a lil bit longer during the gss... sob sob.

today i had some 'me' time at home after the cp pract test. it's been awhile since i had that. caught some much needed sleep lost over the 3-4 days since e marathon and last minute studying for pract test. mom's at home cos she's on day 1 of 3 of the dumpling making frenzy. haha. talked with her some, which i always like to do. :)

and blood diamond is a (dare i say it...) bloody good show. ha ha. leonardo dicaprio did a good job. i should have caught it in the cinemas back then.

shit. i really loathe doing projects. tmr we're starting on stats project. and next wk we got to get down to continuing on research meth methodology. how am i going to survive yr 3 fyp?

i'm supposed to be booking tix for amjad but the damn sistic website is down. @#(^#!!~@#$% so much for having a new and improved ticketing system and charging extra for that.

2008-05-23T18:45:00.001+08:00

this is beautiful but somehow i can't help but think that the show producers are milking them for all they're worth. esp piano girl.

2008-05-22T20:44:00.003+08:00

oh yay such good news! mr cook has taken the crown. come to think of it, i wouldnt have minded if mr archie won too, going by last night's perf. dc definitely wasn't on top of his game, as da was. but i still like dc's first and last songs most. oh well. i'd well be getting both their albums when they're out anyway.

learning percussion/vibration/shaking and PD in CP was fun. haha. i have a spastic left hand that refuses to percuss properly. how ironic for a left hander huh.

elearning day was spent in sch. haiz. was planning to make some mess in the kitchen but.....no time no time.... :( at least filming today was really funny! cj is now my reel idol.... :D rly very very auntie!

this wk has been qt busy, next 2 weeks will be too. i'm first up for MS pract test. omg. never been first to go in for this kinda thing before. 2 pract tests in 2 days. i so can do it. yes. can. (omg! scared lah!)

i want to go shopping. GSS is on.

okay. leaving you guys with the cook.

Still Havent Found What I'm Looking For :) by U2

The World I Know by Collective Soul - i havent heard it before but it has a nice sensitive touch to it :)

2008-05-17T20:22:00.002+08:00

last night was totally random and unplanned. no- it was more like one part planned and two parts unplanned. lol. why did i mention truth or truth....

chicken murtabak from e roti prata house isnt very nice at all.....cos it has cabbage in it. cabbage is fine, just not in prata. haha. good thing it was free....

2008-05-14T20:56:00.002+08:00

lovely! connie talbot again :) even though she still sounds qt kiddy, her notes and pitches are good......(to my ears that are quite untrained to music anw...lol) it's better than her rendition of over the rainbow which i posted some time ago. i've heard her take on 'imagine', it's good but it's like.....a 6 yr old singing about hunger and war and everything? too much to handle. haha.

seems the producers are cashing in on her cuteness anyway. what's not to love about this toothless sweetheart....

and david c. sang aerosmith-- i don't want to miss a thing.. love that song.....i called in to class95 and dedicated that song to ginny way back in pri 4. wahahah. can't believe i made it on air then... ha ha... thereafter was the frantic scramble to call her to switch on her radio to hear it. heh.

2008-05-11T20:25:00.003+08:00

it's MOTHERS' DAY! hope it's a happy one for all moms out there. we kinda had 2 mothers' day meals... last wk was lunch at this place called szechuan court where they serve atas cantonese/chinese food. it was also to celebrate dad's bdae :)

well it's a good thing my mom is a member in this raffles food programme thingy which entitles you to dine for less at selected places...of course for a fee lah. but if u save more than what you pay for the membership then it's worth it rite. the food was freaking expensive and so not worth the price otherwise...

it was smthg like a 6 course lunch set...got to say e appetiser was our fav man. 2 huge prawns with a crusty outside coated in some mayo-ish sauce, on a skewer and sitting pretty on slices of watermelon. complete with those artistic (or random, however you see it) sauce drawing thingys on the white plate. FINE DINING MAN!! lol.

did i mention that there were nice sprinklings of sesame seeds to top it all off?

pardon my suaku-ness. the rest of the dishes were pretty good, but both my bro and i rushed out of e house without a camera. sigh. phone cameras do no justice to the food.

we were so absolutely stuffed, we had to dabao the skinless duck meat (there was peking duck so the skin was used for that).

havent tasted the goodness of zichar for qt long (tt was the 2nd mothers' day dinner we just had). and at $68 for 10 pax, that's rly v worth it! considering the huge servings it's not bad. sometimes cheap is good too :)

qt alot of things going on now.... all i know is that:

1) i'm screwed for physio (again) and lost in epa, and

2) it seems i have 3 projects due pretty soon -->research methods, stats and comms. sigh. and pract tests for ms, cp and goodness knows which other ones are lurking in the corner.

3) we've gotten used to whipping off our shirts for practicals now (i think). major LOL. by far the only course i know of where touching your classmates is strongly encouraged! :p

4) i've gotten my driving test date! 25th july.....that's joanne's bdae. lol. i hope by some form of miracle i can pass it. i saw on e tp website tt ssdc has the lowest passing rate for tp test among the 3 driving centres in sg. LOL. it's like 40++%

5) we have some events coming up -->special olympics screening 2 wkends from now, sundown marathon end of may and osim triathlon in july. exciting :)

6) jm passed us some really cute shitty sweets during epa pract. HA

see wx even personalised it! lol.

7) last wk had lunch and icecream with jo and leon and chilled out at his place for a short while...was a rather last min thing but glad it worked out :) and MR LOW you were supposed to have dinner with me this wkend but where did you go HUH. hmmmph.....

8) my aunt has FROZEN SHOULDER (the irony....i observed quite a few cases in mount e during my attachment there....like 4 cases in 2 wks?? lol.) she's having physio there now and i tink its tons better than what chiropractic has done for her. e mount E pple rmb me! :D they said i'm a very sweet girl. HAHAHAHA..... *smirk*

9) leona lewis totally rocks. her voice is so....so....for lack of a better word, so good. just feels good listening to her voice :) and it's not just bleeding love i'm talking about.

er can't think of anymore... (3 secs later) oh ya i'm damn happy jason castro is finally out. he has been the weakest link for the past few wks but managed to stay on by virtue of his humongous fan base i assume... he's a shadow of his former self! next wk will be interesting as we find out who make the final 2. i am so totally partial to e 2 davids. haha.

last thing, does anyone out there have lost season 4?!!! i'm not very good with bit torrent *cough* leon *cough* and streaming does not work it's been so slow and it always stops loading after halfway through streaming. GRR. i only managed 1.5 eps before i gave up on streaming.

ok. i promise to study more from tmr onwards. haha.

2008-05-08T19:46:00.002+08:00

performance of the night for me :) not only because this rendition is SO david a. (the way he did with angels, another day in paradise, imagine and etc), but also because this song brought back tons of childhood memories. it's the first song i ever sang on the karaoke with my dad at home. yes, those gawdy plug-in black icecream cone shaped microphones with a gold top. LOL. it was the song that my dad was forever singing and he tried to make me sing it too. together with smoke gets in your eyes. oh yes. i do rmb the tune.

no more takuma sato in F1 cos super aguri is bust. although i never really supported him, i liked the sound of his name being mentioned every now and then by the commentator. lol.

2008-05-02T19:10:00.001+08:00

me, myself and i

don't parents teach their children the importance of courtesy and not being selfish? i falsely thought that those are one of the first lessons in life that parents teach their children. well apparently it's not, cos some seem to have a very big M-E in their head, and probably skipped to lesson #518 about how to ensure they always get the best stuff before others do. never thought i would see such blatant disregard for others' presence/interests in my life, but i have and i have a feeling it won't be ending anytime soon.

i don't have a problem with people working hard for what they want; just don't do it at the expense of others. it's not just one incident, but several, that have prompted me to think that in this day where everything in sg is no more than another rat race, there is no more us, no more sharing is caring blah blah. it's just me, myself and I.

like what my mom told me several years ago, that at the end of the rat race, you are still a rat. i'd very much rather be interacting with humans and behaving like one, but of course it has been proven that i have been way too idealistic. real humans are slowly being taken over by the rat kingdom. cheers.

2008-05-01T00:44:00.001+08:00

the second song is the one to listen to! haha sometimes i wish i could wipe that smirk off his face. lol.

2008-04-27T19:47:00.004+08:00

oh yeah. this season's F1 is looking good for kimi raikkonen! he fought back from 15th place to 8th in australia, took the sepang gp and 2nd in bahrain. he's starting from pole tonight in barcelona with shit alonso in 2nd and massa in 3rd. hope kimi takes it home tonight. a ferrari 1-2 sounds pretty good to me. and good on robert kubica and nick heidfeld cos they've put in some really really good races this year too :)

latest: yes it IS a ferrari 1-2! :) i'm not that hardcore a tifosi, but i guess there isnt really any other team to support (who wants to support a scandal-ridden mclaren that gets caught (lol)??). i'm more concerned abt raikkonen doing well. he kinda led the race from start to finish, and the race was marred by so many accidents (air ambulance needed as well) hope kovalainen isnt too badly hurt. bwahahah alonso had an engine failure :D

2008-04-27T17:26:00.003+08:00

this is good (well whats the surprise since there's been several good performances this season)

but i must say i disagree with what simon said: his defense of brooke white choosing to start e song over after she forgot her lyrics. thats not what a performance is about, is it? u forget ur lyrics, improvise or hum along like david archuleta when he forgot his, until u find it back or smthg...just doesnt feel right to start and stop...for once we (dad bro mom and i) agree with paula's point on how a performer should never start and stop. oh well she or jason castro should have left, not carly.....sad.

okok this is looking to become an american idol fansite or smthg. let's see.....last wed was zainal's last day :( e news came as abit of a shock cos he only told us the day before his last at school. will totally miss his funny laugh and everything! hope he has better career advancement wherever he's going. one of the ot classes had a rly sweet and touching present for him: a specially written song which they performed live, complete with actions and recording and all.....rly sweet.

had lunch a couple of fridays ago at the soup spoon with mom after my dental appt.

soup with half sandwich and half salad... it sounds manageable but yeah, too much for us to finish. lol.

the soup's not bad (but cedele's is better), but the accompanying bread was disappointing cos it's those soft and sweet kind of bread. doesnt go well with the soups in our opinion. as u can see i've omitted the offending bread in my pics. went back to school for the book sale after that, which was kind of sad cos of some miscommunications.

a little over a wk ago we had 5 birthdays in e class in the span of 1 week. hope everyone had a great 20th! next yr will be rly interesting :D

happy bdae joyce wh jiamin huey yen cj (in that order in the wk too!)

well e past 2 wks of practicals have been interesting. this wk was taping, so it was fun (and qt wasteful actually.....the whole wastebasket full of tape after the lesson...). and i've gotten my stethoscope for cp! would have been happier with a black one but since things were the way they were.... blue is not bad too i guess :)

complete with a ribbon to differentiate from the others' during practical :)

our works of art

my foot

lift renovations are underway....gonna have both lifts stopping at every floor next time. not that it makes a difference to me cos i'm on a lift landing floor..if anything it's an inconvenience to us now cos all 25 floors are using one lift at the moment. i took 5 mins to get downstairs the other day cos the lift was full :(

looks like a rly bad short circuit. but it's just pple cutting metal upstairs and there's a hole in the ceiling to the next floor. haha.

2008-04-23T19:31:00.001+08:00

this is interesting! haha...identify the game :)

2008-04-21T19:35:00.001+08:00

had a rather emotional night yesterday. my bro has decided to give up his place at boston college for the one at the lesser known st john's college - not that the prestige matters so much... whichever place gives him the opportunity to excel in his art is the better choice.

well it's not like he just made up his mind yesterday that he'd be going, but as i was lying in bed thinking about every possible thing under the sun, it suddenly struck me that yes, he IS going to be miles and miles away in the US of A for the next 2 years and the reality of tt struck me, all while i was under my blanket staring at the ceiling trying to sleep. what's the big deal, you say. well for me it is....i'm suffering from the baby sister syndrome :(

all 20 years of my life there's been this big brother looking out for me, someone i can run to when i am on the verge of tearing my hair out over organic chem, when my computer program doesn't load, someone to stand on my side and whose side i can stand on during the friendly children vs parents issues at home....and soon his room will be empty, with nary a trace of the hoardes of books on aristotle, machiavelli, plato; whether photocopied or originals, stacked on his shelves. am i supposed to behave like a grown up 20 year old and just say "well, i'll see you back in singapore in 2 yrs' time, bro"? haiz. i'm gonna be a slobbering mess at the airport i tell you. departures aren't exactly my thing. rmb how i cried like crap when we went to e airport to send coach off way back in sec 3? tink jea might rmb. lol.

often i hear about and see friends who aren't in the least bit close to their siblings and i wonder if they were always like this? or was it because they got irritated with each other cos of their personalities? especially for those pretty close in age...2 or more pubescent teens in the family at the same time sure generates tension. i'm pretty thankful our age gap is 6 yrs, which meant that one went through the rebellious years way before the other did, so there were lesser clashes i guess. still i wish everyone treasures their siblings cos they're really the best friends one can have in a family.

of course, it also helps that he's one of the most easy-going people when it concerns family or close friends, in the sense that he'd compromise so the other party can feel more at ease or comfortable. last piece of his favourite cake? he'd let u have it in a hearbeat, the whole thing, not just let u share half. and when he went to the army, he got me the sweetest ty beanie bunny in a prayerful position to keep me company.... things like that. (on a sidenote, why isn't any other girl snapping up a gem like him? huh? guys like him are really hard to come by. girls interested in becoming my sis in law pls drop me a line. lol)

sure, he'll be back ard aug next yr for a couple of months, but still. not to mention that when he's done with his 2 years, i might be off to aust for another yr or so right about when he comes back for good. sob. so that's 3 yrs in total at least.

i'm not writing all this in august cos i might just fall into depression or smthg when the time comes for him to leave. lol. call me drama mama or whatever but i just love my brother alot :)