i've stuffed myself with so much new year goodies over the last 2 days of CNY that i'm very sure i've put on some weight =( which is a reaally sad thought!
haha anyway, this year quite a number of relatives on my mum's side shifted house.. so we ended up having to visit 3 extra places! =P which was a lot! so day 1 of CNY was quite a tiring day.. and it ended with mahjong at my uncle's place till 12midnight..
2nd day of CNY was mahjong in the evening till 12midnight again.. at my uncle's place again =)
mahjong is reaally addictive!! haha but needless to say, i lost money! not that my skills are bad.. my luck was quite bad! =P haha abt erm 5bucks over 2 days.. which is quite little! and i lost them all to my parents =( hahaha! but 5 bucks for many hrs of entertainment is actually quite worth it =)
i like hanging out with my parents and my relatives on my mum's side! they're reaally fun! and we just kept laughing and laughing throughout the whole 2 nights of mahjong! =)
haha and my ang bao collection is not bad this year.. my relatives on my mum's side suddenly increased their ang bao size =P hahaha so i was quite happy! =)

alright, enough of random CNY comments on my blog.. sorry to bore everyone.. but i enjoyed CNY! it's one of the rare times that all the family members can gather together, play mahjong and just enjoy each other's company =)

my anat group brought new year goodies and we had a CNY party at the science canteen yesterday.. and it was rather embarrassing! =P

haha colin brought yusheng.. but there wasn't carrots or radish =/ haha so someone suggested using bee hoon (which we bought from the yong tao fu stall).. and to everyone's surprise, the yusheng turned out really nice and tasty!
we invited dinesh kumar and bay for our mini CNY party and it was reaally funny when dinesh kumar and bay posed together for an "act-cute" picture (i'll post their picture once i get it from kenrick!!)
anyway, after we finished the yusheng, we proceeded on to eat the goodies.. then evange suggested that we should do the "yam-seng"! aiyo!!! haha we actually did it! and it was super embarrassing! cos everyone in the science canteen were just staring at us! =/ haha but we all had fun la.. there were sooo much pineapple tarts, kueh lapis, some indonesian crackers, biscuits, peanut-things, mini oranges etc etc that we were all so stuffed after eating the goodies that no one ate proper lunch! (except maybe only jonteh)
OH right! haha and because ks and jonteh came late for our CNY party, they had to toss the yusheng out of a small container together, and say all the nice-sounding-4-word-chinese-things, and do the yam-seng together, just the 2 of them.. hahaha! it was reaally funny! chris came the latest, and he was made to toss the yusheng all by himself too.. haha
and dr. wong was having pract lesson during our party, so we cldn't invite him to join us.. guess what we did?? haha we packed the CNY goodies in a container for him!! together with a drink and a portion of the yusheng! haha the box of packed goodies that we gave him looked reaally nice! =) haha the funniest thing was that we brought the goodies into the anat hall for him.. interrupting his anat pract lesson, and wishing him "xin nian kuai le, shen ti jian kang, sun zi man tang" =P hahaha! dr. wong looked reaally happy! guess we made his day! haha

here's a nice grp photo that we took =)

happy chinese new year! =)

haha was supposed to study at university spinelli's with yl after school today.. but ended up not doing much work =/
well, cos..
1. fish and jan were there too
2. ks and yl were playing some game on yl's laptop
hence, i didn't do much work cos i was talking to fish and jan =)

anyway, at the mrt station, i met my friend from church.. and was just talking to him.. i found out a lot of things about barker boys which i previously didn't know about! haha and i kept wondering to myself if my bro ever did those stuff too, like trying to play cards in front of the teacher during lessons =P hahaha quite hilarious! made me thing back to mg days.. and how guai we all were! =)

came back home and i actually went for a 15min run! haha i amaze myself at times =)

had to take a rather long walk to get from the bus stop to my 2nd tuition place today.. and as i walked for close to 15 or 20 mins, i was just thinking about stuff.. and i must say, it feels reaally nice to spend some time by myself =) haha especially since i had to walk past my ex-piano teacher's house.. i used to learn piano since young, right up to sec3.. hmm never used to like playing the piano much.. haha but as in walked past it, it brought back nice memories of how my piano teacher used to praise me cos i played a song well.. how she used to give me super tasty cheesecakes and delicious stuff to eat! haha ok useless things to remember =P but it was literally a walk down memory lane haha..

i'm beginning to discover more weird things about people each day.. haha

it was yet the annual ragging of the new j1s on saturday.. and to be part of such a long-standing tradition (some 30-40 yrs!) makes me reaally proud to be scone.. it may sound elitist and whatever, but ragging is something that brings many generations of scones together.. gives each and every scone a common and shared memory =)
haha which class would have seniors all the way till j6 coming back for ragging.. helping them sell fun-o-rama tics? =P
being there for ragging on saturday made me realise how much i miss scone.. more specifically, my class.. each batch of scones are different.. and i'm reaally glad that i was part of a class that had the scone spirit! that was proud of scone! haha.. really hope that the juniors will keep the scone traditions alive..
it was reaally great to see the seniors and the juniors once again.. not to mention, i felt reaally old there =P haha

after ragging, yl kenneth ks ian and i went to adam rd for supper =) and sometime during the whole night (dinner ragging supper and all) we were reminiscing about the time when we were ragged, about fun-o-rama, about lessons etc etc.. haha how yl and anna looked as if they were going to cry during ragging.. how kenneth became reaally pissed and stomped off cos the seniors were insulting him during ragging.. how ks didn't see the sun at all for the whole day during fun-o-rama.. how ian made so many cups of lychee ice blended at the scone cafe during fun-o-rama.. haha and we all just laughed at it =)
after jc, the memories we take away aren't those of exam marks, aren't of those who topped the class.. but rather, those small little nonsensical things that made jc life so much more fun! =)

ahh what a nice feeling!

ragging of the new juniors is this saturday! =)
haha it reaally brings back great memories of jc.. being ragged and ragging our juniors.. being interrogated and interrogating our juniors.. getting a taste of scone apples and scone juice.. scone flag.. fun-o-rama.. haunted house.. scone cafe.. all the birthday "surprises!".. loo, dk, kuna, pang, malini.. and of cos, the very very nice classmates that made scone so special =)

remember..

• the unexpected crasher at one of the birthday "surprise" things?
• zhiwei and his "model" pose during pw?
• zhiwei marc yh taking photos in the toilet during pw?
• the guys breaking of the metal things under the table during chinese lessons?
• how we never dared to be late for dk's lessons?
• for-you-day, ac games?
• math lects in siberia?
• how we never fail to zao class at every opportunity we had to go and sell fun-o-rama tickets? haha we didn't even attend any swimming pe lessons at all! =P
• how we forgot to take photos of our haunted house and scone cafe during fun-o-rama? but well, the memories will always stay with us =)

etc etc..

and then more recently..

• how ecstatic we were when our whole class went up on stage?
• how proud our teachers were?

ahh i miss our class.. and the scone spirit we had! and it's comfortable to just

the sad story of my right big toe..

last thur (the day of the pbl), i was talking to blanche in the Lt.. and then the most unfortunate thing happened! the stooopid lecture table (yes, the whole black piece of thing!) fell onto my right big toe! and it was reaally painful! and i reaally couldn't walk properly =/
it didn't help that i had pdp that day, and had to go to church at night.. it was a long day, and such an unfortunate thing happened..
anyway, when i was sitting somewhere waiting for pdp (which started at 4pm, and lect ended at 12noon), my toe was reaally hurting! felt as if it was going to drop off..
haha so evange accompanied me to the canteen.. where i asked the aunty at the drink's stall for a plastic bag.. and then, started filling the bag with ice cubes! for doing that, i received weird stares from people buying drinks/bread at the stall.. and it so didn't help that evange was convulsing in laughter!! =/
but thankfully for the ice, pdp was bearable (kind of)..

but the story of my toe doesn't end there.. it suffered knocks (on my printer, on the chair, on the roadside.. yes, many many places) =/

haha so yah, the sad sad life of my right big toe =(

i realise that i should update my blog..

had my first pdp session today.. and even though it wasn't exactly the greatest pdp session (cos our prof pangseh-ed us after 45 mins), it felt gd thinking that i could be curing patients of life-threatening illnesses in many years to come..

then reality struck me in the head! i haven't even passed year1.. i'm struggling in year1 already.. the endless amounts of work that i have to do is overwhelming.. siigh..
anyway, enough of these things on my blog! think everyone will get bored reading it.. but i'm not reaally looking forward to school nowadays for reasons that i shall not name..

and i'm not reaally in a mood to blog.. hence the reaally short and random posts..
haha anyway, i do not think that my hair is becoming frizzy again! =P bleah!

"huhh?? there're new set of notes??"

printing of lect notes..

urgh!

hate the feeling of starting school again..

but.

look on the brighter side of things..

maybe this sem will be great..

i can only pray and hope!

i'm having a cold and cough.. and spent the whole day at home.. haha which was quite relaxing! and made me realise how fast a whole day can pass by.. siiggh sch's starting soon again.. and i reaally don't feel like going to sch on mon.. listening to lects.. and doing all the stupid normal routine stuff again..

anyway, enough of sian-ness in this entry.. met up with my rifle friends yest!! =) ppl whom i haven't seen in ages! haha and it was reaally fun just talking to them.. most of them haven't changed much.. i think i changed the most =P in terms of how we look.. but it was really nice being in the company of familiar ppl once again!
we watched family stone.. and it was quite a nice show! haha don't understand why some ppl said that the show was terrible.. as in it's quite funny! =) and i didn't fall asleep.. even tho i was tired from the cold i was having yest..
and it was reaally nice meeting up earlier with jia and just talking and talking =) haha realised that we haven't caught up with each for a reaally long time! even tho we bump into each other in sch occassionally =P

and here's something that sounds reaally nice! =)
"A friend is one who knows you as you are,
understands where you have been,
accepts what you have become,
and still, gently allows you to grow."

haha

haha i'm too lazy to write a whole long entry on my NZ trip.. so in summary, i shall list what i did..

dec22
left spore for christchurch.
watched 4 movies on the plane!

dec23
arrived in christchurch.
checked into motel.

dec24
rested.
went to the shopping malls.

dec25
drove all the way to queenstown from christchurch.
checked into a motel.

dec26
boxing day!
had an activity-filled day.
went on a gondola. luge. jetboat. deer feeding.
the jetboatting was reaaally cool! haha cos we did 360degrees spins =)

dec27
drove from queenstown to dunedin.
visited and climbed the world's steepest street. baldwin street!

dec28
left dunedin to go back to christchurch.
where we stayed for the night.

dec29
went up to hanmer springs.
visited the hot spings.
stayed at krakora (hmm dunno if the spelling's correct).
ate reaaally nice fish and chips!

dec30
went whale watching!
saw 2 whales. seals. many dolphins. this flock of nz birds feeding on a school of fish.
drove back to christchurch

dec31
walked ard the city centre in christchurch.

jan1
left for spore! =)
watched another 3 movies on the plane.
arrived back in spore.

haha so that's the end of my entire NZ trip.. a lot of hours were spent on the road.. but it was fun! =)

just went back to ac today.. and ahhh i miss the sch! it really feels very nice to be back at ac again.. seeing the new j1s.. visiting teachers.. haha nice nice feeling! =)