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

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

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

*hope next year will be a wonderful year*

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

jia you for the exams!! hang in there~

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

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

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

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

who can calm my restless soul?

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

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

goodbye greatgrandma...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Last Jap Class

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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