2010: not so good after all

you know, i really thought 2010 is the best year of my life so far.

i went china for summer programme, i explored vietnam, ethan is born... i've never seen how happy my parents are until the birth of ethan.

however, i never expect the happiness to be so short lived.

almost 3 weeks ago (on the last day of the semester to be exact), the most unexpected thing happened.

my brother in law (billy) passed away suddenly (not ethan's dad but still). he was 31.

i still remember that friday, i lugged 14 ice cold boxes of egg beancurd to school for my friends to motivate everyone for the exams. i was so tired that day that i slept at 9pm. i received a call from my bro-in-law's best friend (samuel) at 12am but i didn't answer cuz my phone was on silent mode. then, i heard the ringing of my house phone and i had a very bad feeling. yes it was samuel and my eldest sis answered the call. he told my sister that billy is in hospital cuz he fainted.

my sister quickly came into my room and told me abt it. to avoid alerting my parents and cause unnecessary panic, i decided to head down to the hospital with my sister although i was having a very bad headache. in my mind, i constantly tell myself 'yes billy kor fainted. it must be due to hypertension or exhaustion. my worst fear is just stroke'.

if you know billy kor, you will know he is very big sized so naturally everyone will associate him with many health risks such as heart attack.. high cholesterol... etc.

when i reached the hospital, i was confused because samuel didnt tell me the ward number but i didn't care so much because i thought they were still processing the administrative work and all i want to do that moment is to grab my sister (faith) and tell her everything is okay. when i finally reached A&E, samuel directed us to the room and when i opened the room everyone was crying. i still didn't suspect anything until 5 minutes later.

there are no machines/tubes on my brother-in-law. how can it be? then i realised his whole body was already wrapped... i didn't cry. i was too shocked. i called my parents and broke the news.. my parents cannot believe it and told them to rush down to see billy for the last time. i also called my sister joni and as usual everyone cannot believe their ears... i mean, who can?

the moment my parents saw billy, i couldn't take it anymore and all of us cried. billy kor was at his prime. why him? even till today, i still cannot find the answer but i am no longer interested in finding out because it will not change anything.

how he passed on is still a mystery. my sister found him motionless on the floor at home on friday night and he was already not breathing. 20 minutes before my sister found him, they were still exchanging text messages and billy kor still called his mother because his father's birthday is the next day and he bought his dad a cake. he was still laughing with his colleagues 2 hours before his demise...

i can never understand what is going through my sister's mind now. she found her late hubby's body at home and tried her best to bring him back but failed. she had to identify his body 4 times, sign the death certificate, explain and recap how she found my bro-in-law to the police twice...

my sister was together with billy for 13 years. they were each others first love and dated for 11 years before they got married 2 years ago. they seldom quarrel and my bro-in-law is the best hubby anyone can ask for, so much so that my sister is so dependent on him that i always scold her that she is too spoilt. 3 weeks prior to my bro-in-law's death, my sister suffered a miscarriage and she was grieving very badly. however my bro-in-law told her that although they do not have the baby anymore, she still has him. but in 1 month, she lost the 2 most important things in her life.

my parents were devastated with billy's death too. they treated billy like their own son. on the 2nd day of the wake, my dad, mum, my eldest sis and myself sat together at the living room and we talked about things i never knew about my family. my father, clearly very sad, told us that he wanted to give him one of his most possessed item (his watch) to billy but he didn't expect this to happen.

personally, i have been "actively" involved in 2 funerals - 2 grandfathers' and my dad has always been the one 'in-charge'. however, it never occur to me that my own father has to prepare for his own son-in-law's funeral. i also cannot imagine the pain my dad is going through.

as for my mother, when she came home after we cleared billy kor's belongings, she carried ethan and told ethan "ethan, 姨丈没有了. 没有姨丈疼你了." ethan became such an angel even until today.. he seems to know that something has changed.

as for my 2nd sis (joni), she is the most noble out of all. she moved in with my sister together with my bro-in-law (kenneth) because my sister cannot bear to leave the house. she has to constantly endure my sis's mood swings and it has been very hard on her because i was busy with exams and couldn't help much.

now that my papers have ended, i am taking part of the responsibilities and i know it is going to be hard. i know i can never replace billy kor because he is irreplaceable. for now, i only hope that the pain in all of us (esp my sis's) can be lesser everyday, and everyday will pass faster so that my sister can recover and embrace her new life without billy kor.

billy kor is truly one good man and i've always set a criteria that "my boyfriend must be like billy kor". i know everyone misses him but i know he will not want us to mourn for his death for too long.

billy kor, i only hope that you can grant faith the power to live everyday happily, and to lessen her pain slowly daily. we will always be with her like how you will always be in our hearts :)

*summarised many stuff because it is very depressing to list everything down. haiz. i also dunno if i can tell everyone everything. haiz. life's so unpredictable.

treasure every moment and never take anything for granted is what i learn from this.

our first and last family photo with ethan at MBS about 1 month ago. that day was the happiest day of my life because everyone in the family is so happy. when i saw this photo, i was still looking forward to my graduation photoshoot... so that we can take a family graduation shoot....

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1 month hiatus

this week is pretty bad for me.

firstly, i realise how naive i have been all these while. so i have been spending the last few days pondering and evaluating myself. and i think i found the solution, although it is not ideal and it is certainly not what i want. but i dunno what else i can do.

then, something bad happened, doubling/tripling the blow. bleah.

may this week pass quickly :(

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$_$

with the dismal monthly savings i have, i really need to do something to my finances.

1. take up a tuition assignment. ONE.
2. pick up 2 insurance plans - for critical illness and investment
3. continue to monitor the stock market

my finance sucks urgh.

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to do list

1. CUT HAIR. i cannot keep trimming my own bangs HAHA

2. DYE HAIR. but due to budget constraint i will DIY.

3. EXERCISE. cycling with peeps planned but not sure if it will materialise

4. CHILLAX. i wanna go timbre again!

5. SLEEP TILL THE COW COME HOME. i have been living a healthy lifestyle for this semester, sleeping before 2am and waking up at 7am almost everyday. i miss sleeping without any disturbance (disturbance = alarm clock and ethan haha)

/ps. this is for my reference, so that i can remember. my short term memory is so bad it is getting scary :S

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搞笑行动 2010

my friend, who just turned 21 yesterday, overslept for our 9am tutorial this morning. as our lecturer is very particular about attendance, we called her after the tutorial (and she was still sleeping -_-) to get a fake MC.

A - guy friend who gave ideas how to fake the MC
B - the girl who missed the tutorial
C: me

A: B!!! faster go see the doctor!!!

B: huh..? i........... (dozed off)

C: WAKE UP LA!

B: orh...............

C: quick you must visit the doctor before 12pm, if not when the receipt shows that you visit the doctor very late the lecturer will know your fake it!!!

B: orh.......... (dozed off)

----- 2 hours after the call ------

B: what excuse shld i give????

A: anything that is difficult to detect la. like gastric pain?

C: why gastric pain?

A: aiyoh. no need to act one mah. just point. u ask B to act meh. she is _____ (her name) leh. *we always look down on her, she cannot act at all*

A to C: oie! gastric is left or right side huh???

C: i dunno leh. i tried googling cannot find. why u asked her to say gastric and not something else? like MENSTRUTAL CRAMP? tt one confirm undetectable one mah.

A: LATER THE DOCTOR CHECK HOW???

C: *i died laughing*

B: huh how how!!!

A: just say gastric la. but don't point.

C: then say something else, like headache lor!!

---- 1 hour later ----

B: eh i very scared the doc wont give me MC leh. how huh!!!!

A and C: will one lah. just act pure n innocent (supposed to be her forte before she left for china)

--- 30 mins later ----

B: YAYYYY I GOT THE MC!!!!!!!!!!!!

--- 2 hours ago -----

ah yun says: (AM 12:19:11)
mc small case leh
not challenging one
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

pings says: (AM 12:20:42)
ARROGANT
u don think i dunno u super kancheong u thought cannot get mc lor

ah yun says: (AM 12:21:57)
HAHAHAHAHAHA i was i admit

pings says: (AM 12:23:03)
then now so arrogant

ah yun says: (AM 12:36:09)
HAHAHAHAHA yala hai me kancheong also keep changing my sickness


in case u dunno. this is her first time faking mc.

*salute*

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AH LIAN and AH BENG

i cannot stop laughing therefore i have to share with you guys these pages on wikipedia before i depart tml!


Ah Lian is a pejorative term applied to a certain group of ethnic Chinese girls in Southeast Asia, especially Singapore and Malaysia. These Chinese girls, in their teens and twenties, are usually found in larger cities in the region. In Singapore, they usually hang out in Bugis Junction, Bugis Street, or outside Cineleisure, for example. In Malaysia, they are usually found around Sungai Wang Plaza, Low Yat Plaza, Berjaya Times Square, SS2 and are regarded as bimbos, and are stereotyped as anti-intellectual, superficial, materialistic, and shallow.

Ah Lians are commonly stereotyped as having hair dyed in bright colours, and wearing outdated Japanese fashion, although how much of this is true is debatable. Most of them also like to wear hot pants or mini skirts. Most Ah Lians have straightened long hair, usually with thick fringes. They like walking in big groups where most of the people in the group are Ah Lians or Ah Bengs and make their presence known by talking loudly.

They enjoy taking self- portraits of themselves and usually imitate the way Japanese girls take their pictures, making their eyes look big and puffing out their cheeks. They also take pictures by putting a horizontal 'Peace sign' over their eyes, pressing a fist facing outwards against their puffed cheek. They also apply a very sharp tone in their speech which they classify as "cute". Another distinct feature of an Ah Lian is they swear in most of their conversations similarly to their male counterparts, Ah Bengs. Ah Lians are stereotyped as very loose sexually.

Ah Bengs are stereotypically Chinese men in their early teens to late 20s, seen hanging out in groups and typically speaking in local slang, which is Hokkien or Cantonese mixed with English and Malay, such as Manglish or Singlish. Their English level is limited to simple English words with incorrect grammar. When having a conversation, Ah Bengs like to curse in their daily speech.

Ah Bengs' fashion has several stereotypes. One stereotype perceives Ah Bengs wearing flamboyant shirts, for example, with colorful decorations - especially dragons, tight jeans and always carrying plastic combs. Another stereotype perceives Ah Bengs trying to follow Japanese fashion in a wrong way, with spiked and dyed hair, metallic ornaments, leather jackets, belts and pants. They are usually very stingy in buying clothes too.

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back on 7th aug! will update twitter if i can! :)

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CHINA - the saddest episode

hello friends!

as promised on twitter, i will blog about my china trip!

in fact, i did update my blog when i was in china but not here since blogger is blocked. i had a livejournal account but no idea if you guys check it out.. haha :D

first post in china: http://pings7.livejournal.com/1057.html
day 1 and 2: http://pings7.livejournal.com/1499.html
day 3: http://pings7.livejournal.com/1542.html

anyway, something terrible happened on day 4 that resulted in the END of my update. hahahaa. well, i went china with my 2 best pals from school. lets name them Friend 1 and Friend 2.

friend 1 developed a bad cough shortly after we landed and did not recover despite drinking plenty of water and eating medicines we brought from singapore. therefore, she went to see the doctor at the school's clinic and was given chinese medicine (it is china afterall) and was told to have plenty of rest. the programme for day 4 is lesson in the morning and shopping in the city in the afternoon.

however, being a shopping queen, she could not resist the shopping trip although we were against it. despite Friend 2's and my naggings, she turned a deaf ear to everything we have said and she left the hostel and meet up with the rest. Friend 2 and I went to our TA (teaching assistance from NUS, who is technically our "IC" for the trip) and told him about her decision. Actually, when my TA brought Friend 1 to the clinic, he already told us that he want us to lock my friend in the hostel (haha in a joking manner, but his point is that he wants her to rest). in fact, Friend 2 and I were intending to stay in the hostel with her and not go for the shopping trip.

when Friend 1 heard (i told my TA infront of her) what i said, she stormed back to her room and locked herself inside and left Friend 2 (who is her room mate) outside the room. i still remembered that that day was raining very heavily and the weather was very cold, so it is even more not advisable for friend 1 to go anywhere except her room. she shouted at us although we tried to pacify her. when i called her mobile, she screamed at me for 'lying to her' and it goes on. i was so upset i tell you :(

another reason that i discouraged her to go for the shopping trip is because she is supposed to fly to shanghai on day 7 (alone!) and if she is still sick, she will not be able to board the flight as she is also running a temperature. i really have no idea what i did wrongly. i did not shout at her, talk behind her back, backstab..... i was really disappointed.

eventually, friend 1 let friend 2 back into the room after 1 hour. i was in my room alone, reflecting on everything i've done and was evaluating on my actions until friend 2 suddenly called me and told me friend 1 RAN OUT of the hostel on her own. friend 2 had to chase after her in the rain and i also dashed out to find them... when friend 1 discovered that friend 2 called me, she turned back n returned to the hostel. *major hai*

anyway, when i was back in the hostel, i called my friends who were already outside and asked them for the address. i gave it to friend 2 and i told friend 2 that she can bring friend 1 to the shopping district without me, because obviously friend 1 doesn't want me to go. but... friend 1 wants me to go because she is scared and friend 2 also want me to go (for the same reason). *triple HAI*

yes, we went to the shopping district and did not talk to each other until day 8 (i think, i cannot remember). i have no idea what to talk to her... and eventually it was my room mate who cannot stand the situation anymore and she forced us to talk to her. anyway, the eventual decision is to change room mate because friend 1 and friend 2 weren't talking also. yes, i believe some of you think we are a bunch of childish kids but to me, this is the last thing i want to face when i am overseas :( we believe that things would change for the better if we switch room mates....

yes, we talked more after we changed rooms. it is also because of this incident friend 2 and i became much closer. friends from nus who saw the photos on facebook were saying 'wah, how come it is always friend 2 and you in photos together? where is friend 1?' i just gave them crap answers... hahaha... but anyway, we are still in talking terms, although it is no longer the same anymore :(

ok, i decided not to write about this anymore. please ask me out if you want to know more. haha. moving on to fun stuff!

day 7: 户部巷

this place is something like taiwan's 士林夜市 but it is open the whole day! the food there is not too bad and cheapppp! (ok no food in wuhan is expensive! haha!)

huge goreng pisang!

anyway after the 'breakfast', i took a ferry to the other side of the city. my friend told me it is supposed to be some warehouse selling cheap clothes.. BUT HOW WRONG...

on the ferry crossing the famous yangtze river

we walked and walked and walked under the hot sun....

.... to find that there are at least 10 buildings selling nothing but BRA!

it was terrible. we were hot/thristy/hungry/tired but there is no eatery at all! we wanted to cab back to our hostel but there was no cab! we waited for cab for at least an hour before we surrendered and decided to take a bus, then ferry, then cab......... when we saw MCDONALDS when we alighted from the bus, we were like some crazy pple RUNNING TOWARDS mac you know! hahahahaha! imagine i FINISHED my UPSIZE meal!!!! now you understand how despo and hungry i was. haha :D

that day is so sad that now i wonder why i didnt cry. HAHA.

day 8: ktv!

as usual after class, we had a tour to a high class laser company which i didnt bother taking any photos. hahahaha. after which, the bus dropped us to a shopping district called 光谷步行街! it is my favourite place because i went there 5 times and i can accurately estimate the cab fare from my hostel! RMB 12.90! (~S$2.50) HAHA!

光谷步行街!!

anyway, we had our first ktv session there! the ktv is ATASSSSSS and big! not very cheap because that day only 6 of us went and we paid about S$10 each for 3 hours. but the room can easily accommodate 20 pple comfortably.. but i didnt mind! :)))

the reception looks like a 5 star hotel lobby!

SEE HOW HUGE THE ROOM IS MY CAMERA CANNOT CAPTURE THE WHOLE ROOM!

day 9: zoo!

actually, day 9 was supposed to be the most dreaded day because according to our schedule, we are supposed to have full day LAW lecture! that is 9-5pm for you!! but surprisingly the class ended at 11am! we were thrilled! so we had an impromptu trip to the zoo ourselves!

the zoo has a open concept, meaning that although the animals are fenced up, we can still 'touch' the animal if we want (since we are really close). some chinese really do that, they kicked the cage, disturb the bears by throwing rubbish at them and some parents even asked their son to pee on the bears. horrifying sight but luckily i didnt witness it while all my friends did. apparently i tried RMB10 flying fox and escaped from the cruel and ugly side of the chinese. i enjoyed the zoo trip with my friends (we splitted into several groups) as we did all the fun and crazy stuff like balancing act, flying fox etc etc unlike other grps where they saw how the chinese were torturing the animals.

after the zoo trip, everyone was traumatised. therefore, we calmed ourselves down with a good meal at this atas restuarant! it is a restaurant which i would never enter if i am in singapore but over there, no matter how much my friends and i order my share will never exceed S$10!

haiz i miss the steak already x_x haha

however, the bad hygiene practices in the zoo led to my rashes. upon returning to the hostel, i was HORRIFIED to find myself covered with rash from my body to my thighs! omg i thought i got some weird disease! :(((((( but the funny thing is i don't feel any itch at all.

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omg, i am tired already cuz it is 4am now. i need to travel to nus tml to submit my essay so i better sleep! will continue day 10 again tml if i have the time! i will definitely blog about my trip HAHA if not i will forget everything very soon. :)))

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aloha!

hello friends!

i am back!

but.. i am extremely lazy to blog about my china trip. happy and sad things happened when i was there, with the sad things outweighing the happier times. nonetheless, i am extremely proud of myself for taking some magnificent photos using my camera!

gambatte to me for enduring and surviving 25 days there although 21 days were spent in agony. haha.

photos up on facebook (19 albums from me alone)!!!

see you when i see ya! (:

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ahem

knock knock

another site to receive updates from me!

:)

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pings reporting!

i am finally here to bring some updates about my life (ok, kah wants me to update.. she is my loyal reader).

holidays has started for a week already and i have been meeting my uni friends non-stop, as well as my jc clique!

no pictures though, cuz miss esther is currently in phuket enjoying life :D

i can foresee that next week will either be very stressful, or really relaxing. i know i am not making sense. anyway, if i am taking part in this competition (1st prize: $10k!) i need to work my ass off before i fly to wuhan the following monday. but after the site visit to the incredible (aka high tech) building at tanjong pagar, i seriously doubt my group's chances as it it really challenging.

and it did not help when i SAW my cousin (my eldest cousin whose daughter is 3 years younger than me -_-" and everyone was :O when i whispered that he is my cousin despite asking everyone to shhh) who is a FM sigh.

moving along, i am really looking forward to everything i've planned! those who have been following me on twitter, you have already known. yes, i have privatised my twitter account so updates will not be reflected here because some stalker is secretly monitoring.. and it is very eerie for someone to know what i am doing every minute. scary. although i think the person knows the existence of this blog, but i do not intend to keep it private.

i am no superstar. haha.

did you find something missing from the list above? if you still remember, i am probably your biggest female soccer fan friend but world cup is not on my list!

reason:

since we are at the topic on world cup, i came up with some interesting (and ugly) facts on soccer, an updated version.

UGLIEST SOCCER PLAYERS IMO

anyone else you think should be included in the list? i thought about the fat ronaldo, but i already classify him as extinct. oops.

i shall compensate now for scaring all of you. presenting...

CUTEST SOCCER PLAYERS IMO (updated!)

see the old version here

i doubt i will watch much world cup. for one, i will miss the first week since i will be in china (unless there is free broadcast in the hostel! HAHA) and when i am back, i would catch provided i have enough sleep (or when ethan is up and i must rock him back to lalaland?)

wow i just wasted (oops haha) 3 hours of my time writing this post. off now to watch big bang theory (bbt) and others!


will blog again before i leave! but i have 1 important question. will i be able to blog in china? cuz blogger is under gmail which is affliate to google and google is actually banned in china?? i am pretty sure it is banned =\

OH NOOOOOOOOOO!

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wuhan and hochiminh!

whee!

i'm going wuhan for 25 days!!

and vietnam for 7 days!

I'M LOVIN' THIS SUMMER HOLIDAY WAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

chiong for my last paper now!!!!! :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

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FML

hotmail doesn't stop mail delivery.

take note friends :( don't be like me!!

p/s: bdgteoal --> my lecturer, evelyn is her name.

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facebook groups

feeling really refreshed after a 17 hour sleep (hahahhaa) so decided to share something werid i saw on facebook!


seriously juniors, do we share the same taste buds or school is so stressful that any typical oily junk will satisfy u all? if it is so, all the hiong PE classes will be going down the drain! (and the loreal auntie, have u all forgotten about her???!!)

the scary auntie who calls all her customers 'mei nv' and 'shuai ge'. *goosebumps*

then i realised actually many meridians have nothing to do other than staying at home with their notes.. with facebook as their source of entertainment. they created ALL KINDS of fanpage.

like the meridian cheer

the '3-ers' aka retainee group

and not forgetting,

the abandoned page.

hahaha!

my favourite page of all time is this


good luck my friends for the upcoming exams! here's something to entertain u guys!! enjoyyyyyyy!

http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~hchia/funny.html

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one of my 人生道理

the past 2 weeks have been nothing short of surprise, shock and anxiety. i don't have time to breathe and they are not things that i can just ignore.

interestingly, they are not about projects. if i were to include projects, i think i shld continue resting than to blog now. haha.

they are all family related - immediate + extended. there were plenty family troubles and they all happened a few days apart. before i understand the whole matter for trouble 1, trouble 2 happened and all my time was spent trying to solve trouble 2. everything looks like it was something shown on tv - something so dramatic, yet so scary.

till now, both troubles are still far from being solved. with people refusing to listen, refusing to help, refusing to acknowledge... it gets extremely draining sometimes.

it just hit me hard that when something bad happens, relatives/friends (my parents') would come to us for help. however when their problems are resolved, these people just vanish from our sight. i cannot recount how many times this has happened, but each time this happens, it ascertain my intuition that this is the ugly truth of human nature.

a real example. trouble 2 concerns my immediate family and when it spreaded around, "family" and "friends" started calling my place asking for gossips and not a word of concern. can you understand how pissed i was?

please do not get me wrongly. this post is not targeted at my relatives (haha) but people like you and me in general. i am sure this is happening all around and not confined to my family alone. however it makes me wonder why we are like that. i strongly believe in karma and what goes around will definitely comes around.

therefore, i constantly remind myself that i should appreciate everyone around me because once we take things for granted, it will become a habit. undoubtedly, i am not perfect. nevertheless, i hope these little things i try to change about myself would help me to become a better person (:

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FAILED!

it is quite expected cuz it is already end march and we are supposed to send supporting documents to tokyo uni by early april.

i'm ok don worry! that means i need to find a jobbbbbbb! money money money come!

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小叮当, 大雄 and 宜静

i have forgotten i am a big fan of 小叮当 and co for a long time.... until my friend posted a video about why 小叮当 became blue and has no ears.

anyway to cut the story short, 小叮当 used to be yellow and has a pair of ears just like his sister Dorami.


but 1 fine day, a mouse bit his ears away and after he discovered that he has no more ears, he was so emo when he stared at the mirror that he turned blue (colour for emo).


IT'S TRUE!

hahaha. but there is another alternate explanation that he was so sad cuz he got no ears and he cried for 3 days and his tears worn off his yellow paint.. n became blue cuz blue is his base coat.



HAHA.

but anyway, i started googling for more doraemon stuff and found 3 endings to the series! it is SO SO SAD! :(

ending 1:

actually 大雄 is an autistic child and he had a fantasy that 小叮当 is his friend. but it was all his imagination.

sad factor: ********

ending 2:

大雄 hurt his head and needed an emergency operation to save his life. however, the cost is too high and the family could not afford it. as a result 小叮当 sold all the gadgets in his pocket to fund for the operation. however, the operation was a failure and 大雄 became a vegetable. 小叮当 was devastated. suddenly he remembered their 时空门 so he went into 大雄's mind asking him where would he like to go.. and 大雄 said 'heaven'.

sadness factor: ***

ending 3:

大雄 is still leading the same lifestyle - not doing his work, getting bullied by his 2 friends, fantasizing about being together with 宜静 and so on. howover 1 fine day, 小叮当 laid motionlessly on the floor and no matter how 大雄 called/shouted/kicked him he would not respond. he was so scared that he travelled to the future to look for dorami for help. before dorami finished hearing his story, she grabbed 大雄 back to the present and examine her brother. to her horror, she found out that 小叮当 ran out of battery and has to replace it if not 小叮当 will not react again. however, replacing the battery will mean that all the memories between 小叮当 and 大雄 will be erased and dorami asked 大雄 if he is okay with losing all the memory. 大雄 is not willing to lose all the great memories he had with 小叮当 and hence he left 小叮当 as it is.

actually, 小叮当 can be "charged" but because he has no ears (got bitten away remb?) thus the battery needs to be replaced. over several occasions, dorami also nagged at her brother to travel back to the future to do "check-up" regarding his battery and parts whether they are functioning well but 小叮当 was not willing to go for the check-up as he wants to look after 大雄.

fast forward 10 years later, 大雄 came back from abroad together with his wife 宜静. he is a very successful man - he went to the top college and received scholarship to study overseas. currently he owns an electronic company specialising in robotics. all these years, he kept 小叮当 in his favourite corner (the cupboard) and told his friends that 小叮当 went back to the 21st century... he never talked to anyone about 小叮当 again.

the truth is, 大雄 is determined to fix 小叮当 without losing the precious memories they shared. he studied very hard, topped in his class for all subjects, topped his high school and college and got a chance to head overseas for further studies. upon graduating, he immersed himself with all possibilities to fix 小叮当 with the help of his wife 宜静 and he finally found a possible solution.

before he switched the button, he teared. this is because if he fails...

he will lose all the memories he shared with 小叮当...
he will be back to square one - the lazy, "stupid" and a 10 year old cry baby...
his hard work will be wasted...

and so.. he pressed the button.........................












"大雄，我等你很久了!"

sad factor: ***********************************************************************




source: http://www.douban.com/group/topic/4127521/ (omg i translated everything!! claps for me pls!!)



however, we will never find out which one will be the ending because the creator of 小叮当 藤本弘 (Hiroshi Fujimoto) has passed away in 1996 but i would rather none of the 3 mentioned above to be the truth :)

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7-year teritary life

most friends of mine spent 5 tertiary years (2 JC + 3 uni) but i spent a whopping 7 years!

2 years JC + 1 year SIM/UOL + 4 years NUS

even longer than primary school. hahahaa.

i think 70% of my friends are graduating this summer and are starting work soon while i still have 2 years to go. do i feel left out? yes, i do in a way since i will be 23 near 24 when i graduate!

i was ashamed of myself for being "retained" at SIM for a year when i just joined NUS. i had to cope with questions like "eh, you are born in 1988 but you are from JC?"

i have answered that question countless times and now i simply tell pple "ya i got retained. i am from MJC mah."

haha.

anyway, i am a lot more comfortable with that now than in the beginning. i was afraid whether they will accept me, whether will they judge me and give me strange look... but i am glad so far my friends have been great and most of the time we joked our academic journey like some secondary school kids. i am really thankful that they did not treat me any differently even though some of them are really smart and were from reputable schools. (and i hope it is not my naive thinking... i do choose my friends wisely and not those superficial ones!)

never will i dare to dream that i can find 2 GREAT friends in uni, cuz in JC it always felt like we dedicated all our time to studies and bgr no one was really interested in forging any long-term friendship even though we see each other everyday. although we do chat/crap every night on msn.. but usually with an agenda.

nowadays, i hardly chat on msn with the cheapos because we appear offline/have no topic in mind. i am quite sad about it but i guess we are all busy with our lives. sometimes i really think whether is it my fault by not taking the first step... but u have to understand that mac does not allow me to chat with pple appearing offline. i can only chat with pple appearing offline if they come and talk to me! (yes la yes la excuses hahahaha)

but i am glad that i found 2 friends who are willing to take my jokes, get bullied by me, laugh at me.. it felt like secondary school all over again.

even studying is so enjoyable. i stayed in school till 9.30pm today although my day started at 7.30am. we do stupid things like giving each other nicknames and creating mindless (and secretive) facebook group to record our mugging times..

(we borrowed 10 books for our 20% individual presentation before the library closes)

when was the last time you do something so fun, so carefree? it certainly felt like eternity for me...

thank you shi yun and cassandra for transforming my darkness-filled tertiary life with vibrancy again. you guys made me laugh and cry so hard and so loudly, wrote truthful messages and letters to me, gave me encouragement, explain things to me that i dunno...... you 2 have no idea how much i am thankful for. and studying for 2 weeks in school last sem improved our cap trememdously to 3.9, 4.1 and 4.3 and i am sure if we continue to motivate one another we can do better.

although my tertiary education took a little longer to complete, i am willing to trade in the extra2 years of my life to know great people like them. i wonder if i have the luxury in finding 2 great friends if i entered NUS successfully the first time round. (but of cuz i am also thankful i went SIM for a year if not i will not know huiqing my ultimate gossip partner!! :D)

i am looking forward to our summer programme to tokyo uni! may all 3 of us get it! :D

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knock knock

who is still visiting here?

no comments = no motivation to blog.

actually many interesting things are happening but i sound pathetic if i am writing writing writing but no one is reading.

HAHA. just a trap to lure u guys to leave more messages.

messages = love!

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nus canteen survey 2010

(super entertaining!)

random feedback from students:

the chilli sauce has to be really hot rather than sweet taste.

it would be good if NUS could tell some stall owners to not "throw" the food on the plate while serving and be more gentle.. esp the indian shop in frontier!

The fruit juice stall in Arts Canteen usually runs out of mango after lunctime at around 2pm. They should increase their supply of mangoes.

LOL!

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favourite fruit

since young, my favourite fruit has not changed.

durians? strawberries? grapes? (not graphs, my bad) nah, too atas to my liking.

at the fruit juice stall, i will always order the same drink.

not this.

also not this.

this happens to be my most hated juice, although i love to eat the actual thing.if you want me to hate you straight away, you can bring me this.

it has always been apple.
do u realise apples are always sweet and hardly sour? (ignore green apple la, duh)

thats why i am always very happy when i eat apple.


moreover...

so much so that my sisters named me 'apple' and wanted to change my name to that!

just imagine if they had done it...

apple a.k.a li ping

felicia chin in 'baby bonus'. her name is "rotten apple" a.k.a li ping

ok i know, the dao face looks similar but ignore that first. hahaha.

but only today then i realise HOW MUCH i adore apple!!

i love it being..

red
juicy
crunchy
nice smell
smooth
chio
did u fall in love with this when it came out? i sure did!! but it broke up with me after 1.5 years.. (literally)
i got acquainted with this shortly after... it kept me company everyday for 2++ years until someone stole the love of my life away in LT8 during my first week in nus!

so much of a sadness.

i was so depressed at that time because not only my ipod nano left me, my mobile phone left me shortly after that. i had no energy to start looking for alternatives.

until i saw this.

you can pretty much say i LOVE almost everything they have produced. :)))))))))

3 months ago, i "discarded" my lousy (but still functioning) acer laptop and switched to something which i have always wanted since forever.
so far, the awesome battery life and chio exterior have not failed me. but the incompatibility with so many other software is pissing me off very very very slowly...

well, i have not regretted and i don't think i will be!

APPLE is just too gooooood! :D

and today, i made another switch!

hehe :D

as you can probably estimate i am almost bankrupt at this moment. i doubt i will make any more switches in the next year or what...

but i really hope that i will not have to switch from...






to

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

hope this entry has cheer you up during this hectic mid semester! :D

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disclaimer

i'm quite sad :(

because i am bothered about how people look at me now.


i am...

REALLY not a brand enthusiast.


yes i spend A LOT on gadgets,

but i really hope it did not scare any one away!

THE LAST THING I NEED!! AHHHH


i am still the same person and i hope everyone knows it.

aiyah, not like others can see this anyway.

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another week of slacking ard

"To find true love, you will also need to open yourself up to the possibility of heart break."

saw this quote on twitter and i like it very much.

i think it is very true, but also very pessimistic at the same time.

i'm not sure about you but i think getting hurt is an essential part of growing and learning. if we are not hurt before, how would we know what matters most?

"wise" words from my mouth. can you believe it? hahaha!

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anyway, chinese new year is around the corner and i spent my sunday baking cookies and cny treats for my family and friends. i love to bake but i hate to eat anything i bake. HAHAHA. not that they are not nice, but if you know me i seldom indulge in any cookie or tarts. chocolate will always be my one and only.



i've made so many and they are all STARING at me now. it is just scary haha! luckily tml most of it will be given to my family and friends and only 1 box of each will be still in my living room by then :)

i am still drifting around although it is week 5 now. i still lacked the energy to start anything and i'm so dead. 2 project meetings this week and i have done NOTHING. maybe i will bribe them with some cookies... hahaha! :D

aiyah cannot la. i better complete at least 1 tutorial now and continue my research tonight.

till then! ^-^

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nussu bash 2010

proper post (finally)!

i went f1 pit building yesterday for the nussu bash 2010. was given free tickets by the contestant (and eventual winner!) cuz she is my pretty group mate, valene, and she wants us to support her!

the place is damn far and it certainly did not help when another female friend of mine and i were wearing heels. the other 2 guy friends were very tired also and they even said "wah. i wear shoes my legs breaking liao, 2 of u wear heels can or not?"

hahaha. i had a strong urge to take off my heels and run there barefooted. of cuz i didn't la. must act glam a bit cuz the bash is opened to the entire nus and not just my faculty (faculty bash = i am damn cui).

anyway the event was supposed to start at 7.30pm but when we were there at 8.30pm, the place is not full yet. okay, maybe the place is big but it looks like a carpark seriously! let me show u the photos..

look at the floor!!!! *screams*

anyway, there isn't any place to rest our foot and we had to sit on the floor (yes!) at the side. it was dark so hopefully no one saw us hahahaha. we weren't the only pple sitting on the floor cuz apparently the bash was SO BORING (and draggy) everyone was very listless.

and about 10 plus, i dunno what happened to me but i felt faint *omgzzz worst feeling in the whole wide world* so i went out of the area and inhale some fresh air downstairs. think i must have scare my friend to hell. hahahaha. sorry cassandra!

one of the reason why i felt so giddy - look at the disturbing lights! :s (and also the reason why i cannot club nor play l4d haha!)

luckily, i recovered just before the announcement of the winners. just before thye collected the votes for tabulation, i took a before and after shot!

before...

AFTER!!!

hahahaha! how not to win like that??

okay the guy (raymond) is the eventual winner too! wahahaha! not too bad for a small faculty like SDE right! hahaha!

winners! cassandra and i were saying how come raymond's make up is thicker than valene's.. haha... (oh ya do u know f7 - valene and m7 - raymond, both representatives from SDE, are couple in real life? hahaha so pei right pretty and handsome)

us with the bash queen :))

feeling faint was worth it i guess, since valene and raymond won! woohoo so happy for them. after this, it will be cny and MORE N MORE work coming up. i guess my next proper post will be cny related.

till then, check out my twitter! heehee!

anyway, despite not shopping my bank is still depleting - i have been CABBING to everywhere. sigh. i think i spent >50 on cabbing this month. kill me pls! :(:(

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