So long, farewell

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When it's the time of the month again..

1) sometimes I just wish everyone around me will shut up. No arguing no talking no msn-ing whatever. No tv sounds no nothing. A strong desire to seek inner peace.

2) I get frustrated/angry/irritated very easily. I snap at pple whenever I get the chance to do so (not like I normally don't), but the diff is.. when I'm having PMS, I snap for real. No joke.

3) I get very nervous/uptight about everything. And I'll suddenly feel very lost.

4) Things that are trivial can make me go into depression. And I tend to tear/cry easily.

5) Urge to call JL and wake him up to talk to me when I'm still up at 2am.

6) Either I get headaches so bad that I can't sleep at night, or I get so tired that I can sleep in the whole day.

PMS sucks. Big time.

Anyway JB trip today with Shaun made me feel better. Haha I called lulu like dunno how many times for her advice on smuggling the pirated Deeeeeee Veeeeeee Deeeeeeees. Now that I think about it, I was like a kan cheong spider. Ask penalty lah ask whats the fine. Damn scared got jail term. Haha. Then when I was coming back to the Spore customs, got all the scan scan machines mah, damn guilty man, scared get caught. But 2 DvDs only lah. Blackjack. Damn happy. It was my childhood manga.

I had great lunch. Stone grilled prawns/lamb/squid. Niceeee. Bought a tee for myself, a tee and wallet for my bro, a leather wallet for my mommy and a tee for my daddy! Oh and 2 tees for JL too. Cheeeeappp. I think maybe I should bring external hard drive to US. Rip all my shows and put inside then can watch. Wow I'm brilliant!

2 more weekssss. I'm so going to miss my family and JL and (selective) friends! And my piano which will be untouched for 5 months, plus the violin that is so gonna collect dust in the store room.

Packing my clothes for exchange is machiam like migration.

I am not a fan of Chinese Action shows,

but Invisible Target is really good,

the best I've seen in a long long while.

JL's drawings

JL drew me a patrick! So cute.

After that I asked him to draw me a spongebob.

I swear I didn't tell him to draw the zombified version.

Now look at the spongebob I drew! Seriously, I am just so freaking talented. Bwahahahaha (think spongebob style laughter)

Maria's post

Munchy.

I was just thinking of what I had been discussing with Manchi prior to our match that day.. About how she finds guy's butts sexy.

Manchi: What would you go for, nice ass, nice chest or nice face?

Dawn: FACE

Me: FACE

Tammy: FACE

Manchi: I prefer ass :x

There are several things I like in a guy..

You know the curve of the guy's lower back? That sort of valley thing... That's.. so hot...
THE ABS, THE ABS!
Veins on arms/hands: Not so much that he looks like he's been on steroids, but a few so I know he at least isn't a weak shit
High cheekbones
Pretty eyes with laugh lines
The ability to get tanned without turning red
Graceful pianist hands
Straight/very slightly wavy hair
Heavy eyelashes
A chest that is not hairy!!
Limbs that have fine/no hair
Nicely shaped lips
NON-SMOKER
Narrow hips
Nice calves
A nice laugh
Sharp face
Nice smelling all the time
Wittiness
Drummers & Bassists
A sense of humour
The ability to wink without looking stupid
Doesn't swear
Pro at Dota (or at least better than me!)

Things that turn me off are:

A nose that looks like it got hit by a bus
When a guy tilts his head back and the back of his neck goes into folds of skin
A flabby face
A flat face
Stubble
Skin that turns red and patchy upon prolonged exposure to the sun
Dark lips
Too-pouty lips
A stupid face
Blunt features
Inability to dance
Inability to accept inability to dance
Acne
Bad breath
Body odour (men please wear cologne, please please PLEASE wear cologne..)
Anal retentiveness
Being a perve
Having a chinky accent
Trying to be angmohfied while still having a Chinky accent
Mama's boys
Kaypoh and always trying to get involved in my arguments with other people but never helping me out, nagging me about being antagonistic but never assisting me when the other person is being evil to ME
Scolding me using swear words/trying to intimidate me
Crybabies/emo boys/so-called SNAGs

Time to go hoooooooooome~
I love my darling!

Ooo I guess Maria will love JL too. Except the pro at dota part *cough* But I think she'll definitely love his veins. HAHAHA.

Advertisement's impact on children

Whenever I pose questions to my brother, for example

1) "how come you so hot one? are you having a fever?"

2) "what game is this? why like that one? is that the boss?"

3) "eh so how?"

He will give me one, and only one reply.

"Don't ask me, ask OCBC"

JL's moment of vanity

JL + family minus me.

JL bought flowers for the girl! Buaya!

Sometimes JL is just asking to be smacked with his qian bian face.

My moment of vanity

The shorts... free advertisement for Nike.

I've sort of started counting down the days I have left in Singapore before I fly off to Chicago. Hmm actually that's Toronto. Then I'll take flight to Chicago. Cos I wanna visit Niagara Falls at Toronto instead of New York (it's much prettier!). I have a feeling my exchange will be freaking ex. I mean it already is freaking ex. Air Ticket + Accomodation + Meal Plans already > 10K. HOW TO SHOP HOW TO TRAVEL? Oh well... I'll probably be working on campus. Maybe I can bug JL to transfer some money into my account. Hohoho.

3 more weeks left and I haven't settled so much stuff.

Insurance: Not done

Vaccination: Not done

Placement Tests: Not done

Payments: Not done

Course selection: Not done

Shopped for travel needs: Not done

Argghh and I got so much stuff to do still. Got MAS photoshoot on Wednesday. Thurs is dear's grad ceremony (the thought of travelling to NTU makes me zzz). Friday is.. damn stressful. Hope I'll ace it. Next week 2nd to 5th is WCG! Will be playing at least 2 games, one for WCG Championship and one for inter-school championship. Of course hope won't lose too badly lah but I havent trained with them for a few nights already.. they always pangseh me go bnet for in-house. Sob. Oh yea I'm so looking forward to starcraft 2... and my MP3 player. 2 GB pleaseeeee.

5 months of overseas alone. I'll either love it or hate it. I really love being alone.. for a short while. I went to UK alone Cambodia alone... but those were short trips man. 5 months alone... maybe get ang moh bf. HAHAHAHA. But I won't lah... though I've heard of many many horrible stories of how pple cheat on their partners when they are overseas... But I how nice. Plus Lulu and Joyceee think my dear very friendly and humorous.. (hurhur) I am happy when my friends like my bf. =) Anyway I am thinking of how to kill time when I'm bored there. I think I'll go jogging. Or go gym. Burn some fats. Come back slim and fit! But I'll try my best best to keep myself occupied. If not, bored = go out walk walk = see many things on sale = buy alot alot = no more money.

It's almost confirmed that I'll be visiting these places:
Chicago/Toronto/New York/Boston/Philly/California

I wanna go Seattle too but that's like quite out of the way. And Florida and Hawaii!

Of course if I have enough cash and time I would love to go to those places! That's if budget allows... plus I don't like whirlwind trips. Damn tiring one. I hope to go Rocky Mountains area too... Heheee travelling is so fun.

Call me slow but Death Note 1 & 2 are really nice!

I was a delivery man on Friday. Bought donut factory donuts in the morninggg with the MAS interns... Actually I think donut factory is better than Krispy Kreme. Krispy Kreme is too sweet for my liking. Had lunch with Jess mama who bought me lunch as usual. Everytime I ask her "how much" she'll say "aiya you not working". Haha then I gave her a donut. Apparently she smart enough to take the nicest one (according to lulu), the double choc one. Half a year won't be seeing Jess, I think I'll miss her.. actually I think I'll miss all the climbing people!

After that I went to Watsons and coincidentally saw Lili there. Actually we quite fated to meet. Everytime I go out if I got to bump into someone usually it's her. Hahah maybe she's stalking me. I really like Lili because it's so comfortable to hang out with her... She's like damn nice and you know she's one girl who will never harm you.. Or say things just to make you happy.. Know what I mean?

I followed her to buy make up for her photoshoot.. After that we went to Toys R Us to buy tamagochi.. Now the version 4 tamagochi looks quite fun. Last time my tamagochi only got a few things to do only I think.. eat/play/sleep/pat pat erm.. thats about it I think. Now hor the tamagochi can go to school and study one. then you can choose the career. Be scientist/musician.. blah blah and last time the tamagochi all dinosaurs one. Now no wor. Much cuter le..... I didn't think JL would like that kind of stuff. But still v cute mah so I bought a Tamagochi display set for him... Very cuteeee. It's a scientist set wor. The one on the left is how the new Tamagochi looks. She's holding a conical flask! Then the yellow yellow one is the cupboard. And the thing next to it is the basin. So cute. The drawer of the cupboard can open one.. to put the flask inside. Then I secretly placed the display set nicely on JL's table. Then Auntie came in.. she looked at it and asked, "You bought for the kids ah?" Hahaa then I said "no lah for JL one". I think she stunned. So embarassing.

Ohh and I gave a dozen of donuts to Auntie also. Must por her mah. Make her like me even more though I think she quite like me already. Esp hor... Junjie was in my room.. then I was feeding him donut. Then suddenly she walked in... Imagine your bf's mother see her son's gf feeding a 4 year old kid to eat so patiently... Will just like her even more loh. Muahahahahahhaha that's my TRICK ok. Don't copy wor.

After that I went out at night for Joyceee's birthday's girls' night out. Actually Jem arranged one. So sweet ok. Like how I arranged one for my dear. *cough* hohoh then Jem is super super super lor soh. In every single sms he sent me he said "remember dont tell joyce. it's a surprise". Ya lah ya lah worse than my mother. Haha. You think I derive so much joy from spoiling a surprise meh.

So we met. And yea Joyce was shocked to see me there. I gave them donuts too! Lulu wanted the double chocolate one... But then I didn't know which one it was.. then you know choclate.. you think of black colour mah. So I took the black colour donut for her loh.. In the end she said it's the white colour with black stripes one. Haha too bad. But I ate that one already. Hohoho. We ate sushi tei.... again. It was my 3rd time at sushi tei in a month and all 3 times I ordered the same thing -- 12 piece sashimi + rice. But I'm not sick of it ok. Cos I love love love sashimi. I tell you half the time that night we were bitching about somebody loh. Seriously.. we never run out of things to bitch about her one leh. None of my friends like her. Haha we tried to pose like her too! Check out the following pics. No points for guessing it right.

I hope the hand around Joyce's shoulder isn't mine. It'll be scary to know that my arm is so long.

Lulu as a fish.

Joyce as a prawn.

I was supposed to have an octopus shot one also. But then hor... Joyce really cannot take pics for nuts one. U know how pple know you are posing as an octopus? When they look at your hands loh. I mean octopus is all about the handddssss right. Then the pic she took right. Only got my face. No hands. How can pple tell it's octopus? hello???? Maybe Jem should sign her up for photography course.

Oh yea Joyce and Lulu taught me something very very very important about anatomy that night. Haha I really can't believe it man. That I've got 3 instead of 2. Wahaha damn noob.

Oh ya then I was caught in the rain when I was with lili so was kinda falling sick. But was supposed to have a photoshoot on Sat morning... then Tiny say try my best to go then bo bian loh. Cos the lights expensive. Then I took a cab to school in the morning.. Dexter ask me take receipt cos he'll try to claim for me.. so nice ok. But in the end I forgot to take receipt. HAHAHA. Sian. I think dexter will make a very good leader.. as in there's always leaders who are task-orientated like hmm say Tiny or Yujian. But dexter is one who is very people-centred I think.. it's people before task for him... Oh yea it's a climbing photoshoot. so obviously must climb mah. Then I really super long never climb. When I was bouldering to warm up.. I barely made half a round in the bouldering gym then I tired already. Damn lousy loh. Then during the shoot I'm supposed to be leading mah. Then I attached myself to the wall using a runner first. Then the climbers told me to take off the anchor... Haha I tried to take the runner out at the anchor instead of the rope out of the runner. Damn noob. Cannot take it.

Today my thighs very pain cos I sat on the harness for too long yesterday doing the shoot. Whole body aching also though I didn't exactly exercise. My physical fitness is deteriorating! Oh well.. but I'll be bringing my climbing shoes when I'm on exchange. They might have really nice bouldering gyms! Or natural rocks! Wheee. Actually I really like bouldering. And I do like climbing also lah. Just that I'm really paranoid about it now. I'm scared the anchor will fall off.. I'm scared the rope will break.. I'm scared the figure of 8 will come off.. I'm scared my harness will give way.. Last time I always thought aiya ya climbing got accidents.. but what are the chances that it will happen to you? You think low low loh. But it happened to you loh. So it might just happen again. I guess that's why I'm scared lah. Alot of pple have encouraged me to go back to climbing actively.. but I think it'll take time.. but I'm grateful for all the encouragement..

Oh ya dear is getting me a travel cooker for my trip! Happy happy happy. Can cook soup and simple dishes!

I seriously got to ask my brother to change the resolution to LOW for the camera. It's damn irritating uploading pics of 4MB each onto blogger. Zzz.

This is a must read!

http://xiaxue.blogspot.com/2007/07/top-seven-most-disgusting-bloggers-in.html
Hahaha this is damn funny man. Xiaxue blogging about the top 7 most disgusting bloggers in Singapore ('cept one). Steven Lim is on the list too! I went to visit his site and extracted some lines... hahahahaha I can't believe it.

I lived in a condo rented by Tammy n her flat mates...She cooked very delicious food especially vegetables..During the stay, she complaint that I got super low sexual desire which was a shock to me also..No sex even for the last night I spent with her before I come back to Singapore! not even the nights before..!!! I felt so guilty!!! She wants it, n keep crossing her legs over n put it there but I simply dun want leh..sianz..thinking of have to wash n bathe again..Not very good lah for me..in future, my wife will sure complain too.


Just half a year ago, I was dating four girls at the same time. Guess few guys are able to handle that feat. All 4 girls liked me, but now I left with nothing because maybe i chose too. I was too flirt le....I should really should just stick to one regular one but i simply could not. It runs in my blood! I thought My ex understand that I m a natural flirt, but we still broke up after many years. Shit lah, cannot get married liao....She forced me to promise her if we patch, in the future I was not allowed to get another girlfriend or "mistress". Really difficult for me!!!! so i cannot promise her n we never patch.. sigh....The truth is that I get lonely very easily n i hate being alone n i want people to dote on me often n i need plenty of attention. Bad rite??? But i guess the real reason for the break up is becos maybe we lack of intimacy for far too long already (many many months dun have XXX). I dun feel like making love to her, i start to hate sex, i prefer self gratification. I can swear for the last few intimacy, she is the one that wanted it first. I dun want to.....The thought of at the end the hassle of wiping already turn me off, off, off, & the tot of needing to perform well.

Oh and this is super funny. Xiaxue hates Steven and Steven hates Xiaxue. He said this in his blog.

She is very average looking for sure n her legs like miniature pork chop, n she is so bloody short lor..... I dun like "Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs". For me, I was often classified as a hunk in real life. In the set, Xiaxue is very stuck up n proud, kept directing me what to do n what not to do and act etc etc... Pls lor.. I done shooting more than you lor... You r teaching a fisherman how to fish... I just diam diam only...n just continue acting to have smitten by you, but u keep giving me an indifference look. Really sibei sianz.. I was paid a high $50 by Gillian to go on date with you one. You should be honored, Midget! Cos I was paid a $300 for a less than 10 mins private performance. In real life, if i will to go out with you, I will feel so ashamed n paiseh, n will weep on my hands when covering my face. I dun have bad taste for sure. Could u pls go for more plastic surgery? You need more help than the nose job!!! Ever considered leg extention? To say the truth, I like Gillian..She is beautiful, tall n runs a own company..You cant even compared to her...I was laughing at you in my heart when u entered the set.. i said, pls dun fall down or i will burst out laughing!!! LOL! then when u sat on the chair, i could not control it anymore, your legs cant touch the floor....Hhahahahhaha

Hmmm.. am I taller than Xiaxue?

WCG 2007

http://asian.worldcybergames.com/index.php

2 more weeks till WCG Finals. My wish is just to put up a decent fight on the actual day (and claim my Samsung MP3 player! I know it's a prize, it's free, but I hope it's at least 1GB. Who still uses 512 or 256 ones nowadays?) I know the capabilities of my team. I mean, some of my team mates are good, but obviously can't pit themselves against top players from Zenith or Mi2 or MVP. And sometimes I feel like a baggage cos I don't think I am a very good player, I don't even believe in superb female players. Yes I'm being a little sexist here but after so many years of playing dota I haven't seen a really super zai female player who will make me go Wow. (and since ian is reading this, yes I lost Polly 1 on 1 ok.) I can never forget a furion player that I played with many months back. He had 2 rapiers and more than 20 kills and was on his way to 3rd rapier, w/o aegis, and that was at level 16.

Oh well. 2 more weeks! and 4 more weeks till I leave. Sob. Yay dear is getting me the nice sweater from Mango! Happy happy. I'm not a Mango fan but I really adore that sweater. So nice!

Zoo Zoo

I finally went Zoo with JL after 1.5 years! It was supposed to be our date last year's Vday.

I love the baby manatee that the zoo has. It's Dammmnnnn cute!

Hehehee. Saw the sloth bear too. This is a damn dumb question. But is a sloth bear = sloth??? JL always says I should be called a sloth instead of a duck since I am so nua.

What species do you get when you breed a duck and a pig anw? (private dota riddle)

To end off on an animal note, here's a cute clip courtesy of LCC.

I love her voice so much

And here's the live version. Just as good.

What I bought for JL

Hehehe you know what? These soft toys are 2/3 my thumb size (more apt to call them furry balls). Damn cuteeeeeee!!!!! Anw I used to be damn happy that my digicam is 10.1 MegaPixels. But now each pic is 4MB. Starting to regret. 4 Megapixels and 10 Megapixels pics don't really have much diff seriously unless you wanna blow it up.



Elmo hiding in my tissue box! (looks like a super comfy bed for him)



Cookie Monster helping with household chores.



Baby Big Bird. Haha.

Ok I really think they are damn cute. After "giving" them to JL I kinda regretted giving him. Haha so I asked him, "Can I not give you?"

He said, "ok loh."

Then I felt bad. "But I already gave u I can't pretend that I didn't give you. Why don't I give you already then you give me back."

"Cannot."

"Huh? Why cannot?"

"If you give me already I cannot give to other people one."

"Then how?"

"They are mine but I give u custody."



Ok. Better than nothing.

CQ gave me a makeover. so chio!

*btw I love my webcam cos it's freaking clear.

Somehow this pic reminds me of a rhino. Or a centaur.

this is funny. click to enlarge.

3am in the morning and I'm still up. Usually if I'm up at this time I would be playing games but this time I'm actually up as I'm catching up with friends online.. talking to shihui and huayang and listening to their problems. Haven't seen them for quite a while but I do miss them though we aren't really close..

After talking to them, I am glad I'm on good terms with my brother. I am hot tempered, sarcastic, sometimes very mean with words. (if you think that I have a nice temper, that's prob cos you are my friend. I am less tolerant towards my family and bf. Weird but isn't that the case for you too?) My brother, on the other hand, is more tamed, and won't really get super angry with u UNLESS U IRRITATE HIM WHEN HE'S IN A GAME. So frankly our characters don't really clash. Same for my bf. JL has a really nice temper. Can't imagine having a brother/bf with my kind of temper. Seriously. I think we will just cold war forever.

I think there's something wrong with my MSN. Everytime lionel chua chua chua and CQ and some pple will just suddenly msn me with the message "oei why so dao!". Then I'll be damn blur. Like since when? JL also said he msned me but I really didn't get his msg. And I didn't get the other pple's msg also. So if I bo chup u on MSN pls try to send me an sms. It's not becos I dao!

Ok getting sleepy le. Luckily dun have to wake up at 7am tmr! Nowadays I always wake up at 1am. Hahah this is a great life!

What I did today

Went to shop at Isetan with my 100 voucher. Ended up buying 2 Apples for 10 dollars.

Went to watch Harry Potter. Worse than Transformers.

Bought something small for my DEAARRR. But since he hasn't seen it I can't post the pics. Haha WAIT ok.

Ate Sashimi. Sometimes I seriously wonder if you can get killed from the "acute pain that having too much wasabi does to your brain".

Oh. I tried to buy insurance from NTUC too. But itts overseas student package SUCKS. No plan that covers GP visits.

Need to go cut hair/visit dentist before I fly. I'm going to miss my family and dear so much. Friends too lah but abit less ok. (nooooo don't get angry cos I'll miss you guys too!) Honestly, I am a boyfriend sucker. Haha.

Life is damn nua. I like.

Haven't really been talking to alot of people during my intern. Busy working/jamming/filming and stuff... Realized that alot of things have changed.

Friends broke up. Friends got attached. Friends got jobs. Friends looking for new jobs. This happened to this. That happened to that.

So sorry if I haven't been there if you needed me.

With a 830 to 6 intern I can barely balance my work with my family/bf/friends/myself... What if I go into more xiong industries in the future? It's really quite scary.

Kinda glad intern is over. Got more time to settle exchange stuff/meet up with friends/do music/wake up at noon everyday.

Seriously, I don't think I'll mind being a Tai Tai.

Back to climbing? Hmmm

Chris says:
why dont you start climbing again

Chris says:
start climbing with us la i think you went into it too fast and too hardcore liao

Chris says:
hardcore also must hardcore on artificial first

Chris says:
shouldnt let a bad experience take you away from the things we love

[manchi duck] selling labor econs/FAM/corp finance text says:
but a bad experience

[manchi duck] selling labor econs/FAM/corp finance text says:
changed it from something i love to something i don't quite love so much

happy happy happy

I am a happy girl today cos it was my last day of work! Back to days waking up at noon. Hahah. But I am quite upset also cos I miss EVERYONE. I wrote 20 cards for everyone in the office. Took me quite some timeeeee. My boss supposed to be at a conference today then he came back during lunch just to see me cos it was my last day. Damn sweet. Everyone came to my table to bid me farewell. Awwwwww. But I think my happiness > sadness.

The Bain & Co summer party went better than expected. Not like I managed to land an offer on the spot. But I think I made pretty sensible talks. But I was quite shocked cos I expected it to be like all NTU/SMU/NUS people (like the previous one they had that Edmund told me about). This one.. I went in and looked at the name list. OMG. harvard cambridge LSE Upenn Chicago Princeton Imperial... and a couple of local uni students. Stunned. Think I haven't felt so "pressured" in a while. Felt like a small peanut. Throwing egg against stone. But I CANT stand networking sessions because there are always some IRRITATING PEOPLE like some that you have in SMU who talk solely for the purpose of talking. I was on the topic of how ACs merely do data mining. Then this GUY interrupted and asked the big guy "so where do you guys find the information?". HELLO DUN ASK STUPID QUESTION CAN. all the bloomberg and shit and internet lah. then u think numbers magically appear meh. i hate it when people ask dumb questions.

Our band is going to appear on MASLink! wheee they did an interview with us during lunch today. Gonna do photoshoot in a few weeks time. Yay we're going to be famous because MAS is going to support us by exhausting its large pool of reserves. (which might be good in preventing asset and investment bubbles).

Received $100 Isetan Voucher for my performance too. Initially was $200 but they cut it down. But still very happy, though it's probably just enough to cover for all the cab fares when I go home from jamming.

My drummer is getting married next month! I'm going to his wedding. First time I'm invited to a MALAY wedding. Heeheee so excited! but i dunno anything. need to give ang pao? how much? then what time to go? (it wrote 11am to 5pm)

Tonight I planned a surprise party for my dearrrrrr. Wanted to get both his clique and the dota gang to go. But the dota gang couldn't make it. But the rest and us still had fun at brewerkz. Hope this will be a memorable birthday for him.

Yayy. Lazy days ahead.

Bumble Bee rocks

Apple's belated birthday

I like these people because...

Weizhong is like a kid sometimes, or rather, most of the time.

Ah Neh aka pregnant lady is a very sincere person. (hey we got cleavage!)

Apple has damn long eye lashes for a guy. Seriously. And he is the MOST HIMBO PERSON I HAVE KNOWN in the course of history. He is damn amazed by his own chest (but I don't know why cos it's all fats). He thinks that there's people with nipples 30cm in diameter. I believe that there may be people with 30cm AREOLA BUT DEFINITELY NOT NIPPLES! And I will never ever forget his PAGE TWO blunder. Epitome of HIMBO-ness.

A dream fulfilled...

These guys fulfilled my dream of playing as a keyboardist in a band. We played Superman, Here without you and Yellow that night. Turned out pretty not bad =) I was so scared I would end up playing wrong notes when I'm nervous cos there's almost a thousand people there but everything was fine in the end.

I always thought I had the passion to play but didn't know anyone who wanted to form a band... SMU has got SoundFoundry but not many bands there will need a keyboardist I think. And then I thought I was getting out of school and I don't think working people will have the time to jam. Either that or they're too old for those jamming stuff. So hey that was it, I wasn't going to perform anytime in my life already. But I'm glad I got to do it in the end. Really happy. Don't think I'll play in a band again, probably the closest I'll get to is to do gigs with my *secret friend* in pubs/restaurants. Hope that will materialize when I'm back from exchange. I like to play and I like the money too. Haha.

From left: Guitarist/Drummer/Keyboardist/Bassist(he plays in Timbre!)/Vocalist/Lead Guitarist


Oh yea my band was called One Night Stand. What an apt name, seriously.

Only another week to go. I'll miss the place and the people from my department.....

Can't wait to take my well deserved break before I go on exchange.

Today was our last jamming session. Kinda upset. Saw PRATTAAAZZZZ outside guitar 77. What a surprise! His company works him so hard. Poor thing. Performance in two days. Hope everything goes well. I'll be playing on a YAMAHA P-128 series (i think i got the model correct) on the actual day. The keyboard is damn nice. Got sudden urge to buy. Then can make my own midi files! but no money =/Who got spare 2K want to donate to Manchi Keyboard Foundation? You see my blog's heading? Got the I love kangkong whatever shit. I will put your name after "Junliang" ok. That space 2K only. You want to put your full name also can. Put your fathers mothers or grandparents also can. Whole family tree I also put. 2K only. Very cheap.

Oh I won a ramen treat from yingheng at table tennis during lunch just now. =D Ate that twice this week already. Damn nice!

I was damn pissed for a moment just now. PMS I think. Just can't believe she can get angry over such a small issue for such a long time when it's not even my fault. I hate it when she assumes she knows what's going on all the time when she doesn't (aka act smart). And then they always expect me to do this do that go out with them blah blah when it's not reciprocated. Or the very least appreciated. Sometimes I think to myself, so called good friends my ass, they didnt even bother to visit me when I had my climbing accident (or even call/sms/mail to see how I'm doing). I think it's time I'm giving up.

Hmm anw these days I've been thinking about the value of a masters in econs. I love the subject. But maybe the degree is not very helpful. Better off spending the money on an MBA. Oh well... met Wei Nurn for lunch yesterday. So glad we share the same views on certain issues. (I'm not alone!) We got common goal too! Lose our tummy. You know your tummy is getting fat when you realize that there's a lump of flesh preventing you from bending forward when you are in sitting position.

Going for Bain's recruitment summer party next friday. Anyone going too? I don't want to be alone cos I suck at networking. "Oh hi.. I am manchi, nice to meet you" That probably will be the only sentence I'll be using the whole evening. I think my ultimate interest lies in operations management, seriously.

Next week is my last week of interning. I'll MISS everyone. Everyone there is soooo super nice. Sigh.

Oh and prune juice really works for constipation. Confirm. I just tried it this afternoon.

Sometimes I feel so sorry for my dear because when I get PMS or when I'm in lousy mood I'll sort of vent it on him. It's not even his fault. (though sometimes it's his fault when he says stupid things to irritate me. lkdjsa;flkjalkfdsada) Next week is his birthday! This year his birthday is special. 070707! But I no money buy nice nice presents for him. Cos I am a poor intern. And I need to save for exchange. But I will honor my promise and bring him to zoo someday. (owe him that zoo thing since last year's Vday)

Tmr will be a happy day! I can already forecast cos of my psychic powers. Nice workout at the gym during lunch break and then meeting APPLE NEHNEH and GCB for dinner! happy happy. I think I'm really very easily satisfied.

This is what you call a very bad "caricature"

Hokkaido Fair

There was a mini hokkaido fair below lido on Saturday, selling seaweed and dried scallops and dried squid...

My mum recently got infected by this "eat healthy" virus. From drink soup --> eat rice and vegge and meat --> eat fruits sequence changed to eat sweet potato--> eat salad --> eat fruit --> drink soup --> eat rice and vegge and meat. Then she likes to add all the seaweed stuff cos it's healthy (that kind you see in miso soup).

So I saw all this diff varieties of seaweed at the fair and decided to buy for her. 3 types of seaweed:

1) throw in soup kind (aka miso soup kind)

2) need to soak for 30 mins then boil for 5 mins kind

3) white colour kind. (looks like the "moult" of snakes)

I bought all 3.

The auntie asked if I needed instruction sheet for 2) and I said YES cos I prob figured my mum wouldn't really know how to cook.

So just now, in the midst of my deep deep nice nice sleep (missing the drool only), she woke me up and said, "eh got 2 cannot eat". I was like HUH? Erm.. I think I spent quite abit of money buying the seaweed considering 1) was like 5 times more expensive than the usual ones you get in Singapore. So, I went to the kitchen. She said that 1) was okay. But she said 2) was too hard for consumption. Then she gave that "eat already sure cannot digest" face. So I tried. Hmm abit the hard. Why ah? I asked her if got soak 30 mins. She was quite shocked, "harh? must soak 30 mins ah? I soaked 10 mins only".

........

Then I asked her if she saw the instruction sheet.

"what instruction sheet?"

"the one that came along with the packet of seaweed"

"Hmmmm.." (then she looked at the dustbin)

Ok nvm. Then the 3) one. Haha that one is gross. It was white before you soak it. After that it became a light shade of green. My mum say it tasted like mucus. Seriously, where got anything in the world taste like mucus cept for mucus itself one? So I tasted it. Wah really like mucus. Now I know why they sold 3) mainly in powder form at the fair. Zzz

This is funny

The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly neologism contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words. The winners are:

1. Coffee (n.), the person upon whom one coughs.

2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.

3. Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.

10. Balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding hairline.

11. Testicle (n.), a humorous question on an exam.

16. Circumvent (n.), an opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men.

The Washington Post's Style Invitational also asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.

2. Foreploy (v): Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.

3. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, whichrenders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.

5. Sarchasm (n): The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.


*courtesy of neh neh (didn't know she got such good humor too!)

Jamming tonight was good. We didn't go to Guitar 77 in the end cos it was booked. Went to Wee Lee instead but seriously the guy sucked cos he forgot about our booking from 9 to 10 and gave it to someone else - coincidentally someone I know but someone I wasn't exactly pleased to see. But anw I'm quite glad cos my band members are quite talented. The guy who plays the drum and play the guitar and the bass. The guy who plays the guitar can play the bass (ok that's quite duh). The guy who plays the bass can play the drum. And the girl who plays the keyboard, erm, can play the keyboard. (NOOB!) Ok lah actually I can strum simple guitar chords. But I had to transpose one piece half a key up, so I got all the A#, C#, F#, G# (if it sharps look weird to you just take them as Bb, Db, Gb and Ab). And I don't know the fingering for those on a guitar. Oh well. So I think I'll stick to my keyboard for the moment.

We will be doing Superman, Here without you and Yellow tentatively. So exciting, to perform in front of a 1000 people with Tharman and Lee Hsien Loong there. Hope I dun screw up anything seriously. Maybe if I play well they will take me as their god-daughter.... NOT. (sorry for this damn cold and not very funny Borat Joke)

This morning some consultants from US came to brief us on the US economy. These guys are amazing. They know sooo much stuff. Housing industry, labor market, political system, GDP, int rates, laws and regulations, all the trends and history and so many other indicators and stuff of all the countries. These guys are good man. Respect.

Anyway, my short film clips for South West CDC are up!

http://www.yourfilm.sg/

I finally went gym today! (after complaining that my tummy is getting fat for a couple of weeks)

After that I went to shower (the shower facilities at MAS are damn nice. got dressing tables and dressing rooms with individual full length mirrors!!! too bad my hp camera is spoilt) and then did my steam bath. I got the whole steam room to myself haha. It was damn relaxing and calming! Before that I put all the moisturizers and stuff on my face so that I can have a steam facial at the same time. Hurhur.

I shall go gym on Wednesday again.

3 more weeks and my internship will end. Gonna miss the people so much I guess. Ohh today got so many pple back in office from hols. I ate chocs from Switz and mochi from Japan! yumyum. Think the calories I gained were more than those that I burnt while I was working out. Zzz.

And I haven't even started writing my paper. Stopped at cointegration test. Haven't done the GARCH and VECM models. Hope can start doing soon. I wanna like finish a paper before I leave. If not I'll probably extend my stay, which I really don't mind.

Wednesday going Guitar 77 to jam! First jamming session so excited heehee.

JL and I grew a tree from paper

I was digging JL's cupboard and like found this paper tree that he bought from Taiwan long long ago. I took it out from the package and set it up like that.

Then I followed the instructions and like bent the branches and poured the "magic water" in. (which I think is just sulphate solution)

Tiny crystals formed about half an hour later.

An hour later...

Ta-dahhh! The next morning!!! =D

Last night we had an rj class gathering. (Frank I know you are reading this and you missed it! you're like in Germany or something? Hurhur) So fun. Huilin is like going to do her Phd at cornell next year. Now she's working on some magnetic nano particle thing and like trying to see if they are capable of curing cancer. So many diff professions that all of us pursuing man. Doctors, Lawyers, Biotech engineers, pharmacists, scientists, and me, Economist? And it's so fun I really enjoyed myself cos it's not like in SMU where everyone talks about being in banks ALL THE TIME. This bank that bank this investment company and that one.. it's as if there's only ONE job in the whole market and that's like working in banks. It's so interesting to get in touch with other professions! Daniel agreed with me on that one. I'm sure he's sick of talking about medicine stuff ALL DAY LONG with the rest. And as usual Junwei is like one of the top guys in medicine again. Not surprising since he took 3 S papers back in JC and scored distinctions for all of them. Maybe he can be a plastic surgeon. Then the first thing he got to do is to bleach himself. Haha. Tried to POR wincy abit since I'll be staying with her when I'm at New York. Oh she found a job at Bank of America doing equities. So proud of her. and happy that she's happy with her bf. =)

Then today I finished my filming for CDC Southwest film festival. Here's one of the pics we took after the film. It's supposed to give the 70s/80s kind of feel. Haha. Douglas looks damn funny with the racquets. I think both of us were like the only ones who really dressed our parts =0

Yea then next week will be doing more filmings for MAS film competition. And then most probably I'll be doing the keyboard for a band to perform during Dinner and Dance. So got to go jam in studios on weekday nights. Still deciding if I should do it. Cos I dun really have jamming experience and I don't know how all these work so.. yea but worth a try if I'm not too burnt out by work and filming and meeting up with friends and spending time with my dEeaarrr.

Today I bought something for myself that I really like. I bought a Lonely Planet guide for USA! My 2nd guide book! Damn happy. I aspire to start a collection of guide books (and of cos go travelling) This time I'm determined to really really really backpack alone. Like as real as it can get. Haha I want to go to Yellowstone national park! And all the wildlife areas. Be a ranger or something hahaha. You know those kind you often see on national geographic? Damn cool man. And a pass is like for 7 days so you can imagine how BIG it is. Haha and I wanna go SO SO SO SO many places. Cities, slumps, the wild and stuff... I hope I have time and MONEY to go. So far it's already confirmed that I'm going CANADA to find my Uncle Harry, New York to find Vincy, Cali to find Varun, maybe Greg too? Not sure. But I wanna go Seattle and Boston and Washington and LA and so so many places. And go see all the mountains and animals. Oh yea I must must must try farm stay this time round =D Prob will work part time on campus there too. But seriously lonely planet guides are AMAZING. They have EVERYTHING. Hahah after my first guide book I was like so super addicted to DK Eye Witness becos of the SUPER nice and big pictures. I'm a visual person =p but then the guide doesn't really tell you the exact cost of the accomodation or meals and stuff but lonely planet has got all the telephone numbers the suggested routes and itineraries and what train to go where and take planes to wherever. OMG I'm so excited. I can't wait to start to plan everything. Seriously I tink planning is like the most exciting part. Followed by the execution. Haha.

Tmr I'm going back to sch gym. Sitting in office is making me fat. Like the tummy.

But now all I can do is think about my TRIP. Haha and I haven't touched Dota for 1 month already I think. So proud of myself. But that also means my team will probably lose quite (ok maybe it's very) badly in the Singapore WCG Championships 2007 this August. Haha.

Happy 1st month anniversary =)

Sarabande variations in D minor, Handel

JL likes waltz.es because they make him feel like dancing. I don't know of any real nice waltz.es so I played this Sarabande for him (song for a slow dance in triple metre). Coincidentally, it's one of my favourite lower-grade songs =)

*omg this is my 600th post!

This is freaking hilarious

If you know the Classical Song Canon (who doesn't), you have have have to watch this. This guy is damn funny!

my monkey!

my monkey likes banana.

You are my sunshine

You Are My Sunshine
My only sunshine.
You make me happy
When skies are grey.
You'll never know, dear,
How much I love you.
Please don't take my sunshine away

P.S. I didn't know just by adjusting the brightness of the photo you can get these kind of i-don't-know-what-to-call-them effects. Imagine what I can do if I have photoshop. Hohoho.

This makes me happieeeee

If you play Final Fantasy and you play Chocobo you got to watch this!

Weekend is here! Yay.

Sumino Hayato

Sometimes... I wonder if that's what I could have been if I had started learning when I was 2 or 3.



They are the ones who keep me going. =)

Dear and I met Ben for dinner tonight. Bakerzin's rum and raisin ice cream is so niceee! I want more ice cream now.. =/

After that I went to dear's place and took a late evening nap. (10pm to 11pm) I was damn tired. Then I was half sleeping and half watching this ghost show on channel 5. When the ghost appeared dear noticed that I was scared so he changed the channel for me without me having to say anything. So sweet. =D Then when I was half sleeping I nearly drooled on dear's bed again. zzz

Took a cab back (cabs cabs cabs. no money already sob sob) and it's like midnight now already. This whole week also slept at this time. Damn tired. But luckily intern is still quite fun. This afternoon we went KTV with HR department pple and the rest of the interns and ordered pizza in. Oh ya now I'm in love with avocado juice. Avocado + milk + honey. ooo yummy yummy. Then every morning I wake up no time for breakfast end up da-paoing my bee hoon from international plaza. Damn ex loh plain bee hoon is 2 bucks. Add egg and beans 3 bucks already. Simple breakfast so ex. My avocado juice 3.80. Though my intern pays 1K I think I won't end up saving much. => daily dose of breakfast and avocado juice and lunch and then tea break at coffee beans and then cab back at night if I meeting dear. NO MONEY. That's it. After my intern I must really go take up accounting assignments and pia and hopefully can earn a few thousands in the month before I leave. Actually intern passes so fast this time compared to last year's experience. I really like my intern cos I get to poke my nose into everything so it's not like boring. People there are so nice. You can just walk to someone's cubicle and chit chat for like half an hour and no one will really mind or backstab you. No office politics too. Oh yea I will be acting for dunno what CDC Northwing digital video competition and for the best film competition for MAS dinner and dance. Hehehe so fun! But I think will be very tiring cos got to film during lunch breaks and weekends! so fast 4 weeks passed. Another 4 more to go only.... Think I'll miss my colleagues.

There's this new intern at my place called ying heng who was from my junior class back in RJ (quite funny that I havent seen him before.) and he knows only dexter from my class. He got the MAS scholarship to go to Wharton to do his bachelor loh. And my supervisor is also taking the scholarship to do his MBA at Cambridge. Oh well I'm a little jealous but got nothing to say cos they are really zai. I think the main reason why I like my intern so much this time round is cos I don't feel stupid doing this whole stuff as I get to use my brains quite a bit. I like to see some damn chim equation or damn chim theory like the dunno what paradox I came across this morning or things like "time stress" (you actually become less happy as your income increases) and then I'll scratch my head quite abit and when I finally understand the whole thing there's like this immense satisfaction. And I really respect everyone in my department cos I think they are all damn zai at what they are doing. Imagine working in some shit company where you know more stuff than your boss does. Or hiring you as an intern to do something that some normal O level grads can do. That sucks.

Oh well, I'm tired, I'm drained but who cares cos the weekend is coming. I'm starting to miss my dear though I've just seen him like an hour ago. Hope can see him in my dreams tonight =)

Today was a good day because...

• La Senza had 50% off so I managed to grab 3 pieces of nice nice bras during my lunch break. (travelled down to vivocity! I love my long lunch break haha) Food at Food Republic there is not bad! I ate ba chor mee. The soup is damn nice.

• The hot cashier at La Senza was wearing a bra too big for her and a top which was too loose for her so when she bent down I saw her nipples. I don't know if it's a good or bad thing. She's got puny boobs but she's hot.

• My pants tore in the afternoon but my colleague was so nice she helped me sew up the hole!

• Went out for dinner with Cora, Da ni, Siwei and Joan. All of them haven't changed a bit. Kinda nostalgic. Oh the RGS days.... and they haven't stopped the joke about how I run like an ostrich. Zzzz

• Met my dearrrrrr after that to get his ties and belt. Can't wait for the weekend to come so I can spend more time with him.

To play classical, one must love classical music itself to play it well

~Maksim Mrvica

Are you my fwen?

Jessy and gang said they don't see their results on the scoreboard and that they can't even view the results in the first place so I thought there might be a bug or something. Removed the quiz but here are the answers anyway.

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Question #1
What fruit do I not like to eat?
Durian
Pineapple
Avocado
fig

Question #2
Which is my birthday month?
July
August
September
October

Question #3
How long have I known my boyfriend?
less than 6 months
6 months to 1 year
1 year to 2 years
more than 2 years

Question #4
Which of the following games do I not like to play?
Diablo
Warcraft
Starcraft
Counter Strike

Question #5
Which of the following sports do I not play?
Tennis
Table tennis
Basketball
Frisbee

Question #6
How old am I gonna be this year?
21
22
23
24

Question #7
How did I celebrate my birthday last year?
Safra Chalet
Lan Party at HQ
BBQ at ECP
Spa party with my girlies

Question #8
I talk about alot of friends on my blog. Who is not from Climb Team?
Lulu
GCB
Neh Neh
Apple

Question #9
How many kids do I want to have in the future?
None because they get on my nerves.
2 is just nice.
As many as my husband can support =)

I will opt for adoption.

Tonight

His words pierced my heart

My tears fell like the rain

Xiaxue is quite funny

I go to her blog like a few times a year. This morning, I saw a post of hers which is quite funny.

This is what she said.

Besides the usual no-thinker insults like,
- I am fat
- I am boring
- I am ugly

recently there are also some new interesting insults I have received:

1) I stay in a HDB flat.

Errrrrrr....... And so I stay in a 3-room hdb flat cos my family is not rich. SO WHAT?Honestly, if you think about it, so rich for WHAT? People will keep trying to borrow money from me lor!I then don't want that sort of burden. I think it's way better to act poor. =DLOL... It's so funny that people would tell me stuff like they stay in some shittyass private house and I am inferior to them.Trying to justify your life now aren't you?Why I wonder? Is it because you are ugly and lead a damn sad life? I won't trade a beautiful house for that. =)

2) Mike will dump me soon

Yes, he will definitely listen to you guys and dump me.That is why he had forsaken everything that is familiar to him in the US, got a mass reduction in his expected US salary, and come to Singapore to live in our terrible weather.;)

3) My neh nehs are very small.

NABEH NEH SMALL ALSO KENA!BIG say I look like slut, SMALL then say I airport - I can never win lor.



her site.
http://xiaxue.blogspot.com/

thanx for all the joy you have brought to my life =)

dick head.. literally

Hmm.. Brandon's right

spiderman3, oceans13, shrek3, pirates - yell if u wanna watch any of these says:
u don wan shit hours
u don want lousy pay

spiderman3, oceans13, shrek3, pirates - yell if u wanna watch any of these says:
wad u want

Jay Chou lookalike

*kopped from Jilyn

Happy Happy

Vesak Day was spent nua-ing at JL's home watching Army Daze and half of Hostel and sleeping for the rest of the time.

At night went for foot reflexology with him. Been months since the last session. But today it wasn't exceptionally good cos the pressure was not enough but I didn't want to tell the lady to apply more pressure as I guess it'll probably be very tiring for her. Next time we'll go for the upper body massage also. My shoulders and neck are aching! 5 more weeks till intern end. Intern has been good so far though I'm starting to get abit tired. Hehehe hopefully I'll get my freelance accountant job after that and earn more cash for my exchange.

Met up with Amsie and lloyd and emms and fatty ho for lunch on Tuesday. Such a nice gathering. Amsie's going New York in December and she told me she set aside 3-4K for 3 week's shopping. Crazy loh. I think I'll prob spend less than 1K in 4 months on shopping though it's probably quite cheap to do it there cos I'm not a really shopping person and more importantly my budget is super tight. (maybe when JL starts working I'll ask for allowance from him. HAHAHHAHA. But then again if I really ask I think he'll really give me, cos he'll say "In this relationship......")

Wheee when I go New York I'll stay with WINCY cos she's got an apartment there (and then she can take care of me). Then I'll take a coach to Canada (will pass by Boston!) and stay with Uncle Harry while his sons can show me around. Oh ya call me slow but it was only when Kenny told me over dinner on Wednesday that I realized SMU gonna start sem 2 a week later from next year onwards! So school will start like on the 8th Jan instead of the usual 2nd/3rd. Wheeeee.. which means I can stay overseas longer! Heheheee don't know where I should spend my white christmas...

Going US Embassy tmr for my visa interview. Hope I don't forget to bring any documents!

List of words/phrase most frequently used by JL

• Inefficient
• Divorce loh
• Max
• Ultimate
• In this relationship, I cannot get angry, I cannot make decisions, I cannot....

My first reaction when I saw this photo was omg this place rings a bell.

And then I saw the caption, Diamond Cave.

The place where I fell while leading and punctured my knee.




*picture courtesy of Stanley

This morning I woke up and looked at my alarm clock. Gosh it was already 740 when my work starts at 830. (and I had TWO alarm clocks to wake me up at 645 supposedly) So I called for a cab and then the computerized thing said "booking fee 4 dollars". Plus all the stupid ERP when I got there my cab fare was 30 bucks. HELLO. HAVE U TAKEN A 30 DOLLAR CAB BEFORE? Boon Lay take to Pasir Ris also not so ex loh.

2nd week of intern and I'm still feeling quite happy. Heheee it's quite fun cos I get to do different things every day, and I do learn quite abit from this intern compared to the sucky and lousy one previously. Today I scratched my head over all the econometrics stuff. Autoregression, cointegration test, augmented dickey fuller test.. they are like almost forgotten. But I'm deriving quite abit of pleasure from what I'm doing cos it's quite challenging. During lunch break I da pao food back and played table tennis and pool with the rest of the interns. So fun. 4pm went Hans for coffee break. I'm glad I haven't started the "internship countdown"

Oh ya.. who got US travel guides to lend me pls lend me knowwww!!!

I WAN A HEDGEHOG!

Cheap thrill is....

when you install D2 using pirated discs and then you install the expansion using original discs and you can still go bnet.

Yea I know D2 is like dunno how many freaking years ago de game but I'm getting bored of dota (and C&C3 does not deserve the hype). Like the chinese saying goes, wu di shi ji mo de.

aka Lonely is how you feel when you don't have worthy opponents.

WAHAHAHAHHA. ok that was a joke.

Today I went bras basah with JL then we saw this 4-5 year old kid who was lost and cried so hard cos he couldn't find his parents. Then I thought there was nothing we could do but wait with him for his parents to find us but JL was smart enough to ask him if he knew his parent's handphone number. Actually I think I would have asked if not for the fact that he was so young so I conveniently assumed that he wouldn't be able to memorize anything apart from his own name/his parents names/his siblings names and maybe house phone number and half his address but probably not handphone numbers.

Surprisingly right after JL asked if he knew his parent's handphone numbers he mumbled something then it took us quite a while to figure out they were actually numbers. The boy was damn cute lah he sounded like a record machine. It's like his parents made him memorize the number then he sort of recorded it in his mind so when you ask him for the number he just press "play" button and then keep repeating the number. Haha but he so poor thing cried so badly. Luckily we found his parents in the end. =)

I think JL is very kind and he also has very kind looking eyes.

I'm happy today because I bought piano sheet music for broadway musicals. And most of them are jazz!

Doggie style

Doggie did this to me just now and I swear I was traumatized.

The wonderful commentary was done by my brother.

2nd day of work is good too.

I love the environment. It's so spacious. Pantry is 10 steps away from me. I love the chrysanthemum tea and milo. The cuppocino also not bad but too bad I don't really like coffee.

I love reading econs articles when I'm free. I did a short write up on how FDI affects biz cycles, tech spillovers. institutional changes, tax structure... etc in the morning. During lunch break I took a cab to JL's place to surprise him. When I told him I was at his door he thought I was lying. Heheee then I took a very short nap but I didn't fall asleep, ate JL mum prepared de dry noodle and took a cab back to work.

When I got back in the afternoon I did abit of data mining on bloomberg for money market rates for my project. It was quite fun for me cos I seldom use bloomberg in school so it's like something new. And I didn't know that we can import all the data on bloomberg to excel spreadsheet in just a few steps. Was pretty amazed. Didn't know bloomberg got econs statistics too! Haha so sua koo.

This whole experience (though it's only been 2 days) really changed my perception of an internship. I used to think that internship=hardship+sai kang+paper work+ repetitive work but this is different. When I was told that I'll be working on a project with a senior I thought that he'll probably delegate all the things he didn't wanna do to me, like data mining and charting while he'll take charge of the rest of the project. But he is like a mentor, he guided me step-by-step while I'm sort of handling the project on my own. This morning, he told me my 8 weeks intern will probably be scheduled like this: first 2 weeks data mining on Bloomberg, next 2 weeks running regressions on eviews, last 4 weeks doing the write-up for the paper. (when he said "paper" my eyes lit up *bling bling* Will it be MY paper? Like "Hey I wrote an econs paper"!) But anyway I finished mining all the data like today. So I think my intern will go like this: 1st week data ming/calculating required data from raw data. 2nd week run regressions. (Learning GARCH and VECM models!) 3rd & 4th week writing paper. Hopefully got other interesting projects for me after that! If not I won't mind spending the rest of the time reading articles and papers, like going back to school lidat, cept for the long hours.

But my office very funny, got two pple bai ka. One lady she walk walk walk then fell and rolled on the floor so she got ankle sprain. Then her foot covered in cast. When she goes toilet she'll wrap with plastic bag. Then got another guy the toe fracture cos when he was crossing the road a motorcycle ran over his toe. Haha that one was damn funny.

Anw so many pple in my department got at least a Masters Degree. It's quite scary you know, when having a Masters is a norm and if you don't have one you're like "inferior". I think it's a research industry phenomenon.

Yup I'm penning my thoughts so that at the end of the internship it'll be easier for me to write my internship report. Hope got more things for me to learn along the way. Intern is good because it makes you think what you want in your job in the future. For me, I want a job with lots of variety (diff cases/problems to work on) and one that is challenging (extra hols will be a bonus). Imagine doing something after you've grad that a normal O level or A level student can do. That kinda feeling will probably suck. Hey I wasted my time getting a uni degree.

I'm really looking foward to the third day but the thought of waking up early is quite ewww. Still, better than my previous intern, when I go to sleep every night thinking to myself "I'm going to do the same thing tomorrow again."

Lam said that I've got to go Seattle when I'm on exchange.

Playing with doggie is so tiring.

Though I haven't been climbing for months, I am getting my regular dose of exercise by walking doggie.

Doggie loves to play with my tennis ball. He knows how to chase after the ball, catch the ball, but he doesn't know how to pass the ball back to me. Noob.

First day of intern is good. Learnt GARCH modelling which estimates the variance in the error term, esp in time series models with heteroskadasticity. A good start. Hope the rest of my days will be good.

My toes nearly died today. Cos I wore high heels. But I never cut my toe nails. Pain.

My hands itchy changed the blog skin then my tagboard gone. Hurhur. Will put it up again when I'm feeling less lazy.

28 weeks later, the sequel to 28 days later, is freaking good.

Zombie movies are my favourite favourite favourite and this show is really great. Not the best I've seen, but definitely above average for this kinda genre.

If you love gore you gotta watch this show.

Intern starting next week.

Have been spending lots of time with him. =)

Visa application at the US embassy is driving me crazy. So many problems.

I am most probably going Hawaii in Sept! Aloha!

AMK Crab Beehoon is damn damn damn good.

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I just received the package IIT sent me and OMG my exchange is going to be damn expensive. Air ticket + housing + meals alone already cost 10K. I figure I'll probably have to take coaches across states instead of taking planes if I wanna travel.

Kinda stressed.

But still looking forward to buying a US travel guide like I did for my UK trip. Planning for trips is always fun!

Hell is exothermic

Below is the answer to one of the questions by a student in McGill University for mid-term chemistry paper:Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)? Support your answer with a proof.

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyles Law (gas cools off when it expands and heats up when it is compressed) or some variant. One student, however, wrote the following:

First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So, we need to know the rate that souls are moving into Hell and the rate they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Some of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there are more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that most people and their souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyles Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand as souls are added.

This gives two possibilities. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose. Of course, if Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.

So which is it? If we accept the postulate given to me by Ms. Celine LeBlanc during my Freshman year - that "it will be a cold night in Hell before I sleep with you" - and take into account the fact that I still have not succeeded in having sexual relations with her, then (2) cannot be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic.

He is the only student who got an A.

Adapted from some random guy's blog that I chanced upon.

Ram for computer noobs

http://asia.cnet.com/reviews/pcperipherals/0,39051168,61968947-1,00.htm

Found this article useful for me since I'm considering upgrading my laptop RAM. Hope it'll be useful for you guys too. Oh yea you can actually go to kingston website to check out the max RAM your laptop can take! Didn't know that.

Spot what's similar in the photos!

In all of them, Qinglin pretended not to know us.

Lulu said her face is damn big.

I told her to "suck in" her face and helped to put her hair over her face.

Lalala. A smaller Lu Head.

Today was a fun day! Went for health screening at the clinic this afternoon with JL. (was supposed to do it yesterday but he said we got to fast. =/) 105 bucks screens cholesterol level blood count lah hep A and B, joint and bone, thyroid and some other stuff. I have a feeling that my cholesterol might be too high. Anw as usual the doctor couldn't locate the veins on my arms so he had to poke the needle into my only conspicous vein at my right wrist. I hate it when they poke my wrist cos it's freaking painful. And again as usual after he poked my wrist and took my blood sample I almost fainted. The doctor got quite worried but I told him that it was perfectly normal for me. I mean, I really fainted when I took my BCG in primary school. Then he said, "I am a doctor but I am also scared of getting poked. But I not scared of poking people." DUH. I also not scared.

Then at night got BBQ at Semb park with the dota guys. Called the BBQ guy to ask about our delivery. Then the pple there apparently forgot about our order and chu stunt and said, "But we delivered to you yesterday already." Ya right. Think I stupid or what. Dinner was not too bad. The Chicken Chop was good. Spicy chicken satay was good. Sambal Sotong was good. Stingray was abit yucks. Ohh I love the cheesy beef frank.

Life is really as slack as it can get. Life is good. Haha.

Tiny Terrier Saves 5 New Zealand Kids

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18428709/

The picture online isn't clear but I swear George (the dog) looks damn cute in the newspaper. Poor dog. =(

Spiderman Spiderman 3

My post is going to be damn short. But still may become a spoiler for some of you. Don't read if you don't intend to know part of the ending.

ZOMG Hames Franco is damn cute!

OMGWTFBBQ why he died in the end???!!!!!

A tinge of sadness =/

To Treat the Dead

Hey I still love bio a lot.


By Jerry Adler
Newsweek

May 7, 2007 issue - Consider someone who has just died of a heart attack. His organs are intact, he hasn't lost blood. All that's happened is his heart has stopped beating—the definition of "clinical death"—and his brain has shut down to conserve oxygen. But what has actually died?

As recently as 1993, when Dr. Sherwin Nuland wrote the best seller "How We Die," the conventional answer was that it was his cells that had died. The patient couldn't be revived because the tissues of his brain and heart had suffered irreversible damage from lack of oxygen. This process was understood to begin after just four or five minutes. If the patient doesn't receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation within that time, and if his heart can't be restarted soon thereafter, he is unlikely to recover. That dogma went unquestioned until researchers actually looked at oxygen-starved heart cells under a microscope. What they saw amazed them, according to Dr. Lance Becker, an authority on emergency medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. "After one hour," he says, "we couldn't see evidence the cells had died. We thought we'd done something wrong." In fact, cells cut off from their blood supply died only hours later.

But if the cells are still alive, why can't doctors revive someone who has been dead for an hour? Because once the cells have been without oxygen for more than five minutes, they die when their oxygen supply is resumed. It was that "astounding" discovery, Becker says, that led him to his post as the director of Penn's Center for Resuscitation Science, a newly created research institute operating on one of medicine's newest frontiers: treating the dead.

Biologists are still grappling with the implications of this new view of cell death—not passive extinguishment, like a candle flickering out when you cover it with a glass, but an active biochemical event triggered by "reperfusion," the resumption of oxygen supply. The research takes them deep into the machinery of the cell, to the tiny membrane-enclosed structures known as mitochondria where cellular fuel is oxidized to provide energy. Mitochondria control the process known as apoptosis, the programmed death of abnormal cells that is the body's primary defense against cancer. "It looks to us," says Becker, "as if the cellular surveillance mechanism cannot tell the difference between a cancer cell and a cell being reperfused with oxygen. Something throws the switch that makes the cell die."

With this realization came another: that standard emergency-room procedure has it exactly backward. When someone collapses on the street of cardiac arrest, if he's lucky he will receive immediate CPR, maintaining circulation until he can be revived in the hospital. But the rest will have gone 10 or 15 minutes or more without a heartbeat by the time they reach the emergency department. And then what happens? "We give them oxygen," Becker says. "We jolt the heart with the paddles, we pump in epinephrine to force it to beat, so it's taking up more oxygen." Blood-starved heart muscle is suddenly flooded with oxygen, precisely the situation that leads to cell death. Instead, Becker says, we should aim to reduce oxygen uptake, slow metabolism and adjust the blood chemistry for gradual and safe reperfusion.

Researchers are still working out how best to do this. A study at four hospitals, published last year by the University of California, showed a remarkable rate of success in treating sudden cardiac arrest with an approach that involved, among other things, a "cardioplegic" blood infusion to keep the heart in a state of suspended animation. Patients were put on a heart-lung bypass machine to maintain circulation to the brain until the heart could be safely restarted. The study involved just 34 patients, but 80 percent of them were discharged from the hospital alive. In one study of traditional methods, the figure was about 15 percent.

Becker also endorses hypothermia—lowering body temperature from 37 to 33 degrees Celsius—which appears to slow the chemical reactions touched off by reperfusion. He has developed an injectable slurry of salt and ice to cool the blood quickly that he hopes to make part of the standard emergency-response kit. "In an emergency department, you work like mad for half an hour on someone whose heart stopped, and finally someone says, 'I don't think we're going to get this guy back,' and then you just stop," Becker says. The body on the cart is dead, but its trillions of cells are all still alive. Becker wants to resolve that paradox in favor of life.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18368186/site/newsweek?GT1=9951