things at work are going haywire..
cant believe that somethings are happening..
pls dont come and pollute things i love..
poco princesa~because i was taught to dream
i've got a new neighbour after suffering an entire month of noise pollution from the massive make-over of the house next door.. it's not any quieter now though.. they've got a doggy which barks like crazy..
it's strange tt hearing the little creature's voice for the past few days cos i've no idea how it looks like.. high-pitch barks.. prob a small fella..
calm down little fella... you re so getting sore throat soon..
wishing tt i'll meet this darling.. time will unveil you... ...
poco princesa~because i was taught to dream
trying to stay focused and mug... but it's really difficult.. i need my hols.. but it will onli come in july.. argh..
poco princesa~because i was taught to dream
did smth real disastrous to my hair again.. not onli did i permed it again.. the hair stylist gave me a way too trendy happening perm tt i'm clueless bout how to dress up to compliment it.. i miss my not-tt-straight hair..
poco princesa~because i was taught to dream
finally managed to meet kit up to pass her bday presents and the long-forgotten hello kitty windchime from dec's japan trip..
hope our hk trip can work out this time.. been talking bout it for years and it never happened.. sigh.. cant wait for my summer shopping trip..
poco princesa~because i was taught to dream
from marina square -- Sell one get one free..
from the cathay @ dhoby gaut -- collecting good or bad hand chicken (shou ji) instead of handphones..it's puzzling how bad the chinese standard in spore is smth.. with min 10 years of mother tongue education, this is the kinda posters/adverts tt you see on the streets.. i always disagreed with moe's policy of introducing chinese B for students who cannot do well in chinese.. the language isnt tt hard to study frankly, you simply gotta be hardworking to remember how to write those words..
p.s. i'm not good with the chinese language either.. during my nygh days, i rmb tt i had to spend at least 3 or 4x the amt of time megan took in the subject.. somehow it was very hard for me to rmb how to write those words.. really vv hard, but my parents and the sch forced me to work hard for it.. and i'm glad they did..
poco princesa~because i was taught to dream
was suddenly rewarded with 2 entire days at home due to the reshuffling of timetable and the abrupt ending of pa lectures.. so instead of having to finish my biotech notes in 1 day, i've suddenly got 2 entire days, which leaves a lot of time for me to shop ard, surf net and watching random tv shows..
watched champs league this morn.. seriously think tt arsenal probably end up with a trophyless season again this time round.. somehow.. they just lack the killer instinct tt man u and chelsea (despite them ridiculously losing in turkey this morn) have.. furthermore, the gunners were playing very well in the match, the draw was really unlucky with helb's blatant penalty claim (the ref is blind or smth) and dunno y bentler slotted cesc's shot out of the box.. it really could be 3-1 instead..
den again, nobody believed arsenal would win smth this season when the season started.. the players are simply too fresh, too young, too inexperienced, that's wad everyone was saying.. well, wenger's kids have performed way better than expected already.. perhaps next season will be better..
anw.. was walking past raffles medical centre below my house.. and they re recruiting part time clinic assistant.. only have to work 2 nights a week.. quite tempting.. i think i need more relevant working experience.. but mom immediately poured cold water over me.. sigh.. i know i've got too many part-time affairs already but perhaps.. ... ...
poco princesa~because i was taught to dream
this is plain randomness..
happened to chance upon a pair of snails mating in the bushes near my house.. despite years of being glued to animal planet and national geographic, i've nv seen snails in action before..
they were really stuck together.. out of playfulness i tried to force them apart by tickling them with leaves.. but either they were too engrossed in their act of procreation or they were simply too slow to react..
so i left them alone, hopefully they are done before the sun rises, their slimy bodies will be baked by the sun if they continue to stay in this position..poco princesa~because i was taught to dream
was attempting with plin and san to fit each of our clinque members into the 7 dwarfs personality and this is wad we've got..
Doc, the leader of the 7 dwarfs-- San.. for claiming tt she's the moral compass of the clinque, for wearing glasses everyday..
Grumphy -- Manda.. cos she got lots to complain about..
Happy -- Mindy, who's blissfully soaked in love all day and everyday..
Sleepy -- who else but me?? haha.. almost all of them have acted as my human alarm clock for gatherings, mugging trips, school, work and exams..
Bashful -- Mon, obviously cos she's always so embarrassed when we all direct our attention at her.. and she's obviously bullied by everyone else all the time.. haha..
Sneezy -- Jiaen, the best candidate for this since she's always having rhinitis..
Dopey -- Plin, for her clumsiness and she looks so much like dopey in her over-sized looking labcoat..
bbm asked me wad he's be if he's in the story too.. haha.. well, he's definitely not snow white since he's brown and big and not pretty enough for the prince.. so i awarded him the title of being the fly tt is always pestering sleepy..
poco princesa~because i was taught to dream
finally after all the hard work put into the es project, our project results turn out to be even better than wad we would have imagined.. all the staying up till 5am and pia-ing in the ps room till 11pm was quite horrid.. i cant even rmb how many times i proofread and re-formatted the entire report.. luckily it all paid off-- like wad manda was saying, she'll quit sch if we dont get an A for our project man.. haha..
watched giselle in the park with my pharm clinque and bbm on sunday.. well, a bit strange to be watching in the midst of all the tests and with exams coming up.. but i guess is was all worth it.. was quite surprised tt everyone enjoyed the ballet so much (i was kinda worried tt it's boring for them)..
the atmosphere at fort canning was really good.. it seriously didnt fell like spore.. with alot of caucasians drinking wine and enjoying some really atas looking gourmet food everywhere ard you.. luckily, we had sushi, brie cheese and crackers, ribs and stuff too.. cant imagine if we were eating beehoon or how chai kway teo on our army-provided pinic mats (ground sheets) lah.. and the next time i go for ballet under the stars must bring wine!! haha.. tt will be real indulgence man..
The tragic yet beautiful love story of Giselle (from wiki) ---In the first act, a young, innocent village maiden named Giselle is in love with a man she knows only as Loys. In reality, the man is Albrecht, a nobleman disguised as a peasant, who is betrothed to Bathilde, daughter of the Duke. When Giselle discovers the deceit, she is inconsolable and goes mad, then dies; one version says she dies of a broken heart while another says she commits suicide in her madness.
In the second act, her undying love for Albrecht saves him from the wicked magic of the wilis, vampiric ghosts of betrothed girls who were betrayed by their lovers and died before their wedding day. Though their leader, Myrtha, Queen of the Wilis, forces Albrecht to dance again and again, Giselle intervenes long enough to spare his life and allow him to survive until the dawn. At sunrise, the wilis must return to their grave; Giselle must return as well but not before showing Albrecht that she forgives him for his treachery. The two pledge their love to each other and she descends back into her grave, but will forever be separated. Giselle is now a wili for the rest of eternity.
our pinic before the performance.. jiaen's home-made sushi and sandwich was so yummy.. but my fav goes to the honey roasted chix and the french brie with cracked pepper crackers..
monika's body paint.. haha.. the OFF spray acted as solvent and caused discolouration of jiaen's pinic mat.. but it's so green so monika anyway.. the funny part was tt it didnt came off with water so we sprayed even more OFF spray on her leg to dissolve the colour.. haha..
poco princesa~because i was taught to dream
u know when u re getting older when your frens start to all get attached..
and when everyone is talking bout job prospects and application..
and when u re approaching mid-twenties, u suddenly hv alot of wedding invitations..and doom day of thirty is here when your gatherings always end up as a child-care session..
all these stuff tt seems to distant to me in the past..
suddenly, i seem to find myself in this situation.. meeting ups with frens is getting harder and harder.. gotta make more advance bookings nowadays.. now i'm beginning to understand wad mommy says -- tt every best fren of mine is going to have their own life, their own family, spouse and home and u will get to see them less often even if u re still as close as before..
i still see myself as a "gal".. "woman" is such a foreign term to me.. yet, pple re starting to use this term on me and they dont seem awkward about it.. well, admit it gal, u re growing old..
received 2 big news today..
1) a close fren just got attached! sincerely congratulating her and blessing tt everything wont turn out well..
2) bbm got his pay rise and bonus.. hmmm.. although he's not vv happy over it, i tink it's rather good already.. i dont expect to have a pay rise until i work at least 2 yrs in a company.. frankly, i wont be a pharmacist if i want lotsa money.. the finance sector is so so much more lucrative.. but dunno whether it's me being too ideal or smth, i want my work to have a meaning, to make a diff in the lives of others.. at least i would feel tt i've got a more purposeful life so perhaps my life is "richer" in other aspects..
poco princesa~because i was taught to dream
been going quite alot of wedding dinners and ceremonies within the past yr.. okay, it's 3 in total but that's really alot by my stnd (the grand total of weddings tt i attended in spore for my 1st 21 yrs of life is like 3 at most)..
went furama riverfront yesterday.. and well, it's the least fav one i've attended so far.. i'm not talking bout the pple there since i kinda dun know anyone there.. it's the atmosphere i'm talking bout..
firstly, the ballroom has a horribly low celling.. a "stage" (less than 50cm tall) was placed in the center of the ballroom, and any guy who was walking across the "stage" had to bend low in order not to knock their head into the celling lights on top.. the lights, in my opinion was way way too huge to be placed in that ballroom tt has a really really low celling, i mean it's lower than the celling in my house and seriously i dont think a good interior designer would be done tt sorta designs.. chandeliers re supposed to make the place look grand, not crammed..
secondly, the ballroom is filled with pillars.. so pple sitting on the side tables cant see what was on the stage and pple sitting in the centre cant really see wad's on the projector screens which was on the sides of the ballroom.. haha..
thridly, the aisle for the march in was a mere 5m from the "stage", so the couple had to walk really extra slow and wave their hands like wad politicians do during GE.. it's well.. weird seriously.. no offence to whoever who arranged this but i dont think i'll fancy it when it's my turn..
or simply, this is not an ideal venue to hold a wedding dinner..
and smth else tt i shld rmb.. exclude steam live prawns from the menu, it's simply too troublesome to eat..
poco princesa~because i was taught to dream
steamboat at jiaen's house on thurs was fantastic.. the best part was tt her parents were not at home and we had the whole house to ourselves to yell, laugh and talk about even the most taboo topics..
left school at 5.30 (wanted to pon pk cls but the "moral compass" (sandra) of the group insisted tt we can pon cls) and went sheng siong to mai3 cai4 for our steamboat party.. bought 2 basket of food and rushed over to jiaen's house since all the little pigs were all so so hungry by 6 plus..
there was so much fun and laughter for the nite tt monika laughed till she hyperventilated and sandra was wheezing from laughter while the rest of us were tearing.. haha.. i always love this sorta girly parties..
there was so much fun and laughter for the nite tt monika laughed till she hyperventilated and sandra was wheezing from laughter while the rest of us were tearing.. haha.. i always love this sorta girly parties..
photo whoring in the kitchen..
yummy yummyz food.. the fish (which none of us knew wad fish was it) was fantastic)
some shots before commencing our buffet..
sandra was our prawn-peeler for the nite, thx so much gal..
from jiaen's wardrobe and a most interesting t-shirt tt i've seen.. how i wish i own it..
p.s. parry's reaction when we told him tt we re having steamboat after class-- "steamboat on thursday".. haha..
poco princesa~because i was taught to dream
to kit: okay, i'll attempt to blog a little more regularly..
somehow the sem became alot more laden than i expected it to be.. the initial plan was to simply heck care about all other stuff and simply conc on studies, just to pull my cap up tt tiny bit so i can safely to fyp.. seems like everything did not work well again.. i realised how much i love wasting time.. when i have extra time, i kept "ston-ning" it off and that's totally not helpful.. and so i went back to the hectic routine of working once again.. actually i tink i wont be doing this if not for all the new opportunities opened up to me.. no more simply staying at the door and waiting for the show to end.. now i have a say in how to run the event and i must say it feels good.. and i'm glad i have my own personal coach to guide me as i try, error and learn..
spent more than half my mid sem break working.. okay.. if mid-sem break is composed of 9 days (sun- sun), then i spent a grand total of 5 days working, 2 days on driving and 1 day sleeping, that kinda left 1 day for school work.. somehow i just cant feel the pressing need to mug and this is horrid..
but the intern opportunity really taught me quite some stuff.. now i can truly appreciate all the hard work tt's behind the scene.. it's alot more taxing and complicated that anyone would have imagined it to be.. although these re not must-know knowledge, it's still nice to know.. just like y i'm always watching animal planet or discovery channels..
caught Dim Sum Dollies: In the History of Spore the other day.. i tot i wont like it since i always find comedian musicals rubbish, but i was really wrong.. i actually really enjoyed it.. and i must say the atmosphere in the auditorium was fantastic.. it felt so like well, national day (even if it's no where near national day).. but it's good to see the crowd the spore dollies re drawing.. seems like the arts scene in spore has quite a good outlook.. next up-- Giselle in the Park on 30th march..
from animal planet: 40% of the world's coral would dead by 2010.. i rmb how i studied bout the great barrier reef in my pri sch days.. one of the world wonders.. feeling a bit disturbed by the fact tt one day, another world wonder will disappear from our world just like how most of the ancient world wonders had.. perhaps i'll make the great barrier reef the next travelling destination.. to see it before it disappears.
and i had a most wonderful 22nd bday back in jan..
celebrating bday with my pharmily gals.. all 7 of us in the lt.. how they managed to lit candles and stuff in the middle of lecture and w/o my knowledge at all??
with manda and my bday flowers from you-know-who.. the florist called in the middle of lecture to get me to collect the flowers.. big surprise.. was kinda suspicious though and tot it was a prank call or smth..
my specially ordered mango premium cake from emicakes frm the special someone.. okay.. the special order part is my fav cherries on the mango cake.. haha.. who else will think of adding cherries on mango cake???received the best bday gift i ever had.. it's a tiny muscial castle.. with a ballerina dancing in the middle of the castle as the "Dance of the Sugar Plum fairies" plays.. really love it..
thank you so much for everything..
our trip to minds cafe as bday celebration.. enjoying our pre-game lunch..
here's mindy, who's expert in hooking the monkey to the remaining sticks.. manda (facing the camera) in awe of mindy's skills..
mindy's version of a erm.. lollipop.. somehow onli plin is capable of being in the same frequency..
and our double helical uno stacko tt twist and turns as nucleotides re removed and used to extend the dna chain length.. copyrights of plin, manda, jiaen and me!!
gal power prevails.. it always still feels like i'm in a gals school.. but i love the girly closeness anyway.. thanks gals..jan-feb feels a little too exciting since my bday day was 1 week frm cny and cny 1 week frm vday.. which means tt i litterally had celebrations every week for 3 consecutive weeks.. kinda distracting to studies but well, there re many things tt re worth more than a uni grad cert..
reunion dinner at my distant relatives' place..
we bought the famous peng2 chai4..a hongkong tradition, the prawns, abalone, sea cucumber, roast meat. beg; layers of dishes piled in a huge claypot, many diff layers of complimentary flavours and texture..yummyz..
shanghai style sweet and sour fish by my aunt..
with a nice family photo of everyone before the start of this new year..valentine's day .. .. ..
no expensive fancy gifts or big big bouquets of flowers can compare to my vday gift..
an awfully chocolate cheesecake.. nope.. i dont mean the famous "awfully chocolate" shop.. but a homemade cheesecake tt had quite a bit too much butter and worn the wrong shirt colour (it was supposed to be white and not brown)..
a picture of how it was supposed to look like.. note: white choc button is supposed to be used, but norm choc button was used instead..didn't ate much of it but it was really surprising and touching to have a guy to be willing to bake for you.. i havent even really made a cake from scratch myself.. ... thank you so much my dear bbm..
a little secret of myself: i'm horribly scared of the sea cos the mystery waters below always feels like it's filled with sharks waiting to eat me (this is not a joke.. i really think so despite the fact tt animal planet reminds me so often tt sharks do not see human as prey)
it's cos of this fear tt i never went for OBS or attempted any water sports activity.. everyone thinks it's cos of the sun or smth but i'm never a gal who thinks i'll melt in the sun..
really very very touched for volunteering to help me to overcome my phobia..
Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning..Thanks for being the one..
poco princesa~because i was taught to dream
Okay, i've taken a long long break from blogging.. stayed away from the com the entire hols.. discovered tt i had wasted extremendous amt of my past hols on computer games, tv, and all sorts of things tt doesnt add much value to my life.. never truely understood the value of travelling till this year.. hated all the tours tt involved waking up real early each morning and spending a few days in foreign land didn't used to appeal to me.. perhaps i was too young and ignorant bout too many things in life..
my new year shall involved lotsa saving money.. shall really try to travel every hols tt i have and this wont come cheap.. but the experience from all the diff lands is really worth every cent of hard work and perhaps also less new clothes and bags.. haha..
here's a peep of my dec..
Experience Pharmacy Camp'07 (12-14th Dec'07)... ... ...
haha.. finally finished the last project i have with NUSPS (or so i think it's the last).. enjoyed it much better than the FOC.. maybe it's the better planning, or the meaning behind the project or even it's the pple who i'm working with.. i used to think tt pharm camp is a means to lure pple into pharmacy.. well, actually more than half these jc kids will not be able to make it into pharmacy.. but at least we did a good job in introducing the profession.. which appears to me as the more important aim of the camp compared to wad i tot previously..
Hong Kong (15th-30th Dec'07)... ... ...
the usual visitings and shopping actually.. it was pretty warm when i was there considering tt it's winter.. but at least i still got to wear my pretty winter clothings and my dearest boots (bought another brown pair for the tokyo trip).. haha..
Japan- Tokyo (18-22nd Dec'07)... ... ...
all the pretty bread (yes, real bread) tt is sold at the anpanman museum.. so nice and cute tt you cant really bear to eat them.. but it's real yummy..
i've discovered the secrets of disney land.. lots of colour makes it real magical.. my fav ride was the space mountain (indoor roller coaster which was pitch dark thru the ride and you simply just see comets, shooting stars and seas of stars everywhere ard you).. was a bit sad to leave this dreamland when i finally had to.. i wann be a princess in this enchanted land..
at the skiing resort at mt fuji.. in the midst of a snowball fight with bro.. haha.. 
i tot i'll never see any snow capped mountain more spectacular than mt everest and the himalaya range.. but i was wrong.. mt fuji had a totally diff feeling frm everest.. standing alone in the middle of no where with no neighbouring tall mountains, mt fuji was a breath-taking object of serenity..
wow.. wad's a trip w/o food.. haha.. a dinner with sashimi (loved the sea urchin and lobster sashimi) and an amazing collection of instant food from the convenience store.. nv ate any salmon sashimi fresher than this.. **nv use any sauce with real fresh food.. it's sweetness is beyond description.. dun tranish it..
our trip to sanrio puroland (aka hello kitty land).. it's really a place for kids.. but who cares.. it has my fav little twin star and their sanrio frens.. shopping for hello kitty here is fantastic despite the scary price tags.. lotsa limited edition hello kitty tt is exclusively available onli in sanrio puroland..
China- Macau (23rd Dec'07)... ... ...
been 3 years since my last visit there.. and there are at least twice as many big casinos there compared to merely 3 years ago.. couldn take pics since photography is banned in casinos.. went to the new venetian and re-visited gold sands..
bro and i.. bro attempted the walk around the observatory tower.. which was a bit too scary for me.. haha..
200 over metres of air below our feets.. supported by a mere slab of glass.. *trembling in fear*..
had portugese food for dinner.. this ordinary-looking dish is actually the tongue of cows.. mmm.. u need to kill 4 cows for this one plate.. sigh..
Singapore- Marina Bay Countdown (31st Dec'07-1st Jan'08)... ... ...
decided to finally step out of the comfort zone of my house and watching countdown from the tv screen.. squeezed into the crowds at marina bay for the countdown to 2008.. after all the trickery and mad dash, finally found a nice spot here the watefront 10 mins before 2008.. the fireworks was great and hopefully it will usher in a good year ahead for everyone..
it was an irony tt i sorta ended my fastastic hols with a terrible stomach flu.. 3 days of nothing but vomiting and fever followed by 2 days of diarrhoea.. haha.. well, hope i did manage to get rid of all the bad luck in me before school commences..
poco princesa~because i was taught to dream
been surfing the net and trying to plan a malaysia kelong trip!! it'll be an overnight stay, with fishing, island hopping and 5 great seafood meals in 2D1N.. imagine being out in the traquil south china sea and fishing in the middle of the night.. and the sizzling sound of the freshly caught fish on the frying pan.. they even have karoke system and mahjong for you to spend the night lor.. sounds cools, doesn't it??
will discuss this with plin and co after med chem.. but i need min 10 pax to make it cheaper.. mmm.. will try to look for more pple.. anyone interested just let me know k? Prob early january nxt year, before school starts..
poco princesa~because i was taught to dream
an extract of a very random mugging session:
Manda: I feel like a thumbdrive now, simply stuffing everything into my head.
Plin: No, I feel like a sponge. Keep putting information in and leaking them out at the same time.
-- typical life of pharmacy students--
poco princesa~because i was taught to dream
patho exam was really easy and i really mean it's really easy if you studied well.. and when you do't study well (like me).. you wish for a harder paper..
poco princesa~because i was taught to dream
the last med chem test results re out.. it was rather weird tt she split it into mcq and short-ans questions grades.. din do well as usual (luckily.. like the rest of the class.. for once it's not an entire list of almost straight A-grade)..
well.. my short answer is better than my mcq although i clearly rmb attempting only half the questions.. mmm.. maybe it's a good sign for the exams (open book plus NO mcq).. and the best part is tt it's open book.. this means that my brain can be pardoned from memorising once i survive thru these 3 days.. yeah..
poco princesa~because i was taught to dream
i really should be mugging.. haven covered 70% of my patho notes (and i mean haven touched them at all) while the exams is 1pm tml..
somehow my battery for mugging seemed to have burnt out long long time ago.. perhaps there had been simply too many tests this sem.. gotten so immune to everything.. yet i'm getting stressed tt i'm not studying.. wad a mess i'm in now.. crap..
i really enjoy reading my notes actually.. it's quite interesting yet why on earth re we trying to memorise every little detail.. we re not thumbdrive or smth.. have a horribly rubbish feeling now..
poco princesa~because i was taught to dream