As you can see from the countdown to my holiday, it has turned to all 0s, which means...

HOLIDAY IS HEREEEEEEEEE

This is great! 3 months is here... which means i'm a step closer to

• Mei's birthday!
• Bangkok Trip!
• GOING BACK INDO!!!
• KL Trip
• WPG 07
• and Lastly AUSTRALIA TRIP!!!!!!

This is a great lot of travelling i know.. It's just my great fortune to have great and supportive parents. But of course I'm paying for Bangkok myself.. although it's a very short trip but im sure it'll be fun exploring Siam. All those good n cheap food. For Dawn, she's DYING to eat donuts there. And then for us all, SHOPPING! Well i know that there's lots of worrying abt bombings and stuff, but hey there's always risk everywhere. And nothing is ever safe, so just enjoy the moment.

Of course there's my dearest friend birthday coming.. Well we more or less have planned wat to do. Of course i will be looking fwd to celebrate it. Now it's just a matter of the present... She better come up with that wish list soon.

I'm very much looking fwd to going back too. Cos i miss everyone back at home. And the other thing is that i have the car... So can drive as much as i want!! This time i'll hunt for their presents in Bangkok. At least something new to bring back. I think i have to bring a HUGE luggage for the trip man. How am I gonna stuff so many things. My cousin even asked me to buy 10 polo tees for him. IMagine 10!!!!

Anyway today I met up with Stef and Mei for dinner at Clarke Quay and boy Central has a lot of good and cheap japanese food!!! I love the place that we went to. We went to Wakaru and they serve really yummy udon and ramen. The cheese hotate was fantastic!! And it's not pricey at all. I want to try the authentic ramen stall just beside it. I forgot the name but they really serve simple dishes but really authentic. Even the shop itself gives you the atmosphere of Japan. Then there was the japanese western food restaurant. It looks pretty good too! It reminded me and meiyi of the japanese restaurant that we went to while we were in HK. We took lots of silly pics but the pics are all in Stef's camera.Well it was a very saturday night for me. I enjoyed it a lot. Everything just falls perfectly, just like how i want my weekend to be. Good company, good food and a Great time together.

Another day, I wanna do a photoshoot at Clarke Quay. It's a nice place to take pictures. But of course, that will have to wait till i get better lens. =) On the weekend, it truly comes alive to me and it'll be nice to be taking pictures of people, emotions on an iconic background.

I'm really considering of going to Botanics on Tuesday. It'll be a nice time to relax there. Or maybe play a game of frisbee, or two. hehehe.. Anybody wanna go???

when simple maths really got you thinking....

N: You see lin! this morning there's 4 dollars in my ez-link!! AND NOW! Only left with 10!!!
me: HaH? Huh?
N: Really!!! FROM 4 DOLLARS, And you see now...
me: HUH????
N: EHhhhhh... (burst into laughter)... sh*t haahahah.... i meant 14 bucks!
me: O.o!!!!! u are really mathematically challenged man! (laughs)

My first exam went pretty okay... But i dont think my essays were very good though, oh well but at least it was a good start to the exams. =)

Yesterday my church team lost during our captain's ball competition against AMK Methodist Church. It was a hard fight for both junior and senior team. What made it worse was that it was raining HEAVILY prior to the start of the match. It was postponed till the rain stopped. During the match it was very very slippery, well i didnt fall but my ankle is now rather painful since i didnt put on any ankle guard. At times, the opponents were rather irritating, flouting so many rules while their referees were slacking and ours was too awkward to point out. They were pretty rough too for a friendly match and somehow it just ignited my "wrath". Not exactly wrath but just exasperation and frustration from the constant snatching and hitting on the head. The other team even broke one of their glass window just to snatch the ball from us. That was the extent of the game.

But we had fun and at least we know that we must buck up for these games. We were also more untied than theirs at the least. We supported one another and i think it was good enough for us. Right now i'm in elaine office waiting for her to accompany me to the sinseh to fix my ankle. =(

an update for nana... (i cant afford 3 hourly updates... hope this will do! =p)

this is my 600th post!!!(whoaa!!)

and im 1 day away from the start of my exam and im about 6 days away from the end of it. I'm soooooo looking fwd to my holiday! The long awaited holiday!! 3 and a half months EXACTLY!

well the past few days have managed to do up some readings on sociology, this is the one module that looks easy but not so easy afterall since we need a lot of proofs and have to look at things from the sociologist's perspectives. But it is interesting just that reading the dready reports proved to be a very tedious and boring process. But i must read them so that some figures will hopefully stay in my head and i can use to them to my advantage. I managed to finish studying in time for my technical electives too! Basically something like core module for engineering. And then i'll be left with chinese, eng prof and law which can still be done the day before the exams. Thank god 2 exams are open book! and the closed books ones are ok in terms of their difficulties.

I'm sure a week would fly past and it will be the weekend and the start to my freedom!!! =p! but i seriously need a job in between or maybe anyone wanna support me?? (*wink2 at nat!!*) or maybe dream abt my dream cafe and probably do a research or work on the food stuff!

Well right now i just have this vision of opening a cafe. Im thinking of doing it when i go back indo. Why indo? Well in my town, all the cafes pretty sucks.. They serve good coffees, good ice cream but nothing on food. Opening here is a rather risky investment, as cafes are everywhere and then cost price and rentals cost are just too steep for an investor to gain a considerable amt of profit. Breaking the market in indo is definitely easier to do, especially since rich kids over there are pretty generous. =p. In my town, i can hardly find a good cafe place with yummy food. Most of the food are just fried stuff and the usual spaghetti, which is seriously boring to me. Definitely i have to test the market too with the kinds of food that im going to serve. It will be easy to rely on the younger genrations but im hoping that i can break into the elder generations market as well. If i can accustom the food to their tastebuds, it would definitely be a bonus point.

This vision is getting clearer each day! Especially with the encouragements from friends! =) And also from the daily food that i come up with. Thanks for Jamie's recipes, i learnt to modify certain stuff and make it very very yummy. Well i sure have learnt abt using herbs and in fact i think herbs play an important role in making your food yummy.

The plan is if the cafe does well in indo and I earn a lot a lot of profit from it, if I can afford it, I will definitely open 1 here. Here, I have Fidz who have offered to be my coffee connoiseur or maybe my baker! She can definitely bake!! I tried my hand at baking and i fared badly for it! I know i cant bake for nuts! I'll try slowly! At least i wanna try my hand at making meringue!!! I love to eat them! Especially the hard ones..

Ok im writing longer and longer post. I did not intend to write this much! Thanks to Hana!!! =___=... arghh.. im off to read more abt my sociology!( *back to reality mode*)

well since 2 people have talked abt their dark days and stress time, I shall share some of mine as well.

To me, the A's and O's were not all that stressful or tat scary. With the presence of 10 year series somehow i know and i have expectation as to what the questions will be like. I wasnt really struggling then but I know what motivated me the most. It was to beat my cousin's grade.. Haha.. well that was because my uncle pressured me so much and I was angry at him sometimes cos he really looked down on my schools and my grades. But had it not been for him, I think i wont do so well also. The exams wasnt scary but more of my uncle's nagging and scolding were pressurising. At least it gives me some passion and fire to study! I know during the O's i studied but not to the full potential. It was only in A's when I watched that Tamahome show... I cant remember the title but it was some anime by Watase Yuu.. i got encouraged by this character to LOVE studying. And tat actually made me in love with studying... I was prepared by the time it was prelim and i didnt have to do much studying after that...

I think my most stressful period is in the uni. WHen i entered the big ocean, I found myself to be really small and was swimming ard but cant seem to fit in. I had a lot of problems then, like studying or even doing things to my best ability. It's like my best is not the best yet. I had to deal a lot with my confidence level. My self esteem was gone by the time i finished my first year. I even went into a dark period with God. I couldnt face Him at all wat more to pray to Him. I was ashamed to face Him. But then encouragement from my DG group brought me up again. I found more friends. i got closer to Reina , Kenneth and Mike and those people helped me a lot. They indirectly caused me to be more relaxed and that I'm not alone in the big ocean. But yeah when it comes to exam, I do still get stress out! but not that bad anymore, since I've regained my confidence and self esteem. I was facing the pressure of how come i cannot do well just like the rest. But i realised everyone is not the same and that I just have to give everything my best even if it's not the best in the eyes of education.

I do want to graduate with honours, but in this ocean, I dont think it's quite possible for me now. Trying to increase my CAP is really like swimming against this strong current and almost seems impossible. But I'm doing my best to.

Now i'm dying to graduate. It's one more year to graduation and finally it's the day i've been looking fwd to. Not that im dying to enter the society but at least it's because it's the day that I end my education. I dont have an intention to further my studies. Enough is enough. NEither am i looking fwd to working alctually! haha.. After my studies i wish to take a break first. I dont know what Im going to do though. We'll see abt that. Come wat may.

with 1 more week before exam, there isn't much time for me to start studying! The last 3 days have been quite a hell for me.. Every night i have to go back to school and come back in the early wee hours for some sleep and then pull an all nighter again the next day! And it's all because of the robot. Just hours away from the presentation, it starts to fall apart. From the DC motor and now the gears! It's very tiring and very discouraging also. Everyone is putting their all and yet the robot is none too helpful either.

I'm physically drained as a result and i'm just hoping im not gonna be sick during the exams period. Everyday is full of activity about the robot and a lot of time wasted because of that too.

Well the presentation was supposed to be today, but apparently both the teams doing this project have failed to show that the robot is able to climb up the staircase. So the 'kind' prof decides to have another demo for it next wednesday! Which means we cant concentrate on our other subjects. If it's any help, this robot is 100% of the module's grade. We were so ready to relax after the presentation but with this 'chance' we have to rectify our technical problems and crack our head for some light on the programming. And worse still as days passed by more and more problems came up and it's all new problems. It's a tiring project all in all and my time is truly robbed by it. My weekend is burnt. I had been planning that on weekdays i will study doubly hard while i enjoy the weekend. But now looks like there's no such privillege for me anymore.

ArGh@!

(courtesy of Stef's blog)

My definition of weekend.... STRESS-FREE!!!

Well, the past few weeks i've been chased after deadlines non stop by all the modules.. To the point that my brain got 'damaged' and i was on a total brain dead system.. Basically i just went blank, i couldn't really do anything and when i have to think or rake my brain for ideas or something, i just get really tired and i lost focus. That period where my brain malfunctioned was really bad as the deadline kept on coming one after another. And then teammates pushing u on and making you feel as if you've not done anything at all, the pressure just adds on. Thank god for the good friday long weekend, i was able to relax my poor brain and recharge the system.

On Good Friday, mei and I visited stef's church. Well somehow i still prefer my own church, i guess cos it's small and everyone knows everyone. It just feels cosy. Where after the service ended there's always that refreshment session where we all have breakfast and we catch up with one another. Although sometimes the speakers can get too carried away and go too deep into a message and gets boring, but I have grown accustomed to it and I could still feel the camaderie of the church. I guess now i can safely say that although there may be good or bad management in the church, ultimately it is God's plan and we are not really in a position to challenge them or to judge them but to follow and let God take the lead for He knows what is best for us.

Anyway sat and sun i spent the day reading my readings stack, baking chicken pie, uzapping.. and in the nights, I enjoyed the company of nata's mum and aunt. Her aunt gave me lots of good advices to improve that chicken pie.. (It's already fantastic in the first try!)

Well im awaiting for this week to be over, cos when it's over... I'm only left with one thing! EXAM!!!! should be able to cope this time round!