Tuesday, August 29, 2006
i'm feeling quite frustrated.. firstly, there's school in which i don't understand much.. or maybe i can't be bothered to try to understand. :) but i really can't wait for february to come. i just printed out my accomodation form yesterday and i felt so excited. i was talking to sheryl online for a long long time about monash and stuff. OOH and turns out she's lynn's cousin! :) but anyway, i really can't wait to go over. secondly, there's the fact that all my friends are going away and i feel this sense of emptiness.. my dear xin, rui, nic, tzes, novella, chong, lyn, shun.. so many more people.. it's so saddening. then there's THAT THING that i've been thinking about so frequently these days. ugh.. i'm so so frustrated because i really feel quite at a loss now. :( i'm really hoping that i'll clear my mind up.. had a long long long talk with lynette the other day. but my mind is still a massive blur. i guess that's why i've been kinda cranky lately.
ugh what am i doing in ntu. i need to find something more productive to do. -.- this is potentially a complete waste of time and money.
bleh i'm so cranky. God, please show me something that would set me on the right path..
the other day i was listening to photograph by nickelback and i was feeling so upset..
Look at this photograph. Every time I do it makes me laugh..
How'd our eyes get so red? and what the hell is on Joey's head?
This is where i grew up.. I think the present owner fixed it up..
then some parts which i can't really discern and don't really feel like looking up.. haha :)
this is where i went to school.. most of the time had better things to do. (yeah! :) )
every memory of looking out the back door, I have all the photo albums littered on my bedroom floor. it's hard to say it, time to say it.. Goodbye, goodbye. Every memory of walking out the front door.. found the photo of the present i was looking for. It's hard to say it, time to say it.. Goodbye goodbye.
We used to listen to the radio.. sing along with every song we'd know..
I miss the town, i miss the faces. you can't erase, you can't replace it. I miss it now, I can't believe it.. so hard to stay too hard to leave it. I can relive those days, i know of one thing that would never change..
Look at this photograph, every time I do it makes me laugh.. every time i do it makes me cry..
This is just snippets of a very very nice song. This is also the entry of a very incoherent mind, but i feel better after letting it out. :) I love rgssb '03.. rjcsb '05 2S03G '05.. so many memories..
:) :) :) -hug hug-
4:47 PM
Sunday, August 27, 2006
test. apparently i have no more space in my archives.. test..
9:17 PM
hi hi this is the first post on my new laptop!!! :) so excitings.. the one i'm bringing to australia!!! :D anyway, today was a really nice day. i had a really really nice morning.. :) church was really nice today. :) ugh i'm feeling so retarded now. :(
anyway, the purpose of this post is to warn any readers.. BOYCOTT BOON LAY MRT TOILET!!! there was a sign that said pay 10 cents to use. since i didn't have 1o cents i gave 20 cents thinking i would get change. then when i told the aunty that i gave her 20 cents, she said "so?" then i was really dazed and pissed and went to the toilet which was really wet and gross :( waste of my money. :( irritating..
bleh ok i think i'll just end off here.. i just got this weird pop up.. no idea where it was from.. i'm quite annoyed..
9:09 PM
Sunday, August 20, 2006
last night's yiss was nice :) christian gave a really nice talk and i found it very very enjoyable :) :) ahhh.. it's so sad that the attendance is kind of dwindling. it's always the same people. don't really get to see many new faces. but it's nice to come together to praise and worship. my spritual life was almost non-existent before this yiss. i'm so glad that God brought me to this group, to meet these new people, to get to know those that i knew better.. I was a lost sheep, but He brought me back to Him and for that, I have a renewed faith, I have a started afresh. It's really different now.. I feel more whole and more complete and I'm truly thankful for all the blessings God has showered on me. This is definitely one of the things I'll miss the most when I go to Australia.. this monthly gathering, my brothers and sisters in Christ..
ugh i did something really unglam this morning :( after church, eunice and i took the bus home then it just so happened as we were walking towards the road leading into our estate, we saw mom's car turn out. she was picking us from outside so we were like oh crap!!! then we walked faster towards the bus stop. then we saw her start to move off so we were like OH CRAP!! so we i started to run.. i was wearing my heels :( eunice was yelling at me from behind that she couldn't run in slippers and so i continued to run.. and i couldn't run really fast and i looked so unglam!! :( so terrible.. and there were so many cars turning out and they all saw me looking unglam. haha oh well.. so embarrassing.. hopefully no one raises that.. the normally (rather) composed me running like a mad woman. -.-
the other morning i went to the toilet and i was really sleepy and i needed to pee really badly, so when i went in and closed the door, i took one step forward and looked down and there was a HUGE beetle on the floor!! i squeaked and almost peed there and then. how disgusting. :( i immediately ran out and went to another toilet :)
anyway, just random ramblings from me. :) gonna go to modular with Eunice later then I'm going to school with her because i have to do some work. >.< alrighty then.. God bless!!!
2:31 PM
Saturday, August 19, 2006
hm. i realised that in the last 2 weeks since i entered ntu, i have lost about 1 kg i think. i'm slightly more bony now. i think it's all the climbing of staircases to the 6th floor to my room, the walking up the slope from the bus stop, the mad-woman sprints to the shuttle bus, the terrible food, sleepless nights.. yup maybe this will be a good time for me to lose off the extra few kgs i put on in the past 1.5 years before i go to australia and live up to the first 15 theory!!! (which by the way states that anyone who goes overseas will put in 15 pounds in his or her first year.. actually i think it's more for the hers :( how tragic) ooh i can't wait to go to australia!!!! :D but i'll miss some things at ntu while i'm gone..
1. NUMBER ONE!!! my dear CSA!!! :) it really is like my family away from home. it's so nice being with them and just talking.. :) :) mass on wednesdays is something i really look forward to.
2. my dear (few) friends in sbs.. jia li keeka siyu jessica.. :D
3. french class!! i love learning french!!!!!! it's so so so fun!! hee i think i can speak french now. not fluently but hey.. it's a start especially since it's only been 2 lessons.
Je m'appelle Iris. Je suis estudiate en biologie. Je suis singapourienne. J'habite le campus.
bah. the grammer is completely off i think.. so is the spelling but then i;m too lazy to find all the es with the accents and stuff. but OOH it's so fun!! and the teacher is sooooooo cool!!! he's a french guy who learned tamil in france and he knows hokkien!!! he was saying that he's amazed by how effective hokkien was in scolding people. haha how amusing.. anyway, i'm back home and i'm going to try to get a good night's sleep. Good night and God bless~
12:08 AM
Thursday, August 17, 2006
hm to all the people who posted on my tagboard =), tzes, lorenda.. thanks so much for the well wishes :) it really means so much to me :D but I decided to accept Monash. The course is shorter and it's cheaper. :) which means i can start work earlier!! haha but oh well. :) i had a long talk with Lorenda today. We were just talking about school and how uni life is rather overwhelming.. I don't think i got off to a really good start here in ntu. as in i hardly know anybody.. not that i'm making much of an effort to get to know lots of people. Normally, I would be more.. extroverted I guess. I think there's a massive clique problem here. Well, not exactly a problem, I guess I would call it a tendency. I'm the only person in my school from RJ and it's quite strange being in an environment where you do'nt know anybody. I mean, in sec 1 it was different. Everyone didn't know everyone. And when I went to RJ, it was like going to RG again plus RI guys plus quite a few other people from other schools. and now I really know how they feel, and I must say that I admire them! :) it really isn't easy to try to get to know people who already know other people. AH.. although i'm rambling, you know what i mean.
so i went down to idp office today to submit my acceptance form! :) it was quite exciting.. :) I am so so thankful to God that He gave me this opportunity to study med!!!! right now i'm going to look for potential halls of residence. :D ooh so exciting!!!! :D i can't wait to go to Monash!! although i will miss all my dears here.. today there was mass at LT 6 in NIE and then after the thing sarah said that she heard that i was going to australia then i said yeah.. and she was like aww.. :) then alex, vanessa, becks, chelsea and i were talking and yeah.. it's really fun hanging out with them. i reeeeeallly love csa. :) i was in a horrible mood for like the WHOLE DAY but then after going for mass, i felt so much better.. more at peace. hee hee. during communion after i received the Body of Christ, I went to receive the Blood of Christ. When Greg held the cup to me there was a piece of the host floating inside and I was like ?! oh my goodness. then i just took a quick sip. vanessa was after me and when she sat down beside me, she asked me whether i noticed the small piece of the host floating in the cup and i said yeah and she said that she ate/drank it and i was like ?!?!?! :) so fun. then we had dinner that was catered for our welcome tea/dinner and it was very pleasant enjoying the fellowship of everybody. :)
ah. so late already. i have lecture tomorrow at 830. -.- i'll write about Inez's departure another day. hai. miss her. she's in the US already..
1:38 AM
Friday, August 11, 2006
I'm in a massive massive massive massive dilemma.. I was looking through the offer letter from Monash and to accept the offer and secure a place in the school of medicine, i have to pay a deposit of A$5000. So if I reject it and should an offer form Melbourne come my way, I or shall i say my parents, will lose that $5000. As it is, school fees are already so expensive. :( and I have until the 15th of September to confirm my place. :( this is terrible. i called Mr Lim and he told me that most people go with Monash. I guess it's because the course is shorter and the fees are not as exorbitant as that of Melbourne. But still, I have been wanting Melbourne for a long time.. praying about it and hoping for it. maybe i'm not meant to go to Melbourne. I think I'll wait until the end of the month.. I cannot let this opportunity go. In case, God forbid, that I don't get any other offers. But it's so upsetting. :( At this point in time, I'll just pray really really hard that Melbourne contacts me by 15th Sept. I hope anyone reading this prays for me too. I don't mean to say that a lot of people read my blog, but if anyone does, I really am quite upset about this, so please pray for me.. I want Melbourne.. and I want to be with my dear classmate, Lynn!!!! Please God, grant me my intentions..
4:30 PM
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
ooh i'm updating slightly more now. :) well, not really but anyway, i'm going to buy a laptop! :D -cheers- actually i'm still thinking about it, since i have a pc at home.. but yai mom and dad may use it from time to time.. and ah. i don't know. will think about it. i have like 3 months to think about it anyway.
yesterday was quite scary because i wanted to change the timing of my french module because the timing was like: 0830-1030 BS101 at LT20. then 1030-1130 French in TR 86 (which i have no idea where it is) then 1130-1330 BS101 (tutorial) at SBS-CR-4 so it's like a wild pig scamper to where ever i have to go. :) so amusing. but i didn't have any computer to borrow!! so i was panicky in case i didn't get the slot i wanted. so i rushed to the library and there were no computers available!! there were like 10 MILLION computers there but they were all taken! thank God for Ashley!! she came and we went scouting for a free computer and we ended up using the library browsing computer.. the OPAC. :) everyone else was doing it. Stupid subject registration. The websites kept hanging on me so i had to keep on pressing back. According to her, whether you get your desired module depends on how quickly your fingers can work. -.- so retarded.
yesterday we had 208 society dinner at vivvy's house!!! :D i love my dear 208 society!! it was really fun, but all of us were horrendously late except for hui yan and zengo. and vivvy of course. lorenda and i were at amk at like.. 6. and we were supposed to meet at 630. HAHA. Oafie was on the same train and at 615, shun ling called and asked where we were. she said she was at sembawang hills. which we all thought was at sembawang. HAHA. so entertaining. anyhoo, vivvy cooked us spaghetti, pizza, salad AND she baked brownies!! ooh.. culinary expert. she and shun ling are going to london and shun ling is so lucky!! shun was saying that when she's broke and hungry she'll go find vivvy. :) oafie and i said that vivvy can ship food to us. we send the "raw materials" and she sends us the finished product. haha. we're so full of rubbish. AND to make the night even sweeter, we watched pride and prejudice with colin firth!! -sigh- colin firth.
last week, mom and i went for high tea at the equinox. she had some voucher that entitled 2 people to a complimentary high tea which was really nice! they served quite nice things, but the thing that really fascinated me was the toilet there. it's really really nice! (this reminds me of that time robyn, chui ying and i were exploring the toilets at biopolis. HAHA) it's all closed and the rooms - not cubicles, rooms - are HUGE. it's like:
alrighty. enough about that. anyhoo, i think this post is long enough. God bless~
1:42 PM
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
hm. i haven't blogged in ages!! a lot of stuff happened recently, and i shall give a brief summary here. :D firstly, inez and i moved into our room at ntu last night!! we spent ages cleaning it so now it's nice and squeaky and clean.. and getting dirty again -.- but oh well. last night was hell.. both of us couldn't sleep. i was damn hot.. when i complained to tse min, she said she was freezing. hai. i still want my hall 3 or hall 16 but too late for that already. anyway, today was first lecture!! which ended at like 10.30am. -.- so i went to all kinds of places around ntu with jia li and jia ling!! :) they got hall 16!!! so nice can.. i went to their room and it's really like their room at home. they have teddy bears on the middle shelf, and all kinds of funny things. and the best part: a fridge and a dvd playerrr!! :( now i know where i'll be spending my 4 hour breaks. HAHA. AND i'm taking french too!! i just applied for my course today. i was really panicky during lecture this morning because i thought it would be taken up really quickly, since ntu doesn't have the bidding system but the first-come-first-served system. thank goodness jia ling was outside the lt with her laptop! so i quickly went to apply and i got it! first lesson is next monday. so excitingss. then i can come and bonjour everybody already.
there was also rg batch chalet!! which was so so so so so so fun!! :D i miss all my dears! and 208 society outing.. which i'm going for another one tmr cuz aunty vivvy is cooking us a meal before she flies to the uk. so terrible.. we should be cooking for her, but then we'd probably die of food poisoning ;)
and the highlight of today:
I got monash medicine!!!!!
Mr Lim called me this afternoon while i was in the comp lab (which is really quiet) and when he told me i was like ?!?!?!? -squeal- ?!?!?! -squeal some more- so it kind of resonated in the room. speaking of computers, i can buy a laptop!!! :D i'm going to buy an acer that weighs 1.36 kg!! so light and nice. :D at the computer fair next week. HEEEEE. so exciting!! i'm going to australia!!! it's nice to know i have a medical school waiting for me. i feel like a huge HUGE burden has been lifted off my shoulders.. hah. so pleasant. i'm going to australia!!!! i'm so thanksful to God that He has given me this chance.. He helped me during the awful ISAT, the interview.. He has been with me every every single step of the way and i'm so grateful and so happy!! :) i'm really high now and i'm so so thankful!! :) thank GOD for this.. without Him, nothing is possible!!!!!!!!!! :D now i'm just praying that i'll get melbourne if i can..
alright.. going back to my room. nightey!!
12:54 AM