complexity.me.

2008-09-25T23:51:00.003+08:00

ok i have decided. when i become old i am going to be a super compliant and obedient old woman. so my children wun hate me and not want to care about me. just went for lydia's cofm patient home visit and that is what i gathered. the visit kinda left me in a depressed mood cos i realised we cant do anything much to help solve the problem the family had. hai this really makes me realise our inadequacies and how many things are out of ur control even though u really wan to help.

well at least the week is drawing to an end! one day of public hol to look forward to next week! =)) this is the first week of my following of dr srid. i have heard so many horror stories about him dat by the time monday came, i have already braced myself to endure hell. haha. apparently he expects his students to know all the patients and also clerk all the new cases. i ended up wasting time copying stuff from the case files. really dunno where is the learning point. hai. but so far he has been pretty nice (at least not nasty) to me. i really really hope it continues. gosh

hc130 met up for one last meetup before ys leaves for london. venue was of cos MISS CLARITY! haha~ we really shared so much fun and memories at that place leh. the food was as nice as ever and mudooze was just heavenly. we played a time capsule kinda thing there. it was suan's suggestion. so we all wrote notes about the other 3 pple, like how the person will be like in 5 years' time. haha. it was pretty fun. suan is supposed to keep all the notes. den we will all read on 20th sep 2013.

after that we went to national library to play our fav 'superman' game in the glass elevator. haha~ this time we nv stretch out our arms too high cos we are old.
after that we went to take neoprints! haha we were like 10 years older den everyone else in the neoprint shop. i doubt i will ever take another neoprint again except with hc130. hahaha~~

went to t3 on sunday nite to send off ys! we bought a milo package for him as farewell gift. haha~ i was really sad to see him go! really feel v bu4 she3 de2 when he went through the glass door. it will be soooo long till the next time we meetup again!

2008-09-14T22:11:00.004+08:00

ahh its 3 weeks into the medicine posting at cgh and i feel as if i havent learnt anything! tink the only thing i perfected these few weeks is to draw curtains. my most important job during ward rounds is to draw curtains while the doctors are examining the patients. haha~~ and i am too lazy to stay back to clerk patients. i tink i clerk the least compared to everyone in my cg. oh no oh no.

but at least patho Ca is over! though i tink i sure fail. need some divine intervention to pass. i realised skimming through the notes is not enough to pass. cant rem lotsa stuff during the mcq. prac was even worse. i totally had NO IDEA what the first picture was. i wrote that it was a bone in the end cos i din wanna just leave the question blank and stone for 8 mins. haha it turned out that it was the aorta. good job swim.

we had some relaxation time after patho! good food @wheelock place den kbox! as we were walking down orchard road from wheelock to cine we were wondering when will be the next time we can be so carefree. sads.

yisheng's bday last thurs! bowwow and i went down to his house from cgh and were the 2 earliest to arrive after damian! now hc130 are all officially 21! haha hc130 didnt have time to meet up before that to make yisheng's photo board (our unique, one-and-only 21st bday presents for each other!), so suan, ger and i had to hide in ys's room to chiong to make his present. v funny cos we had to ban him from entering his own room and we used his scissors, glue etc to make HIS PRESENT. hehe. but we were all v pro by now since its our 4th board. finished v quickly and it was v chio! haha~~ ys is leaving for london soon so hc130 will be seperated for a longlong time.. ahh i feel sad just thinking abt it!

2008-08-19T16:11:00.004+08:00

feeling like an absolute slacker. haha shopped the whole day yesterday and slacked the whole day at home today. did i mention how i absolutely love the feeling of having nothing to do? haha~ one week break is too short!!! ahhh

lunched at crystal jade lamian xiaolongbao yesterday and had tea at shokudo japanese coffee house. gosh the tofu cheesecake there is super uber nice!!! drooolsssss

i wanna eat again!!

anyway. i was really sad when the usa basketball team thrashed spain. was hoping that spain could stage an upset. looks like team usa is unstoppable so far though. btw, here are 2 of my highlights of this year's games: 17-year-old spain's basketball prodigy ricky rubio, and who else, the one and only michael phelps!!

2008-08-17T14:09:00.002+08:00

had my end-of-posting test yesterday! and it marked the end of my 8-week posting in surgery in sgh~~ was really pretty nervous abt the eopt the day before. felt like i din noe anything and was pretty sure the examiners will stump me with questions. turned out that my examiners seemed to be in a hurry to leave. they only spent like 5 min on discussion after i presented. haha~ din even see my physical examination. they seemed to be pretty happy with me leh even praised my history and said it was 'very sound' and that i had 'a good understanding of wats going on'. haha crazy. the truth is i tink i missed out super alot of things in my presentation. my diagnosis is prob wrong as well. just thank goodness i met examiners with low expectations. heh

after the test ate at fish and co in novena square with my cg! =)) heard about ae's complaints about how 'the 2 girls keep calling me to sign dunno wat shit'. cant believe how imaginative he is. crazy. we only like called him ONCE in WEEKS. crazy fellow. just my luck to get him.

after lunch daryl, elvin, bowwwow and i went to cine kbox! haha~~ fun fun~ one week hols next yay!!!

2008-08-12T23:00:00.002+08:00

haha hc130 met up again this year to celebrate national day together! we met at bugis cold storage to buy stuff to make sushi again~~ heheh..

this time we were so efficient. cooked the rice, cut the cucumbers and carrots, fried the omelette and unagi, boiled the crab sticks!! haha we are pro. so proud of the feast we made for ourselves in such a short time! heh we sat down to a feast and watched the national day parade together with suan's family. matthew also came to join us awhile later! haha~ we saw fireworks from suan's room!

den we hung ard to watch abit of olympics gymnastics while eating mochi, green tea ice cream. heh~ suan's mum made yummy avocado juice!

2008-08-12T22:23:00.003+08:00

ok i am having wednesday-blues now. had an extended weekend cos my cg had nothing on in sgh today, and yuenmei and i decided to pon yesterday's patho lecture and tutorial in nus yesterday. haha~~

anyway, i tink my house's tv is going to explode from all the olympics i watch. i have totally no QC and watch literally EVERYTHING. hah. my favourites are of cos basketball, beach volleyball, and swimming! michael phelps so shuai! haha and i watch gymnastics and synchronised swimming too. i even watch wrestling. spent a good one hour watching wrestling today cos i wanted to find out how exactly does one win in wrestling. i even went to do research cos i couldnt figure it out. here's wat i learnt:

the object of the sport of wrestling is to put your opponent on his back -- to pin your opponent.

A pin (or fall) is when you put your opponent on his/her back with any part of both shoulders or both shoulder blades of your opponent in contact with the mat for two seconds. When you pin your opponent, the match is over and you are the winner.

If nobody gets pinned, the winner is the wrestler who has scored the most points during the match..

There are five ways to score points in a wrestling match:

1) Takedown - (2 points) You score two points for taking your opponent down to the mat and controlling him/her.

2) Escape - (1 point) You score one point for getting away or getting to a neutral position when your opponent has you down on the mat.

3) Reversal - (2 points) You score two points when your opponent has you down on the mat and you come from underneath and gain control of your opponent.

4) Near Fall (Back Points) - (2 or 3 points) You get near fall points when you almost but not quite get your opponent pinned. A near fall (near pin) is when...

both shoulders are held for two seconds within four inches of the mat, or...

one shoulder touches the mat and the other shoulder is at a 45 degree angle coming down to the mat, or...

the wrestler is held in a high bridge or back on both elbows.

If a near fall lasts for two seconds, you get 2 points. If a near fall lasts for 5 seconds, you get 3 points.

pretty cheem huh. haha i tink i will be a much better student if i was as self-motivated in my studies as i am in watching olympics.

btw, my end of posting test is this saturday! haha~~ i tink i am a goner, cant get into the mode of preparing for it with too much distraction coming from the olympics. hai but the olympics is once every 4 years leh...

shall get back to my case write up.. shall update on national day with hc130 once i get my hands on yisheng's new sony-alpha camera photos!!

2008-08-05T21:42:00.010+08:00

okie i have decided to resurrect my blog. i suddenly realised i m aging fast and i wanna keep track of all my experiences when i am still young. 7 weeks spent in sgh's surgical department has made me feel that life is much more fragile den we tink. and that aging is a sin. i remember talking to this 80 year old ahpek one day, even joking with him, and the next day, he passed away of complications from operation.

anyway, after getting over the initial shock of 7am-6pm days in sgh, we started to 'adapt' to life. haha most of the adapting was via reverting to our ponning ways of cos, cutting late lectures and seminars. heh. plus our timetable got slacker as the weeks go by, so life is actually pretty relaxing. i am also getting used to not being able to answer questions during tutorials and feeling like an idiot through and through. haha. all of these just takes enough practice.

of cos there are fun stuff to do too. heh i like my cg more and more. its full of gossip-mongers. =)) and we are pretty drama.

haha since i havent been updating since dunno when, i cant really rem wat i have been doing during this period of time. haha~~
some random photos from some of the outings i went to and still bothered to take photos. =))

bowwwow and i ate porridge @ chinatown today before going school! we had an atypical school day which started at 3pm today~ uber shiok. we ended off our lunch with durian puffs from this famous stall called 717~ best durian puffs i ever tasted!there are even durian seeds in the durian puffs!!!

damian's birthday!

muahaha i went to donate blood with qt and jm! i ended up as the only one who successfully donated blood cos qt had hypotension and jm's vein kept collapsing.

fa lun gong @ kim gary vivo!!

candy floss @ nydc with bowwow. think it must have been some ponning day. cant rem.

mummy and i went for eason chen's moving on stage concert last sat! my lousy camera couldnt pick up any nice photos~ super angry. eason dances v well! though i could hardly understand a word of wat he's saying as he addressed the crowd in cantonese.

2008-06-12T02:06:00.002+08:00

grr i am so angry now. put my money on exact score of 2-1 to portugal on the portugal-czech republic match. and the score was standing at 2-1 all the way to the 90th minute when stupid portugal decided to score another goal. arrgh. disappointment.
sadsadsadsad.

2008-06-03T13:20:00.002+08:00

7 weeks of clinical skills foundation course just blew past just like that! although i must say that we had a relatively slacker timetable at NUH compared to those at TTSH, i still felt like i learned more in these 7 weeks compared to my first 2 years in medicine. tink bedside tutorials, the experience of actually talking to and examining the patients gave me a much better 'feel' of wat being a doctor is like. although it also made us see how stupid and lacking in skills we are.
haha i still rem how enthu we were during the first week of csfc, even staying back in the wards after tutorials to clerk patients and take histories. haha~ it was then when we had this damn funny experience: a few of us were reading through the case file of a patient when we realised that under the column of drug allergies there was something listed as ' NKDA'. so the few of us tried to figure out what drug it stands for. somebody even said he was positive that its some diabetic drug, and all of us said we would go back to check our pharmaco textbooks. haha. of course there was no such drug and NKDA actually means 'no known drug allergies'. hahaha~~ tink its one of the stupid things u make as a dumbass medical student, things that we will laugh about in the years to come after we become fully-fledged doctors.

but tink generally the course was enriching la. we had v nice tutors! also learnt alot from talking to patients. not necessarily medically related stuff, but also heard their life stories and experiences.

ahh just 3 weeks to rot before school starts again!

2008-05-14T22:02:00.004+08:00

ok i have decided to resurrect my blog. haha. some random photos.

anthon's 21st birthday at Au Petit Salut!

OT scrub-in during our CSFC course!! sua gu us were excitedly taking photos ard the empty OT. haha.

2008-02-23T01:59:00.002+08:00

I m blogging using my iPod touch now! Haha mugging overnight with qt at the airport! Struggling. Think such high intensity mugging dun really suit me. I wanna go home and sleep!

2008-02-11T19:27:00.001+08:00

Surf and Sweat with some 2Aliens! we all miss captain's ball! we played much better than expected. actually won both our group games and got into the next round! too bad it started rainin and the whole thing was cancelled. we kept telling ourselves we could have been champs. hahaa~~
pretty fun huddling together under the 100plus umbrella while we waited for the rain to stop. but very cold.

alot of familiar faces at the event. met cherie and co, charmaine, some of my bball juniors and senior.

2008-02-11T19:18:00.000+08:00

Happy CNY!!! 恭喜呀恭喜，发呀发大财！！muahaha~ last CNY at this house.. moving house in march!

2008-01-31T00:06:00.000+08:00

hc130 met for lunch last sun! but miss clarity was closed! boohoo. ger craved for tiramisu latte at coffee club, so we ate at coffee club at raffles city instead. pleasantly surprised tt they serve really yummy food at coffee club too! i shall eat there more often!

2008-01-26T17:23:00.000+08:00

haha qt and i were quite surprised when shirley asked us out for a dinner treat. haha~ really like this manager of mine. although there were times when she was so unreasonable when we were working for her, she was generally v nice to us.. rem she kept saying that both of us are her 'teachers'. haha i really cant rem wat the hell did we teach her besides so english pronunciations. haha~~

anw, there was no sch on that day (wed) so met bowwow at vivo first for lunch @kim gary and den to mug at pacific coffee. haha i really like pacific coffee branch at vivo! tink its a nice place to mug or chill.

haha i was trying to look like i was studying hard but din realise the book was on the cover page. woops. it was a ultra unproductive day of studying patho.

shirley was late as usual. rem how she always reached the office at 10am even though work was supposed to start at 8thirty. bleah~ qt and i ended up shopping for pretty long while waiting for her. we had dinner at Thai Accent, which was shirley's treat, den both of us decided to treat her to choc fondue @ Haagen Daaz. haha ultra sinful!
shirley is still as funny as ever. like how she always 'haolian' abt herself and appeared so happy when she thought tt she looked as young as the both of us in the photo. hahahah~~

2008-01-14T01:36:00.000+08:00

gym+fish&co+chill at coffee bean. been so long since we last had a nice long talk tog! both of us just happened to be in a talkative mood. =))
looking forward to playing captain's ball together again for Surf and Sweat!

2008-01-10T22:49:00.000+08:00

haha i just went to sign up for singtel's mio plan. din realise i have been overpaying at my lousy 1Mbps broadband for almost one year. under the new plan now i will pay a lower price for higher speed broadband, plus i get to change a new phone and get a ipod touch! haha so happy!

too bad i can only get my ipod touch in feb. so excited.

2008-01-09T23:55:00.000+08:00

1-day break after first day of school. who says medical students have a hard life?
gelare waffles + kboxing with bowwow~ both of us somehow thought today was a tuesday. obviously today is wed and we had no half-priced waffles. =( blur us.

2008-01-08T21:51:00.000+08:00

musuem trip with mr wong! haha~ if not for mr wong i doubt i will ever step into the musuem for the whole of my life. turned out to be a fun experience though. even pretty enriching. hc130 met up for chicken rice lunch before meeting the rest. we bought donuts for the rest as xmas present! wrote lotsa childish things on the box and made the others guess if its really donuts inside. typical hc130!

haha maris back=dhs bball girls meet-up time.. dinner @ esplanade, pubbing+playin cards games with funny forfeits, roti prata and daohuay for supper.
took 7N back with angela, yy and pk. we din realise 7N is different from NR 7 until the bus reached pasir ris. so the 3 of them couldnt go home. ange and pk ended up cabbing while yy stayed over at my place.

bball at eunos cc! been ages since we last played together! i tink we are still zai. haha~~ but i sweated like crazy only after one game and was struggling to catch my breath. gosh. but still fun!

first day of the new sem today. tink my bacteriology exam is gone-case.

start of a new year! jiayou shinwei!! ajaaja fighting!

2007-12-21T00:29:00.000+08:00

kbox with bowwow + XO fish head noodles & desserts at 2am dessert bar

loved the desserts!! and kbox is cheap now! $12.50 for 2-7pm with lotsa food included. haha~~

played bball and soccer from 6 to 10.30pm today. siao. mingze, yiwei, jm and i stayed on to play soccer after all the rest of the pple playing bball with us left. haha i realised i have impressive soccer skills. muahaha! den we played 2 on2 bball again. mingze and i kept calling one another 'auntie' and 'uncle' cos we were super tired and slow by that time. den we called jm and yw 'xiao lian eh' (young ones)

bleah when will i start studying? everynight i tell myself the next day shall be the day i will start. but there is always something else to do the next day.

2007-12-17T15:08:00.000+08:00

gosh i cant even last fifteen minutes on a threadmill now. haha. gymmed with yy and for the first time since i knew her she outlasted me in jogging. heh.. but we gymmed for 2 hrs so i felt pretty accomplished. like the new tampines gym alot. new and has a pretty view of the pool. dinnered at pastamania! haha been awhile since i last ate at pasta. reminds me of 71 everytime i go there.

pretty surprised when falungong wanted to meet up for a 'go temple cum blading' session. haha! i have nvr got asked to go temple together by friends. super special huh. had katong laksa with qt and wl before tt. the intense heat that day made us change our minds abt blading. haha so we decided to sing k instead. wl brought us to this 'la sub ktv' (dirty ktv) at dhoby gaut called dynasty. haha i alr heard abt it but nvr ever had to guts to go there. once outta the lift, we were greeted by blown up posters of the 'girls'. haha! super sleezy!
the whole place was super dodgy la! haha~~ but they had flat screen tv and the system was much nicer than kbox's. one screen will randomly flash photos of the 'girls' and their call numbers. my guy friends went crazy over 'lulu', who looks really pretty. haizz..
dinner @ plaza sing. coffee @ starbucks before qt's dad gave us a lift back.

i tink i ran a red light with camera yesterday. fine line btw orange and red light. v scared now. daddy says its 6points and 300 bucks fine.

2007-12-12T20:19:00.000+08:00

ok i have officially started to peel from the bintan trip. haha time to send skin flakes flying all over my room. eeeks. heh~~

sunday night was fun. met falungong plus mingze and yiwei at teoheng for ktv. we kept counting the number of veins that pop up on yiwei's neck when he is struggling to reach the high notes. haha! qiuting and i were tryin to identify the veins. i cant rem anything except external jugular vein. i tried to gek out some veins too but the guys say they couldnt see any cos i got a fat neck. sobs. den yiwei and i tried to imitate 杨宗伟's expression while singing 新不了情。heh!!

went to the furniture fair on mon.. after looking at all the designs there i got pretty excited over my new room's decor. hmm.. i feel like doing away with a study table in my new room, since i dun usually study in my room anw (i usually study in front of the tv in the living room) heh.. liddat i will have enough space to set up a chill-out corner and put in my stereo set etc. hmm i shall decide again.

watched 'the warlords' with junjia and 2 of her friends at shaw prince! haha her friend had tickets to the preview and she asked me along cos we are fellow takeshi die-hard fans! heh~ still rem the time when we chionged to catch a glimpse of takeshi in real life when he came to singapore for his last movie 'perhaps love'.. ahh feels like quite long ago le.
warlords was really nice!! super my kind of show la, alot of fighting and action. haha! and takeshi is still as shuai as ever. muacksss!!
after the movie we went for supper at the hongkong cafe at katong. haha i like sitting in jj's car. i never had to chance to drive at 130km/h cos my parents will prob die of heart attacks if i do. even when i drive alone i drive slowly cos i m afraid i will lose my way. haha!

a fren recommended me to watch this jap drama called 'galileo' or 神探伽利略. its sth like 'kindaichi', which got me pretty hooked years ago. haha spent the day watching it. damn nice!

2007-12-12T00:12:00.000+08:00

04s71 has talked abt an overseas trip together for ages since we graduated.. and thanks to the initiative and hard work by khengwee, our trip to bintan finally materialised! only 7 pple though: lileng, suan, bowwow, me, ys, kiwi and anthon who joined us late. it was a 2day1night trip, starting on the 7th, which meant that bowwow and i had to miss the last day of school. haha we were saying that even if there was no bintan trip we would have ponned the last day of school anyway. oops.
met bowwow at pasir ris mrt at 6.45am. super duper early. my dad drove us to the tanah merah ferry terminal. haha~ yisheng,suan and lileng bought one big bag of food cos they knew that food in bintan is super ex.

yisheng bowwow and i played asshole daidee and indian poker on the ferry and got super high over nothing, esp during indian poker. haha~ soon we were in bintan!!

took a bus into the bintan lagoon resorts. the weather was surprisingly good and pretty sunny. but too bad the sea sports were all closed as it was the monsoon season. after dropping off our stuff and changing we rushed off and embraced the ocean!! haha!! the ocean was pretty nice with big crashing waves~~

we got challenged to a game of beach volleyball by the lifeguards on the beach. haha losers had to treat the winners to coke. we stupidly agreed before knowing that each can of coke there costs a whole S$5!!! haha although they openly 'gave chance' we still lost in the end (although we played v well by our own standards). heh! so in the end we treated the lifeguards to a round of coke while complaining that we were cheated. haha~~

spent the rest of the morning photo-whoring and playing in the sea.

ate instant noodles and sandwiches in the room as lunch. haha! we were feeling a tad bit sad for ourselves but looked forward to our buffet dinner!!

in the afternoon we nua-ed around for awhile before renting bikes and cycling. haha the bikes there were super laoyapok. the gears were mostly not working. and the area ard our resort was really not suitable for cycling as there were alot of steep slopes and we kept struggling to get up the slopes. we saw a korean girl fall from her bike on one of the slopes. she ended up with rather bad cuts....

anthon joined us in the evening and we went off for our buffet dinner!! the buffet was pretty lousy considering the price we paid. haha~~ den we went to the bar at the lobby for drinks! it was anthon's treat!! =))

we were all super tired at night. bowwow and i fell asleep while watching survivor. haha~ the next morning we were the latest cos we refused to wake up even after kiwi's morning call. buffet breakfast, den off to the beach! but it started to rain so we ran back to the rooms for shelter. by the time we reached our rooms we were all drenched though so we ended up dancin and singing in the rain. haha!! it was super fun. really zi high.

instant noodle lunch again, den we checked out of our rooms and nua-ed at the leisure centre in the resort. mahjong + i played abit of some random game on anthon's psp. i want psp!

dinner+uno while waiting+ indian poker on the way back. heh=)
ahh i am sunburnt!

2007-12-05T21:48:00.000+08:00

frog leg porridge at geylang with yy!

we went to check out the renovated Kallang Leisure Park before that. used to be one of our hang-outs in our Dunman days. haha the bowling centre and ice skating rink look pretty cool, but not all the shops are open yet.
we ended up being too early for dinner cos there was nothing to shop, ended up walking from leisure park to the geylang lor 3 for the famous frog leg porridge. hehe~~ buy 3 frogs get 2 frogs free! v yummy, more yummy den the one i went to during night cycling with 71. =))

bintan trip on fri!! haha ponning patho prac and tutorial. bowwow and i were saying we should hold a celebration in bintan to celebrate one month of ponning patho tuts and pracs. haha we offically ponned 4 consecutive weekly patho pracs=1 month anniversary! muahaha~ hope bintan trip will be fun!!!!!

2007-12-02T12:32:00.000+08:00

CAs ended! not much of a diff for me since i have been watching quite alot of shows even BEFORE the exams, only diff now is that i can watch them without guilt now! =)) new show 斗牛要不要 is out! its about basketball and has my favourite mike he in it, so i m super excited. heh..

i passed microbiology, immuno and cofm CAs! haha pretty pleased with myself cos din expect to pass after hearing that abt 20% of the cohort failed microb.. bowwow and i were so worried before the patho CA about our microbiology results (instead of being worried for the patho ca. thankfully the 2 slackest girls in medicine still managed to pass. barely though. haha!

got up at 8 am today to meet mingze and yiwei to play ball. haha i havent woken up so early on a sunday for ages. but the guys are old friends and ball mates whom i havent met for awhile. haha we had fun playin 1 vs 1 vs 1. chatted for quite long under the hot sun. i feel tanned and healthy! feel so revitalised now after a ball game and a nice shower, even though i woke up so early. tink i should do this more often, instead of lazing my sunday mornings away. heh~ alright new resolution on the list: bball/morning jog @ 8thirty every sun!

gg to meet yy to check out kallang leisure park after its rebuilt. i havent been there for ages! haha we shall have frog leg porridge for dinner~!

2007-11-10T17:42:00.000+08:00

ahh 3 more papers 2 weeks later, and i am in a holiday mood. dun really see the point of studying after the immunology and microbiology papers this week. i ended up tikaming most of the questions even though i had studied for the papers. so sian. and cofm turned out to be a major smoking session. tink i wrote alot of crap in the paper.

bowwow and i went to kbox immediately after the papers on wed. haha we got a super big room for more than 10 pple even thought there were only 2 of us. super shiok!!

met edwin, junwen and zhencang for lunch at seoul garden yesterday. haha shiok. we ate 3 rounds. general food, den one round of prawns only, den ice cream and we made coke floats too for desserts.

went to edwin's house to play mahjong and hearts till quite late after that. poor zhencang kept getting 'targeted'. hehee he ended up the biggest loser of the day.

ooh i am suddenly hooked on korean dramas again! just finished watching ' the 1st shop of coffee prince' on mysoju.com.. loved it alot!! shall watch surgeon bong dal hee next! heard from damian that its v nice.

2007-10-22T17:16:00.000+08:00

my flat unit was sold yesterday! now i gotta find a new home within a months time, or i will either have to sleep on the streets or live with the renovators ard the jan period next yr. gosh.

my cousin got married last week! wedding dinner was held last mon at novotel hotel at clarke quay. i shared 2 glasses of red wine with my bro, though i had the most of it. haha woke up with an hangover the next morning.

my gorgeous cousins. wonder why my cam causes evil glints in everyone's eyes.

crashed the earlier phar tutorial slot today. got quite pissed with some pple. grrr. but i only have myself to blame. should have studied hard.

2007-10-01T23:12:00.000+08:00

one week of mid-sem break flew past just like that. returned to sch today feeling as though there was never a one-week break.

guess part of the reason why the week flew past was cos i was busy going house-hunting with my family. yes, i am going to move! bad news is, i m most prob going to move back to pasir ris. so i will still be stuck in ulu malu pasir ris.

went kboxing with yanling, bowwow, winghong, and cliff; dinner at xinwang cafe @cine. we did wat med pple seem to love to do-- gossip the whole night long. haha!

nite cycling with 04s71 on fri! bowwow and i went off to have a quick dinner at the hongkong cafe at ECP while the guys were waiting for hanjie to come.haha we were too hungry! i had the super yummy polo bun while bowwow ate ham and egg noodles! haha~~

6 night cyclers this time: bowwow and i were the only 2 girls (as usual), plus anthon, mao, kiwi and hanjie. the new bike rental shop at ECP was v cheap! 8 bucks for overnight bikes. plus free drink. not to mention they provided us with bike lights and baskets. haha~~ unfortunately the cheap bikes got us into deep trouble. bowwow's bike had lousy gears and she was struggling with it. so the guys took turns on her bike the whole journey. den anthon's bike chain came off and we took super long to fix it. by 11thirty we were still stuck along Ford road. haha..

we still managed to go to 3 places though. went to Lao Pa Sat for satays and stingray, den Swensens for icecream and Geylang for frogleg porridge and the Youtiao Dawang! we were kept entertained throughout by mao. he is still as funny as ever.
no pictures this time cos no photographer yisheng! =((

2007-09-23T01:53:00.000+08:00

end of the last week of school before the mid sem break! one week of relaxation and fun to look forward to! yay~~ time to meet up with frens, shop, wake up late and to catch up on some work.

past week was fun. yummy and cheap lunch with yanling,jk,wuchiao and kailiang at the new suki sushi outlet at AMK. everything at half price!! immensely happy as we left the restaurant with full stomachs. =))

had tues off, so yuenmei and i mugged at national lib and lunched at miss clarity. bought ingredients to make choc truffles! i bought a new backpack at bugis street on impluse. i tink i wun use it. bleah..

lousy wed. went to sch specially for an one hr plus PBL. my total travelling time to and fro exceeded 3 hrs cos i missed 2 95 buses cos they were totally packed. went off to take 151 instead upon missing the 2nd 95. the stupid 151 was non air con as usual, which made my foul mood worse. sweated like hell.

thurs was an early day, so bowwow and i decided to make our choc truffles over at her house!! i had sudden carving for the XO fish head noodles again, so we went to eat at clementi central first before gg to her house. haha this time i had one whole bowl of the fish head noodles by myself!! super yummy! haha~~
choc truffles was considered a success! at first we were quite scared tt we will screw up. haha~ but everything went well. tink the hardest part was the waiting for the truffles to freeze part. the truffles were still super soft and liquid-like even after we put them in the freezer for almost an hour. we kept taking out the truffles to see if they were ready though. haha i even dozed off for awhile on bowwow's comfy bed while waiting. muahaha~~
all my truffles were melting by the time i reached home anw, since i unfortunately boarded a non-airconditioned 151 AGAIN. i reshaped and refroze everything and coated the truffles in milo powder again. so the truffles tasted even nicer than the original cos of the extra milo powder. hehe~~ my pig brother gobbled half of them up..

maf celebrations at grandma's tonight! every year my family will meet up to celb maf at grandma's. damn funny to see all my little cousins together. i see amanda and aloysius often but rarely see them both with jasper and zhiyu too! the 4 kids cant stop arguing/fighting over stuff; esp aloysius and zhiyu. haha~~ zhiyu has this immensely high-pitched scream.super scary. no wonder i felt abit short on hearing when i left grandma's.

2007-09-16T01:37:00.000+08:00

just got back from hwa chong's maf celebrations. took the night rider from bugis cos i was feeling too broke to take a cab. its my first time taking the night rider. NR7's new route stops directly in front of my house, so that means i can save on cab fare when i hang out late!!

went to AMK Hub today with mum and bro. we were going to eat sushi at the newly opened suki sushi outlet at AMK cos they were having a super hua suan promotion. unfortunately after we went all the way there, we realised tt the queue was 2 hrs long. siaoz.. so we ended up eating at soup restaurant instead. had my favourite samsui chicken and we tried the new dish 东坡肉. super fattening. the bill came up to 50 plus bucks although we only ordered 3 dishes plus rice. super shocking. i hate 7% GST.

after eating mum and i shopped ard AMK hub and the NTUC hypermart there. i suddenly decided to buy ingredients for sushi so that i can make sushi for my family to try tmr. haha! i hope i didnt forget how to make the sushi that HC130 made the last time. yisheng izzit 4cups of rice to 4cups of water? or izzit 3? so we bought jap rice, vinegar, cucumber, unagi and crab sticks. hopefully it will turn out ok. i m quite scared.

took 74 from AMK to Hwa chong for MAF! 71 had a v low-key maf this year. cos the turnout was the lousiest among all these years. haha~ maf clashed with lileng's dance concert in NUS, so the guys and suan already bought tickets to support lileng's performance. so basically only gilyn, junjia, aman, ailin and me were there to represent 04S71. haha first time we lost out to 03 and 05s71 in terms of attendance.

we talked to Mr Wong for awhile before ailin, gily, junjia and i headed off to island creamery for ice-cream before the light up. i had my fav teh tarik flavoured ice cream! yay~~ we went to pee after we reached HC, so we missed the light up. haha! din see the fireball. but the lightings this year are really nice!!

we stoned at the class bench for some time. haha. we keep asking ourselves whether izzit very pathetic if we just sat at the class bench throughout for MAf. haha so in the end we decided to walk ard. realised MAF is really v special cos almost EVERYONE comes back. got to see alot of pple that i havent seen for some time.

i went to join the councillors for the song and dance session. haha song and dance with councillors is always damn high. realised councillors know how to '自high' quite well. =))

frantic rush to take photos with diff groups of pple, ECACO, council, anat group, sec sch classmates. by the time i went back to the class bench i was super thirsty and losing my voice from all the shouting over the phone and cheering. ailin and i managed to con a 34th councillor into selling us a can of drink and a cup of corn for 50cents. haha!

junjia drove us down to meet the guys for supper. turned out that only damian came to join us though. haha~ chatted over prata and teh peng. we had a good laugh at mr wong's sms. here's how it goes:

'It was really nice seeing so many members of the class today. What I shall remember most about 71 is the solidarity of spirit shown and the sincerity of friendship shared. What impresses me too is the admirable humility of so many of you who are indisputably high achievers on your own terms. Wanted to catch up with all of you on a one-to-one basis, but think we were somewhat pressed for time today.. We'll meet again end of the year outside of college. Should be a nice change. Can meet for dinner at say, Marche or something.'

the idea of meetin with mr wong 'one-to-one' seriously scares me. i tink i prob need to bring along a dictionary. meeting up at marche sounds good though, though i wonder when we will ever get down to planning that meeting. heh~

funny though mr wong's sms may seem, i tink he simply phrased wat 71 pple really tink in more beautiful phrases and better vocab. i tink i agree mostly on the part on 'solidarity of spirit and sincerity of friendship'. so rock on, 04s71!! yay

2007-09-09T21:01:00.001+08:00

trying in vain to chiong and finish watching the taiwanese serial' why why love' this weekend. i m only at the 10th episode! haha i cant wait to find out if jiadi (rainie yang) and huoda (he jun xiang) will end up together. the show is sooo sweet!!

part of the reason why i couldnt finish my show is tt i spent friday with yy, sat night singing ktv and today afternoon with hc130. i had to make hc130 meet later today cos i couldnt wake up from watching 'why why love' till 4am in the morning. haha!

anw, school ended early in friday and i was supposed to meet yy only at 3pm at bugis, so i went off to Han's cafe at the national library to mug while waiting for her. i was pretty productive for abt 1hr, den started to pple-watch. managed to read my MMR notes though! yay~
when yy came we went off for Seoul Garden lunch! haah i was treating her as birthday present=)) i tink the quality of food in seoul garden improved! and the service too. there was this guy who conscientiously cleared our plates continuously and super promptly. damn hardworking. hehee.

after lunch we went up to synovate to collect our pay for our watson's mystery shopping the last time. though the pay was lesser than wat i was expecting, at least it meant another 100 over bucks for me to spend! yay~~
shopped ard bugis for awhile after tt. yy needed to buy some stuff at bras brasah so we shopped ard there for awhile too. i realised i get bored quickly while shopping there. all the art stationary makes me sleepy. i m such an uncreative girl.

mum treated bro and me to lunch at Lerk Thai on sat. haha~ think she was in a good mood. i met qiuting, weiliang, jm and chok late for ktv at katong shopping centre cos i wanted to chiong 2 more episodes of 'why why love'. haha~~ ktv with the guys and qiuting was fun! i realised all my ex classmates can sing super well. i shall secretly practise in my bathroom.

met with Hc 130 today! we went to Food republic at Wisma for lunch. realised it is the first time hc130 ate lunch tog at a food court. usually we went to places like cafes or restaurants. we were pretty proud. haha we had fun trying to think of words which start with T. ger was distraught. =)) where's triangle?
we went shopping for awhile, den went down to Taka basement to try the samples at the mooncake fair there. ger and i was disgusted with a particular mooncake we tried which tasted like fish. terrible.
after mooncakes we decided tt we had cravings for mochi ice cream, cos it was a combination of 'bing pi' mooncake and ice cream mooncake. so we went to cold storage to buy a box of mochi ice cream to share. haha i love the peach flavoured one!!

den we went to breadtalk to chill. suan, ger and i were alr planning to draggin yisheng to go breadtalk cos we wanted to buy a cake for him as belated birthday present. haha! we tried to secretly buy a tiramisu cake but he found out. haha~

after yisheng blew out his candles we just chilled and talked over yuan yang and tiramisu cake. fun! we talked abt the pw days and how we always looked at the file and stoned together during pw class in school. we realised hc130 had been super slack. haha~~

shall go back to chionging my show!! gosh i hope i wun slp at 4 am again. 8 am lecture tmr!!!

2007-09-06T23:59:00.000+08:00

went to clementi block 449 with yanling and bowwow during the 2 hr break before tutorial. we wanted to try the super nice Rojak there. ooh its really yummy!! bowwow and i also shared the XO fish head bee hoon. its like the nicest i have tasted so far. haha~ yanling recommended me this doctor's blog. the doctor goes ard eating good food all over singapore and his blog has the best recommendations! i shall try all the food on the blog! muahaha~~

after tutorial went to meet mum to go to John Little Sale at Expo. haha the sale was quite boring. but we had dinner at Macau Express which serves a v nice tofu dish!! like super yummy. its tofu topped with mayonaisse and pork floss. i wanna eat somemore!!

was trying to read my notes when my brother told me to go try this quiz online. its called the impossible quiz. now i m stuck on it. like for the past one hour. its the most mind-boggling quiz i ever tried. but the questions are really insanely clever. gosh. i wanna get past Q56. going mad.

anyone bored enough, pls come try too. i guarantee tt u will be pulling out all ur hair within 5 min. i almost dumped my laptop in frustration.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/365143

2007-09-04T21:40:00.001+08:00

haha my tuition student bought me a blueberry cake as teacher's day present! heh i m quite happy..

the song 蔷蔷sang by ella is stuck in my head. the song is so touching!!

school starts late tmr and i only have PBL. yayness. =))

2007-09-03T18:07:00.000+08:00

lectures all the way from 8 in the morning to 4 in the afternoon today. super shag. bowwow and i gave the COFM lecture on bias a miss and went to the arts canteen for breakfast at burger king. =))

zao lect!!

went for 2A/3C chalet over the weekend. i rushed off from patho prac on friday without managing to identify anything from the slides using my microscope cos qiuting was waiting for me at NUH. haha~ we decided to go straight to the chalet. in the end we were the second and third earliest to reach the chalet. chok was there in the room all m=by himself for 2 hours! haha poor boy. meiwei came and the 4 of us had dinner at the cafe at downtown east.

we decided to play volleyball outside the chalet while waiting for the rest to come. we were soon joined by a pair of angmoh brothers and a group of indian kids. the angmoh brothers are soooo cute!! esp the younger one, who was only 3 years old. he kept picking ball for us. and his 7-yr-old brother is soo shuai!! haha meiwei, qiuting and i loved them.
suddenly the kids just took over our ball and played among themselves. the indian kids were rather rough and rowdy and the little 3 yr old and his brother were kinda being bullied. meiwei, qiuting and i kept trying to stand up for the angmohs. haha. we kinda became the referees. but we were really super biased. kept ruling in favour of the brothers. we kept saying tt we are super racist.

quite alot of pple turned up, and it was really nice to see everyone again. there were some pple whom i havent seen since we graduated from DHS! haha everyone hasnt changed much though.
rotted in the room, den we went to play arcade. haha i decided not to stay over tt night cos i din bring my contact lenses solution and glasses. suan's bf gave me a ride home! yay

met with yy the next day to go over to the chalet tog. poor yy has lessons on saturdays~ met maoxin on the way!
we bought kfc and had a mass picnic on the grass patch outside. haha~ the grass was prickly. after dinner jinfeng decided to treat everyone to Ben and Jerry's! haha we shared 3 banana splits and 2 mix-n-match among 14 pple. really generous of him, think he treated cos we kept jokingly saying tt he is super rich now since he is the safos scholar. haha!!

ben and jerry's!!

after we went back we played some drinking game--with tap water. we kept sabohing jinfeng. haha~ i drank till i felt like puking.
we just chilled and toked abit. den the guys suddenly started 'operation thunderstorm' and tried to 'kai' kaiwen. haha it was like the old days in DHS all over again. i can never understand where all the fun lies. haha~~

some pics from the chalet...

2007-08-26T13:45:00.000+08:00

school's boring. bleah.

i am thankful for those little get-aways with bowwow once in awhile. haha. we only went for 3.5 days out of 5 days of school in the first week. haha we ponned on wed and met up to shop and lunch at miss clarity. heh!~ thurs we had one whole string of COFM lectures, so we left school at ard 10 plus to go to clementi k box for klunch! haha we returned just in time for our microbiology lab session at 2pm. muahaha~ major time maximization at work. =)) while we were at clementi there was this free health screening thingy there so we went for it. the test measures our body fat, visceral fat, bone mass, water composition, muscle mass etc. bowwow and i both have metabolic ages which are younger than our actual age! so i guess its good. but i really need to lose some weight. =((

we din pon anything the second week of sch (except FRS). haha~ pretty proud of myself. and i managed to keep awake in most of the lectures. =) heh. i had a 4hr break from my PBL lesson on wed, so went down to clementi to eat Botak Jones with my anat group pple and some others. wanted to eat botak jones for so long!! haa. cuixi and i shared the cajun chicken. seriously its not as nice as i thought it would be. just above average baz. but its the first time i dun mind eating chicken breast though.

i m determined to keep up with school work this yr! shall go off to read my notes. yay

2007-08-10T22:20:00.000+08:00

first day of school today. met bowwow early at yusof ishak house to have the 2bucks breakfast set before going to med fac. we were commenting that the fact that sch's started feels v unreal. have gotten so used to the freedom and all the fun! nvm i shall look forward to the mid-term break 6 weeks later!

first day of sch was pretty boring. all the introductions. we ended up in the last row. haha~ i fell asleep in the second lecture and last lecture. woopps.
we actually planned to go for yumcha buffet with xiuzhen, muliang etc, but bowwow and i pangseh them last min cos we were both super fat from all the stuff we ate throughout the week.
so bowwow and i ended up going for body massage in chinatown instead. haha we rock. super funny. my first time going for a body massage. i thought massages were supposed to be shiok and comfortable, boy was i wrong. it hurts like crazy. i felt like i was being abused. crammed my mouth shut to keep myself from screaming out loud in pain or scolding vulgarities. at the end of the massage, when the person found out that it was my first time trying body massage, she still praised me for being v pain-tolerant. bleahh. haha~~

anw yesterday was national day. hc130 met up to celebrate it together at suan's house. damian kept saying we are super wuliao. which is quite true la. my project work group is really one of a kind. i mean, which pw grp still meets up, and no less, to celebrate national day tog somemore! but i tink its cool. haha~
we met in bugis first for lunch at where else, miss clarity! haha we tried the black squid ink pasta. also ordered chicken stew and fried dory fish, and we finished off with mudooze!
den we went off to cold storage to buy ingredients to make dinner at suan's house. ger and i were quite apprehensive cos the last time we tried to make dinner together, we failed rather miserably. haha we kept recalling our failed attempt last time. but looking back at it was pretty funny. we decided to make jap sushi this time round, so bought jap rice, cucumber, unagi, crab sticks, mayo, jap vinegar. also bought gyoza and roti prata.

our dinner was a success! in fact we were super efficient. yisheng was a master chef. made the rice, fried the omelette and the unagi. haha! the rest of us helped cut and chop and do other stuff. ger and i spent quite alot of time just contributing eye power. haha!

at 6 plus in the evening we took out all the nicely prepared ingredients and settled in front of the tv to watch the national day parade while we eat our sushi dinner. haha the way we were eating reminded me of those 'popiah' shops where u can 'bao' ur own popiah. we were doing the exacct same thing except tt we were 'baoing' sushi. anw, it was super yummy. i ate 4 big rolls of sushi. we polished everything up. super zai.

our appetizers! boiled gyozas.

super pretty right! our yummy dinner!

quite fun to watch ndp tog with hc130. we stood at attention when they played the national anthem and sang out loud. haha~~ and we could see the fireworks from suan's parents' bedroom! super nice. we just stood at the window and watched the fireworks. den we screamed 'happy birthday singapore' from the window. really siao. haha!!

after the parade ended we had desserts--ah ballin AKA glutinous rice balls AKA GRB AKA tang yuan.

i had to squeeze up the train packed with pple returning from marina bay.
reached home to find that my dad had cooked chilli crabs and left 1 for me. i couldnt resist and ended polishing that up too, even though i alr ate so much. grrr.

2007-08-01T12:43:00.000+08:00

oooh its august already! which means my hols are going to end!! how how how.

anyway, i applied for the national library board's premium membership last week. did it in the spur of a moment. 21 bucks per yr would entitle me to borrow all the DVD-roms and audio stuff in the libraries. so i borrowed a couple of pc games and the DVD for 'An inconvenient truth', cos i always wanted to watch tt.

i have never been one to be hooked on pc games, but the game 'company of heroes' got me totally addicted. haha my bro says i m the only girl he knows who plays war games. hehe~~ i tink its pretty cool. apparently the game is pretty popular (though i had never heard of it before i picked it up), it won the best strategy game.

i was so addicted that was it not for my cravings for good food and shopping, i tink i could have just holed myself up in front of my laptop for one week. scary thought. now i understand why there are people who need to be treated for psychological illnesses after they spend too much time on the com.

anw, been going shopping with my mum. my cousin's wedding date is drawing near and she wanted to shop for a nice present for her. but i kept deviating her from her aim. haha in the end we end up shopping for ourselves. tampines metro is having a MAJOR sale. like 80% discount storewide. super exciting. i already bought 2 pairs of shoes. for like less then 20 bucks in total. hahaa!

met up with falungong over the weekend. we went to this ktv in katong shopping centre which was really cheap! we sang for more than 5 hours. i realised i m a 'chorus singer'. i know the chorus to most of the songs, but is almost always clueless when it comes to the other parts of the song. haha! except jay chou and jj's songss~=))
after singing we walked down katong road and found this nice hongkong cafe for dinner. they have such a huge variety of food that all of us took super long to decide on our orders. i love the 'yuanyang' there! aftr dinner we talked for almost 4 hours. haha~ the guys talked abt all their mischievous doings in sec sch. i realised the guys can be such big bullies. but its so hilarious hearing abt it again years later.

dun tink i will be updating much lately cos sth is wrong with my camera. hai no pics~

2007-07-22T21:08:00.000+08:00

went to my uncle's place yesterday to distribute presents i bought from japan to my little cousins! haha i bought a cute little kimono pyjamas and a toy ninja sword for little aloysius, and cute minnie mouse hair clips from disneyland for amanda.

haha the ninja sword turned out to be super popular. the sword makes a cute 'squeak' sound whenever u shake it, and my little cousins ended up fighting over it. ooops. guess i should have bought 2 of them.

anw amanda looks super pretty and cute with her minnie hair clips. she said she wanted to wear them to her ballet class. haha i m happy. and aloysius looks super cute too in the pyjamas. though he peeled them off almost immediately after we made him wear them; and said 'i dun wan'. boohoo..

singapore makes me fat!! been eating considerably more compared to when i was overseas. bleah. just came back from an ultra-fulfilling dinner at bedok blk 85!! chicken wings, minced pork noodles and chai chee porridge!

2007-07-20T14:37:00.000+08:00

For your information, bowwow didn’t have roaming. So if you need to blame someone for the lack of care and concern in the form of sms, den blame me. But I just feel super maligned now.
On the 10th of Jul, just on the 2nd day of the tour, u smsed me and told me that you might be flying to Tokyo to join us for the extension. Naturally I was happy for you and thrilled that we can at least explore Tokyo together. And naturally I assumed that your chicken pox must be recovering well. I replied and asked you to confirm with us again so we can set a place to meet den.
On the 12th, you said your parents were unwilling to let u fly. I said bowwow and I will try to find our way ard den and I asked you to rest well.

We know our tour guide smsed you. He told us immediately the next morning there and even showed us ur reply to him.

With this, if you feel that we should have sent more sms to ask about your condition, den I am sorry we din do so. I just feel so saddened by the fact that you said we totally forgot about you. Maybe I should have taken more initiative to send u smses to ask you about your chicken pox; but I thought that would have made u felt worse. Maybe I thought wrongly.

Even when we were at the internet café, we asked you about your condition over msn. I remember asking you how you were doing again on msn a couple of days after that, using the hotel’s internet access.
I concede that we might have been insensitive when we added you to our conversation with yisheng tt night. I wished we had nv done so. both of us even discussed whether we should add you. We figured that adding you to the conversation would be better den treating you as transparent. Would you have felt better if we had just ignored the fact that you were online? Or would you have preferred it if we talked about something else besides chicken pox and japan? Cos obviously we know you had chicken pox and you know we are in japan. Wouldn’t it be weird if we just toked about sth else? I dunno. I might be wrong.
But I do admit that we could have toned down and not gush about everything in japan, and prob spared abit more thought for you.

And I am really angry to be labeled as someone with zero EQ. by someone I still consider as a good fren. Maybe I m more disappointed. It doesn’t help that you insulted my ambitions to be a doctor as well. For your information, both of us had no idea that the tour guide asked you to cancel the shibuya hotel booking for us. When we booked a new hotel and decided not to stay in the shibuya hotel, our tour guide agreed with us that it was ok not to call to cancel the hotel, since we din pay anything for the hotel. If we had known that he will call you and ask you to cancel the booking for us, we would have gladly volunteered to do it ourselves. We really dun wanna bother you. Rest assured that both bowwow and I are capable of doing such a simple task.

The shibuya hotel became much too expensive because instead of dividing the expenses between 3 pple, we now had to divide it between 2. our tour guide suggested asking you to claim more from insurance to cover our extra expenses for the shibuya hotel. We didn’t feel it was appropriate, so we searched high and low for a new hotel. We even had to consider staying in capsule hotels cos all the hotels were booked. We didn’t mind that we had to loiter on the streets and sleep in the hotel lobby and stay the night in internet café.

I hope that all of this is just a misunderstanding, and you dun really mean the words you used on us. I wrote this in a spur of the moment so bowwow might not share my views. It’s purely my side of the story. i just hope that we can talk over this calmly sometime and sort things out. but if u feel that my explanation is not enough and you still wan to reconsider the friendship, i got nothing to say.

2007-07-20T13:12:00.000+08:00

i feel maligned and angry. and sad. arggh. screwed up.

2007-07-19T19:59:00.000+08:00

1st day

our JAL flight touched down in Osaka/Kansai airport at ard 6plus in the morning!

at osaka castle

shinsaibashi. bowwow and i swallowed down octopus balls as lunch in our rush to do more shopping here. =)) started off our shopping spree in japan here!!

trying my hand at 'pachinko'. its a super popular game in japan. pachinko outlets are everywhere! we dint really understand the game though. the game was over in a flash before we even knew wat was happening. oops haha.

Universal Studios Japan!!
both of us were super tired cos we hardly slept on the plane. still we were damn cheong. cheonged from ride to ride cos we wanted to finish all the rides inside. my heart almost stopped on the roller coaster 'Hollywood Dreams'. super exciting. we went on quite alot of rides, including spiderman, jaws, terminator, back to the future, jurassic park . saw sooo many cheek-pinching-cute kids there!
and there are really lotsa eye candies in japan. bowwow and i derived a code for them: 'manymany'. cos there are manymany eye candies. so everytime we see an eye candy we will exclaim manymany. haha~~
our first night hotel was just next to USJ, called hotel Keihan. we showered and showed up in our pyjamas for buffet dinner at the restaurant. muahaha~ cool huh.

2nd day
we proceeded from osaka to kyoto.

at the Kingakuji temple- Golden Pavillion.

we saw a kimono show at the Nishijin Textile Centre.

Kiyomizu Temple.

this is the cliff-edge veranda that young japanese men supposedly jump off to prove their love to women. if they survive, it means that their love is true. in my honest opinion, i doubt anyone can ever survive that steep drop down. even if they do, they will prob get lost in the forest beneath anyway.

the japanese believe that the smoke from the urn brings good fortune. bowwow and i went to 'yan' our heads so we will be cleverer. we wanted to yan our wallets too so we will be richer.

the pure spring water is supposed to bless one with health, beauty and wealth. tastes pretty good too.

the Toyohashi Nikko Hotel has cute pyjamas. =))

3rd Day

in the morning we took the Shinkansen from Toyohashi to Hamamatsu station. the speed of the bullet train is really quite phenomenal. we were so impressed with the discipline of the japanese. they are so orderly and polite when boarding the alighting. and everyone keeps to the left on escalators.

on board the Shinkansen! Zoom zoom zoom!!!

then we went to Hakone, where we visited the Owakudani Boiling Valley where there were sulphurous boiling ponds and steam everywhere. i couldnt really bear the smell of sulphur, which smelt like fart.

we tried the black eggs which were cooked by the boiling ponds. its believed that every egg eaten will add 14 years of life. if i had eaten 10 i will become a 老妖怪.

at the Peace Park. we couldnt see the Mt Fuji from there cos it was too foggy on the day we went.

we drank sake at the Wasabi Farm.=))

On Mt Fuji's 5th station!! the wind was super strong that day. we were almost blown away.

it was not in the tour's itinery, but our nice tour guide decided to bring us to see lavenders since there was time! the whole expanse of purple lavenders was really breathtaking. super pretty.

our hotel at night was at Hotel Lake Kawaguchi. we had Japanese Nabe(steamboat) for dinner. the rest of the pple in our tour had ordered sashimi. bowwow and i din order cos it was like 7000 yen. but our tour guide treated us to a mini sashimi set!! think he took pity on us poor girls. haha..

after dinner we went down to the shore next to Lake Kawaguchi and set off fireworks!! my first time playing with fireworks. soo fun! how i wish they are not banned in singapore.

clad in our japanese Yakata!

at night we enjoyed a session of hot spring bath in the hotel. haha bowwow and i experience how izzit like to see each other in the most 'yuan shi' way. we kept laughing over it the night before. but the hot spring felt really good. we just enjoyed the hot spring bath, watched the stars in the night sky and chit chatted.

i loved the little tatami section in our hotel room that night.

4th Day
we reached Tokyo!!

in the morning we went to a famous cultural landmark in Tokyo-Asakusa Kannon Temple.

Tokyo as seen from the cruise ship!
in the afternoon we took a cruise ride across Tokyo Bay to Odaiba Park.

den we went to the Toyota showcase called Mega Web.

oooh i wan the car.
we went on the Tokyo Flyer. Took the car with the transparent floor. but the flyer moved v slowly and bored us.

on top of tokyo flyer!!

next was the Aqua City Odaiba.

the mini statue of liberty!

in the evening we stopped over in Shinjuku. saw the red light district there. ooh the gigolos all stand around and jio business. quite interesting.

5th Day
spent the whole day at Disneysea! the rest of our tour group went to Disneyland. bowwow and i decided on Disneysea cos thought it was special to Tokyo. Disneysea was totally fun-filled! the Tower of Terror scared the hell outta me, with its free-fall elevator ride.

that night, while the rest of the tour pple went shopping, bowwow and i went hotel-hunting around the ikebukuru area with our tour guide. our reservation at the shibuya hotel was really too ex, esp now tt the price had to be divided btw 2 pple instead of 3. we searched high and low, even asking in Love Hotels (they call them fashion hotels there). by a stroke of luck, we found a room for 3 nights in hotel theatre, which was super ideally situated. but on the downside we were going to be homeless on the night of 14th jul, so we decided to spend the night at an internet cafe.

6th day
while the rest of the tour returned to singapore, both of us started our 'luan zou' adventure in tokyo. haha~ we started our full-scale shopping st sunshine60 shopping centre, just next to our hotel. by the time we finished the first floor, B1, our hands were already loaded with bags. super scary. it was really lucky that the shopping centre was having a clearance sale just during tt period. so the stuff there were all rather cheap.
we had lunch at macs cos our tour guide said tt macs there is v nice. we both love the ebi burger! super yummy. bowwow will eventually go on to eat a total of 4 ebi burgers in the course of the whole tokyo trip. hahaa i keep laughing at her.

we could only check in to our internet cafe at 11pm, so we had loads of time to rot ard. went to our new hotel's lobby to stone for quite long.
the internet cafe was pretty cool. internet, DVDs, free flow drinks and PS2 games. i watched Saw3 and Letters from Iwo Jiwa there.

7th day
the next morning it was raining rather heavily, prob cos of the typhoon. it was only 6am in the morning when we checked out of the internet cafe. and there was practically nowhere to go. both of us were super sleepy. so we dozed at the hotel's lobby. think the hotel front desk staff prob thought we were super weird. kept loitering there. haha!
later in the morning i dragged bowwow off to Harajuku. din wanna waste time dozing off in hotel lobbies. haha and i wanted to see meiji shrine and cosplay.
there was no cosplay of cos, the rain was super heavy. and meiji shrine was nothing to look at with all the rain pouring down. i ended up feeling quite guilty for dragging bowwow out. haha~ but we did see a traditional japanese marriage taking place at meiji shrine. bowwow caught the bride laughing secretly underneath her veil on her camera. its so hilarious. oh and the groom was quite manymany.

Shinto priests.

we shopped at the Takeshita-dori for awhile before returning to ikebukuro. finally checked into our hotel. the room was really nice for such cheap rates. both of us were kinda thankful to have a roof over our heads after one day. got some well-deserved rest, den headed down to explore the streets of ikebukuro. we had delicious ramen for dinner.

oishi!!

8th day
headed down to Shibuya. we felt like pros at the train system by this time. haha! quite familiar with the trains and where they run to. we kept praising ourselves. haha~
Shibuya was reeally super busy. we headed for the Hachiko exit and saw the famous Hachiko statue.

den headed off for the Shibuya 109 building for more shopping. in terms of shoppin shibuya turned out to be quite disappointing though. the stuff there were pretty pricey compared to ikebukuro.

we had dinner at this stall famous for its unagi. had my most expensive dinner of the trip there. a unagi rice set for about 1600 yen. worth it though. really nice. we shared a table with this man and woman. the man kept trying to talk to us. but we din understand him and he couldnt understand us. haha think he was abit high from the sake. we kept saying 'wakari masen'.

tt night we watched some movie in the hotel featuring 'the rock'. it was all translated into japanese, so we made up our own dialogue for the movie. haha! it was super hilarious. i laughed till i almost died. we changed all the dialogue during the fighing scenes and love scenes into a discussion about breakfast and breakfast vouchers and how hungry the characters were.

9th day
we went back to Shinjuku cos we din get the chance to do any shopping when we were there. window shopped at Isetan and Takashimaya. we saw some women holding boxes of Krispy Kreme donuts at Isetan and got all excited. started to ask for directions to find the krispy kremes outlet. haha asking for directions in japan is fun. lotsa gesturing. think all of them ponned their english classes. one guy had to make a snake-like/wave-like action with his hand when he wanted to say 'stairs'. super funny. we kept laughin over tt afterwards.

we found our krispy kremes outlet rather easily. queued for abt 35 min. rather fun though, not to mention tt we were rewarded with a free original glazed donut each while in the queue. haha~~

10th day
we did some last min shopping in the morning before taking the limousine bus down to Narita airport. our luggages were all bursting. haha!! bowwow ate her 4th ebi burger at the airport. haha.. we decided to pack some burgers back to singapore. the customs officer confiscated my mayo and hair dye. i totally forgot i put them in the hand carry!! erpps. he laughed at my badly banged-up donuts.
watched 2 movies, Zodiac and the number 23 on the flight back. =))

2007-07-19T02:33:00.000+08:00

yay i m back in singapore!! 11 days in japan flew past in a flash. while in japan, there was a typhoon, an earthquake coupled with nuclear plant leak and landslides. quite zai. thankfully all of these were not in the area we were in, but i felt bad making family and frens worry.

just finished showing my parents almost all of wat i bought from japan. haha~ think i deprived them from their sleep. i think i should have bought more!! both my luggage and my hand-carry were bursting on the return flight back to singapore.

super tired now. shall go sleep now and update again. yay i shall have krispy kremes donuts which i bought from japan for breakfast tmr!! =))

2007-07-14T22:36:00.000+08:00

i am at a 24 hr internet cafe in ikebukuro, japan now!! haha pretty cool, free flow drinks, internet, ps2 games and dvds for 1300 yen! quite exciting. actually bowwow and i were kinda forced to come to this internet cafe. our hotel for our extension in shibuya was too pricey, but with the help of our tour guide we managed to find another hotel in the ikebukuru area. there wasnt an available room tonight though, so here we are.

going off to watch saw3 now. shall update on the trip when i return!

2007-07-08T22:10:00.000+08:00

wee~~using the free internet access at the airport now!! bowwow and i just had a foot massage on the OTO 'Big Foot' machines here! haha its so ticklish~ will be landing in japan in 8 hrs time!!

2007-07-08T11:37:00.000+08:00

leaving for japan tonight~ doing some last minute packing now. cant believe jj's bad luck! chicken pox yesterday.. think its disappointing to all of us, but esp her. hopefully she can recover on time and join us in tokyo at least! i hope bowwow and i dun luan zou and get lost.

falungong celebrating qiuting's birthday yesterday @kbox marina square
one candle for each fa lun gong member present! haha i m the oldest so i gotta blow the first candle out!

2007-07-04T00:18:00.000+08:00

mystery shopping is so fun! haha~yay. i feel like a picky and complaining old ah mah.

mystery shop + anat bbq!!

2007-07-03T11:50:00.000+08:00

met yy in bugis to get to synovate for the mystery shopping briefing. mystery shopping sounds like super lot of fun! the briefing lasted for almost 3 hrs as the person had to teach us how to evaluate the staff's service standards etc. cant wait to start. pretty good money too, we get paid $6 per hr for just going for briefings, and each mystery shopping completed (which takes less than 30 min each) is more than 20 bucks. =))

after the briefing, rushed down to braddell to meet my anat group frens. we were having a bbq at lydia's house to celebrate irene's and heng lip's birthdays. the girls had prepared chicken wings, crab sticks, sotong balls, taiwanese sausages, potato salad, stingray, and also drinks. i loved lydia's special drink made by mixing lemonade,7-up and tiger beer. super nice!

we ate and listened to each other share stories from their overseas trips to europe. saw alot of europe photos as well. oooh i wanna go to switzerland! it looks so pretty~~

after helping with the clearing up most of the others headed home. the easties, which includes me, zhengcang, edwin and junwen suddenly had to crazy idea to head down to bedok blk 85 for ba chor mee~ haha!! it was already past midnight when we reached there. to our disappointment the ba chor mee stalls were all closed! think becos it was a monday. so i ordered my fav chai chee porridge! hehe~
quite fun listening to the guys gossip and talk abt medicine gals. haha~ zhengcang paid for the cab fare back! yay~

reached home close to 2am.. felt totally grossed out and sticky. the weather is so humid lately!!

2007-06-29T20:46:00.000+08:00

just back from stayover. been quite long since i last spent so much time with yy. rem how the 2 of us used to be almost inseperable in secondary school. =))

wed, met her to go to this orientation thingy tt the company synovate was holding. synovate is this research company which does market research for various companies all over the world. yy had a job there last yr, so we decided to go there to get a job to earn some extra bucks. haha i needed to earn some money to offset the sum of money i m going to spend in japan. =(( anw, the orientation was quite fun. haha~ the company actually does things like 'mystery shopper', on top of the usual survey stuff. i wanna be a mystery shopper! so fun. must act like a normal customer when u are actually evaluating the attitudes of the staff and other things liddat! muahaha~

was supposed to meet junjia and bowwow after the orientation thingy but both of them couldnt make it last min, so yy and i decided to head off to geylang to eat durians! haha~ so shiok! we ordered 3 durians~ got D24 ones. heh and shared a coconut~

the next day we met up to go to guess where-- singapore sciece centre! haha i havent been there since i was in pri sch. and everything there seemed to be so diff. i wonder if they changed alot of stuff or my memory is just failing me.

many of the exhibits there are so fascinating! haha~ i loved the i-space section the most. its an exhibit showing possible way of living in the year of 2031. super cool. there's this computer tt u can control by waving ur arms. its exactly like Tom Cruise in ' mission impossible'. haha! den the toilets in 2031 supposedly will become super smart. the toilet bowl will analyse ur shit and tell u whether anything is wrong with ur health. muahaha~ in 2031 doctors will be out of jobs! all replaced by toilet bowls.

yy and i had fun playing with the electrical drawing board there. super fun and super high tech.

some of our 'masterpieces'

we went to almost all the exhibits in the science centre. went to the ecogarden and climbed up to the treehouse. still got nano technology, chemistry, the human body, robotics and many others!

can u see leonardo davinci?

some fun stuff=))

yay i know all the names of the muscles =))

den we went to the cafe at the omnitheatre for dinner. the nasi lemak is yummy! caught the 7pm showing of 'the first emperor of china' at the omnitheatre. haha the show was pretty boring. abt qin shi huang. watching movie at omnitheatre makes my neck ache. haha and somehow its less impressive to me now. i rem i was super fascinated when i first stepped into the omnitheatre as a 8 year old.

den went to yy's hall in NTU! we watched half of 'casino royale' in her room before going down to this coffee shop for supper=)) hahaa. i had meatball porridge while yy ate the yummy ba chor mee there!

we finished watching casino royale before tuening in. chit-chatted in the dark before both of us KO-ed at abt 3 plus in the morning. haha~~

2007-06-21T23:36:00.001+08:00

i like the feeling of waking up to muscle aches. haha sounds abit psycho, but it's true. makes me feel like a healthy girl. i m hoping tt i will slowly regain my fitness such tt i dun feel the aches as much. and i m sleeping earlier now cos i tired from my swims/bball sessions. i shall stick to my healthy lifestyle for as long as possible. ;)

went gymming with qiuting today. did 25 min of 'fat burn' on the elliptical machine and another 25 min on the bike. but gymming bores me. so sian. i almost fell off a threadmill once cos i was watching tv while on the threadmill. so now i never ever watch tv while i exercise. but having nothing to do while i m cycling/running makes me super bored and i end up concentrating on thinking about how tired i am. bleahs.

after gym i went straight to the bball court to meet my bro and the 'usual gang'. played for another 2 hours. we played till it was too dark to see the basket.

2007-06-20T14:28:00.000+08:00

yay! japan trip is confirmed~ i will be officially in japan from 8th to 18th july! planning about the things to do during our extension now. haha shibuya sounds so exciting~ i wanna watch cosplay!

2007-06-19T22:23:00.000+08:00

Britain's Got Talent

beautiful girl with a beautiful voice and super duper cute smile. i had tears in my eyes when i saw this clip for the first time.

2007-06-19T21:37:00.000+08:00

went shopping at bugis with cuixi today. had to stop myself from spending unnecessarily. i banned myself from using my debit cards and i think this method works. shopping with cash makes me less prone to impulse buys. haha~

cuixi told me medical textbooks sold at the yunan bookstore in bras brasah complex are much cheaper than those sold in school, so we decided to stop by yunnan bookstore after shopping to buy textbooks for next yr. i ended up only buying my microbiology textbook. so happy tt its so thin.

now i officially have 2 textbooks for next year sitting proudly in my cupboard. =) i put them together with the rest of my M1 books and my silberberg and sloman (2 textbooks i bought in JC but never ever used). now one corner of my bookshelf looks like a bookshelf of a truly learned person. the other corners, however, are unfortunately still filled with comic books and other rubbish books i read as a teenager(eg RL Stine and Christopher Pike's horror stories).

the 'learned corner' of my bookshelf~

thankfully i threw out my nancy drew, babysitters club, and enid blyton books last yr. phew. they would have looked terribly weird standing side by side with my textbooks, i think.

2007-06-18T21:09:00.000+08:00

junjia and i went to the tour agency at chinatown today to pay the balance for the japan trip. din foresee tt we would end up spending a good 1 plus hour arguing with the person at the tour agency. thing is, the person at the tour agency nv told us tt there is the cut-off limit for the number of people deviating from the group (meaning extending the stay at japan); and we were nv told tt it was first come first serve. so now they decided to put us on waiting list cos they couldnt have more than 50percent of the pple in the tour deviating from the group and there was already 5 pple who are deivating. haizz. junjia was super angry. haha kept arguing with the guy. i ended up being pissed as well cos i cant believe how the guy totally missed our point even after we explained for ages. got so worked up i could literally feel my blood pressure rising.

we went for lunch at yum cha to cheer ourselves up. haha~ ordered loads of stuff. jj was still fuming. think we must have ordered alot, cos the waiter came over and asked whether we wanted to cancel some stuff off our orders. haha so nice of him. we cancelled 2 of the dim sum choices, but still struggled to finish the food. i loved the shark's fin dumpling soup though! we ended up taking away the glutinous rice and 2 of the cha siew shu.

haha den went off to cine to watch fantastic four. met weilin and limin! fantastic four was quite nice. Johnny storm is cute!

2007-06-17T21:19:00.000+08:00

popo came over to our house yesterday.. dad wanted to laze at home and mama wanted to chat with popo, so since we were bored and hungry, didi and i decided to go to tampines mall for a mini 'good-food session' by ourselves! haha~ dad was nice enough to sponsor 50 bucks! yayness.
so we went to cafe cartel. haha~ i actually had cravings for more carbonara (i love cartel's carbonara), but changed my mind last min and ordered the oxtail stew instead. haha i m a fickle-minded girl.

we kept making the waiters and waitresses bring us bread. so paiseh. hehs.

after lunch didi wanted mcflurry. so since i had to wait for him to buy his mcflurry i ended buying a vanilla ice cream cone as well. bleahss.

at night i drove the whole family, including popo, to the fishhead steamboat place we always frequent. its dad's favourite! haha~ it was supposed to be a father's day treat! =)) i still cant park without instructions from dad~ bleahss. if i drive out by myself i will have to leave the car by the roadside. haha~ popo praised my driving skills! hehe~ proud sia.
halfway through dinner an housefly suddenly flew into one of the bottles of chrysanthemum tea we ordered. argggh! it remained floating and struggling there the whole time. didi, popo, dad and i were v amused. we kept thinking if the housefly was trying to commit suicide cos it couldnt get to eat our yummy fishhead steamboat. haha~ mama was disgusted though.

i picked up the $62 bucks tab! haha felt so grown up, like the 'yi jia zhi zu'.

played 3 hrs of ball today. ahhh i have 3 blisters on my feet and i think i sprained my back! haha! playing ball makes me feel so relaxed and happy. rem i used i play whole day long with my teammates and not feel tired~

2007-06-15T14:28:00.000+08:00

watched '200 pounds of beauty' yesterday on crunchyroll cos i have heard raving reviews abt the show. v nice! one of the best korean shows i watched. funny and touching at the same time. cried towards the end of the show. i havent cried while watcing a movie since 'i not stupid 2'. haha~

japan trip is confirmed!! gotta go down to pay the balance for the tour soon.. i shall throw away my bank's passbook so i wun have to see the sudden drop in my savings after i paid. bleahs.

2007-06-14T23:46:00.000+08:00

yesterday
went swimming with qiuting. on our way to the swimming complex we shopped ard and qiuting bought some tops from a shop. she was just paying when the shop assistant suddenly turned to me and asked whether i was from east view primary. haha! i totally couldnt recall who she was! just felt tt the way she talked was v familiar. she said i was a 'very clever girl who always went up to get prizes'. haha! i was quite paiseh in front of qiuting but secretly happy. muahaha~~ not the clever girl part but the fact tt she recognises me means i have not aged!! happy happy~

anyway swimming in the evening means that there were quite alot of kids there having their swimming lessons. pretty amused to see the 'pajamas kids' haha they were making floats with their pajamas pants. i remember i used to do it too. qiuting and i were commenting tt its pretty stupid. like wats the probability of a person drowning while wearing pajamas? erpps.
anw we swam 20 laps! so happy. i felt thinner after swimming =)) after swimming we went for teh tarik nearby. den bought food back from the pasar malam near whitesands. haha i love pasar malams! otah, tapioca cakes, taiwanese sausages and muah chee!! yumms.

finally finished watching the 2nd season of prison break at night. watched till like 3 am. bleah~thought the 2nd season was not as nice as the first. but nevertheless the series kept me on the edge of my chair for most parts. the plot is soo clever!!

Today
finished the book 'tuesdays with morrie'. i read it super slowly cos i wanted to remember inspirational quotes from it. i teared abit when morrie died, cos somehow i was reminded of gonggong.
in the afternoon went to bugis with mama cos she wanted to go to the temple. i went to read one of the books for explaining the 'qian' out of curiosity. soo cheeem! din understand anything~ haaha. i nv tried to qiu qian. seems like fun. maybe i will try someday.
then went to play ball! haha i feel like a fit girl now been exercising almost everyday. junjia and i are going swimming every week! qiuting and i gg swimming/jogging! on other days i shall make it a point to go play ball! muahaha~

i have a missing piece of skin on the sole of my foot now though. hurts like crazy. bleah.. playing ball barefooted for 2 hrs is a bad idea. =((

going off to watch '200 pounds beauty'! i wonder if i will cry

2007-06-12T16:57:00.000+08:00

spent my day at my uncle's place playing with jasper, amanda and aloysius. been so long since i last saw jasper! i had fun playing with barbie dolls with jasper and amanda. feel so deprived. i have never played with barbie dolls when i was young. muahaha~ i played alot of catching though. i tink barbie's butt is too big. makes it pretty hard to take off/put on clothes for her! my cousins kept struggling so i ended up being the one playing most of the time.
den played golf cum hockey with them with the mini toy golf set. haha felt like a slave for the kids cos they kept hitting the ball such tt its stuck under the sofa and i had to get the ball for them. tiring stuff.

den went off to plaza sing to meet yuenmei, yisheng and mollie for dinner and ocean's thirteen! haha the guys were treatin movie! yay~ had dinner at cafe cartel.. bowwow dared yisheng to write '2 handsome guys to serve' on the order paper. haha it was hilarious. yisheng said the girl at the counter sniggered when she saw the remark. i din dare to turn around to look. haha~~ bowwow was too stressed out at her childcare centre job and seemed to be lamer than her usual lame self. so she kept saying lame stuff and yisheng kept laffing. mollie and i were bewildered. haha~~
den she made a weird sound when a quite good-looking waiter served us drinks. haha! all of us had to stop ourselves from laughing out loud in front of the waiter.

den off we went for the movie! ocean's thirteen has a clever plot. v witty. though i was abit lost for some parts. i was sitting on the second right-most seat on our row. den this group of guys walked in and one of them sat next to me--alone--while the rest went to sit somewhere else. haha~ so kelian. we were jokingly saying i should turn and ask him ' are u lonely'. but i was too hum.

had to say my goodbyes to the rest hurriedly in the lift cos i almost forgot tt i gotta get to basement 2 to get to the mrt station. haha~
i missed the 2nd episode of campus superstar! =((

2007-06-11T17:18:00.000+08:00

the last sentosa outing with 04s71 was almost like half a year ago. so happie to meet up with the 'usuals' again on sunday to go to our fav island! i havent seen mao for so long!

junjia and i deliberately planned to be late and meet up with the others straight at sentosa (cos we wanted to sleep late), so i was quite surprised when the rest said they were still at food republic in vivo at 11am. anyways, we met the rest there, all 8 of us plus bowwow's bf, weejin!

on sentosa express

we took the sentosa tram in! its so convenient to get to sentosa now! i like the little blue entry cards now instead of the old white tickets. i took a photo with one of the many red-and-yellow flags along the beach which said 'swim here' cos i m swim. =))

we played volleyball in a circle with our new class volleyball! its a orange nike volleyball which looks like a netball and is quite hard. we were quite rot leh. i realised my reflexes really got much slower. i dunno why. must be sth wrong with my myelin sheath and my neurons.
den we played in 2 teams in a court. haha mao was in my team, so we werent too rot. he was the most determined player. he is still as funny as ever!

met lenny, yihan and ck from sheares! so qiao. they came to play with our guys while suan, me, bowwow and jj went to 7-11 to get drinks. we sat under the coconut tree to watch the guys play. den it was lunch time le. haha! think we really lao le. now the girls only want to sit under the coconut tree and chill and tok.

anw, lunch was at sakae sushi. junjia and i shared our fav hana maki. i also had unagi sushi, pumpkin chawanmushi, cha soba, and fried tofu. yumms.

lunch @sakae!!

after lunch we just slacked ard for awhile on the beach. suan, yisheng and i sang our hc130 anthems on the beach. haha~ mao said we were weird. den we played in a circle again cos there were no empty courts and we din have the skills to win a court. we were quite nua until out of a sudden we suddenly got high and hit maximum number. think it was 65 times. haha~ we kept laughing and going "yeah, oh yeah, uh-huh, oh yeah, yeahhh". damn funny.

den the guys went to swim, bowwow and weejin went for their 2 pple world and suan, jj and i continued stoning under the coconut tree and watching the volleyball pros there play. they are really super zai! we sat for abt 1 plus hours and the guys were not back yet. haha we thought tt they had started swimming home. so we decided to go and shower first since girls are always slower than guys.

after showering, took the tram out again.

nice view at the tram station!

dinner was at marche! junjia, suan and i shared rosti, crepes, seafood rice and fried vege. yay~
after dinner we walked ard vivo for awhile before heading home.

i m super sunburnt.. definitely going to peel. bleahs

2007-06-08T18:19:00.000+08:00

haha yy planned a bball reunion at settlers cafe yesterday. wats supposed to be a full turnout ended up with only 3: me, yy and yueshan. haha~~ old habits nvr change. the bball team has a habit of pangsehing last min or be late for hours. =)) i admire yy's determination though. she is always the one in charge of planning get-togethers etc, and she nvr seems to get discouraged. hah~

3 of us ended up having loads of fun though! haha i kept losing to them in all the reflex games. and i have always thought tt my reflexes are very fast! we played this game called 'ugly doll' in which we had to snatch cards. yy was the big bully. boo!

went for a swim today with jj. lunched @ ajisen, den went off to play with my 2 cousins. haha its the school holidays so amanda is at home too! i watched 'Mr Bean's Holiday' with her and it was the most tiring movie i ever watched. she was asking questions continuously. as in really continuously. i ended up having to think really hard abt even the most minute details in order to answer her. 'why Mr bean sad leh?, where's mr bean's car, where's the chicken, why's it raining?, why mr bean go to the beach?, and blah blah. heh~
even little aloysius chips in with his 'why leh why leh', though i dun tink he has the slightest clue about wats going on in the movie.

beatbox idol

2007-06-07T15:28:00.000+08:00

haha this cracked me up.

donuts!

2007-06-04T19:58:00.000+08:00

finally booked the japan trip last fri. but the tour group is not confirmed yet cos the agency needs 3 more pple to form one group. hope it gets confirmed soon! den we will be leaving on a jet plane on the 8th of july--to the land of the rising sun! yay~
bowwow and i felt so satisfied with ourselves after booking our trip. felt like we finally accomplished sth after putting it off for pretty long. haha so we rewarded ourselves by eating 'gui ling gao' at a shop specially selling 'gui ling gao'. haha i felt like a tai tai. the gui ling gao is supposed to be able to clear toxins in the body and can help keep slim. haha but we din noe its so ex. $5 per bowl!! both of us kept adding the sugar syrup. doubt after adding so much sugar syrup the gui ling gao is still any good for keeping us slim.

watched pirates of the caribbean 3 today with cuixi. haha i still love captain jack sparrow.
den we queued for donuts from the donut factory for 2 hours. haha met some medicine pple on the way back and i was so malu-ated cos i was holding like 2 big boxes of donuts. looked like a pizza delivery girl. heh

fa lun gong stayover

2007-05-31T22:33:00.000+08:00

fa lun gong met up at holland v yesterday for dinner cum stayover! we were in full strength finally.. heh we had dinner at NYDC. started grilling qiuting and kaiwen for their secrets, since they were absent from the last outing.

fa lun gong @ NYDC

after dinner we stoned ard as usual. haha we kept commenting tt our fav hobby is to 'pang huang' and we need peijia to 'gan yang' (gather sheep). by the time we decided to stop stoning and find our way back to NUS KE hall, it was already like 11pm and we had a hard time flagging down a cab. ended up taking bus instead.

chok, jm, qiuting and i stayed over at peijia's hall. first time i went to KE hall, and i thought sheares hall was very much nicer den KE. haha~
played monopoly, stoned in the KE lounge, walked out to fongseng for supper. my fav prata and teh peng! =)) saw yisheng's daddy still in his shop at ard 2 plus in the morning! we decided to take a cab back to KE from fongseng cos we were too lazy to walk back. met a uber crazy taxi driver! thank god he refused to take us cos there were 5 of us. he just sped off at top speed when jm barely just closed the door and made an initial-D-like U turn without even slowing down! siao

when we returned to the hall all of us just wanted to sleep. haha~ slept till late morning. peijia's poor roommate gotta shock when she returned and opened the door in the morning and saw a bunch of strangers sleeping all over the place. haha she thought she went to the wrong room!

we had fun helping to match-make jm with girls we know. chok kept showing him photos on friendster.
haha~ brunch was at the cafe in PGP.. haha we kept reminiescing on the days in secondary sch and the funny things tt happened then. like how chok kept stealing my stationary for fun when he used to sit beside me in class. haha~ talked abt our teachers like eddie lim, miss sew, mdm sim etc. heh the funniest is always our lit teacher, miss yee. rem we used to do 'kallang wave' in class during her lessons. and she nv ever found out. and the times we got into trouble for doing stupid things in chem lab (like trying to write with iodine fumes in the test tube), and for breaking window panes in our classroom cos our class was always playing captain's ball in class. also talked abt the time when peijia, qiuting, meiwei and i got caught by nancy ng for loitering ard the dental bus and not going back to class after our visits to the dental nurse.
haha i was surprised at the amount of things we could rem, given tt all these seem to have happened so long ago. so fun reliving the old days again!

joined my family for lunch after tt, cos its vesak day today~ barely had time to rest before going off for tuition.
uber tired.

fa lu gong outing!

2007-05-28T13:51:00.000+08:00

havent had a fa lun gong outing since christmas eve the year before last year i tink. met up with peijia, meiwei, chok and jm yest at dhoby gaut. kw and qt couldnt join us. =(( haha we initially planned to go to mind cafe but since we havent met up for so long, we decided to just chill at starbucks and chat. haha~ like old ah peks and ah mahs. we had so much to talk abt tt we chatted from afternoon till dinner time. heh~ talked about everyone from our 3C/1A classes.

we went to esplanade to stone for quite awhile. hwa chong was having some choir perfomrance there tt i tink,saw some familiar faces. in the end we went off for dinner at lerkthai in marina square. kinda our 'lao di fang'. hah. this time the food seemed less spicy, though jm still sweated like crazy.

we chatted till we were almost the last pple in the restaurant to leave. haha~~ so fun listenin to peijia and her theories.

expo food fair!

2007-05-27T12:38:00.000+08:00

went to the food fair at singapore expo with mama and my bro yesterday. met bowwow and her bf too! heh

the whole expo hall was super crowded. food seems to be a large attraction for most singaporeans i guess. i kept getting stepped on =(( the 3 of us shared quite alot of food. ate katong laksa, city satay, taiwanese oyster mee sua, tom yam soup, coffee-flavoured snow ice with chocolate syrup (yummy!) and lotsa other snacks. haha~

we also went to support daddy's company's new product-anything and watever! haha think the product is attracting a fair amount of interest. quite fun cos it's a surprise in every bottle so u wun noe wat flavour u got until u drink it. but tink the whole fuss will die down quickly. we bought a can of the gassy anything and a can of the non-gassy watever. haha we got the lemon -flavoured one for anything and it sucked. the peach-flavoured watever was v nice though. haha~ i was hoping to get the cola-flavoured one. bleah.

oooh i played ball and skipped dinner yesterday! suddenly got new found determination to lose weight. haha though i noe it wun last.

jb trip with yy!

2007-05-24T11:25:00.000+08:00

both of us have been talking about going shopping in jb for ages. we finally went yesterday! yay.. we always have so much to talk about. i still remember our class teacher had to change our seats and seperate us when we were in sec school cos we kept talking and were making too much noise. haha~

we went to watch 28 weeks later at the Cathay cinema there. heh i was pretty curious abt the movie cos some pple gave it rather good comments while others thought tt it sucked. anw the movie tickets cost us only RM6 each, which works out to less than S$3! haha~ we bought tickets in the late afternoon and went shopping in the meantime.

yy bought coloured contact lenses and monthly lenses for a bargain. haha we also bought tops and slippers. bleah i realised i forgot to buy PS2 games for my brother only on the way back to singapore. haha the games there cost only S$2! my bro and i are hooked on the NBA live 07 game we bought the last time.

anw, thought 28 weeks later was quite nice leh. not much of a storyline la, practically just abt pple who have to keep running away from everything. the thing i enjoyed the most was actually the popcorn there. much nicer than popcorn here in singapore leh. yumms.

after shopping was our highlight of the day--seafood! we took a cab down to Taman food centre.

in the cab!

we ordered black pepper crab, cereal prawns, la-la, and sambal kangkong.

yummy yummy!

haha ordered too much le.. we gave up on the kang kong in the end. ate till i was super full. the food there was heavenly! super duper nice. plus the bill only worked out to ard 20 plus bucks sing dollars. =)) we both got takeaways in the end.. haha i bought cereal clayfish back for my family. my brother was more thrilled by the secret recipe cheesecakes i bought back though. heh.

took 168 back from woodlands. super fast. took me only 30 min to get from woodlands mrt to ikea tampines, where i can walk home from. i had to resist going in to buy the swedish meatballs.

GSS is here!

2007-05-23T00:02:00.000+08:00

think i caught the flu from my mum=(( helped my mum dye her hair today! haha it was pretty fun. i tink i did a good job. haha~

went to Chinatown with bowwow yesterday to check out stuff for our japan trip. the air tickets are soo expensive! going to cost ard 1000 bucks each. both of us taught this will make us exceed our budget. so we started looking at guided tour packages instead, which are much cheaper. so everything is still far from being finalised. haha~ gosh. i hope the japan trip materialises. been looking forward to it. heh was thinking if we eventually go on a tour package instead i might even be able to go on another trip to taiwan with the money saved. haha~
bowwow and i eventually succumbed to the lure of the GSS sale. so we started shopping! as usual. we can never resist shopping. the fact that it's now the GSS period just made us even more gung ho. haha~
funniest thing is that to us, shopping even takes priority over our need to empty our bursting bladders. we went to this building with a really big This Fashion outlet, just opposite pearl centre. both of us were in desperate need for a toilet so we went in search of one. to our distress, there was NO TOILET in the whole building! haha~ so we decided to ignore our bladders' increasing parasympathetic tone and go shop first. haha~~ in the fitting room we have both reached our limits. i was already in danger of peeing in the fitting room. haha so we dumped the clothes down first and chionged off to find the nearest toilet. which turned out to be not v near. haha we kept screaming 'help' on the way to find the toilet. pretty funny. i had to stop myself from laughing cos laughing causes my abdominal muscles to contract and this would increase my need to pee. erpss.

going for more shopping in JB tmr! haha though i wonder why i m going to JB to shop when the GSS is on. heh. but looking forward to the seafood treat tmr! -drools-

i guess i have already accepted tt my diet plan will never succeed and i will be fat forever. must say tt i m pretty impressed with yisheng though. haha he was telling me abt his 45-minutes cardio workouts. i tried doing it today too, on my exercise bike. i lasted for 10minutes and 39 secs before i gave up due to boredom and aching legs.

stupid kid

2007-05-20T23:04:00.000+08:00

the kid has no taste. grrr.

funny ad though. heh

zoo day!

2007-05-20T01:08:00.000+08:00

blogging now while waiting for my hair to dry. just came back from watching the FA cup final between Chelsea and Man U at the Kopitiam near my house. haha! was having dinner with my mum and bro there and decided the time was just right for me to stay on and catch the match. must say its a pretty fun experience, sitting with the uncles, some families and kids and going 'oohing and aahing' whenever anyone got close to scoring. haha! Chelsea eventually won 1-0 in extra time.. nothing to do with me actually, i m a total neutral for this match. just hope tt my liverpool wins the Champions league!

anw, today was zoo day. 71 had talked abt going to the zoo together for ages. so today was supposed to be the long awaited zoo day. however, got the feeling tt everyone will just pangseh. cos till late last night there was still like no real confirmation. haha~ i woke up at 8am this morning, thought abt the long journey to AMK mrt where we were meeting, and felt super tempted to just pangseh too. haha guilt prompted me to wake up.

i was surprised to be one of the earliest to reach! haha after yisheng and gilyn. we were even earlier den kheng wee! yay~~ first time leh. anw the 3 of us waited for anthon and khengwee, den took the 138 bus down to mandai zoo to meet damian.

havent been to the zoo for ages! cant even rem when was the last time i was there. haha~ all of us were quite excited.

outside the zoo!! we are going to the zoo zoo zoo~~

din buy tickets with tram rides so tt we would walk the whole time. haha this is to ensure tt we burn enough fats for Ben and Jerry's ice cream at the end of the day! haha but it was really v tiring. i kept struggling. gilyn kept laffing at me though she was struggling too.
we kept making hilarious comments abt everything and doing childish things. this seems to be the norm everytime i m with 71 pple. heh but its really fun~ when gilyn started singing: 'if you are happy and you know it wag your tail' , shinwei & damian: 'wag wag'. totally spontaneously and without thinking. erpps. we were embarrassed.
other funny things of the day include trying to list examples of animals with 'hao ren lian (good pple face)' and 'huai ren lian (bad pple face)'; taking photo of some worker in the orang utan enclosure and commenting tt the species is called 'un-naked orang utan'; getting all excited over the sheep's overly-enlarged, erms, scrotum; and yisheng commenting tt the goat shitting looked like coffee beans. there was this caucasian couple near us laffing at his comment. haha~

spot the kangeroo

we realised tt all of us are really good students. hc-produced muggers. haha. cos when we saw the giraffes anthon commented tt he is reminded of the Darwin's theory in the bio notes. den when we were looking at the pond skaters we all were reminded of pri sch science. hahahaa~

we ended our trip with the highlight of the day: BEn and jerry's! we shared 6 flavours. =)) happy happy. tink its a special 71 outing. which other class goes to the zoo as class outing? haha we are zai.

shopping trip in JB + PDCP

2007-05-16T20:50:00.000+08:00

went to johor with my mum and bro last sat. haha first time venturing into JB by taking public transport. we took the singapore-johor express bus from Queen's street. surprised tt the travelling time was so short!

anw, we went for some shopping at city square plaza at JB. some of the things there are really cheap! haha i replenished my stock of contact lenses there. bought my Acuvue Clear monthly lenses at a huge bargain. heh~ my brother went on a major shopping spree and bought shirts, a sweater and skater shoes. they got super nice skater shoes there at only RM 49! haha i would have bought a pair too if not for the fact that i hardly have the chance to wear shoes these days.

we were too lazy to venture out to the Taman Food centre tt yy recommended me to. so we stayed in the mall and had lunch at this stone grill restaurant serving real nice food at cheap prices! haha i had an enormous portion of salmon! haha.

there is also a secret recipe shop there so i bought blueberry cheese cake and my fav chocolate banana cakes to bring back to singapore. haha the prices of the cakes there are almost half tt of singapore's. happy happy. =))

just finished the 3-day PDCP course today. haa though i only went for 2 days. din really mind the course la, thought the self assessment tests were pretty fun and my group also had some lively discussions abt cross gender interaction. hahaa=)) though i doubt the things they covered during this course is going to help at all in our future practice as doctors. heh

crazy day

2007-05-11T20:59:00.000+08:00

met up with yisheng, damian and yuenmei at holland v yesterday. we wanted to go and play board games at Settlers cafe.
i met bowwow at clementi mrt first to take a bus down together. haha quite interesting listening to her talk abt her blossoming new love. so happy for her! i tink the guy looks like a hao ren. yeah so its good. =)) anw, we were so engrossed in talking tt we missed our stop. and we realised tt the next bus stop was too far away for us to walk back to the burger king where we were supposed to meet yisheng and damian. haha so we had to take a cab. bleahs. felt utterly stupid.

anw, to our disappointment, settlers cafe was totally packed and there were no seats. sian. so we went to the little bread shop in holland v for bread and drinks. realised tt there was nothing to do at all in holland v except eat. gosh. haha i was feeling quite cheated and sad cos i had to travel all the way from pasir ris to eat bread! haha~ den just suddenly got the crazy idea to go to har par villa. hahaa~ tink i can be crazy sometimes.

the others were all for the idea, esp damian who seemed quite excited. haha so off we went!

haha we visiting the 'gates of hell'. gosh it was really like hell. tink they were under budget or sth, so there was no air con and no ventilation inside. not to mention tt there were mosquitoes. haha got a couple of mosquito bites. bleahs. but we had fun reading from all the signs about the various punishments for diff sins committed by pple.

the weather was too hot to bear and we couldnt tahan the sweltering heat. haha so we left before we completed the tour of har par villa. haha..gosh. wun say it was a wasted trip though la. tink only good old 71 peeps will be crazy enough to do things like going to har par villa on a super hot afternoon.heh

relief!

2007-05-11T13:24:00.000+08:00

checked my results online yesterday. so relieved to see my grades =)) i passed everything! though my string of Bs is hardly anything to be proud of, i m just glad tt i can finally enjoy the rest of my holidays without having to worry abt results. yay..

anyway mon met cuixi at marina square to watch spiderman 3. thought the movie was rather disappointing. but i like all the bad guys in this movie! haha~~ after movie we went to ministry of food for lunch. the jap desserts there all look so yummy! both of us shared a dessert and i had the chicken teriyaki bento set.

yumms!

haha felt quite pig cos cuixi held on to her diet resolution and din have lunch while i pigged out. bleahs. haha~ after tt we went to shop ard. bought some stuff under sale! =)

woke up super early on tues. haha been ages since i last woke up at 6 am. reason was tt we were gg to hwa chong to crash morning assembly! haha! felt pretty weird as i put on my hc uniform. haha i was hoping tt i wun meet any neighbours on the way out of my house. can imagine how hard it wuld be to explain things. muahaha.
i was the latest to reach, after yisheng, damian and suan. haha we look exactly the same as 2 years ago! haha~ the rest of them could blend in totally with the rest of the hwachongians.. haha but my dyed hair gave me away. haha

we just chionged into the central plaza. haha suan just led us to stand behind some random class. haha so it was the usual keblakan pusing, den national anthem and pledge. haha.. been so long since the last time i did this! haha during the morning announcements i found myself under attack by the teachers. hahah!! 3 teachers came up to me cos of my hair. one of whom was my council teacher mrs ang. haha she started complaining.. most of the teachers just dismissed us as some over enthusiastic alumni students with too much time on our hands i guess. haha. but there was one mean teacher who asked me to change out of the uni. bleahs. so sad lar. i left my uni on cos without wearing uni it wun be fun le. hehe. haha luckily we din see the teacher again for the rest of the day.

anw after flag raising we went for breakfast in the canteen. haha saw our math teacher mr tan wan sin having tea there! haha he claims to rem us but i doubt he ever knew us by names even after teaching us for 2 years. haha but he invited us to have tea with him. =))
haha the chicken rice stall uncle still remembers yisheng! haha so nan de. tink he ate too much chicken rice during his hc days le la.

after breakfast we went up to the staff room to find the teachers. talked to mrs chong, mr sam lee and mr augustine wong! our vp mrs chin came over to us when we were at the consultation area with mr lee, thinking tt we were working hard on schoolwork. haha she was quite surprised to learn tt we were old students in uniform! haha she still remembers tt i was a councillor! haha.

after tt we went to coronation plaza. 4 of us shared meatballs at cafe watever while waiting for mr sam lee and ger to come and join us for lunch. haha we finished the plate of meatballs in less den one min! pigs!
after tt was lunch at prince. haha the auntie just assumed tt we were students. yay so we got the $6 meal! =))

where's yisheng when we were at prince

super sleepy and full so i went home to sleep instead of joining limin they all in town. haha~ exciting huh.

i m broke!!

2007-05-07T10:29:00.000+08:00

haha weeks of life just going out and eating and shopping has taken its toil on my pocket. i practically spent my allowance for the month within the first week. keep digging from my bank account savings. haha at this rate, i will go japan to eat grass.

ate quite alot of buffets too haha. though i console myself by saying tt i have been exercising, but i tink the amouunt i eat is way too much to work off. gosh ahh!! anw been bball-mad lately too. been going to play bball in the neighbourhood court with my bro. haha. always play with this usual gang of ah bengs. haha but i tink they are so funny. i gotta buy cigarettes for them cos they are underaged. hahaha.

been 3 months since the last hc130 outing! haha ys ger and i met up to support suan and her samba masala friends from SMU! they were busking at orchard road. haha in btw we went to kino for a while to let our sweat evaporate. tink the performance was really cool!

den we went for dinner at ding tai feng. for a span of a few minutes, hc130 was engaged in a serious conversation about marriage. ger and i were commenting tt we had grown up finally. haha. how wrong were we.

the rest of the time hc130 was back to our old childish ways. haha. laughed till my TMJ almost dislocated. i told them abt the TMJ and we were figuring out how to dislocate the TMJ on purpose. haha.

after dinner we walked to the hongkong cafe at cine for desserts.we had the mango ice and the girls kept laughing at ys and saying tt he doesnt have a brain cos he couldnt feel any brain freeze. den he started faking brain freezes with every mouthful. haha super funny. just sat there laffing our heads off. after desserts we started crazily ordering food. haha we shared 2 more toasts and one polo bun. haha~ now i noe why no matter how much i exercise, i dun seem to lose any weight.

neoprints as usual! haha we were the only ones in the shop.

oooh 71 is gg back to hwa chong to crash tmr! shall go dig my drawers for my uniform later at night! heh

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2007-04-25T13:38:00.000+08:00

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woo hoo!! its freedom!

2007-04-19T10:53:00.000+08:00

today is the first time in abt a month when i woke up to the sound of birds chirping outside my window, and not to the irritating chime of my handphone alarm. feel sooo refreshed and relaxed! abit not used to the feeling of having loads of time to spare and nothing to do though. haha. i m going to play play and play! hopefully i dun get any viva calls and i shall pray hard tt i dun get any subs as well. really worried. i feel v unconfident abt all my papers, even the mcq ones. got alot of unsure questions and i dun dare to compare my ans with pple(will spoil my hol mood). haha. so i m praying all the ques i tikamed are correct. haha. oh wells.

anw, cant believe that my first academic yr in uni is over soo fast! (erms, hopefully over) it seemed like just yesterday when i got a call from med fac to ask me if i would like to transfer course over to medicine. really soo vivid. then i blinked and here i m, at the end of yr one. haha bowwow was saying if we blink 5 more times den we will be graduating le. haha i cant imagine. feeling of eventually graduating, starting on housemanship, start of my career and life outside school. sounds exciting yet scary. haha i m so used to having to go to school and having sth to mug for all the time. haha sounds nerdy i know but its true.

tink the one yr in medicine had been really fast cos it was fun. haha. time passes quickly when u are having fun. since our days are short, got lotsa time to play ma. haha. the most tiring was the one month before the pros ba. though i wun say i mugged v hard but at least i feel guilty when i play. haha.

oh speakin of playing, bowwow and i were really gungho and we went night cycling with the s71 guys abt 2 weeks before pros. haha. anthon was the organiser! hehe. just 5 of us went, anthon, yisheng, kiwi, bowwow and i. heh it was really fun but tiring. my butt hurt for 2 days after the cycling trip.
we cycled from ecp to clarke quay to meet damian and ger at Brewerks for dinner, den to lao pa sat for satay and yisheng's pig brain soup, den to maxwell road hawker centre, den to Swenson's in town, den to the You Tiao Da Wang in geylang for breakfast and den finally back to ecp.

at ecp before setting off!

dinner at brewerks. heh damian and ger had to wait v long for us due to our mishaps with bikes plus we ran into a a waterlogged dead end at ecp. haha.

satays and pig's brain soup at lao pa sat! and i finally got to drink the teh tarik tt bowwow kept recommending me to. by this time our butts were all suffering.

haha we had a mini 'lao yu sheng' at maxwell road food centre. fun!

at Swenson's in town. we shared apple crumble and a sundae. heh spent our time there reminiscing JC days and talking abt crazy stuff cos all of us were semi high at 3 am in the morning. talked abt our 71 volleyball days, teachers, complained abt 5.20 days. haha yisheng brought up how the both of us were super sad during bio pracs, cos we were always stuck on the side bench. always spent our bio pracs looking out to the house outside the window. we perpetually witnessed the process of the swimming pool being built there. haha.

resting pit stop at this ulu overhead bridge along Nicoll highway. my legs were dying on me. not helped by the fact tt i din know how to adjust the gears on my bike so i was even struggling to get my bike moving. gosh. we just sehed on the stairs.saw used stringes on the stairs. aiyo. wonder wat pple do here.

last stop at geylang's famous 24 hr you tiao da wang! haha i love the oyster mee sua there. by this time all of us were super sleepy. we even dozed off for awhile there. haha it was abt 6 plus in the morning and the pple in the shop were giving us weird looks. how cum this bunch of youngsters come here to sleep early in the morning? haha

back at ecp waiting for the bike shop to open. haha i almost ran over a cat there. too sleepy.. ecp in the morning is so diff from at night. everything smells so fresh and there are birds chirping everywhere. makes me feel refreshed and happy. =))

heh this has been a rather long entry. gotta go now to draw up a plan for the long long hols. hopefully the japan trip materialises. i might be leaving for taiwan too! heh. feel like working/learning sth in this time. ahh so much to look forward to i really really hope tt i dun dio subs!! i dun wanna study my hols away!

time to study

2007-03-27T11:29:00.000+08:00

went to the natas fair with bowwow and junjia last fri! bowwow and i were supposed to meet up early first to mug while waiting for junjia but we ended up going to crystal jade for good food and den to the arcade center again to play. haha we played lotsa shooting games. v fun!

anyway natas fair is nothing special la. after taking a pile of rather useless brochures, tink we kinda decided to go free and easy for our japan trip. haha. details to be finalised!

came down with a fever of 38.8 yesterday so i went to see doc. haha the doc super funny. complained to me abt the medical line for abt 20 mins after he found out tt i m a medical student. told me all abt backstabbing, night calls and how 'dangerous' it is to work when u dun have enough sleep. haha. tink he seems to regret being a doc alot. poor guy. hope he becomes happier.

back to studying!! no time to lose!!

haha funny

2007-03-22T21:06:00.000+08:00

saw this on yisheng's blog. =) thought it's really quite funny. yisheng anyhow play with my trademark retarded face.

beach fiesta!

2007-03-18T18:22:00.000+08:00

heh met up with richmond, limin, tiongsoon and samuel today. went to sentosa to join the freesbie competition as cherie was one of the organisers so we joined to support her. haha. there was also soccer, volleyball and touch rug competition at the beach fiesta organised by NUS FASS. yupp.

on the bus to sentosa!

prob was tt all of us have nv really played freesbie before. we couldnt even catch the freesbie properly la! heh needless to mention we were thrashed in all the 4 matches tt we played. =(( met this student from france who is studying in NUS. heh he was super enthu la. wanted to try out all the sports. he even played for our team for awhile. =))

councillors at the beach fiesta!

in btw matches we played abit of volleyball. heh tink volleyball is much more fun than freesbie la!

went to koufu to eat and buy a prezzie for cherie since its her bday. heh we bought her a volleyball! =))

tink sentosa is a beautiful place. wonder why singaporeans still complain

we took the new monorail back. heh my first time on it! can imagine how long i havent been to sentosa lor. heh where are the 71 volleyballers?!

super tired on the way back. running on sand is super tedious. and worse still, i felt like i spent the morning running AIMLESSLY on sand. haha. not bad la jian fei lor. tink i am going to end up with muscle aches tmr..

i m 20!!

2007-03-17T23:22:00.000+08:00

heh happy birthday to myself! cant believe i m 20 le! this birthday officially spells the end of my teenage years. boohoo. still, i guess turning twenty comes with its responsibilities. i m quite determined to change for the better in the coming year. going to be a more hardworking girl and give my best in everything i do. yup. my mum keep saying i m too laid back for my own good. heh. i guess its pretty true la, though it should be quite hard to change this part of my character leh.

just came back from marina bay with my family. had the steamboat buffet there. so shiok. heh been awhile since the last time i went there with my family. in fact it has been quite awhile since the last time i went there with anyone. think the last time i went was with the Eunos CSC bballers. haha. tt was like in my J1 year. heh.
anyway, we ate like damn alot of meat. and crabs. heh. my family members are all carnivores. papa and i shared 2 jugs of tiger beer btw us. hah. tink i prob drank like 3/4 jug la. =))

gotta wake up early tmr to go sentosa. hope i dun suffer from any hangover. haha.

lao shu family outing!!

2007-03-16T23:39:00.000+08:00

met bowwow for our fav good food plus shopping session as usual. heh we had lunch at miss clarity cos i got craving for the soft shell crab creamy pasta. haah. mudooze and mango sorbet to go with it! yay=))

after lunch we went to suntec to shop. we were super happy to see that many of the shops were having sales! haha tink cos they are changing season now. so happy. bowwow bought a top from bysi for only 5 plus bucks after 70% discount. super hua suan. haha.
i bought a top from espirit using the 8 bucks voucher my cousin gave me. not bad la better den nothing ;))

went to play photohunt at the arcade there. haha we were photomasters!! so zai. we only spent 2 fifty cents lor. din expect bowwow and i to be so zai. the last time i played with hc130 we were nowhere as good wor. haha. and there were 4 pple den. den we played daytona. haha bowwow kept crashing her car. hope she gets her license soon. haha we also played the bball shooting game and pur fav drum game. played till our arms were super tired :))

we wanted to walk to marina square to watch movie after tt, but just as we were going to go down the escalator i asked bowwow why dun we just find a nice place to sit down instead. haha she said she was just going to say the exact same thing! haha tink we spend too much time tog le. always wanna say the same thing. still rem the time at cathay, the restaurant manager asked both of us if we were sisters. muahaha super funny.

so we went off to auntie anne's to rot and wait for lao shu shi to come. haha lao shu shi is a lao lao shu shi cos she is already 20!! though i am also going to be a lao lao shu pee vvv soon. :((
the 3 of us wanted to go to the fountain to make a wish for our going-to-fail CA2 and pray for a miracle. but the fountain was closed. hai fated one la.

so we went to marina square to eat dinner. and den to esplanade to eat haagen diaz ice cream and people watch. haha fei shi.

on the way back with jj on the mrt, met yy!! so qiao! haha. we were standing directly in front of her. haha i spent like 5 seconds to decide that the person was yy. haha so funny. she said she was just staring at jj's shoes cos i told her previously tt i wanted to buy it. heh..

hana kimi 专署天使

2007-03-16T01:25:00.000+08:00

love this drama and song! =))

end of CA2!!

2007-03-14T21:20:00.000+08:00

finally, the end of CA2!! so relieved.. been struggling so hard in the past few days. the consequences of ponning lects and slacking throughout the yr is tt i always have it damn hard during exam period. need to cram one yr's stuff in one day into my head. so stressful. doesnt help tt i keep on gettin distracted by all the tv shows.

had spots today which was a really bad experience. initially planned on doing our 'chain reaction' thingy, since our seniors told us its v easy to 'compare answers' during spots. but we went into the anat hall too late and all almost all the good seats were taken up. haiz. i had to depend on myself totally for the whole thing. which is bad. think i m going to fail. but i still think the idea of 100 of us moving to the right upon the sounding of the bell v funny. like a bunch of zombies.

anyway after tt went with anat group pple to excelsior hotal near funan mall for tim sum buffet! so funny henglip kept saying the char siew baos smelt like the formalin in the anat hall. nobody really dared to eat the baos in the end. =)) ate till super full.. yay

den cui xi, me and ian went to town. went kino and looked at the interesting medicine books. haha. i tink i should get some inspirational books on the medical line to read. maybe it will stop me from slacking so much.
after tt ian left and both of us went shopping and swenson's for ice cream =)) yay i love ice cream.

one month till the next exam. seems like plenty of time. yay.

the most childish pw grp on earth-hc 130

2007-02-26T21:13:00.000+08:00

met up with hc 130 last fri. i was quite shocked when suan called me when i was on the mrt and told me she was already at miss clarity. haha it was only 6pm, although we were supposed to meet at 6 thirty! shocked cos suan is nv someone who will be early. heh. she is always the lao shu shi who is the latest for hc 130 outings.

so i met yisheng at the mrt station and we walked over to miss clarity tog to find ger and suan. we were supposed to eat fast cos apparently the table was reserved from 7 thirty onwards. hmm miss clarity's food improved!! we tried the food from the new menu and it was really yummy! we were super bloated from the food, but we will always make space for our fav mudooze!! heh~

after dinner we walked over to national library to play our fav superman game.ger was violently against it as usual. hehehe. but since its 3 vs 1, and majority rules, off we went into one of the glass elevators of national library. leaned our tummies against the glass window, right arm up in the air, and zoom.. superman!!
haha.. tink we are the most childish bunch of 20 year olds ard.

after tt went to take neoprints.
den went to the arcade to play photohunt and bishi bashi. heh i suck at bishi bashi. tink growing fat makes one's reactions slow down. =((

heh we took a pic with cai shen. this was right in the middle of a vcd shop. haha ger loves cai shen's skirt

fun fun night! =) hc 130 ke baba!!

CNY 07~ oinks

2007-02-21T23:21:00.000+08:00

hope the year of the pig will be a great yr! feel a special affinity to the year of the pig heh~ =))

in the car on the way to yipo's house. mama is camera shy.

felt quite sad at yipo's house. her health have been deteriorating over the years.. this time, she looked v weak and tired when we went to visit her. also wasnt in a totally clear state of mind too her eyes were blurry and she kept staring blankly into the air. hai.. i guess old folks need alot of company and activities to keep them occupied so they will stay alert and healthy.. hope her condition improves soon..

@ popo's house with my nephew and cousin

haha tink my little cousins and nephew are soo cute. spent the whole day playing with them yesterday when they came visiting. heh pumpkin-hairband which i bought for the last halloween was a hit among the kids. kept snatching from each other. had a hard time trying to get them to stop fighting. haha .

cherish life

2007-02-18T10:56:00.000+08:00

been a good girl and helped my mama shop for new year's stuff on friday, the eve of CNY eve. heh we bought lotsa food for steamboat and also other goodies. =)) heh.

anw, at about 1 am at night tt day, when i was buried in my baby moore's chapter on upper limb, my mum rushed into my room and told me tt there was someone going to jump off the building opposite me. gosh my heart almost jumped out of my mouth as i thought tt my mum was the only one who saw the incident. so i immediately sprinted out of my room and asked my mum to call the police.

as i rushed to the window, i saw lotsa civil defence pple already milling ard the area, and they had pumped up this mattress thingy in case the person really jumps off. haha heaved a sigh of relief. my mum always over-exaggerates. from the look on her face earlier, anyone would have thought tt she was the only one who saw the incident. so we stood at the window and watched the whole incident. there were many others watching from their units too, even though it was 1 plus in the morning.

the man was a chinese, and he was sitting on his window with his legs dangling outside. we saw tt civil defence pple were already in the units above and below him. the man kept on wailing things like 'they dun wan me' in mandarin. suddenly, in a flash, the civil defence members from the unit above him slided down to his unit and by force, they pushed him back into his unit. so thankfully the man was saved.

felt quite sad for the man. for the next 2 days his unit was in total darkness, in stark contrast to the brightly lit units ard his, as pple were all home for reunion dinner and CNY. wonder wat exactly could have happened for someone to actually contemplate ending his or her life. i tink no matter wat happens, we should always cherish life cos nothing is hopeless and things will work out if we persevere and not lose hope. =))

broke

2007-02-15T23:52:00.000+08:00

bowwow and i went on a shopping spree today. heh we went to far east to shop for clothes. i needed to buy new years clothes rather desperately as it was like 3 days before new years itself. at first both of us gave ourselves a limit of the amount of money we can spend. however i guess both of us were really in the mood to just spend money. seriously its pretty shiok to go shopping with a debit card. cos u just keep signing, and signing, and signing. and it seems like u nv spent any money at all. until u look at ur account balance.

well both of us ended up spending like 200 bucks. tink we could have actually spent more but both of us were dying from exhaustion, which was not helped by the fact tt we always got ourselves lost in Far East. i realised tt whenever bowwow and i go out, we always spend quite some time getting lost or trying to find our way ard. heh.

anw i bought 4 tops and 2 shoes, and a belt and accesories. heh happy! but i still feel quite sad for myself when i tink abt the dwindling balance in my account. hai plus mummy doesnt wan to sponsor me cos she tinks i anyhow buy things =((

anw yesterday was valentine's day, and much of the day was pretty uneventful. hai. haha spent quite long rotting ard in sch waiting for ling's histology review to start. den got all confused and worried at the review cos i dunno anything.

can imagine how bored we were on v day. heh took wu liao pics with sandra's laptop.

after lesson bowwow and i went to the stretch of shops near beauty world to eat the 5 star chicken rice tt S71 went to eat previously. after tt we ate roti prata and milo dinosaur. heh

one- for- one day and mugging day!!

2007-02-13T19:53:00.000+08:00

been awhile since the last time bowwow and i went for our go out and have fun and good food sessions. so yesterday, after hearing tt the anat review in the afternoon was cancelled, both of us chionged out of sch, got into a cab and headed to cathay for movie and good food. heh we were quite high in the cab. heh nothing beats going out and having fun!

we decided to go buy our tickets first. wanted to watch the show 'little children' by kate winslet. heh while we were queueing, this uncle approached us and gave us his 'buy one get one free' movie voucher as he couldnt use it for some reason. so we got one tix free! heh only 3.25 bucks each for the movie. haha we were quite happy.

den we went down to Lazesto restaurant at the basement, and realised they were having a 1 for 1 set lunch promotion! heheh~ we decided that it was going to be our one for one day. heh. we enjoyed nice set meal with yummy mushroom soup and creamy pasta and cake for dessert.

yumms! =))
i enjoyed the movie alot.. thought its quite diff from the genre of movies i usually watch. but rather surprisingly i liked it alot. thought the movie was quite thought provoking.

anw today both of us met again for mugging session, since there is no class. had breakfast at Long John's before setting off.

coffee before mugging! GO!

den went to the subway near national library to mug. the subway there is really ulu and v condusive for studying. for the first time, both of us were actually quite successful in mugging. -proud-
hehe den we went to raffles place to shop and buy food at lau pa sat. =)) eating the satay i bought now. heh.

hai bro got into some trouble with his gf's dad. little kids in love. hai. feel kinda sad for him =((

one week to mid-term break!

2007-02-10T10:27:00.000+08:00

yay its one week to CNY and mid-term break. i m quite happy, even though i tink i m supposed to spend most of my break studying for CA2. the thought of being able to sleep in late for one week makes me happy. haha~ and CNY. yays lots and lots of goodies!! heh tink i shall temporarily forget abt my diet plan (not tt i have been keeping to it much). heh.
ooh talking about my diet plan, i only managed to keep to ONE of my aims. here comes the big surprise: its the max 2 cokes a day one! haha. tink i have successfully overcame my addiction!

anw, my didi got A1 for his express chinese! haha. i was like how surprised lor. cos he really nv study for it. and he forgot to bring his chinese dictionary for his exam. diaoz. hehe. so quite happy for him la. can tell he is quite happy too. kept boasting abt it yesterday. heh. we ordered KFC to celebrate. =))

reality check

2007-02-04T13:10:00.000+08:00

realised tt the next CA is just abit more den one month away. gosh. it seems like the sem just started!! to tink that i was looking forward to the CNY break so much. i realised tt the CNY break is actually a STUDY BREAK for me. arggh.

tink its time to buck up. have been watching tv almost non-stop since the sem started. =((

vbash @ st james with 04s71

2007-01-22T15:14:00.000+08:00

surprised i din sleep till noon or sth after the vbash @ st james power station with 04s71. tink i am too excited cos i m going out to get a new phone later! yay. anw, gilyn cheah, being one of the NUS's student union's PRU pple, had asked the 04s71 pple to go for the bash. so since i had nothing better to do, decided to go. heh.. 8 of us went, me, jj, ger, damian, anthon, mao, kiwi and well, gilyn.

hmm the pple were were a mixture of nus and non-nus pple la. saw shiyang there. and ger met her hwachong CO frens. saw preaw and kim mei also! heh kinda surprised they club actually. anw, the powerhouse outlet was rather sian. and i din really like the techno music dere. =(( anw, we decided to go to other outlets but unfortunately our guys are too ginna-looking. haha got ID-checked. heh.

hai i got my foundation in research skills homework to do. sian. how am i going to find out about the effects of mineral water on male fertility when there is like no link bt the two? arggh. feel like ponning sch tmr.

jian fei plan version 583

2007-01-17T12:25:00.000+08:00

haha 583 is a number i randomly came up with. tink the number of times i promised myself to start on jian fei plans should be around this number le ba. and I NEVER SUCCEEDED. hopefully this time i will surpass myself.

cos it has come to the time when jian fei is no longer a want, but a NEED. i need to go on a diet!!
i shall thus try to keep to the following plan as much as possible:

1) cut down on 'good food' sessions with bowwow
2) max 2 cokes per week
3) jog/go on my exercise bike every evening
4) no suppers
5) no junk food

jiayou!!

mind cafe and o1 2007

2007-01-14T00:11:00.000+08:00

my anat group went out together after prac on fri.. been so long since the last time i did anat prac with my anat group, cos i have been crashing the 1st slot for all the past anat pracs. heh. not bad. first time in ages i actually stayed past one hour for anat prac too. haha doing prac with limin and co makes me more hardworking=))

anw, after anat we went off to kopitiam at ps for lunch, before heading to the mind cafe opp paradis centre. heh we played many games, like 'dog and bone', some charades game, one strategy game, and the most fun of all--i m the boss. haha~ i love tt game! we had v little time left to play the game since our booking time was only until 6pm. so we had to rush through the game. haha it was super hectic and all of us were just shouting at the same time to close off our 'transactions'. haha. i finished as the poorest player of all. thank god i m not going to be in stock exchange line..

at mind cafe

after tt limin and i went off to hwa chong for o1 2007!! heh ian tatt and lui lim came along to see how its like. we had quite alot of fun toking on the way there. sad thing is tt the campfire had to be held in the sch hall due to the rain... this yr's theme is 'Turbo Charged'.

had fun dancing and singing with the councillors during the song and dance session! havent seen some pple for so long!
luckily the rain stopped at ard 10 plus at night, after the dance session. so we all got to see the fireball as well!! so glad for the junior councillors!! i rem how sad and disappointed we were when it rained as well during 01 2005. heh... yay

turbo charged!!

after tt joined the class pple. as the great grandseniors of S71, we witnessed the traditional watermelon eating ceremony. haha~~ however our presence was totally ignored by the juniors. haha.. all of us felt so sad! we decided tt our 'expiry date' was up. cos none of the 03s71 seniors turned up... so like maybe this yr should be the last yr we can go. haiz.

the 'oldies'!

in the end the 'old folks' decided tt we should do wat old folks should do--head for a cuppa coffee and talk abt old times. haha! so we went off to starbucks.. in the end we din really tok abt the old times.. haha ger, me, jj, amanda and damian kept toking abt life in uni, while kiwi and anthon listened to our grumblings. haha wonder if they were bored.

shared cab home with jj. so tiring! i hate the rainy weather!

start of second sem!

2007-01-09T15:34:00.000+08:00

one month of hols passed so quickly..today is already the start of the second semester! one month of sleeping at least 8 hours per day has made me super reluctant to wake up today morning. ahh din wanna leave my bed!! plus my body clock is already used to my sleeping at 3am in the morning so i has trouble sleeping early the night before.

anw, still feels kinda nice to be back in sch after one month. though the thought of facing CA2 and the final exam scares the hell outta me. haiz. i guess i shall just look forward the the chinese new year, as a lack of anything else to look forward to. arggh. went to sch rather determined change my slacking ways and have a bright start to the sem. unfortunately the first lecture, something on the overview of the renal system, totally bored me to tears. trust me, i could really just feel my enthusiasm sapping away by the second as the lecture progressed. hai.

bowwow and i went to check our results during the break. managed to pass both my physio and biochem! i was quite surprised to know tt i actually passed my physio. thought its a goner.. i had to resort to shading in all Bs as my answers for some questions during the last min of the exam cos i dilly dallied for too long trying to decide on which answer to shade. phew
but din manage to find out our anatomy results though, cos they took it down from the board. hai. we are super worried. hope both of us will pass. -fingers crossed-

anw, like most days, today ended quite early, at eleven thirty. bowwow and i took a cab down to cineleisure to watch our movie. (we have planned this since the hols) finally watched Death Note 2. heh. tink the movie was kinda disappointing leh..din seem as nice as the first movie. though i tink L is really v funny and cute!
after the movie we went to starbucks in an attempt to be the muggers we promised we will become. so we attempted to read our lecture notes. unfortunately, both of us became too distracted by this man at the table beside us speaking rather loudly in a hong kong accent. both of us couldnt stand it cos it reminded us too much of Hanry Yu. (a rather, er, interestin lecturer in nus) so we left after barely 15 minutes. i barely did anything constructive at all! heh..

nvm, i shall work hard tmr den. dere will always be tmr.

anat group chalet

2007-01-05T00:33:00.000+08:00

went to my anat group's chalet today. the guys wanted to go to wild wild wet but some of the girls, including me, din wanna get wet. so we split off into a 'wet' group and a 'dry' group. heh. the dry group consisted of all the girls plus Lui Lim. heh. poor him had to help us take photos throughout the whole trip. heh.. gal power!!

the whole of pasir ris park was so deserted.. prob becos school has started ba.. we went to the playground to play.. so fun!! suddenly rem all my past class outings in pasir ris... the place holds quite alot of memories as many of my sec or pri sch class outings were held there.. also rem the cycling outing with the bballers there years before.

some of the many pics we took @ pasir ris park

sec school outing!!

2007-01-03T14:39:00.000+08:00

finally, a 2A/3C class outing! kudos to yiwei for organising it! havent seen many of my sec sch classmates for so long.. and foony is back from hong kong! heh yy and i were late for the class outing cos we both overslept. ooops. so met up with the rest of them at the hong kong cafe at marina square late. we made everyone wait for us finish our lunch..hehe..
the turnout was rather good..think abt 20 over pple turned up.. so nice to see pple like hang ping, yiwei, eugene, sze han, boyang and yongtse, whom i havent seen for ages..

we went to walk ard aimlessly for some time, den decided to head to suntec's arcade to play. watch the guys play this shooting game. chok is damn zai! den we went to kopitiam to just chill and talk cock. haha yy kept the girls entertained by asking lotsa qian bian wen da ti. haha~ quite fun!!

countdown to 2007!!

2007-01-01T22:28:00.000+08:00

i always wonder why sleepovers result in such serious degree of sleep deprivation for me. fell into a deep slumber right after i reached home in the morning after the stayover at damian's house, den slept some more in the afternoon, and i still feel sleep-deprived now. hais.

anw, this year's countdown is with my dearest 04s71!! met bow wow at bugis first to shop.. we went first to bugis street but couldnt stand the heat there. so we went off to city hall to shop in suntec instead. erps being the mei chu xi pple tt we are, we took the mrt down to city hall instead of walking. muahaha. we initially planned to watch Death note 2 but unfortunately there were no screenings of the show at Suntec.

@bugis!

so we continued shopping. both our legs were already close to breaking point. haha. den we decided to head to New York New york to join the dinner queue. by this time suntec was already rapidly filling with pple.. gosh. can imagine the number of pple at the marina bay countdown. the others soon joined us at new york new york. yay i love like the food dere! i had the roast chicken with penne alfredo, which was supposed to be super sinful. heh. we shared calamari and a choc fondue too!! yayz~~

at new york new york!!

den we decided not to go to the marina bay countdown but instead head straight for damian's house. haha so we counted down to the new year at damian's! had alcohol as drinks, den we watched abit of "American Pie: the naked mile", played mahjong, charades and heart attack. the charades part was super funny. laughed till my scalene muscles felt like they were bursting. heh. its damn funny to see mao play charades. nearly split my sides from laughing.
den we played a super exciting game of heart attack. wa really adrenaline rush man. haha yisheng played till he was sweating. haha~~ so fun!!

we also celebrated mao's 20th birthday. first person from 71 to turn 20! ahh i dun wan my 20th birthday to come! feels so old!

happy birthday mao!!

hope 2007 will be a fun-filled year! and i must finally be determined to mug hard!!

lunch at cuixi's

2006-12-30T22:38:00.000+08:00

went to cuixi's house for a post-xmas lunch. haha cuixi kept telling me tt she is a v good cook, and invited me, tammy and ian tatt over to her place to sample her specially cooked lunch. while waiting for ian tatt, tammy and i looked through cuixi's collection of food recipes. she has so many of them!! haha we learnt tt the scgs girls had to collect their own recipes and submit them as homework for home economics. haha~ so cool. i bet all scgs girls must be damn good cooks. the only time i ever tried studying a recipe was for my home economics final exam practical in sec 2. haha i rem i cooked mee siam. the teacher din seem to be v impressed den though.

i was not disappointed at all at the standard of the food. there were quite alot of dishes, such as ham and egg, tomatoes with rosemary, fish with milk and kiwi, and potatoes and carrots with some herb(forgot the name). den we had strawberry yoghurt cheesecake for desserts. yummies!! =))

the strawberry yoghurt cheesecake..with lotsa real strawberry chunks!

after lunch we watched "the holiday".. hehe~
i m rather determined to learn abit of cooking skills myself.. haha. seems to be quite fun. i shall use the last week of this hols to experiment abit with my mama's new convection oven. its pretty cool, can bake, steam, grill lotsa stuff. haha~ yay i m quite excited. going to search for some recipes later. hehe

maris back! stayover @ yy's hall

2006-12-29T21:30:00.000+08:00

maris is back!! haha~ it seems tt dhs bball team will only meet up whenever maris comes back. haha this time, she is back from australia, so we met up the day after xmas!

yy and i were the earliest from our team to arrive.. even though we were already half an hour late. haha for our team, it really doesnt matter wat time the meeting time is, it is purely for reference sake. haha~~ like this time, we were supposed to meet at 7pm, but the latest person to arrive(no prizes for guessing who) came at about 9.45 pm. haha.

anw, the 'early birds', consisting of me, yy, maris, chin ee, and jialing went off to cafe cartel @marina square first. peng yu, pk, yingru, yueshan and jinyuan den joined us. so nice to see everyone again! we were looking through the photos of the team together when we were still in sec 4. haha everyone has aged!! hahaha~ we were commenting on how innocent jy looked den. heh.. den yueshan and jy began to tell some leng xiao hua. haha i love yueshan's joke on the gang dang (potato)! super duper funny!!

dhs bball unite!

den we decided to go to geylang to eat durians!! hahah~~we had always passed by the durian shops in geylang during our dunman days.. many times we had said tt we should go dere for durians but it had never materialized. funny tt years down the road we finally got down to doing it. haha.. so we split into 2 cars, pengyu's and jy's. haha it was quite exciting to be in jy's car. she almost knocked down pengyu when he was trying to direct her while she was reversing into the parking slot. super scary girl. haha
it was my first time eating durians in a durian shop. haha v fun! we had to open the durians ourselves. yueshan almost killed me while she was trying to split open the durian! the durian shell was like flying towards me la!! hehe

after tt me, yy, yingru, yueshan and maris cabbed down to NTU. we were going to stay overnight at yy's room and play mahjong! haha we played till early morning! den maris and yingru left early in the morning cos yingru had school and maris needed to catch her flight. byebye maris!!! hope she comes back next yr leh.. if not the team prob wun meet up until god knows when. haha~

later in the morning, tagged along with yy to her hall's bball match. saw quite a few ex-hwa chong bballers, including cheryl poon. wa she still as zai as ever! hah after tt played friendly matches with yy's teammates and hall pple. v fun! soo long since i last played properly! must say i miss playing competitively alot..

slept like a log on the way back. i got butt cramps from sitting for too long on the mrt. boon lay to pasir ris leh. dun play play.

71 sentosa trip on the eve of xmas eve!

2006-12-28T23:13:00.000+08:00

finally, a 04s71 sentosa outing after soo long!! so happie!! haha heard abt the plan for a sentosa outing quite early from suan and i have marked out the day--the eve of xmas eve in anticipation! haha wrote a super duper big SENTOSA on my calendar. haha~

the girls were late as usual. haha its already becoming 71 tradition. sometimes i feel so sorry for the guys. i shall try to be punctual for outings next time. when suan and i reached macs, all the guys were already there waiting. cant believe all of them still bother to be punctual after all these time. haha~~ waited for the junjia, den we set off for sentosa!!

with the beary xmas tree just before we set off!

surprisingly it wasnt raining tt day..since it had been raining for the past days..so lucky! so off we went to palawan beach!! we managed to get a court! haha we were surprisingly not as rottish as we expected. looks like our 2 years of volleyball experience is not all wasted! heeh

being the ever nice 04s71, we decided to let another group use our court when they asked.. den it started to drizzle so off we went for lunch at sakae sushi! yayz..after paying, we realised tt they forgot to include junjia's meal into the total price, so we had 12 bucks left over. being the although-nice-but-not-so-honest people tt we are, we decided to use the leftover money to buy ice cream from New Zealand Natural!! haha~~

so we enjoyed ice cream while waiting for the rain to stop.. den huilin joined us! haha we were having a good time sharing gossips and also listening to huilin talk abt life in Uchic.

we finally got a court after the rain stopped!! the guys were playing a match by the time the girls returned from the toilet.. haha the girls were commenting on how we lower the standards of our guys' volleyball skills. they seem to be able to play much better w/o us. haha~~ oops. unfortunately they still lost the court to better opponents and we had to content ourselves with playing in a circle for the rest of the day. haha~~ but it was still rather fun!!
looks abit like a 'quan jia fu' rite heh

met damian at vivo city, den we went off to pastamania for dinner after realising tt all the places in vivo are super duper packed. haha~ looks like 71's tradition of eating at pastamania is not to be broken.

after dinner we went off to vivo city to enjoy the christmas atmosphere.. we took lotsa nice photos!! haha as usual we did lotsa stupid and funny stuff..the funniest was the photos we took at the fountain area. the 'little monsters' there kept on spraying water at us. haha~~ we were laffing our heads off as anthon and yisheng tried to help one another take a photo of water jetting out of their mouths. hahaha super duper funny!! the photo turned out rather unsuccessful though.. den there was this photo where all of us stood in front of the fountain and raised up our arms.. unfortunately the person taking the photo for us cleverly took the photo of us--without the fountain. erps. in the end we just ended up looking like some mad idiots raising our arms at nothing in particular... haha we laughed our heads off at tt.

ahh i love this xmas tree!! so chio!!

den we went up to the roof and enjoyed the night scenery of sentosa island. haha tried to tink back at wat i did in year 2006.. doesnt seem to be much, but i wun say its been a bad year. tink i should count my blessings in 2006 for many many things.. yupps. as for new year resolutions, i din bother to set them cos i never ever got round to realising them. muahaha

hopefully 2007 will be a great year!! looking forward to countdown with 71!!

badminton with yy + badminton with my little cousins

2006-12-23T23:53:00.000+08:00

thurs, 21st; went to meet yy at bedok to play badminton. haha~ been soo long since i met up with her! we kept wanting to meet for good food etc but due to differing schedules we kept postponing it. been ages since i last exercised. haha really been leading a damn slacko lifestyle.

went for lunch at pizza hut first. haha we shared 3 set lunches! plus we added on drumlets and garlic bread. haha ate till we were super full.. think i m going to swear off pizza hut for one month. gosh. in the end we left more than half of the chicago spaghetti untouched. all yy's fault, bluffed me tt definitely can finish the food. haha. think we overestimated our own appetitites.

so we went to play badminton with ultra full stomachs. haha~ i could still feel the beef lasagne and pizza in my tummy while playing. haha~ i was ultra lousy la. wun say tt i m any good at badminton, but i was at least able to beat yy at badminton during pe lessons years ago. this time round, i was totally thrashed by her. haha. my lungs felts like they were going to explode after just 2 games. haiz.

both of us became tired v quickly and we wasted our court booking by just sitting at the court and chatting. haha~ lao le lao le.

after this, went to my uncle's house to meet my mama. havent seen my little cousins amanda and aloysius for so long! haha~ my 3 year old cousin amanda became totally excited over my badminton racket and kept draggin me to play badminton with her. since she took my racket, poor me, i had to use the racket COVER to play with her. hahah~~ must say playin with amanda was about 3 times more tiring than playing with yy. i had to force her to do puzzles with me instead of playing badminton, so tt i could get a breather. gosh. feel so old!! haha

din help when the 2 year old aloysius woke up and decided to fight with her sister over the "new toy"-- my badminton racket. haha. gosh. tink i will go mad if i have kids next time. haha~~

visit to the assisi home and hospice

2006-12-18T22:07:00.000+08:00

ah i love holiday life! the feeling of being able to sleep till late morning, without having to wake up to the irritating noise of the alarm clock totally rawks! haha~~ found a nice website to watch anime and drama~ love the website! its at www.crunchyroll.com .just finished watching the whole series of "it started with a kiss". yayz~~and my room's makeover is almost complete! its now totally super duper condusive for mugging. haha~ i got a new big study table with shelves so that i can display all my medical books out. muahaha. hope i actually get down to reading them though. =))

anyway, today went down to assisi home and hospice, this home for cancer patients just next to Mount Alvernia Hospital. it is an activity organised by the voluntary corps of Sheares Hall. decided to be adventurous and find my way there myself, after consulting streetdirectory.com. haha got lost for awhile near Braddell mrt station trying to find the bus stop to take the bus down to Mount Alvernia.
got to talk to some of the elderly patients dere and also play with the little kids.the patients dere are very different from wat i expected them to be. before i went to the home, i imagined the patients dere to be very sickly and confined to their beds. but to my surprise, many of them look rather well, esp the kids, who are as friendly and rowdy as normal healthy kids. choi mei and i talked to these 3 girls who kept on pestering us to tell them ghost stories. haha~~ tried my best to cook up watever i can still recall from camps and chalets.

C-towners @ Assisi Home!