winnie is vinny

2008-08-10T16:17:00.002+08:00

Goodbye!

Finally, the long awaited day has arrived!
I am going on exchange to Switzerland for one semester!
Although I would also have to study, I feel more like on a vacation mood. hehe...
would be away from Singapore for the rest of year 2008!
For more info, goto http://www.say-swiss-cheese.blogspot.com

Any matter pls send email to wwaiting19@yahoo.com.sg
Or are you keen to be my penpal? hehe... Ask me for my address!

2008-08-01T00:51:00.005+08:00

~EMO MAMA~
last day of work...
started early...
ended late...
everyone gave me one last souvenir...
one last piece of assignment...
i couldn't finish on time...
left me no chance to savour the last of HSA...
to take a slow walk around the place...
to clear my desk properly...
to kop something home...
to say bye to everyone properly...
everything ended so abrupt yet I remember so clearly how I walked out from that door i came in every morning...
goodbyes...
one of my happiest, busiest, most comfortable and for sure, longest job...
I am really not someone who can handle farewells well...
oh man, can't imagine what is gonna happen on my day of departure...
i hope i can still act cool...

2008-07-18T21:27:00.018+08:00

BANGKOK!

oh my, its already my 7th time there! Maybe I should give up counting already eh, lets just call it my another home, haha! But then again, it isn't very appropriate to say so afterall, because all 7 times were spent only in Bangkok, erm okay, it includes a few times in Pattaya and up in some rural mountain, but still! no phuket no chiangmai, I can't say I know Thailand very well right?!

I don't know if it is because its really a short flight or I have already gotten used to long hours flight, this time, the flight felt damn short to me. Its like plane took off... meal served.. wine drank.. tada.. time to touch down! I didn't visit the loo at all!

My first time at the new bkk airport, sur... surva.. argh, the name is too long and hard to remember, not to mention pronounce!
Took turns to take photo while queuing at the immigration. So who's photoshoot skill is better?

We stayed at Arnoma Hotel, right opposite ZEN central world, with Pratunam and Siam Paragon 10 minutes walk away. Location is damn good, so good that I kept running away to shop on my own! hehe~

Oh and yes, I remembered to knock on the door and placed my shoes in a disorganized fashion to ward off dirty stuff after hearing so much hotel stories recently :S

Since I already self-claimed to be QUITE familiar with BKK, I was put in charge of planning the itinerary.. and that means MORE SHOPPING, LESS SIGHT-SEEING, or in fact I did plan a balance lah, but we didn't make it in the end :P

But But But, who can resist and hate shopping in bkk right? :D

Since my last trip 2 years ago there, there are indeed some changes in bkk, like the mobile number code and best shopping haunt (more details later), but some things never and should NEVER change! thats the taste of thai food!

The best thai food is always the cheapest roadside stall! oh my, totally rock my world!!! like that wanton mee, that mango glutinuous rice, that duck noodle and that mixed pig intestine soup, gosh, I am missing them already!!! I can't tell you how much I love thai roadside food, except that if I am given a choice to choose shopping or eating in bkk, i would choose eating! ya, thats how much I love the food there!

my crazy last night there was spent eating non-stop at chinatown from noodles to soup to durian to bird nest to toasted bread with a fren, see see see, ARE YOU TEMPTED?

oh that a word of advice, NEVER, i repeat, NEVER, let the taxi driver drives you to his recommended restaurant to dine-in, your head would just get chopped and all ur pockets would be emptied, yesh speaking from experience =(

Always love night markets because I am really a night person and I have that patience if time allows, to walk through all alleys and slowly dig for 'gold'. Plus, that kind of ambiene is less stressful than walking in shopping malls, easy and can bargain!

Suan Lum Night Bazaar used to be my No. 1 choice night market, but no longer! the price went up and the variety went down!

In fact, now I prefer Khao San night market, the well-known backpackers area! Plenty roadside vendors selling pad thai, though i didn't try, and many many clothes stores. Oh and very interesting open-air stores selling beer-in-bucket, with ang mohs sitting on plastic stools in a circle. didn't notice that before, so maybe thats new?! No pic on that but each kids beach sand size bucket of beer cost like SGD $5, dirt cheap eh?

Platinum mall was highly recommended to me by a few friends, so I ran out early in the morning during our day of departure to go have a look. And yes I fall in love with it! Even though not all stores were open already, I managed to grab some stuffs! yay!

Take a deep breath first.. after managing to read so much, time for photos!

yups, our one and only sight-seeing. Ya in a shopping mall, but still counted what!

Crabby, I wanna eat youuu!!

Proper name: Giant Spider Crab

No no, this is not a hermit crab!

Proper name: Nautilus

the greatest sea shell creature *if i didn't remember wrongly from my Biodiversity course :X*

Proper name: Porcupine fish

Sorry I failed to agitate them, but I admit, to begin with, I don't even know if they would erect their spikes or not also, hehe~

*wish this could be the fish tank in my house and I could turn into a mermaid as and when i like to swim with them*

Thats a starfish, felt like a stone though.

do you know? starfish can regenerate lost limbs!

Mr Shark giving me a big smile for the camera!

No worries, this guy is big in size but kind in heart, he is a vegetarian!

Do you know? Sharks have at least 4 rows of teeth, they wear and tear easily such that the new rows are there to replace the old ones readily, and yes, new teeths are always forming, no need for dentures! (click on photo to enlarge for illustration)

Diver feeding the stingray, it was so naughty to cover the diver using its big blanket size body so that other fishes couldn't come near to food, all for itself!

*tell me how can you eat so much yet stay so slim!*

For educational purpose. Familiar cycle learnt in Biodiversity course ;)

Referring to the above cycle, these are all polyps, baby jellyfish!

Last Activity in Siam Ocean World, and Last photo in this posting, yawnzzz~~

Boat ride round the aquarium! Felt special to be able to do this, because the aquarium area felt like the backstage area which is restricted to me, but no no! This ride comes with the package together with the Ocean World ticket! Those are the guides in the picture, interesting facts learnt!

p.s. Would be returning to Bangkok next month, but ar, no.. no time to even go out and eat Tom Yum Soup, just 2 hours of transiting to be spend there =((( extra frownzz

2008-07-10T00:32:00.001+08:00

the journey begins @

http://www.say-swiss-cheese.blogspot.com/

pls stay tuned my dear friends

but this blog wouldn't be abandoned.

would be blogging on more personal stuff here i guess

2008-07-06T11:50:00.003+08:00

OMG

I got a shock when I logged in to my friendster account today!

I received a message and I thought it would be some bo liao guys again but but but no!

See:

Hi .. Dun Mind .. Care To Intro ??

Winnie wrote:

> Hello,
> I miss you ,
> I hope you are doing good.
> I got a new page for the cam app, take a look!
> http://seemelivehere.com/4385

So did someone just hacked into my account or what?

The message that "I" sent out seems to be computer generated though.. hmmms...

Gosh, I wonder how many of such messages "I" have sent out? And could there really be naked photos of me in that website? But i didn't sleep with edi*** leh?! hahaz.

2008-07-02T23:19:00.004+08:00

this is a complaint case:

minutes ago i was complaining to my mom how annoying some ppl are...
especially ppl who just make me wanna escape from msn!

hey A! could you please stop asking me why this why that? Just one WHY from me, WHY the hell are you so interested in my life? "WHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHWYHWYHWYHWYHWYH"
its getting on my nerve, who are you, and who am I to you, why must I like report everything to you?
i only see us drifting apart further and further away...

and B, you are even worse! stop asking me where i am going today, no matter where i go, i wouldn't go out with you can!!!!! because u are such a xxxxx and i dun respect you at all for that. thats not the way to make friends, and we are not even close can!

sorry, i don't have the courage to tell these ppl directly in their face, so i must shout OUT LOUD here!!!!!!

anyways, after i finally finished complaining to my mom, my dad came up to her and started complaining his case. haha!
my mom started laughing and feeling helpless, she is like some psychiatrist for us to complain about our life la!

and she ended off my day by asking "eh girl, WHY you still not going to sleep?"
yes on purpose to make me even more irritated. haha....

p.s. you may stop wondering, i would tell you straight that yes, both above mentioned are guys.

but but but I am trying to neutralize my mood by thinking about how lunch time is getting more n more enjoyable with new found lunch mate, eating healthily and spending 15mins basking in the afternoon sun, chatting about meaningful things and just relaxing. now i really believe about chemistry, about clicking well, about "I had a great time today" cliche (but no longer one to me), about how some conversation can make you feel like as if you had a sweet and ending touch dessert after the main course when you merely ordered a plate of chicken rice or alike for lunch. =)

2008-06-27T22:24:00.005+08:00

Photos first....
venue: shouldn't be difficult to guess this place right...
date : 27.06.08
time: 7pm
guest: me, myself & i

yes i dated myself today after submitting my timesheet. i just realised among the temp staffs in my unit, I am earning the least! argh.. don't remind me of it anymore.

bought a drink and a snack, da. i conveniently found a empty benches along the riverside and started eating, people watching and taking photos. ahh.. weird? no.. its an truly enjoyable moment to be out with 'that person' and at that place that time.

food was definitely great, cheap and not so sinful, just what i craved for.

ambience was surprisingly good. i always lament that sg is so boring, not scenic at all, but i brainwashed myself to love where i am, not be at where i love, a rule that i learnt to apply to jobs. haha.
-office ladies and men in prim n proper wear walked past, leaving behind a scent that lingered for a moment. its like browsing through a fashion magazine in real-time, real-life and real-size.
-photographers, like above, taking postcards photos. oh and that wedding couple...
-joggers, yup, many in fact, wonder if they actually place a set of joggin suits at work and change when the time calls for the need of 'super-jogger'.
-tourists, perhaps just left fullerton hotel and were on their way to some restaurant along the shophouses
-fellow chill-out peeps who more or less were doing the same thing as me.....

and it was my second people watching session outdoor of the day.
lunch with mandy, my new colleague, was enjoyable!
maybe one reason more why i shouldn't quit hsa right now and try out that internship. hmms..

the skyscrapers. don't they look like some gigantic robots?

the steps along the river. darn, reminds me of switzerland, except that the water here is darker and life-less (no swans). ok ok love where i m, i remember!

if i were to walk in CBD, i would probably hang out there during lunch and after work quite often. haha..

just one more pic... mixture of easy chill out steps and looks-casual-but-pricy restaurants.. pick your choice! and it once again reminds me of... venice! there are also many many such restaurant in venice, but much more romantic and classy... maybe to the locals there, they would feel its more of touristy, just like how i feel about here...

spastic me. of course i didn't walk to sg flyer today and take this shot. Anyways, i ended up at maxwell today. I just walked walked walked til I was tired.....

but i damn love strolling, walking, trekking, hiking, chilling out and hanging out.

perhaps i really love to observe things slowly and carefully, which would only be possible to discover by foot ;)

2008-06-20T23:32:00.003+08:00

DREAMS...
someone once said dreams give you a purpose in life.
to think about it, isn't it very true?
if you don't have a dream, a goal in life, you wouldn't have any reason for living.
be it your religion, your favourite sports or your best talent, we should have some thing(s) that we wish to fulfil in this life.
but sometimes, we would tend to procrastinate (hmm i am so busy, maybe in future...), tend to give thousand and one excuses (i don't want to do it alone/maybe its just an ambition like a castle in the air), tend to feel lazy(i am tired today, maybe tomorrow), tend to just wait for something to happen or the right situation to come in order to fulfil that dream of ours. no matter how big or minute it might be....

i still struggle to dream about dreams, sometimes its hard to persuade myself that its right and okay to dream BIG; to chase after dreams, lament that the TIME, PLACE & OCCASSION is not right to do so; and last but the most important one, to keep the dreams alive!

many a time, my passion changes with the season, dies with the falling leaves in autumn and another would rise with the blooming of flowers in spring. i used to find it hard to know what my true passion is, but i came to reconcile to the point that, its not about looking for the so called TRUE passion, but making the effort to make that passion TRUE and ALIVE. it is through constant contact and a strong faith to believe in it, that makes the passion goes on.
hey, don't you think the same rule applies to relationships?
like TRUE friend doesn't just come by, you have to make the effort to keep in touch and talk to each other.

i don't know how long this will last, but i am into drums.
some asked me ever since when?
don't be shocked, this dream of learning drum is at least 2 years old.

its quite a good and new set, i feel.

p.s. bryophyllum plant at work. took this photo to show my gonna be ex-tutee, he loves this plant. Quite well taken isn't it - the focus and contrast of background. hehe.

2008-06-15T15:33:00.006+08:00

Burj Al Arab - Jumeirah

I am sure all of you know this very famous landmark in this up and coming city, right?

i didn't steal this photo from some website, but from a friend, saufung, who went there recently.

it looks so beautiful, i think it shall be my dream honeymoon hotel..
but with the rate of 5000sgd per night, i also think my future husband must be of somebody. haha....

and i like this photo too...

the other day my mom brought home a sample glasses, woke me up from sleep and asked me if its nice. she looked so comical but i decided to be a clown too! see below...

have u recognised that its almost the exact pair that.........

moses lim wears.. haha!

just in case you leave with the impression that i look roundy and nerdy... i must brainwash you with a better pic of me!

2008-06-07T19:32:00.002+08:00

风吹雨打，through thick and thin roads, on a walk to remember, we emerged victorious at upper thomson road....

finally after a long time and some hard time in coming up with a consensus date, i met up with group 28 members for MacRitchie Treetop walk today! Everyone was so exciting about it!!

managed to meet them at the correct bus stop at 9.30am and off we go! First of all, we walked by the reservoir, there was a canoeing competition going on, i saw PJC and NUS people over there, said "jiayou" to them in my heart, and we carried on with our journey to the top.

The trail up to the treetop walk is 5km on rocky roads in the midst of the forest. We easily covered 600m and thought this couldn't take us more than an hour. But we were so wrong, because the reservoir started collecting water... that is it started raining, no i mean pouring! Luckily we all brought umbrella, but i still got very wet, from head to toe, from front to back. Many runners, mostly caucasians ran passed us and we also saw romantic young and old couples sharing an umbrella, strolling in the rain. But things weren't so romantic for us....

there were mini waterfalls and rivers along the way, on the trail, oh my poor new adidas shoes. Although I exercised care and caution while walking every step, i still stepped on some soft earth and splashed myself quite often. However after awhile, I got used to it, i took on big and brisk steps, decided to just enjoy this kind of feeling, its really quite okay, except that i tried to push away the thought of how badly damaged my shoes are gonna be....

we finally saw a bright exit to civilised land after walking on for an hour plus, we were elated, thinking that, yes we have reached! so wrong though....
another signage appeared telling us that treetop walk is still 2+km away.

Feeling a little cheated, we walked on still, because there is really no way and no point giving up after conquering 5km! The trail got a little steeper, but we still walked on... and reached the ranger station, some people were taking shelter there, but we decided to go on, as the signage told us treetop walk is 100m away.

once again, we got cheated, the road up to the treetop walk is an upslope, encircling round the centre, it was really steep and definitely felt more like 1000m than 100m. i walked on faster to gain the momentum, and upon reaching a stairways leading down, we felt the energy and effort to climb all the way up is a bit wasted, but at least this time round, treetop walk is really nearing.

the view from the bridge was really fabulous! on such a rainy day, we really didn't know to count ourselves lucky or unlucky, because the water vapour rising up from the forest created a mist, an imitation of clouds. It felt like as if we were really high up in the sky, everything was blurred and weather was cooling!

the trees were really tall, almost the same height as the bridge, think it is 100m, if i m not wrong, and we could see the reservoir from where we were, superb view, really. took a few shots and couldn't really stay for too long because its a one-way and one-person wide bridge. there was a monkey climbing at the top of the bridge and it stopped to pose for us, haha so cute, and we managed to spot a few other monkeys climbing among the trees, sososo cute!

ignoring the monkey poos, we can't bear to leave the bridge, all the effort to get there, and it was a good 250m long bridge only!

at this point of time, we just want to get out of macRitchie, but it also means we have to either walk the same way back or another route to another exit, which was also another almost 4km walk away.

maybe its the rain water, maybe its the tiredness within us, our legs just felt so heavy with every other step taken. at some point of time, we didn't talk, just silent trekking. there were some interesting boards telling us about the forest and the life within. But we didn't stop, blame the weather making our excitement dampened and all animals were hiding somewhere else. Oh my pangolin, my singapore durian, i saw none!

all in all, despite the rain, it was really a memorable and fun walking! Janet got cranky and came up with the title above, which i thought its really apt! haha.. No photos would be shown in an effort to encourage you guys who haven't been there to take on the adventure! I wouldn't mind going there again, but in pretty weather so that i can really look out for animals and unique plants!

2008-06-01T12:10:00.003+08:00

I love my Job!

have been telling people that I love my Job!

glad to have a bunch of colleagues in their 20s as lunch khakis.
glad to have a desk with dual monitor pc, telephone and the basics all to myself!
glad to do what i am supposed to do, especially when its related to health science
glad to have the freedom to do my work at my own pace, ie to read through the materials even though I don't have to, to walk around, to keep refilling my cup. heh heh
most importantly, glad to be able to.... surf net lah! shh...

but my working hours are abit long and the pantry is booring.. its bring your own food kind! how sad, nothing to munch munch~~

this is my first actual desk-bound job and i realized that it isn't as bad as what i always imagine it to be.

vital, his parents and his relatives came to sg the other day. i got to know about it via... nvm. so i met up with them and the guys. brought them to food republic, and guess what was the starter for the dinner?
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BEER! the swiss way, they claimed. so funny that the whole bunch of us toasted in the midst of the busy food court, one-to-one somemore, before we all separated out to buy food.

yeah, vital would be teaching us skiing/snowboarding this december! cant wait.. heh heh!!!

2008-05-26T23:27:00.002+08:00

you there?

haven't been blogging for quite some time. I was.... sort of busy, and lost of ideas what to blog about! I think I am gonna lose you all one of these days, but don't go away please!!

i would be starting work tomorrow, like finally, after three full weeks of slacking! many days were spent hiding away at home playing online games, surfing net, because I was... afraid to spend big money. but so strange that days passed by so fast that i don't feel bored at all, and soon, my parents will bring home my lunch cum dinner home for me...

there was a small hoo-ha beneath the story of me getting this job. firstly, i got 2 jobs simultaneously because i was kiasu and i preferred my current job. then also, my current job's interview was the most unforgettable experience! it was the most knowledge testing and also one which i would gave myself quite a good rating. i used to feel jittery and no confident about interviews because my first ever job interview was very poor. I was totally green and fresh and didn't know how to portray myself positively.

i can't wait to start work and hope it doesn't fail my anticipation and i would really learn something out of it!

you know, i seriously feel very disappointed whenever I go shopping. Nothing seems to tempt me anymore. I won't feel the rush and the impulse to buy anything! I could easily persuade myself not to buy this and that, i don't understand why, especially when its Great Singapore Sale right now! Everyone is like trying and buying, and i hardly find something that i feel its worth trying too! on the other hand, i also don't mind not buying anything. This is so not me.... i really don't know its good or bad... i mean shopping is so enjoyable yet i..............

2008-05-13T21:02:00.003+08:00

Feasting after our last paper!

Adaptation...

one week into holidays, i think switching to holiday mood is one of the easiest thing and fastest adaptation i would ever need to get used to.

initially i was still sleeping not too late, waking up not too late, and staying at home to clean up the house and go for tuitions. but.... i started running about soon and sleeping late, like 4am once?! it was once normal to me, but as i m getting old and more health conscious, i try to avoid damaging my health like that.

after school graded projects, i now have yet another project, i called it "myeuro2008", i m a travel addict not a soccer fanatic. now that i have one time experience which i admittedly did not contribute much in research, this time i must put in more effort!

i also started applying for jobs, actually i don't really wanna start working so fast, because once i start work, i have no time to do things that i want to, and when i stop working, it would be time for me to leave singapore. so i half-heartedly sent out my resume to erm... 6 companies (its easy job what). maybe recruit express loves me, 4 job agents contacted me in one day?! one of them even offers me a HR job in RE itself, but no lah, not interested in this. do you have more interesting jobs for me?

i found myself a drum guide as well, lets call him Mr Nice Guy, bcoz he really is! Finally my dream comes true, one thing off my 'wishlist'. First lesson was embarrassing, because i have forgotten quite alot of music stuff, gosh, and my sense of rhythm.... but Mr Nice Guy was very encouraging.

Meet-ups are for sure, after hiding in my cave for so long! Singapore landscape and even the shops in shopping centres are ever changing huh?! I realized so many things have changed within 2 or 3 months! Like DXO ladies night is no longer on fridays, eww, no more freebies... also, ytd was an extremely funny and enjoyable day spent. w-e s-p-e-a-k l-i-k-e t-h-a-t w-h-i-l-e e-a-t-i-n-g e-a-r-t-h-q-u-a-k-e (p.s. condolences to victims of Sichuan earthquake)

Many friends are also going on holidays or going back to their hometown. Sometimes when i got to know such news, I feel a bit disappointed and abit envious, I wish I could join them, but I know that would be asking for too much. One must always be prepared to give up something for another right. Maybe next year we could organise something huh?

by date:

suet chian - m'sia

andreas - indon

jiaji - korea

mindy - thai

jain - hong kong

mindy again - himalayans

hwee boon - taiwan

chia ling - m'sia

me - you know where

anyone wanna update my list? =) surely there would be more right?

on the other hand, my dearest saufung would be coming back very soon! can't wait for our meet-up!

but then again, she would be in my list above as well. she is merely transiting in sg.

2008-05-06T18:48:00.001+08:00

HAHAHA, I really cannot control myself, this is too funny. What a really blonde bimbo.. Hey Paris Hilton, aint you looking for a new BFF? Here is a best candidate!

2008-04-23T18:43:00.002+08:00

"We live in a society that is increasingly governed by science and technology," Hawking said. "Yet fewer and fewer people want to go into science."

Quoting from Professor Stephen Hawking who gave a lecture entitled 'Why We Should Go Into Space' during the 50 Years of NASA lecture series at George Washington University in Washington, DC.

how true.. less people seem interested in science. in addition, as technology advances, the requirement for a scientist increases as well..
as a life science student, i love understanding the nature yet i don't agree with the use of cloning technology and manipulation of genes.

anyway, Prof Hawking believes that in presence of alien in outer space!
we shall see..

2008-04-18T22:16:00.002+08:00

Michelle Wie- wannabe

first of all, i have to apologize for not longing for more than 2 weeks!

here are the reasons:

- projects researching, finalizing, submission, meetings

- tests, so many many, including oral test and presentation in german

- mission T: i accepted an intensive short term tuition assignment, i practically had tuition everyday, sometimes 2 in a day. woah, thats something i wouldn't want to try again in near future. i was so mentally drained when i reached home everyday

all these made me so down... really down... then good news begin to come in at the lowest point :

- i saw a grey letter lying on my table when i reached home on monday, its from univerity of zuerich! now both nus and uni zh have accepted my application, so i guess more or less, its confirmed =) tgt with the letter came the scholarship, wahaha, i shld have enough money now...

- got back reasonably graded tests

now, back to the main blogging topic, golfing!

look at the field, click on it to enlarge. be amazed to spot something~

yes, i went golfing some days ago.

you know? as a beginner golfer, that is you don't have any provisional certificate or test certificate, you can't play in greens, that is 18-holes game that you see in golf tournament. you play in range, like above! i didn't know that....

golfing isn't as simple as what i thought, needs concentration, arm strength and accuracy.

my maximum shot was 50m that day, don't laugh, not bad for a beginner already, haha...

there is also 2 types of golf stick: iron is used for short distance, wood is used for long distance, usually the first shot in the 18-holes game. i tried both, and i prefer using wood, for obvious reason, haha.

alright, more project research to do now..

will be VERY FREE from 5th May onwards, date me then.

2008-04-03T23:57:00.002+08:00

Ripple effect

have you ever created a ripple effect? A small gesture or a light-hearted advice that unknowingly helps many other?

I think i just did one.

The other day I (unwillingly, bcoz i have so much work to do) followed my mom to my grandma's house. My primary school cousins were having school holiday and had many homework to do. Being the most educated one present in the house at that point of time and obviously very free, I was asked to coach my primary 3 cousin to do his homework.

We did science and maths. You know, I really have a great passion to teach this two subject to small kids, because for science, they always ask cute questions and i enjoy telling science stories. And then for maths, oh i love to explain maths questions, i don't know why. But anyway, as we were doing the maths paper, I taught him little tricks to solve questions faster and easier, including the fingering method to check 9 x table quickly, a method that i was taught by my sec sch tutor (i would never forget her, she's my role model in giving tuition).
you might know this method but surprisingly, quite some people don't know!
so happen that my little cousin was teaching his classmate this method, and his teacher got to know about it, and think its useful and thus decided to teach the whole class this method!

Now you tell me, haven't I just create a ripple effect? =)

2008-03-29T00:02:00.002+08:00

New toy!

ya, a new toy, a IT gadget! I have got a new pc with window vista for free! nope, not some lucky draw, not from some sugar daddy either. i recontract my broadband with singnet and they gave me a free pc! have been using it for the past few days, and i think vista is ok, not as bad as what some people have told me. and my new contract comes with a wireless modem too, finally i can bring my laptop around the house without having to drag the modem along!

but hang on, i am not that greedy to sign up a more expensive plan just to get a pc that seems to be free when i already have a laptop. my mom is the actually owner of it! have been teaching her how to use the computer, watching shows and play wahjong recently. sometimes she would just suddenly shout out to me and get so paranoid about what to do when she accidently click elsewhere or type something else. that sort of irritates me about why she doesn't know such simple things also, but at the same time, its so funny when she makes silly blunders with the high tech gadget that she rarely touch.

anyways, i feel so much better this week, i feel that i have regain much of my confidence. i had managed the first practical session for my miniproject on zebrafish DNA quite well, getting reasonable results and such. hopefully i can finish everything by next session! another thing that also makes me feel better is my exchange application, i think NUS has already sent out my application and i have also done some research on courses to take over there. so not gonna regret anymore and just go for it!

today is suppose to be my free day whereby i could watch the lecture online rather than being in the LT physically. but i went to school still, for club meeting. A few of us had a meeting with Frau Niemann. Woah woah, once we entered the meeting room, she started conversing with us in german, auf Deutsch! Ya, i know our club is called German Language Society, but i still took some time to get use to this idea of having meeting in a language which i am still learning.

So the meeting went on a good 15minutes auf Deutsch! We were suppose to introduce ourselves auf Deutsch too, omg, my mind just went blank, especially when the one who spoke before me said something more sophisticated.

put in 200% focus and concentration to try to understand everything that she said, its really not easy, unlike normal german class lesson, because she really speak the normal German which i think she uses in daily life, with many words that i have never hear of and at a x2 or even x3 speed she used to speak when i was in her class last semester.

while i was still in shock and trying my best to understand her, each time i heard something that i understand fully, i involuntarily nod my head, i think language learners would understand such a incomprehensible motion.

Jumble up words got stuck in my mouth whenever i want to raise a point, in the end i chose to swallow them. some others could just response fast and casually to her, maybe after my exchange, i would also?

zum Gluck, she reverted back to using english language............................

gotta slp early tonight because i signed up for a biocareer talk and fair tomorrow. and its business wear! i have got other things on after that, in business wear? oh no....

here's a song to recommend, its stuck in my head right now. i struggled to refrain my heels from springing up and down when i was listening to it at the bus stop the other day. play it if you wanna be springy~~

2008-03-19T22:33:00.002+08:00

Hai~

I sighed umpteen times today, i have fear for something, its so hard to persuade myself to just take it easy, just like being envy of someone who could just step off from the platform like a breeze and enjoying the bungee jump, while i on one hand, wants to feel it, but so damn afraid and envious of that person. the huge rock stopping me from doing so is like the mental block in my brain, constantly reminding me how lousy i am and hindering my learning process.

I could no longer leech on someone. I must take the plunge all by myself. Let the fear be gone by next tuesday, anyhow somehow.

Was reading some people's exchange trip blog. So interesting but I don't have the time to read everything, mainly browse throught the beautiful pictures. I never knew I would fall in love with Europe, not to say that I actually got the chance to experience live there. I would definitely set up a travel blog when its time, in fact, I have already reserved the blog address! Keep in view ok?

Anyways, I have changed my partner uni. Would still be going Zurich, Switzerland, but the neighbour uni to my previous choice. So glad and lucky that I tried my luck for this, because this change is sort of "life changing", stre$$ relieving...

2008-03-13T01:16:00.002+08:00

Stones and pebbles....

life is indeed not a smooth sailing journey, hit some stones and pebbles recently, things just don't run as smoothly as it should, some targets are just not up to expectation.

met some difficulties in projects. both team and individual work parts. gosh, i really really should pay more attention while i m doing work, it would save me so much work.

i just got more lazy and procrastinating. though i am not online 24-7, i spent time watching youtubes and playing wahjong. and i actually woke up 10minutes before my 8am tutorial class today?! i hardly miss my alarm clock, maybe even my alarm thinks i deserve some good punishment. i gonna ban myself from wahjong during weekdays. weekends would be spend mugging with a mug of milo too.

got back some CAs results. shit* real shit*. but this would serve as a serious and final warning to myself to get real serious about work. i wouldn't and shouldn't give up when i m hitting my target soon.

nevertheless, i went shopping after school today.......... ya, start rolling ur eyes pls.

so not on good terms with myself.

2008-03-08T22:32:00.003+08:00

Weird Theory

i was chatting with my mom this afternoon and came across the age topic.

i said "wa ma, you already xx years old already eh, did you realise it?"

mom "ya i know, i already (xx+1) years old"

i said "no what, only xx la"

mom "i count the chinese one ma"

i said "y would you want to do so? where got ppl want to give a older age wan??"

mom "then ppl will comment 'wa, u (xx+1) already still look so young ar' "

ok she won.

yesterday during tuition, joven happily said it was his birthday and what his class did for him, and what cake his grandma bought for him. he said he gave the whole class mentos, he asked me if i wan. later on, his sis brought in a piece of cake for me =)
he carried on telling me about other stuff like his camp, ghosts and random questions. lol, most of the time i was listening, laughing and try to bring the topic back to the questions on the table!
i like kids who like to ask questions, because this shows that they are thinking!
but sometimes, it really gets too far

me "when u see one grasshopper lying on top of another, they are usually mating"

him "oh.. then frog also mate like that right?"

me "ya thats right"

him "har, den if sometimes we accidentally fall on top of other, also counted ar?"

me "oh no la...... thats different, not like that................"

kids are innocent =)

2008-03-01T09:38:00.003+08:00

Turn-Off -_-''

i saw this while i was checking out the NUS events list :

"Chill out, relax and have fun on a fun filled Barbeque Night organized for the Biology People. Satisfy your nutritional needs for proteins and essential amino acids. Hog on Chicken wings and realize your ecological niche at the top of the food chain.
Furthermore, CCA points will be awarded."

1) biology people? erm, so am i one of them or what?
2) proteins and essential amino acids.. whats the difference between these two?? maybe someone can enlighten me. my science knowledge seems insufficient huh.
3) realize your ecological niche at the top...... this definitely doesn't stimulate my taste bud man~
4) CCA points awarded, finally a good reason why one should go to this BBQ. haha!

hey organizer, if you happen to read this, sorry for being so mean, i only wanted to give you feedback to make improvement yea? hahahahaha

2008-03-01T08:36:00.002+08:00

Morning~~~~~~~~~~~~

woke up before 6am today and went to my perhaps used-to-be favourite place in singapore - changi airport

i remember writing an essay about why i love to go to the airport.
i said it is a place where people wait anxiously to see the loved ones arriving, and then rejoice when they finally meet. Its a place that makes me feel peaceful and quiet while watching the planes flying and touching down.
i used to frequent that place more often. because i always send him off, watching him from level one to level two, til i lose sight of him, because i always pick him up from the airport, because i would just take the train til the terminal station when i m bored, because i simply loveD that place.

its not that i don't like that place anymore, but partly because i have no one else to wait for, partly because the airport is getting crowded. mostly because i realize its not wise to travel all the way there just to walk around or to study, i would lose out alot of my precious time. so the airport just get more and more distant from me, kilometer-wise and affinity-wise.

nevertheless, i still have some sort of special feeling for the airport because my parents bring me to the airport frequently since i was young! so i still would go explore terminal 3 one of these days, it looks so clean and bright from outside.

find me there...............................................

2008-02-24T11:24:00.004+08:00

Oh yea recess week is here!

Oh no continual assessments are also here!

i was planning my revision schedule the other day, and i realized the one week break is only comfortably long enough for me to revise for my 3 tests on the following week, ie mon, tues and thurs respectively. then come lab report and project research, which i must find time to complete someday somehow. plus heavy german homework, like comprehension, formal letter writing, statistics writing (i feel like i am doing german for o levels), but no worries, coz i have completed them, wahahaha! so no, i won't let work eat me up just like that! I want to meet up with my dear friends! Or try to!

I have started my revision, i think i have to start early if i want to have fun during the week!

never mind if its a sunday, a rest day, a family day (i m alone at home anyway:S)

you know, i really want to do well for everything. i want to see flying colours on my test scripts, but sometimes i feel the lazy bone in me, and sometimes i think its impossible, the percentage of people who are smarter than me is just so huge, the world is indeed, unfair~ but nevertheless, i know they put in alot of effort too, with abit of higher IQ level and the PERFECT attitude towards studies, of course they excel lah!

hope everyone excluding me would have a fun-filled sunday! =)

Swiss speakers for that day's event with exco members who are running the project, it was such a no-stress event whereby we chatted quite casually, maybe coz we are all young people, heh heh heh... anyway, they just make me even more anxious to go for exchange right away.....

2008-02-19T08:57:00.003+08:00

ARGH!

how can i just accept the arrangement made when i made no say?

i m critical, skeptical, stringent, stingy

thats not the best choice made loh! how can you

one is losing out, two is not worth, three is i did not say anything

i am definitely not happy man.

ANYWAY,

there would be a SEP talk about Swiss education and studies opportunities, including post graduate opportunities in NUS YIH F2 this fri 6 to 8pm. Light dinner would be provided. Interested friends do come, we put in quite some effort for it =)

2008-02-17T12:18:00.008+08:00

My photos can talk...

trust me on this, i was paid to go to the padang and instructed not to do anything.
ok so i chit chatted and learnt sudoku (ya, i really didn't know how to play before this, coz everyone is playing ma, i don't follow crowd wat.)

finally this year i get the chance to go to our beloved couple teacher house for cny!

so much fun!

night cycling! youth park station. strong team of 8

how to say, i really love night better than day. especially to spend the night out, driving or cycling also can!

choir trio! lyn's 21st.

sherri's 21st. forfeits.

went wake boarding with him the other day. so shuang right? (let me dream abit lah!)

2008-02-12T11:50:00.000+08:00

lao ar lao, lao ge FENG SHENG SHUI QI!!
Yummy yu sheng, see those raw salmon?
our gourmet connoisseur, jiamin, always make sure the food is good!

this is not reunion dishes. just one of the new year dinner at my auntie house.

i have got nothing to do, so i helped out abit here and there

the prawns i got take part in frying wan ar.

2008-02-10T12:54:00.000+08:00

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!

honestly, i was looking forward to this year's chinese new year, because i sort of missed last year's. I was in china, yes, although the chinese new year atmosphere was stronger in china, lots of fireworks and firecrackers everywhere, I am just too used to celebrating chinese new year in Singapore, in my way.

First day of Chinese New Year has got to be the same as usual, visiting my ah mas and other relatives. My ah mas can really cook! Super yummy ngoh hiong, steamboat with Prawns, abalone, scallops, eat until scare ar, really. The whole day was spending eating everywhere, there wasn't a chance for my stomach to rest. its like even though i am not hungry, i am not full until i can't eat anymore either. There is always space for good food, eh?

This year's ang bao content is also better than usual. No blue notes but majority are red notes leh, only 2 or 3 $4 i think. Seems like inflation doesn't affect my relatives huh. But i don't intend to spend the money away, I will bank them in after chinese new year is over. All these will contribute to exchange programme, of course!

Second day of Chinese New year was spent rotting away at my cousin's house. Seriously, i got no luck when it comes to gambling. Played blackjack with my cousins and mom, i took $2 from my mom as starting bid, after many many rounds, i got back nothing, lose nothing, because when i lose, my mom won't take from me, when she got no more to pay my cousins (shes the banker), I give her my earnings. Whats the point of playing like that right? In the end, my cousin asked to me play to fill up the space, but aiya, no interest. I gonna quit blackjack and concentrate in mastering mahjong in future. Now, who is opening a gambling den at home?

Third day of CHinese new year was spent at mr n mrs lim house. So long no see,really. About half of 04s04 was there, 4 of us played mahjong, no luck again, lost $2, luckily only $2 :P Then the rest also played other games, and whatever they play, I joined in. Jack of all trades, master of none, thats me. Their house is really simple yet sophisticated, I like that idea. Only a few regular class outing people stayed til late night, and we are smart, because we got treats! Our teachers treat us to coffeeshop zi cha, got steamed fish leh! then, darius treat us to starbucks. In exchange, we accompanied him for 2 hours before his next prog of the midnight.
Ms Lim gave me quite a few good guidance to my career path, so thankful for that, i was so lost and so hopeless before that. My mother couldn't understand me, she always think i chose life science when actually life sci chose me, and she somehow makes me feel even worse about taking this course. I used to hate life sci, really. But now, i am more brave to face the future. I really want to be successful, i don't wanna live off my another half in future, even though i jokingly said that to ppl.
Chit-chatting session was about uni, about relationships, about life. the rest was relatively quiet, darius and our teachers hosted the show.

- sometimes, couples who have been together for many years, find it difficult to proceed on to the next stage
- girls are scary, they really think too much about future
- usually the best ones are snatched in the first year of uni
- uni is the best place to find a partner, its harder in working environment

i was listening all the way and i felt the threat.
but heck, life is more than getting attached and married young.

today would be the last day of chinese new year holidays. more programmes coming up but they would be the last. back to books on monday :S

2008-02-05T17:15:00.000+08:00

Something has been bothering me since yesterday...

i asked one of you whether I have a kind of "i-m-attached-and-i-m-not-interested-in-making-new-friends" look, you corrected me by saying "u have the look like 'I'm tired of getting into r/s so don get near me' ".

Bang! Snap! Clap! Bingo!

thats the description that i m looking for.

seriously, i m really like what he said. i m too tired, too lazy, too scared to get into another relationship. tired of getting to know ppl better, tired of playing the game called flirting and chasing, afraid of meeting yet another heartbreaker, afraid of giving trust again when i already don't trust ppl easily.

but i hate myself, hate him, for making me like this. how can i give up on love just because i failed once (did i actually fail?). i am still so young and my heart already feel so old.

you may say one shouldn't try too hard in getting into a relationship, it depends on fate. i tell you no, efforts are needed. no one would ever be so stupid to keep giving when he/she doesn't receive anything back in return.
but then again, i don't feel like giving any love to anyone right now, i don't know who to give, i don't know how to give, i don't know how much to give.

maybe, come one day when i really find someone i like, then things would be different.... til then, i just wanna study hard and play hard at the moment.

~make me fall in love with you~

2008-01-31T22:28:00.000+08:00

Summarising January...

for all those who are born in the year of 1987, this year is the year to attend your friends' 21st birthday celebration. Many chalets, many cakes, many sabotage, many alcohol, many presents, many fun!

lets take a look at my list of january parties:

1/1 - Meihui's 20th Birthday, yes thats right TWENTIETH! This girl is born in 1st jan 1988, so she got to choose whether she wanna join the 87's or 88's babies in attending kindergarten. Spent the day at settlers' cafe playing boardgames, her cake was bought from Swissbake, Yummy!

?/1 - yinuo's birthday. ok i forgot which day the gathering was. anyway, the swiss immersion group ppl met up to celebrate her birthday, i think it has become like our culture to celebrate anyone's birthday in the group! Funny thing is that I actually suggested the place to have dinner but end up, i didn't go for the gathering, coz i was sick! my way of starting a new year -_-''

18/1 - zhoujielun's birthday! we weren't together physically, but mentally i was there to support his concert. come again soon, i think i would go for the concert if i manage to book the ticket.

19/1 - andreas' birthday, he turned 22 on that day. We met up a day after that. wanted to go east coast park to cycle in the afternoon, so we took bus 196, on the way it rained, and we dropped that idea and decided to go leisurepark instead, but the same bus goes to that place so we just continued on the journey. while the bus was passing by esplanade, we saw fine clear blue sky over at ecp, so we thought ok, safe, clear, lets stick to plan A. finally after 40mins (or more) bus journey, we reached! But it began to rain AGAIN. plan A aborted totally, we took bus 16 back to leisure park again, for your information, we actually passed by that place on bus 196. when we finally step on ground, it was already 4+pm i think, mind you, we actually started travelling at around 2pm.
so much so, on the bus, we passed the present to him without telling him that its his birthday present, just wanted someone to help me keep that plastic bag. but being so smart, i guess he already knew its his present, and i am happy that he likes the present!
oh! we had chinese fondue as dinner, great way to have long chat session. quick ask me what is chinese fondue!

26/1 - lyn's and sherri's 21st
a) Lyn. she catered buffet style dinner at her house, the food is GOOD, her auntie's curry chicken is spicy enough, buffet food is good too, wonder which catering co. she hired. felt abit out of place though, wasn't in the same clique as her in sec sch so didn't talk much to the e2 gang but me, her and lyn were trio in choir last time =) i left soon before many others came not bcoz i didn't enjoy myself but bcoz i have to attend sherri's party. so lyn & co continued to cut cake sing song and head down to some hotel to have school uniform party, she wore my jc uniform!
b) After a looong nauseating bus ride to bt panjang, i reached the second venue of the night. Sherri had a great turnout rate, and when i reached, most of the food are attacked already. anyways, her friends are damn enthu la, helped her in carrying out the programmes of the night smoothly. i think if i were to open a party, i wun haf such enthu frens, luckily i wun have to face tt kind of trouble also, coz i am not celebrating my bd anyway. Sherri got thrown into the pool, smashed cake on the face. but i guess she enjoyed them anyways.

i didn't forget anyone right?

sorry that today i didn't blog in winnie's style. too tired and too much details to go into.

funny, today's tennis, i kept getting praises. Know why?
-because only once in a blue moon i would hit the ball across NICELY.

what a way to earn praises -_-''

2008-01-23T22:16:00.000+08:00

Exhausted but Happy!

its wednesday today, so yup, i had lab session today straight after the course lecture from 10am to 12noon. First lesson was on gel electrophoresis, which we have done in year 1, so was relatively easy for us as we know the procedure and the principles behind the method.

i didn't have a lab partner initially, because all my friends have already paired up and i signed up this lab just because i am interested in the project given. So at the very last minute, i told the teaching assistant that i don't have a partner, what a big mistake, he actually announced it to the whole lab class! wa lau, at that moment i hoped there is a hole that i can just hide away. actually he know of another girl who doesn't have partner but he couldn't remember that girl, so he used the microphone to look for that girl, even seconds before he did so, i was praying hard that he would just suddenly recall. but anyway, alright lah, wasn't really such a embarrassing thing to not have a partner, its not like i don't have any friends what. somemore i got to know new friends, including those sitting around the same bench. my lab partner seems to be smart and well knowledged, friendly too!

i like to work with smart people, especially those who are decisive and confident, because it will influence me somehow, even if it is a pseudo-effect, i feel better anyhow. furthermore, it generates better discussion, like what we had today! woah, that means i gotta do some research next week before lab!

loading of dye into the agarose wells were fun, always fun. my hands were like trembling because the gel is damn fragile and if u anyhow poke, u might just spoil the whole experiment and have to start from scratch again! and if you release the pipette too fast, the dye might flow out and contaminate the other wells. so exciting right! then why did i say its fun, because its so cute to see some blue dye being held in the more or less invisible well in the colourless agar.

i asked my teaching assistant to give me more chance to practise doing this right and neat, and my partner is very encouraging too. so everything went alright still =)

i used to hate lab because i think its so bothersome, must wear gloves, lab coat, and must take note of so many safety aspects and be very precise in measurements. but maybe, maybe i will begin to love lab work from now on. i think i have to, right? if not, why study life SCIENCE?

2008-01-21T00:09:00.001+08:00

money...

makes me so down...

money money money...

if i reach my target, yet i cant backpack, i would commit suicide

ok, m kidding about the last sentence.

money money money money money...

gimme gimme, gimme gimme, gimme more~

weekend came and past.

worked, bowl-ed, steamboat-ed.

too tired to go into details. who wants to know anyway. everybody goes out during wkends.

actually i should be happy and i shouldn't be blogging. i don't know whats wrong with me. but at least i know i am not alone, along the way, i have companions who talk to me, who give me job opportunities, who are concern about me, who give me the privilege and treats, and most importantly, who UNDERSTAND me.

i know i know, that normally i am already a very stingy person; i would rather walk home from redhill mrt station, from tiong bahru plaza than to take a 68cts bus ride home, i would rather not eat lunch when i am at home alone, i would consider DAMN long when i want to buy clothes or shoes that i really like (uh huh, u noe that). i don't expect you to do the same, just understanding would be sufficient.

next year, next year i would be just like anyone of your friends that you hang out with. eat in restaurants, splurge on clothes, say OK to any activity that you suggest. bear with me, because i am enduring from within too. my mother thought i go mad from time to time when i start sighing and crying while watching tv. nono ma, the most i would only suffer from depression.

ok, i m alright, i still can joke. but if u have manage to read til here, why not consider giving me some kind of sponsorship, say as my 21st birthday present la, never too early you know. ;)

sian diao? but you are still reading!

2008-01-16T23:02:00.000+08:00

Way Out...

i have added a few more blog links that i visit often or will do so. Do visit them too, some are quite interesting TOO (meaning mine is interesting).

had a loong lunch with friends today. talked about activities that we are interested to take part or initiate. yay! mindy, muz rmb abt our date next sunday ok! i look very forward to it! then later mindy left, willy came. in between i worked abit. it was rather a kind of uneasy feeling to go round asking ppl to do survey... anyway, we continued to talk about random things for very long before we decided to move our butts out of school.. as the semester progresses, such luxury of time will be gone, everyone will be playing 'missing in action'..

tennis tomorrow! i got 4 hours break you see.. haven play for quite some time already, i think tomorrow i will be exhausted not from swinging the racket but from picking up the balls!

i want to keep myself more occupied with activities. i think its a great way to make me treasure time more and also stop thinking about nonsense. so anything related to sports pls ask me along, thank you.

2008-01-14T19:27:00.000+08:00

Indecisive...

i have got a choice...

but i can't make up my mind...

both has its plus and negative points...

whenever i m forced to make a major decision, something i consider important, my primary instinct is to procrastinate, to drag on, to decide later...

but what should i do know? its like so urgent!

i only want to make the best choice but i don't know how to choose...

red or green, bright or dark, left or right, pen or pencil, coke or pepsi, up or down...

its a skill that i have to acquire...

okie. maybe i give myself some time to contemplate...

2008-01-13T13:17:00.000+08:00

i will glue myself to my bed...

rmb the mexican boy who glued himself to his bed to avoid going back to school, i will do the same tomorrow..

haiya, holiday is ending already, but actually i am satisfied with how this holiday went passed. so many meet ups with friends from almost all stages of my life, so many fun i had, be it mahjong or loud music. and i also managed to tidy up my room with some procrastination here and there, now my wardrobe is neat, my old notes are kept away, my table is clear of shopping bags again, yay!

things to expect this sem:

- wednesday BLUES. i have lesson continuous from 8am to 6pm can? including a 6 hours lab. omg, but i am not afraid la, used to it already.. i sort of miss lab sessions too, i din have any last semester

- group projects! i don't have that last sem too, i was working on a term paper all by my own last sem, i sort of miss staying up late at night, doing research and working on my thousand words essay. to speak the truth, i prefer to work alone because everything would be under my control, but group projects sound good too, time to know friends better and perhaps get to know new ones too..

- tuition nights. as usual, minimum of thrice per week, still keeping a look out for good grabs... luckily now i don't have to travel far already, can stop complaining and save more time..

- your lunch hour, my working hour. other than tuition, i am working on a recruitment project, handling this all on my own. lets just see how it goes ba. some ppl thought i am not studying already, nono, i am just working part time + part time + full time studying = full time work and study. got it?

- gonna join some aerobics or dance course. how does salsa sounds?

- might have free days on tuesday and friday. really hope so!

- have 2 days whereby i end at 8pm. so sian. late dinner again...

- more activities to plan for german society, so looking forward to that!

my museums, trains, buses and miscellaneous tickets from my europe trip last year. i lost or threw away some on the way =(
but click on it to enlarge, some are pretty, isn't it?

2008-01-06T05:25:00.000+08:00

It would be Dawn soon...

going to be 6am, first sunday of january 2008 soon. i am not sleeping, yet.

my two friends are sound asleep right now. although the bed that i have prepared for them is actually a single bed, they don't mind, because they are sound asleep, i guess they are too tired really.

we had a session of mahjong at my house just now. have been practising my skills quite a bit recently, for the chinese new year of course! towards the end, we got so sleepy and blur that we mistaken some tiles for others, we took tiles from the wrong side and even worse, i actually displayed my tiles out accidentally when all i wanted to just organise my tiles, luckily i realised it soon enough before i 'showhand' my tiles..

ended up at my house after a day of fun, of course. we actually explored old airport road hawker for dinner, hey, i wanna dine there more often, sooo many yummies over there can! like the long queue cha kuay teow, black pepper crabs, oo jian, satays that we had!

haiya, my hair is still wet, what can i do now? disturb them? draw some tortoise on their face?
i think i just avoided some rounds of interrogation from sf because God of Sleepness actually won over her willpower to ask me about a*hem stuff. See, even God is helping me out. Haha!

2008-01-04T08:56:00.000+08:00

GOOD MORNING!

yea, its almost 9am now, just went out for breakfast with my mother. i am really going mad, keep having sleepless night. the day before, i actually lie on my bed at 1am but only slept around 4am. yesterday i slept around 2.30am after bed time story, and i woke up at 7am today. i really envious those who can just sleep and sleep, ignoring the sunshine, the alarm, the noise and your wonderful body clock. i want to sleep!!!

yesterday at work, there was like some problem going on. i wonder why the recent few jobs that i have, keep having problems wan.. perhaps its really not a good idea to work with friends, i mean of course its good to have someone to accompany and talk to, some true face among the two faced creatures. but it sort of makes you slack. same situation while selling sunnies and now, telemarketing. ok, maybe its my own fault that i don't know how to make use of this advantage of having familiar people around, but it usually is because the work is tough.

alright, so whats the problem actually?

we got warned, sort of, that if we are not performing, it might just well be our last day. whats more, we were ordered to sit separately, jLO said we are like pri sch kids. good news is, we both clinched 2 appointments each, bad news is, we have to continue facing two faced creatures. (wa, how come today so good ar? so what time you are coming tomorrow har?)

but i am doubting myself right now. i am sick, from drinking martell. apparently, martell aka brandy is very heaty! i got like sore throat and flu and perhaps fever? i wonder how would i sound like tonight? hmmm...

hope to recover before school starts (14 jan) so that i can go out and chiong one last time before back in serious mode. this coming semester, i would be doing my 4th german module, like wow! sounds pro right? but i am not. this 4th level would be focusing more on writing skills for academic purposes, i sort of look forward to it, i wanna be able to write mini compositions in german!

alright, i shall try to tidy up my room now, which look just as messy as when holiday just started a few weeks ago..

2008-01-02T13:52:00.001+08:00

HAPPY 2008!

2007-12-28T21:41:00.000+08:00

KTV Party World

the 3 very free people, who are on leave, working only at night and not working at all, from left to right respectively, went ktv the other day.

an attempt to take a photo. but the slacker ended up taking a video. i think its so funny that we posed for the camera, holding on to our smile and head position for so many seconds. maybe we can go paint ourselves gold and act as statues standing at orchard road next time when we need money.

2007-12-28T00:21:00.000+08:00

2008 resolutions

i have i have, and i would try my very best to keep them. i am a very determined person, you know. haa..

1. of course, as i have been improving academic wise, i would like to continue to make improvement, hopefully bigger steps, and graduate with a decent honours degree.

2. would like to be a better winnie. as i stepped into the big 2, i could well say i know myself quite well, no longer a lost teenager. i could well point out my strength and weaknesses, so yup. i gonna work on my weakness. you should be able to say some right? i would try hard lah, my old sch frens should know what kind of weirdo i was in school last time, a white fat ghost drifting around in campus :P

3. cut awayunsightly fats. continue swimming, jogging and eating less. don't seems to see results, but never mind, exercise reduces my stress and makes me feel healthy anyway

4. earn more money! very important! hope to continue my tuitions, and of course my tutees are satisfied with me. after working part time ever since i started uni, i sort of enjoy studying and giving tuition at the same time. because it keeps me occupied and gives me a sense of achievement. ultimately, i hope to hit my target to sponsor myself for the exchange programme..

5. speak better german. i wanna be able to use german to order food in Switzerland, full proper grammatically perfect german. thats my aim for now.

6. have fun!

yep, that sums up my list for new year resolution!
watch me.

2007-12-26T23:36:00.000+08:00

My Xmas eve 2007

2 rounds of bowling first with the early birds. have been quite some time since i last played, and i have not improve ever since i learnt it. its not that i always wash the drain but i juz hit a few pins at the side always, and my ball roll damn slow always.

i realised i grow stronger anyway, last time i always use ball 8 and thought it was heavy. but ball 8 is like damn light to me now! yeah! i dun mind having biceps, triceps seriously, i think muscle lines are nice~

our tradition to have a christmas gathering annually, and the highlight of the night will always be gift exchange! isn't it nice to have group traditions? like you have something to look forward to, and something that characterise you all.. hmm...

look at the table full of food! yummy? drooling?

our dessert. before that i actually asked them, how come this year we never eat cake (xmas cake)? then when i came back from toilet, this is what i saw. look! i am only 10 years old this year! thank you girls ;D

that romantic bridge linking indoor stadium and cosy bay. i like this place!

another shot

i like this photo. i don't know why. the lighting is good. we are acting normal, yea really acting.

and then we just sat down somewhere to talk and countdown. no crowd, no human sauna, no noise, just us, just river.

i will visit this place again.

2007-12-23T19:43:00.000+08:00

yawnz... its SUNDAY! guess what have i done?

... i slept til 4.30pm today! wow.. never done that for ages, really!
swimming is cancelled so i have no other programme for the day... so i hibernate loh!

remember the show "it started with a kiss", now the sequel is out eh, its called "they kiss again". wahahaha, the 3rd sequel maybe will be named as erm... "they always kiss"?
but anyway, this taiwan drama is really nice lah, jiang zhi shu is sooo handsome and cool. now i got something to look forward every week.. watch it ppl on utube!

went to the greek masterpieces from the Louvre exhibition at national museum the other day. primary aim was to check out how Singapore museum would display the pieces and whether i have seen them at Lourve itself before. well, it is quite well done, like gives primary information about the statues, touching a little on the mythological side too.
greek mythology is something worth researching on when i got the time (means not now, hehe). but at least from the exhibit, i know erm.. Zeus is the King of Gods! and Greek religion is polythestic, there is 3 levels of gods! can anyone tell me more? so interested to know!
the exhibition will be here til next year march. only disappointment was to find out that most of the pieces there are not the original, most were destroyed in history, possessed and lost by the Romans. and to speak the truth, i have seen much better and realistic pieces from other museums.. but still, its rare to see such exhibition in singapore, catch it!

alright, shall go slack around once again.

tmr would be christmas eve, many of us should be going for dinner and countdown right?
soo.. wishing you all MERRY CHRISTMAS! feast feast!

2007-12-20T03:03:00.001+08:00

a joke

a: i see her photos online lah!

b: ong lai (pineapple) how to see photos?

ermms.

2007-12-20T00:31:00.000+08:00

I am finally 20!

it all started one week ago...

my dear group 28 surprised me with a cake during our gathering. i was actually late (as usual) for 20mins, and almost spoilt their plan to carry on with the celebration :P

i was really quite surprise because i didn't tell them my birthday before, so how did they know? Friendster! So its useful huh~ but suddenly there is a sharp fall in the number of candles on my birthday cake, but my age actually increase, i felt weird weird.

18/12 afternoon. my cousin brought me out to choose my own present! i totally din expect her to bring me there. well, you can say she is my sister. coz we are that close, and we sort-of look alike. but she more pretty lar.

then on the eve of my birthday, jLO brought something for me when we met up to go for work. she 'threatened' me not to open it. then kept scolding me whenever i touch that box. so funny, you shld look at her face.

so after work, she lit the candles and sang me a birthday song. just she and me, but thats good enough =)

at 19/12/2007 12am sharp, jiemei called me! Yes, she is number one!

she sang me 3 birthday songs, english, chinese and malay! how cool eh~
while we chatted somemore, my phone started beeping, yes sms were pouring in.

i thank you my dear friends for watching closely during this period of time til the clock struck 12 and sms-ed me. your this few seconds, minutes of time, belonged to me right?

today morning, i woke up by my phone messages again, and then i decided that i shoudn't sleep so much on my big day!

19/12 noon, i had lunch with swiss immersion peeps! they "booked" me like 1 week ago, sorry jm. actually i would love very much to celebrate my birthday with my favourite girls of course, and i actually thought you all have forgotten about me, to be honest, i was quite upset by that, i really mind alot about it because you girls are so close to my heart! but few days ago, jiemei u asked me, and i know you are indeed my best girlfriend! =)

19/12 evening. 2 mummies, 3 cousins went to east coast for a big feast! not only for me, my cousin birthday is on the 22nd. yummy yummy~~~

look at the ferris wheel! sooo nice hor? invite me for a ride, i will love you forever.

thank you mama for treating me the big feast that i demanded, no err... i mean suggested.

from everyone i mentioned above. this year i really received alot, i mean not only presents but ppl who send me wishes too, that includes someone i really really didn't expect (mz, yea u nv see wrongly, all thanks to lyn ar)

will the rest of my birthday be so good like this year, never a lonely kid whose birthday is sadly forgotten because its always during school holiday? wahahaa.. just ignore me.

anyway, i really really thank you all lah. be it just a pure sms, good enough coz i have difficulty remembering birthdays :P or an ex or a hand made gift, i love all, really! bcoz u took the time to go buy or make, to choose to cut. i never wish for anything anyway, there is nothing that i badly want materialistically speaking. even when making a wish, i don't know what to wish for also, except for everyone to be well. (maybe coz i know what i want can't be made true just because i make a wish, yea i m that kind of person who like to poke your daydreams)

my point is, i can't express myself well with words, even harder in-person. so this post is what i really feel, to thank YOU. =)

2007-12-16T00:28:00.000+08:00

whats wrong?

i couldn't sleep last night, toss and turn til 4+am..

my alarm woke me up at 8.30am this morning, i was supposed to go running with my cousin you see, i was awake by then but then i felt that i shouldn't run, with that lousy quality sleep, what if i faint on the way? woke up at an hour interval til 1pm when i think its time to get ready to go out..

siao siao rain came when i was leaving my house. i could actually feel like the raindrops splashing in even when i was well under shelter.

watched golden compass, aye quite nice what! jj u really missed out the important part lah. looking forward to part II and part III. oh, and i got this habit of watching movie that has sequel with the same group of people, ok sulphates?

marche has turned into a swiss theme restaurant! aiyoo... it just makes me miss Switzerland soo much, and sometimes i really hope i never come back from that trip. i really can give up everything in singapore except for my parents in exchange for a lifetime staying in Switzerland living in peace..

by the way, marche is actually a french word and it means market. so supermarche happens to be backpackers best place to shop in france, where you get 1m long baguette at mere 50cts or 1 dollar sgd, i forgot.. thats equivalent to 3 meals for ppl like me!

alicia told us quite a gd lame joke today. let you guess alright? post your answer..

- you have $1, i have $1, guess a mrt station name in singapore.

have been meeting up with different groups of people this week, and even xxxxxx! thats what i call holiday man! heh... more to come next week! and next next week! juz dun let 14jan come..

presenting to you the ppl of the night.

snapped a photo like a gou zai

they are avoiding from gossips and rumours but too bad, words already spread like wild fire..

ok, they gave me face. smile properly for camera lady.

yea my bestie in class!

this mysterious guy who sat next to me wasn't in any of the photos i took tonight, so i took from somewhere else.

2007-12-11T12:27:00.000+08:00

ever wonder the feeling of knowing the truth?

first of all, you will feel like as if you struck lottery as you must have thought about the truth before

second, you will be shocked for a few seconds

third, you will want to find out more

fourth, when you found out the truth is just the truth, you will start to feel everything is so surreal once again, because its the time for you to accept the truth which would be hard.

fifth, when you are left alone to ponder upon it, a whole loads of questions swirl in your head...

sixth, you will soon have insomnia, you will become more energetic instead

seventh, the more you think, the more suffering you will get

eighth, you concluded that perhaps the truth can't help itself as well.. true love is perhaps the cause of everything..

nineth, now that you have got a satisfying conclusion, you fall asleep soon...

tenth, you wish them all the best in your dreams, and wake up fresh to start a new day!

so perhaps knowing the truth may be painful and hard to accept initially, by following the tenfold path, you will soon be enlightened and find your own happiness!

wishing you and myself all the best for the future!

2007-12-10T23:04:00.000+08:00

its my 2nd post of the day.. i must blog about my interesting evening!!

went for my first day of job this evening with jLO (hoho)... maybe i am too used to working temp jobs, i don't feel nervous at all.. or maybe i don't regard it as something serious :P i got bad working and studying attitude, i admit. quite happy that i can find a job for this extremely short holiday, all thanks to jLO. i have already lost count as to this is my number what job lar.

anyway, the manager introduced us to the job scope and such because our supervisor is not around yet. so we chit chat sing song for 2 hours! it was indeed something special for first day of work. he looked at our particulars and he got questions to ask for each and every section that we filled in lar, including my parents' occupation. even when i put my father as self employed, and didn't want talk more about it, he asked whether its blue or white collar and such. best way out is to pretend not to know what is blue and white collar. but i guess he mean no harm lar, just trying to drag time. we even did DISC personality test, how cool!

my personality changed already leh. i used to be a ISC in junior college, thats really not a characteristic personality i know. Now, i am a DC! yea, i can feel the change too.. the way i talk, and do things. i think its because of the pressure i gave myself to strive for the better and partly because of somethings i went through that forced me to be more independent. so i become a very dominant person, very overpowering, demanding person. aiya.. not really lar.. i think this can only apply in certain circumstances like in studies, i have my own learning style regardless whether its efficient or not. and also in making decisions for say, gatherings, i will have my own view of how things should work out.. bluntness appeared in my profile, and yea i totally agree.. sometimes i really mean no harm, but because i am less expressive and wishes the other party to understand what i mean, i tend to say things with less fanciful and tactful words.

oh anyway, the manager said its not good for girls to have D personality, guys will be afraid. he even ask me whether i have boyfriend, i said no, he said 'Nah..' no, i wasn't upset or offended, but feel its so true even though the truth hurts. No wonder i really don't have boyfriend.. but must i really change? why should i? why must girls only be gentle?

then our supervisor finally reached and we had trial with him. oh, my job is a telemarketter, so he went out of the room den we called him individually and went through the script. i din follow exactly because i just don't like to follow suit. haaa.. see.. my D is showing.
i called cl too, and she didn't pay attention to what i said lar. straight away say not interested.

today's briefing was quite relax and we are paid doing all these!

went home by train. u know those new seats installed at the stations right, i tried to sit on one today. its really ridiculous, i can't even sit properly on it, i will keep sliding down because its so slanted and smooth, and then i must keep tip toeing to stay in position. wa.. didn't they try out the thing before installing?!! i really can't imagine how brainless those who invented this thing are... and as i observed, nobody sits on it wan lor. people rather stand. waste us, commuters, money only..

2007-12-10T12:57:00.000+08:00

I am a myopic panda-zebra hybrid now...

ytd was our dearest jm bd, and she opened a chalet! though the place is abit ulu-fied and old, but its very very spacious, i find.. but i think only ns men can bk..

anyway, we reached there earlier than the bdae girl. so we made ourselves comfortable first by watching tv. (yea the door wasn't locked) and then started blowing balloons and decorating the place.. so fun to cut and paste, unlike drawing which i hate.

we went cycling when the weather seemed slightly better. but the weather really went bonkers. it rained heavily twice while we were cycling. but it was somehow fun to cycle in the rain, hohoho.. and the funny thing was the rain stopped as soon as we managed to find a shelter. mich bike had some prob, and the 2 girls tried to fix it, ok i was just watching at a side. hehe. the bicycle oil stained their fingers and they actually use the small puddles of water beside the long kau to wash their hand?! i offered them some leaves as tissue paper as well. haha.

until night time... the guys couldn't start the fire after spending a few hours putting on and off flames. lol.. but the 'neighbours' were nice enough to lend us their pit. but we, the girls, were dissatisfied, so we tried to start the fire by ourselves using the only 2 n a half fire starters that were leftover. ok. we kept burning papers and tried out different charcoal formations, like castle, mongol hut, but the fire just didn't start dancing around. yeah, so we failed terribly too.

then blah blah blah things happened before we all took shower. then we played mahjong, non-stop dai dee with a spair set of cards ready at a side for the next round as soon as the ongoing round ends, so we din even have a break to shuffle the cards, yea like some addict like that.. then played lowest point, and the modified heart attack. i think the highlight of the night was modified heart attack coz we had forfeit! haha.. i ALMOST lose lar.

we stopped soon because there is like nothing else to play. i din want to sleep lar, i don't like to sleep during chalet but i still fall asleep in the end. haha..

i think next year, many of u are gonna open up chalet for ur 21st birthday right? invite me! but sadly, nobody will celebrate mine with me. i wun be around =(
but its always like that, decemeber babies are easily forgotten because its holiday.
so used to it already.
this year? i haven't got any plans actually. think no one wld be free to sing a song for me, and it feels weird to ask ppl out to celebrate YOUR OWN birthday, no? and i dun look forward to getting old. i wanna be a teenager forever!!

2007-12-06T09:00:00.000+08:00

this is bad... i didn't sleep well last night.. i went offline about 2+am, but i only fall asleep when its going 4am! maybe i am too excited about the holidays. kept thinking of what to do, remind myself of important things that i need to settle before the deadlines, thought about jobs, thought about getting back results, whether it would be a pleasant surprise or dreadful one.. alright, i know if i have work hard and smart enough, there shouldn't be any surprise..

anyway.. after completing my last paper of statistics which i only finish a few minutes before dot, and didn't even double check the answer, didn't even write down hypothesis, assumptions and what not, in a freaking cold hall on a raining evening where most of the students had already completed their exams and most halls are vacant, my parents came to fetch me and brought me out for dinner!

we went to try out something new that i suggested, and i like it, but my father kept saying this would be the first and last time ok i tell you.. and then i also kept commenting, why you so boring wan, try out something new mah. hee, i just wanna tease him..

we went home soon after then i started doing something i miss very much. chatting and more chatting on msn! wahaha. i was super engaged in conversations lah, i think i was chatting with 8 people talking about different things. that was cool, i enjoy typing fast with typo error here and there, in my own slang of singlish! haha..

its only 9+am now, and i am already awake, must be because my body is alr trained by me, to wake up at 8am every day to study! self-discipline huh... today i got no programme leh, or should i say it was cancelled? but i know what i should do, u wanna make a guess?

i will tell you after i have done it...

i make fun of myself ytd night since i cldn't slp anyway. took some random photos and then add in silly things using my phone.. wahaha.. my favourite activity on the bed, so you better not let me have your face in my phone, if not.. tts what i would do to amuse myself. kekeke...

p.s. i m looking forward to the weekend! wheee~

2007-11-30T13:09:00.000+08:00

I couldn't resist the great power of the 'key to freedom'..... so i...

secretly drove out alone...

don't tell my dad about this, its just between you and me, alright?
just say... i was studying hard at home all day long ;)

2007-11-27T20:40:00.000+08:00

joggin route was telok blangah drive today.. the place where i lived for erm.. 4 years? but studied at the neighbourhood pri sch for 6 years.. wanted to go play the swing (yea la childish me) at my ex-hse playground. but when i reached there, i was.. disappointed! =(

the playground has changed completely! my 'dragon stomach', monkey bars (which i cld do very well last time) and swings are all gone!!! felt so sad, that place was my second home lah, everytime after school, my 2 besties and me would always go there to waste some time before going home... now that the place is completely different, i have different feeling for the place also... (can we apply that on human too, when someone changed, we will also feel different for that person?)

after which i went to explore my old housing estate, the familiar route back home from school.. wa.. lots of emotions wan! everything is still the same, except that its abit more dusty, rusty, old.. ironically, when i moved in, the estate was just undergoing upgrading, now it is also upgrading.. haa.. singapore housing needs lots of touch up huh.. its losing the flavour la (although its for living comfort)..
oh anyway, i got very excited and kept telling my cousin what i used to do on the way home from school.. things like walking by the narrow steps instead of proper stairs, visiting the newest and coolest stationary shop in the estate(hey, the uncle is still alive :P), buying fries from the western stall in the coffeeshop (which is still ard!) fetching my another younger cousin from the nursery nearby then went to pluck mangoes from the trees together..

memories is one of the most beautiful things that i possess =)

2007-11-22T12:02:00.000+08:00

I took a photo yesterday

credits to my 6 going 7 cousin.

2007-11-20T00:51:00.000+08:00

since someone enjoyed my previous post abt dialogue btw me and my mum, here comes part #2

- my dad called to ask us what we want for dinner, i couldn't make up my mind, so my mother suggested that i should eat mixed vege rice coz its more nutritious, alright, what about her? she said she would take laksa, because she is going on a diet. then she giggled to herself on the way out of my room.. no mom, you don't judge food by the portion, but by the calories lah..

- i was complaining to my parents about how dirty my room is, and asked my dad to help me bring out the vacuum cleaner. my mother while watching tv, said aiya, clean tomorrow lah, now so late already. if you clean your room only, the dust from living room will still enter your room. then i said of course i would vacuum the whole house lah, guess what, she asked my dad to hurry up bring out the machine.. oh well.. she is catching the 'once in the blue moon'..

- she opened the door while i was struggling to finish up reading my notes.. she said: " know what just now your auntie told me, hurry up make a guess" before i could reply, she carried on saying "blah blah blah, funny right, where got ppl like this wan..." yea, mom, i could hear you telling my dad the same thing in the living room 5 minutes ago while i was studying, you don't have to specially make a trip in to repeat...

ok, i really should be studying somemore now.. but i am tired.. :P nitez world.

2007-11-12T20:20:00.000+08:00

can't help but to feel that the facebook tariot card is so accurate at times..

"This card indicates that you are in control of your destiny and that your will is strong." --> yea everything went smooth today.. i got my acceptance in exchange programme to switzerland by NUS today. phew.. now i can almost stop worrying abt whether i m in or not.. all these while, the money that i m saving makes sense now!

"Your refusal to surrender is your great attribute at this time." --> actually my fren was quite panic n worried when we din receive any email from the screwed up dean's office. but i really din feel anything much, if i can go, i will go, if i can't, den never mind, i can just think about other plans. thats what i thought. and somehow i know we can't be rejected so easily.

"You will soon find yourself in a difficult situation that requires you to be in complete control of your actions and confident in your abilities. " --> i guess its talking about exams. i seriously need to control myself.. have been enjoying myself too much, all the shoppings and pretending to study when i m actually just staring into space.. yes, i must be confident and strive to achieve at least one A for exams!

but let me just watch 'Stardust' this thurs before i really really shy away from everyone (for 3weeks :P)

2007-11-08T16:23:00.001+08:00

i m suffocating~

beer chang is bad, i dun wanna touch it anymore

ytd was the first time i actually lose my way in sg!

jm is easy to trick and give treat, haha :P

pls let time just fly pass til next september then i will say goodbye to you..

2007-11-04T01:05:00.000+08:00

this semester is coming to the end soon, which also means exams are on the way..

have been busy juggling between school and tuition as usual...
sometimes i really do feel tired and don't understand what the heck i am doing, but then everytime when i just close my eyes and think of my dream, the reason why i am doing these, i get the strength to go on, coz in the end, everything would be worth the hard work i put in now..

on the other hand, tuition does give me a sense of satisfaction.. my current tuition assignments are more challenging and require me to use more of my brain, to answer questions that i had never thought of while i was at that level... hmm.. some of you must have experience what i am experiencing coz you guys become my tutor for such questions...

ok, enough of tuition..

i wanna have a short and budget getaway trip in dec/jan! any idea, any companion?

i feel like seeing macau, to eat egg tart, i have been telling everyone this la, hee..
i wanna explore SEA, that includes cambodia, vietnam and other parts of thailand
i don't mind going m'sia by bus, to some exotic island?
i can also travel down to indonesia for some goody spicy food!

i really really wish to leave singapore and travel with friends (i think i m addicted to backpacking) but i don't know whether i should or not.. perhaps within $500 is ok? hmmm.... join me leh!

2007-10-28T00:37:00.000+08:00

i feel like this - !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
after reading her post.

i feel like as if i missed out a very important part and thing to do.
things have changed sooo much, like 180deg when we were already like 90deg close to target.
now life is gonna be boring until...

and another piece of not so good news that i received today also made me go like this- !!!!!!!!

whats happening man seriously, walau.. i can't believe all these lah, we are only getting further and further away... and only shit keep coming nearer and nearer... the same old shit somemore! nonono, i rather not have any....

never mind if you don't understand my shitty language, because i really just feel like that lah now !@#%@#(*&@!%$!@
i must do something to the situation now, but i don't know how, maybe i should just give up and move on la.

anyway, had a rather busy week (as usual). don't wanna go into details lah.
just wanna mention that had our own Oktoberfest fiesta today, was quite a success, though members are not very responsive and we didn't break even, but for those who went, i believe you would think the price you paid is very worth-while. for me, i don't wanna touch sausages and beer for at least 2 weeks i think! i hope next year we would be able to make it a bigger scale event!

funny, when i reached home late like 10plus after tuition, I feel that i don't have enough time for my own work and wish that i didn't have to give tuition. but when i finally have the chance to go home straight away after school, i feel very bored and there is no motivation for me to study hard, maybe coz i know i have more than enough time?

funny, every morning i wake up, i experience short term memory lost. i have trouble remembering which day it is, and start getting anxious about recalling which day is it and what i have to do on that day. that kind of feeling seriously sucks, so damn afraid that i might mistaken a weekday for a weekend and just continue sleeping.. is that what you call stress? but how come i don't really feel that i am stressed?

2007-10-20T22:12:00.000+08:00

Celebrated my swiss immersion friends birthday ytd.. managed to organise quite a successful gathering.. but most importantly, it really was a good time to catch up with some more busy ppl, so much so that i skipped my tutorial.. haa..

Of course, being german students, we must write German message on the cake and also, sing german birthday song! but it was really hilarious la.. coz we have to sing two names at once, so there was a hiccup.. m happy that they enjoyed the cake but seems like everyone is very health conscious, leave alot of choc cream behind, but then we all ate very big slices, just look at the number of ppl we have!

yea, here are the birthday girls!

i think i heard my eye candy saying something like "my girlfriend said...." to his friend during lecture.

yes, i was abit disappointed but more of surprise.hmmm, no wonder he doesn't socialize so much..

-to be continued

2007-10-16T00:16:00.000+08:00

yawnz.. webcast is boring, my indian lecturer is going at bullet train speed (well, actually i chose to increase the speed :P) and with her accent, i catch no ball.. so taking a break to blog!

my weekend in pictures...

this is saturday with sulphates. somehow class gathering is getting smaller and smaller in size and strength. regulars are always there though... organisers are always the same also.. and for your information, i am both a regular and a co-organiser! haa

sunday

birthday girls get featured!hope she enjoyed the dinner and cake (like i do!)

we took quite a few photos because irregulars like me appear only almost once a year, yes the last time i saw the majority of them are like last dec! time really flies, they are still look the same, and we have fun nevertheless. its always laughter and more laughter with them, and its always talking about the good (sometimes bad) old times with them, their memory really win already, so many things i have forgotten but they remember it clearly and vividly.. mind you, we are friends of at least 5 years! mich and me are old frens of 7 years!

i think i am going crazy, i felt sinful not to study during this wkend.. i felt so bad and lag behind because i know my friends are all busy mugging (all yr round). maybe its the company i have got, but its good, because i am always too lazy and complacent.. you can get amazed by the wide range of friends i have got and influenced by, sometimes i can be a nerd, and yet sometimes i do things that i don't tell you!

talking about friends, recently i think i am drifting away from ... i am glad that ... is happy with life now and is busy mingling ard own frens. but i cannot accept the idea that ... becomes more quiet to me. i really enjoy hearing stories from my dear frens, pls don't let our friendship turn cold. (actually i don't think ... will read this but i still wish this would happen somehow)

i think i am talking too much, alright bye~

2007-10-12T22:23:00.001+08:00

i just realised my eye candy look like japanese manga character. he has got that kind of hairstyle. he is like a mystery to me.. hmm..

anyway, i am soooo tired now.. i have been having headache for the past 2 days. i never had headache from stress and work before... lets see what i have done this week..

mon- had lessons til 8pm, the longest day in the week, but i am still ok with it
tue- lessons til 6pm, the first tuesday for the longest time where i reached home before the sky darken, coz usually i would have tuition, was abit not used to getting home so early, but its good anyway..
wed- tried to cover as much as possible for the 2 tests since its my one and only free day, went for my first tuition for a twins.. by coincidence or what not, they are actually in the same class as my previous tutee! hope to have great tuitions ahead!
thu- had german vocab test, studied more than 10 pages of vocab for a single page test! thats really crazy, i was going through the sheets over and over again the night before! feeding my brain literally! luckily, i managed to recall almost all the vocab.. yeah, and its the shortest day in this sem, finished lesson at 4pm so i got home and slept. was awakened by my mom's chopping veg sound after one hour. she cooked delicious dinner for us, once in a blue moon kind of thing.. i am learning to cook! its a necessary survival skill for exchange programme!
fri- today, had a 40% mid term test! its almost like final exam already lor! i really tried to study hard for it and hope the results can prove me right! afterwhich i went to visit my grandma at hospital... saw the nurse taking blood samples from her, i wonder what kind of test they are carrying out, it really interests me as a life sci student! i told my auntie "suddenly, i find ah ma's face so unfamiliar..." and i found the reason to that.. i haven looked at her properly for a long time.. i feel bad.. with my lousy hokkien and infrequent visits, i hardly talk to her, look at her.. so what if i greet her everytime i see her, its just out of politeness and respect.. hai.. anyway, afterwhich i went to buy a housewarming gift for my tutee.. and i still have sometime so i went home to rest a little before going back to school for another lecture.. thats not the end of my day ya! after that... i went...... tuition! cabbed down to the other end of singapore to give tuition.. my tutee's house has a great view of ecp! i love it! i always love the seaview, who doesn't, right! had tuition until the sun set and i can only see lights from the ships.. and finally home after one hour bus ride! what an exciting day right...

more to come for sat n sun! yeah...

i wanna sleep now

2007-10-09T18:39:00.001+08:00

Did I tell you that I have a eye candy in my life science course?

I actually walked to the same bus stop as him today!
well, actually i noticed him since my first few lectures in NUS and started to pay attention to him then. LOL!

He kills my boredom during lecture because I would have something else to look at instead of the boring slides shuffling on screen.
He stands out from the crowd, and thats what makes me notice him..

He has his own sense of dressing which suits him well! Ya, thats what attracted me..
I consider him as metrosexual but not that kind wearing flamboyant clothes, his dressing is always very plain but the cutting he chose is good!

Oh, and the way he walks.. very cool yet natural..
I give him a nickname, Hongkie because his style is really so not local... sigh, if only more sg guys can dress like him, our eyes wouldn't be so bored and only can look at girls' dressing, agree?

But no lah, i don't like him, I just... admire him!
My ideal boyfriend should not wear specs and most importantly, muscular! hehehehe...

2007-10-07T12:32:00.000+08:00

I feel sad.. I think I am losing my job.. don't ask me why, because i don't know the situation well myself. Hai, there goes my 'scholarship' to exchange programme. I must start to be troubled over finding money once again.. Luckily one assignment comes by and i am taking it up, but the money is never so good as before.. I think I am wasting too much time thinking about money, but how can i not think about it when i really need it???

Conclusion: rich people money is hard to earn..

MONEY MONEY MONEY.. GIMME MONEY.

2007-10-06T13:02:00.000+08:00

went to youtube to look at jolin's new mv.. hey, the korean male actor inside is so shuai! anyway, then i watched some other related clips and saw this...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=F8FXHdddPew

(sorry, i dunno how to embed the video, the link i copy is always too short!)

after watching it, i was...
motivated

look at her, she spinned around, wrapped in rope only, umpteen times.
certainly she felt giddy afterwards, she teared.
but she got up and try again like as if nothing was wrong.

i want to be that strong too.
i want to really focus on my studies and get my honours
i want to get passionate abt something n do well in it

but i dunno my real interest?

anyway, hope you get the point i m trying to bring across lah. =)

Oktoberfest is coming! Go drink Bier with me leh! Com'on~~

2007-09-29T11:53:00.000+08:00

sigh...

recess week will be over real soon...

i haven't study enough i think..

but i think i have play enough..

watch tv (not really a couch potato during term time), night cycling, swim, cut hair, went zouk, went settlers', tuition 5 times this week, perhaps ktv tml?

sighhhh.. more tests and assignment rolling in...

anyway, add me in facebook if you have an account.. i can't add because i don't have address book for my emails.. its fun!

2007-09-24T21:50:00.000+08:00

you are gonna hear the most exaggerating story from me..

today i went for a hair cut by the hairstylist recommended by my cousin..

i actually....

spent 2 & 1/2 hours just washing, cutting and blowing my hair..

thats the longest time that i have ever spent just on cutting hair!!

not only have i broke my own record of having the longest time spent for haircut

i actually...

spent $68 dollars on it!

well, needless to say, the title of this record is the most expensive haircut i ever had

but hey, diving the amount by the time spent, its quite worthwhile isn't it?

well, anyway i am satisfied with my new hairstyle, and i really admire that hairstylist because my hair is very problematic wan.

maybe i will go back again, maybe........

2007-09-24T20:54:00.000+08:00

yeah! enjoy my holiday very much til right now!

went for cyclohunt with my swiss immersion mates on saturday! flagged off at ecp 10pm in the night then went to tanjong rhu, mountbatten, jalan eunos, bedok reservior, tampines, loyang, changi village and back to ecp by 5am.

its so crazy, we really cycled literally the whole of east singapore! i told them "i always thought singapore is very small... until today"

luckily maybelle stay in the east area so we have no problem navigating.. and most of the roads are quite quiet except, so we din get involve in any kind of accident..

on the way back from changi village to ecp is the most memorable part of the whole event for me.. we have only 20mins to cover 1 and a half part of the map.. and we just kept cycling like mad, overtaking one team! it really trained our endurance, and of coz, thigh muscle. the guys are surprised then the 2 of us can finish the whole game..

we were the 20th team to reach the finishing point out of 24 teams. consider not bad as we were competing with pro teams, who brought their own racing bicycles, and the fact that we covered all 10 stations!

we will be back for the next one, definitely!

2007-09-21T18:51:00.000+08:00

yoo... finally finally its the wkend, and its not any other wkend, its the wkend leading to recess week! yippee!!

this wk has truly been crazy, my laptop hasn't leave me for the past 24/7 days, no matter where i am, home, school or tuition.. looking at it for long makes me giddy... what am i doing?

busy doing my statistic assignment the day before the deadline, writing my 1500-2000 words essay about religion (which i am quite satisfied with), busy doing online assessment, busy doing german practises thru website...
maybe i am mad, but i actually enjoy doing all of the above.. i think its fun to work with computer and learning thru it...
like for my essay, i read alot of articles and journals.. definitely i had learn something and know more about religion.. i used to thought religion is a boring topic and i don't see why ppl believe so much in it.. but now, at least i can appreciate the rich histor behind all religions, and how they are all linked! nevertheless, i still think i am more of a atheist.. :P

ok, battery running low..

today i declare a siesta for me and my laptop!

2007-09-16T20:21:00.000+08:00

indeed, exercise can help to relieve stress. though i am already begging for more time, i still went for a swim in the afternoon.. laps after laps.. and i don't feel so tensed anymorethat i haven got anything done...

if i managed to finish my 1500 words essay within today, i would be very happy...

my workplace, my hostel, my room, my haven

i prefer such lighting. haha..

Is Religion Cool? Hmmm, interested to read?

2007-09-11T22:07:00.000+08:00

haha, i like to disturb my mother..

1) She was watching tv in the living room, and so i went up to her and told her i have been eating either yong tau fu or sliced fish soup for lunch since the beginning of last week, and continued to grump about not seeing any results, all my fats still swim around my body.. and so, i walked away.. Pause.. she suddenly shout out to me: " Eh, i thought you don't eat yong tau fu?!"

2) I actually ponder to tell my mom or not.. i still went, because i wanna know whether my guess would be correct.. I said: " ma, you are gonna scold me and say i am stupid for the thing that i am gonna tell you.." she was still smiling until... "i actually won a free umbrella in school in spinning wheel today but i told that person i don't want it".. she got quite worked up and voila! my guess was right. she just kept shooting the word "stupid" at me.. thats not the end of the story, i got to choose what i want instead, so i chose...... a pen. very modest right. so you can imagine how she reacted to that.

eh, izzit all girls like to splurge and shop, or izzit only me?
why do human indulge, especially when they know they shouldn't?
i mean, i haven really spend, but my whole mind is thinking of ways to give away my money!
why liddat?! its like an involuntarily function of my brain, you know....
soon, its gonna split into two...

2007-09-08T16:22:00.001+08:00

i am so pissed off and i just feel like swearing*

it is supposed to be a kind of celebration, one big step forward bcoz its one year already.
i didn't suggest it, someone gave me the chance...
you wanted me to do that yet you don't trust me, you don't give me the chance to make judgements myself.
it was way more stressful than having the tester sitting next to me.
3 aunties each giving their command to me... REPEATED!

eh got bus beside, got bus beside, got bus beside
eh brake brake brake
(ok, it can be funny to you, i know.. but yes, its MINIMUM repetition of 3 times)

they just can't keep quiet for even one SECOND

didn't i just drove all the way to bedok and back with just my mother?
didn't i just come back with the car intact and in time?

i felt so suffocated and stressed, you know...
they are so not understanding..
i bet NOBODY can drive well under those bombarding
to end it early, i drove myself home first, if not i really really will explode, and i don't wanna be nasty to you all, you will be shocked by me.

the next time i drive, shall be the time i get my OWN car.

F.

2007-09-04T23:33:00.000+08:00

i never ever had sooo many assignments to submit within such close dates before, i tell you.

what? 1 online assignment every 3 days?

what? i just hand in one written assignment and is given the date for the next one on the same day?

what? so fast one week had past and i am again cracking my head to come up with something for the forum posting?

MAD.

i don't like deadlines, i am so afraid to forget any.

although it is a good way to force us to revise consistently.

i got no time to lose man.

on the bright side,

recently i joined a cca, die deutsche sphaere, german club.

and i got myself a position in the ex-co committee.

hehe, i never had any position back in my sec n jc ccas.

now i am the logistic director in my uni cca leh.

haha... this is so good, i definitely look forward to my job.

ok goodbye for now.

check out where i went to chill out recently...

divine @ parkview square

a glass of long island tea

one comfy sofa

many jazz songs

ahhh.. i want to go there again. with you.

2007-08-29T09:33:00.000+08:00

busy busy, haven't had enough sleep for a few days. enough means at least 8 hours per night. i don't have that =(

sunday was a good one. sf came back sg for hols and all of us were free on that day, i managed to make sure all of us turn up on that day! waa.. haven't seen sf for like 8months?! everything about her is the same, just sporting a new hairstyle which suits her alot. had lots of girls talk that day, dirty ones i mind you. haha... took neoprint also, very very long since we last took one, we used to love going heeren to take neoprint.. i used to think its very awkward and boring to just sit down in some cafe and chat about life and everything, but now, i am loving it! perhaps enjoying it more than walking down town aimlessly. there are just so many things to talk about!

krispy kreme from hong kong! and sooo many donut craze singaporeans came around to ask where we got that from.
can i just complain about something also?
i just think singaporeans really like to follow fellow singaporeans. before all these fanciful donuts shop open in singapore, do you already like to donuts? or you just eat and act like as if you really love donuts because its so popular now and everyone is eating it? OR you only know what is donut when you walk past a donut shop yesterday or maybe your friends were telling you that donut shop has long queue everyday? not weird meh? donuts have been around for so long, now then people start loving it?
another example i can give is fashion lor! fashion in singapore is like some UNIFORM. wan to know whats in 'fashion' now? go walk around far east or bugis street, see what everyone is wearing and what all shops are selling, you know already. soo boring can, they just follow blindly what people wear. ok la, i am just not trendy, not fashionable enough.

ytd and the day before had been busy days too. long hours of lesson, plus tuition. no time to daydream and do nothing, see how serious is that. i mean, thats my favourite hobby!

tell you something, my german and religion tutorials this semester are gonna be very interesting ones. so fun to TRY to speak EVERYTHING in german, walking around the class to talk to classmates in GERMAN, its getting better, really, more fluent alr... religion tutorial will be just listening to these 2 girls debating in class, i really wonder whats wrong with them la, enemies or what, religion topic is just like that la, subjective wan ma, why must you all be so persistent in your own point of view leh? i really suspect they are just trying to earn participation points..

2007-08-25T11:59:00.000+08:00

sipping coffee, eating croissant, looking at the people walking along the main street in fribourg

leaving fribourg,catching a train to paris on TGV, feeling abit nervous abt backpacking on our own, 5 girls, 1 guy, our first time. but we were all very excited of course!

2 missing, don't know go where. our classrom for the past 4 weeks, where new and strong friendships are built. but best of all : no test, lesson til noon only, least amount of homework.

all along, i thought i am getting used life back in singapore, and i miss singapore.

but..

as i was keeping away the things my friend brought back for me from switzerland (to lighten my load for the backpacking part), my heart just miss swiss so much, the wonderful 4 weeks i had there!

my certificate which showed that i had attend the summer program in University of Fribourg, the worksheets that we did in class, the booklets about the Uni, the town and other towns, and specially, the small booklet that the school did for us which has our short write up in german, and photos they took for us during outings, our own booklet, featuring only us!

=( =( =( =( i miss my second home!

anyway, this week is not so good, because i fell sick! had fever on thu night, never felt soooo terrible for very long already, the whole body just ache badly and my head is just so heavy and giddy. took some (whatever) chinese medicine that my mum prepared for me and went to bed damn early that day, 9.30pm, then ard midnight my mom came in the room and told me i have got a fever, so then i pop down a panadol and went back to slp... and the funny thing is that the next day i woke up feeling alot better but, still yawning away during lecture.. how come ar?

anyway, tt spoilt my whole plan for the week. cldn't exercise, cldn't go for canoe course.

2007-08-19T13:39:00.000+08:00

First week of school was...

quite ok loh!

monday- went for a swim with my cousin in the afternoon and i got even tanner, how sad.. at least more even thou, haha.. was lucky to not have any lesson on that day but i still went for a career talk by a swiss life sci company with joanna n maybelle at night. after 3 months of holiday, i practically forgot the locations of the lts..

tuesday- had 3 lectures, all core modules. first lecture only, all the lecturers started to talk like a bullet train, just happily clicking the mouse and changing the slides, i don't even know what they were teaching la, where got time to absorb! lunch was at the newly renovated arts canteen, The Deck, with j & m, canteen food are cheap and good! went jogging in the evening ard my housing estate, a fellow jogger smiled at me =)

wednesday - yeah! my free day, planning to work and study on this day for this semester.. spent the whole day at home doing.. nothing, really nothing, except buying a copy of straits times and attempt to look for a job, still looking while waiting for replies..

thursday - went to sch early to meet cl for lunch at the deck again. first thing she said when she met me was.. you got tanned! then bought german 3 coursebook from a senior who is taking german 5 this sem, talked a little, wonder when will i reach her level of german... hmmm... anyway, saw mindy walking into the lt for a gem module then realised that both of us are taking the same module! thot we wldn't be seeing each other this sem as we are in different grpings for life sci modules.. so qiao! catched up a little during the break =) went gym afterwards with j & m, my first visit to nus gym, mainly male dominated but ok la, don't feel very awkward..

fri - had that 3 core modules lecture again, sian diao, why the lecturers are so rush huh? for level 1000 module, the lecturers usually take 2 or 3 lectures to finish one set of notes, but now, one set for one lecture. can't imagine the pace for level 3000 modules, 2 sets per lecture?! lunch with some swiss immersion ppl at technoedge, filled with laughters by making fun of someone :P really hope that all 12 of us can stay in touch and meet up often. last activity of the day was running on the track with j & m, andreas joined in halfway and he was practically sprinting, ran pass me 4 times lor! exercise is something j, m and me hope to do at least twice a week because we wanna keep the xin xin ku ku built up stamina from backpacking ( all the rush for the train and climbing spiral stairs up the tower in cathedral) .. and i do feel more healthy and fit now!

sat - support my idol day! watched 'Secret' with darius and jiaji. i think thats the best movie by jay so far, maybe coz the role is tailor made for him by him. the beginning of the show was sweet yet funny, i like it! like the twist also, but abit draggy afterwards. eat, walk, rest, drink after the movie. talked about Life and love, being the only girl present, i was being kick around like a ball between them... went marina square to watch the firework display with other singaporeans. it was quite magnificent but not romantic la coz its not put up for anyone but for whole of singapore ma. getting home was quite sian diao also, so packed everywhere and the roads were all so congested.

gonna just rest at home today and hopefully tidy up my room!

i have got the scores, want?

2007-08-13T09:52:00.000+08:00

all the same....

back in singapore means i must continue my boring routine, where everyone is doing the same thing

busy studying, busy working

so sian...

i look forward to study but not the exams
i look forward to meet new people but not do project
i look forward to earn money but not going for work
i look forward to join activities but not having commitments

singapore is such a stressful place to live in.... because this is where i live...
this is reality
the place where i have to study and work at

sian la..

go for a drink with me?

shit, i am so used to drinking.

2007-08-11T13:41:00.000+08:00

i wanted to write about my trip to europe but then it is gonna be a very longgg post if i write about what i did each and everyday...

let me just share with u guys some interesting things i noticed there...

switzerland

the train and bus are VERY punctual. the train leaves the station on the dot. all bus stops have a schedule of the bus departing timings and you can really rely on it.. thats a gd thing when you want to have a daily routine. but a bad thing when you overslept, coz you know you will definitely miss the bus for sure. for me, i live in a so called village and every morning i have to walk 10minutes to the bus stop, some of my friends live even further away from bus stop, some had to cut cross some field, greet some cows. and yea, sometimes my neighbours would say 'bonjour' to me or just smile... other than being known for punctuality, you can always take a free ride but nobody does that. everyone just hop on the bus and the bus conductor doesn't check whether you bought a ticket or not, they just trust that you did buy one from the bus stop before boarding. and yes, ppl do buy their bus tix.

you can truly experience the difference in different parts of switzerland. for example, in zuerich, all the people and printed advertisements are in german but in geneva, ppl and words are in french! you just have to adapt and switch so quickly when travelling within switzerland... yup, i learnt a few words of french of course. haha..

france

in paris, they have public toilet everywhere, but you must pay to use it. drop in the coin then the door would be open. i think its either 20cts or 50cts in euro. times 2 gives you SGD. but i never pay because i would go look for free toilet, say in museum or macdonalds no matter how far it is.

they sell crepes everywhere. that makes me a happy girl!

baguette there is cheap n good. sgd$1 for 3/4 metre baguette. and it lasted as 3 meals for me =)

spain

madrid is exceptionally very hot n dry. the temperature can easily shoot up to 38deg cel, very much unbearable....

spain zara is cheaper than other countries ;)

italy

Gelati store can be seen anywhere! ur crave for ice cream can be satisfied in less than 5minutes when you just thought of having one... and usually they give you very big n messy scope of ice cream over a small cone. just have to clear off everything before it starts melting n dripping...

all pizza are thin crust here and its not as cheesy as what we have in sg..

u know ur fav carbonara spaghetti? in italy, its not a white creamy sauce! its more of cheese topping with bacon strips, but very tasty. and their pasta servings are usually quite small, about half what we got here in singapore. do you know why?

because italian meals comes in 2 parts, first course is usually pasta den main course would be steak or escalope kind.

how did i know so much abt italian food? because towards the end, we were having dinner at cheap restaurant every night, trying out different pizza n pasta. wahahhahaha. we always joke about ourselves that we are not backpacking but more of having holiday.. coz backpackers are suppose to just survive on bread n water...

nevertheless, i skipped lunch usually to have more money for nice proper formal dinner.

i truly enjoy my immersion programme and backpacking experience. join me for the next trip! haha..

2007-08-09T18:58:00.000+08:00

i m back. on national day.
it feels weird.
seriously, i m more interested in looking at my photos taken for the trip than ndp. haha...

my parents brought me to eat bbq stingray and sambal kangkong just now. yeah. so happy. other than my parents, i miss sg food the most! haha...

busy unpacking now...
my mother said that i had bought too little things -_-''
but i m happy to keep my spending within my budget
and... most importantly, i am back safe and sound!

ok la. tell u more next time. =)

2007-07-21T14:34:00.001+08:00

taking a train to paris later.
leaving swiss and the family soon
i feel sad. she bu de... =(

but whole lots of fun waiting! ;)

2007-07-16T05:41:00.000+08:00

do you know your shortcomings?

is it still very undesirable when you know exactly what are your shortcomings but you find it hard to change?

i do, feel bad when i show my unhappiness out. it just seems like i spoil everyone's day.
why is it that my mood is so influencing? why is that they still bother about me?

i really find it hard to express out exactly what i want and how i feel...
i just don't know how, but i just want it that way.

don't label me as a typical only child. i am not unreasonable.
i just... can't say out what i want.

.......................................................................................................
gonna be the last week of immersion. leaving family Bosshart in less than a week's time.
will i ever got to come back for exchange and visit them?
one month's time is just enough for total comfort in the family, and when i got to that point, i gotta leave.
still, looking forward to see other parts of europe though =)

2007-07-10T01:15:00.000+08:00

do you miss me?

i miss sg food, my mother and my friends (esp my gfs)..

i do like the food here. but there isn't much variety as compared to sg.

i love the cherries (kirschen) and strawberries here (erdbeeren)..
they are so sweet and cheap here.
me n my friend just bought a strawberry tart home for everyone as dessert after dinner(abendessen) and it costed about Fr.12 but there are soooo many strawberries on it.
there was also the other berry tart and it was literally piled with berries!
but i still feel heart pain whenever i part with my money..
everything here is still so much more expensive la...

today there was hail (Hagel). my first time seeing it and i got so excited. i open the door to the garden and just enjoy myself in the rain. very stupid, now i am so cold! my friend managed to catch it in video =) my host family (we call her mama aka mummy) told me its due to the collision btw hot and cold air and its quite common here during summer.. still, i wanna see snow!

right now i just finished my homework (Hausufgabe) and is waiting for our papa to cooking dinner.. wahahha

alright.. gtg..

here is my album, i know i gain weight so don't tell me.
i am already very depress..
just look at the scenery and excuse me for my poor photographic skill..

share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0AZtW7Ro1cNmLjI

2007-07-03T05:04:00.000+08:00

and so, i begin to feel lonely...

i woke up at 4am in the morning, missing you...

i couldn't finish my assignment but can't help thinking of you..

who are you, i don't know..

i just am missing something, someone, somehow...

2007-07-03T03:23:00.000+08:00

there is so much to think about and see in this photo, don't you think so..

2007-06-30T04:26:00.000+08:00

its friday 29/6/07 10:27pm now in swiss, which will be saturday 30/06/07 04:27am in sg.

just went out to have a dinner with my host family. their son n daughter in law came back home today from shanghai and so they had now a complete family. we walked like 15mins to a italian restaurant near the house. me and my friend ordered a pasta and pizza to share. they ordered a salad for us too. and the portion was so big and we don't dare to finish it if not we wouldn't have space for our main course. so we gave it to the younger son. haha. so did the half finished pizza. anyway, the food was fabulous. we had some white wine too. before which, we were invited to a glass of champagne at home to welcome them. whoa, me and my friend got so dizzy when we wanted to walk back to our room. does champagne has high alcohol percentage?

anyway, german lessons so far are quite easy and more of revision. had a usa and 2 poland classmates too. they are way more advanced than us. visited a museum and a cathedral today. the cathedral is the highest structure in fribourg. we climbed 348 steps up to the top! i tell u, its not easy. its a narrow spiralling staircase. when we got up to the top, we were panting like mad but then there is somehow a sense of achievement! haha..

my lesson ends ard 12noon everyday and then we would have free lunch at the canteen today. the portion is always big but i tried to finish all coz i want to keep myself full if not i would start buying expensive snacks afterwards..
after lunch, we would shop around or walk around the town.. basically, life here is very relax. when its about 6pm, everyone would go back to their own home and have dinner with their host family.
guess what time i usually sleep?

latest by 11pm! and when its 10:30pm, i already feel that its late.
somehow the people here sleep early...

but yesterday was one of the classmates birthday. so we had dinner at some kebab shop and then went to the street at the town for some beer. haha.. it was fun! we played some forfeit games and drank swiss beer.. actually, i got abit high. wahahhaha...
then i got to see the night life in fribourg if not, i would sleep very early everyday.
made some swiss friends too! they are not very proper ppl but nice. sent us back to our home with their vintage volkswagon van..

thats all for now :)

2007-06-25T04:18:00.000+08:00

writing a post from schweiz aka suisse aka switzerland!

wow. everything here is so nice.. i am living on a mountain and the whole area is called schoenberg which means beautiful mountain in german. my host family are two professors teaching at university of fribourg which is the one that i would be attending tml onwards! the house is nice, with garden where they plant raspberries and such.. i am sharing room with a friend and we have a window facing the mountains and houses. very pretty.
right now its summer so the sky also gets dark around 9plus pm.. still not used to it though :S

alright, i will update you again ya..
oh ya, i have upload some photos on friendster. go have a look!

love,
winnie

2007-06-19T23:42:00.000+08:00

after one day, i still haven't finish packing.........
my luggage is now full, but i haven't stuff in my slippers n socks!

the first time i feel so frustrated with packing.
normally when i pack for trips, i pack light and just enough..
bcoz its either i am going to live in friend/relative house, so everything is convenient
or going for a short getaway trip

but now...
i am going for one month plus 18days and its so far away where everything is so expensive..
i must pack abit more..
the whole trip must go through my head so that i wouldn't leave out anything for any part, especially the backpacking part...
what a headache...

right now, i feel more of nervous and worried rather than excited..
will my friends forget about me?
will my mother rmb to go back to her room to sleep (my dad is going overseas soon too)?
will i forget anything important?
for immersion, i alr am spending so much money and preparing so much, for the real exchange programme, what am i gonna do?
will i get used to sitting long hours in the plane?
jetlag?

shall not go on with the list anymore.. it only makes me feel worse and makes u feel bored

and you know wat,
i think i forgot quite a big part abt german language. haven't been practising for at least a month?! how am i going to survive there and do well in class?!

tml wld be the last day in sg. wld be a sad day since i m not meeting any friend? i dun think i can sleep since i need to wake up at 3am.

i m really not going for very long, but why am i feeling like that?

i will miss u, so u must miss me ok?
i won't forget to take photos la.

2007-06-19T00:59:00.001+08:00

so bored. dunno what else i can do online.. alr went friendster, am chatting on msn, read blogs, watch mtvs on youtube.. so blog again lo....

went cycling w hb n cl at east coast park today. we rent the bicycles for 4 hours! i always prefer to cycle the way towards changi airport, ya.. my favourite place in sg! still can rmb tts wat i said during jc class self-introduction... we cycled until the safra club then u-turn back coz it became road for cars, so we din dare to cycle on those roads..
anyway, on the way, there was this new park and had this spiral tower, so we cycled up n down twice, very fun coz the speed was fast on the way down.. haha... had u ever notice most of the spiralling towers have the stairs going up from the right? tts bcoz most knights are right handed, so building a right handed spiral staircase wld give them the upper hand as enemies had to fight back using left hand.. smart right....
it then starting pouring, luckily we went back early when it started drizzling.. but anyway, i still love getting wet.. don't u feel refreshing? haha.. i know i m siao...

we walked to parkway parade to meet jiemei since its only like 3 bus stops away.... save money ma since got the time... wanted to go katong eat laksa even though we dunno the way.. but we saw sakura buffet there, i was turned off by the price but the girls were so tempted to eat there.. jm said now is the good time to eat coz when i come back, gst will increase to 7%.. i couldn't decide on whether i wanna part with my $24 on a meal and they actually altogether paid half the money for me =) really thanks alot.. *recently keep getting treats, what a nice world, haha* i will be back with souvenirs ok?

anyway i dun think sakura buffet is very nice.. the sushi are ok.. sashimi are fresh, cl love it like mad but i find it gross.. nice meh raw fish?! tried so many times but i still don't understand y ppl love it... the cakes are nice, ebi, handrolls are nice.. but the soups sucks, fruits also anyhow cut, pregnant fish also not nice, teppanyaki fish got bitter taste.. we tried our best to eat to the max but i think we still din eat alot actually.. especially me, juz try abit of everything.. haha... with that price, i think there are better buffets outside lar..
after that, we walked ard the estate and decided to walk further down so that we can save on a few bus stops money and digest the food also.. on the way, we sang sch song, orientation cheers.. actually i can't rmb most of the lyrics la, wasn't a very 'on' person in sch... said gdbye to them finally, i dun like to be emo la, so pai seh de...

my flight wld be this thurs 0710... i will be back!
i alr start missing you actually....

2007-06-18T01:24:00.000+08:00

oh i forgot to add that mr kwek walked past our stall today! i think he don't know us but said hi anyway... he was in his usual polo tee and shorts! haha!

2007-06-18T00:16:00.000+08:00

finally work is over!

after work on friday, went town to meet delusion, darius n guoxiong... thank you very much for coming =))

had late dinner at hk cafe, second time in the week, but i love there!

wa, guys can really eat alot. they ordered 2 french toast, 1 curry noodle, 2 baked rice, 1 mango ice ( to me, its alot la), and finished everything clean clean. btw, the baked rice there not nice, don't order that....

after that, we were contemplating on places to go, don't have much choices as it was quite late alr, like 11plus?! having a car would make things easier... soo... i called up my auntie to borrow her car... i hardly personally call ppl to borrow things wan loh, coz i don't like to like owe ppl something.. but i also donno why i had the courage to do that that night.. haha...

we took a bus down to my auntie's house to get the keys n car... then off we go!

we drove to mt faber first, haha, had a difficult time parking the car, coz the slot is parallel.. i wanted to give up but they were very patient with me, allowing me to keep trying. anyway, i parked the car until i don't even wanna look at it la, super ugly...

then daruis made his own drift down mt faber, was really quite exciting but scary :S don't tell my auntie that huh, haha...

then went marina south for prawning ( whatever u call catching prawn with a rod la). managed to find our way there and ya, had to do parallel parking again, was alot better this time... anyway, managed to catch one prawn all by myself ( well, the guys helped me to pull the hook out from the prawn's mouth).. tried to put the cockles on the hook also, seriously it wasn't as disgusting as it may sound.. i m a life sci student! how can i be disgusted by things like this right?! bbq-ed the prawns afterwards, but they got a weird taste and can u imagine if u eat the head, u will find a piece of cockles in its head? haha..

was getting sleepy by 5am, so darius took over and drove all the way to jurong.. had very early breakfast and then sent both guoxiong n jiaji home. actually all 3 of them could go home from there, but i got no confidence to drive and park the car myself later...so darius had to drive back to my house, taught me parking again at my house carpark, at last someone explained to me in a way i understand... sent him to the mrt and i went back to park the car by myself, yeah i parked it nicely!

manged to catch one hour sleep then had to go to work alr, can't even feel like as if i had actually sleep... was feeling dizzy and blur more than sleepy. i don't even know what i was talking.. my mom asked to me get a MC, but then i wasn't sick, i should be responsible for my doings, since i decide for myself to play thruout the night, i should go to work as usual, agree?

don't know why, but my parents didn't scold me for not going home at night but my mom kept calling to ask me to drive safely and my dad wanted to help me drive the car back to my auntie house.. its not like they don't care, but they really trust me alot, that i know what i m doing... so glad to have them as my parents (ok, not like as if i can choose)

anyway, my body was really getting weak n cold later that day, asked auntie whether i can skip my break n go home earlier.. she said ok.. but my friend ( yes, my friend) complained to auntie that she shldn't allow this, its not fair, if like this, she also want to go home earlier to eat dinner. i heard that, was really disappointed.. I THOUGHT YOU WERE MY FRIEND.. you shld understand how tired i was, u cld see for urself, but u merely feel its unfair to you..

at that moment, i nearly cried out... but i control myself, this matter is not worth my tears..

to me, once i trust someone, i will totally allow that person to enter my world, my heart.. what she did really make me confused and disappointed. shldn't friends be more understanding and give more leeway? i really was very disappointed in her... so i told auntie its ok, nvm, don't wanna cause her more troubles, i can endure...

gary ( my colleague) knew abt it, and tried to cheer me up with food =)

really appreciate his effort! my friend made me sad and my colleague made me happy?! shldn't it be another way round? i really don't understand.

last day of work today, actually sales din shoot up. but can't be bothered until we were one hundred odd to earning $7/hr for the week. suddenly everyone became very awake and push very hard to sell. there was this funny uncle who asked me to bluff his wife that i just took out a new piece under the table when it was the display piece, bcoz his wife din wan to buy the display piece.. first time got customer asked me to do that.. haha...

said gdbye to auntie and neighbouring shops ppl..

actually now i feel abit she bu de when actually i can't wait for work to end before today...

4 days more to go.. alot more to prepare and pack.. i m sooo lazy...

2007-06-15T00:02:00.000+08:00

bored.. waiting for my mother in the changing room... yup, so me and my evil twin had decided to take a photo together =)

bored @ work.. introducing my two wacky colleagues.. one had decided that one pair of shades is never enough.. why not wear more, UV protection for the whole face...

another found out that this polarised sunnies has another use! as goggles when diving.. look, we found a breathing tube also!

it was chiaming's birthday on 11june. happened to be my off day also, and chiaming spent her big day with me and jieru! we watched 'legend of the sea'.. well.. nv like cartoon, it lasted for an hour only, simple storyline.. so i actually fall asleep twice during the show and yawn at least 10 times.. haha.. had my late lunch and their dessert at hk cafe.. jr's treat =) delusion dun jealous ar..

went to take neoprint afterwards.. nv pose anything funny coz there wasn't enuf space.. but had fun decorating the photos.. haha, only with them, i seem pro at decorating..

shopped a little at heeren afterwards.. yeah, very happy, i got good bargains! bought a tee and a cargo pants ( for my upcoming trip la, if not i wun spend wan)... jr bought sth as well.. and we walked til 8+pm, alr very nan de.. delusion dun jealous ar..

anyway, really hope that we can go out more often =)))

our crepes at cine B1.. only 3.90 each, quite ok leh the price, but the food also quite ok only.. the display pics have at least thrice more fruits than those served...

2007-06-11T11:51:00.000+08:00

yeah! just finished my job marathon! standing for 5 consecutive days x 12 hours! birkenstock are really good shoes, my feet don't feel sore and my legs don't feel tired!
have been eating chai fan continuously for 4 days! it can be sickening even though the dishes are not the same everyday... no choice, must save $$!
this week sales was good! managed to hit the second target! shld be earning 8/hr i hope...

gonna enjoy my 3 off days now! to settle most of the things i need for my trip...
today is chiaming's birthday! we are gonna watch movie later! =))

ok lar, nothing much to write alr... tschüs!

2007-06-05T14:53:00.000+08:00

lazy tuesday afternoon.. guess what i am doing?

surfing net, gathering info abt europe

roll my chair back and lie on the bed when i get abit tired.

enough rest, back to surfing net..

how "NICE"

going overseas may be fun, but its troublesome to get PREPARED!

somehow i begin to feel excited yet worried as the day is nearing ( 21june )

i can't believe what is gonna happen
i can't believe a few months ago, i actually submitted that form
i can't believe i actually receive an email telling me that i got in
i can't believe i actually went to buy air ticket, train ticket with new made friends
i can't believe that i am going europe

but i m worried about my own safety
i don't wanna meet a thief or pickpocket
i don't wanna lose my things
i don't wanna get involve in any kind of accident
i don't wanna fall sick

i want to be back on national day and don't mind losing a few kgs from those 'hardship'.. haha

went sentosa yesterday, into underwater world, still quite the same as years ago..
but of course i get happy to see the sea animals, especially those i learn in biodiversity class..
nautilus, horseshoe crab, brittle star, starfish..
and i saw something interesting, the 'sea angel' under family gastropoda ( same as snails), flapping their 'wings' in water, so cute!
there is a reason why the animals look like the way they are, adaptation thru evolution!
then explore abit around sentosa, half of sentosa has construction work going on?!
and i seriously cannot accept the extremely short beach at sentosa.. i was dining at sakae sushi and i see ppl tanning just 5 metres away from me?!

2007-05-31T12:58:00.000+08:00

went settlers' cafe at holland v on tues to catch up and give choukit a early birthday surprise. yes! we managed to surprise him! he totally got no idea whats going on when a cake is served, 2 big candles lit up, and photos are taken.

joke of the day is when we play a game whereby we must pick a card which has a alphabet and name a thing under the chosen category.. shimin got a Y and the topic was fruits/vegetable. guess what she said?

YELLOW BANANA! hahaha... and she asked can or not can or not? we were alr rolling on the floor la....

i got a U, Unripe banana can or not? hahaha.. funny la...

my parents, cousin and auntie came to bugis to fetch me after work again ytd. hehe..

i think the old ppl fall in love with crystal jade bread. coz closing time got 40% off...

then my cousin and me went to THE ONE at meritus mandarin after sending them home. i dun like that place, makes me smell like as if i went clubbing. stinky..

we had to order f&b up til 60bucks. we ordered satay, seaweed chicken, taiwan sausage, but we only ate like 1/4 of them -_-'' super waste $

then we went to 'eat wind'. my cousin let me drive. we wanted to go east coast, then we figured the way there but it was no problem for us, coz we always follow the adults around sg in car since young.

it was also my first time driving on expressway, on my favourite expressway ECP! whenever my mum n me wanna cab down to my grandma hse at bedok, we wld go by ecp rather than cte, even though cte is cheaper. i love the scenery down ecp =)

so there was just 2 girls who got license for less than a year driving along ecp at 3am...

lucky for me to have light traffic coz i was alr very tired and cldn't really keep monitoring the mirrorS.

when will i ever learn to park a car properly? hmm..

my off day again today. chose to accompany my family and not work an extra day. somehow i felt happy when i asked my parents shld i work on vesak day and they asked me to rest =)

sooo... had lunch w grandma, very long since she ate out.

how come when ppl grow older, they look more like children? my ah ma always have that blur look on her face which i think is very cute..

then we all went to my uncle's new condo. their gym is on level 24 wan. then fool ard with the equipment. very long nv see my cousin even though we live in the same neighbourhood. my auntie used to drive me to their hse to play with them during school holiday ( i wish i can rmb wat exactly we did, memory tooo poor alr) , then we all grow up. and now, he is just so different! sec 3, 1.85m (still growing can -_-''''), chinese high student, model-like stick-like legs, more fashionable hairstyle. and i just got nothing to say to him... i don't play computer games wat!

were we really that close? can he rmb those childhood things? hmmm.....

2007-05-28T22:42:00.000+08:00

wahaha.. i really am a cheapo..
i juz wanna hao lian that today i got a free uzumaki ice cream AGAIN..

from the malay girl but that guy la. i alr broke his heart.. haha...
coz i help her out with translation. nice girl hor? gave me her free ice cream of the day.. hehe..

i tried the new bubble milk tea ice cream. she gave me ALOT of that mini pearl which i didn't finish.. hehe.. don't tell her ar..
i still think the liquid version of bubble milk tea is nicer.. one of those thing that can perk me up, instantly makes me happy. really! i had one cup today! milk tea rocks!

anyway, today auntie didn't come. so we totally can't be bothered to serve people.. juz chatting away, sampling food from the new stall beside us. we kept looking at the food and commenting how yummy it looks la.. i must say its very fun to "don;t take work seriously" and sinful to have food stalls all around us! u noe what i am saying if u visit me at work before...

surprisingly, sales is not the worst of all days. still managed to sell a few of the second most expensive polarised sunnies. ppl are just amazed by the FISH. haa.. wanna know what is it about? come visit me la..

finally tml is my offf day....

now many ppl know my secret.. am i really serious about it? hmmmm...

2007-05-26T23:37:00.000+08:00

today's sales is bad. not gd enuf for a weekend. but can't be bothered alr la. since can't hit target, lose that motivation to serve til the end alr. talked extra much today at work..

u know why?

first, gary crap alot at work today, chatted more than usual.. even in front of customer, very bad image i know..

second, saw adeline! catch up quite a fair bit.. so long no see lor hor adeline... see u har, will miss the ZTE time. good pay, no work, good timing.. but this year can't work in there alr.. not in sg.. i was totally talking to her for quite some time and didn't even check whether there was customer. haha..

third, jiaji came to eat lunch with me! thanks ar! ya.. we chatted abt .... i really told u what i was thinking hor.. but dun anyhow tell anyone har, later they got the wrong idea of me.. u still haven tell me the secret of man leh...

lastly, my parents, auntie and cousin came to visit me and my auntie supported me by buying a pair of sunglasses (at special price) hehe..

if only everyday i will see friends and can chat as long as i want. haha...

just check my exam results. did better this sem than previous one. but not enuf... and NOT HAPPY with german... i seriously thot i would do better than what i got now.... but there is a surprise in the grades la. hehe..
some frens din do very well, makes me sad too...
lets work harder for the future sems okok??

2007-05-25T14:10:00.000+08:00

its my off day again (but still have to give tuition.. =( )! shiok.. 3 days off in a week...

yesterday at work was fun! had fun trying out the sunnies and taking photo... there is one pair that i like... buy for me?

while i was daydreaming, a girl brought one ice cream cone (green tea) over and said its extra so she is giving me...its that jap ice cream, the whole stall look greenie wan...

then i was very puzzled la.. so nice ar? i also nv talk to them b4... then i half-jokingly said why don't bring 2 more over for the auntie and cl..

then i don't dare to eat, because i don't know why i got a free ice cream?!

then auntie went over then the other malay girl asked her whats my name and age... she said the other guy in the stall wanted to know me -_-''

well.. cl called him "pang di" and auntie also was very straightforward said 'tell him its not possible la..' so i shall not elaborate..

but i was very pai seh.. for the rest of the day, i tried to avoid facing that stall and ate my ice cream with back facing them.. so i had to walk backwards to serve customer.. damn pai seh de lar!

i didn't thank him properly bcoz he also don't dare to walk near me..

omg, how to continue working like that..

but it was good bcoz i wanted to try green tea flavour ice cream but too expensive.. but its not very nice though...

after work, drank cream of mushroom soup that auntie got free from western stall in foodcourt with cl... we drank til VERY SICk of it... and its fattening... cl ta bao the rest home.. i think i wouldn't drink mushroom soup for at least one week!

i thought i would be able to shed some fat from working.. BUT well... i love getting freebies =)

walked to esplanade after that.. took some silly pics... and enjoy the breeze..

but somehow that place makes my heart feels lonely... hmm....

walked further down to take bus/mrt home at lao pa sa... so in total, we stood for 12hours today and walked from bugis to lao pa sa... power right?

photos... specially for my readers only.. not in friendster...

2007-05-21T01:06:00.000+08:00

its like the beginning of weekend for me, coz i am off on mon n tues! yippee!

work is alright so far, sales are picking up... hope to be able to reach the target some day although i feel that they are cheating us with some sky high target...

actually sometimes customers will cheat us, saying they will come back after withdrawing money but they never, making us pack the sunglass into pouches for nothing... i wouldn't curse and swear at them but rather, learn how to be a good consumer, good customer, just say i don't want or i will be back if i want, rather than coming up with some lousy excuse for not buying... i guess most of the sales ppl would prefer things this way..

just a few days of work, i feel that i am more 'open up' somehow someway.. especially so when communicating with salesgirl when shopping, perhaps coz we are in the same field ( temporary only hor).. learn to take things easier like jokes, thats how i earn my $10 durian from uncle.. just by talking crap here n there... maybe only i would learn things like that because i m very quiet girl ma...

there are also some just act not interested and come back afterwards.. today i got a 10cts 'tip' because a guy just gave me $20 and walked off before i could key into the cashier.. yea lar, whatever it is, i just treat it as a tip to be happy =)

anyway, i m more sure of one thing.. i LOVE to serve people.. be it young or old.. this job reminds me of my first job as customer service officer at community centre. all those cute ah gong ah ma that i met at there... hope they are still living healthily this year :P
it just makes a job feel less like a job.. ( working with frens also play a part! ) i m more able to understand why some people say they feel like they are not working even for a day!

oh well, i m just a very bo liao person who would think of such a minor thing such as a temp job ( like in this case) from many angles.. to explore deeper into an issue... and i am always telling my mother to look at things differently, like as if i m the mother.. i don't know why i am like that either... yaa, so i m like the oddball in the family, always voting for the 'opposition party'

so much so about work.. i want to blog about something else also....

on 18/05/07 i finally went clubbing... i 'gave my first time' to dxo.. its not very nice, so little crowd (i just feel that other places shld be better from other ppl's description n photos!) anyway... i didn't choose that place but it just happened to be there la.... actually all the while i wanted to go have a look how is clubbing like.. but never had the right chance even though no permission is needed... not with the right crowd or not the right time..

anyway, went in around 10+pm and it was boooring.. just ppl drinking n mostly middle aged.. then band started singing, still very boooring... so we drank abit and took photo meanwhile.. den crowd started to fill in the dancefloor. so we went down........
my friends (first 3 months jc classmates =) )started dancing.. i.... was... standing like a wooden block.. it just feel so awkward. dance also paiseh, don't dance also paiseh ( is your first time the same? ) so i just dance la. haiya... can't care so much whether i look like some robot dancing or like elderly practising taiji..
but starting was still paiseh, i kept bursting into laughter because there were 4 of us, and we danced in a box shape. so we are facing each other....
then some guys would just dance closer and closer den stick their front to girl's back.. ( ohh.. its liddat wan ar... hmm..) but my frens pulled me away and then i 'danced' (was i dancing?) at a safe spot.. so i m still wondering what the guy was doing 'behind the girl's back' ... yaaa, i am that 'innocent' la... really wondering anyway...
went home pretty early coz i had work the next day =( how sad.. couldn't fall asleep that night, maybe coz i didn't drink enough alcohol and 'dance' it off... but it makes me more happy the next day when working, i don't know why also....

that was my first clubbing experience.. definitely gonna remember that night for life...

2007-05-15T13:16:00.000+08:00

i wrote alot ytd, but was brought to an error page after i pressed publish -_-''

let me summarise then..

went to clement (my jc class chairman) 21st birthday chalet on saturday. all the regulars of the class outing came, as usual!=) well, actually 3/4 of the class are regulars, 1/4 of the class are premium regulars. i guess i fall under regular regular. haha..
had fun, of course! play card games, xbox, volleyball (i don't like), arcade, buffet dinner.

will nv forget taking shower at the pool toilet, and we, the girls, had only ONE cleanser, ONE shampoo, ONE body wash. so we keep passing around, very funny! haha.. michelle felt sad for my 'crabtree n evelyn' body wash, only 1/4 left, but its ok, a gift anyway...

will nv forget playing the card games throughout the night, with me starting and ending the penalty. and who keep making me drink, and i made that person drink in return. haha.. and who got drunk and high, keep talking rubbish and waving his hand about. haha..

didn't sleep at all and waited for the rest to rest enough to go breakfast, then its home sweet home... i m waiting for the other sulphates birthday chalet next year!

if i have a birthday party, will YOU come?

anyway, started work yesterday. was lucky to be able to work with hb and cl. save those troubles of breaking some ice, haha...

i thought i could never do sales, i can't talk. but surprisingly, sales is manageable for me. i don't know how. I just help people to choose sunglasses and say its nice, how it suits their face and clothings (ok, sometimes it does not match perfectly...)
but of course, the happiest moment is when seeing people taking out money, the most stressful part is keying in the cashier and getting the change..
stood for near 12 hours and my heels were sooo pain (was wearing flats).. i tiptoed to the bus stop! need to get some comfortable shoes, any recommendation?
one of the few times my parents will ask if i m tired after work.. asking me whether i m hungry, want any food.. so cute of them!
having my off days this week on tues n wed.. but it wld means i gotta work all the way from thu to sun! ahhh... have to eat alone also =(

come find me @ bugis B1 outside food junction

2007-05-15T01:04:00.000+08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLo1USJIkgY

watch this! guaranteed laughter

2007-05-14T23:02:00.000+08:00

went to clement's chalet on saturday. got to see some of the 'irregulars' from our usual class outing.. =) was happy to see everyone after close to 5 months! wow.. can't believe its that LONG! spent the afternoon playing card games and everyone got so HOT! literally..
then rest, played xbox instead. my first time playing that but i don't fall in love with it.. fun meh?

waiting extra long for the buffet dinner to commence. i only had a bowl of cereal throughout the day =X i used my treasurer authority to cut queue for food! haha...

after which we went arcade, its becoming one of my favourite place to go! played drums, as usual, we split the drums into 3/4 players responsible for one or two drums. but we can only managed the basic stage :S
basketball in teams of 2! jiaji was very lihai! he scored 400+, broke 2 records for two machines already!
daytona-ed. i came in 2nd out of 6 can! i can't believe myself too. i used to suck at it wan leh.. maybe the machine spoil la hor...

went back to the chalet and we started playing card games with penalty. nicely, i was the first to get penalty and the last to bottoms up! the games were quite fun, still rmb the part me n darius were so 'lucky' to get the right card to cause each other to receive the penalty. but the highlight of the night was ... gs got drunk and high! he only drank 1 +1/4 coffee cup of vodka mixed then he cmi alr.. its really funny to see someone get drunk, all those rubbish that he said, and can't rmb any. haha...
didn't sleep at all and waited for the rest to wake up for breakfast.. the feeling of half the class squeezing in a room, 'sleeping' together was quite good i feel, i mean most of the outings would be going for movies, dinner and such. but in a chalet, we spend more time together playing, and getting comfortable.. i like it.. m waiting for sulphates birthday chalet next year huh!

started work together! stood for close to 12 hours, legs are numb already loh.. but other than that, sales was quite manageable for me. i love to serve people, serious! i like to give comments and most of them listen to me, hehe... but of course, the most enjoyable part is seeing them taking money out.. wahahahaha... but sales is something that i will not do again, its too tiring for the legs, office work makes the same money, and is much easier and relax...

anyway, if you are free, come down to bugis B1 to visit me. perhaps accompany me for lunch/dinner? <3<3

2007-05-11T20:54:00.001+08:00

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