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InTernationaL DAy!!

2005-09-19T15:32:00.000+08:00

I'm not realli sure wat happened... but today kinda seems to be like an international kinda day... hahaz suddenly all the overseas ppl start coming online and can finally talk on MSN (or maybe it's becuz i am seldom online... hahhaz) Well skipped sch today cuz (not becuz i overslept..... dun think i dun noe wat u guys are thinking...) but i juz lazy to wake up..... i woke up at 7.15 am but den the weather was so cooling i decided to slp in somemore.... and thus at 11am i msg py to tell her i not coming in liao...

anyway tml is presentation so i needed to prepare for it..... now the AES is giving mi a headache.... hafta come up wif a 4 page or more webby to describe our project.... wAh... mi IT is like the worst lar.. and u can tell from the way i dun even design mi blog lor... hahhaz

but lucky i finished up both of them liao and now i can start on designing the blog... hahhaz

wEll, this week has been fruitful bah.... was supposed to go malaysia wif py family but den later becuz of presentation, we decided not to go... next week den go... we wanted to go in there to buy DVDs..... cuz they got sell serial drama de.... hahaz.... and it's rather cheap too....

sun had a reunion lunch at mi grandma house and den a dinner at the family temple.... hahaz... but the food at the temple sucks lar... so didn't eat much...

these few weks hor...dun noe wat is wrong wif the ppl here in evergreen... they seem to start taking up the sport of tennis.... everyday also got full booking and wat is worst is tat they are vying wif mi for the court lor.... they wake up at like 6 plus am to go book the court and when i go book in thee morning, it's all gone... wat assholes right??

well tml's the presentation liao and finally haf results to show to these ppl... hahahz hope can get better results this time and get distinction for this FYP...if not i realli dun noe wat i will do to these ppl lar... hahahz...

okok shall not talk much now... will update again as soon as i get more news..... lolz... tataz..

tWo weeks and Counting!!!

2005-09-13T12:57:00.000+08:00

yEs.... it's finally coming to an end.... this final year project is finally coming to an end.... but there's a twist.... another presentation PLUS report to do and it has to be at least 40 pages long lor... and it has to be done in two weks time....

came back from sentosa on sat wif a tan and a slightly orange face..... and for the last 3 days i have been seeing the same ppl over and over again..... Kx and Yp....

i am kinda having some writer's block now..... so i shall stop here.... hahahz...

wAh... sIngapore's bIrthdAT aNd mi bAskEtbaLl skillS improve...

2005-08-10T00:26:00.000+08:00

well wEll look at all the effort tat i haf put into playing basketball and finally i am seeing some improvement.....hahahz... i spent many a evenings playing basketball for at least 30 min or so doing layouts and shooting hoops and guess wat.... it FINALLY paid off.... lolz...

toDay as i was playing basketball.... as the parade was on-going on television.... which seems abt the same every single year.... the ball could actually enter the hoop many times and its not tyco.... i can hear u from back there.... its called SKILL.... WAhahahz....

dEn most surprisingly.... mi neighbour bought a Bluetooth adaptor.... haha so now i can upload songs from mi com to the hp liao isn't tat great...??

wEll sad to say in another few hours or so, i will haf to get up and go to sch... which is quite sad cuz mi sister is staying at home as it is a sch holiday... hOw come we dun get such special treatment.....??

getting a bit bored doing the same old stuff every single day... RNA extraction den Mass spectrophotometry and den gel electrophoresis den back to square when there's no result.... and dun even start blaming our skills.... and techniques... cuz we alreadi double checked and there's nth wrong juz tat the reagents are all expired and wAH.... every now and then haf to repeat the same old experiment..... so boring... and even after we finish our work we still cannot leave the lab.... haf to wait till its past 4.30 pm....

this weekend was spent going for movie marathon and going to church... and this week's service was actually quite interesting... talking abt the revival of the church.... quite inspirational....

wEll nth much has realli changed since i am back from china.... i guess 3 months is too short a time... hehehe... next time i will go for the 6 months de.... lolz.... tat is provided i haf a chance lar....

okok dun wanna blog anymore find tat i am getting more and more lazy liao..... well working on finding a nice blogskin right now.... so dun haf to wait long b4 u will see a new facelife on this webby.... hahahz.... tataz den....

LoCked OuT oF thE sTupiD lAb....

2005-08-02T23:13:00.000+08:00

yEs, u heard mi rite.... i goT loCked out oF the lAb whIch i Was doing eXperiment iN... and iT's so unFair loR.... tHis afTernoOn juz as i was getting ready to step into the laB to cast mi gEL.... i puLled down the handle bar and to mi horror, it was loCked.... dooRs on both sides of the room wEre loCked.... being amazed as this was the first time i experienced a lab being locked up at 2pM in the middle of the day juz after lunch.....

nAturally bEing the stUdious student i WaS.... i had to ask the door to be opened in order for mi experiment to be carried out..... ALL mi reagents were INSIDE lo..... i knocked on the doOr of the TSO office aka staff room and the answer i goT was "yES, it's locked up until further notice cUZ it's messy...."

wAh.... wat can i say...?? i left the room and pondered upon mi next few options.... 1) Remake all mi reagents which would cost mi an hour and it means going home late.... 2) gO complain to the teacher-in-charge.... and 3) bAng the door down and juz carry on wif mi experiments....

naturally the third option stayed where it came from... in the mind... and the second option seemed more sensible.... so i searched for the teacher who was in charge of tat lab.... (btw the lab no. is 710... anyone wans to go buY 4D is fine by mi.... buT if this number comes out... i wan a share....) wHen i haf seeked her out, she seemed even more helpless than mi and seemed to be at the beck and call of the TSO whom the last time i checked was earning WAY much lower a salary than her....

aNd tHe bloody TSO even gave us a dressing down abt not keeping the lab clean..... we even volunteered to clean up the mess in the lab... ( which by the way was not caused by mi..... maybe the bin was our fault..... ) bUt all he said was tat he had enough and he was locking it up for one week or until he has the time to go in and clear up the mess before opening it up again....

i almost strangled him right there and den.... except tat i didn't cuz mi mentor was there and also becuz he's too far away lar.... =P

iN the end at least he allowed us to remove mi reagent from the lab and allow mi to carry on wif mi experiment but nonetheless, time was wasted on the dressing down and negotiating part...

yeS we did try to negotiate wif him bUt he juz won't bloody hell listen and hear from the seniors haf to go "por" him before he is willing to open the lab... wan us to go buY strawberry milk for him for breakfast... and pY said tat more likely we will buy hIm a strawberry COW..... lolz...

wEll now i haf to work in the level 6 lab where i haf not much to work wif... and left wif no choices.... haf to do things the hard way....

last i heard he was going to close the lab indefinitely..... so tml we haf to go apologise in a big grp, those who are using the lab..... and see if his mood is getting better... and if he is den he might open the lab for us to use again but i'm guessing tat it won't happen wifout another long and naggy dressing down again.....

wEll enough abT toDay tIme to update aBt last week.... eVeryday haf been working up till 4.30pm at least.... monday to friday nad worst still no pay, even worst than china... we are realli becoming slaves.... even if there is no experiment to carry out, we still haf to stay in the lab till 5 pm den we can go... i think py is right... this place is like a jail except we haf to pay for our own food and accomodation (sCh fEes)

real tired by the time i come back.... juz wanna wait for the weekend to come along and slp tilll afternoon... every start of the week is a torture.... and the middle of the week is worst knowing tat i haf alreadi done nth for the first half of the week....

tHis is more and more becoming like a complain eNtry as i am sure is like many of mi other entries.... hahahz but wat to do?? so much things to say and so little time..... nth interesting happening right now except playing tennis and basketball is so fun ever since i came back from China....

aNd watching anime every night is definitely an enjoyment i look forward to everyday.... okok muz get back to watching naime liao.... nItez and take care everyone....

dUn WAnNa nEgleCt tHis sPAce agAin!!!

2005-07-25T21:52:00.000+08:00

hahahz... bEen such a long tIme since i last bLoggED liao... so must come visit it once in a while to clear out the spider webs.... dEn all of u should also do the same lor.... hElp mi clear some spider webS too.... work together den can finish faster.... =P

wEll back from chIna for more than one wEek liao aNd boy has a hurricane juz tore thru mi liFe.... everything is happening in a bLur... i still dun noe wat realli has happened.... thE tRip to ChinA seems lightyears aGo.... and eVerydAy is rushing pAst mi towards mY fiRst Final YEar ProjecT (FYP) pResenTation.....

nOw eVeryday haf to report back to sch from 9-5pm to do FYP even if there's nth to do also cannot go home muz sit there and read up on the FYP protocol and notes and journals until 5 den can go hoMe.... thIs kinda life is killing mi... SEND MI BACK TO CHINA!!!!!

okok Juz kiDding i dun wanna go back there alone lor..... its much more fun here.... buT juz tat things are getting boring since everyday haf to go back to sch and come home so late... dun even haf the energy after sch to go out... feel so sian after 5pm... dun even noe where to go.... somewhere near also so sianz....

so haf been spending most of mi time playing tennis and basketball at home.... juz downstairs... so finally can make some use of the facilities.... so now everyday find ppl to play tennis wif.... hahaz....

wEll, lost mi bag when i first arrived back in Singapore... but luckily managed to find back the one missing bag after one week...... so now can start to give out all the gifts which i bought....

met up wif many of mi friends liao and gave away alot of gifts.... muz meet up wif the sec sch ppl sometime soon or they will say i am very eVIL de..... hahahz...

NAPFA juz ended and as usual i failed the 2.4 lor.... so sad and also the pull-up lar.... hahhaz... so muz start to run liao.... RUN AWAY FROM NAPFA tat is....!!!!

sO busy these few days hardly haf time to touch the com at all... juz spend most of mi time on the TV tats all.... lolz...

some of them are leaving for Aust soon for Attachment.... so envious of them... can go until so far and the place is beautiful.... i also wanna GO!!!!

bUt muz be CONTENT WIF WAT U HAF!!! tats wat mi mother always say..... hahhaz so mUz learn from her lor... and even after i leave Singapore for 2 months plus liao... mi mum's bad habit haven't changed lor.... sTill wan mi to massage for her.... and it's become worst... now she wans mi to massage double the time to make up for the lost times..... lolz....

i thot she would haf kicked this bAd addiction of hers while i am gone...... bUt it seems to haf gotten wOrst.....

okok not to think aBT tat.... everyday feeding and rearing zebrafish haf made mi feel like a fishmonger..... aNd worst still i haf bEen killing embryos and maybe tml will start killing fishes liao cuz embryos too small.... mUZ eat vegetarian food tml liao... zao so much nie..... =P

okok dun wanna type liao... hand pain... fingers also lor.... tataz...

pReParE mOre hAngErS!!!

2005-07-10T16:49:00.000+08:00

yes, u've heard mi right..... i need more hangers than ever b4... hahhaz cuz this time i realli bought alot of things liao.... and most of it is FOR ME!!!! mUahahah....

wEll sorri for not updating the blog so often but i haf stopped work since last tuesday and so couldn't go to the office to use the com.... but now here i am at the cybercafe updating it so yeah.....

this is definitelY the last blog enTrY for Mi..... In China of course..... hahhaz can't wait to go back home and enjoy all the things tat i haf bought provided i can cross customs cuz u see i think mi luggage is overloaded liao.... each person can onli send 20KG worth of cargo in the plane and 7kG worth of hand carry but hor where got enuff esp when we stay here for 2 months plus and shop every weekend.....?? hahhaz so in the end i haf 2 things to send to cargo and 3 hand carry most prob add up altogether already more than 30kG but i hope i can cross customs if not haf to stAy In China liao... hahhaz

well let mi update u in wats been going on the last few days.... wE went shopping as usual but this time it was different..... one day alone i could spend 500 rmb..... wAh the best shopping experience EVER... hahhaz buying things for ppl and miself could be so satisfying.... so tats y now i am rather pathetic lar left only less than 100 rmb.... dun noe if i can survive on this amt or not.... hahahz...

bUt boi am i lucky mAn.... juz last wednesday, went shopping and spent 300rmb on shoes and jacket..... at a sports shop advertised by TWINS.... hahahz den for every 100rmb spent u get a chance to scratch a sure win card and so i got 3 cards..... the first two cards were for socks and the last one when i scratched finished liao, everyone in the shop started screaming.... i got shocked at their reaction and den they told mi i won a HP.... motorola de.... hahhaz....

and i was the first one at the shop to win such a big prize.... it was 2nd prize and the HP cost abt 998rmb..... hahha so i am gonna go back to singapore and sell it away.... can get back some money.... LOLZ....

aNother tWo days and i'll be back in Singapore liao..... haf alreadi bought all the things tat i need as well as all the anime stuff so dun worry abt it hor ppl.... can't get the full set of Naruto headbands but got 4 so should be enuff bah.... hahhaz...

okok can't talk anymore liao.... tataz....

SeaFood hEre I cOmE!!!

2005-07-01T17:35:00.000+08:00

Hahaz... blogging here while waiting for the office phone to be avail.... wanna call back home.... it's a hot day here in Beijing, 39 degrees outside lor, lucky our lab installed a new air-con so it's more cooling and i dun wanna leave the lab so soon le.... hahahz

they say if our house too hot can come over here to slp in the lab even cuz now even the air here is hot.... this is the first time i ever experienced heat waves..... and it does come in waves, hot air moving around u, so uncomfortable.... so maybe if one of these days we cannot take it liao, we will come over to the lab and slp wif the air-con on.....

we haf a foldable bed and a small pillow here so maybe the rest of them can slp on the floor ^_^

we are going to 北戴河 tml le and onli the 3 of us are going cuz the rest of them dun wanna go..... so maybe we will haf a great time there and take alot of fotos.... hahhaz and most imptly, we are going for the all-u-can-eat seafood buffet, if they haf.... hahhaz and wouldn't it be great?? finally can eat seafood.....

okok the phone is avail liao..... so i shall get back to impt business first.... leisure comes second.... =P tataz....

bLoGgiNG iN 华文！！！

2005-07-01T15:46:00.000+08:00

哈哈，现在没事干就打算用华文来 type blog.....　我的华文是不是进步了？？　刚刚吃完饭，所以觉得很饱．最近挺忙的但是觉得一点也不累．可能因为在这里我还是过得挺开心得．逛了许多北京市的地方和名胜古迹所以觉得这次来中国是很值得的．虽然起初不是很习惯但现在回想起来，我也不知道我是怎么傲过来地．但是都要回到新加坡了，所以也觉得特别高兴．

我也不要再多说了，要回到工作岗位上了，不然的话今晚又要加班了。^_^

2005-06-28T17:49:00.000+08:00

wHeW!!! a whoLe wEek oF Off dAys!!!

2005-06-28T16:54:00.000+08:00

Hahaz... juz managed to squeeze a few days out of mi attachment...... will be let off next mon on request when we are supposed to be let off onli on friday..... hahhaz but we told them we need to go shopping and to pack up all our stuff.... so hahahz.... which is the truth.....

will be going to Gold coast this friday.... but of course it is in China.... it is near Beijing but at the coast there.... where they are selling seafood cheaply and they even haf resorts there.... so we will be staying there for abt 2 nights or so....

FINALLY we get to slp in a hotel for the first time since we step into China..... and we even get to see the beach and seaside.... we will be going wif the ppl tat we haf met here.... most prob RS they all won't be going..... we haven't realli tell them yeT......

So it'll be our liTtle secret yeah....??? hahahz... *winkz

we will tell them on thursday or something bah..... wanna realli enjoy miself and not see some irritating ppl's face.... hahhaz...

will go shopping on the last 4 days too.... but maybe more packing up to do than shopping.... planning to but a backpack those which hitchhikers carry abd a wireless keyboard and a speaker set.... dun noe how much i will spend....

but the last i checked, we can onli carry 20kg/pax which i will definitely overload cuz i came here wif 21.7kg lor.... so maybe haf to throw away alot of things.....

will be treating the ppl at work lunch this friday at Guo ling... will be knocking off soon... finally finish all mi work for today..... so i will go home early today....

ate char siew rice yesterday but it didn't realli taste as well as the one in Singapore..... and they dun even haf the sauce to go along wif it... so SAd lo....

wEll welL nth much to say liao.... "attachment" almost over le.... muz say goodbye to everything here and start "afresh" back in Singapore.... but i dun even know for sure wat time to report back at NYP on 14th July morning...... hahahz and 1 day is too short a time to rest and recuperate from our trip to China.....

sTupid sch dun wanna give us at least one week... so too bad.... okok gotta go le... talked too much liao..... tataz.... will take lots of pic at the Gold coast de..... hahhaz...

15 dAys aNd cOuTinG!!!!

2005-06-27T12:29:00.000+08:00

HahaZ.... sorri it took mi so long to update... haf been a while since i haf been to the cybercafe to use the internet..... cuz it's so far and rather lazy so i rather use the office com to blog....

wEll this weekend we went shopping again lar as usual.... cuz got so much things to buy and i spent a total of 600 rmb juz this weekend on shopping..... but at least i haf got ALMOST everything for everyone liao..... except for miself..... hahhaz so i am going shopping again this weekend to start shopping for miself......

the last update i mentioned tat we got to know a few of the China ppl here from the fruit stalls.... when i say a few it's actually an understatement.... hahhaz... we actually got to know everyone selling fruits on the street outside our house.... and even the ppl who buy fruits from there....

we spend alot of our evenings juz sitting at the fruit stall eating fruits and talking to them.... quite interesting.... they tell us almost everything abt themselves and we are even thinking of getting birthday presents for them.... cuz it's like they dun even celebrate their birthdays....

To them it is juz another day of their lives... as compared to them, i think we are REALLY REALLY fortunate to be able to celebrate our birthdays and even receive gifts.... we are also making friendship bands for all of them, as suggested by amelia so she is starting a friendship band making class right here in China....

teaching us how to make them and we are rushing like mad to finish them on time..... will realli miss this bunch of ppl when i leave here.... kinda reluctant to leave China now..... hahhaz but of course going home is still on mi mind and not tat i dun miss the ppl back at home.... but it's juz tat after getting all familiar wif everything here, now we haf to go back to things which are totally "foreign" to us now....

realli will be kinda of a big change for all of us.... from slping in bunks to slping alone back at home.... will be quite a big change... hahahz and waking up to see onli u urself in the bedroom after 3 months of sharing a room.....

in the 3 months tat i haf been here, i haf always been waking up thinking tat i am in Singapore slping on mi bed onli to find miself staring into the ceiling of our China "apartment", wonder if tat will happen back in Singapore???

realli can't start to imagine miself coming to China... this would never haf happen if not for attachement.... bUt it has opened mi eyes to so many things and tat to cherish watever u haf before u first....

okok supervisor back liao... muz get back to work and time for mi to go eat lunch too... found this great place selling char siew rice..... so muz go try it out now... lolz.... tataz....

sIck oVeR thE wEekEnd.....

2005-06-23T13:36:00.000+08:00

wHeW.... bOy izzit hOT over here in China.... it's almost sizzling over here can cook egg right in our house lor..... lucky i juz bought a new cheap fan.... hahahz... the rest of them "copp" from their labs de.... so good...

wEll.... fEll sick over this weekend... and start to realise how nice it is to be at home... wif the air-con and everything u are all too familiar wif rather than strange things and food which u cannot eat at all....

they dun even sell porridge here.... it has never been great to fall sick esp not when u are in a foreign land... had nobody to look after u and no one to cook for u.... which was rather pathetic... juz had to eat watever was avail.....

I even had to take 2 days leave to recover... hahhaz... so i onli came in on wed but the prob was when i came in on Wed, the new guy haven't even reported for work... so weird de.... come to Beijing so long liao still haen't come over to work.... the rest of us are thinking wat the hell he is trying to do....

wEnt to the Shi jie gong yuan and Xiu Shui Jie over the weekend.... the former was a place filled with miniature versions of landmarks all ard the world like Big Ben and Sydney Opera House.... so it was rather fun there... but the weather was too hot liao... we all looked like baked potatoes when we came back.... even our legs had 2 tones.... hahhaz

dEn on sun we went shopping at xiu shui jie..... hahahz too many tourists there le... spoilt the market there lor.... all ofthem buying clothes at exorbitant prices plus even the shopkeeper also dare to tell us tat kind of price.... 260 for a piece of Nike blouse..... fake one some more....

and the caucasian dun even bother to slash the price and pay in US dollars even... and the shopkeeper stilll say tat she cannot earn if sell at this price... OMG!!! and ask us to go look ard if wanna buy any cheaper.... wAh they realli know how to do business lor....

they also very good at acting.... when occasional got tourists slash the price till abt 130rmb, still ex lor when can buy at 40 rmb.... the shoppkeeper still can act and put on a frowning face and say tat onli the customer can smile cuz buy so cheaply from her.... hahahz i think it's the other way round bah.... the shopkeeper should be smiling lor... can find such a fat sheeep to kill.... =P

and at night when we haf nth to do over here, we would go over to the fruit stalls juz along the street outside our house to go buy fruits and talk to the fruit sellers there.... hahhaz... they are a realli nice bunch of ppl.... they dun stay in Beijing but out of Beijing but set up business here to earn money....

they are realli simple ppl living simple lives..... they wear the same shirt and pant almost every single day not like the ppl at office here changing every 3 days... not saying tat i mind of course... they should do tat... but the ppl at the fruit stall dun haf money to buy clothes....

thur the ppl at the fruit stalls , we got to know the road sweeper sweeping the roads of Beijing in the wee morning hours.... he juz lives behind the chao shi and he comes from Mongolian and we are asking him to teach us to sing mongolian songs... hahhaz... got to know alot of nice ppl over here in Beijing and having a lot of fun juz talking to the ppl here abt singapore and other stuff

and plus we get to eat free fruits too... hahhaz... whenever we buy fruits, and we wanna pay for them, they alwasy dun wanna accept.... we muz push it into their hands b4 they take it....

adn their dinner is realli simple.... and i still thot i alreadi eating every simply liao.... they eat mian pi (bread skin) as a staple food and juz some other dishes..... vege more seldom haf meat....

so most of the time, when we can't finish our foodm we would ask the restaurant to pack the food up for us and we would juz pass it to them to jia chai for their dinner....

sitting at the fruit stall and talking to the ppl here, makes mi pass time much much quicker too.... in a blink of an eye, it's alreadi midnight and time to go back to slp liao... hahahz... so maybe its another form of entertainment bah....

tonight there is a movie screening at the adminstration building again so we are bringing everyone at the fruit stall to watch the show cuz i thnk they never watched movie b4 so we should bring them along... anyway it's free.... hahahz.....

it's realli so much fun when u start to interact wif the ppl here, they can be crappy at times too and once u treat them well they take u like buddies or something.... realli diff from the way sometimes singaporeans act and intereact.... such simple lives they lead here which can be real fortunate sometimes....

sOme wEird thIngs aBt cHinA....

2005-06-16T20:25:00.000+08:00

Hahaz... sorri to keep u ppl waiting... i guess all of u muz be rotting in front of ur coms waiting for mi to update the bLog.... muz be thinking wat is taking mi so long right??

okok to cut the long story short... went shopping and bought many surprising things which i would never ever think of buying.... and this mon we haf a new guy coming over to our office to join our team.... hahahz one more person in the lab to make it more fun....

wEll many weird things abt china seem to come up from our conversations wif lee lao shi.... she has a child and is sending her to Pri sch but they haf to pay a 5000 rmb "voluntary donation" to the sch in order for her daughter to enrole.... and worst still all the teachers there are always wearing branded goods according to Lee lao shi....

so in the end her husband "bargained" till the bribe dropped to 1000rmb worth of printing paper.... hahahz so weird right?? and another thing when ppl in china wanna stay at a hotel, a married couple will haf to bring along their marriage certificate to verify tat they are married b4 they can spend the night in one rm together..... -.-"

and the teachers are all alreadi thinking wat is going to happen wifout us in the lab liao.... hahhaz they keep saying tat we are gonna be missed and tat the lab would be in chaos wifout us.... can't help it i guess.... we are so indispensable.... =P

eRmz... realli nth much to say liao... time to sign off... will blog another time when i haf the time.... tataz and take care everyone... miss ya all.....

sInging kTV thru the nIght!!!!!

2005-06-10T11:56:00.000+08:00

yEs... amE and Py wEnt to Check It out liAo.... the KtV is having opening night offer.... singing thru the night from 12 midnight till 6am the same day costs onli 48 rmb.... wAh... hahahz....can sing till throat pain liao...

and yesterday these two went shopping again lor but they bought alot of things and i also wanna go buy stuff... hahhaz so cheap lor... even cheaper than the first time we bought those stuff.... one shirt for 10 rmb.... wah...

yesterday they had a movie screening at the administration building and wAh.... it was the InCredibles.... again.... watched it so many times le.. so i decided to forgo it... hahahz...

This sat going to Olympic city to buy more things to bring back to singapore as gifts.... shall go on a buying spree....

okok shall not blog liao.. the teacher is back and it's time to go eat lunch.... tataz...

hAviNg fUn In ChinA!!

2005-06-08T12:02:00.000+08:00

Hahaz... finally can use the com to blog for a while... well shall update on the latest over here.... wEll since there is so much spare time in the night after work everyday, we chit-chat in py room while eating gua zi... and drinking tea.... hahhaz

and now ame is hooked on gui hua oolong tea.... amazing right.... and every night u can hear gua zi being split open... =P today we will be going shopping at hai long and to eat dim sum at the posh posh restaurant.... hahaz plus its very cheap...

eRmz... haf been rather busy cleaning up the house and keeping it tidy... esp when after work and we feel really tired.... hEy goes to show tat we are realli independent.... hahahz... and surprise i even make mi own bed over here....

cuz its realli dusty in the afternoon and we dun haf a filter to filter the dust in the air.... so when we come back after work the bed would be filled with dust and dirt.... so easier to remove if can juz dust the blanket covering the bed....

py and ame are still in our lab doing evaporation and i am still staring at the HPLC machine 10 hours a day.... 7 days a week.... i feel like part of the HPLC machine liao.... and everyday haf to eat packed lunch cuz cannot leave the office... and packed dinner too if haf to do OT....

lucky got py and ame plus jy to accompany if not will get bored to tears de... hahahz and we always think of nicknames to give to the ppl tat we noe in China and to think of wat other places to go and things to buy back to Singapore....

seems like tats not enuff time at all.... being tat we haf onli 5 weeks left... and still so many places to go.... so most prob will go sight-seeing for the rest of the weekends.... no need to envy we will take alot of fotos to show u guys de.... =P

and plus shopping.... we are having a headache juz thinking of wat to buy back... and wheather we haf enuff space to carry so much stuff.... hahahz... maybe even going to KTV one of these days cuz py and ame said the place has a great atmostphere plus great service... better than the ones in Singapore even....

and we are eating da yu da rou when we haf the chance to go eat outside... and not in the office... hahaz so can realli say tat i am enjoying miself.... dun think i will ever regret this chance of coming to China cuz haf so many nice ppl here since i haf touched down.....

Dr huang went to huang shan liao and we are still waiting for him to come back to wash our clothes.... hahahz but this time weare prepared.... we haf extra clothes le.... so no worries... still haf shirts to wear and if the need arises, there is still hand wash *soBs....

ame says she will provide free washing services.... hahahz so i think we will dump all our clothes for her to wash... but muz provide her wif soap powder... ahahhaz

okok nth much to report liao... juz tat u guys muz take care of urselves hor.... and haf fuN wif ur attachments and thoSe wIf examS coming up to sTudy hard and all the best plus those going for holidays to haf fun and enjoy... hahhaz.... tataz....

Gu gong toDAy!!! aNd lOsT in ChinA aDventureS!!!

2005-06-04T21:05:00.000+08:00

Hahaz.. today we went to the Forbidden City and it took us a whole 3 hours to get there by bus & train lor..... and in tat 3 hours, 1 and a half hour we were lost.... hahahz until we asked for directions and luckily most of the ppl in Beijing are realli nice and kind-hearted, and they realli noe their way ard in China.... hahhaz but tat is of course they haf been living here for the past dun noe how many years..... =P

eRm but there's realli nth much in the Forbidden City de... most of the palaces are under renovation... and so we could onli visit limited places and the place looks a bit abandoned wif all the green netting covering the buildings... hahah a bit of a waste of money lor... but there were a few places which i realli liked for example the place where they acted Huan Zhu Ge Ge....

managed to see the imperial court and all the big big courtyard.... hhaahz and we took even more fotos today.... shall upload them at the office on mon???

hMmz... nth much to blog liao... saw alot of DVDs on offer over here and its onli 6 rmb per disc so onli S$1 plus..... but dun noe how much to buy leh.... later will get caught?? okok tats all tataz.....

wOrkeD OT again today!!!

2005-06-03T20:41:00.000+08:00

Yes.... today worked OT again after yesterday... alreadi worked OT for 3 days liao.... worked till 7 or 8 pm lor.... today ame and py also worked OT till 8 lor... first time in their 3 months here.... hahahz wat a time to work full day....

hahahz and finally all of them are getting their "allowance" soon maybe on mon.... so everyone will also get their pay.... today stared at the HPLC for thw whole and look at peaks..... felt so stupid....

I WANNA GO EAT DING HAO THE DIM SUM RESTAURANT..... but no one wans to go today..... so evil de these ppl juz becuz they ate it yesterday they dun wanna spend the money again.... they paid 20 rmb/pax and i didn't go yesterday.....

today ame start asking stupid questions like would u rather be bald or to tuo fa??? hahahz... and today first time eat packed dinner and the noodles tasted great.... maybe i'm hungry lar but still better than eating Shine.....

actually supposed to work tml too de... but den hor... we told her we gonna go Forbidden city.... hahahz so we got let off.... but tml gotta wake up early...

okok nth more to report liao.... gtg le... it's alreadi 8 plus and still feeling hungry..... tataz....

mAnual LabOuR!!!! pLUs loW pAy!!!!

2005-06-01T12:50:00.000+08:00

yEah.. today is children's day in China so all the kids here are having holiday except us and worst still onli left mi and jy and hu lao shi..... cuz the other lao shi went back home to take care of her kid..... wAh...

and the whole of today morning was spent sunning the sand and to dry it so tat we can make media..... wAh another morning wasted juz lydat.... hahahz

eRm finally washed our clothes yesterday at dr huang house and we watched DVD there too watched the jue dai shuang jiao the HK version.... hahahz rather funni watched till 12 midnight lor cuz our clothes took a rather long time to wash too... and plus the weather here is also getting humid....

this sat we are going to gu gong... the forbidden city..... ahahaz haf to wake up early again... and this time we are gonna tour the whole place and move on to bei hai gong yuan juz nearby.... so we can finish all the sight seeing asap..... cuz according to py's countdown..... we haf another 5 weeks to go b4 we arrive in singapore and there are still alot of places we haven't visited...

this week haf been realli busy i hope we realli start to wind down soon otherwise the workload here will kill mi.... and plus the weather here alreadi becoming like singapore de liao..... hahahz everyday u can see ppl holding all kinds of umbrella.... and our house dun even haf a proper fan....

but lucky our house, also dun noe y always feel cool and when we step out den we feel the heat wave.... hahahz...

and oh yes we found this realli posh looking restaurant selling dim sum..... hahahz and guess the price...?? 3 rmb/plate lor... omg i finally got to eat mi chicken feet and plus har gao (xia jiao) and they even provide free dessert.... and altogether 5 of us onli eat 45 rmb, no service charge or GST.... so it's like S$2 can eat till siao..... hahhaz.... i think i gonna go eat there again tonight for dinner... they are open till 1am

and we found this realli cheap KTV place not Melody but even more posh and it costs onli 20rmb/hr plus they give u a free hour for every 20rmb spent... hahhaz cuz its a new place... wah so cheap right?? we are gonna give it a try tml after work... realli need some after work entertainment otherwise will get bored to death at home de....

it's either i stare at u or u stare at mi.... hahahz so it's better to get out of the house..... and they sell realli cheap DVDs here so i am gonna buy some back too.... den can watch at home... they even haf serial dramas in DVD format and all so cheap.... hahahz....

okok shall not talk more.... muz get back to work soon otherwise cannot go home early liao... tataz... take care everyone..... miss ya all...

tWo tReaTs a dAy!!! aLL aT thE sAmE place....

2005-05-27T23:22:00.000+08:00

Hahaz.... now at the cyber cafe after a filling meal at the same restaurant again.... thot can eat somewhere else but was actually quite full le.... hahahz.... and both meals cost abt the same ard 150rmb..... and i finally managed to eat Beijing kao ya.... in the afternoon we had to wait an hour b4 it could be served so we decided to eat another day.....

hahahz... who knew dinner also we went there and onli had to wait 40 min so we decided to place our orders afterall.... liyan gave us the treat cuz he is leaving this sunday at night by train back to shandong.... and we wouldn't be seeing him liao... so we made a card and gave it to him after dinner.... hahhaz... so touching right??

now at the cyber cafe after waiting for an hour for an empty com... and so surprising.... tonight RS and Jeff sitting next to mi and tat is rather rare cuz we are juz given any com tat are avail to us and it juz so coincidental tat we are sitting next to each other....

today sat in the fumehood for like 3 hours straight... hahahz... had to transfer all the samples onto these little spots of filter paper.... so tiring.... worked the whole day lor... from morning to night.... i think i realli earning mi salary now.... hahhaz... and not all of us are receiving "allowance" as they call it....

onli mi and jy and jeff got paid so far... the rest haf not heard anything remotely even like money.... so most prob will be free labour....

now watching hong dou nu zi lian..... hahahz so funni de.... such a nice show... think gonna watch finish the whole episode tonight....

shall not type more le.... time to get back to mi shows... .tataz

hMmZ.... another hectic day....

2005-05-27T12:06:00.000+08:00

Hahaz... finally can use the time b4 lunch to blog for a while.... so busy today rushing abt madly like a blind dog not knowing wat is going on.... and haf to rush to finish b4 lunch cuz we will be lunching at some posh restaurant down the road.... hhahahz treat from our teacher here.... isn't he nice....??

but of course not for us lar... it is becuz the guy doing his Master's thesis is leaving and this is some kind of a farewell lunch for him bah.... and we will be writing a card for him too cuz he's been realli nice except tat he is sometimes very blur and would kena scoldings from the Hu lao shi....

going to go visit qing hua da xue and Beijing da xue this weekend... heard tat the buildings are all very nice and they even haf a lake inside the sch lor... hahhaz goes to show how big the sch is... and it takes abt one day to tour the whole place.... so most prob we will be spending the whole day at the sch....

and this sat we are hiring a part-time maid for 10rmb/hr.... hahahz too lazy to go clear up our own house.... and so tired after one day's work... plus we dun haf a vacuum cleaner... cuz dr huang took his back liao and the dust at our house is escalating at a exponential rate.... lolz...

plus our house finally had its own crockroch.... hahhaz.... i thot the weather here was too cold for them to survive but alas like py said they haf a jian ming..... (they dun die easily...hahahz...) and so we had to catch it and throw it outside our house cuz RS didn't wanna kill it.... lolz....

and py has been complaining abt it ever since...... tat the thing would crawl back into our house..... but seriously our house quite dirty lar tat y invited the thing over....

juz uploaded some pics up to multiply again.... and saw the fotos of xr hk trip wif kx.... Hk looks so inviting.... hahahz and i'm sure they had a lot of fun....

results of the activity test out liao... and omg we haf to do another 150 petri dishes..... hahhaz i think this time will pour until our hands ache lor.....

tonight will go and bao ye at the cybercafe... onli 12rmb from 11pm til 7am the next morning... and seriously the ppl there like no need to bath and slp de... everytime we go there.... it is always full and we haf to queue for like 45 min or more b4 we can get a com avail.... so we would rather use the whole night.... more worth it...

and the house has so many mosquitoes tat we are using like 2 mosquitoe incense in 1 night..... hahahz.... everynight the routine would be the same to kill mosquitoes and u can see tat our walls are all splattered wif blood and carcasses.... lolz... adds on to the bloody look of the house....

and py is encouraging all of us to kill more mosquitoes so tat she can slp in peace... hahhaz cuz she say everynight the nmosquitoes will go visit her and fly ard her ears but it seems tat onli she was affected... ame slping beside her never felt a thing and can slp thru the night lor....

i think today won't be spending much money... hahhaz... cuz we haf treat for lunch and dinner.... so good.. dinner is liyan treat wan to return us the favour cuz we treated him to lunch at Shine..... hahhaz... 2 free meals in a day..... wat can be better than tat....??

found a new place to eat... called duo duo jiao zi wu..... (many many dumplings house... literally)
they served reaalli nice fried rice juz like in singapore.... and they also serve much better fish than the ones in Shine.... hahahz... another reason to not eat at Shine liao...

haf been eating alot of cup noodles this week... no time to go out and eat.... and also lazy lar.... onli haf 1 hr break dun even haf time to go back and bath.... den start work again.... wah like yesterday we worked till like 7plus den finished... hahaz... by the time we stepped out of the office, it was alreadi dark liao...

saw many breeds of dogs in China and they all look so cute... got dobermann, shi-zu, hush puppies... seems tat many ppl here also like dogs too but there is juz one dog meant shop down the road from here too.... so ironic.... every evening u can see the park juz outside our office all crawling wif dogs... and all the dogs are playing wif one another... and kids juz standing by watching.....

okok almost time to go for lunch le.... gonna eat beijing kao ya..... hahahz... although not real wan but it's still ok.... it's a free treat.... hahahz okok tataz.... shall talk tonnight at the cyber cafe....

sTarT of aNotheR wEek.....!!!

2005-05-23T19:07:00.000+08:00

fEeling so hungRy now... hahahz didn't even haf time for a proper lunch.... had to rush back to the lab to complete all the other parts of the experiment and now tat we are done wif it, still cannot leave.... gotta wait till all the samples are dissolved....

wah at this state i think i can stay overnight in the office liao... hahahz... and worst still tml got another 80 samples coming over to our lab and at the same time we are gonna haf to test for activity.... so much things to do.... head gonna explode liao....

and worst still the guy doing his Masters will be leaving at the end of thmonth to go back to shandong to present his thesis.... if he passes den he will be back in august.... hahahz by then we would haf left China liao.... so we will be even more short of hand..... guess juz haf to work harder liao....

wEnt to sing KTV wif the 3 sing gals yesterday.... hahahz... the 10 of us all packed into the room and sang for 3 hours and this time even cheaper... onli 12rmb/pax..... we had a free hour cuz of our voucher.... aftertat went for dinner at Shine again.... wif the 3 sing gals too and also sent them back home and visited their house at the same time......

their house was fantastic lor... they even had 2 spring mattress.... and a SITTING toilet bowl lor... i can tell u tat we left tat house rather reluctantly..... they are leaving this tuesday going to huang shan and shanghai and onli arriving back in Beijing on the 11th june.... so maybe can meet up again bah.... hahahz

juz overheated the proteins..... up till 60 degrees.... dun noe if denatured or not.... hope not... cuz tml wanna test for activity de.... if not all our efforts all wasted liao.... sIgh.....

okok shall not type more.... juz gonna leave everything till tml liao.... haf to go eat dinner... starving here lo.... hahahz... take care everyone.... tataz....

hEctiC wEek!!!

2005-05-21T20:21:00.000+08:00

Hahaaaz... sorri that i neglected this blog... haf been a realli hectic week.... dun even haf time to check mail at all... well had a lot of stuff to do and new things to learn.... things which even our teacher didn't understand... so we had to seek the guidance of others...

juz came back from a pizza buffet which costs 39rmb from 11.30am to 5.30pm... hahahz... never felt so full since i came to china.... stayed there the whole day and read comic books... hahahaz... now reading a series called petshop horror... quite interesting... it's abt this petshop owner who has a petshop on some street selling all kinds of funni animals and he has the ability to talk to animals... onli haf 10 books to this series...

and and funni part is tat all of us are getting hooked on books... hahahz... even jw who juz play games all day... hahaz... guess it realli has to do wif the lack of things to do over here bah... lolz... so every night all of us would like read thru the night until we are tired den go to slp... lolz... guess when we go back to singapore, we would all be frightened of books liao...

we are reading all kinds of books lor... from bing xin to comics to korean books... to animations.... lolz....

and another thing we went to shop for boom box plus speakers and guess wat they are all so cheap and the sound quality is quite good too... costs abt 130rmb for s decent one... and its dirt cheap but wat to do it's so big tat it will add on as excess baggage lor... hahhaz... maybe will figure out a way bah....

and downloading is legal here.... lolz... can dl many many movies for free and right now i am watching series some more lor... hahahz... got so many varieties and haf so much selection....

ate home cooked meals this few days... cooked and prepared our meals... all by ourselves.... cooked potato and carrot soup as well as other instant food lar... but at least it is something diff from wat we eat everyday at SHINE.... some restaurant tat serves much better food than the rest of the restaurants and cheaply too.. but we haf almost ate everything from tat restaurant liao so it's time to change venue but the rest of them still wanna eat there...

i am alreadi feeling sick of eating the same thing over and over again liao... hahahz so tat's y i would rather cook...

finally got to wash our clothes le... hahahz... after like almost 2 weeks of waiting, we finally got to wash our smelly dirty clothes... we brought our clothes over to dr huang house and we met his wife too and and she was realli nice... she told us to leave our clothes there and she would wash our clothes for us... wah and we were of course at first rather reluctant to let her do it cuz its realli alot of clothes..

but lucky we went in batches and so she washed our clothes batch by batch... guess she spent a lot of time washing our clothes for 3 straight days lor... she did the same for the rest of us... and she even gave us some instant food which she said was realli nice to eat and easy to cook....

we juz went over to collect our clothes the next day and the clothes would be waiting for us... folded and packed.... we were all very touched.... hahah guess we will go buy for her something b4 we leave bah....

heard that dr huang son coming back soon and bringing to China 4 other singaporean gals.. one from rjc, coach of debating club of vjc and top student of HCJC.... hahahz sounds impressive bah... heard they will be staying for one month.... hahahz finallly get to meet some singapore ppl... come so long le... haven't even got a chance to meet anybody from singapore....

ohh... there was one day when i managed to act as a translator... hahahz... we were collecting some of the media which we prepared and sent to be autoclaved... den outside the building we met this guy from parkistan... he was looking for a clinic and becuz he can't speak chn he dun noe where to ask for directions... hahaz.. den i passed by and could see tat he had difficulties.... lolz...

and of course i offered mi help... and it turns out the clinic was closed as the doc went for a conference... and won;t be back till the next day.... so u see lucky i was there lor otherwise the poor guy would be still standing outside and dun noe where to look for help... lol.... and i got to act as a translator at the same time.... he was thanking mi profusely at the end of it all... hahhaz... felt so proud of miself lor... =P

well gotta get back to watching mi show liao... so till next time hor... do update mi wif life back in singapore if possible email mi or something lar...... tell mi how all of u are getting along... miss ya guys back at home... tataz....

aNothEr eNtRy fOr mi FanS!!!!

2005-05-16T22:21:00.000+08:00

okok shall type a quick blog here b4 i leave the cybercafe in 15 min time cuz we all wanna leave liao... lets haf a recap abt wat happened during the last few days....

heard from alot of ppl tat mi blog is being actively read and as a blogger i am very happy and over here, i wanna thank alot of ppl for making this possible... I wanna thank mi mum, dad and sisters for being there for mi.... cRAp.... juz glad tat ppl are actually reading mi blog lar... hahahz.. shows tat mi blog is not some rubbish which onli i read when i go back to singapore....

been doing alot of HPLC last week... finally starting to see some results liao... hope tat the results tat we haf will be positive so tat our efforts will not be wasted...

found out tat downloading inchina not realli illegal and they haf alof of dl sites which features many many programs from taiwan, hk and all over the world be it movies or songs.... wah... i am so happy tat i can see Naruto episodes here still... so i am not grumbling....

had dinner at mi teacher's house on sun... and at last we finally had some home cooked meal.... we had fish, chicken and soup as well... something different from wat we haf been eating... and her cooking is not all tat bad too.... chatted a while and watched moving pictures (in other words, TV... but the programs here realli suck..) its either china sports news or news... OMG.... and their news broadcasters always add in their own opinion as if to propagada the ppl watching it...

after dinner saw this realli novel anime shop selling alot of stuff featuring naruto... will go again b4 coming back to singapore and buy some stuff back... so hahahz do keep a look out orh....!!!

ate half-boil egg today and it tasted so good... things tat are taken for grant in singapore become a luxury here in china..... makes mi realli start to appreciate everything i haf in China... i miss the home cooked food back home as well as the nice delicacies.... next time u offer mi a jiao zi, i will run away from u de..... realli.... =P

went to shop at the hai long cheng.... selling all electronics stuff too... some of them are realli cheap like their mp3 players but most of them are priced ard the same as in singapore.... but was realli enticed by the mp4.... hehehe....

well shall not blog liao.. haf to get back home b4 the rest of them starts to wonder where we are... we came out wifout telling them where we going... cuz they were still at the office dl stuff when i came back for dinner.... finally managed to watch the naruto movie today... not realli fantastic after all i think i prefer the anime series.... okok so take care all the ppl who are reading mi blog and i am missing all of u back home and dun u forget tat.... hahahz... signing off....

PoWer cUt!!!

2005-05-12T11:02:00.000+08:00

Hahaz... back to blog again... now in office waiting for lunch to come by and eat beef noodles... there's this one stall abt 5 min walk away from here which serves realli big portions of beef noodles and so cheap too... hahhaz

today there was supposed to be a power cut in our area and when the allocated time came for the power cut, py was cooking her egg.... hahahz and instead of hard boil egg she has to settle for a half-boil egg... but today becuz of power cut, rs and jw no need to work but i dun noe how come our building still has power....

maybe they haf a backup generator bah... so sad lor... still haf to come back to work.... cuz today again we are staring at the machine which will be doing all the work tat we will be doing in the future... i feel for those workers back at the time when machines came in to play and they were rendered useless..... although it means we haf less things to do, but it also means that we are now considered expendable....

juz found out that there is this food street down at tian an men there, we shall go investigate this weekend, cuz heard they got sell chou dou fu.... ahhahz... ever since i arrived here in beijing, i realised that i haf become more tiao shi le.... back in singapore, i juz eat most of the things that are avail... but over here, i can't do tat, cuz its either the food is too salty , oily or too disgusting... it is realli hard to find a food that u can eat for days.....

the food here is like those that u can onli eat once a week cuz it realli doesn't taste nice but i think for the ppl here, they haf no choice cuz they need to save money.... and when we mentioned where we eat most of the time at this restaurant down the street, they would exclaim how rich we are.... but one meal there costs less than S$15 for 7 ppl and it would be inclusive of meat, veg and fish.... hahahz....

but one thing i haf learnt to appreciate is the streetlamps... i used to think they were redundant cuz its like we got too many lining the streets..... but over here, u can onli find one streetlamp within 500m or sumthing.... so most of the time, we are moving abt in darkness... i think when we go back to singapore, we would find the place too bright in the night.... over here, we haf to depend on the moving cars to provide light for our way... and we haf to be back early juz in case the cars are no longer avail....

and walking in the dark is realli scary over here, cuz u realli can place ur hand in front of u and u can't even see it.... it is tat dark....

okok shall log off here... time to go for lunch and maybe a short nap... the ppl here make use of the two hours break to nap and bath b4 coming back to work.. most of them are also staying nearby the institute.... but of course their living conditions are much better.... at least they haf a TV..... =P

Feeling abit blue today!!!

2005-05-10T17:17:00.000+08:00

hahahz... today did the same old thing again except now helping li yan the uguy doing his thesis for Master's in his experiment... haf to do a lot of evaporating and stuff.... there are so many things to do in the lab and so little ppl... an while we are busy doing experiements, Py amd ame get to go home at 10 plus in the morning... so good lor... and this is the time they finish work everyday lor... dun noe watthe teaher is thinking... let these ppl go off so early....

uploaded some more pics today using multiply... www.eddy86.multiply.com or something.... today we had some visitors to the lab and we were alreadi in preparation the day b4 for their arrival but today when they stepped in less, they stepped out in less than 5 min lor... make us work over nth.... and they were something like inspectors to view the labs and to see if the money is well spent and that whether the lab needs more....

gonna go home soon after finishing this batch.... today work OT to finish the batch of samples... hope tml can do something new... hahaz... tataz...

In the lib noW!!!

2005-05-09T19:46:00.000+08:00

Now to get back to our story of going on the tour..... it was a realli lousy tour lor... we had to get up like at 4.30 to get ready for the 5.30 bus.... everyone of us was in a panic... hahahz cuz there was onli one bathroom and it had to be shared by the 7 of us....

but we are alreadi used to it liao... dEn when a mini-van pulled up next to us with ppl alreadi packed into it... we got the shock of our lives.... the mini-van was so dirty, we couldn't even see the inside of it.... it wasn't until a larger bus pulled up next to us tat we sighed in relief... although the bus was dirty and old, it sure beats squeezing onto a mini-van with another 5 ppl....

the first thing we got on the tour bus, the lady kept talking abt her experience in this line of work and wat are some of the rules to follow... we were so tired becuz of not enuff slp tat we dozed off and her rule 1 was not to slp while on the bus....

such a stupid rule lor... she said something abt chinese ppl going for tours and slping on the bus and in the end, not knowing anything when they get off the bus at the end of the day... but she kinda said it like a rap... so it was rather funni...

but she was like speaking super fast and everything juz spilled out of her mouth like bullets... and cuz we were sitting all the way at the back... we didn't realli hear anything... hahahz she even can memorise her script and speak for one hour w/o stopping.. REALLI...
thruout the whole journey to Great Wall... she juz kept talking and talking...

and juz as we are reaching Great Wall, she told us each to pay extra 70rmb for some tram ride and entrance fee to some wax museum... we were rather reluctant but as she said it was alreadi paid for by the tour agency so we had to pay up.... so actually the whole tour cost 220 rmb and not the said 150 rmb... big diff right??

Den there were this grp of 3 gals sitting in front who juz said they forgot to bring money and they get to go for the museum and everything else lor... tat's so unfair lar... we should haf also done the same thing... hahahz...

The climb up the great wall is realli wonderful... although we can't realli say we climbed the Great Wall, cuz we sat a tram half-way, but the journey up to the peak was alreadi quite tough lor... all of us were like panting for air by the time we reached the peak... not tat it was long distance or anything but the slopes were realli steep and the steps are all very high.. and the air was very thin... so we realli had to take deep breathes....

afTer climbing up the Great wall, we each got a keychain and was on the way down the mountain without any certificate cuz we thot it was too ex to make one... den after we arrived at the foot of the tram ride, alreadi there were ppl waiting at the bottom... giving out cards to cheat ppl to buy certificates... these ppl are realli fast and b4 u can say no, they alreadi printed ur name and ask u for 30 rmb le...

and so tat was how i got conned in to buying a certificate... of course i was the onli one out of the 7 to get tricked... hahhaz... cuz the rest of them responded fast enuff to say no... but i was rather slow in noticing the price banner tat was hanging over our heads in huge bold printed fonts.... bUt there was a medal included lar... so not too bad lor...

dEn afTer tat, we went to sOme jade shop to buy jade and there were many pieces of jewellery avail.... but they were all quite ex... and we didn't bring enuff money out although they all looked very nice, but we had spent most of our money cheated by the tour guide liao...

dEn bought us to go buy beijing duck but it is so salty and it was not even nice... it was fake beijing duck.. a cheaper version... hahahz and the tour guide brought us to many other such places where there were food stuff but all not very enticing de...

tHe onlI place i realli enjoyed was at the "jiu long you le yuan", 9 dragons theme park...

we had expected a theme park like singapore but when we reached there, the rides were all for kids and there was not a single soul playing at all, most of the ppl were there to pray at the temple... so we juz went in and toured the temple... but the part i realli liked was the wind there... there was this realli realli huge pond... looks like an ocean and there was this bridge over the pond....

when u stand on the bridge, the huge gusts of wind could realli blow u away and walking against the wind feels sooooo good with the wind in ur hair.... even more windy than in singapore... the kites here also fly higher than in singapore cuz of the strong winds... hahahz...

but i kinda miss the food back at home... juz thinking abt chicken rice is enuff to make mi water.. everyday we are eating the same food lor.. cuz there are onli these few stalls ard here and the can food here all so weird de.... and we dun even haf a proper kitchen to cook our food so we haf to eat outside...

yesterday we went to sing KTV at some place called melody... it was realli cheap to sing there and they had all the latest songs... sang for almost 3 hours... finally had some entertainment avail to us le... cost us abt a total of 180 rmb wif free flow drinks... hahahz... and we shared among the 5 of us... so each one abt S$6... maybe we shall go there again next week and it was onli a 10 min bus ride from our place...

okok time to go le... feeling tired after the game of basketball... need to go back to bath... so i shall juz sign off here... and btw i juz uploaded some fotos... do go and take a look... tataz...

http://sg.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/angel_wrath1986/album?.dir=/2a42&.src=ph&.tok=phrUL6CBcW9HveDS

aFter wOrk le...

2005-05-09T17:16:00.000+08:00

Hahaz... finally after work liao having a bit of stomachache now while waiting for the container to dry.... these ppl here wanna go play basketball now and i need the loo urgently lor....

shall update all the events that haf happened all these while... went for a one day beijing tour.... at first was quite reluctant de.... but den was becuz is huang introduced de, so we agreed to go for it and it was rather cheap too, 150 rmb and we get to go to Great Wall, 13 ling and other places too.....

but of course it was all a scam, the tour guide required us to pay another 70 rmb for a visit to the wax museum and the tram ride half-way up the Great Wall.... these ppl wanna go now.. so shall update later at the cyber cafe or sumthing.....

anOtheR 70 days to go....!!!

2005-05-09T13:08:00.000+08:00

Hahahz... juz learnt a new method from py to make oneself feel better.... by counting down the number of days left till going back to singapore... although it may sound like a lot of days but of course it is helping a bit lar.....

went to many places of interest last week... like Great Wall, Forbidden city although tat was onli the outside.... tian an men and others lar....

cannot blog for too long today... will try to blog again after work... hahahz....

2005-05-05T21:54:00.000+08:00

TIme sEems to pass so fast when u are enjoying urself.... y izzit tat this doen't happen at work??? it has alreadi been one week plus le... almost two weeks and it is like "du ri ru nian" lor.... unless the time is spent on shopping... hahhaz.. bought alot of things today cuz we went to shop ard the arcade centre at the zoo.... the things here are realllli dirt cheap... i juz bought a pair of converse shoes for 90 rmb (S$20) and can be bought at a lower price some more.... somewhere ard 65rmb.... so sad kena chopped by the shopkeepers... hahahz...

ame said she saw a pair of american tourist being chopped by the shopkeeper and wanted to go tell them tat they are paying too much liao... double the selling price lor... den who noes when she walked up there, the two of them alreadi paid for it liao and they so happy still say "so cheap" after paying 49 rmb for a 19 rmb watch... hahahz.....

sometimes the shopkeeper realli too much lor.. the price so low and they wanna sell at exorbitant prices... the starting price for all the clothes and shoes are always above 70 rmb de..... and u haf to slash the price till abt less than 50% the selling price b4 u can feel tat it's worth it.... but i think the most scary de is py.... hahaz... she can realli slash the price till its like the thing is worth nth lor... lol.... am learning alot abt bargaining from her lor.. she can make the shopkeeper so pekceh until the shopkeeper call her "ku nai nai" and ask her to add 10 rmb but she still wouldn't budge.... hahahz.. so persistent to get at her price...

we haf alreadi visited the summer palace and Zoo... finally got to see the Panda bear and other animals onli China haf... hahahz.. took alot of fotos... will try to upload them asap but at the cybercafe cannot upload at all cuz they dun haf usb port.... the summer palace is very cool too... the place is so huge tat u will realli get lost wifout a map and it took us like 4 hours to walk onli a small portion of the place.... the summer palace realli haf to spend one whole day de lor den more worth it... cuz the lake alond is alreadi bigger than a reservoir liao and they haf a lot of bridges the bridges are all very unique and becuz its a holiday alot of ppl were there too and it was so crowded...

bUt the gardens are beautiful... they haf so much to offer and alot of beautiful artifacts.... there is even a boat ride which allows u to get closer to the bridges and dun haf to walk so far to reach them... hahhaz... but the buildings there are realli beautiful and very majestic... but it's such a pity tat we couldn't walk finish the rest of the palace cuz it was alreadi near closing time and the rest of them dun wanna walk liao cuz they are tired from all the walking....

sometimes i think going on a tour in such a big grp is realli a chore beucz hor we haf to consider everyone's feelings and their interests... although i am a very shui pian guy but den sometimes the places they wanna go i dun feel like going like when they wanna go to the theme park cuz i feel tat it will be a waste of money and i won't even be sitting all the rides... and they dun wanna go to those places rich in history.. so its like we can't make both grp of ppl happy all at the same time, one of us haf to give in de lor....

nOw still staying at the slum but i guess i dun realli mind the place liao.... cuz i haf cleaned it up and bought a few stuff to make it look more home-like... hahahz and mi bed is thicker now so can slp more better although its like sharing a bed lor cuz these ppl always wanna nap on mi bed... hahahz but i dun realli mind lar... as long as everyone's happy... i was the onli one who bought a mattress cuz the wooden plank too hard liao...

the ppl at work are trying to learn eng from us and although they can read and write eng but their hearing and speaking ability is way way below us... but its ok our chn is not tat great either... we haf to put in alot of effort to communicate wif them but i guess we are all learning from one another... they say tat we speak like guangzhou ppl and we should tell the ticket sellers tat so tat we are charged the china price instead of the tourist price... hahhaz...

the food here is getting worst liao realli starting to get sick of always eating the same food to save money cuz it is cheap and the prtions are huge.... muz start to try other stuff but the prob is tats all they sell here and all the stuff are almost the same de no varieties... hahahz...

sat their public bus to go to the various places of interest and haf found them to be rather squeezy... and u haf to take care of ur own wallet or money cuz it is realli like sardine packed at peak hours and the method they pay bus fare is like singapore olden times whereby when u board the bus, there will be a lady sitting at the entrance tellling u to pay how much den u will get a small tix.... hahhaz... but its a good experience and we are getting used to it liao...

going over to huang house again to wash clothes and again he gave us the bad news tat he will be away for 10 days and we cannot wash our clothes at his house for the next 10 days so we haf to wear our clothes again till he comes back... i haf been wearing the same clothes again and again for 3 days straight cuz i didn't sweat and the weather here is so cold...

although it sounds disgusting but no choice lor cuz it is like the ppl here also do the same and i dun haf enuff clothes to last mi for one week lor... so i haf to wear them more often to stretch their use to the limit... hahahz... and washing one PIECE of t-shirt costs 4rmb... so not worth it so we would rather wait for huang to come back den we wash our clothes... if not waste money, tat money can spend on shopping or admission charge lor...

will miss the shopping here when i go back to singapore, cuz down here can realli bargain till siao and the shopkeepers dun mind cuz they also need the business but over there it is like all fixed price de and worst still all so expensive wan....

the roads here are realli dangerous and it is like "ma lu ru hu kou" applies at this place.... the ppl cross wifout caring abt cars expecting them to stop for them and the cars are madly horning at the ppl to make them stop for them... and wat do u get??? a very very noisy road........ but we alreadi getting used to it liao and we haf more or less learnt the technique of crossing roads.. hahahz

will be more appreciative of singaporean drivers le... as compared to china drivers, they are so so much more better and civilised.... and more gracious.... juz tat day coming back from the zoo, we took a bus back and at the interchange where we boarded the bus, a lot of ppl were squeezing onto the bus and ppl even shouted at others to get onto the bus and had to quarrel in front of so many ppl, realli realli uncivilised and rude...

and today we also saw one shopkeeper getting mad at a customer for slashing the price too much... lucky we didn't step into tat shop, hahahz but the customer was also rather hostile lar so cannot blame the shopkeeper and everyone was like staring at them and their voices were realli loud... can train footdrill lor these ppl... hahahz...

shall stop here le cuz its almost time to go off liao... so wish mi luck for tml and all the best to all those who are working and studying hor... and do misss mi if possible cuz i am missing all of u back at home too...

aFteR one wEek oF holiDay!!!

2005-05-05T21:32:00.000+08:00

aT cYbEr caFe!!!

2005-05-01T21:06:00.000+08:00

hahhaz... the holidays are finally here, its juz great thinking abt the GREAT WEEKEND where we will go sight seeing and go shopping... hahhaz can go to the flea market and buy some more new clothes... so happy.... heard the stuff are realli cheap there, so many varieties too... got pirated stuff de...

today got approached by two old ladies asking us to buy pirated vcds.... hahahz guess wat they call advertising by word of mouth??? was so happy today tat i bought a new mattress although not very thick but at least can resist the very hard wood and no need to feel like slping on a plank..... so not too bad liao... and the air here still very the dirty and dry... realli dun noe how mi face will react to it maybe when i come back mi face will be dotted by more pimples...??

haf not been daily updating the blog so sorri, but it's becuz i haf no access to the com at all, the office is closed for the next few days till monday... and den can onli come to this cyber cafe which is not very near mi place haf to walk 15 min....

and worst still this place is so stuffy and some of these ppl never bath lor... OMG.... its the worst combination ever lar... juz becuz the weather is cold doesn't give u the right not to bath lar... think of others b4 thinking of urself can??? wah i can even smell them from a mile away lor and worst still he is sitting next to mi,,, and incing closer still.... wah realli dun noe how much longer i can stand if i suddenly stopped typing half-way it means tat i haf fainted.... dun need to wait for the next entry liao... will be in mi bed recuperating from this horrible stench...hahahz....

eRmz... shall type abt the food here, it is so cheap lor... can eat a very good meal in like S$3 bucks... and got fish got meat and vegetables, the sushi here taste better than sakae but it is the same price as that of singapore and on the restricted budget we haf i dun think i will be eating tat often....

went over to dr huang place yesterday again and he allowed us to use his washing machine to wash our weeks' clothing... hahahz can u imagine 7 ppl one week's clothes... we had to wash like 4 loads or more to finishe washing everything lor... but his house was so much better finally managed to see a sitting toilet bowl lor... finally after such a long time so of course gotta spend more time in it lar... i think got half-an-hour or more lor... dun laugh hor. wait till u come here den u noe how precious a sitting toilet is...

cAnnot upload pics..... !!!

2005-04-26T20:12:00.000+08:00

OMG... after i booked the com liao den the guy here said tat i cannot upload pics here at all... waste mi money... lucky onli 4 rmb/hr.... hahahz... so still can blog a while and send out e-mail now...

hAf not been doing much today juz some extraction and stuff... trying to purify some components from a fungi and test for its activity against nematodes.... came here and realised how bad mi chinese is... hahahz although they say our chinese better than the rest of the batches they sent to china.... but as long as we can understand them and they can understand us can liao la...

but i feel very happy here now becuz the ppl we ae working with are realli nice... they are very friendly... sometimes too friendly i think... but maybe becuz we are new bah...

aNd guess waT?? we alreadi know where to get the cheapest clothes... and cheap bargains... hahahz... so will most prob go shopping at these places next week... will take many fotos de... and send it back of all the beautiful places tat we visited and wat we buy... sent a letter back to singapore today... so expensive... 5.70rmb... but nvm.. i think send letter better so i guess will send more... so try to look out for them yeah... hahahz...

can't tag in mi blog now cuz all the com here all cannot access the blog page de.... so anything pls send e-mail hor... can onli access the create entry page den cannot view blog... so mah fun... stupid com...hahahz..

i think will try some of the cup noodles here sometime later cuz they all look very nice... although the food here is cheap but not all of them are nice... some of the stall sell realli terrible food but becuz its cheap so alot of ppl... muz check out wif mi ppl at work to find out where are all the goodies... hahhaz..

haf not realli started shopping yet and alreadi i am running low on clothes... can onli go shopping next week so haf been wearing the same clothes for 2 days liao... a bit dirty but it's ok de becuz u can't sweat here... ahahhaz too dry to sweat... the sweat will get evaporated even b4 u can feel it... realli... we tried to play basket ball but we cannot sweat... and becuz the air is dry, we all haf dry skin here... so alot of the time we spend on putting on moisturizer... hahahz and to protect our face from the cold... i dun noe how the ppl here do it... their complexion is so good and their face so red... dun noe how they maintain de... but the male population here is HUGE lor... on the streets, the number of males u see b4 u see a female is ard 10... tats a lot lar...

another thing here is a toilet sucks... public toilet here is all the same... squatter;s corner but they add a bin guess wat's it for??? it's for used toilet papers lor... OMG... tat bin is literally full of shit lar.... and they onli clear it at the end of the day.... and the bin i saw was full lor and they also dun provide toilet paper... u haf to buy ur own... so dumb right??

okok shall not continue liao otherwise u all cannot eat le.. hahahz... gotta end off here le, the rest of them waiting for mi at the restaurant... sounds good right?? juz a term to make us feel better... hahahz.... so tatazz....

Stealing timE!!!!

2005-04-26T08:08:00.000+08:00

Hahaz...now in office le... haf time to blog is becuz the rest are still cleaning the labs like mopping and sweeping... and here i am using someone else com to blog.... cuz they onli got one mop lor... i got offer mi services lar... but they dun wan... so i juz sit here and slack a bit...

tOday should be the official day we start work cuz we assigned to the labs le... i working on some drugs thingy.... will update again asap... dun wanthem to catch mi blogging... hahahz... tataz... shortest entry ever....

fIrst eNtry in China!!!

2005-04-25T17:19:00.000+08:00

Hi all, finally managed to find a place where i can use the com to update mi blog as well as to read mi e-mail... hahhaz and guess where is tat??? that is the library where it is onli open till abt 9pm..... it is rather near mi hotstel where i am staying abt 5 min walk.... alot of the time we are walking here cuz we dun wanna waste money to buy stuff.... this entry will be a bit longer so i hope all of u will bear wif mi as i haf a lot of complaints to make lor.... :p

Where shall we start?? how abt from day one.... wEll here goEs... At the airport after everyone left us... we boarded the plane and guess wat our seats were taken by a grp of singaporean tourist.... cuz they wanted window seats.... and so we spent abt like 10 min finding seats tat are together or at least near each other...

but after we settled down it still took abt half-an hour b4 we started to fly cuz i think the crew was not ready and i haf to admit i was rather skeptical of this particular airline which i was flying becuz it was a small airplane and alot of blacks... hahahz not tat i am racist... but i was juz afraid of the smell... and the service might be compromised... becuz of the cheap price...

bUt the service crew seem rather friendly and the plane didn't smell at all... hahhaz bUt as we took off, the plane was very unsteady... and i was so afraid the plane would crash... hahahz becuz the plane took off den stopped acsending den continued ascending and den stopped again... this continued for abt 10 min b4 the plane reached the right altitude and maintained speed... and the seatbelt sign stopped lighting up.... it was rather scary during tat time and we all had a good laugh abt it... but after tat i realised the service was rather good and it had excellent food... hahhaz i ate the seafood pasta and it tasted real great but maybe its becuz i was hungry... lol... they served lunch at 3 lor... =P

and the landing was equally horrible, it was rather jerky... but when we landed and stepped into the airport, it was not the usual busy scene tat greeted us, but rather a very quiet and serious place... i called home first to tell them tat i landed and going to pass immigration.... but the immigration was ridiculous.... we had to fill in so many entry forms and even a SARS form which they juz threw into the dustbin... And the guy checking immigration took so long to chop mi passport tat i was so afraid that i can't enter China lor....

And the temp in the airport was so stuffy dun noe wat is wrong wif the aircon... so hot and humid only when we stepped out of the airport did we notice the weather change, it was not tat cold and rather cooling too... it was a nice change to the hot weather in Singapore... the coldness is not tat bad it is onli cold when there are large breezes.... which happen very often... So we saw our teacher and he helped us load all our things into a mini-van and we drove towards our hostel... it was alreadi six plus by then...

On the mini-van, we asked so many questions tat i think our teacher wanted to get rid of us immediately.... hahahz cuz we had so many queries which we wanted answers to... We drove past the main city of Beijing and came to this place a little bit off the city area in a street called 北一街.... in the mini-van our teacher alreadi told us tat the living conditions were a bit simple and we were actually prepared for the worst liao... we were thinking tat the house would be a bit small and the toilet would be squatting style.... but nth could prepare us for wat we saw...

our mini-van pulled up in front of a 4 storey old dilapidated building and we were shocked that our hostel was so old... but not yet, there is more to come... When we arrived at the house, it was alreadi seven liao and quite dark so cannot realli see properly and we thot we might haf been deceived by the darkness.... but wat we couldn't accept was the house itself... our apartment(as they like to call it) is on the first store which of course we are very happy with cuz we were carrying a lot of luggage... bUt when they opened the door, i almost screamed.... The apartment was nth but a corridor with juz 5 doors and a bathroom area.... And two of the doors were locked becuz they are not used.... and it was very scary to haf two doors locked in a house...

And the whole house was so dusty tat i on every piece of furniture, the dust was at least a few mm thick... it seems vacant for a few years le lor... Wat shocked mi the most was the rooms and the toilets... (which was all the house had... hahahz) We saw wooden planks on the bedframe and tat was it, we thot we had to slp on hard wood and nth else... and the toilet was so dirty and disgusting i seriously thot i wouldn't bath for 3 months... i thot we were living in a squatter's corner or sumthing...

Later, Dr huang (our teacher) juz gave us each a bedsheet set, a beanbag pillow, a comforter, a mattress cover and tat was it... we were supposed to lay the mattress cover over the planks and juz slp like tat... Wah the sight of the bed realli turned mi off and i didn't even wanna touch the bed cuz the whole thing was filled wif dust... hahahz... but got no choice, we were all very tired and had to juz make do wif it for the night... and other than the beds, we were provided with the bare minimal... a kettle, some hot water flasks, toilet rolls and plastic bags for trash and tat was it... Oh yeah and some realli realli old rags...

So we started getting down to cleaning up the apartment... We cleaned the planks, the bed frame and most impt we sweeped the floor... We had to borrow many stuff like slippers, vaccum cleaner, more rags, toilet rolls, utencils from Dr Huang's house and we didn't feel paiseh cuz we realli needed the stuff and also becuz it was him who got us into this predicament.... he didn't even bother to buy a proper mattress for us... So we cleaned up the house till abt 9 plus b4 setting out to find a decent meal...

After cleaning the house, we all had a sence of satisfaction tat we had managed to clean the house into a livable environment... wE ate beef noodles tat night, Dr huang's treat and the serving was so big tat i couldn't finish mi food or maybe it was becuz the house had thrown mi off mi appetite... either way, most of us couldn't finish the food also and the price was very cheap... 7 rmb for such a big bowl but the beef was not much lar... dEn we walked ard our neighbourhood and we saw many other food stalls and fruit stalls as well as a provision shop where we bought some snacks and mineral water becuz we didn't wanto haf a stomachache the moment we stepped into China.... The mineral water here also very cheap... 2.5rmb for a 1.5 liter bottle.... S$0.5 hahahz wat a steal....

aFter tat, some of them went to bath but i didn't cuz i still couldn't stand the toilet yet i guess it takes a little getting used to first... i juz washed mi face and went to slp... hahahz there were still alot of things to do the next day... Surprisingly, i went to slp straight away... didn't even need to think abt it... The next morning we woke up at ard nine plus... a luxury cuz i think we were all very tired... den we all took turns to go toilet and wash face... There were onli 1 toilet for 7 ppl can u imagine tat...??

Den after tat we went for a walk to carrefour 加乐福 to go buy many many stuff for ourself and the house... we bought dustbin, more rags, trash bag, slippers, 3 laundry bins to throw all our dirty clothes in to go to huang's house to wash cuz we realli not paiseh de.... hahhaz he has to suffer for wat he did to us like amelia said... lolz... dEn i bought a pillow and a bolster... i dun wanna suffer for 3 months for no reason and they were all quite cheap de... one for S$6.... we spent abt a total of 400 rmb at carrefour...

dEn we went back to clean again.... can u imagine tat??? hw dirty the house is... we spent the whole afternoon cleaning the house and den we went to eat dinner at ard 7 plus.... at another place where they sell realli cheap dumplings.... a whole basket for 3 rmb inside got abt 12 bah... so we ordered two baskets and a plate of noodles each... for 7 rmb and our dinner was settled juz lydat.... hahhaz... dEn we went for a walk ard the whole place to go buy bread for breakfast the next day as well as to know more abt our surroundings...

tHe weather is realli cold early in the morning... esp after u juz wake up... It is juz unbearable... and i was chattering away... all the time... aFter u got used to it liao den u will feel better... this was how mi first two days in beijing were lived out...

Hahaz... today right, i went to start work at one of the labs here juz 5 min walk away... quite near but it is also a very old building and it had no proper labs(at least tats wat i think after comparing to those we haf in sch... )tHE labs were rather cramped and small and very messy not neatly stacked like our sch labs and they didn't even bother to use aseptic techniques to carry out their experiments... hahahz... and all we did the whole day was to walk ard the labs like ghost like we didn't exist and juz look... we wanted to ask questions but everyone juz seemed so busy tat we didn't wanto disturb them...

we were juz told to look ard for the first day and den juz to know our surroundings... we would start work in the next few days.. but seriously the labs are so small den in juz 5 minutes, we finished touring the whole place... not juz the labs, realli the whole place... OMG den we juz wandered ard, walking from room to room all over again until we almost went mad... and we decided to hint to the guy to let us off... den he told us it was lunch so we happily went off to buy some stuff back home to eat.... dEn their lunch hour is 2 hours long de lor...

hahahz... and so we lazed ard at the house and went back after 2 hours... reluctantly of course... their working hour is from 8 till 6pm.... such long hours.... today we got ready for work at 8 plus when our teacher came nad told us tat he would come back again at ten to bring us to the labs... wah den we had two spare hours, so we went for a walk and find the basketball court and the postal center... dEn at ten we were bought to the labs where we onli walked ard till abt 11.30 b4 we break off for lunch....

Returning to the building, we went to tour the labs AGAIN and this time we hinted to the guy again to let us go home and finally he got our hint... and we knocked off at 3... sO now here i am after playing basketball which i didn't sweat.. hahahz... the weather here is so cool and dry tat sweat doesn't even form... hahhaz...

bUt another thing abt the air here is tat it is dry and dirty... walking on the roads, we can see huge particles flying in the air...

aNother thing to say is the traffic... wah seriously.. i dun noe y they build the red man and green man light lor... when the green man appears, it doesn't mean we can juz walk onto the streets lor... we haf to give way to cars turning and it is so scary crossing the road tat we try to avoid it at all times and if possible follow their ppl when crossing the road.. the car will not stop for u de lor... and worst still the ppl juz barge onto the road like it's theirs and the cars would juz honk their horns every now and then.... so noisy... now i know y we muz look left and right and left again b4 crossing the road.. it doesn't apply in singapore but more in beijing.... hahahhz.... okok time;s up liao... muz go back home to bath... down here, one hour is 4rmb to us the com so quite cheap... next time pls tune in again... hahahz

tIme to fLy in leSs than 4 houRs!!!!

2005-04-23T08:27:00.000+08:00

Thot i will juz blog an entry b4 i fly off to beijing..... finally felt something yesterday night at mi grandma house... juz as i was leaving the house, was surprised that mi grnadma started crying.... i wasn't leaving till tml.... den it started to hit mi, and hit mi hard too that i would not be able to see mi grandma for 3 months.... i dun think i haf ever not seen her for tat long b4.... hahahz... started to feel mi eyes tingle..... but had to control them.... otherwise will start flowing de.... =P

now also having some pre-flight jitters.... most of mi relatives can't send mi off cuz the kids haf tuition and some of them are abroad..... so it will juz be mi, my family and some friends..... hahahz quite happy tat some of them are making the effort.... thkx alot guys.... i will remember ur presents de.... hhahaz....

will be missing a lot of good stuff while i am gone like the SJ camp, and many many more..... hahahz but i'm sure its all for the better..... so will enjoy miself while i am there.... and will send e-mail back de as often as i can.... best still, i will try to blog too.... hahhaz... =P well tats all i wanna say FOR NOW.... the rest will haf to wait till another day...... tataz.... wish mi luck on the Air Zimbabwe..... hope that the service won't suck..... hahahz

Tml's thE bIg dAy!!!!

2005-04-22T14:19:00.000+08:00

yUp... tml i will be leaving singapore for roughly 3 months.... but funni... i dun noe y i am not feeling anything at all..... i dun feel scared juz slightly excited.... its so weird... i find miself telling miself to be scared and more enthusiatic but i juz cannot do it.....

maybe i am juz keeping everything for tml... or maybe the sinking feeling won't hit u till u realli start to realise that u are leaving singapore and on board the plane.... i haf prepared miself (more or less lar) for this trip alreadi..... haf placed all the fotos that i will need during the plane flight somewhere close to mi so that i can see all the familiar faces in somewhere foreign.... hahahz.... sounds stupid right....??

hMm... trying to feel something here.... but realli i think it juz feels numb or maybe its juz tat the feeling of anticipation of wat i am going to experience in China beats all the rest of the feelings i haf..... after hearing everyone warning mi abt china's pickpockets..... i juz feel more frightened of the ppl there than actually going to the place.... haf been told not to trust any of the China ppl cuz they are realli very cunning and not to go anywhere alone....

But at least we are travelling in a group and won't haf to worry abt safety in numbers... hahahz... i juz dun feel safe going anywhere brecuz of carrying cash ard..... i think tats y they say sinagpore is one of the safest country ard..... we dun haf to worry abt getting robbed here.... not like in China where we haf to constantly think abt where the next robber lies in wait for u.... hahahz... maybe its not tat bad.... but i think we muz all be prepared for the worst...

yEsterday had a class gathering cum birthday party.... hahahz... haf been such a long time since i last saw everyone of them..... realli nice to see them all again... chatted and played the drinking game... hahhaz... realli clears the bladder and still feeling the "after-effects" of the game... hahahz..... tOok many fotos which i am sure will keep mi company in China....

weLL.... today the rest of the gang are gonna meet in sch to play basketball and i am realli not in the mood to go at all.... juz feels so tireD.... so now decide to blog b4 i leave singapore and embark on this adventurous journey in China.... dun even noe if i haf got everything i need or not... hahahz maybe there's still time to go get the stuff if u hurry but realli not in the mood to go pack now.....

quite depressing to pack cuz got so manu things to bring and so little space avail to pack.... hahahz... i guess i realli need to pack in moderation bah.... after all i am bringing a rather big bag... hope no one sees it tml.... i wanna check in first den no one can see how big mi suitcase is... hahhaz.... *grinS...

wEll.... tataz.... gotta go read mi book and spend more time wif mi room b4 i leave.... hahhaz... otherwise no more chance until 3 months later le.... hahhaz

3 dAys to go!!!

2005-04-20T23:35:00.000+08:00

HaHaz... the long awaited day has finally aRrived and so faR i haf not rEceivEd any calls aT all sO it meAns that i Am saFe to go China and i haf passed All of mi PapeRs..... isn't tat gReaT?? hAf bEen rUnning to and fRo these fEw days meeting up wiF the insurance agent anD going out...

juZ yEstErdaY, wEnt to EaT sAkaE wIf Yp anD kX.... wAlkeD fRom Far East where we went to bUy books, all the way to Heeran to go eat Sakae anD tAke NeoPrints.... hahhaz... tOok fRom two diFf maChines... so Fun..!! hAd to gO anD thInk of poSes and iDeas.... dUn think can tAke nEopRinTs in China le... cUz it's jaPanEse thingy lai de.... Come to think of it... Olympus iS a Japanese bRand... dEn izzit sAfe to bRing iT aloNg....?? hahahz... nvm.. jUz bRinG it and taKe somE foTos....

tOday WenT down to China eMbassy to collect mi vIsa and there was this China reception lady who started arguing wiF another cHina lady getting her VISA application form.... hahahz... quite comical cuZ thE Reception (R) lady wAs like so calm wHile the ChinA (C) lady waS so agitatEd.... tHis was wat hAppened...:

C jumps into queue at the front of the desk
R : Qing ni dao hou mian pai tui....
C: i juZ waNna take a queue numbEr
R (irritated tone) : Ni yao tian hao piao ge (fill in application form), wo cai ke yi rang ni pai tui....
C (slams forms down on table): Wo yi jing tian hao le....
R (AnnoYed) : tIAn hao le, dan shi ni de tai du hao xiang bu shi hen hao, wo ze me ke yi kei ni hao ma???
C (gEtting hot liao): Wo xian zai shi CUSTOMER, ni ze me ke yi zhe yang gen wo shuo hua.... ni de tai du ye bu shi hen hao lor.... (getS louder)
R (smiles to herself) : Wo hao xiang mei you gen ni shou hua zhe me da sheng.... shuo hua xiao sheng dian.... heeheez....
R dEn takes a queue number and told C to "gen wo lai".... den the rest of us behind the queue juz stand there and watch the show... juz short of popcorn to make a nice catfight onli.... hahhaz... the rest i dun noe wat happen liao... cUZ it wAs likE this security guard took oveR dEn he also another idiot de lor... so qiao ao de....

bUt luckily, there was this nice lady who helped mi find mi letter for attachment which i didn't photostat and juz handed in to the visa application...... and they never return mi... ( i thot they would...) so this lady was very nice and i think i shall call her the Window no.7 lady cuz the window which she was working in is no. 7..... hahhahz.....

dEn wEnt ovEr to sEe mi little cOusin b4 she leaves for malaysia wif her parents and i won't see her for 3 months liao.... hahhaz... so cute but she dun recognise mi le.... but nvm i haf her foto.... ahahhaz... aFter tat, wEnt for dinner wif mi grandparents.... and deN sat ard to watch TV.... nth much on the programs nowadays.... the onli show i realli liked was the 9pm channel 8 de show featuring Fann wong.... she still look so beautiful... hahhaz...

nTh much to updaTe except tat tml haf to go down to the bank to make traveller's cheques so tat dun haf to carry so much cash into China.... if not i also scared kena robbed... everyone has been telling mi to be careful of the pickpockets in China, they are very clever and fast... and if lost gone liao..... hahhaz so muz be realli careful over there....

okok gotta go bath le... havne't bath for the whole day liao... whoole body stinks.... hahhaz... better get into the bathroom b4 everyone dies or sumthing... signing off....

WhAt a WeeK!!!

2005-04-19T11:10:00.000+08:00

YEs.... aFteR bEinG pEstEreD tO upDaTe, fiNallY cAn coMe onliNe to bLog liAo.... hahhaz Had no acCeSs to a coM fOR abT 1 wEek le.... bUt juZ some history in brieF....

lAst wednesday was our last paper and woah it felt so great hahahz.... juz like a huge boulder juz lifted off mi back and body.... wE weNt to eat rAmen at choa chu kang cuz they say wanna make it fair to dEnnis cuz we always go places faraway from his home.... i ate their paper pot and it was not too bad juz too salty.... and those tat ordered ramen were like competing to see who could eatthe hottest bowl..... hahhaz... so crazy.. got 2 chilli all the way till like 14 chilli or something.... hahhaz

oN tHursdaY, we had a class bbq organised at east coast chatlet.... many were there and it was kinda like a farewell party for the ppl going to china and attachment as well as for linglee who is going back to malaysia.... hhahaz there was so much food we had to stuff ourself silly lor.... hhahaz spent a whole good hour at the beach going mad.... standing at the top of THE ROCK...... taking so many pics.... and gEtting soaked to the skin.... cUz of theSe ppl who pushed mi into the sea and still deny it lor.... say i fall in myself de.... =P

fRiday wEnt to E2 class bbq.... and i had to kinda self-invited de.... hahhaz... lucky i had taken the initiative to ask yp they all if not hor.... sure no chance to go de.... =P kinda funni going there at first cuz i like onli noe a few of them ( the rest are ppl tat are like "Hi, bYe"" tat kind...) hAd aot of fun juz eating and watching SCV the early part of the day den when the bbq started.... and ppl started reeling in.... the real fun began... we played card games and i was bbqing most of the time for ppl like ching hui who wants to be served.... hhahaz ended quite late... almost one when we left the place at eunos, yp auntie house....

sAt was the mosT rushEd wan.... wOke up late at twelve plus cuz of previous night... dEn we alreadi arranged to meet mi neighbour aT twelve to go shopping for her b'day present... hahhaz... cuz i am leaving on the 23rd and her b'day on the 26th.... wE told her it was to shop for mi stuff... so we ended walking from PS to Ngee Ann dEn to paragon and all we got were one pants, one skirt and a dennin skirt.... and a whole stomach full of food like brownie and taiwanese food.... not to forget ice-cream... hhahaz... but we managed to buy her b'day present.... bY the timE we hAd bought the present, i was late for mi dinner appointment and they were gonna be late for church.... so we took a cab down and they dropped mi off at westin hotel b4 leaving for church....

wAs meeting mi uncle and auntie for dinner cuz they leaving tml to malaysia and cannot see mi off or attend mi farewell party.... wEnt to this realli great buffet restaurant called marketplace plaza.... sounds a bit like coffee shop but its a realli nice restaurant juz situated at a corner of westin.... tHe food was great, they had salad, rojak, clams, crayfish(which was the best i tell u...) ice-cream, cakes, tiramisu, chinese food, sushi and another of mi favourite, live cold prawns.... the prawns are alreadi cooked but they are cold de... dun ask mi how they did it, it was juz there and so i tried... and its so delicious... it doesn't haf the fishy smell normal prawns haf... and it was so sweet.... hahahz... salivating??

sUndAy was so unexpected cuz onli on sat did i noe that the CC tour which i attended was a whole day tour of singapore lor... travel so many places... hahhaz go to clark quay first for the bum boat ride which was the best and then wEnt to buy rou gan and saw chen hui hui... she looked real pretty and her complexion was so fair... aFter tat went for lunch at causeway point and asked if py is ard there to join mi for lunch....so mi, py and thomas met up at causeway point and in the end no time to eat and ended up eating crystal jade bread.... hahhaz.... after tat the tour continued to a vegetable farm and FARMART, which was filled with pet shops and organic health food.... hahahz... quite fun to see the animals and free sampling of the food... hahahhz... dEn afTer tat it was off to the last stop, the pottery place.... they sell alot of very cool and ancient pots and figurine.... all very kawaii... the utencils were very antique and mi mum bought quite alot of them...

aFter tat finally it was time to go home... i didn't realli particularly enjoy the tour cuz it was like travelling with all the old ppl and most of them haf no time concept and so we ended up waiting for some of them thruout the tour... deN had to rush home to prepare spagetti for the bBq again on sunday at bernice house.... hahhaz it was at paya lebar.... cooked alot of pasta and made banana choc... also brought along two bottles of wine from mi dad's collection... rEached there ard near seven le... dEn juz bbQ and ate and ate and drink... hahhz.. rS was drunk after gulping down like three cups or something... hahhaz and i had to repeat mi self tat wine supposed to drink in sips de.... and den dennis wEnt to add coke inside somemore... -.-"

RS got drunk and was like going mad, and didn't noe wat he was doing, he juz slept anywhere on the playground and was not realli sober.... wE cleared up by ten and went up to bernice house to eat cake and pie which was a surprise for amelia cuz celebrating her b'day as she won't be in singapore but in china wif us..... hahhaz... but we were all so full cannot eat anymore liao... den we took a cab home as i was carrying alot of things and the rest of them had to rush home.... reached home nearly 11 plus le.... hahhahaz... bUt it had been a fun week....

wEddiNg at boTanical gArdeN rOkwz!!!!

2005-04-10T01:12:00.000+08:00

Hahaz... back to blog another entry again.... and i muz tell u all abt wat happened to mi today.... so frustrating lor.... today early in the morning went to take Basic theory test at yio chu kang.... met RS at 8am.... and test was at 8.45 but i haven't even started studying it yet.... lolz... and he said he had this book which had almost all the questions that came out the last few years and all the questions sure will come out de.... in the end onli got 10 pages lor.... cuz he say aloy onli photostat for him 10 pages the rest never.... so in the end had to read the whole book.....

nO time to read lor..... read half-way den had to go in le.... worst, we entered the wrong room.... and had to leave half-way..... hahhaz.... we entered the trial theory test.... cuz we thot its all the same de... in the end it was the room at the other end of the hall..... dEn realised i forgot to bring I/C..... wAh in the end had to take the test liao den go all the way back home to take it and bring it back again.... hhahaz.... but at least its better than not taking the test at all.....

wEll, today had to attend a weDding dinNer which i was totally not looking forward to cuz will see ppl tat i dun wanna see as well as rub shoulders with the snobbish..... hahahz.... and thot will go there to feed the mosquitoes..... and realli lor... the mosquitoes there are real big and fat lar.... hahhaz and they not afraid movement de.... u move, they continue to suck ur blood lor.... wAh.. can u believe it??? i caught two sucking mi blood halfway lar.... and i juz squashed them and threw them back to the ground.... ok i think tat is too much detail liao..... :-P

It was at the botanical garden at some hall no air-con, no shark fin and no communication...... cuz we were alreadi told tat it would be buffet style cuz the husband is aust. so more western de.... but the weather was real terrible lar..... so humid and no air-con and it was a windlesss night..... tHE buffet was not realli fantastic.... although they served sushi and satay (i mean which wedding seRve sAtay on a hoT niGht....?? ) and it was a rather small affair cuz i thnk got less than 20 tables onli.... dEn we were sitting on the second level ( tat was another prob... split into two levels made the whole wedding less intereactive and most o the time we were entertaining ourselves more than thinking abt the wedding.... )

realli simple ceremony.... juz the priest to say a few words and the groom kissed the bride liao.... (they were married once in aust le) and quite funni lar the scene, cuz u can see tat while the ceremony was going on, the crowd started taking out fans and paper and started fanning right on the spot.... hahahz... i was like gonna burst out laughing liao lor.... quite spoil the scenary lar.... and it reflects on how much the guests are enjoying the ceremony.....

thru out the whole night u can see ppl fanning themselves while eating, while taking food, while waiting for the toilet.... and yes there was onli one toilet and it was onli for one person.... wah u can imagine the queue..... gueSs how i know all these?? Yes u got tat right, mi table was juz like 2m away from the toilet.... so most of the time, we were looking at ppl going to the toilet rather than eating the food..... tHe food was quite terrible, the onli nice wan was the deSsert.... it came in small little glass cups and had choc mousse and strawberry in it.... as well as the strawberry tart.... the strawberry was so sWeet... juz thinking abt it makes mi water lor.... :-)

many guests left b4 the dinner even ended, maybe its the weather or maybe its juz the lack of activity... dun noe whether it is becuz not many ppl or wat but everyone juz seem a bit shy... no one ÿum-sheng" at all, except our tables... cuz our family alone (extended of course) took up 3 tables, yes yes we were the biggest family there..... hahahz.... quite proud lar... drew alot of unnecessary attention..... nOt much activity like those games we played at chinese weddings, and most of the time, there was more mingling and i mean how much could u mingle....?? the dinner started at ard 5.30 wif cocktail and ended ard ten..... so much time mingling, u can find out the other guy's whole extended family le lor..... hahhaz.....

tHe onli beSt part was the choc fountain which came at the end..... tHe couple designed this little fountain which had melted choc overflowing out of the sprout..... the choc was light and it was not even warm, and it was supposed to go wif some fruits.... so i took a strawberry and stuck it into the cascading flow of choc and the choc flowed all over the strawberry dEn i put it on to mi plate and went to a corner to savour it..... hahahz... and it was onr of the best i had ever eaten lar..... the choc was not very strong but it went along pretty well wif the strawberry.... i tried the banana wan too bUt this choc was juz not hot enuff and the banana was so hard.... i had trouble juz biting into it lor.... hahhaz

dUring the wEdding, took so many fotos and we tried so many different poses.... hahahz so most of the night, we spent taking fotos wiF the orchids and flowers and at night, the botanical garden juz looks so different..... the flowers looked much more prettier.... and the lighting juz seem perfect for the night ( but the weather was definitely not.....) tOwaRds the enD, i managed to steal a bit of time alone to go walk ard the park which was realli dark not frightening dark but perfect lighting dark.... and it was juz so enjoyable walking down the road wif flowErs by the side for u to admire.....

dEn came back and realised hoW muCh "Souvenir" they took..... hhahaz... they took the wooden spoon for the dessert and the glass cup as well as this tiny looking plate used to put prawns.... as well as the little bag of dried flowers which each person had one.... but obviously it was not enuff... so they went round the empty tables and took the ones which were left behind.... i was like walking so far behind them and juz minding mi own business.... pretending not to know them.... so paiseh lor....

nOW came bAck liao and it's time to hiT the books b$ its too late and tml i mean today still gotta go sweep tomb.... literally lar... gotta wake up at 8 plus bah... so muz quickly study den go slp le.... hahhaz... so tAtaZ.... sHall most prob update tml if got time..... yeAh?? niTEz.... and haf a sweEt drEam toniGht... anD we are onli leFt wif thRee papErs onLi, lEts all worK towards wEdnesday, the last paper deN we'll be frEe :p

An intErestinG gAme!!!!

2005-04-06T23:52:00.000+08:00

yEs, Yes, b4 i forgeT, must tell u all abt this realli meaningful game which i think all of us muZ apply to our livEs.... It a beri simple gAme.... tHis is how the Game cAme aBt:

There wAs this couple who had to face the decision of retuRning a comatose paTient whom they hAd kidnapped from a hospital to prevent the hospital taking away the patient's life support system. The guy wanted to keep the patient by his side while the gal wanted him to return the patient cuz she feels its not worth it for the guy to give it all up ( he had a house, successful career, wonderful life ahead of him) cuz the police were hot on his trail...... sO tHe gal decided to play a gaME wif hIm.

Imagine tat you haf won a contest, and your prize is tat every morning, a bank will open an account in your name containing $86,400. And there are only two rules to follow. The first rule is that everything u fail to spend is taken from u tat night. If u cannot spend finish the money by the time u go to bed, the money will be taken away from you. You cannot cheat by switching the unspent money to another account, u can only spend it. But when u wake up the next morning, and every morning after tat, the bank opens a new account for u, always $86,400 for the day. The second rule is the bank can break off the game without warning. It can tell u at any time tat it's over and it's closing the account and there won't be another one.

What Would You Do???

The guy answered in the most logical way anyone should answer..... He would spend every dollar on pleasure and gifts for the ppl he loved. He'll find a way to spend every single cent offered by this "magic bank account" to bring happiness into his life and the lives of everyone ard him..... And as well as to the lives of ppl he didn't noe.... But the guy was puzzled as to wat this game proved....

Well, to this question, the gal answered in the same calm relaxed composure the guy did in answering her question: "We all have tat magic bank account, It's time.... A big account filled with fleeting seconds. Every morning when we wake up, our account for the day is credited with 86,400 secondsand when we go to slp every night, there's no carry over into the next day.... What hasn't been lived during the day is lost.... Yesterday has vanished. Every morning, the magic begins again, with a new line of credit. But we are still playing by tat rule... The bank can close our account at any time without any warning....At any moment, our life can end...

Dun u think this game should be applied to our lives every single day...?? with this, i leave u to ponder.... hahahz...

2005-04-06T23:25:00.000+08:00

OMGosh!!! fEEls so relieved afTer the first paper is over.... although it has been a huge huge nightmare...!!! :-) i am so glad its over.... this was the paper i was quite worried abt... now tat its over...... hehe.... time to haf some fun..... no lar jk.... cannot relax now.... still got another four paper to go.... and there's juz 1 lurking juz b4 the weekends... not beri confident abt it cuz haven't touched the book yet... but should be quite simple cuz not many things to study....

sOrri tat i haf not been updating mi blog.... juz so busy making notes and stuff and also becuz i lazy lar.... hahahz.... lazy to switch on the com, lazy to wait for the internet explorer to start.... and also becuz i would rather watch TV.... :-P mAybe all of u haf noticed that the recent entries haf been how should we put it??? BORING... !!! hahahz.... wEll, i thnk tats becuz most of the time i wasn't realli putting mi heart into writing.... so practically.. i am blogging bUt mi mind is somewhere else..... hahhaz.... but watever is there is definitely true.... juz no FEELINGS in the entries which i feel is the most impt part....

Hmmz.... i am sure most of u would haf heard abt the death of the Pope.... wEll, i was actually juz channel surfing when i stumbled onto the news.... hahhaz... i was up thru out the whole night memorising HBD cuz so many bones and muscles to remember..... so at ard 5 plus singapore time, i saw CNN reporting live from the St. Peter's square announcing the death of the Pope and i got interested....

didn't noe such a honourable and faithful man exists in this world... realli quite touched by all tat he did and i feel that he left b4 his time was up.... he could haf done more.... but i guess this world couldn't keep him for long.... and guess wat...?? he visited Singapore in the year we were born.... hahhaz.. so coincidental....

hMmz... still waiting for the return of mi guitar.... Fab took it for dun noe wat reason and he still havn't return it to mi..... said he will pass it to mi today but till now still haven't heard any news.... wEll... maybe another time...

hMmz.... passed the Da vinci book back to Yp in the most funni way ever..... was up quite early (8am plus) beri early liao lor... haven't wake up so early in such a long time liao... so didn't wanto wake other ppl up together wif mi.... so considerate right?? so i juz placed the book in her house the shoe cupboard.... hahhaz and i slipped away... den later afternoon den msg her to tell her cuz i forgot all abt it..... was beri busy in sch trying to memorise all the pathways of initiation for translation...... hahhaz....

rEceived a sms from mi neighbour..... hhahaz... quite touched realli.... wished mi best of luck... hahhaz... didn't thot she would remember... i have never been good wif dates.... when ppl tell mi a date, the next min i can forget wat they told mi liao.... hahahz.... so pls remind mi over and over again if u ppl arranged a day to go out wif mi.. i scared i might forget all abt it.... it happened a few times liao.... :p

hhahaz... surprising today got nth much to type..... cuz i got the flu now and i juz feel so terrible and i dun noe how i can keep up wif it..... juz feels so irritated right now i can tear the com up.... hahahz... sounds violent... muz learn to curb it or else those going to China wif mi will DIE de!!!! :-P

nOw listening to the song tat pY couldn't send mi.... hahahz... managed to find it... it is so NICE.... sang by guang liang de.... Ru guo ni hai ai wo...... hAiz.... fEel so terrible now i can tear mi nose down and i thnk it is coming off liao.... i haf been rubbing it the whole night lor... dun noe how i am gonna study tml.... so frustrating... juz wish we didn't haf a nose..... hahahz... maybe juz dun haf bacteria lar..... if not willl end up like mi suffering now....

wAh... realli cannot take it liao.... so tIred... mi eyes giving up on mi liao.... hahhaz... u ppl also better all go to slp early hor... dun stay up too late..... tataz....

hAhaz... first eNtrY aFter fIrst papeR....

2005-04-06T23:19:00.000+08:00

mOvIe mArAthOn mAde mI Sick!!!!

2005-03-26T19:34:00.000+08:00

hAf beEn a while since i bloggEd.... wEll so here goEs.... iT was thE last dAy of sCh foR thE wEek bEcuz of Good Friday..... and i am definitely noT complaining of a daY leSs iN tHe sTudy wEek.... bUt thIs dAy caUseD us anoTher dAy of sCh nExt wEek which wAs meant tO be lEsson fRee sO taT we cOulD sEt asIde tiMe for sTudying..... tHe eXams arE nExt wEek... anD sEriously, i haF nO conFidenCe in miSelf rIght noW.... cUZ its liKe if i fAil anY of mi modules, i would haf to stay in S'pore to finish mi supplementary paper insyead of going to China and i hatEd the idea of tat....

although it would mean tat i could sAve $1500 or more, which is a lot..... bUt tat aside, i gueSs i can't realli face up to all the ppl tat i haf told them abt mi going to China.... i mean it would be so weird to suddenly pull out from the tRip last min some more.... bEcuz haf to wait at least one week b4 results are out and the next week, alreadi we are on the plane to China.... sO therefore, i realli dun like tat idea.... i realli realli pray hard tat i would be able to pass the exams....

On friday, i had a movie maraton wif mi neighbour and some of her church friends.... and we watched Pacifier and it abt this cop who becomes a nanny and quite hilarious lar.... watched till abt one plus b4 her friends went home and we watched Shutter..... she went home halfway and mi family watched the rest together.... and i tell u watching it the second time was more scary than the first lar.... cOuldnt slp at night till i dozed off while reading a book....

aM fEeling so sick noW.... woke up from mi slumber at 4.30 plus when mi neighbour rang mi dorrbell to ask if we wanted bananas..... i tell u ah, i almost plummeted her right there and then lor.... i didn't even manage to slp till like 8 this morning and den at 4 pm she rang mi doorbell to ask if we wanted bananas???

Of course also cannot blame her lar.... becuz i stayed out till like at 7am plus plus aT CW house.... to watch movie and i haf to tell u, her theatre system at home rOckZ..... hahahz... she has a big screen projector and an air-conditioned theatre room..... which is also the cause for mi flu and grogginess (dun noe if tat is the right way of spelling, feel so sick now to dun realli care....)

aCtually didn't expect to stay up until so late de.... cUZ we went for a debrief aT sJ HQ and the debrief dragged on fOr like hours lor.... until at ard six den finish.... wAh was so tui tat i wasted so much time there, lucky aaron, one of the logistics i/c was sitting next to mi and we were like crapping thru out the meeting lor.. cuz he also like mi de, do sai kang wan during camp.... dEn worst still was at the bbq, there was realli not much activity, lucky ivan got bring cards and we managed to play bridge which i seriously haven't played in a long time..... so we juz sat there till abt eight playing bridge and den we decided to leave the bbq to go home cuz it was getting boring....

dEn as we were abt to leave, we started mingling wif one of the groups there.... and den we started talking abt alot of stuff and talking talking, we stayed till abt ten den we had to stay to help clean up.... hahhaz... so unexpected.... realli didn't noe tat these ppl were so fun de....

sO after clearing up and stuff, decided to go over to mi house to watch movie, shutter, but CW didn't wanna go cuz she didn't like watching scary movies.... ever since she moved to her new house, YP say de... so she was going home den tat left mi, ivan and yp.... not realli keen le cuz so little ppl de.... dEn afTer tat, on the bus we decided to go rent movies and i went to the movie rental store nearby to rent mives but had to register and registration time was from 6-9pm and so made a wasted trip....

in the end, still had to go mi neighbour house (another wan) to go borrow some DVDs.... dEn we moved out to walk to CW house cuz by den was alreadi 12 midnight liao... reAched there and den we fretted over wat movies to watch.... i had borrowed five and plus shutter.... so we ended up watching the movies in the following order: Duplex, Princess Diaries 2, Da lau ai mei li, den shutter.... (2nd time in two days lor...)

tHe first movie was quite funni but a bit draggy lar.... But it was realli cool to haf such nice stereo system and great environment to be watching the movies.... the 2nd movie, i alreadi watched but i still find it nice even watching it the second time.... by the time the 3 movie started, i was snoring away liao... so tired after a whole day of meeting and eating... hahhaz... Ivan started slp from the 2nd movie but can't blame him lar... i think he quite tired also cuz he juz booked out from camp and he's in the commandos.... hahahz quite cool but the training also very the tough lor...

hE shoed us a few of the fotos he took in camp and most of them were RA lar.... (hahhaz... juz kidding lar... juz showed them holding MAxim or FHM wiF some kind of weird stare looking at the pics.... ) bUt i thnk he is hafing fun in camp cuz i thnk his bond wif his bunk mates quite strong....

YP was the wan who lasted the the longest.... she onli started slping when the last movie started and den when the movie almost ended she woke up..... hahahz... bUt i didn't realli thnk we would watch movie thru the night lor.... first time we had spent the night at CW house and i tell u her room was freezing cuz not enuff blanket lor and i had to curl up to slp lar.... and i slpt on the floor... cuz ivan took up one sofa and the another one by YP....

wEnt home ard 7.30am and had to cancel dArren's appointment at the gym cuz i was feeling so sick.... and i was so slpy... so sorri dArren.... and so here i am now bloGging the past few days events and feeling a slight headsche coming along liao... dun noe when i can recover i hope its real soon cuz had to start mugging le... and it abT time too haf been slacking for too long a time le.... sO till next time... tAtaz...

mi MuM is pReTty....!!!

2005-03-23T23:45:00.000+08:00

dUn worrY peepS, this is not some kind of incest thingy.... shall elaborate later on in the entry how this conclusion came abt.... for now, let mi warn u abt the dangers of insect bitEs......

Hmmz... mi cousin Went into hospital two days ago becuz an insect bit hiM at hIs bAlls... (wEll, shall reFer it as "tHere"to avoid giggling from the gals esp....) sO the insect bit him like many many days b4 he started to feel pain and bumps begin to form ard the bitten area.... den when they went to see a doctor, the doc told his family to check him into hospital in case it is dengue fever.....

sO of course, the family flew into a panic and rushed him to the hospital for a check-up..... wEll, that's not the worst.... tHe docs at the hospital confirmed tat it is not dengue juz an infection which was left unattended for too long..... so in the bumps, there is pus and blood and it hurts.... and mi poor cousin has to stay in the hospital while the docs decide whether the bumps are "ripe" to burst..... sounds like pimple rite??? sO today when i went down to take a look at him, he's realli quite young lar... abt like P4.... hE was limping from the pain, cuz the nurses alreadi burst 2 and there are 4.... the nurse say the other 2 haf to wait cuz when they burst 2, he alreadi was shouting in pain.....

mUz say tat he is quite brave lar.... cuz realli i think very painful to haf bumps "there" and den they still wanna burst it.... and to see him limping, now tat i think back abt it, quite funni lar... real evil of mi lor.... but its realli funni when u see a young person limping from the bed to the toilet and back.... and u noe where he is hurt.....*trying to control mi laughter as i re-enact the scene* *cross fingers* hoPe i never get it.... esp not when i am in China.... dEn i feel tat he is realli living the life of a king in the hospital lor... he gets to haf someone to sta wif him 24 hours a day and i am not kidding, his family members stay round the clock to look after him and all take turns lar... and watch TV all day, dun u think tats wat all kids like to do nowadays....?? hahahz.....

wEll.... let's recap wat hapened yEstErdAy.... hMmz... went for a cEll tEch quiz in the laTe afTernoon and managed to listen to mi mP3 player for the first time since i bought it.... hahahhaz and the sound quality roCksZ..... sHall haf to take realli gOod care of it liao cUZ i spenT all mi Hong bAo money on iT..... and noW mi bAnk acCounT almost empTy liAo.... :-(
dEn came home to find out mi sister's application into poly course was unsuccessful..... well, actually kinda unexpected cuz i thot she could at least get into TP business IT..... bUt now i gueSs she is in gEnting enjoying herself... so no worries all can wait till she comes back cuz there's nth for us to do now..... bUt nOw she caught a fever up there muz be becuz never wear warmer clothes tats y now fall sick....

wAs rushing thRu A fEw rePorTs yeSterdaY.... gOT HBD and IM seminar to work on.... had to help pY do her summary and den had to find more info to talk abt mi slides.... ahhahahz in the end so tired wenT to slp early cUZ was like noT concentrating liao..... so not productive at all lor.... hahahz... sorri guyS pang sei u all....

tOday had to take another test... ABC pract test.... the paper was quite alrite bah... but realli no confidence at all for getting an A.... most prob a B....?? dEn wenT to yAkulT for an ""eDucationAl" tour...... i dun noe whether it was a tour of the yakult factory or a tour of the Speaker's lifE..... tHE speaker was a 40 plus maybe near 50 man.... wear specs wif a beer belly which he claims he goT from drinking all the yakult.... hahhaz..... a bit balding liao... but he's a real funni guy.... he had us laughing all the time at his corny life experiences and stories abT his family.... i think the time spent on telling us abt his family was more than the time we spent on the tour of the factory..... buT i t has been an interesting trip.... we got to see the actual yakult farm and its production is actually quite small.... maybe due to the small market singapore offers..... i counted and altogether, less than ten were working in the production line(packing, sealing, handling etc...) buT goT more ppl in the QC line, whereby they carry out tests to verify the contents of the yAkult....

AftER touring the factory, i realise yAkult is not onli for small children..... and not juz becuz small children like it for its sweetness..... we should all drink it cuz it helps to supress the bad micro-flora growing in out intestine.... so we should all drink yakult everyday and live longer which is wat they claim can improve longevity..... bUt i think the part where it supresses the bad micro-flora is quite true de.... so in order not to get bacterial invasion in the intestine, we should drink more yakult.... hahhaz... propaganda.... i charging yakult for doing some advertisment for them lor....

sO came back from yakult factory and was looking at some guide book abt China... need to prepare miself for the trip lor and i saw many itineraries which were ard Beijing..... so we muz go there and see them when we are there ok??? so looking forward tothe trip... can't believe it is so close to the date of departure liao.... hahhaz.... jUz realised today whEn Ame started saying its less than a month away.... b4 we are leaving s'pore.... can't help thinking abt all the ppl that i will miss and the food as well.....

Well, noW we can start on the topic abT mi muM bEauty.... a lizard juz ran past mi at the side of the wall..... eWeeee....... okok..... i am staying away from the side of the wall liao....

yes, back to the topic....it was realli juz a moment in time when i saw it... later the image juZ vanished..... it was also not her most glorious moment.... she was wearing a 3/4 pants and a ordinary dark blue shirt..... she was using her hp headset to talk to her sec sch best friend.... and gueSs where we were??? I was in the car wif mi dAd and she was outside buying "paos" and den juz suddenly, from the side view, i realised how beautiful she looked.... hahhaz.... her fringe was juz in the rite place.... and her hair looked all neatly combed and straight.... and her smile jUz melts ur heaRt..... lOlz....

gUess this is wat they mean when they say if u wanna see how ur future wife looks like, look at ur mum??? hahhaz... maybe its my theory bah.... bUt juz tat moment she looked realli fabulous.... dEn i started thinking abt all the things i haf done to make her angry and disappointed wif mi..... hahhz juz how these things come to mind, i also dun noe.... bUt i gueSS the both of us are realli hot-headed and stubborn.... although we care for each other, but we juz wouldn't say it cuz we scare lose face..... hahhaz.... aT tat point in time, i made a promise to miself tat i would try all mi best not to make her angry anymore ( i've learnt not to use the term "never" cuz i jUz cannot do it....also thkx to mi mum lar.... she likes to use the phrase "dun say u never ok??? never means u haf not ever done it" ) dun noe how long this promise can last but i think i will try mi best to keep it lor.... if not i will thkn back abt this moment...... hahahhz

yUp... so tats pretty much wats been happening.... and wats going on in mi mind.... hhahaz.... mindless chatter within the brain..... gtg le... still haf a full day tml..... so siAnz juz thinking abt it.... hahhaz....

i' ve fInaLLy fOunD mI mP3!!!!

2005-03-20T23:20:00.000+08:00

yes yEs u've heard rite..... or in this case seen..... i found mi mP3 playeR le... and it Juz looks sHuai dAi le..... hahahz... its a cool black colour.... and it hAs so many functions.... tOok mi realli realli lonG time b4 deciding on this model as it was beri expensive and i would be spending all mi money on it..... bUt becuz i wanted a mp3 player which looks slick and had many functions.... i guess it would be money well spent.... wEll.... haven't got down to experimenting wif it yet.... will go try it out as soon as i am done bloGging....

it has a real cool interface.... and touch sensors on its buttons... juz like iPod.... except tat its smaller and comes in more colours.... screen quite big and it so LIGHT.... i can't believe it... i guess its good points are endless hahahz... bUt had to borrow money juz to buy this model cuz i didn't carry enuff cash wif mi... had to borrow another $79 bucks.... hahhaz... so tHkx yeah fAb n PS for lending mi the dough..... will rEturn to u all on tUesday de.... asap... wEll not sumthing to be proud of....

hOwever, there was this one thing tat i was rather proud of... hahahz... i paid cash upfront to the lady at the counter.... in bills of $2 and $10 (more 2s than 10s lar....) hahahz... and the lady had such a hard time juz counting the cash... and they counted twice b4 giving mi back the change.... hahhaz i also didn't exactly noe how much i gave them.... and while they were counting, fAb said they look like bank clerks..... counting money bY hand..... and it was rather hilarious.... but lucky there was no one behind us otherwise sure kena whacked de....

bUt to say the least, there were realli not much ppl at the fair today maybe everyone came down on friday and sat liao so not many le.... hhahaz but still quite busy lar... esp at the zEn micro counter.... many were looking at the different models and accessories and its many other products which were on offer at almost 50% off.... and u could see all the ppl on the shuttlebus going home wif a trolley behind them or carrying a large plastic bag.... mI??? i put the player in mi bag.... hahahz... juz a small wan realli....

dEn went over to East coast to go cycling... ended up going to pasir ris instead cuz never go there b4.... didn't go cycling in the end... juz sat there and enjoyed the breeze which was real relaxing... den after tat went for dinner at bedok interchange hawker centre.... the food there beri the nice esp the ban mian.... and the ah balling.... wah.... heavenly, ppl... is the onli word tat can describe it....

nOw back and home and can't wait to go back to mi mp3 player after this.... so tataz peeps will update u all on the mp3 player progress de... hahahz...

cReaTive SalEs tOday!!!!

2005-03-20T10:52:00.000+08:00

yEs, i am finAlly going to the crEative sAles afTer contemplatIng fOr likE tHree dAys..... i had initially planned to go on tHursdAy de.... buT bEcuz nexT dAy goT scH aNd thE faIr sTarTs aT 11pM sO i coulDn't sTay oVerniGht tO quEue fOr the sTar bUy wHich wAs tHe MuVo2 5GB mp3 plaYer going for $149 for tHe fiRst 50 customErs bUt den also no one wanted to come along to queue cuz everyone had to work..... sO wEnt to sch wIf rEgrEts tat dAy on fRidAy.... :(

bUt aFter tAt ard evening time, i had to meet mi neighbour up at pasir ris to go pLanetshakerS... they are a christian rock grp from australia.... i heard their music b4 and it was realli quite nice.... wHeN i was nearing hG, she den told mi to meet her aT hg interchange..... wAh dEn had to alight from the bUs and pang sEi GA.... cUZ i told him will sit till Tamp..... hahhaz.... sO in the eNd, we wEre laTe le... so took a cabby down to downtown eAst and the taxi uncle hor... cheat money de lor.... he bring us go all the way to punggol den use expressway... when we were like hg.... near the tamp expressway lor.... wAh the fAre wAs like 9 plus lar.... hahhaz.... I remembEr hIs numbEr plaTe lor.... tRans cab lai de... next time dun wanna sit this cab liao....

dEn when we reached there, we went for dinner wif a few others from church.... mEt zhongyun whom I haven't seen since a few months back when I went to church..... hahhaz... still the bubbly carefree gal I noe in church camp back in malaysia..... dEn had dinner liao gotta queue to go in somemore... so many de ppl.... although not full house, but I think got abt at least 500 lar.... mostly youngsters..... but I think some of the pastors attended as well like uncle allen from church..... hahhaz he quite a funni guy, realli quite young at heart....

dUring the concert.... some of the songs were realli nice and the ppl there were rather spontaneous.... It was more like a rock concert realli...... all the loud music and musical instruments..... and the ppl there, they were jumping to the music and being quite high.... I was juz standing there watching them and like singing along wif the music.... was realli feeling quite alone.... but lucky mi neighbour was there to talk to mi lor... if not sure die wan.... cuz everyone there like so N2 den like onli mi juz clapping along.... hahahz... hard to explain lar.... but feels realli weird lor.... but the music was realli nice and I wanted to go for the sat service as well but had to attend the australia fair wif GA they all so couldn't make it.....

aFter the cOncert, they decided to go to whampoa to eat... hahhz... instigated by mi neighbour.... didn't feel like going cuz quite late le.... was alreadi like 10 plus.... but den she lar wanted to go so had no choice.... had to go along too but lucky no need to take bus if not so far lor... go all the way to whampoa..... uncle allen gave us a ride there.... den in the end.... we ate "gui ling gao" hahahhz cuz she didn't want to eat chicken rice....... I ordered honeydew and sago in fresh milk..... which was not too bad..... I think tat place the dessert is quite good... den bought a few tidbits... sat down and started eating..... den out of the blue....

they started talking abt accepting christ..... now everyone ard mi noes that I am not a christian, I am juz going to church cuz I like the music there and the ppl are real nice.... everyone wants mi to accept christ cuz they wan mi to get salvation..... to start a new life... which sounds tempting but its juz tat many things are holding mi back too..... and the fact that 2 of mi sisters alreadi accepted..... didn't reflect too well on mi..... but it like becuz mi grandparents told mi tat they didn't wan mi to make a decision so soon and I should wait till I am like 21... when I am older b4 I decide.... so I am holding back but othere than tat.... I still haf other reservations.... such as my faith in the religion..... I seriously haf no faith watsoever in christianity..... no offence ppl.... but I find tat I realli like the life wif no constrains and no restrictions.... and by accepting, I dun noe wat I am getting into... there are so many uncertainties.....

he started preaching to mi and this was the part I didn't like realli.... cuz it was like real pressurizing.... cuz there were like 5 of us and 4 were christians and although onli one spoke.... it was like all four of them were waiting for mi reply.... but of course I did bow down..... i was quite persistant realli.... but he did mention tat the more u resist, the harder ur heart will become to accepting christ.... but once i made mi stand, they couldn't make mi change mi mind.... cuz i was also not ready yet.... gOT a treat from one of them cuz we gave her a lift home.... dEn afTer tat, uncle allen fetched us home..... all the way into mi house.... hahahz... by then it was alreadi 11 plus going to 12 liao.... hahhaz... had to hurry up get some slp cuz was going to the australia fair the next day.....

sO early in the moRning.... had to wake up at 10 plus to go get ready for meeting the guys at suntec there.... den after tat, got lazy to go early cuz i didn't wanto go rush back for the sj meeting at sch cuz they were like meeting at 3.30 in sch.... and i was metting the guys at the fair at ard 2 plus..... den mi neighbour's parents got wind of the fact tat i was gonna buy a mP3 player and den they offered mi the one they bought for their daughter.... which she rarely use, philips brand de.... quite new but bought for like 4 months liao.... den she even ask mi to bring go China..... hahhaz... i was like waH.... sure or not.... i going there for 3 months lor....den it not beri nice to take ppl things for 3 months and use it like mi own..... hahahz.... so i juzborrowed it for one day to see how it works..... not bd but cannot display chn words which is a drawback for mi cuz i listen to more chinese songs than english de.....

wEnt to the australia fair to look at the overseas option which i am very very tempted to go to.... and after going to the fair, it further confirms tat i wanna attend uni overseas..... becuz.... the place there is REAL GREAT!!!!! went thru most of the uni there and found a few interesting ones..... which offered some of the degrees which i am very interested in.... and there's even one that offered guranteeed placing and one yr for completion to a degree.... which save mi alot of money.... cuz onli haf to pay for one yr.... and i get a degree..... and they even got double degree too.... which is real tempting to mi..... so if anyone wanna join mi in australia.... pls get from mi the brochures tat i took from the fair.... one whole bag lor..... a big big bag.... and mi bag broke from the weight of the brochures.... which was realli funni cuz i like had to get bigger bags to keep the alreadi very big bag from breaking.... hahahz

aFter the fair, i went home.... and on the way to the bus stop... mi father called and asked mi to meet him at suntec...so i went along... thot can get ride home and no need to DRAG this huge huge bag back home... aiyah.... but in the end... from 5.30 wait until 7.30 for mi mother and sister to get done wif their FREE makeover...... hahhaz.... and they didn't even haf fotos to show for it cuz like had to pay for the prints and everything.... juz free hairstyling and makeup.... so it was all actually a gicmick..... den had to rush down to church for service at 7.30... cuz it was like so late liao and Ian was waitingfor us at the church.... hahahz and den worst... couldn;t find a place to sit and so paiseh..... had to find a place while everyone was singing and i thnk all eyes were on us cuz we were quite late lor... abt 8 den sat down..... hahhaz.... but the sermon yesterday was not bad..... real interesting... they had this pastor from malaysia talking abt BGR..... hahahaz thot it would be one BORING talk... but i was wrong lor.... he didn't even use the bible.... juz talked abt his experiences..... played a simple game of introduction..... he asked the whole congregation to stand and started asking questions like MCQs.... den those wof the correct ans can sit down at the end of 7 questions.... those left standing had to kiss each other..... wAh...... jk lar.... church lor..... LOLz... they were supposed to see the pastor after the service..... his questions quite funni de lor.... ask how many yr he married liao?? where he proposed to his wife??? favourite food?? and stuff lydat lor...

at the end of the service, we ta bao dinner and went back to eat.... wanted to watch shutter de.... but den hor watch half-way frightened liao.... so switched off... b4 tat, we were watching waterboys... wif mi neighbours.... hahahz so de funni this show... managed to watch the whole show liao... cuz last time onli watched bits and parts.... slp at ard 1 plus bah.... so tired.... after walking the whole day and after attending service... realli shagged le... so juz fell right to slp... dun even need to think abt the shutter i juz watched.... i think i should pick a tired night to watch ghost shows next time.... hahahz....

wEll gonna go get ready for going out le... need to go bath... hahahz.... so till next time... ppl.... tataz....

MP3 plAyer... wHeRe aRe u???

2005-03-17T02:24:00.000+08:00

yEs yEs.... still looking out for the perfect mp3 player..... but lets start wif something in the day... hMmz.... hEre's waT happeNed on tUesDay.... dUe to the rearrangement of the lessons, we didn't need to go to sch on tUesday and as we sTill have a sEminar yEt to be doNe, these ppl decided to go over to mi house to finish up the seminar..... hahaz and i volunteered to cook for all of them.... bUt in the end, i woke up late and i was supposed to meet them at 11am at the bus interchange but in the end, they had to make their way here themselves cuz i woke up at 11am.... so we cooked baked potatoes, spagetti (which was made by YZ and Bern and it was a mess lor.... the garlic all fell into the pot and we had to pick them all out again cuz got too much... hahhaz and the pot we used for the sauce was so small we had to change pots.... dEn had to cut up the sauages and yZ cut them until they look like yu sheng...... =P) bUt in the end, we managed to cook up quite a decent meal and the food didn't tasted all tat bad.... esp the baked potatoes.... think tat is the best ever... hahahz...

dEn aftEr tat got down to reading thru all our materials and typing out the intro and i thnk tats the furtherest we got.... hahahz.... cuz got so many distractions.... we were all squeezed into mi small room... all seven of us plus mi sis..... and den we all started crapping and ended up eating lor.... cuz ern they all bought tidbits.... dun noe to entice us or to motivate us....?? so de distracting.... dEn ame had to leave to take her advanced theory test... while the rest of us continued to work on our munching skills.....

wEnt to take bath at 4.45 as we had to leave mi house by 5 as i was meeting fAb aT bUgis to take a look at mP3 players which i wanna bring along wif mi go China.... and den dun noe clement is pervertic or wat lor.... (i think he's sick liao... ) bathing halfway den started knocking on mi door and i was like "wAt??" and den he never reply.... and i also never bothered... dEn as i was changing in the bathroom, i saw that the lock on the knob was unlocked and i got panicky as i thot i had locked both doors b4 i came in to bath.... den this clement came and twist the door knob..... i almost screamed lor.... den i quickly lock the doors again and he went to pry the lock open again..... hahaz.... i almost fainted on the spot lor.... den i quickly changed and came out of the bathroom..... and they were all giggling.... so muz have been their doing (no lar.. noli clement's..... ) dEn aFter left to meet fAb at buGis taking the NEL line.....

hAf been quite a long time since i last saw him liao... i thnk got abt like 4 months le.... wEll let mi tell u all abt him.... hahahz... biography of Fab.... wEll knew him since sEc 3... took the same bus home cuz he like stayed sengkang and mi in hg.... he was a transfer from VS.... actually he was in mi class since sec 1 de but i idin't even know he existed till sec 3 muz be becuz he too quiet or tat he's juz plain weird.... hahhaz he set up a "butterflY gAng" wif a few of mi other classmates who are real quiet tat even until now i dun noe where they are liao... they are juz tat quiet.... deN 1 day in sec 3 i think towards the middle of the year den i walked to the bus stop and met him there den started chatting liao.... hahhz..... at first thot he was quite ok lor.... and we could start chatting abt almost anything.... den aftEr tat, i met him at the bus stop many times (maybe becuz we end sch same time...?? duh!!) den we started taking the same bus home after tat liao..... hahhaz and he realli quite funni lar... so crappy and stuff.... so since den we were like beSt bUds liao..... realli not much recollection abt wat happened in sec sch... quite hazy le... think muz be becuz old liao.... realli start to forget things quite easily..... hhahaz... i remember there was a time btw sec 3 and 4 where we had a cold war.... hahahz... i totally ignored him for like half a year......hahahz den after tat things got back to normal and it was like the cold war never even happened..... but one thing bad abt him hor is tat everytime also i ask him to come out de lor.... he like seldom take the chance to ask mi to go out.... hahahz so its like most of the time is i organise outing de.... tats wat i dun like abt it..... gUeSs i gonna bOycOtt him for a while if i go to China.....!!! =P sEe whether he will take the initiative..... i guess everyone has to play a part in maintaining relationships or else will get tired de.....

sO we met at bugis and he brought mi to this realli realli cool Sony shop in Bugis junction..... where they sold a few varieties of Mp3 players but the pricing was not realli right for mi cuz like budget wise..... i onli can spare $200 or so..... and i looking for sumthing light, sleek, has many features..... maybe it might sound demanding.... but i think i muz get a mp3 player tat is value for money cuz i saved up the money real hard de.... Lol..... so after tat we walked over to Sim lim square (SLS) to look at more mp3 player and there were so many varieties..... but i think i preferred the ones from korea cuz the sound quality was better but so was the pricing.... hahhaz so in the end after walking ard for like an hour plus.... i still haven't made up mi mind.... there were a few which caught mi eye, but the price was realli too high liao.... while those that were cheaper didn't have as much functions..... and the design juZ looked terrible.... wEll afTer the demoralizing tour of the mp3 shops, we went for dinNer (actually onli mi lor... he juz sat there and watched mi eat cuz he had to go home for dinner..... cuz his auntie cooked liao...) so i ordered LJS hot and spicy chicken pieces meal.... aNd aFter tat,we took a bus home.... and on the bus we started discussing abt uni.... i wanted to pursue mi studies overseas in aust if possible cuz i realli like the place there and the weather is juz right..... and the environment there won't be as ridgid as in singapore but den he started talking abt its better to study in NUS cuz more recognized..... and can find a job faster than those who are from overseas uni like in aust..... bUt i beg to differ cuz i think those who study overseas are more independent not like those who study in singapore who still can see their family members once a week even if they stay in the hostel.... and nowadays.... employers are starting to look for workers who can think on their own feet and are flexible.... and not juz acadamic..... of course acadamic grades are still impt.... but i mean to say that compared to a uni grad from singapore, overseas uni grad MIGHT stand a better chance at finding a job becuz of their advantageous exposure to the world not like singapore grads who haf stayed in singapore all their lifes and can onli see the world from the eyes of television and newspaper.... i dun mean any offence to any singapore uni grads, but this is juz mi opinion and view..... and i would like to take a degree in aust also becuz i like the environment and i want to study there... it may sound selfish but in the end it muz still be something u wanna do and not juz someting u haf to do if not u will not like it.... if ur dream is to study overseas, by all means go and pursue it..... juz by giving into circumstances tat are thrown at u is not going to help at all.... juz mi views..... hahhaz....

dEn alighted at kovAn to go buY ice-cream from Gelatto.... mi favourite ice-cream stall..... and i ordered butterscotch and mint chocholate...... and the mint chocolate was D.....elicious!!!! been quite a long time since i ate ice-cream liao...so time to reward miself.... hahahz den bought some bubbletea for mi sis and they ran out of pearls so i juz bought them cuz i noe they like it..... den whien i reached home.... they say "huh?? no pearls u still buy.... next time no pearls dun buy lar....." wAh buy things also kena "suan" i next time dun buy for them liao.... so fussy de....

tOday woke up at ard nine to come online to do report cuz yesterday too tired from all the searching liao.... den so sianz .... 11 gotta come to sch juz for one hour den go home.... after tat came back home and fell aslp on the couch.... tells u how tired i am lor... wEnt for a jog (hahaz ran 2.4km today.... ) den afTer played table tennis wif mi neighbour and i was laughing all the way lor... we were like picking up the balls more often than playing the game and we keep on hitting each other.... den went back to play bball (which was our original plan but den so many ppl at the court so we changed...) and invited another friend who lives near our house..... dEn played til ten b4 she realised that she missed her half fate show..... hahhaz... also pY favourite show.... sO came back home after playing and mi mum cooked cheng ting.... *yumMy.... slurp... so i had like two bowls.... and den started getting down on finishing mi HBD report.... finally done liao and i intro yz and bern to play this jap game which juz knocks this guy ard.... hahhaz... quite funnni actually and i competed wif yZ to see who can hit the guy the furthest..... LOLZ....

okok tIme to go slp liao... mi bed haf been calling mi since afternoon again... so tired i beginning to hear noises le.... today pY moving house... wonder how is the progress le muz ask her tml... so exciting although she onli moving like a few blocks away from her original home... hahaz... but nvm we can go her house-warming party if she has one =P..... and so looking forward to this fri... going to watch planetshakers, they are a christian grp from aust if i am not wrong.... and on sat, the sj ppl are coming over to mi house here for meeting so its time to paCk the rOom again.... hahhaz.... tAtaz....

sAi KanG wArRioRs rULeZ!!!

2005-03-15T00:09:00.000+08:00

Yes!! lEt's make this quIck... i came bAck froM camP liao..... FINALLY!!!! I can hear mi bed calling mi again liao.... It has been calling mi since last night and the poor thing only had mi attention until seven this morning cuz i had to go to sch and i literally had to drag miself out of mi bed to come to sch..... wAs SOOOO tired during the lecturei think i actually dozed off a couple of times..... hahahz... but the lecturer also at fault lor... he was juz droning away and this week u can see more ppl coming late for his lec and sitting further away from the front..... he's a new lecturer maybe tats y his teaching methods are rather traditional and he juz reads off the slides.... which can be quite boring cuz we haf nth to copy and his voice adds to the boredom cuz his voice got this hypnotizing effect..... hahhaz... sound so mean.... okok he's quite nice de but i think muz get used to his voice....

LetS gEt back to the update of the camp.... its juz plain terrible..... oN friday i came in late ard 9.45pm cuZ i had to bath and wait for mi father to send mi to the pri sch and by the time i reach there, the instructors were all there getting briefed by CW for the telematch liao.... so we juz acted as demostrators for the games and den had a sing-along where i learned new songs (not realli new lar, juz tat i forgot them liao.... hahahz) dEn we wenT to slp in the hall where it was rather stuffy at the stage.... had onli like four hour plus of slp..... hahahz... cuz quite exciting too tat we haf little kids coming in and it would realli start to get fun....dEn tHe yP hor pang sei mi lor go home.... :p bUt lucky sTill gOt aAron whO like rEalli liteRally can slp anywhere lar... hahhaz... no slping mat, no slping bag and juz lie on the floor wif nth but a bag as his pillow... he fEll aslp liao..... dEn can slp faster than mi sum more.... many times, i wanted to slimb over the fence to go and slp at mi sec sch.... hahahz but of course i did not lar.... laterkena caught den will get scolded by SCAP de....

Now now do i hear u ask who is this SCAP person.....?? wEll weLL, let mi teLL u all abT hiM.... wOah i thnk can dedicate 1 whole paragraph to hiim lor..... tHis gUy hOr wAh he realli Juz gEts into mi nErvEs.... hE juZ noEs hoW to shout aT ppl and den aSk kIds to kEep qUiet anD threAten them...... wEll, SCAP sTands fOR in hokkien: "si Chao ah pUi"..... hahhaz.... a nickname came up by the junior NCOs...... wAs rEalli tickled when i heard it..... but later it juZ bacame a term whereby i mostly cented mi anger upon..... hahhaz... and this name became the butt of allmost all our jokes.... cuz he wouldn't like know even if we use it in front of him...... like XR said SCAP right in front of him and we all started giggling and he didn't even noe...... lolz....

dEn on saT moRning, the kiDs came in aNd this wAs where mi NightmaRe stArted.... tHe sAi kAng nIghtmaRe..... cAn't imagine How much work there is to do in the messing side.... and they onli assigned one person to do the messing..... although most of the meals we onli had packed lunch buT breakfast and teabreaks (and these kids had two lor....) as well as supper, the messing had to settle alot of food for the kids... juz boiling water alone can take like two hours... cuz we didn't haf a proper pot and had to use rice cooker and seriously..... one big and one small rice cooker, we had to cook the water like three or four times.... we even resorted to using coffee brewer to cook water lor.... hahhaz... which was quite comical.... dEn next we had to move tables to clear out the rooms for the male badgers ( equivalent to SJ but pri sch version) to slp in.....

altogether, we moved the tables from four classrooms.... and we even had to tag it cuz the sch didn't wan the tables to get mixed up as the kids had a drawing of their own on their tables..... so we had to shift it back to its original placing..... sO mahfuN..... DEn in the night afTer dinNer.... wE had to help clean up the kitchen cuz te officers sAy the kitchen so dirty den muZ clean up if not the sch will not be happy.... i agree wif tat..... bUt she onli like assign three of us to clean the whole kitchen lar.... aNd worst part was YP spilled water afTer we cleaned up an area.... hahhaz den we had to try ways and means of getting rid of the dirty water and getting it dried asap...... sO afTer tat dAy.... at the end, we were all so shagged.... bUt we sTill couldn't slp cUz.... had to help Yp tie water balloons for her telematch.... hahaz... i think hor... i can be the fastest water balloon tier liao..... hahhaz.... tie until mi finger bo pi liao.... hhahaz.... den went to slp ard 3 plus....

and in between all this, i managed to join a grp and become their grp instructor cuz they had a lack of instructors..... so i joined qinqi's grp..... which realli onli had 7 students..... let mi tell u all abt them..... they were realli all nice kids and i starting to think abt them as i am blogging it.... all thru the camp, mi mind cannot be taken away from them..... realli when u haf kids assigned under ur charge, u haf to look out for them and their safety is constantly on ur mind.... many times of the day, as i go abt doing mi chore.... i fin miself thinking abt these kids... hahha realli cute..... they came from diff sch except for the two boys who came from chongfu pri.... i had 5 gals and 2 boys... hahhaz.... although starting it was real hard to fit in cuz i was like not their original instructor but i guess the kids adapted to mi real quick..... they were a realli cool bunch except for the 2 boys who i guessed were juz being themselves but becuz it was a camp... we had to keep them quiet and make sure they behave.... if not the officers would scold them and i realli hate to see it happen cuz the poor things haf to endure shouting and scolding at a camp where they are meant to enjoy themselves.... which doesn't make sense at all lor.... most of the gals were p6 but the boys were p4 and 5....... and there was this gal in mi grp who had attitude problem.... whenever u tried to get her involved, she would juz give u a face and juz ignore u..... but i realised that the moment sumthing catches her eye or attention, she would give it all her best to do it well.... which i realli admired and realli made her stand out.... cuz i put in quite alot of effort to get her involved but of course not forgetting the other kids too.... and these kids, they would look up to u and they can talk openly wif u..... although i faced many problems wif the kids but i enjoyed going thru wat problems they faced in camp..... like this boy who realli very active and cannot keep still many times no matter how many times u tell him... his name is ryan.... and i decided to juz tell him tat he is not behaving well and he told mi tat he is sorri...... wOah..... tat got mi so touched..... i realised that he knew he was in the wrong.... i thot he would like maybe get to worm his way out of it..... hahahz.... so i made him promise that he would try his best to behave for the next few days and listen to wat i tell him...... and we "gou gou shou zi" hahahaz.... dEn i noticed little kids realli are so carefree... realli envied them....thinking abt the kids realli warmed mi heart..... and i realli wish to see them all again.... cuz they juz so cute and so fun to be ard wif.... can also be as carefree as them and let mi tell u, their happiness is INFECTIOUS de.... hahhaz.... when u see them enjoying themselves, u also will feel happy that they enjoying themselves...... so much to tell u abt them but i guess they will juz stay wif mi in mi memory bah..... lEt mi note down their names : Nurul, Siti, Vanessa, Jayne, jacklyn, Ryan and Marcus.... think these names will be etched down in mi heart.... some where near the bottom bah......

tHe seCond night was the mos fun i thnk..... the kids were playing games thruout the whold day..... hahhaz.... they had so much fun juz running round the sch and finding clues for the treasure hunt..... and b4 that they were playing telematch, also known as olympics where they played a series of games.... anD aFter that all the kids got wet in the end cuz we started throwing water bombs at them.... hahhaz.... can see the shocked faces on them..... aFter this was the campfire, which i was in charged de..... but it juz didn't feel like it..... i juz felt so helpless as i stood at the basketball court..... looking ard at all the things left undone.... i guess mostly is mi fault bah... cuz its like many little details were realli forgotten and many things came in last min like the program had to be amended cuz we didn't know wat time the guest of honour arriving and the program was delayed for quite a long time..... so in the end, we removed some parts of the program..... many of the instructors also felt like they didn't need to listen to mi cuz it was like i not even officer.... so y should they listen to mi....?? and so when i asked them to do sumthing... they all gave mi like some kind of a look of disgust and juz went abt it unwillingly and slowly lor..... many times i wanted to ask them to speed up cuz i still had alot of other things to oversee and i had to report back to the officers...... didn't know organising the campfire was so exhausting..... so many things were last min and so i juz dun noe wat to say but i knew many things screwed up and changes had to be made impromtu and all..... bUt i wanna thank all the ppl who helped in one way or another in the campfire and if any mistakes pls dun take it heart cuz this is the first time i organise a campfire, most of the times i juz carry out instructions on how run the campfire.... never knew so many details to look into.... hahhaz.... but i guess it was a good learning experience and i hope i can be more efficient in organising the next campfire..... if there's one.... Lol.....

made some new frens besides the campers so i guess its not such a bad camp after all..... juz tat next time i dun wanna come to a camp where got all the elders de.... hahhaz... bLog too much le... can hear mi bed calling again liao..... not only tat.... i think mi bolster also and mi blanket as well so i better go reply..... :P so niTez all.....

bAck to Blog le!!!

2005-03-10T01:02:00.000+08:00

YeSh.... i AM bAck!!! bEt u pPl muSt haVe miSsed mi lOtS... Haf nOt bLogGed sInce.... leT mi Count..... tWo days and tat is 48 hours or = 2880 min or = 172800 sec...... so rEalli its quite a long time le.... hahahz.. :p

wEll. toDay had to go attend a bOring NE talk on aRmy... cUZ i didn't attend the last one.... aNd in the end, onli mi and jeFf were there for the talk..... so hE slept during the talk and i carried on reading mi bOok.... hahhaz... totally ignoring the speaker... Den worst still, latEr on, we slipPed out half-way thru the talk cuz we saw many ppl leaving liao and so we juz followed suit..... bUt we alreadi wastEd like an hour plus le.... aFter tAt, jEff gAve mi a liFt in tHis totalLy cool Car of HIs..... hahahz... its a MazdA sPorTscAr lor.... And its such a loud colour.... yElloW and bright wan sum more.... bUt the car realLi loW lar... bUt its a reAl slEek cAr.... hOpe i Can sIt in It agAin??? *cRoss fIngErs

wEnt to CW house to meet them to go PS to watch a SeriEs of unfortunate eVents.... But i was gonna watch it on tHurs wif mi poly frEns... so i told them can"t..... tHey liKe asKed a feW min too latE le... hahahz.... sO i wEnt to PS wif them to haf diNner and i didn't eat anything cuZ i was so bloated from the late luNch we hAd in sch juZ befoRe 3pm.... Den aFter that they wEnt to waTch their shoW and nOW heRe i am dOinG rePorts oNce again aNd rEseArChiNg on Biofilms...... haf one seminar next week to present on and this is mi topic....

cOoked spagettI tHis morning and den decided to cook extra for the rest of the peeps... so i was like cooking in the kitchen since like seven..... hAd to make sure the food would still be hot when we reached sch cuz we dun haf break till quite late lor... dEn aFter tAt, wE juZ saT there and eat spageTti.... hahaz.. and we found a new combi for potato wedges.... Parmesan cheese + potato wedges..... rOcKZ..... acTually its an acquired taste lar.... hahahz juz tat we had to finished the cheese cuz we didn't noe wat to do with the rest of it..... rEceiVed mAny comMents... further confirming thAt i hAf a inBorn abIliTy to Whip Up gReaT dIshes iN so ShoRt a tIme.... hahahz... :p

sO siAnz... eXams coMinG so Soon liao... dun even haf time for a breather.... bUt nvm aFter this eXam, cAn loOk forwArd to going to China liAo... can fully concentrate on tat.... hahahz... all he things to bring and everything will be so new to mi... maybe i will even get a culture shock... hahahz..... hOpe i can adjust real quick.... i sure will miss alot of things de.... like ... mi bed, bolster.... and blanket.... Can we air-frieght these things over??? :P sO maNy things i wanna bring over there....

wEll... shall go to slp liao... feeling so sleepy afTer reading on the com screen for so long... and this friday stIll gOt camP... dun noe if i can go to sch on monday or not.... sure will slp during lec de.... den cannot concentrate in pract..... hahhaz will haf to depend on py den to get thru the pract lesson..... sO nIteZ ppl.....

2005-03-07T01:24:00.000+08:00

Here bOy.... gOod bOy!!!!

2005-03-07T01:23:00.000+08:00

my unFinished cArolina cHicken whiCh looks like it came from KFC and tasted the same too....

2005-03-07T01:22:00.000+08:00

tHe tHree mAd-keteers..... hahahz..

2005-03-07T01:20:00.000+08:00

wHose crAzy family is this??? Wait... think its mine.... oPpz... wrong foTo... :-)

2005-03-07T01:19:00.001+08:00

Woah!!! hOvering heaD abOve the cAke.....

2005-03-07T01:19:00.000+08:00

HELP!! a Huricane jUZ flEw into cAfe cArteL....

2005-03-07T01:17:00.001+08:00

GA, wif a act sei pose.... hahhaz

2005-03-07T01:17:00.000+08:00

mI younger sis birthday cake.... small and sweet...

2005-03-07T01:16:00.000+08:00

Hahaz... mi lemon tart... looks nice doesn't it...?? buT cAn't bake this in China sorri..... :p

bEautiful cake oh bEautiFUL caKe!!!

2005-03-07T01:10:00.000+08:00

Haahahz, juz thot i would blog since i alreadi finished mi report..... so tired after playinh like 3 or 4 rounds of mahjong... hahahz and i almost kept losing at every round lor... think i realli not good at playing mahjong (or izzit juz tat the feng shui at YP house no good for mi??? :P) played until all mi chips all gone le lor.... so sad lar :( den they even got to play wif mi on credit.... hahah and muz discount summore..... worst still we played three ppl de mahjong.... juz in the last round, i managed to win back everything and juz lost abt 40cents.... hahahz... so not too bad lar.... and b4 tat we ordered pizza so i was like so bloated up while playing and felt so uncomfortable cuz we like ordered two medium pizzas and onli the three of us... hahahz...

wEll, went for SJ badgers camp meeting again this week and so sianz this friday gonna go book into camp liao and these crazy ppl wanna make us go down at 7.30pm, dun they noe tat we haf a life??? and the wan us to book in at 7.30pm on a Friday.... i got better things to do lor... hahahaz so i told them i got sch and tell them i gonna go home to pack mi stuff first so will book in later and the reason for booking in on mon (cuz the camp starts on sat) is for the instructors to get to noe each other better.... counts as a valid reason for the rest bah... i think i gonna book in ard nine bah.... DIE!! still havent pack mi clothes and stuff..... and i dun noe how much to pack... and wat to pack... guess juz a few clothe items and two packs of cards??? go there and play bridgeand brocoli.... hahahz.... no need to slp liao.... woohoo!!!

Hmmz... baked mi lemon tart yesterday.... quite successful.... didn't taste too bad juz tat its a bit too sourish liao.... hahahz but i received quite good comments so i guess can carry on to bake lor... but u noe a lot of work leh... the instructions like so simple lydat.... but when do ah, some materials not even avail in s'pore lar.... (or maybe juz tat i didn't look hard enuff) so had to start from scratch.... juz the dough alone took mi more than two hours lor... wah so sianz and had to like knead the dough forever lor... hahaz mi hands almost went numb lar... but i think tat i did not bad lor.... cuz got the feeling of completing sumthing all alone and sumthing tat is not simple... hahhaz so ithink i wanna do it again (guess these ppl haf to try mi cooking again liao.... :P) sorri peeps, no more leftovers liao.... hahahz so cannot bring to sch, but if i bake again i sure to bring to sch k??? so dun be angry ah.... i noe i beri good cook but u ppl sure will haf chance to taste mi cooking de, one day......

oh yeah b4 i forget, juz tat day on friday when i said i going for dinner, i thot i would be dining at some nice food court or something.... but u noe wat... these ppl went to a jap restaurant and ordered up to a total bill of guess how much.... drum rolls pls.... $681.90 !!!! Can u believe tat?? OMG, i never eaten such a expensive meal lor and its juz the 8 of us.... hahhaz and we didn't even eat much lar.... juz one person one set dinner and den one extra plate of sushi and it all adds up to 681 lor..... and worst still, the 10% service charge was alreadi $59 plus lar.... hahahz.... and 5% GST add to abt $39.... hahhaz but lucky they had a $600 voucher or i guess we gonna end up washing dishes at the back lor....

bUt to say the least, the restaurant was juz a small cosy corner on some carpark but it was almost full house when we there and it was real small but the ambience was great and the decor was like so ZEN and stuff... so i guess it was realli one of the best that i went to.... but i didn't realli appreciate the food i ate lor.... cuz i ordered a set dinner and most of the things i dun eat de cuz it is shashimi...... hahhaz and they were like saying how come i not eating ??? den when i told them i dun like shashimi.... they told mi to try but i juz didn't like the taste cuz its so raw and weird taste lar... juz cannot describe it... so i guess st this kind of occasion, it was not worth bringing mi out for dinner.... but the eel i ordered was the best i eaten cuz the eel was so soft and the sauce was realli tasty..... so i guess tat was the onli dish i enjoyed.... oh yeah and not forgetting the dessert.... Passion fruit sorbert and vanilla ice cream..... hahhaz.... ate till quite full but i think jap food dun realli last in mi stomach cuz i got hungry again soon.... dun noe if its mi or the jap food lor.... hahhaz.... guess it would realli be a while (make tat a long while) b4 i would go and eat at tat restaurant again bah.... LOLx....

wEll, haf blogged everything for the past three days liao so talk enuff le.... hahahz and yes ppl i alreadi trying out some recipes tat i gonna cook in China liao for our 3 months there.... so u ppl muz realise how lucky u ppl are to haf mi in ur trip k??? :P tIme to go get some slp and recharge for tml liao... if not cannot concentrate in class and its time to start setting a timetable... hahahz.... cyaz... NiteZ....

aMazing rAce sUcks!!!!

2005-03-02T23:59:00.000+08:00

hahhaz... now watching Amazing race and blogging at the same time... this season sure was much looked forward upon but i think quite disappointing lor... cuz the ppl this season realli wah.... either too old and no shuai ge mei nu..... LOLz... and they even got a couple termed "boyfriends" lor....
tHere is also this pair of bimboistic (found onli in Edmond's Dictionary) friends who seem to be like vases.... and this pair of brothers who like them.... hahah and described meagan (one of the friends) "the gal wif the pink cute butt"or sumthing lydat... hahahz... so this season seem to haf more relationship issues within different grp than more action.... not much cat-fighting and couple quarreling..... and also got this mother/son team who seems more preoccupied wif the gals from another team than his mom who feels frustrated wif his son's flirtatious ways......

the mother/son team was also supposed to choose btw rope a lama /rope a basket and the chose the former..... hahahz and in the end instead of roping the lama and leading them into the pen... the lama leaded them and spit snot all over them... hahahz so hilarious lar...

wEll enuff abt reality tv.... time to go on to real matters.... told py that i gonna add her name in mi entry today... so there u go.... ur name in it liao.... and btw her chinese also improve le... so good at using idioms now... tats the benefit for always hanging ard ZH ppl (ps not refering to RS... he gives a -ve effect) :p

wEll woke up late for sch today.... hahaz lucky GA called at ard 10 plus and cuz i switched off hp to save batt.... he called home number.... den got awaken by mi sis screaming from the living rm... was juz dreaming abt getting back mi results lor... haha so in the end attended ABC lecture and MBT lecture....

i think today feeling better liao.... not so awful abt miself.... i think i am one person who realli get over things quite fast lar (also wif the help of u ppl lar.... u noe who u are, no need to be shy de... hahahz )

i Think this is like the longest blog entry i ever typed... not in the sense tat it is long but it took mi the longest time.... from 10.30 the start of amazing race till now almost ending liao... hahhaz... guess its time to sign off le.... bYe bYe....

tHkx yOu aLL!!!

2005-03-02T01:31:00.000+08:00

yEs yes, fIrst of all mUZ thkx evEryone for all ur +ve encouragement towards my sis results.... muz say tat everyone is real encouraging and the advice is jUz pouring in.... wEll mi sis went ard asking the polys today and she did not receive very +ve feedback all telling her that the chance is slim.... but i thnk she should give it a go.... not that i think ITE is a bad choice but from the way i look at it (no offence peeps) it is a very complicated environment there and i dun wan her to get involved in tat kind of environment..... actually from the start i think we actually made a wrong decision....

this muz start from after her PSLE results came out.... sHe got 198 which was well u noe not very good.... of course everyone was not happy wif her result esp mi mum.... buT we thot it was becuz she had too many distractions in pri sch (wif her bf and all) sO that y she got such a bad result.... so although she got such a low mark, we wanted her to go to Express course instead of normal which i guess would haf been more appropriate for her (as in more time for her to study and can go to a better sch and not one like Serangoon) bUt becuZ it was real chaotic tat time and everyone was real upset abt her marks cUz we were deciding where to post her to.... (and also becuz of face bah.... i was in sec 2 i think and was still in ZH and mi mum had wished tat mi sis could at least get into mi sch) sO in the end, mi mum decided to post her to a Express course but only Serangoon would be willing to accept her.... and it was also near our house.... and we had hoped that she wouldn't mix ard wif the wrong friends.... which was y mi family was very strict towards her going out wif her friends..... it was only in her later sec sch life tat she was allowed to go out bUt she still mixed wif the wrong grp of frens..... and worst still got a bf who smokes....

aNd during her O'level period, a few months b4 the exam, we had told her to start studying but she juz wouldn't listen and would say tat we nag at her.... and she continued going out wif her friends almost everyday after sch and wouldn't tell mi parents where she was going... okok off topic liao... get back... so as i was saying.... She is trying her luck wif business course at several polys.... which are asking for aggregate of 26 which she meets but becuz she only passed four subjects, there is a very slim chance of her getting in.... as compared to those who get 26 but wif 5 O's passes.....

I haf been asking her to try for poly in the hope that she would get into the course of her choice too if not study also no use.... bUt if realli cannot go in, i would think she would retake two of her failed subjects again.... den combine wif her results and see if she can get into the course of her choice.... aLthough i noe ITE is not a bad choice bUt i still think tat it is not appropriate for her cuz she is real easily distracted and i definitely worry abt the friends she mix wif... and also becuz it is a longer route and its realli a waste of time... sumtimes i realli start to think she is not cut out for studying lor.... she never performs well and is always distracted by relationship problems.... and it onli happens juz before the exam period.... all the time.....

wEll was juz looking at the tag board and saw wen saying sorri for the trouble she caused.... but juz wanna tell her tat its alrite de cuz we agreed to it in the first place too so it's not realli ur fault... (bUT pls neXt time dun involve us liao... :P)

hAhaz... so many things running thru mi mind now.... muz try to sort things out... sorri if i seem very distracted in class today but i guess i am getting used to reality bah.... (lUcky i didn't break anything.... :-) or else muz pay lor.... ) i promise to be better and pay more attention in class k.... wEnt for a night jog juz now to clear some thots... sorted out alot of things (bUt also many left untouched....) Muz try this again when got time... feels quite refreshing actually after the jog... cuz the night breeze so cooling and not so many ppl jogging the same path.... so quite cool lor... (juZ tat the river opp mi house where i joG stiNks lor.... dun noe if it is due to the micro-organisms working overtime or sumthing.... )

tOday, everyone in the house all feeling so lousy (except the little wan... hahaz guess she doesn't realli know the importance of wats going on bah.... All the pressure tat everyone facing and all) onli mi dad has the mood to go do housework lor... sumtimes when i look at it.... mi dad quietly contributes to the family and it is so quiet tat it usually goes unnoticed.... buT mi mum likes to "advertise" the work she has contributed to the family.... i dun noe y but afte listening to it for 18 over yrs liao... getting sick le.... sTarting it was the feeling of guilt and ashamed tat i don't do much to contribute to the family and nOw it juz gets on mi nerve... i mean i understand tat she put in alot for the family bUt sumtimes we juz dun wan to be reminded abt it... and feel all guilty over it....

wEll blog alot today liao.... muz go back to watching Naruto again... hahhaz getting more exciting now.... he is learning so many new things.... feel so happy for him... tml going over to mi grandma house for dinner so alot of talking to do so muz conseve some energy.... hahhaz... will go to Zzzz soon de... so tataz everyone.....

O'lEvel rEsultS arE oUT liao!!!

2005-03-01T00:25:00.000+08:00

YEAH!!! the meeting on sunday went much more better than i had expected it to be... the officers praised mi for the drawings of the structures that i drew wif microsoft word... (hahahz guess all the reports drawings did pay off lor...) den straight away after tat i left the place cuz i say i got sumthing on den can't stay.... hahahz so managed to sneak away.... first time lar... maybe i gonna try it next meeting too... after i preset finish liao i gonna say i got sumthing on den leave first.... if not waste time onli lor the rest of the meeting stuff got nth to do wif mi....

Hmmz... today the results are out and mi sis went to take her results early in the afternoon alreadi the phone was ringing off its hook cuz all mi relatives were calling and asking abt her result... but she was not back yet so we juz had to tell them to call back later... den ard three den i knew mi sis results... Hmmz she did not do particularly well... she failed three subjects and onli passed four, which means more or less she can't enter poly.... but i couldn't bear to spoil her day so told her to call up the sch to check if they would accept her juz to make sure....

bUt sHe also another kind.... after take results liao noe she did so badly still dare to go out... and the moment she stepped into the house, once she set foot in, mi mum was like alreadi lashing out at her liao, quite pity her also alreadi so pressurized but still haf to face all of us.... den worst still mi relatives... they are all like gonna start talking behind her back liao... mi mum was like scolding her cuz mi mum alreadi told her to study b4 the exam but she didn't tats y now become lydat.... but i mean its all over liao... no use harping on it.... mi mum also quite wan face de... so tats y now she also very the angry cuz all my relatives calling and asking den mi mum very ashamed to say her marks out.... aiyahZ... so stressful...

so now mi sis looking at her options now... either go ITE or retake the exam.... cuz most prob i guess she can't go poly le... her marks quite high.... so tml she gonna try her luck at the poly and ask if they would accept her.... Hope that she can get into a poly... anyone would be fine... i dun think i wan her to go ITE.... and definitely dun wan her to retake.... cuz i think she got too many distractions liao so she muz get into a poly and start afresh liao....

fEeling very depressed now so muz go slp early so tat can wake up early tml and begin a new day.... hope mi sis learns her lesson this time ard and dun ever do it again.... so tataz....

aRGH!!!!

2005-02-27T12:28:00.000+08:00

sUrprised to seE mi bloG an entRy so early??? was actually having a nice slp de and dreaming abt so many things....like walking along the beach..... mi sis had to scream mi name to answer a call and this call was to ask mi to do the stupid SJAB proposal which i was supposed to present today( which i dun even noe if we need it today if they drag on the meeting for such a long time....) so feeling abit grumpy now....

did a few changes and now got time so i start to blog lor to tell u all how xin ku i am..... :P i was like watching movie from 10.30 till 3am lar.... so tired lor... watched a total of abt 2 and a half movie.....so tired by the time we are finished... watched Shall we dance and Hitch (which was totally boring....) but shall we dance was quite cool... makes u wanna take up ballroom dancing... (although most of the times the main character was falling over his feet..... hahahz...)

weLL, now can start abt yesterday's outing liao.... was actually quite a big success... coz got abt 23 of mi classmates go... which was considered quite a lot cuz mi class got alot of guys in the army and so some of them can't make it den others got other programs so actually supposed to haf abt 28 de den left 23 but i alreadi very happy liao cuz is i organise de.... hahahz and after so long never see these ppl le, getting to see them finally is such a great feeling.... did so many catching up wif them.... and enjoyed each other's company crapping ard and so.....

wEll meilin told a very lame joke lor... wat do u call ppl who sell medicine?? "drug dealer" and wat do u call ppl who deliver them?? "drug traffickers" ..... hahahz... den we watched Spongebob squarepants (mrs lum's daughter favourite show) becuz we didn't know wat show everyone wanted to watch and in the end we all end up engrossed in the plot.... (actually spongebob quite funni leh... didnt realise till now... maybe when u watch in a big grp... u get a diff effect bah.. cuz everyone was like laughing away at the stupid plot... den also watched incredibles...) muz meet up more often and maybe go out for a movie or sumthing.... den we will enjoy more.... hahahz...

took some fotos and den went off from there to go play pool.... haf u ever played pool wif 14 ppl?? well i did and we had to open three tables.... and i was so afraid that we might get into trouble if any of those gangsters actually came over to trouble us cuz we such a big group..... hahaz.. look like mi worries were for nth.... played abt one hour plus den decided to go home...

sUch a fun day.... realli bring back lots of memories and i so wanted to go back to sec sch days again liao... hahahz okok time to go eat breakfast liao.... everyone's waiting for mi le..... tataz

2005-02-26T19:08:00.000+08:00

tHe lyriCs to a rEaL meaNinGfuL soNg....

TesTs aRe fiNaLLy oVer liAo.... tIme tp pArTy!!!!

2005-02-26T03:28:00.000+08:00

Hahaz.... yes the dreaded papers are finally over and i am feeling so pleased wif miself for doing so well.... :p buT realli muz thank a lot of ppl who haf helped mi.... like SS who gave mi tips on wat are coming out for the test juz like half-hour b4 the paper starts.... lolz... den i had to furiously go and flip the book and remember the answers..... so thkx alot hor... and also to PY who juz had to get all stressed up over the test and today when she stepped out of the rm she was so relieved i bet she was like hating herself for studying so much the night b4....

wEll realli muz thank all the ppl who haf contributed to the success of the test week.... (pplz like YP, Kx, CW, PY, SS, GA, RS and the sinister Trio.... although i dun realli noe in wat way they contributed.... but still thkx.... esp for those encouraging SMS.... and the reminders..... so thkx guys....)

sO afTer the papers today, i think we all went crazy liao... (or maybe it's juz mi.... hahhaz) wEnt over to Cafe Cartel at Bishan for a meal which cost like almost thirty.... (onli mi had to pay tat much cuz i ordered dessert.... wat was the name again so long the name..... but juz brownies wif choc fudge and ice cream on top..... YummY!! bUt juz a bit too chocholaty.... so got a bit sick later..... :p) juz sat there and eat and once again we were the most noisy table there.... hahhaz as usual lor.... these ppl hor next time dun bring them out liao.... dun noe how to behave de.... :p

aT the Cafe, PY ordered a lemon drink which she complained was too sweet and so i volunteered to help her top up wif water so that it won't be so sweet and i walked over to the water container and after i had topped it up wif water and was walking back to the table, this couple who was sitting next to our table...... commented: "huh? they serve free flow juice meh?" or sumthing lydat..... and i almost fell off laughing...... den our whole table started laughing at the couple and i think they almost left the cafe except tat they didn't cuz they had company..... :)

i think we almost sat there for at least one hour plus lor.... the cafe was actually quite empty... and the waiters never eralli bothered us which was good cuz we were like going crazy over at our table.... laughing at every single thing lar.... the waiters muz be waiting for us to get out of there.... we talked abt our China trip and abt wat we gonna do there.... I volunteered to cook there and RS has to do the washing up cuz he is sure gonna eat alot de lor.... den PY gonna wash clothes.... and i think Ame ah gonna entertain us or sumthing lar.... hahhaz....

realli looking forward to this trip although not the leaving friends and family here though....... but i juz wanna go oversea and see how life is like outside of mi home.... so muz learn to be independent and not get home-sick (so PY cannot cry ah when we over there, or else we will all cry too..... hahahz... :p)

aFter eating, we went to get a cake foR YZ netball the frens.... we took quite awhile to choose a mixed fruits cake which she said one of her frens liked..... so i guess it was not a bad choice bah... and we alreadi haf a few locations for our next outing.... most prob ajisen ramen (which is also Naruto's favourite mee, although not from this stall lar....) or maybe Fish and Co. so also looking forward to tat hor peeps.... and this time i am not doing the organising liao... i m juz gonna sit back and relax.... i never knew it was so tough to organise an outing where we can all go out and enjoy..... hahahz....

aFter tat, we went over to AMK to play pool cuz Py fren wanted to play and so the eight of us (wifout the gals, except PY, who couldn't realli be considered a gal lar, hor?? ) booked two tables and started playing..... i guess it has not changed realli much mi skills in playing.... i still not good at playing it lor... i guess i will never be as good as those who always we see play on TV..... so zai lor those ppl..... can always get the ball in de.... played for three hours b4 they decided to call it a day.... didn't know time passes so fast when u're playing pool.... hahhaz.... by den it was alreadi ten, and it was time to go hm liao..... dEn came back took a quick shower and watched Meet the Fockers AGAIN!!! mi neighbour bought the VCD and so the two families watched the movie together.... think quite nice to haf two families watching the movie together cuz like so cosy and everyone all so comfortable de.... hahahz....

mUz watch more moviEs in big groups... in the own comfort of ur home... wif ppl whom u enjoy being ard.... hahahz time to organise movIe marathon liao... (not by mi pls.... wan can come over to mi house to watch but i dun wanna organise hor.... juz tell mi the time and date....)

sO now here i am bloGging after watching the show.... and of course... i am very looking forward to today's outing which i will see ppl who i haf not seen for many yrs....( i am not exaggerating.... this is true.... i haf not seen them for like two or more years liao....)

okok time to share some feelings here.... today's outing was very enjoyable.... but it would haf been better if everything had been more smooth-sailing.... so many hip-cups today.... like who was suppposed to join us and the Ame thingy.... ( which was partially mi fault cuz i didn't noE Ame was not supposed to noe..... :p) den the Steam engine issue.... aiyah so complicated.... i think things are actually very simple de..... juz like there is no grey region onli black and white.... so issues like thins also very simple.... onli two sides.... no three/four sides de.....

i dun noe wat is going on.... but i juz feel tat today was realli the day tat i realised tat ALOT of things i dun realli noe wat is going on.... i dun noe if this is termed Politics.... but i juz feel btw the whole grp of us.... there are many inter-personal relationship which needs to be considered b4 we can organise a outing.... maybe becuz the grp is big bah tats y we need to look after so many ppls de feelings but we cannot accomodate everyone de.... sure some ppl will feel hurt by the decisions we make but we can onli minimise the hurt and the "casualities"..... maybe it sounds confusing but i thnk it is all logical to mi cuz i haf gone thru this feeling....

i dun realli like to noe wat is going on cuz i see from outside i feel tat all the things are very depressing..... and the more i noe... the more burdens i feel i will haf.... maybe burden is not the right word.... more like *long pause(thinking)...... okok we will juz leave it at burden..... like today.... Py was asking mi if it is ok if Steam engine comes along and i was like it's ok for mi becuz onli the two of us were the first ones to be out of the test rm..... den as more of u all came out... den i realised the prob juz got bigger cuz i noe hu all got over the last issue abt hime but now got the issue tat u all cannot behave naturally..... so more prob arises.... dEn PY said she dun wanna go cuz she meeting him so i had to come up wif a solution (so tat she can join us and at the same time dun disappoint steam engine....) and i was racking mi brains and i felt so bad for steam engine cuz we made him wait one hour plus for PY.... and pY was like asking mi if steam engine could join us for lunch but he will juz sit there and watch us eat.... but i had to tell pY tat we dun haf enuff seats.... buT dEnnis had alreadi left.... bUt considering the options i had, i had to decline pY offer cuZ it would juz not be natural wif him ard.... but i was thinking we haf to accept him one day de..... and we may not know him well now... but he will join us one day maybe as pY other half..... so sooner or later we haf to get used to him ard.... or maybe wifout Py ard.... if she joins him instead of us.....

okok cRap too much liao.... muZ go prepare for today outing liao... hahhaz.... tataz....

cALLinG cArds aNyone????

2005-02-25T13:42:00.000+08:00

Ta tah.... bAck to blOg again... called almost every single wan in mi sec 4 class…. Except those in the army who obviously switched off their hp.... wEnt thru the class list today and realized tat I had really forgotten a lot of ppl from mi sec class... hahahz... ppl I forgot actually existed cuz they were always the quiet ones in class and never really participated at all.... (ppl like Yu fei, Jian hao and Chiu Liang) and to think nobody in class actually had their contact no., so that tells u how quiet they haf been.....

wEll at least managed to reach 3 quarter of the class so feel very proud of myself :P.... from no contact list till I managed to find out everyone’s number.... This took away mi whole afternoon de time.... So no time left to study for MBT liao, the last paper for tml..... hahahz the next two days the program packed until full full le.... Hahahz most prob will be going for meetings for SJ camps..... wah so busy no time to stop and den mon still got sch lar.... siAnz...

Talked to many ppl today and it feels great to hear so many of mi classmates voice le... feels quite awkward at first but later as I got used to it den not so bad liao.... Hahahz (haf not even seen these ppl for like almost 3 years liao lar....) and thkx to everyone who helped mi today in whatever way tat u could... like getting numbers and getting replies..... thkx a million.... Hahahz...

wEnt down for a swim juz now.... So invigorating hahahz... so long never swim le... lucky today the water not so cold.... Den not much ppl also.... Den went for a jacuzzi dip to massage the shoulders and back.... So shiok... LOLz... bet u all are so ENVIOUS now rite??? :P

wEll time to get back to playing games liao.... Cya all tml.... and dun worry I will bring mi camera along tml to take alot alot of pictures de..... den hope I won’t go crazy tml after the last paper..... :P

HappY cHinEse ValeNtiNe's Day!!!

2005-02-25T03:01:00.000+08:00

YesterdAy waS "yuan xiao", which is also Chinese Valentine's Day.... went over to mi grandma house for dinner which was quite pathetic..... was actually expecting mi uncle and auntie family to join us for dinner as well but it turns out that they couldn't make it in the end so it was juz our family who had dinner wif mi grandparents....

tOday having Cell tech test.... hahahz havent realli touched the module yet... maybe later on bah... juz woke up.... overslept today cuz i forgot to set the alarm.... so feeling a bit groggy.... forgive mi if i am not speaking human language to u..... its wat happens to mi when i juz wake up..... lol..... :P

so looking forward to this fridays outing, after test over liao so happy.... hahahz...can go out and eat Cafe cartel..... juz hope the next two papers won't be so tough.... *cross fingers

wEll... nth much to blog liao.... so tataz....

hAppY bIrthDay sIs

2005-02-23T16:48:00.000+08:00

eRmz.... as u can see today is mi sis birThday and todAy i had to go to sch to take IM paper which i thot i was totally fully not prepared..... wEll turns out everyone did except mi..... hahahz..thE paper was all short essay(haf u even heard of short essay, this is the first time lor..... might as well dun give short essay become like short answer lydat... juz wanna scare the students lor.... pY dun stress out liao hor.... if not later cry in the middle of the night again.... :-)

sO afTer the paper wEnt to meeet mi parents at bIshan.... wah these ppl queue up at the hospital for medicine hor make mi wait for one hour plus lor..... so fed up wif them..... i was like at the bus stop wif nth to do and i felt like everyone is thinking wat i am doing at the bus stop and not boarding any of the bus and worst still time pass so slowly..... dEn wenT over to mi sis sch to fetch her from her class.....wHen we reached the sch, we had to go get a visitor pass and the moment we walked in, i noticed this elderly woman at the reception table and she was the same exact lady when i was in pri sch doing admin work..... hahahz it weird seeing familiar faces after so many years and they still haf not changed position.....it seems like time has not stopped for this sch lor.... (except that they changed campus ever since i graduated....)

dEn we decide to go to Tampines in the end to eat diNner and ended up settling for Fish & Co. (we wanted to eat kenny rogeers de, but CS was like having renovations and stuff so KR was closed....alot of changes to CS lor.... many more new shops.... hahahz...)dEn had to get a last min present for mi sis..... we actually decided wat to buy liao juz didn't haf time to go get it..... so we went to Cheers and got her a M card..... (it the same as Hi card lar) and den we juz wraped it up in the receipt cuz no time to buy wrapper and gave it to her..... hahahz anD she was so surprised when she opened it up thinking it was rubbish....

wE also bought her a pathetic cake which was strawberry flavoured...... cuz we all so full no more space to eat a big big de cake liao..... tOday was realli quite a happy day lar.... cUZ i think she enjoyed herself lor... so dun make us feel so bad for making her birthday so last min de..... tIme to hit the sack (oppZ i mean books for the rest of mi classmates reading this.... :p) so yawning off now.....

hBd pApEr oVer Liao!!!!!

2005-02-22T16:05:00.000+08:00

yEsh....!! tHis drEadEd papER fInallY ovEr le.... and tml wE will oNce aGain bEgin this vIcious cYcle..... cuZ tml is IM whiCh is tAught bY taT bIas fReak mAtthEw...... so will hAf to counT on ouRselvEs tO stUdy fOr this paper evEn though we dun understand wat goes on in his lecture.... ( which is actually the case for every module lar :p juz tat he is real bias lor.....) tOdays paper was quitE a relief for mi as it was not as hard as i had expected it to be or maybe same standard but juz tat i dun noe how to answer a few question here and there lor..... hahahz.... weLl the result fot the quiz came back and can u believe it???? i goT an A..... hahahz so happy but things not looking good for this common test i took today maybe at most C...... bUt tats all troubled water under bridge liao....... hMmz.... saw py blog yesterday and muz admit was quite shocked at how fast she has moved on in her relationship liao..... wEll juz wanna tell her that she has juz taken a big leap it all depends on the guy now..... so jia you py.....!! we will all be standing behind u and support u in watever decision u make (except maybe decisions like smoking or drinking oR talking in loud piercing high decibel voices lar..... hahhaz :p)

cAme home and den YP and Kx wanted to come over to swim at mi pool so I said ok and den they came at ard seven plus but den these ppl hor dun like to bring their own soap and shampoo de lor…. Expect mi to bring it…. So they swam and den we talked and they mentioned tat in the sj meeting I didn’t attend, they changed many things in mi proposal and were very fussy abt it…. Hear liao I was like so angry lar… I spent last week doing MARKET RESEARCH lor and also went to type out the proposal leh den they still pick here pick there and give stupid suggestions like muz put fire away from kids like 5m and dun wan elevated stage in case the kids fall off ( I mean the stage is quite big lar….. unless they all grow like Ruben which is not the case lor…. Den maybe I can understand their point….. :P) aND Yp started work in Kx company le…hahahz finally got a job… all the best in this job and hope u no need to sit on stools any more hor can sit on comfy chairs k….. den these two went home to eat black egg porridge!!! Never invite mi lor…. But nvm lar… lucky I eat dinner le…. aahahz…

cAme back home and mi sis brought her bf back to collect hong bao cuz mi mum say won’t give until he come over…. LOLz…. So when he first stepped in, he came wif oranges lar…. So quite respectful lar…. dEn he juz sat ard and we had to get used to him being ard the house cuz at first quite awkward cuz this is the first time he came over to our house….. den he also so quiet de and most of the time mi mum is the wan asking questions…. After a while, we juz sat back to watch TV….. so was quite ok lor… den he went home and guess the question mi mum asked mi….??? LOLZ….. sure can guess de lor….

sHe asked mi to bring mi gf back to let her see also lor… waH…. I was like going hahahz wat gf….?? She say got gf bring back to pai nian lar….. and at the same time let her see…. Hahahz…. Den I told her no gf how to bring back….?? Den she nth to say liao…. Looking at mi sis bringing her bf back was quite an experience actually cuz it tells mi tat she is growing up liao…. Not the little gal I used to play wif and teach….. hahhazz sound like a father lor…. Okok cannot muz come back to reality….. so den I was juz thinking how it would be like if I brought mi gf back home…… hahahz… first of all, mi sis would like analyze her like some kind of specimen and mi parents would like start asking questions and den mi whole block of neighbour would be called down cuz mi mum really has a big mouth…… LOLz :P den the pressure would start to buildup…. Next the venue would change and we would be at mi grandma house……. Hahahz cuz she like the next closest kin to mi liao….. ( I would dedicate another entry to her lar cuz she really one of the most impt person in mi life….. so look out for tat yeah??? Coming soon at all theatres near u….. ) yeah tats the kind of scenario tat would happen, more or less lar…. LOL….

wEll bLog too much le…. Time to go back to IM….. hahahz…. So cyaz all tml ok…. Same time same place hor….. dun change channel…… tataz….. J

sCissOrs, pApeR stOnE!!!!

2005-02-21T16:25:00.000+08:00

sUrprising to find the entry title same as mi MSN nick???? LOLz..... its there for a reason.... today went to mi grandma house for dinner to celebrate the last day of CNY so the whole family was there to eat dinner and the moment we stepped into the house, the mahjong table was immediately set up and the game started..... (these ppl sure move fast at the mere mention of mahjong.... :p) hAd nth to do lar...... and so mi sis came up wif this stupid game she played in pri sch..... scissors, paper,stone.... and guess the venue...?? on the edges of the bed....

u noe in pri sch we had this balancing beam and den during recess everyone would go there and form two teams each coming in the two diff directions...... and den they would meet in the middle and play SCISSORS, PAPER, STONE and the one who lost would step down and move to the back of the line again..... wah can't believe tat the kids had so much fun juz playing tat game lor.... guess the age gap btw us stilll not so big bah.... hahaz and in the end, from a bystanding audience, i got caught up i n the stupid game too and joined in and so did mi sis.... and u could see the both of us tumbling in laughter at these kids enjoying this simple yet retarted game (can't use the word stupid here, cuz i played the game too.... ) well in the end mi team didn't win and the kids still enjoyed it so much and played this game thruout the whoole night..... guess we haf to do this again next week..... :(

hMmz... haf been asked to organise the class gathering at Mrs lum house this sat...... so i accepted it cuz Daniel is feeling sick and he could not help in organising it... so now i haf to do the coordination for the bringing of food part.... as in wat type of food each of us haf to bring to mrs lum house this sat.... there fore, any willing parties who wanna help, pls inform mi so tat i can STILL concentrate on mi test this week (although i won't realli be doing much studying liao... :p) BTW, MRs lum is mi sec sch form teacher in sec 3 and 4..... she is realli nice and got mi hooked on the song by collin raye called..... LOVE mi..... nice song go and hear it if u can get the song.... she realli inspired mi in alot of things i do but in recent yrs haf not seen her as no occasion to go back to sch and she wouldn't be in sch on sat when i used to go back for CCAs.... mi guess the last time i saw her was like one yr back when we had our sch carnival and i didn't realli get to speak to her cuz she was busy wif her own booth..... but i guess she did acknowledge mi presence and was still her friendly, good-natured self..... hahahz despite the events tat took place in her life... guess she realli is a very strong woman.... wEll enuff of past events.... time to move on to the present.....

hEre's wishing the best to the test today at 3-4 pm..... hope everyone will get good grades even those who didn't studied..... (u noe who u are.... mi included... :p) sO happy studying and good luCk yeah??? aS for those who did study..... i hope all of u can retain the information in tat brain of urs..... no matter how small (rite py???) and not get a blank space appearing during the exam..... and eating Ginko does help improve brain memory buT tRy not to eat too much k if not will haf adverse effect de...... :p signing off here.....

oNe intErsting sIte!!!!

2005-02-20T17:54:00.000+08:00

Well juz found one very interesting siTe while dl manga..... its abt Naruto..... its a quiz to find out wat kind of Naruto character u are..... hahahz quite funni lar the questions.... and a bit contradictory too...... thIs is the webby... do go and give it a try.....

http://www.orangeday.net/kakashi/quiz/

aFter taking the quiz.... i found out that i am like kakashi-sensei...... LOLz..... so go haf fun wif it yeah....??

gUeSs wHo i Saw tOday!!!

2005-02-20T16:33:00.000+08:00

wEll leTs start wif yesterday when i went back to zhsj to juz practically do nth (which was wat i intended to do or maybe juz read thru HBD) but end up running here and there helping out wif the program or in other words juz kaypoing ard :p jk.... ran ard doing programs for the day as well as a biT of wElfare talk.... hahahz and juz in case the NCOs are here.... ur cadets not beri happy with the changing of parade lor.... they dun like to change so many times this is wat they feedback to mi lar.... so i was telling them to juz bear wif it cuz this is uniform grp sure got a lot of this kind of punishment de but if they keep on losing things juz becuz of changing within the limited time given to them den maybe its time to review the punishment liao hor..... if not they will forever kena punishment de so they will feel not fair lar.... juz a note k....??

fElt like old times going back to the training ground to juz hang ard wif all these YOUNG ppl again.... hahahz.... makes mi feel young too.... now i noe y got so many officers helping back at zh.... they also wanna feel young :p well stayed back a while after training to help out wif abit of footdrill for the FAC nursing team..... den went home abt 7...... reached home ard 8 plus and mi neighbours alreadi started playing mahjong at mi house..... so fast lar these ppl move the moment they hear got mahjong to play..... they played till abt TWO am in the morning b4 leaving mi house..... and mi dad was still not bach yet from another "gambling den"......

wEll now can start on today liao..... hahhaz.... was at hougang mall and guess who i met..... hahahz u'll never guess..... miss Lim chai yen...... LOLZ...... she was wif her hubby and he was massaging her back (guess he didn't noe i was her student...... hahhaz) i was travelling down the escalator while she was travelling up.... i didn't even notice her until she had passed mi b4 i realised she looked real familiar ....... i guess she saw mi cuz i saw her pushing her hubby's hand away..... more LOLz.... :p den after tat didn't see her liao.... guess can go make fun of her this mon if i happen to see her :p......

dEn weNt home and mi whole family went out till abt nine and i went out to meet mi neighbourS and sister where we ate Mac and mi neighbour (male de) realised he had lost his hp..... (mind u this is his ninth hP lost liao.....) so he was quite upset abt it..... at first we suspected a few tables involved in the "kidnapping" of the hp cuz he was sure he had lost it in mac and it was onli in tat few min..... so mostly the tables nearer to the counters were our Prime suspects...... den we narrowed down to one table whom we in the end didn't approach cuz we actually dun haf enuff evidence..... so he juz had to accept his fate..... guess he was realli not careful wif his belongings bah..... realli a lot of missing hp cases these few weeks.... many of mi frens of lost their hp too and i not sure if it is due to carelessness or got stolen but no reason so many ppl losing hp wat..... i think this is not a good start to the "jin ji nian" lor...... hahaz.....

weLl muz pass on the com to mi sis liao..... she wanna send e-mail to mi neighbours in aust..... so tats all i wanna nag abt here.... tataz.....

hMmz... visitor fRom aFar!!!

2005-02-18T15:19:00.000+08:00

sUrprise surPrise, mi neighbour daughter from Australia dropped by today to pass us some stuff as well as to pass her all her letters since the whole family left for Australia.... quite distant liao cuz all the while i never realli knew the daughter cuz she was alreadi studying in Australia even b4 the family left Singapore..... so onli met her a few times when she came back for holiday..... but was surprised that she still remembered mi name.... :p well she brought her bf over and they sat over in mi house for a while (actually more than a whlile lar.... abt two hours...) den started talking abt their life over there in Australia which seem so much more BORING than in Singapore.... can u imagine they slp at nine pm over there and can't watch Channel 8 &5.... the onli channel they can receive from Satellite TV is CNA lor.... wah i feel so sad for them.... but however the studying environment there is so much better than in singapore lar... NO HW leh..... and like 3 MONTHS of holiday lor...

sO tats all and now py telling mi haf to do HBD report to hand up on MON..... Sianz..... so many report to do this week... still got 2 more..... and this is suposed to be study period..... Zzzzz... well gotta get back to watching naruto le.... heard tat can't dl anime from animesuki liao.... feel so sad and depressed.... no more Naruto after episode 108..... and also muz get back to study liao and tml going to ZHsj to go help out and also look at the site for the camp in March.... so will keep u peeps up to date yeah??? tataz....

bLoGginG agAin!!

2005-02-18T04:38:00.000+08:00

bAck to bLogGing again today, haf missed out alot of details since the last i blogGed.... eRmz...onli finished two modules wonder if there is enuff time to finish the rest b4 the common test starts..... juz hope that can get some decent marks so that dun haf to study so hard for the final exam if not this common test is 30% lor so much info liao den exam sure die de..... so everyone kampetei.....

wEll will be going to do some market research for the items tat i will be needing for the campfire night in march.... dun noe if will go over budget hope not or else will kena scolded de.... and all these "elders" or "zhang lao" as CW likes to call them all like to pick on details de... so irritating and juz for one sentence of english they can like correct the grammar and political correctness in half-hour de lor... waste so much time..... lucky no need to go to the next meeting if not i sure will get bored to death de.....

hmmz.... watched naruto till episode 100 liao so proud of miself.... hahhaz... can finish so many episodes in one day..... and getting so exciting wonder when the movie will reach singapore... hope that it will be soon.... :p well in the department of literature, now still reading Da vinci code which YP lent de.... a realli nice thriller and i start to wonder if all the evidence presented in the book realli are true i mean all these evidence i realli never hear b4 and seen b4 (i mean haf any of u actually seen the mona lisa /last supper by Da vinci???) i haf not lor.... but the evidences in the book realli are very descriptive and they seem to speak of the truth..... if tat is the case den which realli is the real religion?? (aiyah so confusing.... dun even get mi started.....) well since i am a free-thinker, it doesn't realli matter to mi.... :p

tIme to go for a snack liao.... cya all later.... tataz....

bOrinG dAy aT hOme!!!

2005-02-16T16:47:00.000+08:00

Hmmz.... where shall i start?? well as all of u should know by now.... i this week no sch again cuz we rearranged the timetable liao so we onli attended sch on mon to finish up watever lessons we needed for the first part of the semester and now I AM FREE!!! bUt juz tat mi parents are like beginning to ask questions like how come ur holiday so long de and stuff so now getting a bit annoyed..... so much questions den when no holiday how come they dun ask de.....??

ok move on to next paragraph as suggested by ah Ping.... ermz... did nth much today haven't touched mi books the whole day until juz now at nine.... wah and managed to finished flipping thru ABC.... so quite proud of miself (but dun noe if understand or not cuz most of it is last sem work....) den decided to come over and blog cuz quite long never blog liao and feel guilty.... watched Naruto again this afternoon and onli finished till episode 86..... gonna watch summore later too den later den study again.....

Mi auntie who came back from China is staying overnight at mi house tonight and so weird lor.... mi mum ask her to slp in the master bedroom den mi dad move out and slp in mi rm she dun wan..... she wanna slp in mi rm.... den mi mum said i dun wanna slp in the rm wif her and she like started asking y....?? izzit obvious..?? i mean i would rather slp wif mi dad than her lor... not tat she snores or sumthing (but she does lar....) so i had to come up wif excuses that i gonna study thru the night and den the light will affect her de and tat i need radio which mean she can't slp well and tat mi dad is a heavy slper and would not get affected (which is also true cuz mi dad can slp under any situation wan..... in sitting up position, in lying on one hand position and many more..... i mean he can slp in any positions lor....) den she said ok so i was quite relieved if not tonight hor no need to slp liao.... :p

Well today siting asked mi to go watch movies wif the rest of the gang tml..... but den hor cannot leh cuz test coming liao how to go out...?? i so scared tat this sem if i haf to take sup paper den cannot go to China liao so muz realli work hard and pray tat no need to take sup paper (although i never took one b4, it juz scary thinking i can't go to China if i had to take a sup which means extra studying and no more holidaying.... :( so therefore muz study harder.....)

rEad thru the notes i received for Valentine's day and was actually quite impressed by the things they wrote in the card.... so thkx guys for all the effort u all put in to make Valentine's day so special.... and PY, where u buy the letter envelope from so cute de..... hahaz muz tell mi when we go back to sch den i will go buy one set too.... :p

wEll realli nth much happened today dun even haf any thots lor..... juz a plain old boring day wif no buzz happening in mi life..... so signing off here from boring old mi..... tatz...

hAppY ValEnTine'S dAy eVeRyoNe!!!

2005-02-15T18:30:00.000+08:00

Hahaz... i noe its a bit late liao but juz by abt two hours onli mah.... So nvm lar hor.... well sunday went to buy flowers wif ame and GA at Far East flora shoP.... initially wanted to buy rose de but den hor, 10 stalks for $15 a bIt ex leh and so settled foR tUlIps insTead and tHey loOked sooooo much bEtteR anD smEll mUcH bEttEr tOo.... bOugHt tWo bUndLeS oF tUpliPs and one more bUndle of GerbEra or sumthing, look abit like sunflower but smaller onli.... speNt quite a lot bUt i think quIte wOrtH it whEn u sEe all tHe hAppY fAceS wHen pPl rEceiVe tHeir fLowErs.... dEn rEceiVeD mAny ChoColaTes aNd a rOse fRom CW, Yp anD kx.... whIch thEy sAid tHey jUz gRabBedfRom sOme gUy gIvinG oUT roSes on OrchArd road..... tHey saId tHey hAd to fIght foR it even juz to get one stalk.... bUt i guess its realli the thoT thAt counts bah.... sPent abT onw hour plus to wrap up all the flowers that i bought and decorated it and had to store in the fridge cuz tulips can't stand warm temp. they haf to stay cool at all times.... once exposed to outside temp, they won't last long liao.... which is the worst part....

This year bought flowers for so many ppl actually more than wat i had initially wanted to buy cuz i added in more ppl like mi neighbours (all the auntIes), gAls fRom mI clAss anD eVen mI fAmilY mEmbErs..... sO was realli LuckY i bought extra.... hahahz bUt tHe chocolates all gone le.... rEceived alot of chocolates (thkx guys for the nicely decorated chocolates)

fInallY dEcided on some matters liao.... liKe confiRmed goinG to ChinA foR overseAs aTtachment.... wAs actually hesitant a few days ago and was pondering over whether it was realli a wise decision to go to China esp since onli like 6 of us goIng.... initially i had expected abt 10 of us in a grp so that i would be more fun.... but i guess in life u can't haf everything going ur way....bUt nOw tHat i made up mi mind liao... i won't change it le... cuz i realli think it is a good experience to stay away from the family and learn to be real independent.... gUeSs these past few months haf actuall beEn trAining mi for this baH.... lEarnt to do manY thinGs tHat i neVer knEw tHat hAd to bE done..... like learning to cook simple dishes and preparing food from scratch.... which would realli come in handy over there cuz most prob we would be cooking our own food (hope u ppl dun mind eating the food i cook.... not nice also muz finish lor.... :p) gUess would realli miss mi friends and family here the most when i go over to cHina lor..... mUz remember to pAck in a feW foTos of these ppl.... and den whEn miSs theM can take them out to look at it..... we haf alreadi decided how to cure our xiang si bing if it realli does happen over there in china (we would all lock ourselves in the room and cRy together, this is called group therapy session....hahahz in this way we wouldnt lose face in front of each other and can encourage one another.....) gOing to china for three months when come to think abt it is realli long and would be quite a trying journey cuz we are nEw to that environment and muZ learn to adapt asap or we wouldn't be able to concentrate at work...... still dun noe wat we are going over there to do... juz noe that we are being attached to some institute dealing wif biotech and would most prob be working wif mushrooms..... hahahz (Dr. Huang's favourite....) and today we also had to like come up wif a rough idea how we gonna do the final year project liao..... was thinking that i would either join Dr. Shuailu sTem cell research or maybe Miss lim fungi anti-cancer research..... these two are the topics that realli interest mi.... if there is one on embryogenesis i might consider it too..... well there are onli like 13 or so possibilities.... hope that i can get the choice i wan.....

aFteR sch today went over to CW house where she set up her newly decorated room wif her projector and we sang ka-la-yong-yuan-ok till abT ten where we watched desperate housewives which is real funni.... hahhaz u ppl muz remember to catch hor if possible... It is on Channel 5 every mon night from 10pm to 11pm...... dEn walked back wif yP again..... she juz lost her hp and now she is thinking of getting another cheaper wan de cuz she like lost two hp liao..... quite frustrating when u lose ur hp lor..... can't get back the contacts liao den can onli wait for ppl to msg u b4 u can reply "who are u??" dEn hAf to retain number from lost hp.... aiyah big headache lor.....

tHink today Valentine's Day went quite smoothly.... alot of flowers given out, in the end still got extra and linglee never come to sch hai mi bring her flower den she not there..... nExt week den come back from Malaysia..... so good lar still holiday mood.... Py even managed to "squeeze" in extra time to go out wif steam engine.... (hahahz... py cannot kill mi ah, i never reveal who it is.... :p) i think she must haf enjoyed herself today and this muz haf been her best Valentine's Day ever.... lolz....

Ok... feeling very cold here as i am typing out this entry on mi com cuz the night wind real strong and the door not closed so all the wind coming into the house.... Brr.... can't type le... fingers aRe fReezing.... gTg defrost them lIao b4 they're gone..... cYaz..... nItEx.... and cover urself wif ur blanket in case i catch a cold.... tataz....

2005-02-15T03:09:00.000+08:00

HappY vAlEntIne's dAy!!!!

2005-02-15T03:08:00.000+08:00

FEMALE F4???? or juZ anotHer paSsing tRend....??

2005-02-15T03:06:00.001+08:00

wIshIng sTaiRs anYonE???

2005-02-15T03:06:00.000+08:00

hE lOves mi, hE loVes mi Not.... of coUrse he lOves mi.... :p

wEnt CentRepOinT to Go sHopPinG

2005-02-13T14:28:00.000+08:00

hahhaz.... toDay wEnt out wIf mi Fren instead of going to visit mi mum's friend who juz came back from America..... wEnt to ceNtrEpoint to bUY clothes for i dun noe who from Domanchi ( i thk tats the shop name, correct mi if i'm wrong....) well was actually quite shocked that she even asked mi to go out wif her.... and to go shopping some more... den at the end of the day den i realised that she had a motive.... hahhz make her sound so bad... but she realli nice lar juz that her method was wrong lor... i was actually quite stupid to haf not realised her motive until she said it lar.... cuz like i kept wondering y i haf to come out and buy clothes wif her for someone else who i dun noe.... so i speculated but i didn't confirm wif her cuz if she wanted to say she would and i dun like to force ppl to say things which they dun wan mi to noe... so i juz kept quiet and juz walked along making small talk every now and den and juz took glances at the shops to see wat they were selling.... dEn it was onli at the shop when she was choosing the shirt that i realised her motive for asking mi to come out to buy clothes wif her.... wEll was acutally quite sad that she didn't wanna tell mi the reason cuz i mean i like blur sotong lydat lor juz walk ard thiking she was juz buying a present bUt this wa not jUZ any present.... den after tat think think also maybe she had her reasons for not telling mi and den i didn't blame her liao.... sO she bought the shirt she wanted and i accomplished mi mission for tat day le so we were both happy....

aFtEr tat went to mi auntie house to haf dinner and gamble..... hahahz... haf been gambling for the past few days le.... didn't win any money vut i am not complaining cuz it jus fir the fun of it.... gambled till abt 1 plus before we stopped and den went back and after tat i gambled some more wif mi neghbour cuz they wanted to play mahjong so i juz played lor... was like playing wof eyes half-closed lar... so tired den in the end after one round i couldn't take it liao and told them we had to stop.... or i would fall asleep on the mahjong table.... LOLz....

lEarnt a new leSson today..... it is not easy to stay wif ur mother-in-law and to please her at the same time.... well i guess many family actually haf this prob... but i guess for mi auntie it's juz realli bad cuz everything juz hit her at one go..... all the while, mi auntie and her Mother-In-Law (MIL) had not been getting along well cUZ mi unCle is reAllY a 24 hour fillial son..... which i noe is good to be fillial but being over fillial is definitely not a good thing.... whenever mi auntie nad her MIL get into a quarrel, mi uncle would always side his mother no matter who is in the right or wrong.... and as a husband, i guess tat is not rite... of course who am i to comment buT i juz feel bAd for mi auntie cuZ she like had no one to back her up.... and she is like fighting a lone battle..... and worst thing is her MIL is a very unreasonable woman.... who likes to stir up trouble at the slightest thing and create more problems for everyone.... and whenever the MIL get angry wif the son, the son would juz take in everything quietly and den in the end vent it our on mi auntie and her kids which i realli feel is not fair lor.... cua i mean y should onli one person shoulder all the responsibility of maintaining the family.... it should be everyone's effort.....

Another case study is mi neighbour MIL who is still living wif them... mi auntie is lucky in the sense that the MIL does not live wif them and onli comes abt two times a week to her house and maybe stay overnight for one night before going back to her home..... buT mi neighbour is not so lucky liao... cuz her MIL is staying wif her.... and nobody likes her.... aNd i mean NOBODY.... ok lar... not realli nobody lar its juz tat everyone tries to give into her cuz she is old liao and also becuz she has a real bad temper and u wouldn't wanna be in her line of fire.... hEr two grandchildren who are staying wif her dun like her at all and would avoid her like the plague while everyone would try not to step on her toe..... so the grandmother would always go down to the guard house here and sit at the entrance of the guard room to talk to the guards who would be the onli wans who actually listen to her.... so she spent most of her evenings not at home but at the guard house where all the passing cars entering thee condo would see her and she would juz sit there.... there was even one time when mi neighbour bought back dinner for her and she owuldn't wanna wat it at home, instead she bought it downstairs and ate at the guard house which doesn't realli reflect well rite?? cuz i mean who wouldn't wanna eat at home if they had a choice, so it realli doesn't reflect well on the family and mi neighbour was furious.... there was even this one time when Mil actually threw a tantrum in front of all of us and juz stormed off the bbq pit and went home leaving the rest of us stumped and shocked cuz this was the first time we seen her lydat.... den mi neighbour couldn't take it liao and juz broke down and cried in front of us and she started saying her side of the story which is real sad cuz she like has many grand children but the kids mi neighbour had were the one she didn't like de.... so she would like throw tantrum at her kids and shout at them or call them stupid..... and i was shocked when i first heard it but den when i went to their house the next few times i actually heard it wif mi own ears how their grandmother called them and den i was convinced tat mi neighbour was speaking the truth.... and the grand children didn't realli like her too.... they would like try to ignore her if she went into one of her raging tantrum.... but i realli think tat this is realli not a good way for a family to live... its so complicated and trying juz to past one day.... everyday u are trying to get it over and done wif and nobody realli enjoys staying at such a home....

wEll typed alot liao.... so tired... muz go slp le.... so niTex everyone.... till i bloG again....

bLoggIng aGain

2005-02-12T03:44:00.000+08:00

hI all, has been a while since I updated mi blog cuz everynight come back liao very de tired….. so looking forward to the next few days cuz will be going out to collect MORE Hongbaos…. Yesterday was terrible lor… onli collected FOUR hongbaos onli thot can collect more de…. But den hor we went to visit houses that we haf already collected hongbaos from liao….so end up wif onli like four hongbaos after going to eight locations…. So sad lar…. L

Today all mi relatives are coming to mi house for a gathering so I looking forward to playing “ban luck”…. Hahahz where I will win more money…… yesterday played at one of the houses and I so lucky….. got four cards, den already 17 liao but banker also 17….. so one of the “elder” was standing next to mi and told mi to go for “nor leng” (five cards lar…. Double or nothing leh….) was hesitant abt it but since she said go den took another card and turned out to be 3…. Hahahz so lucky rite..?? den tat was the onli round I bet $2 if not all is $1 de…. Hahhaz in the end won $6…… lolz… so happy lar… :p

Hope that the rest of u also collected a lot of hongbaos and that all of u are having fun this CNY….. I guess this has been one of mi more fun CNY bah cuz got so many things to do and so many more places to go to….. and more money to win too…. Hahhaz…. Well , can’t type for too long… going out again to “pai nian” but this place also cannot collect hongbao de… can onli go for free lunch….. hahhaz… :p so cya all….. maybe will blog again tonight…..

2005-02-11T11:58:00.000+08:00

dUn u jUz think cUte gEneS rUn iN tHis fAmilY????

2005-02-11T11:57:00.000+08:00

aNotheR fOto oF tHe fAmilY.....

2005-02-11T11:55:00.000+08:00

fIrsT fAmiLy poRtRaiT of tHe yEar

2005-02-11T11:51:00.000+08:00

Mi paRents who loVe to take fotos... muz be in all ouR geneS.....

CNY fiRsT & 2nd dAy!!!!

2005-02-10T18:30:00.000+08:00

Yoz…. Juz came back from mi auntiE’s house and collected 8 hong baos juz there alone… so it has rather been a fruitful day of collecting Hong bAos… I noe that CNY is not juZ abT collecting hOng Baos and counting the money inside buT jUz thinking of all thE reD packets that I have collected, jUz so exCited….. :p

Spent today gambling at mi aUnTie house, first was Mahjong den was “ban luck”….. hahahz once a yr onli lor…. I am not some gAmblinG addict, dun u woRry…. jUz wanted tO tRy mi lUck….. tUrns ouT that the Luck is noT very good this year lar…. I lost abt two bucks (cuz they all play max. 50 cents de….. hahahz) Played till abt 11.30 deN thE adults wanted to go home liao cuz they tired…. I more tired lor….. sTraight after Reunion dinner aNd cOuntdoWn to cNY aT mi Grandma house, we wEnt to Chinatown and River Hong Bao (at Marina Bay)….. until like 3 plus in the morning can den haf to wake up at nine to change and “pai” nian to mi parents…….

River Hong Bao was really quiet….. not as many ppl as I had expected it to be… mostly selling antiques and showcasing some Ancient China Art tradition stuff…. Quite interesting bah but juZ no drawing in of the crowds lor, except maybe for tHE really HUGE “cai shen” there which showers down some gold flakes every one hour or sumthing…. Den read mi horoscope for this year and it sounded quite alrite….. juz had to avoid certain stuff like move house and sumthing else… (forget liao….) juZ in cAse u ppl dun noe….. I born in the yR of the TIGER!!!! quite nice lar, the figurines there and they had mant shops selling foodstuff from Taiwan, China and other countries….. quite interesting also…..

Chinatown as compared to River Hong Bao was more crowded….. Many ppl still lingered on after countdown and many roads were still sealed up as the party was still ongoing after the TV telecast of the Countdown……. The items here were also going at a much cheaper price….. like 50 cents or $1 for a container of love letters etc etc…. so cheap lor and so many ppl tat we had to squeeze thru most of the roads ard there…. mEt mi neighbor there too, who still working at the VCD shop and will be packing up liao….. The stage where the Countdown was held was still holding some dance items whereby Techno music was played and many of the audiences were JUMPING along wif the music……. The place was quite strict on security…. Many police officers were on duty and road barricades were placed every now and then….But u can really feel the CNY atmosphere there cuz many of the stall owners would be shouting out their wares trying to attract customers and there was this one stall who went chanting away along wif the Techno music…. So ridiculous….. “3 for $1”, “3 for $1”… I couldn’t help laughing at them for being so silly…. And many passerby were also staring at them…. Noticed more young ppl than old aunties at Chinatown, which was quite surprising for mi cuz I thot most of them wouldn’t come to Chinatown…. kEna knocked by so many ppl cuz everyone like rushing abt trying to get all the items they can b4 they are sold out…. In the end, we bought a lot of containers of CNY goodies and spent onli like $10 lor….. 4 ppl carrying plastic bags on each hand…. Can imagine how much we bought lar…. But all not for us de…. It is for mi Father’s workers who are on guard duty during tHis period….. poor things….. really pity them can’t go out at all…. But at least still got ppl go visit them and bring them food ( actually hor mi father say is to spot-check on them de, so that they dun tou lan…. Hahhaz so evil rite….. come wif such bad intentions…. )

Okok real tired le…. Muz go slp liao…. Not enuff rest den tml cannot perform well and today I learnt a new lesson too…. Cuz I haf many relatives hor and sometimes it gets really confusing to the aunties who they haf given to and not given yet…. So mi and mi sis came up wif a new system….. The moment a family walks into a house rite, we stand at the door and shake hands (basic courtesy mah….. also to get noticed lar…) den when they start giving out Hong Baos, we purposely stand near to them as they give out so we dun “lugi” and won’t get missed….. LOLZ….. clever rite??? Today we tried it liao…. As one of the Auntie was giving out the Hong Bao hor, we purposely stand nearby den we start to call out the name of whoever is standing nearest to us and like tell them something loudly, den the auntie sure to notice u de and won’t miss u out liao….. hahhaz actually hor we also considered helping them lor, cuz later miss us out le, den not beri nice mah…. Rite??? Worst thing today, the first empty Hong Bao I ever received in mi life….. In the mist of confusion when giving out Hong Baos, one of the auntie actually gave out empty red packets to us lor….. wah liu…. Worst part is we didn’t noe until we reached the car by then hor too late liao lor, left the place le…. Den when we reached our next destination, the three families traveling together (mine, my father’s sister, and mi father’s brother families, we are the more closer wans lar….. considered one family) then started to discuss who was the culprit cuz hor one family two out of three kids got money inside de, den another family one out of three kids got money inside de, mi family the worst de, NONE of us got money inside that particular red packet)

Okok gtg slp liao… will upload whatever fotos we took soon so look out for the, k…..?? nIteZ….

Juz aNother eNtRy!!!!

2005-02-08T16:12:00.000+08:00

nOw typiNg ouT somE stupId iNfo sHit foR thE SJ Children’s Camp In mArch…. sO siAnz…. Was sLpinG tHis aFternOon and didn’t go attend the meeting at CW house…. Sorri ppl really tired out after going to OCBC bank this morning and had to queue mi Whole aFternoon away juz to deposit money into the bAnk and so many ppl lor and these ppl all So slow de…. And the counters are taking tHeir own sweet time…… the queue was almost ouT of the bank liao lor…. Den when I reached the counter le and finished depositing the money….. I softly asked for 5 packets of Red packets ( mi father ask mi to get abt 3 but I scared not enuff) den the lady at the counter still say so loudly “5 packets aH???” I think I saw her laughing to herself lor as she said tat….. “sorri, can onli give u two at the most hor….” I was so embarrassed, I juz said ok and took the two packets….. Den quickly left the bank… wif mi head down…. I am noT going back to tHiS branch liao….. NEVER EVER!!!!!

After leaving the bank, came back to home where I went downstairs to play basketball myself, in the hot sun at ard 1 plus bah….. Cuz I thot can at the same time tan abit lor…. Cuz the swimming pool like so empty den sun tan there so funni…..

Came back home after tat go bath and den CW called ask mi to Bring Naruto to her house but I so tired after queuing the afternoon away and after the basketball match, I dozed off on the sofa while watching TV….. hahhaz…. And den I got awaken by a call from CW, and den told her I real tired out liao so not going over….. I think she got pissed or sumthing….. (sorri again CW) and den said she will get back to mi after discussing wif the rest….

So tats y now I am stuck wif doing the proposal and so many details to look into de…. Never knew a campfire would be so hard to organize from scratch…. Lucky we more or less haf the plan figured out already juz haf to put the rest of the programs together…

dEn worst part is tml is CNY eve liao and I haven’t even touched any of mi books yet lor…. And common test in two more weeks….. so stressed can…?? :p haf to really start spending some time on the books le.... think tonight muz burn a bit of midnight oil and at least finish a few chapters out of MANY MANY MORE!!!!!

Even worst, mi mum is getting into one of her panic attacks cuz she keeps thinking the house is not up to her standard of cleanliness and so the one who suffers the most is mi father who has to pacify her and help ard wif the housework….. She would like order us ard and make sure that everything muz be done b4 CNY and den if we say dun wan…. She would start on one of her lec on “How often do u help ard the house” which can drag on to “Juz ask u to do a little bit and u start complaining” lec, which den would get her started on “In HER time, when her mother ask her to help wif house work” story……. And as well as screaming to get things done…… which of course mi and my sis haf perfected the skill of “shutter”, meaning that once she screams, we shut our ears…. This brings us peace and onli mi dad would suffer….. (poor thing, tats y we try to help him if possible….)

Which brings mi to start thinking that it is quite true that in marriage, yi ge yuan da, and yi ge yuan ai….. meaning that there is always give and take…… juz that in this case mi mum is always the wan giving and mi dad would be the one taking lor…. :p If not ah, the marriage would not be lasting cuz if both dun wanna ai hor, den sure cannot last de…. So I think mi father really quite good lor, can actually tolerate mi mum temper, think it has to do wif the nature of mi father….. he is rather easy-going bah….. and dun ask for much in life… I think he is quite contented wif his lot which is good of course…

Well, really a lot of things happened this week which is rather troublesome…. Woke up in the morning and first thing I receive is such depressing news and of course tat day didn’t start well but I think such things do happen so we really shouldn’t feel so depressed….. Mi cousin is going to Melbourne to study and he is leaving today but its so last min tat I also didn’t get to see him but I can wish him all the best rite here and that he enjoys himself while he is there and to take care of himself….. hahahz… I think its so great to go there to study… I hope I can do it too…. *cRoss fingers*

Well, really shouldn’t type so much liao…. Muz get back to doing the proposal…. Tataz den….. will try to recall wat else happens but if really cannot den u all haf to look forward to tml entry where I will tell u wat I haf for reunion dinner *drools* juz can’t imagine that tml is CNY liao (it’s already past midnight….. :p) so tataz…. nIteZ eVeryonE......

2005-02-07T22:35:00.001+08:00

wAh.... FinaLLy oUt Le....

2005-02-07T22:35:00.000+08:00

fEels so rElived to to halF way oUt of miSerY.....

2005-02-07T22:34:00.000+08:00

StucK iN Sand eVen When sItTinG dOwn.....

tOdaY's sPrinG cLeaNinG

2005-02-07T13:50:00.000+08:00

HahAz..... bLogGing again afTer a vErY tiriNg dAy oF sPring CleaniNg...... had orders fRom mi mum tat its time to do he most dreaded thing i hate most during this period..... SPRING CLEANING!!!! so mah fun.... had to clean shelves and places i had never cleaned before and den change bedsheet (which is wat i do every two weeks but this yeah hor, the new bedsheets she bought realli nan kan, cuz she buy all dull colours but that's not the worse..... sHe bought bedsHeets thaT haf lightly coloured patterns and so now all our bedS all look like hospitaL bEds lor aka Old Folk's Home bEdshEets and the bedsheet she chose for herself........ the realli nice flora wan wif nice patterns.... she see whether she biased or not lar..... hahhaz....) mi sis and i were like complaining abt the bedsheets which realli looked horrible and uncomfortable to slp on...... but lucky onli slp for CNY, after tat i gonna change le if not cannot slp liao lor.....
So i spent the whole day spRing cleaning and had to work for like 6 straight hours..... (although got take LONG breaks lar..... :p) in the end, now mi room looks realli neat and spotless (juz hope that they dun spotcheck on the drawers cuz tats where i juz threw everything in and close it….. lolz…. No time to pack drawer le…. Maybe another time??? ) still got another HUGE pile of clothes waiting for mi to fold and pack into cupboard and oh yeah haven’t got ard to throwing all the unwanted clothes I dun wan out of mi cupboard…… nvm still got tml…. so tml another bz day…..
This week supposed to be holiday for mi cuz no sch term break and it was supposed to be study leave as well cuz two more weeks to common test…. But haven’t got ard to studying yet…. Hahhaz cuz so much things to do everyday…… dun noe when den can settle down and get into the mood of studying…… :p wEll gonna go watch sum NAruto liao….. now is exciting part le….. and den later go read Da vInci Code (a real interesting bk lor.. muz go and try to read it if u can although a bit confusing but real exciting……) so till the next time I blOg…… tataZ…..

SentOsA ouTinG fInalLy tOok plAce

2005-02-07T01:00:00.000+08:00

dEar all, finaLly back to bLog le….. hahhaz… Went to sentosa yesterday ard 12 lydat (cuz got Sj outing wif all mi juniors and fellow members), they were having a Sj CNY outing so I also went to play lor…. Hahhaz make use of chance to go and play as well, so while the cadets were playing their gamEs organized by the sEniors, tHe rest Of us were bz playing frisbEE (can u imagine 50 over ppl go there and they onli bring a miserable Frisbee????) Lolz… but I did enjoy myself or rather everyone did….. Never knew juz throwing a Frisbee and catching it could be so much fun…… the juniors were like all so ping ming trying to catch hold of that one Frisbee and we were there laughing at them…… hahhaz sound so evil rite??? But it’s so hilariously lor…. U haf to be there to see it…… Surprisingly, there were not much ppl at sentosa yesterday on a weekend…… so it was quite fun cuz no one there to bother u and such a big group of us all there and the whole beach was almost ours…… (except for another large group there but they were quite far away lar) but other than tat, the beach was rather deserted (mAybe it’s becUz someone had got stung by sumthing in the sea tats y so empty…… :p)
And yEs, I got buried once again and this time was worst, all mi juniors took part in the “burial” and I got buried tWice (the last time I was buried, it was in sec one when we also went to Sentosa and I Was buried by mi sEniors, buT this did not happen this time, this time mi junioRs buried mi lor…..) Once was buried by the sec 1&2s lying down, and the second wan was done by the seC 3 &4 NCOs lor, this time they so creative, dun need to lie down, sit up also can bury….. (although abit more xin gu for the person being buried, cuz more sand go into the mouth and A LOT of sand is needed for this kind of “burial” and more difficult to get up again).
tHot of going there to tan and play beach volleyball de cuz so many ppl, den these ppl never bring tanning oil and volleyball, onli one miserable frIsbee, which was also quite fun lar….. Den hor the sun was like so horrible lor… one moment got sun den next moment no more le and the whole afternoon got no sun onli winds so cannot tan at all den when we leaving sEntosa liao, the sUn came ouT again….. wah so dui lor.... but nvm, at least it was quite a comical day hanging out wif these ppl again, I had almost forgotten how nice it is to juz haf fun wif so many ppl liao and the feeling of belonging to SJ le….. hahhaz so tempting to go back every fri when they haf training but cannot leh cuz got lec till six lor…. I thnk these ppl are real nice to hang out wif and it has really been sum time since I last saw them….. I think got 3 months le bah…. Muz go get the pics from them and paste them here so all can see how horrible these ppl are to their sEnior senior lor….. hahhaz cuz I CL lar so more senior mah….
LOL….. :p
dEn after sEntosa, dun even haf time to bath so I left sEntosa wif some souvenir (actually a lot of souvenirs lor….. the sand from the Tanjung beach….. hahahaz everywhere got sand lor….. almost lar….. so much until the train hor sit down and stand up liao the seat will haf de….. hahhaz I guess no one wanna sit there le…. ) Den rush back home to bath before leaving to go to cHurch which I was late for almost half hour lor….. during sErmon, was so tempted to fall asleep but cuz the sermon was quite interesting lar….. was saying a lot abt whether there is meaning in life (a lot of thing I tend to agree but sum stuff juz dun make sense to mi so I juz listen lor…..) and I met many ppl whom I haf not seen for quite a while too…. So juz said hi and spoke to them for a while b4 leaving church and went to buy CNY flowers wif mi neighbour and her parents, but in the end also never buy cuz the mother say the variety not enuff so never buy and the flowers not beri nice also…..
It had been a rather exhausting day cuz so many things happened but I really enjoyed myself and I managed to take quite abit of fotos too….. hahhaz… but mostly buried in sand lar…. So can onli see face….. den I also dun noe wat obscene stuff these ppl draw on the sand on top of mi….. :p haf not seen the foTo yet…. I think SJ ppl really all deprived lor…. LOL….. can see from their “perverted” ways…… :p type so long de blOg entry le, muz stop if not ppl say I lor sor….. hahhaz…. Cyz…

2005-02-06T22:05:00.000+08:00

my Much nEatEr deSk..... acTually lOoks aBt thE saMe bAh..... juZ gOt onE exTra sTaR onLi.....

2005-02-06T22:04:00.000+08:00

tHe huGe pile of clothEs waiTing fOr mi....

2005-02-06T20:47:00.000+08:00

tHe bOys fRom dEspeRate hOusewIveS... aRen't tHey cUtE??? bUt tHeY're lItTlE dEviLs iN dISguisE

2005-02-06T20:05:00.001+08:00

pOor mI.... aLL alOnE in tHe fRonT rOw... :(

2005-02-06T20:05:00.000+08:00

hahahz.... cUte bAh....??? :p

2005-02-06T20:04:00.001+08:00

SnoWy fEeLIng

2005-02-06T20:04:00.000+08:00

dAte we took tHe foTo and wEnt foR haiRcuT