~Reminiscence ~

i'm back!

2009-02-10T15:54:00.002+10:00

AND i'm baaaaaaack!

haha! I'm back cos i'm feeling bored in the library when i'm supposed to be writing up my research proposal. Some updates before i go into what's gonna happen from now. So i was in my honours year last year and i graduated, got a 2nd upper. wasnt too happy about it cos i was 1.9 marks away from first class but anyway, didnt brood over it for too long cos life has got to go on. i believe we're always in the right place at the right time. So i'm still in australia anyway, trying to apply for further studies if i can get a scholarship. However to apply for the scholarship, i have to get enrolled into the uni first. Therefore now, i'm writing up a research proposal for the enrolment. V troublesome right..but it's ok cos the research proposal's quite interesting. IT'll b different from honours yr as i get to plan my own experiments but it'll invole alot of critical analysis. Hope i'll do fine. I'll be working on therapeutic targets for alcohol and drug abuse. more of neuroscience.

enough of babbling. i think i need to get back to it now. will update soon when i get the time. cya!

2008-02-22T16:41:00.003+10:00

it's 440pm now and everyone in the office has left..haha. everyone seems to b in a it's-friday mode. i should b leaving soon but it's quite nice to hang around when there's no one around. mayb i can get abit more work done and go home later, since my house is just 5 mins away.

haven started any labwork yet!! it's good though, so i can concentrate on my research proposal. i'm v stressed out by it. 4000 word research proposal. due in 3 weeks. Have to give a seminar talk on it too...in a month! try to get as much of much report done so i can enjoy myself during the easter break. speaking of which, reena n i are planning on fraser island! it's the biggest sand island in australia. nice nature walks, clear blue waters..sounds so alluring..

waiting for my ordered primers to arrive be4 i can start any labwork. will b doin real time pcr...my supervisor says good techniques required to prevent contamination. he must have really trust me on this..haha.

getting back to my proposal now. ta~

2008-02-19T13:42:00.003+10:00

Surprise!!! i'm back, up and blogging. haha. Have been caught up with lotsa stuff.

been back to sg for 3 measly weeks. But did alot back home. doing things as in catching up with friends and eating all the FOOD! haha. bet i gained quite a bit when i went back but that's alright...haha. gonna start on my exercise regime soon. actually, i have started...just ytd.

i'm at work now trying v hard to concentrate on the journals that i'm supposed to read but the construction work is driving me nuts..haha..so skiving a little to blog. I have to go sch everyday from 9-5 now..office hours. The good thing is no more exams for me...ever! haha..but i have presentations and reports to write up..

new ppl coming in these few days. now my house is like all asians..haha..used to b international..one singaporean too. i haven stayed with a singaporean be4 but she sounds nice so that's quite alright. So now, my house will have 3 singaporeans, 2 chinese (meaning from china), 1 british and 1 australian. All asians cuz the british girl's actually indian but born in london and the australian is from hong kong but born here. So this house is full of chinese! haha.

hope the new ones will b nice. I miss abby katie mo n ploy..thought of going to thailand to visit mo n ploy but too little time in sg to do that.

i'm getting back to my journals now..

2008-01-11T08:10:00.000+10:00

goin home really soon! super excited. after almost a yr. 11mths to be exact. haha.

2008-01-06T00:17:00.000+10:00

proclaiming my new enemy: sandflies!

The first time i was bitten was during dec 2006 and the scars left from those episodes of scratching are still on my legs!
I was bitten again. While playing bball with my housemates. who would have thought sandflies would lurk around bball courts. I normally spray insect repellent lest i get bitten by the huge mozzies n sandflies around here. I'm very prone to all insect bites, especially popular among mozzies and sometimes sandflies too. i think it's the blood type or some hormonal thing that causes the emission of some stuff that attracts insects to me. i've always been getting more bites than anyone else or if not, i'm the only one that gets attacked by the insects.
Biting is one thing but the aftermath is the worst. i cant stop the itch without scratching my legs raw. it's quite infuriating, especially when the itch aggravates in the night when i'm about to sleep or in the mid of my sleep. The bump gets really red. no it's purplish red. not a v pretty sight if u ask me. dont really dare to wear shorts out but if i wear long pants, the cloth will come into contact with the bites and then i'll break out into a scratchin frenzy.
I've taken antihistamine from the chemist in sch and doubling it with a cream to apply. both internal and external. you would've thought it'll work but no! think i have to get a stronger antibiotics or i'm thinkin of getting one of those clicker thing. u just put it on the bite, click it and presto! , the itch stops. haha. that's what the ad claims but i might give that a try. hope it works.

i'm trying to refrain myself from scratching to prevent those nasty scars from staying on my legs after the swelling has alleviated.
from now on, i'll spray insect repellent wherever i go. got to sleep now. seems like the itch somehow stopped so i better get to sleep soon before it starts again. ta!

2008-01-01T21:10:00.000+10:00

Happy new yr to everyone!!! 2007 has indeed been a tough but great yr for me. I'm v thankful for having great friends and family.

sophia kristen and i went to southbank for countdown last night. This is my second time goin for a countdown cuz i swore nv to go for a countdown after i went for the millenium one in yr 2000 with my family. haha. U should have seen the crowd. i can even go up the bus without walking. I was practically lifted up the bus. lol.
So this yr's my 2nd time. it wasn't as crowded as i expected and the crowd dispersed really quickly. haha.
that was how i spent my new yr's eve. nothing exciting actually. ha.
And i made dumplings today! ahaha..dumplings as in jiao zi, not the ba zhang cuz according to sophia and her friends, today is yuan2 dan4 and we have to eat dumplings. I thought it was last week cuz i rem vividly that mum told me it was some time last week. NEways, the dumplings were great. I kneaded the dumpling skin! haha. And sophia's so nice to make the vegetarian filling for me. They're really good. Home made ones just cant be compared to the pre packed ones. oh..still salivating now even though i had two huge platefuls of it. haha.

OH and i was at the cinemas the other day and guess what movie is screening right now here. The banquet!! the one with zhang ziyi in it if i'm nt wrong. It was screening in sg in yr 2006 if my memory's not failing. haha. Movies here are released really slow..lol

It has been unusually cold ard here lately. rainy, gusty...the wind is really strong. like those that blows prior to a typhoon. haha. mayb i'm exaggerating a little but some tree branches have fallen off. I think when i go back to sg it'll b really hot. my friend said she couldn't get used to the weather in singapore and the humidity also...she said she couldn't breathe and was sick for the first few days. hope i don't get that. cuz i won't have much time in sg to afford to b sick and cooping up at home.

gotta sleep now. update again soon. ta~

2007-12-26T00:23:00.000+10:00

just got home from christmas dinner at granduncle's sister, aunty cecilia's house. i ate sooooo much today. i think i'll be fat by the time i go back. haha. but i enjoyed my time though. had too much to eat.
and i think i will b putting on weight too when i go back. cuz i have already planned on what i want to eat. hahaha. i want to eat you tiao the next morning i'm home. then mee reebus at the stall near my house. haha. and alot others. abit tired now. got to go sleep. will update again soon. i seem to haven gotten tired of updating my blog.
anyway, merry christmas to everyone! hope u have enjoyed ur christmas like me. :)

2007-12-08T06:49:00.000+10:00

REalised that i haven put up pics of my housemates this semester so here they are:

First row from left: Ploy and mo from thailand, sam frm aus(used to live here in the granny flat but nt anymore) and katie from US, texas
Top row from left: Sophia from china, me (haha), abby from texas too and reena from london.

Katie's birthday. piggin on ice cream and brownies

I think we were bored. haha

Katie told me that's the typical asian pose and wans me to do it with her. haha.

I'm their official photographer. ha. this photo cracks me up. look at their expressions. lol.

Reena and i after our bridge to brisbane run.

Ploy and mo being bored and playing ard with my phone.

What we are doing when we're supposed to b at the library studying: pretending to be tourists and taking photos. haha. This is hilarious. Abby and i have been going to the state library to study for the exams and everytime on our way to the library, we will see tourists taking photos. This was the classic pose that we saw and she imitated them doing it. haha.

i'm really tired now but i cant sleep till i know abby's flight has departed.
I'm just gonna lie in bed and go back to sleep again. will update again soon. i have to many stuff to write about for the past months.

2007-11-08T11:40:00.000+10:00

taking a break from studying.

first exam tmr!

it has been pouring these days and getting pretty chilly at night. Somewhat like winter. I guess it's better than having the intense heat around when studying. It makes me more letharic all the time.

plans for next fri!! haha

Dreamworld, firefly watchin and dinner! super looking forward to that. One more week!!!!!

time's up. got to get back to my notes.

i'll put up some pics after my exams. my blog has been getting boring lately. haha. It has been a hectic semester.

adios~

2007-11-04T17:00:00.000+10:00

yay! internet's back. has been rather inconvenient without the internet ard..shuffling between sch and home all e time. it was good too in a way. no distractions...cuz my exam starts on the upcoming friday. study study study! haha.
cant wait for exams to be over!

and the weather is going to kill me soon. it's duper hottttt!! fan is not enough to keep u cool. i miss winter now.

2007-10-23T11:06:00.000+10:00

it's back to the no internet days. ha.

2007-10-14T10:59:00.000+10:00

the past few weeks have been full of birthday surprises, assignments, tests etc etc. Will update details sometime later.
The english translation of rubbish truck! ha. The translation couldn't be found on internet so mekko did some translation of her own. Nicky did her translation too which goes like this:

even though you have a bad temper and you treat your friends badly,and you do things that are wrong and yet you want to avoid from the consequences..it's a good thing that you met me as i am not bothered by your bad behaviour,

you are a terrible person but yet you have a good life - i have to walk to let you take the car out; when you eat your food, i'm the one who does the washing up;when you got bullied, i stood up for you; i would go through much trouble to make you feel comfortable;all because our destinies are intertwined..

*chorus* With you around, i don't feel lonely but secured. When you are unhappy, treat me as your rubbish truck, vent your anger or throw your unhappiness on me, i will listen to your problems.with you around, i dont feel lonely but secured.if you are happy, i will still be your rubbish truck and sing for you every day.

To affirm our friendship, let us have a toast to each other. Down your glass and I will down mine.Let's finish this carton, let's drink them all up!

(:

2007-10-06T00:05:00.001+10:00

cool vid on mRNA translation.
http://www.dnai.org/text/mediashowcase/index2.html?id=576

haha

2007-10-04T06:59:00.000+10:00

There's this really nice catchy song. Nicky reccommended it to me. ha. it's hokkien with title called pun soh chia meaning la ji che or rubbish truck by Mayday.
A song abt friendship. really cute. haha. go listen if u can get hold of it.

2007-10-01T20:44:00.000+10:00

why??

?a??????????

#0#0n#0#0#0s

2007-09-30T17:48:00.000+10:00

thanks lan!! u made my day!!! a million gratitude to u :):):):):)

2007-09-30T01:57:00.000+10:00

it's raining! argh. of all nights! when i did my laundry and hung my clothes out to dry. when i heard the sound of rainfall, i tried to convince myself it's just the leaves rustling (sometimes when the leaves rustle they can also sound like raining mah). but it became apparant when the rain got heavier. i have half the mind to go down now (2am) to collect my clothes but the fear of the darkness (plus a tinge of laziness. haha) downstairs overcame my intention to bring my clothes in. so i'm just gonna leave the clothes there. the rain isn't too heavy and it rains at transient intervals. ha. it doesn't continue like a normal rain. haha. so i'm just gonna leave it there. guess i'll wash em again tmr morning. or afternoon. got ter sleep now.

Zz.

2007-09-30T00:02:00.000+10:00

i don't like possums. they are these cat-mouse like creatures that lurk around when dusk falls. they have really good balancing skills which renders them the ability to walk across the telephone lines (or wadever u call em..those along the streets). the noise they made at night is eerie. ha. or mayb it's just me. there's this one possum (i reckon it's a possum) that comes once in a while under my window (mayb it's not under my window but it certainly do sound like it's there) and started cackling..those evil kind of cackle mind you, and this really freaks me out. ha. it's not those shrill kind but those that u would expect from a goblin or gnome. haha . too much of fairy tales. anyway, i've only heard it 3 times and mayb it was far away.. really wanna know what made that noise. ha. mayb i'll draw my blinds next time i hear it but i'm pretty sure i wouldn't have the guts to do so.
sigh. i hate myself when i'm being timid and cowardly, or overly paranoid. trying to overcome all these..at least i know i'm improving a little already since i came over here. :)

ok. enough of rants and ramblings. going back to work proper!

ta!

2007-09-29T23:59:00.000+10:00

i'm having serious cravings for the mee rebus from the stall near my home!

2007-09-29T23:40:00.000+10:00

Exam timetable out!

microbial biotech: 9th nov @ 8am
molecular mechanisms of development: 12th nov @ 2:30pm
microbes and human health: 15th Nov @ 2:30pm
no exams for intro to research (fortunately).

these will be my last exams thruout my entire 15 (cant be bothered to count the exact no.) looooog years of education. ha.
after that, no more exams! yay!
too early to be feeling all excited, aren't i?? haha.

anyway, it's only a month and a half to go. gotta work doubly hard!

i wanna go home soon!! missing home alot. trying to settle for a date to return. sadly, i cant go back for long cuz i might be starting my honours project earlier then the actual academic date for sch reopening.
plus ts is coming over to visit also. it'll be sooo fun! really anticipating for her arrival. she should be coming in early jan and mum wans us to go back together..so yea..

all stressed up over exams etc etc

will be missing the next month and a half. but will post something if anything exciting or extraordinary happens.:)

oh and will see wenhui tmr at ft! ha. it's nice to see fellow qsn from sg coming over here. but he can only come once in a while because his place is just too far away. oh and might be going to sydney to meet rf at the end of the yr too or mayb next yr when ts is coming. it's a lil too far for all these right now.

gtg

*drowning myself in lecture notes*

2007-09-25T21:54:00.001+10:00

i wanna eat mooncakes!

ha!

2007-09-23T23:56:00.000+10:00

so many things waiting to be completed

1. development exam

2. Lit review

3. microbial test

4. microbial report X 2

5. development group essay

6. research report

7. research oral presentation

8. look for supervisor for honours project

9. decide on date to go back (which i'm in a dilemma now)

10. extend visa

2007-09-21T17:31:00.000+10:00

think i better post something before my blog's dead. haha. have been awfully busy for the past month. this'll continue till my finals i think. 7 assignments and two exams for oct! eeks!.

i'm in a holiday mode now cuz we're having two weeks break. i should snap out of it soon and work on my stuff. speaking of which, i think i'm gonna start on my take home exam now.
caught a cold a couple of days ago which made me slept for quite abit cuz of the flu tablets. Had a really good rest.

planning to finish up the exam today!:)

2007-08-28T07:45:00.000+10:00

ooo. so busy these days cuz of assignments. two due on friday and one up on monday.

2007-08-27T23:28:00.000+10:00

drought for the past decade, flood for the past week.

yup, it was pouring for the whole of last week in sunny brisbane! such irony, that the usually drying dams were overflowing last week and causing floods down the coast here. water level was around knee high and schools were closed. Fortunately it's fine over at my place here cuz i'm quite a distance away from the coasts.
This leads me to think that i'm always very fortunate. Since young, everything was paved quite nicly for me and my life was just as smooth as the flat roads in the desert. Mayb there might be a couple of stones that caused the car to jerk a little but i'm still going on steadily. That might be y i used to take alot of things for granted. In this couple of yrs, i've learnt to appreaciate those things that were so normal in the past 2 decades of my life.
Reflecting back, my life is really smooth sailing. Everywhere i go, i have people to help me out that's y i'm really thankful to lm for all of this. gxlmcb:).

2007-08-21T23:09:00.000+10:00

kind of lazy to blog lately. haha. but i think i should update every now and then so here i am! haha!
last update was 9 aug. after that was just school and stuff. Went out on Tuesday night to celebrate katie's(housemate) birthday. Went to a restaurant called St Marco's but it was closed already. Can u imagine it? restaurant closed at night! haha. So we changed to the next best one that katie likes. It's call Wang's dynasty. From the name it's quite apparent that it's a chinese restaurant. The place is nice cuz it's just by the brisbane river. We had quite a bit of fun. There were 8 of us. 4 asians and 4 americans. We taught the americans how to eat rice with a fork and spoon. haha. They normally eat with just the spoon and i didn't know that until i observed it months back. I always though it was very normal to eat with fork and spoon. They were quite fascinated and started eating with both but it took them so long to eat. haha!
Anyway, i had fried rice. The restaurants here always have a vegetarian menu which is so much better when conpared to singapore's. But the fried rice wasn't as good. haha. We all enjoyed ourselves though. And of course we wouldn't go without taking some photos. Will upload all photos in the next couple of post cuz it's 1124pm now and i need to be in bed now. haha.
oh and Happy Birthday Weiqi!! if u happen to see this post. ha :)

ta~

2007-08-10T00:11:00.000+10:00

oh and to add on. haha. it was nice to see kit chan singing also and it reminded me of an old australia song. The title is 'i still call australia home' with the lyrics:

I've been to cities that never close down, from New York to Rio and old London town, but no matter how far or how wide I roam, I still call Australia home.

I'm always travelIing, I love being free, and so I keep leaving the sun and the sea, but my heart lies waiting over the foam, I still call Australia home.

All the sons and daughters spinning round the world, away from their family and friends,
but as the world gets older and colder, it's good to know where your journey ends. Someday we'll all be together once more, when all of the ships come back to the shore, I?ll realise something I've always known, I still call Australia home. but no matter how far or wide I roam, I still call Australia I still call Australia, I still call Australia home. but no matter how far or wide I roam, I still call Australia I still call Australia, I still call Australia home.

I think the australian one sounds nicer. haha:p

2007-08-09T23:56:00.000+10:00

Happy National Day everyone! i just came back from the national day celebration. haha! watched the live telecast of the NDP. It was nice to see all the singaporeans around in queensland gathered around to celebrate. The people here created a very lively atmosphere. There were like ppl singing loudly to the national anthem and taking the pledge. haha. But it wasn't as nice as how the mediacorp advertised it to be. Mayb the audience was much lesser. i like the little flying kites. haha. to think that we can even break the guiness record by just flying kites.
Oh and in our invitation email, they said they'll be providing singapore cuisine and guess what 'cuisine' there were. Fried bee hoon and chicken wings. haha. Luckily i ate before i went there. oh and there was bandung too. haha.
There were trivias during the commercial break too and one of the questions that they asked was what do the crescent and the five stars on the singapore flag represent and what does majullah singapura stands for. haha!
Overall, it was fun. :)

2007-08-06T20:34:00.000+10:00

i know i haven posted for like half a month. haha. was busy with stuff plus school has started. Loads of things happened so i'll just write about them randomly. I watched harry potter the day it was released and the first session of the day. It was really fun cuz u can see a whole lot of harry potter fans in their costumes. Queued up to get the book too. It was at borders and i went with my housemates (ploy, mo and abby). We woke up early and got there one hour before the sale time to queue. There were ppl dressing up too! haha. I saw hagrid, dumbledore, luna, prof trelawny, tonks, snape, the weasely twins, hermione and of course harry. haha. I think i'll nv get to see singaporean HP fans so enthusiastic. quite an experience. haha. The book is much cheaper here as compared to in sg. Plus it comes with a hedwig plushie! it's a TY owl and it's cute! haha. we got some balloons too that printed: we love harry. a little embarrassing though when i had to hold on to it when we went to the market after that. haha.
Went for the bridge to brisbane run also. Think it's a fun run for charity also. There were 30000 ppl running. we (reena and i) had to wake up at 430 in the morning to get there before 630 and it was freezing in the morning (it's still winter now). It was my first time wearing jacket and track pants for a run. haha. 12km and i couldn't walk too well today. haha. Guess it's because i have not been exercising consistently. had muscle ache from my sole to my waist but it was alot better than the 21k last yr. i literally cant move for days. haha.
sch's getting busy.
Will update again when i can.
Hope everyone's good. :)

2007-07-18T22:44:00.000+10:00

ooo...i haven been updating for soooooo long. Pretty much busy with some stuff. School is starting next week. Nothin much happened for the past month. Oh and i caught the first day and first session of harry potter! it was my first time going for the first session. Quite an experience though cuz u can see those fans wearing robes and hogwarts uniform, completing with that maroon and yellow scarf! The cinema staff dressed up also, but not as good as the fans. haha. the staff used those huge black garbage bags as robes. haha.
New batch of housemates moved in already. All of them are very nice! just needed some more time to know each other better. Will post pictures of them when i got the pics.

2007-06-28T22:56:00.001+10:00

ok..updates, updates and more updates:

I don't know where should i start.. haha..so many things have happened since after exams.

We( wing, lily, whitney and i) had a sushi and enchilada night! me and wing taught them how to make sushi and they taught us enchilada (mexican food)! The food were really delicious!

Pictures are much more convincing than words:

We start by spreading on some tomato kind of sauce, then we spread some mashed beans (first time's i've seen the beans), then sprinkle alot of cheese on top and fold that bread thing.

Whit making her first sushi!

End results!

Put them to bake and it's done!:)

Happy us

Exam period! the most hectic week. all of us were studying in the living room because our rooms are too distracting, or it was just me..haha... and nashmin found herself dancing..haha..too stressed i think..

so here u go:

Studying hard but always ready for a pose :)

Me, looking ridiculous with the socks and slippers. It was really that cold an we were freezing.

Lily sitting just right across me. See, what did i tell u about the always ready for a pose. haha.

here's nashmin dancing to her persian music for us. haha. study break!

Oh and thanks to lily who made scrambled eggs and french toast for whitney and i when we have 8am exam. That was really sweet:)
I truly missed the days studying in the living room with them. Although it was tough, we motivated each other by just being there and studying. This will never happen again.

Wing, whitney and lily had left us for good:(. It was really a sad day on the 26th, with three of them leaving at once. The weather was ever so gloomy and rainy which makes us more depressed. The house has became lonely and lifeless with their departure. I'm often in the house alone which is not a good feeling. The once so full of life house, with 8 people in it... I have never been in this house alone before. There was always somebody in the house. It's just so different now.

anyway, it's a little late now. I'll continue with the updates in the next post. And to wing, whitney and lily: if any of you chance upon my blog and this post, i want to let you know that each of you have been dearly missed by all of us in this house. Take great care:)

2007-06-26T20:13:00.000+10:00

I hate goodbyes....

especially theose kinds where you don't know when you can see each other again...

2007-06-20T17:05:00.000+10:00

i know i should blog, especially when my exams are long over. Haha. I will post a longer one cuz i'm still piecing out the photos and everything. Once it's done, i blog again. Lookin for houses for my friend and cousin (cousin's cousin to be exact). And also supervisor for my next sem's course. And i realise that i cant sit at home without getting fat(haha) so i got a part time job too. ha. It's good that they let me choose the days and i'll only be working for 2-3 days i think. Pay is good. $18.20 an hour! haha. It's a fruit n vege shop and i'm still under training now so it's still uncertain if i'm workin there. So i'm getting all busy again! :)

2007-06-05T22:41:00.000+10:00

I'm drowning under all the macrophages, cytokines, chemokines, interleukins, basophils, neutrophils, eosinophils, antibodies, receptors, heavy chain, light chain, signalling pathways...

ha..one more week and it's over!:D

2007-05-29T19:37:00.000+10:00

i watched 200 pounds beauty yesterday! ha! not in the movies of course...but on you tube! considered the best korean movie...the most meaningful one of all that i've watched.

oh and i had a dream last night, that i went back home(sg) and in my dream, it was on last Friday. The memory of it is rather vague, as you know, ur dreams are most vivid at the moment you woke up. So i just remembered me goin home on last Friday. I recall telling mum that i have to go back on tuesday because i have a poster presentation on wednesday plus my exams are ard the corner. Somehow, the scene switched (or mayb i cant rem why the transition) to me and two other friends whom i'm quite positive that i don't know them in real life but are my friends in the dream. I was laughing at some identity card that one of them was holding and laughing so hard. I don't remember what triggered that laughter but i just remembered a name on the card which says "ann kok".
hahaha...Strange combi in this dream. haha.. no meaning to it. I think i'm homesick, but not so homesick enough to be homesick. What am i talking about. haha.

In library now trying to figure out the bioinformatics questions.

how's life for everyone?

hope it's great.:)

2007-05-26T00:53:00.000+10:00

At Three Monkeys with Josephine and Wing for the night. Nice place i must say. Nice ambience with great cheesecakes. Haha. Oreo Cheesecake and White Choc Cheesecake...topping up with a cup of hot choclate...nothing beats that!

I am a happy girl :D

Pictures up later!

Enjoy your upcoming weekends!

2007-05-19T10:09:00.000+10:00

i just heard that harry potter (deathly hallows) book is selling at $47.40 in sg! haha...quite happy cuz i got it here at 29.90 aud which is ard 35 sgd..ha! i'm so lucky. cant wait for the book. :D

2007-05-19T00:31:00.000+10:00

Exam timetable released today. The worst two are probably Microbio and immuno.
Microbio is 9 of june 07. It's already bad that it is on a saturday. To make it worse, it's at 5:45pm! it'll already be dark when i walk out of my house to sch-_-.
cant go ft too...dcs is flying over from melb so there'll be ban dao that night..i sooo want to bring friends over but i cant:( .
Immuno: it's on wed so that's fine but at 8am. I think i might just be half awake then..haha.

anyway, i cant complain cuz there are still ppl with worse timetable than me..haha...
got to start studyin now..lots to study for immuno!

2007-05-17T23:43:00.000+10:00

Lack of posts recently due to pressing deadlines. Hope to get everything done this wk in order to start my studying next wk...hav advanced immuno paper on 12 June. It should be my first paper. I don't know when exactly are the other papers cuz the timetables are not released yet.

So this few days are just school and home...i spent ard 13 hrs in sch for mon n tue! ha..partly it's because of my (slow) internet speed at home...and today is the first day of our another new month of internet usage. Hope we'll be able to last long, or else u really cannot imagine how slow it has been going at. haha. Sometimes the page cant even be displayed!

Quite happy today that i've got back the normal speed internet. Plus Wing and i made the white sauce on spaghetti again! haha..it was so nice that we decided to make it everywk!(v fattening though) We didnt use spaghetti today..had those fettucine for a change..it tasted really fantastic, especially with the sauce! I deemed it as the best white sauce that we have ever made..haha! Nothing special in it but it was really yummy. The ingredients were only butter(alot..haha), cheese, mushroom, flour, milk, water, salt, pepper and corn which we tried putting in today. I think the sweetness of the corn definitely has some effect on the sauce. :D:D

Life has been pretty much mundane lately, so might be mia-ing for some time. Lots of work to do. Will update again when i can..till then, take care everyone! :)

2007-05-12T22:34:00.000+10:00

I forgot to mention. ha.

I pre-ordered the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows! yay!

haha...although it's nothing much to yay about...haha...it's the last book of the Harry Potter series...i hope it's good...

And another exciting thing is that if i pre-order it, i can have a Hedwig Plushie!! isn't that exciting?! hahaha:p

2007-05-12T22:17:00.000+10:00

I need chinese software back in my computer! All the chi or jap or some other languages are all squares! i cant see them at all...i tried to install it from the control panel area but i need a cd thing. It's something like the windows xp service pack 2 and i got no clue what is it...i tried to download from the internet this service pack 2 thing but it doesn't work. No idea what i should do now..make do without chinese software?? ha...i don't think i can...mayb try to find those nan ji xing or smth to load into my com...

anyway, went job hunting with nicole today....passed in a few resumes to different shops and they'll call us if we're selected i think. I'm also thinking on the option of volunteering in the sch labs which i think might be more useful to me...will try to e-mail the lecturers about it.
Am waiting for the exam timetable to be released. It's only 3 wks to exams and the dates are still not out yet....UNSW's and Uni of Melb's timetable's out last wk already. Sian.

It's starting to get really cold especially at night. The gusts of winds really chill you down ur spine...i very much afriad it'll be freezing during winter since it's only autum now...I prefer the hot weather to the cold....hope it'll not be unbearably cold.

adios~

2007-05-11T23:17:00.000+10:00

Saw something rather funny at coles (supermarket) today. I was browsing through on what i need to buy when i spotted this cute old lady staring peculiarly at something amongst the tray thingy in the fruits section. As i was just passing by, she had already lifted her vision off the thing thatand went back to her shopping. Being the Kaypo (haha), i took a quite glance at what she was looking so strangely at. And guess what it was. It was a 20 cents coin! the funny part is that it was a singapore 20 cents coin! hahaha...i was secretly laughing to myself when i saw that..cuz upon the first look, i thought it looked familiar. It was the head part of the coin, with the two lions on it. I just think it was quite funny...of all the coins...it was a singapore currency...haha.. i think the old lady is trying to make out what country's currency is that..haha..but she's really cute:)

Letting loose a little lately...mayb it's those normal post exam syndrome..haha...but i cant let this last for too long...finals are ard the corner... Must study!!
I'm still not too used to this orangey light of my room. It says to make ur eyes feel comfortable but i personally think it's too comfortable that i always feel sleepy at night..haha...although it's better now than when i first moved in.

It has been getting rather cold. Streets were not as dry as before when i woke up in the morning which indicate signs of rain. It's good, having some rain around here when it has been dry for the past don't know how many months. Seems like the gloomy weather brings along unluckiness. Got a few bad news recently too. :(

Grocery shopping at west end and job searching with Nicole for tmr.

Some song just struck my mind. haha. It was a song that we sang in music class in primary sch. haha. and i think only my primary sch has this song.
The lyrics goes like this:

All things shall perish under the sky
Music alone shall live
Music alone shall live
Music alone shall live
Never shall die.

No, the 3 "music alone shall live" is not a typo. We actually repeat it for three times..seems like a funny song. Cuz i think there should be some other things that will not perish, like air..ha..anyway, it's just a cute lil song so there's no need to put too much thought into it..haha

got to bathe now. CCCcccooooooollllllddddd~~~~~

brr~~

2007-05-10T20:35:00.000+10:00

May god bless her with everything she needs

2007-05-08T10:29:00.000+10:00

long weekend last wk cuz it was labor day ytd..ha... over at granduncle's place on sat.

Went ft in the morning of Sunday and to the city afterwards to shop for josephine's bday pressie and also mother's day gift. Got what we wanted and went to the buddha's birth day festival after that..

it was soooo nice! haha...there were carnival and the best thing is the food! haha..it's like walking along those night markets of taiwan! the food were like those of the night markets too! so u can imagine how excited i was..haha...cuz i can eat everything there! ha..they were rather overpriced though but i bought quite a bit of food.ha..

pictures pictures!

Buddha's Birth Day @ South Bank

Fried dumplings!

Chicken (taste quite mushroomy but it's nice!)

Hotdog stick!

One of the stalls..the food looks really delicious

Another food stall

Hungarian food..it's quite interesting...it's a big piece of bread thing and they squeezed some sauce on it

there's the bread thing. Wing and i shared a piece cuz it was so huge..yummm

There were fireworks after that too..and that was fantastic too..20 mins worth of fireworks

Some other pics that were taken when my lappie was down:

Studying hard in the balcony during exams (ha)

Roti party by Nim Sha (another hse mate)! i made some shapes out of the dough before it was put to cook. isn't it cute! ha..i made the face.

The flower was made by me! ha

and the lizard too!

That's the finished work. And Nim Sha
a made a Dhal curry w/o onion n garlic specially for me! so nice of her(:(:

Dhal. very spicy and nice!

Apple given to me by granduncle. The left one's mine. Notice how huge it is..haha..
the right one is wing's apple.

Noodle soup i cooked!

Tom Yam fried noodles. This was good too!:D

White Sauce spaghetti. This was the best one! slurp!

Muffins that i made to granduncle's place. They're wildberry flavored and really yummy!

Baked this cake there too! Sinfully delicious..haha

Seems like a food post..haha..got to work hard agian..finals coming up soon!

2007-05-05T23:40:00.000+10:00

my internet is going at snail speed. Appears that we have been over our limit for the internet, causing it to be at 56k speed. I haven used 56k for like so many years..haha..soooo not used to it. I practically have to leave the page there for it to load while doing other stuff. Will just have to make do with the 56k till the 16th of the month. it's quite difficult to do my assignments with this..will just have to go to school to get my work done.
On a lighter note, i'll be going to this Buddha Birth Day Festival tmr night! ha..i got no idea why they seperate the 'birth' and the 'day'. The celebration commenced since ytd and it's a three day event. There'll be performances and food fair! haha..so exciting right??!! haha
And there'll be fireworks too! So will be goin down with wing and josephine to take a look..
oh and i watched cinderella 3 ytd on dvd...haha...i like the movie...it's a sequel to the normal cinderella. The plot goes like this: it all started with cinderella living happily with the prince while the stepsisters are working as dishwashers. The stepmother then happen to got hold of the magic wand which the fairy godmother dropped so with the wand, she turned back time to the moment when the duke is reaching her house for the women in that house to try out on the glass shoe. She used magic to get everything her way, until her daughter was almost married to the prince. But her(the daughter) conscience held her back and so she decided to stop what she was doing. And so cinderella married the prince and they lived happily ever after.....again. haha...quite a nice movie i think, light hearted, and happy ending.
alrighty, feel like snuggling up under my warm blanket now. have a great weekend like i did, everyone!:D and ending this post with yet, another quote which caught my eye while on the bus. I think it was a sch motto or smth cuz it's on a sign post thingy in the sch:

Give without remembering,

Take without forgetting.

how true...

2007-05-01T11:43:00.000+10:00

Phew.

it's over.

Move on.

2007-04-29T22:14:00.000+10:00

down with one more!

i can do it!!

can i??

(doubtful)

2007-04-29T01:37:00.000+10:00

It was actually raining today! haha. I had plans to get my laundry done today but to my dismay, the sky was grey and gloomy when i wole up today. It was so long since i experienced this kind of weather as u all know about the persistant drought here, it hasn't been raining decently since i was here. So today, although gloomy, was a nice one for a change. Good weather to just snuggle on the comfy couch with a cuppa hot piping tea and a good book. I've developed a liking for tea recently. Well i actually started to eat things that i seldom eat back at home. Like tomatoes...i woulnd't be caught muching it like eating any other apple but i do that here. Mushrooms too..the kind that i don't eat back at home, i eat them here..haha...all of em are healthy food so no problems with that...
Birthday party for wing tonight! it was good! haha..we planned this surprise for her. She returned from sydney today and so we thought of surprising her when she gets home and she really was..haha...i had fun, cuz i have nv planned a surprise birthday thing before... and i made a scrumptiously delightfully whoppingly sinful choc icing cake! it was really sinful...cuz much butter was added to the icing and we used M&Ms to decorate the cake. But it's really worth putting on those pounds eating that! hahaha..To add on to the sin, i made fries! haha..double sin!:X so i neutralised it with dumplings..haha..mayb it won't neutralise but it's rather healthy considering that i cooked a dumpling soup. That was one lip-smackingly good dumpling soup. haha...Wing love it too...
after all the excitement and food, we were all full up to the brim...but totally satisfied.

Got to get back to studies once again. Last one on Tue!

It seems to be getting really dry around here... the symtoms are more apparant on my legs. I just noticed that there are bits of rash on my calf area but they are not irritating me. I remember SX telling me this is a symtom of dryness. I guess i'll just have to quench my legs' thirst with lots of moisturiser everyday. I have also been rather prone to insect bites...i have quite a bit already. So u can imagine what a sight it is, red rashes, mosquito bite looking bump, plus the marks that were still there from the sandfly bites during the trip to sentosa last december.

Seems like there has been a lack of visual enjoyment around here. Will upload more pics when i have installed the software to upload the pics from my camera to the com (rem my com died down on me?haha).
Take great care everyone!:)

2007-04-29T00:02:00.000+10:00

Chocolate causes certain endocrine glands to secrete hormones that affect your feelings and behavior by making you happy. Therefore, it counteracts depression, in turn reducing the stress of depression. Your stress-free life helps you maintain a youthful disposition, both physically and mentally.

So, eat lots of chocolate!

2007-04-26T20:50:00.000+10:00

i got electrocuted today! ...haha..my finger actually, to be exact.. haha

was helping Nashmin to fix her light bulb today cuz she had a fused bulb...and i think she has forgotten to turn off the switch..i didn't notice that too and stupidly, i jammed my forefinger into the hole thing where u screw ur light bulb in. Fortunately, the electricity wasn't too great..but it was the first time i felt real electricity..haha..the past few times were just like needle pricks...
but this time, the whole top part of my forefinger can feel it!
The feeling was indescribable..u have to experience it to know it..haha...the aftermath feeling was somewhat like u got ur finger clasp by something tightly..ha..
anyway, i wouldn't want to experience it again..haha

getting back to studies again..nothing much has happened these days...just grueling exams and assignments...hope that exams will be over soon.
I have missed one wk of ft cuz of exams plus i'll be missing it this sun too, i miss the kids also!:(...
another sad thing is that SX will be goin back to sg already..he came here, started everthing that has nv started...and now he has to go back le cuz his company wants him back...just when he has already gotten on v well with tz's sons..so it's left with me an cherry now...lmcb, hope everything will go on as well as before..or even better, improving.

tata~

2007-04-26T02:23:00.000+10:00

Mariah!

I know u are here!!! wahaha!

do u know it's a rule to leave a tag when u are in someone else's blog???

hahaha...

so taaaaaaagggggg!

ha:p

2007-04-25T16:41:00.000+10:00

:S + :S = 2:S
2 :S + :O = :(

:S + :S + :O =??

2007-04-23T20:20:00.000+10:00

i'm so exhausted!

i don't know y...i think it's because of lack of sleep last night...but i've tried this before and i nv felt so tired then. I think i must be getting old..haha

all i want to do is to sleep now...never been so overwhelmed with exhaustion..not even after the 3 hours of running the 21km last year has gotten me so tired
it's really wierd...
anyway,

to bed!! ha:p

2007-04-23T11:48:00.000+10:00

just finished with my test. Not too good i would say but it's over! ha..
Two more two go...Those are the more scary ones...
oh and two more essays too...

thinking of what i should cook for tonight..haha..i think i should cook my potatoes cuz they're like more than a week since i bought them..might bud soon and i heard it's poisonous if the potato is budding...think i'll cook fried rice along with that..sounds good...haha

2007-04-23T02:26:00.000+10:00

There was once a teeny weeny fly, who was flying around looking for something interesting to do. He spotted this glaring light out of nowhere and decided to approach it like any of his little fly friends would do. He was fascinated by the intensity of the light and bounced around it several times. The intensity of the heat emitted from the light was so hot that it could burn. Silly fly. Despite feeling warm, he thought it was a great place to stick around for the long cold night. And so he did. And little did he know that it will get too hot for his little black body.
He felt sick, he felt burning sensations. It was too late. He crinkled under the heat and couldn't fly. He felt dreadful. He was hyperventilating, and couldn't utter a sound of help. He stopped moving. His short life would be ending any moment.
There came this kind soul, who saw it since it was foolishly bouncing around the light.
She saw it fell to the ground and knew it instantly that this fly was being silly enough to kill itself unknowingly..
So she decided to give a hand to the poor little dying fly and to restore its breathe in it.
She removed the light. No budging from the fly at all. Moments later, she noticed the little feet of the fly was moving! It was saved! However, that only lasted for an instant and he went dead again. Not moving. 'So much for my help', thought the kind soul.
It was actually struggling to regain it's strength. But no matter how hard it tried, it just couldn't flip himself over. 'i'm tired', thought the little fly and so he decided to lie there till he got all his strength to fly again.

~end~

Story inspired by a little fly in the room. haha.
Ok, i know the story sounds silly and seems like i have got nothing better to do. hahaha
I was bored out of my wits studying.
That's my reason.
Cell bio test in 7 hours time.

Good luck to me.

ha.

Raining

2007-04-22T22:46:00.000+10:00

It rained!

at long last..haha..we were so excited about it..nashmin had her clothes hanging....i was downstairs at the living area and wing came out to tell me it is raining...we were all somehwat excited cuz it hasn't rained for sooooooooooo long..haha...so as i was saying, nashmin had her clothes out...i went up to her room to tell her that..i shouted out to her cuz her bedroom door was closed:

Me: Nashmin!!

N(from her room): Yes??

Me: It's raining!!

N: Yes, isn't it so romantic..(*smiles* and totally oblivious to my intent of informing her about the rain)

Me: Your clothes!!!

N: Ohhhhh!!!!

haha...that was when she came out of her room, laughing along the way down to collect her clothes...

i find it really funny..hahaha...she can even tell me it's romantic..haha..

And so, the rain ended in about 15 minutes
But we were contented.
ha.:)

2007-04-22T19:53:00.000+10:00

Guess how many things i ate today...

Uncountable!:S

hahaha!

2007-04-20T23:13:00.000+10:00

It is one of those times when i would simply lurvvee to stuff myself silly with junk food

haha.

2007-04-20T21:56:00.000+10:00

Those were the days
Once upon a time, there was a tavern
Where we used to raise a glass or two.
Remember how we laughed away the hours,
Think of all the great things we would do?

Chorus:Those were the days, my friend!
We thought they'd never end.
We'd sing and dance forever and a day.
We'd live the life we'd choose. We'd fight and never lose.
For we were young and sure to have our way!
Di di di di…

Then, the busy years went rushing by us.
We lost our starry notions on the way.
If, by chance, I'd see you in the tavern,
We'd smile at one another and we'd say,

Those were the days, my friend!
We thought they'd never end.
We'd sing and dance forever and a day.
We'd live the life we'd choose.
We'd fight and never lose.
Those were the days, oh yes those were the days!
Di di di di…

Just tonight, I stood before the tavern.
Nothing seemed the way it used to be.
In the glass, I saw a strange reflection.
Was that lonely woman really me?

Those were the days, my friend
We thought they'd never end
We'd sing and dance forever and a day
We'd live the life we'd choose
We'd fight and never lose
Those were the days, oh yes those were the days!
Di di di di…

Through the door, there came familiar laughter.
I saw your face and heard you call my name.
Oh my friend, we're older but no wiser,
For in our hearts, the dreams are still the same.
Those were the days, my friend!
We thought they'd never end.
We'd sing and dance forever and a day.
We'd live the life we'd choose.
We'd fight and never lose.
Those were the days, oh yes those were the days!

I absolutely looove this song...since i was in sec sch i think....partly cuz we used to play this alot in band...if i can remember, it's always one of the easier pieces we had....v catchy too....
have been pondering on the lyrics in the recent years, the song speaks about the good old days....have always hear ppl talking about the good old days...everyone is sure to have their "good old days"...and people likes to reminisce theirs once in a while to relive the moments...the moments sometimes are not very fantastic ones...it can also be like the secondary sch days when everyone is stressing over O levels...i'm sure no one likes it there n then when u were at that time..but now, it seems that it has became one of the chapters of our good old days...all thoses rushing projects and exams while goofing around with friends...all of us were so young then...
Every moment we are living till right now, will create a memory in the future..it has to be ourself, choosing what kind of story we want in our own book...
we have started filling up our book since we arrived on this tiny little planet, writing each and every of the tiny events in our life. We can never end the book until we depart. There is no ending full stop yet. And there is definitely no rewriting.
There is a phrase that goes: "live life to the fullest". The phrase is always so common that people do not think much about it. But it actually has alot of meaning to it: Live the moment that you will not regret. Live every moment that you will be proud to say 'Yes, I did that'. I hope that i can close up my book with a smile of satisfaction on my face, with a book that i can be proud of.

2007-04-20T21:06:00.000+10:00

i think i'm getting short-sighted.

Things are getting blurry to me lately..particularly far away stuff..i reckoned it's due to doing sudoku under my night light which is too dim..but i have always been reading by the night light everynight even when i'm in singapore.. So i just shook it off by concluding that my eyes are too tired.haha(and continued doin sudoku by the dim light)..until today...

i woke up late today! haha...at 845am when i'm supposed to have class at 9am.. so i washed up and rushed to sch...although it's ok to be late..haha..but i don't want to miss anything cuz the lecturer's going thru exam qns...come to think of it, this is the most important lec of all so the more i should rush...haha..i was around 7 mins late so naturally, i took a seat at one of the last few rows...and i took some paper out to note down the exam answers that was projected on the white screen. I was so surprised that i could not see clearly..it's like the words got blurred...i squinted a few times cuz i thought it might be due to me just waking up a few moment ago...i thought that mayb my eyes have not 'woken' up yet..haha...it's still the same..but somehow, my vision got better after like 15 minutes..so mayb i'm not short sighted...but the symptons i've been getting is quite enough to put off as short sighted...like i cant see the board clearly, ppl's faces looked more hazy than usual to me when they're some distance away from me..

so i think for safety sake, i'll stop doing sudoku in the dark..hahaha..

update more again when i have the time..which is like after april..haha..becuase my last exam is on 1 may...can u believe it..1st of May..when everyone in sg is having a public holiday..i'm in the exam hall struggling to answer the qns! it's gonna be a tough one....i heard...

Till then, there will only be short updates when i'm getting tired of studying or i have something exciting to tell..haha...before my memory starts to fail...hahaha

adios~

2007-04-20T03:27:00.000+10:00

Alas, i eventually succumbed to the ZZzzz.. monster

~~~~

2007-04-20T00:54:00.000+10:00

My Tim Tams are waving at me and screaming "eat me!"

Yikes!

haha!

2007-04-19T23:42:00.000+10:00

Caffeine high!

had double doses of caffeine..haha..coffee and tea
i'm so determined to finish my essay tonight!

stay focused!

2007-04-19T20:22:00.000+10:00

I did something sinful the night before....................

i ate chips and tim tams at midnight!!! haha..

Anyway, laptop fixed at last but there seems to still be a prob...i cant read or type chi...i thought windows xp should be able to input chi language but under the language section, chi was nowhere to be found! i'll leave it as that first...fixing it after my exams..

Not much updates...goin to study now..
Just a lil something i did from kevin's webby..

You scored as English/Journalism/Comm. You should strongly consider majoring (or minoring) in Communication, English, Film, Journalism, Literature, or Writing.

It is possible that the best major for you is your 2nd, 3rd, or even 5th listed category, so be sure to consider ALL majors in your OTHER high scoring categories (below). You may score high in a category you didnt think you would--it is possible that a great major for you is something you once dismissed as not for you. The right major for you will be something 1) you love and enjoy and 2) are really great at it.

Consider adding a minor or double majoring to make yourself standout and to combine your interests. Please post your results in your myspace/blog/journal.

English/Journalism/Comm

81%

Biology/Chemistry/Geology

75%

Psychology/Sociology

75%

Accounting/Finance/Marketing

69%

Nursing/AthleticTraining/Health

63%

French/Spanish/OtherLanguage

63%

Education/Counseling

50%

Visual&PerformingArts

50%

Religion/Theology

50%

PoliticalScience/Philosophy

38%

HR/BusinessManagement

38%

History/Anthropology/LiberalArts

38%

Mathematics/Statistics

25%

Physics/Engineering/Computer

13%

WHAT MAJOR IS RIGHT FOR YOU?
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2007-04-17T16:48:00.001+10:00

Got a call from the technicians today! and i can get my laptop back! yay!
but the depressing thing is he cant recover my documents in the laptop.:(:(
Although there are no sch work or anything super important in there, there are my photos!!

all GONE

I have not gone down to get it yet. Will be going down tmr morning to get it before my prac. And thinking of dropping by chinatown to get some vege dumplings for wing plus some instant noodles..haha.... and also toowong village to get wing's b'day present and to pre-order harry potter and the deathly hallows!! haha..getting excited over it..

Just went for a short session with my tutor to ask some questions regarding my essay..it was enlightening! ha...i clear my mind of any doubts now and goin back to finish my essay now before i forgot anything she said..haha...sometimes i feel i have stm..

update again sometime later!:)

and i'll just end with a quote which i saw from my friend's msn display name which i find it nice and true:

身体健康，合家欢乐，别无所求

2007-04-16T15:32:00.000+10:00

Laptop's still not here!!

Called the technicians just now in the morning...he said smth like the hard disk will be here soon and he'll call me the latest by tmr. It has been a week already.

anyway, din do much last weekend. went grocery shopping on saturday morning to buy food for 2 weeks cuz i'm going to stay either at home or the library for these 2 weeks. exams and essays due!! haha..so i dun intend to waste time goin out to buy stuff..
After goin to the market with wing(my housemate), we went sunnybank after that. It's a place where they sell lots of chi food and also chi grocery stall. It's quite good, even better than chinatown..haha..and i saw quite a lot of vegetarian stuff there too.. quite excited..haha..like the nuggets, fishballs and some others which i have forgotten already..but i didn't buy it anyway..haha..and i was rather surprised too to find vegetarian meat in the major supermarkets around. There's one near my house...but most of them contain garlin n onion i think.
Oh and we drank bubbletea there too! haha

went home at around 4 plus cuz the shops are all closing soon. oh and we bought a box of doughnuts at only $1.50! haha there were 6 in it and they were SUPER NICE! haha choc doghnuts with choc flakes on top. Really good!
Cooked fried rice when i got back home and nth exciting after that. haha

On Sunday, went ft as usual...the kids were ever so cute..haha..always enjoyed my time there every week teaching and playing with them.:)
went straight home after that. didn't go to my granduncle's place cuz i have to work on my essays and exam. It's getting nearer n nearer!! And i'm still stuck at one of my immunology essays. It's mind boggling but interesting too. However, i don't have too much time to ponder more on the essays.

just finished my lunch and feeling sleepy..ha...will go home late again tonight i guess...will take the 8:50 pm safety bus home. The safety bus is a facility catered to female uni students here. It'll run after 6pm and it brings you back home to your doorstep so basically, it's like taking a taxi, except that it's free..haha..ok, mayb nt free..mayb it's included in the sch fees..haha..anyway, i should make full use of the uni's facilities! haha..so i dun have to walk home in the dark...it's actually quite scary here at night cuz the road lamps are not as many as the roads we have in sg...so it's quite dark, eerie and v little ppl walk around at night.

getting back to my essay now

~ adios~

:S

2007-04-13T11:45:00.000+10:00

I miss my laptop.

2007-04-12T11:50:00.000+10:00

Laptop sent for servicing..the guy says it's the hard drive prob...hope he can recover the stuff in it. Anyway, i went shopping in the city after sending it for servicing..haha..
bought some groceries and also sports shoes! ha..quite happy to be able to get a fitting sports shoe cuz i cant find any in singapore that fits my feet! haha..the biggest they have for womens is size 8 or 8 and half i think and i only have another choice which is to buy the mens but they're always so ugly..haha:p...plus the mens shoes are too broad for my foot. So i got a size 10 ladies sports shoes here! haha..was quite happy to be able to get a size.
Thinking of joining the canoe club here..long time since i last canoe..ha..probably join after the exams but i'll see about it then cuz it's almost winter already and i'm afraid it'll be v cold.

Waiting for the fujitsu ppl to call me so i can go down and get my laptop. Days are boring without com but it is also good in some ways too. Anyway, i rather have a com..haha..

Waiting for lunchtime now..haha..will be going either subway or 'mi sushi' near my place with my housemate. We seldom eat out here..after my mum went back, i can actually count how many times i have eaten out..haha..i think only 2 times if my memory is not failing on me...haha..so today will be the third time..lol..the same goes for all of my friends too..i think it's b'cuz the food here is expensive and it'll b way cheaper if we were to cook n bring our own. one meal will cost around 7 aus dollar and plus a drink, it'll top up to 10 bucks already. so it's not worth it. ha..

going to sunnybank tmr..it's a place where they sell lots of chi food and the area is practically dominated by taiwanese..haha..there're even more chinese and chinese stuff there than in chinatown..so my housemate and i will be going there tmr and see if we can find some chi food to buy back. I want to buy vitasoy! ha..i missed it alot...and i saw it the other day at chinatown and the 6-pack normal ones cost 3.70 aud which is 4 plus sgd i think..ha..it's double the price in sg. But i think i'll buy when i go sunnybank tmr.. i suddenly miss the mee rebus near my house! haha..omg..

the holidays is ending but i still have got loads to do! must be more hardworking already! hahaha
...going off for lunch now!

-yummmm-

2007-04-10T09:57:00.000+10:00

din update for a few days! ha..cuz my com is down...it just turned off suddenly and restarted. and it showed a screen saying 'operating system not found'...i was like !!!...haha...cuz i thought OS is supposed to be in there all the time...and i tried to fix it but i think the documents has to be wiped out so i called the fujitsu here and they took down everything and said they'll call me back today...i hope they'll call...so here i am in the sch lib blogging..ha

sunday i went ft in the morning and after that, i went to my granduncle's sister's house for easter...ha..the ppl here have family gatherings for easter...so my granduncle asked me along also..at first i thought it might be strange but there were v nice ppl there plus there were also alot singaporean students...ha...i dunno y they're there too..but nice talking to them..

Oh and i saw the bookshop at the shopping centre that says harry potter and the deathly hallows can be pre ordered! hahaha...so happy! cuz they told me that i have to queue up here to get a book, unlike in singapore where u can just walk into popular and grab one. I'm going to pre order it this week!! so exciting! haha..

2007-04-07T21:31:00.000+10:00

went over to granduncle's place today for the whole day!

there are two magpies that go to his place every evening at around 5pm to get food..haha..so my grandaunt always prepared some food for the two of them... i got to feed them too!! haha:

this pic was the best one i took cuz it's too fast for me..haha..but it's interesting that it'll come right up to my hand to pick it...the other one is more timid...it'll wait somewhere far for us to throw it to him..ha...
oh and i saw like this whole group of cockatoos(parrots) flying together and stopping by at the house beside my uncle's house...it's funny cuz i have never seen a group of parrots flying in the wild before...in sg, i only saw it in pet shops chained to a metal rod..haha...

these are just a few of them on the roof...there are more of them on the tree beside the house..i think there were altogether 20 of them flying around..haha..

As tmr's easter, ppl are shopping for chocs today cuz during easter, they give each other chocs, more of choc egg or easter bunny choc...there are sales everywhere on choc easter egg n bunny..they look quite nice..haha...i might buy one bunny to try!:P so my grandaunt, uncle n i went to the shopping mall together cuz they're going to their relative place tmr and they need to get some choc... and although with much rejecting from me, they still got me a choc too...haha...

it's not easter egg or bunny but it's a diff toblerone from the ones we have in sg...there're diff flavors in it..notice the box was designed for easter! it's not egg shaped inside..i think it's like normal toblerone shape..cant wait to try it but not today...i think i ate too much during dinner...like 1 cup of rice lo...haha..and alot of fruits..feeling so bloated right now...ha.oh and they got me an interesting cheese too...i shouldn't go supermarket with them..when i show interest in some things, they'll want to buy for me...i feel bad that they're always buying things for me..and they wun let me pay even though i insist on it...anyway, here's the cheese..i think it looks like choc:

abit tired today....goin off to bed early...

i'll end this post with a pic of my bedroom that i took today! haha

Movie today

2007-04-06T21:45:00.000+10:00

Hey!

went for Mr bean movie today...not bad actually but i dun like the ending..it is like they are rushing to fin this movie and just put it off with any other ending..haha...except the ending is a little lame, the rest was good! haha..

So after movies, we just walked around the river area and looked around at the stalls that were set up there for a while before going for lunch...

i had this vegetarian crepe..haha..v nice!

pictures!:

Me with the crepe!!

oh and there's a device thing which they issue to all customers...it's something like a paging thing and when u fin with ur orders, they'll give u this device and u can wait at ur seat. When the food is ready, the device will make a sound..haha..like a pager and u can go collect ur food..haha...

i think it's super interesting!!!:

haha!

sooo..after that, we dun really have anywhere to go cuz it's gd friday today so all the shopping malls are closed! haha...so we went home at 3 plus..haha...so we just took the citycat back home...the citycat is something like a ferry...quite exciting..haha..it's actually a normal public transport here...

a pic with my fren in the citycat!:

we took quite a few pics but some of them are in their camera....we also took a pic of an old myanmar temple here..ha..

going to get light bulb tmr! i sort of spoilt my light bulb...i was going to get a new one anyway..haha...cuz the light here is orange and it makes me feel sleepy! ha..i need to get white light..will get it tmr at the mall before going to my granduncle's place...

happy easter everyone!!

(p/s: it's public holiday on mon too!!..hahaha)

:(

2007-04-06T01:35:00.000+10:00

Wooo~~

2007-04-05T21:02:00.000+10:00

Haha..i'm so proud of myself..i managed to edit some stuff for my blog!! haha..althought it's considered simple stuff but still, i did it! haha....

tmr's the start of holidays! yay! haha..will be going to watch Mr Bean with my friends...

oh and i went to the supermarket today, supposedly to just buy bread and eggs..and i walked past the biscuit section and couldn't stop myself from taking the love potions chocolate mud flavored tim tam! haha...i got a whole series of tim tam now! haha..look!:

Nice right!! haha..

another pic of my dinner today..i was so hungry when i got home that i just want to eat anything that can be eaten..haha..so i made something simple but i think it still look nice:

oh i was telling sabrina the other day that i have this friend who looks alot like mavis!! hahaha... well, not really alot but somewhat similar..haha..she looked more pretty and she's definitely nicer than mavis..haha.. and i took a photo with her today..haha..she was curious about my phone's front camera so she wanted to take a pic.haha.:

She was making some funny faces..haha...anyway, she's from korea! ha...and i think she's doing her masters now...

oh..and during my bioinformatics class at the com lab today, my friends and i was talking to this guy who's abit wierd..haha..he keeps talking to the tutor the irrelavant stuff..haha... and so my friend just talked to him and i sort of joined in..i cant really remember the conversion exactly but it was something like this, i just remembered halfway thru:

wierd guy: do i look gay to u

friend: no..of course

i think the conversation went to other topics for a while so i just ignored them and did my work..wen suddenly i heard:

wierd guy: i'm a homosexual

friend: haha..u're kidding right

wierd guy: no i'm serious.

when we heard this, both my korean friend above n i turned around to look at him..haha

korean friend: are u serious?

wierd guy: yes (with a serious face), is there anything wrong with being gay?

i cant really remember what exactly was said next..haha..but my korean friend kept having that unbelievable face...haha..our conversation was stopped by our tutor who told us to stop talking..haha..like pri sch..haha

i think my friend continued to talk secretly to him cuz she told me after class that the guy's parents know that he's gay..haha..mayb it's a common thing around here...cuz i think there's one place in the uni where u can goto learn more about transgender, homosexuals etc.. haha..they even have some gay magazine outside of the school's canteen sort of place, a whole stack for ppl to take..haha..so i think they're really open about it here...ha~

~brrr~

2007-04-04T20:41:00.000+10:00

Yay! i got a new skin..and a tagboard also!! haha..
all credits to sabrina who did all the editing and everything for me!

Thanks!!:):)

nothing exciting went on today...but excited about holidays coming soon!! ha...Friday is gd friday and monday is easter..but having the holiday on mon has not much effect on me cuz it's the mid term break for the whole week..well, two weeks actually cuz the wk after the mid terms is what they called non teaching week..haha..so i practically dun need to go to sch on that week. so it's basically two weeks of holidays...actually, study break should be the more appropriate word..haha..cuz after the two weeks, there comes the exams! i planned my studying time already and i seriously think i dun have enough time to study..omg..have to start now... plus i have two immunology essays to submit during the exam week....

i'll be going for movies this friday with my friends:) we're going to catch mr bean...the tic here is cheaper than in singapore..haha..it's 5 dollars for us students so it is like just 6 sgd! ha...oh and when i was checking the upcoming movies, guess wat movie i saw...it's the curse of the golden flower that's coming out in late april! haha..soooo outdated...i think we were having it in singapore months ago....and the banquet is releasing even later than that, like in May i think..haha..

i need to get some eggs tmr or mayb sat wen i go marketing...i ran out of eggs already...

everyone's going somewhere during the holidays and i'll be at home mugging!..boohoo:(

:):)

2007-04-03T21:25:00.000+10:00

yay!

i handed in my cell bio essay today!! ha...another load off my shoulders..i can concentrate on other things now..oh and i was almost late or should i say already late when i handed in my essay today(10% of total marks deducted for late submission). i took so long with the stupid referencing part that when i went to print it out, it was already 4pm sharp (4pm was the deadline) so i dashed to the building to submit it. It's a kind of machine where it scans the barcode of ur assignment and it'll print a receipt out for u to keep. So i just slot the assignment in and waited for the receipt to print out and see how late i was cuz i'm quite positive that i'm late. And so to my pleasant suprise, it says 3:53pm!! haha..so happy..i was grinning when i saw the receipt..haha!

Sooo i'll eat timtams today since i'm so happy..haha

oh and i cooked a yummylicious fried rice today!! haha..it was a little sinful though cuz i added quite a bit of oil...on second thoughts, i think i'm not going to eat timtams afterall..haha..o well...anyway, as i was saying, this fried rice, it tasted really great! ha...i added potato cubes in to deep fry first..and it tasted like fries...haha..carrots next, follwed by beans, rice and lastly tomatoes..of course i added abit of salt so that it'll taste good. and there u go, the best fried rice i've cooked:

The image is abit crappy though cuz it's night time but still, i think it looks nice! :D

oh and i tried a straw that i bought the other day, it's a flavored straw, meaning normal milk goes in, choc milk comes out..haha it's not especially nice but it's interesting:

exciting right! haha...

and i'm beginning to be like a typical 'aunty'..haha..so does my housemate..we were always so excited to go to the supermarket to buy food, looking at the magazines for the different supermarkets to see who is selling cheaper food, plus we were also excited when we went to a wet market called west end market last weekend to buy cheap vegetables..haha...soooo very like 'aunty' right..hahaha...went chinatown too and got some dumplings (jiao zi) so i have one more thing to add on to my cooking list haha

i'm eating an apple at chinatown after a meal..haha..

so i'll end this post with my pic! haha

Was taking a break from my cell bio essay the night before so i took a snap by my little 'pantry' corner in my room! haha..

~it's getting cold~

:D

2007-04-02T22:58:00.000+10:00

:D:D:D:D:D

I got my immunology presentation results today

somewhat satisfied with it

i'm a happy girl today

2007-04-01T18:47:00.000+10:00

i think i have an idea what's the whole template prob about..it's the new blogger thing which i have absolutely no clue what is it about....haha
i'll be using this tempate for some time till i have the time to figure out how i get about to change it...

Still working on my cell bio essay right now..haha..due date is 3rd april 2pm...
after this, there are two more immunology essay to go...and to make it worse, they're due on the week that i'm having my mid term tests!!
so somehow or other, i have to get it done during the easter holidays..everyone in my house will be going somewhere far for holidaying n i'll be staying home mugging...haha...but there'll also be two of them staying home...it'll be a quiet n peaceful house during the easter break...haha.. (we decided to have a party!!hahaha)

running out of ideas on what to cook lately..haha...it's always pasta or rice or bread...and mayb noodles sometimes (not instant noodles hor..ha)..i had an attempt at making curry...it was great! with that curry leaves from grandaunt which made it tastier... however, it's tooo much of a hassle to cook n wash so i decided not to do it till i have some free time....ha...so i'm just cooking the simple stuff like egg, rice, vege, pasta....my fav is pasta now..haha..using fusili.... i think i'll master it when i go back..haha..cuz i've been cooking it for many times now..haha( i'm having it later for dinner!)

it's getting cold n dry recently...i haven seen any downpour since i came....not even a decent drizzle..haha...i can even say that it just watered or smth like that...it was like drizzling for a few minutes and it stopped..haha
and the daytime is getting shorter..i dun like it....i got a feeling i won't like winter...i heard it makes ppl more depressed here and the suicide rate is higher during autum and winter..haha...
but i would really like to have a good storm around here..provided that i'm at home...haha..

i think i'm just babbling whatever i can think of cuz i just sort of woke up from a nap and still abit drowsy..haha..
i'll get back to my work now~~

oh and i suddenly remembered..
Happy April Fool's day!!!
although it's nth much to celebrate...hope everyone spent a great april fool's day..haha...sounds stupid but...whatever...hahaha

-cold-

2007-03-31T22:38:00.000+10:00

i just cant seem to change my template. It keeps giving me error n stuff like that..so guess i'll just stick with this boring template for now...haha

back to my essay~

it's a cold night today.

haha

2007-03-31T00:32:00.000+10:00

sooooo.....I got a blog after much pestering from sabrina..hahaha...i actually had one before...which has only two posts...one in 2004 and one in 2005..haha
not really into blogging so didn't update then..

i know the template now is ugly..haha..but i'll change it when i have the time...

for now, i'll be concentrating on my essay...a 1500 word essay! actually it's not alot..haha..but it's still.....

just some v simple updates...it's still super hot here! it is supposed to be autum and getting cooler but dunno y it's like this now..ha...
and sch work is getting heavier too..so my life now is practically sch, home, sch, home...haha..nothing interesting...update again soon!

alrighty...got to get back to my ESSAY now.....boring~_~