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Monday, August 29, 2005

Culprit

i had a full blown flu on Sunday. Felt so sick that i cannot stand for too long and I will feel faint. The suspects are below:

You can see our lecture notes in the background with a cuo of tea that's compliments of the ppl who are running for the BS club. I really think i ate too much choc and drank too little water. But they taste really good!!

Thursday, August 25, 2005

good news!

Before i get to the good news, here's some updates. I was very blur today loh. I thought lab was at 930 den i happily thought i was early for class. Turned out that class was at 9am. OMG.. missed the whole briefing. I was never late for lab before loh.. sian.. but lab pretty easy lah.. Jus section and stain. Den draw cross section of stem and leaf. Haha.. i intend to copy A'level stuff.

anyway... i was sick today liao.. sian.. flu... no wonder my headache wouldn't go away. sigh...

But got good news!! haha.. next mon supposed to be half day but in the end my lecturer cancelled my lab!!!! haha.. so happy!!

Bukit Timah Nature Reserve Trip on 15 Aug


Big buttress roots. The tree is really huge!!

This is a leaf litter plant. It does not have any branches but have spiralling leaves. They trap falling leaves and absorb nutrients directly as the leaves decompose. COOL right?

The group of us walking up the stairs. Can you see the fog? That's something u see only after the rain. Feels so good! Like deep inside some mysterious forest.

A big rotting log. Its very funny to see a whole group of us standing there and trying to imagine wat's happening in the log.

More fog. So pretty! imagine looking at the hills in the midst of fog through branches right in Singapore!


Steep slope! SO scary. Towards the middle for the walk, we were so busy trying to watch our steps to notice the trees around us!


Nature's traffic light. Very pretty right? Its artificial lah. In the sense that they were not arranged this place naturally. But the colours are very nice.


This tree is amazing. Its very very tall but the trunk is hollow! The oblong holes are formed naturally to give the stem a lattice like effect. Gradually the trunk becomes hollow like this. I wonder how it supports the tree and how it transport water and food. I mean, where are the xylems and phloems??

Yeah!! We are finally at the summit!

A budding new life... I manged to spot it amongst mess.

A very long millipede/centipede or watever pede lah. Its very big but cant really see well coz got no comparing objects. I dare not put my finger there for comparision coz its too scary. But u can compare with the leaves ard it. Those are std size leaves. THe pede wa abt 4 to 5 inches long.

Well, i never fully appreciate trees and our nature reserve until the trip. Should reall go back again.

Wednesday, August 24, 2005

library trip


The directory. Look out for the weird names like the imagination room, possibility room and the retreat.


The courtyard!


Attempt to catch pretty mei mei in bikinis but cannot see. Huimin's camera only got 2x zoom. And my arms too short. too bad lah.

One of the funny photo taken. From the state of my hair, you can deduce that its rather windy up there. I was feeling so good!!

back!

wow.. i 2 weeks never write anything liao. Apologies to my loyal readers... here i am, back with more news.

St John
i decided to blog abt this first since it affects me the most at the moment. My pulse rate and breathing rate is so high i am going to get a heart attack soon. I am SOOOOOOOO angry with my juniors. I think that i am being simply unsympathetic. But i just cannot understand how much can a couple of days of studying do to help you pass your exams with flying colours??? They sure they will study if they dun go for competition? ARGH!!!

The story is like this... this year Footdrill com has a limit to the number of teams that one school can send. They set it as 3 and since i have 4 teams, i either appealed or 1 team cannot go. Obviously i will appeal for all the teams to go right? Since they already spent time to train and i dun want to waste their time. So nice, it happens that my juniors heard about the limitation and they decided to make full use of the chance to shrink themselves the responsiblity of competition and gave me all sorts of excuses. @#$%^. So angry with them. Its seems to them that they dun care about the time they have put in before this and jus want to get away from it since they have a perfect excuse to. The sec 2s standard is not very good and footdrill com has a great deal of competition. They told me that they have DECIDED not to join. Like they have a choice?? If they can make all the decisions den still need me for wat?? SO ANGRY... Anyway, I told them that its their choice and if we lose the challenge trophy again, twice in under 5 years, i will hold them responsible for it. Pissed off.. @##$$!!@@#@#.......

School
Well, school's the main reason i am not blogging. As it could be seen, tutorials and lab reports are coming. This sem not much of a report so far but got a lot of assignments. So sian. This coming monday i was at home doing a lab report and an assignment. I thought it would only take me a little while but i did not expect to spend so much more time on it. I forgot to go for my lab session until my fren called and asked me where am i. I even have to get a fren to help me hand in my assignment that's due at 5pm coz i cannot get to school in time. On top of that, i missed a meeting with chung sang who's back in sg for a while coz i cant finish my report.

sian... den not finish yet, i still got a marked assignment to hand in on tuesday. and tuesday n wed are tutorial days. So, its 3 days straight of madness. sigh... But the problem i haven been doing much tutorial. I mean i got try to do but the lecture notes are totally useless. So in the end, i copied a ans, very messily, on my qn paper. And i haven got time to read thru all the notes that i photocopied. Its not much of no time but no energy. I am really feeling very tired.... But i know that if i dun do it now and leave everything till exams, my results are going to turn out as well as my last sem. argh! so stressed! and its only the 5th week of school. Save me!!

But the only good thing abt school is the Bukit Timah trip. So fun. At first it was raining very heavily and i thought that they will cancel the trip but did not. The place is so cooling and nice after the rain. I want to go there again. After a heavy rain. (",) Will post some photos later. Taken using my fren's phone. Very nice. I wan tt phone oso. K750i.

Tuition
My p6 kids are getting worst. Actually its only the troublemakers but they make up 50% of the class coz the class is small. Now theyeven bother to pretend to listen to me. I cannot even hear myself in class loh... Sigh.. last friday one of them jus broke the fluoroscent lamp along the corridor coz they thought that it was fun to throw my shoe. Apparenly they do not know that my shoe is very sturdy. Its one of my long lasting pair. Anyway, trouble is not over. I accidentally torn the zip of a student's bag coz i was trying to pull her back into the class to clear some stuff. In the end she asked me for money today and i have to pay $12 for her to get a new bag. @#$%. wat the hell.

Life
I cannot rmb much social life in the past 2 weeks. Last mon supposed to meet tingting but she forgot that we are going to nus to find her and left the place to her BF's place. Was quite upset but in the end huimin n i decided to entertain ourselves and go the national lib. hehe.. i borrowed 4 books when i dun even have time to do homework. haha..

Anyway, i went there once with hz but we did not explore the place. I feel weird doing mad things with him ard. I always feel compelled to be prim and proper with him. But with huimin no need image lah.. haha.. we did stupid things like taking photos in front of the floor directory. Felt like a tourist. But its really interesting if you study the directory coz there is some floors without anything and they have weird names like the possibility room which is actually a seminar room. Den we took the lift which shocked the 2 of us coz it was going so fast. So scary. And we found this incredible place - The Courtyard. Its a garden that can be used as an outdoor performance area and is at the 6th floor AND can see the pool of intercontinental hotel. Cool... haha.. took a couple of funny photos there oso. post later.

And supposed to meet liyong to get my book from him since i m in nus and since i nv go nus, he has to find a way to pass me the book. So we decided to meet at Bukit Panjang at night. And he DROVE me home.. haha.. i never knew he can drive. I always learn new stuff when i meet him. haha.. den friday i met him again. To get another book and to return wei liang's book. This time i met up with alvin and qiulin oso. I met alvin at ntu's bus stop and jus drag him to nus with me since he's free. Really gotta thank liyong and wei liang. I have 2 very very very nice guy friends who are so nice to me. ALways helping me to get books. and have to go to so much trouble. But dun worry.. i wun fall for them one. i dun want them to stop being nice to me.. hehe....

General
Well... i am feeling really so tired...and so worn out. I need rest, sleep and some fun. Please ppl.. ask me to come out okay? i am getting such a bad headache now. help!

Wednesday, August 10, 2005

sleepless night

I do not dare to go to bed. If i do, morning is going to come faster and i am going to realise that i have 2 tutorials to attend and i haven do my tutorials yet.

Sigh.. not that i never try. But the problem is, how do you do the tutorial when the lecturer never teach u anything? Or at least nothing related to the lecture that he conducted? Tmr or rather later's tutorial are BS301 Neurobiology and BS303 Principles and Methods of Structural Biology.

Well, the 301 lecturer sucks like mad. His lecture notes are so damn big that they hang my computer when i try to download. The first set was 265 mb. Yes... its MEGABYTE! The 2nd one was much better but still it was157 mb. Not only that, his lecture is.. er hmmm.... And when i looked at his tutorial questions, the first thing i thought of was whether he mentioned it in class and i realised that i cannot recall anything being mentioned in class. Cool... No textbooks coz its all sold out plus i no money to buy and i have to rely on the net and i hate searching internet. How nice...

303 not much better lah. First lecturer was Julian Lescar, one of my year 1 lecturers. Sigh... i never liked him. If not for my reliable textbook and HC's notes, i would have died under him. I shall not complain much abt him during my computer lab this monday. It was so confusing that i got a really bad headache. His tutorials very cool leh... ask me to do maths!! oh please.. i haven touch maths for so long and no one could understand his questions and i dunno wat's wrong with his questions such that even maths major students cannot do!! OMG... i am a BIOSCIENCE student, not some PHYSICS or MATHS student. Why do i have to go through physics and maths so many times. 102 and 206 was enough for me already. I slogged my life out for these 2 modules. Another one?? Save me...

sigh.. I din want to talk abt school work. BUT... i have a real bad splitting headache now. If i dun complain, i will jus die.. sigh... another 7 hrs to tutorials.... HATE SCHOOL!!!

Tuesday, August 09, 2005

Reach out for the skies!

This year's NDP was quite nice. Actually every year also quite nice lah. I have always enjoyed watching NDP. It really makes me feel belonged to this place that i call home. This is this year's theme song. I like the lyrics as it inspires me to reach for my dreams! Its like what was said in Initial D: 人最重要是找到属于自己的世界 只有找到自己的世界 人生才有意义.To find our own world, we have to dream to get to where we want. I want to find out where i belong and I want to live happier.... I want to dream....

Reach Out For the Skies
Composed by: Elaine Chan
Lyrics by: Selena Tan
Arranged by: Joshua Wan

At a time when hope was low
The journey seems unsure
But through it all
We’ve kept the flame alive

Now standing proud and tall
Our spirit strong and free
Building on hopes and dreams
It’s here we want to be

Chorus:
Let’s reach out for the skies
With wings we soar up high
Our dreams we’ll all achieve
We’ll make our destiny

Let’s reach out for the skies
With wings we soar up high
Our dreams we’ll all achieve
Let’s soar and reach for the skies

When I think about my dreams
The future it can be
The time has come for me
To strive and to achieve

With hopes within our hearts
As one hand in hand
For family and our friends
Let’s do the best we can

Chorus:
Let’s reach out for the skies
With wings we soar up high
Our dreams we’ll all achieve
We’ll make our destiny

Let’s reach out for the skies
With wings we soar up high
Our dreams we’ll all achieve
Let’s soar and reach for the skies

Our dreams we’ll all achieve
Let’s soar and reach for the skies

We can touch the skies

happy birthday weiling, liyong, lin xu and alvin!

today i went for Weiling's 21st birthday party. It was at the Cafe at the Quad in NTU. At first i thought it was a weird place to have a party but after the party, i realised that its a very good place coz its big and have air con. Maybe i can consider that? hmmm...

anyway, we got her a pair of Levis Jeans and i m so glad that it fit her nicely. I was scared that the size would be wrong. Phew....

The party was like a mini gathering for our class. Other den attending Weiling's party, we had a little celebration for Liyong and Weiling's birthday. BUT i forgot all abt lin xu's. OMG.. and he was there.. feel so bad... Anyway, the gathering was quite a success. This year we met thrice already and the attendance was pretty good. Excluduing Weiling got 12 people leh. Not bad ah And it was so funny... coz we were all kept really entertained by poh. Wahahaahahaa....

Talking abt the class, I realised that some ppl in the class changed. Some for the better and some for the worse.. Take Lele for example. Haha... that guy never change.. dunno abt his thinking but behaviour wise, he's still the out-going guy that i know.. and Weiliang oso and lam too... esp lam. I think lam has became more out-spoken, which i think is very nice. I prefer the current lam den the old lam that i know in school. At least we can communicate now. haha...

Really love this class a great deal. The kind of friendship that we have between us is so unlike those that i have with my other classes. We jus click with everyone and chat like that. wow... Love you all 4D!!!*MUACK*

Saturday, August 06, 2005

pissed off

argh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! why is he always doing this to me? i am so super pissed off now.. maybe i should jus end this once and for all.. i drag anymore i am going to get heart attack sooner or later.... argh!!!!

Thursday, August 04, 2005

make it happen!

Some people see a closed door and turn away.
Others see a closed door, try the knob... if it doesn't work they turn away.
Still others see a closed door, try the knob... if it doesn't open, they find a key. If the key doesn't fit, they turn away.
A rare few see a closed door, try the knob... if it doesn't open, they find a key. If it doesn't fit, they make one.~

never give up, even when you meet with obstacles. find ways to overcome it. dont wait for miracles to happen. make it happen~

Monday, August 01, 2005

quotes of the day

Begin with praise and honest appreciation. Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly. Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person. Ask questions instead of giving direct orders...Make the fault easy to correct. Make the other person happy about doing what you suggest.
~ Dale Carnegie

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
~ Anonymous

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
~William James

This is my favourite:
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on~