back from chalet, started fyp

Chalet

wow.. i went to a super awesome chalet and bbq. Even though it was a really short one, only from Sun to Mon, it was a really really great one! I will never go for chalet again without thinking about this. Thanks to all the GoDivians who turned up!

It was really nice crapping all night, having a bbq that with super good food (of which we managed to finish nearl 95%) and which ended at 930pm. How can i forget all the super lame jokes, the dumb photos and the horrible singing. Not to mention the wrist band designed by me and jo as well as the memorable incident of throwing "mark" into the fridge. I guess even timing ourselves as we bath was great! It was a really great example of teamwork and co-operativity. I really love u girls. And it is just too bad that it took me so long to find out that I am actually living with a bunch of superb girls all my 3.5 years. I really hope that we can keep in touch after we graduate ok?

FYP

Well, right after a super happening chalet, followed by a ktv session plus a trip to the hospital (my dad was admitted to hospital for an operation coz he fell down on sat, 2nd dec), i finally started FYP on 5th Dec. First day was spent doing nothing, except to read papers. And i dunno fell asleep how many times trying to read all the papers. ARGH! But the thing is that i have handsome guys to look forward to in lab. haha.. my boss is one and my supervisor is another. BUT i've heard that my supervisor is a workaholic who comes to work at 9am and leave at 10pm. OMG.

Anyway, today was much better, since i got to learn some new stuff despite the fact that i did not get to touch stuff. I've learnt how to see HPLC graph and lyopilisation, which is basically freezing something in liquid nitrogen den using a vaccum to dry it by allow the liquid to sublime.

I wonder what is tmr going to be like. I hope it will be another learning experience. I hope things get exciting a bit coz I am bored with reading papers. haha...

no more exams!

wow... i finished my exams on friday and i actually did not feel anything after that?? what is wrong with me? And it was supposed to be my last examination ever. And i really mean it unless i am going to take PhD. Next semester I am not taking any modules and I am going to face a handsome Prof in the lab everyday. Wow!!

sigh.. but the scary thing is that i am graduating. Yucks.. scary.... but i am really glad at least i do not have exams.. i really cannot stand exams anymore. i need a break from them! But i really hope that my modules will turn out to be good. This sem will determine my honours loh. sigh...

This is going to be a real short one coz I m feeling super tired. I haven recover from my exams and i have a chalet to go for tmr. I will update some other day ba. Till then!~

short updates

well.. jus a real short one before i have to go back to reading cell bio. i realised that reading the notes is more interesting than reading the papers... at least i dun have to read the entire paper.. i only have to look for figure legends and the corresponding text. wahaha....

anyway. i will be starting my fyp right after my exams.. sigh.. upsetting.. totally no life.. but its better than rotting at home lah. i probably will be spending money anyway... so go into lab earlier oso can save money... And the best part is that......... i am working under a super charming and young professor.. haha... my fav prof coz he is such a nice guy and such a gentleman. He makes lab work during the holidays much more endurable. haha.... i hope my dear will not get jealous.. i still like my darling more..haha..

back to exams.. i still have 6 more to go but this time next week i will be left with 3... wish me luck and good luck to all who are taking their exams now! Jia You!!

it was a nice day..

it is amazing how compliments can do to a person's self esteem. I felt loved and wanted today coz of an sms that my tutee sent to me. so sweet...... and it made the day prettier despite the rain and made up for me having to spend a beautiful Sunday with virology.

inconsiderate BS students

I have been studying in the resource room for the past few days, jus the way i always do during the exam period. And i am damn pissed off by this group of girls who like to sit at the table behind my favourite table. They dun want to study den i dunno wat are they doing in school!! They jus talk and talk, on and on.. and they do not bother to lower their volume. They do not scream at least, but they talk normally when the resource room is so damn quiet. Totally pissed off.....

And the worst thing is that when ppl ssh them, one of the girls even have the cheek to say "ssh what ssh. So rude. I will talk louder" OMG!! You call this a university education? What have our schools been doing? To have produced such students who call themselves educated and yet talk like the "lian" on the road. The best part was when she complained to another friend (not at that table), her friend actually said that they were really very noisy mah. haha....

sigh... i hope they do not get the table near me tmr.... if not i will really go mad lah! ARGH!!

counting down...

8 more days to my final exams! And i literally mean finals coz unless i fail (touch wood), i will not be having any more exams for the rest of my life!! (driving not counted and PhD 另当别论).

Please pardon me for the lack of updates. I have been real real real busy ever since after BPC finals. I had cell bio presentation on 26th Nov, a genetics presentation, Biz essay and presentation on 1st Nov, AND an immunology quiz on 2nd Nov. After that, i spent a lot time trying to figure out how am i going to get money to put back into my account.

Sigh... i went to see the doc on 2nd Nov for the marks on my skin. Huimin bluff me.. she say she only spent $70 the first time she was there. But i spent a whole whooping $282!!! Ouch... really pierce through my heart. Sigh... there goes all my savings.... But its not huimin's fault lah.. she dunno will cost so much oso. So dun feel bad ok? Anyway, i PROMISE that i will not scratch my face and leave it so many marks again. I really do not want to spend that kind of money again. I will really die if this goes on.

And I went to cut my hair yesterday and colour on Saturday! Well.. the colour is very nice.. but the hair cut mah... hmm.. i regretted asking Dor to cuy my fringe shorter. Now its TOO short!!! I cant tie my hair or do anything basically coz the fringe looks damn weird. I look like a cockroach when i tie up my hair coz it looks like i have 2 feelers.. yucks... but the good thing is that i no longer need to depend on hair bands liao. coz my fringe do not fall on my face and maybe it will do my face some good?

Okay.. 8 more days to exams.. i really need to study coz my timetable this time sucks. No time to study jus before the paper coz i have many back to back papers. I need luck!!

Final updates on BPC

Well, the BPC was finally over. It was disappointing not to have won anything. But i am not upset... coz i 输得心服口服. The teams that won were really good. We have been really lucky to have even made it to the top 12 and i am very grateful for that. On top of that, the competition had been a real learning experience. I really might consider going entrepreneur-ish in future. (",)

And I really want to thank all the people who have supported us and have given us your love! Especially to my darling, who took half day off to be at the event. To the Godiva gang who was with us the whole day and who helped us quite a bit. To all and everyone one else who came down and cast their votes. Last but not least, I want to thank the management team of ZEED! You guys were great!

Well, here's some photos to share with you guys...


<---- This was our wonderful booth. But 一山还有一山高。 There were prettier ones but I think we did a pretty good job with it.

Here i am with my creations:
That's me busy rehearsing for the presentation. I still messed it up in the end.. sigh...







And here's my teamate who's explaining the posters to the audience. And the VC fair was a real battle...

And presenting to you... the management team of Zeed Pte Ltd

Invitation to BPC finals

(click for a bigger picture)

Dear Friends,

Your are cordially invited to attend the BPS finals. Including everyone not in NTU. You guys can still come and support even though u cannot vote.

Do come and give me your support ok? Esp for NTU students, remember to come (and get your friends to come too) to vote for the most favourite team! My team is Zeed (but it was Zeeds on the poster).

Since my team is the 10th team, i think my presentation should be at 2pm. Come n support so that i wun feel so scared. You can also come and visit my booth.

See ya!

Yan Ling

happy birthday to me!

Happy Birthday to me.
Happy Birthday to me.
Happy Birthday to Yan Ling.
Happy Birthday to me.

Thanks to my BS friends for their really creative present. But i am so sorry that i din have much time to celebrate with you guys...

And thanks to my sister for her creative cake, thanks my dear and everyone who have wished me happy birthday.

Old liao.. gotta come to terms with it. Happy birthday to me...

Sumatra is so nice to me...

Sumatra is lighting forest to celebrate my birthday with me! I am so touched but i hope they will not be so nice to me again. The candles got the entire Singapore bathed in haze and no one seemed happy to celebrate my birthday with me....

I think the people need to be educated.. Now i cannot stand the smell of the haze.. terrible.... Its so bad that i cannot even see M'sia from my house. How to see the moon?? And the moon is supposed to be the roundest in 7 years.

hmm.. more present ideas

i am a total facial product freak and i was looking at xiaxue's blog today and she receommended this product. Thought that it is worth trying and its not too expensive.

This is called the Cellnique Pro Sebum Gel. Selling for 69.90 at Sasa. anyone wants to buy for me?

BPC updates

wow... the semi-finals is finally over. It was really quite an experience. And before i leave for KL later this evening.. i want to share a real good news with everyone.

YES!! WE GOT INTO THE FINALS!! WOW!!! getting more and more exciting..

we got into NTU BPC semi-finals!

haha.. my friend always complain that i have nothing good to say on my blog so here is a super big and super good news that i want to share with everyone!!

My team got into NTU Business Plan Semi-finals. well.. yeah.. its only the semi but i am already very happy.. coz we did not expect to get into anything at all but we are now top 40 out of 154. good yeah?

But that also means its the end of my recess.. the presentation is on friday so i am not going to have time to rot at home and have some private time. My schedule for the next few days is packed to the hour (coz i have to take bus from 1 place to the other) and i realised that i do not even have time to pack my bag for my trip on friday. well.. dunno whether to be happy or sad...

anyway.. i hope we make it through and we can get to the finals. exciting...

recess is here!

YEAH YEAH!! finally.. TODAY is the first day of my break. It will probably not be like a break at all but i am jus happy that i have an entire week without school. My week is packed with activity but i am going to give myself some free time to read storybook and rot. ARGH.. i miss my novels... Anne just recommended me an author today and i am going to try and find her book at the library tmr.

Anyway, looking at the ticker countdown, my birthday is exactly 2 weeks away. Sooo, to prevent my dear friends from troubling over what presents to buy, i have came up with a list of things that i want.

Ettusais products
I am a pretty big ettusais fan so i kind of love some of their products. I have shortlist some of the possible candidates that you guys can consider buying for me. But I am a member of them so if you want to buy their products for me, rmb to ask me along so that i can clock stamps. I still got 9 more stamps(90 bucks) to completing the card. And it will be the best if can get it from metro den i can accumulate points for my metro card too. (",)

The ettusais night protect powder refill ($30). Oh.... i really love this night powder. It is really good.... unless you tell me every morning i haven wake up yet so my skin looks better.

Alternatively, can get me the puff at (NT210). But this has to order online from their official website coz its not sold in singapore, which explains why the price is in taiwan dollars.






Ettusias acne whitening mask ($48). I have been using this for a long time and i thought this product is pretty good. However, recently i was very broke to buy so you guys can help me out by buying it for me yea?

Day Protect Powder (natural beige, $63). Since the night protect was quite good, i thought i can try their day protect powder... Jus remember to buy from metro and ask me to go along....

Medicated Acne Concealer (natural beige, $35). Well.. i am a fan of concealers so i guess this work for me.. hehe..

More skincare products....

SKII Facial Treatment Mask (~$90 if you get them from chinatown, ~$114 if you buy them from the store). I am also a member so get me to go along if you want to buy. And get them from metro too ok?

Ampule from my beauty Salon, Touche (Dermadefence) at $262.50. But i have $75 bucks voucher so can use oso...

Some random stuff....

Goodwood park durian moose cake (~$7/slice). I simply love their durian cakes.. yummy.. or any of their durian products oso can.

A nice treat for me at any nice place... I am a glutton.. so food is for me! But i dun want to eat buffet ok?

Earpiece. I want a earpiece coz mine's spoilt and i using my brother's. I just need a normal one but it will be a plus point if it looks good.

Bracelet. I broke the bracelet which my junior got for me last yr. All because i was too dumb to have worn it while doing CPR.

Bluetooth adapter. I want bluetooth on my lappie coz poor lappie got no bluetooth...

Sony Ericsson Memory Stick Duo 1gB (~$70). Not a need.. jus a want coz my poor phone only got 64mb now...

Xerox Phaser 3110 toner. I seriously do not know how much is this. Xerox just went to the doctor and have yet to come home. but he is oso out of toner so come home oso cannot use....

Even more random stuff...
Can also consider giving me cash (to help me pay for my birkies that are coming), birkenstock vouchers (coz i still want to buy another pair) or metro vouchers (so i can buy all my ettusias products).

Alternatively, things like jackets, keypouch, bags and clothes are also very welcomed.

Spa treats, facials, pedi n manicures are also very good ideas. (",)

If you guys got unlimited budget, can consider getting me a digital camera, colour laser printer, new laptop etc...

Actually i really do not mind anything that you guys get for me. No need to buy anything oso can.. jus a small gathering with everyone is good enough for me. BUT i want a card ok? I love reading what you guys write for me.... hope you guys will find something tt will suit ur budget here.... If there isn't.. let me know again den i think of something else again...

hang in there... counting down to recess...

yippee... the greatest news since school started.. haha... recess is coming.. counting down 4 more days... I am finally getting a break! even though i have work to catch up with, presentation to prepare for and notes to make... But i am getting a break!! and i am going KL.. so happy... haahaa....

to all my dear friends who have to take entrepreneurship during the holidays: dun fret.. we can still go out and have fun after your classes. Jia You!

personality test

found this on a friend's blog and i thought that it is actually quite true.. but maybe like my friend said, things are too broad so they are always very accurate? anyway.. jus for reading fun...

Your view on yourself:
You are intelligent, honest and sweet. You are friendly to everybody and don't like conflict. Because you're so cheerful and fun people are naturally attracted to you and like to talk to you.

(well, no comments on this. but i guess its true that i am very friendly to everyone, provided that i like that person. Maybe that's why hz is always so worried coz i might run into a crook one day and never know)

The type of girlfriend/boyfriend you are looking for:
You like serious, smart and determined people. You don't judge a book by its cover, so good-looking people aren't necessarily your style. This makes you an attractive person in many people's eyes.

(something is missing here. I like practical people and the person must be willing to upgrade himself.)

Your readiness to commit to a relationship:
You are ready to commit as soon as you meet the right person. And you believe you will pretty much know as soon as you might that person.

(I really wish that this was really true)

The seriousness of your love:
You like to flirt and behave seductively. The opposite sex finds this very attractive, and that's why you'll always have admirers hanging off your arms. But how serious are you about choosing someone to be in a relationship with?

(hmm... where are my admirers? i do not see them around... but i do like to flirt.. haha.. for the fun of it. but no harm done. i still love my dear very much. =p)

Your views on education:
Education is very important in life. You want to study hard and learn as much as you can.

(true... coz i am considering doing my PhD and i always want to learn a bit of everything.)

The right job for you:
You have many goals and want to achieve as much as you can. The jobs you enjoy are those that let you burn off your considerable excess energy.

(probably true.. routine jobs just BORE me to death....)

How do you view success:
You are afraid of failure and scared to have a go at the career you would like to have in case you don't succeed. Don't give up when you haven't yet even started! Be courageous.

(okay... i will consider a career change. Only after i used my degree for a while.. hehe)

What are you most afraid of:
You are concerned about your image and the way others see you. This means that you try very hard to be accepted by other people. It's time for you to believe in who you are, not what you wear.
(well.. all girls are self-conscious right? i am not an exception)

Who is your true self:
You are full of energy and confidence. You are unpredictable, with moods changing as quickly as an ocean. You might occasionally be calm and still, but never for long.

(haha.. i believe my friends will all agree with me right? i cannot sit still for long. unless i am rushing a project or studying for exams.)

I HATE SCHOOL!!!!

yes.. i really dread school. i hate this place to the core and i cannot stand waking up each morning and coming to school.

this place is filled with cheaters and idiots.

i gotta warn anyone who wants to consider coming to NTU SBS, please consider wisely.

blur sotong

i think i have been with rena for too long already. I am getting blur like her!! Arrgh!! (she's gg to kill me when she sees this. haha...) I actually left my laptop on the table in the resource room while i was in the LT all the while. For TWO entire HOURS!! wow!! I was surprised that it was still around when i went back. I cannot believe how blur i was... I am so glad i still got it back. if i lose it i will die...

sigh.. i guess my brain is not functioning well these few days. Its only the 3rd week of school and i am already feeling super stressed up! it feels like the last few weeks before exams when i have lotsa assignments and stuff due. I have a 15 pg report due next mon and a 2000 words essay due on friday. sigh.... and i still got weekly assignments. i really feel that i am going to die soon... sigh...

我要飞

its only 2 weeks into school and i am already feeling so drained out. Not only is the timetable so terrible, (i have 2 8.30 days and on one of it, i have a 4 hrs lecture straight in a row), i have tonnes of assignments, presentation, reports to do and a whole mountain of papers to read... sigh....

i really want to fly, fly away to a faraway place. with my loved ones and away from all these stress, conflicts, unhappiness and troubles. i want to go to a farm, feed cows, squeeze milk, collect eggs and ride horses.

Happy Birthday Singapore!

MAJULAH SINGAPURA

Mari kita rakyat Singapura

Sama-sama menuju bahagia

Cita-cita kita yang mulia

Berjaya Singapura

Marilah kita bersatu

Dengan semangat yang baru

Semua kita berseru

Majulah Singapura

Majulah Singapura

Our Pledge
We, the citizens of Singapore,
pledge ourselves as one united people,
regardless of race, language or religion,
to build a democratic society
based on justice and equality
so as to achieve happiness, prosperity and
progress for our nation.

Something about these two really evokes a sense of nostalgia in me. Maybe coz we no longer sing the anthem nor say the pledge now and i really missed those days in sec school and JC.

The NDP was great and the fireworks were so pretty. Except that i was disappointed that i could only see them on the TV. And it was quite sad that the National Stadium is going to be torn down. I was glad that I caught the NDP at the National Stadium before. The atmostphere at the scene is so different from watching NDP at home. I really think all Singaporeans should watch NDP at least once. Not that i am very patrotic, i cannot stand some things in Singapore and i really hope to be able to get out as soon as i can. But still, i am very grateful to the place for giving me the life that i have now.

Anyway, I am looking forward to the next NDP with prettier stuff. Hopefully i will remember to ballot for the tickets this time.

Start of a new academic year.

I know this is kinda late to post this blog since school started on Monday but I was trying to post another blog prior to this but I cannot get my photos uploaded.

Anyway, school has only begun for a week and I cannot wait for the holidays to come. I am really tired of the school and the people. First, the people in my school are so damn kiasu (or should I say kiasi?). The assignment topics for genetics were only out on Monday and I heard that by Tuesday, most of the topics are already taken up. Wth.... Not only that, when it come to signing up presentation slots for cell biology, everyone literally just rushed forward when I haven even found out what was the last sentence that the lecturer said. Sigh... Second, there are so many assignments and presentations and so many papers to read!! ARGH!! But the comforting thing is that at least my clique is nice, apart from a little conflict, and I really want to thank all the girls for all the nice pretty presents they got for me from overseas. I really love them and I feel so bad that I do not have anything for them. I promised to buy pretty stuff for you all if I ever get to go overseas soon.

Back to posting the photos. No school tmr so I can try for the whole day. Yipee!

its blog time...

i haven been updating my blog for a couple of reasons... First, I am simply too lazy. Second, I am always very tired when i get home. And the Biggest hindrance is my browser. My browser does not seem to like blogger. the moment i want to upload photos, it gets disconnected. BUT BUT.. now i managed to solve my problem. Some settings were wrong with my anti-virus. Sooooo, look out for more blogs coming your way! I try to change my blogskin when i am more free okay? i have tonnes of stuff to do and settle. Argh!

email is flooded...

Everyone likes to bomb my email recently. Siao.... It was already very flooded with all my emails from my project group mates during the week and other ppl still like to bomb my inbox.

A fren sent me like 11 emails in 2 hrs!! All forwarded emails which I have to click many times jus to get to the mail. I was damn pissed lah.. Not that I dun like all the forwarded emails but send all at a time is damn irritating lah. Plus I was rushing out my biz plan and the emails keep coming in..... And today, another fren jus sent me like 8 emails in a single day.

I really think that everyone is so bored, waiting for school to start while I am still so damn busy....

its finally over!

wah... i finally submitted my business plan yesterday. 2 hours after the dateline...

i cant believe how hard i worked for this, even though i think it does not look like i've spent a lot of time. four days before the dateline, which was on Sunday, i actually sat at home to do my stuff. My fren asked me to go out and i dun even dare to go loh. and its FOUR entire days.. i cant believe i actually turned down shopping to stay at home.

And for TWO entire nights, i slept on my sofa coz i cant finish my stuff and i stayed up till very late to do. And i bring my lappie with me everywhere so that i can type whenever i need to.

And on the day of submission, i actually took a cab to school and continue slogging until it was finally completed. We started so damn early and yet we still took so long. I think it must be because i was too perfectionist liao. I just felt like i have to change something.

Anyway, its finally over. And we submitted it for the Business Plan Competition. Hopefully we can get a consolation or something?

Entrepreneurship and a chance encounter

This is bad... I haven been updating my blog and neither have I been reading other people's blog. I really want to update on happier things but I was too LAZY.. opps...

I finally resigned from my job on 14th July and I was really really happy. The week following that, I had a lot of things done and did some shopping. I brought my brother to cut his hair, did hair treatment myself, went for body massage, bought a pair of damn pretty shoes and 2 pairs of super nice bottoms and did some catching up with my friends. But alas, one week of break is so short. The entrepreneurship course starts on Saturday with a stupid orientation. It was pretty interesting but got too many ppl in 1 group so it was quite dumb. And there was some conflict at the end which made me felt like the ppl in BS are really.. hmm...

Starting from Monday was a super intensive 1 week course. The lectures itself was damn boring. Maybe it had something to do with my instructor. Some of the instructors were quite interesting but the main one not nice. He's not a bad guy but just felt really stressed under him and he does not really help much. For this one week course we had to do 1 presentation and 1 business plan. The presentation was finally over and I think we did a pretty good job. BUT we are having a great deal of problem with our business plan. We keep changing the idea until we are all very tired about it already. But I really hoped to be able to do a good one coz we spent a lot of time on it.

And I met a very special person in the process of doing my project. There was a small conflict when it came to our groups’ allocation on Saturday. The instructor wanted to group us but most people does not want it and in the end we still ended up forming our own groups against the instructor’s wish. And got this girl who shared my opinion that we should not stick to our own friends and came over to join my group coz I refuse to move. And you know what? That person was my kindergarten classmate!!! We were best friends in kindergarten but we lost touch after that coz we went to different primary schools and all before we finally met in NTU again.

It was really an 阴差阳错. We stayed back in school on Thursday till very late to settle our stuff for presentation on Friday so my father came to pick me up in school. And I realized that she lives very near to me so I offered to send her back. And on the way back, we were wondering how come we have never met each other when we stay so really near to each other for so long. We compared primary school, secondary schools and everything but found nothing in common. Until she asked me about my kindergarten and we finally realized that we knew each other! I was so so so so happy. It was like finding a lost part of your life. Here’s a photo of the 2 of us. By the way, the photos look new right? I used the photo restoration feature for my scanner.

Can recognize which one is me? All my friends said that Mea Fun is still recognizable coz she din change much but I changed a lot. Even Mea Fun said I changed a lot and she really did not recognize me at all except that she found my name and my address really familiar. I am really amazed at her memory coz she can even remember my surname! I only knew her name and I wasn’t even too sure about her name, except it had a mei something one. opps...

My kindergarten class photo. Try and find me.... I will give the answer next week. Hehe....

Come to think of it, I do not regret coming to NTU that much now. At least I found something that is so valuable to me.

F*** you.....

mdm quah and your daughter. You two better watch your stupid mouth. Esp mdm quah. Your daughter got no brains and absolutely no common sense and you come and blame me??? And you have the cheek to say until its my fault. you should go and die. one day you will get your just retribution as a result of your dumb mouth. Next time, you kill me I also dun want to come back to this place at all. I am so looking forward to Friday. pissed....

not improving

more than 1 week has past and i am still not feeling better. i got transient happiness. For example from my class gatherings. But i dun have lasting ones, meaning i still feel gloomy after a while.. sigh... i have so much things on my mind now, i dun even know which one is troubling me the most... happiness.. where are you?

in a serious state of depression

Sigh… wasn’t feeling good these few days. I think I am going through pms. I am really looking forward to a long break but it seems like everything dun always turned out as planned.

I seriously think I should stop reading people’s blogs. They jus make me feel so depressed coz my life is so damn boring compared to them. I really long to go overseas and I really envy those people who are getting a great life overseas, be it for studying, exchange, summer studies or just for a holiday. Even those ppl who are staying in Singapore are getting a life too. Like getting some experience by doing internship. At least they are doing something meaningful. Not like me. Not only did I failed to get my internship, even plans to go overseas were all empty discussions. So here I am in Singapore, feeling so sick and tired of my life. Work dun make me feel good coz the money only stay in my bank for a while and I dread going back to school coz I think my school s*** like mad. Even my relationship seemed to be going downhill. And my luck at gambling s*** like mad. It seems like nothing is going well.

The SK-II mask I bought today seemed to lift my mood a little bit but I still feel very depressed. I hope my mood improve over the next few days…

update.. finally...

Okay.. I am guilty of not updating my blog often enough. Have been very busy and I am always too tired to blog when I get home.

Well, quite a number of things have happened these past few weeks. I seemed to have something on everyday. Take this week for example, Mon n Wed got tuition, Thurs I went to my uncle’s house and help him fix computer, today me got public duty, sat got tuition in the morn, an event in the noon and a dinner at night, den Sunday got tuition in the morning and a mahjong session in the afternoon. There goes my weekend…

These couple of weeks was very busy in the office. The place was like a mad house. Calls kept coming in and we were super short of staff. The moment the phone was down, it start ringing less than 5 seconds later. And the AUNTIES can still walk leisurely from one place to another. My gosh.. I literally ran can? Even from my seat to the photocopy room. I really cannot stand them. And the aunties hor.. like to bully the temp staff. Whenever it was their turn to retrieve the voicemail, they never seemed to be able to finish calling. And hor, got this ONE auntie, she can give us 6 pieces of voice mail at 530 and tell us to help her call. And even have the cheek to say that she’s on leave the next day. Idiot.. I do not mind calling for her but can dun give me at such a time? I hate leaving things undone. I remembered once when I stayed back to finish my calls and the next day I realized that we still have many undone coz the aunties only gave us that morning!! Argh…… Not only that, we are always blamed for everything and even framed for not making progress with our work. WTH… we have other things to do oso can? And the aunties are not helping much.. idiot… I am really amazed with my friend’s mother and my ex-supervisor. How can they stand such ppl for so long?? 1 month I already want to strangle them and they managed to work with them for at least a few years?

Talk about work makes me mad. I though office work would better but now hor, I think field might be better. Minus the house to house calls, at least I dun have office politics. Not that I m involved in anyway, but I jus cannot stand the ppl in the office. And hor, at least while I was doing field work, I dun have so much encounters with irritating ppl. Coz I was working at the officer, I literally have encounters with ppl from all parts of Singapore. And I only have 1 conclusion. Singaporeans are terrible ppl. Not everyone, but in general, Singaporeans are not the most polite kind around. If you are not going to like what I am going to say, please do not read on.
As I was saying, I get to meet all kind of ppl. And hor, because you are from the government, ppl are complaining to you and asking you to help. They kept saying that we are the government and we should help them. Some ppl are really very poor things but there is really nothing much I can do to help them. But at least they are still polite and nice ppl. SOME ppl are rich like siao.. live in private flats, bungalows and terrace and complain that progress package not enough, mrt fare so expensive blah blah blah… Siao ppl.. like I do not pay the same fare. And if you want a bigger progress package den move to a smaller house lah. Who ask you to live in such a big house? Serve you right… Not only that, there are ppl who say they are very poor and ask if we can help but hor, they are earning a couple of thousands a month. Not a lot, but definitely much better than those family without income. Sigh.. still got a lot more lah. I always meet weird Singaporeans.

Anyway, jus a couple of weeks more and I am no longer here.. counting down..

rena in making...

This week I was really really ultimately blur. I left the house late as usual on Monday and I refuse to take the train so I decided to test the bus and see how late I will be. I missed 190 when I got to bus stop so I took 190A which end at PS and see what bus I can change to. In the end I took 124, thinking that it follows the same route as 190 but I was very wrong!!! In fact, it did not stop anywhere near my office. And the traffic was very heavy and it kept getting stuck at traffic lights. So in the end, I reach hong lim complex at 845 and I have to run to my office in my heels. In the end I was late for 20 mins…sian…

And, on Wednesday, I was blurred again. I took the wrong bus!! I cannot believe it. I thought I board 190. Den when the bus turned, I though I took 960. I thought it was fine coz I can change to NEL at Little India. In the end, the bus turned and stopped at Newton MRT station then I realized that I had board 700!! I cannot imagine how blur I was…. How did I manage to imagine 700 as 190?? I think I must have been too tired…

Must be all the aerobics classes that I have been going for. I have been attending kickboxing classes for the past week. I really enjoyed my Wednesday class coz it was less stressful. The class on Monday was not very nice. I do not really like the instructor even though I can see that he has some pretty loyal fans. I attended his pilates class before and I din really enjoy it too. But the Wednesday class was stress-free and was very fun indeed. And the instructor is very cute! I think he looks like JJ except that JJ is much more good looking lah. I can still attend his classes for the next 2 weeks as tuition only resume at the last week of june holidays. So happy… does anyone wants to join me? Huimin?

argh... its tough to plan timetable...

It is subject registration tomorrow. Do not ask me why so early when exam results are not even out. My batch got to be guinea pigs for the school AGAIN. How nice… I really think my school sucks. The school management has no brains at all. Ever since corporatisation, everything has changed. School fees increased. Exam timetable changed to N*S system. So now I have evening papers and a lot of back to back papers. I do not understand why they have to change to be like them? To attract students? I think this will push students to them since we are entirely like another them except that we not have the fame associated with them. If I was a student, I will probably choose them. I kind of regret coming to this place. So irritating….

AND…. BS is jus as bad. They changed my ENTIRE year 4 curriculum. They removed TCM totally and move drug and discovery to sem 2 of year 4. Coz this module was offered to the year 3 students in sem 2 as part of their prescribed. And we only have SEVEN modules, from which we have to choose 5. Unless we want to take drug next year together with the year 3 students. Not much of a choice right? And after much considerations and thinking… this is going to be my final exam timetable...

BS404 16-NOV-06 1700 1930 biochem
MB246 22-NOV-06 1300 1530 Management of IP and Innovation
CV4202 23-NOV-06 1700 1930 human resource
BS406 24-NOV-06 0900 1130 cell bio
BS407 28-NOV-06 0900 1130 genetics
BS408 29-NOV-06 0900 1130 immuno
BS411 01-DEC-06 0900 1130 viro

Note the number of back to back papers. I have never had any back to back papers before!! And now I have 2 blocks! One block with 3 papers in a row, in which one paper is in the evening and the next paper is early morning, and another block with 2 papers in a row. I chose to drop structural because the timetable clash with my biz module and the exam is on 30th Nov. Meaning that if I take structural, I have 4 papers in a row!!! Wow!!!!

Sigh…Please wish me good luck. I have a very bad feeling about the semester... my only consolation is that I am leaving the school soon. Really growing to hate the place.

Traumatized

*another backdated post*

About three weeks ago, I met this financial advisor to do a financial analysis. Normally I would have rejected such things but I was referred to him by another friend, plus they are personal friends so I thought it does not hurt much to jus meet up with that person. I do not think I will employ his services anyway. Since I do not want to meet him alone, I brought 2 friends along with me.

We were supposed to fill in a questionnaire and at first I thought it would be a fast one. I did not expect it to be so long. It dragged over 2 lunch sessions and 1 very long session. Yesterday was the last session with him and I was truly traumatized over my financial status after the session. We were supposed to write down our income per month and list down all our expenses for the entire month. This includes birthday presents and everything den divide by the number of months to get an average per month.

OMG… I was really really shocked at my expenses. My goodness.. I din realized that I was such a high maintenance woman and I spent so much money on rubbish things. I went home and did a detailed calculation and I had a shock of my life!! My stable source of income is only $388 per month and I have already spent $500 a month, not including shopping expenses. My god… I am living in deficit…

Sigh... I think I have to start saving money liao... Try and cut down on some things. I am still thinking of which section I can cut down on. Maybe entertainment and birthday presents bah. My facials and products cannot cut even though they are the largest portion of my expenses. Sian.. I need more money.. money money.. where fore art thou money??

bored...

Currently sit in my office. Bored like siao.. nothing to do and still have to act like I am very busy… sian… the only good thing is that I get paid for doing nothing.. but I dun like lah… cannot even do ur own things… surf net oso surf until very scared coz I am sitting right outside the pantry with the AD sitting very near to me. Talking abt the AD, he is the most 小心眼 man I have ever met so far. Every little thing oso must hiam. I heard that many temp were chased away because of him. He got no brains ah? If the survey cannot finish, he will probably just blame it on the staff and he will get away scot free. But as if he will discover if anything is wrong coz the staff will handle everything for him. Bird-brain guy.

Anyway, I haven been updating my blog recently. I oso dunno what have I been busy with…

Last week was a lot of tuitions. On 15th I had my normal tuition with my centre and after that I rushed for an extra with my private student till 10pm. On 16th I helped ailing to relief her class. But before that, I went to Queensway in the afternoon to buy my shoe bag and a sports top. Den I went to RV for a CPR class. And I blur blur thought that I was late for class so in the end I took a cab to the centre and wasted money when I am already so super broke. 17th was tuition again but since I started work, I had to postpone tuition and I stayed till pretty late coz I stayed back to do work. 18th I went for aerobics class. Really have to start going for more classes.. I am getting fat!! And 19th I went for pilates class before meeting biyun n chris for shopping. I din buy anything coz I was damn tired and broke but biyun n chris went home with a number of 战利品. 20th was tuition again. One was at yishun and another at woodlands.

21st was another teaching day but this time I went to teach CPR and got pay one wor. Den after that I met hz for dinner. It was together with a group of ppl lah but I dun mind..

This whole week is busy week again… Mon n tues was tuition again. Huimin came down to meet my for lunch on Tuesday and I brought her to eat the Ipoh Crayfish hor fun at hong lim food centre. I tell you hor.. the hor fun is damn nice!! Its only $4 and u get an entire crayfish. I never liked to eat hor fun but this changed my view. Yesterday was hz’s birthday and we went to watch da vinci code. Many ppl say the show not nice but hor.. since I never read the book before, I thought the show was quite nice. Jus dun like the gruesome things.. but I like the puzzles.

Sian…. I realized that I am very eng during working hours but after work I am very busy. Today still meeting a fren to discuss something and tmr I am going to Chomp Chomp to eat dinner. So happy!! I realized that I haven been posting photos. Simply coz I haven been taking any.. I will try to take more and post some to liven up this place.. and I have to try and change my blogskin..

Going back to acting busy….

Bra Shoppe

*warning* this is an advertorial.

i haven been able to update as much as i want.. i have so much to write but i always forget abt them when i get in front of the computer. Anyway, this post is something that i have been wanting to do. I was doing retail therapy in the middle of the exams and you know what i bought? hehe.. i bought bras... hehe.. and i spent a whooping $280 on beautiful lingerie. My friends said i was mad but they are really beautiful and it makes me happy. hohoho...

I got them from this store call Bra Shoppe. Check out their online store here. I got to know them last year from cleo or something. They have really pretty lingerie. A bit on the high side BUT they also have cheap ones and ALL of them are VERY NICE! They have a booth at Paragon Metro and a really really pretty office at IMM where you can make an appointment for private viewing . The decor and everything are very pretty and even the fitting room is superb. Check out the photos below.

And Carol (the boss) is very friendly and helpful. I finally know how to wear a bra properly. hoho.... Carol even said that if we have a group of 5 or more ppl who wants to view the bras, she can provide snacks and drinks for free so we can jus have a gathering there. And if we do not want to go down to IMM, we can arrange for a private viewing at someone's house. They will bring all the bras down for you. But i still think its nice to go down to their IMM store and the price is slightly cheaper too. It is a really nice place to shop for bras. Anyone wants to go n see? Guys can consider them as a present for their gfs. Girls can buy for themselves or for their bfs' benefits. Heheh...

Anyway, recently they had this promotion at buy 2 sets for $150 (original at 168 for 1 set) with free delivery somemore (they have promotions occasionally and for mothers' day, they have a mother's day special. Check out their website). There were only 20 sets for sales so i hurry up went online to look and picked those i want. When Carol delivered the goods to my house, she brought some pretty undies and i bought 1 really nice one. And hor, after she left, i realised that one of the set she gave me dun look right so i went down to their store to change. And i was tempt into buying another set of bra. I jus cannot resist them coz they are so nice. I wanted everything. So that explains why i spent so much money. Now that really made me feel guilty coz i was supposed to be saving up to go hk.... BUT i am still happy coz i have pretty lingerie. Everyone should check out their store.

Anyway, here are some photos...

The display area where all the bras are nicely displayed..

Me in the fitting room holding a very nice bra which i din buy coz i was really spending way too much money...

the aftermaths of exams

*this is a backdated post. i cannot seem to post anything here for the past few days*

These few days were quite happening. My last paper was last Thursday and after the paper, I met hz for dinner at bugis. So happy.. hee.. he msg me in the morn to wish me good luck for my paper and asked me if I want to meet for a while den he go for work. So sweet hor? It must be because I complained that I cannot ask him out when I heard that he was working night shift on the last day of my paper.

On Friday, I had packed day even though I was supposed to go back to school to do my lab report. I went for tuition in the morn, facial in the afternoon where I spent like 300 bucks on facial products and tuition again in the evening. I felt guilty for having spent like 500 in a short span of 2 weeks! Gosh… but hor… like peak yean said, money is small thing, face is big thing. SO I dun feel so guilty about spending so much money. And I really think the products are worth the money. I feel like my face is getting better already. Great!

And Saturday was polling day yet I had another full day. I went to vote in the morn and I was so excited! My first vote wor! After voting I went for tuition den I went for yoga classes. I was sooooooooooo blur, I actually forgot to bring my pants and I have a buy a pair of yoga pants on the spot. Shit mah. Waste money again… But I have always wanted to buy another pair so quite justifiable right? ;P

Sunday was tuition day followed by lab report and a birthday party. God.. that report was terribly hard to do.. I could not even finish half by the time I have to go out for the party. And when I got home, I was so tired I fell asleep while doing the report....

Sooo… since I was not hardworking enough on Sunday, I had to work hard on Monday. In the end I cancelled morning tuition and pushed back my afternoon tuition twice. I managed to finish my report, even though it was badly done… Come to think of it, I think I could have done better for my lab report. I realized that I din write any discussion at all except to answer his questions. After lab report I had to fly to tuition and I was lucky to get a cab in school. Den after tuition, I went to quality hotel to meet some friends for a vegetarian buffet to celebrate a friend’s birthday. The meal was quite ex and I think it is not really worth the money. I ate nothing much except for a lot of mushrooms.

I still have to say this. I think I will do badly for my papers. After I came out from the exam hall, I was not feeling relieved. Instead, I felt a sudden pang of fear. I think I am going to do real badly. Sigh.. but its over.. what to do? And I could not be bothered with my lab report to try n pull up my grades. OMG.. I am such a terrible student….

And since xiling asked, I shall share with her my secret. She asked how I managed to survive through all my last minute lab report sessions. Actually I oso dunno.. haha.. I jus do loh. And when I am really desperate, I become a parasite and start pestering ppl. Hehe… Anyway, like she’s mentioned, this is probably going to be our last report, apart from our final year project.

Well… last more year… live through it. I WILL SURVIVE!

today's polling day

Received this last week. Guess wat it meant? Means I am eligible to vote! yeah! and its the first voting in my district since a very very very long time ago. I am so lucky right? The moment i hit 21, i not only got a lot of money from the govt, i even got to vote. Seems like my year not so bad afterall right?

And today's the day. The day which decide our country's future. Vote carefully ppl. But quite sian.. my block's void deck is a polling station AND YET i have to walk like nearly 400m away to my allocated polling station. How dumb can this be??

yeah! its finally over!

and so am I. Still got report on monday... sian...

Hmm.. review for the exams.. i am feeling scared now. Over my results. I think i am doomed. This is probably going to be the worst is not one of the worse. I seriously think I am getting stupid. Last time, i can remember things jus by copying. I do not have to read a second time and even if i do, i can still rmb what i wrote. This time round... hmm.. i write already den i go back and read.. i was wondering when did i ever wrote such things. And now... things take longer to get into my brain and most of the time, they got in like this but they came out another way.

Sad sad.. exams are getting terrible. Like what i told my friends, i used to be studying for exams like for A's. Now i am studying for my exams like i do for my O's. Slack...

Pray hard and hope that there are ppl who will do worse than me and help to pull up my score. Please please.....

i am a low processitivity DNA polymerase

nope.. this is an understatement. I am a super low processitivity DNA polymerase. I just cannot bring myself to study. I am so tired.. i want my holidays.... sigh... I am only covering 1 lecture each day these past 2 days... sian...

argh!! I need more drive to study.. only a few more days!!

I still prefer studying about simpler stuff. The complicated things that I am learning turns me off... I jus cannot bring myself to study them.... argh... sian....

exams are going to be over soon...

yeah! i am 60% cleared for my exams.. i know i know.. there are tonnes of people out there who have already finished theirs. But at least mine is finishing right??

I cleared my most feared paper today, cancer biology. I was more than glad to get it over and done with. Can you imagine having to remember all the dumb forms of cancer, the molecular mechanisms behind them, diagnosis and treatments? There were hell lot of stuff to remember and very little time. And i kept mixing up all the pathways and the chromosome numbers. IN THE END... hmm.. the paper din really asked a lot of details. In fact, it was quite do-able. There were some questions that i really dunno how to do so i jus smoke my way through. I hope my smoke was logical. Hopefully i can clear this module with a decent grade. After this paper i really had 如释重负的感觉. Felt so much more relaxed man....

Two more papers. I just hope that i can trust my instinct more. It had been more than once did i suspect my own answers when they are actually correct. HOLIDAYS.. wait for me!

buried in the middle of books

2 papers have already passed.

Nothing much to complain about the first paper. It was a do-able paper. Anything that i do not know as my own fault coz i din study enough. But.. i did leh. I studied the most for this paper. In fact i only studied for this paper. The problem is that, i realised that things take longer to get through to my brain. Poor bioavailibity of the information? Probably.... So anything that i studied did not get through. But it is not really my fault leh. There were hell lot of things to study. I predicted that they can give different questions every year and the questions can last for 10 years. The only thing i want to complain about the paper is the first section. The lecturer said got 6 true/false questions. BUT he never say each qn got sub-parts. In the end, i did a total of 24 questions. Felt so cheated after the exam.

Today's paper sucked. Out of 3 calculations questions, i only know that 1 is correct. The second one i think is wrong and the last one i hope is correct coz i think i got a weird ans. And out of 5 essays to do, minus the calculation question, i only know hot to do like 2? The other 20 marks i crapped my way through. Do not think the crap made sense. And out of the remaining 8 short questions that i have to do, i only know how to do like 6? Sigh... i hope i am not the worst... pray for the best.

Cancer in 3 more days. Shit lah.. that one oso very terrible. My god.. I am looking forward to next thurs!! exams are over!!

how to deal with exam stress?

BLOG! yes... and what do you do when you do not have anything to blog about? You start posting bo-liao photos. I was looking throught my photos and found some of these photos that i wanted to blog abt but somehow they failed to make their way to my blog. So here they are:

Talking abt exam stress, my fren's bf very sweet. Bought her giant pockey to relieve her stress. i am so jealous. But i decided to console myself that my bf oso very sweet. He gave me this candy stick during christmas after we had a big fight. But i din managed to get it from him until very long later coz he passed to my juniors to give me but i wasnt' at the new year dinner.

Instead of studying, I was out having lunch with my friends. We went PS to have high tea buffet. It was at this place called 老北京. I thought the food was just alright and it was a bit ex to pay 18 for so little variety. But there were some interesting stuff about the place.

First, they have a super authentic looking menu. Looks like some manual right?

The food of the day. My friends they all keep taking plates after plates of it. I refused to eat it. You know why? Coz it those 三cen肉. So fattening....

The next interesting thing was the popiah. We got to make them ourselves. haha.. so fun. Everytime at home its always my aunt making it for me. This time i got to try on my own.

The ingredients come in such a tray. So we get to mix everything we want of dun want together.

My popiah in the making. Found anything missing? haha.. yar.. the vegetable is missing. I did not see it on the table until i have finished putting my bean sprouts.

Yeah! Presenting to you.. my completed popiah. Taste good and look good too right?
Some random photos...

One day in school, 3 silly girls decided that they want to eat cup noodles. So here we are, with 3 bowls of cup noodles and a packet of soup. yummy.. but better not let mummy see.. she is going to nag me for not taking care of myself again...This girl is the sis of a student in the class next door on Mondays. haha.. she is very cute right? So pretty with such big eyes. Look a bit like a cartoon character hor?The cutest child in the world. My cousin! He is so funny. We were playing badminton at the court and he took the racket and play guitar. Elvis in the making...

Fish & Co

After some discussion, we decided to meet for dinner to celebrate Sharon's birthday on Saturday. Initially planned on a lot of places but in the end we went to PS and eat Fish & Co. And the attendance was pretty impressive. There were a total of 14 ppl wor! and 6 guys! (Fyi, my clique only have girls and there are 15 of us, including one in US now) At first we wanted Sharon to bring her bf along coz we nv see him b4. Den she wants us to bring all my bfs along so he wun feel so weird. Initially i tot only km coming. In the end, everyone's bf came!! including mine. haha.. thanks dear! He do not usually go out with my friends. So sweet of him to go with me. *muack* love you.. i gotta thank Citibank too. Without his credit card and the free drink at Fish & Co, he probably wun come.

Anyway, back to the food, very long never eat Fish & Co liao, still taste as nice as ever. BUT, i really wonder what's wrong with some ppl. They simply wun get fat. I eat the way they do, i cannot fit into my clothes in one week. After Fish & Co, Jo complained she still not full. Mind you, she and her bf shared a seafood platter for two. Usually i eat tt with hz i always cannot finish the food. And after dinner, Xiling suggests that we go Gelare and I had ice cream while Jo ate waffle! OMG.. she is a cow.. with 7 stomachs. haha..

As usual, there was a lot of photos. haha.. Xiling bluff Sharon she never took the photo of her bf kissing her. But actually she was taking a video. wahahaha. But it was so sweet. Her bf was so sporting. I decided not to post the photo here to save her the embarassment. Anyway, Xiling was trying to take a photo of me and hz but the camera simply would not focus. There was a total of 9 blurred photos taken. haha.. it was so funny. We were like the models of the day. Finally Duan Bao managed to find a way to get the camera to focus and got a photo of us.

Anyway, here are some photos of the evening.

Everyone were patiently waiting for the food. The place was freezing cold and I was super hungry....

Presenting to you, the couples...

Finally, my dear and me. I still thought hz was very sweet. hehe.. thanks darling!
Besides couples, we have some les for the night too. Presenting to you... the not so straight ppl..

The 9 blurred photos. None of them would focus. If only they can. Coz i think some of the photos might turn out quite nice.
The first focused photo taken for the night. The girls. Yu Lei was so happy that she can stand at the back coz she was wearing heels. The ultimate winner was still Sarah coz her heels were real high...
The gentlemen of the day. What a wide variety of colours.. haha..
Table shot of everyone. Mitchell was the chairman of this dinner. This dinner looks like some match-making with so many couples. haha..
There's xiling posing proudly with her ice-cream. Her bf like to disturb her. Got another photo oso but i was too ugly in the photo so i decided not to post it. hehe....

Jo's waffle. Actually look quite nice hor? I am really surprised with the amount of things that she can eat. Amazing. And she finished her waffle even faster than i finished my waffle basket.

Last day of school before the exams...

Looking back over what i have written over the past one month, i realised that i haven been updating very often. Cannot really blame me for not updating. I am so much reports and assignments to hand in that i nearly went mad with reports. Here I am, still suffering from the after effects of lab reports and exams are already coming! omg.. shit...

anyway, this week is the first week that i do not have to hand in any reports and last week, we had a little celebration in school. Haha.. no lah.. actually it was to celebrate Chew Hwee and Sharon's birthday. We had a funnily decorated cake by Xiling and XinYing. And Jo was too stressed she had some alcohol with py in school and looked like a lobster after that. We had a lot of photos as usual and we even recorded a super long video for Grace. Hope that she will get the video soon.

Here's some photos.

The "ugly" cake. Saw the mess at the bottom of the cake. Its supposed to be S for Sharon and Q for Qiuhui. They kept remind sharon that its not SQ for Siqi.

Saw the very short stick? The birthday girls are supposed to pick them up. Not too hard right? (",)

Here's sharon making a brave attempt.

And that's chew hwee. Great job girls!

Caught in the act. Jo with her "apple juice".

Me as the cake girl. As usual.

Look grace! We left a pc of cake for you. But since you cannot have it, sharon finished it for you.

Group photo! But we are missing anne and grace...

Exams are here!! But they will be over in no time. Hang in there girls!