MISS NG

This miss ng ah.. She complain I nv mention about her in the GEMs blog so I shall dedicate one entire post to her. haha..

Well.. Actually the main reason why I nv mention her coz the photo we took together was terribly ugly.. And I forgot to acknowledge her somewhere. But I still refuse to post it here.. haha..

But anyway, thanks to this girl, my life got entwined with GEMs. While there was a difference in role between org comm and facis, I am glad that we all got along pretty well.

So well… thanks to huimin I got to know a lot of young, vibrant and very nice ppl. MUACKzz…

Oh.. since I got no photos here.. I shall post embarrassing photos of that girl. She was so touched on the last day that she cried loh.. tsk tsk…

some random photos

People...

this photo was taken at the airport when i went to send my "little" cousin off to new zealand for her school geography field trip. so lucky, they have a lot of schemes now to provide financial assistance and she only paid very little for the trip. sigh.. me oso want to go..

I was giving tuition to two of my cousins and this little one insists that he wants to join in oso. so i told him to "do homework". He was so serious about his work that he went to his house to grab his "pencil case" and started drawing. Look at how serious he is at his work. =)

And this boy is so cute, got this sunday i happened to be at home so me and my sister brought him out to the market to eat. He passed by this small place that has a lot of toys so he says he wants to see the toys. I do not intend to get him anything so i told him that see only ah. he was having so much fun looking at the toys that he was reluctant to leave. But being the very good boy, he nv scream and shout for toys. he even waved bye to the toys.. so cute........

Food...

i met the godiva gang for dinner one friday. supposed to be initiated by shu juan and peck yean but end up only got me, xiling, jo and mitch. we went to riverside restaurant or something like that to eat. we order this bbq platter and it was very nice!! wow.. and we were so full. after dinner, we went to walk ard clarke quay and finally settle down at coffee club to drink something. sigh.. but got so many ppl, so noisy. end up we kind of like screaming into each others ears. but still, i still think that clarke quay is a great place to hang out. we even intend to set aside a friday to meet up.

Oh.. and i could not get this out of my mind. this was supposed to be the cesar salad at the soup place at raffles city. me n hm was staring at it when it came and thought that this look more like a sandwich than a salad. but then, the soup is nice. haha.. ilike..

Even more random...

Me, mitch and xiling met up one sunday for cosmetics shopping. Conclusion: Bobbi Brown has very nice concealers. Oh.. and along the way, we were stopped by this guy doing sony roadshow outside heerens. we got a free photo taken and printed. AND we got a free air-brush tattoo. See.. so nice!! and look so real. haha.. but now its gone liao.. sad sad...

There.. the 3 girls with their tattoos. we took this in diesel. got another which we took in the toilet but that one is too dark. not nice.. anyway, can vaguely see the tattoo on xiling n mitch's arm and the one on my leg lah. =

A direction

I have finally made up my mind. On Tuesday, I went for an interview with MOM. Initially, I did not intend to take up the job. But later, the HR guy called me to offer me the job and I was so enticed that I accepted the job offer after 1 night of pondering.

Now, i no longer need to send out anymore resumes, and type any more cover letters. But my research also ends here. I will never know what kind of job is out there for there, at least for the next 2 year. But I think that a govt job is seriously not a bad job to begin with. And is going to be a good stepping stone for what I have planned for the next couple of years.

In any case, I am glad to have a job now. I can finally sleep peacefully already.

Gemmer rocks

Well.. I am always procrastinating and delaying my blogs. Anyway, this is something I really wanted to blog about…

8th June 2007 marks the end of 2 phases of my life.

The first was my university life as this was the day I received my results. This year the school decided that results will be released on 12 midnight. As a result, I knew my results super early in the morning. But luckily it did not affect my mood although I was disappointed about it.

But 8th June 2007 also marked the closing of the pilot Young Gems Camp.

This camp was an initiative taken on by WDA to raise the awareness of GEMS (Go the Extra Mile for Service) and how to provide good service in secondary school students. I was very lucky to be involved in this camp as a facilitator. It was really a very different camp that I have attended and I have really learnt a great deal.

My trainer, Serene was a nice person, my fellow facis were wonderful despite the fact that we had conflicts here and there and the participants were wonderful. Remember: the camp has ended but the lesson continues…

Some photos to reminisce about.

This camp was held at republic poly, which happens to be 15 mins walk from my house.

My wonderful cluster 2(sunshine as they were called although the guys refused to admit it) on day 1:On day 2, on our way out for the Customer Experiential Activity.

We had neoprints and we introduced Matthew to his virgin KFC meal. It had been like donkey years ago since I’ve taken neoprints but I must say that I am totally impressed with how neoprints has evolved. I totally loved the neoprints we took and I am now hooked.On day 3, before we leave for the Gemmers-in-Action along Orchard Road:

Look at how happy everyone was!Gemmers, let’s get ready to rock and roll! Can you see me right at the tip of the triangle? I kneel until my leg wanna break liao…My cluster along orchard road. It had been a hard day for them. Having to give away NeWater, the Gems tattoo, ugly poodle made from balloons and to provide free gift wrapping services. But I thought it was a great day! Even though I was attached to a different cluster.The cluster that I was attached to. I really admire their spirit despite rejections. Well done!On day 4, everyone was out for service attachment. And at night, we gather back at RP for a small picnic. And shortly, we had a prize presentation ceremony. I am so proud of my cluster. They won something! Here’s the entire camp. We were all supposed to say Tuesday and I must say this method really helps us to smile better.Well. Lo and behold, the ending has to come. In a flash of an eye, we are at the end of the camp. The last day started off with a performance. Which we all spent 2 nights staying back super late in RP trying to rehearse. Following was a dialogue session with Ms Grace Foo. There was a buffet lunch and somehow, the participants decided to sabotage the facis! I was hiding behind the buffet table but apparently, my fellow facis sabotaged me. The damage was not too bad, with only 1 tattoo on my face, 1 on my neck and 2 on my leg. I think there were facis who suffered a worse fate than me. But still, I was very sure everyone had fun. And we had our fair share of emotional scenes and tears as well.

Here’s my chacha group. Thanks for putting up with all my nonsense and pressure. You girls and guys were wonderful! Love ya!Here’s my cluster again! We survived the camp! Well done!The entire strength of the participants. With about 80 students from 18 different schools, these students have managed to bond together in a short span of 5 days despite their differences. Look how pretty this arrangement is.Woohoo! You've made it!Well, how can we forget the people without whom this camp will not be possible?

There! Here we are. We could still manage to laugh after the first day. But subsequently, we were making a very conscious effort to be the role model.

My beloved fellow facis. I missed you all!

From top to bottom, left to right.
Me, Sihui, Sham, Choon Hua
Kathy (my partner), chin, Kun Rong,
Chris, Ally and Leonad

Hip hip hooray!

haha.. we were taking photos when we should be listening to the debate. Opps…Our signature “huat ah”. I dunno why they use huat but I dun really mind. Wahha…Well, last but not least, the most important man without whom, these photos would not have been possible. LUKE! the photographer who is always getting on our nerves with his camera. But I love his touch of humor.

Although the camp is over, I am sure that the friendship built and the lessons learnt will not be forgotten. Let’s go out and make a difference. LET’S GEMS!

Crossroad

Well, I have finally ended the last phase of my education when I received my final results on 8th June 2007. No doubt I was pretty disappointed with my results, but I guess I can only move on from here. The end is only the beginning of an end. Now I still have a long long journey to go and the next thing I have to worry about is my career.

Sigh… talking about my career gives me a headache. I am now standing at a crossroad.

I am considering a career as a financial advisor but I am so worried that I cannot survive without money for the first few months of the job as the job is 100% commission based. On top of that, I still have to fork out a couple of hundreds to pay for my exam first before I can even get the job. Sigh… so fan.. can anyone give me a small advice? I promised myself that I will never get a job with no basic pay but yet, I am really quite interested in this job.

Or should I just go ahead and get any job? I seriously have no idea which field to explore and which occupation I really like. So sian.. I feel like I have totally no life goals and objective now. I cannot see my future.

BOYCOTT!

okay.. to quote lele, i am starting a boycott campaign. To boycott this particular bubble tea shop at the basement of causeway point which used to be sw*** t***.

I was so super pissed by them today.

I went to buy bubble tea coz huimin wants to drink. Den i decided to buy for myself and usually I do not take the pearls. However, today, coz i was in a hurry, i forgot to tell the auntie not to put pearls and I realised my mistake too late. But I told the auntie nvm, although i think i looked unhapppy coz i was pissed with myself for forgetting to tell auntie. so another auntie who was there said this to me: “ 如果不要珍珠，可以换一杯给你。不用脸臭臭的。”

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very good. Now i am so damn pissed off with them i have decided not to patron them anymore.

They are not $1.50 instead of $1.20 and for 30cents more, the service is not 30% lower?

so much so for Go the Extra Mile for Service. I think singapore still has a long way to go.

i need money money...

sian.. initially in really tot i was living comfortably off my tuition salary. But recently, i realised that while income remains stagnant (or even got lower), expenses have now increased considerably.

For example, my lasik sugery added an expense of $335 to my monthly expenses for 12 months. And 3 months from now, i have to start paying my laptop loan, adding $250 to my expenses for 10 months. Adding on to that, i have to start paying $250 a month for my facial package in July for 3 months. And i have kind of agreed to go hongkong, meaning i have to spend more money. To add on to my woes, Transitlink decided that I can only buy bus concession until 30th June, means i have to start paying adult fare from july. omg... 愁上加愁...

sigh... i need a job now... fast.. sian...

fuming mad!

omg....... i haven been so angry for so long...... argh!!! i am so angry now!! and the mp3 on at maximum volume does not seem to help much. freaking irritating.....

right now.. all i want to do is to smash something... can anyone tell me where to vent my frustrations? if not i think a lot of things are gg to suffer...

Sorry, I Love You [OST] - 눈의 꽃 (Noon Eh Ggot - Acoustic Ver)

omg... wow.. i simply love this song now.. can anyone find me the song? and tell me the show? thanks!

Incandescence

Well, Friday was DnD mah. I did my own makeup coz I scared the makeup artist anyhow touch my eyes and to save money, I decided not to do anything to my hair since I have a $300 hair accessory (my shades). I even got fake French manicure. So pretty…… and I bought a new golden eyeshadow that is damn glam and pretty. Gosh…

but poor yu lei have to wait half and hour for me, haha.. coz she say she will be late den I took my own sweet time loh.

But anyway, the night was really fun. It was a small party coz very little people went but it was a great night. The host was good, the games were quite fun, the performance was damn funny and the profs were so sporting. Alex Law got real drunk, Prof Las got made-up like a girl and all the other professors dance around with us like mad. IT WAS A WONDERFUL NIGHT! Thank you committee. =)

The place was quite small though, but the food was passable. And we had nice door gifts. It was a personalised cashcard, so pretty that i cannot bear to use it. And my gang won one of the game so we split the gifts. Some shiseido make up, pretty precious moments ez-link card, and TCC membership card.

here are some photos. I am so surprised that I did not take much photos. I think I snapped like crazy during JC prom but now I was so lazy to take photos. Speaking of photos, we had a free photoshoot from PictureMe and I thought I look like an air-stewardess. Haha…

Air-stewardess in making....

Partial Godiva gang (chew hwee and shu juan nv come) with alex law

Pretty girls showing off the pretty corsages... but u can see torres with a weird expression in the background. lol...

OH... this is the prettiest photo i have of myself for the entire night.. haha.. do not get the wrong idea.. the guy is a normal friend. i still love my dear the most. but this poor guy very pathetic. he gena sabo to be made up like a girl, and u can still see traces of purple eyeshadow on this eyes. i simply love this photo coz my shades are so pretty!! they made me look like a star. haha.. i think i made the right choice by buying the red one.. woot.. pretty.. haha..

slacking at home

haha.. I say I am going to help out in lab right? But I have only been back like for 2 days? Slack sia.. haha… but I have no time to go back to lab leh… anyway, the main reason why I do not have time to go back is that the next step to my work is protein prep and tt takes a whole day. As in 14-16 hours day so I cannot have stuff to do in the evening. So mah… no time loh. Haha..

anyway, last Wed, I met godiva to make corsages for our dnd. So pretty right?

Den after which, I went shopping with Jo to get some stuff coz metro got sale then I metro member so I got preview. We actually spent the whole day there and I bought lingerie and a pair of shoes and some other stuff. Felt so guilty about spending money that I decided that I shall not go for a hair-do on Friday. Haha… thurs I went to see doc den got facial. Talking about facial I damn sian.. now I know why tai-tais are so busy. Facial appointments in orchard area are damn hard to book lah. Sian diaoz.. it was a Thursday afternoon and I expect them to have at least some slots free. So I nv change my appointment and made my way down. Who knows, they are fully booked! Sian lah.. I still got tuition so I cannot make it for later slot. In the end I went to suntec but I bought a nice pair of earrings for DnD. Haha..

Refer to the 2nd post for DnD updates..

time to look for a new job

boohoo... today is 11th may. maersk never call me. sad to say, i have to search for another job soon... sian diao... sigh....... but i dunno wat i want to be leh.. how???

safe and sound!

hi everyone! i am back.. safe and sound after my lasik surgery on 09 may and the nerve wreaking presentation on 08 may. hehe....

my presentation was fine. it was better than i had expected except for a question for which i gave a wrong answer. sian diaoz..... anyway, i was glad that it was over. i was so nervous over the presentation that i could not sleep the night before.

my lasik surgery was very successful too. i still cannot see very clearly now especially at night. but other that i am very happy. =) doc says my eyes will take about a month to stablise and we will see if we need any touchups after 3 months. well... i hope we do not need any touch ups. i am scared. the procedure was very fast, about 15 min per eye, but it is very scary. afterall, they are cutting my eyes leh... thank god nothing happened.

all in all, i want to thank all my wonderful friends who have wished me luck for my presentation, even huiyi who wished me late. hehe... i hope i will not let you all down. *pray hard* and i also want to thank everyone who had been so concerned about my eyes. special thanks to my dear who took leave to go for the op with me and who sent me home and stayed with me. (this sounds like the asknowledgment page in thesis leh.. hehe.. )

i will be back with longer posts when i can see better. -)

my pretty poster!

poster presentation was finally over. well... i did not start out the day well. haha.. i was late for like 20 mins and when i got there, Dr Sze was already there but i think she saw that i jus arrived so she gave me time to settle down and came back later. =P

my first examiner was dr gruber, Yu Lei's boss. wah lau.. he is a damn nice guy. and after a long session with him (we talked for like 20 mins until even my fren who was like 2 panels away noticed it), i realised a couple of errors in my thesis. And i am talking about conceptual errors, not so much of grammer or small and insignificant errors. sad sad

and the only question that Dr Sze asked, i was unable to answer.. sian diaoz.. now i am so damn worried about my oral presentation lah. think about it will also increase my heart beat. freaky...

sian...

anyway, here's my pretty poster and pretty me.. =)

updated schedule

ow... why is it that i am always so busy? even when i dun need to go to lab??? why is it that i cannot have a single day when i can sit at home, do nothing except to rot???

sigh.. my updated schedule for the next few months:

4th may - poster presentation + dinner with GoDiva
8th may - oral presentation
9th may - Lasik
11th may - dinner with frens
14/15 may - stayover with GoDiva (ppl, cfm this soon can?)
18th may - DnD
24th may - dear's bday
23rd july - Convocation

Realised something is missing? yeah... a holiday.. sigh... i want to go holiday.. whatever happened to my graduation trip? aww.....

DR SADLER is wonderful

As I handed in my thesis in a rush, I would have expected my thesis to be filled with errors here and there but I nv expect to spot such a major mistake! My content page was totally wrong!! Somehow along the way, my results and methods failed to be numbered and so the methods section followed my introduction and my discussion section followed my results. Wah lau, I totally freaked out loh. Luckily I have a super nice professor. She was so super understanding, she actually allowed me to resubmit my thesis again. Wow.. I am so grateful to her… I love you Dr Sadler!

200 pounds beauty (미녀는 괴로워)

the first thing i did after thesis submission was to watch a movie with my uni clique. it was the first time in so long that i can finally walk out of the school at a normal time and not be rushing to go tuition or to go home to do work. well, on friday we were sitll rushing lah, rushing for the movie. in the end we missed the first 10 minutes of the show. but nevertheless, it was a wonderfully great show.

here is how the story goes (taken from wikipedia) *warning, this is a spoiler*

Han-na is a phone sex employee as well as lip sync vocalist for Ammy, a famous Korean pop singer. Instead of being famous for her amazing vocal talent, Hanna hides behind in her little room. Ammy humiliates her in front of Sang-jun with whom Han-na is in love with. Desperately, Han-na decides that it's time to get a head-to-toe plastic surgery makeover. When she comes back from hospital, no one recognizes her. She soon earns her own record label with Sang-jun and becomes famous. Soon, Sang-jun finds out about her plastic surgery (she tried to hide it from him and when he asked if she went under the knife, she said no). Jenny (Han-na's alter Ego) soon loses who she really was. The time came for her concert came and Jenny broke down. Not knowing who she really was, she broke down in front of millions. On that very stage, she told everyone who she really was. The fat and ugly Han-na. People cheered for her saying that it was alright. She soon realized that she was the same Han-na. Han-na released a new album under the name Han-na, not Jenny. All ended well after that.

The story has a great plot. It was damn funny and damn touching and sweet at the same time. In addition, the lead female actor (Han-na) Ah-jung Kim is a real beauty and the male lead actor Jin-mo Ju is damn handsome lah.

Now i am so in love in them. I really think everyone should watch this show. GREAT SHOW!!

after thesis thoughts....

Well... on 20th apr, I finally handed in my thesis and I am finally on my way to graduation. The process of writing my thesis was a damn tough one. For the first time, I finally understood how ailing felt like when she was doing her submission. The continuously-working-and-no-time-for-anything-except-to finish-the-work kind of feeling. I do not think I have ever worked so hard before. Not even studying for exams.

I started to do my report on Monday but somehow I think I was too slow. Or rather, I suddenly realized that I have hell lot of things to settle. Wed, I started on my results and to my horror, I realized that I have A LOT of data to handle. By that I am talking about like 7 gel photos and a total of more than 40 graphs to plot. Thanks for the invention of sigma plot and photoshop if not I will die.

In the end, I have no choice but to stay overnight in school on wed so that I can have access to sigma plot which was only installed in school computer and at the same time, to access all my data which are in school. I never knew I could work so hard. My day started from Wednesday at 10am and ended on Thursday at 11pm, with only 2hrs sleep in between. After this I really cannot take it and I went home to bath n sleep.

Then on Friday I realized that I still have a lot of things to edit. Sigh… rushed until I din even have time for lunch. My friend bought lunch for my and I ended up throwing the food away. I finally finished printing and editing at 630pm when the deadline was at 5pm. I really appreciated all my friends who were around to help me with the printing, punching of holes and organizing of my stuff. And I really have to thank Dr Sadler being so super understanding.

Now that the submission is finally over, the next thing up will be poster presentation and finally convocation on 23rd July. My undergraduate is ending soon. Somehow I feel sad to be leaving school. From today onwards, I can no longer write my occupation as student anymore. Sad sad…

my house

coup this personality test from my junior's blog. hmm... some parts are true.. but some not really. Just look for fun loh.. you want can try it out here.

Based on your drawing and the 10 answers you gave this is a summary of your personality:

Your house tells the world that you ought to be a leader. You are a freedom lover and a strong person. You are shy and reserved. If you've drawn a cross on each of windows, you always want to live alone. You are very tidy person. There's nothing wrong with that because you're pretty popular among friends. Your life is always full of changes.

When it comes to love, you shut yourself off. It's difficult to win your heart because you have decided to keep your feelings deep inside. You have a strong personality and you like to command, influence and control people.

You added a flower into your drawing. The flower signifies that you long for love. It also safe to say that others don't see you as a flirt. You don't think much about yourself.

gone case

well.. today's was a gone case. i feel lah. anything that could have gone wrong went wrong...

first, me was late. sigh... trying to fix my hair lah. took much longer than i tot.

second, they asked me about future shipping trend. Frankly speaking, how the hell will i know??? i just anyhow answer lah. was wondering if i should just tell them that i am not sure.

third, they asked me about the biggest news now. WTH.... i dun read newspapers leh. and i do not recall any news big enough for me to flip through the papers.

lastly, i think i said wrong things lah.

anyway, what could possibly went wrong did.. i will just take this as a learning experience and take it from here ba. YEAH.. on the bright side, means i can take my time to find a job.. haha... =)

3 days to thesis submission....