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!!

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.

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!

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!!!

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*

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!!!!

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~

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~

singapore youngsters

i wonder what is wrong with our education system or with our upbringing. How come i suddenly realised that singaporeans, in particular the younger generation is getting more and more inconsiderate? This past one week, i have come to notice two very irritating things that they do.

First, students in NTU do not like to move to the rear of the bus. There was once i was on the bus on the way to school. There was so much space at the rear but the students jus refused to move in. We were standing with so much space between us at the end while those in the front have to squeeze like mad to get onto the bus. Com'on, we are all going to school for classes at the same time most probably. So i think the least you can do is to move in and make space for other people to get on. And many people, including me, get irritated when some aunties try to squeeze to the rear of the bus but have it ever occurred to us that if we had bothered to move in at the same time, they will not have to squeeze like that and we can all be happier!

Secondly, i really cannot stand people who blast their music so loud that the whole bus and train can hear what they are listening to. Worst still, with the current advancement in technology, some people play their mp3 using the loudspeaker coz they do not have a ear phone. Oh please, not the whole world like what you are playing okay? Worst still, they like to play all the rock music which i hate like mad. It really gives me a very bad headache and puts me in a very bad mood. Can they jus be more sensitive to the people around them??

I really wonder what happened to all the education in school? What happened to all the things about graciousness and courtesy? We seemed to have forgotten the basics during the scramble for good grades and a better education.

my man

wat's the matter with him? how come he always managed to make me feel bad abt complaining after i did.

Dun understand leh.. but he seems to be able to read my mind coz everytime i complain, the next day or soon after, he will do something to make me happy and make me so guilty abt complaining?

Or has he been reading my blog? dunno.. tot he dun read one...

anyway.. i really miss him a lot.. hope i can have more time with him even though school's started...

weird feelings

why do i feel so neglected?

Yesterday went for dinner with my jc gang and ting's bf met her after the dinner and i wonder when has i ever met him at night after i met my friends. Today, wanted to go with BY n CP to Paya Lebar to collect the trophy but i could not get there in time. Wanted to meet them at orchard instead by CP has to leave at 6pm den BY gg to meet WK after tt so i decided tt i should jus stay at home. BY is always meeting WK and i was thinking how long i haven gone out with him liao.

No doubt harry has made me flew to the top of the world but i still feel like i m not on the top of his important list. Am i asking too much? dunno.. i jus hope tt i can at least go out with him once a week, can chat on the phone properly and at least get a reply to my sms. Sigh... really wish tt i could be his computer. At least i will get to see him everyday and he pays a lot more attention to me than any other things.

first day of school

Today's the first day of school. I'm pretty lucky lah coz i had a late afternoon lecture. I purposely went to school earlier to print notes and luckily i went earlier coz there was a lot of ppl. I waited for a while before i managed to get a computer terminal. And this year, the printing shop sort of upgraded leh coz now can use ez-link card to pay. So cool!! haha.... anyway, the first lecture was quite crap coz lescar is still in paris and joe yoon came to relief and he cannot cover must coz most are to be covered by lescar. In the end, he managed to drag the lesson for 1.5 hrs and finally let us off at 5pm.

After class, i went to Jurong Point to meet Ting, Eli n Huimin. Wow.. so very super long haven met ting ting... We had dinner at Crystal Jade but my La Mian was not very nice. Next time i will rmb not to order the si chuan one. After dinner we went to Swensons for desert. Wow.. so sinful but we had a lot of fun. Was chatting chatting and chatting. haha... so fun!! really missed the girls. After dessert we even got to meet ting ting's bf. We all agree that he looks compatible with ting ting so he passed the test. (",) haha.. And singapore is so super small... we saw rena when we were going home.. haha. so qiao..

anyway.. i had great fun but nv take photos coz huimin's camera no batt lah... sian.. but nvm.. i rmb everything in my mind...looking forward to another gathering with them..

school reopens

school's starting tmr... sian.. first lecture at 330pm... omg...

but actually i am a little looking forward to school.. haha.. rest enough liao lah.. time to work hard..

harry potter completed!

i finally finished potter on friday. Took me 2 days. coz i effectively only started on wed as i got the book on tues night and i still have another book to finish that night.

wow! i must say that i am so impressed with rowling this time. This book is such a far cry from the order of phoenix. I love it so much... I was so carried away by the book that i was beginning to imagine myself in the story and i freak out when i walk alone outside at night coz i was afraid that the Death Eaters might jus appear out of nowhere.

The only bad thing about the book is that Dumbledore died. Killed by Snape, someone he really trusted. Dumbledore is the Headmaster of Hogwarts, the school of magic that Harry goes to. OMG.. i was so sad.. felt like crying also. After having read all the other books, I am beginning to like and respect Dumbledore. I felt like i could really relate to him. Sometimes i really envy Harry for having someone who's so nice and wise to guide him along. sigh....

I am really looking forward to the last book. I cannot wait to see how Harry is going to destroy Voldemort without Dumbledore's guidance. I guess it will be very exciting. Hope that it will not be too disappointing.

I would advise all who wants to read this book to read the previous few books first. If not you might get confused coz rowling kept refering to events which happened in the past. But i can really assure you that you will enjoy the story a lot. Its funny, touching and trilling.

xiaxue's blog part 2

well.. she recovered pretty soon.. late yesterday..her pink trademark was back. apparently the news was so big tt it was on Life! and TODAY. Anyway, i hope that the police catches the guy... mad man.

xiaxue's blog

As most would know, xiaxue is a blogger in singapore who got famous from blogging. Well, we were in the same secondary school and in fact we are from the same batch of students. We used to be on talking terms coz her class was jus next to mine but ever since we got to upper secondary, we stopped talking to each other coz i cannot stand her "ah lian" look and i think she do not want friends in a nerd class like me.

Recently i started to read xiaxue's blog quite regularly. I was never a fan of her but i have to admit that i found her blog entertaining even though i do not agree with some of the things that she says. I am beginning to realise that i quite like her style coz she's very open with what she says and i like the straight forward nature.

Yesterday, as usual, i would click on the link on my blog and read her blog and to my surprise, the pink trade-mark look did not appear. Instead, replaced by it was a template page. At first, i thought that she changed look. However, as i read on, i realised that someone has hacked into her account and deleted her whole blog and all the other blog that she has created!! The person also hacked into her gmail and deleted all 3,000 of her emails which includes impt biz contacts.

Apparently, this person hates xiaxue which i gathered is from what she says on her blog. Even though i do not really like her but i think that what this person did was too much. This is an idiot. I believe that you have to an adult or someone who is proficient in computers in order to learn to hack. OMG.. this guy is totally childish. Why do you have to hurt a person that you hate? Are you going to kill someone whom you cannot stand the look of? OMG.... this guy is mad.

I really feel so sorry for xiaxue coz it was all her effort for the past few years. I would be very angry if i have put in so much effort and *ding* it jus gone like that. Hope that she can get the culprit soon.

gathering day

not a bad day leh...

i started the day by going to youyi's house to play mahjong. Lost like mad but nvm.. din play a lot of money.. den after tt met 7A for dinner at the glass house. A bit pathetic coz only got ard 8 ppl initially den increased to abt 11. But we ended the day early coz the guys wanted to go and play game. duh....

after that i went esplanade to meet the st john gals. haha.. had so much fun with them even though its only for a little while. a bunch of mad gals but i really loveeee them.. (",) looking forward to another day with them. We literallly did nothing except to take photos and sat there and rot. got quite a couple of weird looks from other ppl but i guess we jus bo chup lah...

quite a fufilling day.. feeling good abt it...