Savee e e e me! Bah.. Get a grip!

My Malaysian Escapade to Pelangi

2008-06-16T18:31:00.005+08:00

Hoho, boy was I afraid when I made my way to Msia checkpoint for the first time in a long time. You know like following people and acting like you know the way. And so I reached Msia not knowing how it would actually turn out after I left the Msia Customs.

On first glance it struck me that it certainly does not resemble anything like Singapore. Touts are all avaliable asking people for taxis, beggars all around. Certainly an eye opener just coming out of Spore like 55mins ago. The first thing I did while waiting for Ren Sun's car was to buy a chewing gum from the Mobil station and started chewing the 'forbidden fruit'. Boy was it damn shiok, cheap thrills are always the most satisfying don't you know? :)

And so I waited like 10 minutes before RS arrived at the Mobil station just outside the checkpoint and it was great to have him to be the guide cause I'm like a noob in Msia. The roads are very perplexing and you can get lost the minute you start driving cause there are so many small roads around the place.

It was almost 1130am when I saw him and he brought me straight for a good authentic Msian lunch.

Dry Beef Noodles, Msian Style. You cannot find anything like this in Spore in a million years. The beef was superbly marinated to perfection. Baik!

After lunch he drove me to his house to see his mom first. Ha, lucky I brought a nice packet of rou gan to give to her. She said, "Nian qing ren bu yong jiang ke qi le! Hen han jian de nian qing ren" Haha, shiok bo! His mom looks very radiant and very beautiful, prolly due to the less stress free environment in Msia compared to Spore. The effects of a hectic society, ageing.

His study/gaming room and my bed for the night lol.

So we went to this place Leisure Mall near his place to play some arcade and showed me around. The stuff are really much cheaper as compared to Spore so I grabbed the chance and got all my medical supplies and some tolietries from the Giant inside the mall. Shiok!

Leisure Mall

Haha. King Surf LAN SHOP. Very high class this LAN Shop and has 3 levels, all LCD screens. At RM 2.50/ hr and having a damn wide array of games avaliable is damn worth it. We had a few rounds of DOTA together but we went back like a few times haha. Addiction to the games. NFS Carbon, FIFA 08 etc. Damn fun, we had endless laughs.

Look at RS. So stress over playing games. The winning mentality!

Soon we got tired and left KS and went to have some dessert. I was amazed by the selection of ice creams in the MAC inside the mall. Very different from Spore and comparatively better in taste and price!

Presenting the Banana Toffee Sundae. The white ice cream is STRONGLY flavoured with banana essence and it really is a delicious pairing made in heaven. Cheap THRILLs are always the best. Damn SHIOK x 2 ;p.

It was around 6pm when RS's mom called and asked us to settle our dinner ourselves cause she was going to eat with his uncle and aunties who came over to their house. Having just ate the ice cream, we were damn thirsty so he drove me to City Square, this posh shopping mall near the customs to walk around first and at the same time waste more energy so that we could have a better appetite. We walked around the entire mall and I bought Men's Health cause the edition was interesting @ 4.50SGD (CHEAP) having an artice on Padma Lakshmi

Padma(a judge on the show) with the 'Top Chef' Season 2 runner up

And so I wondered how cheap could stuff be in Msia? I found out that not everything was as cheap as expected. Branded stuff of mainstream brands like Adidas cost almost the same as that in Spore, almost no difference. Only the F&B (mostly) are cheaper. So I suggested we go have a drink cause my throat was hurting from the indulgence of toffee earlier without drinking water after that. So we went to Starbucks and I bought 2 Dark Mocha Frappe. RM 16.00 for the venti size. So its like $1 SGD cheaper compared to Spore. SHIOK. The cheesecakes were mostly RM7.90 per piece. Also $1 SGD cheaper. Haha, heaven for cheesecake lovers. I saw other version of cheesecakes that were not readily seen in Spore like Belgian Cheesecake and this Triple Layer Cheesecake (consisted of tolberone,mocha and cheese). In the end we didn't buy any cheesecakes cause we would not have space for dinner later.

Dark Mocha Frappe!

We were supposed to look for cheap jerseys in 'Holiday Plaza' but it seems like the shops disappeared. Too bad. But we saw loads of pirated shops there. I guess they give 'coffee' money to the cops. Open so brazenly in the mall, if it were Spore, it would have been raided within the hour. Haha.

And it was dinner/supper time!

Ikan Bakar and a variety of other foods. Eat until puke. Both of us including auntie and her sister staying in the house at supper and talked non stop. Her mom is damn power, quadlingual person. Dia boleh cakap bahasa cina, inggeris, melayu dan canto. Baiklah la Mak Cik! His landed property living room

His secret gaming room just behind the kitchen. This computer is placed beside a fridge, how convenient can.

We continued watching Euro on his telly until about 315am and we were damn shag and hit the sack immediately. Woke up this morning at 10am and pergi ke pusat komputer King Surf to have another round to DOTA. Addicted to it cause the LAN place is damn nice and cheap.

Before leaving for Spore, we went to eat Jap food near the vicinity of the KS LAN shop. Again, we spent only 25SGD and ate like kings there. Ate unagi, potato croquettes, tofu and many more. How enjoy. LOL.

Sangat murah daripada singapura.

That was it. One day in Msia Pelangi area and it was another 1hr 30 min back to Tampines from Woodlands via 168. Damn fast and efficient. Love it.

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Dua Puluh Tiga Hari Jadi ialah Qian Hui di restoran Bali House

2008-06-14T23:10:00.011+08:00

Watched 'The Incredible Hulk' with Sihui @ Cathay Downtown East. RATHER good I felt the show. Not giving any spoilers but you can go watch the show. The fight scenes are rather good man.

Rating: 7/10 (: -->Watch this Green thing at a cinema near you

I JUST only came out of the cinema when TK called me and said that he was going to join Qian Hui's sec sch friends and celebrate her birthday instead of just passing her the birthday pressie we got for her and meet me in TM for dinner. I was stunned cause I didnt prepare anything to bring with me last minute although we had that pressie ( body lotion and a serum), wasn't nice to go empty handed so Sihui and I went to White Sands in double time to look around and we bought this.

Horoscope flower for gemini: Lily @ $18. Ex? Haha but last minute what to do.

By the time I arrived, everyone already finished their main course and I was just tucking in into mine lol. My god.

Then came the main event of the night..

All the presents with the Tiramisu Cake from SwissBake, courtesy of TKAction only. She looks like she's going to butcher the cake. Being her enemy you know what will be coming. Kena BEHEADED.
Her secondary school besties

Her Secondary School guy friends. Some of them having complicated relationships with her HAHA. Lets just leave it here la. (:

NUS representatives. TK and ME.

Our presents: A SwissBake Tiramisu Cake, Lily, Lotion & Serum.

Where to find such good friends. Cheah like what only. Haha.

Packaging worth like 5 bucks already.

Her bestie bought her this damn good chocos that are like the 'Rolls Royce' of chocolates. Damn expensive and comes with a ice pack and an insulating bag to keep it cold all the way. How pro is that for packaging. They even provide stuff like tiny spoons. What attention to detail these connoisseur chocolates can be. Damn good stuff fit for royalties. The milk chocolate is covered with cocoa powder(which makes it look very untidy)makes the chocolate damn nice. SwissBake Tiramisu Cake. The cocoa powder on the top of the cake really brings out the wonders of this Tiramisu. Without it, the cake is really crying out for something. Really good stuff man TK. Good job in buying this cake !

After dinner, TK and I didnt join them for KBOX cause we had stuff tomorrow so we opted to go for a drink, in this case 'Ice lime tea' to cleanse our system. I suggested going to this place which I knew best that had the cheapest and the best value for money place. We sat down and chilled for awhile and chatted abt some stuff then went home. Rather shiok.

Tomorrow gg to Msia to visit Ren Sun and staying overnight for a day, coming back on Monday morning. First time going into Malaysia after a long time and ALONE cause the rest of our gang not free. Alamak. Hope I dont get lost tomorrow!

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Secondary School Nostalgia

2008-06-13T10:41:00.006+08:00

After work at 11pm, I took 29 to Sihui's house to grab her car so that we could pick up Raymond and Mun Loong at Tampines MRT for supper.

The initial plan was to go HK cafe at White Sands but we decided to go T3's coffee club for whatever the reasons haha. Its been a long time since i drove again and the feeling was very good. The need for speeeeed.

Interpret the logo: Is this a cup or a face?

So nice!

Even at any angle!

T3 is really a very upscale and posh place I must say with all the glitters and everything. It was damn fun to catch up again and talk about all the nonsense of the past. It was like secondary was yesterday and we were time-ported back into time. So many laughs, so little worries in life, when everyday was just going school, going to LAN shops, going to arcades and playing computer games.

Haha, in the past I was really damn slack until my parents were quite worried that I might not even make it into JC. *phew lucky I did scrap through.

So we ordered..

1. Seafood Lasagna

The Dish: Layers of juicy prawns, squid and mussels and tangy tomato sauce topped with a thick crust of melted cheese.

The truth is, I love lasagna cause it rocks!

2. Baked Chix And Zucchini Rice

This was rather bland and tasteless I must say. Least favourite dish.

3. Coffee Club Burger aka Beef Burger

We divided the burger into 4 parts and yanked it down straight. While we were eating, we were talking about how the beef patty are made. From our very insightful discussion we have decided that it was made from everything other than those used for steak which is placed into a grinder and blended into a nice looking burger patty which we are enjoying everyday. Disgusting yet very true. I saw it on Ch12 "Dirty Jobs" by Mike Rowe once. THEY DONT WASTE ANY PART OF THE CATTLE.

And finally..

The star of the day...

Muddy Mud Pie

Sihui has been complaining since the last outing to the same outlet that we never ate this dessert. OKAY NOW YOU HAVE IT. ;p

It certainly looks like one side wall of the Grand Canyon. It really very tall i tell you this monster ice cream cake. Divided into 2 layers(choc and coffee) with a nice hard dark choc crust at the bottom like those you would find similar in an a-la-american cheesecake.

Raymond and Mun Loong were like addicted to the oreo crust they sprinkled on the plate itself. It very addictive I tell you this dessert. Better order one when you are there.

Time for the bill.

Overall: I thought the service was quite good although the waitress that was taking our order was quite confused and I had to repeat what we wanted for like 4 times cause she kept double-checking but no offence. I know you don't want to screw up and make the chef do a double job.

And to our surprise we got a discount for the dessert cause we order at least 2 main course and there was a discount for the Muddy Mud Pie. AWESOME. Mun Loong was like damn sian cause he forgot to bring his airport staff pass cause there would be a 15% discount off the final amount.

Rating:7/10

Good food and a damn good ambience to relax, but maybe it is the timing haha, 12am man.

I'm still thinking whether I should go M'sia to visit Ren Sun and enjoy myself over there before I fly off next wednesday cause by the time I'm back he's already back in America to continue his studies. Maybe I should, I dont even know when I will see him again after this time.

Alright, time to have lunch! 3pm work again

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Slowly but Surely

2008-06-12T01:30:00.003+08:00

Back from another 3-11 shift.

Watching Portugal v Czech online on sopcast. Very good quality man haha.

Wow, time does fly. Its like 6 more days to LA but it seems there something in me that does not feel excited? Ha. Strange la. Amassed about close to 900 bucks from work (: *winks. My fossil wallet, oakley sunglasses are calling me haha. I'm just looking forward to buy cheap stuffs there that cost like crazy in Singapore.

Okay I think I better get back to the match.

6 more days!

I have to go search for a money bag tomorrow man.

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Sam's BBQ Gathering

2008-06-09T12:59:00.017+08:00

Sam e man for organizing this BBQ gathering. It was so much fun! Sam organized this BBQ gathering because everyone is going overseas soon so it some sort of a have-fun-enjoy yourself-BBQ party.

Sam's father is really a very cool guy(in black below).

Really very friendly haha.

Tiff on the chopping block LOL

The Quartet of advance party. Sam is the missing guy haha.

Starting the Fire.

Packing the stingray with the sambal belacan

"Satay Club" standard charcoal piling haha. Daniel and Tiff was also helping out in setting up the 2nd fire pit.

May the chickens be with you. *winks

Having an Absolut Citrus + Sprite. Uncle brought the Absolut Citrus from home down for us. Uber cool. Haha, at least we drank like 3/8 of the bottle cause not alot of us drank. Jasmine was a good drinker, quite a few cups but her face doesnt even have a tinge of redness. The guy beside me is Sam's friend, Zhong Han. Great guitarist!

Wondering why everyone are busy licking their spoons? Ching Wen aka EUNICE ( I only knew today haha) bought horlicks and chocolate and hersheys from a place called "Ice Cream Chefs". Damn damn good shit. I think you guys have to check out their ice creams. Really damn good. I was like hooked on the horlicks but everyone disliked it. So I had the whole carton to myself HAHA.

Debre bought a damn nice cake for the belated bday boy Daniel and the coming soon Erina's bday. I was in charge of protecting the candles from extinguishing themselves and holding the knife.

Group photo suggested by uncle. Ching Wen is missing from the picture because she left early.

Before leaving Sam e man 's house.

Another group photo is sam e man's living room. His father said "Must give him to QC the picture after every picture" LOL damn amusing.

Yeah, thats about all the pictures I have of the BBQ. Good Ol times of having fun with friends and having a great time during the holidays. Really enjoyed the BBQ haha. So shiok. Uncle said "We must have this again soon" haha. Sam's parents helped alot for this BBQ while most of the time we slacked around. Even the first fire pit was started by uncle first then we took over and completed the fire. Damn ON la uncle haha. Sam said his father was talking alot to me -_-! Thanks dude.

Alright. Signing out here for today.

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Catching up with time*

2008-06-07T01:53:00.002+08:00

Had 2 days of rest from work in the hotel.

Thursday I met up with Tiffany at MS to have dinner and watch Indy at GV Marina. Thanks lor, haha said 3pm in the end arrived at 4pm. I was so bored that I went to sit at the Xin Wang HK Cafe and order a cup of yuan yang to cool myself cause the weather was quite hot.

She bought me a nice Nike white shirt ( haha my fav colour, thanks!)

Since the movie was at 710pm we went to Lerk Thai for early dinner and ordered quite alot of stuff to eat. Haha, catching up was so fun having to understand what she went thru in Arizona for the last 3 months and side tracked to some other stuff which are sensitive ha! Well Tiff I can just tell you, follow your heart I guess.

'Love' sometimes is just peculiar, you can be happy with someone and the next day she asks for a break up. I guess this is just the learning process and we have to move on no matter what. Just like whats happening to Qian Hui and Mun Loong. Guys, be sad no more! Being single ain't that bad sometimes. Breaking up is always hard but what to do?

Talking about Qian Hui, Tiff and I was walking walking around looking for the directory board when we saw her haha. I just pretended and walked pass in front of her path. Bang me la. Thanks. Almost lost my balance and lao kui haha. It was good to see her after our last paper, my LAM 1201 malay module buddy. Chatted for awhile then we decided to go have a drink after our Indy show at about 9pm.

Suddenly Samuel called Tiffany and he appeared in MS also haha. So we discussed about the coming Sunday bbq at his hume ave condo and what to bring to help out with the preparation. He left and we went on to watch our movie.

After the movie ended which was rather in a bizarre way (no spoilers are going to be revealed) haha, Tiff and I went to look for Qian Hui at the MS starbucks and we took a train to Raffles Place and went to the first bar we saw. CLOSED lor at like 10pm. Seriously. So we went across the road and decided to pop into the first bar we see and there it was "ESKI BAR"

The entrance macam like a damn meat chiller in the hotel kitchen. People can still enjoy their drink whilst shivering in the midst of it. We however, went into the inner part of the bar sat down and enjoy the music and chit chat about alot of stuff the 3 of us.

Ordered Mai Tai for myself(Rum, pineapple juice, lime juice, vodka), White Russian for Qian Hui(Kahlua, vodka and a dash of milk) and Tiffany's fav drink Bailey Smoothie ( dont really know whats the components but tasted like blended vanilla ice cream milkshake) haha. Not CHEAP lor. 52 bucks okay. I treated them haha. Now im a pauper! :(

I think we drank each others drinks so we were abit high cause the mixing of the alcoholic contents creates a bad concoction haha! We had a great time there though it was like 10-1130pm because we had to catch the last MRTs back home. Our faces were palely reddish when we boarded the train lol.

Oh yah, I also saw Xiu Jun aka Scamp SP when I was in "The Planet Traveller" shop buying a Nylon Waist Wallet for my trip to LA. Poor her, she applied with her friends to work at John Little but she was the only one who got posted to MS outlet. No wonder she always complain she is the suay one lol. Cheer up XJ !

Not bad eh, met so many friends in a day without any arrangements

I guess I'm going to hit the sack. 11am work tomorrow till 11pm? Well have to tahan I guess to earn the money for my trip.

11 more days to departure!

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*cough/ work rantings

2008-05-25T01:14:00.003+08:00

Oof, another 3-12mn shift. My legs are aching but I'm still thinking whether I should continue to use the hotel gym tomorrow LOL.

Lots of people ask me like:

"Eh, why you don't go outside and work some other job? You surely can find something that pay better than this crap job in the hotel"

"You can earn more money dont want AH! you crazy one lor!"

"You work like from sunrise to sundown, you no need to sleep huh!"

Haha, come on.

Even some guests ask me like where I study and when I told them I was studying in NUS, they were most puzzled. Probably thinking why is this guy of 'supposedly high calibre of IQ' (cause of NUS) doing in the hospitality business?

Well, probably I think I don't really like to sit down on a desk and just wait for money to drop. Being in this service line during the holidays is actually a new learning experience. You see the light in most stuffs.

How people mechanics work.
Why do people backstab each other. The wolf in a sheep's clothing type of people
People and relationships. How different department work in tandem or most of the time quarrelling non-stop
Work politics is probably the most common thing in the hotel business.
Exposure to the real world everyday when I go to work.

Ah crap, the summer exchange to LA is coming up soon and I'm still like not really reading the travel guides I borrowed from the library. OH, yeah I realised I haven't borrow for 5 YEARS and had to renew the membership cause the machine wouldn't let me borrow the book initially. The librarian who was helping me was shocked that I haven't borrowed for the last 5 years. LOL. *too busy with whatever that I was busy with la -_-'

18 June, 345pm flight. Mark that date for those of you who watch this blogspace. probably none. haha

Alright I'm going to hit the sack soon.

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i'm backk

2008-05-21T20:07:00.004+08:00

Oh yeah, i'm back.

After almost a year haha.

Crazy as it seems, I dont know why i havent update this blog. Maybe its the fun and joy I had in the last year that almost seems to fill my day and not forgetting school work.

Relationships are quite fragile. I admire people who can go on for like more than 4 or 5 years in a relationship. How to keep that fire igniting? You do need both sides to be the catalyst right? You need commitment, sacrifices at times (even when you dont feel like doing it) to be there for the other half.

Time is always an issue for me. School work is always so suffocating during the 3 mth semester. Maybe it is this that led to the downfall.

Everyday after school is just sapping. But I still pick myself up to spare time, do stuff and try my best to make her happy. I guess it wasn't really enough. Maybe now I live to regret the fact i'm prolly paying with this. At least this is what I think. But sometimes I think I did enough but everyone's point of satisfaction is different.

Communication is important for a couple. One sided communication is probably the worst thing that could ever happen with the other just listening and nodding.

*oof and it really hurts slowly but have no one to tell to.

What a shocking NEGATIVE first post after a year :X but probably I could only tell my blog about this.

Yeah, crappyRenSun is back and staying over for one night only at my house to watch the championsleague final of manutd (me: i'm a fan) v chelsea (he is a fan of). Hope things dont get out of control ha.

Prediction: ManUtd 1 - 0 Chelsea (after extra time)

We must attack Blues - Rooney

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Old Clothes Collection for SCAMP

2007-05-28T00:02:00.000+08:00

GARANG GUNI!!! WU PO ZHUA, WU SA KOR..

Yes, today I was a garang guni with 12 other seniors at Hougang Area.
The total duration = 12hrs

Not bad huh, considering Gary and I was the first there at 9am sharp only to walk to and fro to Hougang Mall for 10 times cause we could not find where our organizer was.
Breakfast was LJS's buttertoast with milo and the initial 4 of us were off to collection.
PS: from 9am to 1pm there was only 4 ppl collecting the newspapers, freaky shiong but great fun.

It was quite an interesting experience cause we get to see alot of different ppl, different dogs ( xinyi is scared of everything that moves!) hahaha, singing ah mas, wierd graffiti by loan sharks, wierd worshipping of deities(Xinyi and I saw this house of chinese ppl worshipping some child god with 5 milk bottles and 5 yakult bottles with straw stuck thru the top as offerings, quite wierd).

At the end of the day, it was great to see the 2 huge truckloads of newspapers and electrical ja pa langs all loaded and full to the brim. Many thanks to the uncles who bought us unlimited 100plus, H2O, everyone drank so much till we were running to the toilet at Hougang Mall at the end of the day.

Morale of the story: Hougang is Hell for today hahaha joking. Fun but tiring.

Xinyi, Gary and I were the only SCAMP seniors attending the FOPAC OCC event today, the rest were all committee members of the Science Club aka tua taus. Got to know alot of new seniors( Shi Jun, John, Hui Ling, Alvin(the guy who threw the ring at me during SOW last yr, but he is a great guy as I found out today, crappy and funny) etc etc..)

Oh oh, after the event we had Cartel @ Hougang Mall and it was BaoYun's birthday haha. Freaking funny, everyone was making fun of her bf cause he brought a slice of American Cheesecake with a candle for her birthday and I was like -_-

I was thinking..

"One piece only? omg, siao or what! like so miser like that!"

Suddenly..... A huge Blueberry cake came into the scene. Both Xinyi and I were caught aback by that.

Me and Xinyi were like.. "Wah, they really know how to act sia. Pro lor. -_-"

Photos for Memory Sake. Enjoy.

Clearing finish block 501
Before the OCC debriefing. Look! Xinyi is a pufferfish, dunno what she doing sia!!

Okay, the best picture of the day hahaha by me (:

The Men of Steel since 9am. Gary blocking my big biceps -_-. Thanks Gary.

This picture, I dunno why the both of us are looking like retards.

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Post Exam Fever

2007-05-02T00:05:00.000+08:00

Haha, its the POST EXAM FEVER!!!!! I finally had an afternoon nap for the first time in 3 months and it felt so great.

Went for a usual run to build up my weak body, 2 weeks of examination stress in the brain needs to be extinguished once and for all. Playing computer games, chatting, enjoying great music is just exhillarating (:

Talking about music...

Chris Daughtry!

If you did remember him? I didnt haha I confessed. I heard his song, 'Home' on the radio and I was hooked to it. Real groovy song. "Brings-you-up-when-you're-down" kind of song.

He was the American Idol 5 eliminated contestants. Its really strange, it seems that Taylor Hicks (winner of A I 5) sold less than him? haha, its just strange if you know what i mean. That happened to Rubens Studdard and Clay Aiken. Clay Aiken being the runner-up sold more album that Rubens in the end after the competition.

Moral of the Story: It doesnt mean you have to be a winner to outshine others.

Chris Daughtry is a good example. Did I mention, he sings like Bon Jovi? So Bon Jovi fans, grab hold of his album and listen to it !

Talking about my body, I have to get in shape for Saturday's volleyball session at sentosa. 2 weeks of exams = 2 weeks of no exercising. Spent also the entire exercising my brain instead trying to figure out equation, reactions mechanism, shuttle mechanism other than eating and sleeping its been one way traffic of studying non-stop breathless. Good for those graduating this semester! NO MORE EXAMS for you guys.

From freshman, we turned into seniors as we enter our second year. Time flies, to think that it was only last august we came in and now, we are going to become seniors/ogl for the next orientation camp.

Shit, talking about orientation camps, haha I joined 2 orientation camps, SCAMP [Fun and games] and Science Orientation Camp[More academic but nevertheless still fun]. To those coming to NUS Science enrolling in this coming August, go sign up for the camps. This is to prevent you from having very little friends in school and get to more people. Even if you are an introvert, COME. I'm serious, you need more social networking to get your way around in University. I'm not sure on the dates yet though haha. SOON I guess.

If i havent got so caught up with work that I forgot to sign up for SCAMP last august I would have gone for both camps last year haha. Just too bad.

Tommorrow everyone's gg to meet up at Orchard Sakura for dinner. After eating a buffet, I have to workout 2 times more to get back into shape again ARGH haha. x_x

Thursday going back to the hotel to work. 3 months of holidays to kill ! Some of my friends chose to go for the summer exchange programme, cost a whopping 7k sing dollars just for experience. Aw well, its their choice, I chose not to cause I didnt feel it would do me any good (tts my opinion) (: For others, should be either finding things to kill time or working or tuitioning. Thats how we suppose to spend our holidays before a new academic year and a new semester starts yet again.

Liverpool v Chelsea is on the tele. Catch it, cause I will catch that mammoth match (:

Okay more updates soon since I'm so free. I think tomorrow I will have thai food with alicia haha (:

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Insecure

2007-04-29T13:27:00.001+08:00

Tomorrow is the last 2 papers of this semester yet I feel so unsecure about Biochemistry. Lucky for me and the rest, we have a 6 hr break in between the first and second paper so I could finish reading my notes. Quite scary la, cause it is an open book test.

Dont gloat when you see open book!

"Aiya open book whattttttt... sure pass one la"

"Wah! Open Book? shit la you sure score A"

"Open Book? might as well dont be examined in that module"

When you guys go to tertiary level, the concept becomes the crux in your studies.

No more memorising. It wont help you. In fact, if you memorise, you are bound to fail. Serious, no shit.

Haha aiyah, I should just continue to study and just take the test tomorrow.

I'm so looking forward to play Command and Conquer 3 after tomorrow's final papers! I have been resisting to install the program so that I wont lay my hands on the game yet. heh.

CnC is one of the games i loved since young coupled with Championship Manager and Football Manager and yes, DOTA hahahaha. I can imagine myself play Dota and FM network with my friends till tuesday morning and relish the freedom while some of you still suffer cause YOUR PAPERS havent ended!! hahahaha. Okay i shall not be so bad anymore (:

3 months of holiday............ ta da da

But then again, I'm going to lose quite alot of friends when the next sem starts as the Yr 3 students who are nt gg on to yr4 would be graduating. Aw. Sien. Ppl like ye xiang, winnie, irene etc etc. All the best to them in their future lives and hope we can cross path again! (:

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April is the Cruellest Month

2007-04-26T22:13:00.000+08:00

Haha tomorrow is the Nation Building paper! Finally..

One more weekend and its over! and my favourite beach volleyball on May Day with all the babes at sentosa. All those who havent confirm with zf go confirm with him already!

Hopefully this time Weiren dont do his 'jacky chan' stuns then we kena stun again haha.

Come on clock, tick faster to Monday!

All the best to everyone taking the Singapore Studies Paper tomorrow! I couldnt really care less if not I would be studying instead! (:

Go Beach Volleyball!

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birthdays, joy, laughter

2007-03-19T20:07:00.000+08:00

Intempo 2007 was quite interesting.

First time I've watched NUS symphony in action. Quite good. Once in a while, some clarinets, drums, alto sax, xylophone is quite interesting.

Hahaha, too bad no flash photography so I have no pictures.

Went to Robyn's house for her 20th birthday after the concert in school. Xinyi la, ask her to come along then she don't want. She was very sweet ! Seriously, she bought a box of Ferrero Roche for khee nguen to support him. Da hao ren yi ge. (:

A rare picture of billy sitting still.
The sumptuous home made buffet. Notice the word HOME made. Everything was home made. Even down to the chilli sauce. Impressive?

Did I mentioned the cake too. Home made orange cake. Everyone was looking bloated all around.

She demostrated what was called 'brute' strength in ripping off the wrapping.

Pearly So ya Bean @ engine. Very nice drink although I'm not a bubble tea fan. Unique concoction. All thanks to Xin yi again lol. Introduce Irene and I this unique drink. If you have the chance, try this.

A marvelous gimmick! hahaha. The newest I SCREAM in town. Seriously.

Till i blog again ..

I hope i havent lost my bloggin mojo

2007-03-15T23:37:00.000+08:00

Ahhh. haha I should kill myself.
How long since I last updated. HAHA okay.

I think I almost forgot my blog till yexiang reminded me I never updated my blog at all.

Actually its just school everyday nothing much. I had a good time yesterday gg out after lsm tutorial hahaha to buy robyn's present for her birthday this sunday with xinyi and shaobin.

We were super hungry after the tutorial so we went to vivocity to eat. I suggest CARL's JR lol. Wow it was really nice, seriously, the burgers are just orgasmic. I was almost full to the brim first time by eating fast food.

PS: I didnt know that Carl's JR drinks were refillable FOC. wtf. I'm so sua ku. ):

The Crispy Chicken and Baked Bacon Burger. The combination is great. Loads of carbohydrates with simple lipids (cholesterols) and a tinge of fibre(lettuce). Eat this in moderation hahaha, that is if you want to live longer. Too bad I didnt take a picture of the fries, it was so up sized that I could finish it. I still cant believe that I couldnt finish an upsized meal, for the 1st time in my life.

Ah ha, next stop, indulgence
This is the 3rd time I'm having merlionster at this vivocity ben&jerry outlet. The first time was with Alicia when I first stepped foot into vivocity when they just opened. I fufilled my promise to the 2 girls haha.

Robyn's 20th birthday gift from chomel. Since she was a christian and this chain looked really nice so I bought it for her. Hope she likes it la (:

Till i blog again ..

valentine & friendship day

2007-02-14T21:22:00.000+08:00

The day started off with an 8am lecture in school. If you forgot, today IS valentine's day. Haha let me tell you what happened during lecture this morning.

1. A delivery uncle came into LT 27 with a bouquet of flowers. At first, I was like 'wow someone bought flowers for the lecturer?' Then Dr Seow suddenly said " Miss Jamie, please come down and get your flowers please" everyone in the LT was like eagerly waiting to see who the hell is this Miss Jamie. Its not every day that someone will send you flowers right to your school, to your lecture theatre and still needing the professor to announce your name out to the whole chemistry cohort right? After deliberating for like 5 mins, this Miss Jamie finally went out to collect her flowers in front of the lecturer. So kuku malu lar! haha. Imagine the whole cohort looking at you collecting your flowers in front of the lecturer, some more signing the delivery receipt using the PROFESSOR's PEN! HAHA* this HAHA is learnt from liqing. Everytime spam me using this HAHA* (:

2. During the lecture break, this guy went out to buy I think 3 stalks of roses. By the time he came back, the lecture already started. When he entered the lecture hall holding the three stalks of roses, everyone was like 'Wooo!!! ahhh!! waaaaa!!! baaaa!!!', making all the wolf noises. Even the lecturer paused for a moment to see who he gave to. And you know what he did? Apparently, he wanted to give the roses to the 3 girls who were sitting adjacent to him. But the manner he gave the roses to the 3 girls as he was moving to his seat was like 'nah, for you' 'nah, for you' 'nah, for you'. Literally like 'bo chap' haha. Even the professor commented " Eh.. Give flowers also must give properly what.." haha. Lame

Yes, this is the 'xing fu' look when you have your bf sending flowers to you early in the morning of valentine's day. ShaoBin with her SUNflowers smiling so HAPPILY.
Gifts for friendship days from Li Yun, Tiffany and Xin Yi. So nice of them (:

After the History Test, Irene and I went to the engineering canteen to have dinner. Wasn't really hungy but I just ate to accompany her. Anyway she was offering me to drive her back again. Haha, so good lar! No need to take MRT back but instead drove back home. I think under her watchful eyes, my driving skills will improve. Like, she makes sure that I don't drive beyond the speed limit, keeping a distance from cars(which I usually would keep very close to) LOL. Dangerous huh, don't stick so close to the car in front.

The History Test today was quite testing. After the lab, my head was throbbing lar. I was literally having a bad headache but still had to go take. Anyway, after taking the test, I think I would S/U the subject as much as I don't want to use my 3 S/U options so soon ):

Anyway I found out that Melvin ASKED ROBYN out la while waiting outside LT 12 to take the History Test. Son of a gun Melvin HAHA, never told me that he asked Robyn out. But Robyn thought that he was joking and never gave him an answer. So funny haha. After the test, I questioned Robyn and she was BLUSHING ! And she said it was her blusher -_-~ haha. Hmm.. so you can interpret the situation yourself :P lol.

The Yong Siew Toh Music Conservatory. The lights were too bright. The night view is so nice! I think the last time I stayed so late in school was during orientation week. Irene was complaining that I was like a tourist. Keep taking photographs of everything.

The beautiful University Cultural Hall. Really nice place where all the concerts, and whatever are held here.

Till i blog again ..

mazda 3

2007-02-12T20:11:00.000+08:00

Driving home from school today in the pouring rain and under heavy traffic was quite an experience. Driving Irene's uber cool mazda 3 cyan, its quite a comfortable car haha. SO SHIOK to drive la. I think words cannot describe that feeling.

Mazda 3 looks like this. If you didnt know. :)

Ps: you must understand what it is to like to have a license but no car to drive. SO DONT SMUG, LAUGH or GIGGLE if you are reading this shit now haha.

Now I know that kent ridge area has FREE parking. Free huh. Not joking. But you need take Bus C to reach there.. :)

Irene's house.
The poolside. So tempting right to go for a swim :X

Till i blog again ..

oakley

2007-02-11T21:18:00.000+08:00

Haha love it or hate it.. its oakleys! lol. I have joined ji xian in wearing oakleys :) go ji xian! hahaha

Short update: 14 Feb Singapore History Test. Suck it

Argh tomorrow is another day to 6pm haha. How to survive for another 7 weeks. How I wish this semester would pass faster.

Till i blog again ..

AOGL terrence's birthday

2007-02-08T20:37:00.000+08:00

Yes, today is Terrence's 23rd birthday and I took only 2 big candles and 2 small candles when I bought him his cake. Haha. I think i confused his birthday with mine lol.

I also found out Suan Hui ( one in white shirt with a red motif on his CHEST) was secondary school friends with Terrence. o.O Well, anyway he was really nice to buy a $45 bucks oreo cheesecake from starbucks for terrence.

It was quite screwed up because initially Suan Hui told the guys at starbucks that he wanted to imprint "Happy 23rd Terrence" but nothing was on the cake. The guys are starbucks didn't really look remorseful at all. Laughing and smiling like it was so amusing at us. Well, quite poor service if you ask me.

The fact that we are paying $45 bucks, we should be given the standard that was worth $45 bucks. The made up for that by giving us enough starbucks serviettes to wipe our mouths for a month and a lot of plastic forks. haha.

Preparing to sing the birthday song at the pink tables! All his year 2 friends (:

$45 starbucks oreo cheese cake that everyone ate.My nice polar chocolate cake that everyone didn't eat except liqing.
Guess it was too cheap.
LIQING THANKS haha (:

Till i blog again ..

everyone loves singapore studies

2007-02-07T21:06:00.000+08:00

I can't believe that Dr Sai set the singapore studies essay test on valentine's day from 6pm-8pm at lt 11. Haha its so twisted and I love it haha. Suffering on a day supposed to be filled with love in the air. Aw man.Guess I better start doing something about it....

(:This is what happens when you're bored during a lecture break
Get drawn like a 'Fa Cai Mao/Garfield'

This reminds of something. I haven't bought my new year clothes yet.

Procrastinate Procrastinate Procrastinate and I still ought to buy. haha shit lor.

This 'sky map' reminds us how beautiful the sky.
And it reminds me that Melvin and I need to start working on our universe project. ):

CHEER UP MAN HAHAHA (:

Till i blog again ..

dog hash

2007-02-04T10:53:00.000+08:00

Yesterday evening, I went for a dog hash at upper bukit timah area. You must be thinking what is a dog hash? Basically, it an activity whereby the owner and his/her dog(s) can participate together, sort of a bonding activity by running through a jungle trail for 1 1/2 hrs. Fun yet tiring. Haha sort of a biathalon training with your dog.

Fancy bashing through trees? Climbing undulating grounds? Crossing through knee deep waters? Getting mud all over?

Sihui didnt told me that it was going to be a 'a-la survivor' and i went there unprepared. Thanks Sihui.

For more infomation you can head to www.doghash.com for more details. This event happens every first saturday of the month and different places each time.

The yellow submarine guy haha.

This is the start point for the event. Everyone getting prepared

On the trail with ashley, sihui's dog.
Reaching the mid point of the trail and taking a break.

Sihui in black and pauline in stripes

Rest Rest Rest. Pant Pant Pant.Getting ready for the next leg of the trail.

Ashley, the hardest dog to restrain. She could drag me if she ran lol
The rest of the pack running towards the mid way point.

Ahh, completion of the trail after 1 1/2 hrs back at the start point.

Moo Moo couldnt take it anymore and decided to call a time out.

So tired that we had to feed her literally with water.

Gathering back at the start point with beers and 100 plus and some food for

refreshments.Catching up with each other. The hash cult.

My shoes all dirty and soaking wet from

the water crossing which was knee deep

Getting late, so we decided to go already.

On the way home.. on the honda

Interesting? haha.

Till I blog again....

the interview

2007-01-24T22:05:00.000+08:00

Today, those had signed up for the Freshman Orientation Project people had our interviews at the Science Club this morning. I was the LAST.

Strange lor. I don't know who went to help me circle that I wanted to be OGL. The intervieweer, some girl from venus asked me why I circled to be OGL, my mouth almost dropped to the ground. :X

Strange enough I think today was the day I got asked 'why' almost upteen times. Everything I answered during the interview was why? why? why? why huh? why like that? I never knew to become a senior in the project was to be interrogated like a criminial in CSI. x_x haha.

The interviewer was one that I have never seen before in my life at Science. Shaobin said I was talking to her like I knew her for a long time -_-" *roll

Welcome to NUS Science Club The Interrogating Room

While waiting for my turn..
Shaobin acting cute haha.

This is how to dig a fries that sank into the curry sauce.

Use another longer fries to fish it out. haha.

The famed Speaker's Corner outside Clarke Quay MRT.

I was speaking there today. There was only one listener haha.

Joking lar obviously -_-"

Scared that people do not know that it is copyrighted.

Quite unique right.

Okay, Mummy know already. No need to tell Mummy again.
You are so Ma Fan.

Look at Punggol's MRT Map.

There is nothing in Punggol haha!!

Punggol's Bus Interchange only has this much buses inside the interchange :)

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Initial D

2007-01-23T20:17:00.000+08:00

Yess.. today the da shan zhu didn't have school and I still had to go to school as usual right. Can sleep untilllllllll 9 somemore.. haha. GRRR

Today? as usual, school, tutorial and mundane.

Spent 3 hrs in the library while waiting of the physical chemistry lecture at 4pm. And I didn't bring the notes to lecture. How nice right.

While at the library...

Planetary Maganizes haha.

This is known as a sky map. It will accurately tell you the position of the stars
in the sky. Can be daily, can be monthly. :) how cool.

Studying intentively. Guess what I was doing?

After lecture, coming out of LT 27, these beautiful lava lamps caught my eye.
I loved these lamps but never owned them before x_x
Beautiful right..

Andrew offering us a ride to Buona Vista MRT in this car.

How nice right.Jasmine Green Tea and Melvin in a candid shot by me.
Nothing to do in the car. We were caught in a bad traffic jam
on the way to the MRT.

4 people squeezing like hell. I was almost squashed to death due to certain
unidentified big butts.

Andrew driving AE86.

Jay Chou driving AE86?

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delectable trash food.

2007-01-22T22:36:00.000+08:00

Woo my favourite SEAWEED haha. Love this one.

Ahh. Hahaha my favourite chocos. Rasin chocolates.

Looking at the lecture for Singapore Studies, I finally made up my decision to S/U it for sure.

I'm starting to think that 'understanding the universe' rocks. Its so interesting. If ever lecture was this interesting.

LSM 1401 is really killing me. I need to start working real hard for this biology module lar. :X

I found out today that tiffany buys 3 for $20 bucks tops. Haha, I guessed correctly LOL. Wear different coloured tops but outside cover with the same jacket to look different everyday hahahaha. Sorry, I'm evil lar haha :)

I felt so gutted yesteday at 145am as I saw Man Utd lost to Arsenal, thanks to Mr Mercurial Henry's last minute winner. From 1-0 to 1-1 to 1-2 in the end. I threw the control on the tv and went to bed haha. ARGH. Everytime Man Utd is presented the chance to go clear at the top, they always blow it. Remember the time with West Ham..

Jasmine, you're right. Everytime Chelsea loses, Man Utd loses as well. haha.

Haha, Alicia! Friday swimming/tanning session HOR.

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Tampines Park

2007-01-21T23:08:00.000+08:00

Must be wondering what on earth? Go for runs still bring handphone for what!? Haha, no la, I suddenly remembered I lent my ipodmini to alicia the pigg. So I have no music for my run ):

When I go for runs, I need my music.

So I took used my handphone as a substitute haha.

So I took the chance to take some pictures of the place I go for my runs ^_^

Tampines Park

Fitness Station

Ahh. The pull-up bar. The place to turn your arms to bronze LOL.

Oh oh. Introducing the cat that I always hang out with when I sit down at the fitness station after my run. She's my faithful companion. Cute right. :) I call her 'mimi' haha. She always comes and sit with me on the bench when I sit down at the fitness station every weekend. So faithful can. haha

Adorable isn't she.

That's about it. I'm quite tired from the run.

20 more mins.

Lights, Camera and Action at the Emirates :)

All the best Man Utd.

Lets whoop some gunners a***

Alicia ! , all the best for you test tomorrow (:

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eek historical sunday

2007-01-21T15:55:00.000+08:00

Argh haha, nation building module is SUCKY.

Looking at the tutorial question and I'm getting fits haha
Thats the readings to answer the tutorial or is it haha

Tonight at 1155pm on ESPN sports

Arsenal have doubts over Robin van Persie who has an ankle problem, while midfielder Gilberto Silva is suspended.

Emmanuel Adebayor and Mathieu Flamini are in line to deputise and Emmanuel Eboue is pressing hard for a recall. Johan Djourou has a hamstring strain.

Manchester United have no fresh injury worries for the trip south and defender Wes Brown is back from a virus.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is pushing for a start but Wayne Rooney and Henrik Larsson look set to lead the line.

Arsenal (from): Lehmann, Eboue, Toure, Senderos, Clichy, Hleb, Fabregas, Flamini, Rosicky, Henry, Van Persie, Almunia, Adebayor, Baptista, Diaby, Hoyte, Aliadiere.

Manchester United (from): Van der Sar, Kuszczak, Neville, Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra, Ronaldo, Scholes, Carrick, Giggs, Rooney, Larsson, Saha, Solskjaer, Park, Brown, Heinze, O'Shea, Fletcher.

Cristiano RONALDO is United's joint top scorer with 13 goals. They were all in the Premiership - making him the club's leading marksman in the League. He trails Chelsea's Didier Drogba by one in the race for the Barclays Golden Boot.

If he plays, Louis SAHA will be making his 150th career Premiership appearance (Newcastle, Fulham and Manchester United).

If he plays, Mikael SILVESTRE will be making his 350th appearance in Manchester United colours.

Excerpts from BBC Sports

Larsson and Rooney to score?

Or the Mercurial Henry?

Seriously, I hope manutd dont drop points tonight. Anything but a lose would be good. In fact, a draw would satisfy me.

Emirates? Arsenal free-flowing samba football?

manutd irrepressible away form?

A draw might actually be good for both teams.

Nonetheless I hope they can open up a 9 pt gap at the top.

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supper at simpang bedok

2007-01-21T01:17:00.000+08:00

A special thanks to all Liverpool supporters,

On behalf of all Manchester Utd Fans, Thank You.
On behalf of myself, Thank You.
On behalf of all Chelsea haters, Thank You.

:)

After such a long time since the cycling buddies met up..

Raymond, Ah Boon and I decided to go for supper at simpang bedok after watching liverpool beat chelsea at Anfield.

My Hasa Comply 1.0 Bike ;)

The Iced Teh Limau which I ordered
is probably the worst I ever tasted :x haha
but I finished it nonetheless

Ah Boon looking at the menu and deciding what to eat.
They have like a million food there to choose from.

We saw this Porsche-look-alike car drove by a Caucasian.
All of us suspect that its a 100% makeover of some car caused it had no logo on it lol :D

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Finally, an update

2007-01-20T14:28:00.001+08:00

This is going to be a long entry.

I've been getting remarks like...

"Ivan!, your blog what happened sia?"
"Eh, you blog rotting or what?"
"You got blog, like don't have blog like that"

Haha yes yes, albeit all the rantings and complains I've received, I have finally repaired my blog and starting to move my fingers again.

Changing a blog skin is worst then changing you bed sheets. You have to spend alot of time to make sure that it is all nice and pretty. Every inch counts, if not your effort is wasted haha.

Start of the new school term YET again. Haha approching the 3rd week of school already. Means tutorials and lab sessions are here to stay again. Perhaps my biggest worry this semester would be the Singapore Studies module I took up.

History, never my forte. S/U !! (: Anyone wants to S/U with me? Haha, I'm so bad, enticing others to join me lol.

Ahh yes, I got myself a new laptop, the hp dv2121. Its almost the same as Alicia's one -_- which i found out. Nowadays, when you buy a laptop, you get lotsa of freebies which I found out last week. I got this in a lucky draw.

An All in One Printer + Phone + Fax + Crap functions

$100 dollar Black Angus Dining Voucher at Fullerton Hotel

Not bad right? Haha, just by buying a single laptop I got so many novelties LOL. The drawback was that I had to carry the printer to watch a movie cause I didn't know that I was going to win a printer. -_-" I was hoping that I dont win a toaster, if not, it would be so dumb la! Cause I saw this lady before me won it lol. I was telling Alicia, if I won that, I might donate it back to the hp peeps there haha.

VivoCity with all the chemistry people. Guess why I'm not in the picture ): lol

Shaobin and I, my favourite crazy girl haha
The Swedish Ship Götheborg

Miss Jasmine Green Tea sitting pretty while I was rubbing my eye -_-" haha

The impossible happened.
Liverpool Fan next to a Man Utd Fan
The uber-liverpool fan Mel-Ho, this picture looks so retro haha.

She looks like she's going to have me for breakfast instead of the hotcakes.

Alicia's amazing, astonishing and appalling "Hash brown doused in Maple Syrup"
She says its very nice. You guys should give it a go when you all have breakfast someday at Macdonald's. If you get diahrroea don't blame ME!

TCC's Oreo Mocha Frappe.
Someone's favourite.
What ever that has oreo in it (:

I took this a glutton's bay next to DXO at the Esplanade? Rings a bell?
Kaya Fondue!! Have you seen this before? Chocos Fondue yes, but KAYA? ^_^
Strange right

Haha, thats my arm on lica's neck. I love this picture :)

Hope you love my picturesque entry this time, all thanks to my lovable N73 camera :)

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welcome to my workplace

2006-12-27T01:16:00.000+08:00

Ahh this is what a room service beef burger looks like the changi v style :) Took this while i was sending it to the room.

Okay the top one is the malay ayam percik and 2 cod fish horfun changi village style.

Picture speaks a thousand words.

The Changi Village hotel experience.

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Woo Merry Yuletide

2006-12-25T12:32:00.000+08:00

With the power of N73 comes new power and new responsibilities :)

Alicia and me. She says her face is like that since young. So dao. Cant smile one x_x

Haha, the surprise birthday celebration for me at work yesterday night.
Thank you everyone. Everyone spent Christmas eve doing service to others.

And yes, the turkey in the oven roasting

Cousin Spencer and I watching soccer together.

My Mom dissecting the turkey

40 pieces of sushi. Sorry I ate one of the egg one before i took this picture haha. So there is a missing one. Can you see it ? :D

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241206 the lucky numbers for today

2006-12-24T11:03:00.000+08:00

Hey wadddddddddddddddddddddddddssssssssssssssss up! haha

If you dont know what day it is today you ought to be slaughtered, butchered, tormented and torn apart ten times over.

Psst: For those who conveniently forgotten, i will remember you!!

Ahh too busy to be blogging over the last few days. Anyway, I achieved what i needed to buy and more before the year ended. I'm the proud owner of a N73 bought with my own sweat money (: I will take a hell lot of pictures tonight at work with everyone haha. NOW I finally own a camera phone after 21 yrs on EARTH haha! And my dad gave me a hell lot of money in a cheque. Thanks dad (:

Talk about the other day, last wednesday, I went mambo night since I will be working on christmas and NYE, so I wont be going out at all cause I would be working to like 3-4am in the morning so I took the chance on my off day to go with zf and magan and met new friends like cassandra ( siao cha bor (: ), Hoyang (maniac dancer) and fabia (pon cha bor guy). The music that night was good! Better than the last time we had our bash there. No house trance which was ultimately heavenly. Lots of incidents happened there haha, I would not touch on that sensitive issue.

Christmas Eve Lunch Menu: Roast succulent turkey w/ cranberry sauce, honey baked ham, 40 pcs of sushi from idk where(should be edo sushi), and a hell lot more..

You guys have a great Christmas yeah.

Celebrate with your loved ones and may your wishes this Christmas come true.

Working at 6pm argh haha (:

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Raymond's 21st Birthday

2006-12-20T01:05:00.000+08:00

All the moments captured on photo.

And I met this girl. (:

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Ew.

2006-12-19T00:36:00.000+08:00

Time flies crazy.. Its almost 2 more weeks before school reopens yet again.

Hell. Studying intuitively. Facing friends that are incredibly smart. More lab reports.

Argh. I cant say anything more than ARGHHH. :)

Wow these days the rain has been quite bad. Raining non-stop. Lucky for me, i have a sheltered walkway from my bus stop all the way to my block. And so happens, the walkway ends at my void deck. Lucky me :) if not i would have to be drenched badly after work these days.

Again, this has been the umpteen time my manager has been asking me to work on Christmas eve and Christmas and NYE 31th Dec 2006. Hmm, I had been thinking about it already and I think I would wanna work since I don't really celebrate Christmas other than having the normal Christmas lunch with roast turkey, honey baked ham, cranberry sauce, and this year SUSHI included in the package we are ordering from NTUC. Heard my dad said, 40 pcs for $39 bucks. Incredibly expensive like shit. HAHA. I'm not paying, so I'm not complaining. I'll just eat as usual. Think I'll work from 3pm - 2am or 3am on Christmas eve i heard. Aw well. Whatever. Haha the pay is $7.50 /hr :) from what i heard.

IVAN WILL WORK.

Lure of money is so evil. All thanks to the expensive textbooks at NUS. Thank you NUS for importing textbooks that cost a bomb.

Today I went home with this china guy that works for banquet studying in temasek poly doing electronic engineering or electrical. All sounds the same to me. Circuits, DC etc. Yeah, you get the picture. He told me how poor his family was and the ugly side of some china students that come over to Singapore to study.

Lk not wanting to work to support their own expenses, depending solely on their parent's money. Skipping lectures. Lotsa stuff. Hmm. He told me not to feel sympathetic for them cause some of them dont deserve sympathy. Well. (:

And and he is like the 32493284932849324 china friend I met in the hotel that said my spoken Chinese was incredibly GOOD. Cause I could understand when they speak in their slang/slur or whatever. YOU GET WHAT I MEAN :)

Another 14 hrs and its back to work again.

Tick Tick Tick...

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This Wednesday

2006-12-16T22:49:00.000+08:00

20th December 2006 Coming Wednesday

Go Mambo Night? Those who see this post wanna come? Tell me okay? :)

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Unofficial Results

2006-12-16T01:09:00.000+08:00

Module Code	Module Title	Grade
CM1101	Principles of Modern Chemistry	B+
CM1111	Basic Inorganic Chemistry	A-
ES1301	English For Academic Purposes (Science)	A
GEK1001	Place, Environment and Society	B
GEK1505	Living with Mathematics	B
MA1421	Basic Applied Mathematics for Sciences	B+

CAP = 3.90

Okay, there's a funny link that enables us to check the results before its released on the 26th of December. Whether its true anot, I was pleasantly surprised by my inorganic chemistry module. I never expected my worst considered subject to be scoring A- and my better subjects like mathematics not getting an A. Haha, ironic yet true.

3.9 ain't a bad score for the first semester. At least its above average.

So work harder for the next semester Ivan.

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Still Surviving

2006-12-15T00:21:00.000+08:00

Lucky, I'm still surviving being home alone for the 3rd day running.

Cooked myself Spaghetti. How fufilling.

It seems strange, there is a bone on my right foot that is very painful when i take a step each time. Idk what seems to be the problem but aw well I still went for a run. It better get well soon or I might have trouble walking properly then I can't work omg. :)

Tomorrow is Raymond's bday celebration and I haven't got him a gift. I think I need to go shop alone tml early afternoon. Argh. :(

I don't get much joy nowadays when I work. I guess its just not the same like last time with the changing of people and all. Everyday is like working with different people. Haha, aiya suck it up. Its work.

CVH's new promotional scheme. If you can't see the wordings its alright.

24th December the Buffet pricing is $48 for lunch :) and a whopping $68 for dinner :)
25th December the Buffet pricing is $48 for lunch and dinner.
26th December its $32.
This above pricing is not yet subjected to GST, so with GST, prepare to pay more.

So if you guys are thinking of somewhere to eat for lunch and dinner during the festive period here's an idea. Provided you have your cash ready :)

I'm staring into space as I'm tying hahaha. Freaking bored. Serene as hell at home.
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Home Alone

2006-12-12T11:04:00.000+08:00

For the next 5 days im home alone!!! Everyone is going to Korea.

I have to wake up to 5 days without breakfast on the table.

I have to do the housework for 5 days.

I think I wanna spend more time at work than at home now since no one is at home.

Aw well.
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Wei 'Wolverine' Ren

2006-12-09T22:55:00.000+08:00

Today was a rather eventful day that started from tram riding to Singapore general hosp.

We spent almost 1 1/2 hrs trying to find a place to play vball. Thanks to ZOUKOUT 2006 today, right now happening at Sentosa Siloso Beach, we were not able to play at our usual spot. Nvm. We finally found a spot to play.

Played against a bunch of guys who didn't look like they were playing? Guess it was due to Ryan's incredible serving technique that got them into all sorts. Whatever it was, we won that game. Then came along a white man and a old man who joined us for a game.

The white man was in his 50, resembled abit like Lance Armstrong, giving tips to some of us on how to play properly. But the thing was, he wasn't playing well too. Haha. Really funny.

Then came Wei ren crashing into earth, OK sand, and dislocated his previously dislocated shoulder again while trying to do an acrobatic save on the ball.

Deja Vu.

He was telling me about dislocating his shoulder and it really happened. So suay. I quickly accompanied him to the beach medical centre only to find out that it was locked when the operation hours were 9am-7pm. I was wondering what was going on. If there was really an emergency someone would have died. Anyway, during that time the tram uncle saw us and called for the guys who were supposed to be stationed there to rush back. While waiting, I tried to push his shoulder back but his arm was freaking heavy. Whatever I did was useless.

THEN CAME THE BEACH BUGGY....

Oh my gosh. No shit. I thought for a moment.

A bikini-clad lady dashed towards us and I was for a moment mesmerised. Irene was her name, athletic body and younger than us. She was in the FHM lifeguard edition i heard from Ryan and Qin hong. :) Okay that's not the point..

She asked Wei ren about whether he felt pain here and there and both of us thought that she was a doctor for real. We went from the tropics to Antarctica into the medical centre. I was freezing to death. Wei ren confessed to me that she was hot when he was grimacing in pain. :X How crazy was Wei ren

I was wondering, how could a doctor be so hip and sexy, wearing a black and white bikini to work?! Okay, no she was just a normal Sentosa lifeguard haha. She didn't really know how to handle dislocation so they said they usually send people with dislocated shoulders to the hospital directly.

$70 dollars was the cost of calling an ambulance to the A&E department. No shit, it was way too expensive and we decided to walk our way to the bus bay to catch a bus out to the exit area to grab a taxi since Wei ren could bear the pain. My hats off to him. Even Irene was amazed at how he wasn't shouting and screaming like her past cases.

On the way out, we hijacked a St John Ambulance which was supposed to be covering for the ZOUKOUT tonight. They sent Wei ren, Kelvin and I to the Singapore General Hospital FOC.
They were so nice. Damn it. :)

I will never forget the scene in which 3 of us entered the A&E of SGH.

1. Wei ren half-naked, body covered with sand.
2. Kelvin, all red faced and sandy too.
3. Me, all sandy from knee down carrying Wei ren's and my bag with my volleyball on my left hand.

We didn't have anytime to wash up at all.

What a grand entrance. Omg. All the aunties la, uncles la all looked at us in amazement. We looked like we just fought 'Operation Desert storm'.

Soon they took Wei ren inside and attended to him. Rather quick, abt 15mins? Quite efficient :) High service standards. :)

Kelvin and I waited for 2hrs before the rest could catch up with us. Talked about alot of stuff. His target girl in smu, about some stuffs. Watched Prison Break while doing that. We entered SGH at 4pm and left at 7pm. My first time to SGH haha. My first time EVER on an ambulance as well.

Wei ren came out of the A&E as though nothing ever happened to his arm. He has just wolverine's recovery rate haha.

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Im old..

2006-12-09T00:42:00.000+08:00

My body can't seem to withstand fatigue as before. 16 hrs and I'm aching almost everywhere. Maybe its because there wasn't alot of guys at work today, almost all of the part timers working today were china girls.

They couldnt do room service so i had to do room service the entire day.
They didnt know how to set up the bar so i had to do it.
They didnt know how to take care of the buffet so i had to do it.
There were 25 fruit baskets that had to be placed in rooms of coporate guest which i had to do it.
There were so many room service orders that everytime i returned to the kitchen i was preparing to deliver the next.
There were a million and one wines to be open today by me in the guest's room, which idk why I had to open like 10 bottles of red wine, till my poor swiss knife wine opener became crooked :(

However the highlight of the day was getting tipped with my first ever USD from room service :)

My bones are so cracking..

10am Harbourfront,
Mission: Beach VolleyBall

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2006-12-06T22:53:00.000+08:00

I hate to say this but sometimes, I can't help but pity the youngsters nowadays.

I went running at my park as usual. Sat down at my usual spot as usual, doing my statics after my run till I saw a group of very young malay boys and girls talking very loudly, blasting music on their handphones. Well no big deal right? Went I walked pass them, they were SMOKING away.

One of them was even younger than my sec 3 brother, taking a puff and blowing out and taking another one in quick succession and blowing out more than 5 times trying to boast to his friends. I actually felt quite sad for these bunch of people.

So young and wasting their lives away on cigarette. Wonder if their parents found out that they were smoking what would they do. Looks like the law isn't doing its job. More and more young kids getting a hold on cigarettes.

Oh well. :?

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World Trade Center

2006-12-06T11:22:00.000+08:00

Like everyone else on the morning of Sept 11,2001 , I woke up to revel in shock as the news reported of a plane crash in downtown Manhattan, New York City. I was totally stunned at the size of the catastrophe. I still remembered my first lesson that day in school was GP lesson. My GP tutor thought we were joking when we said that there was a terrorist attack in America.

Scenes of people jumping off the building, plummeting 50-60 over storeys to earth. Scary and revelating. I just saw the movie about 'Two Port Authority police officers become trapped under the rubble of the World Trade Center'.

The World Saw Evil That Day. Two Men Saw Something Else.

My impression of the movie before i even read any critic was that it was one of Nicholas Cage's kick arse movies, the hero of the show. But NO. It was not to be. Haha, sorry if im providing the spoilers here.

For the whole time he and his partner was trapped beneath the rubble. Quite draggy at times but yeah, it was a new perspective for me, thinking that this would resemble 'Ladder 49'.

Aw well.

Holidays are here for at least a month more till January 8th I think, and its back to studying again. I must decide what modules to take for next semester again.

I have been procrastinating alot about work. I have to start work tomorrow haha.
I kind of miss working.

Concocting drinks at the bar. Setting up the buffet. Doing room service. Returning back to the hospitality service :)

For now, today, I will take a break and enjoy more movies.

Posting another movie review soon.. stay tuned.

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A million apologies

2006-12-06T02:23:00.000+08:00

It's an eternal sin to forget someone's birthday.

A MILLION APOLOGIESSSSSSS...............

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Movie Review

2006-12-06T01:58:00.001+08:00

WARNING DO NOT READ THIS POST IF YOU'RE under 21 :)
DO NOT OKAY? DON'T DO IT IF YOU'RE UNDER 21!!!

Cut the suspense.

Haha, this american pie series is perhaps one of the more dumb-witted movies i have ever seen. Hilariously insane. Going gaga over women. SEXY as well haha. Okay, if your not 21 yet it is best not to watch this. Not in front of your family as well, lots of scenes not really suitable to watch during the day. You know like , yeah you know :).. <== im not drooling

Take it on a light tone, dont go like "Oh my god, Ivan, you're watching a PORN FLICK? I can't believe it!!".

Its not anything like that.

Its just pure comical relief.

Trust me, you will enjoy this show alot.

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Ripped !

2006-12-04T12:58:00.000+08:00

Heh, I ripped this off from my friend's friendster. Introducing my civics class 02s11 haha @ sentosa. Look at all of us. All burnt frm playing beach soccer and volleyball.

Shit, i suddenly miss Sentosa.

Last paper tomorrow! haha, such a relief, finally a rest.

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Nostalgic Photos!! You have to see!

2006-12-02T23:45:00.000+08:00

Haha, since i posted some stuff, I might as well add more. These are photos from my JC english GP trip to Western Australia Perth. Peeps from my civics class :) The last picture, we almost got blown off cause the wind was so strong! It was taken at Great Ocean Road along the Twelve Apostles. Now sadly become I think 8 or 9 apostles cause of wave erosion so sad right!

Ps: If you cant see just click on it and enlarge the picture for clarity :)

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What I Found Clearing My Room :)

2006-12-02T23:24:00.000+08:00

In case you're wondering how come they kept mentioning I took their money, haha i was the class treasurer in my Tampines JC days. So collecting money was my forte nonetheless, I would force, steal and torture to get them to pay me so that i can buy notes for them. How nice of me and I get abused all the time haha :). I found this while i was cleaning my room. Our civics tutor proposed that everyone write somethingl like a testimonial for everyone else so this is mine haha.

This is priceless stuff.

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Sweedish Feeva

2006-12-02T13:59:00.000+08:00

When I first saw this picture I was like WOW. Okay, Henrik Larsson. My all time favourite guy in Championship Manager and Football Manager.

I loved him and emile mpenza on my team.

Both are outright goal poachers.

Hmm, I guess this is one of Sir Alex's shrewed buys again I think. Somehow I think Larsson is going to score alot of goals when he comes over.

Who knows? Just have to wait and see.

Back to maths... Maths and more Maths :)

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Rants Raves And More.

2006-12-01T01:28:00.000+08:00

It seems like after so many years of education in all the different schools, I've finally ended up in NUS.

Not that i don't like NUS or anything but it seems like the entire school is rather detached in a sense that people that you get acquainted to are somehow just school friends, they are no longer your school/buddy/hangout friends that you used to have when you were in JC & secondary school. You know those people that you can play computer games together, meet up and go out together?

Believe me when I say this, people in university rather go out with friends other than those they made in university. Strange but true. I have lotsa of friends telling me this. Haha i'm not making this up! :D

Like today on the way to school in the morning for my test, I saw my secondary/jc friend on the MRT.

Such a coincidence i thought.

He told me how different it was in the past comparing to now. I shared the same sentiments. I told him exactly, it seem really odd. I just can't figure out what is wrong sometimes. Maybe it might be me too.

I guess people in NUS are made to study forcefully because of the circumstances like CAP score, grades, CA that will ultimately determines your intellectual ability at the end of the day.

Everyone WANTS to do well. Everyone WANTS to fight for good grades.

Idk, its just paradoxical. Maybe I haven't merged properly into the school's culture. One more semester?

Well, the hard earned holidays are coming real soon.

Its the start of December. A wonderful month. My birthday month haha. Guess I will be spending my time at work to kill off the holidays instead of staying at home. Earn some cash to sustain my following semester's expenditures :)

All right I guess I will have to stop here today. Im quite tired after my run.

To my dear friend who is taking the chinese history paper tomorrow, jia you!

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The Post Exam Syndromes

2006-11-30T13:57:00.000+08:00

Okay, I had my last paper for this week this morning.

Seriously, I was really feeling very tired this morning reeling from yesterday's geography and chemistry papers.

Wasnt really well prepared. So I had to depend on LUCK haha! Hope everything goes well for the paper (:

One more just one more paper to go on tuesday. Maths. :)

Finally, I can take a long nap today without having to worry about needing to revise stuffs.

Today's Question...

Who is he? :)

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Did Someone Shouted Murder?

2006-11-28T00:16:00.000+08:00

Murderous I tell you.

It was all planned properly.

Dr Bettens turned into Mr Hyde

The exam was planned so that everyone would underestimate its power in time management.

That was what happened to me and idk how many more peeps.

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Imminent

2006-11-26T11:53:00.006+08:00

Okay finally, exams. I guess everyone is just DYING to get the exams over so they can do stuff that they enjoy. No more HOMOs & LUMOs, group metals, probabilities and the list is almost endless.

For me its back to work ! I need to get my money for next semester ;) aw. so sad

No holds barred tonight at 11.55pm. Its Manchester United v Chelsea. May the Red Army march all over Chelsea and give them the blues.

Welcome to the THEATRE OF DREAMS and stop DREAMING Chelsea. We are impregnable

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Combustible Period

2006-11-24T22:21:00.000+08:00

As the exams draw closer, personal breakdowns are really going to occur for the unwary. Keep yourself upbeat, happy.

If you're really stressed. Stop. Take a moment. Listen to Class 95 ( or any other stations you like). Drink a glass of water. Call someone to talk to for awhile. It will help.

Study too long and it gets to you.

Come on, if you breakdown now how many times more do you have to breakdown ? 5 more times in your whole NUS life? :)

Smile Always and STUDY ON!

:)

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Exams

2006-11-23T17:56:00.000+08:00

Oo. My exams starts tomorrow, starting with a language paper.

How interesting. Though it doesnt contribute any modular credit but I think I ought to give it my best since its an exam. And not to let my tutor down after all the hard work she put in to teach us. :)

Living with Mathematics is really an interesting module. Less the probability, less the combinations. They are r r really a pain in the butt!

Mailed the tutors and the professors also no replies. Guess they must be busy setting a real hard test paper to take revenge on student who miss lectures regularly. Poor us, those who attend without failure must bear the brunt too HAHA.

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One More Post, Cause I'm So Bored.

2006-11-20T16:37:00.000+08:00

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Aww. No More Lost Series to watch..

2006-11-20T16:25:00.000+08:00

LOST's Fall Season Ends November 8; Show Returns February 7
On November 8, Lost will air its final episode of the Fall Season, "I Do." The show will then be replaced by the new Taye Diggs show Day Break. But don't fret! Lost will be back on February 7, 2007! The show will then air all-new episodes with no reruns every week starting February 7 until its May season finale. So don't miss this week's episode, "I Do"! Producers promise a cliffhanger that will leave us wanting more!

Haha, no wonder i couldnt find any more new episodes on Lost anymore.

Good for me, I have nothing to look forward to watch already. :) Less distractions

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The Adverse Effects of Arts Modules on Science Students.

2006-11-20T11:02:00.000+08:00

After exposure to geography module this semester, I'm begining to feel that Arts modules should only be left to ARTS students and Science Students should stick to SCIENCE modules.

This transculturation of exchange and exposure to ARTS modules are no doubt good for the overall development of a holistic education, but its really taking its toll.

This is even so in a nature of a SCIENCE student point of view. Because we are so used to memorising stuff and all.

Arts module is really 100% more interesting than SCIENCE subjects because it deals with living culture which is what we are experiencing everyday. To tackle ARTS module requires alot of reading of articles provided by the lecturers, 'sipping' all the avaliable information and start jotting down notes to make your life easier.

And whats worst, haha language also play a pivitol role. So, its like facts + language = good results. It all adds up to alot of preparation. If you think an Arts module is easy, think again. And the worst thing is, I still have one more obligatory ARTS module to take up in my compulsary study schedule in NUS.

How? Haha, swallow it like a warrior.
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ROARRRR

2006-11-19T14:53:00.000+08:00

This was my expression when wayne rooney scored midway through the 1st half to equalise at 1-1 after Sheffield gave me a shock when they took the lead in the 10th minute? :)

Top of the table nonetheless as usual. Tough test against Chelsea.

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Fabulous Song.

2006-11-17T17:56:00.000+08:00

Hope you like this ((:
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Alright Nothing But the Exams

2006-11-17T17:25:00.000+08:00

Alright, the exams are really coming. Start of reading week, end of slacking. :(

Got a math book from the library with shaobin. Ya ya, shaobin must be smiling away cause she was the one who suggested to borrow that book while we were searching on the LINC network.

Nonetheless it was a great find. Everything in one book. Differentiation, Integration, Double Integral and FOURIER series questions all in one, matrix..

Guess its time to get it jiggy with studies.

Everyone must work hard ya.

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Wonderful World

2006-11-16T21:05:00.000+08:00

At times.. I wished I had someone I could speak to and not worry abt so much.

Can I find one?

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Today

2006-11-14T22:46:00.000+08:00

Today at language class, it was rather fun to see everyone back together in the same class again.
Maybe sometimes you never notice that you would miss some stuff until you lose it.
Strange feeling I had.
Maybe I'm getting crazy I guess :)

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Lost in Books

2006-11-11T23:25:00.000+08:00

What a bad time to find out that Lost Season 3 started. Oh my god I love this show like flies to shit haha. It really a nice show if you haven't watched.

Now I must force myself to only watch during meal period and not other times. :) so hard to resist.

I must meditate with my books in order to tide over the exam ordeal. :)

So to everyone and anyone that reads this post.. Jia You ? Don't give up.. It sounds abit lao tao, but don't give up studying.. (: If not come to NUS for what?

To stress till diee.. XD

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Last Lab Session

2006-11-09T18:26:00.000+08:00

Today was the last lab session for the entire 1st Sem. I thought it was a great lab session owing to the fact that i got an easy solution to start with. The moment i saw, green solution i thought i had (fe 3+ , ps: its Iron (III) if you dont know (: ) So it was quite a breeze furthermore my friend had the same soln as i did so I could double confirm my observations with him secretly.

Today there are quite a number of stuffs I found that last Lab Session was very fun :

1. I got to talk to stephanie, okay it was nothing special. But it was the last lab session with her cause I don't know whether next semester if she was going to take the same slot as me again. But anyway while I was washing my test tube by the sink, she came over and washed hers and that was when I spoke to her for awhile. So.. ya :")

2. Suddenly alot of people spoke to me during lab. People that never bothered about your existence or too engrossed with their stuffs. Suddenly came to ask me how to do certain procedures. I was pleasantly surprised

3. The centrifuging machine
The machine where you place your solution in a centrifuging tube and place inside to spin so that the solution and the precipitate will separate out. Apparently this happened. This malay girl (looked alot like a pretty chinese girl (: ) placed two centrifuging tubes together side by side and started the machine. By right you're suppose to place it opposite each other to balance the spin when the machine starts. If there is imbalance during the spinning, the machine will cut off its power and stop the spin. BUT IT DIDNT!!!! The power was off but the thing was spinning out of CONTROL -_-!~ At that time i was doing my observation writings at my fumehood ( everyone is designated one in the lab) until i heard this very loud vibration sounds coming from 2 fumehoods from mine cause i was the last person of the row and the machines were therefore placed 2 fumehoods away from mine so the entire area could share to use it.

So back to the story ... I looked over and I saw her(malay girl) looking over at me. I asked her..

Me : "Eh, What happened?"
She: " Huh, I don't know!"
Me: " Is it going to explode? :)" *jokingly(at this time the machine was vibrating out of control)
She: "Oh my god! please don't or we will die"
Me: -_- ya right.

In a stroke of brillance, I instinctively pulled out the electrical wire connected to the machine and apparently saved everyone from a potential disaster only to be WRONGED by the Lab TA. She thought i stupidly placed 2 centrigufing tubes inside not opposite each other causing the unnecessary commotion. Thanks haha, for helping i got wronged, but it was alright :) I don't mind.

The malay girl was so embarassed that she apologised to me.

But it was alright.

Again, we were late for lecture due to the Lab.

After school, it was raining pretty heavily but I still made my way to the library via the long detour.

I went to the 6th floor to place my bag and came down to the computer lab to print my notes till I saw....................................................................................................................................Ming Min

Ming Min walked out from the book/journal section which was next to the computer lab. I was actually thinking of smsing her and she appeared magically. Such a coincidence.

I accompanied her for lunch since she was alone. Strange enough, it wasnt raining when we came down from the library to walk to the canteen. When she went off with her friends, it started to rain heavily AGAIN.

How suay can I be, I thought.

Again, I walked back to the library by the long way again. Haha, as I was walking I couldnt believe how suay I can be.

After that I took my stuff and left the library after printing some notes and talking to Shaobin who was studying with Agnes ;"). Why? you jealous I talk to agnes huh hahaha. JUST KIDDING.

Okay I'm hungry already.

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Tickle your Funny Bone ((:

2006-11-08T18:19:00.000+08:00

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Oh my Gosh

2006-11-08T17:51:00.000+08:00

Those who were bogged down like me in the test dont be disheartened, study harder no worries.

Come On All Chem Majors! :)

Talking about that haha, the exams seems to draw closer.

Strange, I have nothing to talk about today :X well.. maybe tomorrow when I have something to talk about other than studies haha.

Coffee, Kopi, Kopi O, Kopi Gao, Kopi O Siu Tai

2006-11-06T22:12:00.001+08:00

Oh hi again. Here i am typing again.

Haha, i went to school only to miss the first lecture because my friends and I reached the bottom of LT 32 at 10.30 am when the lecture suppose to start at 10am.

So..............

I ended up going to the University Hall beside LT 32 (ps: sorry for those who havent been to NUS, the University Hall is beside along the slope to LT 32) Oh yea back to the story :) and i ended up in Spinelli's and drinking a cup of hot mocha. The place was really good. Relaxed environment, nice hot RED seats and yar.

Just beautiful place. The tarts and cakes are amazing there if you havent been there although i havent tried it yet cause i didnt buy today, just a cup of hot mocha cause i was rather tired, NEED COFFEE haha. Suddenly coffee becomes a necessity in a university student's life. Really. Dont believe me ask anyone in NUS, if they never drink coffee to lower their fatigue level, i will close down my blog (: hahaha. Seriously.

The grandiose University Hall is really an ultra furbished upscale piece of building in the whole of NUS. In geography terms, it seems like imagining the whole of NUS has undergone 'weathering' while the University Hall hasnt at all. And Science FAC seems to be the most 'weathered' one. Means its darn old la! haha if you havent understand what im talking about toot. Im the making of a brilliant geography student by just taking one geography module.

After that it was as usual, to 2 more lectures to 4pm and 1 tutorial to 5pm. I went to the library to lend my favourite book, no, not Atkins, but Catherine. Haha another bible which is more simplied in english and not bombastic as Atkins.

Oh yeah, sorry ShaoBin, i kept the phone in my bag so i didnt know you came to the library to find me after your lecture. Haha, made you walk the whole sixth floor of the library reading area. LOL im so guilty :)

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School

2006-11-06T00:18:00.000+08:00

Okay start of a new week and the trial exam for chemistry is on wednesday. How not to stress. Everyone is studying furiously.

Im still chilling with no sense of urgency. Haha, overconfident? more like overslacking.

Staying in school till 8pm tml i guess to study and look up some references with friends

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Happy 20 Years at Manchester United

2006-11-05T13:50:00.000+08:00

The epitome of Man Utd.

20 Years as manager of Man Utd.

I was 1 year old when he took over haha.

Man Utd 3-0 Pompey

Man Utd flying high in the EPL. (: yay

Oh man, another lazy sunday at home.

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Tonight's Match

2006-11-04T12:33:00.000+08:00

United vs Pompey is sure to be a cruncher especially due to the form of pompey. Almost free scoring nowadays. The dark horse of the season i guess.

Im confident the red army will kick their arse today at Old Trafford :)

LETS GO UNITED!!

Anyway sorry i always call you when im about to sleep. Haha lying in bed while talking will make me want to sleep at the rate of 10^ inifinity .. ((:

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Character Pictures

2006-11-04T00:52:00.000+08:00

This is Ming Min (below) and Shaobin (top). Character names that keep appearing in my blog :)

Ps: Hope both of you dont mind me placing your 'prettttty' pictures here (:

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Studying

2006-11-04T00:48:00.000+08:00

After studying for 3hrs, i noticed that chemistry really needs alot of time and effort to understand alot of stuff.

So hard. But again, nothing's easy :) so JIA YOU!

:)

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'The Passing of Language Class'

2006-11-03T17:52:00.000+08:00

The bible of inorganic chemistry.

Everyone has to know its existence if your in chemistry.

This book is driving everyone nuts, though i'm still sane.

The exams are coming already. Everyone is going to study, mug, kill each other,sap each other's intelligence. So sad. Competitive Culture of NUS. People just study for the sake of studying at the expense of enjoyment. Thats the truth in NUS. Sad RIGHT?!!

Had an interesting english conference with Ming Min and Miss Ng. Haha, its was really interesting though it only lasted for 15 minutes. It was the last lesson already for this semester. Time really files. No more joking around with Mabel aka the professor in writing EXTREMELY long essays when a short one was needed and Shaobin aka mad cha bor that laughs non stop and mingmin aka Miss Malaysia No.1 in everything and Tianxi aka Miss Sleepy and michelle and Zhou Jie Lun and many more from english class. Can't name them all.

Oh i forgot, our dear Miss Ng. She's really a good teacher just that sometimes she's just too blur and mixes things up.

Quote Miss Ng : "Shao BING, oh sorry always call your name wrongly. Shao BIN"
"Ming Min and Ming Shun sounds the same"

Well, thats how things are. :) just have to move on and hope that we might all end up in a same tutorial next time for some other module okay?

Seems like my blog getting quite alot of frequent readers, which is good haha! (:

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Impossible !

2006-11-02T23:57:00.000+08:00

Today I had lunch with Shaobin + Ming Min = Impossible combination

I cannot believe i could have lunch together with both of them together considering the fact that we never had lunch together before today. Haha. Yaya, you must be =_= right?

The laksa was really nice but i was sniffing all the way to the library. I can still feel the laksa in my stomach. Thanks SHAOBIN haha.

Went to the library. Sat together with shaobin and magan and did stuffs till 6pm and i left with magan.

Nothing interesting today except lunch.

Oh yeah, today's experiment was the 1st time ever worst ever screw up ever and ever and never and ever. All the readings all wrong compared to others. I was so pissed off. ROAR!

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Good morning to another lab report

2006-11-01T23:15:00.000+08:00

Sigh, tomorrow is lab again!! haha. 欠打really. Every Thursday = Lab report day.

Just noticed the lecturer never gave us the f-test distribution table. How to do the questions?

Im so bored.

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"Friends" , read all about it

2006-10-31T22:26:00.000+08:00

Im doing this while i typing halfway through my geography report.

Sometimes I feel that friends are so hard to find. Especially those that really nice at heart. Okay haha i found a few in NUS. But its just very disturbing that some friends just seems to use you and dump you like what yx told me the other time.

After volleyball match at 730pm today, he went to met up with his yr 3 science club gang. They were so happy together. Asked him about his match and all and even waited for him to go eat dinner together to round off the day.

Yeah.

I'm just jealous of him because real good friends are hard to find when you walk on in life. Perhaps its just everyone becoming more independent or im just not being nice enough. Talking about nice, perhaps being nice to everyone must be very subjective. Dont get trapped in being nice and getting forced to (: *remember okay*

Woof

Sore right knee. How jia lat. At least there one person who asked me whether i was okay or did she. You know who you are.

Till i blog again ..

Ah Doi.. Pain

2006-10-30T23:53:00.000+08:00

Looks like my knee is going to go thru further beating in tml final match against business.

Aggravated it today, sigh, painful as i speak :) but i must play through the pain.

Lets go soldier STOP WHINING

:)

Till i blog again ..

Destroy the lab report

2006-10-28T13:37:00.000+08:00

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS haha i've just finished my report and printed it :)

Im thinking of going to malaysia during the semester break during december.

Be my malaysia tour guide?

Till i blog again ..

Whose Line is It Anyway? Fireman Songs :)

2006-10-25T20:00:00.000+08:00

I just love watching this show. You will never get enough of this.
Till i blog again ..

樱桃帮 welcome to the world of chinese alternative !

2006-10-24T21:43:00.000+08:00

Wow, i love their songs :)

Till i blog again ..

Girls Girls and More Girl's mystery

2006-10-24T14:10:00.000+08:00

Ooh, yesterday me and yexiang went home together after the match in school on the mrt.

Yx and I again talked about alot of stuffs, sensitive stuffs about girls. Okay its not what you think. Its SERIOUS stuffs.

Thanks Ye Xiang for enlightening me on some stuffs i didn't really understand about.

Sometimes girls are such a mystery to me.

(:

PS: Girls please dont get offended by this post (: all of you are still my good friends.

Till i blog again ..

United win

2006-10-22T22:22:00.000+08:00

Okay, I think it wasn't liverpool's day today.

I didnt think man utd did play well, but i was surprised that Patrice Evra was rock solid today in defence :) great to see him play well.

Paul Scholes scoring on his 500th appearance.

I guess Rafael Benitez should stop tinkering with his formations. Gerrard played well when he was back to his central midfield position and brought about some shape to Liverpool's play. Too late i guess.

And yes, the picture man of the moment, Rio Ferdinand. Let fly a top corner stinging shot which ended on the back of the net. For a moment, he resembled a striker than a defender. Great goal !

And back to the top of the table. Chelsea, haha wait for another week to try overtaking Man Utd at the helm!

Yay

Till i blog again ..

Rivalry

2006-10-22T14:09:00.000+08:00

Possibly the biggest and fiercest football rivalry. It ends tonight at 7.55pm Ch 23 :)

LAST SEASON'S CORRESPONDING GAME

Manchester United 1-0 Liverpool
22 January 2006 - Ref: Mike Riley
Man United scorer: Ferdinand 90

HEAD TO HEAD TOTALS

Home and away
League: Man United 54 wins, Liverpool 49, Draws 43
Prem: Man United 14 wins, Liverpool 7, Draws 7

at Man United only
League: Man United 34 wins, Liverpool 14, Draws 25
Prem: Man United 7 wins, Liverpool 3, Draws 4

Lets hope history favours the devils :)

GO MAN U!

Heave a sigh of relief

2006-10-21T18:20:00.000+08:00

Finally. Lab report ----- Done
Geog project ----- 1/2 done

Shit man haha, everyday buried in books!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Good Morning, lab report !

2006-10-21T13:42:00.000+08:00

Yesterday i reached home at 1am from school. Yes, SCHOOL. After vball training at 9.30pm, yexiang, me and melvin (ps : the previous photo i posted of the esplanade, tts yexiang with the blue yellow nike bag and melvin ) ya, we went to holland village to eat this kelong zi cha. At a mere $33/- bucks we had sambal stingray, prawn paste fried chicken ( ha jiong kai) , baby kailan with oyster sauce and pork ribs ( pai gu wang). It was like the first time after orientation till now since i felt so happy to be able to finally take a break and do something that i like. :)

By the time we reached buona vista mrt, three of us were like dying, all tired and dirty and sticky and oily and smelly and the list goes on haha..

Ye xiang and I talked alot on the MRT, lotsa stuff regarding alot of stuffs which i will not mention here :) . We witnessed what we learnt on geography, globalisation in real life on the mrt. Sometimes it really interesting when you know that stuff that you learn in school can be applied in real life and not just in 'book theory'.

Reached home almost 12.45am, bathed, talked to mingmin till 2.30 am plus and knocked out.

Woke up to a lab report and a physical geography project report.

Im going for lunch and starting at 2pm to do the geography project :) .. how interesting haha ARGH!

Fun Times

2006-10-19T23:35:00.000+08:00

I just came back from a chalet / bbq organized by my small group of army friends.

Sure had lots of fun talking about studies ( Dont STRESS ME LAR!) haha my favourite phrase everytime someone starts mentioning about studies related stuff. Its was like old times. Times we could sit down and talk about anything, from nothing to everything to universally anything. Okay, im like blabbering nonsense, guess im tired after cycling a whopping close to 25km from my house to East Coast and back.

My thighs are drowning in lactic acid :X , cramping all over. Its been awhile since i cycled. But i just love the feeling. But the haze is really bad. I could smell bbq burnt smell in the air when no one was in the vicinity bbqing, that was how bad it was.

Oh yes, i saw the cable skiing thingy while i was cycling. It was very cool, again curse myself for not having a camera phone if not there would be a picture posted. :( haha how sad.

Nonetheless, im really glad we got back together to talk, relax and played abit of volleyball outside ppl's chalet LOL.

Till then.. Volleyball Training 6pm tomorrow and my thighs are screaming how? :X

Rantings

2006-10-19T17:31:00.000+08:00

Its hard to be a nice guy all the time.

Nice guys always finish last i guess.

Might be high time to quit being nice.

Listening to : Things I'll Never Say , Avril Lavigne

冷笑话 :)

2006-10-18T18:45:00.000+08:00

Other than seeing 'someone' wearing a pair of hot pants out of the usual, there was nothing much to talk about.

Oh yes, haha 明敏 and her '冷笑话' (lame jokes).

One she mentioned in particular which i found real funny was this...

Q: Why can't the cat catch the mouse?
A: Cause the mouse was riding a motorcycle -_- haha

Q: How did the cat know that the mouse was hiding in the refrigerator?
A: Cause the mouse parked his motorcycle outside he fridge -_-" haha

There were many more.. just lazy to type. If you want more can pay me to tell you (:

Since you were nice enough to visit my blog, i will give you a few more...

Here we goo..

Q: There's a party in the forest but... who didn't get to eat the cake!?!
A: GRASS because "Cao Mei Dan Gao"

Q: Xiao ming drinks milk to grow up, Da ming drinks what?
A： Alcohol because "Jiu Yang Da Ming"

Okay, i dont have anything much but lame stuffs to talk about today :)

Nostalgia

2006-10-18T09:27:00.000+08:00

My MD player, its so extinct nowadays. Its like the modern equivalent of a turntable :)

2006-10-18T09:26:00.000+08:00

My Classical Guitar still in a goood condition :)

an interesting day

2006-10-17T17:43:00.000+08:00

Okay, today was a rather interesting day.

It started in geography class when i apparently scared the hell out of this particular girl who i had no idea how i did it. Anything i dont really bother :) im just so bad sometimes. Oh yeah, made 2 new friends today at geography class because we had to form up into groups of 5 to do our project report. Haha, initially we were all so reserved but after class we were joking and talking nonsense on the bus back to science. Anyway, i guess we clicked because we were all conincidentally from SCIENCE. How happening.. (:

Language class was even more interesting. 'Zhou Jie Lun' pulled off a stunt today haha as usual of her. Okay, maybe she didn't prepare the oral summary presentation. And i found out that actually polytecnic students have an edge over junior college students in terms of vocalism and presenation wise which i think the jc students can go seriously reflect upon. Jc students indeed lack the exposure of presenations and the chance to brush up their charisma skills. Thats why somehow Jc students are lacking the cutting edge in some area no matter how smart they can be.

How sad can the education system be.

After class, the BOMBSHELL.

ShaoBin finally realised the ultimate difference between $1.50 & $2.00 Won Ton Noodle at the noodle store.

An Analysis of Mee:

$1.50 - Gives you a normal plate of mee and THREE Won Ton only
$2.00 - Gives you a normal plate of mee and FIVE Won Ton.

Wonton Noodles :)

This is how a typical WonTon look like if you dont know. Why? Your saliva dripping already huh? :P

Haha, the other time she ATE my bowl of soup and thought that $1.50 had FIVE Wan Ton. PS: Shaobin you think the uncle at the noodle store print money or what!

Malu.. :) Somemore just now you laughed until the whole world look at us. So pai seh can.

Perils of Goalkeepers

2006-10-16T23:02:00.000+08:00

As much as i hate chelsea and all, i must say that the horrific injuries suffered by keepers nowadays are more exemplified than in the past. Though they get more protection from referees these days, accident and incidents still happen.

Bottom line : Dont be a keeper in the premiership :)

Good luck Chelsea in the midweek clash with barca

Manutd v coopenhagan in champions league clash this wednesday :)

Nothing special

2006-10-16T22:26:00.000+08:00

Today, melvin and I had to go to school earlier to pass up the project at arts at the geography department. We made a few rounds before we found the pee-gion hole to drop our project. GUESS WHAT, no one had handed up. We were the 1st to hand up. As we was about to drop the project, there was some sort of a unexplainable feeling. Its like the sense of happiness + sadness + whatever more adjectives to express feelings in the English Language. Oh yea, back to the story, anyway we just dropped it. :)

Went to the ARTS CBLC, which i think rocks. Post a picture if i have a chance.

Went to the Arts Canteen for breakfast - 'The Deck' had a plate of guotiao and some vegetarian stuff and off to lectures. 10-4pm lectures and a tutorial from 4-5pm. Thats how my moooooooooooooooday went.

The haze is bad. PSI : 100 and changing

Is this the sign of self destruction of humans? Global Warming due to increased CO2? Deforestation?

Okay, too much geography hurts you :)

i have a practical tomorrow 8am at the GEO LAB. So i have to wake up like 6am? It is so sucky haha. argh. pain in the arse.

I thought i did this.. all of a sudden.

2006-10-15T22:58:00.000+08:00

Since tomorrow is the submission of my human geography proj, i thought i post some pictures of my project here.. anyway, its going to be history after tomorrow. Okay, if you havent noticed, im doing a project on The Esplanade on her Sense of Place. Enjoy the pictures....

Geography, Imagining the World

2006-10-15T22:28:00.000+08:00

Okay, I've just finished reading the hydrological cycle case studies of singapore and some global warming issue articles. I must say, they were rather deep articles with lots of graphs and statistics to analyze and all. Headache, but I still have to read them after this.. how interesting life i have..

Hey okay, the picture is a snapshot of my NUS Human Geography Lecturer, Dr TC Chang (okay the one in the HARD ROCK shirt). He is one of the best lecturers i have to date. At least till now. Charismatic with a tinge of humour in him. Geography lectures has to be conducted by him. PERIOD (: he is just too good. ps: not that im gay or anything, dont misinterpret.

Sense of Achievement

2006-10-15T17:54:00.000+08:00

Finally, the geog project. all over. all done. Binded and ready to be passed up tomorrow at the prof's office in his mailbox. :)

Project deadline

2006-10-15T09:45:00.000+08:00

my geography project dateline is tomorrow and its still over by 130words how!

Still topping the table nonetheless :)

2006-10-14T21:49:00.002+08:00

Just provide me superlatives on how to describe the match between wigan and united which just ended. ABSOLUTE beauty. 1-0 down at half time and 1-3 the final score, courtesy from these 3 guys above. Vidic with a beautiful set piece header, Saha with an exquisite finishing and OLE gunnar Solskjaer coupled with his deadly precise finishing at the death!

GLORY MAN UTD :)

Serene School on a hazy Saturday .

2006-10-14T19:12:00.000+08:00

Did i mentioned i went to school today? okay. you must be wondering WHY ON EARTH? ITS A SATURDAY! haha i went to school to study with shaobin cause during the term break i wasnt free to study with her due to fieldwork on my geog project and all so i had to make it up to her. It was very quiet in school, it was suddenly so nice to be in school unlike the usual rushing around. Woo and i noticed that we were the only year 1 undergrads who were there, haha how SURPRISING.

Lets start from the trip to school. I saw one of the 'gay nightriders' members on the mrt going home and how ironic, i was in fact GOING to school. He saw me and saw my notes, guessed he knows that i was going to school LOL.

Nothing much to talk about in school, only that shaobin almost sent a cupboard crashing down to earth in CBLC. For a moment, the whole CBLC FROZE when her shoulder hit the empty cupboard though some unclaimed waterbottles came down to the ground. SHAOBIN you must open your eyes CAN 0_0 ! PLEASE dont walk like you own the place lol.

We talked over lunch and chatted about lotsa stuff, my stuffs, her stuffs and again pertaining human anatomy. Continued after 5pm at the pink tables cause the reading area of the library closed at 5pm. Talked about some stuffs i didnt know about her :)

Left school around 530pm and guess WHO I SAW? Andrew. in a tracksuit, muffed headphone with a dark blue drooping cap. How nice to end my day in school.

Song of the Day : You've lost that lovving feeling - Westlife ; Its the groovy song from 'Top Gun' such an oldie :)

Man Utd in action at 740pm against Wigan. LETS WHOOP THEIR ARSES :D

Might blog again later. This blogging shit is just so addictive. I can whine about almost anything.

Till then..

HELLO Pictures

2006-10-13T23:12:00.000+08:00

Here are some pictures to brighten the dusty blog! Okay i dont have a camera phone so these pictures were by other people. So SAD ): till now i never owned a camera phone before. DONT LAUGH. I know you are laughing.. :)

Bored in lt 26 while attending living with maths

This was taken in Zouk during the science bash, drank loads of longislandtea (:

Melvin and I at the Science Dinner and Dance

Taken 2 days back while having lunch at the pink tables. Notice... Im drinking honeydew and green apple. omg haha but it was abit too bland for my liking. sorry robyn :)

I've started to write again ITS A MIRACLE :D

2006-10-13T22:54:00.000+08:00

Haha, yesterday night i talked to mingmin and suddenly remember that my blog was left to ROT like 11 mths. I was so embarassed to give her my blog add.. (: haha dont give me that look. I WAS BUSY with nothing haha.

Ming Min if you are seeing this, THIS IS MY BLOG OKAY! IM NOT SELFISH anymore im sharing my blog.

Okay, today was normal. Nothing much, went to arts to have our normal physical geog lecture, living with math and an enjoyable english class. The whole time disturbing the people around me (:

After class, mabel and i went to eat and she asked me stuffs about my past. So we talked alot. About her, me and stuffs that concerned about the anatomy of human (okay thats abit KUA ZHANG) but nonetheless it was quite interesting. I brought her to the biodiveristy museum at the science library block to take a look since she havent been there before. As usual, she said stupid stuffs which made me kept on laughing and scolding her.

Went to the library with her and stayed till 6pm till she left. I stayed awhile more and also left. Actually wanted to meet mingmin but she left immediately after her lecture and took the WRONG BUS to QIAN LI ZHI WAI ( haha sorry zhou jie lun, do i need to pay a copyright fee? I DONT CARE :P) and ya.. i sms and keep nagging at her till it came i point i was afraid i was disturbing her haha. Sorry mingmin i apologised already.

Back home at 730pm? i went for a run and now... chilling

Oh yes, if you watch anime, you have to download Death Note anime series its superbly good. Very addictive. :)

Till Then.

Mr Potter @ Goblet of Fire

2005-11-20T01:24:00.000+08:00

Went to watch Mr Potter in action this morning with nicky. Sometimes i find it wierd. I know that i would have some trouble understanding the story since i have nv read any book written by JK Rowling about Harry Potter but i still went with nicky to watch it. 2 1/2 hrs * yawnnn haha man was it a superb movie. Heard it was very close to what was written in the novel. Great visual effect *claps

Just came back from Ying Yue Feng 2005. Man, it was rather poor i thought. LJR concert i watched the other time was superb. This time around it was very poorrr i must say. NO BIG LCD SCREEN HOW TO SEE THE PERSON'S FACE !!@#@#%#@%@#%@#%@#% crazy one leh the organizers. PPL SITTIN FAR AWAY FROM THE STAGE SEE WAD!@)($!)@$(@#!)$@! *dont get me wrong i bought the 90 bucks *average seats . But nonetheless it was senseless not to place a LCD SCREEN for zoom in. It was like a live karaoke, nothing happening. Did i mentioned that the indoor stadium wasnt very filled too? :D haha...