Cute proposal

Yixin with my cardigan tied around him! heh. a bit gay hor.


Anyway the day after coming back to singapore I went to school early in the morning for ureca. We started on some simple stuff like extraction and learnt a little about the mass spectrometry machine. The computer settings looked so complicated, i'm glad they didn't allow undergraduates to operate the machine. Quite sure if I did it, something would mess up somewhere. The results were also nothing like what we learnt in H3 chem, there was a lot of 'noise' that made it really hard to look at the peaks properly. Apparently you can run MS in certain modes to make sure the peaks look better or to detect a wider range of peaks. So cool right. Had a hard time learning how to prepare the sample for MS too, we had to 'spot' the samples onto tiny circles that are so closely packed together on a metal plate. My pipetting skills are so gonna improve after this.

Today i had ureca too, and we learnt how a HPLC (High performance liquid chromatography) works. I learnt the theory in H3, but when it comes to the actual machine there are tubes everywhere and looks really complicated. Once again, computer settings are the worst, but i suppose we'll get used to it over time. Then we had a lab meeting where we listened to one of the lab members present her work. Fought so hard to keep my eyes open! I was so hungry by the end of it all, but we were called to talk to our prof right after the talk. By the time he stopped, it was already 330pm :( Was so hungry i gobbled down my teriyaki chicken bento. Lucky for me, the auntie gave me larger servings than usual, though i think it's cos of the holidays. Didn't do much after the very late lunch.

Went to meet up with shiyun they all for weishi's birthday! really long time no see. Wanted to go for kbox, but not all of us were keen, so we went to the esplanade area to chit chat. Not long after we reached jacq was approached by some people asking us to present a rose to a girl! Turns out the boyfriend was gonna propose to her. How sweet right! So we all lined up and kinda marched into the restaurant (in a single file) and gave the girl the roses. Then the boyfriend appeared and went down on his knee and held out a ring! Aww. For a moment i thought the girl was gonna reject the proposal cos she hesitated for so long. But it succeeded anyway, and i felt very happy, like i've done a good deed. Heh. Yixin thinks this is rather cowardly for some reason, and says the guy should be confident enough to handle it on his own without the help of strangers. I still think the idea quite romantic though. After that we had ice cream at MOF and chit chatted. It felt nice, to laugh and talk about random topics. *thinks chimpanzee and frog* Gatherings like this always make me miss the good old '72 times :)

No lab stuff tmr, I mean today, I must go exercise already!

this morning we woke up really late, guess everyone's tired out by the wedding. I was still a little early though, so I spent it watching my vamp diaries again. we had breakfast at the hotel restaurant again, just me and Yixin, cos it was just too expensive to pay. this time I had some omelette that the Chef made, and it was delicious! love eggs :) when we finished we found yixin's mum dad and sis standing outside, turned out they haven't gone for breakfast. so we followed and I had some 豆浆油条*^_^* urghh, I think it's a bad thing that I'm always kept full all the time.

we went to this shopping place that's apparently quite popular with locals and tourists alike - sungei Wang. we split into pairs so it was easier to walk around, so I followed Yixin around cos he wanted to buy his games. we did do some window shopping, then spent the rest of the time eating! we had these bulgogi burgers for lunch, and dabao-Ed some milk tea for the rest. then we saw this cute store selling 'qqice' -



uh, it actually tastes a lot better than it looks.

at night the whole family went to a seafood restaurant for dinner. as usual there's always more than what we can finish, and I had to help clear the crabs cos nobody wanted to eat alr! I just cldnt let such good stuff go to waste Haii. we celebrated yixin's dad and aunt's birthday too, and were pleasantly surprised when everyone in the restaurant sang the birthday song too.

after the dinner we went back to yixin's aunt's place and us kids sat around and played bomberman again! this time I hav more experience alr, so I managed to win a game once :) we had so much fun, we didn't want to leave until it was 1am and had to return to the hotel alr.

I'll be returning to Singapore tmr!

3rd night in msia

Turned out the bathtub I wanted to soak myself in last night was for show only. all the plugs were taken out so it can't be filled up. boo. after we all took turns showering, yixin's sis did manicure for us girls! so pretty. was quite stressed when I did hers cos I don't have much experience. when I was young my cousins and I often played with my aunt's nail polish heh, the good old times. we ended up sleeping only at 2 plus in the morning, when the crowd opposite the hotel was still making a lot of noise. haha. it's Christmas!

this morning we had breakfast buffet at the restaurant downstairs. there was this pretty white piano in the middle of the restaurant, but no one was playing it :( what a waste! wish I knew how to play the piano. food was good, I especially liked the beehoon and chicken sausages.
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it's already my 3rd night here in msia. didn't manage to blog cos we stayed over at yixin's aunt's house in order to wake up in time to fetch the bride. woke up like 4 plus in the morning, and we only slept at ard 1 am cos we were playing bomberman. so ard 5 plus we set off for the bride.

I've never been involved in the whole wedding process, i usually just go for the dinner. today I got to experience it all firsthand! there's actually a lot of traditional customs that I didn't know about. like the couple has to give the younger generation angbaos, then the older generation has to give angbaos to the couple, everyone in the house included! so throughout the day, I've accumulated 5 angbaos already :) and then the wedding stuff can only be held by females. when the bride leaves home, gates have to be closed to signify the leaving of a daughter from the family. a bit cruel right. and then to signify that the bride has left and then come back to visit her family - 回娘家, the bride has to walk around the car a few times before entering the house again. I'm sure i missed a lot more though, cos the whole thing was done in Cantonese. oh and it sure was cold in the morning. not sure where I was in msia, but it was one of those kampung areas. totally felt like I was stepping into winter when I stepped out of the car.













pretty flower that was on my hand, made Yixin wear it to take a photo. heh.

at the wedding I helped out with the attendance taking cum angbao collection. it was a bit of a challenge since they all speak Cantonese and I'm pretty much a noob at that. luckily everyone else knows Cantonese so I occupied myself with putting crosses on the seating arrangement plan. planning a wedding is sure not easy. guests kept walking around after they were seated so we weren't sure if the table was really empty. wanted to close some tables but when the wedding was gonna start all the people appeared back at their seats. haiyo.

I had a bit of fun throwing rose petals over the couple, yet another first time again! was very happy when the banquet finally started, ate a lot of the dishes that were served first. I think I ate like over 10 prawns, I was the only one at the table who attacked the prawns with my hands haha. super unglam! had a lot of red wine too, resulting in a very red face and neck. oh well, alls worth it for my fav wine.

by the time we returned to his aunt's house, we were all so tired that we promptly fell asleep on the sofa. it was already 9pm when we woke up! this is what lack of sleep+alcohol does to people. headed out for a quick dinner, didn't have a lot cos tummy's still full from lunch. but I still loved the chicken in black-and-sweet sauce(dunno how to describe la!) and the fried lai liu ha(is it crayfish?)

now everyone's asleep except for me and Yixin, who's happily mugging his chemistry. I shall watch my vampire diaries for a while then!

first day in msia!

I'm now resting in the hotel for a while, goi ng out again soon. as seen from the picture yixin's having a lot of fun with the iPod dock and the king sized bed. totally enjoying the room. we walked around the huge shopping centre just now, but didnt manage to get a lot of stuff cos its mainly branded goods around here.
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just back from a very filling dinner of bak ku teh. it's quite different from what we have in Singapore, I think the taste is more intense, but I still like singapore's version better. yixin's cousins are very nice people, kept filling everyone's tea cups and passing around food to eat. the above 40s have another table to themselves haha. being in Malaysia, one thing I had to get used to was the long travel times. less than one hour is considered reasonably short alr. so i spend most of the time on the car sleeping heh.

oh and that dog in the picture is this super cute retriever/Labrador (can't tell which) puppy who just wants someone to pet her and play with her. according to yixin's cousin she's the neighbour's dog but they dont really take care of it. poor dog. yixin's sis and I petted it as much as we could.

I'm feeling super worn out now. stark contrast to the crowd opposite our hotel; we can hear them even from the hotel room. shall go and soak myself in the bathtub now. now that there's wifi in the room I shall try to blog every day!

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Exams go away!

Woah i haven't updated my blog since mid terms! Haha. Now i'm already having my final exams, 2 down, 2 more to go. Can't wait for exams to end, because the day after my last exam i'm going straight to msia to attend yixin's cousin's wedding. And then we just booked ourselves a cruise trip next month! WAHAHA. totally in a blissed out mood now :)
 ...back to the heart and its action potentials!

All my mid-terms are over! :)

Yup, had my final mid-term paper today, 中药学. I felt a lot better after this paper compared to physio and anatomy. I think that my brain is starting to work at its peak again; it has never been quite the same after 诊断finals.

I really like our 中药 lecturer! Haha. He kinda feels like dad. His lectures never get too boring, 'cause he always shares his experience with the medicine he uses. He often says "真的没有那么神奇。还是不要中毒比较好。" HAHA. Next week he's gonna bring us to the herb garden! Hope we get to taste some interesting herbs :)

After school while waiting to meet prof tam, haining and i went to the TCM clinic to try and recognize some herbs that we just learnt. Some herbs smell really horrible - whether it's supposed to smell like that or 'cause it turned moldy i don't know. But the smell sure helps when memorizing them.

I feel so tired now. Can totally hear my brain protesting that it needs to rest for a while. I shall give it a good long rest tonight! After that, it's CHIONGGGGG all the way for exams!

现在心情很沉闷。
一个有大好前程的年轻人，现在只剩下冰冷。冰冷的身体，还有爱他的人的，冰冷的心。刚才上课的内容就是母亲在怀孕时，有可能发生的问题。包括心脏发育不完整，胎儿位置不正常，基因的病变...很多很多。母亲要将孩子带来这个世界上，要克服种种困难。好不容易生下了，养大了，死了。因为一群仗势欺人的混蛋而死了。
生命就是这么脆弱。好难过。


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No movie :(

Photo taken in cinema during their "green screen of death". Changed the colour 'cause i felt it looked scary haha!

After getting defeated by the seemingly easy physiology paper (i should have studied harder), I decided to wake up early and go fight for seats with the O and A level people at jurong east library. So yixin had to wake up early too. But there were simply too many people chionging for good seats, so we headed straight to the 4th floor where people are generally noisy but at least we get to eat food. Spent the entire morning and afternoon mugging (with frequent breaks to play slice it! on ipod and surf the net). Nothing special...no not really, i had a rather bloody chicken leg for lunch, they didn't cook it enough.

At 530pm we headed out to cine to catch the owl movie (very long name!), only to find out that they won't be screening the movie due to technical difficulties. Felt very sian, because it was quite a long ride from jurong east. And we already bought our popcorn and drink and a cup of ramen noodles. Haii. So we had to queue up for the refund, and I made a bit of noise about how our food's going to waste so the manager said I could redeem the set the next visit.

We visited the arcade and played tekken. Some guy swiped his card while we were still playing and then yixin lost, so I had to fight that guy. My first time being challenged in the arcade! And he didn't even say hi so mei li mao. I lost, of course, but I did win a round haha. Then yixin and I went to take neoprints - something we haven't done in months. But the machine had to break down (-.-what's with our luck) and it took some time before we got the photos. I like the shiny patterns on it.

So hotttttttttttt

Finally it's my recess week! Well not much time to rest since i still have my tcm finals on thursday. Went to the woodlands library yesterday around evening time to mug a little, and for some reason the entire causeway point was less crowded than it usually would be. Maybe it's because the shops near the entrance are closed. Even when we went home at around 9pm there were so little people on the mrt, and we noticed a bit of (ominous!) fog at the mrt station. Brr.

Anyway I didn't mug for long because I got hungry very soon and we went to queue up for ichiban. Wanted to use our $20 voucher. I haven't had such good food in a long time! Partly due to my then rotting leg and that my parents and yixin were overseas AT THE SAME TIME. Haii. Then we wanted to catch a movie but there weren't any good timings, so we went to play arcade instead. And then i wanted to collect more photos for yixin's smiley face project, so I got him to stand at the mini-football machine. But someone wanted to play and yixin couldn't play, so he lost his temper with me! How dare he. Of course I wouldn't forgive him easily, so I made him take stupid photos of himself and a video of him pressing his ulcer and making a different noise each time. Screenshot will go into yixin's smiley album :)

Turned out when we reached home, my parents were somewhere in bedok. So we watched a few episodes of flashforward together. I'm finally going to finish that drama! Haha and it was so warm yesterday night I couldn't even bear sitting next to yixin. The moment my parents came back and he left, I went to cool myself in my mum's aircon room. Insane weather in october!

Too alone!

(Yixin trying to be cute. And another mix from my visit to the universal studios. Taken with a nice app called Diptic in my new ipod touch!)

Quick post before i start my long tedious mugging!

Mum and dad are going to penang tomorrow. Yixin is happily in thailand shopping now. I'm going to be more alone than i've ever been in my life for the next few days. To make it worse, I'm currently fighting a skin infection that shows no sign of healing soon. That effectively limits my diet to vegetables and fish. And pork, the only meat i can eat. Terrible time now for a carnivore like me :(

On a brighter note, I received my ipod touch 4! It's already awesome without jailbreaking, and I'm gonna love it more once it's jailbroken. Done with my scholarship interview too, no more stress! Now I just have to deal with the upcoming mid-terms and tcm finals. And my rotting leg. Haii.

Finally it's Saturday, finally some time to breathe *inhales deeply*. I'm starting to feel that there's too many things to do, but too little time for me to do everything well. Just had my tcm mid-terms on monday (which I did horribly), and now finals are coming on 21st october. And because tcm is taking up so much time to revise- 18 hours of lessons a week- i don't have much time for other modules! Plus dance is getting very demanding with the many performances coming up. And i got myself into ureca (undergraduate research thingy) which will last the whole year and possibly until end of year 3. Am I trying to do too many things at one time? Was thinking about quitting dance, but persuaded myself out of it. 船到桥头自然直. MAKE TIME FOR YOURSELF ANITA PEE!

My LG lollipop

I've been meaning to blog for quite some time! But didn't quite find the time to. First I wanna introduce my very pretty new phone : LG lollipop PINK!
It's a very basic phone, but the themes and wallpapers preloaded are so cute! Here are some photos taken with the phone:

(Internal camera)

(He loves his PSP. Haii.)



Yea on tuesday i think, i had no lessons and yixin had a day off too, so we went to jurong library to mug. Went early in the morning! but apparently it was the september holidays so there were a lot of students. We went to the cafe for lunch and decided to study there. Wasn't a very productive study day after all, but at least i tried! Haha.

School's only started 2 weeks ago, but I'm already mugging so hard! With up to 5 hours of tcm lectures a day, it's getting very difficult to keep up with the teacher's pace. And I have 3 other modules to worry about too. Haii.

Yesterday night i went back to hci maf and saw many people whom i haven't seen in a long time! The school's changed a lot too, it's a bit unsightly now with all the construction going on, but when the MRT station is built it'll be such a wonderful thing :) Bought a hci logo-shaped lantern (quite creative of them!) and a cookie-man accessory to put on my handphone. Some photos taken yesterday (of course taken with my pretty phone haha) :

(Haha mingte's weird spectacle frame)

Marina Barrage x2

Yesterday yixin and i went to Sakura@cck 'cause we had the 30% discount coupon. Enjoyed the salmon sashimi and this prawn sashimi that looks like adult amaebi haha. There's this crayfish laksa that was really good too! Wish i had a big enough stomach to hold all the good food :(

After that we made our way to marina barrage, the place that so many people have been telling me about. Getting there is quite troublesome, since we still had to walk quite a bit to the bus stop from marina bay mrt. Didn't quite like walking through the underpass with its eerie yellow lights. The moment we got down the bus, we were greeted by the many colourful kites flying merrily in the night sky. How beautiful! The furthest kite even looked like it could blend in with the stars. We walked around, admiring the scenery and enjoying the breeze. Yixin said it's a good place for class gathering. I tried to imagine us all flying kites. Heh.

We caught the 1030pm bus and thought we were heading for marina bay mrt, but i didn't know which stop to alight so we ended up at the bus terminal, along with a few panic-stricken people. Hopped onto bus 106 thinking we could end up in bukit batok, but we passed by a few stops with 190 so we changed to that instead. I was so tired, i slept all the way back to cck.

So today i told my parents about marina barrage and my mum wanted to go there. We went to giant@imm first to buy some stuff, and i grabbed this $3.90 kite thinking we could go fly it there. Turned out it was such a lousy kite - all it does when launched into the air is spiral clockwise back to earth-.- Mum said all she saw was dad and i making a fool out of ourselves in a crowd of pro flyers. Haii.

School is starting tomorrow, can't wait! Shall go to sleep soon :)

No more yog!

Ah it's so convenient to have a blogging app so I can start blogging on the way home while I still remember stuff. And speaking of things I would remember, mr-boxing-handsome would definitely be the top of my list. He's here as an athlete role model, to give pointers to our rising stars and arouse interest in the young ones. And how mesmerizing can he be! He had a mock boxing match with one guy, and the way he dodged punches neatly, the style he threw his own punches out...I couldn't take my eyes off him. This must sound like an infatuation :) but it's something I haven't had in years! We had a group photo with him, which should be up on Facebook anytime soon. I ended my last day of work with very warm cheeks, haha.

Today business was exceptionally brisk at the yog merchandise store, probably because it's the last day to get souvenirs. The products were flying off their shelves! Apparently even the bunch of school children have their visa cards to pay for their purchases. Back in our time, we got handphones like in upper secondary only! So yea, the lyo and merly plushies were sold out, islandwide. Got money also cannot buy :(





Aww, so patient with kids. He didn't seem to mind them throwing punches at his palm, he was smiling throughout the session. :):)

Finally my yog duties are finished. Just a few more days and school will start! Can't wait!

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I love merly :)

I'm now on the mrt back home. Met yixin after work and took a walk around suntec. We really don't go to the city often. Chanced upon gelare and had their half-priced waffles. In the end we were too full to have the buffet I really wanted. We wanted to catch a movie too, but the timings were too far off:(

Yixin's drooling on my shoulder as I type. Haha alright that's an exaggeration. He's happily sleeping and nodding vigorously.

As we simply could not decide what to do with ourselves( to think it's our like 3yr2mths anniversary), we started walking. And we did walk very far. To the floating platform where we were rejected entry due to yog rehearsals, then along the bridge, past the merlion, through the Fullerton bay hotel, and finally we reached the place where they were having yog celebrations. I'm really bad with the names of places in town-.- There was a rapping performance going on, and halfway through fireworks appeared in the night sky, though not as long and pretty as the one I saw on Friday night. I decided we should walk on and find ourselves a bus stop ( while making yixin walk around on tiptoes for being irritating), instead we found this underpass which brought us to raffles place mrt after walking like 24km on foot.

This morning I had yog duty again. Took advantage of the relatively smaller crowd and took photos with the 2 cute mascots! Lyo was being exceptionally flirty today, and kept bullying quiet little merly. But merly was caught pulling lyo's tail too. Ahaha. I would miss seeing them once the whole thing's over.
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Haha it's actually in the morning now, didn't get a chance to post them last night. Photos coming up:















And that last one is me successfully doing a baby freeze, though still far from looking nice. Alright I gotta get to work, finally the last day!

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YOG

Haven't blogged about my volunteering experience at yog! Some photos to share:

This very cute baby is just so lovable! He would always laugh whenever his grandma sang "twinkle star" to him. He let me carry him, and I took the opportunity to get a picture. When his parents sat him in the big O, he kept rocking forward and backward and scaring all of us. Wonderful baby :) Lots of babies pass through the area everyday, they're such a joy to watch!

Yea this is the place I work at, and when there are times like this when there's not much crowd, we take photos!

That's the merly plushie they're selling over at the store. I'm so gonna get one for myself, when prices drop. I haven't been able to take photos with the mascots though, they're always surrounded by people when they come. Hopefully during my last two days of work I'll be able to get a picture!

Last friday some guy came around and told us there'll be fireworks at marina wherever. So after work we made our way to the merlion place (while getting lost on the way there, but we made it in time) and saw the most wonderful fireworks display I've ever seen. It sure wasn't as magnificent as the display at the opening ceremony, but I definitely had a very very good view. The photo above was taken with no zoom on my n93i. I was at the end of the platform, and the display happened right in front of me, above the surface of the water. It was loud, and smoky, and brilliant!!! :)

On sunday my parents came to the yog exhibition and we went off after my work to this restaurant that has "best ribs in america". Haha I forgot the name. There was this pretty koi garden right outside the restaurant, with big fat kois lazing around. We had 2 full slabs of ribs that were really delicious. Well worth the money, even if we didn't have the discount coupons.

My volunteering experience has been nice so far. I felt really proud when an egyptian official told me "Singapore is a beautiful city", and when this caucasian women came over to shake my hand and said "You volunteers are wonderful". Feels really good to know that we're appreciated. Food's great, and the other volunteers I'm working with are such fun people! We actually went to try out boxing, and I realise throwing punches is not as easy as it seems. Haha. I'm looking forward to the Universal Studios trip they're gonna give us as appreciation! :)

I spent some time reading articles with very negative comments with regard to the YOG, and can't help but feel sad. It's not like what they're complaining about is wrong. But all the negativity and pessimism radiating from the comments makes me feel depressed. I keep thinking, what if those people who slog their guts out trying to make it a success read this? Knowing that all their efforts have gone down the drain, not appreciated. I'm not talking about myself, so far it has been a great experience as a volunteer. Got to meet new people, learn new stuff, see cute korean taekwondo guys in action heh. I don't understand why people our age (i'm guessing from the way they type) can be so negative, only harping on mistakes made but not complimenting jobs well done. Is it the norm now, to blindly oppose whatever decisions our government make? Immature. 无聊. Such highly-biased, one-sided opinions...confirm fail GP-.-

每次我想要不顾一切朝着梦想前进，现实的包袱总会出现，我只有背着它走；走着走着就习惯了，脚步越来越轻，好像又可以继续冲刺。但它又出现。我很累，但我顶得住。只要我还看得见梦想，看得到我努力的意义，那再重的包袱，我也要扛着走下去。小小的蚂蚁可以，我也可以。

Jay Chou Concert 2010

Finally, the long awaited Jay Chou concert! How many hours have I spent sitting in front of the computer, clicking the refresh button every few seconds just to get myself a pair of tickets. I actually forgot all about it on the final day of ticket sales, but managed to secure 2 pairs (for mingte too) eventually. But the performance was definitely worth the price and effort! Love how he changes tunes and especially the lyrics, to keep his singapore fans screaming :) Wish I could have been in the front row though, to shake his hand! His singing ability is fantastic, didn't show any signs of fatigue right until the last song 霍元甲， which i think was unplanned since there weren't any lyrics shown. He was super high, as were we, and he insisted on ending the song with chants of 新加坡，新加坡 HAHA. Damn high, the whole stadium was filled with our chanting. I wish it didn't have to end so soon, I wanted to hear songs like 发如雪、菊花台...too many songs to choose from le la. It'll probably be very hard to choose songs in another ten years. Oh and halfway through the concert he tried to make us all stand. "椅子不是用来坐的，是用来放包包的。。。我知道新加坡人很害羞的，你们不站，我就不唱！”Heh. So we obligingly stood for the rest of the concert. Which isn't a bad thing, I find it's easier to get high this way.

...I'm already looking forward to his next concert in singapore! :)

Night safari on a random monday

Yup looking at our one and only photo we took at the night safari I realised I haven't blogged about it at all. Haha. So on a random monday, I forgot which day was it, yixin and I set off from AMK mrt on a very old bus that makes a lot of noise to the night safari. It was a long trip, we should have taken the bus from CCK instead.

There weren't a lot of singaporeans, the place was mostly filled with tourists from all over the world. Not much food to choose from, given that a plate of chicken noodles sell for $15 there. We settled for the more reasonable western food, and ate by candlelight. Haha. First thing we did when we entered the safari was to queue up for the "Creatures of the Night" show. We took the photo while waiting for the show to start! :) Yea specs on, so I won't miss anything heh. Hmm, i remembered the crowd freaking out when they announced that they lost an animal and it turned out to be a snake? python? hiding beneath a row of seats. And the cute otters too, trying hard to toss metal cans into the recycle bins. I suspect they are the same little otters at the zoo.

After the show we hopped onto the tram and looked at animals. The deer came especially close! We hopped off halfway to take the leopard trail. We did see a lot of leopards, but I was more fascinated by the fruit bats! The small little things just fly around the enclosure and amongst the visitors, as if we don't exist. Some of them were happily gnawing at their fruit, placed strategically along the pathway so that we get to see their cute manner. The flying foxes looked a little scarier, hanging from the trees upside down and looking as though they might transform into a vampire anytime. Not a bad thing though! We went to another enclosure with the red flying squirrels, but they were more interested in eating than fly around. Such a pity, I wanted to see a real flying squirrel in action.

There are 4 walking trails in total to cover, but we were so tired after taking the tram back that we headed straight home. A bit wasted! If I'm ever going back again, I'm going to get more sleep the night before and wear comfy shoes.

PANDAMEN ♥

Finally, two more days of work and I'll be free! Been slacking a lot these few days, usually I spend my afternoons watching PANDAMEN ♥ It really isn't that bad, not the worst that I've watched so far. Love the behind-the-scenes after every episodes, I get to see Jay working hard. 认真的男人最美丽！

Finished the second book Daniel lent me - 楼下的房客. Immediately after putting down the book I googled the song "Gloomy Sunday", and it gave me all the creeps. I know the myths about it being linked to suicides is not true, but when associated with the storyline...I cannot fully explain it here, but imagine this scene: A petite lady, wearing a silky white dress, makes her way down the dim staircase, dragging with her a large black garbage bag. The uncomfortable dull thuds the bag makes with each step, the light yet crisp sound of her heels, and her quiet humming of "Gloomy Sunday". The bag breaks, a streak of red substance appears, and the sight of a head with 2 pencils stuck in each eye... Yea, that scene was even more vividly described in the book, in chinese! Urghh I'm having goosebumps just writing about it here.

On a happier note, er, urghh that image, yea I shall write about what I've learnt during this period of work. I've definitely met a lot of people I wouldn't have a chance to meet if I were to remain in my current social circle. Shiyun Qiaohan and I are probably the only people in the office to have been in university. Most of the rest graduate from ITE. The way they speak is definitely not what we get to hear every day, but they do know of things that I usually don't think about. It's like, their problems are more related to their survial, literally, like having money to feed themselves. Me? I worry all day long about not getting a scholarship to please my mum. It's the same issue - money, but somehow I feel my worries are superficial. And then I get to talk to the older girls too, and learn that they think the young ones are too immature. The older girls are more experienced in their way of handling work and people, they don't show displeasure or complain openly, but talk about it in private. I'm like stuck in the middle - I can relate to the younger ones (actually almost my age) and I can hold a conversation well with the older ones. In a way, I get the best of both worlds! Ahaha. My Excel skills have also improved loads! But I don't think I'll do a lot of excel work in my future career.

Hmm, looking forward to Jay's concert next next Sunday!

Eclipse+Our stories

I watched ECLIPSE today! Was very high throughout the movie, I think it's much better than the previous two. I'm so gonna get the DVD when it comes out. It's a good balance between romance and action and some sense of brotherhood (the alliance between the vamps and werewolves). Oh, and the new vamp RILEY is super good-looking :)

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We celebrated our 3rd year on 24th June. It was pretty much a normal night out, in order to make it more special, I made him go to IMM with me. Just thought we haven't been there for quite some time. He was all for going to causeway point like always, and spend the night playing arcade-.-How unromantic. We had dinner at Ichiban (still, like always), but I made the effort to be very happy and not be angry with him for whatever reasons. It turned out to be a very joyous night, especially after he gave me his 'present'. It's an essay, documenting our story from his point of view. Shall share some parts of it here:

我第一次注意到妳的时候是某个破冰游戏当中。记得好像是叫“狗与狗骨头”吧？不管啦，名字不重要，重要的是我俩的邂逅。还记得，你当时站在我的对面，一眼望去，是觉得蛮漂亮的。最吸引我的地方应该是你的马尾和眼睛吧。就觉得以后的女朋友是这样就好了。当天回家途中，友人问我班上女孩怎么样，你的样貌立即浮现脑海。

6月24日。我还依稀记得，2年前的那一天，我有多么高兴，自顾自地手舞足蹈，欢庆这从天而降的礼物。6个月的追逐，终于获得回报，我暗自庆幸自己的运气不错.

感觉上，德光岛好似监狱一般，一个巨型的鸟笼。目送着你们离开，尤其是你，我差点落泪了。

每个人都说，当兵有女朋友不好，容易分手。我觉得，女朋友好的话，不用怕，她会和你一起渡过难关。谢谢你，我的亲爱的.

我现在只希望做一个简简单单的老师，成家立业，将你迎娶过来。服兵役的两年里看来并没有预期中的无聊。我们三年的纪念日近了。在这富有纪念性的一天，我却只想和你在一起吃一顿简单的一餐。好期待。

Haha. I gave him a hug after reading the whole thing and made him very happy too. After that we went out to the open area (rooftop garden?!) and watched kids running around, as well as a couple playing tic-tac-toe in the playground. It felt very nice :)

So I shall share here an incomplete version of our love story, from my point of view. I don't know how long I'll take to finish it, or if I'll ever finish it. We were planning to sell it at our wedding for some income. Haha. Here it is:

今天是我们的三周年纪念日。也是我读完「那些年，我们一起追的女孩」的这一天。现在满脑子流窜着万种情绪，让人耳晕目眩。我想要写出我们的故事-一段很平 凡，平凡得很幸福的恋爱故事。少了海枯石烂，天真烂漫的故事。
我们的相遇，发生在初院迎新会的第一天。他的说法是，在玩「狗与狗骨头」（很奇怪的 名字，游戏的内容是两队有相同号码的人，在号码被喊出时要去抢夺一个破水瓶。。。因为是初次见面，所以异常卖力，免得被冠上「弱者」这种丢人的称号。）的 时候，我站在他对面，他对我一见钟情。
肤浅的男人-.-
而我，对他一点印象都没有。他就是这么的不出众。
接下来几天，我开始发 现李一新这个人的存在。因为他还真是阴魂不散。我记得他当我的舞伴时，双手抖得我都不能好好跳舞，只注意到他好像不怎么愿意握紧我的手。我还对他说，别紧 张，放轻松。后来我问他，才发现他是很有心机地让自己无时无刻都在我的视线内，这样做任何活动他都能名正言顺跟我腻在一起。
真是奸诈。
正 式开学了，他被推选（或者说，陷害）为班长，而我成为副班长。彼此间的互动也随着增加。向来自认对爱情很有经验的我，却是最后一个了解他的心意的人。大概 因为他真的不太符合我的择偶条件吧，所以根本没去想那一块。朋友暗暗的戏弄，快速进展至明目张胆的「代替表白」。当时的他，在「留校读书」的掩护下，每天 都陪我坐在class bench（那是一个属于每个班的，很普通的bench）然后陪我回家。而且是很搞笑的。我们在class bench挥手告别后，等到我已经坐在巴士站里，他才会假装也要回家的样子来一起等车。仿佛刻意避嫌似的。他家在bukit batok，却硬是要搭40分钟一趟的67号然后中途换车。第一次追求喜欢的人，是应该要这么白痴的吧。
嗯，他没多久就向我告白了。那天上课时， 李明德当着全班的面跟老师说一新有喜欢的人。李明德是一新最好的朋友，现在也是我很要好的朋友。明德立刻被一新毒打了一顿，男生间解决事情的办法，只有暴 力。好像不愿我从别人口中听说似的，那天傍晚，他笑得像只无尾熊缓缓走到巴士站。
「你。。。知道我喜欢你吧。」
「知道啊。」我故作轻松地 说，心跳加速。并不是因为喜欢他，而是被告白时的自然反应。
「那。。。你觉得怎样？」
这，应该不是告白时该说的话吧。当下也不知道该回什 么，就说「很好啊。」被喜欢的感觉，是很好的。也忘了是怎么打发他的，只记得热热的双颊。
就这样，他展开了为期半年的追求。

遗憾

Shiyun and charmaine must be at work already. It's gonna be an exciting day, after all, not every day you get to see someone get sacked. I feel like I'm 幸灾乐祸-ing.

Yea I left off last post saying how I was excited about the new colleagues coming in. And they sure brought a lot of life to the office. A little too much life though. A colleague calls them the market - "the sell pork one, sell chicken one, sell fish one, sell smth-else-i-can't-rmb one" But it's probably 'cause they don't know the rules, so we made it known that no fb-blogging-msn what not is allowed during office hours (I feel quite sad myself, but often there's so much to do I don't have the spare time to go online). By the second day it was pretty obvious that only two were making all the noise, and one of them has horrible working attitude. Shiyun almost went to pieces teaching her. Haha. Like what charmaine says, shiyun can explode into a werewolf anytime just like Jacob. Ahaha. So yea, the management is kicking her out. I'm so curious about what's happening right now in office!
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读着那本《那些年，我们追过的女孩》，总让我感慨人生的很多遗憾。在我生命里陪着我成长的人很多，从他们的身上我看到该前进的目标。但是，引用很老套的话，这些人就像蜡烛似的，在点亮了我的人生后默默熄灯，不复存在。是不是所有好事都得有个尽头，所有想套在身边的人都不能贪心地留住。只能在拥有彼此的日子里，真心地对待。

是吧，也只能这样了。

Life now seems to be more interesting than when I first started working. Of course I still wake up unwillingly at 6.30am every day, thinking how nice it would be if I could continue sleeping. Then I would drop out of bed and make my way to the bathroom with one eye closed (with both eyes closed on rainy mornings), and mumble something to my dad along the way. He always sits at the dining table at 6.30am, reading newspapers from the day before. After washing up and eating I would go and wait for bus 300 which comes like every 5 minutes but I usually can only get on the 3rd one. Then mrt to woodlands, bus 964 to work. That was pretty much the routine for the past few weeks.

Now I wait for 300 at sunshine instead so I can sit down. At cck I almost always meet a friend who works at tampines, but takes the train to woodlands too. At woodlands I meet qiaohan to go to work together, so it feels less lonely now. I used to dread going to work because I didn't know what I was working for, but now I know what I'm doing. I learnt a lot from charmaine, a full time staff who's our age and hangs out a lot with us now. I'm also getting to know our logistics head better, and his instructions seem a little more understandable now. Just found out that he's a fan of 九把刀, and he generously lent me two of his favourite books. I'm quite addicted to the one I'm reading now - 那些年，我们一起追的女孩. I think my immune system has gotten used to the air in the office, so I don't fall sick. I don't even get too bothered by unpleasant stuff happening in office already, because having great people around me makes everything better. Also, having classmates working in the same office means a lot more common topics to talk about. Almost every day we find something about yixin to discuss (...more like niao him, heh).

Tomorrow new colleagues are gonna come in. I'm looking forward to how things will turn out, given that employment hasn't been very successful in our office. I'm actually excited about tomorrow! Haha. Time for sleep!

Knocking off soon!

I'm spending the last few minutes of work to blog now! I THINK I've done enough for today. Haha.

So Susan has left work, and should be happily getting ready for her trip to taiwan. If only I could go along with her. Work doesn't hold much motivation for me now, only dearest friends at work keep me going. Even money does not entice me much. I hope my future career will provide a more enriching working experience. I think it will anyway, what can be more enriching than seeing all sorts of patients everyday!

Today I had pig large intestines and pig leg for lunch! Shared it with shiyun. The portion was really little, so we weren't full after the meal. Went to buy some snacks that are super unhealthy...and it's time for home! byebye!

Here I am, blogging again because I don't have anything to do before sleep. Life nowadays is just work, sleep, get up for work, repeat. My happiest time would probably be the lunch break I have with Susan and Shiyun :) Just got my paycheck today, and I'm thinking it's really not so bad to endure a bit of boredom for the money. I'll probably change my mind right after the long weekend haha.

Today I heard that 2 interviewees who got through decided to not come after all. I don't understand, they haven't even tried to do the job. Maybe they had other job offers, or just being picky. I imagined myself in their shoes - fresh graduate with high expectations wrt salary and working environment, and realised that I probably wouldn't stay long too. But I would give it a try first. And at the very least, call to inform that I won't be turning up on my first day of work. Common courtesy.

We had our lunch at Koufu at the nearby Woodlands Mart. I was waiting at the table for them to get their food first, when this grandma put her tray down right in front of me and totally ignoring my existence. I told her that the table is taken, and she actually gave me a look of plain disgust and wandered off somewhere else. Her friend (also a grandma) asked me again if the seat was taken. I said yes, and she gave me an irritated look. Hello, I respect that you are old and I would gladly let you have the table if you asked nicely and explained why you insist on taking my table when the table right beside had 2 empty seats and the place was pretty much empty anyway. I didn't feel very happy. But I looked as the other grandma walked around and couldn't find a table (for reasons I cannot fathom) and I decided to let them have the table anyway. Neither grandma so much as even looked at me while the other grandma strolled over to the table. Nice. And I always thought old people have good manners. I informed Shiyun and she called Susan while I got another table. I have never met people like them before, and I sure hope I won't ever.

Just writing about that incident makes me warm and awake now. But I really should go to sleep soon. Goodnight.

Chalet :)

So from Wednesday to Friday i had my long-awaited chalet holiday with yixin :) After just 2 days of work haha. Work was...it was a very new experience for me. I had the impression from my stint at Astar that organisations should be like that, with a clear structure of hierarchy and advanced IT systems. Everyone was so nice, no yelling, civilised language...haha. Not that I don't like the change. It feels more carefree in a way, at least I don't have to worry about being formal or stuff like that. Yet the work environment is also more restricting, there is almost no slacking time 'cause there is always work to do. I feel more responsible for the work I'm doing now. It feels like there's no room for mistakes, 'cause if work is not done properly someone else will have to clean up and he certainly won't be happy about it. To sum it up...I think I'm only seeing the real world now.

Back to the chalet. Check-in time was at 4pm, so I only started packing in the afternoon. Turned out I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to fit rolly's waterbottle on his travel cage. My parents decided to have a holiday in Kota Kinabalu during this period (-.-) so I had to bring rolly along. And after I fit it on, i realised i should have put it on only after we reach the chalet. One area of rolly's bedding was already soaked by the time I pulled the bottle out. I think rolly was concentrating on how to get out though; he had never been put in such a small cage before and looked rather bewildered. He did settle down after we reached the chalet and could put the cage on a flat stable surface. We took the public bus to Costa Sands - I knew there was a shuttle bus service somewhere but yixin insisted that it wasn't at the taxi stand, which turned out to be the correct place-.-

It was a very nice place, fully air-conditioned and clean. After packing and slacking for a bit we decided to watch a movie. I insisted on watching Love at 7th sight first, and yixin commented at first that he didn't understand a thing, and later that it was lame. I just thought Mike He was so handsome. Then we went out and got waffles and cup noodles for dinner, and some cheese cupcake for breakfast next day. We were back in our room when we realised we didn't have utensils to eat with. So we went back and got a packet of disposable chopsticks just for 2 cup noodles. Haha. Then we put 20th Century Boys Chapter 2 on. I think I dozed off near the middle of the movie, and had to pull myself up to wash up before collapsing on the pillow. Yixin happily continued the movie, I think I opened my eyes to see him shutting down my laptop and went back to sleep again.

We woke up the next day feeling all relaxed and lazy. I put Chapter 2 on again to finish watching what I've missed, and then the last chapter. It felt so nice to be slacking in an air-con room :) We could hardly get out of bed, but it was already 1 plus in the afternoon (!!) We made our way down to Wild Wild Wet since we had free tickets there. There were some construction works going on, so we didn't get to explore the whole place. I loved the lazy river most 'cause it moved so slowly ahaha. Floats there are FOC, they just float around in the water for people to grab them. The waves over at the wave pool were way more exciting than those at jurong, i even got dizzy! I tried the waves once with a float, and then with a life jacket. I think using a life jacket is less tiring since there's no need to hold onto a float. Can pretend that I'm surfing too :) After that we went to Hei sushi for its teatime buffet! But they don't offer free red plates :( I ordered one anyway, I'm so addicted to Amaebi sashimi! After that we went for a little bowling session. There was this super pro uncle right beside us, who smiled and nodded encouragingly when our ball curved right into the gutters. His ball, on the other hand, could make a nice big curve to hit all the pins. So stressed. I lost both games to yixin and he was so proud of himself. He didn't even make the hundred mark heh. Then we took a ride on the ferris wheel, just 2 short rounds :(

I wanted to have a movie marathon, but after watching percy jackson I was very tired already. I think it's the air-con, since I'm pretty much aircon-deprived at home. We slept till late morning the next day, and had a quick swim before checking out. The Costa Sands pool has see-through windows, I totally felt like a penguin in the zoo when I swam past them. Haha. We lugged our bags to Sakura to have their lunch buffet, and to our surprise, there were a lot of people queueing up for the 1 hr buffet thingy. A pity we didn't have any dbs/posb cards, or it would have been so much cheaper. I had a lot of my favourite salmon sashimi :)

Oh and I kicked my HDD off the bed while watching 赌侠. Now it just makes clicking noises and refuses to work. I think it's pretty much dead. I tried freezing it, putting it in an oven (and melting its plastic covering how stupid of me), whacking it on all sides. Haii. Will have to get another one at the upcoming IT fair. It's lucky I keep my important data across all my comps.

Alright here are some photos:


There amaebi!
I'm looking at the menu on the chair 'cause our table was too full! Ahaha!
I didn't have a waterproof camera so we could only take photos after coming up -.-

Handsome guy, pretty girl, pretty guy ?!!

A break!

And so my last paper is a week away, MCQs with multiple answers. At least I don't have to write. It's still scary though, it's actually possible to get it all wrong! I'll have to use my week to scruntinise my notes and look out for details :(

Jay's new album is coming out very very soon! I'm gonna go pre-order it maybe tomorrow. I have a really good feeling about this album, the two songs I've heard so far are SO NICE! It's amazing, everytime he releases his album he makes me fall in love with him all over again :) Such a nice feeling.

Some very late photos:

A long time ago jacq and i went swimming, and while we were waiting at the bus stop for the bus home, this little bird caught my eye! It didn't seem to be afraid of people, it was just hopping around very close to me. So I took out my camera expecting it to fly off anytime, especially when the flash came on. But it didn't move very much, so I snapped away happily haha. It's not very clear in the photos, but it has really pretty green shiny feathers! Or maybe all birds have them, I just haven't been close enough to one to observe carefully. The bird attracted lots of attention too, some kids were shoo-ing it around, and it just fluttered its wings a bit and came back to the bus stop. I heard them speculating if the bird was sick. Probably so, 'cause most birds would have the sense to avoid humans if they wanted to survive.

So I've been feeding myself a lot since I'm mostly at home now and my mum has to work. It's quite frustrating when the only things I can cook are porridge and egg and simple steamed fish fillet. And prawns too, but i can't seem to get the sauce right. I hope jacq didn't get a tummyache from eating those prawns :( I kinda asked my mum about it, shall try again when I have prawns in the fridge. Heh. Yesterday I made yixin porridge and fish while I gobbled down the kfc he bought back. He sulked throughout the meal. HAHA.