Our Lunch Spread.

Me and my Snowflakes... (pendant and card)...no prizes for guessing who drew the card. Heh.

my laptop broke down, I made my mom pay for a new one. She said its my 3rd one, including this PDA. When she asked whether the PDA is a necessity, I felt like I had done her a great disservice. Like I squandered 900 bucks....

In an attempt to justify the money I spent on the black eyed peas concert, I must blog about them to further make a memory of it.

To start off, you see the roads to the indoor stadium slowly lighting up by the headlights of taxis. Then you see a sea of people holding cups of Tiger beer, Heineken and Jack Daniels queueing up to move into the stadium. After that you enter this cycle of drinking, queueing for toilets and peeing, while waiting for the concert to start.

There was also a beat-box competition, which this 15-year-old boy won due to his wittiness and successful incorporation of monkey noises into his routine. It was, after all, a monkey business world tour concert.

the long wait for the concert to start paid off when Fergie finally appeared, with the rest of the band, and showed us her butt shaking skills. It was,undoubtedly, better than what I can remember from Beyonce. They started with Hey Mama, and after that the crowd basically went crazy screaming and dancing. The Peas really made the concert interactive and proved their stuff. Me thinkst Fergie can sing in the stadium, without a microphone. Her voice is SO powerful!!

It was the second concert i've attended in my life and I feel one black eyed peas concert is enough for a decade of living, not a lifetime. I can do with some destiny's child...

Things on my mind:

i scored low in pharmacology test, shouldn't have read the textbook....

no money

haven't visited buddhist temple

haven't written paper on buddhism

haven't started on dosage form project report

stupid India term paper needs a topic

jeremy is leaving me again, to boston this time

patho test next week

Patience:
I've always received hints that i'm a rather impatient person. Like when i'm in a rush, I say "excuse me" in a very callous way, as if i've said it a few times and my plea hasn't been heard. But from my point of view, i'm in a rush! For goodness sake, I would really appreciate if I can save whatever time I have, the last thing I need would be you blocking my path on a crowded road because you are chatting on the phone. Then if I whisper "excuse me" I dun think you'll hear. So to save all my whispering effort, I just say it, in a more audible volume. Then I come across as rude..... But hey, who was the one who bothered to say excuse me instead of pushing my way through? Who was the one strolling on a busy road?

Yesterday, my mom had a function to attend, so I had to take care of dinner. So I took the chance to prepare a western meal for my siblings. I had only 45mins to drive to the shopping centre, park, buy, pay, drive back...so naturally I wanted everything to be done as fast as possible right?

As I was going at fast speed down the rows, a group of kids were playing catching at the intersection. I told them to excuse me, then their mom came over in a strict tone saying, you must be patient with them, they are children. Then I thought, i'm one too! And more importantly, i'm in a rush so I was short of telling the woman to bring her children to play catching at the PLAYGROUND!!!

Subsequently, many things happened according to murphy's law. Things like, the supermarket ran out of lettuce, the driver in the car in front of me was talking on the phone, thus his car was stridling 2 lanes, including the right most lane.. Then we were taken over by a Kancil, the smallest Proton car, which implicitly means its very slow. Then the driver suddenly opened his door, while driving, to tighten his door. At the junction, we had to wait for an old lady to drive cross before we could go (gap between her and next car not enough for 2 cars to cross simultaneously). Of course all this happened while the clovk was ticking away.

While studying for Pharmacology last week, i thought:

Exams were meant to indicate how much students have learnt. People usually translate this to the ability of the student to understand/memorise concepts. However, it is also a parameter for a teacher's ability to impart knowledge. In university, the administration thinks that exams measure a student's interest and, more relevantly, their ability to take notes in class. Of course, one can argue that what the lecturer fail to impart, the student can make up by diligent reading. but basically i think all uni students can do with one month of intensive dictation training before coming to uni. i need it.

empirical results show that my hypothesis is correct.
my hypothesis is: results are dependent on the students ability to take notes in class.
the results: CAP scores of my pharmacy class vary by cliches. assuming that a certain cliche all share the same notes they have taken down in class and notes are not transferred between cliches, then, my hypothesis is true.

I think it's safe to say that everytime i blog here, it's regarding something i'm not happy about... so this blog is a sad blog. and i'm getting jealous of jeremy's blog. he has a hundred times more readership than me..and well, i dun blog a lot, i'm too busy.

something is wrong this semester, i dun have time for anything... really... every week one test...and along with field trips and papers, and salsa.... no time no time, no MSN too.... what luck...

and now, back to my weekend dose of TV

Disappointed:

wanted to have a slumber bday party at some hotel room, but the second i suggested it, my mom said a steady "DUN WAN" she said no need so elaborate....

Me was happily having my special order laksa for dinner when, out of nowhere, this guy came and sit at my table! intrusion of my privacy...

after eating a while, he dug into his bag and pulled out a laptop, set it in front of me, and started surfing/eating the rest of his dinner....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!you dun want to see my face, you dun sit at my table....MINE!

STIFF by mary roach

"Death, as in dying, is sad and profound.....[the cadavers] seemed sweet and well-intentioned, sometimes sad, occasionally amusing. Some were beautiful, some monsters. Some were sweatpants, some were naked, some in pieces, others whole."

so.... most of the time they are in pieces?

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New appraratus for the new semester.... guess what! PINK lighters....which we played and used as guns while waiting for the autoclave machines....was very funny, last week's prac was group work, then all of us treated it as a pseudo cesarean operation.

this is the Magic autoclave tape that industry people or researchers use to ensure that autoclave machines are effective....it changes colour! from white.... to reveal a secret message...

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YEAH! yay! YEH!

I watched the our rag performance videos today, at Xenbar... was very nice, we had many versions, like one at central forum, one at forum, with backdrop, one on field dry-run, one on the actual performance itself. i watched it 4 times, i mean the performance lah... from different angles too. and i still find new things about the video... coz many parts we broke in to small groups and acted, so interesting!! and the video assured my suspicions that i look chubby... coz from far away... i look good, and very STRIKING!!

am going to continue salsa. they say must attend 100 basic salsa classes and lots of intermediates and performance classes before we can go out for performances.... isn't so EXCITING??? and i'm doing some super saver deal now, 8 hours per week for $50....

excited excited, but school how?

Well, rag is over. it's amazing how i always find something to squander my holidays on, i love being a student. i don't like working. maybe that's why they pay you, and that's why we pay to be students (i know this is DUH) So this year i've decided to spend my time at RAG. and it's over. and school starts, and i want to do ISM, and it will be suicide. the only things i can remember about rag is the sweating, more sweating, and my injuries. i got hurt everytime i went for rehearsals. first were blue-blacks, then carpet burns on my knees. subsequently, it's more injuries on the same knee, before the previous one had time to heal. then was a big hole in my feet, coz somebody stepped in the middle of my feet during dressed rehearsal. and that means, she was wearing sillettos.

then it was the sweating, i sweat easily, so i sweated all the time i was in the costume and eventually stunk, terribly. was terrible!! and then have to were sillettos, and not only that, we had to dance on tiptoes in sillettos, coz of the field.....my legs were so sore, i only felt slightly sorry to slip off after rag, before helping them pack the chairs and clear the backdrop. and i was so tired, i slept from 2/3pm, all the way to 11 am on sunday. then i woke up, and massaged most parts of my feet and estimated the "damages".

the consolation is the company. lots of nice and interesting people from rag. good, more people for Salsa now...

TODAY we went KTV-ing, they are all good singers...i was easily the worst, but it was very fun although now, i'm very tired, need sleep again.

during rehearsal...

Me and jeremy were walking around in the city....not a very common thing, actually very rare, yah so we decided to walk around millenia walk. THEN, we found this nice waterfall thingy and there was nobody there admiring it, despite it being the weekend...So nice right? especially with that girl in blue standing there.....

Just the waterfalls

then there was this BIG shop what sells very ex and delicious tidbits... they have honey chicken flavoured potato chips and MOST-flavour beans...not every-flavour like that in harry potter. there's popcorn flavour, banana split, peachy pie, coconut, watermelon, the cinnamon and liqourice. the last 2 are for forfeits...it's terrible tasting

closer look

Went to walk at kiddy palace, it's D place for parents and kids. then we found this cute little toy tarzan....

and, it was engaging in some action with another doll too....

front view

and this purple handbag too... it's quite cool there's a metal ring to keep the bag closed, good for people who dun like to close and open their bags too often ie ME

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they are from Vinci......nice right?

its August now.... coming to september, and since this is my blog... i not paiseh to say: I WANT THIS PAIR OF SHOES

I FOUND SOME WONDERFUL QUOTES FROM SIN CITY!


[while holding a razor to Jackie Boy's face]
Dwight: I'm Shellie's new boyfriend and I'm out of my mind. If you so much as talk to her or even think her name, I'll cut you in ways that'll make you useless to a woman.

Jack Rafferty: You're making a big mistake, man. A *big* mistake.

Dwight: You made a big mistake yourself... you didn't flush.
[Dwight shoves Jackie Boy's head into a toilet filled with urine]

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[a grenade lands at his feet]
Dwight: And everything seemed to be going so well.

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Dwight: The valkyrie at my side is shouting and laughing with the pure, hateful, bloodthirsty joy of the slaughter... and so am I
----later on----
Dwight: My warrior woman. My Valkyrie. You'll always be mine, always and never. Never. The Fire, baby. It'll burn us both. It'll kill us both. there's no place in this world for our kind of fire. Always and never. If I have to die for you tonight, I will.

i like this one for the violent streak i have in me

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Marv: I had a fight with some cops.
Lucille: Didn't happen to kill any of them, did you?
Marv: Not that I know of, but they know they been in a fight, that's for damn sure.



MArv is the most corny character around, my favourite.

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Marv: Modern cars - they all look like electric shavers.

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Cardinal Roark: Will that bring you satisfaction, my son? Killing a helpless, old, fart.
Marv: Killing? No. No satisfaction. Everything up until the killing, will be a gas.

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Marv: She smells like angels ought to smell.

So what do angels smell like?

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Marv: [at his own execution] Would you hurry it up? I haven't got all night.

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John Hartigan: I take out his weapons.
[shoots Junior's hand]
John Hartigan: [pauses] Both of them.
[shoots Junior's groin]

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Dwight: She doesn't quite chop his head off. She makes a Pez dispenser out of him.

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Dwight: Miho. You're an angel. You're a saint. You're Mother Teresa. You're Elvis. You're God. And if you'd gotten here about ten minutes sooner, we'd still have Jackie-Boy's head.


Miho is the coolest prostitute in the show, japanese with sharp swords and superb marksmanship.

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Dwight: Deadly little Miho. She won't let you feel a thing unless she wants you to. She twists the blade. He feels it.

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Becky: I don't do group jobs.
Jack Rafferty: Come on, get in the car, baby. We'll just talk. It'll be nice.
Becky: I don't do talk jobs either.

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Cop: There's no sign of him!
Marv: Here's a sign!
[hits cop in groin with hatchet]

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this is the funniest part... the whole theatre laughed..

Jack Rafferty: [with the slide of his own gun stuck in his forehead, and a one of Miho's shuriken in his butt, while crawling away on his hands and knees] Don't laugh, it's not funny!

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i just returned from watching my first RA show!! SIN CITY.



it's quite good for a first, because i know of people who were unhappy about the first RA show they watched...i like it a lot... although the lines were corny, but there wasn't an overdose of it. and it's funny too, funny in times of very gross scenes, prevents the faint-hearted from getting nightmares. and yet, it's very interesting, the different ways and styles of being murdered. haha, i think most of the characters on the show get killed in a gruesome way rather than the usual shoot and die... somehow, one shot NEVER kills a person. and it's very very difficult to kill either very bad guys or very good guys.

i give the writer of the comic, Frank Miller, a thumbs up for linking the characters and stories together...


FAV character: Miho (the cool jap prostitute with the swords and superb marksmanship)

One thing to note.... all the girls looked terrific!!!very good, considering most of them are prostitutes, wearing a minimal at all times

Me had a fulfilling day yesterday...i actually got to printing out the notes for my usp module: india, and earlier on, cleaned out my whole kitchen.... together with another of my clustermates. all the leftovers for last semester... and who knows, even last year...jeremy was there telling me to dump everything on sight... but i simply could bring myself to do it... it was such a BIG waste! i throw unopened packers of cheese (ok this one might very expired) and bottles of sparkling juice (sparkling juice leh) and spices and unexpired frozen cod fish fillet....so wasted... then again, one wouldn't be at ease eating those stuff...
SO, i threw them all away. had a good time hearing the bags of garbage topple from the 6th floor all the way down to the basement though...hahaha

then i went for Rag practice... can tell you that it's going to be a lot of fun performing and dressing up for it... it's very fun.. haha, cept that lil red patch on my knee which appears again after the earlier one fades away...THEN we tried cartwheels...the kind that the guy have to hold you up for a few seconds, hang in the air with your legs straight and up... and then come down...it's a big big challenge to me coz i've never done gymnastics or ballet before...and not surprisingly, many funny things happened. i was told, that once, i didn't catch enoguh momentum to go up, and it was very funny watching my legs try to wiggle up... and i was held up so long, my face turned red... from embarrassment and also the effect of gravity, pulling blood to my face.

had a long prac, then went for intermediate with another rag dancer who's also very on about salsa... we skipped dinner just to stay on. in the end when i got back to pgp, jeremy pulled me to the gym, without food. but it's good...at least i didn't do any running... and i had a very very good sleep.

For now, i have to read India, finish the preceptorship essay (should have done it long ago) and read Shadow of the giant...it's getting to difficult for me to understand. sigh

Blog
Today is a day worth starting to blog again. 1st reason being I didn't sleep in till late, instead I got up and went to teach tuition. Thinking of how valuably i've invested my sleep in....I feel happy.

I got my handphone cover problem solved too. (i accidentally ripped the top part off the upper side of the hp) Basically, I got a new red/maroon cover...now my handphone looks like new!

And I helped Jeremy solve his hp problem too..and I got an IR adaptor, so now I can continue taking snap shots and photoblog them!

Best part, i'm making good use of all my electronics: my Ipod shuffle to keep me entertained on the way to woodlands, my pocket pc to blog whenever I like. . . . this is the life man!!

since i was commenting/complaining to my friend about this, i might as well record it on my blog as well. for the records.

last week or some time "long ago" i went for a vendor training session conducted by guardian for activa and wenken. FYI, activa carries things like cellulite max and activawhite, "the extra effective whitening cream, which promises to lighten your skin by one tone after the first use, and effects last up to one week!" and Wenken has products like Glucoscare tea (which blocks your glucose intake and sensory receptors of glucose) and tongkat ali PLUS. be sure not to mistake this with the $60 beikin tongkat ali PURE extract which my outlet has been running out of stock of.

anyway, back to what i was saying, the activa reps were somewhat convincing, they managed to prove their claims to us, though some of us still have suspicions about it.

Sidetrack: activawhite contains titanium dioxide. this might aid in the whitening illusion, as it's white, any residue left on the skin contributes to the whitening experience. furthermore, not many people use scrubs on their hands. while a minority of us might use scrubs twice a week on our face, to "renew our skin", we don't really do that for our hands right? so i think, the effects would be less obvious if the whitening cream was used on the face. whitening by exfoliation that is...like who will apply the cream to half your face and compare before and after...even if you think it doesn't work, you won't risk your face for that.

back to what i was saying again, just when i was thinking the vendor training session wasn't all promo/publicity and fluff, the tongkat ali reps, of sorry, i mean wenken reps, came in and proved what we believed earlier true.

----excerpt----
i was freaking irritated at the tongkat ali reps. i asked about why their tongkat ali PLUS is so effective, they say, it's coz the contains TCM which strengthens your kidneys. then why does strengthening one's kidneys help testosterone production/rid fatigue...(speculating some theory on yin and yang balance coupled with five elements) he said, no no no, it's not that. but later when he showed me the product write-up, it was exactly what he denied.

not to mention claims like "no known contraindictions with western medicines" which one might interpret as: so studies have been done but no contraindications have been found. however, in actual fact it's: we never did any clinical trials, we just believe so. and their statistics has a sample size of 35.... that doesn't even allow central limit theorem to take effect.

hello world!

will not be blogging throughout my holidays, the place i'm staying does not have an internet connection, i'll only be reachable by handphone. and also at Guardian Causeway point.

yesterday, like any other day, me and my sisters drove to Jusco (the shopping centre near my house) to shop for groceries, to cook dinner... as we appraoched, we noticed that the perimeter of the carpark has been lined with cars... and even so, on the other side of the road.... same applied to all four sides of the compound... i was like OMG, who died... the sultan's funeral wouldn't even render sucha BIG response. as it turns out, 12 may is Hair Ahli Jusco...so there were discounts on household stuff, and we heard people shouting buy one free one, 70% discounts were the norm, every $100 spent gave you a $10 voucher...

i spent 15 mins coasting the car park, i was very sure it was full, but decided to join the corwd nonetheless. first we saw a very satisfied shopper (judging from the half-filled boot and 2 more trolleys of toliet paper and comforters and groceries) and, driven by desperation, i pushed my sister down to do stand in the parking lot to choop place. but when my sister ran there... we sighted the orange blinking lights of another car... signalling to us, "hey, i saw it first" or "Car is bigger than Man". So, my sister returned.. a few lanes down, the same thing happened until finally, FINALLY, a few housewives strolled across us. and something in my (smart) subconsciousness told me not to advance forward... and sure enough, their car lay at a very favourable spot for me to zoom in, and the car in front just didn't see it fast enough. so, i flicked my right signal light... and stopped in the middle of the car park. (prior to this, one must understand that all cars were just coasting along the lanes of the car park... very slowly, as everyone wanted to find aparking lot) so, what i mean to say is that, my car posted a traffic obstruction in the middle of a hot thursday afternoon in a packed shopping centre car park.

never did i feel so important, or had i possess such relevance, such to cause a traffic jam. HAHA.

needless to say, my sisters and i were spent after reaching home. but dilligent and fillial lil grace still went about preparing dinner for the family.

Dinner menu:
steamed egg
honey glazed chicken fillet
mixed vegetables in oyster sauce

Evil Twin Astrology

AQUARIUS - Jan 20-Feb 18:

You have an inventive mind & are inclined to be progressive. You lie a
great deal. On the other hand you are inclined to be careless &
impractical causing you to make the same mistakes over & over again. People
think you are stupid.



PISCES - Feb 19-Mar 20:

You have a vivid imagination & often think you are being followed by
the CIA or FBI. You have minor influence over your associates & people
resent you for your flaunting of your power. You lack confidence & are
generally a coward. Pisces people do terrible things to small animals.




ARIES - Mar 21-Apr 19:

You are the pioneer type & hold most people in contempt. You are
quick-tempered, impatient & scornful of advice. You are not very nice.



TAURUS - Apr 20-May 20:

You are practical & persistent. You have a dogged determination & work
like hell. Most people think you are stubborn & bullheaded. You are a
Communist.




GEMINI - May 21-June 20:

You are a quick & intelligent thinker. People like you because you are
bisexual. However, you are inclined to expect too much for too little.
This means you are cheap. Geminis are known for committing incest.




CANCER - June 21-July 22:

You are sympathetic & understanding to other people's problems. They
think you are a sucker. You are always putting things off. That's why
you'll never make anything of yourself. Most welfare recipients are Cancer
people.




LEO - July 23-Aug 22:

You consider yourself a born leader. Others think you are pushy. Most
Leo people are bullies. You are vain & dislike honest criticism. Your
arrogance is disgusting. Leo people are known thieves.




VIRGO - Aug 23-Sep 22:

You are the logical type & hate disorder. This nit-picking is sickening
to your friends. You are cold & unemotional & sometimes fall asleep
while making love. Virgos make good bus drivers.




LIBRA - Sep 23-Oct 22:

You are the artistic type & have a difficult time with reality. If you
are a man you are more than likely queer. Chances for employment &
monetary gain are excellent. Most Libra women are good prostitutes. All
Libras die of venereal disease.




SCORPIO - Oct 23-Nov 21:

You're shrewd in business & cannot be trusted. You shall achieve the
pinnacle of success because of your total lack of ethics. Most Scorpio
people are murdered.




SAGITTARIUS - Nov 22-Dec 21:

You are optimistic & enthusiastic. You have a reckless tendency to rely
on luck since you lack talent. The majority of Sagittarians are drunks
or dope fiends. People laugh at you a great deal.





CAPRICORN - Dec 22-Jan 19:

You are conservative & afraid of taking risks. You don't do much of
anything & are lazy. There has never been a Capricorn of any importance.
Capricorns should avoid standing still too long as they tend to take
root & become trees

well, after the long absence from blogging, here i am again...but now at home. been trying to catch up on all the fun i've missed while mugging... but it seems that nothing can make up for yesteryear's fun.

i brought my fellow pharmacy babes to my place... and had quite a blast of a time.... think "one of the best" duck rice, OOTB fried chicken OOTB wantan mee, plus seaside walks in the moonlight, thrilling roller coaster rides, full tank car, FOS clothes and OOTB company!!!!Oh oh... and mango plucking... on my roof...hahaha, anyone wants to see pictures please approach Cherie!or me.

ok, must look forward...i look forward to matriculation when i can buy a new laptop. basically my wishlist for my new laptop will be

1)IR port
2)USB ports which allow my ipod to plug in
3)DVD-rw drive
4)Light, portable and aesthetically pleasing
5)below $2000

and i have to plan for my ISM (independent study module)... really soon, year 3 already...old old

for the next one week...i should be reading... books like hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, da vinci code and no exit... hopefully can finish all.

while doing preceptorship...i must read up on pharm prac and make lots and lots of earrings.

today while checking out, the woman behind the counter said: Ooh, i like your earrings...(really? i made them myself) really? oh, we need more creative people like you around, you could really make some money with those (yah, i am... i'm selling earrings) Ooh, great...a little extra pocket money will be useful...here, you can go now, take care, and all the best in selling your earrings...

such a sweet woman, who would have tot that sweet and kind people existed in the pgp admin, or in admin for that matter...

i guess earrings acrosses all barriers...HAHAHA

Bicep guy CONFIRMED gay

made a big discovery last night, was studying in study room with 2 other people. at 1 pm, it was late and one guy decided to retire, other guy asks him to wait for him, coz "gay guy" was watching tv in the tv room and might bump into him. [previously, gay guy winked to my friend on the bus, and smiled at him on many occasions.]on further description, i realised that "gay guy" totally fitted that of bicep guy. and we confirmed it.

thus bicep guy shall officially be renamed Bicep gay.

Faced with such a sadist and cunning lecturer, Grace has decided to spot questions:

format of paper:

40 MCQ
5 Definitions
2 out of 3 long questions

of which long questions take 1 hour. Since lecturer is cunning, there's no use in trying to spot mcq questions coz everything will come out of STC, which nobody remembers or have time to study.

5 definitions, got it covered.

long questions (probable topics):
1) types of disinfectant, which to use or which situation OR compare and contrast tests for disinfectant ability
2) Significance of microorganisms in pharmacy
3) Fungi reproduction
4) Counting methods for microorganisms (most content... pao ga liao, must be her favourite)

Bicep guy in the Gym

bicep guy was in the gym today, lifting weightsand doing pull-ups, in a perforated sleeveless t shirt....like the netted kind....gross... gay....!

Today is a day to rejoice.

1) PHAMACO is over...... i'll be glad to say i can throw all the info out of my head, but i don't want to do it, because, logically, i'll need it later. and it's important information too, for my profession.

2) I reunited with a piece of metal, welded into a circle that has letters " Y E R M J E " on it.

Wah.... i opened my textbook today for the second time and found a world of information in there... i hardly felt anything like that for any textbook. after exams, i'm going to make it my leisure reading to read william.... he's such and interesting writer!

Things to blog about 2 days to exam

1) i think someone is stuck in the lift, and pressing the alarm in vain.

2) the 10 pm shuttle buses are full to the brim from muggers flowing out from libraries. i was caught in the wave, i got up the bus, last stop for the journey, stood at the stairs, i looked up and see the waist of the guy next to me.

3) i know that i've been studying my pharm prac when: i know alka setlzer is an anti-hangover drug and orlistat causes one to slim down, together with flatulence and fatty stools.

4)"pharmaceutical care is a prescription of what pharmacist should be doing" is it a pun or a typo?

5) sucking on hard candy will increase salivation, and thus increase the amount of air swallowed. so lollipops keep you from bingeing because they cause bloating.

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drug which gives orgasms when you yawn

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my bf showed me this biochem lecture at berkeley, i enjoyed the lecture very much, much much more than LSM 2101, although it's exactly the same syllabus. anyway, the reason why he wanted to show me the lecture was for another reason to why i paid attention to the lecture. the lecturer added trivia at the end of the lecture, which was very interesting. one on caffeine... and one on viagra.

caffeine is an inhibitor of phosphodiesterase. phosphodiesterase hydrolyses cAMP so it's no longer a 2nd messenger. and so, with less hydrolysis of cAMP, we get longer and more intense effects of whatever cAMP actives. thus, the effects of caffeine.

one of the effects of cAMP is that of lowering blood pressure. so, scientist found this drug, viagra, which is a phosphodiesterase inhibitor too. so they administered viagra to everybody at a nursing home. after awhile, the new drug didn't manage to lower blood pressure so they stopped giving the folks viagra. but a riot broke out, against the termination of the clinical study. and it was found that this new drug has other properties.

thus, this led to the discovery of phosphodisesterase selectivity. cause, viagra is an inhibitor for the phosphodiesterase which hydrolyses cGMP. and cGMP is responsible for "increased attention" and blurred/blue vision caused by viagra.

> 11.05pm, guy and gal were chatting happily, when guy uncontrollably
> yawns
>
> bad example
> ============
> gal (sounding out): you feeling sleeping??
> guy: yeah, tired from work...
> gal (sounds concern): ok, shan't disturb u, go and sleep lah
> guy: ok, you have an early nite too..
> guy hangs up the phone.
> 5 min later, phone rings
> awaken by the phone rings, guy: hello?
> gal: .............
> guy: who's this?
> gal (feeling unjust): you felt very bothered by me is it?
> guy (confused): huh? what?
> gal: .............
> guy: why? what happened?
> gal: you find me very bothersome is it?
> guy: bothersome? why you said this??
> gal: ..............
> guy: what's the matter? how i would know if you dun say it out?
> gal: we are chatting halfway, and you yawn, and went off to sleep...
> guy: b...but, you are the one who ask me to go to sleep...
> gal: you already said want to sleep already, what else u want me to
say?
>
> guy: haiz... if you wanna chat, just say so... what for tell me to go
> sleep, and feeling unhappy in the end?
> gal: since when i'm unhappy?
> guy: isn't this unhappy? ok ok, i won't sleep the next time, will
that
> do?
> gal: what's the point? i want you to chat with me willingly, and not
> because afraid that i will be unhappy...
>
> in the end, guy spend another ?comforting gal, actual sleep time is
> 11.40pm, plus the earlier argument, he did not have a good sleep.
what
> worse is the gal may argue with the same thing again the next day.
>
> good example
> ============
> gal (sounding out): you feeling sleepy?
> guy (tired vocal, but sound interested) : abit, tired from work. but
you
> have not finished talking, carry on, i will be listening.
> gal (felt consoled): orh, but since you are tired, go and sleep then
> (still sounding out)
> never fall into the trap and hang up the phone
> guy: there's no afternoon break today, indeed more tiring. how abt i
> give u a call tomorrow morning. let's chat awhile more ok? (tells the
> reason, and offer make up measure)
> gal: oh ok. go and sleep now, you must be tired.
> gal is willing to let guy go sleep, but guy must do a bit more than
this
>
> guy: so what time you are going to sleep?
> gal: not sure, probably a bit later.
> guy: ok, but not too late, not good for health. i will be heart pain
one
> hor...
> gal (feeling loved): ok lah...
> guy: i love you the most! (even if eyes are shutting also must
remember
> to say this impt words, else all effort wasted)
> gal: i loved you too, have a good rest! (happy till can float liao)
> guy: ehmm...
> gal hang up the phone
>
> in the end, 11.10pm. guy sleep peacefully, and probably a morning
call
> from gal the next day...
>
> conclusion 1:
> female wants feeling and care. most of the time, female's logic
cannot
> be figure out with a reasoning mind.
>
> conclusion 2:
> say a few more touching words, concerning lines, will save you more
> than ¨öhr of precious time
>
> conclusion 3:
> when encounter the above situation, must always let the gal hang up
> the phone first. else it will be disastrous...
>
> conclusion 4:
> if your gf isn't like the one in the example, then congrats to u!
> treasure her!
> but if otherwise, dun accuse her of being unreasonable. what she
wants
> is very simple.

Your dating personality profile: Funny - You laugh often. People never accuse you of lacking a sense of humor. You don't take yourself too seriously. Traditional - Modern culture does not move you. You hold traditional values dear to your heart. Sensual - You are not particularly shy when it comes to your sexuality. You know what you like and do not feel inhibited.

Your date match profile: Conservative - Forget liberals, you need a conservative match. Political discussions interest you, and a conservative will offer the viewpoint you need. Outgoing - Shy and timid people are not who you are after. You need someone with a vibrant personality to breathe life into a relationship. Religious - You seek someone who is grounded in faith and who possesses religious values. You believe that a religious person can enhance your life.

Your Top Ten Traits 1. Funny 2. Traditional 3. Sensual 4. Conservative 5. Athletic 6. Wealthy/Ambitious 7. Religious 8. Adventurous 9. Practical 10. Romantic

Your Top Ten Match Traits 1. Conservative 2. Outgoing 3. Religious 4. Athletic 5. Traditional 6. Funny 7. Practical 8. Romantic 9. Wealthy/Ambitious 10. Adventurous

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More episodes of Bicep guy

today me and chuliet went down to tv room to watch Desperate Housewives. and guess what, bicep guy was already in the tv room. before DH started, there was parliment, then i was telling chuliet about the diff types of receding hairline... there was dragon lee, and then there was some guy who had a more advanced case than lee. when the next minister came on, bicep guy slapped his thigh and laughed out loud... me and chuliet were like *blink blink*..........

then another guy came in, munching on green peas with a lunch box full of more peas and tomatoes...

bicep guy: wah, healthy eating
green peas guy: you want? *rummages in plastic bag, plucked out a packet of oreos* you want?
bicep guy: ohh... i just had that just now....*starts munching on his packet of raisins*
green peas guy: you had dinner already? if not you can have this....
bicep guy: yah, i ate already...
green peas guy: really, really, are you sure you ate already?
bicep guy: yah yah....
green peas guy and bicep guy continue to talk over me and chu
chu and me: *blinks more*

i had a conversation with my bf yesterday, on the topic of suicide. then something i said made him very interested to meet my ex. so i figured, maybe it;s time to schedule a meeting and what better way to do it than to leave a msg on his blog, since it's awkward to msg him and say, Hi, my bf wants to meet you...

however, to my dismay, his blog closed down and in a very interesting manner...it showed a screen shot of some game...with his avatar caught in a fix, and dying there. and there's no link what-so-ever out of the blog. and the same thing goes for his best friend's blog. well too bad. and it's sad.

moving on, lately, i've been chatting with this ex-schoolmate very often recently, considering perivously, we nearly nvr talked online. and, well i'm still impressed with him, the same as in jc. and i find talking to him exciting. coz here comes someone you know, but you're not sure whether the person has changed, and it's a second chance to correct/change the impression he has of you. after quite a bit of accurate psycho-analysing, it came down to whether i could "show" my blog to him. coz afterall, a blog... is like a diary but it's public... but it's still private... so, after a bit of denying him access (this coz some hurt, coz unwittingly, i said my blog is only for friends, without clarifying myself further/earlier that i valued his opinion alot) he decided not to try to search for it coz i don't want him to read.

that decision really made me respect him. coz my blog, is so easy to find. and even after i stated the link, he didn't use it for fear it might affect the way i write my blog entries. well, i promised that it wouldn't change the way i blog, if he read it. to say i won't is a lie. but, not blogging about this, is breaking my promise too.

so this is for him. -cheers to your honesty-

ps: you won't find an entry dedicated to you anymore.. so your ego had better cherish it. =P

TOOK a Keirsey test

Free report for: grace

Guardians, are the cornerstone of society, for they are the temperament given to serving and preserving our most important social institutions. Guardians have natural talent in managing goods and services--from supervision to maintenance and supply--and they use all their skills to keep things running smoothly in their families, communities, schools, churches, hospitals, and businesses.

Guardians can have a lot of fun with their friends, but they are quite serious about their duties and responsibilities. Guardians take pride in being dependable and trustworthy; if there's a job to be done, they can be counted on to put their shoulder to the wheel. Guardians also believe in law and order, and sometimes worry that respect for authority, even a fundamental sense of right and wrong, is being lost. Perhaps this is why Guardians honor customs and traditions so strongly--they are familiar patterns that help bring stability to our modern, fast-paced world.

Practical and down-to-earth, Guardians believe in following the rules and cooperating with others. They are not very comfortable winging it or blazing new trails; working steadily within the system is the Guardian way, for in the long run loyalty, discipline, and teamwork get the job done right. Guardians are meticulous about schedules and have a sharp eye for proper procedures. They are cautious about change, even though they know that change can be healthy for an institution. Better to go slowly, they say, and look before you leap.

Guardians make up as much as 40 to 45 percent of the population.

so happy today... the air is cool and 2 people whose opinions i value a lot paid me complements...

one: i see u as someone who like seeing beneath the surface of things, as someone who's emotional, and rather critical ....

the other... haha... for me to know.=P

my second lava lamp. this time jeremy got it for me. i didn't buy it... and it's bigger and longer.... i mean, taller. and retro!

my newest creation, the feather earring.... more to come...right after the exams...

Tada! INtroducing........ the brillant, the gorgeous, the amazing.......pharmacy girls..!

We're so hot!....*sizzling....*

No matter what, we're still hot.

Yoo hoo!....here we are here we are, here we are again.

The Cinderella Story.....

Ditzy-Bitzy.... and Aiwen aka xiao wen....

PIck-a-boo....guess who..........

Mischy disappeared!

this pic is so... mischy... like TADA, like at me, with my jade necklace...*shakes head shakes head*

Hi CHerierie.....! so pretty, so photogenic, looks good in every photo.

sigh, been wanting to blog but have been either procrastinating or disciplining myself. the beginning of the week was havoc.... test, presentation, test... coupled from last week's presentation, report due, test, test..... it's.... it's...........well all i can said is phew!

now i'm given everyday to sleep as long as i want...but my ultimate goal is to not gain too much weight from my exam food supply and try not to spend too much (end of sem, i spent almost all of my scholarship money already)

*recalls what i wanted to blog about*.....too many brain cells fried during test preparation, the rest of the brain cells occupied for storing information until exam....but even then, cannot delete all info....coz apparently, in year 4 there's this big oral test where they put you alone in the room with your tester and you are faced with some problem, then you have to use all your knowledge, from every year(physio, anat, drug principles, pharmacology, law, pharm practice) to answer it. DIE DIE DIE. the new dept head has assured us that no life sci or chem engin student can upsurp our throne in the employment market. because of our syllabus and our quality of student (top 3-4% supposedly).

but, according to statistical information, if you take the top 4% of a normal distribution, you can't simply use this sample of the population, throw them back into the funnel (words of wisedom from quek) and try and fit these students into a normal distribution again (cap calculation). you will get screwed up results, low student self-esteem and discrimination against the "weaker" students. that, is where i suposedly am.

enough about cap. try as much as i can to say it doesn't matter, but if its the only indicator of excellance, i'll gnaw at it. coz i'm a very competitive person.

was going to cramp for pharmacology yesterday night. so i figured, i shall go to the study room to study, as much as i hate the stifling air there.

when i got there, first, no chair. oK, there were chairs, but the chairs were either occupied or broken. then when i made do with a backless seat, i saw pubic hair on it. as if it's not enough, a bicep-guy (bicep only coz he has scrawny legs but... developed arms and chest) came in and pointed at the chair opposite me with a bend at his wrist (you know the gayish way) "shall i sit here?" then changed his mind and sat in another chair.

today he's here again. asked to sit in the seat opposite me again, then shifted way again. is he gay?

today i climbed gates. and damaged my shorts, and punctured my palm.

honestly don't see the reason in being together when that couple quarrels every other day.

now i'm supposed to be nice to everybody. you've got such an ugly character, you always pick on the flaws of others while you don't see yours. even if you don't look good, there might be something worth loving in your character. but if you already have such an ugly heart, there's really no point in trying to beautify yourself.

love the way you are. but it really kills others if you don't make an effort to shape up. actually what really kills is that all the effort that went to eating less, avoiding snacks and exercising, all goes to waste. now all you see is just a blob...you'll never believe that the former actually happened. and you remind the victim of its self consciousness at every opportunity. even if you don't mention, the mere glance you give, convicts.

hate being told what to do, worse if it's good advice. coz you cannot take it. you know its good advice and you should just apologise and accept. but it just doesn't work that way. you want so bad to rebel against that instruction and not follow it. next thing you know, you got a partner who's telling you what to do and what not to do. the exact reason why you ditched the last one.

what to do, they are just so concerned about you, they want you to turn out well.

why can't we be evil, mean and superficial.

one of my group members has proven himself to be a true gentleman. (i really wonder how his parents taught him to be so, i want to know...) while walking towards a door, i was walking in front. as we approached, i hastened to open the door for both of us. BUT


he ran (so that he'll reach the door faster than i did) in front of me, so that he was the one who held the door open for both of us. what is the moral of the story?

"A man should never let a woman open the door for herself."

(prior to this, after a separate group meeting, we offered to carry my laptop for me. that not only lessens my load, but also frees my hands of anything. and he waited with me for the shuttle bus, eventhough he can just walk back to his hall.)
what do we learn from this?

manners transcends culture and race, if you ain't got it, you just ain't.....well, you just don't have manners.

was just looking at my "Kinsey" postcard today....( i see it everyday lah, but today,) i was thinking, people call sex-crazed humans "animals" but the logic involved is wrong!

in the animal kingdom, only dolphins and humans have sex for fun while the rest of the animals just have sex in order to produce offspring.

from this background info, shouldn't a human who is accused as "animal" be a little less or much less sexually active than a follow human being? and a sex-crazed human, is just a normal HUMAN.... unless one prefers to call him/her a dolphin...

LIFE IS GETTING SCARY, MUMMY ...
Friday February 18, 2005

At school or varsity, finding a job or getting married,
it's not like it used be

Dear Mummy,
I am feeling very sad.
Today in school, Zhong Guoren - my classmate from China -
beat me again, in a maths test.
That boy is an unstoppable genius machine.

Last week, he beat me in sports too.
If he were not here, I would have come in first and gotten a gold.
But because the Government says we must welcome foreign talents to
increase our population and to improve our economy,
I got a bronze instead. This sucks.

At first, we laughed at them, because their English was not very good.
Their maths and science were good,
and their Chinese was excellent
(but who cares about Chinese language, right?).
But then, their English got better and now,
they are kicking our backsides in this subject too.

I think we should get the Government to do something about this.
Why didn't you have more babies, Mummy?
I wouldn't mind having a brother or a sister to play with.
I am an only child, and because you and Daddy are not
making enough babies, we have to get people from other countries,
people who make it hard for me to be number one in my class.

I think you are very selfish to just have me, Mummy.
I don't like to lose, Mummy. I am used to being first in my class.
And my school was very small too, like Singapore,
so it was easy to be first. Now my school is bigger,
and I have to fight harder to be first.

Why can't we just compete with ourselves,
among Singaporeans only (okay, and maybe Permanent Residents)?
Why can't they have a new category for all the tests and CCAs?
We could have a Best Local Maths Student category and
a Best Local Sportsman category, then at least,
if I don't win Best Maths Student,
I can be Best Local Maths Student and feel better about myself.

Just like my school is ranked one of the
Top 20 Value-added Secondary Schools with a Special Assessment Award
for Knitting CCA, I also want to be a top student.

Maybe we need to have a new category like
"Top 20 Value-added Secondary Schools (Got China Students)".
This is because our school has smart foreign students and
should be ranked separately so that schools without
smart foreign students won't feel so jealous.
And, maybe, we should drop Literature as a subject too.
I hate Literature, hard to score "A"s.

In fact, we should have streams like EM1 (Local) and
EM1 (Chinaand Others).
Let the smart Chinastudents have their own stream.
I want to go to university when I grow up,
especially the National University of Singapore (NUS),
because our newspapers say that NUS is even better than
Princetonand Cornell in the United States.
But I hear there are many brilliant Chinastudents in NUS, too.
I don't want to be having private tuition until I am 25 years old,
just to keep up with my foreign classmates in the Uni.
Or else, I will have no time to meet girls and
then I will be forced to go to Vietnamand Kelantan to
find a wife when I want to start a family.

In fact, I am very upset with foreigners competing with us
even in this area. All the girls I know say that when
they finish studying and go to work, they want to marry ang mohs,
because Singaporemen are unromantic and
do not want to know how to make a girl happy.
So, the ang mohs are even stealing our women.

I prefer to marry a Singaporegirl, of course,
but only if she knows how to cook and wash,
and peel my prawns for me (like you, Mummy).
But nowadays, Singaporegirls are so fierce, just because they study,
and earn their own money.

Maybe that is why in Chinatown, I saw this big Singapore Rooster,
and it was sitting on eggs. I think the Singapore Hen
left him to look after the eggs,
because she had to work and do all the things an educated Hen does.

I also worry I cannot find a job when I am older. My friend,
Ah Hock, tells me his mother feels all these Chinese foreigners
are stealing our jobs and our men
(and the ang mohs are stealing our women).

That is very scary, Mummy.
You told me many Chinawomen are in Singaporeonly to do naughty things,
like relieve old men of their Central Provident Fund money.

Once an uncle wrote in the papers that we should catch those
foreign women who are tall, have long hair and legs,
and wear tight, revealing outfits in black or red and
behave coquettishly.

I think we should only accept foreign women who are short,
have short hair and legs, and wear loose,
covered-up outfits in white or blue, and behave like a man.

Okay, Mummy, I have to go to my Chinese,
maths and science tuition classes now. If I don't go,
I won't be able to beat Guoren.

Your son,
Khia Soo

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This is article is full of controversial topics

6 weeks : I love U, I love U, I love U.
6 months : Of course I love U.
6 years : GOD, if I didn't love U, then why the hell
did I propose?

Back from Work:

6 weeks : Honey, I'm home.
6 months : BACK!!
6 years : What did your mom cook for us today??

Gifts:

6 weeks : Honey, I really hope you liked the ring.
6 months : I bought you a painting; it would fit the
motif in the living room.
6 years : Here's the money. Buy yourself something.

Phone Ringing:

6 weeks : Baby, somebody wants you on the phone.
6 months : Here, for you.
6 years : PHONE RINGING.

Cooking:

6 weeks : I never knew food could taste so good!
6 months : What are we having for dinner tonight?
6 years : AGAIN!!!!

Apology:

6 weeks : Honey muffin, don't you worry, Ill never
hold this against you.
6 months : Watch out! Don't do it again.
6 years : What's not to understand about what I just
said??

New Dress:

6 weeks : Oh my God, you look like an angel in that
dress.
6 months : You bought a new dress again???
6 years : How much did THAT cost me?

Planning for Vacations:

6 weeks : How do 2 weeks in Vienna or anywhere you
please sound??
6 months : What's so bad about going to Istanbul on a
charter plane?
6 years : Travel? What's so bad about staying
home???

TV:

6 weeks : Baby, what would you like us to watch
tonight?
6 months : I like this movie.
6 years : I'm going to watch ESPN, if you're not in
the mood, go to bed, I can stay up by myself.

this is for the twon brothers whose names are spelt backwards with respect to each other's names:
EZlink card - Double charge if alight at front door?


fyi...........................

Out of curiosity, I called the Translink enquiry line 1800-225-5663 it seems the undermentioned fact if absolutely true. They charge one full fare + 63cents for second deduction if flashed at the front entrance door, but willing to refund if complaint is lodged at the above tele' number within 5 working days, regretably who is so free to go through the process, so it's better to avoid such a catch. Maybe we should let more people be aware of the above misleading above transaction...............

Helpful tips for those use EZ Link card.

To those who always use ez card. Like to bring to your attention on local bus service provider.

Normally, when you board the bus, you flash your ezlink card and move in and when you get down the bus, you flash your card again at the exit door (located at the middle of the bus). We all know that if we forget to flash the card, full fare will be deducted from the card.

Below is something not known to public:-

But if you alight from the front door (the entrance) and you flash your card while exiting without informing the bus driver, the card will capture another entrance fare instead of exit fare thus meaning that two full fares will be deducted from the card as no exit was being captured for the two entrances.

For example, you board a crowded bus at Pasir Ris (where it terminates at Jurong East) and decided to get down ten stops later. If you flash your card at the front door without informing the bus-driver, a second entrance fare will be captured instead of exit fare thus you are paying for two full fares ( 2 X $ 1.90 = $ 3.80 ) instead of one fare (approximately $0.83).

This is a useful info. Here's the solution:-

Go to the "big" machine (ie machine for U to top up the card) located at the MRT stations.
(1) Insert your EZ link card
(2) Press the function key "Check card"
(3) Press "more"

The above function will show U the last 20 transactions. Information on the fare deducted, bus no, boarding time and the boarding and alighting point will be reflected on the screen.

Hope the above information is useful to U.

Please pass this email to people you know so that they will not pay extra charges for nothing and burn a big hole in their pockets. !

Last but not least, call the hotline line: 1800 767 4333 when the incorrect fares are deducted.

Rgds
Hasimah Kasiron

did i mention i invented a new recipe for delicious chocolate cheesecake over the weekend? i was making a cake for my sis's bday. you use 2 bars of philedilphia cheese cake, 4 eggs (with or without yoke) 3/4 cup or sugar and as much chocolate as you want. bake it for 40 mins or until it's baked inside ( always use a toothpick to poke into the centre of the cake) then refrigerate. the crust is standard lah..... it works out to be very nice.... coz i didn't have gelatin, so i improvised.

my pharm classmate put : can i film a show called DESPERATE PHARM STUDENTS? on his msn nick. i totally agree, we are desperate, but i'm not sure whether we are willing to divulge the lengths we go to, to get a first class honours in applied sci (pharmacy). the degree sounds stupid. but,

season 1: orientation, lots of fun, and laughter, scandals, eye candy galore.
season 2: the heat is on, first try at cap of 4.5 and above.
season 3: appearance of lecturers like eli chan and scum lai wah. hell breaks loose in pharmacy
Season 4: yet to be written

have been looking forward to going to ECP on a nice sunday, to enjoy the sun, sand and sea. but, reality just isn't what i've imagined.

left for ecp at 2 pm. that time, it was raining in the west. took bus there, got to amber road, walked to underpass, got to big splash... then walk walk, from 3.30 to 5 pm reach PA sea sports club, so that can loan a kayak. they say they don't have. and it's too late. earlier on, the sea sports centre also say don't have kayaks. and we didn't rent bikes, coz we wanted to kayak. in ze end, the guy at PA SSC say big splash got kayaks for loan.... *faint liao*

now i'm nursing a blister.

just came back from hougang, interestingly, with the help of NEL, i can get from PGP to hougang in only 1 hour.

Stef's bday.
it's the first bday party i attended this year. arrived there on time, but was the only one from st nicks there.. so i made friends. had lots of nice home-cooked food buffet style, and half the dishes where desserts... so naturally, i was very happy. (i type this while suffering from indigestion) there was pasta, bee hoon, curry, fried rice, nonya kueh, bubur chacha, almond jelly and longan, watermelon and pineapple, koniyaku jelly.....and the bday cake was green tea with red bean... very nice to eat too. there was mingling, laughing, photo-taking, and live performances on the piano and violin as mood music.... and relatives and friends and church cell group mates who really care about you. i wish i could have such a nice party as well.

usp lost again. this time to biz, 7-0. it's sad but.... one of the biz guys broke his leg or something but crossing his left leg in front of the right and then trying to launch for an attack. we heard the sound of the break from outside the track.

after that, i went to eat dinner with our star player no. 17 at fong seng and officially compared between egg prata and plaster. PLASTER is definitely the more delectable dish. then went to catch midnight movie at westmall, after which, had a nice stroll back to jeremy's house... had a nice nice chat joking and talking about books etc...of course there were some times when he decides to talk about philosophy, socrates, and Nazis... then after i tried hard to digest what he was trying to say, i drifted off.

i was all psyched up to trade-in my laptop this weekend, for $1000, my mom alerted me that there was such a deal. then on further "research" its only for laptops with pentium 4 and above. the money, is manifested in the first $1000 spent on the new Acer/compaq/NEC laptop that you'll have to buy. so, the deal was off.

thursdays are the best days of the week. it's when all the deadlines and test are over (for me at least) and no more pracs... and this week esp no microb pracs.....this is a very very BIG bonus. and the impt thing is we have a 4 hour break. initially it was 6 hours... but that's the point, we are free.

so we decided to have a cook-out today. and aiwen is the best, she brought all the ingredients and a peeler to prepare her cheese brocoli and butter carrots...... it tastes very good, and best of all, it's cheesy... all diff kinds of cheese and it's sort of nutrious... (think veg for grace who hates leafy veg)

then misch did our mee goreng.... very professional... got timer to time the noodles and must soak in cold water too. then i did heated up the stewed prok ribs and Fiona did the nuggets.

let me explain how fiona got here. we msged her to tell her about the cook out but she was having lecture and offered to skip it if we told her to. so, we decided: since fiona is already so naughty, she should be naughty for the right things for the right reasons. needless to say, she skipped lect. but it was a good exit. imagine in the middle of your boring lect, your friend says, ok, i'm going off for lunch, bye, see you next week and leaves...... hahahaha, that's so cool.

oh yah, we tried to contact cherie in vain, then we decided that cherie forgot her handphone again, this time her mum didn't pick up the phone.

then somehow, yi chiao showed up in school. he managed to turn up when all the food was finishing and cleared the remains and did the dishes... HAH! but he stole my uncle toby's yoghurt bars... ones which i'm saving for breakfast, so the bad treatment earlier is justified.

overall, had a trememdous day. no doubt there were down parts of the day. today is mom's bday but i cannot go home to celebrate it coz tmr got microb.........at 8am. hate hate hate... and my family decided to go to danga bay, now very nice, to eat at an italian restuarant!!! that's very rare for my family lah... coz my mom insists on eating rice... i don't know what came over her to agree to eat pizza on her bday.

Jeremy's prescription for PMS:

One piece of after-eight chocolate mints every half hourly
one bar of toblerone chocolate if symptoms persist.

Lovely picture which jeremy took pains to photoshop from the online calendar.....
Sophie: did you use your magic to create this place?
Howl: only to make the flowers bloom for you

it's been a long long time since i found the time to blog, partly coz i have nothing much to blog anyway. who wants to know what i do on a daily basis anyway. those who want to, ask me, or see me everyday (every school day).

but this week, i'm really really suay. i got a printer ink cartridge refill for $8.90 then the ink just won't come out. after i ran the printer to print many many, (>20) pages, then some dots of black ink came out. then i decided to go ORIGINAL, bought the real cartridge.... alas! i bought the cartridge for HP psc 1000 series, thinking that it will fit my psc 1210. but it didn't!!!!! and that cost me $45. then i went to buy myself a laptop batt, coz the prev one burnt out. (no more charging life) and to my dismay, the laptop only acknowledges the old burnt out one but not the new one....read: "no batt attached". so i spent almost all the reminder of my scholarship pocket money on things which didn't work. which also means, that i just threw $400 out of the window... on which i'm supposed to survive for the whole semester (end of april). now i'm only down to $40. !!!!!!

now we know why these are incidents worthy of a blog.

On a happier note, (you know how human beings, non-optimistic people, like to harp on unfortunate events rather than forget them), jeremy and me went to watch Howl's moving castle yesterday night. it's getting very difficult to find a convenient location which will screen the movie at a convenient time slot. and convenient time slot is after 6pm... seeing how terrible my timetable is... and everybody gets of work at 6 pm.....almost didn't watch it, as i was discouraged by the fact that my sinusitis is back, the bus journey to jurong point took a long long time thus no time to eat a nice dinner (contemplated billy bommers or fish and co), and the tickets for howl's were selling like hot cakes, and we tot we were going to get shitty seats.....but i'm glad i made the choice of watching it. jeremy doesn't decide, he always lets me decide coz that's what'll make me happy. and i'm quite stressed as i'm aware that after i make any choice, it's most probably going to be the outcome... makes me think thrice x 2.....especially when i decided to go shop around, and i wanted to go into Jennifer. and the first thing i picked out was a dress. so i tried it and surprisingly, it fitted well and hide my tummy... so, least to say, it looked great!. and it was on sale (50%) and the dress is now $70. how often do i find an evening dress which i look good in and jeremy is so willing to buy it for me. so, now that dress, is hanging in my cupboard, awaiting its debut. but i'm really happy about it.... coz it's a dress, i can count the number of dresses in my entire wardrobe, including the one at home, with one hand. by right, i should be jumping with joy... but i've had a suay week, and i have a tough week ahead (tests on mon, tues, presentation not researched at all on wed). but ..... i'm really happy (i need to find other words to explain what i feel, somehow, happy is not enough to express)

another suay thing: thanks to my bf, i now own an aromatherapy set, but, the lighter i bought last year doesn't work anymore. suay right?

jeremy's back.


when i saw him at the airport, i practically had no feeling whatsoever. i've been thinking and missing him for so long, i couldn't feel anything at that point in time.

he didn't cut his hair for 5 months... OMG. his hair was all spoofy and long (think alvin) and add a grey sweater, he looked like he travelled forward in time from trhe 70s.

first contact: grab me by the waist and hug me

to me, it felt SO weird... like some stranger was hugging me... can't believe i've been single for 5 mths then someone comes along and hugs me...not momentarily either... and i'm expected to return that gesture??

had dinner at bukit timah plaza... then went for his haircut and movie at westmall. haha, lucky we had enough time for the haircut and the movie... CLOSER is truely a good show... wanling is right.... it's very very good. i'm saying this not because of the lingerie...

not bad, after a while, i re-tuned myself to being in a relationship, and deeply in love at that... really don't want it to die off. but who are we kidding? it will ultimately die off.

paid $20 for the price of slacking away, played mahjong with mark, shiyuan and andy and lost heavily. it's just my fault to agree to gamble, and not do homework like i told my mom i would. but it wasn't my fault, it was yuan xiao (15th day of CNY) and i was alone in a foreign country, and there was no mambo session, nobody to eat dinner with me, shiyuan called, so i immediately agreed. i regret.

have spent a lot this week. mon went shopping spent $57, withdrew $50 as my pocket money for the week. then lost $20 at mahjong, then top up ez link card $10, spent $91 on jeremy's present...all $200 gone.... to think i was being happy i kept to my limit of $50 per week.... what a spendthirft!

Term break at my place
haha, been wanting to blog about it... but i was just super stressed about all my schoolwork, worrying whether i can cope with 4 projects, plus jeremy coming back on sat, plus me slacking around ( i try not to slack... but out of so many days, only sunday and thurs were prodcutive, coincidentally, they are the 1st and last day of term break)

brought wanling and her welfare com guys to my place... basically it was a food holiday, anybody coming to malaysia should just eat all the nice food... that's the most worth doing... shopping isn't that great... but the market and things on sale are diff from those in singapore...diff tastes. i myself didn't shop in johor... shopping with waikit and co was an equal eye opener to me... i didn't even know that there was rotiboy in city square....

came to my place, watched MEAN GIRLS, haha was funny.... i think i watched it 3x already...then play truth or dare... (didn't know that we could still dig new secrets from each other, basically i was the only stupid one who surrendered info, the rest of them esp the guys didn't contribute anything, alivn "forgot" everything we wanted to know about) then the guys stayed up to watch football at 3.30 am and in between my dad gave a lecture ( i forgot to consciously time how long that took) and seeing how irrelevant my dad was, and how bad his english is...it's understandable, but lots of grammar and vocab mistakes?, i tried to end the lecture by asking him to watch tv or start playing bridge with the guys.... how rude i was... but, it was early in the morn, if my dad went on, we'd have drifted to sleep.

got to show everybody that i could also drive... but by some miraculous stroke of luck, the car engin starter decided to fault when i tried to start the engin to drive to dinner...it didn't fault earlier (at the shopping centre car park), not later at the restaurant, but outside my house) so we all started to manouvre the car into the porch... was hilarious, and wanling was the best, she ran into the house, took her digicam and took pics of us toiling away. but nonetheless, the "holiday" was interesting... alvin found naruto 28 and 29... he's so happy..haha

went to orchard today, more repcisely, Far east plaza... i don't really shop at any other place. i was thinking of waxing... then didn't do that, wondered of to buy myself a denim skirt which i wanted so long... a casual bottom.... so i don't look so overdressed, more like a science year 2 student, instead of some arts year 3.....

and then i saw a shop selling casual tops at $5.... i don't mind spending on them... it's probably going to last me 2 years, which is the rest of my uni life... don't think i'll be wearing those clothes while working... so... yah. good enough, there was a pink (what do ytou call that thing which is like a spag strap but has only one side) and 3 other tops, in green, yellow and pale blue... wanted to try other colours, but only blue had that design... i KNOW i have many many blue tops already... but what to do i look good in blue mah....


then bought 2 lace panties... (info overload)....but i have to blog about it... i'm proud of myself...

for my info, brazillian wax is $35 min....

finally the sem has come to half time.....sigh.... the only thing i'm happy about is that jeremy's coming back. have 4 projects to do...yah yah yah i rattle on about my 4 projects everyday and nvr really try to complete them. and then i go about my life doing things like salsa, salsa, salsa ( i don't think i'm doing anything else). then take up my time and energy. sigh, now i'm not even doing anything jewelry making. so stressed... i put on weight....now i look terrible.

plus today got sports carnival. 9am to 2 pm. my sister say i'm very free. then got burnt on my limbs and face and neck.... if i went naked, or not with t shirt i might have gotten myself tanned red but that's besides the point. the point is i'm complaining/ahppy with myself that i got myself tanned. coz going by usual convention, tanned = fit. so...but i'm super red...hope the burns subside quickly. if they don't, i can't wear any top which does not have a round neck cut.

i bought my first bottle of aloe vera gel, first bottle of something that deals with sun burns.... even the bottle of sunblock i have at home was bought by my mom... and it's been there since i can remember.... so those are not counted. feel so rpoud of myself... but aloe vera gel does not treat burn, it just soothes the pain... which is not good enough, coz have to reapply and reapply all the time. i've even taken the trouble to move down to an air-conned study room (like what i'm doing now) to help matters.

did i mention that i was refereeing handball tournament today.... i think there were 10 matches... we were playing round robin.... siao! i never concentrated so hard for games before. one match after another... was very dehydrated, am seriously burnt and was very tired. partly coz i slept at only 3 am yesterday night, was using msn, i crashed after bathing. didn't have lunch... only had a piece of bread for breakfast which i stole from the fridge. i'm sure they don't mind... bread is always hardest to finish...

anyway, i decided not to go back to malaysia today, hope i dun live to regret it tonight... might feel lonely... didn't have my chicken chop from the western food stall at the non air-con canteen so i don't feel so good. plus when i realised it was chingay today... i couldn't make it in time to get a seat at orchard.... so... very sad, i've always wanted to watch chingay live...now i that i have the freedom to, i'm too tired to do so. very soon i'll grow old and lose the energy to go out. (oh no, i'm turning 21 this year, so old, adult...but still very much in the control of my mum)

must blog this, and have a record, so that i won't forget. (of late i've been very scatterbrain. i leave my room and soon i create a ist of things i forgot to bring eg watch, covered-toe shoes, my RING!, handphone, book, notes, prac manual..... everything.

had a reasonable happy valentine's, lets forget the bad events. (but it did cause me really really swollen puffy eyes this morning) yah. Thank you Simin....=) for the basket of joy she helped jeremy make. with ferreros and a bouquet of 12, with nice decor and rose petals which will flutter to the ground when the wind blows, serving as a testimony to my passing by.

chocolates, Wonderful in occasional servings, once a day, but will be undervalued if there's too much. overflow of chocolates, i must say, in my pharmacy class..... girls are sweet little things... cakes, cookies, chocolates... everything.

sometimes, you just lose the fire to blog, then out of a sudden, you realise the importance of a blog space.....

today i finally bought the FMH collector's edition... the one with half undone bikini model on the front. wanted to see what's so fantastic about the girls, and also to watch how guys peep/steal glances at the contents of the mag, especially when a girl's flipping thru it on the mrt.

hahaha, but i must say, i could have found a better timing.... at 9.30, the mrt is just too sparse.... didn't get a lot of responses.

to start, all 3 guys, sitting on the left and right of me, peered over my shoulder to look. including the girl whose gf was with him. then there was an old man who had to take off his glasses, rub his eyes....

nothing else much....but best asians goes to thailand, best girls to US, hottest positions goes to thailand, and fav piece of clothing... on steph song. the blue and white one.

firecrackers....this is really small fry, when i was driving home, we saw fireworks, just bursting into a flower formation in front... so nice. good to have rich neighbours who can get their hands on good fireworks, and living in malaysia..... but i take that back, just today, there was no water supply....what the #$%

my childhood playmate, cousin. missed those days.... the most outragous thing we did together.... hmm... bathe together.... (don't ask me why, and don't talk about it)

mi only grandparent left and her youngest daughters....hope she gets to see her grandchildren get married

my parents.... almost all their photos now are like that... but mom's very happy about every pic they took

MAHJONG galore!.... hahaha, the on-going game and advisees....so nice... the feeling, cousins playing together

yup, my takings for the day, so far, me have been spending the $$ i earned from the bazaar on lots of food (chinatown snacks) and these.... if you want to know what exactly i bought... you have to look closely. oh, the jeans were free, ha ha!

went shopping at orchard last sat. spent quite a bit, for a person who had nothing in mind.

Frosted chocolate malt. from swensen's. yummy! had a craving for chocolate one day, so we went to holland v, must thank those who went with me so readily =) had bbqed chicken wings, and duck meat noodles too. so, that thursday was very nice.... flashed my satisfied, happy look many times. chocolate malt is really nice!

EVERYBODY, i have an announcement to make, i've found another "fiona" to spoil. hahaha, it's my business partner, or whatever you call her. we're in the job together, and i especially bought the beads for this colour coz i remembered her saying she loved this colour the best our of all the pink or purple shades. well, you should have seen the smile on her face when i showed her this during lecture. hahaha. not that i'll spoil fiona less, that is.

this... is.... my pharmacy classmate. better not mention her name since i don't have her permission to paste her name on my blog. all ya pharm babes will know who this is.... misch says she'll be GOREGOUS if she really dresses up, already, she's so pretty... perfect model for necklaces... hahaha. standing beside a guy she might look like the pretty doctor's assistant.. hahaha... that's from aiwen. brillant colour coordination. have been telling alvin so many times that pharm has many babes...he's still not convinced.

This pic, Sylvia will know who he is. for the uninformed, it's basically the handsome guy who has a blog and friendster account with his gf. and they publish nude pictures of them "canoodling"....yah, even one at esplanade library. yah, but he's a track junior from NJ, misch and still cannot understand how we missed out such a charming guy, from sitting at the grand stand every morning.

HAPPY. happy after a good practice session of salsa. good meaning i tot i did well, to the standards which i can achieve.

but the door mistress is very irritating.... keep squeezing money out of us. granted we attended 2 lessons on one day, we should pay for it lah.... but....it'll just coz us to come to the bar less often.... and also think she's a bitch. yah... initially i wanted to just buy a drink and enter.... she insisted on getting our attendance cards... and she kept them until all the lessons were over... so we cannot say, oh, we aren't going to attend this lesson....*grrrr*

otherwise, it was a nice day, didn't have to rush around school, no rush, had nice breakfast at yih, the greakfast set, with tea, half boiled eggs and kaya toast, then printed notes, then crashed LSM lect aka most boring lecture of the century. during which, i finished the first of aiwen's tremendous jewellery order (very good though, more money.) yup then managed to keep track of what the pharmaco lecturer was saying, he was rushing for don't know what... and all the new medical terms... super jialat.... we ended at 4, timetable said we supposed to end at 6. so the salsa girls went to chinatown to have ah boling tang yuan and bak kut teh... so nice....... yah... but the bak kut teh could do better. yup then was salsa....

played the instructor's partner... very nervous, was scared i made a mistake, then all my lessons will have gone to waste, and then yanqing will have to look for a new instructor's partner.

oh yah, guess what, i say Joy....at her first lesson....to think i met so many people there. and i heard someone call me at the med lib today, it's a salsa kaki from xenbar too.... yay!

with good food and a great past time, i can only ask for less projects....