Berbonding-bonding

After 2 or 3 weeks being back, yesterday was the first time meeting up with friends. Everytime I come back home, the friends around are getting lesser, plus local uni has no holidays now, so that makes friends that are around even lesser. The closer ones are all gone now. I was at Papa Rich last week with my dad and for one moment, it brought back memories of me and WN hanging around there. Going out together used to be so easy, one sms and after 15 minutes her car will be waiting outside my house and there we go. Oh well, things have changed.

Initially, I only planned to meet with SK, but sms-ed with YS the night before and I asked him to join along. The most bizarre thing that happened that day: I was sms-ing CY while I was on my way to mv talking about meeting up the next day. After a few text messages, our conversation ended. Then, I was at mv, strolling around, waiting for SK and YS to arrive. I was at vincci when SK called, I picked up the call and walked out the store. Guessed who I saw, CY! I smacked him on his back and when he turned around, he was shocked for a second and after that keep asking me why you here why you here -.- haha. While all these happened I was still directing SK on the phone. hahaha. After the 4 of us gathered, I jokingly said there will be more friends that we will meet later. And true enough, while we were having snowflake, we saw TK and denise! Denise was saying she just bought monolopy deal, which, CY was saying before this he forgot to bring his one!

As for today, met up with CY again, yesterday's one was unintentional, today's one is the real one. haha. SJ joined us during his lunch break. From tmn megah we switched to tropicana city mall and we had a full 6 solid hours of catching up! The only remaining members of liulang. 唉~

Home alone

Wow a day just passed like that with me watching prison break all day. haha. I think that is what I am going to do for the next few days. I need to ensure myself that I do not touch my laptop at night, at least spend the time to do more reading. I do not know why, but I think they are correct, economics makes you appreciate the newspaper more, so I shall read more newspaper. Besides, I need to rest my eyes from the screen. That is what I really wanted to do during the break, to stare more at reading materials instead of the laptop. Am starting to get excited for the coming semester! :)

Sometimes we do silly stuff

I spent 6.60 dollars on correction tape. I cannot believe it!!! This can buy me 3 meals!

Correction tape with casing + refill.

But I bought the refill first -__-

The thing is, Prarthi and I both bought refills instead of the correction tape itself!

What happened is I went to buy correction tape for tomorrow's writing paper since it would be easier to do any correction and I met Prarthi at the mart. She went there to get her correction tape too. So, we got our stuff and went back our rooms.

I was opening the wrapping for the correction tape that i bought and was a bit puzzled about the structure of the tape.. seems like something is missing.. At the moment when I think I knew what was missing, Prarthi texted me "Did you buy the same correction tape as me?"

"Yes and I think it's a refill!"

I just bought a correction tape without its casing!

Now I have plenty of correction tape :D

Better make good use of it tomorrow.

Itchy fingers

Hehehe, deluxe maru. I feel like pinching his (her?) double chin.

Yes, my fingers are itching... i.... want.... to.... buy....

a.... g.. u.. i.. t.. a.. r......... yes?

Anyway, i need to think like an economist for the coming few days to comprehend the wonders of economics before saturday, micro and macro :/ But it is not that horrible, just that staring at it too long makes me a bit bleh.

I got back my essay for my SP1202. It is the language part that pulled me down. Only scored half of it.. I guess there are always areas where i need to put in that extra effort and time compared to other people. I am quite amazed how did i get the courage to take up this module. I think people without the flair for writing would stay as far as possible from this module. But it is okay, i just need to be extra careful on friday and spend more time reading through for mistakes. I hope i can get an average grade for this, please be more kind to me. fingers-crossed ><

I hope this cup of coffee sustains me. I went for interhall fellowship teaching. It was great! How i wish my mind could freeze everything the speaker said and play it over again and again.

Test on wednesday! By God's grace, i hope i can nail this!

Final lap

I wanted to write this for quite some time ago but couldn't find the time, not that I'm busy, more like lazy. haha. Anyway, here is what happened.

Somewhere during last week, after class I went to the canteen to have lunch. I was on my own and was happy when I found a table. I sat down, 'chop' that table and went to get my food. I got my food, happily sat down and started eating. It is when you are on your own, the light, the fan, the guy at the next table or the two girls walking past seemed to interest you. While I was eating halfway, this guy approached and asked whether there's anyone sitting with me (it was lunch hour so seats are hard to find). I said no and he sat. First thing I noticed, he sat down and prayed for the food and he prayed for quite a long time. He eats his food while i eat mine. Awkward silence. This is the moment where your inner struggles rise. To strike a conversation or just quickly eat and go! Finally, I couldn't stand the silence. "Hi, I'm teresa. Are you from science?" I could not think of any better topic to start with. It turned out he's pretty easy going, very interesting person to talk to. He stays in PGP too! I'm in block 1 and he's in block 3! Such a coincidence.

The conversation ended after our meals and we departed to our separated ways. Didn't know that talking to random people can be so interesting and exciting!

On the side note, I have been passing by this catholic students society notice board everytime I have 2161 lecture but I never notice what's on the board. Until that day I read this and I find it meaningful:

The Serenity Prayer

God grant me the serenity

to accept the things I cannot change;

courage to change the things I can;

and wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time;

Enjoying one moment at a time;

Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;

Taking, as He did, this sinful world

as it is, not as I would have it;

Trusting that He will make all things right

if I surrender to His Will;

That I may be reasonably happy in this life

and supremely happy with Him

Forever in the next.

Amen.

--Reinhold Niebuhr

Redirect

No bible study during cg today :D haha. Prarthi didn't make it back in time to conduct the BS so we chilled and bonded. Lastly, we paired up and prayed for one another. It is my first time pairing with Priscilla, a year 3 architecture student. We managed to share quite a bit before praying. It is really inspiring to listen to her and comforting to know there are people out there who share the same struggle. I think she is the kind of person you would not mind sharing more with her. Maybe it is because she is a CGL for her youths in church. That why she displays this very encouraging and sincere personality.

Anyway, thanks for praying for me :) It did warmed my heart hearing someone praying so fervently for me. But when she said God can do the impossible, somehow there is this tinge of doubt within me. Maybe i'm try not to keep my hopes too high, so i choose not to commit to God the impossible stuff, in case i get disappointed in the end. Whether it is impossible or not, may Your will be done.

And Priscilla shared this statement: God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him - John Piper

The relationship, the satisfaction that you find when you seek Him.

I have yet to comprehend the gist of it but i think i kind of grasp the meaning behind it. I'm hoping this will be a guide to redirect back my heart. True satisfaction.

First things first

Came back from fellowship teaching, realising that I forgot to put my can of tuna back into the fridge this morning. Am forced to throw the remaining half of it away. But it is okay, cuz that can of tuna is the extra one I kept since vcf welcome tea. hehe. If not heart pain ler.

Tomorrow,

Mini group presentation at 10am, have to go early at 9am to discuss.

Econs lecture at 2pm. Macro is harder to grasp btw.

Test at 2.30pm.

Following that, mini freedom :D

By tonight,

Revise my article draft and submit it.

Submit my new media presentation (done. sound quality like crap but don't care. haha. such ignorance. tsk tsk)

Finish the remaining few lecture slides for the test tomorrow.

Read through lab reports for test as well.

Keep myself awake!

Muahaha

Harlo! 11 more days before you hit 25!

:O

Was browsing through your hk pics, somehow it's in my laptop and I saw some interesting pics I don't remember seeing. muahaha. Shall reveal it on your birthday.... Nolah, not so wuliao -.-

Tulang

Went out with Pam and Kar Hui for lunch today. Pam has this food guide which has a whole list of awesome food in Singapore.

But actually, even if it is awesome, I bet that it would not be more awesome than Malaysia food.

muahaha :D

We planned to go to Ayer Rajah Food Centre but turned out we went to the wrong Ayer Rajah Food Centre. We took bus, walked according to GPS but ended up in the wrong place. Both food centre have the same name but are quite far apart :/ In the end we cab there

cuz we were too lazy to figure out how to get there from where we were :D muahaha.

And so, the stuff that we had:

1. Sup kambing with bread. Not bad, reminds me of khalifah's sup kambing. hmmm. But could be better, not syiok enough :D but satisfying for my side. The other two think that it's so-so.

2. Cuttlefish kangkung

Very soft cuttlefish. hmmm.

3. Teh Tarik and Teh Halia

4. The champion of the day, presenting to you - TULANG!

Seriously, the name of this is tulang. hahah. tulang kambing. Be ready to get messy and dirty.

And Pam taught us how to suck the marrow out, using a straw. Oh, they did not provide us with the straw, we used the the teh tarik straw. haha! Actually the texture of the marrow is quite gross, tasted like fats. But it was fun sucking. hehe.

Me trying very hard to suck it out.

No, actually I was just posing.

:)

Drained

Sigh, feel so inadequate sometimes. I guess i need to rant it out.. Had cg just now and i went for centralised bible study last night, which is supposed to be a class to prepare the cell group leaders for bible study within the cell group. Technically, i'm not the cell group leader but i attended the bible study. It was interesting to know the history in the OT but to actually comprehend it, i find it difficult. Well, during cg just now, prarthi asked me to answer the questions, kind of purposely la cuz she knows i went for bible study beforehand and may help her in starting up the discussion but i realised i couldn't articulate it, which means i did not fully understand the bible study. I copied down the answers but i guess i'm more like robotically taking down answers rather than understanding the whole picture. This applies to studies as well, i just want the easy and fast way. To be one of the leaders in pgp vcf, i find it quite shameful to have such shallow knowledge. Honestly speaking, i was quite embarrassed when i stuttered while trying to answer the questions. I felt quite bad la, going for centralised bible study but not contributing during cg. Then i get worried how people will judge me and stuff. I stepped out centralised bible study last night having this one thought that i'm feeling so uber inadequate to handle this. Even when we discussed our thoughts amongst the cell group leaders that attended bible study, i would feel my answers are all heading in the different directions from the rest, then i chose to keep my thoughts to myself. Yea, i know, this is bad. Towards the middle i think i started to feel a little out of place then i started to lose track. I am not saying that i did not enjoyed the bible study, just feeling inadequate when seated with the staff worker and the other CGLs. Yes, i know i have repeated the word inadequate many times but that is how i am feeling right now.

These few days have been quite emotionally draining, inadequacy aside, i guess there is some personal issues which takes up more and more of my thoughts. I kno

w it is very ambiguous but let's just keep it that way.

But all in all, keeping aside the negative thoughts, i'm fine lah actually. it is a good time to start exploring the bible, especially the OT and hopefully next round i'll do a better job :)

Goodbye my friends :( btw, the pic below with diana, if you realised, i editted away my chicken pox scar on my chest. So this is how i would look like without it.....

Loved

It's 11.21pm and i should be catching up with studies. econs so many graphs!! i guess i was taking this too lightly when i thought that econs is all about law of supply and demand. yikes. i may need my bro's help :O

Anyway, i thought that i might take a short time to summarize my awesome 21st birthday. muahaha. well, just like i said on facebook, really a HUGE thank you to those who played a part in making this so awesome. those who texted, fb-ed, who were too shy to wish me in public and said a small wish in their hearts instead, hahah. THANK YOU! orz *bows* i feel absolutely blessed to have people to celebrate with me although i am here in this foreign country.

It all started on wednesday night.

I knew it the moment when verene texted me to teach her science of music. Come on man, teach you science of music??? hahahh. Good try anyway. Better than the one i used on her - 'Can i get milo from you'. That was the worst excuse ever. The whole night i had butterflies in my stomach, too excited i guess. hahah, really! Then they finally came with the cake. Verene had to call me to press the lift for them. -.- hahah. surprise!! Verene, verene... now you know how hard it is to plan a surprise birthday celebration. Cannot beat your one lah. Surprise at the toilet. hehe.

The next day, wai san kindly treated me megabites :) plus a piece of chocolate truffles. Verene joined along. A simple meal but with great company.

I never thought that my fst friends would celebrate for me. hahah. This one is a bit of a surprise. After i finished my lab session, i realised shing yee was trying to stall me and i kinda knew they prepared something for me. hehe. Pam, kar hui and gaby baked banana cake for me! The way they assembled the cake was very interesting! I get to set up my own cake man! hahah. So fun right. Everything was homemade, including the chocolate sauce and the caramel. One thing i felt bad was that we had to celebrate in a rush cuz i have to meet wan ning and the rest at orchard.

I am really glad they came down to singapore. I'm not going to go in details about the stuff we did cuz there were too many!

Some highlights:

Universal studios - pon lecture for this :p but it's all worth it!

Sitting along the street in bugis drinking koi, observing people along the street, guessing is it called KOI or 豆.

I finally learnt how to play monopoly deal!! Very interesting indeed.

HTHT all the way until 5am. Our so called "talk show". hahah.

Practically wandering along the streets in singapore, stranded on the singapore street, had to call verene for help but in the end cabbing solves all trouble.

And sunday, my cg celebrated my birthday at simon's place. Played gift trap and a game invented by shu may. So it goes like this, you are suppose to choose an alphabet and later on, shu may will reveal the question you are supposed to answer related to the alphabet you chose. So i chose Y in the first round and someone chose R for me in the next round. My first question was 'What is the one thing you said YES to God' and the second was 'What do you do when you REST'. After we knew how the game goes, the guys won't choose G and the girls won't choose B. haha. And i got a bag for my present! yay! Am looking for a new bag so this meet my need. Actually i chose it lah. Clara called to ask whether i want dress or bag. heh.

And lastly, last night prarthi baked brownies for me and we had it after cg. Very thoughtful of her :) Although she kept apologizing for the crumbled part when she tried cutting the brownies, but IT'S THE THOUGHT THAT COUNTS! And it tasted great!

Twas a fabulous birthday :D the end.

Moonlight bathing

Jogging under the moonlight is nice! This is my first time running the track and the feeling is not bad at all! :D

And another camp!

Off to YA camp tomorrow! I am bad with packing. I think I took a good 2 hours to pack! haha. Purposely went to buy mask today. Apparently, there will be a girly bonding session in the camp and I received a sms from clara saying my group is the nail polish-mask-cornflake-icecream session. This is so not me! hahah.

Hence, the mask I bought. I bought a tube one, quite expensive if you convert to ringgit but I thought might as well buy a one that suits me and can be use in the future instead of those 2 dollars packet mask. Actually it was quite a hurry cuz it slipped from my mind and it only came across my mind at the very last minute. So I quickly went to guardian and scanned through everything that has a 'mask' word on it. At first, I thought a beauty advisor would help to save time. Wrong, totally wrong! That lady kept on promoting her product and when I asked about the price - 60dollars.

FORGET IT.

After 15 minutes of hunting, I spotted a pore cleansing one, okay finally what I wanted, grabbed it, pay! I was slightly stressed cuz I have a friend waiting and I was really paiseh to keep her waiting although I know she would not mind that much.

SO, I got what I needed and now, a good night rest and to prepare my heart for camp!

On the side note, Singaporeans just love acronyms.

1. ikr

What is IKR??

I know rightttttttt.

2. ttm

":(((((((( ttm...."

What is TTM?

To the maxxxxxx.

I have to google 'ikr meaning' and 'ttm meaning' to find out -.- But this is interesting and I believe there are more for me to discover. haha.

Adios!

I want to be a koala

Guess who designed this? :p Okay, it is not awesome and I am sure anyone on the street can come out with a cooler design than this. But I am glad it is done now. Could not upload the back print of the design though. Anyway, it is just a map of the location and some directions. Honestly, I am not thoroughly happy with what I came out, as you can see some parts are senget and the fonts could be way better but it is the effort that counts rite. You know what is the most tedious part? The colouring. Blame myself for not being IT savvy. No doubt if I use photoshop, this can be finished in half an hour. I still feel awkward seeing this design projected out during church service. Feeling paiseh.

Yay to my first design! I hope the design DO get people coming! cuz I am worried it is going to turn out otherwise!

On the side note, I bought my UNIQLO jacket, red. I am relying on it to keep me warm during lectures, in libraries and in exam hall! :)

Post camp

Camp was energy draining! But in a positive way :) I really thank God for a bunch of super enthusiastic group members. This makes being an OGL (orientation group leader) less stressful.

This is my first time volunteering as an OGL. Although i could have prepared and done more (was pretty busy the few days before camp so i didn't really read up the devotion materials and do some mental preparation. Please don't learn from me), but overall the experience was great!

I only met my co-leader, Charmaine on the first day itself. She is definitely better in socialising than i do. So, she is always the one filling in the silent gaps during group time. For me, I prefer one-to-one talk instead of group talk. I just feel more comfortable in that way. Oh yea, we called her Princess Jasmine - the one in Aladdin. Could be the eyes of hers, really exotic middle-east-ish eyes.

I realise our group did not face any trouble about members being shy. I even think that I am the most shy among them all! -.- apa OGL ini. Alright, when it comes to preparing a skit or presentation, I am not that kind of person who has lots of creative juices flowing out. The skit, the bonding games on the first day, the heart-to-heart-talk (HTHT) questions and topics were all contributed by my members!

On a personal note, i think my heart feels for those who are the quieter ones in the group. Maybe I am like that too? hehe. There was this petite freshman guy Clement who was really quiet. FYI, he is only 40kg, imagine that. I wonder how he survived through army. I was afraid that he felt out of place in our group, especially when everyone was so responsive. But as the days passed, I can see him open up more and more. He even shared his life-changing experience with us - how a hardcore gamer transformed into a guy who totally overcame that addiction, something which I am very happy to hear about.

Though sometimes there are moments where I could not really understand the things they were talking about, such as Singapore issues, which obviously I do not know a single thing about. But it was interesting also to listen to their experience, especially army :)

Hoping for a good day ahead! Meeting Stephanie later to seek advise. Please please please make it a fruitful one.

Updates

Latest update: I found a job at the chinese library as a student assistant. Since there is not much to do in the orientation due to the small numbers of freshmen, I were not much involved in their activities. So for the past one week i was actually more occupied with my CF stuff. Funny right, I came back early planning to help out in the malaysian orientation, but it turned out that I was more involved in CF stuff. Alright, back to the job at the chinese library. It was quite unexpected how I got this job.

The story was, since we never landed our feet in the chinese library, my friend suggested we visit that place and at the same time borrow some books to kill time. So there we were, overwhelmed by the number of CHINESE books and jakun-ing about the japanese books there. Well, it is called chinese library but somehow, you can find japanese books there. Then, while we were waiting at the counter to borrow our books, the lady just asked whether we were interested in working part-time. Being quite desperate for something to do to make the early trip back more worthwhile, there is no reason to say no. Ptl, God knows I need this. haha. 6dollars per hour is not exactly a lot but I guessed it's sufficient to thrill me. The taste of working and earning money. Although there are jobs around uni which offer higher pay like 8dollars per hour. Then said, I must be contented with what I was provided. So, yeah :)

The job was so-so lah. Not really exciting. But the aunty was really nice. Brought us to tour around the library, to other places not accessible by students. What I did today was tagging the old books, basically old (really really old) school magazines. Very simple, just shift the books using a trolley to the comp, scan it and tag it. Yes, simple! But imagine doing this for 7 hours O_O haha.

VCF freshmen orientation camp is next monday! Looking at the schedule, there's a lot of group time, which means bonding time between the group members. The add on, the wonderful thing is, I volunteered as the group LEADER! Plus I have yet to meet my co-leader. To lead, facilitate, create bondedness within the group. This is going to be a huge task for me. But yeah, as someone said before, if you're uncomfortable with the situation you're in right now, then you're doing fine, on the right track. However, if you're feeling comfy and chillax, then something is wrong. So, I think what I'm feeling now is normal.. (?) I shall not say much about FOC, I will leave it til camp ends then only I update whether miracles happened and whether I did a fantastic job. haha.

A few things in mind:

1. Call up the remaining 2 group members tomorrow morning.

2. Thank God I managed to come out with a design (hand-drawn woohoo! what to do, me no IT savvy) for young adults evangelistic meeting. I'm glad they 收货 la cuz I was quite concern my design looks unappealing to them. Since they like it, I am happy.

3. Finish up budget tomorrow! Deadline on Sunday.

4. Go cook my ba zheng and go sleep. Exceeded my sleep time advised by doctor, which is 12.

5. I need to constantly run through all the things i need to do cuz i scared i forgettttt.

6. Yes, pass my chem notes to charlotte

I'm expecting to tire myself out after saturday. Since I'll be in sentosa for the whole sunday (have to leave at 5, 6am!!!) and monday is camp, til thursday. SO, all the best to me.

Not wanting to grow up

By the way, while I was having an early dinner just now, the childhood memory of mom walking me to 心算 just flashed through my mind. You know, these memories just make you feel nostalgic. Those days, that can never come back again.

湖滨公园.

masak-masak using leaves as rice.

making up random customers during masak-masak and talks to them.

dad buying 爱玉冰 from ss2 pasar malam while me stays at home.

secretly take 1 ringgit from mom's purse to buy snacks from 明康.

me wanting to skip 心算 class because i have a lot of things to do and mom persuaded me to go, reasoned out the a lot of things to do is actually not urgent.

McD's playground.

sendiri slide down from the slide, turns, tried to climb back up while shouting "HELP ME!!"

Hehehe.

Hola!

So here am I, back to the same old PGP and IT'S VERY HOT. I was allocated Block 1 - the furthest block. sighh. I guess the management wants to put all the people who come back early into the same block. Well, to look it in a good way, this means more exercise for me! I stayed in Block 2 previously, so it's like another 20meters away. roar.

I have been running up and down for countless times... shifting stuff... laundry... Talking about laundry, they have new washing machines and dryers now. I put in my laundry, throw in a coin but it kept being rejected. I was like what on earth is going on! I got frustrated and took out my laundry. I pressed the 'colours' button and 'start' ( trying to figure out how this works). Once I pressed 'start', the washing machine started operating. Mind you, I took out my laundry so there's NOTHING inside the machine. I tried to look for a stop button but there's none -.- So I left an empty washing machine running while I quietly took my stuff to another laundry room. After that, only I realise that it's free of charge for now..... no wonder the coins keep rolling out.

I need to get used to the weather D: *sweats and pants*

MC

So what were I up to for the past few weeks, masterchef australia season 2 did a good job accompanying me during the hot afternoons at home.

How did it started, as in me and MC, started back in church camp. Surprisingly, the tv in our room has starworld :D Not having starworld back at home, most of my free time is spent watching starworld. yea yea i know, supposed to be a camp and here i am, watching tv. It so happened that MC australia was showed quite frequently. I dunno why, everytime i turned on the tv, 70% of the time there will be MC. I think it was kind of a marathon, showing all the episodes throughout the week during the weekend. So it's a good thing! :D

Now, thanks to youtube, the MC fever continues. While i searched for the picture above, i ter-saw the winner for the season..... nooooooooooooooo. argh, spoiler. Now i have to pretend that i did not spot anything.

It's a nice show to watch, getting to catch the aussie accent, learn some new things about food (like what's basil, fennel, veal..) and yes, it did managed to trigger a teenie weenie interest in me to cook. But i deem that won't last too long. haha.

You know you get a little too much of something/someone when you start seeing it/them in your dreams. And yes, there was one night i was dreaming about MC. I still remember specifically i dreamt about this chef - Heston Blumenthal. I was mumbling his name in my sleep, then i woke up -.- But i would not say i'm obsessed with it. Must be me watching it before i hit the sack. Yea, must be, disturbing my good night rest.

Met up with a couple of my form 6 mates. All i can say is i miss the good old days :)

When i have a hard time deciding which cake to eat, sticking to new york cheese will never go wrong. haha.

I think this will be the most productive day out of all my holidays. haha. Managed to cross out a few of the to-do things on my list.

First thing, my passport. 2 weeks back i headed to the terminal 2 in the old subang airport, thinking it is still at where it used to be. I was quite surprised when there isn't many cars there. After asking an aunty..

"Sudah pindah lah!"

Err, sorry lah, how i know wor.

Since it was during the school holidays, i thought i might as well wait another week after the school holidays end to avoid the crowd. This time i do my homework in advance, i google map first. haaah.

I tried using the subang airport way but couldn't find it. i even stopped at a char chan teng to ask the uncle where is plaza glomac. He didn't seemed to get what i mean so i told him the passport place, then only he get what i was talking about.

"Passport then say passport lah, you say glomac how i know? "

Err, okay, uncle not in good mood.

Okay, ended up i use the kelana jay way, actually not that hard to find, just turn in after shell, then you can see signboards directing you towards the place. It didn't take me very long, maybe i was early. The procedures were pretty fast. I waited for an hour for it and done!

Cuz i applied the passport for oversea students, so the lady asked me which bandar in singapore do i stay in. I was thinking, does singapore even has a bandar? I was telling her no bandar, then she look at me, "you belajar sana you tak tau ah?" (what!)

Err, okay, i memang tak tau singapore has a bandar. In the end, another man came and ask, which part do i stay in, like woodlands or bla bla. The truth is, i don't even know what place i stay in. I said clementi and so clementi it is. Well, at least it's NEAR to where i stay. On second thought, i think it's kent ridge. Dunno lah, nevermind.

After that, went to the car service centre. Boss told me have to wait for an hour plus. Not so bad right, so i waited. And waited, and waited.... for 3 hours!! The boss talked to me lah, maybe he pitied me waiting for so long. haha. But seriously, my attention span did not lasted very long. He did most of the talking and i just gave him one word replies, trying my best to keep smiling :]

Later on, headed to buy shampoo. yes, shampoo and conditioner. Being lunch hour, I didn't want to drive in the streets and look for parking, knowing it'd be hard so i parked at the road side. illegally with the sign zon tunda. But you know being human, in your mind you'll think, yea right, zon tunda, what are the chances? somemore there are other cars parking also, nothing wan lah. I just need 10 minutes. So i bought what i needed to, and guess what i saw after i stepped out of the kedai? Our lovely blue tow truck and the lovely officers in blue! I was praying please, not my car.. I saw a kelisa behind the truck, ready to be tow away, and a lady begging the officer. She looked really desperate and i felt sorry for a moment for her. But i have no time to feel sorry for now, needed to save my car first. Seeing my car still in front of me was a huge relief. Okay, no saman paper, checked. No kunci on my tyre, checked. I quickly hopped onto my car. Right after that, another tow truck came along. Thank God man! If i spend another 10 minutes mingling around, i might find my car missing!

So, lesson learnt, zon tunda really means zon tunda!

Here comes june, the month which reminds me there is only one month left before going back Singapore.

Still a list of things to do and groups of friends yet to meet up :/

That includes Kung Fu Panda 2!

Off to malacca tmr for church retreat.

I wonder who is my roomie..

Mother knows best

Well, what can i say, the boredom is kicking in.

But hey, i'm not complaining.

One thing i'm glad is i have decided not to work.

I guess i'll missed out alot of things if i decided to work.

So, it's a correct decision!

I have this phobia with decisions, seems like everytime i make a decision, it turns out the other one is better. e.g, choosing something from the menu. haha. of all examples. my food always didn't turn out as great as my friend's. hahas.

Talking about foooood. Had the heavenly ramly ystdy. The sauce, the beef patty, the cucumber... everything! was perfect. ahhh.

Btw, it has become my habit to go for the ramly at the rest stop the bus stops at whenever i travel back from singapore to malaysia. I can only say ramly did a great job in welcoming me back to the malaysia land.

Watched Rio just now but i preferred Tangled, hence the title of this post. haha.

Played for senior citizens this morning, thank God it turned out better than last week. phew.

黑人

Yesterday went swimming with wai san.

Yes, i know, i'm healthy :D

After swimming we were waiting for the shuttle bus and i was telling her about the royal wedding.

Me:"Eh, you know right, prince william getting married"

Waisan:"Oh isit, i think i heard about it"

Me:"黑人也要结婚了"

( I meant 台湾 的黑人陈建州)

Waisan:"Huh? Prince william getting married with a 黑人??"

WALAOEH.

Actually it wasn't that funny, but when i imagine the picture in my head...

....

Sorry i can't helped it. hahahah.

Not being racist ar, ehem ehem.

:'D

Just came back from a jog with pei yi.

I'm SWEATING LIKE MAD now.

Woah, first time running with pei yi and she keeps moving, she don't stop wan!!

Well, jogging behind her abit pressured, cuz i do not want to stop and slow her down.

Talking about peer pressure. haha.

However, it is a good thing also lar, cuz my style is jog, then walk up the slope, then continue jogging.

In a way, by running with her, i get to push myself abit more.

There were a few times i feel like stopping.

But then..

"crap, just suck it up and continue!"

Finally, after the hospital i cannot tahan dy, start walking.

idoncareanymore. i don't want to 打肿脸皮充胖子 and collapse somewhere.

I am amazed by my ability man!

:'D (sweat drop on my face)

Of curly arrows and mechanism

Dear hedgehog,

I am sorry there's no pictures taken for the awesome ramen and mango pomelo (it rhymes!). but it was gooooood. hahah. i had cha-su ramen (a.k.a 叉烧). very filling and satisfying meal. and the mango pomelo! (i just love this name haha) there's pomelo bits inside and when you bite on it the juice will give a tiny burst. i hope this give a good illustration. haha!

my chatbox is terribly spammed. sigh. i need to change a new one soon. soooooon.

meet maru. haha. too fat to fit into the box.

Of Ramen and Mango Pomelo

Had a GREAT time catching up with my childhood church buddy DIANA ONG :D

It's good to hear you sharing parts of your life that i never knew.

Anytime you need a listening ear you can always find ME!

Do always remember you're not alone in this :)

Wishing you all the best for your finals!

Yes study hard but at the same time don't push yourself way off limit k.

Know when to take a break :)

Oh well, i need to stardy too :/

Have to put aside ma fears and do whatever i can with the remaining time.

I cannot lose! i hope.

Surprises

Happy birthday my emo friend!

Looks like our ambush at the toilet entrance was quite successful. haha!

So hilarious to see your reaction at the toilet. Of all places, the toilet!! Trust me, it's not my idea. haha. But i must agree the idea wasn't too bad.

Surprise!

Finally i'm done with the card for ze birthday girl!

*huge grin*

I'm satisfied with it.

Hope YOU like it :D

Awesome possome!

Here are some of the pics i took at the MV Explorer.

Well how i ended up there is quite a story.

Few weeks back i received an invitation email from NUS to visit the ship.

Somehow, i was quite keen on going.

But i tried to sign up but some error came up and i got abit frustrated and thought of suan le ba since the deadline is that day.

After trying to submit the form 4 or 5 times i gave up la and wrote an email to the person in charged to ask about it.

I didn't expect the person to reply but someone actually replied!

It's a sign for me to go!

SO i submitted my details through email and tadaaa! i'm there today!

At first, i was quite lazy, contemplating to go or not.

But c'mon la, it's your free day and how often do you get this experience? Not like the ship comes here every week.

So yea, i went haha.

The brochure Debbie (the coordinator) gave us.

Very interesting stuff inside.

I can 望酶止渴.

But the the semester cost a bomb.

23,000 USD per semester.

I can buy a CAR.

Even debbie was very frank and told us it's very expensive.

I can see why it's so expensive.

Nice cosy rooms with your own bathroom (sharing with another person though).

Stewards to clean your room everyday, help you change your towel.

This is more like a hotel!

You have sauna,

beauty salon,

jacuzzi..

and i think i heard manicure, pedicure??

That's eric, our tourguide, together with hannah.

All the students went out to singapore to look around but they have to stay to bring us around.

And the ship is only staying in Singapore for a day.

So i guess they won't get to see Singapore much.

The pool.

A very small pool.

Overlooking sentosa.

The top deck.

Hannah was telling us there was one night the captain switched off all the lights on the deck for a star gazing session.

Ahhh, niceee.

The library.

The lounge.

They have quite a number of lounges where students hang around between classes or to study.

Spot the grand piano.

Dining room?

Don't let this picture deceive you, the dining room is actually veryy nice.

No picture haha.

Another lounge i guess?

I'm glad i went la.

It's more like getting the experience.

haha.

So cool!! (let me jakun abit)

this is for you

Someone is getting jealous, hence this post :D

To my 9 years church bestie:

DIANA ONG YU-MEI

(who always ignore my text msg when i start to get lame. yea, that's YOU. haha.)

I was looking for pictures of the both of us.

But i can't find any D:

The best i can get (and it's from fb) is this.

Sad ah.

And this is like, 2 or 3 years ago!

We need more picturessssssssss.

I changed my specs, i don't wear that shirt anymore, i have longer hair now.

That pic is so long ago.

When our dear lucy is still here.

I still remember, it's her farewell :p

From vbs helpers in form 1, sleeping in the conference room, talking about MM ( do you still remember? haha!)

Until now, counting down the days before you leave for UK.

Sigh. 1 less friend in malaysia land.

And i guess you'll be staying there for good.

Setting up your B&B :D

I'll see you in the nursing home, chasing you around with the walking stick.

hehe!

you wouldn't know

you know, i always enjoyed having dinner with you.

Though it's only once a week.

But i always look forward to it :D

laughing over nonsense,

complaining over similar problems (cacated notes, terrible naps.. .. k not really complaining la) haha.

I think i'll miss your presence when you go for exchange.

:(

have to pick up the momentum.

work through me.

:3

p.s flower from the ok-quite-thoughtful guys from my course during v day. haha. very nice of them to give flowers to all the girls. So if you do the math, one guy needs to contribute around 15 flowers. (cuz there's only 3 guys! hah. )

Praise God man!

:)

Stats results didn't turn out too bad!

I'm already expecting for the worse, preparing it to be below average.

BUT it didn't! it's within the average, though i think half the people will be full marks for it.

Yups so all my sorrow for my mistakes was unnecessary. hehe.

Moral of the lesson: there's always h.o.p.e. AND STILL, READ THE WHOLE QUESTION BEFORE ANSWERING!

Anyways, enjoyed the sermon last sunday, very insightful of God's love towards each and everyone of us, scripture taken from Hebrews 10:1-18.

A few points to share:

1. God send His only child to die for each and everyone of us only because He treats us equally precious, or even more precious than Jesus.

This is something new to me cuz i never thought of it this way, like having the same 'precious-ness' as Jesus.

2. Being in a performance basis society, we always strive to perform to gain approval. However, this is not true in God's eyes. He doesn't need our performance because He IS proud of each of us cuz of who we are.

Yups, this thought came in timely cuz lately i feel quite dissapoint with myself for not being able to share like how others can during cell group or devotion. Feeling very frustrated for not being as eloquent as others. This is like trying to perform well to satisfy myself. I realised that why do i worry about all these. If i can't say well, so be it, don't have to be pressured by others when sharing time is the time to listen, share honestly and not about faking up a good speech.

Well, there are still some others but i'll stop here cuz i can't really remember the others. These are the 2 that left the most impression on me. hehe.

Sermon was great, though at one point i dozed off for that one second but it has been quite awhile since the last time i actually enjoyed a sermon. Overwhelmed. and teared abit too. hoho. Something that probably won't happen back in my home church. lol.

It's getting late, i need to get back my momentum in studiesssssssss.

... ... ...

So, i guess it's time for some updates.

Been feeling quite stressed up, seriouslyidunnowhy.

Cuz it's mid term week? But i doubt so cuz i couldn't recall having such situation last semester. Maybe no up til THIS extent.

Symptoms:

Pressure in my head.

This gets worse when i strain my brain.

It's like the more i try to figure out something, the more the pressure comes.

It's like a clogged pipe, the more water trying to flow thru the more it clogs up. until it explodes. BOOM! *water shooting up*

Teeth tightly clamped. (k i know this is weird!!)

I think i do this unconsciously. due to pressure again??

Sometimes i'll find myself biting hard against my teeth.

Then i'll do the :O :| :\ :/ :O :p :[ mouth exercise to loosen up the muscle around.

Waking up at 4 plus.

By my bladder. lol. I tried this before so it's nothing new.

So i'm hoping my quality sleep can come back!

So annoying. Tried to sleep back but can't really. toss turn toss turn until oh it's 6am time to wake up.

Today is the first time i woke up by my alarm since dunno how long. although it's 4.30am but cuz i slept early so i decide to wake up early to finish my help sheet (some call it cheat sheet) for my test today.

Talking about my test today.

*hides in the corner* ashamed by my careless mistake.

I'd rather i not spot it.

Since spotting it won't make any difference since it was after the lecturer announced time is up.

It only makes me feel more helpless, thinking whether to change or not to. If change, then how? While still thinking furiously... the paper was collected. sigh.

It's just a small mistakes la but this test was actually quite easy and easy test can be a bad thing here. Small mistakes can cost alot.

K enough of ramblings. What's over is OVER. Get OVER it man!

Note to self: read the WHOLE sentence next time, not half of it :/

Anyways, i'm feeling ok now. not bad :)

Cooked instant porridge (so salty), had canned gui ling gao ( kla got satisfy my taste buds abit) while fb-ing, checking out kinkybluefairy. yes, i think i'm addicted to her blog .__.

Pray for me la if you can.

I'll try to take things easy. No worries i won't go crazy.

There goes week 1.

Since the pool will be closed for the polo competition, i can't go swimming this weekend. So i went jogging this morning. After coming back all sweaty i did my laundry and planned to bath while i wait for the laundry to be done. And i realised.. my towel is in the laundry!! kenot bath :/

Sigh, have to wait for one hour.

Last night went to novena square to change my bus ticket back during cny. Initially my ticket was scheduled at 7pm but i've been asking around and heard there might be a chance of traffic jam. I have to be in the airport at about 6 something the next morning so having the idea of traffic jam which makes me miss my flight gets me paranoid. So yesterday morning i went online to check for any available ticket for the earlier schedule. And i found one! i thought it'd be sold out by this time. Call it lucky? heh. I called, and really, took quite awhile for them to pick up my call, and you can imagine how anxious i was. haha. Yeap everything went smoothly so last night i went to collect my ticket. woohoo. Skip class then skip class la, rather than taking the risk.

This semester will be a very sciencey semester for me. All my lectures are in the science faculty, unlike last sem where i had to rush from science to arts or science to biz. There's anxiety on and off, be it studies or daily stuff i.e why certain people get along so well with others but i don't seem to be able to open up. Nonetheless, i am thanking God for the things i have.

I have all kinds of lecturers, you name it, i've got it. First chem lecturer who is really particular about being SILENT during lecture. When there's abit of noise (someone talking), she'll stop, (yes it's a she!) scanned around the lecture hall "the gentleman in blue are you ready" This will happens 3 or 4 times throughout the lecture so when she paused, we know that we have to shut our mouth.

The second chem lecturer reminds me of T-bag. ( you'll know who i'm talking if you watch prison break) Bad accent. Always face this problem with foreign lecturer eh. Hope i'll get used to it, i still have no idea what his class is about -.-

Taking 2 stats modules this sem. The lecturer for my stats core module is having a terrible sore throat, i feel like giving her a 'pei pa gou'. Every 2 sentences she'll clear her throat. Aiks i feel her pain. Kesian her. The other stats teacher is pretty normal. Hahah. Just abit too enthusiastic at times.

My freshman seminar already has 2 assignments :(( one of it is an individual essay. i really dread the essay. mommmmmmmy~~

Anyways i have to trust Him for my studies. In His plans there's no mistake.

Last note, be open minded!

Suddenly, i feel so worried about the new semester, whether i can handle it. Did i choose the correct module, what if i screw up again?

Just bought the statistics book and i think i paid a higher price for it. When i sat in my room, immediately i regretted. I felt that i always made the wrong decisions. I should have consider awhile more and not just buy at the spot. I always have this 'if i want it, i want it now' thing, i think i got it from my dad. Ugh. And i always regretted right after that. Just felt that the money spent is not worth it. There are other people selling just the book for 8dollars, and i paid 20dollars for the book and lecture notes plus past year papers. After thinking much, it's not really worth it.

Abit sakit hati of the money spent. I can only tell myself to save it on somewhere else. Eat less!

Suddenly feeling stress again.

Hope this feeling doesn't last.

Homey sicky. Bleh.

Skadoosh!

Okay, so enough of botak circular beings. ehem diana. haha!

Went to the curve for a movie with dad on saturday night. His movie plan is always the very last minute -.-

He can tell me around 6 plus after coming back from FRIM (this time for some reasons i dunno why i felt terribly exhausted compared to last time. Even dad was faster than me hiking up the trail, leaving me panting furiously behind) to go movie with him later at night.

And mind you, it's new year day! where can you get tickets? but still, we went on with the plan after dinner.

So, we went to the curve, found parking! (yay#1) actually there were plenty of empty parking. woots!

While queuing, we decided to go for 'The Tourist' or 'Gulliver's Travels' but the tourist will be a better option for the old man i think. haha. But seeing the tickets are selling fast, i told him we might end up in the first row and strain our necks.

But lo and behold, when it was our turn, the ticket lady said to us:

"you're lucky, we just released our tickets"

(yay#2)

Yeap, so we managed to grab a good seat at the fourth row from behind.

wonderful.

In conclusion, the movie went well :D

The next day,

dad: "what's the main actress name? Angela.. Angie.. Angeleeena?"

me: "yeaaaah, AngeLIna"

i AM surprised he remembered her name.

Then Sunday, borrowed kungfu panda dvd from master P. heh.

I can only say, I FEEL LIKE PO!

Po, the panda, who eats when he is upset.

so me.

Oogway: [walking towards Po] Ah! I see that you have found the Sacred Peach Tree of Heavenly Wisdom!
Po: [Po turns around with a lot of peaches stuffed in his mouth] Oh! Is that what this is? I'm so sorry! I just thought it was a regular peach tree!

HAHAHAHAHA.

Meet Master Shifu with tiny plait.

'There is no special ingredient.'

'To make something special, you just have to believe it's special' (Mr Ping, Po's dad)