facebooking yet again

when i go online, almost without fail i'll log on to facebook and check what's happening to the people around me. you get to see interesting photos, know juicy details, understand how small singapore is.

so small that your primary school classmate is your secondary school classmate's uni classmate. (if you understand what i mean.) and the list goes on with connections, endless possibilities i tell you.

these few months i've discovered a number of marriages taking place. maybe i'm damn slow to realise, when some have taken place ages ago and i realised only now, but quite a handful are (unfortunately) shotgun marriages. to me it is rather unfortunate, cuz at such a young age, one is not mentally prepared and financially capable to raise a child yet. of course, there is no doubt their marriages will last till the very end, but life ain't gonna be easy.

my point is, no matter what sexual urges we all have, USE PROTECTION. girls are on the losing end no matter what, so please, insist on using condoms even if the guy does not want. i'm not saying "no pre-marital sex", because i understand being young and bold and adventurous, people like to break rules. furthermore, someone (i remember studying it during psychology lessons a couple of years ago) concluded that sex is a basic need, just like food is. condoms are not 100% failproof, but at least 90something% safe, safe enough to prevent unwanted pregnancies, not to mention STDs.

best if urges can be controlled. unless the urge is too strong you may explode, use protection.

ok enough for now. i'm done with this.

time is ticking away. tracy says sleep=wasting life. lol. so i'm wasting lots of my life sleeping till 2pm everyday. sorry people, i am a pig. i know some would like to strangle me for having the luxury of sleep while they struggle hard to get some, but hey, it's holidays for me hor!

BUT I AM SOO BORED!!! waiting to go for dance lesson later...hoho =D

i had a bad day

yesterday, my mind was overworked, due to my stupid thoughts. too much thinking.

and i thought my crying was because i think too much, but if fact it was worsened by PMS. how bad was it? i literally cried the whole day. when i watched tv or dramas on the computer, only these things distract me from crying. once i stopped, i started crying again. i tried hard to sleep at night, but tears kept flowing till my head hurt.
PMS sometimes is really really scary.

andd...I AM SOOO BORED! and lonely. rotting at home does have it's downside.........

HOME!!!

i see cobwebs everywhere.

sorry people....couldn't find the time+energy to update.

so what's new?? i'm back in sg for the holidays, leaving on the 28th feb, so no worries guys, i have plenty of time to meet up with everyone :)

allow me to apologise beforehand that i didn't get souvenirs......i was rushing for time. was more interested in getting my ass on the plane instead. sorry sorry sorry.

i'm officially 20 a few days ago. didnt do much on that day, just cut a cake my mum baked and went to the hospital to visit my maternal grandpa who suffered a stroke 2nd time round.

received a present from a friend. my one and only present :)see the blue wordings?? cool eh?!?! and it's a automatic watch! no batteries at all! :)
(downside is that i gotta wear it often/wind it up often.....) can't bear to wear it out cuz it's white....

so anyway....i'm rotting at home. sigh. signed up for dance lessons again or else i'll seriously have nth to look forward to.

still waiting for one last subject's result. the other 2 was quite ok, one pretty unexpected, but overall, could have done much better. owell i shall be contented.

i realised it's been quite a while since i last updated. sorry to those who take the trouble to check this dusty blog. well i've lots of photos, but i don't have the energy to put it nicely here. i'll upload it onto facebook soon, or get my housemate to do it.

now it's the crunch time for lots of students. heaps of assignments and tests these weeks till the exams. exams are like, in less than 3 weeks time. kill me.

now i have to finish up whats right ahead of me first before worrying about the exams. i really hope i won't fail, or else i gotta book a air ticket back here to take supp papers. provided if i dont fail badly. (only 40-49 marks then do u get to do supp ppr, or else fail means fail.)

tired. i wish all these will be over soon. i can't wait to get back to sg.

so glad i have nothing else to worry except studies. i feel loved....

the week after the hols

mid-semester break ended. and today marks the end of one week of back-to-uni-life.

dinners with housemates n friends are so common it's like, 4 out of 7 days. sometimes it gets very tiring cuz it ends really late, but it's good though. i like gatherings. and things people say/do, makes it more interesting.

one more month to exams. can't believe my papers end so late. will be heading to melbourne after exams before i return to sg.

i hate studying now. i hate assignments. but i only know i need to get my degree to survive comfortably.

i seriously wish the holidays were tomorrow...............................

more melamine found?!!?

now it's found in lipton milk tea in HK...

my favourite teh?!?!?! omg...

i don't care. i'm still gonna buy some and carry them to adelaide so i can satisfy my cravings. not like i drink 50 packs per day.

then i think i have to drink more water to prevent kidney stone formation.

mannn....assignment still undone. i'm living up to my no. 1 procrastinator name.

HELLLPPP!!!

goodbye grandma

she is now in a better place.

-24/09/2008-

dinner on a friday

it's been long since i last updated. was too lazy to organise the info and update. now i'm blogging instead of doing my homework. it's bad...seriously bad of me.

anyway school's been, erm, okay? except that it's getting busier now with all the assignments due soon and tests coming up and i havent been studying and always procrastinating and finishing up my assignments last minute. what makes matters worse is that the lectures are difficult to follow, especially when you get boring lecturers, the info is difficult to digest, and i don't revise. hooray for me!

always look forward to weekends where we'll hang out, go for dinners, chat and eat and drink at the house for hours till 4am. been putting off my work for too long and now i have to rush.

photos from dinner last friday at a steamboat restaurant. we didn't eat steamboat but we ordered form the ala carte menu. food's good and rice is free flow. and the waiter was damn funny. definitely another place to go to again.

while waiting for the food...an li and shaun.yummy yummy =)next on-->to a dessert shop. nice rose patterns on the wall =)great desserts to end a mealyes the guys were happy. from left: zhan hou, shaun, wei wen.the happy girls: an li n me.


i totally hate lit review. i'm doing everything i like to do now, except lit review. WHY?!? why do some journal articles have to be soooo shitty?

wondering whether i should change my air ticket date earlier if my exam ends early...but it costs A$100...sigh. can't wait to get back.. i miss everyone.

updates again when i feel like it. take care everyone, especially when the weather's been so rainy and hot back in s'pore.

people say...

"it is easy to get into university of adelaide, but difficult to get out"

i say,

"bingo!"

the start of another dreaded week...

HELLO PEOPLE!!!

haven't updated my blog for quite some time. this update is to show that i havent died.

my life so far--9th august:singapore's 43rd birthday. Went for national day lunch (yes in adelaide for the homesick) at Stamford Hotel. Nasi padang buffet was *cough* GOOD *cough*. It was damn nice singing nday songs, especially "Home" and the national anthem.

At night, my friends and i decided to do online streaming of the NDP, and project it on the big screen and share our joy with fellow singaporeans. Was pretty boring at some parts, but we got everyone to stand up to sing the anthem and recite the pledge. Patriotism, i say.

this recent friday, zhan hou and i decided to cook dinner for everyone. i made pasta, he made potato salad. bought an absolutely heavenly cheesecake and a few bottles of wine. too much leftover food and lots of potatoes and still left in the fridge......

saturdays are marketing days for me. it actually feels good to do marketing. and the weird thing is, i actually find cooking and washing up therapeutic. conclusion: it is very nice to do things at your own pace and when there's no nice tv programmes to distract you. exception? studying still sucks.

photos time!!!

lunch at Stamford Hotel. ahhhh the flag :)the beauties.the beasts. (no offence meant hor...)
NDP screening at the common room. photo taken before NDP started.

on to friday-->
the food......chefs for the dayand yes, the cheesecake was that good.the people.

i'm so screwed. i hate checking the timelines cuz everytime i do, i realise i've something(s) to hand up soon. i seriously can't wait for all of these to be over and be back to home sweet home.

i keep procrastinating when it comes to homework. please slap me. i'm the no. 1 procrastinator. i ought to win a prize for that.

something for thought--"the most important things in a relationship are Trust, and Respect" (quoted from zhan hou)

i would like to add an "Honesty" to it.

think about it people. how many are actually guilty of not doing these? we wonder why relationships fall apart.

it always takes 2 hands to clap, yeah?

take care everyone. i'm actually enjoying the weather (w/o the rain) here. when i get back to sg i'll be in sauna. ^(oo)^

TGIF tomorrow!

had a really really bad day yesterday. if u've read my previous post, i said i was looking forward to wednesday's practical. HOWEVER, i'm so fked up with the practical cuz it's like, research based and you have to devise your own practical, what you wanna find out and your own protocol and blah blah blah. RESEARCH.

and bad thing was, i'm super hormonal and the things were like, thrown onto me just like that. my grpmates have already been thru this kinda practical so they know what they are supposed to do. so discussion beings, there's no conclusive title/hypothesis, so we are to go back and research articles. this is how it is supposed to be. first week just discuss and go research before going back nxt wk and come up with something conclusive. i was sitting there like an idiot, not giving any comments, just laughing at their jokes.

when practical ended, i was so depressed i actually cried. my entire night was ruined, eyes were almost blinded, cuz i was so lost and i was so afraid that would affect my peer assessment.

today is much better. practical is what i would term p.r.a.c.t.i.c.a.l. although it is much more difficult in the sense that they teach the things (like a lecture cum practical) before you do hands on, so i'm actually a little lost cuz its like molecular genetics stuff, all the DNA denaturing then adding these and that. BUT they have a protocol, which u follow. THIS IS PRACTICAL. PROTOCOL, READ, FOLLOW, FINISH. at the end the demonstrators/assessors will ask you questions on the theory la, but luckily i managed to scrape through, although now still a bit blur.

i still have a tutorial to do for tomorrow. the fked up thing is, i have to type it out on the word document provided and PRINT it out, so they mark you on the things u have printed and any handwritten stuff are just notes for your own reference.

i prefer old school. you give me tutorial, i use my pen and my right hand to write and left hand to hold the paper down.

there's so so so many lectures i need to take time to read through and digest. the speed is fast, and the material is difficult, i'm having a hard time here. i know i must work hard, but sometimes the determination can't sustain long enough.

after all the money spent on me.................sigh.
i shall do what i'm supposed to do la.

on the lighter note, i realised quite a handful of poly mates are actually attached. it's so sweet to know that nearing the end of poly life or after poly, people get together.
the singles? don't despair. the one will eventually come. just don't rush into it.

take care everyone=) i will not commit suicide no matter what. ha ha ha.

the beginning of university life

so, lessons started already. for the past 2 days it has been lectures only. fyi, i'm taking human physiology, biochemistry, and immunology+virology.

so for physiology, what's being taught now is renal. i'm so dead cuz i've been sleeping thru the lectures and doesn't help much that i forgot lots of things i've learnt in poly. hopefully i can learn some more things from tutorials.

but here, their tutorials they expect you to do your tutorial before going for it and their tutorial answers cannot be found directly from lecture notes. they expect you to search for more information and come prepared for it.

i'm so scared. will update again to share my tutorial experiences.

for biochemistry, the lecturer is damn interesting but i can't say the same for the subject itself when i saw the lecture notes. the notes are in full A4 typewritten notes, not powerpoint slides. so can you imagine the pain i was having when i had to look for information through all the fonts, be it normal or bold or italics? and the pathways, oh my god. PATHWAYS!!! we don't have to remember them, but i'm pretty sure we gotta know some stuff about them.

immuno&viro introductory lecture was ok. made me think i actually still remember things that were taught in poly by beloved mr poh. however, after today's lecture on virology (i actually slept thru it la), i was pretty demoralised. like, the lecturer would ask questions and when the answer comes from somewhere behind/in front and i'm like HUH? I DON'T EVEN KNOW? did they do it last sem? what am i missing out? why my poly lecturers didn't tell me that?

i'm know i'm lagging, but at this point of time i seriously don't have any drive to take my notes out to comprehend, or finish up my tutorial.

wasn't feeling well today (cuz it's a girl thing) and went back to get some sleep. i'm still very tired and tmr there's lec at 10 and practical at 2. looking forward to pract but i know its gonna be like reports-based, which i don't like but i don't have a choice.

why can't everything be simple and basic?

i guess i need to grow up.

on a happier note, i have nice housemates! there's another sporean housemate (3rd yr food science) who passed me 2 biochem txtbooks. so so so so nice of her.
i'm so glad my housemates are nice, and i hope the last housemate who isn't back yet, is also nice. it is so important to have people whom you can live together comfortably with, apart from the importance of a nice big personal bathroom.

anyway, i guess that's enough ranting for today. i need to bathe and catch more sleep before i sleep during lecture again tomorrow.

take care everyone. will post photos when i feel like it.

group dinner on a saturday

went across the street near my hostel to another fellow singaporean's hostel for dinner. i made shepherd's pie (with help from others for the potatoes n meat n baking), my very first time, and surprisingly it's nice =)zhan hou in action.the kind wei wen helping to peel potatoes.marinating the meat...mashed potatoes... the fried meat, layered into the dish before putting mashed potatoes for baking.the hungry others while waiting for dinner to be ready.
and ta-dah! pie is done!food for the day (excluding a roast chicken which was still in the oven)the people, the company, the food. make the efforts worthwhile.and...the leftovers.


lessons start tomorrow. 3 1-hr lecs. pray hard i don't fall asleep. and i don't cry from paranoia due to the difficulty.
wish me luck.

feeling quite empty and lonely today. sigh. emotions, emotions.

guess i should get some rest now. take care everyone.

just a few photos to share. school starts on monday and it's mixed emotions for now.

photos were taken on different days. not in chronological order.

some fellow singaporeans, with my aunt on the right and girl's mum (girl on my right) on my left.my housemates & my aunt.
the ever-famous 'V' sign.
sending her mum off at the adelaide airport.

korean dinner @ central market. the bibimbap is nice =)

dinner at an indian restaurant with aunt. the food, and the masala tea was great.

that's all for now, folks.

will post more when i feel like it. i still have tons of photos in my folder and sub-folders and sub-sub-folders..............

take care, ya'all.

update!

it's been quite a while since i updated, reason being i'm too lazy and i have better things to do. haha.

it has been a week since i arrived. am starting to find things here pretty boring already. it's a pretty quiet place, and maybe i haven't experienced the nightlife at other areas yet.

lots of photos to share...
the main entrance of the hostel (which i call it a condo. haha. cuz u'll need a card to access)
the lounge which is on the left once you enter.
close up on the comfy area in the lounge.

my housemates (the females), girl in brown is singaporean and girl in white is japanese, who is on exchange programme. boy is a fellow singaporean who came to celebrate my housemate's birthday.the first dinner which my housemates and i each cooked a dish. egg is mine =) how my school looks like from outside.

didn't take my room photos cuz it's messy and will clear it up first before i post a nice photo of my room. hee hee hee

and time for the exorbitant prices of asian food--->

the photos speak for themselves. please don't forget there's an exchange rate that has to be calculated.
if you wanna be rich, come adelaide (or i believe, any part of aussie) and set up an asian food store.

took a video at a shopping center today cuz the panda was damn cute. check it out: http://youtube.com/watch?v=FpF_EAqe70s

hm i guess that should be enough today. will post up more photos when i feel like it =) it's late and i have been sleeping late everyday.

take care everyone=)