my simple life

new blog!

2009-03-12T02:25:00.003+08:00

i've decided to move to liawyeanching.wordpress.com.

=) cause it's time for a change.

the SEP myth

2009-03-10T06:54:00.003+08:00

exchange = slack?

hmm. i think this is a myth. at least for us here at ETH Zürich. It's my Week 4 of school here in ETH. and i have tonnes of work piling up. :( probably cause i haven't exactly started work. haha.

i've been trying to stay back to finish up my work at the library. love the library. so much nicer than business library in NUS where i practically spent my undergrad days. the chemistry library in ETH has a nice scenery, much more high tech, nicer seats, better study environment. but somehow, my productivity level is low. i miss my study buddies back in NUS. people like cindy who knows which corner of the library i'll be at every time. people like tianglim who i can call to buy me coffee whenever i crave for one. people like cylysce who goes for lunch/dinner with me. people like val, jf, edwin who distract me all the time. people like pek who will call me just to ask me to take a break or buy her supper. people like eddie who will crash NUS library on weekends just to keep me company. i think i've been too comfortable with the group of people that i hang out with for the past 2.5 yrs. without them around me, i feel super lonely. no doubt there're 15 other NUS students on exchange in the same uni as me now, it still feels different without my gang of friends.

it was nice to speak to val, jf and edwin on skype the other day. alicia and szehui popped by too. ah, i miss those cavewoman in hall! haha. nice to hear gossips, and a lot of typical val moments.

i can't have the best of both worlds. and i know that i should cherish the time i have here. i'm just whining, as usual. :) cause i haven't really been whining to anyone lately. and i still need to put in some effort in my work, cause it's easy to fail here!

shall look forward to greece and east europe in april! my current motivation. wheee! :D

分手快樂

2009-03-07T07:46:00.000+08:00

我無法幫你預言　委曲求全有沒有用

可是我多麼不捨　朋友愛得那麼苦痛

愛可以不問對錯　至少要喜悅感動

如果他總為別人撐傘

妳何苦非為他等在雨中

＊泡咖啡讓妳暖手　想擋擋妳心口裡的風

妳卻想上街走走　吹吹冷風會清醒的多

妳說妳不怕分手　只有一點遺憾難過

情人節就要來了　剩自己一個

其實愛對了人　情人節每天都過

＃分手快樂　祝妳快樂

妳可以找到更好的

不想過冬　厭倦沉重

就飛去熱帶的島嶼游泳

＋分手快樂　請妳快樂

揮別錯的才能和對的相逢

離開舊愛　像坐慢車

看透徹了心就會是晴朗的

沒人能把誰的幸福沒收

你發誓你會活得有笑容

matthias's bday

2009-02-26T21:33:00.000+08:00

few days after my birthday was matthias's bday. and since they put in so much effort to make nice dinner for me, i thought it would be nice to make them dinner too! but the master chef is the birthday boy. so we decided to do steamboat, chinesische fondue (directly translated as chinese fondue) as what the swiss calls it! easy and nice!

people who helped out to prepare the vege, soup, pizza, fish etc.

food! :D was glad that everyone loved the things that we prepared that night.

flumserberg

2009-02-23T21:32:00.000+08:00

i went skiing at flumserberg! my first time on skiis. it was fun, despite the fact that i fell down numerous times. as beginners, we only tried the gentle slopes, meant for kids. but i don't think i'll dare to ski on those steeper slopes. i'll freak out. haha. cause i still can't control my directions.

on the way up! cable cars! with nice view of snowy mountains all the way up!

andreas managed to exchange ski passes with some couple. with that ski passes we could take the cable car to the peak of the mountain. more than 2000m above sea level! we only had 3 passes. so we were supposed to take turns. some of them didn't manage to go up cause we were running short of time. the view up there was just magnificent. and we were fortunate enough to see some sun when we were at the top, considering the fact that the weather that day was not very good. it was snowing throughout, so visibility was quite poor.

at the top of the 'world'! :D i don't know why i blinked in most of my pictures. boo.

more pictures while waiting for our trains back to zürich, when it was getting a bit dark. didn´t get to see sunset though. what a waste.

my 22nd! :D

2009-02-20T04:29:00.003+08:00

this year's birthday is another memorable one. thankful to have great friends around me to celebrate my birthday with me every year. this year, the group of people around me are people that i've only known for 2+ weeks. was glad that they spent so much effort to celebrate my birthday.

it all started at 12am when someone knocked on my door. when i opend the door, there was candles which spell YC at my doorstep. then there were one whole big group of people singing happy birthday, the english version, chinese version and german version! it was accompanied by andreas on guitar. davina with the flowers, ruili with the present and card, and yaowen with the cake. was really sweet of them.

the flowers, swiss army knife with my name engraved!, candles and cake.

people who were there that night, tamisa, davina, matthias, may ee, erlin, anitha, yaowen, andreas, ruili, bernard, sherlock.

and the best thing of all, i had no lessons that day! :D went to Uetliberg with ruili and may ee. Was 871m high, the highest point of Zürich. pretty view!

and they had a surprise dinner for me!

chefs for the day, matthias, davina, tamisa and erlin. got the behind-the-scenes pictures from davina.

there were a lot of food! grilled chicken, pizza, green curry, vege, and CHOCOLATE FONDUE! :D super yummy.

THANKS everyone! and not to forget the 2 special guests, teddy and yi bing.

zurich zoo and wintherthur

2009-02-15T04:17:00.001+08:00

had a class outing with german classmates to the zoo! it was coldddddd. like wat my bro said, i pity the animals in the zoo. haha. the whole place was covered in snow. but the penguins were cute though! haha.

went to a nearby city, winterthur. it was still snowing when we were there. walked around the old town and shopped! made another mini snowman at a nearby park and had snowball fight! :D

what is swiss without chocolates? hehe. i love the choc from this store, merkur. being the cheapskate ones, we always go get free samples from the store. love the dark chocolates! :D

first 2 weeks! :D

2009-02-14T04:11:00.003+08:00

some outdated pictures from the first two weeks in zürich. internet has been crappy. so sorry for the lack of updates.

taken on the first day of school. in front of ETH Zürich's main building.

river at dietikon, the small town where i live in right now. it's only 20 mins away from zürich city by train. i love the swans! they always come in pairs. and those ducks with green head. haha. i just love them. ocassionally i'll take a stroll to the river before going back. and i fed the ducks too (when i have leftover bread)!

and the 2nd week here in zürich, it was snowing! me and ruili made snowman! a tiny one though.

zurich! :D

2009-02-09T04:09:00.003+08:00

blogging from zurich! :D

this city is just beautiful. love the scenery and the weather. it's not too cold and not too hot. just that we have to wear at least 2 layers to go out. can't wait for spring and summer to come when it's warmer!

so far school has been great! having 2 weeks of intensive german course and the first week was great! am sitting with an australian and a norway guy in class. they're super hilarious! :D have been laughing too much in class. am probably the noisiest group of ppl in class.

somehow it's not possible to upload pictures on facebook. but will upload as soon as i'm free. german courses are pretty intensive. 9 to 4 everyday fr mon to fri. plus a lot of admin stuff to settle. so tat explains for the lack of updates. but the company here is great, room is nice. everything is fine.

will post pictures asap. so wait for pictures okie. for the mean time, just look out for pictures tagged by other ppl on facebook. :D

cheers!

over you

2009-01-27T00:19:00.000+08:00

Now that it's all said and done,
I can't believe you were the one
To build me up and tear me down,
Like an old abandoned house.
What you said when you left
Just left me cold and out of breath.
I fell too far, was in way too deep.
Guess I let you get the best of me.

Well, I never saw it coming.
And I should've started running
A long, long time ago.
And I never thought I'd doubt you,
I'm better off without you
More than you, more than you know.
I'm slowly getting closure.
I guess it's really over.
I'm finally getting better.
And now I'm picking up the pieces.
From spending all of these years
Putting my heart back together.
'Cause the day I thought I'd never get through,
I got over you.

You took a hammer to these walls,
Dragged the memories down the hall,
Packed your bags and walked away.
There was nothing I could say.
And when you slammed the front door shut,
A lot of others opened up,
So did my eyes so I could see
That you never were the best for me.

Well, I never saw it coming.
And I should've started running
A long, long time ago.
And I never thought I'd doubt you,
I'm better off without you
More than you, more than you know.
I'm slowly getting closure.
I guess it's really over.
I'm finally getting better.
And now I'm picking up the pieces.
From spending all of these years
Putting my heart back together.
'Cause the day I thought I'd never get through,
I got over you.

Well, I never saw it coming.
And I should've started running
A long, long time ago.
And I never thought I'd doubt you,
I'm better off without you
More than you, more than you know.

Well, I never saw it coming.
And I should've started running
A long, long time ago.
And I never thought I'd doubt you,
I'm better off without you
More than you, more than you know.
I'm slowly getting closure.
I guess it's really over.
I'm finally getting better.
And now I'm picking up the pieces.
From spending all of these years
Putting my heart back together.
Well I'm putting my heart back together,
'Cause I got over you.
Well I got over you.
I got over you.
'Cause the day I thought I'd never get through,
I got over you.

8 days!

2009-01-23T13:15:00.002+08:00

8 more days! and i'll be able to see snow!! :)

have been checking weather forecasts. and it says that it'll be snowing in zurich on feb 1st! :D:D

starting to pack my things. it's hard to pack my whole life into 30kg. but the years of packing and moving hostels helped to make things a lot easier.

still counting down to 31st jan, 9pm at changi airport terminal 1! yay!

goodbye 2008 and hello 2009!

2009-01-02T01:18:00.002+08:00

goodbye 2008 and hello 2009!

before welcoming the new year, it's always good to reflect on the past year. 2008 has been a rather challenging year for me. I guess the whole year was spent to pull up my grades that was terribly affected by year 1's lousy scores. The year started with a probation for my scholarship. and after 2 semester's effort, i believe my CAP is kinda stabilized. I don't think it can go any higher. So i shall aim to maintain it at 2nd lower. :) it could have been better if my year 1 grades weren't that sucky. but oh well, it was much worse. now that it's a bit more decent, i shall not complain.

i've learnt to appreciate chem engin more this whole year. with design projects, and challenging subjects, i'm proud to have survive the year. i've done most of my core modules. left with electives, design project and final year project before i can graduate. getting there! 3 more sems! :D:D

i've also spent the past whole year learning german. still at the beginner's level. hopefully can put all the german learnt into good practice when i'm in europe. i wouldn't have picked up any language course if i never got offered to go for exchange to swiss. something that i never expect myself to do.

i've experienced working life in tuas. the 3 months spent at the construction site has certainly taught me that routined life is no fun. travelling close to 2 hrs to work is no fun. and working in a construction site is no fun. on top of that, there're still a lot of things for me to learn. attitude towards work and taking interest to learn more is one of the more impt things to make work fun and meaningful. and must remember to party like crazy once weekend comes!

apart from academic, i believe i have picked up quite a lot of new things. i've picked up a sport! proud to be in the hall's floorball team. floorball is just so shiok! sad that i won't be able to play for IHG 2009. but hope that the team will have better placing this year! i just hope i don't lose all those skills. haven't touched the stick for months. :( i've sang in an acapella. something that i've been wanting to do. apart from conflicts that happened and unhappiness in working style of other people, singing is still one of the things that i truly enjoy and great music gives true happiness. :D mentoring has been challenging. it has been difficult to mentor the group of kids. but i'm glad for my bunch of dedicated mentors who have helped to organize weekly sessions and all the other outings. we've successfully organized cny home visits, botanical garden picnic, and a sentosa outing.

i believe i've made good friends for the past year. one group of people would be the chem engin gang. if it wasn't because of design projects I wouldn't have known nice people like daniel, szechao and foongyi. certainly widened my social circle in chem engin so that it's not always me and cindy. and certainly thankful for friends that has always been around. my weekend buddies, friends who'll just call to hang out; kr friends, friends who let me whine and intrude their rooms; cavewomen, people who i live with, eat with, study with, gossip with, brush teeth with, bunk with; friends who will pay me surprise visits; and friends who i don't meet yet hear from them fr facebook, msn, mails, parcels; you know who you are. and i'm thankful for having you as my friend.

so lastly, resolutions for 2009.
1. make good friends. and be a good friend. learn to be more sensitive to others.
2. keep in touch with old friends
3. travel europe :)
4. work hard and play hard, have a balanced lifestyle
5. always think positively. need to build more self confidence and be more optimistic.

2009 will be quite a special year. i'll be in switzerland for 6 months. really excited about it. but i can't really imagine life without my friends and family. i really hope i'll meet nice people. =)
counting down to 31st jan, 9pm @termincal 1, changi airport!

series of unfortunate events

2008-12-25T02:32:00.009+08:00

yeap, it's end of december, which marks the end of the year. there has been a lack of update cause things have been happening.

the past few weeks were rather bad. the whole december was just filled with 'a series of unfortunate events'.

first of all, was pretty much distracted during the exam period and my last paper didn't go so well (yeah, it showed in the results that just came out yesterday, could've been better)..

then i had only 2 days to pack up my whole room. cleared one whole freaking room into 10 boxes and 3 luggage. thanks alvin for keeping 2 boxes containing a whole pile of notes + textbooks, daniel for letting me store 6 boxes in his house, kaijia who kept my stuffs in her shoe cabinet, cindy for keeping random iterms and peklyn and xianjin who brought 1 box and 2 luggage back from singapore to kl. sorry for all the trouble.. and really grateful for those 'storage' space for 6 months till i come back fr swiss.

farewell pictures taken in the midst of packing..

and then, i had to lose my handphone, wallet and camera during mentoring. it was rather disappointing. first of all, i've been mentoring in that children's home for the past 2.5 yrs. it was kinda sad that i had to lose my belongings during my last session. it was a very sad sad 'farewell' gift. it was probably my fault to be leaving my things unattended on the table. but i was just less than 2 metres away fr that table. and it was even more disappointing to know that it would probably be one of the kids that has been with us for the past 2.5 yrs. the past 2.5 years' effort was probably not enough to impart values on honesty and trust within the group. secondly, it all happened on my last day in singapore before i go home and go off for exchange. i was supposed to be on a 7am flight to medan for a community service trip. and wasn't suppose to go back to singapore unless necessary. i had to cancel the trip. cause i didn't have my IDs, and it was just hard to leave feeling so 'handicapped' and lost.

a lot of thanks to those who were there to help. i must have caused a lot of inconvenience. ppl had to help me get my room door open, to lend me cash, to lend me their handphones & ez-link, to have been troubled by my mum, dad and sis who were trying to get in contact with me, to tell me wat to do, and for the company. i really felt handicapped. with only ringgit and rupiah and no singapore dollars in hand, with no handphone to make calls and to receive calls, and as good as having no shelter cause all i was left was a luggage that I was suppose to bring to medan (my whole room was empty).

the empty room with only a suitcase left..

thankfully i had good friends and i had a sleeping bag to sleep in instead of a bed without sheets and pillow (it was mingli's. she was supposed to collect it later that day but she got it the day after). i made a police report and cancelled my atm card. and it was pretty amazing. the police said they would investigate on the matter. they would go to the home and to interview the kids who were involved one-by-one. and if anyone were to be found guilty, the kid would be charged; irregardless of age. i didn't really want that to happen. i made the police report cause i had too, my IDs were gone.

the moment i stepped out of the police station, i got a call from the home. saying that they had found my items. i went back to retrieve it. they were found in the girl's toilet. with the handphone in the toilet flush (yep, it's totally spoilt but it's under repair) and the wallet and camera in the sanitary bin. i'm glad that i got my things back. i have spare phones to live with till i get my phone fixed. i'm glad that the whole case was closed. made a closing statement at the police station. it would not be nice if the whole thing was settled by the police. the outcome would be rather ugly. the police even demanded for me to bring those items back to the police station for fingerprint test.

the soaked phone

few hours after everything, i went to buy my ticket back home. it was really good to be home. i've never felt so grateful to be back home. home is really the best place to be at. reached home at 4am. mark the end of the most exciting week of my life. well, like wat kj said, it would be something to think back and laugh at in future (and it's kinda that feeling right now.. but the feeling of losing a phone, camera and wallet at the same time wasn't really nice; trust me, i don't think you wanna experience it..)

and for the past week that i've been home, seems like the series of unfortunate events continues. my spare phone decided to die on me too! am using my sister's spare phone now. (sigh!) and last week, my modem at home failed too! (yet again, quite handicapped without internet. i had my modules, timetable, exchange bursary to settle somemore. had to go scout for 'free wifi' areas to use internet. starbucks are always the best places in times like these. modem is fixed by bro! yay-ness!)

on tuesday, was supposed to go genting. an impromptu plan. woke up feeling unwell. puked 3 times in the morning. nevertheless, still went ahead to genting. went on rollercoasters. came back that night with a fever. it was still fun. although it was kinda short.

probably my only trip this holiday, but it's okay! europe, here i come! =)

and today, christmas eve. i went for a movie with my sister and cousins. on the way back, while driving, i scratched someone's car while cutting into another lane. :( my first car 'accident'. i still think that it wasn't really my fault, she came out of nowhere. blergh. the driver was a middle eastern girl, with her mother at the passenger seat. they got so mad, and stopped me in the middle of the road with heavy traffic. first thing she yelled at me, 'DO YOU HAVE A LICENSCE!' the next thing was, 'YOU! A P-PLATE DRIVER.. WHY ARE YOU DRIVING SUCH A BIG CAR??!!' (i was driving my mum's 7-seater car btw). 'WHY DIDN'T U SIGNAL??!!!'

first of all, obviously i do have a license. i signalled. and i'm not a P-plate driver. the P-plate belongs to my younger sister. and wat's wrong with people with P-plate driving a big car? that 2 were totally irrational. they demanded for RM200. then she asked for my house address and my phone number so that she can send the bills to my house. and made a big fuss. she claims that her daughter was a student (like i'm not), it wasn't their car, they were catching a flight back to dubai that day and 'if we're a gentleman, i wouldn't mind all these cause it's a small matter. but my daughter is a student u know.' (i was like, 'huh???')

and there they were, 2 women screaming at me and my younger sister in the middle of the road. in the end, i called my mother. and tell u, mum's the best. she said, 'just drive off! or call your dad..' then when i passed the phone to the driver, my mum told her, 'if u think that my daugther is at fault, just make a police report.' that driver got even madder.. she said my mum accused her of being the one at fault. i apologized and admitted that it was my fault. she just droved off angrily.

obviously i got chided when i got home. and my brother said, 'no way u're gonna drive my car..' so there it goes. don't think i'll be able to drive much for the next few weeks that i'm home. :(

now that the month is coming to an end, so is the year. i hope it will mark an end to all these unhappy things. things will get better in time, i hope. hope everyone is enjoying their break! merry christmas and a happy new year! =)

on a side note, i'm kinda satisfied with my grades. although some were below my expectations. but heck, i got an A- for process design and safety! hahahha. if i can't model or understand the principles of separation, at least i can assure that the design of my plant and the safety is good! :P it must've been the project! hehe..

and december has always been a great time catching up with friends and family.. =) there're good things in the midst of those unfortunate events.. ♥

'cavewomen', and so we were called (for being the oldest batch in the blk and the most anti-social ones), my greatest bunch of buddies in hall for the past 2.5 yrs. great times with them as neighbours, supper buddies, toilet buddies, gossip buddies, not-so-much of study buddies, and mambo buddies. love them loads. gave christmas pressies and farewell pressies before my last paper..

my cute little ballerina cousin who was so excited to show me the things she learnt in ballet classes..

christmas party at my aunt's place. a family gathering, and i always meet new family members during family gatherings. my baby nephew, jj!

meet-up with high school classmates, and birthday celebration for the twins. (the cake went through some ride in suetlee's car, look at the snowman. it was obviously non-intentional, nevertheless quite cute.)

meet up with the 'bros'. my best group of friends in spore.. =) last meet-up at midvalley before tianglim flies off to silicon valley. next one will be in a year's time!

christmas trees, candid shots, the edifier, and the coffee lover..

oh, and i almost forgot this.. the feast on our last day of exams.. =)

the girls preparing the food..

the food! =)
us, the chem engineers! =)

and the guys washing up.. haha..

fatwa fatwa yang akan datang...

2008-11-30T00:32:00.003+08:00

something that my friends asked me to read on facebook. it's just super hilarious! sorry for those who don't understand malay!

Makin hari umat Islam makin ditindas dan dikongkong. Bukan oleh orang Cina, atau orang India atau orang Yahudi atau orang Kristian. Tetapi dianiya dan dikongkong oleh orang Islam/Melayu sendiri. Please read on.

Selepas fatwa pengharaman yoga, fatwa-fatwa yang akan datang adalah seperti berikut :

Disember 2008
Orang Islam dilarang mandi di kolam renang awam. Di kolam renang awam, akan terdapat orang-orang yang bukan Islam yang memakai pakaian renang yang singkat dan mendedahkan aurat. Ini boleh menjejaskan akidah orang Islam. Cara yang paling baik ialah kita haramkan orang Islam dari kolam renang awam.

Januari 2009
Orang Islam dilarang pergi ke Pulau Pinang. Ketua Menteri Pulau Pinang adalah seorang yang bukan Islam and majoriti penduduk Pulau Pinang adalah orang yang bukan Islam. Apabila seorang Islam berada di Pulau Pinang, beliau mungkin terhidu bau char keoy tiaw yang dimasak oleh orang bukan Islam dan ini boleh merosakkan akidah kita. Cara yang paling baik ialah kita haramkan orang Islam dari pergi ke Pulau Pinang. Orang Islam yang kini tinggal di Pulau Pinang akan diberi elaun pindah sebanyak RM 3000 untuk membantu mereka berpindah ke negeri-negeri yang lain. Perpindahan ke negeri Kelantan dan Terengganu amat amat digalakkan.

Februari 2009
Orang Islam dilarang meminum root beer. Walaupun root beer tidak mengandungi alkohol, namun perkataan "beer" ini boleh menimbulkan keghairan dan kelakuan tidak senonoh di kalangan orang Islam. Dengan pengharaman root beer, orang Islam bolehlah meminum minuman ringan yang lain tanpa was-was. Ginger beer juga diharamkan.

March 2009
Orang Islam dilarang memakan di kedai Mamak. Walaupun mamak kebanyakkannya Islam, tetapi asal usul mereka adalah India dan ada kemungkinan terdapat unsur-unsur India di dalam perniagaan mereka seperti bercakap Tamil dan memakai seluar dalam buatan India. Untuk mengelakkan sebarang syak wasangka, mulai 1 Mac 2009, orang Islam dilarang dari memakan di kedai mamak (kecuali Tun Mahatir kerana dia sendiri mamak kelas I)

April 2009
Orang Islam dilarang bermain ping pong atau table tennis. Ping pong berasal dari negeri China dan oleh yang demikian, mungkin terdapat unsur-unsur agama Buddha atau Confuciusism di dalam permainan ping pong. Ornag Islam yang terlalu banyak bermain ping pong akan terjejas akidah mereka. Sebagai permainan alternatif, orang Islam digalakkan bermain sepak raga (tetapi bola raga mesti buatan Malaysia, bukan dari Thailand).

Mei 2009
Orang Islam yang berkerja dengan kerajaan dilarang mengambil gaji masing-masing. Ini kerana sebahagian besar pendapatan kerajaan adalah cukai pendapatan yang dibayar oleh syarikat-syarikat orang bukan Islam. Orang Islam digalakkan meminta sedekah dari orang Islam yang lain. Untuk memudahkan permintaan sedekah, bakal peminta sedekah digalakkan mencangkung di hadapan bangunan UMNO.

Jun 2009
Orang Islam dilarang keluar negara. Terdapat terlalu banyak godaan yang boleh meruntuhkan akhlak dan akidah orang Islam. Perkara ini telahpun dikaji dengan teliti hasil lawatan sambil belajar ke Bangkok oleh Majlis Fatwa Kebangsaan baru-baru ini. Oleh yang demikian, orang orang Islam diminta menyerahkan balik paspot masing-masing ke jabatan immigresen secepat mungkin. Perjalanan keluar negara hanya dibenarkan untuk menteri-menteri dan orang kuat UMNO sahaja, itupun hanya jika diiringi oleh ahli Majlis Fatwa Kebangsaan.

Julai 2009
Orang Islam dilarang berfikir di waktu siang. Kebanyakkan masalah jenayah dan maksiat wujud kerana orang-orang yang tak ada kerja berfikir yang bukan-bukan. Untuk membenteras maslah jeneyah dan maksiat, orang-orang Islam mulai 1 Julai 2009, dilarang dari menggunakan otak mereka diwaktu siang. Pemikiran mereka akan dipantau oleh Majlis Fatwa Kebangsaan dengan menggunakan sekumpulan specially trained monkeys. Orang Islam boleh menggunakan otak mereka di waktu malam tetapi pemikiran dihadkan kepada perkara-perkara berkaitan dengan makan dan minum sahaja.

Please do not laugh. Many of the above will become a reality if we do not do anything. The rational-thinking muslims in this country are simply not doing anything. We let a very small minority of narrow-minded idiots to control our lives. We, especially the Malay muslims, are fast becoming a laughing stock worldwide. We are obsessed with the little little things.

When there are so many important things remain to be done, why must the Fatwa folks spend their time on little things.. tomboys, yoga, etc, etc. Why don't we ever hear anything from the Fatwa folks for social justice, eradicating corruption and poverty, protecting single mothers, helping the poors, educating the ummah, protecting the environment or ensuring fairness in society.

If you are a rationale, forward thinking muslim, please speak up. If you choose to remain silent, it only means that you agree with whatever is happening. And do not blame the non-muslims for all our troubles. We are asking for it.

- Bukhari Hood
Shah Alam

sushitei!

2008-11-28T02:22:00.001+08:00

a small 'celebration'! we're left with one paper on 3rd dec! one last lap! =)

Corrinne May - The Birthday Song - Happy Birthday

2008-11-24T23:02:00.002+08:00

Happy 22nd Birthday Su San! Just to bring back some memories of the past. Hope you have a great year ahead. Waiting to see you when you get back. Hope your papers went well. =) Take care.

Sara Bareilles

2008-11-22T10:00:00.001+08:00

it's almost over!

2008-11-15T21:24:00.002+08:00

3 tests, 3 assignments, 2 project deadlines & 2 presentation in 2 weeks! i survived that!

left with 3 exams, on 22nd, 26th and 3rd!

i realize i've been a lousy friend. i've been so caught up by work this whole sem that I haven't been in touch with anyone in particular. not even close friends, not even my own family members. i need to catch up with friends before i leave for exchange.

happy someday

2008-11-08T11:21:00.000+08:00

It's just another old Sunday
a few more hours 'til it's Monday
The weekend's almost over
I feel myself gettin' older
It's becoming more and more apparent
I'm turning out like my parents
I hate going to bed early
But I gotta go work for a man who doesn't know my name
Makes me wear a uniform so everybody looks the same
But I can't be late
I've got those credit card bills I gotta pay

Hey hey hey, I'm gonna be happy someday

Then finally it's Friday
I'm thinkin' life's goin' my way
But there's nothing to do
Guess I'll hang out with my friends and I know
We'll end up at a show
Where they'll drink away the dreams they gave up long ago
But I can't complain, 'cause I've been right there doin' the same

Someday I'll be happy
will someone tell me when will that be?
Somewhere I lost track of what's right
and now I'm stuck on the sidelines
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
not gonna take it any longer
It's time to take back control of my life

Someday I'll have everything
I'll get paid money just to sing
A new car, and a big house
a few kids running around
I'm gonna marry my girlfriend
and fall in love all over again
Someday I'll have it all

one step closer

2008-11-06T00:59:00.002+08:00

one step closer to the end of german classes
one step closer to completing my 3 tests, 3 assignments, 2 projects and 2 presentations in 2 weeks
one step closer to exams
one step closer to packing up my super cluttered room
one step closer to going home
one step closer to a long holiday
one step closer to the end of my days in hall if i don't get a place in hall next year
one step closer to switzerland! =)
and every step brings me closer to an end and a start of something new.
so just keep going.

spideyyy

2008-11-02T00:12:00.002+08:00

i met spiderman yesterday! i just found it rather amusing that i actually have a friend who will go to this extend to have 'fun'. speechless. cause it's something that i'll never do.

in need of some motivation

2008-10-31T00:20:00.002+08:00

i have 2 additional assignments due. argh.

and a lot of other SEP stuff to settle. i need to pull through the next 2 weeks. come on, jiayou yeanching! you're getting out from hell soon. very soon.

money money money

2008-10-29T01:47:00.001+08:00

Guess wat i got in my e-mail today?

Dear Student,

REVISION OF ASEAN UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP LIVING ALLOWANCE QUANTUM

We are pleased to inform you that the living allowance of your ASEAN Undergraduate Scholarship has been increased from $4,300 to $5,800 (up by 35%) per year starting from AY2008/09. Your scholarship sponsor, Ministry of Education (MOE) has decided to increase your living allowance in view of the increase in living and accommodation expenses.

The Office of Financial Services will credit your account with an additional $750 for Semester 1 of AY2008/2009 and you will receive the money by end of October 2008.

Das ist ganz toll! =)

hari raya at shar's place

2008-10-27T00:10:00.004+08:00

the gay musroom and him tiny little eyes..

the attention seeker who was 'fishing'..

the 'must have' pose!

2008's picture

yet another s41 gathering at shar's place. it's becoming a yearly gathering.. and now i have 3 years of pictures to post! haha. shall not compare who has aged the most. now that everyone is uni, uni is the conversation topic. no more army talk. haha. we have the lawyer, the architect, the businessmen, businesswomen, accountants, model (who didn't turn up.. but, i must still laugh abt this. hahahaha! s41 model!), designers, engineers (super small population.. considering s41 was a physics class..) etc. oh yah, we have the ntu hall king too! our dear bob dog. haha. it was a great gathering despite the fact that it's all the way at the east. and i'm the only person who stays in the west.

2005's picture

2007's picture

busy time of the sem

2008-10-25T02:34:00.004+08:00

it's been a long week. with proj meetings, tests, hysys. glad that the week is over. it's been quite a fruitful week. at least i am more familiar with hysys. i created my own fine piece of 'art'! haha. this is just for one of the tutorial questions. even more proud of the one that i did with my grp mates for our proj. we manage to get 99.1% purity and 99.84% recovery at the NH3 outlet stream. (i guess only chem engin students will understand why i'm so happy abt it.. cause it's been a painful process to create the hysys simulation..)

the next few weeks gonna be even crazier.

week 11: german oral test, lab report due
week 12: separation test, german vocab test, separation proj deadline
week 13: lab presentation, hysys proj deadline, separation proj presentation, german sem test
week 14, 15: exam week!

somewhere in between, there'll be 2 assignments for stats and those normal weekly tutorials to do.

i need more energy boosters & study buddies. i've still been studying alone most of the time. one of my loneliest sem in NUS. having a timetable which is completely different from your close friends only makes things worse. i will still pull through! the sem is coming to an end soon!

tentative plan is to leave for switzerland after cny. probably 29th or 30th jan. but nothing is settled. visa, insurance, accommodation, air ticket etc. i have loads to do!

pigs!

2008-10-19T00:34:00.002+08:00

it's been a long time since i last blogged abt the pigs and the sheepig! don't you just miss them. they're so cute! haha. from left: porks, ham, pippo and mow!

they are no odinary soft toys. they're soft toys who travelled to more places than me. porks went to tour europe with munyin while she was on exchange to swiss, while ham and mow were touring the states with pek while their brother was in europe. pippo was too small to go anywhere in case he gets misplaced. so he was with huilian and then back to malaysia when the rest were on their holidays. but all of them are back in singapore now! =) *hugs*

buaya week

2008-10-18T23:29:00.004+08:00

and so buaya week has come and go. and it would probably be my last buaya week (unless i get a place in hall next year!). for those who don't know, buaya week is a sheares hall tradition. something like a big scale angel-mortal game, where we are supposed to be nice to someone anonymously. and identities will only be revealed one week later.

i was supposed to 'buaya' terrence. this new guy in the blk who stays at level 1. i am guilty for giving this guy a bad experience for his first buaya week. i was one of the senior who didn't do much for buaya week. was so occipied with two design project meetings and assignment, coming back after 8pm almost every other night. besides, i was singing door to door for acapella song dedications for 2 nights. didn;t have the time and mood to be buaya-ing a person. it's no wonder that i am still single. cause i can't even be nice to someone for a week.

the few little things that I did this buaya week. decorating my buayee's door and table with some pot pourri and making him a cd with nice love songs..

plus a lot of food! haha. made cupcakes, bruchetta and brownies with ice cream! glad that they all turned out well. hehe. at least i had fun making them!

and my buayee is so nice that he made a poster for me that he hung outside the lift. made me even more stressed up. i didn't even do any poster :( and he made me a cd with love songs too! and reciprocated with a lot of sweets and chocolates (impt things that i need for proj meetings!)

now to my interesting buaya.. haha. this is a classic story. buaya week started last thurs night. my buaya already pasted things on my door on the night itself. the next day, i bought supper for both my buaya and buayee. i asked random ppl to pass it to my buaya. since i didn't know who was it. on sat morning, i had a note on my door which says, 'thanks for the supper, zhen lin'. HAHA. he revealed his identity on the 3rd day. how lousy. hahah. when i came back that night, the note changed to, 'sorry, i pasted the note on the wrong door. thought you were my buaya.' although many ppl tried to cover up, (read the buaya week pledge here), somehow it was just rather obvious.

nevertheless, my blur buaya was still the best compared to previous years. a lot of effort being put into decorating my door and a cute little brownie in a shape of a bear and with my initials YC on it.

my buaya made posters (which i didn't see till i saw it on blkcdiary, opps..) and left breakfast with a heart-shaped box fille with small little folded hearts, candles and sweets. really sweet of him. he even made a buaya week diary as revelation gift. THANKS LOADS BUAYA! =) oh, and the tag on my tagboard was him too. not anyone special. so not to worry gf! haha.

and roses from buaya and floorball team manager! =)

and summary of my buaya week experience for the past 3yrs. effort to buaya other ppl deteriorated, but somehow, effort by buaya was of the opposite trend. oops.

aint a bad start for october!

2008-10-11T08:52:00.006+08:00

i know i haven't been updating for a long long time. it's the busy time of the sem now. was home on mid term break although it was only 3 days. had 2 midterm tests the week after that. and now, working on 2 design projects. forsee a lot of staying back in sch, and booking of discussion rooms, pgp meeting rooms etc for the next whole month. but i'm still glad! cause at least i'm catching up with work. i need a study buddy. cause i've practically been studying alone in biz lib, arts canteen, central lib for the past 6 weeks. not to mention, not having ppl to lunch with almost the whole sem cause i'm the only one with a diff timetable from the other chem engineers. it gets rather depressing. and i feel super anti-social most of the time.

but last weekend, i had some 'life'! haha. met up with lita for lunch and the other chem engin proj group mates at night to celebrate foongyi's bday. we were at clarke quay for dinner at central mall. then went over to pump room. love the music there. there was a live band playing! the lead was good! after that, daniel asked, 'where else in singapore can we go at this kinda time?'. i dunno why but i just said, 'EAST COAST PARK!'. and we really went to east coast! wheee! yep, so we were strolling at ecp at 1am, went to the food court to order coconut drink and had some food! and you only get to do this kinda thing when u know that your friends drive. haha. don't even need to think of the super expensive cab fare. just go!

cindy, lita and me

thai food for lunch plus lita's present. nice note book made by jeffrey with some pictures of all of us attached at random pages.

dinner at pasta de warake, central mall

chem engineers: daniel, cindy, foongyi, me, flora, szechao..
we hope to see the light for our design proj.. haha.

a birthday song dedication at pump room for the birthday girl..

supper at east coast! =)

vj days..

2008-09-23T01:53:00.004+08:00

was playing random ppl's play list on itunes shared library while doing my lab report. and guess wat song was playing? savage garden's 'i want you'. haha. reminds me of vj mass dance! omg, i miss those! haha. don't think i can rmb the steps though.

just few days ago, i was having dinner with junhao and terrence from my blk. one interesting fact, i was from vj 04 batch, junhao was from vj 02 batch and old terrence was from vj 00 batch! haha. and guess wat? we were talking abt kwek! hahha. kwekey was my ct tutor, junhao's physis's tutor and terrence's odac teacher in charge or some sort! haha.

time really flies, it has been about 2+ close to 3 yrs that i have left vj. those good old days.

04s41!

vjc!

Happiness, Sadness, Love and others.

2008-09-22T00:44:00.001+08:00

i saw this note being posted on facebook. thought it was something nice to share..

Once upon a time there was an island where all the feelings lived, Happiness, Sadness, Knowledge and all the others, including Love.

One day it was announced to all of the feelings that the island was going to sink to the bottom of the ocean. So, all the feelings prepared their boats to leave. Love was the only one that stayed. She wanted to preserve the island paradise until the very last possible moment. When the island was almost totally under water, Love decided it was time to leave. She began looking for someone to ask for help.

Just then Richness was passing by in a grand boat. Love asked, Richness, can I come with you on your boat? Richness answered, I am sorry, but there is a lot of silver and gold on my boat and there would be no room for you anywhere

The Love decided to ask Vanity, who was passing in a beautiful vessel, for help. Love cried out Vanity, help me please!, I can't help you, Vanity said, You are all wet and will damage my beautiful boat.

Next Love saw Sadness passing by. Love said, Sadness please let me go with you. Sadness answered, Love, I'm sorry, but, I just need to be alone now.

Then, Love saw Happiness and cried out, Happiness, please take me with you. But Happiness was so overjoyed that he didn't hear Love calling him.

Love began to cry, then, she heard a voice say, Come love I will take you with me. It was an elder. Love felt so blessed and overjoyed that she forgot to ask the elder his name. When they arrived on land the elder went on his way.

Love realized how much she owed the elder and when she met Knowledge she asked who it was that had helped her.

It was Time, Knowledge answered. But why did Time help me when no one else would?, Love asked. Knowledge smiled and with deep wisdom and sincerity, answered, Because only Time is capable of understanding how great Love is.

in need of some peaceful sleep.

2008-09-16T23:41:00.005+08:00

peace and quiet doesn't exist around me.

was at central lib, 3rd floor. was studying till some indian song started playing from the study carrels. hmm. they dun realise that those small little rooms are not sound proof.

then went to the study room in sheares after dinner cause was afraid that the juniors will be preparing stuff for junior-treat-senior tmr night in the kitchen, which is 2 doors away fr my room. a while after sitting down in the study room, could hear the song, 'no air' by jordin sparks playing over and over again. dance ppl were practicing somewhere nearby.

last sat night, when i was sleeping.. woke up because of some laughters. went out to find some freshies in the kitchen, preparing stuff for mid autumn festival celebration. and i thought i could have some sleep on saturdays.

i didn't use to be such a light sleeper. but nowadays, i've been waking up at least once or twice every night. and the worse thing is, someone said i looked 'old and haggard..' sigh.

anyway, still glad that recess week is next week! time to catch up on sch work and sleep i hope. I'LL BE HOME! YAYY! =)

on a side note, bought a shirt with the picture above printed on it! love it! heh.

100% at work

2008-09-05T20:17:00.002+08:00

my sis send this to my email. it is rather true for the past 4 weeks of sch. monday, i usually have monday blues plus labs doesn't take much effort; tues i'll start to mug for thurs test plus 2 hrs of lessons; wed is full force mugging for thurs' test; thurs morning, have to face separation process engineering test, by noon i'll be zombified due to the lack of sleep from the past few days due to mugging; by friday, energy level will be super low. besides, it's the weekend. i'll have no mood to mug. maybe tat explains why i'm SUPER LAG in work. despite the conscious effort to catch up. i feel like i'm forever catching up on previous week's work. i need more motivation to continue with the level of effort tat i'm putting in. in fact, i need to work double hard to be able to be on the same pace as tutorial classes. i officially finished one quarter of the semester, but is as good as being in week2. well done. i need to buck up.

korean dinner!

2008-08-30T21:04:00.002+08:00

was thinking tat it will be a disastrous weekend after the hangover. thankfully some ppl came knocking on my door to ask me out for dinner at a korean restaurant. nice, authentic korean bbq with a korean friend who was recommending us the type of food to eat and the proper way to eat certain dishes. =)

many the miles

2008-08-30T11:30:00.002+08:00

There's too many things that i haven't done yet
Too many sunsets
I haven't seen
You can't waste the day wishing it'd slow down
You would've thought by now
I'd have learned something

I made up my mind when i was a young girl
I've been given this one world
I won't worry it away
But now and again i lose sight of the good life
I get stuck in a low light
But then Love comes in

How far do i have to go to get to you
Many the miles
Many the miles
How far do i have to go to get to you
Many the miles
But send me the miles and i'll be happy to follow you Love

I do what i can wherever i end up
To keep giving my good love
And spreading it around
Cause i've had my fiar share of take care and goodbyes
I've learned how to cry
And i'm better for that

Sing how far do i have to go to get to you
Many the miles
Many the miles
How far do i have to go to get to you
Many the miles
Send me the miles and i'll be happy to
Follow you Love

Red letter day and i'm in a blue mood
Wishing that blue would just carry me away
I've been talking to God don't know
If it's helping or not
But surely something has got to got to got to give
Cause i can't keep waiting to live

How far do i have to go to get to you
Many the miles
Many the miles
How far do i have to go to get to you
Many the miles
But send me the miles and i'll be happy to yeah
How far do i have to go to get to you
Many the miles
Many the miles
How far do i have to go to get to you
Many the miles
Many the miles
Been talking to God don't know if it's helping or not
Many the miles
Many the miles
How far do i have to go to get to you
Many the miles
Many the miles
Oh send me the miles and i'll be happy to
Follow you Love

There's too many things i haven't done yet
Too many sunsets i haven't seen

Sara Bareilles

2008-08-29T00:43:00.003+08:00

Tracklist:

Little Voice (2007)

Love Song
Vegas
Bottle It Up
One Sweet Love
Come Round Soon
Morningside
Between The Lines
Love On The Rocks
City
Many The Miles
Fairytale
Gravity


Download here!

=) I just love her songs! Especially those that is in bold..

butterfly

2008-08-28T22:10:00.001+08:00

yesterday's national day celebration performance. it's probably my last performance in sheares acapella. =) don't know when i'll ever get to sing again, but should be soon! haha. just joined NUS Voices. my first non-hall CCA!

fireworks

2008-08-24T10:21:00.001+08:00

was one of the idiots who asked some friends to catch the fireworks from the singapore fireworks celebration last night. we stood outside marina sq for close to an hour to wait for the fireworks. but it was quite worth it. the fireworks were so amazing (although part of it got blocked by this stupid tree in front of us). lasted for about 20 mins! =) i can't rmb when was my last time seeing live fireworks at city hall area. probably when we were still at dunman high hostel.

bruised

2008-08-24T09:51:00.005+08:00

played softball for inter-block games yesterday. and guess wat? i got hit by the ball again. i used to go for inter-hall games training last time. but quit after a while cause i got whacked on the shin. and i thought, just play for fun for ibg since they needed female players. and this time, i got it on my thigh. it's super ugly and painful lah! :( think it'll take some time to heal. sigh. but i still wanna play for floorball on thurs. sucks!

outdated stuff

2008-08-20T23:30:00.005+08:00

should post some pictures or else i will never post them. went to perhentian after internship ended. it was super beautiful. highly recommended place. just have to endure 8 hrs of bus ride from KL. the view was super nice. really. 2 snorkelling trips to 6 different locations, kayaking & jungle trekking. the corals were super pretty. too bad i didn't have any underwater camera. saw baby sharks and turtles too! and plenty of fishes! hopefully i'll post more pictures on facebook (if i'm not lazy and when i have more spare time.. )

some pictures taken during my internship. yep, no more tuas, goggles, boots and helmets. haha.

now that i'm back to sch, the routine starts again. week 2 only but i'm busy with tutorials. and project to be handed up in less than 2 weeks time. wonderful. i guess it's gonna be another sem where i'll be missing in action. don't blame me if u dun see me around. this sem is by far the most hectic sem i suppose. lab every week (which means more lab reports), 4 or 5 projects, tests everyweek and german classes. probably will cut down in hall activities. and i'll be looking forward to the end of this semester! cause i can't wait to get out of NUS. zurich next sem! =)

i'm probably not giving myself the chance.. just too much uncertainties.

my perfect saturday!

2008-07-27T00:05:00.006+08:00

my perfect satuday started with my travel to the east of singapore with dwee.

first stop: victoria hall!
sun and sea, friends and home, all in victoria hall!

east coast park!

cam whore-ing session..

lunch at food court near victoria hall. all time favourite roti john and sambal stingray. and cravings for the past few weeks, carrot cake.

ntu poster girl lita came and join us for lunch!

walked towards east coast's mcdonalds, wanting to rent bicycles.. made pit stops along the way to take photos at the lake, breakwater and with some sandcastles.

supposed to form 'VJC', but our smart dentist friend had her 'J' at the wrong direction. so just formed a VJ in the end.

sandcastles!

the grass is greener on our side! :P

ice cream makes me happy!

was so engrossed in taking pictures till we realize tat it was already 3.30pm. not much time left for cycling. so we decided to walk to VJ for a visit.

on the overhead bridge and siglap park connector..

VJ! =)

nothing without labour, impossible is nothing..

treehouse! =)

katong laksa after shopping at parkway!

a perfect saturday after a bad week at work! one more week till the end of a sucky internship! cheers!

7 days.

2008-07-24T08:57:00.005+08:00

i cannot bring myself to like this work. I tried. And now, even e last 7 days feels like forever. 1st aug, please come faster. I want back my life and i desperately need back my life. Even holidays can be so depressing.

june updates!

2008-07-01T22:46:00.004+08:00

it's been almost a month since i last updated i think! june just flew by. have been busy and tired after work. which explains the lack of update. but june was a month of birthdays! haha. few birthdays of close ones. cylysce, mingli, peklyn, younger bro, elder sis and eddie!

cylysce and her ice cream, from swensons where we celebrated her bday.

me, mingli and daphne. the only 3 ppl from s41 at mingli's surprise party organized by her secondary sch friends.

the bday gal who couldn't stop smiling the whole night! =)

close up picture of the lovely cake that her friends ordered. it's custom made! super pretty!

went back home last weekend on my sis's bday! =) it was a short buy worthwhile trip. had a bday party for my sis. invited relatives and friends. met up with a lot of relatives that i haven't seen for ages. it's always amazing/amusing to meet up with relatives. there're just too many of them. can count in hundreds. and the family size is still growing. having more and more nieces and nephews. which means i'm getting old. haha. it's kinda scary.

was in time to visit huilian's exhibition at equatorial hotel, in KL. glad that i made it cause i missed the previous one at national library!

top left, some random picture tat i took. cool parking skills huh! tat's how msians park at a crowded street with limited parking space. i'm pretty impressed. haha.
top right, huilian's A level art piece exhibited during the exhibition.
bottom left: random picture of offerings for a prayer at home
bottom right: sister's bday cake.

managed to snap pictures of few of my nieces and nephews. they're sooooo cute! haha. especially the twin pair on the bottom left.

top left: sis, me, mum
top right: me and my 1+ yrs old nephew. he can run ard alr! so cutee. =D
bottom left: me and lil bro who turned 9 the same week. oh man, the little boy at home is not exactly little anymore. he's gonna be taller than me soon! reach abt my ears alr.
bottom right: me and sis.

random pictures of the buffet party at home.

sis and her friends who came

another highlight in june was the picnic at botanical gardens that i had with the kids from haven home. our 3rd outing after the east coast cycling outing and chinese new year visiting session. thankful for the bunch of dedicated mentors who helped out in planning and execution of the outing. the kids were super uncontrollable. there were about 20 kids cause the home asked us to bring along the extra 8 who weren't in the program but would not have activities in the home. and we were rather short of manpower. but everything turned out quite well i hope. we had a treasure hunt and lunch after the treasure hunt. weather was just nice for a picnic. i made konyaku jellies for the picnic! and the kids finished it! haha. wat an achievement. the jellies was made after an initial failed attempt. had to rush to a supermarket at 10pm to get somemore jelly powder the night before the picnic. haha.

top of my hate list.

2008-06-12T00:31:00.003+08:00

did i mention how much i hate cockroaches before? let me tell you, about my encounters with the thing that is on top of my hate list today.

early morning, when i was at the toilet at work, there was this cockroach in the cubicle. i ran out of the cubicle and never went back to the toilet the whole day. had to wait till lunch time to use the other toilet which is far far away from office.

when i was walking back to hall, i told myself not to look out for cockroaches on the pavement cause ignorance is bliss. but just when i reached the gate to the block, there were THREE roaches at the gate. ughh.. i had to run in, scan my card and rush into the lift.

and i thought, it was safe once i reach my room. so i took my towel, headed towards the toilet.. and the first thing i saw in the toilet, A STUPID COckROACH!!! totally spoil my day. had to ask for help for some brave soul to kill it for me.

ugh, grossssss....

another eventful week! =)

2008-06-08T21:38:00.004+08:00

another week passed. apart from just work, this week has been rather eventful. mambo on wed night was so so. in fact it was quite boring. and i almost died of sleep deprivation the next day at work.

joyce, val, me, cylysce

val, me, cylysce, maisha

peklyn came back from states on thurs! wheee.. =) she stayed in my room for 3 days. and look at the mess she created.. haha. but it was great to be able to talk to her again. now tat she's back in msia, i miss her again!

and i found another good thing about working in tuas. i love the sceneries. despite the factories, and it being an industrial area, the sunset tat i saw on fri was priceless. and i will go take a picture of the harbour that was near my work place. super beautiful.

sat night was spent with the kr ppl. huilian was in sg for the weekend too. so huilian, peklyn and me squeezed in my room for 2 nights. haha.

huilian, esther, me

sunday morning, both huilian and peklyn went back. walk them out to catch a cab in the morning. which explains the just-woke-up look on the picture below. haha..

peklyn, me

and mum called in the afternoon to tell me it's duan wu jie (dumpling festival).. so me, tianglim, eddie and chernyih went for a quest to seach for dumpling after dinner. and after searching 3 foodcourts and found none, we were so disappointed. but just when we wanted to leave shengshiong after our grocery shopping, we saw someone selling it outside! whee! =) so we sat down at the nearby hawker to enjoy the dumpling, with sugar cane, ais kacang and oh chien (fried egg with oyster.. dunno wat it's called in english. haha.).. sinful supper.

eddie, me

chernyih, tianglim

and everyweek i look forward to weekends.

yay!

2008-05-30T23:54:00.002+08:00

I PASSED MY SCHOLARSHIP PROBATION! so grateful. have been worried about this for half a year. results was finally out today, and i managed to meet the requirement. *phew*

really thankful for people around me who're always there to encourage me and to give me moral support. this sem has been a tough one. and i'm just glad that my friends have so much faith in me. i made it. yes, i made it. i know i have been very pessimistic about this whole issue the whole sem. and this pessimism kinda affected a lot of things.

but, there's one less thing to be emo about at the moment. =)

internship

2008-05-28T22:17:00.003+08:00

holidays are over, and have been doing internship for the past 2.5 weeks. interning at a company, uct engineering, helping out for their bulk vaccine plant for GSK at tuas. some interesting facts abt my internship:

it is at TUAS. pick up is at 7.30am at BOONLAY. so i'll have to wake up at 5.30am, leave hall at 6.15am to be able to reach boon lay on time. (there goes my biological clock again. looks like it's getting back to wat it's supposed to be.. no more sleeping at 4am. no more waking up at 10am too.)
it's at a CONSTRUCTION SITE. attire: casual, equipped with safety gears such as HELMETS, GOGGLES & SAFETY BOOTS. how interesting. i see banglas everyday (oh trust me, they're interesting ppl. and i'm picking up bangla language.aiyoh.. but my memory very bad. can't really rmb.. haha. )
there're rather interesting ppl at work. engineers, project manager, safety officer, fellow interns. ppl of different nationalities (prcs, britains, philipinos, germans etc), ppl of my age, and ppl who're much older.. just rather diversified group of ppl working within the same vicinity.
it's not really related to what i'm studying, to be honest, it's not related at all. but i believe i'll be able to gain somehow or rather. picking up management skills, and i believe the networking helps in a way. and it's interesting to be really working in a real plant. although i'm not operating neither heat exchangers nor any reactors, there're still things to pick up and might still be useful in life.
i'm getting better at excel. hahaha. (meaning i've been doing quite a lot of admin work..)

somehow, working life is kinda boring other than the real weekends that i enjoy. real weekends meaning, no work at all. just play all you want, slack as much as you want and sleep as much as u want. all you need is a great bunch of friends to hang out with. and i'm glad i still have a bunch of friends to hang out with every weekend. haha. last last weekend was wala-wala, brewerkz, mentoring, edmond's bday celebration, shopping, squash and floorball.. last weekend, drinking session in tianglim's room (funny things happened.haha. wayyyyy too hilarious. eddie was DRUNK! our first time seeing eddie so drunk. haha.), basketball, shopping! and i'm getting broke from the great singapore sale.

with s41, celebrating the gay mushroom edmond teo's bday.

met up with some friends over the weeks. met up with heat exchanger group mates for a farewell dinner for christiane, the german exchange girl from our group. we had dinner at a indian vegetarian restaurant, annalakshmi. this restaurant is rather different from other restaurant in the way that you can order as much as you want (provided we finish them of course), and we leave paying as much as we want too. and the food is really good.

and so, another sem is over..

2008-05-09T16:22:00.004+08:00

5th of may, 2008. is certainly a day to remember. at least for me.. haha.. too many good things happened on tat day. hee.

I HAD MY LAST PAPER FOR THE SEMESTER.. it was the day, that marked the end of my 2nd yr in NUS. 2 horrible yrs. and 2 more to go.
met up with mrs gan and huilian for lunch at holland v. first time tat we met up together! =) it was mrs gan's treat. =D and we had yoghurt ice cream! haha.
went shopping with cindy! haha. haven't shopped for so long. and we went for movies after tat. watch iron man for $6! how cool is tat. ahaha.
and we saw lita in town! haha.
met up with foongyi for nice dinner. (finally no more biz canteen's food or hall dinner.. :P)
flora passed her keyboard to me for the holidays, which means tat i have a keyboard to play during the holidays!
i completed some application forms for exchange tat was long overdue. oops.
packed up to go home!

came back the day after exams. met up with eunice the following day. tagged along with her friends, who were supposed to be working on their assignments. interesting piece of assignment that required them to go to various places in KL to observe the popular culture. her friends are quite an interesting bunch of ppl to hang out with. we went to little india in KL, sungai wang, times square, and pavillion..

eunice and I..

nice malaysian food.. clockwise: putu mayam from little india, claypot chicken rice, hokkien mee, asam laksa..

j-co doughnuts! wheee.. so colourful and yummy.

and we were drenched under the super heavy rain. the umbrellas only managed to save us by a little bit.

it's back! =D

2008-04-29T00:56:00.003+08:00

had my 2nd paper today. it was bad. super bad. i left half of the paper blank. i still couldn't believe it. it's a subject that i spent most time on. sigh.

was super depressed. and i needed a break from studying after all these weeks of mugging. thankfully i still have good friends who's willing to come out to 'chill'.. haha. had ice cream at cold rock in holland v with cousin eddie. then went over to the yoghurt ice cream place. basically i had ice cream for dinner. haha. and at least the small little cup of ice cream manage to make my day.

and i was sad yesterday. cause one side of my windmill (okay, it's not mine.. it's jungseong's.. but it has been with me for months alr. haha.) fell off my window when i was studying yesterday. and i went to few levels to look for it. went down to 1st lvl, to look for it at the bushes and all. couldn't find it. even posted on blkcdiary about the missing piece.

and guess wat? joyceh found it! hahaha. wat a wonderful blk head. haha. and i really thought i couldn't get it back. felt so guilty cause it wasn't even mine. yayy! now that the missing piece is back, the windmill is turning again! this is a good end to a depressing day. and i shouldn't even think of 2125 anymore. just pray hard hard tat everyone else dun score tat well.

one last paper before the holidays. i have yet to have plans for the hols. anyone has a job to offer me?

assholes.

2008-04-23T01:41:00.002+08:00

don't they know tat it's exam period?

i was studying in my neighbour's room just now.. when i heard noises. and i saw people running past the room with waterguns and pails.. and i heard girls screaming. i was thinking, "shit. ponding again..."

i got off the chair to go back my room wanting to close my door, cause it was wide open. (the other time they ponded ppl outside my door and ended up with a puddle of water outside my door..)

and i dunno how/why.. the whole group of them carried me to the toilet, threw me under the sink (where blk auntie does her laundry there every morning.. freaking gross..), and on the freaking tap.

WAT THE HELL... i was pissed enough alr, cause i was trying to study, and they came to distract me with all the noise.. and i just bathed.. and i was tired, after spending whole day at the lib.. not to mention, the stress, cause i feel super lag in studies. AND MY FIRST PAPER IS IN 3 DAYS TIME. freak.

assholes. and i'm talking about 24-25 yrs old guys. argh. so pissed. sheares hall guys suck.

Hostel life?

2008-04-18T02:25:00.003+08:00

I told myself not to blog anymore. But there're just too much unhappiness going around. I have a test at 10am. And it's 2.30am. I know i need my sleep. But i also know, that i probably won't be able to sleep well, cause i haven't been able to sleep well for the past few days. i feel so screwed. why am i so bothered when there are more things for me to worry about?

basically, room allocation for next academic year took place few days ago. and i believe, that everyone who was involved was unhappy.

wat really matters to people? friends? the level they stay on? this was the two big issue besides all the 'i have more points therefore i can displace you from your current level' and everything that somehow seemed 'unfair' to some party.

why can't things be resolved? points? friends? room location? is it true that the higher the level the better the rooms? is it true that the lower levels are the not-so-happening levels? nice view? more privacy? all these 'perks' or 'disadvantages' of different rooms and given the 'freedom to choose' based on points, and quota made it hard to satisfy everyone. there were no one solution to satisfy everyone. and different people refused to give in due to different circumstances.

but wat is exactly the point?

after staying 6 years, in 3 different hostel. this is just one big absurd thing that i've encountered. i've never got a chance to choose rooms back in dunman and victoria hall. but i've made the best-est friends out of the 4 years in those hostels. and hostel really meant one-big-family back then. we were split up to different levels, different blocks. and yet the bonds that we built was so strong, that all of us are still best-buddies till now.

and there was so little effort (or maybe not all all) that needs to be done to create a nice, warm and friendly living environment. and people were happy. at least we were happy, or at least I was happy.

i think we should just count on our blessings. accept things as they are, and make the best out of everything. there needs to be a level of compromise. after all, we're all living in the same block. it doesn't help if we continue to fight over the rooms now. cause this will only make things awkward when we come back to stay after the holidays. it is already obvious, after all these. that all these fightings will only break friendships. and make things ugly. and upset the blk head, and your blkmates. and there is no one perfect solution to this problem. cause somehow, some parties will be affected. so, just minimize the lvl of unhappiness. try to look at things at a different perspective.

while all these are going on, i have friends who are worrying about accomodation. because they were not given rooms on campus. and mind you people, we are international students who don't have a home to go back to. and the expensive room rates out there are not helping much either. people worry, cause their living expenses will be doubled just to pay off rents.

so our problems are actually trivial compared to others. and it's exam period. there're more impt things to focus on now. just put an end to all the shuffling of rooms/levels. cause enough is enough.

and i teared when i flipped back at my photo album. cause i really miss life back then. when things were much simpler. cause no matter which room you stay in, you know that you always have your friends with you. even when you stay at a level different different from the rest. cause everyone's room are just within walking distance.

and i miss hanging out with this bunch of ppl. it's been so long.

new hair cut.

2008-04-14T20:01:00.003+08:00

this shall be the last post till exams are over. i shall stop myself from wasting time online. last week of hell. and everything will be over. anyways, i had a haircut with erlin on fri. and the sad thing is, i paid $35 for it at jean yip, and yet no one realized that i cut my hair. boo. so sad. but i'm glad that i cut it. cause it was getting a bit too messy.

Plain White T's - Let Me Take You There...

2008-04-14T19:59:00.004+08:00

I know a place that we can go to
A place where no one knows you
They won't know who we are
I know a place that we can run to
And do those things we want to
They won't know who we are

Let me take you there
I wanna take you there

I know a place that we forgot
A place where we won't get caught in
They won't know who we are (they won't know, won't know)
I know a place where we can hide out
And turn our hearts inside out
They won't know who we are

Let me take you there
I wanna take you there
Let me take you there
Take you there
Take you there
Ooohhh
Ooohhh
Ooohhh
Ooohhh

I know a place we'll be together
And stay this young forever
They won't know who we are

Let me take you there
I wanna take you there
Let me take you there
Take you there
Take you there
Ooohhh

We can get away to a better place if you let me take you there
We can go there now cause every second counts
Girl just let me take you there

Take you there

2008-04-13T01:48:00.002+08:00

David Cook- Hello

2008-04-10T01:24:00.001+08:00

I've been alone with you inside my mind
And in my dreams I've kissed your lips a thousand times
I sometimes see you pass outside my door
Hello, is it me you're looking for?

I can see it in your eyes
I can see it in your smile
You're all I've ever wanted, (and) my arms are open wide
'Cause you know just what to say
And you know just what to do
And I want to tell you so much, I love you ...

I long to see the sunlight in your hair
And tell you time and time again how much I care
Sometimes I feel my heart will overflow
Hello, I've just got to let you know

'Cause I wonder where you are
And I wonder what you do
Are you somewhere feeling lonely, or is someone loving you?
Tell me how to win your heart
For I haven't got a clue
But let me start by saying, I love you ...

Hello, is it me you're looking for?
'Cause I wonder where you are
And I wonder what you do
Are you somewhere feeling lonely or is someone loving you?
Tell me how to win your heart
For I haven't got a clue
But let me start by saying ... I love you

brians brains brains. i need more of them.

2008-04-09T01:54:00.005+08:00

i asked peklyn for more brains. and this is wat she sent me through msn! haha. see, can transfer brains online. how power? haha.

i need somemore brians. anyone willing to lend me their brains? i can't seem to rmb or understand the things that i study. can i be picky to ask for the smart ones only? haha.

get out of this place.

2008-04-08T00:11:00.002+08:00

"YEANCHINGGGGG!!!pls get out of that NUS cannnn..hahahah"

yes, that's what i've been told by daryl on facebook. (N/B: it's THAT nus. hahah..) argh. i also want. i can't wait to get out of this place. argh. i can't wait for exchange. get me out of this place. get me out of sg. i've been staying here too long.

exams in less than 3 weeks time. but tests, projs, assignments still getting into the way.

someone made my day today. =D haha. with just 50cents. :P

friends

2008-04-05T09:23:00.004+08:00

it's seetha's birthday today. and i miss her a lot. haven't seen her for almost a year already. dunno how she's doing right now. probably gonna give her a call later. and it was zee's bday few weeks ago too. i was too caught up with things to really talk to her also.

i miss the bunch of us back in dunman hostel. that was like 6 years ago. and among the 4 of us, i'm the only who's still left in singapore. i dunno whether it's a good thing or not. but i really love this bunch of friends. friends who never fail to make me laugh whenever i see them, friends who'll give me a big hug everytime i see them, friends who'll make countless surprise visits to singapore (she would even skip school to come visit us..), friends got punished together for coming back late. friends who stayed up with me all night at east coast park just to escape curfew, friends who'll stay up all night just to chat etc.

i bet we'll always rmb the punishment from mr ang, the times we played bridge with seetha's lousy guessing skills (heh..), the bbq at east coast, the meals + gossipping session with mrs gan and the anticipation for the arrival of desiree or denzel etc. friendship tat'll last forever i hope. =)

i just hope that we can see each other more often. :'(

senior's farewell

2008-04-04T22:46:00.004+08:00

just some nice pictures to post. =)

projects projects and more projects.

2008-04-04T21:58:00.003+08:00

projects projects and more projects. this is how they're killing us. after spending countless numbers of hours on the stupid CN2125, CN2116 and CN3124 projects, we finally see some light. finally having more time so that i can start studying. finally feeling that bit sense of freedom (before i start studying again tmr..)

and all these come only after kumar started out the project without giving us a flow rate to the question, making us crack out head on how to even start the project, then giving us a flow rate 1,370,310 lb/hr which was supposed to be 1,370,310 lb/DAY (it makes damn a big difference to our calculation and made us recalculate like 10000 times just to realise that it was wrong), then changing our shell outlet temperature on tuesday when we finished our whole calculation..

and also uddin, who took one whole freaking sem, to release a project, 3 weeks before reading week, when everyone else is rushing to finish up the other 2 projects. and he tried to make every groups' values different. by making our flow rate different. how different? group 1, flow rate= 10m3/s, group 2: 11 m3/s, group 3: 12 m3/s etc.. that's like damn different lah!

and zll, who added extra information like 3 times. that we had to change our program 3 times. and telling other groups, that we can't assume constant density while the question paper stated explicitly that we should assume constant density. argh.

why can't these prof/mentor/teaching assistants try out their design questions before giving it to us and release questions at the start/middle of the sems so that we can work on one project at a time. it's bad enough that we're the first batch of students to suffer from all the design projects. they must make us die and end up screwing up our exams. and in the end, the mediocre students like me, who's alr in a very bad state, to die even more. cause its 3 weeks before my first paper. and i'm as good as not attending the whole sem. i feel so dead. i dun even know how to survive this 4 weeks. it's worse than 4 weeks in hell.

argh, i'm complaining again! i can't help it. i should be studying in stead of wasting my time complaining here. 4 more weeks to determine my life for the next 2 yrs. sigh.

despite all these, i'm thankful for few things!

i'm thankful for smart project group mates. who can read through perry's and coulson and kern. to figure out all the graphs, equations, correlations etc
group mates who are so super efficient, they really make things so much easier. we tried to specialize. (although specialization didn't really work out very well towards the end...)
group mates who share junk food. i dunno how much junk food we munched on till szechao decided to buy healthy food like bananas!
group mate who let me drive his car, while the other group mates were in the car! I DROVE DANIEL'S CAR! although it's only from pgp to sheares. haha. but it's my first driving experience in singapore! hahaha. thanks for trusting my driving skills. haha.
and i'm thankful that i know 4 more new ppl in my batch! haha.
not to forget to be thankful for the existence of coffee which helped to keep me awake most of the time.

project group mates. wonderful bunch of ppl to work with.

white board that we scribbled..

evidence of perry's, banana, junk food, tea, coffee..

and working till 3am last friday.

we spent total of about 60-70 hrs on 2 projects. and another separate 10 hrs on the other project. i'm so glad that it's over.

for ppl who haven't seen me around, this is wat i've been doing for the past whole month. it's not that i wanna live in my own world. i have no choice. and i just want this sem to be over.

my short escape from the little world i live in

2008-03-23T22:53:00.005+08:00

eunice, mrs gan and me. i shall start accepting the fact tat i'm always the shortest. :(

my dearest friend!

cindy, me, eunice..

ntu poster girl lita, cindy and me!

eunice was here few days ago. she stayed over my place on wed night and we had lunch with mrs gan at moe on thurs. and she went back again today. i'm glad that she visits so often. doesn't feel like she's not in sg! haha. in fact, i see her more than i see some of my friends in smu or ntu! :P

went for dinner with eddie, lita and cindy at holland v. it was a great time catching up with lita. and somehow, ntu ppl seems more positive and happy with their lives. unlike those of us in nus. we need more optimistic ppl in nus and smu. and i need to be more optimistic.

5 more weeks to exams. i have only 5 weeks to save myself. it's a bit scary. now that i'm really officially done with all the hall activities, it's really time to start camping in biz lib.

ps, amplitude and cmb concert pictures on facebook. =)

out of reach

2008-03-14T23:48:00.005+08:00

Out Of Reach
Gabrielle

Knew the signs
Wasn't right
I was stupid for a while
Swept away by you
And now I feel like a fool
So confused,
My heart's bruised
Was I ever loved by you?

Out of reach, so far
I never had your heart
Out of reach,
Couldn't see
We were never
Meant to be

Catch myself
From despair
I could drown
If I stay here
Keeping busy everyday
I know I will be OK

But I was
So confused,
My heart's bruised
Was I ever loved by you?

Out of reach, so far
I never had your heart
Out of reach,
Couldn't see
We were never
Meant to be

So much hurt,
So much pain
Takes a while
To regain
What is lost inside
And I hope that in time,
You'll be out of my mind
And I'll be over you

But now I'm
So confused,
My heart's bruised
Was I ever loved by you?

Out of reach,
So far
I never had your heart
Out of reach,
Couldn't see
We were never
Meant to be

Out of reach,
So far
You never gave your heart
In my reach, I can see
There's a life out there
For me

another week is over..

2008-03-14T21:52:00.007+08:00

it has been a terrible week.

monday, lead singer for this sunday's concert told us that she can't make it on sun. so we had to find a replacement and prac watever that we've been learning for the past few months. it felt terrible. really terrible. the disappointment and the feeling that all your efforts have been wasted. thankfully val agreed to help. really thankful for that. and after all the intensive prac for the past few days, it turned out rather well. =)

then had proj meeting. for heat exchanger design. i was super lost. i felt stupid. i didn't know wat was going on. and i felt bad for the group. we were going no where. sigh.

and also the proj for catalytic naphta reforming. same case. i really need to spend some time to read up on the readings and materials.

tues, had 7 + 2 hrs of lessons. wasn't in the right state of mind to do anything else at night.

wed, went for the interhall bash. i went late and i came back early. i know i shouldn't go. cause i had a lot of things to do. but i just wanted to de-stress. although i spent only abt 2 plus hrs there, it was enough to add on to the series of unfortunate events this week. the drinks were sucky (oh wells, wat to expect.. it was free..) and some bastard puked on me on the way back. right before

we reached hall in the chartered bus. seriously wtf. it wasn't a lot. but it was disgusting. how sueh. only this kinda sueh things can happen to me. and the worst thing is, i didn't know the person, and he was such a bastard that he haven't apologized even after 3 days. wat a jerk. argh. i'll rmb him and i will give him the bitchy look everytime i see him in hall. argh. still so pissed.

and to add on to all these shitty things, my comp have to give me problems. i can't view my webcasts on IE. brought it to the computer centre in sch, they tried to do a lot of things. still couldn't solve the prob. they asked me to format my comp. argh. so reluctant to do so. it'll take me so long to back up my things.

and i was so disappointed with my tuttee (is there such a word?). everytime i go over to give him tuition, he'll never complete his work. the other day he had work that was due 3 weeks ago. i felt that i'm wasting my time everytime i go teach. and i was very disappointed with myself for not being able to guide him well. i'm spending 2 times a week for this tuition. i feel that it's not worth my time (although i get paid,my only source of income at the moment).. i dun feel like teaching anymore. but i'll be such a bitch if i just stop now. he's in sec 4 now. will be having o lvls at the end of the year.

mentoring prog also not making my life easy. can't find volunteers. i'm having a shortage of manpower at the moment. and all the current volunteers quitting one by one cause they can't commit. the ppl that i asked all told me that they can't commit or they're not interested. the ppl who came for interview pulled out in the end also. and i think my mentee is not happy with me also.

seems like i can't handle ALL the things that i have at hand well. which makes me question myself for doing the things that i do. for the sake of doing it? or for wat?

sigh. so depressing. i just needed to whine. ahh. i'm not supposed to be whining so much i know. but just can't help it. i'll be fine after i whine. and i'm really grateful for friends ard me. for the tags on my tagboard, the sms-es to show concern, the note i find on my table together with sweets and chocs just to cheer me up, the encouragements and hugs. so touched. =)

note from emily that was on my table when i came back my room just now. she left 'a collection of all things sweet' to sweeten up my life.

but bad things aside, there were few things that made me happy! haha. i've got a mail! from alice! all the way from sydney. she sent me a compilation of songs that's burned in a cd. it came with 2 lip balm. was so glad. yes, i know, there're ppl out there who loves me. just that they're all far far away.

the mail that i received from alice.

and the cd and lip balms that came in the mail

and finally. someone who made my day today. ana, the resident fellow's daughter. was playing in my room. she's so cheerful, so bubbly, so cute. she gave me a kiss on the cheek and a hug. something that i needed today.

concert on sun at ucc, and wed at fort canning park. anyone interested to come watch? both are free! haha.

it's a mess.

2008-03-11T00:22:00.004+08:00

SIGH

i kept on telling myself that things will be over and i'll have time to concentrate on studies. BUT IT'S NEVER GONNA BE OVER. ARGH. how frustrating. when i thought i can start studying after production, now amplitude concert on sun. so this whole week is JAM PACKED with practices and SOUND CHECK, then all the tuition and mentoring. NOT TO FORGET THE COUNTLESS PROJECT MEETINGS, ASSIGNMENTS, TUTORIALS, LECTURES ETC.

JUST KILL ME. SERIOUSLY. i dunno how much longer i can take this stress. it's killing me.
and i kept on telling myself to stay strong. dun breakdown. but i'm losing the drive. losing that bit of hope. i feel suffocated in this pile of mess. wat a f*cked up life.

take a 'chew pew'

2008-03-09T09:45:00.002+08:00

take a 'chew pew'

top left: joyce huang (bim bim 2), bottom right: joyce chan (the original bim bim)

joyce huang, valerie, me, joyce chan

girls' night out at clarke quay. good way to de-stress after a terrible week of tests. =) just nice to take a 'chew pew' (the bims way of saying chill pill) and slack ard. but reminder to self: no more such things after end of this coming week. time to mug. yeanching has a lot of catching up to do. the coming weekend would be amplitude (a combined hall acapella and choir concert, wanna come?). it shall be my last event b4 i start my daily 'ritual' at biz lib. haha.

evocation 08

2008-03-08T18:04:00.004+08:00

it's risky to have 3 blogger accounts. i almost posted this one at blkcdiary. haha. it'll be quite wierd if i accidentally posted a personal blog post on the blk's blog. haha. but anyway, went for baowei's concert yesterday night with daryl and shar. my 3rd nus dance ensemble concert. =D and every concert never fail to entertain. and yeah, obviously the 3 of us were cam-whoring. haha. wat's new? :P

life is pretty depressing. spent the whole day trying to do my assignment. yet, still can't complete even 1 out of the 4 qns. argh. super pissed. and i haven't started on my other assignment. boo.

was dreading a sat eve alone in hall, till i heard some noises coming from the short wing. so i went over to see who were there. two joyces, val, clylysce, abhi were there. and they managed to psycho me to go take a 'chew pew' at clarke quay with them. yup, say bye bye to depressing sat night. shall finish up the assignment when i get back later. =)

I Told You So

2008-03-07T00:26:00.004+08:00

"I Told You So"

Carrie Underwood

Suppose I called you up tonight

And told you that I love you

And suppose I said I wanna come back home

And suppose I cried and said I think I finally learned my lesson

And I'm tired of spending all my time alone

If I told you that I realize you're all I ever wanted

And it's killing me to be so far away

Would you tell me that you love me to

And when we cry together

Would you simply laugh at me and say

I told you so

Oh, I told you so

I told you someday you'd come crawling back and asking me to take you in

I told you so

But you had to go

Now I found somebody new and you will never break my heart in two again

If I got down on my knees and told you I was yours forever

Would you get down on yours too and take my hand

Would we get that old time feeling

Would we laugh and talk for hours

The way we did when our love first began

Would you tell me that you miss me too

And that you've been so lonely

And that you've waited for the day that I returned

And we live and love forever

And that I'm your one and only

Would you say the tables finally turn

Would you say I told you so

Oh, I told you so

I told you someday you'd come crawling back and asking me to take you in
I told you so

But you had to go

Now I found somebody new and you will never break my heart in two again

Now I found someone new and you will never break my heart in two again

belated bday celebration

2008-02-29T02:14:00.003+08:00

belated bday celebration

went out for dinner + drinks with the msians as a belated bday celebration. guys'night out.

we had dinner at a new jap restaurant in raffles city, shokudo. then shopped for jeffrey's gf's bday present, and headed to timbre2 for a drink after that. it's amazing that we're all still so close to one another after so many yrs. we practically grew up together. we all agreed that we're like 'family' to one another.

thanks bros for making time to celebrate despite the hectic schedule. really appreciate it. it was a fun night feasting, drinking and cam whore-ing.

kongjien, tianglim, me, eddie, jungseong, jeffrey

everyone looking very pleased with the food that they ordered..

all the cam whores..

and more cam whore-ing sessions..

and posers..

the drinks..

and the four of us who were the last to leave

kushinbo

2008-02-29T01:59:00.002+08:00

kushinbo

samson treated the whole sets team to kushinbo on tues. it's a jap buffet restaurant. super nice jap food and desserts! haha. thanks lots boss. i believe everyone was very satisfied with the meal. hard work paid off through the meal. haha. and i swear i'll never go for any buffet anytime soon.

c-towners in sets 07/08

samson, me, teckchew and zhaohui

sets seniors, ppl who not only join sets once, but TWICE.
caroline, cheryl, me, teckchew and samson.

hope

2008-02-27T09:28:00.003+08:00

something that i picked up from lita's blog. thought it was quite meaningful.

life is not worthless at all...
these days i have heard of many who live life so depressingly..
fail to find the meaning in life..
stressful over work and study
heartbroken

Please, do not give up HOPE.
so that i wont give up hope as well
i believe there are still
good causes
selfless people
beautiful flowers
rainbow after the rain
happy marriage
and many other things i wouldnt want to miss...

i admit, i've been rather depressed ever since i got the mail from the scholarship department regarding my probation. but somehow i realized that this depression will never get me any closer to passing this probation. i still wanna be an asean scholar after these 6 years. i just need some determination, some self esteem and some confidence to get through this.

it's time to inject some HOPE into life. so 'please do not give up hope so that i won't give up hope as well'. and i'm thankful for ppl ard me who're always there to give me the encouragement that i need. =)

2008-02-26T02:54:00.001+08:00

UPDATED!

finally had some time to update this blog. heh.

ChuiFen's bday

2008-02-26T02:50:00.002+08:00

ChuiFen's bday

just celebrated her bday. =) happy21st bday fellow chem engineer. haha. thanks for all the bitching sessions. haha.

blk c's yr2 chem engineers. haha.

daryl's bday

2008-02-26T02:24:00.004+08:00

Daryl's bday

i've been so occupied with things that i missed a lot of s41's gathering, bday parties etc. haven't met them for so long. it's really not that i wanna live in my small little world and shut myself away from the rest. glad that i make it for daryl's 21st. =) finally get to meet some of the s41 ppl. and please do no forget abt me even if i go missing in action. i'm just somewhere ard. either in hall, engine or biz lib. haha.

the birthday boy.

s41 peeps.

clockwise: waikeung, daryl, sean and baowei

clockwise: study buddy aloysius, bobby, mingli and daphne

s41G!

ber, mingli, me, shar, tianyu, baowei and daphne

and the usual cam-whoring moments with shar's long hands.

sheares production 07/08

2008-02-26T01:39:00.003+08:00

sheares production 07/08

i'm just glad that it's over. a lot has happened for the past 3 months. fun times, sad times, frustrated times, etc. too much emotions involved. the stress, the unfair treatment, the unhappiness, the dreadfulness, the sleepless nights, the questioning of self for doing it 2 yrs in a row, the bitching sessions, the complaints, the whinings, the countless times of breaking down, the misunderstanding etc. despite all these, the last week would be a memorable one. i was happy when people praised our sets, i was happy that the whole team can stand together to pull through the tough times together although we were always the forgotten one, i was happy for the existence of some members who never fail to entertain the rest, i was happy that everyone could bond so well, i was happy that we're all part of sheares production sets 07/08. we built toad hall, the layer of forests, badger house, rat house, car, caravan, train, boat/barge, judge stand that took us more than 3 months. i know i didn't help out much during term time. i was occupied with tests and assignments. i hope people understands my condition.

top left: toad hall builders! yes, they made the whole thing! it's 2 storey high.

top right: the car mechanics [although our pedalling mechanism failed in the end. had to do the flinstone way. :( ]

bottom left: caravan maker, one man show most of the time.

bottom left: the train experts *weisong got cut out from the pic!*

*i dun have pictures of our bai nian shu ren (direct translation: 100 yrs tree ppl, haha..)

top left: rodney's cock, haha..

to right: toad hall

bottom left: toad on caravan

bottom right: car!

top right: judge stand

and somemore toad hall pictures.

bottom right: the logo on judge stand that cheryl spent 2 days doing just to realize that it was supposed to be 'The Wide World', instead of 'The White World'.. but it's okay, cause it was so nice. no one will know. haha.

top left: rabbits in the forest! haha.
top right: rat house
bottom left: river bank! it was super last minute order from the top. but it really created the river effect.
bottom right: it looks like the cock is on top of a misty mountain. haha.

top left: forests.. that magically 'grew'
top right: in the memory of the arts house logo that could not appear on stage due to some 'reasons' *rolls eyes*
bottom left: notes from cheryl (big/old cheryl)
bottom right: barang-barang furnitures. big deal.

behind the scenes!
top left: duh obviously the trees didn't move by itself. there were ppl behind to move it!

top right: the overworked sets ppl taking their nap during the play

bottom left: the gambler uncle teckchew

bottom right: stage left ppl, valerie, cheryl, me, jieying and poyu.

at the holding room. where we do silly things to keep ourselves entertained.
top left: do no offend the old god.
top right: everyone's eyes on the food
bottom left: twin bananas?
bottom right: wu kui wu kui tiao!

standing: junkai, jaden, huajun, poyu, big cheryl, caroline, peiran, zhengwei, zhaohui
middle row: boss samson, jieying, dan ting, small cheryl, god teckchew, weisong, rodney
front: yeanching, xuehai, adeline, valerie

my 21st

2008-02-26T00:41:00.004+08:00

my 21st!

it was a busy week. but glad that ppl remembered. was at sets area at midnight, helping out with the sets team when kane came over to call me. then the whole grp of blk c ppl was at the dining area with a cake. so sweet of them. cindy came along also. =) thanks everyone for celebrating with me.

took some pictures. then jiafen and cylysce insisted that i should go back to my room. when i reached my room, there were lilies and a note from le hia on the door. and when i opened the door, i really couldn't stop smiling. hee. they decorated my room with balloons and a star light. was super pretty. thanks cylysce, jiafen, val, chuifen and kexi. =DDD

a big thankyou for the following ppl:

sets team for being the first ones to sing me a bday song
blk c ppl for the cake and the mini celebration
cylysce, jiafen, val, chuifen, kexi for the star and balloons
huilian, eunice and esther for coming over, and hokito and dipta for sharing the present with them.
san for the call
mum for the call
peklyn who tried to call, so that i can go ard telling ppl that i got a call from states, but sorry babe, my phone was on silent. we talked from webcam after that. not to forget yining who was next to her also.
tianglim, shareena, lita, bernice, eunice au, freddy, jungseong,huihan, kathy, deo, daryl,mingli, daphne, eddie, baowei, yingloo, yeehaun, mrs gan, sis, chernyih, kiathowe, suetlee, seetha, elvina, adith, hokito, alice, kongjien for the sms-es.
melinda, bro, mingyun, huiting, peijoo, yining, zee, xinyi, wenny, su, junhao, pek, mun, nicole, emi, kokvui, wansin, yeelian, szushen, junming, fengying, sab, jolene, rumana, shili, sean, amira, sheralyn, andrew, joanne, phontip, fang en, erlin for posting on facebook wall
dodo for the facebook message
vidi and san for the tag on my blog
dwee, justin, ivan, candy, vincent, dipta for the msn message
ham and kathy for the lovely earring stand with 11 pairs of earrings with it. *gasp*
cindy, shareena, san, mingli, haojin and blk c for the card
*hope i never miss out anyone*

well, spent my bday rather simply. school and sets only. just that i got older. haha. and somehow i have to mention this. stop asking me when i'll get attached. haha. it's like the next most heard thing apart from the 'happy bday' wishes. one thing for sure, it won't be anytime soon. =)

and not that i wanna dao ppl on my bday or watsoever. i felt bad cause the msians wanted to celebrate for me but i asked them to postpone to the following week. that week was just a bit too packed.

thanks blk c! =)

top left: cindy! thanks for coming over to sheares. *hugs*
top right: c7 gals. val, jiafen, me, cylysce and lehia. wonderful neighbours who're always ard whenever i need them.
bottom left: joyce and abhi. sorry joyce for being 'ponded' on behalf of me. dun pout..
bottom left: brothers boyan and edwin. thanks for letting me bully u guys. heh. but i also always kena bully.

the birthday brownie from mrs fields! with the candle that will re-ignite when i blow it off.
and the few from kr who came over! huilian and the twins.

lilies, note, balloons, star.. =DDD

and the person who's so willing to pose pictures of the silly face on skype that i miss soooo much.

clockwise: card from haojin, blk c, shareena, cindy.

clockwise: note from the kr bunch, front of shar's card, su san's pop up card (damn pretty rightttt?), me-to-you cards from mingli, ham and kathy

new room deco + mun's farewell

2008-02-26T00:18:00.005+08:00

new room deco + mun's farewell

mun flew off right after cny. flew to switz for exchange. gonna miss crashing her room in kr. thanks mun for bringing so much fun, laughter and joy for the past 2 yrs. come back soon. so that we can hang out together again!

esther, munyin, me and huilian

it's feb. so it's the season for flowers and chocs. v-day cum friendship day. every year i'll try to make something small for ppl ard me. but this year's note came a bit later since i spent most of the week studying for a test on 15/2. i prepared 40+ notes mostly for ppl in the blk, and for the haven mentors. for those who never get, it might be because u're too far away. not that I have forgotten you.

top left: flowers from ham, darius and emily.
top right and bottom left, pictures of the notes that i made for ppl
bottom right: lilies left by emily on the lvl7 corridor.
p/s: it was roses from the blk c guys b4 the lilies. but didn't manage to take a pic of them. thanks guys!

there're few more additions to my room deco. thanks to all the events in feb. v-day, bday, sp.
=) and i have fetish of taking pictures of flowers. heh.

cny

2008-02-25T21:40:00.014+08:00

cny

yes, i know. i've been MIA-ing ever since the sem started. well, the past 6 weeks have been rather packed. really packed. i shall condense everything into 1 post. so it shall be a long long one! haha. just scroll down for pictures if it's too much for u. =)

first celebrated cny with sheares hall. formal dinner at comm hall. sang wu ding for aca. kinda screwed up the performance a bit. sighs. i still get stage fright when there're distractions.

went home for cny. it's always good to spend time with family. and i love the cny mood. food, fire crackers, family, friends, lion dance etc. just thought that it would be nicer if it's a bit longer despite the fact that i spent most of my time finishing up my assignments and catching up on webcasts instead of meeting up with friends and going visiting.

shinfei, shili and huilian. on the way back to kl.

that's my family. =)

me, mum and grandma

as for haven mentoring programme, we organized a home visit to daniel and tingyun's place. daniel's place was nice. had a pool side breakfast cum snack party. haha. hope that the kids like these visits. and i'm glad that the other volunteers are there to help me out especially when i have so hectic schedule. really thankful. =) and many thanks to tingyun's family for sponsoring lunch and opening up their home for the visit.

at tingyun's place

at daniel's place

sheares production!

2008-02-14T08:27:00.002+08:00

what are u waiting for? CLICK HERE for more details and ticket purchase. =)

counting down

2008-01-28T21:41:00.000+08:00

counting down to the days to go home.
i'm sick of this place.
i'm sick of the routine although it has just started.

i just need a change. at least for a while.

True Hearts Connection Mentoring Programme

2008-01-17T19:35:00.000+08:00

Click on the image to enlarge. =)

True Hearts Connection Haven’s Mentoring Programme

Time / Duration: First & Third Saturdays of the month (2hrs)
10.30am – 12.30pm
Group Size: 12 mentors + 12 mentees
Venue: The Salvation Army, Haven Home
350 Pasir Panjang Rd S (118692)

Aims of Haven’s Mentoring:

Providing role models for the young teenagers, guiding them during their period of change
Engaging the mentees in meaningful and enriching activities that help to cultivate character growth,
Giving help to mentees in their academics work
Building a support group for the mentees and between the mentors

Recruitment of Mentors:

Age: 18-35
Qualities: - Matured
- Able to lead, initiate
- Responsible, caring, committed
- Love to interact with young teenagers
- Able to work in a team
- Able to teach school work
- Able to plan and carry out meaningful session for own mentee

Mentoring Programme

First Hour:
Personal time between mentor and mentee Tuition for mentees. Revisions of school work if no homework. Storybook reading session will be conducted if there’s no homework or during holidays.

Second Hour:
Fun-filled and enriching activities. Activities are based on Themes. (Each theme will last for 2 to 4 sessions)

1) Mind twisiting
– logic games and puzzles to develop thinking skills and concentration
2) Creativity
- painting of clay saving bank figurines (mentees got to keep their artwork)
- painting of metallic metal picture frames (decorations for the Home)
- Piecing a BIG jigsaw puzzle for the old Folks Home Visitation during Christmas period
- To develop creativity, and develop teamwork
3) Character Building
- Inspirational Storytelling
- Group Games to instill values
- Workshops by trainer on various themes like self-esteem and exam techniques and preparation
4) Sports
- Soccer, Captain’s ball, basketball etc.
5) Team Building
- Telematches, games eg.scavenger hunt
6) Knowing yourself and others
- Show & tell
- Mentor and Mentee pair sharing and guidance
7) Special outings

Do contact me @ yeanching@hotmail.com if u're interested.

sem 2 0708

2008-01-17T18:56:00.000+08:00

and so the new semester has started.

and this semester's gonna be super hectic. 4 chem engin modules with 3 design projects plus german. the schedule is enough to scare me. how am i gonna pull through?

will i ever make it?

the surprise visit and farewells

2008-01-13T02:22:00.000+08:00

Su san was telling eddie the other day that eunice was coming over to sg on first week of jan. but when i asked eunice, she said, "She must have got the dates wrong. i'm not going to sg on first week of jan..."

Then on thurs night, i got a sms from san to meet up for dinner on fri night, 7.30pm. So i was thinking, why not. since i might be ending sets early on fri.

And on fri, i was down at comm hall for sets. saw jungseong. then told him that i'll be meeting su san for dinner. and he said he won't mind joining us. i was running late. so i called su san to tell her to change the time to 8 instead of 7.30. and she was okay with 8pm, cause she's ON HER WAY.

about 7.40pm. i realised i got 3 missed calls from dipta. and i thought it was quite weird to get calls from dipta. haven't seen him the whole hols. then a sms from jungseong saying he can't join me and su san for dinner cause he was gonna have dinner with his blk ppl. then another call from dipta. i answered. he was like, "yeanching, hurry up. go to your hall's lobby.. hurry up okayy.." and he hung up. when i rushed over to the lobby, guess who i saw? eunice au. and the first thing she said was, "i didn't bluff u. i was coming over on the 2nd week of jan. not first." it was a pleasant surprise. so the dinner date was with eunice. not su san. kena cheated by su san. haha.

and so we went for dinner at chinatown! then went to changi airport. to send mingyun off. we took the last train to the airport. and stayed there till 4am for mingyun to come. to save on cab fare. haha. the 4 hrs at airport was spent visiting terminal 1, 2, and 3; taking silly pictures; attempting to watch hairspray but fell asleep for a while; and simply chatting.

and so, mingyun flew off too. and i made her promise that she'll send postcards from different cities that she visited in the states. haha.

after sending mingyun off, eunice and I went to east coast to catch the sunrise. and as usual, didn't really get to see much of sunrise. just a change in the colour of the sky. nevertheless, it was worth the visit to east coast. it's been so long since i last sat down at east coast to enjoy the breeze and the sound of waves.

i didn't manage to stay at the airport till vidia transit. was too sleepy by then. but was glad that she called me from the airport. i miss my roomie so much. haven't seen her for close to 2 yrs. am quite sad that i didn't manage to meet up with her cause she was at indo most of the time. boo. hope i'll get to see her next year. and seriously hope that the next time all of us can meet up together. the 6 of us who used to gather in my room all the time.

hmms, my 3 close friends flew to 3 different cities in the states at 3 different time. :(

and the pekk flew

2008-01-13T02:11:00.001+08:00

eunice, me, peklyn, esther

yeanching and peklyn

the tired twins and pek who spent the whole night at the airport

after a long day at floorball training, sets and mambo on wed, i still made my way to the airport at 4am to send the pig off. i'm so gonna miss her. she's gonna be gone for exchange for about 6 months. can't go slack in her room when i'm bored. can't play with her pigs. can't kidnap her mowgli. :( no one there to cook together on weekends too. sobz. left with the twins and huilian. mun also flying off soon in feb.

girls day out

2008-01-13T01:52:00.001+08:00

had dinner with minyun and xinyi. it was sort of a farewell dinner for minyun who was gonna leave for exchange. won't see her for abt 5-6 months. we went to spizza at harbour front centre. the place was nice, and the pizza was good. wonder why it's not crowded at all. good place to go to if u're at vivo.

tianglim's bday

2008-01-12T00:40:00.000+08:00

celebrated tianglim's 22nd bday party last thursday. it was a 'surprise' party organized by su san. reminds me of the days back in victoria hall. those birthday celebrations. so typical. first cut cake, then dunk chernyih, then dunk the birthday boy and lastly clean up. this time we have more food and booze instead of just having a birthday cake. those were really the days.

the few of us from victoria hall. breakfast club members. haha.

the tj ppl on the left and the vj ppl on the right.

happy 2008

2008-01-01T13:59:00.001+08:00

it was a great way to end 2007 and to welcome 2008. met up with the bunch of msians at brewerkz yesterday.. was the earliest to reach clarke quay with jungseong. then we went to walk around central. they have very pretty christmas lights there. eddie and su san came and join us after that.

pretty lights at central..

picture with cousin eddie who looked extra handsome for his hot date later that night. haha.

so we were at brewerkz super early. reached there about 7pm when it was still bright. we got a nice seat, next to the river. beautiful view. and we thought, "okay, great place to hang out to wait for countdown and fireworks. dun need to squeeze with the crowd.." so we sat there to wait for the rest to join us..

su san and jungseong looking bored while waiting..

we ordered few mugs of beer and finger food while waiting and took pictures of the nice view before it got dark..

yeanching and su san..

tianglim, chernyih and stanley joined us pretty late.. but we went on with our celebration. it's always great to hang out with them. a night with good food, good beer, and good company.

from left to right: jungseong, chernyih, tianglim, stanley, me, su san

we asked the waiter whether we would be able to see the fireworks from our seat..and he said that we can't see. only can hear. and we didn't believe him. and true enough, at 12am, we heard fireworks sound. only to realize that the fireworks were behind a building. i can't believe it. the entire fireworks was blocked by one huge building.. we could only see some reflections from the window of a nearby building. *sobz* nevertheless, we had complimentary beer from the house and also free party packs.. so fun.

quote of the day, "i can't believe that the whole table of people got high on beer.."

after being slapped with a s$350 bill we hurried to catch the last train so that we can save a bit of money on cab fares. haha.

So Close

2007-12-31T16:05:00.001+08:00

You’re in my arms
And all the world is calm
The music playing on for only two
So close together
And when I’m with you
So close to feeling alive

A life goes by
Romantic dreams will stop
So I bid mine goodbye and never knew
So close was waiting, waiting here with you
And now forever I know
All that I wanted to hold you
So close

So close to reaching that famous happy end
Almost believing this was not pretend
And now you’re beside me and look how far we’ve come
So far we are so close

How could I face the faceless days
If I should lose you now?
We’re so close
To reaching that famous happy end
And almost believing this was not pretend
Let’s go on dreaming for we know we are
So close
So close
And still so far

kukup trip..

2007-12-31T11:55:00.000+08:00

7 of us from the blk went to kukup.. it was a 2 day trip. just a short change in environment for the few of us and a getaway from hall/singapore..

upon reaching our chalets, the girls were all very excited with the bunk beds. haha. our room was quite small. but the room had 3 double decker beds.

we then went for lunch and visited the fishing village. they brought us to a nature reserve and a fishing farm. there were 4 different groups of people together with us on the trip. and it seems from the very start to the very end of the trip that we were always the last. last to finish our meals (every meal..), last to finish visiting the nature reserve and even last to wake up for breakfast and to leave the chalet. oops.

the meals were probably the only thing that made us really happy. haha. every meals we will have at least 7 to 8 dishes. and we had 5 meals for the one and a half day there. really super a lot of food.

back row: samson, joey, joy
front row: huihan, peihoon, me, darius

conclusion of my trip, i played my first complete game of mahjong. and won RM0.40. haha.

and lastly.. some bonus pictures of joey and joy. haha..

day 1

day 2

christmas week

2007-12-31T11:51:00.000+08:00

spent christmas day and boxing day shopping. with lita and sis and also with mingyun and xinyi.. then the next 2 days was spent emo-ing in my room because of results. sigh. seems that the amount of effort that i put in this sem wasn't enough. which means that i have to put in extra effort for the coming sem. hope everything turns out fine.

interesting phrase that i found in fish and co's menu.

merry christmas

2007-12-24T15:16:00.000+08:00

alice and cindy flew off on the day after i came back to sg. and i was left all alone in sg. boo. but i'm still glad that alice came over to sg and i managed to spend few days with her here. eunice and merry came by sg two days ago also. they stayed in my room for a night then went back the next day. it was a short trip for them. and i was busy with things. so didn't really get to spend time with them.

took some pictures at the new terminal 3 at changi airport when i sent cindy off that day. it's actually quite nice.

vincent, angela, alice, me, kingsean

met up with my cousins for dinner after caroling yesterday. although i've been in sg for so many years, it was still my first time having dinner with my 3 cousins in sg, i think. and this time we have another cousin who happen to be in sg to join us for dinner. just a very rare occasion.

so the past whole week i've been busy with carolling, floorball training and sheares production sets. hardly have time to rest. have to rush from one stuff to the other. super tiring. but now, carolling is over. and i have 9 day off from sets. suddenly have so much free time. dunno wat to do. wanna go out. but can't find ppl to go out with. ppl are either busy or not in sg. so i've been stuck in my room with my laptop as my sole entertainment. sad and lonely kinda lifestyle. i need some life.

2007-12-15T00:39:00.000+08:00

jiayong and litheng dropped by my place yesterday afternoon. it was great talking to them. complaining about all the hectic uni life etc. glad to see them since they didnt make it for the gathering the night before.

went to the new mall in bukit tinggi to shop. nothing spectacular. just like the deco there. they had a disney theme. and i love the one with cinderella above.

took the night bus back to sg. reached at 5am in the morning. didn't really catch any sleep on the bus. and had to bunk with cindy cause i didn't have access to the blk. was surprised that i managed to wake up to go for tuition in the morning. and my cough worsened. sigh.

took a short nap after lunch. then went for haven home christmas party. was glad that all the mentors turned up. we did a short skid. i think we kinda screwed up, but it's okay lah. haha. just for fun wat.

standing: christopher, soonning, me, darren
sitting: tingyun, huixin, kenneth, kevin, ray, minrui, peizhi

and i have a confession. i lied during a game. only once.

true believer

2007-12-12T13:29:00.000+08:00

spent my whole night reading this book. the book has a nice ending. it has a happy-ever-after ending. not like a typical nicholas sparks book where one of the main character will die or something. haha. it's been quite some time since i last read any of these happy-ever-after kinda story.

starbucks

2007-12-12T02:20:00.000+08:00

clockwise from top left: me, su san, jolene and shiyan

met up with former classmates from convent. talked about a lot of things that happened back in primary school and secondary school. things that were not known. haha. good old times back in an all girls' school. minus all the conflicts, backstabbing, bully cases, arguments etc etc. loads of them in between. nevertheless, these helped to strengthen friendships.

i remember jolene used to be my best friend back in primary school. she was always there to defend me and to take care of me when i was promoted from primary 3 to primary 5 cause i was the youngest in class, and i was often bullied. we quarreled in primary 6 and never talked to each other for more than 2 years. we only started to talk to each other in form 2 when suetlee joined our class. soon after that i left for sg and we weren't really in touch till recently. i'm still grateful for suetlee who helped to resolve the conflict. =) come to think of it, childish things that we do when we were in primary school. haha. now it would only be part of our memories, and something for us to talk about when we see each other, and something for us to laugh about.

and yups, starbucks is still a good hangout place.

s41 chalet

2007-12-12T01:50:00.001+08:00

thanks to daryl who took the extra effort to organize a class outing, we finally had our 2nd class 'chalet' after j1's. haha. it wasn't really a chalet. cause he booked a hotel room at siloso beach resort. super atas place. haha. but the place was super nice. i only joined them during dinner. played few rounds of basic mahjong. zicheng claimed that i haven't improved since the last chalet (i.e. 3years ago). blergh. took a lot of pictures! haha. wat's s41 without pictures. and yeanching played the guitar! haha. with 'guidance'.. and we spent the whole night playing some brainless drinking game.

yeanching playing the guitar! easy way to sound impressive for a newbie. haha!

everyone was trying to squeeze in the picture. haha.

gay mushroom me and ber fighting for the sink.

those people who conquer the bed after the brainless drinking game. left no space for yeanching. *sobz*

the few of us who were awake at 8am.

it was a nice outing. but i had to leave early the next morning for mentoring and to rush for the bus back to KL right after mentoring. or else i could've gotten more rest and not suffer so much the next few days.. basically the three nights spent in sg after exams, i barely had good sleep. fell sick right after i reached home. was down with quite bad fever and headache for a night. oops. exams are over after all. heh.

it's O-V-E-R!

2007-12-07T03:44:00.001+08:00

haha. exams are finally over. i finally felt that i had some life for the past 2 days. ALICE IS IN SINGAPORE! haha. met up with her and cindy right after my last paper. went for dinner at vivo.

me and alice! =)

haha, was playing with alice's shades. i think i need one of these shades to cover up the eyebags.

joyce, val, me and cylysce went for mambo that night. it was fun!

woke up late the next day, missed tuition. oops. went to shop with the lvl 7 gals! celebrated val's bday too! although her bday is on sat.

val, jiafen, cylysce, mingli and me!

we went to vilage at heeren. had nice food! jiafen and val looking hungryyyy...

that was our lunch! yummm..

surprised her with a cake!

pictures with the bday gal

took pictures with those cows outside the restaurant! damn cute! haha..

edwin joined us for movie. watched the tattooist. =S but everyone still looked happy in the picture after the movie. hahahah. one of the very few pictures of the dumb dumb smiling so naturally..

went around town taking pictures of christmas deco! it's so pretty. i love christmas. =) it makes me happy.

met up with the indonesians after that. they happen to be in town too. continued taking pictures with christmas deco. haha.

i love this picture best! =D

we tried to arrange ourselves according to height. and i refused to be at the last position. =(

alice and cindy dropped by sheares for supper. then went over to kr to look for hokito and phya.

it's a good start of the hols! but i won't have so much free time after next week. my holiday schedule is rather packed. busy busy with hall activities. production sets, floorball, carolling.

one last paper.

2007-12-01T21:05:00.001+08:00

had my 2nd last paper today. and i have no discipline to make myself study for the last paper. was browsing facebook and my old posts on this blog. and i found this old picture. i miss this two ppl lah! i haven't seen them about 2 yrs alr. sobs. and they'll soon be back. i hope. alice will be back from sydney, on 5th dec, my last day of exams. and vidi will be back from the states, i dunno when. that woman nv updates us. haha. lousy ex-roommate.

anyway, would like to wish them happy belated bday too. alice's bday was on 24th oct, and vidi's on 28 nov. so, come visit me in sg if u wanna claim bday presents. but do inform me before u come. haha!

i'm bored. one last paper. come on yeanching. jiayou.

exam-guardian-angel

2007-11-25T18:37:00.001+08:00

woke up yesterday with a postcard on my table. that neighbour of mine sneaked into my room to leave the postcard for me. so sweet of her. i have a exam-guardian-angel. =) i still thought wat she wrote was quite funny.

"you've been mugging so hard that a mug can evolve into a THERMOflask! Apply your DYNAMIC concepts and you're gonna do well man!"

but thermodynamics paper was bad. sigh.

21st birthdays!

2007-11-24T00:01:00.001+08:00

met up with the east coast clan to celebrate owern's bday on sat. it was a great time meeting up with them since we haven't gathered for so long. just that everyone was rushing off to mug. okay, more like, i wanted to rush back to mug. haha. and yeah, it's still male dominated. so kong su san, faster come back. so that they'll bully me less.

anyway, it's kong su san's birthday. haha. and she'll be back in few days time! wheeeeee! we've known each other for close to 9 years! haha. that's quite long actually. glad that we're still in touch. can't wait to catch up with you. =) i'll try my best to go pick u up at airport okays! =D enjoy your 21st bday!

pretty roses

2007-11-23T00:52:00.000+08:00

kathy dropped by yesterday. she bought us roses. so sweet of her! and i like to take close up pictures of roses. heh. =)

surprise call

2007-11-20T18:36:00.000+08:00

just another boring and mundane day at the library today when i got a call from su san! so sweet of her to call all the way from melbourne. haha. but she called cause i complained that she nv call me. anyways, that woman is coming back next week! so fast. haha. she's been gone for 1 yr alr. i still wan my krispy kreme doughnut. haha. see whether i got the mood to go pick u up from the airport not lah. that depends on my mood after 3 papers. blergh.

exams is killing me. somebody save me. 2 more weeks to the end of a terrible sem.

=D

2007-11-17T02:39:00.000+08:00

yeanching is happy!

haha. got my offer for exchange to Switzerland. *beams* =)

initially was worried that i couldn't map my modules, was worried that it would clash with my timetable the sem after exchange, was worried that my dad won't let me go, was worried that it would be too ex, was worried that i don't know ppl who're going etc etc etc.

but good news is, changed it from sem 1 to sem 2 today. so, more freedom in modules since sem2 is allocated for internship, and i dun plan to do internship anymore. will probably do it during my summer break. my dad is also okay with me going for exchange (hope he doesn't change his mind), and i found out that erlin and andreas going the same sem. at least i know some ppl. =) now the last thing left is money. blergh. pls donate to yeanching's exchange fund. haha. i need to save up. and try to earn more money.

if everything goes well, i'll be in zurich in 1 year's time. =D