I HAVE A STRONG FEELING MY FRIENDS ARE GONNA KILL ME

haha here are the pictures i wanted to post! :p

yk and vips TRYING to be scary!

our graceful ballet :p

HEHE SO CUTE RIGHTTT!! :D (yk dont kill me!)

playing risk. yk takes on an ultra-glam pose in a bid to showcase her raibow-coloured socks

2 new additions!

anyi's army

classic photo

haha zk and i were supposed to jump upwards but anyi knew our plans and so he conspired wif liow to jump upwards too! but luckily we were smart and jumped sidewards instead haha!

CAMEL!!!!!!

badminton at jurong west sports & recreation centre!

resorting to playing chapteh after our court got taken over. yuensau looks like professor quirrel!
the end!

im blogging from my hostel room now! wanted to take pics and upload it here but haven got a chance to bring my camera here yet cos i keep forgetting to charge the battery..school's been nice so far..though stressful..with a pile of homework even in the first week of school! but im really thankful the new people around me are nice...especially my OG in my hall...and my tutorial mates! i never really talk to the guys in my class, but all the girls are nice and simple :)))

i just hope hall life wont take up too much of my time cos i'll always feel obliged to turn up for gatherings and all..so far its ok..i guess the enthusiasm will die away after a while too..like the OGs in jc...but the lounge is a really nice place to meet up!! and im damn lucky...10 out of 17 ppl in my OG are staying in my block! :D and a lot of my tutorial girls too..its really great cos we can all meet up and go for lessons together...

hmmm ppl like vips and huahua are gonna go overseas soon...gonna miss them! haven seen huahua in a long time! must have farewell party ok!! and vips is really one of the best friends to have..i think if he didnt take the initiative to organise all the numerous outings that we had, we'd probably see so little of each other! and i really appreciate the way he doesnt mind hanging out alone with zk and me..it shows that he likes us individually as friends! (haha vips you better not say i'm wrong!) i'll really miss your presence when u go :((

oh ya i wanna upload pics of my badminton outing too! and risk at rj! but lazy to transfer the pics so another time! i need to go study my econs and do my stats tutorial oredy!

and to binbin: dont be stressed oredy you'll always have me around :)
haha this is so ironic cos you're just 1.5m behind me :p

ODACIA 2007

hall camp's over! had fun on the whole..but towards the end i found it difficult to open my eyes oredy haha very dry! i like my group..we're not the enthu, noisy, damn on kinda group..all of us are the kind who'll take quite long to warm up to one another..so it was only towards the end that guys and girls stopped sticking to their own gender and we could talk and joke comfortably among ourselves, and play games when we were not too tired! i hope we'll have OG outings! :)


poor binbin injured her big toe halfway during the camp so she had to go home..it looked so painful lor the bottom of her nail got blood..cos the nail kena jabbed inside! den now its all bandaged..hope it gets well soon! :)


went for odacia last night...felt really really nice to see everyone again..wad i love most about odacians is that everyone's damn nice..and you'll feel safe in their company cos everyone will take care of one another..guess its a quality we developed through going on our numerous expeditions, kayaking, rock climbing..having to look out for one another..really hope that we'll continue to go back for odacia year after year..and see how everyone has moved on with life! like becoming successful in their careers, getting married, having children! so cool right! I LOVE ODAC BATCH 21 :DDD


some photos!

batch 21 :))

yanzhen and charlene!

cute shuting and TALL jason (ahem!)

I LOVE THIS PHOTO!! eating roti prata at upper thomson..with everyone's head popped into the picture! :)))

tomorrow, i'll be starting on a new phase of my life..i'll be attending my hall camp! not really used to the idea of going for an orientation camp all over again..having to meet new people, form new bonds of friendship, and pretending to be enthu and cheering even though u're dead tired! haha i dont exactly enjoy cheering that much..i always think its attention-seeking somehow! hahaa i'm a wet blanket..but yeah..really hope the people in my grp are nice and simple people! :)

haha today's been a messy day..spent half my day at daiso picking up stuff for hostel wif my parents, binbin and zk..the place is so big and ppl tend to leave stuff that they picked up but which they later decided they didn't want around..its so messy! den moved all my stuff to the hostel..really thankful my mummy and daddy took such an active role in helping me settle in..my mummy making a list of what to buy..both of them helping with the cleaning up of the very dusty room which had been left vacant for quite a while..haha i think the part i like most about my room is my pink bedsheet which has flowers on it! i dunno why i like flowers so much...i think they just make a place seem much more homely and pretty...

really really glad im gonna stay wif my binbin! it makes me so much more excited about school life... :)))) and there're so many other ny ppl and ppl i noe who are going to ntu..and many of them in accountancy too! gonna be a mini ny reunion..and clara and wenyan's going too..plus gracelyn! wa friends from my primary and secondary schools plus jc..so cool right!

met up wif angchieh, dory and kwa the other day! so ironic that lowly the organizer couldnt make it! really wish she could though..haven seen her in so long..and im sure she'd make the dinner seem much more lively too (not that it wasnt la haha) cos of all her frank and honest comments haha...really glad to see that everyone's still the same..angchieh's still as cute and simple as ever..and dory is just as warm and smiley!

its strange how we always feel scared that such gatherings wif friends you haven met in a long time are gonna be awkward..and sometimes we feel apprehensive about going at all..but after meeting up we don regret it at all! but the next time we get the same apprehension all over again..i think its special how i can meet up wif gracelyn after 4 years?? and feel as though nothing much has changed between us..i guess as long as we dont change in character and principles, nothing will change in the friendship too :)

oh anyway here are pics from our mind cafe outing the other day..we're gonna meet up to play badminton next week im very excited!! i hope we do go on wif our plans eventually..

playing taboo: yuensau trying his best to describe 'bald head' to zk and zk INTELLIGENTLY guessing the word as BOTAK hello this is an american/british game!

zk was supposed to carry out a dare on the jenga tile cos he caused the tower to collapse, in pretending to direct traffic across a busy road, when another table realised their girl had the same dare! so we made them do it together haha looked damn funny la! :p

our ultra high tower if you all can notice..almost every level is made up of only one tile! so pro right! hahaha

ahh wish me luck for a good start to my school life!

boredddd

haha i cant tag on my tagboard so i shall reply tags here

binbin and engsin: i'm so proud of both of you!! seeing you two riding distances to and fro that short little pathway made me feel warm and fuzzy inside somehow :))) but i think more credit goes to our mo gui jiao lian tyz..really damn funny seeing the way she pulled u all along at a scary speed into grass patches!! nway binbin i really admired how brave u were lor..but u scared me by the way you recklessly cheonged into the grass and always almost crashed into trees! and engsin! u need to be more brave and not so scared of every little seed you see along the way! :p

zit: haha let's go fishing again!! but this time i will definitely smear a one-inch thick layer of sunblock all over my body! i don lik e tennis too much though, but i dont mind sitting by the side and taking pics of you all :D i think badminton's easier and more fun!

went to mind/mind's? cafe wif vips, yuensau and zk ytd...very fun!! balderdash seemed so fun and amusing when i played it wif yz they all so i recommended it to them to play but they din seem to enjoy it THAT much though den i felt paiseh inside hahaa..but vips and zk are damn zai in jenga la damn stressful to play wif them! and yuensau was like losing consecutively for a few rounds! haha! lousier than me! :p

i actually am looking forward to going to school...i miss studying..(im not a mugger! :x) rotting away at home makes me feel bored and lonely..so im really happy that im going to ouou's house wif bin tmr! hope i dont end up sleeping on her big queen-sized bed as usual haha...

ok i better go sort out the US trip photos into the various sizes i wanna develop them in..procrastinated for damn long oredy..but at least i selected those i wanna develop oredy!

tuition tonite....wonder how im gonna cope once uni starts..but i'll see how la..shall take things one step at a time...

ok enough of rambling..

i'm never NEVER going out into the sun for the whole day without putting sunblock again!! im awfully sunburnt now and its damn damn pain..i underestimated my impossible-to-tan-skin! as far as possible (i.e. when i'm at home) i try to go braless..putting on and taking off clothes has become such a painful chore to me!!

but ANYWAYYY, fishing was really fun...i'm serious! what i mean is not only the fishing part of it, but the whole package of going to fish..it's damn laidback, relaxing and carefree..i render now that most people fish not really cos they want the fish itself, but more of a tranquil way to pass a nice sunny day outdoors..fishers either go there to look out at the beach, reflect on their lives, or engage in a heart-to-heart talk with their friends, which was wad zit and i did..reeling in the fishing line was just like a side-job once in a while when we were hoping for a pleasant surprise that there'll be a fish at the end of our line each time! haha we were not very successful fishers, we only caught a crab the entire day! but its a CRAB!! how cool is that! its medium sized, with filter-like hairs on its pincers and legs (which made it damn difficult for us to free our crab from all our tiny hooks)..it could be a HAIRY CRAB!! hahaha ok of cos i dunno i dont study crabs..it was quite badly entangled..we dont think it was actually feeding on our raw prawn bits bait, but rather it just unfortunately swam into our line and got tangled up..

it was very funny cos when zit first pulled her line up we werent actually expecting anything, after our futile wait for over 3 hours...then we saw sth long and shelly clinging onto the line!! then i was like, "wa! is it a prawn! no it looks like a lobster!" and after a while i realised it was a crab!! we were both very excited but we didnt know how to free the crab..and i merely let out a small shriek when the crab first started jumping about which induced zit to bellow an echoing scream which reflected off the whole stretch of breakwaters im NOT exagerrating..haha..and we were being damn losers because we wanted to free our crab and save our fishing line at the same time so we took turns, one of us using an umbrella and a piece of cardboard to hold down the crab's pincers while the other person using scissors to remove the hooks..in the end we gave up and just cut off the line! and we used the end of the fishing rod to nudge the crab back into the water..in the end when we pushed it to the edge of the jetty it jumped in itself! so cute!

and i realised fellow fishers are all DAMN NICE...really..whenever you walk past them they'll ask you if you've managed to catch any fish yet..or when they say they've caught one or two, they'll open their box and show you their catch..there was this group of malay guys near us and they were very friendly! which made our day so much nicer..not the flirty kind of friendly but the genuinely nice kind of friendly..like when we were walking out towards the carpark, one of them was behind us..he caught up with us and chatted a bit with us and halfway, he said he gtg and he RAN off! haha like he was in a rush but still bothered to be friendly to us..and two other old man taught me how to fish a bit too cos noob me was about the cast the line when my weight got stuck in the wooded barrier behind! this is damn loser cos we're supposed to swing our rod from the back and in my midst of swinging the line got caught behind! and i was hoping those two men won't stand there and look at me casting the line anymore!!!

anyway, pictures of our catch!! zit posing with the crab! can you all spot it??

our crab all entangled with our fishing hooks

our freed crab!! :D

scenic view of labrador beach from the jetty :)

pretty picture!

other than that, this week has been about meeting up with many of my close friends! i'm happy that you're fine oredy dear! i know i've said this a lot of times but i really really admire you for being so strong, mature and gracious, especially so for a girl...

swimming wif kwa just proved that i'm destined to stay fair! like when we talked i would be standing in the sun and she'll be hiding in the shade..and after we got out, i hadn't the slightest bit of tanline, which she was chaotah on the back cos her swimming costume had a sexy revealing hole at the back (hehe! :p)

went for med checkup wif binbin too..and submitted our hostel application fees...thinking about it just reminds me that i'm gonna start on a new phase of my life very soon..we all are..i just hope nothing will change very much, though i know that it will...hmmm oh well..

hehe can't wait to teach xiaogui and binbin cycling on tues!! i really hope that they'll be successful lor! :DD

2 more days!!

haha my life's not as lonely and depressing as i expected to be, cos of really wonderful friends around me! and i'm going fishing wif zit on thurs and im really excited cos its my first time and hopefully i can get a tan (which would go off in a week anyway sigh)! she's gonna prepare all the fishing stuff and im in charge of bringing food to feed ourselves and i dunno why im feeling so excited about the whole thing haha..i'll most prob throw the fish back into the sea if i do catch any so its just for the fun of waiting for a fish to bite onto my bait! haha..

and tomorrow im meeting all my dearest friends! :)

hmm i was still worrying i'll be bored to death like how i was before i started working and everyone else was working, but now i'm really pleased with how things are cos i got more than enough stuff, including self-given homework like doing a scrapbook for my US trip last year which would probably take up a lot of time and which i probably forgot lotsa stuff oredy haha..and i actually dont have that much time left! especially since now i'm going for the orientation camps and such...dunno if i should feel happy or sad that my days are gonna be packed now...i'm actually quite contented wif lazing around the whole day, just that it really makes me feel piggy..

here's wad my typical lazing around day sounds like:

12.30pm: wake up, brush teeth & wash up

12.30-1.30: eat breakfast/lunch and browse thru newspapers

1.30-3.30: slack online, collate pictures for my 2 scrapbooks

3.30-5.00: laze on my bed= sleep

5.00-6.00: look thru stuff strewn all over my messy room

6 plus: my daddy returns! wif dinner and all, continue lazing on my bed

7.00-10.00: dinner + tv

10.00: go online/read harry potter 5 (planning to finish it before i watch the movie!)

haha looks damn sad and boring right...but its ok i'm a boring person who likes sitting around doing nothing anyway :p

During zk's rare and precious 4 day leave, we went to the botanic gardens to watch Happy Feet! wanted to watch it when it first opened in cinemas but din get the chance to...plus this time it was free entry! haha! no la..just sounded quite nice to go..its part of the events for Family Week, and this event was a closure to the whole campaign! and Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan was there! I tried to sneakily take some shots of him but got quite poor results..try to spot him! he's in red! hehehe

And zk fished out a rose he sneakily bought in the morning before he met me which he hid in his dirty bag (haha!) but which made me very very touched cos it was his first flower to me :)))

pretty shot of the rose

(haha i took many more ARTISTIC shots given my penchant for flowers but too lazy to upload! and i think everyone would get bored anyway)

And this is how he spent the day (forgetting about me) before he left for Brunei that Sunday night:

haha we both found this photo damn funny cos he looks damn stupid! and being the lazy pig, he couldn't bother to shift those blankets above his head away, but just STUFFED his head underneath them which makes him look like a TOOT MUSHROOM!

just one more week!

yesterday was my last day of work and i really do miss my colleagues a lot, even though i didnt especially enjoy working with a few of them..they were really really sweet...all sportingly posing for pictures with me even though they all dont like taking photos..they wanted to treat me to lunch too but another colleague pulled me off and later when i came back the group which wanted to treat me scolded me for running off! haha actually i didnt forget but of cos it'll be damn paiseh to walk up to them and ask, "eh so we're going for lunch together right?" cos all of our doctors haven finished running their clinics yet so none of us had left yet..and it'd be damn thick-skinned of me to ask them cos obviously they were gonna treat me!

in the end they bought me these two cute cups!

some pictures with my colleagues!

at the counter

with the nurses! the one on the left very pretty right! she's already a mother of 2!

with beelan and laychoo- they very cute la must purposely put on this serious look when they're taking pictures! they're not so glum in real life!

Auntie Lai!

hmm i really dont mind going back to work leh..the only reason why i stopped was cos i din wanna be a loser (haha im not referring to u yk! :p) and work my whole holidays away...but i think im a loser now cos i got nothing to do at home! and another reason was cos i wanted to cherish not having to wake up early in the mornings before school starts..but i think i already got so used to everything in the clinic..my colleagues, the environment..my job scope..i think i've become very proficient as a Patient Services Clerk oredy lor! hehe..

anyway..on to other things..my appeal was unsuccessful..i didnt actually have much hopes la..its just the feeling of being rejected and feeling that im lousy all over again..i've long known i'd be contented with accountancy..cos i'd have more freedom in my life which is quite important to me cos i wanna go on a lot a lot of holidays to all the nice and romantic and memorable places...but i think its natural to feel sad...but i'm sure i'll get over it by today la! haha think my daddy like checks the website every hour or something! cos i was rudely awakened on my first day of not working by my mummy who told me about the news my daddy told her haha..but im really touched by how much my parents love me and care about me..my future..i used to get irritated that they kept pushing me to do things i was not sure i really wanted..but now i know they do it cos they really love me and want the best for me..like how my daddy kept taking it upon himself to draft my appeal message of just 300 characters..and what particularly touched me was that his ability to express himself succinctly in writing is not very good yet he kept writing and writing draft after draft, which i didnt really use n the end cos i still have to write these kind of things by myself ultimately wad..ya i really really appreciate my parents a lot..and my mummy is a really great source of assurance and support..she is always able to make everything seem like its ok...

i guess, whatever my future will bring me, i'll just take things one step at a time..after all, i'm more than lucky to be blessed with all the nice people in my life..my parents, relatives (esp kimmie!) friends and zk...shall stop harping on what i did not achieve but be contented with what i already have!

and some pictures of social night! made some interesting discoveries.... (hope they dont kill me! haha)

ahem ahem (haha!)

hmm i'm really really thankful to have you in my life dear..thanks for being so sweet and tolerant towards all my stupid little tantrums..i dont need you to specially feel a certain way or do things you usually wont do for my sake, cos it'll not be you anymore and you're perfect the way you are already..even though at my 'young' age now, academic setbacks and all seem to be the most major setbacks, i know that whatever path i may take, everything will be fine eventually as long as i have you in my life..love you!

on a sidenote, you can see i'm really bored to have posted such a long entry..but nvm, time is in my hands! haha! must go write down a list of things to busy myself with oredy..all those unemployed souls! go out with me! haha...

i really do believe that time is the healer of all wounds..after a while, everything goes back to its usual routine and we soon forget what had made us so upset and it becomes impossible to imagine how we could get so upset or disappointed over that certain something..but of course, healing requires one to have a shift in his or her own perspective, in order not to wallow in self-pity or depression or indignance..but its true that there's nothing too big for us to overcome..such that once its over we no longer really recall it and it'll seem as though we haven been through any setbacks in our lives cos once we've gotten over something, we will not call it a setback anymore!

anyway, back to happy things, zk's sister is really very sweet!! she went to msia and she bought two tops for me! i'm just really touched cos i din think she'd remember me on a holiday..and i really like them..they're not something i'd buy myself (haha in fact i dont even buy clothes for myself! all my clothes are bought by my mummy...so i guess her taste naturally became mine haha :p)..but they're the type i'm shy to buy for myself but will feel excited to wear cos they're stuff i dont usually wear!

here's a pic of them :) :)

And our beautiful artwork! :)

my uncertain future...

argh i can't stand my indecisiveness! i thought i'd already decided on something but it seems like it's so easy to block off all those original thoughts and take on a whole new perspective! haiss..i dont have much time left to deliberate anymore..i wish i was living in decades ago and i'll be contented by just being a housewife! :s

i'm really irritated with myself..i never seem to be able to come up with a choice and stick to it..and i'm guilty that i get irritated with my daddy for constantly pressuring me into doing things..i just wanna think at my own pace!

hmm the macritchie incident made me consider environmental engineering all over again..its just this naive thought that nature is punishing us for our sins, for exploiting and destroying the Earth..and environmental engineering is the first step i can take to saving the Earth! hmm..but i think i'll get bored working in a lab setting..and studying for 5 yrs...sth i may not even like..haiss i really dunno!

anyway, some pics of us at the tree-top walk at macritchie! i think we walked at least 10km lor! it took us 5km alone just to GET TO the tree-top walk which only lasted 200-300m! but the view was nice la..very serene and simple..and later we walked damn far to get out and we were all drenched in the rain! they should really consider building more shelters along the way! very dangerous lor..we could hear the siren but we can't do anything but keep walking until we find the nearest shelter, which is still damn far away!

and daddy's birthday on wednesday! :)