been a long long time since i last blogged.. simply too many things to do again.. i thought this entire sem was busy enough and i can have a bit more time for myself during this hols.. but now i realise how this hols isnt going to b much more different from school.. lotsa projects involved.. and preceptorship is alot more draining than i thought it would b
Phantom of the Opera
watched phantom with xinyi last sunday and it was spectacular.. the sets (as wad pacar saya had been saying all along) were really majestic and everything in the phantom was beautiful and stunning.. the lake scene was so realistic tt i almost forgot that it was the esplanade theatre stage and not a real lake..
never a truely music person but i cant comment much bout the music.. onli thing i know is tt i love the phantom's voice.. so sensual and attention-grabbing.. too bad i cant buy the asia-pacific tour version cd for the phantom..
would really luv to catch the phantom again.. but well, we watched their second last performance in spore.. and the next time they prob will come again may be another 20 years later.. sigh..
with xinyi @ esplanade in front of the phantom poster..me in my new retro dress and brown burberry bag (21st bday present from parents)..
Relatives in Spore
my grandpa and 2 pairs of aunts & uncles came to spore last tuesday night and left only on sunday afternoon.. so.. spent the entire week entertaining them every night after work.. the result was: a huge pile of undone stuff.. but no choice lah.. the chance of grandpa coming to spore is ~0.0000001%.. so really gotta spend more time and effort to make sure he has a fruitful trip, i mean.. with his old age and not too ideal health.. u nv know whether he can ever come again.. sigh..
anw.. i think he really enjoyed himself here.. ate so much stuff tt the entire family dun think he'll ever try.. wad's the likelihood of an old man who dun eat sashimi to eat fresh oysters?? haha.. and he actually enjoyed it.. especially the meal at raffles hotel.. he even went out to the buffet tables to look for wad he wanted to eat.. an extreme rare sight cos he usually wont bother to eat anything else on the dining table other than wad is in his own bowl..
ate at the billard room at raffles hotel.. buffet dinner here cost close to $80 per pax.. but the food is fabulous.. and the atmosphere is of the top grade.. super romantic.. the tiles on the floor and the candlelight style celling lights really gives a old yet classy touch to the place..
the washroom at the billard room.. much nicer than those on the cooridoors of raffles hotel.. fully laid with marble and retro tiles on the floor.. plus the golden taps tt complete the entrei decor..
even the waiting area outing the washroom is so classy.. haha..
introducing the starter plates of my meal.. we have: kimchi with smoked duck, duck gilliet with crackers, boston lobster with sweet mustard sauce, fresh oyster, smoked salmon, and some cold cuts of the day.. (this is only approximately 20% of the starters avaliable on the buffet table).. i'm normally not a fan of fresh oysters.. all those i ate before taste disgusting to me.. but those at billard room was super sweet and juicy.. tt i ate 6 in total.. even after finishing 4 boston lobsters..haha..
some of the cheese selection avaliable.. there was 10 kinds in total.. well.. this mouldy site maure was really special.. it was white in colour.. hard with green mould on the sides.. and with a flowly cream chees center.. best eaten with crackers or bread..
part of the dessert selection at billard room.. close to 30 types of desserts avaliable.. all extremely exotic..
and these are my choice of deserts.. ate so much tt i can feel the tightness of my pants at my stomach.. so scared my pants will burst lor.. haha..
happy, full and satisfied me.. hehe.. ended my meal with a cup of brilliant coffee.. and some raspberry sorbet..
in case u re wondering how's the main course at billard room.. they re really great too.. just tt i'm too much more a starters-dessert person tt i din rmb to take any photos on the main course..
another meal was at long beach at marina place.. had my fav geoduck sashimi and chilli sri lanka crab.. and not to forget, the nice smoky black glutinous rice with vanilla ice-cream..
had bbq bday party for my uncle's 60th bday at my house on saturday.. the green tea cake from bread talk was fabulous..
Exam Results
smth tt is rather not mention.. but yet.. come on gal.. u gotta face the reality.. it wasnt tt bad actually.. at least i tot i'll do much worse.. really thanks so much to the fact tt we had pharmaco with the nursing students.. at least they neutralised the pharmacy students only effects.. i really tot i may even fail my pharmaco.. i seriously have no affinity with drug names..
think i really took on way too many commitments this sem.. nusps exco, welfare, rag, ucc and even bgr.. haha.. a bit too much for me to handle i guess.. esp cos i worked so so so much.. next sem must really change strategy le.. before everything becomes too late.. jia you gal..
p.s. now tt all the rest are over.. must start to do rag again le.. if not will kenna murdered by wanchee.. must do a good job this time..
and to you-know-who: so sorry tt i once thought of giving up.. thanks for being there when mommy and the 2 aunties were cornering me.. and thanks for giving me the motivation to give up some things.. and for teaching me to grow up..
it's been 6 days since preceptorship started.. it's really alot more tough than i imagined it to be.. perhaps it's my little experience with pharmacy (all i ever did was to look at those slacking ones in heartland guardian).. really never expected it to be so busy.. cant say too much bout preceptorship cos everything gotta b confidential.. all i can say is tt i'm beginning to find my preceptor a little more approachable and a little more friendly than i used to think he is.. good for me.. hehe..
went to smu to have a meeting for apps after work.. i tink some of them really think they got cheated to go down lah.. cos most of the info given by zhining was really meant only for official delegates.. but still had a nice chat with grace, jw and xinyi bout wad to perform in nepal.. haha.. my schedule so full already.. now must add another dance choreography time in somemore.. sigh..
just came back from work and feeling rather down..
today's suppose to b a special day..
yet..
it's all filled with just WORK..
now i'm starting to regret tt im in batch 1 for preceptorship.. cos it means tt i onli have 1 week in btw school and work.. there's so much i wanna do yet cannot accomplish within such a short period..
tues: rebonded my hair and cut off a total of 4 inches of my precious hair.. spent so much time keeping them and it got cut off within 5 seconds.. sigh.. den again, mom says i look much healthier with my current hairstyle, which i sorta agree cos my hair now is super black compared to last time.. went directly to xiu bday after tt.. only realised tt i had no idea where is it after i got my hair done.. had to sos xinyi in the end.. was quite surprised when i reached there cos no one else from the exco came!! (cept those part of acacia).. but the most strange thing bout the party was tt it had so many pharm couples!! bingxun and gf, den wanqi and andrew and even lifang and her bf (i din even know she had one.. so many pharm gals look single but re attached).. suddenly it feels tt so many of my frens re attached.. mayb i've already entered another stage of life unknowingly.. suddenly.. it feels strange to b single.. (luckily got xinyi to accompany me there.. haha..if not feel super weird lor..)
wed: went for med appointment with mom in the morn.. and came back home to do pharm prac quiz.. the worst thing: my com somehow cant seem to save any of my answers.. everytime i finish one question and click back at the previous questions, my answers re BLANK!!! super panic man.. wrote email to lilian wong immediately after test.. luckily she says it looks alright after she checked.. if not really dunno wad to do lor.. i dun wanna repeat the same thing again.. my stupid com scare me totally.. sigh.. perhaps it's just trying to gimme more reasons to get the cute green SONY Vaio or the classy red 0.9ky SAMSUNG Q40.. hehe..
thurs: rag meeting at 10am.. but i was 30 mins late.. so i made my grand entrance into the ps room again.. but this time is really not my fault, left house at 8.15am.. lotsa jam on the way caused me to take 2.25 hours to reach NUS.. argh.. miss pgp already.. so much more convenient.. cant blog much bout details of rag but rag meeting is super long.. even at 1pm still only on float.. haven start costume at all.. and we moved 400 cans of paints into the ps room.. the first batch was better since there was alot of pple helping.. the 2nd batch which arrived at 1pm had to depend on 4 gals.. sigh.. pharm really got no guys.. or the guys re super not involved in stuff.. i'm not a girly gal who will sit aside and wait for guys to carry things.. coming from an all-gals-sch, we always do the manual work ourselves.. but then, somehow u gotta admit tt guys re stronger physically.. and smth tt can be done in half an hour took us an hour to accomplish..
went off to source for ideas for rag after tt and my baby costume (first draft) turns out not too bad, of cos also quite alot of sexy.. although i'm a gal myself, i must agree tt sex appeals really sells somehow.. just tt it's impt to make sure tt it's a healthy and classy kinda sexy, not just come cheapo bimbotic skimpy clothings tt make old uncles nose bleed..
met kit after tt for dinner cum kbox.. it's been so long since i last went there.. and i haven been listening to new songs lately.. so we still sang our older canto songs.. i'm so gald i've got kit and ws to sing canto with me.. somehow the chinese songs dun appeal so much leh.. sang 十分爱 for 6-7x and she still cant rmb the tune.. gal, you lousy lah.. lol..
i love the feeling with kit.. the sorta family kinda feeling.. i guess it's smth tt takes years to build bah.. how many frens can walk up to your bro and say "我看着你长大的".. the strangest thing is tt we are so different in personalities but yet can have so many common topics.. lucu sekali..
luv the purple and yellow crystal braclet gal.. and thx so much for the "strips of paper".. must invite me for your 喜酒 too hor..
kit commented tt i look and sound much happier these days.. well, do i?? tot i always so happy-go-lucky one lor.. haha..
with kit in kbox.. and my new rebonded hair, which she commented tt i look 'cleaner' with..fri: attending exco meeting instead of going out with ws.. so sad.. but no choice bah.. although i was trying to give myself excuses of me not having pon any exco meetings before.. somehow it just dont work.. still feel too guilty so just went for meeting in the end.. actually wont have too many more exco meetings left anymore, somehow this year passed so quickly, within a blink of an eye, it'll b agm again and my place will be taken by someone else.. hopefully can be someone currently from welfare.. at least i'll feel more fang xin..
did ushering tt nite.. somehow i'm always put in positions with alot alot of things to do lately.. not complaining bout it.. i like being busy.. just tt i will start to equip myself with lozenges.. talking too much non-stop makes my throat hurts.. esp since i have no chance to drink water and the strong air-con means tt the air there will b quite dry..
and while i was working, mom and dad were watching liza wang at indoors.. dun think they enjoyed it vv much from the comments i hear from them though..
but they were quite shocked to see someone there.. cos someone just suddenly went up and say hi to them (i din give them any warning beforehand)..asked mom bout it this afternoon.. haha.. mom din say anything negative.. although nothing much positive can b said also from the brief meeting.. haha.. but okay lah.. at least no negative comments den quite gd le.. dad never even mention anything at all bout it.. which means he got nothing much to say too.. which is also not bad.. haha..
this is my first home-cooked meal for the past 5 weeks.. impressive.. and mom decided to whip up her own version of east-meets-west fusion meal to commemorate my first meal home after so many weeks..
our healthy fried rice, comprising of low sodium luncheon meat, freshly peeled corn bits, carrot and fresh pineapple, stir-fried to golden colour with extra virgin olive oil..
meg called in the middle of dinner, told me she was at compass point and asked me to accompany her to wait for her bf (who was having his driving lessons nearby)..it was her first day of internship and well, she was dressed up!! a bit strange though, cos she was neither formal nor informal.. so we had an hour chat at mos while waiting for her bf.. it's hard to explain y she feels so familiar despite the fact tt we dun meet often.. so glad to see her and i really enjoyed our brief chat session.. must meet up again some day gal.. i'm dying to catch up with you!!
p.s. this is the third time i meet leon lai (meg's bf).. i think now i can easily recognize him on the streets..
cant believe tt we actually only tried k gourmet (cafe @ PGP) on out last nite of our stay.. mayb it was the exams stress tt made us happy with simply chix rice or mixed veg rice from the pgp canteen.. or mayb it somehow being linked to pgp grouped k gourmet as the typical pgp food..
well, i must say tt the cafe looks pathetic actually on my first visit.. din tot the food would b nice at all.. until the carbonara came.. hehe.. (i know u really liked the carbonara)..
our first meal here.. enjoyed the food so much tt we totally forgot to take photos.. by the time i rmb, only this much ice lemon tea and fruit punch were remaining from the meal..so we decided to eat here again after we check out.. so tt can make up for the lost photos.. haha..
our banana-in-pyjamas.. or simply, banana split.. it's been a long long time since i last ate banana split.. not too bad.. of cos not comparable to gelare stnd.. but den.. it was much better than its price (just $3!!).. it would b much btr if they were less stingy on the banana part though..
hawaiian pizza.. much btr than the seafood one we had the day before tt was filled with my hated pepperoni and onions.. the best thing bout pizza here is the thick cheese..
his strawberry milkshake and my lemon tea.. wad a reverse of genders.. tot strawberry milkshakes re soooo exclusively for gals..
meat sauce pasta.. apetitizing.. not too bad.. although it was obvious tt he likes the carbonara btr..
and lastly stuff wings (a must try!!..) and potato wedges.. again the same thing happened.. i onli rmb to take pic after eating most of the wedges and starting on the wings..
just moved out of pgp and sitting alone in the ps room, waiting for my coolie to finish his stuff..
the moment i step into ps room.. sigh.. wad a horrible mess it had became..
i must admit tt i had been neglecting my welfare duties this sem.. somehow alot of other things crop up and i just din feel like bothering to clean up the place.. furthermore, my timetable is in such a way tt i have not much empty slots in btw classes where i can rot in this air con room..
so i decided to clean up the entire place all by myself today out of guilt.. plus the cleanliness freak inside me cant stand staying in a dirty place.. arranged all the "rubbish from rag".. and the year 4s stuff.. opened up all the cupboards to clear up any mess i see..
my discovery-- alot of exco pple use this room as a storage area for their own stuff.. (i'll send a warning email to everyone soon, this is getting out of hand)
and the rag committee also needs a warning about the use of this place.. i cant be the only one cleaning up this place when everyone else simply mess it up..
the mess in this place was so bad tt there was a resident huge lizard here (well, the good thing is tt it eats up any insects here).. but for the pass few hours, i haven been hearing any noise from the usually noisy lizard.. my conclusion is tt it is prob the same one tt i found a few weeks back dead and stuck to the plastic hard cover on the floor.. it prob died a slow and painful death cos it's "paws" were stuck onto the double sided tap on the plastic hard cover.. frankly, it was quite disgusting a sight.. even for pple like me who seen much more disgusting things..
anw, last nite was my last pgp nite.. although i may stay again in pgp someday.. since i have 2 more years in nus.. i guess it will never be the same again.. pple say tt staying in pgp is lonely.. yet i never had the chance to experience the loneliness.. these 5 weeks gave us the chance to discover tt we can actually live with one another.. still rmb at the beginning of the 5 weeks we were saying tt it will b either 'make' or 'break'.. so.. really happy tt things turn out the positive side.. hehe..
every honeymoon must have an ending-- yet i know ahead of us lies many more honeymoons..
bro came to nus for an interview for a concurrent masters degree this morn.. so i accompanied him thruout nus.. the funny thing was tt mom asked him to bring his clothes from ocs to pgp to wash since there was a long queue in ocs after they came back from outfield the nite before..
so.. we went to the laundry room in pgp with all his army clothes.. haha.. and we saw chern yih in the laudry room, i guess he must b thinking wad on earth am i doing there with my bro and his army clothes..
anw.. after watching clothes was a mad rush to business.. travelled from pgp to yih cblc, den yih photocopy shop, den central lib to find a printer to print his resume.. somehow, all the printers or coms were spoilt or the place was out of bound.. super irritating..
in the end, we had no time le so ran straight to biz.. better no resume than late for interview lor..
bro told me the details of his interview and well, i must say tt i'm impressed.. suddenly, i feel tt he had grown alot more mature than i expect him to be.. mayb.. just mayb, ocs and ns does have a positive impact on him..
Q: if you were to use 3 words to describe yourself, wad would it be?
A: i am ME.
Q: go on to elaborate tt a bit more
A: i'll be true to myself and not just imitate others, yet i'll constantly evolve to adapt to my surroundings.
Q: wad qualities of your dad would you want to inherit? (after bro told them bout my family story and how dad worked his way up to his current position)
A: diligence, efficiency and service (the last 2 pts re well known qualities of hk service industry)
Q: Do you see yourself as a team leader, team player or team participant?
A: Both a team leader and team player. (nothing impressive bout part, it's his explanation of his tt impresses me, how he managed to convert the "nothings" tt he had done to make it sound really great). I play center midfield in soccer. Soccer needs team work and in my position, I have to both help my team to defend as well as lead my team to attack.
watched spiderman 3 in 4k digital at vivo after tt.. luckily we bought tix a day earlier.. cos this movie is really selling so unbelievably well man.. okay, let me explain this 4k digital thing.. at first we tot it was so really special 3D effects tt u gotta wear some red and green glasses or smth, with spiderman really hitting sandman right in front of u.. well, it turns out tt it simply means higher resolution.. haha.. wad's the bid deal rite? i must admit tt even my weak eyes could see the difference in clarity of the pictures.. which was of cos good.. but just dun get too excited over this 4k digital thing, if not u will end up disappointed like me..lol..
the movie was okay only though, despite smashing all the box office records, qutie draggy plot actually.. spent quite a lot of time looking at my watch cos it felt like i was in the theatre for ages le..the fighting parts a bit too little and peter parker looks way too fat!!! spiderman is supposed to have lotsa muscles, not FATS!!!
from kit's blog-- shall give you some face and play with u lah.. haha
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點名遊戲 ※擇偶的八個條件
點名遊戲※擇偶的八個條件
1. 必須著名你的伴侶是男或女。
2. 必須點名八個人與你一起玩遊戲並到對方留言版說： 『恭喜你被點名-擇偶八個條件，請到我的ｂｌｏｇ觀看遊戲內容！』
3. 如果被點名者，已經完成這個遊戲，但又被點到，可不用再ｐｏ一次。
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1. of cos must be a straight guy too.. unless got some les out there who want me lah.. haha.. just joking..
2. confident: think the most attractive part of pple is their confidence bah.. dun wan someone who keeps his head down all the time.. actually there's no need to be very good-looking one, a confident person is naturally attractive.. den again, of cos cannot be the super full-of-himself yet good-for-nothing kind..
3. someone who does not give up easily.. dun like those who meet a bit of hurdle den give up one.. must have faith in life, that things will always work out fine in the end as long as you work hard for it..
4. must be very honest with me, yet knows how to tell small white lies smth.. yup.. cannot bluff me.. cos i get vv upset when pple bluff me.. and i'll start having doubts bout the truthfulness bout his statements once i get cheated b4.. but den, cannot be so honest until if i cook smth tt taste awful den just tell me straight at my face tt it's horrid lah.. at least must be a bit more encouraging or can learn from pri sch teachers writing report books-- "can be improved".. lol..
5. have lotsa general knowledge, can have a intellectual conversation with me but dun intimidate with bombastic words all the time.. i need to make intellectual conversations with pple smth and of cos i dun wan someone who have completely no idea wad is happening in the world.. for eg, tell me tt deng xiao ping is a businessman and spore's pm now is lee kuan yew (tt wad my bro says)..
6. someone whom i can admire.. which means must have some talents of some kind bah.. or mayb good pr skills (which i tink i dun have) or perhaps some leadership qualities also can..
7. must be responsible and he must have a sense of time!!!
8. most importantly, someone who can accept "ME".. not just the good things but also all my bad habits, my family, my life..
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the 8 pple i shall arrow to do this as well.. hehe..
- xinyi
- xiuting
- kayun
- mayi
- yongqiang
- winghang
- waiwai
- liuyun
my 101st blog post shall be a celebrations for the end of my 4th exam in nus.. hooray.. at least it's over.. no matter how horrid i did, at least it's over.. just hope tt the final results wont pull my cap down.. den i more than happy le..
this sem had been my busiest sem ever in nus.. working alot alot.. for the past 3 months, been getting quite good pay from ushering.. did so many events lor.. plus all the work from the exco, rag and apps proposing.. sigh.. was so busy tt the whole semester passed super fast..
the seniors all say tt year 3 sem 1 is the true killer sem.. but luckily at tt time, i will be off the exco duties.. rag will also be over.. which means tt i'm left with xinyi's pharm camp apd.. shall put more time to try to mug consistently next sem.. this exam wasnt anything too difficult to understand.. it's just all the last min cramming of tons of info tt killed me.. if i'm like niron (who started mugging from week 2), i prob wont be so dead for this exam..
den again.. i say this after every exams.. and by the time the hols is over, i'll forget all bout it le..
as for now, i shall just enjoy my last few pgp nites, shop, eat, play before preceptorship starts..