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cheeseng gave me this link, asked me to read it and take note of a certain someone's post. seriously, our chinese standards are at levels that are embarrassing, not that im complaining about others only because i believe i'm also one of the many culprits that add to the statistics of bad chinese standards as well! regarding xu wei lun's accident, the online news coverages are all in chinese. to make matters worse, they're in 繁体字. @_@ it's no wonder that people in the forums are misinterpreting the news. what actually happened was that the accident took place at the 155km mark on the highway but alas, people interpret it as the driver was speeding at 155km/hr -_-x the most "ownage" and farniest comment was when someone said that xu wei lun got banged and FLEW 155km! LOL. super funny lah! from s'pore to aussie also dun have 155km can? hahahahahahha~~~
kinda in a very sad mood now. ~_~ was very shocked when cheeseng asked me who's xu wei lun. i told him she's a young and quite pretty taiwanese actress. then he told me she passed away in an car accident. i immediately went "HUH?! what the?" the news was just too unbelievable and shocking. and just the other day, i was checking my nus webmail and saw the email regarding the demise of a life science undergrad. *sigh. it's just saddening. how one day you can be here and the other maybe not? life's so unpredictable and fragile.
lets change the mood abit. on friday when amanda asked me what were my plans for the weekend, i replied a 'try to study for genetics test'. she was like "really meh?" and gave me doubtful look. wei~~~ then she started to say how my entries would be like and what she guessed that i would be doing for the next few days. like how i would have cooking sessions with love on tuesdays, weekend go here go there enjoy, then later complain about no time to study for test etc etc. im so predictable huh? :P i didn't know whether to laugh or to cry. lol! so i just looked like i was hurt. hahaha! so yeah, im going to change the style of my entries liao! okay, amanda? LOL~~~~~
on saturday we went to kampong glam for the changing landscapes field trip. imo, the trip was pretty boring if u ask me @_@ and there was the assignment as well. ah sian. all the field trips come with strings attached. but i did leave the place with some questions in mind. like what defines ethnicity and identity. what made the place so 'malay'? was it the sultan mosque or ...?
anyway after the trip, me, amanda, guan rui and love went to beach road hawker center to have our lunch. we all ate the very famous and nice chilli mee. after that we chatted for abit while eating chin chow (glass jelly). then the issue of religion came up. i must say it's really a very very very x 1054375437594 sensitive issue to talk about. can't remember who asked guan rui how he became christian. but i know i was interested to know the answer, 'cause i feel it's always nice to hear testimonies like this, of how non-believers become christians. i've heard love's story before already, way back when we weren't together yet. so ya, it was nice of guan rui to share his story with us :) from that, i realised that somehow, i guess its not uncommon for those people who believe that there is indeed a God but arent christians, to be waiting for something BIG to happen. A single huge sign or signal or event to take place, that will totally change their lives and make them truly believe. i know i am still, waiting for "the calling". though recent events have been somewhat close to it, but i guess im just not ready.
after our long lunch, love and i headed to the national lib while amanda and guan rui went to take mrt. we went to do some reading up at the lib. i was feeling so so so sleepy that i dozed off every now and then on the couch @_@
we went to bugis hawker centre for dinner. i couldn't make up my mind on what to eat and later i settled for pork porridge. big mistake #1. because that was the start of the whole episode that made me freaking peeved. i told the uncle my order loud and clear. then he asked for my seat number. as i was sitting 1 row away from his stall he insisted that he'll serve it in a styroform bowl. wad the hell? then i told him that he can just serve it in the normal bowl and i'll bring the bowl back when im done. No, he said, it would be too hot to hold, it would inconvenient the cleaners, everyone is doing that, ask me dun make things difficult for him. W.T.F! What a whole load of freaking bloody lame excuses. PUI. a large part of me just wanted to walk away and ignore that moron. yet i dunno for what stupid reason, i frowned and said an unwilling "okay lah". BIG MISTAKE #2. (probably the biggest) the uncle then rattled on, trying to justify what he suggested was right but yeah right, like i gave a shyt to what he said, was already pissed enough. i paid for the stuff and he gave me the change. i frowned again. i stared at him and said "i ordered with egg." and the bloody idiot had the cheek to answer me "huh? i didn't add egg leh" WAD THE HELL. ARE U A RETARD? he then hurried added an egg, which was FREAKING overcooked. haiz. just my luck. i carried the food back to the seat and started to spill the whole incident to love. as i was relating it, it got be so so so pissed to even recall abt it, such that i broke down -_- i was just so frustrated at the way i acted (or the lack of it). but i tink i must have scared love and the people there. why this person react like that. :/ oh well. anyway, yea, i was over it after a bit. i didn't touch the porridge at all but instead ate like half of love's rice+soup.
sunday. i was supposed to follow love to the first service but we both couldn't wake up. lol. thus we ended up going to the second service, the youth service instead. wow. totally different crowd from the first. really alot of youths, all very young, like secondary school kind. oh man, make me feel so old lol~ the service was not bad. the message was about forgiveness, forgiving others and asking for forgiveness. kinda spoke me in more ways than one i guess. 1 cross plus 3 nails = 4give. after service we went to crystal jade at holland village.
we got seats upstairs but not near the window :( they placed us beside a family of 4. when i sat down i didnt see who the people were. then the daughter looked at me so i looked back then i turned to glance at the mother and i went O_O! it was dr. phang. yes, dr phang my poly lecturer and fyp sup. then i immediately shot love the shocked and surprised look. she didnt see me though. wah. so coincidental. sg is so small @_@ haha. quite tio chua. wanted to greet her but shy leh. so i waited till they were about to leave then i smiled at her. haha~ so qiao la. i was sitting beside her and she didn't notice i oso almost didn't notice can. if her daughter didn't look at me i probably would have missed her.
later we swap seats and get the seats beside the window. in less than 5 mins later, suddenly a familiar looking guy in white sat down beside me. o_O! goodness! it was purple fwen, chun choon la! so qiao again, lol. and almost the whole of love's cg was gonna go there for lunch too~ i felt abit awkward cos like machiam i was the only thing preventing him from sitting with them T_T but it was okay la, weijia, whom i met last week at church, came over and talk to love. he remembered my name! not bad not bad haha~ we finished our lunch and said goodbye to the whole bunch of them (10++ ppl i tink) and went to coffee club for dessert. love was craving for the mudpie and i had my usual iced earl's vanilla. whoa. the mudpie was really ownage. insanely good but well, i didnt eat much of it cos i was scared of getting headache @_@
i tink i shld stop here liao. need to sleep though i have no class for tml and tuesday :D (need to study for genetics test on wed tho) but someone has school and still waiting up fer me. ciaoz~!
finally submitted my part of the biochem report. one of the lab partners compiled and completed it already. more hands make light work.
love came over in the morning with breakfast. i was still sleeping then, so he had to call my handphone to wake me :X thanks love, it was very sweet of u :)
went to sch on a no-school day. (sigh) had project work. 4 of us (me, amanda, pam and chong) worked on the physical geog. assignment. had dinner at the very famous claypot rice at clementi. "yay" and "cheers". finally tried it. have been living in clementi for so many yrs but havent ate it before. it tasted alright, not really fantastic. probably because of my mood and because i felt that the one my mom cooked tasted WAY better.
had quite an agonizing talk with love over dinner. really feel that i have problems expressing myself well. -_-x and i really felt like crap. probably because i was trying hard to hold back the tears and that i had to make clear about what exactly did i felt was upsetting me so much. when i finally did, i didn't feel better. i guess in a way it made things worse for awhile @_@ but eventually, the talk and hugs did bring me comfort. still feeling very :( i think i should get to sleep. class at 8 tml. will update again.
*blows off the dust that has been collected* ... hmm. pretty much very lazy to update nowadays. probably because when im at the comp, i have many other stuff to do. the usual stuff would be to open my firefox, click on the IVLE and my nus mail. (it's pathetic that i faithfully do that everyday but im sure im definitely not the only one :P ) furthermore, recently i've been learning abit of dota thus practising quite abit with the guys. i recently just found out my connection speed. and when i tested it out, hohoho! everyone wanted me to host dota from then on. so ya, kinda have to play sometimes. but in a way it's good, i tink i improved just a tiny teeny bit.
am taking 2 geog modules this sem. wonder if it's a bad move. arts mod = alot of readings. eww. i really dun like to read :( work is starting to pile up. readings undone. aiyah, i really gotta start working.
followed love to church on sunday (yesterday). it was not as ________ (i believe the word im looking for is 'overwhelming') as the other charismatic churches i've visited before. so ya, overall it was alright for a first visit. purple fwen was there too, love's dad and aunt were there also. still i felt uneasy, because bottomline, i am still a non-believer. and i felt left out. oh well, i told that to love and to my mom. both of them said the same thing - one visit isnt enough. so well, yeah, slowly ba and more visits i guess.
oh yea, saturday i met jean, love's close friend. she was back in singapore for holidays; she studies in melborne uni. she was a really friendly and nice girl, very easy to talk to, very smart too. studies media psychology if i didnt remember wrongly. wow. coincidentally, she was also reading The Purpose Driven Life. Aiyo. so qiao. im also currently reading it as well. i wonder if ling is also reading it too.
haiz. sux. tml is my supposedly "free" day but gotta go to sch because got assignment to do. KNS! ARgh. alright ba. i shall end here. Mr. Sunshine (self proclaimed - LOL) is waiting for me to go offline. hehe. nitez.
eh. look at the time. crap. already 11+. i've got 8am lecture tml. NOoooo...urgh. nvm. i shall still blog and see what time i finish :X okay. lets see arh.
Me and Love's Noobie Cooking Session #5~ (we just had cooking session #6 today xD a lazy one!) which was on 9th (tues). hehe. Good timing really, happened to be our 4th month anniversary ^_^ Yeah, so we cooked century egg meat porridge, fried dumplings and stir-fried veggie. The filling for the dumplings we prepared on monday beforehand. Then on tuesday itself, we wrapped the dumplings, cooked the porridge and the veg. the whole cooking session was fun esp. the wrapping of the dumplings man, it was damn fun! 'cause love damn greedy, always wrap the dumplings till damn fat and full, till cannot close then end up got hole in the skin. LOL. for me, my nails -_-x so i oso spoilt quite a few skins :\ anyway we prepared and cook for quite long. took about 2 hrs? or was it 1 hr+, didnt really keep track but yeah, i tink there was an improvement from the previous cooking session. not so long le. lol~ 
marinated the filling on monday (looks like dogfood wor. :\)
finished wrapping the dumplings
tada! the porridge and the veggie~
wHee~ the fried dumplings
love and i went to amanda's 21st birthday party together on saturday (13th). the boy came by my place to pick me up. when i opened the door i was like O_O! oh my goodness. lol~ "why he look so shuai today xD" the wonders of contact lenses huh! haha~ anyway we went to lakeside then we saw the rest of the girls+1 guy. was supposed to meet each other earlier but everyone was later than the other. hehe ;x the party was more like a gathering wor, saw many of the poly ppl and got abit of time to sit and talk like old times. we left the party at about 10, by the time it was a tad too late to go anywhere else so we ended up at clementi mac to grab a bite and just chill. after that love sent me home and we ended up talking outside at the corridor for the umpteenth time. -_-x haha! 
smilez! :D
i didn't have any class yesterday but i still went all the way to sch to sign up for the field trip for my arts gem mod. becos me and amanda were late, we reached the signup board at 10.20. wah seh. 20 minutes late nia already so many people sign up liao. lol. these people really -_-x" no comments. after that the 3 of us went lib to print notes. urgh. the geog mod really driving me nuts. SO MANY READINGS to print. T_T i havent even print finish nia, love ended school liao, which was 12noon le. aiyo. after printing, me, amanda, love and jh went to clementi together for lunch. we had jap food. :)
in the evening, love and i went to holland v to meet dan and jh. we went to settler's cafe to play board games. we were supposed to go last thursday but didnt managed to. the guy at the cafe intro us a 4-5 player game called Fish Market. beginning it sounded so complicated, then somemore i quite slow at understanding the game so didnt really know how to play at first haha~ but after 1 or 2 rounds, got the hang of it. it's really like a bidding/auction kind of game (reminds u of the bidding system huh @_@) . There's 4 rounds and each player starts with 50 bucks. each round there's 5-6 boats with fishes. then u're supposed to bid for the fishes in the boats. but the catch is there are only 2 kinds of fish which each player can sell to the market. and the price of the 2 fishes are oso random. at the end of 4 rounds, u telly the cash to see who wins. at first i thought it's gonna be nt very interesting but in the end it turned out to be quite fun. lol~ jiesi came to join us at around 7. so 5 people, 6 boats. damn funny the way we traded the fishes to each other. some of the fish had funny names la, like the thunicsh fish. oh and esp. the last round where jh and love were trying to outbid each other for the fish that i was selling. super funny! cos the both of them kept outbidding each other, pushing the price of the fishes damn high. hahah! in the end becos of that i won~ lOL~
For dinner, the 5 of us went to the famous XO Fish Beehoon. (finally got chance to eat, everytime go there damn sway one. either nv open for the day or timing not right, they're closed.) We also ordered stir fried veg and prawn paste chicken! all the food were quite yum, i tink partly oso cos all of us were quite hungry. haha~ anyway jiesi let us in abit abt her trip to germany (exchange programme by nus chem). very lucky lor. sounds damn fun~ haha! she asked me to go summer school. can clear 2 modules and go overseas. Mm. sounds not bad huh. but im damn afraid my cap cant make it man. sigh ._.
wah. 12.11 ler. i took damn long to blog. eek. so long ah the entry. okay ba. stop here then. update again real soon. till then. :P
friday. a very wet and rainy day. i don't really like rainy days, unless i don't have school and am feeling lazy. otherwise, it's really a downer to wake up to cold/cooling weather. zZz. woke up at 9am to ballot for tutorials. after that i went back to sleep. jeez. huge mistake. in the end i couldn't wake up in time for appointment at sgh@ 11.15am. so i rushed like mad - hurriedly pack my stuff into the bag and sprang outta the house.
when i reached the mrt platform, i suddenly remembered i forgot to bring an important piece of document that might be needed. urgh. cant go back already. to make things worse, my mom called at that instant, to ask if i remembered to bring that document along. so yeah, of course i got scolded. bah. i was late enough and still got irritated. great. very peeved already. by the time i reached outram it was already 11.10. walked damn fast to sgh. reached there, had to find blk 3. luckily, the signs were reliable, after a few turns i finally found the clinic. gave love a call when i reached the clinic, at the same time ask if he had met the seller. (i bought the genetics textbook from this guy called benjamin and love help me meet him to get the book for me. love said benjamin was cute. dAMn. i should have been there la! oOps :X ) anyway love kept me company on the phone abit, up till his lecture starts, which is 12. so okay after that, i just chilled and waited patiently outside the waiting area.
when i got quite engrossed in the book i was reading, suddenly my number flashed on the screen. @_@ went in. before long, by 12.30 or so i was done :) not such a scary experience, at least not as scary as i had imagined it to be. deep down, i was very grateful. i wonder if it was my prayers which were answered or was it just mere coincidence? i dunno, really. but the whole checkup thingy went smoothly though my day began with a bad start. still it was coincidental or divine intervention, im just very thankful.
i got lost while trying to get out of the building. after many wrong turns, i finally managed to backtrack to the path which i came from :X went to the chinatown hawker centre for lunch. was still raining. though i think i was supposed to feel gloomy (it's the effect rainy days have on me), i wasn't feeling the slightest bit of gloom at all. perhaps it's because the checkup turned out fine, like a rock had been lifted away. ate bak chor mee which tasted yum! and headed for home after that.
when i go to redhill mrt station, i was about to sms love when he called o.O perfect timing man. anyway love came over to my place to pass me the text and the notes =) went to bathe then rush out for 4pm lec. as usual was late again. -_-x my time management really still sucks to the core. after lecture, went to meet mom at queenstown. ate the very nice chicken rice there :D
hmm, i have been thinking. yesterday the talk that i attended with love and jh at pgpr was somewhat...enriching? though i guess enriching isn't exactly the appropiate word to be used here. it's more like thought provoking i guess. The talk was about God in a scientific perspective. it was quite interesting because the speaker was a biochemist. he said that he couldnt understand why anyone who studied science doesnt believe in God. okay no offense but initially i really didnt buy that statement at all. but as he drew and dished out the examples, i couldnt help but wonder if he might be right. maybe not 70% right but perhaps a slightest tiny bit. If DNA contains the info which transcibes to mRNA and then later to protein, where in the world does the info from DNA come from? Was the universe created? In Physics we all learn that in order to produce something you need energy, right? if thats the case how did the universe come about? suddenly there was just something outta nothing? its just all too weird and coincidental. mm. :\
i tink i better stop here. it's getting rather late. dun wanna tink about this first. heh. been tinking too much le.
Aiyah. i have been lazy. forgot to blog about me and love's noobie cooking session #5! - Century egg porridge & fried dumplings~ hahaa..shall do so as soon as i remember to transfer the pics.
I'm sure I've said this before. time doesn't fly. it just disappears o.O So fast man! it's already Monday, supposedly the first day of school. GEEZ. this time around, nus and ntu start the sem on the same day huh. so actually us nus ppl lugi in holidays leh :( BOOoOooOoooo.... haiz. not really in the mood to start school yet but hey, guess wad. i have 2 more days to get in that mood. haha! :P
looking back, i realised i didnt really do much during the holidays. sure, i managed to spend quality time with my love BUT (there is always this annoying word in mid sentence) i didn't even managed to accomplish HALF the number of things i had planned to do. i had listed like 16 things to do and i only managed to accomplish 3. O_O pathetic leh! for one, it kept raining and raining. i couldn't even go for a swim. sian diao.
anyway, love and i took bus no. 30 all the way to the east on friday afternoon. it was a very fun experience to me and love because we get to see the places on the OTHER side of singapore which you normally wouldnt have the time to go to or probably didnt know that such places exist. though the journey was long, it was somewhat enriching. (? is that the word?) saw many many nice places to eat at. will go there to eat again someday =) anyway we took the bus all the way to bedok interchange. Mm. bedok interchange. brings back memories man. how long has it been? 2003 until now. 4 yrs. haha. i remember i used to work at bedok technopark before i got into poly. so bedok interchange was a familiar place to me. hehe. after that we took a bus back in the other direction and got to the old airport road temp hawker centre. had our dinner there which comprised of the famous n very nice wan tan mee, pasta from Pasta Manna, cha kway teow, chee cheong fan and dessert. the dessert was not very nice :( the one at chinatown is better :P ate until very full wor. after that we headed home n love went to cg.
today we both woke up very late. couldn't wake up actually. cos we were on the phone till too late last nite. in the end we met at 6+pm when we supposed to be meet at 12noon. :X anyway, we went fisherman's wharf. =) we ordered fish n chips (of course!) and scampi fritti. the prawns were damn fresh la!
scampi fritti~
but i felt that the oysters poppers we had the other time were better.
oyster poppers~
after dinner we went to the "lao di fang" to just chill. then later took 166 back.
was supposed to meet love at 7.30 at ginza plaza. but i couldnt wake up -_-x i woke up at 7. called him but didnt even have the strength to say gd morning. lol. was so sleepy @_@ in the end i fell back to sleep and only woke up at 10. lol. so we went to opposite ginza plaza the hawker centre to get breakfast then after that went to get the ingredients for the lunch we going to cook!
we started to cook at 3pm. very late. so u cant really call it lunch. took us 1 n half hours before the food is all ready -_-x noobs. lol.
sucky bidding system. urgh. i lack one module! haiz. i am so dead. those modules im interested in either have clashes with lectures or exams or are uber expensive to bid. grr. sian. wonder do i really have to resort to doing only 4 mods this coming sem. and hor. sian la. school going to reopen le. @_@ although i do miss the girls but...the thought of going back to school and all that work is...bleh! just SIANZ!
some pictures of the cooking session! (and 2 from new years eve)
nice background but the camera...urgh @_@ blur.
i like this one ^_^ the background v nice. shot taken by ling :)
we were both craving for both roastduck n roastpork on thursday, so ya. the menu was pretty much planned on thursday :P
our very own creation - baked salmon with garlic, lemon and pepper. it doesnt look it but it's damn nice :P
plain dried noodles to go with the food
when u add abit of everything....cant even see the noodles -_-x
aiyo, who's the uncle cooking the noodles. o_O? he look so serious can. LOL!!!
met up with miyu sis n rei ma today. heh, miyu sis FINALLY come to sg le, after dunno how many times we talked abt her coming to sg. lol~ anyway we brought her to bugis village to eat. maybe if we had more time next time, can bring u to cooler places. hehe.
somehow, the meeting also made me think and reflect on other stuff. about my inter persona skills, about the people that i used to keep in contact with but somehow it just all broke down. i mean, hey i was definitely happy to be able to finally met up with miyu sis and to see rei ma again after so long. yet, part of me was in a state of ... i dunno wad it is. guilt? regret? that i didn't do enough to maintain relationships with people i know? there were other things as well, which totally has nothing to do with the meeting. i really want to pen down every word, thought, feeling. but i just cant. it's just inconvenient. anyway, it was raining heavily when we headed for home - exactly what i felt like on the bus. thankfully love was sensitive and understanding enough to read my thoughts and perfectly guess spot-on what was going through my mind such that i didn't have to tell him how i was feeling.
reached home, went to disturb xuan jie on msn. :X the conversation ended up with both of us thinking of where to go or wad to do for dates. o.O? sg so small. it gets boring after some time. needa crack head to come up with something to do or somewhere nice to go. haha!
some pictures that are long due.
th e shepherd's pie we made and brought over to dan's place. wahahaha! *proud*
nice lights @marina square (New year's eve)
again! *tired liao*
7-11 got free gift issit? Nope. Absolutely not. It's more like uber crowded, have to QUEUE to get in. WHAT THE. (We queued, went in, bought something and came out le)
Fried noodles (new years day dinner at home)
homemade mushroom soup
honey & mustard lamb rack. omg. yummilicious!
Okay. This is quite funny to me. At least it did sent me laughing for abit, despite my mood now. My mom found this really old book of hers.
This is the book's cover. Oh man, didnt know my mom owns chinese books la!
Flipping through the pages....
What the...lines?
oh my goodness!
OH NOES! aiyo. the poor book. which primary school kid totally destroyed the book huh?
O=)
otayz. im freaking starving now. waiting for the master chef to whip up a whole load of goodies! (later i must remember to take the oics before i lay my hands on the food xD) really a pity love couldnt make it even though mom asked me to ask him to. nvm, some other time then. recover soon baby!
new year's eve was special =) like xmas day. spent one yr together with love. that's wad he said. if u tink abt it, last day of 2006 to 1st day of 2007 is in a way, 1 yr. lol. anyway, did the usual ordinary stuff like going to new york x2 to eat, walking around marina square but the company and time spent was just absolutely fantastic. as expected the network ALWAYS ALWAYS jams at esplanade area so we couldnt contact/find ling up until almost 10mins before countdown. bah -_-x the fireworks at esplanade were nice but i've seen better. still, it's the people u're with when u see the fireworks that matters isnt it? oh, i remember the 2 bangalas infront of us. damn funny. they were like getting all high abt the fireworks, really like small kids liao. then when it finished they were like aww so touched! happy new yr! then they both hugged each other. super funny! love and i turned to each other and just laugh our heads off. after that we managed to find ling. took some nice pics but they're not with me. will upload some pics when i get them :P after that ling had to leave 'cos her fren came to pick her up to go drinking :( so me and love walked down to keppel road to try to get a cab. we gt lucky. managed to get one. reached home at 2.20++am.
so wassup with the new year? well. for one. i really really gotta make it this semester. absolutely no joke, no kidding and no nonsense whatsoever. but first things first. need to get rid of the purple nailpolish that has been fading ever since i got back from Krabi. (yep, i did a manicure there xD) and i needa cut my hair! =/ other than that. it's the usual. i need to tone up. stay healthy, exercise more. bahhhh okay. food's ready. woohoo!