...just think of me as the pages in your diary....by AliciaKeys

personality test

2010-01-31T19:26:00.000-08:00

Cattell's 16 Factor Test Results

Warmth	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	46%
Intellect	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	46%
Emotional Stability	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	82%
Aggressiveness	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	46%
Liveliness	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	38%
Dutifulness	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	58%
Social Assertiveness	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	42%
Sensitivity	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	38%
Paranoia	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	62%
Abstractness	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	38%
Introversion	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	78%
Anxiety	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	46%
Openmindedness	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	42%
Independence	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	62%
Perfectionism	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	58%
Tension	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	46%

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be swept by the Korean wave

2009-07-01T08:40:00.000-07:00

Original

Cover 1

Cover 2

Original

Cover 1

what if they exchange songs

Hillarious

Acapella

2009-07-01T07:55:00.000-07:00

The Simpsons

Super Mario

Mas Que Nada

2009-03-28T09:30:00.001-07:00

A few years ago, i came across this Nike advertisement on TV, and kinda fall in love with the music straight away. Somehow, it felt that i have heard the melody from somewhere...

After listening to it more carefully, I realised the singer of the song is Black Eyed Peas (which happens to be one of my fave groups at that time).... Apparently they gave a new outlook to this old song from Sergio Mendez... I also dont know who he was until i heard this song actually. This song just makes me wanna groove and i just cant get it out of my head... when i listen to it, i can imagine a cheerful and relax atmosphere...

Wondering what Mas Que Nada Means...
So i checked it out on Wiki... and this is what i got:
In Brazilian Portuguese slang, it means "come on" or "no way". In Latin-American Spanish más que nada literally means "more than anything".

Apparently wiki doesnt help much... =( haha I still dun really get what it means....
but the melody of the song explains a lot... to me, it means "doesnt matter what problem you have at hand, you can forget about it when you listen to the samba"
haha sorry, kinda cheesy...=P

Actually i stopped listening to that song after some time. But recently, my craze for Ballroom dancing has brought me back to it. I was "again" searching for Ballroom dance videos on Youtube. When i was looking for some samba dances, i found these great dances on the videos. The first one is by some professional dancers. As you can see, the technique is super solid! but i cant help but notice that the fit of the girl's dress is horrible. Oh man!

The second one is by a group of people. Technique wise, they are not as good as the first one, but their choreography is really charming. really enjoy watching it

Ohhh... ballroom dance really rocks! it really gives a lot of positive energy...

anyway, other than ballroom dance, i also managed to find something else. It is a Japanese group singing Mas Que Nada, but with bossanova feel to it

The piano accompanyment here is really good but i'm not a big fan of the vocal... somehow the pronouciation of the vocalist doesnt support the feel of the song.... something is lacking there. just not sure what it is... may be authenticity... haha

haha... enough of overdosing this blog with too much of Mas Que Nada-ing...
anyway, thanks to Sergio Mendez who created that beautiful song, now i have something to groove to... yeah!

post about me-myself-and i

2009-03-13T11:11:00.000-07:00

It's 2 am now...
i refused to sleep even tho i know i need rest and my beauty sleep...
and i got tonnes of things better to do than writting this blog...

i just happen to dig thru some old archives in this blog... those that wrote in yr 1 or so... i just feel that so many things have changed...
how friendship has changed. how friends come n go..
i dunno wad's wrong, but somehow, in Uni, the "turnover rate" of friends is so high...is it just me, and how i handle friendship?

and i'm kinda used to being independent...

i remember last time... last last time... i used to feel really awkward if i have to go out shopping alone or eating in the canteen alone...
but now, all these are not a big deal, it's everyday reality, or at least that's how i feel. even "worse", i kinda enjoy it sometimes... like for example, i really love to shop alone.... i can spend however much time to ensure that the thing that i want to buy is really what i want and it's really worth buying...i will feel really uncomfortable knowing that a friend is waiting for you outside the fitting room, waiting impatiently.. you know, that kind of feeling...
but these are just my feelings, i know it may not be true... coz some friends can be very patient as well..

oh well, i happened to see some photos from the KL trip during year 1 when the whole grp of us went together...
i see the "irreplaceable" expression in our faces... some kind of joy that is so precious....we would have our own troubles and ups and downs at that time, but somehow, those faces couldnt lie that we were all having so much fun...

not that i'm not happy right now.... i think i'm kind of enjoying this sem as well, but i kinda miss what it used to be like...
maybe this is the consequence of growing older...
hmpph.. no rheumatism, just some sore here and there... lol

Ballroom

2009-03-07T19:57:00.000-08:00

have been really into ballroom and latin dance recently...
so here i just wanna share some of the great videos that i watched with you guys...

*i really think i shld start dancing again if time permits... yeah, when will time ever permit tho...?

The beautiful and romantic waltz

Sizzling hot cha cha

Handsome and passionate Paso Doble

*loves Derek Hough and Julliane Hough

2009-03-06T18:00:00.000-08:00

Another personality test

2009-02-21T18:37:00.000-08:00

I was tagged by Citra on Facebook...
http://world.doubutsu-uranai.com/index.html
a personality test...
Note: there is no obligation to pass on the tag... just felt really curious and tried it...
so here it is....

1. You are Gold Lion, who is rather serious and polite type of person.
2. You value personal relationships.
3. You suppress yourself and act to be a sociable person.
4. But you are really a person who doesn't like to loose to anyone.
5. You dislike emotional atmosphere and vague attitude.
6. You want to make everything clear-cut.
7. You like to stay in your own little world.
8. If you get in a situation where there are lots of people you can not express yourself and act as a perfect person.
9. You are not very subjective sort of person, unlike ordinary women, but unfortunately you lack soft and gentle atmosphere.
10. You tend to be too bold.
11. You cannot help but stretch your hand to those who are in need.
12. You are very kind person who helps the weak.
13. You are also weak on compliments, and will work enthusiastically after someone has given a compliment.
14. You will go about your duty steadily and loyally, and not get in a rush to achieve the objective.
15. You have perseverance, and will work effortlessly until you reach your objective.
16. Something that you have worked steadily for a long, long time, will turn out to be an asset to the world.
17.You are careful and rational, and therefore place value to steady life.
18, After getting married, you will be a devoted mother and a wife, but you are really a very dependent person, and prefer to keep your own little world.

Comments:
-This is scarily true.. all the good sides and bad sides of mine are exposed... "oh vulnarable vulnarable..."
- I don't really agree with those highlighted in blue.... either I really dont have those qualities or I just cant see it in myself...
- The last sentence about being a devoted mother and wife... hm... never even think that far yet....=P
- For the rest, believe it or not... they really tell a story about myself... if you know me well enough, you'll agree....

Yeanching is the star for today

2009-02-18T08:54:00.000-08:00

Yup rite... it's for you Yeanching...
Coz it's your 22nd Birthday today..
who ask you to go so far away... now i cant celebrate your birthday with you there,
so shall put down my thots and wishes here in my under-utilised blog... heheeee

haha.. let me start by officially congratulating you for being 22!! yay!! double 2...
one more year to 23.. haha.. sorry doesnt mean to scare you...
* no worries... i'll be 23 first before you do...

btw, really happy to have you as a great buddy in NUS... I know you are always there no matter what... to the extent that we may take each other for granted...
haiz... like now that you r not here... dun even know who to eat lunch with other than daniel... haha... * no offence daniel, if you happen to read this... the more the merrier mah... =P

time really flies man! i've known you for almost 5 years... that's quite long indeed!
i rmb... that time in Vhall... i knew you becoz u were Vidi's roommate... i think at first i was not even close to you....
but wad can we say.... fate decided that we shld endure the suffering in NUS together and make it as fun as it can be... "yeah rite"....=)

you r really fun to hang out with... a social butterfly... i get to know some more friends thru your network....haha... maybe you shld set up a business, a match making agency using your "advantage" haha...
too bad in uni i dun get to "Indonesianised" u.... haha... coz i'm an antisocial myself..
haiyah... that's why u shld come back soon and we shall eat "ayam penyet" together...*i know you r craving for chilli rite now... hehehe

hua... i dunno why i'm crapping so much...

ok lah... i think i wrote a lot alrd...
just hope you have settled down well there...
i'm sure your friends there will take a good care of you....=)
have a great birthday ya!! muachhh

luv ya!!

Things that keeps me busy and motivated these days.....Pictures in reverse choronological order...

2009-02-18T08:31:00.001-08:00

DnD'09 committee... you guys rocks!

"One last dance with you..."

"One in a million.. once in a lifetime"

Left-Right: Ivone, me, Eva, Eddy, Sumitro, Gaby, Laura
Bottom: Pras, Adit

I love the banner!!

With the 2 "dance instructor", Citra & Eva... u girls are fabulous!

Posing before performance time.. likes the colour coordination!

Cheese!...

Berlutut sampe kaki biru2 hitam2

With Eva at the Infusion booth

Rame-rame =)

DnD relieved

2009-02-13T08:49:00.000-08:00

felt so relieved and excited yesterday, after a relatively short preparation for yesterday's DnD...
at first i was a bit pessimistic about the ticket sales and all after kena rejected by a few ppl...

but my spirit got lifted up especially this week...
I was asked to be part of the performer (read: dancer) for this event... which i was a bit reluctant to at first.. i have done many performances before but never dance...
yes, i was once in NUS social n ballroom dance before.. but that was learning an quite different from performing in public....
but thanks to those who asked me to perform.. coz i really enjoyed it tremendously... never expect it to be so fun...! altho i admit it was not the best performance from me..=P
but, i still wanna thank my dance partners and dance friends for putting up with my bad temper sometimes and yet still patiently teach me... i know i was not being very nice during some of the practices...

overall, i just love the whole nite... not perfect... but still lovely...
the 2 songs still run over my head over and over again...
if i hear the song again, i can still feel the tingling sensation in my heart...nervous sia..

last but not least, wanna thank those who have come for the event and make the whole thing worth it... i was really grateful for all....=)

with the event over, now it's the time to settle some paper works and school work..
oh no! i got a mid term test already on monday.... ckckckck.. how cruel is that...

*and I realize that everytime i see your face, i know...
there's a part of me that cant bear to let you go...

and I would give my heart
give you the world, risk losing everything i got
i give it all to you
no, i dun wanna stop
I know it's the right thing to do.....

one last dance with you....*

ps: i think i shld get a camera soon...so many events pictures missed....

This is almost accurate....

2009-02-06T22:13:00.000-08:00

not trying to promote anything, for the first time i felt that a quiz actually makes sense and almost accurate...
so i thot I'm just gonna post the result here...
*this is a facebook apps that usually i wont even want to try... but somehow this is insanely accurate... unbelievable...

July

Fun to be with. Secretive. Difficult to fathom and to be understood.Quiet unless excited or tensed. Takes pride in oneself. Has reputation. Easily consoled. Honest. Concerned about people's feelings. Tactful. Friendly. Approachable. Emotional temperamental and unpredictable. Moody and easily hurt. Witty and sparkly. Not revengeful. Forgiving but never forgets.Dislikes nonsensical and unnecessary things. Guides others physically and mentally. Sensitive and forms impressions carefully. Caring and loving. Treats others equally. Strong sense of sympathy. Wary and sharp. Judges people through observations. Hardworking. No difficulties in studying

Tell me, do u think I am like what is described here or not...?

Something that I'm proud of....

2009-02-06T08:25:00.000-08:00

Spot me if you can...
this is just a rehearsal....
hopefully i can get hold of the video of the actual performance...that would be really great...

* Thanks to whoever who uploaded this... all this while we've been practising without knowing wad we actually look like... lol

We've been practicing for this dance for more than 3 months... resulting in bruised kneecap and feet... neck and head pain... but it has all come down to today's performance and it's all worth it!! totally!!

PINUS DND09: Time of your life

2009-01-20T18:52:00.000-08:00

Fashion item this season: Scarf!!

2008-11-02T22:23:00.000-08:00

Personally, i havent been following fashion trend a lot in the way i dress myself up.
I'm in Engineering faculty... therefore, jeans, shorts and T-shirts are the staples and you dun need to accessorise much... life is as humdrum as it can be, especially with exam coming near...

in the midst of studying for my test, i was watching one of my Taiwan shows from youtube (distraction as usual)... It's a girls/women show where they will show you the latest trend in fashion, body and face care...etc etc...

I stumbled upon this episode where they show you how to wear scarves, shawl or wadever u like to call it...
I know that scarf is getting popular, even in the hot weather of singapore... it is no longer a protective or winter clothing that people used to associate it with...
the first person around me that started the scarf-trend was ismy... I saw her wearing her checkered red scarf (something like the Scotland pattern...)

Scarf is nice and actually functional as you can wear it in many different manner depending on the shapes and sizes of the scarves and the person who wears it....
you can wear a boring plain black or white tee and put on a bright colored scarf, and TADA!! it become more than just normal...

and the thing is, living in the environment where you cant really escape air-con....(i have one in my room too), scarf can be a good friend when you are feeling freezing cold (like LT 7a that i have to sit in every other day)

watching that Taiwan show makes me wanna go shopping and get a nice scarf.. haha..

precious weekend!

2008-10-29T03:56:00.000-07:00

have not been updating my blog regularly...
have been very tired of wad is happening around... i shall not mention here..

just wanna reflect about happy stuff that has been happening during the weekend that has just past..
my mom was in singapore for the whole week last week...which was just wad i needed at this point of time....
out of the 7 days, i only got to meet her for 3 days..
sad sad me... cruel cruel life...
but it was a fun 3 days...

cut my hair at shuji matsuo again... fresh look is wad i need now... (but i think i still have that "i-am-doomed" face... you shld noe why.... it's that time of the semester again! haiz)
shopped for dresses for dec wedding... yippiieee
didnt manage to find any sandals to match tho... either the price is too ex or the designs that i want dont have my size... sobz...

luckily monday is deepavali holiday, so i can send my mom to the airport....
but when i came back from airport... all the schwork, projects and dunno wad else are already haunting me... i was really quite stressed out for spending my weekend just like that...

had yoga that evening... feel quite refreshed at first, but gets so so so tired that i slept at 9 plus, almost 10... woke up the next day at 5... hahah... the first time ever in my NUS life that i woke up so early to do my work...

for now... i just need to get this negative thoughts from my mind and do my best...
i'm at this point where there is no turning back... so just do wadever i can...
jiayou!

Kettle Chips taste so good!!

2008-10-18T08:18:00.000-07:00

haha yeah, the title of this post may sounds so shallow and random...
and yes, it is random indeed... haha and this post is dedicated to the packet of Kettle Brand Chips that I just finished.
(disclaimer: dont read if you think that you have no time... --> but the fact that you are reading my blog is actually a sign that you have too much time... so just read on then...)

Last week, I went to the Nanyang mart and I saw the racks filled with Kettle chips...I was so tempted to try coz i know it is supposed to be expensive and expensive stuff is supposed to be nicer (a bit of generalization here...)
I was so delighted when i thought that the price is only $2.00...yay!
so, i just grabbed a packet of Honey Dijon "tangy mustard seeks love at first bite"... that's what it says at the package.... just curious how is a Kettle different from a Lays or even a Pringles...

So, after grabbing some other stuff that I need from the mart, i went straight to the cashier and paid without even knowing how much i was paying for...
when i went to the canteen carrying the plastic bag full of my groceries, my friend commented..."Wah! buying Kettle chips arh..."
I hurriedly explained to him that I bought it because it was $2.00...
then he was like " ha? $2.00? so cheap!"
That was the time when i actually checked the packet of Kettle that I bought and I saw a $4.50 price sticker on it.....oh well...

hm... ya... how can I be so stupid to think that Kettle chips can be so cheap...

I has been bought anyway, so I might as well enjoy it to the fullest...
and indeed, I really enjoyed it. In my opinion, they should adopt KFC's finger-licking-good slogan.
It was so good that I even ripped the packet open and allowed my clean hands to get greasy just to reach the last few pieces of Kettle chips inside there... crunch!nyum! (*you should be salivating by now and maybe have a sudden rush of impulse to get a packet of Kettle chips from your nearby grocery store!)

So, how is Kettle chip different from Lays and Pringles you may asked...
To me, who is a potato lover... Pringles is the least of my favourite... simply because it is made from potato powder and not sliced potato itself (*but that doesnt mean that I will reject a Pringles if you offer me one)

That leaves me with Lays and Kettle... okay, at this point, flavour comes to play...
i have never tasted Honey Dijon before... so i think the unique flavour of Kettle gives it a slight advantage here...

So, here i present you the flattened-and-ripped open packet of Kettle chips that i have just finished...

and you have just wasted your precious time reading this post... i told you already... it is just a random post that i wanted to write.... and i was never paid by Kettle to do this hor....just for fun lah... and actually before this, i have been absent from potato chips for quite sometime due to my cough during the beginning of the semester.

let's stop a while before we move on again

2008-10-08T05:55:00.001-07:00

last week was my mid term test week...
didnt really study much n was not satisfied with my own performance...
*not just about grades n marks*
i just feel that i have not put my best effort into my academics
and i think my 3121 project groupmates may not be very impressed with my contribution to the group...
i somehow feel that i'm super lost in the project and only did my minimum...
should really buck up now... should perform better in the next project...
*2 more projects for that module are waiting to come, not to mention the projects from other modules... really going crazy just to think abt it....

lalala...

studies aside,
had quite a jam-packed friday and saturday

friday nite: went out with cousin n cousin-in-law to be
place: clarke quay (Rennthai, cafe iguana)

Saturday afternoon: lunch with lita "belated bdae celebration for her"
place: vivo (thai accent)

satuday evening: Foongyi's bdae celebration
place: pasta de waraku, central; the pump room, clarke quay, east coast park

comments:
*i had 2 that food meals in 2 days, visited clarke quay 2 times in 2 days
*sudden visit to east coast at nite... haha... thanks to yeanching's crazy idea which is quite refreshing indeed... miss that place so much...
*pasta de waraku is nice!! tried the bacon & eggplant pasta...
*foongyi's bdae cake was very nice too! but too full to finish it after so much pasta... haha
*roti john (is that how u write it?) at east coast is yummy too... especially at 1 am when there's no more satay n stingray.. =)

after having so much fun, i think it's time for me to really pay more attention to studies...
have lots of things to catch up after the slightly slacked mid term week... huaaaa

hard to find

2008-09-26T09:25:00.000-07:00

hm...
in a few post ago...i have posted 2 youtube videos. if i'm not wrong the title of the post was "ear candies". in those 2 youtube videos are the songs that i like from this particular taiwanese singer.... too bad for you guys who don't listen to chinese songs... but these are really good!

ok, back on track...
basically the original singer of those two songs is this quirky looking guy from Taiwan..."Lu Guang Zhong or 盧廣仲 "
i think you will laugh by just looking at his appearance...
the big horn-rimmed glasses, the plain Tee (of various colurs), the shorts, the long socks and the sneakers... oh ya, not forgetting the bowl-like haircut... hahaz

Yup, just something like this... haha...
weird, nerdy looking. This is the picture in his album cover.

but surprisingly, behind this look, you find a very unique and soothing voice...
and what i like the most from him is that he wrote his own songs... and his lyrics are just very funny sometimes...
and he plays his own guitar... weee

the two youtube videos that i uploaded previously are the two songs that i love the most from his new album... but i think i'm gonna grow liking his music more n more... 'that's how i am with music... the more i listen, the more i love'

Other than the two songs from the youtube videos, there is one more very interesting video of him that you guys shld see... prepare yourself.. haha

(nevermind about the lyrics... i oso dun understand... it's supposed to be something funny...but nvm)

super high pitch isnt it? haha.... if you are interested enough to find out... the original song that he just sang is something like this

*that's how he got his name "Vitas" i guess

okay... enough of the entertainment...
but wait...... there is one more thing...

i just found out something about this quirky guy....
he is born on the exact same day as meeee... 15 July 1986....
I was damn shocked to see it in one of the websites... haha...
it's really hard to find a person with the same birthday as me... amazingly, he was also born the same year... !! woohoo, how rare is that...

usually i wont be too proud if i have the things in common with some quirky, weird looking guy...
but this is different... he really writes good music... something really refreshing...

100种生活 Zhong Shen Huo

*it means 100 ways of living...
enjoy that!

signing off...

grhhhh

2008-09-19T09:09:00.000-07:00

Ppl say, separate business from personal life...
now i think it's true....
it's happening rite now i'm supossed to put myself in 3 perspectives...

on one side, i have to be professional and dun side anyone...
but on the other side... haiz... how can i not care abt my friends' feelings...
somemore i'm not the kind of person who will just say things blatantly...

seriously, i think that being an anti-social is not so bad after all at this point of time... or can i just vanish tmrw...

sick of life.. sick of organizational politics... sick of having to think so much...
why cant everybody just think more other than for themselves...
(sometimes what ppl believes n wad they practice is just totally no-link n rubbish!)

*moody mood*

my ear candies

2008-09-10T07:44:00.000-07:00

Je'taime - I Love You - 我愛你
By Vitas Lu - Lala

100 Ways of Living
By Vitas Lu - Lala

Ai Ai Ai (My Current Ring Tone =P)
By Fang Da Tong

need a change of lifestyle

2008-09-07T00:26:00.000-07:00

hoah... it's been really long since the last time i updated my blog...
It's alrd the end of week 4 and beginning of week 5 of sch... time flies... and it flies in a jet speed.
It's kinda scary....

human is never satisfied... when i was working during holiday, i was really hoping to start school soon coz i just missed my friends and the happenings in school... but not when i'm actually going thru my semester... i kinda regret saying that.

school get so busy that u don't even have time to ponder or even get stressed over what your have in hand. or maybe i already learn to put the stress aside... just move on forward... that may be a good and bad thing... no stress means i just abandon some of my works without feeling any guilt... ckckck.... but it also means that i'm doing my own work at my own pace.....which is a good thing =P

after 4 weeks of business and chaos, at last this week i have a more exciting weekend.... out of NUS!!
hahah that sounds really crazy but it's true. i've rarely been out of NUS... even during weekends coz by weekend you just feel so lethargic and dont feel like travelling...
and i really love my room!! hahaha

okay, back about this weekend which is yesterday...
i practically just forget about wadever that i needed to and have a whole day out...
in the morning, i had a sumptuous breakfast at Holland v Swensens with Yuven, David, Angita, Dipta, Jessica, Cassie and Yovita... thanks Yuven for your birthday treat... haha...
actually must thank her organising this gathering... it's been such a long time since the last time i actually sit down slowly to enjoy my breakfast with the company of friends...

wad followed was a great shopping trip to Orchard... yes! shopping, something that i have been deprived of since the start of school.. I bought myself a box of snowskin mooncake, ipod cover and ... Samsung Omnia... haha though the Samsung Omnia is not for myself, i'm still feeeling very excited to get it... yoohoo!!! then we also had Ayam Penyet for "tea time" haha odd hour meal...

that's not all, at nite, we went to watch Citra's dance concert "Passage" with a whole lot of ppl (IsmyPatickYuvenEvaHaryantoJessicaSumitroErickWinstonMichaelGaby... fiuh, wad a long list) and showered her with love, flower and gifts.. haha. This is the first time i watch a contemporary dance concert in NUS... I must honestly complement that it was really impressive. Some ppl may find it boring, but i can appreciate this kind of dance... hip hop can get boring at times...
The lighting and costumes in the whole show was magnificent... the audience were in for a treat of visual impact... cool!

And of course, after concert will not be complete without supper... had to resort to Fong Seng coz that's like the only place open nearby NUS at that hour....

It was a long and tiring day, but it surely seems to be like the fun that i should had have during the 4 weeks of school compacted into just one day... okay... I should say, I am satisfied and revitalised for more things to come... =)

what i learn and what i hate...

2008-05-29T05:44:00.000-07:00

it's been exactly the 7th day of work for me... yeah baby....7th day... sounds very short but yet feels very long alrd...
honestly, this whole working thing is not as good as it seems... haha... but actually i learn something too. Let's start from the negative... what i hate from work so far...

1. the ultimate stress causing is the phone calls... unfortunately, one of my duty at work is as an operator... so most of the times call will go thru' me or if nobody answers the call it will get directed to me...
at first, i really dreaded having to answer phone calls because i may not know how to tackle the queries since i was still new and didnt know much about how everything goes... but now that i get a bit more familiar with things... what bother me most is actually the phone ring... sometimes at the "peak" hour... the phone just cant seem to stop ringing.... i think people shld really ban phones sometimes... too much of it just gets you frustrated and irritated coz u just cant seem to get on with things that you are doing just because the phone ring keeps on pressing you to answer to it.

2. my day feels so short... somehow... when you go to school, however busy u are, you still feel that the day s longer... maybe it's be coz u have to listen to those boring lectures... haha... at least during lecture you still got to sit next to your friend and talkcock when "necessary"
but when you work... it seems that 24 hours is just never enough...
lemme do the math for you:
wake up and get ready at 6 am
leave hostel at 6.45 am
reach office at 8 am
finish work and reach back hostel at 6 pm plus...
total time = 12 hours...

so, literally i'm left with 12 hours.... from the 12 hours, minus 6 or 7 hours for me to sleep..
that leaves me with 5 or 6 hours... that may sound like a lot.... but really, it's never enough....

3. the people... honestly i think my supervisors-or wadever you called it- are nice people and they very patiently teach me every small thing.... but stilllll.... i dun feel as carefree as i can be anymore... haha... you will still think of them as your superior and cant afford to slacken...
the most awkward thing is that when we eat lunch together, nobody really chitchat.. ah.. boring people!!!

okay, may be all you hear so far from me has been all bad things about work...
yeah... but who doesnt complain abt work... after awhile, it gets mundane and too familiar and all you look forward to is THE WEEKEND!!!....

okay lah.. i do learn some stuff from work... i mean, when you do it everyday, you naturally pick up those skills...
like i said before, i was quite afraid of answering the phone before... but now, i learn how to tackle people's queries and questions and make sure that my point gets across.. altho it seems trivial but i feel that it is quite different from talking to people face to face where you can see the person's expression and body language...
hahah seems like i've been a bit too crappy here...

yeah... and tmrw is weekend already.... i mean friday... friday is a weekend too rite???
buttt result is out tmrw!!! huhuhu... getting a bit nervous....

hope i wont fall asleep again @ work tmrw... haha
nowadays i've been a good girl who never stay up at night until too late.... hehehe

ciaoooo wish me luck!!!

CN2125 revisited...

2008-05-27T07:21:00.000-07:00

okay, the title of this post maybe a bit confusing for some, intimidating for some..
for those who doesnt know, CN2125 is a module that I took last semeseter... and it includes a heat exchanger design project...
yesterday we had our group dinner cum farewell to christiane, a german exchange girl in our group.

We had our dinner at Annalakshmi. Yes, from the name you can guess that it is an indian restaurant. apparently it is one of the famous Indian restaurant in Singapore. The concept of the restaurant is "Eat as much as you want, and pay as much as you think you shld"... not in exact phrasing but yeah... you get wad i mean... it is a restaurant for charity basically...

this is my first time eating in a vegetarian restaurant and first time eating in Indian restaurant. I am not a very adventurous person in terms of food, especially Indian food becoz i'm not too used to their rich spices and colourful cuisines...
butttt... this virgin experience at Annalakshmi retaurant was quite interesting coz I managed to try different kinds of Indian Bread... cahpati, nan, and i dunno wad else... haha can't really rmb.. but there is one that i really like... i oso dunno the name, but we nicknamed it "Spaceship".
Basically it's just like a dough which rise to give a ball shape... the slight milky taste was really tasty and I like it plain...

other than the breads, we also ordered different kind of curries.. red, orange, green... so rich in color... supposedly they are different but to me they taste just the same... only different filling....

oh ya, we also ordered the yoghurt.... I had the mango flavor one... but i like the Annalakshmi lassi (the name for the yoghurt drink) which had a bit of honey and orange taste and some other things... it was really nice..
one of us decided to be more adventurous and ordered a drink called Jeer Moor or something like that... it was really an "Acquired taste"... a "unique" taste to all of us... haha..
but in the end we managed to gulp it down... (each one take a sip...=))

my personal favourite of the day was a dish called Bhagi which is just vegetable fritter... haha...

Before i tried Annalakshmi, i never thought that I can appreciate Indian food, left alone vegetarian Indian food. but Annalakshmi is a really not bad place to try...

Tresure hunter...

2008-05-24T09:35:00.000-07:00

this is the first weekend after i started working...
honestly i'm kinda nervous to face wad's going to happen on monday... coz the person whom i'm going to take over will not be there anymore... so i'll be on my own from monday onwards. Just hope that things will go on smoothly.
i'm just very scared of screwing up... jiayou!!!

ok, it's weekend now, and let's forget abt working for a while...

in this post, i just wanna share abt a taiwanese show that i am watching... actually have been watching for quite sometime.... called "Treasure hunter"... yes, cheesy as it sounds... it is really a game show... i have been a fan of taiwanese game shows because of the creative games.... actually many of the orientation games played in school are usually a copycat of wad i saw on the shows....

there are these few episodes of the show that i really liked and just watched today....
will just post some of the links here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G5olIgaevk&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vtc_iFroVFM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-C9UNUyJDA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMfIVJvWqyE&feature=related

Why I like these episodes?? becozzz...They were set in Bali!!! yay!! have been wanting to revisit Bali. The first time i went to Bali when i was in primary school... and obviously at that time still dunno anything abt playing in the sea on that sort of things.... through this show, i can see wad's in store for visitors in Bali... of course the beautiful beach and the exciting water sports, water boom (water theme park.... i just knew that have one there!!), submarine, the luxurious hotel and last but not least bungee jumping... For that last one, i dun mean that i want to try.... put in one of the episode, there was quite a touching part lol.... just watch if you want to know...

hm... i will continue watching now...

ciaooo

glorious glorious day....

2008-05-19T22:37:00.000-07:00

oh man!!!
i cant describe how happy i was a few minutes ago...
i just received a call from a company that is offering me a temporary job... hahah
it may not sound exceptionally glorious... but for me it is...
i've been looking for jobs for the past 1 week or so...
and everyone else has already got a job.. internship or part time...
so i've been feeling kinda lonely in pgp, especially in the afternoon...
worse still... i feel super useless for doing nothing and just spending off my parents' money.. haha dun like to be parasite... so old alrd still a parasite... haiyo...

that's why i feel extremely excited when the person called me just now...
thanks to josh who recommended me the job... i met him unexpectedly in pgp canteen and just casually asked him for any lobang in his company... and he was nice enough to still remember it and refer me to one...

this company is like the only company that contacted me out of so many that i applied to...
but yeah it's okay.... the pay is also not bad!! so i shall give it my best try...

btw, did i say that my first day of work is tmrw!! early morning again!!! hahah

ok...shall blog more abt my first day tmrw... hahah

ciao...wish me luck!!!

Tioman Part 2

2008-05-17T02:43:00.000-07:00

As promise... here we are... continuation to my Tioman story...

so.. the 2nd day at tioman was really exciting...
we went SNORKLING!!! yeah, it was my first time trying and it was really fun.
Altough it is possible to snorkle without knowing how to swim, it is still kinda scary at first.... i have to cling on to ppl in order to feel a sense of security... though i had my lifevest on... feels quite bad to trouble the rest...=P

actually we had a more extended plan for the day with trekking, snorkling n fish feeding, but due to unfavourable weather, we had to give treking a miss...

so we had our lifevests, goggles and of course SUNBLOCK!... and ready to go.
we took a small motorboat, just the 6 of us and the "captain"....head off to our 1st stop which is the fish feeding area....It was a very bumpy ride to our first stop... yeah, u read correctly. It's bumpy coz of the waves...haha

Honestly, i kinda freaked out in the beginning when the person asked us to just get into the water without really having a proper demonstration and all that.. but he did briefed us on wad to do... but for someone like me who dunno how to swim n have no confidence in water, i felt quite insecure...
but in the end, i got into the water... swim with the fish and drink a bit of seawater in the process... some ppl even got bitten by the hungry fish...a good warm up before the actual snorkling...

then, we moved on to coral island. during the ride to coral island, we could alrd notice the change in weather, the wind got slightly stronger... but we still went on with the plan...
this is when the excitement really came.. haha
before we got into the water, the captain warned us about a whole lots of things... like dun get too far, dun go to the rock and cant rmb wad else...

then.... the wave started to get stronger, and before i really had time to calm myself down and enjoy the scene below... we all felt that we get further and further away from our boat... of course our first reaction was to push forward against the current to get back....
the current drifted us quite a far distance and our effort was totally useless... so we called for help from the captain to pick us up...
it took us a while before he came and responded to us... fiuhhhh

When we got back on the boat, the captain told us to not panic in that kind of situation, just follow the current and he will pick us up... hahaha... but wad to do... all first timers...
if i were to recall the situation at that time, it was really kinda scary but at the same time funny...haha

then we move to another spot and give it another try... and yes, this time round, we were much calmer and got to enjoy the beautiful corals and colorful fishes... it was such a waste that none of us got any disposable underwater camera...
here are some of the pictures taken while we were floating around...

before the dive, still dry ...

refreshing! happy!

it was good!! yeah!!

After having enough of snorkling, we got back to the shore and play...
the rest of the day can be summarised as "Camwhoring"...
we took dunno how many stupid, act cool, silly and some embarassing pictures... but yeah... when else will you have the excuse to camwhore so much... hahah

"just got back from snorkling"

Apply sunblock oso must take picts.. oooppss Narcism in progress

I like this picture... the true meaning of happiness!

Haiyah.. how come cannot jump higher leh...

Evidence that "Guys love to camwhore too!!"

Those are some of the highlights of the day....

Day 3 in Tioman was very short... most of the time was spent on the ferry and bus... very tiring but fun indeed. and guess wad, on our minibus, we met another 6 NUS ppl oso... haha... Actually the bus is just for 12 ppl. yah, so the whole bus is full of NUS ppl except for the driver.. hahah...

yup, overall this trip is very very fun... i got to try many things that i havent got the chance to do before... maybe it's becoz i went with friends then have more courage to try on these things... maybe if i go with parents they may not allow me to snorkle knowing that i dont know how to swim....

so where's the next stop???

haha

Tioman Island...

2008-05-12T09:39:00.000-07:00

yep, i need to brag a bit in this post...
I went to Tioman from 9-11 May 2008...

at first when david n dipta was asking me to go for the trip, i wasnt particularly very excited to go coz i really dont know what to expect and dunno what is interesting there... then, they referred me to a website... http://www.discoverytours.com.sg/ and i begin to learn wad is interesting there...

yeah, i realised that most of the activities there are water related, which brings me another dilemma coz i dunno how to swim... but after many ppl assured me that u dun need to know how to swim to snorkle, then i agreed to go...

the journey starts on 9 May 2008 really early in the morning... took bus from Golden Mile complex to Tanjung Gemok....

the busride was kinda bumpy and the driver was kinda haphazard, i bumped my head to the window a few times as i was sleeping along the way... but luckily we arrived at Tanjung Gemok safely and was just on time for the ferry ride...

Talking abt ferry...it was super colddd!! we spend most of our time playing stupid games and of course not to forget our camwhoring session... the pictures taken on the deck of the ferry was nice... "i love outdoor lighting"... but my hair covers my face in most of the picts... sigh... it's okay, that way it looks much more natural...

when we arrived at the hotel...we were pretty amazed by it.. we were expecting something less grand than wad we saw... yup, the hotel was great...

after checking in and all that, we decided to be more adventurous and make the most out of our money... we went to a nearby beach to play and take picts....
but, out of our expectation, the sky turned rather dark... but we still brave ourselves to make our way to the beach..
lemme explain in a bit more details...
we walked past a group of monkiess hiding under the leaves, apparently trying to hide
then we tresspassed a golf course to get to the beach...
we managed to take 2 or 3 pictures before suddenly the sky really turns very very dark and we saw thunderstorm coming, wind blowing so hard that angita almost got flown away... omg! it was really scary at that moment that we "esp the girls" just ran all the way back to the main road... really din noe how we managed to ran so fast for such a long distance...must be the adrenalin rush....
luckily we managed to get back to to our hotel before the rain got really heavy...
fiuh... that was very scary... but maybe something to brag about hehe...
here are some of the pictures that we managed to take before all the saga begins

the rest of the first day was spent playing more n more games and eating BBQ buffet...

will continue on with the story of the 2nd day at tioman on the next post... this post too long alrd...
and i wanna sleep alrd... need to start looking for part time job tmrw...
hopefully i will get something worthwhile doing yeah...

PInK and bLacK..

2008-05-12T08:59:00.000-07:00

yeah now that holiday is here, we have more things to blog, dont we? hahaha

okay, let's start from PINUS 08/09 exco first event...
PINK and BLACK seniors' BBQ...

Me, dipta n Milo was the so called "organisers"...kena sabo coz we ended exam earlier...haha...but it was a fun experience working with them...

oltho the event was good as a whole...but i think a lot of the ppl must be complaining abt the venue.... so so so sorry for our shortsightedness...
we forgot to consider that weekdays dun have public bus that will take ppl into the park.. in the end, must walk damn far in....and damn far out...

wad makes the event interesting is actually the theme itself...tho' it's just a random idea that came to our mind...PINK and Black... --> think the dress code...

Honestly speaking, in dun get to really enjoy the event itself coz was too occupied with planning and ensuring that the whole event goes smoothly... but yeah, it was all worth it...
and at the end of the day, some of us got drenched due to the sudden pouring...blerrghhh

here are some of the picts taken that nite...

Greatest achievement of the day...

2008-05-06T11:38:00.001-07:00

Now that exam is over... yay!!!
i have all the time in the world to catch up on everything that i've missed out during the mugging period...

Nice food... check
Nice Movie...check (Ironman is super uber cool!!!)
shopping... not really in the mood... which is a good way to save money...

but the greatest achievement for today is that i managed to put on contact lense already....though it still took very long... At last I managed to overcome fear of touching my own eyeball.. not totally yet though, still fighting so hard not to blink when i'm not supposed to...

FYI, abt 3 years ago, before VJ prom nite, I wanted to put on the contact lense oso but with no avail... i spent 1 hour in front of the attitude problem lady who just dun have the patience to teach me how to wear it... at the end of the day, all i get is just a red eye and bad mood..

but this time round is different, the uncle who sold the contact lense was really patient and encouraging...Though i spend the same amount of time at the shop (1 hour), but at the end of that 1 hour i managed to put in the contact lense to my left eye... i dunno why my right eye is super duper stubborn.... super hard to get in and once it got in, super duper hard to take out...

Must oso thank yeanching who were accompanying my to test the contact lense though she was waiting for her bus back to klang... i think without her encouragement i will be too scared to do it... haha

Now i realised, determination is all it takes to make the "impossible" possible

Then tonite, was out celebrating Daniel's and sze chao's early birthday...
It was very nice of them to treat us dinner and drinks at Pump room@clarke quay.... nice place with great live band...

okie...time to sleep so i can settle wadever i need to settle tmrw...

Yay! looking forward to tioman trip this friday....

=)

Girls' coffee

2008-04-22T09:49:00.000-07:00

just heard this nice song from the radio...
yes, it's a chinese song and i love to listen to chinese songs while studying...

basically i keep hearing this song playing on the background when the Dj was talking and find this song very meaningful...
The title is 女人们的咖啡 Nv Ren Men De Ka Fei - which means Girls' coffee
I said that it's meaningful because it talks about girls' friendship...
i dun really understand the entire lyrics but roughly it talks about how only girl can understand girl best...
especially besties... whom you can pour out to and confide in...

the chorus goes like this...
男人总不懂女人眼泪真实的意义
女人猜不透男人忽然沉默的背景
有时候爱情
不如和你喝咖啡有趣
-for the benefit of those who cant read chinese- i shall translate a bit
it roughly means:
guys dun really understand the true meaning of girls' tears
girls cant really figure out what is behind a guy's quietness
sometimes love life
is not as interesting as having coffee with you...

it's really the literal translation...*i used dictionary to check up the meaning of some of the words too...=P* as tho i got so much time to waste...

here's the complete lyrics
一壶成套式两人分的咖啡呀
一屋子芬芳气息
两个女人见到话题永远不停

Oh关于男人关于女人和自己
整个世界都要整理
有时候只有跟你说才有头绪

男人总不懂女人眼泪真实的意义
女人猜不透男人忽然沉默的背景
有时候爱情
不如和你喝咖啡有趣

过去的事情想早点忘记却爱回忆
下一段恋曲却又怕再伤心
我们总聊聊互相的安慰
彼此打气

信用卡可以买到一季的流行
却买不到真实自己
只有听你说的分析深入我心

就算是小小的竞争或是在斗气
这一切都不是问题
用一杯咖啡的时间都能搞定

男人总不懂女人眼泪真实的意义
女人猜不透男人忽然沉默的背景
有时候爱情
不如和你喝咖啡有趣

过去的事情想早点忘记却爱回忆
下一段恋曲却又怕再伤心
我们总聊聊互相的安慰
彼此打气

下次见面拿杯咖啡
时间地点先定
下次见面那些事情
没话说我听你

男人总不懂女人眼泪真实的意义
女人猜不透男人忽然沉默的背景
有时候爱情
不如和你喝咖啡有趣

男人总不懂女人眼泪真实的意义
女人猜不透男人忽然沉默的背景
有时候爱情
不如和你喝咖啡有趣

过去的事情想早点忘记却爱回忆
下一段恋曲却又怕再伤心
我们总聊聊互相的安慰
彼此打气

My feel good song

2008-04-17T09:14:00.000-07:00

If you are feeling down or stressed out...here's some LOLLIPOP for you!!!
the first time i hear this song, it immediately brighten me up...
This song has been in my phone MP3 for quite sometime, never fail to "wake" me up whenever i'm falling asleep in the library..haha

And I hate how much I love you...

2008-04-07T09:28:00.000-07:00

Found this video on you tube... think that's it's really nice...nice sexy voice..ha!

I think i'm really into accoustics recently... enjoy!

Oh gosh!

2008-04-01T10:35:00.000-07:00

Just look how long i havent been posting at all..
see my tag board...havent been responding to ppl at all... sorrie2 sorrie... really very busy and no mood to update...
even just now when i wanted to sign in, i almost forgot my password n username...that's bad!...

exam is around the corner.... 3 weeks time...oh no!!!
and i'm still blogging like i have so many time to waste...
the reality is that i dun even noe where to start...
projects are still pilling up high.... i'm not going to complain anymore.. coz everyday complain a lot alrd...

but seriously, is NUS pushing the students too hard?

sigh... i need to have a breather, but i cant..
okie lah..shld go back to study...or maybe sleep hahaha...
my next post will be in a very long time... coz there's nothing more to my life than studying n project-ing now....seriously! maybe after exam then i'll try to have a more "interesting life"

ciaoooo

Asian music fever...

2007-11-25T04:53:00.000-08:00

Endless story by Yuna Ito
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWASU4gf0iM

Endless story by Kim Jung Hoon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nitNtGvpNXY

(compare the 2 versions of the Nana Theme song)

Parrot by Kim Jung Hoon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLvmuQujrfk

Gary Chao ge (a Malaysian who makes it big in Taiwan)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrXxux32nfc

Enjoy!

First day of exam!!

2007-11-23T17:48:00.000-08:00

Jiayou!!! wont let myself down...
i'll try my very best and see how later!!! huahhahahha...

impulse impulse...

2007-11-09T08:21:00.000-08:00

today...
6 pm plus, me n yc sitting at biz cateen "enjoying" our dinner before planning to go back to biz lib to mug...
then we were talking and complaining how our life sucks with all this sucky mugging schedule....
then suddenly yc said,
"I want something that makes me happy!"
then out of nowhere...i just blurted out
"i noe wad can make u happy, ...shopping!!!"

then there we go...instead of spending our nite in the library, we decided to go vivo..the closest hang out place to NUS....
we spent so long browsing and trying clothes at the stretch of shop, from zara, pull and bear, esprit, forever 21 and dozens more...hahha
end up, yc got something that she's been looking for....a black cardigans...from pull and bear...
so sad i cant get anything that i want...
actually i did see something that i really really like.... a half jacket (is that wad u call it? the short version of jacket...) green colour...the army kinda green. I think it's very stylo... it;s the kind that i've been looking for for so long... but as a matter of fact i dun really need it lah...
and summore it's 50 bucks... slightly over my budget today though i think it's very worth it for such a nice jacket...
feels really tempted to just buy it on the spot.... but luckily yc still brought me to my senses, not to splurge on something that is not so urgent...hahha
but i still made a vow to come back to the shop (samuel n kelvin) after my exam ends....if the jacket is still there (and may be there will be discounts...hahah...*hopeful hopeful)... then i will just splurge my money on that jacket.... haha...more motivation to get all these exams over soon...

then a few moment later, as we were walking through the shops, we bumped into tiang lim there...he was meeting eddy for movies... but too bad for them the movie tix just sold out....
then we ended up going to marche to hang out and eat... talking crap....

yup, overall today went quite well, kinda relax a bit but there's this slight guilt of not studying... but oh well, i cant keep studying non stop like dogs... i need a break as well. I promise tmrw will be a much more promising day...hopefully so....

yay!!! all the best for exams everyone...it's just short term!

Uban uban...

2007-11-07T05:05:00.000-08:00

Panic mode:

I just spotted one strand of grey hair on my head...
have i been studying too much?? actually not really leh....

i've just been sitting in library and study room more often. But if you really follow wad i'm doing from the beginning of the day to late at nite, u can't agree more that i'm really not that hardworking. i usually just make myself feels good and not so guilty by sitting down in front of my notes and textbook. In actual fact, i can't move on from those few pages (which means that my progress is super duper slow.... not good since exam is coming really really soon...)

As i'm writing this blog now, i'm in fact guilty of this "crime". i'm supposed to be reading through my organic chem notes while waiting for my laundry in the dryer. But wad can i do...the temptation of facebook, youtube, blogspot and many many more is too strong to resist.

but those things aside, and coming back to the issue of grey hair....
How?? i don't wanna be like this in the future

Haha... just kidding, release a bit more stress now that exam is coming!! Jiayou everyone who has exam as well....

ps: organic chem reactions make me go crazy....arghhh

Alice Tjitradjaja....

2007-10-23T08:01:00.000-07:00

hello my friend nan jauh di sana....di aussie tepatnya...

this blog is just for u... coz it's your birthday!!! yay! u are officially 21..ahhaha...legally adult man!!

since i cant be there celebrating your big day with you, i shld dedicate this blog for you...if i'm not wrong, this is the second blog for you....

haiz...why are you so far away now.... one less friend to whine and complain to...one less friend to entertain and accompany me...

but it's okay, coz i noe i'm gonna see ya again very very soon...i'll make sure i'll mug hard for this exam so that after that when you come we can have fun together... (aduh kok ujung2nya ttg exam)... we shld start planning what you want to do in sg..shopping ampe puas ya!!!hahaha

okie, let's not digress...

alice, hope you are doing fine at aussie, hope u are doing wad you really like.... i hope you are enjoying your life there... jangan setress2.... but of course never forget the rest of us here...hahha

study hard n play hard... keep your creative juice flowing....

altho' i hate to do this, but this is alrd like our birthday tradition, reminding each other of the boyfriend deadline...21 alrd...hahaha... blame it on those who started this deadline thing...who arh who arh?? own up pls...hahha i rmb i was never involve in this. The last thing i noe was that i was already incuded in the "pact" wakakaka

but it's okay, it's just one of those stupid things that we came up with during JC time...lol

haha...i think this post sounds more like personal msg to you ... but i will still publish it!

happy birthday my friend!!!

last but not least....

a struddle for you!!

(ignore the no of candles.... lol...)

Lonelier than ever.. pep talking myself

2007-10-10T09:13:00.000-07:00

it's been hell of a week.
things keep coming n flying in towards me.
I kinda feel that i dun have any sense of direction anymore. I'm just doing things just for the sake of doing. I cant even see the meaning of uni life at all. It's just a series of comes and gos...
even friends...i dun even have a fixed group of friends that i usually cling on to...my source of support. i noe this statement is not totally true...but that's the general feeling that i have now...

i find it hard even to discipline myself. i keep running n hiding away from the responsibilities that i'm supposed to face. i just dun have the strength anymore...

i've set target for myself for this sem, to catch up with whatever i've not done well last sem. i know i'm comparing myself too much with others. i noe i shldnt, but it's not a conscious effort, it's just natural to do so. even if you dun want to, u'll be "forced" to. It's really demoralising to see everyone is doing quite well and you are struggling alone... okay, "alone" is not the right word. but yeah, i feel really alone in this. Even if others say they can't make it...can you really trust them? even if you can, can you really define a standard for "cant make it".

i kinda feel that my passion is not really here.. but whatever it is, i wont give up. coz i've found a source of inspiration and motivation...
yesterday i accidentally stumble upon this videos of Justin Timberlake doing his grand performance at Madison Square Garden.
i mean, it's not really about that concert alone...
i'm just in awe of his hardwork n every effort that he put in in all of his performances. To us, singging and dancing on stage may look like a great deal of fun, especially if you are doing it for a living. but i trust that it's not so if you really have to do it everyday, as yor profession. Just like me, doing engineering as my major, which part of it is fun to me? honestly none!...

but after i watched his concert yesterday... i just got very inspired by how he spiced up all his shows. he may be doing the same dance moves over and over again on different stages... but as i follow most of his performances, i always find something unexpected each and every time...
then it gets me thinking to myself... why can't i do the same. The key is: Be professional! Get the best of whatever i'm doing, whether i like it or not... i may not be very good always (especially in comparison to others), but so what...? as long as i've done my very best...i should be satisfied. If it's not good enough, try harder next time... this world is a mean place, but sometimes you are still given more chances to move up the ladder... there's room for everyone..

yeah, feeling really optimistic now...
okies, moral boosted and time to get back to studying...

photojournalisting my life

2007-09-26T18:05:00.000-07:00

Oh my!!! see how long have i abandoned this blog...

oh well, u'll understand why....

This sem has been as hectic as hell... somehow time just passed so fast and looking back, i see that i've done so many things this sem that i cant seem to have a proper weekend for myself... the first proper weekend was spent eating swedish meatball at ikea with ismy and shopping at flesh imp with linda...hahha not bad!

okie, i shall cut the crap and below i have some pictures of the past events that has occured this semester, those things that kept me busy and crazy...hahha... they may not be in chronological order...i just cant rmb which comes first...

oh well, i'll start from the most recent one....lol

HOA 2007 - Day 1: Soccer match...

" I was the scoremaster....it's a tedious task for sure"

" Still got time to pose with Pat n Anggi while avoiding balls that can come flying anytime"

"Event aftermath...some of the PINUS exco present"

HOA 2: Badminton n Table Tennis"Me playing with sutris ... "

"Me in action...the blurry figure is meeee!! hahah"

Engin Bash 2007

"The girls of the OG"

"Me n Sebas, the OGL"

"The whole grp...some sober, many not"

Angklung 1st performance -International Exchange Day

"i'm just talking, not singing!"

"The grp picture after performing"

Red Cross Common Orientation Camp

"Food Food n more food - we were supposed to wrap the hampers, but a lot end up in our stomach!! lol"

"Setting up the campfire...my first time doing it!"

"Campfire's burning!"

Engin O'week 2007 - Happy Tree

"Everybody dressed so nicely, except the OGLs...haha"

"Freddy, me, n Yetfeng, making fun of ppl during Secret Pal session...heheh...evil grin"

"Stacked up on top of each other just to take pics...stupid things we did"

KBRI Bazaar

"Our gado-gado sells very well, muahahha..."

Fun way of doing charity...

2007-08-18T07:36:00.000-07:00

have u ever stand for hours along Orchard road just to sell flag?
have u ever beg your friends to buy your $2 tickets for charity and end up buying one yourself?

i bet almost all students in Singapore will have this "difficult" experience before...

but hey, in NUS there's this very fun way of doing your part for charity... just for clarification, i'm not doing any promotion for the organising committe coz i have no link wadsoever to them...
but who will believe that by folding lots and lots of paper crane you can help the poor...
for 1 crane folded, they will donate one bowl of rice...
unique huh!

and it's super fun too... wad makes it fun is that usually ppl will take the origami papers before their lects start and of course fill their boring lect time with folding paper crane...hahah
not recommending it to anyone.... i'm just sharing wad i observed and wad i did oso...hahaha

Happy tree Friends

2007-08-13T03:00:00.000-07:00

hey hey...
Today is the first day of sch and i'm quite excited to come back (surprisingly)... dunno why, maybe holiday was too meaningless.
And guess wad... the famous arts canteen "the deck" is now open again...yeah!! which means gud food... hahah not that engin food is sucky but defenitely the deck gives us more choices.

I had 2 lectures today and after engin o week i feel that i get to know more ppl (which is a gud thing). Okay lah, must admit that i'm not that outgoing but at least i saw a lot of familiar faces roaming around engin...hahaha... some of them i dunno their names. but not bad lah, at least i gain something from the camp

okie, as i promised in my previous post, i will blog abt this year o' week. It has been a very enriching experience and i defenitely never regret joining. Somehow it makes me think back to last year when i was a freshman and joined engin o week oso... miss those time so much!
My grp this year is called Happy Tree, u know "Happy Tree Friends", the cute but sadistic creatures...hahha.. and that was indeed an "appropriate" name for our grp...haha... (Our maskot was half, if not 3/4, destroyed by the end of o'week --> on purpose lah)

One thing is so special abt this grp is that the ratio of guys and girls is around 9:11, if not quite balance for some days. If u think that is normal, think again!!! this is engin u noe. how can u have a grp with more girls than guys...haha...

quite sad that we have to end the orientation and start school come to think of it, after all the sleepless nite (playing all sorts of stupid games)... and many many more...

too bad i dun have the photos rite now. hope to get it soon so that i can post it here...

peeping out again..

2007-08-02T19:40:00.000-07:00

After so much pestering from some ppl, in the end i decide to update this abandoned blog again...

Holiday is almost over... not very meaningful since most of the time i just rot at home. But of course there are some highlights like Bandung trip with my family, ocassional shopping with dwee and my photoshop course.... Actually my 21st birthday also fell in between the holiday..hahha legally adult, just like wad alice wrote in her card.

I'm too lazy to elaborate coz really the rest of the holiday is so unmeaningful that i cant really remember.

The past 2 weeks was filled with a lot of shopping trips to Orchard and the like since my mom came to s'pore for 1 week and dwee came for 2 weeks and she's still here....hahah

2 nites ago...we played monopoly in yeanching's room and she managed to beat the rest although all of us team up alrd to help each other survive... but she poved herself worthy of the free monopoly set...hahha

then after that we helped wenny to do her SP stuff to buaya a senior guy in KR... it was fun doing all those stuff but the guy better accept her because we alrd put so much effort... until 4 am u noe...hahhaha....

The "backstage crew"

Holding our work of art. Note the name below

Holiday is official ending very very soon with o'week starting this afternoon. Today is 1st day and we have to sleep over alrd coz there'll be a fright nite tonite... I hate fright nite...i dun wanna go fright nite.. watch horror movies also dun dare, how do u expect me to survive a fright nite... Oh well, but that's just part of the things that i have to go thru' during this 1 week or so.

Actually i got nothing much to write now... maybe later after o'week i have more exciting experience to share. cya!!

I have to blog about this...

2007-05-05T09:42:00.000-07:00

muahahaha...jealous arent u??

Lindan was shopping for badminton clothes outside the badminton hall. I think i was among the first few ppl who realised that he was there

yep...that's wad we (me n lita) got after discussing for so long whether to take pic with him or not!!! (though he can't even make it to the semifinal...)

oh ya, he really bought lotsa clothes...like free lidat!

But honestly, i think we was quite poor thing. he cant even shop peaceful. Almost every minute got ppl approach him to take pic with him....who ask him to be so famous...

yay! i love aviva...can see a lot of hot athletes...heheheh...

bonsak oso not bad....

Am i desparate or wad?

H for hectic and H for happy....=)

2007-05-04T07:48:00.000-07:00

It feels so long ago since the last time i touched my books..haha
that's the feeling after exam... all u noe is play and have fun...
it's not really as easy as it sounds, nevertheless it's still fun!

2 days ago... my day was packed with "action"... In the afternoon I went to Aviva Singapore open with the guys from NUS... free tix..wah so shiok..!
Then went to vivo for dinner with the rest before we proceed to the long awaited spidey3....As always, I like the movie and it was a good way to end the day!!haha

Yep, that was still the happy n relaxing part...coz the next day we had PINUS bbq...
since I' m in the exco, i have to prepare for the food and everything.., helping laura coz she was the "boss"... honestly, there were a lot of things to prepare... from the food to all other miscellaneous stuff including my field, the money...haha
one more problem is that it was raining before that. so we were very worried that ppl wont turn up after so much preparation being done....i dunno how many times the fried the bee hoon in that small pan to feed 40 ppl... i think the became a pro in "bee hoon goreng" aledy...hahaz

luckily, it all went quite well..maybe not that wonderful. at least it's a place where ppl can just relax n have fun, and play games like "big fish small fish", "polar bear" (again!) and some other stupid games...haha... i myself kena forfeit haizzz....so embarrasing! but it was fun lah...

It was tiring at the end of the day but it was satisfying! erhm...maybe not after you realise that we are running at a loss..haha okay nvm, let's think abt that next time....

and today....got another bbq...but this time we dun need to prepare or anything...just come free n easy and all the food are prepared! we went to the ambassador's house.... they treated the excos of the Indonesian sub-comms from NUS, NTU, SMU and SIM....
the food was good...got sting ray, sotong, sate....nyum.... but i still prefer NUS bbq coz everybody noes everybody else (maybe not exactly everybody)...haha.... yar, but u noe it lah...
the atmosphere at the embassy was like "pretend to be friendly and make more connection"... which i didnt coz i'm just not that kind of person...haha

okie lah...enuf of the rambling... i think i shld go and pack my stuff....or shld i just watch youtube? hm...hard to resist!

America's next top model

2007-04-29T09:18:00.000-07:00

today i watched my first "America's next top model" show for the first time in this sem....

just realised how much i miss the show....

in today's episode, the challenge for the girls was to be an interviewer.... how to carry yourself confidently in front of other ppl that might be intimidating...That's really skill man!!!
who would really thought of such a challenge in a modelling competition... This is wad makes me think that being a model is more than just looks.... it's also about confidence and wad is inside u...

(haha...does this sound so cliche.... ya, wadever... but i really think so after i watch this show...)

Then the second challenge was for the girls to take two roles in one photograph... yeah, u didnt read wrongly. they were supposed to be 2 persons in one picture, of course with the help of photoshop or maybe other more sophisticated software that i may not even hear abt before...haha... and it's not any two roles... they were supposed to pose as "celebrity couples"...think Brad and Angie...haha

The most interesting ones are: Donald Trump and Melanie, and Britney and K-Fed...haha...

Donald trump one was ultimately funny (cant remember the name of the model)....but the make up was really crazy... turn a model into a millionaire..hahaz

okay, enuf of ANTM...gotta catch it again next week! must!!

btw, i cant wait for spidey anymore..haha

omg! so cool!!! watch out spidey....dun fall off the roof...

here's another one...haha

I finished my race!!

2007-04-27T07:51:00.000-07:00

I finished my race today... 4.30 pm...

ate Indomie goreng
ate carls Junior n the nice onion ring
bought jelly belly
bought sushi...(not for myself lah)

duh....this is just the beginning...
cant wait for spidey 3 and more shopping...

yipiiieeee

have fun first before you have to face the "consequences" grrrrrrr

the S word....

2007-04-23T10:11:00.000-07:00

Yes, u may have guessed correctly wad the S is for... S stands for stress... there's no other words that i can even think of now...
all i've been doing since last thursday is to mug n mug n mug...
honestly, i've been pushing myself beyond my normal standard.
usually, at least i'll have more breaks in between my studying time....
now, surprisingly, I was able to resist myself from other distractions and nicely sit down in R2 study room almost 12 hours a day, or even more sometimes... this is world record for me!!! haha...

okay, nothing to be proud about since i think most ppl here are doing that...sigh

but seriously, this exam period has driven me a bit crazy... but luckily i still can maintain a bit of sanity...(hopefully)

these are some of the quirky n bad things that has been happening from the days leading to exams till today (i still have 3 papers more to go by the way....huaaaaa!!!!!)

NUS is seriously lack of power point and benches... if u go to the library n any open areas n want to use your laptop, better come early to "chop" the plug...if not, u r doomed!!
Ppl are so deprived of studying area that they dun mind sitting down on the floor along the corridor.... i've seen some doing that in PGP...
U studied so hard for maths and thought that it was the most prepared module among other screwed-up modules n yet you flunked it. and the worse thing, the paper was considered doable if not easy to some.
after your maths paper on saturday, you had lunch with your friends and talked to them (this is still normal)... and thennnn, u found out that all the while you've been thinking that CN exam is on monday, CM exam is on thursday.... and it's all WRONG!!! CM shld be on monday, CN on thursday... yes, basically it means that u've prepared for the wrong papers... sigh.... to make things worse, there are 2 exams on monday... now, u are unprepared for 2 papers.... and you only have less than 2 days to "do your best"... hm, i wonder how that can happen...
Fire alarm in PGP rang twice at 4 o'clock or 5 o'clock or 4 o'clock (haiz, cant rmb....but basically around that time) in the morning before CM paper... and after that your sleep was interupted by constant fear of being overslept for CM paper at 9 am... which would mean a total waste of effort during the weekend if that really happens...(luckily not). Interestingly, in between that interupted sleep, you managed to actually get into a dream... nightmare more precisely : there's a fire opposite your house... (must be the fire alarm effect)
It's monday morning and you were still rushing through the last 2 chapters of your CM notes and your exam was in 1 hr time... you were just reading through without anything going into your mind. The "amazing" thing was: while you are studying CM throughout the weekend, you realised that nothing has got into your mind during lectures in term time... so, basically you were trying to learn everything from scratch... seriously, i dunno wad i've been doing before this, quite a few of my notes are like "untouched". This sem is such a waste of time...
the afternoon after CM paper which turns out to be a ULTRA disastrous (as expected), you still have another marketing paper to sit for... and you have 4 more chapters to go...and 4 more hours left.... so you wanna try to find some empty seats at the study room in sch and found that there's not even a single available seat to squeeze into... you had to resort to going to some benches along a dim corridor and strain your eye for some light to study... how pathetic..!!!
Surprisingly, you managed to finish reading through all the outstanding notes within that 4 hours and confidently went to the exam hall.... you did all the questions and finished the exam with happy feelings, not because you know you got all answers correct but because you know that nothing can be worse that CM paper in the morning....
But when you start talking n discussing with your friends, you found out that all the long essays that you've written are rubbish... long but non sense...haha that's the art of crapping!

"If there's a will, there's a way" -> that is one saying that i really need to adopt now!! haha

3 more papers to go...

3 papers in 2 days...how "wonderful"!

Breathe in the music...

2007-04-07T08:08:00.000-07:00

heya everyone...
yep, at last i can feel a bit relaxed after being the library for almost the whole day....
i noe it's nothing good to brag about but i feel a sense of achievement. it's not easy to force yourself to sit down in that place fully packed with muggers.... but i've made it today!! haha...
hm.... although i must say that i didnt actually did much except for my physical chem.
i tried to start on my matlab assignment but i got stucked somewhere n i just gave up...

erh... did i just bore some of u with my schoolworks..haha... maybe i shld stop blogging abt my mugging schedules, if not this blog will just turn into another daily planner of some sort...

yes, as u have notice, there's a new section on the right side of my blog. It's from www.imeem.com for those of u who don't noe abt it....
it's like one of my favourite sites nowadays....
thx to vidi n yeanching who introduce me to this site... now i can find all the songs that i want
They even have indo songs...haha how great is that....
wheeeeee..... (yeanching's style)-- but warn u, u need fast internet to listen to the songs as one piece...duh!... thx to NUS unlimited internet access i have such a luxury now..haha

wad makes me so happy abt this site is that i can compile my own playlists and find all the songs that i've been looking for for ages... one of it is "hear 'em say" by kanye west. I remember listening to that song when i was still in vhall. Me n vidi would tune in to the radio (power 98) and when we heard that song, we would be super happy...haha... actually wad makes the song nice is the vocals by adam lavene (that maroon 5 lead singer)... oh ya, and the piano accompaniment oso. it's light, cute n so special...haha

there are also other songs like "Lost without you" and "Don't you worry bout the thing". I've been playing those 2 songs over n over again....(luckily it's not a Cassette or CD, if not it will be fully damaged by now)....
The first song "Lost without you" is by Robin Thicke... I began to know Robin Thicke during sec sch... at that time, i didnt even noe that his full name is Robin Thicke, only knew him as Thicke...haha...
but recently when i tuned in to the radio.... i was immediately hooked on by this song when the intro was played... i dunno why but the guitar accompaniment i just irresistable (couldnt find a better word to describe it)
Then the second song "DOn't you worry bout the thing" by John Legend... I remember sitting at Shaw house McCafe, mugging there with bebeth and this song was played over n over again... just love the tune n everything.... but actually the person who introduces me to this song was alice... haha i remember her telling me that it was "Hitch" soundtrack...and i love it ever since...

u noe, after compiling a playlist of my favourite songs, i can somehow make a generalisation of wad kind of song i like....
it's really not just by genre or by singer (or maybe i dunno wad genre it is called anyway).... but i can say that i like songs that are not just sang by singers with great voice but wad is important to me is really the music and the accompaniment. the kind of music that can make u feel "jumpy" or the kind of music that really soothes my mind...haha
hm... sounds so chiiiimmm.... but yeah....

wad's wrong with the weather??

2007-04-01T01:31:00.000-07:00

hm, actually the title of this blog is a bit unimportant...(ga penting maksudnya...haha)
but it's true, the weather nowadays seems to fluctuate unpredictably.... i mean, one minute it is raining like storm, the next it has turn into bright sunny scorching day...

okay, the weather aside...
just came back from West coast park.... i havent been there for ages... the last time i went there (which was oso the first time) was when we took the junior batch (am pm) for an outing there...
it was like...ummmhhh, in 2003 or 2004....wah makes me feel so old only...haiz...
i remember climbing up all the structures there... oh i think i still have those photos somewhere in my drawer.... yes, those were the times when digi cam was still a luxury....

this time round, i went there with laura, maulana and ellys to survey the site for pinus bbq....
i kinda look forward to the bbq, not for the food but for the games n gathering. It must be exciting to play together after the exam stress and all...
west coast is a not-so-bad place to have a gathering n all that...coz they have huge field....i mean huge!!! then also got all the playgrounds for the MKKB ppl...haha maybe including myself....

but seriously, dun ever compare west coast to east coast.... east coast is definitely a much much better place to go... i mean, the atmosphere itself is so much different. East coast is more happening and most importantly. the BEACH!!... i learn to love beaches after staying at Vhall coz it's super near east coast. west coast on the other hand, i must say a bit pathetic lah....so near to the "containers" and ships....the view itself is just so so wrong...haha

but too bad, i bet if we organise the bbq at east coast nobody will bother to turn up...haha

super sianz...

2007-03-26T06:34:00.000-07:00

hm.... not much to blog abt today...
somehow i felt super tired for the whole day.... i thought i got enuf sleep...
maybe it's just this time of the year where everything starts to pile up n exams are coming man!!! how??
one good thing: maths lecture has ended....though it's kinda entertaining to go for maths lect everytime (the lecturer is a real joker...hahaz, where can u find maths lecture abt romeo and juliet and 300?...hmmm)
but one less day to wake up early to go for morning lect...yay!!! my beauty sleep...heeeee

ooo... tmrw's my mkt presentation!! wish me luck with iPod....haha...
hope i wont forget my script halfway n stun there...

mugging season is coming and it reminds me of this "mugging anthem" founded by alice n dwee (if i'm not wrong) when we were still in Vhall...

"as we mug to the right, as we mug to the left,
as we mug as we mug as we mug all nite,
with the notes and the textbook,
and the round panda eyes,
with the notes and the textbook,
and a new friend found"

haha...actually cant remember exactly the lyrics that they made up...so i made them up myself...(the part abt notes, textbook n pada eyes...haha)

okie... that's all folks....

*just got the correction for the lyrics of mugging anthem from the original founder...hehe
"as we mug to the right,
as we mug to the left,
as we mug as we mug as we mug all nite,
with the books and the notes,
and a half turn around,
with the books and the notes,
and a new mugger found"

I'm so 'Justified'

2007-03-24T09:13:00.000-07:00

Maybe from the title of this blog alone, u won't be able to guess wad it this blog all about...
okie lah... lets go straight to the point!!
i'm going to bore you with my JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE blabbers...
yes! I must admit that I am a big fan of Justin Timberlake... not for his looks but for his talent!!!
yes! and as u can see, my nick name is actually inspired by one of his song, senorita, and hence my nick cynorita...haha i noe it's a bit lame, but i like it the way it is...

I started listening to his music around sec 4 and his CD was one of the few original CDs that I bought (Yes, I do support my fave artists by buying the originals muahaha...)
His song senorita, just makes me wanna groove to it, makes my feet wanna tap to the beat... basically, it's one of the best songs that i've ever heard. Even until this point of time, I'm still madly in love with the song. I just think that it's super duper fun, creative and of course upbeat....

You guys shld watch this show by Justin during the 2004 grammy awards where he sang senorita... i think this is the best arrangement of the song that i've ever heard.... it's simply 'WOW!'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d-avqgYhMw
Don't u just love his showmanship....?

I learn to like almost all of his songs in his first solo album "justified". I've heard of the songs inside over n over again until i can remember which songs come next...

Then he came out with his new album FutureSex/LoveSounds... I was not very impressed at first... I thought his transformation was not really to my taste... His first hits "Sexy back" was just not so right for me....

but when i heard "What goes around", I immediately think, "the Justin i like is back!"
yes! indeed, i've been hooked by the song and I listen to it almost every day.... haha
I just love the content of the lyrics...
so I'll just put the music video here... just to warn u, it's abt 9 mins long coz it's like a short movie, starring Scarlet Johansson...erh, do i spell her name correctly??
okay, enuf said.... just see for yourself!...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0VSBWsQqf8

Hey Girl
Is he everything you wanted in a man?
You know I gave you the world
You had me in the palm of your hand
So why your love went away
I just can't seem to understand
Thought it was me and you, baby
Me and you until the end
But I guess I was wrong

Don't wanna think about it
Don't wanna talk about it
I'm just so sick about it
I can't believe it's ending this way
Just so confused about it
Feeling the blues about it
I just can't do without ya
Tell me is this fair

Is the way it's really going down?
Is this how we say goodbye?
Shoulda known better when you came around
That you were gonna make me cry
It's breaking my heart to watch you run around
Cause I know that you're living a lie
But that's ok baby, cause in time you will find

What goes around, goes around, goes around, comes all the way, back around
What goes around, goes around, goes around, comes all the way, back around
What goes around, goes around, goes around, comes all the way, back around
What goes around, goes around, goes around, comes all the way, back around
Yeah

Now Girl
I remember everything that you claimed
You said that you were moving on now (on now)
Maybe I should do the same
(Maybe I should do the same)
The funny thing about that is
I was ready to give you my name

Thought it was me and you baby (baby)
And now, it's all just a shame
That I guess I was wrong

Don't wanna think about it
Don't wanna talk about it
I'm just so sick about it
I can't believe it's ending this way
Just so confused about it
Feeling the blues about it
I just can't do without ya
Can you tell me is this fair?

Is the way it's really going down?
Is this how we say goodbye?
Shoulda known better when you came around
That you were gonna make me cry
Now it's breaking my heart to watch you run around
Cause I know that you're living a lie
But that's ok, baby, cause in time you will find

What goes around, goes around, goes around, comes all the way, back around
What goes around, goes around, goes around, comes all the way, back around
What goes around, goes around, goes around, comes all the way, back around
What goes around, goes around, goes around, comes all the way, back around
Yeah
What goes around comes around
Yeahhh
What goes around comes around
You should know that
What goes around comes around
Yeahhh
What goes around comes around
You should know that

Don't wanna think about it
Don't wanna talk about it
I'm just so sick about it
I can't believe it's ending this way
Just so confused about it
Feeling the blues about it
I just can't do without ya
Tell me is this fate

Is the way it's really going down?
Is this how we say goodbye?
Shoulda known better when you came around
That you were gonna make me cry
It's breaking my heart to watch you run around
Cause I know that you're living a lie
But that's ok, baby, cause in time you will find

What goes around, goes around, goes around, comes all the way, back around
(What goes around comes around, baby)
What goes around, goes around, goes around, comes all the way, back around
(What goes around comes around, baby)
What goes around, goes around, goes around, comes all the way, back around
What goes around, goes around, goes around, comes all the way, back around
Yeah

[...Comes Around (Interlude)]
Yup
Yup
Yup(let me paint this picture for ya, baby)
Yup
You spend your nights alone
And he never comes home
And everytime you call him, all you get's a busy tone
I heard you found out
That he's doing to you
What you did to me
Ain't that the way it goes
When you cheated, girl
My heart bleeded, girl
So it goes without saying that ya left me feeling hurt
Just a classic case scenario
Tale as old as time
Girl, you got what you deserved
And now you want somebody
To cure the lonely nights
You wish you had somebody
That could come and make it right
But girl, I ain't somebody
I'm out of sympathy
See..

ps: sorry if the post becomes terribly long because of the lyrics...
JT rocks!!

Weekend post!

2007-03-23T06:47:00.000-07:00

Nowadays, I only have time to update my post during weekends coz i'm superduper busy during weekdays.... especially this week when everything is going to be due soon....
Even tonite, I'm trying to steal a bit of time from my supposedly lab report time.
yes, weekend is kinda sucky nowadays with all the report coming....(as u can see from my previous posts as well)....butttttt.... good news is: this is going to be my last chem lab report for this semester.... fiuhhhh.....

4 labs a semester is bad enough. can't imagine the next next semesters when i have more than one labs and of course more lab reports to do.... I heard from the others, who heard it from seniors, the upcoming lab reports are going to be 80 pages long!! wad deeee..... hahaha (*sad laughter).... poor my printer ink, and poor ME!!... seriously, how r we supposed to write 80 pages long?.... isn't this somewhat similar to writing a textbook aledy...? wow! maybe that's life for a chem engin to be... not very promising...hehe

Apart from my "mundane" lab reports, this coming tuesday I'm going to have a presentation of my marketing project on iPod... I must say that Marketing is one of the modules that i really enjoy now....(partly because i begin to feel sick of Engin modules... haiz, no good). Marketing feels kind of refreshing to me... no need to memorise formulas, just need to use common sense and think critically...

My project on iPod is kind of cool i must say... Previously, i was not really attracted to iPod. Doesnt mean that I dun wanna have one, it's just that i feel that for me it's not a necessary thing. (although some of my friends have one) --> maybe it's called "resistant" to iPod's campaign...haha

but after i've done so much research on this topic and gone to it's website "thousands" of times this months.... i begin to show some interest in the product... even after analysing their advertisement campaigns and all that, and realise that they have quite a few weaknesses, i still think that iPod carries a certain "prestige"... compared to other brands of course. Maybe it's partly because i never really do any research on any other brands.

However, from wadever net-surfing that i've done, I realise that all other brands improve on their products just for the sake of winning the race against iPod, not really because they really wanna serve the consumers better.

Apart from that, it also helps that my project group mates are quite fun! maybe not all lah, but at least i can mix well with most of them. widen my social circle outside the world of engin....

Haha wish me luck for the presentation on Tuesday....hope it will go well....yay! iPod, i want one!!*hint*hint*.. ;p

another NUS arts fest event

2007-03-18T08:15:00.000-07:00

One of the thing that i come to learn since i come to s'pore is that i love watching arts and performances. Actually not just watching but also performing. (Budden since i came to NUS i have less chance of performance unlike when i was in Sec and JC). Of course, compared to when i was in indo, I have more chances of watching concerts and shows for a lot of reasons. (though sometimes i think that indo ppl have a lot more talents that can be showcased)

And of course, NUS, one of the "factories" that "produces" singaporeans, has a whole host of shows for us to watch. some free n some not free. It's called NUS arts festival.

As i've penned down in my blog, 2 weeks ago there was NUS choir performance (see how time flies...) and now it's the time for the acapella and choir groups from various hall to showcase their talents. The former being the "not-free" example and the latter being the "free" one as mentioned above.

I must be frank and say that the overall performance was not fantastic. The few performances that i liked were Sheares n KR choirs n acapellas. The rest were just so-so.... but of course the guest performers were also included in the "fantastic" list...

One of the guest performers were Regu A (the Indo band). I think we all (the indonesians who went were really proud of that group). I must complement them because i think for a grp to spring out not because of any cca reason, not because of hall obligation, is a rare thing. Summore, i dare to say that their standard are better than a lot of other performances tonite... haha from wad i observedjust now, got more ppl who became the fans of Adi and Andrew.. coz just now i overheard ppl's conversation saying that they want to get to know Adi n Andrew...haha quite funny!

enuf for the compliment...haha

took quite a lot of pics tonite...i think i'll just show some of my fave pics....(time to make use of my bulky camera...yet still takes nicer photographs =))... mostly, the ppl in the pics are about the same as the people who were in the choir pics 2 weeks ago (wad a music enthusiast!...haha)

Me n yc: wish i have taken the pic of her in the apron haha ice kachang was cute.... Btw, thx for taking the pics!!

The indo gals: just realised that all of us are in black n white...nice color combi!!

I really love this pic!!...everybody looks good there

One person to comment: Adela, who is actually an NTU student has faithfully come to some of NUS concerts...something to worth mentioning since she bothers to take time down from the "ulu" NTU to NUS...haha... (sorry NTU ppl....no offence, it's just that NTU is really far...lol)

Oh ya, something that irritates me a bit tonite is the ppl who are in charge at the performance theatre... I think i get too strict that they become quite irritating (okay, u may say that i shld put myself in their shoes, "they are just doing their duties...")

First was when anggi was helping me n yc to take pics in the theatre itself during the interval....then the person say "pls keep ur camera away"....but i thought it was an interval, wont affect any of the shows wad?? okay, fine, i kept my camera n follow wad she said.

Then i think this "usher" has super sharp eyes that keeps scanning around the room for the "unlawful" practices... then again, she managed to find 2 packets of drinks under our seats...and ask us to remove it...okay, fair enuf...we are not supposed to consume anything inside i noe...

Then wad irritates me the most was after the interval was over n when the performance was going on....this "usher" keeps reminding ppl around not to use their cameras even though they are not even using any flash....no disturbance to the performers i supposed.... and yet, this "usher" became the one who was the main disturbance to us since we were sitting at the side...urghhhhh.... pls lah, lemme enjoy the show!.

I just feel that when ppl get too strict n follow the rule excessively, it defeats the purpose of having a rule....rule is supposed to serve ppl well.... haiz.... but i guess i was once a person like that....just follow rule...(haha sounds like a recent fann wong n gourmit singh movie)

okie, lets not spoil my mood by pondering over unneccessary stuff like that....

Looking forward for more concerts to come...

But i seriously think that i wont have much time for that anymore...

But i see no point prisoning myself n studying (which i can't actualise anyway...).

Okay, maybe i shld rephrase....no point hiding under ur books all the time...I need a break too sometime.

Run away...

2007-03-16T06:01:00.000-07:00

This is Friday nite and i am sitting here in the reading room of pgp, planning to do my work.
But so far i have not done anything productive yet. trying to run away from reality...haiz...
hope i can make some progress by tonite so i wont have to stress myself out during weekdays...
and yes, uni life sucks... it's like a cycle repeating every week.

During weekends when i'll be rushing through my work, i'll be like cursing n promising not to let that happen again. But somehow when weekdays come, i seem to forget all the hardship that i had during weekends.... n somehow i manage to find excuses to run away from work...
haiz, i think i really lack the motivation to study...how??

btw, my brother is coming to singapore on monday!!! yippiiieee!!! which also means food food food from indo.......got a reason to go out to meet him...haha kinda excited to see him. I'm sure he's very excited too, coz it's his first time going abroad with his friends. But dunno whether how often i can meet him considering that i have so many others things going on.... but, i am sure i'll make time for him...haha

okie...
*time to run back to reality*

relieved

2007-03-13T20:02:00.000-07:00

I just wanna take this time to express my relief that I've just completed my Matlab assignment....fiuhhhhhh

Yes, I really dread Matlab assignment each week as I will spend hours or even days in front of may laptop, not knowing wad to do until the very last minute when i have to submit...

Even worse, last week, the Matlab assignment came together with Chemisrty lab report...
I was almost "killed" by them both. I spent the whole afternoon and nite doing the Chem lab report until 3 am in the morning....which leaves me with no time to complete my Matlab assignment. As a result, I have to steal time in between my lesson to complete my Matlab. and to my horror, I could not understand the thing that i was supposed to do... So, last minute, I depended on Yeanching's favour for those questions where I was totally lost...

But this week it's different! I finish it all by myself without asking anybody (but of course i refer to notes n textbook). I am so proud of myself.... dun care about the mark i will get for the assignment... I just feel the sense of achievement of completing something...haha

Matlab aside,
I have been reading ppl's blog lately. then i realised something...
"is my blog too self-centered?"
Not that I want to follow other ppl, but all that I've been writing here is just about me, myself, and I... mostly revolve around my daily activities.... which is of not much meaning...and of course it gets very uninteresting....
So, I have decided to at least include in some insightful thoughts or comments in my blog next time
This is my resolution in blogging...hahaz hopefully it can be achieved.

Interesting Ad

2007-03-08T05:35:00.000-08:00

Found this Nike Ad at youtube while i was browsing around....n think it is cool...
and the song "mas que nada" is very groovy oso...
so just sit back, relax n enjoy

and life goes on....

2007-03-05T04:26:00.001-08:00

yep...as usual, i only come back blogging when i feel that i have a lot of things to tell...

yesh! and now i do have a lot of things to share....so many things have been happening last week...

it started with the "much-awaited" mid term exam... why much-awaited, u may ask.... coz i just wanna end it as soon as possible.... haha I really dun feel like recalling the tests experience coz i knew i srcewed up almost all... usually if the 1st test is aledy very bad, i will lose the motivation to fight on for the subsequent papers.... that's how i am, not like other ppl, cannot do then study harder...haha

my last day of exam was saturday!!! i felt so relieved...though it was temporary n deceiving.... when u finish test, doesnt mean u are free.... it just means u finish the test, that's all!!! still have so many tutorials, lab report, research to do.... haiz, and now i'm feeling the effect aledy...

feeling super tired today...i really need a boost of energy now.... but i'll fight on!! someone, give me some motivation!!

okay, before i continue whinning, i shall move on to happier things...

last week was linda's 21st birthday!! haha we had a celebration at pgp foyer....wanted to dunk her, but we were not that mean... (now i think, dunking is kinda scary sia... coz u might actually injured the person in the process).... the celebration went well and we had cakes n some martabak n pisang molen from ppl who came back from indo....

then yesterday was choir concert.... there were quite a few of indos singing in the choir. i met a lot of ppl there too!! This is the first concert ever that i've watched in NUS.... the indo concert was not counted coz i was performing n couldnt really enjoy the show....

it was good.... when i was in vj, i never went for any choir concert...(which is kinda pathetic since VJ choir was supposed to be very good).... but it's okay, NUS choir oso conducted by Nelson Kwei.... so shld be quite similar lah hor!! haha....

1. photo with eva...she was the first to come out of the backstage....

2. after very long only laura n evelyn came out n see us...haha

3. met bebeth n some red cross ppl oso...so take pic lor!!! haha

oh ya, one more thing to announce.... I just had my hair cut.... i had it at wisma atria.... the place is called shunji matsuo - icon.... i thing it was not bad....i love the way the person style my hair after the cut....the cut was not extraordinary but i feel that it's much neater than before, which is good...haha... for the price....ehem.... okay lah, i think it's quite reasonable....i dun mind paying more for a good hair cut rather than pay cheap2 and come out like sh*t..haha (that's how i usually feel when i came out of salon)

okie...all in all....i had a balanced week!! haha

6 weird facts....

2007-02-21T09:26:00.000-08:00

tagged by alice...
this looks fun and seems like i must work my brain a bit for this....
hm...okay lemme start...
1. i hated vegetables but i started eating only after i came singapore...reason...? malu sama temen2....

2. i like to mix n match my own clothes, including the accessories... (yes, ini my sign of bimboticity...erh, is there such word??) but only when i'm alone in my room.... and i get excited if i manage to pull together a great look (though sometimes i may not dare to show what i've put together when i walked out of the room)

3. my palm n feet are constantly sweating excessively which makes me quite uncomfortable when i have to shake ppl's hands or when i have to dance.... anybody got any idea how to cure this??

4. i have too fast reaction that when i saw lightning striking, i can't stop myself from covering my ears (actually it's more like i'm scared lah...).

5. i hate talking on the phone coz i i cant hear the person on the other side clearly...so i get nervous n dunno how to reply....especially if the person talks in hokkien (such as my parents' frenz who called). i prefer talking face to face or chat online...
another thing is...most of the time i think through wad i wanna say before i actually says it... especially if i have to speak english...

6. my face is assymetrical... thanks to my mom who observed me so much.... (actually i didnt notice it until my mom told me so)

can i add one more?haiya, can lah!
7. if i listen to music, most of the time i will listen up for the interesting sound effects or accompaniments or the harmonisation when most ppl will just listen to the lyrics... (i dunno whether this is weird or not)

(it's indeed hard to come out with weird stuff abt yourself...haha...so try it!!)

Yeanching yeancing yeanching....

2007-02-21T08:38:00.000-08:00

Yeanching!! shocked to see so many of your names on my blog!?!?!?

haha....

sorry this comes a bit late but wanna wish u happy belated 20th bdae!!! your deadline is up girl!!!

haha

i only got time to "touch" my blog again after so long....n of course i have to write for u lah....

yeanching is one of my very supportive friends in my life in NUS

since we are both in chem engin, we see each other so often that there's no day without her face haha....jokin2

anyway, i feel that i owe yeanching so much...not owe things or money...but there are a lot of things that can only be felt.... her care, her talk, her presence, her support....everything lah.... even some things that i often take for granted coz i see her that often...

but i really miss the time when we shared the same roof in vhall..then had more fun together...

i feel that now we have a lot of uncommon experiences that make us feel far at times... (she's always busy with her hall stuff, i'm always "busy" with my pgp friends).... yah, basically, we spent less time together outside sch now...

but still, i really feel very comfortable sharing things with her.... as if we're always on the same frequency...

oh ya, wanna apologise for ruining our date "supposedly only both of u".... but i ended up chioing more ppl along...haha... but the more the merrier rite??

oh ya, back to the highlight of the day!! yeanching!! haha

just wanna say thanks for everthing....since jc till now...

dun be too stressed up with your hall matters... i noe sometimes it gets tough but i noe u are tougher....unbreakable!! jiayou!!!

okie...hope u had a great bdae....pls come back soon n mug with me...hiks...my study plan is so screwed....haha...

oh ya, i hope u like the bag!! must use it hor!!

ps: thanks for the sunflower...

The chinese new year edition

2007-02-21T07:44:00.000-08:00

I'm writing this while watching the last 30 mins of American Idol...Have been missing the previous episode....
chinese new year has come n go n only now then i got the time to blog it...
as a matter of fact, this blog is abandoned.... i am not so passionate about writing anymore...at least not like last time during the holiday where i got all the time in the world to waste (not that i'm no longer wasting my time now.... Mid term exam is coming n yet i youtube all nite...)

oh ya, before i get to my chinese new year experience, just wanna promote this really nice series... of course it's taiwanese series...wad else do i watch...
it's called hana kimi...i think it's adapted from japanese comic....
basically, it's abt this girl who likes this high jumper (is that the right term for it?) studying in boy sch.... so she is willing to sacrifice n pretend to be a guy just to study in the same sch as her idol... I think it's really a nice show...funny n refreshing to watch...

ok...promotion time over...
now it's sharing time...
anyway,... i didnt go back indo during CNY.... for a simple reason. mid term exams coming....but as predicted, I never really utilise my time wisely.... uncountable hours were wasted loitering ard orchard and vivocity (maybe a new term shld be used -->"Vivoing").... and countless dollars spend .... haiz...

basically, during CNY eve, all the chinese restaurants were either closed or fully booked.... so we had to resort to Western food... German food to be exact....
We had Danny with us...who helped us a lot in ordering..haha... coz the name of the dishes are all in german....
basically only 6 of us spent the CNY eve together (me, jess, laura, danny, dipta n henry)....the rest, either they went back indo, hide somewhere in PGP or "busy" couples...haha....

thanks to Jessica, we got a treat of fondue that nite at Hagen daz....nyum...
okay, that was the first nite in Vivo...

after our feast, we came back pgp to play board games (monopoly) the whole nite....until morning at 4 if i'm not wrong...

then next day, i woke up quite late....just the time for lunch...so me n jess (who felt so lonely n bored) decided to go orchard to try our luck....
but our luck was not that good....all the non-western food restaurants were closed including jap food...hiks hiks... and we ended up eating at spageddies... okay, i must say that the food was not that bad.... but it's tooo cheesy...
n after that we had a walk around orchard which looked like a dead city....seriously, singapore cant function during chinese new year...that's the bad thing abt being in a chinese dominated country...haha....

and for dinner we had marche.. (ya ya...another western meal....quite sick of it aledy)...
but thanks to david n angita -the happy couple- who helped us book the table....if not... dun even think abt having dinner there... it was fun that nite after the dinner.... why? becoz we went to the vivocity "kids" playground... yah, it was as if we were never young....haha ....

then we ended the nite n started the next day with Risk game.... it's a guy kind of game which i learned.... the guys had mercy on us the girls (me n laura), not killing us early and we ended up being the "troublemaker" in the game...haha... n guess wad, we ended the game at 5 pm...
but i didnt sleep straight after that... i pushed myself to finish my overdue assignment and ended sleeping at 7 am....damn early rite...? that was my record...

actually the rest of my new year was quite eventful except for continuous eating of expensive food which burned a whole in my pocket....haiz...haha
i hope i can get all the pictures soon n can put it up here....yipppiiee...
gong xi gong xi.... i want my hong bao!!!

cravings...

2007-02-06T00:57:00.000-08:00

The past weekend was one of the bussiest n the most tiring weekend this sem. I had the first 2 sessions of my 1st aid course....learned abt CPR, how to bandage in the head, at the arm....and all sorts of procedures. CPR is not that hard, it's just that we have to follow certain procedures to pass the test... I cant imagine doing it on a real person....ih so scary...haha....

then during the weekends, i'm supposed to have my dance class which i pon due to the first aid course. A bit sad lah, coz i have to miss my inter chacha again....haiz waste my money.... and there was supposed to be mini dance competition like last time and obviously i cant go....
but nvm, it was aledy the last class n we r going to start new dances next time...yippiieee....samba n waltz

oh ya, talking abt dance, in pgp, there was open air movie screening..."layar tancep"....it was quite fun!! i watched "shall we dance". I think after learning how to do ballroom dance, i can appreciate these kinds of movies better. then i oso saw some of the moves that i learned before in the movies... cool!!.... actually the movie plot is not that interesting. but it was romantic n of course Jlo dance very well.....hm... inspiring...haha

now, lets talk abt craving...haha just like the title of my post (after so long story above...haha)
why i want to write abt this??
ans= i dunno... (MATLAB format)
just suddenly feel that i have a lot of cravings from day to day.
out of nowhere, i can form this thought of wanting to eat something. (of course craving is not just abt food...but for me, most of the time it's food lah, i have to admit...haha)
just to share... the food that i craved before: Pempek palembang, Ayam Penyet, Science canteen Banmian, VJ canteen carrot cake, Dimsum and currently i got craving for chocolate....which is kinda appropriate since it's near v-day hahaha
but v-day is so irrelevant to me.... so if nobody gives chocs to me, can just buy loh...haha (sounds so pathetic ya?) but nevermind... being "jomblo" is NOT the saddest thing in the world...haha

enuf of the crap lah...i wanna watch my youtube now. oh ya, somebody told me abt this website oso... crunchyroll.com i think it will be heaven for ppl who have broadband internet n is an anime freak...so check it out. only if u got the time.... and just to warn u, i'm not responsible for the side effect (addiction to stay in front of your comp all day long)...haha... (from my own experience, youtube is the reason for all my incomplete tutorials....hahah)

ciaoooo

concert aftermath...

2007-02-02T00:16:00.000-08:00

yay!!
Today is Friday and this is the first time that i can relax a bit throughout this week....
Last friday was the concert by the Indons here in NUS...it's called "When I was in Indonesia..."
The concert was a fusion of both traditional and modern music n dance....

The items performed are as follows:
- Balinese dance called Sekar Jagad... I saw the ppl practising for this one...I looks quite tough and they managed to dance well in such a short time. defenitely not easy....

-Gamelan... This item was performed by the guest performers from SMU.... I didnt really noe abt this item. coz the SMU ppl only went once for the rehearsal.... and on the day itself I was outside the backstage....so, I didnt hear them at all. Summore, I was not familiar with the songs they played...haha....so, no impression...sorrie

-ehem....ANGKLUNG orchestra.... which was the item that me and abt 27 other ppl performed.haha... we played 3 songs: Kopi Dangdut, Edelweiss and Naik Delman.
We screwed up a bit at the Kopi Dangdut, but I noe for sure, the Naik Delman n Edelweiss on that day was the best compared to all the practices we had before... good job ppl....I tremendously enjoyed the performance.
but I really want to see the video of our performance. Hope I can get hold of one copy of the video.....

-ReguA.... I think this band deserves a compliment...they sounded good, they looked good and they were entertaining.... at least this is what I saw during the rehearsals...I guess the performance on the day itself shld be superb oso... the ppl in this band are: Adi, Regi, Tari, Andrew, and the additional 2 members are Adit n Aldo... I was really impressed by the music n harmonisation...great job!!

-Tari piring... this is performed by NTU guest performers, 4 of them only. But they were oso impressive. imagine all the "throwing plates" stunts...haha I heard that one of them almost dropped the plates...luckily he managed to catch it back firmly...haha....

-IndoMe.... not very sure how to write the proper name...but it sounds something like that....
They are a grp of 4 ppl playing rock band...haha ....but of course singing indo songs... They were really good oso coz they could engage with the crowd...haha... and it was nice to listen Indo love songs....haha romantic...

oh ya, must highlight the MCs for the day. Dunno where they found an ang moh girl who were willing to be the MC...she pretended to be a tourist going around Indo....
and Dipta n Jaenatte who were the "welcomer" in each of the places.... what so funny is when Dipta appeared in front of everyone wearing the traditional costumes, ppl started laughing without him doing anything or saying anything...haha

okay basically it was a great nite, with great music n of course great audience....At first I was quite worried that the audience would not make up the whole theaterette...but not bad...it was at least 5/6 full...though i dunno how i got that...haha...crap...

This is the link to the official pictures....
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40451870@N00/sets/72157594512628516/
but so sad dun have my face....hiks hiks...
will try to get from individual cameras which have my face haha
if i got all the pictures aledy, i'll try to put it up here...
i think we shld organise more of this kind of things...though it took up quite a bit of our time during the last minute practice n rehearsals, but i feel satisfied lah!! and i felt good when u see ppl come n supporting u...haha....

okie....must go do my stuff liao....

Remember the Angklung time....

2007-01-21T02:13:00.001-08:00

yesterday was quite a hectic day for me.
After lunch, I rushed off to my dance class. I danced from 1.30 to 5.30
dance until I cant really feel my feet, especially after i tighten up the strap...
actually that is oso because there was shortage of girls.
so the gals present must dance n dance n dance to help the guy lah of course....

but dance is fun when u can follow. that's the case for my rhumba n foxtrot...
not so fun when u have to smoke through coz u r unsure abt the steps... that's the case for my inter chacha which I regret taking it slightly....
all blame it to my dec hols at home...but of course i never regret going home lah....(who is so stupid to prefer spending holiday alone in s'pore to spending lazy holiday at home..haha)

oh ya, continuing the story....
after dance at 5.30....i rushed again to PS to have my dinner before angklung...
see how busy i was hahaha, notice i used the word "rushed"...haha

i was all alone at that time coz the rest of the angklungers left from pgp by cab....
and I was suffering on the super long bus ride.....under the rain...
and i had to stop in such a dingy busstop near the embassy....now that was really called stranded alone...haha
but luckily i could find a cab to the embassy. (fyi, the road from the busstop to the embassy is equally dingy and the only means of transport in is your pair of feet or cab). Oh ya, it was raining summore. so the task of finding an available cab was almost impossible....most of them were hired.... or pretend to be hired... so that ppl will make calls and they will earn extra $3 ... cunning huh!!!

basically at last, i managed to get to the embassy safely n drily (maksudnya dalam keadaan kering)....
but i troubled laura n eva who went over to the busstop, unable to find me coz i left by cab aledy.... paiseh paiseh....sorry sorry.... ( a bit of misunderstanding...laura thought that i was alone n couldn't find cab... so being such a nice person she is...she went to fetch me.... --> the 'she' here refers to both laura n eva....haha)
sorry lah, wasted your effort...but your good intention had been noted...thx once again...

okay...but my complaining will just end here...
coz i enjoyed the angklung practice following that...
it was fun holding the angklung again...just like it was 4 years ago..haha...
wah, sounds so long time ago....
I can still remember ka' faridah (is this how to spell her name??) flipping the white board to show us the music score....wakakaka...
that was the stressful syf period....
but angklung is easy n fun to play. and it can involve many ppl...which adds on to the fun, of course...haha
but honestly speaking, the instructur that we have now didnt look as pro as ka' Faridah.... maybe shld not say not pro lah... wad I really mean is, he's not very prepared for his job. He never even prepared scores for us to play...
it maybe a good thing coz it can train us to remember the scores and not having to stare at our paper scores on stage...
but i pity those who played the bass... they have to constantly look at the conductor's finger...literally.
coz as he's conducting, his finger is showing the chords...haha
eg: 1 for C Chords, 5 for G chords
imagine, when he wants to show D chord...haha
and imagine doing that on the performance day...haha (oops...no offence to the current instructure...just in case he sees this...wakaka.... u are good too! haha)

currently the songs we are playing are "Naik Delman" and "Adelweis"...
fun pieces, especially the "Naik Delman", coz got the "tuk tik tak tik tuk" part...haha

okay lah....will update more next time.
oh ya, for those who are free...
my angklung performance is on 31st Jan (wed) nite...
not really sure abt the time though....
yup yup....come come....

bad schedule = bad mood....

2007-01-16T23:36:00.000-08:00

sigh... This sem doesnt seem to be going well. Tutorial registration round just ended n i didnt get most of the slots that i wanted. As a result, I have to bear with my pathetic timetable. No more free days unless I have no labs on wed...but apart from that, i will have lessons from 8 o'clock in the morning until quite late in the afternoon (usually till 4, 5 or 6...). no good. this means i will have less time to rest in the afternoon and thus, i will slack at nite. I kind of able to foresee wad is going to happen. If i slack at nite, I wont be able to finish my work usually....sigh.... why is it so troublesome here in NUS?? why cant they just provide more slots for the time that most ppl wanted. why do we have to bid? why do we have to ballot? "exercise our responsibility n decision making??" sounds nice but not effective at all. it seems that they never consider that there are certain time slots that more ppl wants. why not just give more? why.....
since I'm stuck with this weird tutorial timing, I have no friends in my marketing tutorial class...haiz....got project summore....how am i gonna survive this. Just hope i'll get good ppl in my class.
now wad i can do is just complain n hope the NUS ppl will pity me n consider my appeal. If not, I just gotta deal with my time management.... i feel like i'm stressed unneccessarily with these trivial matters...huh!! need to learn how to cool down.....
And wad's wrong with MSN these days?? cant even log in now....sigh...
just wanna whine n complain. I'm hating sch now!!!!

ps: though computer seemed to be so smart and helpful, i just realised that it is stupid and creates a lot of unnecessary trouble.....arghhh!!!

new year new skin

2007-01-15T05:24:00.000-08:00

as u all can see...i have new blog skin now...yay!
I took me quite long to modify the whole thing and the result is not as fantastic as i want it to be....but i really dunno how to modify it further...everything seems to be so squeezed, especially the tagboard...but no choice... with my limited html skill, this is the most i can do...

2 days ago, which is a saturday, all the indos here had a bbq in pgp. paid 5 bucks each. i thought we were supposed to be on budget and yet the things that the guys bought were chicken, stingray (a looot), beef, otah... no sausage, no fishball...haha...yah, but it was nice.
but chicken took super long to cook (bbq)...in the end some of the girls just take them back to the pantry and put them in the oven....haha....
the rest of the nite we just played cards and polar bear...haha as usual....
too bad i dun have any pictures from the bbq...too lazy to bring my camera that day...

today is monday and it is the 2nd week of sch aledy. I am relaxed but at the same time stressed...
all the lectures rush like trains...i havent even got time to look thru the previous one and a new lecture aledy begin...sigh....express train really...
oh ya, so many textbooks to buy oso....4 textbooks needed this sem. and i feel so dumb not to buy 2nd hand textbook for my CN1111....aduh...so expensive!
btw, this sem, I'm taking 6 modules, hope can survive. not just survive, hope i can do well of course....haha oh ya, this reminds me wad dipta said during IT lect. He said someone got CAP 5.0 and he got extra $2000 bucks from sembcorp....so good!!!...hahah (sounds so materialistic)...haiya, dream on....CAP 5.0 a bit impossible. can get above 4.5 will be a very very good improvement aledy...haha

okie lah...need to catch up on a lot of things now....
more update next time

here I am...

2007-01-08T05:14:00.000-08:00

hello hello hello...
wow...it's been such a long time...I've been to lazy to update my blog throughout the holiday even when it still had good internet connection...
I shall sum up all the things that were happenning during this short holiday....(i will never ever complain that holiday is too long)
after coming back from KL (refer to my previous blog that is super long-winded), I've been in singapore for another week for my dance class...
then i fly back to jakarta after a few days, I fly to padang....see i fly a lot..haha
it was a great holiday there, nice beach!! feeding monkeys...it's quite a back to nature kinda trip... all the pics that i took there are in the comp at home...so cant show off here...next time maybe...
then come back jakarta again and basically there's nothing significant apart from slacking n going out with alice n dwee...oh ya, we oso met up with hokito, phya, stephan, gary...it was a nice reunion, after everybody separated, reminiscing the old times when we were in vj...
new year was as boring as ever, coz in jkt i cant go anywhere...unless u wanna get trapped in the midst of traffic jam doing nothing...so i decided on a wiser choice, slacking in front of my tv watching taiwan channel till countdown...haiz...wad a pathetic new year...
then yesterday i took flight back from jkt to sg, taking lufthansa....the flight was honestly the scariest flight that i've ever taken...it's not the plane's fault, but i guess the whether was just very very bad....we all can really feel the plane dropping down a lot on certain point of times.... it's very scary especially after the incident of adam air going missing, so everybody have some kind of anxiety (quated from adela)... but glad that it was all over and i'm back safely in singapore...
yep, and now i'm back in nus, with all the upcoming commitments that i dunno how to handle...lectures starting, everything is starting, i'm just unprepared for all this. still want the good relaxing time at home when wad i need to worry is basically nothing...haha...
wish me luck for this upcoming sem...hope it will be better than the one that has just passed...which is greatly unlikely...haha...
oopsss shldnt sound too pessimistic
ciaoooo

KL trip...funtastic!!

2006-12-12T18:42:00.000-08:00

yep yep, after the depressing post abt exam, I shall upadate abt my holiday plan..
okay, it was a holiday plan...that aledy came true haha...
yup, 11 of us (all indo) plus YC, we went to KL!!
haha though i've been there before (the last time there were 6 of us, oso right after exam....), but i think every trip has different kind of fun and excitement... It's really a good way to refresh after all the hours you've prisoned urself in the library or in the room...
5th nite
i finished my paper at 7 plus...then I came back pgp for dinner...how sad is that? ppl went out to celebrate, I ate dinner alone in my room watching youtube..haha...but it's okay, I was supposed to pack n clean up my room that nite...and it took me the whole nite to do...and I only managed to pack my stuff for the trip, the room is still as messy as ever...haha
actually we planned to not sleep at all the whole nite since our bus was damn early in the morning...730...so we had to leave at ard 6 plus...
but being me, I just cant survive without sleeping at all... so I tried to sleep becoz i thought I was tired...but I was wrong, I couldnt sleep for 2 or 3 hrs, so in the end I woke up and read my book. then I went back to sleep but guess wad!! I woke up when the rest aledy wanna leave...haha...wad a shock lah! luckily still can make it...haha...lesson learnt, next time dun sleep means dun sleep!!

Dec 6th
so we took bus from beach road... they bus ride was long...haha not that i dunno abt it... but after so long hours sitting on the bus, u'll feel bored lah, so we take a lot of stupid pictures and play a lot of bridge before at last we reach our destination: PUDURAYA, KL!!

when we reach there, it was very chaotic...understandable since it's not singapore...haha...wanna take cab oso need to bargain, no meter one...
so in the end we reach our "hotel" -sun inn-
it's definitely a place for budget holiday...but i really dun mind coz come to think of it, we spent most of our time outside, only come back to sleep n bathe...and summore it's super near sunway pyramid...so can just walk there....
the first thing that we did was EAT!!...and of course, "borong" all the sim cards from the phone shop...haha coz all of our numbers from sg cant roam...
then we split up after that to shop... before the split, me, ismy, jenn, and the guys have an agreement to compete for who shop the most in terms of the amount of money spent...as in 4 guys vs 3 gals..haha
but in the end, we forgot to compare receipt..hahah... but i think that day the guys shop more than gals... somehow they are more decisive in buying stuff..not like gals who always look for a better bargain at another place...hahha
then after shopping we eat NANDO's!! something like kenny rogers, roasted chicken plus salad, plus corn, plus peri chip...(peri chip or very cheap?) nyum...haha...

i oso met my cousin shylvia, she's studying n monash, that's why stay near sunway...haha...actually quite paiseh, made her come all the way from class for nothing, the shops are all closed, we just stand around talking lah....

at nite, we watched midnite movie "casino royale"...haha it's super cheap watching movies in KL...only 7 ringgit...even cheaper than indo....
while waiting for the movie, we took stupid pictures and played polar bear...dunno why the game become so popular throughout our trip...everytime we got waiting time and some big space to sit, we'll always play this game...haha

Dec 7th
this is SUNWAY LAGOON day...actually I'm tired of describing everything by words...pictures can say more abt all the fun we had that day...

dipta n jo applying sunblock...

grp photo at the entrance

the brave souls riding the pirate ship

wet after niagara + playing under the rain

more gaya2 under the rain...brrr cold

more polar bear session while waiting for the rain to stop

makan jagung aja gaya

photo after bathing

manhattan fish midvalley megamall

xmas deco at midvalley

tired but still taking photos in front of happy feet!!

Dec 8th
basically that day was dedicated to shopping...went to KLCC to meet danny n jian, then went sungei wang to shop for cheaper stuff....the place is sumthing like fareast lah...very fun!!!....but pocket got hole...hahah

Dec 9th
the rest went back to KL by bus early in the morning...while i go yc's place...too bad no photos...but had a lot of fun n eat a lot of good food...
went to times square...then eat seafood with yc's family....good!!
then at nite went for drinks at this halo cafe....a really cool place to hang out coz got live band!! and summore we got to request haha so happy...and got this guy who sounded totally like lin junjie...damn nice voice...

Dec 9th
wake up then had dimsum for breakfast...nice..but i ate until i got so bloated...haha coz yc's dad ordered a lot of food...
come back n look at yc sorting her beads to make earrings...so fun lah!!haha i wish i have a sister to share this kind of thing with haha...
dilly dally for a while and then it's time for us to take bus back to sg...hiks...holidays overrr......
had ramly burger at yong peng....not bad lah...but not as special as i thougt...nevertheless....uennakk..
haha
okie...i think this post is too long aledy...
haha
but for the success of this trip, we need to thank david for organising everything, booking the hotel, the bus tix, collecting money, queuing for sunway lagoon tix...and many more.hhaha...
and personally i need to thank yc for allowing me to stay at her place..haha maybe not at the right time coz her house is under renovation...i went there to disturb only....sorrieee...
haha...yay successful holiday plan!!yippie...shld have more of such thing...bali maybe?

celebration!! freedom!!

2006-12-12T18:25:00.000-08:00

this post is supposed to be done long long time agooo....exactly 8 days ago...when i first finished my MLE paper...hahah
yup, though it's late, i still find it a "must" to write this down in my blog as part of my first "exam experience" in NUS
That last MLE paper was really a killer...becoz I had to wait very long for it to come....(not that I'm very eager to take the exam.....just want the exam to finish fast, that's all!)...while eveyone else around me have started their post exam celebration much earlier...while i'm suffering, try to restrain myself to the room, try to study hard for my last 2 papers....but to no avail....I ended up slacking, daydreaming, and doing other unimportant things other than studying...haha
only the last 2 days before exam, then I started panicking like crazy... I saw everyone else doing the opposite of wad i do...Other ppl, they studied so hard at the beginning until they had enuf of MLE aledy, then they dun study anymore last minute.... either way, it doesnt matter anymore...wad's important is I'VE SURVIVED UNDER PRESSURE....rmb the G11 moto?haha
yup, it's really pressure cooker here...everybody's literally camping in either the library or the study room...haha...
that's why when the examiner said "stop writing" at the end of the MLE paper, I have this happy, bubbling sensation that I couldnt contain... It's like "YAY...Yeeha...!!" wadever other expression words that u can think of..haha.... even though I couldnt do the paper very well, I was just super duper happy...dun care about wad the end result would be like...
oh ya, btw, result will be out 1 or 2 days after xmas....which sux, it's like my xmas present...see whether santa is nice to me or not lah... oh, wrong...see whether i've been good or bad lah this year...haha..

To the girl who just turns 20...

2006-11-28T05:59:00.000-08:00

for the lucky girl in the picture...haha....yup, VIDIA is the name!!!
Happy birthday ya!! you've hit the big 2 already...haha... yay!!
have known her for the past 5 years ...that may not be very long....but the things that we've gone through together in singapore has made us very close....
we've been in the same school and even same class n same cca for 4 years...huah, come to think of it, it's quite long actually....considering that we oso stay in the same hostel...hahha almost 24 hrs together... but i'm not complaining that i was bored of seeing her... in fact, I kinda miss her so much now... coz she's far far away from sg... 12 hrs time difference.... but she's never far away from my heart...aduh, why sound so cliche....

yup, vidi is this "kecil2 cabe rawit" girl that i noe... haha.... no offence, k? size doesnt matter lah...haha but it's true for the "cabe rawit" part....coz i think she's this strong n independent girl who knows wad she wants... especially now, I admire her for being able to go so far away to study alone... haha... but i hope u are doing well there n get to know more good friends....
and i hope ur friends there r celebrating ur bdae with u, coz i can't be there with u, I can just hope that ur bdae is still as memorable n fun!!! huhu...jadi bener2 kangen...

life is quite different from sec sch n jc....coz all u ppl (u noe who u are) leave to study "abroad" (in this case abroad of singapore)....haha now weekend dun have anybody to go out with oso..not like last time, only with a knock on the door....can immediately go shopping or eat or watch movie or go for a walk at east coast...
i think i digressed quite a bit...so back to the topic of the day, VIDIA!
vidi itu orangnya asik buat curhat n gossip... behind that cute appearance, she got mature personality.... at least comparable to me...haha, so we can connect well when we talk, but yet, we still do silly stuff together...haha

these are some of the things that reminds me of vd:
corrine may songs especially "angel in disguise", the dog soft toy "ko-spot", swimming and tennis (she's pro!), being picky abt food (=P), cheese ruffles, or anything cheesy, her cute drawings and handwriting, Friends (ur fave tv series), wearing watch day n nite --> until the watch is spoiled haha, fish n more fish... rmb the black fish that u kept in nygbs, and the fish that we bought for mr foo and almost all died coz we fed them wrong stuff ...haha...actually still got a lot...but i cant mention it one by one here...

now time for bdae wishes for u:
we can be fellow chem engineers together..haha ... hope u r happy with ur life there, hope that u get a boyfriend soon...haha dun be too picky lah haha... (tapi jangan asal pilih juga ya!), hope u will always smile, and hope that u can teach me drums..haha... cant imagine u playing drums actually...
okie lah...maybe that's all for now...

ps: wanna wish all the november babies happy birthday or happy belated birthday...
i wonder why there are so many november babies around hahaha......

and here's something for u

cockroach vs lizard...

2006-11-18T09:11:00.000-08:00

haduh...wad kind of post is this....must be influenced by alice's blog then write about all these pests thingy...haha...no lah joking2...
why this topic come abt....It's indirectly because of ismy...haha
today, me n ismy was walking from cental lib to yih... to eat subway (but that was not the main point here...just wanna say that i ate subway for both lunch n dinner... italian bmt n meatball marinara...!)
okay...back to topic, then suddenly ismy said, "how come it's so dim here?" then she checked the ceiling for the lights...
then suddenly she shouted "arhg!"... of course i'm totally shocked as i was walking beside her....i think i really jumped when she screamed...
then i found out that she just saw a lizard as she was looking at the lights at the ceiling...
and because of that, throughout the walk from central lib to yih, she keeps looking up at the ceiling...and guess wad, there are lots n lots of lizard...
although i'm not fond of lizard either...but wad scare me is not the lizards themselves...but it's because ismy screamed everytime she saw one... so can imagine me feeling shocked n stopping everytime she screamed...
and the way from central lib to yih is not short..hahaha...
then we were discussing, which one is more disgusting, lizard or cockroach...coz i'm super duper scared of cockroach.... more than lizard...
haha...but actually to me, both are equally disgusting, it's just that lizard are more "tau diri", they will run away when u shoo them away...
but cockcroach is different....I dunno wad's wrong with them man!! everytime i saw one i will run away (which is odd considering i'm much much bigger than the cockcroach itself...haha but so many ppl are like that oso...so dun need to be shy...lol) but wad i dun understand is, why cockroach likes to run towards u as u are running away... arent they afraid getting killed n shldnt they run AWAY...not TOWARDS ppl...haiz...and the "best" thing is when they run over your feet...yucks yucks yucks!!! if that happen i'll wash my feet 7 times...arghh....
talking abt cockroach, yesterday ismy, yc, n kenneth came my room (yc n kenneth send me n ismy back pgp from sheares, after mugging n supper)....
then as we were talking n enjoying the aircon in my room, then i turned to look at my table.... guess wad i saw??
2 antenna like, or more like short, brown colour thread moving under my strepsil pack...
instantly, without thinking twice, i noe it must be a cockcroach....
so i jumped to my bed n just shout n shout...
luckily kenneth was there, n he's brave enuf to kill it...haha
okay....if not, i'll be alone in the room not able to sleep... until dunno when lah, wait for the cockroach to do the "grand exit" out of my room....haha
even if got ismy n yc, i bet 3 girls can only scream and scream n the cockroach will just make its way to somewhere secluded inside my room....just making it harder to catch... so must thank kenneth for that...haha...
actually quite embarassing lah, ppl come your room dun see good things, instead wad they see is cockroach..haha... which never appear in my room before this...wad the!!!
to end this post, i think it's appropriate if i just introduce this song...haha
the title is "cockroach" sounds disgusting but i think the song is actually nice...
sang by tank ...it's in chinese though....so i dun understand the lyrics totally oso...but the tune is just very catchy... here's the link...
蟑螂小强

bad cockroach!! naughty cockcroach!! shoo!

life oh life...

2006-11-14T09:22:00.000-08:00

mugging mode: ON
yup, this is wad u would expect from me, 11 days or less from final exam....grrrrr...scary sia....
last time, we mug for months to prepare for O'level or A'level....
now, we mug for a few weeks (precisely less than 2 weeks) for about the same amount of things to study....sigh... this is part of growing up i guess... the older u get, the tougher the things u have to handle...haha
this week i feel much more relaxed and calm than last week....i dunno why oso...although i still got a lot to study...but i'm just going to do it at MY own pace...yep...
so far, I'm still on the summary making process (and i'm doing it at a snail rate...) but that's how i study...haha... actually i enjoy the process of doing it, coz i like to make my summary colourful n neat haha...
hopefully i'm oso learning at the same time...

i dunno wad is it like to be in overseas uni (as in outside singapore)...is it oso like this where everybody mug in the library weeks before exam... imagine, central lib in NUS is really packed, like sardines in a can.... wooohh scary but that's the reality and I'm one of the sardines...haha...coz i totally cant study in my room...too much distractions...

but wad's wrong with the internet in pgp?? i cant live without it now...It's my sole source of entertainment....usually the presence of internet is the source of distraction...but even the absence of internet can distract me....coz i keep trying to connect and waiting n waiting n waiting...ha

okay...i think this post is damn boring...actually i hate writing abt mugging in my blog...but it's better than mugging itself haha...
dunno wad i'm talking abt already..haha so i'll stop here...

wish me luck for exams...it's only sem 1 and it's already this bad! yeah!

ps: famous amos cookies is really addictive!!!

wad goes thru my mind now...

2006-11-09T07:09:00.000-08:00

this is a total random post...really just wanna pour out the things in my mind so i can go back n concentrate on my work...I'm so dead lah!

- now I really feel the pressure building up...my own fault, slack too much! watch movie n play taboo too much, chat too long after dinner, watch too much youtube, msn-ing too much.... now then all the pending tutorial waiting for me to do...all the MLE n maths lectures waiting for me to make sense out of them... arghhh....
Just wanna make a correction...last time i said, life was slightly slacker than JC...I was totally wrong. I made myself slack n now I get the punishment...waaaa!

- i burnt my wallet...literally...
I went this jap restaurant in NUS (sukiya), ordered chicken teriyaki on "HOT" plate... when i was carrying the tray, I put my wallet on the tray, touching the HOT plate. As a result...tadaaaaa! a whole in my wallet...hiks...my fave blue wallet that I bought for 15 bucks.... I hate looking for new wallet coz it's hard to find something that I really like at affordable price...
but now I got a reason to shop!! yay!...haha but where got time lah....
Target: I'll only get new wallet if I have been a good girl these few days, do all my tutorials, watch all the pending webcast, revise a bit....then I'll get my reward on Sunday, hopefully...

- I love teriyaki sauce now...not teriyaki boyz (singers of Tokyo drift song)...
Arts canteen: nice chicken teriyaki...so juicy n tender.... but the salmon teriyaki was not as nice...
Engin canteen: nice salmon teriyaki...
Sukiya: the chicken teriyaki that burnt my wallet....
I love jap food!!!
oh ya, exception, pgp canteen: sucks...!

- I'm so gonna mug in sch tml... though I wont have any class...
plan: wake up early (like 730)....do laundry... hopefully can finish washing n drying by 930...
then 10 go sch...mug at central lib... i like cen lib though the aircon is unbearable sometimes.... but looking at so many ppl mugging oso makes me more motivated....slightly...or distracted sometimes.... but better than stoning at home or wasting my precious hours in front of my laptop....
eat lunch at 12...
after lunch, I have to mug again...hopefully i will be more productive tml!!!

- i love playing badminton...but the courts are always full...actually my own fault, never go n book first...haiz... but usually the desire to play come suddenly, on impulse... and i wanna get new shuttle cocks soon...

- recently i get very distracted easily due to various reasons...haiz... find it hard to focus sometimes...sigh!

- this may sound super stupid, but i suddenly feel like going to a country with winter so that I can wear nice nice coat or jacket an d boots...wad a bimbo thought..hahah...but nvm...maybe I'm a bit stressed out liao...

okay, I spend too much time on this aledy...shld continue with my webcast...I wish I can be a mugger now!!
countdown to exam....1 2 3 ... argh,.. lost count!forget it. just study!

inspiration...

2006-11-01T08:25:00.000-08:00

inspired by project runway...
childhood interest carried forward till now...
was stoning in the central lib, bored of tut in front of me....
those are some of the reasons i came out with these drawings...
for those of u who noe me, u shld no that I have been doing this once in a while...when the inspiration just hit me...
but this is the first time i'm gonna put it in my blog...for show...or maybe to show off..
they are not exactly very very nice, but i'm still proud of it...coz i did it all by myself...plus some photoshopping...erh, i mean doing a bit of photoshop on them to make them look clearer. but basically not much change to the designs...
1. this is the first design that i drew in central lib... it looks kinda formal but it's meant to be retro funky....i want the colar to have some colour but due to lack of colouring equipment i just make it black..haha...

2. the subsequent designs are done in my pgp air-conned room (wad's the connection ya?)...haha
basically this piece is supposed to be chick, sweet, and simple....and i want it white, but i only have black pencil....so use photoshop to change the colour..haha...cheat a bit lar...

3. this piece just pops up out of no clear inspiration...haha...but i love the colour combi of the skirt...i used my purple n maroon 0.38 uniball signo...haha... and overall the clothes just looks fun and it's for hang out kind..haha

4. this fourth pieces are drawn several times and the original idea was nothing like that...but it turns out to be a sweet looking dress...so i just stick with it...i like the details on the bottom of the skirt...the ruffles...

5. this last piece is actually to fill the empty space...but it was not bad, so i just put it up....no particular theme...just cool n funky... it's a turtle-necked top...with a wrap around, miniskirt n a pair of tights...haha...so complicated

i use my limited drawing n photoshop skill to do all this...if anyone noe how to do colouring on paint or photoshop pls teach me...haha...
I enjoy designing but i never consider designing as a career...this is purely for fun, keeping me insane inspite of all the light-speed tutorial and incomprehensible lectures....sigh...
pls, say nice things hor...haha...no lar...i dun expect any comments...just wanna show off...haha...and for my own collection....

Marina Bay steam boat...nyum!

2006-10-23T20:29:00.000-07:00

haha...this post is supposed to come before the alice's bdae post...hhaa
but nevermind...I shall write this now lah...
yesterday i went steamboating with s12 ppl at marina bay...really nice to see all of them again after so long...I kinda miss the class coz i realise my class now is very segregated...we only come to class to attend lesson/ tutorial, then everybody just leave n there's so little interaction between us...haiz...
oh ya, steam boat...haha... It was yummy. Actually it was my first time eating there...I rmb the last time i went there was during chinese new year with the vhall gang n the juniors....but i didnt get to eat coz i ate with my cousins before that...
haha
it's cheap n nice, though the place a bit dirty...but wad do u expect lah....such a price n such a place...but the impt thing is the food is nice lor...
after steamboat, the gals took hianchuan's car to esplanade while the guys have to take bus,..haha that's the advantage of being girls.haha
at esplanade we were just sitting ard at the water front chitchatting abt a lot of things...such a nice play to hang out...i wish i did that last time haha
We (me n shufang)only realised that we have to leave soon before the last bus ends (wad a cinderella story....) in the end we managed to catch the last 97 bus from cityhall there...then luckily bus 30 still operate when we reached harbour front at 12 haha...fiuh....
one of the inconvenience staying in pgp. coz pgp is a real ulu place, the bus stop is so far away...that's why sometimes a bit scary to walk back myself especially when it's super late aledy like yesterday...
but i was a nice gathering lah overall...miss them all!
here are some of the picture taken yesterday...

alice's bdae!

2006-10-23T20:02:00.000-07:00

this post is dedicated to Alice, the lucky gurl who is having her birthday today...24 oct 2006.... I dunno whether it's a holiday for her there today, but it's holiday for us today....hari raya puasa, idul fitri, wadever u wanna call it... happy hari raya puasa for all who celebrates...
back to the topic abt alice since it's her bdae today...must make her feel special today haha...(jangan ge er ya lice....cuma buat kali ini aja loh!! haha)
she's a friend that i got to know abt 3 years ago when I started my journey in singapore.... During the first 3 months of relc, we were not that close, but we were in the same english class at that time....
After that, came the shocking news that 5 of us got in rgs, including me n alice...that's where we become closer coz rg really dun have a lot of indo...so we are always stuck together in school, in hostel, we even became roommate for one year...had a lot of fun too then...
then, after the struggle to complete our o'level. it's time for me to decide which jc to go...I put vj first n nj second.... I thought my points wont be enuf to get me to vj.... but surprisingly, i got in there n guess wad, alice got in vj too...
SO, we continue to be in the same school for the next 2 years...with all the hell of mugging time...but of course not to forget all the great times we had... we spent most of our time in hostel together, eat together, watch movies together...coz we stayed 2 doors away only...just a knock on her door needed to kacau her studying haha...
alice, is a funky gal, who likes her hair spiked up, she even like to cut her own hair...haha...when u dunno her, she looks like a quiet type but actually she can crack a lot of jokes n make ppl laugh until got stomachache....
she's a punctual gal, always the earliest to get ready for everything...but the highlight is, she's a super duper creative gal that i've ever known... she can make some typical black note book into a classy n unique one (rmb her autograph book?)...
as a person, she's a very tolerant n caring gal!! but of course she's has her limit (which is good haha)...dun make her angry lah...if not ROAR!! haha just kidding lah...alice jarang marah kok!!! haha
It's so sad that now alice is no longer in singapore to pursue her uni...but i'm happy for her that she's aledy in aussie now, with her bro n sis.... just enjoy it there! miss her a lot coz we really have shared the good n bad times together, miss shopping with u too gal!!
hm...alice, happy with the decication...tulus lho nulisnya haha
miss u a lot!

Deathnote!!...not bad

2006-10-21T09:53:00.000-07:00

I think the whole singapore is having the deathnote fever...maybe it's a bit too exaggerated to say that lah...but I guess since it is shown during this festive season n ppl are all having holidays, everybody just wants to go out to catch movies and one of the prominent choices is deathnote...
I went to watch yesterday oso...with this whole grp of indo frenz from pgp...not all of course...too many indo here that it's impossible to clique with everybody...
basically got me, ismy, jenn, david, linda, danny, beer, ananda...
we went vivocity which is this new n huge shopping mall at harbour front. For those who have not been in sg, this is a new place to shop...though the shops are mostly high-ends...but I havent really got the chance to walk ard yet since we reached just on time for the movie...
Why was it fun?? first, the movie itself is quite interesting, though not as good as the manga...just love the story line but I'm already looking forward to the 2nd one in dec...yay! just the right timing...a refreshing method after exam!!
second, the company. I havent got the chance to go out like this for such a long while...Last time, this is wad we do almost everyweek or at least once every month....but since i got into nus, I havent got the chance to truly go out n hang out with friends...
The bast part is, supper at fongseng after movie...banana cheese prata tastes good with sugar n curry...sounds weird but it's really nice when ur stomach is growling...haha
oh ya, as a result of deathnote hangover, we started calling each other with initials...like C for cindy, L for linda, I for ismy, J for Jeanette...haha...
I'm really looking forward to another outing like this....when arh?
Haiz, today is another unproductive day...I just stare at my laptop the whole day, eat at K gourmet, watch youtube, play taboo...sigh...my assignment is still untouched n i choose to write blog instead..haha
I miss watching taiwan variety shows by 5566...so I tried to explore youtube...and this is wad i found...(i think it was from this year's chinese new year....very interesting n creative indeed! 5566 never fails to amaze me...)

When everybody starts to complain...

2006-10-19T22:51:00.000-07:00

At last! my week is over... there were a lot of things going on for the past week... somehow time passes so fast...but i think i'm doing well. Just coping n keeping up with the pace of everything...right on the dot...Maybe slightly lagging, but still quite reasonable for my standard....
at last my grp is more or less done with the project and we've handed in our first draft. so, only needs a bit more fine tunning....dun wanna think so much abt oral defence first...taking one thing at a time...
and the good thing is, deepavali n hari raya is coming...yay!! so can slack a bit...
I got plans for these few days aledy.... tonite gonna watch deathnote at vivocity with Indo frenz...cant wait aledy!! then sunday got the competition, then monday going out with S12 frenz...for steamboat oh yay!!...haha... for the time being I shall just forget about the deadline for another project that is coming in 1 week time....=(
apart from me, i see a lot of ppl ard me who is complaining abt life too..they say uni life sucks n everything...I just dun seem to agree with that...
Nothing is easy in life... especially come to studying, it's never pleasant...particularly at this point of time where everything starts to pile up.... but somehow all these hardship makes me enjoy life more when it comes to play...
n i try to be consistent everyday. so at least i wont feel guilty when I go out n play...haha....wad a mentality...
haiz, i think i'm just talking rubbish....

first competition

2006-10-19T06:37:00.000-07:00

this post is dedicated to my first dance competition ever...but it is not a real competition in the sense. coz it's really an informal kinda thing...
yup, as u all know, i have been taking up my social n ballroom dance lessons, twice a week, cha cha n quickstep.
the course is coming to an end and the committe is organising this mini competition for us to "show off" wad we have learned lah...maybe they call it a competition to make it sound more exciting...
I'm actually quite excited abt it oso...coz i really really love doing this dance (havent i emphasise this enuf..?)... and the seniors are always very nice to teach us the moves whenever we are lost....
oh ya, back to the "competition"...actually, i dun really care abt winning or losing, coz that's not the whole point.
Yesterday was like the "qualifying round"...but really it's a friendly competition that every couple that took part got into the semifinals for at least one kind of dance...
How i rate my performance yesterday? i say not bad lah...for a first competition standard.... though got mistakes here n there, muffled moves, step wrongly ...wadever...it was a performance that i could be proud of...I felt quite confident and most imptly, i have greatly enjoyed it...and that's wad impt isnt it? haha...
oh ya, and actually i will compete one more time on sunday...for quickstep i think, coz we only got into the semi for cha cha...would wanna try again for quickstep...hopefully we did better...
I'm a bit tired of dancing now...my feet are aching slightly, but it's a good way to escape from the tutorials and projects to come...sigh...but now they are pilling up...help!!
-wish me luck-

it's been ages

2006-10-14T09:04:00.000-07:00

it's been so so long since the last time i update here...Somehow I lost the mood to write aledy...life is as boring as ever...
but i'm kinda enjoying it now coz it's after midterm period...I feel that I have lost my midterm break...never really enjoy it to the fullest. So, I deserve a break now...somehow, I just take everything very easily...tutorials are always done last minute...
everyday, I will watch my korean series....my girl...high recommendation!! actually until now I still havent finish watching it...purposely watch slowly... This is so typical me...I won't want good things to end so fast...though I'm very curious about the continuation of the story...but it's just too wasted if such a nice movie is finished in a dash...just wanna prolong the happy feeling of being able to enjoy this show...
okay, back to the point abt post midterm...precisely, I'm having post midterm syndrome where I just dun take studying seriously...I hope this is only for now...coz I really need to gear up again...time will just fly past like siao...and if i dun catch up soon, I'll be the one who'll be siao near the exam.
I'm so scared of exam now...somehow, nobody is pushing me aledy. At least last time in vhall n nanyang, I see ppl mugging then will feel a little sense of guilt when i dun study. but now, everybody study in the room (I oso lock myself in the room), nobody to "push" n motivate me...I just hope i wont flung my exams lah...that's all...
Cha chan quickstep lessons are coming to and end next week. I have to say I have fully enjoyed the course so much. though sometimes i dread going all the way to kallang which is super far from pgp...it's a strain on the pocket n a strain on time...but I think i'll still continue for the next course which will begin on 9th of oct....haiz...money flowing out again...but nvm, it's all worth it cindy!! (self-assurance). there's also a mini competition on that last day. just wanna have fun, not particularly very competitive...
hm...talking abt holiday, today I just realised that it's the last day to apply for vacation stay and i havent plan much abt my holiday...dun even know when i can go back coz i havent book ticket...
honestly, now i dun look forward to go back as much...sometimes i feel that in indo, I dun have much room to move. It's just not save to wander ard alone...n of course i'll never do that. Apart from that, I just feel so dependent at home...i prefer my lifestle here where i gotta decide wad i wanna do.
but still i miss the comfort of home n wanna meet dwee n alice...
i dunno where r my other indo frenz aledy, somehow we have different lives now. they are too busy to entertain me oso...haiz...maybe i shld take the initiative too...jiayou....

The end of Idol fever...

2006-09-26T09:44:00.000-07:00

okay...must say that this post is a bit late lar... Singapore idol 2 final was last Sunday and the result was out on Monday...hoho...yup, Hady Mirza against Jonathan Leong....
Who I support...of course Hady...He is consistent from the first time and he is just so RnB... u noe me, I love RnB...haha
and who wins...of course it's Hady oso...haha...but actually I thot Jonathan was not bad oso...but during the final, Jonathan was quite boring in the choice of songs. I somehow think that he's songs are very similar. With his kind of voice, he should have chosen different genres...all the songs he picked was very rock...which i dun really like oso lah...haha... but i rmb him singing "unforgettable" a few weeks ago and that was the kind of performance that I like better from him...not rock all the way.
On the other hand, Hady...he just knows how to choose the rite songs to show off his range..."through the fire" becomes my fave after he sings it...although like wad dick said, he went a bit off pitch...but he really got the guts to pick that kind of song lah! just see for urself lah...

Hady oso sounded better for the "you give me wings" compared to Jonathan...coz he varied his style...
oh wait...why do I sound like i'm one of the judges...erhmmm...too much idol shows aledy lah....
actually i did not really support anybody for this time round...hady sings well, jonathan is from nus...jasmine was from vj n was dwee's classmate...haha....i really didn't matter to me. just watched for the good performances
oh ya, vj choir was once again performing in the Idol final...I think they really gain the name n fame after the Germany choir olympics....haha...
Actually I'm quite proud lah for them...vj was my almamater...haha...
went shopping with ismy at bugis yesterday...and this is the first time i shop this much after i came to nus...haha...maybe it's a way to vent my stress....
I bought 2 tops n a skirt...haha...happy happy with wad I bought though I think they are a bit ex...but dun care lah...once in a while
I oso bought mooncake! yay! haha...snowskin one...
last time (when I was still in Indo) actually i dun like mooncake one....I looks dry n uninteresting. somehow, when I came here, I was willing to try it. I rmb that was during Nanyang mooncake festival...they gave free mooncake, of course must try!
I like those with eggyolks...haha nice!
okies...enuf about food...I bet u are salivating ledy coz I am..haha nyum...

got BREAK...got KIT KAT....

2006-09-24T09:06:00.000-07:00

haha...actually this post is nothing abt kit kat lah...it's just some creative idea that I can think of now...
fiuh...so happy that I'm having a break now...but quite sad oso lah...coz i kinda feel that this break is gonna be super short n actually it's not a real break so to speak...mid term test is waiting for me after the break...
the other thing is, I oso feel quite lonely lah...(this is me...during school say wanna have a break...now give me break, I say lonely...but it's true lah)
yc is back in Malaysia, hope she's having fun at home...haha....
2 days out of 7 days holiday is over liao...
but it was 2 fulfilling days, not in terms of productivity though...haha...but had quite a lot of fun lah....I realise uni life is not that bad after all...i begin to enjoy myself, apart from the test and tutorial n lecture part of course...
haha
friday was a super busy day...morning got ctw tutorial, did presentation, handed up my assignment (i spend almost 1 week plus to do it when i can just crap in a few hours near the deadline....that 1 week plus is super useless actually...)
then after that i "jaga" red cross booth to promote our blood donation drive...(this is quite ironical though, I myself is damn scared of donating blood, and now i want to promote to ppl...haha ...oops, hoepfully no other red cross ppl reading this...haha)...I was distributing flyers to ppl at science....with ismy's help oso...luckily got her lah, if not i'll be bored to death.
then after red cross, chiong back room, bathe, then go out play badminton with yetfeng, sebas, daniel, kenneth and 2 new ppl that i just got to know....Kenny n ernie...(actually not really sure how to spell their names)...but they are nice ppl lah... actually i had quite a lot of fun playing with them...intensive playing that i never have for quite a few months after i quit training....
i realised, playing with the guys help me to improve my playing oso...coz actually they are stronger, so can force myself to hit harder...if i play with girls, I will be more laid back n play lousier...but doesnt matter lah...as long as i sweat, I'm happy...haha
after the very intense badminton, I rushed back pgp to have dinner with jenn n laura...
then bathe again n rushed to yih for chapter meeting...haha
i really sounds like a busy person, don't i?? but actually make myself busy one lah...I can choose to slack or busy, but i'm happy to be busy. satisfaction...haha(wad a crap)
haha
then yesterday, the whole day, I just watched dvds, youtube....I'm super duper addicted to wei xiao pasta...n I luv the tears from polaris sang by nicholas teo...yay! hope they will upload the episode 11 soon heeee!
yup n today, again I went for my ballroom practice as usual...I think this course is really fulfilling...coz u can really see how u have progress from week to week...n every week we learn new moves...so fun! it's an avenue to refresh from all the sch work. i think I'm still gonna continue after cha cha...but dunno wad other dance I'm gonna learn lah...
haha..I think I just describe all i did for the whole weekends.haha see how unproductive it is...n my room is in a mess coz i'm in lazy mood, too lazy to clean n tidy up
okies...I'm off to watch dvd again now....huaaaaa

The lion Sleeps Tonight

2006-09-15T00:33:00.000-07:00


This is wad my tutor shows me during that 2 hours CTW tutorial.... Cute isn't it?? haha... For those who watched friends shloud now this song rite? the one where Ros had Marcel, the monkey....heee

Sweety is here...

2006-09-14T04:01:00.000-07:00

yep, u can see from the title...sweety is in NUS...they r having concert at Temasek hall today...
Many ppl sure dunno who are they, coz they are not that big in Singapore... but since I've had 8 months of taiwanese tv influence, of course i noe them.
Basically they are made up of 2 gals...and both of them are only around 17 or 18...walau, so young can earn so much liao.... n i predict they will be even more popular...haha...
Actually i dunno their songs coz i only noe them from the taiwanese series that I used to watch. one of them is qiao qiao...she's the cute gal from ai qing mo fa shi...she played as xiao bei... yup, of course i noe her lah, ai qing mo fa shi used to be my fave show...
then the other one is called yen yen..(haiya, dunno how to write her name properly, basically that's how it sounds to me)...she also played a series but cant rmb the title liao.
and two of them also host a variety show with jacky wu. this was one of my fave shows during weekends coz during the shows they will invite some dancers (usually grp or pairs), then they will compete against each other...maybe not as exciting as those reality shows kind but this shows get me to love ballroom dance...it's kinda an exposure to me...
actually i'm supposed to be watching their concert now...I got the tix for free yesterday. but why am I still in front of my laptop here typing...haha yup, coz just now I aledy went to temasek hall with yeanching. then see the queue which is like super duper longgggggggg....how can temasek hall accomodate so many....ckckck...so decided not to queue coz it's just not worth it lah. I think their songs are not that nice oso...Just wanna see them in person, that's all. haha...
but really, no dissapointment...if it's Justin timberlake or Alicia keys or maroon 5, then i really won't mind the queue lah....budden again, those super star wont have their concert at temasek hall for free rite??hahah...
i think i'm talking cock liao...
oh ya, dinner today is oyster that I bought from pgp chinese cuisine stall...haha...very happy! coz i like oyster. Actually i never tried the raw one before. but I prefer it to be cooked with chilli...nyum....just love it...
btw, today is s'pore idol result show...will jasmine get out? or is it jon? I'm quite sure it wont be hady. though i never heard them sing yesterday. i think jas n jon are just so-so...Hady is much much better. may the best win!
hm...time to stop procrastinating. I got research to do for tml's ctw. argghh! hate it!

new found liking - Jamie Cullum

2006-09-12T03:12:00.000-07:00

wow... the last time i updated my blog seems so long ago. I have been busy doing my tutorials n watching the lecture webcasts....(haha good girl!)...
I think I got lotsa free time but I just do not maximise it. For instance, this afternoon I ended my lesson at 1. then went for lunch with my og-mates until around 2. Then I wander around central lib n yih-dunno doing wad. haha...in the end, i only reach my room ard 2.40... that's how i waste time... but that's not it, I came back room, intended to read my textbook n ended up falling asleep for almost 2 hrs...(that's becoz i was studying on my bed...) n as a result, i got a headache for sleeping too much...sigh...sleep too little not good, sleep too much oso not good.
that's why i'm stress doing my tutorial when all the deadlines are coming up.haha but that is just so me. procrastinate till last minute.
anyway, few days ago, I accompanied yc to sign up for her new line (and she got a very good deal for a nice 3g nokia phone....not like my ugly sony ericsson...).
in the midst of waiting, I went in to Gramophone, a CD shop around the singtel shop at taka. and I really think that shop is quite cool. So i tried listening to cds there, the thing that I havent done since last march i think...haha (I rmb only me n alice enjoyed doing that)...
back to the main point...then I stumbled upon this Jamie cullum cd... I used to think he's songs are just so-so. (but alice thought otherwise)....haha
yup, so i re-listened to his songs and my ears were just so attracted to this song called "mind trick"...so up beat n unique.
so I came back n search online for his songs, and I found this website http://www.jamiecullum.com/jukebox/index.html
wow...free music!!! haha yup, and i just feel that the jazz music is just nice for my current state now, alone in the room, trying to work. it's just so soothing...yup. that's my new fave...

weekend! yay!...need to slack...

2006-09-08T08:25:00.000-07:00

haha...at last weekend come. I hope weekend can be my free day where i can do wadever i want...but i think it's not realistic at all. Maybe just tml (saturday). planning to play badminton with ismy at pgp...then maybe go bugis with yc...haiz, still not sure. but really got craving for shopping now...just wanna relax n "wash my eye" (red: cuci mata)....though i got a hole in my pocket aledy. where has all the money gone??
sunday is not free for me anymore since i gotta attend ballroom dance class...cha cha cha... which is actually getting more fun...but the problem is...I still got difficulty following and the steps are getting more complicated. it's really hard to look nice n slick while u have to follow a specific pattern which are quite new n confusing. but that's the challenge....
oh ya, got new move called new york new york....haha..I think it's a cool name n it looks quite nice...haha...
yep, enuf abt my dance lah. i think i'm a bit obsessed liao.
today I was quite busy running around attending different things. Though my timetable today supposed to be slack.
basically i only gpt 2 hrs of critical thinking n writing (ctw) in the morning...then i'm supposed to be free after that.
budden my og ppl wanted to meet for lunch (only some lah actually)...so i stayed back in sch n did my work for 2 hrs before going to arts canteen for lunch...
after lunch i came back pgp to slept n slack for a few hrs...
then at 4, I gotta attend this mentor mentee tea session...haha
my mentor is an indonesian haha...and so happens that, got another three ppl in the grp, excluding me, are also indonesians....wah...indonesians are really everywhere...
that's not the end. after the tea session i went basketball recreational. actually this is just for leasure playing lah. I can dun attend if i dun want to. but i think i want to make it a point to exercise at least once a week. maybe minggle ard n make friends too. as in, we all have passion for basketball n we play for fun. so, not so stress abt scoring n stuff. which is cool to me!
after basketball, i rushed for my bath at src n my dinner at yih before i go for red cross party...it's actually just a small gathering where they showed all the pictures of camps n introduced the new exco....haha...got pizzas n fruit salad too!
sigh...wad a long day. but i can say that i enjoy cca here so much more than during sec sch or jc....i dunno lah. even though i need to care abt cca points, but i feel that that's not the main thing. I just wanna have fun n learn new things. n hopefully that can help me to stay on in pgp (preferably the type a ) huahauaauhuahuha...
okay, need a rest now!
mission acomplished...

stress building up

2006-09-04T06:06:00.000-07:00

sigh...havent been updating my blog recently...i want to now...but too bad...
my EG 1413 homework is keeping me away from this. I have to resist to the temptation of continuing this but i have responsibilities to fulfil...
so...I'm going back to my critique writing which makes me very clueless after i read the article...my english standard is really really dropping...and i only have a few hrs to finish it....sigh...
i dunno why i'm doing this...haha...stress stress n more stress

i choose to do this....instead of my tutorial.

2006-08-28T07:39:00.000-07:00

yep, this is a postponed post...I shld have post this yesterday but somehow lotsa things that i need to do kept me away from my blog.
I went for red cross camp during the weekend. Yes, I have changed my cca. Now, I'm no longer part of the dragon boat team, though i wish I am.
I decided to go for red cross interview n yay, they accepted me!!!....haha maybe not a very big deal huh?
but why red cross...it's becoz i wanna learn first aid skills...haha I think it's kinda cool n useful too!
but as soon as I was accepted, I was told that i must go for compulsory common orientation for all the chapters in RCHN. Overwhelming it was, I needed to wash my clothes, eat my delayed dinner (instant noodle it was), pack all the things I need for camp in a few hours time. (We need to gather at 7, so must sleep early to wake up early) Luckily I got my new elle travelling bag. Luv it so much coz it's just very easy to just dumb all my stuff in. So packing was brief n good.
okay, i dun have the time to describe all the activities during the camp now (as u can see from the title, tutorials are still waiting for me...this is an escapade)
but it's mostly team bonding games. we were re-grouped with ppl from other chapters including other polys, unis n jcs...
the highlight of the games (personally for me) is the rafting. Though I was not very impressed with the making process. I remembered last time during OBS camp, we did a much much better n stronger raft that can accomodate almost 20 ppl.
at first I was reluctant to ride it coz it looks damn unstable. but in the end i decided to give it a shot coz the others said it was very fun.
It was fun indeed. but rather risky to operate in such a wavy sea. We were busy balancing the raft that we didnt have much time to enjoy pedalling.
the rest of the camp went well but of course it was less enthu compared to o'week. but the ppl I meet r nice, so no prob lah.
Elizabeth was in the camp too. She joined this cca earlier than me so she knows more ppl inside than me. n I guess she's part of the committee now. So, sometimes I hang around with the committee ppl too, namely Jasmine, wynne, dinesh, gordon (dunno how to spell his chinese name), n mohan.
they are nice ppl but since i was new, I could not gel with them that well. Sometimes I just feel damn out. but obviously it's not their problem. this is just the way it is. Then the other thing is that they really joke n talk cock a lot to each other, which i dun do to ppl I just noe. I just cant joke n talk cock usually unless I got common things too talk abt...
so that was one area where I was not very satisfied about, apart from the fact that I can see cliques forming in the chapter...sigh. I dun like it lah.
oh ya, actually got another unlucky thing happened during the camp...my grp got the duty to clean the female toliets...yucks, female toilet sux....all sorta things can be found there...bleaghs
okay, stop complaining gal! u still got maths tutorial glaring in front of u!...huaaaa...I wanna sleep liaozzzzz

the best o week!

2006-08-23T01:08:00.000-07:00

photos of the o week

dress nice nice for inauguration

before our SP game...say cheese!

sentosa day is muah chee-ing day

the most beautiful sunset!

we had good food...nyum!

getting ready for rag day...after 2 hrs of sleep only

zephyr's funky ogls

rigorous training...Dragon boat team, is it for me?

2006-08-23T00:22:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, sarah, as in 04s12 sarah, asked me to go NUS dragon boat training wif her...actually, I'm quite interested in it after I watched dragon boat competition on tv last holiday...it really looked damn cool everything is so coordinated...
yup, so I went to meet the ppl there... Oh gosh, the gals are super muscular lah...as in the senior...I felt inferior...haha
so i agreed to have training with them, it started with warming up n stretching n jumping jack..the normal stuff lah u noe. Even from this simple exercise, I can see that these ppl are super committed n discipline. they like did everything whole-heartedly...so i just follow oso since i dun mind doing exercise.
after warm up, we RAN to the gym...yes, we really ran, like mad bull...haha..
okay, reach gym....honestly, I never go gym before...okay, maybe got go...but never tried all the machines n stations....except for the treadmills...
luckily, we were divided into grps n I'm in a grp with another cindy...haha...cindy is such a common name...but i still like it...haha
yup the ppl in my grp are very nice, cindy, charmaine n amanda...n they taught me how to use each of the machines n taught me the breathing technique...
n I was damn amazed to see them do the heavy weights...crazy lah, i cant even do half of their weight...haha
after gym was medicine ball...It's an orange ball made of rubber n dunno wad else...coz from the look of it, it looks damn light n it seems to be very easy to pass the ball....
I got the shock of my life when I did the first pass, It was damn damn heavy lah. and it was hard to pass accurately...but after awhile i could get the hang of it n did okay lah...
but that was not all. Of course must do running rite...but yep, the fact is, NUS area is never flat....it's always uphill, downhill....can u imagine running up the slope...xiao lah!...but the team is super encouraging n very supportive. they kept shouting jiayou all the way when we ran. my badminton training last holiday have done me some good. I noe that my stamina is still there even though not as fit as the rest. I managed to complete the run n return to SRC feeling satisfied with myself.
the best part was, soya milk! they said that it's good for muscle recovery...after all the gymming n running, my muscles are damaged for sure...so soya milk is good!
yup, got to noe a few year ones there too...they are friendly bunch of ppl but the rest have known each other since they went for training for 2 weeks aledy...
they sure grew stronger after the training. can see that some of them are not the sport type but see how they can do a bit of pull-ups (still with help of course)...
went fong seng for supper (or dinner exactly)....i ate maggie mie chicken coz i suddenly got craving for it...but I promise next time I go there I'm gonna eat roti john, it looks super nice. n dun wanna order the ice blended anymore coz it's always too sweet. bleak!
yup, come back my room n can aledy feel that my hands were trembling. I think i strained my muscle too much aledy. so I bathed with hot water n applied so muscle rub before it gets worse.
luckily today I can still lift my hand n go lecture...haha but still quite pain lah.
see..this is my first training n they say that it was still slack. I dunno how tough it's going to get. I dunno whether this is the rite thing for me. I'm not very used to training hard 3 times a week. but I'm going to see how first coz this saturday is the really water training. someone, help me decide pls...I hate making decisions....
i hope my bone wont crack with this kind of intensive exercise....
i enjoyed it somehow. but the post-effect is really torturing...how??

adventurous me....

2006-08-18T08:37:00.000-07:00

today is really audition day for me...
i was actually totally free coz eg1413 has not started....
but today got 2 auditions that i attended...basically all singing one lah...
the first one is "voices", it's like the club of soloist...haha...I think i was a bit crazy when i decided to go for this...haha..but all this oso becoz i got one friend accompanying me there...just as crazy as me...yetfeng, this cool gal i met in zephyr. I see her almost everyday coz she's taking chem eng too!haha...
yup, then the second audition was choir, very classic but i think it's even tougher than voices...seriously....they asked me to do scales like a a a a a a a a a....down n up the scale, n i think i screwed it up.... but i dun really care lah. since i go there really for fun...if they really want me, i'll be very surprise oso....if they dun want, i won't be too dissapointed oso lah...expected. i'm not choir material i think....
but actually for those 2 auditions i only need to prepare once, coz can just sing the same song...haha...I sang "how do I live" by leanne Rhimes....
i wonder how i sounded during the auditions...I dun mind not getting the place but i just dun wanna sound bad n embarrasing...haha...anyway, it's purely for fun lah. I dun wanna do cca just for points...no fun at all.
oh ya, for both, actually they had short interview for me. but the ppl are super friendly which made me quite calm n I can really be myself during the interview...
not like the harmoc exco interview that I had in JC...bleh...bad memory...
and after both auditions, me n yet feng planned to go for CHeSS tea...it's not chess the game...it's chem n env eng society i think...haha...
but we were so late that we couldnt find a single person there...we expect to find some free food to fill our empty stomach...too bad lah. i dun think they even had food lah...haha
so we ended up eating at Engin canteen (techno edge)...had grilled chicken ...super nice i think...that was oso our first time eating at engin canteen even though we are from engin....we've been to business, arts, scince canteens but not engin. But engin canteen is really more spacious than the rest...maybe the variety is less...but not that bad lah...
shld try to explore ard campus more to find good food...
i think i begin to love the life here, since i got my good friends around, i can try different stuff that i never tried before...haha...
but i still miss my friends who are no longer in s'pore...alice, dwee n vidi...
hope u ppl doing fine too!

is this the rite choice?

2006-08-17T06:48:00.000-07:00

wad cca to join?...that's the common question ppl are asking ard here....
so ppl just wanna slack n dun join anything, some ppl are aledy very busy wif their hall stuff and the rest are just floating around trying all the ccas available...
maybe i'm one of the ppl from the third category. I dun exactly try all...but I'm trying to explore which is the right one for me....but the more I explore the more I cant decide...
but...tonite I went to social n ballroom dancing welcome tea...This may not be the usual me, if u realise. I seldom keep in contact with dancing stuff...music yes, but seldom dancing.
why ballroom dance...? honestly, I was inspired by the taiwan show...(this is wad i have been watching during the past holiday)...there's this one show hosted by jacky wu every weekend which always showcase ballroom dancing...somewad a competition. Yup, n after watching so many shows I am just curious n interested to try. becoz I think it's just unique n elegant...sexy too...haha
wadever, I signed up for it aledy...for the wed n sun slot....
but I realise that I need to spend a lot if I'm in this cca...dancing shoe n paying for the course itself....but actually wad I really worry abt is time management...
the courses are at nite n I just scared that I cant cope with all the upcoming assignments n tutorials....
but i oso think that uni is my last chance of exploring all the unusual stuff that I dun get to try before....so I shall gather all my courage n commitment to try wadever else I enjoy...
hope I can still manage well and the money I paid is worth it...

"Scholar" is a taboo....

2006-08-16T08:30:00.000-07:00

just came back from Suntec for our OG outing...
it's like a wrap up of the o week...but this would not be the end....this is just the beginning...wakakak...so philosophical....
yup, we ate n talk kok at swensens...ask the guys to do arm wrestling....n wadever other silly games.
n we ended the nite wif a toast at the sky garden. I think everyone in the OG are glad that they join Zephyr...same here too...this is like the best OG that I ever have....hope we'll always stay in touch even though school stuff will start pilling up soon i'm sure...
yup...that was the happy2 part....
haha...
then abt the title of this blog which i am abt to address...(hmm sounds a bit like GP essay aledy)
why does the issue come about....
because it was brought up by someone...yeah...should keep the person anonymous...haha
yup...but I really feel that I have to comment on this one to set ppl's mind set correctly...at least for me n my friends.
I have been a scholar in S'pore for 4 years....and I feel that the word scholar is very very sensitive. It's better to hide your identity as a scholar than to boast abt it. Maybe in your home country, being a scholar is a pride. but if u reveal or introduce urself as a scholar here...u are doomed...
haha
i am saying this from personal experience.
during this engin o week, i always try to keep low profile, especially wif my surname being so unique. I just dun hope that a string of questions start coming to me....
typical kinda questions are something like this....
a: oh your surname is so unique.../ where do u stay?
b: I'm a foreigner from Indonesia....
a: oh really, i didnt know that...

if the conversation just ended there without further interogation...that will be fine n cool. which was wad happen to me during the camp...n I am well accepted although I am a bit different. coz of course I put in my effort to blend in oso...after all I am a chinese....we shld look abt the same...haha (wad crap is this)
but when ppl start finding out that u came here on scholarship...I can hear cynical tone setting in...haha

yup, ppl's perception of a scholar is something like this:
nerd, antisocial, only care abt books, lecture, tutorial, mugger.....yar, u noe all those characters....haha
but seriously, being a scholar is just like being a normal youth, teenage who has life not only inside their little academic world....
scholars are just like every other students....some maybe smarter some may not be that smart...but does it reallly matter...it's just one of the talents that u got. Different ppl excel in different things ....we are humans too... we have our fun time, we have our partying time, we got our hang out time, ...basically we are all the same..
but why ppl like to look at scholar differently, maybe treat scholar differently too?....haiz....this is a question hard to anwser....
but it's oso not rite for me to generalise that... coz obviously there are some scholars that care abt their academic performance more than others....I mean, mug more, more hardworking n so on....but is there anything wrong wif that? ppl just have different priorities in life...
but I'm happy n proud to be a scholar. just dun treat me differently. I'm normal human just like the rest of u....
I think I'm speaking for some ppl out there too...rite?haha

rag day....

2006-08-14T02:12:00.000-07:00

continuation....
haha my previous blog is too long aledy, decide to chop it of there...
this one is abt the rag day, the day after drinking games...or shld i say the same day as the drinking game....
i only took short 2 hrs nap....on lt chairs..imagine how uncomfortable it was, but amazingly i still managed to sleep for awhile....haha
woke up early n get ready to cheer for the rag team....go engin go!
but actually after seeing sheares rag (though they didnt win)....i dun really like engin rag...like not so well planned. but still have to give the compliments to those who were willing to spend their nites there instead of sleeping at home...salute!
oh ya, i painted my hand wif the word "engin" in blue...then when the sun strikes, there it left a mark on my left arm....luckily the ones on my face didnt leave any trace..fiuh...if got, i just wont dare to step out of my room lah...
the rest of the day was pretty normal, just had dinner at newyork newyork @citilink n end up talking rubbish...yar that's wad ppl do when they are tired...

quite sad that o week has aledy ended...wish it could be longer...but maybe not. i dun want my bones to crack after that....to tired lah sometimes but overall super duper enjoyable...haha

from sentosa day till today....part 1

2006-08-14T01:29:00.000-07:00

wait...when did i go sentosa ya??
it seems like very long time ago. my biological cycle was sorta ruined n sometimes i dunno when's the time to sleep n when's the time to wake up. thanks to the endless cards n games sessions....
oh ya, back to sentosa day...flash back!
that morning i was a bit panicky coz i just realised that i havent submit my reimbursement form to yih (the deadline was 3 days ago...yep i was late)...but luckily they stil wanted to accept it...fiuhhh fiuhhhh...task 1: done!
yup, then i rushed back pgp to meet irma as she is going to sentosa too! yiiipieee got someone to go together....
yep, we stopped at harbour front there n we went our own way. I went to meet zephyrians n had heavy lunch before the wet n crazy day ahead....
i believe palawan beach looked like a sea of oranges wif all the engin ppl wearing those orange singlet... haha but it is a nice colour...happy n cheerful!
n of course, orientation @ sentosa will not be perfect without any wet games...we literally had "buffet of wet games" (quoted from yi xing)...haha...
but playing on the beach n in the sea really made me think back of the times in vhall...we were so near to the beach n yet we seldom played there...only went ecp to run or to see ppl build sand castle...oh...i missed those times a lot...
anyway, sentosa is actually more fun lah....can dunk ppl, can muachi ppl, do stupid things without caring wad the passer-by would say coz we were in such a big grp...haha... oh ya, highlight of the day, getting dunked in "unusual manner" twice...haha...i didnt noe whether i flip or not during the dunk...just couldnt feel aledy...
at the end of the day, i was totally roasted esp my shoulders...red like boiled crab...even as i'm writing this my shoulder is still red, though not as painful as it was that day...
the climax of the day was the camp fire though i didnt really enjoy it as much as the wet games....coz it was so dark n crowded...haha...but not bad lah..that was my first camp fire wif all the singing n mamboing...haha
after that, as if we were not tired at all, we still had supper...
that nite, i reached my room at 11 plus...tiring but wif very pleasant feelings..haha...that's when i was trigerred to make cards for the ogls coz i think they had put in so much effort n gave us so much fun during this orientation week. i must say that it's even more fun than vj orientation.... thanks a lot for turning my boring days staying alone in pgp into a more fantastic week...
yup, but that was not the end yet...
the next day i had some talk over wif the CHESS...haha 1 day camp thingy lah but i was not very interested to join them coz i had my sense of belonging on zephyr aledy...bleah this sounds very cliche'...wadever...but that's how i felt lah...
classmates can know them next time during boring tutorials...but og ppl wont meet that often liao mah...
yep, in the end i cao halfwaf to join the food hunt at engin o weeek...
before leaving, yi xing baked a cheese cake for us...super nice. it was different from the cheesecake i made before. it was baked, mine was only refrigerated...but both are nice...haha
the food hunt is just a shopping trip from one supermarket to the others...form PS, Bugis, Queensway wif a series of tasks to complete....
but food hunt was not the fun part lah...the interesting part is that we need to prepare some nice dishes for the judges wif the materials we bought...I'm damn proud of the food that our grp prepared...super duper nice...too bad we didnt win...but that doesnt really matter isnt it?....it was the fun that counts...really
that nite was supposed to be the finalle nite for us...ohhh so sad lah, esp if the thought of lectures n tutorials come to mind...haha
yup, the o week comm ppl showed us the videos of all the things that we had gone thru...
we ended it wif mamboing the whole nite...but honestly some of the songs are just wrong they shld play rnb...haha rnb rox!...haha..nevertheless i had lotsa fun...but the sticky honey was just yucky!haha
yup...
guess wad, the day never really ended yet, we played drinking games n thru'out the nite...wad a tiring day!
to be continued....

turning zombie soon - biological cycle screwed

2006-08-08T02:07:00.000-07:00

feels like i havent been stepping into my room for so long n havent been using my laptop for ages.....lt 7 has become permanent home for shelterless zephyrians....
sigh...another night without sleep, which is apparently a common thing during camps or orientations in uni....
but I didnt feel any strong objection for that since we had so much fun....
yup, again orientation stuff.
morning, land games which ended in confussion as it started to rain n we couldnt continue playing in the open area. but overall the games really strengthen team bonding n gave us the chance to sabo councillors....but they actually do the saboing among themselves...haha we just requested for HAHA stone for every "task" done....
after the morning games, we had inauguration ceremony which is a formal thing that not many ppl look forward to except to get the nice file...even the seniors wanted us to take some spare ones for them...how desperate is that....?
but the ceremony is nothing but just speeches, pledge, performances and refreshment....oh ya, the performance by the accapella grp the resonance (similar to vj harmoc's concert name)was quite impressive though a bit too draggy. nevertheless, accapella grps always manage to wow me....
yup, after the ceremony was sp game...secret pal. I must say, this is the part where i really dun enjoy, though lots of effort have been put in to organise this. but the idea of randomly matchmaking ppl is never rite...(hey, i've done speed dating experiment for pw, u noe?...but wad's the link ya? haha. the game of angel n mortal during jc seem to be more enjoyable n less threatening...imagine u are blind-folded n paired wif a guy u dun noe at all....
yup, basically we were blind-folded using rubbish bag (that black one lah...) cut into long strips.... first of all, the blind-fold is super uncomfortable that my eyes sweat...how bad is that?
to top that up, we waited damn damn long before we were paired up....again randomly, by drawing lot...
last but not least, it's the partner that i got. actually i doesnt matter as it's just a one day programme thingy. so i dun care that much. when we were blind-folded n talk, he sounded like an okay person to me...as in sounded quite mature....
budden, when i saw him in person n saw wad he did wif his og mates (the guys esp), i'm not very impressed by that. I think that he's rather immature n he's just not my type lah...haha....anyway, this SP game actually made me realise how I treasure the ppl in my og...including the guys. they seem to be more proper, have more respect for the girls n seem to be friendlier...this is really a compliment....
hopefully my SP partner do not get to read this.haha...
but seriously, this sorta game is just a waste of time n i dun enjoy it...
after that SP games, we wanted to bathe. but sadly, everybody in the orientation oso wanted to bathe at the same time while the shower cubicles are just so limited....
after queuing for so long, we gave up n decided to get to the guys toilet and use the shower while nobody's there....of course the gentlemen in zephyr nicely offered their service to guard the toilet door just in case other guys wanna intrude...haha
ooppps...Is this not supposed to be said..haha...but it's just funny when I knew that the guys actually turned down a few other guys who wanted to use the guy's toilet....haha thx lah.
but our bathing beccame in vain as to get back to engin block from SRC we need to walk...n stupidly, we chose the shelterless route under the heavy rain...
as a result, we used our towels to cover the head and run like mad ppl to engin block...
ard 3 am in the morning, ppl beginning to feel hungry n decided to order Mcdonald's deliveries....before eating, i managed to steal a super short nap before the LT is full of distractions from freshies n ogls who have the hobby of singging karaoke.
as a result, I didnt get enuf sleep coz we needed to get ready at 530 am for flag day today...crazy loh...
yup, n flag day was done under very very tired mode. I even fell asleep as I was "dumped" in the van, to be transported to buona vista mrt....
my og was not the super enthu one abt getting the most donations. but i just feel that everybody cares for everybody elses... n I'm proud of my og because of that.
after the tiring flagging until 10 plus, we decided to ciaooo to orchard...haha running away from flag day. we had a brief lunch n I ended up joining some of them in K-box...something that I never tried throughout my 4 yrs in sg oltho it's kinda a trend here.
K-box was not a boring as I thot i would be as I have more exposures to chinese songs during the 7 months hols...haha
that was really fun n entertaining. shld try again next time...
I'm really tired now, dying to sleep but scared i cant sleep at nite after a short nap.
oh ya, tml got pinus activities which I still havent decide whether shld go or not...see the rest lah...haha...

zephyr-zephyr no1!

2006-08-05T20:54:00.000-07:00

yay!
feeling hyper today, even though i only got 3 hrs of sleep.
the reason being is that, I'm just back from my orientation week, first day!....
I enjoy it so much yesterday. this is my first time after the 7 months break, making so many friends that i actually talk to, minggle ard, play stupid games, do stupid cheers to please the station master. i would like to describe further but words just cant seem enuf to express them all...so just leave it there...haha..sounds so cliche lah...
get wet n stinky after all the running ard nus for scavenger hunt...i emphasise AROUND NUS...which is like damn damn big lah....run from one corner to the other, from one dark tunnel to the next haunted house wif dummies or ppl there posing as the ghost...walau....quite scary actually....
bathe at 2 am in the morning using freezing cold water at SRC....but feel totally refreshed after that....n went for cheese prata supper at fongseng...
back to lt7, supposedly to sleep, but thx to the creative minds of my og ppl, we keep playing grp games even w/o prompting from the councillors. they even came up wif creative forfeit....and I kena once lah so far...
maybe that's the speciality of my og, always like to sabo ppl wif "challenging" forfiet....
really must thx the councillors for being so on from the very beginning n make us bond so well.... i cheer up aledy....yay!
but tiring days are waiting to come as the orientation series is not over yet....
yep...

i get back my peaceful room

2006-08-04T06:58:00.000-07:00

at last, i manage to remove the bug which has been exploring my room for dunno how long....I feel terrorised by the bug that I couldnt have my peaceful sleep last nite. the buzzing sound of the wings n the sound of the hard excoskeleton hitting the 4 walls of my room is just super unpleasant that I hid under my blanket. u can laugh lah, but that's how much i hate bugs, insects n the family (everything with many legs). hopefully tonite i can properly recharge myself for tommorow's o week.
erlin moved out of pgp today. i dunno whether i shld be happy or sad for her....but i'm sad myself coz one less friend to disturb n to accompany me during lunch/dinner time without taking shuttle bus. I really feel lonely in this big place with so many ppl. ppl here are not as friendly as i expect, they just come n go.
my typical meal here is "sit down at one corner, staring at my phone as company". I noe I sound like a dumb person but that's how it is. sad aint it? or another option that wont make me look so dumb is to "dabao" n eat in my room while staring at my comp. I think if i continue this way, my only friends are gadgets.
actually I oso make some new friends wif the Indos here but somehow, i dun have the eagerness to stick to them. I just feel different. talking to fellow G11ers seem to be much easier.even though i noe some of their names(the new peeps), conversation is just a filler. no real interest somehow. they are busy with things that i dun understand. maybe we just have different lives.
tml o week shld be my window opener.oh pls, let me meet new friends that i can click with.
i noe i sound so sad n despo. but not too worry, I'll get back to my cheerful self once i noe more ppl n feel comfortable. i can manage okay!

the aftermath

2006-08-01T06:49:00.000-07:00

went for med check up today....the thing i hate the most...esp the blood test. I just looked away and squeeze my hand hard when the nurse took my blood. and my arm still hurts until now. hiks. actually not that bad lah, but i'm always traumatised after every blood check...hiiiii luckily over liao
then after that i made yc run back n forth from engin block to university hall there just to find out that I'm too kanchiong abt reimbursement...haha...sorry yc..
oh ya, then met some indos in PGP, they are quite friendly but i really dunno any of them lah. I think they are mostly newbie...so young...me so old.haha...this one not impt lah. shld be more open n make friends now. that's why i decided to go for engin camp. hopefully it's fun n wont get ostracised....
need to bid for modules soon but feel super lost now coz i dun have the bulletins which cost 10 bucks...sigh money money money. uni life is very very different from JC or sec where u can just anyhow follow ppl. now i have to determine my own path but I'm so scared of making mistakes...that's my weakness. a perfectionist at heart. haha I admit it myself actually.
the 3rd is my matric day. another hectic day, yet super impt. and must decide wad cca I'm joining later. I'm so divided coz i feel like tying everything but I got the premonition that i'll be like the old times where I'm just too lazy to sign up due to the auditions.haha...just take the easy way. but why not try n adventure?
these days my life only evolves ard uni life only. nothing else to boast abt...haha
but it's good to see more n more familiar faces around.