Tuesday, October 31, 2006

sunday was quite exciting. and it started early too...at 5.30am! helped mummy to get ready, esp with tanning her back because latin dancers cant afford to look pasty, that just doesn't bring out the feel of the samba and rhumba and cha-cha. haha. i realised that sally hansen's body tanning spray lasts for a week, so both my palms are waaaaay darker than the rest of my arms and hands now. -__-

the boy came down to support mummy too, thanks dear :) honestly, this was my first time watching such a competition and it is soooo cool!!! really wanna learn and be good at it!
more photos on mummy laterrr.....

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

it's halfway through the week but it's hell-rest-of-the-week ahead.

boo.

Monday, October 23, 2006

do u ever wonder what people are really like when they don't have to bother with their image? when they're alone, by themselves. when they can do stuff being anonymous?

do you ever wonder if this person you know as a friend is any different when he/she is away from friends as compared to when in the company of others? do you think about why there is a discrepancy in behaviour and attitudes, if any?

i do. but i don't know why. more importantly, i don't know why this person can be like that at all! in a wired up society like ours, in this modern day and time, we hear that anything is possible, because technology has transcended so many barriers such that anonymity is a trivial issue in a sense. we hear of unknown others engaging in activities that amuse you, that shock you, that make you wonder the reason behind those acts. and yet, nothing creates a bigger impact than knowing someone who would do that. depending on the circumstances, on history, and on relationships, the implications are....interesting. interestingly positive or not, that's entirely subjective. but disappointment sure isn't something that doesn't pop into your head.

why?

the boy spent quite a bomb on friday's dinner. not entirely because he felt rich haha, but because the restaurant totally ripped us off. Big Time.

ck, yiming, the boy and i went to vivocity for dinner after their lab ended at 6...as expected, the throngs of pple strolling about the new mega mall was insane. even worse was the ~5m long queue outsie sushi tei. we stood in line (just in case the line actually moves fast) while ck and yiming searched for alternatives for their starving stomachs.

we ended up at another jap restaurant shi kuyaki is the name if i didn't remember wrongly. waited quite abit for the table although there were 2 empty tables that were already set;
waited for them to realise that we needed a menu and they only gave us 1;
waited to order;
waited for our ocha;
waited waited for the appetizer;
waited waited waited the sashimi;
waited waited waited waited for the wagyu beef;
waited waited waited waited waited for the rest of the food that never arrived.

so there, service really isn't something to talk about over there. i think the 'highlight' of the dinner were the wagyu beef cuts that strangely seemed to have the dimensions of your middle finger. (if u have a big hand and long fingers, try your pinky instead). Absolutely TINY. and $23 for 5 pieces of that...our jaws nearly dropped when the beef reached our table. regarding the rest of the food that never came, that was only because 1 order was left out, and the other was subsequently cancelled. so that was the $106 dinner. and the boy was still starving.

next up...dessert! i can't ever get tired of seeing dessert haha. haagen daaz was packed as well, so we sat outside which wasn't too bad either. ck had a red bean sahara ice cream blend, yiming a single scoop cookies n cream cone, the boy ordered a brownie and a chocolate fondue. was quite shocked cos that's too much dessert at one go! well, it sure wasn't for him though.

the brownie with ice cream on the top and hot coffee at the bottom was positively amazing. never tried brownie swimming in coffee before. it's good :) the fondue...was quite good too. except that the belgian chocolate stopped melting towards the end and there wasn't any soft gooey thick choco to dip the stff into...nearly couldn't walk after 'dinner' part 2! and he still wanted godiva's chocolate drink! but godiva was done for the night. too bad dear, we'll get it another time ok?

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

cramming through articles of nanostructure really saturates my head...paper after paper of tensile strength, elastic modulus, interlocking platelets of aragonite and calcium carbonate composition, mineral bridges, mineral island like nanoasperites, positively charged protein polymer adhesive that glues the aragonite platelets together in a hexagonal structure...and how SEM, AFM, electron microscopy and i-dunno-what-other-microscope come into play in examining these structures in at the micro and nano scale....

bleah.

but my part for this paper is still nonexistent, i'm only STILL reading papers and noting down points. no consolidation yet. no organisation of points yet. no paragraphs yet. no 3000 words yet.

oh wait, that applies to my emotions term paper due next week too...save for the fact that i haven' even started reading papers for THAT paper yet.

HELP.

oh again, there's the genbio lab assignment due this friday, i don't even know what questions we have to answer yet.

and there's the biopsyc meeting tonight to discuss our presentation, which i have not found all the answers yet. because we have to submit our questions by friday in preparation for the 20% presentation next wed in class.

is that it?

yes, for now.

i don't even have space to think about the deadlines for the nanoworld project and clinical lab term paper.

oh, and there's all that back-lagged readings for emotions, biopsyc, general bio, and catching up on lectures for nanoworld because evening lectures 2 days in a week are just neither friendly nor conducive for consistent attendance.

brilliant.

every song tells a story.

i'm sure lots of us can connect songs with experiences of our own, whether or not they're memories u smile, frown or even tear at. heard such a song last friday while shopping after class in vivocity. i still remember, it was at esprit.


saying i love you
is not the words i want to hear from you
it's not that i want you
not to say, but if you only knew
how easy it would be to show me how you feel
more than words is all you have to do to make it real
then you wouldn't have to say that you love me
cos i'd already know

what would you do if my heart was torn in two
more than words to show you feel
that your love for me is real
what would you say if i took those words away
then you couldn't make things new
just by saying i love you

now i've tried to talk to you and make you understand
all you have to do is close your eyes
and just reach out your hands and touch me
hold me close don't ever let me go
more than words is all i ever needed you to show
then you wouldn't have to say that you love me
cos i'd already know

Thursday, October 12, 2006

been eating quite abit of yummy stuff lately...how did it end up like that?!?! what happened to not eating so much....?! haha.

Sat 7th oct
met the boy for lunch in town..i was late again. as usual. sorry!! found him at the library. initially he wanted dim sum at dong hai, which unfortunately, has yet to reopen for business due to renovation or something like that..don't worry dear, u'll get to eat it very soon! so we settled for thai food at this thai restaurant opposite cocoa at taka. i forgot the name of the place -_- what lured us (or him rather) was their mini thai dessert buffet (or thai dessert mini buffet...? this makes it easier to draw the 'tree' haha). quite yummy i would say...the rainbow-kueh (otherwise known to most people as jiu ceng gao), coconut-waterchestnut kueh, coconut-kaya kueh, tapioca...and a bunch of other stuff that i don't know how to describe. thanks dear for lunch :)

wandered around kino abit after that. somehow when we're in town, we always end up at kino...for your comics!!! haha. checked out a book on san fran since that's where berkeley is (and this is assuming that i really do get to spend 1 sem in UCB...), but somehow i just didn't feel all that excited about going over to the US again. maybe it's cos i've been to sanfran and some of the places around it, but still.....when am i not elated over travelling out of singapore? NEVER! what's wrong this time? :( the boy had to leave soon after lunch cos he was scheduled for work at 6pm...i did sthg weird when i got home that evening..i went jogging. yup on sat evening when the psi index was sky-rocketing at around 100 units, no thanks to the effects of the weather on our neighbours' forests.

Mon 9th oct
the boy had to pick up his cheque at dreamforest pdtns around selegie area, so we decided to meet at ps, pick up his long-overdue payment, and head off for lunch at the jap place beside manhattan fish market. lunch there was good as usual, it's my 2nd time there! had healthy soupy udon with mushrooms, egg and tofu and he had his usual udon-soup-thingy. forgot the name again. for $6 u get noodles, a handroll, green tea and dessert...that's pretty decent!

what good timing chee keong had....just as we were done picking out whatever groceries we wanted from carrefour, he called to ask if we could eat out cos he was so severely sick of hall dinners! good timing....because we were just about to pay. so there, we had to return all the juice and wine back to the shelves and wait for ck and sha at mos where both of us attempted to read notes and stuff, all the while freezing our butts off in the pseudo-sub-zero fastfood place. sha was a challenge to contact...she received 14 missed calls from us before we finally got to talk to her! haha!!

so dinner was at thai express. decided to get the ultra spicy phad thai noodles...it has 3 chilli padi symbols next to it! didn't think much of it when the plate of noodles sat in front of me...the boy kept saying that it resembled some noodles from malaysia. but after mixing in the chilli powder and whatnot...whoa! it was really quite hot...nearly felt steam from my burning lips. haha, so much for trying out the chilli stuff, my tongue was kinda numb the whole meal actually...

Tue 10th oct
had an impromptu meet up with the band girls at holland v for dinner. it was tuesday so naturally...we headed to gelare's! hadn't had that for soooo long i can't even recall the last time! although it was last minute and we didn't hang out for long...i enjoyed seeing u girls again! but then, since when have i not had fun meeting up with u all?! haha. never lor.....

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

satisfied my craving for hokkien mee last friday when i met ivan for dinner at chomp chomp!! it was kinda a last minute thing, but it was really great meeting up ivy!!! yup, for the 1st time at chomps, there wasn't alot of food. ordered i mean. we only had 1 hokkien mee, 1 char kway teow, and 1 stingray..which was yummy :) oh and how can i forget, that Huuuge jug mug of lime juice! although $2.50 for a drink at a hawker is relatively steep, this was quite worth it, i feel.

i was full to the brim, but after walking a coupla rounds around the shops and cafes at gardens, we succumbed to the lure of Gelato! interesting flavours we had..honey & clover and cookies & cream. ok make that 1 interesting flavour -_- it's been a while since we've talked like that huh, ivy? haha. enjoyed myself though :)

Wednesday, October 04, 2006

my back hurts....my lower back hurts. because fell on the stairs!

ouch!

slipped on one of the steps on the way down the flight when moving from the 4th floor to the 3rd floor of block e. and ended up sitting on the bottom step! which means that my foot slipped, i lose my balance, and my butt hit the first step....and the 2nd step.....and the 3rd step.....and the 4th step.....which was really painful.

initial reaction was just to sit there on the step and stone for a while, while waiting for the pain to set in. and then the pain was so sharp that all i could manage at that time was to say ouch and laugh..haha.

Monday, October 02, 2006

miss some of my friends whom i've not met for a while. with the exception of gwen and nick tan who are still in singapore thank goodness, dan, joel and jem are not!!! they're all over away from home...in michigan, toronto and melbourne. boo...

jem
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a blur photo of jem...taken from the side-back view, which is as good as saying that his face cant quite be seen. haha. it's been a while since we talked, even on msn....hope to talk to u soon :)

nich tan
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the last time we met was only a coupla weeks ago for supper in hall....gotta meet up again! esp since he stays down the slope so to speak haha. and that time when my phone screwed up and didn't hear your calls and hence thought that you wouldnt turn up....my bad. cos you did and my phone screwed up and so i couldnt open the door. nevertheless, i appreciate it that you bothered to come up the slope because i was feeling down :)

gwen
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gwen my dear girl...thanks for always being there to listen to me and all the WEIRD stories i have to tell you. haha. haha those stories spice up your life i know :)

joel and fluff
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jo-uh-lll, i really miss our prata or just foodie outings when u were still in ns, and basically, still in singapore! i'm still waiting for your break pudding.......! and you are not coming back till summer 07! that's too long.....maybe i'll go visit u in toronto :)

dan @ ink club
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daniel at ink club and bar at raffles. when are you coming back daniel?!!!!!

it feels strained. u probably will not want to read anything like this coming from me. but it is. i can feel it and i know you can too. i know what is going through your mind after u've read the 1st few lines so far...that somebody is not trying hard enough. either that, or somebody is doing for the sake of doing, not because of the desire to do it. sigh.

beg your pardon for ignorance on our part for not knowing that the shuttle bus runs of the same term schedule, even during the mid sem break. pardon again for not asking to clarify and merely assuming. pardon yet again for not wanting to take the bus and prefering to walk up multiple flights of stairs although walking and the bus ride might have taken the same amount of time. pardon me for borrowing the vcds from my aunt because i couldn't remember the title of the korean show that you downloaded over the hols. and lastly, pardon our friend for coming to school to visit us because if not there would not have been the whole bus-issue and you would not have hung up on me.

it's not as if i never told you during the week that i'll be going home on thursday night because i have to visit a dementia home on friday morning at 9am at toa payoh, and it'll be more convenient to travel to toapayoh from thomson instead of heng mui keng. but you just didn't remember. i didn't mean to give you the attitude like that in the evening when bing and sha were around, that's why i called you thereafter at 8pm. but your tone over the line...is it so hard to say "bye"? or is it easier to hang up?

and...





marshmellows can be kept.

been kinda lazy to post up anything for a long time. guess it was the case of not having any mood to type stuff...and not wanting to post up alot of feelings. so there.

vicky and i were supposed to the so-called 'open house' at en-motion dance studio today, to check out what they had to offer and sign up for any courses since there'll be a 20% discount only for today. it was disappointing though because the studio was reallly tiny, seems to be the size of my room at home..that's too small to move around comfortably! and to think that we walked from tanjong pagar mrt all the way there :(

since we were already out, our lazy bones didn't want to come out again just to take a look at the other schools, so we decided to check out the other schools after the tg pagar school. next stop-->a n j studio at chinatown point. on the way there vicky brought me up to her gym fitness first at raffles place...i love the pool esp the way it looks over shenton way!! abit scary though -_- weirdly enough, there was an oldies-chinese songs contest at chinatown point where lots of seniors were belting out really old chinese pieces that made goosebumps appear on our arms. we were quite freaked out by that honestly haha!

after a n j, it was actfa in chinatown. it's actually the same place as xenbar that salsa club that conducts lessons. complicated payment system for that school honestly. and they have like 10 levels for intermediate level salsa. omg. are they insane. that's too many! after checking out 3 schools and walking alot alot alot, my dear cousin was becoming incoherent from the lack of glucose haha, so we dropped by macs and the traditional dessert place opp macs too. disappointed again because they didnt have the black sesame paste that i wanted. peanut paste was out also. so i could only settle for walnut paste. i think i shall stick to zi ma hu. their mango sago thingy is pretty yummy though, and refreshing on a humid day like TOday.

made our way to millenia walk after lunch..to check out jitterbugs. the studios are huge..i like! but the receptionist was really horrible. horribly rude. his attitude totally stinks! both of us were so pissed off with that fair-spiky-haired-specky guy with an arrogant attitude to boot. unfortunately, after looking through the various schedules of the schools that we visited today, only jitterbugs seems to be suitable. argh.

finally tried the hong kong cafe today! we went to the one at marina square. both of us had their famous thick sliced toast. ms victoria took french toast which was yummilicious and i had the toast with condensed milk and peanut butter which wasn't as yummy :( but i satisfied my craving for the hk-style yuen-yang drink (if that's what it's called)!!

called the boy on the way home from city hall. his parents just gave him a lift back to hall...we didn't really talk much, or at least he didn't. told him stuff that happened today. but all he said during the whole conversation was "ok", "ok", "ok" and "uh-huh". erm....alright if that's all you have to say.