The Dinosaur Chronicles

2012-02-14T00:01:00.000+08:00

“Happy Valentines Day to those who have found love, in whatever shape or form, and to those who are still hunting, don’t give up. If you feel bad, send yourself a card. You must be worth it...” ― Jeanette Winterson

And so I jumped on the bandwagon that is the iWhatever

2012-02-12T11:41:00.001+08:00

I forgot to mention that I have finally got the cash to get an iPhone. That was way back in January on the 19th, which makes it about 1 month old already. LOL oh yeah and the cover's dying already okay. Lousy made in china things. It's safe to say I'm still pretty please with breaking the bank and bombing $498 in cash on it.. except for the occasional lagging at the home screen finger slide detection.. Is that normal?

Into week 6 of school now, recess week is starting on the 19th! The up side of having only 3 mods this semester is that you don't feel so drained. Also, a 4 day week feels awesome especially since last semester was a bloody disaster with insanely long 5 hour breaks in between lessons, and almost 3 day's worth of 8am classes. Sem 2, I couldn't love you more.

Having said that, I will not procrastinate. I will not procrastinate. I will not procrastinate.

3 things on my mind right now

2012-01-29T23:26:00.001+08:00

1. I'm getting fat and all that fat is accumulating at my abdominal region ): Bahhh
2. My mind is blown into bits and pieces (like what happens in the big bang collision but less violent) because I finally have a glimpse of how the universe works through this dvd borrowed from the library. Mind blown awesomeness for 5 hours.
3. I actually can't wait for Tuesday to be here (bored down to the bones)

2012-01-18T20:19:00.000+08:00

I was at the bakery today and I had a silent debate with myself over chocolate stuffing bread (which is awesome btw). There were only 3 of it left and I still had to buy another loaf of bread, so just to be safe, I stood by a corner and started counting my coins to make sure I have enough cash to buy both items. Just as I finished counting, this fat ass (literally) woman who probably weighs 3 times my weight, walked past me with the 3 chocolate buns; just rubbing her victory in my face ): Oh god, she was really of epic proportions and I could have helped her save up some calories.
Actually, no I'm just sad because I couldn't eat my chocolate bun ):

2012-01-17T21:08:00.001+08:00

I need to stop being so righteous.
I need to stop being so stubborn.
I need to get a stupid grip on myself.

In this World, it's all about survival of the fittest. Stop whining about how the World isn't fair and how things don't always go the way you expect it to. Random things happen all the time, and dealing with it the right way is way better than complaining. Suck it up Dino, suck it up.

day 01

2012-01-10T23:36:00.000+08:00

It's only the first day of semester 2 and I don't know why I get so annoyed by the things I see/people do. I really think half of me is secretly a control freak (like, a real OCD control freak EVERY SINGLE DAMN THING MUST GO MY WAY) and I think I bear grudges for a pretty long time. Okay maybe not exactly the word 'bear' but I tend to remember not liking a certain fella and if that fella has done things which are mind blowing and WAY WAY beyond what I can accept then yes, he/she kinda gets a mark on my burn book and I will probably always remember why I dislike that particular someone so much for a very very very long time to come. Not easy to get in my burn book anyway, you must be really really annoying idiots like this 2 people who I have particular distaste for in my cohort. You can be annoying but safe from the pages of my burn book too anyway.

SO MUCH ANGST THAT HAS TO GO BEFORE DAY 2 STARTS TML OMG I CAN DO THIS RAWRRR.

2012-01-07T22:57:00.002+08:00

Conformity was never a part of me which is maybe why I can get really annoyed by political correctness even though I tend to behave that way with people whom I barely know. But omg once you get to know the true blue me, stripped right down to the core of my soul.. I will bear my true colours as brightly as a gay Christmas tree. Count down to school starts in less than 72 hours ZOMGZOMG AHHHHHH

Oh yeah, every time my Singtel contract comes to an end, a new dilemma surfaces: What phone to get? Was just discussing this with Ivy (who uses a 4S now) about how if 10 people were to fall down/drop their phones on a bus at the same time, chances are 7 of them will be scouting for phones which look the same and if all their phone covers were to fall off then.. GG. Sorry, an almost impossible scenario BUT STILL. Okay I shall go sleep. MAHJONG TML \m/

My New Year Resolution, regards from Neil Gaiman himself

2011-12-31T00:00:00.000+08:00

'I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind.'

I don't want to end 2011 with a cold

2011-12-29T20:10:00.000+08:00

Yeah, I have the Cold. It's flu season, gee am I lucky or what. It crept up on me on Monday, went full blown (with the scratchy throat, unceasing runny nose and a slight fever) on Tuesday and Wednesday, and today, it kinda mellowed down a bit but there's still those annoying sneezing and abundant release of histamine. Annoying. I still went out on the last 2 days, including today, when I should be at home sleeping. Yeah, I suck.

Anyway, this puny island is really packed. I hate it how almost location is bombarded with human traffic and certain people from certain countries. Their antics and the way they carry themselves are disgusting.

Checked out A&F today with Dorotthy, I'm really not used to the entire store concept with dimmed lights, half naked (hot enough for me, but not as hot as the ang mohs back in America-according to Dot) male greeters at the door and the many mirrors they place inside. It's like everywhere I turn, I feel like I'm walking into a mirror/wall ): And damn it's so crowded too. Apparently the prices here are steeper.
Okay I should really sleep early tonight.

2011-12-24T22:50:00.001+08:00

It's Christmas Eve!
Christmas is really no big deal to me or my family, every year it comes and passes silently, the public holiday which comes with it means a family prawn mee session in Geylang. It's located at Lor24A if I didn't remember it wrongly and still as awesome after these 15 years, especially the soup!

Anyway, what is the meaning of Christmas? Is it somewhat lost in this mass market consumerism chaos? Have people been seduced by 'SALE' signboards and blinded by the ever-blinding mutual gift exchanges? I don't know where the interpretation of Christmas as one that includes Santa Claus, hanging socks by the chimneys and gift exchanges came from.. Nor do I have any of these at home. Even though we don't celebrate Christmas with turkey and log cakes (Like seriously? Did Jesus have these in his time?), we still spend every passing Christmas together as family.

Merry X'mas world.

So much nonsense lor

2011-12-23T22:59:00.000+08:00

Oh right, second post in a day. What an improvement from the usual trickle.

Anyway this post is about ProjectSilverCare and how I think some people may be disillusioned about things, or maybe it's just me and my cynicism. The project head (let's call her B), rallied for an additional flyer distribution session right after we ended our first health screening on the 17 Dec. She requested it to be on the 3 Jan and my first reaction was, 'oh yay, I have a sleepover on that day. Perfect reason to not be available for it.' Happiness. I mean I enjoy assisting the elderly and engaging them in every possible way (minus the few annoyingly arrogant ones I had encountered during the health screening. Oh god, look at you, you old meanie), it doesn't mean I enjoy working with B.

Of course this is her first big project, for her honor years nonsense and all the faculty heads have high expectations for this Inter-Professional Education (IPE) thingy to work out well blahblah, and she could not have possibly foresee the elderly turnout anyway but still she is asking a bit much for 50-60volunteers to cover the 2 streets' worth of HDB households. The timing sucks, honestly, a few days before school semester starts and you're asking the volunteers to sacrifice what's left of their holidays to slough for you?? And it's so last minute, considering how we've had this door-to-door flyer distribution thing on 10 Dec, a week before the first session of the actual event. The volunteer turnout was only about 20. Oh god I think her estimation skills are beyond fail.

Nicholas, my internal pub head, just told me about this whole 'rally the volunteers' thing and all I can think of is MEH. 1. MEH: for being so last minute. 2. MEH: for such nonsense expectations. 3. MEH: for do you even think about those committee members who are also your sai kang warriors? By wanting to meet such ridiculously large, and possibly unattainable number of households, you obviously didn't think about the workload for us. I don't even think she had asked for anyone's opinion on whether that magical target number is tangible.

Okay I think I've vented enough for the night. MEH lor.

2011-12-23T14:19:00.004+08:00

I really think that some people in this world are undeserving of what they have. There are 3 kinds of people who irks me the most-the morbidly obese people who cannot be bothered to do something about their health, the i-don't-give-a-shit-i-just-want-to-puff smokers and those who drive but who really cannot drive.

1. The morbidly obese people who cannot be bothered to do something about their health:
From a healthcare professional's point of view, this group of people are a huge pain in the ass for the entire country's healthcare system, taking up a huge portion of the healthcare budget and sucking up the most resources when they finally end up with hypertension, type 2 DM, hyperlipidemia and the entire family tree of heart diseases. Of course, it's not their fault that they're morbidly obese, be it genetic or due to some health issues blahblah, but the fact that they are just letting themselves balloon on like there's no 2013 is just plain stupid. How much more educating/campaigns do they need? Aren't they sick of being bombarded with health tips and reminders every day? Sigh.

2. People who just can't wait to lose their lungs
They never fail to make me wonder why-whether its social smoking or the hardcore type. Anyway I'm always amused by the term 'social smoker', since when is smoking ever a social activity? An activity where everyone can kill off each others' health lung tissues? Sure, why not? Social smoking is a LAME excuse for 'I'm afraid I might need a lung transplant next time so I'm going to play it safe and do it only when I think it looks cool.' Your lung tissues don't regenerate at the rate your liver does-of course this is not to say alcoholics are angels either. As for the hardcore smokers, I don't even want to bother. If all those public education campaigns had worked, there wouldn't have been an increasing number of smokers every year. It's a sad fact that smokers are still allowed on the lung transplant waiting list. I honestly think they don't deserve such a privilege to even be considered in the first place.

3. People who drive but cannot drive:
Today was the second day I almost got run over by stupid road users. And yeah, it was at the same traffic junction where I needed to cross and the cars turning right didn't bother to look out for crossing pedestrians even when the green man light was on (Yeah ON, it wasn't even flickering). Yesterday it was 2 sedans, today it was a fucker on a motorbike. Like seriously, it wasn't even like I strolling across the road please. Unless your wife is in the third stage of labour in your sedan/motorbike I really don't see the need to beat me to the other side of the road. Grow up.

Let the holidays begin

2011-12-18T20:21:00.000+08:00

Hello world. It's finally the holidays, which means no more waking up at 530am for AM shifts, no more alarm clocks in the morning even, no more bothersome notes to read, no more annoying med people in school to annoy me etc etc..

Pre-Christmas sales have been blahhhh only. Went out to check out the sales but they haven't been real fantastic ): I have a gazillion things to buy from earphones, multi-plug sockets to a new external harddisc.. Also, there's a wardrobe to pack (no more space for new clothes ahhh) and notes to file properly and chug aside, a desk to clear properly, shelves to clean etc etcc........

A Thousand Apologies

2011-12-07T22:50:00.000+08:00

Exams are long over and I've kinda had too much fun to update this space :B
Post exam, pre-clinicals time was well spent on catching up with friends from all over. Life's good while those times last. Back on clinicals since Monday and it has been an awfully tiring but rather satisfying week in a strange way.

Just on a random note on some thoughts hanging around in my head.. I think I can really be the most un-empathetic person ever and sometimes I too question myself on whether there's a need to feel so strongly against/about certain things, but then again it could be just the way I was brought up.. bahhh rambling. Goodnight, just ask me about it if you see me, I'm willing to share this personally anyway.

2011-10-29T13:51:00.002+08:00

Won't be here till I get there.

29 Oct~29 Nov.

2011-10-17T20:37:00.000+08:00

I don't think I will have any time to catch my breathe at all throughout this entire week.

PS presentation coming up on this Wed. NHS this Fri and Sat. IntraFac floorball on Sun.. 2114 presentation due next Monday!! I have no time for myself. SIGH.

Hello Week 9

2011-10-08T23:40:00.001+08:00

This is what I've been up to for the past week! 'Mad About MAC' Welcome Tea and the event day fell on the day of Steve Jobs' death. Coincidental much? Anyway, all's good in the house. My mind's holding up pretty well despite the piles of assignments, a PS presentation, publicity events, a project and looming lab assessments. I will survive la no worries.

2011-09-27T21:06:00.001+08:00

HIATUS

It's Wednesday

2011-09-21T10:13:00.000+08:00

I have this dreadful cough which I'm sure originated from my dad :\ Life is sad because I have another 1400words to go for my PS essay and I really can't think of much substantial content and arguments to construct the whole damn paper. CLOCK IS TICKING

2011-09-11T12:09:00.000+08:00

All I had were pent up frustrations and no life ): OH GAHHHHH It's week 6 and my pile of unrevised work is stacking up ): And almost every weekend, I'm stuck with this mundane routine of chores and work to clear. LIFE SUCKS. My pathopysio textbook is still wrapped up nicely and as good as new. SHITZ

2011-09-04T23:54:00.002+08:00

My life is so busy right now, I have no time to think.

2011-08-28T17:14:00.000+08:00

'Have you ever been in love?
Horrible isn't it?
It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.'
Neil Gaiman (The Kindly Ones)

Inspirations on a chilly Saturday

2011-08-27T20:40:00.002+08:00

"I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.

I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and the Beatles and Marilyn Monroe and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen - I believe that people are perfectable, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens on a regular basis, nice ones that look like wrinkled lemurs and bad ones who mutilate cattle and want our water and our women.

I believe that the future sucks and I believe that the future rocks and I believe that one day White Buffalo Woman is going to come back and kick everyone's ass. I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating and that the decline in good sex in America is coincident with the decline in drive-in movie theaters from state to state.

I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative. I believe that California is going to sink into the sea when the big one comes, while Florida is going to dissolve into madness and alligators and toxic waste.

I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we'll all be wiped out by the common cold like martians in War of the Worlds.

I believe that the greatest poets of the last century were Edith Sitwell and Don Marquis, that jade is dried dragon sperm, and that thousands of years ago in a former life I was a one-armed Siberian shaman.

I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumble bee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself.

I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn't even know that I'm alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck.

I believe that anyone who says sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly. I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too.

I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies. I believe in a woman's right to choose, a baby's right to live, that while all human life is sacred there's nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system.

I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it."

— Neil Gaiman (American Gods)

2011-08-23T22:53:00.001+08:00

冷咖啡離開了杯墊　我忍住的情緒在很後面
拼命想挽回的從前　在我臉上依舊清晰可見
最美的不是下雨天　是曾與你躲過雨的屋簷
回憶的畫面　在盪著鞦韆　夢開始不甜

你說把愛漸漸　放下會走更遠
又何必去改變　已錯過的時間
你用你的指尖　阻止我說再見
想像你在身邊　在完全失去之前

你說把愛漸漸　放下會走更遠
或許命運的籤　只讓我們遇見
只讓我們相戀　這一季的秋天
飄落後才發現　這幸福的碎片
要我　怎麼撿？

This song started playing on my ipod when I was on the MRT today and it kinda makes me rediscover the beauty of chinese language.

2011-08-17T00:01:00.000+08:00

HAPPY 19TH, DOPE! Love you many many.

2011-08-14T17:37:00.000+08:00

I am gonna overload myself (and probably kill myself) so bad this coming semester, that I won't have any time to think about anything else except to breathe \m/

2011-08-08T23:53:00.001+08:00

I..... am not going to do marketing/what so ever for some what so ever Public Health Screening. Too much shit to sai kang for my own good. RAHH

2011-08-06T23:01:00.000+08:00

Will do a thorough update on clinical attachments after I'm done with it completely. Right now, I just want to let out something and i think it's safe to do so here. HI SHERRY AW & YANG YEN YEN! You're the only 2 people who are still reading this blog, i think.

Point of this all: I hate the 2 words 'bo jio'. There's always a reason why we leave some people out of certain matters due to undisclosed reasons (if it is disclosed, we're probably not friends anymore or it may be something unpleasant like 'eh why you so extra butt in?') Nobody is obliged to 'jio' anyone for that matter.

PAEDIATRICS MEDICINE (PAME)

2011-08-05T20:15:00.000+08:00

I'm so tired I don't even know where to begin. This entire week has been pretty awesome even though I don't get much chances at fulfilling my skills (because it's Paeds and this is Singapore-all those precious babies). But in some strange way or another, I guess I grew more as an individual in this week than I would in say 1 year? I get to see the -behind-the-scenes' of what goes on in a hospital, along with the pain, the fear and the joy of it all. It's not too hard to learn to love what you do these days.

What are words?

2011-07-30T11:53:00.001+08:00

Sometimes, Tumblr shines some light..

“We have an odd relationship with words. We learn a few when we are small, throughout our lives we collect others through education, conversation, our contact with books, and yet, in comparison, there are only a tiny number about whose meaning, sense, and denotation we would have absolutely no doubts if, one day, we were to ask ourselves seriously what they meant. Thus we affirm and deny, thus we convince and are convinced, thus we argue, deduce, and conclude, wandering fearlessly over the surface of concepts about which we have only the vaguest of ideas, and, despite the false air of confidence that we generally affect as we feel our way along the road in the verbal darkness, we manage, more or less, to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.”

—	José Saramago

2 DAYS OF HOLIDAYS + heart matters

2011-07-30T00:14:00.003+08:00

A part of me is secretly glad that all that shit load of work and all that time spent preparing for Conventus-from penning the script, scouting for the cast, filming, finding our props and right down to painfully editing every single second of that video (and then re-editing it until Sharon and I were happy with the final product) paid off well in the end. Our audience was happy, and we were happy.

And as I rejoice in finding some much needed inner peace and time alone for myself, it also pains me when I think about how such a short time is enough to wreck this friendship (or whatever it is called) apart. A semester's worth of gains can be easily forgotten so quickly.. Surely this means something is not right to begin with, doesn't it? Had I known that this is all going to end on such a sour note, I wouldn't have bothered to include you in my life for the past few months. I go all out for the people who matter to me and usually, these people would remain permanently in my life.

Maybe I'm being overly sensitive but I'm pretty sure word gets around and people do talk, just not in my face. They don't exactly bother me in any way, but your oblivion to all that does-actually, it kinda hurts. I tried to fix things out with you during camp but obviously the damage is done, or maybe I didn't try hard enough and I didn't cover all that was bothering me or you or us but hey, at least I made the effort to? Or maybe it's you and your issues with your pride getting in the way.

I guess I'm pretty much disgusted by the way things are now and how you're either bloody good at faking a front and acting as if nothing's bothering you in front of the rest, or you're just a silly retard who lives in your own happy bubble. Either way, things can only go downhill for us. We barely talked, we no longer exchange 'hello's or even look each other in the eye; and today, it appears to me that you can't stand staying within 3m radius around me even when all you had to do was just to interact with our OGMs.

Apart from that, your gentlemen genes or rather the lack of it, irks me. Honestly, I didn't notice it until FOC when I had to put myself through shit because according to you, I 'bite off more than I can chew'. Yeah sure, you can tell me that and you know that I'm like that but you just don't have the initiative to volunteer yourself. Do you subscribe to Hillary Clinton's don't ask, don't tell policy too? What I find even more alarming was how random people whom I barely know are showing me more concern as a friend than you. Kerrick asked if I need help with transporting the floorball sticks even when I barely knew him. Kiren can change his mind and volunteer to lug the 10kg bag of sticks back home on Tue and bring it for training on Wed. We all live in the east and you don't go to the gym for nothing, you have no excuse.

Things are just not working out and I'm tired.

2011-07-24T21:36:00.000+08:00

And so my last week of holidays has began.. dear cows, and I have to return to school in 3 out of 5 days. Misery loves company. Gonna help out at MatriFair again on Tue, followed by Conventus rehearsals (which I completely regret volunteering to be some student nurse since I don't know why I need to turn up for their rehearsals when I have zero lines. Seriously?!) Floorball on Wednesday at Valhall which is not so bad since it's in the east anyway. BCLS on Thursday and finally Conventus on Friday. Short weekend break before attachments begin.

I feel so tired thinking about school/attachments already ):

Shakespeare in Love

2011-07-20T22:04:00.001+08:00

'We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love, mortal in folly.'
(William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream)

My Homies >>>>>>> yours.

2011-07-18T22:54:00.001+08:00

Gonna keep my mind busy so it won't bother me so much.

2011-07-12T22:51:00.000+08:00

I feel like an emotional train wreck these days.. how I wish I have some turn off button which I can activate and just remove you from my brain, 'cause your presence and indecisiveness and all the stupid memories we have are just devouring me alive. Days like these, I wish I can hate you more than I hate myself. INSERTS AGONY.

2011-07-10T14:18:00.000+08:00

Sometimes, the more things change when you want it to remain the same. And then again, there are somethings that will probably never be the same again anyway because things have changed? WHAT NONSENSE BLABBER Oh well.

Hello world, I'm back from Camp Kick S, alive and kicking and well. My voice is back this morning and I think I'll be able to go for post camp CIP tml since I can work my vocal cords now. HAHAHA \m/ Udder's ice cream did me some good yesterday.

2011-07-01T17:21:00.003+08:00

Dr. Gregory House: The eyes can mislead, the smile can lie, but the shoes always tell the truth...
Dr. Wilson: They were Prada, meaning she has a good taste
Dr. Gregory House: They were not Prada. You wouldn't know Prada even if one stepped on your scrotum.
Dr. Wilson: Okay... Well they were nice... And pointy.
Dr. Gregory House: Exactly. They were stylish. And very painful to wear. Only an incredibly shallow, insecure woman would be in pain all day long, rather than to wear a decent looking comfourtable shoe and that's exactly the type I don't need around here.

4 day Summary

2011-06-30T19:40:00.001+08:00

Monday was mundane..

Tuesday was Super8 movie with 3 guys + Lanelle. Followed by a not-too-bad dinner at Medzs at Orchard Central (It's some Marche-like dining place with Mediterranean cuisine) Then a long walk to the other side of Orchard for 11 jugs beer and random laughs at Chips. Super sleazy place in Orchard but then again, it's Kiren.. No surprise.

Wednesday was super Durian Buffet at GoodWood Park with Aw. It was durian heaven but we were craving for salty things and this damn cute chicken rice set this fella behind us ordered.. Never gonna eat another durian buffet in my life EVERZ I think. Craved for Old ChangKee fishballs but they were all sold out ):

Thursday morning was awesome. Even the weather now is awesome. Went to get lunch and check out the Mango 70% sale but I didn't get anything. Window shopping made me realize I kinda busted my budget big time for this week and I really need to collect the money owed to me by others asap. Bahhhh

Life and everything in between.

2011-06-26T18:32:00.000+08:00

It's sad how most Singaporean drivers I encounter on the road don't signal if they're turning right/left or filtering lanes. Hate them. It's also sad how it's so hard to find parking spaces these days. Even at my house carpark. Everyone's getting too affluent for our collective good. I heard some neighbours have 2 cars..

Road tales aside, yesterday has been pretty good day. It's nice to finally stretch a some muscles in exchange for a few blue-blacks on my shin. Hello balukus! I think there were 2 more added to my existing collection bringing the total tally to 4. Is it me or does bruises take a long time to heal? 2 of them are 2 weeks old already ): Ate the most unhealthy lunch ever because Kiren is a LJS fan. Then we just sat there bitching about life and the lemons it throws at people. Ah, life. Please don't be a bitch next semester.

2011-06-23T19:07:00.000+08:00

Meet the Freshies session was today and it was kinda exciting seeing a new batch of kiddos coming in and us being called 'seniors' now. SO SURREALLLL~ How quickly time passes by! Another week from camp and we are still not done with the mass dance :|

OH WELL NVM ANOTHER WEEK OF GSS

When you get too much of a good thing..

2011-06-16T20:50:00.000+08:00

It's official. My holidays are boring. I used to think one cannot get enough of nua-ing. I was wrong. Apart from a really exciting adventurous Monday-BBQ @ Christina's House in Clementi, this week has been mellow. Meow. The MNG sale has started and I'm thinking of grabbing a new pair of black jeans when I'm out to meet Dorotthy tml afternoon. Shopping alone is somewhat therapeutic, but of course not as pleasant, having to jostle for free mirrors and the lack of a second opinion at hand.

There will not be any floorball matches this Saturday so I think I should put off the carbs for the time being.. until Tuesday comes around! :B

SONY ALPHA NEX C3

2011-06-10T18:53:00.000+08:00

DAMN CHIO LEH. But it's only here in August ): Should I wait or just get NEX-5?

2011-06-10T17:44:00.000+08:00

Holiday= Eating, Sleeping, lots of Nuah-ing, Devouring books, Checking out new playlists and hanging out with different company. I think I have reached the stage where I am relatively sick of routine and having nothing much to look forward to in June.. Can't wait for Freshmen Orientation Camp to start (5th-8th July)!! I just need to keep myself preoccupied with things to do, meanwhile.

2011-05-26T10:55:00.002+08:00

ROFL.

Imma Girl Guide, bitch fights run deep in my veins.

2011-05-23T21:52:00.001+08:00

Ugh, the post clinical gathering is tomorrow and I don't like all that nonsense unfolding on Kiren's FB wall just because some people read WAY TOO MUCH into that post. Trying to do some mediation there and I really look forward too much for tomorrow to see it flop ): TOMORROW, PLEASE DON'T FLOP. I BEG YOU.

Why so like that? ):

2011-05-21T21:14:00.000+08:00

I'm pretty sure I busted all the fats accumulated over the 2 weeks of clinical postings today, if not more. Floorball games as usual at Valhall in the morning.. and I finally decided to get a stick. Heh. $80 okay :/ Which means I need to use it as many times as possible to make it worthy. KFC family feast for 4 after that, which probably added back on 50% of what we have burnt. HAHAHA with bitching sessions about who and who. EPIC LA

Close to evening was badminton sessions with the JC team back in Tampines. Off form like crazy but it's still good to catch up with them once in a while! OKAY TIME TO START COMPILING DOCUMENTS TO HAND IN ON MONDAY.

2011-05-14T19:25:00.000+08:00

1 more week of clinicals to go-to be more exact, 4 days actually.
Morning shifts on Mon, Wed. Afternoon shifts on Thur, Fri. I foresee I will be damn shag on Saturday.

As for now, I shall be studious and start on my Week1 reflections and Summary writings for week 2. CANNOT WAIT FOR REAL HOLIDAYS TO BEGIN GAHHHHH

2011-05-11T10:13:00.000+08:00

Heading off for attachments in a bit.
The days have been passing by really s-l-o-w-l-y and the weather is such a bitch these days. Hot, humid and even the heat radiating from my macbk makes me perspire -.- and I just bathed ARGHHHHH SUPID WEATHER. Anyway, I haven't done any of the Post-Exams things which I've set out to do ): Yes, not even getting enough sleep over the weekends. Bahh

2011-05-09T22:07:00.000+08:00

"I just thought to my self, all of a sudden, that we had something in common. A natural chemistry, if you will. And I had a feeling that something big was going to happen. To both of us. That we were, in fact, meant to be together."

— Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)

2011-05-08T23:03:00.002+08:00

Today Morning:

Attachments from 9th to 20th May 2011.

Will probably be free on weekends.

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Other than that, WOOHOO Final Year Exams have finally ended!!

Last paper ended at around 4pm on Friday and the group of us sat at Engine's Mac for snacks, ice-cream and discussed the night's plans. Hopped to Duke bar at Alumni Club, drank flat Erdinger for Happy Hour and played rounds of Bridge. Then bused and trained to Cityhall supposedly for dinner and Harry's Bar but the boys, being boys, got us lost at Suntec area before dinner :/ Harry's Bar had no promotions on a Friday night so we improvised by walking back to Carrefour, bought Choya, Hoegaarden & Qingdao beers, ice and a bottle cap opener (It's those boys' idea) and walked back and sat on the Esplande rooftop to diss politics, chill and play Waterfall. It's always fun to see each other on a high.

Saturday morning saw me waking up at frigging 7am for Floorball games at Kallang's VHall. Lousy physic to begin with and still abit stoned from the night before. Need to invest in a stick and proper footwear soon I guess ):

OKAY NEEDA BE UP BY 5.45AM TML. GOODNIGHT WORLD.

I think this pretty much sums up everything about GE 2011

2011-05-02T10:48:00.003+08:00

'... I feel that this GE is unlike any other in Singaporean history. I say that because I fear. I fear what would happen if the PAP retains a two-thirds majority and decides to entrench its rule in the government by further amendments to our laws. I fear what would happen if an untested, inexperienced Opposition gains a majority and rushes Singapore into a torrent of changes, threatening our country's stability. I fear the radicalisation of Singaporeans, or worse their disillusionment, if the PAP wins yet again and changes fail to take place.' -Amos Cai

26th April-6th May

2011-04-28T18:52:00.000+08:00

2 papers down, 3 more papers to go. So sick of studying like a dog already.

GEEK HUMOR

2011-04-21T15:47:00.000+08:00

2011-04-18T20:33:00.000+08:00

It's sad to know I have a mother who thinks so lowly of me to the point that she forbids me to spend a single cent from the scholarship monthly allowance for the fear that at some point in time, she will need to vomit out all that money because I screw up. Sigh. Sad little life of mine.

2011-04-05T20:23:00.001+08:00

How tired?

2011-03-25T21:55:00.000+08:00

Aiya my head is in a mess. 1 assignment due next week and 1 test coming up. Getting a scholarship means every single little 0.01 point in your CAP scores starts to matter a real lot now. GAH

2011-03-19T00:15:00.000+08:00

I feel so overwhelmed these days, just want to dig a hole and bury all the things annoying me in life and never see them again ): I have an ethics&law essay due on Monday, that one's pretty fun. Even if I had to pull an all nighter to do it, IT'S STILL FUN BECAUSE IT'S LIKE GP EXCEPT I NEED TO READ TONS OF JOURNALS TO BACK UP MY POINTS -.-

It feels really strange to email your sureties, one who is an Uncle and the other is a cousin. Just plain weird I tell you. Yar lor, hello NUHS.

The Perks of being a Wallflower

2011-03-05T17:22:00.002+08:00

'Sometimes, my dad calls her beautiful, but she cannot hear him. Incidentally, my dad is a very good husband. He's just pragmatic.'

The kids started calling him Patty when his real name is Patrick. And "Nothing" told these kids, "Listen, you either call me Patrick, or you call me nothing."

'Some kids look at me strange in the hallways because I don't decorate my locker, and I'm the one who beat up Sean and couldn't stop crying after he did it. I guess I'm pretty emotional.'

'The family was sitting around, watching the final episode ofMore"inA"inSo"inHave, and I'll never forget it even though I was very young. My mom was crying. My sister was crying. My brother was using every ounce of strength he had not to cry. And my dad left during one of the final moments to make a sandwich.'

"Charlie, we accept the love we think we deserve."

'Patrick actually used to be popular before Sam bought him some good music.'

'My parents went to Ohio to see a very distant cousin get buried or married.'

'I have decided that maybe I want to write when I grow up. I just don't know what I would write.'

for the madness that occurred with a ticket to good times

2011-03-04T23:46:00.007+08:00

Drunken conversations and the things we were scheming
To get out of this town and take a trip underground
A&P CA ended yesterday. 9 of us went to eat Chinese Food at Kim Gary Vivo, 8 of us caught the movie 'Unknown' by Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger and January Jones; then 6 of us squeezed into Moses's Honda Jazz for supper+beers at Tanjong Pagar area. Good times.

SELF DOUBT

2011-03-02T20:54:00.001+08:00

It has been 1 whole week since the few of them received the outcome of their interview with NUHS on the 14th Feb.. Of which, I am not one of them. Which brings me to the purpose of this post. I am feeling annoyed. Ridiculously annoyed, to be honest. I thought I nailed it. I walked out of the interview feeling confident and so sure of myself. I am pretty sure I made an OKAY impression overall. And I also thought they'd see my sincerity in joining them and contributing to their organization in the future. But then, maybe not. I don't know what they base their acceptance criteria on-results, personality, docile-ness..?! For all I know, my CAP score was midrange amongst all 8 of us who applied. And from what I know today, I am one of the 3 who have not received any news from them. The others have all been accepted and some of their CAP scores are lower than mine.

So yes, maybe I'm too sure of myself. Too arrogant, maybe? And to think sounding confident in yourself is advantageous.. I hate this stupid wait. It's annoying and it makes me question myself constantly. I hate to be put on a waiting list and I just want to move on. They should just tell me 'We regret that your application has been unsuccessful.' I'm not desperate for their money, I think to a large extent, nabbing a scholarship is a form of recognition, which is worth more than anything else. Of course, the money is just the icing so why not? Gah, I'm such a classic Type A.

After tomorrow's A&P CA, I'm going to start applying to SGH by email. I shall scan my certificates and all then hopefully, get called for an interview and make it through to the Panel interview. Super tempted to email the NUHS HR, 'I would like to withdraw my scholarship application and I do not wish to be considered for it anymore.' ARGHHHHH

Okay back to studying.

Of redundant stares and snares

2011-02-22T15:14:00.001+08:00

It's the second day of recess week and I'm feeling majorly un-accomplished. Reason being, this weather is so shitty and I just don't feel like doing anything except nuah. Semester 2 has been EPIC. The amount of work is also equally EPIC. 3 assignments due at different times in March alone. And I have 2 exams to study for in this 1 pathetic week of break. It doesn't help that I'm completely clueless with literature review writings (on Hysterectomy). My other assignment is slightly more interesting and it's on conjoined twin surgery. Yay.

2011-02-10T20:58:00.000+08:00

OMG It's the end of hell week 1. Next week (also the week before recess week) it's hell week all over again ): There's a friggin' CA to study for.. Half a health psych book to read. Sherry Aw why are you in dumb AngMoh Land ): Need your psych expertise! ): ): ):

2011-02-06T22:04:00.000+08:00

Time flies. There's no more jabberings on which/where/what I will be doing for the next few years of my life. No more annoying questions on my academical abilities. No more weird looks. No more worrisome faces. No more. Even though my folks were the hosts for CNY last year, I kind of enjoyed this year's peace, minus the noisy neighbors from the surrounding blocks.

Week 5 starts tomorrow.
Week 5 is out for blood.
Week 5, you are evil.

农历新年！

2011-02-04T22:42:00.001+08:00

Happy CNY! Mandarin's pretty rusty these days, better not write out stuff in chinese here or I'll ruin this post. No CNY resolutions ever and never probably gonna have any. This CNY visiting saw me eating much less pineapple tarts than I used to (extremely unbecoming) and I'm actually feeling pretty worked out about school stuff, in particular IMMUNOLOGY! OMG I want to murder that module so bad. Gonna do all the past week's worth of lecture webcast and whatever I can get my hands on to comprehend that annoying chapter by this weekend, before week 5 starts. Week5 is an absolute killer, I don't think I'll reach home before 7pm in the entire week of make up lessons. 大便。

2011-02-01T21:42:00.000+08:00

I am one of the few unfortunate souls who still have to make a trip down to school for tutorial at 10am tml ): On the eve of Chinese New Year ): ): ): Day 1 is going to be spent visiting.. I don't know what I'll be doing on Day 2 and the weekends. I just know there is a hell lot of revision I need to complete to do during this time. Immune system module is a killer.

Up up they go where they stop nobody knows. Let's fly~

2011-01-26T23:20:00.000+08:00

It's only week 3 but I'm already tired and ready for a well deserved break ): I find myself getting temperamental over certain stuff and sometimes, I don't even understand the rationale for my thoughts. I think it's the stress/hormones/both. I REALLY NEED TO EXERCISE!

There's a world out there that we should see

2011-01-20T20:26:00.000+08:00

If there is one thing which I think I am actually good at, it'll be doing things ALONE. Making decisions, ALONE. I think I can spend an entire week on my own without talking to any single soul. Actually, I think something like this has happened before when I was young and really weird :/

Okay back to study.

2011-01-11T20:57:00.000+08:00

I really hope I'm not morphing into some overly serious, anal and downright bitchy person. That's not what I want to be. But then, another part of me is telling me to stand up for myself and not to be afraid to say things which are on my mind and which are also on other's mind because they are too timid to say it out loud..

It's like how I don't understand why some people can get so caught in their conversations/whatever that they're doing so much so that they forget to shut up. And then they can complain that the lecturer is speaking very softly or that the lecturer is boring etc. Yes, the lecturer is boring but that doesn't mean you should start talking to your neighbour and disrupt every body. Of course, I too am guilty of having exchanges of words during lectures but at least I know when to reel myself in and when to shutdahellup. Today was a likewise. It was LP and the noise level increases periodically like some 20min snooze alarm.. It's annoying to have to soosh people up with 'sssshhhhhhhh..' all the time. UGH

2011-01-09T23:00:00.000+08:00

Semester 2's beginning tomorrow and I'll be infinitely busy from then on! Actually, maybe the first week won't be so bad. After the tutorials come in on the second week, that'll kill.. and until then, at least I'm preoccupied with things to do/work. Future workaholic here hi.

Have been secretly anticipating tomorrow since December. I guess it kinda feels like post Alevels when you suddenly have so much damn time on your hands, you just don't know what the hell to do with all of it at once! I think my social circle is pretty limited at the time being-as in, I generally don't mingle with mere acquaintances. Closet introvert here too. Hi.

So, here's a shout out to

Aw, stay safe in California! Check your Fb messages!
Cheryl Monkey Chua, (if you're even reading this) you owe me $$$ and meet up soon, you forever incredibly busy creature.
And Poh! Hope you're getting your engine started again!

Take care everyone.

2011-01-08T14:38:00.000+08:00

What I have been up to so far..

5th: Nuah-ing around the house. Basically eating, playing The Sims3, reading papers, more eating.
6th & 7th: I was called back to Montfort to relief for 2 days=$130 before CPF deductions. It was good to be back to see the kids there. Frigging hell almost all of them tower above me now. No fun ):

Drove to Costa Sands Sentosa with Shiggs & Pierre last night and zomg the roadtrip wasn't fun. It was frigging dark and the winding roads seemed never ending. The BBQ turned out good because the food and company were awesome! The chalet room was awfully tiny though. Got home at around 12 midnight ZZ.

I'm somewhat excited about school because holidays become boring after one has finished doing almost every imaginable things worth doing on this island. I'm beyond bored and I'm think I've rested enough for the 3 weeks to put myself through round 2 of torture ahead. Monday there'll be tutorial balloting and I sure hope that Sem 2 will be nice to all of us.

2011-01-04T20:28:00.000+08:00

Wow whee everything's on IVLE, eh I meant school stuff. The lecture notes are all up and as well as examination topics and assessments. Law and ethics sound kind of fun with a debate, a seminar-presentation and an essay on separation on con-joined twins and whether it is ethical or not and stuff. Which makes me think of Laleh and Ladan Bijani, the adult conjoined twins from Iran who came to Singapore some time ago for surgery, but did not make it in the end. Okay well, lots of things to ponder about on that matter. It's going to be very enlightening as well.

In short, I'm stoked about Semester 2 despite a terrible, grouchy looking timetable with lectures at 8am and tutorials at 9am. BAHHHH.

HELLO SHERRY AW HOPE UC SANTA CRUZ IS NICE TO YOU!!

Good Riddance 2010

2010-12-31T22:18:00.000+08:00

Alright, it's the last day of 2010.. So it's time for ~~New Year's Resolution(s) and~~ Recollections.

2010, you have been very kind to me. Despite all that shit that 2009 has put me through, 2010, you did not fail me. I am grateful for many things which have happened so far and I supposed I've emerged stronger and slightly more mature. Slightly only, that's enough.

The beginning of 2010 saw me working in a office as a Head Hunter at Great Eastern Life (HAHAAAHAHA Quite a joke actually) It was also THAT job which led me to know a couple of friends and it was Kenneth who linked me to my relief job at Montfort from Feb to Aug, and as well as that 4 day job at IT Show in June, of which I got to know another few more awesome people (WJ, CX, Dom, Aud & more).

Another awesome thing which happened this year, was making it to NUS despite all the stupid tears and despair in 2009. It was probably that interview but I don't think I'll ever know. Nevertheless, I'm not going to take any chances and jeopardize my future anymore. Going all out and hard for the next 3/4 years, everything else will need to wait.

The third awesome thing 2010 blessed me with is companionship.
Here's a shout-out to everyone in my life right now, to the new friendships established this year and the old friendships which weathered through thick and thin. Thank You for having my back all this while! You have no idea how appreciative I am of every single one of you! (:
Sherry Aw, 8years of nonsensical friendship and we're still not bored of each other! How did we even come this far? HAHAAHAHA and Cheryl Chua, I bet you will never forget how fate brought the 3 of us together! To everyone who is in my life, here's a toast to 2011! Things can only get better from here.

On a solemn note, 2010 has also taught me things which I have never thought of-death and dying. The realism of its nature should not be feared nor embrace. I think this will be food for thought for Semester 2 when we get to learn medical law& ethics.

As for 2011, we'll see..

2010-12-28T20:54:00.003+08:00

Something is extremely wrong with me, I actually can't wait for school to start.. even though my timetable kinda sucks. (But will suck less if I get the tutorial slots I want) I think I beamed when I saw the new modules on IVLE and I'm actually gonna print the lecture notes out nowwwww. OH WOW WHEE SEM 2 WATCH IT, I'm on fire.

Also, I am hooked on Scrubs but downloading all 8 seasons at one shot is gonna be a pain in the ass.

真无聊

2010-12-27T20:28:00.001+08:00

Never though I'd be saying this but this year is going to end on an inaudibly silent note. Post examination holidays are boring because
1. 2 of my favourite people are not in this country->Aw&Dot
2. I'm staying in SG (YAWN)
3. Everything else in shopping centres are identical, bloody boring it is.
4. SG is too small and over-explored.

Sometimes, I wish this country is a little more exciting. Like Australia, a bigger land mass and more exciting places to travel to, to uncover, to see and to learn of. I am forever intrigue by that country.

On a even more unthinkable note, I think I'm going to re-read my ebook collection for the rest of this holiday. That includes most of Agatha Christie's work, Dan Brown's, Stephen King's and random ones. At the same time, I'll devour those library books I've borrowed. And if I'm still bored, I shall start on my A&P textbook-that frigging thousand page monster.

Since we're on the topic of books, 'There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That's all.' Wise words from Oscar Wilde himself. Meanwhile, I can crack my head over the kind of English text I need to introduce to The Tutee. She, who is going to be 14 years old next year, still reads elementary level books. It's appalling. I remembered at 14, everyone I knew was talking about either Potter or Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code. GAH

Oh yar, I have yet to call up Montfort to see if they need relief. Not sure if it's a good thing to go back to see the boys for a week. At least I'm hoping most of them made it to sec5 to take their Olevels.

2010-12-20T20:29:00.000+08:00

Because exams are over and holidays have began, I shall blog more regularly.
Hello World, was back at school today to submit posting documents and stuff. We have too much ATs around, seriously. Somebody has to start slapping levy for importing them.

OMG I TYPED OUT A WHOLE CHUNK AND NOW IT'S GONE. WHATDAHELL BLOGGER. PISS OFF ):

Freedom.

2010-12-18T21:43:00.000+08:00

Had a bout of self-out time today after tuition. I was half an hour late because my bus ride which should only take 15mins ended up eating away 40 farking minutes of my time _|_ SBS TRANSIT YOU FAILED ME REAL BADLY THESE DAYS. What to do? In a land where the COE of a car costs more than the cheap made in Korea/China/India cars, poor car-less souls like thou has to put up with lackluster bus driving with horrid braking skills. Life sucks.

Had a walk about at Raffles City and Soup Spoon's tangy tomato sucks, please don't order it unless you like having to chew on annoying chilli seeds in your tomato soup. There goes my $5.70. Lovin' Esplande's new and improved movie DVD collection. It's fantastic, I can save a lot of bandwidth with that. Walked around to check out the pre-Christmas sales, not fabulous. Mango has absolutely nothing worth buying I guess. Prices are still quite high and it's all winter wear ): Curse of the equator.

Managed to borrow a few books & magazines to keep me occupied for these 3 weeks of holidays. I think I'll call up Montfort to ask if they need relief. Relief teaching is good money. $65 per day which makes it $325 in the week! Enough for textbook money for the entire Semester I think. Okay, time to type out reflection stuff for submission of attachment documents on Monday. Can't wait to see the gang and catch up with them after these 2 weeks!

Final-friggin'-ly

2010-12-17T23:07:00.000+08:00

My holidays have started! It's 2 weeks later than the other NUS students and NTU is still having exams I think. HEH HEH. Lots of nonsense errands to run, things to do, money to make and books to devour in 3 weeks. Hell, others have 5 weeks of holidays in between the semester, I only have 3 weeks. ROAR.

Just some update on what has happened in December so far:
1/12= last day of exams
2/12= catch up with Sherry Aw + Broke
4/12= catch up with Poh + 2x Broke
5/12= Standard Chartered Full Marathon Medic (had to report in campus by 3am to catch the chartered bus, died)
6/12~17/12= ATTACHMENTS

Okay I'm gonna enjoy my holidays for good. Bye.

Let's get out of this country.

2010-12-10T17:35:00.000+08:00

My throat feels kind of funny. First week of attachments down, another week to go before my holidays finally kick in. Holidays will be a bore. I have a long list of things to buy, but not much money and no sales. This sucks. Whatever happened to pre-Christmas sales in this horrid island?!! Keeping my Sat mornings preoccupied with Sherry's lazy ass tuition kid. Not so good money but at least there's money. And I still have not read a single book since exams ended.

2010-12-06T20:24:00.003+08:00

I think I am falling sick. Second round of attachment have started and this one lasts for 2 weeks. Dead.

Mother hot weather

2010-11-28T11:29:00.000+08:00

Is it me or is the weather these days getting really queer? It's almost Dec, why do we still have scorching weather like theses? It is 31c, I am melting.

2 more papers to go before end of Sem1 exams. Post exam activities aplenty from money making, monkey meeting to binge out, booze outzx. Cannot wait!! Then I have those darn attachments again. ZZ

2010-11-22T21:40:00.000+08:00

Sometimes, I think we have the most ridiculous examinations ever. You just don't test the effectiveness of one's communication skills via paper, senseless questions and memorization. It's just plain wrong. I also think NUS lecturers are paid too little to come up with fresh new examination questions. Out of the 4 10marks essay questions, 2 are recycled from past year papers. Don't know if this is a good thing or not and I'm really feeling pretty stressed right now. ROAR!

And I'm a little bit lost without you.

2010-11-16T14:14:00.001+08:00

Fisherman's Friends.

A shoutout to Aw and Chua! FIRST WEEKEND IN DECEMBER OKAYYYY!!! SAT/SUN up to you ladies.

2010-11-10T21:15:00.001+08:00

<3 Hans Zimmer
I feel like watching Inception all over again.

November Rain

2010-11-05T23:15:00.001+08:00

One week of clinicals then reading week, then 2 weeks worth of exams. Goodbye for now.

2010-11-01T17:55:00.000+08:00

I have a day off today to iron out all my notes and stuff for the last week of school! Muahahaaaha it's week12 and I have an assessment on therapeutic communication on Wed but there's honestly nothing much to study for because it's not a written paper, it's an evaluative assessment through role play. FUNNZ~

Okay lots of submissions due tml, from synthesis #3 to journal file and NSL forms etc. This weekend has been nothing but fun. Will upload photos when I get them.

2010-10-28T23:09:00.000+08:00

Tasting failure makes one grow up fast. This pretty much sums up what I'm feeling this entire week and what I have felt since some time ago.

2010-10-19T21:46:00.002+08:00

I will finish up this assignment by tomorrow, then focus on PIP presentation until Friday. And then study like there's no tomorrow for CA2 on next Thur, then party like a rockstar after that.

Ageing technology

2010-10-13T20:09:00.001+08:00

My Macbook takes 90 seconds to start up. This is very bad.

2010-10-12T20:53:00.000+08:00

There are times when you need to take a step back, breathe, take in perspective and take stock on whose feet you're trampling on. Today is such a day and I think I kinda need this wake up call.

Oh wait, I have a blog?

2010-10-09T08:46:00.000+08:00

Projects are driving me nuts!! Lack of updates is very much due to impending project deadlines and chaotic touch ups. Week 10 will be hell. I get nonsense from some nonsense people, live with the nonsense until I can no longer take it, then I shall vomit the nonsense back at them. Nonsense. What a nonsense weather too.

Woke up early to watch my dad drive himself to the airport, then drive the car back. Now I can't go back to sleep and I have project meeting at Cityhall at 10am.. even my weekends are not spared ):

我回来了！

2010-10-01T21:44:00.001+08:00

LUBDUP!

Cleared the exam on Thur but was in too much of a celebratory mood to do a proper update. Here's a brief update to the entire week before my brain gets overloaded with school work again..

This week has been exceptionally draining. Study sessions after study session before tutorials, after tutorials.. in between dinner/snacking. Am a little insane somehow. I don't remember ever being so hardcore except maybe waking up at 5am to study on the day of Alevel paper. Awesome days.

Photo taking on the day itself after exams and everybody looked all tiredddddd~ Such a nasty day to take photos but oh well~ Went to The Deck for lunch after the exam, nonsense talking and walking around Central bazaar. The rain was annoying..

Actually all I can remember now is that I have a meeting at Cityhall @ 10am tml ZZZ and then some catch up with the JC Canteen Table Gang. More meetings will continue throughout the week because projects are all due in October. Pain in the ass month. And I still cannot get some people's co-operation and it is driving me up the wall! I don't know what is their problem and I can't see any reason why they are doing this to not only me, but the entire group. Will my soft approach work? Will I need to shame you or something to get you to do some work? Why are you doing this to me?!!!

Long talk/whine with Samuel on the trip back home. It's good that I can air my annoyance and not let it consume me/cause me to explode in the open. I need to develop some sense to detect slacker vibes. So anyway, the plan for now will be to try and get through them by Pierre/Luther and see if it works. If the testosterones won't work their charm, let's just bring out the claws.

2010-09-26T18:21:00.000+08:00

I will go MIA until Thursday.. which is when A&P exams are. Procrastination is bad and ugly ): Probably gonna camp myself in the library/somewhere to study like crazy to make up all the procrastination.. and then starve myself silly because I have been eating way Way WAY too much since Monday's XLB session. G.A.H.

2010-09-24T20:56:00.000+08:00

Time flies when you're having fun. Fun in this case is defined as just doing NOTHING. Anything not fun will be associated with studying or similar forms.

Mid Sem break has been deserving but bitterly short ): I would love to have a frigging 2 week break instead. Anything longer than that will be excessive and result in a downward spiral in progress. So hello week 7. Yes you, peeking from the corner of the Sunday, looking to pounce on us again and tear us apart. I see you.

I think I'm a little wonky tonight. Never mind.

CatPowerNight, Quintfac 2010..

2010-09-20T16:16:00.001+08:00

Sharon, Ivy

Make Up Team + LiWen

I hate inertia

2010-09-19T21:53:00.000+08:00

I really hate inertia.
I hate it when people slow me down in whatever I am doing.
I hate it when I don't achieve my own deadline because I'm a sucker for efficiency.
Like That.
If I can be bothered, I will remain bothered till the very end.

Anyway the whole point of that chunk of rant above (10 points dear for reading it) is to air my frustration at some people. I took the effort to create a Facebook Group so that everyone from our tutorial group can communicate using that platform, hopefully hold group discussions and exchange ideas etc.. As long as they make use of it, I'm happy.

That was about a week ago, so I sent them Facebook invites and reminded them in school personally to check their FB accounts and join the group. Just last Friday, I reminded them personally again to check their accounts and join. I emailed them on Friday night, just in case they're too busy and have forgotten-So benefit of a doubt given. And then I waited. Sat, I'm away for QuinFac, the next time I checked was today, just now, right now. I still have 3 missing people. Out of the entire group of 12 people, including myself. I have 9 members already. I don't see how long it will take for them to click 'join'. Nor do i foresee any clash in schedules or whatever activities that will make them too busy to join.

Seriously, it is depressing to have to chase after pathetic people to join a damn group. They don't even need to do anything! Just join so that they can read the project guidelines and discussion topics. Is it really this hard? You mean the project is due in a month so we still have time? What a waste to have to resort to such lengths when I can just leave them out. I should do that. I'm just maddening myself for no reason.

2010-09-17T22:10:00.006+08:00

IT'S RECESS WEEK!!!!!!!!!

QuintFac Bash tml night is beside a Mortuary at Outram because Dental/Nursing/~~Med/~~Pharm/GradMed students are cool like that. \m/

I AM POSITIVELY SURE THAT THIS IS A VIRUS/WORM THREAT

2010-09-15T23:43:00.000+08:00

Homo sapiens, BEWARE!

Where is the REAL Linkin Park?!

2010-09-12T21:40:00.000+08:00

I understand the need to experiment with new music but Linkin Park-Chester Bennington & Mike Shinoda WHATDAHELL is A Thousand Suns about?!!! It really sounded like some alternative band and reminds me of Black Eyed Peas ): WHATEVER HAPPENED TO Minutes to Midnight sounds?! Dear C and S, I read that you guys are going for political angst like that of the band Public Enemy.. BUT WAD DA HELL!? Unbelievable! And am I hearing electronic music in The Catalyst @1.30?! OH WHAT DA HELL IS THIS REALLY, I am flabbergasted :/ Gonna delete them all.

UNIDAD CUP 2010

2010-09-12T20:35:00.001+08:00

N1s

Pool side!

The entire team without TKB

with TKB Lanelle!

So that's Unidad Cup where all 5 arms of the healthcare system (Think: Med, Nursing, Pharm, DUKE-NUS GM, Dentistry-forever MIA) meet and bite off each other's heads. A particular male fella from Pharmacy played like some mad dog unleashed during Captain's ball game against Med.. Totally lacking sportsmanship. Played dodgeball and Captain's. Dodgeball Med players are mostly the same IFG people HAHAHAAAHAHA and it's no surprise that they won. Captain's was a little bitchy and highly entertaining. Still pretty fun overall.. I daresay we have the highest level of self awareness+self control.

Balance

2010-09-05T17:42:00.001+08:00

I think at the end of the day, University life is all about balance. You study hard, you play hard and then you study even harder. And of course, it's always easier said than done. IFG was a great experience overall. We started as strangers but ended as team mates and friends (: