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2010-02-16T19:57:00.001-08:00

就想賴著妳

:):):)

2010-02-16T05:34:00.000-08:00

been a couple of interesting days... btw, HAPPY CNY!! wished i was home though-collecting red packets...

still, i had a good time. steamboat reunion and we went to check out the boxhill festival. end up buying the Taiwanese series-black & white for only 12 bucks. i sld have bought more of the many many DVDS on sale, but i was suspecting the quality to be bad so i decided not to take the risk. it was super clear though.. SIGHS!!! sld have bought a few more. haha.

& he was so sweet to have bought my fav. buns and dumplings before we arrived. i actually went to the store wanting to buy the buns home, and they said it was sold out. so it was him who bought the last packet!! it's still mine in the end!! HAHAHA..

went by mark's hse and spent the evening with him. he has such a deceving front. can easily chat up a lot if he wants to.. hehe...walked to chinatown and coincidentally saw lion dance + fire crackers... so smokey-kinda hindered our view. but it was better than nothing :) we actually ran out of the asian store when we heard the lion dance and caught it just in time!

sunday was the actual CNY! went along with henry, christle and friends for yumcha at gold leaf-burwood. it was the furthest i have ever gone for yumcha in melbourne. haha. they picked each of us up and were quite late the time we arrived. haha. luckily still had a table. thd food wasnt too bad - but nt fantastic. just good variety i guess. after shang palace in spore, no other yumcha can really satisfy me le.... spoilt le.. HAHA:)

still, i felt so young on that table. lol. after yumcha headed to westfield and went to Laurent for tea/coffee. so glad i actually went along tht day cos i met a senior and she invited me to join her on monday to scrub in on a caesarian surgery!!!! i was so excited cos i always wanted to witness one, but since i wasnt a AMS student at RWH, i haven got the opportunity to.

though i wil get to see it next year perhaps, i was still overwhemled when i saw the baby being lifted from the mom's womb. it was so much bigger than i expected and nt as ugly as i thought. ;P it was such a cute little baby and to see the father being so brave, being in theatre with the wife and take videos was really cool.

emm, O&G seems like a good 2nd option after anaesthesia. :) haha

sry tht i cldnt join gezzel & the rest for brunch and the med pple for lunch though. if only i cld spilt into three i am sure i cld ahve so much more fun. haha.

had a great monday - saw caesarian in the morning and tagged along ailing at RWH. their gowns are nicer, slimmer cut and softer material. after lunch, i went back to RMH and helped irene out in gastroscopy and bronchoscopy. sighs. as usual i was high just poking needles into patients. felt so good if i got it right the 1st try. ;P

geeezzzz!!!!! so many things are happening.. i dont know wat sld i do.... :(

2010-02-12T07:57:00.000-08:00

i adopted a new hobby recently.

i like sitting alone
i like watching people
i like meeting random yet friendly people
i like staring into space and just wondering about the future
i like thinking and reflecting on the past
i like putting on my sunnies and closing my eyes
i like people not recognising me
i like that i can hide from the world sometimes

i like taking the train.
it allows me to do these things i like.

i found a new hobby:)

may be weird but i actually have lots of train stories to tell. i may be the next j.k rowling... perhaps i may write up a book on my journeys one day:)

oh and melb city was flooded yesterday! i was in water kneehigh... was drenched and soaked from head to toe. my sleeveless and skirt was wet and i felt so naked! lol. just glad i wasnt in pants though-wld be a disaster walking through the water. ;) i wld have just swam..hehe.. still, i made it for tutoring, 20 min late. but it was fun! cos i got to sit the train and experienced flood for the first time. ;P

& though i dont get to spend a proper CNY this year back home, i did help to bake lots of CNY cookies.. peanut cookies to be exact. ;) rolling into balls and passing pheyyee's sharp eyes (they BETTER look like round small balls!).. hehe... & i got plenty planned out this weekend though. so it's ok.

i hope u dont feel guilty -
cos it was wise
& i move on:)

2010-02-04T00:26:00.000-08:00

i am finally done recruiting my patients for AMS!! yippee!!

Des was so cute, he asked: "So Jacq, so what is going to happen to you now??" LOL>.<

i actually paused and thought "ya, i am redundant now." hahaha.... probably still tag along and hopefully get to do more clinical stuff :)

& i just received my project outline feedback after many many months. tanun received his and so i quickly check my email and there it was. i cant believe the AMS coordinator actually read each of our project outlines and type a page of feedback to us. how tedious. he actually even noticed my spelling mistakes.

he wrote:

"I am amused to note that in two consecutive paragraphs used the word 'standardisation'
and the word 'randomized'. This represents both British and American spelling in the
same document. In Australia we use British spelling, not American spelling. The fact
that Microsoft has the arrogance to assume our spelling is the same as theirs doesn’t
make it correct"

what sarcasm.. ;)

emm, noting tht i shall be more free after finishing recruitment, i decided to get a job. and i so i randomly went online and decided to apply for two tutoring jobs since i took the trouble to type my CV anyways. & lucky me, i got both! yays. one is brainless work at Kumon with small kids, the other is what i may not even be qualified to teach - biology year 12 - which is smiliar to College. i was quite stressed the day before i went for the first bio lesson, i actually dug out all my trinity notes and went through them! since the syllabus for VCE biology is different from Trinity, i went online and frantically searched for all the possible useful websites tht could help me cover up for the fact i haven touched biology since 4 years ago!!! haha..

& i am so glad yesterday went well. both girls were super nice and i felt a sense of accomplishment after teaching and talking for 2 1/2 hrs. haha. i hope they cldnt see how nervous i was. lol. One is Spanish the other girl is Lebanese. how cool is tht? :)

i am just glad for AMS. it has allowed me lots of new opportunities that i have never thought i wld do. :) meeting new pple, talking to pple, being surrounded my pple all the time still gives me a sense of insecurity, but at least i think i can cope better now. & i got my first proper job before 21! :):)

emm, yesterday mel said we sld all write 5 things we wanna accomplish before we turn 30. Tht is 10 years from now...

1) go on a "round the world" trip with my parents :)

2) engaged/married

3) open a bakery or a pharmacy

4) return to singapore with a job after specialisation

5) still be in touch with high school and uni friends - pple i hang out with now:)

ambitious enough?? :)

2010-01-31T04:07:00.000-08:00

the moon seemed so near, so round and bright and beautiful. but i just cldnt take a picture nice enough to justify what i saw just from my balcony. >.<

been enjoying nice brunches this weekend. weather was perfect these two days, sunny and warm:) nice company + good food = :):):)

watched NINE on Friday, the ending was bad, but overall was quite an enjoyable one:)

"Tic Tock" by Kesha, fav. song at the moment - i am partying in my head the whole day, no wonder i am exhausted! :)

it was a very interesting moment.

it was funny when he smiled and asked "so how?"

his grin was mocking yet serious at the same time.

somehow i felt perhaps he understood what i was jabbering about.

how come i only noticed it now - that perhaps i have misread him all these while...

haha.. the revelation was indeed insightful enough for me to jote it down

this person never fail to amuse me.. but u probably wont read this so it's ok ;)

2010-01-26T02:16:00.000-08:00

every muscle in my body hurts. the only thing i should do right now is sleep. :)

since saturday, there has been non-stop activities. Horseriding at Uncle Nev's was great, except it rained a little. tht took 5 hrs.

awake from 7am, i was a little drained by then. at night, we meddies had steamboat gathering, which was super spontaneous yet superbly successful. everyone was there:) talked and ate lots, by the time i reached home was past midnight. i realise how AMS actually made us closer, though we dont see each other in lectures everyday anymore. :)

sunday, i woke up to a hot day and decided to take a cold morning swim for an hr plus. i cooked lunch for my sis and i, washed up, vacuumed the whole apartment and yet in the afternoon, i was playing 3 hrs of badminton at albert park. ;) 8 of us - two courts, means we had little rest.

Monday had to wake up at 6am as usual for an early start into RMH. morning was great assisting scopes. by afternoon, i was dozing off every so often i decided i sld just go home. in the evening, we had another round of badminton which demanded much more out of my already tired body since everyone was so pro. HAHA. why am i playing badminton instead of tennis? ;)

today is australia's day - public hols means no work. :)

headed to chelsea beach and played the whole morning till i was half dead. haha. we were swimming against the waves, played volleyball on the sand, which was awefully hard to run on. the water was so clear but so so cold. i saw jet ski and speed boats zooming past, though sadly i didnt get the chance to try one. they created big waves for us to ride on though, as the boat drove past the waters! haha. did i mention the weather was really really good :) didnt get much of a sunburnt yet the sun was still shinning. thanks for the sunblock supplies!!

boxhill for lunch. didnt realise it was already 4pm by then. the prawn dumpling noodles there were as awesome as i remembered them to be. :0 and though my fav. mochi were sold out, i managed to get my GTRB buns!! ;) shortform. lols. **guess**

back home, i realise i have lots of laundry to do. had to iron my previous load of washed clothes and then load another pile into the washing machine. sometimes i wonder if ironing makes any difference to my image. LOL>.<>

anyways, there was an exciting tennis match to watch as i ironed those clothes. Nadal vs. Andy Murray. i nearly burnt my tee-shirt. lol.

& i managed to catch the fireworks at federation sq. from my place. means i didnt have to leave my hse, which i am determined to stay put in till tomorrow. hehe.. rest is needed for my aching body. how come i feel age catching up on me, even before i turn 21. ;(

only consolation: i had a freaking awsome past few days and i can CHOOSE not to go to work tmr! :)

P.S. this is an uninteresting post, just a random rant my muscles had to give after they were overworked! :)

2010-01-19T06:16:00.001-08:00

u know when it is past the new year and till now, only till today, on the 2oth of jan that it sinked in. i recruited my first patient for 2010 and it does indeed feel weird. i wrote it wrong THREE times today, sighs...

i seldom blog now, thanks to facebook. pictures are uploaded by friends faster than i can even enter my front door. so i guess blogs are no longer needed for memories ya?? :) even my dad has facebook.

looking back is always fast. but indeed, it has been an awesome 2009. especially the last 6 months! sometimes i complain abt the office politics, but still i cant stop loving AMS, loving working and the flexible timetable! it has been rough too, trying to interact and talk to so many pple, esp when i am nt good with words. but it was a really important learning curve for me. i still feel intimidated after so many months, but at least i have been through it to survive better next time.

onto another thought,

my december hols were full of LOVES LOVES:) Vegas, sanfrancisco and LA didnt disappoint, and i especially love vegas. full of life and colour. i was surprised tht disney is too easy for me now.. i cld take all the rides w/0 skipping a heartbeat. :) the new theme park beside disney was better, with more thrilling rides. but i still conquered the most thrilling roller coaster there- california screaming-which made my US trip memorable!
sanfrancisco was full of shopping and how my sister and i survived thanksgiving day, with massive sales and even bigger crowds. it was scary. the lines were snaking thorough every shop, and i cldnt even be bothered trying on some clothes. it took us the whole day just to cover 2/3 stores. H&M and forever 21 were the highlights of my shopping spree.. and i got a new apple nano 5 in orange! thank my dad for it! lol. cause my bro and him had nothing to do while we girls + 1 woman (mum) shop.haha.
i am listening to it everyday now :)

14 days passed quickly enough. we covered many many many miles driving up and down, frm san fran to vegas, to LA and back to san fran... plus stopping for a night/two along the way. i was the map reader for most times, but then techonology replaced me and made me redundant. i hate to say it, but the GPS was our saviour for those many hours on the road. at least i was useful enough to guide my dad in following the instructions frm THT MACHINE since for some reason, he cldnt really follow instructions... one word : MEN!!! ;)

another thing, i found a yogurt franchise which i soso love tht i crave for it almost every day in vegas. it has green tea, coffee among many many many other flavours and with oh so fresh topping. they charge by weight and NOT yr typical $2 per topping kind so u cld help yrself to as much yogurt and toppings as u want and just weigh it at the counter...yummy and relatively cheap:) a self dispensing yogurt machine i sld have at home, right?

okok.. enough of US... back to spore for a few days and i was back in melb with my brother for his IT competition.

he stayed with his classmate near crown casino where the ASIAN IT competition was held. i stayed at home cos it wld be weird for me to crash their hotel room. but still, i looked for them daily, making sure they were nt up to nonsense. felt like a nanny. i was a really good one, i must say. dexter had so many requests for his melb trip, tht it seemed he was here on a holiday instead for work.
here is a run-through..be amazed.. :p
we went south melb beach, had fish and chips, bought a TUB of fredos tht he claimed wasnt enough to satisfy his gelato craving, went koko black for more calories than i was willing to put into my body, had to go vicmarket 3 times to buy ingredients for dinnerS (one night bolgogi, one night turkey, one night swordfish and trout), went to southWarf for shoppping (HE SPENT MORE THAN ME!!! >.<), went DFO for more shopping, went for crepes and more thick hot chocolate one morning, being forced to play tennis two days in a row in tht strong wind, watched AVATAR, more dinners & more touring.

wasnt tht the ultimate melbourne experience from this poor nanny?? :) HAHA...

but dont get me wrong.. i am nt complaining here, cos for all the things he had me do, i had fun too:) my stomach was well fed, i was well sun-tanned and i learnt what being a "MOM" really meant.... ;) no kids in future!! MUAHAHA>>.<<

anyways, back to spore ") - tagline : the one stop for happiness! -at least for me... LOL ... sldnt i work for the singapore tourism board??? i neednt need to think much on how my days wld be filled. if not meeting up with friends, my parents wld take me out. i had my share of fantastic meals and all the delicacies i have missed in melb. being around everyone at home just feels to right :):):):)
& i had two attempts at a 4D class reunion. the 2nd one was a success :) how i have missed those pple ;) everyone has moved on, but at least we still look back and come together for those times we shared:)
army has done wonders to the guys though. physically and mentally.haha... :)

it was fast... nt too long it was christmas then the new year. both being really fantastic with relatives and friends. :) i took 3 days of art class with my uncle and received many encouraging comments from everyone on my art... so weird!! really weird!! art???? never my thing... but maybe i have a little more patience now and take more pride in my work too perhaps??
thanks uncle sam:) u made my hols really meaningful this time.

ok, i know i cldnt say this, but i did more shopping... pre-christmas sales, christmas sales, post christmas sales, new year sales, post new year sales, pre CNY sales... .... .... ..... .... it goes on & on & on... more than 70% off all stock was flashing everywhere. zara, mango and massimo dutti was and is my current fave:) arent they all spanish brands??? ___OFF TO SPAIN AGAIN___ i have given up on FCUK and country road le. their clothes are so boring now.. :(

u know wat, thanks to those buys, i just got myself a BIG box from ikea to store the extra clothes tht my wardrobe has determined to push out... hehe.. the box now goes under my bed... :)

since i am back, still slacking. one week le yet today i offically did some work and had to write my first 2010 :) i was apprehensive abt gg back to face the whole crowd of theatre staff, but it was fine:O being away for so long and being back again.... was NICE:) i am glad to see everyone again. of coz esp. my two fav. supervisors who even encouraged me to go back for CNY since i am finishing up recruitment soon...

& it is the season for the australian open 2010~ Nadal vs Djokovic. tht wld be match i will be hoping for in the finals. the 'hit for haiti' charity exhibition match ahead of the 2010 Australian Open at Melbourne Park which saw 15,000 seats snapped up was the highlight for me this week. 8 greatest tennis stars under one roof, wat a rare opportunity:) thank you ql for queueing for the tickets :):) i have lots to thank u for, u know :)

ok, it is past 230am and i have taken 2 hrs to write this entry.. my muffins tht i have just baked before writing are nearly half gone! how efficient. ;)
& i am declaring my own holiday tomorrow.. AHHAAA...

planning a horse riiding on sat and a trip to sydney soon :) i MUST go there soon before ju finishes his masters. have been telling him i wld go since 2 years ago. OMG. >.<

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2009-11-10T00:44:00.000-08:00

HOT HOT HOT!!!
OMG. yesterday was the hottest day in melb. 36.4 degrees!!! plus the weather is so dry...
made me lose my voice plus more ulcers... lol ;)

anyways, cant complain. cos i prefer warm than cold... haha...

more gastroscopy and colonoscopy today. it's fun :P i just went to find the anaesthetist and asked if i cld tag along. did more drips and sedation. had propofol all over the nurse beside me cos the patient jerked suddenly and the syringe came out. haha. my fault**
i think i overstep my boundaries sometimes, trying too hard to recruit patients and being a bit more persistance than i sld. but i guess i have to get things done even if some registars are nt pleased. sighs...& they say u cant please everyone. just hope my presence dont become a bother though. :( 3 patients for one morning.. yays:)

another day tomorrow. more crap talk, more sucking up, more patient approaching, more coffee... :P typical day.

BUT it's britney's concert! after 4 months it's finally here. time flies, cos i bought the tickets the last time i was in spore-june???

been shopping ard for shoes the past two days and i cant find any! how fraustrating!!;)

more updates soon:)

2009-11-05T03:29:00.000-08:00

plans keep changing.....tht's why it's better nt to plan sometimes... "anticipation=disappointment". lol....

say bye to sydney le.. was so looking forward to spending time with ruixi, mark and kevin! :(

maybe i sld own a private jet with my own hot pilot and so i dont have to depend on the travel agents and the availability of seats. :)

its alright. i get to go back singapore on the 23rd. but flying off to vegas on the 25th. coming back spore on the 10th dec (i think) and possibly fly back to melb with dex on the 12th dec for his competition and then back to spore on the 18th dec. and n FINALLY back to melb by the first week of jan 2010.. can u imagine?? another year is gg to fly past...

i am still reeling in shock . i sld just live my life in denial. .. HAHAHA..

on the brighter side, i had an awesome day yesterday:) i got to do clinical stuff. love being hands-on. got to tag along my supervisor to gastroscopy... he taught me how to sedate patients with propofol, make sure they were still breathing of coz, put in more drips and how to report back to the nurse. because the turnover was fast, the afternoon list had like 6 patients and so i got lots of opportunity to infuse drugs;) it was so awesome;) & i learnt lots of new stuff too.. though i screwed up and my face turned SUPER red when reny threw me all those questions i shld know the answer to but i obviously DIDNT!!!. i learnt how to differentiate different types of murmurs and the different sounds i sld hear. the patient was so patient and let me hear his heart for like 4-5times cos i cldnt get whether it was a systolic or diastolic murmur!! he said i owed him $20. he sure deserved more though. hahaha...
i learnt tht the liver stores 500ml of blood and can store more if there is back pressure frm the right atrium.
i just felt the afternoon was so well spent. :):) i got a superb supervisor:)

**how come i feel i sound like such a nerd** lol...

to make things better, the evening was spent ard food, more coffee, gossip magazines, groceries and nice company??? haha.. :)

realised so many movies i wanna watch soon:) no.1- new mooon!! then there is the christmas carol 3D movie, the time traveller's wife etc...

to end badly, today suxed.. cos i had no patients, was so sleepy & i didnt do anything useful.. i came back early to try to sleep but coincidentally my phone rang like 4 times and i finally decide to give up trying to sleep... haha..:)

but i cleaned the hse and ironed all my clothes in time for my dad to come tomorrow morning!!!!!!

:):) hellos my "good" friend friend :):)

2009-10-26T08:31:00.000-07:00

hellos:)

my new skin is so pretty and kinda girly.... so unlike me... but still, i think it's really nice and simple;)

had a really nice monday. though didnt get any patients (nearly, but operation cancelled...as always>.<)
Irene didnt have any registra with her in theatre and so i got to help her out the whole day:):):):) after doing a number of drips, i still feel really satisfied when i manage to get the needle into the patient's veins the 1st go. i am addicted to poking pple!! hahaha...saddist:0
& i got to intubate 3 patients today too!!!!!! haha.. i love clinical medicine. doing stuff, feeling useful, instead of sitting in lectures and tutes. but my brain is rotting from all the slacking.

i got to watch the new episode of autumn concerto at the hospital too. saves me from dlw at home which probably at the rate i am using, wld surpass our limit. haha.. RMH can block users frm using facebook, but i hope not youtube!!! LOL

night was dinner out. went to crown and tried the new sho noodle bar in the casino floor. & the haugow was so good;) i love HUGE prawn dumplings with thick skin!! hahaha... i had 3 out of the 4... lol. cos the other person is a smaller eater than me.... sad right?? sld come back for timsum on a sunday lunch for more choices:)

why am i awake at 2am... i slept at ard 11pm and i think i was dreaming of icecream and then i woke up and headed to the freezer. SIGHS!!! haha.. didnt i have ice cream at 10am(tea), then at 9pm(desert) and now 2am???? OMG!!
now i know why i am breaking the scales:(

to myself: i hope things turn out well :)

2009-10-25T03:59:00.000-07:00

oh.. this weekend was great...

watched flare dance on friday:) seeing my friends on stage and dancing, twirling, jumping and twisting made me so envious... !! kim, beebee, kaishen, jack, hervey... all were awesome;)

had training yesterday for the teddy bear hospital community service thing phey yee n i participated in. Basically we set up a booth during a marathon run organised by the Moondora Hospital and while the men run, their little kids can sit with us and play doctor-doctor on teddy bears and we help them 'cure' the teddies..:)

and i blew nearly a $100 along lygon street shopping after visiting phey yee's new apartment lol... haha.. but i am happy:)

today was the real thing. thanks to raymond who drove us there or we wld have to wait for the train to ringwood in the freaking cold weather... plus thanks god it didnt rain today or it wld be a disaster. it was supposed to rain though. :)
i was kinda overwhelmed by the little kids though. felt a bit weird trying to act cute in frnt of them. the first kid i got was SUPER shy, like she didnt want to say anyting. asked for her name and she whispered 'juma'... raymond tried to help out too... luckily. so together we banaged the elephant's eye and put stickers on her and the stuffed toy! lol. i felt kinda silly, but still, at least we got the job done. HAHA...

the 2nd, 3rd and 4th one were much better. the kids were so clever and responsive lol. of coz i made lame jokes i wldnt like to repeat but at least we cld see the kids were genuinely having fun and learning stuff like listening to their heartbeat. my heartbeat was loudest so i was the model. haha... & i learnt abt "dora the explorer" today..lol..i had a random sticker i sticked onto my jacket and the girl was like pointing to it. so i gave it to her. apparently it matched her tee-shirt too... she was like "dora, dora".... haha.. so cute:)

yes! and i invited myself to join py and her family at kamfook westfield for yumcha!!! OMG.. thanks so much!! i crave it so much:0 hahaha... i just love haugow..:):) satisfied.
went back to city and met up with lay n janet... more food and shopping!! haha....

and i realised tht i caught a freaking hayfever frm this morning though. my eyes are teary and my nose is itchy...:(:( i dont wanna be sick!!!
must be the gastly wind today!!

tmr work again .... self declare holiday?????????? tempting****

n kat is in spore tonight laughing through my childhood pictures in my hse which i haven even seen after renovations.... i am gg to sulk!!! HAHAHA...:)

2009-10-19T06:41:00.001-07:00

i got vaccinated agst swine flu today. & i didnt even know there was such a vaccine till my sis mentioned it and rach said RWH was offering it free. i just realised there wasnt any guys in the queue. are they nt allowed in the women's hospital?>.<>

realised there are so many things i wanna do but i never do them.
actions JACQ!! ...i just rather laze ard then get up and do stuff.

- i wanna learn how to make coffee! go for a short course on how to use the coffee machine. since i am kinda addicted to coffee le. i just bought my 1st Large cup of cuppincino the other day for brunch. small is no longer enough. yet afterwards, i had this massive headache. wonder if it is the lack of sleep or the surge of caffeine. ;O

learning is nowadays multimodal...shall just youtube it:)

- i wanna learn ballroom dancing. ben was just inviting me to join with him but i think i will be so paiseh if there is a big group in the room. HAHA. i am shy u know.. >.< :) shall go for individual classes back in spore. but tht wld only happen next year since my hols this time wld be too short.. by then i prob find other things to do. ;P

- i wanna travel!!! so many places i wanna go again. sydney, india, paris, italy, japan, korea! once is never enough, esp when these countries have so much to offer. wldnt it fit just nicely if i studied political science and be a diplomat and get to travel all over the world?? haha... ahhhh... bliss:) but still, still keeping my fingers crossed for vegas this dec:)

- i realise these are all longterm projects...hehe..

- short term projects??

maybe go get a pair of jeans.
n sleep earlier!!!
n change my blogskin
n go for yumcha
n help py furnish her new apartment.. hehe.. kapo ;P
n finish my project ASAP!!!
n intubate my 2nd patient:)

cant wait for britney's concert and daddy is coming :) but nt so soon. just trying to hype up my life a bit. :)

yawn... time for bed. tmr is another long day...

i am a sucker for dramas.... autumn's concerto.. HIGHLY recommended;) vanness wu is back!!!haha.. good actor, sweet actress, nice story, sweet and touching.. wat's not to like!!:) once a week is too SLOW!!!:)

rubs eyes** no more tears..

2009-10-13T23:52:00.000-07:00

emm.. more than a month since i updated.

thanks to my dad cos i KNOWS he is too free and reads my blog... lol..

he used to say if i update too often = i am too free and have nothing to do

so i have restrained.. hehe.. jkjk.. actually cos i haven been doing very interesting stuff, besides all the usual activities 'teenagers' engage in.. HAHA... i am still a teen:)

but i am glad to say, no. 33 patient today:) everyone asks me how many patients i have left to go and i so i am sad to say i need another 47 patients before i conclude my project.

but.. slow and steady is the way to go. i know i am wasting most of my time at the hospital, talking to random pple and just buzzing around, but this is the only year i will get to laze and be free:) next year certainly wld be a killer!!

yup, just for my memory sake, i have been meeting up with my lovely friends almost everyday. i am not sure when was the last night i was home doing my own stuff... movie watching has been rather hot on my schedule too..thx to the meddies who invites me to watch movies back-to-back.. & i dont even join them all the time! haha.. :) the only show i am waiting to watch is 'love happens' and another with hugh grant in it.. of coz right?? :) i think there are a few others though. end of the year is always a good time for awesome movies.

with facebook, i guess i hardly bother to post up pictures anymore. and i realise i have the habit of leaving my camera at home and nt bothering to bring it along unless it is a big event. besides, i dont think i have made any new friends recently tht i do nt have a picture of them somewhere in my huge-ass collection of photos... :) someday i am gg to run out of space to keep all the pictures anyways.. but looking back at pictures is rather therapeutic too;) esp. when i feel nostalgic...

like how i know i am gg to miss kat when she goes back to KL on fri till next feb-march... >4 months ya:( here is a shout-out to u. . . . see, i am so nice yet u left mark to me... HAHAHA.. jkjk.. ;o dont worry, i'll DEAL with him..

happy grduation though... my best friend is graduating and yet she is complaining she dont know wat she wanna do next!! :P

clap hands** i started on my thesis finally... yet i have a long way to go towards completing the 100+++ pages thesis. i am so gg to bind it up and frame it on the wall when i am done with it. haha... a senior said he wrote at least 126 drafts to get it right. >.<

ok, besides, i think the plants are surviving well in the balcony. dont worry.. u know who u are:)

thanks to my green fingers!;)

2009-09-21T04:49:00.000-07:00

patient no. 12~~ :)

workplace politics... and i am caught in the middle... :(

and there are freaking stalkers and a "too friendly" surgeon who like to invade one's personal space... i move back, he move forward, i move back, he move forward till i bang against the door. LOL...weirdo...

went to national art gallery for DALI's exhibition with Xu, but the queue was so long...so we decided to walk to melbourne park and watch others playing tennis (saw a cute guy.. haha), and walked along yarra river and read newspaper...a really nice day:) weather was really good, warm and sunny!! xu bought a boomerang as a sovenir and we had coffee before he head to airport. my 1st UK friend:) haha... but then he is chinese, so is cheating...

sunday was hari raya... spent the day with kat, sarah and yitming:) chilled and talk crap... and dirty talk.. OMG... the content was quite disturbing.. HAHA... i am corrupted..... thanks to all the people ard me everyday too:) there was a patient who had a vibrator stuck in her and so had to be surgically removed.. lol... i was then asked to google it, taking away the "safe search mode"... & i sweared for the 1st time the other day.. on the phone with dex. :( restraint is desperately needed.. haha..

cousins here for a few days and so the hse is crowded... glad my sis on holiday so she can bring them ard instead. i am stuck at RMH...

UP was a lame movie.... expected much more... too childish!!!! my IQ was like dropping by the minute after the 1st half of the show. nt sure why so many pple liked it though. hehe.. maybe i am getting too old too fast... :)

2009-09-02T16:12:00.000-07:00

lost another patient today AGAIN... haha.. how am i gg to get my no. up??

sighs... it's all abt learning to deal when things dont go yr way...

anyways, considering if i sld go paintball this sunday?? was warned tht i will come back with lots of bruises and bleeds.. haha... sounds like battlefield lol.... but actually cant wait till uni sept hols (although i dont have a break) then we can go horse riding... hopefully lay can oganise it.. haha..:)

& i just saw 4D gathering pictures on Dora's blog... I MISSED it!!! sadded.... organise another one this year end can can?? :) PLEASE!!!

was just talking to pheyyee abt how high sch friends dont seem to change much. but when u go down a level to primary sch friends, its a totally diff story. everyone look so different and character changes so much.. haha.. i guess most development stops by end of high sch ya?? :) it wld be scary if everytime i return and meet up with unfamilar faces and friends whose character has changed drastically... i guess tht why i dont keep in touch with most pri sch mates anymore... all my excuses.. haha...

yup, life's the same... hospitals most days, dinners most nights... had an awesome one with janice at Tiamo just yesterday... tht is a new gem i have to visit more often now:) haha...

watching 'UP' next week.. nt sure if it is overrated. but i guess u just have to live up to the hype.. haha..

2009-08-28T05:31:00.001-07:00

had lots of "first time" today :) reminds me of "winter sonata".... hehe...

recruited my first patient for my videolaryngoscope study

inserted my first venous line into an awake patient and i did it in one try:) perhaps everyone can do it too cos it really isnt tht hard. haha... maybe the patient had good visible veins

intubated the same patient too, and it was my first intubation as well

gave my first presentation in a long long time (since trinity i think)... 3 years!! lol. i was freaking out. was awake by 5am when the talk was 730am. sad case... >.<

and i realise this is the first time i truely enjoyed being in medicine:) AMS is treating me really well i guess:) though everyone thinks i am working too hard, being in theatre from 730am -6pm, but at least i am enjoying and learning at my own pace, with really nice people. no more boring lectures, tutorials and exams!!!!!! haha.

the only thing....i feel so inferior to everyone there. i think i am the youngest/inexperienced on the whole surgical floor of surgeons, anaesthetists, interns, etc... "insignificant" is still an understatement. haha..

it will take time to fit in but meanwhile i am just thankful tht i chose anaesthesia instead of the initial project at the women's hospital:):):)

i'm loving it:) weekends are great too cos i wont have to be staring at lecture notes like i used to. haha...

2009-08-15T04:47:00.000-07:00

another week passed super fast. cos maybe i am at the hospital most of the time, indoors. dont really get to see the sunlight. haha. leave hse at 7am, come home at 6pm, and so the sky is always dark.

but i am still enjoying it:) sat in for more operations during the week, and had lots of stories of surgeons plus other hospital gossips to tell phey yee, who is so willing to listen. HAHA... i really like observing pple. it's fun and interesting to watch when they dont know wat u are thinking. haha...

i guess the adrenaline rush of being in theatre is wearing off slowly. i tend to want to sneak out once the anaesthetist is done doing the intubation, while previously i wld just hang ard in tht theatre and watched the operation. but i hav other things to do i guess, like sit in the office and hearing all the conversations btw the consultants. lol. kapo right?? :)

caught two movies during the week and though i thought i wld really cry in "sister's keeper", i think i was too tired to shed much tears. haha. still, it was a rather good watch. probably gg to watch GI joe tomorrow - michael nearly dragged me to watch "the orphan". thanks to my sis who figured out it was a horror show, so of coz i rejected the idea!! :)

weekends always time to go out. :) friday night was great with mel, phey yee n pam:) girls' night, filled with talks and little gossips tht doesnt hurt anyone right?? haha...

grocery shopping, marketting, cleaning the hse and still had some time baking today>> i wld like to proclaim my first attempt at biscotti is a complete sucess!!! love it!! crunchy and sweet, just how i like it. :)

dinner with michael n alistair - cos i rejected their suggestion of watching "the orphan" & dinner was indeed much more fulfilling. haha....

tmr is melb uni open hse. wonder if i sld tag along with kat... find another course to sign up for?? HAHA:)

I SLD BE STUDYING!!! :(

2009-07-31T21:12:00.000-07:00

the $13,800 videolayngoscope. i better master martial arts in case i get robbed. :)

me, in my RMH scrubs:) been scrubbing into surgeries daily since the start of my AMS. loving it though its really tiring chasing all the anaesthesia consultants ard, pestering them to use the video laryngoscope on their patient. have to speed up my project a bit if not it's really quite hard to get it done on time. one consultant even told me i should not take more than 2 weeks off at the end of the year!! but i wanna go home and i INTENDED to finish my project a few months ahead of time and slack off the remaining months in spore. :( plans busted** haha...

so i am totally tired out and feeling intimidated by being a 'pop-plant' in the hospital each day, but i guess i rather be doing this anytime than be in lectures like pervious semesters.:)

my sleeping pattern is all weird and out of order. haha...

this picture is here cos after MONTHS of planting, there are finally flowers. this is for my dad's viewing pleasure...:) constant pester from him to see the fruits of his labour... LOL.. haha

2009-07-19T20:58:00.000-07:00

SIGHS!!!

wat happened to my labtop? internet explorer is running so slow and my internet sms is not opening up!!!!

days without technology :(:( Mark i hope u r back soon so i can consult u again:) hehe...

& my ipod died on me yesterday... it hung a few times before, but yesterday songs were playing but the screen was not displaying anything. but, i awoke this morning and it has REVIVED!!! haha... :) yays...my ipod is an immortal :) LOL. considering tht it has lasted me nearly 5 years, maybe it is time to change one anyways. any sponsors?? LOL:)

finally took the effort to change my blogskin. nothing really nice on the web these days. anyways, gg to bake another batch of muffins cos my bananas are turning black! :)

still homesick:(

2009-07-18T19:35:00.000-07:00

one week since back in melbourne. busy with statistics and research methods lectures and tutorials. nearly 9-4pm daily. was kinda useful though. hopefully.. haha. but anyways, finally met up with my reseach supervisor and got the details for my project. dont wanna bore u guys with the details but baically is a "randomised controlled trial comparing a Video Laryngoscope wth the MIller straight blade larngoscope in intubating adult patients with predicted diffcult airways".
the fun part is that i get to tag along my supervisor when she goes into surgey:)going into theatre is surely much more fun than sitting in frnt of a desk doing reseach reiews:) i start this coming tueday.

which means i hav a four day weekend. fri, sat, sun and monday... and guess wat i have been doing..being really DOMESICATED and cleaned, vacummed my apartment. did the laundry and BAKED like 3 batches of muffins and cakes. i wld love to give some away but i always feel really wary of letting others try products tht come out of my kitchen. haha. i mean if i eat it is fine, but even if i think is nice, others may not find it so right? and then the "burden" wld be in their hands to finish it. haha. maybe when i am more confident of my baking skills then i can be like phey yee and "sweeteN" other people up!! HAHA >.<

ok, i had enough time in my hands to even make my own pork wonton dumplings:) and THIS i can say for sure THEY WERE YUMMY...so much fresher and juicer and perhaps healthier than those premade ones...sld i boast to say i made up the recipe myself?? :) haha... the parsley and miso paste certainly mad them uniquely delicious:) i wont be buying any premade dumplings in future!!!
sighs...i only tried making them today, wat a pity. sld have brought these for kelvin's potluck yesterday instead of the premade ones i brought there. :(

yup, talking abt the party, it was a blast:) thanks so much mel for hosting it for her dear kelvin. hehe... potluck was awesome:) harry potter n he goblet of fire was showing on tv and so i got to stare at robert pattinson!! LOL... but he is surely much better looking than harry potter right??? wonder why i only noticed him in twilight... hehe...
oh, and playing "twister" was so much fun! halirious as we tried to knock each other out of the mat. childhood games:)
realised many of us wld be gg to austin for clinicals next year, except a few, incld me :( sobs... hope st. vincent wldnt be too stressed... **fingers crossed**

watched the "harry potter" movie just the other day too:) movies two days in row before i get busy with my project. "the proposal" was kinda a let down but watching it in the half-pipe cinema on bean-bags was certainy an experience. except when thinking wat other couples hav done on those seats... HAHA... just realised these two are the first two movies i seen in melbourne this year!! how sad.
no wonder i go on movie marathon daily back in spore... to catch up! lol.

homesick le...:(

2009-06-16T07:53:00.000-07:00

wow it has been one month since my last post. it has indeed been a windwhirl come to think abt it. time just flew by ike crazy.

swot vac is over. exams are over. and tonight the third year post exam party is also over. pple leaving for all over the world and all over melb for AMS, probaby many whom i may never see again. it really reall quite sad. call me sentimental, but even those whom i hardly talk to, pple whom i just greet and walk on, still have a story in my time at uni these past 2 1/2 years. sighs... but friends come and go i just. people move on... ...

last day of uni before swot vac was camera whore!!! at uni, at sunderland theatre,at med building, at south lawn, with frends and pple we have been together with for the past 2 1/2 years. pictures on facebook saving me the trouble of putting them up here:)

mom and brother's trip to melb was a blast for them i guess. he got to complete a list of things we wanted to do, wat he wanted to eat and where he wanted to go. he is such a planner, everything must be thought out before hand and then be done within schedule. i guess tht isnt a really bad thing. just inflexible:) so wasted tht their trip coincide with our exam swot vacation which is meant for us to prepare for the exams. so we cldnt go out much. but the whole family being here, though a distraction, kept the morale high despite my really SLOW rate of completing my lectures.
on the last day of swot vac, my sis n i finally got to come out of our hiding shell of home and went to watch circus du soleil at docklands with dex too. overall good show but not as fantastic as phantom or lion king or maybe even wicked. perhaps i just love musicals more, instead of those circus acts, which because of this year's theme, made them employ those china pple to perform all the aerobics. it is like watching china's national day parade. even the lion dance was rather fake. there were of coz good parts but sadly the opening and finale both failed miserably in my opinion. not much impact.
dexter's birthday fell on the first day of our exams so too bad, cldnt go out for dinner but had steamboat at home. raincheck** haha.. it was good though, as long as the family sits down together, i guess:) loves**
exams went by QUICK!!! maybe cos i was really rushing to complete all the lectures, so last minute i felt so drained and lost in the world of microbiology. i didnt even have an idea on how i did for the papers. i was like do n done with. jsut pass and i will be happy:) but i must say thie semester is really the most interesting and structured of all the semesters. had fun and quite a good time learning these 14 weeks:)
yesterday was the last exam Health Practice paper. was so pissed by the MCA questions which were so unexpected but anwyays, it is OVER!!!! we took some pictures of the exhibition building cos we prob wont be having exams there anymore.. NO MORE EXAMS FOR 18 MONTHS!!! YAYS!!:) AMS wont be tht easy though i think. some of them went back to uni AGAIN for more pictures, but it was too cold, i decided to head home. haha.
met again for dinner and karoke at partyworld melb central for a night of singing and gg crazy. rach booked a rm frm 730pm to 3am. 8 hrs of non-stop singing, by 2am i was really seeing stars and my vocal cords begging for mercy. haha. the rm cost abt $300, and my dad commented we sld just buy our own KTV set with tht amt. but i guess we cld order $300 wortth of food and drinks which was incld. no alcohol tht night cos a few of us forgot to bring our ID. we were desperately trying hard to spend up the $300 credit. haha. but a platter of fruits was already $40 so it wasnt tht hard to feed the no. of us.
but i really need to brush up on my CHINESE!!! i cant read any of the lyrics and even if i know the song i cant sing it...:(((( so sadded.
cldnt sleep the whole night though i was back home ard 3 plus am. perhaps cos i washed my hair in tht wee hour of the morning too. haha. so i watched two movies before gg to bed at 7am. HAHA... my blueberry nights and the holiday, both with jude law in it. LOL... :) i am hopeless at romance...

slept in till 1pm..:)

yea, so i didnt have time to hunt for a nice dress for tonight's prom but luckily had one hidden in the cupboard so wore it. haha. qilun, our personal chauffeur drove us there. food was rather good except little uncooked, chocolate cake was SOSO rich i felt sick though. haha. the bread served was awesome though. my bakery dream** haha. was telling my sis i wanna own a bakery and a pharmacy in future. probaby side by side. if any case of food poisoning maybe can just pop into the pharmacy for medicine. haha. killing customers. LOL
anyways, after a few speeches and performances, incld a african dance by our colleagues (AWESOME-NESS), dance floor opened and ya, havoc started. esp when there was unlimited booze to get pple high. was trying to get myself high but as usual it was HARD>.< sparkling didnt work too. too bad no hard liquer were served tht night. but still, had fun:) i must REALLY GO LEARN SOME MOVES though. i am as stiff as a rock, i cant dance. pple say everyone can dance, but i really cant move. so sad. so self-conscious. sighs. LOL. maybe only my wedding day will i be high enough and let go all self inhibition.

anyways, pictures will be flodding facebook tmr i think. :) have to go shopping tmr and stock up on more dresses in case of such emergencies again. haha. one day after exam we have prom. so no time for dress shopping. :)

A shoutout:: HAVE a safe flight frida. and enjoy yr year in london:) sobs...
feel really excited for those gg overseas. ailynn gg to korea, reina gg scotland, ed gg italy, some sporeans back to spore. the world is indeed getting smaller. and i will really miss those pple:) friends are indeed the joy of life, of coz, besides family:)

another 3 weeks of hols will pass by fast so till then... for those coming back to melb....

zzzz... back spore in 5 days!!!! YAYS :)

i better get those random songs out of my head or i can never sleep. esp *poker face*!! i dont even like tht song. :P

2009-05-17T05:58:00.001-07:00

i got my wish yesterday. had a great yumcha session at gold leaf harbourtown with kev, mark, kat, ailynn, david, wilson:)too bad lee missed his pudding lol. haha.

it just opened not too long ago and so we deicded to seek the new yumcha place out. :) it was a bit difficult finidng directions, esp with friends who doesnt trust yr sense of directions ** winkwink ** haha. still, it was memorable.nice atmosphere, spacious and clean. haha. but i guess the timsum is still better at westlake. except the baos and deserts which were really yum:)

ate a lot we did. sat till there 3 plus, luckily there werent many people esp we were talking abt david dancing to his fav. korean "gee gee gee" song. till now, i cannot get wht is so catchy abt tht song though. haha. all i heard were "G G...bu de na...G G...bu de na..."
LOL.

mark was so 'wld u say sweet?' (but tht word just doesnt suit him.. HAHA). he knew i didnt like the scary 'eye' on the cover of "The Host", so in order to get tht book which we bought for kat's birthday not knowing she had tht book already out of his hands, he used a gauze and surgical tape to cover the 'eye' before passing it to me to read. i think the dental hospital wld be taking stock inventory and realise there was a missing gauze and tape. HAHA. :P

anyways got back to the city and kat and i decided to bring back old times by roaming in supermarket and then went to myers and david jones for some shoe shopping. i LOVE this flats tht i saw and probably gg to buy it with ju's gift card. but still wondering if $100 for tht pair is worth it. sighs...

back to my apartment and it was 2 hrs finale of GREY'S ANATOMY:) thanks kevin... he is like the supplier for all series...lol. i just hate cliff hangers. but still, grey's anatomy rox.. l want a mcdreamy too ;) it was so sweet. wedding vows on post-sticks and honeymoon in the OR... how "romantic" haha...

talking abt hospitals: i really am very fickle minded. cant stand it. but tht is just me. sighs...

decided to put st. vincent's at my first choice, perhaps due to all the influence around me. i was so determined to put RMH, but it ended up as my 2nd choice. anyways, sld not bore my mind with this issue anymore.

i gave myself false hopes. :( tht's just too bad.

2009-05-11T07:54:00.000-07:00

my last test of the semester BEFORE EXAMS is over...
exams in less than a month.
but i cant wait till it's over.

why do i always have to change the right to wrong answer. sighs...

anyways, at least i got to do some therapeutic wasting of time down supermarket aisles today. haha. i just love randomly walking in grocery stores; safeway, BigW, coles. cos even if i buy just ANYTHING i know there would be SOME use to it. unlike shopping sometimes i buy and later decide it was too ugly to be worn. HAHA.

arhh. random but i think a perfect life as a tai tai wld be:
morning yumcha, then grocery shopping, perhaps some baking in the afternoon, inviting friends for tea, reading gossip magazines(do taitai do tht or they gossip by mouth? :P) and then perhaps perparing dinner for loved ones when they return frm a tired day and at night YOUTUBE!! HAHAHA...

ok, a got a whole bag of raw chestnuts from jocelyn's backyard today cos she brought a whole huge bag to PBL. we each took some home to roast/steam. i decided tht steaming it was better cos it retained the moisture. BUT I JUST LOVE CHESTNUTS!!:)
but my poor fingers are bleeding cos i work my nails too hard in trying to break through all the shells. GREEDY me :)

i want yumcha** :P lol.

2009-05-08T06:04:00.000-07:00

''http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVTyLqkez6A''

check out beyonce "if i were a boy".. :) i am really addicted to this song these few days:) there is a spanish version too which sounds really cool. haha.

i wanna watch wolverine... sighs... but must study for test first.

next week! :)

exam timetables are out. STRESSED.

2009-05-04T05:01:00.000-07:00

at this moment, i really dont like u.

u make me TRY too hard...

u are the scarecrow and i am the bird.
& this bird is an idiot to be afraid to u...

2009-04-23T04:18:00.000-07:00

my short trip to adelaide:) more pictures in facebook:) visited dawn and auntie gina came over frm spore as well. it was a blast. eat, play, sleep, tht's life! haha.

easter break is over. back to uni this week le.

had my last clinical visit to hampton today. will certainly miss it. got to see so many interesting patients... each one different and as challenging. some very very nice, others were harder to deal with.

to round up today: andrew n i saw an attention deficit disorder boy, two patients who were addicted to morphine cos they have been taking it for chronic back pain, a diabetic woman, several really elderly men (90, 89, 87 yrs) who were still surviving rather well (makes me feel so young!). the 90 yr old guy had several problems with angina and nightmares from the war (post traumatic stress disorder - reminded me of grey's anatomy). the 14 yr old boy did some self-injury by using the asthma ventolin puffer and injected into the skin as a dare. so it kinda left a huge blister like burnt mark on his hand. things kids do at school this days!! sighs..

anyways, i had to rush my PBL!!! haven done my research. have been too ADDICTED to the twilight series... OH, i wanna meet someone like Edward... :P loves** AHHA...

cant believe i am addicted to such books! LOL. must thank kat and mel for lending me those thick thick bks... :)

& i received a really nice surprise in the letterbox yesterday.. so sweet:)**thanks so much ju** :0

P.S need to find dresses for the two parties next week!! arr.... being a girl is so troublesome sometimes! haha...

2009-04-07T06:58:00.000-07:00

hello pple:) long time no hear. haha

interesting fact:

--female doctors aparently are 6 times more likely to commit suicide than general population. male doctors are twice as likely, which isnt tht bad. but 6 times?? **scary**

cant wait till easter break:)

visiting dawn in adelaide with my sis. auntie gina will be there too. nice to be with family again since my dad and aunt went back to spore today. will be a nice peaceful getaway i guess.

too bad tickets to sydney were too hard to get, otherwise cld have visited ju and the guys. sorry, next time ya??

rock climbing tmr night, but i really want to join the guys for surfing on fri !!! wld be so much fun. love love water sports:)

addicted to gossip girls... UNBELIVABLE!! ** :P

2009-03-26T04:16:00.000-07:00

i realise i dont put up photos on my blog anymore. haha.

no reason since all the pictures are uploaded by others on facebook. haha. save me the effort yet my face still appears somewhere. HAHA...the wonderful-ness of facebook, no matter how lame some of the applications are.

anyways, another week flew by. tht's sad, one week since i was 20. and i haven done anything significant. lol.

had a rather interesting 3 1/2 hrs tutorial on breast examination. comprised of 4 stations, and at one station, we got to perform a breast examination on one of the tutors present. it was rather nerve-racking, cos it was a rather intimate examination and there were a few pple in the room watching u. but for guys, it wld more awkward i think. maybe no the locals, but the asian guys. haha... at another station, we had these models of breasts made out of rubber and we had to feel around for the "lumps" = possibly cancer. they were quite hard to feel, and needed some pressure. my fingers were definitely aching after the whole tutorial. lol.

i wanted to book our flight to Sydney during the easter break and was so excited tht the tickets were rather cheap, and was all ready to book the tickets. then i realised all along i had clicked the airport near geelong instead of the one nearer to melbourne. & there are actually no more jetstar flight out of the nearer airport.

sighs, our next choice: Adelaide.

**blurblur**

2009-03-20T08:18:00.000-07:00

emm... been a while since i posted an entry, but since it's my 20th birthday (mid life crsis?? haha) i shall made an effort. :)

anyways, yesterday was a really INTERESTING day. prob a nice adventure before i turned to the dark side. had my first GP placement for clinicals and i was 1 1/2 hrs late due to taking the wrong train. i had a strong inkling tht i was on the wrong platform but i didnt check till i was far far away in some place called srpingvale. at flinders station, i was told i was on the sandringham line, but aparently i was on the pakenham line instead. the confusing thing was tht platforms 10,12,13 were kind of together, and thus i prob got on the wrong train. i went on for abt 40 min on the train and wondered where the hell was i since i heard "clayton station" and i didnt remember seeing tht stop on the line i was supposed to be on. tht was to monash uni campus instead. so i went to the map and SHIT. i realised i was heading the wrong direction and would take me another 1 1/2 hrs to get to my destination since i had no choice but to go all the way back to the city again. called up the doctor and was told "tht isnt good planning on yr part right?"

i DID PLAN, just tht things didnt GO according to PLAN! sighs.. was so paranoid tht moment, asked so many pple how to get back to south yara, and once at south yara, i asked another dozen pple to make sure tht THIS time i board the right train to hampton. even had kat help me check the platform no. through the internet. thanks lots kat:)

train was delayed as usual and i FINALLY arrived at 330pm, when i was supposed to be there at 2pm. luckily i had a really really nice doctor and he even smiled and laughed tht i had "travelled far" to come here, and if i needed a glass of water. LOL :) the weather was so hot tht afternoon. anyways, we got down to see the next patient. andrew, my clinical partner had already given a flu jab to a patient and did some other cool stuff since 2pm. but he was so kind to explain all to me.:)

but clinicals tht afternoon was the BEST:) i never knew a GP could see so many different cases a day. if tht's his typical day at work, it's so exciting. haha. within at short few hrs i was there, the doctor had seen

- a patient who had stepped on a rusty nail - gave a tetanus vaccine immediately and his foot was so swollen

- a man with 3+ urine, 3+ RBC in the urine, with high BP and edema in ankles - was asked to keep a 24 hr urine collection in a container tht was the largest i ever seen; reminded me of those u put petrol in. HAHA. hopefully it is not glomerularnephritis

- a woman who came in wanting a mammogram and pad smear, and so she just stripped totally in front of three of us to let the doctor examine her breasts. she really felt no embarrassment whatsoever, and even the doctor said it was unusual for a patient to strip everything off like she did.

- a elderly couple, with the husband having a large swollen, pusy cyst at the back of his shoulder. the doctor had to perform a minor operation to cut the whole absess out, and since the nurse was on leave, i got to help swab all the blood from flowing and to cut the tread of the sticthes. his wife was beside him and was so destressed by the no. of injections (prob. 10 - for local anaesthetics) and the amt of blood tht she started crying. it was so sad to see her being affected by her husband's plight, though he couldnt feel much. there was some trouble stiching the wound up cos it was rather wide and the cyst was stuck onto the deeper tissues. at one moment, the doctor had to use force and blood just SPLAT everywhere, onto my clothes as well. sighs... but the messy work was so worth it when finally the wound was closed and i realised i had used up LOTs of gauze to absorb all his blood. it was so satisfying to see the job done. i dont think i was the best assistant though, had a bit of trouble cutting the thread which were quite thick.

- managed to practice taking Blood pressure after so long and made a huge boo boo. i think i really need to revise all my clinical examinations. haha.

- a few more other patients

time passed so quick and though we were supposed to leave at 5, we ended up leaving ard 6 plus. andrew drove me to caulfield where he lived and i took the train home without much trouble. he suggested picking me up frm caulfield each time so i wouldnt get lost again.LOL.

had a really enjoyable time, though i really need more practice interviewing patients too. might consider general practice in future. hehe.

yup, tonight had a nice dinner with yiching, gezzel, rui xi, avril, yilin, sumei at a thai restaurant along smith street. coincidentally henry brought sam n i there a few weeks ago and so it seems like a really popular place. foood was good, company was better. thanks o much for the cheese strawberry muffins:):) i love friends who bake. lol. dont have to get myself dirty and i am sure i am not as good a baker. HAHA...

and the best surprise, sam did a surprise thing at 12 plus with my fav. angle cake from greenings:) tried the green tea one before, and was telling her how i wanted to try the lemon one and she got me one this afternoon!:) i was so blur and didnt even notice it in the fridge. haha. with sparkles, she sang and gave me a really pretty giraffee necklace too:) THANKS SO MUCH SAM:) loves**

s=the only thing, i am so stuffed up with muffins and cakes. haha. :P

tmr my dad and aunt wld be here. life will get better.... and better.... i hope:)

more updates soon:) tinking where i cld 'con' my dad for tmr night dinner.HAHA.
need to catch up on lectures though. his weekend is certainly GONE! woosh....

thanks everyone who wished me:) grateful jacq**

2009-03-06T20:56:00.000-08:00

there was an earthquake at ard 9pm in melbourne yesterday. apparently the last one was a decade ago.

& i only realised it when everyone seems to be asking me the same question today.

"did u know there was an earthquake yest.??"

even my sis said she felt the apartment shaking. lol.

but i guess we were having such a great time out i didnt even feel a thing. HAHA.

anyways,

happy 20th birthday PHEY YEE!!!:)

i finally satisfied my cake-craving.. yum:)

2009-03-02T06:29:00.000-08:00

i played my first game of lacrosse today.

was fun:) and not as easy as i tot.

luckily Mel was with me. :) thx mel, but does tht mean i have to follow u to dancesports now?? HAHA.

but i think i am gg to have a huge blue black on my nose cos the hard lacrosse ball landed SPLAT onto my face!..sighs.. first injury sustained...

tmr gg to see how touch ruby goes. :) hopefully it will be just as fun! haha. it seems i have too much time to waste... NO i dont, just in case u were wondering. haha. :P

& shit, i am overdosing on ice cream. i cant help but keep opening the freezer.

u know how they say 'keep friends close, but keep yr enemies closer'?? this shows how wrong... in the end u cant resist the temptation but to make friends with the enemy.. HAHA... logical?? :P

uni was so packed today since the other faculties started their first day. sighs.... there is no more peace on campus. lol. but according to jasper and kelvin, more pple means more "scenery" to look at... uKnoW>> hehe...

2009-02-24T21:51:00.000-08:00

woo... lets make it a memorable event tht dora tagged me... to tell me to improve my spelling. LOL. HAHA. sighs.. arent u my walking dictionary?? :P

ok, i am being lame.. and bored. lol.

take care ppez. we played with bacterial in practicals again. i think this semester wld turn out to be rather fun. haha. hope no anatomy though.

2009-02-24T02:30:00.000-08:00

kim's 21st:) my med buddies ;)

just a random tot...

was hanging out with two grad friends frm uni.. then we started talking abt how they have been studying for so many years. i asked and realised that both of them were like 26 this year. was really surprised cos they both look really young, even younger than me. adeline cld just pass off for being 17 i think. haha. but i guess they are certainly more matured in their thoughts and have gone through more experiences ba. :) steady and knowing their stuff.

i started thinking that actually it is a really good idea to do a basic science degree (3 years) then a masters in medicine (MD). tht is currently what melbourne uni is changing its system to, though it is being opposed by others who think its a waste of an extra year and more money i guess.

still, looking at the both of them, they are 26 this year, probably graduate when they are 29, cos they dont have to do AMS like us, but they have a basic science degree, a masters degree in their area of research before pursueing a MBBS degree.

it probably is the long route to becoming a doctor, cos no matter how much i complain, i will still graduate when i am 23. not including the extra years of training and internship of coz. that cld take forever if i become complacent and decided not to specialise. :0 haha. but to look at both of them then, at tht moment, i just felt they knew so much more, they have seen much more, they are more prepared, focussed and knowledgable in most aspects tht i feel tht undergraduates like me really know nothing. some may of coz be really smart and may hit the dean list, but tht is just base on theory and memorising facts of medicine. tht doesnt surely make u a good doctor. if u just sit at home, re-listen to all the lectures, be foccus and seek out all the right information and regurgitate during the exams, it wld gurantee u at least a H2 i guess.

i dont know... but in tht hour talking to them, i realised what responsibility it wld be in the future...

no matter how other doctors/seniors may tell u that u sld give up right now if u dont have the determination and are not willing to give up yr "life" for medicine, cos it will snap up all yr time : no time for marriage, no time for raising kids, being stuck in yr job 24 hrs etc..etc..., it doesnt really hit u until u really go into the job. now we think its ok, they prob are just trying to scare us. even if it were true, being at work for > 24hrs straight and losing out on all the social stuff just seems unimaginable. till it happens. emm... i really really hope it doesnt happen. cos that's not a life i want...

adeline's sis chose to work in georgia in the US, up in the mountains cos in terms of pay and hours, it is considered a rural area so i guess pay/hr is higher. and u get some serenity. tht is the extent u have to go to escape from all the office politics, the hectic life and to get some "me-time". is it really tht way? i heard med stud. in spore who work >48hrs shifts and then only coming home to sleep. all professions have some cons in one way or another, but still, there is always a way into another field if it isnt something so specialised such as medicine and dentistry.

after 3 years with a general degree, there are always other routes to take to build on yr foundation, esp being more matured and thinking along the way.

but after 6 years for the MBBS degree, will i have the guts to find my own path other than what i am already in? maybe not... but tht isnt necessarily a bad thing i guess...

sighs. i am contradicting myself the whole entry. HAHA...i dont know why i suddenly feel this sense of insecurity after 2 years, and into the 3rd year. i know i WILL complete the journey and get this degree. but the question is what happens after that >.< ...

...i guess most pple are just as unsure as me...

i hope... :) i am not emo ok, in case someone says tht i am AGAIN. haha. i am just thinking hard...

2009-02-21T23:04:00.000-08:00

one week passed so fast.
lol. but i guess the faster the better?? hehe.. then hols will be here again.

but i like uni when there arent so many pple, so it's good for another week before the other faculties start their term too.

emm... actually i kinda missed living alone. the past week was a reminder of what used to be like in Trinity. it's actually quite nice to have your own space once in a while. relaxing and doing whatever u want. haha.
been watching TV more than i used to. been lying on bed gazing at my ceiling more than i used to. i like the serenity of being alone. LOL.
then i guess when my sister arrives next week i shall be happy too, maybe just another kind of happiness.

did i mention i like the timetable for this semester too?? days are rather short and though the lectures are all 2 hrs instead of the usual 1hr, at least the 5 lectures/week are finished by wednesday, so PBL isnt tht clueless anymore. haha. and i have alternate thursdays off.
:) :) the best part!

yest was kim's 21st party, but it was supposed to be a surprise. BUT Kim ended work early so by the time some of us reached, she was already home and we hadnt decorated her place. haha. most were at her place already, but pheyyee had the decorations. i was with her and we took a tram up. unfortunately the tram made its last stop and no other tram was in sight. decided to take a cab up, and still we were later than her! still, i guess she was still as surprised with all of us there. exactly 21 of us for her 21st birthday. cool:) the more the merrier i guess.

p.s. i realised while searching for an outfit tht all my dresses are really short. am i getting taller of more self-conscious?? hehe...

had great fun yest. though. made this whole string of balloons and tied them together. ended the party by bursting them on kelvin with jonathon's help! haha. was so high. must be the ginger beer?? LOL. or maybe the very rich chocolate cake??

was back by 2am and i was so knocked out! haha.

actually i think i am just naturally high the past week:)
still woke up rather early today...
for a nice yumcha session with mel and janice. had to wait a long time for our place at westlake though. but the yumcha wait definitely was worth it:0 haha...
gossiped so much. now i know why ladies get more wrinkles than men. perhaps cos we tok too much. hehe....>.<

later dinner out again. hectic hectic. good to meet up with friends after a long break in spore though:)

yy: this post not emo la right?? haha..:P

2009-02-14T22:52:00.000-08:00

.back in melb.

not a very smooth trip with the constant turbulence and the guy beside me who kept invading my space. lol. the plane was jerky so i cldn watch entertainment or read books, so i just observed others and kept pacing the plane.. boh.... and quantas has such nice huge marshmallows with hot chocolate. i was like 'may i have more marshmallows pls' and they gave me a whole cup. i was on sugar high! HAHA. still, i landed in melb pretty quickly. and all was smooth at the customs.. luckily all my food passed through. they didnt even checked all. just a glance:)

thanks to henry for picking me up so tht i could come home and sleep. i was so sleepy. but first i was to make sure the plants survived. sadly, none did. all the leaves were brown, thanks to the scorching weather the past week. hopefully they will revive with my 'green fingers'. aha. couldnt go much except to water them. FLOOD them... :)

slept for an hour before waking up to go grocery shopping. coles, aldi, vic market, but too lazy to go safeway. haha. maybe later. cooked lunch:) i tried to cook gocchi which i bought from aldi. they are actually cheewy round pasta made of potato and flour, but it didnt come out as good as the one i tried at Raffles Hotel. haha. of coz right?

did laundry and guess wat. i left a piece of tissue in one of my pockets and thus, the rest of my clothes had white fluffy bits stuck to them. SIGHS!! wat a mess. and then, i had to dust them onto the carpet before hanging them up. my whole carpet was so WHITE! haha. i told my parents it was snowing in the house. hehe. then i realised i was so dumb when my mom asked why didnt i dust them in the shower area. >.<

morale of story: my brain needs sleep .ahaha..... :) nvm, it was a good excuse for me to vacuum the carpet after 3 months away too.

i just cleared a whole stack of letters... BILLS BILLS BILLS>> haha... some overdue le... >.<>

and now i finally get to rest. no more housework. haha.

missing home already. lol.

2009-02-11T19:44:00.000-08:00

HAHA. someone called me to say why i so emo...LOL

i am not emo k. just reflecting.. just reflecting....hehe

anyways, i am pissed i cant access my hotmail account. i have so many mails to clear, yet i cant! cant even read my mails... SIGHSIGHS

flying off in two days. jack chi came to stay for a couple of days and sam fell cos according to her friend's theory... jack pushed her down the stairs and then brought her up the stairs and pushed her down again. HAHA. hehe.such a funny theory. actually she tripped and fell and came tumbling down the hill. if only she was 'jill'and then it would be:
jack and jill went up the hill.... ..... .... .... u know. ... .... . haha.

ok.. hope sam gets better from all the cuts and bruises soon:)

2009-02-07T07:32:00.000-08:00

sometimes things happen. u cant stop them from happening. this is when u lose control.

i hate tht feeling.

eh...i think i should stop replying yr messages. my fingers are tired. lol.

2009-02-02T20:35:00.000-08:00

haven blogged for a while. :)

emm
cny was fun:)
i love family gatherings no matter how naggy the relatives can be.haha.
all the fun, food and catch-ups.
mom cooked up a great feast on cny night itself. imagine having over 50++ pple in yr hse.. actually didnt expect so many pple to turn up but luckily enough space and food for all:) i guess others wld have just catered food but mom's cooking is the best:)
seeing the little ones playing the limbo rock was so funny. haha. imagine little penguins strutting- super cute!!! the adults werent as flexible lol. i nearly sprained my ankle too. hehe.
balloons were bursting the whole night. i felt all the air and effort i used up in blowing those many balloons popping away too. HAHA>.<>
tht afternoon, my grandfather's sea cucumber was the best i ever tasted too. so yummy. i guess i hadnt had that since my trip to HK so i overdosed on it during lunch. haha. plus his signature muachee which always disappear quickly.
saw my newborn nephew for the first time tht afternoon too:) so cute. plus his elder brother is gg to be a ladies man in future i predict. haha. he looked so different now, with light brown hair and big brown eyes.

the next day and the 3rd, 4th etc day of cny was gg to different aunt's place for reunion. taking turns i guess. more excuse to talk, gamble, drink and eat lol.
i guess i treasured those days cos i know i wont be back for a few months to see my cousins and all when they usually come to my house weekly. plus less opportunity for sharkfin, abalone, yusheng and other chinese delicacies.haha. just tradition actually.

kat and her family visited spore again over cny. managed to meet up with micheal, robin and andrew at sakae this time. caught up a lot abt trinity days. dont all of us always reminisce abt the past? emm, it hard to look forward and feel optimistic though. maybe just me.

thanks to ben, i managed to meet new med friends frm the diff semesters. ;) was at glutton's bay on firday night, as we sat around the round table and having dinner. the chingay parade was on at the padang, so the atmosphere was indeed bustling. it was a really nice gathering even though it was our first meeting. :0

it all passed too quick.
2 days ago everyone was a year older le. haha.
yest. my dad ordered a whole roast pig like he does every year for praying. so my relatives were here ard midnight till 3+am in the morning eating roast pork after my dad disected the pig. LOL. he can be a fine butcher :) i was too tired and decided to sleep instead. besides, there was no chance the whole pig could be eaten up! :P

all the outings...sld slow down le. tmr another session of karoke, plus it's sam's birthday dinner. and there is still sunday's lion dance at my cousin's hse.
hope tht phyllis will manage to organise our class gathering this sat too:) plspls. i will keep my fingers cross most pple can make it:)

back to melb soon. i am counting down. 11 more days. i am not looking forward to the new term. all the lectures and tutorials...sighs. prob no more cny for me in spore since next year's cny will fall on v day. by then i wld be buried in my books back in melb. haha.

i love my hols:)

* once i get over it, everything will be fine again right? *

2009-01-24T00:40:00.000-08:00

i got a surprise visit today.
by a basket of fruits.. haha..

thanks so much auntie za, hafiz and kat:)
i cldn help but stole the persimmon right away. haha.. yummy..

and i am addicted to the korean version of boys over flowers. haha. so sad, sweet, funny:) oh, all the emotions are not too good for the soul. ahh!! haha. cant wait for the rest of the episodes to be broadcasted.

and the latest episode of grey's anatomy rocks! haha. love it. just when i tot the storyline was gg down the drain.finally Danny leaves! so weird to just suddenly dump him into the picture again. hope izzie isnt really sick though. and derek is gg to propose. i hope ALL GOES WELL. haha...:)and the last part of the episode was so touching..:) hugs

ok, enough rambling and all the tears wasted thanks to all the dramas. back to cleaning the house for the new year. >.<

2009-01-22T21:22:00.000-08:00

cny is just around the corner.

thanks to lay and her frez, my throat is sorer than ever. muhaha. too much laughs last night le with the super-hyper girls... lol. i finally sat in her car and demsey is indeed such a cool place, more so at night. haha.:)

lots of thoughts...
need more sleep...
less thinking...
:)

sighs. why do u have to be so cold?
somehow we dont talk anymore...
i hate to say u prob wont exist soon...

2009-01-16T22:25:00.001-08:00

sighs.. cldn access the internet a couple of days ago. so here is a late shoutout! sorry guys...:)

Happy 20th birthday ai lynn :):):) where have u been girl? :) tag me!! HAHA>.< miss u lots.
too bad i cldn make it to KL this year. when u gg back?

Happy 21st birthday to jack and kevin!!! haha... old men... muhaha

i should have gone to KL right> to celebrate the birthdays of all these pple i miss so much... nvm... back to melb soon then we can hang out again:)

but then i will miss spore so much again. haha. i am never satisfied. lol. i sld learn to be contented either way.

7 pounds was meaningful. made me think of all the wonderful things i have in my life:) one person can indeed change 7 lives. :)

2009-01-09T07:28:00.000-08:00

hellos...back from hongkong:) 4 days is certainly not enough... lol...

another great getwaway:) hehe.. i dream of gg on a round the world trip someday:) hehe...

one more day wld have been great. my dad used to travel there so often for business but it's my first time:) had late nights and early mornings but still, not enough time..lol...an excuse for another trip there again. haha.

anyways, first day was spent mostly on the plane, arrived in the evening, checked in at kowloon hotel which was right in the heart of the city, went to watch the daily lazer display at victoria harbour which had the most stunning view of the city skyline, had a nice chinese dinner and finally went to the night market for cheap bargains... got my leather belt i had been look for:)

next morning, yumcha at maxim's at the central. was reading through the travel brochur and found this recommended restaurant. we decided to take a walk there instead of the train since we cld see more too and nearly got lost.. haha.. but the food didn disappoint. surprisingly though, HK timsum is more ex than melb and spore. maybe it was the restaurant. haha.
took a cab to hollywood road, explored manmo temple before heading to the famous golden buddha in Lantau island by cable car:) the cable car trip took abt 25min each way, prob the longest ride i ever taken. so high up too. made me quite quesy. haha...
but the trip was certainly worth it:) the man-made chinese village setting was really nice and oriental. we spent some time and effort climbing the never-ending flights of stairs to reach the buddha but eventually we did. haha.. so tiring. weak right?-.-
we took the cable car back down after many photos and then took the MTR all the way to causeway bay for some shopping...my first reaction was "new york!" haha... the lights were dazzling and the crowd of shoppers were daunting. haha. such a massive shopping district, tall towers, huge shopping centres, neon lights and banners..
i was lost in the crowd and actualy most shops and brands can be found here, in a less exaggerated fashion tht's all, so we decided to head for dinner since it was late. went to lei yu mun seafood bazaar, but it was a rather disappointing meal, cos they kinda cheated us. our meal cost us more than S$400 which wasnt worth it at all. for wat we ate, it wld be at least 30-40% cheaper... lol. i guess tourists suffer the same fate in all countries. -.-

we were deciding between disneyland, ocean park and macau the third day, and eventually settled for macau since my parents concluded tht my sis n i were too 'old' for roller coasters and mickey. haha... took a 11/2 hr ferry ride there and the ferry was so rockey i felt so dizzy. sighsighs.. haha. stayed there the whole afternoon, walked ard the city centre and bought their local snacks, took a bus to 'the venetian', apparently the hottest casino resort hotel at the moment, gambled a bit at the jackpot machines, but mostly shopping at the many many dozen shops there. haha.
took a night ferry back to HK island, this time the hydrojet which was much more comfortable and less rocky:) another yummy chinese dinner at the ferry terminal-a surprising find:) took the train to the ladies market and more shopping. haha. but many stores were selling the same thing and after a while it got boring. so we walked back to hotel for a nice sleep:)

the last day was spent at harbourcity, the major luxury brand district. must say the stores were slashing prices up to 70-80% off, which made shopping all the more fun:) haha. i think our last day was the day we shopped the most too. hehe... an excuse to use up all the left over HK dollars.ahaha....

now back to the quieter spore life again:) hmmm.... i think i will stop travelling for the time being.. haha..

caught red cliff 2 today and i tot it was better than i first... :) quite comical too.. i am turning into a john woo fan. lol. hehe;)

2009-01-04T07:08:00.000-08:00

it has been a long time since i sweat it out..lol...

tht's why yest. tennis game with my sis and yirong at the club was so addictive:) such fun:) next weekend again:) haha. and it was also my 2nd time driving in spore too. my first move was on new year's day cos i was determined to do something meaningful lol. more driving soon i hope. haha...

today went out with yiching, yilin, ruixi, jacq and gezzel. city hall:) had my fav. baked apple pie desert with a huge scoop of yummy icecream again:) hehe... more catch-ups soon. pictures with ruixi though.
happy early 20th birthday lao da yiching...:P

and guess wat, tmr four of us flying to HongKong...:) cos my bro gg off to OBS so my parents decided to take us for another trip. hehe... four days sld be enough of HK i hope. wanted to go to a resort island of indonesia, Lombok, but decided HK wld be more exciting:) plus the yumcha craze i hope to have there is irresistible. hehe... :P more shopping too?? lol..

another short getaway. yays... so last min...booked tickets today, fly off the next day. haha

2008-12-30T20:21:00.000-08:00

oppsss... it's the last day of 2008 and i was quite determined to do something memorable today... like... touching my piano after like how many years and finally get into the car, put on the triangle plate and at least drive to northpoint!! haha...

but looks like my plans are gg down the drain.. hehe... gg to be a busy day though... out with kat for lunch since she is in spore!! last week met up with mark, kevin, wilson, chanyi, david, ashley and her bf for a nice meetup since they came down frm Kl and JB... :) it's kat and her family's turn this time round to be here on the sunny island...:) too bad the spore flyer broke down on the 23rd dec so one less attraction to experience...normally i wld be in KL in january (i might still go though..hehe)..but this year the tables are turned:0 it's a but hard tht i still dont dare drive though... sighs...therefore my tour guide duties-a bit difficult...

been three days since our weekend getaway to bangkok too:)been five years since i last went there, but bangkok is certainly a a happening city. the many huge shopping centres close at midnight and after they whole day of shopping and rushing around with the madding crowd, u can always head for a local full body/foot thai massage... emm... winding down... :)

love their small shops, the night bazzar, the weekend market, the huge departmental stores... my mom always say spore is too crowded, but bangkok is like 2-3 times more crowded... but i guess it was the christmas period and so everyone is out shopping... good thing:0 there were many huge sales too !! HAHA..:) cheap and nice, plus the seafood there was so yummy! i looked forward to each dinner as we indulge in huge big head prawns, huge fish, tom yum soup, papaya salad etc... my fav. food:) sour, hot and spicy, just the way i like it! haha...

went to the four-face buddha which was supposedly very 'ling'... haha..:) may my wishes come true:) yays..weekend getaways can be so fun:) haha...

it's gg to be another nosiy gathering at my palce again tonight:) happy 2009 soon.. i have a feeling of dread though... the big '2' is coming to town.. LOL... just another year older.. hopefully wiser...

2008-12-23T08:07:00.000-08:00

woo.. finally caught Twilight with christle, piggy & zi wei:)

supposed to go kbox too but nvm, next week ba:) so tired after laughing too much today. at huilin's expense... lol... :P as always...

actually after all the negative reviews frm others, i didnt have much expectations for the movie.

surprisingly, i found the movie rather good:) edward is certainly charming lol:) but both of them looked more like siblings than lovers lol. their chemistry a bit weird though. like very awkward...but i am still drawn to edward... LOL... mysterious and cool.. i liked Dr Collins too.. i wonder where have i seen his face before? so familar...

tmr is christmas eve, dinner at my uncle's. christmas day wld be another family gathering...yays:) more festive mood...

off to bangkok this weekend. hope there wld be any more political drama pls:)

random fact... loving my ang ku kueh...:) hehe...

2008-12-21T07:56:00.000-08:00

bread hasnt tasted so good before.. lol.. haha

i finally took the effort to make my first loaf of home-made bread, coz my aunt gave my mom a bread-machine..:) i love bread and thus i couldnt wait to the first to make use of the machine. but first i had to invest in all the measuring cups, yeast and flour etc... searching high and low just for the extras... the machine was there but the ingredients werent tht easy to find...lol... so i decided to start with the basic traditional white bread:)

since it is my first experiment, i took extra care in measuring everything extactly:) lol. even when the recipe said 1 1/4 teaspoon of yeast! i wondered if that extra grain of flour or yeast wld have made any difference.

it took nearly 3 hrs for my highly anticipated bread. plus the preparation to measure out the ingredients, not forgetting searching for the ingredients... HAHA. i would have been so pissed if werent for the fact that the bread was 80% successful i would say:) haha. the bread smelt great and was moist, but it was too dense though, didnt rise enough. i wondered where it went wrong.

anyways, my bro got the honour of slicing the bread up. he kept awake to have the first slice..hehe:)

still, i dont think i would be putting effort to do another one soon, esp since i can always get a freshly baked loaf so cheaply and easily, plus i am not satisfied with just white bread. LOL... :)

if i decided to bake once more, maybe a green tea-red bean loaf would be perfect:)

random...but i love this date:) 21 dec 08... :) great day too... audi showroom, ikea, east coast park, yumcha, suntec city, chinatown, baking all in one day! yays... hectic, was out frm 8am this morning.. exhausted now...

one thing though, i didnt get to eat tang yuan today.. haha...wld have been nice to follow the tradition, but i guess u get them all year round nowdays..

next week is gg to be another busy busy week...:) & christmas is coming!

resolution: to move my dad's car out of our gate and hopefully not bang into anything. i finally found out tht i am allowed to drive in spore even with my P licence frm melb:)

p.s. btw, 'the nutcracker' ballet at the esplanade was kinda nice:) go watch if u have the chance:)

2008-12-16T09:08:00.001-08:00

the photos are taking too long to be uploaded... thanks to the high resolution of all the pictures of my dad's pro camera... lol... i hope i can upload more into facebook though:)

anyways, my sis and i were persuaded by my bro to go catch "Bolt" in 3D at cathay. still suffering frm jet-lack i think cos i nearly fell asleep halfway through. but i must say the dog is really really cute:)aww... and the storyline was quite cool, though i tot the 3D effects were not really 3D, unlike those universal studios productions like "Shrek" and "Honey, i shrunk the kids", where the characters literally jump out at you!

i am still having the damn song stuck in my head. it's so soothing. must go find out the song! haha

and i managed to booked "the nutcracker" by the singapore dance theatre at the esplanade on thursday:) yays...!! i think i am into the phase of theatre productions and musicals... lol...one after another.. haha... student prices are really worth it i think:)
but it surely cant beat the front row seats i got during the broadway musical "Wicked".. haha..i wonder if singapore productions are any good, hope so:)

i am currently finding a job!:) it's so difficult.. sighs.. haha... needing to spend my precious time more wisely besides wasting days away procrastinating... there wld be a '2' to my age soon... :(:(

2008-12-11T09:49:00.000-08:00

last night in Barcelona... after 10 nights in Spain, i guess it´s time to return home.. haha...

frm Barcelona toValencia to Madrid to Toledo back to Barcelona...but i guess the most stressed person wld be my dad who had to plan the whole trip, from hotels to transport to itenary.. haha.. the rest of us just hope that everything went smoothly.. lol... luckily nothing really unfortunate happened besides the incident on the train where a lady tried to rob my mom, then me then my sis... she must really be unprofessional... 3 failed tries in a row.. haha... apparently Spain is infamous for all these gipsies and snatch-thieves...

14 hrs on the plane was no joke... even though i must say the entertainment on board the SQ flight was awesome! haha... movie marathon indeed.. haha..

how can u visit Spain and not shop right??hehe... yesyes!! esp when i am a fan of Zara and Mango.. hehe... every corner in the city surely u will see an outlet. plus surprisingly, Pull and Bear has several large outlets here too... another fave brand of mine!! my splurge this trip must still be hurting my parents´ pockets.. but for self consolation, it`s has been a long long time since i have shopped this much.. hehe... and i finally, after months of search, found myself another daily tote bag. i have decided to give up my dream Prada bag and settle for a more humble one... but i love it all the same... it´s time to retire my current one which is really overused (an understatement still)...hehe...

oh yes. and i watched my first flemingo dance in Madrid and my first circus performance in Valencia!! both were awesome, but the flemingo dance was not wat i expected. it was more of traditional Spanish dances which had lots of foot tapping work that made it look like tap-dancing.. i only wished there was the fan dance tht i am more familar with. maybe tht is just a misconception of flemingo dances??

the circus was cool:) bears, horses, dogs, tigers, fire, juggling, clowns, dance etc...it was held in a what used to be a bull-ring...we managed to move really close to the front cos there were empty seats.. upgraded to first class... haha..:)

Seafood Paella

i was commenting how this trip is really good for the participants of `the biggest loser´ cos the amount of walking we did was crazy... i am now ready for a marathon any time...!!haha.. exaggerating la :P but cos the weather was so cold and we did so much walking everyday, i think all of us felt our pants dropping by the day.. haha... also cos the food here is really disappointing... tradional meal include tepas, paella, lots of pastries and lots of dried meat such as ham, salami, saussages and cheese etc... but i tot i kinda love the paella, which is a kind of rice dish tht is mixed with meat or seafood and cooked on a shallow pan over fire till the rice absorbed the stock..similar to the risotto or wet fried rice i guess...each restaurant had its own variation and some werent tht great though...most of the food here are too salty which made us really thirsty. plus the tap water here is also salty! makes me appreciate the clean water we have in spore lol... haha.. apparently the water here is `hard´... lol...

anyways, we tried tepas on the first day which is what most spanish live on.. it is actually a variety of appetisers served differently by restaurants, mostly eaten with bread... they were kind of acquired taste for me.... too small portions after a whole day of walking too.. i was constantly missing my chicken rice back home..haha.. lol... sandwiches/bread were the safest bet i thought.. haha.. i cant wait for my next meal back in spore tomorrow... haha... FEED ME!!! :P but i had a few really nice meals i must say :)

hotels were good, no complaints, but the one in Madrid wldnt refund us the third night tht we initially booked for, cos we decided to take an overnight bus back to Barcelona on tht night, so we had to give tht night up...

sightseeing was not too bad, and of coz had to include the famous unfinished cathedral (for over 500 years it is still being built), the La Sagrada Familia... the aquraium in Valencia was awesome too! it looked like a building out of those science-fiction movies like starwars... hopefully i find time to put pictures up when i get back to singapore...

time for my last dinner in Spain!! they have their dinner really late here. restaurants only open for dinner at ard 830pm, and last till midnight... i guess most of us wld be starving by tht time.. haha...

bye spain and hello singapore!!

2008-12-01T01:07:00.000-08:00

I LOST MY HANDPHONE :(:(:(

and i am going to Spain tonight...

why on earth....???

sighs...

P.S. anyways, please don't contact me for the time being ya :) till i am back frm my trip and manage to get a new phone...

sighs...

sighs...i just hope everything goes well in Spain...:)

HAPPY 19th BIRTHDAY (belated) JOCELYN AND (early) DOROTHY:)
...so young...haha...

2008-11-26T08:41:00.001-08:00

I finally got my phone from my bro:) yays...

emm...finally got to ride the train today since I came back.. haha... have been chauffered ard the past few days, shopping with my sis and mom and spending family time:) hehe... bought a really nice necklace, loving it :)

of course trying to satisfy my cravings for the food i have been missing out the past few months too.. haha. had taiwanese food at Liang Court with my dad and his friends... it was weird having pig trotters, intestine, oyster omelette etc as fine dining. lol. haha... wanna go buffet but something unexpected always comes up so i haven got the chance to do so yet...sighs... jap today was good though and tmr will be another pig out with dora and jocelyn! haha...

so many pple birthday hav just passed or ard the corner, have to crack my brains to buy prez...

e.g. zi wei, jocelyn, dora, huilin... all the prez i mixed up le. lol.

yays... i may be able to do an attachment this time round, thanks to candace. cross fingers**:)

tickets to Spain finally booked after all the trouble with the tour and airline etc... finally decided to go free and easy with SQ instead of tour with Turkish airlines. i guess it's a blessing in disguise too:) so looking forward to it!

and i saw a Prada bag tht is soso nice. i am in love with it. but the heafty pricetag isnt helping... haha...will santa claus be generous this christmas?? i have been a good girl this year... **ya...RIGHT** haha... cant decide btw the two bags i saw.. will look ard more i guess...

ok, another day tmr:)

2008-11-23T20:29:00.000-08:00

i need my phone back:)!

my brother has been using my no. since i am in Melb and now apparently he claims he has too many friends so he doesnt want to give me back the SIM card! LOL:)

so i have to be handphone-less for a few more days while my mom tries to persuade him to give me back my no! HAHA.

i want to meet up with everyone but then i have no access to a SIM card!! sighs... my handphone lay sadly on my table waiting to be activated again.

Meanwhile i have to let it sleep.... ... ... ...

sorry everyone for not contacting you guys yet, but u can still contact me on the same no. :) my brother will pass me the msg...

SPAIN soon:) in a week...!

2008-11-21T04:44:00.000-08:00

yays... pack.. pack.. packed..

all ready to leave for home tmr afternoon:)

met with jack, beebee, mark and kevin this afternoon... everyone sld be down in spore this christmas if plans go well.. hope so:)

and lots of last min shopping for things to bring back! lots of food this time. i think almost half of our luggage is food! lol. u wld think spore is facing a famine so we have to import home. haha... :)

geez... cant wait!

2008-11-18T04:52:00.000-08:00

AMS is finally out!!

"Dear Xiu Ling Jacqueline Sim,
This email is to confirm your AMS unit allocation for 2009-10.

You have been allocated to:

Unit Code: 00915

Unit Name: Anaesthesia RMH"

yays.. i got my first choice... :):) but i wondered would i have actually gotten into fetal movement if i had put it as my first choice though the supervisor told me my chances were slim since this anaesthesia unit was said to be competitive too...

its bad to think so much... too many grey hairs le....

BUT THE EXAMS ARE FINALLY OVER!!!! it seemed to drag for so long cos i think the papers this semester were one of the worst! every paper was harder and harder then the last, it wore me out...

anyways, on a brighter note, after OSCE, and jumping for joy cos the exams were out of the way, i followed steph to the city to run errands and grocery shop:) haha.

then met up with pj, phey yee, kim & mel for Max Brener (longest time since i have been there and they seemed to have added lots of interesting items) and we sat there till abt 6pm talking abt lots... was such a relaxing afternoon :)

then went to lygon for dinner with my juniors:) ying thai was full so we went to Coretto's instead. had to leave halfway though cos henry, christle, my dad, sis & i were gg go-karting near port melb...

it was rather ex though... $65 for 40 laps in abt 20 min... inittially i freaked out cos i could hardly control it but soon i was like "heck-care" n just zoomed my way through. haha.. my first time in a real go-kart and by the end of it, my hands and butt was vibrating and i felt quite dizzy, prob inhaled too much petrol fumes.. haha. i think i sustained a whip-lash injury cos we collided a few times.. my neck felt so sore...haha.. BUT my timing wasn't tht bad. had a best lap time of 33 sec.

40 laps seemed a lot, but soon it was all over.

hmm.. quite an experience though i am all worn out right now... cars are dangerous objects, seriously.... haha...i was really terrified the first few rounds... but i managed to overtake my dad! HAHA. But Henry was too pro la... cannot even try to overtake him!lol... his best timing was abt 29 sec...

wat a hectic day!! i am SO tired now. haha. need some sleep.

n back in spore this sat!!! CANT WAIT:):)

2008-11-14T00:49:00.000-08:00

YAYS!! another one down....

& i drag my sis and dad to Shoya for a nice slow japanese lunch...

my dad sarcastically asked: "exams over already ar??"

what can i say?? "eh.... KIND OF!!" haha...

I WISH!!!.. but i have another two papers to go... Practical and OSCE...

home SOON:)

i am still waiting for the AMS release... anxious... cos i dont know who wants to take me?? lol.like putting myself up for an auction and nobody bothers to bid... haha...

2008-11-11T22:35:00.000-08:00

royal exhibition building...

such a nice building right??

how come i always

walk out of it so devastated... sighs...

i think THIS should not be our exam hall...

nvm... another paper DOWN...

2008-11-10T03:55:00.001-08:00

sighs...

i hate changing answers...

almost always i shouldnt have changed my options...

sighs... at least i didnt have to leave any question blank...

Coz it's MCQ... !! HAHA...
paper 2 on friday wld be hell...

anyways, have a safe flight home kat:) it's only the beginning for us and u are already home sweet home... **envious**

2008-11-06T17:56:00.000-08:00

historic event: Obama is president...

prob everyone knows tht by now... HAHA..

it's still weird tht his name is so similar to "Osama"... i guess Bush must be fuming in anger. lol... so ironic...

but, seriously if i have the time now, and not busy studying for the exams, i wld be put up a long post why John sld have won instead! haha... not tht he will make a better president, but just safer...

i was wasting hrs yest. on youtube checking out the election videos!! sighs...

2008-10-27T07:08:00.000-07:00

i cannot help but post this link up...

and just in case....

"NO, i didn't goggle specifically for this:)"
HAHA...

The Stink in Farts Controls Blood Pressure:
http://www.livescience.com/health/081023-farts-blood-pressure.html

emm... next time... if such unfortunate "situation" in the lift arises, thank the person instead... LOL...

2008-10-25T21:39:00.001-07:00

haven been updating for a while...

been too lazy...

besides, there hasn't been anything really interesting lol...

after my previous post, uni started and been busy with work...

submitted my AMS soon after, and sadly the unit i wanted at RWH, the co-ordinator told me i had little chance of working with her, since her unit is apparently too popular.. haha... in the end, i chose anesthesia at RMH... heard it's really competitive too...let's just wait and see...

the past few weeks were rather interesting, being all about endocrinology, which means sex hormones etc... yea, tht naturally involved many "jokes" during lectures and tutorials...it's surprisingly how normal it seems to be "normal", yet there can be so many things tht go wrong with the genes etc... maybe i am blessed not to have known anyone who is a product of a gene malfn... :) it's really sad how u are born different, yet it isnt yr fault...

PBL case was about this girl who presented with late puberty cos apparently she lacked a uterus, cos her Mullerian duct failed to develop fully...emm...she has a sister who might help her bear her surrogate child in future...but the thought of bearing a child for a family member just disturbs me... :(

anyways, went to support Kim and BeeBee at the Flare Dance concert-Eclipse on Friday night with pheyyee, rach and mel. it was awesome!! maybe i am biased cos i have always wished i could dance, but i cant.. so watching others dance just makes me so envious:) there were practically all kinds of genres in the concert, but sad to say, till now, i still cant appreciate those kind of street/hip-hop dance...just looks so messy... haha... the special performance by Flare Dance Company "Apologize'' was so good, it sent shivers up my spine.. AHAHA...

it is officially the last week of uni for this year... SERIOUSLY!!! 14 weeks just went by... i can already forcast how the next few weeks will be for me. my dad wld be here soon, watching us "mug" **(apparently dora has this theory she doesn't mug** HAHA) during the one week of study break... stress stress... then it would be exams for one and the half weeks before it wld be back of sunny Singapore... then would be gg to Spain and prob Cambodia for holz, and wld be back just before Christmas... i wanna go to KL again and hopefully Taiwan/HK too...it's scary how u plan so far ahead, but u can only hope everything goes to plan... ok, being pessimistic here... HAHA...

besides, Good luck for A levels, Dora :)

i cant wait for all the stress to be gone... at least even if i am not tht stressed myself now, pple ard me are:) so it stresses me too.. HAHA...

i cant wait for wednesday:)
ok, back to my music:)

2008-10-07T00:14:00.000-07:00

some of the pictures:) taking too long to upload more! haha...

XXXXXXX our cute turtle cake for wirawan, designed by us:)
potluck at yitming's place
thick hokkein mee... i missed out on the HUGE HUGE prawn.. only Melb has such huge prawns.. haha... so generous, but i didn get it :(

concert
they gave out lots of free stuff tht day too. umbrella, army rations (biscuits etc...), laksa paste, maggie mee, Newwater (KNEW IT!), etc... but i tot the most useful thing was the wet wipes which was useful after all tht eating.. haha... esp. for the chilli crabs.. :)

can u spot the celebrities??
chicken rice

here is a round up of my holidays..

uni starts again and an early day light savings means that we have one less hour to our holidays too... i am still in holiday mood la...

anyways, singapore day on saturday was really good:) it was held at sidney myer bowl centre, a nice hilly gardens to hold it in..:) though the queues for FREE food was super long. i managed to cut lines thanks to friends but i guess if i were to wait accordingly, i wouldn't be able to have tried much. haha. but surprisingly, i would say the food was close to home:) and the hokkein mee, even if they used udon noodles instead, it still tasted good. :) i love the kaya toast from toastbox the most though.. HAHA. and it is the simplest thing to make! LOL.. the roti prata and the chicken rice was yum too...but the bakchormee which we queued over an hour for was a bit disappointing. the uncle put so much effort into each bowl, arranging the ingredients so nicely on the plate, we stood ages in the line... SIGH, and then the taste was only so-so... :(

but free food cannot complain right? haha. it was kinda cool they set up the stalls according to popular hawker centres in singapore, e.g. chomchom(rochester park), newton circle, dempsey hill etc... the main food sponsor was by "food republic" so there was the famous seargent chicken rice and the charkoayteow, BBQ chicken, chilli crab, nasi lemak, claypot rice etc...was available and cooked apparently by the hawkers themselves. but i was surprised to see a few "angmo" chefs>.< & the portions were rather generous too. i was surprised! :) tax payers money were being put into good use..haha..

there was a concert too. tay ping hui, gurmit (PCK and cast), spore idol Hardy, Daphane, Dick Lee etc.. were there to perform. i didn really catch much, due to my better interest in the food (LOL), but it provided entertainment while queueing. haha. i heard there was much propaganda involved, encouraging pple to go back to singapore etc... haha. i guess the govt. wants to benefit frm this event somehow.. haha..

anyways, the day passed really quick. i went at ard 12pm and only came out when the event ended at 5pm. thanks to Janice and Sharline I didnt have to queue to get through the entrance in the afternoon, cos when the gates opened at 1030am, apparently there was a snaking queue just to get in. both of them queued for over an hour and me, running all the way there, managed to join them just before they reached the gates. thanks so much:)

& sunday night was potluck at yitming's place...:) yummy food again>.<>

the the "turtle cake" for wirawan was made by us! haha. janet got 5 macaroons and stuck them to the side of the blackforest cake and with black glutinous rice for the eyes and nose, it completed our "creative" cake! all thanks to yitming's idea! haha.. happy belated wirawan. :) cute right>>

back to lectures :(

2008-09-30T17:42:00.000-07:00

at chinatown... camy's dumplings
docklands.. Berth again:) haha...

wirawan's birthday:)
sam's banana muffins and brownies (no pic)
buffet at sante... with kevin, ailynn, lee, mark, chanyi, wilson n yan

night out with pam, phey yee n melissa

days been flying by.. it's already wednesday! :( lol... haha...

but it has been a fun-filled time i guess...

Friday was a nice girls' out with mel, phey yee and pamela..:) dinner at sahara (nice place to be staring down at passerbys along Swanston Street) and then desert at Crown.. :) 4 colourful cakes...so pretty...

Sat & Sun: Ju, Sam, Kuni, raymond were down from sydney on a roadtrip.... a 9 hrs drive? apparently they sped down the highway at 170km'hr.. .sighs... *GUYS*... :P i am so glad i wasnt in the car. They were persuading me to go back to sydney with them, and i was really tempted to just go there for a couple of days. guess i chickened out.. haha.. end of year perhaps...")

took them around...vic market, DFO (two days in the row cos the 1st day they were too tired to shop much), docklands, city, crown... they were a super lame bunch, and though i only knew ju before introduction, we cld chat and laughed lots"_ haha...

& these guys cld really eat a lot!!! went to yumcha at shark fin's on sat, and apparently they just had Mcdonalds for breakfast and were quite full. so we wanted something light. in the end, we ordered so much at sharkfin's!! cos we knew we cld count on Kuni to finish up the leftovers..LOL... he has this obsession abt "PORK!" .. haha.. everytime before a meal, deciding where to eat, he wld ask, "is there pork??" .. haha.. so our meals tht two days were "pork-filled".. haha... went to Camy's dumplings too, and they were so amazed tht the pork dumplings were so cheap they kept ordering plates after plates... plus 2 serves of noodles, pumkin cakes, red bean and taro pancake EACH... & we had more than 60 dumplings...LOL... i think i have ENOUGH OF PORK! haha..

& they mde me feel guilty cos they kept paying for all the meals!! my reaction needs to be faster.. cant beat them to it:( haha... thanks so much guys:)

and thanks to them, i did a bit of shopping too:) haha... supposed to be watching them shop, but in the end, i cldnt resist...LOL...

went to meet yiching and gezzel for shopping too... i was good tht day, but gezzel just blew like $200 plus at Espirit... haha.. :)

had lunch buffet at sante and lee,mark, kevin, chanyi, wilson, yan, ailynn:) it was so crowded and first time in my life i had to queue up so long for buffet..HAHA>.<>.<>

the food wasnt tht great, but i guess it is still rather value for money:) the sticky date pudding was nice too, can compete with Berth:)

my sis baked her brownies and muffins and though they were really tht successful, must give her credit for a novice:) maybe my standards were higher and i was really full after having the buffet PLUS kevin-wilson's tiramisu:) so sinful right?? **

wirawan's birthday surprise planned by jinsern. & i nearly made a BOOBOO again.. :( i want to count the no. of times i accidentally spoil a surprise without knowing..LOL... * keep mouth shut*..HAHA...

Gg to have a sleep-over at henry's placee... yays... sld be fun...playing with his newly-bought puppy, which is really cute, though i hope it's hair dont drop out all over me.. haha...

happy hari raya to all anyways:)

p.s. i really need to touch my work right?? :(

2008-09-26T07:19:00.000-07:00

YAYS!!!!

A DESPERATELY needed week's break :)

had dinner with pamela, phey yee and mel at Sahara, a bar-restaurant cafe along Swanston:) super cool setting with good view by the window. i can just imagine myself at midday, staring down at the ongoings and passer-bys in the streets, without them realising. i love staring, but it's only safe if pple arent aware right? hehe...:)

thx Mel for introducing the place:)

decided to head to crown for cakes for desert. had the taro, chocolate, green tea & mango ;) so colourful lol.. haha... then we started talking abt FISH.. lol. our conversations were really random tonight.. from shows to books to travelling to cooking to baking... haha... we spent like so long discussing abt how to cook fish. haha... :) super funny... thinking back...

anyways, had a great night:) and i got "late" mooncakes from singapore to me today.

THANKS mom:) canberry lotus and also durian and pineapple tarts... super yummy. haha... :) so this's the start of the mooncake season for me and sam. LOL... better late than never right? hehe...

ok:) ju is coming with his friends from sydney.. cant wait:) car = travel (out of city!!) yays.. haha..

hope my holiday is productive... not like someone's... (Hmm... kevin..?? >.<)

:):)

2008-09-22T07:26:00.000-07:00

yayness... another test over!

lol. not that there isn another one coming up. but i dont care. my holidays started when my sis started hers too..HEHE..

we are the only sad ones left in uni AGAIN. always start a week early and also end a week late. we owned the whole union hse again today. :)

haha. addicted to HOTSHOT! :) jerry, xiao zhu & wuzun. how can i not watch?? LOL...

p.s. sam is evil to start me on it... hoho...

i will miss my grandfather's birthday again:( esp. when they are gg to having such a nice feast at

Au Petit Salut. nice French food. :)

Med ball was over on friday. We decided not to go this year since it costs $100 (not worth unless u can drink LOTS...tht's what freeflow is for) and yet in the same venue as last year. next year maybe ya:)

ok, back to my show:)

2008-09-18T05:49:00.000-07:00

my nose is so blocked and my throat is so sore... :( everything is so tasteless...

roasted japanese pumpkin, caramalised with sugar and soya sauce... :)

been finding this sweet treat so yummy :O

i realise the culture here and spore is so diff.

there are so many herbs and ingredients tht are used to commonly here yet i seldom come across them in spore:)

like fennel, red raddish, beetroot, butternut squash etc... all are really simple yet comfort food. throw them into the oven, roast them and they just are perfect side dishes:)

& bought a huge avocado today since they were in season. smashed them up, salt, pepper and mustard on bread, so yummy:)

weird i know...

i think i am slowly adapting to the aussies... LOL...

& i am craving muffins so badly these few days... HAHA...

OK>.< enough food talk. i need more sleep & study instead.. LOL. test coming up when others are having holidays is no fun! :(

OK>.<

2008-09-15T07:00:00.000-07:00

one day late.

but anyways,

HAPPY mooncake FESTIVAL!! :):) i miss lighting up all the lanterns in our garden and the firebombs we used to create. and the mooncakes we savour each year....

yest. was a good day. overall the weekend was good. the weather was great too.. love it.. happy happy:) haha...

went to Taipan for yumcha...all the way to Doncaster.. thanks to henry.. :) i just love yumcha, esp outside the city. wide variety, bigger portions and of course taste nicer too:) count me in any time, any day for yumcha! haha..

went to do some shopping with Sam while waiting for Henry to cut his hair at Boxhill. it's really nice to just to be out of the city sometimes. it just feels different...

& Henry had this impulse of setting up a fish tank. so decided to head back to Vic market's pet shop. Sam followed and in the end, guess wat, he came out buying a dog instead. lol...!! from fish to dog... but the dog so cute right>>(thanks to sam for pictures) i am sure Christle was so surprised when he brought it home tht day... haha...

but i feel really bad today. Chanyi got fined for parking near Milano just to pass me the taro mochi... :( and she dented her mercs while reversing too... :( sorry :( so heartpain i am sure... tmr will be a better day i hope :)

2008-09-12T23:19:00.000-07:00

YEA!!! I PASSED!!! haha...

this was on the letter they gave me after i passed my driving test! haha...

the atmosphere in the car was so tense. lol. plus the weather today was so hot, the sun was so glaring, i think my BP just shot up the roof. my face was super red and i feel so hot lol. haha.

yup, supposed to take the test next month, but luckily someone backed out last minute so i managed to get a spot:)

ok, who dares to sit in my car?? haha.. my sis wld certainly be the first to put her hands DOWN! haha...

everything felt so right... the sun was shining brightly, and my gelato just melted blissfully against my tongue... the sweetness of it all... Thanks :)

& why is Michelle Yeoh's chinese so weird in The Mummy 3?? only Jet Li's chinese could make it. We all laughed when Luke Ford shouted in Mandarian near the end. but at least he is forgivable. . . not tht my chinese is any good anyways... haha...

Overall, the movie was a bit disappointing i think.. & apparently those who watched the 1st two movies is advised to stay away from watching this.. LOL. Sld i be glad i didn watch the previous two?? :P

2008-09-11T02:40:00.000-07:00

i miss the train in spore:)

sometimes it's so nice to just watch the world go by:)

i like to stare
i like to watch
i like to think
i like to wonder
i like to dream...

i hope i dont get into trouble someday...

cos i nearly crashed into a tram today... :( lols.

2008-09-01T08:02:00.000-07:00

today is the last day of the seventh month in spore...

& the beginning of SPRING in melbourne:)

i wonder how big the roast pig is this year.

my dad always orders twice annually ( the other time was during CNY, as in picture:) ), and it has become a family gathering like 2am in the morning just to indulge in roast pork after praying! apparently this time he ordered a HUGe one... haha... luckily we have a big extended family to spread the :pork: around.. LOL...

anyways, sighs, dont get to have mooncake this year :( last year my dad came over with boxes of durian, green tea, lotus etc!!! haha... we treated them like treasures, limited to no more than a small pieve a day.. lol.. lasted for months in the fridge.. haha... cos u dont get nice mooncakes here! or maybe i dont bother to try... :P

nvm, hopefully some kind soul will get their supply and offer me :) or somebody send a box over...!! QUICK!! haha... Lol...

emm... dont u think mooncakes are the only festive item u dont get the whole year round nowadays?? even pineapple tarts, dumplings, and other traditional festive goodies are sold like the whole year round... tht really diminishes the hype... mooncakes are special, they come out only during this time of the year, at least the GOOD ones.. :)

yet, some of the "5star" hotels have come up wit "weird" flavou

rs which i dont dare try... infused with "weird" liquers, or have u heard of "foie gras" mooncake?? yucks!!! just marketting to just charge u maybe $$88 for one piece, cos 8 is a lucky no. too.. lol...haha...

-- the simple ones are the BEST:) green tea and lotus still works for me of coz:) & all moncakes sld be snow skin, without yolk!! what's with the double yolk, or is there one with 4 yolks too??? haha. i guess everyone has diff. tastes..

ok, enough rambling...

apparently the singapore day event is such a big thing... thanks to janice's invitation, i think i signed up like months ago... haha... kiasu singaporean!! LOL...

ok, need sleep BADLY!!!

btw, HAPPY Birthday Jessica:) hope yr BF is out of army to spend time with u:)

2008-08-30T00:16:00.000-07:00

i realise how relax one can be even in the midst of all the rush and stess, as long as u CHOOSE to be.. :)

haha... it's a great feeling i guess, even if results may suffer.. lol... but i guess i rather it that way:)

and it's a wonderful feeling to get in touch with a friend after SO many years of lost contact... 5 years???? to think she used to be one of my closest friend:) thanks to facebook.. cant believe i am saying this, but for once i really appreciate the creation of the facebook craze.. HAHA...

and yes, i realise time flies..... ZOOM>>>OOOooooooOOOO

it's week 7 soon.. and counting..

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SARAH:) yr family is here, so i am sure u'll enjoy st. kilda and dinner...:)

& HAPPY BIRTHDAY CANDACE too...hopefully u received my message, cos my phone IS WEIRD!! ( i can see kevin & kat nodding in agreement.. *LOL)

P.S. if dora sees this, please help me wish Candace just in case... HAHA>>. I KNOW U WILL:) *grin...thanks *** :P

ok, back to neuro..i have spent too many hours doodling... :(

2008-08-26T01:25:00.000-07:00

emm.. had a good weekend.. filled with nice company and food and ya, tht's why i feel guilty for not studying too... slacked the whole weekend away.

sunday :) i had a great yumcha session at Plume, which made a hole in my pocket though. first time i paid so much for yumcha but it was worth the trip all the way there too... we ate so much! even the deserts we ordered were more than one-to-one. haha...thanks to Chanyi for driving us to the restaurant (in her Mercs, was so surprised to see her driving tht big car, super pro. :) i wouldn't dare, wld have crashed it lol) and to kevin n wilson for waking up to satisfy my cravings even having slept at 5am the previous night! these two guys gossip too much la!! till 5am?? haha...

anyways, went to boxhill too before returning to the city and had a hard time finding a car park. but at least i had the nicest taro and almond mochi ever!!:) i sld have bought the peanut one as well! the outside was so soft and chewy while the inside paste was not overly sweet:) why is boxhill so far away?? *sobs... hehe...:)

night was family time:) henry took us to pacific hse at richmond since my dad was leaving today. had to queue for quite a while, the place is really popular, though i still wonder why... ya, its ironic cos i go there quite often too.. haha

n had steamboat yesterday for my dad's birthday!:) abalone, fish, prawns, beef, mushroom, cuttlefish, tofu, dumplings, noodles!! a feast, certainly!!:) haha... happy birthday dearest dad:) u are the best! cos he prepared all the food:)

but he went back today:( singapore says hi!!! time flies...

anyways, i sld really stop slacking away and start feeling at least a bit stressed abt my upcoming test on monday:( aighs...

been too obsessed abt finishing up my harry potter book too:( and reading too many blogs!! sighs!!

it's approaching week 7, nearly halfway to go!!!!!!

n the weather is much better these few days. hope it stays tht way so jacq can smile more:) mood changes like the weather, u see :P

2008-08-20T05:39:00.001-07:00

haha... maybe my previous post too emo le...

i am alright :) thanks to those who cared:)

i was just thinking, firing some of my neurons in case they die before they can answer my silly questions...

too much neuroanatomy for me, perhaps.. LOL ")

2008-08-19T04:28:00.001-07:00

what's the feeling of despair...

what's there to hold on to...

what are the things that matter most...

let me know....

2008-08-15T23:55:00.000-07:00

Olympics: First medal in 48 years for Singapore

I cant help but feel proud of our achievement:) HAHA...

Though i think its lame our own table-tennis team consists of all foreign talent>> LOL...

A gold perhaps??

Btw, I think Phelps looks more and more like an ape....

Maybe i am just tired of seeing his face appearing everywhere!
:P no offence to those who thinks he's hot...

but wat's with drug suspicion everytime an athelete exceeds expectations???

2008-08-12T17:57:00.001-07:00

i failed...

it was really a badbad feeling to have three person in the car watching u...
........& i failed the test....... :(

2008-08-11T07:15:00.001-07:00

finally first neuroscience test is over!

such a small MCQ test and i am fretting over it... sighs.. haha

anyways, HAPPY 20th BIRTHDAY FRIDA...

thanks so much for dinner at PekoPeko:) she invited so many pple, we practially filled the whole place:) haha... it was really nice though...
picture whoring again... all the pictures with Mel:0 waiting for pictures soon:)

the food was decent but frida's cake triumphs it all ...huge:) haha. like wedding cake... cos there were so many white chocolate cones on top... pretty, but the cream was a bit too sweet... haha...
but the company was the BEST! "secrets" were on the adgenda too...funny ones!
besides, i saw on the menu: "hand shake ice coffee/ice chocolate", and the first thing on my mind was like "hand shake"?? then i realise how dumb tht question was... i was thinking the "shake-hand-type-of-hand-shake", instead of the "cocktail-type-of-hand-shake"...
then Jasper asked:
"wat mouse walks on two legs?" Melissa answered: "mickey mouse"
"wat duck walks on two legs?" she answered: "donald duck".. haha...but ALL DUCKS walk on two legs!
HAHA :)

the POINT IS: I COULDNt even answer the FIRST question abt the mouse.. LOL.. i answered: "THREE BLIND MICE??"

another sad thing was i was so BLUR again, and didnt know everyone was supposed to "dress up", and so, i was like underdressed compared to the rest:) they were all so pretty...even the guys dressed up lol...haha... :) this shows med pple are not all nerds right? hehe... *nodds head*
can i be a wet blanket and say since i was not in a dress, i was the warmest while the rest was shivering in the cold>> HAHA.. so mean!! LOL.. jkjk :P

anyways, thanks to Dora too for wishing me happy national day! lol. another national day spent away frm home :( i miss spore! how patriotic right? haha...
but i guess the Olympics opening was much better than our own national day parade right? but i fell asleep before the last part where they lit up the olympic torch. wasnt that supposed to be the highlight?? sadded... haha...

2008-08-06T01:45:00.000-07:00

today has been so good:)

never did i expect all my plans to turn out so smoothly within a day. haha.

yumcha this morning at sharkfin's hse... cravings!

then we decided to try our luck:)

and i won the lottery tickets for the Wizard of Oz broadway musical! (from my last post u sld see how desperate i was to catch it)... haha. its considered lottery tickets but i still needed to pay for them. the point is they were FRONT ROW seats, right in the middle, directly behind the conductor LOL.. haha... seats no. AAA 27 & 28...

it was indeed just one of the best seats in the whole BIG theatre (was surprised at this weird hour the theatre was full house-1pm on a thursday)... we cld even see the actors' saliva "fountain-ing" everywhere as they worked their powerful vocals.. :)

so "WICKED:)"... overall, i still prefer phantom of the opera with its dramatic effects and fantastic songs, but this musical didnt let me down too:)
it was a happy happy ever after ending... cos its supposed to be the "untold" story of the wizard of Oz. the storyline was quite interesting, but its really a fairytale. haha. apparently the Wicked Witch of the West is actually good too, it was All just a misunderstanding... LOL.. haha...

anyways, after all tht ranting...

'WICKED, the spellbinding and spectacular hit musical, tells the untold story of the legendary witches from L. Frank Baum's classic, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
When Dorothy famously triumphed in Oz, we only ever heard one side of the story. Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, brings to life the captivating, surprising tale of how a misunderstood, green girl named Elphaba became ‘wicked’ but her unlikely friend, Glinda, became 'good'.
The exceptional creative team that has brought this captivating story to life on stage includes many of Broadway’s most celebrated creative talent. When WICKED opened on Broadway, it worked its magic on critics and audiences alike and won 15 major awards including the Grammy ® and three Tony ® Awards. Today WICKED is one of the most successful shows in theatre history.
"Broadway's biggest blockbuster" New York Times'

and since i only had one lecture today... i had to skip it! haha.. I had no choice, in my defence.. hehe...but there is always lectopia:) the musical is indeed more worth it than an hour of cranial nerves lecture...LOL..

but means i "wasted" the whole day from morning till now... when i have two tests and a driving test next week. sighs...

still, jacq is so grateful today:)

2008-08-05T06:38:00.000-07:00

cranial nerves cant be that hard????

SIGH!!!!!

but the only upside to all the memory work my brain is enduring at the moment, is that i just learnt a mnemonic tht surpasses all others... ! HAHA... lets just keep it btw me and the "others who know". haha. it's a bit X-rated to type it here. might can sued.. lol.
its really not that hard to remember all the cranial nerves afterall! haha. :)

someone tell me to slow down~! i keep exceeding the speed limit when i drive, its ridiculous! but 40km/hr is like tortoise! lol. i cant seem to be able to watch the road and the speedometer at the same time. the new BMW 7 series has this function where its warns u when u are above the speed limit. i think tht's just designed for pple like me. & i tot i was a safe driver... :) HAHA.

2008-08-03T00:22:00.000-07:00

i totally believe now that i am just not "allowed" by a the "higher ups" to catch the broadway musical "WICKED"!

went down to the box-office yest. to try my luck at luck min tickets where they conduct a lucky draw for first row seats. and obviously i didn win. haha. but the point is that even if i had won the tickets, u have to pay for the tickets, not that it is free. but u just earn the right to walk through the entrance door. talk about "previlege". haha. lol. cos apparently all the tickets are FULLY SOLD out.

again, i went there this afternoon and apparently the draw was already conducted. i missed it again... there was supposed to be another one tonight before the show, and then when i went online to CHECK the timing just in case it was a repeat of afternoon's incident, AGAIN i realised the musical's timing was not as i originally thought. it was 2 hrs ago! WAT THE!!!!! :(((((( 3 "XXX" in a row... how i wish i was bowling...HAHA.

nvm.. i am laughing about it at the moment cos it's the first time i really believe perhaps "someone" up there having a good time everyday! can i have his/her job? hehe...:) LOL

anyways, celebrated Mark's birthday at "universal" today. just a simple lunch where we can meet and catch up:) a good excuse.. haha...

btw, i feel too free for my own good :P slack slack slack... must thanks ailynn for "waking" me up a bit...

random fact: everyone seems really excited abt the opening of the Beijing Olypmics... i am trying to soak up tht excitment... LOL>>

& i finally got the TV tunned to be able to receive channel 7!! YAYS... all the good shows are watchable now:) opps.........

2008-07-21T05:36:00.000-07:00

1st day back at uni and i am blurred...

back to mugging and the library and the stack of notes that is starting to pile up... :(

still, i have to do it somehow.
go jacq :)...

haha. this entry is lame...

2008-07-15T01:55:00.000-07:00

such a long time since i blogged... almost a month...

cant believe it has been nearly three weeks since i came back to this sunny island and gg to fly back to face the cold winter again...:(

but i guess time really flies when u feel at home and having fun:)

here's a round-up to my trip back this time:)

of coz been meeting up with long-time-no-see faces.. :) but how i wish i have more time to meet up with more pple...but its ok.. will be back in dec again

oh.. had my fix of local food all over spore and tim sum at royal china at raffles today:) my motive was to burn a hole in my dad's pocket (hehe...), but seriously i think the prices were reasonable, not as ex as i wld have expected. few more days to satisfy my stomach...:)

yup, i finally changed my handphone. after much consideration, i decided to do with sonyE C902 instead of the G900... sigh.. seems like a simple decision but there are so many phones available in the market tht i had a hard time deciding.. haha.. maybe i wld have waited for the iphone too... but for now, i am loving my new sony:)

and i got a new pair of specs too.. haha.. hopefully i will get used to it and hopefully i dont look too weird cos it's a rather large frame compared to my previous pairs...

ok, besides tht... i still haven touched my piano though i tot i wld make a point to. i haven had time to be online much though there's still an improvement... haha..:) and surprisingly, i didn have much time to shop too!!! i think i only bought a shirt and a pair of sandals.. how sad:( esp. it is during the great singapore sales!!! and i made it a point not to get addicted to all the nice new dramas on channel 8 and U since i know i won't be able to finish them in time for my departure...lol. but spore TV still rox! haha.

anyways, though i am certainly not looking forward to be back in uni, i guess i have to face it.. sigh. my sis is returning a week later so i will be lonely. :( few more days before i face neuroscience with fear! haha...

2008-06-26T01:26:00.000-07:00

the pictures are taking so long to upload... :( maybe i will continue another time...

back from Mornington Peninsula road trip...Henry was so nice to lend us a car for two days so we decided to take a drive down the coastal roads and spend a night at a farmstay :) i teased my dad he was driving a car tht was for a guy half his age, cos it was a WRX, with such a loud engine. haha.

The night before, had dinner with him, christle and lingli at "The Plume" in Doncaster... Nice chinese dinner, especially the roast duck was really tender and yummy. but the portions were rather small for the price... after dinner, headed across to "Pancake Parlour" and continue pigging out! Deserts! ordered too many pancakes which came drenched in chocolate sauce and walnuts... so sinful! haha.. & i satisfied my craving for ice cream!!:) hehe...

anyways, we drove down the coast, stopped by several towns like Franston, Rosebud, and then Sorrento where we had lunch. my dad and i took a drive there abt two years ago during my trinity year and had fish and chips at this store. we remembered it was good so we went back to the same store this time and ordered a set. then we crossed over to another restaurant and ordered another set of fish and chips, just to have something different. haha. it was a seaport town so fish and chips was the apparent choice for lunch right? haha.. both were good, but too much chips! more fish wld be nice:) visited the beaches and took pictures before continuing our trip down south to Flinders, where we stayed the night. arrived there nearly 3pm.

we booked this place called "Botanica" through the internet. The owner is a retired botanist, and used to lecture at Monash. he owns 50 hectares of land, overlooking the National Park. it was really a rural farmstay located in a small town of Flinders... even in the town centre, we pathetically bought back Mrs Mac's pie for dinner as everything was closed... haha... but luckily we brought "food stocks" frm home. i think we actually packed as though we were travelling for a few days...fruits, bread, cup noodles etc etc... breakfast was provided and we had free range eggs, freshly taken frm the hen's coup...my only complaint was tht the cocks were already "coocoocoocoo.....coocoooo...." at 5 plus am... sighs...disturbed our sleep!!!

was quite an interesting experience though the house wasnt tht clean. cos the animals cld just wonder in and out, especially the dogs... haha... but the it was comfortable:) he had many typical farm animals like geeses, turkeys, horses, cows, chickens etc... i think its raher cool to be raising all these farm animals and then having them provide u with yr daily meals since there is no market or supermarket nearby in this part of the country. u can always slaughter one chicken for dinner, have milk and eggs for breakfast and even yr own turkey during Christmas... emm, i think u wld appreciate the food in frnt of u better...

my sis and i spent the night watching several movies on her laptop before our eyes gave way.. haha... such a long tiring journey there, so we needed sleep! but thanks to the cocks tht disturbed out peaceful night. haha.

we set off early the next day and took another route back to melbourne. along the way, we looked for a horse-riding school cos my sis was interested. we came across one in a brochure but for 1hr rides, it didn include cantering/trotting, only walking the horse... decided it wld be rather boring so we backed out and continued our journey back...
stopped by several nurseries cos my dad is looking for a tree for my balcony. temporary, the huge pot outside is being occupied by this yellow daffodil which we took back frm the garden at "Botanica".. Neil was so nice to dig it up for us... lol...it is so hard to find a suitable tree for the balcony cos it has to be "sam and jac PROOF":) dont expect us to rem to water it regularly!! HAHA.

stopped by Dandenong plaza for lunch, had nice nice kebab at the food court:) we each decided to get the same thing cos my dad bought the first one, was good, so my sis bought another one, then i cldn see another better choice so three of us just sat there and enjoyed the same kebab! haha.. :) supposed to go up the Dandenong mountain but it was getting late and so decided it was not worth the trip up since i hav been up before and it wasnt anything fantastic too... heard the scones there are really famous though..

so yest. night had dinner with henry, christle n lingli again at "Tian An", vietnamese at Footscray... i had not had vietnamese for the longest time and yest. night the wind was SO strong, abt 100km'hr and i was freezing cold, so hot Pho was certainly a comfort food:)

this morning i FINALLY got to try out the yumcha at "Tai Pan", thanks to uncle Lee... :) haha... 6 of us was just the ideal group to go have yumcha since most dishes come in threes... the variety there was indeed HUGE, and the taste was good too... esp. the prawn dumplings:) loves!! haha...
I am so satisfied these few days with all the good food around... :) haha...so smart right? take the chance when my dad is ard to feast.. haha...

went to melb uni just now cos my sis wanted to buy a melb uni jumper... actually i think it is rather ex, cos for $75, i think u can get a branded one right? i bought one for my brother last year, now my sis has one, i wonder is it time for me to flaunt my affiliation to melb uni too?? HAHA.

ok, tmr driving again:) lunch with lay n gp, hav to clear the fridge for dinner and then BACK HOME!!! spore here i come:) cant wait!!!
i wanna watch kungfu panda.. haha:) anyone??

2008-06-20T20:25:00.000-07:00

yumcha at shark fin's house!!!! oh, my piece of heaven... we ate like nobody's business.. and then afterwards were so full we watched the latecomers eat further... haha..:) that day was a purely med day out:)

tht night, mel, pheyyee, ailynn n i went to k box and sang our way through the night till 3++am was so fun!:) haha. pictures with mel though.

overdued pictures from rach's 19th birthday:)

at concept blue:)

FRESH OCTOPUS from victoria market!!! so yummy:) just boiled it and had a lovely time munching the chewiness with wasabi and soya sauce :)

yilin's post-birthday dinner at CROWN casino. ate at Margo's, within the casino floor.. so weird cos we were like the only "young" group within all the gamblers stopping for dinner at the restaurant.. haha...

birthday girl:) we got free champange thanks to her! haha.

GEELONG...

took the VLine with my dad all the way to Geelong cos i had to visit my mentor, so he deicded to come along...went to have a tour around the town and then went back to the city and took another train all the way to Glen Waverly for its big shopping complex... certainly max. the usage of our daily transport pass tht day:) haha.
happy 18th birthday SAM:) 21st JUNE... i happened to be in crown tht night for yilin's birthday dinner so bought back Sam's fav. strawberry cheesecake from Greco... her friends decided not to do the usual midnight surprise this year so at 1230am, while we was distracted on the phone, surprised her with the cake!:) tonight's dinner at NOBU should be nice!!! at CROWN again.. haha.

HEHE>>>

finally i can smile and write abt happy things on my blog le... lol...

exams officially ended for me on the 17th june. something good about med is tht they tend to squeeze and end our exam agony within the first two weeks while the other faculties tend to drag theirs longer. :) but of coz tht means we have more to rush through over a shorter revision time...

anyways, since tht day i have been having some great moments:) more to go i hope...

BACK to spore in a WEEK!:) 28th JUNE!!

Dear Friends, please leave me yr contacts cos i am so sadded to lose all my contacts....my phone died on me...:(

2008-06-15T06:03:00.000-07:00

hahaha.. i find this such a clever advertisement. maybe i am slow, cos apparently even my dad has come across this before:)

*pic. taken frm lay's blog:)*

yup, happy fathers' day... 2 more days till end of exams...:)

2008-06-03T21:29:00.000-07:00

there is rachel's birthday to update on, but oh wells... i cant be bothered to upload the pictures at this stage... wait till after exams ba... haha..it was a nice party at concept blue, with two entertaining magicians too! i really wonder when was the last time i actually LAUGHED in a magic show, but these two guys frm "melbourne uni magic club" (?? yes, apparently there is actually such a club...lol) actually were rather funny though their tricks were a bit lame la. lol.

my dad is arriving tmr morning, which means another two eyes hawking on sam n I... haha:) but i cant wait for all the goodies and prez he will bring, esp after their Hokkiado trip. cant believe he returned frm Hokkaido with dex and mum, just two days and then fly here:)

anyways, i will just be spending the next few days like a dracula, hide at home and study, sleep, eat, bathe! but actually i think i wont. cause the past few days i actually have going out and procrastinating much! i need DISCIPLINE!!! seriously...

2008-05-27T23:22:00.000-07:00

yesyes, i know i have not blogged for ages.

but come to think of it, there is nothing much to blog abt, really... nothing really interesting besides the occasional catch-ups.

still, i am waiting for this week to fly by, THE LAST WEEK OF THE SEMESTER!!! can u believe tht my exams are next week n i am still procrastinating. i realise i have exceeded my internet usage AGAIN!!! sighs.... btw, did i say i am still not over grey's anatomy. haha... thanks to kevin la, and tmr gg to get the last few epsidoes from Liz. opps...

ok, something to make me feel a bit more productive. i at least passed my hazard perception test last week which means i get to take my Ps on the 13th of aug... ya, i tot why did i choose tht date, since 13th is supposed to be unlucky no. right? sighs... nvm, it has been such a drag for me to just get a license, thanks to the inefficiency of the whole system here!!! i have been given the green light by my mom to drive ard my estate in spore so i dont lose touch for three weeks back home... haha.. hope i dont endanger any lives. lol.

yup, and yesterday was my last clinicals at Western hospital-footscray and also the 1st time we took public transport there cos linda was sick and cldn drive. but still, thanks to mel, we got there early actually. i just followed along, with ash, kang n liz too... emm, why cant i learn to be more street smart--sigh...

yup, obviously everyone passed the physical exam test. actually i was just bull-shitting my way through the whole examination of the patient. i was supposed to perform a cardio exam, but since this patient was rather overweight, i actually found it really hard to detect his apex beat and his pulses were irregular too. i didn even know what i was feeling or looking at, esp the JVP. haha. when the doctor asked me to show him the JVP, i just pretended i was measuring it correctly and YAY, i didnt get seen thtrough.. haha... ok, this is bad, but my dear friends, pls dont avoid me in future... haha. i will learn to be more competent i hope.

got back in time for the RMH AMS conference but when i went there at 6pm, it was already winding up. apparently they decided to end it earlier, but at least i got a bit of information and spoke to a doctor-researcher whose projects seems interesting. emm... what research sld i do next year??? too many options!!

and my parents and brother are in HOkkaido now, enjoying themselves while me and my sister are mugging!! how fair is tht?? they will be there for abt 8 days and my host tht took me in during my PHS hokkaido trip is hosting them too... so kind right? but actually they came to spore twice and we played host to them too. emm... such exchanges are so fun!:) u get to experience so much more than with a tour group or by yourselves. i really wanna visit japan again!! dora, cherlyn etc. wanna go end of this year?? ask Mr Tan. haha.

ok, my dad will be here in melb after his Hokkaido trip. hopefully tht will motiate me to study...

yup, signing off, jacq:)

2008-05-06T18:52:00.000-07:00

late pictures.. just a few:) the thick rich rich chocolate cake, have u finished it yet? hehe...

BTW!!!! exam timetables are out... brrrrrr....

the papers are rather close together which means i have to chong again. sighs... less than a month to go!

last paper: 17th JUNE!!!

My sis has made the hint so obvious tht we end on the same day, JUST days before her birthday;) haha. but its so cool we have practically all exam papers on the same day and at the same venue, but of coz diff. papers. wldn mind swapping though...hehe... i guess my dad (4th june he is coming!!!yippie) wld have to tolerate two exploding brains in the hse during tht two weeks:)

back to spore: 28th june :) yays! cant wait:)

...i realise i can only take my driving exam after i return frm the holidays due to the changes in rules! and i have a feeling i wont pass my hazard perception test, which is really a lame lame stimulation test. my observation and reaction skills are just far frm normal...:(

2008-05-01T17:11:00.000-07:00

it has been soso cold the past few days i am feeling like a snowman...:) plus rain yest. SIGHS.

although my sister has bee complaining, the heater is staying on! HAHA... i just love having warmth at home:)

btw, Happy 20th Birthday kat, though this post is one day late. i am sure u wldn mind being older a day late.. i think u are so sick of me wishing u happy birthday already since a week ago..:P how was yr day with mcdreamy?
realy hope u enjoy yrself while stressing for yr test too:)

and sam is sick again... cough cough sneeze sneeze.. sigh, this little sis of mine just like passing the viruses to me too.

may is here... june pls come... july!! HOME!!!

test on monday again... at least i have phey yee's nice delicious brownies this morning to keep me awake...PBL soon... yawn! haha...:)

2008-04-26T05:32:00.000-07:00

PIONEER DRILL TEAM 04...

can u imagine this was taken a freaking 4 years ago?

took this photo off dora's blog:) brings back lots of memories which makes me really sentimental at the moment. i know i used to complain a lot and found all kinds of excuses to skip GB meetings and drills... dora must have been so tired of my whinnings.. but those years in PHS would not have been as meaningful and memorable without these pple in my life! they are still one of my closest friends:)

dora, phyllis wanna meet u... haha. how are u and jocelyn too?? 2 months is a long time to wait. lol. btw, can u put back yr tagboard on yr blog cos it is so much easier to drop u a quick note:)

2008-04-20T06:14:00.000-07:00

here are the late pictures frm melissa's 20th birthday!:) had a blast. it was also the first time i bought flowers. phey yee and i went to a florist near flinders after taking our flu jab frm st.V and felt like noobs. haha.
cake was baked by phey yee... pro right? :) and it was super nice nice too. thanks phey yee.
PJ "proposing" to mel's brother. haha.
group photo. so smoky cos we lighted sparkles and just before mel n kelvin came back frm their movie date, the fire alarm went off. freaked us out, cos we were supposed to surprise her. haha. in the end, we took out the batteries.
$45 :) ex i think, but nice right? we have good taste! haha. though quite sian, always roses. mel's mom sponsored this and we were supposed to buy a type of flower called RCV. i still have no idea how it looks like. haha.
it was a really nice night:) chatted past midnight to celebrate with mel and had chips and cake and played cards. emm, we sld do this more often, though we tend to the take the initiative when someone's birthday is ard the corner. better than nothing right?:) uni is just too busy...

ha.

my harddisk is still down.

my sis com is also down.

n my com has also been attacked by viruses!!

sad case.

yup, 6 of us had a great yumcha session at shark's fin inn on sat:) first time there. not too bad though it is always better outside the city. thanks kevin for making it happen after all tht time!:)

n i have to go all the way to GEELONG to meet my career mentor! so so far. sad case. when sld i go, and i have to go alone. what if someone kidnap me??? SOBS>> haha.. lol.

n yirong's email made me realise how much i miss everyone in spore soso much! i really need to keep in touch with my lovely friends back home. so i dropped a few emails yest. so hopefully they are received. more to come cos i miss everyone so much.

8 weeks of uni just flew by... woosh...tmr will be the 9th!

2008-04-14T03:58:00.000-07:00

HAPPY 19TH BIRTHDAY CHERLYN:) yes, i miss yr yong tau foo and of coz u too:)

HAPPY 19TH BIRTHDAY CHRISTLE KOH:) dont go kbox with huilin without me cos i know she will blow yr ears out. haha. :)

n soon, once the clock strike twelve...

Happy Birthday dearest Melissa, who has kelvin by her side and so tmr will surely be another memorable one:)

Happy Birthday Jack chichichi too... GROW UP FINALLY! haha :)

ok, the fairygodmother wld be really busy tonight...

2008-04-08T05:56:00.000-07:00

another test down yest. both cardio MCQ and HP assignment! yays...... for a few moments.... but another one in a couple of weeks again...this is my definition of a vicious cycle...stress, stress stress...got lots of lectures to catch up though. and why do we have to study statistics for Health Practice??? such a bore and doesnt make sense at all! :( esp with a lousy lecturer too, mumbles on and on...)

anyways, was surprised to receive the letter of acceptance for the career mentor programme. was such a random decision to give it a try and we had to answer this whole page of questions which incld. a 300-500 words essay on "how u can give back to the programme". actually i tot tht was a weird question cos the programme sld benefit us, not the other way lol. but apparently i was able to be long-winded enough (still <300>

ok, not a really big deal, but after so many dips in my study since uni started, at least one random application was successful...emm... self consolation jacq :P

this friday is the night market at melb uni and apparently everyone is talking abt it. haha. wasnt such a big deal last year, was it? good campaigning this year i guess...:)

ok, need some sleep after the past late nights of last min study. plus, i need to detox frm those nights of consuming ice cream at 3am -- sugar rush desperately needed to keep me frm falling asleep at my desk lol.

p.s: overdosing on salmon the past few days! haha. mercury levels are gg up up up!!! :) but yummy...

& praying tht my 500GB harddrive revives after falling to its death on 6th april 08... fibrillator needed desperately... my pictures, videos, movies, songs!!! all thanks to that wire tht my sis tripped over...

2008-03-31T05:47:00.000-07:00

"Breathless"

"no you hang up"

oh, i love shane ward songs!! thanks to sammie's friend's blog, introduce me to his sexy voice:) lol. haha.

his MTV is rather boring & his voice is rather high-pitched, but still, oh-soO nice. haha. the songs are stuck in my head! haha.

anyways!!! thanks my "lao gong" for sending me such a nicenice giraffee teeshirt frm spore! haha. :) and i realise it's the first time i can wear a free size tee-shirt, cos my shoulders are always too broad. looks like u know me best.LOL. thanks again. mucks :)

btw, dora are u interested in a little mermaid sing along CD-rom plus story book? hehe. i saw it at the post office today. HAHA. little kid. :P

2008-03-29T01:43:00.000-07:00

here are some of the pictures this easter break. mostly with friends celebrating my birthday. haha. lasted the whole week huh, u might think. LOL:) i dont mind belated birthdays... hehe... thanks guys:) i dont have many pictures though, always forget to bring my camera out. sadded.

ok, here is the mango cake tht reads " happy 9th birthday jacq" :P thanks to kevin, mark, ailynn, kat and sarah... and for waking me up at 8am on my birthday. haha. p.s. kat, pls pass me the pictures:)

at jack's place after dinner for wine? hehe...kat, jack, jacq, jack, ken, joel.. all the "J"s and the "jac^3"s. haha. kat odd one out!! haha.

playing a random game of Snap cum heart-attack
birthday surprise with the meddies:) at jasper's place-the birthday boy too! ( so two cakes baked by mel and phey yee) took many photos but none with me...:( p.s: andrew, pheyyee, pics please...
dinner at crown!:) "greco". wanted to have seafood in the casino but a few of us forgot out IDs, then headed to "cervo" but waited till 9pm for out table which never came. so headed to greco instead. my first time having a meal at greco. been their for their massive cakes only. still, tht night, i had great food, company and cakes!! :) the bill was ex though. thanks guys.:)

oh, and thanks lay for baking those delicious cookies!!:) yum, although she claims her cookies are always much better cos this time she didn have proper butter.
italian dinner at southgate! with dearest mom n sis! :) branch at MART 130 with yiching, gezzel, ruixi n avril.. awesome food they have got! first time i ever tried corn fritters and it was so delicious with sourcream, relish and bacon. the steak burger and french toast were good too. the ice chocolate looked deliciously sinful as well. :) and the place was a converted tram stop into a cafe, facing albert park. :) really nice place. though ruixi thought we wld be on a moving tram. haha.

also, thanks for the whole box of lollies, green tea, lots of chocolates and other goodies! these pple really into fattening me up..HAHA.

plus, there was gezzel's birthday celebration, IMSS korean dinner out, yumcha at boxhill with Henry (tmr too i hope, haha!), shopping and having nice meals with mum (=ATM.. hehe...)...... i need to remember my camera next time...

opps, before i know it... it is nearly the end of the easter break!!!!!!! tmr is SUNDAY!!! i dont wanna go back to uni. cos i have tests coming up and u can see my holiday wasnt tht efficiently spent on studying...and i dont want my mom to leave! i sound like a spoilt kid, dont i?? sighsighsigh...

2008-03-21T20:22:00.000-07:00

ok, i cant really blog on my birthday cos all the pictures arent with me! haha.

but still, i had a great day, starting with aiylnn and kevin waking me up at 8am in the morning! good thing they allowed me to wash up and not just kidnap me. haha.

had a picnic by carlton gardens with kat, sarah-the necklace is so pretty, thanks :), mark, sam, kevin, ailynn and of coz pancakes and cake was in the package. i heard ailynn went all the way to Laurent just to buy their cake, but they were unfortunately closed. THANKS so much ailynn, the mango one frm crown was really nice too! thanks for making the pancakes kat and sarah, thanks kevin, sam and mark for waking up so early. i had fun playing at the playgound like little kids and the message on the cake purposely read: " happy 9th birthday jacq!" oh dear, i am like a real giant if i was nine!:)

and btw, i received a present frm sam, a hanmade keychain. but then, she said she thought buying a real tee-shirt for me was "not worth it" cos too ex, so she decided to sew one tiny one on a keyring. haha. its ok, the effort is appreciated SISTER! LOL. :P

when we reached home after the picnic, my mom was IN MY APARTMENT!!! she like flew frm singapore to be my birthday present and apparently to suprise us. haha. my sis n i had a "feeling" she might come over cos my dad's acting skills were gave away but still, i LOVE my present. haha.

ok, after letting tht sink in, ard noon, i left the hse to meet to phey yee downstairs. we met rachael and walked all the way to jasper's hse at Eureka. it was Jasper's birthday too so we medicine pple deicde to celebrate together:) but of coz both of us didnt know what the rest were up to. so we chilled at jasper's big cosy apartment, apparently waiting for melissa, then the door flew open and in came the rest with TWO HOME-BAKED cakes lighted up and pizzas and homemade food! plus, lots of balloons n A rose for each of us too. :) melissa made jasper's oreo dark chocolate cheesecake which phey yee made my pineapple buttercake! they really are fantasic bakers! looks like medicine isn't their only forte. haha.

practically everyone was there. besides jasper, kim, janice, phey yee, mel, kelvin, pj, qilun, anges, jenna, rachel, andrew (hope i didn miss anyone out). we had lunch, talked and played majong, card, guys hooked on PS and girls busy gossiping. haha. had really much fun! so long since the whole group of us had time to gather outside lectures! :) thanks so much for taking the effort, frm the cakes, to the flowers, balloons, food etc...

yup, then we left and my dinner was really nice with my mom and sis... teppanyaki at chinatown:) it was good friday so pratically everywhere is packed! everyone is out having dinner. wanted to head down to crown for Nobu, but i guess it would be impossible to get a place.

also, thanks everyone who made the effort and wished me:) really really grateful for all of u guys!!! if i didn reply yr sms/blog/phonecall etc, pls be assured i did receive them! thanks.... !!!! all the way frm singapore too! u guys just rox!

n happy birthday yi rong!!

n happy birthday pamela (cant wait for yr birthday party later)

ok, pictures hopefully up soon. :0

and i am supposed to be in for dinner with the boys on tuesday and with lay and the rest on wednesday. :)

2008-03-18T04:15:00.000-07:00

geez.. i cant wait for friday since apparently someone will be coming to visit me:)

surprise surprise, i wasnt let into the name of the person lol.hehe. will u be who i think u are? hehe. :):) gosh... haha.. faster come! :)

yest. was IMSS torts and champagne lunch, where we provided food and alcohol to 1st, 2nd and 3rd year med students. however, it didn turn out quite as well as expected since one of our sponsors was rather upset at the whole running of the event. oh wells, it is really hard to plan such big scale event. but we had fun, esp matthew i am sure, putting ice down people's back. and of coz i had fun popping the food into my mouth before serving the countless "reached out hands" hoping to grab a piece! LOL. hehe. it will be our last organised event for our team 2008, before most of us will step out and let new members join the club and take over the running. Our president, andrew, is gg to treat us to korean dinner on monday! how nice:) but still, i am so glad he was our president and still IS of coz:)

anyways, easter break starts on FRIDAY:)!! A WEL DESERVED ONE WEEK BREAK! yays, my bd falls on such a good day. a real GOOD friday lol. haha. apparently i am NOT allowed to have driving lessons on tht day, under "strict" instructions, so i managed to change it to sat morning:) i am so glad to have such nice friends willing to take the time and effort to celebrate with me:) i wonder what's up though ;P

ok, two more days to go till turning 19! i haven feel the gloom yet surprisingly. oh wells...

btw, i am really confused where i sld head for my AMS year in 2009. sld i go back to spore for the research project, stay here or work REALLY hard to push my score to at least CLOSE to 70 so i can probably get a chance to go to the UK or Norway. sighs, why is life so full of decisions?? and why cant i get at least a 70 avg? it is like "JUST 70" to others and it really is so hard.

n phyllis!!! i am go glad to receive yr email. will reply u soon ok??? :):):):)

dora too. will reply u guys asap.

miss u guys lotslots!

2008-03-10T00:17:00.000-07:00

so tired. long day from 9am till 515pm. plus a test! yet, i am gg to see fireworks later. :)

moomba fest is still on till today and since the test is over, we are going!:)

can u believe my sis is gg for the 2nd time. she went on sat to catch the display already and she loved it so much. haha. kat and the boys are gg too! yays.

ok, random tot.

i still cant believe the countless hrs we had studied for a freaking 15 min 15 question MCQ test tht is worth only 5%!!!! n i came out of it feeling not any more relieved. how nerd i feel now... -.- lack of sleep... -.-

2008-03-06T22:18:00.000-08:00

"tools of my trade, please me kind to me?" :P (adapted frm IMSS)

emm. after so many eye-opening anatomy practicals, i think today is particularly interesting.

i like anatomy practicals, at least compared to lectures and tutorials!:) haha.

anyways, unlike last semester, we had an UNTOUCHED body to ourselves this time, without all the meddling to the skin, thoraxic cage being pulled apart, the brain being sawed into half etc...

my group was assigned to this body, and i think she looked around 70 maybe. she has outgowths of lumps all over her chest, we thought it might be soil at first. lol. haha. but it turned out to be abnormal growths tht are found in many elderly pple, but hers were just the more serious case.

yup, probably cos we are doing the thorax this week, we were supposed to go through the many layers to skin, fat, muscle etc. and tear apart the upper part of the body, the thoracic region to expose the whole rib cage. & after a THICK layer of fat, and unkindly ripping through the muscles, we had the ribcage seen,with the layers of skin and muscle opened up and flipped to the sides, like an opened book.

lots of fluid just kept oozing out like nobody's business lol. by the end of the practical, we had like a whole basin full of body fluid. haha.

ok, more gross stuff.

next, we had to open up the rib cage from the top, from the sternum and folding the rib cage down. to do that, we had to use a SHEARS or a LARGE SAW to cut open the rib cage from the lateral sides. i always thought those "weapons" should be left to the gardeners to play with, instead we are using them to force our way through the ribcage so that we can see the lungs and heart that are underneath. we even had to use a HAMMER and a CHISEL to break the sternum at the neck. there were lots of cracking of bones and physical work done! haha. it was gross to a certain extent, esp with the increasing overwhelming smell frm the bodies that was filling the whole lab.

finally, with much effort to rip through the bones without piercing through the diaphragm and the lungs/heart, we folded down the ribcage from the top, NEARLY breaking the lower ribs with too much enthusiasm. haha. we got to view the massive lungs and heart underneath. she had larger organs than usual, prob cos she was overweight too.

we were supposed to take out both lungs by cutting through the hilum. it was not an easy task! since lungs are divided into lobes, and they sit in deep cavities, we really had to push our whole hands underneath into the cavity and rip the whole lungs out.

unfortunately, on the left side, the lung ripped into two, & on the right, it was nearly sheared apart too. haha. but it was indeed a sense of achievement seeing both HUGE lungs (ok, 4-5 mini lungs...hehe) in our hands.

we ended the practical with guess wat, "george clooney saves the day"! haha. we were shown this clip frm a war movie (rather old i think, cos george clooney looks rather much younger and the acting was weird) where one of his comarades got shot and had a tension pneumothorax, basically air in the lungs causing the difficulty in breathing. so he punctured a tube through the victim's chest and drew air out, and the man cld breathe again. haha. so he saved the man's life! yays. lols. :P anyways, i tot it was weird for a movie to show a medical situation so accurately focused, right down to the microscopic details of the lung, the alveoli and the collapsing lung were shown too............ ..... ok... hehe:)

yup, now, there is a fireworks display and carnival tmr at fed sq to mark the end of summer. Moomba waterfest 2008. i didn go last year so i really want to go. but, I HAVE A TEST ON MONDAY!!! lets just see...

still, going all the way to Taipan on sunday for yumcha is another thing i am looking forward to. hopefully, i wont be eating with the guilt of everyone else studying while i am pigging myself with siewmais.

ok, weekends are full AGAIN!

btw, HAPPY 19TH BIRTHDAY PHEY YEE:) hope u liked my card and the surprise we gave u today:) get all the glowly sticky stuff out of yr hair tonight ya:) enjoy!!:)

p.s. too bad phtotgraphy is not allowed in the labs... nvm, hope my "vivid" description is good enough. :)

oh, and i just got the issue of "Gubermaculum", the magazine frm the faculty, and

i tot the jokes at the bottom of the pages are really funny. plus, they are all quoted from our LECTURERS!!:) only some of which i can remember, which shows how much i really listen. lols.:) enjoy!

1) "when u see a fat patient, you might suspect that they have Cushing's (metabolic disorder), but mostly they're just fat."

2) "it is really quite humbling, in fact really humbling, to find out that all you are is a repackaged worm."

3) "someone will come in and say something like: "Doc, you gotta help me, my toddler, he's eating paper all the time, my other children cant do their homework cos it just gets eaten. he is eating through the phonebook.. he's up to L!"

(apparently, this i remember vividly, cos i was thinking, hey, i should have a brother like that! my teachers will never blame me for "eaten" homeworks! & this is true u know, there is a uncontrolled desire to eat anything and everything!)

4) "calcium: it must be seen. it must be seen by something to dowomething. how attention-seeking!"

5) "you should be proud and boast about your flatulence. flatence is good! of coz, it can get out of hand..."

and others...

haha, dont u think my lecturers are so queer, or lame! haha. and they apparently dont even realise it. haha.

also, good luck to those receiving their a level results today:):)

Dora, i wanna make sure u dont repeat lol :)

and some JI guy escaped frm prison the other day. the police even sent out an MMS with his face! wait till i see him in melb!:) watch out! haha.

2008-03-03T17:17:00.000-08:00

waiting for my next lecture, so decided to do something "useful". haha.

had my first ICM tutorial for the semester today, and was taught to measure blood pressure. apparently, my tutor says i have a really hard BP to measure. why do i always get into trouble with cadio stuff? the other time during my check-up, i was told there were weird sounds so i had to go to a specialist. luckily, there wasnt anything abnormal. sigh, all these medical knowledge is driving me nuts, esp. if it makes me suspect there is some abnormality. -.-

ok, i have to get done to useful stuff now and start considering about my AMS next year. sld i do the research back in spore? i am really tempted to, but apparently, my parents rather me stay far far away!!! haha, poor me... LOL. hehe. i wonder if the wrong person is reading this...
anyways, there are so many options i am so indecisive!!!!

2008-03-02T03:01:00.000-08:00

sighs, have so little time to blog.

but still, here is a short post.:)

have been really busy with classes and catching up with lectures. tht's so sad right> haha.

friday was IMSS city tour. Can u believe i was one of the HOST for the first year medical students? hehe... i think they know the city better than me. lols. good thing, we managed to engage several sponsors for our tour, so we had free food! hehe... egg tarts, torts crepes, custard buns etc..visted vic market, melbourne central, QV, chinatown, of coz yarra river and crown casino :) plus, we had dinner at lucosta at lyogn plus kbox session. too bad i cldn join them for dinner. yup, was really tired after walking the whole afternoon, but it was rather fun:)

and i had my first driving lesson today!!!! was rather confusing at first, but i think i did rather comfortably after a few tries:) hehe. but i am glad i am doing automatic instead of manual, which i wld have surely screwed up. haha. cant wait for next week's lesson. doing a double lesson probably. stay clear off the road, or be my victim!! MUHAHAHA.

P.S. just to declare: i didn't nearly knock anyone down today, maybe a few pigeons only! hehe.

yes, and had a great boat rowing outing today to Studley Park with Jack^3 family gp, ken, mush n her friends. had a picnic and i heard, lots of yummy homecooked food:) (minus the KFC raymond got... lols). sadly, due to my driving lesson, i had to miss the picnic and join them after that. still , sorry to make u guys wait for so long;) thanks to good directions frm jack i got there without much difficulty. haha. or my sense of direction is getting better. emm...:)

we rowed along the river and lucky for me and my sis, we had ken and chi to do the manual labour of rowing the oars. haha. others had single or double boats and another big boat. just for the record, my sis n i helped too! haha. all of us ended up splashing river water at one another, though good thing we had mush's jimmy choo handbag in our hostage boat so we were 'kinda' spared frm the massive water fight btw the others.

sam even capsized frm his single canoe while trying to splash mush and wei ling. we ended up having to tow the canoe all the way back to the dock cos it was so filled with water, with him in our boat. it was a massive rescuing effort on our part. three cheers for bring the man and the capsized canoe back to safety! HAHA.

super funny, come to think of it! lols. but i think sam lost his glasses and his phone was all wet! poor boy.

yup, some had ice cream after the wet adventure under the hot hot sun (though i must say the weather was good to us today, at least no rain). took the bus back ard 5pm, tired tired.

still, went to pancake desert hse for dinner with my sis since tmr is her first day at uni!!!:) all grown up. ok, i have played the whole day and my conscience is bugging me now, seriously!

pictures up soon i hope:) have to get if off the others!:)

and kat!! welcome back to melbourne and thanks to much for the lugging the book all the way frm KL!!!:):)

everyone is coming back! yays, uni is full-fleged frm tmr onwards. the last two weeks, only poor medical nerds like me have been roaming the huge melb uni campus.. sad case right?

my little brain is hurting.....why??? :(

2008-02-19T20:47:00.000-08:00

emm.. back in melb since 16th feb.. classes are filling up most of my time now.

due to an overbooked flight, we were offered a direct flight to melb, instead of transiting in adelaide... yays:) but when we arrived, the airport was so jammed up, and we lined up for nearly 1 1/2hrs to clear customs.. sighs... poor henry and christle were waiting in the car for us, but still, we were soon enjoying yumcha (just in time for lunch, 12pm) at highpoint:) i felt a sudden attachment to melb again (i feel yumcha here is better than spore cos the food still comes to u on trolleys.. :P), though i am still missing spore at the moment.

here are a few backdated photos i have yet to put up, incld. my fav. CNY moments. was celebrating right up to the night before our departure. 3 months just flew by and now i am back to studying.. sadded... anatomy of the thorax cant be better than holidays right>
there are too many photos to put up though. haha.

with candace at taka. random shot. happy working at terminal 3!
zi wei n i at cherlyn's hse. hope u are enjoying yrself in Florida.:) how cool to be having a 7 months attachment in disneyland. say hi to mickey!:) haha.
lunch buffet at noble house:) used to come here like almost routinely but has been years since we last came. food was ok i guess, just too salty, though variety was good:)
i miss my daddy, and mummy of coz... haha... sighs.. act small girl...

reunion dinner, 7th day of CNY.

CNY at uncle mike's hse:) cousin:)

at raffles place:) huge apple strudel, n super YUMMY!!! tiramisu was good too:)
long beach seafood restaurant.. chilli crab was so good with the bun:)
sushi and sashimi platter:) ordered the cold seafood platter too. at mezza 9. fantastic!!

sashimi and yusheng-family dinner
ichiban boshi:) my fav. jap chain restaurant in spore

first day of CNY dinner, relatives came over to my hse. such a crowded night. look at the spread. isn my mom a fantastic cook? runs in the genes;haha.