shimmie shim shim :)

2009-07-17T01:26:00.002+08:00

H-E-L-L-O-!

it's been so long since i last blogged ( and i always say that eh? ) and for the past weeks/months, my life's been good:) coz He is good to me, always.

this hols has been quite exciting for me so far, haha experienced lots of different kinds stuff..at the beginning, it was the slacker cum shopperholic, kinda tai tai-ish life, then life got more exciting when mission trip drew near, and in the trip, i believe we all experienced Him in many ways which are just so real to us.. and of course now, it's the attachment days, moving from the hectic inpatient pharmacy to the more relaxed outpatient. haha and each "phase" of the hols are just so different. haha esp btw attachment and mission.. makes me miss the simplicity of life there so much.. we kinda agreed that even tho we'll always say the sky on thailand is beautiful and all, in actual fact, in singapore, we are still living under the same beautiful sky.. it's just that we often let the busy-ness of life get to us that we don't see what seems so apparent to us. And somehow it just speaks to me that alot of times, we say we don't see how God is working in our lives, but maybe we're just too distracted by the 1001 things on our minds.

Anw, last sunday's sermon was about celebration and thanksgiving. Yup, agreed, humans are just such forgetful people that it's really amazing how God can be sooooo patient with us. :)
and here are just some stuff that i hope i wont forget, or stop being thankful about:

Thank God for the chance to be able to go on mission trip and witness His doings.
Thank God for for the super-good weather, and even the showers of blessings that just showed us how His plans are always the best, even though sometimes it's just way out of our expectations(who would have thought that the heavy rain was actually good for a village evangelism?)
Thank God for the locals who are willing to serve faithfully in phayak church while the rest of us can only go at most twice a year ( and alr find it difficult to take time off to do it)
Thank God for letting us see how passionate these people are about the gospel, and truly love Him, and so, serve Him in all ways they can.
Thank God for His ever-beautiful creations:).
Thank God for the fellowship we have with our bro and sisters in christ across different countries, language, churches and services. We are the church, His church, a single church, the body of Christ.
Thank God for opening our eyes to the real purpose of mission trips.
Thank God for being our source of strength, our protector and provider.:)

And here's one of the many songs which i find v meaningful:) that i wanna share with u guys!

btw, God's been v sweet ( i really feel like using this word tho i know it's not that um.. suitable or commonly used) since attachment started:) there were times where i really felt like i might just collapse soon, coz it's really quite hectic. but on days like these, He showed me verses that really encouraged me tremendously :)

Isaiah 43:1-3
¹ But now, this is what the LORD says— he who created you, O Jacob,
he who formed you, O Israel:
"Fear not, for I have redeemed you;
I have summoned you by name; you are mine.

² When you pass through the waters,
I will be with you;
and when you pass through the rivers,
they will not sweep over you.
When you walk through the fire,
you will not be burned;
the flames will not set you ablaze.

³ For I am the LORD, your God...

Press on! He is with us, no matter what we are facing:)

2009-05-11T00:20:00.002+08:00

Hello!

Surprise surprise.. the lazy one is actually updating her blog!:)
well, quick updates: Exams ended on 4th May. which was just afew days ago. and guess what? i'm feeling bored. Maybe mh was right, i AM a workaholic. but sometimes i feel that maybe we all are.. cant seem to get used to having nothing to do but yet when we're busy, we complain. haha. at least that was the case for us muggertoads in the library.
hmm.. my last post should be more than half a year ago. It's weird, cause i'd think that my blog's been dead for a much longer time than that. but well, i recall writing on the tag board that it's about there.

well, but all this while, i've been very blessed i suppose.. which is something i'm thankful for:) be it serving alpha camp, youth alpha, going through another sem of my school life or going on vocal training, it's been enriching, quite exciting. Sometimes i look back and hope that i've really grown through all those experiences and that i really treasured those chances to serve/learn, and not let them go to waste. well, i hope so. The other day a friend asked me what was the worst feeling one could get. She was deciding between dissappointment and regret. i think i'd choose regret, cause time is something you cant really turn back. when it's gone, it's really gone.
but well, guess we just have to move on and not keep looking back. give our best in all we do now so we wont have to regret again.

well, for now, exams was the last huge, "exciting" event that i had. and i'm thankful that even though there are still lots of silly things that i did int the paper that i could really kick myself for, the entire period of preparation and the exams itself were quite pleasant, and to a certain extent enjoyable:) i know i really sound like a nerd, but actually i would consider it as a compliment if i can snap into the nerdy mood everytime i'm doing schoolwork. ahha if only i can switch the nerd mode on and off.. yup, they were enjoyable... mugging with friends, coming up with silly stuff to help memorising the hard facts, even trying to go to a out-of-bounds-because-it's-swine-flu hospital out of desperation to get food on a weekend in school. i'm thankful that He brought me through the madness of mugging and exams, gave me strength to just keep going and even made it enjoyable for me. :) indeed, His grace is sufficient for me. more than sufficient in fact:)
and come to think of it, that concluded three quarters of my uni life. and in a year, at this time, i'd have finished my last exam in NUS and be on my way to graduation.. gasp.. time really flies. i wanna be a freshman and continue to be a student. at least it gives me a lil more reason to be a kid.

oh and there are more exciting stuff coming up:) missions and preceptorship!! yay.. glad i got what i wanted for precept and hope swine flu doesnt get in the way. hopefully the flu bug will just be rid of soon..

sigh, gone are the days where i'll fall asleep the moment i hit the bed.maybe it's a sign of aging. :S Now, even though i'm really tired, i'd still be tossing in bed for awhile before i enter slumberland:( maybe it's the leftover adrenaline rush from exams.. hopefully it'll be gone soon..

anw, good night! off to bed! it was nice to blog after such a long time.. haha

2008-10-30T00:01:00.003+08:00

silly mishaps.

there are only 2 ways a cup of hot tea can wake you up..
1. when you drink it
2. when you're scalded.

well, the 2nd one's pretty effective, at least for an hour or so.
good job.

2008-10-25T00:50:00.004+08:00

'When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip, "Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?" He asked this only to test him, for he already had in mind what he was going to do.
Philip answered him, "Eight months' wages would not buy enough bread for each one to have a bite!"
Another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, spoke up, "Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many?"
Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." There was plenty of grass in that place, and the men sat down, about five thousand of them. Jesus then took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed to those who were seated as much as they wanted. He did the same with the fish.
When they had all had enough to eat, he said to his disciples, "Gather the pieces that are left over. Let nothing be wasted." So they gathered them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten.'
(John 6:5-13)

Surrender all and trust that He'll work a miracle. IN us and THROUGH us. :)

'Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. '
(hebrews 11:1)
His grace is sufficient for me, for His power is made perfect my weakness.
Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me.

i surrender my 5 loaves and 2 fishes.
though insignificant, He will put them into good use. :)

2008-09-28T01:31:00.010+08:00

In His Time

"He hath made all things beautiful in His time"
Ecclesiastes 3:11

In His time, all things are beautiful..
Indeed a lot of times we try to do things ourselves, in our time in our ways, with our limited wisdom.
However,"the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God's sight..." (1 Corinthians 3:19) and how true it is.

wait. and be patient.
open your eyes. and see His works.
He works in ways we often cannot (or maybe do not?) see and what is done through prayers, we cannot do.

It's been awhile.. and sometimes relationship with people is puzzling... it is something you can't control or work it out by yourself. Broken friendships, only God can mend.
In fact, many areas of our life, only God can help.

For now, I am thankful for that friend who still treasures me as a friend, I am thankful for the friend that He sent to remind me to wait patiently. Perhaps give it another day, things might get better,perhaps give it another day, it might be a better time to talk. Indeed it has and it is. In His time, things which could become so much worse is close to being resolved. :)

After so many years, we have been, are and will still be learning the same lesson--
let go, let God, in His time.

"Unless the Lord Builds the house ,its builders labor in vain.
Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchmen stand guard in vain."
Psalms 127:1

In His time, in His time,
He makes all thing beautiful in His time.
Lord, my life to You I bring,
May each song I have to sing,
Be to You a lovely thing, in Your time.

2008-06-08T18:45:00.007+08:00

hello hello hello:)

Haven't been blogging for the longest of time..haha
anw i cant even remember when was the last post.
updates updates! ahha

um.. it seems like it's a busy holiday again.. ahah
done with the visit to sarawak, lishi camp in malacca, going to thailand tmr for missions.

Anw, really need your prayers to support the trip. We'll be going to northeast Thailand, Isan region, Maha Sarakham province , Phayakkhaphum Phisai district. Please keep us in prayer:)

okeis.. i'll see if i get hardworking enuff to upload photos for lishi camp on facebook..hahaha actually found antiques in sarawak... like charcoal kind of old iron for clothes..ahahah cool:)

from the top:
the old house number, a pic of my mum, cousin, me and grandma, pic of the old house ( it's really old) and thh antique irons and sewing machine. oh the last pic are chairs made by my grandpa.. he used to be a carpenter.:)

mainly spent my days cleaning the new house and pulling weeds.. ahah living my life as pseudo farmer..hahah

okies.. that's all for now:)

anw i found a cool video.. go see:)it's touching.

2008-04-25T00:30:00.002+08:00

The mugger has spoken:)

hellos!!!
it's been so long that i cant even remember when was my last post or what was it about..hahaha
anw, hello to you if there's still anyone reading this blog..hahah

Well, basically been mugging alot for the last few weeks, coz of the whole series of tests that i had.. we've been having 2 or 3 tests everyweek until this wk when we finally have a break... for the time being.. so that we can prep for the EXAMS thats starting soon..haha

but i wanna give thanks for muggingand all the tests.. ahhaa it sounds weird.. but well though there seems to be a never ending mountain of paper to read through but it's still quite enjoyable:) i like being a student.. haha guess i'm starting to treasure life of a student more since i'll be working in 2 more years time. :S i feel old.

oh and jus wanna cheer everyone on.. whatever you're going through now jiayou! :) be it exams or fighting fire at work.. :) hang in there! whatever u're facing, you're not alone:)

The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer;
my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge.
He is my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
-Psalms 18:2-

here are some nice stuff for u to watch:) and hopefully they'll brighten up ur day... hahah
a nice song and a cute video :) enjoy!

2008-01-28T01:07:00.000+08:00

the random, a-bit-of-everything entry

hello hello hello!
wanted to blog long long time ago.. since new year. haha but as usual i procrastinated and finally found it meaningless to blog after i passed tt window of time aft the events happen..

Anyway, school's started for 2 weeks already! but thank God that the modules this sem are quite nice=] though there's 1 module which isn't in a good slot in the timetable.. coz i realised i cant really concentrate much after 2 back to back lectures so my attention span for the third consecutive lecture is as good as nothing. oops.. i'll try to pay attention tmr :S tho it's really quite difficult when the lecturer was talking about collecting and analysing ash and how there are different types of ash. but other modules are good:) especially forensic science... wheeee finally got to do that.. happy:) and i have a cute lecturer from the states who put cute animations in her slides and always try to speak singlish with her US accent.. a funny combination. haha to sum up..so far.. school's been good but workload's heavier.. aha and i realised i'm actually doing an assignment on a drug, Danzen, which is what ailing laoshireccomended me when i had sore throat.. haha

oh i wanna go romania for the th Asia-Pacific Pharmaceutical Symposium (APPS)!!! i wanna go!! but it's ex.. boohoo and it clashes with stuff.. urgh... but it sounds fun:)

oh oh and i went for my tetanus jab last wednesday after pharm cell. it's for a lab session for pharmacology.. to deal with the mice we have to be jabbed first..anw the jab felt weird.. it's describes as a dull pain.. feels like someone is pinching u real hard.. and after that it feels like you have a really bad muscle ache ( and we learnt tt the cheemo name for tt is MYALGIA) the funny thing is.. i felt faint after the jab.. ahha tink it's cause i was too nervous before that or sth..haha so silly! when i stood there waiting for my bus.. it feels like the scenery or the road suddenly got brighter and brighter..ha oh and it's the same with blood.. somehow when i see a bag of blood at blood donation drives and tubes of blood for blood test.. i'll just feel faint... weird.. anw since i'm afraid of blood and needles... it's a blessing that pharmacy has little to do with those stuff.. whew.. :) else i'll have a hard time overcoming them and will have to cope with fainting episodes every now and then..haha

oh and talking about cell... we have finally have a name!! :) and it's called pharmers for christ..haha sth lame but supposedly meaningful..ahha cause we're pharmers and we're 'farming'/seeding/harvesting for christ.. haha we're not quite used to the name yet tho.. :S

Oh and today i had lunch with xy, ly, lt and viv at thai noodle house and had our lil girls talk... love the food there... so weird tt i havent been there in my 2 whole years of hc life.. ahha yummy stuff.. oh and today i finally understood the meaning of being drenched.. like when you cant get any wetter than u are already. today there was a downpour in the afternoon... and i didnt bring my umbrella!! :S but anyway.. what amazes me is that the clear sky can suddenly start drizzling , then raining, then become a down pour in a short time frame.. haha i was walking in the drizzle.. tinking it's ok.. jsu a few drops of rain.. then it started raining heavily.. so i started walking faster... then running.. then it got into a downpour and i decided tt since i couldnt get any wetter.. might as well jus have a 'romantic stroll' in the rain..hahahahahahaha it reminded me of water bomb la.. but this time it's from the sky...with varying intensity..haha and eventually i got totally drenched .. tt my clothes became so wet tt they dun look wet anymore..and later on i realised my clothes actually dried in the 2 hrs and by the time i reached home i was totally dry again..

okies i should go to bed now...
(somehow..i usually blog when i';m really really tired..like dead tired. but don't blog when i'm wide awake)

2007-12-17T01:42:00.000+08:00

FLT J316 :)

i love the camp. i love the com. i love His plans. i love Him. Our God is simply amazing!
who says miracles don't happen? who says there;s no prove of answered prayers?
my friends turning up at the camp are answered prayers and the weather throughout the camp is a big miracle.

All these years i havent really put in effort to ask my friends to come for camp. But well, this year, i took the step and asked. we put their names on the prayer board and every single new friend was prayed for. At times it just seems quite impossible for them to be able to make it--school, work, overseas vacations-- but in the end they did. :) it's God at work.

11th Dec 2007.
Outdoor games scheduled at ard 8pm and it was raining till 7 plus but the sky cleared when we were out.. and it didn't rain until we were safe and sound and perfectly dry, back in church. :) coincidence? there's more...

12th Dec 2007.
Indoor games the whole day, so the weather didn't really affect that much. :) but well, the rain brought cool breeze which was great! and the stock exchange game went smoothly... ;)

13th Dec 2007.
Today a an entire day out.. and God gave us a timely gift of bright sunshine!!! it's been days, or even weeks since we saw a clear blue sky :) the weather was really nice.. not too warm and it didn't rain until 5 pm, when the everyone was supposed to be back by then.. and by that time, most people were back already.. :) YAY! later on, we had a lil game of sardines( most people don't really know that that game was called sardines.. ahha) and tug of war. And again, by the time the game started and people were out, trying to search for our flight "captain", the rain stopped!!! and thankfully the rain had also softened the ground, which made tug of war more fun and less painful. ahha imagine all the scratches that we can get when we fall on dry hard ground :S amazing isn't it? conincidence? i don't think so.

14th Dec 2007.
This is THE day. One of the programs was to get the campers to go to the hillview grass patch and spend some time alone. Alone to reflect on their life, and alone to spend time with God. :)
We've been praying for this day. The weather mattered so much! imagine... if it were to rain, or even a thunderstorm, campers would be in the rain with no shelter at all and not to mention the dangers of having lightning in such a big open field! right before the program started, when the campers were observing silence to prepare for the program, it started to drizzle. people must be thinking: uh oh.. it's raining.. we probably have to have wet weather program or plan B. BUT. it's meaningless to have the program indoors because you wouldnt feel what you're supposed to-- being close to nature, being close to God, the creator. Afew of us gathered together and prayed and observed the weather for awhile. The decision was to go ahead. If it was God's plan to rain, perhaps he has sth to tell through it. We sent out the groups one by one and they went ahead with the programs. The sky, by that time, was filled with huge grey clouds,those that you would get before a thunderstorm. Miraculously, the rain didnt get heavier! the clouds were there, but not any downpours! not only is there no rain, but coz the clouds were there, the weather wasnt too hot or too sunny too! feedback of the "alone" time was quite good:) and i the rain sorta stalled the campers, for them to really quieten themselves down for the session.
I'm amazed by the way God works.

Later on, we had a great time at alpha night and water games too :) haha i got so wet that i dun even know who bombed me. hahha but it was fun!

15th Dec 2007
Camp's ending. And from the sharing by the campers, they enjoyed the camp. Thank God for huiding and leading us through all the planing, preparation and execution of the plan. It's really amazing how he works and His plans will never fail! We often pray for certain stuff to happen or certain things to be done and when things don't go our way, we complain. we are discouraged. we ask WHY? But if we were to look at the full picture, why should things go our way? if God has created the whole universe and all the wonders of the nature, if He is that wonderful God, isn't His plans much better? I am awed by His works. :)

Alpha camp 2007 -- FLT J316-Last flight Out?/最后航班？Has officially taken off, on it's journey to salvation. Through this flight, i learnt lots of things through working together with the committee and seeing how He makes everything work together. I really really love serving together with our dear bros and sis in christ. there's never been anything better than serving together for Him :) I love the committee and i will definitely miss each and every one of you. I've been blessed to be part of this com to have a chance to serve together. Though most of the time i'm not really sure of when to step in and help or when to jus support you guys, but you guys are great! Looking forward to serving together again! XOXO!!! :D :D :D

As for those who are thinking of joining the com next year, pray about it and go for it! :)
you wont regret ;) looking forward to next year's camp! ha

2007-11-10T03:06:00.000+08:00

ALPHACAMP is 30 DAYS AWAY!!!

ask ask ask your friends to come!! :)
this year's theme is LAST FLIGHT OUT?
and the camp is from 11th to 15th dec 2007 :)
please do come and visit our blog too!
bpmc-alphacamp.blogspot.com

dont miss your chance=]

2007-11-10T02:39:00.000+08:00

MADNESS with 'S' and 'P's

hello hello :)

hehe finally overcomed the inertia to blog.. ahhaa
anw this sem, we poor pharm yr 2s are so traumatized by letters S and P.. they sound of those consonants make us shudder.. seriously.

Heres a list of crazy acronyms:

PS-Pharmacy Society
PS-Pharmacist statement( assignment in SP1203)
PS-Personal Statement( what is found in Assignment 3 of Sp1203)
PSS-Pharmacy Society of Singapore
SP1203--the super tedious module that accounts for half our misery
SPSS-a crazy statistics programme that is responsible for driving us crazy by making up the other half of our misery

and i'm sure i did miss other S and Ps that continue to drive us crazy..
BUT i'm glad tt it's ALMOST OVER!!!
wheeee=]=]=]

most of this S and P frenzy would be over by monday! after handing in the SPSS report and after the sp1203 poster ends..
and for that poster, we had 26 official drafts and many more unofficial ones.. and the whole slides are flooded with textboxes!!! madness... it's so bad tt you cant really see the background anymore... :S

anw we shall perservere!!! :)

JIAYOU EVERYONE! :) our misery will end soon!!!

2007-07-16T01:53:00.001+08:00

blessed be Your name

learning to give thanks in all circumstances.. :)

ps: you can click here to watch it from youtube. haha.. sorry for the lousy layout. ha

2007-07-12T14:03:00.000+08:00

anyoung haseyo!

okies i'm back!:) actually i was back on tueday but hehe been procrastinating again but i finally got myself to start blogging about the trip.. heh

the flight to seoul, incheon airport took about 6 or 7 hours and later on we took a domestic flight to busan, where all the action began. haha. but b4 that at incheon airport we saw for ourselves how laughter can be contagious. we met an interesting uncle at the airport while collecting luggage. He had a rather entertaining laughter that sounded um... quite fake. it wounded as tho he was just reading out loud " HA-HA-HA' and this interesting laughter that he had was accompanied by swinging of both his arms. so.. we got quite facinated at his laughter and started laughing too. and he got amused by the fact thatwe're facinated by his laughter and continued to laugh. and so we laughed again. weird. but funny. well, at least we're all happy :) ha-ha-ha.

CM2007 was held at bexco, busan.. which is a larger version of our sg expo :) in this place, we met lots of new friends form all over the world!! it's really a blessing to be able to worship with 20000 people from all over the world and it's just like having a little taste of heaven. We may be living in different parts of the world, with different languages or cultures, we're worshiping the same God using our own ways, in different languages. It's amazing!!

the place where everything was held :)
really huge! so huge that it housed 20000 ple

the korea mailbox :)
grace and shim.. hmm where's the letter?

a bar near haeundae-gu beach..
cool huh? kettles as lampshades..

a thorn among the roses..
haha more like a poor korean guy bullied by 5 sg girls..
it was really nice of him to let us draw on his shirt..

teddy and the traditional rice drink.. YUMS :D

having lots of fun being 'chased' by the waves at the haeundae-gu beach!
jennifer,eileen,me,clara,minhuey
pic taken by grace..

more new friends!! :)

minhuey, me and alehjander(from mexico!!)
(oops i forgot how to spell)

minhuey,grace and i! in a carriage of the subway in korea... haha
everything in there jus reminds me of 'My Sassy Girl' hahaha

more munching...

through the whole conference we were basically pigging out on ice cream, puddings, and of course on the yummy traditional korean food too! the above picture shows one of the traditional foods... it's sth like sausages but instead of meat, it's stuffed with noodles and you eat it with onions and of course the all time favorite, gok ju jung(red pepper sauce)ums.. i forgot how to spell tt.. heh

WE LOVE KOREA!!

on the first day, at dinner..
a picture with our first friendwe meet in korea,Joy :)

more friends!!

and guess wat? there are so many ple that you can even make friends while queuing up for anything.. haha like how cool is that!!!

grace , eoun young and me.. and guys from her uni..

lunching with more new friends! the guy in yellow actually MAJORS in TAEKWONDO!! wow..cool... i never knew you can have taekwondo as a major!..ahah

the korean map song guys..
haha really very spontaneous and entertaining people..

Through the conference , we made many new friends, especially so with min huey's kyo ja peanuts..haha and thru the conference i learnt alot from the seminars and the plenary speakers. about completing the mission, connected movements and christ magnified. Indeed, we want to magnify christ and be a fireseed in our own areas! feel so priviledged to be there! and another thing that touched me is that the korean ccc students and churches even went to the prayer mountain to pray for us and even go to the extent of goign on gameshows to raise funds for the conference and tocover our accomodations and food expenses. WOW. that is the extent they go for their fellow bro and sis in christ. :) love love!

And after the 6 days of conference.. it was time for the even more exciting part of the journey. We all agreed it's the time where we put the theory we learnt for the past few days into practice. :) it's beggars' mission time!! and as for me, i did rural mission at a small village ( hum ble li) in cheong ju, where i experienced and learnt more than i did in the past 6 days. :)

On the first day, when we reached in evening, we did a prayer walk around the area. For the first time after a long while, i felt like i was really talking to God, like i was really telling Him the concerns i have for the village and also our teams and really putting everything in His hands to let Him work in His time.

on the 2nd day, we went to do some work for the villagers! :) some of us went to the village centre to help washing up while others helped to pluck weeds at hal mo ni's farm. ( hal mo ni=grandmother) and she's really a very nice person who doted on us ALOT.

God's first provision of the day thru hal mo ni..
delicious icecream as breakfast..

shim the pharmer.. farming. :)

through farming, afew lessons were learnt.
in the bible, plants and weeds were used as parables. as we plucked weeds, we learnt that..certain weeds may look very small and harmless, but they do have long roots that grow deep into the soil. and if we dont pluck it out, it'll continue to grow and impede the plant's growth. similarly, we need to constantly weed our lives, to remove anything that hinders us from magnifying christ. and another thing is that, tho some of the weeds look big and nice on the outside, their roots can be very shallow or might have even rotted away. In the same way, as christians, we must be alert to constantly check ourselves to see if our roots are deep enough or if it's healthy, to support our growth. we need to get the nourishment and support from Him through His word and prayer. and also, to keep ourselves incheck , to see if we're putting on a false front..appear to be alive and well on the outside,actively serving, but actually empty deep within.

hal mo ni's very very cute doggie... we named him ...
BECKHAM.. ahha or pae kum.. whichever's fine.. ahah

lunch at hal mo ni's house! what a sumptous lunch.. prepared by hal mo ni!
oh and she cooked topoki too! yumyum! i love topoki!

yong ik and hal mo ni! :) i miss her so much..
hal mo ni came at night to give us ice cream again! and thats when we grasped the chance to share the 4 sl.. and she accepted christ! :)

later on, we went to do street evangelism. :) what amazes me is that we were actually able to do that in korea, where the koreans can barely understand us. the power of the holy spirit overcomes all obstacles, including communication barrier.It's not about how we say it or how good we are... coz it's the holy spirit working in the people's hearts and only He can change man's hearts and turn them to Him. not our words. not us. we are His humble messengers to deliver the good news :) and we dont need to be afraid too. it's not about how good we are but how willing we are to do it.

the sanctuary at hindol kyo hae( white stone church)
similar to what we have here..

on the last day of bm.. leaving for cheongju ccc HQ.

my long lost twin!! guang yom has the same birthday as me!!
same day/month/yr.
COOL:):):)

at a street market in cheong ju :)

i'm touched by the generous hospitality that the koreans have( be it the church or the uni students in my team) and how warm and sincere they are :) sa rang hae! and i'm encouraged by the passion they have for prayer. like waking up at wee hrs ( 5 am) to pray. WOW.

and so i ended my trip to korea with lots of nice memories,lots of lesson learnt and ALOT of His grace :) i miss korea and the people!!

anyoung hee ke seyo!

2007-06-29T14:01:00.001+08:00

hellos!!
i'm leaving for korea today!! hahaha
it's a trip by campus crusades for christ and we're going there for a conference thingy, CM2007 and also sth called beggar's mission for the last 3 days..
so yup.. wont be online for quite awhile.. hehe
will tell u all more abt the trip when i'm back!
take care ple :)

2007-06-08T02:23:00.000+08:00

hello hello hello...
sth i blogged on the clas blog and copied here.. hehe

on tues we tried to come up with a small get together and tried to get as many people as possible but hehe cause it was a short notice , and a weekday, only kel li, jman, josh, ziyan, wenting, sok and i could make it..hehe.. but fret not!! they promise there will be a more proper one coming up soon!! as soon else everyone is safely back in our little sunny island after all the trips. haha.
btw sok took a half day leave ! yay! :) sok rocks. haha
so we met up at city hall and had lunch at soup spoon! yum yum.. but i reallise sth.. all their tomato-ish minestrone all taste almost the same but all are nice! :)

then we went to walk around, shop and look at silly stuff.. sok and ziyan wanted to buy swimsuit for their taiwan hotsprings..then we went to the ever so amusing action city to cjeck out the silly stuff they've got. and guess wat? other than the usual solar powered head nodding smiley lil guy they have... they have new miniature version that bobs it's head up and down when triggered by a voice sensor if i didnt get it wrong.. not sure what makes it move..hehe. oh and they've got the fascinating personal ATM machine with the ATM card..haha how cute!! and of course, there's the tons of soft toys -- animals in weird but cute proportions and foodstuff. haha.
then, kel li left for sch.

Had our dinner at marina sq foodcourt and then sok left
for her korean class ( i'm so envious.. i wanna learn too!)

and aft tt we walked to the esplanade and later strolled akong the river to see the merlion.. and haha sounds so tourisy.and guess wat? since everyone there is taking photos with the merlion squirting water ( ok, a weird way of putting it but well can't really tink of an apt way of putting it), we decided that we should do the same! and here's our pretty picture.. haha

the sky at sun set or rather, the evening.. haha pretty?

the famous merlion!
the half fish half lion water -spitting thingy... haha

the first attempt to for self take photo with the merlion...
by mr jman..
everyone's in!! yay! but the merlion's cut off! boo :(

attempt #2!
sadly the photographer (yours truly) has short arms and bad skills of agar-ation and aiming... BOO! :( :(

the final shot!
we gave up.. it's easier to get someone to
take for us..
it's funny.. this time it's a TOURIST taking a photo for the LOCALS. haha

btw i nv noticed there's a baby merlion beside it hehe...oops..

spent quite awhile sitting by the river, chatting/chilling/nuah-ing away.. and finally decided tt we shd go home.. haha yay!! so happy.. felt like i have met up with anyone frm 78 for ages. haha.

so tt's all folks..

ps: i realised sth... the person who holds the photo will need to post and blog abt it. rarh. i dun wanna use my phone to take pic next time..hehe (i'm lazy :P)

2007-05-28T01:48:00.000+08:00

journey to the westies..

HELLOs! finally decided to start wrting sth abt the trip.. hehe i feel so lazy aft i happily finish my handwritten travel journal (which was ironically wrtten after the trip.. heh) and i'll have to sorta re-write it on my blog.. boooo... anw there are some stuff i wanna share with u ple :)

hmm.. i've always wondered how it's like in europe. always had an impression of it being cold ( somehow i'll neglect how hot summer is), far away, filled with ang-mohs, far far away, pretty place, really really far away and super ex.

12 may 07
took a 12 hr long flight to frankfurt. honestly i've always tot frankfurt is somewhere in england.. hehe oops...okays so i've got no general knowledge la.. but well frankfurt, whereever it is.. is a nice place...haha except the smoky airports tho.. the air within the airport is bad..

And the amazing thing is we chanced upon.. yes we actually chanced upon this huge festival which took place in frankfurt. their skyscrapper festival(weird h)uh? singapore should have alot of it then..) actually attracted a million visitors .. woots... tt's alot. and on the first nite we reached, we actually saw fireworks!! right outside out hotel window... woohoo... cool!
i'll post the video here soon.. hehe

13th may 2007
still in frankfurt. took a confusing train ride on the s bahn and u bahn to the old town , rothenburg. it's confusing beyond comprehension(see? it's so confusing tt i dun make sense anymore.) but well worth the trip... some nice photos.. and ate frankfurters.. bratswursts and pommes(fries)

my mummy and i on a random road outside our hotel...

frankfurt haupbahnhof! which translates to frankfurt main train station. haha nice building huh?

within the s bahn train.. s is for schnell... which means fast.

outside a church ( there's so many tt i dun remember the name alr.. hehe) but i love that wooden door!!!so cute!!!
i tink i'm obsessed with old wooden doors.. took afew pics with doors. haha
doesnt tt remind you of a toilet bowl? but anw it's supposed to be some water source thingy i tink.. coz i dun understand the german words on it.
mummy and i on the bridge over main(pronounced as ma-in) river.

a fun bus ride that i did NOT have a chance to take.. so sad... sob... so fun... so cute! i wanna take.. can i can i? pleeeaaaseeee?An old town in frankfurt. the half timber houses in rothenburg. cool huh?
a haribo tent in the fair. remember the tube of gummy we have in here tt is called haribo roulette? they have a tent of it there. and they have heaps of diff types of gummy. but beware... there's this black gummy which i suppose they love alot. BUT! it taste horrible.
i hate liqorice...it's disgusting... but the rest are GOOD. :)
jus avoid the black ones.
jus in case you tink tt frankfurt is some old town. it's a modern city. jus tt we love the older parts of it. haha

didnt really takemuch pictures at the fair.. but they had bands, a band on a bus, bungee jump.. food frm all over the word and haribo! and pillow sized packets of popcorns. it's madness.

14th may 2007
we took a train to basel! which is in switzerland. and a v nice ( and quite cute) train conductor was v thoughtful and reminded us to change train andactually came back and reminded us again when it's the stop to egt down. haha.
and in switzerland, they use swiss francs as the currency... and the cost of an entry to the public toilet ( McClean) is 2 CHF!!! oh my tian.. it's $2.40 la.. be thankful of our dirty but comparatively dirt cheap ten cents toilets.

and again.. we, being so facinated by old towns... went to their old towns again.. and the fischmarkt, which is their fishmarket, which sells more than jus fish la..actually they dun sell fish. hmm...

marktplatz

and this is what we see in the old town:

mummy and i on another random street...

but this time in basel.somewhere on marktplatz.

SMILEY MERINGUES!!!
who say's i am the only one tt's obssessed with smileys.
dun they jus cheer u up?haha

can you believe it? this is actually a PHARMACY!!!
i saw the sign and couldnt help wanting to peer thru the window...
yup... it's got shelves of medicines.
it's a pharmacy alright.

once again, point proven. i like old wooden doors. this one's tiny. haha
makes me feel tall... wheee...i'm a giant. mwhahha

i like long flights of stairs too. ahha

it's kinda cute tt they all like to plant flowers outside their window... nice...:)

and we painstakingly found the munster church which has a really nice interior... the exterior is nice too but part of it is under construction. urgh.

and this is the nice interior of the munster church...

with a cool corridor...

and an otherwise nice exterior without the construction bits..

Then we took a train to italy, arriving at milan at abt ten plus.
by this time, it's getting dark alr so we dun really have the chance to look at the buildings. haha
and we went to this hotel with an interesting lift.. it's the old kind which has a door for u to open and a box or cage thing that u go into.. then u close the door and the inside door closes. um dun sound quite comprehensible but nvm.. it's old and nice. haha a lil small tho... i find it hard to move ard with my humongous bag..

15th may 2007
milano!! it's a place filled with gelaterias where they sell gelatos and it's super duper good... lots of choices and they come in nice cones and in satisfying portions. cant really find pizzerias tho there are lots of paninis :).so our itinerary for today is to eat as much gelatos as possible and to go to duomo and piazza castella!:) and maybe shopping.haha sadly, we dont really have much time to spend there.. boo..

heavy is THE word.

haha my dearest backpack and i on the streets of milan, italy.

and we realised a trend.. the Duomo is under construction too. boo. so the exterior's got an ugly patch of covered up grey mesh again. rarh.. but well it's still nice and the "space" in front of it has lots of pigeons which ant eb caught on camera.. boo...

the side view of duomo.. where the ugly patches of contruction sites are hidden. haha

interior of duomo...

in front of another building near duomo...um weird angle tho... looks like it's slanted. haha leaning building of milano..hahaha

ouside piazza castella, a castle (duh)
it's actually a picture of oneof the wings.

one of the gates of piazza castella

one of their less well preserved walls

behind me is their garden. it's so huge that u acnt really see the nex building..

their courtyard i tink...

left milano at about 4 and took a train to zurich, in switzerland. but we didnt get to go sightsee... so jus bought some chocs and went to catch our night train to hamburg..
haha the night train was an interesting experience... a 6 sleeper carriage with 4 other stranger guys.. weird.. but well the train's still nice...we booked it too late to get a 2 sleeper..

16th may 2007
A day in hamburg with no camera coz silly shim left it in the baggage in the lockers at the haupbahnhof.. but nvm... i've got my ahndy camera phone.. haha
we took a hop on hop off day tour with a humourous live guide.. aha and took a cruise on the river later on.. hamburg is known for their port btw.. and it's the 2nd largest town in germany...
well, as for the rest of the time... it's devoted to shopping.. and most impt;y finding birkis... but sadly i didnt get any... rarh...nirks are surprisingly unpopular there and i only see betula.. but betula woogies are selling at 25 euros.. with limited colours and sizes tho..

a random shot on the streets in hamburg. a view frm the bus..
a cool ship tt runs on waterwheel..

a cool building seen on the cruise ride...

and then we made our way to hannover, then to hildeshiem to meet dad! yay! only of the lil happy thing is tt i get to cut my nails.. haha which are terribly long then... and i'm starting to scratch myself alr..ouch.and we lived in a nice hotel.. which is hidden behind layers of trees and bushes. hidden but nice

hildeshiem is a small town and hbf is haupbahnhof, which means train station.

the only type of train tt goes hildeshiem. the older and lousier type... btu it looks cute!
and they've got nice skies there.. haha

a random nice building..

17th may 2007
today we decided to go take a look at hannover!! but sadly it's a public holiday here today so all the shops are closed!!! and we're practically drooling over the shops there...but we could still go to the old town!!and guess what? we came across our first protestant church!! YAY!!
and there was a statue of martin luther outside. with his 95 thesis, stepping on the 'indulgences'..honestly, i never knew he was german. haha..

our dear martin luther...

and coz it's Fathers' in germany.. and germans being beer lovers.. all the people on the streets were drinking beer and getting a lil tipsy..
and we're apprached by this 2 guys who wanted to take a photo.. haahha
and after awhile their friend came along... so he took a picture of the 4 of us ( mummy me and the 2 guys) and we took a pic of the 3 of the, in front of the church.

the 3 drunk dudes in front of the nice church building:)

some random dude that ran over to take a photo..and before we could leave...

another came over...
i guess they really love taking photos.. ahah

a random nice building under a nice sky...

spot me!

and this is a picture of a lil bird.. fluffingup its feather coz it's super cold in the morning!

my dream car... haha so cute...
but it's BMW!! whoa...

18th may 2007

since the shops in hannover were closed yday, we decided to go down to shop again!!! and to my surprise... they actually have a hello kitty shop here..haha
it's a day if shopping so no pics were taken..haha but i saw this nice pair of jeans... gg at 9.95 euros... but the zip is spoiled. argh. and i didnt manage to get anything. coz the thought of having to carry whatever i buy is not very inviting. ahah

19th may 2007

the day dad is free from his work to go tour ard with us!!
we webt to berlin :) itinerary of the day was to see charlottenburg, remains of the war.. would love to go to checkpoint charlie where the wall museum was and the jews museum.. but we had no time.. boo..

a church destroyed in WWII

charlottenburg is a palace of king federick I and III i tink... i tink his son never became king...
it's really noce inside.. but no photos allowed :S

the wall memorial... which has all the history and info and we thought tt it was actually the wall remains but nope.. nah-uh..

now this.. is the actual wall remain.. it's longer than tt but not alot of it is left...

the flea market at portzdammers platz..
they sell everything from Nazi uniform to old dentures, porcelain plates to old leather suitcases..

then.. we left berlin to take a night train to vienna in austria... this time we took a 4 sleeper since there's no way the 3 of us can fit into a 2 sleeper.. but the 4th bed wasnt take so we got a carriage for ourselves.. yay!

20th may 2007

here we are in vienna!! or wien ( veen) went to check inat the hotel andleft our luggauge there b4 we went out to play.. the sun here's scorching... and the weather's getting hotter...
here.. we took a day tour... the ususal hope on hop off tour with audio guide..stopped for awhile at the donauturn (which is a park) where there were beautiful pluwers!! and peonies bigger than your face.. ahha
then we went a concert at the beethoven haus.. bythe imperial orchestra... they're good and they had ballerinas and singers too.. and the venue had nice architecture..haha

inside the concert hall...

beam me up scotty!!
haha nice horse carriages seen everywhere in wein other than mozart chocs

spagghetti eis!
which is gelato pulled into the 'strands of spagghetti'..

a bridge over donau canal

21st may 2007

a second day in vienna!we went to teh hapsburgs palace, where they had an empress known for her beauty.. empress sissy.. and she's 1.72 m tall, 42-45 kg ( BMI of abt 15) and her waist is 51 cm?!?! whoa.. and anw she spends 2 hrs to exercise each day... woots..
not satisfised at the distant view of donau, or danube river, we decided to go there and have a closer look.. and took a cruise on it...the view on the river was good :)

donau

another view..

random nice building..

22nd may 2007

Got up early and took a train to salzburg... but we reached around 2 plus..
most of the museums close at 6 so we have quite a short day...
went to the mirabell palace, which belonged to the hapsburgs as well, and thebirthplace of mozart... coz this is his hometown and everywhere you go... you see mozart chocs..

mummy and i in front of the house mozart was born in!!

the mirabell gardens and the hohenwerfen palace at the background.
it's a cool place with trick fountains which we didnt have time to go..

23rd may 2007

Salzburg, other than the birthplace of mozart, also contains the shooting scenes of the sound of music! and we took the cheesy but fun 'the sound of music tour' where we visited the shooting scenes-- the palace, the lake, the abbey and the glasshouse and the mirabell gardens

backyard lake of the von trapps
btw they used 2 diff locations to shoot the backyard of their hse..cool..the actual back of the house has no lake..haha

jus a random nice lake.. ahha
a rare photo where i look taller than mummy... yay!

rothernbahn! sth like the luge ride... fun!!!

cheesy photo with a cheesy tour bus..

then we made our way back to frankfurt! and reached at night.

24th may 2004

We're going home!!! thoughwe're not exactly homesick or anything... but the thot of going is really nice... thank God that we've been tru the trip with lots of fun and really smoothly!!

random pretty sky... His beautiful creation..

dandelion!!

Thoughts about the trip:

Really feel that the entire trip is God sent.. haha..
firstly... never thought of being able to go europe so soon!! whee... and througout the trip.. we could feel his presence with us.. and i thank Him that everything went so well..
though in hildeshiem there was once where we took the wrong train and ended up in an ulu lil small town ,elser,where hotels can even close coz it was a public holiday.. stranded at the station with no trains coming soon, sky turning dark, and not being able to speak german,we wanted to approach anyone to help us call a cab to get to the hotel.. but He gave us sth unexpected.. sent us someone who was so helpful that he sent us all the way back.. and thru the journey home we had the company of the humorous father who drove us back...and his 2 cute kids. totally unexpected. and of course we met other really helpful people.. all these i give thanks to Him.

and there are little things about singapore that i've learnt to appreciate more... even though we complain that it's small it's crowded.. and it has pretty nth much to see.. but it's stilla unique little small sunny island and i still like it here..haha

2007-05-25T21:53:00.000+08:00

heyos... :) i'm back from europe!!!
jus touched down this morning at 6.30 am.finally back home!!
seems as though i've been away for ages
haha um i've got lots of stuff to say... but i jus finished writing my own travel journal...
so i'll be uploading photos here and then tell u abt it ! haha

2007-05-04T01:45:00.000+08:00

审判者
the play has ended.
really thank God for being given the chance to serve him through the play and that He has brought each and everyone of us involved in the play thru it. It was a great experience!! i'm thankful that He has brought us through it and that everything went smoothly and we all enjoyed the whole process of it... though each of us had our on stuff to be busy with.. be it sch work, exams, work , or projects... But he gave us the time to really enjoy being part of this play and having lots of fun rehearsing and laughing over the silly blunders we make as we rehearsed. Thru this play we also saw the power of prayers, and that when we put our trust in Him and put the play in His hands.. everything will go well :) It's not about us... it's about Him:)
and for the entire crew:it's been fun to work you guys!!! love ya!!!
审判者~WHOOSH!

Greedy meifen and her sin GREED.
(make up was diff frm actual day's )

2007-05-04T00:57:00.000+08:00

it's O-V-E-R!!!
after afew weeks of mugging and it's over!!!today was my last paper. mwhahha.
can't believe it... the semester has barely started ... but now it's ended! ended!!! ENDED!
But well tho it was a very different semester from last year, it was still good =]
the times spent in the med library, shivering, cramming info into my head, looking at nonsensical books(like coxford dictionary of singlish etc.. i really wonder what are those books doing in the med lib), seeing familiar faces, mugging with my friends.. it's a good sem to give thanks for. hahaha.

tink i'll be missing quite abit of it...but i guess everything else pretty much willl come back and haunt me in about 5 or 6 month's time... everything but all the things about the med library. :(
THE MED LIBRARY IS GONNA BE MOVED AWAY!!! or rather, torn down to make way for a research building. oh no!!! mugger shim will have no place to mug for the following sems to come!!and think about the thousands of books in on the shelves on the first floor, the second floor, the closed stacks and the journals... and of course my darling martini and his friends at the RBR loan counter.. they will all be moved...poor things...chased out of their homes..

it's such a waste. med lib is a cool place (and cold... brrr) with friendly , warm people and nice cleaner aunties and helpful librarians. and here's a picture of my favorite table in the med library!! though it's my favorite, but i don't usually sit there...haha it's nice coz of it's v cool location. it's under the stairs! like some secret hideout. hahaha. and i caught the last picture of it.. before it was moved away. sob sob...

2007-04-23T00:52:00.000+08:00

tis the season to be mugging... mug mug mug mug mug... mug mug mug MUG

hello hello!!!
all the best for people who are in the midst of preparation for your exams or are already in your exams alr!! JIAYOU JIAYOU :) you can do it yar? bear with it and it'll be over soon :) rest well, mug hard and give ur best :)

As for those lucky peeps with no exams, happy working/ schooling!! take care too :)

As for those who are ALREADY done with with their exams... rarh. happy slacking. hahah

Anw... here's a reminder:

LISHI production on 29 apr 07:

remember... YOU are INVITED. :)
click here! to see the unblocked version. (irritating blogskin...rarh)

2007-04-23T00:21:00.000+08:00

Have you ever wondered what are the side effects of intensive mugging?

1. Kiasuism.
Too much mugging, or otherwise known as studying, will result in excessive tabbing of reading materials in preparation for an open book exam. Other related side effects may be increase in wastage of paper, exacerbating the problem in deforestation and also excess production of non biodegradable waste from materials such as the plastic flags as seen in the picture below.2. Increased entropy
As studying is often time consuming, less time is available for one to care about his or her tidiness and hence results in increased mess in the area where he or she inhabits, as shown in the picture below.3. Increased boredom
Of course, with prolonged mugging, one may start to experience intense boredom and begin to be distracted by other matters that are of much less, or even, no importance at all. In addition, one may start to get involved in totally senseless activities, such as taking photos of one's lecture notes or text book in particular.

[disclaimer: this picture is not taken by moi, as you can see .. the page says changing landscape.. which is a module tt i dun take]

Lastly, intense mugging may also result in incoherent speech or written works.
a good example would be this entry itself.

2007-04-19T00:59:00.000+08:00

HEAR YE HEAR YE!!!
i interupt the sweet silence of this almost unoccupied blog for an important announcement...

BEWARE!!! JUDGEMENT befalls on 29 April 07
what judgement?!
confused?
puzzled?
YOU are invited to a drama and dance production by the LISHI DRAMA AND DANCE TEAM
see for yourself what we're talking about.:)
29 Apr 2007. 11.30am.John Wesley Centre.The Sanctuary
[admission is free]

2007-03-13T02:24:00.000+08:00

BOO! i've been quite busy and hence the long period of silence... haha
so um... what's there to report abt? hmm..
nothing much actually life pretty much goes on for shrimpy simple shim haha

Got back my results for lab practical test and the grades were pretty ok.. didnt get pemalised for the extra peppermint emulsion added but got penalised for sth else.. but anw the TAs were quite strict lor... you can even get penalised for labels that are slanted even at the slightest degree... and 'bubbles' in your labels. it's a test of how fussy and particular you can be.. A big shiny A plus for you if you can make sure every single itsy bitsy bit of the preparation is perfect. straight clean labels. glossy capsules.correct colour of labels yada yada yada...
But pharm pract's funa anw... making your own preparations but maybe jus a lil unnerving when it comes to the test. ahha

meanwhile mugger shim will have to chiong her tuts for physio and quickly read up on the lectures that have jus ended for biochem and physio. GASP lectures for the entire sem is ending soon... and that jus implies that exams are coming!! and it's time to hit the books again... :S
JIAYOU EVERYONE!!=]

2007-03-13T02:18:00.000+08:00

beautiful lyrics for beautiful Him

Before the world began
You were on His mind
And every tear you cry
Is precious in His eyes
Because of His great love
He gave His only Son
Everything was done
So you would come

Nothing you can do
Could make Him love you more
And nothing that you've done
Could make Him close the door
Because of His great love
He gave His only Son
Everything was done
So you would come

Come to the Father
Though your gift is small
Broken hearts, broken lives
He will take them all
The power of the Word
The power of His blood
Everything was done
So you would come

No matter how unlovely we are.. He loves us :)
feel so loved!:D

2007-03-13T00:57:00.000+08:00

hellos.i don't know why, but i just suddenly want to blog... i want to say something. i just wanna rant. not because i'm reminded to, not because i feel obliged to, not because of anything. I just wanted to blog. maybe just to voice out some stuff that are really quite seldom heard from me.

I had this weird feeling today. A feeling that's not quite me. I'm confused. Sometimes i just wonder. Am i that crappy all the time? or did i become crappy just so that i can get attention, seek affirmation or gain approval from the people around me? i really don't know. I remember being an introvert someone who's really quiet and even to an extent of being almost non existent.Is it just how it's supposed to be? But anyways, sometimes people tell me my "crappiness" brightens up their day and if that is so, i dont mind tt at all :) really. but sometimes i really wonder...is it too much? Being crappy is fun and all that but when u want to say something and really want to be taken seriously, will you be taken seriously? or rather , will i? It's jus so you to be blah blah blah.. just so you. like what's new? ha ha ha

I remember having a talk with my friend about how people always have many sides. And how some people appear to be the happy-go-lucky kinda person but have a deeper side that he or she dont want people to know of? I dont want my crappy self to be a mask to hide a inner side of me.and that is what's disturbing me. I want to be the real me.

When i was little, i learnt that we shouldnt crack jokes about people coz u'll never know when people can get hurt. have i forgotten that already?Has it become the norm to crack mean jokes about people? does being crappy involve always putting myself down ? make urself look silly?or even putting others down? is it ok at all? i know in all the rubbish i sprout , there will be at times where i say something and the words came out wrong, and hurt someone unintentionally.Words said with good intentions can turn out the wrong way and Damage done is not measured by the intentions, but by the words itself.the damage is already done.I'm sorry if i hurt you in anyway, really sorry.

And this queer feeling of mine lasted quite a good few hours. I was getting a little uneasy. Why the sudden emo-ness. And i got quite disturbed by my confused thoughts. I wanted someone to talk to. like really to just voice all that i wanted to say.It so bad that i couldnt really concentrate on what i wanted to do. I had a long talk with Him and I cried.as i prayed, i felt peace. real peace. I said tt i'm afraid coz i'm confused and i feel like i dont know myself. But He knows me. He knows me a million times better than i know myself. And He understands me when i dont even understand myself.
thank You for knowing me. thank You for loving the unlovely me. thank You for accepting me, a me that i may not quite fully understand.thank You for letting me know that i'm not worthless, but precious in Your eyes.Because You see the depths of my heart, i have nothing to hide form You. Help me to be sensitive to not speak hurtful words , but words of encouragement.

I'm hesitant to publish this entry...I feel weird putting this on the blog.. so exposed... but yup these were my thoughts. just wanted to share. :)

2007-02-20T00:24:00.000+08:00

HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR!!! :D

this is the season to EAT AND GROW FAT man... hahaha it's days of non stop steamboat for meals and abundant festive cookies for the snacks in between meals..pineapple tarts, chocolates ( neverending supply of it), almond cookies,walnut cookies, eggroll,assorted nuts and losta other stuff that i dun even know the what it's called... ahhaa it doesnt matter what it's called, what's more important is tt i get to eat it.. HHAHHA it's pigging out time!!! haha and i realised i've come up with a list of favorites, after sampling ( in large quantities :S) a variety of the festive cookies. haha. I LOVE PINEAPPLE TARTS and ALMOND COOKIES :) yay! and of course the chocs too.. but they arent really festive cookies.. they are eaten almost on everyday basis...hahaha I think i almost finished a whole box of pineapple tarts..hahah oopsies..hehe i'm amazed at my stomach's storing capacity... i can eat loads and still dont feel bloated.. :S

Today i went to my cousin's new house:) it's still quite empty now but it's really nice..:) nicely furnished and a nice location too..haha.. oh and after that we went to my aunt's house. yesterday was spent going to my grandma's house. :) haha it's nice to see everyone again!! hahha and all the lil cousins ..haha they're such cute kids...hahhahahah.. but another cousin and i concluded that we want a girl lil cousin to plaa with...hahaha coz all the lil cousins are boys..:S but nvm la.. they're like cute lil boys. :) oh and in my cousin's room, there's this picture of me and her, when i was 6 and she was 4... wow... it's like ages ago... haha time really flies man.. but what amazed me more is that she still has it displayed in her room.. :) WOW.. love her loads :) hahah

And after everything ended, i drove my aunt to the mrt station and my grandparents home:) yay! happy:):) and my cute lil cousin was wondering who was driving the car,since my mum is the one who usually drives it.. he was going like:'why is tingtingjiejie sitting at the driver's sit?who's driving? ' hahha so cute.. :) and what amused me most was that he said: 'oh tingtingjiejie's driving? so pretty!'HAHAHHAA i just laughed out loud.. he's so cute la.. i;m pretty coz i'm driving him around. ahhaha well i nv knew driving makes people pretty...haha but i dont mind :D

okeis.. that's basically what i;ve been doing these 2 days..pigging out and having fun catching up with my cousins,aunts and uncles:) love them !

2007-02-17T03:39:00.000+08:00

hehe i'm a pirate.
i'm using the blogskin alr even before i asked.. hehe..
thanks wt and grace! hhhahah

2007-02-17T02:33:00.000+08:00

BOO!
went to visit wt and grace's blog today...hahaha so cute!! i want a macaroon too!!! hahha sounds really yummy lor.. anw .. i discovered some hidden treasures there.. MWHAHAHHA
you guys noe that i've been wanting to change my blog skin rite? but lazy to find.. ahahha so...
there was one entry where the happy twosome were finding a blogskin too! and they decided to shortlist some interesting ones..hahah and there was this really cute one!!! ahhaha i;ve decided to do sth immoral.. I'M GONNA KOP IT!!! MWHHAHAHAHHA i'm super lazy can? hahaha i admit.. and jus look at my blog address if you cant recall tt i;m lazy.. ahahahhahahaha yay! haha so jian..
but i tink i shd at least tell them abt it first... http://www.blogskins.com/apply.php?sid=103493&action=Preview
OH MAN!! i;m excited abt the blog skin.. I WANNA CHANGE NOW!!! (ahhahahah i sound so perverted :S hehe) so anyone tinking if changing to the shrimp blogskin, I CHOP IT ALREADY K!! WITH MY TISSUE PAPER... call me an auntie man... the ultimate auntie move. haha.

2007-02-09T00:22:00.000+08:00

HEAR YE HEAR YE!!
i interupt this blog for a piece of advertisement...

joy to all dessert lovers!!!haha
there's a really nice place which sells really good italian desserts at half price after 9pm!
the address:

RICCIOTI italian restaurant deli and pastry 20 upper circular road #B1-49/50 The riverwalk Singapore 058416

and how did i know of this place? the 78s went there for desserts!! haha yay!
and this was what i had:

lemoncino

yummy! i love tt place:)

2007-02-09T00:15:00.000+08:00

Shim

jus a bit of curiosity...

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In engineering, a shim is a thin and often tapered or wedged, piece of material, used to fill small gaps or spaces between objects. Shims are typically used in order to support, adjust for better fit, or provide a level surface. Shims may also be used as spacers to fill gaps between parts subject to wear.

wow... so i'm a piece of material... erps.. oh and apparently there's a band in seattle called shim.. hmm...

2007-02-08T23:25:00.000+08:00

BOOOOOO! aren't you surprised???
bloggie has come alive after a looooooong period of hibernation... hahah yea man... winter is over and spring is here!
oh man... so crap...haha
Anyways... i've decided to make a special appearance here before i get so lazy dissapear forever..haha and i;ve been wanting to blog since like begining of school. haha lots of inertia.haha :P

Okies so basically school has started for like a month already and yeap jus getting used to having school again..=] yay. hahha so much stuff went on in the hols hat it didnt seem like had actually started.. but well... time to hit the books again!! feel like i've lost a substantial bit of my mugging powers... haha but I WILL GET THEM BACK!!!! mwhahhahaha...MUGGER SHIM WILL BE BACK! i'll neeeeed to lar. hahah but it's not like schools bad but haha slacking is always a more prefered choice for lazy people like me...haha.but i'll mug when i need to ok! hahah i'm lazy mugger shim. HAHAH... such an oxymoron.nvm...haha

Okies.. so... ahem... maybe i'll jus roughly update abit about everything.. ahha too much to update!! okies, since i'm a mugger, i shall start a mugger's favorite place---the school...

hmm.. for this semester i'm taking physiology, pharmacy practice and biochemistry as my core modules and a geo module(terrestrial and coastal environment --which cost me 300 plus bid pts) and a science GEM module(colours and vision)... which means... no more anatomy for me... and no more cadevas..:S frankly speaking i quite miss anatomy and anatomy practicals... not because i;m morbid or anything.. but cause it's really quite fun to see the real stuff that you've been reading and hearing about for the past ten years or so... and will most likely never see it for yourself elsewhere. haha so byebye cadevas... but for pharmacy practice , we get to do cool stuff!!! ahhaha like make your own tablets and powders and mixtures and stuff....

my pweetty capsules... ahah anw they're precious k!!! every little one meticulously filled by yours truely manually... haha and considering i;m someone with sweaty palms... the capsule shell will just melt in my hands la... and i'll have to weargloves... which makes it diff to fill...haha
btw the white ones are acetylsalicilic acid and caffeine capsules aka paracetamol or panadol and the black ones are carbon capsules( remember the black carbon pills u eat when u have diarrhoea? yup... they belong to the same family... jus in a different packaging.)

the black and white...

haha it's fun... but bad to have a time limit...hehe. and we get to print labels ourselves! =]which means labels tt can showcase our creativity can also be printed...haha as shown below... too bad the pic's blur...hehe bad photography skills..

a special label

hmm....what else is there to update? hahahha um... suddenly cant tink of anything now.. :S shall update next time...haha

2007-01-04T17:02:00.000+08:00

boo! it's new year!!! hahaha i;m like 4 days late but still HAPPY NEW YEAR!
been eanting to blog but keep procrastinating...hahaha

yay! so happy... bidding for round 2a just ended... like finally...haha the rest of the modules has to be bidded in round 2c which starts on sat so now i can sorta like take a break...ahha :D wanted to bid for sociology of food, evaluating claims on health issues and forensic science... but the timetable all clashes like crazy.. :S so no choice... haha gonna settle for colours and vision, a science gem, and a geog module instead, and maybe another module on old and new music for south east asia, depending on how high the bid point is... and this is whats found in the decription page( it's directly pasted...so it is originally in bold red font...haha..):

Note: This Fun Module (FM) will be taught again in Semester II, AY2006-2007. The syllabus below, from last year, gives you a general idea of what this module is like. There will be some changes this year, but not much. Please come back! JM

P.S. If you are interested in music, and would like to focus on Thai music, please check-out SE3210

haha i burst out laughing seeing tt la...ahaha it's a huge contrast with the other normal module introductions... the usual font size 12 black text with a more formal tone kinda description...hahaha

anw there's some modules like TRAGEDY... (jus haha sounds like a bad omen...) and others like principles of gaming and application to economics... hahah wonder if anyone takes that... and there are modules like introduction to cybercrime, which has bid pts escalating as high as 900 plus...pure madness!!!my colours and vision is nice and cheap..haha ONE bid pt...
ahha i'm happy :)

shall update more later :) take are everyone!! hahah happy schooling for the schooling ple, happy working for the working ple.. and for those having hols, enjoy ur hols you lucky peeps :)

2006-12-27T00:56:00.000+08:00

hello!!!i'm back!! after a week of frantic christmas shopping...hahaha

christmas shopping is crazy... been out everyday last week to get stuff for ple... :S
it's crazy but yet so fun!! haha and i love wrapping presents...make it nice so that the persons receiving it will be happy..haha but not that my wrapping skills are superb.. they jus look simple.. ahaha it's the simple kinda wrapping so dun expect too much..haha
oh oh... when i went christmas shopping one day i chanced upon sth v interesting...
from a vending machine!!!:):)
tada~!!!

betcha think it's jus a normal can from a normal vending machine right? you can say that i'm sua ku or i'm slow... but i really found it very facinating!! coz...
firstly, look at the can carefully!! it's SCREWCAP!! hahaha :) annd secondly, it came out HOT!!
and thirdly, it tastes really nice :) not to mention the can looks really pretty...hahahah
oh man... i nv expect this kinda thing from a singapore vending machine!!!
it's at ps btw... at the vending machine at the carpark..haha

okeis... the next thing i wanna show is sth william made for everyone!!! haha so nice of him...haha he made cookies in the shape of our names!!! :) enwei and i were saying we wont bear to eat it...haha coz it's so nicely made...=]thanks william!!:D
and this is mine!:)
shim yt

hahaha nice right? yay!!! i ate the yt today... ahha will keep the shim for later...
so funny...sounds like i;m eating myself..hahaha
munch munch munch!!!

okies... let me back track abit...ahhai shall have a break down of my past week ahhaha... jus realised my entries are not in chronological order...but nvm! :)

18 dec:
caroling at tong building for christmas at orchard! :)
it's was kinda raining but thank God that there were still ple who stopped by to watch for awhile!! :) and 许牧师 was so enthu and danced in the rain with yongcai, zhiwei and william... (ahha hope i got the ple right)...ahha... and thank God that we still got to sing in the end!! :)
showers of blessings!!

(shopping for the rest of the days)

23 dec:
carolling at zone 1! :) and "shopping" at bpp

24 dec:
family dinner at uncle sam's place!! :)
It's so fun la... it's a big family gathering... i've always liked them... :) tink it's not quite common for other families nowadays alr.. so i'm thakful that everyone still makes a point to gather!!! :)
Love them!! :)

later on i had to run...to join the carolling... felt so bad to leave the gathering early... barely stayed for less than 3 hrs only :S sorry!!!

25 dec:
Family dinner again!! this time it's jus my immediate family... and celest( my bro's gf)...
and ,mummy cooked turkey and there was ham and salad and sashimi... and later on... swensen's ice cream log cake!!! haha wow... tis the season to eat and grow fat man...hahah

later on we started opening presents...haha it's so fun and we took pictures with the red santa hat...hahah and here's me in the hat holding one of the presents..hahaha

it's funny to be dressed in tshirt and shorts during a christmas celebration... but it's like that when u;re at home... hhaha jus lazy to dress up... :P

oh oh... and i got another really cute present form these 2 really nice gor gor and jie jie...hahaha (erm i dunno if they mind if i mention their names..so i'll jus let them be anonymous then...ahha) hahaha a dale( as in chip and dale, the chipmunks freom disney) speaker!!! haha it's sooo super cute!!! hahaha thank you thank you!:) this is it!! the feet are speakers...ahhah so cute !!!

and basically i spent the whole of today at home packing my stuff and my closet..heheh and stuffing myself with loads of chocs...hehehe pigging out! hahaha

okies that's all folks :)

2006-12-18T12:11:00.000+08:00

Who am I?
That the Lord of all the earth,
Would care to know my name,
Would care to feel my hurt.
Who am I?
That the bright and morning star,
Would choose to light the way,
For my ever wandering heart.

Not because of who I am,
But because of what you've done.
Not because of what I've done,
But because of who you are.

I am a flower quickly fading,
Here today and gone tomorrow,
A wave tossed in the ocean,
A vapor in the wind.
Still you hear me when I'm calling,
Lord, you catch me when I'm falling,
And you've told me who I am.
I am yours.

Who am I?
That the eyes that see my sin
Would look on me with love
And watch me rise again.
Who am I?
That the voice that calmed the sea,
Would call out through the rain,
And calm the storm in me.

I am yours.

Whom shall I fear?
'Cause I am yours.
I am yours.

today i was doing my quiet time...the passage was:

4Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! 5Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. 6Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

phil 4:4-7

and it struck me that our heavenly father is the one who created everything, He's the God of all the earth, but yet He is willing to listen to every single one of our worries and requests, and He cares about out hurts and pains..and knowing all out sins, He still chose to love us.

He is awesome. :)

2006-12-18T11:54:00.000+08:00

hellos!!! :)

Updates from alphacamp!!!
112 campers and 15 new friends!! :):)
really thank God for bringing us all together to work for Him..
and i wanna thank all the ple who helped with all the pub stuff :)
it's really fun working together.. we are indeed a big family in Him and it's jus a diff kinda feeling. :)
it's really great seeing everyone serving together!! :)

i miss my group too.. FROZEN FLAME!! haha the group with the highest morale...hahahhaha you guys rock!! see you guys around!!! :)
i miss alphacamp..

ALPHACAMP 2007... coming your way..
i'll be looking forward to it :)

2006-12-06T22:55:00.000+08:00

My first semester in uni--the post exam mortem

my first sem is officially over!! had my last exam of the semester yesterday!wow.. time passes really fast! it seems like i jus started school not long ago and now i'm done with my first sem already! haha

Hmm... my first sem... all i can say is that it's been a busy period but generally it's still quite manageable... but we'll have to see the results too.haha I did 5 modules in total..natural heritage of singapore( a singapore studies module), anatomy, physiologyI,physiochemical principles of drug action and physical pharmacy. I like anatomy and physiology but t latter 2 modules are not so fun.. hehe.. it's the 2 of shim's most feared modules:S coz most of the ime, lectures were like tsunamis and i'm usually drowning. Anatomy is fun becoz of the practical and stuff and physio is interesting :) yay! i'll miss anatomy alot.( not so much of memorising tho)

now about the exam..i realised i've mastered the art of moving on. haha or maybe it's jus forcing myself to forget. ahah. After each exam, as i step out of the exam hall, my memory of the exam will be 'zapped' out of my mind.. such that i cant really remember what happened. maybe caoz i dont want to remember.haha.Think i subconciously made myself forget about it so i wont enter the state of groaning and grumbling about what i did, what i did not do or what i did wrongly. maybe it's good in a way that i wont keep thinking about it, but it's not good coz i will never noe what went wrong. oops. hehe. but at least i wont spent the entire day lamenting over the paper.
haha. anw grades will be out somtime in late dec i tink. :S
thank God for guiding me through the entire exam period..mugging for it and the exam itself. it was still a pleasant experience. He strengthens me when i'm tired and i have His peace in me :) also thank you all or keeping me in your prayers and the well wishes and msges u guys sent... so sweet of all of u!! really appreciate it :)THANK YOU:)

for those still having exams, hang in there and JIAYOU!! :)

2006-12-06T22:36:00.000+08:00

it's SEVEN more days to alphacamp!!!!

I'm so excited for alphacamp!!!
months of preparations and now it's coming... Thank God for guiding and leading us tru the past months.. tho we've been busy and there seems to be tonnes of things to do, neverending tasks...but He is faithful and hasbeen guiding us and leading us along all this while and He will continue to guide and lead us because He is our good shepherd. :)

Give thanks for the people He prepared for the camp!! we have 100 campers!! praise the Lord!! He is an awesome God :) thank you thank you thank you:)

2006-11-13T00:31:00.000+08:00

november/december are such busy months!!
A levels,O levels, university examinations, people rushing their work so that they can get leave... everyone's busy.
so i jus wanna say JIAYOU JIAYOU for the people out there who also has loads of things to do, and find yourself with not enough time! hang in there! eat well, rest well, take good care of yourselves! people overseas, remember to wrap urself up when u go out! haha bet it shd be pretty cold over there alr. :)

oh and i came across this nice little bible passage while doing my qt 2 days ago. I found it really comforting and encouraging so this is it:
(ahem! btw, if u're from bpmc and u find this v new, it means.. u havent been doing ur qt! time to do qt!! haha)

Habakkuk 3:17-19

17 Though the fig tree does not bud
and there are no grapes on the vines,
though the olive crop fails
and the fields produce no food,

though there are no sheep in the pen
and no cattle in the stalls,

18 yet I will rejoice in the LORD,
I will be joyful in God my Savior.

19 The Sovereign LORD is my strength;
he makes my feet like the feet of a deer,
he enables me to go on the heights.

i got reminded that Our heavenly father is really so faithful that even if all else fails, we can be sure that we still have Him, and it is enough already. He is our treasure in jars of clay. amen!:)

2006-11-13T00:15:00.000+08:00

OOh.. i realised it's been exactly one month since i last blogged!!! oops... hehe gus fio's right, my blog add really suits me...haha

Anw , i've decided to ive some updates about myself!! haha
i've been really busy these few weeks so didnt really have time to blog..hehe.. i had so much stuff to say but pretty much forgotten what i wanted to say already. heh. last few weeks i was busy with my tests in school, CA 2 s and CA 3s.. and guess what? exams are only 2 weeks away!! i shall start intensive mugging tml..haha was planing my timetable just now and realised how little time i have left before exams come :s but thatalso means that i'll be free in3 weeks time or so! :):):) happy! haha and alphacamp's only 30 days away! wow... how fast time flies man.. and 1 semester is ending soon.. haha. anw i'll be having exams from 25 nov to 25 dec. so hehe i tink i wont be blogging in the coming 3 weeks..hehe

anw , i tink i should give an intro aboutalphacamp! haha for those who dunno what's it about. hehe some publicityhere!

alphacamp06:
alphacamp is my church's annual youth camp. for youths age 13 to 25 years old. and this year, it'll be held in church ( bukit panjang methodist church) on 13 to 16 dec! there are stuff like outing to a secretive place which i;m not suppose to say... games.. fun.. games and more fun! ahha really lookign forward to it! hehe.. and this year there'll be a musical!!!! so cool!! :):) haha oh and the theme is "spot the difference?" .haha for more details, please visit http://bpmc-alphacamp.bogspot.com(or, jus click on the link in my blog that says "alphacamp") all are welcomed to join!

haha sounds like the announcements that i've been making. haha and some ple probably has heard a thousand times alr. hhaha.. sorry... i;m jus naggy. haha

oh anw yday we went to pasir ris park for D'AMAZING RACE. hahha it was fun!! though it rained but we still amnaged to play despite the rain! :) and thank God for that. ahha and everyone was still quite enthu despite having to run around in the rain.hahah and for he organisers, GOOD JOB! haha give ureselves a pat on ur back. haha. and thank God that it was accident-free too! pasir ris park is a nice place!! :) i love their playground! and reminds me of the 78 chalet. hehe so fun lor!! i wanna hav class chalet again! haha

okeis guess i'll end my entry here... byebye! :)

2006-10-12T00:25:00.000+08:00

oh i missed out sth..

to those having problems..

jiayou jiayou alrights! it'll be over soon!haha there'll be a rainbow after the storm! ( so cliche..hehe)

smile, cause ..

there isnt a problem so big that our heavenly father cant solve!
dont tell God u have a big problem, instead say: hey problem, i've got a big God...HAHAH
rejoice :) we're with u! haha

haha dunno why i suddenly wanted to say all these...HAHA must be the haze,, i dun make sense.. hee

2006-10-11T23:43:00.000+08:00

hello!!!

AWW...since u people miss me so much(heheheheheheh :P ) i shall jus sqeeze in a short entry...

and this 2 weeks have been really bz for me.. it's kinda crazy.. hhaha i'll update u abt it maybe on this coming weekend? haha tink i shd tell uy guys about my aftn in med lib with runny nose..( dun make sense rite? nvm! ahha) haha. so sorry arh..haha

let me show u my agenda for the next 2 days...hahah

thursday:

school from 8 to 6
driving lesson frm 7.50 to 9.30pm

friday:
publicity at st francis :S
driving TEST at 11am(warm up at 1005)
natural heritage of singapore CA2 at 6.30 pm

and meanwhile.. I'll have to...
mug for my nat heritage test
complete my lab reports
try not to be so lost at lects
read up on alot alot alot of stuff..

since there is so much to do and so lil time, i figured i'll pro jus have time to do the first 2...hahaha

BUT! i realised everyone else around me is soooo busy too.. so mine may be less hectic. haha
anw.. what i wanna say is...
JIAYOU EVERYONE!! mug hard, rest well, do your QT regularly, eat well sleep well , to those with exams, all the best! and to those with projects, hang in there! and to those who are working, happy working! and i love u people!! *muacks* ahah

( as u can see, i'm quite "high" now...haha)

2006-09-25T13:45:00.000+08:00

hello!!! the silence is broken after 24 days... HAHHAHAHHA
i didnt realised i havent been blogigng for so looong...haha but nvm, i'm back!!
oh no!! there's so much to update...haha i shall go backwards then. :D

Yesterday was my birthday!!! haha. so fun :D But tt means i;m old now.. :(
( but HAH u are still older, josh!)

24th september:)

yesterday night i had a class gathering :):):) it was so fun ! coz we havent met up for quite awhile, at least not with so many people. haha. and I LOVE MY CLASS. they're such a bunch of nice and sweet ple. haha. anw i met them at teh food court at marina and they sang me a birthday song, which made the the people around us stare at us. *embarrassing* :S haha but i still love them... then we went swensens where we sat ard and talk. haha and they bought me a ice cream cake! yay! :)thank you guys... :D oh wait..it was jinfeng's treat! so thank you jinfeng!! haha and they sang a birthday song again. oh oh!! and after that we heard someone else sing birthday song.. haha someone shares the same birthday as me...haha cool! :D happy birthday to you!!haha all of us at swensens. haha:D

after that we went to the esplanade to sit ard and chat. (as usual, our hang ard spots involve us being the megawatt lightbulbs for the couples there. haha they mut have hated us. haha) and jinfeng was crazy enough to record a 40 min audio clip of our conversation. haha but of course the ebtire convo was longer.. oh man, i really miss JC. but MAF is comming!!! yay!!! :D:D:D

the bunch of us

and before that, i had dinner with my family at yan qing's si fang cai, this shanghainese restaurant at bukit timah. haha it's really niceeeeeeeeeee :) i;m a happy girl. haha. it's the first time we went there and the fish was the nicest of the lot!

earlier on, i had lunch with my cg, though not the full one. we went subway at holland V! haha.And in the morning, my cg got me a chocolate peppermint cake :D ahha so sweet. :) and juano asked me a funny qns:"yuan, where is your cake?" ahha so cute... i love u guys! haha but sadl i have no pics yet. haha oh and they sang birthday song as well. ahah whenever we have cake, there's always birthday song. hahaha. oh and it's really nice to spend ur birthday morning i church. ahha special :) celebrate with my heavenly father. Thank you father for everything! :D

22 September

Today i had my CA for natural heritage of singapore!! and it was a open book exam. And i realised something . When lecturers say it's an open book exam, read: you cant get much help even if u have your textbook with you. you are on your own! haha but actually i should have annotated the book or something and put some tabs in it, to minimise time wasted on flipping. ahha. but anyway, the exam was more like a gp essay. The question was : "Nature conservation is a luxury in Singapore." Discuss. Wenting and i concluded that we should have sought help from mrs ang instead, it would be more fruitful .hahaha. Oh and wt just had to sing that jay chou with fei yu qing song rite before the ca when she was sitting beside me. I almost died. I don't wanna have that song stuck in my head before an exam. rarh. haha

oh and in the afternoon, we went to raffle's museum of biodiversity for a field trip for the modules. ahah It's really quite interesting. And we found this venomous snake, some cobra if i didnt remember wrongly, which is VENOMOUS and COMMON in singapore!! GASP!!! help!! Oh and we were laughing ourheads off the unny names of the organisms. the biologists must have been really hungry when they were naming them. They've got names like custard caramel moth, chocolate albatross, PANDAN -KUEH MOTH!?! banana coral, mushroom coral, and the lit goes on and on. ahah. it's quite odd.here 's the evidence. hahaha

this is my favourite! haha so funny. it's the ultimate.. pandan kueh

this is very pretty :):) i like. ahha

Oh and at night my relatives came over to my house to celebrate our birthdays together!!! ahha and we had lots and lots of food... which we cant finish at all.. anw i realised sth. barbequed stuff smells a little like the anatomy hall. :S oops. hahaha oh and i we had 2 ice cream cakes and another huge cake. ahha but sadly, i dun have the pics yet. :S haha

19 September 2006

OOH.. today us muggers decided to go med library to mug ! haha i was with wt , mr zeng and pooh. haha and we ended up taking pictures in the med library. oops. haha

the muggers.

so act cute!

crazy pharmers

notice the 5 m radius around us, nobody was sitting in that region. oops. guess we could have been a lil more discrete. hehe.WE"RE SORRY!!

spot us!!

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2006-09-01T16:41:00.000+08:00

the boring entry :)

hello! It’s been a week already. :) i have so many things to blog about but i don't feel like blogging. :( but I’ll still blog about it anyway. jus to update my blog.

haha had my first anatomy practical last Thursday. and we got to examine the gross anatomy of cadavers( fyi: cadavers are dead bodies).i really admire the people who volunteer to donate their bodies for such good causes. And i was thinking if it was me, i don't think i'd want to do the same. The thought of being cut up and stuff is quite...scary. :S But anyway the practical was quite pleasant. :) i find it really interesting but to respect the cadaver, i guess fun is not the word to use. But anyway the profs there were really quite violent with the cadavers. My friend from med said that his prof broke the joint while demonstrating to them. oops. and the profs there are all quite funny. ahha.
And yesterday we looked at the respiratory system. this time they only had part of the cadever there, which is the lungs and the sagital section( erm, sth like the vertical section) of the body and shoulder. The smell of formalin is stronger this week. But I’m quite ok with the smell. But mh and jl says that it smells like bak kwa?!?!?! And Yvonne says it smells like bbq Pringles (and she wont be eating them anymore).

OH! And we got our badges yesterday! Haha it says:

SHIM YUAN TYING
Department of Pharmacy

haha. It’s supposed to be put on my lab coat :) NICEEEEEE I like...haha

I had lots of practical this week, the physical pharmacy one was really tedious! Total of about 16 titrations? And we had to do alot of mixing and shaking and stuff before that. But thank goodness it's shared between my partner and I. :) and the lecturer is really v nice... ahha. I was doing my last titration and she was saying: we will cheer u on! Hahah she's so cute. Always sound so happy.

OOH! And I went back to hwachong on Tuesday!! with boo, zzy,wt,josh,kel li and pooh. haha. it was so fun!!

ze good old class bench

hahaha i love my school :)and i realised i really miss hc and 04s78. :) a bunch of realy nice people! and u know what? we wore our uniform back!!! with collar pin too! ( except afew of them...tsk tsk..naughty kids) ahah and we saw wt's darhling there too! and met some of our juniors, mugging at the reading room. such a familiar scene. we crashed teo's tutorial . and hs students were wondering why we were there like what's the occasion, and even thought it was his birthday or something. haha. so cute. Oh. and we took some pictures at the reading room and people were wondering if we're mad or sth ahah taking pics while people re mugging.
quick everyone! act busy!! mug mug mug!!!

hahaha.coz wearing uniform, we just we look like J2s mugging for our prelims . tsk tsk...too much mugging la. hahahaha. oh and we talked to miss yang and mr teo but couldnt find the rest of the teachers :( i still love hc.

pocky sticks!!!

white board vandalism at the reading room

haha so looking forward to maf!! :) but for now, it's mugging time for me too. sigh. ,mock test on mon and presentation and CAs coming up. It's time to hit the books!

Hmm...had my tutorial session in the morning today, and all i can say is...it's time to mug:S i should mug my Martini now... but i'm so lazy..haha tt's why i'm blogging :)

Hmm..so wat's your conclusion? boring right? i think so too. sorry for the non entertaining post. :)

HAPPY TEACHERS' DAY!!

2006-08-24T00:26:00.000+08:00

ice cream overload!!!

Today was really an ice cream day. but's it's a little too much. haha. never thought i would get sick of ice cream but i think today i did. The sugar content was enuff to make me diabetic or something.

It started with the kit kat chunky i shared with my brother yesterday night after the minister's talk and the chocolate milk and walnut roll i had. and today, i had mudpie at island creamery with gracia and vivan while we met up for our publicity meeting.The mudpie there is really good.it's chocolatey and nice :) all that walk from coronation plaza to serene centre for the slice of chocolate goodness was worth it. :) The meeting was quite ok but somehow i feel that we will have more things to do after committee meeting on saturday. Everytime we have publicity subcom meeting, i'll get the feeling that we don't really have that much things to do but after the committee's meeting i'll feel like there's loads of things to settle. ahhaha

Then i met may and ben at plaza Singapura for the ICE CREAM (again) treat which i promised them for helping out at ministry fair. and the chocoholic part of me just decided that i should gorge myself woth chocolates today and go on cocoa high.so i ordered my waffle with CHOCOLATE overload icecream , topped with CHOCOLATE sauce. though i like chocolates, but this is way too much, considering i had my mudpie less than 3 hours ago. having the waffle and the mudpie on separate days would have been a good idea.hah.

Hmm.. i always thought that junk food is only detrimental to the weight and it's effects only show up on the weighing scale, but apparently bit does make me feel sick. Like how my digestive system decided to go on strike today and not work for me and my head decided to ache the whole day. haa. Guess i should stay clear of ice cream and chocolates for awhile and feed myself with something healthy. hah.apples anyone? :)

2006-08-20T17:55:00.000+08:00

hellos!

WOOOO!!! today's service was like a mega party or something. Celebration sunday was really a huge celebration!!!!n:):):) it was so fun! hahahahahaha. We had whistles and the colourful stick thingeys which makes lots of loud noises,huge balloons and hundreds or maybe more than a thousand colourful balloons thrown down at the end of the service. It was raining balloons!!! hahaha so super fun!!! And the whole congregation was so lively! i have to admit, the adults are ten times more lively than us youngsters at lishi service, shame on us!and we did actions for the hokkien songs. and yes! we sang 2 HOKKIEN songs. 1 medley and 1 other song.haha.it's auite funny becauseinitially, us vocalists dont know how to speak a single word of hokkien at all We're a hokkien church afterall. :) the whole service was jus super nice lar! and it's like the whole chinese side really came together to just worship God.it's a great feeling. People of all ages, young and old, coming before Him to worship Him.I wonder what God's reaction like, seeing us doing all these. haha. hmm... next time we should have one that's combined with the english side too. i miss combined services. And after that we had lunch together. THere was such alot of food!! :) yum! haha

Oh and after service and lunch, we went swensens at bpp to have icecream together. An all nuns outing. haha. but juan couldnt join us :( and peiling too. hmm. and we just sat together and talk. haha. it's been a long time since we did that. and now the J2s are all quite busy with their prelims and stuff, its really quite rare to have this kinda icecream sessions :) nevermind, we'll have more of these after their As! yay! jiayou J2s!!! haha it'll be over soon! it's sherlyn's birthday today!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHER!!! :)

haha i havent printed my notes yet but it'stime to go for dinner alr. heh.oops. IT's my bro's treat! :) oh man, it's another eat-and-grow-fat day. :S but nvm, i like it..HAHAHHAHAH

i realised my entries are all flooded with 'haha's and it sounds really weird so i'll use less 'haha's next time then. and i wanna change blogskin!!! the current one has such tiny fonts that it really difficult to read on my laptop screen. it didnt look as bad on the desktop tho. haha. shall search for one soon...but i'm lazy to search.

2006-08-18T23:19:00.000+08:00

haha. somehow i keep thinking today's a saturday. haha. coz there's no school. hahah
yay! so happy. today i went yum cha with my bro and mum in chinatown in the morning. hehe. but unfortunately we didnt go there in time to catch the buffet slot. hehe.

for those interested in yum cha-ing , there's this yun cha restaurant in chinatown, at the junction between smith's street and trengganu's street which has buffet breakfast every weekday from 8 to 11.30am from $9.80. ahha the foods quite good :) haha

and us greedy people went changing appitite to have milkshakes and cheesecakes...hehe they're good! :)

And after that, we went funan IT mall to get some stuff for my lappie. haha. and i got her a nice black jacket.hhaha now she'll feel more protected. haha.

and we went shopping awhile and went for dinner at holland V :) haha

2006-08-18T22:12:00.000+08:00

hello! :):):)

yay! so hapy..i got my laptop!!! like finally :)
haha actually i got it yesterday. haha and i stayed up till 5 to install stuff and upload stuff after i came home at night. yay yay yay. and i love my wall paper :) it's so cute.haha i like anne geddis haha. she rocks! haha. tink i'm mad to stay up till 5 to trandfer stuff, haha. but at least there's no school today! :) but unfortunately i didnt get to sleep in neither. ahah

I had an eight-hour lecture day yeaterday again. haha it wasnt so bad, but i didnt really concentrate during the anatomy lect and the last lect so ... oops... hehe. yesterday was quite crazy. i bought a anatomy and physiology textbook( which is quite heavy) and went to collect my lappie at the CO-OP as well. so i was lugging these 2 bulky heavy things around in a huge bag. it's quite terrible. haha but my bro decided to be really nice and drive my stuff home. :):) YAY!!! thank you :) haha and isnt it funny why all the authors of anatomy books and other textbooks tend to have martin or martini in their name? so if you want your kid to be a bio expert, try naming him or her martin, or martini, or maybe martina? haha OH and i bought a nice dirty green adidas jacket. yay! i'm happy. haha
:):):):):)

oh and yday physiology was the first lecture...again. ahha. and having it early in the morning meant that everyone there were all quite zombie-like. haha with ultra low energy level. haha and there was this interesting convo between the lecturer and the audience. haha

lecturer: do you understand?
us: *silence*
lecturer: some response will be nice?
us: *silence*
lecturer: good morning class?
us: *groans*yes..
lecturer: i like the energy...

hahahahah and for the rest of the lecture, for all the questions that the lecturer asked, we were prompted to answer by a *GOOD MORNING CLASS?*hahaha

and i was basically lost in the sea of systematic names and common name of the chemicals during physiochemical principal of drug action lecture. receiving full impact of the numerous waves of the "tsunami" as how the lecturer put it. the lecture felt as though we were being hit by waves and waves of tsunami. bewilderment fills the LT. haha.( don't think i make sense. haha)

2006-08-16T00:35:00.000+08:00

hello hello hello! haha

I went recording at a studio today!! with fio! :) haha so fun so fun!! haha :):):)
It's a recording for the song kan4 jian4 fu4 xing1 for my church's 40 dop ! and a group of us are sing for tt recording and we're taking turns to record. haha. and i sang with fio fio! :) it was super cool! :):):)

there was the mic with that round translucent disc which blocks air movement around the mic to prevent the breathing sounds to be picked up by the mic. haha and we wore humongous headphones!!! ahah it was jus so super fun lar..haha and we took photos using our camp since we all didnt bring camera :( haha

Oh and we jus kept laughing and laughing because it feels weird to hear your own voice comign out of the headphone...haha. and jianfan was really patient and beared with all our nonsense. haha and giggles. ahha THANK YOU :)

YAY YAY YAY! SO HAPPY !!! haha it was really fun :) haha

2006-08-15T00:46:00.000+08:00

my first day of school.

first day of school went well :) haha
my lessons started at 8 am so i had to leave house before 7 to get there on time. haha. Alarm clock went off at 6.15 but i snoozed for half and hour and finally dragged myself out of bed at 6.45am..haha oops...and left house at 7.10am. ahah as u can see, i was behind time so i was a lil late for school...like 5 mins or so. haha but alot of people were late too...haha so i guess i wasnt tt bad. hehe hehe heehee

first lect was physiology. haha. not too bad, and it's kinda overlapping with A level bio so it's not really somethign new. haha but the LT was quite cold tho. haha maybe coz i sat under the aircon vent and so got the full blast if the aircon. haha. i shd bring my thick pullover next time.haha but nothign can be as bad as lt 21 lor! it's a humongous freezer! and after an hour in tt particular LT, you'll really need to go outside and thaw yourself. haha.

Next was Anatomy. haha. it's also kinda similar to what we lesrnt in JC so it's quite ok. haha. actually it's almost the same lar...haha. but this lect is directly before lunch so we were'nt really paying full attention to the lecturer...haha oops... but the lecturer was quite entertaining. haha. he speaks like Away. haha (Away is one my jc lecturers haha. it's a nic we gave him haha) coz of his cute accent. haha.

OOH then i had lunch with ziyan, sok and wt. :) at the science canteen. haha the food there's not bad lar...haha but less variety tho and the queue was super long...haha... oh and we saw wenting's darhking there! haha. aww.. he ate alone. haha. aww we could have given wt back to him...hahahahahahahahah..oh and we saw ronglin too. haah and agreed to be her guinea pigs for her dentistry assesment kinda thing. haha. oh and we saw Mr Chiam! haha

ooh then we had physical pharmacy lecture. haha this was the really bad one! haha. i could hardly stay awake lar... ahha. my eyes were open but i was really not concentratign and the lecturer's voice jus sounded like lullaby...haha. haha but some coffee saved the day... ahah. yay! :) maybe i shd drink coffee every mon afternoon. haha

then it was the last lecture!!!! yay! principles of drug or sth liddat. haha hmm.. it was then i realised that i forgot most of my organic camp. :S oh no!! this is bad...haha. mr teo!!! we need tuition...haha i shd really go re read my jc notes b4 i read the lect notes...haha

ooh then i went for yyxz! haah tt basically concludes my day!8 hours of lecture and church after that. haha. haha and there's no school tmr!!! since it's practical and we dun have practs yet.. MWHAHAHHAHA...yea...i love uni...haha...coz tml no school.haha but sadly i usually dun have free day. haha

2006-08-13T22:29:00.000+08:00

hello!
wow...havent blogged for such a long time.. so many things to say and yet nothing to say at all. haha. my blog's been quite dead recently and i realised istart all the entrys with:it's been a long time since i last blogged... haha

anyway, Today was the last day for 40 days of purpose and i cant believe it's gone so fast. haha.but it's a good experience ! :) but sadly i was too busy serving that i think i lost my focus for awhile. :( like there are times where we let ourselves be occupied with the stuff in life that we get so busy and lose our focus--God. And i feel that sometimes in church, even though we are busy with church stuff, we can still lose focus . in a way, we tend to forget who we are serving and why we are serving when we concentrate on just to complete the task well. And i realised i let myself get so busy that i cant really give it all out. Guess i need to learn to be selective in serving. Well , though i realised i didnt really have time to ponder about the issues during the 40 days, but i learnt sth about serving Him. It's all about God, not what I are doing. :) and i wanna thank God for that. haha

Oh and i had to bid for an extra module on top of the core modules for this semester. Initially, i thought i'd need to bid on the friday before ministry fair during round 1c and i got quite worried about bidding because: firstly, i had no idea of what to bid for at all. and secondly, i wouldnt have excess to the comp since i'll be in church unless i wanna use the comp in their office la.(they'd be more than willing to lend me the comp but still it'd be quite disruptive to their work if the paranoid me wants to check the bidding again and again.. ahha) So, on thurs night i went online, feeling tired and almost half dead, trying to comb trough the possible modules to find sth to bid for. then i realised that i can bid during round 2a!!! haha yay! tt solved all the problems. coz round 2a will only start on mon :) yay! It's really amazing how the things i have can fit in so nicely even though that week was quite hectic. hahaha so happy! God;s plans are the best :)

another thing about dop. I was really really happy to see people working together for the dop. It really feels like a big family and it's really a great experience when people just cast aside all other stuff they have and come together to serve God.It's a really warm feeling. :) :) :) :) haha how we all came to set up our booths on the day before ministry fair; and people from different service , different ages , working together;coming down on weekdays to prepare for the fair;painting in xibin laoshi's office;how may's friend from ky came to help and how ready our church ple were to serve.

Now, afew things to give thanks for:
1.Thank God for Guiding and leading me through the 40 days, though i didnt really spent enough time with Him and to seek Him
2.Thank God for the peace i have despite the busy schedule.
3. thank God for the chance to serve, and to work with the brothers and sisters in christ through this 40 dop campaign. It really drew us alot closer.
4.Thank God for the ministry fair, for the over 200 people who signed up to serve.:)
5. Thank God for the people who helped in banner pinting and "house"building for the ministry fair.
6. Thank God for the bidding of my uni module.(yay! i found a cheap and not so bad module to bid for! :) )
7. Thank God for Loving me so dearly to die on the cross for me. :)

( believe it or not, He was NAILED on the cross and died for US--YOU and ME.even though we don't deserve it at all. that is how much God loves us !!! :) )

and many many more stuff to give thanks... haha

Tomorrow's my first day of school! having mixed feeling now. haha abit excited yet nervous. haha. and a little lazy to ake up at 6 in the morning. haha. oh and thank god for the prople i got to know in pharm. haha :) nites

2006-07-28T23:11:00.000+08:00

hellos! :)

hehe. tink qp is right when she said the blog add is very apt for me. haha. it's been so long since i last blogged!haha. but here's an entry now! haha

Have you ever heard of people getting arms muscle aches from roller blading? I DID! i really thing i;m quite odd, haha. I went rollerblading with the touch ruggers on tues and had loads of fun!!! haha and i think i fell so many times that my muscle aches were from attempting to break my fall. coz i usually just fall flat on the ground. and everytime i try to break a fall, it's like doing push-ups. it's no wonder the muscle aches were so bad that i cant even move my arms without "ouch"ing all the way.hahhaa. but it was still really fun!!! despite the fall. haha. but i had huge bruises on the left side of my butt and hip and my left elbow. haha. why is it always the left side of my body getting injured??? hmm... haha. anyway, i realised it's really really painful to fall on your butt so falling on your knees is a much better option. haha.

then on thurs, i went with viaoen to buy the cloth for yyxz. haha. it's the first time the both of us go out alone lor...haha. so fun! haha. so we went to chinatown coz there's lots of textile shops there which sells cheap cloth :) but we went there too early so we loitered around china town for awhile. haha. according to xinyi and agnes, chinatown has alot of interesting stuff and it's also a nice place to shop. well, we found the interesting stuff but never really found the shopping hotspots. haha. but we ate ice cream! haha. we figured that being us food lovers, if we were to go out together, we'll jus carry on eating and eating. haha.After we bought our nice pinkish-purple cloth, we went to roam about citilink. haha. and went wowing over the pretty paper t prints, and at the sam time also "wow"ing about the price of the stuff. haha but they are pretty. haha. yay! and finally found someone who tinks that brown stuff are nice too. haha. see? i;m not the only one that tinks so leh, sok and wt. haha.

today i went for the faculty talks for science and pharmacy. haha.
the first talk was at 9 in the morning and i was late. oops. hehe. and so we had to go to another Lecture theatre and watch it through a simulcast. which isnt a bad thing too, haha since it's much easier to sneak out when we got really hungry and cold later on. haha. but sorry girls! for making you guys late with me. hehe. sorry. the pharmacy talk in the afternoon was much more interesting! haha. and it movtivated me to start school. haha. i;m more enthusiatic now! :):):) haha. the lectures and students there seem nice :) and i saw more friends there! so happy!! haha. after that sok wt and i went simlim to look for laptops. haha/ so many choices! haha. too many choices. haha. anyway i saw this asus W5F that is sooooo nice!! i like it!!! but i dun tink it's value for money. sigh. haha. i'll look around again. haha.

2006-07-22T03:10:00.000+08:00

driving test..
Oh! i forgot to update on my driving test! :S hehe..
and to cut it short, i failed. and the next test is 3 months away!!!
i shall update on the details. but for now...off to bed i go! nites! :)

2006-07-22T01:53:00.000+08:00

HELLO!

I realised it's been ages since i last blogged. haha. so here i am! :)

Today me, sok, wt, lx went back to hc!and gera joined us later. yay! so fun!!! hahaha.t's nice going back there tp take a look. it's like going home...a homely feeling. haha. Initially we wanted to crash lectures or tutorials, namely mrs ang/our junior's gp class. But, there isn't any and all the lecturers today arent really that friendly and good to mess with so we decided to just stroll around the school and talk to people. haha. And by crashing, we meant WEARING our beloved FIREPROOF, WATERPROOF uniform and blend in with the rest of the brownies. haha. I LOVE my brown uniform! or rather beige will be a more accurate descripion of the colour. but i still like to call it brown. haha. :P oh but the point is, after hearing miss yang saying that it can be an offence to wear our sch uniform after we graduate, us cowards decided not to do it anymore. :( so sad. I even brought the correct and non-school-rule-breaking socks and shoes! but i forgot the badge though. hehe. oops.

Okies. so, we met at the busstop outside hc at 11am today and walked in together. we decided to come in outside clothes so we basically jus sticked out like a sore thumb there, and people were looking already. Then, we saw a couple of juniors and decided to go and say Hi to them but silly yuantyign decided to go shock them with a loud "BOO" and embarrassed herself. oops. but it's break, the canteen is supposed to be very noisy! haha.
So, after disgracing ourselves, we went to laze around at the class bench for awhile and were disturbing cihan and jiehui while they prepare for their gp presentationand wt convieniently "kop"ed a copy of the times magazine which featured the purates of the caribbean! :):):)it's a nice show!!! haha.

later on, we went teacher visiting at the staff room.haha. And since they rearranged the layout of the teachers' desks, we are completely disorientated and so we shall conquer the arduous quest .

First stop:Miss yang's desk.
we wanted to sneak in and give her a surprise but in the end, our plan failed. then we talked about the usual stuff like updating on what we are studying and stuff like that and miss yang commented that taking pharmacy is suicidal, since there's a whole lot of memory work. :( but nevermind wt, we shall brave through the storms and become phamacists! :) haha but then she did say alot of other courses are suicidal too. so maybe it's jus university that is suicidal. ahahaha.

3rd stop: Mrs ang's table.
we could spot mrs ang's table quite easily so we were jus sneakign our way to her desk. haha and she didnt really notice until we got really close. haha. i guess she prob thinks of food now everytime she thinks of our class coz she always say that all we hink of is food, food and more food. we're growing kids lar! haha. anw she offered us the nice, juicy and fresh (as how she described it) preserved prunes. haha. thank you! haha. and they really are good :) and complained that mr ang ate her prunes without her permission and still said that there may be worms. hahaha. and we continued to update her on stuff. haha. and then we got to the juicy bit, she was gossiping with us lar!haha wow...gossip session man. and later we invited miss lim to join in. haha. since she's got the insights. haha. i shant say more. shhhh.... but in the end we couldnt get anything out of her too. since (according to miss lim) we have bad analysis and investigative skills and cant infer at all. haha. oops. guess that explains why my gp wasnt good. hahaahhaa

3rd stop: Mr teo's table.

we spotted the same old familiar wooden bookshelf of his and safely located his desk! haha. BUT! he wasnt there. so we decided to take a look at his table, to see if there is any changes.haha. and to our surprise, we found...OUR CLASS PICTURE!!! haha.so he did see the note we left the last time we were there! haha. yay! but we can still see the biasness lor. the senior's pic is in nice wooden frame, ours is still stuck in the holder. haha. nvm la...guess we shd be contented. maybe we should get him a nice frame and put our photo inside.haha

then we decided to go visit teo at his lab since he will be having a lab lesson at that time. haha.
so we headed down to the chem labs and to our surprise, MR TEO IS LATE! gasp! tsk tsk tsk...and he's part of then disciplinary dept. and being perpetually hungry kids, we decided to go fill our stomach at the canteen after the long wait.

at the canteen:

and we all ate the foods that we used to eat! so happy! haha. i ate mixed veg rice with exactly the same veg and meat i ate in the past! haha. and i had my egg tart too! :) yay! shimmie is happy. haha. it's funny coz i always eat the egg tart though it is really not that good but i eat it jus because i like egg tarts. haha. as usual the crust is ever so thick. haha. but i still like it!!:)
is i had more space in my stomach, i would have eaten a whole load of other stuff too. like the burger, the hei nuo mi,the barley, the apple cinnamon bread and the list goes on and on and on. haha. oh they have new stalls there now and the food looks good! haha

back to the lab:
finally we went back to the lab again and yay! the lesson has already started! haha. and our poor juniors are doing an exp on reaction kinetics. hmm.. it was familiar yet also quite foreign. guess i forgot most of it already.oops. we sat in for the lesson for awhile then after teo finished his briefing we talked to him! :) and we told him tt we wanted to wear uni but didnt are to. and his reply was: you girls should have worn it ! then i can catch you for not having your collar pins!! hmm...so he enjoys spotchecks lar? the thrill of picking students out from each row during morning assembly. haha.

OH and we heard that maf thos year would be in OCETOBER :( that's so late!!! it's pushed back coz apparently there's a double 7th month this year. argh.

this marks the end of our "school crashing " experience. haha.

2006-07-12T23:35:00.000+08:00

boooooooooooooooooooooo.....

Hey bloggie. sorry to have abandoned you for so long. haha.

Since i blogged about my ankle, i shall finish the story then, haha.
bear with me for my last entry on it :)
Thank you for your patience:)
( sounds familiar? it's on every bumper of the BBDC cars)

On monday, i was dragged to some chinese physician in Ghim Moh to do something about my ankle. Surprisingly, it wasn't as bad as i thoought :) yay! The chinese physician said i injured 5 out of 8 ligaments and had blot clots, which explains the mysterious bump above my ankle. haha. So he said i'll need 3 weeks to recover fully :( and prescribe some disgusting pill and solution for me. It tastes really bad. Especially the solution. I can't call it a syrup since it's watery and not sweet. haha. Or rather, it IS sweet, but the sweetness is overpowered by bitterness , saltiness and strangely a tinge of sourness and a tingling sensation when you drink it. so it's spicy too? it's jus yucky lar and yay! i'm having my last dosage today!!! :):):) oh then the physician kept poking my ankle and says there is air(qi) inside. haha then i can see a depression on the swollen ankle, quite amusing. haha. And he kept poking for afew times to show me. then i was thinking: yes yes i know tt there's air inside, but you don't need to keep poking it, it;'s painful leh! but anw this is new, last time when i saw a physiotherapist for a sprained ankle, she said there's fluid in there, but now it's air. haha/ has it evaporated or something? haha. And finally, he wrapped it up i this humongous white bandage tt made my ankle look like thrice it's oridinal size. or maybe four times. it's huge. haha.

Okies, so now abit of some other stuff. I'm having my driving test next wednesday!!! :S oh no. it's so near. :( i hope i pass! haha.

2006-07-09T23:11:00.000+08:00

shimmie's trotters. :)

HELLO!!! updates updates :)
(yes, i'll be whinning about my trotters again. hee)
hmm... my ankle is huge now and actually i cant really see my ankle..so now my left leg more or less looks ankle-less. And a funny blood clot mysteriously appeared above it. ??? But! at least now it's not painful at all! yay!!! unless i go poke and press it that is. haha.But i think the swelling is going down already, or at least it should! haa coz i just iced it with 3 bags of ice.:)
haha. really thank God that even though i had my ankle sprained, i can still dance and move around and wear heels( it's for a purpose lar,not that i jus wanna wear heels or something).:) YAY! haha. A BIG THANK YOU to our heavenly father for bringing me through the week of rehearsals and stuff :)

2006-07-02T23:12:00.000+08:00

sunday sports!

woohoo!!! we should have sports more often!!! it's SO FUN! haha :D But today half the time i was doing the billy banja thingy then in the end i got so tired tt i cant really run around properly! haha. and that enwei and charmaine arh! tickle me?!?! you xiao peng yous are too much! haha.OH OH and i played touch today!!!! it was so fun!!! haha so happy!!! :) but i twisted my ankle...again.. argh... so it's swollen again :( but it's the different ankle from last time or at least i think so. haha. now it's the left one. what's wrong woth my ankles? they take turns to be twisted. argh. so now it makes funny sounds when i rotate it. But they're quite poor things lar, have an owner who has no sense of balance and just keep falling over and twisting her ankles.HAH. but i can still walk after i twisted it so i guess it's not that bad. :) i realised my legs always make interesting noises, like how they laughed at the cracking sound my knee made during cheerleading. haha. but sports was still so fun!!! yay!!! HEY BANJA BILLY BANJA! :D

2006-07-02T22:56:00.000+08:00

appeal

the appeal result is out!!! and the outcome is...
appeal denied!
so, meaning...i'll still be going NUS pharmacy! :)
haha. actually i'm really not sad or dissapointed at all. haha.
I wasnt sure if i really really wanted medicine too. heehee.
so now it's fixedalready! finally!haha
anyway, i just wanna thank God for the outcome and everything! and the peace i have all these while. :)

2006-07-02T22:17:00.000+08:00

CHEERLEADING! :D

Today was the kick-off for the 40 Days of purpose campaign! :) There was a carnival thingy which had flag-raising(which was ultra cool!) with the theme song, the games stall, food, and cheerleading!

Cheerleading was so much fun! haha REALLY REALLY enjoyed it :) haha. all the muscle aches are worth it ! though i kept complaining about them. heehee.
YEA YEA!! COME ON COME ON!! ALRIGHT! :D
We did 3 minor cheers and a major one right before the flag raising.really thank God for the fantastic weather and His presence, and our safety! :) haha. It feels good to cheer for God. haha.We had some difficulties in doing the stunts and had to have a change of plans ( quick thinking may! :) well done!)to settle for a easier one, and were dissapointed for awhile. :( BUT! in the end we still enjoyed it as much! and the overall was still pretty ok! :) oh and we had some impromptu pre-cheer as well. haha.

Oh and really thank God for the fellowship we had through cheerleading, it really bonded us alot! :) shouting the cheer together, doing the routine together, eating lunch together, going crazy abt the dancing - clapping thingy and billy banja, all our crappiness, how we got obsessed with the cheerleading terms, and simply just sitting around being together. :) it was really fun doing all these things together, especially when we don't get to mix around with the younger ones that often. haha.

Thank you May!for coming up with all the cheers and steps and stunts, even though you're having your exams; and thank all you students who really make and effort to come down for practice even though school/ exams have started already! i love you ple! :) *hugs*I am so encouraged by the ethusiasm you guys have in serving Him! :D God sees the effort :) :) haha.

Think i'll be missing it real soon :S i think i am already! haha
Thank God for the wonderful day! yay!

2006-07-01T00:23:00.000+08:00

hello hello hello..

it's been so long since i last blogged! wow. it's been over a week already!
but it's funny that when i finally have time to blog, i cant think of anything to write about even though i know i have alot of things to write about. haha. information overload!! haha. actually i think i'm just lazy to type lar. haha. maybe i'll do it nest time. haha

meanwhile, i'll just give a brief outline. haha. I have been busy with church stuff--cheerleading! :) yay. tt's all HAHA. bye!i'm lazy lar!

2006-06-21T23:16:00.000+08:00

oh oh oh... i would like to add that i woke up today acheaing all over. ouch. and the mosquito bites are driving me nuts. haha. and my legs looks v ineteresting with all those new colours and marks now. haha. BUT! it was still such a nice trip :):):) i had lots of fun!!! yay :)

2006-06-21T21:41:00.000+08:00

yoohoo?

I realised it's been quite awahile since i last blogged. hehe. So long that i forgot when was it already. haha. yay! holiday!:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

argh! I always have alot of stuff to say, but once i long on and sit in front of the computer,all the stuff just disappears.. argh. nvm. OH! i remember now :) :) :)

YAY!! we had chalet yesterday! :) Meng invited us to her family chalet at aloha changi! haha it was my first time there and the chalet is HUGE. haha.oh in case you're wondering who's the "we", it's fio, jing, meng and me, and of course meng's parents were there as well. We went to get stuff for the barbeque at sheng siong in the morning and made our way down to tampines by bus(67). Warning: avoid taking bus 67 to tampines from cck if you're rushing for time. haha. coz the journey's about half and hour. hah.But we managed to entertain ourselves with the Mr brown show podcasts saved in jing's phone. and the bus was freezing! but to think on the bright side, at least it kept the food fresh.hah. It felt as though i was in a mobile freezer lar!

Next we took a boat ride to pulau ubin to cycle around! YAY! haha it was such an achievement for me! haha.
1. It's the first time i cycled in the day on a single bike
2. it's the first time i cycled around ubin on a single bike
it was really fun!!! :) and coz i didnt really know how to control the bike--or specifically, my brake--properly, i ended up crashing into the vegetation by the road 3 times and it also resulted in my erratic cycling which endangered everyone else i met, including my 3 other suffering friends. sorry guys! and thank you so much for waiting around for me! :):) love ya :) haha then we had coconut after the exciting adventure :) it was really really nice and refreshing!!! :) On our way back we took photos , just like wat we did on the way there.

Then, we had our barbeque! haha. and when meng was picking denise up , we entertained ourselves with this tidbits thingy tt's vegetable flavoured and in the form of a ring, so i shall call it veggie rings. haa. so we used the veggie rings as specs rim,earrings and to form words, and of course, not forgetting to take pictures of ourselves doing tt. haha.Oh oh, fio and jing were starting the fire before that, while i moved stuff and prepared stuff , or jus simply stand around since i dunno how to start fire. heh. We had an oversupply of food! and yay!barbequed marshmellows are niceeeeeeeeee:)

oh then we started taking pictures, again. haha. we took pictures with sparkles, bubbles, lamp post.haha. then we tried jumping shot, which werent very successful. haha.

after everything's done, meng's dad gave us a lift home. we felt so bad for letting him drive us all the way home! but THANK YOU UNCLE! :):):) we thought we'd drop off at the mrt station or something , only to realise that we were on the expressway already. oops.

yup, so that concludes the whole of tuesday. haha. for the pictures, refer to fio's or meng's blog( they'd be posting it on their blog soon :)--and i can kop from them! mwhahaha!!)

2006-06-15T23:13:00.000+08:00

help!!! i'm obsessed with oatmeal squares. :( haha but they're so nice! :):):)
Anyway, in case you've been wondering what on earth have i been doing these few days, i;ve been slacking, in general. (like...duh!)

Hmm..where should i begin? the weekend was spent shopping for my lab people's present and of course there was our saturday morning at st Johns.It was fun! :) but most of the planning work was done by fio and meng. *guilty* hehe.. and for the rest of the weekend i just bugged meng to shop for the presents with me. yay! really appreciate it! :):):)

On monday, i went back to my lab to give out the presents. FINALLY! For a moment it felt like christmas when i was wrapping all 15 presents then when i wrote the personal message, the feeling of writing 15 messages at one go jus reminds me of the much dreaded GP essays. EEEE. But at least i know what to write about. yay! Then i visited my uncle to pass him my cousin's present then went back to school to collect my A levels certs. :) But i ended up reaching sch 2 hours before the designated time to meet my friends. so i had to find a way to kill 2 hours of extra time. :( Cause it will be silly to just go home and come back again. haha.so i ended up loitering around coro, trying to fish for lunch. But i figured out eating alone is quite weird so i ended up with a milo freeze and decided to eat with my friends later. :) In the end, i found myself sitting at the school canteen, listening to my ipod and trying to practice writing crap with my left hand. tt's really odd. But i realised it's really quitefated that i shouldnt be a leftie:( my handwriting is barely legible, with no aesthetic value to speak of. then after much waiting, sok, wt and lx came! yay! :) aftercollecting the certs, we made our way down to orchard and SHOPPED :) i was lugging 3 heavy 1,5 cm thick, hard-covered yearbooks around orchard in wt's haversack. my poor suffering shoulders!( in case you're wondering why 3 and why am i carrying wt's bag, it's a long story)After that i went yyxz :)

Tuesday. hmm...i cant really remember what i did in the morning, but i remenber going plaza sing with my mum and cutting my hair. Now my hair is v light but my ponytail shrunk to a third it's original size. :(

Wednesday. Hmm. didnt do much, spent most of the time eating and watching tv. HAHA stuff tt i so wanted to do when i was working, but now it seems so.... boring. haha

Today! i accompanied my mum for her checkup, then went town for some shopping again. haha. wanted to meet juan and meng but realised that they arent meeting anymore :( haha. that's about all. and of course i ate alot again. I am obssessed with oatmeal squares!! keep eating them. haha

2006-06-13T23:13:00.000+08:00

Boo!

I decided to say something cause i realised my blog is getting a little stagnant again. haha. oops. i forsee the blog resting forever soon. hehe. too bad, it has a lazy owner. haha

Anyway, I ENDED MY ATTACHMENT ALREADY! yay! :):):) meaning, i get to play more, sleep more and rest more! haha. but these few days are still quite busy for me. :( and i realised i forgot lots of driving stuff when i went for my lesson today. haha. oops.

I'm sleepy, but i don't wanna sleep! haha. afterall, i have no work tomorrow! haha. i shall go watch tv now. bye!

2006-06-10T00:58:00.000+08:00

the last time.

Today was my last day of work. It's kind of funny that after having whinning about work all this while and even to the extent of dreading it, i still find myself a wee bit reluctant to go. The thought of leaving is not at all exciting.

Today i was trying to finish up my work and also clear up some stuff and handing things over to the new student. Then this thought kept coming to me as i did my stuff: it's the last time i'll be filling pipette tips, the last time i'll be developing blots in the dark room, the last time i will be doing miniprep, the last time i will be doing maxiprep. Then i suddenly got very emotional when my colleague was telling me about how fast time flies and my four month attachment is ending today. I was tearing already so i didnt look at her as she talked , but just kept looking down, doing my experiments. Though i complain about some techniques being highly repeatitive and mundane, having the thought of me doing it for the last time, it all suddenly became all so interesting.Think i'll be missing running in and out of the dark room, and the revolving dark room door which is ever so facinating; picking colonies and "barbecuing" the glass pipettes for plating the bacteria, going to the lab supplies and washing facilities with my friends which always seem like shopping for stuff; being referred to as xiao peng you by the lab supplies aunties.I just don't want to end it all so soon.

But of course the greater part of missing work would be the people. The lab people are just really nice! they are ever so willing to teach and help, not mentioning tolerating my absent-mindedness and plain blurness. And the students too! everyone there just helps each other out and it;s just a really nice environment. :):):) oh, and my dear "sister" in the other lab whom everyone says i look like.so i'll miss them alot alot alot. :( guess i'll just drop by more often and meet them for lunch or something.

Really thank God for the chance to do this experiment. Though i kind of miss it,but i guess there's a time for everything and now is the time to do other stuff. Meanwhile, i shall slack! and bum around for while. HEE :) I'll keep them in my prayers. :)

2006-06-05T22:12:00.000+08:00

busy.

Just had a very busy weekend and went to work half dead today. On saturday we had the usual cdg , then the alphacamp meeting , followed by a shopping spree in town with xinyi, meng and jing. I;m such a spendthrift la, but i loove my new wallet :):) hehe it's white! :)

Yesterday i went to church in the morning, then chiong all the way to sentosa to meet my touch friends and then went national stadium for global day of prayer and finally go airport tofetch my parents. Tiring. Sentosa seemsto be quite different from the last time i went there. haha. there's this "new" luge ride thats quite fun! :):) haha. and the kids there are so cute. hehe.Oh but jj and mel dropped their flip flops on the way up on the chaiflift so we were searching the hill for them and the ple on the chairlift kept a lookout for it.haha. such kind souls ! :)
GDOP was good! I love worshiping in a big crowd! and because it was in open air, it feels like the praises we sang rose to the heavens , to God. :) haha. though i know He is everywhere but there's just this thing abt God seated in the throne high up in the heavens. haha. It was really ni
ce!And the entire church, evangelistical and charismatic, came together as one! haha. it should be that way! i feel that each of us just have differest ways of worshipping and that we complement each other :) haha and i met my grandma there! yay! it quite funny tt i;m the one who comes frma traditional church and my grandma is the one who comes from charismatic church. Haa

Today we had a new student coming into the lab! :) She's quite a nice person . oh and we had this sampl which went missing. sigh. and work ended late today, ws in the lab for more than 12 hrs! haha. tired. and tomorrow i'll have to do 14 maxipreps! the thought of it is scary. I;m gonna have morning exercise tml by shaking th tubes!

2006-06-02T00:39:00.000+08:00

Today i did maxiprep again! :) I think if i do maxiprep everyday i will lose weight from shaking all the bottles and stuff, it's so tiring! haha. It's my exercise for the day :) I;ve been wanting to exercise but i kept giving myself excuses. :P I shall go run or swim soon! :)

Anyway, today i went out with cheryl for dinner after work. By the time we walked to holland Village from biopolis it was already 9 pm! And we had dinner at subway. meatball marinara! it's nice :) But the lady put so mush onions that my toungue became numb and the onion taste stayed in my mouth, and i had onion breathe..eeee. we were so late that the whole place only had the both of us, hehe and when we went home, the street outside looked like a ghost town. there was NOBODY. :( it's the first time i see holland v so dead. haha.

when i reached home, bro was asleep already. Then, i suddenly realised something! I forgot to water the plants! oops. since my parents are out and we didnt water the plants,those poor things had 2 days of drought. oops again. now it looks kinda limpy. hehe. Oh and i woke my bro up when i was making noise while searching for stuff. hehe. so sorry! hehe.I;m so proud of myself! i did laundry and cleaned the floor! :):):) yay! but it's kinda odd to do thosethings at this hour. hehe. I have no choice! coz it's quite impossible for me to forgo sleep and wake up early to do household chores.Anyway, i'm quite amazed at the amount of laundry we can accumulate over 2 days.haha. Speaking of sleep, guess i should go visit snoozeland soon . haha. nites!

2006-06-01T01:07:00.000+08:00

Okies! maybe i shall just stick to my original decision.
I shall appeal! and pray hard about it. :) whatever outcome i get, i will accept it .

The Serenity Prayer

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him
Forever in the next.
Amen.
--Reinhold Niebuhr

Trust in the LORD with all your heartand lean not on your own understanding;in all your ways acknowledge him,and he will direct your paths.
Proverbs 3, 5-6

2006-06-01T00:25:00.000+08:00

Help!

To appeal or not, that is the question...but what is the answer?

SIGH! i just realised someting really bad. :( I thought i will still be able to choose to accept or decline the offer if i successfully appeal into medicine. BUT i can't! meaning, it's not a win-win situation anymore, there is NO choice. If i get offered medicine, the offer for pharmacy will be withdrawned!Sigh. But it's highly unlikely that an appeal would be successful anyway.should I appeal? I don't know what i want! :(It's funny to be in such a dilema coz all along i thought i really really really wanted medicine! But it seems like there are lots more to consider rather than the plain simple thought of wanting to be a pediatrician. I am officially lost.Guess i don't have that much passion for medicine. Maybe i should just stay happy with pharmacy, but what if i regret? How? I need to hear His voice, I need to hear from Him!:) people, please pray for me:( thank you! :)

2006-05-31T00:29:00.000+08:00

work work work!

OOh...we have a new member in the lab! :) another student! haha. She's an honours student from NUS and she seems like a really nice person :):) haha. YAY!:)

Anyway, I think i'll have a crazy week! I foresee that i'll be doing lots on cloning, like 6 maxipreps per day and miniprep and stuff, apart from the usual western blots :) Though it'll be busy, but it's good to have an exciting week before i leave. :) Oh today I ended work at 10pm!! WOW! it's a record! it's 13+ hour of work for a day!! haha. I think i'm mad, can't believe i actually stayed in that place for soo long. Oh anyway i spilled one entire tube when doing maxiprep today. :( sigh, have to redo it. But at least no major damage done! haha. that's the good thing about cloning, there's always backups coz u can always grow more bacteria! :) This is probably the only instance where i'll find bacteria lovable. HAHA they're such accomodating organisms. Haha

Hmm, I think i should go have some rest, need to wake up early tomorrow to send my parents off to the airport coz they're going taiwan. This is the 3rd time i;m going to the airport within a week. Hhaha

2006-05-27T23:35:00.000+08:00

Purposeful Day.

hmm, my title sounds funny, reminds me of the 40 days of purpose. HAHA. But today i had a wonderful day doinf quite alot of stuff...hehe. actually it's really not alot, but it filled my whole day! haha.

In the morning, we had covenant discipleship group at westmall macs. And as usual, i was LATE again ! :( so sorry fio and meng! haha. It's always the 2 of you waiting for us. haha. But today we didnt have full attendance again:( but at least there's an improvement! we had 5 ple today! instead of the usual 4 :):):) but we didnt have bible study :(

Then in the afternoon, i went with my school friends to help out at this nursing home at sembawang. They had Dragonboat festival celebration today. :) But coz ziyan had her yoga and i had cdg, we both went late.Oh and we met Andy on the train. haha. what a coincidence!When we stepped into the home, i felt quite sad for the residents there, because the atmosphere there is just so grey. Though the sight of volunteers helping out was quite heart warming. :) Today we were supposed to help wheel the people around and help giving out food . They also put up music perormances -- flute and cello, erhu, and guitar+singing(more of a singalong).The response was quite good, tho there was this indian uncle who kept shouting "I'M SO BORED".I think he's quite poor thing . I wanted to go talk to him but i was afraid tt he would complain more and disrupt the performance. OH! then there was this cute uncle who sat beside him who reprimanded him for shouting. haha. so cute! they're just like kids :) haha. Oh then i wheeled this old lady and sort of took charge of her for today. Everything was ok except for the fact tt we were comunicating using in entirely different dialects! HAHA. At first i thought she was hainanese then i realised she's cantonese. But my dialects are so lousy and mixed up that i was talking to her in a teochew-hokkien hybrid kind of dialect. wow. And we could sort of underatnd each other! HAHA amazing. I think they really don't mind if u can speak well or not, but what matters is that they have someone with them, willing to talk to them.:) However, i think it's time to learn some dialects. haha. Oh and i realised that she doesnt like mushrooms. haha. coz she didnt like haveing tt in her pao. haha. After the meal they had some games but some of them wanted to go back so i whelled them back. Then, i faced a situation. I wheeled 4 of them into the lift and realised there was no one there to help me! :S and the lift door kept closing and the uncle which was in the innermost part of the lift insisted on getting out first, which was quite impossible. So, in the end, by the time i wheeled one of them out, the lift door closed and the 3 other to a tour to the 3rd floor before coming down again. haha. oops. But in the end i managed to wheel them out! YAY! :) happy

OOH, then after that, i met my parents for dinner and shopping! haha. i bought this sling bag from MEXX at 50 % discount! yay! :)

And that concludes ,my fruitful day! :)

2006-05-24T00:33:00.000+08:00

work

Yay! so happy! I did confocal stuff today!! HAha it's something new and very interesting.:) I;m happy.

But recently *ahem* just got from bad to worse.He has finally started attacking us attachment students. Today, he said that we are ACTING busy at work. ACTING. hello? who in the right mind will want to act busy by staying 12 hrs in the lab a day? while he goes home at5 plus 6 and comes in late in the morning. We aren't even permanent staff and it's not like we get paid doing over time or something. (and the permanent staff dont either) On monday, the first day of the week, in the morning, he scolded the post docs and pHD student in the lab, followed by the lab biologists. He scolded this post doc because his computer died on him while he was typing his usual lengthy and naggy reply to that post doc's report.And today, he attacked the students as well!!! SMART! he has just offended the entire lab! He has officially completed the entire cycle, which i presume will start very soon. argh. Ithink the permanent staff are so poor thing.

Anw, that aside. Today was one of the post doc's birthday!! :) and cheryl and I made jelly for him and the entire lab. HAHA. actually it wasnt especially for him but we just had the crazy idea if making an edible agarose gel using normal agar agar. haha. So we made this rectangular agar(with cocktail fruits in it) and cut wells in it, filling them with blue coloured 7-up as the fake" DNA samples". it's so cute! haha. and of course we made a normal peach agar agar too.So we went to work extra early today and made it in the pantry. People there were wondering what are these 2 girls doing with containers and spoons and canned fruits early in the morning in a pantry! ahha so embarassing. YAY! they liked it alot.:):) though that post doc still didnt believe that the "gel" is edible. He keep questioning if the blue thign was bromophenol blue. haha. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

2006-05-23T23:14:00.000+08:00

ankle.

hehe. updates on my ankle! haha. thanks for your concern ple! haha really appreciate it :) haha my ankle's fine! just abit swollen. Accordimg to meng i'll need to ice everyday. oops. i didnt. hehe. THANK YOU!:):)

2006-05-23T22:35:00.000+08:00

UNIVERSITY APPLICATION!

An hour ago, i came back from church and my mum decided to open the mailbox to check for THE letter. :S So we went to check the mailbox and guess wat? I saw a big brown thick envelope with NUS printed on it. IT is finally here. sigh. I don't know what to feel. I feel nothing. Excited? not really. nervous? maybe not also not quite. but just a okay-it's-here kind of feeling.

So i opened the envelope and it was written :

Congratulations! I am pease to offer you admission to the National University of Singapore(NUS) in academic year 2006-2007 for a course in:
PHARMACY...

I am not exactly sad or anything, maybe a little bit of dissapointment but I know that it is still part of His plan. :) BUT! it means that now i need to choose! sigh. here are my following choices.

choice #1:
Take pharmacy in NUS
Basically i'm fine with this and it's a direct honours course,but the Ntu offer seems quite attractive too. sigh. I don't really know what i'kk study there so it's time for me to read up!!! and wt, i;m stuck with you. haha not that i dont want la.

choice#2:
Take Biomed and Traditional Chinese medicine. It's a DOUBLE DEGREE!!! i want double degree :( but it's at NTU! sorry, but i'm biased against NTU. hehe. And it's still a new course, i'll be the second batch so i don't now what i'll be studying. Sounds risky.

Choice #3:
Appeal. If i choose this, i will have to think whether i want to appeal to medicine or dentistry and guess what, I DONT KNOW. (as usual). Should I? Will i be able to take back pharmacy if i do appeal? i need to find out.

Datelines:
Appealling for NUS is between 1 to 14 june.
Reply to NTU by 5 june.
Reply to NUS by 5 june.

Sigh. So many datelines so little time to decide!!!Today is 23. So i;ve got a week's time to decide. The decision seems so apparent to me but yet it is not. sigh. I'm undecided. But i really thank God that in times like this i am comforted knowing that He is still guiding and leading me. I need divine intervention. :) Shall pray about it and be submissive to Him :) I need to remember that He is my shepherd. The good Shepherd.:)

I am also thankful that He has blessed me with so many people who care about me. Thanks peep! for all the stuff you guys said. :) really appreciate it :) i'm touched :)

2006-05-23T01:51:00.000+08:00

liangying sent me a nice verse:

Show me your ways,
O lord, teach me your paths;
guide me in your truth and teach me,
for you are my God my saviour,
and my hope in you all day long
Psalms 45:4-5

even though i am uncertain about my future, i know it lies in His hands and I have hope in Him :) thanks, liangying!

2006-05-23T01:31:00.000+08:00

shimmie's pig trotters.

yay! my ankle's recovering! :) Anyway, according to fio, it's twisted , not sprained( though i don't know whats the difference. haha--guess twisted is less serious). Now, i can run, walk jump as usual but it's twice it's original size.hmm. i've got a weird ankle. It feels alright unless i turn it at a weird ankle then i'll feel the strain. But anyway, it's on it's road to recovery! :)

2006-05-21T22:55:00.000+08:00

Big mouth

There are some things that you just shouldn't say, it might just happen to you. This afternoon i went shopping for a message board with meng and lunch with xinyi and meng. At first it was just meng and i going to get message boards together(those cork ones which u can pin stuff up). Then we realised that Xinyi was going town too! So, on the bus we asked her to join us for lunch. We went yoshinoya for lunch and i ate some set meal on promotion.( their chawanmushi is not nice, it's tasteless).

Then on the bus ride back to church, i was telling meng that my ankles became strong after going through the periodic spraining in touch rugby. Then later in the afternoon, i went for sports, and guess what happened? I sprained my ankle. wow.Me and my big mouth. thank you.
I thought my ankle was quite ok since it had already been used to being twisted and tortured so i went shopping with my mum after that. But i think all that shopping aggravated it. Now it's swollen :( i should have iced it! ME AND MY BIG MOUTH.

2006-05-20T01:56:00.000+08:00

Da Vinci Code.

Hmm, the movie is out! but i hope people wont get misled by the movie. :( It's purely fictional!!!

there's this very cute link! go take a look! :)

http://www.syfc.org.sg/events/dvc/cinema.html

enjoy!

2006-05-20T01:38:00.000+08:00

ARGH..... now is the time to panic.

Today when i went online, boo shocked me with some really shocking news! ( really limited vocab eh?haha). THE NUS APPLICATION OUTCOME IS OUT! for him and wt at least.

Knowing that, I desperately wanted to log into my account to see what i got, but being really stressed up already, i suddenly forgot my pin no! So, i literally frantically rumaged through my files in search of my papers and eventually logged in.yay! So you would have thought that i finally saw the outcome right? NO! Being the usual computer idiot , and knowing how lousy i am with anything that deals with technology, i logged in and out afew times because i couldnt see my outcome and thought i went ot the wrong webby. haha. then when i calmed down abit, i finally saw sth. it says: PROCESSING APPLICATION. ie, the outcome is not out yet, for me at least. Boo says maybe it's bcoz they havent sent out the letter yet so i wont see it until i receive my letter. Meng says maybe it's bcoz they're still considering me and tubby said the same thing. but they all have the same conclusion, that is : i have to wait, longer.sigh.

Oh, but thanks guys(boo wt meng tubby)! For all the help.haha. thank you! =]

Anyway, whatever it is, I will accept whatever He plans for me. :) Lord, help me to be patient and strengthen my faith. I will trust in Him. I will. :)

2006-05-18T23:05:00.000+08:00

hello hello :)

I realised i havent been online for days. haha. For the past few day's i've been enjoying the luxury of 8 hrs of sleep per day! yay! :) after such a long break, it feels weird blogging again.It's like i know i've got stuff to say, but at the same time also nothing to say. sigh. Today was a chaotic day.sigh. So many thoughts in my mind that i dont knowwhat to say.

Guess i'll start with work then. I am thankful that work isnt that monotonous anymore! yay! :) tt's something to be happy about. haha. Really thank God about that:) . Some lof the lab biologists are leaving the lab soon so they were teaching the new lab biologist some things about cloning and those kind souls taught me abt it too! haha.. thank you so much! And i finally can do something different, other than protein work.:) So the last few days i was doing some new stuff like miniprep, maxiprep and PCR. :) Compared to protein work, cloning is so much more fun to do! :) OH, in case some of u are thinking in terms of stem cells kind of cloning, don't worry, it's not. It's more of cloning bacteria and bacteria plasmids. So it's not those contoversial stuff.

Here comes the chaotic part. During their lab meeting, all the permanent staff will have to go, except us students. So, somehow today, most of my colleagues decided to ask me to help them do some stuff. Each of them gave me 1 or 2 things to do and it added up to 4 or 5 tasks to be done at the same time. it was crazy! haha. i wonder how cheryl does it.:) And the phone kept ringing and no one seems to want to pick up the phone, so i had to answer too. Anyway, i made a grave mistake today. sigh. It's partly due to the chaotic situation and miscommunication. I think there's a serious problem about how i comprehend stuff.BUT! it is still MY FAULT.:( I feel so bad, cause my colleague was already very busy so she asked me to help her but i think i made it worse for her. sigh. But she took it quite ok, and insisted that it isnt so bad. I hope it isnt. But i'm glad that she wasnt very affected by it, at least not as bad as me. I guess i need to learn from her, of how she continues to be positive and trust in Him:) Well i should continue to pray about my absent mindedness and also pray for her.

I suddenly realised that i'll be ending work in the lab in 2 week's time! It's so soon!!! I'm a little happy that it's will be over but at the same time, i think i'll miss it alot.:( Maybe not so much about the expriments and stuff, though it's also quite fun, but mainly the people there! In the past 3 and a half months, i've met so many people there, so many really friendly and warm people. I will miss them alot alot alot.sigh. I;ve made so many friends there!! There's the either-irritating-or-dead student who's at the same bench as me, and this v sweet girl ,cheryl,(whom i always go home with), and also my look-alike "sister"from another lab. haha. And of course there are the perm staff . I don't want to leave my friends. :( Should i extend my attachment? sigh.

On the way home today, i met my secondary school friend whom i havent seen for ages! haha. it's such a nice surprise:) and i;m happy to know that she's doing fine. :)

2006-05-14T23:11:00.000+08:00

waiting with faith..

Today's Mothers' day! :) I went to my grandma's house to celebrate it with her and with all the aunts :) there was such alot of food! and we almost had a pizza party or something cause two of my aunts and uncles called pizza..haha.So we had New York pizza and Canadian pizza.:) yum. And of course there were are food like my grandma's roast chicken, ribs, pork knucles, and finger foods. High protein diet! haha.Oh and we had strawberry strudel, durian strudel and hazelnut mouse cake! yummy! haha. sinful stuff.

Then as usual we'll be mingling around but besides the usual stuff, they asked about my interview too. My aunt asked if i was more confident to get dentistry or medicine, but i told her i have none for both. :( sigh. I was reminded of my interviews again.

In today's qt, there was an interesting story:

A midwestern town was suffering under a searing drought. All the townspeople decided to gather the clergy and assemble for a prayer. The whole town turned out to pray but there was only one person, a little girl, who brought an umbrella.

I realised that sometimes i pray about something but don;t have enough faith to believe it's really going to happen. Lord, strenghthen my faith. I want to be that little girl. Though now it seems that i don't know where i will be going and what i will be studying but i thank God that He is in control and He will guide me and lead me through everything. :) He is my good shepherd and He Knows me best. Help me to be still and know that You are God .

2006-05-13T00:54:00.000+08:00

Midnight snacking.

I realised that cookies are one of the most sinful snack to have at night. And how did i discover that? I tried it myself. I'm regreting it alr! :( haha

I always thought that subway is healthy, but now i think only the subs are healthy, the cookies, are afterall still cookies, which makes them equally sinful as any other cookies lying around. I feel cheated. haha.

Anw, i toasted my cookie coz i wanted it to become more crispy( wait, tt's not the word but u get the idea la..) and silly me didnt wait for the cookie to cool before i moved it unto a plate. So in the end the cookie broke into many many pieces and i had mini oatmeal raisin cookies instead. ( shows how experienced i am in baking huh?)But anyway, the mainpoint is that the whole kitchen towel under the cookie was soaked in oil! eeewww... tink the cookie absorbed oil like a sponge or sth. fattening. but it;d still nice :)

2006-05-13T00:07:00.000+08:00

Solitude ...

Today i went shopping with wt and sok! yay! :) and burned a hole in my pocket(boo:( ). Sigh,the ill effects of retail therapy. haha. OHH, by the way i bought 2 pairs of earrings and a wallet! yay! :) and i settled the 2nd part of the mothers' day gift :):) happy! fruitful shopping ! oh and i would like to add that most of the shopping was done when i was alone, by me , myself and i. haha,And why is that so? Cause dear wenting abandoned me for her band friends and dear sok ee abandoned me for her darling cal! (tt's ok :)) haha but anyway, i did shopping on my own for the first time! yay!wt insist that it's time i grow up and learn to eat and shop by myself. :)

Oh, speaking of wt, that irritating girl grabbed my hand and refused to let me get down the train when i reached cityhall interchange! and i had to miss my stop and take the train back to cityhall. Evil wt! argh...haha

okies, so i spent my evening being a loner shopping at suntec city/marina square/rafflescity, combing every corner for the stuff i need to buy. haha. I think it was quite odd to walk around with my earphone on, listening to music but there isnt anyone to talk to anyway. haha.so nevermind! :)Hmm, i realised shopping alone is alot more efficient! but the problem is there's no one to discuss stuff with:(

oh oh oh...and i met this very funny shop keeper at citylink. I was buying this book from the store, then i went to pay for it. so this was what happened:

me: hi, can i have this please? thx :)
him:okies sure( proceeds to scan it in the cash register)
it will be $xx.xx
me:(hands over the money)
him: thank you.
me: (waits for the book)
him: (looks at me with a blur face)
Me: can i have my book please?
him: oh, i'm sorry here you go.

Hmm..poor chap, must have had such a tiring day, his brain totally can't function alr. haha. but i tink i'll have alot more of this kinda thing happening of if i work as shopkeeper. haha.funny, i almost bought an invisible non-existent book! haha.it'll be hilarious if i forgot abt my book and jus walked out.HAHA then i'll jus be donating money to tt shop. haha.coz sometimes i do forget. heehee

As for dinner, i went subway at rafflescity to eat alone, and i didnt get a seat:( how sad am i. But in the end it was ok! coz i had my spicy italian sub by that fountain thingy at basement of rafflescity. haha. it was ok except tt i was facing the carpark, not the fountain.haha.silly me. And spicy italian was nice too! i ove subway.:)

In conclusion, shopping alone isnt that bad afterall! haha but i'd still prefer some company though :) mastered the art of shopping alone, i'm so proud of myself.

2006-05-12T23:50:00.000+08:00

Quiet time

Today's quiet time has a passage from the book of Esther. They the author of the qt material talked about how people always blame the negative experiences to bad luck and attribute positive experiences to hard work, but actually God at work behind the scenes. God puts us into difficult situations to hasten our spiritual growth and learn things. It is only through all the trials that we can be shaped by him to have christ-like characters. =] Then i realised something.i was getting complacent at work and things started to go wrong. Maybe He wanted to tell me to wake up, time to be more serious at work and not take things for granted. oops. haha. And at lab meeting Boss asked about how the student assistants were doing( that includes me) and my lab people said we're doing fine. haha.they're jus such nice ple :) I feel bad.

2006-05-12T01:47:00.000+08:00

I'm so tired...my eyes are popping out soon :(

2006-05-12T01:28:00.000+08:00

SETTLER'S CAFE :)

yay! today i finally went to settler's cafe! :) and i also settled part of my mother's day present at the florist at holland Village. they've got such pretty flowers!!! and flowers make people happy.:)

Today i was at settler's cafe with fio, meng and jing. It was really fun, and we were basically just going mad over there. HAHA. we played: Apples to apples( btw i jus ate an apple...yum :)), this game abt planting beans and slamwich! haha
CAUTION! slamwich is a highly addictive and tiring game! Side effects are sore throat from screaming and a sore palm from slaming the table.( or in fio's case, the whole hand is sore coz we kept hitting it.hehe) And for people like me with super slow reaction, i just kept losing cards to the rest and practically survived on charity from the other 3 . They generously gave me protions and portions of their card so that poor yuan tying can go on playing:) thanks peeps! :):):) love ya!
OH and apples to apples was jus really lame lar...but it's fun! haha...GROUND JUICE! hahahaha..oh man...i cant believe it.
As for the beans game, i cant really remember what the exact name was, haha...but it was fun too! tho i didnt really noe what was going on a first...haha.

after the exciting dinner, we went home and met tiff on our way home! haha. Today was a fuin and exciting day! YAY! haha...somehow this sounds like those primary school journals that we're forced to write...hehe.. i'm stuck at primary school level writing.:( mengsy, u can grade it for me then...haha

2006-05-11T01:05:00.000+08:00

class blog.

the class blog is mad! especially with wt and I constantly changing each other's entries. ahha. oops :) anw, word of warning:

DO NOT BELIEVE ANYTHING WRITTEN BY ME OR WT ABOUT EITHER OF US AND A GUY. it's purely FICTION without a single bit of truth! REALLY. :)

haha. And i wanna say sorry guys! Dragged you both into our immature game! haha. They must be so embarassed and shy noe tt they just wish that they can hide in the mountains forever or something. HAHA. sorry! At least people know that everything we blogged about isn't true coz it's most likely been altered by the other party before. haha.

This is silly. I'm paranoid. haha.I'm checked the blog for over 5 times today already!CRAZY! And my colleague saw the entry when i used the comp in the lab. This is not good. I'm dead. :S

2006-05-09T23:41:00.000+08:00

booooooooooooooooooo!

I'm looking forward to thursday, because it's 4 day week this week! yay! I jus looooove holidays :)2 more days!

Things are getting quite monotonous at work.I do almost the same stuff everyday. Run gel. cast gel.harvest cells. run gel. again.sigh. I can't imagine doing the rest of my life if i venture into research. It's kind of boring, especially when i have no idea what i am doin and why i am doing it, to get what kind of results.And when the experiment doesn't work out, it gets quite depressing. Today i had a funny blot again. sigh. Weird things always happen to me. I know whats the problem. ME. my poor mentor, he'd probably survive better without me. He's an extremely nice person, and i thank God for that :) :)

Sometimes i really feel that my mentor is too nice and he is always bullied by the boss.The people in my lab are feeling quite low nowadays. Seems like the 'battle' between them and our boss is getting tougher each day and they just get more and more depressed and lose the motivation to pursue their interest. It's really a pity seeing people like my mentor, who are really good scientists, giving up their passion because they met a lousy boss.Most of my lab people are christians but many have stopped going to church. :( I think it's partly because boss expects them to work on Sundays too, though it's really not a valid reason for not going church. Now, most of them are feeling quite fed up and they feel like they have no hope in life. ( yes, it seems to be that serious.)My mentor used to come in for work at 8am but go home at 12 midnight. His work hours are crazy! Now that he is fed up with the boss, he sort of shortened his wrking hrs to 12 hrs per day, which is still alot. And the amazing thing is that they come back on weekends and PUBLIC HOLIDAYS too. And boss comes in to patrol around the lab 3 times a day to check on people. Sometimes my mentor will get called into hos office 2 or 3 times a day and it gets quite irritating. If you want your people to produce results for you, you should at least let them do their work in peace instead of keep interrupting them for no reason. And it's not like they are not producing results. There's an air of unhappiness in the lab and the only thing i can do is to pray for them, and the boss.I'll keep praying. =]I know God will have a plan for them, in His time.

I want a new blog skin

2006-05-08T00:11:00.000+08:00

late nite snacks :(

I'm a pig!I've been eating loads and loads of icecream recently. Everyday is an ice cream day.haha.yay! for me but boo! for my weight. haha. Guess what? I'm eating bread now, yes, at this hour when i'm gonna sleep soon, when i am actually not hungry at all! haha.And i need to exercise, feeling so unfit from lacking exercise, but there's too much inertia for me to go run.sigh. garfield syndrome.

oh today we had cdg at westmall :) haha..today was an all girls team! haha. nuns! :) and i had my hersheys sundae pie! yum :) i'm such a glutton. And earlier on before the meeting started we had our little 'mystery' to solve. I think we're being a bit too imaginative or we're still stuck in the game murder 21.haha.anw,It was the first meeting where juano joined us! hhaa..and we discussed on the first 10 chapters of corinthians and got confused by the marriage part..oops...haha. We shall go find out. =]

A nice verse to be reminded of :
'Everything is permissible for me'--
but not everything is beneficial.
'Everthing is permissible for me'--
but i will not be mastered by anything.
1 Corinthians 6:12

It's not fair! tomorrow grace will have her day off!! but i don't!!! :( i want off day too. haha.
okies. it's late already. nites! :) i want to slack.

2006-05-06T00:45:00.000+08:00

HAPPY DAY!

yay! today was such a happy day! :) oh, by the way it's already yesterday since it's past midnight. MY GEL FINALLY WORKED!!! so so so happy:):):)

Today, after work, we had a lab outing, haha.We went to marina for steamboat and it was the first time i was there .hehe.the food was nice!! yum:) but so sad, i forgot to bring a camera:(

okies, i;m lazy. so thats all! haha

2006-05-05T01:13:00.000+08:00

hahaa...i'm feeling very hardworking today! haha. three entries in a day!! wow, it's a record!
anyway, today during lunch, i went over tiffany's house to have lunch with tiff and fio!
haha. I'm happy! i havent seen tiff for ages!!! Anw we had marcaroni and cheese, which fio anf tiff cooked together. I'm so sorry for letting you guys wait for so long! because of my gels and blots which didnt turn out right.
Then we had ben and jerry's for dessert! yay! ice cream is a happy food! it makes people happy! and fio ws totally high after eating it. :) i wanna eat ice cream everyday! but it will make me fat :(

Oh, and today i went blog visiting! and i saw the CG blog!!! so cool! :) haha think i should go sleep already. or else i'll stone at work tomorrow :(

2006-05-05T00:54:00.000+08:00

Work= Western + cast gels

Okies, that basically roughly sums what ilve been doing all these while. Okay, there are other stuff like mini preps and cell harvesting and stuff but casting gel and this technique called western blot is what i always do , without fail, rain or shine. it seems like my life revolve around them.

Ok, so it is logical to say that after casting almost a hundred gels and developing them for Western blots, i should be quite good at it right? but NO! recently my gels and blots have been giving me lots of problems!!!
I dont know why funny stuff always happens to me. Last time was the eppendorf tube cracking for no apparent reason, resulting in me losing my sample. Now, new stuff happens! I keep casting weird gels which have funny shapes! and my blots are terrible! one minute the signal is too weak and when i used a stronger detector which shd give me a stronger signal, the signal totally dissapeared!!! WHY WHY WHYYEEE? this is so odd! and today i tried casting the gel over and over again and it didnt work! i did it three times today! It isnt so bad when you cast and get your prettu gel but today i casted 3 times and because it wasnt good so i have to throw away and cast! so it means i have to disassemble the apparatus, scrap away the gel, wash the plates with soap and dry it, clean with ethanol, and assemble it and lastly make the solution again!Not to mention to pour it.

Work is getting quite monotonous, especially when I dont know whats the rationale behind all these things i;m doing. I want to ask my metor! But he's jus too busy with his work. Sometimes i feel that he is guqite unlucky to get me as his student. Poor guy! i'm so sorry.

But it's really amazing how i got the job. :) I just sent them an email and they took me! yay! without any interviews! I guess it's God's grace and i really need to be thankful for that, Cause i know people who applied but wasnt given the job coz they dont need people already.

So, overall, i;m still happy with my job. :) and my friend say i look v happy there, haha...maybe i am! :) but i really ho[e i can find out what's wrong with my gel and blots. :( haha

2006-05-05T00:14:00.000+08:00

boo!
after resting for one day i've finally got over the trauma of the INTERVIEW!!
Firstly, i want to say that it is NOT a good idea to have Three INTERVIEWS in a row!! especially when the interviewers are out to GRILL you! it's really traumatising! :S and for all you people out there who have upcoming interview please please reschedule if the schedule is tight! :)

Okies, let me see...hmm...shall start with dentistry first! So, yesterday i went down to the faculty of dentistry in NUH early in the morning and went for my forst interview! Point one, i think i wasnt really very awake. Point two, i have zrero preparedness! so, you can expect the outcome, i dont really need to elaborate on how disastrous it was. But the shocking thing was i didnt prepare myself for the most obvious question that thay will ask: WHAT SETS YOU APART FROM THE REST OF THE CANDIDATES? it was qiite duh that they will ask but yet i didnt prepare for it! what was i thinking?

Ok, so after the dentistry inetrview i supposedly had an hour's break before my next grilling session for med faculty. So i happily( or not so happily) made my way to NUS Yong Loo Lin sch of Medicine to take my interview. But! Situation number 2: i reached there too early and was requested to take the slot before mine because the previous candidate isnt here yet! so being traumatised my the previous interview and almost brain dead, i got called in for the interview.

Now, we've come to the first round of medicine interview. I went in and greeted the interviewers, ie 3 professors.
For the first prof, this was the dialogue:

Prof: So, can you tell me the name of the school?
Me: Yong Loo Lin School of medicine
Prof: So, tell me,who's Yong Loo Lin?
Me: ??? er...........
I;m not too sure but i'll guess that it's the founder?
Prof: Dont guess! nvm, then which aniversary is the school celebrating now?
Me: Um....so rry, I dont know
Prof: then what's the dean;s name?
Me: er.....
Prof: So you've come to an interview without knowing a single thing about our school?
Me: [still stumped]
Prof: then what did you see when u came into the building?

and then again i didnt pay much attention to the building because i was sooo super nervous and traumatised my the dentistry people!and more questions which i shant mention here to bore you:) but the thing is that i actually read about the school befoe but as usual i forgot about it!oh and later he asked about when do the med students study paediatrics which i read abotu and forgot again:(

And the second prof asked me about the healthcare issue in the elections and me, being an uninformed cartton watching couch potato who doesnt watch the news, didnt know what she was asking! and sigh

The third prof was the nicer one and asked about working woman and compassion. I like her! think she probably sympathised with me and decided to let me off (THANKEW!)

Then, i had the round 2 interview for medicine! This time it was 2 medical personnels, doctors medical students or nurses. Think i got 2 Doctors. By now, i was already having the bochup feeling, after 2 sessions of grilling. But it turned out relatively ok :) Oh and they are the nicest interviewers for the day! I LOVE THEM =] but the funny thing was, they found my CCA funny, whyee? it's just a normal sport.

OK, so that was how my interview went! HORRIBLE! because half the time i was trying to recover from shock and didnt even reply properly! And for the rest of the day i kept thinking about the terrifying experience and my ppor friends had to hera me go on ranting about it! THANK YOU for listening! (especially cheryl-- the poor girl had to listen to me talk through the entire lunch! I'm so sorry!)

So after spending one entire day thinking about it, I am fine alr! finally got it out of my head :)
People keep telling me that maybe it was'nt as bad as it looked. Maybe, I hope so! But, right now i'm just thankful that it's over! I;m free! yay!!!! and I pray that whatever outcome there is, i will be able to accept it. He who noes me best will have the best plans for me! :)

As for those who are having their interviews, JIAYOU! and all the best

2006-04-30T00:01:00.000+08:00

hello!
Today i my friend said my blog was interesting! yay! but wait, here's the crux , it's because i had HER NAME in it!! how humble of her! haha. oops. JUST KIDDING :)

Okies, so today i shall have a special entry! dedicated to my dear friend TING 2,
here goes(takes a long deep breath) :

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Okies, i'm done! btw, her name is W**ting. yup! :)

2006-04-29T03:07:00.000+08:00

Previously, about a week ago , or is was it two weeks agO? nevermind, sometime ago, i suddenly realised i missed school alot alot. There was one day I was watching tv at night, and suddenly felt like schooling again! and i missed it so much that i went on msn and talked to my friend (ting 2)about it.haha..then we started reminiscing about how school was like! Sounds as if we're already in our 60s or something. GASP! premature aging!

Then we realised we missed everything about school!! about our class, our teachers, our class bench and so on. And we even missed lectures and tutorials!! haha. And i missed my touch rugby training and miss complaining about having training and thinking of whether to pon training. haha.And going out with friends before training! ahah and strangely PW didnt seem that bad afterall! haa..I had a super nice group! :) happy! I miss my brown uniform!

Hmm..Uni life will be quite a different experience. New people, new environment, and it seems like it won;t feel like schooling again! sigh. but i guess it will be a good experience anyway. haha. No point keep looking back and wishing that i can re-live JC life again..haha. But, meanwhile i should concentrate on preparing for my interviews! Must mug hard! haha and i hope it works! I'm not really sure of whether i can handle the course that i want or not, but I guess if it's God's will then He will give me strength to do it! :) stretch my limits..haha. For the time being i shall try to clear my interviews first and pray that i will accept what He has planned for me!I must remember to trust in Him!

Shepherd of my soul, I give you full control.
Wherever you may lead, I will follow.
I have made the choice to listen for your voice,
Wherever you may lead, I will go

2006-04-29T02:49:00.000+08:00

ahem ahem!
I realised it's time to liven up this blog after an almost 4 mth's break.haha.Time to do some writing!

Hmm.. Uni application is so irritating! there's all those portfolios and stuff to do that seems quite easy but yet quite cumbersome too. Today i was getting my reference letter from my colleague then i realised that i need her signature too, luckily i caught her before she left for her course. haha...yay! and i finally submitted my portfolio for dentistry:)

i realised that the dexterity test was quite fun! it was more of an arts and crafts lesson. haha and i love my plastercine molar! I'm proud of it.By the way, the manual dexterity test had three components, to mould plastercine into the shape of a molar, bend wires into funny curly wurly shapes and to cut , or rather, carve, the plaster of paris. The plaster of paris is rock hard and i got a muscle ache from trying to saw it into the required shape! I can't believe it..shows hopw FIT i am huh?

Anyway, today i had an ok day at work but something really odd happened. I was centrifuging my samples when one of the eppendorf tubes suddenly cracked and broke!:( and my sample was gone!!! I was so depressed. sigh. But i managed to salvage by trying to get from the spilage in the centrifuge and hopefully it wouldnt be too contaminated! (keeping my fingers crossed!) and then earlier i almost overran my colleagues gel! sigh. i feel so bad! but luckily i didnt really destrynhis entire experiment because his bands are still there. WHEW..i got the shock of my life when it started beeping!!

In today's cell, the theme was about stretching to the limits. then there was this whole lot abt comparing life, or rather spiritual growth, to a rubberband. haha..I'm glad i went. It was nice talking to the people in my group and it ended my day well..haha.was quite disturbed over the encounter i had at work.haha.I'm happy!

2006-01-07T14:04:00.002+08:00

I love Narnia! :) :) :)

2006-01-07T14:04:00.001+08:00

I love Narnia! :) :) :)

2006-01-07T13:40:00.000+08:00

Lalala...

argh! my com hanged when i was going to post the entry!! :(

Hmm....seems like everyone else are applying to overseas uni except me.
I've got this feeling that i've missed out something. I suddenly feel like applying too!
Don't know why i feel this way...i've never really wanted to go overseas to study...maybe I just want to follow the crowd. haha. Perhaps it's only an impulsive thought. at least i think it is.
maybe it's because i've read too many blogs of people who went overseas to study. And my seniors went to tour Europe during holidays!! I also want to!
but it's too late already...applications are closing and i fact most of them are closed already...
so nevermind... there's nothing i can do anyway :)

Right now i just want to finish driving lessons!and i realise the course is really expensive.haha.
just passed my basic theory evaluation today..YAY! :) i'm happy! :D

2006-01-07T13:15:00.000+08:00

idling away...

hmm...
starting to get wat they meant when they say
"U'll get tired of slacking after awhile"
I wanna do something useful! i really really want to!
Hope i'll get what i applied for :) really really hope to.
This kind of feeling is really odd...like you are in the middle of nowhere,
dunno whats in front of you, don't hnow whats going to happen next.

But then again, Knowing that He is with me and He will lead me through everything just gives me this peace in my heart :) Maybe I should just treasure this kind of nothing-to-do kind of life and put it to a good use:)

Thank you lord, I know that you are with me, therefore I am not afraid.

2006-01-07T13:11:00.000+08:00

Ecclesiastes 3:1-11

A Time for Everything
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven:
a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,
a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build,
a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,
a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain,
a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away,
a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak,
a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.
What does the worker gain from his toil?
I have seen the burden God has laid on men.
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.