Sunday, November 18, 2007

why do we never use DNA fingerprinting to identify your mum?

in the notes its always paternity testing.. i don't remember seeing maternity testing except in my answers. today i figured out why we dun use DNA fingerprinting for maternity testing. cos all kids belonging to this mum will have the same mitochondrial DNA! intracellular organelles are inherited from the mother and the father only contributes the nuclear DNA. so if your mitochondrial DNA is exactly the same as this woman, it probably confirms that she's your mum.. or maybe grandmum. haha

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Liberation!

haha! with gp gone half my troubles were gone. with econs gone all my troubles are gone! now theres only one chem and 2 bio left... that should be pretty smooth sailing and alright.. and after that SATs. A level taking so long to finish...
i decided science A level super easy. prelims set so difficult scare us only. but arts A level very difficult. prelim and A level same standard.. so if you dunno what subject to take, just take science. its the safest. the opp cost is that u may find along the way you quite like arts subjects and you don't get to study something you like. BUT whatever it is, you still can get very safe 5A, without that much effort (i think) econs interesting but 读到要死 X_X so thus ends my 2 years of econs education lols
bio! chiong!

Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Wine appreciation

I'm amused. My dad loves wine. He has his own 9x2 rack for his wines. But he's the only one who drinks wine in the house. and wine is something you can only really enjoy when you have fellow wine drinking mates. unlike how u can go down beer when you're feeling lonely or just feel like destroying yourself. And because he takes quite a wide range of medicine it isn't very good for him to stress his liver out by drinking excessive alcohol. so my mum always asks us to "help him" drink so that he will have less to drink.. my mum herself isn't one who really likes to drink wine either and she'll ask to drink so my dad takes less.. today my dad got a friend to come over so that he'll have someone to drink with. lol someone who's drinking cos he's willing to drink. so for a first time in a long time he isnt drinking almost an entire bottle by himself.. lol

Friday, October 26, 2007

Wonder Kids

I've been made to read the newspapers daily. and i've been conscientious..
yesterday (looking at the time now, 2 days ago would prolly be the more correct term), there was this article, actually 2 articles one in the main section and one in the home section, about this family of wonder kids who have done so many o level subjects aceing every subject, and all of them are "underage" - 12 and 14. and i thought ok these are damn smart people and they really got it in the genes man.. until i read more and felt damn cheated. dunno whether to feel i wish i made a cleverer choice and figured out all my alternatives, or to feel happy that i'm proving myself as a better student.. either way i believe most people will compare themselves with these so called wonder kids if you read the article..
so anyway. the o levels and a levels that they take are not the ones administered by SEAB-Cambridge (the ones that a large bunch of us sit for and slog our brains out for) but by British Council and London Edexcel (that I think usually the international students take..). and if i didnt get my facts wrong, SEAB-Cambridge version is more challenging?.. While the International exams administered at British Council and London Edexcel are less difficult compared to the ones set by SEAB. SEAB-Cambridge means SEAB sets papers while Cambridge marks. I dont know to what extent the 2 papers differ in difficulty though, cos I havent sat down to compare or gone to find out the nitty details about the level of difficulty. but even their parents say that most singapore students should be able to take the other exam and pass with soaring colours. may be taken as humble comment but i think it is quite true too.. so i'm sorta wondering why so many people are being put through the damn difficult SEAB test, and so many people struggle so much to get into JC and with all the through trains its even more difficult for non-train-takers to get into the top jcs, when these struggling people could have a better life taking international exams and going somewhere else for an education, maybe starting university earlier, getting out to work earlier, retiring earlier.. well i guess maybe some people don't have much choice.. especially when going overseas costs a bomb cos of all the travelling and living expenses. so stress your mind out to keep education costs low. the only consolation that i can find is that an A in Singapore 'A' Levels gives you more credits when you go to college/uni than an A in International 'A' Levels. Thats true for maths..8 credits compared to 4 i think. but the other subjects, I think the credits given are the same, most don't make a distinction between Singapore exams and International exams also.
so which is better..I have no idea. when u you have SEAB setting, maybe your students know the scope of testing better and know the marking schemes better and you are perhaps expected to do better. but Cambridge international papers are done by people all over the world so shouldnt they be more flexible in marking? (the way the A levels curriculum is structured, you can ace most subjects by purely memorising key words.., and sometimes it is super frustrating when different key words come up for the same question and at the end of the day, you aren't awarded the marks cos you don't have the key term -.-) and if Singapore sets difficult questions, does Cambridge mark more stringently too?.. maybe one day i will infiltrate the exam boards and figure all these out. I cant figure out rationally who is at the losing end, but I have a feeling students put through the singapore exams are those at the losing end.
and the article comes at a horrible time. at a time like this, with a levels and o levels just a week away, such a reminder that there are alternative easier paths can really make some feel so cheated. and you think of having to compete against these other people with straight As in intl exams that are set more easily.. at a university the disparity in the grades can really make an impression..
oh wells. press on. i'm not worried that i'm not going to make it to university or that i won't be able to do well for a levels.. these a level period is going to pass very quickly and before I know it even prom will be over. so yea keep working hard.. i just happen to be someone who likes to keep looking back to see if I had made the right choices (if i made a choice in the first place) even though I cant change what's done.. lol

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Sounds of the Forest

you hear the sound of twigs branches breaking, you can almost hear the heaviness of the entire branch, you hear some tearing of the bark of the tree, and then you hear a loud rustle of leaves. soft landing

Sunday, October 21, 2007

I've learnt. that when u feel u're damn lousy at doing sth, it demoralises u more when u put in so much effort, yet still do lousily. and then u haf not the faintest idea how to go about making things better.damn.

Friday, October 19, 2007

I've been weary. not from mugging i think. but a wrong book that landed in my hands at the wrong time. i totally shouldnt be reading storybooks now when i should be mugging. And i dun feel like i've gotten very far with my mugging and its bothering me cos i dun even feel panic coming yet.

this book is beyond painful. there's so much pain hurt and love in between its pages. but the writer is so good she makes me wanna read on. (and in a way i want it to end quickly) i think the emotional roller coaster i get reading it at night is making me tired. and i really don't feel like reading it le. i've gotten tired of the pain, before the narrator has come to a point where she cant take it anymore. and yet i feel that i'm not quite feeling what the narrator feels yet. i skipped to the ending. i think i like the ending - an act of so much courage and conviction.
we are always most deeply hurt by those we deeply love.

Sunday, October 07, 2007

another IQ question =)

this is a question justina asked me. quite funky. do without a paper and pen, just ur brains and if u wish, ur fingers. lol
there are 10 people in a room. the first person knows 1 person, 2nd person knows 2 people, 3rd person knows 3...9th person knows 9 people. how many people does that 10th person know? to say that first person knows the second person is to say that the second person knows the first person. its like a handshaking question. if 1 shakes hand with 2 then 2 shakes hand with 1. yeps.
the 10th person knows 5 people =)

Saturday, October 06, 2007

eye candy

A toast to chem! =P

iodine in hexane!

BUGSgalore!
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the oh so chio butterfly and the huge bee was encountered at ubin =) the other huge bug was encountered on my curtain..someone identify that bug please?...

ubintrip!

we were sitting at the beach waiting for everyone to come. mich and i were there waiting for everyone to come.. since morning.. until lunchtime..

er dun ask me what exactly was I taking.. this picture no focus de lols. we're at the chek jawa house.


i was trying to take the periwinkles but i guess i estimated my distance badly..

from some rock near the house

heres where we walked into the sea

can you spot the school of fish?

that school of fish is swimming parallel to the shore now... sigh my cam is quite lousy..

that lone tree.. that only looks blur on my phone after zooming..

someone said these are fiddler crabs, they have one big pincer and one small one. and they make a lot of holes. the sun was so hot. i'd be underground if i were one of them

the nipah fruit. right in the middle.

the avicennia roots..

we were told to stop to look at this view haha..there were ducks in there.. but the tree right in the foreground here blocked them..

my phone really aint that good. from up here, the quarry waters were cerulean blue. it was damn chio.. which off course u cant quite see in this picture..



encouragement to do better for econs

Sunday, September 23, 2007

post Prelims *joy*

Blogging on this laptop is going to be a bit of a challenge, since the internet barely lasts 5 minutes before it disconnects, but i'll try anyway..

post prelims has been beyond joyous.. 有一种被释放的感觉 feels damn great

sister clan outing on friday! planned on thursday, i was so pleased and happy the night before that i wasn't in the mood to mug anymore (and i hope all goes well for chem mcq haha) klunch during lunch time and ratatouille at 2! ended at 4 but chem already felt like damn long ago. my wondrous sisters went kbox wif me even tho i hogged the mic most of the time =p and we still failed to make siok sing in the mic.. (at least i knew she was singing along) and we had so much fun banging our heads to hoobastank's the reason LOL while lincoln pretended he was on the electric guitar in FIR's Lydia. did wu ding with jiahui, where lincoln told him to just scream the top notes lol and justina wondering why cannot hear herself in the mic only to realise she didnt switch on the mic haha =D the whole world went to watch ratatouille yesterday. everybody catching it since prelims finally finish and heng they still showing ratatouille. its a damn cool show.. super cute! sad emily couldnt come. i bet the whole theatre heard my laughter. good lesson to teach people to dare to dream, dare to be different, dare to try new stuffs, and to be yourself. Now if i could just figure out what "myself" is to me.. enjoyable day indeed, i slept till 8, had a very filling dinner..

ubin outing! wah this is the first time my mum and dad allowed me to ubin. i been asking to go ubin since sec 3 after OBS, when jeanette would ask me to go with her. yesterday was the first time i went ubin on a non school organised event and i think it rocked. woke up so early in the morning, must be cos i'm getting used to early mornings haha. michelle and i were the only ones who reached on time.. everyone else was late. so michelle and i sat by the beach and waited as the day passed and the planes flew in. by the time everyone who's supposed to turn up turned up, we were ready for lunch haha cycled to chek jawa, it was low tide when we reached.. about 1+metres. not the lowest tide so not that much to see. we went to this rocky place near the visitor centre where we walked in the shallow water and took nice pictures.. walked the boardwalk, didnt manage to see the sandbank cos the tide wasnt low enough. but we did see some schools of fish. huge schools of fish that we decided were neater than army lol. we saw small fiddler crabs orange and white, those with one huge pincer and one small one. heard birds but didnt really spot any. the weather was too hot for birds to come out. climbed to the top of the viewing tower where i felt truly roasted. there was this tall tree that was quite nice for birds to perch but only a few small birds were there, probably swallows. and below was a mass of nipah palm. almost like a plantation, not for its neatness but cos there was so many of them. the usual lobster crab mounds with no lobster crabs cos its so darn hot. cycled back and met this father who brought his son to chek jawa. they were both on their own bikes and the little one looked kinda tired at having to cycle for so long. haha press on! i hope he had a fun time with those slopes lol. we went back to jelutong campsite for btc, and up a quarry. the quarry water was so blue so pretty =) pity i cant upload pictures cos this laptop is kinda old and doesn't have bluetooth. came home with red cheeks and red nose. never felt so red in a long time. i cant remember the last time i was even mildly sunburnt. suddenly feel healthy. like in the pink of health haha. otherwise usually see myself in the mirror with my usual green face =p haha this is damn fun =))

Saturday, September 08, 2007

不能说的秘密

  冷咖啡离开了杯垫 我忍住的情绪在很后面
  拼命想挽回的从前 在我脸上依旧清晰可见
  最美的不是下雨天 是曾与你躲过雨的屋檐
  回忆的画面 在荡着秋千 梦开始不甜
  你说把爱渐渐 放下会走更远
  又何必去改变 已错过的时间
  妳用妳的指尖 阻止我说再见
  想象你在身边 在完全失去之前
  你说把爱渐渐 放下会走更远
  或许命运的签 只让我们遇见
  只让我们相恋 这一季的秋天
  飘落后才发现 这幸福的碎片 要我怎么捡
stuck on this =)

Friday, August 31, 2007

inspired

"Dance is life."-Pierre Dulaine

Will u dance with me?

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

如今此刻的我的确是有一点疲倦

like how a kid with itchy fingers like to pick at scabs, peel them before its done healing, and let it bleed some more, and then cry out that it hurts.

time to mug

Friday, August 24, 2007

Steve Jobs said

Live everyday like its your last day. Look into the mirror and ask yourself, if today were the last day of your life, will you be doing what you plan to do?

I think this is the wrong time to be thinking about this, but don't think I'm getting uninspired.. just wondering. this week a number of friends tell me how they have so many things they wanna do after A levels, and we just cant wait for this 2 months to go away. Some wanna drive, go overseas, play carefreely.. I can't wait to resume dance (i feel all the fats accumulating and snowballing already!), go teach at Discovery Camps (oh the adorable kids..) again, and finally go on an overseas CIP.. I think honestly if I were to spend today doing what I wanted to do most before I die, it probably won't be sitting at home/in library/in the canteen/in classrooms/on the couch (trying) to mug. Maybe a lot of people have this kind of sentiments now cos they're getting quite tired of mega mugging madness for the last term. Having people around you that draw up study calendars since the beginning of term 4, or half the class missing in tutorials and lectures (and almost no doubt sitting in library mugging) can be quite stressful.. I'm hoping that I can take it slow, for after prelims there's still A levels. Prelims is not the end, theres still that last lap that I don't wanna run out of breath for. From now it'll probably be very focused mugging. am pleased to say I'm ready for it. (still wanna watch mimi..) here's to a month of full time mugging. I think after today I can finally sit down and mug the whole day without thinking what's teachers going through tomorrow.. cheers. and for now, I guess Steve Jobs' advice shall be thrown out the window, and stay down there for a while, until we go retrieve it again after A levels.. We save everything for after A levels..

On a completely random note, last night rained so heavily that I felt the atmosphere was so thoroughly cleansed after that downpour. (and so was I, literally feeling like a chicken in soup when I got home, soaked through and through!) The night sky was cloudless, blacker than I've ever seen, the moon shone so brightly and the stars were shimmering. (Yes I actually saw quite a lot of stars quite clearly). I sat in my living room reading notes while enjoying the cooling winds of the night coming in through my balcony. And then the most horrible thing spoilt the night, smell of cigarette smoke wafting in.. Grr.. Who needs cigarettes on such beautiful refreshing nights like this?!

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

joyous occasion! =D

i'm finally getting my phone back!!! hurrah!! =D=D

Saturday, August 18, 2007

Saturday.

Mega Mugging Madness. I wanted to blog about this yesterday. but had to leave for fireworks by the time I remembered to sign into blogger lol. Our J1s this year quite sweet, don't think councillors in our year were that enthu.. probably would have shot down the idea immediately. so really kudos to the j1s who thought of this idea, who defended it and those who saw in through. it was, in my opinion, really rather mad. mad thing number 1: they have free dinner buying service for us while we stay in school to mug. first there are so many people mugging in school! how many trips and how many people would they need.. second: there was this buncha ppl in my classroom who asked for KFC dunno what meal, change mash potato to cheese fries, change drink to mountain dew. and everyone came up with their own meal wif their own preferences. i thought, 'wah imagine everyone who went down to order had their own preferences..' o.O i think the j1s really deserve applause for their courage to do this. dunno whether its only for this week.. mad thing number 2: they had individually packed study packs for every J2, personalised pencils with names written with marker and with alphabet macaroni. imagine all the tedious work they put in to do this for every J2. dun matter even if they spell my name wrongly. lol. then there were sweets and coffee mix. they must have quite a big budget this year.. but then ah.. i think although mad thing number 1 was probably well received and greatly appreciated, i dun think mad thing number 2 made people very touched or anything. Even though we know it probably require a lot of effort, not many J2s felt they really appreciated the J1s packing this, or felt very spurred on to mug harder cos of their encouragement.. actually first thing that came to my mind was, wah this year they got so much time to pack these.. dun need to mug promos ah.. lol but anyway, great job 27ths.

Fireworks. so cool la.. i always watch fireworks from padang, esplanade, anywhere else except at the exact location where its supposed to be. this year go to the marina bay floating platform lei.. and the fireworks was coordinated with the music so zhuang4 guan1. usually fireworks just on its own no music or anything.. and the fireworks shot from the platform as well as the floating barges on the bay itself. i always thought fireworks must come from land cos someone need to stand there to light it haha =p i like the one that came up with a silver/white tail and exploded in purple lights. purple + silver = damn pretty =D and i like the red ones that after exploding for a while they turn into golden sizzles haha. lol i love the terms that i use. =p really ren shan ren hai, shui xie bu tong, so many people lorh.. haha but quite cool. went home real late. heng i caught my last bus back. there was this mum with the kid in my bus's queue and the poor little kid was tired and whining.. mum had to keep the kid awake.. telling him you're heavier when u're sleeping..

today. salmon salmon salmon. the taste of it is still in my mouth. omg. of all the great fish i took today only the taste of salmon still stays in my mouth lol.. went sushi tei. they are really quite zai lorh. super fresh. the salmon qq de. it was cooked, not raw de. my family ordered quite a spread. if only i had my camera phone i would take nice pictures.. my brother got the barbequed eel with sushi rice plus side dish fried baby ebi (prawn). my mum got her tempura udon that she says she cant resist not ordering it, taking something else more special instead. i got a seafood paper hot wok. cant remember its exact name. chose miso soup base. and in it was silken tofu, mushrooms, lotsa vege and carrots, large scallops, crab, prawn (omg their prawn was so crunchy and so fresh that the whole thing just came out of the shell so easily and it was sweet.. I don't ever remember having nicer prawns than this) and of course salmon. comes with some beehoon like thing inside also but I didn't know at first, so i got myself cold cha (greentea) soba. I love soba =) nicer than ramen and udon. my brother had a mixed seafood bowl that comes with rice. includes salmon roe, fresh tuna salmon crab sashimi and the japanese egg (not the chawanmushi). my dad got a ramen and a set of otoro sashimi. otoro is apparently the tuna's belly and is the best sashimi, nicest part of the tuna, nicest fish. lol on top of it all, we had more sashimi, salmon otoro and yellowtail, as well as sushi, where i took the octopus one, my mum took the squid and the double baby prawn one, my brother took the salmon, other brother took the salmon roe and the tuna, think there was 2 more but i dun remember which they are. omg delicious. lol dun wanna know how much this all amounted to...

dad in super good mood today lorh.. go vivocity buy so many things. bought my brother new adidas shoes, he always gets branded new shoes, and i havent even worn branded shoes before =/ well and my other brother got 2 pairs of levi jeans O.O congratulate him for his first 2 pairs of jeans lol. no one would believe he doesn't have his own jeans.. I may have many pairs of jeans but they all come from my aunt. i don't complain. haha my figure very difficult to get good jeans that fit well. my aunt's figure's more or less like mine so she pick all the fitting ones for me le. =p my mum spotted a nice jacket in G2000 that she thinks will fit her dress very nicely. $99. but G2000 closed by the time we went back, she tells me we're supposed to come back tomorrow to get it. I told her don't worry, its new arrival, won't run out of stock so quickly. she said, what if no more sizes? lol i'm amused. my mum's also eyeing a nice bag that i picked for her. she can't wait to get rid of her current bag. haha my dad picked it and bought it and at that time, my mum's first response was, why u buy this kind of ah ma bag for me.. LOL the bag i picked was of course much nicer ;) but she was having 2nd thoughts cos it was a little too expensive for her. and then there was promotion for spanish wines (i think its damn cool for vivocity to have a corner for spanish stuff.o.O) I think my dad got 2 Cava and a Sangria (which apparently means the Holy Grail. my family tried it when they went spain last year end, theirs was mixed on the spot and it was called Sangrael). I'm not particularly enthusiastic when it comes to wine tasting cos i don't really like the bitter aftertaste. all alcohols have bitter aftertaste =/ but i think this one's quite different. actually tastes quite nice =) haha so everyone yi ren2 yi dai4 when we went home.. tomorrow my mum's dai4 will be on its way back haha. went to look at gowns but not really in the mood to buy anything yet. havent seen something that i really like.. so man man lai la still got a lot of time. i should be mugging and doing my portfolio and personal statement now anyways.

Thursday, August 16, 2007

raindom..

just a little bored..and wanted to scribble stuff here..
hehe got my first A for essay! tian..probably my one and only. but nevermind quite pleased with myself anyway..
ruthie called to say she cried reading my peer evaluation for her.. lol i just felt i had to publicise this =p
i sang a beautiful song today! (oh but no its not uploaded on my soundclick cos the song is nice but i din sing it that nicely haha..)
i slept a grand total of 3 hours in the afternoon today! ..which i dun think is very little, but i felt rejuvenated so thats good. and i sorted out my worksheets today.. and of all the documents/notes/worksheets we received for this term, GP takes a grand total of 50%! much much GP to practice and read with. GP ah GP....

Monday, August 13, 2007

What if Singapore were a person?..

Part 1


Part 2


Part 3 and my favourite HAHA! <3


Happy national day! =D

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i wanna go listen to budak this friday evening.. anyone interested?..

Saturday, August 11, 2007

me =)

Click to view my Personality Profile page

dunno why so into personality tests lately haha saw this on gerald and james blog i thot look quite pretty so i went to do also =P i must be in a state of change, used to be ENFP, then did a test that told me i was ESTJ, now ENTP i wonder how much more drastically will i change lol..

quite sad though, teaching or doctor are not on my list of compatible jobs o.O

Friday, August 10, 2007

流泪手心 - 王力宏

云飘在天空
浪在海流动
这世界太多无法掌握的梦
你站在风中
你是自由的
生命有太多不得不分的痛
当你将离别握在我手心
我听见爱被悄悄捏碎的声音
你不懂你不要的我的心
会随你松开的手而喊停
我试着微笑
试着拥抱
在每一秒
我不想看见闭上的眼睛
害怕你最后
化成泪流出手心
你给过的承诺
我怎能不放手
当你诚实诉说
他的爱多辽阔
这是我的手
它牵过你往事中度过
这段漫长的路不该走到寂寞

天啊,好旧的歌,但总是最好听

Thursday, August 02, 2007

we are really quite dependent on technology eh? especially our handphones. honestly if you lost your handphone, together with all your personalised profiles, photos and music in your memory card, contacts in your directory, 900+ messages from friends teachers and all people dear.., you'll probably feel like a part of your soul got deleted.. the phone virtually records your life in pictures words music.. really sudden realisation, cos today my phone got taken for repair. and i smartly forgot to transfer all my contacts into my sim card. and i know i cannot copy all my messages into my memory card either. so haii. was quite distraught for a while.. i shall not forgot my contacts in my directory ever again.. meanwhile i'll have to find someway to recover all my contacts numbers.. sigh

and today. my nose pwned me.
ie i should sleep now.

Sunday, July 22, 2007

一千零一夜

词 唱:邰正宵

她总是不言不语
黄昏等到天微明
拔弄着怀那把无弘琴

寂寞里秋来春去
诺言随风都飘零
梦中人还是没捎来一点消息

一千零一夜
没有一夜不思念
每一份想念
化做不成双的蝶
一千零一夜
没有一夜不流泪
流到心里面变成雪

那一夜一场大雨
园里的花落满地
那是他为她种的金线菊
当有人劝她放弃
她会微笑看着你
手心中紧紧握着发黄的回忆

一千零一夜
夜夜看到她思念
究竟谁让她
有那么忧虑的脸
一千零一夜
夜夜听到她流泪
不知该怎么去安慰

是真心都疼真心
让我就从今夜起
在身边为她轻唱温暖的旋律

这首歌好旧好旧了,我想在我这一代的人也没多少人听过他的歌,每次都那么伤感那么凄美。

Saturday, July 21, 2007

i love the beautiful sky above my forest.



i love how the sun sets on my forest.

do you think sheep ever prize their fur like girls prize their hair? when sheep are unwillingly shaved, will they worry about not looking nice anymore without their fur while all other sheep still have their fur coats?

Monday, July 16, 2007

a tree to remember

the tree was like my grandmother

i knew it was going to go but i didnt know it was going to be so soon, just as my grandmum's passing was quite sudden..

somehow it always held a quite important place in my heart even though i never really had very significant or memorable memories with it. always wanted to sit under that tree and somehow like talk to it. but that wasnt very possible since it was in the middle of the road. i never managed to spend a lot of time with my grandma as i grew up (and realised that only too late), but somehow she was very important to me and i'll never forget how she always looked so 慈祥 and took great care of me when i was a child. something that baby dada will not have the chance to experience..

such a magnificent tree that i always thought was quietly majestically pretty standing there in the middle of the road, it provided great viewing pleasure everytime i walk down to gerald's bus stop. and it added nature's touch to the rest of the scenery which consisted mainly of construction and RJC's green white buildings.

must haf been quite a lonely tree watching all the cars zoom past at alarming speeds..

and quite sadly i havent taken a picture of it that i kept. i remember taking moon sets from that side of the road as i walked to school in the morning cos it was quite pretty. but my phone wasnt good enough to capture the splendour so i deleted them..
sigh

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and here's something most people would find rather anticlimax. found a really pretty bug on my brother's window today. quite huge. about 5-7 cm in length























thats the reflection in the window of the opposite wall of my brother's room. its almost pitch black outside cos the window faces the forest. the bug has bright red legs and i thought the 花纹 on the bug was very clear and sharp =)

THE IQ question

haha just for boredom's sake, i decided to post the question that jiahui posed me on my bday. its supposed to lead me to the other half of the presents from my sisters. lol

haf fun!

Friday, July 13, 2007

my 18th bday!

oh it was a wondrous day =D took many pictures since last friday haha i shall post them since pictures speaks many more words than i probably will type in one entry =p

6july went marina south hoping to fly kite only to find the grass spaces cordoned off and the whole place seemed quite abandoned. there was no wind to fly kite and the "kite flying space" was so small and so many trees i don't think anyone will ever try to fly kite there. but went to somewhere where we could see the sea and heres some pics taken about 7pm



7july went for psc talks then went toy museum with the SGH CIP gang. a curious place with interesting things. i never knew theres a dog called Bonzo the dog which Felix the Cat was supposed to challenge lol and batman used to be so short and stout (doesnt that sound like a teapot?..)

the predecessor of Darlie toothpaste XD 原来它叫“黑人牙膏”是有原因的..

used to haf a little mermaid painting book something like that, all i needed was a cup of water and a paint brush. and i loved it. haha it was one of those things that my brothers never played with haha!

handcrafted chinese wooden dolls made by girls saved from brothels in China. the faces look so real..

the first wooden doll made by this man who got a bunch of refugees to make dolls to earn money.

my favourite: dancing dolls! a whole row of them! how sweet!

11july
sisters had a big M celebration for me during break. candle on a muffin haha it was so cute! gave me half a present and asked me to solve a hilarious IQ puzzle to get the other half hahaha! jiahui drew some elfish looking thing lol. and there was even a careless error in it which i was ofcourse able to identify hahahahaha!!!!!
went out after the law talk. we played 2 games of bowling..which left me aching all over today =/ so lousy XD walked around marina square while gerald espounded on his expertise on choosing handbags hahaha yeesian and i were quite amused =P we walked from esplanade across the bridge to fullerton hotel, which was beautiful. and saw the national day floating stadium from the bridge too =)













and we walked from fullerton hotel down the belly of the carp and then down a few roads and we got to Central, this new shopping centre opposite Clarke Quay. It has nice white lights =) we went to a jap restaurant there, pasta with japanese mainly seafood toppings. i thought they had great service and great restaurant layout and i loved their display of all their food hahaha quite an extravagant place though.. we had strawberry pudding and they gave us complimentary sundae for shifting seats. then we walked down opposite bank of Clarke Quay to Riverside Point to look at people flying the remote controlled kites of the night haha. oh it was so pretty!! they were practising some formation thingy and its so amusing to see 3 kites in sync and doing a roll on command! they looked like extra colourful and extra big fireflies. couldnt take proper pictures cos the handphone shutter speed too slow. and when there were so many kites in the sky i watched till i forgot to take photos..

i got really pretty necklaces from the sisters and my dear roofie= D ruth and minggy also got this top for me which i will probably only be able to wear after i slim down and make sure my stomach is flatter and non-round. HAHA gerald got me a handbag squirrel and lilies! i thought i won't ever get lilies from anyone cos they're quite expensive.. and even my brother commented that the squirrel was very nicely painted =))




















thanks to all my friends from long ago from not so long ago from now who wished me happy birthday and sang me birthday song and all.. i was particularly happy when i read my mum's sms to wish me happy birthday <3 i really had a very happy birthday =D




12july caught a really beautiful pink sunset right at my balcony.




and saw a lizard grab a moth. =p

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

random thoughts

I got a reply. as to whether i can go visit the child i tutored at gracehaven. i think there's lots of red tapes and stuff so it may be quite difficult. Not very sure about the numerous programmes in the home as well... haiyah. guess i won't be able to visit the little kid tomorrow. i hope she won't be too disappointed. i'll work on it and find out how..

i should start drawing up a mugging timetable. prelims musnt be screwed otherwise i will screw myself.

just did the 7 deadly sins test and apparently my greatest sin is pride. then followed by gluttony. lol ok must cut down on food!

Saturday, July 07, 2007

stuffed with food

i feel like i've achieved bear state.
polar bear teddy bear koala bear sun bear pooh bear big bear fat bear round bear...
tian ah

eat like BEAR

went Sizzlers for dinner today. so long never eat at Sizzlers le. last time was about P2. my mum said, when we were no longer considered as 'kids' who didnt need to get a main course. haha

i remember how wen i was about P1, we'd go Sizzlers for dinner at Wisma. We little kids just ate from the Salad Bar, and lotsa soup and salad. And of course BOWLs and BOWLs of ice cream. Yep they used to come in BOWLs not ice cream cups HAHAHA. and i remember putting all sorts of colourful toppings on them and cos the sauces din look very colourful i din put them at all. Then i'll bring them back to the table and stir and stir and stir until it became watery milky and then slowly drink it up like COLD soup HAHAHAHA... come to think of it.. must be quite sick.

anyway now its 10 years since the last time we had Sizzlers. (LITERALLY) now we all have to order a main dish, and i had nice mushroom cheese steak. my lil bro who used to run around the restaurant now orders a seafood platter. and the salad bar is still as nice. BUT we dun melt ice cream anymore. and i put only one of the toppings and i sprinkled caramel sauce too. but then ah... never purposely melt ice cream the ice cream also melt very fast hahaha

and today i realised i couldnt identify the papaya. my dad say in June eat papaya until phobia then cannot recognise le. LOL i best

ok anyway. wonderful dinner. feels many layers of flab. dunno when i'll get motivation to go and rid them XD

Friday, July 06, 2007

爱情证书

寂寞当然有一点
你不在我身边总是特别想念你的脸
距离是一份考卷
测量相爱的誓言最后会不会实现
我们为爱还在学
学沟通的语言学著谅解学著不流泪
等到我们学会飞
飞越黑夜和考验日子就要从孤单里毕业
我们用多一点点的辛苦
来交换多一点点的幸福
就算幸福还有一段路
等我们学会忍耐和付出
这爱情一定会有张证书
证明从此不孤独

Wednesday, July 04, 2007

bored

really really bored
maybe i'll spend this bored time thinking more about the class
after today's J1 CT rep talk dunno why felt like reflecting on my term as CT rep. heh actually been quite a lazy CT rep. lol we decorated the back of the class room, but the sheets started falling down and stuff were getting messy. and i was too lazy to clear it. and the school cleaners cleared them instead. so our chalk and spray paint and black sheets are all gone. Shall i get new ones? i really think the black sheets are very good for venting watever. then dun haf to draw on the table. if only we had a black board at the back. scribbling is so fun =/ and i wish we had black stuff that absorbs spray paint better.

and then i realised that i forgot to celebrate birthdays in term 2. only celebrated Ms nair's. so i guess next week we'll be celebrating bdays for some 10 people cos july also many many people's bday.

and my stomach's feeling horrible. i feel like a banded leaf monkey. it has a really really round stomach. cos its kinda bloated. it eats leaves so theres lotsa fermentation in its stomach. ie a lot of gas generation, resulting in a very round stomach. yup that sorta describes myself now. not that i've been pigging and eating that much but aiyai stomach feeling like its doing a lot of fermentation. i can feel it inside me =/

benny lent me brother bear. i should get down to watching it soon. and i wan to keep brother bear 2 also. its so sweet.

been singing in the bathroom. not that i only started doing it recently. but it seems to be the only place where i feel like singing nowadays. so sad. i feel kinda saddened that i havent uploaded recordings in ages. no mood leh.. and i started playing bumble bee again. but i keep feeling super warm and sticky after playing through once so havent had the patience to sit down and memorise and figure out. wanna go learn a dance also, like dakishimeru from youtube or something. but havent been into boa that much lately. don't even visit the forums liao. but i wanna resume dance class. i feel super rusty when i go back studiowu. feeling rusty and lousy cos everyone there have already improved so much and i'm still stagnant. really really wanna go back for lessons esp now no more street. argh but no money. maybe i'll ask my dad and see if he wanna buy a package for me as bday present. it'll be my greatest bday present in years. i dun even remember wat they gave me in the past few years. it must have been something i needed, not really wanted. well or maybe i'm so horrible i din take the effort to remember what they gave me. i guess it dun matter, they've given me their priceless love for me, for 18 years, and counting. that rocks very much already.

after school go home sleep. i wish i was busier, then can sleep less. so pig. at home no motivation to anything cos the afternoon sun so hot.

i wanna go fly kite.

Monday, July 02, 2007

end of sch hols..

cts finished le. they get more and more challenging each time.. A level must be the most bomb.
last time CTs finish will be so upset and xian diao cos nothing to do. this time so many post CT programme. some more got extra 1 day cos of youth day, and another day cos my CT ends early =P happy happy!!

thought post CT will pig even more. but lol post CT saw the first time i'm exercising after 1 month! haha dancing (jumping around) walking parks cycling in ecp swimming (+jacuzzi!!) ice skating. (and shopping!!!) lol this rocks.

havent skated for soo long! nearly forgot how to skate haha! heng i still remember the drawings in my diary from p5 lol. first time i went skating was p4. 2nd time was in p5. 2nd time went skating i forgot how to skate, so wen i went home i drew in my diary how to skate. lol skating so fun!!

i wanna post pictures from weilin's bday chalet =) we made a present that i thought was really sweet.. but not my idea. looks good anyway damn zai. aiyai sad my phone now charging cannot upload pictures.
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Weilin and Anisha
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Ruth n Minggy
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Ruth
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soothing waves
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weilin with her present
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inside the box: LLAMA!

got pictures from SGH CIP also..this is my fav
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cant believe tmr need to go school! to quote yeesian:"feels like my holidays started on friday and ended today" =X cant agree more

another picture. do u see wat i see?
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i saw a fallen tree