blog.

2007-03-14T14:56:00.000+08:00

hello mishy and alex! who seem to have stumbled upon my blog under extremely weird situations, and who have also made me realise that i did not delete this. this is so weird. i feel vaguely freaked out actually.

anyway, maybe blog will be revived. (maybe not). hee. oh well.

ps to alexander wong: why on earth were u googling mishy and alex?!

2007-02-17T08:49:00.000+08:00

bury me in my bathing suit with bright red lipstick and sparkling red high heels that are amazingly uncomfortable for I won't have to walk anywhere with them.

- alyssa

2007-02-17T08:48:00.000+08:00

revival of the blog! (issit too much to hope that the tagboard's working too?)

2006-12-31T07:23:00.000+08:00

i would like world peace, a new tagboard, and answers to the million and one questions in my mind right now.

recommendations anyone? oh, of course u can't recommend. my tagboard's not working! silly me.

i wanna go...

2006-12-08T19:44:00.001+08:00

home.

(back to melbourne)

moving is tiring...

2006-11-24T18:39:00.000+08:00

THE EXAMS ARE OVER! OVER OVER OVER!

and moving is so tiring. gah. thank goodness for mishy, alex, tong, stan, ben, alvin and trevor. haha. then got stranded outside bena/amanda's place without a key, so called a random 19 floor neighbour to ask to be let in. and loitered outside her door for almost an hour, getting weird looks from the neighbours and someone whom i suspect might have been the security guy asked what we were up to.

and then back at college square, alvin commented that my place now looks like it's been burgled. which was pretty true. and is even more true now that i've cleared all the rubbish. yikes. sad, empty home.

random funny things that happened... tong using my hanger as his personal weapon of mass destruction. the happy face magnet smile, mishy going around tagging everyone and masking alex's mouth (which incidently actually looked very very cute haha) and then tong attempting to teach us how to hack into wireless networks while we loitered. pretty ingenious actually. though he had to go meet usher before we finished the lesson.

oh and i didn't get to say bye to ushy! boooooooo.... gah. was trapped upstairs on the 19th floor and didn't dare to go down in case i got trapped downstairs again and no nice neighbours wanted to help me up. and usher was downstairs! sniff. you're still my fave lauren elizabeth usher though=)

met viv and co for dinner at eto. was vaguely amusing and extremely girl-y. haha. will see viv back in singapore in 2 days! how exciting!

ok will go bathe now. am stinky from bathing.

oh bena, if u see this, our toilet rows have been adopted by my friend for some art project. yay! i knew we kept them for a reason!

the invasion of RGS...

2006-10-12T11:09:00.000+08:00

who came to melbourne for a competition and met me and pam for dinner!

tried to pretend i was a sec 3. apparently failed miserably. *sniff* i miss being sec 3. think it was probably one of my happiest years coz of vball, end-of-years not being so important, and general fun and nonsense tt's also known as 313.

oh and it's clar's (belated) birthday and i sent her a card but she hasn't replied me. BOO CLAR! hmph. if u read this i am UPSET=( sniff. i feel hurt and unloved.

anyway, stayed over at ms tan's hotel room to catch up, and ended up sleeping at 3am. yikes... i realised tt i'm now very out-of-touch with singapore... apart from some singaporean friends (whom i hardly hang out with anyway) and probably listening to 93.3 online, i probably have no other form of contact with singapore stuff. oh and reading straits times online. occasionally.

and i finally met the elusive pam again. and i forgot to remind her about flare dance on thurs so it'll probably be a miracle if she remembers it or replies to my message.

but anyway, i'm happy! yay! so nice to see everybody again! (hello ms tan! i know u're reading this...)

ok i am probably on a coffee high. should NOT have taken that double expresso. BAD MOVE PEIYING. on second thought, the chocolate ice cream was probably a bad idea too. dear oh dear.

i want ice cream. will drag everyone to union for ice cream tml during lunch break. there better be cookies there this time.

bushsy bushy bush

2006-09-26T23:00:00.000+08:00

went to greensborough (aka bush) today. it really IS a bush... fell asleep on the train and woke up surrounded by rocks on both sides. and dying trees with no leaves. like, WOW. and panicked coz i thought i might have missed the stop, and there weren't any signs.

and the bush is noisy. with tonnes of birds. chirping. non-stop. oddly though there wasn't much birdshit. hmmm.

anyway, i now feel really sad for usher and etc who stay in the bush and have to take forever to get to school... kudos to u guys! i could NEVER do it. would probably skip classes. alot.

well the bush was fun. next time, doncaster chicken rice!

spring break!

2006-09-16T09:27:00.000+08:00

i'll have to do some spring cleaning later...

oh and may tan's coming to melbourne! yay! will be meeting her and pam (who finally replys promptly to messages) in 1 mth! yay yay yay!

tralala i love holidays. i love lazing around and doing nothing. i like nice warm(er) weather now. boobidabee. lalala. bouncebouncebounce.

jiahui: are u learning to drive now? london doesn't sound safe anymore. (neither is melbourne anymore. heh) and talk to me next time u see me online k? (ignore the away status... got smth to ask u...)

sihuan: I CAN DRIVE! I CAN DRIVE! I CAN DRIVE! when i get back i'll take u for a random joy ride. BUAHAHA.

2006-08-30T13:23:00.000+08:00

BUAHAHAHA!

i passed driving! (the roads will never be safe again. ever.)

*evil cackle*

2006-08-08T21:50:00.000+08:00

mah-JONG!

2006-07-20T08:47:00.000+08:00

random words for me to take back to melbourne so i can laugh when it gets too cold..

fertiliser
pineapple tarts
holding hands
"your wife is also a whore"
chocolate
random plane sounds
timer
bird cage

2006-07-20T08:44:00.000+08:00

i know i've said this before, but i'll say it again. and again and again.

i hate year ones who spam the system asking for timetable swaps! either alloc8 it, or go to the departments with a valid reason, or just accept your lousy timetable and blame in on bad kharma or waking up late.

i especially hate it when they spam the year 2 list. LEAVE US OUT OF IT! WE DON'T EVEN TAKE BASIC CHEM ANYMORE.

stupid year ones.

2006-07-14T08:40:00.000+08:00

laughing is exhausting. so is eating.

me: what if we were both soccer players, u were a guy and i called your wife a whore?
charlene: your wife is also a whore.

413 dinner!

2006-07-11T08:24:00.000+08:00

chim's pineapple tart history will be forever etched in our memories. that much is clear.

met mrs kwan! she looks younger. hmm. maybe coz she's not teaching anymore.

(out of point comment... my mouse is moving across the screen on it's own. freaky.)

anw, ate this nice desert recommended by clar. can't remember it's name but it's number 99 on the list. accidentally inhaled the sugar though and started choking. and clar got sugar all over herself. the sugar is evil.

lyd has funky hair!

and zhini has cool glasses. make her look very intellectual. (much more than jiahui's do)

speaking of jiahui. was abandoned by said evil person who was too lazy to leave her house. grrr. too bad for u, u missed a nice night=)

2006-07-09T09:52:00.000+08:00

these are pictures of my retina! (thanks carla) i happen to think they're pretty cool. but that's just the nerd speaking.

first driving lesson!

2006-07-07T14:45:00.000+08:00

lesson started at 11.30am

11.30am
instructor: where is the brake and accelerator?
me: (points)
instructor: ok this is how u adjust the seats, mirrors etc.

11.35am
swap places. peiying starts to drive on the road outside yio chu kang mrt.

11.36am
peiying has to test the brakes by jamming. peiying almost causes death and destruction.

11.37am
resume driving. drive drive drive.

arnd 11.45am
a bicycle cuts in on the left while i'm turning left and looking out for cars going straight. evil bike.
a while later... the same bike overtakes me.

arnd 12pm
i get to step on the accelerator for the first time!
i also finally go faster than 10km/hr.

arnd12.15pm
i hit 40km/hr! i also get so excited that i forget to look at the lights and almost go over the red lights.
a while later... i overtake 2 cars!

arnd 12.30pm
i turn on my own! like without the instructor saying anything!

1pm
i get horned by another stupid car tt also has L-plates. OEI! OVERTAKE IF U'RE SO GREAT LOR. HMPH.

1.15pm
i move to busier roads! aka the path outside ang mo kio central. where half a million taxis block my way. stupid taxis.

1.30pm
peiying gets out of the car alive. =)

the title-less entry

2006-07-07T08:45:00.000+08:00

i realise my entries generally don't have titles, unless, of course, they do.

i also realise tt singapore is pretty boring. probably coz i'm stuck at home with a sore non-existant tooth.

=(

random fact of the day

2006-07-06T20:50:00.000+08:00

the hunter's lullaby is the freakiest thing i've read in a long time.

2006-07-05T08:16:00.000+08:00

my face is still swollen...

and the swelling seems to be getting worse.

-string-of-curses-

2006-07-03T19:27:00.000+08:00

mastication.

only truly appreciated when lost. =(

world cup predictions

2006-07-02T08:29:00.000+08:00

i am so good=)

too bad no one ever listens...=(

2006-06-30T09:37:00.000+08:00

me: it's the death penalty for smuggling drugs in
usher: i don't want to go there!
usher: just in case i do something wrong!
usher: or someone puts drugs in my bag!
usher: and i get caught and killed!

peiying would like to apologise to the singapore tourism board for losing another potential shopping customer.

2006-06-29T03:39:00.000+08:00

cabfare to zouk: $3
shots and drinks: $17
cabfare home: $5

going absolutely mad: priceless

and some conversations are pending soon. maybe tml (technically, today).

and i miss my darling!

2006-06-26T08:13:00.000+08:00

irritated.

irritated irritated irritated.

FREAKING HOT!

2006-06-23T17:55:00.000+08:00

lalalala

if u don't know why i'm so happy, you soon will.

if u're important enough that is.

however if you DO know, u're still important and i love you very muchly.

AND if in a while you STILL don't know. HAH.

i don't love you.

YAY!

yay!

2006-06-16T20:06:00.000+08:00

exams are overrrr!

and my house is clean!

and my birthday is tml!

and i am tired from cleaning the house.

bena if u see this, please appreciate the fact that i just spent the last 3 hours cleaning the kitchen+dishes+walls+stove+barcounter+toiletbowl+toiletfloor+sink+vacuuming the house.

tired. tired tired tired.

have alot to say, but now's not the right time to say it.

go ponder.

winter=static

2006-04-19T12:47:00.000+08:00

if you could tap static electricity like crude oil, i'd be a walking goldmine.

ps: i would like to apologise to jess for zapping her a few million times...

2006-03-30T21:28:00.000+08:00

turning back, she just laughs
the boulevard is not that bad...
pianoman, he makes his stand
in the auditorium
looking on, she sings the song
the words she knows, the tune she hums.

when i say softly, slowly...

this is my long lost cousin. if anyone else is related to us, please contact peiying asap=)

2006-03-21T07:14:00.000+08:00

exciting news

2006-03-19T15:08:00.000+08:00

i have extremely exciting news to share with everyone.

I HAVE A NEW COUSIN!

ok technically she's not new (as in new-born) but more of new (as in i never knew she was my cousin)

isn't this exciting!

she's my cousin twice removed (apparently) although technically i think we can argue that she's my cousin once removed. in fact, i think techically she might be my cousin once removed.

i love my new (as in new-found) family member! how fun!

exciting days

2006-03-18T05:00:00.000+08:00

yesterday: watched commonwealth mens tabletennis heats.
yesterday night: college square welcome dinner!
today: going to watch swimming. (whose tickets can fetch about 120 each on ebay buahaha)

sponsors: team singapore (ie free tickets)

have to run, supposed to meet at 8.15...

2006-03-14T10:43:00.000+08:00

hey! my last post just disappeared. GAH. can't be bothered to type it all over again. and it was really long...

anw, random (short) updates on life...

decided on dinner outfit. have realised why people choose to wear dresses. also watched four feathers and gushed over heath ledger. disclaimer: i liked heath ledgerfrom before brokeback too, and so am not a brokeback-therefore-ledger fan.

marathon walk with bena on sunday. was hot (36 degrees) and tiring. gave up after about 20km, took tram back. will try again on a cooler day.

architecture building's sliding glass panels shrink lower body reflections. as discovered by optom ppl. we stood around and laughed at ourselves, then at reflections of other ppl. esp the tall guy who was scratching his head. amusing stuff.

today, washed dishes. now attempting to stop possibly recurring sore throat. may possibly also loe voice (again).

surfing (continued)

2006-03-07T15:40:00.000+08:00

yay surfing! weather was good, waves were HUGE. like, all we had to do was wade into about less than waist level and the waves were big enough to surf already. and coz we had to carry the boards out and surf inwards, it went something like, 3 steps forward, and a wave sweeps u back 1 step. super super tiring. and balancing on the board was damn hard! i stood up a grand total of 4 times. *applause* bena (with her sailing + ballet background) managed to stand up alot more times. hmph.

oh and i discovered a cheaterbug lazy method of not having to paddle... wait for 2 consecutive waves... so the first one gives forward momentum and immediately the second one can be used to surf. yay!

but 3 consecutive waves are BAD. example: i used the first to surf, got knocked down by the second, and got flipped by the third. tt's how frequent and strong the waves were.

will post pics soon...!

2006-03-04T19:43:00.000+08:00

surfing tml!

start of sem 1 2006

2006-03-01T12:01:00.000+08:00

opto/vision class of 130-plus has been drastically sliced down to 56 people. the exact number that fit into the clinic's lecture theatre. which also means that alot of ppl have disappeared into other courses. which is pretty sad=(

glad tt lauren and michelle got in though=) yay!

have just realised that once again my student id is the last one in the class. unless the 2 new transfers in got later numbers. hmm. oh and was totally freaked out in 221 when random people answered all the questions when i had absolutely no idea what was going on. either it's a result of not taking 111, or they're smart, or i'm dumb.

201 was kinda like histo, on fast fast fast forward. and i've found my histo cd! yay! beautiful coloured pics. unfortunately left my full page prints back home... oh well.

oh and i realised mondays will be kinda irritating. coz i've gotta sprint all the way from ec-copland to optom clinic. within the transition time. which is supposed to be 10 minutes, which is barely enough for a brisk walk. BUT 141 always ends late or at least right on time which leaves me less than 3 minutes to do my 1.4km sprint. grrr.

hmm other news. vball training later! yay! i am so out of touch, kept serving out yesterday. oh well. and had to leave the pub social early too. hmm. will ask cera if anything amusing happened. yay training!

oh and since there're no tutes or pracs this week, i had no school on tues, 1 hr today, 2 hrs tml, and 1 hr on fri. yay i love no-tute-no-prac day. ran into rumin and eunice (clar's classmate) and decided to go with them to say hi to shulin. poor med people, they're already starting to mug now in week 1.

i think tml's supposed to be curry day. not sure. curry! but throat's still a little sore-ish. hmm. nvm. curry!

2006-02-25T19:53:00.000+08:00

random things peiying and bena do at home..

laze in front of the tv and watch winter olympics + friends + other things (and plot ways to be even more lazy like flipping vcds with my toes.)

bena does her weird stretches.

i continue herbal remedy-ing

plan our marathon run

snack

2006-02-22T09:38:00.000+08:00

hmm today has been nothing short of interesting.

woke up grumpy and in-sufficient-slept. popped online to check on timetable and stuff. and decided to chat to alot of people whom i've been totally out of touch with for just about forever.

and it's comforting to know that despite the distance, we really haven't changed.

=)

(with reference to bena's cup of water on the bar counter "i'll finish drinking it when i get back", i stood there for about 5 seconds to ponder if it's half full or half empty. it's pretty amusing. haha. conclusion was that since the cup is green, it doesn't matter.)

kilda's beach

2006-02-19T07:08:00.000+08:00

bena got burnt and i read interesting captions on overpriced bookmarks.

"hi i'm a fungi"

"i try to be bossy but she won't let me"

and various others tt i just can't remember. oh and there was this amusing msn convo too.

me: i'm gonna kill u.
person: huh?
me: i'm gonna rip your lungs out, chop them into perfect 2cmX2cm cubes, and feed them to stray dogs.
person: is that a threat?
me: since when is 'i'm gonna kill u' not a threat?

2006-02-15T10:47:00.000+08:00

yay bena arrived on sunday morning. actually technically afternoon i think.

anyway that's not the point.

yay!

going queen vic night market tonight to walk walk... and possibly buy presents for half a million people.

last night alone

2006-02-11T20:47:00.000+08:00

hmm tonight's the last night i'll get the whole house to myself... which is sad and happy at the same time. oh and there were fireworks outside just now haha. quite pretty but kinda noisy. pity the people staying whereever the fireworks were... if they were so loud from this far away......

anw, i can't get to sleep! -insommia strikes- no idea why. should invest in those kind of soothing music, like nature sounds or smth. except listening to crickets cricketing might make me feel like there're crickets in my bed and start to itch all over.

speaking of crickets, i have absolutely no idea how the game is played. and seven/nine have been showing it so much it's irritating. i don't get it. what's the point of having baseball, softball, AND cricket if they all look basically the same? (and no the argument doesn't hold wrt basketball and netball because i like those games)

grr. oh and balley isn't coming over with bena=( blah. stupid mosquito netting. i blame the weather. if it didn't get so hot sometimes then i wouldn't need to open the windows then the mosquitoes wouldn't be able to fly in. then again, since i've moved over the weather's been kinda cold. or maybe it's coz i'm on the 9th floor now. either way, the windows haven't been opened much.

i hope the pineapple tarts and salted fish pass customs. major pineapple tart craving.

and since tomorrow starts in about 10 minutes, i'll hang around and return to continue this post in 10 minutes just so i can say "bena arriving today!"

bena's arriving today!

happy birthday jiahui!

2006-02-11T18:00:00.000+08:00

2006-02-10T20:46:00.000+08:00

i realise i tend to form severe attachments to minute inanimate objects. eg, the number 17 black badge that until about 24 hours ago used to be attached to my pencilcase. now i can't find it. which is really sad coz it's been with me ever since my jersey number became 17. and there've been countless times when i've realised it's disappearance only to find it hiding in some dark sinister corner of my bag / the floor / under some table. but now it's gone. and i have this feeling i'll never see it again. heartbreaking really. my pencilcase looks naked without it.

i miss my badge...

2006-02-08T10:45:00.000+08:00

wow that was possibly my longest post for the past few months.

oh yes, and happy 20th sihuan!

tagboard and other matters

2006-02-08T10:35:00.000+08:00

tagboards REALLY don't like me. grr. first tag-board.com. now tagworld. grrrrr.

can't wait for bena to arrive! (with my food and christmas presents!)

address change: 1914/570 Lygon Street, Carlton, Vic 3053, Australia.

i welcome presents and other nice surprises.

my room is now messy again. must remember to pack before bena arrives. probably tml.

and i need to study! argh exams next wed. blah blah blah. oh well. after it's over we can go down to queen vic night market. yay!

erm. there were other things. oh yes. wawa has an eye infection (poor dear) so she has to wear this cone-like thing around her head to stop her from scratching her eye so now she looks like a torch light. told my mom to keep the cone till i get back so i can colour and decorate it to make it look like a lion's mane.

last chem prac of the term starting soon. hope it ends early so i can go down to college square admin to get the condition report sorted out.

reminder: must get the shower and data point fixed.

oh and i had to call to cancel the water supply for the old apartment and activate the new one yesterday. which i was supposed to do BEFORE i moved. which i totally forgot to do coz 1) i dint know i was supposed to do it and 2) the new room already HAD water coming out of the pipes... obviously i thought it was an auto transfer since everything's within the same compound. apparently not. luckily i read the small print.

the good thing is that (hopefully) no one's living at the old place yet so i don't have to pay their bill and (hopefully) the count will start from tml when they check the meter so my water usage for the past week will have been foc.

which doesn't make a difference anyway since water costs like less than 20 cents a day.

to do:
1) see stephanie at admin
2) pack house
3) fix shower
4) fix data point
5) check out vicroads address change (???)
6) study. study study study!!!

2006-02-06T15:47:00.000+08:00

down to the final week countdown before bena arrives! and pam's coming on the 13th too! yay yay yay!

heartbreak: brilliant courseplan has been rejected.

why does my tagboard keep resetting?

moving

2006-02-01T10:45:00.000+08:00

is tiring. tiring tiring tiring.

4 flights down, one flight up. blahhh.

my arms ache. my legs ache. i still have to unpack. blahhhhhhh.

and i have chem lab in about 15 minutes. BLAH.

gearing up for CNY

2006-01-28T09:09:00.000+08:00

my room is now gorgeous! yay! but i'm gonna have to move all the decor over to the new room on tues. hmph. oh well.

photos to be posted soon: room in the midst of packing, room before decor, room after decor, room on tues (moving out day)

moving is tiring.

2006-01-27T11:06:00.000+08:00

brokeback mountain is amazing. a definite must-watch for anyone who's not homophobic. though i'm not sure how much singapore's gonna censor it... seriously doubt some scenes will make it through the cut. which is kinda sad coz brokeback's not brokeback without those scenes.

anw, won't say more coz the movie definitely deserves a first hand experience, not a 5 minute summary by me.

summer in melbourne

2006-01-24T12:55:00.000+08:00

weather: HOT. averaging 40-plus degrees. 30-ish at night.
life: equivalent to living in an oven.
packing status: house is STILL in a mess.
fridge contents: 3 potatoes, slices of cheese, stale milk, choc sauce, crumble, 2 salted eggs.
presents received: my mom sent a red packet over for me! along with new year decor, calligraphy pens and a plastic orange! yay i love my mummy!
countdown to the big move to the next block: 7 days. boo... i'll miss my room.
countdown to bena's arrival: 19 days!
latest furnishings: full length mirror!

happy birthday mich!

2006-01-17T16:59:00.000+08:00

hello world!

2006-01-16T13:50:00.000+08:00

happy (very belated) new 2006!

2005-12-28T12:02:00.000+08:00

found worms in the veg. threw everything in the fridge away. don't feel like eating anything anymore.

extremely disgusted.

F&N flashback

2005-12-20T14:09:00.000+08:00

recall the time we had to debone, dekidney, degill, and destomach and deliver (no pun intended) the fish?

i stupidly bought a whole salmon, scales and all, today.

so one hour was spent doing all of the above. now my hands stink of fish, i feel vaguely sick, and i feel like gollum.

ew, ew, ewww.

2005-12-16T14:28:00.000+08:00

courtesy of joey (absolute genius) who rigged up a parody mini-series of about 30 second clips of animated stick men from lotr, harry potter and batman.

eomer: i would cut off your head, dwarf, if it stood but a little higher from the ground.
legolas: i could lift him up higher for you...

legolas: a red sun rises... blood has been shed this night
aragon: actually i think that means it's going to rain.

hermione: spiders in a straight line... i think that means it's going to rain.

yay!

2005-12-09T04:08:00.000+08:00

results - phew=)

there and back again

2005-12-05T15:00:00.000+08:00

lotr extended version trilogy full day viewing!

total: 13 hours, 2 minutes and 23 seconds

-exhausted-

tadah!

2005-12-03T14:50:00.000+08:00

yeap, haven't blogged for very very long. whoops. haha. first excuse was exams, but post exams seem even more packed...

mainly: shopping, pool, beach, movies, impromptu parties.

row morse! haha. which is kinda ridiculous considering how we can just phone inter-room for free. but josh and carl / auz and faulia have huge rooms! hope my room next year's just as big, though doubt so since theirs is two room-ed while ours will be twinshared. still. -cross fingers-

shopping is detrimental to my pocket. and jess says to wait for boxing day sales! can't wait! haha. was good seeing her again though=)

the beach. why is it everytime we try to go to the beach the weather turns cold? last week had glorious sun. this week's been raining everyday except tues and thurs (which became shopping days)

will be attempting to cook bobochacha tomorrow. should be a blast. haha.

yay summer! (boo flies)

random thoughts before i run off to do chem

2005-10-26T16:22:00.000+08:00

last optics lecture today. i'll miss optics more than the rest of the subjects put together. along with some of the most hilarious things that go on with it.

double whamy chem and bio prac tml. last pracs! haha! won't miss those. boring and irritating things. i don't like cutting worms. blah.

chicken rice! yummy=)

and i should go into fortune telling. devination or however u spell that. haha.

to jiahui and all the 413ers again

2005-10-23T17:41:00.000+08:00

gill slits in mammals are thought to be for nutritional purposes, and have little to do with respiration.

haha! jiahui is NOT a misunderstood genius=)

2005-10-22T12:38:00.000+08:00

random useless bio fact of the day:
lemurs can only be found on madagascar

i'm hungry. despite having just eaten a huge bowl of noodles. oh and i've realised how amusing studying in the library over the weekend can be.

person #1 sitting 2 seats to my right: can u help me watch my laptop?
me: sure.
person #1: right thanks, i'm off to buy lunch. do u want anything?
me: yep, mushroom pizza would be good.
person #2 sitting opposite me: can u help me grab a slice of veg pizza?
person #1: yea sure.
later after food buyer returns, we settle down to watch fotr while lunching (illegally) in the library. the most amusing part is that we didn't know each other at all, and i still have no idea what their names are. but it's amusing. haha.

to jiahui and all the 413ers

2005-10-05T16:21:00.000+08:00

"if the early stages of development in vertebrates are compared, gill slits are observed to form in all embryos"
--source: extremely thick and heavy biology text book

sleepy

2005-10-04T08:46:00.000+08:00

been sleeping alot the past few days... suspect i'm coming down with smth. which wouldnt be too surprising considering all the junk i eat now. blah. then again, junk is nice.

roti prata attempt ended in disaster, oily mess, and a close call with the smoke alarm. not to mention i'm having another outbreak.

i'm actually glad that school's started again to kick me out of the current lazy sleepy state. except final exam timetable's out and i end on the 23nov. thanks to stupid math. so it goes 8,9,11 nov chem, genetics, optics. then 23nov math. irritating math. all the optho ppl end on 11th! but they have 4 straight days of papers. and i'd rather hang myself than do physics. still, 12 days before me! blah. lorraine and lauren were very poorly attempting not to gloat.

evil ppl. evil timetable. evil roti prata.

lenna

2005-09-28T10:31:00.000+08:00

this is lenna, the face of compression algorithms in digital imaging.

i have been staring at her from my laptop for the past 2 hours in the chem library while comparing image compressions type JPEG, GIF, PNG and TIFF. the last 3 lectures before break were also spent staring at her. that totals to alot of hours. gladly, she is pretty and not an eyesore, if not i might have gone mad by now.

part of the history of the photo was that it was a nude spread in playboy that a computer technician happened to walk into the lab with one day while they were looking for something interesting to experiment on. successful compression of her photo, with the pornographic parts cropped out, resulted in widespread fame and playboy threatening to sue.

interesting=)

2005-09-24T09:08:00.000+08:00

从前有一只小企鹅和它的爸爸，妈妈，奶奶和爷爷住在一起。有一天，小企鹅跑去问妈妈：“妈妈，我真的是一只企鹅吗？” 妈妈回答：“宝贝，你真的是一只很可爱的企鹅“
小企鹅又跑去问爸爸：“爸爸，我真的是一只企鹅吗？”爸爸回答：“宝贝，你真的是一只很可爱的企鹅。“
小企鹅又跑去问爷爷：“爷爷，我真的是一只企鹅吗？”爷爷回答：“宝贝，你真的是一只很可爱的企鹅。“
小企鹅又跑去问奶奶：“奶奶，我真的是一只企鹅吗？”奶奶回答：“宝贝，你真的是一只很可爱的企鹅。为什么你会有这个疑问呢？“

"奶奶，我觉得好冷。。。"

spelling!

2005-09-22T16:36:00.000+08:00

msn convo of the day=>

september! says: i bet u can't spell eucalyptas

for chim

2005-09-20T12:34:00.000+08:00

"all u have to do now is post the video along with that article and my reputation is ruined forever"

(video will be posted when i learn how to)

chim!

2005-09-15T13:12:00.000+08:00

wow wee!
http://www.moe.gov.sg/corporate/contactonline/2005/Issue17/big_pic/difference.htm

happy day!

2005-09-14T15:42:00.000+08:00

yeap today was a happy day!

1) got evenstar~*!!
2) lessons started at 2, ended at 5
3) kept running into ppl
4) amusing optics lec, the details of which i won't even go into. in short, lrn s dmn fn! haha.
5) allowance in!

today

2005-09-13T15:24:00.000+08:00

was an extremely memorable day.

because i received an email and postcard from singapore, from friends who're very dear to me, and whom i miss terribly.

morning, i read the email before going to school. and i teared.
evening, i came back from school to find the postcard. and i teared again.

it's nice to be remembered.

uhoh

2005-09-13T11:00:00.000+08:00

"yesterday, london and madrid. tomorrow, LA and melbourne"

sample questions from the optics test

2005-09-08T18:14:00.000+08:00

i'm serious.

what is fermat's principle?
one of the options was "what goes around comes around"

snell's law states that
"anything that can go wrong will go wrong"

these were real options. andrew has such a sick sense of humour it's so funny. including the prism lecture where we learnt how prisms help people who wanna lie in bed to watch tv see images upright so that "heads will be where they should be. unless of course you're watching certain types of shows"

optics lec

2005-08-24T17:09:00.000+08:00

larry: there are, of course, some people who have perfect 20/20 vision. those lucky bastards. for the rest of us myops, we can laugh that they will need reading glasses sooner than us.

some guy at the back throws a paper aeroplane
larry: that was pathetic. if u're gonna disrupt the lecture, at least make sure the aeroplane goes more than one row.
later... guy throws another one
larry: that was much better. it covered almost 3 rows i see. would you like to practice outside, perfect the skill, get the plane to actually reach me, and go to rmit to do aeronautical engineering?

larry: so what is the much anticipated and tough to calculate f point? (the answer is obviously 0)
lecture theatre: silence.
guy who threw the aeroplanes: it wasn't me!
(btw, no one saw any aeroplane flying, not even larry. but for some weird reason this is very funny.)
larry: whatever it was, it's good to know it's not you.

bittersweet

2005-08-22T20:19:00.000+08:00

just came back from training. went on impulse simply because almost snapped today and i knew that if i dint get to touch a vball within 24 hours i might just go mad.

and i had the time of my life. probably one of the happiness nights of my time here in australia. suddenly felt like part of a team again. suddenly felt like i could play on forever. and the girls were so sweet. like, telling me tt i have to continue playing with them even though i cant compete this year coz season's halfway through. and then complaining about their semis on saturday which starts at 10, meaning warmup at 9, meaning no breakfast for kelly. of course, alex took the cake.

alex: is that girl wearing a bra?
-everyone turns to see-
jerry: i am so not turning around.

ya but season's almost up, comp's ending in couple of weeks. maybe i'll continue playing though.

victorian national league. melbourne games. university games.

tough stuff.

oh and i might mention how obviously outclassed i was tonight. because they were all damn tall, thin, and pretty. and extremely zai. and tough. it's been a long time since i played with a team so willing to dive and kiss the floor. and my knee is scrapped and arms are very probably bruised. but i just wanna play on.

bittersweet emotions now.

2005-08-19T20:11:00.000+08:00

yay my sis just got the nus exchange prog thing. i'd like to attribute it to my fantastic editorial and crapping skills. haha.

but tt means no sister to collect ang pows in singapore during new yr for me. blah.

haha

2005-08-19T11:32:00.000+08:00

ok on demand, congrats to sihuan for her untrained-for triple gold! now prepare for commonwealth games so u can come visit me. i'll lend u my room=)

and ran into half a million ppl today. so weird that it takes one month for ppl to start running into each other. haha.

yay and boo

2005-08-17T18:15:00.000+08:00

yay to ting who's finally gotten her admission letter to the uni-whose-name-and-location-i-cannot-pronounce!

boo to all the tagboards of the virtual world who just love to hang on me. maybe i'll ditch tagworld and go for chatterbox.

(oh and yay to david who's finally decided to check his email. boo to the possibility of 300 bucks disappearing from my pocket.)

again

2005-08-14T16:17:00.000+08:00

damn i need a hug now.

very badly.

whine

2005-08-12T18:38:00.000+08:00

my butt hurts. fell down the stairs while going to get the laundry.

whines.

ouch.

whines even more.

oops

2005-08-12T06:37:00.000+08:00

this is the post where i attempt to (unsuccessfully) save my ass from being kicked from alot of people whose departure dates i've forgotten.

dear clar and kiat: it's not that i forgot your departure date, just that i hope you'll leave on 19th so that you'll get one more day to spend with your beloved family and friends.=) right how believeable is that...

dear clar: i killed us off coz i couldn't imagine us being such lousy and silly people at 60. in fact i cant imagine us being 60. can u imagine jiahui being 60? gosh, horror.

oh shucks i just realised we're almost 1/3 on our way to becoming 60.

dear char: i hoped that you would leave before jiahui so that she can send u off. since u want alot of people to send u off. right? besides, i know your flight details, really.

SQ322, 30 sept, 2320. see i know.

anyway, i have to do the laundry later after coming back from school. i think that's punishment enough. meanwhile, i'll go add in a few more dates into my calendar. (is it calendar or calander? my handphone accepts both spellings.)

i miss everyone

2005-08-11T18:58:00.000+08:00

clar just told me tt there's a mini-gep gathering-cum-farewell at newton circus later. or rather, soon. probably right now. damn i wanna go. i miss everyone. hope the silly little girl remembers to help me say hi.

anw realised that many pple are leaving very soon.

Watching everyone starting their countdowns reminds me of my own. And just for this once, I’d like to go through the rituals of saying goodbye again. Of the dinners, lunches, brunches. Of days packed with 4 farewells. Of taking wawa to the park twice a day. Staring out of my window at night. Packing and packing and buying new stuff. And of saying goodbye again and over and over again and again. Including feeling this sense of ‘good riddance’ to some people that nonetheless I had to meet, be it out of courtesy, obligation, or intersecting social circles. But more often, secretly crying at having to leave many others.

It’s odd how now that the hardest part of leaving is over, I wanna go through it again. Coz really, now that I think about it, those last few days prior to leaving were so unforgettable. Did things that I always resolved to do. Made a fool of myself like never before. Said things that I never would have said if I had to face some people ever again in the near future.

Starting from the joyride, shopping with peiyi, farewell to ey, aftermath of awards ceremony, contortion stayover at lijia’s house, sentosa, karaoke, brunch, trinity pple, family dinners, steamboat at pp, drinking outside amara, walking wawa 3 times in a day, stoning at home, reading in the hours prior to leaving. And the final farewell at the airport.

Family: grandma, dad, sis, first, second and third aunts and third uncle, uncle lek, wenwen, aunt aileen; washington: char ser xh des jev ian yh cw rus roy; dsta dance ppl: jer ws andy yanjun martin liyong; others: jh, aaron, jq, Gibson, bingkun, bingwen, Christine, Fiona, daryl, xianglong; phone-in-farewell: huiwei, abin and background co wenkien, jonteh, sabrina; message-in-farewell: kiat, sy, clar, mich, shai, seeyah, chim, ting, serlee, oliv, az, aunt lina, uncle peter, aunt evon; ex-classmates: wk, dj, Claire; trinity: xq; half-of-clique: bee and steph; and not forgetting fave artiris gal chris and blur ey desk-ee joon!

Dates to remember:

15th Aug, 16th Aug, 17th Aug, 18th Aug, 23rd Aug, 18th Sept, 28rd Sept, 29th Sept, 30th Sept.

If I left your departure date out, u’re welcome to rant and rave and scream at me.

once again i realise that alot of people are leaving very soon.

extremely good news

2005-08-10T16:07:00.000+08:00

firstly, congrats to puee, aud and mingjing for getting what they truly deserve!

discovery has finally landed! safely thankfully.

i have a two week break coming up in september!

the surfing trip's not fully booked yet!

wawa is starting to play with her new blue squeaky elephant!

the other side of my extended family may be coming to melbourne!

for now that's all the good news. but i think it's damn well enough to make anyone's day=)

happy birthday singapore!

2005-08-08T19:06:00.000+08:00

* * * @@
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(that's meant to be fireworks)

guess what i found in my old camera memory card?

2005-08-05T07:38:00.000+08:00

Shiya, the cute little Vietnamese girl who dint know what she was wearing!

Gorgeous cheongsam girl ruifen who had the guys drooling=P

Melody and whitney, models from India!

Valerielee, my fellow Japanese sushi chef=)

Peiying, taller than ruifen for once, courtesy of pink clogs!

Dingjie and abin, idiots in white, out to ruin our otherwise colourful setup.

already...

2005-08-02T08:30:00.000+08:00

i miss my jiejie.

school

2005-08-01T15:53:00.000+08:00

maths is evil. no calculators allowed. anyone every tried doing 3/29 X 31/8 or 0.36-1.29 mentally since j1?

i have decided that i like all aspects of studying overseas, except for the studying.

food!

2005-07-29T20:53:00.000+08:00

dinner with jingyi at some super spicy place. walked about half an hour to get there. some szechuan ma la stuff. my tongue is now numb. then walked all the way back and popped into some latin-african cafe along the way. had a choco-cinnamon-honey-chilli and smth else drink. apparently the chocolate-chilli effect was inspired from chocolat. not bad actually. price wise... it's as reasonable as night life goes. 15 bucks for chinese food, 5 bucks for a drink.

anw then we happened to walk past some clearance book sale (opened unusuall late for australia life) thing selling this book + bartending kit for 10 bucks. damn tempted to buy. but kinda useless la, no alcohol to play around with. and this leads to the most important quote of the night.

me: i wanted to go work at a bar to learn bartending but my mom said cannot.
him: i can't imagine u doing smth like that.

see, my guai image is just too overwhelming=)

shopping!

2005-07-29T07:22:00.000+08:00

i went shopping yesterday.

=)

AND, i found my high quality cherry-marshmellow chocs.

=)=)=)

jiejie's here!

2005-07-23T17:11:00.000+08:00

yay my sis is here! along with daddy. and my stationary. haha. and the washington photo.

btw, some of the words are quite badly smudged. worst hit is charlene's one coz she writes damn small. and xinghao claims that the purple pen he used is pink so i dunno if some weird oxidation reaction or smth occured in the last week or so.

but i'm glad it's here, and after my family leaves and the room empties a little more, there'll be space on the coffee table to put up photos of friends, family, and darling! and the washington photo will be like, the biggest thing there. haha. thanks so much and miss u all (just a little). haha.

call for anonymous

2005-07-23T17:00:00.000+08:00

dear everyone who tried to call me after i left,

my dad just told me that apparently a number of calls looking for me came in. if u left your name, he's forgotten it, or he's mutated it to a stage where i cant identify u.

if u see this entry, please say smth on the tag board. identify yourself so i can thank you for calling anyway.

farewell presents and cards are also welcome, however belated they may be.

thank you.

regards,
peiying=)

definitions

2005-07-23T11:23:00.000+08:00

antique: the broken clock on the harry-potter looking castle in campus.
courage: taking off your clothes before running into the shower.
determination: the willpower to switch the hot water off in the shower.
true courage: stepping out of the shower.
eagle: things that fly around while i'm walking home. actually i'm told they're just large birds.
gone with the wind: what i suspect happened to the papers i left near the window. also refers to the mysterious disappearance of money from my wallet.
innovation: methods to save water and electricity. and keep warm.
jazz pants: what i forgot to bring from home.
loser: how i felt when i got lost within a 3 metre square area yesterday.
surfwear: dirt cheap. also called mushrooms, oranges and alcohol.
carried away: what happens when a really strong wind blows. also known as blown away, taken aback.
forever: the time taken for the heater to kickstart.
stupidity: eating a huge icecream. but it was SOOO good.
gorgeous: my timetable!

homesick at 3am

2005-07-22T00:58:00.000+08:00

it's not illegal.

dear everyone

2005-07-21T17:36:00.000+08:00

leaving isn't really that bad. in fact, it's fantastic. except for the weather which is freaking cold of course.

understanding accents is another matter altogether. so far i've heard of confusions like melbourne U becoming melbourne zoo, resulting in ppl getting extremely lost. and speaking of getting lost, getting lost in a strange land is oddly exciting. even though i got lost while exploring the city in the rain, wearing 2 inch heel boots and carrying bags of apples and oranges.

not being able to ferry stuff from home all the time is even better. gives excuses to buy, and buy, and buy even more. and it trains you to look out for cheap buys.

alcohol here, and anywhere else other than singapore i am told, is 10 times cheaper than in singapore. but since i've promised a number of people not to drink over here, i'll talk about other drinks. things like apple cider, orange squash, and even milo. yeap, the big tins of milo are cheap too, when bought from supermarts.

singapore. a grand total of forty-two kilometres. i've been around it at least 8 times this year alone. and it does get boring. esp for those who like to get out a little more, walk a little more, have a little more fun, live life a little differently.

the leaving is hard though. so hard. i wanted to get out of singapore so badly, it hurt sometimes. but when it came down to that final few weeks, i wanted so much just to stay behind, it hurt even worse.

and i cried. at home, in my bed, in the middle of the night, talking to wawa, even after i got here. but it's getting much better now, one week on. i'm making friends, i'm learning to cope, i'm learning to be independent for once. i dint even cry when i saw wawa and mama over the webcam for the last 2 nights.

being the youngest, i'm proud to say that my family dotes on me tremendously. ferrying me everywhere, taking care of my every need. i'm also embarrassed to say that i do enjoy such treatment. and that i do miss being spoilt silly.

but now it's finally time for me to grow up.

dear everyone, one week and a day ago, if u'd asked me if i regretted choosing this path, i'd say yes, yes, yes. yes. YES. it would have been tons easier just to stay and do medicine. it would also have been wrong. because deep down inside, i know i wanted this chance so badly.

dear friends from rgs, rjc and dsta, your turn will come to leave. i know many are counting down their last month now. probably everyone's already feeling the pre-departure blues. the inertia to stay. the reluctance to leave what has been home for the past 19 or 21 years.

but we have to go, and really, it's kinda fun.

so take care and remember to keep in touch, coz keeping in touch is the best way of staying sane sometimes.

cheers to everyone, for having to grow up finally, and cheers to you, the bored blog reader, for having read through all randon thoughts of a brain-frozen blogger-addict=)

haha

2005-07-20T17:09:00.000+08:00

me: cmu is a sad and boring place
jiaqi: i have xinghao
jiaqi: ok that sounded wrong.

smth to that extent. yes it sounded very wrong. haha. and i did promise u i'd blog it=)

my apartment!

2005-07-18T15:53:00.000+08:00

that's the toilet, bed, living room, wall, and kitchen + half of the dining area. quite nice, extremely big for one person, slightly scary when i'm alone, and with a study table about 2 metres wide for me to completely mess up! (photos of study table will be shown when it's in a neater state).

melbourne is small too

2005-07-17T17:21:00.000+08:00

yeap. met bena's cousin at the traffic light in town, outside supre. seems singapore isn't the only small place around.

anyway i am currently bored. realised my entertainment is restricted to internet and radio only coz i have no tv. cant wait for school to start...

and there's practically no one online... what happened to the usual dsta crowd!! tsk. wonder where everyone is and how everyone's doing.

i'm kinda like, swinging between this i-miss-home and i'm-so-excited-to-be-here mood now. sigh. no prizes for guessing which mood it is now.

more photos

2005-07-17T07:57:00.000+08:00

some photos

2005-07-16T15:36:00.000+08:00

down under

2005-07-15T17:47:00.000+08:00

yes i finally got internet set up! but it's limited to 2 gig worth of downloads only so will use sparingly. which means not too many webcam conferences...

anyway, melbourne is great! nice (quite) big and pretty room which was super clean to start with (unlike jie's hostel i was told). except my internet isn't wireless so i cant really lie on the bed and use. which is good too coz that'll just mean i'll fall asleep.

ok temperature update: 8 degrees when i arrived, and it's been going around about 8 to 13 degrees.

stuff here is kinda ex, but fruits are dirt cheap. like, 1kg oranges for 99 cents. but, i HATE oranges. bleag. on the bright side though, my room is really not bad. reasonably big, good layout, and decorated with jay posters! will start putting photos up soon...

ok anw, wanna thank everyone who came down to see me off at the airport! was damn fun/touching/scary to have so many ppl there. haha. and ironically, it's probably coz u all went, that i dint cry. =) i only teared slightly. SLIGHTLY.

yeap, so now i'm down under. i miss chinese food. i miss warmth. i miss my family. i miss my friends. i miss sleeping without blankets. i miss taking cold showers. i miss alot of other random things like lying on the cold floor, ice cream, not having to care about bills and such. and i miss my darling.

that said, 4 years is a short time. especially since i intend to go back at every chance i get. and the experience will be just so great that maybe i won't wanna go back. haha.

random (sometimes useless) facts
it takes exactly the time to talk from the first to last carridge as it takes for the mrt to travel from bishan to braddell. (found out on last day in singapore when going to airport)
cold tends to bite through the toes and fingertips
it takes alot of time to unpack, and even more time to go buy stuff that i dint bring.
australia's internet connection sucks! it's not wireless, and it's so ex... 60 AUD for 2 gig.
tralala is MY trademark line.
get a small size heater instead of using the room's (if u're paying yr electricity bill) coz it saves alot (i hope)
and blah blah blah blah blah. i'll think of more next time...

hint to everyone: bring whatever u think u can bring, and whatever u can shove into the luggage. sleeping on my pillow and hugging my blanket probably helped me through my first night significantly. and bring thermal wear. it can save lives.

projection version 2.0

2005-07-10T10:27:00.000+08:00

20 years later, we meet again...

aud: welcome to the istana!
puee: hmmm it's big. seems i need to extend the north wing into 11 downing street.
jiahui: i will build it!
puee: recall the last time my west wing collapsed due to sound activated grenades? i wonder who was behind it.
jiahui blushes and pretends to examine the floor
chim: wow is this your diamond studded throne? wow.
chim strolls up the red carpet doing her now infamous royal wave. chim settles herself on the throne. everyone waits with baited breath for something good to happen.
chim: if i touch it more will it become mine?
chim starts stroking the diamonds. suddenly there is this 'twang' sound as the chair jerks forward, catapulting chim into the arms of 4 officers dressed in black with tags that say 'not-from-isd'.
chim: oooh, works of art!
aud coughs and does some eyebrow thing.
the men drop her hastily.
chris: can we see that pretty pink room at the corner?
aud whistles. the room moves towards us.
aud: and this is the security control room.
peiying: can we press the buttons?
everyone except ting: NO!
ting: NOZ!
peiying: fine. sulks.
puee: i'm not hungry. but where's the food anyway?
aud claps twice. 2 plates of burnt-looking pineapple tarts appear.
aud: the right tray is for chim, the left tray is for everyone else.
puee: so we take the tray right on the left?
chim bites into her special tray and starts choking on flour.
chim: why is it empty?!?!?!
everyone except ting: we wonder why.
ting: ve vonderz vy
junwan: huh why?
everyone bites in and starts choking on pineapple. burnt, black pineapple.
aud: nice? i baked these last month when i wasn't so busy.
junwan: but u're not with dsta or mindef. why're u making weapons of mass destruction?
aud: these are for u all to eat! i made lunch too! who's hungry?
silence all round
ting: ze zerman ambazzidor iz vaiting vor me inz my offize.
chris: i need to host the international security congress
peiying: i suddenly remembered that i forgot to close the unopened windows at home.
clar: sorry i have to walk my dog.
puee: excuse me, i have to celebrate my birthday with napolean.
junwan: i need to go for orientation.
jiahui: i need to go shopping at artiris with chris and peiying.
chim has a sudden stroke of genius
chim: where's ser?
peiying: i dint mark her attendence so she's not here.
chris: we should go look for her.
the room empties rapidly.
aud (to the not-from-isd officers): let's go eat.
the not-from-isd officers rapidly melt into the walls.