updates

hello hello! it has been a crazy week! had intro to micro test this week and alloottt of assignments had been assigned. suuppppper sianss lehhhhhhhhh. anyway i realised i forgot to blog about tennis. had 2 sessions so far and still very lousy, cant really serve properly and my front and back stroke still quite shaky. oh and i met ferlin's fencing friend through tennis. haha we happened to be in the same session. so coincidental because i remembered ferlin telling me during the bbq that she just went for the farewell of her fencing friend. so its her!

hmmm i also duno what to blog about, nothing much had happened and life is still as boring as it was. oh oh oh very horrible leh! i kept streaming videos on youtube until now my internet usage only has 100+mb left! SHIT! 100+mb for 9 days?! nevermind, i just need to ren for one more week and i can change plan! whew* finally. cannot take it anymore. i wana stream videos and play online cooking games until i drop! (onto the floor)

mid-sem break is around 1 month away, 22sept! some people are going home, some will be going away for short trips. and i'll still be stuck here. =( well nevermind, most people will be stuck here as well for 2 weeks, so we'll see what we can do. maybe celebrate mid-autumn festival! haha. so egggggciting. i like bing pi yue bing ALOT! without egg yolk of course. and we can play with lanterns (imported from singapore through my friend's mum), light candles and burn ants! (if we can find one) probably can drink some tea, munch on to pomelos and read some poems under the moonlight. (ya right haha)

im rather excited for tomorrow night because there's australian idol coming up! haha looks good. and i think im addicted to so you think you can dance! shit i need to stop watching so much tv and get to work. okay i must. =)))) byebye!

to danielle: hey hey hey ying er! how are you? i saw the steamboat photos from uhu's facebook! haha help me tell angeline she is very cute. hahaha the twist photo hahaha! i'm going for the singapore day already! i wana eat roti prata, wonton mee and laksa! thanks for informing though! =D

yippee fridays!

haha i think my blog is super active now, cannot control not to blog especially when i see those tags. HAHA must reply man!

to nat: hey wakeboarding is damn cool! do you need to pay for that? im glad you're back into netball again. =)) haha okay set i wana go crash.

to audrey: HAHAHAHA hilarious audrey! HAHAHA!!! you're still as blur and long-winded as ever! really ak47 leh you. HAHA gossipy auntie! that role so suit you! i think the director purposely put you in that role haha! (cannot stop laughing hahaha gossipy auntie hahaha) anyway the yo is not hip hop kind of yo is yo~ you know, yo~. haha.

to me: not funny, of course can lah!

to mies: the towel is not smelly! i brought it here with me too. haha.

to renee: haha okay we can organise a home-cooked meal dinner some day but just to let you know my cooking not very good arh, can get things cooked only. =D

hey yippee its friday! yippee fridays! yippee yah yah yippee yippee yah~ haha mad. anyways i love fridays! have lessons from 9am-1pm, day when i end earliest. how nice i've been looking forward to a break since the start of the week. i must finish all the tutorials of the week by monday from this week onwards because i realised its very tough and tiring to be always chasing tutorials during weekdays. like after lessons its already how late and im already so tired (because my days always start so early! argh) i still have to cook when im home (sometimes). after washing up and everything i just feel like resting you know, but still have to chase up with tutorial work and read notes. super sians! so now i've decided to declare sundays and mondays as official working days where i complete all tutorials for the week. weekdays will be so much less hectic then, still can revise lecture notes slowly. no need to chiong or rush through! so that leaves friday to pure enjoyment day and that's why fridays are yippee friday! =DDD (if you're wondering what happened to saturday that is grocery and laundry day! plus abit of enjoyment too hah)

went to smith street today to scout for sweat pants to wear at home (because i only have one pathetic track pants to wear!) and to wear for jogging/when exercising. (need to start moving my body and exercise my heart already!) smith street is a street where all the addidas, converse, nike factory outlet stores are. went today after school and got myself a pretty nike jogging pants! really like it alot and its quite a good buy too. so with that i think im quite motivated to visit the gym already.

and yah its horrible today! was freaked out when i saw tram conductors getting onto my tram, thought they gonna check our tram tickets because i didn't validate my metcard (as always). somemore my friend got checked this morning and she almost got fined $150 for illegal tram hop. so we hurry went to validate our cards but it turned out to be a false alarm. chey but its okay lah, better don't play with fire, i shall just be a nice citizen and follow rules from now on. so scary!

after that i bought macDonalds home for dinner, one month never touch fast food/MacDonalds already. haha tried the double cheese burger and its nice! so yummy. just that the fries very skinny, dun like. prefer sg's one. and i realise the shows on local tv are quite nice too. got so you think you can dance, watched the auditions in sg before i came here, then now its like last 14 already. and there's olympics too! beijing is so happening now haha. but the local tv always show swimming because that's like their niche, i wana watch table tennis for sg leh. anyways i think i can just slack at home for the entire day doing nothing lah. so fun. slacking sessions are nice and enjoyable. i love it. so i love fridays. yippee!

sighs lotsa assignments and tests are coming up so i forsee i'll have less enjoyable slacking sessions with myself. =(( gotta go perform an interview tomorrow on some children for pyschology lab class. and after that can relax awhile and eat pancakes! yays i hope time can pass slower so that sunday will not arrive too quickly. for now, its yippee slacking cum snacking time again! =DD

PS. OH qihui said she'll be visiting me during november after our exams!! yays! cant wait to see her mans! =D

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hello im damn tired now. got really scared just now when delly wouldn't respond to anything i did to her. she got sick because my friend was here to help me install printer and he accidentally knocked the plug off when my delly was still on-ed, so it was a sudden shut down. and then my friend never off delly properly and i didn't know, so i just switch off the main switch and it was a second improper shut down. in the end when i turned her on again she got hanged! my goodness so scary. delly cannot die on me man, she is very very important to me. (i feel abit pyschotic here)

to mies: hello stop calling me maojing! goodness that is like how many years ago! i think 7 years ago you know! when we were 12. haha.

to minqi: hey i love singapore. always very patriotic. i have a singapore flag in my room now. haha. you miss looking at my face? can try looking at my photo! haha.

to xx: haha i thought all along you've got the link!

to me: hello i'm the real me okay, stop imposing other people! the last character you imposed was harry potter dun think i duno. my cbox tagboard is very old so i can dish out old tags!

to sharon: hey thanks yea i saw her singing with hardy(?) on the broadcast already. haha not too bad this year's song. though home and where i belong are still the best. hee.

to val: hahaha val you're damn funny! never fails to make me laugh at your tags/comments you know! yea psychology SOUNDS interesting. sounds only.

to sisi: zhen shi de! how could you not watch ndp its free! please learn to appreciate singapore the sunny island more okay. haha. oh dear, i realised the pledge was wrong after watching ndp. haha.

to renee: haha yah super long ago. quite shocked its still around when i log in to cbox. haha. but its good! then i dun have to create a new one. anyways yah everything is fine here i guess, just that im not really having loads of fun here, im dead tired everyday. =(((

to nat: hey what's so funny about me joining tennis?! angry already. haha.

i think recently i've been eating a mountain of food everyday. eat until my stomach become damn big and bloated. but i still feel hungry and the urge to eat something after meals! what's going on?! i'm not that greedy in sg! and there was this afternoon where it was really cold and im dying to eat something warm and soupy but there's nothing to eat at home, so in the end i ate my leftover orange from last night. and on that same night i went off to move a full cart of dried food supply back home. haha. and i realised im not the only one, my friends are all suffering from similar symptoms! no wonder people turn fat you know. horrible. stupid weather. anyways tennis tomorrow. quite excited. heehee. byebye! (horrible hungry again!)

opportunity costs

its freezing cold here i think im turning into an icewoman soon. SUPER! spring is supposed to be coming isn't it? what's wrong with those wind man. SIAO! *shivers*

anyways yah was blog hopping once again and its quite sad reading those posts, sad to know that im not understanding the things/activities they were talking about or what they were enjoying so much about in their life. sad that i cant be there sharing the same experience as everyone else is now. distance do make a difference yo, even with technology, i think i'm missing out on so many things. the biggest part is of course growing up and learning together with everyone else. the opportunity cost of coming here i guess. costly choice.

third week into school and there are more and more things to do. super sians. anyways i think im turning into an auntie soon (18 is far too early to be an auntie! my goodness! i need my youth back.). now i know why homemaker/housewife is an occupation you know. and a tough one okay!

signs of turning into an auntie number 1: groceries shopping
compare prices over a number of supermarkets before deciding what to buy at which supermarket
"oh you getting this? dun buy here, i think big w sells it cheaper by 20cents, we go there and get this later." "oh dun buy chicken from here its so much cheaper at qv market."

signs of turning into an auntie number 2: dinner planning
thinking of what to cook for dinner everyday
"hey what are you cooking for dinner today? i duno what to cook! should i cook caixin? or cauliflower? suggestions!"

signs of turning into an auntie number 3: rough hands
rough and wrinkled hands from dishes and laundry despite finishing one whole bottle of moisturizer

signs of turning into an auntie number 4: never dress up
always giving lots of excuses not to dress up.
"aiya no need to comb hair the wind is gonna mess it up anyway." "don't have to dress nicely anyway you cover it with so many layers outside, also cannot see what you wear inside." "go market only no need to put on make up lah." ...

signs of turning into an auntie number 5: exchanging recipes, conversation with friends always circling around dosmestic work
"hey i want to introduce you this super nice food/sauce/method of cooking chicken. i teach you how to save on electricity. get a kettle instead of electric water cooker since gas is cheaper than electricity."

i need to dress up! i need to talk about cooler stuff other than recipes and how to save electricity! essentially i need to stop acting like an auntie! arghh.

taggie!

heyyy!! i've retrieved my old tagboard from cbox! haha. had been looking through blogger on how to insert a tagboard into this new system, and realised how easy it actually was, like even easier than last time where we have to really go into the template and manually copy and paste the html in. oh well its much easier and neater this way. =))) so now everybody can leave a message! because i realised to leave comments you have to like have a blog right? opps didn't notice until uhu told me. haha. okay! so that's it! oh oh since im here...

TODAY IS THE START OF BEIJING OLYMPICS 2008! 080808! okay 080808 came with a price i guess. if anyone of you received the sms linking olympics with the earthquake in sichuan, you'll know what i mean. anyways you know the china chinese are so united i see them wearing the olympics t-shirts here. super cool. their hearts are like still closely linked to their home country despite the thousands and million miles separating them away from home. SO... we mustn't lose to them!

tomorrow is national day and we the citizens of singapore are not gonna forget! woohoo! happy birthday singapore! 43 years old! =D

"we the citizens of singapore, pledge ourselves as one united nation, regardless of race, language or religion, to build a democractic society, so as to acheive happiness, prosperity and progress for our nation!" (oh dear it sounds wierd to me, did i get anything wrong? shit too long never practise already lah)

anyways! yah! we are all going for ndp! =)) it will be a live broadcast straight from home at melbourne central and the thing again is we gotta pay! =(( a freaking 10bucks when we can get to watch at home for free. but its okay! i guess its the heart that matters, so lets not put too much emphasis on money okay (uhu). heehee. yea but i realise i don't have any red tops to go with my white pants! how?? (omg i feel so patriotic, like who cares when we were back in sg! maybe i got motivated by those china chinese here. haha.)

"count on me singapore~ count on me singapore~"
"there was a time, when people said that singapore won't make it, but we did~ and we made it through all 43 years~" (oh my gosh im mad, trying to write my own lyrics)

anyways can you all tell me who's singing the theme song for national day this year? i feel so cut off from the outside world, duno what's happening around me. haha okay im hungry. gonna get some food. byebye! =))

updates

haha today's lecture of mind brain behaviour (psychology subject/module you call it in sg) was interesting! im starting to feel better about taking this super time consuming subject. we're into social-emotional development - attachment today and the lecturer always showed us video clips and they are all so interesting! the previous one was on genes vs environment and she showed us a video about twins, having same genes same environment vs same genes different environment and see how it affects human development. and today's was even nicer because she showed us a laboratory experiment with infant monkeys. the monkey was seperated from its mother since he was born and they made him 2 surrogate mothers. one wire mother which provides him with food and water and another cloth mother, which provides like warmth, comfort and sense of security (maybe to him because wire is so cold and hard!) and then they observed the monkey. it was so cute because he just jumped onto the wire mother and drank abit of milk/water and immediately ran back to hug the cloth mother so tightly! haha. damn cute. and then they introduced a threat, which is like a very disturbing and wierd looking robot, it gives out alot of wierd sounds and its moving. so they placed this stupid robot in front of the monkey and observed how he react and haha omg the poor monkey he was so scared he immediately jumped onto the cloth mother and just hugged her and clinged on to her so tightly. secretly turning and stealing glances at the robot and hiding his face back again. like from his face you can tell he was really very disturbed and afraid of the robot. the whole thing looked very hilarious because the cloth mother was actually something like a robot itself. haha. was so amused by the clip.

anyways yea its week 2 of the term now and i think everything has start falling into place. lectures tutorials in full swing and activities are coming up. oh btw i joined the tennis club! =))) i've always wanted to learn tennis even when im in sg. i was actually contemplating between squash, underwater club and tennis because they all sounds so interesting and i want to do them all. but the thing about here is everything needs money! was so super annoyed by all the membership fees, course fees, equipment fees and every other nonsense that you need to pay for. underwater club is super cool because we get to learn scuba diving!! get a license/cert and then go for weekend trips to neighbouring islands that sort of stuff. really really cool but its super ex! like $400+ for course fee, and then they have membership fee, and each weekend trip costs too. so i didn't join in the end. =(( (though its cheaper to learn here as compared to sg, but now cant arh need to budget! =(( ) and then there is this horse riding club which sounds really fun too! cant wait to join but then again you need to pay! SUPER SIANS. did horse riding once in new zealand and i really like it! like just ride on a horse and enjoy the weather, the scenery, the breeze, the laziness of it all and the smell of nature! how shiok is that! so i dun care! im gonna budget and just go for the horse riding club! =D

andd yahh i finally found debbie tan nat! haha. i found her last wednesday specifically after transition to commerce lecture at 5pm. was like talking to a friend and then he was like hey this is debbie (introducing the person beside him). haha. immediately you know! i was like are you debbie tan? are you debbie tan from rv? do you know who is nathalie huang. haha. damn funny, din even give her time to respond. yea so we are friends now nat, stop pestering me about her already okay. lol. and i think debbie reminds me so much of wanling and linna combine! she talks like wanling and looks like linna! with those sheepish eyes and chubby cheeks. haha. and i just went to her house tonight to eat dinner because her daddy is here to help her with accomodation and her daddy was so bored at home while she's in school he went qv market and whipped up a really good dinner! you know i haven really had a good nice home cooked dinner since i left home and tonight was really sumptuous. what's with his bah kut teh, stew pork, egg, vege specifically cai xin, brocolli and deep fried prawns! my goodness how shiok can it get man. i haven drank nice chinese soup in a long while (with campbell soups filling my cupboard) and haven eaten pork too. needless to say fried prawn. haha. yea so had a really good dinner.

another good dinner i had this week was over at a friend's house and we cooked sweet and sour chicken! omg sweet and sour you know! immediately two bowls of rice already lah. haha. yea will get the photos uploaded really soon but must first dl the image resizer program thing if not it'll take forever to upload because i've got like so many photos! oh another thing is last thursday i saw my fourth rainbow in my life! so pretty! it was a double rainbow somemore! we were like walking out of school after lessons around 4+ and we just stepped out only! just only and there it is a big pretty rainbow greeting us goodbye, directly in front of us in the sky! gosh. cant really put that moment into words but its really really magical. nice. =))

okay gotta go sleep soon. hope everyone is doing fine, especially to people who are starting their first week of school. take care and enjoy youselves to the fullest!!! =)) byebye!

hi

hey there its time for updates again! this week passed kind of quickly.

okay first thing i want to say is no wonder i haven heard from any one from home this one whole week. didn't know such a terrible thing happened and i am still so stuck here unable to go join them in the wake and rituals. today is the last day of her wake before they're gonna cremate her body, so i guess there'll be lots of rituals going on. i so want to be there too! sighs. if only i knew earlier. i only knew it on friday night which is like yesterday lah. want to go back also too late already. though i knew its only a matter of time before she'll leave us but i din expect it to be that fast! like i thought at least she'll still be around till i go back for vacation or something. yea my great grandmother just passed away this tuesday.

okay no feel to blog already. update another day.