updates

today can be voted as one of the hottest day since i came here. the sun is practically burning every thing under it man. within one hour i immediately turn into a roasted pork ribs! and sweated like i've never sweated in ages (which sadly to say is true). went for the last tennis lesson today and damn, i still cant swerve properly. and my backhand... :(

the scary flies are out now, in full swarm super disgusting! i've long heard stories about these flies, being slow, being big, being lazy and un-afraid of human. but i've never really experienced them until today. EEKS! keep circling around my head non-stop, and one even landed on my eyelid momentarily. i can still feel its big body on my eyelid now damn gross!!! totally remind me of that stupid toad in my school shoe last time. that feeling which lingered on my foot, same as the feeling which lingered on my eyelid now. though the toad one's still the ultimate.

and the ants, big black ants are all out and active!!!! eee i really hate ants to the max leh. they are totally the king of pests can, crowned by me. cockroaches at least they are relatively big and they don't come out in streams, a vacuum cleaner pesticide or slipper would do the job. rat a rat trapper, but ants!!! how to kill?! you kill a dozen today a hundred will emerge again tomorrow. never-ending! and i hate it that they are so small. humph all in all all sorts of pests should just go extinct, especially ANTS! the mp3 incident still gives me shivers whenever i think of it. *shivers*

okay i digressed. anyways i wanted to say after the session i had a very very strong craving for 100plus without gas. 100 plus!!! :( became really grumpy when i realised there isn't 100 plus here to drink after exercise. how can?! 100 plus the best isotonic drink! :(( proceeded to safeway (supermarket like ntuc) to buy whatever i intended to buy. and when i walked past the aisle which display soft drinks, a certain unknown invisible force pushed me into walking down that aisle and shifted my vision to the top most corner shelf and there it is! 100 PLUS! HAHAHA. sitting nice and steady alongside other isotonic drink. :DDD immediately grab a can can. haha. and continued with my groceries shopping with this change in mood :(( --> :DD

bought alot of unhealthy food back. instant noodles and canned campbell soup. i need excitement in my breakfast menu! i've been eating ham sandwich for the past 6 days consecutively, reason being need to consume the ham within 5 days after opening. super sians. super sick of having to chiong food because of expiry date, and worst thing is after finishing the food, you realise you gotta start the cycle all over again (the chionging food cycle) when you buy new ones. its a viscous cycle. neways, hahaha, say byebye to ham sandwich tomorrow, its garlic bread all over again, but this time round with mushroom soup!

exams are starting next week, this week of study break's gonna end soon. but man, who cares i cant wait for it to be here and over. my breakfast menu is never going to be boring again when i go back. wanton mee, mee pok, nasi lemak, fishball noodles, roti prata, laksa wow i am such an unhealthy girl through and through. wait for me poh tian(?) wanton mee!

*yumin is 27 days from home wheeee~*

reply to tags:

renee: renee tay you are finally back! haha where have you disappered to? :D

mel: mello wello jello!! haha cant resist not to call you that hahaha. hey yes i realise there is in asian supermarket! :) northpoint has been revamped?! gosh i am so excited to see its new look haha. and what why does my block resembles a watermelon? haha they better not do anything to my block! but watermelon sounds cute.

mies: haha even if i didn't he cant do anything because i'll be in the house.

xx: haha is xiang4 hua4 ma1 hua is number 4!! lol disturb you. jia you for your exams you can do it! don't stress! :)

wanling: hey ya indeed im surprised haha. yea i miss odac alot alot too. always thinking about those stuff we did last time. :( and uni isn't as great for me as well. boring and mundane. nothing much. luckily there's holidays! :) seeya really soon during your dec hols and take care! haha.

burglary

as the title suggests, yes a burglary took place at my block last monday! gosh this is terrible, with all the security, cctv, card and everything, cant believe it happened.

last monday i was at home preparing to go for tennis when i heard a sound coming from my door, like someone trying to open the door knob very very lightly, but of course he/she whoever (my strong instinct tell me its a he!) cant open since the door was locked. so the sound's like tick then gone. because its usually very quiet here, like really quiet you can hear the tiniest sound. so i hurried over to the peep hole and yes peep out but i saw no one! so i thought i might have imagined the sound or something and went for tennis.

when i came back at night immediately saw notices looking for lost laptops, mp3 and bag. and the next day notices asking us to lock our doors and close our windows from the authorities. then everything started falling into place. on the same day one of the victim posted a notice telling us what happened. he said the burglar(s) went around checking everybody's doors, if it's unlocked, he just went in and took laptops. worst of all he said he's not the only one who's laptop got stolen! apartments which were not locked on the entire level all suffered. included my level. so thats 2. maybe more who knows. but i think he suffered (economically) most because he lost 2 laptops, 1 mp3 and 1 bag! gosh laptop! i would rather lose cash then laptop can! its our only tool to connect to the world and all our assignments, data, photos, songs, shows are all in it! cant imagine my life without my delly man. though sometimes its abit loud abit slow abit "sort" abit heavy, (not alot what) but you know, its okay because i cant live without it!

alrighty yes i know i always lock my door and never ever opens my window (because there's a big fat spider living on my window sill! humph xiang4 hua4 ma1) so i guess i'll be fine? but that incident left me more suspicious than ever, respond to the tiniest tiniest sound and become so yi shen yi gui. haha always thinking someone will spring into my house when im bathing or something.

right its week 11 into the semester and next week will be the last week of sem 1! :)) okay i won't say what everybody is saying, "don't you think time passes very fast?" no i refuse to agree because i want to go home!!!! so please double your speed so i can go home, and when i reach home slow down again can? heehee. oh no im sorry i take back my words, i forgot all about exams! hahaha.

anyways its time to choose new subjects for next sem now and im troubled. yes very troubled over breadth subject. i duno what to take as breadth! :( definitely not continuing with psychology that's for sure. probably i'll take up a language or something, not many choices anyway. chinese? hahaha siao. probably take something practical and usable. like hmm, indonesian aka malay or japanese? im not decided yet. most probably i'll take malay i think. i know everybody will go like eee why you take malay? but hey what's wrong with malay? we're surrounded by malay speaking countries and at least i can use it when i go malaysia or something. haha or converse with malay friends in malay. so its rather practical and won't forget that easily plus its in abc too, so shouldn't be as hard as jap eh. :D

reply to tags (7oct upwards):

audrey - hello audrey stop calling me an auntie can! i am not an auntie! not even near there! haha! and happy advance birthday!!!! :)))
p.s i did not look around blurly ak47!

xx - don't misunderstand im sure you're still the only sotong or should i say hutong? haha.

peixuan - HAHAHA PEIXUAN!!! hahaha! okay i won't say "i never tag" hahaha!

may - what as blur as always??? my goodness the daylight saving time post totally spoilt my image, since when am i the blur one??? i thought it has always been audrey whose the blur one? haha.

cheryl - cheryl!!!!! hahaha so happy to see you!!! (i mean hear from you) haha how are you?! did you do anything to my rich while im away these few months?! both of you arh better don't let me catch you betraying me!! hahaha. i miss you funnygoldfish89!

me - how many times did i say not to use me?! people will think its me you know! please change to glue or something can. hahaha uhu glue.

lee si - OKAY!!! hahahaha i wana crash your hall and disturb you!!!! hahaha

nat - okay yours too. i wana go and stay in your hall too! kent ridge! haha.

val - haha hey valzzzz!!! i miss you too!! i am heading home soonzzz 3 dec!! :)) interactive? haha yea i like to interact with myself haha crazy.

xx - cant lah, i cant really use webcam because i have internet cap. sometimes even have to go school to use computer how to video conference! :(

stay healthy

my shoulder muscles are sore from holding the mouse for too long and my eyes cant function anymore. crazy accounting assignment! can totally fight with psychology essay. my poor eyes, it was seeing abcs a few weekends ago and now its 123 all over. sighhhs. really hate the accounting software, what would be completed manually within a day's assignment now took me 2 days. totally duno how to use the software man. sians to the max.

and im so sick of spending every weekend studying and doing work. so sick of the routine. i am literally a book worm, and worst still i think im turning into a woodblock soon! limited social life.

i want to exercise, i want to start running again. i know i want to, but what's stopping me? miss running on sa's track. those days during pe while we train for napha test. so fun. feel yourself going against the wind, feel your body working out and best of all feeling fit and healthy. okay decided, im gonna visit the gym next week after submitting all the assignments. :)

daylight saving time

while i was in the toilet just now after showering, i heard my neighbour singing! GOSH that is very bad news because that means all this while while i was bathing, my neighbours could actually hear me sing too!!! SHIT.

from yesterday onwards melbourne will be ahead of singapore time by 3 hours. originally 2 but from yesterday onwards until april 2009, it will be 3. no wonder my lappie's time suddenly changed on sunday, from 2pm to 3pm and i was like, eh? what happen, i looked at the alarm clock on my table and my laptop's time, very smart me decided something must be wrong with the laptop's time so i changed it and started to live my life one hour behind everyone else's. haha. so i happily reported late for tennis by an hour today, still thinking why are my tennis mates different. really a big joke man, it was then that i knew about this daylight saving time thing. so every year around october they will change the time and tune it to be an hour ahead so there is more daylight, like 6pm become 7pm, so by 7pm there will still sunlight and the day is kind of extended. and they will change the time back again by next year.

luckily i have no lessons today if not i would have missed all of them. its so annoying! don't tamper with time leh, body clock cannot be changed that easily one okay. angry already lah.

school's gonna start tomorrow and i kind of regretted not starting on my assignments early. :(( die, so going to die if i cant finish my assignments by this weekend.

reply to tags:

sharon: yes sharon see you in dec!!! haha. cant wait.

lee si: hey sisi i'll be staying in sg until end of feb!!! how shiok haha because school's only starting on 2nd march. :)

xx: yea xx thanks for making my tagboard SO lively arh. haha.

joleen: YOU ARE EATING MY MEE POK?! i also want to eat! no you didn't help me at all, my crave for it is like 5 times now. haha. no no chance to take puffing billy anymore because school's gonna reopen again, damn sians.

caiying: caiying! haha very rare visitor of my blog! yea we can celeb christmas tgt! haha so glad i'll be back by then. :))) and i took alot of photos already, take somemore my camera's gonna explode haha. its all on facebook though, too lazy to upload here again. :)

mel: mel mel mel mel mel!!!!! haha yes i'm coming back so happy! :) gone were those days where i would randomly bump into you on 812/northpoint/bus interchange since you're living "overseas". haha i read your blog yo. :D

minqi: hey minqi!! pink panther yarh haha. your life sounds so exciting! im glad you're making full use of your time now, doing things that you like. they will all be worthwhile some 50 years later when you look back upon your life. :)) so where are you heading to on 10dec? haha. YARH odac gathering! but must wait for qihui and clarissa to come back too first. heehee.

may: heys may! oh no don't be sad for me! yea though sometimes it can be quite miserable, but that is really only SOME times. haha i can self entertain! (like singing in the toilet while bathing, pretending my conditioner bottle is a mic) and i can talk to myself and self amuse, so life's pretty exciting around here. yumin is strong. physically. wait till i flex and show you my muscles when im back. haha! thanks alot anyway mays! :))) love you!

me: hahahaha omg you are so funny!!! really is a laughing biscuit hahaha oh dear why am i so high now hahaha! (you must be wondering what you said right, hahaha but no its not about what you said, its about your face! hahaha cannot forget that gong look you always have in the morning hahaha) and what's with your doubts in your comment? are you sure... yes i am sure. as for visiting me, please check your email. haha.

nat: haha yes nat i will cheng xia qu! for another 2 months only. :)

mies: okay we MUST meet up when im back. haha. :D

val: go eat then! satay and chicken rice is really damnnnnn shiok! haha. still rmb your milo during mt ophir. hahaha val you are so cute i want to pinch your cheeks! (omg i miss pinching cheryl's cheeks! lol funnygoldfish@hotmail.com)

singapore day

singapore day turn out to be a small disappointment, probably because again i was too overly excited over it and expecting too much from it. the royal melbourne show was too good to be compared with singapore day but of course its unfair to compare because the scale of the show was so much bigger.

the aim of singapore day is actually to "remind" overseas singaporeans that singapore is their home, singapore has transformed into such an attractive country to reside in that everybody overseas should come home with their families and stay back home. so there are booths like army booth (probably to show that sg is a safe country to live in? i duno! haha), education booth (to show how well-rounded sg's education system is so that people who are thinking to start a family or who have already started should bring their children back for education) and of course not to forget food booth the ultimate climax of the day. they brought in char kuay teow, hokkien mee, chicken rice, satay, grilled chicken wings, nasi lemak, roti prata, nasi briyani (im not sure about this but i remembered seeing someone eating it!) bah chor mee (omg my mee pok!), claypot rice, spaghetti (i duno what's so authentic about spaghetti because its not like we're italy, but they brought it over anyway), chendol and ice kachang. i hope i didn't miss anything.

yarh that's alottt of food, but i only got to eat chicken rice, char kuay teow, satay and chicken wing because the queues are like crazy. our chicken rice, char kuay teow and satay cost us around 1 and a half hour of our time, though the food are free, but ahem, in an economist point of view (yah economist that's me) it is not!

there were performances too, by hardy, tay ping hui and pck and family. the show by pck and family was really really good, haha really laugh out loud can. i want to sing engrish shongs, and there was this dispute over the pronunciation of esplanade, esplanade or esplanut because chu kang kept insisting it was esplanut, and it ended with pck asking nah-than or nad-than. haha everybody was like, okay nothing to rebutt and rosy said nat-han. my goodness so stupid can. haha stupid until its so funny cannot take it.

this singapore day left me more homesick than ever, not because their aim of reminding us singapore is our home was being met, (like anyone needs reminder of where our home is, if some people need then i rather the country not have these people because they'll definitely be the first to run if anything happens! home is home! okay! don't understand why some people can just migrate away from the lovely sunny island. they must be mad! mad!) but because of those familiar smell of hawker centre and coffeshop that float around us when we're queuing for food, those familiar accent coming from people right left front and back of us, familiar singaporean faces (yes singaporeans do have a face i realise!) we see when we walk everywhere just struck me on how much i wanted to be back home at that moment. to be back in the familiar environment and around familiar people, to be walking on real city hall land, eating in the real newton circus, strolling along the real marina bay looking out and taking photo with a real esplanade. the reason why i put so many real is because they tried to create the sg feel by putting up pictures of esplanade, roadsigns of city hall, marina bay, newton circus and clarke quay. haha. so cute. yeah so if you say sg day can help ease some of our homesickness, it is definitely a big WRONG comment to pass. (is my wrong big enough?)

my goodness i sound like a big baby crying for mum, never would i want to admit i am homesick because i never thought i would. but now, no choice arh, spurred by the continuous dreams i've been having these few nights, of being back home. actually secretly everybody around me are homesick and wants to go home, don't think i never notice arh! haha! nothing escape my eyes~ (yah talk cock) what's with the rush of changing flight dates when the exam time table is out even though its only a few days of difference. what's with the excitement in the air when october arrives because we're another month closer to going home.

but i must calm down! this two months will be a very crucial period of time, its everything we're working for and i must do well for the exams, so i mustn't be too carried away by the excitement of being able to go home. end of singapore day also means end of mid-sem break, tomorrow onwards its back to the mundane routine. on a brighter side though, the routine will only last for another 59 days!!! :DDD

alamak, despite all that was being said (typed?), the excitement still kept surging through me. i am already thinking about 2nd dec night, i think i might fall asleep early, because time pass faster when we're asleep, and when i open my eyes the next day, I AM GOING TO GO HOME!!! my heart might burst open with happiness and excitement on the plane back, a few hours away from home... :)

(WAKE UP YUMIN)

mid-sem break

i've found something to excite my breakfast menu and that is garlic bread!!! my goodness how delicious can garlic bread get, damn shiok. haha. garlic bread with mushroom soup, slurps. im gonna try garlic bread with milk tea tmr, its so nice its nice on its own! haha and i just realise my microwave actually have oven functions too! woohoo apple pies here i come.

okay enough of food. i have confirmed my return flight this december and I AM GOING HOME ON 3 DECEMBER!!!!!!!! WAHAHA. "i want the world to know, i want to shout it out loud, that this is where i know i belong~~~" =DDDD my exam timetable is out too, my last paper is on 24 november, so actually i can go back earlier! but too bad all the flights are full, and i need some time to pack my stuff and shift house too. so, oh well, 3dec it shall be then. oh yah i am shifting away from my current apartment! madness the rent in melbourne is crazy, increase exponentially over time. especially my apartment, too over for the location, though size is really good for the price i am paying NOW.

mmm spring has finally arrive. i see flowers i smell wind (smell of wind haha). but crazy melbourne weather, can get so hot in the afternoon with its blazing sun and yet so freezing cold at night. sometimes even cold the entire day, so unstable that i duno what to wear when i go out!

anyways mid-sem break is almost coming to an end, and that means my assignment deadlines are nearing... gosh dun care first. went to the royal melbourne show last wednesday, its something like an annual carnival in melbourne and it turn out to be a great deal of fun! haha. ALOTT of people especially families and the atmosphere's really cool, with people wearing wigs of all colours, and explosive ones too! african explosive hair, we were so tempted to get one and wear too haha. and big and exaggerating shades and hat. so sad i din manage to take a photo of those funny specs and hat. anyway its quite hard to also.

went to the tulip farm last saturday, for this one i think the photos will speak much better for me. so i'll upload them onto facebook later. actually wanted to go strawberry farm too, but the season's not quite right yet, so have to give it a miss for now. there are alot more tourist attractions around here that i want to visit leh, really hope one day can finish visiting all. i want to take puffing billy!!! =(( somehow reminds me of hogwarts express, with all the steam and scenery along its route. haha. i also want to be a witch! i want to eat all flavour beans (bogey flavour haha!) on hogwarts express and i want dumbledore to be my headmaster!! haha he's so cute. (cries* dumbledore died!!! NO!) heard that the half blood prince movie is postponed to june is it? WHYYYY?!!!! waited for so long already!!! HUMPH!

this saturday is singapore day in melbourne and i am soooo looking forward to it!!! haha cant wait mans. phua chu kang is coming!! =DDD and i really want to eat my mee pok leh! lol.

reply to tags
xx: hello who is that lucky girl who talks and acts like me? ask her to come and meet me please. and hey! i am not gu niang! whatever gu niang means, it sounds pretty negative to me.

lee si: ohhh i want i want!!! we have been talking about that buffet since i duno how long ago, this time MUST go and eat when i go back okay. haha. 3 dec!!! =D

to xx and leesi: hello stop treating my tagboard as a chatroom please!

updates

hello hello! haven been visiting my blog in a while. pro me i have almost finished using my internet quota for this month again despite upgrading to another plan. alamak annoying leh, i should have been more appreciative of unlimited internet usage back at home. have been streaming ALOT of shows these few days, haha, so shiok.

to people who have been asking me how's everything here, i can only say its pretty boring. nothing much, normal day just go school and come home. only thing that can spice our life up by a little is cooking together, but turns out to be not that exciting after all. that's why i also don't really have things to update here. and i am still looking forward to going home! =DD 2 more months.

okay reply to tags
to may: haha okay great may you are finally updating your blog. haha and i really duno how to use the facebook chat thing! horrible.

to xiaoxuan: yea mrs kang your favourite teacher always haunts me when im doing essays. cannot take it haha. of course i remember the day a certain hutong (human-sotong hybrid) was born. 20 oct yea. nat and sisi remember to add me in when you all are buying presents!

to nat: hey natty nat! you are staying in kent ridge izit? so cool! i heard its a really fun hostel, cause i have a friend here who use to stay there too. they have match-making activities one right? haha. and you also open mouth when you sleep lorr!!

stupid essay

i cant believe im still typing after this last few days of super close contact with delly. my eyes are all going abc. okay i've just completed the super annoying psychology essay!!! my goodness its really a chore man! one week of research! it has been constantly on my mind this last one week. i dun care already i wana anyhow type in any old how language, dun bother correcting my eng i wana anyhow use broken english!!!!! urghhhh.

so frustrating. i thought i'll be super happy after completing the essay but after reading it i think it suck. i have a feeling im sitting on the fence! the result of trying to balance both side but very poorly done. sighs. mrs kang's words came back to haunt me again while doing the essay. but i shove her out of my mind. haha. (maybe that's why its poorly done!)

okay so, because of my assignment we didn't celebrate mid-autumn festival this weekend! haha but nvm, we will make it up this coming week because it is mid-sem break! wahaha. cant cant wait mans. got a whole long list of things to do. till then, i must be a conscientious student and do my work. so you think you can dance finale this wednesday!!! super nice hohoho.

replies

hello hello! this week had been really tiring and fast.

to val: hey valli vallo valla! (inspired by mello wello jello) how are you? haha no no more maggie market. i found somemore new cooking games before i came here! hahaha. some burger making and waitress game! so fun! though i haven been playing them in a while. next time i give you the links okay! haha.

to nat: HAHA nat you joker what instant milk tea and pearls. hahaha. actually they sell pearls here too, in asian supermarket, but i never buy, no feel to make my own. sweettalk in yishun golden village still sells the best pearl milk tea!!! =DDD oh btw im okay already, hope your 3 ulcers are gone too eh.

to sharon: hello sharons!! haha please update your blog. and i want to come back soon too! but cant. haha. nvm very fast one, a few more months and i'll be back! teeheehee.

to xx: heyyyy xx ms blur! haha how are you? are you staying in hostel? yea i think i remember, giving you after some exam haha. i have new links if you want somemore! lols okay i'll keep a lookout for your sms haha but i don't think i'll reply though!

to mel: hey melllllll i'll be back soon! =DD tentatively my flight back is on 14dec, but still not confirm because i might change it to an earlier date. (and very likely i'll change because everybody around me is like leaving end nov! and i want to go home early too heehee)

to lee si: haha sisi dun be a copycat! how's uni so far? do you still sleep like you always do during econs lecture last time? (head turn 360 degrees around, with a couple of violent nods (oh that reminds me of how nat and xx sleeps too. haha xx damn hilarious))

to audrey auds: haha audrey please i am not an auntie! you sound more like one than me okay! lols. hey and i think you can go and eat the dim sum buffet with someone else first, because now is only sept! dun have to wait until i come back okay!


apparently my mum didn't cancel my singapore phoneline. so i'll still use back my number when i go home! yays! haha i love my handphone number. so pretty and cute. so don't delete my number yet okay!

bought apple pies from safeway just now and i cant wait to eat them tomorrow! as dessert. haha. goodness really will grow fat man. keep eating and eating non-stop. super looking forward to mid-sem break, its 2 weeks away!! but that means psychology essay's deadline is nearing, horrible i haven even start on it yet!

eww i think quite confirm i won't continue with psychology next sem. haven been in touch with arts subject since like sec2. at first i was still quite happy that uni melb offers breadth subjects, i thought it would be really fun to be able to try something different, like still remember uhu telling me her friend took what chinese medicine or herbs or whatever the subject's name is in nus. sounds so exciting! but in the end now i find it very waste time. because marketing and management have alot of subjects to take and i cant take them because i have to take the stupid breadth subject. which eventually really comes down to nothing. so now i have to choose my subjects very carefully to ensure that i finish all the required subjects in order to be able to graduate with majors in marketing and management. so scary what if i choose wrongly! don't like the feeling of deciding everything for myself at all.

opps accidentally complain so much. haha okay have good weekend everyone! byebye!

1 september

it is 1st september! muahaha. new internet plan! =D finnallly.

deprived internet usage these few days results in 2hours straight of blogs and facebook hop. ahh i miss singapore. i never thought i would ever miss orchard road but i am now. and i miss my mama. especially because i am sick this week, giddy spells, sore throat, nasty cough, running nose and headache. i want to eat her porridge and not my own any old how cooking. =( ah but im better now. realised i didn't bring any medicine with me at all and never even bring vitamin c. so i just listen to debbie and gushed myself with salt water and miraculously it worked. haha.

cant cant cant wait to go home, not that life sucks here, its just that life back at home is much more attractive. nothing beats being around your own family and friends! meetups, outings, orchard road, coffeeshops, bubble tea! can then take a break from all the cooking and laundry and dishes nonsense. so nice so fun so happy! =D

luckily for me i've met awesome people here. so we must support one another until the day we can go home!! =))

that aside these few weeks are gonna be real busy. alot of assignments to do. i can just go home everyday and not go out on weekend and still not finish everything. cannot must chiong. i must be a nerd now and study hard. sighs psychology essay, 2000words. i don't want to do... ='(

okay i need to sleep. tennis tomorrow! =))