An Apple And The Pasture

Monday, September 29, 2008
[[exhaustion]]

F1 @ Singapore.
We had just witnessed the first ever night race, with exciting crashes and stupid mistakes. No doubt, the exhilaration might have accompanied some our spectators home.

So, if I was feeling tired, to the extent that I nearly fall asleep in the midst of vah vah vroooms, was there anything wrong with me?

Recess week hadn't been a recharge week for me.
It's all about exhaustion, exhaustion and more exhaustion.
Exhaustion of energy, exhaustion of wills.

Having ulcers didn't help either.
On top of exhaustion, I have to feel excruciating pain from the application of gel.
Dear summed up my condition in chinese:
"i think is por pee le"
0.0 => 0.- => -.- => -.-"

What about the self-chiding?
How I managed to turn the whole week, concentrating on physiology and nothing else?
Extremely unwise choice.

I really don't need more E's in my life right now.
So it means I will get an A for tomorrow's quiz.

Saturday, September 27, 2008
[[off]]

Self declared day off yesterday, when dear came visiting :)
Nah, with that nerd how can have day off =P
We spent the day doing studying creatively, (it was our 1st time using this method. Well, we will know whether it is effective if our quiz results come out ;) ) and crapping and blah blah blah.

Truth was, I welcomed this break, what's more with dear's company.
This whole week have been insanely about 201 202 and more 201. It's driving me nuts with this routine I had to instill upon myself.

1 recess week is going to fly pass again.
It's always a torture to split the days between fun and work.
5 days of fun and 6 days work.
Seemed balanced.
Yet, there's always this thought.
To play
To have fun
To just freaking relax.

Thanks dear for your company yesterday, it made study less like study and more like play.

As usual, I would end off with:
December please come quickly.

Thursday, September 25, 2008
[[will]]

Time of the day where my will is the weakest.

I really want to slack my whole day off.
I really want to sit and read my Harry Potter.
For several times in a day, I really wish that BS doesn't exists.
And the fact that I am going to have BS201 quiz is just a dream.

Sigh, I forgot to leave one day to myself of pure solitude and relaxation.
December please come quickly, I need my sanity.
I am at the point of agitation so much so that I could practically throw things off my desk.
Nevermind, I am still better off than some of my BMS mates, least I got to enjoy.

I want to but I can't.
I need to but I don't want.

魚與熊掌，不可兼得.

December.....

[[part4]]

Finally we reached part 4!

Immediately following the checking out of chalet, dear and I went down to Holland V!
We went to "Essential Brew" as dear's last prezzie to me.

For those who somehow remembered the name, this cafe gave us $5 off coupon during our FOC.
Basically, their dishes were tea-fused. Chinese tea-fused to be specific.
So if you were expecting 肥甘厚味 well.... that's not the place for you.

Apparently it wasn't the place for us, cuz we were tired and hungry and just wanted something that didn't taste so bland.
Though, I must say the jasmine rice ball was unique, if only it played its part as a rice ball and didn't cui halfway.

Unsatisfied, we went to Coffee Club.
Love the decor and the atmosphere there =)
Seeing that dear didn't bother to take nice pictures of me because
1) He wanted to be the poster boy for this entry (very highly possible)
2) I have no nice angle ( too horrible for me to think about)
3) His technique sucks (nah!)

So here's his photos (ok la, to thank you for accompanying me, you shall be the poster boy)

Tired, we went back to his house and basically concussed till 7.
Though I hoped to have a more energized dear, but I could totally understand the reaaassssooonnn why we were so tired.
Nevermind!
I enjoyed the day =)
It was an additional bonus to the gifts ^^

Oh yeah! Part 5 would be delayed seeing that I will only get the pictures from Coconut on Tuesday.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008
[[part3]]

Okay, so I was a little late in updating. Loads to do.

Anyway!
Chalet with ISIS + one erm. How to place him ?
Finally it took place!

Dear and I kindly went to Giant and purchased all the what-nots and Rick joined us shortly after.
Kinda wasted the whole afternoon away with half-hearted attempts of playing volleyball and frisbees with some MC and subcommers.

BBQ started late and ended late (like 11 plus! OMG) by which we were nearly cui.
BUT BUT BUT! How could we forget a game of speed scrabble!
I cheated at 1 of the games, adding -eds and -ses to make my words longer.
Hahahaha.

Sleep was.. a ... near non-existing affair.
Those who went knew what I meant ;)
Haha, though I must say, sharing a bed with LY is soooo much better than those poor guys. (You will see why in a minute)

Pictures here!

I would like to thank Derrick for organising this chalet!
He had really put in loads of hard work and played a good host through out the whole planning and organising etc.

If I were him I would have blown up over those people who forgot about this whole thing or those who pang-seh us etc.
YAY!
Thanks Derrick =)

Monday, September 22, 2008
[[rest]]

After a sleepless night, (not by choice =P) I am totally wasted.
Lazy to sync the camera, so part 3 and 4 tomorrow or something.

On a side note,

HELLLLOOOO!!!
To the person who is accessing my blog via google search : hate bs202.

Saturday, September 20, 2008
[[part2]]

On my birthday, I had to attend an hour of tutorial in school.
An hour.
If I hadn't want to listen to the answer, I would have be saying $£^$%&%^*!

Anyway, I walked to our locker and got a nice surprise :)
Dear made a pop-up card for me and a present from France!!
The pop up card had about 80% resemblance to the resort house in Maldives.
The wallet had cost him a bomb =(
I felt quite guilty as he had never spent so much on himself before.

Nonetheless, I was really overjoyed.
It might sound lame, but I always like a locker surprise. (Maybe it was because of all the ang-mo shows I watched)

"Treated" Dear and Derrick to a mini fondue at Anderson's
Soon after Marilyn and Sian came, and we devised a plan to ka jiao Irene. Hahahas.
Oh yes, we played Speed Scrabble too.
Nah! The 2 boys couldn't win the 3 masters who had been trained since our secondary school days =P

Birthday celebration at home was a step up from last year, seeing that Dad had purchased a camcorder.
Errrrr, technology had advanced so quick that it's possible to take photos with the camcorder too.
I didn't know that the filming screen is a touch screen.
Sheesh!
I felt so stupid. *NoIneverworkedinsonybefore*

I forgot to extend my thanks to Fongee, Evelyn, Pei Jun, Derrick, Li Ying yesterday night. Too concussed.
Thank you guys for your wishes and the vigorous handshakes ahahah.

How could I forget photos ?

It just goes to show how simple affairs can warm people's heart.
Thank you guys who made it a delightful day for me ^^

[[thanks]]

Before I got lost in happiness, I would like to give my thanks to several people.

In no chronological order:

Dear- For the card ( I really love it) and the wallet (hmm, is that a way to make me more feminine ?)
Luppy - For pre birthday celebration, for the surprises, for the sms-es and msn messages.
Jia Hui- surprisingly you still remembered =P
Benedict - For being the person who sms-ed at 0000hours
Beth - Human CC got discount or not lalala.
Jolyn - Die! Da Shi Lao le!
Marilyn - 大我一天的人! Ahaha thanks for your sincere message :)
Si Min- Ex-hubby! You also owe me present now! Quits! =P
Sis - I am not old woman 0.o
Wei Chao - Hee! I enjoyed my day!
Jing Sian- It's good that you realized that I am the great, the cutest, the ke-aiest. Lalala
Irene - Long time never see lor! Er xin.
Yangthong - Thong thong! Don't sad! Is not i purposely ignore your msg!!
See Ming - :) Sept babies!
Patricia - The MMS very cute!!!!
Corinna - Hahah "lover" never celebrate with me today ;)
Ashyura - What is I THINK is your bday ? Bleh
Zhao Liang - Hahaha, don't need paiseh!
Tin - Thanks boss! My chocs ? =p
Song Hui - You still the cuiest
Jenn Huei - Beeeeeeeeeeeeee~~~~
Li Hui - That was a nice twist of words :)
Roy - Yes! You are the last to wish me. 20th not equal auntie okay!
Wee Meng - I am ALWAYS good lor!

The first few photos of being 20th!

I don't look 20! YAY!
All together I took 20 plus zi lian photo lor.

Shall blog about the day later.
Too much details :)

Thank you guys for your well-wishes!!!

Friday, September 19, 2008
[[wait?]]

Got this off an forwarded email, which somehow describes some things that had/ has been happening to me/around me.

"Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth." - Barry Goldwater

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S Lewis.

Surprisingly Singapore was mentioned in the forwarded mail.
Something about Meritocracy.

Something I thought it was often neglected
When friendship comes into play.
When RSVP is the way to get what you want.
When personal affairs get entangled with working relationships.
When looks play a part.
When having experience worths less than having a piece of paper.

There's so much more I want to say.
But...

I shall just shut up.

The golden-age has passed. All we can do now is to hope that things doesn't spiral down

Thursday, September 18, 2008
[[part1]]

I was contemplating whether to do a consolidation of the 5 days celebration or a day by day thing. Conclusion: a day by day!
Anyway, I decided to self declare celebration today!

Pre-birthday celebration, first up with Luppy!
He said I looked younger. Hmm.

Anyway, I practically dragged him all over Orchard to find various nonsense.
I found something I liked, and kept on whinnnniiinnngggg about it.
Hahaha.

After walking in circles, we had a pitstop at coffee club!

Chocolate Opera

Chocolate Truffle! ( I made Luppy gave back the chocolate mint ahaha)

Random shots of me ^^

Shokudo @ Cine!

Did a fairly bimbotic thing when we were walking in circles in Orc.
I walked to Tangs entrance waiting at the glass door hinge area.
Thinking that it was an automatic door when it was a push/pull type
*bursts out laughter*

Anyway, surprises didn't just end there.
I learnt something from this.
That is to go along with a carefully planned surprise, and sometimes you will be pleasantly surprised too!
Like just now.
I anticipated something's amiss but I just didn't know what.
A fat load of good that helped, because the next moment, he sprayed me with party foam!
By reflex, I screamed and ran. -.-

Final product- we made it nice nice on my hair, otherwise we couldn't see much.

The even funnier part was, my mom saw us. She was kinda in a mild state of shock, and unsure of whether to look amused or something else. And there he was thinking "oh shit!"

Thank you Luppy for the wonderful day (and night)
I think you currently hold the record of being the person who wished me the most.
Oh yes, I told my mom you bullied me.
Nah! I am not so mean =P

4 years of friendship and counting =)

Wednesday, September 17, 2008
[[oops]]

It felt like years since my last post.
Firstly, would just like to wish these people Happy Birthday again :)

Wei Di kor, Mr Ong, Sze Hong, See Ming, Mr. LKY!! (ahaha) and the birdday girl for today, Hui Jun.

Friday is coming soon :)

Anyway, after my official "sick notice",
I got slightly worse on Monday.
Dear was so worried that he called my parents to fetch me home from the station.
Sigh.
Sorry Dear.

But... I am recovering!
How can I miss delicious food especially this week!

Right, off to school now.
*I want full marks for my forensic!*

Sunday, September 14, 2008
[[sick]]

After much delay, I am finally, officially sick.

YAY!

Not.

My dad was commenting how could I be immune to the chicken pox attack in the family but not to a simple flu.

Well, I think at that time I wasn't stressed with work.
So I don't have a higher level of glucocorticoids.
Since glucocorticoids has anti-inflammatory and immunosupressive effects, i reckoned my body's susceptible to falling sick.

Yep, this sounds logical ?

Let me get well.
Or not ?
Seeing that there wouldn't be many people going on Friday, sigh.
It aggravated my condition.

What made it worse was not a bit of whining can help this time round, unlike that fireworks time.
Sigh.

I really thought what I wanted was simple.

[[sat]]

Dear very kindly brought my file I left in locker today.

He also very kindly passed his flu to me...
Alright, I shan't complain =P

Mom cooked chicken soup for us again :)

Very happy that dear companied me today =)
I love today!

Saturday, September 13, 2008
[[cluny]]

Loads to update. Shall chop chop finish this up.

Monday - AGM
I found myself a bit rude when I excused myself from CR1 and never to return again after some person's speech.
It was a sudden stifling feeling that came over me.
Nonetheless, I was naturally surprised when Derrick told me I won the SBS jacket and he very kindly said L size.
Till now, we heard no wind about the jacket. HMMM.

So we got high and took photos :)

ISIS :)

We wanted to create a ISIS...... Songhui photo, but WM left with him as well.
Ah wells, ISIS....... Cuisters then!
Hohoho

Friday- Gang's day - The Last Dinner
Yu Hong is off for 3 months holiday in Tekong!
So we went to Adam's FC and Gastronomia.

Kop this from Yu Hong, *prays he wouldn't kill me*
Gastronomia.
Cakes were amazingly rich. And that's 4 people sharing 2 cakes.

The toilet was so nice!!!
YH was asking whether is the toilet our house.

It's been so long since I cam-whore in toilet ok!
This showed how nice the toilets are.
HAHAHA.

We decided to walk through Botanics Garden to Orc.
Reminded me of night walk in NP days.
Scary!
YH made it worse by constantly reminding me there's dogs around. $%$#%$%
And we nearly stepped on a frog.
Well.. it was a unique experience :)

I am sure YH will love the forest in Tekong too!
See you in 2 weeks time!

Wednesday, September 10, 2008
[[better]]

After lowering my expectations and hopes on that particular sms, I felt very relieved.
刀槍"BLUE"
*chuckles*

In an effort to 養生 mom cooked my favourite chicken soup !!
Quite an effective negative feedback system at work, considering that I complained about wanting to puke only yesterday.
It's a pity that I couldn't drink much, for fear that I might want to puke again, just like what happened in the afternoon.

Nonetheless,
Thank you for listening to my whinings late at night :)
I didn't expect any sms-es at all today, so it really caught me by surprise.
Yes, I will eat fruits more than a slice at least =P

Couldn't help but feel excited!
*please let me be well for this coming Friday!!!*
Me want cake!

Tuesday, September 09, 2008
[[alert]]

It's either Tuesdays hate me or I hate Tuesdays.
Seemed like there's so much nonsense happening every Tuesday.

Reckoned I wouldn't be a mircobiologist next time as the chemical used just now got me sick.
Even now my stomach is feeling queasy.

The best part ?
I can't vomit anything out, thanks to the little food I ate just now.

Thanks LY, FE, PJ and the 4 guys who cared by saying I am getting whiter, asking if I am ok.
Sooner or later I will become transparent, and perhaps able to float around.

I am really feeling very miserable.
Can you (whoever you are) let me vomit please.

Let me go try again.

Saturday, September 06, 2008
[[pre-birdday]]

My weak point is I delve too much into the past.
Thinking that people, things and attitude should stay the same.

Time and again I have been proven wrong.

Well.

I am not here to elaborate on it.

Just got back from my pre-birthday celebration :D

I got this sms from Dad " You are invited to a dinner at Sun Plaza at 7.30pm. Cannot say no."
So I asked if we were going sakae and he sms-ed back " Remember to bring money."

Then I started to think what should I eat, Japanese or Korean or Western.
I went up to the Kopitiam floor, halfway I realized they weren't following.
$#%#$^%$&
We ended up going to Bata.
$%$#^%$^
Before detouring to Sakae :D

Seeing that I wouldn't be home on the 19th, and my brother is having lessons on that day too, so pre birdday celebration was today.

I am loved

Dear came over and took shelter today.
So the rental fee of my room for 2.5 hours + MISC charges = $500
So officially you owe me...... erm erm..
A lot of money!
*Secretly increases parking fee*

Right.
I swore to finish my HW102.
Poofs!

[[neopets]]

With outstanding amount of patience....

I finished this guy in...

1/2 hr

Nah, basically I was bored.

More to the point, I didn't feel like sleeping

So I earned another trophy!

My pathetic collection.

Hungry and sleepy.

[[done]]

And so that's another down.

The equilibrium have just shifted again.

Anyway, I woke up to a very beautiful afternoon, coz I have happily decided to pon 203 tutorial.
Tutorial questions were starting to irritate me and spending less than one hour in school made no sense to me.
Sadly, I wasn't productive at home either. Only managed to finish up 2 tutorials and a lecture.
Ah wells.

Johnson's nick caught my eye.
“Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it.”

How often have people wished that it was true ?
Like when you fell down and bled, all you wanted was soothing words from your mother and not her scolding you for being careless.
Like when you were feeling sad and all you needed was just a hug and not logical analysis of how you should control your emotions, shut up and get on with your life.
Like when you just got out of jail, all you hoped was people to accept you.

The Swedish people writes the most endearing quotes:

“If I had a rose for every time I thought of you, I'd be picking roses for a lifetime.”
“The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm”

Tuesday, September 02, 2008
[[^^]]

This was what I wanted to put at the title, which obviously I couldn't.
I love how this bun smile.
*Tells bun to smile at dear* He's been a gem these days. (Note: Not diamond yet =P )

Anyway, here's why.
I was late for school today.
On top of that I had a weird kind of abdomen ache.
Reckoned it was because there's a A beta fiber acting on the inhibitory interneuron.
You know pain modulation - gate control theory ?
AHAHAH I think I am scaring people now.

So, back to topic.
The pain was pretty unique, considering that it was a diffused sorta pain but it ended at my thigh area.
I got that weird pain in the morning, during my HW102 and on the way home.
Dear reckoned that I tricked him into sending me home, coz the moment I reach Sembawang I was well again.
@$%£^%$&

Nonetheless I knew he was worried.
He even dropped studying his chim chim neuro n plant n developmental and dunno what else to pei me go home.
That's what made me smile.
(Okay, it sounded wrong, but you know what I mean)

Hee =D

Monday, September 01, 2008
[[$$]]

And so to reward ourselves, we went Executive Cafe for our dinner.
Dear treated me to my long waited soup!!!
It wasn't like the one in meritus but, hey price difference = quality difference.

So I was saying Meritus is better, he went and snatched the "pith" away. Hehe.

It was a treat because....
IsaidIgothimhisA+becauseIhelpedhimedithisposter.

No one in the world would treat me with such a twisted logic.
More likely I will get a whack.
So I knew Dear love me =)

So we were talking and...
Dear: 他們很浪費錢
Me: 好過你沒有錢
Dear:那你也很suay啦，喜歡一個沒有錢的。
Me: Ya la! Is like, what are the odds???
and finally...

Dear:我也很厲害啦。找到一個很會花錢的。

£$^%$&^&

I am still loved =)

Some thing I found LOL

10 Ways to Know You Have PMS

1. Everyone around you has an attitude problem.
2. You're adding chocolate chips to your cheese omelet.
3. The dryer has shrunk every last pair of your jeans.
4. Your husband is suddenly agreeing to everything you say.
5. You're using your cellular phone to dial up every bumper sticker that says, "How's my driving - call 1-800-***-****."
6. Everyone's head looks like an invitation to batting practice.
7. You're convinced there's a God and he's male.
8. You're counting down the days until menopause.
9. You're sure that everyone is scheming to drive you crazy.
10.The ibuprofen bottle is empty and you bought it yesterday.

*****edited*****
Me: See I got show appreciation lor.
Me: You didn't lor.
Dear: 有嘍。我送你回家咯
Me: 沒有咯，你這個月沒有咯!
Dear: 這個月。。。 *stops abruptly*
Dear: 我真的很想slap你咯！！

[[work]]

So for the day I did...

1) Read through BS202 lecture notes
2) Do BS202 tutorial
3) Re-read BS203
4) Write out BS203

However, I still felt that I didn't do enough.
It's like I could have done more.

Jeff was asking me how's school and all.
I told him, I suddenly felt serious about work, more impatient with people who were going to be my obstacles, slowing me down.
I disregarded for a second, but then I realized it's getting truer by the minute.

I got stressed up when I thought I was slightly behind revising. It turned out that I was behind the writings that's why I was stressed.
I got irritated with people easily. For once I couldn't understand, or didn't wish to understand why they just wouldn't do their tutorial or even print out their own notes to study.

It made me feel like un-knowing all those people I knew, because I put my own expectations on them.

I shall think through this slowly, let me get back to 203 now.

No worries aye ?
I still know how to relax.
Like watching Ghost Whisperer online, talking to Maria, Luppy, and...

OH YA!
Shiu Hei have a girlfriend ^^
Though I am doubtful, but I'm sure it will turn out good =)