An Apple And The Pasture

Tuesday, March 31, 2009
[[believe]]

孤軍作戰

That was how I felt after I decided to pursue what I believed in.

It wasn't about me being emotionally-charged.

It wasn't about whether do I hate the teacher.

It was about fighting for what you thought was right.

Fighting for what you believed that could be changed.

I didn't need voices telling me how impractical this was.

I didn't need people saying how low the chances were.

I just need someone to believe in me, not necessary what I do, but to believe in that I can.

And then when Tay came into the resource room...

It was as though a tiny pin dropped.

I paused and thought.

Hey, I wasn't alone.

Tay came and helped (and helped a lot) even he didn't really believe in this.

WM who wasn't even in my group gave me some directions too.

Tin whom I expected to work his magic, helped me.

Dear who told me that "You never know if you never try"

When I told cuzzie about it at night, he said to go for it. (Though I already did)

and added that

"Sometimes it's not easy to be different, but you will find life more fulfilling that way"

Sunday, March 29, 2009
[[goodies]]

I thought I would get flamed because of the earlier post but apparently people have the same sentiments as me.

Back to my weekly updates.

Earlier on I purchased Watson's Mystery Bag for 21 bucks, and the loots were great.

Especially so when my sole intention for getting the bag was for this gel exfoliator which retails around $38 0.o

Cure gel rocks, you can request for a sample here : Cure!!

Here's what I had got:

Not much to update about, except that I really want this semester to be over soon.

This semester affected almost every part of my life (except the earning moolahs part).

For those of us who feels that there's a chance that we flunk the semester :

“Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.”

For those of us who procrastinate: “Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.”

For those of us who want to get the scores that we want: “Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.”

Cheers!

Friday, March 27, 2009
[[O.M.G.]]

I am not trying to be mean here but...
even a person like me who have not take pure or even sub physics in secondary school would not have typed that.

Let's see.

First the person blatantly told the prof he/she wasn't paying much attention. Thennnnn....

He/She talked about bursting mosquitoes.

The slides was about surface tension and how it kept some insects on the water instead of sinking in.

So... we kinda have to calculate how much weight can this surface holds before the mosquito sinks.

Which means.. if the mosquito+blood (it took from innocent people) > the weight the surface can hold = sink.

Bursting mosquitoes.

Wow.

Mosquitoes please don't bite us. If you kena water, you will burst!!

Pardon the language.

I am not saying that I am smart, that I understand concepts at one shot, but this is.. slightly over my limit. Sheesh.

I shall blog about my happy week later :)

Sunday, March 22, 2009
[[family]]

Haha, I seriously think we are all sadist, the site traffic went up upon seeing a new and unfortunate entry of mine. Oh wells, bad news do spread far and wide.

It seemed as though I had a pretty relaxing week.

Went over to celebrate my grandmom's birthday.

It was like new year all over again, except without ang baos.

Everyone (except cuzzie) were there and I managed to bridge some gaps with younger cousins whom I have not really talk to for quite some time.

Peggy kindly let me used her computer for me to finish my Tuttiquanti.

And... after several disruptions and sabotages....

I am a proud member of LEVEL 80!!!!!!!!!

WOOOO HOOO!!

The whole experience had been great.

Despite the heavy workloads and ultra careful time management required, I am really grateful to the prof for thinking up of this indigenous idea. It was an excellent way to introduce me to the physics world.

Saturday, March 21, 2009
[[recharged]]

This week had been rather eventful... for wanting a better word.

It showed me how wonderful it was to have multiple streams of happiness, multiple streams of people I could turn to.

Not to be arrogant, but I really thank myself for being able to find the right people and connect with them, otherwise I wouldn't have them by my side.

To those people who were really worried about me, I am very sorry to give you guys a shock like this. Especially to those who heard me cried the 1st time. Thank you for all the concern you all showered me with.

To my cuzzie in aussie: Si Gin Na over here really missed you! (We are celebrating ah ma's birthday today ^^)

Maybe it was because of my tears, maybe it was because of the abrupt stopping of my tears, I had a throbbing headache for the whole of today. It was pretty bad during lab and in crowded places. Oh, the relief when I reached home!

To Tin,

I am pretty sure you knew your name would be in this post somewhere :P

I need to thank your instinctive knowledge that my call for "help" was akin to "activating you"

(Damn, it still sounded so much like reservist" Though you weren't able to be at my side immediately, but you took your time off everything and rush down. I really appreciate that.

I enjoyed those stories too. Even though, I couldn't see the immediate link sometimes. We revisited some old topics, maybe it was because of such circumstance, I understand things a little deeper now :)

I smiled and laughed truly after the session, because I was finally at peace with everything.

You have given me what I needed most at that point of time and this gratitude is yours to take.

I am glad to have me back too

I was recharged to say the very least.

Hmmm.. recharged... that's an understatement.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009
[[high]]

Seems like a few of us like to use the bouncing ball analogy.

Reached an all time high today.

Mostly attributed to the self declared tutorial-free day ?

LOL, ISIS was really in snyc, all of us decided to not show up for the day.

Laughing about it over net :|

Sheesh, we are bad influences on each other.

Sorry Si min, you know how tempting it was... since you had the 1st hand experience previously :P

Nonethelesss, I am equally glad that someone was there to accompany you through the whole.. ordeal (LOL)

Without so much of a hassle, the parcels will be on their way out of Singapore.

Had to write everything 8 times, I even grew bored of signing my signature.

The Fedex guy was handsome, just like what my mom said (I didn't believe her at 1st, since I never seen him before), ah wells. He looked as though he's married.

Songhui hit Level 80 already. @%$^%*&^*

Never mind, least I got the reassurance that the questions stayed the same :D

Finished reading the third book of Twilight.

I reckoned the unwaveringly love that Edward felt for Bella stayed because he would "live" practically forever.

What else is there to do except to put the ones you love as priority ?

Tin and I had came to a greater understanding (though the progress he had was higher) of some things recently...

It does really boils down to choices.

Especially for normal people like us.

We don't have eternity to make things right.

We can't ignore our loved ones for a century and only to come back 2 centuries later to beg for forgiveness.

No matter how fictitious the book was, it did gave me some new insights to things.

Things that I figured possible in the 18th century, but not now in the 21st.

It's a no wonder why globally, most girls are in love with Edward.

I don't mean Robert.

Sunday, March 15, 2009
[[safe!]]

Loads to blog about.

This week was one hellva roller coaster ride after learning the news about dad's potential retrenchment.

2009 is not a good year to get retrench seeing that my sis is starting her Uni life soon.

Wait for me to go work before retiring okay? [ Note the change in usage of words ;) ]

7.36am Fri 13. The exact timing I received an sms. Somehow I knew it instantaneously that it was my dad. Despite my accelerated heartbeat, I still felt a sense of calmness within.

" I am safe" was what he wrote.

He said he was sorry to make me worried and I told him "We are a family afterall"

Given recent events, I knew that this statement touched him :)

Would like to thank some of my friends who were genuinely concern about the incident as well.

I mentioned it over and over again, advices like "don't worry, he will be fine" doesn't help and maybe that's why despite my delayed announcement of this to Marilyn, her sentence helped the most.

"We have a blessed life"

It was not a show of arrogance, but after some thoughts, I realized what made her said it, and indeed till now this statement rang true.

3 times in total I have been worried about my dad's job.

The 1st time I prayed real hard was in 1997. When other kids were playing catching. (I did play too :P )

The 2nd time was some where in 2003 ? Where there was a mini signal that showed a blip in the system.

The 3rd time was this year.

I still hate the Yankees for causing so much bloody trouble.

The way they embezzled money and causing so many people to lose their money overnight.... they ought to be executed too.

Despite me saying "Money is never enough" It does comes with underlying terms.

Spending people's money as your own. That's plain sick.

What's the point of having so much moolahs when you don't even have the time to spend them ? When you weren't even happy spending them?

I don't care how the Yankees had made some countries successful by their investments, all I do know is from Year 2000 I have heard nothing but bad news coming out from them.

I hope President Obama could really do something about it. But it's kind of like a real challenge because there aren't many people like him over there.

Back to over here!

Cinnamonroll held on to his umbrella yesterday :)

Because it's was my favourite weather yesterday!!

Managed to finished up immuno by sacrificing the time to go down and enjoy CVD at my ex alma mater.

I drank a double shot coffee with the intention of keeping myself awake.

In the end, my head got so heavy that I need to lie down for a while.

I could feel some things (caffeine?) pulsing and coursing through my entire body. Kinda cool when your head isn't heavy.

I was telling everyone that my body was in coma and that my brain was working overdrive just to push motions into my limbs.

I still fell asleep at night though. I guessed some how despite my low tolerance for this "higher level" coffee, nothing can stop me from sleeping :D

Dad treated us Sakae as a mini celebration for still having his job.

I wanted to treat but he refused.

Oh wells, there will come a day :)

Despite how hectic the week had been, I love how everything had turned out fine for us.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009
[[whoops]]

I see I still have some loyal fans. :P
Readership was pretty regular despite the lack of updates.

I couldn't remember much from the week, so let me attempt to.

I will save the best for the last :)

It's been raining almost the whole week and I was so happy!

Coz' it is my favourite weather!! Snuggling into bed woot!

Mugging for tests. (damn)

You know, studying was (and still is) a chore. So that's how I livened things up.

Sheesh, Marsh's eyes looked damn small and no longer looks cute :(

When I came home one fine day.. I found both of them in such awkward position. I reckoned Mago had be chasing Marsh... (and failed)

Tada! I told you I would save the best for the last :P (So gonna get killed)

Oh yea, during presentation day eve, I happily put my feet into a trial. A stupid and freaking painful trial.

Yes, I had to tie plastic bags around my ankles before bathing. With rubber bands as extra protection.

Thankfully, Liying lent me her booties home. Otherwise, I might not be able to walk home.

How bad is it ?

This bad.

Dear and I went to watch "Marley and Me"

As usual, the plot in the book was nicer.

However, it was reasonable, since it's hard to find such a crazy dog real life (and want it in your movie) the Marley in movie seemed tame in comparison actually.

Needless to say I cried.

Hell, I cried even before he died.

I got such a strong flashbacks of all the pre-death scenes from the book, that I cried beforehand.

Oh yeah, I finally got my Twilight book.

It's a little late, but better than never.

Personally I felt that the book and the movie was just as good.

Despite the book being relatively thick, there were not much important scenes that were cut off. (Unlike the cui Harry Potter series)

Even without Robert Pattinson acting as Edward, the book was (and still is) enough to enchant most girls.

The chemistry,

the need,

the desire.

Woot, I can safely assume we wouldn't be able to get that from most guys.

To be dangerous and yet protective of you... well, I guess only a vampire can do that :P

So gonna get the last 3 books.

Hardcover ?

Hmmm.

Thursday, March 05, 2009
[[biophy]]

Prof was kind enough to let us try the 80 level trivia thing.

No, I wasn't being rude or anything.

I really appreciated this.

It helped idiots like me get through biophy in flashes. Literally.

So.. after some shoutings and getting angry and despaired over my stupidity...

LEVEL 11 !!!!!!!! WOOHOOOOOO!

My computer shall be put to sleep every night so that I can continue where I left off.

Sunday, March 01, 2009
[[ta-da]]

You guessed it, I am pretty happy today that's why I blogged twice.

Actually, I just wanted to display this.

Ta-da!

Maybe I should save the actual size pic.

Nah!
Who cares!