Happy 18 Birthday Steph!
hope you have enjoyed the steamboat and also your day.
anyway, a group of us celebrated steph's early birthday yesterday. and we went bugis for steamboat. this time round, at a different stall. steamboat was really great! the soup was like so nice lah! xl, jeremiah, kaihua and i were like sharing a pot, 1 side herbal soup and the other, chicken soup. my tummy was like so bloated after the steamboat dinner. i was like 2 months pregnant with food inside my tummy. while steph went for her toilet break, took the chance to take out her cake and surprise her. the cake looked so beautiful, and it's really delicious! and at about 10pm, all of us decided to go home, because there was still lessons the next day.
i seriously love steamboat! hope can have more steamboat dinners in future. (depends whether i got money or not.)

and so today was the day that steph officially turn 18. supposed to wake up at like 6am to go for MMB lecture. but because i was so tired/sleepy/lazy, i decided to miss the lecture. so i only left for school at 9am for aquaculture practical.
aquaculture practical was really fun today! because we got to disect a sea bass. dr nevil actually demonstrated the disection procedure on a tilapia which he used to sacrifice when drawing blood from it. apparently, that tilapia was too skinny to draw any blood from its caudal vein. so dr nevil decided to puncture its heart to draw blood from it. and he took out its internal organs. stomach, intestine, liver, spleen, air bladder, heart and brain. and that tilapia's heart was still beating even after he took it out from the fish, so amazing lah!
and then, it was our turn to do the disection. everyone in the class had a dead sea bass to work on. and i'm not being sadistic, but i seriously enjoy disecting the sea bass.
first it was CCTA, when we had to take out the embryo of a fertilised chicken egg, cut out the head, and mince the meat using a scissors. i remembered myself laughing while doing the entire procedure.
and now, it's the fish.
the last one would be our lab mice!!!
ok, i shall stop blogging about such things.

time has passed so quickly. this semester is like passing so fast. in 2 weeks time, common test!!! it's time to start studying. gosh! and in about 1 months time, end of 2007. and soon, it would be the end of year 2...and then, year 3! which means, IAP and FYP! and now we've got to choose what we want to do for our FYP! so many choices, but don't know which to choose.
lucky still got about 3 more days to choose.

my virgin nightlife.

i've never been home so late, like close to 5am.
it all happened after eating beancurd with SGLs and yide.
went drinking with jeremiah, mingcheng, steph + her bf, and denyse at Balcony.
it was my first time entering a bar, seriously. but it's not my first time drinking alcohol.
denyse had singapore sling, while steph and her bf each got martini.
jeremiah, mingcheng and i shared 2 jugs, 1 long island tea and 1 jack daniel's with coke.
prefer jack daniel's to long island tea.
and i realised 1 thing when i drink...my face won't go red. it's my eyes that will turn red. especially when i'm kinda tired.
and there was this couple, an ang moh and a SPG. they were like kissing and kissing, and the woman had her hand placed at that ang moh's groin. and she was like...touching his "thing" with his pants still on (like duh!). we were all like saying that they would have sex when they go home. ok, nevermind about that already.

steph and her bf went off first. and the remaining 4 of us continued talking. walked to far east, sat down and talked even more. until about 3am, i think.
decided to go home after that, but we had a hike in the end. walked around trying to help mingcheng find NR5 so that he can go home.
by the time mingcheng got up his bus, it was already 4am, around there.
denyse and i shared a cab back...and by the time i got home, it was like 4.45am.
and my mum was like sleeping in the living room, waiting for me to come home. guess she was worried about me. immediately went to bed after that...but then i thought, my mum was still outside in the living room sleeping.
i felt bad leaving my mum sleeping in the living room and so i decided to wake her up to ask her to go back to her room. see! i am so filial lah!
and my mum asked me why i was back so late...expected. but of course i didn't tell her i went drinking, think she would kill me if she found out.
so i just used the "midnight movie, missed the night rider, took the night rider to cck, then took a cab back home" excuse.

and i feel so poor again lah! received my $104 for volunteering for the clean & green event on wednesday. and now, i'm left with less than $10!!! shit! have been really spending alot...especially cab fares! got no idea how i'm gonna live through next week man.

red camp sucks.

no IS lesson today, but still headed down to school to be usher for red camp.
but before that, cabbed down to bukit panjang to pass denyse her handphone. she dropped her handphone in the cab yesterday, lucky i realised that, or else...she would be in deep trouble. went to buy pants for dance too. met denyse for like only 15 minutes then headed down to school. that's because i took less than 10 minutes to buy my pants. guess it's the way how guys shop...short and sweet.
took a bus down to school, met vanessa halfway during the journey. what a coincidence. chatted about modules throughout the journey, from aquaculture, to immuno, to ccta, to instru, to biochem.
reached school and went to see how my fishes were doing, before heading to the foyer for my red camp shift.
now here's the most fustrating part. i was like kinda hungry and needed a bite or something. apparently, there were free lunch which was pizza hut given out to the little kids, leaders and also helpers. so i approached the people in charge of giving out the food...i don't wanna mention names. and i asked them whether i can have one box which had pizza and drumlets in it. (i'm not being cheapskate or what, but it's supposed to be given out to helpers too...so why not?)
and they said, 'no'.
i went, 'why?'
and they replied, 'cause you are not helping in red camp.'
but i am what! and i told them what time shift was, which was supposed to be at 2pm. and they said that the 2pm shift no more or something.
i went back to donald to confirm the shift and stuff...cause he gotten his food earlier and i didn't understand why i don't have mine.
and i went back to them again and told them about the briefing i attended, my shift, and whom i was under. and they told me something about some workshop thing which i totally didn't understand at all, because all i did was just attend a briefing and wrote my name down in the thursday afternoon slot.
so i gave up, and just went back to where donald and jeremiah were sitting. and of course, i wasn't happy already. and the group of 'food-givers' called me back and told me to take one and they would also ask the lecturer whom i was under whether i was telling the truth or not.
like wth?! where's the fricking trust?
i was so turned off that i told them that i had already eaten my breakfast and i didn't want to take anymore.
i'm involved in the event but i'm not given food to eat. i'm not being petty or what, but it's just so insulting to give me the food and say that you will go ask the lecturer i'm under about whether i'm involved or not. they make me feel like as if i am just a cheapskate fellow who goes around getting free food. it's even more insulting when you are not trusted at all. if you want to give the food, just give it. if you don't want to give, then forget it. and...

a hungry man is an angry man!

so because of that, i had to do my shift with an empty stomach. i hope they find out that i told the truth and they would feel so bad and guilty about starving me and making me do my shift without any food. but then again, i doubt they will...
and i could finally get to eat after everything was over...KFC with alvin and jeremiah.
satisfying! hot mashed potatoes, fries, 2 pieces of chicken and 1 nice regular cup of pepsi. how refreshing!
and it's like so much better than eating the cold pizza and drumlets inside that box which those people were giving out in the afternoon.

i'm done with my ranting already!

beautiful coffee!

beautiful coffee for people who enjoy coffee and appreciate art at the same time.

woman's face.
cute bear!
reminds me of tilapias!!!
i would sure enjoy this cup of coffee at night.
love the wavy design.
aww! so sweet lah!

imagine waking up every morning, and seeing a cup of coffee on my table and with different arty designs everyday. it would definitely brighten up my day for sure!

fridays.

fridays are usually the days that most people look forward to.
but for me, it's the opposite.
1 reason, there's 2 practicals to tackle for the day.
i seriously hate CCTA practical...i don't know why, i just don't like it.
and immuno practical is getting messier and messier.
and you'll be mentally drained by the time you leave the immuno lab.

but the good thing about fridays are...after school.
ok, that depends whether there's gonna be any activities after school.
anyway, went for steamboat to celebrate jeremiah's birthday which was supposed to be yesterday, but he was having such a great time having a buffet at orchard hotel and so we didn't celebrate his brithday...
supposed to have dance too, but then, chose to go for the steamboat. =)
there was jeremiah, weisan, lendl, davin, abe, jian ming, wenxin, denyse and me. and nikki joined us for awhile, after weisan, jian ming and wenxin left.
had a wonderful steamboat dinner, ate loads of prawns, hotdogs, crabsticks, fishballs and so on.
stomach was practically bloated. and i think i ate abit too much, my stomach's still feeling like a balloon. and suddenly out of the blue, a few of us started talking about stuffs that most people won't talk about.
we left the place at about 10+pm...took a cab with denyse and lendl. and i had no money with me! yup, so denyse and lendl had to oay for the fare. journey in the cab was hilarious! denyse started singing and playing her imaginery guitar and i started to mimic her action, her strumming action was so funny. and there was many many more funny things that happened too. denyse started telling the uncle that her bf is xiaozhu. think she would enter IMH at the age of 22. ok, i'm just kidding about the last statement.
ok, my stomach needs rest...

lonely wednesday.

a super duper uber boring lonely wednesday.
went to school only for immuno lecture, no MMB & immuno tutorials.
and after immuno lecture, everyone else were having their own practicals, leaving me the only one left.
ok, at least there was nikki to accompany me and make me not so lonely.
stayed in the aquaculture lab for quite long, treating the 3 fish left in my tank with acriflavin because of their white spots, waiting for the new tilapias to arrive, catching 7 little fish and putting them into the tank.
so there's now 10 lil tilapias swimming in the tank, and i hope it stays that way, period. maybe minus 1 or 2 with white spots...
and now my tank has larvae growing too...don't worry, it's not mosquito larvae. the larvae actually grows into some kind of fly which is totally harmless. and the good thing about this is that the larvae are good source of food for the fish, although they are supposed to eat tilapia feed as their main diet.
and there's no GL training today too, that means go home early.
although it's a good thing, to be back home early, but it feels abit weird to do so nowadays.
i don't like going home late, but then again, i drag to go home early. seriously, i don't know.


life's been messed up lately.

ants attack, tilapia deaths.

the 1 thing that i really hate to see when i am doing work/playing games/using laptop, is to see ants crawling around, trying to find something sweet to grab. even if it is just 1 small little tiny puny ant, i can't stand it. the worst thing is that, when i bring food into my room eg. cake, coffee, chocolates, ants will start marching in. it's as if they have some kind of wireless network or something that can detect food from somewhere. and of course, i got to quickly finish up whatever i brought in and start killing ants. it has been like this for quite some time already. whenever i just spot an ant, i'll just take something with a flat n hard surface and whack it flat.

i hate ants!

anyway, my tilapia growth project is doing not so good. because loads of tilapias are dying! ok, everyone's fish are all dying like mad. for my group, shrimp feed, 2 died. seabass feed, 15 died. and for tilapia feed, 12 died. it's horrible lah!
just friday itself, 6 from my tank (tilapia feed) died. and on saturday, when i came back to school to feed the fish and clean tanks, another 3 died! and the last 3 that died, had their eye balls eaten up by the bigger tilapias...sick! just hope that none from my tank would die, i wanna see my tilapias grow big and fat!

my 18th birthday!

yay! i've finally turned 18 yesterday!

i'd like to thank all my friends for making my day so special!
thanks for all of the birthday greetings, be it through friendster, tag, message or face to face. thanks steph for the bape hoodie and 18 oranges and drawings on them, also thanks to those who helped draw and make the oranges look so cute!

ok, i shall name all the 18 oranges! there is birthday cake (eaten), piggy, granny, nerdy, zzz, GF 4 me, x__x, evil lab mouse, emo kia, braceface, fish head, ugly eyebrowns, underwear, feefee & fish, old granny face, horny orange (stupid jeremiah went to draw a penis), spiderman eyes, cute dancer.

still got 17 more to finish, i wonder whether i will 'lao sai'.

oh! and denyse made jelly for me too! thanks alot! i felt so touched when she said she stayed up late to do it when she told me that she go sleep.

and i must really thank group 7 GLs for giving me a present too! i didn't expect them to give me one. and i was even more shocked when i opened it. it's a whole box of chocolate liquers!!! and it's DARK chocolate! =))

and yes, thanks to all my fellow SGLs for singing birthday song for me in clubhouse too!

i also want to thank my mum for celebrating with me too! she gave me red packet, a card and also a cake. the cake looks small...but really cute & nice! i remembered last night i got to rush home after GL training, because it was late and i also needed to cut cake with my mum. and the presents were all so heavy...ok, not really lah, it's mostly the oranges.

it's coffee flavoured, and the chocolates in top were nice! dark chocolates again!

anyway, i had so much fun yesterday. felt so tired that i knocked out shortly after cutting cake and going online.

once again, thank you everyone!!!

Clean & Green!

Clean & Green 2007!
volunteered to be tour guides for this event.
ok, not really volunteer...because we are paid $6 per hour, and it's good lobang.
i remembered got one time beesim told us all the SGLs about this event, and once she said that we will be paid, so many of us (almost all) raised up our hands and wanted to join.
yes, it's for the money.

anyway, as tour guides, we were supposed to bring the singaporean 'tourists' a tour around the event ground. job scope is seriously simple, but then, the handling of the people is just mentally draining.

3rd Nov (Saturday)
managed to bring only 1 group around the event. the group had a mix of people of different age groups, from children to parents to aunties & uncles. and handling this sort of group is seriously NOT easy at all. why do i say so? it's just so god damn hard to satisfy every single one of them. the children will want to play games, parents would want to bring their children play games, aunties aren't interested in playing and are only coming for the sake of the goodie bags (typical singaporean) and for the uncles, they are just not bothered about anything. anyway, at the beginning, there was a really long drag of time, because apparently, my group actually came together with donald's group. my group arrived first, but then the other took damn long to come. and the IC of the group wanted to wait for the 2nd group to arrive before setting out, which was seriously a waste of time.
so while waiting, there was this mother in my group whom i find seriously dumb. she saw a millipede on the grass and she told her kids that it was a centipede and it was poisonous. and when that 'centipede' came closer to them, her reaction was so retarded. as if the millipede gives a damn about her and wants to bite her. and of course her kids made a hell lot of noise. and not to forget, when she saw a little bug coming towards their direction, she exclaimed to her kids, ' don't go close it, it's a cockroach. later it bite.' and again, the kids made a lot of noise. fucking retarded mum.
ok, back to the tour guide thing, as i was bringing the group for the tour, i had to try very hard to make everyone happy. when i didn't let the kids get the chance to play (because of the lack of time, because of the stupid IC), the parents came up to me saying that i should let them play. and the same mother came up to me and tell me that she want to go free on her own with her kids and play the games...and win the prize. and i kept trying to explain to her that she had to stay with the group and that there would be a chance for them to play. so fustrating! not matter how hard she tried to argue with me, i had to stay firm and she had no choice but to follow. not to forget, the aunties!!! loads of aunties didn't want to play the games, then they also rush me to faster walk through the games area as they weren't interesting. but what about the kids? and they kept telling me that they needed to use the toilets and i had to keep telling them to hold on and wait for the tour to be over then bring them to toilet.
seriously man, i was so relieved after the group boarded their bus and left. had a super long break after that, i was supposed to have another group coming. but they didn't come, so that was something good!
after the entire thing, jeremiah, abe, davin, nikki and me went to swensens for ice cream. steph joined us for ice cream too. i had my frosted chocolate malt...i think it's really not bad. but kinda too sweet and it gets abit sicky after eating for long. rahh! so fast spent $7 plus!

4th Nov (Sunday)
2nd day of the event. supposed to wake up at 6am, because reporting time was at 8am. in the end, i woke up at 645am. all thanks to my biological clock! i forgot to set my alarm and when i opened my eyes and saw the window...it was like so bright already. i literally jumped out of my bed, prepared and rushed off to bishan park.
today was much better. managed to handle 2 groups, both are aunties+uncles.
and after today, i've realised that there are 2 types of aunties, CUTE & UNCUTE!
the 1st group was uncute. denyse and i were handling 2 groups that came together. stupid IC told them that there was free milo and everyone from denyse's group went off for their free milo and never come back. and for mine, alot went toilet. and once again, dragging of time just to wait for them to come back. in the end, we had no choice but to start the tour because apparently, some of them went away and view all the exhibits. stupid move that the IC made...to tell them that got free milo. and the aunties all don't listen to instructions. i don't know why, maybe it's because they think that they shouldn't be listening to people who are younger than them. and they try to agrue with you just to get things their way. that's why i call them uncute.
the 2nd group was much better at first. they are more cute than the 1st. i was so pleased that i got a group that did listen to me...initially. until the part when i tell them to go explore around the games area only and come back 15 minutes later. some of them went to other areas...about half of them. and i had to go search for them and try to find the IC. in the end, i went back, starting to get abit worried, but luckily, a few people were there. but at least the 2nd group listen abit more and they did thank me for bringing them around.
all of us were dismissed at about 320pm, and weisan, huixian, jeremiah, nikki, abe. davin, mingcheng and me went to watch movie.
Superbad. really lame show lah. seriously, not worth spending your $8 on this show.
it's kinda funny and also very crude and sexual. but $8 is just too much to spend on this kind of movie.
had dinner with beesim, and soon, headed home.

lesson learnt from this event: you can NEVER satisfy everyone.

but anyway, it's good that the event is over. at least i can rest more and also enjoy the money that i've earned. it's not alot, but still, it's better than nothing.

stupid!

i am seriously damn pissed with my SAB lecturer.
last week, she said that she would inform us whether lesson would be on for week 3.
we took the trouble giving her our numbers.
but after 1 week, i received no calls from her at all.
and since i received no calls from her, of course i would just take it as there would be no lesson today.
i'm not assuming, it's common sense.
she said that she would call us, and not we call her.
and guess what? lesson was still on!
i came to know about it only at about 1.22pm when steph messaged me.
and of course i didn't want to waste my time and rush to school for lesson.

it's not my fault for missing SAB lesson. blame it on the lecturer.
it's like she was the one who said that she may have a meeting and will get back to us to inform us about the lesson.
but she didn't.
whatever it is, it's up to her whether she wants to mark me as present or not. because she's partly to be blamed for my absence.
i seriously want this 1st duration of IS classes to be over real soon.

i hate SAB!



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alright, enough of SAB.
seriously, sometimes i feel like i need to be more useful in some ways.
it's like i don't know alot of things and i usually don't do alot.
it was after wednesday that i realised the need making myself more useful.
i depend too much and i assume too much.
and i need to change, i need to learn more.

take for example, just now when i went to school and yes! skipped SAB, i needed to feed the fish. yes i did feed them, but then the thought of cleaning the tanks didn't come across my mind at all. i took it for granted.
in the end, when mark msged me in msn about the murky water, i was shocked.
he expected me to clean it, and i didn't do so. it really makes me feel like i never do my part in helping out in the project at all.
i really do want to take responsiblity and pride in what i do, but then, it seems like i always fail to meet expectations.
i just hope that i can be more of a help than a burden.
guess i should depend and assume less, at the same time, learn more.