A tree just sacrificed itself in order for me to get 20 marks(or less) for just a module.

All the printing had caused my dear printer to vomit blood so many times that it has run out of blood.

Type type type, print print print, bind bind bind...

Have you ever wondered how many trees have been chopped just for our assignment and projects alone? I dare not imagine.

A practical world that is...


I won't be surprised if one day all lands become barren lands when all trees are all chopped down, we're on the way anyway. Humans... Then again, who am I to say we're wasting resources when I myself is doing the same things? Bleargh...

Anyway, i came across some pictures of gorgeous golden retrievers and decided to brighten your day, or rather, my day although it's evening now...

Oh yes, i guess i dont have to circle the picture of the dog and inform you that "This is a dog." Do I?







Simply gorgeous aren't they?

Til then folks..Cheers to a few more days of studying til the holidays..WooHoo!~

80% of the world's trade is still done by sea today.

Every 2 months, a bulk carrier disappears from the vast sea with total loss of life.

[Quote from Discovery Channel]

That's how scary Mother Nature can be. Perhaps, everything is due to fate.

You've heard of stories of how survivors escape from disasters.

A woman called in sick and a few minutes later her colleagues perish with the world's once tallest twin towers.

A man fell ill and did not board the ship he was supposed to be on. Days later, the killer sea walloped Derbyshire together with all his once colleagues. Ahoy! Mates disappeared from his dictionary from then on.

A lady got stucked in a traffic jam and missed her flight. Hours later, the plane crashed, bringing all passengers down with it.

A struck of fate, the game in the hands of heaven. You live, you die.

Sure, i would like to believe that fate is controlled by humans and that you get anything you want just by fighting for it, but sometimes you just have to believe in it. Humans can never go against nature. It's a fact proven time and again but humans choose to ignore the warning signs and continue destroying earth. I will admit that I'm not a noble citizen of Planet Earth, I do pursue certain luxuries like other normal human being of right-thinking humans.

Sometimes i have no idea why should there even be living things on earth when all will perish one day. For a taste of the flavours of life? Perhaps...

Projects, Deadlines, Projects, Deadlines, Projects, Deadlines, Individual Reports, Deadlines, Tests, Deadlines......

That's pretty much what's in for me at the moment. So much so that my brains are beginning to protest and threatening to quit its job unless I give it some therapy.

Well, been going on some retail therapy these days. Minor sprees, but money just seems to flow out of my poor wallet without hesitating. I'm always hoping the 'future money' that i'm working for will refill the vacancies but in vain. In fact, my brains tell me that it's alright to spend now and refill later. Bad. Really Bad. Someone please stop me from spending unnecessary money. What's the chance. Bleargh!

Anyway, 2 and a half more week of school and it's semester breaks. The time to have fun and earn money as well, plus some time to slow down my steps and really plan for my future. My future...sometimes i wonder how would it be. Let it be excellent in a very good way please.

2 more weeks of school this semester, one and a half months of holidays, 6 weeks of school for 2 modules, 3 months of internship at a hopefully good place, and off we go on to another phase of our lives with that piece of paper in our hands.

Time waits for no one. How true, I still remember the first taste of polytechinic life. I made a big circle and found the right clique willing to accept me - The De'Lites. Polytechnic life wouldn't be fun and extravagant without them.

I love the talks we always have almost everyday, it's eye-opening how different views come together. It's fun how we gossip and bitch like nobody's business. It's amazing how we came from different upbringings, different backgrounds, different schools, different families, different languages, different races, different religions, and we respect each other.

Okay, it's becoming like a thank you speech...Haha..

Cheers to a better tomorrow!

Til then folks.. ;)

"Money, please roll freely into my bank account so i can continue spending like this...Thank you..."

15 August 2005 - HuiJuan's Birthday Celebration at Pasta Cafe


16 August 2005 - Crystal Jade Xiao Long Bao at Holland Village


Cheers to potential rolling money...and to Huijuan's birthday! Happy Birthday 19th Ah Jian! Hope it was an enjoyable time for you and everyone! ;)

"Snap snap snap..."



A day of shopping and snapping...

"Snap snap snap" went my lovely Sony camera though it's not as good as it's higher-tech cousins. "Don't worry camera, I still love you..."

I've started talking to non-living things a lot. My bear, my pillow, my mp3 player, my tv...the list goes on... Not forgetting to the other me in the mirror as well. It never fails to cheer me up when i get a new accessory for my mobile. Gee...

The world has been spinning for as long as it can be. As slow as it seems, time surpasses the feeling, leaving you behind with no mercy. Sometimes you stop at a crossroad, confuse as to which direction you want to move on.

"Where?"

"I have no idea."

Perhaps it's time to slow down our pace of life and think about the slightest and often neglected things in our lives.

Have you ever tilted your head to appreciate the stars in the sky?

Do you reflect on what you've done for the day before you set off for slumberland?

Have you ever wondered about the wonders and power of nature?

Have you ever come to a conclusion as to whether the egg or the chicken comes first?

Have you thought of why the mediocre things in life happen?

Well...

Til Then Folks... Cheers to another day..They do say tomorrow will be a better day right?

Fun and Extravagance...with work done..

Fun and Extravagance...with work done..







Til then folks...Cheers to never ending killer projects..BAH!

Tired, exhausted, strained, deprived of sleep...everything...

Time check: 1.28am, 6 August 2005

Thanks to a bunch of kind friends and family i have, i've completed my part of the surveys in about 5 hours, with one extra for murphy's law.

Too tired to construct anything now. 99% of the brain cells have gone to Slumberland, only 1% is struggling with me til i finally let it rest.

Updates of photos and perhaps words tomorrow..hopefully..that's if i have my report churned out...

Urgh..

Only few more weeks to slog it all out and hopefully attachment would be fine...

BAH! (Rine, apply for copyright..gee..)

By the way, just finished reading "A walk to remember" by Nicholas Sparks. Really touching story... Who says stress cant be relieved by reading books?

Alright..eyes closing..starting to type nonsense...Tata..

Cheers to dark eye circles and failing health...BAH!

Untainted

Recently I chanced upon this friend's blog, let's just call this person A and assume this person is a she.

She admitted she was a smoker on the blog, claiming it's for the first time.

Although we weren't and aren't close friends, it hurts me to know that another friend has subjected to smoking. It always does.

All in the name of stress.

There are certain things people do that i might never understand. I never will.

Smoking is one of them.

I once talked to my dad about my hatred for cigrattes, and i still do. My dad admitted to smoking when he was in the army, he said most of them smoked, so he followed suit. So is it following blindly or succumbing to peer pressure?

He then explained that army life is tough, and a puff of the white and brown roll takes the stress off for that moment. I can picture how tough army life is just by imagining, but is it right to smoke? A definite 'no', I should say. "Excuse!" was what i replied.

Thank Guan Yin Niang Niang, Thank Ye Ye, Thank Mum, Thanks to every god, everyone, and anyone, that my father quit smoking when he decided to marry my mum for the sake of everyone's health. I'm truly grateful, thankful, beholden, gratified, indebted, much obliged, pleased, that my dad did a sensible thing after making a senseless mistake. I love my dad for who he is now.

Did you know I used to dislike my Dad's mum just because she smoked in the past? Yes, i did. Since young, i hated the behaviour of smoking. Everytime she smoked, i would run to the room, to the toilet, to the playground, in fact, anywhere, except the living room filled with smelly smoke. Now that she quit smoking for health reasons for over a decade, i'm starting to like her, starting to understand her, starting to get close to her. I'm even making an effort to brush up my Cantonese in order to be able to converse with her. I realise, i do like her now.

When smoke from my neighbours' residence float to mine, my brother will close the door immediately, hating the smell as well.

Sometimes it takes a child to differentiate what's right and wrong.

I''m not saying people who smokes are all baddies, I fully understand there are plenty of nice and kind people who, unfortunately smokes. I've met plenty, and nothing you say can make them stop smoking. If it's a person you've respected, it's even more heart-breaking for there'll always be a blemish in my view of that person, even though i know for real that the person is a good person.

The main reason why I first starting hating smoke was because of my sensitive nose. My poor nose can't handle the smoke, it doesn't want to and doesn't find a reason why it should. When i grew up, knowing the harmful effects of smoking only grew my hatred for it.

I've tried, and I've failed. Since nothing i say staggers their determination to kill themselves and their loved ones earlier, what else can i say?

I'm only thankful that my close family members and close friends do not smoke. Thank you for keeping my lungs and your lungs free of unwanted dirty tar. Thanks, i really appreciate your wise judgement of not smoking or have given up smoking.

Lastly, i wish for the ban on smoking to be enforced worldwide, especially in enclosed areas, and where children are present, even in clubs where untainted lungs want to have some fun too.

People question why is smoking wrong? Well, they know the reasons themselves, so there's no need to ask an obvious question.

Thank you for reading.

Just my cents worth.

Til then folks...;) Cheers to healthy lungs!

I'm a brave girl!

I'm a brave girl!



I finally went to cut off the darn ingrown toenail! Finally..

I had read up cases and explanations on the internet, i even read one case that was so serious that she was referred to the hospital because it caused some infections. Fortunately mine wasn't that serious yet, if i had dragged it any longer, it might just become worse.

But i had not, simply cuz it hurt too much, so much that i couldn't wear covered shoes, so much that it hurts like crazy when gently touched.

I musteered my courage and called my family doctor's clinic.

"Hello, eh, i would like to ask about removal of ingrown toenail."

"Oh, remove ingrown toenail ah?"

"Ya, may i know how much is it?"

"It'll be $50."

"Oh, $50. (I had expected it to be more expensive)"

"Ok, then do i need to make an appointment?"

"No need, just come in the afternoon lah."

"Oh, ok. Thanks! I'll come tomorrow then."

Then i thought, Rine's right, 'get it over and done with'. So i set my mind, went home, and dragged my mum to the clinic with me.(Actually she went with me voluntarily..)

When we reached the clinic, i still felt rather calm, glad that i had made the decision to finally come for this minor operation. When the doctor took out all the tools and the anesthetic.

"It'll hurt a little when i inject the anesthetic jab."

"Ok" i replied, feeling more nervous by the second.

Man, the jab really hurts...But i clenched my teeth, held my hands tightly together, and squeezed my eyes shut, thinking "This has to be done!"

Slowly, my toe lost all senses, and the tools were taken out.

"Do you want to watch?"

"No" i replied without hesitating.

So i laid down, and looked at the doctor's qualifications hung beside me while he removed the ingrown.

Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, NUS. (wow..)
Bachelor of Science(Hons) Flinders University. (wow..)
Many more qualifications..(wow..)

I seriously doubt i'll ever get that many qualifications, not to mention getting honours..

So the ingrown was removed...The doctor showed me the part of the nail that cut into my flesh, it was covered i blood. My poor toe...

It didn't really hurt when the effects of the anesthetic jab went off, but i was to stay home and allow my feet to rest for a few days.

So that means no shopping! URGH!!!

Nity commented that my wrapped toe looked like marshmallow...OK...




Lucky felt sad for my toe...


This little dog felt emphatised with me...


Even the tiger looked over here...


My bear bear pitied me...

it was so in shock that it almost fell down...


that the cow turned pink...


that Rine covered her face...


that Nina, Rice, and Nity tried to be funny...



Nity even tried to play a slow for me...eh...


KIDDING...

So my toe is slowly recovering now...

Lesson to be learnt: Never cut your nails way too deep!

Til then folks!~ Cheers to my bravery..Haha.. ;)

I'm singing in the rain. Just singing in the rain...



Two more psycho-ed into patronising Partyworld over competitor..Muahahaha...(and i don't get paid for it..Hmmm...)

Til Then Folks...:)

Double-boiled Black Chicken Soup

Double-boiled Black Chicken Soup



Double-boiled Black Chicken Soup, a soup to that is supposed to bring you back to health, and is especially suitable for the females who are naturally not as strong in the body constitution.

I love this soup, but my mum tends to put too much "Dang Gui"(a kind of herb) so occassionally it'll taste somewhat weird. Putting aside the weird taste, mum's black chicken soup is quite nice actually, considering the effort and time she puts into it.

A lot of youngster do not like these herbal kind of stuff, but i do like the unique herbs' taste and smell. Probably because i've grown up drinking and eating kinds of concoction from the medical hall and actually recovering fully.

"Aiya, nowadays all those kids don't know how to drink these kind of herbal soup one la. They only know how to complain smelly and not nice! Don't know what's good for them."

How true...

V3 once said i must have been the boss/lady boss of a medical hall in my previous life to like herbs. Well, i suppose...

That then brings us to the recent raves about Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM).

I remember seeing a forum discussing about the credibility of RCM. Surprisingly or not, 80% claim that they do believe in TCM. Reason for most of them being the existence of TCM tracks back to the ancient days where people fully depend on these hearbs to recover from illnesses. If it had been useful for such a long time, it sure is reliable.

Gee... Perharps i might lose interest in working in the media one day, get a chinese sinseh liscense, and set up my own TCM clinic...

You never know about the future...

Today past rather quickly, probably ecause i skipped the first 2 tutorials to prepare for my WFW retake.Can you believe i actually requested for it? Yea, you heard right, i requested for it. Well, at least i have a decent mark for it now. :)

Cheryl and I were like gluttons today, eating from place to place, stuffing ourselves crazy even though we weren't exactly starving. But i'm glad i had my double-boiled black chicken soup. I love jurong west market. Besides the good food, cheap but wide variety of stuff, it brings back wonderful memories, memories that cannot be forgotten, be it my previous "Old House" as i call it, the Yong Tau Foo i always had just beside my block cz it was sold by 2 old folks, the ever-active RC members' folk dance or whatever dance they dance, or the pasar malam that proved too noisy even after 11pm.

Well, gotta work tomorrow. Thank goodness, finally i can anticipate some cashflow INTO my bank account and not the usual outflow. First day of work tomorrow, kinda worried that i'll make a fool out of myself... Wish me luck...

Til then folks... ;)