Friday, September 28, 2007

formal dinner at international orientation.

at the Edge Bar. don't be worried, it's VK apple and Vk orange. it's like Barcadi Breezer and its really nice and its only 4% of alcohol. don't worry. haha we were posing for fun.

me and mom in my room :(

we got to see our first cadever [bodies] today! its was COOL! you could actually identify the parts which you see in ur biology text book. the formaldehyde, which they use to embalm the bodies, made us so hungry and no matter how much the body looks like meat, we headed to Nandos [like kenny roggers kind of thing]. and i was so satisfied. first meal with proper meat!

last night, these 2 random drunk boys stumbled into my corrider at 336am and attempted to sleep outside my room. they made like a hell lot of noise and i got woken up. like fu** off! i'm trying to sleep inside HELLO! i'm so glad after i stalked out of my room they went off.

Wednesday, September 26, 2007
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i haven't been updating a proper entry since i've reached and i'm really sorry. i wonder whether people still check back =p but well anyway, the last week was orientation and i made quite alot of friends from places all over the world its quite cool. i have friends from singapore, malaysia, india, hong kong, cyprus, germany, malawi etc. save for the talks on like "driving in the uk" and stuff like that, the orientation was quite fun. we were brought to places like Chatsworth house in the Peak districk [house of the duke of devonshire] which has REALLY NICE GARDENS. and there was the fromal dinner as well which was good experience and fun dressing up!

school has been hectic on the first day, but school fees and registration wasn't that bad. i had med school health check up today and they drew my blood AGAIN. and of coz what is a day without meeting obstacles, i got lost while walking to med school, and ended up reaching there 10mins late. it's not a very good first impression is it! but ok all was fine. i don't have school tmr till like 1pm so i'm up at 1226am blogging now. haha

i've been cooking! i cooked pasta on the first night and just now i had fried vegetables. it's not bad really, taste like mom's/chinese cooking, probably coz i always watch mom, and seroiusly everythign with oyster sauce is going to taste chinese =P to avoid feeling homesick [which comes and goes], i've been planning activites at night, every night the whole week! like yesterday was Population at the school club. today was Borat at the student's Union for like 50p. tmr's Pan's Labryinth at my friend's room, eating chinese take out.

accomodation. i love my room, but can't get used to the environment.
1. its surrounded by construction sites, and i got woken up at 730am this morning by the noise when i was only due up at 830am

2. the girls in my flat LOVE TO TALK OUTSIDE MY DOOR. like **** off, i'm trying to have some peace in my room if you didn't realise.

3. british culture somehow involves alot of drinking. like there's a communal drink cupboard in my kitchen. like WOW. and you get weird random guys from different flats popping by, talking outside my room, bitching abt Singapore [his luggage got lost there or sth, i was silently thinking of going out there and tell him, hey i'm from sg!] if not they'd be having hosue party in the kitchen, making noise, dirtying the kitchen. i haven't participated in any, nor gone out with my housemates. their nice ppl, if you talk to them they'll talk to you. i just don't like it when they talk OUTSIDE my room. oh random fact:
1)this guy was going on abt how he was so wasted, he woke up at 7am on the streets [note its probably <10 degrees at night] -.-
2) the medical school gave us a thick brochure on Alcohol & Health. i was silently laughing at it.

well well enough complaining, it's all part of uni life, its an experience, and i guess when you view things differently, it becomes more bearable and makes a whole lot more sense.

i miss Singapore like truck loads. my life, my family, my friends. i even have thoughts runnign through my head on how stupid i was on not staying in Singapore to study. and i was eating my really nice Marriott hotel Mooncake alone and thinking, damn i would have been eating it with my family back home.

oh wells, i'm beat i'm going to wash my cup and sleep.

till nxt time!
Monday, September 24, 2007
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i'm usually not one of vulgarities. but i can't fucking open the laundry room door, coz its coded and i got the code twice and i tried at least 10times and i feel so loserish.

apart from that, i forgot to bring my immunisation documents to the uni, and in 1h30min, i have to walk back to accomodation and agagin to school, which will take 1hr. so i was like fine, i'll take the bus. there's student's price at 50p. got up the bus, the driver was being such a bastard and made me pay 1.10p instead coz he didn't believe me.

that's my first day of school.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
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i think i need to be more tactful sometimes. haha but Angela, please rest and sleep well, you really look tired. so yupp i met up with Angela and Sam to be tai tais to have nice and yummy cakes at Cedele. i nvr fail to be amazed by them each time i return :) and i walked around and shopped. OMG SHOPPED when my suitcase is full with clothes and i haven't even put my contact lens solution and shoes and bags inside. OH OH but i bought like leggings to wear when it gets too cold. and den it was Soup Spoon and a whole load of camwhore-ing =P and with that, i said another farewell today :(


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went to dhobby ghuard to meet Oi&Xa for dinner after their Thai tutorial. haha what more can i say, we did what we usually do, go crazy and do stupid things. throughout dinner, they were conversing in their broken thai language since they just came from aural thai class and i was just sitting there with the "WHAT?!" look, and just laughing at them coz they sound damn funny. and this continued until we suddenly realised "eh, don't you think the waiter looks thai, and his english sounds weird too!" and we just burst out laughing, contemplating if we should ask him in thai if he's thai. HAHA and of coz, whats outing without our camwhorings, the usuals "AUNTIE go centre!!!" and we just walked around dhobby ghuard, just like how we did at esplanade the last time, bithcing loudly abt couples pda-ing at the Istana park, laughing and just doing stupid stuff.

these people made my days in jc so much more bearable :) just as we were recalling, all the stupid stuff they did, like sneaking ice jelly, den walking the long way for maths tutorial, arriving 20mins late only to be caught by our CT! haha that was damn funny! the sleepings, doodling, laughing and talking during lectures!

our attempted cool shots, soon to be facebook dp! :)

what more can i say, a picture speaks a thousand words. i wonder how am i going to survive lectures, in a foreign country, without these people to spice it up. Oi&Xa, i miss all the fun we had in jc and i'll miss ur alot alot! hang in there for thai ok! we'll save money and sit tiger airways to go thailand to shop! :)
Sunday, September 09, 2007

danny, timo, roy, merv, auch, chris, ter, lz, pat.

no more camwhoring partners. no more sat dinners/suppers and exclaiming how we have to wake up on sun morning to jog off the calories, no more giving the we're-all-bored-of-ur-army-talks to each other. i'll miss you loads, jaslyn & jj.

full attendance: (from left) zhiyuan, mervyn, timothy, terrence, lz, roy, chris, danny, auch, jaslyn, me, jj.

sime, jas, roy, chris

the mahjong kahkis. the sgoon kids (hougang, sengkang and kovan as well :)]. the cabbing buddies. the tuition people. the chomps/rk house makan kahkis. i'm seriously going to miss ur loads and loads and loads and loads. without your, my past 8 months of holidays would never have been so enjoyable, so fun filled. thanx for all the fun times, the advice while i was trying to decide which uni to go to [at hkcafe i remember clearly], the encouragements as i'm about to leave, telling me that although life might seem horrible the first week, things will get better. i'll definitely remember this. oh and thanx for the "xiao san yuan" :)

last week, i had church farewell. and this week i'm trying to stay at home to pack my luggage. but i can't even get past the first stage of packing my stuff for my 1st orientation =/ and all my clothes cover the entire area of a double bed, not including my shoes and bags and books etc. and i managed to buy my sports shoes [coz the sole of the old pair came out]. it's yellow again! yay! haha and bought my stationary. oh and i went back to return my new pair of contact lenses =/ they were really uncomfortable, so now i'd have to wait till dec when i'm back to wear my new lenses. hopefully my current one would last me till then, given the power is half that required =/

ok i'm off to pack before i seriously regret.

Wednesday, September 05, 2007
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i wake up and i go for a jog. come home feeling hungry so i have my breakfast. i head on down to run my errands and i'm hungry to eat lunch. yet i have no appetite and end up leaving half a plate of rice. BUT i have room for dessert. and den i head home after errands and i'm hungry. so i eat 6 ondeh-ondeh before i leave house for dinner with sybil, kk, hs. we head on down to kenny rogers. a few mths ago when i visited kenny's, i couldn't finish my chicken + my sides + my muffin. today, i ate finish everything. and i wasn't full! but now i'm sitting at home, my food seems to have travelled upwards instead of downwards and i'm feeling so uncomfortable/bloated/nausea. not meant to be funny coz i really feel quite horrible.

i wonder whats wrong with me and my digestive system. did i mention i've been dropping hair for the past wk as well. and i have weird dreams abt my block [and i'm living on the 15th floor] collapsing and a flood comes and washes away all my belongings. and i wake up with the same song stuck in my head every morning.

i need to stop being so reliant.

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and we were trying to picture ourselves meeting up next time with our spouses and kids.



Monday, September 03, 2007
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yesterday's farewell left me feeling so touched and everything, but seriously, today, reality set in. no more [ok at least for a while, 3 months]. but still it left me with a very heavy heart from the time i woke up. and den of coz it was raining, and i was packing my room, reading through old Majestia notes, listening to Corrinne May. seroiusly it feels so horrible. although i tell myself that i'll be coming back in Dec and its only 3 months but i can't picture myself 3 months without friday's chomps, sat's outings, sun's church and occassional chillouts/dinners, random dinners/gym/badminton sessions with Jas and Sam. talking to Hu Shing and Sam about every random thing under the sun. and i haven't spoken to Oi like for the longest period ever! and Xa, no more crashing lects and being a total auntie with you and oi!

in general, i'm going to miss mom + friends.

i had a pigging out session with Sam at some cheap chilli padi buffet thing. but still we were so stuffed. i seriously think our stomach has shrunk to like half its original size. HAHA. so we walked from Bugis to Little India to take nel. and of coz when i was about to go to the bus terminal she had to ask "so when am i going to see you again, besides next next thursday" :(

"hey, all the times we spent together during the post A level activities period, and even after the 2nd batch of army people went in to the army. i really treasure those times and it'll definitely be etched deeply in my memory, all the fun times we had at mahjong, gym, sengkang food court, bubble tea after gym sessions, bitching about the uncles and aunties at the gym, walking/running to the bus stop after tuition lessons, complaining abt tuition classes, talking about how naughty our students are, being my camwhore partner when the guys dont' take photos.. oh man, those seem like things of the past now that i'm leaving :( hope we'll still keep in contact as our schedule beocmes busier and of coz being miles apart =P"

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COW + farewell.

the camwhoring cell :)

wat can i say, except the same few things. touched, grateful. thank you very very very much. it's really amazing how such wonderful friendships can be forged within such a short period of time. i'm going to miss everything. the journey hasn't been easy, but i dont' regret it.

No a lifetime's not too long, To live as friends

Sunday, September 02, 2007

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seems like the fact that i have 11 more days with my friends and family has caused me to be in a crap mood. its so ironic, but i'm in one of those i-don't-feel-like-going-out-or-talking-to-anyone mood, but just to sit at home, think, mop around and sulk :( and, i can't sleep. this sucks. perhaps dementors have just paid a visit to hougang :(

and its quite obvious i haven't been doing any proper blogging.

well tues + wed were smsl gatherings. 1 organised by Singhealth and the other organised by NHG. 1 was at Oasis restaurant where we were offered a selection of grilled meats and appetisers and desserts while the other was catering. but food aside, i managed to meet Srujana, the other girl who's going Sheffield medicine, and her friend. and their all nice, so i was a happy girl :)

thurs was uk bound party at butter factory. me and xa reached there at approximately 11, and we left by 12. to head to crazy elephant for a heineken [and coz i didn't really eat dinner the alcohol got to my head real fast] and so we headed down to macs at liang court to just sit and chill. at the party, i met this sg guy going to a popular college in the big city to study physics. and when i told him i'm going to Sheffield he was like "oh ok. why do you choose Sheffield" so i told him my reasons. and he replied "oh i've been to sheffield a few times. and its rather boring" and of coz i was offended by that and i just told him "oh yeah of coz london is more exciting, however, it's not my cup of tea" and i just walked away. like hello, just because ur going to one of those few unis and i'm not doesn't mean ur any better than me or wat. i could have gone, its just that i didn't choose and you have no right to say such things to me. [fine i'm in a foul mood now, so pardon me if i do offend anyone, and i'm probably generalising, but i just need to find someone to vent my anger]

fri was ok.had to give 2 tuition which includes physics and i just rest my case complaining about tuition. and after that i had carrot cake and 1 prata! omg so fat.

and of coz today's the day where i dont' have to get up early and drag my ass off for tuition. yipee. but got up early anyway to send dad off to the airport and pack [which only consisted of my tabletop] and we went bugis for zi cha[supposed to be Miss Clarity, but its just too crowded] and Ratatouille [spur of the moment decision, though i'll prob watch it a few more times with others] which was good. and i'm home now, not feeling tired at all due to the coffee i drank and in a horrible mood.

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