im so sleepy

Last Thursday and Friday, I was so free. Watched one piece like forever. On the free day, which is Friday, I played piano for the whole day. Just keep practising and practising. The songs in The secret. It was so fun, yet annoying many times when i kept playing the wrong things. Imagine being my neighbor for that day. You'd want to kill me. haha.

Enjoyed myself so much.

Come Saturday and sunday, abit more busy with a make -up lecture and 2 tuition classes. Somemore, i dint get my pay haha. Then on sat, realised got project 1 worth 20percent to hand in by monday. How stressful. All along, i was dreaming, and did not know it was approaching. That's really how slack I am this semester. Well at least i'm getting my priorities right.

now that the proj 1 is finished and handed in, I'm quite relieved. Not that I care about the percentage marks, I care more about whether my product idea is good, and marketable and patentable. well, hopefully it turns out well. If so, i'll probably post it here.

my birthday celebration

Timetable for birthday
monday's timetable
9am-12nn PL Developmental processes
6.30pm-8.30pm Tr3001 New Product development (this lesson supposed to be 3pm-6pm, but it was changed to combined lecture, for a workshop on New Ideas generation. Well it was quite a fun and informative brainstorming session with my lecture mates, and i learnt quite abit).

Due to this horrible timetable, I was unable to celebrate dinner with family/friends. Not to mention my disgusting non-stop coughing. Those who have been in my class would have had a taste of the coughing. I feel like I'm trying to cough out my lungs through my mouth, to no avail. It doesn't want to come out though. haha

Anws, as you guys must have guessed, I went to celebrate (a little) on Sunday. My family wanted to treat me to a nice dinner, but as me, my sis and my mom are all sick (My sis coughing like me, my mom lost her beautiful voice), i suggested not celebrating. Anws, as a casual thing, we went to Terminal 3 of the airport to see if it was as good as what the news have been saying. Well, I'd say it is not really worth a visit. We had high expectations of the Terminal, but it wasn't as beautiful as expected (or hyped about). Its architectural concept was slightly disappointing, and we found the ceiling of the Terminal 3 to be slightly unappealing. There were many high-end shops at the Terminal, and the Sky Train to Terminal 3 was carpeted. It was rather crowded also, with mostly locals who are also tourists there like my family. We saw the departure hall though, it was nicer and looked like it was designed with the rich tourists in mind.

Speaking of Terminal 3, our family likes this particular stall selling Dumpling noodles in the 3M foodcourt. So we also went there for a small feast. Not forgetting, I saw Junyuan and his family in TPY hub, one particular carpark. I guess he dint recognise me since he doesn't know me.

It was a tiring and sleepy afternoon after the feast and Terminal 3 stroll, so I slept all the way back home in the car. Nice!!

In the evening, I met up with my beloved. He had a surprise for me, and I wondered what it was. I was still coughing badly, so he found me rather quiet. I had to keep quiet since I dint want to cough too much or get my throat too dry if i talk too much. Anws, we walked from the Bukit Batok central to Little Guilin , where we settled on a rock. He produced some boxes of Sparklers and we were playing Sparklers for a celebration =D nice! and starrry sparkly!! Anws, we walked further to the Bukit Gombak Stadium, and he found a stack of postcards on the rack, he wanted to burn them. So we took it back to the rock and burnt them. It was quite nice after awhile. It was warm, and the whole place was lighted up. However, it got too smoky and sooty after awhile, and if you get ur face too close, it wont be nice.

After awhile, we burned the entire stack of postcards, together with sparklers occasionally which gave alot of stary sparks, and the postcards were swelling up cos they were coated with some plasticky materials, and they burned differently. The fire would gush out at the edge of the postcards! very exciting burning. haha. Also, the sparklers boxes had colors! when we burned them, they glowed greenish, so the fire burning off them were green, maybe something made of copper lols.

anws, we were all smelling of smoke by the time we finished burning, and we walked back to the Central for a meal. Since the walk was rather long, we decided to burn the sparklers along the way, also it can dispel our fantasies of delicious food haha. The sparklers surprised passers-by and they gave many funny looks. a kid actually shouted cos he was kinda scared, and made his mother laugh lols. The stars flying out of the sparklers are really beautiful! and the sparks hit the hands to give a warm feeling. hehe. Arul wanted to eat Pizzahut cos he was super famished by then. but i wanted the healthy option and decided to take Subway. hehe. It was close to 9.45pm by the time we bought our Subs, and we went to check out whether there're any good movies. but nopes, not a chance, and i suddenly got really sleepy, so we went home.

That was how the Sunday ended. Throughout the whole time in the morning, i wanted to go to school library to mug. haha. but i dint la, of course.

Back to Monday.
Monday I had a nice surprise. Usually my dad opens the letter box. So presently, he came home in the mid afternoon, and he passed me a parcel-like thing. The first thing i thought of when he passed it to me, looking at the size of it, was that it was probably from Christina! lo and behold! I was right. The addressee - my name, had many fishes drawn around it. haha. so of course, i knew it had to be Christina! who else would draw fishes right? lols. I was so happy and excited, and i went to open it almost immediately, after shaking it around to try to guess what it was la. haha. my sister was excited to see too. So i went to open it up and it was our Journal of Promise! hehe. That's how she named it. I was so excited and happy, at the same time, thinking that too bad ur birthday is in the end of this year. poor thing. have to wait so long for it hehe.
ACtually, i didn't open the card until tonight, just a few hours before i started blogging this post, because i was rushing to my class in the evening, so i wanted to open it when I had time to read it. I love the picture and the card and the bracelet!! SUGOI!!
(i was kinda hoping she would remember the locklet tho) haha
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Anws, monday after class, arul met up to pass me my birthday present. He insisted not to give it to me the day before since it wasn't my birthday. so he met me at HV for dinner (he missed the bus stop at sunset way, so we met at HV instead). As usual (nowadays) he's starving and he suggested ThaiExpress. I wasn't that keen but i went along with it, since he's starving. For some reason, I don't really have much appetite for dinner lately due to my incessant coughing that kills my appetite.
He ordered this Beef curry with rice that's really spicy and hot and delicious, and I ordered this fried Kway Teow with vegetables (For vegetables lovers). IT was really good! hehe. So we had a great dinner and the service was especially great! the waitresses and waiters were very friendly and polite for some reason (remembering my last visit at the same outlet, it wasn't that fantastic). anws, so we enjoyed our dinner. The Red bean milkshake was a tinge too sweet though.

He brought me to this quiet park beside the Cold storage, which we called the toilet park. It has a mini exercise play ground there, with many metal benches for couples to catch the breeze. The main reason why we call it the toilet park is because there're many sculptures there, with their main theme being the toilet bowl. You guys probably have seen it before while walking from the bus stop to cold storage right? haha
Anws, he said he needed time to 'prepare' the gift, and had me look away. Well, i couldn't see much without my specs in the dark anyway. so i went to play on the exercise machines, they're nicer than those downstairs my house. So there was the birthday surprise! It was a shock at first, then a surprise when I opened it lols.

will upload the photos but i think it probably cant be transferred from my phone to the laptop. =(

not forgetting to mention all my friends who wished me happy birthday - Thank You to you guys!! Happy CNY shopping too hehe!!

modes of invention - project 1

Our first invention! The leyden jar =) I'm too excited, so I'm putting a diagram of the leyden jar first. Will take a photo of what we've done and then post it here. hehe From now onwards, we'll have weekly projects like these to brighten up our boring school life. haha And I'll probably be spending alot of time at Yuwen's house. haha

The leyden jar worked so well during the lesson that the spark produced was HUGE!! bigger than the pendulum bob!! it was so COOL! ahha

new post for the new school week

The start to this semester was terrible. I was down with this horrible sickness that left me feeling half dead the entire week during school. Bad bad sickness. I still dun know wad it is, so that's all i can call it - sickness.

The sickness pervades each minute, going to school became harder as walking a few steps up the staircase left my heart racing and me totally breathless. Just walking was that bad. And my legs were totally tired such that walking more than a snail's pace got me so tired and my legs so jellyish.
What's more, that is just physical. Mentally, I was also very tired. I wonder why. Perhaps fever and headaches are like lightning or electricity bursts that are overly active, and makes your head burst -literally. I couldn't look at a direction for more than a few seconds. Paying attention in class was a huge challenge, it felt worse than climbing a mountain. Seriously. haha. Oh well, you get my point.

Anws, you guys must be thinking - WTF is this woman going on and on about her suffering I am not even interested. Well. My purpose is to point out that this gives me a new perspective about school. For the previous semesters, I am either excited that school is starting, or bored about school starting. I always took it for granted that school is just school - the journey there, attend class, go home. that kinda thing. However, this 1st week of school, I had to endure. Endure the pain, endure the splitting head. Focus on the words of the lecturer that sometimes look like a polar bear to a flicker of light - trust me, when you open and close your eyes intermittently during class due to some migraine , and when the lecturer talks fast or something alien, you might think they are polar bears from another continent altogether!

Well I learnt that basic things should not be taken for granted and that life isn't that simple. When you fall sick, you cant just skip class. Things cannot be taken lightly and they must be faced with an attitude of seriousness, sincerity (dealing with people when your head exploding), and of course, humor. Humor works alot!

Yep, that's my short post on the new week of school. back to the bed zzz

saving a cat in the canal

of all the things i've done recently, today's event was the most memorable.
we were walking outta CDANS @ bukit batok not knowing wad to do, where to go, cos of the horrible rainy season when we heard a cat's moaning meowing. Those who have heard it (i bet everyone has heard it at least once in their lifetime, if they're aware of their surroundings) will know how it feels like. It makes ur heart moan, cry, hurt. Well, we were strolling out towards the bus stop as we heard it. We perched on the tips of our shoes, listening intently for the source of the sorrowful cries that kept resounding. We started to pinpoint the direction of it - there we pointed!- it is coming from there! but we could see nothing, though the noises were loud and sounded a little like echoes. We felt that our hearts could almost jump out. but still, we see nothing. suddenly, as if it was a moment of insight or as if the cat told us, we knew it was coming from below. Prancing towards the canal, we looked down over the wet green rails.

MAOH - it cried, looking at us in dismay with its pathetic yellow eyes. it was totally drenched and wet, and it was crying. if it was a human, the whole canal would have been half flooded with its tears. but cats dun really tear much i think. it was just shivering and totally drenched, half perching on the side of the canal, where the water level was lower. What a terrible sight we beheld!! you've never seen a more sad sight! Well, we decided to look for something to haul it up.. when we could find nothing, no long stick, pole or rope, we walked along the canal, hoping to find a ladder to go down to pick it up. Life cannot be wasted like that. Meanwhile the heart wrenching cries continued.

we walked further and further away from where we first found the cat, and we actually walked to the other side of Cdans where the golf course was, until we found a long stick, and what seemed like a ladder tied to the wet green rails. We ambled towards it in the long wet dirty grass that sometimes gave way to a deeper undergrowth. All for the sake of saving that poor cat outta the wet canal. upon reaching, we discussed with the golfing boy who was at a tent next to the ladder (it was inside the premises of Cdans). He told us tat the current level of the water in the canal is safe for us to get down. So Arul decided to go down since im not the best person too. we both just kinda did that arrangement automatically la. So he got down, i stayed on the grass, hoping he wont slip on any algae inside. Then we walked back to the cat, it's like the distance between 2 bus stops. Anws, i had to walk back through the horrible grass again, and both of us walked together, him in the canal hoping not to attract too much unneeded attention, and me too. Well the most exciting and unforgettable part is coming soon. AHH

i cant put the image out of my mind. it is so vivid, as if it were just happening. the moment i close my eyes, it appears. the face of the cat when it was so scared. Arul took it up, it was shivering so badly and it was so wet. He dint wana carry it back all the way, so he thought of an idea. he decided to throw the cat up so i could catch it. I WAS SO TERRIFIED. One can imagine the scary things of the cat hitting the floor if it fell, or hitting its head on the wet green rails if he threw it sideways, or scratching me all over my face if i banged into it. it could be anything. I was so scared i could have cried. Well i didn't, at that time. but now i think of it, i cringe. Well anws, he decided to throw it up, ignoring my pleas. He threw it. and the cat came high, almost into my hands, but i was too scared to grab it. I was so scared i'd hurt it - the poor cat with his scared face. his eyes were so yellow and so big and huge like saucers in his shrivelled face. AH. well, I told myself i cant bring myself to see it so scared another time. So i pulled up my socks for the 2nd throw. I had to. Arul had to, too. He caught it nicely when it fell. But the cat made so much ruckus, i bet we were all scared stiff. He threw it again, quickly. And i caught it, not too nice, but i hugged the poor creature, and put it on the ground. it was shivering, cold, mewing badly. I almost cried. My heart felt so sad for it. Luckily it's ok now. It mewed non-stop. shivered terribly. I was afraid it would die. he crawled around the ground, as if in search for something, some family or some shelter. it din't find it. I stroked its wet mangled fur, and whispered words like 'its alright' 'you'll be ok' 'everything is alright now'. I have never once in my life felt so close to life and death. I really thought it might die any moment cos its heart was beating so fast and its whole small body was shivering so much and shaking so much. I was so scared. Dint know wad to do. So i just squatted beside it, and kept stroking its wet fur, telling it everything will be ok, and things like that. i mewed to it too. to reassure it. it kept looking at me once in awhile with its yellow eyes. i waited for arul to appear. i looked far ahead, and saw him climbing up the ladder. i looked again and he was jogging towards me. by then, the cat was more stable on ground. and we decided to bring him to the toilet to dry him. off we went, going up by the back door leading to the toilet. pets not allowed in cdans right.

anws, it became slightly better - less scared. we dried him using toilet paper. wow he was so muddy and wet. cats hate water i think. that's why he was so scared. still shivering ALOT. but well, he listened to me when i talked to him to come to me. he was so poor thing.


oh well, it ended well cos after he was kinda half dried, he looked fuzzy and more like a normal cat. his shivering also decreased and his mewing too. he was so cute too! well, i was so reluctant to part with it. after drying it more under the hand dryer which was warm, with him cuddled ever so cutely on my arms, i really couldn't bear to let him go. so sad. well he finally decided to hide under a car, in the carpark at cdans. well, he stopped mewing in the pathetic way, so we went to wash up and left him there.

updates for dec 07

well, feel that i've been neglecting my blog since dec started. so will post some updates so in future i'll know wad i've been doing.. please ignore this post if its too long for u. haha

Dec 6
Day of last exam. Horrible child abnormal. Met up with xx and pearl to have a fantastic japanese feast at Ichiban @ Wisma, and ktv at Partyworld after that. It was a really great day despite being so tired and achy after the exams.

Dec 7
Met up with xx and her group of friends (from pri sch all the way till university) and we went to p.ubin on a short trip. it was fun and we explored a little small bit of ubin (wow, ubin is already so small and yet we explored like 5% of it, so i guessed we must have been walking a small circle) hahaha.

fuzzy memories after that point. i wonder what i did. hmmmm


Ah! yes. I was working on the long abandoned jigsaw puzzle (some can refer to the half-finished one posted few months back). It was excruciating pain and torture. The jigsaw puzzle makes your mind wonder. It makes you think of many things you wont ever think of normally when you're occupied with something earthly. It makes you think if you've gone mad, just working on finding the next piece. It makes you think of long time friends and wonder if they're alive. things like that. you got my point . Anws i was working on the jigsaw puzzle and thought i'd never step out of my house alive for close to 3 deathly days.

dead or alive. i will finish it. Those were my thoughts those days. Im so glad i've finally finished a huge portion of it and chucked it away for my own good, perhaps for the next year or so.

more faint memories ...
oh now, i realised i made a mistake. i simply went to chiangmai from 9th dec to 14th dec. no wonder i thought there was a big hole in my memory!
chiangmai trip was good! i enjoyed the cool weather and it was a time spent with family! haven spent so much time alone with family for so loong! and the hotel we stayed in was huge and it was 5 stars! the 2 rooms are joined together too, so cool!

We bought- at least I bought many clothes --2 sleeveless, 1 shorts (tribal), 1 jeans, 1 monk bag, 1 slippers, 1 2008 calendar.

we did lotsa things in chiangmai and i liked my tour guide! he's 4th generation descendent from this general from taiwan. he's so cool. he's able to speak chinese though he's stayed in the north of thailand all his life! and he told me, when he was young, he had to fight with other minorities in the region- carry guns and fight! Well, fancy having a cool tour guide like that!

So- back in singapore.
after coming back from chiangmai, i did my jigsaw puzzle.. yes..

That took me 3 whole days of boredom. so after the jigsaw, i was so excited to meet up with Xx, HQ and JL (at that time, i dint know who she was) for K lunch at JEC. it was fun! and my throat wasn't sore or anything, so i sang ok. well it got too cold after awhile, and everyone started shivering. the 3 of them kept going to the toilet the whole time (well, a few times it seemed to me) and i figured out mostly cos it was too cold, but xx told us the toilet is too dirty and ugly and advised us against using it. haha Good thing i dint drink any water much so i went toilet after the whole thing ended in the nicely furnished new toilets at JEC. Wow how i remember the horrible toilets at JEC previously. they were cement floored, stinky, lack toilet paper, and the doors wouldn't close properly. Welcome to proper sanitation, young people of this generation. they'd never know wad it is to use really simple toilets. never.

well well well, one couldn't talk too much about toilets. i think the only reason why im writing this way is because of this book im reading now. its titled Catcher in the rye. the author keeps talking on and on in this 1st person and doesn't really give a clue to wad the book is about! think of that. as a reader, you get so lost. but anyways, you guys can go read the book yourself and figure out wad i mean. its by this author called J.D Salinger.

anws, after the k lunch, it was really cool cos we went to Tina's house to make cookies. that's the earlier post where there're many pictures.

Ok, in between that time, fuzzy memories hit me again. hmmm

But i remember that close to christmas, lets say, 1 week before that, we had a gathering at someone's huge mansion (actually we were invited by Tina to her church youth gathering or sth) where we didn't know like 99% of the people there. it was fun and cool all the same. we went about exploring the big mansion. many things to do there. i could stay at home the whole day wow. anws, i had some problems with my bf at that time, and i went to talk to xx about it. she was telling me stuffs too. haha and we were both sitting at the staircase leading up to the bathtub. now i know that sounds silly but that's true. we were really doing that, pink they were as i remember them.

well as i was saying, food at the party was cool. there was ham, chicken, big roasted turkeys, beef with some real nice sauce, pasta with olives (real healthy i'd say), and broccoli with campbell soup. that was nice. good menu. wow

anws there was a huge swimming pool and all! overall nice house although it was situated on the top of a steep slope. oh yes! you can see the top of bukit timah hill from there and wonder if the house was the same height as the hill top! BAhaha

after the party, life was boring as usual. I guess i tried to tidy up my house that kinda thing. but i was kinda depressed after that for a few days, i think many days. wonder why. but its all over now and im now happy as a person who've plucked a star from the skies.

It was on 22nd or 23rd (i think it was a wkend) that Arul persuaded me to go visit a Reiki Master with him. It was all the way at East Coast park (thereabouts) so we plodded along like idiots looking for the place (we were kinda lost initially). well it was a good experience. i had on my super tribal look (red bandanna, tribal green shorts i bought in chiangrai, smiley shirt or sth). well the Master seemed to like Arul alot and kept asking him alot of questions. haha
his condominium had a terrific view too! overlooking the sea with many ships. peaceful.

i think on 24th and 25th, i started learning Reiki.
u guys should read up about it somewhere k, if u ever get interested and have a chance to do so.
since learning reiki, i've been practising it everyday!

I also went for 2 bike lessons, both 2.02. so rusty after not riding for 1 month. haha. but finally met some good instructors who explained to me how to do the stupid lane change properly. rocks i tell u. so happy i passed. cant wait to get my hands on the riding license. it'll really rock, when the day arrives. well im still a beginner but i'll soon become really good. anws yep, that's the update for the month of december 2007.

New year is approaching hehe. and today arul and i made our new year resolutions. so in case you haven made yours, go do it k and stick through them! haha

Earth at Twilight

This picture is a single digital photograph taken in June of 2001 from the International Space Station orbiting at an altitude of 211 nautical miles.
It shows the gradual transition from day to night as seen from above the Earth.

December Solstice

Today is the December Solstice, where the Sun gets to the southernmost place in our Earth's sky. Oh well, rather its the Earth's rotation/spin (or something) that causes this to happen. Anyways, this marks the start of winter in the northern hemisphere and summer in the southern hemisphere! Yahoo =) Less rain and more SUN!!

Cookies at Tina's house!!

The 4 bakers who've passed the culinary challenge!
This post is courtesy of Zijia! -- taken from her blog! hahah

Cookie dough to put in fridge for 1 hour

1st batch of blackened cookies -- i was the timer, and a bad one! haha

I liked my milo idea!!

Twinkle twinkle little stars.. how i wonder- there u are!

Batch without colors -- world without colors seem more edible aint it?

You know what this is.. u csi fans out there

haha lame

chiangmai trip

It is another unforgettable experience into another poverty-stricken area of Asia. Countries such as Laos, Maynmar, Vietnam and Thailand have the region's lowest GDP. Seeing how the people live from hand to mouth, with many young children to feed makes me wonder how much we take it for granted in Singapore. From our food, our clothes, our house, our hygiene equipment, our everything, our peace and middle-class lifestyle basically. Oh well, i just think that many things in life cannot simply be taken at face value. How do economies prosper for example? How do governments manage countries. These things are beyond the control of everyday people like us, we think. It may not be true. We should, instead of being selfish and thinking of our own needs, try to think how we can change the future into a better place. Well, we should be shaping the future with our own hands, instead of leaving it to the government. Thats cos the influence the government has on our everyday lives is simply a lot. It influences the infrastructure we have through the policies, and influences crime rates etc! Just think of how we could shape the world into a worse or a better place by being the 'manager' of a country!

oh well, getting tired of rambling on and on.. shall stop here.. will upload some nice pictures when im free.. btw, i'll be backpacking to Bangkok next Wed so do leave ur footprints on the tagboard if u want. haha