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Friday, March 30, 2007,10:47:00 PM

Primarily Piano~

The Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music...
Went to the Conservatory of Music with KY, Thunder and Bird for the piano recital, "Primarily Piano"...My first time in the new Conservatory Concert Hall.. It is rather nice... We were there early cause we went right after our lecture and dinner... By the way, our lecturer said,"Good Job" to us after the presentation! (^_^)v

My ex-classmate from German class was one of the performers and he played the "Paganini Etude No.2 in E-flat major"... It was rather impressive...

Some performers are better than others but generally ok.. :)

Glad that March is over soon.... Welcome, April! :)



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overwhelming!

I want to watch this movie! "Nada Sou Sou" ....



Hopefully next week, when my most overwhelming week ends... and when most problems are settled...

  1. Friday-Pharmacotherapy CA
  2. Monday- Pharmacokinetics CA
  3. Wednesday- Chinese 2 Quiz+ 1 minute speech
  4. Thursday- Pharmaceutical Analysis CA (Dr. Paul Ho's)
  5. Friday- Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Presentation & Quizzes
  6. Monday- Pharmaceutical Analysis CA (Dr. Bong's)

Anywayz, on Wednesday evening, after coming back from a very long day of school +industrial visit to Schering Plough, I received a bad news... I was so sad, I lost my appetite immediately...

:(

Well, I'm alright now. My friend told me,"When my one door closes, another bigger door will open for you." ... Lost an opportunity, I hope there is another better opportunity coming my way... til then , I shall stay positive and wait :)

Pharmaceutical Biotechnology presentation tomorrow >_<



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Monday, March 26, 2007,9:49:00 PM

What have I learned recently?

Was listening to the radio and the DJ said something about recording what we have learned each day... After weeks and months, we would have accumulated a lot of new knowledges...
Isn't that a good idea? Not too practical though...
I learned a new joke recently, from an email my friend sent me... It's quite funny and more importantly, it's short and sweet.. good enough for a short entertainment or to break ice :)
I have this joke that I had recycled too many times... So, it's good to find a new one that I like and people can respond to it... :)
TOday, I learned that I am not good in Pharmacokinetics.. Or to be exact, I can't seem to get the concept of PK.. seems like I'm not a very conceptual person... This morning, while studying for the test, I felt a familiar feeling.. It's the same feeling I had when I studied for Physics back in Secondary School and A-levels >_<
When I was doing the test, I confirmed the feeling! It's the "i-don't-get-you" feeling! :(
Anywayz... over the weekend, Thunder found a blog by a NUS engineering student who is a very good photographer-> edeno de fotographie (he shifted to another site.. but i prefer this old one)
This is a picture of my hostel taken by him:
Prince George's Park Residences......



Another view...... Very Very nice photos! really! If these were used in the brochure of our hostel, it would definitely attract a lot of students here.... :)

If you have been to NUS, imagine it covered in snow.... imagine Singapore has winter...








The walkway up towards Arts faculty....

Engineering canteen, "Techno Edge"....nice :)


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Saturday, March 24, 2007,9:35:00 PM

No Expectation = No Disappointment

Will I ever learn?
I had been disappointed over and over again.. by people, by events, by food, by all my expectations.. If there is no pursuit, will there be no happiness?
Or if there is no pursuit, there will be NO disappointment... No disappointment, hence no sadness! No sadness = HappYness!
Isn't that great?


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Wednesday, March 21, 2007,10:56:00 PM

Weird things people do~

Have you ever deleted a contact from your MSN list? What's the reason for deleting the contact?
  1. You added someone and later on found out that he/she is actually not your friend.
  2. That person is so irritating, you would not want to chat with him/her anymore.
  3. You hate that person.
  4. That person changed his/her MSN account.
  5. ......

I have deleted contacts cause I added the wrong people... cause my friend changed their MSN account..

Just now, my friends laughed at me.. Because I deleted a contact from my MSN list not because I hate that person or find that person irritating.. and not because it's the wrong person or changed account....

I deleted that contact because I do not want to see that person come online.. LOL... I do not want to be looking at that person's MSN status.. LOL...

Weird things people do...

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Had our chinese class performance today.. I guess it was OK... :)

Handed in my application form for the hospital preceptorship.... :)

Went to the faculty office again today to look for Ms. Virginia who was on medical leave yesterday.. The receptionist was not there so someone inside the office greeted me and asked who I was looking for...

Me: Erm.. Miss Virginia..

He: Virginia?

Me: (looking at CM) Yea.. the receptionist told me Virginia was on medical leave yesterday..

He: Erm.. no Virginia here..

CM: I think I heard Eugene.. Maybe it's Eugene..

Me: Oh... How about Eugene?

He: Eugene? Erm... no.. What do you want to find her for?

Told him my reason...

He: Oh! Angela is it!

Me: Angela? oh, maybe... (but the receptionist said Virginia ler...)

-_____-

Anyway, got Angela and clarify some issues with her... got nothing much out of her though... So, now it's wait... sigh..

Terror weeks starting on Friday..

  1. Friday-Pharmacotherapy CA
  2. Monday- Pharmacokinetics CA
  3. Wednesday- Chinese 2 Quiz
  4. Thursday- Pharmaceutical Analysis CA (Dr. Paul Ho's)
  5. Friday- Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Presentation & Quizzes
  6. Monday- Pharmaceutical Analysis CA (Dr. Bong's)

I think on Monday night, I shall go out and eat a good meal or I shall sleep for more than 10 hours!

Then, camps on Friday-Sunday... followed by Pharmacokinetics presentation on the next day (Monday) and another Pharmacotherapy CA to wrap it all up right before Reading Week.. How wonderful!



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R.a.N.d.O.m.

I bathed 3 times today because I forgot I promised my friend to go jogging at night... The jogging trip wasn't successful cause it started to rain even before we reached the track... :(



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I went to eat breakfast at McDonald's today.. to try out their new breakfast product
Bagel with Omelette
Nothing special but the omelette is quite nice... and I like the cheese, of course.... :) Very filling though... wasn't hungry til late afternoon...
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Called my sister yesterday and finally made a decision to get out of my "constipated" situation (as thunder puts it..haha)... Called the office to double confirm my decision but administration will always be administration...
I will never understand administration....
I called the office and the lady on the phone gave another number to call.. Okay.. I called the other number and got another lady on the phone... told her my situation and she said she'll connect me to her colleague... Okay... got connected to this other lady and told her my situation again....
and her reply,
"Oh.. this is not handled by my office... you should ask your faculty's office.... "
-____-
Went to my faculty's office straight since it's just 2 floors below where I was... Told the receptionist and she said the person-in-charge is on medical leave today... Asked me to go back tomorrow....
o_O
Series of unfortunate events still going on, I guess....
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Nowadays, I like to use the phrase, "I guess".... and I'm starting to give more ambiguous answers when asked to make a decision or choice....
I hate making decisions and choices! I, almost always make the wrong decisions and the wrong choice! Really!
Best example: The queue I choose at the immigration is always the slowest or something dramatic will happen in front! Sigh...
Why do people need to make so many decisions? Is making decision a part of growing up? Then, I do not want to grow up...
Can I just let it be?
When I was just a little girl
I asked my mother, what will I be
Will I be pretty, will I be rich
Here's what she said to me.
Que Sera, Sera,
Whatever will be, will be
The future's not ours, to see
Que Sera, Sera
What will be, will be.
When I was young, I fell in love
I asked my sweetheart what lies ahead
Will we have rainbows, day after day
Here's what my sweetheart said.
Que Sera, Sera,
Whatever will be, will be
The future's not ours, to see
Que Sera, Sera
What will be, will be.
Now I have children of my own
They ask their mother, what will I be
Will I be handsome, will I be rich
I tell them tenderly.
Que Sera, Sera,
Whatever will be, will be
The future's not ours, to see
Que Sera, Sera
What will be, will be.
Whatever decisions you make, not everybody will understand and not everybody will agree... But you still have to make this decision and as long as you do not regret over it, you should be brave and accept whatever consequences that comes with the decision.. :)
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Monday, March 19, 2007,9:16:00 PM

非你莫属 by Tank


你知道吗?
我很喜欢牵着你的手的感觉
发生什么样子我好希望再来一次


懂得让我微笑的人
再没有谁比你有天份
轻易闯进我的心门
明天的美梦你完成

整个宇宙
浩瀚无边的尽头
每颗渺小星球
全都绕着你走

爱我非你莫属
我只愿守护
由你给我的幸福
爱我非你莫属
也许会笑着哭
但那人是你所以
不怕苦

☆o0o0o0o0o0o☆

爱我非你莫属
我只愿守护
由你给我的幸福
爱我非你莫属
也许会笑着哭
但那人是你所以
不怕苦
那人是你所以
不怕苦... 不怕苦...


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Sunday, March 18, 2007,4:11:00 PM

My Pursuit of HappYness~

This phrase has been on my MSN nickname for some time... Why?

Had been feeling low lately... due to accumulation of many factors.. Things just don't seem to go smoothly...

It all started about a week ago I guess... nothing in particular triggered this series of unfortunate events... They all just decided to come together...

There is one thing that has been bothering me and affecting me mentally though... Really badly that I start to avoid waking hours cause I will be thinking about it... I ended up sleeping earlier and earlier each day...(even though my work is pilling up.. )
It's a choice I have to make... between reality and dreams~ Do you stay firm on the ground, being satisfied with what you have or do you chase after your dreams?
I want to be satisfied and grab things that can be reached... But at the same time, I feel that we only live this life once... We should chase after our dreams when we are still young and capable, no?
So how?
........................................

Then there's the problem with accomodation during the 3-months break... hospital attachment (which hospital to choose? which batch to go to?)... tuition timetable during my holidays... when can I go home... Girl Guides Camps schedule.... etc.

Just feeling miserable lately...
may be partly due to hormone changes...

When I'm feeling miserable I tend to offend people... >_<


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On another note, I want to watch "Letters from Iwo Jima"!! But nobody wants to with me .. >_<
I want to go and watch by myself but my friend said I'm not strong enough to go the cinema by myself... on a Friday night... o_O
Maybe not....

I have to make my decision by Wednesday morning... Whatever my decision is, I hope it's the correct one... Wish me luck!

It feels just like less than 3 years ago... when I have to make my decision between something that I like and something that will take care of my financial situation...

I still don't know whether it's right or wrong...

Time will tell... I hope...


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Wednesday, March 14, 2007,10:44:00 PM

halfway through March

The time had been speeding by in such a fast pace... One minute it's New Year's Day.. the next minute, it's Chinese New Year.. now it's already halfway through March!

What had I done in this 3 months?!

The schedule for the coming weeks are getting scary... I had been feeling rather tired these few days... On Monday, I slept at 12.30am.. on Tuesday (yesterday), I slept at 11.45pm... My sleeping time is getting earlier by the day... It's not that I don't have work to do but my brain will be in hibernating mode... Today, I'm starting to feel brain "hibernation" now... o_O
Maybe cause I didn't sleep well yesterday... I dreamt about me going to Tasmania, Australia to visit my friend (A) who is studying there. When I reached there, A drove me around in her car and on the way I saw another friend (B) who was at the road side... I could see her clearly, in her white T shirt and shorts (which reminded me that I haven't seen her in real life for the longest time!)..There was this group of children there too.. they looked like they are playing around or having some sort of treasure hunt.. The view was nice..view of the sea.. and the place has nice greeneries..
I have never been to Australia.. and I don't know why I dreamt about Australia...haha.. Maybe I really do want to go travelling desperately... :(

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Yesterday I went to WY's house and she cooked dinner for me.. :) I went there cause we planned to go watch her friend's dance performance in LT13... It was raining super heavily when we left her house... the wind was blowing so strongly that my pants were half wet and bag was also wet even with an umbrella each!
We reached LT13 at 7.40pm and the performance was scheduled to start at 7.30pm... But I saw a dancer sitting outside the LT eating dinner.. hmmm... Then we went in and the LT was empty except for 2 person sitting there with mic... there were dancers on the stage but they were all wearing normal T shirts with track pants... ????
We walked out, and went to look for the promotional posters for this performance...
"Evocation 2007
14-16 March 2007 (Wed-Fri)
LT13"

o_O

We went on the WRONG day! haha.. all the soaking wet in rain for nothing!

Today, I finally got to watch "Evocation 2007" by NUS Dance Ensemble.. but not with WY, with XH instead...
Before that, we went for dinner at Temasek Hall and bumped into my ex-president of NUSHO... He urged me to start playing Sudoku so that he can challenge me.. -___-
I don't play Sudoku cause I don't find it fun.. and I don't have the patience to figure out numbers to fill boxes..haha.. Maybe I may start playing it someday.. Maybe...

Anyway, the dance performance was great! From a non-dancer's point of view.. some dances were rather provoking while some are really a feast to the eyes... I like most of the dances, especially the opening piece (some chinese dance but to clubbing music...), and also the finale item.. the dancers were generally good.. :)

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Going to perform in Chinese class next week.. Our group will be singing but we had not decided on a song yet! Sigh...
We want an easy song but at the same time entertaining... rather difficult to find.. :(
And none of us can play the guitar, which would make our performance more entertaining...

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On another note, I was clicking everywhere on YouTube as usual today.. and accidentally found this guy, David Choi who recorded an original song called "Love Song" for Youtube... the lyrics has something like "consume my life, YouTube.."
Go search for davidchoimusic in YouTube and listen to his songs... he has good voice and some of his original songs are quite good, like "Valentines"... he even does good covers.. my favourite would have to be "Somewhere over the rainbow"...
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Many random things above.. due to accumulation of thoughts over the past few days... not being able to post anything on blogger...

Back to work :)


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Sunday, March 11, 2007,3:09:00 PM

When you wish upon a star~

way to heaven by Malta (from DeviantArt)
When you wish upon a star
Makes no difference who you are
Anything your heart desires
Will come to you
If your heart is in your dream
No request is too extreme
When you wish upon a star
As dreamers do
Fate is kind
She brings to those who love
The sweet fulfillment of
Their secret longing
Like a bolt out of the blue
Fate steps in and sees you through
When you wish upon a star
Your dreams come true
Take down the moon and stars by HappyProd (from DeviantArt)


This week had been a rather busy week... I started giving tuitions this week, on Wednesday and Saturday.. which resulted in a very tiring Wednesday.. followed by strenous balancing postures in Yoga class on Thursday... and a test on Friday... followed by Harmonica Orchestra's concert at University Cultural Center(UCC) Hall the same night... the performance was rather good... for once in many years, I was in the audience instead of performing with the orchestra.. kinda sad looking at those familiar faces on stage... really really considering to perform again next year... I hope I can cope.. :) Sad to say, there wasn't any major improvements from last year's... instead the guest players and solo performers were the ones who shined that night.. The pianist was superbly good!! the harpist was impressive with her big, golden harp... the guest cellist outshined the resident cellist.. but the new resident percussionist was rather encouraging.. :)
And the conductor sang! not bad :) Overall, an ejoyable night...
i was rather worn out by Friday night... every time I want to take a small nap, I fell asleep the moment my head hit the pillow... On Saturday morning, I woke up early to go to tuition at Lakeside, rushed to Bugis and back to NUS for meeting.. then back to hostel and out again for dinner with friends.. came back to edit my part for the Biotech project and do up my lab report before going to the track for night jogging... We walked and jogged for about an hour and talked for another hour while lying on the track looking at the (surprisingly) many stars.. (in the middle of the track..haha..).. It was 12.30am when we decided to leave the track and walked back to our hostel... Stopped by our favourite seminar room to talk to the guys who were playing "Risk" and Khim who was designing her event poster... Finally reached my room before 2am... Slept at 2.30am :)
Settled most of my non-academic problems by now.. just one more to settle.. then i'll be set to concentrate on my finals.. :)
did fairly badly for all my continuous assessments thus far.. so have to work harder for the finals.. :(
Besides all that, life's good. At least I'm at peace with myself and happy :)




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Thursday, March 08, 2007,12:50:00 AM

Uncertainties

Had been rather busy lately... Besides school work and the upcoming test on Friday, I have many things to settle.... Many decisions to be made and many problems to overcome... For now, some of the problems had been thought through but still no concrete action taken yet..
In the waiting process now... I'm waiting for something that I really want and whether I get it or not will determine my many other decisions....
So, it's rather torturing to be waiting for the wish... To make matter worse, I don't even know when will the wish be announced... And for some of the decisions, there are deadlines that I need to watch out for..
So many consequences from this "wish"...

Please grant me my wish

x(>_<)x

Wish me luck! I need a lot of it!! For the time being, I shall study for my Biotech test :(


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Saturday, March 03, 2007,11:14:00 PM

Brotzeit German Bier Bar & Restaurant

If last semester was Holland V sem, this semester is Vivo sem...
Initially we planned to eat at Ms Clarity Cafe (Bugis) because the food is nice and the price is affordable... and we don't want to be stuck at this corner of Sg.. we want to go to town....
But some of them want to shop and Vivo is having sales...

So, in the end, we decided to go Vivo for dinner...

Thunder and I were set on going to Brotzeit German Bier Bar & Restaurant ... We had wanted to go to this place before.. but it seemed kinda posh...

After checking out the prices and seen good reviews in The Straits Times, we decided we have to give this place a try.. Since we learned about some German cuisines last semester, we were quite keen to try them out..



We had to sit at the high table area because we did not make reservations... The chair so high..so difficult to get on it.. :(
Next time must make reservation to sit at the place with better view :) The 5 of us shared:
  1. Sausage platter for 2
  2. Mushroom Stew with German Dumplings
  3. and something like baked pasta in cheese (German kinda-pasta)
  4. Sachertorte! (the famous chocolate cake with apricot jam layers in the middle)
  5. Schwarzwalderkirschtorte (the also very famous Black Forest Cake)
  6. Beer with mango juice in it... very smooth and good :)
  7. Apfel something... basically apple juice mixed with sparkling juice... served in a glass that is identical to the bottle it came from.... Imported from Germany :)

I had to pronounce "Schwarzwalderkirschtorte" (the second "a" has 2 dots on it) for my German presentation to introduce Germany to the rest of my tutorial class.. Believe me, it wasn't easy..haha.. My friend who was going tso Germany for student exchange programme even challenged me to pronounce the name correctly and he will buy me a piece from Germany.. and I did! :) I even blurted a list of good food in German and he has to buy them for me :) (If he remembers la.. >_<)

Anyway, the food was good! The service was good too..
We liked the sausages a lot... really yummy sausages.. fat, thin, long, short.. spicy.. all nice :) Thunder and Wx liked the big, fat sausage the most... hehe..
The mushroom stew was OK mainly cause I don't really eat mushrooms.. but the German dumplings were surprisingly good!!
The baked pasta was delicious as well.. the cheese was not too much or too little.. Just enough to make you feel guilty after eating it... But it's tasty enough to keep you eating.. hahaha..

The 2 desserts were very good! The Sachertorte, I felt was better than the Black Forest Cake though.. and personally, I think the Sachertorte is better than the one from Wiener Kaffeehaus (a Viennese Coffee House & Roastery)... Had not eaten there before but my nice friend "da bao-ed" one Sachertorte for me last sem :)

We only tried one of their famous beer.. Cause it's still early and my friend refused to drink.. Maybe next time, we can go and sample their beer instead of eating dinner :)


Overall, it was another great dining experience :)

Happy 14th day of CNY !!!


I didn't take any of those pictures.. It was taken from this site ... None of us had a camera and it was too dim to take pictures with our cameraphone..


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Thursday, March 01, 2007,10:32:00 PM

Very Late V Day post



Just received all the photos we took during V Day from WY and Swei... V Day was spent with 5 other girls at Swei's place... it was a poolside party but only Thunder and I went swimming... :)

Before V Day, some of the pharmies and I went shopping at Vivo..
Ralph Lauren was having some promo thingy.. and the decoration was all in pink with very lovely pink roses ! I don't usually like roses but these were so pretty!


The roses look like they are being planted there.. but actually not ....



The roses and the street lamp...


There is an exact same lamp but a black coloured one in my house's compound... Last year, my sis friend asked how did the street lamp got INSIDE our house compound o_O ...




Anywayz, the food that V Day night was great! It was mostly prepared by our incredibly talented host, Swei...



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The "Special Dish" that night was this Fruit Tart... custards and cheese totally covered with big, juicy grapes! Really really delicious!


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Swei made a salad which spookily smells so much like "Subway"... egg and bakwa sandwiches (really yummy too! and healthy..haha)... konyaku jelly...

WX cooked "pai gu wang" (pork ribs) which were good too :)

Khim was not there but she made us chocolates!!

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We LOVE the food!! :)


After eating non-stop, we decided to play by the poolside... :)

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I like this photo the most, although I'm not in it.. cause I'm the photographer... :)

Thunder and I went swimming while the rest continued eating and gossiping... We even tried out the jacuzzi while being served chips by the others... haha :)


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After all the eating, we went back to Swei's living room to drink and play cards...
which sadly, made me break my New Year Resolution- No alcohol...The red Bacardi is very deceiving... it smelled so nice and tasted like fruit juice.... o_O

It was a very chocolatey-sweet V Day :)
Happy 12th Day of CNY!!!


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A Bimbotic Wednesday <3

I like the rain today...


Due to a bimbotic reason:

"So that I can use my transparent umbrella...."



I feel happy when using that umbrella... The day is brighter even though it was raining... :)

My bimbotic feeling was further enhanced by my pink-coloured finger nails (done by CM yesterday)....both sides are of different shades of pink... -__-
my toe nails are painted with "strawberry jam" coloured nail polish (by myself)




Actually, today had been a rather good day.. I woke up early yet again..cause I slept early the nite before... Studied my Chinese in the morning, while having a nice breakfast at my own sweet time without rushing... Took my Chinese mid-term test at 10am...

and lunch with Bird and Timon at Engin canteen... we went to the Sci lib to photocopy a whole big chunk of notes! -__-

came back to PGP and I actually took some time to go read the newspaper in the TV room... more work done in the afternoon before my Chinese tutorial at 6pm... did my PK tutorial after some slacking after Chinese class...

Then I was off to Bird's place for project discussion... from 8pm-12am >_< ...but we got some things done which is good :) Had to walk back in the rain (but under my transparent umbrella) with KY cause no more shuttle bus....

And now back in the room... Have to get more work done before calling it a day :)

Busy days ahead !!

Happy 11th Day of CNY!!! :)



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