wongy's ramblings

2008-05-30T13:07:00.001+08:00

i'm leaving on a (jetstar) jet plane,but i'll know when i'll be back again,wishing 'twas an sq jet plane,till then we'll meet again =)

2008-05-27T23:04:00.004+08:00

The evil GSS is here again! Besides the obscenely incessant shopping that i've been doing, good food is also in danger of becoming extinct, thanks to my ravenous appetite now that the electives are almost over. Not having to wake up at 5.50 am and rushing like a mad man during 7.30 am ward rounds does wonders for the mind, heart, body and stomach. Dr Lim, my ortho tutor, has flown off for his

2008-05-19T22:33:00.004+08:00

Ubin picture post! We met at 9 am on sat morning at tampines mrt before setting off to singapore's second biggest island."How come 29 takes so long to come de?!" Me looking really bored from the waiting. We waited almost 20 mins for the bus, and the bus trip from tampines terminal to changi village took another 20 mins or so.Look at the happy faces AFTER we boarded the bus! That says a lot about

2008-05-18T21:12:00.002+08:00

Just came back from ttsh! Had dinner with mum at lao beijing in novena square and i find the food so-so only. For the dim sum, bosses@vivocity still owns and at a cheaper price point too. This is provided you cancel the rabbity snack consisting of (raw) carrots, cucumbers and fried spring roll skin which is served by default at bosses. The only slightly better dish at lao beijing was probably the

2008-05-15T21:25:00.002+08:00

My heart goes out to those who've suffered or lost their loved ones in the recent natural disasters which afflicted myanmar and china. It is really saddening that most of those who died are young lives with bright futures, extinguished just like that. What has happened has, so i really hope the survivors can pull themselves together and move on bravely with the memories of their loved ones by

2008-05-13T22:00:00.003+08:00

Ha just something bo liao which we noticed on one of the notice boards outside major OT 5, which gave us a good laugh. Since the urologists use that particular OT, it does say a lot about them :PToday's a really busy but fruitful day! Day started as usual at 7.30am but we're recently joined by some m3s so at least we have some company during the rather mundane ward rounds. We're good company ok,

2008-05-10T22:11:00.002+08:00

Was feeling quite sian this morning cos the weather was so gloomy and today's a major outdoor day for me! Thankfully the skies cleared up by mid morning and i was still able to go to sentosa with some of the vball gang although by the time i got there, there was only 45 mins left to play. Still, it was great fun challenging one of the teams on the court (and winning of course) against dark grey

2008-05-08T22:31:00.002+08:00

Hectic day today, with trauma round, ward rounds, clinics and then OT! Let's see what i've learnt today:On the train: Don't leave your house until you've decided you won't need the toilet especially if the hospital you're going to is far from civilization. It was such a horrible feeling being trapped in a full train needing the toilet lah.Trauma round: There are many ways of solving a problem,

2008-05-06T21:14:00.007+08:00

And so GS ends and ortho starts! Time really flies, before we know it it's the last posting for our once unimaginably long electives. It's been only 2 days since we changed boss but we can already feel the xiongness, strict 7.30am days not ending before the sun decides to knock off. Today was OT day and although we did see a lot and learnt somewhat less, our legs were complaining hard at the end

2008-05-03T21:30:00.001+08:00

I was in a world of my own for a while today, not in a good way, for i let a small little niggling matter get the better of me. And so i was, in auto-pilot mode, for the second YE meeting, hearing but not listening, speaking but not saying. Not that nothing got done, in fact the progress is really good so far, but i just felt kinda dissociated from my usual energetic self. By tuition, i realized

2008-05-01T22:45:00.000+08:00

Woke up at an unearthly 7 am this morning to rush down to nus for the munus vball training. I'd half wanted to just skip it since it's labour day, 7 am, and the fact that my grandpa just got warded for another copd exacerbation but since i've already promised the juniors, i went ahead anyway. When i received lian kiat's sms last week about the munus games i assumed that we were going down to KL

2008-04-30T21:14:00.000+08:00

Woke up to a great morning, made better by the fact that the 3 patients under our care in SICU are relatively stable. The younger patient with the posterior fossa bleed and cerebellar infarct seems to be doing the best, as he's getting more alert and can even move his limbs now. This is a far cry from when he first came in unconscious needing emergent neurosurg. After the relatively short round,

2008-04-29T22:41:00.000+08:00

Today's the second day of my SICU rotation and again i'm reminded of the fragility of life. Everything hangs on a very delicate balance and is pre-destined, by someone greater than us, i believe. One should really live the day like it's the last instead of taking things for granted, especially loved ones. Am sounding quite emo here, but i'm okay. =] Arrived this morning in SICU and routinely

2008-04-27T23:01:00.000+08:00

Wow, my last post was 2 years ago. Didn't mean to sound so surprised but reading some of the older posts really bring back memories, and this is really why i've decided to blog again: to share with others what's happening in my life and to reflect on life afterwards, hopefully i'll emerge wiser. My last post was on leading a walkajog around lengkee cc and rambling about tuition kids. 2 years

2006-04-16T21:30:00.000+08:00

a sunday less ordinarywoke up real early in the morning and as i peered out of the window i'm thankful for the kind weather. the sun was just starting to peek, which translates to a rainless morning! woohoo. quickly changed into my gear and my mum very kindly sent me down to leng kee cc where our monthly brisk walking was held. when i reached there at 7.30 i got quite a shock! i was one of the

2006-01-15T22:24:00.000+08:00

yay! the rainy season is officially OVER. i'm so tempted to join NTU's surf n sweat but we're still one player short to join the beach vball tourney :( hopefully someone beachy enough will join us soon! i had to drag myself out of bed at 7.30am on a sunday morning to help out with some edusave bursary presentation at queenstown. it's one of our 4 annual presentations and i've gotta coordinate +

2006-01-13T22:07:00.000+08:00

woke up to a beautiful day today! almost couldn't believe my eyes to see the skies not being shrouded by gloomy grey clouds! school was normal cept for the droning voice of the lecturer for subcu mycoses which drove me to sleep. coming to think of it, not many lecturers can achieve that so i must really salute him. haha then we chop-chopped another microb pract before heading down to the tennis

2006-01-12T23:08:00.000+08:00

dang. i missed (most of) a super good patho lecture on lymphomas today. woke up at 8.30am because i was playing dota till 1am the night before! actually i'd wanted to stop at 12am knowing that my adrenaline levels take half an hour to subside but then james and a few other long-lost tchs friends happened to be there and so yeah i played one more game. owned with a randomed spiritbreaker. hehe at

2006-01-11T19:04:00.000+08:00

okay i shall make it a point to blog at least once a week. i have no more excuses now! CAs are over and i'm settling well into school (at least i was late for only 10 minutes for the first lecture today!). CAs went fine..maybe the profs were feeling all generous and kind to us poor souls who mugged through the wintery holidays. in any case, i have this renewed drive to listen in class and

2006-01-06T23:06:00.000+08:00

haven't blogged in a while! haha 2005 has gotta be the best christmas/new year i had despite the purulent (read:stinking) stack of notes i have to plough through! went for 2 caroling sessions with alvin chris they all and it was such fun! i should have gone for the earlier ones also la! (shall upload the caroling photos after chris send em to me) had a fantastic x'mas dinner with my relatives on

2005-12-21T18:31:00.000+08:00

haven't updated in a long long time! well the x'mas-school holidays mood is finally setting in as i try furiously (i'm sure...) to mug amidst all the activities lined up! having to study the end of the year away certainly isn't a good way to start a new year, but i'll make do. coming to think of it, this is the FIRST time that i have to study during nice chilly winter in my life! gosh, what a

2005-11-29T22:05:00.000+08:00

the walk-a-jog on sunday went really well! =D even though i didn't manage to finish calling all the households i was supposed to (which totals like 70 just for me alone), i knew i could rely on the aunty network to spread the news. and it worked! hehe. i reached the cc early and helped out with the registration and stuff..registration was necessary as we started this gift redemption initiative

2005-11-25T22:49:00.000+08:00

woah i haven't updated in more than a month! people who still visit this cobweb-filled blog must be my really good friends. hehe. well, this month of october to be summarized quickly would be a bitter-sweet one. there was *some* mugging mangled with other commitments which turned out fruitful. november however, was much more saccharine, because of my 20th birthday! it has gotta be my best

2005-10-09T08:40:00.000+08:00

yesterday's gotta be one of the more fun saturdays in a long time! vball@pei chun and dota dota dota are still fun, but they're getting a tad too routine. so, we had potluck at my house! no special reason i guess, we just felt like binging. everytime the vballers come to my house i would be the resident maid, vacuuming and mopping the floor, washing toilets, keeping clothes and stuff. =\ it

2005-10-06T23:02:00.000+08:00

ahhh! i'm so suay. firstly, i got enlisted by our most chio pharmaco prof to be part of the presenting group for our pharmacokinetics pract, then i kenna arrowed by mc to present! i knew it when she started picking out names from the name list la, like how often do you see a name with 6 letters? it's like screaming at you to just choose it. my desperate attempts to hide behind the computer

2005-10-02T22:31:00.000+08:00

yesterday was fms (intrafac) vball and we won!! reached school early feeling really excited and it was a beautiful day. a sign of good things to come! we warmed up and i was so worried at first as our receiving was horrible. then, the m1s walked-over cos only dennis, my hc junior turned up to represent them. apparently the rest pang-sehed. so, our first match was against the m4s and after a

2005-10-02T22:07:00.000+08:00

haha finally some time to settle down, cuddle up a bit and blog about recent happenings. whether or not to go to bangkok was a big headache for me as it meant ponning 2 days of school and more money. but i also foresaw that i would regret it if i didn't go ahead and i don't like to live with any regrets so i went. the company was fantastic, i basically laughed 4days 3nights away. about kx's

2005-09-26T20:24:00.000+08:00

i've only got 2 minutes left for this post!! i'm in bangkok now with my vball friends and we're having a blast! it's the third day already and we're at some posh internet cafe and just had 4 hours of dota!! it's amazing, cos it's my second time here in 1.5 months and i still managed to spend a bomb, and i got hong da to spend a bomb with me too at chatuchak yesterday. i finally bought more stuff

2005-09-07T22:41:00.000+08:00

what comes relentlessly every night, and makes people chuckle? emails from our medicine yahoo groups of course! checking my mail and reading all the hilarious quips, complaints and reorts de-stresses me (not that i'm very stressed =P) there's a huge debacle recently on the temperature of the LT being sub-optimal and it drew quite a response. it was previously too warm and..haha yup yup, else in

2005-09-02T21:48:00.000+08:00

bad things don't occur in threes. i was buying fruit juice routinely in the morning after missing the first lecture (couldn't wake up in time =\) when i spilt avocado milkshake all over my shirt, shorts, shoes, wallet and my handphone. yes, greenish-bile like sticky fluid everywhere, right into the crevices of the coin compartment of my wallet. i went like 'arghhhh' but refused to let it spoil my

2005-08-31T22:02:00.000+08:00

this 2 days were great! i'm finally starting to feel like a normal student who only has to worry about attending lectures (on time!), printing notes and revising what we went through. this is a major relief from all the calling and worrying plaguing me for the whole of the year-end hols. went gymming yesterday after school and studied at forum as i need some basal level of noise around me to

2005-08-30T22:21:00.000+08:00

had to taxi myself home after dnd at 12plus and force myself out of bed at 6 to be in time for my duties for celebrations40@queenstown. i was really excited as it's the first constituency event my csc is organizing and i'm involved in it! went early to help set up the sound system, and other log stuff such has placing banners, tables and chairs before settling down to be the first-aider for the

2005-08-30T21:27:00.000+08:00

DnD2005 was a blast!! it surpassed all expectations and we were pretty amazed by how everything fell into place to culminate into a beautiful yet funny evening. before the event itself however, i was feeling a little burnt out from an entire morning of beach vball at siloso! the sun was good at zapping my energy la. but it was fun lar..we had a court to ourselves and there was this group who

2005-08-25T23:27:00.000+08:00

i'm trying to avoid starting each entry with either "i'm damn shagged!" or "what a day!" but it's really both today la, no kidding. i'd intended SO much not to skip the first cofm lecture in the morning on the extremely enticing topic of "dealing with bias in epidemiologic studies" so i went down to take a bus like really early? 8.30 when the lecture's at 9 (it's really early by my standards) to

2005-08-24T21:40:00.000+08:00

woah! damn shagged. this 2 weeks have been crazy madness. school has started and all the lecture notes are coming in real fast and furious. but!! somehow amidst all the activities and saikang i'm involved in, i seem to be enjoying myself as if in temporal stasis, and taking time off for my friends and my family. being marketing director of dnd2005 has its benefits too. for instance, i expect a

2005-08-09T23:24:00.000+08:00

grassroots n'day dinner. queenstown csc exco rocks! ^^ndp2005!! i <3 singapore! ^^

2005-08-09T23:18:00.000+08:00

bangkok trip

2005-08-09T23:14:00.000+08:00

vballlunch@myhouse

2005-07-31T23:00:00.000+08:00

i didn't sleep well again last night! sianzzzz. i sustained a really huge bruise on my tensor fascia lata there and couldn't even turn at all lar. suspect it's from diving during vball yesterday? yeah probably. coming to think of it, i haven't had bruises from vball in a long time liao..not that i'm missing it (recalls dreadful libero test in j2..*shudders*) but somehow i think i'm becoming more

2005-07-31T00:56:00.000+08:00

my blood adrenaline levels are still elevated from the 2 exciting rounds of dota we had at tekka mall! oh man. dota is already so passe, but playing with the rest of the vballers never fail to induce relentless bouts of laughter in me. (if you don't play dota, skip to next paragraph) i was sneaky techies in the first round and I FREAKING KILLED 27 HEROES. haha, i think techies is a really

2005-07-29T22:27:00.000+08:00

today's another hectic day! and i got a new daily fix, swimming! i've been swimming about 1.5k daily this week, what for i have no idea. maybe it's the feeling of weightlessness, or being to temporarily drown my troubles, or just to get a nice tan. strangely, the swim always makes me super enthusiastic and energetic afterwards so i started phoning companies like a maniac again. today has been

2005-07-29T12:28:00.000+08:00

Biolyn International rocks. just look @ what they're sponsoring us for DnD: 1) Lucky draw hamper worth $379 x 12) Lucky draw gift bags worth $71.60 x 103) goodie bags with products worth $70 x 4004) full-page colour advertisement $900that's a grand total of $29900. i think i'm a genius. hahaha. oh well, there's still quite a lot more to go and i really *crosses fingers* hope that i can snag haach

2005-07-28T18:15:00.000+08:00

sometimes i think i procrastinate too much. take the upcoming dinner and dance for example, i have been sitting on it the last few weeks and only realized how close it is to the actual day already before calling like mad this week. thank god i managed to make some good progress so far...i don't wanna think about the consequences if i hadn't. this post of marketing director i took up initially was

2005-07-28T12:52:00.000+08:00

i'm really sorry for the long hiatus, so much have happened in this past few months that have made this 4-month long holidays both crazily fun and stressful at the same time =\ i think i sound absolutely geekily nerdish to say this but i can't wait for school to start! i really need to start using my brain soon man..i bet cobwebs are growing across my central sulcus. shall not back-blog but

2005-05-06T22:08:00.000+08:00

went to tere's house for yet another europe meeting in the morning. it was nostalgic taking the 65-54 from my house through orchard, newton, novena and then reaching bishan. i started taking that route in pri4 to cat high and i hated it! i had to wake up at 5.30am just to reach sch and even met a paedophile on the bus before! how suay. luckily i was smart enough to hint him that my uncle is a

2005-05-05T21:18:00.000+08:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CLARIS!!! many many happy returns on your 20th birthday and may all your birthday wishes come true! =D well well, it's been almost 9 months since i got to know you through huimin even before med sch started and whoa, you really surprised me when you gave me a bear and a card to encourage me at the start cos i was dying juggling 4 tuitions, vball and school! thank god we all made it

2005-04-30T09:51:00.000+08:00

on wed, we went to JB to eat and shop! daniel, wenx and i decided to go earlier cos i mean, since we're going we might as well go earlier right? wrong! haha actually it's half right cos we got to eat loads of cheap nice food (penang laksa, viking hotdog, rotiboy, yami yoghurt, aunt anne's, macs) but i was feeling so nua from sleeping late and gym! my legs felt like jelly and i just wanted to sit

2005-04-30T09:17:00.000+08:00

this few days have been crazy fun. week started with a bang thanks to a bbq oraganized by zhongyang at pgp for our anat group! i was playing tennis with david, yuhong and david's ns friend at his condo just before (we started late and i kinda promised them already, so i couldn't leave early) so i couldn't rush down in time to buy stuff for the bbq and even then i was late =\ i felt really bad so

2005-04-22T22:36:00.000+08:00

i think i'm weird. it's the holidays yet i'm actually enjoying being occupied all-day long and running around. we trooped over to abigail teresa marie's (lol!) pretty house yesterday to settle the downpayment for our europe hostels after breakfast at bishan. ya kun kaya toast still rocks, but it's exhorbitant. i wouldn't have gone anywhere near such eateries when i was in sec sch or jc but now,

2005-04-20T18:08:00.000+08:00

nua-ing at home rocks! waking up, reading the newspapers leisurely, having a routine morning game of dota followed by breakfast downstairs is simply heavenly. my trainee replies smses like really slowly and he actually asked for extra lessons! gosh gosh. bad signs of things to come. >_< 1) he is absolutely guai1, and doesn't use the mobile during lessons (who doesn't?!) and wants to learn more or

2005-04-20T08:06:00.000+08:00

wowowo. the last 2 days haven't been as relaxing as the previous few weeks cos we had a dateline to meet! remember my super enthu pdp tutor? well, we had to do a powerpoint presentation and submit a written report which got all of us flustered as we were still basking in the slow pace of daily life after the pros. me and nat's topic was 'role of adipocytes in regenerative medicine' and so i had

2005-04-18T21:27:00.000+08:00

snapshots of life after 1st pros:crashed hongda's and zhijia's comms ball with the other vballers. xinhui and yuhong looked gorgeous while hd and zj looked yandao =D really reminiscent of our prom night with all the glitzy ballroom, camera flashes and posh outfitsmajor class outing to sentosa for a our much needed dosage of sun, sand and sea. got burnt, but heck. anat group 13 rox! wheeee.was

2005-03-27T22:54:00.000+08:00

thanks for all the well-wishes and david, hebin and glen for coming down to support us against kolam ayer csc today! we lost but it was quite a close fight i would say, 25-23, 25-17. i wouldn't say we should've won since we have only trained like 4 times as a team and the other team was definitely more experienced (our average age's like half of theirs!) but i'd say we COULD have won. the ghim

2005-03-26T14:06:00.000+08:00

damnit! i just spent 1 hour in the toilet, and it's gotta be the most agonizing hour ever.i was putting on my dailies and right side went in without a hitch, 1 shot 1 kill, i'll say to myself. the left side went in, but my vision was totally blur and i blinked forcefully before feelin something irritatin my conjunctiva so instinctively i tried taking out the lens. to my horror, half a lens came

2005-03-25T20:28:00.000+08:00

am really grateful to daniel, david, glen, xinhui, weiling and cher (haha!) for coming down and playing with us at queenstown yesterday. was initially a little irked that some of the ghim moh boys'd wanted go to the gym claiming they were tired after their sch vball training in the afternoon but some of them came anyway and we could play a few matches. somehow i think i've kinda lost my sha1 qi4,

2005-03-24T13:46:00.000+08:00

never mind that i didn't win 4d yesterday, cos...I GOT 74.2% FOR PHYSIO!!!WOOHOO! YAHOO! YAYYYYYY! WEEEEE!all thanks to baby guyton (you rock!) and hc repro notes.it'd serve as a very good buffer for pros! pKa = 7.4, [salt] or [acid] = high high high, ratio = 1:1! i so need it with my leisurely studying pace (man, i read all the clinical snippets from snell's) and all the misc activities coming

2005-03-23T16:42:00.000+08:00

i beat y'all to it! heehee. i'll buy lunch if i get lucky!

2005-03-23T10:34:00.000+08:00

i used to hate snell (standard anatomy text) so much i loathe using it for tutorials, which was why i didn't do many of my earlier tutorials. now, it is one of my favourite books. isn't it funny how sometimes when we give chances and take time to understand people better we may eventually see a side of them we have yet seen? playing and training with the ghim moh boys at queenstown has been

2005-03-22T15:40:00.000+08:00

haven't been blogging for a while. CA2 was great. 73% for biochem and 85% for anat, and eagerly waiting for physio. i think i'm very lucky sometimes, and i'm not afraid to say it aloud...in terms of tutors, tutorial group mates, balancing of work and play, effort:results and somehow people around me are so nice. i haven't met any nasty people in a long time and it's heartwarming when old aunties

2005-01-17T21:28:00.000+08:00

i've been a lazy boy again :'( cannot cannot, must not let this blog rot~ the first week of school's just zoomed past and it's only 7 more academic weeks to CA2 study break, CA2, 1st pros study break and 1st pros! woohoo! it's gonna be the hols real soon again, but that also means the exams are drawing precariously near. -stressed- on a lighter note, i have been more hardworking lately too! am

2005-01-09T19:03:00.000+08:00

woah i've been a really lazy boy but i overcame the inertia to blog again! haha actually so many things have happened in this 2 weeks or so such that giving them enough coverage is really impossible =D there was dinner with my mum's friends and tuition students at orchard hotel ($65 per pax!) and them giving me a $400 mont blank pen, many crazy kbox sessions (i'm the calcutta indian accent expert

2004-12-25T09:09:00.000+08:00

x'mas eve 2004 was really one of the best i had! overslept and quickly rushed to safra mount faber to meet my trc friends for the hq mes x'mas celebs though i'm not there anymore, really nice of them to invite me =D xie xie. lazed around in the lobby and chatted with da wong, low and ker chuin and trotted to the grand ballroom to see many familiar faces! there's chief clerk, manpower i/c major

2004-12-24T23:44:00.000+08:00

POWER UPDATE!!! ROARRRR. hee. yesterday was my maiden cycling trip at pulau ubin! so exciting! although it was rather last minute, we still met on time and took 29 to changi village. long long journey. the day was really nice, no hint of rain clouds and it was so sunny! perfect for me to utilize my shades =D we bought sugar cane + lemon at the hawker centre there and proceeded to take the ferry

2004-12-22T01:39:00.000+08:00

am at shikai's hostel room now..i like it here! it's much nicer than nus' halls and even pgp cos the greenery blends so well with the homely looking buildings to give a really welcoming feel. played vball with shikai's and yuhong's hall team just now and it was greeaaat. quite a few accidents happened lei, quite suay but luckily no one got injured too badly..yup yup. kaixiang came too! haha he

2004-12-21T08:40:00.000+08:00

treated my family, ah mah and da yi to taglio's on sunday! no special occasion, but the closest reason i can think of is to celebrate my sis coming back from korea and buying me a pair of cool levi's jeans! haha glad my ah ma liked the food there cos it's all pizzas and pastas and i bet she hasn't eaten western food for as long as i can remember. the occhio eggy pizza and calamari were great as

2004-12-19T17:57:00.000+08:00

was a little too tired and sick to blog last night but i'm better now already! yay. thanks for all the concern..made me feel much better. =D vball at queenstown yesteday was great! even though it rained just before 3, some of the ghim moh sec vballers still came and so did some of the hc vballers! fun fun fun. they're actually very fluid and quite strong in the offence side so i think we'll make

2004-12-18T10:54:00.000+08:00

yesterday's sentosa outing was quite a success! mark overslept, but he still came so he's forgiven. =D the morning sun was fantastic so i could finally utilize my shades! just as we reached siloso, we saw another group of 3 guys who bought the band so we asked them if they wanted to play with us. them: "ehh we dunno how to play one leh." me: "we also dunno how to play one what." them: "don't

2004-12-16T21:19:00.000+08:00

wheee today's a fun day! worked out in the morning and joined the rest for kbox at cineleisure. the fried chix set was nice, and we sang a lot of nice songs. there's a really good mix of great chinese + english songs and we even had an express xmas carolling session towards the end by singing all the xmas songs to get into the xmas mood =P all the xmas songs mtvs are damn cute, but the english

2004-12-15T21:57:00.000+08:00

15th december should be known as dim sum day! everyone will be able to order as much dim sum as they want (including sharks fin) without feeling any pinch on their wallets and be treated like kings. lols. that's exactly what happened today! went with wenxian and daniel for tanning/swimming at toa payoh pool where the sun was great but there was this guy who will start off from the lane left to

2004-12-14T23:25:00.000+08:00

updates updates! sunday: had yet another great lunch with yi an at soup restaurant, then went to minitoons to buy more luminous stars! yay! now the ceiling's almost filled and i even arranged a scorpio constellation just above my bed, exactly like we see in the skies. so cool. of course i had to check the net since i'm no astronomy expert =P then rushed to meet wenxian and daniel at queenstown

2004-12-13T23:21:00.000+08:00

witnessed something rather disturbing while waiting for my bus at holland v just only. a young boy was sitting right next to me, inching closer and closer while his ah beng dad railed at him, hurling vulgarities and even raised his fist at the boy threatening to wallop him. the boy was sobbing and whimpering "bu yao da wo..". he didn't do well in school and apparently his teacher wanted to see

2004-12-12T01:30:00.000+08:00

swam another 30 laps in the morning then played wc3 with yi an and it was great fun! we're getting better already and both of us actually won 2 level 18 players in arranged team when we're level 3. so zai! i was telling mr lee the other day i had such a big influence on yi an..from a good boy boy in j1 to such an ardent wc3 gamer now..haha! i really hope i've been a good influence though =P then

2004-12-10T22:38:00.000+08:00

kbox with the vball girls and their rgs vball friends was a blast! we were slow to warm up, but when we did we rocked the ktv room! songs like ai ni, superstar and shuo ai ni got us up on our feet to dance and shake wildly..it was reallly fun letting our hair down =P yuhong could sing f.i.r and sun yanzi really well lah..it was so impressive that i blurly thought it was the voiceover again and

2004-12-08T23:31:00.000+08:00

weee~ finally there's some sun after so many consecutive rainy days. didn't really sleep well last night, partly due to the stupid mosquitoes and largely due to some residual excitement in my head =D went for a nice swim and i swam 30 laps..i'm really determined to get back in shape this time =P did crunches sit-ups and seated leg raises to get my abs back~ glad i persisted and finished my target

2004-12-07T23:05:00.000+08:00

well, today's a much slower-paced day =D lazed around at home with the super cool weather,wrote christmas cards and came up with the sponsorship letter draft before heading to meet nat in town to discuss our marketing stuff over lunch. i recommended taglio's and we had the occhio and calamari =D it was superb! yum yum. nat editted the draft for me and i realized i made some rather silly mistakes.

2004-12-06T22:17:00.000+08:00

this few days have been fun fun fun! some of the vball girls, wanjun and hebin very kindly came to help me paint my room on saturday. we went to the diy shop at ikea to buy paint and i chose spectrum blue after a lot of deliberation and the guy mixed the exact shade on the spot using some high-tech machine! ok lah, maybe it's not very techy but nonetheless we were staring at it like suakus. lunch

2004-12-03T23:21:00.000+08:00

another great day! =D decided to visit my camp mates in trc and wrote a nice christmas card to all of them thanking them for the great times we had and for looking out for me during my brief 3-month stay there. the rp kinda stared at me as i was walking in since i was in slippers/surf shorts and carrying a beach vball, not the usual attire for a SAF camp =P woah that place has changed so much!

2004-12-02T21:51:00.000+08:00

haiyo i've been so lazy this few days..must have been the pre-CAs jitters and post-CAs fun! anyway with the CAs out of the way, it's time to party and rock the beach awayyyy. stand aside beach hunks! haha of course i must use this hols fruitfully to continue giving tuition amap, catch up on some schoolwork, and not to forget getting myself back in shape! hee my mum has kindly decided to give me

2004-11-26T21:02:00.000+08:00

gosh, it was so so cold and dark in the morning. i was wearing hwa chong PE shorts, so i was literally trembling away while reading papers waiting for the sun to come out. the supposedly LDR-controlled lights are not really reliable leh...so lan4. had breakfast on mum's car, but the thought of macs big breakfast with a cup of nice hot tea on sucha frigid morning was too irresistable =D weiling

2004-11-25T21:18:00.000+08:00

whoa haven't updated in a while. well, i've been studying quite hard (by my standards =P) and enjoying myself quite a lot while studying too. it's great studying what i like and i'm not giving myself any pressure, so i'll try to finish everything but if i can't, i'll catch up during the hols. =D must really thank weiling and xinhui for pei-ing me to study this few days..i would've died of boredom

2004-11-22T19:50:00.000+08:00

yay i'm finally studying as hard as i want to, not very hard but i do enjoy what i'm studying quite a lot. joined weiling at the forum under central library as both of us can't stand libraries and that place was very conducive. windy, airy, bright with a co-op stocked with many many titbits and snacks for the pig in me..hee what else can i ask for? we had lunch at the grinning gekko cafe nearby

2004-11-21T18:48:00.000+08:00

it's hebin's early birthday celebrations today! happy birthday pal! well well, been great friends for almost 6 years (whoa! 6?!) already and he's mellowed a little but still as funny as i first got to know him in library. haha those were the days when he gave a hoot about everything and we blatantly skived off work and made fun of everyone possible: dangerously pendulous sharifah, ms koo and her

2004-11-20T22:49:00.000+08:00

my grandpa's birthday was a blast! it started with us being just on time for the mass at 5 which was in chinese thus leaving me totally stumped..i only know all the hymns and prayers in english and i haven't exactly touched chinese in 3 years so even with lyrics in chinese i was still singing the wrong words at times. see? rote learning a language is bad. =D me and my sis literally attacked the

2004-11-20T16:06:00.000+08:00

guyton never looked more study-friendly with a yummy big breakfast, free extra orange juice and N6230 loaded with mp3s at the nice airy harbourfront macs! =D studied there for really quite a long time, from like 10-2..whoa! studying alone sucks! i had to entertain myself by looking around and using the free computer there. there were this 2 girl studying repro for their bio option paper and i was

2004-11-18T21:59:00.000+08:00

the weather was great in the morning! clear nice blue skies which kinda tempted me to go swim again...so off i went to safra and the pool was under maintenance. that wasn't going to stop me..hee..so i went to delta and i had a sudden appreciation for the sun tanning chairs there..haha..must have been all the lying on the floor at safra. swam very few laps, tanned for many minutes...and i even put

2004-11-17T20:13:00.000+08:00

two more weeks to the end of CAs! gosh, i'm certainly looking far when i'm so slow in my revision =D actually there's more purpose in studying if i look at it from the clinical point of view rather than the wanna-ace-mcqs point of view so things are pretty much less stressful for me i guess! yup yup. i have to step up on my engine..it's still not going at full speed yet..ahh! how how? hee anyway

2004-11-14T22:07:00.000+08:00

went to ikea for dinner and walk walk with mum. saw peilin there! so qiao..she's shopping with her dad for a table. there were so many christmas trees around and i kinda miss the old one my mum threw away a couple of years back so we tried finding one to buy but they're all just for decoration only, not for sale =/. i remember fondly how i would be sooo eager to decorate the christmas tree (it

2004-11-14T08:32:00.000+08:00

the vballers came to my house to bbq! there wasn't any occasion but cos we'd just wanted one before the ns guys start to go overseas for their various exercises. the rest went for kbox in the morning before coming while i forced myself to hole up at home to study (albeit not very efficiently =P) oh well, at least i finally finished what i wanted to complete 1 week ago! yay! hebin came the

2004-11-13T06:51:00.000+08:00

clinicals rock! was in a mad rush in the morning cos the new shirt i bought was at my grandma's house for washing and ironing. wore my grey army singlet with pants, belt and leather shoes and waited for my mum at the bus stop for 15 mins with everyone staring at me thinking that i'm a schizo who believes myself to be both an army runner and a businessman =/ quickly changed in the car when no

2004-11-11T21:02:00.000+08:00

flashbacks for the past few days: tuesday: hee no morning lects! actually there's 1 from 8-9, but i figured i'd be so bored since ics was postponed. the sun asked me to go swim lar, not my fault =P sunny mornings are so precious nowadays that once it's bright safra would come to my mind. they should really buy some suntan chairs..the poor tanners all have to lie on the floor to tan leh..haha and

2004-11-11T07:35:00.000+08:00

i'm letting go, clinging on is simply too painful =]

2004-11-08T23:18:00.000+08:00

it's my definitely my best birthday ever! woke up to a nice breezy morning and was almost late when mum came back after sending sis to vj to send me to school. :) hee what a great relief...almost took taxi liaos. somehow i started smiling when i was walking into the LT and was immediately greeted by janice calling me a birthday boy =D daniel soon came and gave me a birthday shoulder pat..haha. it

2004-11-07T19:01:00.000+08:00

i'm such a pig! had sinfully nice chocolate cake last night at safra with volleyballers and yi an treated me to seoul garden at taka just now! thanks dude! :):) it was greeaat, and the feast lasted from 1 to 3. imagine the amount of fats we've put into our GI tracts..hee. played vball at chinese high with the vball gang from 8-11.30 so the calories were pre-burnt and i recharged my tan..i'm a

2004-11-06T22:19:00.000+08:00

cloudless skies! whoa..haven't seen sunny mornings in a long long time. went for a morning swim at the new safra just across my house as the sun was too good to waste :D that place is damn cool! the swimming pools resemble those from resorts and the whole place is surrounded by lush greenery. swam and tanned for about two hours before heading for the showers. my suakuness acted up again! the

2004-11-05T22:32:00.000+08:00

today has been quite an enlightening and touching day for me too. after the morning lect, claris came up to me and passed me a note and a present to cheer me up and encourage me..thanks! i really appreciate it man. yi an sent me a bday card via snail mail! i was so excited to see a card addressed to me by mail that i was literally jumping..haha. was super touched by his message inside..thanks pal

2004-11-05T22:25:00.000+08:00

after our pdp! the notice on the coffee machine read "not for students please" so i was just trying to be funny :P aiyo it was also super uncomfortable having to wear formally the whole day! couldn't stand it lehs..and i seriously need to buy new shirts and pants. i only have 2 shirts and 1 pair of black pants..pathetic right?

2004-11-05T22:07:00.000+08:00

haha today rocks! lectures started at 9, ended at 12 and we went to munchie monkeys, the new cafe at yih! actually the rest's been there before but i haven't so they decided to accompany me to have lunch there..xie xie! the crayfish linguine was really superb, made better by the heaps of cheese that i piled on. hee..i love cheese =D. the lasagne which dan recommended was also really fantastic..

2004-11-04T12:01:00.000+08:00

just finished personalizing the good luck presents for 2 of my tuition students weiqing and kawa. there are sweets and chocs inside the smiley piggy bank so they can pop down one when they're feeling down. am feeling a little hollow since i have been with them for about 7 months and going to their houses weekly have become so routine. it's great to see them improve and appreciate the subject more

2004-11-02T21:37:00.000+08:00

my ics tutor rocks! haha. even though he postponed ics two times, he more than made up for it when he finished it in 1 hour flat, just in time for lunch! hee. he was hinting all the way to a tumour in the optic chiasma in the hypothalamus/pituitary region but of course we contributed quite a lot, having heard the case from our friends. i realized that i still freak out when i have to talk and

2004-11-01T23:03:00.000+08:00

lessons started at 9 today, but i woke up at 6.50 nevertheless cos the birds outside my window remembered to sing. was feeling slightly blueish since it's a monday and mondays are the longest days for me, but the blues were soon chased away =D in fact, i haven't been looking forward to mid-week so much before =P i figured out that having 4 students and tuitions 6 out of 7 days were insane and a