That is the cool new David Wilson Library
Queen

Haha Paula and I gave up halfway guess why? Coz we were hungry. Hahaha bu4 kui1 shi4 wo3 de4 makan kaki. I did get a few photos of the Royal Car tho. Also shot random pieces of the sky in the process of aiming blindly above the crowd. I was trying to follow the genral direction of the cameras but I guess I am just not very tall. These photos were stolen from Xiao Meng's facebook, by the way. Must give acknowledgement for her efforts.

Anyway, the top picture shows the modern-looking new school library which £32 000 000 of our school fees went to. All glass and steel. Pretty cool.

The picture at the bottom actually appeared in the news! Why is it exciting? Ok, you see ah, firstly, it is a clear shot of the Queen and.. um.. the guy behind. Also, if you look closely at the crowd you can see a clear view of Xin Yi, Ning and the crafty old lady who battled her way to the front! Not so clearly are Qin Yi and Xiao Meng in the 2nd row. Haha da jie do I sound like someone you know? (Haha inside joke)

Notts games 2008 with 'Singsoc' netball

A picture speaks a thousand words. This picture shows the Singsoc netball team at Nottingham Games 2008 with our foreign talent. Yay foreign talent!

Let me start from the start. Nottingham Games is an annual singsoc/msoc event at Uni of Nottingham where singsocs/msocs within out region all come together for the day to meet up with friends and compete in a variety of games and sports. Unfortunately, I did not get to go last year (last year being my freeest year) and was still too toot to organise anything. This year though, I was bent on going. However suay suay alot of hiccups. Burps actually. To the point where I was quite convinced that some higher being was showing signs to stop me from going. Perhaps coz there was going to be a train crash/ 1 of us was goign to get killed.. I did not know. Or maybe it was just character building.

Anyway, we stubbornly went ahead with it and there were no crashes, no accidents, just a small cut on 1 player. So. All's not well that ends well.

Initially it was just 7 of us exactly (Paula, XY, Xiaomeng, Keewei, Tamami, Cat and me) so there were no subs. On top of that we had never played together as a team before (and we all just got to know Cat the night before). We had 2 quite miserable trainings of which people were usually too busy to attend. And also I only organised them in the last 2 weeks. Hai. Just my luck that this is a busy year for most people. Still, I guess this is a blessing in disguise coz we got to meet more new people and make new friends! Alamak that sounds so.. Barney. The team played better than I expected and we all got along extremely easily, which was a huge huge relief coz I was a bit worried about awkwardness and all what with our international team. Hee I think Paula was a bit shocled when I blatantly said, ' I think the team is playing much Much better than I expected.' Heh. Talk about diplomacy.

We played like sai in the 1st game coz everybody was runnign around blindly and I tink most of us were not sure of the rules and it was also the 1st time playing for some. Basically it was just a very messy game and I was still experimenting with positions at that stage. Though our foreign talents arrived in time for the 2nd game onwards (whew) and we could start subbing people in and out it was still a messy game. Funnily enough, our individual players are actually really good but we just kept playing very messily. After Kim went through tactics and all we managed to win the other matches. Just shows. Not that we are lousy. We just need to lose 3 matches to warm up before we start playing really well.

Pretty heartwarming to see everyone's enthusiasm. Like I did not really expect anyone to care about tactics and positions and thought most (I know it is not everybody) people just went there for the experiene and to heck and get it done and over with. However.. there you are. Sports really does bring people together! Now I kinda wish we had an inter-group sports competition in med schoo den perhaps I will be closer to my group :D

Ok. I feel a sudden responsibility to blog. Being alone does actually make one more responsible. By one I mean including the great one. Ok really not funny. Anyway today I did alot of being-alone-so-no-choice-have-to-be-responsible things like taking the rubbish in and out.. calling britishgas.. testing out my internet phone coz my paypal finally got set up.. and all that. Well I haven't been blogging not because life here is sucky and boring. Quite the contrary. Many many things have been happening and there isn't much time to breathe. Got time to watch online shows tho.. Anyway, plus the workload of this sem, I had to downgrade blogging on my priority list (priority is a really hard word to type).

Welll shan't talk about workload. Mm. We had a Halloween dinner the other night. It was really fun! Not a big group but that made it easier for everyone to talk and be included.. It was quite an interesting day. In the morning we were all stocked up with leftover savoy cabbage, 1.5 packets of minced meat and... chicken stock cubes for the sumptuos meal that was planned for that night. Funny thing all of us went out that day and bought food we thought we would need and surprise surprise, we had too much food! Which, of course, is always a good thing. Just short of QY's 15 different types of marinated chicken. No matter. She compensated with B & J's (on offer £1.80!! XD) Phish Food.. plus my caramel chew chew which wasn't as popular. Anyway we carved a pumpkin (Jie Kou) who was a chinese pumpkin coz he had small eyes and lit a candle inside and had spooky jaffa cakes and a lava lamp and cool music.. Told ghost stories which I must admit (though it was my idea) was not the brightest suggestion coz poor Zihui still had to walk home..

The next next week was Medics Oriental Dinner, which I shall only blog positive things about since my year organised it. Quite happy that many people thought it was really good. Well the food REALLY was not bad! It was really easy-going and everyone mingled very well for some reason. Yay me XD

Dennn we had a group meal at Pizza Express. Not a very cheap place so I cleared every scrape if pizza I ordered (had to eat with FORK and KNIFE wth). Oh and dough balls. Which were really nice in the garlic butter though of course, it was like the £2 bowl of rice situation. Stupid conversion. It was quite a pleasant dinner.. Service was really good.. Din really wanna go at first coz I was lazy but yea turned out quite nice! Den Sania described this famous cafe that sold really nice cakes that sound like the cakes in the Shopaholic wedding book. I am determined to make my way to birmingham to try that cake. Oh and Tamami made nice soup! Which I had before the dinner. Haha

Which brings me to today. Just got out of a psych lecture, emailing Ling and Bon and am now feeling very drained. What lies ahead issss Notts Games this saturday.. Town on wed.. I need glittons so I can use my hands while still protecting them from the shit weather. By the way it HAS snowed. Once. But still.

Yup so basically I have been a busy person. I guess life is fun when it is happening. Keeps u slightly more awake too. Exercise is great too! Really full of adrenaline and u feel healthy for a few hours. Sadly my pride in having exercised always leads me to eat all my biscuits and chocolates and carbo in the thought that they will preferentially be stored as glycogen instead of fat after exercise. Unfortunately I love food and food likes me back. They find that I provide a comfortable and homely environment for them and tend to like to store up inside, even when I try to burn them away by increasing the metabolic activity of my tissues. See. What people learn in med school does not always apply to real life.

Topicless. I have nothing to blog about..

My foot is still swollen. I walk normally with an ankleguard but otherwise still with a slight tilt to my right.

Mm... Work is ending. School is starting No pressure as yet coz I am resolutely ignoring September the 27th.

I am currently casting about my bored mind for something blog-worthy that happened...

Ah. MRTs. Taking the MRT always makes me bad-tempered and impatient. I was going down the escalator towards the MRT platform one day when the swarms of passengers squirming about made me suddenly picture ants wriggling about aimlessly in their clusters. Ew.

Anyway, I hardly need to explain why taking the trains (particularly during the rush hours) make me more shit-temepered. However, it just so happens that MRT windows, especially when underground, are wonderful for checking your reflection. My point being how hard it is to decide whether to keep scowling because of my bad mood, or to maintain a pleasant expression during the reflective ride.

Today, on a relatively empty train, all of us boring grey passengers were heading off to a typical boring grey day on a boring grey ride on the MRT when at Raffles Place MRT we suddenly heard a loud ' 'Scuse me!' and turned only to find a woman hurtling towards the only available seat in the carriage. Well, she wasn't hurtling but she wasn't walking calmly in like the rest of us do either. She dodged in front of the lady who 'Scused her to settle proudly in her plastic seat.

Dunno why these few days the train keeps stopping in the middle of the track. Especially in tunnels.. Each time that happens I worry about a cunning terrorist who managed to sneak a bomb into the City Hall tunnel. My colleague said it's because of F1. I dunno.. Are trains affected too? Just a random thought, which is faster, F1 racecar or MRT? My guess is F1, though someone once described the MRT as being able to go 'faster than a cheetah' :/

I think... I am getting used to the new young MRT announcer. The voice of the nice old ang moh lady who used to tell us not to eat or drink in the stations and trains seems to be fadin away. Or maybe it is just my poor memory. The new girl is quite pleasant, in a heartland kind of way. Just that sometimes, when whoever is in charge forgets to adjust the volume of the speaker when the volume of passengers change, it gets a little annoying. It's ok if the volume remains soft, coz most of us can see the station we're at and most of us are ok with not being constantly reminded to be on the lookout for any suspicion person or article and to please report to staff or call 999. When, however, the crowd suddenly shrinks, without a corresponding shrink in volume of the announcements, I always want to box the announcer who keeps shouting over the bloody speakers even though she is just a recording.

And there u have it. MRT gripes.

Today my bad luck continues. What is the probability of 2 bad days occurring in a row?

There are 3 types of days (Good Average Bad)

Probability of a bad day occuring (theoretically speaking) = 1/3

Probability of 2 bad days happening in a row = 1/3 x 1/3 = 1/9

Following this logic, chances of 3 bad days occurring in a row are? 1 in 27.


Ok. Stop grumbling. To make my bad day seem not so bad, perhaps listing out the day's events will put everything into perspective :D

Today I was late for work. Partly because I was genuinely late, but I could have rushed in 10min late instead and still pull it off as 'a few minutes' difference' if the train I was on had not had to stop in the middle of a tunnel. Apparently there was an oncoming train. Puh. Coincidentally, my being late for work had to be today, when I just asked for a 3 day leave yesterday. Not a very good impression maker.

Had an active bladder at work. I do not think anybody notices, but being a self-conscious person, I feel self-conscious making my loyal visits to the toilet. To make matters worse, my gastrointestinal system has been showing subtle signs of disagreement for the past week, and decided to protest more insistently today, making my visits twice as frequent.

Lunch was early. Feeling bored coz I currently have 1 supervisor less to give me work, I made an enthusisatic stab at socialising to da-pao something from Amoy with the rest. Of course, I had my sandwiches with me so I settled for a pack of dessert, which is on the 2nd floor, which means I had to climb stairs. Horror or horrors, as I daintily made my way down to meet the rest upon successfully securing my 2 packets of soup, I had my second spectacular fall of the month. To put it mildly, I fell down the stairs. However, since this entry is about my bad day and this is the highlight of my bad day, I ought to credit more detail to my fall.

I walked down 1/2 the flight of stairs holding 2 containers of hot dessert (I wear heels to work by the way) and slipped, in a most comical, I assume, given my history of not-very-pretty falls, way. My shocked brain could only register the many many many steps as I briefly counted them on the way down. Nope, instinct could only grant me a sprained foot, as my brain could not react fast enough to teach me how to regain my balance on heels halfway down a flight of steps carrying hot dessert. Well at least my neurones react more quickly than some others. Many passers-by only had sufficient capacity to stare and gasp in horror at my spectacular fall. A few could add 'Oh Dear'. I normally would prefer to camouflage into the background and slink away, unnoticed, but my leg, intestines and brain were all in a bad state [and I still had to pick up the desserts (which miraculously, unlike me, landed the right way up)]. The results of the incident were a sprained foot, grazed knee, queasy stomach, dazed mind, blackness and bruises on my foot, ankle, knee and pride. I think 'Ouch' hardly covers it.

Someone did help me, eventually, but my bodily functions were too messed up and I could only mumble 'Thank you. Sorry. I'm ok' in a vague slur as I tried not to vomit on my savior. Ungrateful, I know, but I was glad to be left alone to control the contents of my stomach. Then came another problem. After successfully hobbling my way to the banister without throwing up, I attempted to steady my condition. Leaning over the banister made my stomach feel worse, but made my leg feel better. Not leaning, however, meant that my bad leg shook visibly under the weight of me and 2 packets of dessert. I eventually did make my way to ground level and luckily I looked pale and pathetic enough to get 2 free plastic bags from the kway teow stall. Pathetic though I was I only needed several minutes for the embarrassment of the fall to overwhelm its physical effects and I chatted gaily about everything I could think of except the fall. Too bad my swollen foot was to much of a highlight to be ignored so my efforts of topic diversion failed.

The silver lining in my cloud, though, was that everyone had to go for a presentation somewhere else that day so I could go off early without feeling guilty. Made my way to Queenstown to meet Papa and mumbled randomly when he asked if I wanted to drive. We ended up going to the old turf club Giant where I then had no choice but to re-tell the story of another spectacular fall.

Surprisingly, Papa made me push the trolley. I did not show any reaction despite my surprise because I wanted to act brave. Then he said

'Hehe. So you can use that as a walker.'

I thought that was pretty smart. I had flailed my way around before I had had a walking aid. So unglamorous.

And that sums up my bad day. Still looks bad to me... but I guess it could have been worse.

Yesterday after work I went to watch Money No Enough 2 with Papa and Mummy. I reached surprisingly early (6.50p.m.) so I bought myself a Kiwi Gren Tea with pearls and treated myself with a visit to the loo before meeting them fashionably early. I reached the entrance of GV TM and there they are. We smile and wave happily as if we've never watched a family movie before. I have a suspicion that a fair bit of that excitement was credited to the movie being free.

We joked and laughed as we made our way up to our hall. Surprsingly, we were the first to arrive, That never happened before. We had a brief debate on whether we were in the right theatre or not, then settled back to listen to the 12 Lotus soundtrack that was being played as we chatted genially and commented on the 'Ji Ba Ban' song.

The movie was nice! Typical Jack Neo style, I think. Definitely equalling or bettering its prequel, unlike most sequels. Funny and touching and eyebrow-raising as always. Makes many of us shift guiltily in our seats while maintaining a neutral expression.

But it gets to the point. And digs at various parties are made blatantly obvious, so everyone understands and are able to laugh at themselves and others. Call me uncultured/unartistic/distasteful, but I just don't enjoy artsy films as much, no matter how many times I have tried appreciating them. I presume it leaves room for imagination and inference, but I do not much enjoy being left hanging to guess whether someone has died or not, or wondering what some mysterious flower petal falling dramatically to the floor signifies. :/

Going out with family is fun. Suddenly I can really relax and feel safe. No tissue paper/umbrella/plastic bag/plaster/panadol/water, just turn to the right. Want to eat curry puff/popcorn/apple pie/famous amos, turn to the left. No complaints. Ah. This is the life.

I just realised my 'Links' was was being displayed as 'Darlinks'. Talk about corny.

Anyway, not many random thoughts have, hm, occurred today, except

I want to have a marble fish pond. Is black marble or white marble nicer?

as I walked past that posh black marble pond surronding tanjong pagar exit F as usual this morning.

Is it strange to hear yourself thinking? I think in words, then I try to answer my thoughts. Sometimes, like now, when I am doing nothing, I hear

Bzzzz....

in my brain.

I think I am easily rattled. When I do my work calmly I can do it properly. However, take today for example (haha da jie,suddenly this organised manner of writing reminds me of kok yong), I did something at work that was not wrong, just not exactly perfect.Then I just had to call up again to refine what I had told the few people. Just because of that, now I am feeling all unsure and thinking that I do everything wrong and must be the blurest worker possible to have. Owell... My boss just called me clever this morning. I just need to balance the good and the bad.

My boss reminds me of Mummy. I can't help thinking motherly figures have a natural instinct to baby talk to me. Must be my child-like, innocent charm.

No, you have not unknowingly wandered into the wrong blog. Yes, I have blogged again and on a new blogskin what's more XD I quite like this skin. :D

PLUS I did not have to rely on Evon to change it for me this time! Cheers to me... *Cheers*

I always wonder if I am weird. Take for instance this instance: Whenever I see the word 'Cheers', I hear a cheering crowd in my head. Which gets a little bit inconvenient, because in the UK (and increasingly in SG) where people sign off or bid farewell in this manner, the cheers and whistles in my head just seem a bit in-apt. Then I want to giggle.

Why do people say cheers? Cheers is to salute with shouts of approval, congratulations, triumph etc. a.k.a. 'Woohoo!'

So when someone 'Cheers' me or vice versa, that roar of approval comes to mind.

How do these random thoughts come to be in my brain? Hm.

Hmhm back in sunny Singapore... Everything seems to have gone well, no obligatory work, no lack of good food, no worries, the sun shines brightly everyday... I have enjoyed the past 3 weeks, but I realise I have been enjoying the past 3 weeks settling down. Gah. Cannot quite put my finger to a certain unsettling feeling. Hmmmmmm...

I think it is the shock that life is happening and is happening to everyone. I think so far I have only noticed my own life coz the people in UK are not people I grew up with and did embarrassing things in front of so they do not appear to have changed much. Back here everyone has grown up and have busy, tightly-scheduled lives. Appointments have to be made 1 week or more in advance coz of work, school, projects, hall activities, CCA(s), primary school catching up, secondary school catching up, jc catching up, colleague catching up, random friend catching up..... Bah.

Why do people have to grow up...

Yo

Forgot to record my OSCPE experience. Kinda rushed around since it ended. Damn bloody worn out already...

Station 1

Hip examination. Of all the joints.. Explain Trendelenberg Test. Explain Thomas Test. Why I palpated the greater trochanter to which smart me just said dunno without even trying. Shit. Another irritating thing is that the guy wore like 2 layers of tops and 2 layers of bottoms. Had to instruct him like piece by piece which ones he had to take off. Felt that was kinda waste of time. Nvm I finished before the time ended. Should have passed.

Station 2

Blood pressure.

I SCREWED this one up man. I guess at least I figured out how to work the cuff and machine slightly faster than others. I knew I wasn't supporting her arm at heart level the right way but dunno why did not make the effort to correct that. Dunno why I do the stupidest things in exam conditions. Got the BP readin wrong. Nvm that is like 1 point. Asked if I could do it again den the clin dem (dun really like her) was like, u can if u hav enough time but u still have questions to answer. Den she stared at me expextantly. Chose to answer the questions.

1. Name 2 incorrect techniques in which blood pressure can be falsely elevated.

2. Forgot... Dun worry. Got it right.

Attempted to take BP again. So close to finishing. Meaning I still ran out of time. I can only console myself with the knowledge that I was not likely to have gotten n accurate reading again.

Station 3

Rest station. Great thanks. Leave me to hu2 si1 luan4 xiang3.

Station 4

Saw what was DEFINITELY a humerus in front of me den a lower limb prosection next to that.

1. Show the bony landmarks of the distal part of the femur.

Showed every damn thing I could remember. I was staring at the humerus next to me thinking he said the question wrongly at first. Humerus got so many things to show lah! Den a whole bone for me to show. Anyway, I asked like 'on the prosection?' just to make sure.

2. Boy had fracture in distal femur. Why is distal fragment pulled upwards? What group of muscles does this?

I KNOW this lo. Just blanked out. The clin dem was nice. Guided me like idiot-proof guide. Guess Paula is right about if dunno answer just talk it through.

3. What do these muscles do? What other muscles carry out the same action?

I should have gotten this correct. There are only like how many muscles that flex the knee right?

4. Show what position his leg will be like.

Kinda jiggled my leg about abit. Clin dem practically told me the answer. To which I was like, yea that was wat I meant. Wth. See in front I know is flex this question I could still not know how to do. How stupid can I get.

5. Pierced popliteal fossa. Damaged an artery. Why might the muscles in the leg be affected (or smt like that)? Cannot remember the exact question. Quite proud of my answer tho. Pretty well-structured I must say.

6. I tink there was another question about popliteal artery.

7. Gestures to the humerus and asks me if it is the right or left femur. To which I was like, is this not the.... humerus? Left humerus? Response "Well done. I was just teasing you." Kns. The one question I was confident in in the station.

Station 5

Musculo again. I see a bony hand and a prosection of the upper limb. Gasp. Ah well. This was to be expected.

1. Show and name the attachments of the flexor retinaculum (on the bony hand).

I could name the bones. Could show the bones. Just did not know which was the front and back of the hand. Figured the side facing upwards should be the front. Anyway he looked satified. But then again, u never know. Shit.

2. Find the median nerve (on the prosection).

Smt I was confidently teaching my peers (lateral to palmaris longus tendon) but was bewildered at when I stared at the brown mass of stringy things in front of me. I tink I managed to find it in the end. Coz the clin dem nodded. I tink?

3. Find the FDS proximal and distal to the flexor retinaculum.

Ha! Brilliant me pulled the muscle to see wat will move. I tink it was kinda obvious tho. Haha

4. Causes of carpal tunnel syndrome (no prizes for guessing this question)

Blundered my way through. Thank goodness I got it in the end. My fault for brushing TRAMP aside lah. I should SLAP myself for that man. However I got it right. Shan't slap myself then. Haha

5. Why ppl with carpal tunnel syndrome have difficuly holding a pen?

Rattle rattle... Clin dem had to get me to stop.

Station 6

Hip bone and hip X-ray.

1. Position the hip bone on yourself. Right or left hip bone?

I THOUGHT I got it right. However the guy was expressionless. He kept checking and doing things to make sure. so that made me wonder whether I got it wrong.

2. Boy riding bicycle. Fell off. Identify the damage on the X-ray.

Heng I found it after a bit of hard staring. It was blindingly obvious but I was staring at the nitty gritties as usual and missed the big picture at first. The point is I found the fracture.

3. Classify this tgype of fracture.

INTRACAPSULAR FRACTURE. That was like the first thing I said. The guy did not hear and made me tink I got the wrong answer. Den I started describing everything I knew about fractured neck of femur. Den he was like, yea but, ok, what are the classifications of fractures of the femur? Den i just got frustrated den asked is it not just intracapsular and extracapsular? Den he said yea so which is it? Den I repeated my answer again. -_-

Station 7

Presentation

Station 8

1. Girl cycling (again. haha) fell on shoulder. Neck tilted sideways from shoulder. Which part of brachial plexus damaged?

2. 2 groups of muscles supplied by C5.

3. Define myotome.

4. How to test for abduction and supination in patient.

I KNEW how to do it. Dunno why I was so disorganised. May have screwed it up. Shit.

5. Show C5 dermatome on patient.

Poor thing the patient was not bad looking but looked so awkward. Dunno why he sign up in the first place. He did not even kena the more intrusive examinations lah. Ah well. When u are examined by a good-looking person... ah! Understandable...

6. Show C6 dermatome on patient.

7. Wat is the best test to carry out for sensation?

Got this question wrong during exam coz I thought too much -_-

8. Are you an international student?

9. Are you from Malaysia?

Haha just kidding. Small chit chat with the guy.

Station 9

Communication skills

Policeman with paraesthesia in leg and foot. I should have done better for that. Dammit. Usually quite good at talking if I say so myself. Bleahhhhhhhhhhh

Station 10

Rest station. Left me to mull over what had happened so far.

Station 11

Explanation.
Woman with hyperthyroidism. Symptoms of loss of concentration, emotional, palpitations, appetite increase but lose weight, hot and sweat more.

Station 12

Medline. Find review article on woman with elevated thyroxine levels with increased heart rate.

1. State the publicaion details of the article.

2. Why do we use synonyms?

3. State 2 uses of BNF.

4. Give example of synonym.

Somehow I seem to have gotten more questions than others.

Station 13

1. State 2 bony prominances of ankle joint.

Wah lao. Nobody else in the previous days got all these weird musculo questions lah! Dammit. Rambled on... got it.

2. State actions which occur at ankle joint.

3. State 2 ligaments which stabilise the ankle joint.

4. Smt about anterior compartment of leg.

5. Find nerve that innervates this compartment.

Named it as well for good measure. It was glaringly obvious. Was digging around the fibular head for ages. Den I also said out the exact location of the nerve. Thought I found it den went on to the next question.

6. Show muscles which evert the foot.

7. Ok we will go back to the question. Where does the nerve that supplies the anterior compartment start from? Blah blah blah... Den FINALLY I went oh! It is this one! Nice guy. They better pass me.

Yo

Decided to ripple my blog a abit, seeing as it has been stagnant for a considerable period. Life has been passing by. Nothing fantastic, nothing horrible. The days are whizzing by and exams are ever closer. I am now in the library, having another stab at late-night studying.

Anyway, enough about depressing topics. On to non-academic life.

Leicester Day was just over and we appeared on the news. We had interactive activities which were educational and involved the family. The highlight for me was the fun fair at Vicky Park tho. Me and my big mouth said 'Ha. Ya I will go if it is like 50p.' Surprise surprise. The entrance fee was 50p. Went and won, or rather, lost a patrick toy which says 'I am with the dummy -->' coz you get a small spongebob toy if you lose and some huge ugly toys if you win. Of course try to lose right. Had toffee apple for the first time in my life, coz that was 50p too. Went again today (Bank Holiday) coz it is the last day of the fun fair. Had (ahem) 2 lame attempts at the milk churn throw where we get 6 baseballs to throw into a milk churn. 1 ball win £10; 2 £20; 3 £100; 4 £200. Was pretty confident of getting at least 2 or 3 in (what is more we have been practising) but the ball just kept bounding off even though it should have gone in. I am sure the opening had metal borders which sloped in so you have to aim directly in the middle for the ball to go in. Shit man. Wasted so much money. Bloody stall. Had a go on the bumper cars where I refused to drive and let XY chauffer me. That was really fun.

I realise this entry sounds like a news report.

Ah well. More updates about things besides academic life. Been more active in volleyball, which is great. Get my exercise and feel more energetic and not so lethargic all the time. Funnily though, I seem to feel anaemic at weird times. Been more enthusiatic about going for matches and things too! Which serve as nice distractions I guess coz kinda like have more things to... live for (?) besides studying here. This June many things are happening (besides exams) meaning post-exam plans. 7th June will be a fun-filled day with many things happening. Had to cancel and rearrange things quite a bit coz everthing seemed to want to happen on that day. Will be having THE BIG LEICESTER PICNIC on that day to celebrate XY birthday. Gonna have a bbq cum potluck cum games on the daisy-sprinkled grass in Vicky Park when the sun will (I tink) set at round 10p.m. Before that, it will be sun, grass and nets at a Notts vball tournament! Also, Yelin (maybe Wing Yee) and Shuang Ning will be visiting and Yelin and XY are going for the tournament with me! Ah. What a happening day. Quite exciting.

Den it will be back to studying den off to Belfast (ryanair had free less than £5 tickets) and Cambridge den back to school den move house den back to Singapore. When will the day arrive?

1. Playing ball

2. Buying presents home

3. Eating nice food

4. Bears

5. The sound of music joke

6. Making people laugh :D

7. Playing in the snow. Taking photos in the snow. Building Mr Snowman. Throwing snowballs at the back of Nixon Court. Making snow angels.

8. Reading emails

9. My healthy eating sleeping living spending patterns. Which recently have not been working out so well..

10. Actually when you are generally happy and positive everything makes you happy right?

Dun make me tag 5 people again..

Yo...

Haha I am guesing the font is going to appear super large again even though I am innocently using the usual size I use, which is large.

Anyway anyway... The topic for today is... enlightenment. (I kinda haven't quite figured out how to put a title of my choice.. Ok, remove the 'kinda' and 'haven't'. Whatever.)

I realise I get enlightened by the strangest words. Here are the 3 that I remember:

1. When I was in primary school I was always grey. Meaning I just never stood out. Even if I got good results nobody would notice. :/ It never occurred to me that I was good at anything. As a result, I never tried to be good at anything (besides sports). Happens, doesn't it? Children don't get noticed > don't get praised > don't realise potential > don't try to aim for better coz they don't know they can or are supposed to (or is it just me..? hm.)

Anyway, one day I heard Mummy telling... Yi Ling (I think. Coz she is the only one who will be talked to about academic work/result/studying kinda things) that

"Science is just finding excuses."

and I thought, "I can make excuses. That's easy. I am THE BEST at making excuses." and so that triggered the drive for me to do well in Science coz I refused to accept that I was worse than other people in making excuses. Childish, I know, but it worked! Next Science exam tgo got highest in class. And the next. Bet nobody remembers. Hai~ Told you.

Anyway, my point is, that random sentence made me kai qiao. All the way until quite late in academic life that sentence somehow made me... kai qiao.

2. In JC everyone hated Gas Laws. Coz it was e-learning? Coz there are a lot of equations? Coz everyone else says it is hard?

Whatever it is, so did I. Until one day, I realised that Evon took Chem as well! Oddly enough, her teaching effectively consisted of one sentence,

"Haiya... Gas Laws you ONLY need to know PV=nRT lah.."

and I just, whoah.

3. Most people know about my ex-unhealthy sleeping pattern. Shan't reveal them. In any case, I am now a convert :D and am having a healthy sleeping pattern of 12 to 6 (a.m. for both, in case some people are thinking of suanning me. ha!) followed probably by an afternoon NAP. To the people who are raising their eyebrows: Ha! again! This sudden healthy change was brought about, again, by a random sentence, this time from t.B.o.

One night when I slept at... 12? I forced myself to wake up at 3 a.m. to do work, which, on hindsight, is ridiculous and irritatingly kiasu and obviously won't be effective studying, which, coincidentally, it wasn't. Basically, at that time my sleeping times were all over the place. As one of my groupmates described, 'basically messed up my whole sleeping pattern' (I know the sentence structure doesn't fit but it's a quote so...)

Like I said, the studying wasn't effective so I was online and met tbo there. She said,

"Wah, you like to wake up at 3 a.m. to study one ah?"

to which (to be honest) I had no answer. BUT that was yet another random sentence that (bet tbo will be so proud to see this) enlightened me! Now I am a healthy convert of the 12 to 6 sleep cycle! Congratulate me man :D

Ok, part of the conversation was what made me try out my new cool sleeping pattern. But it is weird how these random sentences made me 开窍 about so many things!

Still, I think I still have to attribute some of it to positive thinking. No point people telling me things if I hold a negative attitude.

Hm hm. Just finished baking egg tarts. Am eyeing the Qin Yi Pineapple Tarts next XD

Damn tired. I think the last part doesn't make sense or will not make sense if I carry on writing. Ok I KNOW I cannot study like this. Must. Sleep.

BUT before I go... For the sake of updating, I will be going to the hospital tomorrow to see if the consultant will allow me to watch the knee replacement surgery on Monday. If he lets (cross fingers man!) I WILL PON SCHOOL ON MONDAY. Wah lao, how many first year students get to watch this lah. OF COURSE I pon man. If I miss any teachings... well teachings occur like once, sometimes twice, everyday:/ A knee replacement surgery (which I might get to watch) occurs... well, has never occurred before.

Ok really really must sleep to maintain my healthy sleeping. Spring is here! But is bloody cold! But got pretty flowers! And weeds! And trees! But is still bloody cold! Ok. Stop it.

Dear fans,

This is the second time this week I had a nightmare. If dreams are opposite from reality (who invented that?) does this mean it is a good sign?

Anyway, despite being rather freaked out by the second dream and getting that unsettled feeling even after waking up, on afterthought it is really rather a funny dream. Not that I want to go back to that nightmare, but when I was telling Paula about it I thought it had the effect of sounding ridiculous and funny instead. Like my dream where my friend served me and 2 other ppl bittergourd on a silver platter while we were designing a hotel.

In my nightmare we were in a war and I was involved coz I wanted to fight as well and for some reason i think I was a guy so no problems with wanting to fight in the war. Then there was my mother, who was this typical 好公民 (OMG I forgot how to write) woman and this other typical 贤妻良母 kinda kampong girl who gets married at 16 at always seems to look brown, who were stayed at home to sew sweaters and jumpers for us. So I went to war with Papa, a few other extra ppl (might have been Yi Ling and Evon) and apparently, my girlfriend. Wahaha... SO FUNNY RIGHT.

My girlfriend was Nicole Kidman or someone similar. Can't really remember the details of my dream. Or nightmare. I was trying to think what essentials I would need to pack for war and started unpacking the backpack which I always carry to school. I think this part has something to do with my not packing my bag for school everyday and bringing everything for the week. Hence, the repacking bit in the dream. BUT since dreams are opposite from reality I shall not repack my bag. Hahahahahaha....

Anyway, the essentials for war were: handphone, small water bottle, wallet and my Leicester medics card. And my girlfriend didn't have a bag I think so I told her not to worry coz I was wearing my 'Whatever' jacket which has great pockets which can hold everything. Then we went out and on the way, like after passing by quite a number of scary Jap-ish guards I realised that I forgot to bring my jacket. Then had to double back to get it.

And here the dream kind of becomes too boring to mention and then fades away.

What a puzzling dream.

We had a stooooopid talk at the Infirmary today. But on the way back as we cut through Nelson Mendela Park this girl suddenly suggested something which I had been quite tempted to do since I got here but was worried that I would look mad doing. SO PAISEH I talk to her so many times but I still do not know her name =O

Anyway, she suddenly asked whether we wanted to swing in the playground (which we were walking past and which, incidentally, garners us a fantastic view of the looming side wall of the prison). That was one of the reasons that had been putting me off swingning there. The bloody playground is just in the middle of nowhere. Like it is there on purpose to 整 the prisoners. Not that anyone ever plays there. It is, after all, extremely exposed to the cold.

So 3 of us went to swing! Was kinda embarrassing at first coz people we knew were still passing through the park. But no matter. I bet they also want to swing.

Hahaha... The swings are quite good quality, actually! They are really high off the floor so you dun have to bend your legs outwards in a V shape each time you swing back down, unlike in Singapore. Can just swing your legs anyhow (ok it helps that I am vertically challenged as well. The main drawbacks were the location and the cold. The chains were metal and I was too lazy to wear my gloves.

After that we did something horribly childish but was great fun too! We went on one of those typical English merry-go-rounds where you have to push the thing yourself then hop on. And the merry-go-round is children-sized so 3 of us were staring at each other's faces upclose while spinning. Surprisingly, it actually spun really fast and for a pretty long time as well and I actually got quite dizzy from that.

THIS should be Uni life mannn. XD

Haha. Thought this email from Mummy was quite funny:

ur email for me or papa. dunno why he doesn't want to use his account. We came bck from Song on 22/1, we ate lots of durians n deers rib curry. It was too heaty for me, so i had migraine for a few days.Still not stable yet. I feel flu is coming but it is under control. Work is overloaded, just finished my marking n next week i will be away for 3 days for SPA course, another lot of marking--aiyah, very sien. Now, if i strike 1 million, i will retire. In the past, I din want to. If i do strike that, i will give tuition to supplement lor. Next Tue evening, force to attend the sch band performance. 4 eveings in sch till 10pm for meet the parents.

Hahahahahahhahhahahha......................

Anyway. Results were officially out today. Didn't do too badly, considering the number of questions I didn't do/ didn't read/ panicked. Still, I must have complained to many ppl, I feel kinda suan that about half the cohort has managed to get excellent. I am mean.

My group is so nice! They were so happy for everyone who got excellent and there I was heh-heh-ing. Hm, actually I DO feel happy for them, for some reason, but I kinda wish I was happy WITH them. Ah, greed.

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Haha I got some of the foreign signs like '£' on the keyboard. Cool eh?

I wanted to blog about smt, but somehow I can't seem to remember what. Crap.... I tink I have been too ji dong today.

Hm. Using the school comp now. So much faster. My computer is so slow. It is fast for websites like the school website and webmail but slow pn purpose for useful websites like hotmail, blogger and facebook. Ok. Really can't remember what I wanted to blog about.

Ta!

Greetings! I am procrastinating again. But for the sake of family-updating, I shall continue, not that I'm not eagerly anticipating having to start studying again or anything like that. Apparently Nixon Court is going to have water-rationing today from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. (shit means I must wash my dishes now). I would've thought paying so much for accommodation justified not having water-rationing, heater-rationing and erratic electricity and internet. Being ever the Singaporean, I went into full swing and started planning what I will need water for the next day. To be honest I dun even use alot of water here. Morning, brush teeth... that's about as far as it gets until 4 p.m. at least. But still. Good thing XY reminded me that I needed water to brush teeth otherwise I will really think that I can survive the 8 hours without preparing any spare water. Still, I went overboard and filled a whole bucketful of water to tide me through the crisis. But I had my reasons. I initially filled it about halfway, which is actually more than enough to last, but I suddenly looked at it and thought of the phrase 半桶水 and decided that leaving half a bucketful of water in my room was not a good way to kick start a new sem. Besides, it is still Chinese New Year. Better believe in these things. Plus my results are gonna be out today. Plus my viva will be next week. Plus this sem is bloody hard. Ok. Got an event-filled day tmr/today. Results... Last day of the week... FINALLY collectin my hoody/hoodie (I'm sure it's the second one but the ang mohs spell as the first one)... Water-rationing... Friendly match (which, I honestly didn't intend to go but if I dun go now ehen will I go?)... Uh, study for viva...

Yo... I know I am not supposed to be online now and should be STUDYING but I seem to still be in a state of shock. I innocently fell asleep at 7ish, planning to take a revitalising short nap and set my handphone alarm at 8.15 p.m. coz 1. I didn't have my watch with me and 2. My watch got no more sound However, because I had just managed to fall asleep when the alarm rang, I decided it was perfectly reasonable to take a proper 1h nap or so to replenish my energy to start studying (I finished making notes. HA!). So I slept and woke up several times, thinking the lastest I couls wake up was, wat, 9? Horror of horrors, after forcing myself awake, stumbling to the toilet to bathe and settling down and all that, I SAW THAT IT WAS 2 A.M. Dammit. Goes to show the importance of a watch. And how accurate my biological clock is. Wahhh, this is the second time I have fallen prey to my watch (I think), the first being during prelim Bio prac. Ok shan't dig up unpleasant histories. It is, after all, still CNY. Today is... Chu 9.

Still about life last week. Pretty eventful. I went for Teddy Bear Hospital on Thu, which was great! The aim of tbh is to dispel the fear children have of going to clinics and hospitals in a fun and interactive way! The children bring their sick and usually injured teddies and play the role of parent or doctor whereby they go to the various stations (heart, bones, operation table, history taking and.... smt) and we treat their bears (haha i typed beard at first) like how they would be treated in a clinic. This clears their misconception they might have of scary and unfriendly hosptials and educates them about general healthcare and makes them all want to be doctors. Ook... That's about as far as the advertisment goes. So I went and got freaked out by the ang moh children at first. I eventually got the hang of it (I tink) but as usual, my patience did not last long and by the time I reached the 4th group I gave up remembering all the names and stopped asking the names of all the bears. And there were some awkward pauses where I had to consult my sheet but still. The children were quite sweet and said "Thank you very much! I really enjoyed working with you!" even though I dun tink they really did. Or maybe that is just me being paranoid. Ang moh children are so good-looking! And so I spend a meaningful afternoon.. Also, I finally went for training again! Felt so fit and exercised after that. Was fun even though I played like shit. And the gigantic ang mohs always take pity on me and ask if I'm all right with doing 10 pushups and tell me that every ball I serve over the net is good. Ah well. Always nice to be pampered. I guess I look really itsy compared to them. Speaking of which, I went clothes shopping before CNY and realise shopping in Western countries is good for your self-esteem coz you feel like all the weight you thought you gained was, in fact, imaginery. Hahahahahahahhahaha..................... Really going dry dock now. Like all my new things I got for CNY! XD

The Hokkienlang blog is really funny! A cliche topic about student life which would normally sound whiny and typical in English sounds so much better in Hokkien! Ok most people probably know the Hokkienlang blog already but fot those who do not, it is on Links.

Life here is... floating by. As usual my life is full of ups and downs. Last week went to use up the 20 pound Mac voucher with my group and hardly uttered a word. Today during tutorial suddenly talked normally again. Perhaps that was because I did my homework and so was providing answers (again).

Last week was pretty eventful. Like life has picked up pace again. Had 3 CNY dinners in a row, all of which were surprisingly enjoyable. The one on Tue was with my flatmates (3 of us -_-) where we all got a bit overenthusiastic and each cooked about 2 to 3 dishes for 3 people to clear. In the end the amount of leftovers was pretyy unimaginable, all of which I was delegated the responsibility of clearing. After I had done my 1week plus worth of cooking. And done loads of grocery sale-shopping. Now I am all stocked up and ready for WWIII. Ok CHOI.

Surprisingly my bread had lasted me faithfully 1 week plus after expiry. I shall stop buying Bettabuy bread.

SO MUCH FOOD TO CLEAR. BUT! I dun have to cook for weeks! BUT! I cannot go out and eat. Ah, dilemmas.

Not that I eat out alot, but I have been trying a few outside places, which are obviously nicer than the same food I cook everyday. I have now taken to some lame attempts at throwing garlic, ginger, chicken and whatever else is small enough into my rice cooker together with my rice to cook and wishing that something that tastes vaguely different from my usual cooking will emerge. The rice cooker is a wonderful invention. It can cook ANYTHING. Which is why I have also started throwing meat, veggie AND rice into it at one go and voila! My cooking for the week is done, albeit being not very tasty.

Ok back to the topic.

On Wed I went to Peking for the Singsoc dinner, which was nice too! I was pretty lost initially but after that was ok. The food was really not bad. I suspect they make the food over-tasty to suit the ang moh tastes tho. If not for that, the simple dishes like fried veggie had the fire-come-out taste, which is a pleasant surprise. Den we had roast duck, chicken and chao shao (WOW), steamed fish (WOW), fried pork thing, another similar fried pork thing, a beef thing with gravy, lotus root soup, mushroom and cabbage, fried tauhu (weird but not bad), keropok, orange, smt that looks like mini butterfly and tastes like a doughy, sugary biscuit and red bean agar agar (sounds abit duh for dessert but I liked it alot!). There was Lion Dance (abit annoying, to be honest), contortionist and fire crackers (really cool).

On Thu we had a Nixon Court steamboat and the attendance turned out poorer than expected. :P
Good thing XY decided to go for our dinner if not EVEN FEWER PPL. We started off with 6 and I tink there was a point when it was tennish. Den went down to 8, 7, 6 and we ended up with 5. Was ME, XY, QY, Jian (groupmate) and Franklin (her friend), which is a pretty weird combination. Again, surprisingly, it turned out funner than expected despite my nearly setting off the fire alarm. Brilliant me made FONDUE (which has slightly more steps than melting a bar of chocolate over a pan) with banana, apple, strawberry, pocky, doughnuts and spoons to dip into. I realise milk chocolate fondue might actually be nicer than dark. Quite alot of chocolate left so I have been having chocolate spread with my expired bread for the past few days, which is not too bad, and half-boiled eggs before they spoil. Again.
Am about to go for this Vday thing at the dry dock (Boaty Bar) coz u get a free cocktail and drink for 1 pound. Hm that doesn't sound right. No matter. And I haven't been to a pub or bar here before.
Shall stop this entry before it gets too long. Cheeeers maite! Uh. Still can't do it.

Yo! I really do mean to blog but I keep having no mood or no time. They seem to be antagonistic. Now that I suddenly got "feel" it is 2.42 a.m. and I have school tomorrow. I always do that. Whenever there is school on the day I always manage to sleep past 2 a.m. no matter how determinedly I convince myself to sleep early (especially when I wake up in the morning). Shall keep this short coz I know I must sleep. Will blog and (maybe) post the remaining pictures.

I thought the name thing was pretty interesting! It seems quite true. After I started using t.G.o I seem to have drifted more to that side than the Tay Yi Lun description. Fine. Maybe I am imagining it but when I tried typing in my real name after finding the t.G.o one rather accurate I found it too true and the pattern too interesting to be ignored. It really does seem like the t.G.o and Tay Yi Lun patterns are similar but that I have changed slightly right? Ok I just repeated myself. Which means I should really go to sleep. Ta! Yucks that's like the Spanish people farewelling me. I have recently blocked another few. Dunno why they seem to be invading my life again. They are slowly infiltrating my facebook now. And now they are from Mexico. WTH.

Ok. Stop it.

Goodnight! Happy LUNar New Year! Get it? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahhahaha.... Ok I'm really tired.

What Tay Yi Lun Means

You are a seeker. You often find yourself restless - and you have a lot of questions about life.You tend to travel often, to fairly random locations. You're most comfortable when you're far away from home.You are quite passionate and easily tempted. Your impulses sometimes get you into trouble. You are usually the best at everything ... you strive for perfection. You are confident, authoritative, and aggressive. You have the classic "Type A" personality. You are a free spirit, and you resent anyone who tries to fence you in.You are unpredictable, adventurous, and always a little surprising.You may miss out by not settling down, but you're too busy having fun to care. You tend to be pretty tightly wound. It's easy to get you excited... which can be a good or bad thing.You have a lot of enthusiasm, but it fades rather quickly. You don't stick with any one thing for very long.You have the drive to accomplish a lot in a short amount of time. Your biggest problem is making sure you finish the projects you start. You are relaxed, chill, and very likely to go with the flow.You are light hearted and accepting. You don't get worked up easily.Well adjusted and incredibly happy, many people wonder what your secret to life is. You are a very lucky person. Things just always seem to go your way.And because you're so lucky, you don't really have a lot of worries. You just hope for the best in life.You're sometimes a little guilty of being greedy. Spread your luck around a little to people who need it. You are very intuitive and wise. You understand the world better than most people.You also have a very active imagination. You often get carried away with your thoughts.You are prone to a little paranoia and jealousy. You sometimes go overboard in interpreting signals.

What's" Your Name's Hidden Meaning?

What T.G.o Means You are a seeker. You often find yourself restless - and you have a lot of questions about life.You tend to travel often, to fairly random locations. You're most comfortable when you're far away from home.You are quite passionate and easily tempted. Your impulses sometimes get you into trouble. You are deeply philosophical and thoughtful. You tend to analyze every aspect of your life.You are intuitive, brilliant, and quite introverted. You value your time alone.Often times, you are grumpy with other people. You don't appreciate them trying to interfere in your affairs. You are well rounded, with a complete perspective on life.You are solid and dependable. You are loyal, and people can count on you.At times, you can be a bit too serious. You tend to put too much pressure on yourself. What's" Your Name's Hidden Meaning?

I tried to post my Christmas photos but blogger didn't let me... -_- Hmmmmmm.................... I've been spending te last few days doing NOTHING which surprisingly hasn't been boring. I had planned to go touring somewhere and made 3 plans all of which did not materialise due to a variety of reasons. Seeing as this phenomenon seemed suspiciously coincidental I decided not to resist the intentions of fate and stayed holed up in the comfort of Nixon. I am liking alone time during such short breaks and holidays. Nice to have TV marathons and feel you brain go soggy (OK maybe not that part), wait for long-time-no-see family and friends to go online, chat until it is 2 a.m. in Singapore den go back to watching TV again. I have tried to draw again, without fantastic success. Dun have enough patience to see a drawing through to the end. And am still experimenting with different life forms. Perhaps I should go back to drawing cartoons. During this break I attempted to springclean. Not such as bad attempt. I spent one day doing laundry, which was abit of a time-waster. I put in 40p for the dryer but the money-eating machine refused to believe me. Obviously, being the stingy and stubborn person that I am, I refused to feed it another 20p. Annoyingly, when I opened the dryer, the top layer of my laundry was deceptively dry so I innocently collected armfuls of clothes into my laundry basket and kept my spare 20p. When I really started sorting through them I found that I had indeed been outwitted by the dryer. It had conned me of 40p for 16 bloody min of half-hearted drying. So. I had to spend the day hanging my clothes all over the room, which made very slow progress and which made me waste the whole day on laundry. And I was watching TV. And baking. And watching 3 个好人. The next day was more productive. Went to m'sons on retail therapy and bought a lot of nice and not very useful food. I meant to vacuum my room in the morning but I got distracted in the kitchen and spent the day clearing my kitchen cupboard and sorting out my plastics bags. Not that I'm trying to avoid the hard part of springcleaning. My plastic bag bag and plastic bag box were getting too big for their own good. Couldn't close my kitchen cupboard properly coz my plastic bag bag was too bulky. Sorting out plastic bags is really rather therapeutic. Brought out my MP3 player and speakers, poured out my plastic bags onto the kitchen table and started sorting. For the whole afternoon. Ah bliss. After that I finally plucked up enough determination to vacuum my room. Bloody carpet. Everything sticks onto it and gets tangled in it. How the bloody hell to vacuum? I run the vacuum cleaner over ONE spot about 50 times and it remains all holed up and cosy in the hairy carpet. Eventually I plucked out the broad head part and used the tube-sucker part instead, which was much more formidable but sucked up bits of carpet as well. Dammit. I hate machines. Finished my cereal the next day and for some weird reason couldn't bring myself to throw away the spiderman box. I promised to go to queens rd to buy one of those nice artsy wrapping papers to prettify it abit and use it as a... rough paper box or smt. However, breakfast is the most importat meal of the day so I couldn't miss that. While eating might as well watch TV oso. Breakfast lasted me a good few hours by which time I had reasoned out that ang mohs won't be so hardworking and sure got 5-day week so the shop at queens might not be open and I shouldn't waste time walking there. Purposely-accidentally checked my email today so I would miss any possible emails that training has started. 果然不出我所料 (heh pro right) training HAS started but that was yesterday so, aw man i missed it... Hahahahahhaa... So hypocrite... Which brings me to where I am now, fretting about going to school AGAIN tmr. Sian. Dun like going to school. Like you have to do everything from start again. I am now one tenth my way though the course. Wow! Ok fine. Should not sound so bitter. Be positive.

Hello. I'm back from my dong you ji cum marathon break. Now on to the second leg! I honestly dun remember ever taking so many photos. I promise to upload the few photos I take more regularly! Now I know the pain of spending hours trying to upload a few months worth of photos... Haha, pain. So drama.

Suddenly my font has swelled. I realise the previous few entried had pretty small words. Doesn't help that my screen is so small. Shall type bigger for Papa and Mummy to see. Haha so funny how when you become a parent that becomes your name. Papa Tay and Mummy Tay. Hahahahahahhaa...

These are the books I borrowed or bought from Cambridge. See? I'm not reading Harry Potter anymore! Though that is only because I did not bring them along. Ahh. The point is, I'm reading other books too. Howl's Moving Castle (borrowed from Shuang Ning)

The Artemis Fowl Files (2 pounds!)

~Group photo

Half Moon Investigations (1 pound!)

Inkspell (borrowed from Shuang Ning)

I notice my blanket is unecessarily distracting. I shall get a proper quilt with a cool cover one day. Maybe I can buy Paula or XY's for cheaper after we move into the new house seeing as they have double beds and mine is still single. ~Haa dun laugh at me for reading children's books. They are good for your brain. They promote imagination and creative thinking which so many people lack these days. Seriously. School projects are so freaking sian now. I remember in Primary school we got to do models, scrapbooks and charts. Then in Secondary school we had loads of presentations (at least in DHS) and we could be flexible in the way we wanted to present our projects. So fun thinking of ways to make presentations good yet funny so people will listen! JC became more like now where presentations must be serious and dry without an inkling of creativity in them. Being formal is good in its own way but I dun see why in Uni even for normal class presentations people dun dare or dun want or dun think of doing weird things like we did in Secondary school. Instead of "good morning. today my group and i are going to talk to you about... and now i will PASS ON to my next speaker, JJ... thank you for your kind attention" why can't we do a... talkshow or something? Haha "pass on" annoys me for some reason. Perhaps coz that was the exact phrase and format taught to us during one of those public speaking courses we had in Sec school.

Still remember when we had to do a chart for Bio in Sec 3 I was quite sian about just doing a chart and we came up with a tombstone chart with a monster taped to one of those bendy plastic rulers and taped him to the back. Den we used rubber band and bent the ruler back so he was hidden behind the chart. When we started the presentation we cut the rubber band and he sprung out of his grave. Coz he died of iron overdose. Haha those weird, serious-but-still-can-play kinda presentations were so fun!

Ok shall stop reminiscing about the past. Kinda makes me wish I could be in Sec school forever. Ah, the days when you could choose not to listen in class and pon and show parent letter, could somehow still vaguely understand lessons even though you dun listen, could still pia the night before tests and exams (and regret after prelims -_-), had ART AND CRAFT, home econs and DnT. Haha those were funny. I liked Tiger Tan art lessons. Okok fine. Shall stop. On to the next post!

Omg... I'm not gonna post any more Cambridge pictures... This is all I have been doing for the whole day. I must have missed some out but this is too tiring. Ok I'm not an IT person. See computer den sleepy. The only electronic gadget which doesn't have such a profound effect on me is the TV, which is one of the few reasons why I have grown to accept computers as well.The fireplace at the fudge maker place

A nice view of the sunset taken by tgo

Castle Mound (highest point in Cambridge)

A quaint-looking tree and an out-of-place dustbin or mailbox next to it

Another view atop Castle Mound

I tink I was on the boat at this point too

Still on the boat... Another nice shot taken by me! What can I say...

Definitely on the boat...

A view of mathematical bridge from the boat

A clock tower

I was frozen. Subsequent photos of me will thus, all have the same expression
I told you
This is a symmetrical Uni. Supposed to be perfectly symmetrical. The windows were kept shut all the time to conserve the symmetry. Students were punished for opening the window so they ran to the other side of the building to open the window symmetrical to it.
Still punting...


Still forzen...
My face is still Cushing's like
Ah, now my hands are stuck. Quite good service rite got pillows and quilts for us. Wonder whether they provide fans on the boats during summer. We pay so much they should lah.
Nice autumny view


The nice bridge. I tink it is the bredge of sighs. Got a picture taken from the inside of it in the first part of my trilogy.
Dunno where this came from. Ah well. Another nice building at Cambridge!

Me and Catherine. Probably at Trinity. Cannot remember. I tried to wear every single piece of clothing I brought coz my bag was too full already
Another nice autumn scene
And another one...
Back from puning! The canoers are just leaving. So cool.

Last min shot just when we were about to cross the bridge i'm guessing