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?