Thursday, February 23, 2006

10:52 PM

2 pink
10 white
the sigh of a child

thank you

Saturday, February 18, 2006

11:12 PM

"chap gor mei"
had an early dinner of steamed fish and prawns, roasted chicken and veggies before sending thomas back to the jetty. mum had an interesting time killing those prawns - they were still jumping about when she bought them earlier in the day. but they very sweet, didn't need any flavouring at all. at about 8.30pm, mum, dad, claire, jerm and i drove down to chinatown to soak in that last little bit of chinese new year atmosphere. walked along the main roads and saw a bit of the colorful displays. passed by the money god too but we didn't rub and gold ingots. joined the long queue for tangyuan from the street stall. tried the sesame and green tea flavours. i think my favourite is still sesame. well, as usual dad got called to go to work so we had to go home around 9.30pm. had a great time though. wish festivals never had to end.

Friday, February 10, 2006

11:32 PM

happy 21st birthday kahyee!!!

went to crystal jade macau at bugis last night to celebrate her birthday. it was quite fun; we ended up playing zhong1 ji2 mi4 ma3 cum truth or truth as entertainment. pity the crowd wasn't too scandalous...haha...jess, aishu, jialing, sirui, kairong, ningyi, chris, alvin, zhongyang, myself and of course the birthday girl turned up. didn't stay too late though, cos we had school today. hope you had fun kahyee!!! :) enjoy brokeback mountain. wish i could vote too.

today wasn't particularly sunny, weather- or other-wise. was late for lecture so i ran from the car and tripped over the steps at the carpark in front of THREE BUSLOADS of people. talk about embarrassing. sigh. lots to copy at tutti's lec as usual, and the athropods lec wasn't that switched off either - especially since we had no notes - so i couldn't eat my breakfast/brunch till about 10 plus. then there was that extra-long last microb prac...had to run (again!) to lt 28 to catch the cofm ca 2 briefing by adeline seow. splutter....

the highlight of the day was dinner at lawry's. mum and dad had this $150 voucher and since thomas is out of the army on 3 days mc we decided to go give it a try. ordered the california cut and wine set. it came with the spinning bowl salad, cream spinach, idaho whipped potato, chocolate torte, tea and a glass of 2002/2003 cabernet sauvignon. got a bit stoned and extremely flushed after that one glass of alcohol. can't believe they charge $6.50 per tiny bottle of evian still water either! the bill was insane even after the discount. the beef was good but 90% of the price probably went to the ambience. the choc torte on the otherhand was delicious. all in all, i had a lovely time. thanks parents!!!

Saturday, January 28, 2006

11:47 PM

byebye rooster hello puppy!!!

happy cny ppl! may it be your happiest and most lucrative one yet. XD

Tuesday, January 10, 2006

12:05 AM

sort of survived microb and patho ca. i always feel very unjustified after the papers; mug so much for so little result...ah well...

celebrated aishu's 20th bday in a very...innovative way at holland v swensons. huren tricked her into believing she was going to be interviewed as a medical student for some vasantham central programme, then got a whole bunch of her friends to go over and surprise her. susan's cousin pretended to be the interviewer and managed to ask her some really ridiculous questions like "what do you think about arranged marriages?" before we creeped up on her at "so was it squamous cell or small cell carcinoma". the poor dear is so innocent! and gullible. think she enjoyed herself though.

thomas came home for the first time since getting ride of all that excess alpha keratin. he looks okay acutally, but hair was definitely an asset in his case. mum cooked curry, chicken soup and apple sauce salmon just for him. stocked up on those expensive sweet japanese apples and tangerines as well. haha, there are some side benefits to having a kid brother in the bmt. had to help mum wash and dry all his gross army stuff though. urgh.

the weather's been quite dreary recently. not very spiritually uplifting...rain rain go away...

Saturday, January 07, 2006

10:47 PM

sent my baby bro into pulau tekong for bmt this morning. the place looks like a chalet. they gave us a brief tour then we had to sit through this propaganda video/talk thing and the boys' oath taking. don't know why the army has to pander so much to the parents' concerns; seriously most of those kids could do with the growing up. anyway, they'll be sleeping on king koil beds, eating catered food (they don't even have to wash their dishes after that!), wearing soft leather boots, goretex raincoats and dragging trolley bags. not to mention the airconditioned annex room with a pool table and dart board. learning to prepare for war sure is different from what i thought it'd be. well, i guess there's still all the horrible tiring training part we don't get to see.

had lunch at bmtc - pepper chicken with rice, fries, bread, baked beans and corn. oh, there was mushroom soup and a pear to go along as well. actually it was on par with the stuff they serve at yusoff ishak canteen. not sure whether that speaks volumes either about the standard of food in the army or nus. after that we abandoned thomas to his ritual loss of hair and went back to civilization. don't really feel his absence yet; the boys were made to call their family this evening. plus he'll be back on monday evening for hari raya. can't wait to see his funky new haircut!!

in other news...school's starting all too soon. microb and patho ca on monday. sniffle. i don't wanna go to school!!! wahhh!!!!

Tuesday, January 03, 2006

12:36 AM

it's the year of the 21st birthdays!

started with pearlly's party way up north on the 29th of dec 2005. quite a large group of med ppl. took a lift from wenxian and watched some of the boys being dunked into the pool. had to share a car back with 2 of them on the way back - jingxiang and chengyu. at least i got the front seat.

went to rasa sentosa (Shangri La) to celebrate yiming's bday just now. crazy party filled with people i don't know. stuck around sarah and amanda most of the evening. it was such a drizzly day. hope you had a wonderful celebration anyway dear!