Thailand Holiday =)

Recently came back from a holiday in thailand and it was WONDERFUL! =) We went to both Pattaya and Bangkok in the last 5 days (13th dec - 17th dec). It was my first trip to thailand with my friends, nix, chris n caren. =) Fun Fun FUN!!!!

Day 1

On the night itself, nix n chris gamed through the night and i was just tossing around the bed trying to sleep. hahh and i slept barely 4 hours before i had to wake up to prepare. We went to Changi Budget Terminal at 430am as our flight was at 630am. Slept on the flight, which was surprisingly smooth even though it was a budget flight. =)

Upon arrival in the bangkok airport, we took a government bus to pattaya which only costed us 5 dollars each! =) It was surprsingly cheap and good service on the bus too. However, we weren't so lucky in the city. Had to walk quite a bit of distance with our luggages before we could get on a lorry-like taxi and we got fleeced! Had to pay 40baht each to get to the hotel even though it costs about 20baht per trip. The hotel was VERY PRETTY, even though we had to book 2 rooms in the end, the room was big and pretty! Service was good, with a pretty pool on the top of the hotel and good breakfast. *yumm*

We went to Ripley's believe it or not and it was funn! Got scared like crazy in the haunted house, and had lots of fun in the mirror maze!

Pic 1: his eyes were following us everywhere.... and we thought he was fake! but he is a real personnn.. AHH!



Pic 2: Our first stop! the four of us at Ripley's!

After Ripley's, we just went for a walk along the Walking street and noticed alot of bars, pubs, etc. Now i know why pattaya is so infamous. lots of ang mohs walking around, most of them being single guys. hahh i guess you should know what i mean. Had dinner in one of the seafood restaurants and i guess the food is not too bad!



Pic 3: our wonderful dinner at the seafood restaurant


Day 2

Woke up early in the morning to get ready for some wacky watersports! Took the ferry to Kolan island which was wonderfully pretty, except that the beach was sorta destroyed by the overwhelming numbers of umbrellas on the sand. sad to see that sight but nevertheless, we had fun! Took the banana boat, in which we were flipped at least 3 times into the really salty water! and played Jet skii which was very fun too! heex was riding against the waves which ended up leaving bad scratches on my knees. *sobs* Then caren and chris went parasailing while me n nix sat on the boat that sent them up the sky! heex funnn...

Pic 4: The pretty beach of Ko Lan Island. can see how blueeeeee the water is?

Pic 5: me n nix on the pretty jet skii.. =)

Pic 6: Parasailing. I think that was caren who was in the water. hahahx

After the watersports, we had lunch and headed back to hotel for a nice afternoon in the pool area. Went to the beach road for dinner and some minimum shopping before we ended our night by drinking and playing mini mahjong in the hotel room. =)

Day 3 and 4
Went to bangkok early in the morning, and had pretty tough time trying to locate our hotel. It wasn't a very nice hotel, but was okay for us to stay in. Went for shopping straight away in MBK center and had a nice jap lunch. =) Then went off to Platinum to do more shopping =) Spent the next day shopping as well, in both platinum and Suan Lum Night Bazaar. Hahhax i wun talk more about the shopping but we definitely got ourselves quite a bit of stuff. =)

Pic 7: our victory at the shopping malls!

battle mode

I am really unsure of what i should name this post as, thus i called it battle mode since i am fighting against the cold and exams. Still feeling rather unwell now, with minor headache. -sighs- its interfering with my studying and making me sleep all the time.

Already had 2 exams, and one of them went pretty badly. Really hope i can pass that module. -sighs- Now, i have to focus on the next 2 exams as they are VERY important as well. So, i have to try to study even though my head is spliting from the reading.

On the brighter note, I have a new phone! Well, its actually nixon's phone. It's a brand new N95! ANd i think it looks pretty. Time to get back to my studies.

utterly sick

My cough got worse on sunday morning, with me coughing my head away in the wee hours of sunday morning. argh, it was so hard for me to fall aslepp. -sad- Thus, went to the doctor in the morning. I must say that i was rather shocked with the amount i had to pay for the medicine. It was 74bucks! hah. i have never seen a doctor that i have to pay so much for except when i had to go to the hospital for intestine problems.
After eating lunch, i took my medicine and continued my preparations for exams. Halfway through, my heart was beating fast like no one's business and i thought i was just nervous for the exams, so i didn't look too much into it. Took a little nap and continued studying till night.
Had my second dosage of medicine and the whole thing happened again, with my body feeling numb and practically impossible to move around. -sighs- so my mum told me to stop eating the medicine and see my family doctor today.
So after exams this morning, went to my family doctor with my medicine. She told me there were steroids in the med causing my body to react that way. So, i stopped taking the medicine and took some other ones instead. hahh which caused to me to spend a total of up to 100bucks for medication in total. Oh well. my dad would be the one nagging. haha..
I think i better get back to stoning at my notes...

utterly sick

Study Week

As the title of my post and my msn nickname suggests, it is the study week. -Sighs- I guess this only depresses people cz nxt week is the start of the exams!!!! But no worries, cz i think i won't do too badly (hopefully). Now, my brain is all about holidays holidays and more holidays. haha i know this doesn't match the atmosphere in the air. Ah well.
Nothing much have been going on, except that i have been staying at home, studying, playing computer game and pacing about in the house. Hahx. Let's @@.. The MOST interesting thing i have done so far in the week.....

1. Prawn Catching- It was the ultimate event of the week! I went to Kranji Reservoir with nix, my bro and nix's NS friends to catch a couple of prawns! They are pretty big and interesting to catch! The biggest i caught was probably about 14cm long in body length, with thin and long arms. so interesting. We caught a total of about 7 big prawns, with many mini prawns. Brought back 2 big ones and placed them in nix's fishtank. so pretty! Ohya, I heard that nix's pretty fish got its tail bitten by one of the prawns.. Poor thing...
2. Touching up my favourite rabbit - I have 3 rabbits at home, one of them being white and furry. So, i went to trim its fur ytd. haha it was so funny. i feel like a really bad professional furstylist now. She look like a little sheep by the end of the trimming session. hahax. and of cz, pretty upset with me. hah.. now she wouldn't let me catch her. Oh well...

I guess those are the only interesting highlights of my week so far. Now, back to my studiees! Viruses, Protozoa, Innate immunity and adaptive immunity!

a little piece of me

Looking back at the past, I've come to realize how time passes by so quickly. Within a year, i will be graduating from NUS. From studying in beijing, to finishing my high school in singapore and finally furthering my studies in a singapore university. Many things have happened, many things have changed.

And i have come to realize how much i have changed over the years. from a constant active girl, to one that sits at the corner of the classroom hoping that she was never there. From a girl with constant smile on her face, to one with smiles that shows the world that she will be fine. From studying overseas to coming back to a familiar hometown that no longer feels familiar.

Sometimes i ask myself, how did u manage to come so far? How did you even managed to make it to university, even though you are struggling to keep afloat now? And, what do you intend to do with your life? For that, i am glad to have you in my life.

No matter how hard life is getting now, how much tantrum i throw nowadays, you are always there, never giving up on me. For that, i thank you, from the bottom of my heart. Cz of you, I have a direction in the future. Happy Anniversary, my dear.

mOrE on FooD MiCroB

I just had a lab on food microbiology. Hah. It was oddly interesting. Last week, we tested mango pudding from one of the food stalls in school. Did gram stain, etc and we thought that the mango pudding was one of the cleanest food around since there were not much funny bacteria moving around under the microscope.
However, interesting information were discovered today. In our agar plates, we found TONS of bacteria colonies, with gram positive and gram negative bacteria!!! Upon further calculations, we found out that our mango pudding has 8.3 x 10^7, which was very high!!! For safe consumption, quality of the food has to have below 1.0 x 10^6 bacteria. well, i am not sure if it is 1.0 x 10^6, but definitely 10^6 is correct! so yes its way too high for consumption. So ppl, think twice before you eat the food. Look at how food is prepared, the environment, etc or you might get into trouble with your stomach!

Food anione?

Talking about food, have you ever thought of the handling, packaging, etc processes? Just take a little stroll along those hawker centres and you will probably find alot of things that will make you feel disgusted.
I was eating my self-cooked noodles this morning and my mum was watching this television show about fat people trying to cut down weight through different methods such as exercising and plastic surgery. I am not talking about normal fat people, but those who cannot even walk and I do emphasize with them. However, watching this show during my lunch wasn't exactly appetizing. Looking at their body weight, the flappy skins after losing weight, etc did make me a little nauseous. All my appetite just went down the drain. not to mention that my cooking wasnt exactly fantastic either.
After this session, i had a lecture on food microbiology in class today. hah. i think that only make me lose more of my appetite. The prof showed pictures of organisms that may be on your hand anytime and its actually thousands of colonies of bacteria and fungi! ahhhhhh... and talk about how easily food can be spoilt, the process of slaughtering chickens and cows. I don't think my appetite will ever improve today.........
looking forward to my mum's handmade mashed potato... hope i will be able to eat somethign!

OuCh!

woke up this morning with a stiff neck. yikes. couldn't turn my head to the left. so i think i am to keep turning my entire body to the left if i want to look left for the rest of the day.
Other than that, morning was rather uneventful with lots of things i need to study etc. Feel that my life is rather empty... huhhhh....

Uncertainty

A wave of fear just overcame me. amino acids, keto acids, tyrosines, GABA, glutamine, glutamate.... these terms are driving me crazy. Been trying to memorize the different pathways and enzymes for the class test tml that is worth 20% of the module's grade. it's the second time i am taking this module, so i really wanna do well. but i am worried.
I don't know if i can take this anymore with stress piling up on other work as well. studying immunology was really hard as well. feel like tearing up all the books and just set fire on them. I dun even know what i am doing now. I feel totally out of place.
If not for nix, I will never be able to take anymore of this. thank you dear. for always being there.

Afternn Tea

Sitting at a little corner on my own, sipping on hot swiss chocolate, enjoying a plate of potato salad and busy typing away on my blog. Just the type of life that i like. It's 12pm now, which by right should be lunch time, but i had too full a breakfast to eat something heavy. Had a lecture on Immunology this morning and i was half asleep. hahax. didn't manage to absorb much in so i guess i have to study eh?
This weekend is gonna be so monotonous, with me studying and flipping notes. Hah. How ironic when one is supposed to enjoy weekends right? oh well, at least now i am enjoying my lunch. Time to get back to my work and look at hotels for holiday again! =) one of my biggest interest in life right now. heh. motivation as well.

Awaken

Sudden realization that i've been living in my own dream world these two years. A talk with one of my labmates yesterday pulled me back into reality. I haven't been studying much and thus resulted in my current academic results. A sudden realization that i'm not as capable as the others and i would have to study much harder if i am to survive in this university. Everyone around me works hard and no doubt, are smart too. And what am i? Not smart, nor working hard enough. huh.
The sudden urge to end university life has been on my mind these few days. Yet, I know that if i jus ends it like that, it would be hard to find a decent job outside with burning questions from employers asking why i dropped out from school. Everything i've been yearning for in the future will be ruined by myself if i put an end to my university life now.
Yet, the stress and the utmost pressure is making me feel utterly depressed about university. who said that university life was gonna be easy? Whoever said this was definitely nuts. But i know, i must perservere. jia you shuqi!~

Holiday

Went to Bangkok, Thailand on national day. it was a very interesting experience! instead of having a tour guide to bring us around, we just walked around on our own with the help of dad's colleague, Uncle Pisit. Went to chinatown where we had lots of Sharkfin *yum yum*, shopping at MBK centre and chatuchak *interesting places to go!!*
The most interesting experience was the massage. Hahax. I dun tink i wanna go into details here cz it was rather embarassing but comfortable! =) Aniwaes, not going to rant about the trip here but it is a must go place! =)

utterly stressed

got an F on my mid-term for molecular biology.
this stresses me out on the final exam. hai.

study!

it's time to get my ass to study. *ROARRRRRRR*
Major exams are coming, sub exams are next week.
stress stress and more stress.

missing him

already missing him..
*sob*

study!

from now on, i am gonna be a nerd till exams are over.
Just remember the shuqi with the spectacles and thick books.
Don't remember the crazy me till exams are over ok?

tired.

tired
tired
tired.
Though I've only been awake from about 11+am till now which is 12am, I am really tired. My stomach is feeling funny and my head is spinning. Managed to finish my geopolitics essay just now but I know from the bottom of my heart that it was really not a good essay. I guess it is time for me to pay attention in lecture. haii.
My exam on friday was a total mess. The topics which i studied hard for didn't came out but the ones that i did a 5 min study and went to bed came out as full length questions. =( Couldn't answer quite a bit of questions and this is quite sad. =(

Ra|nY DaY

pSuch a bad weather today!hate the weather! Make everything so dark, cold and nice for sleeping in!!!!! Yet i have to come to school at 9am today for my movie screening. iehosflwhlbewfho
It's 2.53pm and i am supposed to be studying for my 02 exam.... yet I am...... totally not in the mood. bleh~
Saturday i will be going back to old school. Hope everything will turn out fine. It's supposed to be a alumni gathering, so i hope it will be fun meeting up with old classmates! ALso gonna go to aunt susan house for chocolate fondue! -=she better prepare it nicely.. or i will start ransacking her storeroom for things that's not meant for eyes... =.=+ =-.. Hopefully will have a kbox session cz i miss singing so much...
Have been listening to 127day and its really nice in my opinion! Sweet slow song. heh...=) Time to get back to study!

Quick update!

Printing my notes now in the medicine printing place. The printer is realllllly slow. heh.. i think my file is way too big. Not exactly in the best of mood lately. Have been scolded like crazy during work by customer, my godgrandma just passed away and all the stress are piling up for me to do better in school. haix. i wish i have more time.

NeW HaiRstYLe

What ya think of my new hairstyle? Decided to curl it up after so long.. haha.. although this wasn't wat i expected.. -.-" A little too curly but heck la! =) A new hairstyle to erase all the bad old memories and start on a whole new journey! For a fresh year, I am gonna work harder than before and to achieve my goals! =)
Anyway, it was really funny when i was perming my hair. haha.. I totally looked like i was in my forties when the person released the curlers. Looked like one of those main characters in the movie Chicago. heh... but i am not gonna post up the pics here! =P
It's time to get back to my studies and prepare for the upcoming CA!!! =) wish me best of luck!

Mao Mao

In memories of my fav mao mao. 3rd nov 06 - 25th jan 07

I'm sorry. really sorry mao mao.

west coast park & my rabbits

Earliest day!

I've 2 days where the lesson starts at 8am. (tues, fri). It is really tiring to try to wake up this early.. YaWnn.. And guess what. This is the first morning that i am ever so early to school!!! Reached school at around 730am. Haha... When i came into the lecture theatre, there was only 3 people? haha.. so i guess i am still not the first one to come to school. It's another ten more min to class and people are coming in really slowly. Guess nobody likes to wake up at 6 to come to school. YaWnnn...
CNY is approaching and i haven't exactly found any clothes that i would like for CNY. I've only got a top that looks like a dress and that's it. x_X i need shopping time. Anybody?

2nd week of school

It is already the second week of schooL! And it is only today that i realised that my term holidays are in tune with the CNY holidays. *argh* that is like not giving us any holidays!!! *OBJECTION!!!!!* hai but i guess i can do nothing about it. My lecturer is 15 min late for class today! -not good for a lecturer- I hope she finishes up fast so that I can go home soon! =) Although i don't really have much hope for that. =(

Went to fishing pond on saturday. It was terrible totally. x_X The uncle was scolding my brother for sitting on the sofa (which i really don't understand cz there wasn't any sign which says do not sit) and sacarstically scolded me for charging my laptop. x_X NO MORE FISHING POND! *ROARRRR*

Anyways, more pictures!

Me and dear at Sungei Buloh. =) pretty sight. saw a crocodile too.


Aint' this cute?? =)

updates

It's been almost 2 mths since i last update? Have been working alot lately, if not have been slacking at home or going out with friends. Damn tired now cz i woke up at 630 this morning for lecture. *YAWN*
Went to shanghai during the holidays with my family and some friends. It was an okay trip but nothin much about it. I bought my rabbits a new cage as a christmas gift! Really likes it alot. Apparently they became quite lazy after getting the new cage but I need to train them on where to pee and poo! It is getting quite irritating cleaning the cage.. *arGhhh* In any case, take a look at my baby rabbits!