she lives happily ever afterrr :)

oh wells, its been five and a half weeks into term, today's been like the only day i actually arrived back at home before 2.30pm, the previous days even though i end early, sometimes i just dilly dally and the walking back takes 30min! so today with my new bike, i take less than 10min to get homeee wheeeeeeeeee i am not regretting this =D haha anw, work's piling uppppppp, every single day, i struggle between sleeping and work, oh mannn feel so irritated by work, can't i just sleep shu shu fu fu-ly, but at the same time, feel irritated by sleep, cna't u just let me do my work properly and then i let u take over meeee? hahaha oh wells, sounding crazy hahaha

YAYYYYYYY i just finished my path essay =) and it is the first time in 5 weeks where I don't have any pending essays after finishing one wheee haha oh wells, guess esssay's gonna be my life for the next few weeks or so untilllll the christmas holss!! can't wait mann =D

so anw, this year has started well for me i guess, have a nice room, have nice neighbours, i feel more confident and in touch of what i should do haha and yea feel like i can keep in touch with what i'm studying =) not like last year when a lot of the times, i was just like huh? oh nooo gong gong kind...i still rmb i felt puzzled when i came here, i rmb i used to feel gong regarding other stuff but not studies in sg. it was one of the things that i knew i would be able to do rather well, but after coming to camb, i just feel out of touch with what i'm studying in first year, but i'm kinda glad that "confidence" is coming back to me? hopefully it will be retained haha though i still feel rather dumb at times ba haha but i guess now the thing is just to focus on what i'm doing and ignore whatever other stuff comes by =)
 
I should stop boring with talk of work =D this year i have embarked on more cooking sessions to try to improve my unorthodox cookign skills lol but it is still like =S I am proud to present my baking cakes of this year 2009 michaelmas, for the first 5 weeks i have helped/baked 5 cakes in total wheeeee still adding to the tally of once a week, week 1 i made marshmallow cake(smtg i always made in singapore), week 2 i made nutella cake, week 3 I made guanghao's birthday cheesecake, week 4 I helped make a super duper hard banana toffee cake and week 5 tadahhh helped meiyi with a mango mousse cake =D wheeeee haha cooking wise, i am still learning from the prooos hahaha photos!
cheesecake made with caina =) but so sadd, there are cracks on top
3-layered banana toffee cake made with wanlin =D
nutella cake =)
my hei bee hiam chao mien haha looks nice but taste ok only hee =D

school's passing really fast this term, i guess it must have been because i have the company of two great friends, whooooo keeps suanning me but are really nice people perhaps just like big brothers =D haha but it's ok, i am slowly learning how to retort back wheeee =D haha they always say lifee sucks but oh wells, i guess perhaps life does suck, but i shall not think of it in this way and leave it to life experiences to tell me so in future i guess =)

ok have ntg better to say, back to dinner and workkk, jiayou everybody in singapore for your exams =)

will i be able to wait 5/6 years? shall leave it to fate i guess

One of my best trips ever overseas, I’ve never had so much to say of a place I’ve visited before. I’ve realized the difference, the previous places I’ve gone to-belgium, paris, Amsterdam, Scotland Ireland, I’ve just been a traveler, but this time I feel like a local. I feel like I live there, it is just like a home with lovely brothers and sisters. I guess this is what made my experience so enriching and fruitful this time that when I came home, the first thing I did the next day was to look through the photos and upload the photos. I was thinking of the past trips where it would take ages to upload photos of the different places and it had been such a chore to do so lol haha

Anyway, I’ll recommend Nepal to anybody thinking of going to an Asian country. It has a good mix of scenery, shopping, trekking and adventure sports. It has such a rich culture, the people are really friendly. Even if you do not go there to volunteer, there is no lack of things to do there. I’ve mainly stayed in the school during my 6 weeks, going out of Kathmandu once to Chitwan(fantastic place) and then, the rest have been on school trips and exploring Kathmandu itself. Even though I do regret not exploring more, I don’t regret spending more time in school since I’ve really made new brothers and sisters =)

My entire experience had not been that pleasant. I witnessed first-hand corruption taking place, oppression of the lower income by the higher income people, lingering discrimination by the higher caste towards the lower caste people (since the country just became democratic, some people have changed while others still have old-school mentality) and like gender discrimination is still kinda widespread. So I feel angry whenever all these happens but I can do nothing to help them, but I’m glad all the kids have been so open, so lovely, taking my mind away from all these bad thoughts and  keeping me sane throughout the six weeks.

Time with the kids

I still remember the first week I was there, I cried loads, I felt so lonely, felt like time was crawling, felt like oh my gosh, how am I gonna survive the 6 weeks, it was still the school hols, very few children were in school, the rest of the volunteers were not exactly very receptive since I was Chinese ( and actually this reminded me, they actually made fun of how a Chinese face was like in front of me, piggified people grrr) haha luckily the children became my best friends together with this other Indian girl =) I still remember once when I broke my slipper, my precious havaianas slippers which I wore for 2 years alr, kinda sad, but I didn’t really care about it and threw it aside, went to use the com..after 5min, I hear a “shueli miss shueli miss, we fixed ur slipper”, nicee and super adorable pritam and elesh actually picked my chuppa(slippers) and fixed it up I was like awwwww, and gave them a hug, they are so resourceful! =)

And then there are like unforgettable moments with the older boys. They were really rather annoying man, kept teasing me moti(fat), ghiti(look like a pot) and like tiapci(flat-nosed) and they stole my clip thousands of times and even on the last day, made me run after them in my sari to get back my clip. such was the nonsense I was getting from these guys who annoyed me every single second but then on the morning on my last day, they actually wrote a very sweet card saying “sorry for the teasing, we’ll miss u lots, we haven’t had a teacher like u before” awwwww it kinda just made me tear instantly lol haha and then there was this really mature boy, sushov that I had really nice conversations with. From these boys, I learnt about the teenage relationship issues that they had, which was kinda funny, cos like their relationships are really really innocent, like they don’t really have time to meet up outside of class, plus the school teachers will beat them up if they found out that they were in a relationship, therefore, a lot of them like each other but don’t have time to really talk much outside of school or go out. Besides, the girls were like very open about who they liked but appeared so shy about it so it was really cute seeing them like that lol haha which makes me admire their courage since I guess I won’t have the courage to admit if I liked somebody I guess, I’ll just try to hide it in and forget about it haha

The girls in hostel were very lovely. We had many memorable times dancing and they learnt a singapura song and always sang it in front of me =D their dancing is superb, their butt shakes are so sleek haha and I always try to learn and get laughed at by them =S lol haha miss these kids..

And then there was the kitchen staff who spoke little English but it was still nicee that we got along, they were financially not very independent, but they were true blue Nepalis that I was happy to meet, so open so friendly so welcoming =) I learnt some nepali when I was there, guess I was the first volunteer to actually try to speak nepali since the rest always just stayed in their room, so the kitchen staff were more receptive and like more friendly and taught me how to make nepali tea, absolutely yummy tea, and many other yummy nepali dishes =D haha

My time in school just had so many unforgettable moments, can’t really list them out in full. But I’m glad I did what I did, mainly stay in school and get to know the children and the kitchen staff, because this made me more happy and feel more fulfilled than just travelling around. It was kinda a shock to me when I kinda cried uncontrollably when I left the school and couldn’t stop even when I was alone waiting to check in. I think I must have looked insane. Before departing, I’ve always thought that I would be happy leaving for home, and that it was time to go home since I had so little time in Singapore, but then when I said bye to the kids, I just couldn’t control, first time I actually felt like that oh wells, just hope I’ll be able to keep in contact with them =)

Oh man a really long account ahead, haha lol haha there are still stories to tell of the temples and places I’ve visitied in Kathmandu, the school trips, the trip to chitwan where I bathed elephants(very fun!) haha but I shall leave it to next time if I’m not lazy enough heee till then, byebyeeeee =)

hooooooo mannnnnn!!!! 这么快! it's one dayyyy to nepal, tmr i'm gonna wake up to a totally different feeling :( or :) i dun really know :S hahs uncertainties abound tmr, i just hope i'll be able to keep an open and clear mind. haha got my first taste of what nepal may be like yesterday when i met up with the sister of the headmaster of the school that i'll be going to. went to mustafa centre that was soo super crowded haha the streets were like packed with indians and unfamiliar faces. being like one of the rare chinese around, i felt a bit intimidated since i was alone haha but i guess i was just being paranoid! lol haha and oh gosh mustafa centre is real packed and the deals look really cheap in there! it seems packed full of every single thing that u need, shoes bags, blah de blah de blah haha should go take a look  if you're planning to do some cheap shopping haha the toilets were kinda :S so i really felt like perhaps i would see similar stuff in nepal haha and in the toilet i saw this boy who just did his big business and so had shit all over his butt lol haha think the mum was preparing to wash him in the was basins haha at first i was like erps! and tried to loo away but it totally reminded me of the times one year ago during minds camp when i had to wash one of he trainees' pigu as she had diarrhoea hahs that was an unforgettable experience indeed haha anw, proceeded to the restaurant after that, nepalis are real friendly! they are so endearing and they always wish u well when u meet or when u bid goodbye haha i'm looking forward to seeing how the children will be like. i tried masala tea! haha the tea had a tinge of "masala curry" taste which was qte cool haha and after that, got treated to dal baat, the main course that i'll be mainly having there, consisting of mainly rice and lentils. haha qte nice qte nice, I hope i'll lose weight there man! *crosses fingers* so i will have some spare space to expand in cambridge at least heee got to learn about my headmaster and how he decided not to get married cos he wanted to have more time for society and humanity, i thought that was damn noble hahaha the workers there were all nepali and managed to talk to them qte a bit, all of them were really kinda excited when they heard i was going to nepal and they all really seem to miss nepal a lot oh mann so sadd, so poor thing, like to have to leave their families..
 
anw, i successfully made my or-neeeee! hahahha here it is! turned out not as nice as i wanted it to be(not sweet enough), the next time i do it again, i'll spammmmm sugar! so the guinea pigs of my next attempt beware! heee


hahaha yayy feel accomplished accomplished! haha how i wished i had more time here to try out moreee recipes! :(:( but oh wells, may i learn how to make nepali curry there! muahaha oh went to watch up with my brother yest as well, it was really nicee! cos it was full of lame kind of funny things happening, one of the few movies that i actually laughed so heartily! haha but my brother was like -.-, it made me wonder wahhhhh 弟弟长大le huh hahah and he's developing that slight ego that guys have, keep suaning me for being damn stupid, laugh at those lame jokes soooooo -.- but whatever, may not be such a bad thing after all haha

okie  ntg much to write alr, guess i'll end soon. think that 1 week when i'll be back in end sept, i won't be able to do much :( i'll miss everybody here, i'll miss the slacking times, i'll miss the foooodddd(which made me balloon!:(), i'll miss eating sushi!, i'll not miss the weatherr, i'll miss being able to wear shorts and slippers, i'll miss sleeping on my bed, i'll miss the whole living room, i'll miss my hongkong dramas, i'll miss my scv.....yadayadayadayada....hahahaha okieee i'll update abt nepal when i'm back goodbye!

hellloooooo! it's been a long time since i blogged! hiyaya can't really find much things to talk about nowadays, but i shall just keep this blog for updates of my uk life and random events heee

anw, it's been one week since end of school term! have been really boredddddd!!!!!!!!!! hahaha but i shldn't complain of boredom i guess, since when i'm busy studying, i complain that it's super stressful and stuff,  shall stop being a whiney complain-ful pig! hahaha so this period of boredom has made me learn how to do some things haha (sounds noob) but i always wondered how people did collages of photos so nicely! and tadahhh! finally the lazy me decided to google and try out some programmes! and yayy! so this is my collection after a few days! :D




 
I like this! but it would have been nicer if i was standing in the same way too :)


soo yeaa! tadahh! accomplished accomplished, even though it's not as professional looking but yea shall try to make it nicer next time and aim to make a collage for all my friends from different stages of life :)

hahahaha have been preoccupying myself these days with cooking and "baking" too, but somehow i just can't make the cakes as nice as they should. I haven't made the strawberry marshmallow cake for like 6 months, and the standard somehow has deteriorated :S haha but nvm shall 再接再厉！haha my parents say my tiramisu is good since i have been practising it all the while in camb but my marshmallow cake is cui noww soo sadd, but nvm! next year with a kitchen right beside my room, i'm gonna do lots of experiments haha hopefully the intense studying won't make me forget :D haha i bought a thermal pot too so i tried to make soup yesterday! lol turned out bland :( hahaha and my steamed egg too! bland bland bland bland soo sadddd, ahaha but my steamed egg gave me the inspiration for chawanmushi! :D haha everytime i want to cook and try smtg new, lulu gets a headache cos she has to get the ingredients for me and we have a "war" in the kitchen! lol cos wilful me wants to try my ways even if it may be wrong and hence, the "arguing" begins!  hahs and i make a mess of the kitchen :S hehe 

spending the last 2 weeks in singapore doing these stuff that i like, meeting up with friends is :D guess i won't regret since i haven't wasted my limited time here haha looking forward to nepalllllllll! even though it is a whopping 6 weeks! ho gosh! one of my friends actually said "pls don't die" and actually i agree so, amitabha shan zai shan zai, may i not get any malaria or dunno whatever kind of thing there ah and may i not be robbbed and may inot be blur like sotong, let my alert mind be "on" haha i bought the children small gifts alr and thinking of interesting games that i can play with them, haha if any of u reading this have any suggestions, do tell me yea :) thanks lots thanks lots :)

alright, my next target for blogging shall me the yam paste! lol hahaha was looking at this blog that teaches us how to make "or nee" so exciting!! if i succeed and if my chawanmushi succeeds too, i shall blog again :D till then, seeeeyaaaaa :)

 

havee this sudden urge to write smtg i dunno why heee  yayyy i'm finally homeeee!! :) and bouncing aroundd haha though no longer as hyperactive as last time, feeling 老-er alr,but at least i'm still bouncing ardd haha 

so anw, been back and quarantined, and then went out with a few groups of friends before starting work at peirce sec haha a really good school for a neighbourhood school, i'm seriously surprised by how innovative and motivated the teachers are as well as the ideas they have for education :D learnt qte a bit man even though the first few days before starting on the project , i'm just scratching my head, pulling my hair and headache headache haha basically my project is about coming up with like worksheets involving experiments/hands-on activities to make the students 活学活用haha it was so terrible in the beginning cos it should be rather original and interesting, and should involve apparatus that the school has..so many restrictions..now i'm finally beginning to get some sense on what expts i'm gonna do haha my other scholar colleague now is having a much tougher time than me, having to do electrophoresis experiments FOR SEC 2s! oh gosh, and we have to go catch fruit fliess for expt hahaha hope it'll all turn out fine in the end. at least all of us help each other, so both of us are progressing well :) so yayy feeling hopeful today! tomorrow we're gonna have some lab tryout sessions, seriously feel like some researcher man, gonna have to test out a good duration for the expt i'm doing and a good concentration for the acids i'm using hahah i feel like i'm finally doing science and not by rote learning and following protocols haha but may i not feel too irritated if i can't get results haha 

yayy so hopefully attachment will end smoothfully! and then i'll have to prepare for nepalll! gonna go to nepal for 6 weeks, i sudd think i'll be missing everybody in sg lots and lots :S haha but yea hope it'll be a really enriching experience :)

there's still so much to do but so little time to do everything :S initially wanted to give myself a really really big break after that really tiring tripos but noww, i realised it's kinda impossible, having to wake up for school, having to meet up with friends, having to plan for nepal, and nepal itself oh gosh :/ haha sorry body, i'll try my best to slack as much as i can and whenever i can haha

anw, was talking to kengrui about pursuing ur dreams in future, somehow i know my dream is to be able to go to third world countries and help the people there and make a difference in their lives. However, in sg, many of us as we grow up, we start to lose track of what we want to do not because we lose our dreams, but because we start to have lots of commitments, parents, families, etc etc. so very few of us can actually pursue childhood dreams so sadd but on the other hand, i guess i'll be contented to have a happy family and achieve work-life balance i think haha oh wells...still a nineteenager, shall not think abt the future too much..cherish my teeeeeennnn! :)

yay ok dunno what to write alrr, byebye! seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa  
 

oh gosh, can't believe i'm actually taking time off mugging to actually type a post, but i can't stand it hahaha

it's the last paper tmr, my heart is feeling really itchy, for close to 2 and a half months, i mugged "like a dog" hahahaha! i dunno how else to put it....perhaps that is the most classic statement ever created by one of my coursemates haha haisss, but i regret not doing as well as I could for all the papers i sat for..

studying here is really fun, in fact, i never really realised that it could actually be that fun discussing academics haha and it is really fun learning about physio stuff, about how ur body works and stuff, the rigour of the course is woww, but i actually enjoy asking questions and being inspired by some of my supervisors, even though some of them are just real :(

buttt the examsss areee soooooo  omgoodness stressful! I swear i never ever had to study this hard before in my life..it's great that i'm nearing the end of my first year exams or else perhaps i will be swearing? hee i dunno whether i would haha everyday in the one week break was a routine, wake up at 7.30, be at the library by 8, stay in that same spot witha  few toilet visits until 12.30, oh great it's lunch break! and eat for half an hour, go back to study all the way till 6.30 and yayyy it's finally dinner again! and then study all the way till 11 plus see if i can still take it, if jiechao and shuangning are there, maybe i'll stay a bit later...and so the preparation period was such.. haha and then comes the exam.... every single one of them, i don't walk out confident like i did in the past, there'll definitely be stumping parts, finally understood how powerful exams are in cambridge.....hahaha

and then there is the worrryyyy about not doing welll, rarrr and this is genuine worry, i'm still afraid i'll not get a first class haiss haven't done well for all the papers i have sat for so far :(, tmr's the last one i'm banking on to make me feel a lil bit happier haha may everything go well tmrr

and till 12 tmr, i'll still be a grumpy woman, after that, i'll beeeeeeee theeeeeee ONE OF THE HAPPIEST PERSONN! and gonna make full use of the 4 months breakkkk wheeeeeee :D looking forward!

don't feel like writing anymore haha shall adjourn to bed alr, goodnight!

oh no oh no oh no oh no it's exam timee in 5 weeks!
so jealous of people in sg who have finished their exams alr!
now it's like crunch time :( haha but i strangely dun feel stressed at all, even though i'm lagging behind like super a lot haha

anw, sorry for not updating! i haven't uploaded photos to scotland here yet :S they're all on facebook, so go and look there! have like ard 9 albums i think? hahaha

anw, feeling suddenly very grateful for my life haha for the friends i have back home and here :) for a while here, i used to feel lonely and stuff, and there's this thing about uni where u really have to fend for urself and everything. emotional independence was like so impt, and i think i lacked that in the first term i was here, so i kept wanting to go home hahaha
but i'm glad now, my coursemates here are so encouraging :)
it's amazing how u meet people here that are so smart, yet so ever ready to help and everything, seriously, they're like really really zai, but yet so humble and cool! haha so yayy grateful :)

studying nowadays is so mundane, have to mug hard in ur own room and it gets so boring not like jc and sec school where we camped somewhere, go to the library haha i miss those mugging days! hahaha

ok think i really should be studying haha hope everybody is enjoying urself back in sg :)
see you all really really soon in like two months :D

ohh noo i just realised i only update at the start and end of every term now (every 8 weeks) haha sorry sorry yes mdm yiwei, shall update my blogg! :D and so after the previous ski post, which was start of lent term, now i shall do a post-lent term entry..maybe qte longgg beware!

yes my 2nd term endeddd!! finallyy :D even though it means my exams are coming soon, and i'm still struggling to get the first class results :( am gonna dian di for all the super pro singaporeans here but nvm haha shall just do my best! lent termmm was better for me compared to first term much more really haha had more time for self, more time for personal enjoyment, but of cos become a bit more anti-sociall heee I LEARNT HOW TO COOK wheeeee haha took out time from studies to cook dinnerfor myself :) and managed to organise cookouts for small groups :) yayyyy and i learnt how to make tiramisuuu! :D

 my first self-cooked meal, not so impressive but hey! haha i finally cooked without my maid hee

and then i have no pics of my tiramisu! ;( oh no just found one hee

this was during an easter cookout with my neighbour and college mates :)


and thennn, another major fun time in lent term! IT SNOWEDDDD MANN! hahaha for the first time in my lifeee i played with snoww wheee..at first it's really fun! snowball fights and stuff, but after that, the snow becomes sludgy and it's really disgusting! and the snow made me fall down onkmy bum two timesss painnnnnnn!

 

snow ball fights in progress!



and i built a girlfriend of a mighty snowman which was built by zhengwei and meiyi(my parents in camb)!! :D



and i went to hcnight in london!
 miss singing hc songs! and realy miss all of u on 75 :)

ok and there's qte a few other things that i shall just show photoss haha
CUMSA ball, a ball for the singapore union here


and thennn lent term bop i dressed up with the ONGs in cambridge as flintstones family! :D

 and i am wilma! costume preparing processs
with little smurfy too haha i dun like my redd hairr! it's too red! :(

and thenn yadah yadah..sorry it's getting really long..haha and finally just went to edinburgh and dublin and london for 10days in total! nice tripp! nicee companyy! had realy crazy moments, shoot loads to mtv, which i may disclose depending later since i haven't gotten all my photos and videos yet haha

went to beaches, climbed arthur's seat, roamed around edinbirgh city and dublin city, visited castles(malahide castle in dublin and edinburgh castle), went to coastal cities and attempted to feed seals, CAMWHOREDDDD LIKE MADD( 2000+ 3000 photos taken by me alone and i think collectively we reached ard 7000+ 8000!)

anw, this is my favourite photo with me in the shadow, dedicated to my dear friends :)
yup yup the rest of the photos i'll upload another time :)
some random afterthought:somehow....i dun really know how to complete the statement..there's smtg funny going on but yet i can't pinpoint what exactly it is. feeling a little betrayed at some point of time, but yea, maybe i should just not think so much..it's a way of life.IGNORANCE IS BLISS I REALLY THINK. and yah i shall just hope for a nice happy conclusion

hello! back from my first trip since i went to the uk! haha and it was a ski trip! so practically everyday i eat, ski, sleep, eat ski sleep......and that's it..and that's just rigt befor my exams man! came back to camb and screwed up my exams :( :( haha skiing is really qte easy to learn! everybody should go and try it! and it's fun man! but i fell down a lot of times :( have a bruise on my knee that's relaly unsightly haha but other than that, falling down on snow is really not painful at all haha

pictures!

can you see our shuai instructor in yellow in the middle?? he's really really  nice and he's cool and he doesn't smoke and he doesn't drink..wowwww haha all the girls were going gaga over him haha!

 a picture of the ski resort where we spent one whole week witout internet connection and all we had were just lounges, a table tennis table haha but great company makes up for everything!

my ski boots were really heavy! haha got toned legs after that man!

haha i dunno how to turn it upside down :)


our skis!
me in action!
all of us acting like anjings"dogs"


PRESENTING THE PRETTIEST PICTURE OF THE DAY:

SUNSET IN LES ARCS, FRANCE :)

 yay thanks jinyang for organising a really nice trip! :D

and then cambridge celebrates its 800th anniversary witha  light show!



the DNA double helix was created here!



al these images were like flashed on this building called the Senate House so it's damn cool! :D

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CAMBRIDGE! :D

and next week's chinese new year! first year celebrating cny away from home! criesssss haha
XIN NIAN KUAI LE!
WAN SHI RU YI!
XIN XIANG SHI CHENG!
SHEN TI JIAN KANG!
BU BU GAO SHEN! :D

haha i blogged when i was at the airport but couldn't upload it haha here i is :

Haha haven’t been blogging much since like aeons ago cos have been really busy doing this doing that haha finally decided to take this chance before boarding the plane back to blog so i maybe in an emo mood beware hhahaha

Currently in changi airport now, waiting to board the plane to return to camb. Somehow i have been really scared of this flight, going back alone, handling all the excess baggage and everything but now i feel more confident after i stepped into the airport and everything went on smoothly..haha feel like i’m no longer the little sheltered girl at home :D yayyy 

Feel really weird to go through the parting gates again with my parents. I felt this gush of hotness in my face and my nose feels kinda sour :( haha but i guess it’s time to look forward and make full use of my time in camb..not to complain about the work.but to feel positive and take a step back and let myself embrace more unknowns. Yea!

i’m happy i made full use of my hols..even though some of it being stressed abt my studies but at least manage to meet most people again and shop like mad woman :D ntg feels better than home seriousllyyy..feels so heartening to return to a home full of noise and not a room with just u, ur com and ur bed..yah haha but it was only a short three weeks..seriouslyy short mann! I can’t wait for the june hols!!

WOWW HAHA SOME PILOTS JUST CAME BY AND THEY LOOK REALLY SMART AND COOLLL HEEE hahaha

Anw, will blog again haha it’s time to enter le haha hope ntg happens at doha and heathrow!

Take careeee :D

now, i'm back in my room in camb:

OH MANNN CHAOO QUIET CANN!! haha yayy but feeling accomplished that ntg happened at the airports! :D handled all the luggages myself and stuff :D wheeeee haha

HAVE A HAPPY NEW YEAR everybody :D



 

 

ok teooyiweiii haha yes mdm i'm here to blog under ur instructions! haha had a most happening week! hee for the first time, i just threw down all that huge amount of work and went to play! wheeee
saw fireworks and went to oxford and had a most exciting chem lecture and i watched peter pan! haha

wednesday(5/11/08) was bonfire night here! throughout the whole week, fireworks is like splashing everywhere and u hear "bomb-like" sounds like crazy even at around 11pm haha supposedly uk is celebrating this day where some person tried to bomb the king. This guy names guy fawkes had a secret plan to overthrow the king, so on 5th november, they actualy gathered 36 barrels of gunpowder to want to bomb the king. But in the end, this gunpowder plot was foiled and so everybody in the uk celebrates this day by using gunpowder to bomb an effigy of guy fawkes..rough story not very sure about the detailsbut i think it's so ironic..it's called guy fawkes day and it's like commemorating his death even though he was like the "bad" guy haha but duncare! since the fireworks were quite pretty!

first live fireworks in camb! haha it came out in small bits and i really miss the national day fireworks the big blast we always have! i'm determined to go watch it in august next year! haha pictures!

aiya i'm lazy to upload a lot pf photos haha took more videos instead :)

so it was bonfire night! pretty fireworks! haha and after that i dunno whyy...i finally understood why i was growing fatter like nobody's business! after that, we all went to eat first choice..this place that's exactly like kfc and it's super cheap by uk standards haha and i unknowingly gobbled down 2 big chicken wings and 3 small chicken wings! i thought i was supposed to eat more and then the rest told me i was eating way too muchh ahhhhhhhhhhh noooo so this is the fatty and sinful chicken!

and the worse thing is ivan tan and yibing were so excited about it the next day and they decided to drag me to eat it! ahhhh fatsss piling up like crazy! but nvm i hope my exercise works! haha the huge pile of workload here just seems to make all these mundane things fun interesting somehow hee

thenn there is the crazy oxbridge games! omgg that was my most tiring weekend but most :D :D! haha oxford v.s. cambridge at some sports and i played in netball played goal defence! haha when the girl was like one head taller? i think haha our team's average height was like much shorter than the oxford team so we go thrashed 18-0! oh my tian haha but anw, after that, oxbridge tied and the game was down to an intellectual battle! chess! haha but we lost :( but anw, everybody happily headed down for dinner! tried coke barcadi and longisland that night both were qte niceee haha

next day was best! went around visiting oxford! felt happy cos it's pretty and happening! and we binged on heavenly home made icecream which is cheapp! so sadd didn't get to see the hall in harry potter though..i only saw the outside of the college cos they only opened at 1.30pm...



this is the place before we enter into harry potter world!
same place at a different side haha

heavenly icecreamm!


yayy so that ends my exciting week haha 
 

currently looking forward to going to manchester and london at the end of term and especially going back to singapore in dec!!  wheee looking forward to seeing everybody again! haha

have to catch up with the mountain of work again rarrrss haha never felt as stressed before haha zai ci ge bi! :D
 

ok haven't blogged in a while! suddenly feel lazy and just came back from a formal! shall take the chance to blog! haha

today and yesterday were exciting!

halloween yesterday!
went to hongkin's place to do a cookout! singaporean cookout again haha i tried to make miso salmonn!! it was successful la..except the microwavve cover melted so i didn't dare to serve cos it may poison the rest haha but me and ivan ate everything up and it was qte yummy! whee haha thansk to seniors who taught me! haha i'm super tempted to buy all the pots and pans now to start a kitchen and buy all the black soya sauce and oyster sauce haha anw, there were like pasta and curry chicken and like pork with bacon veg..all mainly cooked by the guys.. pictures of my salmon!!

looks yummy right! haha anw, this is the melted coverr...

haha not bad great expt! didn't take pictures of all the curry chicken and pasta though :S haha

I LOVE THE BUSKERS HERE! they're really really good..i think they can go on singapore idol and compete seriously haha like it kinda makes ur heart melt sometimes..i hear yue liang dai biao wo de xin and some old chinese deng lijun songs haha :D nolstalgic!


and then today had moe formal! formal's like this event where people meet for a posh dinner which costs around 30 sing..and it's kinda like a highlight, tradition of all the colleges here. everyweek, each college will have their own formal and we can go around eating in other people's formal too, so have to dress up properly and stuff haha pictures!

the seniors in my colllege :)


saili :)




moe our batch without tim

and I learnt how to drink a bit of alcohol! haha


replying tags!
sorry yiwei! didn't blog for very long cos i'm really busy withwork :( i have essays due on sundayss! ahh haha one tmr wich i haven't touch yet :( haha think ur cas should be around now! jiayou and all the best!! :D go own the rest ah! haha
to sy: hello miss ong! yup no probs u and teoyiwei can just tell me what u all need to buy yea :) i'll try to look for it when i can :) haha meanwhile, jiayou for your CAs too! :D

haha oh yea i feel more accomplished nowadays! i'm happy i'm slowly learning to take better care of myself :D i settle breakfast really efficiently now! the first two weeks i didn't even eat anything and my stomach always give out embarassing growls in the middle of lectures but now, i'm preparing breakfast for myself everyday! :D

will be going over to oxford next week for oxbridge games haha think it'll be even more fascinating since all the harry potter scenes are filmed there haha will post more photos of that! till thennn :D

take care everybody in singapore! :D guess majority are having exams, GOOOODDDDIE LUCCKKKSS!! :D

 

heehee thanks chris seah anw for teaching me how to post pics haha, it feels less boring to write now! ;D thanks! and yup take care too! :)

 

haha today is finally the weekend! it's satturday! woohoo..have been surviving for almost 9-5, 9-5 everyday and weekends feel sooo :D now! haha had lectures in the morning and most of the time i feel gong :S shitty i'm slacker here than in hc, very baddd!!
anw, have two essays to do already :S stressful! and need to research to do both essayss rarr..and my bio essays are no longer based on points liek in hc :( have to think up an insight to the subject matter rarr :( rantting haha irritated cos i seldom can go online nowadays cos at 4 (singapore time at 10, i'm mostly still having practicals and stuff and so get back to my room qte late and everybody is sleeping in singapore alr :S so sorry i'll try to go online more often :D 

anw, yea! today's happy cos i went for cumsa(singapore union's) amazing race! and my group won! haha practically ran! most of cambridge on the east, north and central and south a bit haha super chuii..i didn't even need to think of the answers cos of super zai people in my group and my job was to chase them as they ran :S haha the lactic acid was super concentrated in my legs! but i feel that it has totally become less bouncy from the walking downhill and uphill every single day! whee haha and so we won vouchers to eat at a chinese restaurant! :D 

then after that, went back to college to meet my seniors for the first time for a cookout! omgosh they're really great cooks! for the first time since i came to camb, i finally had a satisfying dinner! we had rice, veg, meatballs(cooked by me!:D), gratin, some egg tofu, some ricepudding(kueh salat or smtg like that), pumpkin pie(omg it's heavenly!) and then choc cup cakes! feels homely finally, everyday, it has been either eating out(sandwiches and wraps and like dunno what kind of bread) or either eating in my room (those pathetic digestives or cereals) or in the dining hall(which serves totally bloated and fatty food but which doesn't feel homely) haha so greatt!! i have seniors who can cook so well! they're all from singapore and i'm determined to learn cooking from them! hee i learnt about the meatball today alr muaahaha and they're all so niceee people! haha feel extremely happy today cos finally this place feels liek it perhaps has a feeling of home finally haha :D oh yea! so i finally weighed myself today after finding a weighing machine! oh noooo grew by 2kg already! and it's onlyy two weeks hee..i hope i dun turn into humpty dumpty soon :S haha

i'm qte noob dunno how to insert photos haha photo links:
first two weeks
matriculation day and dinner

take careee ;)

life now is kinda :( after a while haha have 5min before i have to go down for dinner with the rest. haha promised i'll update so i'm here!

ok so now school started. it's mundane and it's rather tiring i find myself studying 4 modules that are moving at a superb pace cos we have 3 lectures a week and they cover a lot during one..and we have to self study a lot too using textbooks soooooooooo :( haha but guess have to get used to it hais haha

anw, hmm can say i'm settling well because I've gotten stuff like laundry, meals bedroom cleanliness haha all settled well but sadly, sometimes, i just feel so different here because I can't go around saying hello comfortably anymore..like no longer my usual high self because haven't really made friends that i can depend on in my college..so i always head out to my singaporean friends' college..it's a bit annoying to be so anti-social cos i'm not normally like that but the envt just makes me soo yeaaa but i guess it takes time..there are nice people around too just that haven't really got the chance to know them properly :(

had a dream about my brother and my family yest night..dreamt that i was talking to them and like i was niao-ing and nagging my brother about his studies and suddenly i just woke up from the dream at like 3am and then started realising i'm not at home at all :( and soo it was really :( night..kinda homesick nowadays..:( haissss know i must be resilient. anw, hope that di is preparing well for o levels at home!
ok yes anw, happy stuff! i got two cookouts alreadyy!! woohoo haha one with weishu, chicken ricee! and one with ivan, penne curry chicken with broccoli! haha weishu has more experience than me! hides face mann and that ivan just must keep saying i'm lousy! but anw, both meals were qte edible so it's an accomplishment! haha cooking out makes me feel happy really when it feels kinda depressing here especially with the jailcell walls :( hahs i'll upload pics soonnnnnn hee

yesterday marked a few firsts in the history of me! haha

firstly, it was the first time i heard a talk about sexual health that was so open and wowwww haha eye-opener! ok i didn't know the education system in england was so liberal..ok we had this welfare and safety talk that focused a lot on sexual health, so they taught us about stis, gonorrhoea( secondary textbook! rmb molly leong! haha) and all that stuff haha..so the thing is they gave us a welcome survival pack that contained a condom inside and during the talk, they actually taught us how to choose a good condom and taught us how to wear the condom properly using a banana..it was like oh my goodness haha qte amazed..i don't think this will ever happen in singapore! haha

then there is a first in doing my laundry! oh my goodness it's so expensive to do my laundry! and it's so tiring and my hands becoming rougher hahaha i sound very bimbo but yaaa yuan lai washing clothes is not easy i cannot just throw it one lump sum into the washing machine i still have to split it up into different sections and some i have to handwash myself wahhh haha then there are so many diferent buttons (like what colours or permanent press and whatever, suaku me dun get it) haha soo i seriously just stare blankly at the washing machine and decided to get help haha yayy but i'm happy i learnt how to wash my clothes and gained a little bit more knowledge haha w

ok think i will gain a few more firsts later haha looking forward to lessons!

ok! i have 15 minutes before i have to go down to join the rest for dinner haha i'm finally in cambridge and i have finally have my internet going after a torturous two days and i finally have time to come online to record down the beginning of a new journey! haha have been so tired sprucing up my room and meeting all sorts of people..really draining but it's been a good experience nevertheless

anw, really wanna say thanks everybody for coming to send me off at the airport. felt really bad at not being able to talk much to each of you  really :( but thanks for ur little gifts and scrapbooks and food they're really allowing me to survive here because i get to read them and they decorate my room and make it less dreary! haha and the food chocs and sweets are really sustaining me through mealtimes when i seriously feel antisocial and feel like staying in my room..the past two days it's been so tiring i really wanna just slack off..but it's impossible cos yea..being in a new envt, it's really kinda challenging and i'm trying to get everything settled before school starts on thursday! ahhhhh tireddd

ok wanna say thanks limli, shu,hanbin, zoee, jas, yiwei, siyun, claire, soph, yong, wahtoon, ivan, aiya the whole of 75 haha sectionmates, margaret, siobhan, dan, jiawei, bernard, minds people, ct, zhihao, esther, gerald, yuying, xianghui, xiangjing, mingwei, lisha, eric, gloria, hc band juniors my cousins and my parents for being very understanding and for all ur wellwishes..hope i didn't miss out anybody..really sorry seriously felt very guilty that i didn't manage to talk more and on the plane as i read all the letters and scrapbooks felt even more emo :( just hope that i can keep in touch with the life in singapore, with all of you man!

anw, ok on the way here, i'm really happy i survived the 13 hours flight! a380 rocks seriously! i watched 200 pounds beauty and sex and the city..which was qte hmmmm...hahahaha qte a few sexual scenes..and i was called perverse by stupid ivan tannnn! but a380 is good! and then in our shagged states we had to survive through another 3 hours coach ride before we reach camb..so shagged! but then it's really pretty! we were freezing when we reached but the university is really pretty! can go see photos on facebook..i'll try to take more photos when i'm out..and when i saw my room i as like shittyyy..this is so ugly...and chui and stupid! oh noo how am i going to survive here..so in my shagged state, i threw the luggage and sat down on the table like hungry, cold and feeling everything bad. haha but eventually i packed my room

i never knew that it would be so hard to settle in a new environment, i thought it would be qte simple to settle all the admin stuff but now i realised the difficult part..i have been so qian jing for such a long time, have been relying for lulu so much to take care of me so much so that on the first day the guys were all thinking about what to eat for breakfast the next day and i was like oh yaaa! i have to think about breakfast the next day!! oh mann haha i realised i didn't take care of myself and now i must learn to...what a revelation! haha ok sounds so stupid but anw, so the next two days were spent shopping for stuff with ivan and weishu and moe people.. really thankful for them especially ivan and weishu cos they helped me a lot in my preparations..i was kinda lost being the only singaporean in my college and being such a blur sotong! soo even though they keep niaoing me useless and everything..irritating! haha but yea..if not for them, if i was alone it would have been much worse...

yuppy! ok i feel like i'm complaining about the bad stuff..haha yea but it has been a very enriching experience even though it's only two days..haha i embarrassed singaporeans by saying la lor and le alr! this indian girl was copying me so yalor purposely trying to joke with me haha so now i'm trying to learn to perfect english..realised i'm really super singaporean..and they think i have the singaporean accent! haha and then there are indians with the indian accent so i can't pronounce their name properly haha

anw, camb is verypretty! i feel happy walking to the city centre even thoughits so far and i have to walk uphill back later, it's like a romantic castle! feel very arty farty here..it's freezing coldd and i actually can blow put powder when i speak heehee! oh ya it's so cool..my neighbour is from england studying medicine and she's pretty and nice!! :D
 
ok gtg have dinner..i think everybody in singapore is sleeping by now except perhaps a few nocturnal animals! haha byebye! hope everybody is doing well and mugging hard for tests! :D

one day left..and i'll be leaving singapore for a good nine months! oh mannn i'm not yet thinking how life there will be like but i have a feeling i'll miss singaporean life :( i'm scared i'll be despised for my lors, las, les, wedges! hahaha may i have the british accent when i come back!

on sunday i had my last project session at amk minds for the year 2008 haha was attached to nobody that day so helped huiyi and val take care of yien and junwei. sadded i'll miss the chinese new year session i tink visiting their houses and knowing more about their family background will be super nice and enriching but nvm i'll be back in three years! anw, thanks lots for the farewell dinner treat even though u all had all ur tests and midterms the next day :) thanks thanks :) happy i met a bunch of people in amk minds that are all very nice and caring :) yea! haha 

yesterday i met up with band juniors both grey badge and red badge! it's sooo  oh mann how we've all grown up already..yiling, melissa and pearlyn are still the same as cranky as ever and even though they are all pursuing separate paths, everybody's life is changing, it's still so enjoyable to be with them! haha jiayou for a levels! and then saw jingwen, jiaying and yanzhu too haha so funny started marching and stuff..i miss sn band days seriously! much as i think back and i see that there are a lot of mistakes in our band that needs correction, the company is just fantabulous! haha especially with how we slogged hard tgt, howw we had yearly traditions of nomms and stupid band camps, it was a lot of fun! :D :D oh mann and gloria koh started playing el cam when we were out and i just can't help singing my partt!!! ahhhhhh I MISS SN BANDD AND FELLOW BANDMATES!! memories of syf, concerts and nice songs just keep flooding my head! was still thinking of not joining band in uni and learning smtg new like horse riding! but now i'm so tempted again! ahhh it has like been my hobby of 10 years alr..dun feel like giving it up! and i miss playing my trumpet and buzzing in itt!! oh mannn hahahaha 

anw, thanks for the various farewell gifts :) i'll bring all of them to camb :)

a walk to remember :)

ahhhhh this is so shitty..falling sick is such a :( feeling..should not have overworked myself and chiong vcds and meetups! hais..now i'm stuck at home...my head feels like a pressure cooker and i have to wrap myself up like a caterpillar! :( ahhhh irritating! haha i just realised it rhymes! :D hee

anw, just went out consecutively for like a few days..can feel my overworked body :( but i'm grateful for the care and concern from my friends and relatives :) even though i will be back next year and actually i'm just going for three years(not like all the medicine people six years blah blah), the elderly in the family takes time off to bring me to lunch and I really appreciate the nagging they give me about how to protect my belongings and take care of myself:) then there are meetups with my friends who really make me feel lovedd :) thanks 75 for the surprise farewell! :D thanks cousins for the nice sentosa outing! :D thanks sectionmates especially marg and siobhan for the treat! :D thanks bengs and limli and shu for the almost weekly meetups and spending time tgt :)  have to cancel some stuff because of the stupid bugg..hiyayaya shall post photos next time!!

wahh this whole week pass like crazy! and i'm happy i'm nearing the end of my maths workbook ( the end-product of a motivated mugger!) hee
 
anw, just had the camb freshers' camp! haha i'm happy that i found someone going to the same college from hongkong! and she has an indian friend going there too wahh it's so cool knowing people of different nationalities ah may i meet a dubai princess too! haha happy that i found people i can click with :) looking forward to a brand new experience over there!

haha dunno why this week's feeling a bit more positive than the last :) my visa's done! woohoo! my criminal clearance can be approved! woohoo! looking forward to volunteering there! and i met up with my dear cousins and long-time-no-see mingwei haha will meet my section mates later! whee and tmr's lantern festival and macs breakfast with ongsiyunnn haha

but time's passing a bit too fast! need more time to buy stuff, pack stuff, revise my work, meetup with friends, spend time with family...feeling overwhelmed! ahhhhhhhhhh

haha this song is niceeeeee haha it's joining the ranks of caihong in my fav list haha just got a lot of songs to listen to recently and it's all really niceee liek jaychou's zui4 chang2 de4 dian4 ying3 and david cook's always be my baby! haha

anw, just went out with minds people yesterday, val, weiming and ct haha we took neoprintss!!! hahahaha it's been a long time since i took neoprints haha and we played icehockey! super duper hyper! haha thanks for the nice outing :D

haha this few days keep thinking about whether it is right to go overseas..i'm sacrificing qte a lot of the things that i can do in singapore ahhhhh and it's gonna be the primetime of my lifee ahhh yue4 xiang3 yue4 pa4 it's gonna be a miserable three years..but i guess it's gonna depend on me a lot..shall stay positive :)

goals!
1. keep in touch with my family!
2. keep in touch with my friends in singapore! 
3. not be so suaku..i will keep an open and learning mind!
4. not get drunkk haha
5. learn a new skill maybe horse riding haha and hope i dun break a leg!
6. volunteer even though there's qte a lot of admin probs now :( and hopefully, be able to go to kenya in the 2nd year
7. be able to share experiences :)
8. and oh mann i forgot the most important of all! to excel in academics! hope i'll not be too playful and go there to get kicked out of school haha gonna mug hard!

haiss everybody is so busy with their unis now..i kinda feel lost. like i dun belong anywhere :S haha but oh wells, our paths are all diverging.. i just hope we'll all keep in contact! looking forward to maf and dinner at yong's house!

feel like this's sunshine after the storm :)