Coffee

The weather is sort of screwed up these days

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Wanna run but... Rain rain rain :/

Enjoying a cup of Starbucks' peppermint coffee latte now~ As I'm writing this. Come to think of it, I can seriously be RANDOM when it comes to giving my post titles. Like oh well, I seriously have nothing to do, and no thing to write. Plus there's nothing special that happened today so yep.

Ordinary Sunday.

So anyway, today was a normal Sunday. Went to lunch with sis and then shopping as usual. I'm pretty happy with myself today. I got quite a few things done. Done with all my cell bio! Teehee, so left with the memorising bit to do. Yucks. But oh well no choice. And done with the microbiology online quiz as well, suprisingly, just after 5 or so attempts. Well it's because there's only 11 questions :P

So yeah, feeling generally quite happy with myself now, and cause tomorrow's prac will start at 12 PM, meaning no early mornings wee. More time to do more things tonight hehe.

Well yeah I generally feel happy when I get qutie a few things done, especially on a Sunday. Sundays can be one of the worst day to "study" since all I feel will be oh yeah a Sunday, shan't do work, just slack. Perhaps MST is knocking on my back, and I have no choice but to be followed by its uneasy and mysterious presence.

Drama enough.

So yeah I guess that's all for today! Oh gosh, I have French test tomorrow! Shall revise for it tonight, and tomorrow. And hoping to finish some microbio notes tonight as well. I realise Ms Adeline's notes are really long. Hmm hmm, shall finish it in one way or another hehe. See ya!

Falling in love with Sigur Ros songs

Time

Ain't he (or she) cute? :D

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She's (0r he's) such a gorgeous model! :P

Oh wow it's about one more week to MST! Time really flies quickly, like quickly. Oh well, I'm quite freaked out for it honestly. Plus there's just so many things to do! From reports to tutorials, from studying to revising. The list somehow never stops. Well well.

Anyway yeah the days were find I guess. I gotta love yesterday's cell bio prac, a lot! I love my class, we're such a bunch of crazily awesome people. With so many hidden talents we have, we totally made yesterday's practical a blast. The waitings which we really don't like were used to do more fun things. Hell yeah.

Band yesterday was alright as well, just that there was an unfortunate incident that happened, which really made me go "WTH". Oh well. I don't know why such people would do that. Nevertheless, it was our last band practice before the MD camp which is in 2 weeks time. Time is running out! So much things to practise arrgh.

As for today, it was alright I guess. And of course I went late for Math, again. Oh well, was really tired last night! So well yep. And for the first time, I saw who my personal tutor is, and I stayed in class with the rest of 02 to do maths, and also watching them present on their IDEAS presentation.

And I gotta say what a wonderful job they have done! It's not the money that counts, it's the effort which you guys have spent all these while to execute the project :)

Lunched and stayed in school to eat with Nivedha, Syazwani and Kai Xuan. Syaz and Kai left on their own after lunch, while Niv and I stayed in Colours. I stayed till Sharon, Jolene and Wei Lun came and we studied together after that. Well had a really really good laugh with them, which I really really.... Especially the clorets incident mwahaha.

Dinner with Ben and Jo cause pow had to go for family dinner. And again, had an awesome time with the two of them, playing our "game" haha. Poor Wei Lun for eating the thing he hated, don't worry, I got the thing I hate as well. OKRA :O

Anyway that's all for today I guess. I wanna take a break tonight. Feels like playing a game of Breath of Fire heehee, since Kai told me where to go already. Cause I'm stuck so yeah. Alrighty see ya then!

Reminiscing, is a good way which you can escape fom reality.

PS: Finally submitted my photos for the photography challenge 2010! :D

Bacteria

Delicately.

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Love my camera's pin-hole effect! :D

Oh well it's 12:07 now, I'm supposed to be blogging like 2 hours ago but oh well, I didn't. Cause I was playing Breath of Fire 4!!! It's such an old school game I know but I love it! Totally brings back memories of my childhood as I played it again. I played BOF 3 last time, and so far it's my favourite. I played BOF 4 too but I still prefer BOF 3 but oh well, I love BOF!

And thank you Kai Xuan for sending me the game! Didn't know she loves it too :D

And well yeah ummm not sure but I just don't feel like studying/doing my work tonight. Especially after band, cause I'm quite tired. Ehh I know it's like 1.5 more weeks to MST but... Oh well fine, I'll touch on my report tonight. Hopefully continuing with my aspirin or HFMD. Gosh, three freaking reports to do this week with 2 due next week. Well thankfully one is a short one.

Anyway today was awesome I guess. Didn't come late! And in fact I had a great night sleep last night. Weee, good! I hope to have more good sleeps. I hate and I have enough of short and "unfruitful" sleeps. Microbio lesson was fun, as always, and... I didn't fall asleep during RWP! I guess thanks to the HFMD report which makes me awake.

Checked my microbio prac result with Candy after accompanying her to meet Mr Kwok. And the bacteria are soooooooo cute! I know you may find me crazy but really. They are cute. In my perspective I suppose. But uhh the result is sort of weird, from -2 to -5 it's all TNTC (too numerous to count) and we're only left with -6 as -7 is TFTC. Awesome or what. But it's okay, Ms Kanchini (?) said it's okay :)

And headed for band. Dinner with some of the band peeps, and then band! Band is alright I think. But the absence of the timpani player makes the song a bit... "empty". I was wondering why does the band sounds weird, until we were playing With Heart and Voice, and I realised there was no timpani player before the clarinet's "intense" part.

And.. It's 2 more months before MD XXXIV!!!!

Time flies huh.

Alrighty I guess that's all for the day, I have not bathed :O So shall bathe now and continue with a bit of my reports here and there. See ya :)

Oh man, no war, no war!

Russia!

Nope nope I'm not going to Russia or something like that (I wish). But well uhh I dreamt that I went to Russia last night! It's such an awesome but weird dream haha. Shall tell you more later. In fact I've been dreaming of travelling these days :O

Anyway I'm in Colours right now, did some PBL just now. Bleah it's so confusing, there's very little information given to us, so yeah it's rather difficult to execute it. But no worries, I'm sure we can get this done pretty soon.

Anyway as I was saying about dreams, yeah I dreamt that I went to Russia last night! But it's such a weird dream. I was in Singapore (ECP to be exact) and yeah saw some of my friends there as well. Then I was given a pouch containing my passport, ticket to Russia and even some visa. But the person told me I have to go via Romanian border. Huh?

And somehow somewhat, I was then in USA, and somehow somewhat Russia was near the US and I don't have to travel via the Romanian border. I just have to cross the ocean and yeah, there I go, Russia. It's such a weird dream, but I do hope that I ca go to Russia one day, via the NORMAL way of course. No weird things.

In fact, I've been dreaming about travels these days. On Friday I dreamt of going to Brunei with Alexis and Bobby and some others. The weird thing is that it feels like Brunei is like Singapore. Huh? Yeah there was an MRT... It just feels like in Singapore. And the weirdest of all, the SP band was performing there. And we were waiting for our turn. It's really weird.

Then on Saturday night, I dreamt that me, Liz, Syazwan, Bobby, and Nivedha went to China! And I went down at the wrong bus stop. It's really weird. I have to walk one stop more to meet them, and there we were eating at this superly crowded foodcourt. And we were buying snacks to snack at the hotel at night.

Arrrgh weird but funny dreams huh. I'm not sure why either. But I checked (out of curiosity) about the meaning of dreams. It says dreams of travel with friends indicate a closer friendship between friends something like that. While dreams of travelling alone mean an assessment of my current life. Which usually indicate stress! :O

But oh well it's either we really believe in it or we don't. Personally well... Half-half. If it's good I'll believe on it, if it's not I won't. What a foolish dreamer I am mwahaha. But yeah it's just for curiosity and fun. So yep, arrgh why am I thinking so much?

Okay gonna go lunch now. See ya soon!

PS: No picture today sorry :P

Saturday

Hmm I miss my babe

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Wanna go for a photog outing soon! :O

Today was not an ordinary Saturday hehe, cause usually I'll spend my Saturday slacking around in my house doing nothing but well today I went back to school to practice my clarinet with Fabian, Chris and Syazwan. Thanks Fabian for coming down to teach us :)

Sort of reminds me of my secondary school days where we usually have Saturday practices, especially before SYF or open house. But the only difference is the time I guess, since we started at 12 plus, and in TSMB we started at 9 or so. Plus there is no marching (mwahaha). But oh well what else can I say, I miss TSMB :(

And we were all talking about our own secondary school bands just now, and well yeah, really made me miss my secondary school band, the band life I used to have, the marching and everything... Oh well, I guess I should go back one day to TSMB. Not sure when though, screw poly time for clashing with the secondary school time.

Anyway, went to school at 12, practise till about 3 plus. Ate lunch with Fabian and Chris while Syazwan went home cause he had something on I think. And yup that's my day, went to do some shopping for dinner, cause I cooked the same thing as last Saturday! Not sure why, but craving for soups nowadays. Guess it was due to the rain today.

And I hated this afternoon... I wanted to study after I returned home but ended up sleeping, AGAIN. Like on Friday.... I wanted to study in the afternoon as well, but ended up sleeping tilll 4.30. Wow... Not sure what's happening but hmm, could have used the time to study right? Oh and I had dinner with Neal and Jeslyn yesterday hehe, long time no see again.

Alright I guess that's all for today, lets hope that tonight will be a productive one, if not it's really going to be a waste, plus it's 3 more (or close to 2 now) weeks to MST! Eeeek, time ti panic! But no worries, shall revise slowly and I'm sure I'll get it there sooner or later. See ya!

Oh, I came up with another line today:

"The thing I like about music is that in general, there's no such thing as a "musician look" to musicians. Which just goes to show that everyone can play and enjoy music, and there's no such thing as "stereotypes" to us either" :)

Discipline

Sleep sleep sleep

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I wanna sleep.

Hmm anyway the title? Well discipline is like one of the most valuable things we have in life. It's easy to lose, difficult to gain, and even more difficult to maintain. Discipline is sort of what drives you in life. Without discipline, you won't be able to guide yourself in life. Anyway, so much for discipline, which I (or we) learnt today.

Anyway today was alright, started with Math and I almoooost came late. Whew, actually I was late. But by like a few minutes so whew. Plus I was 2/3 done with tutorial 6, so I guess me coming late was not something of a wowwy ordeal. And I like it when I did math before class, cause I can go down to FC3 and get food, which I really needed since I didn't have breakfast.

The rest of the day went fine I supposed. Information overload on cell bio lecture though! DNA replication and repair is such a meow meow. Well I just need time to digest I suppose. Can't really like sort of stuff everything inside huh. Plus it was rather new for us to learn these. Lunched after that, thank you Dr Ti for releasing us early hehe.

I wanted to stay in school before band, but I decided to go home, cause I was one, tired and two, have nothing to do in school. Well I guess it's like comfort of a home. Wouldn't it be better to stay in your house rather than spending it in school or something like that? Oh well..

Band was okay I guess, a bit on the buzzy side though. Well as I said in my first paragraph, yep. Discipline. Ah well even in TSMB this is always an issue. Not sure why either but yeah noise level must always be kept down... Give respect to the conductor, no matter who he/she is. He/she who conducts, should gain the respect from us. Right?

You see you can't only have the passion and skill for music. Without discipline, these two things won't work together and in one point of time, you'll lose it. Same as others, like studying. Without discipline, you can't study properly and get a proper mindset eh?

Anyway yeah not putting blames on anyone, just sharing my view.

Okay I guess that's all for today, gonna wake up early tomorrow, gosh I hate Fridays' morning lesson. But I love the fact that for the rest of the day, I'm quite (or very) free hehe. But of course, no time to waste, gonna use that time to study. Okay see ya then!

Well, that feeling.

With Heart and Voice

Because music speaks...

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What the mouth doesn't say...

With Heart and Voice, I play With Heart and Voice. Okay lame but that's the truth actually! That's how we're supposed to play that song (I feel). But yep, I know it's a hard song, but I really like it. There's this happy and spirited feeling about the song. Especially the bar with the flute solo, which the brasses then come together into one lovely harmony.

Anyway yeah, today was alright I guess. Umm quite an ordinary Tuesday, except for the freaking weather. Started with IO Chem prac as usual. I thought I was late cause I arrived at like 7.55 A.M. When I entered the lab.. It was empty. Then turned out Ying Ting was there already. And I was with Vivian then.

This time round our experiment went smooth! We were doing recrystallisation of Aspirin. And the experiment was sort of "stinky" cause we were using acetic acid or something like that. And it stinks. Like totally. But well it was smooth, cause our melting point turned out to be near with the melting point of Aspirin crystal.

The rest of the day went as per normal. Gosh I hate RWP. Not the module... (Or maybe a bit of the module) but I always fall asleep during RWP! Not sure if it's because of the lunch I had before (which I didn't eat actually). Or was it the rain? I'm not sure either. Then it was Microbio with Mrs Mark, I like her lessons! And Ms Adeline one as well. I like microbiology hehe.

After school headed for the lab first to count our colonies of bacteria formed during yesterday's practical. And YAY!!! This time round we didn't screw up! Our results were awesome, minus some of those "weird" results. But yay, we didn't screw our experiment this time round heehee.

And yes after that I had band. Ate dinner with Kevan (is it?), Rui Zhong and Deborah (or Debra sorry ><) before band. Felt so weird to be the only clarinettist there, among the flute. Oh well I enjoy their company though hehe. And yep, band was alright, there was a Solo Competition for the upcoming MD. Congrats to Breyann and An Chun for winning! Can't wait to accompany them in their song with the band as well.

You know as I was on my way home, I was thinking of this. Where and when did my passion for music come from? Both my parents don't play music. Even though my grandpa did, I was not born yet to hear him play music. My aunt played, and yes she taught me how to play the piano sometimes when I was young, but that's after I had an interest in music.

And my liking for classical/instrumental songs started when I was in P2. I don't know why I liked Richard Clayderman, which my parents like as well. So I asked my sister to buy back his CD from Singapore that time. And that's when my interest towards music just increased.

So I made a conclusion. Is it the fact that this "passion for something" is actually an in-born thing? Is it the famous saying like "Oh it's your fate to like music". Or is it influences around me which stirred my passion?

Well whatever the answer is, there's only one answer. It comes from your heart.

What a long post today :P

Alright it's Hari Raya Haji tomorrow which means.. Holiday! Weeee. Well not gonna like totally slack tomorrow. Thinking of starting my report tomorrow so less things to do hehe. Alrighty see ya then!

Ask yourself why? And your heart shall tell you the answer.

Throat

A good cup of coffee will be nice :)

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Throat please get well REALLY soon!

Rawr, my throat is not fine yet. Hmm I really don't know what to do anymore. Anyway I bought myself lemon, to make honey lemon, and even bought a pack of Chinese herbal tea. I guess it's time to take the sort of "natural way" instead of the... I don't know way :P

Anyway today was alright, at least the fever went away as I woke up today, after a superb 10 hours of sleep wee. But the cough hasn't stopped, so it's really irritating. The most irritating thing is that I can feel this sort of glob of mucus in my throat. Whenever I cough I can feel it. But it's not coming out! It's so irritating.

Usually I'll do the kaarrhhhh-pui! Method but well it doesn't work out. I wonder what can I do to loosen the phlegm. So lets hope the lemon and stuff will work! I really really want to get well before band. It really sucks to have a sore throat when you're in band. Imagine a pain throat as you play the instrument. It's a no-no.

Today I cooked my dinner as well. Since I'm having sore throat so it's a soup dish! This time round, a delicious soup with chorizo sausage, tomato, mushroom and cabbage. Yum! Plus I added two limes, which really boosts the flavour of the soup. It's so zesty, tangy and delicious. I like sour things nowadays. Perhaps it's the sore throat mindset heh.

Oh and yesterday, I watched the movie "Les Choristes" or The Chrous. It's a French movie, and I watched it before. But I came across the video in Youtube about one of the song. And oh wow, it never fails to make me feel impressed, and revive my spirit of music! I really feel like joining a choir, like the one in Fond de L'etang. They are so awesome!

Right what else... Anyway tonight my sis is coming back from Bali hehe. And can't wait to see what things she has bought from me mwahaha. And I hope I can begin studying tonight, I think I've wasted quite a lot of time today (thanks to my throat). And I hope to get better ASAP!

Alrighty that's all for today. Shall create my third scrapbook project tonight, hopefully. I wanna finish Maths and perhaps do some cell bio tonight. See ya!

Money doesn't bring you happiness. Well I mean, eternal, genuine happiness.

Sick

Need to get the warmth like a cup of tea...

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Feeling rather cold now :/

Oh wow it's been long since I blogged eh, sorry, been busy or tired these days! So when I reached home, all I did was to either study or sleep or slack. So yeah hehe.

Many things happened these past three days, one was option talk! So we had an option talk on Wednesday, and I'm all confused of which Biomed option to choose from. I was affirmed to choose Med Tech at first, now that we have the new research option, I wanna go there as well! Oh well oh well I really don't know where to go.

Anyway here's the scope. In Med tech (MT), I'll learn like hematology, histology, clinical chemistry and more. So it's a wider spectrum of the biomedical world, which is really interesting! I'll be having attachment as well, both local and overseas (hunting hunting :P). And MT will be more school-based and more to the school side of learning.

As for research, it's a more hands-on approach. I'll be having a 28 weeks of attachment in one of the research institutes in my third year! How awesome is that! And it will be more of like practical, and we have case-based learnings as well. Umm the case-based learning is what I'm afraid of actually. But the 28 weeks attachment is really wow!

So I'm really lost which one to choose... Oh gosh, and what's worst is that we only have 15 DAYS to choose. Arrrgh why must the dateline be so short?

And now... I'm sick! Rawr. Okay I think it's all my fault. Shouldn't have eaten "whatever I want" after I recovered from my last sore throat. I'm feeling feverish now, and my throat is killing. What's horrible was that I got a fever in the middle of MSMP just now! So I have no choice but to leave halfway. Sigh...

Anyway thanks Zaki for accompanying me to the bus stop just now.

So yeah I went to MSMP with Bobby, Zaki and Niv. Kai Xuan and Candy also went, but they're with their sailing friends. Niv and Bobby left halfway and I wanted to stay, but I was feeling horrible just now, so decided to leave. And anyway I feel sad cause the nominees which I voted for didn't win. Aww :(

Alright that's all for today! Dear body, please get well ASAP, you know I'm allergic to paracetamol right? :/ Come on, we can work together yes! :)

Getting sick one of the horrible things that can happen...

Letter To The Future Me

I made this poem some days ago (or was it last week?). It's titled Letter To The Future Me. Hope you enjoy it, comments welcomed :)

Dear future me

Hello there how are you doing?
I hope you’re fine, and still as kicking!
I know life is hard and tough
It isn’t smooth, it’s pretty much rough
But promise me, you won’t give up alright?

Anyway as I’m writing this, I’m still in poly
Caught in the world of cell biology
Which totally never fails to interest me!
Do you remember? The awesome golgy body?
And your favourite bacillus?

Life can be tough at times these days
With many things to juggle and hassle
An problems start coming from different ways
But I always tell myself not to give in
For I know life without problems ain’t challenging

I’m not sure what you are doing currently
Be it something you love, or you hate
Be sure to never give up and never surrender!
Never regret in the decisions you have made
And always hope that the sky will always be clearer

Remember you once told yourself?
To never regret the decisions you’ve made
Until you are gone, till you’re dead
For life is too short to be filled with regret
So why not fill it in with things you wish to get?

Remember the song Shining Light?
A song you love when you were in year one
When you are down, listen to it once more
And simply remind yourself that you’re a shining light
That shines brighter than the moonlit night

I really wonder what and where you are
as you’re reading this letter once more
Will you be somewhere near, or somewhere far?
But one thing that I am sure of
Is that you’ll cry as you read this simple letter

If there is a time machine in the future
Will you promise me to return here, to me?
As I am writing this letter, on my table
And answer the questions I asked, in this letter
So that you can give me my future’s picture?

That’s all for my letter now, I shall stop here
But be sure to remember to the promise you shall adhere
Remember what I’ve said in this letter about life
Never give up, strive harder!
Till we meet again, hopefully.

With Love
The old you

French

Thank you sir!

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As hard as it is, learning French is one of my dreams

Righty... Today was an alright day I guess. Wait no, it's sort of DEPRESSING. But overall it's alright I guess. Not sure why but I'm feeling tired and yeah. Sort of restless and not-focussed the entire day. I guess it's my sleeping time but not sure either.

Anyway I did something so uurrgghhh in the morning. Actually last night. So I'm meeting Liz and Candy at 10. So I'm suppose to wake up by like 9 or so, usually I'll wake up at 8.45 to bathe and stuff. I don't know why, I put all my alarms at 7.45! And worst is I woke up earlier than that (For God knows what reason). I constantly woke up and sleep continuously so... It's sort of irritating :O

Anyway met Liz and Candy in library, went to do our RWP together. Lunched and went for Microbio prac. Here comes the interesting, and depressing part.

So in Microbio we were doing this experiment on negative staining. So the background is dark, the cells are white (opposite). The first one is alright, but the one where we have to do capsule staining (AKA plus crystal violet), we're cautioned that the capsule is water soluble and hence it may dissolve in the water we used to wash it off. And yes! It did dissolve!

I re-did the experiment twice and same result. Arrrgh.

Next comes endospore staining. I don't know why the hell, but in my first slide, there isn't any Bacillus cells! It looks sort of flowery-like and I asked Dr Wang, and he told me it's not cells. This happened to my second slide as well. How can I not be pissed seriously. I'm so depressed by the end of the experiment, and disappointed and let down T_T

Oh well, what else can I do, I just hope I will not get experiments like today again. It's so heart wrenching seriously. You're tired both physically and mentally. And emotionally. But I guess this is the rials and tribulations of being a scientist. You get results you love, you get results you despise. But you should never give up!

Well in my case I gave up :/ But that's cause of time! :)

Anyway yeah that's all for the day. Went to CLS room to get interviewed at first, but I didn't get to go cause of time. I had French so yeah, decided to go for the interview on Thursday instead. French was alright I guess. It's just getting more confusing each time. But I do hope I can once be an independent traveller in France one day :D

And wanted to have Tubbies outing but it was cancelled. I met Joel on the way home though. Whew, at least I met him, so the cameras I brought today was not brought in vain, cause he wanted to see it. And yeah, bussed with Joel and Jeniffer back to Clementi. And I seriously am excited about the CLS FOC next year! Heehee

Alright I guess that's all for today. Lets hope tomorrow will be an awesome one, after such a depressing day, thanks to the practical -.-" never mind, anyway see ya all then! :)

You think Chinese is hard? Try French

New girlfriend!

Yay I have a new girlfriend now! So in total, three girlfriends weeee... Actually it's two, since the other one is not bought by me. My new girlfriend is...

Lumix TZ8! By Panasonic :D

Woops the image is rather huge eh.

Anyway yup here it is! I wanted to get the TZ10 one, it's similar like this one except it has a GPS function and a HD video recording. But uhh I was thinking, do I really need those functions? Well yeah it sounds cool with all those nice gadgets and functions but when I think again, it's just a function apart from photography. So a TZ8 is good enough!

What I like about the camera is that it's cheap, with the fact that it uses Leica lens! Which is like one of the most (or is it the most?) expensive and wonderful lens in the world! So yeah I think it's quite worth it. And it can also zoom quite far, and efficiently. Plus the megapixel of 12.1 is also awesome. So money well spent I guess.

Plus the shop is selling at cheaper prices! It's new and everything just that they sell it lower. Got mine for 466, it can cost more in other stores.

And I bought a new lens too!!! Oh wow I seriously need to stop buying stuff you know. Well I ordered the 28mm lens, which is the lens I was planning to buy last time. I think it's a very versatile lens. Can be used for outings, landscape, and still life photography. My uncle's film SLR uses that. And the results turned out awesome :D

Can't wait to receive it on Wednesday :D

Hmm yes yes I have to stop buying things seriously! Anyway yeah, I won't be like buying more and more things, cause these things are the things on my wish list. Now that I have em.. My wish list is empty :P perhaps I can fill it in once more haha. But I don't know what to fill it so lets just hope it'll remain empty for quite some times :)

Alrighty that's all, gonna study soon, then relax once more. Oh oh by the way, I've started on my first scrapbooking project! It's titles words, I shall show you one day. Alrighty see ya guys!

Arrgh I feel so happy today :D

Cooking

Let there be light!

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Happe Deepavali!

(I know the photo is a bit inappropriate.. But this is the best shot of "light" I have :(

Well today is an awesome day cause... It's Deepavali! So meaning I have no school today. Oh well who doesn't love long weekends seriously? An extra day goes a long way!

Anyway wishing all Hindu devotees a happy Deepavali! :D

So well today was alright I guess, I did nothing much but felt happy cause I manage to make my notes for IO Chem! A little is more I guess. Went to lunch at Coffee Club with my sis and her friend. I don't know why but I love Coffee club's food... I think they are great, especially their sandwiches! And my favourite - Duck confit salad with poached pear!! Gosh, it's so nice.

But oh there was an incident that occurred in CC... Apparently someone fainted in the toilet. Thank God someone noticed that... So there was ambulance and members of the SCDF there. I hope she's alright!

My sis went out while I returned home... To study! But made a trip to Jelita first, to get stuff I need for my cooking. Yeah... Finally am able to cook once more. It's been such a long time since I cooked actually, that's why I decided to cook. When I reached home, I marinated some pork chops with lime (I know it's weird but try it), honey, garlic, salt and pepper.

Leave it to marinade in the fridge for about 2-3 hours for maximum effect haha, sounds like some... Reaction. Anyway while waiting I went to study my IOC. Better understanding now I guess, whew. I still fine Aufbau order very irritating though heh, can't there be any simpler way to write out configurations? Like the one we learnt in secondary school! :P

Anyway I've decided to blog now, so that I won't blog later... Cause I'm going to do something... Scrapbooking! (I think). Well I have this sudden urge of doing scrapbooking... I was cleaning up my room when I found some stacks of photography magazine. I've read them, it's sort of a waste to throw em away so why don't I use some of the pictures for a scrapbook!

This goes the same for the other magazines which I've found on my shelves as well... I think it's cool. So basically I'm gonna compile some pictures, and paste pictures of similar "themes" on one page. So if the theme is... Lets say sky, I'm going to cut pictures of sky and paste them! I think it will be fun :)

Sometimes I just want to do these different, fun and unique things. But I just don't have the time... Well this scrapbooking is so far only a plan. The idea just came to my mind like a snap. Oh well lets see how it will turn out shall we?

Alrghty that's all for today! Lets hope my plan will work out hehe. But uh I'm in another dilemma of actually wanting to study as well... Oh well oh well. Lets just see shall we? :D

Happy Deepavali once more :)

Tired

Whew, I don't know why but I felt that I just had one of the most exhausting band practice ever :O

Even though it was like 1.5 hours of Yamato, and another 1.4 or so of sectional, I just felt tired. I think it's because in this week alone, I went back super late! I have French on Monday, Band on Tue and Thurs, and TSFO on Wednesday. How awesome? Thank God Friday is Deepavali, so meaning I can sleep as much as I want tonight! :D

Anyway there isn't much to talk today I suppose... What else...

OH!

My internet is BACK!!! Yes I'm using my internet now, no longer my guardian's! It's so much faster, so much smoother, it's just... LOVE

So now dear internet, please don't give me more problem? Please?

Right... What else...

That's all I guess haha. I seriously don't have anything to talk about today. I think it's my brain, I'm sort of sleepy now... So yeah you know, sleepy and 100% functionally brain is not a good friend. So yep. Alright see ya!

Anyway....

"We will all die one day, in one way or another. But I just don't understand why some people want to send other people to their final destination earlier, when these people could live in a much longer time, and that both parties would benefit from not-killing-each-other? Why?"

Search For Odysseus! :D

Shot I took from TSFO

Photography by Yours Truly

Awesome job once more to SPTC!

Well today was another awesome day... Cause I went to watch The Search For Odysseus! It was an awesome play being put up by the SP Theatre Compass. I think... It's my first play. I mean a play with all the props, music, sound effects, visual effects, and yeah, all the elements. And I really love it! They are all so creative :D

So anyway today was alright... Whew! I didn't come late for Math, in fact I was one of the early people haha. Thanks to my luck... Or my timing... Or the bus I guess. Implicit differentiation is such a ahem. But I think I sort of get the hang of it. Maths is only fun when you know what you're doing. When you're not, it drives you crazy!

And let me see... After school I went to support Khidir in FC5, cause his band was busking for this programme... I'm not sure the name of it. But basically they are busking for a good cause I guess. And their songs are great as well! I like dynamite, even though I don't like the song, I like their version I guess, less boom-boom-boom. Likey.

Plus I was building up my portfolio for my photography contest thingy hehe. More photos, the better! Actually it's the worst... Cause you will get so confused of which picture to choose from. But well I think after several considerations and eliminations, should be fine.

Today we had this HIV/STD talk as well. One word. EEW. They showed us those picture of gonorrhoea and warts. EEW seriously. I swear to God I won't do pre-marital sex. Yucks. Thinking about the picture is giving me goosebumps seriously! And I've learnt a new lesson.

"You are sleeping not only with your partner, but also the people whom your partner has slept with" Right? So think wisely before you're doing "it"!

Went to band's self prac today, I think Fabian's method of practising is right. Like he told me that we should play those fast/repetitive melodies slowly first, ignore the articulation everything, then work from it. Yup, I think it's really good :)

And of course last but not least, I went to watch TSFO! Met Min Li and Rebekah at Moberly. And we watched the play! It was really nice, especially the ending. It is so intense. I mean really. I was happily taking shots during the play, but I didn't even bother about my camera during the ending. It was so intense, cause I thought the man was not Odysseus...

Overall, the play was an awesome one, I think I'm gonna watch the next production put up by the SPTC! :D

Righty that's all for today, I am sleepy right now, and sigh... I didn't touch my studies today.. It's okay I guess, cause today is such a long day! In fact, these three days are like long days! Oh well, I so look forward to Deepavali, awesome long weekend! Alrighty see ya then!

Sometimes... We have to know when to take a break, and when to continue.

Howl's Moving Castle

Good night folks

Photography by Yours Truly

Guess this place?

Weee I can't believe that I actually played some of Howl's Moving Castle (HMC) songs in band today! Yes, arranged for a symphonic band! Awesome man. At first we received battleship Yamato scores, then we received another score, which then I see the word "Howl" on the score. And I told myself that band today will be an awesome one :D

Anyway the day was alright, had our first IO Chem practical today. Okay I guess, just that our (Candy and me) benzoic acid crystals are melting at weird temperatures. So that's why we didn't meet the MP range. But Ms Song told us it's due to us not vacuum pumping the crystals longer. So the water content is quite high. Oh well, at least we know the reason why eh :)

Then it was RWP. Oh gosh I don't know why but I was sooooo tired and sleepy. Perhaps it was the sleeping time, and the waking up time. In fact I'm sleepy now too. So I slept at like 2 I think and woke up at 7! Of course... Yeah. So gonna have an awesome sleep tonight.

Went to Mug after Microbio as usual, and met Rui Zhong? Or is it opposite (Sorry) and I studied on his table as well with Candy and Kai Xuan. Did Cell Bio, so yup. It's really funny, I know some people in band by their face. We talked and chatted but I don't know their names haha. Well it's good that I'm starting to know their names eh hehe.

Band was awesome today! Well today is Mr Chiang's birthday so wishin you a happy birthday! So we did like a surprise for him, we went to write wishes for him on a huge board, and Kok Keong surprised him with a cake, while the band room went dark! Haha. It's cool. And so nice of him to buy us apple pies from Macs hehe.

And yeah as I was saying we played HMC songs! Which are like my favourite. I can play it on the piano, and I dream of playing it in an orchestra. But today I played it in band! Even though it's not an orchestra, I still feel happy to play it together with other people.

Alright that's all for today I guess. I don't care, I'm going to sleep early tonight bleah. Hope I can have a good refreshing sleep tonight, for tomorrow will be another long day. I'm watching TSFO! Search For Odysseus with Min Li and Rebbekah! Shawn is playing in it as well hoho. I think it's gonna be an awesome play. Alright see ya then!

Songs that made my day

Shining Light

I am IN LOVE with this song by Ash, but sang by Annie Lennox! Sorry but I really prefer her version one. Since it's the 1st November now, let this song be a reminder to me to always shine! Always... :)



Doesn't this song make you smile? :)

In fact, it made me tear, it's just so happy.