Ciwidey!

Today is the best day of my holiday so far! Heehee cause I went to Ciwidey, somewhere near Bandung. It's famous for its white crater! I'll show some pictures later. Anyway it's urgh, again past 12, so my post is one Thursday but I think you should know what I mean.

Anyway I woke up at 6 to prepare for the trip, since we're leaving at 7. But... My clock has shifted totally, so I slept at 4! 2 hours of sleep and I'm ready to go haha. Fell asleep here and there on the way there though. Reached Bandung at about 9 AM, and we had a small breakfast in a mall before heading to Ciwidey.

Ciwidey can be summed up in two words. Wait, three. Freakingly cold and awesome! Yes it was very cold. It was even shrouded in mist, and the wind was strong enough to give you like clattering teeth. Thank God I brought my jacket. I was thinking crater = hot. So I wore short pants! Wheee I was freezing I tell you.

But the view was awesome. It's interesting to see the place cause first of all, it's like a lake, but blue in colour! Well sort of bluish-turquoise in colour. It smells like sulphur but it's just so breathtaking. The mist and the blue coloured water is really sort of matching. Adds to the mysteriousness of it.

So you know me + good view + camera = shootings eh. My cousins and I went to shoot quite lots of pictures! It was really beautiful there. Took lots of group pictures as well. Best of all? Taking pictures of ourselves with our own camera AKA zi-lian-ing haha.

Headed to PVJ for a little shopping. It's a mall with an open-air concept. I love the place hehe. Bought some photo frames for my room, for me pictures! Then bought a belt, finally, cause I found a nice belt that fits me. And last but not least some bread from my mum and dad. And then headed to Cianjur for dinner.

Okay that's all for today! Enough for the words, let the pictures talk :D

That's the mist and the crater

Gotta love the colour!

Group photo hehe. I took this so I'm not in it :P

Today was just such an awesome day! :D

Positive thinking

Life's purity - lies on its simplicity

Photography by Yours Truly

Nothing beats the freshness of air after the rain

Right, I'm in my room right now, comfy and nice hehe. With the fact that I just took a bath, so I'm feeling all comfy and set to blog! How lovely uh. My new room is like my new "crib" right now. You know like those MTV My Cribs thing haha, just minus the luxurious and rich and expensive stuff. Even though my room is small, I think it's comfy enough to make me feel homy.

Besides, my room is a place where my thoughts flow easily into... Anywhere. My blog, my mind, my pen, my paper. And most importantly, my heart. I just find it both physically and emotionally comforting to be here. It's the way I want it to be :)

Just need more tidy up and decorations though :P

Anyway today was just a homy day. I decided to stay at home to... Do my report! Well yeah my report is almost done. But I've decided to leave some parts for next time - when the school reopens. Okay like the theory. It's so irritating. So for practical 2 (extraction of DNA), I have to search the functions of those chemicals used to extract them.

And it's so urrgghh when you know the theory behind these chemicals, but can't find the sites to cite it! And if there are sites to site, the site is either insufficient for explanation or it's not "trusted". So sometimes I don't know what to use, when to use, what to take, which part to take and stuff. Rawr, it's so hard and confusing I tell ya :/

So I'll just leave that apart, maybe I'll go to the library to look for books.

As for yesterday, I actually fell asleep! It was so cold and rainy, perfect weather to sleep. Plus, I fell asleep without realising! It's like I was on my laptop, then... Zzzzz and I woke up at 11 plus (Indo time) and yeah. One of the most blissful thing in life seriously, to fall asleep without realising :)

Anyway spent Sunday out, first with my mum to do grocery shopping. Then we went to this new supermarket to find something but to no avail. Anyway the new supermarket is awesome, gives me this American store feel haha, as watched by me in TV. Then I went out with my aunt and two cousins, to Pizza hut! So yep, that's my Sunday.

And I'm pretty excited cause tomorrow my aunt from Jakarta is coming here! Then the day after tomorrow, we're going to this place called Ciwidey to see the white crater. It's gonna be amazing. Am really looking forward to tomorrow and the following day of tomorrow! Heehee.

On the side note~ You know I feel that the hardest thing in life, is to keep the positive energy in all the time? Like thinking of things positively, and always looking on the bright side. I remembered watching Ms Chu's video last time, about the law of attraction. So like if we're to always think positively, things will always be positive and vice versa.

But well, I think it's just hard :/

Alrighty I guess that's all for today. Just a little sidetrack from me. I wanna do my album soon! Yep I'm making a photo album. You shall see it soon hehe. Alrighty, see ya then!

Let in the positivity, think positively, live positively.

Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence Cover

Alright here's how I show my Christmas wish to you guys :) It's Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence by Ryuichi Sakamoto, but I changed some parts here and there. Cause my pedal is spoilt! So I have to change those parts (like the staccato part). So yep. Nevertheless enjoy! :D

Comments welcomed! :D

PS: That's my new room by the way

Merry Christmas 2010! :)

Merry Christmas people :)

Photography by Yours Truly

Taken @ Wheelock Place

Oh well well, it's another Christmas.... But still...

Wishing you a Merry Christmas 2010!!!! :D :D :D

Well it's another Christmas, time goes by really quickly huh. It was 365 days ago that I wrote Merry Christmas here (I think) and now here I am writing it once more. It's really frightening to realise how fast time could fly huh. Anyway, my wish for this Christmas? I wanna end this year in an awesome and beautiful way. Fun and joyful. For I feel 2010 is a good year for me haha.

Hmm it's a rather quiet and did-nothing-much-during-Christmas day here. Well first of all I'm not a Christian, so that's maybe the reason why I don't feel so gaga about Christmas. But well yeah. Went to my dad's garden (finally) it was sunny today! Even though it drizzled a bit here and there at the garden, but yep it's sunny! So took quite lots of shots there.

Then in the evening went with my mum and sis to get some bed sheet and pillow cover. But I'm talking about huge pillow cover! For my sitting pillow mwahaha. Yep, found some and it's not bad, most of the designs are like cartoon, so it's so not my type, but nevertheless, found one! And we went to have a little food at the D'green Cafe hehe.

Yep I guess that's my Christmas this year so... It's rather quiet eh?

As for yesterday, I went to my aunt's shop to look for the sitting pillow. So nice of her to give me one! Well she has one which she doesn't use anymore so she gave it to me. Plus she gave me a pillow as well. Lucky me hehe, thanks aunt~

And plus I met my cousins as well! Didn't know they are here already. So yep, as usual chatted with them. It's been quite a long time since I met them (since they weren't there on my September holiday). It's really weird uh. It seems like it was yesterday when we were the three small boys playing on my aunt's shop.

And now the two of them have grown up, and instead of playing, they were helping my aunt. We've all matured so fast, time has flown so quickly. Isn't it terrifying sometimes? To know all these? To realise all these? It is...

Alright I guess that's all for now. And I hope what I wish for Christmas will come true! And I want my remaining days here to be an awesome one, lets end this year with a great bang! Hehe. See ya then.

Where has my childhood gone to?

Finally

Cute little thing ain't he (or she)?

Photography by Yours Truly

I'm a weird arachnophobia person

Right, today I was so happy when I woke up! Cause it was sunny, and there are patches of blue skies here and there... So yep.

BUT!

Of course, it started to rain. Oh well, I really wonder when will the weather turn out fine I tell you. But anyway, I spent the whole day moving stuff into my room and cleaning my room once more. Thanks to my OCD I guess. But at least I have my keyboard in my room now! Woohoo. And I like the sound it makes, since it's quite small and "covered" so yeah.

Went to a mall with my mum to look for a bedsheet for my bed! Oh well it's so hard to find a sheet for my bed's size. Not that I'm too big or something like that, it's just that the bed I'm using is more for double decker beds, meaning it's... Children... Cartoon... You got it. Yeah but anyway I found a slightly-larger sized bed sheet and the design is good enough.

There were only TWO bed sheets though, so my mum and I might be looking for more in another shop or something like that.

Oh well it's the Christmas' eve tomorrow, and whew, it's gonna be another year since another Christmas' eve was there. Time flies huh. And soon it will be Christmas, then new year's eve, then 2011. Oh wow... Time really flies!

And talking about time, oh dear, I have one more week of holiday and I have not finished my project! And report... Arrrgh. Thankfully I finished some part before I went back, so less things to do I suppose. I'm gonna leave some part out for next year. I think it's good to include some books for research, if not, all websites will be a little... Yeah.

Anyway! Hmm I really can't wait for my bed to arrive which I'm not sure when (I think it's tomorrow though) cause I can't wait to lay around on my bed lazily heehee. The wood is not really a good surface to lay around (even though it's rather comfy to stretch) but bed is better!

Alrighty, still hoping my days here will get better and better. I just wanna end the year in a joyful way, a happy way, an awesome way. For I think, that 2010, is quite an awesome year. see ya then! :)

Because we gotta keep our heads up

Clean up

Hey hey I'm blogging in my new room right now! Weee finally hehe. Anyway if you don't know, my room is done! Just have to move all the necessary stuff here. Like my bed, piano and more stuff like my clothes and yeah. And I wanna go and sort of decorate the room a little as well. With my pictures of course! Hehe.

Really can't wait to sleep here for the night, and fully utilise my room!

Anyway yeah as the title suggests, I spent today cleaning up my room. It's sort of messy and dirty. So yep. Plus there's this white-look-like-dust stuff on my "stage" in the room. I think it's dust but hmm not sure, my maid said those things re-appear again. Oh dear but so far it doesn't appear anymore until now. So whew.

So anyway I cleaned up my room, first by vacuuming the raised platform part of my room so yep. There's lots of weird debris out there just now, so I swept the wood, and then vacuum it. Looks pretty much clean eh hehe. And I wore that sandal cause I don't want all those dust to get stuck on my feet so yeah.

Then I swept the floor. Look at those dusts! :O Anyway yeah I'm not sure why it's pretty dirty either. And due to my OCD-ness, I actually swept the floor about three times! Sweep, sweep, clean, sweep sweep, clean and yeah. Even now I still sweep my floor, since my dogs always enter my room, so yeah, dirts heh.

And that's a mosquito I killed just now :O Poor soul, really sorry! Anyway I'm not sure why but the mosquitoes here are like HUGE I tell you. Quite scary... I think it's due to the rain huh. It's been raining here every day so far. And when it rained, it rain like cats and dogs. How do I take pictures with this kind of weather T_T

Anyway yep I guess that's all for today. Thinking of starting to move most of my things into my room tomorrow! Then yeah.. Hehe. Lets just hope my days here will get better and better so yep. I wanna have a good holiday man! :)

A dog doesn't bark for nothing. A man doesn't get angry for nothing either

Tang Yuan

Hello people! Finally able to blog, umm yeah since I did nothing much on Monday, so... I didn't reallly find the need to blog. Anyway today was a more "eventful" day even though it's not a really happening day... But well at least I have more things to do than on Monday so yeah.

I spent most of the time at the factory or at my dad's office with my dad. And yeah, that's how I spent the day today. As for the night, I spent it making Tang Yuans with my mum, sis and maid! Well it comes another time of the year where we once again make Tang Yuans for this Tang Yuan festival tomorrow. So yep.

Two solid hours making 2 trays of it, with three different colours. Hard work, but well it's worth it I guess, after you see the final product. So yep! Here's a picture :D

Nice eh? :D

And believe it or not, I have to eat 19 of them, according to tradition you have to eat according to your age + 1 so yep. But we're eating them tomorrow though :D

Anyway.... Hmm.

I just cried.

Seriously, I just cried while listening to Sigur Ros' Ara Batur. It's such an emotional song which can stir your emotions quite wildly, and the worst thing is I am rather emotional right now. And I don't want to talk about it here.

Sigh, so much for a holiday.

Alrighty, lets suck up all my tears, and lets hope for a better tomorrow. A better days ahead which I can truly enjoy. Ironic isn't it. I'm putting smilies in almost at the end of the paragraphs. Yet inside, I don't show these smiles at all. Oh well.

Why?

Home

Whew! I've reached my home finally. After a super duper tiring and long day. And more things happened actually. Shall tell them AQAP now (I'm tired...)

So about 15 minutes before boarding, the announcer came to announce.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I'm afraid I have a bad news for you"

OH GOSH

".... There's a technical fault in the plane. One of the parts is spoilt. We are thinking of replacing it but I'm afraid we have not time"

Are you kidding me?

"... But the good thing is we can transfer EVERYONE into an SQ flight"

Yay

"... SQ968 at 9.50, reaching Jakarta in 10.35"

.............

And yeah. I felt so #$%(I@#)$ but anyway I felt really thankful. Firstly, thank God the technical fault was detected AFTER the plane touched down. Imagine if it were to happen in mid-air (CHOY). It's horrible. And if it were to happen during the flight in-bound to Singapore (CHOY)? Isn't it horrifying? Oh well...

Just goes to show, not every bad thing is 100% bad. There's always good things, in bad things and vice versa... Right?

And I'm thankful for my mum who waited in Jakarta for 4 hours! I felt so guilty for making her wait (I know it's not entirely my fault) but I still feel guilty. So yep. I have the best mum in the world! :D

Right it's 2.20 right now... I haven't had my dinner yet. So gonna eat dinner soon! See ya then, and I'm very tired. I'm just thankful that amidst all the chaos today, I'm back here, safely, and yeah. So yep!

And I wish my holiday here will be a nice one! :)

Delayed

Right... So here am I sitting in front of this gigantic window with the view of the airport hangar... Chilling out, blogging... Cause my flight is delayed for one hour and and half! Oh well, I reached the airport at four plus, I have no choice, anyway it's better to come inside the terminal, and walk around and stuff hehe.

Been walking around aimlessly from 4.30 - 5, had a snack, walk around again, looking for a 2011 diary (which I found yay). And then walk around and decided to check the third floor (cause they said there's more dining alternatives) and sat down in spinelli. And I don't know why.... My laptop hated Wireless@SG! It is only just now that I could connect to it.

Hmm seriously, I love this ambience at Changi airport! I love the ambience... And I love everything. Right now I'm viewing planes flying off, this gigantic window. Pretty inspiring you know. Plus the sky is blue so... Arrrgh! Haha it's so awesome.

But well yeah, I was so shocked to see the word "re-timed" on the departure board. And when I see the departure time of my flight changed to 19.45. I'm just... Yeah. But anyway really enjoyed the moment right now. Very peaceful... And yeah as I said again, inspiring.

I feel really guilty for making my mum wait at Jakarta airport now :( But thankfully my sis is flying back to Singapore so yeah, at least there's someone to accompany her. But once she goes to the terminal (which is prolly about at 7.30), my mum has to wait for an hour or so. Whew... Delays are one of the most inconvenient thing that could happen in travel.

And it's due to bad weather! I forgot that the plane is coming from Germany. Of course, it's winter there now woopsie. And so folks... See the importance of saving the environment? Hehehe.

Okay guys see ya, gonna go to my gate at about 6.30 so yep. See ya all!

And please, no more suprises :P

Going home

And another Christmas is soon to come

Photography by Yours Truly

Another year, soon to go.

So anyway, I'll be going back tomorrow~ Yay, gonna enjoy the year end+Christmas back in my hometown. I have never left my hometown during new year, cause I like it. It is one of the times when my family will come gather together (even though not everyone), and yeah like the mood there. Plus I'm sort of holiday-deprived. Whew!

Hoping I'll enjoy my two-week holiday, I hope it'll be a good one! :)

There's nothing much to do, it's sort of like the one-day-before-I'm-going-back day. Except that I didn't go out heh. Usually I'll go out with either my friend/sister for lunch or dinner but nope. Wanted to go for lunch with Neal but he couldn't make it so yep. I'm just... Irritated about one thing. Sigh, why does these things come to me, especially my CAMERA!

So I went to order a Sony 28mm lens from this shop. I ordered this on November... Middle November I know. So he said I could take it one week later cause he needs to place an order to Sony. Then after 3 days, he said two weeks because I don't know why. So I waited for two weeks. I went back after two weeks, no news yet, he say something wrong with Sony delivery.

So I waited again. After about one or two weeks, I went back to ask. He told me that Sony had called up and said I'll receive it next week (last week). But until now, no news. So I went back today, and I am just asking when can I receive it and why does it take such a long time. And if it takes so long, I'll just cancel it. But return my $50 deposit.

BUT!

I don't have a proof that I have a $50 deposit, and that I couldn't fine a record of me ordering the lens or having the $50 deposit on their log book. So... Yeah. Well at least they're good enough to make sure that I have the deposit. So they wanted me to check with them again by giving them the in-voice number of the receipt.

But... They didn't call me at all.

Oh well oh well I'm not sure why, I'm not sure if it's what-I-am-thinking that it took so long for the lens to arrive or am I too sensitive. Whatever the case, I hope to get my lens earliest by next year January. I hate waiting. If you ask me to wait for 2 weeks, then at least don't drag it to 6 weeks. Oh well....

Sometimes I just wonder if I'm so "suay" or unlucky that is to get such situations. Remember my Sony DSLR? I got conned, my battery is not original, the stupid seller is soooo damn demanding me to by the DSLR (which I don't know why). All these happened if I buy from a... I call it... Not-so-camera-selling-looking-shop.

But when I bought my 50mm lens, my filters, my bags, tripod etc. From Cathay photo, a quite well known shop, they are all fine and working well! Okay perhaps it's true that there's no free lunch in this world. Or is it the placebo effect? Like oh, Cathay Photo is a nicer shop so I feel -alright- to buy them. I'm not sure either.

Anyway I cooked dinner again! This time.. Hamburg Burger from Cooking with Dog again! It's beef, onion, bread crumb, milk and S&P patty fried, then steamed to allow it to cook through. And then I made an onion gravy from the water which I used to steam. Plus soy sauce, mirin (new ingredient!) and onion of course. Here it is :D

Yum yum yum. Served with potato and salad :D

Okay that's all for today! I still have to pack up, and I wanna do some tidying up to do so yep. I hope that I'll have good trip back home! And that my journey back tomorrow will be a smoooooth and easy one. Alrighty! See ya all :D

My wish for this Christmas is to enjoy my trip back :)

Middleman

The three of us

Photography by my Camera mwahaha

WORK IT! :D

Right, I just had an awesome dinner (or supper for me) with Jeslyn and Neal. Met Victor, Jeremy Yeo and Ang, Daniel and gang as well! Haha. What a co-incidence. Anyway yeah, sorry for not joining you guys, you could have asked me earlier :O Cause we planned to meet together long time ago (last week) so yeah, I hope you guys understand.

Anyway I met up with Cheryl and Annabel yesterday, been such a long time since I met them! So felt really happy to be able to meet them again :) We met at Orchard, and walked along the road to enjoy the lights! Awesomeness. Not to forget - REMINISCING! Favourite part of all haha. And not forgetting the stomach pain we got from laughing, a lot. And not to forget the pictures as well :)

Ahh, it's weird isn't it. We were once so close in Tanglin. A lunch, dinner or outing were quite normal. And now we have gone to our own different ways. That's why I always treasure these outings with friends whom I have never met for a long time. Well well, time is a mystery isn't it?

It's 8 more days to Christmas! And TWO WEEKS more to the last day of 2010!

Anyway I cooked my dinner just now! Inspired from this channel in Youtube called Cooking With Dog. Maybe you've seen it before. If you haven't, see it! I'm sure you will drool looking at all the food. So I'm inspired to make this dish called Yakibuta ramen. Of course I didn't have it with Ramen, so I was just cooking the pork.

Basically, Yakibuta is translated as roasted pork ribs. But I couldn't find pork ribs so I used pork belly. I fry the pork for a while to brown them, then boil it for 2 hours. Since it's small I cut it down to 1.5 hours instead. Then I went to take the stock, put soya sauce and mirin (Japanese cooking wine) and boil the meat further.

To make it healthier, I added snow peas and mushroom! And here it is :D

Nice huh?

Well it sort of failed... It should have that melt-in-your-mouth texture but well, it doesn't. But honestly, it's the BEST (yes I'm bragging) pork dish I've ever cooked by myself. Cause the meat is tender! Really tender! And please, I know you guys will complain about the fats. But I don't care. The rule for eating nice? DON'T FEEL GUILTY! :)

And like as if I'm eating this everyday -.-" Hahaha

Alrighty that's all for today! I'll be going off the day after tomorrow. So yep, kinda looking forward to going back, I'm holiday-deprived haha. See ya then!

Why am I always the middleman in life's situation? :(

BAND-tastic! :)

Whew! My MD band camp had finally came to an end! So much of things I have learnt in these three practices, many things I have corrected, most importantly, many BONDS I have forged hehe. After the camp, I seriously can't wait to perform in Esplenade in MD! But in the meantime, practice practice practice.

Anyway hmm quite a few things happened. Yesterday went to visit the Nikon Bioimaging Centre (NBC). It's really an interesting and eye-opener for me in the research field. There's so much things one can do with the humble (and expensive) microscope! Hmm, I'm really looking forward to sort of "do researchs" on many things (especially cancerous cells) with them.

The most interesting thing is that I get to see images of cells using confocal and fluorescence microscope with my own naked eyes! It's so amazing! Those images I see in books, websites etc, it is really interesting. And those videos of materials going in and out of the cells? Done it! I've seen it yesterday and holy crap, they are so awesome!

And the MOST amazing thing is? How those activities are initiated by certain pathways, or reactions or chemicals and stuff, and it just happened in I don't know how long. It is really QUICK. That's what I really like about cells. They are amazingly.... Versatile and... Beautiful. Amazing, this is how science never fail to impress me.

Hmm I think choosing the Research option isn't a bad thing :)

OH! And Biopolis is an awesome place! :D

Right, I guess that's all for today. Gonna meet Annabel and Cheryl tomorrow! Man, it's been such a long time since I met them so yeah, it's gonna be fun I guess! :) See ya then~

Had a band-tastic three days!

PS: No picture today hehe :P

Cause it's music

Because it is music.

Photography by Yours Truly

The food for my soul.

Right.. It's been such a long time since I blogged. Well pretty "busy" these days haha. Or I'm just oo lazy or tired to blog. So anyway, I am having band camp for the next three days now! Umm next two I guess, since the first day is over. And my sis had just went back on Saturday. So she'll be back on Sunday, while I'm going back on Sunday! :)

And dang, she accidentally brought my headphone with her :O

You see... This goes how much music means to me in life. Last night I spent quite some time to search for an earpiece! Turned out most of the earpiece in my room are either spoiled, in horrible condition, or cannot be used at all. Thankfully I found one on my sis' table, and it's working fine :) Hmm I may be looking for a cheap ear piece in the coming days...

I can't imagine a music less plane ride on Sunday! :P

Anyway band was alright today. The morning is a bit harsh... Cause I thought band starts at 9, which it actually starts at 10. So I woke up at 7, and... Found out that band started at 10. So I fell asleep again haha, until about 8.45. Breakfast-ed and left for band! I think band is alright, managed to go through some tough parts, and yeah.

Reminded me of SYF days, tiringly-fun :)

I don't know why but there's this thing about Sunday nights. I just, can't, sleep. Sometimes now matter how tired I am, my eyes can't just seem to "poof" and sleep. That's why I ended up sleeping late. But well, I know I'm going to get a good night sleep :)

And I'll be missing band from 1 - 4 cause I have a Nikon Bioimaging Centre study trip! And I totally forgot that it actually clashed with band, until I saw Miss Joanne's email. Anyway I'm glad that I'm selected for it, it will be a good experience I suppose. And it will give me a good insight on a researcher's life. Yum.

Not sure what we'll be doing but... Imaging = microscopes I think. Weee I love microscopes haha, my tiny little cute bacteria! :)

Alrighty I wanna bathe, and... Not sure what I'll be doing tonight heh, start on some of my assignments I suppose? Anyway, see ya!

Cause it's music. It's pure pleasure.

Cause it's freedom

Family photo hah.

Photography by Lumix TZ8

Great fun guys, great fun.

Right, today was an awesome day! Went to East Coast Park with Bobby, Syazwan, Michelle, Vivian, Hari and Zaki to cycle around. So well in the first place, I wanted to give this one a miss because there's quite a few people not going. But well still decide to go, and I know I'm not making a mistake. Today was such an awesomly beautiful day. Both for the weather, and what we did.

So met at 11 in Bedok MRT. I thought I was late, so I cabbed down! Turned out I'm the earliest haha. Anyway, went to do some shopping first for our trip, went to buy drinks, snacks etc. Then headed to buy lunch at a nearby hawker centre. Brought all the stuff and headed to ECP. Whew, didn't know going there could be so tiring, the distance and the walking is wow.

Headed for this shelter and we laid our mats, bags etc. Felt so good to lay down on the bench haha, it's such a whew for my leg. Ate lunch and played lots of games. Card games most of the time. I taught them the Indonesian version of a heart attack, AKA Kartu Tepok (or translated as... Hit-the-card-game). Glad they liked it, most of the time people find it boring...

Went cycling then! We stopped in a few places... First stop was this pier-like place. We laid Zaki's mat again and rest there. The view is so... Beautiful. Peaceful. There was a point of time where I just listened to Sigur Ros' Ara Batur, as I listened to the sound of the crashing waves. Blissful I tell you. So well played around there, made some sand painting hehe.

The boys then went to cycle further, we reached Changi! Well not Changi, just the beginning of that long way beside the runway. And we're presenting.... The matreps! Haha. So Syaz, Hari and Bobby went to "pimp" their bicycle into some vroom-vroom producing sound bicycle haha. Very innovative of them. And in fact they bring smiles to people :)

We went on our ways then. Joined Michelle and Vivian home, but I went to Ochard to meet my sis for dinner. Gosh I was so tired then haha. Thanks Zaki for brining us to the bus stop. He walked so far just to bring us there. Seriously, he can become some camp co-ordinator or in charge.. He'll be one super responsible and initiative guy. Oh, by the way, he even planned some things for this outing... Wow! (Claps)

Alright anyway so why freedom?

You know the point of time when we were walking to ECP, through the underpass, then through this road, I just felt this sense of joy and freedom. We were all unsure of where to go, how long more must we walk and etc. But I felt this excitement and joy of being lost. Is like... You're free. I feel so free just to walk in these roads, not knowing where we'll end up at.

And when we were cycling around, the sky was just pure bliss. It's really wonderful, the weather. The breeze of the wind, and the sound of the crashing waves are like the sound of freedom. The wind, going to places whenever it will take them. The water, flowing through time and places they don't know. Isn't it just freedom?

I once read this in Natgeo adventure. In order to find yourself, sometimes you gotta lose yourself. Which is true! And my favourite of all time - Lets get lost!

Alright what a long post today. Pictures will be on Facebook! See ya!

Cause it's freedom. It's joy.

Over! Once more

Ferrero Rocher anyone? :)

Photography by Yours Truly

I wish I have this much of FCs haha

So yay! Finally, the final MST of this year is over hehe. So done, no more studying etc! But oh well, I still have work to do during the holiday. I don't like short holidays, cause my holiday will be taken away by all the work I have to do, oh well, what else can I do, it's poly life I suppose. But nevertheless, holiday is still a holiday and not school! Hee.

But anyway today IO Chem paper was... Alright-ly tough! I can't believe I stared so long just at the MCQ section. Took me about 20 minutes to do them. Whew, then rushed everything. I was only left with like 10 minutes or so to finish my checking. Thankfully, enough time to finish the paper though, I was worried that I couldn't finish the paper.

After the paper went to brief the student volunteers from DBS 1B about the open house training and stuff. Woohoo, I'm selected for it, and... I'm the only guy. Oh yay. But anyway I don't mind hehe, I think it's just a great opportunity. Getting involved in such things. Always fun interacting with people. Who knows I can meet my Tanglin juniors next year :P

So... Watched Harry Potter with some of the 02 and 01 people! While Lizzie and Min Li watched Repunzel (correct spelling?). OMG it's so awesome! But I hate the fact that they cut lots of parts from the book. But anyway I knew it, cause... If they were to follow the book, trust me, the movie will be like 3 hours plus long.

Lunched (or breakfast-ed for me [!!]) at BK in Central before heading to Settler's Cafe. Had lots of fun there during the game, I liked the bone game thingy haha, so fun. So sad we're only able to play two games. But saboteur is also nice, very tricky :P

Decided to go on our own ways, some headed home while Syazwan, Larry, Hari, Zaki and Min Li headed to.. I'm not sure where. Niv and Nic went home, Ahpa and I wanted to go home, but we went to KOI instead hahaha! So well yeah. Went there to buy and we talked a while on the bridge thing in Chinatown, while I took pictures of cars haha.

Met with my sister at Orchard for dinner then, and yeah that's about it I guess.

Oh well another MST come and go, as another term will say hello. And as the holiday approaches, there goes the year of 2010. Time really flies! Well well, as I said once, I really find this semester flying really quickly! Like seriously. It is fast. Hmm hmm, time is really interesting. If there's like a degree in time study, that's pretty interesting.

Alright I guess that's all for today. Guess what. I'm gonna start my holiday... By listing the things I gotta do in my holiday, oh yay. But well as what Ms Solastri always say... If you fail to plan, you plan to fail! Heehee, alrighty, see ya!

I don't care, gonna sleep like a pig!

Mountain out of a grain of sand

Lets look ahead

Photography by Yours Truly

This is by film! :D

Okay let me rant a bit first...

So I really hate it when my mornings are ruined by little matters, made humongous by others! It's like rawr. Okay here goes. I was in the bus, and since it was packed, I shifted more inside by just shifting left. ACCIDENTALLY, my bag rubbed against the fingers of a woman which were holding onto a railing. So I said sorry.... And she...

Stared at me angrily like as if I touched her (no offence) boobs!

I mean this is just little things, I didn't even make her fingers bleed or something like that, the impact is small, I didn't even PUSH my bag onto the railing, it's just my bag rubbing against it. Like as if... It's such a huge matter. Plus I said sorry. I seriously feel Singaporeans should chill out more... Alright unless she just had a bad morning, then I'm find with her angry but still...

I think she shouldn't make it a "WOW" deal you know :/

Anyway today's microbio paper was alright, quite manageable except for some wrong parts here and there, oh well. And I was almost late, I woke up at 9.30, which I'm supposed to wake up at 9. But thankfully the busses came quite early so yeah. And something weird happened... While I fell asleep from 8.45 - 9.30.

I dreamt that I was somewhere in Clementi (huh) and Kai Xuan, Candy, Alexis came to me and told me we're late. So alright, I rushed to pack my stuff and we went to school. The weird thing is that we took a bus that is AWAY from school! And yeah we panicked and stuff. The weird thing is that in the dream, my body seems to tell me that "Hey you're late, wake up!"

And of course I woke up being shocked.

Wanted to stay back in school to study but turned out no one was staying back so well, I went home. Lunched with Syazwan, Liz and Niv first. I am happy hehe, cause I managed to finish doing two of my math papers, which I was feared of not even finishing one cause I'm rather tired and slacky. Oh well dan dan dan hehe.

Alrighty I guess that's all for today. What an interesting today is, anyway like even though my morning was sort of ruined, I'm quite happy with Microbio hehe. Right, Math and Chem tonight I suppose! :)

Argghh Sigur Ros songs are so.... Eternal

Firwork Cover :D

Whew, just finished studying Microbio... Which uhh I still have quite a long way to go so yup. Tomorrow shall be my microbio day! :D

Been reading my notes, and just finished with Mrs Mark's chapter 3. So yep, hope I can cram in everything tomorrow. I don't want Cell Bio history to repeat :(

Anyway as I mentioned last time, here's my Firework by Katy Perry piano cover! I'm not gonna post it here, so I took it off my Youtube. Cause I know it's going to take a long time to load it here. Anyway, enjoy! And comments are always welcomed :)

Enjoy :D

PS: Mind my chin/face :P And this is taken with my Panasonic TZ8 hehe. Not bad huh, the quality

Bittersweet

This is just the beginning.

Lomography by Yours Truly

The beginning, of the beginning

Don't give up!!!

Sigh, today the morning was a bit "disappointing". Not for the things that happened, everything went fine, not when I received my Cell Bio MST results. So well I scored a 72. Alright some of you may feel it's fine to get that, but well, I was hunting for an 80 but oh well. What else can I do. I'll just accept what happened, and move on. No point just crying over a downfall.

I hate the feeling of being disappointed. But well, let this be a bittersweet reminder for me to keep on moving forward. This is just the beginning. Watch out Cell Bio, I'm so gonna pawn you!

Moving on, went to meet Sharon first at Moberly, wanted to have lunch there but our dear Jolene was late... So well we gotta wait for her. So we spent the time waiting studying for a while, Nivedha was there as well, waiting for her friends. And as Jolene arrived, we had lunch together at Moberly's cafe while Nivedha went to call her friend (or attend her friend on her phone). I hope everything went fine for them.

Studied in library from about 2 to about 6, Wei Lun joined us at 4. I'm quite pleased with myself, finished my Chemistry notes (finally) and did a little microbio just now. Whew, when my friends told me they're scared for Microbio, I was "huh? It's alright I thought?". Now, I understand why. There's just so much things! Eeek.

Dinner at "Everything With Fries" with Jo, Pow and Ben, had one hell of a fun time there. Good destresser before MST I suppose. Good food, I tried their char siew rollade, a new item, it's sinfully, lusciously, fattily, GOOD. The fat of the pork is just urrrgghhh... WONDERFUL oops. And the cracking! YUM.

But yes, pretty sinful.

Then we played this eating game thingy, I know we're not supposed to play with food, but oh well. I guess that's what happened if we're stressed with MST. Oh well... So we played open number, and loser has to eat the fries! (Which we didn't finish). So first round was one fries, second 2 fries, third 2 fries; one with "awesome" salmon sauce, last round, 2 fries with salmon sauce heehee.

Thank God I only get... Up to, as worst, the third round. So not so bad I guess.

Oh well it was a seriously good destresser to MST. Time to get serious from today onwards. I'm planning to finish up my microbio notes by tomorrow. I'm left a few more chapters. Or in fact, parts. So yep, I can then spend the weekend cramming the information into my brain.

You know sometimes we hate people who say "I'm gonna fail/do badly/lose my A etc" and get A in the end? But don't you just find it COMFORTING to say that, in case you did badly for your test. It is really demoralising to be hopeful for an A, and all you get is a B. And it is pretty comforting if you tell you're going to do badly, and your really do badly.

It's like... The statement cushion the impact to your downfall. I know it's really stupid to say such things, but seriously, it's better to do that. I was so hopeful that I could get an A. And here I am, not even a B+. I know you guys may find me selfish, and arrogant or maybe boastful. But if you don't reach your target, don't you just feel the pain.

It's in the psychological mind of us, humans, to always prepare for the worst.

Sigh, yes I'm still a bit sad about my result. But there's no reason for crying over spilt milk. I know I'll be able to pull this through. I know I have the ability to do well. To do better than this. I'm sure I can. And so do the rest, who did not get the result of their target. Don't worry, lets pull through all these together and emerge at the top in the future.

A bittersweet reminder. A bittersweet reminder.

Firework

Cause baby you're a firework

Photography by Yours Truly

Come and let your colours burst

Whew, such a long time since I posted again! Well... Due to some unforeseen circumstances, I was, sadly, not able to blog. And if I were to explain them here, this post will be like super long. Cause quite a few things that happened this week hehe. Anyway lets just talk about today eh.

Today I had my cell bio MST! Umm well okay... "calming down"....

ARGGGH I HATE MYSELF!

Okay here's what happened. So there's this question which I don't know the answer to. So what I did is to skip the question and decided to check the rest of the paper, more important I feel. So there I went check check check, and I stupidly told myself "Hmm no point checking for a gazillion of times, lets just pass up". And I passed it up, leaving that question blank!

Oh gosh... I was so pissed... I know it's only a question, but what if (CHOY) I get 78, and due to that question, I lost my A! If I were to just fill it up with any answer, and I got it right (out of 0,25% probability) I may get my A right... Oh well it's over now, no point bitching over it, it's over, it's over :/

After the test went to lunch together, and yeah the day goes on as per normal. It's so nice of Ms Yulia to make us that answer sheet by herself. She wrote it herself (not typed!). Aww man I feel so guilty, she spent so much time doing things for us, and I always come late, come to think of it. Oh well oh well, thank you Ms Yulia anyway! :)

I didn't feel like studying just now, cause well I am using that "it's after cell bio" reason so yeah, spent most of my time either in Facebook or Youtube. Searching for Sigur ros songs! I'm seriously in love with their songs... They are so lovely man. So peaceful. I want to play them in my funeral, perfect "theme song" of my life haha.

And talking about songs... I just did a cover on Katy Perry's firework! (Thus the title). Gonna upload em here, after I put them in my comp. I'm sort of lazy to transfer it now so... Too bad. I wanted to do a mashup on firework and king of anything but well umm I think it's really a bit weird so decided to just do a cover on firework hehe.

Alright that's all for today I guess, I'm going to do IOC tonight, the rest of the tutorial. Studying with Pow, Jojo and Wei lun tomorrow! So yup, shan't do much studyings tonight right hehe. Alrighty see ya!

Funny how some songs are singing about your life.

Coffee

The weather is sort of screwed up these days

Photography by Yours Truly

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

Photography by Yours Truly

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.

Photography by Yours Truly

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

Photography by Yours Truly

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

Photography by Yours Truly

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...

Photography by Yours Truly

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 :)

Photography by Yours Truly

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