i am back from bangkok fat, broke but satisfied. it is a hell of good trip! wahaha.

some conclusions i came to during the bangkok trip.
(1) Valueair is much better than Malaysian Airline. the food is better (at least the rice is fully cooked and the vegetable is not limp) and the service is better ( you dun haf to call three times to ask for a glass of water and be ignored and air stewardess actually smile)

(2) First Hotel is definately not first. the hotel room is old and there are crockroahes in the room and around the hotel. (although it was much better after we change room.)

(3) i sux at the Bean game. investing in the third bean field is a mistake. the 65 push-ups and 6s situps i did is the proof of that. btw, wendy is the self-proclaimed bean queen.

(4) the 红白蓝 bag that i bought is a damn good investment (it is big and useful), despite it being damn orh-bit. (my mum have already claimed it to pack some of the stuff at home...)

ok here are some pictures i took during the trip.

The usual TP session when free time is on hand. taken near the catus garden at changi airport after mac breakfast. (just in case the in flight food turned out to be bad.)

our hotel and the best view i could get of out hotel lobby. actually... thats all there is to our hotel lobby. as compared to this...

the Asia Hotel that my sis stayed in.... but well the company well made up for the room. =)

Some of the stuff we did...

watched the mambo caberet show. quite interesting...

shop till we drop. (one of the must-do- thing in bangkok)

eat. (the another must-do-thing in bangkok)

photo taken while the rest was scrambling out of their seat because of a crockroache. but despite that must say that the food is nice.

seafood. the crab bee hoon is nice!

A&W. must have! (we conquered it twice. haha.)

Sell nice and cheap fried rice at 29 baht.

visit the temple. nice looking but boring. the temple of the dawn.

ok. that's all for now. still got tonnes of photos. might post it up again next time. =) wahaha.

Announcment:(not that i blog alot but...)

i will be on my way to bangkok in a few more hours. pls try not to call me unless it is very urgent or something as i would not pick up any phone call as one min cost $2.63 and i would not reply any SMS as one sms cost about $1.50, however, you can send sms to me as receiving will be free... wahaha... so... bangkok here i come! will be back by tuesday! see ya!

~i am leaving on a jet plane.....

i am not bored. i am not bored. i am not bored. i am not bored. i am not bored. i am not bored. i am not bored. i am not bored. i am not bored. i am not bored. i am not bored. i am not bored. i am not bored. i am not bored. i am not bored. i am not bored. i am not bored. i am not bored. i am not bored. i am not bored. i am not bored. i am not bored. i am not bored. i am not bored. i am not bored. i am not bored. i am not bored. and i am in self-denial....

the owner of the blog is officially broke and is suffering from serious vitamin M deficiency. pls kindly help by clicking and exploring on the google ad above. thanks. =)

race is officially over. we got IVP second! it is a good race! well done everyone!

and this is the official announment that
(1) i am no longer tied down by trainings.
i.e. i am free to meet up with all my friends that i have not seen for ages. i can afford and have the energy to stay up late to crap and can afford late to wake up late the next day.

(2) i can eat watever i want including chilli, ice-cream, alcohol, deep fried food and coconut milk and watever... even if it means i will cough to death.

but that also means the new semester is starting soon.... more bidding.. more timetables... more lectures... more tutorials (not that i do them...) and more lab reports.... but before all that bangkok here i come!!

today marked the last water training. after this all that is left is to put all the training we have done in the past all into this sat and sun. all the trainings have all come down to this weekend. it is now or never. it is do or die. it is to finish the race with no regrets. that's it, my friends. that's all to it. really. and sometimes words are just not enough. and i am lousy with them.

ps. settlers' cafe is good place to "nua".
pps. i will take my medicine dutifully and drink alot of water for tomolo. pls let me be off the med by saturday and stop the cough. thanks.

one week and three trainings away to THE RACE that we had been slogging for for seven months. HANG IN THERE!

back from the long awaited for penang race. didn't managed to take aloot of pictures due to the pathetically short battery lifespan of disposable batteries and the lack of memories space, but here are some pictures that i managed to captured when both the batteries and memory are cooperating. had a hard time trying to post all the pictures into one post... for those who know of a better and easier way of doing it pls leave a msg k? my pictures all appear as individual posts...

okay short recap of the trip.

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rushed home after training to finish packing my bag and make sure i didn't leave anything behind and bought the untrustworthy batteries for my camera. (which at that point of time i didn't know it is untrustworthy, total waste of money), met mona at hougang mall and took cab to the airport to meet the reat of the team at terminal 2 BK and prepare for check in.


here all the passports with the tickets ready for check in.

then there is the wrapping of all the paddles that are decorated with colourful tapes to be check in. paddles are not allowed on board the plane as they are considered dangerous weapons.

here is cheeling with the finish product waiting to be stuffed into a smelly army duffel bag.

here is iso with all the paddles stuffed into the duffel bag ready to be check in.

we are taking the malaysia airline heading for penang (duh!) flight MH658. picture a bit blur. think something with the setting of the camera. same goes for all the blur you might see later.

doing what we do best when we have too much free time and too many cameras. TPing while waiting for the check in.

sorry to say that this is not the plane we took to penang, we took a small malaysian airline plane with lousy in flight food. this is the plane parked to us.

finally we are off and on our way to penang. window view out of the plane.
penang race

this is the dinner that we had for the flight to penang. first taste of the rice that is soft on the outside and hard on the inside, which sort of become a constant through the trip and the unchewable vegetable that can only be found on malaysian airline and the salty chicken. the greenbean dessert is the won the most edible award out of the whole meal excluding the orange juice.

opening ceromony of the race, as you can see we are bored while waiting for the vip that we have to play with some long forgotten childhood games, and of course TPing.

after which we walk to this place called happy garden for dinner, they come with the free flow of the soft on the outside but abit hard on the inside rice (but i must say it is much better than the airline one.)

serene was "attacked" by a monkey on the way to dinner.

vic trying to feed the monkey with tomato and jade looking excited.

bananas paradise.

wayang we passed by on the way to dinner.

this is the entrance to our hotel, see the bags in yirang and miss sam hands? they are the little shopping we managed to do within 2km of the hotel. i got a adidas t-shirt for 40rm too.. and a navy blue t-shirt for 13rm.

our hotel room, which i shared with jane, it came equipped with 2 big single beds, fridge, balcony and a bathroom. for those with the corner room, it came equipped with two balconies. our and vic and wendy's room was seperated from the rest of the team in so ulu part of the hotel.

the hotel breakfast, the best meal in the whole day. this is just the first serving... there is still the eggs and the cereals...

at the race site, waiting for our race with the usual TPing, this is actually the second day of the race, forgot to bring down the camera for the training session and the first day. white singlets that you see were exchanged with other teams, mainly the australian teams. i exchanged with the australian black dragon... while some exchanged with the australian navy team beside us...

that is wendy and miss sam with a sign that we picked up from the floor.

cheeling and miss sam posing with out cha-pion paddles with the dam as the background.

wendy and angeline pretending to attained enlightenment....

the dam, the race course and launching point.

the launching point with a tiny whiny part of the stairs we have to climb for every set of the race. wanted to take a picture of the loooong stairs we had to climb but the memory space and the batteries ceased cooperation... the photos are not in order (dunno what happened) just look at the date and time of pic k? and please continue to click on the google ad. =)

training. that basically sum up my life currently until july i guess. and i guess if you are not in our team, what we actually do don't really concerned you (unless you are a spy from other teams...) and if are not a dragonboater, the details of our training will either a) make you think that we are bunch of crazy people that have nothing better to do with our holidays or b) make you bored to death even if you understand what i am talking about, but for more details on the training pls refer to my team-mates blogs (not only they are better writers (typers) then me, but basically I AM LAZY). tired basically sums up what i am feeling at the moment, that comes from all the trainings and hours spend in the sun as mentioned above. yup, so thats my life. can;t wait for the penang trip to break the routine (although it is still dragonboat, while at least it is a change of enviroment. not that i don't love kallang. i love kallang. really. believe me.)

last i want to thank my family members, first because you all are only few people who can stand me when i am in a irritable mood and endure the mood, no one else i know has attain that gong li yet. lastly, for making noise with my guitar when i try to create music, don't worry i will create music someday. really. thanks.

SIMBA:As you go through life you'll see
There is so much that we
Don't understand
And the only thing we know
Is things don't always go
The way we planned
But you'll see every day
That we'll never turn away
When it seems all your dreams come undone
We will stand by your side
Filled with hope and filled with pride
We are more than we are
We are one

KIARA:If there's so much I must be
Can I still just be me
The way I am?
Can I trust in my own heart
Or am I just one part
Of some big plan?

SIMBA:Even those who are gone
Are with us as we go on
Your journey has only begun
Tears of pain, tears of joy
One thing nothing can destroy
Is our pride, deep inside
We are one
We are one, you and I
We are like the earth and sky
One family under the sun
All the wisdom to lead
All the courage that you need
You will find when you see
We are one

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yeah half down and two more paper to go. less then 10 hours to the next war! hopefully it will be easy... can't wait for exams to be over and the holidays to be here... got so much stuff i want to do during the hols... but mainly just want to slack at home and watch tv and be a full time official couch potato before training starts... anyone want to join me? =)

offically stuck in YIH for 24 hours. in the same location. Throughout the 24 hours i had been try to kill myself by watching GEK1001 webcast, but much to no avail as you can see that i am still well alive at the moment... but i will not gurantee that i am sane and my mind is not corrupted with all the webcast... WAHAHA... will try again tomolo by watching the other half of all the GEK webcast... haha...

I believe that in NUS all kind attention that had they had turn the YIH air-con such that the temperature in the room represent that of a fridge for the fear that we will either decompose by studying too much or rot by sitting in the same position for too long. But seriously, IT IS TOO COLD. the only good point is that if you can't locate a fridge school... YIH will be the best alternative... it will definately work... guranteed plus chop plus stamped... just leave it at any part of the room... it is that simple. give it a try next time you can't find a fridge in nus. really.

~ reminder to all: if you are free and dun mind doing a little surfing online.. you can click on the ad on top. all proceed will contributes towards geok wei's fund and who knows it might be interesting after all.

impt announcement: for those who actually visit my blog.. pls make a small effort in clicking the google ad on top. it will help tp make contribution to the geok wei's fund... and i really want to find out if google really send out money to people.... thanks.

stuck in yih as it is the norm with every exam period. it is 11.50pm and it is still croweded with people. see thats how much life NUS student actually have in exam period. and i happened to be one of the no-lifer. sad. just came back from a shopping spree from 7-11-> anything to get away from books from a couple of mintues... though not that i have been doing effective studying the whole day.. but hey i am still facing books k? well, at least i have something to look forward to at the moment... supper at 1am at munchie monkey... right now.. it is back ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy... oh ya.. remember to cilck on the ad above k? thanks. =)

exam is near but my mind and motivation is far.....

2 test down. 1 test and 4 lab reports away to exams. can't wait for everything to be over. things feel abit slightly differnt this sem. could be because i am not atudying in hall... not that moivated to study ( not that i am very motivated to study in the first place usually) but somehow this sem feel worse. jia you ba. 13 days to first paper and i have not started anyhting yet and still got tonnes of stuff to do. who is the culprit? ME. Jia you ba everyone. the worst will be over. 1 module down and 5 to go.

ps. i still want to watch movie.

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ok i think you get the point....

ok.. i know this entry is late... but what the heck. MR500 is finally over. we win some and loss some... but that is life isn;t it? in life you can't alway win... and you can't always loss also.. so we will be back!! beware. but i feel that what we gained is more with every race... right? 50 years from now.. what you remember (if you never get senile) will not be the medal or the timing but the feeling at the point where you cross the finishing point and the friendship... the being there for one another... the medal would most prob tarnish by then anyway... ok enough said about the race... for more details on the race refer to other blogs. better get back to my 4 lab reports.. or is it 5 or 6? damn.

~ advice: if someone tell you uni life is easy. kill him or her. she don't deserve to live cheating innocent people with such big fat lies. i would gladly be your accomplice.

had training at MacRitchie... different but fun... think sometimes a change in enviroment good.. i love the nature!! the place bring back good memories too... yup. sick at the moment and i dun like it ( who like being sick?). i bin krank.

got caught in corner and i hate it.

do you sometimes wiah that you will be better off dead or is it only me? am i that insane?

Yuwei=)

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pictures of my cute nephews taken by my 12 years old sister... when you got a sister who can take good pictures of your cute nephew you got to show right?
Yuwei=)

life can be sad sometimes. it could be simple or complicated at times.. but that is life isn't it?

~"Easy's boring, Roxy. who wants to spend their life with easy?"
" Well, maybe just as a passing acquaintance." Nora Roberts- Honest Illusions

my never ending life of lab reports.......

Are we at war tonight
Will there be angels whispering to midnight
Don't wake when lightning strikes
My heart for you is true
Let no one take that from you
Time is running tight
Can't change from wrong to right
So I'll close my eyes and dream a little
Just like how we used to be baby
Its time to say farewell now
No need to cry of feelings
Oh it's alrightI
'll end the end of lies
Heaven grant me one last wish I beg you
Let me say these words before I go
I will love you till the end of time
Every breath of mine
I'll hold you by my side
But I'll rest in peaceMy sweetheart would you
Let me die in your arms with you
Only you can stop the rain tonight
Only you can change my world from black to white
So I'll close my eyes and dream a little more
Are we at war tonight
Will there be angels whispering to midnight
Don't wake when lightning strikes
Heaven grant me one last wish I beg you
Let me say these words before I go
I will love you till the end of time
Every breath of mine
I'll hold you by my side
But I'll rest in peace
My sweetheart would you
Let me die in your arms with you
Only you can stop the rain tonight
Only you can get me straight to fight
Till the sky is burning
It's the end of time
Look ahead tomorrow
Long and winding road
Keep the faith of mine
Don't let it go
You're the only reason
That I'm growing cold
What would I do
Without you
I will love you till the end of time
Every breath of mine
I'll hold you by my side
But I'll rest in peace
My sweetheart would you
Let me die in your arms with you
Only you can stop the rain tonight
Only you can make my world so bright
Life no longer ends here with you in my heart
In my heart

hello the someone up there i think you forgot about my mid sem break... what i have is work from home instead of working in school for the past few days. mid sem break means i can go out and relax, not cracking my brain over my projects and reports and whatever work you piled on me... pls kindly revise the meaning of "holiday". thanks. it is important. thanks again.

hol·i·day ( P ) Pronunciation Key (hl-d)n.
A day free from work that one may spend at leisure, especially a day on which custom or the law dictates a halting of general business activity to commemorate or celebrate a particular event.
A religious feast day; a holy day.
Chiefly British. A vacation. Often used in the phrase on holiday.

today spell the end of my work at munchie monkey. will missed it. glad that it end on a great note. (wat with all the v-day special and the live performance) glad that i made a few great friends around there. (dun worry... i will go back and disturb you all when i have the time, dun miss me too much.. wahaha). for now, this will just be one more memory of my otherwise boring uni life. and seriously, i really never want to pang-sheng you all on the monday shift. haha.

~to all my friends: thanks for all the chocolates and hugs. you made my day.

the lion dancers are here again. i will not deny the festive mood that that lion dancing has added to chinese new year but i can't wait for peace to be bestowed on my lovely neighbourhood again so that i can hear mymusic and my tv with out the drums beating in the background. speak to my amily without the drum beats in the background.

i am becoming a orange addict!! amidst all the other chinese new year goodies you can find in my house. i keep eating the oranges like nobody business... think this is what happen when your mum buy carton of oranges for the new year and the oranges are nice ans sweet. but i am not the worse.. my brother is an orange addict and my sis had happily recount the fact that she and her friend had once tried to break a record by finishing a carton of oranges between them and she claimed to be a orange peeling expert... so well... what is chinese new year without all the chinese new year goodies =). Happy Chinese New Year Everyone! 恭喜发财！学业进步！年年有余！

~天增岁月人增寿 春满乾坤福满门

i can't go for the german immersion! bleach. the trip is from 21 may to 11 june... and suppose that the race is on 12 june.. i can't possibly fly back in time and in condition for the race not to mention the number of trainings i would have to miss... damn... so much of looking forward to the trip. damn. hope there is a trip in july.

i think it is think i sort out my priorities. i had a zillion things to do but i have only 2 pairs of limbs and 1 brain. i am tired. bleach. i hate it when i am tired. bleach.

hi all.. yes it had been a while since i updated my blog as usual.. haha.. been super busy lately. yup. i had to quit my full time job of being a slacker and take up the job of being a student. as usal i am procastinating when there is like tonnes of thing for me to do. all the projects test and reports had start they attack already... which means i have to start my defence soon... wahaha... ok had to go sharpen my weapon for the upcoming war... lab and training in a day tomolo... can't have a better combination already. oh, i want to thanks iso for allowing me to stay in her hall although i didn't go in the end cause not feeling too well and decided to skip work at MM and go home early to rest. thanks iso! btw.. i might drop by to bunk in next monday! =) ok back to sharpening my knife (or cleaning test tubes) and finding my lab coat. die dunno throw where already. dun think can survive 2 consecutive lab without lab coat. damn.

maybe it is time i stop and look around before my live rush pass me.... sound so morbid and serious right?? haha...

i seriously think that i am insane. i really am. i woke up 5plus in the morning on sunday morning to run. ya. this is not the only time that i think i am insane. i had done it alot of times. it just further proved that i am insane without repentance. Confirmed plus chop plus guarantee. had never hated rocks until today. nike real run- sand. this one- rocks. can they just stop being creative and innovative and just stick to the nice cement paved roads that our goverment had spent so much money on. just glad that i managed to finish it. then there is the lucky draw where mona missed her bangkok trip by ONE person. bleah thought that we got so many people will at least win something.. but no. think they just don't like pink. IMOH, the highlight is the roti pratas after the run. yum yum. i love roti prata.

~ Thanks to Yirang who have to slow down to wait for me.... thanks. =)

finally all the disgusting biddings are over and all the lectures are starting which means all the all the lab reports will be here soon too... bleah... finally i am not having a 6days weeks.. i am having 4 days week... yeah!! the cons of it is that all my lectures are all squash together and i have lecture on 6-8pm on thurs which means i will have to miss training... not that i can don't take that module... it is a core but... haiz... and i have 10 hours of lectures on mon and 12 hours on thurs... how exciting right... wahaha

ok... the tag thingy give up on me again... idoit... dun tell me it i s my fualt because i never keep it active because i know and i just want to complain okay... school starting again... (bleach.. more lab reports) will try to update but no promise cos i now got more entertainment since i am staying at home... wish me luck on all the traveling i have to do...

EXAMS ARE OVER!! YEAH !! FINALLY!! now i can finally go back to my 老本行 of being a slacker. ( i am a full time slacker and part time student). the few important things to do for next few weeks are as follow:

(1) eat
(2) sleep
(3) play
(4) watch vcds (priority: anime...)

oop... forgot have to move stuff back home....

2 papers down... 3 more to go.... life sux (quote from mona)... physical chem in 11 hours... and still dun understand what the heck the lecture notes are talking about despite i had dutifully attended most of the lectures for this semester.... shit...

am lingering at the SRC Linger Cafe now.. yes that the canteen with pretty lousy food. the reasom that i am here is because the conference room is occupied, therefore we are forced to linger at the cafe till 6pm... ok enough about the lingering...

regatta 2004 is officially over (for 2 days already actually... okay i abit wols) i think we did pretty well, got third for ivp and first women's plate final... guess what... the prize for the plate final is really a plate... a gold plate... haha... so interesting right... ok here is a hort recount of the event.. (short because despite being stuck at the linger cafe... i am SUPPOSE to be studying...) on stuarday, as usual... we met early for breakfast at mac... wat not usual is i got my lao mei to go down to help as a drummer... then there is the usual excitement and chaos and photo taking of the race... then we went down for the first event... women's open heat.. that is where my lao mei ask me that if she drop into the water i will continue to paddle right... and i nod head and told her yar... heartless as usual haha... then there is usual drama of races boats capsizing (although there seemed to be more capsize for this regatta... dun ask me why) and we did quite well the first day.. getting in semi for both open women's and mixed...

Then on sunday, it is the usual mac breakfast which we "da bao" to eat the UOB plaza so as to protect the "di pan".. then there was the race... and of course more photo taking...

today was my last german lesson... sigh.. think i going to miss my german class alot. maybe it is a language class or something and my class people are all very lively and we interact alot and have alot of fun.. i going to miss them... till next sem.. german 2. hopefully we will be in the same class... and i want to go for german immersion programme must start to save money now... think it will be fun but it migh clash with June race.. haiz.. praying super duper hard it will not... pls don't let June race clash with the immersion...

i am seriously pissed with myself. i missed lectures again. shit. i feel that i had wasting a lot of time and is just procastinating when i have so much to do. idoit.

Here is an update on my interesting life, that is if i have one.

my dream phone

ONE of my favourite chocolate

-Jewels of the Forest by Dewitt Jones

my room is attacked by ants... i am so going to make all the ants regret it.. i officaially declared war against all the ants that are going to step into my room.. you are all going to die if you let me catch you.

woke up this morning in time to make it to my physical chem lecture to only realised that ants has invaded my room (actually yirang who stayed over discovered it first) in the end had to spend the morning sweeping and mopping the floor... and of course this lead to me missing my lecture. shit. i am already like lagging way way behind my lectures (what happened to the resolution??) and missing lectures doesn't help at all...

after spending hour plus sweeping and mopping the floor... i made my way down to science (of the course the lecture had already ended) and went to co-op to get my specs fixed ( i broke it on sun, dun ask me how i broke it. I DUN KNOW. it just broke.).. i thought it would not be too expensive since only the side broke... who knows.. the uncle at the specs shop says that there is no spare part.. so i had to make a brand new specs and it cost me $70. shit. it is going to take me weeks to recover the $70... but well if you look on the bright side... i have a brand new specs now=)... and discovered the joy of having a pair of good specs after having to make do with only contact lenses for 2 days. anyway thinki will attempt to repair my old specs by trying and see if i can stick it back with superglue.

anyway the picture you saw above was taken by a photographer named Dewitt Jones. heard abt him in TR2202 lecture today and was inspired by his photos... TR2202 lecture was interesting today.. not only got to see great photos... got free pens also.. haha...

ok had to get back to work... got 2 projects due next week... not to mention all the catchig up i had to do.

~ creativity is moment where you see the extraordinary out of the ordinary - Dewitt Jones

what is worse then one lab report? TWO lab reports.

due to unforeseen circumstances...i didn't buy a phone again.. i had this feeling i not going to change my phone soon... it is too troublesome to decide over all the features, designs and pricing of the handphone... ergh...

~if the lines on your hand represents your fate. then fate is in your hand.

i need motivation, to set out to do what i want to do. i need to determination to do what to do what might be difficult. i need to perserverence to hang in there, to finish what i had already started out to do. i might not suceed, but i will try.


~ If you can't get through the mountain, try going around it.

If you can't go around, try going over it.

If you can't go over it, ask yourself if getting to other side is all that important.

If it is, set your heart out to dig a tunnel through it.

never depend on technology. sometime i simply hate technology. today is one such day. at 10.30am, 1 and half hours to my german semester test, i was slogging through entering german nouns in the online website vocab book so as to churn out a table to do a last minute revision and memorization of the words while eating my brunch (which consists of instant noodle and milk tea) when the website suddenly give up on me. damn. can't open the website. can't load the page. can't print the words. and time check: 11.00am. dead. half an hour left before i need to leave hall to make it in time for the test. no time to use the good old tradition method of using a pen and paper to churn out the table. damn. so i spend the next half an hour refreshing the page (hoping that the website will be up again), eating and trying to read the available worksheets. of course to no avail. damn. and whose fault is it. mine. why? cos i know of the test long ago and had been procastinating instead of studying and leaving it to last mintue. great and what happened: the website crashed. argh.

lesson learned: never leave things to last mintue. but will lesson be applied? well... =)

finally. the Army Half Marathon is over. 21km in 3 hours.yeah. that is better than what i had expected. all thanks to mona who has been 'forcing' me to run. Thanks Mona!! but no mona.. no... i am not considering another half marathon right now... =) well so here is te recount of the event:

i woke up at 330am asking myself why am i doing this to myself after a day of training... then i drag myself out of the bed, shower grab my stuff 2 pieces of breads and forced myself out of the door before i changed my mind and decide that i should go back to sleep and waste my money... then i grab a cab and pick up mona on the way and made our way to the starting point which is at the Padang ( side note: it is appparantly much easier to catch a cab in the middle of the night then i thought... there is cabs everywhere at 4 am in the morning, which according to the taxi uncle is to cater to pubbing crowd as pubs usually closes at 330am... oh well...) when we arrived at padang we saw a whole bunch of people,mostly guys, who are as crazy as we are to wake up early in the morning to participate in the event ( with exclusion to the army guys who i think are forced to join the event) and a poor DJ who has to wake up as early as we are to entertain us. then wala.. it is the run... which we apparantly missed the flag off and started late... which me and iso decided that we should keep a slow and constant pace which is apparantly slower then our team mates pace... which of course means that we lost them like 2km down the route... then as the run goes on.. each km seem longest then the one before... and my motivation become the next Gatorade water point (although the Gatorade is extremely diluted)... then we managed to catch up with angeline somewhere along ECP... then iso got this sudden bust of energy and start to pick up pace and got further and further... oh well... and for the rest of the run i was running at this really slow pace. (i mean really SLOW pace) and of course looking out for the next Gatorade point. yeah. this trend continued all the way until the endpoint at the esplanade.

After which, me ah yi and iso went in search for milk in hope that it will have the same effects as the good old vitasoy that we had been drinking after every training... and whao.. daisy hi-lo milk had never taste better! yeah!!

after effects: aches in the knees, ankles and back.. what the hell...

and for those curious souls out there... the photo above had nothing to do with the run. it was taken last year in perth australia and i happen to like it alot.. so what the hell if it is 1 year ago.=)

i love rainy days. i love the rain despite all the inconvenience you might faced because of the rain, i don't like to walk with a umbrella , i simply love the power in the rain, the way the rain just seem to come at you, the way it seems to wash the whole world. i feel that the world look more beautiful after the rain. okay.. i am weird.

today it was drizzling when i alighted from bus A1 as i walk towards arts i saw a huge downpour coming towards me.. it is the kind of rain you can see coming towards you and you know the rain cloud is going to cover you in like 3 seconds. at that point of time you just feel like you are standing at the border of 2 different worlds and watch the 2 world merged into one. wished i had a camara to take down the moment. it might not just happen again. shit. missed the chance.

~it is the small little things that make your life and make living interesting.
*~* It only rains on people who create the storms*~*

Procastinating.. porcastinating.. procastinating... i am just procastinating here.. i am suppose to be studying for my german vocab test tomolo.. but what am i doing.. nothing... ergh.. i have a ton of stuff to do... and blogging is DEFINITELY not on the top of my list... what am i doing... and my room is in a mess... okay impt things to do

1) study for german test
2) print lecture notes
3) pack my room
4) finish the design
5)do cm2111 tutorial
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and the list never ends... STOP Procastinating and get BACK to WORK!!

As to when I shall visit civilization, it will not be soon, I think. I have not tired of the wilderness; rather i enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time. I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obsure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bred by cities. Do you blame me for staying here, where I feel that I belong and am one with the world around me? It is true that I missed intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that means so much to me that i have learned to contain myself. It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty...
Even from your scant description, I know that I could not bear the routine and humdrum of the life that you are forced to lead. I don't think I could ever settle down. I have known too much of the depths of life already, and I would prefer anything to an anticlimax.

THE LAST LETTER EVER RECEIVED FROM EVERETTE RUESS,

TO HIS BROTHER, WALDO, DATED NOVEMBER 11, 1934

~~ Quoted from the book Angeline lent me " INTO THE WILD" by Jon Krakauer.

Yeah!!! it is raining cats and dogs and hamsters and whatever outside... just when i want to go out... hopefully the rain will stop of least become smaller in half an hour time... because i really need to go to the sci library to renew a book that i had borrowed for 2 weeks but had no time to read... ergh... i really want to read the book... and i also want to finish the book i borrowed from Angeline... missed the hols where i can read all the FICTION books instead of the textbooks, readings and notes for tests... can't the notes, textbooks and readings be slightly more interesting so that at least when you are reading them you don't feel like sleeping...

and yes i am procastinating now... i suppose to be studying for my test (thats means reading those notes that i have mentioned above) that is going to take place in an hour time but here i am updating my blog... but well, not that i never study... i did flip thru' all the notes i suppose to study and read thru' some of them plus my textbook... but not sure much of it is actually got stored (guess i will finds out in an hour time) and cannot really get the part abt calculations and analysis on the character table, how you actually get the values... well... all the best to me then... luckily it is open book...

the rain seemed too be much smaller... got to venture out to sci lib...

had my SSB2216 prsentation today... the presentation is suppose to try to involved the class but the class was TOTAL unresponsive, whether we try to bribe or try to use penalty questions UNTIL the teacher say there is class participation points... and we missed out a few points and misunderstand the question abit.. but luckily the teacher still give us chance to 补救... so still not that bad.. then the rest of the day is about the same lah... training then go dinner at Angel's Resturant... then back to hall... ya... i meeting Vic to study friday.. see i so hardworking... wahaha... better go do my readings and study for test on thursday since i going to watch moive tomolo... yeah!! at least i am getting out of NUS for a while... =)

~ Drachenboot=Dragonboat

i know the music doesn't go with the background... but i DUN care.. i like can already!! wahaha... and jiayi thanks for sending me the html for the music =)

~ Thanks =)

Today is the start of another busy week.. the resolution of being a hardworking student is starting to slip again ergh... cannot really pay attention in lectures today and cannot understand what the inorg lecturer is trying to say most of the time also.. there starting to have a lot of work piling up... readings and tutorials and tests... yuck!! must really start to do work already.. offically declare honeymoon period over... i think i must be getting senile or something... i nearly forgot to hand up my lab report... yes the lab report i spent hours doing.. can you imagine... OMG...

and today at the german tutorial got this really irritating guy... he can understand very fast then he keep acting like the tutorial is very boring and tell the tutor go faster when the rest of us (or is it only me) is like struggling to catch up.. maybe i am just slow or something... but luckily i made a new friend who can practice with me thanks goodness... okay better get back to doing work.. got SSB module presentation tomolo.. think it will be interesting.. hope that got kit kat left over then our group can eat ourselves... wahaha...

~ 加油！加油！加油!

Guten Morgen! Surprise!! it is 6am in the morning.... and i haven't sleep yet.. wahaha.. why? because i just finish my lab report for cm2132 and i have a seriously bad feeling that my calculations are wrong because the result look weird and the graph look weird.. i have been trying to figure out what was wrong but apparently i cannot see anything wrong, not that i can see anything wrong even if it is magnified for me now with my brain half shut down and overloaded with caffeine... welcome to the life of a Chem major... but maybe it could be me only that is especially slow at doing lab reports... idoits...

Today was a super long day for me... i have analytical chem lecture from 8-10, which i think is quite useless.. because the lecturer is reading word by word from the lecture notes and the jokes are not funny at all.. and btw.. the jokes are also included in the lecture note.. the reason why i am still going for the lectures is because i made a resolution to be a hardworking student this sem... so i have been trying to go for all the lectures...though i might be late =) (Famous Qoute: Better Late Than Never) so i have been going to lectures dutifully but don't know i can last.. wahaha... then i had lab from 10-5 which i was assigned a super long and boring experiment.. hmm.. but actually only the second part is boring... the first part is still quite interesting with the Parr calorimeter where you just key in all the codes and all the measurement will be done for you... met yili and huiqing in canteen during lunch but didn't really get to talk much cos i have to rush back to lab... then i have a german lecture 6-8 which i went without finishing my tutorial, which is bad... because this class i attend is like everyone is so pro... then i went back to hall eat dinner then start my lab report with i finish about 1 1/2 hour ago... then i have lecture again at 8am... see what a interesting life i have... and since i longer i intend to on my lab report, i have like so much stuff pile up that i cannot finish in time again. Everything is like just snowballing lah... haiz and this is only the 3rd week of school...

ps. if you cannot understand all the stuff above, it is Probably normal as this entry is made on a half shut-down brain running on caffeine, so it s most prob incorherrent and mostly crap...

I'm dead... i having my first chem test in less then 8 hours time and i like only know it half an hour ago when jiayi tell me... what if i not not online and i don't know.. then i will just go to lecture tomolo( maybe late for it somemore) without knowing there is a test.. and what am i doing now.. not sstudying for my test but updating my blog... what happen to my resoultion to be a hardworking student this sem... how come i can forget there is at test??? what happen to all the time... why is my reading and work piling up and it is like only the 3rd week of school... ah.... what the hell... enough of complaining... back to studying... how to remeber 20 pages of notes with equation with a half shut down brain... why didn't i remember there is a test... pissed with myself...

back in hall now... went for real run yesterday.. it is a killer especially the streach of beach... in the end i walk on the beach... haha... but felt pretty good when i finish it.. felt even better when i went to eat lor mee at the habourfront hawker centre afterwards haha.. then i just go home and concussed for 15 hours... then today i went to run 6k with mona, iso, serene and miss sam... and do gym somemore... then tomolo still got training... i think i must be crazy...

~~ still waiting for the 2 cows to come home... =)

hihi, here i am again... i was reminded by Jiayi today that i need to update my blog.. haha.. so here i am... okay.. the school had reopen and i kena 6 days week again for 3 consecutive semesters.. . luck can't be worse already unless next sem i kena 6 days week again... oh no cannot imagine it... oh God bless me.. i am staying in hall again this sem... i got a room in extension A and i literally live above a construction site.. but lucky not very noisy and quite windy at night also... so still quite good =) i think by living in hostel... i will keep eating and eating because they is no other entertainment... for example today, i eat beehoon, cheese prata and banana prata and drink bandungcinno (for those who don't know what it is.. it s milk plus rose syrup plus bubble on top... yum yum) for dinner.. wahaha.. then i meeting my junior for mac breakfast tomolo before training... so... well... haha. btw, my chatterbox is activated again after being deactivated cause too long never use.. so you all can leave msg already... =) ok that all for today... going to visit mr zhou gong soon coz tomolo going 8am lecture plus training...

~~ If you body scream at you to stop...
~~ Scream back!!!
(slogan for Nike Realrun 2004)

yoo hoo!!! hi people i am back... haha... i know i had been MIAing... so long that my mag board was deactivaed... okay.. other then hibernating in the hols.. i had been busy with training... had been rowing kallang basin most of my holidays but it is definately more then worth it... despite all the complaining abt the tired training... because we won!! YES WE WON!! we won the IVP womens gold medal by 0.95 sec... yeah!!! months of hard work finally pay off!! NUS did well this year... the guys team won the PM cup (if you all got read chinese newspaper and wacth chinese news.. most prob you all will already know already) and the mens IVP gold and we won the IVP womens and we won the mixed team silver also... but the newspaper is so sexist.. only report about the guy race.. the PM cup... all the girls' race are not mention at all... think they just thought that we are part of the 300 NUS supporters wearing orange... can you believe NUS actually sent down supporters to support the race (the PM cup race only) and they are all wearing the same BRIGHT orange t-shirt... haha... i got the t-ahirt also.. mona gave me hers and it is super big... okay think i better stop talking about the race before you all bored to death...

other then the race... i went to genting and KL for a short holiday with my team... i actually went to play the free fall thingy at the theme park.. it was scary.. it make you feel like you are really falling through air... i think that it one of the greatest achivement of my life and definately one of the most unforgetable moment... of course we shop in KL and i bought 2 t-shirts and a very nice... at least i think it is very nice pull over... great trip overall.. and now with only 1 month left of the holiday... i am just going to R & R until school starts.. wah haha...

~sorry for crapping so much and such a lengthy entry... =)