4 dAys To gO...

slowly counting down the days when i will be going home... can't wait...
mon... went back to uni to look for some books for my last assignment... almost finished but dunno whether i included everything... cos heard that other people's assignment got like over 10 pages and i only have 6 pages... consoling myself by saying that it's the quality that counts and not the quantity rite...
after that... went to parramatta to meet up with my clinical supervisor to sign the evaluation forms... i seriously think that either she has gotten me mixed up with some other girl or she remembered wrongly... bcos she kept telling me all these things and i dun even remember doing them... and the group that i was in charge of looking after was not the group that she kept talking to me about... she kept going on and on about this girl whom i know wasn't in my group but i didn't want to correct her bcos they were actually good things that she remembered... she failed tina, another girl who went with me to the camp, bcos she did not listen to her instructions... the supervisor even asked me if it was fun and if i wanted to go again next year... of course i said yes even when i was thinking... hell no! i dun want to go again... i hate camps and taking care of these kids were not easy and no way am i going back to luna park again!!!

tues... stayed at home... did nothing, actually i was trying to finish up my assignment... boring day... dun even have any nice shows to watch now... when exams are over... all the shows are gone and when my exams are here... all the nice shows had to come at that time... what the hell... CSI is gone... and now left survivor only...
oh and btw... prisy heard that the backstreet boys are coming to australia in jan and singapore... we are definitely going to go check out the prices and i really want to go... never seen them live before... but i know that the tickets must be really expensive...better start saving money now... i am so broke...

yesterday... was supposed to meet up with amelia and karen for lunch... and then till 1pm, they still haven't contacted me yet... like i dunno why i keep hanging out with them when they always disappoint me sometimes... not that they are not nice... they are really nice pple... but like i feel left out everytime i hang out with them... cos they are always speaking canto and i feel so extra... and then i decided to call amelia... she haven't even woken up yet lor... but after that, we met up with karen and went to this christmas shop in alexandria... faraway place... they have all sorts of nice tree ornaments... the nice balls that u use to hang on the trees... the santa claus stuffed toys... alot of nice christmas stuff... and then after that... we went back to the city to sing karaoke... amelia's friends (canto-speaking) came also... and i was like great... they all were singing canto songs and i was the only one singing chinese/english songs... and then amelia's cousin came also and she started smoking... oh man... i can't even breathe properly... how to sing...
and then i had to leave early cos michelle was having a tupperware party at home... wanted to catch a train back... and the silly amelia insisted on driving me back... i was like no way... i told her nope, u can stay here, i can just catch a train... otherwise u have to drive all the way back to pennant hills and then come back to the city again... waste of time and petrol... so when they were buying KFC... i quickly sneaked out and ran to the train station... before i could even buy my ticket... amelia came and she saw me and i was like shit... so i started running... so childish rite... the both of us... running ard the train station... in the end... two against one... and she finally drove me back... i really felt bad though... silly girls...

MeMorIes...

exams are over... and one last assignment to go before i officially finish this year of uni... can't believe it's already almost a year since i came here... it has been a good year, all in all, except for a few hiccups along the way... really looking forward but at the same time, a sense of alienation?? i dunno... to going home... dunno what to expect from pple... family and friends...

was looking thru my photos and autograph book today... realised that i have pushed aside some of the things that happened during school... in crescent, nj, sajc and nyp...
funny things like our water parade during lessons... we would start taking our water bottles out and drink as a whole group... the ups and downs... the mass aerobics sessions... our graduation ceremony... the teachers...
nj... drawing on each other's notes... laughing at the teachers... the funfair... siti and me's maggot-infested locker... can't remember what we put in it though... it was really bad... u can smell it when u walk pass the locker... i still remembered freddy had to help us remove the maggots and we had to spray alot of air freshner... the time when we trained so hard for nafa until we almost 'benged'... and i jumped the furthest i ever jumped in standing broad jump...and everyone started to sing happy birthday... the teachers... the teacher's day picnic... the soya bean drink that i always drink at least twice a week...
sajc... although i was only there for the first three months... had a really fun time there... pe lessons were my favourite... especially when we were playing floorball... melissa and lay kuan... the queens of 'ponning'... always influencing us to pon lessons...
nyp... only been there for one semester but i am so glad to have met my class... OT 0402... the school... nice and clean swimming pool... nice soya bean drink also... nice teachers... pbl on culture...

just want to say that i really glad that fate has given me the chance to meet all these pple and have these memories to treasure till i grow old... i will always remember them... even though we might not see each other again... to all of u... thanks for sharing these unforgettable memories with me...

UnfOrGettAblE...

25 November 2005. I will probably remember this day... what started out as a good day because today was the last day of exams and beginning of the holidays and i unofficially finished year one of uni, turned out to be a shitty day...

today, after neuroscience exam, we had to rush to finish our human occupation portfolio, and because we were in a rush, the referral letter was a mess, dun even know what we are writing... btw... our case conference got 37, which was good but was probably the lowest among our class... so anyway, the three of us were rushing to finish the portfolio, and yochi, mel, tina and jane waited for us for three hours, becos we agreed to go to strathfield to eat to celebrate jane and tina' s birthdays... okay, so we went to this korean place, not ceci, but another korean bbq restaurant... to eat that spicy chicken and cheese that i said was really nice... ordered that and bbq beef... it was so spicy, all of us were like tearing up and turning red and sniffing... we actually had six refills of tea... but it was good... and then karen and i decided to treat them bcos they waited three hours for us to finish the portfolio...
and then after that... went to woolies to buy ice -cream to 'cool' our mouths... haha... so the six of us sat outside woolies and ate ice-cream... talked abt our excitement at going back home... but mel, karen and yochi are staying here during the holidays... at least i have company during the holidays after coming back...

after that, took the express train to epping with yochi... when we were about to get down at epping, i suddenly realised that i lost my phone bcos i remembered holding it in my hand... so i quickly turned back and started searching the whole cabin... i really started to panic... took out everything in my bag, looked everywhere, and this lady sitting behind me was kind enough to offer to lend me her phone to try and call my phone... i tried, but it was actually no use bcos my phone was on silent mode... and bcos the train was an express... it went all the way to hornsby and i got down there... i quickly went to report to the guard on the train and he went with me back into the cabin to look for my phone... but to no avail also... i also went to report at the station office... by that time, i really was super upset... can't remember my phone model and home number... luckily i got the home number written down in my wallet... called home and realised that yochi actually called prisy when she saw that i did not get down at epping...
and when she tried to call my phone... a guy picked up the phone... and the guy was actually the one sitting beside me in the train... he was really kind enough to pick up my phone and return to yochi for me... so now... my phone's with yochi and will be getting it back from her on monday...
today's incident really woke me up and i never want to experience it again... i cannot even imagine what will happen if someone picked up the phone and took it... i would really be in deep shit...
this incident has really taught me to keep my phone properly and not be so careless...

FiRefLy/ SerEniTy...

What a hectic last week of school before the exams this has been! so many assignments due the week before the exams and dun even have time to blog...
this is also all prisy and michelle's faults... especially prisy... before i came here, i dun even like to watch those sci-fi shows but now, after i came here, prisy got me hooked on shows like star wars, lord of the rings, fifth element, star trek, aliens, and now the latest one is Firefly...
it is produced by the same producer of buffy the vampire slayer... and i must say, the show is really good... very funny and the characters are all very interesting and funny...
didn't even hear abt this show until when i came back from work that night, and heard prisy and michelle laughing...
and i sat there for a while, thinking to rest for a little while and then do my assignment, and before i know it... shit... i was so hooked on the show... and the movie Serenity is actually based on the series firefly...
okay, so all of us sat there in front of the tv, till 2am watching the show... and guess what... we decided to go watch the movie... the movie has already been out since september already... and when i first saw the trailer, i didn't really like the show... but the movie was really good... one of the best movies i've seen...

oh man, all of us are now so hooked with the show... that's why we were watching the show on both nights consecutively... and i ended up starting my assignment just two days before it was due... and michelle actually found out that Joss Whedon, the producer actually wanted to continue with season 2 but the show got cut off... i actually thought the series was pretty good...
she even went to buy the dvd for the show... and we were also like saying, if there was like a petition to support the show for season 2, all of us will sign on it...

went to this faraway place called Alexandria yesterday... anyway, bought another skirt.... i dun even know why i keep buying skirts when i dun even wear them... and now it's so hot and the stupid flies are back again... like seriously, they are everywhere... sickening :(

wed... went to eastwood to eat at the roast pork shop with amelia and karen... received an accelerated program in cantonese... all thanks to karen... she taught me how to pronounce the menu in canto and also taught me how to speak canto... after eating, they came over to do their assignments... wed was a super super hot day... stayed till 7pm... hmm...i think we laughed and talked nonsense more than we did our assignments...

HoME...

so sian rite now... i should be mugging now... but i dun feel like it... so i am going to blog and complain again... hmmm...
as usual... exams are coming, and i haven't started studying and all my assignments are accumulating ( what's new?)... i am so tired every time i go home... especially after work... and then i dun feel like studying or i would feel sleepy after reading like 2 pages... no matter how much i sleep, also not enough... i think something's wrong with me...

not much happening stuff these few days... except at work... the evil woman is becoming nice to me... made me really suspicious... i won't be fooled by her though... like on mon... i pressed the wrong key and the transaction already went thru... so i had to call for her and she apologized to the customer on my behalf and she even pat my back and asked me not to worry abt it... what the hell... anyway, i still dun like her...

kept thinking and doing other things like watching tv and reading and surfing the internet instead of mugging... and thinking of the things that i want to do and buy when i go back... can't wait... counting down the days when i am finally home again...really miss it...

PictuREs...

Nao and Bo came to our house on the day I came back from camp... and Nao cut my hair... and I am in my pyjamas!!! ah...



Me and Prisy contemplating the really spicy but super yummy chicken with melted cheese dish at the new korean place we went to in strathfield...

GuiLTy...

Felt very guilty this week... cos i 'pon' classes... felt more guilty now than when i 'pon' during jc days... shit...
watched infernal affairs that day, the whole 3 series... so confusing and complicated... at the end of the third one, i am still like' what?', still got alot of questions unanswered... but it was overall quite a good movie, unlike the Initial D... watched halfway and I already felt like sleeping, which I did... and then yesterday went swimming at Lane Cove, and then went to eastwood... bought the twin effect dvd and watched it with prisy... the first one was funny but the second one... we were like huh?... what's the connection between the first and second one? no vampires in the show also... at the dvd shop, also saw the chinese show, Qian Nu YOu Hun... wanted to buy it, but i know that if i bought it... I won't be able to study...

thurs... went to the city with amelia and karen to sing karaoke... yay... now they have this sing for 3 hours for 10 dollars and get a free drink policy... after that, met up with karen's mum... apparently her mum is in the macau rotary club and a group of them from the rotary club are here for a week to promote macau... she was surprised when i told her that i know about rotary clubs and singapore also have one... and that I was from interact club in jc... although everyone knows that the interact club is also known as the slacker's club in nj... never really did much also... just did alot of community service...

this week... worked almost everyday except tues and sun... sian ah... i am starting to get so sick of my workplace... like I dun mind if i am actually being a cashier, but bcos it's very quiet at night, i am more like a cleaner... clean this, clean that, make sure that everything is clean, no food scraps or onion skin or rice grains... blah blah blah... and i noe that they purposely dun want me to work on sundays, cos you will get higher pay per hour if u work on sundays... they prefer to get the younger pple to work so that they dun have to pay them as much...

Wk 11...

last fri... both prisy and me went to macquarie shopping centre after dropping michelle at work and oh my god, we spent the whole day there... can u imagine?? we went shopping at first of course, i bought a dress, and this was the first dress i owned... bought it from tree of life, which is this indian store, selling all the indian stuff like necklace, bracelets, clothes, etc... they even have the indian smell...

ate pretzels with prisy... yum yum, and after that, shop some more and after lunch we went to borders, sat there and started reading my In Death series... i am collecting the whole series, so when i go back, i will go look for the next 2 books... I read Origin in death while prisy read survivor in death... i was saying to her that the newer books were not as interesting as the previous ones... the storyline has become more serious and not that funny anymore... so the two of us sat there and read till like 4pm... and then go back to epping to pick michelle up again... did not even go back home...

sat worked in the morning, and prisy and me went to castle towers to shop... again... actually she wanted to go look at the cosmetic store there after she read this magazine on make-up and got some 'enlightenment'... auntie and uncle came back home that night... and they brought back alot of snacks for us... yay... they brought famous amos cookies (which the three of us are crazy abt), the calbee hot and spicy potato chips, nuts and of course, my 3-in-1 milo, which i cannot live without... the three of us were so excited and the cupboard was full of snacks until we had to put them all into the garage... keep them for 'emergencies'...

yesterday, was our HO presentation... stayed up till late that monday night to finish the presentation... i was so tired, cos i also had to work that day, so by the time i got back home, it was already 1030pm... okay, we actually had to do a role play cos the presentation was actually supposed to be a case conference... so karen and amelia thought of using the hello kitty toys as the members in the conference... our tutor and the class were so amused by us... they were like, where did u guys get those toys???... apparently, the hello kitty phenomenon was an ' asian' thing... still remembered the fightings and long queues in mcdonald's when the stupid ugly cats came out... these pple are nuts...
i personally feel that out of the 3 groups that presented that day, ours was the briefest... the information we had were very brief, and the other 2 groups one were all quite detailed... anyway, now that the presentataion is over, we also have to do the portfolio due in wk 14...
viva for COP is coming again... still have not started learning my manual muscle testing and ROM tests... and my splint... i am so screwed...

BoRinG stUff...

today's blog will be a short one, i hope...
nothing much happened during the weekend, except that i was working on both sat and sun, resulting in me not doing any studying and assignments... if u are wondering abt what happened to the evil woman, she STILL has not quit yet or be fired, which i have no idea why, bcos i know that alot of pple really hate her... she has taken to complaining to me recently, and i'm like thinking, pls stop talking to me, i dun want to hear anything coming out from you... but of course, i will not say that, i just nod and agree to whatever she says... still harbouring the hope that she will be fired or she will quit soon...

uni... been making splints for COP these few weeks... not that easy to make though... as my lecturer said, it's just like cooking or sewing, it's either u can do it or you can't... and we have to make one for the viva... next week is our HO presentation already, and we haven't even finish doing one-third of what we have to do... good luck to our group... i hate to do things last minute, but somehow, i always end up doing that... and i start to panic cos the deadline is getting nearer, and i dun do the stuff well...

WhAt a WeeK...

last tues prisy suggested that I join her friends to strathfield to eat at the korean place ceci... when we arrived there, it was closed, i was really disappointed, i was looking forward to eating there... so we went to the other side of the station and found this other korean place, i dun really noe the name cos it's in korean... the place was really nice though, very cosy and we initially decided to dare ourselves to try this special spicy chicken dish... even the waiter also said it was really spicy, and then when our dish came, we realised that it wasn't what we wanted... the waiter heard wrongly and gave us this chicken with melted cheese dish... i must say that the waiter did the right thing... cos all of us liked it although it was also very spicy... we were like saying if this dish is that spicy already, can u imagine what the one that we originally wanted would be like?!... and the one that we had was really good... it was like chicken on top the plate of melted cheese, and underneath the cheese, was a layer of potato and crispy bread... yum yum...
after that, prisy's friend, xueting, treated us to icecream bought from woolies, it's the caramel drumstick, and it was nice... tues was a fruitful day for us, we tried 2 new things, the korean place and the caramel icecream...

fri was neuroscience mid semester exam, i thought it was not that difficult, as compared to the sample paper that i tried doing... should be okay... assignments are starting to pile up, it's always neverending...
final exam timetable came out already... 21-25 nov... better start studying already... i have to keep telling myself that from now on... time really passes... i have been in sydney for almost a year already... seems like yesterday, i was at changi leaving to come here... sigh...

yesterday... worked until 4pm and after that, went with prisy to her colleague, Lauren's, house party... ate till i was so full, shouldn't have eaten the shephard's pie at home... and i also drank alcohol... that was a first for me... till now, i have only drank wine but yesterday, i drank something green called midori?? it was yucky... maybe bcos i am a first-timer... prisy was even better... she drank that, and tequila and cowboy... whatever that is... i was told that tequila is actually a really disgusting drink, that's why pple drink it down in a shot... i had fun yesterday, although i was quite tired after work... we ate, sang songs and danced in Lauren's living room, her colleagues were really funny and young-at -heart though... most of them are like mothers with kids already, but they still act like teenagers, dancing and singing along to the songs, which btw, most were songs which i have never heard of before...

FaRewELL...

Farewell, our dear Birdie...
yes, our cute little cockatail died yesterday at approx. 8am... all of us are really upset about it, especially uncle, cos he was the one who spent the most time with the bird...

events that led up to his death: birdie flew away AGAIN when uncle brought him out into the garden on mon... so we all had to knock on neighbours' doors and look for him... history repeating itself... and then at night when we came home from uni, uncle told us that birdie flew into one of our neighbour's house and they brought him to a vet, bcos they have 2 cats and the cats were attacking birdie... but according to uncle, birdie did not seem hurt when uncle went to the vet's to fetch him home... and then when uncle brought him out of the cage, we realised that he did not look okay and he was not his usual self... he was just like sitting there letting us pat him and he was really quiet... he did not even look like the birdie we had... prisy even suggested that we bring him to a vet the next day, to see if he has any internal injury or something... we all thought that he was just traumatised by the cats and he would be alright after a few days, just like the previous time he flew away...
and then the next day, when i woke up and went downstairs, michelle told me that birdie had died and uncle buried him already... i was like 'what???'... didn't even get to say goodbye or see him for the last time... and it was raining outside also...
it was a sad day...

HolE in My poCkEt...

i am getting reaLLY bad at blogging... had to wait till monday then I can come to school to blog...
anyway, michelle came back from singapore last week, bearing my favourite essential peanut butter and calbee hot and spicy potatao chips... i cannot live without my peanut butter, and mum even bought a super jumbo-sized one... it was the biggest bottle of peanut butter i have ever seen... can last me till dec and then when i go back, can buy some more...haha...

last fri... it was like a shopping spree for me... my pocket now has a huge hole, and i still owe auntie and michelle money... have to wait till i get my pay then can pay them back... i dunno what the hell i bought... no wait, actually i noe... i bought 2 blouses, a bag for prisy as her bdae present and 2 blouses for pong... this was bcos michelle had a 40% discount voucher for espirit so the three of us went to the espirit shop at macquarie that fri to see whether there were any nice clothes... and then after that, we went to hornsby again to shop, crap... i feel so guilt afterwards, cos i have never spent so much money in a day before and i am not even a shopping fanatic...

sat and sun was a slacking weekend again for me... did not study for my neuroscience exam this fri as i have planned, instead was watching movies with prisy... i did alright for my anatomy exam, which was not too difficult, maybe bcos i have already learnt the stuff before...

okay, i was thinking about this matter since last week already, but i was still undecided abt whether i should write it in my blog... i have since decided to write it, if it offends anyone, whatever...
the thing is... i dun really feel comfortable sometimes about lending my notes to pple, especially when an exam is coming and i need them to study rite, but then if i dun lend it to them, pple will think, why this person so selfish?, etc... and they won't friend me anymore... oh man, do i sound childish?! but that's what i really think when this kind of thing happens... so everytime i feel really hard not to say no to them, i noe it's not their fault, but sometimes, i do need my notes to study... and sometimes, even my assignments also... i mean, the assignments are what i spend my time researching for information and these pple just take and copy, it's just really unfair... there's no way i can tell them no, even in a nice way...
and then yesterday, we already agreed to meet up at someone's house to discuss our HO project, and then one hour before we were supposed to meet up, one of them called and told me that she suddenly have something on and have to cancel the meeting, so okay, and then i found out that the reason was bcos she went out to watch a movie, not bcos she had something really impt to attend to...
i was so pissed... i dun think i want to do another project with them again, if this happened the next time...

1sT CliNicAl plAceMeNt...

one week of uni break just flashed by... came back from camp on fri and slacked the entire weekend and on mon...

camp was more good than bad, i think... it was quite fun... but taking care of 5 kids, aged 11-14 was definitely not easy... especially when 2 of the kids dun want to participate in any of the activities, and kept ignoring my instructions... the lessons that i've learnt were that, next time, bring games to play, and something to read to occupy myself... there was so much free time in between activities, ohmigod, and i didn't bring a book to read or something to entertain myself and the kids... in the end, we all sat down and watched tv... the first 2 days of camp was shitty, cos it was raining the whole time... the kids were getting restless, and they had nothing to do...
one good thing abt the camp was that the accomodations and food was good, we had our own tv and toilet, and the six of us shared a room... the food was okay also, except that we had the same thing for every single meal... i ate pasta till i am so sick of it now...

i got to go canoeing and archery, which was fun, cos i haven't had the chance to do archery till now... btw, i sucked at it though... none of my arrows hit the target, all of them landed on the floor... missed abseiling though, cos i was on crafts duty that day... i would have liked to try that...
i was really lucky to have met good supervisors on this placement though... cos having a horrible supervisor could ruin your entire practical experience... they were all really nice and took good care of us...

did i mention that the camp was for kids with juvenile arthritis? it's really sad to see them like that though... most of the kids looked fine physically, and only two of the kids there were in wheelchairs... but all of them were smiling and having fun... and they had to take alot of medications and injections before mealtimes... it was really heart-wrenching to see them like this, and some of them are still so young... i think the youngest was only 8 yrs old...
one of the things that my supervisor said during the camp really touched me... she said that although these kids have been through much more than what most adults in their lifetime have gone through, they still wake up and face everyday with a smiling face... and that's really true, most of them truly enjoyed themselves during the camp and that's probably why they kept coming back to the camp each year, so that they can do the activities without having to feel the fear of being rejected or their friends laughing at them...

we also went to Luna Park on wed... and i am NOT going back there ever again... i hate to go on the rollercoasters and the things that spin you ard... but i had no choice cos i have to look after the kids... and oh man... i almost cried when i sat the stupid thing that spins you ard... it was really bad... i screamed the entire time it was moving and also when i was on the rollercoaster... i preferred 'tamer' games like the bumper cars and the ferris wheel, which we didn't get a chance to go on... i put my foot down on the one that went upside down though... definitely not me...

the kids these days are really daring... i felt so old standing next to them... and they already start putting makeup, they brought like hair rollers and straighteners with them... and i'm like... how old are these kids??... i dun even noe how to put them on myself...

that was abt it i guess, i think all the OT students on this placement enjoyed it though... i wouldn't mind going back again... if i get well-behaved kids...

oh and i wish to mention that when i was Luna Park... i saw the racing horse game, and it reminded me of the NJ carnival, and I had a really memorable time then... nj also brought in that game and i played and won myself a nice teddy bear... siti, sumin, and sharon, u guys probably are not reading this, but i will never forget the fun times we spent all our money playing the stupid 'uncle ringo' game in nj... :) that was probably one of my happiest moments in njc...

CaMp fOotlOoSe...

going to the camp already... so fast! time passes really quickly... fri was anatomy exam and i will going to camp for a whole week... i am going to miss my pillow, my bolster and my bed...
the last time i went to a camp was in sec 4...red cross camp... in crescent...didn't really enjoyed it though... haven't even started packing... yesterday spent the night planning the games for the kids, btw, thanx prisy, for helping me...:)

anatomy exam was okay, i guess, just that i am so confused with the orientation of the bones and the actions of the muscles, like which muscle moves what joints...
anyway, was supposed to finish up my ORL assignment, in the end, i think i would have to finish it when i come back...

Michelle went back... i am so envious... wish that i could also go back now instead of having to wait till dec... she seems to be enjoying herself alot, which is good, cos she hasn't been back for a long long time... asked her to bring back famous amos and peanut butter for me... haha... dun like the peanut butter here...
btw... do u guys want me to buy anything from here? i can try to look for the stuff you want and bring it back... just email me k... or tell me on the tagboard... :)

QuEen oF prOcrAsTinaTiOn...

just came back from another altercation with the 'evil woman'... if not for the money, i would really like to tell her to p*** off...
and u noe what, while i was having lunch that day at work, overheard two of my supervisors bitching abt her too... so i wasn't the only one who detest her... and i heard them mentioning that alot of pple at work also complained abt her, and she herself dun like working at our branch... and she's currently looking for another position at other locations... good riddANCE... the faster you are fired, the better...
whenever i have a shift with her on duty, i always go home in a bad mood... asshole...

watched Stealth last friday with prisy... i liked the show alot... although the reviews that i read abt the show weren't very good... Josh Lucas's eyes are the bluest i have ever seen... and his are definitely real... highly recommended... the way the film was shot was really good...

anatomy exam coming this friday... and i haven't even finish revising half of the materials... so many details to remember, and i have to say that what they teach here is much more detailed than what i remembered studying in nyp... tried the sample exam paper and almost failed... alamak...

was supposed to study over the weekend...on sat... worked in the afternoon and then at night... ended up watching the chinese show again... with prisy... bcos uncle somehow managed to install the computer into the tv... so what was originally on the computer, can now be watched on tv... so obviously, we were very excited and what started out as a 'testing' session, turned out to be watching the show until midnight session... okay so i told myself, i will study on sun...
and then at 9am in the morning, i was still sleeping, the phone rang and my supervisor asked if i can start work at 10am till 7pm... great, in the end, never got to study at all...

DeLayEd BloggInG...

alamak!!! so long never blog already... now have to blog during common lunch... which means that i will be in hungry city later... and today finish at 4pm...

firstly...saw joanna's comment abt me wearing the OT shirt that day, and u noe what?!... pple in my course were very fascinated by it... asked me how come I got the shirt, and they liked the design too... yay... and i told them i attended OT back in singapore, and that the students there all have to have a class tshirt or something to represent their class... haha...
and then that day, i was talking to my friend and i said 'a-ba-den', which means obviously or yes, rite, and she was like, 'excuse me?!'... and then me and angela started to laugh, cos it's like a singlish thing... haha...

hmm... went to watch REd EYE last tues... now Greater Union no more $5.70 movies already, when we arrived there then found out abt it, but in the end, we still decided to watch... actually we were supposed to do like a community invasion thing for HO, pretend to be a visually-impaired person, and go into the community... the list of things that we were required to do were take public transport, cross a busy intersection, buy drinks... but we drove there instead... and we didn't really do the thing anyway, cos like karen didn't want to wear the blindfold ard westfield...
btw, if u haven't watched the movie, pls dun waste ur money (like me!)... it was dumb, i can't believe rachel mcadams would act in this kind of movie, and what's worse, with that, pervert-looking guy!!! he always act like pervert and creepy roles... in batman also...

next week got anatomy test!!! so fast leh... i totally forgot all my attachments and actions and joints... they are even more detailed over here... have to learn abt bone tissues, muscle tissues, cartilage, etc... sian ah... and the anatomy lab stinks even worse than the one in nyp... the smell is really strong and it stays with you for like a few days... the good thing is that, they have a lot of cadavers available, so dun have to take turns or stand on tiptoes to look... for short pple like me...
going for my clinical placement camp next week... huh... decided that i made a bad choice in choosing to go during this one-week break, cos after the break, alot of assignments due... and that means i have to complete them before the camp...shit...

saw the pictures that sherry took of her uni, SMU... really look like a high-class hospital, compared to our campus here... which reminds me, compared to any school back in singapore, our campus is like a hole... thanks sherry anyway for taking those pics... i want to go visit there when i go back... can't wait...

MoRe PicTuRes...

Karen and me, at Burwood foodcourt...

outside BITE ME...



outside Anatomy lab...



At Auburn RSL, having buffet lunch...

UpDaTeS...

now, i can't blog so often already... cos firstly, i really must start mugging, cos i have been slacking for the first 4 weeks since uni started, and i am warned not to use up the bandwidth at home... sigh... so i can only come to school and blog...

last wed, we had a 3hour break so went to have lunch with some friends, and it was like a birthday lunch they had for me... we had buffet, long time never eat buffet already, and the prices were quite reasonable, at this auburn RSL club... RSL stands for Received and Services League... which, btw, i have absolutely no idea what it means...
they actually have like lotus and char siew baos, and prawn crackers, and icecream... yum... when i saw the baos...i was so excited! never got to eat bao since i came here...
ate till i felt so bloated that i can't have dinner...

another thing that i wish to mention is that... i would like to congratulate myself... haha... on surviving my first winter here... it was really cold at times, especially at night... but spring's here... although these few days it was raining, and was really cold... 3 cheers for andrea...

on fri... went to chinatown with prisy and amelia to go look for cheap airplane tickets to singapore... yes, i plan to go back home in dec... we finally found a travel agency which offered quite reasonable SIA tickets at AUD$920... excluding taxes... and we plan to go back on the 5 dec till 23 dec... it was really an adventure... roaming the streets and going from one travel agency to the next... made me feel quite grown-up, cos i dun really get the chance to do something like that back home, now i just have to earn money to pay for my own ticket...
this weekend's work was tiring but i enjoyed it... no need to see the stupid person's face... was supposed to see her on sun night, but my other nice supervisor changed my shift from sun night to in the morning... haha... must be my prince of luck shining on me... :) and the whole of this week i also won't see her... so i am in a good mood this week...
after that, went to this foodcourt in chinatown and ate this korean spicy beef dish which was recommended by prisy... yum... really nice and spicy... better than ceci... the portion is also bigger and got more meat...
and then amelia had to leave for her driving lessons, and me and prisy continued to walk towards town hall... to go karaoke!
i have been looking forward to go karaoke, and then to my disappointment, echopoint did not have the songs that i want to sing... so we sang for an hour and decided to go big echo... and irritating, the place was fully booked... some pple just have nothing better to do than go karaoke... in the end, we just went home... oh and btw, i happened to see the 'wu ying liang ping' dvd selling for quite cheap, and i bought it... not bad... just like in karaoke, even have lyrics to the clips...
now i want to look for the greatest video clips for backstreet boys... maybe have to try online, cos i can't find any here...

okay, as the end for today's blog, i want to mention something really confusing to me, at least... u now how back in nyp, dr ravi taught us that the action for supraspinatus was to help initiate abduction, as in all the anatomy tb... but here, my lecturer says that the muscle has no action, it just provides a medial force to the humeral head, keeping it in the glenoid fossa... huh???
i am so confused... who to believe???

ChInEse PalaDIn II...

The main characters in the show... Can u spot Wang LuJiang??

HaPy 20th BdaE...

went to burwood westfield to celebrate my bdae with amelia and karen last fri... was abit diappointed becos i thought that more pple were coming... but it was still fun... they bought me a wallet, a soft toy and a cake... and then we had fast food for lunch... haha... cos i want to eat mcdonald's and amelia wanted to eat kfc... so in the end, we decided to eat in the foodcourt... after that... we went shopping for abit and then had to leave early cos i was doing another morning fresh promotion in the afternoon...

business was really bad... i only manage to sell 1 box of pathetic Tectabs... cos not many pple go to coles west pennant hills i think, since the opening of woolies at thornleigh, where i work...
which reminds me of the supervisor whom i dun like... now all i can do is to pretend to smile at her and do whatever she tells me to do while i am cursing her inwardly...
i feel so hypocritical sometimes... like even though u dun like somebody, u still have to act like u are close friends with them... i think as u grow older, when u go out to work, u will face this kind of problems... especially here, cos like even in woolies, some supervisors are friendly, but others only seem friendly at times, other times, they can like 'fan lian bu ren ren'...

okay, at night, auntie fried roti prata for us, and we also ate this really nice ice cream as dessert, called conoisseur... and prisy gave me the album for the chinese show as a bdae gift... i have been wanting to get it, and she managed to find it, but she won't tell me where... bad girl...thank you. to michelle too, for the scarf...

went to watch unleashed yesterday... quite nice show, funny too... it wasn't that violent, as compared to sin city... which was gross... especially elijah wood, he looked really creepy... thank god it was in black and white, otherwise, with all the blood and gore everywhere... and the yellow thing... yuck, what is that?? reached home quite late, and now i am so tired, cos i dunno why, these few days, although i sleep early, and didn't really do much studying, i still feel sleepy...
btw, are the pics of the show chinese paladin nice? i spent quite alot of energy and time looking for them... highly recommended show to watch...

ChiNesE paLaDiN...

The album cover of the chinese show that I am currently in love with...
"Xian Jian Qi Xia Zhuan"... also found out that its english name is Chinese Paladin... btw, thanks prisy and michelle for this birthday present...




The entire cast of the show, got a lot of HongKong, Taiwan, China and 3 Singaporean artistes... And I found out that the main leads are all like only a few years older than me, and some are even younger than me... the youngest chrarcter, Ah NU, who is my fav, is only 16!!! ahh... i feel so ancient...



The lyrics to the really nice song by Ah Sang...




My 2 fav characters in the show... isn't the guy cute??? His character name is Tang Yu Xiao Bao...

Ski PicTuRes...

Brrr.. very cold... outside the cabin where we stayed...

No gloves... heehee...


That's me, prisy, michelle, and her colleague, Diana. Don't we look professional? haha... I am the only un-professional one...

"REn"...

bitch! mon suddenly got a call from my supervisor asking me to go and work that night... and then found out that the stupid bitch was the supervisor for that night too... and u now wat she said to me that day???! she said " andrea, do u have a problem listening to wat i tell you to do? if you dun follow my instructions, i will be your worst enemy and u won't last long here... and the door is open, u can walk out whenever u like..." blah blah... asshole. i purposely ignored her, if not, i will surely say things that i will regret later and she will go and complain to the head supervisor, so i kept quiet till she came and tell me those things... so i was like, why are u always picking on me?? and she was like no, i did not pick on you, ask anyone, i am an easygoing person... i wanted to laugh... please... easygoing? that word will never apply to you piece of shit...

and then last sunday, i was supposed to end my shift at 7pm, okay, so she expects me to end exactly at 7pm, so when it was 5 min to 7... i rang the bell and told her that my shift ends at 7... and she was like... it's still 5 min till 7, make sure that ur register is clean before i let u home, and u have 5 min to clean it... and then there were 3 other cashiers ending at 7 too... but instead of asking them to clean their registers too... she told them they can go already... if that's not picking on me, i dunno what is... asshole.

she makes me so pissed everytime she appears in front of me that i make mistakes... like dropping the change and pressing the wrong keys... and then at night, i can't sleep, thinking whether she will go tell the head supervisor and then getting me fired...
i kept telling myself to ignore her and not let her get to me... but how... when i have to see her freaking face every time i go to work...

i just keep telling myself to "ren" and try to ignore her (which is impossible, cos she keeps asking me to do stuff), and think of the money...

"Dao mEi"...

saw the roster for next week... made me dread going to work next week and ruined my entire week... why? bcos the person that i hate most will be supervising for my shifts next week... sickening... so "dao mei"...

fri... went to do a promotion for this Morning Fresh brand dishwashing liquid and Tectabs... at woolworths Hornsby... not as fun as last time when i was promoting pods... not many pple pass by that aisle where i was standing and the store did not have many of that particular stock... cos i think it's a new product... so i was really surprised that there were a few pple who bought the tabs and the dishwashing liquid... not my area of expertise though... pods is more like it... promoting edible stuff is always better... then i can "cobe" some and eat... hee...

sat morning had to attend the clinical placement camp briefing at parramatta... Tina and me lost our way cos they changed the busstop to another place and so we arrived there 15 min late... but luckily the person-in-charge also was late... anyway, they talked abt the arthritis foundation and that they have been doing this sort of camp for children with juvenile arthritis for a few years already... there were 2 pple there who also had arthritis and they told us abt their experience... the camp is this place called narrabeen which is like an hour's drive... Tina managed to get someone who is also from OT to drive us there...

good news (to me)... i found out the name of the singer and the song title of the song that i really liked in the chinese show... it's called "yi zhi hen an jing" by ah sang... really really nice song... i really have to look for the soundtrack for the show... apparently they have it and it's out in taiwan...

SkI weeKeNd...

I am Back!
i was soooo tired after coming back on sunday night, and then for the past two nights... yesterday was really tiring... started uni at 8am and finish at 5pm... and then have to quickly rush to work and what pissed me off was the stupid train service... it was sooo delayed and there was a major confusion at epping that caused a major crowd waiting at the platform for the all stoppers to hornsby... in the end, i was late (again!!!) for work... shit man...

hmmm... sherry asked how was my skiing trip... how shall i start... it was both a fun and disastrous experience... fun part was everything else excluding learning how to ski... i got to see snow, touch it, and if u want to know how it feels for those who haven't seen and touched it before, like me before friday... it felt like a more solid version of ice kacang... so go have a touch of ice kacang next time u order it... :) i didn't get to build a snowman though... but i saw a few very cute ones along the way...
got to see the beautiful scenery along the way there, it takes abt 6 hours drive, past canberra, and then 3 more hours to where we stayed... we rented a cabin and it's another 35min to the Selwyn Snowfields, the place where we went to ski...

started our journey early on fri morning, and arrived at the cabin ard 6pm... the cabin got a real fireplace... haven't seen one before too... we had to manually put logs and firestarters to start the fire... not those electrical ones...
slept quite early cos got nothing to do... the tv reception was very bad and after playing a round of scrabble...

Sat morning, started our ascent to the mountains... when we arrived, there were already quite alot of people there already... mostly families and u see these little kids wearing ski gears and skiing... so cute... and they ski so well! unbelievable! kids were tobogganing, and they had these little doughnut like tyres that u sit on and u slide down the hill... expensive though...
took awhile to finally get our ski gears and we were all ready to start skiing... except me... huh...
i can't even stand up properly and i can't even get my ski boots into the ski board... i think i took abt like 15min before i could do it...hopeless, when i finally start moving like 2cm, guess wat happened?
no surprise... i fell on my b***... luckily the snow quite soft and my b*** got padding to protect... otherwise, by the time i finish, i will have blue-blacks all over... which i still have on my arms and legs...
prisy and michelle and her colleague tried to teach me how to ski, like how to snowplough, which is like having to make ur legs to an inverted V... which somehow i still can't get it... that's how u stop urself too when u lose control and ski downwards very fast... which always happen to me... and michelle's colleague told me that it's really bad to fall back, so i had to always lean forwards, but somehow, i always end up on my behind...i was soo tired after my third attempt and falling down so many times, and wat's worse was that i can't get up by myself, they had to come pull me up, or take off my ski boards...

and then, we sat on the ski lifts to go up the hill again, again, i had difficulties standing up, i always fall and the guy there had to come pull me up... so whenever he sees me coming on the chair lifts, he must be preparing himself to pull me up, cos i fell every single time...

I kept trying and trying, but in the end, i still gave up, it's really difficult... and i didn't ski on sunday... i sat there and watched people ski... sigh... prisy tried to comfort me by saying that it was my first time and that when she skiied for the first time, she also hated it...
anyway, it will be a long time before i will even attempt to try skiing again...
overall, it was a good experience, and now that i noe what it's like to ski, at least next time, IF and it's a big IF, i ever go again, i will have something to "fall back on"...
haha, get it??

okay, i will try to post some pics when i have the time... till then...

GetTiNg diFficUlt..

in the computer lab now, nothing to do, waiting to pass the time, then have to work later...
week 1 of semester 2 officially ended today... timetable this semester got good and bad... the bad things are that tuesdays start at 8am and finish at 5pm... thursday, which is today, got 3 hours lecture... the good news is that we get to have fridays off...
this semester, starting to learn more about OT, things like splints, measuring ROM, anatomy (oh man, i kept hearing Dr Ravi's voice in my head, saying the anatomical names during anatomy lectures and practs... is that creepy or wat???), neuroscience, occupational roles across lifespan... very "chim"...
but i am sooo glad that i dun have to take sociology ever again... almost died last semester studying for it... can't even remember a single thing now also...

oh and I finally got to meet Chris Chapparo in person... she's teaching us systematic instruction this semester... in nyp, when i was researching in the journal articles, her name kept popping up, and i found out that she's actually a really well-known OT here in aus...

btw, i will be going skiing during the weekend... yay... dunno whether it will be fun or not... prisy said it's actually quite difficult and tiring... will update when i come back...

I hate you. I hate to see ur detestable face. Who the freaking hell do you think you are, to scold me and humiliate me in front of so many people? Why do I have to put up with ur shit? I never EVER want to see ur stupid freaking face again, not if I can help it. Go away, and I hope you get fired soon... or someone else lodged a complaint against you...
Why do we have to clean the place? Our job does not require us to clean every freaking inch of the place... so stop bossing us around.
I have never met another person as annoying and bitchy as you.

One mOre WeeK tO gO...

found myself back in ceci again... after so long, still remembered the last time i was there was when we were celebrating mel and karen's birthdaes... this time, i was the one giving a treat, so auntie, uncle, prisy and michelle and me drove to strathfield last sunday... ordered 4 dishes, and in the end, it was too much and i was like tearing up, cos the rice cake was really really spicy! i felt so bloated after drinking so much water... and poor michelle could only eat her non-spicy potato noodle... cos she can't take spicy stuff... now abit sian of ceci already, have to look for other nice places to eat...

last week of a 2 mth long school holiday... mon, me and prisy went to the city to shop, sing karaoke and more shopping... bought a poncho for myself, and she bought a belt...
tues and wed stayed at home, doing some reading and watching my chinese show, oh man, all the songs in the show are so nice! wonder whether they will show it in singapore... and whether there will be a soundtrack for the show... when we went karaoke on mon, i found two of the songs in the show, and i was so happy i got to sing it... but there's this really really nice one which i am still figuring out who sang it...

work is as usual... nothing much to talk abt... except that sometimes i feel that to get into the supervisors' good books eg give u more shifts, treat u nicer when u need help or press the wrong buttons, u have to suck up to them... u noe like, 'pai ma pi'?
sometimes i feel like i am doing just that, and i feel so fake... even though u dun like that particular person, u still have to smile at them and treat them like ur close friend... especially when they ask u to do something u dun like... sigh...

and on thurs... finally, and i mean, finally, got my learner's licence... yay... valid for 3 yrs, the thing over here is that, the driver's licence is like our IC... wherever u go u have to bring... especially when u go clubbing, or places where there are age restrictions... so i dun have to carry my passport ard...
have to find someone to teach me driving, so that i can take the next level and upgrade to a P plate... and then when i save enough money, i am going to get a car... it is really inconvenient here without a car...
i also bought a calling card, and called some pple back home... after talking to them, i have this feeling that by the time i graduate and go back home, some pple back home will have already forgotten me... all i am left with are memories and photos that we took together... but i just want to say that, if u are reading this, i am glad and fortunate to have met and known u as a friend... thanks for all the happy memories that u have given me... i will always remember...

A reViEw...

aiyo, long time never blog again... all bcos of this chinese show i am watching... called "xian jian qi xia zhuan"... a collaboration between hong kong, taiwan and singapore... it's actually taken from an online game, but the computer graphics effects were really bad... got bryan wong, guo liang and fu fangling, from channel u...
i have to say that, although the show is so long-winded, it's really good, but it's a sad ending, the acting made up for the bad cg effects... alot of pple say that the main actor is cute, but i prefer the other male character...
i have been going to amelia's house to watch the show, cos the file's too big, and she has the external hard drive... so everytime, both of us just sit in front of her laptop, eat junk food, and cook noodles for lunch... quite fun though... but i felt bad for always going to her house and then she has to clean up...

that's what i have been doing for the past two weeks, and now it's the second last wk of holidays, and i dun feel like going back to uni... so lazy...
whoa, u noe yesterday i started work at 7am, so early! and by 2pm, i was already dead tired, kept yawning nonstop, i really felt that my spirit has left my body, and i was just scanning the items automatically...
yesterday, went to watch fantastic 4, finally! the ending was an anti-climax... but on the whole, it was okay though... waiting to watch charlie and the chocolate factory, stealth, and sky high...
btw, why pple still haven't do the three quiz yet??! aren't u scared that the curse will take effect? heehee... better do it soon...

ThE 'thReE' qUiZ...

I have decided to attempt this quiz... and i am going to put a curse on everyone who read this blog... u better do this quiz too, or else... heeeeheee

THREE NAMES YOU GO BY:
1. andrea
2. ruiyi, although i really wish pple dun call me that...
3. Jie, but only my family calls me that

THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU HAVE HAD:
1. dophene
2. je ne sais pas
3.

THREE THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. my natural gift of thinking of lame jokes... haha...
2. my neat streak... i can't function in a messy or dirty environment...
3. my quiet and gentle nature

THREE THINGS YOU DON'T LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. my looks
2. my inferiority and pessimism
3. my procrastinating nature

THREE PARTS OF YOUR HERITAGE:
1. Singaporean
2. chinese
3. free-thinker

THREE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU:
1. all insects, big and small...
2. horror movies
3. losing pple that i care about

THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS:
1. music
2. food, especially my favourites
3. surfing the net

THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:
1. a black thermal
2. blue fleecy pants
3. mickey mouse pyjamas

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE BANDS [or artists(at the moment)]:
1. Guang Liang, malaysian singer
2. Hsuan Hsuan, hong kong actress
3. Louis koo, hong kong actor

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE SONGS AT PRESENT:
1. You Yi Xiao Jie- Miriam Yeung
2. Bai Se Hun Li- Xu Zhe Pei
3. Tong Hua- Guang Liang

THREE NEW THINGS YOU WANT TO TRY IN THE NEXT 12 MONTHS:
1. Getting to know more pple
2. making as much money as i can
3. stop spending money on food, haha...

THREE THINGS YOU WANT IN A RELATIONSHIP (love is a given):
1. Sense of humor
2. Friendship
3. Being there for each other

TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE
1. I dun have many close friends
2. I only have one sister
3. I am a very confident person
Can pple tell which are truths and lies?

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS ABOUT THE OPPOSITE SEX THAT APPEAL TO YOU:
1. hair
2. physique, preferably tanned
3. non-hairyness??

THREE NON-PHYSICAL THINGS ABOUT THE OPPOSITE SEX THAT APPEAL TO YOU:
1. honesty
2. Sense of humour
3. down to earth

THREE THINGS YOU JUST CAN'T DO:
1. use bad words to scold someone to their face
2. jump over hurdles, oh man, i can still remember p.e. lessons in kellock... a total nightmare...
3. being athletic

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES:
1. Reading
2. listening to music
3. surfiing the net

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO REALLY BADLY RIGHT NOW:
1. sleep
2. finish watching my chinese serial
3. go karaoke

THREE CAREERS YOU'RE CONSIDERING:
1. Occupational therapist
2. teacher
3. billionaire

THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO ON VACATION:
1. singapore, i really want to go home, miss many things and pple...
2. europe
3. america

THREE KID'S NAMES:
1. Michael/Nicholas
2. Chloe
3. Rayna/Anya

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO AT LEAST ONCE BEFORE YOU DIE:
1. Find someone who loves me for me
2. spend time with pple who matter
3. have a home of my own and 2 dogs

THREE THINGS YOU'RE GRATEFUL FOR:
1. My family
2. the opportunity to go overseas to study
3. pple who care about me

THREE THINGS YOU REGRET:
1. not telling pple that i care abt them
2. treating my sister badly sometimes...
3. not eating fruits and vegetables...

THREE PEOPLE WHO HAVE TO TAKE THIS QUIZ NOW OR DIE PAINFULLY:
I am going to change it to ALL the pple who read this blog... so pple, u have to do this quiz if u wish to live... (evil laughter)...

UrrGh...

alamak, so long never blog... the stupid laptop hanged on me while i was typing my blog last week...
so have to type all over again...
last wed, went to karaoke with amelia, karen and their friends... i finally got to sing till my heart's content, we sang from 2pm till 8pm at night... i really enjoyed myself, except that i felt quite left out, cos they were all singing cantonese songs and i am the only one singing chinese... and then they were all speaking in canto, and i just sit there, pretending that i am listening to what they say... when i have no idea what they are talking abt... sigh...

after that, we went to this korean restaurant, and the food was horrible! it was also very expensive and after eating, i felt like throwing up... dunno why but it was just really bad...and then by the time i reached epping, it was already quite late, but amelia was so nice, she stayed with me to wait for michelle to come pick me up... so we were both standing there in the cold, talking and waiting...

yesterday, work was shitty at the start... there was a big crowd lining up at the express lanes... so i was assigned to one of the express lanes, okay, and then this lady bought this purple-looking vegetable... and i dunno what's that, so i was searching quite frantically at the list for the code for that vege... and then i decided to ask this other cashier on my left what vegetable was it, she told me i dunno, in a very unfriendly tone, so okay, watever, i continued to search for the code, and then she turned to me and u noe what she said??!! u should be smart enough to noe what vegetable that is... i was like, what??!! what the hell? and then the cashier on my right told me what that vege was, it was a red cabbage... i was so pissed at the woman... ruined my day...

dIsNeY on iCe...

hello hello...
updates and more updates... last sat was nao's 21st bdae, and she treated us to go watch Disney On Ice... oh man, it was really cool and i enjoyed it very much, like the costumes they had, and the expertise of the skaters... watching them makes me wish that i can ice skate... the place was almost filled to full capacity and most of the pple there were little kids and their parents... so cute, they were like dressed in the princess costumes, haha...
oh and before that, we went to eat at this taiwan restaurant, where u can eat and read the comics and chinese magazines provided... i like the ambience better than the food though... the toilet was really cool, they had this automatic seat cover dispenser and soap dispenser, i was so impressed by the soap dispenser... hmm... i should have that next time in my home...

after the show, went to nao's house to eat cake and open prezzies... her house so nice... it's a penthouse and 2 levels... i really enjoyed myself, especially with the hula-hoop thing... 'wink wink' we should do it again sometime... :) thanks nao for the invitation...

after that, went to prisy's workmate another 21st bdae... at a bar... okay, the good thing was they provide a free flow of drinks... ordered red wine but halfway through, i gave it to prisy and drank sprite instead... well, let's just say we went back quite early... sorry prisy, knew that u wanted to stay there longer...

yesterday, went to paddy's to meet up with angie... so happy to see her again after so long... she told me that she's migrated again... to perth... she also never change after one year in new zealand... except maybe now she talk more than before... but she still very soft-spoken... that's what i told her too...we walked from paddy's all the way to town hall, and i had to go back early so we didn't get to spend much time together, i felt bad... cos she's going back on tues and dunno when will i see her again... didn't even give her anything...

TrEasUrEs...

birdie's been found! yep, a good samaritan, actually he lives just a few houses down from us, returned him back to us on wed... thank you! birdie was actually suffering from shock, i think, cos he didn't make any sounds and it is really unusual for him... maybe he needs time to readjust to his home again... we are all definitely spending more time with him now, as the saying goes, u dun noe what u have until they are not around... that goes for both pple and things and pets... so, treasure the things and the pple ard you, otherwise, it will be too late for regrets when they are no longer there...

these past few days very 'happening', especially events ard the world, the G8 summit, the IOC deciding that London will host the 2012 Olympics, and of course, the bomb blasts in London... still dunno who the culprits are... some pple just love to terrorize and harm the innocent... why... again, i have to take my own advice above and treasure the things and pple around me, cos i'll never noe what will happen the next minute...

btw, saw War of the worlds on tues... this was one of the movies by tom cruise that i like... it's really quite clever, the way the author wrote the story... abit scary also, but nonetheless, a good ending to a good movie... highly recommended!

WheRe'S biRdie?

today is a very sad day... cos our bird at home went missing this morning... dunno wat happened... when uncle brought him out into the backyard in the morning as usual, birdie suddenly disappeared and all of us still dunno wat happened to him... usually he would chirp and sqwuak nonstop but today, we didn't even hear a sound from him... michelle and me went ard to the neighbouring houses and ask them to let us into their backyards to look for him, but still to no avail... i am so sad... although sometimes , birdie can be very irritating, we all still love him, especially uncle... sigh... we suspect that he's eaten by the neighbour's cat already... our poor birdie...

yesterday, received an email from angie, saying that she's coming to sydney to visit for a few days... yay, the last time i saw her was last year, so maybe we can hang out in town when she's here...

heard abt the IOC meeting in singapore... whoa, alot of big names leh... also heard that beckham's in town also... he's still my fav football player of all time... although i dun get to watch football now... it will be good publicity for singapore... attract more tourists... can't wait to find out which country will win the bid to host the olympics...

LaZy tO thInK oF a tiTle...

i think this post will be quite boring cos half the time, no one will noe what i am talking abt... all i can write abt would be my cashier job at woolworths... well i have to say that business is finally starting to pick up as compared to last week, and i was busier too...

actually this wk's roster was supposed to be only on sat and sun, but i got asked to be 'information girl' on 3 days... the job of an information girl was to... walk ard the supermarket ten million times and give out the catalogues and help customers to find stuff... it was really B-O-R-I-N-G... i would rather do cashiering... after 2 weeks at the new store, got to noe some of the pple working there... although i wouldn't say we are at the stage of being frens... juz like those hi-bye workmates... haven't saw anything or anyone interesting at work yet...

that wed was my day off, so i went to hornsby to shop, actually wanted to get gloves for my hands, it's still in a pretty bad condition... in the end, i did something impulsive... i went to cut my hair... i actually wanted to keep my hair long, but i juz couldn't stand the sensation of it brushing my neck... and it's getting harder to wash my hair... so in the end... i got a haircut that looked suspiciously like the one i had when i was in kindergarten... sigh...

shit... next week i only working on mon, and got the whole week off... what the heck am i going to do?