StUvaC WeekEnd...

i realised that i forgot to mention that we went to chatswood shopping on thurs... i bought a boardshort for pong and prisy got a bag and shoes... which btw, she already has alot of both... everything was going well until the time came for us to leave... okay the shopping centres here have free parking for the first 3 hours and anything after that, u have to pay... so that day, when we realised that we were about to exceed the three hour limit parking, prisy and i ran through westfield like crazy but we still ended up paying... damn...

fri night the three of us went to the city to have dinner with our uncle and his new wife, who came to sydney as part of their honeymoon stopover... they got married this year and apparently he's the first in the family to marry an 'ang moh'... he is actually my mum's cousin so that makes him my uncle??? aiyah, anyway everybody is either uncle or auntie right... haha...
yep, so firstly, prisy and i have to go to microsoft to pick up michelle, and then i had a 'wardrobe malfunction' bcos my brown velvet skirt which i was wearing kept falling down and it was so uncomfortable, so in the end, we had to detour to their auntie's house nearby to borrow a belt... alamak... i was so embarrassed... and so we were late getting my uncle and his wife, alex...
then after we got to the place where michelle had booked earlier, they told us that there was no seats available even though we booked earlier... actually i was glad that we did not eat there, cos that place was like a bar and the music was so loud and there were so many pple...
so michelle brought us to another cafe at darling harbour... the food was quite nice, i had this chicken parmigiano thing and wedges... but i should not have eaten that bcos i was having sore throat... and it's like fried stuff... and after that, we walked one round around darling harbour... his new wife is quite a nice person, i am happy for my uncle... i haven't seen my uncle since his brother's wedding like two years ago back in singapore... so anyway, glad to have this catchup time with him... we went to have dessert at passionflower after... i ate waffles and ice cream... it was delicious, but i was so bloated after that... sense of deja-vu... recalled back to the time when i brought my parents to the passionflower near chinatown... and then after that, went back to their hotel room to look at their wedding pictures... really nice...
btw, i broke my previous record of staying out till 12am... we only left their hotel ard 1230am and arrived home at like 130am... prisy and michelle are bad influences to me... michelle even suggested going karaoke after we left the hotel... i was like no... i have to work tomorrow...

and so i did not study at all... even on saturday and sunday, cos i was working... i am so screwed man... i really really have to start studying... and i am falling sick again... i seem to always fall sick during the pre- and exam period... i wonder why...

LaSt DaY aT uNi...

today was supposed to be my last day of uni second year semester 2... but i did not go to uni today, so yesterday was officially my last day at uni... except of course the exams... so next week is stuvac and then exams and then YES!!! I am free!!! i can't wait to go home... finally...
this whole week had been shitty, bcos i had three assignments due and the worst one was definitely kinesiology... anyway, i am not going to complain anymore on that... it's over...
i also received my play exam results this week, got a credit... was abit disappointed in myself but i noe i did not do my best... was really distracted most of the time while studying for it...
and i just deleted my tag-board, bcos it's really annoying and i noe a few of us (yes, fran, i saw ur blog too :)) also did the same thing and sherry advised me to get a new tag-board... i will put a new one up after exams k... just upset that all the past comments are gone... all bcos of the stupid tagboard that kept prompting for password...
also saw jo's 21st birthday photos... was abit envious of her actually... everything was so nice and alot of pple went to her party... i will NOT complain anymore after this... my parents came after all... and i enjoyed myself at the party and the "after party"...
and i am all alone at home for the whole of next week including today... bcos uncle and auntie went back to singapore and both my cuzzies are at work... and i am supposed to study... i have 6 exams this semester... but here i am blogging, reading other's blogs, doing things other than study... what's new... haha... i dunno why my hair's not growing longer, it's just growing thicker... which is not what i want!!! it looks really gross if i dun tie it up now... alamak...

A ReAlly lOng bLoG...

friday... went to mel's house after uni to do the kinesiology proposal... and after yochi left, i had to stay at her house becos prisy was meeting her friends for dinner at strathfield so we thought we'll go home together... so we went to eat dinner at this dessert place... mel ordered this korean- style ice kachang thing and i ordered ice cream... very unhealthy for dinner but there was no other proper food in that place and there was no other places that we could eat at... we just chatted alittle while eating and then on the way back to her house... i saw prisy and her friends... it was so weird... becos i was like saying to mel before that i will probably see prisy and we really bumped into them outside ceci... haha... so after we walked back to her house, we watched fools rush in... the movie was okay, not that great and it was quite old already...
did i also mention that we went to rent poseidon, the da vinci code and eight below?? poseidon was like quite dramatic at first but the ending was quite anti-climax... da vinci code was quite scary becos of the white guy, but becos i am not a really religious person... i did not get some of the stuff in the show, but it was okay overall, was quite disappointed in poseidon... got josh lucas... but the storyline was not that great...
btw, when we were in the city last tues, we bought this really nice wooden japanese photo album like gift for tina's birthday... dunno if i have got a picture of it but it's really nice, it can even rotate... and we actually thought of getting it for amelia this year... and amelia and me were like saying how we actually should buy for each of us the same thing so we would all have it... i dun mind having one too...

and then saturday night we watched devil wears prada... everyone i know who have seen it said it was quite good and i think i now know why... especially for the girls... cos of the clothes in the show isn't it??? haha... prisy was like wooing and waaing over the clothes... but if i had a boss like meryl streep in the show, i would probably kill myself or grow white hair within two days... haha... i am glad the ending turned out like it is... although anne hathaway could have told her boyfriend that she slept with that guy... and her character's name is also andrea... haha...

working over the weekend again... so nothing much happened... came home to watch bourne supremacy... i knew i have seen it before, but i just could not remember the ending... but after watching it, i finally realised why... bcos the ending was so anti-climax that i forgot abt it until i watched it again... but i still like the first one better... why did they have to kill off the female character?? i felt so sad for him...

mon... stayed at uni till 8pm trying to finish the stupid kinesiology... and the thing is it's only worth 30% but the amount of time we spent doing it is way over the marks that we'll get... i dun even remember spending this much effort and time and blood (haha) on my GCE O levels and A Levels or any other assignments... and i am so sick of kinesiology now that i dun even wanna look at it... the only time i have stayed so late in school was last year doing some project with amelia and karen... sense of deja-vu... and it was winter that time, so we were freezing at the busstop while waiting for the free bus... yesterday was also similar, except that it was later and was not as cold... and then bcos micheele had to take the car into the city to get prisy, i had no way of getting home except to wait at amelia's place... so the three of us took the train home and at strathfield... while waiting for the train... we played bingo... haha... we also decided that bingo would be our official waiting-for-the-train game... and when we arrived at her house, amelia was really nice enough to give yochi and me a lift home first...

btw, something's really wrong with my blog... the tag-board's gone and is replaced by this really annoying thing that asks for my password everytime i go into the blog... does anyone know what's going on???

SHiTty WeeK...

this whole week could be summarized in one word... shitty... why??? bcos of the sickening kinesiology proposal... i dun think i have ever spent so much time and effort on one assignment... it was actually due this monday but it was pushed back to wednesday... thank god... the thing was we just can't seem to find any information on the muscle that we are looking at... we searched everywhere... books, journal articles and on the internet... nothing and we wasted so much time just looking for stuff... and we have to write so much stuff... and the thing now is our modified posture is wrong so we had to remeasure and take pictures again on monday... and in order to do that... yochi and me have to skip lectures becos we had to go to her auntie's workplace... all of us are just so sick of this proposal now... we just want to quickly get it over and done with cos we still have COP proposal and portfolio due next week also... and we also had to stay at uni till late on thurs and friday trying to complete the proposal... it's just really horrible... i will be glad when stuvac finally comes in another week...
i feel like i haven't got a chance to rest and recharge myself... and i will be working over the weekend also... just very tired of everything... both mentally and physically...

on a happier note... we went karaoke on tuesday after uni... got to sing my new songs and also got to eat at my fav place... but instead of eating the spicy beef, i decided to try the korean spicy chicken... and it turned out to be quite nice... yummy... and then on thurs... we stayed back late at uni right... and when i was on my way home... prisy called and told me that michelle wanted to go to this westfield in miranda, which was all the way south... we live in the north btw... becos apparently that westfield has the only charles and keith store in all of australia... and she wanted to go check out this particular shoe... i didn't want to go becos i was already really tired and hungry and the drive was long... like it took us about an hour to drive there... by the time we arrived, it was almost closing time... and while they were trying on shoes, i went to eat... i could not wait any longer... i was really starving... so after that, on the drive back, we stopped by at this small lebanese bread shop and bought the bread there and ate... they were actually quite nice, especially the cheese ones... and becos they made it fresh, we stood outside the shop waiting quite awhile and just ate in the car... it was like 11pm by the time we got home... really tired...

FRidAy niGhT oUt...

Last friday was prisy's cousins gathering to celebrate her birthday... so we all went to her cousin's sander's house for dinner... they ordered thai food, which i did not really like and michelle made alcoholic drinks, which i did not drink... being a good girl... did not want to go to the gathering initially... bcos i dun really know them also and we were definitely going to stay late... which we did... we only left their house ard 1230am... i was ready to fall asleep already...

after dinner, we ate cake which auntie baked and sat ard talking... and after that, one of their cousins brought this karaoke set... so we all sat ard the living room taking turns to sing... we only had one microphone though... the songs they had were like really old... i dun even recognise most of the songs they were singing... i was like saying how the songs were not from my era man... haha... and then pple started wandering off to do their own things... and left me, michelle, prisy and her two cousins... they were really funny, cos the karaoke set has scores and apparently the lower tune you sang, the higher score you'll get, so they were trying to sing the songs as low as possible, which was not difficult for them becos they were guys... duh... so they were like getting high scores... but i beat their scores when i sang Right here waiting... one of my alltime favourites... and then becos sander's kids were sleeping already so we had to sing softly right but after awhile, we started to sing and talk loudly again... and myat had to come out and lower the volume of the microphone until it was so soft that u might as well not use the mike and just sing... and it was so hilarious when it was ngyan's turn cos he was practically just talking into the mike... michelle and i was laughing the whole time... and he actually got a high score just from talking instead of singing to the lyrics... really hilarious... anyway... i quite enjoyed myself there even though sometimes i felt out of place...

it is good that they maintained such a good relationship and try to meet up whenever they can... like me... i am not close to my cousins... except prisy and michelle... we only see each other like twice a year back in s'pore... quite sad... it is really bad... i would not be surprised if i could not recognise them if i passed them on the streets... that's how bad it is...

and yesterday at work... i found out that our head supervisor rachael just resigned... no wonder i have not seen her for the past 3 weeks... shit... she has yet to approve my leave application... and few other pple also left... and more and more new faces started appearing... i dun like them... and it was freaking hot again yesterday... like 37 degrees outside... but even though i was in woolies, it was so stuffy and hot inside too...

My wEEk 11... hOw WaS UrS??...

it's the end of another week of uni... this week being more stressful than the others... because the placement project was due this friday and I had to do a literature review of 10 or more articles related to my topic on cognitive assessments for stroke patients... anyway... I only managed to do 14 articles and personally speaking, I did not put in as much effort as I should to do it... I just want to quickly get that over and done with so that I can focus on other stuff... haven't really had a break since last fri's HO exam... and what's worse... is i have to print out ALL the journal articles too... do u know how much money i spent printing all those stuff??? suck my blood man...

anyway... last saturday was prisy's birthday bowling with her workmates and michelle and me tagged along... it was held at this bowling place in castle hill... my first time bowling since i came here... that place was actually quite ulu... inconvenient to get to cos there is no public transport whatsoever... and about maybe 15 of her colleagues turned up so we split into 4 teams and started bowling... and i must also add that bowling here is also damn expensive... i paid $20 for 2 games and a meal... alamak... the bottomline is everything here is damn expensive...
i had fun... although i sucked at bowling... even when i went with crescent gang to bowl also... haha... but i had two good teachers in my team teaching me how to bowl and i improved in the second game... and it was so freaking hot on that day too... we all didn't want to go out of the house... so in the end stayed at home and watch movies... watched Eight Below... i highly recommend this movie if u are a dog person like me... the huskies in the show are so cute and well trained... very touching movie... and also got paul walker... definitely are incentives to watch the movie...

had cognition presentation today also... i think we went well... our topic was fetal alcohol syndrome... but i think the other group who presented ADHD did better and they only had 2 pple... oh well... it's over... and i got back my health policy essay this week too... not back marks... quite happy with the marks... but apparently karen got into trouble cos they suspected her of plagiarism... so she had to redo the paper and she was really upset... anyway... that's abt it... and it was so freaking hot again today and the flies are starting to come out again... aarghh... i hate it...

btw, something's wrong with my tagboard... and i can't open my blog on my laptop cos it kept skipping to the page that says 'we can't find ur tagboard address??" what's going on??!!

LonG, LoNGEr, and loNgEsT...

this week was really stressed for me... becos of human occupations exam yesterday... worth 50%... it was really difficult for me... cos we had to memorise the case studies and be familiar with them... and i could not really concentrate during studying... cos i was hooked onto this really funny hongkong cooking show called Beautiful Cooking... really funny... seeing the actresses cook and some of them are really hilarious, because they never cook before and one even set the wok on fire... and the judges were also really hilarious... anyway... yeah now that human occupations exam is over, next up is the project for the placement... really annoying, becos mine is a literature review of like 20 articles... and i have to print all of them out and send them to nepean hospital... waste my money... i doubt they will even read them...
final exams timetable just came out... shit man... this semester is really bad... the first week is like one exam every day... and i have like 6 papers altogether... why...

nothing much happening... just can't wait to go back and that's like my motivation to quickly study and get over it and look forward to going home... and i have decided to keep my hair long... yes... i have never had long hair in my life so i am going to try keeping it and see how it goes... now my hair is still shoulder length but can tie up already... but it's really bad if i dun tie it up... look so messy and make my neck itchy... let's just wait and see how long i can stand it before my succumb to cutting my hair again... cos pong said i dun look nice with my hair tied up... :(

BaCK tO uNi... :(

THis weekend is a long weekend... bcos apparently tomorrow is a public holiday... Labour Day... and i am working... for once... working is good, bcos i get double rate pay... even though my arms and legs are aching and in pain... been working throughout the weekend... have to earn and save money becos i am planning to take driving lessons after exams and one hour of lesson is like $40??? suck my blood man... and also becos when i go back to singapore... won't be working for like 3 months... so now must earn as much money as i can... hmm... there's alot of new faces in the store now... i guess i am just not used to it... cos it's been so long since we had new pple coming in... and now suddenly so many new faces ard... so like i am considered one of the "older" pple in the store... in terms of the time we worked in the store since it opened...

last friday... invited yochi and amelia over to do baking... they made the cheesesticks while i made the caramel brownie... in my opinion, both were a disaster... firstly, they put too much pepper in the cheesesticks and for some reason, the cheesesticks did not rise... all of them came out flat... dunno what happened also... and then the brownie... after i added and stirred everything and put the tray into the oven... yochi picked up this packet and asked me how come the caramel's still unopened... i did not even realise there was no caramel in the brownie when it was supposed to be caramel brownie... haha... so i had to take the brownie mix out of the oven and pour the caramel on top... and again... for some reason... the brownie came out all mushy and sticky... stuck to the paper cos i could not find grease paper, so i just used some paper thing and sprayed oil on it... obviously it did not work... alamak... and cheesesticks and brownies were supposed to be my specialty... yeah... watched Love Actually as we ate our fruits of labour...

this week... two of my close friends turning 21... yay... so happy 21st Jo and Angie!!! u guys finally joined the "mature adults" club... haha... enjoy urselves... and Jo i hoped u received my letter...

and it's back to uni again... so not looking forward to going back... so many assignments and presentations... and exams... this semester is sooo hard... and they are going to base the honours selection on our results this year... stress ah...