Collection of random pictures.

Work uniform. :) i think its quite cute. Breakfast this morning. Mocha + choc chip muffin. Mmmmm...
Entrance to Playford building...

My new photo display in my room... <3People I May Know... an unfortunate reminder of a tragedy last year. Makes me wonder how many of these Facebook accounts belong to people who have passed on... what happens to their account? What will happen to mine a few years from now?

My cauliflower cheese Chocolate cake. OK not the most beautiful, but it tasted fine.

Cute? :)

Yes, I'm on the computer again.

But after a while, I decided I really should start getting some work done. So I checked out the Biochem discussion board after reading the assignment question and this is what I found...

A: hi im unsure of how we are submitting the assignment
B: Hi looking at on the online resources page i think it said that assignments are to be put in our lecturer's mail box in the pharmacy office on level 4 of playford
C: hi. submission is through assignIT actually (by 5pm on 23rd May). It says so in the guideline sheet thing or diabetes introduction in the course home page.
D: Actually it says both

And I was panicking cuz the discussion board notifications keep on spamming my inbox and i thought an intelligent conversation might be going on....

Of all the PC's...

I had to pick the computer that will log me off in 10 minutes.
That just proves how much I SHOULDN'T be online right now.
But that would probably mean i'll just log off this computer, and go on another one later.
We'll see...

Shit.... I'm in such a mess.

Hate You.

Stupid person ruined the weekend and study plans. And wasted so much TIME and MONEY making phone calls to cancel cards, going to security, to the police station, the library...
AND I SMILED AND THANKED YOU FOR YOUR HELP.

Ugh. I just hate you. I hope you die and rot in hell.


Idiot.

This is post #200 in enarual.blogspot.com

I knew this was a bad idea.

You can't help but to be jealous of some people, but its strange when the person you're jealous of is jealous of you as well.

I guess we will never be satisfied with what we have.

Maybe this is what I'm supposed to be doing afterall...

I spent my day in Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
Despite the tutorials about Gentamicin where I was falling asleep and was quite lost at some parts... and lots of talking... and another presentation during lunch...
I actually felt quite comfortable in the hospital environment. I really liked it. The part where we were walking from one end of the hospital to the other to the patients wards with our notebooks made me feel like an intern from Grey's Anatomy :) I was falling asleep in the tutorial mainly because I slept late last night and I'm not much of a morning person. And that happened quite early in the morning! Apart from that, learning about it was actually quite interesting. I like how its our responsibility that the patient gets the correct dosage of the right drugs etc etc. It's exciting. It's just like how a surgeon is in charge of a patient's life when they're under the knife. Ok so maybe its not THAT exciting, but still. We play a part. And a pretty important part too. Xp. and we don't have to dig our hands into bloody body organs. but now i think of it, a part of me really wants to...
anyway, i believe there is a high likelihood that I'll find myself working in a hospital 5 years from now. or maybe just 3 or 4... yea...
i know its only been 1 day but first impressions count :) i'll probably twist and turn every situation i dont like in the hospital pharmacy later on to be something i like just because i said i would. and it'll all work out fine.


I made a cake today. It worked! but i didnt take pictures. the camera is dead. and i also forgot. I couldn't wait to get my hands on the cake (ive been craving for cake even though i've had cake every week since every week we've had a birthday). Anyway, i ate it before i managed to take a picture.


I went to hahndorff with conie and joawenn on sunday. Due to my laziness to turn on my computer, i haven't managed to transfer the photos onto a hard drive to pass to conie or joawenn, or to upload any of them. btw, i'm on the uni computer now. so no, my computer isn't on.

I believe...

...in Science and Darwin's theory of Evolution.

...I can do better.

...I have multiple personalities. But the different personalities shape who I am, and the older I get, the more difficult it is to distinguish between the differences as they fuse together to form Me.

...I am a big fat copycat in many things...

...in the power of music.

...being a pharmacist is not my destiny, but as I don't know what my destiny is, I will have to stick with it.

...I couldn't have chosen a better place to do my tertiary studies.

...my apple is too loud and crunchy and it's making other people around me annoyed.

...I have spent too much time blogging and it's time I start doing something productive.

People.

1) You don't know what you have. There are many people in this world who would love to be like you. And you don't see that.
2) I miss you. Its been ages.
3) I need a change of environment. We could get a drink and talk about things I havent talked about for a long time. If only you were here.
4) I wish I knew you better. You should get your friends and we can hang out together sometime. Maybe we have a lot more in common than you think.
5) Why so competitive? Some things don't need to be compared. It makes you selfish in ways I cannot explain here.
6) First impressions. It's amazing what they can do. But when your true colors are so ugly, sometimes even first impressions can fade.
7) I don't understand you. You're a bit strange. You know when sometimes you're completely Neutral towards someone- no hate, no love, no dislike, no like. That's you.
8) You lifesaver. We'll fail without you. He should know that.
9) Did you ever feel the same way about me the way you feel about her?
10) What happened to us? I thought we were friends. Then you go and ruin it all.

I'm a spendthrift.

=S

And I'm working for it. Well, trying to, since its the holidays.

The reason I spent so little last year was because I know that every single cent I spent comes from my parent's pockets. The money is not mine to spend. So it's not right that I spend it on something for ME. I try to make myself feel better by thinking, "I used to get pocket money when I was at school. So I could take some out from the money my parent's give and call that my pocket money." The only problem is, I don't actually keep track of how much I take to spend...

So, this year- problem solved. I work. I keep a separate bank account for MY money. I spend as I wish. And now that I'm making my own money, I'm finding it difficult to control my spendings. Depending on how much I spend, I think, "That's ok. That's just another couple of hours (or however much money it is) of work."
Result: I don't save much...
But i'm trying. I want to go on a holiday sometime. I want to know what it's like to have enough money to pay all your bills, spend on yourself, and save for something bigger in the future.

Sedikit-sedikit, lama-lama jadi bukit. :)

Adelaide is a gorgeous place

On one hand...
(I studied! :P)

On the other hand...

All on the same day...

One thing leads to another...

I woke up this morning and felt sick-ish, so I decided to complain to my friend via SMS.
But a while later and I still haven't received her reply.
So I thought maybe she was still asleep and when she does read my message she'll wonder why I'm up earlier than usual.
So I thought of telling her that I had to sell my textbook to a junior who decided to meet me at 10:30am... so even at that time I was already late.
Then I thought of a reason why she may be still sleeping at that time and i thought maybe cuz she was on MSN last night.
Then i remembered her msg about not being able to do anything else properly on the internet except going on MSN. I on the other hand, Couldn't really go on msn but could do everything else on the internet ( although the internet was a bit messed up and slow last night...). But i didn't really feel like going on MSN anyway, so it didn't bother me.
I thought of why I stopped going on msn. No one of interest to talk to maybe.
So I thought of my friend and thought maybe she's always online because there are some people she enjoys talking to on msn. I thouhgt of one person in particular.
Then i remembered it was that person who mentioned the name Li Ann* to her. The other day at Pancake House, she asked me if we knew a Li Ann and I said we don't. But later on I remembered that I knew a Li Ann, so I told her about it, and she said she never mentioned that name. But she did! or was it a different name?
So all of this happened in my head when i was in the shower because i thought... wow. this is really random- one thought leads to another and it just goes on and on. I remembered this thing I did in grade 7 during one of the school's 'special' weeks where we do other things apart from school work, and one of my sessions was about something like this. I thought it was an extremely boring session (completely useless and random), but I really think they had a name for a situation like this when one thing leads to another. maybe not thoughts, but events. So I tried Google-ing it but I couldn't find anything.

Unfortunately all that lead to was another long, boring, pointless, blog entry.

I tried to think of some picture to put in here but the only thing i can come up with is Dominoes. Because i suddenly thought maybe its called the dominoes effect. But I'm sure they had another name for it in 7th Grade. So im not going to post a picture of dominoes. That's just really random.

o and one more thing. googling dominoes made me spend ages watching dominoes clips on youtube. =.="


*not real name

Past blog entries...

I realised I've been blogging quite A LOT recently. Then I took a look at my blog archive and realised that I had 20 blog entries for May 2006. That's the most on the monthly blog record. So i clicked into that and found out that it's the Exam period. The time for procrastination :) So this is what this is now... my blogging frenzy. It's just another time for serious procrastination.

So anyway... I wrote about the silliest things during my exam period. I had an entire paragraph about french vocab:

"...when i was doing french i was messing around a lot doodling and stuff and didnt get much done. but for now i know how to write verbs inpresent, futur, passe compose, imparfait, plus que parfait('had done' - imperfect auxiliary + past tense verb) , subjonctif (take the 'ils' form of the verb as the stem and use the different endings: e, es, e, ions, iez, ent), and something else which i cant remmeber the name of... but its like... the future stem and imperfect endings, and the past tense form of that is when the auxiliary is written as that, and the verb is in passe compose. please let me get that right... i need to go check. ok. its called conditional, and conditional past. and i did get it right. :) its used when constructing a sentence which starts with 'si'. there are 3 types:present... futureimparfait... conditionalplus que parfait... conditional pasti need to learn the irregular verbs... and VOCAB. my vocab is so limited... i dont know if i start learning them now itll be enough to understand stuff on friday, and to be able to write a good essay... i need a 6 in french. well i want a 6. i cant aim any higher than that i guess since i messed up my oral exam pretty badly. enough about french."

I don't remember them all now...

And then i went on about Sudoku being a 'Group' which is one of those things we were doing in Math:

"...guess what? isnt sudoku in a way a group? (math p3 stuff) its only missing an operation... i mean, k. if 1 is the identity, then 1 appears in every row and every column so every element has an inverse. so theres identity, an inverse, and its closed. well, without an operation, then thers no such thing as associativity is there? hahaha."

What the hell is a group anyway? I seriously CANNOT remember. But that's fine. I don't need to know about groups in pharmacy.

I called ritika, sheila and kathleen: "a biscuit, an alien and a cat" :)

Things to do: "5) finish off leaving pages for people who asked me to do them. i had 5. started 3, need to do 2 more." What are leaving pages?? o.O
"6) buy cards or make them... and write something in them- ONLY for some teachers whom i appreciate." I never got around to doing this... I went back to school after graduation a few times to see my teachers though, and i got Mr Price (my bio teacher) something.

OK. i think i'll stop there with my May 06 blog entries... wow it seems like such a long time ago.

I realise i can really go on and on about things. I don't stop talking. It's embarassing when i look through msn conversations and see lots of PINK (my font is pink) and hardly any of the other color of the other person's font... =S

Fortunate to be living in this era...

A couple of weeks before the holidays started we had a couple of tests. So of course, I had to find some place to study. Knowing me... I can't sit in my own room to study. I was also tired of my uni library or the computer pool area... Coincidentally, I was meeting a friend who studies at Uni Adelaide. So after meeting her, I decided why not study in their library. I know of a quiet study area there...

This is the quiet study area... It's kind of scary actually... As soon as you walk into the room, everything goes quiet. I guess that's why its called the quiet study area but SERIOUSLY. Not a sound. And as you can see, it's also very... exposed. =S I can't study like that. Too stressful... so i sat at the study tables Outside that quiet place... haha. So after I studied and was ready to go home, I decided to look around a bit, and I found this...

The library catalogue! Imagine having to go through them to find the alphabet of your author, then going through each and every card in the drawer to look for your book's call number! (i should have taken a pic of that too,every drawer is FULL of little cards with the information like author, title and call number of the book)

Fortunately for us...

Ah... what would we do without computers?

About Food

This weekend, I joined Conie and a couple of her work colleagues to Sugarbowl. It was a nice change from the usual western desserts. We had…

Lotus paste thing… (don’t know what it’s called)
Lychee (flavoured coco de nata) with black rice:
Mango with black sticky rice and coconut milk.
(the names of the food above are probably not correct…)

I tried Cooking Chicken Cordon Bleu (for the second time) on Wednesday night…
It’s just chicken breast with ham and Swiss cheese inside it, coated with flour, egg and breadcrumbs…
Here it is cooking:

(This is the second piece cooking. The frothy oil is because the cheese leaked out… ><)
Soaking up the excess oil: (oh my, it looks a bit burnt doesn't it?? :S it wasn't...)

Served with home-made coleslaw: (I decided I had enough carbs for the day from biscuits and bread, so no carbs here…)And cut:In terms of the taste… this one should have tasted better than my first time cooking it because I finally used ham and swiss cheese as the recipe said to. The first time I used bacon and tasty cheddar. Well, we have to make do of what we have right? :) Oh, i also made the breadcrumbs from my old bread! (This time round, it was bought breadcrumbs) Anyway, personally, I think the first time was nicer because the swiss cheese is a bit too strong for my liking. (now I’ve got extra cheese in the fridge and I don’t know what to do with it >< I could make that thing one more time…)
Apart from tasting better, it also looked better the first time I made it… Here it is again for those who hasn’t seen it:I was also being very greedy the day before that so I tried making something called ‘buckeyes’. I found the recipe in one of those food blogs that if you haven’t yet noticed- I’ve added to my list of links. I cut down the recipe by about 20 times and made just ONE buckeye. Peanut butter buckeye:
Not very successful (I couldn’t wait for it to cool enough so it was rpretty soft... ><), very unhealthy, but SUPER YUMMY. Well… can’t go wrong when all the ingredients are yummy right? :)

Right at this very moment however, I’m craving for….
TEA RICE!

Something healthy for a change. I had this at the Food Republic in Suntec City, Singapore. I tried looking for it in the food republic in KL when I was there in January, but they didn’t have it. When I came back to spore there wasn’t time to go to Suntec City. So imagine this – I was already craving that since I was IN SINGAPORE and it’ll be about 8 months time before I’m back in the land of food glorious food!

My 20th Birthday

I had the BEST BIRTHDAY EVER this year. Thanks to Conie, Madeline, Marina, Gin, Chian Ur, Magdalene, Wendy, and last but not least my brother. (Yeah. Weird. =S) I love you guys :)
O yea, and Cheng Haw. He came too. :)

So here's the story...

On weds, i got mail from Sheila (a really pretty card) and my Sis (a handmade bookmark and the cutest cherry necklace)

That night, at 11:30pm Conie called me. She told me to go downstairs and check my mailbox... ><

Then at midnight my sis called and she was so excited cuz she beat my mum to it... =.=" But i ended up just chatting with mum on msn.

Then throughout the night and the following day i got a bunch of sms-es from friends and family... i realised its a good way to get numbers. A few people msg-ed me and i realised i dont have their numbers. so im like "Thanks!! by the way, who is this?? =S" *embarassed*

So anyway, thanks to: Jas Min, Michelle, Maebel, Desmond, Unc. Henry, Sook Mun, Sheila, Alwyn.

I woke up at 9:30am cuz i thought my class started at 11. then i realised that my class starts at 10! SO. rushed through shower, skipped breakfast, and got to class just on time. After class at 11am, i met Wendy and she presented me with.... TIRAMISU! Then Wendy and I went to Rundle Spices for lunch. Kind of glad i didnt have breakfast because the lunch portion was massive! (oh no! i just realised i didnt take a picture with wendy... :( )

I had 3 hours of prac after that during which i felt like crying cuz it was SO Frustrating and we were getting no where, and im really annoyed that we're doing so many things in groups this year. Anyway... so after class, I thought i'd stop by the computer pool for a while to check my unimail because its a necessity to check that everyday! But conie called and she said she wanted ice cream from my house... (she left some cornetto drumsticks in my fridge cuz hers didnt fit...) so.., well... ok. i said i'll be back in a while.

So a while later i went home.

And when i opened the door...

I HAD THE BIGGEST FRIGHT OF MY LIFE!

Well, not really. That was just me being dramatic. :) But it was surprising.

I probably shouted "what the hell!" pretty loudly (im sorry!) but I'm sure you would too if a bunch of party poppers popped and it was dark but there were human figures laughing and singing happy birthday to you with a pretty cake in the middle- IN YOUR HOUSE!

And then i tried blowing out the candles and they didn't go out... I was so expecting that. Conie was so happy when i was going to blow them out i suspected something. ok. so that was onlt only thing i suspected. The entire party- Completely CLUELESS. (now i feel so silly cuz i was telling my brother about my 'plans' ><)

I thought i was going to have pasta at Scoozi for dinner. I was actually quite looking forward to that. But nothing beats being scared out of your skin, enjoying KFC chicken, home cooked half-instant pasta (haha.. :P), snacks, cake, champagne, and tiramisu with a bunch of your friends. :) So... since that happened very early at like.. 4:30pm... we had a long night. We had a long gossip session and some girl talk (which cheng haw and my bro didn't appreciate i believe...), a balloon fight (if that makes any sense)- i mean, we all know we're ageing... why not forget about that for a while and be kids again. balloons are fun :) ate, ate and ate... and talked. and ate and talked. yep. that what life is about.
So at about 9:30pm, Chian ur, cheng haw, madeline, gin and magdalene had to leave. So Marina, Conie and I headed to PJ O'Brien's which happened to have Ladies Night in conjunction with Unilife's UThursdays thingie... and drinks were $1(9-10pm), $2(10-11pm) and $3(11-12am) HOW COOL IS THAT. So we went, had some drinks, tried talking and failed miserably cuz the music was too loud... so we danced! Dancing is the best thing ever. I wonder how people came up with such a thing as dance. Its the strangest thing. But it makes people happy :)

Clubbing at PJ's was quite an experience. Lets just say... there were some interesting people around. :)

All in all I had FUN night. THANK YOU once again to everyone who helped organise it and showed up and a special thanks to CONIE THE BUNNY! i love you! <3>

(1 thing we forgot to do- TAKE A GROUP PICTURE! Oh well...)


madeline, chian ur
Conie, Gin

...girls who sabotaged my camera.
Posing with marina and haris' present- Jessica Walker Chocolates!!

Cutting my bday cake (thanks marina! sorry about the confusion of what cake i like. i love all cake. hahaha.)

We're all eating.
being attacked by balloons...

A rising star...

Viper!
Sorry girls, please dont kill me. i just had to put this up. =P
Wendy's tiramisu!happy peoplehanging out in the food corridor (haha. makes my hse sound so big...) At PJ O'Brien's.Our phones. :)

The presents and cards! the turtle and earrings from brother, the cherry necklace from sis the bag from conie, the Chocolates from marina.Chocolates that i'm currently indulging in... :P

I thought of sharing some with my brother, but after taking that first bite... i might have changed my mind... muahahahah!

For a more comprehensive coverage of the night's events, please see Conie's Blog. :)

The World Is Coming To An End...

Even a person like ME managed to survive seven years of being a teenager (11 and 12 doesn't count...) and I'm turning a ripe old age of 20 tomorrow. Twenty. It's such a pretty number, yet it's so evil. Well, maybe not completely evil. But its just a number that when you reach everyone's like "OOH THE BIG TWO ZERO"... which I've said countless times to friends and family. It just makes you feel old. Like an adult. (I can't be an adult!) But it's really just another number...

I guess because the 2 takes up a lot more space than 1, coupled with the fact that 0 is also a very 'big' number in terms of size... 20 just looks a lot bigger than 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 or 19.

But once you turn 21, that number doesn't look as big as 20 because well... 1 is smaller in size than 0.

I make so much sense sometimes.

:)

The Easter Bunny

As we all know, Easter ended a couple of weeks ago. After the Easter weekend, Easter chocolates became really cheap in the supermarket. So my brother and I decided to finally lay our hands on one of those Easter Bunnies we've been seeing all around Adelaide for about a month.

My brother obviously had some sort of affinity towards the easter bunny...
Feel the love yet??

Unfortunately, the life of the Easter Bunny did not last long. Something as delicious and tempting as that cute little bunny cannot last long in a house of chocolate craving souls...

So a few days later...

This was what's left of the Easter Bunny.

Now even the wrapper ceases to exist. Thus, ends the life of this Easter Bunny...

New Soul- Yael Naim

I'm a new soul I came to this strange world hoping I could learn a bit about how to give and take. But since I came herefelt the joy and the fearfinding myself making every possible mistake

la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la...

I'm a young soul in this very strange world hoping I could learn a bit about what is true and fake. But why all this hate?
Try to communicate.
Finding trust and love is not always easy to make.

la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la...

This is a happy end cause' you don't understand everything you have done why's everything so wrong this is a happy end come and give me your hand I'll take your far away.

I'm a new soul I came to this strange world hoping I could learn a bit about how to give and take but since I came here felt the joy and the fear finding myself making every possible mistake

la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la...


*don't mind me, I'm having a blogging frenzy.... but this song is worth listening to*

About time I posted some pictures

A couple of weeks ago I went to Red Square with Conie, Marina and Haris. Then we met up with Desmond and his friends. And we also bumped into a few familiar faces. Well... Adelaide is only so big...

Here are some pictures that the girls haven't uploaded... (because they're from my phone :P)


disco balls at the dance floor. Marina is taking their picture. Harris- you're looking at the wrong camera!
They have THE LIGHT.
very happy...
The bar.

And then there's the usual conieandmi camwhoring session...

So colorful. :)

Anyway, too bad we stopped taking pictures later in the night when Desmond and his friends showed up. So that's the end of pictures.