INSPIRATION, EXPIRATION

Ohk the use of 'dealzzzzz' is wrong cos it's actually just a single shady deal.

I was at a CERTAIN shopping mall when I saw this bag I liked!
It was simple and yet.... chic.
Contrary to popular belief, I am really not into super flashy things like diamantes stuck onto every possible surface or sequins covering the entire shirt... that sort of thing.
I like my attire to have something that stands out. But it's usually one single item that's supposed to stand out to brighten up the outfit....
Really not into wearing neon shirts and the works..........
ANYWAY I DIGRESS.

So I didn't buy the bag at first cos it was going at $50 and I didn't know if it was worth it.
However, my mind kept drifting back to it during dinner and after dinner (at about 9.30pm), I decided that I was going to get it.
This was subject to whether the place was still open or not cos the bag was actually being sold at the central exhibition area of the shopping mall and that closes at 9.30pm thereabouts.
When we got there (we meaning Huiru, Ling Ee and I : ) ), they had cordoned off the exhibition area with bars and yellow cords... closed for the night. But there was still a line of people queueing to pay for their stuff.
I lingered at the side of the exhibiton area and talked about the bag with my friends.
That was when I decided I was gonna try asking the saleslady (who's PRC) if she could let me in to buy it since I already knew what I wanted.
She was hovering near the bags' area packing stuff with her boss (who's also PRC) and immediately handed me the bag when I asked to look at it. HOWEVER, they didn't have a new piece and that was their last : (
Her boss saw my reluctance at getting the bag after hearing that there was no new piece and he immediately offered a $10 discount.......
Since I'd accidentally stumbled upon a good deal I decided it must be a sign that I should get the bag.
At this point the boss said to me in a low voice, "Not here not here. Outside. At the side. And cash only."
In Mandarin la of course.
So the 3 of us walked away quickly from the exhibition area as if escaping from a crime scene and I paid the boss with $40 cash in exchange for the bag.
At that moment it really felt as if we were dealing in drugs or something.
What a dark and mysterious origin this bag has.
And that is the end of my story HAHAHAHAHAAH Was that abrupt or what?!
Anyhoozzz the boss was also trying to recruit us to be his promoter or something. To which none of us was interested in at allzzzzzzz...

Ohk if you found that boringggg, here's some random shit for you!!!!!

Nonsense #1

Can you believe that BOYZ love this?!?!?!????
Like I don't know.
It's just weird. I feel like my 15 years of education is going down the drain whenever I watch this...................
Although it has a really catchy tune la hahahaha
Their songs are really made up of random exclamations..............
I do like Yoona though! She's like the girl in 1:04!
How do we compete with someone who looks like that seriously?!

Nonsense #2

Now the BOYZZZZ version!!!!
Except there's 1 X random fat guy.....
Weird.
Don't you think both videos are similar!?! haha Except they are of different genders la.
And the pitch of the music is very different duh. And the colour schemes are different too.
But otherwise, they work on SIMILAR CONCEPTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's really same same, but different.

But of course I prefer the BOYZZZzzz version.
Minus 1 X random fat guy.

Wheeeetz time for bed soooon! : )
It's such a nice coooool night for a good night's sleeeeeeep! : )

It has been way too long!
Please don't ask me what I've been doing.
Tooo many things, so little time.
I don't even know where to begin.

Anyhooz, I discovered today that if you were to judge me by the Top 25 Most Played list of songs in my iPod, you'd think that I'm a complete bimbo.
I'm serious.
I don't usually play that list on my iPod. I either shuffle through the entire list of songs, or I will focus on the list of most recently added songs.
Yesterday, before the performance, members of the crew were exploring my iPod.
This morning I switched it on and was happily listening to my iPod, while wondering why is it that today my iPod seems to be really reading my mind and playing so many goooood songs back-to-back-to-back (when I have some 1000+ songs on my iPod...)??
So I decided to take a better look and discovered that HOHO it was playing the list of Top 25 Most Played songs!!!!
AND, the shocking thing is that 20% of that list is made up of Britney Spears' songs........ and most of the songs were of the... RnB trashy type you always hear in the clubzzzzzzzzz.
HAHAHAHAHAH MY GOSH HOW EMBARASSSING MAN..........!!!
I bet when the crew members saw my list they must have been thinking, " Man. So much Britney Spears....."

But I assure you I am not like that at all in real life.

Tweeeetz.
So the show's overrrrrrrrr.
Yesterday my dad said something super random to me when I came home at night after dinner with some of the cast and crew.


Note: Wherever possible I will try to keep the convo in English, although it was actually in Chinese.
Me: (enters the house with a small bouquet from a group of my friendsssss.. : ) )
Dad: Wah flowers. From who?
Me: 朋友. (Which could be singular or plural in Chinese... but I meant plural la.)
Dad: 男朋友?
Me: 不是啦。 朋友！
Dad: 男朋友啦！
Me: 没有啦！ 一群朋友！！
Dad: You are 22 years old already.

HAHA The last line just came out of nowhere man.
To which I had no response and I just went into my room.
WHAT TO DO?
It will happen when it happens man.

I had lotssss of fun just hanging out at Cine doing nothing todayyy. : ) 
Life needs to slow down like this from time to time.
Ahhhh.

Yup so I had a pretty atypical birthday that meant I had to be in the hospital for most part of the day to attend classes and all that.
Long gone are the days when I could simply REFUSE to do anything on my birthday and just partyyyyy.
Guess that would take some getting used to.
But otherwise, it was still a prettttty cooool birthday : )
IRREGARDLESS!

Had Belgium chocolate cake courtesy of Michelle and the CG : )
And that was The Official Birthday Cake of the year!

I hurried home after classes ended and napped and relaxxxxxxed.
Then my parents did a mini celebration for me.
My momster baked a pseudo birthday cake in the form of her experimental kueh lapis. hahahaha
It's still good though even though it only had like 6 layers....

Sugar overload's gonna be on my menu for a while cos Michelle got me mooooncakes! Box of 6 with all different fillings.
And also a box of chocolates! That I'm going to savour slowly over the coming daysssss.
Carene the carebear got me chocolate biscuits! And sweets! And mints! And also a pantyliner. -_-" Which I'm not going to eat la duh!
So yessss this birthday's been pretty damn sweet.

My mind's still in a sugar-induced (?) happy whirlll now so!
Can't really make out fully what I'm writing buttttttt the final point I'm trying to make is that I'm truely, truely, grateful. For all of these people, all of you people in my life. : ) 
There's no need for anything extravagant cos a lot of the time simple things suffice. : ) 

AH. I'd better make sure I sleep early man got to attend something at the hospital at 7freakingam tomorrow! Wow-ness. Story of our lives.
But you know we love it. : ) haha maybe not so much the early hours but what we do.  : ) 

P.S. Been working myself up into a tizzy by replying EVERY. SINGLE. FB. WALL. POST. It just makes me higher and higher. I might have trouble sleeping later. hahahaha And I actually managed to reply every single one of the posts properly ohk! Do I have too much time on my hands or whattttttt...

P.P.S. Vivian Dawson (if you're not sure who, please google!) totally left a post on my wall to wish me happy birthday! What a verrrrrrry pleasant surprise. : ) HAHA Although I think he does this randomly to people on his list (this number stands at 2,577 now) but still. : ) It's always nice to hear from a hot man. : ) Even if it IS random.

P.P.S. I'm gonna have one of the Mooncakes before M & M Meeting tomorrow! Power of the M. : ) 

P.P.P.S. This post is kinda disjointed but YEA it's my birthday I will do whatever the hell I want.

P.P.P.P.S. Belated birthday wish list coming up tomorrow just totally for kicks! : ) 

Before I turn 22, that is.
I haven't really made super grand plans for this year's birthday. Compared to last year which was a whole 2 weeks of non-stop celebrations every night that was freakinggg fabulous and all. And getting totally high on the night of my birthday and trudging into class with my friends for morning classes the next day.
I toyed with the idea of putting up a birthday wishlist on here about a few days ago. But I decided against it cos it just seemed.... weird. Like I was demanding presents etc. and it isn't even my 21st birthday or anything like that. Well, not that 21st birthday = presents just that.... the tradition is to celebrate 21st birthdays with big bangs and fireworks complete with all-night party and presentssss galore.
And it's just... 22 this year and I have to be in the hospital etc etc.
So.. I might be only putting up my wishlist AFTER my birthday. Just cos it's fun and funny hahahahahha
But right now as my birthday approaches, I'm just feeling really thankful for everything I have in my life (sounds corny I know. But it is TRUE.).
The friends I've made over these 22 years. The things I've discovered about myself. About life.
There are so many things to be thankful for and I think I'm ready to take on this world BECAUSE I've got great friends and family and lots of love all around.
So I think it's gonna be another crazy good year filled with exciting shit ahead of me and I can't wait. : )
Oooh slightly garbled here cos I'm crazily struggling to get this out before midnight!
Wheeee happy birthday to me!
And thank you (yes you! If you're reading this : ) ) for being in my life. :  )

Yup, it's overrrrrrrrrrr. Done. Finished. Kaput.

No more hols till another 2 months' time.
It was fabuloussss while it lasted.
I went out every single day except Thursday, which was spent lying in a corner of my room attempting to feel better.
So it was a holiday well-spent!
Not so great for Pathology CA revision but.... oh well : ) (smiles stupidly)

Till then, it's gonna be us rocking the Surgery posting! : ) 

7.30am tomo for briefing yo~ Sounds excitingggggggg already!


P.S. The Birthday Week has also officially started. : ) 

**WARNING! Some graphic content below! CONSIDER YOURSELF WARNED!**

Ohk so I just accomplished something pretty great. Or rather, my gut did.
You see, I finally managed to produce semi-solid stools from the depths of my abdomen whereas the last 2 days (starting Tuesday night) I was literally pissing, I repeat, PISSING, brown liquid from my ass.
I kid you not.
My stools were totally non-existent.
It was like my gut went on strike and just dead refused to absorb water or anything from my shit. So everything just came out in the liquid form. I just went to the toilet and voila! There were SEMI-SOLID STOOLS!!! That makes me very happy indeed.
However, despite having diarrhoea and random colicky abdominal pain on Wednesday, I managed to drag myself out around town with Michelle and we, or... I, shopped up a mini-storm!!!! : )
So I've got myself a new bag for the new posting (WHEEE EXCITING MUCH) and new shoezzzzz. Comfortable ones please. No more patent shit for me.

And we were happily browsing in the Havaiianas shop at Ion when I saw something pretty cute.
Me: OMgggggggg look at this! So cute. Drumsticks on the base of the slippers!
(points out particular set of slippers to Michelle)
Voice from somewhere beside me: Hrm... actually those are pears.........
(I whirl around and find one of the sales assistants standing beside me with a somewhat amused look on her face)
Me: HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA Oh.

What to do? The 'pears' were like brown and had this thing sticking out. Easily passable for drumsticks really.

And this pretty much concludes my random update : )

P.S. How I Met Your Mother is soooo the NEW Friends!! It's like the Friends of the 21st century. Whereas Friends was the Friends of the 20th century. Well, du-uh. So if you haven't started watching it yet, you should! It's gonna be LE-GEN-WAITFORITTTTTTTTTTTT-DA-RYYYY...!!!!

P.P.S. Michelle and I have both decided that when we get our first official paychecks (which will be something like 3 years later), the first thing we will do is to chiong to Ion and buy ourselves a spanking nice pretty designer handbag. Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Or this is the plan anyway.

P.P.P.S. Holidays are actually ending soon for us and I refuse to let myself think too much about it. Haven't done a SINGLE bit of work this holidays. : ) (flashes you a stupid, ignorant smile)

Ohk it is actually Post Exam Day 4 or something.
BUT NVMM let's backtrack a little.
Yes I have been extremely lazyyy but who can blame me!
When you're in the midst of your long-awaited holidays all you wanna do is sit around and do NOTHING.
But ohk I've decided I shall sit down and do a bit of a recap on here. : ) Since I did sort of PROMISEEEEE to blog during the hols righttttt.


Post Exam Day 0 a.k.a. Exam Day itself la.

Wellll nothing much happened except that I THINK I managed to pass. Will confirm again once I get the results yes?
Oh who am I kidding I also made a very important decision on this very fine day. Sooo yup.

Post Exam Day 1 (The Real Deal About This Entry)

I had brunch at Paulaner Brauhaus! (SHIT I think the spelling's wrong but whatevzzzzzzzzz) Which made me feel like a carnivore cos I took one of each type of sausage + pork knuckles etc. I remember biting into the cheese sausage (without knowing that it was the cheese one since I had too many different types of sausages on my plate) and the cheese spectacularlyyyyyy spurting out and landing in little gobs on Yeekeow's phone. Oops.
THEN I headed to JB!
WHEETZZZZ. And below shall be a rather concise summary of what happened there.


1. We caught The Proposal for like 10RM! That's equivalent to $5 which is totally the Senior Citizens' rate here. : )

2. Yuxie wanted to buy some real original VCDs/DVDs so we headed to this real original and legal shop. There, I was excitedly exclaiming to Yuxie and Ling Ee about how September is a cooooool month with tonnes of cool movies coming out like The Ugly Truth. At the mention of this, the shopkeeper who was totally eavesdropping on our conversation totally whipped out the DVD for The Ugly Truth like he was performing some kind of magic trick and I was like, amazed at the efficiency of the shop's proprietors.

3. I have this amazing luck with those turn-turn coin toy machines. About 3 months ago, I was at Toys'R'Us and there was this particular design I wanted out of 7 toys or something that I wanted from this particular machine. So I proclaimed out loud that that was the one I wanted and prayed like maddddd that I would get it and VOILA! I DID!!!!
Guess what??? I struck gold again man on Sunday!!!!
There was this machine with 7 designs. AND MY GOSH one of the designs was like BUTT UGLY. Like really. If I'd gotten that I would have taken it as a sign that the universe was trying to jack me. And there was this one design that I realllly wanted but this time I didn't say it out loud cos I didn't want to jinx my chances of getting it.
But after I'd turned the thing, VOILA!!! I got the one I'd secretly wished for!!! So I totalllly screamed freaking loudly and shocked everybody within the radius of like 50m.
Shit man I hope the day when my luck with these machines runs out NEVER comesssssss... cos it's really fun to get whatever you want out of these machines. It kinda represents some semblance of CONTROL that you have over your life. When in reality that isn't really the case...

4. I finally had my first ever real meal in a food alley from a roadside food stall!!!!!!! Real authentic. : )

So that's it.
I've more to say about TODAY but I shall leave that for TOMORROW. HAHAHAHAHAHAH

And here's a shoutout to RUI SI!!!! If you're still reading this that is. : ) HELLO RUI HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY ONCE AGAIN!!!! : )

So today my new hair debuted and created quite a mini uproar.
It was obviously noticeable. Since I did just go from having one of the top 5 longest hair lengths in med school to... well, not even having hair that's long enough to be tied up in any kind of ponytail. Not even the stumpy ponytail types.
Yuppppp.
It was funnnn indeed! Shocking people left, right, centre and all.
Didn't quite enjoy being ignored cos people couldn't recognise me though.

This new style's something I have never done before. The length is intermediate between my usual short hair length (this is like... some 3 years ago man seriously.) and my long hair length the past 3 yearsssssssssss.
So yes, it is a pepperminty breath of fresh air indeed! : )
I think I havee conquered almost all the possible styles one can adopt.
I've done the long big curlz, the long straight, the short short, and at one time, even chinadoll bangs (mistake much?????) with straight long hair.......  and now I've done this! : ) So I'm feeling nonsensically pleased with myself and the hair territories that I've conquered thus far. HAHA

I'm really quite enjoying it being pretty fuss-free and all. It takes such a wonderfully short time to dry now? I don't have water dripping down my back everytime I'm putting my clothes on after showering. And within 15 mins it's dry and I can go to bed!
Wooootzzzz!
I am clearly feeling quite good now compared to yesterday. Which was suchhh a horrible shitty depressing day.

Ohk gotta get started on work for the night!

Oh oh, before I forget. I met Yingno outside her condo so that she could pass me my mouse that I'd left at her place on Sunday night. When she saw me, she was so stunnnnnnnedddddd she kept trying to 'return' me her condo card, all the while staring at my hair with a mixture of awe, shock, and disbelief, and holding my mouse in her other hand.
Me: hahahaha why are you giving me your condo card!!!!
Yingno: OMGGGGGGGGGGgggggggggggggzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....!!!!

And that pretty much sums up the typical reaction to my hair that I got thoughout the whole of today hurhur.

Yessss really gonna get started on the work now! : )

P.S. If you wanna see my new hair, you gotta meet me man. NO PICTURES FOR YOU ON HERE. hahahahaha Kinda like a blog bribe.

P.P.S. Kinda looking forward to stunning more people in the coming days. : )

Ohk so I know I am like completely neglecting this blog.
I'm not even able to keep up with fortnightly entries anymore!!!!!
But then again, I am really, really busy.
Got wayyyy too much on my plate at the moment. Sooooooo.

Well I've got holidays coming up in about 2 weeks' time!
So I'll post more then yes?

: )

In other random news, I'm getting a haircut tomorrow!!!!
FINALLYYYYY.
So bored of this hair already.

We'll see what happens yesssss? : )
(fingers crossed)

And what would you do?

Hrmmmmmm.. I do realise this seems as if I'm only gonna be able to do a once-a-fortnight entry now.
BUT I will still really try my best to keep up with my weekly updates yes? Just that the dayssss have been crazzzzzy yes.
A mad swirl of things to learn things to remember things to do things to say things to ...... yes you get the drift I believe.
PLEASEEEEEEE I beg you don't abandon my poor desolate livejournal! It is already neglected by me............. It can't lose its pillars of support (you guys) toooooo...
Ohk here I shall attempt to tell you about the vicious cycle we are forever trapped in.

Weekdays we spend most of our day in the hospital, then we come home in the evening.
Usually by this time we are too tired to really function as normal sociable human beings. So we don't head out for any night activities and just try our very best to prop ourselves up to study some before heading to bed.
However, due to the extremely low energy levels, a large part of which also goes to forcing ourselves to stay awake, we don't get much studying done.
Thus, a backlog is incurred over the weekdays.
Friday night comes and most of us are too tired even then to go out.
Most of us are all too happy to HEAD HOME, AND GO TO BED AT 9PM. Only waking up at 9am the next day or something like that.
The weekend then descends upon us and you think, "That's good right? The weekend and all....?"
WRONG.
The weekend brings its own unique set of problems.
The REAL question is: To study, or not to study?
You see, in view of the backlog incurred, we SHOULD study.
But even if we spend the ENTIRE weekend studying, sad to say, there is never gonna be enough time to finish covering everything. Although yes our guilty consciences will be greatly assuaged if we were to spend the entire weekend studying.
BUT if we were to spend the entire weekend studying, by the time Monday rolls around we're like............ OMG?! I can't believe I just spent my entire weekend studying!!!! WTH NOW IT'S ANOTHER WEEK OF NO FUN AND WE ALL KNOW THAT ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES NOT ONLY JACK BUT EVERYBODY A DULL FACELESS BLOB.
So we end up being angsty that we didn't get to have fun at all.
Then again, if we DON'T study at all during the weekend, when Monday rolls around we're like "OMG BACKLOG NOT CLEARED AND IT'S THE NEXT WEEK ALREADY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOW?! SHIT. OMGZ."
Then there's more backlog to clear.
And we aren't happy either.
Of course I'm just talking about the extremes of the situation but if you think about it, even gradients in between.... we'll still get the same problem.
So. What to do?
Well I've clearly been opting for the 2nd option of not getting much studying done at all.
Although why I've not been blogging... well.... I can't tell why la. Maybe I just really want to sit around and breathe in and out and just be..... a normally mentating (GO LOOK UP THE MEANING OF THIS WORD PLEASE LOLZ at first I thought it was 'menstruating' misspelt HAHA) human being.


In other slightly interesting news, my phone of about 1 year and 4 months died on me just recently. Or rather, the battery died on me. It lasts for about 5 hours now (WITHOUT ANY USAGE). So now I'm using this real old school Samsung slide phone that has got a processing speed that is much lower than my typing speed.
So I have to slow down for it. Like literally, sllllllooooowwwwwwww down.
The whole woman-beats-machine thing was interesting for about 2 days. And then I started to get really annoyed. Now I'm annoyed but I'm also cheered by the fact that I just discovered I'm gonna be able to get a new phone something like in 2 weeks' time!!!!
And I'm thinking of getting THIS! :



It's the HTC Snap and I think it's all kinds of coooooool yo!
Well it kinda looks like a Blackberry ripoff but hay~ It's got WiFi and I heard some models of the Blackberry don't have WiFi? And I sure as hell can't afford the data plans for Blackberry phones at this stage so this looks to be a good substitute! : )
WHEEEEETZ.
So when I get my new phone I'll let you know!!!! : ) : )


In some bit of mildly amusing news, here's an extract of this conversation I had with a friend over the phone sometime last week.

Me: Ohk when you have a pleural effusion you need to know if it's a transudate or an exudate.
(Note: Transudate is like fluid with very high water content, exudate is like fluid with high protein content. Loosely interpreted.)
N.: How do you remember the 2 ah?
Me: Eh... I don't know leh I just remember........... When I think of EXudate I will just think WAH like everything gushes out including the proteins........ but not for TRANSudate. HAHAHA Shit that's quite strange I know....
N.: You know how I remember?
Me: How???
N.: Well, Exudate starts with E right? So I remember that protEins has E loh. Then waTer has T, so Transudate loh.
Me: Hrmmmmmm....
(pause)
Me: .... But.... proTeins also has T leh................................................
(pause again)
Me: ................. HAHAHAHAHAHA OMG IN FACT, WATER HAS E TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
N.: ...................
Me: HAHAHAHAHAH OMG HAHAHAA DOUBLE FAIL LEH. HAHAHA YOUR LOGIC MAKES NO SENSE AT ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  (insert super gleeful roaring laughter)
N.: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAH OH SHIT YOU ARE RIGHT. SHIT MAN. That must be one of the lamest things I have ever said. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA


HAHA So that was a bit of fun I had over the week. : )

Oh well here's a REALLLLY long entry!
See you again end of the coming week! : )
I'm gonna go shower now and hole myself up to do some solid studying now till bedtime. : )

I think this must be a bad sign.
End of the week and I haven't got ANY idea what to write about!
This is truly a disaster.
I really think it's cos I spend all my weekdays frantically trying to keep abreast of things... and the weekends I'm just like please pleaseeeee just let me lie in a corner and not moveeeeeeeeeeee till Monday hits again.

And that just about sums up my week neatly.
Hah. How concise. Can't say the same for when I write my case write-ups......

Well maybe I could promise a better entry for next week butttttttttttttttttttt I'm not sure if I can keep that promise so.
We shall hope for the best, shan't we?

HAVE A GOOD WEEK GUYS!!!!!!!!!
What I lack in content I make up for in my enthusiasm. LOLz.

What did I say about not posting once school/pseudo work has begun??
Seems like it may be a BIT of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
But then again I've been really busy everyday. The kind of busy-ness that fills me with the urge to just run home and hide out in a corner studying every weekday and to only emerge when the weekend arrives.
That's the crazy kind of busy-ness it is. And yet I know that even if I do that, there'll still be a tonne of things I don't know.

The fear is less this time around. Although it still creeps in sometimes and paralyzes me with doubt and uncertainty about myself and my proficiency at this profession that I'm going into.
Responsibility can be a really scary thing.
But you know me.
I'm not going to give up so easily, even if it's really a fight against myself more than anything else.

Ahhhh what a cryptic-ish entry.
It's 1am in the morning so please forgive me.

I forgot some important parts in my last entry regarding the mildly exciting thing that happened to me (please refer to entry below this one if you're lost).
They are that after the whole encounter, Kk-san and I were just randomly musing about how if we had the guts we might have done things a bit differently.
For e.g., I have the song 如燕 in my phone, which is the theme song for The Little Nonya. So we were talking about how I could have played the song and then called Qi Yu Wu by his character's name, which is "Xi-er".
LOLz. I think he would have rolled his eyes at our utter lame-ness if we'd really done that.
It's still fun to think about these crazy possibilities though.

Tomorrow a new school/pseudo work week begins!
Wish me luck!
I've got some weird random pictures to put up. My next entry yes? : )

I'm officially HOME ALONE! A first in many, many years.
My parents have gone to Sabah or something to visit relatives/holiday. And I'm not there with them cos I've got school on Monday and they won't be back till Tuesday.
So for these few days, I'm ~*~*QUEEEEEEEN*~*~ of the house!!!!!!! : )
Tanned, swam and gym-ed at Yingno's today and I discovered that I can still run 8.8km in an hour after swimming for a bit. HOHO Yessss what a braggart I am. BUT you are at my blog, so! LOLz. Well I shall take back the bad karma for the bragging by disclosing that it was my FIRST time on the treadmill today and initially I was afraid to let go of the handlebar, thinking that I was gonna fall flat on my face at any time if I were to let go. Took me about 10 minutes or so to relaxxxxxxxxx and loosen up to jog hands free of the handlebar. Heh. Now I wish I had access to a treadmill so that I can make myself train up to be able to run 10km in an hour easily...........
After that I leisurely headed home (parents were on their way to Sabah already by then). On the way home, I popped by Westmall to pick up FRUIT LOOOOOOPZ and some Mug Root Beer to enjoy over the next few days. I was strangely excited (still am, actually) about being able to be alone over the next few days. I think I am a secret loner. Maybe it's cos I grew up alone?
When I came home, I discovered the 50$ my dad had left me (upon my request) and also newly bought Korean Ramen Instant Noodles. My parents must have figured that I may be too lazy to even go downstairs to get food. True story.
So now I'm sitting in my room with the air-con blasting and feeling totally at peace with myself. I figured if I wanted to I could even walk around the house naked (like in Friends!!!!!) but I'm not going to la. Just thinking randomly HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA

And now for the midly exciting thing.
Yesterday, after catching a reaaaaaaally early movie with some of the other cool kidzzzz (who had to go off after the movie), KK-san and I decided to head to the Singapore Art Museum (SAM) to while our day away~
We discovered a new section of SAM called 8Q and it appeared to have more interesting exhibitions than the main SAM, so we decided to explore it with eager hearts~
After making our rounds of all the galleries 8Q had, KK-san and I were just about to head down the stairs when I saw this man dressed in a pink polo, jeans and beanie. He was tall, appeared quite dark, and from my brief 0.5 second-long view, quite handsome. He then swooooooooped~ and duck into a gallery that we had already visited earlier.

Me: (all eager) EHHHHHHHHHH I think that man who just went into that gallery looks like he can be quite cute leh! Let's go take a better look at his face!!!!!!
KK-san: ..................
Me: (drags kk-san to the gallery door, then suddenly becomes shy and doesn't dare to open the door; gestures furiously at kk-san to open the door on my behalf)
kk-san: ..................... (pushes open the door..... somewhat grudgingly)

So we head inside and being the shy me (HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!! ) I didn't dare to take a good, hard look at abovementioned man who was standing near the gallery door. Only had something like a 1 second long glance this time around, before heading towards the seats in front of the screen almost frantically after kk-san.
Me to Kk-san: Eh you wanted to take picture right... I take again for you. (Cos previously when we were at this gallery kk-san wanted pictures of him standing in front of the video thingumz. And me being me, was just saying whatever that came into my head at that moment)
Before kk-san had a chance to reply, said man LEFT the gallery. Fast as lightning as before~

Kk-san: .... Did you see who it was??? (with somewhat peculiar look on his face)
Me: ... Hrmmmmmmm....... Is it........ It's Qi Yu Wu ahh?
Kk-san: (nods)
Me: OMG REALLY?!?!?!?!?! From that BRIEF glance I thought it was so it really was!!!! OMG~!!!!!!!!!
Kk-san: Eh I think he thought that we wanted to take a picture with him leh, that's why he siam-ed so fast. You la... what take picture....
Me: ... HUHHHHH Really ah?!

After that Kk-san and I sat there despondently (ohk maybe only me la.) for a while before heading out and down the stairs.

Kk-san: Eh you saw that it was him already is it at first? Like before he went into the gallery?
Me: Nooooooo!!! I didn't!!!! I just had a brief glance of his face and thought he had a lot of potential to be cute is all!!!! I didn't know it was him!!!!!!!!! (exclaims loudly as usual)

And I look behind us to find Qi Yu Wu coming down the stairs too after us. Previously already conspicuously inconspicuously dressed with beanie and all, he had now added a pair of huge spectacles to his face.
Judging by how 'far' he was behind us, he probably overheard a large bit of our conversation. Or rather my side of the conversation.....

Me: (trails off suddenly and RUNSSSSSSS down the stairs to the ground floor)

Back at the ground floor, there was a point in time when he was standing less than 1m behind me waiting to speak to the museum people. Omg~ The embarassment and horrorz~~~~~~~
While Kk-san and I were doing a survey for the museum, he left for the main part of SAM after engaging in a seemingly familiar conversation with the museum people.
I wanted to stalk him (yessss I know that's the first question on your mind cos that's what everybody asked me...) but Kk-san was reallly reluctant. So, we headed off in the direction of Raffles City instead.
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

So that was my blow-by-blow account of meeting Qi Yu Wu randomly on a random day visiting the museum randomly!!!!!!
But seriously, if he were to walk around on the streets like any other person in that get-up of his, beanie, huge specs, pink polo, jeans, bag slung over the shoulder... nobody can really tell that it's him. Cos the specs really cover like 1/2 of his face man.

I think that will be the CLOSEST I will ever get to having a celebrity boyfriend. : ( : (

Mehhhhh.
Yup I know I've been blogging LOTS lately. But these days are about to end very soon.
Last day of our holidayssssssssssssssssss has descended upon us.........
I shall go back to enjoying being Queen of the House....!!!!!!!!!!!!
: )

So as I was saying, after watching Boys Before Flowers I was totally obsessed (think I'm getting out of it now but not completely).
I don't know if I was more obsessed with the entire concept of the show: an ordinary girl meeting the richest super good looking man in the country in the weirdest of circumstances, falling in love, and having that man love you back despite all the 12348172034987 setbacks that you face as a couple. Oh, and having ANOTHER super rich and super good looking man love you even though he knows you don't feel the same way about you. It's like TRUE LOVE X 2.
Or maybe I was more obsessed with this man:



Please note that the curly hair is written into the plot! As adapted from the original manga. So please stop blaming the poor man.



Did I mention that he's my freaking age?! Damn. I know he looks older though. I, on the other hand, look like an absolute kid.



Yummy.







Awwwww that's adoooooraaableeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.......



One of my FAVOURITE scenes. Like ever. I've got it bookmarked. Like have I told you already that I bookmarked my favourite scenes? There are like 10 in all. SWOONWORTHY I to X. If you want to look at them just let me know.


Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
He's really dishily good looking, super tall like 186cm (this is one of those times when I bemoan being so damn short. I mean, it's really something that I can't do anything about. But otherwise I have accepted that SUCH IS LIFE......), a crazy cute smile (his teeth aren't like perfectly spaced or anything. Which I feel makes him look more... normal? And not plastic-ish like a too-perfect doll.), and he has the type of body I like on a man (not too muscular cause boys/men who are too muscular just scare me. But lean enough with a nice 6-pac going on.).
So that makes him perfect. But how the hell am I gonna get to him?

I mean even if I do get to meet him considering the fact that he lives in South Korea and I'm stuck here...... how are we gonna communicate man? He doesn't know English. And I clearly do not know Korean. So... this is how I've been convincing myself to FORGET ABOUT IT. It's NEVER going to happen.

When I met the girls and told them about my rabid obsession, they did give me some advice on how I can possibly get to be with him, or someone like him.
Firstly, they say I should have the right attitude. Just like the saying "All roads lead to Rome.", I should set my MSN personal message as "All roads lead to KOREA.". Then maybe I can muster up the energy to "Aja, aja, FIGHTING!!!" (I don't really know why Koreans say that but they just do.......?).
Next, they managed to come up with 2 main strategies for me.

1. Learn Korean, head to South Korea once I graduate and get into PLASTICS. Then find him and seduce him with prospects of an even better face... for FREE.
2. Learn Korean, head to South Korea, find a man who has almost all the attributes of Gu Jun Pyo (rich, successful, kind at heart, cute, smart yet with some interestingly cute stupid moments, tall, lean bod), and then perform PLASTICS on him to give him the face I want him to have.

So essentially both strategies involve plastics somehow, and me learning Korean.
Hrmmmmmmmmmm....

The thing is I'm not even sure if I really like the actor Lee Min-Ho who plays Gu Jun Pyo, or do I really like Gu Jun Pyo, who doesn't even exist?!
Or maybe I just like the relationship Gu Jun Pyo has with the main female character.
How sad huh?

I know that upon deeper (or not even. Superficial reflection is enough...) reflection, any person knows that it's impossible for a couple to go through all THAT and stay together. In fact, it's not even possible for any couple to go through all the things they went through.
I mean... ohk how about this for a 'relationship checklist':
1. Being abducted because someone hates your bf because of what your bf indirectly did to your brother, and your bf comes to save you all brave and heroically and you end up using your body to shield him from further physical hurt when someone attempts to smash a chair on him.
2. Being the target of bullies at school who throw water bombs at you, pour flour on you, use the fire extinguisher on you, burn your bike...... and your bf who is like the most powerful person in the school comes to save you after bashing up the bullies randomly and carries you away in his arms.
3. Saving your bf (before he actually became your bf) from drowning
4. Having your bf learn how to swim just for you despite bad childhood memories and saving you from drowning later on.
5. Your bf designs a special one-of-a-kind necklace for you that tells you that he will never let you go.
6. Losing above-mentioned necklace at a ski resort and being caught in a snow storm. Your bf ignores all warnings and goes to save you.
7. Facing violent objection from your bf's momster who becomes determined to destroy your life and the lives of those around you so as to get you away from her son.

Wow and the list goes on..........................
Ahhh this is feeling more and more ridiculous the more I think about it. So I think it's about time I got over my obsession huh.
: (

Enough of my ramblinggggg.
Here's something slightly odd for you to mull over.
I suspect the guy who plays Ji Hoon in the show got his nose done!
Instead of sticking out like parallel to the ground (which I THINK is what happens normally?), his nose kinda tilts UPWARDS. Strange. Here's pictorial proof!



He still looks normal in this.




Do you see it too! The upturned nose?!



Is that an upturned nose or what?!

Anyway for some reason his face just kinda always looked odd to me. Like it was too.... plasticky?
Something about his face just screams "PLASTIC!!!" to me.
But that could really just be me.

In some related interesting bit of news, there's a blooper in one of the final episodes of the show.
There's a scene when Ji Hoon is still wearing his motorcycle helmet when his phone rings.
And he puts his phone to his ear, WITH HIS HELMET STILL ON!
And proceeds to "talk" into the phone. LOLz.
Tell me if you manage to spot it yea?

OMG I think you can still totally tell that I'm obsessed... sigh sigh sigh.
I hope I won't still be obsessed a month from now?! That would just mean that I'm truly, sick.
I'm gonna embark on a plan to get myself off it soon. Gonna watch the show in 15 minute segments every day. The idea is that I'll get sick of it eventually and successfully wean myself off it!!!!
You think it will work???
I guess we shall see in time..............

Over a span of 3 days, I madly rushed through the Korean version of Meteor Garden a.k.a. Hana Yori Dango a.k.a. Boys Before Flowers a.k.a. Boys Over Flowers (Yesss it has many.... names.). And I must say that I am OBSESSED. Like I seriously am.



Firstly, to finish it in 3 days means I simply camped at home in front of my laptop and watched something like NINE episodes per day. One episode is about an hour. So that's 9 hours just sitting there being totally immobile and loading and watching the show.

There was also a night when I had finished episode 21 (there are 25 episodes in all) and the first part of episode 22 was an absolutely crucial part. The site where I was watching it on failed to load the first part of episode 22 and I swear I had a mini panic attack. At 1am in the morning I frantically searched for the first part of episode 22, found it after searching relentlessly for 10 minutes, watched it, then went to bed a happy girl.

My phone is also currently FLOODED with stuff from it. My wallpaper is of my ~*~*FAVOURITEST*~*~ man from the show. My screensaver is also a collection of his photos. My text ringtone is this emo song from the show. My alarm ringtone is a happy and bright sounding song from the show. My calls ringtone is Fort Minor's Remember the Name which I THOUGHT initially was a clash with the rest of the Hana Yori Dango stuff. Until I remembered that it is about the ONLY English song they played on the show. Hurhur. So yes, my phone has been Hana Yori Dango-fied. Did I mention that I have a collection of my favourite man's photos in my phone too? About 10ish I think. AND IT IS GONNA INCREASE I can feel it.

Ahhhhh so much gushing and I guess you must be like EH what's so nice about it??? Well if you've actually watched the Taiwanese one, then I must say that comparing it to the Taiwanese one it's about 10X nicer. SERIOUSSSSSLY.
1. ALL the actors on the Korean version can act better. ALL. I think even the extras act better.
2. Alot more money was spent on the Korean version and it's painfully obvious. For e.g. they went to places like New Caledonia and Macau etc. All the students in the Korean version wore uniforms. The Taiwanese one.............................................. well, everything was clearly in Taiwan.
3. The F4 boys are ALL SO DAMN HOT in the Korean version. Taiwanese... well.. eh. Not all la huh?
4. The PLOT is so much better developed for the Korean version. They actually delve into the background of most of the F4 members in detail and develop their character along the way. The Taiwanese one was just kinda disjointed and.... random sometimes.
5. In every single episode something exciting happens! Sometimes, TWO exciting things happen! So it's never like really boring and there's a good mix of focus on different characters.

You've really gotta watch it for yourself man.

I've got more stuff to say!
But it seems like it's getting late and this entry is getting way too long for my liking. So I shall do a 2-part special my dearest friends.
2nd part coming your way soon-ish!!!!!!!!!
Meanwhile if you're free you can go check out the show please. It's GOOOOOOD stuff.

Yesterday was the highly adventurous day when KK and I headed to Sim Lim to get the Guitar Heroes band set for the Wii so that we could lug it back to his place and break it in together with Mr. Trichuria and Tongy!

I swear, Sim Lim is such a testosterone charged place. You hardly ever see any females working there. And the chances of you encountering a female if you're looking to purchase anything game-related is like... 1%.
It's not only the testosterone, it's the... type of testosterone you encounter there too.
We met this particularly charming specimen of the male species in one of the shops.
Earlier, when we had gone around asking for the prices of the band set, someone else in that shop had told us that it costs $285.
However, when we returned to that shop later, the male we spoke to said that it is $360 and that the $285 was the band set for the PS3, not the Wii.
KK pushed for $285 and insisted that that was what we'd been told earlier. So the man said he'd check. He ducked behind this monitor for quite a while then had this conversation in low voices with his colleagues. During which I think I heard him ask his colleagues for the price of the band set for Wii and I THINK his colleagues said '28-something'.
When the male got back to us, he said it's "300+".
KK kept pushing for 285 still, and this prompted the man to say, "285, 285.. Stop saying 285 la. No such thing no such thing...!"
KK + Me: ........
Man: 320?
KK + Me: (shake our heads)
KK: 285......
Man: ... A bit higher than 285 la.
KK: (shakes head, and we turn to leave the shop)
Man (to our retreating backs): .... Don't come back ah! Don't come back here to this shop hoh.

HAHAHAHAHAH It was kinda funny in the moment actually.
I was asking KK if the shop owners (there were other hostile ones trust me.) might speak in a nicer tone if I was the one who had done the asking and stuff. You know, turn on the girly charms and what not HAHAHAHAHAHHA
But I think I'm not really suited for the hostile environment of Sim Lim. Toooooooo intimidating for me. It was quite an experience though.
But anyway we managed to get the band set for Wii and together, lugged it back to KK's place!
We originally wanted to take the MRT but decided to cab instead. If you've seen the size of that thing..... heh you'd understand why it would have been ridiculous for us to lug it all the way back to the MRT station from Sim Lim and then board the train with it.

Below are pictures of the food that xiao bat brought back for us from Xiamen!
There are peaches and stuff... 3/4 of it ended up in my bag cos KK stuffed them into it. LOL
There's a whole lot of special baked biscuits and stuff. And even 2 sausage thingums. hahahahahahah
We didn't even get to finish like 5% of it.



Peaches!!! And... something.



Boxes of.... stuff.



What was inside some of the boxes of stuff.



The rice biscuit thingums were my favourite! : ) Oh you can also see one of the sausages. haha

We have to thank xiao bat for the interesting a-taste-of-Xiamen-for-a-day experience!!!! : )

Murhurhur. It is now time for me to go back to doing.... nothing! : )
A Thousand Splendid Suns continues to be great. : )

This is the lifeeeeeeeee.
Been ploughing through A Thousand Splendid Suns today!
About 100+++ pages into the book now. Think I shall read later before bedtime till my eyes glaze over then crashhhhh blissfully. : )
Ahhhhhh.

Ohk but I'm about to make out my to-do list for the next 2 weeks.
There's stuff I need to do but oh, talk about lethargy and lack of motivation.

And I am also in love......... I mean, LUST, with this:



Sweeeeeet stuff.
I was telling my dad about wanting this over dinner and he was all like "BLUEberry?"
Me: Yea yea strawberry leh seriously. -_-"

Anyway how cool would it be if I get this and then I blog from it!!!! COOL BEANZ OMG~
Yea but that will have to be like....... end of the year or something.
: ( Happy waiting me!
Meanwhile it's just gonna be my motorola razr v9 and me still.

Yes I am FINALLY in the midst of my official holidays!
The first few days were spent being a camp facilitator at this secondary school and the experience was truly a very unique one.
If you ever get the chance to meet up with me IRL in the days to come you can ask me about it.
I'm just feeling lazzzzzzzzzy to write down everything that happened.

Since the camp I've been sitting at home blazing my way through Grey's Anatomy season 5, where I left off after they stopped mid-season for...... some reason that I don't know.
And that means I've effectively been sitting in front of my computer being emo and crying at EVERY. SINGLE. DAMNED. EPISODE.
Sad, I tell you.
I am way too emo for my own good sometimes I'm aware of that.

Besides that, this morning I've officially decided to abandon reading Sophie's World. Been stuck at the book for a good SIX months and still have about 1/6 of it left. Usually I abhor not completing something I set out to do, including reading books, but the fact that I'm 6 months into it and not anywhere near finishing it (read: reluctance to read the book on bus journeys and for bedtime............... and being able to not open the book for days on end........... and having to mentally urge myself on to read the book..........) should be a big fat clue that I should start something else instead.
So, next up I have A Thousand Splendid Suns. Which I bought something like middle of last year, seriously.

Ahhhhh glorious holidays.
I shall burst my own happy bubble next week by attempting to do a bit of work here and there in bits and pieces.
Anybody wants to hang outttttt drop me a text! : )

I guess I haven't told you that while I was up in KL I somehow got attacked by a swarm of dust mites or something.
There were numerous bites on my right elbow and at first I thought they were mozzie bites. Then I came home and my parents said, "OMG I think those are flea bites..... or something."
Then Yuhui told me they are probably dust mite bites.
BUT IN ANY CASE, EWWWWWW.
They're making me kinda paranoid.
I keep thinking SHIT did I bring the fleas/mites/whatever gross things back home or something?!
It would be horrifying if I'm accidentally keeping them as pets in my bed now.... with ME being their principal source of food, literally.
Everybody's asking me to chill though. So yes, I am chilling about it. Just that the swellings which are on both my arms, a few on my face, neck, legs randomly itch and when they do I spend alot of time scratching them. Ewz.

Btw, to placate my shopaholic complex I bought 2 bags in KL! They're like 19RM each! IS THAT CHEAP OR WHAT HELLOOOOOO.
They're to replace my freaking stupid bag that I bought for clinics which is already DYING and coming apart at the seams (literally, again.). After only a pathetic 4 weeks.
They're so cheap and big and roomy I feel like I can just dump all my shtuff inside them and throw them around~ Without feeling like I've sinned or something.

Ohkkk gotta quit blogging now and get back to work!!!! : ] Wheeeeeeeez.