Should I learn Salsa?

Felt like taking some dance classes for so long liao, but always din get down to doing it.

Partly becoz MB dun really like dancing and those that i'm interested needs a partner to dance with. I'm okay with the idea of dancing with stranger men, but i duno abt MB. Dances such as Salsa are rather 'intimate' becoz of the spirit and essence of it. hmm..

Anyway, Mum and Dad wans to learn some tango or social dances... any idea where I can find these classes?

Apparently, searching thru Yahoo doesn't seem to help coz they charge rather exhorbitantly...hmm..

anyone noe of any good lobang tell me hor! :)

不知怎的，今天觉得非常累。。

可能 Wednesday 的时候没有早点睡觉，所以carried over 到今天还是觉得睡不够。=(

不知道你也会不会有这种感觉，刚开始做一些事情的时候兴致勃勃，可是到了中途就有气无力，心有余而力不足 lidat。It's like my engine has lost its steam.

好像是一个气球，也会有泄气的时候，那时泄了气的气球就会随着风吹来的方向，无力的飘向未知数。Drifiting to a far far away land, where nobody knows me, except myself...

我今天就是有这种 feeling。

我的充气筒在哪里？我需要再鼓起精神，继续奋斗。。Some encouragement please??

Hmm, 还是让我先休息一下再说吧。。。。。。。

discovered that Singtel has a new plan for students!!

it's called iOne Plus Student Plan, which has free incoming calls, 1000 sms and 20 sms free for 2 years subscription, and 100min of outgoing talktime!

all these for S$25.20 per month. But not inclusive of caller ID, which is an additional $5 per month. hmm, so in total i still pay only $30.20 but i get to sms until i crazy!! haha :P

but before that, i hafta change the account to my name coz it was under Mummy's and she doesn't qualify as a student. That's gonna cost me another $20 jus to do that. :/ but this is 'enduring' benefit lar, so think it's a one time cost that will offset the benefits that I'll get for the next 2 years.. Besides, I'm goin to be a non-student soon, so this is gonna be my last chance to enjoy 'student-only' perks and privileges!! heh :P

anyone interested can jus call the Customer Service hotline to upgrade to this plan. :)

On another note, today's Forensic Science lecture was rather interesting. First part was normal lecture, but second part was where the interesting stuffs came in. The lecturer invited the Head of Forensic Mgmt in Singapore Police Force to give us a guest lecture on Crime Scene Investigation.

The speaker was supposedly in his early fifties already, coz he spoke broken English and MB said he spoke like a Lao Beng.. hahah :P But it was engaging coz he showed us loads of crime scene pictures and explained the recent cases like the one where the maid set fire to burn her employer at Bt Merah; Andrew Ler case; Spiking drink at RC CNY Dinner etc etc....

Was rather gory coz the pictures were all real as they took it at the scene and blood was everywhere... But hey, that was what I had initially expected when I took this course. :)

But there are alot of scientific terms and stuff to learn like, livor mortis, mass spectrometry, using luminol to detect blood etc. Haiz, if only I was born like 2 years later, I could have come into NTU to study BioChem and take this course liao. Mebbe take a SPF scholarship like Leng Lee and become their forensic scientist when I graduate... *day-dreaming*

Anyway, that's not gonna happened since my future is rather sealed in the audit/finance line... *gua gua gua*

Rather keen to take on Master of Sociology after I had worked a coupla years, coz it seemed the type of stuff that I'm interested to learn.. but will see how lar, shan't think too much for now.. betta conc on my current committments!!

Speaking of which, it's already mid-week of Week 5!!! Whoa, din noe time passes by so quickly! I'm still in those 'orientation' mood ya noe? but hey, another 2 weeks and it's the mid-term break liao!! :S piangz, i betta pull up my socks and start to piah already!! Still can't figure out the consolidation for 306, some of the tax principles (btw, the quiz today was quite tricky, so much for T/F questions!! *bleah*) and auditing stuff..

ok back to my books...*yawnz*

You want to eat your Son-In-Law's eggs?

Apparently, there's this famous Thai dish called Grilled Chicken with Son-in-Law's eggs.

According to a Thai folk tale, a poor farmer married a woman from a noble family.

When he was due to visit her parents for a family reunion, he had no money to buy them expensive gifts.

All he had were some freshly laid eggs. He cooked them simply with soy sauce, chilli, palm sugar and tamarind.

His mother-in-law fell in love with the humble dish and asked the farmer what it was called.
On the spur of the moment, he replied: 'Son-in-law's eggs.' The name stuck and it became a popular Thai dish.

So next time, mebbe we can call other dishes like 'My Mother-in-law's drumsticks' or 'My Sister-in-Law's Prunes'?? :D

anw, for those who are interested to noe, u can read here.

Hi everyone, I'm Specky.

I've jus been adopted by my Mummy this afternoon.

I dunno when I was born, so I guess today shall be my birthday. Happy Birthday to Me! :)

I was born without spectacles, but I had been reading too much when I was at Kiddy Palace, that's why they got me a pair of spectacles so I can see my Mummy clearer.

I'm sad to leave my friends behind but we all know that we will see each other very soon!

I've made some new friends today! There's Rainbow, Red Pig and Pink Pig. There's also Miz FF and Mr D in the cupboard. Mummy said Daddy adopted them to keep her company, but because Miz FF and Mr D are too big, they're kept in the cupboard for now.

I'm very happy I have Mummy because she dotes on me alot. She's very happy to see me when Daddy adopted me. I hope I can make Mummy very happy everyday!!

Ok, Mummy said I should not stare at the computer too much or else I will have to wear thicker glasses in future.

Goodbye for now! Mummy said I can come online everyday after I finish my homework. (You see, Mummy wants me to be a clever girl so I have to read alot alot of books and do alot of homework)

See you soon! :)

很感动也很高兴，陈伟联赢了男子组冠军。

我没有追看这个比赛，但报章上经常有他和其他参赛者的新闻。

因为它的眼睛看不到，所以我特别注意他。

不要误会，我不是带着有色眼镜看他，反而是很佩服他的毅力和坚强。

或许你也会认为他是因为同情分而赢的，但我觉得事实上，他并不输给任何人。有可能在台风上，他是吃亏，但姑且不论这个，在表演方面的经验，他却比其他人来的多。

我想，看不见更能体会一首歌背后应有的情感和故事吧。

他们都说盲人的听觉比常人的好。所以我绝对支持他。

现在的乐坛充斥着无数个包装过但没什么实力的年轻歌手。我们正缺乏像伟联这样，用心去聆听和感动的歌手。

我决定买他的单曲CD来支持他。Mummy 也让我在决赛当晚打电话投选支持。

真希望他能赢这场比赛，也希望别人能以正面的眼光去欣赏他的才华。

正如他妹妹上台时说的：请不要专注于伟联在台上不能给你们的，而是专注于它所能带给你们的。

~ Boon and JM Farewell Dinner ~



it was really great hanging out with a bunch of people whom I've shared one of the most memorable times with.

Boon and JM are leaving next Sat midnite for studies in Shanghai, so me and hoi organised a JC class gathering to send them off proper. :)

Dinner was rather late, coz most of us had classes (and I was late as well :P) but it turned out to be quite okay. We had wanted to eat at Creations, a plc that sells pasta in Shaw Tower but it was rather packed on a Friday evening so we can't get seats for 14 people. :/

So we went upstairs to this Turkish restaurant, Sofra, for dinner. Ambience was not bad but the waiters were rather slow and seems to be taking their own sweet time, made all of us waited quite a bit..

Turkish food was an acquired taste and we had 'some' difficulty eating our food.. So we had to adjourn to Macs for more (becoz the serving was q small and Boon was was still hungry..:P)

Good luck to Boon and JM in their studies at Shanghai! Looking forward to you 2 talented Chinese teachers when u guys come back! ;)

- I've been MUMMIFIED!! -

WAH people!!!!

scroll to the right and see who left a tag on my board??

it's BLINKYMUMMY !!! :P


hah in case u duno her, she's one of the famous female bloggers in Singapore. :D

Y i liked abt her is that, she can sometimes be so crudely funny and sometimes so 感性 that I'm so addicted to her entries! :P mus read everyday one some more! :P

Plus, she's from St. Nicks too! that jus made her my no 1 idol from St. NIcks liao lar!! :P hahah :) i like the way she see things and some perspectives she had.

well, there are other bloggers around in SG that's really worth a read: mrbrown, mr miyagi, cowboycaleb, finicky feline, and famous Xiaxue. Famous M'sian blogger mus read will be kennysia. He's really farni w loads of photos as well! :P

Sometimes u can really learn alot from these people who blogged, coz they've seen so many things in their life and noe so much too.....

**LATEST!!!***

jus received a call from KPMG....

I GOT THE INTERNSHIP!!!!!!!!!!

woohoo!!! *round of applause!*

damn happy lar! actually the lady called during class but i rejected the call. but my gut tells me that no was from KPMG (boy was my gut right! :P) so i quickly called back after class ended and it really was them to confirm i got the internship!! :P *beams and jumping up and down!*

anyway, hoi, li, geok: come KPMG for ur PA k? den we can haf lunches together!! :P hahah

oh and i had 306 jus now, the supposedly challenging mod this sem.. but i was so enlightened by Prof Lee that i began to take a liking for it!

call me a sadist man, but i think it's really kewl to be able to siphon out so much information from those financial report! to think 2 days ago while i was doin the seminar qn, i was like you-know-me, i-don't-know-you lidat!! haha :P

Prof Lee is one of a kind, he can tell relly lame jokes w/o himself laughing, like it's a matter of fact lidat! that's wat make it ever funnier! :P

ok i'm in a good mood, hope later tax sem will not be so boring! imagine sitting there for 3hours! :/

taz!!

a rather short day but had my first presentation for aa304 for this semester...

winne was asking how come i so fast haf presentation liao... hah well, that's coz we're the first group and we started sch earlier than u NUS peeps!! :P

anyway, the presentation went on well.. better than I had expected.. thanks the class for asking so many questions, and luckily we managed to answer them. hah :D

and today after class, Ben came up rather secretively beside me and told me something. He said one of his grp mate thot he was my boyfren coz we're always seen together!!! i was like laughing like mad can?? hello!!!! In any way is me and him compatible? we more like 姐妹 can??? (hinting to Ben that he's gayish..) *hahahahha* :D

anyway, wad's wrong that we're same class tog? some other ppl also lidat wat?? haiyoh.. they're really bored and kaypo. tsk. mebbe that's y Ed doesn't wan to be in same class as me. (oops, pls dun ask abt this!)

I mean i haf other gal pals too, but they're like ALL in group B can??? so tamade lar! dun ask me, ask NBS y they purposely separate me and my galfrens and left me ALONE in grp A hor! *grrr*

ok i better continue on my readings... everyday seems like a mad rush to me.. always rushing tutorials and stuff. how i wish i can jus sit back and relak lar!!! :P

我今天又做错了。

或许我不应该抱着希望。或许我不应该那么依赖他。

当依赖已变成一种习惯，是否相爱就成了一种负担？

有时候很希望他能做到我想他为我做的事，可是他又怎能知道我想要得是什么呢？

希望越大，失望就更大。我不是早就理解这个道理了吗？怎么心里还是那么的失望呢？

或许只有在连续剧里才能有完美的爱情故事吧。

但太完美的爱情，始终都是虚构出来的。

啊，是的。我对他的爱已让我达到无法正常呼吸的程度。一旦他不在我的身旁，我就会有种窒息的感觉。

我已决定不再那么依赖着他。

我要学习怎么独立，怎么在他不在我的身边的时候，还能继续呼吸。

让我
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呼吸。

had a nice dinner with MB jus now.. Ate at Pizza Place (our fave place) at City Hall.

pretty tired frm all the classes, presentations and proj that are coming up all at the same time. it's nice to haf MB around and he'd always make silly faces to make me laugh. :)

trigger happy shots on the train..


The Blur vs The Cool


So sleepy~~ Lend me your shoulders to sleep on...


Bestest photo so far!! but look at my left eye bags!! boohoo~~

At Pizza Place (basement of Raffles City)

IBC Root Beer!! Our fave!! ;)

Shopping at the toys section..

The piglet is SOOOO cute!! Me look so adorable w Piglet! :P


MB and his fave: Gundam figurines

Waiting for lift downstairs..
MB and his blue tongue!! (Pls dun go buy the blue slurpee from 7-11 next time! taste like some chemical drink lidat!! zzzz)

so tired after jus a few hours spent with MB... He never fails to make me laugh like mad... ;)

came back from watching fireworks near Padang there.

it was short but amazing. Took these with my hp cam. not too bad tho ;)

读了Blinkymummy 的 entry about 她的恋爱史，觉得她真的经历了许多。。

(Link here.)

无聊的时候，我喜欢阅读别人的 blog，了解他们对一些事情的想法以及人生观。
渐渐地，阅读他们的 blog 成了我每天的一种习惯。

Blinkymummy 是我在St. Nicks 的学姐。虽然大我很10 岁，得总觉得有种说不出的亲切感。

她从初院到现在，少说也交了 6, 7 个男朋友。每一段的恋爱都让她对人生有不同的理解。

有时候我觉得我是不是应该也多交几个男朋友，让自己的的社会经验丰富些。

但我是个懦弱的人。我需要人来疼我，爱护我。

我承担不起失望的伤痛，所以我选择走安全的路。

不是说我现在和他不开心。其实我每天都过得很幸福。

但就在沉静在这股幸福的当中，我不免又会感到害怕。

害怕这一切会在一瞬间都消失了，那我存在的价值也会等于 zero.

是的，他对我很重要。

重要到，有时我会开始怀疑自己是不是配不上他。

不安和焦虑，在不懂的宣泄的当儿，我会无缘无故的发脾气。

幸好他没什么脾气，总是迁就我，顺着我。这让我更感到无地自容。

我在学习怎么做一个更好的女友。虽然他没有嫌我，但我也不应该 take it for granted he will always be with me。因为世上无绝对。

我们已经在计划着我们的未来。希望能在未来 5 年内能够步上红地毯。

不要问我为什么那么早肯定它将会是我的 life partner. 我无法回答这个问题。

我只知道，我想每天早上醒来都能闻到他的味道，看到他的脸，握他的手。

不知道以后将会发生什么事，也不想去想。

我只想和他在一起。一直到老。

Umm, 就是那么简单。


PS: It's been ages since I've written in Chinese. This will be the start of me writing chinese blogs every now and then. Think my thoughts are sometimes better expressed in Chinese than English. :) Look out for more.~

i have a bad case of menstrual cramp............. =(

I suddenly felt kind of scared.

no. it's not becoz it's the Lunar 7th Month now and i can 'see' or 'feel' spirits hovering around me.

prob becoz we were the first group to present our project for 304. no prior precedents or groups to let us see where we should be heading. and my group seems kind of disorganised. altho we did meet up and coordinate our work flows.

loads of readings yet again. altho i can finish them in time, somehow i felt that i was more of trying to complete those readings instead of really understanding them. hmm. wrong approach lidat. i should try to do sth abt it.

anyway, it's gonna be National Day soon. Altho I dun see how different it's gonna be as previous other celebrations, only perhaps this time is the 40th birthday.

i look forward to vote during the Presidential Election. but somehow i feel that SR Nathan will be uncontested. Again. I mean since when had we voted or something? even choosing our MPs were always walk-overs. sometimes i wonder if it's really good to just haf one party ruling Singapore. I mean not that i'm saying PAP is not good or wat, but perhaps, we should also allow other parties with differing view on running the govt to haf a fair share in the Parliament?

but from the looks of other 'Opposition' Parties ( i dun see why they mus use the word Opposition, it doesn't mean their view are entirely diff from those of the ruling party rite?), somehow they portray an image that they're those who always get their silly asses in court (like Jeyaratnam and Chee Soon Juan) or else it will be some loud criticisms but no action as well.

I admire Chiam See Tong. you can see why becoz he has been the MP for Potong Pasir for decades. Why he can continue to run that jurisdiction for so long obviously haf his powers and abilities. Think even PM Lee also respect this venerable old man.

(*Disclaimer: The above is jus the thoughts of a 21 yr old young woman who's rather excited that she may haf the chance of voting this year. It does not represent any sort of inclination towards possible defamation or accusatory intonations. Pls read it with a pinch of salt. Thanks)

ok, too serious for a sunday noon entry.

think i shud head back to my books, else i'm really gonna mug thruout during National Day holidays.. *gua gua gua*

it was one of those rare 'serious' chats on MSN that i had with hoi.

had lunch w her, geok and ben ystd. You could say that was like maybe the 4th or 5th time since Year 1 that we guys actually sat down to have lunches and talks. can't be helped when were in different groups and our timetables just doesn't seem to meet each other's.

hoi was asking me if it was stupid of her to run for her club when she's already in yr 3. I said no, because i feel that this was something that she was passionate about doing, so she should just go for it, lest she regrets when she look back in future.

Sometimes, life isn't just about studying. Although I would agree that at this point in time when we are students, our main priority should be our studies. But hey, there are other important things in life that we feel are our priorities too! Like hoi, one of her priorities is to run her club because that's where she feels she can really learn and chellenges herself to more difficult tasks and her leadership skills.

how many times in you life do you feel so enthusiastic about something that's like everytime you're doing it, althought you get frustrated and worn out at times, it just never fails to bring a smile on your face when u think about it? I would say quite few for most people. Me too.

For the past 2 years of Uni life, i've told myself umpteen times that I do not want to be just a geek, always holding on to my books and do nothing else. Well, you look at me now, you would just say that I am indeed geek-like. :)

i've tried to join some ccas and clubs, but i just find that i dun haf the passion in doing it and sometimes, even fear or dread doing some stuffs.

then, i came to realise that, hey, maybe my current 'passion' now is just studying! i mean, i really find enjoyment sometimes in studying, because i feel that it is challenging to my mind, and tho at times i just feel like giving up, I still continue to hang in there and pulled through. U may think i'm crazy but seriously, my priority is studying.

perhaps, i've been 'brainwashed' my the govt that i should study hard and contribute next time. or rather I wan to be a high-flyer. I'm not embarrassed to say that, becuase right now, I just want to achieve good grades and get a good job and establish my career.

Perhaps, until I gotten so sick of the routine, ordinary job life i would seek my passion elsewhere.

just like serene, she too is doing what she likes best now, studying and dancing and i can really see she has changed quite abit since we knew each other back in JC. She's so warm and open now and sometimes, i literally can see 'sparks' in her eyes when she mentioned abt her dance competitions and such. It's really great to see your friends doing what they love most.

hoi says she always feel flattered whenever i mentioned her name on my blog. hah that silly girl, that's because you indeed have inspired me in many other ways that you could not have possibly imagined!

i really learnt a lot from my friends, be it life, love, studies etc, I must say my friends are like my constant supply of soul food, that never fails to let me think from various perspectives and make me grow emotionally and physically.

thanks pals, sometimes I just wonder how blessed I am to have you guys. :)

i've been eating alot lately. ALOT.

duno why but I jus doesn't seem to be 'filled' up you know, like still quite hungry even after I have ate a full meal. urgh. getting SO FAT.

anyways, we went for the NTU Dive Team interview. We were early and there were actually 2 of the people (we think) who came in to the room. But, they din approach us or ask us if we were there for the recruitment.

after that, more ppl came and started to gather around and smoke and it was kinda rowdy. MB told me he feels that he can't work with this kind of people. I agreed and we just left in front of them.

well, what the heck. We don't have to join the ntu dive team just to enjoy diving. We are comfortable with the status quo now. And actually I suspect they wanted us to leave, because they prob wanted pretty girls only. there was another girl w us and she looked pretty. so jus so happened was, after we left and was waiting for bus, I looked back and saw the group went in JUST after we left. Kaoz! This is it, they're super discriminating and 'exclusive'. As if I wan to join them like that! BAH!~

i received this in my NTU email:

"Dear student

We have given due consideration to your email request and registered the subject CBC811 Forensic Science for you.

Kindly please access http://www.ntu.edu.sg/OAS/Undergraduate+Studies/Registration+of+Subjects/, print your revised timetable and proceed to attend classes.

We will appreciate it if you do not reply to this email if your timetable is in order.

We wish you all the best in your studies.

Regards
Audrey Tan
Office of Academic Services "

YEAH!!!!!!! I finally gotten the GE that I wanted!!!! woohoo!! :P

now waiting for the recruitment interview at 7pm for the Diving Club. Hope i get it too! ;)

Praise thee!!~~

i've practically checked my NTU mail like ten times??

but still no news regarding my Forensic Science GE. urgh.

I WAN AN ANSWER!!!

anyways, i'll still be attending the lecture tom. Means i'll haf to skip my first tutorial for my other GE. boo.

anyway if u had noticed my MSN nick, it says: You are cow dung and I'm the flower. [Perfect Match] *muahahahah*

apparently, MB and I breached on the topic on cow dung ystd coz we walked by this newly fertilised grass patch near his house. And he claimed that he's the cow dung and I'm the flower.

I asked him why and if he knew the exact meaning of 鲜花插在牛粪上. He said he knows but cow dung is actually a very good source of fertiliser for flowers, doesn't it jus mean that cow dung and flower are a perfect match?

I went speechless.

Prof Loh Teck Peng from Division of Chemistry and Biochemistry is such a nice and approachable person.

Ugin and I went to his office in the afternoon regarding one of the GEs that we're interested to take. Apparently, Ugin happened to know of this Forensic Science GE from a friend and got me so excited over it, coz obviously I'm a fan of CSI. Love those tests they were doin in the show in order to crack crimes and convict suspects. Well, this GE is something about it.

Prof Loh was very warm and he even helped us to contact the person in charge to open up extra places to take non-CBC students to take this GE. He was from NUS Life Sciences, teaching Organic Chem. So when he came here, he and his team brought over the 'NUS' kind of teaching and working style. Kinda like it coz he's so friendly and warm, unlike those of NTU profs, who
probably studied too much that they've forgotten how to talk to people. bah.

Anyway he was saying as a Head in NUS, he or she has the absolute power but in NTU, it's the bigger bosses on top that has the final say. Nevertheless, he use his position to help us ask the Dean's office to take this GE. Results are still pending but I really hope i can get this GE, since he said next yr will probably NOT be opening up to non-CBC students any more... *cross fingers*

went for my supposedly registered GE, Biz Comm in Chi and the lecturer was this lady who has acted in some Ch 8 drama serials before, most recent one was the one where Jacelyn Tay made herself v ugly and tomboy-like in the show.. (can't remember wat's the name) and she acted as that friendly neighbour who likes Jacelyn Tay's father. (it also starred, Rui En and Cheng Song Ling as the other 2 sisters. anyone remember the show's name).

yah her chinese is fab man! every word that came out of her mouth was pronounced perfectly and crystal clear. But i din find the lecture particular engaging, think it was kinda weird to be sitting in a Chinese-speaking lecture ever since I left HC.

Anyway, my top priority for GE is still the Forensic Science one, but if i can't take den think I wud hafta settle for the BIz Comm in Chi one liao... I hope i get it man..*prays hard*