A Blur

The week happened so fast that I really can't seem to remember what happened during the week. I will try to recall.

1. I got myself some new music. New music always makes me happy. Fall Out Boy and Stars and Adam Lambert. Oh, what joy (:

2. Went on a food trail on Saturday. We ate so much it's not funny. Discovered Kono Pizza, I think it's really interesting and delicious too! Did I mention that I like the cute donuts at Taka's basement? Good stuff there too! And of course, how can I forget my favourite Nectarie? I had a great Saturday night (:

3. Finally caught Marley and Me. Thought it was pretty touching! Dozed off here and there though, probably cos I was really tired. At least I had someone whacking me the whole time or I would've missed the whole show. It's a sweet show though!

4. Went back for contact training. It was fun training with them again and it made me realise how much I miss it. I think my fitness has gone down the drain though, contact seems really tiring now! Maybe it's because I haven't been working those muscle groups in a long time. Oh well, good to be back!

5. Had a great birthday surprise after training on Thursday. It was hilarious. Ah, I love the team. Great playing with them. Helps keep my mind off things and it keeps me sane throughout the week. Too bad we don't have games for a month! Suppers are always great though (:

I think that's all, the rest will be all about school, which sucks by the way. So glad summer's coming! 3 more weeks till hell is over and the fun begins! I cannot wait. This week is crazy. I need sleep but I'm not getting any I guess.

Back to the books.

xoxo
MAR

everyone's gone away,but i'm here to stay :(

i'm sho loneelyy :(
anyway.. sigh. 4 weeks in FREEZINGland. when i could be home. *whacks head*

1) i just realised that i have to FEED MYSELF for the next 4 weeks. first time in my 20 years of living i have to do that! i cooked fried rice and baked cookies today. pictures of my cookies later. i am so proud, never baked before and i was always envious of ppl who can bake! :D

2) i have exams after so i have to study. DAMNIT!

3) in a way i feel nice and cosy now, not as sad as yesterday, cause i ran errands today- did laundry, changed bedsheets, planned study sched, cooked, grocery shopped. whoo.

4) i GAINED 2 KG. :( this is too depressing to talk about. hahahahaha

random-for-fun-pictures:

last student night out on thurs. yes,marianne chang i am a copycat and bought the same top as you i do hope you dont mind but it looks very nice so well done you for choosing the right thing!

that's my clara. she went home today IMISSHER!!!!

pria and huayshan.

STORY TIME!
- huayshan goes to clinic.
- clinic peeps ask huayshan if she is immune against TB.
- huayshan nods and shows her HUGE bcg scar.(btw i have 2 bcg scars i dont know where the other one came from!!)
- clinic peeps ask where huayshan is from.
- huayshan says malaysia.
- clinic peeps look serious for awhile.. and tell huayshan they will have to do a mantoux test cause malaysia is a high-risk country.
- huayshan doesn't know what it is but agrees.

- and clinic peeps proceed to jab huayshan with A VIRUS.
- and this happens:

two days later i went back and they drew on my poor blistered hand and measured the diameter of the hugeass red thing! i passed. they said i had an unusually strong immune reaction. well done huayshan's immune cells! i always knew i had a stronger immune system than most people. i'm hardly sick and when i am i'm REEEEEEEEEEAAALLLY sick. so i still have a huge red blob on my arm that itches and aches!!

my cookies :) ok enough of my nonsense. HUGGIES!!!

huay shan

i have had the most marvellous idea!

ARE YOU READY????

ok i know i'm a self-centred, crazy ass but i just had the most amazing idea!

... for my BIRTHDAY! my 21st birthday that is.

i hate my birthday. everyone's busy with family stuff and even if they claim they're not i feel guilty anyway for dragging them out for my birthday.

and thing is i'm always really exhausted on my birthday- celebrating with diff ppl, which is amazing don't get me wrong ah.. but it'ld be splendid to have all my dearest and closest together in one room. no?

so i was thinking... (while in the shower)... what about booking like a hotel room? mind you i'm just brainstorming here, could be a ridiculous idea i know. but i want a nice huge place to contain ppl in. and my house is boring and tiny. i could book a hotel ballroom a tiny miniature cheapo one. and invite like, EVERYONE. my 4/2 classmates(well those that i feel close enough to invite after months of silence from me.. hehe) and my other ijtp friends like roseann, amanda ang, nicole moosa etc etc. facebook facebook. then i could invite my 06s33 darlings, and kayak ppl, and odac ppl that i know well enough. then i could invite my scholar friends. like jeremy,daniel,joshua that gang, LIEN, jillian, kat, FRISKA, hsi wen.. omg endless list here.

NOW WONT THAT BE AMAZING???

people i love all in a room. and it wont be awkward cause everyone has ppl to talk to! and i'm sure there're links btwn my friends in nus ntu all. RIGHTRIGHT?? omg should i totally do this??

a very excited huay shan

p/s bloody hell i could invite teachers! mr shi, mr HO , ERIC TAN!!!!! i'm damn high now. OR MY SCHOLARSHIP OFFICERS!!!! YAIIII!!!!!!!!!

(:

Had yet another great weekend and the week wasn't too bad save for school. So here's some random facts about the week together with some great shots of the week:





1. I was so tired I crashed in a GSR that day. Sleeping on 3 chairs never felt so good. I crashed for a total of 2 hours it wasn't funny. I woke up blur and had to stumble around for a bit before I regained my sanity.

2. I didn't enjoy Watchmen much save for say the first half an hour and all the subsequent fight scenes. I did like how the fighting was so artistic though. But that's about it. I actually crashed during the last half hour and dozed off in between. What a great way to spend $9.50.

3. I finally ate my mango mousse at Nectarie and it was well worth the wait (:

4. Finally caught up with Chang and Cor after ages! It felt great and it made me realise how much I miss hanging out with them and Cher and Shan. How I wish we were all here together now. Soon, that will come true! Yet another reason to look forward to summer.

5. My friends are finally officers after God knows how long! The parade was boring but the excitement of seeing them in their uniforms was well worth the long commute time and braving the crowds. It felt great catching up with all of them and it was quite fun after all! The rainbow was beautiful and I'm so glad I got to see the touch girls again (:

6. I got home at 5am on Saturday. I haven't done something like that in ages and I think it's taking a toll on my body. I'm really drained of energy. But I guess it's all worth while (: I like talking till the wee hours of the morning about anything and everything! I just love the feeling. I guess we all need that once in a while and I'm glad I got my fix!

7. Oh yes, I discovered a great new hang out place on Wednesday: Room Full of Blues. The band there is amazing. The lead singer's got an amazing voice that can reach notes you'd never imagine. Together with his cool peddle, he was great! The band was awesome too! What a place! The company was great as well. I had my much needed break from school that night.

8. I like receiving sweet e-mails and texts. They just make your day (: Yes, I am sentimental.

9. I just realised how soon exams are coming and I have plenty of deadlines to be met in 2 weeks' time. Just great.

10. I had a good sleep in on Friday (:

Okay that's it, I managed to fill up 10 points! Cheap thrill.

Have a good week ahead!

xoxo
Mar

the best thursday of my life.

*claps hand* picture time!

life's been delightful but the thought of a lonely easter makes me a little depressed. but no worries.. i will find a way to entertain myself.

ok my week was pretty uneventful till... yesterday. thursday. wait scrap that. on tuesday during the kayak session i spent 1.5 hours capsizing and trying to flick my ass to un-capsize myself. most unglam thing i've ever done. i did lots of stupid things:

1) spray water out of my mouth the min i come out of the water. like a man!

2) its like i go underwater then i flick my ass to the.. let's say left. so i come up right? i'm above water. sounds easy but i'm so weak and useless that everytime i came up i would continue spinning and go underwater again. the guy coaching me looked very stressed heh.
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okay back to my gorgeous thurs. IT WAS MY LAST GP SESSION WITH MY GP!! i adore gp sessions i really do and i was really sad. i'll still go back to the same gp next year but ill be under another gp so i was quite very-the-sad.

it was the best session i've ever had. we got to drive around with the GP and do home-visits so we went to two nursing homes to visit the patients it was awesome fun. and then my gp bought us gorgeous biscuits so we spent most of the afternoon wolfing them down. and at the end of it, we all took picturess!! haha.

me, olivia, my GP and gurps.around the table upstairs in the clinic. we do our discussions and lessons here in between patient consultations. helen was ill, so gurps is holding a sheet of paper that says helen. hehe.

there's a story behind this. hahaha i think gurps was talking abt how he saw lots of tourists in chinatown in bham taking pics.. then olivia said sth about how chinese tourists are always doing the victory sign.. and i was like YES its so annoying and i told them about the 1-10 hand sign the ah lians on the neoprint machines do, but i couldn't remember how to do 3 and 8. hmm. anyway then my GP overheard us and when we were taking the pictures he was joking abt doing the victory sign and BAM i made everyone do it. hilarious!!

with the cookies he gave us at the bus stop.

went to dinner after, was pretty exhausted by then but i had gd company. one of my friends was having guy problems so we spent abt an hour arguing about her next plan of action. which reminds me i shld find out how it went. heh. thennnn i promised my friends that i would go out that night to fish-a ridiculous name for a student night out. but it was REALLY GOOD. like the songs were great and i went a bit psycho and the company was good that night. officially the best clubbing night ever-ties with the fecx ball night. i didnt get to take pics with everyone but here's my fav! didnt regret gg out at all. sometimes i regret gg out cause i dont enjoy myself or some drama happens but ytd was lovely and uneventful. sometimes the less you go out, the nicer it is when you do. yes? :D

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thought i'ld end off with a picture for the twins if they see this.. i eat this every time i go to the GP clinic. FATTENING OILY FRIES.. and this is what's left after i'm done. hehe.

off to dinner. LOVE! best thurs ever :D

p/s got 2 essays to write(assessed)

huay shan

Weekends!

So yet another weekend has come and gone. As usual, I didn't touch school work, which is not good but at least I managed to get a good break albeit the aches and bruises that came along with it.
I'm really proud of the team. We've come such a long way and I felt we've learnt a lot from this experience. I'm so thankful and blessed for all the encouragement and support friends have shown. I'm really touched and I had so much fun.
Then there's the wonderful PPs, who've made playing touch worthwhile all over again. That's why I look forward to weekends so much - meet ups and playing touch will always make my weekends (:

I look forward to yet another exciting weekend! But first, I gotta get through yet another horrible week in school.

xoxo
MAR

finally some Xcitement!

so..

i was feeling mildly depressed for a few weeks- i had nth but work to do and to look forward to, i spent my days in the library and school and my room, i barely went out and yeh, life was bawRING.

decided to try join the uni kayak club!

facebooked them, msged one of the members and i was told to come down on the day i received the msg(2 hrs later to be precise) or the day after(today!)

i was FRIGGIN nervous.

you have no idea. i don't know ANYONE in the kayak club, i didn't know what to expect and worst of all it's the middle of term, so i'ld be the only newbie. yeah fine i'm a scared, insecure wimp but wouldn't you have felt the same way?

so i went ytd, after whining on the phone to my friends for a half hr, and it was really good. the girls were really really friendly, they tapped me and talked to me i didn't even need to try! and there were hardly any awkward i-dont-know-what-to-do moments cause just as i was talking to this girl, a guy was like, hey wanna give it a go? ok back off abit... basically tuesdays(the first day i went, ie ytd) are learning days. the guys usually fool around doing stunts and take turns to help the girls out, teach us stuff. so this guy taught me a little, was really nice and then this other guy took over. he was nice too but he abandoned me halfway haha i think cause he thought i was bored with him but bloody hell i'm just not as hyper and chirpy as the other angmohs! anyhow, for a bit i paddled around aimlessly (oh btw all this was in a swimming pool) cause all the other girls had instructors with them and the guys were doing crazy things at one end. then abt 15 mins later and many laps across the breadth of the pool later(BREADTH mind you, not LENGTH) a lovely guy swam up to me and offered to help. and halfway through another lovely guy came to help. from then on it was gorgeous.

but i was still really nervous about going today and i couldn't study actually even though i have a MAJOR test on friday. but i went and it was so much better than i expected! wednesdays are kayak polo days and i only got to play in 1 out of 4 games ( this lovely guy offered me his boat but the captain asked him to stay on) and it was amazing! haha firstly, i suck. thank you. i now know i am no kayaker. nor kayak-polo-er. i was paddling around aimlessly AGAIN worrying a lot abt capsizing. but strangely enough i got the ball quite often. bad news is that i bloody couldn't tell who was in my team. hahaha ended up looking stupid with the huge helmet blinding me and a ball sitting in my hands. but it was quite good fun.

im just glad cause the guys were really nice. they're all mighty friendly and almost all of them came up to me at one point or another to introduce themselves or offer a helping hand. which brings me to another retarded moment. i COULDNT GET OUT OF THE BOAT. help! i dont deserve to be called a kayaker!! so i tried a few times, gave up, looked up and saw a guy and grinned the sheepish huayshan grin and mewed "help!" . and the girls were SO NICE! omg nicer than medics i swear! and they were asking me why i joined and when i told them they were like OMG I WOULD HAVE BEEN SO SCARED. and that's when my hyper-ness matched theirs i bounced up and went OHMYGOD I AM SO SCARED!! hahaha they were all so friendly, didn't leave me out, argh were really nice. and they wouldnt let me walk back alone and made me walk back with this guy who's a bit brooding quiet kind, and it was a rather awkward walk back but ohwellllll. hahahhah.

argh but its still diff adjusting to their culture- i'm still VERY self-conscious abt them not understanding me and sometimes i just dont know what to say back. like they're very hyper la!! they really are i don't know how to describe it. and i'm very like ...... in comparison. so that's tough a little.

i think i'm going to join the club. next session is next tues. you know what's great? the feeling of doing sth that's UNRELATED TO MEDICINE. i love it i do, but i need a break sometimes! i love that i have a life, FRIENDS outside med sch. makes me feel so much happier now. i still dont know them v well and am not v familiar with them but hopefully as time goes by, it'll get better. :) are u guys happy for me???

HUG

huay shan

won't you promise me that you'll never forget?

aw seeing the vj pictures on facebook makes me so sad and happy at the same time :)

argh shit guys i feel damn sian. i have no life zzzzz. vanessa if ure out there i havent heard from the _____ yet i think i may have to facebook one of them but im seriously quite scared to do it ARGH!!! but i feel like i need a diversion from studying or i'll go stark raving MADDD.

3 essays due in soon. 1 major test next fri. grr!

my flatmate baked a cake on sat and its gorgeous. i think i'm going to steal a bite after this. was discreetly watching where she put the tin of awesomeness just now.

hi stella! it's damn hard trying to speak like them! but i told my flatmate to correct me and smack me if i say lah or lor or start slurring like a drunkard. she was pretty nice and played the good friend card- yadayadayada dont change yourself i love your lahs yadayada... - but I shut her up and made her promise to teach me to speak posh-ly.

i really have nothing extra to tell u about. huggies!

huay shan

Thankful

It's times like these that make me realise how much I miss the times in NJ and most importantly, the people. I really enjoyed the time spent together (even though we only caught one pathetic prawn in an hour) and I wish it would never end. I'm so thankful we still spend time together and have chances to catch up (:


Then again, school has been nice to give me friends like these too! I'm so thankful for friends whom I can talk to till 3am in the morning and just have a great time in the process. School has definitely been less dull and they are the reason why I'm still sane.

Alright, time to get back to work. This is yet another hell week, making me feel as though I'm being pulled from every single direction. Sigh.

Have a good week!

xoxo
MAR

i got nothing interesting to talk about, sorree :(

i'm really awfully boring now. updates updates.

1) i am a lazy fat ass. i skip tons of lectures that i WANT TO GO TO cause i can't be arsed to get out of bed. i also skip tons of stuff that i AM NOT SUPPOSED TO SKIP.

2) i have a blister at the back of my foot. owch.

3)dinner today was yorkshire pudding, sausages, green beans, potatoes and onion gravy. YUMMERS.

3) i walked back from school without a coat today *BEAMS*

4) weather here is nuts. it was lovely gorgeously sunny for a week and it bloody rained like shit yesterday, just when i had decided it was time to dress for summer and not bundle myself up like a polar bear.

5) i left my ipod in between pages of this huge textbook and returned the textbook. bless my soul how it managed to not fall out while i was trotting to school is beyond me. i walk in the most dangerous, unglamorous manner to school. i dash across roads, i hop over puddles and i fall every once in awhile. but no worries i actually didnt realise it was gone(i noticed it wasnt in my room but i assumed it'ld be wedged somewhere in between my pillows or in a drawer) i got an email saying the librarian found my mp3 so i went to collect it :D mei-hwa is fine, DONCH WOREE!

6) i am damn tempted to start slanging tmr onwards, going all "hiya, you alright there?" wasting saliva and my breath pronouncing every word properly. sometimes ppl just dont understand me no matter how slowly i am speaking it KILLS ME!!!!

7) a crazy lecturer showed us a picture of a woman whose rectum came out of her vagina. ya that means your girly treasure is stuffed with your rectum. ow!! another reason for not looking forward to childbirth.

8) my feet belly cold.

9)im shleepee.

10) my spelling is deteriorating.

11)zzzzzz

till the next boring or could be EXCITING post depends what my life decideds to do with itself.......... HUGGIES.

huay shan

*edit*

i feel like typing a tiny bit more. been doing my work and am enjoying myself good lord what is wrong with me? haha and got me thinking like i'm so much more focused and steady this term i hardly go out anymore cause i dont feel like i need to anymore and im so proud of myself for being able to be strong enough to resist peer pressure! im a geek and am proud of it. my life is ever-stable and simple and i don't need much to be happy. just decent grades, good food, good shows, loyal friends and being on good terms with my family. its really odd cause my flatmate just came in and told me she's getting agitated cause she hasn't been out in ages and i'm like yeah i havent been out in 1000000 years and i'm quite content looking at bones for hours on end. partly my life is uninteresting and boring and well loser-ish cause of my steadiness but that's just me and i'm mighty proud to be huay shan. :)