haha, today was quite exciting, cause andre, wm, george and myself went to the robinsons' warehouse sale. quite interesting since i've never been to a warehouse sale before. nonetheless it was at <>expo, which is rather far.

thought i won't be spending any $ there, but ended up buying a conditioner, mint shower foam and a frying pan.

haha yar, a frying pan. always been one of my fetishes to get a non-stick tefal thermospot frying pan to make the PERFECT egg every since they started marketing those nice pans. and on the mrt trip home, wm and i got into one of our mock battles, threatening to kill each other and making pathetic-excuse-for-a-warcry type of grunts, ending up with moi waving my newly acquired pan in his face and insisting tt my "pan is mightier than his sword."

oh well, so much for maturity. but it's fun. haha~~

and oh yes, i tried cooking the perfect sunny side up egg today after i got home and it was FABULOUS.wah i tell u, i'm not regretting the buy. not yet at least. sure my parents made a bit of noise when i bought a pan of all things, and not tt our family cooks often if at all. we always eat out cause it's just too troublesome to cook.

nevermind, they'll get over it. :D i'll bribe them with nice fried eggs.

yes... was playing d2. quite happy, managed to lvl up quite alot today, and my sorc is now quite powerful. muahaha~. still i was pk-ing with wm's amazon and lost terribly. so lose face. oh well, can't blame me though.

the mint shower gel is simply fabulous! it's from the mint source series. they were selling 2 for a small discount so andre bought the lavander scented one, and i got the mint one. thanks andre. :D and i hope tt the lavander one is just as nice. haven't tried it before though.

wm bought for me a traveller's pouch as a present for beating me in the exams. haha weird yar? at least now i got something to keep my passport in if i go overseas. the previous time i went malaysia i kept it in my trouser pocket and was like checking it every 1/2 hr... hehe.

george bought some nice clothes there at expo, but i didn't really see anything to my liking there. well, there was a nice red polo shirt, but i decided against it in the end cause i really didn't want to spend any more $ on clothes liao. and i resolved to save up $ to go spend in malaysia shopping. :D i think a few pple have expressed interest after reading ivan's blog and some of the tales of the travellers who came back from the last trip, so i can expect to go soon again! :) we didn't spend alot last time, maybe abt S$90, but we bought quite alot of stuff, so i guess tt amt is justifiable.

hope the session later on in the day will be productive at least. i must say i dont' really ave high expectations of this sort of thing, so i'll just take it as it comes. :)

haha, i just went to view my blog page again, and i just cano't resist another entry, although it is already very late, as u will see from the time entered by blogger.

i must say tt i'm terribly pleased with the new layout. muahaha~~ maybe it's just a natural process tt follows when u taste something new. oh well. better to make use of this new found euphoria whilst it still lasts.

going to robinsons warehouse sale tml. aiyoh, quite far leh actually. and i don't really see myself buying anything really. if i were to want to buy anything, it would be in malaysia liaoz. save up $ to go there to shop. and u won't catch me shopping in singapore very often now. *grin*

wm has thus far been super successful in rekindling the d2 flame within me. aiyoh. now i'm hooked onto playing d2 liaoz. in fact, i was playing till abt 0130 before i stopped to type this entry. and anyway, it's amazing -- wm blogged! wow. last time he blogged was before the study break. u get the idea...

oh yes, i promised tyrande whisperwind tt i'll say this on my blog: HE'S NOW DARKER THAN ME! omg. and recently he's been bitten by the fitness bug, going swimming, gymming, watching his diet much more carefully now. haha, let's all get ready for a new tyrande. :D

mr.G asked me today whether i'ld like to go windsurfing. hmmm, don't think so. and actually i'm still looking out for my diving course. getting a little fustrating.

i must say tt SSM is terribly boring. especially when the french guy came up to talk. aiyoh. AIYOH. though i felt quite sorry for him when pple were practically strolling into his lecture after the break, with the door creaking with each swing. amazes me how he doesn't get irritated. well, finally he made a sacarstic comment to 2 girls who walked in nearing the end of the lecture, but still, tt was only one comment only.

oh yes, an interesting fact abt me tt i learnt more in depth today was the fact tt i am allergic to BN. and i originally thought tt it was some ampicillin tt the manufacturers use to preserve the BN tt i was allergic to. yep, swollen eyes, itchy skin. so... i'm allergic to 2, not 1 compound. the 66kd protein.

oh well. *yawn*

a new beginning

yep, as your keen eye may have observed, the templete for this blog has been changed already. *cheers* retained some old stuff, but decided against keeping other details from the previous blog.

anyway, don't ask me about the details on why it is a close-up picture of an eye of all things. cause it's really just something tt came with the original skin tt i blatantly copied off.

just take it tt it was something tt i took much pains to come up with, to represent the great intellect tt the posts on this site is supposed to reflect.

ya rite. bullsh*t

sigh.

i think there has been alot happening recently, too many activities, too many matters to settle, too many important things put off.

yet, too little time to stop and think about the incidences tt have been zooming past, barely giving me time to stop and think. and when i actually do, i think i find that i'll still have to face issues tt i've been trying hard to avoid using my hectic schedule.

escapism maybe. but unlike david copperfield or blaine, i find myself drowning as each moment passes by.

knots like relationship problems with previously close friends are embarrassingly difficult to begin untying, because when u set your eyes on tt knot, u just feel like giving up, though something in you just tells u tt u have to begin somehow, because having tt perfectly straight stretched out string somehow means quite a bit to you.

the hardest sentence to write in an essay is usually the first sentence, but usually if u don't start writing and the clock starts ticking, u'll find urself with an unfinished essay tt will warrant a disappointing mark. maybe this post can be used to make a small beginning first, and i guess the first sentence in this essay would be "sorry".

see, this is the very last holidays* tt we'll probably have in our lives. even when we're working, there'll never be a time when we'll have such a long break again.

in the future, we'll have the $ but not the time.
now, we have the time but not the $.

adds up? get a sponsorship from parents and go enjoy ourselves! doesn't call for an extravagant 1 month tour in europe, but at least a short 1wk overseas trip would be good!

life's to be enjoyed, especially when we still can. :)

OH YES, ANYONE LIKE TO GO MALAYSIA FOR A SHORT SHOPPING AND EATING TRIP SOON? a one day thing, leave ard lunch and come back at night. bus/taxi for transport. fix a date, maybe this coming thurs? just drop me a sms ok? :D


*by the term holidays the author refers to a period of 1 month or more of uninterrupted, worry-free break.

hmmm. just removed the chatterbox. jiabin was telling me tt it was the prob causing the popups, but i'm not too sure. anyway, i removed it also because pple who i don't know are using it to talk rubbish, and refuse to identify themselves...

haiz.

oh yes, the mediquiz qns setters came up with some qns today. the open ended are killers, be forewarned.

sleeping early today, cause got a long day ahead tml.

just came back from sending my bros to sch. with my dad sitting beside me of course. :D and it's actually quite scary. there were almost 2 accidents, haha, but priase God, came home safely in the end.

case1
outside the police academy where i was in the right 1/2 of a converging lane, and there was a car moving into the lane too; together with a clown(motorbike) tt was trying to keep left into my lane from the lane on my right; and a bus tt narrowed everything down to a narrow corridor. haha. and i think i swerved a little, but tt certainly woke me up with the adrenaline rush.

case2
near east coast on one of those 2 laners there was a red hyundai behind me, and he suddenly overtook me from the left, only to cut in front of me immediately after he passed me w/o signalling whatsover. cause he wanted to turn right into a small road just shortly in front. and so he decelerated so fast when he was so close in front of me. haiyoh. tt was really very close. but i moved to the left lane (which was thankfully empty since we were the only 2 cars there at tt time) quickly just short of banging into the car.

it's just amazing how the morning traffic goes, and i was initially quite shocked, upset, and even annoyed at how some pple drive, i thought abt it for a while, and realise tt THIS is the real driving on the roads. what we learnt in those driving centres is really just rubbish. there's just SO much more to real road driving as compared to ur nice little perfect driving conditions tt u work under in the circuits and test route.

welcome to the real world boy. and here, driving lessons are everytime u sit behind tt wheel.

and another note, i was thinking of my close female friend and the things tt she told me recently. she's really a nice girl, but we're just close friends if u're thinking of anything right now. :D but anyway u know, love endures everything. a long-standing relationship surely must count for something in a person's heart, and i know tt even if i feel tt my gf has let me down in any way, i'ld just love her even more. u shouldn't be looking for a way to bail out.

what's it tt i like about a person in the first place? has tt changed over the years? i don't know. i still believe tt love can override all the flaws u see in the person u love. quote: u like someone for his good points, but u love him for his flaws.

breakups are sad. they leave u with a scar tt lasts for quite a long time. i haven't been in any real breakups before, but i've had a slight taste of a very-much scaled down one. and it was terrible. which is perhaps why i'm much more cautious now to enter a relationship.

i think comprimise is a major component in any relationship. quote: give in some of the time, give way most of the time. commitments are part and parcel of life and everyone has them, though we try our best to keep them, sometimes we inevitably disappoint. but give way and give in because u love him, not simply because u think tt it's the right way to do things.

pple need time to change too. don't feel unappreciated cause guys are just SO coconut-headed. well, sometimes at least. :D give us some time to change for the better to love u better! haha, rather akin to hdb block upgrading.

when i was thinking about what she said, certain other thoughts also came to my head about myself and my usual thoughts abt love. try to avoid breakups, which means going back to the pt when u first enter into the relationship. get into one for the right reasons, not because u fell in love with love, like i probably did.

in fact this friend was the one who asked me why i wanted to have someone to love and hold and give to. i couldn't give her the ans at tt time, but now i realise it was because i was falling in love with love; just wanting someone to show love to. silly, cause such things do not work out. wrong reason for start = bad ending. haha, which is why maybe i'll prob not fulfill my plans of getting married by 26. :D *silly grin*

drove around much more these few days am i'm trying to get used to driving my dad's car. don't want to get into accident anytime soon. or anytime not-so-soon too.

it's really a great asset to be able to drive around, and right now, it's even exciting to be able to go pick up my brother from the mrt station after school. haha, it's just like a grew a set of wings tt makes travelling now more convenient than ever.

though i expect this enthusiasm to wear off in a while, though not just yet. :P supper anyone?

today was the 1st free day tt i have ever since exams ended. no programme today, so just stayed at home the entire day and did some housework, washed my toliet. which in fact was a looooonnnggg overdue task, since the scum was so much tt it was clogging up the drainage on the floor. and scrubbing the scum makes it produce some funny smell tt when present in high enough concentrations induces me to puke.

and i tell u, my toliet is SO dirty tt i only managed to wash 1/2 of it. only scrubbed the floor and the toliet bowl. not yet done the walls and the sink and counter+mirror. oh well.

mediquiz qns setters are meeting tml in sch at 1, then maybe i'll go join alvin and kim at ecp after tt, esp if i get to take the car. :D

oh yes, physio viva list is out, and i'm just SO happy. not in it. haha. which means i cleared all my papers!

oh yes, recently i think my spending has been going up and up and up. haiyoh. must watch my spending liao. maybe can just take it as a rollover from the lack of spending last month. everyday also cooped up in the lib HOW to not save...

oh yes. i passed my driving. and didn't fail anat. haha. so happy. *grin*

oh yes. i watch passion today too. i thinkm for me it's more of shock right now than anything else, and i'll take some time off to digest before i give my take on it.

but one thing is reiterated to me -- tt is that Man loved me very much.

very very much.

watching it again with ivan, andre, wm, emily tml.

can i die?!

when i was walking towards my bus stop outside park mall, i saw 124 approaching the bus stop.

so i ran.

and thought i could catch the bus. well, the bus left the bus stop before i could get there and so, i thought i could instead catch the bus at the next bus stop. short jog only anyway.

so i ran.

missed the *beep* bus too there and thought, what the heck, might as well catch the bus at the next bus stop...

so i ran. and ended up running from parkmall to outside specialist shopping centre, before i FINALLY caught the bus tt i chased all the way from dhoby ghaut.

and of course u could imagine i was grinning to myself. but not without a sore gluteus maximus tt was going numb and a dry throat because i ran out of water. i was also sweating a bit too and the air-con was just not working lar.

terrible.

so there i was adjusting the silly air-con vent trying in vain to direct the pathetic trickle of warm air onto my face, looking like a complete fool. i just gave up in the end and sat in my seat feeling totally lousy with my splitting headache...

and just when i was at orchard past boncafe house, another empty 124 passed me right in front of my face.

i tell u lar, i'm NEVER going to run after another bus EVER again... oh ye of little faith.

hehe was browsing at the database of faces on mednet and i really marvel at the skills of how phtographers have the uncanny ability to bring out the 'best' in everyone.

in most photos tt i see, everyone either appears with inaminate eyes, or with hair-gone-wrong etcetc.

to put things simply - in a rather undignified manner not reflective of their usual selves.

after all, who would have known that the photo tt we had unwittingly submitted for matriculation would then become testaments of our foolishness for the next 6 yrs. :)

haha. the wonders of phtography.

i promise to have some more intellectual entries soon, but not right at the moment. my brain needs to rest and i just refuse to work it.......................................

wow.

life now post exams seems really free even to point tt it lingers on the verge of boredom. but still i'm really thankful for this break, after all this IS one of the last few holidays tt i'll ever have in my career. well, i seem to have appointments on every day, but the thing is tt they all don't last for 1 whole day, rather maybe a few short hours within the 24hrs, and hence i'm left with time on my hands tt i don't know what to slot in with.

yea. tried playing wc3; until i started yawning and yawning in the middle of an 'exhilarating' game.

i think i'm starting to get bored.

driving test's tml at 10am, and then going ktv with anatomy tut grp and maybe a movie later in the evening. fri's server's dinner at swissotel, sat i'm watching passion and sun supposed to go out with lihui and chuankai for a movie. haven't caught up with them for quite a while liao. mon's lunch with alvin tng and kim and shuwei(i think).

aiyar. and also have to settle the details of my diving trip and maybe a shopping trip to malaysia with some friends.

and i went for a long overdue workout session yesterday. and MY WHOLE BODY HURTS NOW. haiyoh.

alright now, back to the main issue here. wc3 anyone? ANYONE?

i'm like super-happy now lar. indescribable feeling...

BECAUSE THE EXAMS HAVE ENDED!!!

which spells over 3 months of break. wow.

physio was ok, another paper also better than i expected. didn't study on fri, did 2 topics on sat, all the rest on sun. oh yar, and cell signalling on mon morning.

superb.

woohoo~~~

holidays, here i come!

so. at least there's a breather now in between the papers... really quite scary, heard tt some of my friends didn't sleep for more than 5 hours in the past 2 days. aiyoh. how can?!?!? surely cannot concentrate in the exam hall one...

well, some pple i know have slept only 5hrs in total for the past 2 days. presumably, they were mugging during the time sacrificed up for the noble sake of gaining-more-knowledge, aka desperate mugging. well, it might prove otherwise for pple like ME. who somehow cannot bring my self down to revising anatomy ONE MORE TIME before the paper the next day. i astound myself as to how i might have even thought of attempting to start and finish revising the ENTIRE anatomy syllabus (tt was taught i 1 yr, mind u) within the periods of NINEpm to TWELVEam.

i've got to say, 5hrs is really not alot of sleep. insufficient i might say. come to think of it, i think i know pple from both ends of the spectrum where one would think 5hrs is a horrible injustice to snells whilst the others would deem it a divine miracle to have actually survived on tt sort of sleep pattern.

anyway. i just knew tt something was not right when i found i was left with head&neck/abdomen/histology/embryology/throaxII at 11pm.

haiyoh.

blame it on the heavy lunch, hot weather, the nice channel-u programmes, fear factor, gun-bound and wcIII, and above all, pure fatigue resulting in an unbelievable inability to get what i'm reading into my head despite staring at the same paragraph for a good 30mins.

well... as u would have cleverly infered from the passage above, the paper today didn't go too excellently for me. no qualms whatsoever, and i'm still hoping for the best. :)

got sort of stuck at the relations of the esophagus part and when i found tt i was starting to write incoherently in a disturbingly disordered fashion, i just had to redo the entire part. and the other qns played a factor in delaying my progress resulting in a valient attempt to finish the last 2 qns in 15 min was the nasopharynx one.

i read nasal cavity.

and thus went on an elaborate repetoire on the wonders of holes in the noses lining epithelium and nervous innervation and de-blah-de-blah-de-blah...

and did i mention tt i *think* i really felt like walking out when i realised it was pharynx instead of cavity? honestly, who wouldn't?!?!?!? esp when there was barely x-mins left, and u are writing until your hands are SO weak and when u held ur correction tape dispenser up there was zilch strength left in ur opponens pollicis to maneuveur the contraption over the paper?!?!?!??!??!?!?!

it was so bad tt i thought i fractured my 1st metacarpal.

omg. i just put my palms together only and found tt my right thumb is 0.5 inches longer than my left!

(and i'm actually very amused at this point, not depressed or what. in fact, i can't stop smiling (amused type) when i think of my thumb now.)

*yawn*

the wonders of fatigue. i shall return to blog later when i awake. should have slept just now BUT NO... i went to play wcIII and i'm dead beat now.

oh yes, before i forget, i cut my hair this afternoon and when i look into the mirror now, it is strangely reminiscent of the times on an island on the north-eastern side singapore.

HAIYOH.