cg, in a different way

haha, so happy, the clinical groupings are out liao. and i'm quite happy with my group! haha, hope the pple in my group are happy with having me around too.

hopefully.

i thought it may be quite amusing having XYZ and ABC around. cause ABC always like to make funny comments at XYZ. we'll see what happens.

no more

wah lau. i'm really damn sad... how come suddenly the blog no more liao... haiz... without any warning, without any hint. just disappeared...

oh, i got a paper cut today too when i was popping noce of the tetra capsules out of the blister... damn sian. amazing how u can get cuts. lol.

have a cup of coffee

the library was super cold today. crazy. although the lib was very full but don't know WHY it was so cold. somemore today due to the lack of seats i found myself sitting b/w TWO aircon vents. which made it very cold. to top it all off, i went to wash my sweater over the weekend and didn't bring it to sch today. wahaaaaa...

it seemed mine was not the only hypothalamus tt detected the low temp as many fellow muggers were outside too, packing the benches outside the lib. anyway i never liked studying outside the lib. too noisy. too many pple walking around and talking. so i just braved the cold and mugged away.

in fact, i went to buy a cup of hot coffee from the vending machine with intention of warming my hands. can u imagine it?? haha. it was quite funny. a bit of he(1) ka(1) fei(1) ze(3) zi(1) yi(4) bu(4) zai(4) ka(1) fei(1)... haha. and anyway whilst i was at the snacks vending machine i noticed these 2 guys who were hugging and gyrating against the vending machine. *oops* yar so it appears they bought a tube of mentos and it just wouldn't drop. SOMEONE should complain abt it cause it happened to me too and i had to resort to inserting another 70 cents to bail out the tube of mentos.

so cunning the vendors. so cunning.

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I WENT FOR A JOG TODAY! after i came back from school. it was a short jog, but afterall, it is a jog. decent one too. maybe about 2.5km? but i'm SO exhausted liao, zhen(1) shi(4) bu(4) ru(2) dang(1) nian(2). but somehow we have to begin again sometime right... i remember sometime back in the week before ca3 when i saw sf outside the lib, ready to go for a jog. oh man, tt was so inspiring. and it suddenly occured to me, HOW in the world can u give up a passion for a ca. it's quite sad really. and after i saw sf run off, i told myself tt i would start running again soon. haha, but after ca3! the ca so disruptive. actually, i think we can choose to let it not be.

it's quite a matter of choice.

and now it's after ca3 liao mar, so...

follow your heart

just came off the phone with w. think it's pretty clear what i'm going through, i know it myself too, just tt i find it so hard to follow what's right.

what i suggested was a break from serving. well i got a short break to think things over, till the 14th when i'ld make a decision - either i stay or i can take a break. but anyway next sat i'll not be serving.

today's service was good. i really really enjoyed it, esp the song item at the end of the service, with the video. it really touched me and all again i felt so loved. really.

u can too! if u 'live in the US', close your passport account for 2 seconds and then reactivate it. yay. junk mail clogging mail box within half a day is no more!

puzzle of the shou xing po

just came back from my grandma's bdae dinner at this restaurant at boon keng. food isn't very good and i just CAN'T understand why we always have to go to some funny restaurant. past few years it was at this restaurant in little india and after we parked the cars and stepped out we were literally surrounded by foreign workers. quite an experience. anyway this years food is worse than last years. and the waiter was quite attitude problem. *grumblegrumble*

well, the big puzzle of the day for me was the fact tt my grandma is 78 this year. BUT, she's born in the year of the dragon. hmmm. why? how can tt be? would anyone like to offer some enlightenment?

things i had for dinner whilst mugging part2. this was a time when i went to nuh staff canteen and ordered ban mian. was so surprised when i saw TWO egg yolks! wah. the auntie (though i ALWAYS call her xiao jie hoping she'll drop more veg into the pot) only cracked 1 egg. but there were 2 egg yolks! yar i know... what's so special about 2 egg yolks right?? want 2 egg yolks just crack 2 eggs lor. big deal. yar lar quite right. but it's just one of those silly things tt make you excited and delighted, feeling all so special. for tt moment at least till u go back to lib and hit the books again. no i mean REALLY hit the books. 

things i've had for dinner whilst i was busy mugging included this. felt hungry around 4odd and decided to hope over to nuh 7-11 to snoop around. saw this and was reminded of my bmt days when i would hide a jar of kaya in my cupboard and armed with a spoon would satisfy my sugar cravings with each spoonful. haha, see, even the guy on the kaya agrees with me. it's really finger licking good. didn't use my fingers of course... oh yar, i finished the whole cup of kaya here. didn't think i would be able to do so, but yeah i did. kaya... mmmmm yummy! 

muggerish fever

today went back to sch to mug. what a surprise to see so many pple there! haha, so many fellow muggers-in-arms, armed with our thick stacks of ns/microb notes. while i was happily mugging away suddenly i received a phone call from john. something like the following then took place:

j: "ello, hope arr?"
h: "yar. john arr?" *whispering in a barely audible tone cause i'm in the lib*
j: "WHAT!? u in the lib arr??" *shrieks in disbelief cause it's good friday afterall...*
h: "haha. yar..."
h&j: *burst out laughing*
j: "oh, i wanted to ask u about this immuno question..."
h: "haha, u also mugging mar..."
h&j: *burst out laughing*

well seems tt pple are still mugging bu(4) mian(2) bu(4) xiu(2). good friday doesn't make much of a diff... :) aiyar, but the lib closed early today at 1630 and i'm very sure it was to the dismay of many. haha. went for a nice dinner after tt at crystal jade hv. yeah. realised i haven't gone in to eat a proper meal before (at any crystal jade restaurant) and it's REALLY REALLY good. haha, yar, just got my initiation meal today. ordered porridge and some miniscule veggies like mushrooms, kailan, deep fried ma po dou fu (which was super fantastic) and har kao. yummy.

anyways, after 1630 i've not done any mugging. came home, was supposed to go to this easter party at lydia's house. she called me just now and was kbing how come i was not there. haha. aiyar, thought i could do some mugging, but seems tt i never do any at all since then. oh well, maybe it would have been better if i went down. sloth, it's a curse.

i just LOVE san(1) guo(2) yan(3) yi(4)... it's like a super brilliant show, was so happy when it came on just now on channel8. wah... yar but now everyone died liao lar. zhugeliang died, liu bei died, guanyu died, zhangfei died, caocao died, simahyi died.

yar. everyone died.

now it's more of court politics. but it's still damn interesting. new chars like jiangwei. but of course not as personal as pple like zhugeliang lar.

played a couple of games of dota just now... damn sian, always got leavers. SUPER SIAN... if anyway out there plays dota and read this, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE don't leave games... it's really super demoralising for the remaining pple, esp on your team...

gonna sleep early today. got grandma's bdae dinner tml. haha, they'll be seeing me with my coloured hair for the 1st time. been trying to avoid my relatives for like how long liao, but in the end still cannot run away. haha. paiseh lar tt's why avoid them. confirmed plus stamp tt i'll kena diaoed one. :)

a phone call. maybe more.

i've to call w later to inform her i won't be going for the meeting next mon night. yar i thought i didn't want to go for various reasons. well, another thing i probably would want to discuss with her is also tt i would want to stop serving.

at least for a while.

think i'm going through a period of time when i've alot of things to sort out b/w G and myself. yar. don't ask me questions, cause i need answers for myself too. i was commenting to k yesterday tt she'ld probably see less of me around. yeah, i think i'm slipping away. when i told her tt, i did feel sad. quite sad actually. it's quite hard to describe the mix of feelings i felt at that moment. a little bit of sadness, betrayal, indifference, anticipation, anger. a bit of each.

i'ld suppose tt if i didn't continue serving, i'ld only attend campus on the rare occasions. bs? yar, when i'm free.

lets see what comes out of all this.

good tidings

haha, just received news tt my brother successfully appealed to stay in vj. haha, so happy for him. he was like super happy today and he just msged me telling me the good news. yupyup.

beef ball

so, i was walking along to dinner with kim when she received an sms. upon reading it, she burst into laughter and w/o a word showed me the message from ws.

"i just realised tt neuro sounds like beef in chinese!"

hope tt brought a smile if nothing else to fellow muggers out there.

postings

so, my brother didn't make it into vjc. haiz. he's from vs, so for the 1st 3 months he managed to get into vj. o lvls got 1 more pt than his prelims... haiyar...

so now he's going to sajc. went to school today to appeal, but anyway appeals end tml at 5pm. haiz.

well, actually the main concern i have for him is tt he won't know many pple there. and anyway my bro's the quite quiet sort, not easy to make friends. haiz.

but it's funny how he doesn't seem to mind leaving his friends and going to a place where he doesn't know anyone. hmmm, he not anxious but i so kan(1) cheong(1) for him. anyways he went to appeal liao, what's to be done is done already. if really cannot then have to go sajc.

the funny thing is tt he would have qualified for a 'better' jc if he had put his choices properly. sajc is his 5th choice, the previous choices (in fact most of those choices other than 2nd choice) i think he put them a bit more lightly. haiz.

aiyar, let's hope everything comes out for the best.

patient for a day

just came back from act-as-a-patient in the final mbbs exam at ttsh. i think it was quite an eye opener to see how the clinical examination was conducted and things tt the examiners were looking out for. anyway we were all arranged into 8 groups where 1 candidate would visit 1 group, so there would be 8 candidates taking the exam simultaneously.

the first candidate was SUPER POWERFUL can... everything also know, went through everything like a breeze until the prof had to ask himi some macham question to slow him down. i was flabbergasted too looking at how he examined and diagnosed each patients. haha, the smile on the examiners' faces just told of their expectation for a great day ahead examining these elite breed of doctors-to-be.

well, of course... hao(2) jing(3) bu(4) chang(2) and the 2nd candidate didn't do as well... haiyoh, i felt so sorry for her and i think she almost broke into tears liao... the profs were guiding her along and just asked her some very simple leading questions... i think she should pass lar in the end, afterall arn't they supposed to try their best to pass us at the mbbs. the killing supposedly comes in the post grad exams.

total there were 6 students, the profs picked out a couple of cases for each candidate, ie. a candidate didn't see all the patients in the group, probably only 5 out of the 8 patients. but as i'm the communication skills station ALL the 6 students came to visit and try to communicate with me. haha. aiyar, i not very hard to communicate with lar, and esp with students who didn't appear to do so well in the other clinical examinations. (well, all the real patients and fake patient were sitting close to each other mar, so can listen and watch them examine the other patients). well after the whole thing ended i realised tt i asked very simple qns. other pple were like killing hte candidates with drug Ix...

now, we were supposed to act as patients who have undergone a pancreactomy, and were prescribed lipases to take after meals. dosage is 1, 2, or 3 tablets. prob is, we don't know 1) what the tablets are for; 2) how come the dosage is variable one.

"oh, i'm taking warfarin too. will this affect me in anyway??"

something to tt extent. but no, i didn't ask so macham questions. i was asking just very simple. not drug Ix, ADR yadayada. just follow strictly to the 2 qns they give us above.

yup. totally enjoyed myself. and what an experience. they also gave us $50 for our time and effort, what's more there way free lunch. yummy! next time got this type of lobang confirm must sign up again. some pple signed up for 2 slots i heard. but don't think i'ld get another chance cause they every year also will ask m2s only.

mishap

haiyoh. just fetched my dad back from great world city and i got a shock when i saw from afar tt he had this white bandage on his head. aiyoh. after tt he told me tt he fell down in the toliet on the 2nd night after bathing, the floor slippery... lost his balance then hit his right bro against the sink. haiz. then never msg back and say anything. yar. somemore needed about 6 stitches... yar.

but actually he didn't take the fall too badly lar. he's quite ok, not quite affected too, and of course didn't freak out or anything. in fact he was recounting his experience with the doctor who he chatted to whilst he attended to him. and my dad found out tt the doctor did his mbbs in india. and it cost him $1000 tution fees a year for the course.

so much for the $16k my classmates are paying.

yar the hotel staff very funny. cause after my dad fell, then the service suddenly became very good. and suddenly out of nowhere also pop out a basket of cute little miniture fruits. haha. yar he brought back and i just ate one green apple. quite cute. not too bad tasting too actually. well of course the doctor's consultation and the stitching costs were also borne by the hospital lar. haiz.

anyway i think dad enjoyed himself throughly there. learnt alot of new things through the seminars he attended and made some new friends too. yup. glad he enjoyed himself. haha, he was still boasting to me how proud he was tt he didn't place a single bet at all! (oh, the trip was to genting highlands mar) aiyar so silly. if he want to go play should just go mar. can enjoy enjoy a but cause not like he everyday go with his friends liddat.

glad everything's fine and he's back safely. haha now the car no longer is i ba(4) zhan(4) liao lor. but never the mind. :)

pleasant weekend

had a pleasant dinner just now, went to bukit timah food centre and had pork porridge! yummy. it actually came in a claypot. yar, quite nice quite nice. then came the most horrible orh lua. which was CRISPY. can??? haiyoh. quite oily too. aiyar, but orh lua is all oily one... the most emmorable orh lua i had was the time after i came out of hospital recovered from a case of dengue. yar. mysteriously i had this craving for orh lua and asked my dad to stop by whampoa market to buy a packet. haha, tt was the most delicious plate i ever ate. maybe it was the squeaky clean, healthy, and greaseless food i ate there for a week. maybe.

yar, but enjoyed the company, looking forward to more times liddat.

didn't do much studying over the weekend, will then have to make it up this week. haha.

oh yes, dad went for a trip with his company, back today. in fact he just msged me and told me he'll prob be at great world city in 15 mins. yup, going to pick him up after this post.

to remember how i felt today

the best feeding i'm getting these days is through sharing of journal entries on multiply. frequent posts by zy, gibbs and the stuff they write is really refreshing. esp zj. i feel a change i coming in my life. and what i have to make is a very difficult decision for the road ahead.

next year will be different. it'll be so different.

tis the season to be jolly

arh. heard from i in school today tt his friend went to collect his pink ic today. yar, then after i came home k msned me announcing his ord next wed. haha. really, i think alot of guys from my batch are like celebrating in this week or so...

yeah, all no more "slaves of the army" but now as free men.

i've asked myself whether i feel sad or anything. afterall, if i'd not disrupted i would have served my ns liability this very week, and would be free to do anythign i want. but maybe, just maybe, tt freedom is not what i want.

cause i've grown to realise what i'm doing now IS what i want to do. yeah. i think if i had ORDed like the rest, a sense of unknowing would have just engulfed me. i really wouldn't know what to do. take science? in nus? work towards a PhD? take up a scholarship or go w/o one? study business (something tt i thought i wanted to do) or do something like pharmacy? study arts, take geog and be a teacher (again another childhood aspiration).

u get the idea. there're hundreds of ways to go.

but i'm glad i chose medicine. cause i think it fits well with my goals in life. what the career has to offer satisfies the criteria i deem for as a successful life.

admitedly, a minor reason why i chose to do medicine was cause i wanted to get out of OCS quick. haha, there was field camp and a 15km endurance training run coming up. i rem the day of the run was the day i disrupted. well, other unorthodox reasons include a girl tt i was trying to court flying off soon and i thought i needed to gather all the time i had to do as much as possible. sitting around in camp certainly wasn't going to give me much control over my time. haha. on hindsight these are totally RIDICULOUS reasons but still they seemed so substantial at tt time.

but i'm glad there were much more concrete reasons for me to choose my career and i would say i've not regretted the decision at all. :)

and the greatest joke of it all is tt in a way, i took up medicine to leave SAF but i took the medicine admission letter in hand and applied for the scholarship, and ended up signing on as a regular, extending my ORD date by another 12 years. haha. i know the decision is the right one lar. cause i believe in the purpose of the organisation and the role i will fulfill in it with my mbbs.

fellow med guys who haven't ORDed, i think they're doing well. can't speak for everyone of them and how they feel though, but i think they're on par with those who've ORDed too. i think NS is an experience. something to gain from. something tt 2 years in medicine has to offer to. same thing, friends, trials yadayada. haha. and i had always liked to think of me as don't need to do ns, just go straight to work. and anyway to those who're celebrating ur ORD, indeed it's a joyous occasion in completing another chapter in your life and i share ur joy. yeah. congrats and enjoy the path ahead. :)

norh. this is to demonstrate how mobile yet unified the blob of lipoma is. this is just moments before it falls off the edge of the spoon. quite cute. OBVIOUSLY g and a were super grossed out at me playing with my new friend. but don't u see how pretty it is?? 

this is a solid globule of fat. it really resembles those mucks tt they sell in small bottles, and small kids would throw them all ard in attempts to stick them to walls to the horror of their mothers. it's really easily mobile too and slides cleanly along my spoon. of course at this stage i finished my dinner liao. 

ONE OF A KIND! yeah. this is just the stack of black coloured ones. quite funny lar. :) 

this is g singing one of those oh-i-heard-this-when-i-was-in-p2 songs. haha, some i really don't know the lyrics lar so it's times like this when i'ld fiddle ard with my cam and snap him. muahahha. :P 

andre can sing really well. anyway want to look for him to publish album pls send ur proposals to me. i'm his manager. 

big expanded song throat

enjoiyed myself going ktv/shopping/dinner with a and g today. yeah. i mean, met them at 11am and only got home ard 9pm. haha so fun. we went Kbox at cine and for the 1st time we went up to the 8th floor one. never went before leh, usually always the 4th floor one i go. but actually it's the same lar, though i noticed tt the air up there has a bit more cigarette smell. afterall, 4th floor Kbox opens into the main space in the building mar, whereas the 8th floor one is enclosed simply on the 8th floor, which may explain why the air is staler there. lunch was the Kbox lunch, ok lar, but not filling. so hopped on to get some chocolates in the midst of singing. haha, was introduced to so many old OLD songs by the 2 of them, alot of which i really heard before liao, but just don't know 1)who sang it; 2)what's the name of the song. i just CAN'T remember such details and really it doesn't bother me lar. so we'll just leave it at tt.

yeah but the session was nice. theraputic even.

we then went shopping, walking ard lor. supposed to be a window shopping only lar. anyway the person who said he didn't have $ to buy ended up spending 3x what the next person did. haha. the curse of shopping. but i bought a nice t-shirt too which really on hindsight says some rather cheeky stuff. haha. think it's really funny lar. oh yar, not the cheeky cheeky. but more like the humorous cheeky. like the "h5n1, keep away" t-shirt i got too. it solicits 2 responses - 1) they smack their forehead in disbelief and start shaking their heads in disbelief; 2) burst out laughing hysterically.

i think we can expect something more intense on seeing "mr perfect" then. well, perfection is impossible to achieve by my own, but boy am i made perfect by the red red blood tt was shed for me. lol. :P holy, righteous, good, just. in other words, perfect. yay. oh yar, the tee is from fox men. which has some really funny tees. anyway we saw this whole stack of oxymoronic tees which had "one of a kind" printed on them. i mean, it was ONE OF A KIND indeed. not to mention there were like 4 different colours. oh well.

dinner was great, brought them to wee nam kee opposite novena church. g didn't eat cause he was going home for dinner but he just accompanied us. wah, i enjoy the chicken rice as much as ever. yummy! alot of interesting sights too as we were playing with the left overs of our food. i saw this lipoma in my chicken!!! really. it's damn gross. and i shall post pictures of it to gross everyone out too. it's this globule of fat, very well circumscribed and rather benign looking. no necrosis, no harmorrhage. i found it b/w the pec major and fatty tissue of the chicken. oh yar it's noteworthy tt we ordered chicken breast. so the chances tt it's a fibroadenoma is rather high there.

yeah dinner was fun. haha. what an enjoyable day with friends who u can just talk rubbish to and say whatever comes to mind immediately. don't have to use brain one, really shou(1) hua(4) bu(4) jing(1) guo(4) da(4) nao(3). yeah but i like.

after i reached novena mrt (on my way home) i quickly went to the surface where i put the cute green squirmy little thing back into its natural habitat. ahhh. bringing it up was quite challenging cause the thing wouldn't stay still and kept making its way around my palm... have to be careful it doesn't come out of my ru(2) lai(2) shen(2) zhang(3 following which i may just unceremoniously step on it. accidentally, of course. yeah but after i put the worm down i was quite happy with myself and skipped happily back home. but anyway i was seriously thinking of the chances some ants would find my squirmy little friend. shook off those thoughts and never thought of it ever since. haha. totally irrelevant. 

this was the worm on my figer after i decided to take it down from the ceiling. i was still in the train. realised the worm can crawl quite fast lor. in the next moment it was on the inderside of my palm liao. haha. cute worm. i've always liked to play with insects (tt don't bite) since young, playing with those huge red/black ants, even once catching enough black ants to make a small colony in an ex-peanut butter jar. haha yar. anyway i was determined to bring this worm out cause obviously it would just die in the train. either the cleaner would just vacuum it up; or it would curl away in a corner and die of hunger; someone would freak out and squash it, bringing it to a messy end. 

i was taking the train home the other day and suddenly from the corner of my eye i saw something dangling from the ceiling of the cabin. yeah, turned out to be one of those green worms tt can dangle themselves by a single thread. usually find them hanging from trees. HOW it got into the train i had absolutely no idea... haha, but immediately i took out my cam and snapped it. what a rare sight. 

搁浅

久未放晴的天空 依旧留着你的笑容
哭过却无法掩埋歉疚 风筝在阴天搁浅
想念还在等待救援 我拉着线复习你给的温柔
暴晒在一旁的寂寞 笑我给不起承诺
怎么会怎么会你竟原谅了我 我只能永远读着对白
读着我给你的伤害 我原谅不了我
就请你当作我已不在 我睁开双眼 看着空白
忘记你对我的期待 读完了依赖 我很快就离开

haiz, this song is so nice... it's the 1st song on the 2nd cd of the concert cd. haha, which i'm supposed to pass to andre. well, exchange it with him actually as he bought the concert vcds. think we'll be going ktv on wed, which is real cool! haha, never went with them before so it'll be a new experience.

today went to sch to study, well, supposed to go there and do other things too but in the end kena fly aeroplane. so never mind lor. the studying was very VERY relaxed, just like browsing through. hmmm, wonder how much of it got in. haha, yar but it's nice to be reading notes simply JUST FOR FUN for a change.

my bro was hogging my comp just now playing dota too. in fact he just ended his game. oh well. not tt i minded cause i was actually standing right behind him and sharing with him the excitement of the game. aaahhhh... quite funny lar. well, we can only sort of play dota on this comp cause if u play on the other comps it'll be really laggy cause not enough ram and processor speed not high enuff. it's paradoxical tt this comp is actually a laptop.

i reached a milestone in my recovery today- i can actually FEED myself without any difficulty. yar, just like before i fell liddat. no one would be the wiser. *smug grin* 2 days ago i didn't even have the strength to tilt a mug enough to drink from it. haha. very ala parkinson's. my hand would start tremoring when i tilted the mug to a certain angle. oh well no more of tt rubbish now.

i just LOVE the post exams period. SLACK!!!!! :)

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well today i read in the papers abt singapore airlines offering S$98 return fares to taipei. really want to go badly but i asked around and no one seems to want to go... boohoo. i think by now the offer is finished liao lar cause it's only 1 flight. well, there are many other destinations too but i've always wanted to go taiwan. sigh.

new no.

just sent out 100+ sms to notify pple of my no. change. yup, it's now *-**-**-***. see, easy to rem right. now, no prank calls. naughty naughty.

some pple were asking me how come i got new no. again since i just changed my phone. it's actually the line tt comes with this new phone i'm using, but i didn't use the new sim card cause there was still a couple of weeks left on my old m1 line. but then i'm 'forced' to change line today cause the m1 line expires today at 11.59pm. yup.

alrighty. feeling much better now too liao, can actually brush my teeth properly now. still can't press my right hand against my face. haha.

this is the last photo i took cause after tt was quite tired liao lar. this is just outside padang/raffles city. i think if u take the slip road on the right u end up at either padang or just outside supreme court. see, it's another positive example of my grandfather's road. no cars. only us. and of course, my superb cycling skills are yet again demonstrated in taking this photo. 

this is the area outside suntec. wah lau, it was our GRANDFATHER'S road lar. no cars so we all set up a formation in the middle of the road. not any road mind u, but right outside suntec. the white light behind is from suntec. it was MY grandfather's road for that hour. :) 

after supper we cycled to town. this photo was taken on the bridge near the nat stadium. don't know what it's called. see, i'm a pro cyclist, can snap photos at such high speeds. darn. tt doesn't help explain why i fell. 

ok this is the stall tt sells those wonderful durians. we bought the d24 3 for $10 ones which were simply scrumptous. finger-licking-scrumptous. the stall has nice tables, chairs and even a box of tissue paper and a tap for cleaning up after eating. oh boy. i forseemyself coming back here soon to eat. 

no pictures of supper stop 2 which was dou(4) hua(1) but this is supper stop 3, abt 100m from the dou(4) hua(1) stall which we cycled from. we ordered a basket of 10 durians (which is the white basket seen in the photo) whilst u-jin with his strong(this being a serious understatement) worked those durians up. u-jin took the efforts of organising the excellent cycling trip too. 

supper stop 1. this was frog leg porridge. the pot nearer to me is the frog legs and the pot away containing the whitish stuff is.... porridge. nice, thick, gooey porridge. yummy! :) 

ok i think this is the photo os that fateful hill. as u can see, the slope if quite steep. i'm taking this from the top of the hill after we've pedalled like CRAZY to get to the top of the hill. well, the red lights seem to be warning my against my doom. anyway, i took this photo on the way down to geylang for supper; i fell on the return trip. 

hope ok tml

oh man i'm feeling so much better now. just came out from a good shower and feel so much cleaner and refreshed. but i realise tt it's really hard to bath with those wounds all over the body cuase it hurts when water goes over it. haiz. i hope the wounds close fast. suppsoed to go sch tml to attend the mbbs volunteer briefing at nuh tml but see how lar. hope i'll be able to make my way down.

anyway i've regained a bit more of my range of movement for my right hand liao. now i can touch my nose and feed myself. but still cannot press my palm on my face lar. which means washing face and brusing teeth are still laborious processes. tml actually supposed to go ktv one but because of me it's postponed. SO SORRY guys.

side note: txl is so mean! she just said my haan(4) yue(3) ping(1) ying(1) not biaeo(1) zhun(3). i'll show her... :P

anyway, thought i'ld blog a bit abt night cycling. and i transfered the photos liao from my phone, will be uploading them soon. in fact the trip was mainly an eating one at geylang when we went for frog leg porridge at lorong 9 geylang, then next door for dou(4) hua(1), then cycled down to the other side of geylang for durians. quite a few of us went, total 11+1, the "1" being kaixiang who drove down instead of cycling. haha. the rest of us had to cycle down. johnathon, lydia, rita and me from tanah merah; the rest from either orchard or upper thomson. well, cycling down meant only 1 thing - that we had to cycle back.

rita is this new indian girl i met 1st time. she just finished her a-lvls and is hoping to come into medicine. pleasant girl, she's a non-christian. talked to her a little about medicine and gave ger advice best as i could. went to her place with lydia after the trip to wash my wounds before cabbing home to sleep... oh, lydia i also met for the first time. she's been in church for quite long liao. very loud spoken but very attractive. well spoken too. she also just got her a-lvl results and is now working part time at a super well paying job (higher than what i got from saf at any time) as a personal assistant to this big boss. favour favour man. future psychologist probably a scholar too.

omg i tell u, the durians were SUPER NICE. i've not eaten such wonderful durians in such a long time liao... one day i must bring everyone i know down there to eat those wonderful durians. we ended up paying $3 per person. it was heavenly. i mean the durians, not the $3 of course.

frog legs were quite standard lar. dao(3) hui(1) was also just like we ate before lor. nice. but still the you(1) char(1) gui(4) as oily as ever tt alot of us just gave up on the remaining 2 sticks cause didn't want to dirty our hands eating the you(1) char(1) gui(4).

now, has anyone reading this every taken mrt? and found tt b/w bedok and eunos the train has to go underground for a short distance before coming up on the surface again? whenever u pass by the same segment on track and the train goes underground. remember that hope had a bicycle accident on tt hill right over ur train.

that VERY hill.

ok now actually we wouldn't want to put such horrific imagery into ur minds would we, but since i've already put the image of 'hope falling down on the hill' in ur mind, i guess it's hard to erase yar? esp for pple who like to laugh at me. u know who u arr!!! :P

just realised my title has double meaning. anyway it means tt hope will be well tml. yup.

a day of doing nothing at home

been feeling really slack at home today... haven't done anything except DOTAing the whole day through. woohoo. haha, yar, didn't even make it down to church today cause it's simply too inconvenient to get out of the house...

yeah, my fingers are still movable and as long as i don't rest my palm against the key board, i'm fine. nothing much i can do too except play lor. so...

guess i'll be getting back to another game now. think i've played > 5 games today. haven't enjoyed myself in such a long time.

restrestrest.

followup

ok, firstly thanks for all the well wishes for those friends who've msged or msned. sorry i wasn't at my comp and only saw the msges this morning so didn't reply. but yeah, thanks for ur concerns it really made me feel much better. :) and now the kb.

feeling quite sian now. can't do alot of things by myself have to rely on others. don't think i'm going church later as it's quite inconvenient for me to get out of the house lar... haiz.

which also means i'll be missing junren's bdae party later. quite disappointing lar really.

yesterday i slept all the way from 11am the day i got back from cycling till 4am today. haha. amazing. and when i woke up i was super irritated cause i realised i had only the function of 3 fingers on my non-dominant hand to wash my face. sian. and must be careful not to let the soap get onto the injured palm on the same hand. my right hand totally cannot use cause i pulled my biceps when i fell in such a way tt i can't flex my right hand close enough to bring my right palm to my face.

wah lau...

as a result i can't feed myself too and have to use extended fork/chopsticks. if not the food can't reach my mouth. haha. so lang(2) bei(4).

the lesion (haha it's a patch of skin eroded off... can't think of a better word leh. not a cut. not a bruise. so sorry qich) on my shoulder prevents me from wearing a t shirt without staining it with my pus! haha. suppurative bacteria. yeah i know quite gross. besides the other injury on my palm the rest are healing well and arn't irritating me liao. the biceps is really incapcitating...

actually i really enjoyed myself on the night cycling trip and i think it's a splendid way to end off the exams. haha, besides the fall i think everything was very enjoyable. i'll talk abt it some other time. took some photos too with my phone and will post them too. haha, i even got a photo of the hill tt i was going down...

hope the ambidextrous

just returned from night cycling. which explains why i'm not at neuro review now. hope it's helpful...

anyway thought of going, but something happened. we were on our way back to taneh merah to end off the cycling trip, we passed a hill somewhere between bedok and eunos (mrt has to go underground at that region as i understand...) and i was happily zooming down the slope. and i suddenly decided tt the bike was travelling too fast and braked the front wheels. remember, NEVER do that. brake the back wheels instead...

cause if u brake the front wheels at a high speed u'll cause the bike to lose control and u may end up on the floor. which was what happened to me. besides some minor cuts and scrapings on my leg, i got this ugly large lesion on my left shoulder and worst of all, i scrapped my left palm... and i think i sprained my right biceps.

result of lesions: can't perform ALOT of functions as i can't wet my left palm; can't flex my right biceps which means i can't bring my right hand to my face. i'm so totally ambidextrous now.

argh. i feel incapicitated.

and worst worst of all, the bike i was riding was alex's bike... i scrapped his handle bar and a bit of paint from his handle... feeling damn sian lar... returned the bike to his dad as he wasn't awake yet when i reached his place at 7... i'll prob call him later.

buzzzzzzzzzzzz

haiyoh. there're so many mosquitos under my table... super sian. everytime i use my comp i'll always get bitten... then somemore i can actually feel the mosquito landing on my legs and sticking their probocis into my skin...

yet i cannot do much, cause whenever i try to hit them at the spot where i feel the biting, i never hit any mosquitos everytime. sometimes i just resign and just let them bite. bite liao hopefully they full then go sleep and leave me alone once and for all...

ARGH.

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today went sch to study. quite productive lar, finished 90% of patho. but still got 10% patho and 100% microb to do. wahhahahahaha.

and of course here we have the newest spokesperson for peel fresh.

n/b: our photographer took > pictures of the model in the picture, but due to his violent objections the editors will not be publishing them. the editorial empathises with the distress that its readership feels and will thus offer the remaining pictures of the model to individuals who write in to request for them. of course, *ahem* for a modest fee.

this is yet another pic. just to show how diff the colour of the hair can look from diff angles. the resolution not v good here but can see lar. 

this is ws. this is what high doses of methyl xanthine can do to u. and ur hair. 

this was when we decided to play ard with the cam. jr wore a pink tshirt yesterday. as this was a rare insight to the sensual sight of jr i decided to commerate it by immortalising him on my blog. "pink and proud of it!" 

supper with the guys after bs. had a beef/vege bowl then shared another beef bowl with jr. we were famished. see what i mean, the colour cannot see in this pic. variable one lar. 

ok this is somewhat the end result. but i realised tt it looks different under diff light. even at diff angles it looks different. 

this was me when i was dying my hair. look at the funny plastic ear muffs i was made to wear... actually if u look closely u can see tt the hair is already changing colour.