Ah, another looooooooooooooooooooooong post
Here I go again. I think I prefer blogging once in a while and spend hours on this. Raaawn.
/04122007 Tuesday/
Last paper! Had dinner at Crystal Jade Holland V with Annie, Nathalie, Ching Wen, Samuel and Yu Ming. I had HK minced pork noodle. I like!
Bill: This is the first time that I realised how time consuming splitting the bill can be. Well of course it depends on the method you use as well. However, I won't use this method that I saw today. Formulating equations with graphic calculator. I am still amazed!
拉面啊拉面
小笼包啊小笼包
With the Frenchman who was hugging my dictionary
A/P Chan handling the bill
/05122007 Wednesday Part 1/
Went to the zoo with Joan. Late last night I was wondering how great the weather has been. So I prayed that the weather would be as nice this time. Oh well. A series of rainy days started right on this day itself.
The scene that greeted me at the bus stop
Nevertheless, we trotted to the zoo amidst the wind and rain. We had our fair share of fun! And photos were still taken in the rain.
Reporting from AMK bus terminal
Zoo - 动物园 - Taman Haiwan
On 138 to the zoo. It was quite a long ride!
When we reached the zoo, the rain was too heavy so Joan and I sat around at KFC and had our lunch.
This is some sheep-goat breed called goral. Nibbling
Otters! Damn cute, the way they lie beside each other
The flooding at the zoo was a bit worrying, so I decided to go back out to Cheers situated at the entrance and bought some $3.90 slippers since I was wearing my Kappa lion canvas shoes. Wanted to wear slippers when I left the house, but I predicted (dumbass haha) that Mandai would be sunny. So happily I wore shoes...
Continued visiting.
What's that atop the tree trunk?
Oh. It's some depressed primate loner. It was basking itself not in the sun but in the rain.
Non-flaming flamingoes
Penguin
Fluffed
It was raining too heavily again, so Joan and I seeked shelter nearby.
Look at the rain drops
Look at the centre, we have another loner
No wonder we primate humans get depressed. It runs through the entire evolution process.
Kangaroos at the Australian Outback
They have this braille thing that even the blind can visit the zoo!
K-A-N-G-A-R-O-O. No la, actually I can't read braille
White tigers
Malayan Tapir
Mummy tapir fuzzing around with baby tapir
Upper Seletar Reservoir
Zebra crossing
Jaguar
I've reached the lions' den!
The lion looks sad. I'd be sad too, if I spend my life enclosed
Giraffes tucked away in a corner
Most animals are either hiding in their tents or lazing away in the rain. So spirit-dampening.
Look at the level of flooding. I was practically washing my feet with every step.
Lion cap!
I was telling Joan about this uni senior who works part-time at the zoo. I don't have June's number, so I just didn't bother looking out for her.
And ta-daa she found me.
She's now a full-timer there, as an Education Executive.
After which I went to NTUC at AMK Hub with Joan to shop for our picnic stuff that would have happened the next day. (but look at the weather)
/05122007 Wednesday Part 2/
Samuel the Frenchman left for France for some academic-related programme. So a bunch of us went to send him off.
The bunch of us who went to send Samuel off
Interesting and exciting rumours throughout the night.
/06122007 Thursday/
Thanks to the weather that we girls couldn't go on with our picnic. So we camped at Hui Ying's place instead, bringing all our food there. I woke up a bit late, reached later than I should have =(
It was just like a repeated scene of the day before.
Jing Yi and Shun Wei reached even later, haha. HY made yummy pastries (I also want an oven at home!), Shi Hui and Joan made lovely cupcakes, YX bought juices and green tea, JY bought Campbell's soup, SW made nice tuna and ham sandwiches, I made a salad out of wine and fruits.
HY's pastry
The pretty cupcakes!
I didn't bother to take any picture of my salad 'cos I was rather disappointed in both looks and taste of the dessert haha. There was only a tint of wine and due to the season I could only get fruits like honeydew, white grapes and strawberries. The colours were plain. Strawberries weren't sweet enough. And the white grapes had thick skin and seeds! Seeds! Can you believe it? I actually bought seeded grapes when you should use seedless ones for salads! Oh I couldn't get mint leaves too, so I made do without that. This is the actual recipe.
/07122007 Friday/
Went to CFA in the late afternoon 'cos of billing complications.
After that I trotted down to Esplanade for PhilWinds' concert, there was a Korean guest pianist and I think the entire concert was very heavy and dry. Russian compositions, mostly transcribed from orchestral arrangements so you know the difference. $13 not very well spent.
/08122007 Saturday/
Saw the email about Procter & Gamble offering internships so I decided to give it a try and the application process was so long. I'm not sure if the position I applied for is related to my major, but whatever. I'm still gonna try and see what I can do with those market analysis stuff. Bless me.
Left home late 'cos I was rushing the applications and saw Annie off at the airport (she left for UNSW's summer programme) 5 minutes before she left. Thank goodness I reached there somewhat in time =S
/10122007 Monday to 11122007 Tuesday/
Sweat Camp kicked off. Met Ivan on bus 27 and we went to the airport to meet Daniel Liu for bus 36 to East Coast Park. Probably the bus 27's driver isn't too proficient that I suppose he hit the kerb while driving out of T3 (I think) and the bus shook. I knocked onto Ivan who's much skinnier than I am. But he didn't fall onto the ground, his bag did. But it was a bit scary for that moment.
I have not many photos of Sweat. This is one camp where there wasn't a need to exchange contacts and to have cheers. So I have no contacts of our group's facilitator haha =P.
There was one very interesting person that I met during the camp. Sometimes when you talk to the person you don't know if you should laugh or cry. That's all I'm going to talk about this person. I shall tell you more about it if I remember =P
It should be called Wet Camp instead, considering the amount of rainfall while we were trying to get our sports done.
The gloom we faced at Kallang Basin
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Ivan said this is a rain fog whose occurrence is normal, as what he learnt in his choc-ker-fee lessons
A scene at ECP. Check out the plane on the left
So in all I dragonboat-ed, soccer-ed, windsurfed and bladed. I rowed worse than I remembered, I kicked as poorly as usual, I suck at windsurfing (there is something with my balancing that I can't explain), and I am so gonna brush up on blading. Blading is not difficult! I think it is easier to pick up compared to cycling but I probably will be slow at mastering it.
Come blade with me!
I was supposed to go onto Day 3 of the camp where we leave for Sisters' Island in the evening of Day 2, but I left because
Now I can tell Kendrick that he's my ex. Fair. (oh childish)
I doubt I'll stay in contact with Chee Fei though.
/12122007 Wednesday/
Three months ago I booked my BTT on this date. Preparation was much more intensive than my first attempt, and I made sure I memorised stuff well. Took the test and I dreaded pressing the 'End Test' icon, I was so afraid. Pressed that icon, the system loaded for a while and 'Passed' appeared. PHEW. That huge sigh of relief. Was rushing for an interview so didn't collect my Probational Driving license.
Interview was for this tuition centre that I may be going to teach at, gonna teach P5 math. I think I won't like working there. The fact that it's a tuition centre explains the need for vast improvement to attract business.
But a damn good plus point is it's three blocks away from my place.
I am also unassured that I am gonna teach P5 Chinese, 'cos the student's mum wants me to make her daughter be interested in Chinese. I don't know how I'm going to. Bring laptop and play some music? 苏打绿? Share Chinese books with her? 几米？Talk to her about the great 5000 years of Chinese history? I don't know much! I don't really know how I'll start with her. I don't know why, but these two students that I've picked up are giving me more pressure than I thought. Now I wonder if I can cope =(
/13122007 Thursday/
Chatted with WJ the night before and we started talking about movies and I asked him out for Enchanted, one of the movies that I wanted to catch this holiday. I had qualms with whether he'll be interested in the movie, but still went ahead with plans. Met him in the late morning and since I live in Tampines I went to Tampines Mall earlier to get tickets.
Had some time before he'd arrive so I shopped around and got a red cardigan at the Mango sale! Yeay, I finally got a red cardigan. This should be the last piece of warm clothing that I'll get for the time being, unless I see something really nice. I have too many jackets and sweaters already.
Enchanted was nice and sweet, haha. Sooo Disney. Watching it only made me reminisce my little-girl days, I loved it when they showed the Disney cartoon movies on free-to-air Channel 5. And the human part of the movie was hilarious. Ah, I didn't know that the prince was James Marsden, the same guy who acted as Corny Collins in Hairspray. Marsden is starring in an upcoming movie, 27 Dresses, which I wanna watch too.
Back to Enchanted. Come to think of it, I don't know if 'Enchanted' is a suitable title actually. Oh maybe it is. Hmm.
Oh! The songs are really nice!! I've been streaming the OST from imeem.com =P and I love the songs. Some are damn cute. There's this song that I really like, my current addiction (Sodagreen is on hold for the time being =P) by Jon McLaughlin. It's called So Close. Play it on the right side bar of this page.
I don't want to pour too much about the movie, but you should watch it. No matter how man you are.
My initial plans were to collect my PDL right after the movie then head straight for CFA to do some property stuff. However after talking to WJ about this whole driving thing I decided to halt for the moment. Will book my advance theory first then collect PDL.
Since WJ was going to meet his pals at Bugis towards the late afternoon we walked around the National Library first. It was nice to catch up with him once in a while actually.
Then I headed to CFA and band pract and that marks the end of a day.
/14122007 Friday/
Was a last-minute decision to go Wild Wild Wet with Joan, Shi Hui and Jing Yi since the weather was good and we met in the afternoon. I was late, which wasn't surprising. This entire late habit of mine is freaking me out.
Anyway.
Had real great fun at Wild Wild Wet, the last time I went there was probably in December of J1, so that's about three years ago. Still kept my Funkey =D
No photos were taken 'cos we didn't own any waterproof cameras. Oh we did take photos on one of the rides but you have to pay to own those photos.
We spent about 4 hours plus in all, taking the raft a.k.a. Ular-lah! probably four times, lazing in the Tsunami pool for some time, twice on the U-Valley where I screamed and laughed on both times, and running around here and there on those slides and rides. Heh. It's good to go there often. Oh, we signed up this nebo membership of NTUC so we got a complimentary ticket as part of the promotion.
I'm so gonna go there again. But not so soon I guess.
I was obviously darker for that day, my skin turned a reddish chocolate brown -_- and the mark of my swimsuit on my skin is still very clear. The shade of my skin is not as nice after a day, but the dark is still there, the healthy shade wasn't. Sigh. I rather I not be this dark.
End of this post.
/04122007 Tuesday/
Last paper! Had dinner at Crystal Jade Holland V with Annie, Nathalie, Ching Wen, Samuel and Yu Ming. I had HK minced pork noodle. I like!
Bill: This is the first time that I realised how time consuming splitting the bill can be. Well of course it depends on the method you use as well. However, I won't use this method that I saw today. Formulating equations with graphic calculator. I am still amazed!
拉面啊拉面
小笼包啊小笼包
With the Frenchman who was hugging my dictionary
A/P Chan handling the bill/05122007 Wednesday Part 1/
Went to the zoo with Joan. Late last night I was wondering how great the weather has been. So I prayed that the weather would be as nice this time. Oh well. A series of rainy days started right on this day itself.
The scene that greeted me at the bus stopNevertheless, we trotted to the zoo amidst the wind and rain. We had our fair share of fun! And photos were still taken in the rain.
Reporting from AMK bus terminal
Zoo - 动物园 - Taman Haiwan
On 138 to the zoo. It was quite a long ride!When we reached the zoo, the rain was too heavy so Joan and I sat around at KFC and had our lunch.
This is some sheep-goat breed called goral. Nibbling
Otters! Damn cute, the way they lie beside each otherThe flooding at the zoo was a bit worrying, so I decided to go back out to Cheers situated at the entrance and bought some $3.90 slippers since I was wearing my Kappa lion canvas shoes. Wanted to wear slippers when I left the house, but I predicted (dumbass haha) that Mandai would be sunny. So happily I wore shoes...
Continued visiting.
What's that atop the tree trunk?
Oh. It's some depressed primate loner. It was basking itself not in the sun but in the rain.
Non-flaming flamingoes
Penguin
FluffedIt was raining too heavily again, so Joan and I seeked shelter nearby.
Look at the rain drops
Look at the centre, we have another lonerNo wonder we primate humans get depressed. It runs through the entire evolution process.
Kangaroos at the Australian Outback
They have this braille thing that even the blind can visit the zoo!
K-A-N-G-A-R-O-O. No la, actually I can't read braille
White tigers
Malayan Tapir
Mummy tapir fuzzing around with baby tapir
Upper Seletar Reservoir
Zebra crossing
Jaguar
I've reached the lions' den!
The lion looks sad. I'd be sad too, if I spend my life enclosed
Giraffes tucked away in a cornerMost animals are either hiding in their tents or lazing away in the rain. So spirit-dampening.
Look at the level of flooding. I was practically washing my feet with every step.
Lion cap!I was telling Joan about this uni senior who works part-time at the zoo. I don't have June's number, so I just didn't bother looking out for her.
And ta-daa she found me.
She's now a full-timer there, as an Education Executive.
After which I went to NTUC at AMK Hub with Joan to shop for our picnic stuff that would have happened the next day. (but look at the weather)
/05122007 Wednesday Part 2/
Samuel the Frenchman left for France for some academic-related programme. So a bunch of us went to send him off.
The bunch of us who went to send Samuel offInteresting and exciting rumours throughout the night.
/06122007 Thursday/
Thanks to the weather that we girls couldn't go on with our picnic. So we camped at Hui Ying's place instead, bringing all our food there. I woke up a bit late, reached later than I should have =(
It was just like a repeated scene of the day before.
Jing Yi and Shun Wei reached even later, haha. HY made yummy pastries (I also want an oven at home!), Shi Hui and Joan made lovely cupcakes, YX bought juices and green tea, JY bought Campbell's soup, SW made nice tuna and ham sandwiches, I made a salad out of wine and fruits.
HY's pastry
The pretty cupcakes!I didn't bother to take any picture of my salad 'cos I was rather disappointed in both looks and taste of the dessert haha. There was only a tint of wine and due to the season I could only get fruits like honeydew, white grapes and strawberries. The colours were plain. Strawberries weren't sweet enough. And the white grapes had thick skin and seeds! Seeds! Can you believe it? I actually bought seeded grapes when you should use seedless ones for salads! Oh I couldn't get mint leaves too, so I made do without that. This is the actual recipe.
/07122007 Friday/
Went to CFA in the late afternoon 'cos of billing complications.
After that I trotted down to Esplanade for PhilWinds' concert, there was a Korean guest pianist and I think the entire concert was very heavy and dry. Russian compositions, mostly transcribed from orchestral arrangements so you know the difference. $13 not very well spent.
/08122007 Saturday/
Saw the email about Procter & Gamble offering internships so I decided to give it a try and the application process was so long. I'm not sure if the position I applied for is related to my major, but whatever. I'm still gonna try and see what I can do with those market analysis stuff. Bless me.
Left home late 'cos I was rushing the applications and saw Annie off at the airport (she left for UNSW's summer programme) 5 minutes before she left. Thank goodness I reached there somewhat in time =S
/10122007 Monday to 11122007 Tuesday/
Sweat Camp kicked off. Met Ivan on bus 27 and we went to the airport to meet Daniel Liu for bus 36 to East Coast Park. Probably the bus 27's driver isn't too proficient that I suppose he hit the kerb while driving out of T3 (I think) and the bus shook. I knocked onto Ivan who's much skinnier than I am. But he didn't fall onto the ground, his bag did. But it was a bit scary for that moment.
I have not many photos of Sweat. This is one camp where there wasn't a need to exchange contacts and to have cheers. So I have no contacts of our group's facilitator haha =P.
There was one very interesting person that I met during the camp. Sometimes when you talk to the person you don't know if you should laugh or cry. That's all I'm going to talk about this person. I shall tell you more about it if I remember =P
It should be called Wet Camp instead, considering the amount of rainfall while we were trying to get our sports done.
The gloom we faced at Kallang Basin.jpg)
Ivan said this is a rain fog whose occurrence is normal, as what he learnt in his choc-ker-fee lessons
A scene at ECP. Check out the plane on the leftSo in all I dragonboat-ed, soccer-ed, windsurfed and bladed. I rowed worse than I remembered, I kicked as poorly as usual, I suck at windsurfing (there is something with my balancing that I can't explain), and I am so gonna brush up on blading. Blading is not difficult! I think it is easier to pick up compared to cycling but I probably will be slow at mastering it.
Come blade with me!
I was supposed to go onto Day 3 of the camp where we leave for Sisters' Island in the evening of Day 2, but I left because
- I read too much True Singapore Ghost Stories to know about Sisters' Island, and I am freaky about these supernatural stuff
- My mum knows about these supernatural stuff so she didn't allow me to go
- I had BTT on Wednesday which is my 2nd attempt and I'm so gonna pass (and I did! More info later)
- I had an interview on Wednesday too
Now I can tell Kendrick that he's my ex. Fair. (oh childish)
I doubt I'll stay in contact with Chee Fei though.
/12122007 Wednesday/
Three months ago I booked my BTT on this date. Preparation was much more intensive than my first attempt, and I made sure I memorised stuff well. Took the test and I dreaded pressing the 'End Test' icon, I was so afraid. Pressed that icon, the system loaded for a while and 'Passed' appeared. PHEW. That huge sigh of relief. Was rushing for an interview so didn't collect my Probational Driving license.
Interview was for this tuition centre that I may be going to teach at, gonna teach P5 math. I think I won't like working there. The fact that it's a tuition centre explains the need for vast improvement to attract business.
But a damn good plus point is it's three blocks away from my place.
I am also unassured that I am gonna teach P5 Chinese, 'cos the student's mum wants me to make her daughter be interested in Chinese. I don't know how I'm going to. Bring laptop and play some music? 苏打绿? Share Chinese books with her? 几米？Talk to her about the great 5000 years of Chinese history? I don't know much! I don't really know how I'll start with her. I don't know why, but these two students that I've picked up are giving me more pressure than I thought. Now I wonder if I can cope =(
/13122007 Thursday/
Chatted with WJ the night before and we started talking about movies and I asked him out for Enchanted, one of the movies that I wanted to catch this holiday. I had qualms with whether he'll be interested in the movie, but still went ahead with plans. Met him in the late morning and since I live in Tampines I went to Tampines Mall earlier to get tickets.
Had some time before he'd arrive so I shopped around and got a red cardigan at the Mango sale! Yeay, I finally got a red cardigan. This should be the last piece of warm clothing that I'll get for the time being, unless I see something really nice. I have too many jackets and sweaters already.
Enchanted was nice and sweet, haha. Sooo Disney. Watching it only made me reminisce my little-girl days, I loved it when they showed the Disney cartoon movies on free-to-air Channel 5. And the human part of the movie was hilarious. Ah, I didn't know that the prince was James Marsden, the same guy who acted as Corny Collins in Hairspray. Marsden is starring in an upcoming movie, 27 Dresses, which I wanna watch too.
Back to Enchanted. Come to think of it, I don't know if 'Enchanted' is a suitable title actually. Oh maybe it is. Hmm.
Oh! The songs are really nice!! I've been streaming the OST from imeem.com =P and I love the songs. Some are damn cute. There's this song that I really like, my current addiction (Sodagreen is on hold for the time being =P) by Jon McLaughlin. It's called So Close. Play it on the right side bar of this page.
I don't want to pour too much about the movie, but you should watch it. No matter how man you are.
My initial plans were to collect my PDL right after the movie then head straight for CFA to do some property stuff. However after talking to WJ about this whole driving thing I decided to halt for the moment. Will book my advance theory first then collect PDL.
Since WJ was going to meet his pals at Bugis towards the late afternoon we walked around the National Library first. It was nice to catch up with him once in a while actually.
Then I headed to CFA and band pract and that marks the end of a day.
/14122007 Friday/
Was a last-minute decision to go Wild Wild Wet with Joan, Shi Hui and Jing Yi since the weather was good and we met in the afternoon. I was late, which wasn't surprising. This entire late habit of mine is freaking me out.
Anyway.
Had real great fun at Wild Wild Wet, the last time I went there was probably in December of J1, so that's about three years ago. Still kept my Funkey =D
No photos were taken 'cos we didn't own any waterproof cameras. Oh we did take photos on one of the rides but you have to pay to own those photos.
We spent about 4 hours plus in all, taking the raft a.k.a. Ular-lah! probably four times, lazing in the Tsunami pool for some time, twice on the U-Valley where I screamed and laughed on both times, and running around here and there on those slides and rides. Heh. It's good to go there often. Oh, we signed up this nebo membership of NTUC so we got a complimentary ticket as part of the promotion.
I'm so gonna go there again. But not so soon I guess.
I was obviously darker for that day, my skin turned a reddish chocolate brown -_- and the mark of my swimsuit on my skin is still very clear. The shade of my skin is not as nice after a day, but the dark is still there, the healthy shade wasn't. Sigh. I rather I not be this dark.
End of this post.
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