Yeah Yeah Yeah Happy Chinese New Year to ALL n_n Hope tt everyone will get lots and lotsa ang pows and eat lots of bah kwa and pineapple tarts!!! Plus steamboat too!!!
Haha cldn't take it last nite and sneaked home aft linda's dance pract =P even though I had morning class at 9am today! Since jialin's sis's bf can tobang, then i dun mind coming bk to sch early morning today. Suppose to meet jeremy for breakfast "buffet spread" but as usual he can't wake up in time -_-
Thot tt i can go home and help my mum grocery-shop for steamboat reunion dinner today at the mkt below our hse! I always enjoyed the festive mood in my neighbourhood few days b4 CNY. The thing I enjoy doing most jus 1 day b4 CNY is to look down at the brightly-lit mkt from my corridor, can see little black heads cos the mkt is packed wid lotsa pple doing last min shopping. Ahaha they look like ants to me =P
In the end, I din really help much cos everything was alrdy purchased HEH! Ended up eating half a tin of pineapple tarts and one-quater pkt of Bah Kwa. Damn GrOSS rite Sheese i can't imagine myself aft CNY la... Fat to the max!!!
Had project meeting rite aft class this afternoon and I even stayed in sch to finish up my reflections for mkt b4 i came home! How hardworking rite? Cos i noe I wun be too willing to do work during CNY =P ahaha Anw, I bumped into my dad on my way home below my hse and had a shock:
No I'm not shocked by my dad but by the no. of tables tt were laid out by the Zi Char stall at the coffee shop directly below my hse! Tt photo is a bird's eye view tt i took from my corridor tt i mentioned jus now ahaha I din really count but i can estimate it to be at least 50 tables!!! Oh my~ Imagine how happy the boss will be hearing the cash register ringing non-stop thru the nite. However, it reflects a sad truth tt families are now losing the tradition of a reunion dinner and are taking the easy way out by jus dining out. The purpose of reunion dinner is so that every member of the family must return home on new year's eve and spend time together as a family, having home-cooked dinner together. At least tt's what my dad feels. I share his sentiments =)
Nx up is super upz steamboat!!!! By Ms jizmine's beloved mummy!!!
Busy getting ready...
Little Stina and Lenny came too!
Some photo updates again =)
29jan08 Supper@Sheares Hall
Their supper is still as Upz as ever... Gonna miss it when i grad =( hopefully can get to eat more b4 i leave NUS...
30jan08 Helping out with Booth Decor @ Science Foyer
NVAC had an exhibition and SK was given space for disply too so we were asked to go help out at setting up and decorating the boards tt we haf!
fooling ard and celebrating wee may's b'day...
31jan08 EH Dance Production
Went down to support rachel plus to take a look at EH's production! Opps v paiseh forgot to buy her flowers =P
2feb08 Post SK trip event - IMH visit
Visited IMH as part of the post event activity for SK. Initially I was really worried abt how m I gonna interact with the patients thr. I mean hmm streotypically, they r not sane enuff to be out of the place rite? Even some of my frens whom heard me say tt i'm going to IMH for volunteering got a little worried. However, this fruitful trip totally changed my opinion of IMH residents (we were told not to call them patients as a form of courtesy but i forgot the rite word to use =P resident sounds alrite la)
Initially I must admit tt i was really scared when i first step into the ward!!! SCARED as in not uncomfortable but REALLY fearful kinda scared!!! I cldn't even hide my fear cos quite a lot of pple asked me if i'm alrite, they claimed tt fear is plastered all over my face!!! But i can't help it!!! The patients eagerly stick their face tightly against the glass panel staring at us and it's.. i mus say... REALLY SCARY!!!!
However, my fear was short-lived cos once I stepped in, everything felt so different! The people were frenly and I felt tt the place was jus like an old folk's home! i played checkers aka dumb wid an old man (he won more times than me la!), made ang pow lanterns and learnt how to draw from a guy. He can draw really well man! Kowtows! I even kept his drawings and intend to stick them on my hall room door! So basically, this trip was a good experience for me =) I'm so relieved tt I didn't chicken out =P Thr's very strict confidentiality to observe while volunteering thr. We'r not allowed to mention any names, the ward we went to, take photos basically do anything to reveal the identity of those who belong thr cos of social stigma and discrimination tt their family members and themselves might face!
Met up wid ky,hh and zh in sch b4 heading down to IMH. One thing tt we can nv do w/o when we hang out together is LAUGH! Countless number of jokes and a couple of weird incidents too!!! When we took a bus from bungkok nel station, an indian man told us to get down at the nx bus stop and cross the road to get to IMH.. How the hell did he know tt we wan to go to IMH? Ahaha cos zh and hh looks like they really nd to check-in thr? Anw, another one was when we'r gg to amk hub for dinner aft IMH session. Thr's tis crazy lady who kept luffing at wadever we said. Initially I thot it was bcos she found our jokes really amusing and she cldn't control herself (cos u noe sometimes u accidentally eavesdrop other pple's conversation and start to lol?) but but but she started toking to ky and asked for our name and contact no. asking to be frens wid us! Wad's more? Whipping out a piece of pamplet and pen to take down our details. I started changing topic and asked whr was she heading to and she said "Toa Payoh" (sheese hope i dun see her near my hse) and when I asked whr she jus came from, she said "somewhr in Singapore" OMG super scary man~ tink she jus got out of IMH!!!
My fav activity yet agn! ahaha grp PHOTO!!! (they are damn bad la, push me to the front, my face is super-ly big in this pic)
Bike Quest 2008
Decided to join Bike Quest for the sake of slimming down for CNY!!! Ahaha strongly encouraged by ms wong wp. It was me, wp and benny in the grp called Jasmine Rocks! Ahaha cos i submitted the forms and neither benny nor wanping cld gif me a grp name so... =D ahaha nicholas join us for the 1st stop to tampines
We stopped to eat at this place which was really crowded. Truly disappointing!!! the maggi goreng was totally soggy and disgusting!!! maybe it's the stall, maybe other stalls would be better but according to Benny, tt place dun serve nice food! It used to be his canteen cos his camp was thr so he noes the place well =( Angry!!! I hate to eat un-delicious food!
I tink age is really catching up wid me man!!! I was cycling super slowly la! But i didn't haf very serious muscle aches aft tt, only for a short while. The best part was tt I returned to hall straight aft nite-cycling and I forgot to bring my transponder back =(
Played shi zi lu kou at lau par sat starting with D - dim sum; followed by M - mian (wahaha tt was suppose to be mian fei guo but i zoomed in to shoot the word "mian" only); then N - nasi lemak; and K - Kway Teow (once agn, i cheated cos it's Chay Kway teow but i did some camera tricks); Lastly muz end wid an E - Wanton Mee.
My great work!!! I took 2 photos and stitch them together =) The ferris Wheel!
3feb08 HuiHuang's Surprise mini b'day celebration
Was HuiHuang's b'day but cos it was a sunday so it's quite difficult to meet. Nevertheless, mischievous Fiona and me secretly planned a surprise b'day mini "party" for him! Went to Cheers to get cake plus gummy pizza and HL milk (ok i noe v "off"!) then head down to UCC to wait for him cos he was watching Wei Liat's xin qing rong ji performance Ahaha and could tell tt he was really surprised(plus yi dian dian de gan dong)! Yeah =) mission accomplished!
Was late for dance vetting =( The vetting turned out quite bad, v stressed!!! cos i forgot almost all the steps tt i've learnt so far for linda's item =(
4feb08 Pedi and Mani Failed!!!
Was happily anticipating new nail colours on my hands and feet but sadly =( Jeffrey's manicurist din turn up for work! haiz had some family probs. Wasted time travelling all the way down to Aldephi from sch and wad's more? The appt was 10.30am la!!! Feel v paiseh cos i dragged wanping along wid me yet din get anything done. Only managed to soak our feet in the bubbling whitening water!