And so, Leewei told me that was a cricket. It just flew in, felt something on my leg, and then there it was, this big fat thingy on the floor. So disgusting I just stared at it in horror. And used the file to cover it since Leewei didnt answer my call.
Just felt so............... idunno. If the sis was here I wouldn't have to face the big fat thing alone. I don't see why the gold medallist needs her to be around when he brings back supper for the entire floor. I mean if he wants company he has all of them. It's so unfair. At least if miss ho is around, I'll have someone to share the horror with while we think of how to get rid of it when leewei doesn't answer.
Felt terrible and started tearing for no apparent reason. (I mean my thing's not coming, I'm not pms-ing.) And then, thank goodness Leewei called back n came to 'rescue' me. (With his insect box. Frequently used I bet!) I'm so thankful for him seriously. I kinda miss those chats every night although I don't think either of us has the time for such stuffs now anyway.
And I'm in a way, thankful to Marcus also, or more like thankful for talking to him on msn, cuz I was saying how I'm suppose to be doing my sets of blahblahblah. And when I tell someone I'm suppose to do thisthisthis, I don't like to NOT do it. So then, I completed it rather quick yay. Somehow at the 9th set of stretchcords, the skin (rubbing against the handlebars)' protest would win the mind's I-wanna-get-stronger argument. And then I'll stop after 9 sets. (With only ONE more to go!)
But again, not tt I want the sis to stay here anw. I've nothing to say. And she sleep so early just whenever I wanna mug mug mug, making me wanna sleep also -_-
Also, I feel reaLLy bad. I think I'm too idealistic and should just shut up and not give my idealistic opinions to others :( I'm sorry :(
Moodless.
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Went to change my dressing at the doc's. Haven't been there for close to 2 years. After frequenting the place so often at the start of my ntu life, brings me back to when I first entered. Dr. Peter Yeo! He's so funny, jolly and nice! I like him alot! What a nice doc seriously :) AND not forgetting he told me, I CAN CLAIM INSURANCE ON MY $307 FOR FIVE STITCHES. *bounces around in glee!*
The nurses were nice too. I think I ask too many questions about anything n everything!
Thanks to ttk for the ride back from 13 students in 11hrs yesterday. Dinner-ed at IMM. And I must say the company was nice and the updates on alpha track interesting :)
Anyway just a random thought. When I went to get my updated passport, had to scan thumbprint on the machine. (Gone are the days of black ink!) Was pretty surprised I only had to do it once. Then after settling everything, she asked me to scan again haha. Me and the thumb. Like how I can't pass by airport thumbprint scanning machine. And the situation made worse by dead skin from holding the clarinet. But I was staring at my fingerprints that day. Isn't it amazing how all our fingerprints are DIFFERENT? Marvelling at God's creativity!
Over the weekend, I was so surprised when I realised the tutorial I was going thru was actually done in class ONE week ago! For once, I'm going through something that was done ONLY one week ago!
Somehow, weird blueblacks and abrasions appear all over me when I do stretchcords. Urgh. I've been inactive for 3 days!
I've learnt how Opsite, is very useful.
Now again, back to the question, about whether platonic relationships exist. Interesting, how it was tackled at the talk in church last time, and the other topics brought up too. I'm close to coming to a conclusion about this, maybe sometime in the future haha!
I finished my freaking 10 sets yesterday! I feel a little achey today! :) Sis and me hid in the room during fire drill haha. The wounds are healing nicely! And I had a shot at giving sports massage wahaha.
First, I didn't cycle for 2 weeks.
Then, I didn't run for 2 weeks.
Now, I can't swim for 2 weeks! :(
Went for a talk after 4hrs of class. (On a side note, cheers to our aa203 for getting only 2 wrong! wahaha) "The Global Economic Crisis and Moral Changes" by Prof Arthur Kleinman. Was just interested in going for these sort of talks cuz it's nice to ppl-watch. Well, my ex-roomie was the one who first convinced me to go, and ps-ed in the end! Tsk haha.
Well, it was pretty cool to see all the dignitaries, big shots, and all the formalities etc. He's a good speaker. I like the way he speaks, pronunciations and all. Cuz he adjusted the mike such that it was pointing to the other side so when he spoke to the other end, you could hardly hear him. And so, the big shots sitting in front went to tell the ladies in charge of the event to go up and tell him but she was like terrified and refused to go up till a second big shot commanded her to just go. And when she told him, he didn't even break his flow of speech and made a joke abt how since young, no one has complained abt his voice being too low. I was really amazed.
He told this story about the glass harmonica and how after the entire performance of Bach's preludes, a small voice said from the back, "play again" and so he said about how honoured he was ppl received it well and so he happily played again. After he was done, the small voice at the back said again, "play again" and the same thing happened, he said he's glad it's well received but he's too tired to play it again, and the voice replied "play again till you get it right".
Guys can't seem to sit still. The one beside me kept shaking and shaking, I was utterly irritated.
Really intrigued with the entire process abt all these kind of big shots and formalities. GoH was Tharman Shanmugaratnm (yes I did refer to the programme book to type that). But not too impressed with how Prof Kwok from NTU conducted the Q&A. (random, but the programme book smells of black pepper)
Jack Sim from World Toilet Organisation was there and he posed a question. (We were just talking abt him that day!)
But I felt this entire thing was just alot of chim words and talk which is pretty pointless. Academics.... Hmmmmmm....
I met two tkgs/tj jnrs who were there since their colleagues couldnt make it but alr signed up for it. I somehow knew they'll stay till the end after the Q&A and all. I don't quite understand how can somebody get up and leave if u're sitting right in the middle. Isn't it very rude to the speakers. LKC is not a very big venue.
My sister's in SHAPE magazine!
But I can't seem to upload the pic here. (I think it's too big)
So here's a pic of my stitches instead
Figured out how to stop the hot water tap in the pantry from leaking! I'm a genius! (ha-ha)
Was bitten by some mozzie(s) FIVE times in a short time span of i-dunno. The bites just started from nowhere before I went down for lunch. After lunch I was walking to the pantry to wash my cup when I felt something pain below my wound. Looked down and saw to my horror something black stuck there. I brushed it off but too late the mozzie alr bit and I think it got stuck to the opsite around the wound. (haA!)
Funny how yesterday leewei just walked in for a chat. Cuz he realised he hasn't seen me for eternity. (YES like since forever! Was just thinking where has he gone to) He just came back from a run :( So jealous here. Then Marcus called regarding hall stuffs and had a little chat about this and that. Somehow was just thinking how one year ago things were so different! Friends come and go yeah and to think of it, next year at this time I'd probably not be talking at all to the ppl who I'm talking alot to this year. Before leewei left he just commented "Aren't you lonely". Haha. Well, what do you think.............. I guess if I'm too bored I can always just be thick-skin abit and seek the company of the friends in canA? (Or more like impose my presence upon them)
Thanks to the friends for visiting! We were suppose to compare camera quality between the laopok phones and the 3 iPhones!
A nice pic I took while on my way back from elective today. Nice flowers in bloom with the dark dark sky in the back. (Pouring and thunder growling now!) I bet my sis must've just washed her bike.
I am gonna run in my new shoes on Friday! I'm quite excited about tmr's lecture cuz the lecturer sounds impressive. Anybody wanna gym please ask me along. (But be prepared/nice enough to teach me what to do)
Stretchcords time.
What a long day today is. I feel weird.
AA205, project meeting, then I went for the XBRL Reporting talk which was pretty interesting and the speaker is like uber lame. Like how he was talking about Balance Sheet, if you can't balance it's really "shit". And how at the end if you can't balance and it's 20cents off you just wanna take out 20cents from your wallet and put it into 'Other income' just so you can go home. (But haha of course Cr Other income there's still the Dr of Cash haha)
But well, somehow sitting there, he was explaining about the entire software and with quite abit of FRS and accounting jargon. Made me really reflect how I've come quite a long way and learnt alot of stuffs which is like natural to me now, can't imagine not knowing :) And it was also like some FRS revision haha!
Anyway, the composition my kid from UWC and me did during class apparently was a success! Cuz he msn-ed me saying his music teacher loved it! Haha. This song we played from one book, from a musical, and it can be found here!(click) Don't watch, just listen. Think her voice is pretty nice and this is the nicest sounding version I've found thus far!
What a day.
Many thanks to all visitors :)
And Pooh is back in the room!
I went blog reading about the half iron man stories.
Really touching.
And didn't know they're christians too!
I still wonder about relationships.
Be it between friends, family, colleagues, classmates, teammates, strangers, acquaintances.
It's really confusing and I sTiLL don't understand.
But let's not let my head puzzle over this.
Taxation and Company Law is enough to drive me topsy turvy.
On a side note, watch tHIS(click)
Sometimes I wish I never had to say goodbye.
Since when is 'bye' good?
Sunday was a long day. Thank goodness for sick kids hence 11 students only. 9.30am-3.15pm straight! And then 4 more and sis picked me up from the bus stop but not before me getting attacked by mozzies.
Well, not a choice I'll make on my own but went to a doctor's very cool place at Park Infinia for NUS' bi team gathering. 31st floor! The highest! Each room has some magnificent view. 
Everybody brought their own food and it was reallyyyy good. (Except for the 2 sushis mok forced me to eat) Well at least they tasted abit better than last time the other one.
Met many aviva monsters who got banged up with stitches too. Many thanks to the team for being nice ppl n to the friendly ppl who talked to me :) And for joshua for being nice and helping with the cleaning. Thank goodness I was rescued by the real doctor before mok attacked the stitches. *PheWwwww
My very bloodied shoe
What an expensive fall -- $307!
On Friday, had lessons since 830am. We spent 1half hrs answering ONE question from a case! It's a past year exam question. Marketing was lonnng. After which we continued having marketing project meeting till like 2.20pm! Grabbed a plain yummy waffle after which I headed to the pool where it was too crowded so gave up swimming after about 25mins.
Thanks to the captain, (zhijie haha and his "like my friend says, I'm not musically inclined but inclined towards music) he picked me up at about 5+ and we headed down to pick up the ex roomie, and ate a very yummy dinner at can4! I'd like to go back there again :) Reached Nanyang Audi for SSO concert slightly late and missed 2 songs haha. It was a pretty short concert. I'm not too sure about violin standards but I wasn't quite so impressed with the solo violinist. Somehow sounded rather out of tune? Somehow can see Wendy standing there and I can't wait to hear her playing when she gets back to S'pore :)
But I heard lusciousness frm the clarinettist. (UM-CHIO!) And I liked the flute sound alot. The very bouncy happy light flying hao siang sort. Not forgetting the oboist :) Except that when both played together they were kinda clashy haha. Loved the woodwinds most. And the brasses were powerhouses :)
But I don't quite think they deserved a standing ovation. Like FAR from it.
Next up, book your calendars! 15 May! Rach's 3! Although I'm still waiting for the day when I get to hear Rach's 2 live :)
THANKS TO ZHIJIE! For trusting enough in my driving skills that he let me drive back to hall! :) First time driving a manual car since I passed my driving! After ttk's van driving experience and dad's van also. Coolbeans!
Then I set off from NTU to NUS. Thank goodness I didn't get lost. I think I know the route well enough already! 4 times or so. Met sis at 2 other friends at 7 eleven there and they brought us on a new route home. Supposedly lesser cars. But I thought it was so scary though. Many close shaves with crazy cars. And they cycle rather dangerously. (On a random note, I think ppl who do the cycling handsigns n all r very cool ppl haha!) Apparently the route is like SUPER ULTRA LONG. I'd rather climb the hills of lornie road (which isn't that bad) and get home faster.
But it was a nice night cycle especially and more interesting when cycling with new company. Clocked like 35+km? It should've only been like 30 or less isn't it? It was pretty crowded till we got to the ulu place of Mt. Pleasant. Pretty fun to cycle there! Enjoyed the trip :)
Braddell was jammed and squeezing between the cars was seriously scary. So we decided to go on the pavement and thinking back, I actually wanted to dismount and push. What's wrong with that :( And so I fell into the side of the longkang grass there, and my bike fell right INTO the deep longkang. And so I literally fished my bike out by holding the front wheel and climbing up and I was just thinking 'ouch ouch pain pain'. The next thing, I looked down and saw this whole stream of blood and blood-soaked shoe and sock. In just a matter of a few seconds it was soaked. So gross.
Thanks to sis' friend Timothy who cycled back home and drove here to drive us there. I think there's something wrong with my pain sensors cuz it wasn't much pain after that. Except I think for the first time I almost fainted. I've always wondered what it feels like. I think I ALMOST. But the sweet drink saved me together with lying down on the floor.
So we got to this 24hr clinic in Bishan where the doc didnt dare and told us go A&E and we ended up going to Mt. Alvernia cuz it's very nearby. So disgusting it kept leaking and leaking blood. It was like a HOLE in my leg. And the thought of STITCHING IT sounded so gross. And they kept saying time for the sewing machine!! Haha. It was nice for it to get cleaned up though. And I got a anti-tetanus (or wadever) jab which the staff nurse guy said "actually, yarh it'll be pain" but it wasn't actually. Phew.
Lying on the bed there, there was a cross on top of the wall there and somehow just made me think, I have one ripped up hole in my leg and I'm already feeling like this, so scared and disgusted. Imagine, Jesus, they lashed him with thorn whips all over his body. It must have dug into the skin and torn out chunks pretty much like mine but x1000 times. Imagine a thick nail being borne into your hands. OUCHHHHH. And He did it all, for me. I'm filled with so much disgust at the bloody mess and yet so in awe, that His love for me is sOoo amazing.
Awestruck.
The most pain part of the entire thing was him poking right into the wound to put the anaesthetic. It's like something sharp poking right into your fresh raw wound. The funniest thing was halfway, the thing kinda burst. And sis said the needle was actually left stuck in my wound. Thank goodness for anaesthetic. So gross when he was closing it up. EWWWWWWWWWwwww. Just so disgusted. I'll never wanna do cross-stitch again.
So I got 5 stitches. And I was covering my face the entire time refusing to look.
I guess it's a good time for this to happen. I'll never fall again. It's too expensive. Funniest thing is I wasn't even going faster than 10km/hr. Sigh. But it's good to take a rest, and study. And just rest, although I like the stage I'm at now.
Can't run, now can't swim also :( Time to work up the muscles and do stretchcords! Train up my abs, and STUDY!
Did not exercise at all! But it's good to have a rest day.
Seems like I can't not eat NIE pasta at least once a week! :)
1230-230 law was okay. 230-430 tax was taxing. 430-530 tax break. 530-745pm tax lecture on GST by this guy from Ernst and Young. It was most interesting and entertaining and most worthwhile going!
It's nice to go for lecture with the entire accountancy cohort. Although our GroupA is like 300 ppl, you practically recognise ALMOST everyone which is really nice in a way :) And since lectures these days are rare, we were all quite excited and noisy :)
On the topic of what is taxed, basically, everything is subjected to GST (except on housing cuz they want everyone to own a house and financial services such as sales of shares/bonds cuz it's too confusing to comprehend so they prefer to just forget it haha!) Some other countries dont tax on staples such as bread and rice and medical services etc. Why not Singapore? Cuz of political reasons. Do we have a choice to object if they say tax everything? Haha. Also, if we don't tax on staples such as bread, so if you consider biscuits a neccessity, no tax. If you consider chocolates a luxury good, tax. So, what about kit kats?
It doesn't make sense for every new product/food for them to taste and determine if it's a staple. Haha. I think it's pretty cool how my prof teaches us about the reasons behind all the tax laws. It's interesting really! And she's quoted on the Budget 09 also giving her comments leh! Wahhhh haha.
Bytheway, he earns $1300/hr for giving GST lectures!! And he said we're very smart cuz his clients when he gives his talks, they don't seem to get the answers when illustrating thru examples. I mean isn't it obvious, the answers I mean. We were all wondering what kind of clients he has haha.
The morning cycle was cancelled again cuz of the rain :( :( :(
6am outside was nice weather, but didn't wanna open door cuz from experience alot of flies will come in in the morning. So I was just standing outside my door, enjoying the cold breeze and fresh morning air, and wondering why so sad, have ppl sleep in the lounge, before realising it's two ppl having ***!!!!!! For the first time in my whole entire life, ever since steppping into NTU, I'm so appalled. So there goes enjoying the breeze and early morning air. I'm back in my room, sitting in my chair at 6 in the morning.
Sometimes I don't quite get it. If you care about someone enough to like that person, (my conclusion is you like if you care more than anything else in the world) then wouldn't you CARE? And things such as quarrels/disagreements would be all worked out and ppl will live happily ever after with no breakups. Is it really too idealistic? It takes two hands to clap and if both care, I don't see why not, especially since it's so hard to find two ppl who honestly like each other mutually. That's why I'm amazed there're so many couples around, and actually why do ppl breakup!
But if they don't care anymore, then I've nothing to say. How do you keep wanting to care for someone else forever? I find that quite impossible to. But to me, if it isn't there, then really, how to last? Unless one party always gives in. But I doubt even the most patient of ppl will be able to take it indefinitely.
Cheers to ttk, cuz to me, he has won the "Most Tolerant Guy Alive" Award :)
Maybe that's why lols seemed even more disappointed than I was last time haha. But well, I didn't quite care already.
Missed the morning cycle simply because I liked to sit in my chair, eat breakfast and study at 6am in the morning.
Watched retarded things like lamb chops and the voice behind elmo on youtube all thanks to sis.
Went to swim at 11am. Don't think I'll subject myself to such torture again. The skies today were REALLY cloudless.
The sun was really relentless. Half way through my warm up I was really contemplating getting up and swimming another day. Much less do whatever I planned on doing. It's really thanks to Songloo appearing at the pool which made me think that if someone cool can swim at such an unearthly time, so can I! (Don't anybody tell him I said this!) So after much groaning, I started my 16x100 sets. Timings were pretty surprising :) I guess cuz I was trying to stroke properly and not drown. Like 4 strokes 1 breathe and make sure my right arm pulls properly. Although I started drowning towards the end and the timings showed. But I didn't understand why. I mean if I can do 4x400 why would 16x100 be any different. I don't understand.
Lane 6 is mine. Don't like it when ppl come into my lane halfway! I mean the pool is like how big. Marty came again, and then I was surrounded by 2 ppl swimming fly on either side and me really almost drowning.
Some clouds came up and I really thought it looked like some sort of Mario land! Especially from the swimming pool, with the coconut trees. But I decided I'll look retarded if I went to take a pic so only took one outside.
Don't you just imagine Mario jumping on the clouds to catch coins. Except the trees don't have the coconut trees effect like at the pool.
Seems like no night hills riding for me. Too lazy! But it's really good to have nights free to eat proper dinners! Realised I've really been missing such things. Now with no runs to do also, and the excuse tt exams are coming and I gotta mug!
The cloudless days and subsequently nights, makes it really good for star gazing! Was star gazing at bus stop. Too bad Leewei's stuck doing projects. Have yet to go up to ADM on one of his stars photo taking days!
Speaking of which, before I left my room in a hurry (cuz I THOUGHT I'll take longer than the hall 2 resident to get to can A) I contemplated refilling my wallet with cash cuz I owe alot of ppl money but concluded I won't meet them. In the end, believe it or not, I actually met EVERYONE tt I owe money to.
One year ago, when I googled my name, nothing appeared. One year later, wahhaha. There're things! :) Surprisingly, I came across this(click). It's really ancient.
Ate alot!
Breakfast 7am of biscuits and milo.
2 slices of peanut butter bread before swim at 11am.
Great weather to study in the morning! Nice, cold, rainy :)
The sun came up just as I was suppose to swim! Thank goodness sun was rather hidden while I was in the pool tho. Met marty again! I finished whatever I planned to do, more or less, given the time constraint. Fell prey to the cHOcolate waffle yet again cuz decided since I swam and it's gonna be my lunch (together w the bread at 11am) might as well be choc :) It's always a messy business. (recalls times of waffle-ing in tj!)
Project meeting at 1pm. Drank oreo-ice for the first time at zek nang zek pui (Each a Cup I mean) Been wanting to but keep forgetting to buy from home. I think home is nicer. Plus 40cents cheaper.
Green grapes are rather nice!
Then I ate dinner at 6.15pm.
I'm SO FULL I'm not eating ever again.
My neighbour's songs were rather loud and she seems to have like 4 songs only, going on repeat.
I like the smell of new swimming costumes!
And this acad year seems to be a year of red shirts:
1) Hall FOC shirt
2) Block shirt
3) JCRC Sub Comm shirt
4) Bday shirt by Fingerprints
5) NTU Bi team jersey
Everything's red.
The blisters from the sis' havanas kinda hurt. And they became raw red dots when I happily kicked away in the swimming pool despite the pain.
After Day 1 of mugging, I'm like that.
Haha.
I'm honoured that I'm the first person my ex roomie called when her hp worked again! :)
It's okay, really.
Didn't enjoy class.
Pon-ed marketing lecture.
Ate OCK curry puff again. (I still think it's the best)
Became a milo addict.
Cycled with sis halfway to NUS and then back to the last traffic light before LCK and around NTU. Had utmost fun! Pretty cool!
Met ex-roomie at can 2 for dinner and made new friends :)
Cycling club here I come!
On another note, today I found out why sis never stays 99% of the time. A happier heart cuz I was quite worried it's cuz she preferred the puffer fishes over me :( ha-ha. But I'm fine and good anw cuz it's rather nice on my own! Just as long as I know the reason why which I do! :)
Okay study plan is up. MUGGING time.
byeBYE!
God made us social creatures. One can't survive on one's own! :)
Now, ppl seem to hinge onto the way I pronounce some particular words. Like Xiuyu and how I say 'wHy' 'wHere' with alot of 'h'.... hmmm.. And sis and her "it's suppose to be o-kay not or-kay. WHAT is or-kay!"
It's raining! I hope it pours now, stops in the afternoon, sun comes out and dries the wet road in the late afternoon, then, PERFECT for cycling! :)
It's time to eat, sleep, STUDYYYYY and work on the long-neglected core muscles, cycling legs and stretch cords!
On a side note, recently, people have been telling me that they're still reading this blog! Am pretty surprised and touched cuz well, if you read means you care about what's going on in my life right? (Or at least I choose to think so haha!)
Thanks friends! And cheers to a great week ahead! :)
(It seems dreadful to me though)
Less than one month to exams. Help.
Feeling random.
I just had the longest conversation with my bro on the phone lasting 1min50s.
Thick milo is the best drink on earth. Maybe I should've told the Nestle interviewer that.
I just completed my first cycle with joyriders and was dropped bad!
Haha okay maybe not THAT bad.
Left home at 6.45am.
Surprisingly Longhouse is very near.
We started off at 7.17am and reached NTU at about 8.32am.
Went up to max speed of 47.7km/hr!
Mandai was closed so we went a long loop, passing by Woodlands, Marsiling!
They went really easy in the beginning.
On reaching the ulu-ated areas it was crazy and anything with any resemblance of a gradient upwards I died.
Thanks to the nicest sis who helped me along although I thought I was gonna die.
Lim Chu Kang never seemed so long.
Jalan Bahar never so welcoming.
About 42.85km in below 1 half hours. (Quite low mileage actually!)
Change of plans and I ended up cycling with them all the way to NTU.
Now that the first ride is over, I can't whine anymore on the next ride cuz I'm not the noob that I was anymore!
Yesterday was my first and last IVP biathlon.
Wasn't prepared really.
Surprised with my timing of 13.44 for 800m swim!
Really thought I'd have difficulty hitting sis' set target time of 14min.
The run was hot, and not so good.
But I finished 4th with overall timing of 38.43 I tHInk......
Then I started taking random pics using random ppl's cameras.
So I dunno where're all the pics now.
The making of the collage was fun but didn't get to see the captains' reactions!
Hope they like it!
I think we should've all just wrote on it if I'd known Marcus didn't bring the cards.
So dots.
I really admire all sorts of captains.
That kind of admiration is purely admiration, and no desire on my part to ever be one.
Cuz I can't be bothered to be so self-less and giving and motivating.
I'd rather be concentrating on my own performance.
Happy that all sorts of competitions are over.
Now to mull over whether to join anymore.
And feel happier that I can have hardcore mad training sessions without having to worry about tapering and what not in view of races!
And as usual, when I have to sit down and do work, I start to do nonsense, like reading the latest book Rod lent. Somehow, what they write, is always so true.
Quote: The toughest part of triathlon is getting out the door. Get out the door and go to the pool. Get out the door and ride your bike or take a spin class. Get out the door and put one foot in front of the other for a run around your local high school track. For triathlon, you only need to 'tri'. I'm serious about this. If you go to the pool, you will become a better swimmer; if you ride, you will become a better cyclist; and if you run, you will become a better runner. Guaranteed.
Like how I was totally lazy to get up this morning but I knew if I went for the ride it'll be good. Hopefully I'm a better cyclist now! :)
Am a happy girl because I met Leewei and roomie to eat my maggie noodles (Korean food haha) in can 13 after which I shared a CHOCOLATE waffle with roomie! Haven't eaten one in eons and I had a craving for it (except that I left my valuables in my room and was penny-less!) so I'm feeling well, pleased.
Felt sleepy the entire day and fell asleep some which is good since I have had little sleep these days. But brain was fried badly during taxation. Not a joke, but it was reallyyyyy taxing. 2hrs of Prof Tan choinging to get through everything. And she knows her stuffs well so listening and paying attention really helps alot.
Went for a swim in the evening. Not a choice I'll make often except when I've no choice. (What's with my sentences! It was like that during aa2025 project meeting too haa) Disgusting China-men trying to talk to me. EWwwww.
Am getting worried about saturday saturday saturday. How to swim 800m in the pool as a competition? How to run 5km as a competition? Totally NOT prepared. Gulps :(
Finally understand why NTU sucks, apart from NBS that is. Am appalled at the standard of the lecturer for my elective.
Besides the fact that there was a couple in front of me tt kept PDA-ing. (man!)
And the 2 guys behind me who kept cursing. I am utterly disgusted with ppl who uses the f-word in every sentence they speak.
Am feeling very disgusted with the world.
Am about to fall asleep from some form of exhaustion.
Had 5hrs of sleep under the nice nice blanket of sis!
Woke up at 7am to do some readings and wrote rubbish for aa205's in class assignment.
Had marketing meeting where at last we came up with a concept! Quite excited here! :)
Ate a waffle at the track. I love sitting there in the peacefulness really. Except I don't understand why ppl run at 1pm in the afternoon under the VERY hot sun.
Went for the swim and finished the sets in okay timing. Worried about saturday though. I can't swim in the pool, and 5km sounds like a terrible distance. Somehow I only pick up speed relative to others and only feel warmed up after 6km. (Look at how Bekky trashed me during SUniG's 6km run last year!)
Met Roman and Sunita!! :) Desmond and Bekky at the pool :) Met Sue on the way up to IRO. Submitted my instep application.
Ate OCK curry puff after so long. (Due to no more NIE band elective haha) OCK can safely claim to have the best curry puffs in S'pore! Or perhaps I was just a little hungry. Les Miserables cd (at the boothes at canA) were sold out :(
Almost could see my bank balance having more than $3k (for once!) if not for mom not having banked in the cheque yet. But I transferred the money anyway so no more >$3k for me.
Am about to fall asleep in front of my computer.
VERY tired.
The Singapore Biathlon shirt this year is really ugly. I cringe whenever I see it. I really can't quite stand it.
On a random note, I'm a sucker for nice views, sunsets, lovely clouds, and rainbows! I'm always filled with awe and wonder at God's creations. Love it! 
I was on the mrt to JE for lesson and I saw the most amazing sight. Altho I've always prided my cam, it wasn't able to capture the splendor this time round.
MANGO SURPRISE! I like mangoes :) And mango flavoured stuffs! :) And the stars are so cute, albeit veryyyy oily
As Benjamin Franklin puts it, “It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.”
Sometimes I just don't understand :( And I don't bother trying to. By default, I always think a person is nice. Perhaps I trust too much. Perhaps I simply just don't understand.
I don't understand myself, either. I don't understand my own understanding, the way I think, the way I perceive things, the way I feel, the way I interpret things.
The relationships in this world are just too confusing for me to comprehend, to understand, to participate in. Just let me watch from afar.
People watch, that's what I'm good at :)
I think I'm still who I am. I don't go to people. I find it hard to approach others to show any sort of care. I don't voluntarily take care of others. (Except for one person that is) I'm too individualistic. (Maybe that's why I can do like 2hrs run without any music, just lost in my own thoughts) I like it best when I'm on my own, thinking my own thoughts, treading my own path.
It's been awhile, but I think deep down, I'm still me.
Sitting here in my own thoughts, I'm feeling a little tad disappointed. Disappointed that I won't be around next year to see how far I can go in another year. Perhaps it was a mistake to choose going in sem 2. Problem is, I enjoyed myself so much in sem 1 I wanted to relive it all again. But apparently, sem2 is proving equally like THAT that I don't wanna go.
But I think I need to get out for a while.
But I'm gonna miss the sun.
And the trainings.
And are my savings worth it?
On a happier note, at last I got the timing I wanted, a proper 10km timing! Not THAT proper, but proper enough in my opinion. 45min47s :) All joy! :)
MOST AMAZING. The impossible target time set by sis of 46mins was reached.
Glory to God and Him and Him alone! :)
No other words can describe miracles. I serve a God who is BOUNDLESS IN ALL HE IS AND DOES :)
This morning, sis woke me up at 5.20am saying "Time to get up already". My first reaction was "huh for what". And then about 5s later, I remembered, (with a dread) it's time to wake up and go for SING BI :( Still feeling tired and lazy but a little bit excited.
Reached there to register, get marked with nicely printed chops, settled race belt, and then headed over to transition area. Pretty efficient since we were relatively early so it was relatively empty and the queues were short.
2037! My transition box!
Thanks to sis for all the tips and the intro to transition-ing and what to expect :)
Went for a short warm up jog with sis. Was a little nervous shin will start acting up. Haven't ran since Monday! Did not have time to warm up in the sea at all. Was in the front starting line behind sis and the rest.
Almost drowned in the first part. Drank 2 mouthfuls of water (in all. And it was all at the front!) Seriously almost drowned. It was terrible. Till I managed to get out. *Phew. So relieved. I was even GLAD that I could SWIM in the sea! Imagine.
I think I was with Bekky all the while! Didn't quite recognise her cuz she wasn't wearing her usual orange goggles but apparently she was right behind me when we came out from transition! So I think it's her all the while! It looked like her calm swimming strokes which made me calm down whenever I see her and stop splashing around too much. Sea water wasn't all THAT bad after all :) No sea bug bites! Or at least that was the least of my worries.
Alot of new experiences. Like the runrunrun, jump, SWIM! body of water to wash ur feet, transiting (which I did fairly quick in fact!) and getting used to running after the swim. Thank goodness for the adrenaline which left my shin not hurting :) [according to sis and the nervous system explanation]
So I left transitioning with bekky! 1km to the end then U-turn. Met sis, and she told me "hurry up top 10!" Bekky left me before that, and so hearing that I was like woah okay stop jogging, time to run. It felt good to run just in your swimming costume! Your legs feel so free, and seriously speaking, I didn't quite care about looking so exposed anymore haha. Least of my worries.
The run was actually pretty quick AFTER ALL :) Thank God for the strength and I guess the past few months base didn't disappoint me! 4km up (6km in total) till the next U-turn point. Where I started counting, I was then, no. 8! Running in the rain was the best thing that happened. Altho it was quite irritating with rain getting in my eyes (contacts and all) but it was really refreshing and made me feel cool and relaxed! Bekky was way ahead for most part of the race but was again within sight nearing the end. I was just 10+ seconds behind her! Which to me, is a great achievement. Either that, or she wasn't going very fast, considering we started the run together.
Actually, the entire thing ended very quickly.
AND YAY! I DID IT!
my FIRST biathlon, getting 8th position, timing of 1hr16min53s! :)
I wonder wad's my run timing. Cuz I remembered nearing the shore I heard the horn for the opening of a wave. So it should be the 8am wave. Which means my swim took up more than 30mins. Doing the math, hmmmm.......
SO! We went for tiger balm oil massage! My first ever massage. Thank goodness I didn't scream the whole tent down. It wasn't THAT bad as I feared a sports massage would be! It was pretty good anyway. Except when they rubbed the (very muscle knotted) calves and THE SHIN. I was secretly cringing inside. "Relax relax relax!" drumming into my head. But I felt more sore AFTER the massage than before (which wasn't sore at all).
Drank h2o while walking back which was a bad decision cuz my stomach started being queasy and topsy turvy again where I then felt like crawling into a ball and rolling on the floor. (It rhymes!)
Warm down jog failed miserably cuz of the churning insides. Got to know new ppl. Took pics with cool ppl. Went for a shower, and feeling nice and fresh, met the ntu ppl. For the second year running, it rained during sing bi, and I collected goodie bags for the cool prize winners wahhaa. Took some pics with the ntu friends!
Team Challenge PARTNER! :)
Then, went to watch sis get her prize and collected mine too!
I got $50 cash, a timex watch, $80 Smith optics voucher, $50 Royal Sporting House voucher :)
Went to eat with dad and sis at some random coffee shop along the Katong stretch. The milo was SUPER NICE, thick and GOOD like milo van milo! So good such that I bought another one after the first drink. My stomach was churning.
And I concluded the tiger balm thingy ATTRACTS FLIES. Serious. For the rest of the day, (cuz the shower didnt quite wash it properly) flies kept going to my LEGS. Nowhere else but my legs.
It was really nice to take a ride through the east area. I realise I haven't been to the Eunos, Marine Parade, Katong, Parkway, Tanjong Katong area for EONS! I saw this road near Haig Rd, which reads 'Thiam Siew Rd' which I found hilarious!
One more week. AB112 graded presentation. AA205 20% project due. AC208 individual assignment due on Friday. IVP bi on Sat.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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scream of horror
Today, my baby tooth for 20 years old finally retired. It dropped out while I was eating weetbix in the morning. After days of annoying the tooth, it finally decided to give up clinging on. It feels weird, like the last time this happened was way back in primary school!
So, out it came while I was eating, and I went to the toilet. To my horror, my entire mouth was like FILLED WITH BLOOD. Like if u take a mouthful of blood to drink it looks like that in your mouth. EWWWWwwww. I was totally disgusted. And cuz I had no gauze, I used tissue paper to stop the blood flow. (I really felt like in primary school can!)
It took me sometime,
and then I went back to eating my weetbix.
Now, I've an empty hole in my mouth! :(
I have had so little sleep these days. Terrible! Never again :(
Please remind me not to have wise ideas about studying in can A ever again!
Altho it was nice and windy and it's a pleasant place to study actually :)
Tomorrow will be my FIRST biathlon.
May I survive.
I haven't run for so long :(
One year ago, I met Leewei in the morning and we cycled down, and reached just in time to see sis run by! :)
One year later, it's my turn to do it.
12hours, 3minutes, 30seconds!
Goodnight.
I am feeling terribly like THAT.
No mood to compete in anyway. Feeling very lost in everyway. Today was IH Colours Award for my hall. Of course, training's more impt so you know where my priorities lie.
So on the way back I was told to drop by the function hall and I ended up getting a whole bunch of things, besides our 4x800m medal for track, apparently I got Sportwoman of the year for Hall 15. (I didn't even know I was nominated) Apparently some gay video was played and all. Thank goodness I wasn't there. I'm feeling so ............. over that. (I dunno what word to fill in the blank) I mean, besides the fact that now it's like "I owe it" to 15 to stay there? It's also like "I didn't do anything deserving of it?" And what must ppl be thinking. Like I'm so undeserving.
As much as I wanted to think it's cool (cuz like you know sis always sportswoman everywhere, KR, NUS etc) but still it's quite a bitter disappointment to feel that it's all just because of politics. I wonder how this thing worked.
But all the same, it's the first time I've got a medal with my name imprinted on it! (Altho the medal is like how fake haha) :)
Yearning.
Blogging has become more of a chore these days. And the days just seem to keep slipping by!
Recess week came and went with me hardly doing much work, swimming too much, running too much, cycling too little, and mostly, playing too much!
Am currently surviving on 4hrs of sleep and that's cuz I overslept! 830am class, I woke up at 8.15am, and still had to go to SRC for my poor abandoned swimming costume.
I will get up, keep moving, and reach there, someday. Motivation, can you please get back?
I'm tired of icing. If only there's a auto-icing machine or something.
Oh and I gotta mention that the best thing on earth happened to me today. This friend of mine accidentally deleted all his hp number contacts. WOOOHOOOO. I'll be left in peace from now on. Seriously he bugs me so. (And it's not that I've nv told him that before chuckles) I am so NOT gonna ever give him my number again haa.