:: BïtS 'N' PiëCÉS ::

martedì, giugno 29, 2004

:: Força - Nelly Furtado ::

{Euro 2004 Portugal Official Song}

It is the passion flowing right on through your veins
And it’s the feeling that you’re oh so glad you came
It is the moment you remember you're alive
It is the air you breathe, the element, the fire
It is that flower that you took the time to smell
It is the power that you know you got as well
It is the fear inside that you can overcome
This is the orchestra, the rhythm and the drum

Com uma força, com uma força
Com uma força que ninguem pode parar
Com uma força, com uma força
Com uma fome que ninguem pode matar

It is the soundtrack of your ever-flowing life
It is the wind beneath your feet that makes you fly
It is the beautiful game that you choose to play
When you step out into the world to start your day
You show your face and take it in and scream and pray
You're gonna win it for yourself and us today
It is the gold, the green, the yellow and the grey
The red and sweat and tears, the love you go. Hey!

Com uma força, com uma força
Com uma força que ninguem pode parar
Com uma força, com uma força
Com uma fome que ninguem pode matar

Closer to the sky, closer, way up high, closer to the sky

Com uma força, com uma força
Com uma força que ninguem pode parar
Com uma força, com uma força
Com uma fome que ninguem pode matar

I don't really like the tune that much, cuz there isn't much variation but i do like the lyrics, they're very alive. As for the Portuguese, hehehe it's so identical to Spanish!!!! but it sounds so so so much cooler! heheh... i wanna learn portuguese leh... seems like there so many languages i wanna learn. currently i'm picking up malay and trying to practise with reema at sch. spanish kind of lagging now, just got to polish up. italian is at a standstill and slowing moving backwards. maybe just maybe, if i ever have the time (that's after i know more malay conversation) i'll learn just how to read portuguese. so combine with knowledge of spanish and clever guesswork, i might just manage a bit of portuguese. it's sounds the coolest of all the european langauges! (i mean western europe)

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domenica, giugno 27, 2004

:: Day 5 - The New Territories ::

Today’s the last day in HK! We’re gonna explore the New Territories today and guess what, we have Sandra and her Mum along, that’s quite fun lah. Haha… I bet they had a real eye-opener, saw four very very dead people, at 930am in the morning! Haha… is that possible? So early yet so tired! Haha… plus we had Macs breakfast, courtesy of KH who managed to buy us brekky at record speed given his indepth knowledge of the back alleys of TST. Haha… wey, where’s my egg in my sausage and egg muffin? (evil sideway glance at KH…) Anyway, our first stop was Wong Tai Sin Temple, (tt’s Taoist I think), you can lok chiam there and get it analysed (tt’s what KH did) and you can get your palm read too, but at the cost of 300HKD. Hahaha so tempting but I boh liu. Haiz…

Next stop was Sha Tin, where we decided to brave the 400 or more steps in order to reach the 10,000 Buddha Monastery located on top of a hill. The walk was better than I expected, from what Sandra and her Mum said, I thought it would be like the Great Wall of China or something like that, but it wasn’t too bad. I think it would have been much easier if I wasn’t that worn out from my previous days’ exploits. Ha! The climb was worth it, both sides of the stairway are lined with gold paint covered statues of monks in various postures. It’s quite interesting, even more if we have the time to read the inscription at the base of each statue. At the end of our climb we were rewarded with a spectacular monastery, it’s not that big but it’s really beautiful! It’s unforgettable, truly! Many other statues there, in great details and the atmosphere there is just so peaceful, so calm and one really feels at peace with oneself. KH was really gian about climbing even higher (which was possible) but the road was closed due to ‘dangerous slopes’. Well, I remember reading somewhere that to have reached the monastery at that level meant ‘you3 yuan2’ it’s pretty interesting and I believe quite a lot in ‘yuan2 fen4’. I wouldn’t equate that to destiny, but more of how much destiny you ‘share’ with the other person or thing. Bit hard to express myself. (lol, so paiseh, I’m watching ‘the 2 towers’ now lah) Finally, covered with sweat (as if we’d just had a shower) we descended. Lol… and I had all the luck to step on a pile of shit! Dunno what shit, but looks more fantastic and smellier than the pile on Sandra’s display picture. Euw!!! Haha but nvm, let’s just take it as a good omen, one that heralds a windfall! Yeah! LOLZ…

Final stop was Tai Po, to visit the much acclaimed, much talked-about Wishing Tree. I was utterly utterly disappointed! Haiz… I thought the tree would be much older, much larger, with hanging roots (I thought it was a banyan tree so should have right?) and the hanging wishes more colourful… Haha… YL was like: wey not colourful enuff meh? Got red, gold, yellow… haha… well but everytime I see this wishing tree scene in dramas it’s so much more colourful. Can take a look at the recent trailer of a Taiwanese show featuring one of the F4s, it’s so beautiful and with red hangings… ha! Don’t expect to see this in real life! Well, none of us made any wish too. Haha, I wouldn’t mind but I don’t think I could have survived the humiliation of not being able to get my wish on the tree. It’s not as easy as it sounds or looks, u see.

Well after the sightseeing we went our separate ways with Sandra and her Mum, they went off to The Festival Walk while we went off for our lunch. Post-lunch, KH went to do his last-minute souvenir shopping in TST and to look for this rare surgery book written by an Indian while us three girls went to Lai Chee Kok to shop more! Haha, it’s more worth it to shop there, had I known that the factory outlets would be like this, I would have zoomed there on my first day instead of wasting too much time in Granville and those other shops. For one, the things there are much cheaper, the fashion is not too bad and there are sooo many shops there! It makes it v compact to shop. Hahaha…

Met up with KH in time for dinner, and we had our final dinner at a typical roadside eatery. We all had the foods we were craving for, or very gian to try. So KH has braised goose, YL had you2 ji1, I had roast chicken and LL had roast goose AND her pigeons. Lol… fr their disgusted expressions, I guess the pigeons weren’t up to standard. The roast goose was super un-meaty and super fatty. My chicken was just nice, perfect! Haha… I still like chicken compared to all other meats. Heh heh heh… Sedap! Mmmmm… the best part came when we had to pay the bill, we used SO MANY coins lor.. and YL was like, no way, not my coins, not gonna help you carry ‘em to the counter for payment. I was thinking, sure kena black looks fr the owner. Haha… all becuz of LL lor… she paid for the entire 58HKD in COINS! Sheesh… luckily the lady boss was very nice about it all! Hahaha…

Well, then it was back to the hotel to pack up and stuff… yeah and spend our last night. Sure was damn freaky leh! Oh yeah and one funny thing, YL was going to toilet in the dark so we hard lots of climbing over pple and crawling then one ‘bam’ and one ‘ouch’. Anyway, back to the freaky incident, suddenly, while we three gals were BOB (bonding over bed), the toilet light came ON! (it’s not those auto operated sensor light, it’s manually controlled) initially they thought someone forgot to switch it off after using it, or perhaps it came fr the lift lobby, but no lor… I was very near to both the door and toilet and I know that it just came on mysteriously, I was hoping that I wouldn’t have to go switch it off. HENG manz, cuz it went off mysteriously in around 5 min. phew! This reminds me of the really really scary dream I had on my first night there but I shan’t write about it here, just thinking about it gives me the creeps!

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sabato, giugno 26, 2004

:: Day 4 at Macao ::

Macauuuuuu here we come! Woohoo! Initially, after touching the God of Wealth, I was gonna try my luck at the tables… (haha.. no lah, not a miser like me) anyway, NO way cuz the minimum bet is 200HK ie about 50SGD. Dun play play manz, later I come back to Singapore missing some limbs. Ha ha ha… I liked Macau far better than Kowloon, for one, it’s cleaner and the streets are wider, also there’re all the beautiful European architecture, not much, but Senado Square, La Casa de Misericordia and the ruins of the church lie testament to this. The fashion there’s pretty sharp too, and prices are just as steep. We didn’t get to spend much time over there cuz we had a later start, that’s cuz we’re doing some QUALITY BOB ie. Bonding over breakfast. We originally considered BOP and BOBd. (bonding over pigeons and bonding over bed) but kinda restricted. So breakfast was good. We bonded over a few po lo pau, raisin bread, orange juice, milk and TV. It’s also a waste that we didn’t get to visit the greyhound races. Drats! Cuz they were at 8pm while our ferry HAD TO LEAVE at 730pm. Haiz… too bad… no later ferries, unless we decide to stay there overnight. Hmmm I wonder why they make ferries leave at 830pm the latest, so that the hotels and casinos there will rake in even more money? Due to tourists or Hongkongers who stay overnight since they had to attend the races? Hmm… maybe hor.

Yeah so we were back to HK real early and just wandered around looking for food. (ha we do that every night) So much food around, we just can’t decide what we wanna eat. Anyway in the end, we settled for dinner at either Tang Dynasty or this interesting eatery. I can’t rem which, but I wanna blog about our interesting dinner! The restaurant serves a combi of Chinese-Korean-Japanese-Italian cuisine, which ended up in foods like brinjal and scallop don, beef-stew jap rice wrapped in omelette with onion rings and wedges, and so on… It’s not bad. Something refreshing after so many Cantonese dinners. Haha…

After dinner… hmm there’s just too much shopping that we did I can’t exactly rem where we went, anyway for one of our nights we went to temple street and for the other night, or perhaps same night itself, we wandered along Canton Road to find Hardrock Café. Hmm but no one bought anything from there. Ha while they were browsing, I saw this shop next door that looked like it had nice clothes ( I didn’t take note of the name then) so I strolled in and… er hem, the prices were EVEN nicer, later I found out that was DKNY. Duh. I rem the night that I was most ‘dead’ was the one where we returned fr Temple Street Night Market, cuz that’s the furthest walk we took back to our hotel. Phew! Haha…

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venerdì, giugno 25, 2004

:: Day 3 ::
Yum cha-ed again in the morning together with David (that was his second round lol…) We ordered some more exotic stuff like beef brisket and chicken feet (more nicely put as ‘phoenix claw’) but KH and I didn’t touch any of those. Yucks! To me it’s really yucks! YL even went into the theory of eating chicken feet, she says: you bite at the joints, then easier mah… dim sum there is cheap, especially in the mornings and they start to serve as early as 5am! Whor! So right after a rugae-smoothening, muscles-stretching breakfast, we went to see the seagull shaped building, think it was the convention centre? And we saw the golden bauhinia (acc to David, the PRCs love to pose and have their photos taken there) Next up, we enjoyed a 360 degrees view of HK fr the 69th (?) floor of an office building. Nice! Then… we went hunting for MORE food, so we stopped by this shop and bought lao po bing, egg rolls, tea, pineapple biscuits and other stuff. Hehe… and there went more $$$. Finally we took a bus and dropped off at Stanley market. The view during the bus trip was really good, all those hills surrounding the bay, the interesting apartment that had a squarish hole in the it (it’s supposed to be done so that the place will have better feng shui). I realised that feng shui is a ‘big’ thing in HK, the pple really pay lots of attention (and $) to make sure they have good feng shui. Stanley market is nice and fun but a tad too tourisy. You can get the things there in Temple Street night market as well so it’s not very worth the visit unless you have extra time (because the scenery there is not bad). Finally, after exploring and emptying more of our wallets, we made our way back to um… suddenly forgot where. I think we went shopping at Times Square. Shop shop shop, ooo super tiring! It’s literally shop till you drop. Haha…

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:: Day 2 ::
Got up super early! Didn’t sleep that great the night before, there were so many weird noises and shuffling (as if someone was walking around in the room)… I thought it was YL hunting for the toilet, unfortunately I found her face up-close when I turned to her side of the bed. Oops! (up-close k, she always navigates towards either me or LL, wanted to put a pillow for self-protection but no space… haiz so wo men dei xi sheng le…)
Next up went to yum cha at this harbour view restaurant, the food was normal, nothing too great, just the usual siew mais, char siew baos, har kaus… but, the view was superb fr that restaurant! As usual we sweeped out our sleek cams (3 sleek mine was the pok pok NON-digi cam) and started snapping away. (I’m almost as pro as I am at sweeping out my trustworthy stethy as well as my cam). In the halfday city tour we saw quite a lot of interesting things… First up was Victoria Peak (diff location fr the night before) we snapped pictures like crazy again haha… the trusty tour guide pointed out various places like the Happy Valley Racecourse, the houses of various stars and celebrities. Then as if it wasn’t HOT enuf we had to go to Deep Water Bay and Repulse Bay. (repulse so-called, as it’s named after the HMS Repulse of the Brits, involved in some anti-piracy stuff) The beaches are beautiful! Not like sg’s oily, dirty sands with trash and coarse sand. There was a very commercialised temple there, Tin Hau temple, I rem David mentioning that this Tin Hau Temple is like a business with many branches, I was suddenly reminded of franchising. Anyway, this one’s unique, it has two huge huge statues guarding the front of the temple as well as a god of wealth. Still got special technique to touch it, to guarantee some wealth. Well, all of us touched the statue, but we still didn’t try out luck at Macau. At Aberdeen we took a sampan (actually it was a bumboat, not unlike those we take to Pulau Ubin), saw the floating market that was sadly closed already, cuz it was the late morning by then, as well as Jumbo Restaurant.

Finally, after the sweltering morning wandering around on beaches, we enjoyed the air-conditioning in the Aberdeen jewellery factory, they had quite a lot of nice stuff, and we were drooling over the display cases, unfortunately, boh liu. After all that dazzling displays the guide took us to a herb shop, they had tea, various herbs and longans. (I think LL neva wants to hear abt longans for a long long time…) Ended our city tour with a lunch, and went to explore Granville Road. Just one street flanked by shops on both sides took us nearly the WHOLE afternoon! Poor KH, I think he’s been up and down those streets at least 6 times when we didn’t even finish looking at all the shops! Wonder how many sticks of ice cream he polished off too! Haiz… feel so bad… Should have done something fun or cute for him hor, but on second thoughts later he say I bully him…

Later on, we met up with David, that’s our fellow med fac hwa chongian frd fr HK, real nice guy, treated us dinner and dessert and brought us around to all the interesting places… We had our first taste of roasted pigeons! Ooo! LL especially loved them, I was ok with them, like the crispiness and the meat doesn’t have such a strong smell like duck’s. Hehehe… then LL tried to eat the pigeon’s head like David, but she didn’t get past the beak, I think it’s cuz the remaining three of us were talking abt bird flus and prion diseases. Then we went to Tang Dynasty for their dessert, haha oh a bit funny, cuz I can’t take sweet stuff, they even had to WASH the toufu for me! Lol… but tt didn’t affect the dessert, it’s so pretty and delicious too!

Lalala… v happy!

KH was the most gian abt eating roasted pigeon fr a ‘roadside’ eatery, while LL was the one who was close to addicted to it. Haha… KH was going on and on abt the fishballs, so gian lor…

Ok, sorry this blog is sooo long, but can’t help it, the night is long in HK. Here we goooo…. Next we had a tram tour of Times Square, Wan Chai and Causeway Bay area, David lives in Wan Chai, gosh, the housing there really really really costs a lot! Like a bomb! Em, then we went to Lan Kwai Fong, I was a little bit disappointed cuz it looks a lot like Mohammad Sultan St here, also lots of ang mohs, pple dressing in clubbing clothes (look a bit like those here) so… we went to continue shopping at Times Square, after visiting Victoria Park.

Oh yea then YL so farnee… HAHAHA… her shoes were hurting her feet, especially when she had to walk downhill so she was like hip-hopping, and bobbing to the music… lol… cows! Neva seen anything funnier! Bop bob bop bob. Lol… she finally stopped the bopping when she got a pair of bath room slip-ons fr Giordano. After that she was happily pattering away in the streets! Haha…

Finally reached the hotel, crapped somemore and bathed, they all say I’m weird, never use the hair dryer and then I dunno what else happened cuz I fell asleep first! Ha ha…

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martedì, giugno 22, 2004

:: HK ::

How evil that jh is to wish that yl and I were squashed by char siew baos… and all the time we were thinking about her, and how it would be nice if I could go there with her. Lulu aims a billion siewmais back at jh… and gloats that due to her booming loan business, she can’t go to hk. Hia hia hia…

The first thing that one notices about Kowloon is the lack of space (and the mysterious absence of birds, rats, insects and stray cats), the buildings are cramped together, with various neon boards hanging, jutting or swinging in mid-air, it’s like a jigsaw puzzle, hastily put together. Despite the grittiness and untidiness, I like Tsim Sha Tsui, simply for the bustling activity, bright colourful lights and interesting people. Hong Kong, just across the river is quite different, it’s more modern, has taller buildings, cleaner streets and more upscale shopping.

Day 1:
The airport is quite new, spacious, and a pleasant place to land in. After weaving thru streets and more streets, each one looking similar to the last one and getting all confused, we finally arrived at Kimberly Hotel (hehehe… Kimberly… I still can’t believe I actually thought it was KH’s REAL name… duh.) Space in HK is really limited… our room was super packed cuz well, three pple squeezing into one room (plus the two had HUGE suitcases). Then we cheong out again for the night tour… at the night tour we visited Victoria Harbour, snapping pictures like crazy, all excited and eager to see more, strolled (and perspired profusely) by the Avenue of Stars, finally ending up at the clock tower (which was under some kind of construction), next up was a trip on the Star Ferry to Hong Kong, quite fun, I enjoyed the rocking of the waves. Heh heh heh but actually I enjoyed the air-conditioning most! Lol… HK too hot too hot, omg… when u get out of a building u’re simply HIT by a blast of hot, stuffy air. Victoria peak was spectacular by night, it’s too bad we didn’t get to go up by the tram, that would be absolutely cool! Heh heh… After all that we were dropped off at Nu Ren Jie where we wandered among the shops selling various knick-knacks till almost 2am. It’s one of my favourites spots, I like to see the crowds, the bright and cheerful displays in the stalls. I wish Singapore had as much ‘life’ at night. Orchard Road is always sadly deserted by 11pm.

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mercoledì, giugno 16, 2004

:: crippled ::

want to feel crippled and cut off from the rest of the world? Want to have the feeling of fumbling in the backwash of the never-stopping onward tide of information? Simple! Just overheat / freeze / or whack your ADSL/cable modem! Unfortunately for me, I’m not crippled ‘by choice’. Wo shi bi bu de yi de! Argh! I hate life without the internet. Yesterday saw a re-run of ‘holland village’ and one character was quoted saying: ren shi ke yi mei you peng you de, dan shi ren shi bun eng mei you dian nao de. And I totally agree! Now really ‘lang bei’ I’m stuck with using the dialup, which means that I have to restrict my internet hours to off peak (that is no one in my family needing the phone line) and not too many, or there’ll be hell to pay when the bills arrive in the fourth quarter of the month. I’ve been reduced to typing my blog in Microsoft word and then cutting and pasting onto my blog. Er hem… that is IF i actually am able to gain access to blogger.com. it must be my settings or sth, cuz I can’t get access to any global sites, so far I’ve only managed to get to the pathetic NUS and singnet, signpost websites. DUH! Ok just some parting messages before I ‘disappear’ for the next 6days 5 nights, yup FINALLY I’m getting to go to HK, very thrilled and not too excited, I think I used up too much energy playing Hexic yday, now I’m a bit run-down, not enough energy to get myself all workedup about the trip. Hehe… this is how DAMAGING it can be to play computer games AIMLESSLY.

Sanz: heya, I hope to get the MS office CD back from you before I start school cuz that day I realised I haven’t installed the Chinese fonts in, as a result I can’t type or read Chinese on my comp and I need that disk to complete the setup. So see u soon! (I’ll probably see u in HK!)

AG: ooooOOOOOoooooo excited!

MQ: hey, u know what, I managed to add the gf of the person we’re very kaypoh about in my icq list, and I managed to chat with her! Haha… turns out she just came back fr a cultural exchange trip fr HK, only last week. Anyway not much time so didn’t get to slowly manoeuvre the topic to what we wanted to know, I was wondering how best to ask her for her blog addy, I shall try harder the next time round. Btw, I don’t think she’s all that keen to talk to me. I also dunno what to talk to her about.

Ok time to sign out! Bb! I hope that by the time I’m back the modem is up and about…

Dopey @ 10:27 PM | 0 comments

lunedì, giugno 14, 2004

:: The Death Test ::


According to this test, i'm supposed to die on Friday, October 27th 2045

At the tender age of 62 years old.
On that date, I'll most likely die from:
Alien Abduction (7%)
"Cleaning your Rifle" (4%)
Drowning (3%)
Third Degree Burns (2%)

Dopey @ 10:50 PM | 0 comments

:: the unintelligent test ::

lol this one IS funny, i'm 61% uninteligent, but i'm supposedly to be a unique combi, here's what the shrink says i am:

PS: i just realised, i'm so low on morality!!! paiseh, wat a relevation, i always tot i was v moral!

Here is the custom report of your personality than led our team of geeks to conclude (with confidence) that you are a moderate but excitingly differentgraph.xcf woman:
" Interesting. While the subject shows an astounding level of intelligence, her sense of observation is somewhat below average. We attribute this to the egotistical nature of the subject. Actually, wolves behave in the same manner, but she's smarter than any animal.

But what concerns us most about the subject is her sinister and violent attitude. While we almost find it amusing that the subject would rather kill something than suffer a minor inconvenience, it effectively destroys her ability to survive tight situations. Our study suggests there is a large change the subject will end up in prison!

Finally, the subject displayed a pathetic and useless (seriously bad) sense of humor, a nearly satanic lack of morality, and a hot-shot level of self-confidence. The balance of these three traits is important; high levels of confidence, medium levels of morality, and a good level of humor make for the strongest individuals. "

Dopey @ 10:44 PM | 0 comments

:: personality test results ::

Francesca, your hemispheric dominance is equally divided between left and right brain, while you show a moderate preference for auditory versus visual learning, signs of a balanced and flexible person.

Your balance gives you the enviable capacity to be verbal and literate while retaining a certain "flair" and individuality. You are logical and compliant but only to a degree. You are organized without being compulsive, goal-directed without being driven, and a "thinking" individual without being excessively so.

The one problem you might have is that your learning might not be as efficient as you would like. At times you will work from the specific to the general, while at other times you'll work from the general to the specific. Sometimes you will be logical in your approach while at other times random. Since you cannot always control the choice, you may experience frustrations not normally felt by persons with a more defined and directed learning style.

You may also minimally experience conflicts associated with auditory processing. You will be systematic and sequential in your processing of information, you will most often focus on a single dimension of the problem or material, and you will be more reflective, i.e., "taking the data in" as opposed to "devouring" it.

Overall, you should feel content with your life and yourself. You are, perhaps, a little too critical of yourself - and of others - while maintaining an "openness" which is redeeming. Indecisiveness is a problem and your creativity is not in keeping with your potential. Being a pragmatist, you downplay this aspect of yourself and focus on the more immediate, the more obvious and the more functional.

to find out more about your personality, chk out: http://www.mindmedia.com/brainworks/index.html

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domenica, giugno 13, 2004

:: the best bet ::

there are normally two reasons why i would watch a particular movie.
1. the trailer is fantastic and attractive
2. the trailer is so irritating that i can't believe who would want to make such a movie that i would go watch to satisfy my curiosity, and incidentally i always regret.

i was driven to watch 'the best bet' due to reason 2 and i've learnt that curiosity normally kills the cat. the best bet is brilliant in some ways, such as their hokkien rap and the usual crap from mark lee, yet it doesn't attract me cuz i don't like 4-D, toto, 12 sticks, horse betting or anything that is dependent on lady luck for $. lady luck is damn fickle.

the movie has a good ending, almost a bit fairytale-like, though peppered with lots of lahs and lohs and lim peis. despite the good ending, i felt a bit cheated because i don't like movies that take me for a joyride only to discover that it's all a nightmare or daydream.

this is definitely NOT jack neo's masterpiece. some people say that 'pao ba hai zi. ' is jack's representative piece. but we ought to keep in mind that the storyline isn't original, and therefore the only thing it can say about him and about singapore is that we're copycats.

despite all that i've said, jack, i believe, is singapore's best (and only) producer able to make something decent. therefore, as a dutiful singaporean, i should say this: heya everyone! go watch 'the best bet'! it's the best local movie ever and i bet you'll like it! for 4-D aficionados, you can get plenty of beautiful 4-D numbers in the show...

i've just read what i've written, it sounds like a load of crap. going to sleep now. selamat malam.




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martedì, giugno 08, 2004

:: shop till u drop dead ::

1200: with lina at lido had lunch, it was a weird lunch of fish n fries tt looked like they've been through a deformed grater. hmm... i saw the trailers for godsend, it's about a couple who loses their kid and decides to under an experiment to create an exact clone of their first child who died. turned out: the child has 'his mother's eyes, his father's smile and someone else's nightmares.'

1245: watched shrek it's sooooo fantastic! better than HP too! i don't mind watching a second time actually. they spoofed so many things like zorro, versace, hollywood, and it's just so cute! n i simply love tt cat! i wanna hug it and squeeze it... so cute so cute so cute! i wanna a cat just like that! (recently i had a really charming encounter with cats named topolina n cucciolo)

1415: shopped from isetan (shaw) to wisma to isetan (wisma) to taka to heeren...

1830: had dinner at marché, we ate a rosti plain, a rosti with sausage, a plate of stir-fried vegetables (sedaplah!), a root beer and a cola light and guess how much we paid... only 17 bux! lol... ok we were sooo lucky!

2000: continued our foray for clothes, clips and cool stuff. ended up at sinma and investigating the toilet there. it's probably the ONLY toilet in orchard that has got an air con unit in the toilet itself! lol... a bit kua zhang!

0900: i bought a pair of hideous shoes, bronze color, buckle, covered front with some designs, back is exposed. a bit like slip on shoes. anyway, it was just 9bux n i think it's v comfy n can cover me for travel in hk. (cuz it's embarrassing to reveal this but i dun own a single pair of walkable covered shoes. they either fell apart or grew too small for me)

0945: end of day, my legs feel like i've been at the hospital all day.

shrek 2 is great! go watch! go go go!!!!!

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giovedì, giugno 03, 2004

:: one day pre-vacation ::

OSCEs were disgusting. no other word but disgusting, i'm glad i didn't study for it, cuz it wouldn't have made much of a difference. but it was fun seeing the rest again. we looked pretty comical today, there were pple in full blown PDP attire (ie. long sleeved shirts, pants, leather shoes...) and pple in full blown lecture attire (ie. anything as slack as just ANY t-shirt, baggy pants and some floppies). joshua's reference to 'normal lecture attire' is really interesting, cuz it's actually pretty subjective.

anyway after that i pia down to a sistic outlet cuz i needed to purchase tix for la m'usica del cuerpo BUT... the 32 bux tix left (just two left in fact) were in the LAST row and right at the END, so i asked for 42. but there was only ONE left. GRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i'm soooooo disappointed! :( wanna cry manz... i was so looking forward to that event!

haiz... so i went on shopping 'spree' not tt i spent a lot, anyway i got one purplish-blue vertical striped top and one white lacy lacy top. :) went to explore spotlight with sanzhu too. uah found so many things there! finally settled on a three-piece set of embroidery for nico's parents, guess i'll be spending some quality time with needles and threads these days. :) looks v nice, maybe my mother will like one too...

sianz, tmr have to go back to TTSH at 1230 for a debriefing then got to pia down to NUS for another debriefint cum briefing, then will pia to orchard to wait for those who are taking their tests at TTSH in the afternoon, then CG dinner! yoohooooooo!

Dopey @ 10:18 PM | 0 comments

mercoledì, giugno 02, 2004

:: ME ::

Stubborn and hard-hearted. Ambitious and serious. Loves to teach and be
taught. Always looking at people's flaws and weaknesses. Likes to
criticize. Hardworking and productive. Smart, neat and organized. Sensitive
and has deep thoughts. Knows how to make others happy. Quiet unless excited
or tensed. Rather reserved. Highly attentive. Resistant to illnesses but
prone to colds. Romantic but has difficulties expressing love. Loves
children. Loyal. Has great social abilities yet easily jealous. Very
Stubborn and money cautious.

Excerpted from an analysis of people's birthdates, done by an icq pal. thanks!

what i think: i'm def stubborn, v v stubborn, like a mule. i can be hard-hearted at times too, but mostly i'm only hard-hearted after i realise that i've been too soft-hearted with someone. Rgding teaching, yup that's right! I don't really like to look at pple's flaws n weaknesses, i prefer to see their strong points so i can emulate. i'm definitely NOT neat though i'm v organised. As for quiet unless... hmmm nico thinks i'm quite noisy sometimes. so... it's subjective, but i think i'm getting noisier these days. i'm usually highly attentive except when i'm in a lecture, i just keel over and zzz... yeah definitely loyal. i dun get jealous easily. no point in that, it's a nasty sourish kind of feeling. it's better to admire pple and try to learn from them so that i can also achieve what they have. money cautious.. hmmm no i'm not very money cautious. i have a tendency to spend on something which i know that one of my friends really likes, i don't mind, it's good to share ur 'fortune' (tt's if i actually have one) with friends. sometimes i spurge a little after an extremely stressful, intense period (eg. school, or just bad mood) but i dun overdo it.

Dopey @ 2:01 PM | 0 comments

:: COINCIDENCES ::

coincidence: bumped into alvin at ttsh today, he was there for his meningococcal jab cuz he's gonna go cornell to study. interestingly, i just felt a jolt of familiarity when i saw the back of his characteristically-shaped head. heh heh...

coincidence: bumped (or rather dt) saw me at dinner today! i have the feeling she thought i was psycho to be reading right after a test. shocking cuz
1. it's right AFTER a test, and i'm supposed to be like FREE fr tests, cuz osce's just crappy.
2. i was reading on the arterial system in browse with all those pics of ischemic feet, necrotic ulcers, gangrene... DURING dinner.
3. because i was reading a textbook. period.
anyway, she's suggesting that we all folks meet up soon, but that zhu has to go to taiwan and come back on her mum's bday, just shortly before i start sch again. sheesh... dt's working somewhere at novena, i think.

coincidence: today my junior finally returned me my stuff! anyway, it was two super heavy bags of books. so... (u know i had to lug them all ard ttsh today?!?!) anyway i was thinking can get my dad to pick me up if the time's right. like 10pm since i'm supposed to do night duty today. but in the end i skived off duty (no one else stayed) and i was just too bushed after the test, so just went to novena for dinner. and guess what, i just called my dad to see if he was in the vicinty and so qiao he was on his way out, just nice to pick me up in 15min! cool right? boy was i lucky!

Dopey @ 12:03 AM | 0 comments

martedì, giugno 01, 2004

:: tests galore ::

just finished both medicine n surgery postings tests, and there's still one more, the OSCEs, seriously i think they are quite UNNECESSARY, where better to pick up procedural skills than in the hospital itself? working on dummies really isn't going to work. In medicine it's 'see one, do one, teach one' (not on dummies) anyway, i shall rest tonight and hopefully cook up some evil with lulu!!!

hehe...
for medicine long case i saw a patient with a prosthetic valve (mitral) and sciatica, for the short case, i was quite thrilled because i mangaged to successfully 'diagnose' a case of pneumonia and consolidation (that was the first time i ever heard real creps!)
surgery was a totally different thing, for one, the surgeon wasn't hovering at the end of the bed listening to me talk to the patient or watching me do the physical examination. rao was real cool... hahaha though late for 1.5hrs. he's got really beautiful eyes. :) hmmmm ok he grilled me a lot abt management and stuff... (though we've explicitly told him thrice that we're not expected to know that) anyway, i did some reading up in between. so wasn't massacred ;) heh heh... it was a case of small bowel obstruction secondary to appendicitis. the problem abt an abdo pain case is that there are SO many differentials and i had to tell him how i would exclude each one of them.... argh... so many questions, i got blur sometimes too.

now just one more osce left. dunno how i'll study for it, tt's if i do. hmm maybe i'll go enjoy the pics inside browse once more. tataaa!

Dopey @ 10:34 PM | 0 comments

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