-bitching blabbers-

Deal or No Deal

2008-01-20T21:28:00.000+08:00

since a couple of years back, all the reality shows, free money shows like who wants to be a millionaire etc started being popular. i suppose the most recent such show is "deal or no deal". guess everyone has somehow, sometime watched an episode of it somewhere. i've watched one or 2 episodes. it's not too bad actualli, with all the pretty babes looking pretty beside their breifcases waiting for their number to b called. i had wanted to watch the episodes with the hunks when i saw the ad on tv. but somehw they werent appealing enuff for me to rem when it is showing exactly, n go home to watch them. dere's a part i find kinda silly tho, the part where the banker calls the host to strike a deal with the player. isnt it quite redundant? they can simply jus make the offer appear on the screen or sth. but they had to make it drama n hav the banker call the host n let the host create some suspense. lol

oh anywae.. sorry for digressing. better move on to the topic proper b4 u start wondering wat i m doing, commenting on a variety show tt has been showing for ages oredi. oh well the thing is, i read "kennysia.com" quite frequently, like the way he blogs. quite entertaining. so happens tt he managed to get on the deal or no deal in KL. n... u'll probably laugh ur head off after u watch his episode, or feel damn sad for him.. so when u've time, trust meiying n watch it okie? if the videos below dun work, u can search for "kennysia deal or no deal" on youtube. kennysia himself posted the videos. hehe

New Year Countdown~

2008-01-01T23:05:00.000+08:00

New Year Countdown~

yea i noe i said in my prev entry tt i dun hav anymore parties for the year 2007. but hey.. it's last min tt this gathering came true okie? so happens tt squatter mz has a chalet with her frens , and her fren's frens etc... n decided to invite us for a new yr's eve bbq. n squatters eli, yu and i last min can make it! yeah~ we did manage to have a celeb for 2007 somehow, tho we missed our annual xmas celeb. pity squatter ja9 n xy wasnt ard tho.

so the bbq turned out to be a very big bbq.. tink 30+ ppl if i din rem wrongly. but everyone din noe everyone.. cos as i recall, there were like 3-4 cliques of frens dere, cliques of frens of the 6 hosts. okie i noe i'm not making this clear. but who cares. haha.

for those who duno.. i stay in the northwest. had a long way to travel to go pasir ris yea? take mrt take until almost wanna puke.. literally. haha. met up with eli n went 1st.. cos ah yu came fr work so was late.. haven been to chalets for a while.. so pardon me while i say this.

i cannot believe it tt i hav to pay to go into a chalet for bbq!!!!!!!!!!!

n den the bbq pits for the same block are all parked in the same area, as opposed to last time where u hav ur own pit in front of ur own chalet. the new arrangement is not very good u noe.. so smoky.. n no privacy. boo.

oh.. on new yr's eve's eve, had a short msn conversation with dwarf minmin n realised tt she was gonna hav a bbq at pasir ris too. but it was a pleasant coincidence tt she's at the same block, at the neighbouring bbq pit. haha. but min was bad k... b4 she left i was like "hey let's take a photo tog". den she said "we hav so many photos tog le wat".. or sth to tt effect. meanie min.

but anywae i had a nice time chatting with my dear eli, mz and ah yu. n also with kailee, audrey. not so much of serene tho, cos she was busy entertaining elisa n bf. oh tho u all may not c this, thks to kailee and audrey for bbq-ing food for me to eat until it's like a buffet! my plate was always full.. input onto the plate was faster den output.. until i decide to throw my plate to ah yu. n den it became her turn to input faster den output. lol. i oso enjoyed jus sitting dere n poking a lot of marshmellow on the sticks for audrey n kailee to bbq while i wait patiently for my bbq-ed marshmellow. oso enjoyed laughing at eli when she kept wanting to offer the sweet potato reserved for ah jack to others.. oso enjoyed looking at the preparation of the huge bento for ah jack by kailee n audrey when he called mz to say he's hungry on his way down. oso enjoyed looking at ah jack's expression when he saw the huge bento prepared for him. oh ah jack said my hairstyle is the jolin cai yi lin's hairstyle. which i insisted on interpreting as he said i look like jolin . n afterwhich he insisted tt i say he lost weight. den i oso enjoyed the calm.. peaceful.. anticlimax countdown we did by jus switching on the tv n looking at chn5's countdown. haha.. n oso enjoyed the ride home with eli n ah yu on my dad's lorry.

all in all, i'm jus glad i had something to do on new year's eve. it's nice, tho it realli seemed boring n it's not even my chalet. haha. but yeah! may the new year 2008 be a great year for all, and an even better year den the past years!! the best has yet to come~

oh jus realised i haven gotten any photographs from anyone. so this will b a photo-less entry. hehe. but i simply wanna blog on 1st day of 2008 yah?

An exciting adventure.. b4 i grow even older to do such things..

2007-12-30T23:44:00.000+08:00

An exciting adventure.. b4 i grow even older to do such things..

shall blog this b4 2007 ends. the most exciting thing i've done in 2007, n the first time i'm doing such things.. is a theme-based party. It came one fine evening when minmin, ah li, lala and meimei were having dinner.. n was planning for a xmas party. den minmin suggested tt we hav a theme-based party this yr. n it was decided tt we shall hav a PJs party~

hmmm PJs party nothing much rite.. jus go someone's hse.. change n take some photos. but nahz.. ah li decided tt she wanna sing ktv.. so ermm yes. we wore PJs with xmas hats to chinatown. event date was Hari Raya Haiji eve.. 21 Dec 07. yes.. we din even do this on xmas eve.. but did it on harirayahaji eve instd.. so it was totally...

anywae dawndawn n minmin did a very good update of the event. if i blog i'll probably say the same things.. so i shall jus paste their links here.. u all jus click n read k? min n la.. i still dun hav the photos.. can u all send to me someday?

http://dawndawnlovesdawndawn.blogspot.com/2007/12/kena-scolding-le.html
http://saltypeppermint.livejournal.com/16224.html#cutid1

in previous yrs, altho i'm not a very very festive person who goes for countdowns for all occasions, or hav very happening frens who'll always jio me for such countdowns, but i'll normally hav at least 1 xmas gathering with my Squatters, n mayb 1 with my Dwarves, n perhaps some new yr party with Selines, or cn5-ers, or another new yr party with squatters and dwarves.. this yr? cos of unforeseen circumstances, 1 xmas gathering got cancelled, 1 new yr gathering i din go for of bad mood. so oni left 1xmas gathering. which is the PJs party. hehee. how come this yr so sad ah.. is it cos we're old le.. dun do such stuff anymore? or cos everyone is adapting to their new phase of lifes so busier.. n the new frens made are not close enuff to hav such countdown parties? i duno.. but it's okie i guess. i'm not a very happening person either. jus sometimes, esp at the eves of public hols, when i feel abit sad tt i'm so not happening.. lol

so i tink the 2 peaks of my life is probably at sec sch, where life was realli 无忧无虑.. n i joined a happening cca, met a bunch of happening Squatters n 出生入死 with them.. n den had a bunch of sinful accomplices the Dwarves. yes we still talk abt how we always had our own main courses during recess, followed by slices of pizzas n garlic bread!! it's realli cos of the dwarves tt i'm in this state today..

the 2nd peak of my life probably happened during uni.. where i made the right choice of joining FWC to meet frens.. n i did meet the Selines.. where we're still keeping in contact till now. even when most other ogs died down.. n den we went tog to be councillors for the nex FWC. i realli enjoyed tt period of time.. the bonding, the regular outings, the fake flirtings, the mahjong sessions, the fright night!!! left a lot of fond memories.. n of cos my cn5-ers.. but with them is more of having a lot of fun while doing projs n stuff.. all my nus exciting stuff shld hav been covered in my entry abt nus graduation le

i'm not a good writer.. so i prob din make my life sound as exciting to you as it had been to me.. i'm grateful for my life so far.. nonetheless, i still hav a few wishes tt will make my life complete. hope 2008 will be a better yr.. HAPPY NEW YEAR MY DEAR FRENS!!!

PenangKL trip.. cont'd

2007-12-19T15:51:00.000+08:00

PenangKL trip.. cont'd
Day Three - KLMorning bus from Penang to KL.. tt's boss in the booth settling the details..

and the rest of us nuah-ing.. chk out xiaoyou's funny poses again!!!

The bus terminal...

After waiting for sometime.. we decided to do some entertainment.. n got caught in the act..

On the coach to KL... when we're not slping.

Finally reached KL! lunchie...

As we only reached KL abt 2plus... den ate till abt 3 plus.. n den got free tix to go the Eye on Malaysia.. meiying n jz were oni given 1 hour.. yes 1 hour ONLY to shop in the shopping centres...

my shop at Sungei Wang plaza!!!~

n den we went Berjaya Times Square.. to see the indoor theme park

put this photo in... to rem tt we went on this hols during the deepavali holiday break. =D

big mac?? hehe.

dun u tink this shot is very well-taken? so artistic shot of a shopping centre.

after the shopping centres late le.. so we went to the Eye on Malaysia loh~

we din hav time to visit the KL Twin towers.. so took a shot with it as backgrd.. hehe

the 2 photos above are connected.. lemme tell u the story.. while photo 1 was being taken, OK said "i suddenly rem u telling me tt take photos mus try to get ur face more behind den the others, den face will b smaller" upon saying tt, i moved bac one step.. n OK simply just leaned back.. lol... apparently a 2nd shot was decided to be taken.. n this time round KQ oso heard the comments.. so u c all of us fighting to lean back more to hav small faces in the photo!!!

anywae the area surrounding Eye on Malaysia has very nice scenery.. somemore we went ard sunset time.. so took a lot of photos..

we decided to walk one round n wait till abt sun setting time den get onto the Eye on Malaysia to see nice view.. but along the way... i saw the swing n i couldn't resist going to play... n den everyone took their turns... lol..

n den it became a playground session..........

finally decided to walk back to the Eye on Malaysia...

the twin towers look alot prettier at night when it's lighted!!! oso can c the KL tower at the RHS of the photo..

finally Q-ing up for the ride.. took photos of the ferris wheel...

took photos b4 entering the ferris wheel..

took photos after entering the cabin...

take scenery..

take ppl..

we took so many photos on the ride cos they let us go for.. at least 4 rounds i tink.. hehe

n den we went to Petaling St.. aka Chee Cheong Kai.. dinner 1st!!! very nice.. n last but not least, after finishing shopping at Petaling st.. we went Red Box for late night KTV.. (i'm now a Red Box member.. can ask me along if wanna sing nex time. got discount. )

Day Four - Go home day...

As you all can see, all thks to our official photographer JZ, even tho we din go anywhere to see or do anything on the last day.. we still took a lot of photos!!! hahaha.. all thks to her we've had a trip well documented.. n this marks the end of the trip. thks frens for reading!

PenangKL Trip 6-10 nov 07

2007-12-18T11:10:00.000+08:00

PenangKL Trip 6-10 nov 07

hmmm as promised, i shall update abt my trip. n since i'm damn free in office now, i shall pick a few photos of the trip n talk abt the trip.. instd of wat i normally do, jus uploading all the photos n make some comments. hahaha. if u all wanna c all the photos tho, pls feedback in the comments. (excuse to let u all make comments to my blog so tt i feel shuang.. )

okie.. i shall intro the ppl on the trip. shall oni say the nicknames n a description of them.. u all figure out who's who.. hehe.

Guys
1) xiao peng aka kq aka boss - wear specs, tallest in the grp
2) Mr. OK - wear specs, tanned
3) xiao you - the last guy w/o specs loh..

n together.. xiao peng and xiao you becomes xiao peng you.

Gers
1) me - if u duno who i m u're at the wrong webby stranger.
2) jz - the other one

Day Zero - Bus Ride

Take night coach to Penang.. 12 hour journey i tink.. zzZZzZZZZzzZ

Day One - Penang

Rented a car..

Went to Kek Lok Si Temple

the 诗情画意 shot..

Went to Air Itam dam.. (for info.. water in malay = air)

Went to Penang Hill....

hmmm too many scenery shots.. a funny one nex~

decided to walk to the Canopy Walk.. which says it's 1600m away... along the way.. spotted a nice hse!!!

pretty hor? =D den we continue walking.... n walking.. den realise tt the 1600m is total bullshit.. according to our estimation.. it is at least 3km... worse thing is.. the canopy walk is oni a 2min walk.. for all the effort n 3km walk to it.. n need to pay money somemore.. n den after walk finish the 2min le.. still hav to walk bac the same 3km route to get out!!!! so we gave up n jus took a photo with it for remembrance.. it was a painful decision.. n a painful journey..

Finally reached the canopy walk!!

Went to Toy Museum...

The 2 "colourful" guys wanna take photo with ger...

The male toilet with weird urinals...

This is damn cute.. it is apparently called Mr Potato, n we spotted it wearing diff suits in the toy museum.. like the ones u see below.. and got spiderman oso. but in my opinion.. it looks like humpty dumpty in those suits.

Finally.. back to hotel for the free buffet dinner @ revolving restaurant...

Tired.. at the end of the day...

Day Two - Penang

One more shot with the car.. b4 we return it....

OK n xiaoyou went to return car.. while kq, jz n i went Lorong Kulit flea mkt.. which is realli a flea mkt.. nothing interesting to buy.. n can finish walking it within half an hr.. hehe

After returning the car n b4 meeting us, OK n xiaoyou went to Snake Temple (apparently with no more snakes oredi...)

N all of us converged at Queensbay Mall, a new shopping centre~

After tt we went to Khoo Kongsi Clan

Another comical shot from our xiaoyou~

After tt, we kinda searched HIGH & LOW.. simply cos we wanna eat Penang Laksa in Penang.. but we searched for so long n couldnt find we nearly wanted to giv up.. n come home telling ppl "we couldnt find penang laksa in penang!!!" but of cos with our persistence, we managed to find it!!! i realli like the thick beehoon.. very nice n Q.

We oso had the all famous chendol.. quite nice

Komtar.. the tallest building in Penang..

We then went to the cinema to buy tix for our midnight show. hehe.. stardust!!! ermm budden we took photos with the bee movie poster instd.. lol

Found a Singapore hotel in Penang... n it's air-conditioned somemore.. wOW

hehe c the choc boutique below? we saw it on the penang map n decided to go take a look.. tot it's some museum with choc sculptures or wat.. but upon entering.. alas. it's those cheat tourists to buy expensive chocs shop. i was like "how come we nvr go on tour package, go free n easy.. but stupidly come into this kinda shop to let ppl chop our carrot heads?" lol...

with all our shou1 huo4 for the day.. all the nutmeg belachan shopping etc...

went bac to the hotel to rest awhile before setting off for dinner n movie~

We travelled by foot from hotel to dinner place to cinema.. so along the way, we found a holland v lookalike place tt we din plan to go.. called New World Town or watever.. something lidat. hehe.. oni stopped to take some photos tho..

n den we came to where we're supposed to visit on the way.. heritage shophses! it's abit of a disapppointment cos i tot since it's on the map, it'll have some gift shops or wateverr for me to shop. but end up it's realli jus the architecture they're showcasing. it's jus normal food stalls. budden it's quite nice la hehe... but nonetheless, since we still had time, we decided to stop for a dessert b4 we leave for our midnight show..

okie.. midnight movie marks the end of the day... n the end of penang.. look out for my update on the rest of the trip! ie KL. hahaha...

Thank you dear frens who read my blog~

2007-11-27T22:21:00.000+08:00

i'm flattered. after blog inactivity for almost 2 mths, i merely blogged 1 day n so many ppl read the entries le.. so touched. i had wanted to add the following photos to my previous entries de.. but since u all hav read it oredi, create a new entry ba.. let u all c some photos of my office desk 1st.. how i personalise it.

Vertical Challenge 2007

2007-11-27T00:07:00.000+08:00

Vertical Challenge 2007

started out to be a junk mail.. wat charity event.. wat climb the 27 flights of stairs of my office building..

subsequently my siao-onz colleague-frens start to ask if wanna join. dere's the indiv race, which is an endurance race, and the relay race, which is a speed race. but cos a team oni needs 4 ppl, managed to get outta joining the competition. den tot mayb can donate to their team la.. proceeds will go to president challenge. they call themselves Team SunRise.
this is the Sunrise team. quite apt hor.. behind them still got some sunlight.

den realised one of my colleague-frens kenna arrowed to take part in the competition as a department team, with the dept's director. laughed abit at how kelian she is.. gotta take part with director.. n den there's best-dressed team award. so this dept team dressed up abit. but as i duno if my colleague-fren minds, i shall not offer any pic here.

den na li zhi dao!!! last min my dept decide to form a team to join too.. n i was asked. bu hao yi si reject, i accepted. n i became like my colleague-fren above, who has to b in the same team as my director. so much for laughin at ppl.. wahhaa..

but it turned out to b quite fun. a potentially blue monday became a half-day due to the event, n quite happy to b able to meet up with the whole colleague-fren clique cos some of them are working at sites de.. so dun always meet up.

n standing in a crowd of excited ppl ready to climb stairs, even tho it's standing with my dept colleagues n director, turned out to b quite fun too. due to the best-dressed team award, some grps turned up in ridiculous costumes.. tt is quite funny too.

standing at the 8F waiting for my 1st runner to reach me, and cheering for all the ppl whom i dun even noe who passes me, is quite fun too. climbing the 6 flights of stairs itself, tho abit cannot make it after 5 flrs.. is quite fun too.

sitting on the top flr waiting for the results to be announced.. n doing nothing but sitting dere n taking photos.. is quite fun too. when results are announced, bcos i noe some of the winners, cheering for them is fun too. even tho i'm not very attached to my coy yet, but whenever a team frm my coy wins the other 2 coys, it's still fun to cheer.

okie shall end off with a group photo, and a photo of my number tag. meiying has decided to take advantage of the time i'm with this coy, and make full use of all the welfare n benefits n activities.

oh by the way chk out my new hairstyle! shall attach one more photo for better viewing..

hahaha like not much better hor.

Update about Mei Ying's work life

2007-11-27T00:02:00.000+08:00

yeah i'm sorry everyone. haven been updating for almost 2 months now. hehe. gotten more n more nuah ever since started working. now i seldom shop, seldom youtube, seldom watch dvds, seldom watch tv, seldom read storybooks.. now.. i wonder wat i've been doing for past 2 months.

anywae for all who duno, meiying's worklife has become better since sometime in end of august. cos due to the hidden agenda of my coy, we hav a lot of networking events. so during one networking event for newbies in end aug, and an orientation prog for newbies in end sept, i've gotten to noe a group of newbies from diff depts, n since den it has been somewhat like having been thru FWC and den start to hav outings. n meiying has since had lunch partners.

i agree with m***hen (for privacy of my fren i've *** some of the letters of her name), that in a job, the colleague culture is actualli sorta more impt den the work itself. n i'm not particularly on very good terms with my colleagues in my dept. somehow i cannot get myself to go beyond the colleague relationship into frenship knowing tt we've to work together in someway or another. therefore i'm somehow glad tt my coy has this hidden agenda n i can get to noe a clique of colleagues in other depts, where we dun hav common jobscope, and most imptly, they're ard my age, and not all married with kids like those in my dept.

hehe so for every lovely fren who hav been concerned abt meiying's well being, i'm sorry for not updating earlier. n u can b assured tt meiying has been leading a better life. the clique of colleague-frens is abit siao onz de.. plus the hidden agenda of my coy, we hav damn a lot of weird weird activities like Active Day (go bedok reservoir exercise), recreation club member's night (where hav lucky draw n a number game similar to bingo called tombola), family day.. etc etc.. so meiying has been playing quite a bit.

oh n due to the siao-onz-ness of the colleague-frens, meiying just went on a penang-KL trip with them during the deepavali holidays. but the photos are in my office laptop, so i shall blog abt it another day k? when i finally feel non-nuah enuff to transfer the photos over to my pc, and hav the mood to blog again. happy waiting!!!

Act high class... Alliance Francaise de Singapour Theatre

2007-10-08T22:27:00.000+08:00

duno if it's cos i once took french (which of cos i've forgotten almost 95% of wat i learnt), or cos i simply like french stuff, i've always been quite interested in french foreign films.. (tho altho i like, i realli nvr bother to go hunt for the books/movies to read/watch)...

ok.. so much for fei hua intro. the idea is, a week b4 my bdae, i suddenly had this decision to chong3 chong3 myself n treat myself to a sistic musical/play. so i started surfing the sistic webby. but there is no interesting thing except for chitty chitty bang bang, which will oni start in nov. but i wanna watch in oct. haha. so i continue surfing the webby, and coincidentally it's now the Singapore French Film Festival. n i decided to settle for a french musical movie instd. yuan lai there is this place called the Alliance Francaise de Singapour Theatre, where they screen french movies every mth!!

so i jio-ed my beloved movie partner squadmte ELI! to go for the movie. The movie we watched is called "Les parapluies de Cherbourg", which translates to "The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg". It's a sad love story, with a good ending despite the sadness of the love story. both eli n i are pleased with the ending.

I enjoyed the show alot.. cos 1) it's a musical, the songs are not bad. 2) the storyline altho sad, has a good ending. 3) the female leads have VERY pretty eyes, n they look like barbie dolls. 4) the show hav some very cliche n purposely romantic actions, like when they kiss they hav to spin. not the camera spin, but the couple spin. 5) duno if it's an old film (the setting is in the 50s, 60s), there are some very funny lousy filming skills like the abrupt changing of scenes, and got some scene where the couple was walking a bicycle and supposed to be strolling, but u can c damn obviously that they're on a trolley/platform and they were being pulled along. so they machiam like ghosts floating lidat. 6) i feel good being able to understd some simple french terms like "bonjour, bonsoir, madame, madamoiselle, monsieur, oui, non" etc. (pardon me if i spelled wrongly. i din chk my french dictionary. ) 7) i feel classy watching a foreign film in a non-conventional cinema. 8) i watched the show with Eli, who appreciates the show as much as me.

2 photos of the sistic tix.. with the eiffel tower key chain lala got for me from paris as backdrop. how apt. but cos my camera is overseas with my parents, gotta take using my hp. n the resolution sux.

Dentist Encounter

2007-09-27T01:38:00.000+08:00

me: " hi can u help me chk if any of my teeth is spoilt n need filling? "
dentist: " your wisdom teeth are very far behind. "
me: " ermmm... so wat does it mean? "
dentist: " very hard to clean."

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Other quizzes...

2007-09-22T22:13:00.000+08:00

You are 27% obsessive.
You are a little bit obsessive. You might go a little wacky when your fave band comes to town but otherwise you are cool, calm and collected.

'How Obsessive Are You?' at QuizGalaxy.com


	Twenty-Five Years: If you got away with murder, it would be a fluke because you'd have left many clues. You wouldn't be able to make a plea bargain either, as there would be such a strong case against you.


from QuizGalaxy.com

hahahaha... the murder quiz has some ridiculously funny MCQ ans tt i couldn't resist choosing..

2007-09-22T21:54:00.000+08:00

Title of this blog entry: Self Delusion...

mei ying --
[adjective]:

Similar to butter in texture and appearance

'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com

got this quiz url from dawndawn's blog. n this is the result. super unfair/unfrenly. she got "sexually stunning". n i got this kinda bullshit??!~? wtf!!! knowing this kinda thing is normally those random generator, i decided to try again..

"mei ying -- [noun]: A person who makes a living suing celebrities"

huh... try again...

"mei ying -- [noun]: A poltergeist sent back in time to change the course of history forever"

wth is a poltergeist.......

"mei ying -- [noun]: A hard-core grave robber"
"mei ying -- [noun]: A person who laughs at anything (even this entry)"
"mei ying -- [noun]: A person with a sixth sense for detecting the presence of goblins"
"mei ying -- [adjective]: Extremely flatulent"
"mei ying -- [adjective]: Tastes like fried chicken"
"mei ying -- [noun]: A person who enjoys the smell of rotten eggs"
"mei ying -- [adjective]: Having the texture of congealed cheese"
"mei ying -- [noun]: A person of questionable sanity who starts their own cult"

there is either some serious problem with this quiz.. or my parents apparently din gimme a good name. i noe i like to eat fried chicken.. but din noe eating too much of it will make me taste like fried ckn.. or for tt matter, feel like congealed cheese.. n enjoy the smell of rotten eggs? worse still... my character.. i din noe i had it in me to steal graves, or start a cult!!!! i realli learnt alot abt myself hor hahahaha. now.. who wanna join my cult????

BUT!!! refusing to give up, i decided to vary my name abit...

meiying --
[adjective]:

Sexually stunning

'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com

there you go!!! i feel better now.

sick twice in a week.. :(

2007-09-16T20:43:00.000+08:00

haven blogged for ages.. this may jus become my tagline for the beginning of my every blog entry. this week meiying is a poor meiying.. took mc 2 days in a week. missed a dvd night in with my squatters, a mahjong session with my regular kakis (which i shall call the taitai-gang from now onwards), and the snowskin mooncake i've been craving for especially made for us by taitai!!!!!

took the 1st mc on tues. or is it mon. watever it is, went to work. cough cough sniff sniff cold cold. actualli well enuff to continue working. but tinking of the 14 days mc i hav left till the end of the yr, and the money i can claim for seeing doc (tho i still hav to pay 15% of the med bill), and the serious mindset of wanting to sleep, and a little bit of headache, i decided to take the rest of the day off to c doc. left at 10plus am.

mus b retribution for faking to be more sick den i m.. my dad n mum got diarrhoea while i was sick with cough sore throat n cold. den they recovered, dad went genting on thurs. so decided to slp with my mum on thurs. den friday morn i oredi can feel the grumbling of my stomach. wonder if the bacteria was still lingering ard my parents' room or i had overnight food the day b4. but nonetheless, i still went to work. cos got health screening on friday. cannot waste money.

it was a torture. felt weak in my legs, weak in my stomach, feel like puking. somemore din hav breakfast cos mus fast for the health screening. wanted to get the health screening over n done with early so tt can eat sth mayb ease the sick feeling. it was den tt i realised tt mus take Q number de!!! so i went down to take my Q number of... 106. n they were oni calling 54.

the ger told me to come bac 15min-half hour ltr.. so i went up.. chked some email. argh.. big boss ask me to draft email for big big boss. sibei sian.. so went down to c if my no. has reached. huh oni 67. but feeling too sian to work, i jus sat n waited... feeling sick... for ages... finally my turn.... to REGISTER.

haha but after registering den can go thru the health screening routine liao. take eyesight, height, weight (grrr...), blood pressure. all done quite smoothly. it's gonna b over soon. walk to nex station, take blood. ARGH so many ppl!!!! ok nm sit down n wait. it's totally not organised.. no Q no nothing. jus pounce on the nurse when he/she's free. but of cos mus try to let the ppl who came b4 u go 1st lah.. it's ur own courtesy. so i waited until it's sorta my turn den i pounced on a male nurse. it was a damn long wait...

sibei suay... i tink i kenna an amateur one. he pat pat my hand. look for very long.. den prepare to poke needle in. in my 22.5 yrs of life, everytime ppl wanna poke needle into me, i'll look at them do it. but tt day.. i was feeling too sick to witness the traumatising scene. so i looked away, closed my eyes n waited for it to happen. i felt the slight pain, den the pain intensified, which i assume means the needle caught my vein. so i turned bac to see if the blood is flowing oredi. yes the blood is flowing oredi, but not into the syringe.. i saw a look on the nurse's face n he withdrew the needle.. n abit of blood flowed out.

he cannot find the vein. he asked the nurse beside if she wanted to take over. n said "it's invisible." how encouraging. plaster no. 1 stuck on my right hand.

i changed chairs. feeling abit sad tt it's not over yet. n continue feeling sick. somemore cannot wear jacket... cos need my hands exposed to take blood mah.. so waited for a while more for the female nurse to get prepared. the nurse is quite good, from observation the ppl who approach her go off quite fast. n 2 aunties were saying they're waiting for her. the nurse came, asked me to exercise my left hand. den after a while, taptap rub alcohol. den asked me if i'm feeling ok. i mus hav looked sick den. den i said actualli abit not feeling well. asked me if i wanna rest awhile 1st. BUT I WANNA GET IT OVER N DONE WITH!!! it was oredi 2 hours n it's still not done ok. cos of alot of stupid waiting. so i asked her to carry on. as like the 1st time, i looked away, closed my eyes, n waited.

pain.. more pain.. i can feel the needle moving ard. i noe got some prob le.. but i cant bear looking at the nurse twisting the needle ard to find the vein. so i continued to wait.. until she said "sorry.. realli cannot get the vein"

i was so disappointed tt it's not gonna b over soon tt i broke down. perhaps it was bcos i realli wasnt feeling well. BUT IT WAS DAMN PAISEH OKIE! IN MY 22.5 YRS OF LIFE, I NVR FLINCHED WHILE TAKING INJECTIONS B4, NOT TO MENTION CRY! super throw face. luckily no familiar faces in the room. den bcos i cried, i had to sit aside n wait until my emotions cool down abit b4 i can try taking blood again. plaster no. 2.. anywae. on my left hand. n more waiting.. kns. to save my leftover face, i tried to stop crying asap la.. at tt time i was tinking, if oni i had someone at my side to comfort me, yet i dun wan anyone i noe to c me crying. so ironic. hahaha.

i was feeling so bad/sick i wanted to quit the health screening altogether. when i finally calmed down, knowing tt i still hav a ECG test tt had to be done at the hosp another day, i tot of asknig the nurse if i can do the blood test on the same day oso. den the nex devastating news came.. ECG can be done on the same day.. equipment is in the office bldg.

WTH... more waiting!!! not over yet even after i get my bloody blood out!?!?! the nurse suggested i get my ECG done 1st... so i walked out, went to lau sai 1st, den eventually walked back to the bloody room... cos mus take blood 1st, pay.. get some voucher den can go for ECG. 3rd time.. same routine.. finally blood come out le. thank goodness. plaster no. 3 on my left hand. the nurse immed got a milo for me, saying tt i shld eat sth soon b4 i faint. oh of which the milo later came out in my vomit. hahaha

oops i accidentally talked so much on the health screening alone. got more to touch on. haha. fast forward till i got bac to my desk. realli cannot take it anymore. feel realli faint n weak n stomachache n pukey.. asked for the day off again!!! haha.. by tt time oredi 12... 2 days mc in a week. took cab home.. c doc..

c doc is another episode altogether. Episode 2. haha. c the same doc twice in a week. both times are sicknesses tt can be faked. if i'm the doc i'll oso tink i'm faking it. both times i had to ask for the mc myself. the 2nd time he "interrogated" me ok. asked me abt the 3 plasters on my hand. when he asked me i was wondering if he was wondering tt i'm doing drugs. haha.. den after tt he asked me how come diarrhoea still go work in the morn. haizz.. unfrenly doc he is.

den go home... wanna go to slp so tt can forget abt pain/suffering. tt's wat i normally do when i'm sick. but diarrhoea is so tong ku!!! lie down oso not comfy, whole body ache and suan.. move into all sorts of posns oso not comfy. so irritating. not to mention the stomachaches... but after not eating ANYTHING except for tt packet of milo which i vomitted out, i felt better at night. of cos, i slept the entire day n night. except for a few hours in the evening when i feel so uncomfy lying down (can u believe tt!~?! meiying feeling uncomfy lying down ), i sat up n worked on the email tt i promised my big boss b4 i left office.. n chatted n watched tv. hehe. den went bac to slp.

n so bcos of my diarrhoea, i had to cancel my dvd night in... when i had met my squatters for ages.. n den bcos i was afraid i'll feel uncomfy n puke in kel's hse, or stink his toilet up.. i decided to cancel mahjong too.. which resulted in the supposedly baked for me snowskin mooncake landing up in taitai's mum's stomach instd.. n resulted in no mahjong until one month ltr... ARGH

Blogthing quiz

2007-09-02T21:25:00.000+08:00

You Are a Yellow Crayon

Your world is colored with happy, warm, fun colors.
You have a thoughtful and wise way about you. Some people might even consider you a genius.
Charming and eloquent, you are able to get people to do things your way.
While you seem spontaneous and free wheeling, you are calculating to the extreme.

Your color wheel opposite is purple. You both are charismatic leaders, but purple people act like you have no depth.

What Color Crayon Are You?

Updates

2007-08-03T00:15:00.000+08:00

hmmm i noe i haven been blogging for a very long time. in fact, i haven even uploaded my convocation photos rite? hahaha.. but tt's bcos i haven finished collecting photos from everyone mah. but okie. i'll put them up soon

haha anywae yea i haven blogged since i started work. so today i shall tok abit abt my work. i've started work for slightly more den a month already. but unlike some frens i noe, i'm still relatively slack n bored everyday, cos my job is not those kinda where they can straight away throw me in kind. but i'm slowly being pulled into things la. so still ok.

well before today, i was sitting at a desk far from my supervisor, at the end of the dept. so between and in front of each desk, there are partitions. n bcos i m short, n i like to slouch, my sup always cannot see me from his desk, unless if he stands up of cos, which bcos he's a busy person, he does not do tt. so he always has to sms me in order to noe if i'm in office. hehe. n bcos he's busy, he often dun hav the time to walk over to my desk n ask me to do things. which is part of the reason y i m quite slack.

but oh well. good life has ended huh. bcos the guy sitting beside my sup has transferred outta the dept, my sup told me to move over and sit beside him. n now it's all convenient for him to talk to me, and ask me to do things, draft email, call ppl etc. n so i had a non-slack day today. not tt it's not good lah. at least i wun b bored until i duno wat things to surf online, and fall aslp. oh yah tt reminds me of the most impt disadv of sitting beside my sup. i cannot doze off at work anymore!!! which is bad. cos most of the time i doze off uncontrollably. die le....

hehe..yep tt's basically the highlight of this entry. working life is realli quite sian.. altho for the past month i've been practically doing nothing at work, i go home everyday feeling damn tired. n so i always go to sleep b4 1am. which is really not my normal behaviour. hahaha. n the worst thing is, altho i get to slp abt 6hours everyday, i still amazingly feel damn tired in the day and doze off at work. muahahahaha. i m realli very lihai of sleeping hor. lol.

oh i jus remembered something i tot is quite interesting and funny. this guy from another dept is supposed to go overseas this weekend. n so my sup told me to call him n tell him tt the flights are all confirmed and get him to standby, as long as approval is gotten den he can fly off le. so i called him, told him all i noe n m supposed to tell him abt, den he asked me sth abt claim procedure. which i duno, so i suggested he ask my sup. so after we said bye, my sup's fone rang. n i overheard him answering the Q. den awhile ltr, the person called me again, to tell me wat my sup told him abt the claim procedure. which is nice of him. cos i duno n he keeps me informed. but it was rather funny bcos i oredi noe the ans cos i'm sitting right beside my sup n can hear their conversation. so while the person was telling me the ans, i can oni say "orh.. orh... ok.." ok mayb it is not funny. but i tink it's funny.

ok tt's all i wanna say for now. if anyone has any Qs, shoot. i'll see if i wanna reply okie? hahaha..

Insect Attack!

2007-07-03T11:47:00.000+08:00

Insect Attack!!!

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeee.

haha. jus now got one insect wanna attack me.very scary leh. i suddenly saw this thing flying into my eyes! luckily i had my specs on. els i cannot imagine it touching my eye. eeuww.. den it flew to my laptop bag at the side of the table. it's disgusting. it's a thin thin insect with long long legs. i duno wth it is lah.. so i tried to chase it away by tapping the laptop bag. it barely moved okie! so irritating. den i took a piece of paper n touched it, hoping it'll go away. NO! it flew to land on my laptop!!! argh! after attempting a few times, i gave up. whenever i agitate it, it'll jus "walk" to another location on my laptop. so i went to sought the help of a colleague. haha.. den he came with 2 tissue paper.. but he was too slow for the insect. it flew away. wah lau it betta not come bac okie!! so scary. :( n the worse thing is, i dun even noe how come will hav insect!! my desk is in the middle of the office, on the 22nd floor leh! it took the lift up ah? kns

Holidays has ended.

2007-06-24T22:09:00.001+08:00

My last long hols b4 i reach retirement has come to an end. i'm starting work tml. i tot i shld post an entry to commemorate it. haha. lemme c, how long is this last hols? i ended my exams late april. 2 months only!!! gosh. but it felt long enuff. had a nice grad trip (thk god it suceeded), a nice GSS (albeit going bankrupt), and nua until i m getting abit bored le. but in this last week of hols, i suddenly feel tt i dun hav enuff time to nua!!! talk abt human nature being insatiable. i've a very serious problem of tt. hahaha. 1st i complain tt i cannot find a job. which i eventually n finally found one. den i complain i din get a well-paying job. which i eventually oso got a pay increase. den i feel abit upset tt my job is not related to chem engin (while still abit upset tt my pay is not AS high as others) hahaha.. i m realli very serious in the insatiable human nature part. :P but i keep on trying to tell myself, tt i'm oredi lucky i managed to find a job, and i managed to get a pay rise, and my jobscope, tho unrelated to chem engin, is realli a pretty good job. or so from the jobscope it seems. n my chem engin foundation is realli not so strong anywae. it's fate tt despite my stubborn quest for an engin job, i managed to get myself something els? haha. so as my cousin says, "welome it with an open heart~"

okie for the benefit of those who duno. but i tink i oredi told everyone. lemme reiterate the story of how things screwed up n i manage to get the job i'm gonna start on tml. originally accepted a project engineer posn at XX dept. 2 weeks b4 the job starts, HR called and said tt XX dept dun need chem engr, they wan ppl with civil backgrd. i.e. they dunch wan me. den HR asked if i'm ok with posting me to other depts. den offered me 3 depts. but they are all not engring posn. tt's a dilemma. i wan engring!! but i plucked up the courage to ask if hav the govt pay rise. hav wor.. n since i dun hav any other job offers, i said ok loh. c wat i can get. den the nex day, HR called me again. asked me if XX dept wanna consider me, will i put tt in priority? i said ok. later tt afternoon, HR sms-ed me "after review, since u're keen on proj mgmt, u'll b back in XX dept". so dere. but the NEX day, HR called me again. "sincere apologies.. internal mistaken u for someone with proj mgmt exp.. meet YY dept director?" i.e. XX dept STILL dun wan me. haha.. n meet YY director c if he wan me loh. YY dept is my 1st choice outta the 3 choices HR gave me lah.. so anywae i went to meet the director and i got the job.

so for those who're interested, my job involves a lot of networking, meeting ppl, presentations, writing rpts, and flying. sounds good rite? i hope so. hope i'll enjoy my new job. tho i very dun hav xin li zun bei tt i'll end up with this kinda job. haha. but i can wear nice nice, work in an office, lead an you xiu life. so good luck to me! goodbye to my holidays!

Welcome back eli!

2007-06-14T00:07:00.000+08:00

a year ago in 2006.. send eli to sydney
a year later.. now!! she's back!
welcome back eli! :)

Which Foreign Guy Shld I Date?

2007-06-11T00:42:00.000+08:00

You Should Date A Japanese Guy!

You're an interesting blend of traditonal and modern
And a Japanese guy is likely to be on your wavelength
Maybe you'll show your love by dying your hair the same color
Or get married in a traditional white kimono!

Which Foreign Guy Should You Date?

got this from dawndawn's blog. she said she wanted to date a jap instd of australian. well i did the test and i can date a jap!~ budden from all the jap serials i watch, jap guys are all MCPs. and they treat their wives like shit. or like maids. eeuw.. i dun wan!

You Are Incredibly Logical

Move over Spock - you're the new master of logic

You think rationally, clearly, and quickly.

A seasoned problem solver, your mind is like a computer!

How Logical Are You?

Grad trip photos..

2007-06-09T00:20:00.000+08:00

dear boys n gers (not ladies n gentlemen cos mus try to make ourselves sound younger. hiakz)

my grad trip photos are up @ meiyingg.multiply.com

Further updates

2007-06-05T03:18:00.000+08:00

i decided tt i did not elaborate well enough on my previous entry. so a make up entry for tt. hehe. oh yah.. n i forgot to mention tt the toilets in gold coast are amazingly clean! for the entire duration i'm dere.. i oni saw one dirty toilet bowl. hehe.

ok nex. i shall announce my achievements. 1stly, i accomplished my 2 goals of education i set for myself. 1) to get A+ for a module and 2) to get 2nd uppers honours. in fact, for 1) i managed to get 2 A+s. hahah. i checked my final results in australia. altho when i saw tt i got 2nd uppers i din hav much exhilarated feelings, but i'm quite sure tt if i din get it i wouldn't b able to continue my grad trip happily. hehe. talking abt tt, in case some of u still duno, i went to Gold Coast for my grad trip. my photos will be up realli soon, when i'm finally done with all the captions. managed to go australia in the end, altho not with the original gang i had wanted to, and not to sydney and melbourne. hehe. hopefully i will manage to visit melbourne nex yr, with the original gang of frens. i've 18days annual leave to spare. so can probably plan a bit. (yes i'm feeling abit chuai3 tt i've 18days of annual leave. muahahaha..) n tt brings me to announce tt i've finally found a job. or rather, i'm finally wanted by a company!! (my whole update life story is linked so beautifully. hahaha) so anywae, i'm gonna b a civil servant as of 25th june 2007 (yes tt's my starting date). i've signed my life with PUB. and since i duno wat the chinese name of PUB is, i've conveniently told my parents tt i will b working for "shui3 dian4 fei4". hehe. well in case anyone of u is interested (and i happen to noe tt one of my sec sch fren is interested) i shall let u all in on the details. so now i shall start on my story...

PUB is the 1st company i applied for in my job search actualli.. (minus exxon mobil cos the application was done way b4 i started to go intensive on job search). so after a damn long period of time, they sms-ed me for an interview. it was kinda funny actualli. cos the sms came in 2 parts. and i received the 2nd part 1st. it went something like "if interested pls call asap at 6xxxxxxx". so i tot it was a tuition assignment cos i signed up with a tuition agency a long time ago. haha. but it turned out to be a invitation for interview when i received the 1st part. it's realli weird how most companies email/call for interview but PUB sms-es.. lol. so anywae i called the HR and asked for the details lah. den when i asked abt the job posn and job scope i'm interviewing for, the HR person said they'll tell me on the day itself. so i tot it's gonna be like a open hse, where the shortlisted candidates gather and they'll do a company presentation and den we will specify which posns we're interested in. but being kiasu, i still thought of ans to the Qs like "why PUB?" and "why you?" and also read up on the company's website, and even played this silly game in their website abt saving water. just in the morning b4 i went for the "open hse".

n luckily i did prepare myself, cos i went to the environment bldg, and i met one of my frens, who told me tt it realli is an interview. gosh. haha.. so i mentally prepared myself, and went up to the correct place. my fren said her interview was very short, only abt 5min. so i timed the other ppl b4 me oso (cos i'm early. hee) and true enough, each person is only abt 5 min. but i went in, n my interview lasted abt 10-15min. so when i left, i wondered if tt means i had a betta chance or i screwed up tt's y i need more time to explain myself. but anywae, the interviewers are apparently quite impressed with my cca records (which is supposed to have equipped me with leadership, organisational and interpersonal skills). haha.. den they told me an array of the job scopes they are hiring, and asked me to indicate my inclination. den they said "ah, you did community svc, so u shld hav no problems with communicating with the public". tt made me quite worried, as i'm not sure tt i realli hav good enough interpersonal skills to handle the public. and dreadfully, this line appeared in my job scope. i mean if i'm supposed to interact with clients, i can put on my professional air and talk abt technical terms. n i'm quite sure they'll treat me professionally too. but it's totally different when it comes to the lao2 bai3 xin4 okie. need a different set of interpersonal skills. i can already imagine a whole load of uncles/aunties surrounding me and scolding/complaining to me.

so anywae.. abt one day b4 i set off for gold coast, as i gather with my grad trip frens to discuss stuff for the trip, PUB called me and offered me a job. project engineer it is. n told me tt my honours will make a difference to the pay. wah i tell u, when i knew tt i finally got a job, it's like one big burden gone, the entire feeling oso different le. haha. i guess i did feel kinda depressed when i still couldn't get a job after hunting for months. n did i tell u all tt i set another goal of finding a job b4 i leave for grad trip? i had initially given up tt idea. but i guess i did achieve my goal afterall. hee

now to analyse wat i tink of my new job. frankly speaking, the down sides are tt i tink the pay is low, near my min limit of $2.3K le, and that it's not entirely related to chem engin, which is wat i've been looking for. and the perks are that they've 18days annual leave, and i believe the welfare of govt boards will be good. and upon receiving the details of the welfare, i mus say i'm quite pleased with it. tho i haven compared it to other companies. haha. and after doing some thinking, the job is actualli not too bad lah. i used to harbour the tots tt "it'll b good if my new company gives me a laptop" and "if can wear nicely and work in an office environment oso not too bad". and the PUB job is gonna fulfill the 2 tots, tho the laptop part is still not too confirmed. hee. so altho recently i've been tinking tt i would realli like to have a job tt is chem engin, this PUB job is fitting to my expectations quite well i guess. well in any case, i'm still running for a job posn in this jap company, which is dealing in a industry tt i would realli like to be in. but i'll admit the interview din go well. and i guess if i realli get the posn, it'll b a tough choice btw PUB and the jap company. :)

i tink i covered mostly of wat i've to say. hehe. recently alot of ppl hav been telling me tt civil servants hav pay increase. I M REALLI LOOKING FORWARD TO IT. haha.. but i shall try to not harbour so high hopes in case realli dun hav u noe. HR din call me to tell me anything. n oh, civil servants are also supposed to get a mid-yr bonus of half month salary and $220 in july. HR says if i join b4 30th june i may b considered for this. i'm not harbouring much hopes for the half month. why shld they gimme when i jus started work rite? but i shall continue to pray for the $220. the pay mus increase la i tell u!!!! hahaha.. otherwise i'll probably feel inferior to all my chem engin frens, who're getting a much higher pay den me. hehe jus joking lah.

okie tt's all i've to say. look forward to my grad trip photos ba~

Updates

2007-06-02T19:53:00.001+08:00

after mia-ing for so long guess it's time for me to do some updates of recent happenings.

1) Grad trip
went to gold coast with leeying thelma and weide. itinery includes farm tour, movie world, sea world, dream world, adventure parc, horse riding and cararra mkt. Looking bac, the itinery wasn't realli fascinating, jus some theme parks and stuff. but the experience dere was quite cool. practised my map reading skills, exerted myself physically in adventure parc, shopped in supermkt overseas, duno how to describe la hehe. overall it's not bad. oso got to noe more of leeying, how good she is with directions, how motherly she is, albeit her easily tired nature. hehe. photos will be up SOON ok. hahaha

2) NUS results
not sure how many of u noe. throughout my nus life i've been fighting to up my honours. started with low 3rd class in yr 1. n thereafter set my goal to b 2nd uppers when i did extraordinary well in sem 3. checked my results in the gold coast hotel reception cos i was in aussie when results were out. all i can say is, congrat me. i achieved my goal.

3) Job hunt
yea.. sad story. after tons of frens securing their jobs with a good pay, i finally got mine too! just signed the letter of appointment and mailed it bac to PUB today. they offered me a project engr position. well pay is low, job scope is not entirely related to chem engin, but welfare is good. n the most impt thing is.. they want me!!! unlike other bu4 shi2 huo4 de companies. hahaha.. n they offered me just 1day b4 i left for my grad trip. so tt fulfills my goal of getting a job b4 going on my grad trip.

all in all, things are starting to go well for me. now is time to enjoy my 3 weeks left of holidays and buy more clothes in GSS!!!!

Pathetic experience @ Jurong island..

2007-05-18T23:05:00.000+08:00

Pathetic experience @ Jurong island..

although chem engin is normally linked to jurong island, i've oni been to JI once in my 4 yrs of nus. but tt time is a sch trip. so i went in in a chartered bus and came out in a chartered bus. today is the 1st time i have to enter JI myself. gosh was it a pathetic experience.. supposed to go down to CPTC for an informal interview. but cos the person who contacted me (shall be called lalala from now on) have not taken public transport in for a long time, she gave me rubbish instructions to get to JI. but nm.. i managed to find the place to take the bus @ JE interchange. so lalala said there'll b a bus @ 9.50am. took the bus, bought the tix @ $2, got to the JI chkpt, went in to exchange i/c for a visitor pass, came out, bus is gone! bus din wait! wth!!! even malaysia customs bus oso got wait!

nm.. i went to the bus stop to wait for bus. after a while no bus. went to chk out the bus plate. i took the 9.50am bus @ JE rite. so i m at the chkpt ard 10.10am. i look at the bus plate. the bus i missed is 9.50am. how retarded. the timing @ JE and the timing @ JI is the same. tink we can teleport ah!~?!~? n the worst thing is.. THE NEX BUS IS AT 11.45AM!!!!!!!!!!! tt's like 1.5hours of waiting!!!!!!!!!!!!! n i'm supposed to b at the company at 11am... so i called lalala to tell her tt the nex bus is 1145.. hoping to hav some alternative way to get there. but lalala said "1145.. we'll b having lunch.. *pause for a while* ok nm, we'll wait for you. bye!"

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T_T she expects me to wait for 1.5hours. which i realli do not wish to. so i approached the security at the chkpt and ask for alternatives. den they say can take cab. so i had to call cab. the cab costs $8.10 (inclusive of $2.50 booking fee)... jus to get to the stupid company. sob sob.

nm. went in for the informal interview. everything went well. the 2 managers like me and tink tt my results are good.. (makes me wonder who's applying for the job.. poly students?) so they told me tt they'll recommend me for the formal interview, where i'll meet the directors n stuff. tt's good.

"any more Qs for us?"
"my last Q is.. how do i get outta here?"
"lemme chk if my colleagues are going out for lunch. mayb they can send u out"
*brighten up! smilez..
...
"none of my colleagues are going out.."

T_T
end of interview. 12.10pm. i missed the 11.45am bus. when's the nex bus? 2pm.
trying my luck, "sorry lalala.. wat's the nex bus timing?"
"lemme chk.. *runs off to get schedule* hmmm i oni hav the timing of the buses coming from JE"
"erm ok nm. i rem seeing the nex bus is 2pm"
"orh ok! u can go out to tt busstop n wait for the bus."
p/s: it was oni 12.30pm........................
"ok thks bye"

@security gate
"excuse me.. when is the nex bus out? i heard the nex bus is 2pm"
"no lah.. the bus comes in 20min intervals. dere shld b one at 1pm"
"ok thks"

@the bus stop
the signboards says 2pm.
n i refuse to call a cab cos very ex..
i was desparate until i feel like hitch-hiking a car tt's going out..
but i din dare to.
suddenly i spot a cab.
"aiyah heck it la.. at least i can save the booking fee."

cab to JE costs $9.90.

T_T total expenditure = $2 + $8.10 + $9.90 = $20

Random tots collected via watching tv

2007-05-11T22:12:00.000+08:00

I watch a lot of tv, guess tt's wat a lot of my frens noe too. after my "years of experience", i realised tt ppl who try and get guiness world records will keep trying n keep trying.. until they own hundreds of records. is dere some cash price tagged to the record anywae? haha..

okie. so much for the intro. so jus now i saw on the news, that there is this man who jus got a record of playing hula-hoops in water. so amazing rite?!~ i was so shocked. how can anyone do tt in water. in water leh!! den the newscaster went on to elaborate that he oredi has 144 world records. which is ok, considering my intro jus now. den one of his records is... skipping rope in the water!!!

haha.. u all can read the article @ http://www.xin.sg/article.php?category=94&article=5390

n den as if lidat not shocking enuff, the nex news kept my mouth open thruout the whole duration of the news. the hula-hoop-skipping-rope-in-water-man did his stunt in water with dolphins swimming ard. so they connected the nex news with a dolphin news. yes, the dolphin news kept my mouth open. these bunch of dolphins... they can blow bubbles in water!!!

they'll suck in air from this tube provided. den they'll blow them out. very pretty leh the bubbles they blow. if i din hear wrongly the bubbles are duno 10cm in diameter. n den after they blow out the bubble they'll chase it n burst it. so cute.

article is @ http://www.xin.sg/article.php?category=94&article=5391

Post exam post

2007-05-11T02:08:00.000+08:00

24th April 2007
The day of my unofficial graduation from the full-time student career.
The day i unofficially become jobless.
The day i start to prepare to enter the next phase of my life.
The day i can finally slack after months of hard work.
The day i can finally sing KTV after almost half a yr.
The day i can finally watch vcds till the wee hours of the night.
The day i can finally read storybooks without guilt tt i realli shld b doing work.

And the list goes on...
Haha this post is soooooooooo backdated. but dere has oni been 1 post after my exams. so . not been actively reading blogs too.. it's been almost one month after my exams le.. realli wonder wat i've been doing all these time. when the list of my errands to run is still unfinished. hahaha. but i rem dawndawn mentioning in her blog when my exams just ended tt i m finally back in the scene, back from being MIA. hahah.. so i shall finally stop being lazy and start blogging all over again. so here.. a tribute to NUS life..

For the serious part:
Sotong-ly entered Chemical Engineering thinking tt it is related to chemistry.
Took on a 7-module 1st semester cos angmoh not powderful enuff.
Absolutely stressed out and unable to adapt, hence building up my "can b too stressed over sch work" reputation among my frens and family and relatives.
(to the extent my mum told me to give up if i realli cannot take it, family cny cards telling me not to be too stressed over studies, frenster testimonials telling me not to be stressed.. etc)
Got my C.A.P for the 1st sem, but din noe it was not ideal until *e**i*g was upset abt her grades, which was betta den mine.
Can't remember if i worked hard for 2nd sem, except tt i got worse results den 1st.
The 3rd sem marked a significant change in my "NUS career", when i ripped off the golden harvest sem.
What followed is a never-ending pursuit for 2nd uppers.
Den it was the IA at *M, a helluva OT experience.
Turns out tt i do like chem engine anywae, at the end of 4 yrs

For the fun part:
Duno where i found the courage, i joined chem engin w/o knowing ANYONE.
Wanted to make frens thru chem engin orientation camp. Flipped thru the brochure advertising all the orientation camps, laughing at the fact tt CHESS society oso had a camp. Reached the end of the brochure, wondering out loud where the chem engin camp is. Flipped thru the 2nd time. *smack head* CHESS = CHemical & Environmental engineering Student Society.
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Boarded the shuttle bus to sentosa for Freshman Welcome Camp (FWC). met zhenxian, sec sch aquaintance, now OG mate.
Through FWC, met a great bunch of frens, who stayed as frens even after the camp, even sat together during lectures. (which could hav been the reason why i'm not close to most of my classmates, minus the fact tt i m anti-social myself )
Though 1st sem was a break-down disaster, i met great frens like cheewei, who is not in my OG but became frens with my OG such tt she became part of us. Not forgetting to mention wat she kept on reminding me over the yrs --> how did we meet? cos i smashed an egg on her forehead in one of the orientation games.
(my gosh. after so long i'm still in yr1.. lol)
Ok year 2. an even happier yr for me.. i tink.
After some hesitation, Seline decided to join FWC as counsellors. The decision to stay together in an OG sorta got destroyed when kelvin li joined us. nonetheless, it is another permanent addition to the OG as kel is a spontaneous n easy-going person, who can send a few ppl living in different locations home. tt i'm grateful for, for i'd the privilege to take the car a few times. though we never fail to repeat his occasional haphazard driving, which i believe will continue to be the topic as long as we take his car.
Involved in the fright night in the FWC. Staged a japanese sadako scene with yongchuan and keli as jap soldier, me as the crawling sadako, camy as the walking sadako, and leeying with her incredible fingers-folding stunt which many freshmen took as a fake prop.
Had to b a SP as there were insufficient gers in the freshmen cohort, but met a colour-wolf, at least in my opinion. not to mention he's not even good-looking.
Can't remember the rest of yr2, except tt after the CTW project, became closer frens with weiting, an even more easy-going ger, who always give in to my requests and kenna suan/bully by me. a ger who stuck on with me as we grew to yr4, cos of our similar interests in the modules. a ger whom i gradually became reliant on.
Year 3 started massive project work. n the whole load of stayovers to do proj.
1 night for Engin Pro. 2 nights for Heavenly Maths.
pause one sem for IA.
3 nights for Process Modelling.
i tink tt's all. i hope tt's all. n guess wat is the common factor in these overnights?
Chng Mei Ying + Tay Gek Koon. wonder if it's a curse. hahaha.
Nonetheless, i'm glad i got the right groupmates for most of my projects, cos the process of doing projects were filled with fun and laughter besides serious work.

That about marks the end of my 4 yrs in NUS. (i'm lazy to put up photos...) had times of immense stress, times of great fun. made alot of great frens, seline, cn5. those whose names i din mention in this entry... not cos u're not my good fren. jus so happens tt my story din need to mention ur name. haha.

I am a slacker...

2007-04-25T19:19:00.000+08:00

You Have A Type B+ Personality

You're a pro at going with the flow
You love to kick back and take in everything life has to offer
A total joy to be around, people crave your stability.

While you're totally laid back, you can have bouts of hyperactivity.
Get into a project you love, and you won't stop until it's done
You're passionate - just selective about your passions

Do You Have a Type A Personality?

hehe i kop-ed this webby from ting's blog. n my conclusion is.. my character is consistent. hehe. cos in my HR module class, the tutor let us do this personality test too. n i was a hard core Type B person.. supposedly Type A ppl are the ones who are very gan chiong, self-motivated and get projects/assignments done like way b4 the deadline. den they are the ones who will keep on pushing their grpmates to work. den Type B ppl are the ones who are very slack n heck care. like deadline tml but today still slowly n happily doing. not gan chiong at all.. n den the tutor mentioned tt if Type A and B ppl work together in the same project grp, the Type B ppl will drive the Type A ppl crazy. hahaha

so rude

2007-04-02T01:23:00.000+08:00

before i continue, i mus make a disclaimer.

Disclaimer: I have nothing against foreigners. In fact, i dun mind them n tink tt they are foreign talents, which i jus explored in my HR project not too long ago..

BUT. this caucasian i met today has to be the black sheep, making me feel bullied and irritated at foreigners.

prelude -- in my HR rpt, my grp interviewed my FYP prof, who mentioned tt singaporeans are rude in tt they dun let ppl alight b4 they board mrt.

situation today --
i was with my mum at a shopping complex today, waiting for the lift. when the lift door opened, my mum tried to walk in. which i hav to say tt it's not very polite, like the case of the MRT, shld hav waited for the ppl inside to come out. BUT, the angmoh was very irritating ok. he purposely pushed his trolley very quickly directly towards my mum, which if her reflexes is slow would have been knocked in the stomach. and so my mum moved backwards for the angmoh to come out lah. but as the angmoh moved out, he was mumbling in a loud voice "can u all let us come out b4 u all come in." this sentence i can accept since we were wrong in the 1st place. but the angmoh followed with a 2nd sentence, which realli pissed me off. he was already quite far away, so i oni managed to hear the word "terrible". so he either said "you all are terrible", or "u hav terrible manners". whatever it is, i tink he's very rude! even if we were wrong in the first place, it doesn't warrant the word "terrible" to b used on us!! i told my mum wat the angmoh said cos my mum dun understd english so well. i feel so bullied ok. damn it.

after tt i told my dad n younger bro wat happened. den my dad was saying if he were dere mayb he would say the F word (which of cos i dun tink he would. haha). so anywae i was telling them tt if the angmoh was still near me when he said "terrible". i may have talked back. "excuse me, we're wrong in tt we tried to rush into the lift. but i tink it's rude of u to say tt we're terrible."

that is wat i may have said. but on 2nd thoughts, mayb i should hav said, in bad english. "fuck u lah. u cannot say lidat u noe!~ you tink my engrish not good den i won't understd wat u're saying? you chao ang moh. speak in ur own native language if u dun wan me to noe tt u're scolding me." den probably scold a string of foul words in some weird language tt he wouldn't understd. but cannot use the common ones like KNS, KNN, CB cos he will probably noe them since foul words are norm the 1st words to learn in a language. heh.

ok end of story. once again, i must say tt i realli have nothing against foreigners. like how i tink tt my FYP prof, a foreigner, is a very nice person. and how i tink tt the bangladesh construction workers are quite kelian cos they need to work so hard in the rain and sun n yet they earn very little. but this one i met today is realli mean. i felt so wei3 qu1 after this incident and regret not talking back.

Hotmail + interesting facts

2007-03-26T22:31:00.001+08:00

my hotmail is used purely for the purpose of MSN. so i dun chk hotmail often, even though they always prompt me when i log onto msn if dere's email. so after i handed in the disgusting individual design project today (which i spent many days and nights and skipped meals to do all the relevant calculations, and den rushed out the 40page rpt within 27hours continuously with 2.5 hours of sleep in btw and 2hours stoning, which i'm quite proud of. haha), i decided to check my hotmail cos i rem simin emailed me an interview for her thesis but i din c it in all my emails. so it mus b in hotmail. after replying the interview, i realised tt some of the emails tt were "checked" already are not familiar to me at all.. haha. so anywae, i was reading this email shiyu sent me.. on 2nd February. haha.. n there are some facts tt i found quite interesting. so decided to share. :)

1) "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.
2) The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet. (meiying: no wonder they always use tt to test keyboard. :P)
3) The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes). (meiying: 'kayak' and 'level' is easy to see. but i find 'racecar' quite interesting. :))
4) TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
5) A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. (meiying: this one i quite doubt.. as an engineer.. how come i duno? isn't 1/100th of a second supposed to be known as centisecond? haha)
6) Babies are born without kneecaps They don't appear until the child reaches
2 to 6 years of age. (meiying: when i meet my neighbour's baby, i shall touch his leg.. haha i'm sick..)

That's all folks.

time to realli buck up

2007-03-11T03:23:00.000+08:00

meiying has the habit of saying tt she's busy. suddenly she realise tt she realli has been slacking instd of being busy after all.. she's oni busy watching youtube n busy fretting over her job prospects. so finally she decided tt she has to wake up n start to get busy with sch work, b4 she slack too much n screw up her final chance of getting into 2nd uppers, which altho has been said tt dere's no difference btw 2nd upper n lower, meiying has decided tt it's a personal goal/achievement thingy. so every kind soul who read this blog, pls encourage n bless meiying ok? :)

meiying's greatest wishes for now:
1) hav sudden enlightenment if semicond is the industry for me.
2) get a good paying job with good future propects + job satisfaction (i.e. dun too stress ba.. sigh)
3) have a great n relaxing grad trip with my sj squatters which all of us will rem with fond memories even 10yrs from now. (i'll hav to live on this wonderful memory when i start work.. cos from den now it'll b difficult to go for long trips.. )

love,
meiying
p/s: pls kick me if u c me happily telling u tt i'm watching youtube, instd of watching it jus to relieve stress ok?

Process engr Orientation day 2

2007-03-09T01:50:00.000+08:00

ok. i dun rem if i promised to update abt daY 2. but i decided to do so. despite being late. haha. the day started with me feeling reluctant to go, den feeling betta n considering to take up the job offer if offered during lunch, n feeling sad n considering not to take up the job at the end of the day. i rem my prev entry abt Day 1 is jus full of silly complaints. or rather, i humourised the thing abit by talking abt guys n stuff. but Day 2's 感想 is more serious. n left me with such a big dilemma tt it affected very strongly my mood, n i couldn't tune bac to the student mood to prepare for my FYP poster presentation the next day.

on day 2, cos my buddy engr is busy, he threw me with a process engr for a while. which will be wat i'll be doing if i decide to join the company. so from wat i decipher, the job scope of a process engineer in this company is as follows:
1) in charge of a few machines which is part of the whole manufacturing process comprising of a few hundred steps
2) if the machines go wrong, troubleshoot.
3) if yield not good enough, troubleshoot.
4) no matter if u're free or not free, u hav to take ur own initiative and think of how to optimise the process. i.e. mus design expts urself!
5) must know the theory of the whole process damn well, even if it's not wat ur specific dept is.

the company is performance-based. so it'll b damn competitive. so if i dun do (4) rite, den i can forget abt getting promoted. the ppl dere, whole day either go for meetings, where will b kenna shot Qs like nobody's biz, or talk with other engrs, no matter from ur dept or not, not chit chat, but abt problems in the machines, the process etc. mus noe ur theory damn well loh. den i attended the meetings rite, they always hav like "Action Who When", whereby the "when" hor, is always like oni 1 or 2 days from the day they proposed it leh.

so my conclusion of being a process engr in the company is:
1) damn fast-paced env
2) damn stress/demanding/challenging
3) mus noe ur theory damn well
4) mus noe how to apply ur knowledge, otherwise wun noe how to troubleshoot or take initiative to tink of how to increase yield or shorten processing time

at the end of the day, my buddy engr told me tt in his opinion, i can roughly understd the theory he explained to me, but the problem with me is tt i m not inquisitive enough. which i tink is a criteria to the "taking initiative" thingy. n in my opinion, i'm not someone who can apply my knowledge well.. n y would anyone bo dai bo zi go n tink of changing the process when dere's no problem alamak? but oh well these ppl do exist afterall. haha.

to summarise, i would say i m realli freaked out by this orientation. i never expected anything like this loh. but i'm glad i went lah.. it's an enriching experience. n i dun tink i did a good job in potraying how traumatising the experience was for me. ppl whom i talked to face to face would prob understd n sense it more ba hehe.

so now i'm in a very big dilemma. i duno if i'm up to the job, cos i've low self confidence. if i take the job, i'll hav to noe the theory damn well. ie i hav to learn. n i duno if i realli like this industry. cos if i realli dun like rite, den it'll be damn torturous learning the theory. i duno if i feel freaked out due to the job nature of a process engr, or is it bcos of the fast-paced n stressful env. i duno if all engr jobs are as challenging as this, which i suspect is not cos i dun rem 3M engrs being so stressed. hence i duno if i wanna put myself under such undue stress. (p/s: my health chk shows tt i've slight hypertension leh.. if i put myself under such stress, duno will affect my health a not. haha).

but on the other hand, if they offer me n i dun take up the offer, i duno if i've confidence tt i can get another job. if in the end i cannot get a job n i rejected such a high-paying job. i'll b damn dui. n den, i'm also thinking mayb i underestimated myself. mayb i CAN handle the job. or mayb if i get in le, after the training, my theory will b as zai, n when i do the job for sometime, i'll b able to adapt to the fast-paced env? also, the pay is damn good, cos basic pay quite high, got OT pay, n OT is freeflow, n got bonus mah hehe. the company is damn near my hse, can reach within 15min. marsiling got company shuttle bus, so i wun need to spend on transport. n actualli rite, even if in the end i realli dun like the company or cannot adapt, i can always quit after 1 or 2 yrs.. n den this job will serve as a good experience cos i can then mkt myself as someone who can work under stress, n my basic pay will b of a higher std too.

so now is.. sign or dun sign? do i realli wanna stress myself lidat? shld i hav more confidence n slowly find a job which i realli like? some ppl say "sign 1st. den if u can get another job den quit this one" but will this reflect badly on my reputation? dilemma wor.. wat do u tink?

FYP poster presentation day

2007-03-09T01:12:00.000+08:00

FYP Poster Presentation Day -- 3rd March '07
Day started at 12pm for me. Saw the LONG Q for lunch, hence decided to walk ard 1st. n den the photo frenzy started. =D A really nice day in my opinion, a day where the whole cohort of chem engin ppl don't tink of the disgusting sch work, and just chit chat n slack for the whole day. feels realli like graduation, take photos with everyone. hee. Congrats to qicong, weiting & kevin for getting 1st, 2nd and 3rd for best project award for indiv category!!! but i dun hav qicong's photo. hehe.

Photos @ http://meiyingg.multiply.com/photos/album/14

Orientation of being a Process & Equipment Engr

2007-03-06T00:33:00.000+08:00

went for blah company's orientation as a process & eqm engr today. ppl who noe dun say wat company ok? cos i'm planning to complain. hahaha..

pros
1) high pay.
2) alot of OT, with ot pay.
3) damn near my hse.

cons (based on 1st day of orientation)
1) my dept all guys no gers. which i m supposed to b happy abt mayb? since i'm surrounded with guys so can find a bf mayb? haha.. but working in a no-ger env can b taxing as guys are generally insensitive n guys' n gers' thinking is VERY different. (i did my engin prof project on women engrs n discrimination. hahaha)
2) but the guys are all not young, my buddy engr is married with 2 kids i tink, another guy is engaged, another guy is tinking of proposing, another guy is quiet but he looks like he's married, they were talking abt diamond rings on the car. (my hopes of bfs all dashed..)
3) old still nm.. but dere r no yandaos..
4) no yandaos still nm.. i cannot even spot a guy who bothers to style their hair. all messy messy one..
5) not young no yandao hair not nice still nm.. they are not frenly. i went lunch with 8 guys, oni 2 tok to me.. they bo chup me de loh..
u noe wat's the best part? of all the guys in the section, i find the section manager the most charismatic n pleasant looking. he's duno how old le. budden again his hair not messy cos his hair is oni abt 0.5cm long. hahaha.. he has the fatherly feel, tho i realli haven spoken to him much. he's my 1st interviewer last time. altho i say he gives me a fatherly feel, he gives me a diff feeling from my dad. he gives me the more strict strict yet abit 和蔼可亲 feel.
6) the job sounds boring. troubleshoot leh..
7) the job sounds demanding n stressful. mus realli noe ur theory n stuff de loh..
8) i read 1 paper they "published" but cannot publish cos of the "competitive nature of the industry".. so they oni "publish" it internally so tt it's recognised n the engrs will feel "excited", n den i dun understd a word they're saying even tho i've a slight backgrd of the industry
9) the machines tt i might hav to b incharge of in future looks cheEm n difficult n dangerous n scary
10) the engrs tink tt 50hours of OT per month is very little. tt's oredi 8pm everyday. sob.
11) my 1st shock of the day: the buddy engr's computer windows taskbar has 10 excel files, 3 explorers, 2 softwares with a few windows, n about 10 emails ALL open! the guy either duno how to close things, or he has to multi-task damn a lot..
12) the engr pager jus keeps on ringing...
13) my buddy engr invited me into a informal presentation where he presents some stuff to the section manager and this other guy whom i suspects is higher in rank. he kenna shot like nobody's biz can?!~ mus present stuff.. so scary. but i have to mention, his presentation sux leh.. the slides not nice, he cannot present properly n stuff. makes me wonder is it cos he's kns at presentation skills, or he's simply too busy to beautify things..

okie i tink i complain enuff for today. i tink i m picking all the flaws mayb cos i'm still not certain of wat i realli want as a job. n the excessive challenges n OT, i duno if it's gonna b worth it. i mean like taking modules in NUS. dere are some challenging n difficult modules which i took despite ppl advising me not to. but i take until 心甘情愿 cos i like it mah. but this company's industry rite, i took a introductory module to it last sem, n tho i tot it was interesting at 1st, i regretted taking the mod ltr, partly cos i had to spend a lot of time to udnerstd the concepts. so i'm not very sure if i m offered the job n i plunge into it, i will find it worth it to get all stressed n do a lot of OT, if not i'll regret n feel sad but hav to tahan for 2 yrs cos 1st job cannot quit so fast. :( but as wat a fren prompted me, i'm not a person who'll feel tt i'd wasted 2 yrs of my life to findout if i like/dunlike the industry, i dun mind spending the time to find out, jus tt i might complain alot, which is typical of me. so conclusion is, i'll probably take the offer if i'm offered? but i'll complain like mad cos i've something in mind which i like but i dunno which companies offer this kinda posn, and tt i haven had the chance to go for other companies' interviews to c wat other job posns/industries are like...

Play! 24 hours DVDs

2007-02-28T20:18:00.000+08:00

i duno if u all noe (u all shld la rite), dere are some 24 hour dvd rental machines located ard singapore. so a very long time ago, i signed up for their membership. but it's oni until recently when i started renting dvds from them. cos now they have this "3 dvds for 3 days at $3.33 each." i tot tt this is rather cheap.. so i decided to rent loh.. n after a few experiences, i met up with some problems.. making me feel rather pek cek. but when i complain via email, i was quite pleased tt they responded really fast n they rectify the problem. so now i realli duno if i shld praise or condemn them. haha

1st problem: i went to try the 3 dvd promo. but dere's no such option for the promo.. so i tot rent 1 1st... but after renting one, they say i reached the max limit n cannot rent anymore! so i had to rent tt dvd at the usual price of $4.50.. which is bo hua.. feeling pissed n shortchanged, i complained via email, asking them y lidat.

problem rectified: within 1 or 2 days, they emailed me bac explaining tt they're scared tt 1st-time users will use wrongly or wat.. so they put this limit of 1 dvd rental for 1st time users. (which i tot is bullshit). n den they said they'll update their website so tt others wun face the same prob as me.. so i went to chk the website. they realli did rectify the prob! rather impressive.

2nd problem: i topped up $16 into the machine. but when i went to rent dvds again a couple of days ago, oni $8 was inside! they eat my other $8!!!! but anywae i topped up again so tt hav enuff value to rent dvds.. so i went home n i emailed them again. complain again.

problem rectified: within 1 or 2 days again, they replied me, apologising for the mistake n they said they put the money back oredi.. i can chk it the nex time i use the machine. n actualli they oni cheat my $8. but they said they put $16 back. so if they realli did so, den they're stupid n wo zhuan dao! haha.. shall chk when i return the dvds in a few days' time. :)

so in conclusion, i realli ought to complement them for their prompt n good customer svc, budden its irritating tt the problems do arise in the 1st place rite? hehe..

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today when i was on the train home, i peeped at other ppl's newspaper. gosh! got a 9yr-old ger got pregnant!!! by the time her parents realise, oredi 6 mths le.. cannot abort anymore. so she gave birth. CRAP. n apparently the husband is very young oso.. i was trying to read how old the husband is, but the person realised i was peeping n so flipped to another page.

i'm appalled.

yakult

2007-02-27T01:53:00.000+08:00

went on a yakult factory visit today.. found out some facts tt i tot is pretty cool.

1) of all the countries tt has yakult, singapore/china/taiwan/hk has the biggest bottle i.e. 100ml. other sizes include 80ml (america), and the standard size is 65ml.

2) in all other countries, yakult oni has the original flavour. only singapore has apple, grape, orange flavour.

3) in all other countries, yakult doens't come with straws. only singapore yakult has straw.

conclusions:
1) good thing i live in singapore. cos i tink the yakult bottle is too small, n i like to drink flavoured yakult with a straw. haha
2) dere's an auntie in charge of inserting the straws into the package while the yakult is being packaged. she wun hav a job in countries other den singapore!

haven been so pissed for a long time

2007-02-14T21:55:00.000+08:00

For a very long time now, the oni few emotions i had are probably just stressed, depressed, peaceful, happy. But today.. grrrrrrrrrrrrr

ended lessons at 6pm. tinking of taking mrt home tho i've bus concession so tt i can siam the traffic jam. but i had to zap a thick stack of notes. i've $8+ in my cashcard, but since the stack of notes is thick, i decided to top up cashcard.

press press press.. insert atm card. pin. insert cashcard.

wait

wait

wait

screen still shows "pls wait". wth

wait wait
wait wait
wait wait

screen still shows "pls wait". kns
turn ard look for anyone in charge of the nets machine.

no one.
wait wait wait
wait wait wait
wait wait wait

screen still shows "pls wait". grrrrrrrr
i rem the guy in charge is an indian. so i approached one indian who looks like the person n ask. shit he's not.

brute force take out cashcard. cannot! it's freaking stuck!
turn around turn ard.. look look c c.
nobody to the rescue.

call nets helpline.
"blah blah blah.. turn off the machine"
the freaking socket is behind the huge photocopier! very hard to reach can a not.
"the card still cannot come out? try off n on again"
turn on turn off turn on turn off.. it's still freaking stuck!
"management... technician... not avail now.. oni can go tml.. even if come today u oso haf to wait..."

f***. my cashcard still has $8+.. n $10 is on the way to b deducted.

okie i shall not elaborate further.. but i was bloody bloody bloody pissed. n no one was dere to help me cos it's after office hours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

finally, when the nets customer svc person gave up on me, i called a fren to complain n seek help... as i was animatedly complaining n all, suddenly the cashcard came out.

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chked at the photocopier. cashcard was not topped up. so i sat down to cool myself down. den i proceeded to zap the notes. n guess wat? in the end i oni needed $3 to zap the notes. i freaking do not need to top up my cashcard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

freaking hell.

by den it was 7pm. so i tot quickly go home. missed 96. so i decided. ok if 151 comes 1st i'll take it. 151 comes.. i boarded. kns.. 7pm liao still got jam. but still movable. nm... reaching the stop after ngee ann poly. hmmm shld i alight here n walk to the bukit timah mkt busstop? or alight at KAP busstop den cross the overhead bridge?

i chose the latter. fishcake banana.. i sat on 151, looked at 961 being stuck in the jam but i wasn't able to alight n board 961!!! so finally, i was stuck at the freaking KAP busstop at 8pm. stupid freaking bukit timah still had a stupid freaking traffic jam at 8pm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

estimated time of home arrival: 7pm (to catch the last episode of chn U show)
actual time of arrival: 9pm

one hour for the stupid cashcard.
one hour for the freaking jam.

now i'm starting to get pissed all over again...

A pleasant surprise from a loved fren!!

2007-02-09T01:53:00.000+08:00

http://meiyingg.multiply.com/photos/album/13

Festive seasons in NUS

2007-02-04T21:28:00.000+08:00

i wonder if u all have realised (i mean the nus students), since sometime last year, which i duno if it only started last yr or it's jus tt i'm cock-eyed and oni realised it last yr. but since den i always tot tt the festive seasons are well celebrated in NUS, especially in the engin canteen Techno Edge. if u all hav oso noticed, whenever dere's a festival coming, the drinks stall will be nicely decorated with all the related ornaments. and the most impt and interesting part is that the staff will be wearing something related too! haha.. ermm i cannot realli rem all. i oni vividly remember during the mid-autumn festival, you noe wat the staff were wearing!?~!?!~? they were wearing the lanterns on their head okie! u noe those kind the plastic tinted transparent kind? they put on their heads.. well i tink it's heavy u noe.. but all for the sake of getting a monthly salary. poor uncles n aunties.

well i cannot remember the rest oredi. cos the mid-autumn festival thing oredi etched a very deep impression in my brain. haha. but u noe as the chinese saying goes, "yi shan hai bi yi shan gao". a couple of weeks bac when i was lunching with leeying, she said
"aiyoh scared me. i tot the auntie was standing dere with the today signboard coincidentally behind her and seemingly on top of her head. (ermm do u all understd? abit like kenna superimposed on u as if it's realli on top of u... aiyah dun undersrd nm lah. )" so anywae i turned ard n looked. i nearly laughed out i tell u all.. or did i laugh out? haha..

so anywae for Chinese New Year, the boss of the drinks stall, besides playing CNY songs, putting up all the nice nice cute cute piggy decorations, he/she made the uncles and aunties wear the "yuan bao" cap on their heads!!! with some red wordings, which explains the today
lookalike thing. besides that, they haf to put on this golden apron, material is like those kinda qi bao.. and on top of that, i saw one uncle hanging some mini yuan baos on his neck lah. okie i secretly took some photos...

ermm can u all see? i noe they're not good photos.. cos i can't possibly stand in front of them and say "uncle auntie, say cheese!" but i hope u all get the idea. sorry to all who wasn't willing to appear on the photos but still appeared anywae. hehe..

so anywae.. i tot tt this beat the mid-autumn festival hands down. n i've been telling alot of ppl about this. haha.. i was telling my parents, mayb i shld tell the boss of sheng siong supermkt, who oso likes to do all these. of cos, he's much milder... he oni asks the staff to wear xmas hats. so i was telling mi parents tt i shld give him the suggestion. my mum (a staff) nearly killed me. hahaha.. oh and my mum said "perhaps after u graduate u shld go bac to nus n see if they wear dumplings on their heads during the dumpling festival"

Old childhood books found!

2007-01-30T20:16:00.000+08:00

sometime back my mum forced my bro to pack his stuff.. n in the midst of the mess, i managed to retrieve some of the books which i used to read in my childhood days! hehe.. the 1st book i decided to read again is "The Wizard of Oz", cos i remember i bought a pair of little red shoes quite sometime back, and on two separate occasions, 2 frens saw the pair of red shoes and mentioned to me about clicking my heels and flying back to kansas. but due to my lousy memory, i couldn't rem it at all and hence could only smile. so when i found the books, i decided to affirm wat my frens said! i remembered it as a very nice book.. magical story mah hehe. well after i finished reading the book, i'm confused. my "Wizard of Oz" says that dorothy got the SILVER heels from the wicked witch.. not red wat. haha.. but anywae, i realised that the english in the book is kinda weird, like the sentence structure abit wrong.. n i rem i used to read the book very slowly n seriously u noe!! no wonder my english is so sucky now.. hahaha

well to make it worse, the 2nd book i read is "The BFG". and in the book the BFG claims tt cos he hasn't been to sch, he cannot talk properly, no vocab, no grammar etc.. trust me, now tt i read back, half the book is rubbish words. nonsense man! they're trying to mislead kids like me who learn english thru storybooks (okie i'm lying.. haha). but if i realli did learn english thru this book, i'll be speaking like "i is mei ying. and i is now studeeying in naetionar euuneeversiti of singkarpor. i is liking to slip and watch tellyveesion. and of coarse, ven i is finding maaahhhjoong khakis, i is liking to play maaahhjoong two."

how's that for an introduction? effort leh to purposely come up with the spellings of all the wrong words and create sentences with lousy grammar. i give the author credit for that. haha.

Self-proclaimed Sleeping Diva

2007-01-17T20:50:00.000+08:00

many of u noe my sleeping ability.. i can sleep anywhere, no matter on the bus, on the train, in class, in lects, in toilets, in other ppl's hse etc etc. i can sleep anyhow, in any position, sitting, standing, squatting etc. one more area i need to train is probably "anytime". bcos of the massive sessions of sleep, sometimes i've difficulty sleeping anytime. hee

the main point, however, is tt thru an incident today, i somehow tink tt my sleep level has up-ped until i perhaps have attained nirvanity in this sleeping thing. lemme illustrate my point.

" meiying and fren_T are walking down a corridor.

fren_T: i dun dare to continue doing the rpt cos the problem is not solved.
me: wat problem?
fren_T: i tot i told u this morning oredi?
me: wat this morning?
fren_T: i called u to tell u?
me: *stares in disbelief* but i din talk to u this morn!!
fren_T: *gasp!
me: *chk call history*... gosh u called me at 11plus? i was asleep at that time!!!
fren_T: *gasp intensity x2* but u dun sound yu3 wu2 lun2 ci4 to me.
me: ok tell me wat we said..
fren_T: *blah blah blah*
me: oh i tink i recall abit now...

end of incident...."

n u all noe wat? it is oredi not the 1st time this kinda thing has happened. apparently i've trained to the level where i can talk sane-ly even when i'm asleep. n totally, TOTALLY dun recall wat i've said after i awaken.. unless triggered by others like today's incident. goodness, GOD knows how many times i've had a phone conversation when i m asleep. since now i'm the self-proclaimed sleeping diva, perhaps i can walk over to look for my neighbour "god" and ask abt this..

Good Engrish...

2007-01-16T02:03:00.001+08:00

short-lived happiness is diminished by half.. how short-lived..

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recently have been watching dvds quite frequently.. have been watching with chi subtitles since i watch with my parents. those translators.. realli make me laugh!! have always been reading "engrish" from other websites.. now it's my turn to contribute some.. hehe

there are words/phrases which they totally cannot comprehend..
1) come on! == 发生
2）Yo what's up man? == 什么向上，男人？
3）Buy arms (war show) == 买手臂
4) i dun give a fu** abt you == 我不给你的性交

there are phrases where they try too hard..
1) That's right == 那是权力
2） you'll be fine == 你会是罚款

n my personal favourites...
1) diminishing == 的迷你粪... get it? it's "the mini shit" with "the" pronounced as "dee"..
2) put me down (in the literal sense).. is translated as... "羞辱我“....

so perhaps the 1st sentence of this entry shld b
"short-lived happiness is "the-mini-shitted" by half.. how short-lived.. "

WAHAHA.

Taking things for granted..

2007-01-14T20:11:00.000+08:00

a decision made resulted in something wonderful.. n i've been taking it for granted for the longest time now, until a sudden realization hit me today. nonetheless, it's not going to help matters. i'll jus cherish wat i have till it ends a couple of months later.

sometimes i wish...

2007-01-13T02:49:00.001+08:00

sometimes i wish...

that i can sing...
that i can dance...
that i m slimmer...
that i m smarter...
that i m more streetwise...
that i m less ignorant...
that i m less childish...
that i m more thoughtful and caring...
that i hav nice feet...
that i hav a close childhood fren...
that i hav a "bestest" fren whose bestest fren is me...
that i hav a close guy fren...
that i hav a *o******d...
that i will lead a happy and fulfilling life...
that i can be successful in life...
that i can speak more fluent english..
that i can strike 4D/lottery/big sweep...

okie the last wish spoils the whole entry. but y not rite? i'm a typical human being, unsatisfied with what i hav, in fact, may not even noe or cherish wat i hav, and wanting more. sometimes i tink i'm inferior.. but wat the hell.. and y do i suddenly wish for so many things? i've always wished for all these.. but hav been recollecting them recently.. as i m currently having problems sleeping at night. perhaps it's the FYP stress..

make or break?

2007-01-12T03:00:00.000+08:00

yet again "interest" and "usefulness" triumph over "perhaps-guaranteed-grades"...

the last time it happened, dere was 50% success (i.e. dere was 50% failure..)

this time?

work hard and pray hard...

Is there a Santa Claus?

2007-01-12T02:47:00.000+08:00

haha i noe this is abit late for xmas '06 and abit too early for xmas '07.. but it's impressive~ (i dun even noe if the person who came up with this is bo liao or smart.. lol)

Is there a Santa Claus?

No known species of reindeer can fly. BUT there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen.
There are 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world. BUT since Santa doesn't (appear) to handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total - 378 million according to Population Reference Bureau. At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million homes. One presumes there's at least one good child in each.
Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house. Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for the purposes of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75-1/2 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding and etc.
This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second; a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour.
The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that "flying reindeer" (see point #1) could pull TEN TIMES the normal anoint, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine. We need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload - not even counting the weight of the sleigh - to 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison - this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth.
353,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance - this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecrafts re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy. Per second. Each. In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second. Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250-pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force.
In conclusion - If Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he's dead now.
Based on the research of SPY magazine, January 1990.

The New AGe Male Clothes Shop

2007-01-03T18:51:00.000+08:00

" Bonjour!! Welcome to Paris!! Are you shopping for clothes for your boyfriend/husband/brother/male friend? You duno their sizes?? You've come to the correct shop!! We've male models clad in ONLY boxers walking ard the shop. Feel free to call upon them to try on clothes for ya okie? "

Pengz.. this is ridiculous rite? but i saw it on the news yesterday. haha.. the husbands/bfs shld b damn worried lah.. okie mayb i'm jealous. how come there's no such shop in SG?? den i can jus go ogle at guys mah.. n my pickup line will be "hi can u put this on for me?" n den the most jian4 part is after them trying on the clothes and all, i'll jus leave the shop w/o buying.. :P

New year entry!

2007-01-02T02:26:00.000+08:00

shit i wanted to blog on the 1st day of 2007. missed it. lol. i was doing some blog-surfing ytd, n i seem to realise a trend to do some reflections on 2006 and hav some new yr resolutions for 2007. well mayb i shld do tt too, since i'm a trend-follower, and the last time i wrote any new yr resolutions was the time i started my blog, which is a couple of yrs ago

hmmmm... come to think of it, nothing significant or happening went on for me in 2006. i tink i din make any new frens in 2006. nor did i get a bf. the 1st half of the yr was internship, n den it was perhaps the 1st summer break where i din get a job. jus nua-ed my way till sem starts. n den it was a whole load of mugging.
well dere r a few special things tt happened.
1st, i had my 1st aeroplane ride of my life. finally managed to travel to places outside of singapore n malaysia. frankly, i tot tt travelling jus feels like having a void in ur life which u cannot account for when u come bac to singapore. haha. but nonetheless, i miss taiwan. i wanna go bac....

2nd, some frenships were strengthened. found new mahjong khakis.
3rd, totally unplanned, i went for new year countdown at the esplanade. well i din plan to go, since in my opinion i'm not close to the happening ppl i noe, and the ppl i'm close to are not the countdown type. but in the end, my dad was psycho-ed by my cousin to go countdown. so i tot might as well go loh. and it was until this time when i finally realised how no life 2006 had been for me. it's been ages since i went to the merlion park, a place i like quite abit cos it gives me a feeling of serenity.

that aside, i had a pretty ok countdown. i met all 3 kinds of ppl which i feel is essential to have a satisfying countdown. no.1 type are the ones who'll forcefully push their way thru the crowd when everyone can barely move oredi. n the auntie even said "u noe why i'm here? cos i walked the wrong way!" , a sentence which made me laugh out loud in my heart. no. 2 type are the ones who'll scold the no. 1 types for pushing when dere's no more space to move! it was pretty fun to hear them say "relax la auntie. cannot move oredi.. jus stand here n wait for the fireworks." but i was oso abit worried tt the auntie will push until ppl fall down n get injured, me included. n the 3rd type of ppl are the ones who'll scold the police n ask them to remove the barricade after the fireworks is over. heh.

well besides meeting these 3 kinds of ppl, a countdown would not b complete without
1) hearing the "wooooohh"s from the crowd when the fireworks haven come at all,
2) squeezing in a crowd which is totally immobile,
3) hearing all the "wah"s when the pretty fireworks are in the sky,
4) climbing over bridges and all to find a way outta the crowd,5) and walking for ages to reunite with the rest of the family/frens.

so all in all, i'm still a happening person in 2006 cos i went for countdown.
now for the new year. actualli i dun haf much gan3 chu4 for the new year. instead, i've more gan chu in that the last sch holidays of my life is gonna end soon. this semester will b the last semester of my sch life. i'm entering the nex phase of my life which i've no clue about. i always say to ppl ard me tt it's human nature to b unsatisfied about ur life. when i'm studying, i'll tink tt working is good. oni office hours, after tt go home can jus enjoy urself. somemore u're being paid! budden when i'm working, n cannot doze off as n when i like, i'll start thinking, why m i doing this to myself? i can jolly well quit n go home to take my nap. studying is much better, can jus switch off whenever i like. but at the end of the day, i do realise tt i prefer studying to working. as of now of cos. hee. so i'm a little sad tt my student life is gonna b over soon. n i'll b forced to grow up.
okie i've decided tt i dun wanna make new year resolutions. cos i dun keep to them anywae. haha.. okie okie fine. i'll make some.. ermmm... be a better person? have a more fulfilling life? hahaha.. okie serious n routine stuff is over. lemme tell u all some news.
i bought a hse!!!

nah this is a preview of the new hse i'm gonna build. but if u all hav been to the hse i'm living in now, or heard me say b4, my room basically has no tables which can be used. put in a clearer way, my room has no empty surface except the walls. every single horizontal spot tt can b used to put things is oredi occupied. so even if i build my hse now, dere's no where to display them. i gotta fins a land for my new hse! (i.e my hse will oni b set up in AGES)

man i've always loved this kinda things. when i was doing xmas shopping last yr, i saw this thing where they let u literally build ur own hse with cement, but it's in wood of cos. n i tot it was realli cool n nice!!! but it costs $18.90 so i tot it's abit ridiculous to buy this kinda thing for myself. hee.

okokie lastly, gotta put up xmas presents photos..

this is from dawndawn n minmin.

n this is from shiyu, ja9 n meizhen.

i like my xmas presents.

Photos of dec hols '06

2006-12-31T04:46:00.000+08:00

Some photos to keep u ppl informed of wat i've been doing in the hols..

Dwarves Stayover 08122006
(click on me!!)
Squadmates Xmas Stayover '06
(click on me!!)

More to come!

but i may b lazy tho.. so duno when den will b up. hahah

A Xmas Cards Entry

2006-12-30T18:28:00.000+08:00

hehe.. tho i'm not a christian, i still like to celeb xmas.. like the lovey dovey atmosphere, like the xmas songs, like the presents!!! of cos, i've some xmas traditions with some grp of frens tt i love to keep. okie anywae i got quite a few xmas cards this yr. so here's a tribute for those who took the effort to write/make/email me a xmas card.

Thank you Camy.
Thank you Simin.
Thank you Janine.
Thank you Meizhen.
Thank you Cheewei.

okie. since i'm at it, thank you to all who gave me xmas presents! (photos will be up soon, u ppl who read my blogspot blog. )

Virgin Pedicure

2006-12-30T18:04:00.000+08:00

Ta-dah!!! my virgin pedicure..

eeyore looks curious..

okie pardon the wrinkled feet okie. heh. heard from ex-colleagues tt pedi and manicure is like the pringles tagline "once u start, u can't stop!" but eh, it din feel all tt fascinating leh.. tho i mus say it looks kinda pretty. haha..

lalalalalaaaaaaa

2006-12-18T00:28:00.000+08:00

oh my godd... this is so blog-worthy.. tho i'm doing publicity for THEM by blogging, i cannot help but be disgusted with the 2 china hostel guys! u all noe who i'm referring to? okokie in case u all duno, lemme search for their infamous video..
apparently i saw their faces on chn U news today n i was like.. "wtf are they doing on the news, and so long after their debut on youtube?!@~?!?" now guess wat, they've not only gained popularity on the internet, they've even had statues in the red jacket shown in the video!!!!! unless my eyes were playing tricks on me, i saw the statues!!! n gosh! they even have artiste contracts now! ARGH. they're like william hung rite? hahaha.

but point to note. i've nothing against them lah.. jus tt... how come lidat oso can famous?!~?!

okie reflecting on this incident, dwarves, let's publicise our sampat video. i'll claim credit for being the videographer. n i wanna b ur jing1 li3 ren2 if u all get famous. n i wanna claim 10% of ur earnings. we'll b famous, esp with ur beauty. hahahahah

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on a different note, i watched "The Santa Clause II" on chn 5 jus now. gers normally love xmas shows. i prefer xmas shows WITH santa, n all the toys for the children. so nice nice nice nice nice! hahah.. nothing els much to say, so

Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year!?~

"recent updates: october 29"

2006-12-09T19:23:00.000+08:00

wah.. someone (bashful) said "recent updates: october 29" to me for at least 3 times in one night wor.. but as yet, even tho exams ended, i still dun haf mood to blog.. so i shall jus "patronise" by showing this video. haha jus joking lah

i tot that the video is pretty hilarious.. hehe. by the way, in case ppl sue me for infringement of intellectual ppty, i got this video from cheewei's fren's blog. okie. reference liao shld b okie liao rite? no plagarism

okie tt said, till the time i feel like blogging.

Reminiscence

2006-10-29T23:17:00.000+08:00

In the midst of work and deadlines, i managed to have a slack day ytd! 1st, i went K lunch wif NY gers aka Rainbow gers aka 7 dwarfs? ermm photos are not well-taken cos it was dark n taken by my lousy HP camera (wonder y it's still lousy despite it being 2megapix ) but u noe, jus to make my blog look more colourful, i'll gif u all the best shot taken.
haha.. well in my opinion this is realli the best shot.. but to satisfy pervertic idiots out dere who read my blog and are interested in my pretty frens, i shall gif u all a tho lousily-taken-but-still-can-c-faces-photo.
ok. happy? satisfied? den let's move on wif the day.. well after K lunch, i had to go to sch.. sad life yah. haha.. skip the boring part. after some consultation, some figuring out of stuff, managed to get matlab code running. waited 2 hours, no results. so we decided to leave it running and go for dinner. OUTSIDE SCHOOL! yea big deal. but it realli is a big deal to me. haha.. damn long ne'er eat dinner anywhere besides in school and at home le.

so we went adams' road tt market for main course, and to serene centre for dessert. the ice cream dere quite cute leh. got unique flavours like chendol, bandung, pulut hitam, nutella, horlicks, apple pie etc. n cos of halloween the waitresses dressed up. so overall it was quite nice n oh, in case u all r interested i had pulut hitam flavour.

okie all these above is an introduction. hahaha. so by going to bukit timah..

i miss my secondary sch days.

i miss serene center (study in mac..)
i miss KAP (study in mac too? haha)
i miss KAP cold storage (the sorta diy triangular sushi besides eatting mac)
i miss sixth ave venezia (ice cream treats)
i miss coro ke ai ji (lemon ckn rice + lucky plate)
i miss coro prince ($6 western set meal wif free flow drinks)
i miss coro cozy corner stairs (jus do nothing n chat)
i miss coro neoprint machines (duh take neoprint loh)
i miss walking down the road from old NY campus to coro plaza
i miss walking from new NY campus to coro plaza

okie i guess tt's enuff for now. n i sorta noe how come i got so fat during sec sch.

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on a different note, today i was jus tinking abt how stores wif famous food are all not located in woodlands. n jus now i was watching tv, u all noe the "排排站，查查看“ variety show? where they go ard chking for food stalls where ppl Q for very long, n try the food to c if it's worth the Q. so jus now on tv they were recommending this bak chor mee stall at 888 plaza, where i used to eat alot during my IA days! haha..

so outta this, i had 2 tots.
1) so woodlands has a famous food stall.
2) the variety show say alot of ppl Q for the bak chor mee. but everytime i go, no need to Q de. hahahahah..

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2006-10-25T19:29:00.000+08:00

i told myself i have to work hard this sem cos i chose interest over grades.

only the "over grades" part of the above sentence is perhaps coming true.

Public holiday no. 2 -- Selamat Hari Raya Aidifiltri~

2006-10-25T02:50:00.000+08:00

hehe i still owe this blog a lot of photos and backdated entries, which i happen to not haf written. haha.. well for all who still dunno, this lack of update is due to the disgusting workload of NUS okie? lol. no time to surf net n do boliao stuff for a few weeks. tt's disgusting. u noe dere's a chinese 成语 called "废寝忘食“. in these few weeks, diff groups sacrificed different things in order to rush for deadlines. my group? we chose 废寝， i.e doing proj overnight. well i would haf loved to 忘食 instead, as it in my opinion will b a healthier option (can 减肥 + wun lose my beauty slp n worsen my complexion). haha.. but alas, my grpmates are just not such ppl. hehe..

oops. unknowingly the intro to this blog entry has dragged on and on. guess i jus can't not complain huh. hee. so anywae, i oni meant to say: "now that one set of deadlines has past, before i plunge into this black hole to meet the nex set of deadlines, i tot i shall make an entry." today is public holiday. so i've decided to gif myself a break n not go to sch. that being said, i still cannot get past slacking the whole day away without doing any work. so ermm i jus slack 3/4 of the day? hehe. schedule of the day was to go shopping at causeway point wif my mum and watch 2 movies on tv due to the public hol and lastly, do my long overdue FYP report introduction, which luckily my prof is not pushing me to show him. lol.

so if u noe me well enough, in order to not make myself feel too guilty, i did my usual stunt of multi-tasking. i.e. type my report and watch tv at the same time. movie no. 1 is Daddy Day Care by Eddie Murphy. nice leh.. i like eddie murphy's shows, and i like shows wif kids. i.e. the show is very nice. n so, i concentrated on watching the show and.. only type my rpt during commercials. hahaha.. movie no. 2 is Panic Room. watched it a long time ago and i remembered it to be a very nice show. so decided to watch it again today. but it's not as nice the 2nd time le.. cos altho i've a lousy memory n cannot rem the details of the show, i can still rem the exciting parts. so there is no thrill watsoever watching it the 2nd time. haha. no fun. mayb it could oso b cos i was not concentrating on the show. i was concentrating more on typing my rpt. now that's a phenomenon. hahaha

oh den one interesting thing to share. u all noe the tsing tao (青岛) beer? i'm not sure if i've drunk it before, but i was watching a sorta documentary jus now while i was still typing my rpt, n i found the way the locals drink the beer quite cute!! in tsing tao, they dun sell the beer in cans or bottles or cups, they sell it in plastic bags. without straws. !~?!~? so how do they drink it?

1) they light a cigarette, and use it to
2) poke a hole in the plastic bag above the beer fluid level
3) n they squeeze the plastic bag such that beer will squirt outta the hole
4) ermm den they drink? hahaha
5) step 2 is done if they dun wanna finish the bag of beer. if they wanna finish it right, just rip off one corner of the plastic bag at the bottom la.

lol.. i tot tt this way of drinking is rather ingenious. okie mayb not so, but it's something which i've not thought of. so it's pretty cute. heh.

lastly, before i go bac to my fyp rpt, jus a sidenote.. i tot i've oredi made settings such that comments to my posts will be forwarded to my email. but once in a while when i log in, i do manage to read comments that are posted like a month ago. hahaha.. i m pleasantly surprised when some comments are made by frens' frens. well sometime i oso read blogs of frens' frens whom i duno. but i wun comment lah.. so to those who duno me n yet comment, thanks ah. while i wanna attempt to be frenly and respond to comments, esp those made by ppl i duno, i find it kinda weird to reply like ermmm.. a month ltr. lol.

Happy Children's Day!

2006-10-02T03:57:00.000+08:00

曾几何时，我已经不再期待儿童节？已经不再抱怨 ”为何今天是儿童节而我没有假期？“

也许我真的长大了？还是我已经麻木了？

不过，我知道我的思想，行为举止都还是相当的幼稚。所以应该不是真的长大了吧，只是因为功课繁忙而忘了，或者是因为太多年没有庆祝儿童节，所以已经渐渐地把它遗忘。。。

hahaha.. felt good trying to write a little in chinese.. anywae, children's day was revived in my heart when meizhen sent me a children's day sms, saying tt we're not too old to still enjoy children's day yah? but alas, after silently agreeing to that, i had to go bac to doing my assignment till now, and forfeit any kind of celeb possible. lol. Happy Children's Day! (now belated of cos. hehe)

Emotional turmoil?

2006-09-30T17:39:00.000+08:00

gosh i dun even noe if i consider today to b a lucky day or an unlucky day.. ytd night, when i realised the pressing mid-term tests, the homework assignment due, the various project deadlines, and most importantly, the lack of time to complete all these tasks, i figured i
have to sacrifice my sleep. so i was trying to study in the middle of the night when my bro walked in and said "i finally finished applying for BP's job". den he started to tell me tt actualli wat the traders' programme for BP is realli about, and i realised tt i can apply for it too. which is wat i've been trying to do recently -- applying for every company that is offering a position that i remotely haf a chance of getting. n den my bro said "yah okie. go apply. the deadline is tml. or
technically speaking, it's today"

i was appalled. damn damn last min. to top that, BP actualli requires us to answer some QUESTIONS... u noe, those kind "describe a challenge u faced" etc. so i stared at the
thing for a good half hour b4 i decided i shld gif up n jus wake up early later to do it b4 i go to sch for proj meeting. so after a few hours of slp, i woke up, spent a good few hours which could haf been spent studying for either my microE or econs test on the questionaire, rushed out my cover letter and resume, n decided to go to sch for proj meeting 1st cos i was damn late oredi and shun bian ask regina to help mi vet my resume b4 i submit the application online.

so i reached sch an hour late, discussed a little project, n couldn't hold my nervousness anymore as i was afraid that the online submission will haf a time limit as it is a saturday today. so i interrupted the meeting n asked regina to help me vet so tt i can submit. so it was done, and i wanted to submit mi application online at 4.50pm.

....

guess wat? the job application i wanted to apply to, is gone!! WTH. got time limit duno how to write ah? damn sianz.. after all the effort. but nice nice regina (n also thelma) consoled me and told me that i could call the office, leave a voicemail saying tt i'm sorry i missed the deadline as i din noe dere's a time limit, and pray to god that they'll accept my application by post. so i went to compose and rehearse my speech to the voicemail machine.

yaddle yaddle. okie rehearsed. den i called the office. "i'm sorry... we're closed... office hours is... you can press a number to transfer to (this line the automated machine repeat 2 times)... transfer cancelled... if you've an extension to dial pls do so now... no extension. good bye." den the phone hung up. WTH!~!!~!~ where got office no voicemail one!?~!~??~

so my last resort is to jus send the application through post den call the office on monday loh.. bo bian rite. so after we finally conclude proj meeting today, which is not productive again despite us trying VERY HARD, i came home with a heavy heart and the tot of typing my apology letter and posting out the application immed. i started typing the letter, n decided to chk the application once more.

TADAH! the job application appeared!!! n the deadline is extended to 2oct~ so i happily applied online. this stupid BP application.. i realli duno if it made my day or spoilt my day. pui.

i'm damn stressed!!!! 2 mid-term tests nex nex week, one hmwk assignment due this tues, 2 projects which are due soon, of cos one is DAMN difficult, plus my fyp. i tink i dun haf to slp this week. hehe

Revamping my room..

2006-09-28T02:59:00.000+08:00

As wat ngla has been saying, we apply a lot of Newton's 1st law of motion in our daily life. i.e. "Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it." So my mum has been nagging on moving my cousin n my younger bro from the living room into my room. so tt the living room can serve its original purpose. n i've been putting her off cos as newton's 1st law states, i haven found the external force. or rather, the external force (my mum), is still not strong enuff.

but for the past few weeks, the force has strengthened and i've been making weekly trips wif mi parents to various furniture warehouse and exhibitions to source for a suitable bedframe tt can house 3 ppl and yet b able to fit into mi made-small-by-alot-of-furniture room. of cos this is no easy task. any suitable bedframe would mean a double deck plus a pull-out bed at the bottom. n tt, as u can imagine, are all childrens' bedframe.. those colourful colourful ones. which is wat makes this task a difficult one. cos i reject all of them mah. i dun wan my room to look kiddish okie!! hehe.. but as wat they say "皇天不负苦心人“。 my mum's efforts finally paid off n we managed to find one which is jus plain white n dark brown. n den another wardrobe oso damn cheap. so it was decided tt i shall get a change of bed and wardrobe.

so in order to make room for the new bed, my original bed, my 2 bedside tables, which happen to b great storage spaces, have to be eliminated. den alas, i realise tt the old space where i put mi wardrobe, the new wardrobe cannot fit in!! dimensions not right. so we decided to orientate my room in a diff manner.

so today, the day b4 the new furniture comes, we gotta remove all relevant stuff to make space.
1) clear out wardrobe, so all my clothes are left in mi elder bro's room.
2) dismantle the old bedframe.
3) clear out the 2 bedside table stuff
4) as we move the old wardrobe away, we realised tt as the new wardrobe is bigger, i've to throw away my study table too (which consist of 3 drawers, 2 glass cabinet of stuff)
5) wipe clean the floor, removing the layers n layers of dust tt has gathered at the spots behind the furniture which my mum couldn't have reached

so at the end of the day, i feel as if i'm throwing away my room. n i've facing a 莫名的失落感 now. no more queen size bed for me, ALONE. for the past few days i've been cherishing the time i haf wif mi bed. i'm not making the excuse to slp okie. from tml onwards, i'm gonna lose the freedom of having my own room, the luxury of sleeping on a queen size bed, n of cos not to mention the trouble of cleaning the room after the new furniture is set up, the hassle of putting all mi clothes back into e new wardrobe, the relocation of the at least 6 drawers of stuff (i haven packed them cos i practically threw everything tt was used to store stuff, now no place to put them), and the stuff i used to put under my bed (now there's no more "under the bed" cos dere's a pullout bed), the allocating of the new storage space (which realli isn't a lot) btw me n mi younger bro, and oso to kick my younger bro's ass into packing his own stuff tt's lying ard the room now.

i'm still sad. i duno y i'm feeling sad over such a small matter. but i jus feel sad okie!!! stupid newton's law of motion. with a sudden external force, i gotta do so many things. i took photos of my room b4 revamp, n during revamp. tml after i'm done wif taking the photos of after revamp, i'll upload the fotos when i feel like it.. :(

i'll miss my bed. i'll cherish my last night of togetherness...

Where has time gone??

2006-09-26T20:38:00.000+08:00

noticed tt i haven been blogging for a while now, not tt nothing has been happening in mi life, jus tt i haven found the urge to blog. was browsing thru everyone's blogs tt i normally read, n found out tt many of them have blogged alot and i haven been reading them. but yet again, i din finish reading them cos either it's simply too much or i'm too restless to read heh. till nex time when i've the mood den.

mid-term break for sch has started, n i've been trying to remind myself the workload that is building up. but somehow, i still feel happily relaxed and slack, not at all feeling that half the semester has gone. i.e. it's time to study for midterms, get worried abt projs, try to catch up wif mods so tt it wun b too tough studying for exams ltr.

in the midst of all these however, i haven had time to watch tv! i've been struggling to catch up wif my tv. i'm oni watching 2 hours of tv everyday and i've been trying to watch it in the wee hours of the night, not to mention tt i dun actualli finish watching mi 2 hours everyday.

so in summary, i haven been surfing net (blogging/reading blogs), haven been studying, haven been watching tv. dere mus b something wrong ard here. either time has miraculously just passed by without me knowing, or i mus be doing something els passing time which i dun even noe/remember.

i might b suffering from amnesia i guess.. =P

S.H.E 5th yr anniversary

2006-09-13T00:44:00.000+08:00

I watched Yu le bai fen bai today. the episode was on S.H.E's 5th yr anniversary tribute. S.H.E is sorta the oni ger band tt i like a lot. they are kinda impt to me in the sense tt they sorta bonded me n my squadmates together. cos most of mi squadmates like them alot. haha.. so do i. i often find their songs very tranquilizing n soothing. when i'm stressed, sad, happy, i like to listen to their songs. haha.. n i ne'er grow tired of them.

so anywae, the show did a recap of all their albums n major happenings in their career life. it was den tt i realised, hey i've heard all their album songs, at least the main hits. n i've watched the variety shows they hosted, n i've watched the major drama serials they acted in. haha.. i'm such a supportive fan of theirs. but one thing i realise, tho i like them alot. i've actualli ne'er bot any album or drama or watever tt belongs to them! haha.. cos i always can get it from mi frens. oops. :P

personality test.

2006-09-11T23:09:00.000+08:00

hmmm got this personality test link (http://www.quizbox.com/personality/test82.aspx) from weiting's blog. liked it quite a bit cos the Qs are like totally irrelevant to wat comes out from the test. so i cannot try to conform my personality cos i dunno which choice will correspond to wat. haha. so anywae results are as follows, which i tot either quite describes me (i will italic them) or describes wat i wanna b like (i will bold them). hehe

Your view on yourself:

You are down-to-earth and people like you because you are so straightforward. You are an efficient problem solver because you will listen to both sides of an argument before making a decision that usually appeals to both parties.

The type of girlfriend/boyfriend you are looking for:

You like serious, smart and determined people. You don't judge a book by its cover, so good-looking people aren't necessarily your style. This makes you an attractive person in many people's eyes.

Your readiness to commit to a relationship:

You prefer to get to know a person very well before deciding whether you will commit to the relationship.

The seriousness of your love:

You are very serious about relationships and aren't interested in wasting time with people you don't really like. If you meet the right person, you will fall deeply and beautifully in love.

Your views on education

Education is very important in life. You want to study hard and learn as much as you can.

The right job for you:

You're a practical person and will choose a secure job with a steady income. Knowing what you like to do is important. Find a regular job doing just that and you'll be set for life.

How do you view success:

You are afraid of failure and scared to have a go at the career you would like to have in case you don't succeed. Don't give up when you haven't yet even started! Be courageous.

What are you most afraid of:

You are concerned about your image and the way others see you. This means that you try very hard to be accepted by other people. It's time for you to believe in who you are, not what you wear.

Who is your true self:

You are mature, reasonable, honest and give good advice. People ask for your comments on all sorts of different issues. Sometimes you might find yourself in a dilemma when trapped with a problem, which your heart rather than your head needs to solve.

Playing wif words + RIP $20 blouse

2006-09-09T22:57:00.000+08:00

me: ma u buy titbits again ah?
ma: yah
me: wah lau lidat 那里受（瘦）得了？受（瘦）不了啦！！

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*me sitting on parents' bed facing the mirror. doing =D expression.
dad: eh wat r u doing?
me: 笑 loh.
*ma start to laugh.
me: oei is 笑 la not SIAO lah!!!

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欠扁问答题： The 11th Book. 猜一个成语。

Ans: 不可思议。 (book 11)

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R.I.P
$20 blouse
Aged approx 2 months
Born in Bugis street store

well.. it died cos it couldn't withstand the effects of chemicals. ie. it 脱色. i oni wore it like a few times. so after it went thru the 1st wash (hand wash somemore ok!!), it managed to stain itself lah.. black part of blouse stain white part of blouse. but i duno if it's i 迟钝 or i've no emotions. but i'm not tt sad afterall.. somemore it "injured" another blouse loh. blouse no. 2 is in ER now. operation results tell u all when it's done.

okie i'm jus abit sad. the dead blouse is quite nice afterall :|

classes..

2006-09-07T01:39:00.000+08:00

someone said mi prev post had signs of depression wor.. but dun worry mi frens. cos i'm not worried. haha.. i've a very strong pt in me which i like. i'm very good at escaping from reality. i admit tt sometimes i tink too much (which i attribute to me havin an inferior complex), or gets very stressed cos of sch work. but i can jus "okie i'll stop tinking abt it now. nex time den tink of ways to solve this", or jus cry it out, or complain to ppl or blog it in private/public mode. n den i'm okie oredi. back to my lazy slack self.

so anywae, i wanna thank all who has expressed concern. weiting, pof, jiating, cheez, dawndawn, and cheewei who altho din "console" me, told cheez, meaning she was concerned mah. hehe. n everyone els who din manage to say "meiying dun stress lah" cos i din haf a chance to meet up. i assume all mi frens are concerned abt me thank you :)

oh by the way, today i watched an episode of "the Oprah show". ermm actualli i dun realli noe if this is the name of the show. i oni watch it occasionally when i do channel-hopping. it's the talkshow which is hosted by Oprah Winfrey. so today's topic was on Classes. the high class, low class thing. i was kinda shocked by some of the traits tt americans used to characterise lower class ppl.

1) obesity ( fat ppl = low class cos they dun haf the $$ or make the effort to keep fit. wth)
2) big loop earrings (luckily i dun haf any. hehe)
3) golden glitter as makeup (this one i dun understd y...)
4) dirty fingernails (|||)
5) occupation. e.g. garbageman (well i admit i do characterise for this one too...)

n den they found a upper middle class (UMC) family and a lower working class (LWC) family to make comparisons. from the way they live, to the way they bring up their kids. the way they live is obvious. tt's y they're segregated into different classes mah. but i din realise the thing abt bringing up kids.

Discipline:
LWC - 1) kids are taught tt they're supposed to earn wat they want/need.
2) if kids are naughty, kenna scolding, haf to tink y they're wrong. grounded etc.
UMC - 1) kids dun haf this idea. n when parents dun wanna buy them the things they wan, they'll ask "how come i cannot have this?"
2) if kids are naughty, scold oso wun listen. grounding/confiscating things at most can oni be done for a few days. parents gotten sucummb to negotiating wif kids.

Playing:
LWC - kids cannot roam outside their hse n play on their own without the company of their parents cos the estate is dangerous.
UMC - kids can roam ard themselves, they can play soccer, swim etcetc.

Expectations:
LWC - "i hope mi kids can get into a college"
UMC - "it's expected tt all mi kids haf to get into college"

That was pretty interesting in mi opinion. the UMC kids are simply spoilt brats lah.. u shld c how they totally dun listen to their mum. haha.. if being in upper class means lidat, mayb not being in upper class betta leh hehe. it also got me thinking which class me/my family belongs to. i tink it's a hybrid of these 2 classes. for the discipline criteria, i'm proud to say tt mi parents taught me well and tt i've the concept of the LWC (tho it's LWC thinking.. wth haha). for the latter 2 criteria, it's UMC thinking for us.

so i hereby classify mi family as... LMC. lower middle class? heheh..

random tots..

2006-09-03T01:30:00.000+08:00

random tots..

gonna make multiply mi photobase, tho i haven started on it. did i mention how impressed i m wif multiply? not the photo part. it's the rest.
1) videos. can import straight from youtube wateva i've uploaded dere oredi.
2) blog entries. gosh it can copy all mi blog entries over from blogger n post it on mi multiply site str away! n it promises to do the same for future entries. i.e. i can blog on multiply n cross-post on mi blogger. or i can blog on blogger n jus import it onto multiply. :)
so meanwhile. u all can choose to visit mi multiply site too. http://meiyingg.multiply.com/
it'll look nicer in future, when i've the mood.

i went out ytd. wif the rainbow gers, to far east sq. i consider a nice night out despite mi feet hurting cos of mi stupid shoes. i love to go to new places, eat at new restaurants, etc. u'll understd wat i'm saying if u understd how i feel. hehe. anywae we ate at this belgium restaurant called Ooster's Belgian xxxxx. yeah i duno the full name of the place. hahahaha. but the place serves great mussels. i'm not a big fan of seafood. so when i say it's nice, it's nice la k. n i had mi 1st hoegardden. aiyah duno how to spell. but it's quite good.

oh i digressed. i wanted to say, i learnt this anxious syndrome thingy from mi fren. ermm sorry if i got the name wrong. n i din noe tt being stressed/anxious/vexed abt things in life can b serious until need to take medication. to me i always tot it's oni those realli serious cases like schizophenia (ermm as usual i duno how to spell) tt needs medication. hmm b4 i go on i mus make a disclaimer. "i dun haf any bad intentions or meaning when i tok abt this." okie continue. according to wat i learnt, it can jus b acting abnormally towards things. like screaming or being depressed for a long time over something trivial. or throwing things ard? basically something tt u will normally not do.

so wat has this gotta do wif me? i'm jus trying to say tt.. i'm not coping well now. yr 4 is realli stressing me out. n i can't help but tink bac to this anxious syndrome thingy. argh i duno how to get mi idea across in words... anywae this is a list of things i'm doing now which i dun like. n some of them makes me wonder if i'm still sane.. :|

1) escaping from reality: sleeping for the entire day when i keep on telling miself tt i've a lot of work to do. n by entire day i realli do mean entire day.

2) depressed for most of the time. n eating a whole load of things to get miself outta it. currently i'm trying the marshmellow therapy. this is kinda a vicious cycle.
sad over sch -> find things to eat to make myself happier -> dun feel happier -> start getting sad tt i'm gorging myself n i'll get fat -> get sad tt i'm gonna get fat n not slim down -> find things to eat etc.

3) scenario: dad playing game on mi pc when i merely walked away to the toilet. i requested for the usage of pc immed cos i need to do work, dad continued wif his game. i was so upset tt i said if he dun lemme use i'll go shopping now when i've no intentions of doing so. walked to mi room door to get clothes n in the end sank down to the floor, begging him to lemme use, on the verge of crying. n all these were done with totally no grounds. cos i wasn't even concentrating on research. i was oni half doing research, half watching youtube.

4) i couldn't take it when mi younger bro refused to switch off the tv, when he played songs from his hp. i couldn't stand the noise. to the extent tt i screamed even tho i knew mi parents were sleeping jus so tt he will turn off the tv and his hp music player. n i couldn't stop the tears from falling after tt, tho i managed to stop it within 10sec.

i hate myself in 3 n 4. i hate it when ppl haf to do things my way. it makes me such a spoilt brat. i'm so lucky tt mi father n mi younger bro loves me enuff to give in to me when dere isn't even a reason to. so are these symptoms tt i m not handling the stress well? T_T

long time good frens

2006-08-30T01:54:00.000+08:00

wonder if it's the stress i've been facing recently, but i'm exceptionally emotional these few weeks. feeling very heartwarmed by a lot of things said/done by some frens, even tho it was done via the virtual space, across continents etc. realli wanna do sth for all mi good frens out dere who are facing probs. long-time good frens are realli never to b, n never can be replaced isn't it?

i'm not good in expressing myself. so here's a song. jus heard it on yu le bai fen bai. especially like the chorus tt i bold and italic. interprete it however u wan okie!

Title: 口袋的天空
Singer: 张韶涵

明天的
故事都是我的
是我的
所谓的
幸福快乐
我学会了抉择

你的背影
远得像雾了
我不再
回头
当脚步被回忆绑着
我跑过沙漠
我不要变得小小的
找不到自我
好象被什么人放在口袋
没天空

明天的
故事都是我的
是我的
所谓的
幸福快乐
不止一种

美丽的
春夏秋冬落叶是我的
体验过才懂
梦是什么

Balik Kampung event

2006-08-28T00:38:00.000+08:00

hop scotch. aeroplane chess. marbles. diy styrofoam plane. flipping rubber game. pick up stix. a tube of weird coloured stuff where u can blow into a plastic balloon wif a straw, n smash it into a fren's face. happy family cards.

does any of these sound familiar to u? at least it does to me. these were all the games i played when i was young. on saturday, i went to part-time at mi cousin's event, where the theme is balik kampung, revisiting all the old childhood games, wooden tables n chairs, ding ding candy n malt candy, n even a barber who doesn't use a shaver! he uses this weird shaped thing which looks like a eyelash curler in mi opinion to cut hair. n his customers get to sit on this wooden stool, i duno how to describe, but once u c it u'll confirm identify wif it, providing u belong to mi generation. hehe

so i had a good sense of nostalgia working at this event. n for entertainment purposes, they haf this game which i guess is sorta copied from tw. it's a game where u'll haf 4 flags, all different coloured, controlled by ur hands n legs. the host will gif commands "red flag up, white flag down, blue flag mus come up" and u'll haf to stupidly follow the commands lah. to gif u all a betta idea, here's a video of us playing it, after everyone has left.
p/s: take note of the rightmost player in the 1st min.. nearly spoilt the props!! lol

hmm the resolution of the video very poor.. when i get a betta version from mi cousin n if i'm hardworking i'll change it ok? hehe

i liked the game, ever since i watched it on a tw variety show yrs ago. if i asked u which type of ppl cannot play this game, i guess the common answers will be
1) ppl who are colour blind
2) ppl who cannot coordinate their hands n legs well
3) ppl who are slow

well i haf another grp of ppl to contribute.
4) ppl who are partially deaf.

n i belong to this last category.. not literally i meant. i dun haf doctors' verification or wat. i jus happen to tink so. which is y i lost.. i cannot hear the commands properly!! haha

How Un-malaysian am i?

2006-08-26T04:40:00.000+08:00

How Un-malaysian am i?

As most of u noe, i'm oni a S'porean PR. i.e i'm not local n i'm a malaysian. n as most of u noe too, i've been born n bred in SG. hence i'll admit i'm very non-malaysian. i duno how to speak malay. dunno mi way ard malaysia. ne'er lived in malaysia for more den a mth anytime in mi life.

So i was reading an entry on Kennysia's blog (http://www.kennysia.com) jus now, n so i decided to do his quiz on how un-malaysian i am... and so the results is as follows... well at least i've some "malaysian" in me.. budden the way i answered the Qs.. tink any singaporean can attain mi results too. haha.. gif it a try, even if u're not a malaysian. :)

Congratulations meiying, you are 41% not Malaysian.

That means you're as Malaysian as...

Michelle Yeoh!

How Un-Malaysian Are You?

missing cup noodles + xuanhong's bdae present + stress

2006-08-26T00:53:00.001+08:00

The mystery of the missing cup noodle.

day: today
time: 8am
scenario:
boil water, brush teeth, go toilet. water boiled, turn to get cup noodle. !!!!!!!!! it's gone!

suspect no. 1 = mummy
analysis:
impossible. she will NEVER eat my cup noodle.

suspect no. 2 = younger bro
analysis:
well.. he couldn't b so cruel enough to eat it for breakfast after he has eaten his share for supper ytd. n he jolly well noes tt cup is mine! n he, being a lazy bum, will haf no time in the morning to gobble down a cup noodle.

suspect no. 3 = father
analysis:
can't b sure.. so i called him. he's the oni one i can call cos both mummy n younger bro cannot pick up fone at work/in sch. n daddy duno the whereabouts of mi cup noodles. so not him.

suspect no. 4 = elder bro.
analysis:
not him.. din even come home ytd.

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i complained to 2 ppl abt this.. n one of them said i'm treating this as if i'll go make a police report. |||^_^

well to solve the mystery, when mummy came home from work.

me: ma where's mi cup noodles???
ma: tot u ate it for supper ytd? it wasn't on the table this morn when i woke up.
me: it's missing!
ma: *laughing* mus b korkor ate it lah.
me: but kor ne'er come home ytd wat!!!! din c him when i slp, din c him when i woke up!!!
ma: he came home ytd.. for a while.

... n den i whine n scream n complain... den after a while

number dialling.. kor's hp.
me: *one sentence of small tok*
kor: *ans to mi small tok*
me: *couldn't hold it bac any further* eh u ate mi cup noodle ah!?~?!?!
kor: yah.
me: u dunno it's mi breakfast ah!~? u duno in the end i dun haf breakfast to eat ah? u duno ...
etc etc..
kor: *jus laughing his way thru*

yeah.. so i jus yaddled away.. not in a serious scolding tone of cos..

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looking thru a foto blog of a prev jc fren. currently in aust now for studies. had a bf since when i knew her. tt's at least abt 5yrs now. she had her bdae recently, n he sent her her bdae present.. handmade!!!

so sweet lah.. 5 yrs into the r/s, still make so much effort.. commendable leh.. this stationery holder, the cute anime character, the coconut tree, the testtube. damn sweet. n as if this is not sweet enuff, he even implanted a surprise in the present!!

well the contents in this little secret compartment is a necklace wif a ring.. now now.. where the hell do u find such guys ard anymore.. so sweet n romantic.. i'm so jealous.

photos courtesy of XH's blog, tho i din ask for permission. :P

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super stressed wif all the workload.. who the hell gets so stressed in week 2...

1) fyp research, with no serious clue as to where i'm heading, yet having to keep up wif research.
2) proj meeting, sam as guest appearance, where regina n sam discuss abt the proj, wif me having seriously no clue as to wat they're toking abt.. they're so zai.. n all the way till after the meeting, i still m not sure wat the proj realli wans us to do.. n where to head from here.
3) tuts all piling in..
4) still struggling to kick miself into the mugging mode.. i jus cant do it.. i keep on escaping.. which is y i'm blogging here.

Choices for earlier:
1) watch recorded tv shows.. abt 2 hours worth
2) do econs tut
3) read fyp research

Final decision:
come online n rot.

well but tho i was feeling all stressed n bad mood, i managed to tok to 2 good frens.

1st one is to ask some crappy Q, probably wif a hidden hope tt she'll cheer me up.

2nd one is upon sudden realisation tt she's been on an emotional rollercoaster recently. as her usual self, she doesn't share until she's abit over the depressing period. haizz tt ger. so being stressed n not in a good mood, i was rather emotional n caring, n so i toked to her. n again, being her usual self, she doesn't go into details when she's not ready to share. so even tho i oni managed to get very brief answers to mi numerous Qs, i'm glad i managed to express concern, n hopefully be able to b part of this while she tries to rough out this stupid patch of life.

so for some reason, i managed to feel betta after this 2 conversation.. tt's y i'm blogging rather happily now.. yet again i've managed to escape from reality.. further pushing bac things tt'll make me upset.. so stupid things tt keep me sad. till we meet again! probably tml. hahha

Rubbish bin encounter

2006-08-25T00:20:00.000+08:00

i've been having quite some encounters wif rubbish bins these 2 days...

incident no. 1 (date: 22/8/06, venue: in sch)
description:
walking along a wall, made a sharp turn along a corner, n banged right straight into a rubbish bin. those green green ones u noe? nearly made it fall. hahaha. but being a gong sotong, i laughed out loud, made a joke outta it.. n oni feel paise after tt. :P luckily it's at a secluded area loh, u all noe behind chinese lib, where the lockers are? dere loh. if got a lot of ppl i cfm paise until die.

incident no. 2 (date: 24/8/06 early afternoon, venue: my room)
description:
wanted to open a drawer, but mi rubbish bin was in front of it, so i pushed it aside n it fell over, spilling the contents. |||-.-

incident no. 3 (date: 24/8/06 evening, venue: my bro's room)
description:
wanted to get rough paper under a table, but the rubbish bin was in front of it, so i pushed it aside n it fell over, spilling the contents. |||-.-

incident no. 4 (date: 24/8/06 night, venue: my mum's room)
description:
walk into parent's room, tok to my mum facing the bed, turn ard wanting to leave the room. *bang* kick their rubbish bin. lucky ne'er fall over. haha.. but this last one is totally uncalled for lah! their rubbish bin norm put at the far end of the room de. but tonight jus cos mi mummy wanna clip nails so move it to near the door, letting me have a chance to kick it. pengz

moral of story: (according to my mum) i shld inspect the rubbish bin n chk for 4 numbers to buy 4d..

milo truck + random card game

2006-08-22T21:38:00.000+08:00

*di di di di di*

my milo radar beeped when i alighted from 96 at central lib today. i finally spotted a milo truck since sch reopen!!! but cos i was rushing for lessons, so i couldn't go drink free milo. immediately after lesson, the whole bunch of us, milo fanatics, went rushing for milo. but apparently they're doing some guiness world record thing so we had to register. so we Q-ed up. but, cos we're obsessed wif the free milo, we actualli silly-ly registered for some crane-folding competition instd!!! wth.. so since milo truck haven open, we shun bian help to fold crane loh.. for charity mah. Song He company is gonna donate 50c for every crane folded. wah very gan cheong okie. the emcees keep on saying "we've 5 mins left" "we've 1 min 20s left". wah lau tho i'm not interested to help them get the world record or sth. but naturally become gan cheong loh. haha.. but quite fun lah.. :)

so after the crane-folding event, it's time for milo truck!! so everyone started crowding ard the milo truck, which is smack in the middle of central forum. this time the record is abt drinking the most amt of milo in 10min. den everyone wait wait, cos the organisers gotta arrange tables n barriers so tt it wun become a stampede.. u shld c the super kiasu crowd loh.. haha. so while i was waiting, i spotted an interesting thing. MILO MASCOT!! hahaha... i was too embarrassed to request to take foto wif it loh.

stupid woman spoil mi photo.. els i could haf captured more of the milo mascot!!!

hehe so anywae we continued to wait.. den finally start!!! so everyone rush to the milo truck. supposedly u shld take a cup of milo den leave. but the stupid crowd take liao den keep on staying dere n drink. kaoz.. so after waiting for abt 4min, we decided it's useless n decided to leave.

This is the stupid crowd that doesn't move!!! causing me not to haf any milo T_T

so irritating.. after all the anticipation, no free ice cold milo! hope it'll come bac soon.

oh i 4got to say one thing. on mi way bac home, i was listening to 933 news, which was reporting abt this event. so the crane-folding got into Singapore records, apparently is abt 9000 cranes in 1 hour. den the other is a Guiness world record, fastest crane folding in 5 min, a indiv record. the name was announced loh. so imagine this. a silly student like me, walk past central forum, saw this event going on. decided to try out for the competition, folded 6 cranes in 5 mins. n voila! u got urself a place in the book of guiness world records! it's so 莫名其妙 and unfair to those who work hard for years in order to get a place in the book loh. |||^_^

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so anywae after lunch, we decided to play bridge, cos xingyou got a set of new poker cards from Ireland from a fren which looks realli cute. hehe. but cos we 三缺一, we ended up playing a whole load of different games, n even improvised a card game so tt we can play using poker cards. we oso attempted playing 3-person bridge, where one set of cards is left closed. well the highlight was of cos not the game playing, instd it was all the lame jokes n laughing tt was the fun part.

Phrases of the day:

“ 你是你 friend 的朋友。”
“we play 3 versus 3 lah.”
“Bid: " one Queen. " ”
“chao mugger 哪里会绝种？”

hmmm i made the last statement. hehe.

Hiddenbed + POA shoes

2006-08-21T01:30:00.000+08:00

Today is Sunday. n to my definition, it's family day. cos no matter if mi elder bro is out, or if mi younger bro dun wanna go out wif us, or if mi dad has to work, my mum is free on sunday morns and i always make an effort to accompany her, no matter at home or out. n mi dad will oso always make an effort to either bring mi mum out, or at least bring us out for lunch, unless he realli cannot siam from work of cos.

So today, mi dad suggested going to this furniture n electrical applicances exhibition in Expo. well it turned out to b pretty disappointing. Considering the distance travelled from Wdls to Expo, the painful walk under the hot sun from the carpark to the exhibition hall (the Expo car parks were full due to some church svc going on) and the anticipation of a grand n good exhibition, it turned out to b not as big, variety not as extensive, and the "electrical appliances" oni meant 1 or 2 sites of air-con. -.-

but well, dere was this particular bedframe which attracted me very much. it's called "hiddenbed". So wat i saw was this.

and then the next moment, it became like this.

!!!!!!

hahaha.. i found it so cool loh.. when u flip down/up the bed, the table remains parallel, so dere's no need to clear the table or wat b4 u flip down the bed to slp. n the idea of a table is very appealing to me, cos mi room is too packed to haf a tablespace. i always end up doing mi work on mi bed, or in the living room. n the idea of jus flipping up the bed is very appealing too, cos it means even when i dun make mi bed, no one can c it. hahha.. n it's very space saving. n imagine the fun when someone enters ur room, "eh where's ur bed? u dun slp in ur room?" so fun!!! haha. so all in all, i like it alot!! but oh well, the oni bad news, which is oso the most crucial one, is tt it's too expensive lah.. the model u all c in the pic rite, it costs $2000+++ loh. not worth it for a bed frame.

T_T

p/s: above figures are adapted from here.

okie well tt was the lowlight of the day. cos i c something i realli like but wun b able to get it. okie lah mayb i dun realli like it that much. i jus like the concept of it all. realli cool isnt' it? so now i sitll haf to tink of a way to revamp mi room so tt it can house 2 more occupants. tt's something to worry abt, for those who noe how mi room looks like. it can oni b cramped to a certain extent! haha.

now for the highlight of the day. after my dad got home from work, we ventured on the 2nd trip of the day. apparently Gain city has landed itself in marina sq, so mi dad wanna go take a look. so, being a nice ger looking for an excuse to not do work, i went. after completing mi dad's itinery, (walking ard gain city + having dinner), i decided to carry on wif mi own itinery: look for a pair of slippers/shoes/watever, jus something to wear on mi feet n matches well wif mi clothings. yesh, we're toking abt mi dad, shopping wif me! be surprised, be watever, mi parents are special n i love them. :)

okie i'm finally getting to the pt. while i was in the toilet Q-ing and waiting for mi turn to shit, mi dad mus hav walked ard the teenagers' corner (cos tt's where we were, n i din tell him i wanted to shit so he cannot go far. oops) and located most shops tt sold footwear. cos after i finished looking thru the shops tt i noe sell shoes, he brought me to POA, which says "50% off shoes".

i went in hesitant, cos POA stuff are expensive, and came out a happy and satisfied ger. cos guess wat, i bot 2 pairs of shoes (1 slippers and 1 covered shoes), for a grand total of S$22!!! wat the hell rite?! the shoes inside were oni originally priced $22 or $32.90, so after 50% off i consider it dirt cheap! okie lah mayb not dirt cheap, cos dirt cheap will mean to me like $2 or something. but i still consider all these a bargain. n if the quality is good, i'll revisit POA for shoes in future!

expressing myself.

2006-08-19T01:12:00.000+08:00

hmmm i've always had the trouble of expressing myself or articulating my thoughts. n alot of times while during normal conversation, i'll suddenly say something totally insensitive, n dunno how to react n apologise cos i dun even noe if the person took wat i said to heart. so most of the time i'll jus keep quiet 1st. n by the time i formulated wat i shld say or wat, it'll b quite inappropriate to bring up the topic oredi. so it'll go silenced.

perhaps it's cos i'm slow lah. i tink i'm chi2 dun4. i hear b4 tt arguing is oso a form of communication. but i tink it doesn't wrk well for me. when i argue wif someone, (history has oso proven this), i'll lose out badly cos the person will scold scold scold, n i'll rebutt abit. but in a later part of the arguement, i'll like tink bac n realise tt dere's something more abt the pt earlier tt i wanna bring across, so tt the person i'm arguing wif noe how i genuinely feel. tt's the spirit of arguing rite. but wat do u expect? tt i sudden go barging to whereever the person is, den pick up the pt n start ranting again? it's jus so too late n inappropriate loh. i'm lousy at expressing myself.

so anywae, those who're reading this, if occasionally when we're toking, i suddenly said something which makes u tink tt i'm insensitive n makes u feel uncomfy/hurt, pls forgive me okie. i realli dun mean it. n sometimes i do realise tt, jus tt i duno how to say sorry. furthermore, i'm a sneaky person. i'm those type who if i dun like u, wanna tok bad abt u, i'll do it behind ur back. i'll ne'er say it in front of u. in fact, u may not even noe i dun like u cos i dun show it. but i'm not hypocritical okie, if i dun like u i wun make the effort of striking a conversation wif u. i'll oni reply when u tok to me tho.

so as long as i bother to strike a conversation wif u, dun worry. u're safe. i dun dislike u. hahah

Jokes

2006-08-14T00:48:00.000+08:00

okie today got 1 riddle + 1 joke to share. riddle 1st. so tt can tink while u read the joke. heh

Riddle: 台风天没有多少钱不能出门？

Joke (hokkien knowledge required)

hehe the joke occurred earlier today.. with mi younger bro. was listening to the Lux advert on radio.
so i bo liao n i said "lux, luck4 ki3" (a word in hokkien)
den mi bro said "pengz"
n i said "wow u jus said a synonym!!"

ermm get it? :P
okie n now for the ans to the riddle.

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四千万。因为台风天没事千万别出门。
muahahahah

NY gers bbq

2006-08-12T00:17:00.000+08:00

i learnt on tues, the day of our bbq, tt my clique of ny 4/5 gers are called the rainbow gers. n i happen to b.. red i tink. huh? i din noe tt like TOTALLY. someone pls gotta tell me the origins of this okie?

so it all started with the nice xiuli, simin and ngla who came to pick mi up in nus despite them being nicely settled in xiuli's hse oredi. reach le, realise still got some food tt's not marinated yet. i said "how can i help? but disclaimer is i'm always a parasite in bbqs". n it's true. for many yrs oredi, i've jus always turned up when the fire has started n food is ready? haha.. or i'll turn up n chit chat wif the parasites, leaving the rest(read guys, or for mi squadmates' case, they simply love to prepare. i'll jus do some sai gung) to do the job :P but for this day, no parasites, so i gotta help. well i still managed to do the simplest job. i oni spread sambal chilli on the sotongs n sting rays, which were cleaned n washed by simin n xiuli, n den i wrap them up into the Al foil, not to mention the need for simin to teach me "shiny side inside", when i'm the one studying physics ard here. lol

when tt was done, while waiting for other "colours" to arrive, we adjourned to the basement of the hse, where dere was a projector wif a huge screen n sound sys, for us to sing ktv!!! hey someday we shld hold a vcd/dvd marathon dere okie rainbow gers?

okie the nex thing was finally starting the bbq. 1st step: start fire. haven been starting fires ever since i graduated from ny, when i was in SJAB. i'm supposed to noe how to start a fire. but i noe i wasn't good. so i happily pushed the responsibility to the NPCC ger, and the Guides. haha.. but i couldn't resist the nostalgia n fun of starting a fire. or perhaps, i was just trying to prove tt i was of help in this whole thing yah? n i m now proud to say, i'm a good fan ger! whenever the firestarter got extinguished, i managed to fan it to life! so after a lot of survival skills from the SJAB, NPCC and Guides gers, also the finale by xiuli's auntie, we managed to get a great fire! dere after starts our sumptuous feast. yumyum.

after hours of bitching, red knuckles due to marshmellowing, drinking malibu w pineapple juice and chivas, someone getting high due to the alcohol, we decided to call it a day, n ngla's nice bf sent me, genyi, simin and ngla home. well he din haf much of a choice. afterall, we're jus a bunch of gers who always exploit guys yah? hehe.. travelling from bukit timah to clementi to jurong to wdls to cck to bedok is no joke yeah? hahahaa... so to credit this poor chap, i'll post a small foto of him n his gf :P

FYP prof

2006-08-11T01:40:00.000+08:00

i'm starting to get stressed. sch's gonna start in a few days. i'm still very blur abt everything. ivle announcements, prof's announcements.. etc start flooding mi NUS mail. i clear mi mail everyday, so tt i dun miss out impt stuff.. but when i c "ivle file in workbin", i jus read n close. i dun delete it. procrastinate. but not as if i'll read it again the nex time i chk mi inbox. duhz. i'm overwhelmed wif the workload stacking onto mi shoulders.

i duno how everyone's feeling n tinking after their consultation wif their profs. but i sure was abit overwhelmed. well for one i escaped the 1st step of meeting up wif the prof alone, something which i was quite worried abt, cos i was doing almost the same topic as weiting, so we met the prof together, along with edmund who was doing another proj under the same sup.

well mi prof apparently is a new prof. n an angmoh. wah he chao enthu loh.

chao enthu symptoms
1) he gave up his own chair to us cos dere's not enuff chairs
2) he gave a presentation to us on our topics as if we're his clients.
3) he gave me a phD thesis paper on my topic to read up on.
4) he asked us how often we wanna meet up. "once a week? ...." (normally u would tink the nex line will b "once every 2 weeks?" rite? NOOOOOOOOOO. ) it was "once a week? twice a week? everyday?"
5) he was worried tt comp centre will b packed most of the time n we wun haf pcs to use. so he suggested setting up pcs in his office for us to use (which he noes SGreans students dun like), or putting them in some spot where oni we can use. den he asked if we've laptops. turns out i'm the oni one who doesn't. so he said "u cannot do without a computer. we'll c how. i'll either LEND U ONE OF MINE, or set up a special corner for all of u to use." so wat's wrong wif mi own home computer? hehe
6) he wans us to do presentations of wat we've like say monthly!!

well he wans us to do research on our topics 1st, den the derivation of the model part he oredi has a model. so he'll guide us n make sure we understd each step n eqn. den he oredi got matlab code for the models n he offered to pass to us. so at the end of the day, wat is dere for me to do for mi final yr proj? n i duno if his chap-enthu-ness is gonna do me good or bad. weekly updates n research is no joke. but it'll stress me to b conscientious. =|

but as usual, i haven done anything. y? PROCRASTINATE.

Moon spotted at 5pm bright daylight!! / ny class gathering

2006-08-07T01:15:00.000+08:00

I was on a bus, travelling on BKE, looking out at the scenery, part of the reason y i like to take buses. Suddenly!! i spotted the moon! haha wat's the big deal rite, but it was broad daylight at 5pm leh. i tot even if the moon is in the sky, it's not supposed to b seen cos dere's sunlight mah. i was excited, so i quickly took out mi camera, n took a few shots of it, ermm yes on the running bus. hehe

find it blardy cool lah! :) it's not painfully obvious in the foto tho. try to hunt for it heh.

anywae for the info of all who duno, moon rise n set at diff timings thruout the entire lunar month. tt's y we can c moons at different times of the day on different days. courtesy of heavenly maths. hehe.. ever since tt mod i've been looking alot more at the things in our surroundings. mus appreciate nature, n wat's ard us okie? :)

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anywae tt occurred when i was on mi way to a class gathering. my sec sch gathering. haha.. hard to believe tt i've oredi graduated from ny 6 yrs le. ARGH. n this is oni the 2nd mass gathering we had. hehe.. shows how not close we r rite? yep so initially i was abit sian of going. cos after slacking for the hols, everyday i jus wanna stay home n nua n b a loner. hahaha. den somemore mus like ying4 chou2 loh.. if u get wat i mean. recently i've been living by the principle tt "if u tink u dun wanna tok, or dun wanna make effort to keep aquaintances close, jus dun!!"

but at the end of it, i'm glad i went afterall. thruout the gathering, i actualli wasn't toking too much. i oni tried to crack some jokes outta wat mi ex-classmates were toking abt. rather superficial? i guess so. but altho i din pour mi heart out, or like tok sincerely like wat i do wif close frens, i'm glad i managed to find out wat my ex-classmates are doing now. have they graduated, wat they are/were studying, their relationship status, wat they're working as if they've graduated, or wat they're gonna work as, things abt their bfs etc. i mean, dere wun b a case when we run outta things to say. come on. it's a big bunch of bitches okie? lol.. if one runs of out things to say, another will definitely haf something to say. hehe.

but the oni thing i was sorta realli satisfied wif this outing, is the last part, when one of them offered to send me home.

fren: u wanna get a ride home? u stay in wdls rite? i stay near u
me: *stunned* how did u noe?
fren: i c u on mrts wat, sleeping.
me: |||^_^ *so unglam*

haha i was rather paiseh leh.. cos i din noe she stays om wdls too. hahaha.. n i dunno her well mah, so take her car oso abit weird. but in the end i took lah, cos i wanna rush home to watch tv haha.. so i was abit worried tt it'll b awkward in the car. cos i'm not exactly sociable recently. but we actualli chatted the way home lah, duno if she's making the effort or i was making the effort. n b4 i alighted, she said "we din realli tok much in the past too rite?" i nodded.

so i was glad, happy, n watever. cos i got to noe an ex-classmate betta, one whom i din even noe much in sec sch when i get to c her everyday. guess i was too pre-occupied wif mi stjohn stuff. :)

i tink it's amazing to haf class gathering once every few yrs. we're in a phase of our life where every few yrs, the topics to chat abt will b totally different. the 1st gathering couple of yrs ago, i believe we tok abt stuff like "studying where, studying wat, bf". this time round we tok abt "studying where, studying wat, graduation, job, steady bfs". the nex time we meet, we'll probably b toking abt "working where, steady bfs, married, kids".

lol! ;)

FYP balloting

2006-08-06T02:04:00.000+08:00

after the late nights reading thru the 164 fyp topics, after much fretting over to do computational or experimental fyps, after much choosing over which profs are betta as supervisors, a priority list was finally drawn up, and fyp balloting was carried out on friday.

the balloting procedure was very not advanced. no computers were involved, it was very manual, with undergrads grabbing their matric cards, rushing down to the bottom of the LT where envelopes representing the fyp topics were placed. it was a frenzy, everyone was feeling the envelopes, to c if there was oredi someone interested in the topic. peeping into the envelopes, hoping to c tt it's someone u noe so tt u can bargain wif him/her. some more courageous ppl jus put their cards in, despite the envelope oredi containing 4 or 5 cards, confident tt they'll b lucky in the lucky draw n get their desired topic.

i was lucky. or smart. watever u wanna say. i forfeited my top 2 choices as i din wanna engage myself in the lucky draw thingy. put mi matric card in mi 3rd choice, towards the end of the round, so oredi sorta assured tt i'll haf a walkover n get the topic. n tt it was, i got it. :)

announcing of the results was funny. it was patrick who did the job. jus basically opened every envelope, announce the topic no, how many cards were inside, did lucky draw if necessary, n announce the winner of the topic. but it was funny in the sense u can hear the difference btw the ppl he knew n he din know.

ppl he din noe: " XXX ". surname n name all pronounced formally.
ppl he knew: " XX ". or "X", if it was an english name. no surname was said, n it was said wif the typical patrick accent. the abit ahbeng n bo chup accent. haha.

many ppl say computer balloting would b more fair. i agree wif tt too. but this way of balloting is fun! it trains us in terms of psycology too mah. it's like "hmm i shldn't put this as 1st choice. confirm a lot of ppl wan this" etc during the preliminary stage when u're still choosing ur topics. den on the day itself, u go down to the envelope field, n den u walk ard looking thru the envelopes, seeing which topics have a lot of ppl fighting for it. i find tt rather interesting. n the last thing was the thrill of getting picked in the lucky draw if u've other ppl fighting for the same topic as ya.

okie mayb u all tink i'm mad. but i'm always fascinated wif silly stuffs. hehe.

NDP preview '06

2006-08-02T20:47:00.000+08:00

*nods*. i went for the last NDP tt's gonna b held in the national stadium, courtesy of cheewei's dad, who cannot make it last min. despite the heavy rain when i left my hse for the preview, kallang's weather was exceptionally good n the stadium was dry, much to my delight. :) upon reaching kallang mrt, i was greeted by a sea of red. hehe. i totally like forgot tt ppl will all wear red on this day. luckily coincidentally i was wearing pink. so i sort of blended in well. lol. anywae, after meeting cheewei n family, we decided to take the shuttle bus provided to the stadium.

haha look at the sea of red, and the no. of ppl Q-ing for the bus! they even had mascots to entertain the ppl. well dere's a cuter mascot in pink, but i din manage to capture it heh. well the shuttle bus took a damn long time to reach. tink it took abt half an hour? luckily i had a place to sit. :p i managed to catch some shots of the crowd Q-ing to get into the stadium too, n dere were ppl hired to perform and entertain the crowd.

since we reached late, we had to sit all the way up at the last few rolls of audience. not tt i'm complaining, i can get a good view of everyone! nah below are a few photos of the crowd + some self-entertainment shots.

after this i preoccupied myself with looking thru the contents of the goodie bags. this yr's goodie bag is realli good! hehe.. got alot of things. the 1st performance to go was all the parachuters. wah seh i tell u, they're realli cool loh. the 1st 3 were supposed to hit the target platform, and 2 outta 3 did tt! the one who din manage to hit the target was oso a near miss oni. but mi favourite part were the nex few ones, their landings were so cool! machiam trying to perform stunt lidat. they dun land immediately. instd, they had this few seconds when they hang in mid-air, a few metres above ground. so cool!! hehe..

nex was the contingent. admittedly this is the part where everyone jus stoned or look thru their goodie or chat, simply not paying attn. but come one! they're very xinku okie, standing still cannot move, wait for all 4 languages' of songs to b sung. aiyoh i always loved this part of ndp, mainly cos i was from uniform grp last time, n i was in the footdrill dept of my sch tt time? so when i heard all the commands the commander was shouting, tho i kinda 4got most of wat the commands meant, but i was able to figure out wat was happening thru their actions. n it stirred up a lot of memories for me. :)

oh above oso haf a foto of the sunset. can u all c? sitting high up can see nice blue sky, nice white clouds, and nice sunset. with the moon risen oredi too! den after tt the performance finally started. the pt where ppl started paying attn, but oso the pt when i start to pay less attn. dun realli appreciate the performances. haha. but i was busy trying to c wat shape the performers were trying to form. dere is a screen at the side of the stadium where it will show the shape they were forming, and the meaning to it. i was rather impressed. very nice mah, the performers managed to do it. oh anywae i mentioned we were sitting top rolls of the audience rite? ltr we found out tt the fireworks were to b launched right behind us! cos the NS guys were distributing transparent umbrellas to let us shield from the fireworks sparks. i was very happy, cos it meant tt i'll noe when the fireworks are coming and i can film it down wif mi camera. so when the NS guys told us to open umbrella, i on-ed mi camera n kept on waiting.. waiting.. waiting..

den mi battery went flat!!! wat the hell!!! fireworks haven even launched! n b4 i left mi hse i promised my mum i'll capture the fireworks n show her. she din request for it or said "yeah". but i was the one who made the offer mah :( i was so sad leh. but at this time, cheewei took out her fone n started taking photos. at that time i nearly wanted to slap myself in the forehead! how could i haf forgot tt i've my handphone! somemore i spent so much money to get a 2megapixel camera and video. this was the perfect occasion to use it loh. haha.. thank u cheewei for reminding me :) we were SO close to the fireworks. the fireworks were so big loh hehe.

oh den after the fireworks still got balloons loh.. pretty!

i was thinking bac to the no. of times i went for ndp. cannot realli rem actualli, cos i've short term memory. hehe. but i've at least gone for 4 times. being a non-singaporean, i find myself lucky for having gone so many times oredi! hehe, considering tt my parents + a lot of singaporeans haven gone even once. :) i vaguely remember going to ndp wif mi auntie when i was young, tho duno wat time. so at least 1. den once was in secondary sch, when mi whole sch had to perform in ndp. tt time i even had the chance to march as a sjab member in e ndp contingent okie?!~ but in the end i had to join the pretty performance instd of look smart and stand for 1 hour in the sun. hehe. den the last 2 times were more recent, this few yrs oni. one with ngla, and another is this yr wif cheewei loh. outta all these 4 times i went to, the deepest impression was the time in secondary sch. nothing beats the satisfaction of performing successfully the hard work and effort put in for a long time. n not to mention the ambience present tt time. our performance was the last performance wif vanessa may i tink. so straight after our performance, with the music, fireworks shoot the air. so nice!!! hehe.

all in all, i hope nex yr or the yrs to come i can get tix to let my parents go for at least 1 time to ndp.

delay in ia rpt 4.. i'm hurt

2006-08-01T13:15:00.000+08:00

From: ******@mmm.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 9:51 AM
To: Lanry Yung Lin Yue
Cc: Chng Mei Ying
Subject: Delay in Industrial Attachment final report for Mei Ying
Importance: High

Dear Prof. Lanry,

Due to our current 3M policy, we would have to submit all the IA students report to our IP (Intellectual property) personnel for reviewing before students can hand out to their respective school.

Hence I would like to seek for your understanding and permission for the delay of Mei Ying's report submission as I am still waiting for feedback/reply from the IP personnel on her report. Currently he's away in USA for training/conference and I understand that his schedule is quite tight.
Please do let me know if you need any further clarification. Thank you very much for your kind attention.

Yours truly,
Ee Lin

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From: Lanry Yung Lin Yue
Sent: Tue 8/1/2006 12:09 PM
To: '******@mmm.com'
Cc: Chng Mei Ying; Uddin,M S; Hidajat, Kus
Subject: RE: Delay in Industrial Attachment final report for Mei Ying

Dear Ee Lin,

That is not a problem. I have already notified Mei Ying about this, but we would appreciate if you can ask your IP personnel to expedite the process so that Mei Ying can get HIS module credits soon.

Best regards,
Lanry

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WHAT THE HELL?!?~ LANRY DOESN'T NOE I'M A GER? I'M HURT!!!

Reading stars.. Nostalgia.. sjab hospital duty...

2006-07-29T03:54:00.000+08:00

I went to Yishun home again today.. haven been going for a yr oredi, cos i duno the new volunteers, n i dun make effort to make new frens oso. but since yc has been going, and cheewei jio me to go oso, i decided to make a trip down today.

The genre of the programme has changed. It used to be more focused on teaching the kids social skills, how to make frens, simple manners etc. honestly, i din tink i possess the skills, or perhaps the heart even to teach the kids properly. most of the time i oni go dere cos i enjoy watching kids. they're so innocent n cute. n other times, i go dere to stone, as a way to escape from watever stress or trouble in life tt i face. furthermore, try as i might, i always tot tt i couldn't connect wif the kids as well as other volunteers. so after a while i lost interest, and hence din go often. or rather, i stopped going. hehe.

As i said, the genre of the prog has changed. it's no longer called "wonderkids". now, it's called "reading stars". according to the person-in-charge, we'll b attached to the same kid for the whole programme, and we get to teach the kid how to read. well tt's giving me more chance to interact wif the kid, n i find it more meaningful as compared to the past when i jus need to sit beside the child n listen to wat the facilitator is toking abt. furthermore, it doesn't hurt to find out tt the kids attending the session this time round are mostly familiar faces. i like it. n the kid yc's attached to, which i helped out in today, is a kid i quite like from a yr bac, tho i din manage to get to noe the kid more then.

nah i attach a photo of the kid i'm saying. his name is wee chou. the one wif red circle, doing a victory sign? :) yeah so i guess i'm pretty happy wif wat i went thru today. perhaps i'll continue going, perhaps i'll not. c how loh. :)

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anywae jus now i was talking to weiting abt volunteer work. she has been going for one of nvac's programmes, to nuh and chat wif patients to relieve their boredom or something to tt extent la hehe. while toking toking i actualli tot bac to the times when i was still in nysjab. ermm tt's nanyang st. john for ur info, jus in case u duno. heh. tt time we had to do public duty, i.e. hospital duty, where we get attached to a ward in some hospital for i can't rem, a few days or a week, n we help out the nurses. n u noe, we were afterall jus students. so we could oni help out in very simple stuff. den most of the time we jus chatted to patients. :) for me, i was attached to an adult male ward in alexandra hosp, along wif my 2 other squadmates. well i couldn't rem most of the things tt happened then, attributing to my short-term memory. but i still rem tt the ward had some psychiatric patients oso, with green wristbands. so i rem being a little scared tt time.

i oni rem 3 patients actually, 1 is a guy who always sings "bengawan solo~~~~". tt's all i rem of him, dun even rem if he was a normal or a psychiatric patient. haha.. the 2 others are psychiatric patients. the 1st one jus looks normal to me, but he has a green wristband. so when i talked to him or attended to him i guess i had some fear stirring inside me. perhaps tt's y i can vaguely rem his face. but oni vaguely lah, perhaps mi impression is wrong oso heh.

well the last patient i rem i had the deepest impression. his is more serious. he imagines himself as a boxer in another country. he's not chinese by the way. so who noes? perhaps he did use to be a boxer in his homeland b4 he had his problem.. den tt time he wet his bed, so the nurses told us to help. well we spent some time coaxing him outta his bed so tt we could change his bedsheets. i rem he kept on saying things like "i'm so cold, y is my hands tied up?" etc. n we had to play along n say "yah tt's y we're wrapping u up wif clothing so tt u'll b warm" and stuff lidat so tt he'll stay still n not turn violent or sth while he stands and we change the solied bedsheet. n den after tt, everytime i walk past his bed, he'll stretch out his hand, move his fingers, and say "come.. come", or ask us to release him. can u imagine? the normal way like how we ask ppl to come to us lah.. but duno if it's the way he says it, or bcos i noe he's not tinking right, it kinda sent chills up my spine then. but when we asked the nurses if it's cos he wanted something, the nurses told us to jus ignore him, tt he din realli want anything.

heh yeah so tt's my experience. enuff to lemme rem till now. i find these pretty fond memories lah.. the things tt i do in the past. we experience different things in different stages of our lives. i'm glad to haf experienced everything i've experienced. so i hope i can rem all these even when i grow old. :)

GSS'06 expenditure

2006-07-26T20:03:00.000+08:00

Hmmm the Great Singapore Sale has oredi ended last sunday, so i guess it's time for me to stop my intense shopping, consolidate the total expenditure i made, marvel at how much i can spend, n finally start to scrimp n save again!!!

Okie so my expenditure report time span will be : 23rd May -- 25th Jul.

Expenditure
1. 8 skincare pdts (face) = $82.95
2. 4 skincare pdts (body) = $80.75
3. contact lenses + eye drops = $101.95
4. 3 tops = $44
5. 4 bottoms = $97.80
6. 2 accessories = $15
7. 1 bag = $19.90

Total: $462.15

Afterthoughts
Gosh i'm a spendthrift.

When GSS started, i was still doing IA mah.. den i kept on complaining tt i dun haf time to shop. finally after mi ia, i jus keep on nua-ing at home. haha.. so i realli oni started massive shopping this couple of weeks. but it was enuff to bankrupt me. haha.. all tt said, i realli enjoyed this yr's GSS. Singapore's shopping mkt is getting more n more interesting. n most of the things i got, i would say i got them at a reasonable price. the oni flaw in this whole event is "cheap + cheap + alot of cheap, still = expensive". hahaha

p/s: at 1st wanted to post a photo of everything i bot.. but kinda lazy lah.. lol

Cheap bargain!

2006-07-25T22:11:00.000+08:00

okie let's play a game.

Spot the difference. (no prize for finding it tho)

Found it?

i guess not. cos there's no difference at all :P

but one thing tho, dere's a flaw in this bag. hence i got it as a cheap bargain!!! its original price was $43.90, after 20% discount is $36. n i got it for a slashed price, $20! hehe.. well i shldn't tell u where the flaw is, els the nex time u c me u'll noe. dun wan! :)

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heh been watching quite some movies recently. so time for movie review again.
Movie: Just My Luck.
it's jus a romance comedy. plot is VERY fictitious, n silly actualli. but i enjoyed the parts where lindsay lohan and chris pine went into bad luck streaks. it's realli quite funny to see them all dishevelled n stuff. okie tt's the sadistic side of me. heh. i like this particular scene, where lindsay lohan was flinging her sling bag backwards in order to sling it onto her shoulders. but in the process, the bag hit a guy who was jus walking into the room straight in the face!! lol. overall it's quite nice. i'm glad i caught it b4 it's off theaters.

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anywae for all concerned, i'm feeling much betta wif mi contact lenses. perhaps it's realli mi eyes tt's not adapting well. but i'm still like going into occasional moments where mi vision goes blur, n i can't read subtitles on tv. n tt happens quite frequently actualli. but mi optimistic self told me tt it could b cos mi eyes are dry, so i bot a small bottle of eye drops for myself. :)

Contact lenses. :(

2006-07-23T19:55:00.000+08:00

Interesting IT of the day:
i can't c clearly on mi new contacts!!

sigh well u can c tt mi idiot today is not realli interesting. mainly cos mood not good lah.. i mean i can c, but i can't read properly words tt are kinda far away. for eg the subtitles on tv? this is like making me worried, since sch is starting soon n i kinda need to look at the lecture screeen??!

this is crap. i genuinely hope tt it's cos i haven worn contact lenses for 10000 yrs oredi so my eyes still need some adaptation. els it's half yr's supply of money gone down the drain man!! i can't go bac to the optician and request for a change. cos when testing my eyes n finally giving me the prescription, the optician oredi told me to make sure i can c properly cos he gave us like 25 deg lower for each side so tt my eyes can b more relaxed. n he oredi gave me chance leh. but how the hell would i noe tt i shld look at words so tt i can read them?? i'm such a scatterbrain.. shit

:(

Movie again

2006-07-21T04:08:00.000+08:00

Interesting IT of the day:
Harry Potter is hanging on the windowsill of my kitchen!!

Hehe.. i've decided to add an "interesting IT of the day", in short IIOTD (where the anagram of tt is idiot, on purpose upon realisation tt i oni haf to change the IT from the original thing.. =P) everytime i blog. perhaps, if i'm hardworking enuff or even find it fun, i'll jus do this daily even if i've nothing to blog okie? (but the chances are highly unlikely tho.. lol)

okie anywae lemme explain the meaning behind today's iiotd.
background: mi mum bot a voodoo doll for my younger bro in tw, in the zhao4 xing2 of harry potter, which he uses as a key chain.
incident: the keys were found in a cup of water which is nex to the container which we usually hold our keys. see the link?
result: harry potter is wet!!

went to JB again today. jus tot of making a mini review for the movie i jus watched. watched Slither. a horror show. or rather, a gross show!! apparently it has oredi finished airing in singapore. plot is rather simple, easy to understd, but it was able to keep me anxious as to wat will happen nex. tt's one of the most impt factor of a movie i would consider good ba. :) oh in the show, the monster was transformed from a human being, whose wife is the female lead of the show la. so dere's this scene where backgrd music is a love song tt u noe, is their song when they were paktor-ing. it's a nice song by the way. i realli like it. but the visual image is actualli the full-blown monster, dead bodies lying ard etc. wat a total turn-off!! haha.. in conclusion, i will haf to say tt this is one of the betta horrors i've caught recently.

p/s: anyone who noes wat song it is.. tell me okie?

Movie movie movie..

2006-07-17T22:46:00.000+08:00

Movies are getting more n more expensive in SG huh? ever since the last price hike, i've been watching much lesser movies, n oso restricting myself to watching movies oni on mondays-weds, occasionally on thurs too, but tt's oni for mi family, cos mi mum's off day is on thurs mah. oops. after such a silly blabber intro, i jus wanna say i miss watching movies in JB, where the most expensive tix oni costs RM10, which is oredi cheaper den the cheapest tix we can find here? so when mi dad asked me if i wanna go into JB wif him ytd, i was thrilled!!! :)

hehe so off we went to take bus to the customs. tt's when i realise this is the 1st time i'm using mi new passport to enter m'sia. for those who duno, (whom i actualli assume all of ya) last time i owned 2 passports, one to enter msia alone, the other is international la. but the msia-sg passport cannot use anymore loh.. so now change to this international passport, where i get to go into this gantry like mrt lidat, slot my passport in, den put mi thumbprint as identification! hehe call me childish, or curious, but i was quite excited to try tt. lol..

so after reviewing the movies avail, which were not exactly a wide range, i reluctantly bot tix for Pirates of Carribean loh, cos mi dad wants to watch it, n claims tt mi mum refuses to watch it too. lol. well i always get to watch movies which i'm not exactly excited in wif mi dad. dere's oni 2.5 types of movies i can watch wif mi dad. 1) horror, 2) action, 2.5) comedy. i mean, u dun realli expect me to watch romance wif him rite? n the 2.5 type is cos mi parents' english not very good mah, but some comedies no need to noe wat they're toking abt oso enuff to laugh de. hehe

well the last time i watch a show i'm not interested in, ie xXx, i was quite pleased, cos the movie turned out pretty good. this time round, i can't say the same. of cos it's not not good. i admit the whole show pretty much caught me in the flow, n dere were parts like the man-eating tribe which realli got me laughing, but i seriously dun realli understd the story, mainly bcos i din watch Part I? oh n one more thing.. mi gan3 xiang3 of the show.. "wat a bitch".. but the part i hate most is tt it doesn't haf a proper ending!! all bcos it wants to haf a sequel..

eeuuuwww

>.<

2006-06-29T22:52:00.000+08:00

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