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(ok i just remembered i wanted to blog about it when i saw the rerun tonight.)

ok so anyway.

WOW HADY.

it's pretty clear he's one of the better ones. but i never really like fancyFANCIED him. you know? like support him all the way, like your heart starts beating faster when he's in bottom three that kind (just a little shocked and wth is wrong with singaporeans!!).

but he won me over with his rendition of sheila majid's lagenda.

OMG. during the song itself, can like feelFEEL ah. like i was teared up! and THEN. his mummy criiieeed. aaawwwww. AND THEN. HE also teared up. OMG. aaaaaaaaaaaawwww.

he musta made his mummy soo prouddd. i love tender moments like these. *sigh* :)

and i also realised something else. all along i thought i never really supported any of the finalists. (i don't like them being called idols. i mean, the WINNER is THE idol. they are idol FINALISTS. got difference okaayy.)

anyways. i realised i'm a closet nurul supporter!

because when she got booted, i'm like whaaat WHYY?? oklah, like i know it's a bit hard for her to be the singapore idol with competitors like hady and jon, and i've always wondered how big her fanbase is. cause like for guys, it's much easier to have a huge fanbase i feel, with all these crazy young preteen and teen girls. so it's been quite a pleasant surprise to see her coming back every week. and she's not like the one-size-fits-all kinda look&package; it's like she's got a unique style which will not appease all (but i like it!), so i thought oklah, maybe not THE sg idol, but definitely worthy of final few.

but still, when they revealed she's going home, i was still whaaaat WHYY?? (although i realised all these things already.)

then a bit sad lah, cause i thought she's been singing rather well lately.

and then, the other thing that helped me realise my nurul-support, was my bitterness towards the judges' comments in retrospect.

i mean whaaaaaaaaaaaat is wrong with being too perfect?? aiyoohh. means she can sing really well riiight. tsk.

and like whaaaaaaaaat is wrong with delivering neat little packages?? neat is good! fine maybe a lil boring, but still! more pleasing than complete off-key singing. nyeeehh.

see what happens when power goes to the people?

oklah. it's been nice to hear you sing nurul! you've got a good voice. all the best! :)

oh oh! one more thing about nurul - gotta LOVE her perfect fluent english.
i have a feeling it comes off as fake to some people. like rehearsed or what. but i for one, LOVE listening to people who can talk well. what a DREAM! fetish lah. love lecturers who speak well and draw me towards their words. (basically people who speak well impress me and capture my attention.) hateHATEHATE people who speak horridhorrid english; grammar all over the place, add 's' anywhere anyhow, pronunciation like crap. :P singlish i don't mind, brings a warmer feel with it. but rubbish english in professional situations? wth no way. :P
(digress, digress, i am q u e e n d i g r e s s .)

aaaand. my take on the other idol finalists.

jasmine - getting fehfaatt!! arms, shoulders roundround ready. tsk. singing not getting good as fast as growing fehfaatt.

twohill - funny entertaining character. love it when he and joakim does that jump-in-front-of-each-other thing. looks very fun! hehe.

jon - great singer, tad bland. can't bring myself to fancy him. tsk.

joakim - poor guy. i swear he looked disappointed when he heard "joakim you're safe." haha. and really looks like that spark is gone from his eyes. esp when judges critique him and during results show. poor boy. but ah. it still hurts to listen to him sing. tsk.

ok! wanna talk about what i did today & last night, but will make it such a looooong(-er) entryy. so photos shall speak! :)

spicy seafood ramen!

tomyam chicken cutlet dry ramen!

blue lime soda. i'm developing an affinity for blue drinks. last night i had blue dolphin at breeks. jaana calls them q-dot drinks, jiakai tells me. i'm not sure what that means exactly, just that quantum dots (q-dots) are coloured, and the drinks are just coloured and don't taste good. :p

this was last saturday. see coloured contacts? pre-eye-infection.

this was today! post-eye-infection! no food photos today though. but we ate at ramen ten again today. he had the same tomyam chicken cutlet dry ramen, and i decided to try spicy seafood dry ramen - YUCK. i barely touched it. :( i dunno why we went there again. not like we love it or anythg. we were just in the vicinity. haha. AND. I wanted to get a bag today. and perhaps use my $20 charles&keith voucher kak yaya sent in the mail for my birthday (which i only found 3 months after it arrived at my home. THANK YOU KAK YAYA!! :D ), but GUESS WHO went home with a pair of birks AND a new slingbag?? NOT FAIR.

i think breeks has a pretty decent menu. love their penne alfredo with shrimp! and now they've got new dessert creations! i waaaaaaant to try! :) :)

jiakai is always spoiling our smiles!! he will go "ib-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!!" whenever the camera person counts at 3. wahlaaaau. then i tahan my smile until become like that cause i was about to burst out laughing. ;p

photos taken with the n73! ;D

my favourite - escalator-shot! haha. i loove taking photos on escalators, cause the steps make the height difference just nice to fill the frame. somewhat. not always successful lah. ;)

and then we hung at starbucks suntec. i had haagen dazs, which was right behind. omg yummyyUuMmY summer berries & cream!! like strawberry jam in ice cream! whoopee!!

ok so right. this is daniel's work! we nicely pose, and at the count of 3, he threw tissue across the frame! and look! looks like i smushed tissue on my eye riiiight. HAHAHA. my swollen infected eye. (cannot see already, dr punctured, squeezed and eye-patched my eye and it healed considerably. :))

ok let's end with a nice photo shall we? :) this is what it's supposed to look like. ;)

i have an infected eye!

i blame yesterday's prac. or my siblings. cause they had eye infection early this week and the last, but since i don't touch their eyes, and they don't touch mine, and we don't share towels, how come they can infect me? and theirs didn't get as bad as mine. so i blame prac. many germs.

yesterday, we dissected mice. poor mickey. i cut out his heart.

me being me, i refused to touch mickey at first. geli! i never liked touching animals, be it cats or birds or even hamsters. you can't put a hamster in front of me without me screaming or jumping onto the nearest chair.

but after my group members had like sliced poor mickey open, i had so much fun with him! he's got such a cute little heart, smaller than my pinky fingernail! but his liver was huge though. and i for sure know it's a he cause we saw his little whoohoo. he was only 4 weeks old though, so maybe that's why it was smallsmall.

so we only needed his macrophages, spleen and thymus. and while the other people were busy mashing up his spleen and thymus, i poked through the rest of his organs. intestines look gross, yuck.

some people were actually busy snapping away with their phones. but not me, no sir. i didn't wanna contaminate my phone! haha. my old phone got contaminated enough at ibn, so when i bought this new phone, i refuse to even bring it into the lab. it stays in my bag.

but guess what i did contaminate.

my eye.

haha. or so i suspect. cause my eye started itching, and then i used my gloved finger to touchtouch around my eye. then it got more itchy, and then it started watering like crazy! and then i used gloved finger AGAIN to wipe the watery discharge away.

ALAMAK.

then at night, it hurt so bad. it was REALLY swollen. i was hoping it would get better by today, but it just got worse! looked like i kena punched in the eye man. and along with the long cut on my hand (along my knuckles), wah i look damn rugged. haha. like after gang fight like that.

oh oh. wanna know how i got that cut on the back of my hand? yes you do.

it got cut by a ceiling fan! NO KIDDING. as a kid, when i jumped on my bed, i always wondered what would happen if i jumped too high and my head hit the fan. would my head get sliced off? haha. i got my answer!

so on friday last week, nydia and i slept over at sya's new house. then we wanted to play board games, and the two lazy bums already lying down, so i went to get the games. which were ON top of a tall bookshelf located NEAR the ceiling fan. actually at first when i reached for it, i didn't hit the fan. but cause the box was long right, so i had to pull out, and then CLANG!!! the fan blade hit my knuckles. WAH DAMN PAIN. i thought my bone fractured or what man.

then i showed the two clowns my hand, and i was still like shaking with pain. they rolled onto their tummies, and stared blankly at my bleeding hand until i went "what are you staring at?? DO SOMETHING!!"

then they jumped to life, and nydia was like "ok ok wash first. "

lucky i was in the house of a doctor(sya's brother) and a nurse (her mummy), and the company of a medical student (nydia). so sya's house had lots of medicine, creams and stuff to dress wounds. and even surgical masks. which nydia put on, the wrong way around at first, to dress a CUT. hahaha. by then we had established that my bone was alright. i could still move my knuckles - SIDEWAYS. a quirk in the bone structure of my hands. haha.

after that it became quite fun actually. nydia put cream on my wound, and when i asked her her hand clean or not, she nodded yah yah clean. (when actually we were eating chips right before.) and then she explored the mini pharmacy of sya's house, and she found something. "aiyaa we should have used this!!" so we asked "what's that?" "alcohol swab!" "thanks i feel sterile man."

haha. ok BIG digression.

so this morning, i went to the dr's and he decided he shall squeeze the pus out. oh the infection is in my lower eyelid, and the pus is just building up. and since i'm learning immunology this sem right, it's quite fun to think about why got pus and all. so right. when you have an infection, macrophages (a type of white blood cells) will come and ingest the bad guys right, and pus is dead white blood cells, so why did the macrophages die? the germs very strong until can kill my poor white soldiers ah? tsk. =
anyway, the dr squuueeeeezed out the junk. and i requested for anaesthetic. so i didn't feel the needle prick, but i heard the dr and nurse both go "ooooOOH!", so i knew got a LOT of pus come out. haha.

and now, i got eye patch!

dr say can take out in a few hours, and hopefully the swelling would have gone down.

the swelling better go down cause I GOT DINNER PLANS TONIGHT!! with the partypple@work. aaahh!! and i helped plan. and then i don't come. wahlau. and i really wanna meet up with theemm!! esp the pple who have left the lab.

puii. but ah. even if the swelling does go down, i can wear contacts or not ah? sure got bacteria one. maybe i open a new pair. (which won't be coloured ones lor. cause i ran out.) wah DAMN VAIN hor. hahahhah.

oklah now, i wanna go eat roti naan WITH CHEESE. YUMM! while i think about poor marlini at physiology lecture. haha! oh yah, of course i get to skip lecture, i can't show up all eye-patchy right. :D

i shall have to neglect my bloggiedear pretty soon! oh boo.

i thought doing a sixth module would be alright since my urops looked set to end pretty soon. BUT. as with research, we stumbled upon something interesting. and so. further experiments and investigation. and so. i might have just made a mistake in taking up a sixth module!

plus my sixth module is not a 2h-a-week lecture-only module (as originally planned), BUT a language module. which is a 5h-a-week module!! uhoh.

and with tuition 2 nights and a full sunday every week, i don't know how i'm supposed to do it!

and this is all apart from spending time with the love (away from school, might i add) and occassional meet-ups and dinners with other friends.

i am positively dead.

i foresee myself as the talking, laughing dead this sem. i refuse to be the simply walking dead. i shall strive to be the talking, laughing dead. huuurrr.

so anyway, dear bloggie, i shall only update you when i have something really pressing to say, or if something really exciting happens.

for now, i wanna talk about the last movie i saw. kabhi alvida naa kehna. by karan johar, starring shahrukh khan, rani mukherji, preity zinta, abishek & amitabh bachan. (you are hereby allowed to skip the next paragraph.)

very contemporary theme. almost too much for an asian audience. ambitious ambitious karan johar. i found it hard to cry and feel for dev and maya, the leads. they are badbadbaaaaaaaaaaadd people. JAHAAAAAAAT. but i cried and cried and cried for rhea and rishi. :( :(

after the show, i was raving and raving. "what they think kawin main-main ah?? haaa you marry already, you make a commitment, you WORK at it!!"

and my cousin went "glad to see you've still got morals."

i guess there's a fine line between working through it because you ought to honour your commitment and realising that it's never gonna work. and people do make mistakes, which may not have seemed like one then, and realise it only later when it's perhaps too late. and others get hurt and consequences result. :( and in this case, i meant the mistake as marrying the wrong person. cause if you did unrealisingly marry the wrong person, and four or even fourteen years down the road, you find yourself really unhappy and empty, should you really work at the marriage and compromise on yourself to live with this (wo)man you've vowed to live with for the rest of your life, just cause you said you would? it doesn't make sense to me. you'd be unhappy still, and you'd be cheating your spouse of some true good love and affection. hence, admit the mistake, face up to the music, take responsibility for the consequences (you did hurt others in the process - your spouse, the kids(if any), the in-laws etc.), do whatever you need to, but DON'T FOOL AROUND behind your then-husb/wife's back!!

in kank, there's more of a war of emotions for the audience. do you feel sorry for them because they cannot profess their love for each other (as they are bound by marriage to someone else), or do you hate them for exactly that - falling in love with someone else despite already being married? i was for the latter.

karan johar is brilliant. gotta love the themes his stories revolve around. and his delivery is almost absolutely perfect. he's the guy behind kuch kuch hota hai, kal ho naa ho and his latest of course, kabhi alvida naa kehna. these are his first three movies, and they are absolute must-watchs. but he's no stranger to the film industry; his dad is(was?) a bollywood movie-making giant.

ok, so i should have warned you to skip more paragraphs. or like, the rest of it. haha.

what can you take away from my blog entry tonight? watch kuch kuch hota hai (which is like so ancient!) and/or kal ho naa ho to see why people love bollywood movies!

caaaan? CAAAAAAAAAN.

the flash very strong!! kan baby?

no more braces!! perfect teeth, perfect smile!! yayy auntie nina!

in the bus! a bit dark, cause sunlight behind us. :p

no flash, wide shot. (love the room!)

flash on, in the day.

with flash, and lights on.

first day of school wasn't really first day.

had no lectures. haha. but was at the lab, so decided to drop-by for lunch with mr. primary-one at arts canteen. mr. p-one never apply for season parking! oooorrrr!!

i also wanted to check out my texts for the sem, and perhaps get them too. but. THE LINE AT FORUM COOP SO LONG!! AAAAHH!! CAN DIE AH!! line to get the book, line to pay, line line line!!

so i thought let's go print notes then.
LINE AT CENTRAL LIBRARY SO LONG!! AAAAHH!! CAN DIE AH!! line to book terminal, LINE TO PRINT EVEN LONGER. tell you, wanted to give up already. :P

lucky i know one cluster secluded one. khekhekheeee. ;)

so in the end, we DID get notes printed! SOO MUCH!! mr. p-one already has eleven chapters out for maths I. pengsan. and when print the font so big! size 24 or sthg. like for picture book! (sajaklah with mr. p-one.)

and i see so many unfamiliar faces in school! where did all the familiar faces go??

they graduated.

uughh. year threeeee, i can't believe i'm in freakin YEAR THREE. scary.

so fast! where did time go?? :(

oh and ironically, out of the few faces i recognized on the first day of semester, two were surprising!! because i don't really knowknow them. and even more surprising is, i only knew them or about them when they weren't in nus! haha. i saw faisal and then later, ain! of course i was more excited on seeing the latter. haha. we've only talked on msn and in e-mails and through blogs; hers and mine. haha. btw ain, i don't know if you still come here, but you're much cuter in life! ;) we should do lunch! ok khairiaaahh?? ;)

and then today, i had my first 2 lectures. wah i thought first lecture introductory or like course structure and stuff, but they started teaching already!! esp for immuno. i hate mumbling lecturers. oh then as i was scribbling taking notes, it felt so weird holding a pen and writing. so i was like "tak biaser sak pegang pen." and su responded "a'ah, macam cakar ayam seh." ("feels weird holding the pen man." "yah, (her handwriting) looks so scrawly.") :p

ok so right.
over the weekend.

friday: watched click! omg surprisingly goood movie. hatta says "the most i've taken away from a movie in a long time." i agree! :) sadsad sia, i cried. (and i suspect he did too.) but wahlau cheat me, play with my heart sia!! ok no more details.
oh and i finally got my phone. i wanted to get from the singtel retailer at marina sq (opp swensens), but they wouldn't let me!! they said i needed an authorization letter from the owner of the line (ie. mama), but they never say!! at hello shop, they told me i needed staff pass, now they tell me i need authorization letter. waste my time!! i was so angry (and disappointed because i really wanted my phone already!!) i cried. hehe. whaaaaaaat. i'm a brat right, and i hate not getting what i want. and for the second time already! so my poor baby had such a hard time trying to handle me (when i got bursts of rage) and consoling me (when i cried intermittently) over the dinner. lucky got cookie summit, so i smiled again. and in the end, we went to this small shop at tampines (also a singtel retailer) near s11, and no fuss, no hassle, they sold me an n73!

saturday: kayaking. with hatta! would love to go into detail, but i'm planning on sleeping early tonight! ok but i have to say this. there was some guy on a jet ski who was trying to set up some kind of a boundary with a rope and buoys. and the rope got caught on my kayak! aaahh!! damn scary! the rope was pulling my kayak against the waves!! and i swear my kayak was going to tip over! and i can't swim!! and the life-jacket is damn koyak! so i screamed and panicked. right baby? haha. :p oh and the waves were significantly choppier this time, quite fun, but got quite scary at times. and we rounded the day off with yummyyummy food at east coast lagoon food village! :)

sunday: sya's housewarming! her house is huuge, and her room is oh so lovely!! the cot bed in the corner and bigbig windows, we like!! :) :)

oklah. tired. maybe continue next time. bye!

ikan bakar siakap!!!! at east coast lagoon food village. (i think.) omg *dies*. and and before that we had ice cream roti!! oooh heaven. :) got new flavour! tin roof brownie. chunks of fudgey brownie and walnuts in vanilla ice cream, and in the softsoft bread.. oooh orgasmic. ;) food turns me on so much man.

the siakap all gone! :D

after showers!! hehe. never an untudunged shot pls. ;)

enjoying our starbucks. but can we still? :( ohno marsie, howw??

thee new phone!! :D finaallllyy!!

check out how hebat the screen is. soo sharpsharp, and the flash is suuperb! ;)

qiji popiaaaaaahh!! aaaahh!! YUMYUMYUMMYYUMYUM!!

grilled chicken salad. yumm! the chicken all gone! ;D

boring ol' fish&chips. ;p but the fish shrank!! didn't it?? doesn't it look smaller??

ribeye steak! pretty decent, tendertender meat. a nice juicy chunk. :)

cookie summit! one of the few times i DON'T request for a change of flavour or topping. usually i so cerewet i change so much hatta says it's no longer a gold rush or a cookie summit. ;p

(like nyonya lydat.)

so anyway. after much searching and countless sleepless nights, i have finally decided on a new phone!

first, there was the maroon motorola v3i.

but that time, my contract hadn't yet finished. so i thought - maybe not yet. wait for contract to expire first.

by which time, i wasn't into clamshells anymore.

so i moved on to this -

lg chocolate! a slider! i thought wah so chic so sleek so cool!

then i saw the measly specs. (haha, yes specs matter now. ;p) lousy camera, and i wasn't too sure about using an lg. :P basically, lots of uncertainty lah, so i decided - hmm, not yet.

and soon came along the sony ericsson cybershot, k800i.

i've been intrigued by sony ericsson lately. i really like the user interface, it's actually quite nice to use. AND this phone has this Best Pic function - every time you press the trigger to take a photo, it takes NINE shots. AT ONCE! and then all nine shots appear on the screen, and you can CHOOSE WHICH ONE YOU LIKE BEST!! AAAHH!!

PERFECT! (i think you can by now, see why.)

but! i don't quite fancy the look. black, and black = boriiing. and it's SO fehfat. :P but the Best Pic was really tempting, so i decided to consider.

and less than a week later, this baby was released.

the nokia n73.

ok so this guy has nothing that i'm looking for. not clamshell, not slider. granted it has a fantastic camera, but not Best Pic.

i do however, like the look! so slender and long, no funny bumps and protrusions, has a very clean and smooth exterior, and comes in silver and deep plum! waah!

and i went by hello shop yesterday, because i was relatively free and had some time to kill. and i asked to see it. and oh baby, when i held it in my hands, it just clicked right. hmm, how to explain ah? like we just connected. haha. like it's the one. like everything felt right. like when i was looking at other phones, like the motorola, lg AND k800i (yes i went to see ALL of them over the past few months. :P), there was this bit of uncertainty. and i would always conclude with a "hmm see first." but not this one. this one like - omg i want it.

bwahaha.

really! and i asked to make a purchase! haha. so they got me a queue number and everything, and the whole time i kept calling hatta asking him should i should i should i.

and then i was at the counter. the lady was verifying all the details right, and THEN.

they needed my mummy's staff pass! (because my line is registered under her name, for 40% off subscription rates for staff!)

*DONK*

alamak don't play with my heart sia.

wahlau i hate it when THE SYSTEM and like PROTOCOL gets in my way. like alaaa no need also can laaaaah.

so i was pissed. had to keep reminding myself that it's not the poor lady's fault. :P be angry at THE SYSTEM, not her. it's not her fault.

haiyaa. puii.

oklah so i shall get it today! can? CAAAANN.

aaaaaaahh!! i just downloaded paul mccartney's this never happened before, and OMG. *dies*

it's just so sweet!! the tune, oh the tune!! *DIES*

off the lakehouse soundtrack, and because of the song, i can almost feel the romance -fleetingly. haha.

ok i LOVE the song, i don't know why but it just REALLY gets to me! *dreaaaamy*

ok photos first, story later!

rushing off to the granny's now; family gathering! ok fine, kenduri arwah. ;p

will be back with moremore pictures.. of little giiirls!! :D

ok taa!~

there's always time to squeeze in a date with the love! ;)

suurrpriiiiise!! :D

yayy!! happy birthday aisyah!! :) :)

i love marlini! *smothering-huuggg*

and i know she loves me too. she's just too shy to say it. ;) ;)

they were late! haha. hence the doe-eyed forgive-me faces.

here's the birthday girl again! a proud 21-year-old! ;)

chocolate fudge caaaaake!

pictures around the dinner table!

su pun nak camwhore, tapi camera sewa kapa! ;p

the presents!! a storybook and an ova top. ova's this place somewhere in bugis which carries long-sleeved tops, perfect! ;)

camho pride yo!

haha. i should try to blog more often. so my entries will be shorter! ;p

so let's go!

monday july 31st.
stayed home, searched for modules (still no luck with that one more module. officially yelling for HELP!! help me all you nus people! i need another module, recommend!!), planned timetable, read up about gre. (which sucked, but more about that later. :p)

ok so about this need to take one more module right. officially, i already have 5 modules under my belt, (well, i still need to register es2007s prof comm on monday, but considered confirmed already lah) which includes UROPS; my research project at IBN. butbut. the story goes like this - my mentor is leaving singapore for good come august 18th, and since i've already started my urops during vacation, my prof suggested i finish my project before she leaves! and he proceeded to tell me that i can use the rest of the semester to write my report. !!! haha. which kinda leaves me with 4 modules of real work left to do. so i thought, waahh i'll be so free, might as well do one more module! so there you go. gimme one more, gimme one more, gimme one more!

tuesday aug 1st.
went to work!! (wah so happy to go to work ah?) shalynn's last day, and a buncha other kids' last week or two. haha. i made cards for shalynn and farah (dammit i forgot to take photo of the cards lah!) and totally sucked at keeping it a secret from them! haha. i literally wrote shalynn's message with her head (forced to) turned the other way. haha. hard up for time lah, busy all morning, what to do. ;)

oh hattaboy joined us for lunch, cause he was at engine dean's talk and didn't wanna lunch alone. aaaand, i had to literally keep psychoangeline away from him. kherkherkheerr.

afterwards, i followed him back to nus cause i was awaiting nydia to end school! so i sat in for the engine talks, and omg, i saw poor little lost sheep! hehe. hatta said i was mean for laughing at them. but really! they looked so vulnerable and lost, so unsure and uncertain of whether they should take another step forward, go left or go right. khekhekheeee. and then, cors lecture! haha. how to use cors, how to bid, haha. brings back memories of MY own science dean's talk. i remember i found zati (did we arrange to meet ha? or we just bumped into each other?) and we YAKKED the ENTIRE talk(s) awaayy! haha. and we weren't even close then. but i remember i just poured my heart out, cause it's like i found someone who knew exactly how i felt! about lost dreams and broken hopes, about going into nus feeling like oh no, wth. ;p but in more ways than one, i'm pretty happy i came here, because of people i've met along the way, experiences that left me more mature and learned, and opportunities i realised i never knew existed before. :)

ok so back to tuesday, i waited for nydia's class to end, and i realised boy was i glad i wasn't dating a med student. haha. i can just imagine myself getting so frustrated having to wait for my boyfriend to end class so we can go out, but then not being able to get mad if he ends late cause i have to be understanding of the nature of his work. haha.

anyhows, we made our way to town to meet more darlings! oh boy, i really missed my girls! haven't seen them or talked to them in like looong. so it was good. :) :) i remember feeling tired after we just sat at lj's. cause it was just talkingtalkingtalking non-stop! haha. cause if i haven't seen them for long, i'd have so maanyy stories to tell! haha.

later, sya came for movie and nydia left for tuition. :P anyhows. lakehouse = HAHAHA. never even explaaaaain, think what, we all stupid ahh?? haha. we probably were, for catching the show. kwakwakwaaa.

even later still, when we just sitting around (still), we came upon the subject of graduation and working. gosh. we realised that this time next year, a few of us would be working! insyaallah. oh and yes, lemme just say CONGRATS TO MY MARSIE!! my darlingdarling marsie!! she has officially received JOB OFFER from PwC!! (yes pricewaterhousecoopers, THAT big accounting firm) a YEAR before her graduation! woohoo! *BEAMS* i feel like a proud mama. ;) of couuurse whaaaat. i've seen her since her i-don't-want-to-study, i-don't-do-work, i-don't-hand-in-my-essays years, and boyy, has she come a long waayy. :) :) *huUgs* MY LOVE GOES OUT TO YOU SWEETIE! :D

anyway, yes. and we realised what a SCARY thought that was. and as we watched people filter out of california fitness, people we assumed and who looked like they were working adults, we wondered if they went to the gym straight after work. and what a lonely life that must be. work morning to evening (if you're lucky. if not, it's morning to night.) and then hit the gym in order to get rid of that tyre that collects around your belly because of your deskbound job, and then you head home, shower, hit the sack and the cycle repeats. ok so maybe you don't gym everyday, and once in a while you find an evening where you and your friends are free! but can you imagine how rare those evenings might be?? i mean, with some people still studying, some (ok fine, one) working funny shifts at the hospital, and time you have to make for the boyfriend who is just as likely to have as little time as you (and this applies to your friends as well), exactly how many common free evenings can you find?? gaahh. *shudders*

wednesday aug 2nd.
more tedious timetabling, futile module searching and tuition. and amidst all that, desperate studying for gre. bo-ooring.

thursday aug 3rd.
gre SUCKED. haha. gre is a computer adaptive test. let me explain what that means.

computer means you don't get to flip page to do questions that look easier first. :(

adaptive means they cater the test to you and YOU ONLY. no two individuals will sit for the same test. if you get this question right, the next question will be of a higher difficulty level. so it just keeps getting tougher and tougher. and it's a freaking 4h long test. now tell me, who has got the stamina, and more importantly, the patience to sit for a bloody 4h long test which you know isn't gonna get any easier?? *donk* (the sound of my head hitting the tabletop.)

computer also means they score you immediately, AND tell you at the end of the test.

i knew i was screwed when at 3min left, my next question was a freaking comprehension passage. with paragraph-long choices for the answer. dammit, i skipped the text completely, and chose answers at random for the next 2 questions based on that text. then 3 questions and thirty seconds later, i clicked next to find ANOTHER 40-line long text. waah buay tahan ah. and so for the next two questions i chose whatever, and then knew i was dead when for the last 4 or 5 questions (and less than 2min), i saw words i actually knew! wth hell lah, you know the verbal section is like words i have not EVER seen in my life! or heard for that matter. (like wth is munificence?? or supine?) so when questions are easy, you know you're probably in the low-scoring range. and ta-da, i got a 540 for verbal. *donkdonk* i guess i'm not as smart as you people think i am. kwakwakwaaa. :D

therefore, i shall re-sit the gre. *kaachiingkaaching* (the sound of usd$160 slipping away.)

and then i called my baby and whinedwhinedwhined. :(

and then i was so sad i just had to buy 2 new tops which were SO SO gorgeous (ok one was gorgeous, the other was just cheap) to make me feel better. :D and can you believe it, there were still sales!! :D :D i felt better the moment i stepped into seiyu and a giant 4-letter SALE greeted me. :D :D so yay! i have new outfits for school! (that has been at the back of my mind actually; to get new clothes for the new school year, whoopee!! well excuse me for loving clothes laahh.)

ooh i also FINALLY got my fried fish ban mian with milk!! YUMMYY!! way to make a girl feel better! clothes and a craving satisfied! :D

that night i also dropped by his place to help hatta-mr-i'm-an-undergraduate-now-boy with his timetabling and module-searching! that time over lunch, my workmates, esp shalynn - engine fac mah, also helped inform him about fac requirements lah, cors point allocation lah, and stuff. so all's good. :) he's now a fully-informed undergraduate who knows what he has to do for the next four years. i'm proud of you baby! *beams* (proud kodak moment.)

we played with gumok! and babytaz and auntie nina, while watching idol results show. omg i can't believe miss jasmine-yooo i tell you what i want what i really really want-tye didn't get booted!! i mean which person with half a brain would do a nineties SPICE GIRLS song for a competition?? kwakwakwaaa. and joakim-monkey-gomez too. i think it's about time the looks factor get overlooked guys. pun intended.

friday aug 4th.
i went mendaki!! yaayy for yani!! but omg data entryyyyyy. *donk* is. *donk* so. *donk* boring!!! *donkdonkdonk*

i finally got started on actively completing my smb hours! haha. before, i was just doing stuff that looked fun, like zat's perkampungan bahasa and the graduates' tea at fullerton. the former was cause i wanted to help zat, and the latter was well, at fullerton! haha.

then that evening we slacked at huzer's cause hatta-mr-undergraduate-with-a-laptop-all-geared-for-school-boy wanted to do stuff with his macbook PRO (pro tau, jangan mainmain! kherkherkheerr.) using huzer's macbook pro. they have matching laptops! like syakittycat and me! khekhekhee.

i also met little miss maria there! from whom i learnt what a heffalump is. (according to the boys, heffalump is a woman with breast cancer. geddit geddit?? heff-a-lump!)

little miss maria read a book to me! at the age of four! when she started reading, i was scanning the page furiously to see where she was reading from. and then i realised - she's making it up!! haha! so cuuute. listen to this -

little miss maria:
once upon a time, christopher robbins went into the hundred acre wood...
(later..)
so pooh and piglet....... (i don't remember lah)...
and pisc-... pisc-.. (looks confused) i cannot think of his name now..

auntie yani:
who?

little miss maria:
(points to the book) this boy..

auntie yani:
christopher?

little miss maria:
and christopher robbins.. (continues with the story)

omg so cuute riight?? haha. she couldn't say "christopher" somewhere in the middle of her story!! haha. omg i just wanna grab her and bite her cheeks! haha.

oh yes, little miss maria is uncle huzer's niece! hard to believe something so cute has his genes somewhere huh. ;) and oh no! i just realised i should have taken photo of/with her!! alamak! next time eh huzer. :D

that night hattaboy and i had dinner at pizzahut cause i wanted to try the cheesybites pizza. but PLEH!! i don't know how i forgot how tasteless pizzahut's food has gotten. :( puii. but the tampines mall outlet looks like it's been renovated recently. nice, i like the new look.

saturday aug 5th.
we went kayaking! yes we the tudung-ed, always well-dressed ones went K-A-Y-A-K-I-N-G, KAYAKING!! bwahahaha! :D

and it was F-U-N, fu-uun!! hehe. and for all our apprehension about kayaking on our own, we preferred the single kayak to the doubles one! we had initially wanted 2 doubles and 1 single, cause there were 5 of us. but we registered late (at first we thought, how stupid, we should have registered earlier while waiting for everyone to show up) and we could only get 1 double. so we rotated the doubles kayak. in the end, it was a good thing we had 3 singles instead of 1! ;)

and since we so loved it, we are SO going again! hehehe. but next up, blading or cycling or something. and one more thing, maybe wakeboarding, like when rozziedear is back or sthg?? ;D

afterwards, we showered at the east coast toilets. which had open showers!! hahahaha! so there we were in our wet clothes, posing and shampooing for the camera! clairol advertisement sia!! WAHAHAHAHA! ;D BUT! for OUR eyes only, kwakwakwaaaa!

and theeeeen it was dinner at the east coast place. till today, i'm not exactly sure what it's called. east coast laguna sthgsthg? aiya, the big food centre place lah. haha.

yayy! *huUgs* i love my girlies. i miss these babes so easily. come to think of it, i miss the other girlfriends already too! pfft. i think you just get older, life gets busier, circle gets bigger, hence less time for those whom you used to spend ALL your time with! puii. but one thing's for sure. i'm going to bff (best friends forever! kawaii!!) with these babes and meet up with them even when we're thirty-eight with four or seven kids, whichever suits them better, and even if i have to threaten to kill their kids! wakakakakaka. kan sayang-sayangku kaaan? :D

ok, so after the longloooong post, enjoy the manymaany photos! kwakwakwaaaaa. (i don't know why i'm suddenly using so many kwakwakwaaas.)

fresh after showers!!

dinnerrrrrtiiime!

pairshots! i think we aaaall look so prettyy here! :) :) but there are two permutations that we forgot to take. can you figure it out?? that's riiiight, yani&farah and elly&nydia!! good job!! :D