Wednesday, December 27 | 1:57 am

so i was in school picking up my laptop when i received a call.
yani, how do you get to harbourfront from nus ah?
eh you in school ah?
yah.. you?
yah i'm at science!

oh you with hatta ah?
no lah.. i'm waiting for him to come.. you with shah?

yah..
eh come to science ah!
ha for what? you all going harbourfront also ah?
oh you have to take the bus to harbourfront from science anyway.. the aye bus-stop..

oh ok ok.

later
eh so you all going vivo or not?
uhh i can convince him.. haha

phonecall
i'm with shiqin and shah at science bus-stop.. where are we going ah? you want to watch movie right? we makan at vivo sekali ah..
with shah and shiqin? orait ah set ah!

monday night, iskandar smsed and asked to set for dinner on wed night. i'm like i'll be away! and he says so confirm cannot ah? well, unless i don't go lah. but tmro night can.

and so the day consisted of two double dates. whopee!! i love!~

pac coffee. mocha brownie chillino yummy.
1) technology rules the lives.
2) apple strudel!
3&4) i see a pattern. (christmas colour sia these two couples.)

oh yah, i must also mention. at banquet, shah sat opposite hatta and they both had indonesian ayam panggan. i sat across from shiqin and we both had fried fish bee hoon with milk. it was like seeing double.

lucky the second photo still came out nice.

i like. (:

oops. sorry shah.

all the drama involved in taking photos.

shiqin and me!~

if looks could kill.

and then we bade farewell and went our separate ways. but it was fuunn! :) :) we'd been planning to do this for ages (like since july or sthg) but we just never got around to doing it. i'd been meaning to sms shiqin to set up a date, but my dec has been like jam-packed and filling up fast! in any case, the best way to do something, is to have it done spontaneously! :) *mwah!* to youu darling!~

hatta and i made our way to funan, and in the carpark we saw:

lambo baby!

playing with speakers. funn. i like listening out for the diff in quality. gerekk.

creature!

harman/kardon.

dinner time! after much haggling and negotiation..

back again. glasshouse fish&co.


isky. hat. dils. yani.

b&j's for dessert.

red's the colour this season. ;)

i've fallen in love with these kids. (:

i'm going to make sure i see more of them!

and i also need to source for new places to go! i've had both fishco and bj's appear twice this month! :S

okaayy. so that was my last day in singapore. because in a few hours time, my family is moving to jawa.


see our bags? we might as well be moving for good. but nayy. be back in 7 days! (:
oh and, selamat hari raya aidiladha!

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Tuesday, December 26 | 1:15 am

marsie's present!
we (rozzie, sya & i) are the best friends in the world lah. ;) haha! we sent her 21st birthday present along with her family, who will be meeting her in london for holiday! so like, surprise! :) :) we spent a good two hours at her place just to drop off her present. and yes, it was i who spent the two hours happily chatting away with her parents. so what if i'm a good talker. and i like her parents, so i was happy talking to them! :) they're so cute, all excited and set for their trip. the daddy has actual print-outs of the london tube, paris and rome metro maps! haii. they're all probably there now already. :) have a good trip, come back safe!

oh that day was SO picture-less, this was the only photo:
back to basics with qiji ;)

youth researchers' nite
the event on its own wasn't that exciting. unless you're remotely related to ibn. the "afterparty" was the fun part. ;) this i got photos.

off we go to chill - @b&j's.
(kamal looks oddly distorted and super gay in photo 1.)

and omg, that night i had a huuuge meal from the buffet at event (what can i do, they feed us well. the food's always greaat), ice cream at b&j's AND supper at changi village - ayam penyet. seriously.

friday's gym!
we've decided to start workout sessions again! yayy! so all that food won't show! haha. that also means i won't be losing any. ;P back at bedok court, we ran, played squash, swam and aqua-jogged. :D whee! and of course, simpang food. (see. won't be losing any.)

get-togethers are always fun. plus, endorphins! (not to mention the cardio-health part that comes with these kinda get-togethers.) (:

sayang semua. (:

1) satay anyone?
2) going hoome.
3) someone's keen on not allowing flashes destroy any more brain cells.
4) i love kway teow opeh!

mendaki club interviews
on saturday i volunteered my services with mendaki club. i played interview panelist, and i questioned and i interrogated and i grilled. mwaahahaha. :D

the event was conducted to help post-A's kids prep for prospective interviews. and clearly, those who signed up for the event have some aspirations. i mean most post-exams kids will be like ENJOY! but these kids are like thinking about their next step barely a month after the end of their major exam.

anyways, kids nowadays are something man. this and that under the belt, speaking like pros - with confidence and near-perfect articulation; even a quiet confidence that commanded respect. there was a fair amount of bombastic words being thrown about that threw us the interviewers off. like "huh wassat??" i of course had opinions on all, if not most of them. what made me feel particularly "unhappy" were the overly high-flyer type who wanted to fly solo, like seriously i wanna go far i wanna do this i wanna do that.. and we're like err okaayy, but you have to come back and serve the government you know. and how about the community? aren't you forgetting something?? i also felt a bit sad at the overly sheltered, been mollycoddled all their life kind. much to learn you have. i had a favourite. if he became a politician, i'd support him. :) overall, the kids were impressive. high-flyers. definitely will go far.

LEPAK!
still on saturday, after mendaki club event, i scooted on over to rozzie's! to seriously just LEPAK. like it was the definition of lepak. ;P so we (rozzie, elly and i) were sprawled all over each other on rozzie's single bed, in aircon and semi-darkness. ooh kinky. but i was wondering - which is worse, finding your daughter in bed with a guy or with two girls? haha.

then, we surfed friendster, checked out photos (still on the bed), played games like connect four and "brick game".. and soon after nydia and farah arrived. more lepak. daidee, "solitaire", and pictionary. (the whole time in rozzie's room) considered going out for a bite, but too lazy. so ordered kfc. my god, seriously, lepaakk.

aaand, no photos. because lepak where got wear tudung right.

gym AGAAIIN!
yayy! so today it was bedokcourt again! whee! more gym, squash and frolicking in the water. haha.

i had to run some errands at tm first though and omg malls and public places are NOT GOOD on hols and eve of hols. yesterday, fadilah asked me out, and i'm all like heyy yeahh. then i smsed again and i'm like, eh want to go where ah. xmas eve, it'll be crazy everywhere! she almost immediately replied with an oh yah, ok forgeddit. i hate jostling in crowds and walking at snail's pace cause everything is jammed up.

so anyways, today's gym felt good. :) i ran less, but squash-ed more! i think i haven't been properly playing it, cause only today i felt my arm swing so hard it hurt! we were trying to achieve the proper thuck sound the ball makes when it smacks against the wall. haha. plus, squash is double the workout for us cause we have to bend down so often to pick up the ball, we're doing squats! like real only our squash. ;)

simpang is a must after bedokcourt workout, so:
now i love simpang's satay too!

i wanted ten sticks AND rojak. but they were content after just five sticks. i feel like such a glutton next to them. and before gym i had yam milk tea and old chang kee's sotong ball and soft squid. yumm, all that unhealthy food. :D

i love my friends i want to kiss them all. :D

merry xmas, hohoho!


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Sunday, December 24 | 1:44 am

1) enjoying the foood.
2) nydia trying to eat me. glasshouse. kiwi tudungs?
3) steeewwpid. :D

we look so demure.

these were taken exactly a week ago.

right now, i am shit tired. i am aching everywhere; arms, back, butts AND thighs. because (a) gym, squash & swim session yesterday at rozzie's, (b) i walked into an open drain or (c) lack of sleep.

this past week has also been pretty interesting. includes a surprise present sent across continents, hanging out with some people i've never really hung with, mendaki club interviewing and girlfriend-overload!

more about this week later. right now, oc episode eight. after which, SLEEP. i'm in serious need of some.

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Friday, December 22 | 10:55 am

here i am, back at work once again.

the lab.
research.
cells.
proteins.
genes.
si-rna.

after being away for so long, i have to say, i was rather apprehensive about coming back. i had been around since may or so, and by the time the other term-attachment students came in during august, i felt like i owned the lab. (compared to them, you know.) plus, my mentor had gone home for good, so i had her workspace. her bench space. a space at the bench all to myself. because of the high influx of students here, we always have had to share bench space.

some months back, i made that space i had "inherited" mine. i arranged everything where i liked them to be, i wiped down the benchtop everytime i left the lab, i always made sure all "my" pipettes were there, made sure my pipette tips were well-stocked (pipette tips were really mine. i filled many boxes and autoclaved them myself. mine.) in short, i took care of that space cause it was mine.

but of course, it was never really mine. i am but just a student. so coming back, i wondered if that space was still there, if things had changed, if i could still find stuff where they used to be.

true enough, faces i had never seen before were hard at work at the cell culture hoods, "my" cell culture shelf space is no longer there, "my" bench space has alien stuff not belonging to me.. but it's all ok. cause they were never really mine. it's just.. change, that's what it is. change was inevitable, seeing as i had been on hiatus.

nevertheless, when i slipped into my lab shoes and pulled my lab coat over myself, i felt at home. as odd as it may sound, it did! like wow, i have missed this place. and what i used to do here. what i could do here. i guess i never really realised how attached i've grown to this place, and this line of work.

which kinda puts me at a bigger loss as to what i should pursue next.

but it also means that whatever it may be, i'll be satisfied. content. maybe even happy.

at the same time, you'll never stop wondering what it could have been.

anyways, two nights ago we had the youth researchers' nite. and one of the mentors said something that tickled me so.

"tips for mentors, present and future.
if your student breaks some glassware or equipment in the lab, breaking your heart in the process.. it's ok. just treat it as a consumable."

hahahaha! i found that hilarious. don't you?

i wish my new/stand-in mentor would come already. work started at half-past EIGHT, hello!

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Thursday, December 21 | 3:12 pm

i went with a bunch of really fun guys and a really sweet girl. :)

1) to night safarii!
2) thumbuakar! fire people.
3) watching Creatures of the Night show. (dark and no flash photography allowed.)

1) macritchie@night, fruit bat and us!
2) girls, boys and boys.
3) traamm!

after which these four headed over to thomson rd THE PRATA SHOP. yay!

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Tuesday, December 19 | 10:26 pm

heading over to help prep :)

i love my dibadib! ;)

birthday girl, you lawa. :) :)

yay for sisters!

my turn with Queen of the Night! (see the manymany bigbiig balloons? MY EXPIRED AIR.) (:


redred crowd! i must say, the red turnout was pretty good. surprisingly. but then again maybe not - cause red is such a popular football club colour.

manymany posing..

wait your turn!



nus crowd~*

my babes!

with Queen of the Night!

with my favourite lesb partners of all time! ;)

with my favourite model!

with a friend of a friend's. yaa we-ell, sorta.

with Queen!

rockin BALLOONS! ;)

happy 21st love! it was a suuperb party! kudos to di definitely for the food. gotta really hand it to that girl. :)

speaking of-

happy twenty-first birthday (again) rozzie! [:
i hope you had a faaantastic day honey. *mwah!*
you deserve only the best, and while you're on your way to getting it, ENJOY!

n.b she plans to remain forever young.

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