*poof*

I lost part of my blog. All the pictures over the last 2 years had to be restored manually. Damn it. Just 2 weeks ago i had this super strong hunch telling me to backup, backup, backup. Since I've bought Funky, i see no reason why I shouldn't use its free space. Due to work and my usual procrastination... I didn't have any backups. Argh!

Doreamon helped me shift the blog and the pictures were gone. Though Doreamon it is Do's fault, he helped me restore most of the postings. For the rest of the pictures, I'll have to slowly slowly restore them.

Term time's coming to an end. Chem people still have one more assignment due 2nd June. Then it's holidays! But...holidays also got work to prepare. SAS, ASM, blah blah blah... argh... i just hope the boys don't drive me crazy.

Sawatdii khrap, are you a freshie na?

Ajarn Nok emailed the other day asking for help. FASS@NUS 06 will be held and for the Centre of Language Studies Thai Department needs help. Ajarn says that she'll be alone at the booth. Being a good ex-student, I suppose I should help her. So, I gathered TC and G to go together with me to help. Not sure what we could do but I suppose since we all come from different faculties, we can give the freshies a good description of what to expect. Arrived there in the morning and realised that Ajarn had actually emailed other students and we were kinda redundant. In fact, we were the older students and probably the few who had done up to Thai 5. In anycase, we enjoyed ourslves with the exhibits and of course....food....glorious food from all over asia! Bumped into Gary who just came back from practicum. He was in NUS to bring his brother to the various talks and lectures. Then bumped into Terence too! He was manning the booth for German Studies. He brought Dominic and Myself around Heidelberg in Germany last year. He was there on student's exchange with the prestigious University of Heidelberg. His German is fee-fiah-fee-fiah one...so dun pray pray. Was 'forced' to take away lots of freebies he wanted to get rid of from his booth.

While NUS's curriculum can be improved a lot more. I am glad that I had chosen NUS over NTU in that the amount of cross-faculty modules NUS offer is amazing compared to other local University. I remember taking Thai 1 for fun and later getting hooked on to it. I never thought that studying another language would be that easy. On top of that, I totally enjoyed my business, sociology, political science, pharmacy, medicine and theatre studies modules. On top of these, I had such wonderful times with the Wind Symphony. Ahh.... Did i already mention the cute girls in Kimonos?? :P

Ajarn Nok and my phuan phuan (friends) !

Communicating not!

It's official. My comm class teacher hates me. She picks on my group for the slightest thing. Just today, she stopped the entire lesson and asked me in a very hostile manner if there was anything wrong. Justine and I were just whispering. Hello? The girls over the other side of the class was talking even louder than I was. This is on top of her hostile and sacarstic way of asking me if she could start the lesson. Just because I talked last week doesn't mean I'll talk again this week. This woman is largely judgemental and probably has the narrowest mind that ever existed on Earth.

Next, the tests. I sort of felt that she marked my entire group down deliberately. The last test we had was a ridiculous test that we were ill-prepared and it's not our fault because we were not taught properly compared to other classes. For my test on email, she penalized me for something she thought was wrong but on my friend's script she didn't even make an issue of it. And she insisted that I should provide my mobile number for parents to call so that it's more personable and shows that i am empathatic. I really wonder if she has been teaching in any local schools at all. The marking scheme was not rigorous too because it allocated a freaking 30 marks for a 8 line space. And this 30 mark allocation wasn't even annotated in the question. AND SHE HAS THE CHEEK TO ASK ME "HOW MUCH DID YOU THINK THIS QN IS WORTH?" I'm suppose to guess how much your question is worth? What a joke.

Been a long while!

Last sat I had a memorable dinner with my secondary school friends. It's been a long while since i last saw them. I haven't seen Nora for close to 9 years since 1997. Janice and Ian, GESS's longest running couple still looked as cute as ever. Huisan looked ever sportier and Francis, still so tall. Nora's took a cab down from Marina just to attend the gathering and arrived glamourously in her stunning pretty makeup. Gosh I miss the gang so much. All the times we had in band, all the endless trainings, footdrills, formation, SFY, camps, after practice meals at BM. It seems like yesterday we just parted and yet it's been almost a decade. I've known Ian since my RV days...that's close to freaking 2 decades man!

Time really does fly and I'm not feeling old at all! (thank goodness!). I'm the only one of that night still playing in a band. Guess some habits die hard. After dinner we head to Coffee Club next door at HV before I headed back hall again to do my essays. I really do miss my secondary school and JC days. Those carefree and happy days. Gone and never to return. All that is left are memories.

....天 亮了又黑 我过了好几岁.... :\

GE Poem (*laughs*)

One of my thai classmate sent this to me. So funny!

Recently, my white MP,
Knok on my door, and very kek-ki..
Say 'I've worked so hard, so vote for me',
'Or rubbish won't be cleared, in your vicinty'..

I said 'Dear MP of my GRC',
'Dun remember u, so please pardon me'..
'I only saw you on TV',
'Dozing off and jiak liao bee'..

Last GE I voted for thee,
2% up in GST..
Cut CPF and up utility,
Are still very clear in my memory..

5 years later, then you come to me,
Fresh from your slumber of ivory..
Say that only, you can help me,
Escape from a life of poverty..

Just take a drive on CTE,
Count the number, of all the gantries..
Or squeeze to stand-a-ride on the MRT,
Or public buses packed like sardine..

My life since the last GE,
Has been downhill though I voted your party
If I vote the same for your sleeping spree,
I can expect the same misery..

So this time round, I vote for somebody,
Who will kachiao you, to productivity..
Forms fill wrong, no big deal to me,
If there's someone to speak up for ah bee..

So dear MP of GRC,
If life no improve, vote u cho simi?

Boys are smelly

Damn it! Some F***** threw a piece of ice around (15 x 5) cm while i was sitting on the pavement outside Hall16 just now enjoying my nightly tea. KNN. This is not the first time already and i only missed me by a few cm. A block of it chipped off and hit my right leg. Still red from it. Made a report but still feel indignified. Someone living at the ground level of block 16D commented it's not the first time and helped me call in the security. Thank goodness it didn't hit Funky who was beside me, else i'll make whoever PAY! Grrrr....

On a lighter note, Koki and Yilin gave me this cute "Boys are smelly" tissue paper with some comments written inside. So sweet!

Throat is not getting any better and the fact that the nurse shortchanged my antibiotic didn't help. Will have to go back tomorrow to get more. Argh... commonsense will tell her it's not possible that the doctor will give 4xtabs of antibiotics? 4x tabs = 2 days???

It's so good to have good health. Health is everything...

Night blues...

雨后的城市 寂寞又狼狈
路边的座位 它空著在等谁
我拉住时间 它却不理会
有没有别人 跟我一样很想被安慰

风 停了又吹 我忽然想起谁
天 亮了又黑 我过了好几岁
心 暖了又灰 世界
有时候孤单的很需要另一个同类

爱 收了又给 我们都不太完美
梦 作了又碎 我们有几次机会 去追
不晓得为甚么爱 又稀少又昂贵

云在半空中 被微风剪碎
回忆也许美 可是正在飞走对不对

Apathy & Circles (that goes round and round)

Had another long Wednesday. Wednesdays are always unbearably long and boring. Comm class was as usual BORING. Hedwig showed her "with-it-ness" today when she spotted J2, E and myself secretly passing HP around. Despite of crazy things that were going on today, my mind was elsewhere. Somehow I questioned my existence and what is my purpose in life. The final period today didn't helped at all when the future seems so uncertain. Sylvia once said something about surrealism and last night i thought about things always going in full circle. Especially so after Joel called me out of the blue to listen to his thoughts. Perhaps it's the busy schedule this month and I'm refusing to look at my schedule to come up with a possible plan. Bioethics seems taken care of because it's perhaps one of the few confident essays I think i can finish as long as i put my mind to it (unlike Jessie's essay). Researching in AMD also made my puny life more miserable. I started to wonder if I should have an AMD too. Morbid morbid morbid....

Yesterday's gym session perked me up a little though the workout was far from fantastic. It was a good start anyway, since I hadn't gymed for 2 weeks and feeling lousy and lazy from the inactivity. The distance to Cali has been stopping me from my regular workout....arghh... i definately need to work around that. Arghh...too many thoughts running though my head again... i'm zoning out.

The political apathy in Singapore is amazing. WP's rally drew a super big crowd but wasn't reported at all. PAP rally in Hougang drew say only 1% of what the WP did? Still, Singaporeans cannot be bothered. They still vote for lift upgrades etc knowing very well it's NOT fair. The injustice is driving me crazy sometimes when you see it happening over and over again to people around me. The worst is when people know of this injustice but are apathetic. Damn.... i'm spouting too much again.

Guts, Lies and Videotapes...

Haven't been blogging for a long while cos I've been really busy in school and had fallen ill. :(

When I was ill, some kind soul sent me the link to Mister Singapore 2006 to perk me up. Indeed it did! The contestants were horrible and as though it's not enough, they massacred the web-surfers with their horrifying videos. I cringed to every glaring grammatical error. Gosh...if they really want to make this event a respectable one, the organizers should RETAKE all the videos and be fair to the contestants who had so much guts to enter the contest (despite their looks). The standard of the competition is non-existent. Poor people... for those in need of entertainment, here goes

http://www.mistersingapore.org/

mistersingapore/Contestants/contestants.htm

Elections are here again! As usual, Tanjong Pagar wont get to vote. The oppositions parties are all getting slammed everywhere by PAP but kudos to them who fight on no matter what. Gomez was asked by PAP to exit the elections cos of some minority form he forgot to submit. PAP is getting ridiculous nowadays. "Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely", my lecturer in NUS used to say. Although the opposition is unlikely to win but the fight they put on is really admirable.

Month of May is here and henceforth starts a month of hell. Deadlines deadlines deadlines. Presentations and posting results. Gosh... looking forward to BKK with the gang. Phom ca pay khrung theep leew! :D

Got Funky the other day. Funky is fabulous! He can hold all my MP3 from my desktop and more! With space cleared out from Anti-Codon, Anti-codon now runs faster after defragmentation. Funky ROCKS!