2 more days!!! i m waiting, waiting. did most of the packing tdy. quite happy w the result. hope i haven forgot any impt stuff.

as i wait for my hols w much anticipation n excitement, i jus realised through the blog that a friend at far is encountering some prob. this friend haven replied my last email since quite long ago which is unlikely gg by the usual freq. Now i m worried. its something big. yet i cant help. and there are no news from this friend. yet i m here waiting to go off for my hols. Hey friend, quick reply me.. I m waiting too!! cheer up k!

went mapuku @ Tampines One for lunch todae. Food is not bad. Mache style. Free-sitting which i quite like. Each section of the dining area has a different theme.. settled at one place but was tempted by another sections, ended up changing place. haha








whole day mj todae.. played 3 rounds since afternoon till 11 plus jus now. so tired.
won quite a bit todae. It's like my first time winning a fair bit? so quite happy. i think my luck is realli not bad todae. happy~ i was shocked by myself quite a few times tdy too. haha. for the 1st round, the other 3 players jus cant believe my luck. haha. now i understand the shuang feeling. :) tired. sleeping soon.. cycling tml...


halfway done w packing..

since after exams, life been good:) hav been enjoying life. sleep late, go out, meeting up with friends, spend decent time with dear, have good food.

I am now excited with my taiwan trip. all gals came to my place yest to finalise the itinerary. Hahah. truthfully, this is my first time being so hands on in planning. I think last yr planning for hk w kat, angie n hx is like a training for me. i was more sideline learning. This time, i m definitely more involved. Enjoy planning. Will certainly play a much more active role in planning in future. :)As i plan, the more i read, the more excited i become. Sense of achievement when everything flows and is nice nice. Muz go through the whole thing to see if it realli works though. haha

over the weekend, met 13yao for dinner to celebrate sou's belated belated bday. went to the korean BBQ place at far east. the side dishes are not free-flow but are available for refill. whatever it means, go figure. haha. I tink the waitress repeated the exact sentence thrice.
went to T3 TCC next, had a good time catching up with all. it was our usual secret-sharing time. FUN!!




Pomerganate Orange Soda. Very refreshing. Nice




Then on sun went to buy luggage w dear. Went to Tam1 foodcourt for lunch first. wanted to try the roast meat from Restoran Selayang. Was on the news coz it is opened by actors terrence cao and another actor (forget his name). It boostes a family recipe. I so wanted to try it. I tried and definitely was not disappointed. Foodcourt price, great satifaction. They have 2 types of chilli. One is the chicken rice kind another is the roast duck chilli paste. Try both. Both are so rich in aroma that u can jus eat it alone w rice. haha i sound so much like a foodie writing a food blog now.. :) but good things muz share.



Also went to orchard. when was the last time i have the time to stop by, absorbed into the drums and vibrancy of performers by the streets. ah, this is life!



went ah ma house at nite to celebrate Mothers' day. i bought a nice cake too!!

yet another long time since last post.

And yeah!!! i finished my exams!!!!!! woohoo~

finished yest and after that i went tampines 1. Haven been there since it opened, so went there yest to open my eyes. bought a pair of lychee martinis coz they are very pretty... haha. typical gal. although i m not a huge fan of pink, these bottles were cute so i got them. :) (just felt like spending $$ after exams)


had lunch at Ma Maison yest with hc, mq n yq. was a treat after exams. :) hee. the photos are the prove of the good food we had. let the photos explain.. ha hc did took the food photos quite well huh. haha







over lunch yest, the idea of gg for a buffet dinner surfaced . And so off we went to a buffet dinner tonight. went to Crown Price Hotel at Terminal 3, Airport. AZURE. sad yq n mindy cant join us. yq, u missed out A LOT TONIGHT!! next time muz come w us k!! A very good offer, by the use of UOB or CITIBANK card, its one-for-one. International buffet. Got lots of variety. its realli good. I think each of us ate like 15-20 prawns (fresh + drunken prawns at least) esp mq. haha. it was realli veri fresh. the prawns were sweet so were the scallops. Its not easy to get sweet scallops la. i think, our table ate a lot of seafood. a bit kua zhang tonight but it was realli worth it. The food n dessets were fantastic. Pre-booking is needed. service a bit slow but if u manage to get their attention, its nt that bad.





went ttsh to sign contract this morning. i m almost a staff there liao. exciting. Working with a few good friends also. Hope life will be enriching and at the same time fun.. :) look forward :)

but first taiwan, here i come.. :)

haha long time since i last blogged. yet again. guilty as charged.

tonight went dinner with ac kids club plus ac, vivianne n ky.

i jus reach home, jus bathe. surprising
a dinner which jus 6hrs ago, most of us were dreading to attend and hoping to eat, spend as much as possible then leave. good bye good day. till we meet again.

surprising. we chatted and stayed till late. over dinner, some interesting conversations did arise and the atmosphere was better than expected. thanks to ky. saw a different side of him today. more human-like.

went mache@vivo. first time had the chance to try almost everything. we jus took everything. my table had rostti, cheese, chicken, garlic pork saugages, calamari, 1/2 pork knunkle, smoken salmon w roast chicken crepe, pizza, mixed mushrooms w potatoes. and that was our main course onli. 4 gals. haha. trying to help him spent coz we figured prob he has no place to spend his salary. and we shld reward ourselves after all the hard work..

for desserts we had almost all kinds of cakes they had. one of everything. i counted. we had 10 kinds of bakes + ice creams. omg. fat. now that i type out, the amt we ate was quite scary.. to make it better, mayb it would help to say that the cakes were shared among 8 of us?? haha. chatted a lot tonite. gain a lot of new insights n knowledge also. hmm. but some things still cant pry out of him. so tight-lipped. oh well, but still this dinner realli marks the end of fyp. plus my article has been sent to Journals of Clinical Oncology for review le. hope it gets through n published then everything will end on a good note.

i m just ONE day away from my last day in school. I cant believe it. last day of official school. As in REAL SCHOOL. after so many years, arent i waiting for this day to come? yet, i don feel immense joy or feelings. i guess its mixed n hence nullified. shall go sort out how i shld feel. haha.

tml pharmacy year 4 are gg to end on a high note. we r gg to jog+walk for a fundraising event for pharm. haha wat a way to end the last day of sch. HAHA school life. these things we do that make school life memorable and stories to tell future genrations. isnt it? :)

hey hey!!!
yipee yaya yipee yipee ya,
yipee yaya yipee yipee ya,
yipee yaya yipee yipee yaya,
yipee yipee yaya yipee yipee ya.

FYP has officially ended!!!!! woots~
i'm so happy, i'm so glad
yest was the poster display. hee i got 2nd placing for my poster for my category. was a tie with cons, hee at least we didnt throw ac's face. but jl still up him.. hahahaha. was veri happy that it has ended. i tink all my comrades will feel the same.










haven felt such freedom in a long time already. have been imagining this day for so long. at last its here. the amt of tears, sweat and frustration over it.

As ac promised, he's gg to bring us all out for a meal. no budget.. haha. date set. place tbc by us!! muhahaa.. hc suggest $100/pax.. evil..but we don mind i guess...

Many thanks to all

Better to put as a seperate post. if not too long le. hahahaha :p

I realli would like to thank so many people in helping me:

Thanks AC, for reading n vetting n stimulating my mind non-stop. very agonising, yes. its a love-hate rel.

Thanks Mindy, for so much of ur help. you r realli an angel in my life. you always help to enlighten me whenever i m down. its my fyp and u hav urs to worry bout to, yet u always render help whenever i need it. Don think its minimal, it meant a lot to me. Really. :)

Thanks hc, you r another great help! thanks for agreeing to help me during that horror period. Lucky got you, i can calm down and brace through it all.

Thanks shaun, thanks for offering to help me read my thesis. Hee i noe you were very busy then, yet u still tried ur best to give me ur valuable comments. Realli appreciated it. Comments from chicago, plus from a future budding neuroscientist. haha, it is my honour.

Thanks cons, i tink it was horror of horror for both of us when we got that terrible email. i also dunno whether to say luckily or unluckily, i got you for company... hey isnt it a concidence, we got another email together again tonite! :) lucky its good news this time. :) hard work paid off!!!!! yoohoo! :p

Thanks to my sis too, she helped me read my 1st draft, help me go through my poster tog, listen to me present like 3 times, help me prepare cue cards.. your bday this year will b good. :)

And last but not least, thanks to my dear. He is the one who hear me whine, complain, tahan my sullen face n lifeless form this 9 months. Thanks for all your support this while. Thanks for reading my drafts numerous times and be my audience who comment and time my presentation so many times. i think you r quite well-verse in CAM now too. :p

journey of fyp

One MORE DAY!!! yeah! fyp will be finally officially over... tml is our poster presentation.
sun n mon, i went to print poster. went 2 days coz i found some glitches. oh well, lucky i end up print one poster only.. if not veri waste $$. the feeling when seeing my own poster being printed was good. Marks the end of fyp. Quite proud of it although i realli saw many nice nice ones.. i c so many of my classmates there la..i tink that shop jus earn our money jiu happy liao. haha.

tdy when i pinned up my poster, it was another kind of fufilling feeling. i think many of my friends felt the same towards their poster also. Its almost like a crystallisation of the efforts. I like so many posters.. there were like 60 posters and most of them quite pretty..

i like mindy's one the most.. Gal, hee urs i still like the most! :)
tml will be an exiciting day. hopefully, after tml no more fyp.. actually after my presentation on sat, i was on hol mood le. haha. think i din perform as well as i expected for myself but don care liao. it has been so many months since i stone, so many months since i last watch tv few hours at one go, so many months since i last went shopping, n so many months since i don hav that heavy stone in me making me lost all the energy to laugh with all my heart.

the old me is BACK!! like a spell i've been under for months, at last its lifted. i feel alive again. Is this the type of fairy tale in this modern era? anyway, i feel happy. i am happy. I still hav a few tests before my final finals exam coming soon, ya ard that corner again. but i don care. this few days are for recharging!!! yipee~

i feel liberated again! Haha, i tot it will be so hard to wait till this day.. so glad that all the horrid stuff are over for now...

FYP was a learning exp. i would say that the learning curve was quite steep. for blur ppl like me, who like to add extra stones ahead of myself, so that i can trip upon later, life was harder. but realli, i tink all of us hav matured over this 9 months.. the bond we forged over ac fyp kids' club is something to be treasured.

This is the week..

if i survived this week well, i think i have attained another level..

There's no lack of challenges in life.. they are all just round that corner.

Lin

i dreamt of my prof again last nite. Dreamt had he sent me an email saying that my poster got prob... oh man... when will this end.. he cant even let me hav a good, peaceful sleep...

recently, i've been very tired. physically and mentally. last nite i went to bed at 11.15. mum even suggested that maybe i shld go do a blood test to see whats wrong. hmm, no need la ah. needles = pain.

Trust a pharmacist to say that. tsktsk..

cant believe i'm gg to be a pharmacist soon. How many lifes will be in my hands that i hav to protect. woohoo.. glad that i'm becoming one. Will do good for the society. i promise. :)

When one becomes too busy with everything, everything seems to glazed past. Nothing seems important. I hate it tat i am taking IMPORTANT THINGS so UNIMPORTANTLY.

I wan to stop and take check. I cant. I know i hav been missing out a lot of life. I wan to laugh like before again, i cant. I wan to find back wats important to me. My life, my friends, my cup of Starbucks coffee, but i cant. I cant even rmb the time i last sat down for coffee with a small grp of friends discussing life. i don even hav time to catch a breath and the wind just forcefully push me forward.

somethings i noe after its missed, you cant get it back. The feeling is no longer there. i know. Women's sixth sense is not there for without a purpose.

when i wan to lament, i dunno who to go to. Everyone has their own set of frustration which i don wish to add on. I can imagine myself lament.. things are so gross that i actually don feel like mentioning.. but u noe, when you don say, it jus keep gnawing ur insides..

I think my blog has become too pessimistic to read. If it is, read my older posts instead, i think they may b happier.

actually, i think my table of friends all hav this kind of feeling which has escalated this semester.. i wonder whether anyone wrote bout it? Did anyone talked about it?

maybe its wat fyp did to me,
maybe its coz i'm in yr 4 last sem alreadi
i think i m more kan de kai..
i m more shui bian.. more slack n less demanding on myself
i reach self-equilbrium within a shorter time..
i think this is bad..
its tis kind of mindset that makes ppl complacent with the veri least they hav.
mayb i shld change,
mayb i will change.
after fyp..


PS: med counseling tml.. can b quite jialat kind. tdy then seriously start studying. usually will start early. but tdy slack till night night then start.. now notes in front of me, i m blogging. still got 2 entries.. you tell me la. hahaha... omg. m i the hui lin u know?? i wonder?

In my 4 yrs of tertiary education, today is the last prac of the entire course.. made pellet coating today... veri fun, jus like home econs and arts where we mix our own colour to coat our pellets and pack into capsules.

Probably the last prac in my life, friends n i forget to take a proper picture. should hav. wasted. lucky last time got take a few.. haha. fun pracs i had in this 4 yrs.. got usual titration, also got more specialised ones like tdy's tab coating and dosage form prep...

hmm actually i still hav med counseling coming up x 4 weeks. done in lab also but its not hand-on get dirty kind. hmm.. that is the challenging part..

2 more weeks... its all gonna be over!!!!!! April april quick come come!!

Brief update

1) I have handed in my final thesis

2) By the 1st April, everything to do with FYP will be settled (hopefully). thats the official date. but there may be unofficial stuff...

3) I am gg TAIWAN!!! Booked tickets. Going w 9 other friends. Free n Easy

4) Planning is not easy... but fun! :)

5) I got my job!!! actually it was quite some time le.. just din manage to spread the news.. to all who is graduating and haven gotten a job, jiayou!! The industry wants you!! don worry! tough outside, but u'll find ur place :)

6) My stress level is cyclical. Now is the trough, so i'm normal, for now.

7) I wan to slack. i miss stoning and slacking away my time

so fast, its march alreadi... so busy nowadays... veri draining... one week have past... i m onli halfway up this steep mountain... jiayou. i can do it...

mental strong, body weak?
body strong, mental weak?
aiya watever.....
jus quickly get it done..

ok a fast one.. i got a lot of things to say but no time...

everytime i encounter a situation like tt i hope that i jus hav to link my tots to the computer and everything will be type out nicely... faster that way...

ok many things happened over the weekend..

i told sing i will do the facebook 25 random things about myself but end up haven do.. i tink by the timei come to it at last, the craze prob over liao... ppl r prob doing up 100 random things bout themselves alreadi... i think its realli interesting.. i wan to do it... sigh..

yes, got back my draft... needs data collection again.. ****... and its not good... many many Many changes to make... basically like he says, its a sch report... not a fyp report. he says my writing is bad. very difficult to read.. my co-sup also say so.. so it muz be really true... my concepts not there also... damn, i tried my best to squeeze out all i tot i was worth, and end up, i'm worth like that??? wth...

jiayou 10 of us... hc thanks so much for agreeing to help... mindy also veri helpful.. these 2 ah... realli owe them a lot.. thanks gal!!


so my remaining 2 weeks from now, is gg to b hell again... i jus came 1 week of fresh air leh..
interviews coming up.. nervous.

happy stuff now..

the thurs be4 vday, went hanabi w dear.. i mentioned that rite?? i think i did... then on vday at last i got my present... thought of since last june, started preparing since last dec... exaggerating rite??? i'm not... the fnished product made me believe so.. dear actually use his hands to SEW a cross-stitch cushion for me leh... its quite big somemore. veri nice:) and i muz say i'm realli impressed by his sewing skills. omg... even i'm not that neat.. and the amt of patience.... thanks dear.

my vday present.. done w lots of love


his vday present.. by ME!!!

I think recently i hav been indulging in something called 'fleeting happiness'.. enjoyed for 1 whole week, n judgement day has come again.. to be continued...

this few days i realli bao bao everyday... tue went sakae dinner w sis. yest went nyonya buffet w hc n mindy, tdy celebrated vday w dear at hanabi. yes again buffet.. 2days consect buffet... oh my tian..

yest nyonya buffet was at Chilli Padi Nyonya restaurant (opp bugis).. $15 onli.. the food there was simple and onli a few variety.. smallest buffet spread i ever seen. but jus treat it as a normal dinner. u will be happy with their food. in general, their food is not bad.. i like their penang laska n curry chicken noodles... the penang laska was realli authentic..veri sour n u can taste the spices... the curry was veri lemak.. hc n i drank like it was soup.. haha.. the kueh variety also not bad... but their palau hitam no coconut milk provided... a bit sad.. with coconut milk would b nicer..








then tonight, jus went hanabi with dear... celeb vday in advance..:) so fast 1 yr liao.. (although many friends feel like we hav been tog for veri long) decided to celeb tonight so as to aviod crowd on sat.. wanted to try hanabi for a long time alreadi.. in general, it didnt disappoint me.. like their way of serving.. 1 serving realli means one portion onli. even their sushi came as a piece if u order one serving.. which means very good.. no food wastage and we can try more stuff.. tried a lot of different things..n we had no food wastage at all..for sashimi, i like ika (for once), yellow tail, salmon... maguro not v good tdy.. then the pork belly w kimchi or pepper was veri soft n tender too.. chawanmushi was veri tender and full in taste.. dear also order sake.. first time trying rice wine.. can drink but i still prefer red wine.. haha. i like thier miso eggplant too.. veri fragant.hmm the grilled shitake was good too. lightly salted jus sufficient to bring out the sweetness of the shitakes.. overall it was nice.. happy..












yest during lab, we made tablets~~ quite fun.. then we had extra fine powders so while waiting for our turn at the tableting machine, i entertained myself with the fines...



my lab grp has 3 ppl, first is me






then we hav mindy,






of coz not forgetting hc :)


since vday is jus ard the corner....

happy vday cum friendship day everyone!!!! share ur love!

Job search

tomorrow is the deadline for my first draft.. stressed these few days.. but something made me laugh..

just checked my email and read the email bout my pre-reg job application.. (it was sent a few days ago actually, no time to look at it)..

basically, in this bad economical times where ppl are out searching high and low for a job, my dept is still holding our hands... institutions are arranged to come my sch on one day (coming soon) and promote to us... Then interviews will start the next day next 3 days.. we advised not to make any response to any instituition that offer us a job till a deadline given to ALL instituitions to reply us. hahahha... so we noe wat choice we hav before making the final decision. All in all, its a span of 1 week, and VIOLA!! one week from that, i'll know where my future is heading towards!!

interesting...

hi all, my internet got BIG prob.. i m back to ancient times, using dial-up for now.. connection v unstable.. waiting for my new modem... otherwise i m not internet accessible at most times... damn inconvenient.... sharks...