Off to POLAND!!!!!

WHEEEEEE!! Hahaha! Honestly I'm not as excited as I thought I would be, although the excitement is building up..... :D It's about 6 more hours to departure, yayyyy! I will be going to Poland with NUSCO for a competition from 28th to 3rd July, and from 4th June onwards we'll be touring in Salzburg in Czech Republic and Vienna in Austria. Will be coming back on the 10th July!

Haha I wanted to do a proper post, but I keep remembering of things to do and pack, keep rushing off. Hoho shall keep this short! Really hope that we can win something back; representing Singapore, representing NUS. :) I'm sure all of us will do our best there, so..just hoping for the best!!! This is my first time going Europe, my first time going overseas for a competition, my first time travelling so loooong on a plane (with no inflight entertainment OMG) ....countless first times! Hehe :)

Will be back real soon! Take care everyone reading this!!! :)

Wheee! Finally an update! Haha.. Actually it's not that I don't have time, but there just doesn't seem anything worth talking about. Life has been super UNhappening!!!! Except for occasionally going out, going for CO pracs, watching SS501 vids on youtube(!!!!!!!!!), there's really nothing much going on. I've been trying to get tuition assignments since the beginning of this month, but till now there's NOTHING!!!! A R G H. The countless times I emailed and sms-ed. :( I was thisssssss close to getting an assignment yesterday; the kid stays in my neighbourhood, a different block from mine, just a few mins walk away. Everything was going fine, and the agent was about to give me the address of the kid, until I told her I'll be away from Singapore and I'll miss 2 weeks of lessons. Her tone immediately changed, and she just said "I'll call you back again". I KNEW, she wouldn't call back. Sigh. A wonderful opportunity wasted!!! I really wanted a tuition assignment near my house, so it'll be very convenient when I travel to teach. Oh well, I can evilly pray that no one will take the assignment, so that when I'm back from Poland I can start tuitioning the kid. HA riiiight.

I have been trying to find volunteer work to do too. Have given up the thought of searching for a job. It's soooo hard to find, and my schedule doesn't seem too good too. I never expected, it's not easy to find voluntary work too!!!! Gosh. I called 3 organizations; 1 follows normal school cirriculum, which means that the students are not in school during holidays too so they do not need volunteers. The 2nd organization I called, the children are usually brought out by corporates, and I guess these corporates have events lined up for them, so similarly, they do need need volunteers. The 3rd organization that I called sounded quite friendly, and the person-in-charge asked me to email her so she can liase with me. After days of waiting for her reply, I finally got it today! Haha! And yayness, I can go down during the month of July! Will be helping the P6 children everyday from 2-6, which means tutoring them I suppose. This is my first time finding voluntary work on my own, and going down on my own! *clap clap* HAHAHA it's nothing much but I still feel quite happy with myself hehehe :P I've always been interested to work with young kids, so when I was looking for volunteer work I checked out those that are helping this group. I guess this is a good form of exposure and experience, and I can do something to help children in need! Probably not very much, but I do hope I can achieve something by putting in my bit of effort! :)

The one sad thing is that I wouldn't have any holiday income, sigh. :( Instead I'm spending so much more..AHHHHH well.. But thinking on the bright side, at least i'm not going to continue to waste my holidays! haha. Always look on the bright side of life(hums the adidas or nike?? tune)..

ok I am off to watch SS501 vids on youtube! muahaha! They are really really cute and they sing very well!!!! Hahaha! Nites!

new blogskin!

I finally changed my blogskin!! I like it alot, cos it has a cheerful look to it. :) Was looking for something cheerful, so it can brighten up one's mood after looking even if it's just by a teeny weeny bit. hehe. BUT! It only plays my blog song if you click on the "others" page, which I don't like. I prefer the song to play once I get onto the page. I know some will just shut off the music, which I do sometimes too if the song is one that I don't fancy. But I love the effect of having the song that I like being played in the background while reading my blogposts, it feels so...personalised. Haha.. And I've ever fallen in love with a song which I heard on a random person's blog. Hmm so..I'll probably change this layout again, but not for the moment i guess. I realise it takes quite a bit of time to choose a design that I like, upload it into blogger, then change the details to my own. Have never been good at such IT stuffs, so it's really quite agonising doing all these nitty gritty details!

It's been sweltering hot these days!!! arghhh, make me feel so warm and sticky and uncomfortable. Drink more water, people! Haha :)

Have been listening to this Korean song called "Nobody" by a group called Wonder girls. Got hooked on it after watching Kim Hyun Joong(Ji Hoo sun-bae in BOF) dance it. Haha! I think the previous sentence probably wouldn't make a lot of sense to alot of you, but I know some would get what I'm saying right! haha :) do listen to this catchy and cute song! It's a big hit in Korea I think. Fast forward to 2 mins for the actual song, the front part of the mv is a little draggy...




I want to learn the dance!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

Finally, an update!!

Ah! I think it's time to do a good update, hehe... Actually I had a post that was halfway done, but it's getting outdated everyday, cos I'm just too lazy to edit it! Haha!

Hmm life has been really really slack after exams, getting a little guilty! A liiitle la, haha... Still feel like "resting" a while more before I plan anything else. But anw, just finished watching "Boys Over Flowers", which is the Korean version of Meteor Garden. I'm totally absolutely hooked onto it, am a crazy fan of it now!! Haha! Or rather, a crazy fan of the F4 in the show. MY GOODNESS, they are super uber HOT and DASHING and CHARMING and CHARASMATIC and SWEET and ROMANTIC and CUTE and...hahaha don't mind me!! Need to share my craze, hehehe :) Honestly I don't find the show particularly nice, but it's just the cast that's attracting me to it. They all look so good, and the clothes they wear are soooo suave and good-fitting on them!! And the places that they film are all soooo nice and high-class!! Oh and I love their uniform!! If only Singapore's school uniforms are half as nice as theirs! But oh well, I guess we'll all melt in the heat if we gotta wear blazers and high-knee socks everyday >.<

Some photos that I googled, I hope it's ok to post them here?? Haha but anw, how can any girl resist them?!?!?! HEHE! I think they totally win hands down as compared to the F4 in the Japanese and Taiwan version. No fight here!! They make the whole drama shine :D Been searching for NG scenes, and whatever news that I can get of them, LOL! And I'm thinking of rewatching the drama one more time, wahaha!! Actually watching this has re-fired my interest in Korean, and I can try to learn as I watch the show, not too bad too? :P I think a good way to learn the language is also from their songs, which I've been replaying continuously for the past few days! haha! But there's a difference between formal and informal use in Korean, which is so confusing to me. Found a "teacher" to teach me, hahaha :P She's so patient with all my questions that I keep bugging her with, and she's really quite pro despite learning only for 2 sems! Thanks Karin!! :)

----------------------------------------------

Wanted to dedicate a part of my post to YY like how I did with KL, but it's been a week since she left, so sorry!! She should be able to have internet connection from where she's staying now, and we've met on msn a few times already. But oh well, it's the thought that counts right! Haha so YY!!! This is for you!! Hope you've settled down proper in Thailand, and hope that you're enjoying urself there!! So far it seems as if everything is going well yeah, may things go well for the next 1 month! :) It's quite weird not having you in Singapore!! Haha! Considering we've known each other since 2001, it's the 9th year already!! WOAH it's kinda scary when you count it..lol.. And we've always met up quite frequently, especially for CO pracs.. hehehe... looking forward to going Poland with you!! Take lotsa care, see you when u r back!!! Come back with plenty of beautiful memories and experiences!!! :)

------------------------------------------------

Let me post some photos with NYCO on our Sentosa gathering!! It feels ages ago though, wahaha.

The jump shots that we took! Only putting 2 here, loads more in FB! Haha too many to post already!

The girls!The guys!

NYCO 05/06 batch family photo! Haha..Glad to see so many turn up for dinner! Really miss the days in NYCO; life was fun and carefree! Everyone has grown up, but we can still crap and joke like last time, I'm glad the "feeling" is still there. Hehe :)

Uploading photos is quite a troublesome chore! argh. But I like to have photos in my post, it's like a timeline diary, I can look back and see what I did, where I went, with whom. When I read other people's blogs I like those that have photos too, doesn't feel so wordy and boring.

Went with yy, karin, enoch and yongxue to the zoo the day right after the Sentosa gathering. My gosh, my legs were aching from all the numerous jump shots, really have no idea how i managed to drag myself around the zoo!! haha!

Just some photos we took there.. Enoch was our photographer the whole day, haha! Oh but the photo above that doesn't have me, I was the photographer!! Hehehe. My first time carrying a DSLR ehh..so heavy!! And it's so expensive, scaryy..

Ahh finally manged to do up this post! woots! Shall go off to bed, been sleeping quite late for the past few days. Shall try to discipline myself to sleep no later than 130am everyday!! Haha...TRY la. Goodnights all, whichever part of the world u are at!! :)

nyco gathering whee!!

Actually I'm freaking shagged now..But since I turned on my com to check sth, thought I'll just do a short update about today!

Had a gathering with NYCO friends from my batch, went to Sentosa in the morning followed by dinner at Kim Gary HK restaurant at night. Must say, today's gathering was fun fun FUN! :) Haven't laughed so much, played so much, ran so much, jumped so much for a looong time!!! HAHA and that explains my aching muscles now, ouchhh. First time playing Ultimate Frisbee, and OMG it's totally ULTIMATE!!! The amount of running to and fro is crazyyyy!! I think I really need to exercise more, ran out of breath damn fast, haha!

The other more memorable "activity" was our jump shots! HAHA! Totally can't count how many times we jumped. I think we jumped for like half an hour?! It was so hard to get everyone to synchronise and jump tgt, but I totally liked the way we counted down from 10..9..8...1 and JUMP! You see! We even took into account the half beat! "1 and" jump! Haha i guess only those who have been in an aesthetic group or who knows music will understand what i'm saying? Hehe..we are so "orchestraish" :P Oh well but I must admit it's freaking tiring to jump and jump and jump and jump.....whew! Took tons of photos!! I'll try to share the nicer looking ones next time yeah! :) Thanks to Casper for organising this gathering, turnout was great! And I realised how unproportionate our balance of guys and girls! In total, we had 16 ppl, 5 girls and 11 guys. I rmb we had lesser girls last time, but I didn't realise that the numbers were soo imbalanced! And you would think that a chinese orchestra would have more girls?!(Hmm ok prob it's only me who would think this way) :)

Ok, I'm soo looking forward to lying on my comfy bed now, so shall update more another time! Going to the zoo tmr with nusco peeps!! Haha! dun ask me y it's at the zoo....I have no idea too...I don't know how am I going to wake up on time tmr...Oh but before that I'll be going to school for a briefing for Research Assistants. Like yayy I finally can get to be a RA!! It's nothing much but I guess it does mean a little in my Psychology path? :) And it's something to spice up my hols abit, which seems to be quite empty and unfulfilling at the moment... I really really hope to get the internships I applied for but....sighh i guess no news sometimes doesn't mean good news. It's ok! I still have the Poland trip to look forward to..so..YAYY! :D

Nights all!!

post-exam update

Time for a good update!! :) I realise I tend to get lazy when I have more time on hand instead, haha! SOOOO...Ended my exams on thursday, which is like FINALLY!!! Haven't taken 5 final exams for the past two sems, and at such a long stretch too! In the past my exams always seem to end quite early; shortens the torture!!! But oh well, I've survived through this round :) Performance wise...pray hard for the best is all I can say. HA!



Went to the library on thurs, wanted to borrow some books to "improve" my intellectual level. Heh heh. There was this guidebook for learning basic Korean Language, but it comes with a dvd, and I gotta be a premium member of the library to borrow it. I can't even borrow the book by itself, HUMPH. To be a premium member, you have to pay $21 membership fee a year. I know it may not seem much, but honestly, I have NEVER borrowed dvds from the library, and I totally don't see the need to (except for that dvd that comes with the guidebook). The librarian was saying that the library has other dvds that I can borrow to watch too, but aiya, I really doubt I would. I would rather spend the $21 to buy a new book; one that I can refer to anytime I want, or even make notes on it. But anw, I still found the book quite useful, so I decided to photocopy! Haha :P Yah yah I know all that about plagarism, lecturers have been drilling that into our brains since year 1. I only photocopied 1 chapter ok! (Though I'm not too sure if it is more than 10% of the book). Hoho.



I also borrowed this book by Josephine Cox, called "Songbird". I loooooove books by Josephine Cox!!!!!!! I can proudly say that I've read ALL her books that I can find at my community library; I always check out her section everytime I go to the library. I must admit, the collection of her books there is really quite limited, but I think I've already read about half of all the books she wrote. Her style of writing is not the very intellectual type(do pardon me), at least I don't expect to learn big words or big concepts from her books. However, the way she writes is very vivid and enrapturing, I often feel as if I can see the whole scene unfold in front of my eyes. Her descriptions are really wonderful, and her stories always manage to tug at the heart. Her storylines tend to be a little similar though, such that the main characters always go through many many hardships and misery before shining through. However, ALL the storylines are sooooo captivating, I simply love them! The language she uses is abit like "old english", hmmm I don't really know what's the best description, but it's just not like the modern english normally used in books. Whenever I read all that the main characters have to go through, really, anyone of us would feel lucky and fortunate for all we have in our lives. :) I always find it so hard to stop halfway, cos i so want to know what happens next! And I should say, her plots are always so well thought out, there are many surprises along the way. Not to mention that her stories are so inspiring, they teach me so much about life. Nothing fancy nothing big, just simple things about life. Her books are super good for relaxing, so if you want to read something that is simple and good, to feel as if you live together with the people in the books, do try Josephine Cox!!! :) Highly recommended!! :D



Went Kbox with yy yest, sang from 2-6, shiok ah!! Haha! Have been thinking of kboxing since a long time ago, and finally I satisfied the "craving"!! Hahaha..But! Still not enough la, hehe :P Looking forward to more kbox gatherings!!! wheee! :) Met up with suona friends after that for dinner, including chu he lao shi! Haha. We went Miao Yi, which is at Coronation Plaza. I've been there a few times before, so I knew that their food is not too bad. It's a vegeterian restaurant by the way, but the way that they cook their dishes are delicious, kind of like eating real meat actually. Yum! We went to have dessert after that, at this cafe that sells gelato ice-cream. Can't rmb the name of the shop, but their ice-cream was yummy!!!I liked the coconut flavour; the taste was so rich and creamy, and there were real bits of coconut. I chose hazelnut, which tasted like Kinder Bueno!Haha! Yummy too! :) Lao shi shared alot of his experiences and knowledge, and I was telling Karin that he seems to have this HUGE vessel of knowledge in him, which he spills a little to us everytime. It's kinda amazing really, and I feel as if I learn alot from him. Though I must admit that he kinds of goes on and on and on and on........Ha! :P But I guess it's our fortune to be able to share some of his knowledge :)



Woahh ok this is one lengthy wordy post! Hope it didn't bore you out!! One more thing to write on, dedicated to the dearest girl who's flying off to Berlin later!! (considering it's past midnight now)

------------------

KL!!!!! This section is specially for you ok! Hehe. Hope you'll have loads and loads of fun in Germany, and all the wa ko (HAHA sorry I'm bad at names of cities :X) places that you'll be going! TAKE LOTS AND LOTS OF CARE PLS, always be careful in a foreign country! I know you are quite independent and shld be able to take care of yourself, so no worries there yeah :) Take many many beautiful pics, so you can share them with all of us!! Will see you in June, and we'll then go Poland tgt! Heehee! Must rmb to miss all of us ok! :) muchmuchloves!!! Have a smooth and safe journey, BON VOYAGE!! Haben Sie eine sichere Reise, wird Sie vermissen! :)

------------------

Goodnight!!

dev psych exam at 5pm tmrw

start of the countdown!!!!!! omg it's finally the last paper :):):):):):):):)

FREEDOM in exactly 19 hours, WHEEEEEEEEE~~~~~~~

我不是你想像那么勇敢

有时候太坚强 笑容却填不满眼眶
越是想要隐藏 歌声就唱的更响亮
直到入到心底最深处 OH...
你不要追问我 还缺了些什麽

Chorus #
每个人都有梦 幸福总站在最远方
心中越是渴望 越是不敢伸手拥抱
谁的心是我最後一站 OH...
我强问我自己 现在还没有个答案

Chorus *
我不是你想像那麽勇敢
多想让你保护能流泪一场
让我放下武装 像个孩子一样
单纯的把爱情放在你心上

Back to chorus #, *

我不是你想像总是扮演坚强
多想让你知道我也要个伴
放下讨厌武装 像个孩子一样
单纯的把爱情放在你心上
我不是你想像的那麽勇敢...

exam woes...

Had my first paper today, it was quite bad... SIGHHH... It was quite demoralising actually, to realise that sometimes putting in your best is just not enough. :( I really did, and I really thought I can do better this time, BUT..oh well, that's life i guess. Things don't always go your way.

The guy sitting beside me left when I haven't even started on the 20 marks essay question. Like WTH?!?!?! And after that people kept leaving, and I was still struggling...

Am not trying to be emo, just tired... I will be fine, i will still do my best for the rest of my papers. :) To all those having exams, ALL THE BEST!


Rachel Liang Wen Yin - Wo Bu Shi Ni Xiang Xiang Na Me Yong Gan -

Bird in the house yo!

It's soo hot these 2 days!! I just went out of the house to run an errand just now, and I came home sweating. The moment I got into the car, my glasses fogged up due to the heat! Woahh... The weather makes me feel so sleepy, everytime I open my books my eyes feel like closing, my brain feels fuzzy... Ok, I admit, it's not all about the weather, but oh well! It does make me feel less like studying...

My house had an unexpected guest yesterday night!! Haha. We had just returned home from my grandma house, and I was opening the balcony door when I suddenly heard this fluttering sound. I, personally, is VERY scared of hearing fluttering sounds. It usually means there's either a flying cockroach, beetle or a moth. And if you look at my profile, I am afraid of most things that can fly. Anything, everything. I saw this black thing with wings fluttering, and my first thought was "oh shit is that a humongous cockroach?!?!!?!?!?!?" I ran off, then came back again to check out what the thing was. (See how courageous I am? wahaha!) The thing flew up and I could see clearly, it was a bird. A small little bird. It couldn't fly very high, so I assumed it was injured. I quickly told my parents that there's an injured bird in our balcony. They went like "huh bird??" cos it's like one in a million chance that a bird would fall in our balcony.

They went with me to see, and the poor bird kept fluttering around, like it couldn't fly high. We decided to give it fruits to eat, and some water. Me and my mum cut a peach, and placed it inside a container with some water. But when I went back out, the bird was gone already. We looked around the balcony, but there was no sight of it. We placed the container outside, as we were thinking that it might fly back again. Just then, I turned and saw the bird flying inside our living room. I gave out this shriek and told my mom "IT'S INSIDE THE HOUSE!!!" Haha! My parents were kind of thrilled, cos we seldom get such visitors! I wasn't too thrilled though, cos I do not like things that fly!! Haha, unless it's tame and behaves, not one that flies all over the place!!! It started to fly from one end of our house to the other end, perching itself on the curtain rod. Each time it flew, I would shriek and bend my body low. Haha, I did that continuosly for what felt like a million times, until I was sweating all over. HAHAHA. I couldn't understand why my parents could just watch it fly here and there like they a bird flying around our house everyday. I was so scared that it would just land on my head, or decide to peck at me. Hahaha, I'm just being paranoid I know. Anyway, my mum says it's a hummingbird(that explains all the fluttering i heard), and we are guessing that it's a baby one. It's quite tiny and small, and it's yellow in colour! Quite cute actually. I took many photos of it, but it was too small to show up nicely.

It kept flying to and fro for the whole night; was until we went to sleep did it perch itself on the living room curtain rod and stopped flying. It was sleeping i guess... We left a small nightlight for it, but when my dad looked for it in the morning it was gone already. Oh well, although it was just a short visit, was still quite exciting! :) It makes me feel a teeny weeny less scared of birds that come near to me now! haha. There's still a little mystery though, if it could fly so well to and fro around our house, why was it fluttering around in my balcony and wasn't able to fly out? And the door of our balcony was open wide throughout before we went to bed, so why didn't it fly out immediately at the first chence, but chose to stay in our house? Ahhh..I guess it's a mystery only the bird knows.. (my mum kept insisting that it likes our house though :))

Ok! shall zoom off to do my studying now...Bye people!! :)