Went to the dentist again on saturday as the toothache kept coming on n off. The registration staff was much nicer this time. Maybe mature malay ladies are much more friendlier than chinese-left-on-the-shelves-hens. Anyway, conclusion of the dental visit: I have 3 wisdom tooth and one requires extraction soon. The dentist then referred me to National Dental Centre for wisdom tooth surgery. Hmmm, maybe after the final report is submitted, then i'll go. Not too urgent anyway. But think i'll have to spend all the money i earned from part-time work on the surgery......
Made Tiramisu and chocolate pudding for dear to eat last weekend. The both had the required taste but the texture wasn't good enough. The tiramisu was a bit soggy as i din add gelatin to it. The chocolate pudding was a bit runny cos I forgot to adjust the ingredients to accomodate the reduced Tofu content. But nonetheless, I'm pretty satisfied with these results on my first try. Mum and sis were impressed by the tiramisu. Hahaha. Then I tried my hand at making the coffeebean style ice blended mocha. It turned out great. Looks and tastes almost exactly like what you would get for 6 bucks. Pretty neat huh. No more getting my money sucked dry by those money grubbers!
Been going for windsurfing the last 2 weekends. Its been so long since i last went. The last date being 8/8/04. The feeling of riding the waves is great! But weicheng gonna leave for US on 8 may for 2 months. So I had been enjoy the company for surfing while it lasts! Gonna make a tiramisu/choco pudding birthday cake for him (at his request) to celebrate his birthday b4 he leaves.
Dear is going to finish her exams soon. Finally can hang out more often with her without having to worry about sending her back to school and nagging at her to study. My final report will also be due soon, though I haven really started on it yet. (No idea how to write)
Cooking is actually pretty fun... (minus the cleaning up)
Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Wednesday, April 20, 2005
Blogpet !!
Came across a blogsite with this cute thing: blogpet. Looks pretty cool and also acts as a counter for your blog. Not that i care though, but it looks really cute. So tot I might as well change the template of my blog and add this blogpet in as well, since i'm getting a bit tired of the old template.
Been playing on the PS2 late into the night everyday since I borrowed it from Baocun last week. Haha. So typical of me to play like there's no tml. A good stress buster though. But the lack of slp seems like to have caught up with me and I'm getting dizzy spells. Time to get proper slp. Maybe lay off the games for a couple of days and revert back to my healthy activities. Hope that it doesn't rain. Haven been running for a week already!
Wanted to visit the dentist for my wisdom tooth last saturday, but the uppity registration staff was so guai lan and din let me register when i was just 5 min shy of the registration closing time. She then told me to come back on monday at 0730 and her attitude was like as if I owe her $$. Wat the heck. Why are there so many rude pple around? May she get a wisdom tooth herself too. Though dun think its really possible for that old hen!
Been playing on the PS2 late into the night everyday since I borrowed it from Baocun last week. Haha. So typical of me to play like there's no tml. A good stress buster though. But the lack of slp seems like to have caught up with me and I'm getting dizzy spells. Time to get proper slp. Maybe lay off the games for a couple of days and revert back to my healthy activities. Hope that it doesn't rain. Haven been running for a week already!
Wanted to visit the dentist for my wisdom tooth last saturday, but the uppity registration staff was so guai lan and din let me register when i was just 5 min shy of the registration closing time. She then told me to come back on monday at 0730 and her attitude was like as if I owe her $$. Wat the heck. Why are there so many rude pple around? May she get a wisdom tooth herself too. Though dun think its really possible for that old hen!
Tuesday, April 19, 2005
FYP woes begone!
Finally solved the FYP partner problem, and i'm pretty satisfied with the outcomes. Din expect one of my closer EID mates to be unpaired too. Tot he probably saw my post on the bulletin board, and approached me last morning. Since we had worked together b4, and we had similar goals n interests, on top of the fact that we are on pretty good terms, we came to an agreement pretty quickly. I reckon its a good ending for this chapter.
Actually I really have to thank Ryan for helping me dispel the cynicism i had against posting on the bulletin to look for fyp partners. Was really apprehensive towards it at first, but when i learnt that he had got plenty of hits once he posted, I knew I had to do it too if not I'll just be sinking deeper by the minute.
Also thanks to Derek & Ivy too, for trying to help me by introducing frens to me. At least I know there r still some true frens around willing to take the trouble to help when the need arises.
As for the company fyp i had earlier tried to get. Courtesy of the inflexible NTU staff, it fell thru before it even got started. Anyway, think my mentor and sup are pretty nice too in a sense that they were very willing to try to help me thru this hurdle. My mentor was shocked when she heard I faced this problem, and gave me plenty of advice, and even to the extent of granting me half day off to go back to school to talk to the profs. (too bad i'm attached to other dept now, so she can't do much until i go back to her dept)
Lucky to get out of this shit fast! Now its the fight to get the project I want...
Actually I really have to thank Ryan for helping me dispel the cynicism i had against posting on the bulletin to look for fyp partners. Was really apprehensive towards it at first, but when i learnt that he had got plenty of hits once he posted, I knew I had to do it too if not I'll just be sinking deeper by the minute.
Also thanks to Derek & Ivy too, for trying to help me by introducing frens to me. At least I know there r still some true frens around willing to take the trouble to help when the need arises.
As for the company fyp i had earlier tried to get. Courtesy of the inflexible NTU staff, it fell thru before it even got started. Anyway, think my mentor and sup are pretty nice too in a sense that they were very willing to try to help me thru this hurdle. My mentor was shocked when she heard I faced this problem, and gave me plenty of advice, and even to the extent of granting me half day off to go back to school to talk to the profs. (too bad i'm attached to other dept now, so she can't do much until i go back to her dept)
Lucky to get out of this shit fast! Now its the fight to get the project I want...
Thursday, April 14, 2005
What have I done to deserve this?
FYP selection was opened on this Monday, and we are supposed to make our choices by 2nd May. This time the system is a bit different. It used to be a balloting system. But now it has become 1st come 1st serve. Not in the form of the 1st person who registers for the project would get it, but students could approach the supervisors directly and if the supervisor is willing to take them, the project would be closed for registration. Now this has caused panic, to me.
Andrew and I made an agreement before IA that we would be partners for our FYP, thus I was rejecting others early on. But yesterday (3rd day of opening for selection) when I asked him, then he told me that he had already taken up a FYP by his company with his IA fren, and forgot about our agreement.
I was like WTF! It was the 3rd day of selection, and almost everyone are already paired up, and now u fly me a fat 747? How do u expect me to get a partner now? The least u could do is to tell me earlier for me so that I can make the neccessary arrangements. And if I hadn't got hold of u and asked u about it, r u never gonna tell me that and let me wait till the world's gone by? (and it wasn't easy to contact him either; HP, msn, but no replies)
I was surprised that I din scold him or shoot any vulgarities off my mouth (ok, it was on msn). I dunno whether its because I not that short-tempered anymore, or am I just being practical. There's no point in getting mad at him for what has been done cannot be changed. It would be more useful to channel my energies into solving this problem than mourning over it.
My first course of action is to ask all potential partners but everyone was attached. I dun wan to get paired up with a China man or India man (local indians r ok, but not india). I had my fair share of free-loaders from these countries, read my first few blogs for more details. I would rather bite the bullet and carry the load all by myself than have to wipe the crap off someone else's ass.
So I asked my NTU tutor and my IA mentor whether it was possible to ask the company to raise a project for me, alone. Talks are currently still ongoing and I dunno what is the outcome, but to me this is one of the better options as I would know where I'm going and what I'll be getting.
Being unpaired would be at a serious disadvantage, for one would have to wait till the last 3 days before they can make their choices, which by that time most of the better projects would have been taken up already. Maybe leaving only a couple of lousy projects which are too useless or tedious and irrelevant to what i studied.
As for whether I would get a project from Flextronics, and whether the school would approve a late submission (the deadline was 31 Mar), to speak the truth, I can only be hopeful and pray hard. Chances are that probably either side would reject the proposal and I'll be back to zero again.
So much for working so hard for exams all these years... This could be my undoing and would probably cost me my 2nd-upper if this doesn't get solved properly. Thanks huh, Andrew.
Guess I can really mellowed down a lot. Its really surprising how I din get angry at all this turd thrown in my face
Andrew and I made an agreement before IA that we would be partners for our FYP, thus I was rejecting others early on. But yesterday (3rd day of opening for selection) when I asked him, then he told me that he had already taken up a FYP by his company with his IA fren, and forgot about our agreement.
I was like WTF! It was the 3rd day of selection, and almost everyone are already paired up, and now u fly me a fat 747? How do u expect me to get a partner now? The least u could do is to tell me earlier for me so that I can make the neccessary arrangements. And if I hadn't got hold of u and asked u about it, r u never gonna tell me that and let me wait till the world's gone by? (and it wasn't easy to contact him either; HP, msn, but no replies)
I was surprised that I din scold him or shoot any vulgarities off my mouth (ok, it was on msn). I dunno whether its because I not that short-tempered anymore, or am I just being practical. There's no point in getting mad at him for what has been done cannot be changed. It would be more useful to channel my energies into solving this problem than mourning over it.
My first course of action is to ask all potential partners but everyone was attached. I dun wan to get paired up with a China man or India man (local indians r ok, but not india). I had my fair share of free-loaders from these countries, read my first few blogs for more details. I would rather bite the bullet and carry the load all by myself than have to wipe the crap off someone else's ass.
So I asked my NTU tutor and my IA mentor whether it was possible to ask the company to raise a project for me, alone. Talks are currently still ongoing and I dunno what is the outcome, but to me this is one of the better options as I would know where I'm going and what I'll be getting.
Being unpaired would be at a serious disadvantage, for one would have to wait till the last 3 days before they can make their choices, which by that time most of the better projects would have been taken up already. Maybe leaving only a couple of lousy projects which are too useless or tedious and irrelevant to what i studied.
As for whether I would get a project from Flextronics, and whether the school would approve a late submission (the deadline was 31 Mar), to speak the truth, I can only be hopeful and pray hard. Chances are that probably either side would reject the proposal and I'll be back to zero again.
So much for working so hard for exams all these years... This could be my undoing and would probably cost me my 2nd-upper if this doesn't get solved properly. Thanks huh, Andrew.
Guess I can really mellowed down a lot. Its really surprising how I din get angry at all this turd thrown in my face
Monday, April 11, 2005
Farnie Dream....
Wanted to write one more entry about all the good times that dear n I had together, but had a dream some time last week which was sooooooooooo farnie that I think its imperative that I must share it with all those who frequent here.
The scene was in a hospital, where there were a lot of pregnant women going to give birth soon. (lishan was one of them.... hey its a DREAM ok...).... then there were not enough staff in the hospital to direct all the men to their wives, so everyone was running around like mad. Saw Yong Qiang (my close buddy) there also searching for his wife, and Baocun was also there too. I wass searching for Lishan, and then I came to corridor where there were 3 babies being carried out by the nurses. Saw Baocun's baby. I recognised it was Baocun's baby not by the look of the baby (think most babies look the same) but I saw Baocun's name as the baby's father on the Birth Cert.
It wrote :
Father
Surname: Ugly
Name: Gongkia
The scene was in a hospital, where there were a lot of pregnant women going to give birth soon. (lishan was one of them.... hey its a DREAM ok...).... then there were not enough staff in the hospital to direct all the men to their wives, so everyone was running around like mad. Saw Yong Qiang (my close buddy) there also searching for his wife, and Baocun was also there too. I wass searching for Lishan, and then I came to corridor where there were 3 babies being carried out by the nurses. Saw Baocun's baby. I recognised it was Baocun's baby not by the look of the baby (think most babies look the same) but I saw Baocun's name as the baby's father on the Birth Cert.
It wrote :
Father
Surname: Ugly
Name: Gongkia
Friday, April 01, 2005
A tribute to my dear Lishan...
After harping on the things I had done for dear for so long, its time that I gave credit to dear for the things that she had done for me:
I still remember our first valentine's day, dear gave me a white Man Utd jersey and a hand-made 'card'. It was made from mounting board and had 2 hearts stuck together. It was my first ever valentine's day gift. I really liked it cause I can see the effort she had put in to make and decorate the 'card'. I had kept it pinned to the board on my table in hall so that I could always see it. Now back at home I would take it out from time to time to read the messages she wrote for me on the 'card'.
My favourite present of all would have to be the CD she made for me. It was a sweet short clip of some photos that we had taken together on various occasions. And of course with our fave ballad playing in the background! I had always wanted to do something like this for her, but she had beaten me to it!
During the time when she was still on IA, I was still a regular mugger at the 69 tv lounge. There was many occasions that dear had made some food for me and brought it over for me to eat. But the one that I remembered most clearly has to be the "Big Breakfast Set" that she had made for me on a saturday morning. It made everyone else in the lounge die of envy!!!
I din go to her place often. Always felt a bit out of place even though her parents are very nice to me. But sometimes its too nice to the extent that it makes me feel uneasy. Dear knows this and had always been making excuses for me in front of her mum when I din really feel like going to her place. (esp last year's CNY!) Sometimes when her mum makes some request and it isn't really up to me to decide whether it can be done or not (like driving them to Chinatown on CNY eve, when I dunno if I'm able to get the vehicle cos Dad would probably be using it), dear would try to help me out of the situation, cos it ain't easy to convince to her mum.
Dear had always been a pillar of support for me in my sporting endeavors. Coming all the way back to school on sunday mornings to support me during my rugby matches, even to the extent of wanting to skip her bursary presentation ceremony! Of course there is also the yearly Standard Chartered Marathon when she would always be at the ending point waiting for me, caring for me when I'm beyond my exhaustion point. She even went to the extent of picking up windsurfing so that she'll be able to ride along with me on the waves! (though she still got a long way to go). Thank you my dear!
Although I may claim to be her human jukebox, always singing songs for her, dear is also a jukebox to me in another form. She had always helped me to find the songs that I wanted (with the exception of one ultimate ultra extremely difficult to find song), and recorded them for me on soooooo many occassions. Because she knew that I really liked music.
Dear used to go out with me, decked out in t-shirt and jeans. But now she has put in the effort and taken the trouble to learn to dress up when we go out together, just because I had told her that I'd like to see her dressed up. She has ditched her denim skirt and jeans because I din really like it. I like my girlfriend to be and look more feminine, so she kept her hair long for me (even though I know its not really comfortable and had told her that she can cut it if she dun feel comfortable, but she still maintains it for me!)
Although I seem to be more healthy than her, it is dear who does more of taking care of me when I'm sick than the other way round. Well, maybe its because I more susceptible to fevers and headaches, which requires more attention, and dear, colds and coughs. (hey i do buy cold medicines for her but there's not much else i could do! Excuses! muwhahahaha)
Now this is one point which I'm quite ashamed of. More than often, I'm the one who's late for our dates. But Dear never gets mad at me. (this is a rare merit in modern women! I unearthed a gem!). I'm trying to improve on this! She had been craving to eat at Pariss (the restaurant, not the capital!), and I had promised to treat her on her birthday. She knew that it would be quite expensive for 2 persons to eat there and I was on a pathetic payroll on IA, she made a compromised and chose a much cheaper alternative to help me save money. So understanding!
She travelled all the way to town on her own to look for me when I was working on the Guinness Stout road show, just to pass me some herbal tea for me to drink, and waited there for 5 hours so that she can accompany me home for supper after work, but had to go home empty-handed because I had to do OT. Even amidst such disappointment she still took the effort to free me of my guilt (though i still feel very guilty and cruel..) in saying that she came and waited on her own accord and I din ask her to do so. And din want to follow my dad to wait for me at my place because it would had made me feel worse. How many girls would be willing to travel so far just to pass some herbal tea to her sweetheart and wait for him for 5 hours before leaving empty handed without tears or anger? It was so caring, sweet, noble and understanding of my dear! Love her deep deep!!
As the saying goes, love me love my dog. It is especially true for us. Dear really loved my dog. She took good care of ah di when I went to Taiwan with my family for 4 days. She would also occasionally buy some snacks for ah di. She knew that I loved this dog a lot, and she loved ah di as much as I do!
Dear always made the effort to walk to the south spine to meet me for lunch, dinner, or study with me, even though all her lessons are in the north spine. There are many reasons why we want to eat n study in the south, but the main reason being that she wants to pei wo. So sweet!
There are definitely a lot more things that my sweetheart had done for me, and I really appreciate all of it!
I still remember our first valentine's day, dear gave me a white Man Utd jersey and a hand-made 'card'. It was made from mounting board and had 2 hearts stuck together. It was my first ever valentine's day gift. I really liked it cause I can see the effort she had put in to make and decorate the 'card'. I had kept it pinned to the board on my table in hall so that I could always see it. Now back at home I would take it out from time to time to read the messages she wrote for me on the 'card'.
My favourite present of all would have to be the CD she made for me. It was a sweet short clip of some photos that we had taken together on various occasions. And of course with our fave ballad playing in the background! I had always wanted to do something like this for her, but she had beaten me to it!
During the time when she was still on IA, I was still a regular mugger at the 69 tv lounge. There was many occasions that dear had made some food for me and brought it over for me to eat. But the one that I remembered most clearly has to be the "Big Breakfast Set" that she had made for me on a saturday morning. It made everyone else in the lounge die of envy!!!
I din go to her place often. Always felt a bit out of place even though her parents are very nice to me. But sometimes its too nice to the extent that it makes me feel uneasy. Dear knows this and had always been making excuses for me in front of her mum when I din really feel like going to her place. (esp last year's CNY!) Sometimes when her mum makes some request and it isn't really up to me to decide whether it can be done or not (like driving them to Chinatown on CNY eve, when I dunno if I'm able to get the vehicle cos Dad would probably be using it), dear would try to help me out of the situation, cos it ain't easy to convince to her mum.
Dear had always been a pillar of support for me in my sporting endeavors. Coming all the way back to school on sunday mornings to support me during my rugby matches, even to the extent of wanting to skip her bursary presentation ceremony! Of course there is also the yearly Standard Chartered Marathon when she would always be at the ending point waiting for me, caring for me when I'm beyond my exhaustion point. She even went to the extent of picking up windsurfing so that she'll be able to ride along with me on the waves! (though she still got a long way to go). Thank you my dear!
Although I may claim to be her human jukebox, always singing songs for her, dear is also a jukebox to me in another form. She had always helped me to find the songs that I wanted (with the exception of one ultimate ultra extremely difficult to find song), and recorded them for me on soooooo many occassions. Because she knew that I really liked music.
Dear used to go out with me, decked out in t-shirt and jeans. But now she has put in the effort and taken the trouble to learn to dress up when we go out together, just because I had told her that I'd like to see her dressed up. She has ditched her denim skirt and jeans because I din really like it. I like my girlfriend to be and look more feminine, so she kept her hair long for me (even though I know its not really comfortable and had told her that she can cut it if she dun feel comfortable, but she still maintains it for me!)
Although I seem to be more healthy than her, it is dear who does more of taking care of me when I'm sick than the other way round. Well, maybe its because I more susceptible to fevers and headaches, which requires more attention, and dear, colds and coughs. (hey i do buy cold medicines for her but there's not much else i could do! Excuses! muwhahahaha)
Now this is one point which I'm quite ashamed of. More than often, I'm the one who's late for our dates. But Dear never gets mad at me. (this is a rare merit in modern women! I unearthed a gem!). I'm trying to improve on this! She had been craving to eat at Pariss (the restaurant, not the capital!), and I had promised to treat her on her birthday. She knew that it would be quite expensive for 2 persons to eat there and I was on a pathetic payroll on IA, she made a compromised and chose a much cheaper alternative to help me save money. So understanding!
She travelled all the way to town on her own to look for me when I was working on the Guinness Stout road show, just to pass me some herbal tea for me to drink, and waited there for 5 hours so that she can accompany me home for supper after work, but had to go home empty-handed because I had to do OT. Even amidst such disappointment she still took the effort to free me of my guilt (though i still feel very guilty and cruel..) in saying that she came and waited on her own accord and I din ask her to do so. And din want to follow my dad to wait for me at my place because it would had made me feel worse. How many girls would be willing to travel so far just to pass some herbal tea to her sweetheart and wait for him for 5 hours before leaving empty handed without tears or anger? It was so caring, sweet, noble and understanding of my dear! Love her deep deep!!
As the saying goes, love me love my dog. It is especially true for us. Dear really loved my dog. She took good care of ah di when I went to Taiwan with my family for 4 days. She would also occasionally buy some snacks for ah di. She knew that I loved this dog a lot, and she loved ah di as much as I do!
Dear always made the effort to walk to the south spine to meet me for lunch, dinner, or study with me, even though all her lessons are in the north spine. There are many reasons why we want to eat n study in the south, but the main reason being that she wants to pei wo. So sweet!
There are definitely a lot more things that my sweetheart had done for me, and I really appreciate all of it!
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