i am scarred for life!!!!!! i just smelt burning flesh while brushing my teeth just now.

and haha no lizhen i dont think i'll want to watch a cesarean cos i wont ever dare to have kids anymore after that. i'd rather be blissfully ignorant.

hello! if you have noticed, i am no longer known as "shit lover". it suddenly dawned upon me that it sounds quite gross. plus brown is no longer my favourite colour. i guess it was just a passing phase.

anyway, thank goodness for attachments and stuff the past week or else i'd have been bored to death at home. i shall blog about my 3 days in nuh in point form. (lazy la.)

1. i dont think i want to get admitted to nuh if i fall ill.
2. very lonely. i had lunch with jean and her friend on monday cos they were doing their dentistry attachment. but i lunched on my own the next few days! :(
3. poor house officers. they have to do everything and even the nurses bully them. plus they draw ALOT of blood.
4. i met many people! like jasmine chua, shi hui, and other rj people. nus med will be very hard to get in huh, everyone wants to be a doctor.

and then i got to watch a few surgeries today. totally GROSS. burning flesh, blood and the tugging and pulling. i thought i was going to puke 5 minutes into the first surgery. it's pretty amazing that no one else looked as sickened as me. thankfully all of the surgeries were neat and not too bloody. i remember weilin said she vomitted during some brain surgery thing. it was an interesting experience, though rather nauseating.

i finally started my first tuition lesson on tues! i hope the girl understands what i'm trying to teach her. and i will make sure she passes her amath test! yay.

rg thrashed crescent today! yay yay yay! finally broke the stupid curse that has haunted us like forever. they started off pretty shaky but got better and better as the game went on. it wasn't even a close fight. so proud of them! and i remembered my camera! :D today's pictures courtesy of the sec2s.

the field.... very different from when we last played it. i remember it used to have centipedes crawling all over the place. yuck.

the taunting group! can you spot me in rgs pe tshirt?? haha chrees says i'm too old to wear that anymore. my sister says i'm not supposed to wear fbts with rg pe shirt. i wonder what the prefects would do to me???

briefing between innings... check out the new kungfu visors the players wear now. i don't like them!! but at least there isn't the problem of cap hair.
bunting! last game they had a spectacular home bunt!

coach calling the shots. i hate bases loaded. it happened a lot today. but no casualties i think.

leaving the match, all the rg girls shouted: GOOD LUCK FOR A LEVELS! eeps i hope i do ok!! i'm really quite scared. oh and good luck to everyone else!

eh ymw, isnt brokeback mountain like r21?!!!! bad girl you, very bad girl.

anyway, this week's been pretty packed! and i like it. really! it's been a long while since i actually had THINGS TO DO. so yes, even though my attachment's abit lonely and boring, i'm not complaining! must. learn. to. be. independent. well i cant really be bothered to blog everything down so er, maybe i'll write more later.

so i guess results will be out next week then. after all the speculation and all that results would be out last fri/this fri. i cant wait. not because i'm confident of 4 As and 2 distinctions PLUS an A1 in gp (i must be crazy to even think about it!) but because this wait is killing me. the bio mcq has been haunting me since the last day of As!!! horrid. TOTALLY HORRID!

anyway, THIS sounds pretty good too. guess i can do with some self-improvement!

watched brokeback mountain with shuching last night!it was gooddd! just a very simple story with exceptional actors... of course it helps that i like heath ledger and jake gyllenhaal :D
i felt like crying at so many parts.... then when i was going to sleep last night, i started thinking about the film and it made me feel so depressed.
i was actually quite surprised by jake gyllenhaal cos i never really thought of him as a terribly serious actor. and it's a shame he has to settle for 'supporting actor'. but then again heath ledger was fantastic in his role...
hmmm i'm really quite impressed with ang lee (or is it lee ang? i'm confused which is his surname again?) for a chinese guy to film something so american and make it so amazing. if you contrast this with whatshisname, the geisha director... gosh memoirs of a geisha was a really terrible show. if i ever watch it again (which i doubt since it was a waste of a perfectly good evening) it'll have to be with subtitles and a large pot of coffee.

yawn! it's 0320 in the hospital and i'm still surviving. just FOUR more hours to go!!! unfortunately the sleep tech belongs to a different generation and hence listens to gold90fm. yawn yawn yawn. even worse is the fact that i can recognise almost every song that plays on that station. omg i am growing OLDDDDD!

ack i'm actually really surprised i'm still active and not the least bit tired cos i spent the whole afternoon base coaching (again) in the sun. ah it was good fun!! heh i think i enjoy it cos i don't get stressed out with having to actually play. yeah. it's good to just shout at ppl to run home etc. gosh the b div's batting is really quite good! (or maybe my standards are a bit warped). i don't remember any particularly good hits back in my b div time (omg i am olddd). but like i said, we were embarrassing. hmmm found out rach's sister is in the team... softball is such a sibling sport eh??? except my stupid sister ruined it by joining badminton instead.

erm right i will eventually get that johari window thingy done... where in the world does the bird find all these odd random things to do anyway?? hmmm... i think you need a job, bird. and anyway, that was a horrible thing to say (cursing me with an everlasting tan). sensitive issue you know.

hello friends!

THIS sounds fun.

yesterday was such a goooood day!!! night shift got cancelled so i got to sleep in... then i went to rj and met cons and bern who are still completely MAD. we were talking about skiing (since they're both much pro-er and more experienced than me) and going to china cos bern is a china freak. aw they were so sweet and gave me a "be mine" benzene ring. hurhur. i met bird for lunch. which wasn't as terrible as i would have expected (haha!) it was quite fun lar... but too short!

then then then.... i rushed down to rgs for their first zone match! so funnnn! i ended up base coaching which thankfully didn't turn out to be a complete disaster. wah i think the current b div is really quite good. i mean they didn't play exceptionally well yesterday, but definitely have potential. when I was in b div... well i have one word to summarise our experience: embarrassing. haha! met ting there. she's completely MAD too. was never very close to her but she's so funny it doesn't really matter. she's gone to sydney already :( sigh but i'm so glad she came down yesterday! trained the c div after the match (which the b div won of course). it was so much better than friday. they're actually quite good.

after a blissful cny with relatives telling me how lovely and fair i've become... i'm gonna ruin it by doing this coaching stint.

oh and look what the poot showed me! hurhurhurhurhurhurhurhurhur

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!

haha. well i dont believe in making too big a fuss over valentine's day cos if you're very much in love, anyday can be valentine's day for you.

went out with sarabird for lunch and watched the constant gardener yesterday. then shopped alone abit till 6 when i met weilin and some funkyfishes for dinner at BigO!! i really liked the constant gardener, it's been such a long time since i watched a movie that actually has a good PLOT and theme. you all should go and watch it! it's so so good; heartbreaking, tender and thrilling all at once! haha watching a movie on the exploitation of africa made me feel like i was watching a gp movie though.

dinner was good, ate some bacon wrapped chicken leg and THE DARK SIDE (some chocolate mudpie thingy) for desert. good stuff! i love chocolate, dont you love chocolate??

on a side note, i think this pair of earrings is GORGEOUS.



but well, it's kind of ex. like, 22 POUNDS. goodness gracious me. i could buy ALOT of things with that kind of money. nevertheless, still gorgeous.

will be meeting YINGMEIWONG for lunch today!! like FINALLY. after a looooong while.

hmmm last night was actually my first night on the sleep study cos i fell very very sick on monday. i didn't really have much to do so it was a bit boring. i only had to observe. i could tahan until about 4am and then i just couldn't take it. my eyelids started drooping and i'm pretty sure i was beginning to sway about and mutter nonsensical replies to the sleep tech. so then i had an hour nap. came back home today at about 8am.... then slept til 1230 i think? had a bit of lunch and watched jamie's school dinners! just happened to be the episode i missed the last time they showed it. i like jamie oliver's tv shows. his kids are so cute! and somehow i've never been to fifteen before. ONE DAY i will try it.

so after lunch i got ready to go for training when DUM-DUM-DUM-DUM!!!!! it started pouring! honestly! sod's law. it happened yesterday when i was supposed to go cook with gan and it happened today!!!!! damn. but i still went for training. supposed to help coach the c div. it's some weird tradition thingy. it was so nice to be back at the rj field! (rg rj were having a friendly that surprise! got rained out) sigh i really miss REAL training. hurhur actually i think it's quite funny that i decided to help coach since i used to feel really sorry for the old girls who used to come down. like olivia!i thought she was really dao at first but then i really liked her when i got to know her.... haha i'm quite psyched up to help their team psyche up! will try to go down more often since i have sort of worked out a schedule for my anti-social life.

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well we had 7788 (er, supposed to be la) outing on sat!! a grand total of 6 people turned up at east coast park for our "picnic". haha it was fun goofing around with everyone and being retarded like how we were in rgs. haha and we ate ALOT alot alot. so now i must cut down on my food intake cos i've been pigging out since i came back from london!! cant help it, there were cny and random lunches and dinners! but the food was good, so i cant complain! :)



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have i mentioned that i cant stand wearing specs?! it makes me feel dirty cos there's sth on my face. but i have no choice cos my eyes are crazy! the doctor says that i am -gulp- ALLERGIC TO MY CONTACTS. so i cant wear contacts every day now. which really sucks. and now i've been packing my room (i've got nothing else to do ok!) so my eyes are getting itchy all over again from the multi layers of dust which i've uncovered. nice.
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so i've been packing my room. and i found really interesting stuff which i never knew/forgot i had. and stuff which i know i have but never fail to crack me up whenever i look at them. and of course, all the textbooks. it gives me a great sense of satisfaction to pack my room cos everything turns out so neat and tidy and i get to see rows and rows and rows of books on my bookshelf which makes me feel very extremely intelligent. plus, i just bought a jewellery box (like FINALLY!) and i have space to put my earrings and necklaces!! i really like it cos it's simple, transparent and it has MANY COMPARTMENTS! so i can safely expand my earring collection......


mrs leuar was a nice amath teacher! so was lokey. i missed him! HAHA


mak made these for me.. back when i thought klose was cute.

went for my first driving lesson today! it was....eventful. :) i had 2 near accidents and a very violent jerking session which lasted for a few seconds (clutch problem, must learn to handle the freaking clutch.) and i stalled the engine 3 times and cut into other peoples' lanes countless times and the instructor had to jam his own brake once. and i always stopped AFTER the target cone. oh well, i'll get better with practise. i just hope i wont end up being a lousy lady driver. that'd be horrid.

then mummy picked me up and we went shopping! i feel accomplished cos three quarters of the things i got were on sale!! i am such a cheapskate. but nevermind, i'll wait till i start working and get my first paycheck. then i'll buy the pretty guess bag. we'll see. :D

i'm so boredddd. i hate doing research. my first night assignment starts on monday so i haven't been trying very hard to get over my jet lag... i watched dreamcatcher til early this morning. the first third of the movie was so scary! i was hiding behind my pillow and asking my parents to tell me what was going on. after the initial scary bits, the movie got extremely stupid. you keep thinking: why is that idiot going into the creepy house?? why is the other idiot not running away?? why is that idiot stopping the car?? etc etc. jeez. the ending was too men-in-black for me. but i guess it's the stephen king type of story. i don't like his books at all. they always have really weird unsatisfactory endings. and frankly i think his 'horror' books are way scarier as movies. sad.

yesterday i went for lunch with shuching at raffles place! weilin crashed. haha she called karena on the phone and i think all that was 403 overload cos last night (or rather this morning) i had this dream that our sec4 class was at this obs-type thingy. ivee was scolding me because i kept whacking her with the kayak paddle and my partner (i can't remember who) thought it'd be awfully fun if she got up in the kayak and started dancing. i think we capsized. it's strange cos when i was overseas, i never had a single dream... but since the first night i got back, there's at least one dream every night. grrr.

and it's a family friend's apartment. no way we can afford a place like that.

[see previous post first]
uk! i think it's cool (no pun intended) to stay in europe. it's like an hour to fly from germany to france, 2 hours to fly to uk. basically you can take quick happy holidays to many many different places. to fly around asia is not quick.

here's the car we rented... you can't tell from the picture, but it's maroon. it managed to fit all our bags! haha and i do realise i dress the same almost everyday but it's cos my winter wadrobe is practically negligible. oh and i'm so happy with my hat! my ears never froze once.... except now i'm thinking i should get a few more in different colours.

tuan2 yuan2 fan4 was just chinese takeaway. not very nice but the most important thing is to be with your family! i think this is the first cny my older sister has had with us in 4 years. heh on cny day we all woke up and started running around and singing "dong dong dong chiang, dong dong dong chiang"! didn't go down to chinatown cos apparently it gets really really crowded.

we drove to see stonehenge! which is well... a bunch of stones. heehee i can imagine like some heavenly 'aaaaah' music accompanying this picture.

with my big sister, for whom all of us sacrificed a long ski holiday for.

listening to audio guides at the stones. if only i'd got my dad in the shot proper. that would have been really funny!
one more picture of the mystical stones! i told my grandma they are shen2 qi2 shi2 tou. this one i can imagine an alien "ooh-wee-ooh" tune.... my dad's photo skills are pro...

my muse in the apartment block carpark.... frankly i don't see the need for this sign since the area we stay in is really posh and only old retirees can afford to stay here.

haha we also went to regents park. i think we go every trip. but that's cos it's just across the road from the apartment and my mummy loves parks! check out the softball fields across the park. if i study in london i'm going to set up a team! haha!

met my big sister's friend at this fancy restaurant in trendy chelsea! but it was actually really affordable.

the interview was alright... met a lot of different people! there were 4 other singaporeans there. ru-ik was the only one i knew. i never knew he was malaysian. then a j4 rj guy who knows me but i dunno him. an nj guy who reminds me a lot of the guy-who-skoa-does-a-good-spoof-walk-of. and a spore uwc guy who also got an offer for cam med! cool! also talked to a very nice northern irish girl, a very very sweet and chio girl from kenya and a guy from belgium. but i didn't really have anything to say to him so i felt a bit bad. heh actually i really like going to such interviews cos you get to meet a lot of different ppl.

then i met my dad and we walked around westminster etc etc. it felt a lot colder than germany!
before we left, we did a chinese takeaway for dinner and there was a lion dance in the restaurant. and guess what? the entire troop was angmoh! fantastic! haha my dad was so amused he took a photo. i would have expected at least one chinese lion dancer or a chinese shi fu or something. but no! a complete angmoh troop!

i went home on my own cos my sis and mum left the day before and my dad flew sq on the same night. i took qf. pleasant surprise! the j4 guy was on the same flight so i talked to him quite a bit in the waiting lounge. haha his dad asked if i wanted to swap seats so we could talk on the flight back but...no! taking long flights with ppl you sort of know is not good cos they see you in the most minging state! bad hair, possible bad breath, chapped lips, horrid sleeping positions etc. haha so i sat next to this brit girl who smelt like the cupcake dolls. dunno whether anyone else ever played with them before. on the entire trip she only peed once! on my other side at the aisle was a bloody tall australian guy. when he sat down, his knees touched the seat in front. i felt really bad cos everytime i needed to pee he would have to unfold himself and climb out of his seat. he was reading fhm and kept trying to cover it from me. i dunno why also. haha but thankfully neither of them had lolling heads and drool. yup so that's it!

ah i just got back last night! today i have to wash all the winter clothes :( ANYWAY... i had a great time! a lot of photos so i'll divide germany and uk into 2 posts. i'm sorry if you find it boring but it's a way for me to remember things that happened on the trip!

we spent a while in munich (or muchen)... shopping there is so cheap! but we had very little time. we also saw the world cup stadium! frankly i thought it looked like a turban and was quite ugly. but apparently it can change colours to suit the teams playing so that's quite cool.

then another driver took us to Garmisch-Partenkirchen where we were gonna stay for the next few days. he was really funny! kept telling us about skiing, audis, mercs and bmws... offering us chocolate... the scary bit is that on the highways, there isn't a speed limit. so most ppl drive at 160+km/h. which our driver did. and the mad man would take his hands off the wheel to gesture as he spoke or turn around to talk to us.

well when we reached, my sister and i were pleasantly surprised to find that we got the better room compared to my parents!

and the view from the room! gorgeous!

we even got our ski boots fitted the night before skiing... so everything would be ready for tmr.

we took a walk outside the hotel before the bus to the ski slopes came. germany is mine!!!

that was before we started to feel really cold. (temp was about -7 degrees celsius) so we ran back into the hotel to suit up! this is our hotel... which apparently is the best in garmisch.

lost?? haha my sister is my muse. i usually take the photos so i make her do all sorts of stupid poses.

the ski school!

waiting for the ski lift... it was so crowded!

our ski outfits... heehee don't you think my sister looks like erlang shen with her oakley sign???

we had lunch everyday at this restaurant called "bayernhaus" on the mountain. you can sit inside or outside.

my bratwurst!! usually i don't take pictures of my food because as you all know, i like to eat my hot food really hot and my cold food really cold. but... my bratwurst looked too happy so i obliged with a photo. yummyyyy!!!

german beer is good! unfortunately i get red easily :(

the weather was so nice! really cold (surprisingly bearable though) but it was sunny! i'm in love with germany... i want to study there! then i can go skiing every weekend.

with my ski instructor... haha he was so nice and patient! he has these willy wonka sunglasses but he wasn't wearing them when we took the photo. hmm and skiing is really fun! it was my virgin attempt and thankfully i wasn't too bad! it was slightly embarrassing when all these tiny 4 or 5 year old kids came zooming down past us! but really the kids there are so adorable!

and one night, we went on this mad trek in a forest to dinner. we had to carry torches...

it was a 20 minute trek up a mountain. cold, hungry, tired. when we reached the dinner place, we were greeted with hot wine and traditional music. too bad they don't yodel there! haha after all my practice with pritz in the school field, i would have joined in!

so in conclusion (!) germany was fantastic! every meal was superb, the weather was perfect, the company was good and the skiing was even better! wish we could have stayed longer... but we had to go to uk for CNY!