sick...

prepared to wake up early to get breakfast for the folks who're still ard in GSK, who've yet to go for their leave... buying the ever-famous nasi lemak for them from chongpang...

hmm...this rumbling... feels so familiar.... it doesn't feel like im hungry.... lemme try squating.......

oh my god.... why is this happening????

the ride the non-aircon MRT to jurong east was a torture... the stillness of the air around me is making me nauseous... i can't take it anymore, i need to get out of the train to get some fresh air... why is the interval from Bukit Batok and Gombak so freaking long.......??!?! im bursting out in cold sweat.... kept fidgeting to distract myself.... urgh.....

the rest of the day in lab wasn't tat gd...was feeling ever so restless... tired and having body pain...i know that im going to fall seriously ill... i even almost puked in front of a fren whom i accompanied to buy presents over lunch(time)..

took the afternoon off to go home to rest... seen doc at last in the evening, after a nap... i supposed it's food poisoning... doc din say... but according to my knowledge on inflammatory responses (systemic fever, headache etc..), immune system (doc's prescription of heat-killed L.acidophilis) and common sense (laosai and puking symptoms)... the food at canteen 2 is not too clean....

so im convinced tat if u ever wanna eat from a cheena stall, plus eat well-cooked food....things which they can take does not mean tat u can as well... god knows wad their stomach is made up of.... and god knows wad they eat at home.... (oops)

i missed my solid shit.....


this is a belated post actually...(sorry no pic for this entry)
im fine and alive and kicking already... going for my second buffet coming fri, since the episode of LS and puking...

pengarang ride

finally did the ride! initially wanted to do an offroad one... damn!! dw was unbelieveably late coz he only woke up when we called him at changi village...kaoz... apparently this is not his 1st time in being late for ride...

end up we only did a road ride to renggit town for some seafood lunch and back... dropping by a mild offroad trail for a 15 min offroad... haha... pathetic...

waiting for dw...

our loyal mounts... im amazed how neatly we stacked our bikes.. thou wasn't intentional...

the road ride..

the "offroad" ride... nice scenery eh?

cant help it... im the only one who brough camera! gotta self-take lehz... need to act fierce somemore....

2nd week @ work

This is the 2nd week that im here le.. I like this place! The 1st day I was here I was overwhelmed…with ppl’s friendliness.. ppl juz asked abt each others’ weekend… wad they done last nite and stuffs… this place feels more like a forum than a lab (stereotyped to be boring, monotonous, very individualistics etc etc…) !

Being interactive and friendly aside, it’s quite a stimulating environment as well… the 1st week seems to be not so bz for them.. they dun mind juz sitting down with me teaching me things all from basics and complimenting on jobs well-done de… so unlike heese… haha…. He always say cannot compliment else will turn bad….

This far wad’ve I done…. Hmm… done some tissue(rat brain)-processing…slicing… immunostaining.. weigh some rats… visually learning how to do injections… done quite a bit of reading up….. yup that’s abt all la…

Juz to round it off….i like it here….

interview workshop

was badly dressed for it...
i thought i haf a compatible and presentable shirt and pants to go along with my black shoes bought from Penang... went back hall to realise tat my pants are cream in color, shirt is indigo.. with no belts... and black shoes.... argh...wad a combi...

was whining and rambling the whole while abt it and i even resorted to opening up my roommate's cupboard to try my luck... hehe... hey he got a pair of black pants! Bingo!! but wth...it's too loose.... and baggy... i looked like Ronald McDonald...if not for my black shoes...

decided to seek jw's advice... juz wear wad i haf and go there be a negative eg. lor...

oh! i was the 1st the go thru the mock interview...kaoz...so heng ahz... so i was damn to be a negative eg.... took a couple of photos there....see these!

like working class hor?

and yet another one....

back from penang part 3

Day 3
the last day of our stay in Penang le... after this, will be reporting to work in GSK and yan back to work too...sigh...sianz.... but it's a good thing we chose to go back on a sat so tat we still haf a sunday to rest and buffer... bus rite home at 10pm.

hmm....oh yah we went Batu Ferringhi, highlight of the day. it is one of the popular place to visit especially by the westerners... it's nothin much realli...mayb coz im not much of a beach person.. the beach is quite a popular place for it watersports...like jet-skiing, parasailing, banana boats...there's even horse-riding available! but we juz settled for a slow walk by the sea...with feet dipped inside the unexpectantly cooling water...hehee... at 1st we expected the beach to be populated by angmohs.... but there're more malays there! so happen that there's this family event i think... hmm....how i wish i can juz spend money without so much restraint...sigh....i haven tried parasail b4!!

actually b4 we even stepped into the sandy beach, we went for lunch 1st...weird eh? since we juz had breakfast (lor mee and roti canai with super sweet teh and coffee) like an hour ago...haha...think we realli over-eating le...actully was already feeling slightly uncomfortable in the stomach since the previous nite le....it's worse for yan.. even need to take medicine... anyway....lunch was lorbah ("lor" as in those black black mucus-like gravy, and "bah" as in meat).. it's actually like ngorhiang of singapore, but the ngorhiang has chunkier meat pieces and also using "lor" as dip... tat wasn't enough for yan' insatiable taste buds (oops!! hehe..).. we ordered another serving of bah kuteh... it's nice! not excellent...but it's good....
on our way back to Georgetown, the bus passed by this "toy museum"..and i saw a human-size Ninje Turtle! haha... soneday when i go penang again night wanna drop-by and take a look..? but i haf my doubts with malaysian's tourist attractions... (oops again!!)

on our way back... we stopped for a short break by the famous penang chendul and penang laksa! but we cant sit inside the laksa shop... uncle says we need to pay table charges if we bring the chendul in..*shrugz* but like the girl who did my haircut in Komtar said "sit by the stall and eat also got its own taste mah.." and the penang laksa is waaaaay better than the one we had near Kek Lok Si.....

we were actually held in a situation there...coz the check out time was 6pm (halfday's charge) and the bus will leave at 10pm... so in that 4 hours r we going to juz walk ard with our luggages? not very safe i think... so, we asked again lor! guesthouse uncle suggested us to go find the georgetown branch of the bus company coz usually they provide shuttle to NiBong terminal where we would board our bus.. and we decided that we can leave our luggages with them while we go for dinner....smart eh...?

last stop: Newland Food Centre. this place is famous for it's roadside stalls, with lotsa variety as usual... char kuay teow... chendul... beef noodle.. satay...aiyah u get it... actually we've been here last nite, without knowing that this is the infamous Newland Food Centre... anyway today we came for chee cheong fun and char kuay teow... both were good.... but we din stop there...haha!! had the local version of popiah and kuay teow soup... kaoz...now come to think of it...our stomach r bottomless.... OMG...
and u think it's the end....? u r wrong....we got ourselves a colonel hotdog from A&W! haha....who can resist that....and the curly fries..and the root beer.... awww..... we got to meet this old indonesian couple who's going to be on the same bus back to Singapore with us... we acutally met them on this van (holding 9 ppl including driver and all luggages). they were actually going back to indonesia via plane ride from singapore....strange thou that they din fly direct...much more convenient.. they were worrying coz they "bought" their bus tickets from the hotel room, so it's not the actualy ticket...they still need to go to the counter to get confirm them and get the seat & berth no... anyway it was all settled..

the bus was a good one... Gunung Raya...surprisingly we got it for only RM$50... it can bring us back in Singapore but we chose to stop at larkin instead...it's much more convenient for us, plus we can haf breakfast there.. the wanton mee there is gd. I've nv ever in my life sleep thru a long-distance bus journey in malaysia b4....this is 1st...the ride was so smooth and quiet....*shhh*

urgh i had hard time typing this thing...watching tv and bro/mum/aunt talking in the background in chinese.... hard time trying to switch language mode up there... anyway...it's done =)

back from penang, part 2

Day 2
forced oursleves to wake up at 8....urgh and i told myself i can at last rest and slp till late late after all the early mornings during exams... but yea, we were greeted by the nice morning sun, the morning rustlings, the morning market.... hey!! morning market! when was the last time i've seen a morning market along the streets! cool! ppl peddling by the roadside.. uncles on their tricycles selling soy bean milk, some indian uncle selling roti canai.. got one even surrounding by uncles and aunties sitting at the stall eating porridge...hehe...how cool is that??

the buzzling morning market!

like those japanese ramen stalls hor? ppl juz eat there while the auntie prepares..(porridge?)

we shall not lose our focus.. Hong Kong style Dimsum! do u know that Penang is largely populated by hokkiens? (and did u know that penang is actually an island?? yea i did mention the 14 km bridge...) and they sells hk dimsum in hokkien lehz...hehe.. RM$21 for breakfast... the chinese tea wasn't that good thou....melaka still better...

this is juz our 1st order....

next! rush back hotel to shit....morning shit....

managed to find out how to go to this big big chinese temple, "Kek Lok Si" chinese called "Ji Le Si", literally means "Temple of Happines"(?) the impression of the place was that it's very much being exploited... a lot of beggers and "pasar malam" along the road up to the temple.... why din the temple do anything abt the beggers...? like...taking them in? giving them some errands to run...make themselves useful? anyway i bought this pearly pearly bracelet for my grandma...yan chosed it...it's supposed to bring health and all the things nice lah... ya she's better in such things....to buy old folks' favour....hehe... anyway my grandma absolutely loves it! (she wanted to hit my aunt when she teasingly wanted to removed it from her wrist) and i bought these golden tags/pendents for my family too... bohpi bohpi....

see the GuanYin statue there? it's big!!

lunch we had penang laksa and prawn mee.... wasn't that excellent... mayb its not the rite place to eat these things la...and wasn't very cheap neither... afterall it's a tourist attraction... lots of touting too... dun like...

next on the itinerary Penang Hill Railway tram..... we gave that up.....tired from so much walking le.... Penang ppl walk damn much! everywhere thewy say walkable de.....they say near, 5 min...but it's like damn 30 min and our destination's still not in sight... dun ever trust their judgement in time/dist next time u go ok....NEXT!

Gurney Drive is well-known for it's variety of good food and with pricely tags too....we've heard that they do tend to over-charge their customers, esp at nite... so we were very cautious.. asking for price b4 we actually order... wad was nice there...? hmm....nth much...we weren't in very appetising node lehz...and the food there....was juz ok lah....we had prawn mee (again coz i thought it's the one like we had in SG), chendul again and fried chicken skin with sotong....hehe...sinful stuffs...
oh yah... on our way to Gurney, we overslept and missed our stop! we din even realised it until yan decided to ask this little boy (i call him mr. chicken little coz he's like a slightly big-headed pri sch kid wearing glasses....u get the idea) when yan asked if we can juz drop from where we were then and cross the road to take bus back, he looked stunned..."no need la....u can juz walk!" =\

we spent the evening shoping in Gurney Plaza, oh this reminds me...we went to this 2-storey pet shophouse! the puppies that were cute! there's one....dunno wad breed....TzeTsu? very energetic running and hopping ard playing with me! ahah..... dogs love me.... got chased a few times i went cycling in fact... anyway.... bought a pair of leather shoes...RM$152... supposed to be quite cheap la...but im a poor student.... =(

we finally dragged our way back to the hotel.... tired from all the walking in the day.... planned to bathe and rest for a while b4 going down for some fruit juice by the side of the road....but we overslept... till morning came....

end of day 2

back from penang!

was indeed devastated by my very last paper...essentially half of it was crapped thru! brooded over it for some time... even had McDonald's with the sbs girls in attempt to cheer myself up with fast food...well...it juz got worse...with all 5 of us hanging onto the possibility of failing that subj... but eventually i got over it, especially after i boarded my nite bus to Penang that very nite!!

it was a torturous 10 hr bus ride man.. wanted to get some sleep after much lack of sleep over the 1 mth of exams... did finally fell aslp but was woken up by the bloody music blasting from the stop-over food centre... eventually did manage to get abt 4 hours of slp b4 we reach Butterworth.. another 14km over the famous Penang Bridge, and we're there..

Day 1
it was the wrong terminal!! NOT the one we expected to find ourselves to be at! apparently they've moved most of the long-distance buses to this newer bus terminal... there's a chinese saying "lu4 zai4 jui3 bian1" literally means that the road is juz beside ur mouth.... juz ask lor! hehe....we managed to find out how to get to Komtar with juz RM$1 per person! forget abt RM$20 for cab lah...

next, our 1st choice of accomodation: Swiss Hotel..... SUX!! forgot why leh...but it juz suck! think it look quite torn down ah...or sth like tat...

next down (across) the road, "E&A Hotel"
"Eh...does this look like a chicken house...?" yan asked
yes inded it looked like one.... with slim slim aunties walking ard...and old old ah bei sitting by and topless guys walking ard and no one attending to us.... NeXt!!

"Olivia" (i think...) hmm....the nice angmo atmosphere... bread aroma in the air.... but it's all full...too bad... tough luck!
"oh, u can try the one that's 4 shophouses down this side of the road", the nice auntie of Olivia told us...

and yes, a nice clean guesthouse with a tint of backpackers' attitude... having a common batheroom and lavatory... best of all....it's darn clean! "Crystal Hotel's" the name... the bedsheet smells new too! apparently they've juz opened not too long ago....juz a few months in fact...and we managed to find out from the managment uncle quite a few places to eat all the local foodfares and of course the all-famous penang laksa and chendul (yes it's called chendul there)!! lunch was settled at this chicken rice stall near 7-eleven, the soup there is simply the best.. i won't say it's the best chicken rice i've had (Meleka still wins), but it's good enough, above average.

the rest of the day was juz walking ard, getting familiar with the area and shopping... ooh i got myself 2 polo tee for RM66 and a haircut for RM$15... then wad else did we do next...? i forgot... ok fast fwd... know wad...? the buzzling nite foodstreet is juz outside our guesthouse! had curry noodles and wanton mee... the curry noodle nice lehz...at 1st i tot nth much of it...juz curry mee wad... but when it was served....fwaaah... got cockles and sambal shrimp paste de lehz... and somehow, it's juz nice.... the wanton mee also...the wanton very tender and fresh...... mee very "Q"! got the smell of sesame de.... ok tat's supper! eh? wad abt dinner...? wad did we haf huh.....? urgh! i can't remember!

roadside stall juz outside our guesthouse

we had these for supper!

end of Day 1.

it sux to be poor...

being a student is the poorest time in my life.... i've nv felt to pathetic before...
so restricted by my purse strings... so many things i want to get... but cant.... though they're realli not NEEDS... and im not those who spend on impulse.... i've given my serious thoughts into things i buy.... but still... mayb i shall stop habouring desires like these and juz accept the fact that im a poor student...

perhaps i've grumbled on this b4....cant realli remember but i think i've said b4... that u can say tt i can choose to work parttime if i wan...but i chose not to... haf some reasons/excuses.... not enough time... blah blah... mayb u can juz say tat i need to arrange my time properly.... sometimes it's realli not up to me to choose to say i want to focus or what...

how i wish FYP ppl can pay me...

counting....

5 days to presentation
7 days to interview at GSK
12 days to 1st paper

preparations needed for presentations: read material, do slides, understand other slides.
preparations needed for interview: read up on company, read up on project.
preparations needed for minor paper: 12 sets of lecture notes plus tutorials....


depressing.... =(

2 punks

sat nite i met up with yan at her place after dinner at my place...ie, separate dinner... we went dog-walking la... the 2 sisters were so damn lazy that they haben had dinner the time i went over....and it was alreay 10pm!

went to Mac to buy filler meal for the sister and suddenly yan say she feels hungry too... and with that doe-ey eyes of her, which din work very well on me, she "hinted" me to buy kuay-tiao soup for her while she stay outside with the dog.

2 kiddish punks were standing beside me ordering food from another stall.. they were toying with a aluminium fork, poking it into a crevice and bending it... next one of them took it out and tossed it onto the platform which ppl put their trays on... and it slided...slided... frictionlessly... across the whole platform... and down....to the side of my left feet...

all this while i had my eyes on them, but i was expressionless.... juz expressionless... moments later...i saw the boy who tossed that fork, came over to me.... say "sorry".... it was hardly a whisper....i smiled back... those pi siao rou bu siao kind....

hmm...i got look so fierce mehz... i din even frown or wad...juz a blank look at them and at the fork when it fell only.... told yan abt it and she had a good laugh... then she gave me a hug....(?)

hmm...girls do like bad boy huh.... even thou they juz look bad... or fierce... with inside all nice and fluffy...

im snappin....

yes im snapping... soon....
been rather uptight and tense mentally these days...
not sure if it's coz' of the presentations running concurrent with exam preparations..plus i dun haf much time to prepare...

but... im rather irritable....

small things bothers me...
im critical....
i eat a lot....
i try to study a lot...
i try to do things early....

i only got 1 mind which i can't split tasks with....
i only got 2 arms...
and few hours of slp every nite.....

but im not at the edge yet.... far from it still.... im stronger than this....

oops!!

kaoz! so near exam le... it crept up on me without me knowing till i jio fren go cruise! haha! wad irony..... 3weeks! 2 weekends!


"Dear Juzride,

You should look at test or quizzes from another perspective.

They help you revise for the exam.

As for too many assignments and presentations, I should stress that all of you are in your honours year. A fourth year honours student should handle the pressure as such better than just a third year student.

Regards"

wad kind of anser is that..... this email was in reply to my question on CA pt allocation....he din ans me.... this sux....


Dear Dr XXX,

It has been intriging to recount on the number of presentations and assignments we've done in BS408; and further, the upcoming quiz.
If all these are to be accounted into our CA, as 30%, then won't each piece be occupying very low percentage?
Moreover with exam just in a month's time, we are (ok i am) quite concern that we are (i am) not able to spend enough time for our revision (considering that many of us still have other presentations in other modules lining up in the coming weeks).

Actually I understand that the presentation and quiz will still be carried out no matter what. However Im just expressing my concern.


Regards,
Juzride"


i wasn't being too attitude rite??
yah, with so many presentations preparations and assignments, we hardly haf any time to revise.... but.... i know i can do it de!! i can!! (i hope i can.....)

Children's Day!

haha....when was the last time u celebrated it?
i juz celebrated it last week! saturday is it? think so.... it wasn't realli an elaborate celebration, in fact there wasn't any celebration lar...haha... juz got a toy each for yan and myself....

here it is!

hehe....it's called Mr. X... why? i dunno also.... says so on the package.. it's supposed to be an accessory for handphone de, but due to some fault it had, i took it apart to fix, end up it can only be a desktop accessory le....

"Mr. X can light up le? or still impotent...? hehe..."-- yan

i managed to fixed it! see!!
i shld haf gone to EEE !!
haha.... interesting hor? yah same as those blinking ones we haf yrs ago... responding the handphone radiation de...

at least something is working now.... been rather suay lately...things haf either gone missing (like my earring and a blue pen which i juz bought a couple of weeks ago) or spoilt (Mr. X and my lousy lagging phone).... or im sick (feverish last week, now having 1 giant ulcer under my tongue...)...

not thinking straight le.... gd nite....

GSK

GlaxoSmithKline
The second largest pharmaceutical company in the world, in 2004, the company had sales of £20.3 billion and made a profit of £6.1 billion. It employs around 100,000 people worldwide, including over 40,000 in sales and marketing. Its worldwide headquarters is in London, with dual US headquarters in Philadelphia and Research Triangle Park.

guess wad? im gonna work there for fyp! haha....
sounds cool? hmm.... kinda, but dampen by the fact that im going there all alone, and not paid...

worse

my PI is gonna be an Indian... Indian indian... Singaporean indian still not so bad... plus my fellow lab members are all angmohs... British/American etc etc... im going to be dumb for 5 mth! my breathe will stink....

was initially quite depressed by all these, esp not being paid. and brings me to wad i wanna do when i grad, which i haf absolutely no idea.... however a fren pointed out that after i go GSK, i might find my direction? i will see option?

perhaps...maybe... hopefully...

business plan

a tour agency which caters to ur need for travel.... how's that? they'll plan everything sui sui for u, not the usual fixed tour packages wor....u get to choose where to go and wad to do! u choose it, they make it!

yeah, it's for out biz plan....juz a plan, when is it going to work out? i dunno...maybe wait till i can find job bah.... but i still think my P.Nap will work better....if u wanna know wad is it abt, ask me...im not going to broadcast it here, in case ppl steal my idea....haha....

finally it's over....handed in the plan le.... now wad's next? quiz! freak!!

my business plan

it's now freaking 0320hr...yes! am! juz finished settling the mystery of the lost file... urgh....

gtg le, need slp, tml im waking up early for breakfast to kick start my week! hehe... nite! i'll more on it, the plan, soon...

post hols...

actually it wasn't much of a holiday for me, and the rest of us that made up the half of the yr 4 students who had to attend this crash course module. 1 week has passed and i'll say that the course is interesting (taking out the boring lectures some speakers gave) and it took us to view things from a totally different perception, from the perception of money, scale, vision etc etc....aiyah Entrepreneurship, wad do u expect?

met up with shaoyu on sat. hadn't seen her in ages....and boy, it seems that she's aged a bit, i cant bring myself to tell her that coz i believe she feels it herself. and it's truth always hurts isn't it? we know of ppl coming to Sg for exchange and stuffs, having to be independent and stuffs. sy's been in singapore since she was 11, from taiwan, having to stay with some guardian she hates and finally able to live alone, and sometimes with her brother who's studying here too.

graduated from JC, she moved on to studying in UK, yes, by herself again. from wad i know, and for reasons which i dun quite understand, she sort of shutted herself out from the world and focus on her studies. we were her last friends she made in sch. 5-6 yrs has passed since we left JC and ppl moved on. but for her, time stood still... until she realised it.

she's had some unhappy things happening over the yrs, and especially the passed few months, i sincerely hope that she'll be ok and find her happiness and place in life soon...

post-bdae

hmm... got a fren listed out wad she got for bdae this yr, in chronological order.. they include digicam, diamond neclace/ring, sports windbreaker etc etc... well it juz made my compare wad i haf... a watch which proved to be very useful with my giantic hp which is always being kept away... and a nike cap, which i already haf.... yes, my cousin din survey my house b4 acquiring it...

oh, somemore? nope, no more....yup, that's all.....

SIiiIIGgghhh.......~

maybe i shld rethinking how am i as a friend....

jb for monday blue

actually it wasn't at all blue today, at least for me... most things went on well, except that my "biz plan" wasn't very well-recieved by Mr. Andrew Chong, and therefore my teammates... (who were all for it b4 andrew spoke) how funny ppl r regarding their own views and stand huh... anyway i still think that it's feasible and viable! well Lianlian also said that the idea was implemented in Japan siahz!

anyway..the highlight of the day came only 7pm, while we officially stepped out of the island, yes we went abroad! ha! JB only lar....but im proud to say tat i've made quite a few jealous by going JB on monday and after lessons...haha... i'll haf my retribution...somday....

the prawns were great, except for the price.. perhaps i shall boycott that stall for some time...or i shld juz stick to the usual menu i haf there... the "everyone's fave tomboy" din seem very friendly today, perhaps i brought more girls there today? hahh! dunno lah...anyway i dun like the stall today....coz they charged RN$17 for 4 damn tiger prawns!! but i gotta admit, they're real fresh and quite big lah... and fried oyster taste so much better today! with big succulent juicy oysters....oohhooo~

Chilli Crab

we cooked chilli crabs today!
well... sort of...it's kinda fool-proof actualli, we bought the chilli crab paste from NTUC. Hah!!
but who else u know cooks chilli crab at home themselves (and not by mums)??
it wasn't extremely delicious though...maybe we shld haf used peanut oil as suggested in the box, it might haf tasted better.. oh yah! forogt to add butter too...damn...

supposed to be our 1 week break from sch starting last sat... but freak it we need to turn up in sch by 9am tml morning... to the hell for the Sch of Bio Sci management! since when haf they done something good for us...? sighz.... fuckked up sch.... and news is that this module will be taken out 2 yrs from now... how come it's so transient?? see wad i mean by lousy management and planning......

fragile...

perhaps that's wad ppl will feel life is when someone passed away....fragile....yes....
someone whom haf known for 11 yrs, always seen to be so rational, so smart, such a critic... so friendly... who would haf thought tat he would haf done sth so foolish....?
maybe i dun haf the right to say anything abt foolish.... but....still.... wad could haf been so terrible that it couln't be solved...or even tolerated....?
it's so...unreal....

lost some weight

omg i only weigh 64kg?? (was ~68kg)
if....the weighing scale in the doc's waiting area still in good working order....
yah i was at the doc's... for tummyache...

started 2-3 days ago after my dad brought back lunch....i think the noodle was too soaked...kena indigestion... it persisted till the next day and i started to laosai...

the next few days was kinda jialat... wanna fart also dun dare... hehe... i soiled a pair of shorts and a pair of briefs on 2 separate farting occasions le....heheh... was supposed to go riding with Ah Bao and ShiSheng the day after i first kena indigestion... but i tot i'll feel better after a nite's slp...i was wrong.... heng got the saddle putting a pressure up against my a**hole....else sure lao....end up i ended the ride early coz i feel fatigue... drained of energy....

doc says it's gastrointestinal infection leh... so it's either i ate unclean stuffs, or my speculation, the noodle turned bad in my stomach coz indigestion mah....and the clogged up guts also results in me only discharging liquid, coz all solids were choked!! aiyah...dunno....my speculutions....anyway....nv knew food poisoning is infectious.... doc ask me not to share food...

(did i mentioned tat 2 weeks b4 this i was away at Tahan, then Foot camp? so maybe i gained weight....not lost.....)

short account....

it's been some time since im back from Tahan....
to write an account on the trip...omg...too laychey....

in short, it was a trek of a lifetime... meaning to say... i'll only go there once in a lifetime!! haha.... it was darn shag... but frankly speaking...it was an experience... we were lucky, in my opinion, that it rained on the 2nd day... who'll haf a chance to trek along the ridges of mountain ranges with wind rising from one side and rushing over the other side...at the same time raining?! (not to mention that there was lightning too... no wonder RY say he feel "hum" at some point in that day) it'll blow u away, literally!

other than the usualy jungle trek, which makes up large part of the trek, we got to do come river crossings too....8 in a day! with many many leeches along the way.... i kena abt 4-6, cant really acct....there's quite a stretch of rockclimbing too.... virtually vertical walls which we need to find hand/foot holds to make our way up/down to the various peaks...


typical scenery we had along the ridges!!

there i m with the silver raincover....

river crossing in Day 1... cool eh?

tak boleh tahan!!

juz back from Belumut... supposedly the 2nd training trek for tahan... 4 ppl went... the 1st, Lambak, only 2 went...me and yan... and yan isn't even gg to Tahan....

the 1st training was hike in the nature reserve of Singapore... 5 went... including yan... so u can se....fewer and fewer ppl r getting involved in this trek le.... why huh... is it the anticipation for the trek that brings down the initial enthusiasm..? or is it the preparation tat we need to do b4 that trek tat we finding a drag....? or juz procrastination of preparation, which we thought we will obediently do...but nv realli set down to do it? end up, abandon a proj which u thought u haf time to finish, but u hadn't?

we're down to 7 now... from the initial projection of 12....to 8....to.6....and now...7

but u know wad...? juz now Bao told me he thinking maybe he might draw out... coz he missed out lots of job opportunities and also coz he's been missing out on trainings.... jess sent out an email saying that she worries tat she might become burden to the trek team coz of unconditioned body from exams.....

ICT starts later (6 hr from now) and stores for tahan (6 days from now) hadn't been drawn yet, but was predicted.... i've sent out an email some time ago mentioning tat i might haf to get someone else to help me collect the stores from Odac... however not one reply... actully i wasn't expection a reply... it wasn't a "question" email...it's an "inform" email... juz now sms chel in attempt to arrange this store drawing.. but i already knew in the 1st place tat i shldn't haf asked her...i knew she won't like it... i dun realli wanna ask her wad's she's bz with... coz it's realli none of my business... and i trust and agree that she has her own things to do and it's unfair that she's ("we" actualli... but im not too sure how she feels abt wad i've done la.. maybe it's nothin compared to wad she's contributed, i also dunno...) haf been doing most of the things...and i also understand that coz of tahan preparation, she cant proceed on to find her job properly... of course she's frustrated...

but wad i trying to get to...is that.. in the 1st place when anyone decided to commit into anything.... be it trek, holiday trip, competition, work, play, tour.... u haf to be prepared to make other sacrifices rite? and once u commit into it...why complain? no one force u to join in the first place rite? all those wasn't in the expectations?

but well...i know no one is perfect... not everyone can anticipate something to happen and able to accept it happening... isn't ppl always like tat? im one for example... (refering to previous post) i knew tat it's difficult for me to find work this hol coz of lots of suah suah commitments... here and there... but im still bothered by the fact tat i cant find a suitable job! and even when someone do offer me a job, i'll use back tat same reasons to decline it...

anyway she's set to do only 1 of the 2 errands, either to draw stores or to buy train tickets... so for now i think i'll draw the stores myself...after ICT...juz 1 day b4 the trip...and i'll bring everything on the 26th lor... lamps, stoves, canisters, canvas sheets, tents, ropes, 1st aid kits, messtins, etc etc....

wtf...

lousy

everything is lousy...so lousy that i haf to blog...
yes it's been quite a while since i blogged... and only when i got loads of unhappiness to vent then would i blog....well...sort of...

it's the hols and for this time round, instead of engagin into lab work last the last one, i decided to skip lab totally this time. partly coz most lab mates r not around.. and also coz i can plan my own activities! juz to enjoy!!

but little do i realised that the amt of things i had in my schedule is not enough to fill my hols...i shld haf known earlier, in fact i already know. i thought i will be able to find some part time job flexible enough to fill in all my gapz... initially i was depending on the part time courier opening at DHL.. too bad, they wanted long term courier, not juz for the hols... (i juz took a look at my timetable, shit, 2 days got lesson will 530, 1 till 630... wonder if they mind me working only 3-4 days a week...shld i try apply again?)

anyway, after tat subsequently got lobang still.... say bring parcels overseas....so good! plane tic and accomodation provided leh!! of course i grab lah....Knn.... till now already 3 weeks after i gave my passport details....dunno got kena cheated anot... not news still... but heng i know this person one...

then cousin intro me to this girl...intro as a biz associate, nothin like SDU...Im taken btw....at first i tot this girl is already the one who wan to look for ppl to work.... chii!! juz tat she got some lobangs lah....and it's not even very good lobangs... work as waiters leh... then help it's not helping much like tat....okok...got lah she got intro to me where to sign up, how the work is like blah blah blah...... but know wad's holding me back? i dunno....not very sure myself... but i know i dun realli like to work as waiter... the attires and stuffs... plus im not sure abt the work week.....yes i know im procrastinating....i know i know!! i can ask but i din!!

and partly i know it'll be troublesome.... coz i got lots of things lined up... ICT, Tahan Trek, ATC, my trainings for the above mentioned... so i can only work for like only 3-4 weeks...and only on weekdays... how to find job like tat??

all these became fuel for today's arguement with yan... i know such a mentality of mine, being procrastinating and all... being carefree not wanting to put in effort to find a part time job to do.... can put any girlfriend into feeling insecure... but is it tat serious as in telling me that she'll choose bread over love? i mean...it's not like in future i'll be like tat too! i won't haf my constraints then mah... unlike now... and i can put everything i haf into job hunting and staying on a job mah... how can compare like tat?? im pushing my luck for this few weeks...coz i know i can afford to push... but in the future how can i push my luck forever?? of course i won't.... maybe it also a period of time of the month when she's thinkin too much....dunno...

finally i cant take it le... i tried my luck at msn again.... wtf... rongyang, aka Xiao Mian Yang got lobang in his workplace... it's a perfect job for me! half day shift! then i can carry on my training le! plus XMY and me r both joining ATC and Tahan trek....if he's free, then i'll be too!! he gave me a contact to call tml....rather...later.... hopefully i can start soon....

let's hope my luck starts turning ard soon.....this is getting on my nerves....why cant i haf a smooth sailing one like px....? everything more carefree and bright... got lots of pocket money... tuition lobangs all high-paying... complete with a gong-gong gd bf....sigh....

spacious room!

im refering to my hall room actually... coz i've finally moved both bikes back home!! last nite i drove in with yan (and my bro who insisted in coming along) to retrieve kona... my loyal mount. i drove damn careful siahz... had experience of my precious flying off my car rear rack at 100kmph along SLE b4.... *heartache*

and yea... my bro say he's hungry ( i knew it, he juz wanna suck on me! sucker...) so i tot, let's go for boonlay nasi lemak! since both of them nv tried b4.... and... oh my, first time i see such a long queue... with a bike on the car, there' no way we can eat there, safely... (blah blah blah.... tired of writing everything, u juz make up ur own version lah k?)

reason why i brought both bikes back? coz i'll be joining this event called a Duathlon! (pronounced Du-er-de-lon, not duah-de-long) like Biathlon and Tri, it's a multi-discipline event, actually only 2 lah.....run and cycle.... this is a short one org by safra... first we run 2.4km, then ride (forgot dist), then run 2.4km again! brought the bikes back in case we need to use our own bikes, and to train la of course....

and so we went riding today!! it's been a long time since i juz took my bike and go out without any destination in mind. the plan was yan come over my place at 10am and we cycle to amk for breakfast, after that OTOT..... i was up at 930am this morning.... why i was up? i was woken up by the rain!! oh shit!! gave her a call, and decided that she come over still (with breakfast for my family!!) and see wad time the rain stops, else we go swim... (also can lah.... so long nv drink swimming pool water liaoz)

it finally stop! first destination: Upp Pierce Reservior.... and it rained again... #$%^&*!!! so we took shelter lor...heng there got park there and with many families.... i chose one with the least ppl, only 2.... yes couple.... malay couples... heheh....we had quite a show.... hanky panky... she lying in his lap... his head lying on her stomach... slowing moving up..... towards her breast....and she giggles... aiyah....u can guessed it rite? if we and a family tat cane after us were not there, they would haf done IT.... THERE and THEN!! too bad then... it was hot.....

rain stopped, show over...(we choose to go ahead than to watch porn lah) next! macritchie! aiyah.... nth very interesting happening here....i shall juz skip the whole chunk of it... and proceed to evening time...

i bought 3 packs of instant mee and 1 pack of sugar biscuit from NTUC (like preparing for war...) back hall to hibernate and hide from the expensive meals... only to find back in hall, that i've only haf 2 packs of mee in my hands all along!! wad was i thnking !! (stupid malay porn!) dun even know where i lost the other bag, dun even know if i've taken it from the cashier at NTUC.... this sux...

sux so much that i went for a jog.... yes i jog!! the last time was abt a trillion yrs ago.... cant rem actualli.... almost got a calf cramp... on my spoilt leg u see....

eh i dunno how to end this blog entry...help!!

the end.