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Your Hidden Talent

Your natural talent is interpersonal relations and dealing with people. You communicate well and are able to bring disparate groups together. Your calming presence helps everything go more smoothly. People crave your praise and complements.

99 missed calls

I had a hilarious dream.. it's a pity i cannot remember every single detail though. I dreamt that i was staying in a hotel and i was supposed to meet some friends in the evening. During the course of the day, these friends tried to contact me when i was out of the hotel room and as usual, i did not carry my handphone with me. The hilarious part is my day was rather exciting. i was actually on TV 4 times! One of which was i was stuck in a bubble lift tt was hanging precariously in the air. so i saw some reporters who provided some media coverage. Cant rmbr what were the other 3 times i was on TV for, vaguely recall i took part in some competition or got interviewed. When i finally got back to hotel room, i took out my phone and there were 99 missed calls.
-lol-
silly me

Menotti.. Mmmm

is really good! They serve heavenly desserts and i cant wait to go back again. -lol- looks like this xmas is ironically sinful :) Hope i'll be given renewed motivation to catch up with my rounds around the track!
Check out some photos :) You'll love menotti too :)


i told wei that the place looks like a spaceship interior. haha




What i had :) think it's called firenze


What we ordered :) wei ordered hot chocolate which u have to add milk to the melted chocolate yourself and this dessert which i forgot the name

opps.. i forgot to add. Menotti is at raffles city

for the first time in my life

For the first time in my life, i was given a reason why it happened. It's an eerie feeling, cos i was made to feel that everything in this world is planned. With my experience, i was able to give advice, tell a friend that i understand and in the process give comfort.

Coms Ball

A quick short post before i sleep. Not sure why i'm so eager to post something tonight, must be the collage i made!!
I had a gd time at the ball and my date weeping kept us all entertained. He's still the same old classmate weeping i use to see in RJ uniform :) The even more amusing thing is he took his RJ sleeping habit with him to army. -lol-
Thanks to weeping, i got another 2 boxes of chocs in my fridge. This xmas has been made truly chocolatey.



Today was quite exciting considering i had make up on first time in a long while. But the removing part was crazy! Even till now i think my eyes still look black from the mascara ~!@#$% -lol-
The hair.. i've always had str hair and this time the girl who did my hair was determined to do everything i refused to do. She did curls and blew ALL my fringe up. I took SO long to accept a change in me.

Hmm.. i was teling a few pple tt i'm full of paradoxes. On one hand i'm the adventurous sort, on the other i prefer to stick to my usual style. I'm happy most of the time, but i'm most easily made :( by myself. I love things to be simple and i'm quite ok with everything in general, but i'm fussy when i do my shopping.. How am i supposed to fully understand myself?? -lol-

good night.

Guylian Chocolate

This is one of my all time favourite chocolate. I can rmbr how i used to ration it carefully as a child, especially when it belongs to the more expensive range :)
I went to their website and found out that "Guylian" the brand name comes from Guy and Liliane Foubert who founded the company. Quite interesting. When i was younger, i'd always wonder why the combination "Guy" and "Lian" -lol-
Anyway, i stole the bottom half of this post from their website. Feel free to click ard to find out more of their chocolates!
I hope i get to go belgium someday. I personally think their chocolates are the smoothest!!
Dont forget to click on Opus, they have chocolate pieces named after famous musicians :) I thought it was quite cute :)

blue roses

Finally got some pending stuff done today -yay!- I realise when you've got less things at hand waiting to be done, you start to enjoy simple things like msning or updating my page,like now, more. As i'm typing, i actually pay attention to and enjoy the gentle clanging sounds made by my windchimes in my room. It's a very pleasant treat to the ears! I really LOVE windchimes!! So much that i buy them from every country i visit, only when i see nice ones of cos.

Saw some pretty windchimes at Bugis today. But nons of them really made me feel compelled to take them home. I think it's interesting how i have this theory: If i have a single doubt abt getting sth, dont get it. AND Only sth that has caught my attention at first sight is worth being considered :) I know i just made myself sound super fussy but at the end of the day, i feel that it's most important that i'm happy with things i take home :)

Got reminded of blue roses today :) I rmbr Jon telling me that Blue roses signifies rarity, fantasies, hoping for miracles, new opportunities and possibilities. Deep blue roses are really beautiful but till today, i still cant decide which colour of rose is my favourite. Gd thing abt roses is they can be dried, so in a way they last, unlike tulips, sadly :)

Hmm.. sounds like i should look for some pics of roses to compare. Ideas for the a post: find out the meaning of the different rose colour and number! :)

One of my friend said that i ought to be gd with flowers and plants, afterall, i'm named after the ivy plant.

Post again soon :)

all out to love you

"its a path i've chosen and i'm willing to go all out to love you"

a simple msg like this will make any one reflect on how fortunate he or she is and how there're so many things that should not take for granted.

a simple msg, of such weight usually comes from someone who has accepted you as you are and has made promises to show u the immense possibility of love.

to those who has said something to the effect of this msg, hope you were right in your choice and have found what you've been looking for :)

to those who has loved me in a way or another, there's always a place for you in my heart :)

plenty plenty to say

Hm.. i've got so much i want to post abt, but i've been home pretty late these days tt i really cannot find the energy to upload pics and update my page :) Shall aim to summarise my week in this post :)

|FRS Part II|

I'm quite glad that FRS is finally over. In comparison, our groups research topic was less scientific, but how much time did we devout into this project really? Everyone wanted just to get over with it. Perhaps the project itself was less interesting but i had quite a bit of fun with part of my Anat group.
Notice tt there's a guy in the picture grid. Tt's weiyan and he willingly agreed to be the guy to be filmed. I really like his shirt and tie. It was quite a contrast to his usual shirt, berms and sandals. Come to think of it, sonner or later, all the guys will be seen like this when we hit the hospitals :)
The girls in the top left hand corner: Natasha and monmon

|Earth from the Air|

|In London|I think aerial photography is really cool. I first saw Yann Arthus-Bertrand's exhibition in London and i was overjoyed to hear tt it'll be in Singapore. It's now in orchard and it stretches from outside wheelock place all the way to forum. This is an exhbition not to be missed!! The exhibition has expanded since i last saw it in London and with the caption that comes with every photograph, you'll learn not only about what you see but also also stimes the culture and history of the site of photograph. Interesting.
I'm definitely going back. Kendrick, we go together? :)


|One of my Favourite| Though not all the photos i rmbr from London could be found in this collection, they didnt leave out my favourite!! This exhibition is abt photography, nature, geography, beauty and so much more.. dont forget to catch it!!

|TCC, always my fave!|

Eversince i tried TCC, i'm convinced tt it's the coffee chain i like the most. It used to be coffee bean, whose ice blended mocha brought Jaymie and me together, then was starbuck's vanilla latte and now it's the sheer variety tt TCC has to offer that has made me deem it the best :)
Look at the pics. U'd realise that the drinks are also a treat for the eyes. I love tall glasses that allow u to peek at the different layers of the drink, sth coffee bean and starbucks dont offer. Way to go TCC!! :) Looking fwd to try more things on their menu.

|Ubin Again|

Ubin is very fun!!! I've been blessed once again with gd weather. Unfortunately i could feel that i couldnt cycle as fast or overcome slopes as well compared to my last visit with matt, qiantai and yiuming. Must be my bout of bad throat and perpetual coughing. Another unfortunate thing is i FELL AGAIN!! Quite untimely i must say esp when i have to attend a formal event next monday in gown. Hope no one will notice the scratches.
Unfortunate things aside, i actually think my fall was rather hilarious. Cos i fell when i gave way to a monitor lizard which was probably sun bathing. I couldnt break in time, surved to the left and still rode over its tail -ouch- Hope the poor lizard still has its tail in tact. Felt really sorry abt it, but i've real tried my best. imagine i didnt even bother to avoid it. -OPPS-


Ubin was extra familiar this time round cos i managed to take the same cycling track to find the way to the farm. I saw the same uncle who kept a wild boar. The wild boar looks as sleepy and hungry. What new at the little hut was uncle's grandson. He's a little spoilt. He screamed and pouted for his grandpa's attention. Here he is :) Notice that he had a 3 day old guinea pig in his hands. I was so afraid that he will drop it or squeeze it too hard. Hope that piglet is fine and is 10 days old. Looking at the happily squeeking guinea pigs and piglets reminded me of my own piglets. I miss them dearly and i hope they know that they've not been forgotten. I was just watching the video i filmed of one of them before it died of old age and i was overwhelmed by how lives of our pets are always transient. As deep the impression my dearest piglets have left behind, i really wished they rmbr my family as well. The good times we had together just cannot be forgotten :)
Guinea pigs aside, uncle also kept many other pets. Birds, bunnies, terrapins, dogs are just to name a few. Hope i get to visit this family again soon :) Anyone wanna come?
Ohyes another thing, the little boy i met has never been to main island. Uncle told me he'll be starting kindergarten next yr. Wonder how he'll cope. Reminds me of how i used to tell the security guard at my prev work place that i lived in Ubin and hence not very convenient to visit me. Hahaha.. Will this little boy have to travel to mainland everyday? I also noticed that he was running all over the place without shoes. Pple from main island like us are always geared with proper footwear.. i guess that's a contrast between us and the villagers. I suppose this little boy has never played computer or a gameboy?

|Wining Experience|

i didnt realise the 3 of us were the only locals in KE 7 tabletennis until this week. Wenjun, baiwei and myself's been having lotsa fun. Going for training now is really less of a trouble now that we take turns to take the car. With the car come more convenience to stop by somewhere for supper too. I'm real glad to get to know the 2 of them better. Hope we'll have more adventures together :)
Thanks to wenjun, the burger, who brought us to try some wine. i REALLY love wine with cheese :) Looking forward to our next adventure!!

Someday I'll know

There's so many things in life tt'll remain unanswered. There're so many what ifs which we'll never know the answers to and sometimes we just wish we'll know why this happens to ourselves.

Really like this song which i havent heard for a while.

|Someday We'll know|
Ninety Miles outside Chicago
Can't stop driving
I don't know why
So many questions
Need an answer
Two years later
You're still on my mind

i guess each one of us have done things which we werent sure why we're doing it. Sometimes i really dislike the feeling of not being in control. But yet there're also times i think it's nice to just let go. It amazes me when i stop doing anything or when i stop to think of sth, the whole world is still marching on. Think abt it.. and with the whole world still revolving, despite being at rest, u'll eventually pick up the momentum of this world and get moving all over again. it's a bit like sleeping and waking up to a brand new day.

It's painful to be reminded tt i'm more inclined to take charge than to let go and let things come naturally. Surely there's a gd thing abit it but dad says no one's perfect. We're all meant to be good only in a certain group of things :) The thought of the whole world complementing one another is beautiful! The perfect balance to everything.. it sorta gives a meaning to our purpose here.

Whatever happen to Amelia Earhart?
Who holds the stars up in the sky?
Is true love just once in a lifetime?
Did the captain of the Titanic cry?


the night sky always makes me wonder how the coruscating lights ended up in there like glitter. and why are they there?? surely there's more to believing that those that sparkle are stars and those that dont are planets :)


Someday we'll know
If love can move a mountain
Someday we'll know
Why the sky is blue
Someday we'll know
Why I wasn't meant for you

Does anybody know the way to Atlantis
Or what the wind says when she cries
I'm speeding by the place that I met you
For the 97th time...tonight

Despite how rational we think we are, we still at some points of time clinch onto sth pointless. It could take the form of doing sth repeatedly, thinking of sth again and again or just deluding ourselves that we've totally let go. the truth is, forgetting is harder to rmbr. -lol- IF rmbring is already such a challenge for me, can you imagine how diff it'll be for me to forget? :) Food for thought

Someday we'll know
Why Samson loved Delilah
One day I'll go
Dancing on the moon
Someday you'll know
That I was the one for you

I bought a ticket to the end of the rainbow,
I watched the stars crash in the sea,
If I could ask God just one question
Why aren't you here with me...tonight

Someday we'll know
Why Samson loved Delilah
One day I'll go
Dancing on the moon
Someday you'll know
That I was the one for you

I wish i can type more of my thoughts.. but i have to go for now.. will continue writing! :)

FRS group [Part I]

FRS isnt too bad afterall. [haha.. esp when it's almost coming to an end!] With part of my anatomy group being my FRS group, i think it's real good opportunity to have MORE fun together and also get to know them better :)
Took quite a few pics today with my camera, but i'm forgetful enough not to bring the cable home! So shall divide the pics into 2 parts :)


|The champion JJ| This guy is super funny!! He's supposed to be chicken little here -lol- Dont underestimate him, 'cos he's completed the recent standard chartered marathon and he's so damn smart!


|Cheerleader Bears| We went ikea to eat meatballs after FRS today. Natasha made this pyramid of bears after lunch :) How cute!


|Edible ball - before| Natasha wanted to go rupini's to shape her eyebrows so we went down to little india after ikea. This pic was taken at komala's after our mustafa trip. Was so fun i tell u! I cant believe we spent the longest in the toy dept. Anyway, the pic.. i cant rmbr what the ball is called.


|the after| This is what the 'ball' looks like after JJ and Nat deflated it :)

Will post the other pics soon :)

Surprise surprise!!

Hey weiyan and weixiang! This is for you :) haha..

neutral weekend

'cos good + bad = neutral

|Good| Being the optimist that i am, i shall talk abt the GOOD abt the weekend. Productivity aside, i actually got a very restful weekend. Slept a lot, slacked alot and even watched Harry potter with my family! The next best thing is probably being able to drive my dad's car. Taking the car just makes me feel that i've grown up, again! :)

|The BAD| I could shoot myself in my feet for this... i forgot to take out my very important notebook from my lapcoat for once and this is the state it is in now.. It DISINTEGRATED totallyyyyyy!! ~!@#$%^
All the notes i have taken during classes, important contact numbers, gone!! Havent really figured out what to tell my classmates who wanted to borrow this little notebk :( -SIGH-
Haha.. bad news is tt's only part one of my bad sunday. My textbook and lecture notes also got wet at the back car seat from a leaking bottle. I really HATE it when my books get all wrinkly and crumpled even after i iron page-by-page.
Shall not complain too much.. there's nothing much i can to change all tt has happened!
|superdad| I LOVE my daddy! He's really the best man in my world! It's amazing how he finds the right words to say when i'm feeling the lousiest. Stimes he says nothing, but the power of his presence is sufficiently comforting. What he told me: Take what has happened as a lesson. It prob happened so that it doesnt happened to sth more important than ur notebook. Never take anything for granted, check twice always esp when it comes to minimising the occurance of sth that could potentially spoil your day.

Christmas Island

|Christmass is Near| I was doing my family's grocery shopping over the weekend when noticed the supermarket i was in was playing Xmas jingles and had xmas decoration everywhere! It never fails to get me excited all over again to know that xmas is round the corner. Afterall it IS my favourite festive season of the year. The season of giving, the season of renewed hopes, the season of colours, cheers and happiness! Cant wait for this yr's xmas to come!!
Anyway, I also thought it's very apt to show a pic of Christmas island. I hope to go there some day to witness the massive massive loads of red crabs crawling everywhere! Heard they're out somewhere near xmas too :) What an interesting way to celebrate Xmas -- with crabs!!

apple heart

|I love apples| Isnt this apple pretty? I wonder if i'll eat it when i find one. At the end of the day, the apple cant be kept forever, so might as well take a photo and eat it, ya? :) I realise not everyone knows this: You can find a star when u cut the apple horizontally. Try it! It may not be a perfect star, but u'll still be able to recognise it :) So, now everyone knows tt star fruits arent the only fruits assoicated with stars. I love stars!
-PINCHES NOSE- Really you know.. i never knew KE fumigates weekly. I'm suffocating in my room. Someone pls help me!!

in love with Natgeog Mag

I am so supposed to be studying hard but i got quite a plesant surprise with this month's issue of National Geographic. Shall welcome this break then! :)

|New desktop background| Hee.. this actually replaced my chocolate background. THIS is how much i love the pics!!

There were countless pics i wanted to scan to share with everyone but time just doesnt permit and there's also just too many of them :) Here's a selection. Enjoy!

|Handsome Boy|
I absolutely fell in love with this pic. I believe it's how the photographer has captured the uniqueness of this little boy's childhood :)


|Young at heart, always| This month's national geographic issue focuses on "HOW TO LOVE LONGER". Can you believe it? This grandpa is 100 years old!!! Not everyone will get the opportunity to wakeboard, let alone to wakeboard at 100 yrs old. How cool!!

Banana smile

|Surprise Surprise!| a friend of mine got this for a breakfast surprise. How cute!! :)

January 7

Your Birthdate: January 7

You are an island. You don't need anyone else to make you happy. And though you see yourself as a loner, people are drawn to you. Deep and sensitive, you tend to impress others with your insights. You also tend to be psychic - so listen to that inner voice! Your strength: Your self sufficiency Your weakness: You despise authority Your power color: Maroon Your power symbol: Hammer Your power month: July

What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

枫 - 周杰伦

I really love this song from the new 周杰伦 album.
Read the lyrics.. it's beautiful!! :)

乌云在我们心里刻下一块阴影
我聆听沉寂已久的心情
清晰透明就像美丽的风景
总在回忆里才看的清
被伤透的心能不能够继续爱我
我用力牵起没温度的双手
过往温柔已经被时间上锁
只剩挥散不去的难过
缓缓掉落的枫叶像思念
我点燃烛火温暖岁末的秋天
极光掠过天边
北风掠过想你的容颜
我把爱烧成了落叶
却换不回熟悉的那张脸
缓缓掉落的枫叶像思念
为何挽回要赶在冬天来之前
爱你穿越时间
两行来自秋末的眼泪
让爱渗透了地面
我要的只是你在我身边
被伤透的心能不能够继续爱我
我用力牵起没温度的双手
过往温柔已经被时间上锁
只剩挥散不去的难过
在山腰间飘逸的红雨
随著北风凋零我轻轻摇曳风铃
想唤醒被遗弃的爱情
雪花已铺满了地
深怕窗外枫叶已结成冰

green

boohoo.. i hate it when i fall sick esp when i get a SORE THROAT. It's really painful when you cannot talk, eat and drink properly :( Wish all of us wont fall sick, wish there arent those pesky bugs around!! Anyway, on top of my illness, i could feel how nice it is to have a nice cool bath on a warm day and a nice warm bath in the cold evening. To make things better, the experience just gets better when u accompany it with nice body foam or shampoo. Here's one of them that just made my day

New additions

This is the xray matthew gave me ystdy that got me really excited. How often do u get to keep ur xrays and better still give them away to make a medical student happy! Haha.. i had to explain to him what it is that is shown in the xray. I was amazed myself to see the scapula to be "y-shaped". Interesting. So this is the first new addition to my room! Hopefully this can in some way or other remind me tt i have to study real hard for my upcoming tests.






This is one of the notorious grandma's favourite medication. I havent exactly tried applying it on my wounds until my fall in ubin 'cos i've heard so much abt how much pain its capable of inflicting! VERY powerful indeed. The pain is probably worthwhle though, considering tt my wound is probably on its way to recovery -beams-. Never forget to bring it along to pulau ubin. it can stop those irritating itch caused by mosquitoes pretty well ;)

pulau ubin

What is that???



|wild oink| This is the wild boar i saw at pulau ubin! How many of us actually get to see one of these running about? As expected, my trip to pulau ubin was yet another hilight of my week and it was really fruitful too! Thanks to Matthew (haha.. must acknowledge) who's the organiser!

Things to do at Ubin:
1. Cycle
You can either bring ur bike over or rent a bike. I'd personally recommend that you rent a bike there 'cos it doesnt cost much and bringing ur own bike would mean u have to pay to get it ferried over to the island and clean / wash it after riding it over mud :) The bikes there are really gd and comfortable too!
Tip: Dont just rent ur bike from the first stall u seen, the rental fees are cheaper as u walk down the row of shows.

2. Visit when it's low tide
There'll be plenty of things to see at chek jawa. We werent lucky enough to be there at the right time to see the sand bank, but we could still watch some tiny crabs and even tried to catch them.

3. Lunch
Try this thing called moonlight horfun. Dont know what it is? It's worth a try!
Tip: We ordered homecooked chrysanthamum to go with our lunch :)

4. Coconut
Didnt try them myself, but when the weather is warm, i'm sure it'll be a refreshing treat.

5. Quarry
Quarry visits are extremely useful when u happen to get urself dirty along the way. There are shrimps to watch and play with too! :)

6. Farm visit!
I especially like this one cos this is where i saw the wild boar! I saw a custard apple tree for the first time too! Ohya, when i was there, there's this bird in a cage with a HUGE pile of poo beneath it. Was quite a funny sight :)

I wasnt on the island for long but i REALLY enjoyed myself. I can forsee myself going back soon, esp to take a look at chek jawa. Anyone wanna come??

Week's coming to an end, part of me really dont want to let it pass cos it's been such a great week. Now that more work's waiting to be done, perhaps i can only have such fun again when my exams are over :(

On a more cheerful note, knowing myself, i'll prob be able to sandwich some fun times btwn work time :) Guess it's not too bad after all!

absolutely positively love this week

|Blessed and pleased| Though the wk hasnt come to an end nothing's going to stop me from posting right now about this week.

|ISTANA OPEN HOUSE|

My week was first made special by this bunch of guys from medicine play props team! From left:Raymond,me,weixiang,perryn,wenyang,ronnie and quanyao the boss. It was great outing cos i could feel that these people are potentially going to be my very gd friends throughout my career. How fortunate of me, cos all the them are very bright and yet very modest people :) The hilight of the day was the visit to the istana where Perryn (in uniform, their classmate) -aww.. how unfortunate of him- was on guard duty. He remained silent and still throughout when tourists and ourselves took photos with him.

I took more photos with my phone. Enjoy!
Hope u can see why my first visit to the istana left me looking forward to my next!









|chocolate craving|

Thanks baiwei, my tabletennis coach for this very awesome chocolate. ALL of you should try it, cos it's really gd! The funnest thing i rmbr with the choc is baiwei actually thought i was underage and shouldnt take lindt's range of chocolate with liquer. -lol and rolls of the floor-

oh btw, my laptop is in the background. u nv thought i could be this girlie huh? i'm still contemplating if i should remove the stickers, cos everyone says i'm spoiling my laptop surface.

|the BEST|

I'm very sure that this is going to be the best thing that has happened this wk. Thanks dear for your wonderful surprise!! Aunty made me 2 really yummy muffins and kendrick got me a bk i've been wanting to get, what more can i ask for?

I feel so SO blessed, so SO spoilt, so SO undeserving of all the things tt has cheered me up so much :)

Matt's organising ubin cycling trip tmr and that will definitely end this week so perfectly.

Last but not least, a BIG thankyou to all those who has made my week very special. This week really cant be better :)