Bruises...

Decided to post 3 pictures.

First is the bruise from the blood test. Not that clear though, but those who saw my arm, will agree that it is indeed bad. This was taken a few days back. It has since grown a little bigger.



Second is a bruise I got a few weeks ago, for no apparent reason, or for one that I can't think of. I seem so be getting so many bruises. I have one more on my finger because I knocked against the door while teaching music on Sunday. It was so darn painful. Careless me.



Third is a picture of the landscape mum and I took hours and hours to build, under our Christmas tree. For better effects, please come to my house to look at it. Haha.



Oh and a good news is... I have finally chained in game! Well for my non-gamer friends out there, chain means level 101, whereby you can execute 2 or more powers quickly and successfully.

Having a clan gathering this Thursday at 11.30pm at Liang Seah St. for steamboat supper. Then off to a friend's mum's pub for some ktv, I guess. A birthday celebration for me. Yeah! Looking forward.

Laogong also booked a place for dinner on Wednesday night. Sounds interesting. And he's so secretive. Looking forward too.

Next Tuesday is already Christmas and I can't believe I'll be 22. Oh WOW! Looking forward too I guess. Though not many people are coming this year because Dad's cousin's daughter or someone getting married, so some relatives are attending the wedding dinner, while some chose to come for the Christmas gathering at my house than the dinner. Thanks to those friends who said that they will come. Basically only 2 or 3. Sultanah and Twinnie and her bf. The rest no respond or just turned down. A little sad, but at least I know who really are my besties.

Ouch

Damn it! So damn pain. Went for my blood test today and for the first time, as soon as I reached the toilet after the test, tears dropped. Imagine, I've been going for blood tests since the age of 14 and today is the first time I cried. Imagine the amount of pain. That stupid nurse. I really wonder how she poked. Even though there were times when a bruise occurs, it usually is tolerable. Or when poking in was pain, the process of drawing it out wasn't, or pulling the needle out wasn't. But today the whole thing just was intolerable.

While waiting outside, I saw this woman that the nurse was serving. Her face changed immediately and I thought that that woman must have been exaggerating or really hates blood tests. Now I understand that it wasn't plain acting, but it was indeed painful.

And when she pulled it out, I thought it was over. Oh dear, she pressed on it to prevent blood flow out. It was even worse. Ahh!!

Now, 2 hours later, I am still feeling the pain. Blood tests are ok for me, but it must be done by someone with skill. Should I lodge a complain? I don't pay $40+ to suffer. Gheez.

What have I done so far...

Christmas tree. Checked. Purple theme with landscape at the base.

KTV. Checked. Checking is unlimited. Available for KTV anytime.

Gathering with practicum mates. Checked. Went to Fish&Co. at IMM.

Watch enchanted. Checked.

Shopping. Half checked.

Levelling MMORPG character. 13 levels more to go. Still unchecked.

For everything else, unchecked.

Holiday!

How fun the holidays have been so far.


Shopping at Bugis with tyx on Monday was great though I came back really drained. We walked to a lot of places! Had a fabulous lunch at NanXiang Steamed Bun Restaurant at Bugis Junction. Since it was a weekday and afternoon, there was a 20% off for students, which we benefited. We ordered xiao long bao, superior xiao long bao and stewed pork noodles, all of which, we enjoyed. Some pictures for your eyes to feast on.

Xiao Long Bao


Superior Xiao Long Bao (in it was some crab soup with the crab roe)
*note: look at the draw. I think we were supposed to consume it that way.


Stewed Meat Noodles, we both loved this


Before exam, I went with tyx to the hair salon at Bt Batok Central as she wanted to have her hair rebonded. And if you know me well, you know I will just have to do something to my hair. This is what I did.


Wondering what it is? Well, I went to dye 4 tiny strips of hair pink. That picture is 1 strip of it. I like it so much and it only costs me $20, which means $5 each, which is cheap. She told me usually she will charge others at $8 per strand.

I have one more picture here of me in a rather awkward face. Well, this was at the new cineplex nearly rendevous hotel. Went there with my family for a while because we there wasn't any place at the restaurant at rendevous hotel so we had to wait. We saw free candy floss so mum and brother took. And my mum just had to go round taking photos of everything and everywhere, before the security guard finally told her not to. So embarrassing. So anyway, this photo was taken like more than a month ago, but I find myself cute here. (Ok, I'm thick skinned) Haha.


Guess it is time for bed. 3.34am. Wow. My usual bed time already. This is unhealthy! Ah, but if I do not play my games now, when school reopens I won't have this luxury already. Enjoy first.

Am contemplating if I should change my blogskin. Oh and talking about skin, anyone knows anywhere I can get laptop skin? Preferably not DIY. I am looking for those shops kind, so that I can customize and get them to do it for me. I don't trust myself. Hehehe.

Party time

I've been inactive for *gasp* 3 weeks! Blame it on the exams!

It is finally over! Yippie aye yeah!

Mugging every night till the wee hours of dawn. Never in my entire life (other than 'O' Levels) have I ever worked so hard for an examination. All for the sake of aiming for a good degree. Paper chase again.

AAE101 introduction to linguistics was rather alright. Credit goes to the 2 lecturers who taught us and prepared us well for the paper. Although finishing the paper was more of a task than doing the paper, I believe I should get a fairly good grade for this.

AAE202 pragmatics was a killer, even though it was open book. The text given to us for analysis was given before in our tutorial. Imagine how all of us felt. Maybe you are thinking isn't it good. Open book and a known text. Well, let's just say that the line in the text chosen for analysis was very contenous and not easy to interpret at all. We all walked out feeling very demoralized. If I can get a B for this module, I would be happy already.

AAE104 grammar. Basically, if you know your stuff, it is fairly straightforward. Grammar is like this. Either you get it, or you don't. Hope to get at least an A for this too.

AAE201 sociolinguistics was surprisingly easier than expected. It was one paper that we all detested. But the questions were ok. Hope to get a good grade too.

It's the end of one semester. How fast time flies. It is 1+am now and maybe you are thinking, what is this girl doing up at this time? Well, for the last 3 weeks, I've been sleeping so late that I can't fall asleep now.

So now that exams are gone (for now), the question is, with about 1 month of holidays, what is my plan?

1. Shopp (meeting tyx later in fact)
2. Decorate the christmas tree
3. Cleaning my room again (recently obsessed with neatness)
4. Practise my piano (wonder if I will really do that)
5. Handmake some christmas presents (cost effective, personalized and I realized I do have some creativity after teaching art in primary school)
6. Organize some meetings (with poly friends, practicum friends, picnic)
7. Exercise and lose some weight (will it work this time?)
8. Level my ingame character
9. KTV
10. Watch Korean drama

That will keep my occupied for quite some time. Probably install Theme Hospital on my laptop and play it now since there isn't much for me to do online now and my game server's down.

And it's the 25th Nov! Well, ok the 26th. 1 more month till I turn 22 (while most of my friends are turning 23, hehehe.)

Roomless

I'm currently roomless for 1 week. My parents' Filipino friends arrived yesterday and they will be staying over at my house for a week. And so, I let them have my room, and that's why I am roomless. Although sleeping in my brother's room, I still can't have a good sleep throughout because it is an unfamiliar environment. Nothing beats having my own bed. They'll be here till next Saturday. Parents are currently out with them at Sentosa. Luckily my brother went down with them too because I think my parents themselves will be tourists at Sentosa! When was the last time they have been there? Ages and ages and ages and ages ago... ... ...

Got Alvin's comments for the AAE101 assignment. Very disappointing. We only got a B-. Sigh. Lucky (or not?), the assignment is only worth 20%, I think. Gotta buck up for exams. I hope to get at least an A- for this module.

Satisfied some of my cravings. Went to Crystal Jade already for my xiao long bao. It was absolutely yummylicious! Went to Jalan Kayu for roti prata too and had my indian rojak too. Nice!

Time to get back to my books. Just about 3 weeks more and I'm done!

Countdown.

Cravings

Cravings!

1. Xiao Long Bao at Crystal Jade (and dear dear Elizabeth had to make it "worse" for me by telling me she just went and that it is good! Grrrrr.... Kidding my dear)
2. Indian food. Chicken tika, masala chicken, mutton, papadum, etc on banana leaf! Uncle Samy's Curry!!!!!!
3. Indian rojak
4. Outram Road Char Kway Tiao

Ok, so I didn't update for a super long time! Been busy. Just done with 2 assignments today. Phew! Handed in AED232 (Counselling) and AAE101 (Intro to Linguistics). 2 more next tuesday. AAE104 (Grammar) and AAE201 (Sociolinguistics).

AAE104 is about 50% done. Left adverbials portion and text description.

AAE201 is about 80% done. Left with sorting out the appendix and formating.

What comes after that? EXAMS!!!

4 papers.

AAE101 - 15th Nov
AAE202 - 20th Nov (Open Book!)
AAE104 - 21st Nov (Open Book!)
AAE201 - 23rd Nov

At least I am glad this is the last week of school. Got to start studying hard and less playing games.

So many things to blog about

There are so many things to blog about. Happier things first.

On Sunday (14th Oct) the 3 of us finally met up! We were all so excited. Upon seeing me, Lingling was kinda in a state of shock and said I looked different. Ming Xiu wasn't in much of a shock, because she saw me last year December. It felt like old times. We just chatted and chatted non-stop. Gossiping and catching up on old times. Totally enjoyed myself that night! We went to the chong qing hot pot behind bugis. Although we queued for nearly an hour, I think it was worth the wait. Food was good and cheap. Only problem was that the seatings were rather squeezy. Well, can't help it that their business is so good.

Other than eating, we had a reunion gift exchange, where we each had to prepare a present and then we'll draw lots. I had Lingling's present (earring), Ming Xiu had my present (a pouch) and Lingling had Ming Xiu's present (a keychain with a pic of our poly days).

Some photos to recap the good times.

Lingling and MingXiu (you can see the condensed air at the bottom of the pic, hee)


MingXiu and me


Lingling and me


Our presents. Lingling gave us each a pair of earrings too. Thanks girl!


Before we head home, the 3 of us...


Ok, now for something not so nice.

I was so super pissed yesterday, to the extend I didn't wish to talk to anyone. I told my dad last Saturday that I was going to use the car on Tuesday night and he said ok. Then on Tuesday he called me 6 times while I was in class. When I called back, he asked if I was going to use the car and I said yes. Then he broke the news to me that my brother took the car out. He said that since I didn't answer the call means I don't need the car. So no choice, I had to take a long train ride down to airport to send my dear twinnie off to Japan.

Dad called me when I was on my way back and I just said I was in a cab. Who's going to pay for my cab fare? Wondered if both of them felt guilty. Then when my brother wanted to talk to me, I totally ignored him. Was so angry. And he had the cheek to tell me he promised his friends, so he had to take the car. So only he was the one who promised? My dad promised me the car, and he can break it?

Gillian asked me today, so how? I said I'm still going to ignore both of them. And her reply was, you can be so stubborn. Well, I guess no one has seen me blow my top before. It just happened yesterday. I was so angry I cried.

Felt sad for other things too. I've been going to see the doctor quite frequently these few weeks, but only one person seems to ask me, how was it. Only one. I shan't say more.

Some updates...

Decided to blog early this morning because the piano tuner is here and I have to get up real early. Ok, got up about 8.45am. But I'm still very sleepy ok?

Got back 2 tests. Scored a A+ for my grammar paper and B+ for my linguistics paper. A little disappointed by that, but nevermind, I shall continue and try to work hard.

Have this craving to go to Crystal Jade but the problem is, no one wants to go with me. Boo hoo hoo. Laogong said he will go with me, but in the end ... ... ...

Can't wait for Sunday! Will be meeting Lingling and MingXiu (and probably Linda), along with their other halfs, for dinner at ChongQing Hot Pot at Liang Seah street. Hurray! It's been awfully long since we girls had a get-together. I miss the poly days with them. If not for them, my poly days would have been hard to pass. While talking on msn, we were all so excited and it was such a girly talk. The kind of talk that guys will never understand. I bet Sunday we'll all go crazy with catching up. The last time I saw Lingling was like 2 years ago (according to her) and I saw MingXiu last year during my birthday, for a tiny weeny little while. Wow! And we're going to have a reunion gift exchange. Basically, we'll each bring one present and draw lots and see who gets whose.

Oh! Piano tuner's done. I think I can go back to bed for a while more.

Sick!

Everyone's sick at home, except my brother. Everyone's down with the flu and sore throat. I think the reason why my brother's ok is because he is hardly at home. The weather is just simply terrible!

A piece of good news that I have is that all my 8 piano students who took exam this August passed with flying colours! Although some of them really didn't deserve it, I can still look forward to a pay increase. Oh well, another 3 more months and I'm not working there anymore. Tired.