thunderingwhispers

Mood: happy

Been back in Singapore for close to a week now.. Haven't been meeting that many of my friends yet! Need to take a breather, get used to the weather here, time-zone etc. Loads of things have changed, I realised, and it's quite amazing how the way so many things can differ in 9 months. Haha. Feel like a fish out of water sometimes...

Went to ECP to do some cycling with some of my hockey babes.. Chatted quite a bit at the food centre somewhere at one end of the park. I think we ended up spending more time eating than blading/cycling! I hardly got any darker from a couple of hours out in the sun. Think I will give up trying to get back my colour; sometimes being fair is not that bad :)

Being back is so indulging.

Surprisingly, I didn't really miss the food here. I think I just missed my mum's cooking like crazy, and maybe some food items, like chicken rice. Ate chicken rice for lunch two days in a row.. so feeling quite satisfied now. Parents brought me to Royal China for dimsum and allowed me to do all the ordering. Yummy.. love the dimsum there, I think it's the best!  Ended off with Mango pudding which I can never find in London, and even if I did manage to find it, it usually tastes very artificial. The waitress recognised me! Hahaa, shows that I haven't really changed that much.. I hope! 

Off I go to Malaysia next weekend to watch Sammi Cheng's concert in Genting Highlands.. Seriously can't wait for it. We had to go through members' booking to get the VIP seats and then almost didn't get them 'cos the girl on the phone didn't help us hold onto the seats while we were deciding which row we wanted. My heart actually sank for a moment when she said there were no more VIP and only class 1 seats left and even those weren't very nicely located.. Then she called my parents back again to say she managed to help us get! Yayyy! Can't wait for that! :))))

Mood: cheerful

Here's what I have been up to for the last 2 weeks:

Good news to start the entry! Received an email from my captain yesterday morning to say that WE WON THE ULU LEAGUE!!!!! That's a big achievement; so proud of my team, we kick ass!


Here we are, looking victorious for our last match of the season despite not knowing that we had won the league!
So the match against St Georges was so important

And then.. there was... Raffles Night. Which was an utter waste of money and time. Food was bad, entertainment wasn't that good.. And it was buffet style with so little variety. Salmon was overcooked.. yaadaa yaadaa, I could go on. 


Some from our table. King's didn't have enough ppl turning up to make a full table

Then it was catching up with people from my sec 3/4 class! The Funky Fishes!
So nice seeing them again.. And I'm so glad we still clicked after such a long time


Bay (my pretty little brother), Laura, Me, Mak the Rabbit, Cheryl and Anna

Met up with Karent and Shona yesterday. Went to Chinatown for dinner then to Trafalgar Square to look-see then to some place for sundaes!! After that, we headed to Covent Garden, sat down and talked and talked.. till the security guard came by to chase us away because he was going to lock up the area. So nice catching up with the two of them again.. it was very comfortable though we had not met up in ages! :)


Karent and I ... the loud mouths in class who always talked before using our brains.
Oh, and the beefs in Contact Rugby too! Yay!


Shona and I at some place between Leicester Square and Trafalgar Square

We had nicer pictures in Karent's camera, maybe will upload them sometime soon! Till then.. awaiting for Jo's arrival and more pics plus food.
And oh crapp.. I ate so many Krispy Kremes yesterday! I love the original one best...

Mood: exhausted
Listening to: Close to you

I feel tired today. Mainly because I didn't take my usual afternoon nap because I figured I shouldn't be addicted to naps. And not so mainly, because I have been generally feeling tired all the time. I think I'm trying to fit too many things in my life; am so bad at managing time! Like right now, I'm sitting at my desk, staring at my notes and feeling this huge inertia thing that doesn't make me want to look at them. 

And I'm just thinking...
I can't wait for Easter to come, although us poor medics have two more weeks to go. Poor poor us- paying such an atrocious sum of money to study a course that piles work on you like nobody's business. Dublin and maybe Alton Towers (I hope) may be the greatest way to take a break from this never-ending work! I can't say I'm not enjoying what I'm doing though.. It's like this contradicting feeling. 

The weather is eccentric! It can get cold and hot and cold and hot again in the span of one morning! Bru came back home from the St Patrick's celebrations feeling a little under the weather (pardon the horrid pun) because of the winds and everything else. Luckily I was snuggled at home watching my House, Grey's and Ugly Betty. Oh, and I watched Pan's Labyrinth last night and got this sunken feeling at the end of it. Can't figure out whether it was a happy ending or not. And the mirroring of fantasy against reality was too potent.

Jo brud and Karent coming down this week along with my brother's friend. Haha, my place is going to be packed!

Mood: content

Very happy. Birthday was well-celebrated. Had loads of fun, and loads of food. Yums -rubs fat tummy and grins gleefully-


The sneaky, wonderful gang who celebrated the arrival of my birthday with me!


Me looking stunned after sneaking out of Guy's Bar and coming back home
to the surprise


Cheryl's fairy cakes! Yum


The kueh lapis that they baked for me.. From scratch! Wah





Had dinner at this italian restaurant too, and then cocktails at Pingpong! Celebrated and ate all the way from wednesday to thursday. I think we were on the cab when 12 midnight arrived.
Really had loads of fun on this date, especially. I love chilling out (rmb our crazy supper date with tapowed food from cottage chicken and malibu coke?! Haha)
Anyway, I enjoyed myself alot. And I'd bet my GP partner, Nyla would swear that I was on a high during the GP placement, prob due to pure ecstasy from having such a wonderful time. =)

Ymw and Christina came down to london for the weekend too. And we spent time watching the lunar eclipse, ate dinner at Four Seasons and chilled out at my place (cheryl and ymw)

Mood: happy birthday panda!!

Happy Birthday, my dear panda siew!
Thank you
For being such a great pillar of support all these years, emotionally and physically! (haha)
For being such a great companion,
A listening ear
A movie partner (watching Elections 2 together after having that miserly bit of sleep we had?!!)
ever understanding and wonderful.
I'm blessed to have you as my friend!
Have a great 20th and may we spend our birthdays together for many many many more years to come!


Snow in london!


A nice not-so-round snowball that I was preparing to smash in
my friend's back


Some place near my GP attachment

Mood: lethargic

Guess who was RAGGING today at London Bridge?!


Out in full force- decked in scrubs and buckets. It was freezing cold!


After 2 hours or so in the cold. Retreat under the bridge to warm up and compare
the weight of the buckets.


The trio at the river-side asking working people for money

Was quite an experience- got me all knackered and ready to reward myself. Collected quite a bit of money :)

Mood: cheerful

Met up with Mel and her boyfriend today for dinner. Ate at C&R- they had really yummy Malaysian food! Ahh, I so miss eating the roti prata at United Gardens, the Cha Chan Teng at the old Yaohan, the wonderful nasilemak at the market place, the rendang chicken rice at the hawker centre and the prawn noodles at the nearby shopping centre! Hmm, I can practically smell the prawn noodles now (thanks to Cheryl who had that just now and let me kope a spoonful of soup to remind me of what I'm missing out!) Bleah

And I volunteered to help play for the fourths tomorrow at their push back match- not too sure which team we are playing against though. I'm trying desperately to dry my jersey now, just handwashed it and am going to let it drip dry then use last-min resources like ironing/blow-drying etcetc. 

RAG! My nice nice nice hockey senior helped to steal some scrubs for me! 'Cos the pathetic laundry rooms were locked up and closely monitored by CCTVs, so my senior who's on clinics helped to kope a set. Haha, now I can RAG happily in my scrubs and go collect some money in the buckets :)

Sushi on friday at my place was really good! Ate till I felt so full and happy... food makes me so so so happy. Yum to anything nicely edible. I had the leftover sushi for lunch today too. Hahaha, and the redbean mochi is quite nice. Watched Amelie and I thought that the movie was quite cute and funny. I was a little tired halfway though, thanks to my full round stomach. 

It's crazy busy week next week and I'm looking forward to it. Training, RAG, match, socials, GP attachment, healthcheckup, Cambridge

I have got a little surprise up my sleeve