Saturday, February 26, 2005
chelsea lost! im not a chelsea supporter but i would really like an english team to win the champions league again and chelsea is the only hope. i think mourinho lost the game for chelsea. after drogba was red carded, he took out both joe cole and damien duff for gudjonsen and johnsen. although gudjonsen is a striker, there is no more link from defence to attack. except for gudjonsen, the rest of the 9 players were all defending in their own half. even when they got possession, they couldnt make any counter attack. this gave barcelona the confidence to surge forward in numbers in an all out attack. no matter how strong chelsea's defence is, they couldnt hold out for long against barcelona's all out attack la and they finally conceded 2 goals. we shall see how barcelona's defence will hold out against chelsea next week.
my term break started today! went to watch "closer" starring jude law, clive owen, julia roberts and natalie portman. wat a cast! cant say whether i liked the movie, just that it was unique and left me deep in thoughts. the acting was superb too. guess gers wouldnt even care about jude law's acting, just seeing him would make them go crazy . just read somewhere he was no 1 in a poll for the man women would cheat on their boyfriend for. see, not only men would cheat :p .
gotta enjoy my one week break to the fullest!~!
thoughts running wild2:48 AM
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
went for the primer's pool competition at amk k pool on sat morning. its just a friendly competition la, not those professional ones. the registration fee was touted to be $8.50 with lunch and since i've got nothing to do till 3pm, i joined at the last min with chun meng coz he seemed quite gian to win something...haha. only when i reached there did i find out that the lunch was cancelled to raise the prize money for the top 3 winners and there wont be any free table for the people who got kicked out earlier to play on. sian 1/2 but still decided to play as far as i can in the competition. got fourth. din really meet any very good players on the way except maybe for zhinan (chun meng is good but not what i would call top notch yet ;) ). he is the only person with evidence of cue ball positioning by application of english. haha sounds chim. basically he is able to place the white ball wherever he wants it to be la.
went skating with the mumbo peeps at east coast park. supposed to meet them at 3pm but was late by half an hour. i decided to skate from the bus stop to east coast park as i were quite late. this was the 1st time i did so and luckily din meet with any mishap...hee. pamela and her friend came in skirts sia (duh) but the skirt her friend is wearing is really nice. tink she din really enjoy herself as her friend didnt want to skate and was quite pissed by the hot weather. her friend was pretty but too bad she's too young (only 16)...hehe. skate for only slightly more than 2 hours before they wanted to set off for the chingay. kaoz...david still promised me to skate for at least 3 hours. damn dulan with them for asking me to go down east coast just to skate for a while when they know i wont be going chingay with them. in the end i decided to stay and skate for a while more b4 going home to try to study for my medical radiation science test on mon (impt one!). i didnt.
waikiki on sunday! *sighs*. din actually get to play in the beach vball competition as my friend wanted to stay at home to study for the mrs test even after persistent cajoling. its damn paiseh can. all my team mates were expecting to play and i didnt know how to tell them. i happened to name our team walkover also. to add salt to the wound, i registered through my friend who is helping in the organising and she said our team name is very misleading then. really din expect to walkover loh. imagine them calling for team walkover umpteen times on the loudhailer to report. so ironic. hai...at least we managed to claim the goodie bags. played some 2-2 with my team mates b4 heading home after lunch. promised myself to stay at home to study after the waikiki. i did go home but i slept all the way till 7 plus from 3 plus. told myself to study after sleeping. after dinner, i sat down and started watching the ru lai shen zhang serial on tv. didnt stop until it finished at 9. after that i tried to study but was super unproductive. my mind kept wandering off and i only studied 2 sets of notes in 1 hour. at 10 i couldnt resist switching on the tv to watch black hawk down even though i had watched it b4. and so i spent 3 hours watching the show. at 1am, i tried to study again but i soon fell asleep.
went to school at 10. luckily the test is at 3. so i skipped all the lectures to study in the library. and i passed! so happy can. the test for the 2 most impt modules are over and i managed to get reasonable results for my mrs. tink this sem topics are so much easier than the last. either that or i have finally got used to radiographic terminology and their style of assessment :p .
okie have some time to relax before patient care test on fri. dunno what it would be like as amarjit refused to let us know anything about the test, not even the format. signing off...
thoughts running wild12:43 AM
Thursday, February 17, 2005
anatomy and physiology test is over! it was hell studying for it as the brain is really complex stuff, especially women's (more on that later ;) ). didnt study at all during the chinese new year week so all in all i only had 2 days to study. was getting quite stressed up coz i know that i couldnt afford to fail this test. i also dont know why a mid sem test was getting to me which was quite uncalled for as there are still the practical test and end sem exam to score. maybe its the guilt for enjoying the whole week away without as much as a glance at my notes. maybe its the unconscious realisation that im not young anymore and i cant afford to repeat any modules. anyway im glad that the paper was manageable. i panicked when i saw the essay questions and the first few mcqs initially. i thought i was going to flunk this paper real bad. luckily the mcqs got easier and more and more points for the essays somehow came to me like a domino effect as i started writing.
went for psychology lecture afterwards. the attendance was an all time low as many of us were just too tired and went home and many of the physiotherapy students skipped the lecture as they have a test tmr. here's where the complex woman's brain come in. was learning about depression today. our young lecturer andy was saying our society is recognising the seriousness of depression and the health promotion board even made a commercial about it. however he personally doesnt like the commercial as it showed a depressed woman and not a man. he said man can also be depressed and in fact, women are the cause of many men's depression. here's the example he gave as to why men are "depressed" by women.
man and woman are shopping when woman suddenly gushed about something thats very beautiful.
M: Do you like it?
W: Yes.
M: Do you want it?
W: No.
M: You sure you liked it but dont want it?
W: Yes.
M: Okay, lets go then.
before the guy knows it, hell is unleashed on him.
haha...i can empathise with him. actually i think all guys who have had contact with women do. andy carried on about how ridiculous it is to not speak ur mind and then blaming guys for it. at this point i applauded(literally) him and some guys in the lecture hall followed suit. credits to him for saying the truth women dont want to hear in a predominantly female lecture hall (no, no books were thrown at him. women always get back in the strangest ways) ;) . just something to share about boring school life before i sleep.
ps: lost $70 playing blackjack on sat...feeling the pinch right now as there are so many things i need to buy. especially when i won ard 100 before going into deficit :(
thoughts running wild12:12 AM
Friday, February 11, 2005
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ktv session was not to be. after getting quite a lot of ppl to go, i found out that there is no members' night on this monday. either its because of the chinese new year or members' night has been scraped altogether, the latter would be disastrous. so we met up instead to watch the movie "hotel rwanda". here's a synopsis of the movie: "Ten years ago, some of the worst atrocities in the history of mankind took place in the country of Rwanda; and in an era of high-speed communication and round-the-clock news, the events went almost unnoticed by the rest of the world. In only three months, almost 1 million people were brutally murdered. In the face of these unspeakable actions, inspired by his love for his family, an ordinary man summons extraordinary courage to save the lives of over a thousand helpless refugees by granting them shelter in the hotel he manages." its a real touching movie and i highly recommend u peeps to go catch it.
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lunar new year eve! half day of school :) . went to eat at cafe cartel with charlene, cynthia and chun meng after school. went home to sleep for a while before having reunion dinner. fatt choi spirit was showing on tv after dinner and i finished the show even though im late to meet my friends at river hongbao. saw it before but it was still interesting to me as there isnt much mahjong show around. felt so tempted to play some mahjong after watching the show...hee. went down to river hongbao. surprisingly it was not very crowded there. nothing much to see there except for the fireworks at midnight. my first time seeing the chinese new year fireworks. the fireworks display was longer than i expected. almost as long as the fireworks festival last august but not as spectacular. we drove to chinatown after midnight to see if there's any stuff we can pick up. aiyah dunno how we dilly dally. we ended up going into the night bazaar only at 3am plus after supper at maxwell market. think the good stuff have been snatched up...nothing much was left. damn tired after walking around and buying some new year goodies so we left for home at 6 plus in the morning.
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slept for only 3 hours plus before visiting my grandma. hmm...dun feel tired at all. played some blackjack over there. my luck was damn good. managed to win quite a lot even though the wagers were small. went to my aunt house after that before going to my friend's house for mahjong. finally! alas luck was not on my side. my tiles were as bad as the ones andy lau had when he was cursed by gigi leung in the show...haha. lost money after one whole night of mahjong :( . won back some at daidee afterwards but it was no where near to the money i lost. come to think of it, mingchun's luck was really good. hee must be his rewards for all the charity he has done.
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mahjong again! this time at chun meng's house with cynthia and charlene. we were super lenient to cynthia and charlene. charlene keeps forgetting to draw tiles after getting the flowers and animals. cynthia was constantly reminding charlene to draw the tiles but i were very against the idea as i think punishing her (monetary) will make her learn as we were not playing big money. if not she will always need people to help her whenever she plays mahjong. cynthia had a zha hu!! she shouted hu and started to turn over her tiles. seeing she did not have any tai i tried to stop her and asked her to count her tai first but she was so certain of her win that she turned over her tiles even while i was stopping her. indeed she didnt have any tai so she has to pay a straight $19.20. it was a damn sorry sight :( . anyway we allowed her to continue with the game without paying. i was losing quite a lot of money before i suddenly had a zhi mo 5 tai. i recouped all my losses in one game and my luck after that round changed. managed to win a few more rounds before we stopped playing. it was quite a dramatic night...with the zhi mo 5 tai (maximum win) and the near zha hu(maximum loss)...hee. the 4 of us took a cab down to school for 2 agonizing hours of lecture after the mahjong. it was finally over and here i am writing this.
gotta catch up on my sleep~
thoughts running wild3:40 PM
Sunday, February 06, 2005
i think im getting skin cancer at this rate. 2 days at sentosa this weekend. 1 day of suntanning and 1 day of sentosa last weekend. got sunburnt at a chalet the previous weekend.
almost went to sunset bay in vain yesterday. my friends forgot to tell me they postphoned their beach day to today. luckily i saw some friends over there and joined them. just found out yesterday that sunset bay has increased their prices for the use of their courts liao. damn! now even islander got no discount. five dollars flat. hmm...i might consider getting the annual membership liao. also managed to renew my islander card and gave the registration forms for the waikiki 2005(another beach volleybal competition organised by smu) to angela. at least didnt go down for nothing. this afternoon went down again but didnt pay coz i kept the tag from yesterday. cheapskate again...haha. today was shiok! played many matches even though wasnt there for long. i think i've improved a bit in my overall game. even managed to win a 2 on 2 with tracy ;) .
went for steamboat reunion dinner with the primers yesterday at the zhen fa huo seafood at marina south. they really got some fresh seafood around but too bad i wasnt in the mood to eat (which is good coz all those cny goodies will make me fat enough as it is). fcbc(church) sponsored $5 per person so i only paid $10 for the meal and they even bought soft drinks and "yu sheng". damn zhuan...haha. went to play pool with them after that. haven been seriously playing pool for many years le...so kinda sucks. even lost to a ger (jamie) but she was really quite good la. with my rusty skills i think i still can win almost everyone there...haha. think my snooker foundation years ago proved to be handy...hehe. oops where is my humility ;) . contemplating of joining the primers pool competition to win some prizes but my interest was halved when i heard of the prizes. haha dun wanna spoil the event for them so im not going to say what they are.
hopefully the k box trip im organising tomorrow will be successful. going to buy my havaianas slipper and change my rollerblade's wheels tmr also, got no time after tmr liao. CNY is coming soon! hongbaos and bak gua ;) ! early happy new year to all...most likely wont be blogging these few days. cya!
thoughts running wild9:03 PM
