garden stuff

Remember the caterpillar that was about to about a cocoon... it DID become a cocoon recently.. and its beautiful!!

It's really camouflaged to mimic a leaf-like structure.. and i almost touched it just to see whether it's really a leaf... EEWW!!! lucky i din touch it..

And this is one cocoon that didn't make it... i don't know wad happened to it.. but my best conjecture was that it probably didn't manage to eat enough leaves to survive the cocoon stage.. Poor thing... who asked you all to eat all the leaves... now you've all starved to death!

Pile of shit beneath the pot... gross... I'm not going to be the one to clear it out

On a lighter note, the bonsai plant next to this dying plant is blooming.. it's like really rare to see flowers growing on it and I thought i should take a picture before all the flowers fall out

Hee... i really have nothing better to do.. but things in the garden are really interesting!! if only i can get to see the butterfly emerging from the cocoon!! =)

Caterpillars!!

My plant is having a bug infestation!! with lotsa caterpillars.. i counted.. and there's like 5-6 caterpillars scavenging the plant for leaves... but too bad.. you've all eaten the leaves and now you're gonna starve!! hehe.. *evil grin

See that brown thing behind?.. that's the 'skin' which the butterfly left behind after metamorphosis.. SO MANY CATERPILLARS!! (i only took one particular caterpillar, there's still 5 crawling around)

And this particular caterpillar is about to become a cocoon.. quite cute ehh.. hopefully it doesn't fall off when the wind gets too strong.. THere's only the stems left behind.. no more leaves!

Oh.. and there's a pile of shit left beneath the plant... shit of the leaves.. haha!

Reminiscence

Met up with yanling today for dinner... i walked to where we were supposed to meet, the path which i used to take to go to school when i was just Sec 1 and 2. As i walked.. I just felt like walking on this path forever.. and not ever stop. It's a strange feeling, walking on that path which i haven't took for the past 7 years.

Then i reached my old secondary school, which I attended in Sec 1/2 before moving to the new school. And i can see the canteen, the basketball court and the classrooms. The old kampung school hasn't changed a single bit. It's more tattered and torn, nobody's living in there and the weeds are growing everywhere..

It's abit like going into an uninhabited old castle where the plants grow everywhere covering the castle into a pathetic state. Though the school is like a haunted building now, with weed infestation, but I seriously hope it'll stay this way.. old and weed infested.. and curious.

After meeting yanling at the main gate, we headed for the church just next to our school. Though Im a buddhist, but being in a catholic for 12 years (including kindergarten), there's some sort of magical bond between the church and me, and sitting in a church made me feel really relaxed and at peace with myself.

I din pray for anything, i was just absorbing the environment surrounding me, looking at peple singing hymns, people praying, people kneeling, people giving thanks... sigh... if only i had brought my camera, I'd love to show off the church as well as my weed infested secondary school... pristine and clean..

sigh... if only i can return to those days.. carefree and relaxed.. with no troubles at all

Updates

I've got a hall!! In hall 16 too... fyi, its air-conditioned and huge compared to hall 8.. all thanks to jasmine, andy and sophia!!! thanks thanks thanks!!!

Hai.. but too bad.. will be living with a roomie whom I don't know.. a little apprehensive to be living with someone unknown.. but hey! on the up side.. I can make new friends and I can save a whole lot more time travelling.. Guess I'll be moving in on sunday juz before the holidays end..

Hmm.... not sure whether i'll be able to adapt to hall life after such a long time.. but considering the fact that there'll be mountains of reports to do after the term break.. i guess time is really golden and if i can cut short the travelling time... why not?? But i'll definitely miss yanling and shermaine... sob sob... :(

And oh!! i've jus signed up for facebook! I mean.. until now I still don't know how it functions.. but it's quite fun really.. I juz add all the features that my friends sent to me... and just try all the stupid buttons to see what it really is.. haha.... guess i just need a little more time to accustom to it.

And the last sad part of my life: its almost the end of the holidays!! one week holidays is really not enough! Not just for playing... but even if I have to bury myself studying all the notes for an entire week, its still not enough!! Someone has really got to change the system and extend the holidays a little bit more... say 2 weeks!! haha... though its not that possible.. but still!! there's only 4 days to the start of school.. and there's still so much studying to be done!! not fair.. i want to go to unimelb too..... :(

Like a Star

just like a star across my sky,
just like an angel off the page,
you have appeared to my life,
feel like i'll never be the same,
just like a song in my heart,
just like oil on my hands,
oh.. i do love you,

still i wonder why it is,
i don't argue like this,
with anyone but you,
we do it all the time,
blowing out my mind,
you've got this look i can't describe,
you make me feel like i'm alive,
when everything else is a fade,
without a doubt you're on my side,
heaven has been away too long,
can't find the words to write this song,
oh.,.. your love,

~ Excerpt of song lyrics from Corinne Bailey Rae

Dedicated to you, for our anniversary :D

Field trip to the woods!

Went to bukit timah nature reserve for Plant Bio field trip... HAHA... it was raining super heavily, with lightning and all.. but it was because of that that made it fun...

Us in the bus feeling excited and all .. with absolutely NO idea it'll rain afterward..

Well, we were supposed to be walking on the main road only.. wasnt as exciting as the last time i went to bukit timah with my poly dearest mates.. but i was twice or thrice as wet after the rain..

Our dear Prof.. looking casual with a collared tee and backpack..

The canopy of the forest..

And the rain came.. with no help from the umbrellas..

* the rain doesn't really look big.. but it WAS.. all my notes were drenched when my bag was water proof.. it went in through the zips!!

We reached the top!!! to reach for the shelter!! The stranded people all became luo tang ji (chicken that fell into soup)

Me and Andy.. both soaked to the skin

After the rain subsided a little, our Prof led the way down to the entrance thinking that the rain would stop soon... but NONO!! it became bigger again.. and lo behold a lightning struck juz beside us.. and something fell in the woods.. It was really LOUD.. both me and lishi screamed and we couldn't hear each other cos the lightning overrode both our voices.. imagine that!

Us in the bus on the way back to school... still soaked to the skin and heading back for a bloody 2 hour lecture!

Me and Karen were so cold..

And i fell sick after that.... :(
But nevertheless.. thanks PROF for the trip.. and you guys.. for sheltering me in the rain.. hee..

Lovely Thoughts from Melbourne :)

I've received jelly beans all the way from AUSTRALIA!! Thank you baby!! hehe.... one of my fave sweets.. but i only ate the ones that i like most.. and give those that i dun like to my sister.. hehe.. *evil grins

OO... look at the number of flavours.. my mouth is watering juz by looking at it.. hehe... most of the flavours tasted good.. but hongrui warned me against eating jalapeno.. said it tasted spicy? HAHA... how can a jelly bean taste spicy??? but i decided against trying it..

I'm a Happy GIRL despite endless tutorials...

Copulation

Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.
~ Billy Crystal



Hehe.. posted this video on youtube since it'll take a long time if i were to send it on msn..
Hm... the female tortoise looks really reluctant to copulate huh.. but the male doesn't seem to care a hoot! haha.. pardon my voice there!

Night Life

It's the 2nd week at school already.. :( My life has taken a drastic turn for the past two weeks.. from a major shopaholic to a MUGGING aficionado. and there is REALLLY nothing to blog about the last boring 2 weeks (going for lectures, doing tutorials, killing worms etc). And from what I saw from Hr's blog, his recent birthday pre-celebration seems so fun, I've decided to blog about my night life during the holidays!

But apparently, I only have pictures from Clinic.. (forgot to bring camera to Zouk!!.. WHY!!)

The 7 of us.. at the 'medical' sofa outside Clinic :)

I always thought clinic was juz a normal pub, with some medical equipment.. I din expect them to have a dance floor!! But it was a major disappointment at Clinic really.. It was FRIDAY night!! but there were so few ppl that they didnt open the 2nd floor..

Plus..! I really thought there'd be cool gadgets inside Clinic, like surgical desk and those green oversized cloaks... But there were NONE of those there! the only 'medical thing' that I saw was that the table was the shape of a capsule... Disappointing!! AND AND.. the dance floor was pathetic!! the number of ppl dancing there can be counted within 2 hands!! and the music was crappy! oh wells.. at least there was good company!

The guys still not high yet!! ok... maybe except for desmond.. haha, that's the one in the centre!

We are not high too!! though we had ALOT of drinks..! Yanling's totally red!! Hai, so after the disappointment from Clinic, we decided to leave for supper..

A last picture before we leave... look at the equipment behind!! its a SURGICAL TABLE!! haha..

The 3 MUSKETEERS at macdonalds!! hehe..

We are NOT RED!

Yanling is RED!

It always fun to make stupid faces during SUPPER!! hehe..

Can't wait for Hr to bring me over to melbourne. Gotta experience their clubs... sounds so GOOD! ok.. enough daydreaming!! I've gotta go back and dig my flat nose to endless tutorials...

Weekends are finally here!! Ive been enjoying and partying with friends over the last 3 months of holiday.. and so for the first weekend since school started, I'm determined to spend the weekends with my family *proud of myself :D

Nothing much really happened in school, but a lot of ppl complained about neurobio (including ME! its damn freakin hard!) the 4 of us (me, lishi, june and karen) bought the book and dragging it home made my 1.5 hours of travelling seem even longer :(

I mean, come ON! even the title looks disgusting, can you even imagine reading the contents?? and not to mention the thickness of the book.. its 1000+ pages for heaven's sake! Ok, we don't have to learn the ENTIRE book, but seriously, a FEW pages is enough to kill!

Hmm... maybe the only thing that's good about the book is that when you carry it on the train, with the spine of the book facing out.. you can literally feel the turn of the commuters' head to the book.. probably thinkin to themselves "is that a neuroscientist sitting opposite me?" HAHA!!

**and before I end, it's hongrui's 21st birthday next monday!! yay! You're gonna have the "KEY" soon!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY ! may you enjoy this very special day with good friends in Australia. it's a pity I can't be there to celebrate.. *sad.. but at least we could have another post-celebration when you come back! hee... looking forward to it!

Nostalgia..

School's started yesterday and I'm already starting to feel panicky .. esp after neurobio lecture. And i'm beginning to miss old school days, especially in poly.. Can't believe i used to complain about how poly life is so stressful!! In NTU, you wish you were dead... well.. not so exaggerating.. but you get the picture.

Oh well.. was looking through past photos and it actually helped in destressing! But nevertheless, there's always some tinge of sadness there.. when you see so many friends going overseas for higher education.. sigh... missing all those who went overseas!

At least it's comforting to know you'll all be back soon! *keeps fingers crossed!

Update on Holis

I'm supposed to start this blog like ages ago.. well maybe not ages.. but at the start of the holiday. But its the HOLIDAYS! you're supposed to be enjoying and playing and all... and starting a blog is the least of all the things that I want to do..

So.. Im starting it now.. when I've already started school.. which is the MOST idiotic thing to do.. seeing i'll have no time to update at all until the next holidays. SO, I've come to my own conclusion..

BLOGGING IS NOT MY THING! But I'll still try.. REALLY try.. to update my friends and my special one in Australia.

So, for a start, I guess it'll be good to have an update on my holidays.. since school life will be so BORING there'll be nothing to blog about..

Hmm.. lets see.. Maybe i'll update on the 2 camps i've been to.. since those were the most recent events that occured. joined the Programmers and had a REALLY GREAT time! Takhent 07 was a major sucess (except for SP night- it was a total fiasco) and I'm sure all the programmers enjoyed 'torturing' the freshies. HAH!

Programmers galore!

During pool games.. it was raining outside so everyone was taking shelter!

Ghosts Galore! in changi chalet!! We don't look that scary with the lightings on.. but we WERE! A few freshies actually cried!!

I was quite apprehensive about the whole idea of having fright night in changi chalet.. especially when there were so many rumours going on about how changi bungalow chalets are haunted and so on.. and friends around me know how sensitive I was on the 'ghost' topic. But NOTHING HAPPENED! And a great deal of fun scaring the freshies!

Another ghost photo! I was supposed to ask the freshes to comb my hair while I recite my sad story of how I was raped and murdered and so on... There should be a 'lipstick' scar on the side of my face but apparently it's blocked by my hair.. So much for the Makeup!

SP (Secret pal or partner or whatever it's called) night! That night was a major letdown.. there were too many girls than guys (ratio was 6:1) and we couldn't pair the girls with the guys.. so in the end.. the entire plan was scrapped off and it wasn't that fun anymore :(.. nonetheless.. there were still RAUNCHY games so much so that I was a little put off by the games they thought off.


The worst was when a plastic sheet was placed in between a couple with Nutella spread across both sides of the sheet and the couple had to LICK as much of the Nutella AT THE SAME TIME! It's literally Frenching without the tongues actually touching each other! ohh.. and yummy at the same time :-)

So there.. a summary of the Camp!! Don't think i'll be joining FOC next year :( It'll be the last long holiday and it'll be more worth it to enjoy every single day of it :D..

Test Test

lets see whether this will show up in the webbie...