Home is where the Heart is

Went for dinner with my course mates to celebrate Andrew’s birthday. They had ice-skating and bowling earlier in the afternoon but I’m just too tired from yesterday to join them.


Met them at Stadium around 6pm and head towards Aljunied to meet the rest before walking to the Claypot place. I’ve no idea how to go there again. Ha-ha I just follow


Had the famous Claypot rice with a few other dishes like lotus root duck, prawn with beancurd, pumpkin prawn, fried beancurd skin, long beans, crab and a complementary soup.

An event organised by the NUS Pharmaceutical Society where we get to learn about what pharmacists do and about our health in an enjoyable way. 


There were 11 games booth set up at NUS Science Foyer, outside LT27.  


The first game we tried was a computer golf game by an external company - Xepa. The goody bag is so cute. Nicer than the happy meal box..haha..

• Research pharmacist
• Use ball and stick model to create and modify drug compound

This holiday was quite well spent. I really enjoyed myself. 


4th December 2010 - R3 Dinner 
Went to Crystal Jade La Mian Xiao Long Bao at Holland Village for steamboat buffer treat by our profs. Yummy! Too bad I forgotten to take any photos.


6th December 2010 - A day @ SYC

Before the clock stirkes twelve,
let me take the opportunity to let you know that
you have grown a year more

Happy 21st Birthday, Evelyn Chin!!

Sending you brithday blessings
filled with love and peace and joy,
Wishing sweetest things happen right before your eyes!

Hugs hugs. Enjoy yourself and have a great day. Miss you lots:)

11.30am. Our exams are finally over! Yippee! We decided to head to somewhere further - Tampines! Visited the new Tampines One. Haha..it's definitely not comparable to shopping centres in KL.

We had lunch at Swensens'. There's a lunch 1-for-1 promotion. So the three of us went it and start ordering which one to be the free one. There's also the student promotion but it only starts at 2.30pm. So we took 2 sets of the 1-for-1 promotion. Making it a total of 4 dishes. Yummy!

We ordered salmon and tuna sandwich, caesar chicken salad, chicken baked rice and chicken mushroom pizza. Hmm, we didn't realised that we ordered mostly chicken. And the salad wasn't one of our choices either. But because we pay the same price for 4 dishes and for 3 dishes, we just add another salad:P

Sandwich..quite a challenging task to cut it up..haha..but eelin, u are expert in it:P

And we ate them all up. Too full that we have our dinner quite late.
The super giant salad bowl that I totally underestimated its size.
See how big the fork is:P
Attempting to eat with the giant utensils:P.

Yippee..no more assignments, no more CA, no more tutorials to do..wait..maybe not..one more tutorial to go..statistics:S but i will finish it later..hehe

Tuesday was the day to submit the report for our accounting module. I volunteered to print and submit it since I will have no lessons except for a one hour tutorial. I thought I knew where is the place to submit it but it was totally unexpected. I thought there will be a box place in front of the office for us to put it inside. That's what Ms Belinda told us. But the place was actually an office which we have to enter - office similar to that of a professor room - and pass it to the person. I was wandering around looking for a box which is as big as a room..haih..silly me..met Zi Jian my tutorial classmate there. He went to submit their group's report too. We took quite some time before deciding to knock and enter the room because there were no sign indicating that's the submission venue.

After lunch, I went for tutorial and back to PGP. I was supposed to go for an interview too but never mind, there's some misunderstanding and it's postponed. So I will go over later. Was a bit disappointed but then as least someone is happy.

Was busy rushing to prepare my presentation slides and report at night. Manage to finish the report during IGC meeting and came back to do the slides. Sleepy and tiring.

And today's the presentation day. And I was LATE! Arr..I overslept. Woke up at 8.50 am and I got a shock. I so so so late:S Luckily I wasn't one of the presenter today. But I think we didn't handle the Q&A very well. Quite disappointing. And worse, we got below average again for our assignment. So in conclusion, I scored below average for my midterm, below average for the first assignment and below average for the second assignment. There's a lot of catching up I need to do before the finals. I guess our way of working with the assignment wasn't good enough. I don't know. I do not blame my groupmates for that. I have the responsibility to check the answers for them too.

Haih..today's just an unlucky day. I need more luck to get through my interview. Lots of luck!!!

After our last practical at Changi Beach, today's the animal diversity practical in which our lecturer told us to be prepared mentally and physically. Haha..I hope I am. It's another 1 hour plus later.

This semester is getting busier than the previous one. Maybe because I'm taking more modules with assignments and group project. Just submitted my law mid-term paper. I redo it for 3 times so hopefully the final one is OK. This weekend we'll be having our second econs assignment. And our physics term paper is due the week after that. It's going to go on like this for the rest of the semester.

I totally agreed with what Eelin blog about. Uni life is only partially FUN. And I would say the fun comes from the friends around us. What I look forward to everyday is not attending the long boring lectures but rather the chance to meet up with friends during lunch time or maybe just a simple chat. And what's fun about doing projects? It's being able to know new friends and maintain them even after the projects are completed. I really don't know how long I can survive without them walking into my uni life. And definitely the competitiveness in people are not something that I enjoy. It's just putting more stress on each other.

We had our open house last weekend. I was quite disappointed that the photographers went missing. How can they not informed me if they are not able to make it or at least why did they gone uncontactable? I wished I didn't have to do the sports club duty then I can at least help them take some of the photographs which I did before starting my shift. But of course also thanks to people who are willing to help although I contacted them last minute. Really grateful for that.

And this week during the law lecture, our lecturer told us that she'll need to postpone the next lecture as she had to travel. I just don't understand how can she just postpone the lessons just like that. She should at least consider that we might be having another lesson during that time. Why did we need to bid for the lecture in the first place if there's no fix timing? OK I admit I don't really like this lecturer. I have a feeling that she doesn't even prepare for lessons. She's always going there every week and reading from the piece of paper. I even wonder if she prepared the slides on her own.

Another interesting thing that happened during this week's lecture is Mark and Jahabar trying to get "famous" on the web cast during our Physics lecture. Haha..it was during the lecturer's demonstration that they let out a loud "waaa". Super funny. But I told them later that it might not be captured on the web cast coz they usually don't take in the surrounding sound meaning they take it directly from the lecturer's mike. So we will not be able to hear them on the web cast. But we have yet to check it out. Haha..maybe I shall watch during the weekend to see if there's any:P

This Wednesday was the 'super critical' group's turn to present. They never failed to raised a question during every group's presentation and trying to point out people's "mistakes". But this time was their turn to make a major mistake. They used a totally not good example and making certain assumptions. So our tutor questioned their project examples. As always, they often do not admit they are wrong and thus trying to find their way out, given all sort of reasons for them choosing the "wrong" example. In the end, the tutor still thinks that the example is not a good one. Lesson for our group, make sure we chose examples that we can relate to our every day life and be specific to avoid being "killed". Haha..super exaggerating hor:P

This is the first time I have a potluck party. I think it's super fun. Thinking of what to cook, how to cook and especially if you haven't really cook much before like me. So of course since we are all 'beginners' we went for something simple - meringue creams, brownies and lychee jellies!!

I went shopping for the ingredients with Michelle on Tuesday. It was great experience trying to buy everything we need within the S$20 budget they gave us. Initially we have cheesecake on the list too but it exceeded the budget so we didn't get to make that. But 3 dishes are good enough. So proud of us! We manage to cook all 3 and it was less than the budget! Haha great achievement.

We started cooking on Wednesday night itself because we might not have enough time to do all of them on Thursday. Started to cook around 11pm coz we planned to complete all our tutorials and study for my test. So at 11pm, we went to the kitchen and started mixing everything. Hehe I started off with the jellies first mixing the jelly powder and cutting the lychee to be place in the trays.

Since we seldom bakes, separating egg white from the egg yolk was something new to us - especially for me, it's a total new experience. But I was successful for 3/4 of them. Not bad huh?:P Michelle then beats the egg white together with sugar (well this was our own formula coz the instructions in the recipe said use a pinch of salt but since we don't have salt, we use sugar).

And so we continue cooking the jellies and beating the egg white till it was white and thick. We didn't have anything to weigh the amount of sugar to add to the egg white so it was just an estimation and of course estimations are bound to errors so it was a bit sweet:P

Ha-ha I guess the worse thing was that our oven wasn't working!! Initially we were trying to look all around to see if we can find the power supply to it but it was to no avail. Michelle messaged her friends so finally we went over to Block 10 to bake the Meringue Creams. It was done at about 3.30am when we finally went to bed.

Here are all the desserts we made -
Lychee Jellies (2 trays)
Brownies (1 tray)
Meringue Creams (1 tray)
So here are all of them!
And lastly - all the 'bakers' (Michelle was having CCA so was not in the photo)
Friends are the most important part of your life. Treasure the tears, treasure the laughter, but most importantly, treasure the memories. - Dave Brenner

Yay..the week is finally over. Hmm at least for academic week. I can't imagine myself having 1 assignment, 4 tutorials, 1 presentation and 1 CA all in the same week. Our assignment question was release last Sunday night! I thought she would release it in the morning at least I would have the whole afternoon to do:S Presentation question was also given during last week's tutorial. And of course tutorial questions are only release the week before. Hehe..so I'm not really considered procrastinator rite:P but sometimes I do felt quite lazy to do my tutorial.

Anyway, one week's over, 4 more tutorials next week (no tutorial for Physics..yay!) and another term test. I think this is going to continue all the way till the end of the semester. Do I regret taking so many modules? Actually no! I enjoyed every lesson (at least most). Haha..I like Practicals so that's the plus point for diversity. And I have great project mates and classmates for Managerial Econs. It's so fun going for tutorial although it's 9am in the morning because we will just wake each other up. But I don't like the tutors though. Haha..both of them:P I like Accounting lectures more and of course the tutorial is equally relaxing and fun. Our tutor is doesn't mind joking around with us. Stats lecturer's fun too but she go through the lecture quite slowly so sometimes it will be boring:S. Business law was a bit frustrating but again it's my group mates that made my day. Well done for our presentation although it wasn't really that good. We could have done better. And Physics used to be my favourite subject in secondary school.The questions are quite hard but I enjoy learning about them. Plus I have super hardworking and thoughtful group members.

Yup yup. As much as I don't like doing projects, I think projects are what bring us closer to our course mates. Even online discussion and simple e-mail asking how's the project going on, let us know that there's always someone the for us. Someone we can depend on, someone we can fall back on.

But life is always fair. We gain something, we will lose something in return. These few days made me realise that life is very realistic. We can't afford to live in fantasy, our own world, our own dreams. When you failed, you are out. No one is going to help you. This is a competitive society, when you are slow, that's it, you failed. But I just don't understand is winning really that important that we can neglect the people around us? Where is the loving society that I used to live in? Where are the people who cares? I'm so confused. Sometimes you won't even know who are true friends and who are those that are using you as a stepping stone towards success. How are we to judge them? We can't. All we can do it just treat them with sincerity and hopefully they will do the same.

I recently read an article that suggest banning students in school uniform from entering shopping malls. I thought it was just an idea but it's already happening in Singapore (if I'm not wrong, just one school :P). I remember back in Malaysia, once school's over, I will usually go straight home unless I've got co-curriculum activities in school. We don't really have the luxury to roam around shopping centres like those in Singapore.Furthermore, it's really inconvenient and there's not shopping malls around my place. Okay maybe one if you consider Wisma Thrifty as one. So that's the way things were all the way till I'm in Form 5. Daddy fetch me to school in the morning and take the bus/walk home with my sisters. But since I came here, I realise that most students do not go straight home after school. I came to realise that when I was teaching though coz I will usually head back to hostel after lessons. We can see many students in school uniform walking around the shopping centres.

Although I'm not a fan of going to shopping centre, I think the banning of students to enter shopping centres in school uniform is futile. Students do not go to shopping centres to waste time. I remember I will usually do my groceries after school. That will save me a trip to specially visit a supermarket to get the things I want. Wouldn't it be such a waste of time if I have to go change, then go out again? Well, I guess it doesn't really matter to me now since I no longer have any uniforms to wear. I actually missed having uniforms. It not only gives us a sense of identity but save us the trouble of thinking what to wear. Haha..I'm hopeless with clothing.

We'll be having our Main Committee meeting tonight. We haven't had one since the semester started. So it's time for us to keep each other updated of what's happening and what we had done or will do. I think it's a form of respect for the committee members if they are inform of the latest happening in the club. In fact, I think the members have to be informed too. Besides, having meeting regularly will keep us bonded together. If the committee members can't work with each other, how to you expect to get the respect and confidence from the members. So I'm glad we are all doing fine.

Sunday is going to be the standing committee photo shoot. I think it's going to be exciting and fun. We haven't really got our dress code yet but looking forward to it. Haha..we are going to be shoot by professional photographers. Cool....

I just love this month, it's super exciting with lots of happenings. Oh we had our NUS Reversi Open last week. I've got 8th. Not bad rite. Haha..I think there's about 20 people participating in it. And this week is the NUS Food Festival. So don't forget to vote for your favourite canteen stalls. Prize giving will be on the 20th of Feb. Not sure if I'll be attending. We are having 4 coverages in the same day if I'm not wrong - IES Committee Photo shoot, NUS Food Festival, National Sustainability Conference and OSA Volunteers Appreciation Night. And the last one is going to be a paid coverage! Haha..have to do well for it.

Okie I think my post is super random and messy. I just can't help it. A lot of things are going through my mind so I just type as it comes along. Time to prepare for practical. Arr..another CA!

I'm starting to feel the stress this semester. There's abstract for our Physics project which due next week so that means lots of project meeting. Managerial econs group assignment is going to be due on the 16th but we have yet to start. The first test is also coming up very very soon. That will be 20% of my final score.

Just got my project group for accounting today. Because I was late for lesson, I had to join which ever group that didn't have enough members. Anyway, I think my group's not bad too - Malaysian, Thai, and Vietnamese. So I think I can learn a lot from them. The problem is we have no idea what we are suppose to do. Maybe wait for the topic to be release soon:P

My Biz law assignment is going to be due next week too. There's 8 of us in a group so it's quite hard to find common free time for meetings. I think we just have to try doing it on our own and compile it next week.

So effectively I have 4 groups for projects this semester - Biz law, Econs, Physic and Accounting. And Stats if the tutor decide to pick us to present the tutorial questions. So stress so stress.

I think I'm spending a lot of time for CCAs. Monday: My Roadmap meeting; Tuesday: SAVE and IGC; Wednesday: VPC; Thursday: VPC; Friday: Combined MC Meeting for Sports Club; Saturday: IGC. So I'm spending the whole week on CCA. Is it a sign that I'm suppose to let go some. I don't think I will be able to handle all of them well. Am I consider as "Jack of all trades, master of none"? At least I have the feeling I am.

What am I suppose to do? I think I should start listening and PRIORITISE. I can't have my finger in every pie.

Yay! I got nice groupmates for my managerial economics module:P At least I think they are nice, we can get along quite well. Hope we will have a great time working together. Our first assignment will be released this weekend. And the most interesting thing is all of us come from different faculties; Engineering, Arts, Business and Science. We didn't manage to get the topic that we wanted to do, the tutor just refuses to pick our Group name. So we have to settle for the last topic which is yet to released.

I think I'm quite lucky, so far all my project groups are really nice. I enjoy working with them. Physics groupmates are super hardworking..hehe..sometimes I feel quite bad not being able to contribute much but they are just really helpful. I haven't started working with my Biz Law group yet, our first assignment will be tomorrow and we are Group 1 so see how things will go. So far only know one person well enough, Steve. That's quite good considering I don't even know anyone from the same tutorial group. Will get to know the rest of them soon, there's 8 of us all together.

We had our Physics group meeting at 1pm and manage to finalise quite a lot of things. Now is just the information gathering part. Haha and I feel so hardworking - first time going to library to do research and borrow books:P

Also had a short meeting with Guoqi at Science Canteen regarding the upcoming coverage. Hmm am I too occupied with CCA? Haa..I totally forgotten to collect the money from the IGC booth at Engineering today. So sorry..too busy.

Anyway, we have another lecturer for Biodiversity. Yay! At least I think I understand more things now. Continue to study hard:D

Every day...
Share a kind word with a friend
Give away a smile
Tell one secret
Listen to what someone has to say
Listen with your heart
to what someone cannot say
Try one new thing
Forgive one person who has hurt you
Forgive yourself for past mistakes
Realize your imperfections
Discover your possibilities
Make a new friend
Accept responsibility
for everything you do
Refuse responsibility
for anyone else's action
Dream one dream
Watch the sunset
Cherish what you have
Cherish what you are
Love your life.