Thursday, March 24, 2005

Thursday.. a day before Easter Camp. After making last minute decision to join the camp last night, I am still unsure about it all. Well, mel already texted Bib and I already made a public announcement about it.. I guess there's no way out of it now. The good news is Ingrid will be joining us as well !! Yay !!

Today is rather average. Had a lab that went for the full 4 hours, insane I tell you. Me and my lab partner spent a good 10 min arguing about decimal point. We were at the brink of killing each other, but the great thing is... we parted with good feelings, coz we blamed everything on it being a 4 hour lab and PMS. That's what labs do to you, they make you go crazy.

I realized today that the Easter break is actually mid-semester break. That sucks big time. If we don't count the weekend then we only have 3 days off !!! I don't know how I'm gonna do my lab report in time to hand it in next Thursday. I'll be back from camp on Sat and I'm spending Sunday and Monday at Indra's. I could spend the entire Tues and Wed to do it but I have very short attention span when it comes to work. This report is for PHAL 301 and the marker is really though, I got my last week's report back today..... spent a good hour staring off into space and trying not to get all depressed about it. The mark is way lower than I expected.. but oh well, you learn from your mistakes eh.

God is good. He knows how much I need entertainment after my lab. So on my way home, I met Mel & Tim strolling down the street. They are such good entertainers since they both always make stupid remarks. Anyway, we went to Spice Traders for dinner... aaah, chicken vidaloo & tikka masala. Then we went to McCafe for some much needed dose of caffeine/chocolate. Dave Lim joined us for a while coz he's tutoring stat for Tim. I just found out today that Dave goes the gym quite regulary. Thumbs up for determination !!! I've been so slack when it comes the gymmin' lately. Must pick it up next week...

Right, camp tomorrow and I have no idea what to bring... oh well... HAPPY EASTER !!!

Wednesday, March 23, 2005

Quote for today

"I'm actually quite shy around normal people" - Melanie Tan

Do I need to say more?

p.s. we decided join CE's Easter Camp... we believe that the camp will be more interesting with us in it.

Monday, March 21, 2005

Finally...

I'm back to Him. Finally, I have enough courage to confess that I have backed out and denied my God. Finally, I have strength to do something about it. After many months of self-condemnation, self-loath and confusion.. last night, I managed to do a right thing. I finally went up and asked God for forgiveness.

It's amazing how I can relate very well to Peter. I claim to love God and will never deny Him, but when I have to choose to accept Him or deny Him, I ended up choosing the latter. My relationship with my parents got better in the end because I chose to deny God. I just realized last night that the very thing the devil is using to attack me is my love for my family...especially my mother. Back then, it's either my family OR God. People keep telling me that I can continue loving them both, but it's not as easy as it sounds. I was drowning with guilt. I felt so dirty.. so dirty that I wouldn't let my own mother touch me. My self-loath got to the point that I did things to myself that I can never believe I could. I even felt justified and satisfied.. because I believe that I deserve to be punished. Even now, looking back at the things I did, it felt like a dream.

My God is big. I believe that whatever I'm going through, He'll see to it that I will make it to the other side.. safe & sound. He promise. All I have to do is give Him my hardened heart and believe...

My God is big
So strong, so mighty
My God is good
He's so good to me

THERE'S NOTHING MY GOD CANNOT DO

Friday, March 18, 2005

Oooooooooo BROADBAND

Currently, I am blogging in the comfort of my own room. *sigh*. I have been waiting for this, I must admit that I will miss the warmth, stuffiness and the smell of bad BO in North CAL... but on second thought, NAH... I probably won't !!!

So what had happened since the last time I blogged? Hmmm, first Ceroc classes for both beginner and intermediate happened on Tuesday. It feels great to be dancing again. Mel signed up for beginner classes and she loves it. So hint hint.. all you guys in Dunners, you should sign up for it. Highly recommended.

Umm, beginner class was a little bit boring since I know all the steps and half the guys in our class can't move, let alone leading. There were scary old men as well, so I had to put on a brave face and smile. Oooh, Josh was there. I was really surprised to find someone from church. Anyway, intermediate class was great. Fantastic. But there's a lot to learn since we're doing 6 moves per class instead of 4 and there were a dip and fall which is pretty hard to do. I'm doing intermediate class with Jian Wei, my ex-flatmate. He bought me 2 pieces of lollies cake that he made.. cool eh? Andrew was there as well, so that was a second surprise for that night.Well, just to sum it up, I can't wait till next Tuesday !!!!

Last night me, Jane, Mel & Rebecca headed off to town for Jazz. We made a little stop over at Bentleys hotel to check out this meetings for Ceroc dancers. It was soooo cool. These people meet up once a week just to dance. I had so much fun but since it was St.Patrick's Day, the music was a bit..umm, bad. I danced with Thida's friend, Ben. He did beginner class with me last year & we had such a great time catching up. Mel also learned some new moves as well, from this guy she remember from our class. I thought he's quite freaky but actually he's nice. We stayed for a little wee while and we headed off to Robert Burns (finally). We had a great time just sitting there, listening to jazz and sipping cocktail. Aaaaargh !!! can't wait till next Thursday either !!!

Tonight, me and I get up to some crazy stuff that involve: 1) walking in the rain to 24 shop by Regent St. just because I want a pack of chips and she wants ice cream 2) lemons. And I shall say no more.....

I have posted lots of photos so be sure to check it out !!! especially if you want to know more about these lemons.. hehehe.....

Monday, March 14, 2005

I am very very annoyed. I have to re-write everything coz when I clicked "publish post", my post disappear. Grrrr...

Can't be bother typing everything out again.. I'll do it tomorrow...

THE NEXT DAY

Well, once again, sitting infront of a computer @ North CAL... blogging. Aaah, can things get better than this? (a little voice inside my head says: Yes, Nam, yes..)

Anyway, today is such a good day. Nice weather and I only have 2 lectures and no lab. This morning in PSYC, I texted Tim asking him whether he'll be free to go up to Indra and Steve's place on Sunday (Yes, people, I'm going to Indra's for lunch after church. YAY !!!!) and we ended up going out for a catch up session @ Starbucks. Such an impulsive thing.. it's great!!! I felt like I haven't talk to him for ages. We talked about all sort of things from bikes to cockcoaches (eeew). He told me that he saw me and Mel at Caper's on friday and he was trying to get our attention by doing this little dance outside on the street. Too bad it didn't work, he got everybody else's attention instead. How embarassing...

Right, I was going to retype my yesterday's blog but I couldn't remember what I wanted to say. Hmm, oh The Lads !!! On Sat I helped Yas and Heather with cooking dinner for The Lads and I also did the ticketing afterwards. I don't know much about them but apparently, they're pretty famous (duh, Nam, DUH). So yeah, heaps of people turned up. Jane was also there, helping me with ticketing and Mel came around afterwards to keep us company.

Umm what else, oh new friend.. 2nd year Med student, Andrew from Knox. I think I met him like.. 4 times before but he never remember my name. Funny guy, that one. He appeared like a nice guy but actually, he's quite mean. Tsk tsk... what's wrong with people these days !!! Anyway, it was really embarassing how we (me and Mel) met him yesterday. After church, Me, Jane and I went to town and bum around for a long time. So we (me, Mel minus Jane) were in a pretty happy/hyper mood when we got home around 6 pm and still very hyper when we started walking to church. I really can't remember what we talked about but it involved singing. I think the songs were: beauty and the beast, songs from cinderella, sleeping beauty etc etc and "All By Myself". I thought no one was behind us, but I turned around just to make sure and there was Andrew. Haaaaaaaaaaa... embarassing moment

Right, umm, there's nothing to talk about now. Oh, good news, Mel went to the gym with me today. Another great news, we are going to Robert Burns for some jazz this coming Thursday night, and we are looking for more people to accompany us. Text me or leave a comment if your keen. But if you're not keen, leave a comment anyway. :P

Friday, March 11, 2005

Before and After

Today, I suppose to start at 12 (for PSYC 111) but being a good girl that I am, I went to the 10 o'clock one instead. Fortunately, Mel didn't sleep in so we walked to Castle 2 together. It was nice that Mel decided that she'll turn up to PSYC lecture, finally. After our lecture, we met up with Mel's friend from Auckland, Fey, and..... ah-hem, we went to Capers. GOSH it was so gooood ~~~ I had a blueberry pancake and Mel had the chocolate one. At first Fey didn't ordered anything except a smoothie but when she saw our pancakes, she changed her mind. For those who lives in Dunners, you probably understand why Fey changed her mind and for those who don't live in Dunners.. this is why:

"Blueberry pancake - before"

We had such a great time *sigh* wish we can do it more often. Oh before I forget, this is what happened to the pancake after it landed infront of me...

"Blueberry pancake - after"

Mmmmmmmmmm... anyway, I had a toxicology lab at 2 today. It wasn't too bad, I actually had a lot of fun. It's not a serious lab at all, eventhough if we screw up this experiment, we're probably screw for the whole semester (it's all this technical stuff involving in preparation of microsomes.. delicate stuff). Still, after this cool guy (hehe, my new friend, he knows my name but I don't know his, but we get along very well) passed the chocolate biscuits around (in a lab.. i know !!) we started to relax and there was more joking around than serious discussion about microsomes. Aaah, good times ~


"Me & my prayer box"

Tuesday, March 08, 2005

My boring blog

I have realized that I don't blog very often any more. I bet people just get tired of checking my blog and see that there's nothing new about it. I think the time I spend bloggin will increase as soon as there's internet in my flat. I hate it when I have to get out of my warm and confortable flat everytime I want to use the internet.

Today is pretty average. I only have two lectures today, started at 10 and finished at 12. I met up with Andrea for coffee at the fix. This was my first time inside the fix, I usually grab takeaway coffee before my lecture start, I never know that it's so cosy inside. Anyway, catching up with Andrea was great. We never really talked before and I'm glad that I finally get a chance to know more about this amazing chick. We talk about everything, from ceroc to future plans. Thida joined us for about half an hour then I have to leave. I walked back home and suddenly, I felt the urge to blog... which is quite bad coz it started pouring down and I can't be bother to get out of my flat. But I got over my laziness and here I am, sitting in North CAL blogging.

Gosh, I've been here for an hour now and I'm still writing this blog. I wish I have interesting things to write about. Ummm, well there's a 1st year health sci student sitting next to me. How do I know? because she's pouring over her BIOL 111 notes and writting some extra notes in it. How do I know it's BIOL 111? coz I have a complete set of those notes too !!!

Okay, that wasn't very interesting (or funny). I shouldn't be talking about this poor girl. Actually, she is giving me this guilty feeling that I should be studying instead of blogging. Well, I give up, I'm going to log off and go study now. Good bye and hopefully next timeI'll have something interesting and worth reading to write about.

Wednesday, March 02, 2005

Cutting Edge's "flat warming"

Yay !! we are getting an internet. I've been waiting for this, even though I could just walk to central library and plug in my computer and save money, I rather have internet at home in my room anyway. Haah, I can finally chat to my parents on MSN. It's really depressing to keep in touch with them only by e-mails and once in a blue moon phone calls.

Last Thursday night was sooooooooooo much fun. All those games !!! pretty extreme in my opinion but was cool nevertheless. The pancake flipping can be very dangerous if you put too much butter in it and extreme trolley racing is harder than it looks. I think there were several casualties on that night, me being one of them, but Kate got the award for the "worst graze" category. Also, out of my team, I'm the strongest one since I'm the last member remaining in that "washing" game. Mua ha ha ha haaaaaa.... but I got beaten by the opposing team (with 2 guys and 1 girl) in the end. My team did everything but we missed out on the "commercial".. BOO !! but at least we did the singing. Mel and I left around 11.35 so I think we missed out a bit of the activities at the end. All in all, I give our combine life groups night 8/10. Can't give 10/10 coz there was this creepy factor which I'm not going writing about.

First week of lectures was pretty good. I enjoyed all but one of them. Nutrition lab was interesting but must keep on reminding myself through out the year to have lunch before the lab. Toxicology and psychology lectures are great !! I find that lecturers teaching 300 level papers really treating us differently. It sort of like.. they're treating us like equals. They also can be extremely mean, they already bombarded us with assignments, reports and essays. Aaaah, this year is going to be hard.

Today my life group have a pancake breakfast. It's such a good way to start your day. Yasmin managed to spilled some batter down her gorgeous red skirt and we had a good catch up session with Thida. It's quite sad that Claire, Nic, Lucia and Salvin can't make it. Claire was working, Nic's flat is having pancake breakfast with their neighbours (good way of reaching out), Lucia is in Gore and Salvin is recovering of the previous night... Fiji-Indian cultural thing (well, that's our theory anyway).

Right now I'm in Burns with Mel and Yas.. and what's this ??!! Yas has decided to join our little blogger community !!! Yay !!! So guys, don't forget to chech out Yas's blog ok?? Amazing how this little community is growing eh.

Ok !! I better stop blogging and start studying. I really should focus on my big goal, which is getting into Physio school. I shall see you guys tomorrow at church. Hugs and kisses !!!!




and here is a random picture of me and Sam.