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It's been 4 days since i first stepped foot into US's oldest national park, Yellowstone. 6 days since i left singapore and nice singapore food.

I was sick before I left Singapore. Was down with a sore throat, nothing major though, but that soon developed into a full blown thing minus the fever (i.e. runny nose, etc.). The dry air in the plane and airports did not help too. So, I was permanently stuck sucking a lozenges all the time.

I realised the importance of the internet to me. Especially free internet services. Taipei airport had computer terminals with free internet services and that was really great. But things kinda went downhill from there.

Anyway, i'll explain it using pictures cuz its just much easier that way. (Besides, i'm kinda tired cuz i just finished a 12 hour shift; 11 am to 11 pm or around there).

Just check out the next post for pictures. Cheers =)




Last week was quite a hell week of lab for me and Junxiong. Imagine reaching the lab by 7.30am and continuing all the way to 10 to 11 pm. Not that bad rght? Repeat that 8 times almost in a row and add in lessons. Still it's not too bad but when labwork infringes on sleep in terms of wacky dreams that has me repeating a string of numbers (these were values for the concentration variation I had to perform in one of my experiments) ala LOST....you know you are REALLY a lost cause. OH oh...and add culmulative sleep deprivation to the formula and what do you get? DARK EYE CIRCLES (okay...granted they were kinda permanently stuck on my face since PSLE), 2 horrible mouth ulcers. One of which is a major aphthous ulcer that caused my cheek to swell out for about 4 days and gave me a throbbing headache. The other mickey mouse mouth ulcer was more tolerable but still a pain as it was on the lip...no more chili =( sobs...

But as they say. when it rains, it pours...1) All the ulcers were on the left side of the face [check] 2) The headache was on the left side [check] 3) The pimple IN the nose was in the left nostril [check] GROSS rite? Cant breath properly so must breath through the mouth for a while. Luckily this cleared up in about a day. 4)The monthly red tide swept went I was just starting to feel better [check] 5) Accompanying cramps, listlessnes and general irritation at the world [check].

BLAH........

To top it off, yesterday (SUNDAY, 21/1/07) was my 1 YEAR anniversary with Demin but we were both kind of home bound. What's worse was that both of us seem to have forgotten all about it. =(

Saturday morning (20/1/07)

Demin was staying over as usual and we were in the bathroom talking while I was getting ready...washing face or something.

Me(slyly): Hey, when is our anniversary. [I forgot if it was 21st or 22nd but I knew it was close]

Demin (even more slyly): WHEN is our anninversary?

Me: 22 Jan!

Demin: You sure?

Me: YA...(actually I'm not but I cant say that right...afteralll girls are supposed to be good with this kind of things)

Demin: You forgot! (fake sobbing)

Me: Then when is it? 21st?

GROAN I'm pathethic...

Come Sunday...

But I have double standards when it comes to these things....I was going on about how our anniversary was such a non-event...where is the romantic dinner? Candle lights? Cuddly soft toy? THE WORKS?? Bring it on!!~ Where are we going....blahblahblah....Demin was saying, that it was only a 1 year anniversary and we would have the rest of our lives to be together. Conclusion: He didn't plan anything.

Then I think PMS kicked in cuz I was acting out. Was just unhappy. If he bought me something now. I wouldn't be happy either cuz he didn't plan it. I would rather he plan but didn't buy....meaning he'd at least thought about it right? Typically girlish reason which I subscribed to at the moment. As usual, he got irritated at me and was giving me the silent treatment until I cooled down. But he just doesn't get that the silent treatment make me EVEN more angry at him and I definitely WON'T cool down. BISH. But luckily, he gave it to me and much later he admitted that he had forgotten about it too. THERE! I knew it!~

Ohhh but I got back at him later when we were playing games on his computer. He's always either playing Warcraft or Maple story on his lappie and I'm left to my devices...which would always be figuring out how to drag him away from his laptop. Most of the time, I succeed =) But then later he'll give me tis mournful look about wanting to game....then I'll be like, " OKAY lar!..Go..go..." And the cycle repeats =).

But this was supposed to be our anniversary right? So we should do something that involves us both. Demin suggested sleep......BLEUh......Then I had an idea about playing a game together. I like this game he had on his lappie....can't recall the name but it involves building aspects of the city, manufacturing fighters like Magi, Archers....blahblah. Anyway, I had the beginners luck. So much so that he was begging me to faster kill him off so that he could restart the game. At first we were fighting each other but the thing is he can't really hurt me or I'll really hurt him in real life. In his words, "I value my life".

So that is the real reason why he wanted to team up with me instead of against me. =)This time, I still had beginner's luck but we had to stop playing halfway as the next day he had to work. An unconventional way to spend my anniversary but I wouldn't have it any other way. Maybe like what he said, " I'm already spending time with you...Isn't that enough?" is so true.

Love you deardear.




cuz of the rain. I have mixed feelings about it. For one thing, Singapore actually feels cold and we all know that that's a hard thing to come by. So thumbs up. Then again, the rain makes me feel lazy and bed bound. That in itself is not the problem. The problem is when you can't afford to stay tucked under the blanket in front of the TV, chips and remote control in hand. Sigh.

What is my dream weather then?

The sky must be a gorgeous rich blue with nice fluffy clouds...The sun must be out but not searing hot. It should be windy (cool not hot!) and the air temperature would probably be 24 degrees. Most importantly, humidity must go!~ With requirements like this, I'm better off migrating elsewhere ....

But seriously, this would be the perfect shopping weather down Orchard Road. However, malls would mean that I'll be wasting this perfect weather on indoor shopping. So, I need bazaars and alfresco dining. But when i think of alfresco dining in Singapore, I think of engine exhuast fumes...Maybe we should ban driving along Orchard Road on perfect weather days. Then we can move the bazaar and alfresco dining to the streets. Haha!!

Fat hope.

So I guess my original plan to migrate is better....less of a hassel. But when you are broke, beggers can't be choosers. I'd be better off sticking to Bugis Junction and its glass roof. Closest thing i'll find. =)

This entry was made when the authoress =) was extremely BORED.* So don't hold it against her if you just wasted 5 mins of your life here.




Finally, I have done it!~ Revamped my blog, I mean. I just couldn't stand the angsty depressing black background which at that time seemed like a really good idea to convey my contemplative self. Now, it just seems immature and run-of-the-mill. Also, the raining boxes of 'X's were getting on my nerves. In case you didn't know, those were supposed to be pretty snowflakes.

So, anyway, I finished revamping my blog in record time! 2 hrs plus and without help wor!~ Yay...granted the fact I have no idea what html even stands for...(yes...i'm that computer iliterate)...but what's the point of me knowing when I'm satisfied just using it. I'm definitely not gonna be a programmer and even if I needed that skill in the future, I'll learn it off the net or take out the Idiot's guidebook.

So basically, I have not been blogging for about half a year or more (if u don't regard photoblogging as blogging) because I hated the layout of my old blog but did not have the time to fix the problem. Hence the procrastination =).

Anyway, what do you think about this new layout? Cool? The main picture was taken during my Field Trip module to Tioman during June 2006. I was on a boat at that time, going to the Marine park to snorkel with fishes!~ So fun rite! I love that trip alot cuz the module was the most slack I have ever taken and this is supposed to be a level 4000 module (i.e. meant for Honours students)! Even though I had to pay extra cuz this module was only offered during special semester (during June Hols), it was totally worth the moolah. Whatever modules u take during special semester all cost the same price and for the same amount of money i get to go to TIOMAN for a WEEK and bunk in a cool kampong style beach resort. REally Fun =)...would have been better though if my deardear had gone along but he was mistakenly informed by the Dean that this module wouldn't be offered that semester. And so my deardear who was contemplating extending his studies by one more semester was forced to drop the idea and 'persuaded' to graduate. Where got like this one??! Give NUS money to earn also don't want. People want to study more also kena discouraged. Sian. So what to do? When I came back from the trip and gave him all my nice nice photos, he labeled the folder "Tioman trip without me". -_-"" SAAADD rite????

Other updates, my honours project is halfway there...currently, I'm trying to block it out of my mind so that I don't feel guilty blogging when i really should be working on my honours project. =)
Yesterday, I went for the Toddycats Museum guiding workshop at RMBR (Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research). I joined this thing like in year 2 but *cough and looks away...mumbles* have effectively not done much constructive stuff. So anyway, I learnt to guide. Must really try to be more relaxed and less a bookworm...must try to tailor my info to the typical Singaporean audience...which means answering questions like, "Can be eaten or not?", "Nice to eat, or not?" -__-"""""

I don't think I fared too well in my practice run but I think I will get better in time and be more of my corny self. Think being in Prof Ip's lab has stiffen me up cuz I'm constantly worrying about stuff...Nah...that was just a lame excuse...Sigh.

Okkie.....2007 resolution: Do more blogging.

Cheers and Best wishes for the New year~





chee peng n moi on the way back to paya





Great photo....canadian babe far over to the right




Our groups best find!..The Kukri snake





THis is the ..erm...place where we gather and eat....real nice laid back feel with all the wood and stuff. Really liked the pool table which required coins





Gorgeous backdrop....arriving soon for a week long pleasure...and some work =P





All wet with sea water spray...really tangled hair!~





Peiya and me~ Love the blueblue sky and gorgeous water





So stylo milo... =)





Tad glam photo...so fat...sian next to the super fit linghanzz





on the way to Tioman!




....And the fact that i couldn't stand the dysfunctional )*&^^% snow that justs show as a bunch of raining Xs...too lazy and no spare brain cells to figure out how to fix that problem.


So after a hiatus of let's see...erm...many months, I'm back with a deluge of photos...

Can't really write too much today. In facts, right now i'm in a web chat session to decided on our survery topic for my Professional Communication module. Whoops.

In case you are wondering, I'm currently in my fourth and final year of undergraduate study at NUS. Am neck deep in piles of unread journals and unprocessed tissue samples...=( Sigh sigh sigh....

Yes, I know that i have a year to sort out my thesis but when your at Prof Ip's lab...you need all the time you can get...and somehow I feel like i'm crawling at a painfully slow rate...then again...my sunday horoscope advised me to take things slow for now. =) It goes something like this, "You want to do things with a bang but if you are not careful, things will go bom bom bom!'

Scary....especially when i was planning to have a major fish experimental the next day.

OKie....updates in a nutshell.
July Hols - Went to Tioman for my cool cool Field studies module! Finally snorkelled!!!
- My deardear convocation ceromony =)

August - MY 22nd birthday!~

September - dying...




time: 8.49pm

Although it sounds really pathetic that I'm still 'stuck' in the spider lab on a monday night when term time has long end and won't start for some time, I kinda like being in the spider lab at night. Reminds me of the good times. I like this lab alot...the atmosphere is more relaxed and less sterile i guess.

It's hard to believe but I'm really busy...sometimes i come to school around 8.30/9 am and only leave around 10/11pm. That's cuz I'm shuttling between 2 labs trying to get things done. I'm back in Prof Ip's lab for my Honours but also trying to finish some stuff back at the spider lab. Have to really get started on formatting my paper for publishing in an American journal for arachnology =). Hope my paper gets accepted. My work at the spider lab is just to get more data so that i can write a 2nd paper. My other paper on my 1st research project has already been submitted for review to a journal...has yet to be accepted so i'm keeping my fingers crossed.
oh...hehe..if you are wondering why i'm able to blog...its cuz i'm using the 10 plus mins it takes to knock out my spider with CO2 to do something more fun.

I could read my stack of journals instead but what the heck...so boring =(
Dun wanna punish myself~

Must thank my deardear for rushing back to Spore on the 19th to help me with my spider catching on the 20th. Cuz we had to catch the 8am low tide, i thought it wouldf be much better if he stayed the night at my place so that we could set off together in the morning. Less hassle and i get to spend more time with him =)

20th may was a sat...really hectic cuz my dad had already been admitted to the hospital...nothing serious. He was going to get a minor eye operation and due to his heart condition, they had to monitor him over a few days before proceeding with the op. Anyway, by the time we finished our little fieldtrip...(DM even got stung twice by a wasp when he climbed up a tree to get spider..Poor thing but hee i appreciate it alot).....it was around 11 plus...then cuz i promised my mum that I'd be going to her dance class in place of papa that same afternoon, there would be no time for rest.

Dance class was....how should i put this gently...I told my mum that i blame her for putting me through this agony...I have lost touch with my body and it rebelled with a vengence...thankfully, not as much as my mum's but i can safely say that we were prob the WORST 2 students in the class. Well, to feel better, it seems that many of those ppl had actually learnt this dance before....disco rock or something. BLUEH!

I CAN'T DANCE FOR CRYING ALOUD!

SHIT. Ask me to bogey around in the pubs...that i can do...cuz there you are supposed to come across drunk = no body coordination.

and what's worse...cuz DM decided to sit out this dance and fiddle around with my hp BUT i know he's behind watching my EVERY mistake. Just as i tot, he finally couldn't stand it and came up front to where i was and started saying how come so easy i cant dance. BLUEHHHh! Oh well. i drag him to learn the dance with me to and at one point he partnered my mom...heehee

ok la...need to do my work le =(
Next time then continue again~~




'Before and after the test? Before = the time before the exam back to when you are born; after = finish exam until you are dead, so you are waiting for your whole life.' ---- DM's response to me asking him to call me before and after the exams.

'Like a sentence to death, 'very fast very fast', the executor keeps saying.' ----DM's response to me telling him that the exam would be over soon.

'Ok, gonna go in le, may god no matter from east or west bless me, o mi to fo, allah, amen.'-----DM just before taking the test.

I apparently have a bf whose english standard shot up in the few mins before his supposed death date to shock me with such quotable quotes...Haha...not that i am insulting his normal standard of english...*whistle*

So crap...sigh but i miss him =P

Faster come back leh...I want my mac ritchie tree top walk photos! =P