So finally the exams are over! I can now breathe a'lil bit more easier before summer classes begins next Monday. This 3 month school holiday will be the period where I intend to complete the bulk of my FYP, so when school reopens next sem, i'll have more time for my studies and hopefully cap off my final sem in NTU with a more balanced life. Much to update since the last post. Big thank you to all my avid readers for patiently waiting.

This exam experience wasn't entirely the best but it wasn't the worse but its the 1st time I felt I could have done better if I had planned my strategies abit better. Sat for 4 papers in the span of 4 days (22nd - 25th). Didn't have enough time to complete all my papers, left blanks here and there amounting to almost 25% of the paper. So really hoping to scrape through this time, any set backs now will almost push my graduation back 1 more sem. This sem saw me pulling extra effort and hours preparing but the feeling after the 4 papers is pretty demoralising but no point harping over it. Going to enjoy my holidays with whatever time I can spare!

After my last paper last Friday arranged to meet with freeuns and Jamie to go for Shopping and Dinner. Sad to say I ended the day empty handed and i'm still unable to find what i'm looking for! Hope GSS comes sooner, i'm holding off all items on my wishlist till then! Langston dropped by to have dinner with us at Soup Spoon (Paragon). My 1st time there and I had the Bread Bowl with some funky sounding beef stew. Not too bad 3/5 stars but it was very filling. Apparently Metro was having private sales on that same day and Jamie went to meet Eileen. So freeuns and I had to entertain ourselves outside Din Tai Fung....(hahaha *winks). The whole bunch of us headed down to Ice Cold Beer (SMU) to chillout. Nice meeting you Edwin and small small world! Eileen's bf, Abriel used to be my soccer khaki back in the day so it was nice to be see him again after almost 8 years.

On Sat, met up again with Jamie and Cal for our long long awaited Pancake outing! We settled to have brunch because I had to go off for KTV at 2pm. We had pancakes and cakes for brunch at Cedele (Raffles SC). Yummy la!!! Best of all its all-day-breakfast means you can have it for dinner too!!! Enjoy the pics...


Blueberry Pancakes with Butter - Cal & I had this but mine came with a side of bacon


(L)Walnut Carrot Cheese Cake (R)Banana Merange


(L)2-Berry Muffin (R)Cherry Apple Pie


Jamie's Full Chocolate Pancakes

We were definately overloaded on sugar for brunch! Mind you we ordered on 3 seperate occasions because we just could not resists! So sinful! Unfortch I had to leave them to their shopping and run off to Teo Heng (Katong) for a KTV session with my poly mates. Wow new songs this month! Teo Heng never fails to surprise me with their english song selection. But the best is yet to come...


8 tickets to Mayday's Down to Earth concert 2008


Wah sit very far from the stage!


But i'm not complaining...


Strobe lights and pyrotechnics!


Finally they came closer much to the delight of those sitting at the back.

Yes! I attended my very 1st Mandarin Rock concert and its by none other than the famed Mayday or 五月天. It was totally an unexpected day. I did not even know they had a concert that night. Anyways the concert tickets were given to us for free by the management of Teo Heng and it would be a waste not to go. They gave us 4 tickets at 1st because only 4 of us were singing but asked for 4 more so we could ask the rest. Called rong mei+mich and mils+bf and asked if they were interested and they were...who wouldn't right?! It was quite an experience and the whole concert was highly entertaining with the visual effects and the interaction between the band and the fans. Pity i'm not into Mandarin songs haha and many of you might think the ticket was a waste on me and it probably is but *FOC leh!

DAMN IT!!! Chelsea won Man Utd 2-1...title decider will have to be postphoned to the next match. Will Newcastle do Man Utd any favours and upset a revived Chelsea or will the Hoodoo of West Ham continue its rampage on Man Utd? Any takers for watching the matches this weekend?

Anyway till next time...take care ya'll

What is true love?

As the title states, does anyone really know what true love is? Many times I have come across the "love" word being use in the slightest context. "I love this", "I love that" but what does it really mean? Heavy usage of the word love does take credibility away from it to the extent that its almost equivalent to "sorry". We apologize ever so frequent over every little thing that saying "sorry" is more of a reaction rather than an action. I'm not shooting my mouth off here because to me, 50% of the time when I apologize, I actually do not think twice about what responsibilities it brings. Its more for getting me off the hook at that instance. Likewise "love" seems more of a convenient expression in word for anything likable. How discouraging that thought is.

I remembered back in secondary school I sat for a literature exam and 1 particular question stumped me. It seemed like an open ended question, meaning any answer is acceptable as long as you are able to support your answer with examples and reasoning. This was highly uncommon especially for a secondary school standard exam. For those of you who used Catherine Lim's "Singapore Short Stories" as your school's literature syllabus, you will remember a story about 4 people, A couple and the guy's parents. The story takes us through the ups and downs of the couple's relationship but ends up a lost cause because the girl could not settle for a life living with her in-laws because the father was mentally ill and had only the wife to take care of him. The question asked, which character in that story displays true love? My conception of love back then was romantic love so I answer to my best ability had supported my claim that the guy displayed true love because he gave everything to the girl and he got dumped because of her inability to live with his parents and yet he did not make things difficult for her during the breakup. In my opinion I thought he was very self-sacrificing. WRONG! I got zero marks for that question and the right answer would be the guy's mother. The it this all too familiar phrase struck me: "In sickness and in health, do you take xxx to be your lawfully wedded xxx? Do you promise to love and cherish xxx till death to you part?" I believe nothing explains true love better. The mother character nursed and took care of her husband although the disease wrecked his mind and soul and left him a broken man who could not take care of himself.

I found this video on Youtube that perfectly represents true love and the promise made to love and cherish till the end. It really tugs at the heart strings so "tearjerker" alert for you weak at heart girls. It almost moved me to tears...almost but I've been called heartless before...eecks! So enjoy...just pretend its not an advert.



On a brighter note, I was fortunate to be invited to Jamie's 25th B'day party at Boiler Room on Saturday. It was fun and the gay stand-up comic was f-ing hilarious! Got everyone in stitches! Expect for the fact that I had a personal encounter with the gay stand-up comic everything that night was a blast and it was great to be reunited with the people from the past. Glad everyone is doing well and having fun together! Nursing this everlasting cold...so irritating to be sick when there is a party to attend and studying for the exams...hope LEMSIP MAX is good!

2L people - 1997 ~ 2008 (11 years)

B'day girl and I looking in opposite directions!

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Saw this interesting quiz thingy on milo's blog! Apparently I can charge $1,132/hr for my sexual services...hahaha Why the hell am I still studying?