I'm officially 23 today.


Note the lack of enthusiasm in that statement.


Anyway, though the actual age is 23, I'm still an 18 at heart, and a 16 in looks okay. HAHA. So, before the night is over, here's some pics!



My fav cake with a damn chio birthday well wishes made of sugar!



With my family + an Enya. <3 <3 <3



And my closest cousins! =DD



With the 23 tiny candles lit. Flames of hotness sia.



After they were done with their job. I just love how this picture turned out.



Cutting my fav cake! Hooohoooo..



And holding up my name.


How many people can proudly tell me that they have held up their birthday wishes in their hands before? huh huh huh? HAHA.


And finally,



Eating my raspberry. =D


Sorry for all the pictures with me inside. It's my birthday afterall ma. Next up! CNY pics! I hope. HAHA.

I think I have really grown up.


Past CNY eves were spent helping around here and there, but this year, I've been busy from the moment I woke up, till we finally sat down for our reunion dinner. Cutting onions, chilli, cooking rice, washing this and that.


And the evidence that I've grown up is the fact that while washing rice, I was not anticipating the ang paos that I'm gonna be receiving later at my ah ma house, and instead, was thankful that my family have had a relatively happy, and healthy 2008.


The moment that thought filled my mind, I was like "OMGOSH. I'm old. I'm freaking old. I'm thankful for the good 2008 we had and not thinking about the angpaos. Omgosh. Where did that thought come from?!?!"


Then I went back to washing the rice, and proceeded on to cutting onions, resigning to the fact that I'm indeed getting freaking old.


So! Here's to a very happy chinese new year everyone! Pics would be up as soon as I get them, and can get down to blogging them out.


HAPPY CNY!! =DDD

Ho ho. I know I have so damn many freaking posts that I owe.. Thailand trip, JB trip, hell, even the Taiwan trip!




Can I just wave the white flag and say that I'm giving up on those posts? =X




Anyway, I'm rotting at lab right now, waiting for the arteries to be washed, and what better things to do than blog right. =D




So here's where I have been in my busy December. =))




1. Christmas Party with guides






The pretty Von and me. I miss her like crazy la.




We had BBQ at Melinda's house, and the food was damn good. We celebrated Yannie's bday that was on Boxing Day.




Paiseh girl. This is a little blur. Hee.




And I love this pic of her, throwing her head back laughing. =D



Then, Yannie didnt wanna cut her cake, and instead, used spoons to scoop huge mouthfuls of cake for everyone.





Here's Fen, Jaz and Qinghan looking all seductive.






And the gang of black: Ninny, Von, Yannie and Melinda, looing totally unglam here. Ha.


Vane who was in the vicinity pop by for awhile, and we seized the opportunity to take a group pic!






The NYGG'02 batch. Omgosh. We are getting freaking old. We have known each other for 10years now! O.O




And we found the Action City bread bun lying around on the sofa, and as expected with me, we camwhored with it.






Yannie and Me with BUNNNNNN.






Fen and Von wanted to devour it. =D






=DD




Oh.. And Ninny bought Christmas crackers instead of the normal cracker snacks that we asked her to buy, but it was just as well as we were already so darn full.





Camwhoring with the Christmas crackers No. 1





Camwhoring with the Christmas crackers No. 2






Camwhoring with the Christmas crackers No. 3




And we got a crown each!






Ho ho ho.






And the rest joined us. =DD




Last but not least, I spotted this damn adorable gingerbread house at Mel's house!




Freak la. So uber cute!! How can anyone bear to eat it?




2. Boxing Day Lunch with JC mates


It was the first time that we met up with Laoshi after all these years! (4 years to be exact.) Went over to IMM's Secret Recipe. =))




And as usual, we were camwhoring like mad after not seeing each other for so long.






Hongyi, Sid and Me. This pic is uber nice la. =D






Mariam and Me. Gosh. She's leaving for Brazil for her FYP soon. *envious*




Take care k girl? And goodlucks for your 30+++hours plane ride!




And as usual, the class manager was trying to organise stuff while the rest of us were happily yakking away, or in this case, taking picture of him.






I think he cant run away from leading the class even after so long. HAHA.




Anyway, here's laoshi with the guys!





All the guys except Edwin were present lo.






And us girls with laoshi! =))






And the whole bunch of us! Think the turnout was darn good.




Thanks Calvin for organising! =))




Then, some of us decided to not waste the day, and go prawning after the lunch.





At the prawn pond at Taman Jurong.






Erinna, who was so nice as to drive us all there! =))






Xiang and I.




Despite my smile here, I was feeling utterly sian as I didnt catch a single bloody prawn. Urgh.






Anna! Omgosh. She's forever looking so cute.






And Xiang with Momo chan.




The catch for the day was super pathetic, till I started mumbling nonsense when I saw this uncle throwing the prawn back into the pond as it was too small.




"Uncle.. Don't throw it back ma... Donate to us la...." <-- really softly!




Who knows, I think he heard my mumbles that the next puny prawn he caught, he asked us whether we want it anot.




We excitedly accepted it.



And we started talking to the uncle, asking him how come he seemed to be able to catch a prawn every 10seconds, when we waited for practically hours, and the rest only caught one or 2 prawns each, and I caught NONE.





Evidence of our pathetic catch for the day.




Apparently, the prawns prefer earthworms, and not the chicken liver that we were provided with. And I suspect our line couldnt reach the bottom of the pond where all the prawns were crawling, or whichever movement they use to move around.




I think the uncle was super amused by this bunch of youngsters that didnt manage to even catch 10prawns between them, that he gave us his catch from that particular morning.




Originally, he wanted to give us the whole load full. But we only took half of it, and it already weighed 2.8kg, which came up to 70 over prawns!




O.O




But it was a day filled with fun despite our dismal prawn catching skills. =)))








3. New Year's Day with my Morning Glorians.




We decided to share the first day of 2009 together, having a potluck at Ming's house, and I crawled outta bed at 8am just to fry beehoon which someone complained was full of soy sauce. *ARCHEMS*






'Feasting' at Ming's condo's function room.




We were feasting on my soy sauce beehoon + Ming's seaweed/beancurd skin chicken + Jiehui's wine + Weijie's jelly that has penguins + Wen's cha ye eggs + Ninny's drinks and chips.



Oh ya, we had this really impromptu gathering as Wen was back from Switzerland for the Xmas break!







This pretty girl was only back for such a short period of time =((





Legs caressing each other. Namely, mine, Ming's and Ninny's. HA




And through all the chats, they never ever fail to remind me of how I always add MSG into outdoor cooking food, and how I terrified Wen and Ming when they were in Sec1. Ahhhhh... My past is forever coming to haunt me.




Anyway, to end things off, here's a pic of my beloved MGians.





Loves.

I'm in an utterly emo mood tonight.


I think it has something to do with this song:



Save You


Biatch, this is for you. (:

FYP's turning out to be utterly stressful.


After starting for 4 days (4th day today), I have stayed frpm 9+am till 10pm, had 2 different nightmares on FYP, and basically, burnt out mind everyday after lab.


First nightmare was on Sunday, whereby I dreamt that Xiang has already finished her thesis, and in the dream, I was panicking: "SHIT. Xiang has already finished her thesis and I have not even started on my FYP!"


And for someone who seldom remembers her dreams, it goes to show how traumatising that dream was.


Then, it was yesterday when I had recurring nightmares on not being able to add the drug in time, thus having to re-do the whole experiment. I had this nightmare 4 freaking times, and each time I sat up wide awake, in cold sweat.


After 2 times of the nightmare, I nearly smsed Xiang at 4.30am to tell her about the horrid nightmare, but I decided not to, and went out to the couch to sleep instead.


And that's when I had the subsequent 2 nightmares. All of me not being able to add the drug in time, or the drug I added was of the wrong concentration, or the antagonist being too strong etc etc.


OMFREAKINGGOSH LA.


I suspect that I didnt even sleep at all as I woke up being more tired than ever. I think my subconscious was working the whole damn time, resulting in me having the same nightmare again and again non stop.


I have a sad life.



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I filled a post full of reflections on 2008 on 29th Dec, but stopped short of posting them up. 'cause, what's there to reflect anyway?


I realized the importance of family, finished the last exams in NTU, saw through quite a number of people, gotten tired of the hypocritical stuff, managed to get stranded in thailand, enjoyed myself through the year, and I guess, I have nothing much to be sorry about in 2008.


Of course, there were periods of sadness, but they werent as much as compared to the happiness, so I should be content, no?


It's now 2009, I'm gonna be freaking old soon -- 23. Like omfreakinggosh, I have never thought of myself as being 22, and now I'm gonna be 23 soon. The days are simply zooming past too quickly for my liking.


I still stand by the notion that I often say to Xiang: "In no time, we are gonna be 80 years old.", freaking her out every single time I say so.


Anyway, I don't understand why everyone's saying "Happy new year!" when there's nothing much to be happy about with all the global recession, upcoming graduation that has me worrying what the hell am I gonna work as, and I'm gonna age another year. It's another year closer to me losing my teeth, getting white hair, organs failing, etc etc.


Ahhh.. I sound disgustingly depressed huh?


But anyway, I believe the reason that everyone's wishing "Happy New Year!" is:


1. By habit. It's a new year, and how can anyone not wish one happy new year, right?


OR


2. Trying to convince themselves that it's gonna be a happy year despite the gloomy news that have been headlining the newspapers constantly since the Lehman Bros decided to collapse.


OR


3. Both.


I think I'm in Category 3. HA.


I cant believe how utterly demoralizing this blog entry is turning out to be. Where are all the pictures? Where are all the reflections and new year's resolutions? Where are all the "I wanna lose weight" or "I wanna get first class honours" resolutions?


I attribute this feeling to reading science journals for my FYP on a saturday. 11 journals. And a proposal to be submitted on Monday.


Kill me please.


But anyway, HAPPY 2009 yeah? =p