happy new year!

this year, new yr's eve is going to be a home alone business. home alone with my mama! for ba kut teh. i think i've past the age to go out partying for new year's. shall just stay home, use the internet and watch the telly :)

gonna start work soon!! 4th jan. presentable clothes at a clinic called sunshine place in chua chu kang! hehe. those of you who stay near CCK, perhaps we could meet up for lunch some time! ;) my lunch break is 12.30 -2... (i think) im just hoping i wouldn't dispense the wrong drugs.. oppps. that would not be very funny.

now i have to get used to writing dates ending with 06 instead of 05.. damn. how! what a headache. and im getting old. 22 is such an ugly number to celebrate! i mean.. 21 is like.. YEAY 21... and after this prime.. you just fall further and further down the how-happening-r-you curve of life. you guys don't understand it...*shakes head*

i think i should bake something some time soon. but what? any ideas? something nice but fuss-free please? ideas ideas! no lemon merigue pie fidel...

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shit i left out something VERY VERY IMPORTANT! yihong's birthday surprise! haha. the look on her face was priceless man!... like "EH HOW COME ALL OF YOU ARE HERE?" we were the parasites (who still paid money) at the bbq. all hong's other friends brought yummy food, which we so unshamingly ate so much and so fast! the curry, beehoon, jelly, sambal stingray... haha only weiann our representative, stood zealously at the bbq fire pretending to be hard at work bbqing the chicken wings. it was hilarious...

ok not the bit about me. and all the thousand other jokes arrowed in my direction. i wanna protest! i ALWAYS get bullied. no matter who, no matter where, no matter when! this is not fair! and even victor laughed along. *faints* one day i shall be strong! and defeat all corny jokes aimed at me.

but all in all, it was a wonderful gathering, re-living all the stupid moments in jc.. laughing at each other. punching, kicking, and poking fun at each other...SICK jokes (insert udders) feeding each other food. this is the one of the reasons why i come back home so faithfully every holiday.. the reason why i would sacrifice myself to be the butt of jokes the entire evening. i mean, i would love to believe that our little gang would continue meeting up every so often. simply because it's really good!

hokay~ maybe hong getting sprayed wasn't that fun. haha but it was fun looking at her struggle with the men... lol. happy belated bird-day hongie! you will always be my mummy! ;)

cakes out of a pan~

haha! they are called PANCAKES - quite literally! ok sorry, not funny at all. *daph giggles hysterically to herself* well my sister and I decided to make pancakes from scratch and it was a success! erm okie, i shall give victor some credit. He plucked the leaves off the strawberries and cut them up. anyway... don't they look pretty!! ;)

hokay i got to go liao. we need to commence operation webcam!

PS: this is just a post for me to show off the pretty pancake.

i suck big time at bowling (the real issue!)

there's nothing really, except the obvious. went to bowl with victor and his brother. victor had like 10 strikes out of 2 games. nic had like 10 spares out of 2 games. daphne had like a combined of 1 strike and 2 spares. and alot of balls went down the long-kang. yeah. so im lousy. but i got 2nd at daytona!!! thats very out of point. but yeah.

i suck big time at bowling.

my 2005.

everyone seems to have written about their year and i have not. so i better start writing. next few days are filled up with lots of outings and bbq. i don't really know where to start. perhaps a chronological order would be nice. and orderly. haha.

start the year off in singapore. summer hols are always good. had a blast of a 21st birthday before i left for adelaide. so many people, so many things to do. so many talk. parties are always so fun but so tiring. managed to catch up with alot of people that one single night.

went back to australia earlier than the others so as to sit for my medical sups. haha i didnt fail them and thus got promoted to year2 ;) moved into my new place soon after. my housemates were so nice to me all the time. and i guess they always felt i was a little kid that needed looking after. hee. well i didnt mind. there were always some one to talk to, or some poodle to tickle and throw bone for. but i think i was somewhat lonely? i don't know. living with 2 other people was so different from college life. i missed the friends that i made in college.. all the late night talks, walks to pizza house to have supper and partying out together. but at the end of the day, i grew up and learnt to live by myself.

travelled alone all the way across the big desert to melbourne. stayed at tim's place, which is really quite funny because i haven't seen tim since we left jc. but he was such a wonderful host, giving up his bed for me.. and i also visited wong. and i followed them to uni. haha. except i was just being extra. and i had the whole of melbourne city to explore on my own. i ventured out to the suburbs, taking trams by myself.. walking down streets after streets. making new friends. i felt liberated.

the rest of the term was just mainly study and play.. nothing really exciting. i made a real new friend - joel! he was tim's friend. we would talk online and on the phone. could really click with him. not many people around can do that to me.

came back to sg for the july holidays. nothing much really, except the then attached mr chia decided to ask me out for lunch. which i gladly went for. and we sat together on the flight back because he volunteered to do phone check in for me. i didn't really suspect anything. what's there to suspect of a guy who was attached??

and then it was all a blurry of events, which ended with me being his girlfriend. and we have been trying to learn more about each other ever since. it is a constant learning curve which i think i have adapted and integrated very well into my life. we spent quite alot of time together, especially during school days. some part of me felt that i have neglected my other friends. but i don't know. i will try to meet up with them more often i suppose? it's hard maintaining good close friends when you are attached, but i will never be one of those people who forsake their friends for their other half!

final exams at the end of the year was quite a killer. and i must truly thank god that, despite my inconsistency in studying and my last-minute crazy cramming.. that i passed my exams! wooh. and that my other singaporean friends also passed. yeayyy. *waves flag of victory*

and i shifted out of my place and all my stuff ended up in victor's living room. haha. shortly after, fidel and hong and her 5 friends came over to adelaide!! it was really nice having them around. travelling to different places and doing things that we would not have done if we were in singapore. went over to sydney with victor and fidel and tiffany and hong... sydney was nice. but my heart belongs to adelaide. the loner quiet small place that hardly qualifies as a city.

and now,december has come.. and is almost over. i sit in my study room typing away at my laptop. wondering how a year could have just zoomed past me just like that. 2005 has been rather smooth-sailing. 2005 has been a good year. i gained some knowledge, gained more white hair, gained a boyfriend... i am contented with the way things turned out at the end. and i do hope that 2006 will promise to be a great year too!...

sun WITH moon. night AND day

a fateful day that brought paul and I to the same place on earth after sooo long. he looked different. streaks of red in his hair, more muscular perhaps? yeah but still the same inside, thank god. he's a person in my life who isnt really there but when the opportunity comes, we actually manage to strike up a rather engaging conversation. and we use the same phone model!! haha. great minds think alike.

oh and we went to this jap restaurant at wheelock place. it's on level 3 and its called Sun WITH moon restaurant. which to me, is a rather bizarre name. i mean, sun AND moon i understand. sun BUT moon i understand but sun WITH moon? it's like "can i have a sun WITH moon dish please?"

anyway, back to the topic, this is one jap place which looks classy, uses very nice plates for food and serves ice water without us asking for it ie: so far so good. we tried the green tea square, which was served covered in this brown cage thingy. all nice and dandy, with an origami paper crane to top it all off! the green tea square wasn't really a square, twas' a rectangle. it measured something like 3cm width X 5cm length X 2 cm height. which you can imagine isn't alot of volume at all. it tasted light, with the texture of moose cake. yet the green tea flavour still gets to your taste buds.. and the cake was sweetened by the existence of its partner-in-crime.. the red bean paste! btw the square was 6bucks before GST and service charge.

i ordered a green tea parfait. which was really a rojak of anything japanese. little pink glutinous rice balls (dango) with green tea jelly, with cornflakes (don't ask me why) and green tea ice cream. might be a tad weird. but it tasted ok to me. oh. and the red bean paste featured in my parfait too. paul helped me polish some of it.. haha.. but please do no think that it is THAT big. the glass used was probably 500ml tops?

yeah. but the thing about sun WITH moon, was the little nooks and seats they have inside. we were seated in this L-shaped seat, coupled with very nice comfy cushions. all in white soft leather. we were separated from the seat adjacent to ours by see-thru sea green curtains. not alot of privacy but enough. ;) if you come in a bigger group, you sit at the round tables with nice red comfy leather chairs. heh..

so all in all, paul + nice jap dessert + nice ambience = a good afternoon tea ;)

oh i bought wire.. finally! haha.. can finish my artwork.

i suck big time at bowling.

wow! finally watched king kong. haha, hes the biggest friendly giant that i have ever seen depicted in movies. but the movie was abit too draggy. personally i think a 2hr version would be good to build up the suspense but not kill it. anything over 3 hrs better be darn good or don't even try going there.

carl's jr. after all the hyper received from friends, it was quite a letdown. i mean! 8 bucks for a big burger. and 11 for burger + fries + free flow drinks. after all, burgers will always be burgers. the patty was the sort macs and BK use.. straight out of some commercialised beef odds and ends minced together and stuck using meat glue factory. not like those ang moh restaurant with real ground beef, thick and filled with goodness. anyone can tell with just one bite. the mushrooms were definitely way better than the mushroom swiss version. haha portobello can never fight with straw mushrooms. and i like the fact that they had vegies in the burger. vegies are always good for you. but the bottom line is this, burgers from fast food places should be one of the the cheapest foodstuff around. no matter how tasty. and since fast food is supposedly targeted at the teens and young adults. i can never imagine my 14 yr old self spending 11 bucks on something that is the epitome of processed and convenience food.

because 11 bucks can always be spent on...
1) a bowl of la mian at crystal jade
2) some don at sushi tei
3) 3-4 plates of chicken rice at the hawker centre
4) 9 bread buns at breadtalk
5) 1/2 a haircut
6) a movie on the weekend with change for popcorn
7) 1/6 of a medical textbook
8) 10 mr softee at 7/11
9) 220 local smses
10) a new story book

there you have it, i have convinced myself. might sound a little stingy, but i wouldnt mind paying if the burgers were wow enough. too bad guys, it wasn't....

my boxing day

spent my morning reading a psychiatry textbook. which turned out really interesting. i didn't fall asleep reading it! hee. when there is no pressure to speed-read, which is the case during term time, i find that i actually enjoy the reading process more. i get a greater sense of pleasure. heh. no wonder studying is such a chore....

and before i forget. xmas eve with ian and gang was pretty interesting. i suppose putting in the effort to meet up for a meal is already an acomplishment in itself. furthermore, it was really silly, all the shit we talked about. sometimes life only needs to be this simple in order for it to be enjoyable and pleasant.

boxing day dinner was at victor's place. alot of good food. his fridge is stacked to the very brim with all the goodies that they bought from their holiday in japan. haha and i kept asking victor to feed me the royce chocolates from otaro. it is yummy to the power of yummy. after royce, you cannot imagine feeding yourself cadbury man. tsk tsk. dinner was really good. alot of seafood, gourmet style display, interesting combinations, and after-dinner activities ranged from bridge with his family to baby talking with his little girl cousin. who is so damn cute.

and in between xmas eve and boxing day, it was all the time in the world with my mum and sister. church, homecooked meals, italian food for dinner, car rides to thomson plaza to do grocery shopping.

i also dunno why i write so much mundane details. haha. opps

HO HO HO...

yes i am feeling very festive. esp since a 2 people gathering turns into a 5 people one. so what we don't even have a clue what we are going to eat.. where we are going ro down the beer.. all's good when you have ur friends around. ;) even yup the non-drinker is willing to fork out 6 bucks for her coke. hehe.

when im all out partying, mr chia is going to be midair across the south china ocean. on his way back to make it for xmas in singapore! yeah!

alright. time to picture spam my own blog. ho ho ho! merry merry xmas!!!!!

ALL I WANT FOR XMAS: JUDE LAW. (i don't really care that he has kids and all)all i want for xmas... a BIG huggable stitch.

people need love...

People need hope, people need loving
People need trust from a fellow man
People need love to make a good living
People need faith in a helping hand

Man has always wanted a woman by his side to keep him company
Women always knew that it takes a man to get matrimonial harmony
Everybody knows that a man who's feeling down wants some female sympathy
Gotta have love to carry on living
Gotta have love 'til eternity

People need hope, people need loving
People need trust from a fellow man
People need love to make a good living
People need faith in a helping hand

Flowers in a desert need a drop of rain like a woman needs her man
If a man's in love and his woman wants the moon
Then he'll take it down if he can
Somebody who loves you and somebody who cares
Isn't that what you call a friend
Gotta have love to carry on living
Isn't it easy to understand

People need hope, people need loving
People need trust from a fellow man
People need love to make a good living
People need faith in a helping hand


PS: a very hippy song. but yeah... MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

all i want for xmas is....

i don't even know actually.

but re-watching love actually really puts you right into the mood. hugh grant is so cute. the only other UK actor they lacked was jude law perhaps. but i got my fix of jude law by re-watching alfie. such a sad show.

plus receiving mas cards from people... and the thought of PERHAPS getting a present.. and going to church and all that hymn singing.

xmas is gooood! ;)

Your Christmas Song Is

Jingle Bell Rock Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock Jingle bells chime in jingle bell time Dancin' and prancin' in Jingle Bell Square In the frosty air For you, the holidays are one big party And you always end up having a little too much eggnog!

What Christmas Carol Are You?

What pie am I?

You Are Mud Pie

You're the perfect combo of flavor and depth Those who like you give into their impulses

What Kind of Pie Are You?

wow-derful service centre

my laptop had to visit the doctor. so i trotted down ALL the bloody way to ulu alexandra road to a place called technopark. how lame. the bus ride was disgusting. what could be worse than a crowded bus with people jostling everywhere, aircon bus that has no air flow and a wailing baby on baord?

ans: a ah-soh sitting next to you, COMPLAINING about the situation. i mean, auntie arh, the aircon spoil i also know, the bus very crowded and noisy i also know, i also buay tahan. but please! spare me a thought can a not? it's one thing knowing how shitty things are, and another when people say it right out loud.

anyway, the HP service centre is certainly one of the best service centre i have ever been to in the world! really! the waiting lounge was crazy. there were computers (all HP brand - what were u expecting?) with very-wow-speed connection, hot water to make coffee and tea and milo, biscuits and kueh to eat, nice comfy cafe style lounge chairs for you to snuggle into with a cup of kopi in one hand and the magazine in the other. best of all.. it wasn't a long wait!! haha i was so busy chatting online that i almost missed my queue number.

just a while ago, the technician guy called up to say its all fixed! and my baby is fine. the coolest thing is: they will deliver it back to me at my home address! i mean. wow. wow.

all for not even a cent. coz it was still under warranty. which was something i didnt expect. coz my laptop is already 2.5 yrs old.

so you see, wow-derful things do happen sometimes. you just have to not expect them to.

waiting for fish to be steamed

my mum's idea of supper is steamed fish. haha. don't ask me why!

now that i have cooled down, a tiny bit of me thinks that i should de-block the person. hmm on second thought, not just yet. wait a little longer. haha. or maybe forever. since ian the smart boy told me people don't know if you blocked them.

heh heh.. and wong! she's the birthday girl!! HAPPY 21st WONG!!! you will always be my wongie. haha. take care and have loads of fun!! i love you!!

opps

i hope i didn't scare anyone with the previous entry.

supposed it was raw. but at least it was honest!

gonna be a hectic week around. have to scoot for presents for the boy. have to get my own presents! from my cousin.. haha.. budget 100. wheee! and finish writing my xmas cards.

oh my goosh.. no time no time.

and for some reason, i cannot find my handphone, although i am pretty sure it is at home. damn it. and it is on vibration mode! so calling my own number doesnt really help... hawwwwww hawwwww.. sob

i wonder how some people can be THAT annoying

when i say you are annoying. you ARE annoying. it is a fact, a statement, a proclamation from all earthly things that can move and breathe.

when i ignore you online. i am trying to ignore you. trying to hold back my vulgarities and un-niceness. so STOP asking if i am ignoring you. because you will get a smart ass answer from me.

when i say NO online. i mean NO. not "no lah.. *giggle*..perhaps... *giggle*.." sort of shit. I mean NO. nothing false, nothing scary. just a NO.

this is a first time i blocked someone online. but he totally proved himself worthy of being blocked. no my fault. his! *points finger*

conversation went something like this...

x: you miss vic ah?
me: no.. im miss daphne
x: wah lao.. you two so sticky.. how can you not miss him?
me: i miss him but i got a life
x: you? life? hahaha..
me: you are annoying. go away.
x: wah lao! dao eh!
me: ...

later on...
x: what?
x: what?
x: why.. you avoiding me huh?
x: what?
x: what?
x: haha.. see i flood you!

*daph proceeds to block x*

now i feel better.

PS: and just to point it out, i was not AVOIDING him. wrong way to use word! i was ignoring him. stupid ass.

and i don't really care if he reads it. serve him right!

i love fridae!

spent a nice time at the pool swimming. i don't know but if i ever have to name a single sport that i really enjoy, it has got to be swimming. when you swim, you don't have to make small talk with others (simply because u can't when you are under water). you don't have to worry about perspiration and smelling like socks. you use your arms and legs and back and lungs and just about everything that constitutes your body ie: you get a total workout.

im like 2 shades darker. o.o don't know if im supposed to be happy or not. i think the older you get, the more pro-white you become. and a dark complexion is not really good for makeup, in my opinion. ohh ohh...

i paid a visit to my cousin. she just got married and she has her own house now! i am so happy for her. the renovations were pretty nicely done. alot of greys, dark brown. very zen to me. and her fridge is filled with japanese goodies from her honeymoon recently. my sister and i raided her fridge. melon flavoured pocky (yum), green tea ice cream (yum yum), and white choc biscuit.... ok that's all i had! really!

vic's aunt says i look smart. i don't know if that's a compliment or not? smart like do-well-in-school-goody-two-shoes? or smart like she-knows-too-much-for-her-own-good? or smart like look-smart-but-dunno-really-smart-or-not? sigh.

stuffed days

I spent my last 24 hours gorging exquisitely wonderful food. Last night at the French Restaurant was such an irony. how can something so expensive taste so good? expensive delicacy should be considered an oxymoron. heh. Please, Please, if you ever have the spare cash, go taste it.

Started off with foie gras, and then had escargot for a middle course, some really wow beef for the main and ended the perfect dinner with one of the most perfect souffle i have ever tasted. even though I am not much of a raw food person (except for jap food) the foie gras was oooshy and smooth. like a high class peanut butter. the escargot was cooked with tomato, onions and other herbs, bathed in a nice olive oil. the beef was wow to the power of wow. the side of veges were crunchy and nicely salted & peppered.

and if you think that was too much for a night, i spent lunch at straits kitchen at the Hyatt hotel. having a local cuisine buffet. bring on the laksa, rojak, orh luak, chicken rice, etc etc....

im stuffed. i have to spend my next lifetime on a gym machine! sob.

slack day

whilst people would expect the exuberant daphne to go out and celebrate last night.. i don't really think that there's such a need. afterall, it is fundamentally only a PASS. it didn't state that i aced it, or i had a report card full of distinctions or As. and i was probably more relieved than anything else. repeating a year would be truly traumatic.

i want to watch pride and prejudice! even though i watched it in australia 2 months back. it is a very nice show! hee. go watch if you haven't! the boy wants to watch king kong. i'm not exactly keen on big monkey scaring big t-rex.. but i will go, because i am always so nice. haha...

tomorrow night is a big night out, at a french restaurant that doesnt not display the price of each item on the menu for the guest. only the host's copy has the price. hee, and tmr i am going to be the guest! the down side is i have to dress up and look presentable. -.- dressing up is difficult in singapore because i only brought back like 2 sets of decent clothes. damn it.

a metal piece of my laptop dropped out. does anyone know where i can repair that? o.o

RESULTS

I PASSSSSSEEEDDDDD.

Phew phew... and so did most of my friends. can't believe i am so estatic. haha.

ok. going out to cycle at ECP. bye!

dinner at vic's

no, sorry guys, that's not the name of any famous and funky restaurant. it's victor's humble and warm home in singapore. phew thank god the experience was not too bad. in fact it was quite fun. except the fact that i broke a plate in the kitchen. [pls tell me that's not some kind of bad omen?]

seeing how vic papa and vic mama talk to each other, it totally reminded me of vic and i! when vic papa wanted to eat another tart, vic mama scolded him. just like how i always refrain mr vic from his second helpings and all.. haha.

vic granny's cooking is really good. had ngou hiang, crabmeat ball soup, fried prawns, chicken stew... except i was wondering where the veges were. vic claimed that they were in the deep fried ngou hiang. i let the joke past, even though i was tempted to tell him that there wasnt any in there. haha.

everyone was pleased with fruit tartlets and durian wells. *phew* even though most of them probably ended up in victor's tummy anyway. what the hell...

holidays and the ordeal

The past few days were pretty relaxing. sports (cycling, badminton, swimming) and meetups with friends, chatting with my little sister, hanging out at granny's place. makes me very happy :D

the only thing that eeicks me right now is the fact that.. MY RESULTS ARE NOT OUT YET. years 1 and 3 got theirs back yesterday. Year 2s not out yet! why! damnit. this is the sole thing that is stopping me from playing very hard. i am very pissed.
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realised that i am very morbid. I saw a mum at Bishan park pretending to throw her kid into the river.
daph to sis: eh look, that's a very big live bait huh
sis: *stares hard at daph* u are disgusting!
daph: well, maybe the mum wants to catch a whale or something really big
sis: EEEWW! stop it!
daph: laughs out loud.. at her ingenious thought.

okie. i just proved it to the world that i am morbid. but.. who isnt? :D
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and today, victor was being the weirdest date i ever had in my life.
whilst waiting to be entertained by the qantas personnel, victor got real bored of waiting. (he's very impatient one) this customer at the counter, the ah-mah woman took forever. qantas personnel printed rolls and rolls of paper for her, so much so that the quiet office was bombarded by the zzz-jeee-zzz-jee sounds of the printer.

vic to daph: we better call green peace
daph: huh? why?
vic: arrest that woman lah. waste so much paper on her.
daph: WTH...

and for the rest of the wait, i was just entertained by his comments.

lunch saved us! we ate xiao long baos that promised to have 18 exquisite folds in each bun. haha we tried to count but we gave up after 10 coz the folds were so teeny-weeny.
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i have to suffer the ordeal of dining at victor's house. im petrified and terrified! i was going to bring fruit tartlets and durian wells until i chatted with yueping online. she made my eyes pop by confessing that she brought BIRD'S NEST to her bf's house when she went over for the first time. can u imagine!? BIRDS NEST. oh man. and i don't know what to wear. plans to wear a nice simple black top and a skirt had to be abandoned because his granny hates black. damn. now i have to look like candy floss in a bright pink shirt that is screaming "I AM VERY HAPPY PLEASE EAT ME". sigh. i hope the candy floss look will work though. sigh. so scary.

wish me luck!!

sunny days

ok the pics are up! these are only 27 out of the original 100+ too many to choose from. heh. anyway, i went cycling with my sister at bishan park. the sun was rather potent today.. i feel like a fried fish. damnit. both of us came home and my mum was lamenting about how stinky the two of us were. obviously we were oblivious to it. haha. poor mum.

a game of badminton tomorrow! and i finally get to see victor. yipee. mesa happy. :D

*daph runs off to suck ice cubes

Odds and Ends of Sydney

Row 1: 3 wise monkey pub, say 'keith'!, fidz & me outside QVB
Row 2: Fidz @ bar 333, harbour bridge views
Row 3: All of us!, Hyde Park, Turtle&me

Row 1: Mint Museum, St Mary's Cathedral, General Post Office on Martin Place
Row 2: Darling Harbour, Art Gallery of NSW, Bondi Beach
Row 3: Birds @ Watson's Bay, Fish&Chips @ Watson's Bay, Dessert for dinner

Adelaide Highlights

Strawberry picking. Wine tasting. Beach watching. 

stupid laptop

damn my laptop! i cannot write files to CDs now. it's behaving weirdly and i tink it's time for another re-format. except i forgot to bring all my recovery CDs and what nots back home. shit.

hmm finally got the taste of being physically separated with victor. nice and not nice. thinking back, we have been spendig so much time around each other it's probably good to be slightly apart sometimes.

and making it worse would be the fact that the aircon in the study has broken down. so im typing in sweltering heat. im sticky all over and its just grosss.

heaps of pics from adelaide and sydney when fidel and hong were around. but all in my laptop. would take a while before i attempt to overcome inertia and upload them.

spent heaps of time last night and today reading. yeay i love reading. read read... yeay yeay. like there's no tomorrow. read till you fall asleep on the sofa, read till you lose sense of time.

till then, does anyone have sex and the city on CDs or DVDs? i really would love to watch it again.

homeward bound

another 48 hrs and daph will be on her way home!! im quite excited actually because i am getting bored of my life in australia already. but poor me has to come down with a flu. no, i am not going to even pretend to try to self-diagnose. it's just one of those flu/cold/cough shitty things. right now, i cannot hear nor taste properly. this is getting distressing. argh.

went to the market to check out the prices of mangoes and cherries, guess im gonna just buy mangoes this time around. plus my 6 bottles of wine, bags of dried fruits, chocs, other odds and ends. oh, plus my laptop!! haha... that should do it. just had a scary thought: imagine the amount of shit that i have to bring back at the end of my course... 6 yrs worth of shit. oh man. terrible thought. *erase

had a wonderful dinner last night.. which was my last night in sydney as well. went to prime restaurant at the GPO at Martin's place. wow the place certainly lived up to its name of being one of the best steak places in sydney. i had my steak medium.. and it was cooked but still very much tender and melt-in-ur-mouth. it managed to blow me away. definitely one of the best steaks i ever had! the starters were interesting..i exchanged my french onion soup for vic's open ravioli thingy because the ox-tail part of the soup was just too much for me. we shared a dessert which funny enough, we found the little decorations and sauces more interesting than the actual sorbet and fruits we ordered. haha. cheap thrill.

had a nice walk back to the hostel... and yes. ALOT of walking involved in sydney. i only took a train on one day to the beach, and 2 ferries on the last day to the different bays. other than that, i had to rely on my legs. walk walk walk... haha. it gets nice after a while. hee. and a good way to explore the city at ur own pace. except victor scolds me if i walk too slow and get distracted by silly things.. and i always insist on taking pics of nonsensical stuff.

oh btw i saw a chocolate fountain in this choc shop!! so cool. reminds me of willy wonka. haha. how i wish i am a ompah-lompah. hee.

of birds and fish

sydney's weather is truly unpredictable. rain. shine. cloudy. windy. rain. shine. windy.
but luckily we managed to take the ferries to watson's bay and manly beach! yeay. it was too cold to suntan so we just walked under the warm and gentle sun... heh

just checked my email and phone. no phone call from the MEU... ie: no need to sit for supplementary papers. which equate to either pass/fail. scaryyy.

at watson's bays, i met with a troop of the scariest birds alive in australia. flesh-eating birds who hunt. birds that attack their prey in the face of anyone. the birds were fearless, with a sharp eye for the vulnerability of their prey.

prey in this case, was dear victor's fish and chips. most notably, the fried battered fish coated with tartar sauce. whilst victor went to get more tar tar sauce to drown his fish in, the birds attacked his fish. in the blink of an eye, the fish was torn into bits and pieces by the troop of birds. and all that remained was the other piece of fish, sitting looking very lonely, having to settle for the companion of the ketchup-covered chips.

daph stared in horror of the brutal acts committed by the birds, as victor mourned over the loss of his fish that he did not managed to eat and enjoy.

conclusion: never eat outdoors at a beach. hungry birds are always on the prowl

rainy days

sigh. stuck in a internet cafe because the weather today is so shitty. rain rain rain! ;( other than that, sydney has been nice! alot of shops, long streets, jostling with people, long opening hours of shops.. things that i truly miss about a city. however, all this is undermined by the dirt and grim on the streets, the litter everywhere, over zealous people running around late at night, over priced food and shopping..

i don't know about others but deep down inside i think i belong more to the adelaide concept of the city. no frills, a tad too boring for most people but adelaide is more peaceful... and nice!

but i guess the point of a holiday is to soak yourself into the atmosphere of the place that u are visiting.. and i still have to admit i have had a wonderful time in sydney. beautiful beaches, nice harbours, shopping, eating, markets, art galleries. wow. sounds like alot.. hee.

oh well, i gtg. hopefully the rain has stopped. yeay! ;D

Day 3

Heh heh, for day 2, refer to fidel's entry at
http://www.extremistpacifistnarcissist.blogspot.com/

anyway it was a wonderful and extremely exciting day out..

started off the day with strawberry picking at the farm. it was hilarious because we probably ate more straight off the stalk than putting them in the basket to weigh and pay. the strawberries are sitting happily in my fridge. they shall be devoured tomorrow. :D

had a nice stroll in handorf village itself. my house gang went to a cafe for scones and tea. yum yum! it was not the typical english sort so it was quite exciting to me. and they served us 3 types of jams and it was fun trying to guess which was what flavour :) i had a very good sticky date pudding which made me sticky and happy :D

drove for a bit before ending up at the chocolate factory. it was not as exciting as the one in charlie and the chocolate factory, with willy wonka and the ompah-lompahs... haha but it was really cool sampling the chocs they had and just oohhing and ahhing madly over the different little stuff..

we tried to be cool by driving even further and ending up at the toy factory. everyone relived their childhood with the vast variety of toys in the shop. we were very amused and we took many silly photos. lol ;D we made fidel into a queen and hong and i were his servants. lol.

the next hour of driving was spent in alert mode. long windy scary roads high up in the mountains, and plus my horrid navigating skills... haha we were sitting tightly in our seats praying we wouldn't fall off the cliff. all the windy roads made my tummy turn upside down many times.

we FINALLY reached mount lofty. the view was spectacular. the company was great. and everyone else but me had a good laugh when i tried to climb up a slippery slope to sit on the platform. in the end, everyone climbed up the slope. we took a very nice pic and it was just so nice. wind in my face, sun shining brightly, sandwiches to eat....

ended the lovely day by making a trip to the vietnamese restaurants. coldrolls, quails, etc etc....

on our way back to our apartment, fidel realised he left his camera with our other friends who were staying in the hostel. and he had to fart in the car. we went back to our unit first and made sure he didnt leave the cam in the house.. left the house.. went back into the car. fart smell was still around! talk about potent fart. lol. :D i think fidel hates me. hahahahah.

it was just so nice to be able to laugh and say the dumbest things around hong and fidel. so.. uninhibited. no rules to play, no one to really please/offend... and there's always the infectious laughter we spread to everyone else. yeah. im happy :D

i'm pretty tired now. u can refer to fidel's blog for his point of view. lol

im so ready for my yoghurt treat tmr from fidel!!!! hahahahaha! :D

Day One

since hong and fidel can't blog due to the lack of internet facilities, i shall update the world about our happenings. haha. photos will come later because it's all messed up right now. and im too lazy to upload them.

started the day by arriving at the airport.. to pick up the boy who was clad in a imperial college muddy yellow coloured jumper. because he declared himself as having no food and the custom officer found a bo of pandan cake and tarts on him, he got delayed.

Victor and I waited patiently and he come out finally~!! took him by the arm and gave him a BEEG hug. haven't seen him in AGES. he loooked slightly different. more..erm.. aged. haha.

we got back home, put his stuff down and started designing hong's birthday card with his materials and my talents. lol. it turned out pretty okie, except fidel spoilt it by smudging the ink. argggggh. haha

hong and gang; they got delayed on their way to adelaide. so we ended up meeting them late for lunch...

we walked to chinatown for lunch.

we walked to victoria square to take pics.

we walked to north terrace to check out the buildings.

we walked to get ice cream from cold rock

we walked to victoria square again to take the tram to glenelg beach

we walked around the beach and had a great time.

we walked from the tram stop to pizza place for dinner

we walked from dinner place all the way back home.

in short, we walked our day away.

all i need now is a good feet massageeeeee......
tmr: barossa bound! ;D

i cannot wait

just talked to fidel on the phone... he's almost leaving for the airport!!! he told me "i'm going to bathe so that i will smell nice when i meet you.."... omg. i nearly died laughing.

hongie is also on her way here! i am soooo excited! alrighty guys.. i know you all have exams but hang in there.. while we party hard in adelaide.

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i spent my entire day moving the last big bits of my stuff. cleaned up the room that has housed me dear for the past academic year. well, i wouldn't say i will miss it very much, but i did have some nice memories in that house. hmm. i met a couple who is so generous and giving. they have the cutest poodles - cookie and jam! who never fails to make me laugh with their silly tricks. I probably turned a whee bit more dog-friendly after the whole experience. which is good news for society i suppose.

it's time to move (literally) on and enjoy my holidays! im looking forward to getting a new place with venita.

life's short.

thus we make up by packing in more details and experiences.

dust dust dusty dust

i spent most of my day ploughing through my stuff and packing them into cardboard boxes that i stole from chinatown. i was perpetually the box monster, scavenging for any box that appears in front of me. all that packing set alive all the dust that were living on top of it for the past year. hmm apparently i have not been a diligent housekeeper but i tried! sigh.

moved most of the boxes already. left the big bulky stuff like fridge, desk, matteress, shelves. i do hope the strong male friends that i begged for help will turn up and do something useful with their muscles instead of flexing them and telling me how big and toned it is.

another 2 more days till the arrival of my guests! :D i am so delighted. whee. so it seems like my holidays is heading off a good start. crossing my fingers that i wouldn't get called back to do the sups.. and obviously i hope i wun fail. that would be tragic.

kinda lookin forward to going home. i've had enough adelaide for a semester. need a change. although humidity is not quite high up in my list.. i guess i will just tahan it for the sake of all the other nice things that come along with it yeah. hah...

ps: can someone teach me how to upload my photo profile??

the aftermath

i have a hoarse voice, but it was really fun doing the karaoke thing!

packing is NOT fun... argh. i realised how much dust i was living with! ahhh!

YEAY its over

IT IS FINALLY OVER. redbull days are over. sleeping at strange hours is over. trying to cram stuff into my brain is over. giving up on msn and internet days are over. insomnia is over!

ok. sorry guys, i gotta go karaoke with my mates!!! hahaha...

*daph runs off to sing her voice hoarse*

arghh

let's just say today's paper ain't one of the best papers that i have done in my 14 years as a student. 15 stations, 1/3 were just plain bad. 1/3 was like i could write on and on about the crap, the last 1/3 was like i knew my stuff half past six.

so im hoping things will even out and i might just managed to score a pass.

yeah u heard me, that's all that i need.. a PASS!

and i promise that the next exams, i am going to start studying earlier so i wouldn't have to do the last min cramming shit. argh argh.

ok. MCQ practice time! let's just hope tmr's paper has like 99.99% repeat mcq qns. haha.

saturation point

daphne has officially reached saturation point. no matter how much more i read, nothing really seems to be going in. i am worried if i stuff too much into my puny brain, all the stuff that i have learnt earlier will leak out like a water pipe with a big crack.

i tell myself that after today and tomorrow's revision, i wouldn't have to touch books for a good 3 months! isn't that a wonderful trade off - study like there's no end for 2 days and enjoy the sweet rewards of holidays after that....

but telling myself something and actually being able to do it is a different story.

*waves pom-pom to cheer myself on*

excitement about post-exams

hongie got me all excited about what we are going to do when she and her 5 mates plus fidel are here in adelaide. we got most of the itinery planned out, settled some logistic stuff and spent a good few minutes of our lives coming up with female versions of male names and male versions of female names. absolutely mindblowing activity; it gets your thinking juices secreting at a faster rate.

fidel: fidella, fiderella, fiderebelle, fidelicity, fidelopene
daphne: daphetor, daphisac, daphnic,.....

its quite funny. lol

i guess the most WOW part of fidel and hong coming to visit me in boring adelaide is that i get to feel as though i am at home whilst i am overseas? colliding of 2 separate spheres. and for that few days, the venn diagram of my life consists of overlapping circles - no longer mutually exclusive! :D

inertia

inertia... is not just only for mass and massive things. it's even for thoughts. my thoughts are experiencing inertia. coz my books are all opened to the correct page, the music is switched on, the lamp is at the right angle, my fave pen is out....

but i cannot put my mind to absorbing the material.

i am so screwed... HOW...sniff

anyway, there was this episode in sex in the city where carrie was lamenting about how if a girl is attached, her world only revolves around her boyfriend. all she ever talks about is her boyfriend and the only times that she spend with her female/other friends is when she has a problem with the boyfriend.

i guess i felt some sort of guilt whilst i heard those lines. somehow it's like i am enjoying myself so much in this 2 persons world that i forget that the other people around me also need attention and care from me. but pardon me, poor daphne only has that much free time and i don't know how i am change the presently pathetic situation.

*pouts*

this cannot be good!

stupid daffy

in a moment of impulse, my blog template has changed.. and i lost all the tagboard thingy and what nots. oh well. will make things better after the 16th. meanwhile just make do ok. if u wanna say sth just comment.

i watched 12 eipsodes of sex and the city. it is blooody addictive. shit shit shit.

START STUDYING DAPPPPPHHHHHIIIIIEEEEEEEEEE.

alrighty.
one more episode wun kill would it???

heh heh

from L-R: 1st row - squrtle, squrtle, squrtle.
from L- R: 2nd row - food, food, food
from L - R: 3rd row - squrtle, squrtle, squrtle

i wonder why i even bother annotating the picture. haha.
just in case u were wondering, the thing on the turtle's head is a
cloth sponge pad for you to put a bar of soup in
and use it to scrub-a-dub-dub your body
alright
enough crap
*daph runs off*

alrighty. just to follow up on the last entry, victor is

-a placemat: if he is not passionated about homecooked food placed on the table, i do not know what else he wants from me. good lecture notes perhaps? ;D
vic: is dinner ready? *clicking away at some shit computer game*
daph: coming....! *busy in the kitchen*
daph: food is ready!
vic: *strolls to dining table for dinner*

- handgun: he irritates the shit out of me. he joins in to tease me and hes so annoying, i forget to laugh.
others: daphne is so loud she scares the cadavars to life in the anatomy lab.
vic: HAHAHA. thats right
daph: *sulks*

- government bond: needless to say. that's why older men are better.
vic, to stuff toy dog: doggie, am i cuter or is daphne cuter?
daph: *rolls eyes*

-lava lamp: LOL. he always try to act smart. sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
(at a getaway cottage, trying to get the TV and DVD player to work)
vic: aiyar, lemme do it... *snatches remote controls away*

*5 mins later*
vic: oei, how come cannot? *frustrated*

*daph comes to the rescue*
daph: FOLLOW THE DAMN INSTRUCTIONS VICTOR

*daph follows instruction*
daph: TADA! works now!

*vic stares in amazement*
vic: wah daphne i cannt believe you got it to work. thats how cool

- curling iron.
vic: is dinner ready?
daph: soon, a while more..
vic: *goes to fridge and makes himself a tuna sandwich*
daph: OEI DINNER IS SOON CAN U STOP EATING *arggh*
vic: *sulk*

anyway today's paper was ok. phew. 2 down. 2 more to go. thanks for the encouragement d2! :D

Men are like.......

.....Placemats.
They only show up when there's food on the table.

.....Mascara.
They usually run at the first sign of emotion.

.....Bike helmets.
Handy in an emergency, but otherwise they just look silly.

.....Government bonds.
They take so long to mature.

.....Copiers.
You need them for reproduction, but that's about it.

.....Lava lamps.
Fun to look at, but not all that bright.

.....Bank accounts.
Without a lot of money, they don't generate much interest.

.....High heels.
They're easy to walk on once you get the hang of it.

.....Curling irons.
They're always hot, and they're always in your hair.

.....Mini skirts.
If you're not careful, they'll creep up your legs.

.....Handguns.
Keep one around long enough, and you're going to want to shoot it.

PS: victor is guilty of 5 of them. guess which ones?

this exam season, i am lazy even to cook instant mee! alot of trips to fastfood joints. argh. either way it's bad but what to do, exams are the thing man. pass it or fail it.

spent my thursday and a good part of the wee hours of friday morning on my history essay - differences between french and british style of colonialism. haha and i found myself so tempted to just talk about singapore - the social studies bits we learnt in school had finally realised its true meaning in my life.

how exciting

besides that... its back to med again. 1 more weekend and it's the exams! arrrrr....

goodbye internet and hello work.

spent my morning in the pathology museum staring at preserved organs. lucky i had yummy lunch! jap food never fails to make me happy daphne again.

realised im so much more into food and cooking. shit. is this a sign of maternal instincts kicking in? oh no... damn.

victor would rather play a computer game with figures running on the spot than to come over and talk to me. i am sho sad. ;(

i am such a modern age sucker for online relief.

If internet is the food of love, type on, give me excess of it.

I log onto my email, blog, msn every single day. i feel weird if i do not do that. i make time just to be online. i rather be online than to watch tv. i rather be online than to stick my face in a mouldy medical textbook.

this relationship has never caused me any problem unless it is the exam period. that is when i have to ration my time online. sob. what a terrible thing to do.

i wish that i can type more but chronic renal faiure is calling out to me.

on a side note, there was emails from 2 unexpected people today! i was so happy and pleasantly surprised. one from megumi, my jap fren who was here for exchange last year. she told me she wrote me a letter and wanted to make sure the address was correct. how sweet. the 2nd was from ong onn ray, the guy who has nearly disappeared from the face of the earth until i saw the email. i am glad he emailed just to say hi and all. he is a very nice person who i unexpectedly befriended in njc. never tot he was the kind to use the internet. how sweet.

now i feel rejuvenated to study :D

ciao~

it's been a crazy weekend. crazy not because i was out partying and having fun. crazy because i was stuck at home with my face in a thick medical book, and my hand holding a pen/highlighter.

insomnia - a simple word docs use to describe a patient's inability to fall asleep.

i never really got how someone can have problems sleeping, because my problem with sleep is that i have too much of it. but the past few nights, it has been such a torture to get to sleep mode. all that reading and stuff thru the night.. somehow my body is unable to tune that off and enter dreamland.

and i wake up the next morning feeling real shitty because i did not have a good sleep.

AHHH... help.

here i am. staring at a blue laptop screen.
just when i thought sleep would come soon enough
those thoughts of failing keep haunting me
reading notes
a habit i must not outgrow
though each and every part of me has tried
only books can fill that space inside
but i am denying
i hate studyingggggggg....

just when i thought one case was over
just when i thought i could go head to bed
those memories of anatomy came rushing through
and i just can't, sleep in peace nimore.....

here i am - by daphne law.

to the tune of 'here i am' by air supply.
sorry if i have ruined this song... but stressed people must be forgiven.

more or less put the whole watch episode behind me. nothing i can do to help the situation at all. perhaps i really should be more careful when i do my laundry. check and empty all pockets!

been surfing on amazon and i chanced upon these 2 books written by tony parsons! moreover, it was on offer (about 30%) and if i spent more than 15 pounds delivery was free to anywhere in UK. so immediately, i called fidel! and he so nicely agreed to allow me to send my beloved books to his UK address. so i will get them when he comes down to adelaide on 20th nov. just in time to start my whole reading thing for summer ;D yippeeee!! -bloody excited-

just for those who are curious, i bought "stories we could tell" - because i read an extract of it on guardian.co.uk about 2 months back and i was already rather intrigued by the story. couldn't find it in adelaide's borders. and the other book is "the open mouth strikes again". His journalistic views about the world, esp the situation in UK i suppose.

i don't know why i always dig for such contemporary fiction. but i really like his style of writing.

on another note, i made tapioca pancake today! i had this suddenly crazy craving for it. i managed to find a recipe for it online and so i pranced down to central market to get the ingredients, only to realise they don't sell fresh tapioca in adelaide! how distressing. so in the end i got the frozen one, got home, and made the pancakes.

and it actually tasted not too bad! it's really just a pancake with tapioca bits in there. but its quite cute. hee. hee. hee.

anyway, just decided to post the pics from the michael buble concert!!! tiffy!! such a memorable evening. :D *beams*

started doing solid work. i feel useful. but drained. i swear, the older you get, the more difficult it is to study efficiently. and no, twinnie, i do not really favour the idea of being a housewife with a degree. it's quite.. scary to me, if i do end up like that. it's noble and nice but probably not my cup of tea.

on a side note, i had the horror of my life when i opened the door of my dryer to retrieve my dried (but slightly shrunken) clothes. I SAW MY WATCH IN THE PILE STARING RIGHT BACK AT ME. my poor swatch watch, who has been loyally by my side the past 8 years... was in such a state.

the leather strap shrunk, one end was dangling and the cover over the clockface came out.

it was raining cats and dogs in my heart. ouch. it still is.

now i am on the lookout for a new watch. but no mood, no time and no money to get one.

but i am still mourning over the death of a watch. what a way to die. washing out one's guts firstly, and then tumbling you hot and crispy till you shrink. poor watch. i am so sorry!!

my apologies if i sound too crazy here. my poor watch. -weeps-

*1 minute of silence, for my faithful watch*

just a short update on myself.

- finalised the details and booked the flight and accomodation for sydney.
- started doing my revision. so far so slow. damnit i hate it
- crazy weather these days. rain, shine. Shine, rain. cannot make up its mind
- been gulping so much caffeine its crazy.
- its the last week of uni for the YEAR. how scary.

* daph runs off to stare at the upper limb again*

made a western meal few nights ago... too bad no photos but you must believe me that it tasted very good! ;D

Baked Honey-soya sauce chicken drumsticks

ingredients
chicken drumsticks - 4
honey - 2 tablespoons
kikoman soyasauce - 3 tablespoons
dash of pepper

steps
- mix the marinade ( u can microwave the honey just to make sure it is liquid enough)
- add the washed chicken drumsticks in the marinade. coat and cover. (make sure you don't take off the skin of the drumstick!!)
- leave to sit for about 1/2 hour. preheat oven to 200 degs.
- put drumstick on baking tray (lined with aluminum foil)
- bake for 25 mins, or until drumsticks shrink and is cooked. if you want the drumstick evenly browned, turn it at half time.

roasted carrots

ingredients
carrot - 1 big one
honey - 1 tablespoon
olive oil

steps
- cut carrots up into coarse long strips ( 5cm long)
- put carrots into a lined baking tray
- drizzle olive oil over the carrots
- bake at 200 degs for 15 mins.
- remove from oven. drizzle with honey
- return carrots to oven for another 5 - 10mins.

i make lovely porridge. and it's so darn easy to make it nice and yummy. so i shall share the recipe... just in case any of you wants to make it. lol

Porridge (serves 2)

ingredients
rice - 1 cup
chicken thigh fillet - 1, de-skinned and de-fat
lap cheong - 2 10cm long ones
chinese radish - about 10cm long (1/2 a radish)
light soya sauce - 1 teaspoon (to taste)

steps
- wash the rice and put it in a medium size pot. add water till it about 2 cm over the top of the volume of rice. ( if you are a poor estimator, remember that u can add more water later but you cannot remove water)
- boil the rice over medium high heat
- meanwhile, chop the chicken fillet and lap cheong and chinese radish into bite size pieces (1.5 cm big)
- when the rice thing boils, add the chopped ingredients.
- stir to make sure the rice does not stick to the bottom of the pot
- when mixture boils, lower heat and simmer for about 1/2 hour. stir frequently.
- add soya sauce to taste.

PS: you can add a tiny bit of stock cube if you want. but really, the lap cheong and radish makes the porridge very sweet and tasty already.

- you can substitute the radish for other vegies like cabbage or onions.

mangoes,
makes me so happy i skip on my toes.
and as the story goes,
it even takes away my woes.

ze exams are freaking ze shit out of me.

listening to cheena songs soothes my soul. calms my inner child. and i don't know why. weird coming from a person who doesnt even speak much chinese most of the time. lol. it is strange how i can listen to cheena songs and type english on the laptop keyboard.

and apparently the whole mango discussion caused quite a commotion. so now victor hates me. too bad. in return, i helped him sterilise his sponge and table cloth because it smelt as though the whole colony of e coli and salmonella were growing happily on them, thriving on the itsy bitsy rotting food stuck on them. *uuughhh*

played bbal today. i tink i am getting slightly better at the game. at least now i do not scream. i can catch the ball. bounce it and shoot it in the hoop! haa. what a joke.

alrighty guys. back to churning more journal entries. uggh

i was helluva pissed this afternoon, whilst trying to explain how fruits emit ethene during the ripening process to victor chia yong cheng.

daph: eh victor can you pls wrap the mangoes individually in paper?
vic [with weird look on his face]: why?
daph: if not they will start communicating with each other. because fruits emit ethene. and they can activate each other in the ripening process.
vic [flabbergasted]: wah. like that ah. you might as well ask me put one mango here, the other one in my room, the other in edwin's room. like that they wun be able to talk to each other
vic: *burst out into roaring laughter*
vic's housemate: *laughs along*
daph: *sulk*

men just don't get it. they don't know when you are serious and when you are being silly. arggghhhh.....

i am done with my OSCE! wow. all that history taking and physical exam and data analysis. crazy shit man. i felt so drained after the exam it was so not funny. but we rewarded ourselves with a good lunch.

nothing much to say, except that the 2nd week of term is almost gone. another 2 more weeks and the exams will be very near! *cringes*

been blog surfing for abit tonight and apparently blogging about your favourite childhood food is the latest thing. so i shall share with you guys what i grew up eating. no surprise why im this size right now. haha.

1. sweet sticky glutinous rice.

my late grandpapa used to make this for us. it was simple, really. just cooking glutinous rice and adding orange coloured sugar to it to sweeten it. and wah la! you get this sweet porridge thing. i used to love it to bits. my cousins and i fighting to get a larger serve.

2. fish porridge.

fish porridge fills me up, makes me happy and is healthy! i still love it now, but i only like the teochew style ones. good solid fish slices, with seaweed and garnishes. in a bowl with rice and good fish soup. slurp. perfecto.

3. agar agar

i havent had this in a million years. but my mum used to make agar agar from scratch using the seaweed. and there was never fruits in it. just rose flavouring and sugar. and my mum always had the habit of adding lesser than normal amounts of water. so my agar agar was chewy and crunchy. i bet you if i threw it in your face you might get hurt. very simple but it was the best solution to a hot humid day. better than ice cream or coke anytime.

4. ginko nut and dried longan soup.

notice i did not mention lotus seeds. coz i do not like them. ginko nuts... i can eat a million and not get sick of it. dessert soup chinese style. so refreshing. whether it's my mum's or grandma's version, i just love it. till now, whenever i am back home in singapore, i always demand for some to be cooked!

5. jam and margarine on toast with milo

my grandpa used to make it for breakfast for me. he would toast the bread till the slices were crispy and brown. and spread a generous amount of jam and margarine on them. and he used to make the milo and put extra sugar in it too. so it was a glucose loaded breakfast. no wonder i was a hyper kid. haha.

realised how most of the food were prepared by my mum or grandparents? i suppose that was how they showed their love towards me. sometimes when i make these dishes for myself now, i recall about my wonderful childhood. so sheltered from the truths of the world.

and if i ever have children, i will make sure that i will cook and make nice dishes for them. afterall, smell and sight is a stronger tool to imprint memory onto your brain cells.

things

edit: i saved this draft from august 2005.. and i only chanced upon it today. lol

A - Z of things that matter to me:

A: aircon.
B: bolster.
C: charlotte. my silly crazy lotte. my sister whom i have a love-hate relationship with.
D: daddy.
E: exams. to pass them.
F: friends. all of you!! ;D
G: grandparents. hai. the endless source of good food, warm concerns and angbaos.
H: home.
I: ice cubes. to suck on during the hot weather.
J: jokes - to lighten days.
K: kit kat breaks in my life
L: lunch! the one meal i always pack....
M: medical degree. well at least for the next decade.
N: nonsense.
O: oranges and other fruits.
P: pens. and all my stationery.
Q: q-curosity. i very kay poh one.
R: redbull. to give me wings! ;D
S: socks. esp ankle socks.. and colourful stripped ones.
T: travel.
U:utopia... ie: dreamland in my sleep
V: victor!
W:water. to drink and keep me sane
X: xcitment!
Y: yoghurt. all sorts. slurp
Z:zzzzzzz. refer to letter U.

it is such a gloomy day. strong wind and rain kept us all cold and sleepy.

went off for mednetball. sigh we came in 3rd!! out of 3 teams. sob

later in the afternoon, the guys played indoor soccer. they lost 4-1. double sobs.

so you see, t'was a sad day.

I am really honoured to be mentioned on hong's blog. so I decided to spend some time doing the thing before heading in the direction of torturous WORK..........

7 things that I love:
- suntanning, although i look like a slab of roasted pork after it.
- victor? hahahahahahahahha... ( is he considered a thing?)
- my silly toys. sitch, squrtle, beary, you name it.
- reading on a day that i have nothing else to do. reading till i doze off. reading till i stay awake.
- eating. good food always makes me happy. DURIANS. slurp
- a sense of achievement. from anything else. cheap thrills (winning bets with friends)...to tests in school.
- my personal space. my little nook in the world that i can call mine. out of bounds to anyone else.

7 things that scare me:
- the thought that i will be a victim of crime. theft, murder, rape, burglary
- losing something/someone forever.
- failing to meet my own expectations.
- that i would die with regrets.
- having to grow old alone.
- ghosts/other beings. i do not like haunted stories or scary movies.
- that i would turn cynical and forget the wonderful things in life.

7 fave things in my room:
- my matteress. i do not really like sleeping on beds. the fear of falling off them is overwhelming.
- my bolster! haha. i swear it was my other half in my previous life.
- my VANITY corner. perfume/haircream/earrings/necklaces/hairpins
- my wardrobe. to cover my fats and make me look pretty. haha.
- my squrtle.
- my heater and fan. to make my sleep more bearable in adverse weathers...
- my electronic gadgets. digicam,laptop,hp,radio....

7 random facts about me:
- till date, i have never had a pet in my entire life.
- i cannot play any musical instruments. recorder in pri sch does not count.
- i topped the level for combine (phy/chem) in O levels prelims.
- i like lipton tea bags soaked in milo. *slurp*
- i verbalise whatever i type on the computer/write on paper.
- i am obsessed and fascinated by the british accent. *insert jude law and hugh grant and bridget jone's bf*
- i have an extra bit of flesh on my right ear. hahhahaha. told you ET was my family friend.

7 things that I can do:
- laugh genuinely and sound as though i am hyperventilating
- make people think that i am smart
- crack my shoulder joint and freak people out
- shoot targets with an M16 rifle. thou was a marksman! haa..
- brighten people's life with my lame jokes? ;D
- sleep without snoring
- eat half a watermelon by myself.

7 things that i want to do before i die:
- travel and see as much of the world as i can
- participate in a production (musical, drama, etc)
- do more volunteer work
- have children and grandchildren.
- go on a roller coaster.
- have a pet.
- eat all my favourite food.

7 people i have a crush on:
- jude law
- adam sandler
- luis figo
- hugh grant
- that histology guy in the anatomy lab
- johnny depp
- craig kelly in queer as folk

7 places i like to go to:
- toilet
- boost counter! they sell the bestest smoothies i swear.
- borders. to read for free.
- supermarket. i like to shop for food and nonsensical things.
- shopping at espirt and portmans
- yoghurt shop at central market. THEY SELL THE BEST YOGHURT ON EARTH
- cafe iguana. MARGIESSSSS. ;D

7 types of people i don't like:
- people louder than me. i feel.. intimidated.
- people who boast about things that they don't even possess.
- people who are competitive in an outright manner.
- people who are too friendly
- people who do not care about the world
- people who are too full of themselves
- weirdos.

ahhh. very long already. enuff said.
you guys should know me well enough by now. ho ho ho ho ho ho...

Fields alive with blooming flowers. Clare Valley.

Lunch Spot at Neagle Rocks. Clare Valley. Abit bare but..hahah..

Victor and Daphne trying to take a pic of themselves by taking a photo of the mirror.

The resident cat at Kilakoon Winery. Fluffy and friendly! meowmeow.

Daphne and the spa at our cottage!

Seppeltfield Road, Barossa Valley.

twas' a wonderful trip :D

alrighty! today has come! ahhhh!! :D will post pics up when im back.

so exciting. as though im going for a camp trip. hee...

Edwin (victor's housemate) cooked lunch for us! CHAR SIEW CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? it was yummy. and it was accompanied by a generous serve of stir fried french beans and carrots. yumm. Edwin's cousin came over for lunch. she is so small and cute and YOUNG. argh. 19 only.

had steamboat at Hans' place. Heaps of food. and we didnt finish it all as usual. Wonderful dessert by Venita and Ian ( Victor's mistress) Hans' dad is a funny guy. very knowledgable too. Sign i miss home... steamboat never fails to remind me of chinese new year eve at home.

i really do hope i don't forget to bring anything. i am so forgetful.

On a side note. I had like the most tickling conversation with Wong on msn. Thus, I shall part with the following advice....

"a cup of turtle juice a day, keeps the doctor away!"

2 posts in the same day. either there's nothing else better to do or that im running away from stuff that has to be done. it's the latter tonight. haha.

the weather today was purrfect. sunny but not glaring. with a nice breeze. walked around the place. went to see the guys at the oval coz they were playing soccer. i ran off to the gym to run. came back. joined the soccer for abit. decided i have too much phobia for the ball to play it well. lol.

btw... i was at Woollies (supermarket) and IAN LOW LISTEN UP! guess what the tooot i saw?? the silly meow meow thing that tiffany gave u for your birthday! hahaha. i nearly died laughing. imagine the world infiltrated by such toys. hilarious. hilarious.

came back. made fried bee hoon. except the silly daffie bought tang hoon instead of beehoon. so we had fried tang hoon instead. and tang hoon sucks water like it has never drank liquid for a century. so the whole thing was rather...dry. sob. i should have just used spaghetti! argh.

enuff shit for today. me is tired.

Your Birthdate: March 1

Your birthday suggests that are executive ability and leadership qualities in your makeup. A birthday on day 1 of any month gives a measure of will power and self-confidence, and very often a rather original approach. This 1 energy may diminish your ability and desire to handle details, preferring instead to paint with a broad brush. You may be sensitive, but your feelings stay rather repressed.

What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

On a side note, michael buble concert is SO GOOD. he is so witty! his voice is good. he is entertaining.. and best of all. he is hilarious. I totally enjoyed the concert. I'm sure tiff did too! haa. we didnt manage to take good pics coz we were seated abit the far away. but nonetheless.. good music!!!

Sunday was spent cleaning my kitchen, bathroom, my bedroom.. coz my OCD kicked in. haha. did some work *yipeee* and went to the vietnamese restaurant for more cold rolls roasted quails and warm seafood salad. haha.

Wednesday is coming!! *excited*

take care guys... PS: wong wheres ur blog?? fidel are you even alive?

mad rush through history essay is finally over! had a deserving nap and i just woke up a while ago. he is still at soccer and i don't know what time it ends. and i have no idea what is for dinner. all i did was to de-fat and chop the chick up into weird shapes.

michael buble's concert tmr! i cannot wait! haa...

this is really really strange. I am having my second Mrs Fields Cookie (they are so good I don't mind staying fat because of them) and within my 5m radius there are 5 guys. 2 engaging in Winning Eleven and the rest are playing poker.

Lucky Mankind created Internet and Mrs Fields cookies or else I might be bored to tears.

I feel slightly weird in this place. It makes me feel like it's Chinese New year! because that's the only time the gambling is rampant in my house and the little kids take out all their games to play non stop, whilst some cheesy cheena song plays on the recorder.

Maybe I should learn to play dota. haha.

But I like the way Victor isnt' embarressed to bring me along to his men outings. Not that I want to be there all the time, especially not for LAN shop male bonding sessions. But it is just very nice of him and his mates to accommodate me. So I wouldn't feel so left out. Garry offered me the cookies and they were saying how the cleanest spot in the house is probably on Victor's lap (because the apartment is shared by 3 male bachelors) *lol*

I have to start doing my work. boo hoo hoo.

*pouts*

That's my big victor! and that's unspectacled me. It's finally the last day of uni. SO relieved. because I need the break. not to rest but to catch up on work. There's a wine and cheese party tonight at Han's place. Supposed to dress up. Sounds like fun to me! ;D

Hmm, but I feel as though I have neglected my other friends since I have commenced being a full time gf. How do you juggle uni, bf and frens? I just dun seem to be able to do it. and I don't wanna seem as the sort of person who runs off once she is attached. AHHH. messy messy.

Another birthday come and gone.

Yvonne dearest got her wish! I made her exactly what she wanted: cookies in a nice jar. haa. she is rather easy to please. Anyway the rest of the day went down with a bang following a trip to the oyster bar (they serve like oysters in like 12 different styles or something) and then for vietnamese food (imagine cold rolls, roasted quails, seafood salad!) We got really tipsy and happy after many gulps of wine. Angie was especially funny. She was almost falling asleep. and I hit Victor's tummy with a forceful slap - UNINTENTIONALLY I SWEAR! haa.

It was all good.

On a side note, i watched stealth! (is that how you spell it?) it was pretty interesting. Showing how Artificial Intelligence can be both good and detrimental to humans. I felt quite touched when ADDY drove itself into the enemy's helicoptor. *weeps*

Alright guys... that's it for now.

Tiffany's party!

I cannot believe this girl made a whole gang of people dress up in PINK. and I decided to go with the flow and decorate the house in pink, serve pink marshmallows and pink biscuits, made a pink ribena fruit punch thing, and had everyone use pink napkins! The only thing that was untouched by the power of pink was tiffany herself, who decided to come in black - to save the world. haahaa.

Had pretty good food. Victor and Edwin made fried beehoon (which they gobbled a whole bowl each before the arrival of guests..tsktsk). Hans made birthday cake and tiramisu and curry (the chef's food obviously never failed us). Venita and Ian did baked chicken wings (who said ready made food taste sucky??) Alex and Yong made fried wantan and wedges. I was pretty worried that there wouldnt be enough food but thank god there was and everyone was stuffed and happy. We had alot of fun talking about stupid things and the guys spent a good amount of time teasing the birthday girl. lol

The decoration is still up. We have decided to leave it there until they start dropping off. See, this is the epitome of laziness i tell you.

Upcoming bdae: Yvonne's. 13th september! o.o

my intellectual turtle. very smart. very nerdy! and soooooo cute!!! ;D

CHEESECAKE! tiffany and me made it! hee. looks yummy doesnt it? hee.

Alright guys. here's me and victor. at barossa! some olive farm place. haa. tiffany took this shot. we look happy dun we! hee

Just finished a pancreatic cancer case. In the end, the poor guy died of a cardiovascular event - ie: a heart attack or stroke. It's so saddening because this is the first patient that died in our cases. Normally, we would know the patient and somehow or another their condition will improve and all. Hai, so I guess medicine isn't all that powerful and magical in healing and curing people afterall. You treat them for something, but they might not escape from another disease.

Alright, enough lamenting.

I am supposed to have a night out with Victor this evening. It's quite sad when I think of the fact that I had to tell him I wanted a surprise. But it was really sweet of him to actually try to plan something nice for me. Haha, in the end I made him tell me the surprise. What an ass I am. so spoiler.

Tiffany's party is coming up on saturday! oh my god, that girl wants everyone to dress in pink. I hope she doesn't live to regret seeing a cluster of pink-clad girls AND boys. somehow i can imagine all the guys turning up in pink polo tees and tucked up collars. all the act seh looks they will give, and I can picture them asking the girls to take cool shots of them in their outfits. ahhhh...

That's about it for now. I'm looking forward to the holidays so at least I can have a breather. Shall post some pics up soon! except that i am too lazy..hee.

current mooncake count: 3.5

HAPPY 21st TIFF!!

(^,^)

I don't know about you guys but the freaking spam comments are pissing me off so badly. i just hope that they are not viruses...

Went for the royal adelaide show yesterday! hee. it was SO crowded and because there was some rides specials, like 40 bucks for unlimited rides, the queues for rides were really long. and not to forget all the funfair food.. like candy floss and hotdogs.. and corn! and milkshakes.

There was this place where alot of the food were available for sampling. Heh, so we got looney at the yoghurt stall and the slush (like the 7-11 slurpee) stall.

Wanted to end the evening by taking the ferris wheel but i was too impatient to wait. heh.

Ate so much junk.

Time to start my gym regime!

current mooncake count: 4.5

1.5 mooncakes have been digested by the bile salts and lipase in my intestines. storage of fats has commenced. this is coupled by a spike in the glycemic levels in my blood soon after the ingestion of the mooncake.

sorry for the geek talk. i'm doing a pancreas/bile duct/liver case right now.

got to go. have a presentation to give in 10 mins! haa.... and guess what. it is on the colonial adventure. ;D

*hugs*

a wonderful evening!

must say a big thank you to tiffany mama and tiffany papa for the perfect evening. Great food. good company and somehow i could almost feel as though i was back home! hee.

my mooncake numbers dwindled from 8 to 6. because the mooncake shop packed in the yolk ones instead of the non yolk ones. sob. so the ang moh man at the customs took them away from me. but at least i have mooncakes. which wouldnt even last me until the actual mid authum festival. haha. i am too greedy.

dessert at hans' place. an interesting blend of red bean soup paste thing and tiny glutinous rice balls that resembled mothballs. haa. and the complementory brilliant disguise wine to go along with it! yippee. life is good isnt it?

next monday is busy day. have a presentation to do. and i have to go down to the hospital for tutorials on the wards. plus PBL. whee. and i still might want to go to the Royal Adelaide Show on sunday. i am so greedy. everything also want to do.

hmm. on a side note, monochrome theme is interesting. wat about theme: queer? hee. not necc gay. just. different. alternative sorts of thing i suppose.

alright sweeties. take care. weather is warmer! and i am happier.

Yippee! Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is finally opened today! I am so happy. I cannot believe how long the movie took to be screened down under. It's ridiculous! sob.

Material Theme? o.O isnt that abit weird. Any other ideas?

Fidel: I think Tiffany will be most happy if you send him a gay man from UK to spend a night with her. lol

alright. enough lame shit. fidel has started the ball rolling for explicit blog entries. some ass said i should follow suit. hmm but my life is not even half as exciting as fid's! hee. sometimes I think I should turn lesbian for a while to sample the life on the other side of the fence.

it's bewildering how i survived 2 hours, 3times a week listening to a discussion that more often than not do not make sense to me. dominating group members, strict tutor.. people say you should always count your blessings. I guess the only thing i can count as a blessing is that work is always done and time usually pass faster than i would imagine.

many september birthdays to celebrate.

i feel broke already.

*daphne drools at fact that mooncake is arriving tmr*

PS: if theres going to be a theme party... what is a good theme???

what DAPHNE means....

Welcome to the City of Daphne, one of the fastest growing areas in the nation. Daphne is located in Baldwin County, Alabama on the eastern shoreline of Mobile Bay just off I-10: 11 miles east of Mobile, 45 miles west of Pensacola, Florida and 150 miles southwest of Montgomery, the State Capital.

www.daphneal.com

There is a city named after me! just like my sister. There's a city of Charlotte in USA too! yippee. so we can be the city of sisters. lol

Daphne represents two boutiques which were created for fashionable, larger sized women. Assembled here are a beatiful assortment of clothing.

www.daphne1.com

Why do i feel as though i can identify with them. Maybe daphne sounds like a woman with a cow-sized waist and a papaya-sized boobs. I am neither of that right now but who knows what the future holds for my figure. *sob*

Greek fast food. Includes menus, locations, nutritional information, information about the restaurant and about Daphne, a quarterly newsletter, ...

www.daphnesgreekcafe.com

Yum. This one sounds good. I want to eat greek food. I have this image of me in an apron running ar0und the kitchen shouting at the top of my voice. Oh good lord.

Dear Daphne: Have a problem? Need a friend who is impartial? Ask Daphne!

askdaphne.tripod.com

My personal favourite ;D

EUROPA - Justice and Home Affairs -The Daphne Programme (2000-2003) The european Commission -JAI - DAPHNE initiative.

europa.eu.int/comm/justice_home/project/daphne/en

See how popular I am become? the Daphne programme. coming soon to all households around the world. just be prepared.