germy.

Saturday, February 05, 2005

Its been a tiring but good couple of days:) Met up with Mel yesterday at holland village and had a really nice chatting session. He says I talk a lot. I think I'm only that way with certain people and in small groups. Guess thats normal. Somehow in big gatherings I'd rather sit back & listen to what others have to say.

I feel like I've changed a lot over the past year. In neither a good or bad way, but I have changed. I can't exactly put my finger to it, but I just feel like a different person from the girl who graduated from RJC way back in 2003. If I can feel this different in a year, I wonder what the next 6 years will do for me. Don't know why I'm suddenly having these thoughts. Perhaps my conversations with people this week have made me ponder things about myself. I guess talking to people helps put things in perspective and makes you see things you wouldn't normally realise yourself.

A friend commented that I sound quite pessimistic about leaving. I think so too. And thats not good. I WILL BE MORE OPTIMISTIC. He said I mentioned how ulu tasmania is about 5 times in 2 hours. Maybe I'm trying too hard not to think about the real reason why I'm so sad about leaving. Of course I'm happy as well. HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY :)

Spent the most of this morning working on the guestlist for my sister's wedding. Haha she's appointed me as her unofficial secretary for the dinner banquet. I'm somehow reminded of the time I worked at Singapore National Eye Centre. In the hectic 2 months I worked there, I had to organise 4 workshops held in the span of 2 weeks. Haha I remember typing up the spreadsheets & calling up countless doctors to confirm attendance. And the doctors were annoyingly hard to get ahold of. They were never in their office and somehow always managed to miss calls on their handphones. I remember collecting pigs' eyes (needed for the workshops) from the factory. They looked like fishballs actually.

Anyway, back to the wedding stuff. We had a pre-wedding wedding dinner tonight in which we got a chance to taste the food being served that night!Yummy. Dinner's at Royal Copthorne and the food was really good!Super full now. It was typical wedding food (abalone, prawns, fish, shark's fin, scallops) but it was really refined and the presentation was great!There was glutinous rice wrapped in some kind of tofu skin and deep fried rice cakes that went with szechuan-style scallops. And the mango pudding was the best mango pudding I have ever tasted.

This weekend is truly a food fest for me. There was the food tasting tonight, I'll be having my cousin's wedding dinner tomorrow night, then reunion dinner at Lionel's on Sunday.

Oh and I was really touched by my grandma who gave me an ang pow tonight to wish me the best for my studies. Both my grandmas are so sweet. My other grandma gave me a cross to (in her words) "ward off the evil spirits in tasmania" :) My maternal grandma is funny. She carries a pair of scissors in her handbag to cut up vegetables in restuarants. She was snipping away at the vegetable dish. But I guess thats pretty practical. She says to drink more milk to get strong teeth or we'll have problems chewing stuff when we get old.

I have come as light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness. John 12:46
God in Thy great wisdom,
lead us in the way that's right,
And may the darkness of this world
be conquered by Thy light.

~me~ at 2:36 AM

my search for verve

Saturday, February 05, 2005 Its been a tiring but good couple of days:) Met up with Mel yesterday at holland village and had a really nice chatting session. He says I talk a lot. I think I'm only that way with certain people and in small groups. Guess thats normal. Somehow in big gatherings I'd rather sit back & listen to what others have to say. I feel like I've changed a lot over the past year. In neither a good or bad way, but I have changed. I can't exactly put my finger to it, but I just feel like a different person from the girl who graduated from RJC way back in 2003. If I can feel this different in a year, I wonder what the next 6 years will do for me. Don't know why I'm suddenly having these thoughts. Perhaps my conversations with people this week have made me ponder things about myself. I guess talking to people helps put things in perspective and makes you see things you wouldn't normally realise yourself. A friend commented that I sound quite pessimistic about leaving. I think so too. And thats not good. I WILL BE MORE OPTIMISTIC. He said I mentioned how ulu tasmania is about 5 times in 2 hours. Maybe I'm trying too hard not to think about the real reason why I'm so sad about leaving. Of course I'm happy as well. HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY :) Spent the most of this morning working on the guestlist for my sister's wedding. Haha she's appointed me as her unofficial secretary for the dinner banquet. I'm somehow reminded of the time I worked at Singapore National Eye Centre. In the hectic 2 months I worked there, I had to organise 4 workshops held in the span of 2 weeks. Haha I remember typing up the spreadsheets & calling up countless doctors to confirm attendance. And the doctors were annoyingly hard to get ahold of. They were never in their office and somehow always managed to miss calls on their handphones. I remember collecting pigs' eyes (needed for the workshops) from the factory. They looked like fishballs actually. Anyway, back to the wedding stuff. We had a pre-wedding wedding dinner tonight in which we got a chance to taste the food being served that night!Yummy. Dinner's at Royal Copthorne and the food was really good!Super full now. It was typical wedding food (abalone, prawns, fish, shark's fin, scallops) but it was really refined and the presentation was great!There was glutinous rice wrapped in some kind of tofu skin and deep fried rice cakes that went with szechuan-style scallops. And the mango pudding was the best mango pudding I have ever tasted. This weekend is truly a food fest for me. There was the food tasting tonight, I'll be having my cousin's wedding dinner tomorrow night, then reunion dinner at Lionel's on Sunday. Oh and I was really touched by my grandma who gave me an ang pow tonight to wish me the best for my studies. Both my grandmas are so sweet. My other grandma gave me a cross to (in her words) "ward off the evil spirits in tasmania" :) My maternal grandma is funny. She carries a pair of scissors in her handbag to cut up vegetables in restuarants. She was snipping away at the vegetable dish. But I guess thats pretty practical. She says to drink more milk to get strong teeth or we'll have problems chewing stuff when we get old. I have come as light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness. John 12:46 God in Thy great wisdom, lead us in the way that's right, And may the darkness of this world be conquered by Thy light. ~me~ at 2:36 AM
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