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Friday, August 26, 2005

Another week gone by..Thanks for the email:) was really happy:)
Been meaning to blog more but been pretty tied down with work..ha then yesterday ruth nagged at me to blog more so here I am:) ha by the way it was nice to see your pretty face again last night:)

My week in a nutshell…
Monday
Nerdish day.
Tuesday
Went to evelyn’s and zhiyun’s for dinner..the 8 of us had this HUGE chocolate mudcake which was sinful but good:) felt kind of high after that healthy dose of chocolate..but it was a pretty nice night spent in good company:)
Wednesday
Bible class with Bernie was good:) she often gets a bit carried away with her little stories inserted here and there but she’s really passionate about her faith:)
Thursday
Another nerdish day. Took a short walk to coogee at night:) waves were really big but somehow sounded soothing:) ha there were egg rolls for supper!didn’t taste too bad for love-letter-rip-offs from sydney:)

In general a pretty nerdish week:) but hey I’m enjoying what I’m doing now:) Most of the time anyway:) oops sorry for the short post..gotta go now..promise to update again soon:)

nad: thanks dear!I would if I could:)
~me~ at 9:40 AM

Saturday, August 20, 2005

"Depression is a low, sad state in which life seems dark and its challenges overwhelming."
Ha my assignment this semester’s on adolescent depression..kind of depressing…:)

It’s a quiet weekend here at creston..but sometimes I think I prefer it quiet:) ha less people to fight for the computer with and more family-like atmosphere at the dining table:) I miss my room back home..where I can blast my music and where I know my sisters and parents are just on the other side of the wall..

Ha sorry I’m kind of in a thoughtful mood tonight..and I think I’m just finding an excuse to procrasinate right now:) wanted to blog but somehow didn’t really know what to blog about.. like how sometimes I sit at the piano and nothing come to mind and I don’t know what to play..ha then someone told me to just blog what comes to mind:)

Erm what comes to mind…ok medshow last night was really good:) I’m amazed at the sea of multitalented people here!they were singing, dancing and acting and it was pretty impressive to think that they did everything from scratch:) I miss the atmosphere of a performance. Its been more about one and a half years since my last performance..with the rgs alumni:) but even then it was different cos I knew I was only there as an ‘extra’ and not actually as one of the main performers of the main band..the feeling after a performance is always amazing..its like you work so hard and put in so much time in something and when its all over you somehow can't really believe its over..I miss making music with the rgs gang, and I miss gerald and andrew’s crazy antics during prac, I miss my sense of confidence when I’m playing percussion:) I think perrcussion really helped to build that in me:)

Learning in sydney involves not being afraid to speak up and I guess that’s something I’m slowly picking up..I admire the locals’ abilities to give presentations so spontaneously and how they seem so confident in everything they do:)

Sigh ok enough procrascinating. I should go study microbiology now..salmonella and shigella and campylobactor here I come…:)
~me~ at 10:36 PM

Wednesday, August 17, 2005

"anyway i thought this was a rather nice piece of writing about sisterhood and you came into my mind. Have a read ;)"

Thanks for the nice email:) really miss ya:)

Had a talk with ling last night and it occurred to both of us that we weren’t actually feeling homesick anymore.. I think maybe ‘homesick’ is just not the word..I do miss home, but its not the same feeling as in the beginning of the year when I first came here.."homesickness seemed like an ongoing process back then..now it just seems to some at sudden moments..oh well, its good right?ha but then ling said she actually felt guilty about not feeling homesick..don’t know why..it was a lot harder to leave home the second time around but somehow settling back into the routine of life here again was a lot faster this time:) I think its probably cos this semester seems a lot busier..there never seems to be nothing to do..but work is interesting:)

Ling seems so much older than her age sometimes..ha people here don’t believe me when I tell them I’m 20:) but I guess looking young is good:) I think I’ve learnt a lot from the people I’ve met here:) plus learnt a lot about myself as well:) ha and I’ve learnt that there actually are people blurer than me…I just spoke to mythili..

Mythili (comes into computer room with her bag) : bye I’m going out.
Me : now?
Mythili : yep.
Me : In your pajamas?
Mythili (looking down) : oh ya. (walks back to her room)

Living in a college has its perks:)I get to meet a lot of interesting characters..but then again it doesn’t feel right sometimes either..Ling put it this way, "its good to feel settled in and comfortable with others…but then its when people get too comfortable with one another that they start thinking less of others.."

Talked to my family on Sunday..my mom said I sounded happy:) but I think sometimes I sound happy more for the sake of others than for myself..its easy to sound happy, but true happiness is hard to depict or describe or feel:) I guess sounding happy makes it easier to feel happy at times..ha ok rambling on now..think I’m in a weird mood now..dinner was weird..feeling a bit sick now..

Speaking of sick..everyone around college seems to sneezing and coughing away!ack surrounded by germs..think its cos of the crazy sydney weather:) it was freezing last week and then its hot hot hot this week again. Sigh. Biblestudy soon..have a nice week guys:)

debs: hey hey!thanks dear:)hope u had a happy national day too:)
nad: ha yep think I was really lucky that night to have seen the fireworks:) oh yep and I'm still lurking around:)
nic: ha really? thanks:) yep my mom told me that too:) but I still miss all of you!
~me~ at 9:47 PM

Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Middle of week 3!gotta start work on my assignment already..but the assignment I picked this sem seems interesting..its about medicolegal issues and diagnosis of clinical depression..its hard to know where to start with it though..

Anyway I hope everyone had a fun national day:) National day was different for me somehow this year..I don’t usually celebrate much back home…back in singapore it was pretty much a normal public holiday for me, plus the added bonus of fireworks and a parade in the spirit of things..

But although I didn’t get to see the parade this year, I still managed to catch fireworks!I don’t know why there were fireworks last night but we were somehow just lucky enough to catch them at darling harbour..we had a late dinner at pancakes on the rocks, more to celebrate gloria’s birthday, but to a tiny degree to celebrate national day I suppose, since we were all wearing a bit of red:) ha dinner was pretty good, but think I was kind of hungry since I’m used to dinner at 6 at creston so everything just tasted extra good last night:) we stuffed ourselves with pancakes for dessert:) the chocolate pancakes tasted more like chocolate cake than pancakes to me..ha think sometimes the traditional and simpler stuff just seem better at times:) the normal pancakes with lemon and icecream were satisfying:)

Ha anyway after the food, we were strolling along the street and heard popping sounds..ha thought they might have been gunshots or a backfiring car at first but then we saw the bright lights in the distant sky!ha then we started running towards the lights like little kids:) I have no idea what they were displaying fireworks for but we were just lucky enough to catch them:) they were dazzling the sky over the waters at sydney opera house and we managed to take a few nice pictures:) It was a night of good company and light-hearted fun:) and I’m really glad that gloria seemed so happy for her birthday:) I’m really glad for my friends here:) was talking to her earlier about her sister visiting her this week…I really miss my family back home. But I guess being here has made me appreciate them even more. Although I see less of them and talk to them so much less of the time now, I feel closer to them. I think coming here also has made me think more about my relationships with people and the bonds I wish to maintain with my friends..I’ve forged new bonds here which I am very grateful for, and I really thank God for blessing me with so much.

Ha we surprised Gloria with a birthday cake at midnight on Monday night..she was pretty surprised I think, to see the five or us appear at her doorstep with an ice cream cake that night:) had to spend the night at oli’s, and a big thanks to lin min for the use of her bed:) Yep its been a pretty busy but fun couple of days..there seem to be a lot of birthdays this month:)

Lunchtime..
~me~ at 12:52 PM

Monday, August 08, 2005

Ha I guess everyone back home’s all relaxed in antipipation of the holiday tmr:) Happy birthday Singapore! Ha and happy birthday to Gloria and Mingde as well:) Really glad to have gotten the oppurtunity to know you guys:)

Anyway its been an interesting week..I think of my elder sister everytime I learn something new about babies and their development..we learnt about "theory of mind" last week. apparantly children don't develop theory of mind until they're about 4..before that, they literally don't know how to lie, because they believe that everybody thinks the same way and they have no concept of different people having different thoughts..so they assume that everyone else knows what they know and they don't realise that they can lie..ha I thought that was really interesting:) so kids are truly innocent cos they just don’t have it in them to lie:) and when they do learn how to lie, they only have to know the appropriate times to lie (aka white-lying) and then they’re all set for the adult world..Its kind of sad to think that lying’s a part of the development of a child but I guess its all a part of life..

ahh its cold tonight. enjoy the warmth back in singapore guys:)
~me~ at 8:45 PM

Monday, August 01, 2005

Slacking in the computer room now..supposed to be studying now but feeling really sleepy..Ha but I had a good weekend:)

Went to Randwick and coogee beach for awhile yesterday afternoon with ling..And last night I went to gloria's place to cook dinner..meatballs with pasta and ice-cream for dessert!:) ran into some minor problems with the meatballs but they turned out fine:) We basically covered them with jam so they all tasted the same anyway:) stayed there till about 10 plus..Yep a fun weekend but quite tired now..Woke up early to do my laundry and change my sheets..going for clinical session later on at the Royal Women's Hospital:)

yep so I've been keeping myself busy..and there's quite a lot of reading up and homework to do already..Guess its good that I'm busy then I won't think of home that much..really feels like I've been here for more than a week already!talked to my family for a short while yesterday..hard to believe just last weekend I was having Sunday brunch with my family like old times..

anyway, my principal took pity on me and moved me into a new room!cos I brought over a whole ton of books this time around and my old room didn’t have enough shelf space to fit them all..my new room has a lot more shelf space and a bigger desk..Pretty weird cos its kind of half-new-half-old, with a new desk and shelves but old closet and toilet..ha but its unique I guess and I really am appreciating the nice big shelves..have so many books now..the old tiny shelf in my old room wouldn't have been able to fit them all.. and at least I don’t have to wake up to the sound of the doorbell every morning or hear the toilet flushing in the middle of the night:)

Have a great week people:)
~me~ at 10:52 AM