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2009-10-19T00:37:00.002+08:00

How fickle minded can i get? Haha.

I'm going back to multiply. Where i can get all the privacy I'll ever need. :) Please do add me as friend but you must first have a multiply account (http://multiply.com/).

See ya there lovelies! :)

Liese Foaming Hair Dye

2009-08-14T23:41:00.009+08:00

In desperate attempt to save my hair, I decided to dye my hair today! As you know, when your hair reached a certain length, usually it's friggin expensive for a salon dye. Not including the fact that you'll need to stay at least a few hrs there.. I totally do not have the time. :(

Self-dye is usually so cumbersome. How to spread dye evenly on your entire head when you can't even see the back of your head? Hahaha... That's why when I heard of foaming hair dye, I found the idea so cute and convenient. Therefore I almost immediately bought it and tried! :)

The process was pretty fun as it's the first time I'm trying but I guess this enthusiasm doesn't last that long. Managed to dye my hair pretty easily but the colour was much much darker than reflected on the box :( so pretty much my hair remains the same colour (okay la, the black roots became more brownish)+ slightly more dry :(

This is the before and after photo whereby you can see my damn cheena haircut (which looks a little like i cut it using a bowl):

As you can see, there''s is actually no significant difference. Well, unless i go under the sunlight I think.

I'm half alive

2009-06-28T00:45:00.005+08:00

checklist:
1.My burning temp's down
2.My body aches' gone
3.My flu's almost recovered
4.My cough's... errr..
5.My voice IS LEFT WITH 10%!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I SOUND LIKE I'M WHISPERING EVEN IF I'M SCREAMING AT YOU. :(:(:(

Been to the doc twice and changed my set of medication twice in 4days.
I need to recover ASAP! Well, simply because i'm stuck in the ill-priviledged group known as the working adults.

I need my voice back. please..

make yourself worth your pay!

2009-06-08T23:10:00.004+08:00

work is hell when you have 2 week old sales assistant trying to act princessy.
she is friggin complaining to the boss that she has to mop/sweep floor and wash cups and we don't have to.
please lor! that is within her job scope!!!

which pathetic optom has to mop floor one?! and who would trust an optom that is sweeping the floor one moment and checking your eyes the next?

oh oh.. and she's attempting to quit to show her displeasure. princessy tantrum. urgh.

BFFFFF!!!!!

2009-06-04T23:31:00.006+08:00

Hahaha! van said that we must advertise strongly across all forms of media to get votes, thus here i am now.

Well, this time round, we BFFs, decided to finish up something that we did not complete in yr 2008. And that is to join the clean and clear BFF challenge! And like what she mentioned on her blog, we joined without knowing what we are up for! Randomnesss.

haha.. photos we taken quite some time back (2008) by Van. SCREAM: SELF SHOTS!!!

I love my BFF and I know you love us too, therefore,

VOTE FOR US NOW!! NOW NOW NOW!

P.S. you need to register before you can vote, if not it wouldnt be taken into account. :)

When fairytales come to life, does it still ends with H.E.A.?

2009-06-04T01:16:00.004+08:00

Long long ago, there lived a prince who was engaged to a lovely princess. The princess deeply loved this prince eventhough he was only average-looking, not very wealthy, smart nor famous. On the other hand, the feelings this prince once felt for the princess has long withered and died. The prince had more than once attempted to break the engagement but stayed on when he saw that the princess was devastated.

The prince ventured into neighbouring lands and everyone he newly met assumed he was single as he said so. A pleasant girl working with the prince in the neighbouring land grew to love him more and more as days goes by. This prince in turn showed signs of affection for this pleasant girl. This never failed to make the girl's heart race.

Eventually when the girl got to know about the prince's engagement to the princess, it was all too late. Feelings, like spilled water, wasn't retrievable. Neither did she wanted to end it all.

After a long and tiring struggle, the prince managed to break the engagement and ended up in a relationship with the plesant girl. To the pleasant girl, the sun is finally shining through. But deep in the corner of her heart, she feared that one day the prince will likewise leave her for a newfound love. Pushing all negative thoughts aside, her love for the prince gave her strength to carry on.

The prince's showed love in a way that was barely visible. The pleasant girl, who grew up in an environment where everyone voiced out their emotions to their closest, felt very hard to be sure the prince really loved her.

The girl felt that she's been giving but not receiving, that it was unrequited love. Months flew and the ill omen persisted. She asked the prince about whether he loves her and though the answer was not conclusive, it did not make her feel any better. It did not helped that her peers and her closest buddies did not have faith in her r/s with the prince. Neither did any of the people from the prince's court were in favour of this reationship. She was torned.

She had integrated her entire being into the prince's life. Everything she had and held revolves solely around him. He was her world. And with the sickening nudging feeling that she means nothing more than a friend to him, she couldn't decide what to do. Every inch of her did not want to leave the love of her life, but she sometimes question how long she would be able to hang on.

In fabletales, everything ends with a Happily Ever After.
I wish a fairytale ending for you too my dear..

Because our love will last

2009-05-16T01:42:00.008+08:00

In a walk meant for 2,
insecurities hasten the steps in the wrong direction.

In a promise meant for 2,
happiness fades off the instance it's brokened

In a game meant for 2,
defeat lies purely in the lack of effort of those involved

In a match meant for 2,
the absence of trust scores you with nothing but a walkover

In a story meant for 2,
any third ends off the book immediately and far from any 'happily ever after'

In this horribly tedious journey meant for 2,

it takes much to reach till the end.

but somehow i know you'll be there with me at the very end.

COLOURS

2009-05-07T00:04:00.002+08:00

I WANT COLOURS IN MY LIFE!!!

i'm feeling so bored. I need to feel happy with my life.

love actually..

2009-05-05T00:09:00.002+08:00

love is a delightful language
spoken by many
mastered by none

15minutes to the BIG 2.

2009-04-10T23:41:00.002+08:00

Significant days like birthdays always somehow make me think back about the past. about the other birthdays that i had a few years back? about how these few years went by...

And then again i'm totally wow-ed by how much everything had changed.I rewinded 1 yr back in 2008 when i celebrated my 19th. I remembered how lost i were about who to celebrate my bdae with. Well, significant days are meant for significant ppl.. haha. and no one else.

but at least now when i'm almost all past my teenage years and hitting the digit 2, i think i'm pretty happy with where i am now. Happily attached and loved, amazingly funny family members, lovely girlfriends!, a well-paying job and alright bosses.

Compared to the 19 yr old aikleng, i'm really blessed now.
Thank God for bringing me through rough times so that i now understand the definition of true happiness.

:)

Resistance

2009-03-30T01:09:00.004+08:00

If you're faced upfront
With a million different temptations
And with no reason to fight it
What is it you'd do?

A moment of resistance
Crumbled by a gentle breeze of reality
What's left standing?

When all things cease
And your vision begins to clear
What's that you see on your bathroom mirror
Staring straight into you?

Isn't that the fragility of man?
Or a simply a rude jolt back to the world?

-7th march 2009

The trip before work starts

2009-03-23T23:09:00.036+08:00

I'm back! :) from my superb BKK shopping trip. haha..
WARNING: this post is photo-intensive :)

Our day started early in Changi Airport for breakfast

It's hot, hot, hot and friggin' hot in BKK.. plus the 70143750197493 people crowding at night markets and weekend markets, this trip really wears tolerance to the very thinnest. well, amidst the unbearable heat and disastrous crowd, Bangkok is still shopping havan :) you never know how much more you can get there as compared to shoppig in SG with the same amount of funds.

Tuk tuk and traffic in Bangkok

Food was delicious! Had thai cuisine there (Tom Yum Goong, phat thai, mango salad, green curry, sticky rice...), jap too and fast food! haha.. Not your normal McDonalds ok! it's the one most of us has only vague childhood memory of- A&W!!! YES YES YES! curly fries and root beer float! simply amazing :D

And there was massage!! HAHAHA! The first massage place really freaked us out at the beginning! thanks to the sleazy-looking setting, communication breakdown (the girls couldn't speak English and we can't do thai) and freaky red lights outside the different rooms(which van keep saying resembles RED-LIGHT district), we were all ready to run off when we reached the rooms. Haha... but we somehow didn't,and it's actually ok one larh! :P we scared ourselves i think..

Just when you thought that our trip was all shopping and no sight-seeing crap, YOU ARE WRONG! haha.. actually it's not exactly sight-seeing though, but we went to the museum! :) now now, don't we sound like some sophiscated bunch of non-bimbotic tourists? hehe... and it's not just any museum ok! of cos we went to the most challenging one... Forensic Science Museum & Anatomy Museum AKA Siriraj Museum!! It comprises of everything dead and preserved. They showcases insects and stuff.. and human organs and skeletons (dying of various dieases or accidents) and also...... human foetus. This has to be the ultimate scare. with human features formed and all... 3 of us gripped each other tight and "eeekk", "are they real?!", "OH MY GOSH" our way through the museum.

Our museum visit lasted 45min.

Siriraj museum (taken before we went in; still in smiles)

And of cos we did vain stuff! eyelash extensions and van did mani-pedi plis nail art too! loves.

nails and eyelashes! :)

van+ chanel+ leng= silly-ness to the max

haha.. we had the craziest idea of just soaking legs tgt in the bathtub on the last night and we took silly photos, played bubbles-collecting competition (it looks even stupider then it sounds ok!) and just simply went crazy.

bubbles time! :P

I want it. and i want it now!

2009-03-02T18:15:00.003+08:00

Counting down 15 days to bangkok getaway! :D
with two of my dearest dearest!

VANNIE TAN!

and.. CHANEL!

These two are going to be my shopping and go-crazy buddies for the upcoming Bangkok trip! <3
Bet it's going to be a good trip. i want massage... now.

On the brink

2009-03-01T23:59:00.005+08:00

I definitely believe, but i found little love for Him in me.
Somehow, this is a very painful statement to make.
but it indeed carries some truth.

I wonder what changed in these few years.. i wonder when it had began to change.

I once commented that a struggling christian is a commendable christian. well, at least he chose to keep struggling to hang on.

A struggle demands a lot from a person. I don't have the strength to struggle on.
Maybe that's why i let go.

*comments are not appreciated

Not a simple vday

2009-02-15T11:59:00.005+08:00

This year, it's not a simple valentine's.
14 feb 2009 marks the last optometry clinic in SP too.

Somehow i'm feeling the ache already. We are indeed a crazy class. Had Marche for lunch at vivo ytd after clinic as a class to celebrate vday. Afterwhich we just sat around at the roof gargen thingy and played games. All eyes were on us when we played chop-chilli-chop. HAHA.

I swear ppl seriously think we are crazy when we actually wore our labcoats AT VIVO to take a cls photo. damn embarassing. haha. Then again, without that how can we mark the end of batch 13 DOPT with a BANG?? :D

Went to cafe iguana after that to escape FYP ppt submission which is in a huge mess. then when all good things end and the dust settled, it's back to reality again. chiong fyp till 3am ytd, half asleep with the alcoholic influence and the fact i woke up at 6am to go for clinic.

*deleted* - well. fyp's over. i don't bear grudge.. i think.

anyway,on a happier note, i love my class. and it's sad that we have to part. photos will be up at a later date. and thanks you lovlies for the vday presents and the amazing memory of diploma in optometry!

updates on Competency test

2009-02-10T00:33:00.002+08:00

damn i failed retinoscopy.
retest this thurs. if i fail, it would be the end of me.
then again, i might not have to crack my brain thinking of where to go serve my pre-registration year; aka WORK. and i don't have to bother myself with all the "if-i-work-here,-this-person-not-happy,-if-i-work-there-this-person-not-happy" fuss.

haha. i know my punctuation skills is non-existent. haha.
you won't care about punctuations if your 3yrs effort is on the line too.

2009-02-10T00:13:00.002+08:00

Storm
lifehouse

I know you didn't
bring me out here to drown
so why am I 10 feet under and upside down
barely surviving has become my purpose
cause I'm so used to living underneath the surface

if I could just see you
everything will be alright
if I see you
the storminess will turn to light

and I will walk on water
and you will catch me if I fall
and I will get lost into your eyes
and everything will be alright..

Yes, and everything is going to be alright.

We are Compentent!!!

2009-02-03T17:56:00.002+08:00

It's all over! HAHAHAHOHOHO!

The feared Compentency Test is officially over! :D I hope i'll pass :)

CP3021/24
DOPT Clinic Competency Test
Let's have an introduction to this scary test. The clinic competency test is, in short, to test if we are competent as an Optometrist when we do graduate. It is a practical test and it comprises of 12 stations, whereby you get to spend only a short 10 min in each and have to complete COMPETENTLY all the different tasks inside. Most rooms have a clinician doing the assessment while you perform the testing.

The tasks ranges from those that we do everyday in clinic to those that we hardly ever perform, like Binocular Vision. Everything is tested. From what you say, to what you do, to the working distance to the lighting to the speed to the accuracy of your results. Accuracy is a killer. It is very very stringent and Thus, it is highly stressful.

And we haven't got to the main reason of this stress. The main reason is that, we don't get to graduate if we fail certain stations. And overall it's 30% for the module. To them, FAIL (certain core stations)= INCOMPETENT! = Retain one more year.

And it is actually very easy to fail. I think no one in the entire course (my batch) passed the 1st competency test (trial run) last sem. I think i failed 4-5 stations out of 10. This time round, who knows what will happen to the results. But I'm still optimistic. I doubt they'll fail all of us right? then we all stay back one more yr ar? Okay then! Then they'll only have a handful of graduates this yr!

This competency test is horrible. Some lose sleep over it, some can't eat properly (Haojin lah!), some cry- overly stressed. Thus today we shall celebrate the end of this. :) Leave the results to another day.

celebrate!

haha.. and i went to the test while running a temperature + flu. and i'm still pretty much sick now. :(

mE n vAnNiE iSsh Ah liANz ??

2009-02-02T01:40:00.008+08:00

hey all! it's been a long time since i last touched this blog. with all the FYP and projs... blah blah.
haha.. but now that i'm back, let me start by scaring you with some ah lian photos.
hahas..

OMG. haha..after looking at the pics, i conclude that..i can really be an ah lian. i know their poses inside out. haha. minus the fact that i don't have big round eyes then.

and P.S. those photos are taken on purpose to look ah lian-ish. aikleng is perfectly normal on most days. :)

Happy New Year!

2009-01-26T23:50:00.004+08:00

Amidst all the CNY hooha, my FYP rush and competency test fluster + his work schedule, me and yao actually managed to find time to just hang out together, have a cuppa and catch a movie! haha.. even if it means its on the eve of CNY (whereby almost all shops are not open) and that we're catching a midnight show. HAHA. well, not forgeting adora of cos! she joined us for Brides War eventhough it's at such a late hour. :) love you.

no time no time no time.. FYP submission is in.. OMG! 4 days time! i'm not anywhere near completion. :(

the long awaited outing.

2009-01-21T11:13:00.003+08:00

Van! it was a great day out ytd. and.. i want our act-ah-lian shotS. hahaa.. okok. i think in 90% of the shots we trying to act lian-ish. cos we lub lub lubx. haha! OMG.

shopping days are good days. plus we bought a pair of Betty Boop watches. randomness. and i think the highlight of the day was when we were just sitting in mos burger and there was a couple outside who were screaming at each other. their faces were 5inches away from each other and staring angrily at each other. :/ it lasted so long i wonder if they ever got tired.

haha. and because we cant hear what they are hurling at each other, we started dubbing them! haha. we were so enjoying ourselves. then, when it all ended, we realised that though the couple cant hear us, most of the tables around us could. haha. OOPS.

and! the guy was damn ugly lar! the girl on the other hand was quite pretty. definitely so much better off on her own then with that ugly and fierce guy. he look as if he was going to beat her up... cos he raised his fist at her. (kill him!) halfway thru the fight, he walked away! like just cross the road and walk off, totally leaving the poor girl behind.

at that point of time,

van: wah biang eh! walk away! why she still follow?! should just throw her heels at him!!!!

me: no larh. the heels look expensive. should just grab some rocks. he doeant deserve that much.

van: along the streets where got rocks?

me: hmmm.. like that huh. then i think the stools (along the coffee shops where they past by) will do fine. more painful too.

such jerks deserve such treatments.

He turned 23!

2009-01-15T23:46:00.016+08:00

I know i'm a tad late. haha. But well, HAPPY BIRTHDAY DARL! :):):)

well, let's talk about the present first. It begun at Tangs, and ended up going home with me but was stucked outside my house since i forgot to bring my keys. (yes, AGAIN.) we sat there for a good half an hr. :( i was damn bored. really.

From this photo on, all photos will kinda look smudgy since BAD lighting at night and not-that-fabulous hp cam doesn't go that well.. :( pardon.

haha. we spent his bdae in the most abnormal way this yr. no movies, no fancy dressing nor any romantic dinner. heh. we actually had KFC for lunch, dark choc mint, cup noodles (dinner) and bought some chips, cooped up at his place and watched dvd. Rewatched Ratatouille and Dark knight :) haha, which also explains the lack of photos since there's nothing pretty to take while sitting infront of the screen right?

anyway, this brings us to the most awaited portion! PRESENT! :) hope he likes it thou.. it is a Toscano wallet plus a key holder thingy(look alot like a car key holder, oh well, may be it is really meant for car keys only) . hahaa!

dear went "oh! is this some hint?" when he set his eyes on the car-key holder thingy. HAHA. :D

then he went on transferring stuff from the Fossil wallet to the new one. :)

okay. browsed through the other photos that we took and nothing is even worth mentioning. maybe i'm tired.

hahaha... kk. happy bdae lum chee yew once again. you're officially older again. love you much. :)

Say it again - Marie Digby

2009-01-11T10:33:00.002+08:00

Say it again for me
Cuz i love the way it feels when you are telling me that i`m
The only one who blows your mind

10 big things about me

2009-01-01T22:24:00.004+08:00

Here are the rules:
Once you’ve been tagged, you have to write a blog with 10 weird, random things, facts, or habits about yourself. At the end, you choose 10 people to be tagged, listing their names and why you chose them to be tagged.

Don’t forget to leave them a comment “You’re It!” and to read your blog. You can’t tag the person who tagged you. Since you can’t tag me back let me know when you’ve posted your blog so I can see your answers.

10 Things You Might Not Know About Me

1. I've got sensitive scalp, sensitive to certain contact lens solution, sensitive tooth,and i'm
sensitive (allergic) to crabs and prawns!

2. I was really really tanned last time due to constant sun exposure in netball. I was freakin' 3
tone darker! really! I know it's shocking but i was really sporty last time.. now, sports? hardly.

3. i hate metallic-colored nail polish! On my own nails only cos i've seen them really pretty on
other people.

4. The thing i comment most about strangers on the streets is their hair! (be it praises or
criticism) Esp so for perms and hair extensions..

Oh! did i tell you bout the cashier at AMK popular with really obvious hair extensions?! her
actual hair is chin-length and full of white hair but hair from shoulder down is white-hair-free.
Haha. Deirdre also agreed that she should have gotten a few more bunch of hair so it wouldnt
be so obvious. :X

5. I seriouly think that i criticize too much on stranger's hair :X Chanel warned me not to do
anything to my hair... cos what goes around comes around. karma bites.

6. My virgin flight was to Bangkok.. and so was my second.. and soon my third will be too... to
simplify, that's the only country i flew to. haha.

7. I was told by many people that i look like i chiong alot.. and i always ask them why. The most
recent and 'huh?' answer was that my hair made me look like i club alot. HAIR?!??!? WHAT??

8. I saw a notice at the lift landing of my block recently that my building is the hotspot of dengue
cases. 31 cases as of yesterday! hope i don't get bitten.

9. I'll never name my child Valerie or Jenny. Haha. DOPT ppl would know what i'm referring to
basically these are names of my paedeatric patients in clinic awhile back and they are EVIL!

10. Vanessa Faith Tan Ee Gin sets the record as my longest BFF! 7years! No. 1 bestfriend for
7years! Yay! And though we are very different, we cliqued vvv well! :) Love you bestfriend!
<3

The ten people to be tagged (i shall go with 5):
- Deirdre
- Sheryl
- Adora
- Qinghui
- Hao jin

And we bid 2008 goodbye..

2009-01-01T19:41:00.007+08:00

We celebrated the last of 2008 in a blast! Though I had a tough day with all the FYP last minute discussion and analysis of mind-boggling graphs and stats..

Stats=headaches
Somewhere along my long and strenuous FYP journey, that equation became a FACT. Haiz.

Oh ya. Back to the happier things, after FYP, we met up with Chanel at AMK hub to just chat a bit, waste a bit of time and we ended up with loads of fun and laughter! well, all thanks to pronunciations. Hahaa.. And her signature 'Goby Dhaut' (her version of Dhoby Ghaut) which we made fun of for more than half a yr! Chanel really need to brush up on phonics :D Haha.

It's me and deirdre's official yellow day cos somehow we both ended up in bright yellow and we kept bumping into ppl wearing this happy colour! :) Haha. this kid was sitting on the table behind us and he kept trying to play with us! hahaha. But he refused to answer my question when i asked him for his name! and coincidentally he was wearing Yellow! And when i tried to take a photo of him sneakily, he dodge, dodge, dodged! This blurry photo was the best shot!

Chanel was so in love with their Eclairs that it was so funny! hahaa... in e end we decided to post with them!

Haha.. I just randomly asked her to put the wet tissue on her forehead and look! She really did! OMG!

We ended up really having so much fun in Suki sushi. Love our random funny shots. Love you girls. You ppl made the last amazing memory of the year 2008! :D

Somewhere in between - Lifehouse

2008-12-30T21:44:00.000+08:00

What a horrible series of events!

2008-12-30T21:02:00.004+08:00

:( WOES! WOES! WOES!

We improved technology to save brain cells. but i think rather than brain cell rescue, it killed more of my cells these few days. HORROR. I seem to be a magnet for tech-disasters this few days. And it's killing me ~~slowly~~ rapidly! Well, maybe I'm a IT idiot but well, some stuff are really not my fault what! *anger*

Haiz.. well, it all began with Microsoft office not working, then followed by a million problems with reformatting then it continued with Statgraphics (some bio stats program) refusing to work!!!! And those problems basically impaired any progress to my FYP. yup, the same FYP that i have to churn out the report by 12 Jan. And we're still analysing stats! we are so so so behind time! OMG! kill me now.

Back Again.

2008-12-28T03:36:00.003+08:00

GOOD O' BLOGSPOT! :D
I'M BACK!

At every significant point in my life, I tend to change a blogskin for my online journal...maybe when i'm in a different mood i see things differently. And this time round, i realised multiply doesn't really provide me much options :( thus i'm back here again. and with the improvement in layout (much easier now to customise site), Blogger won me over again.

Hope that with all things new here, I'll feel the motivation to blog much more than i did.
Haha. Let's keep our fingers crossed.