Seriously, who said Poly life was easy going and stuff. Its so terrible. I mean its so stressful. Just handed in my Nutrition Report today, and then I'm burdened with another one, due on MST week 11. Its so not fair. How come we are always given so little time to do the reports while the other class has like a week extra to complete? The lecturers all have like extremely high expectations of us. We are like wth! Its like oh they keep claiming and saying we must hit at least a GPA of 3.5 for all our modules. Its like scoring As for every single damn thing.

Then the holidays are due to start on the 6.6.09, however it won't be a 3 week break or so. It'll be studying for MST and doing projects and reports that are due during the week of MST. PLUS the topics or stuff that we are actually studying isn't really tested in MST. We are doing so many different things for different reasons until I'm so exhausted and tired out. Its like so many things piling up on us, on the coming 3 weeks. I guess this marks the end of holidays overseas and such.

Shit, PREP MATH is due on Friday, haven't started on it. FFSC research and IHW tutorial not done yet. DAMN

Assignments due/to be done during 3 week break.

-FFSC Presentation

-Nutrition Presentation

-IHW Criticizing a Paper/Article

-FFSC Report

-PBL Math

-Study 7 modules worth of MST stuff

-PSYCHOLOGY IS CRAZY

-Extra math lesson, to learn how to construct/draw graphs during excel for LAB test( don't even know the purpose of drawing graphs using the computer)

And all these components add up one way or another, we aren't super humans or something, why so many things to do? SO BLOOODY STRESSFUL.

You funny dodo bird. Can't use webcam and yet still make me come online. I must bug you until you agree to do so is it?

Sigh! I need to meet you soon! Not only cause you want to see me, but you owe me $7.50, you owe me money. I'm sure you don't want interest rates, like in primary school to accumulate right? So you better meet up with me soon.

OMG. School work is like piling up. Chem test is on wednesday.


Chemistry is just horrible. I'm still trying my best to understand and apply chemistry. But once like the format/way the question is being phrased is changed. I realize i just can't do anything! Its like, my head is totally cleared and wiped out!


Then there are many reports. Nutrition report for one, is getting on my nerves.Here i am talking about fats and that Soxhlet Machine and there I am. Consuming and thinking about my own fats. Sometimes I just don't know how to continue! Then after that, there is like FFSC report due tomorrow and then CBMI Tutorial which i've attempted 3 times and no improvement in score! Not even like 80%, which makes me so sad. Cause i don't know where I went wrong for!


Pictures from Friday! Beloved IJ day.







I WOKE UP AT 1PM TODAY. WHICH MEANS THAT I OFFICIALLY HAD LIKE 12 HOURS OF SLEEP. I FEEL SO GREAT I FEEL SO GREAT. SLEEP IS A BEAUTIFUL THING.

Yesterday was a fantastic day! I made it back to IJ for Fiesta! Cause apparently, the machine used for prac broke down and couldn't be repaired. So we couldn't continue with the rest of our protein experiment. Ended at 3.45pm and flew down to Toa Payoh for Fiesta.

Arrived 5 mintues to 5pm, but didn't really care much. I just wanted to see teachers and see friends! I'm so thankful to Qiqing and others for waiting for me to arrive! I was so high! Saw Michelle and Hasisha and many other people. Bought this IJ Post It thing which was like $4. I paid them in full in coins! I love IJ so much! Even though it was only for a short while. Its better than not going at all! Yesterday was a really good day to sit down and chat and catch up with one another. It was also a really long long day for me.

Practically fell asleep during psychology tutorial but perked up during chem. At IJ, we were talking non stop like blabbering birds. Got to drink my Yeo's Apple drink from the friendly vending machine. I managed to get rid of my coins, as everyone wanted coins yesterday.

Headed down to Polar- High Street Cafe to chat and catch up. Everyone was so amused with like the Tom & Jerry Show. There were ordered a few drinks and cakes and sat there was like so long. I think we were like talking the loudest there. Rou Urn came and Cecilia came and then we started catching up. I mean what to do? When we sit down and talk we practically forgot the time.

Sarah arrived too, and soon. Twins, Cecilia, Rou Urn, Sarah and I took a train down to Bugis to meet Azriel Seah! What a group! Family reunion I called it. There we were like looking for place to sit and eat. Ended up eating at some hk cafe thing, and then we wanted to celebrate like sarah's birthday at the same time. Bill amounted to 75 plus and I think next week I will surely starve. I spent so much money in just one day!

Went to Swensens for dessert and stayed till closing time. Talked and ranted and laughed alot! They kinda like chased us away, saying they were closing already. Decided to take a cab back cause we thought it would get us home faster. Left Bugis past 11, and only managed to get a cab at 11.32pm. I saw the time, when I got into the cab. They dropped me off first, and I realized that I didn't have my phone with me.

I ran back home and then called Shermaine! I LEFT MY PHONE IN THE CAB! So I won't get it back till monday when I see Shermaine! SIGH! How could I be so careless!!!! Anyway, yeah. For the time being I don't have my phone. Reached home so late! Like midnight. Never been out so late before, what a night! I am so happy today, managed to catch up and all! I miss the good old days!

Surprisingly, no one scolded me for coming back so late! So yeah.

PS: MY ALMOND DRINK IS SO NICE OKAY. STOP INSULTING IT. ITS GOOD FOR HEALTH, IT DIDN'T SMELL AND IT ROCKS! IT LOOKS LIKE MILK! I LOVE ALMOND TEA AND I LOVE MILK. BESIDES I THINK ITS AN ACQUIRED TASTE! Today is Thursday. Woke up at 6.30 AM this morning and got to school. Going to fall sick soon. Have sore throat and then. I spent the whole day sniffing and blowing my nose, until it hurts now so much.

I feel cold, and chilly all the time. Then after a while I'm fine. Then I start sneezing again, and I need tissues. I used a total of 6 packets of tissues today. I didn't bring enough and ended up buying 2 more packets. My nose is like totally red now. I hope I don't come down with a fever or something. But I do feel cold.

Real slack day today, psychology lesson was cancelled, cause the lecturer wasn't feeling well. Brought that heavy psychology textbook for nothing. Now I really tend to wonder if tomorrow's lesson will still be on or not. If not, I can wake up slightly later. 3 hours of break in between, had my wonderful yong tao fu at fc1 for lunch today. Then went to the library to waste time.

Bought the concession for mrt today, and also walked like from library to fc 5 hoping to draw money, but the teller had like so many people there. Walked to dover station, so that I could withdraw money as well as buy concession. Turns out the machine wasn't even working. Walked back to Fc 5 and withdrew money.

IHW lesson only lasted for about 45 mins, so we waited like 3 hours for that 45 minutes lesson. Decided to go meet angela at woodlands since I ended so early. She made me wait for her for 30 whole minutes. I counted the number of marina bay trains, it was like 6! Had LJS again, this week. This really isn't helping my throat.

Visted the nokia shop. omg, I really want my nokia 5800! Then saw one of the super nova phones or some gold phone that cost over $2K! Crazy. Who would be willing to spend so much for a freaking phone right? Sigh. Visited the toy department store, and reminisced about the old days. What kind of toys we used to play and such.

Well, thats all for the day. Going to do chemistry now. GAHH 3 hours of chemistry tomorrrow! Woke up at 0600 Hrs today. Had Chem prac. Had terrible stomach ache too, went to the toilet like so many times this morning alone! So scary. I thought I wouldn't be able to last through chem prac.

Today's prac was much better, cause at least Rayu and i knew what to do and what to expect. Though we over titrate the thingy, like twice. Nevermind. We got the values quite close to each other.

Had chemistry like at the beginning of the day, and at the end of the day. I think the teacher pissed with us, she didn't even turn up for chem prac, so the lab technician had to help us. She was super fierce today la. Scolding people and voice loud loud, don't even know what happened to her today.

Today is a chemistry day. chemistry day. oh great. Week 5 is almost coming to and end. Then week 6, have chem CA. Gahh, why does time pass so fast la? Seriously. Life should slow down.

Today on the train, saw some momos or what. Another form of religion. I looked at their name tags and it said "elder....." and they were from The new Church of Jesus Christ or something like that. OH. I was like. WOW. Never heard of such a church before. Turns out they are momers or whatever. Interesting!

Mummy said they are neat neat, prim and proper people. Wow. Today is already sunday. Got lots to do. Reports after reports. Then have to do research also, and then study notes in advance. Then also exercise, there is so much to do, but so little time. Managed to get the FFSC report done with Fidah online, and then had to do the other reports and stuff. I'm so tired, all I want is a good rest. Sunday isn't even a rest day anymore. Theres like piano lesson and its like ahhh! My one and only rest day gone.

This morning, Mummy thought she was real young, she was running to the gong gong washing machine while I was walking to it. Slipped and fell, like a domino effect, toes went down first, and she fell on her side. Now, she suspects its a fracture or so.

Cause there is some sort of indentation at her toe, and it hurts terribly. I got her to ice it immediately and till now, its still hurting real bad. She refuses to see a doctor, at an ordinary clinic, saying that she would definitely be referred to for an xray and she doesn't want to run around from place to place. Her toe is bruised and really blue black. She can't bend it, neither can she move it. She needs to move around the house in crutches and at a really slow speed.

Like limping, though I can tell her that the doctors do not encourage limping. She intends to go to the polyclinic tomorrow. Lets see what the doctor says. Meanwhile, I guess everyone goes through the same thing when I was injured. A waterproof chair in the toilet. Patience is key when getting her to move around from one part of the house to another. Hope for the best though.

Dog ate dragonfly. We thought that Princess was just exploring that flying insect. In the end, she kinda brought it over to a corner with the help of her nose, and slowly nibbled it and all. In the end, it just disappeared down her throat or something like that. EWWWW. Disgusting. Heres a picture, I managed to snap though the resolution of it is crap.



This is super cool. Celine and Pei Yun all introduced this ooVoo to me. Mass video call to 6 people! I just took a random shot! omg, so cool! In the middle of the night, catching up with old class mates! Today, met up with qiqing bright and early to go borders to spend my borders' vouchers. Had to stall for time because we had planned a surprise lunch to celebrate qiqing's birthday which falls on the 14th may( this coming thursday)

Ended up spending like lots of time at borders, bought a dvd, a book and paid for breakfast at borders bistro JUST TO STALL FOR TIME. I realised that i was making up stupid excuses to drag time at orchard so that the others could get to PS on time. So we could give qiqing a pleasent surprise.

Bought things at like marks and spencer, and then even CLAIMED i never saw the million dollar makeover in orchard and wanted to see the glass panels, which we had to walk further down just to see, while Marie rushes to ps, manhatten before us.

Apparently qiqing already knew all this before hand, so i must have acted like an idiot in front of her, with her knowing what we were all up too! Nevermind about that, met everyone at ps manhatten and then had lunch there. Hope you had a great time guys! It was good having a sit down meal and talking and laughing and talking REAL loudly and taking pictures. Haven't seen roxanne and joan and victoria and qiqing in a long while!

Meal was expensive! Bill came up to $109.55! In addition there were 2 free meals, so we kinda just chipped in for everything. NO WONDER there was like excess money that we kindly divided amongst the 9 of us.

After that, roxanne had to leave because she had to study for her business law test. While the rest of us headed to some paper shop called made with love. nothing really special there, just nice EXPENSIVE papers that weren't within my budget because they were so expensive. I couldn't have afforded them, so didn't even want to have a look! After that, everyone mostly went our seperate ways. Some went off, and we headed to carrefour to buy mother's day present.

Qiqing got a weighing scale those for food, for her mother! so cute! at first she wanted to get like a frying pan or curtains but decided not to. Then we went to ice monster cause someone was feeling nice to treat us to food.

Sherm paid like $3 while qiqing paid $5. I just ate! I mean when people give you treats you say THANK YOU! hahaha! enjoyed myself today!

ILY guys!

Labels: Busy with tutorials and report gahhhhh

Today is already the 3rd week! GAHH! I mean, in another 3 weeks. I will be having APChem CA! Had APChem lecture today, as well as tuition by Ms Hoe, and she was telling us that it is very important for us to do reading up on our own, because it is really difficult.Especially when we haven't had chemistry background!

Anyways, had Nutrition Practical today and we kinda extracted the fats out from 3 differnt types of chicken, Chicken Nuggets, Steamed and Roasted Chicken. We had to blend the samples till they were all fine and mushy. Our group probably over did it or so? Because it turned out to be like mashed potatoes, like for babies! Then there weren't like the same consistency of chicken "paste" for the other groups. Some were like tuna flakes, and others seemed to be like biscuit crumbs. So I don't know how we are going to write a report.

OUR FIRST PRACTICAL BEARS THE WEIGHTAGE OF A 30% Individual Report. On the positive side, once we are done with this individual report, the rest would just be data sheets! I bet after doing this mashy chicken pastey experiment. Those who blended the chicken bits will stay away from chicken for a longggg time!




Groupmates! We did the steamed chicken with skin sample!
Cedric, Marcus, Me, Rayu! :) Today had a very bad start to the day. Chem prac was disasterous. Couldn't titrate properly, teacher got really frustrated trying to explain things to us. I mean we already warned her that we didn't know anything and that it would have helped if we could switch partners. Then at least we know what we are going to do and all that? NO she didn't switch us, she was like. Its fine, you don't have to have chem background. Of course we are slow. THIS IS SO NEW TO US.

What oxalic acid and pipette and burette and what else. Volumetric flask. I took a freaking long time to pipette 20mL of oxalic acid and she said I could have done it wrongly. I took so much effort to do so, and this is the result. SO PISSED.

CCA fair started today, I don't know why. I am suddenly am so unenthusiastic about ccas. I have always thought that ccas were fun. And today I don't even see myself enjoying ccas. There were many ccas, but its like, I'm like so depressed. Its like suddenly, I just want to study my life away. I feel like I have no time for rest and play. I come home so late after school. I have no life. No fun and life is just about studying.

Theres lots of pressure for GREAT FANTASTIC results, not only because we are like the first batch of students pursuing such a diploma. But also pressure from home. A person can't be on top all the time right? People fail and pick themselves again. Life isn't a smooth bed of roses. People can't expect me to do well all the time? I do things at my own pace, and now its just like my parents' expectation are super high. ITS REALLY STRESSFUL.

I NEEEED TO RELAX. I AM SAD AND REALLY SAD. I miss IJ loads.
I want to go back to school and talk to Ms Chong or Ms Teo or Ms Jo Teo, it always makes me feel better after talking to them. Even if they just scold me or something. I really miss IJ.



I just visited like facebook and blogs, and everyone is like IJ sick. I mean, those who graduated. We just seem to miss everything about IJ. What we used to do in school around this time. I think probably studying for the mid years. Then the fun we always had, going to walk walk in between class breaks, when teachers came in late to class.

I still fondly remember, that at the end of sec 3 that year, when we had an extra week of class in the first week of the school holidays, we always went up to like the top staircase there to play cards and to eat recess! TAITEEE and those memories were the best. I just learnt how to play that game in china one night, and then i was trying to beat everyone who probably had more experience playing taitee as compared to me.


Roxanne, I miss you so much! I remember how we love to chase each other to quickly reply letters. Then the long long telephone conversations we always had like those talking and gossiping. Listening to you sing over the telephone. Checking last minute answers and theories on the exact day of exams (especially if we had late afternoon papers)


Yin San! I miss your over reactive expressions of OMG OMG OMG! Then talking and gossiping during chinese lesson! omg! yes, and china. we always came over to your room every single night because my room surely something wrong one. Too smelly, too dark. too yucky! Our flooded toilet night!


Shermaine! I miss you alot too. You are always super duper nice to me! Haha, giving in to me all the time! Fight with you, I surely win! Then I miss flicking rubberbands at you during class. ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU DOZE OFF, and do that pen trick! The one with the tip of the pen, and excessive ink oozes out, and when you wake up, you gotta like use the correction tape to blanko it off! OH THOSE DAYS, were simply fantastic! Laughing our heads off over slight things.


Sheena! I miss you saying shut up to me all the time. Calling me tang all the time, and sometimes it gets super annoying, but now when I don't hear it as often as I used to. I miss the times when we were always going elsewhere during free periods to like near by benches to chat and how you and your sister used to push me home when I couldn't walk. I was super touched, even though the ride was always so bumpy and with the weights of heavy bags.


Qiqing, my dearest weirdo eyebrow buddy. I know how I started talking to you. It was like in the beginning of sec 3, english lesson. I sat next to roxanne and you! Then we had like so much in common. I miss the times when you would start talking all about your father and then I'll be telling you. What can you do, hes your father. Tolerate! Then you and your unique laughter that will lighten up the dull and heavy moods of class. I miss talking to you alot! You were also my longest video call buddy! I video called you like for long hours on the phone, until my phone battery goes flat or goes really hot!

I miss everything about IJ. I want to go back to IJ to see the teachers soon!