med d&d

I had a good weekend :)

It started with interblock swmg which my block won! Yay. Swam free and breast relays, and somehow I think my heart is back in place for this sport. Like how I was just pulling stroke after stroke in the water today and feeling like it was such a natural thing to do. But I know I’m only after hall and faculty representation, so swmg takes second priority to stuff like other ibg games. Left trg early today and tried my hand at hockey. It’s fun and way cool too!

Chionged back to hall after ibg swmg, and changed into my rocker outfit for med d&d which didn’t look too bad. Bree called it hard core but nah, it’s mild! I had wanted my hair to be like way siao but no time to do anything to it haha. Anw, grand copthorne waterfront’s rm 1622 had a crocodile, tiger lily, peter pan, gay tinkerbell, ryan seacrest, rock star wannabes, Aladdin, capt hook, fairy queen, lost boys Michael yadayadayada… No, unfortch we did not have calvin’s transmorgifier but costumes from a shop in bugis for our fairy tales/rocker theme. It’s fun to dress up once in a while as a group, and d&d itself turned out to be really great. Good food, good company, a few good performances, candle ceremony, talking cock till 7am followed by prata bfast and crashing till 630pm. I love my penguins absolutely. And thanks councillor for ferrying me back and forth, doing my hair tattoo and armband (creative sia), and the sunflarwer :)

The doc at the health&wellness ctr said that my phlegm is dripping down my throat and causing my throat to be itchy. Huh? And, ew! Haha. Paid $1.50 for three types of medication, apparently they only charge for non-standard medication.

Yihan if u are reading this, THANK YOU so much for the wunnerful happy and cheery tshirt! It’s so sweet and nice of u :) Took me a while to figure out the hot babe thing, though I could read julie’s one straight away. Hope u’ll settle down nicely in ny. It’s definitely gotta be the coolest place to be! Take care there and don’t visit the theatres and museums too much!

thursday

It's week three of school and i finally sucuumbed to hitting the books. Horrid. Realized that EVERYONE is studying and i had also better start before i get lost in this storm of information that's being stirred up everyday. It only gets crazier and crazier and it doesnt help when just about every lecturer says, "go and read your textbooks". Bah. Thankfully i have joker friends in lect else my thread of sanity will get thinner, and even thinner, and even thinner until it breaks.

Went shopping with my og for accessories for my goth/rocker oufit for med d&d this saturday. Er hope the makeup and black nail polish and fishnet glove wont be a diasaster although it already sounds bad typing it out. Haha. But wait, you know i am not a siao char bo so dont worry too much yah. I wont be wearing anything that will make my mom faint :)

Am starting to exercise alr! A bit of tennis, touch rug, netball, swmg here and there. There's just one thing that is odd about doing sports in nus in the late afternoon/evening, the glaring sunset!! It's mighty scorching sia!

Tripped and fell down the stairs outside lt29 today. So unglam. Got a small little scrape and swell on my left foot. And red eyes, coughy throat, funny nose, basically kinda screwed up my body somehow during the last week or so. Not good, very bad.

shikes i forgot abt my laundry again!

i'm so stuck in hall that i dont really want to go home on the weekends. my comp, my superheavy books, my table, my clothes, everything's here. except dad mum sis and bro only. ay.

for good clean fun, check out settler's cafe at holland v! it's near the ntuc at the openair carpark. med og went there on thur and got kinda high playing blokus, cranium, galloping pigs, taboo, twister etc. one's attn is constantly captured by the numerous no of board games available. this is phaps the tightest og that i belong to ever :) and chian, were u there with smu-ies on thur afternoon too?

met up with the council/oteam kias last night at sel's farewell party. everyone seems fine, and it's great to be able to see these ppl after so long and fall into easy conversation with them. sel is prolly the only pink girl that i can stand and love, to her and all who are going overseas for studies, go forth with eagerness, courage and i hope u learn, grow, play and enjoy yourself lots in the new land that u are in.

my room at hall

tada! my room. small, but it's my own space man

study area

photos of dear ppl and a tiny fridge at rightmost corner

my horribly out of tune guitar. u cant see the soft toys fr here haha

home's foldable reading chair.

tracy chean when are u taking ur slpg bag back?!

lately, everyday feels like friday

First aid practical today, tried cpr on dummy with princess leia hair and carried the infant dummy like a toy. It's evident that i dun handle real babies haha. Hall's convocation dinner was just over, and my assigned date ewen bangsayed me cos he had to sit with the master and resident fellows. Had fun with the hallies though, got rather high taking dumb photos but now the feeling's evaporated.

Signed up for interblock netball, handball, hockey, swmg, tennis. A bit siao but actually it's rather normal.

Time passes and we move on to another set of surroundings. New faces, new timetable, new arrangement, new life. The last six, seven months have been kind of a limbo, neither here nor there totally. Transition, and now that we've reached the station, what do we do? Press the bell and alight or just hang on for a ride and see where it takes you? I need some answers, I hate hanging in the middle of nowhere.

poor stained tshirt

Argh... laundry malfunction today. I soaked my new turquoise gio tshirt with my new dark blue pants and now my tshirt has dark blue stains all over!!!! Piang. And i havent even worn it once! Wanted to throw it away but i decided to just let it sit in my cupboard and wear it when im in the mucking ard mood in hall or sth. Haha. I never knew i was this dumb. Man.

Went for swmg trg with sch today. Wanted to stop swmg entirely but i guess im gg in the opposite dirn as of now. I cant move my arms in the water! They are jelly after 75m, and right now im jelly and my eyes are jelly and it's been a long time since i felt this familiar tiredness after trg. But. I am inspired by kooi fei's on-ness to go look for another sport too. Did u know that she has a black belt in taekwondo? :)

Just finished making a nice black and yellow bumblebee card. It's been a long time since i hand made cards. I hope the receiver likes it!

back home now

Yesyes, we got to see a few cadavers on fri. The skin is all dried up and there was a cadaver that had fingers the texture of raisins, as though it had been soaked in a swmg pool for days on end. The smell of formalin took some getting used to, but at least no one fainted yah. It was an eye opener to see what's beneath one's skin. Bad news though is that prof gopal picked me as tut rep, which also means im in for some saikang for this anatomy tutorial period.

Hall bash yest at dxo was rather alrite, and i'm really glad that three out of four of katanga's nominees made the cut for the final five couples. The girls looked esp good too, and the contestants' coloured contacts gave them this glassy look that was kinda smashing. Guest judge denise keller is really hot! Didn't dance, didn't drink. As ewen would say, chill.

Bought netter's today. I used to have a geographic atlas of the world, now instead the one i'm gonna be referring to is an atlas of the human body.

Sometimes when u take something away from me for too long, i might just end up not wanting it anymore.

I don't know what i would do if i didn't have keane...

week1

Lessons so far range from boring to mildly interesting to really cute and funny lects fr prof voon. We've only touched on jc topics so far, though I got really lost in today's membrane schtick. I dislike the back seats, but I can't get better ones when the first shuttle from hall only gets me to lt29 at 0758h! Brr. So anw, having kevin crashing next to me didn't exactly help either. Haha. Speaking of which, I wanna sit in on law, engin, lit and maybe chels and tray's pharm classes.

Oh and the med labs are huge! With aircon and lotsa tv screens so that the ppl at the back can see the slides. The stairway smells of my dentist's place though. Tmr have anatomy prac, do u think i will get to see cadavers? Hmm! *rubs hands. Just hope i dun get chap (sauce) on my lab coat :)

I am rather sure that at least thirty ppl from hall went mambo last night. There's even an unofficial TH mambo club. But guai me went to visit xiang n sabby at eusoff instead. Got niaoed by the campus security tho. Sway.

Yingyi's leaving on sat at 2350h, lindy sunday 0600h, have fun in the US, i will miss u two lots.

last few hrs of my 7mth hols

Unfortch the stars were not aligned in our favour and TH did not win the prize of best overall float. But it's alright, can always pick ourselves up and try even harder next year. Med float didn't look half bad, and Sheares was the dark horse with its immaculate dance and eyecatching carnival float. Nicole Wong! I saw u dancing! Haha. Rag has come and gone, and I still can't understand why the halls are so mega competitive about it. Sometimes it reaches a point that is nearly psychotic, what with eusoff spies, snide remarks at innocent passerbys, and staying up the whole night to help out. Anw, the friendships formed over rag prep is a nice little thing to take away from this.

Had dinner with bro last night and I made him carry my bucket, oreos, air freshener whatnot that I bought for hall. The funny thing is how last night's dinner was the first that we had alone, after seventeen years maybe our siblingly relationship has taken a step for the better. When sis was sending me to school the other night after we sent mom off, I had wondered how the three of us would stay together without our parents around. Maybe when we start making the effort to keep in touch with each other will we become siblings out of choice and not circumstance.

Went for my first driving lesson today. It was really fun to be in control of a car, albeit a jerky one due to me stepping on the brake too hard and negotiating the right bends poorly. I was so excited after lesson ended that I went to book another lesson for thursday. Hoho. But then I just realized that it would mean missing floorball trials. Ay.

last station of welcome ceremony - the porch

my og, katanga

in the background, Uberich, our hall float

sch's starting :(

Abt 17 more hours left to the end of rag, and I sure hope it ends on a high. Stayed up to do rag until 6am last night, but at least we produced lotsa materials to cover most of the float. Ugh. Tired, sad, ignored, sticky, tired.

The last week passed in a blur. It was either rag, settling laptop stuff (my first post fr my new lifebook in hall!), or shuttling down to med library and help make candies from newspaper and foil. I got a look at my timetable just now at the med lounge and uh-oh, not good, very bad. But at least it's not as packed as pharmacy's.

Spoke to my OCs last night while ragging, and got to know them beyond the side that they present to the og during orientation. Am ok-ly chummy with the hall og, but somehow i think i might end up closest to pin tsin. Have to take part in interblock games and some random committee, there's so much more to hall than just O itself. There are two guys and two girls fr my og running for hall king and queen too. Can't wait to see the contestants fight it out at next friday's bash and on d&d itself.

There are so few rj ppl here in TH, only kf huien jasmine melissa me. I wonder how I will learn, change and grow over my stay here.

Have to remember to bring my printer, cds, guitar, reading chair into hall over the weekend.

Sometimes I dunno why I do some things to myself, why I chose it to be like this, why it can't be different. Will courage come when I need it? Do I even want it?