went to crown casino last night with nick & robin. nearly couldn't get inside cos i didnt have my passport with me but luckily the manager was really nice and kindly let us go in. i've never been to a casino before so last night was quite an eyeopener. watched people play the jackpot, blackjack, roulette and some other funny games. oh there was also like digital horseracing. haha. then we had like $2.80 fish&chips and wanted to go watch the famous 'fire' thingy outside crown that took place hourly but we missed it. dang.

ugh i'm in such a icky mood now and i don't even know why. what is wrong with the WHOLE. DAMN. WORLD.

back from camp! twas good and had heaps of fun :], played a lot of foosball, and picked up tabletennis as well. funfunfun. of course it was also a good experience for me as a leader; was kinda scared about it but everything went a-ok, so i'm really thankful for His blessings and guidance. and muchos thanks to jamie my co-leader- for teaching me so much and for being such a dear! games were disgusting but fun. i had to drink concentrated vegemite solution mixed with other random stuff (milo i think) but i don't really want to know. and i licked nutella off this plastic sheet with another person licking the chocolate off the other side of the sheet. i love nutella, so i won't complain. however these were nothing compared to eating half a raw onion. eeew eeew eeew. i swear the guys who ate the onions will never touch an onion again, at least for the months to come. imagine brushing your teeth like ten times, gargling like mad, guzzling tons of water down your throat, only to have the smell of onion still lingering. grossness. and talentnite was soso funny! haha i swear i was in stitches after jack's performance.. and kudos to nickhu's russellpeters impersonation(how MANY times did you watch that dude? :]).. ahh. wintercamp 2005. memorable, fulfilling and fun. photos coming up!

i am going for winter camp tomorrow! ooh yeah can't wait can't wait can't wait. will be on a 3 day hiatus. and i just wanted to say:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUMMY!

have a wonderful time with the fam and thanks for tipping me off! loveya! :]

hair affair. i was alum-girl for like 45 minutes. aluminium foil in my hair, plus the stench of ammonia. had a really good laugh though; what with robin trying to irritate me and sher giggling uncontrollably. should have taken a picture for keepsakes. haha. but no matter how retarded i looked, it was worth the while.

aye. i have calmed down and rationalised that at least my dad did it out of love and concern for me. and i suppose i also behaved badly, in a way. so i shouldnt be complaining.. too much. :\

i wanted to blog about something happy. like you know, FINALLY getting a haircut plus some copperblonde streaks in my hair(or should i call it HAY). but right now my supposed cheerful mood has been tarnished because something unexpected came up. i am absolutely flabbergasted. absolutely cheesed. absolutely.. i don't know. what the.

sunday. i woke up at 1230pm again! recordbreaking sleeping spree. i think i have some sleep syndrome or something. squandered half my day in bed. but as jem says, holidays are meant to be like that. haha. truetrue. :] so i hauled my lazyass out of bed and went to play basketball with the guys and sher. and i won a free cup of chocolate milk tea with pearls.. thanks to my fluke 3pointer. heh.
i was watching how to lose a guy on my laptop halfway when i received jesslyn's message about being chosen to be a cell leader during the coming winter camp. i think i nearly fell off my chair. the next thing i knew i was freaking out and i called sher to tell her how scared i was. i mean, me? leading a cell? i have zilch experience in leading. i'm just worried that i may end up misleading the cell. which would be disastrous.
but i'm really heartened by the fact that jamie is co-leading with me. (phewww.) i spoke to her and told her about my fears and uncertainties in cell-leading and she was like, "do you love God? (i nodded) do you love people? (i nodded again) aiyah, then can already lah! God looks at your heart, not how much you know!" and after she said this i felt so much better and thanked her for the encouragement. to which she replied, "stop thanking me lah! we are in this TOGETHER okay. you are one silly girl you know." haha :] i reallyreally thank God for jamie! she is so funny and so inspiring!
so i decided not to fret so much, i'll just be an empty vessel (as what sher said) and let Him use me as He wishes. hopefully i'll be able to reach out and make some impacts. i'm really glad in a way that i have this golden opportunity to serve! i just pray that i won't let Him/everyone down. i'll just let Him guide me and enjoy winter camp to the fullest. :]

today: i woke up at 930am (yay me!). spent a lot of time in the library.. because i was being a good buddy. when one buddy studies, the other must sit around and pretend to be able to help. and offer moral support of course. hehe :]
i am going to watch batman begins at chaddie tomorrow! i heard its really good and i can't wait!!

yesterday. knoxvillage cinema. so grand and nice! the lovely em & i.

today. i woke up at 1230pm. went DFO at cheltenham for a mega shopping spree. DFO is simply shopaholic heaven. i bought so many things i'm broke again. :( but i'm consoled by the sight of my pretty green tube dress which was a real good steal! and my pink ballet flats as well. ohohoh and my pants from mango. lovelove:)

i am a happy girl now. ok! off to watch friends with a mug of icecream and gingersnaps!!

knox was FANTABUNICE! niceubercool cinema and comfy chillout coffeehouses plus lots of great shops! i like :)
so i passed up the movie in the end, since i was goggle-eyed from watching shows all day. plus i being the perennial shopper could not resist the huge in-my-face 'SALE!!' posters plastered so prominently everywhere. so i shopped!
i meant to put up some pictures of the knox cinema- they showcased these really nice starwars weapons (exact replicas of those used in the movie) including darth maul's/obi wan kenobi's light sabre, princess leia's gun thingy, plus something that hans solo used that i can't remember. if i were a starwars fanatic i would have gone flipping mad. they were such beauties. no pricetag though but i figured they'd cost a bomb. also wanted to put up a photo of emily- one of my favorite cg people. thanks sweetums for driving me home! :)
omg i am going gaga over the birkenstock website. thanks to my shopping partner-in-crime, sher! i heart birkies. i think i am going to get the betula lucas. or the birk madrid. or both. ohno this is bad i need to curb my spending.
eeks the 2005 heidi klum collection looks ghastly. but i do so like heidi klum.

i miss home.

p.s. i also want to wish my homebound darlings a safe flight and a wonderful time back home! heart you all!! please remember to bring back lots of goodies for me! zooland hellopanda pocky alphabits etcetcetc! and 3-in-1 milo.. I BEG YOU.

twas a good day today. first day of no-more-exams-i-can-muck-aboutdom. so i got up bright and early at 830am, made myself some pancakes and watched some episodes of friends. then i went to school to buy a money order and met kairui & kaijing who passed me my birthday present.. thank you dears! i like the book! :)

then i went to collect my osce scoresheet. haha i passed the injecting station! the one i thought i screwed up! but i failed the emergency department one. hoohoo. after that i met nick after his paper(which went really well, thank God) and we went to rockkung for lunch.. chinese food rocks. then we headed to gloriajeans where nick redeemed his 2-for-1 voucher thingy, so i got a free timtam iced chocolate!! mmhmm. sinfulicious.

andandthen. we went to his house to watch celebrity jeopardy, csi and this old romantic comedy. when harry met sally. i think it's really nice! can't believe i didn't watch it before. billy crystal was really funny. "a man and a woman can never be friends, because the sex gets in the way." i used to think that a guy and a girl could be platonic friends but now after the movie i'm starting to change my mind. but i DO have platonic relationships with guys. mmhmm. i really am not in the mood to ponder over this. exams are over. i officially cannot think intellectually. haha :) but if you do want to get your twocents worth in this, feel free to.

hokay. going for dinner+movie at knoxcity with my cellgroup. might blog after the outing if i'm not tired yet. laters!

happiness. exams are now a thing of the past. i'm as free as a lark now! :) gahh the paper went quite badly, lots of week13 stuff and guess which week i decided not to study. yes i think you got it there. plus all the weird sociology stuff came up too. i took one look at the paper, and i knew i was going to mess it up. i'm hoping for a credit, or at least a decent pass, or dad will never let me off. heh. but i kinda brought it on myself i guess. the times that could have been used for productive mugging were spent on watching friends/chatting on msn/mucking about. but it's all too late for regrets now. on account of all the hours i spent in the matheson library, Lord, pleasepleaseplease let me scrape a credit. it was also veryvery cold today. i think i was the only idiot who wore flipflops all the way to caulfield and didn't bring an umbrella. by the time i made it home my face was numb and i couldnt feel my nose. and my toes. they could have well dropped off one by one. but you see, i asked for it. so i'm not going to complain anymore. the funniest part was that on the way home joan and i missed our stop and didn't even know it! and joan is the funniest girl i know in monash med so far. she bursts into giggles very randomly and finds the most insignificant things amusing. like today. we saw this guy on a motorcycle and he was wearing a billabong bag. and she found it funny! haha.

hols begin for me now! i'm going on a friends watchingspree. wheeee! i know that by the end of this hols i'll get so tired of joey chandler monica rachel&ross but i don't care. i love them to bits for now.

joey: wouldn't it be so cool if our chick and duck could have kids? then we could call it a chuck.
chandler: or how about a dick.

i know. lame-o. but you still laughed at it didnt you. :)))

let me go home
i'm just too far away from where you are
i wanna go home.

i love michael buble.
i was just listening to this song on repeat mode on iTunes and it makes me think of home soso much. damn i wish i was going home. if only they had dirtcheap flights home, even if it was on garuda or some dubious airline. i'd fly home immediately.

nevermind. the hols will be a blast! ok i'm just saying this to comfort myself. -_-

dearest jialin! its good to hear from you :) thanks for the birthday wishes. yup am having a blast here downunder. come visit!! and i am going to kill you. i am 20 years old not 21! haha. kidding my dear. hows you in germany land? i love your photos btw; its like those out of national geographic.

ugh. its lunch time now, and i just woke up. not good.
buddddddy. you didn't wake me up.. :(

as usual, my neighbor is making a huge din with her karaoke/i'm-talking-at-the top-of-my-voice thing. but i'm not so miffed now. in fact i'm smiling from ear to ear as i contemplate moving out.
i'm so happy i found the perfect housemates! me nick sher and robin! the four of us in one comfy house with a lawn and some deckchairs and clean toilets. we can watch FA cup in our cosy living room and it'll be me&nick(arsenal fans) vs. robin&sher(man u fans). with bubbletea as the stake. we're gonna have housegroups at our house every friday singing and worshipping and supper. niceness. i think of all the fun taaams we're gonna have, and i only wish we could move out sooner. :)

first things first. a BIG THANK YOU to ALL you people who wished me, in person/sms/msn. thankyou loads! now for the shoutouts(in no particular order)//

SHER. thanks sososo much babe for everything! love the necklace, scarf, bag and most of all the photothingy that you did for me. loveya sweets :)
NICK. buddy! thanks for the cake that you (successfully) baked, the card, the bag and those library times. :)
JEMGAN. i meant to ignore you for constantly jagging me but since you had a part in that cake, i forgive you! thanks loads; and i know we're gonna have even more fun on your birthday.
NESH. my running buddy! haha thanks for the effort.. take care of your knee aights?
CAROL. thanks for supervising the three guys with the cake. without you.. there'd have been no cake. :)
GROUPBEES. thanks joan & shu & kai for the well wishes; heart you guys! esp shu thankyou for the friendster testimonial!
CELL. thanks guys for the wonderful surprise, the prayers and fellowship. it's thanks to people like you who make me feel soso at home. thanks for being a blessing to me. especially to johnson+emalyne: thanks for the wonderful testimonials :)
ROBIN,MEL,SOPH. thanks for the furry warm shoes. iloveilove!! :)
MELISA. thank you for that yummy pancake treat! :)
and last but not least.
MUM+DAD. thanks mum for the necklace, i love it to bits! thanks daddy for calling to wish me.. i LOVE you and i miss you sososo much; also, happy father's day daddy!

i thank God for all these wonderful people in my life, i thank God for putting them here to bless me. i really don't think i deserve all the attention and effort that you've showered on me, but i really am very grateful for your sweet gestures. i'm even more touched when its the exam period and you guys should be rightfully at your desks mugging the night away but you chose to spend time on me, to make my day such a special and memorable one, and i really do appreciate all this. heart you very much guys!

shuyi: hello!! ok you're not a voyeur and i'm happy to be a friend that you care about. :) but i don't understand this. why am i your vitaminC friend? and yes, i think that is a nice pic too. but let's just leave it at that shallwe. i hope you're busying studying for the exams man.. ohman i just can't study i reallyreally can't! :(

grocery shopping. i should really stop buying snacks. the rate at which i eat is just.... abnormally disgusting. and i got a parcel containing a necklace from my mum, today!! heart you mummy! :)

okok i promise this will be the last time i blog today. i just had to post this. my brother is the most narcissicistic creature ever to tread this planet. haha don't kill me bro.


Murder Inc says:
wait hear me out
Murder Inc says:
Your all amazing brother (me)
Murder Inc says:
just got a letter
Murder Inc says:
from air force
Murder Inc says:
to ask me go for pilot test
Murder Inc says:
heh
Murder Inc says:
and...
Murder Inc says:
i dont feel like going cos i want commando letter
green girl* says:
but what if you dont get the commando letter??
Murder Inc says:
no lor dont curse me
Murder Inc says:
see my face
Murder Inc says:
born to be commando

my brother. isnt he funny :)

i waste too much time at home. doing things like watching friends, eating weeties with honey, blogsurfing, trawling online shopping websites, downloading movies+songs, blogging..etc. since i've already wasted the past three hours i might as well spend five minutes typing this.

today nick and i went to the international students' lounge for lunch (since there were no tables at grain express) and guess what we saw. a whole bunch of year one meddies (like ten odd of them) gathered together on the couches armed with laptops and powerbooks and med1011 studyguides. i was.. appalled. i nearly lost my appetite when i was eating my lunch and they were talking about cirrhosis and myocardial infarction and abscesses. woah that is some scary shizos.

when we were walking back to the matheson lib, i remarked to nick, "but they're not supposed to be so hardworking.. youknow, they're... aussies." and immediately after i said this, the aussie girl in front of me turned around and glared at me. i covered my face with my cardigan in embarassment and nick was laughing his lungs off. sigh. sometimes i'm just a bit too.. blatant.

i absolutelyabsolutely hate exams. or rather, the exam period. i wouldn't mind the exam itself but that period of intense studying and anxiety and pre-exam blues is getting a little unbearable. my skin feels all bumpy and gross and icky now and my sleep cycle is just so totally whacked. ugggh. i also hate the fact that i will spend my birthday buried in a mountainload of notes. :(

ok.. dinnertime. indomee + tuna with savoury onion. and my daily dinnertime fix of f.r.i.e.n.d.s.

had osce today. an osce is practical where you pretend to be a doctor and interview simulated patients, perform cpr, administer injections, the like. i totally screwed up my injecting station. had to give an intramuscular injection on a patient's buttocks (i mean, we used simulated skin, that is), and i totally goofed it up. haha owells serves me right for not studying and playing basketball the night before. the reason why i appear to be so nonchalant about it, is that it's not counted. hahaha :)

my examprep is also going down the drain. despite mugging with nick in matheson for what seemed like 6 hours or to the point that i felt like i was growing roots, i am still waywayway behind schedule. but the good thing is i only have one paper. which is like worth 5%. everyone is telling me, "WHY do you EVEN bother?" haha :)

i can't wait for hols. i can't wait for holsss! winter camp. mooovie marathon. friends marathon. naruto marathon. basketball! baking escapades. mmmhmmm this is gonna be one heaven of a wonderful vacation. okok now i have to go study.

i can't seem to study. might as well just upload some photos.
enjoyyy.

second last day of sem one. we had this really interesting lecture on weight management, and the lecturer was just uberfunny. he had this theory on why people get fat on eating junkfood//- when you feel guilty about eating something you tend to eat it real fast. then you don't get to enjoy it and that makes you eat more. when you feel that its ok to eat something you eat slower and enjoy the food. this makes you eat less. i think it applies to me. it reallyreally does. and then the lecturer gave us all mars bars and told us to eat it slowly. and i ate it so slowly i felt like throwing 1/4 of the remaining bar away. but it was chocolate, so i finished it anyway.

oohwoooh went shopping at chaddie yesterday from 8-11pm. vip sale. 50% off guess. myers. davidjones. i went mad i tell you. and bought tons of stuff. didnt have time to go to ax and fcuk cos the stupid queue at guess took ages to clear. :( but i still want keds knacks and sneakers and hot pink havianas. and new bags and a crochet bolero and boots. oh and shades too! too many things, too little dough. i should really stop being so materialistic; i'm already quite broke as it is though. i love shopping. but i do so hate the guilt trip. and for some reason shopping makes me feel like a total airhead. i wonder whyyy.

i should be sleeping now. but i'm not. its 2weeks to exams and i haven't even started revision and i'm blogging like never before. what is wrong with me? i'm not even panicking. ok maybe a bit. but nothing compared to the ol' rj days where i got high-strung over some dumb class test.

ohmanohmanohman. sher's tempting me to go shopping at chaddie tomorrow. sale at myers and david jones. i'd like to, except i havent quite started on revision plus my cousin's making risotto for dinner. the tough choices i have to make in life.

p.s. kraft nutsaboutchocolate should be banned. like straightaway. its so nice i keep spooning huge chunks into my mouth every 5 secs. and i've finished one tub in less than 5 days. rats.