Went to uni today. Supposed to do a photo shoot for the gift shop ad but the photographer was almost 3 hours late and still nowhere in sight. So, me, Vic and Andrew got fed up of waiting and we left.

Meanwhile i realised that the photo shoot i did with Vic, Deep and a bunch of few other students a few months back is now the latest official ad of UCSI. So now, we are the ambassadors of UCSI. Our photo is printed on all ads promoting UCSI including the newspaper, postcards, ucsi mag and even the calender! And Terry say that our ad is being circulated all around the world (hmm..this is kinda exaggerating i think..haha).

Yellow arrow : Me. Ad in Sin Chew Newspaper

Our ad in The STAR paper

Even on the postcards

So if you think you had saw me, yes you really did! :)

Happy ‘rice ball’ festival ( or better known as ‘tong yuen’ festival ) to everyone. This is the 1st time I’m away fr home during rice ball festival. I miss my mum’s glutinous rice ball. I miss helping her to make those rounded rice balls, I miss her soup and I miss her tong yuen! Since it is the rice ball festival, I definitely cant go without rice balls. So, I had my share of rice balls at Esquire Kitchen. The rice balls there definitely cant be compared to my mum’s. The soup is pretty tasteless and the fillings of the rice balls are too sweet. On top of dat, for each bowl, we only had 3 rice balls. Aiks!

Rice balls time at Esquire Kitchen

Neway my latest baby is my new stethoscope which is dark blue in colour and cost me over RM 200. And soon, I’m gonna get my ophthalmoscope set, tendon hammer, pen torch and most probably tuning fork which will cost me another 4 or 5 hundred over bucks! But since I can use them even after I graduate, and for life (hopefully), I think this little investment is gonna be worth it.

Say hello to my new baby

Started sem 2 today. Still kinda in the post and pre holiday mood..haha.. Started class today wif Dr. Anu and our 1st pbl session wif Dr. Opa. I really hate pbl when i get funny topics like the one i got today, 'basis of tiredness in relationship to dyspneao'. Maybe it's not such a hard topic but i searched through google, wikipedia, n all possible search engines and i got answers for dyspnaeo and tiredness and fatigue but nothing about their relationship. Oh well, Kuria helped me to find one but dats onli 1 sentence..better than nothing tho.

Anyways how fast one sem flew. I had spent one whole sem in UCSI with my bunch of 47 ode coursemates who add colours and spices to my life in uni. Some of them can be as gd as stand up comedian, some can be musicians, some can participate in Msia Idol, some can b chef, some can be paparazzi, some can be uncle... In short, everyone has their own funny side and a fabulous character. The lecturers are a whole lot of wonderful ppl too. Though some of them might be more strict or naggy, but i believe they have our best interest at heart. I sometimes miss my family back home, but im very glad to have a bunch of good friends (u all noe who u r) here to accompany me, to make my life in kl more happening and feel better. Hope this coming sem will be as great, if not better than the last.

Are still mummy's cooking! Haven't had that for quite a while now. Bliss. Yum yum :)

An example of what my mum cook for dinner

I went to Singapore again today with Shir n Charlene. It’s been almost 3 yrs since I last saw Charlene. Time reali flies. The last I met up with Charlene she was still learning bakery and now, she is already working at Grand Hyatt Singapore baking pastry. And only recently, she won a competition in baking pastry and went to US. Marvellous!

We went to Din Tai Fung for lunch. A fren of Charlene, Ming Chao shifu (the service assistant called him that), the 2nd chef der is also sort of the person in charge, so all thanks to him we got 1 tray of free ‘xiao long pao’ (which otherwise cost SGD 9.80) and red bean n yam paste dumplings (according to Charlene’s fren, he made dat specially for us..felt so privelleged..haha).. The ‘xiao long pao’ is really mini, and the skin is very fine n translucent. We also had their prawn fried rice,some sweet n sour soup with lots of black fungus, vinegar, tofu, egg and dno wat else and a recommended fried pork dumpling vermicelli. Lunch was on Charlene. Ger, next time u come to KL, lunch will be on me =)

We at Din Tai Fung..do u tink me n Charlene look alike? back in sec sch, some ppl call us twin!

They say each xiao long pau has at least 18 folds..more than that..hehehe

Neway after lunch, it was shopping time. We went to Far East Plaza again. Shir is so in love wif pink..haha..she got her camera, which is pink a pink pouch. There are some interesting stuff such as guy g-strings and boxers with Spongebob printed big and bold..haha. After Charlene went to work, me n Shir walked around Wisma Atria and Takashimaya. MNG was havin up to 50% sales and the whole store was packed wif ppl. I wanted to try on two pieces of tops but when I look at the queue to the dressing room, I gave up. I’ll come back to Msia n buy cuz its not like it is cheaper in Singapore. In fact, it’s slightly more expensive. The onli worry is that Msia does not have dat model dat I want. The queue was so long and each person has at least 3 pieces of items in hand. Singaporeans shop for MNG as tho they are free. They just take, take, take, take.

Enjoyin some Monkey Business, Morning dews and Melon Kisses at Far East Plaza

Earrings for sale..The whole wall of it

It was kinda hard for us to take pic today as it was raining. So, me n Shir went to the basement of Taka, where there's an abundant of food and bought a walnut cheesecake. Taste good but too creamy for me. After we got quite tired of walking, we went to Grand Hyatt and look for Charlene. She treated us once again to some of her very own bake chocolate cookies which are very delicious, very rich in chocolate and it’s selling for SGD 6.00 per pack of 10.

Along Orchard Road. Mother Mary giving birth to Jesus

This huge xmas tree almost reachin the top of Taka

Shir, Alli and the great pastry chef herself =p

I felt quite tired today but I felt really happy to meet up wif Charlene after not seeing her for so long, and of course Shir, one of my closest and longest-knowing friend around. 

I just checked my email and im very glad to received 2 different emails from 2 different person. The 1st one is from a very close fren of mine who is studyin in uk now. It's interesting to discuss bout our lil experiment and it's good to hear fr her. The second email really caught me by surprised. I never expected my ex-boss from Citibank to send me a personal email considering dat he had dozens of email to reply n c to everyday and he is the Regional Branch Manager for Johor Bahru. Neway it kinda remind me of dos times dat i had while working in Citibank. Those experiences and the colleagues i met der is definitely something dat cant be exchange for money. It's a really bizarre way of how i got into Citibank. Recommendation from my ode ex-boss from Focus Point. Titan called me up, im still slepin, my mum picked, then somehow Luqman got called oso, we went for interview together, started training and voila, started working, havin to sign contracts and undergoin insurance courses. While working is not all dat sweet n nice, der are a lot of office politics going on (thank god im not invlove..im jz an observer)..working shows the realistic n cold side of human, of what they are capable of doin in order to save their own rice bowl n climb the corporate ladder. I hope next time in my workin environment, such unhealthy competition and doings will not happen..(kinda wishful tinkin here huh) From the weird,cool, funny,nice, not so nice antics of customers to romance-within-the-office, ders not a dull day at all. On top of dat, i learned a lot 'bout credit cards, their pros n cons and i saw dat even in dis modern, gadget-savvy 21st century, live within the vicinity of this urban area, there are still many ppl who do not noe wat a credit card is. No wonder we still heard of ppl declaring bankcrupt or commit suicide because of credit cards. Credit cards wont kill u unless u start accumulating debts and interest. I oso miss those days dat i get to hang out wif my colleagues, when we work very hard for a roadshow (tho it can be sometimes borin), for sales (especially durin ecap period) and the ups n downs when we see our approval or rejection rate everyday. It just makes u feel more happy n excited when u c dat ur approval rate is hitting 20 as there will be a bonus on top of ur monthly pay n commission. My highest record is onli 29 approval in a month if im not mistaken. Miss the 30-bonus. But don tink its easy achieving even ten approval. When i first started training, i tot it would be very easy to hit 10 each month but when i saw dat many ode colleagues fr ode teams who got their commission burned cz they cant hit 10, i noe itz not dat easy. And of course the 1st day i got my very own namecard, with my name n position printed on it, for a 20 yr old, it felt good..haha..And the 1st time i got my pay slip, all sealed up. Wat drives me to work even harder and of course better, once u get the hang of the job, is the figures printed at the bottom of ur pay slips each month, not forgettin the top sales position in ur category. But havin no car is a pretty big restriction if u realli wna go all d way out. So luckily i have very nice colleagues who is willing to gimme rides. Working in Citibank oso test relationships as complete trust n understanding is required between couples. If not, many misunderstandings n jealousy and problems are sure to arised. Neway, I really treasured dos experiences and care showered by my ex colleagues. Although card sales is not something i wna do for a lifetime, but it's been a great 5 months experience working in dat corporate company.

I reached home at bout 4pm today. Nearly missed our bus this morning as me and Katong got to Pudu late but for once, we were thankful for the inpunctual Msian attitude.lol.Neway I was supposed to blog bout this yesteday but i couldn't go online so here is another belated post:

7th December 2006 :

We took our results for our end of the yr exam today. The dean was in the lecture room sharp at 3.00pm. He released our result one by one and it just got me more and more nervous as he slowly went down the list of names. But fortunately, I passed my exam. Hurray!! As expected, I did not do so well for osce but I guessed my other two papers pulled me up. Anyway this is only 10% of our total finals next yr so we can always strive harder next sem.

We ( Sian, Ky, Hw, Hf, Greg and I ) later went to Kajang for Kajang Satay at this coffee shop known as Malaysia Restaurant. Sian recommended that as one of the best in Kajang. The aroma of the satay soaked right through us even when we were 6 shop houses away. But the satays were really delicious. There are no fats or thick layer of skin in between the whole chunk of meat. I love the fish and chicken satay and d gravy. Sian loves the beef satay and Hf says that the duck satays were good too. I finished bout 8 sticks. Hw, tho small in size but she had a huge appetite. I think she ate bout 15 sticks of satay on top of two roasted chicken wings and d fried noodles we all shared.

After a fulfilling satay meal, we went to Sian’s house to hang around for a while. Our initial 30 minutes stop eventually became bout 2 and a half hour. We played heart attack and ‘murderer’. Our heart attack game nearly got all of us heart attack with laughter as Greg, our biggest loser is oso the biggest joker of the nite..haha..Can’t imagine he lost 4 streaks in a row and the funniest was when he won and still hit his own hand. =p..Greg o Greg! Neway we all had a good time together. But poor Louis and Ria had to bear a long time b4 finally we brought deir satay home.

Enjoyin our chicken, beef, duck and fish satay

Ky and Greg posin wif ketupats

End of semester exam is coming in 3 days!!! I still left half of patho, microbio, physio, anatomy and behavioural science to study. How can i fin so much in so lil time? I know i must but i dont seem to feel the peak of the pressure yet..hmph.. i know this sounds kinda insane but im actually kinda lookin forward for the exam to come and end..hehehe..

Well, medical batch '06 we can do it.. Gambate everyone!

I had a hair makeover today. From my normally long and naturally colored hair, I’m now having shoulder-length highlighted red hair! For the first time, I'm actually having my hair colored. People used to mistake my hair for being colored especially in high scholl when coloring of hair is prohibited but this time, it's for real!

The whole highlighting process is very simple actually. It went something like;

Hairdresser : Hello
Me : Hello
Hairdresser : So what colour do u want to highlight?
Me : Something daring?haha
Hairdresser : What about bright green or blue or golden or…? *grinning*

I'm not exactly keen on the normal brown or blonde or any colours associated with brown because that's how my hair naturally is anyway and too striking brown looks kinda like dry grass to me. On top of dat, my mum eyes were telling me it’s a no-no.

So the contents of the dying tube, the developer and the color crème were mixed and the whole highlighting process begins. Finally after few hours of waiting (I was kept entertained by the hairdresser conversation with me and reading mags), lo and behold…my new haircolour in my new hairstyle.


Yeap..I got my hair highlighted RED! Even though red is not exactly the allowed colour for medical students in my uni but I'm absolutely loving the new hair color because I think red suits me well. I mean I think I look kinda fairer with red hair. hehe! The hairdresser was wondering if I felt pity to cut off my long hair, but no, hairs do grow. So in no time I will have long hair again. For now, I’m pretty satisfied with my new hairstyle and colour.:)

Went to CS to meet up with the bff, HL, ME, and SY. I just got to noe June today, a cheerful and talkative gal. We went to Secret Recipe and bought HL her cakes. Then, we went to Kim Gary where i waited 30 minutes for my glass of 'precious' watermelon juice. ME, our laughing queen is still as bubbly and loves to 'bomb', SY is still as demure and cute as ever, and HL is still as cool and nice to tease..haha.. And anywhere that there's us, there's sure to be noise ( filled with our laughter, voices and sometimes even frenly world 'wars' =p )

HL with her birthday cake at Secret Recipe

We went to Friday's while waiting to watch 'The Prestige'. I think it's really a very good movie although some might find it boring. We ate their mocha mud pie and World's Famous Friday burger (which is beef steak burger actually). HL, as the birthday girl gotta sing Hari Raya song for us. Can't upload video here. If not, it'll surely be entertaining. Anyway, their mud pie is sinfully good with thick chocolates and mocha powder over vanilla ice cream. Forget all the calories and fats! The burger is super-duper delicious too. The steak is very juicy, the bread is toasted perfectly, the tomatoes are fresh and the fries are crispy and crunchy.Yummylicious max :)

Hwee Li blowing her candle the second time..double wishes babe

World Famous Friday Burger

Lastly, * Happy 20th Birthday pineapple*...Had a great time hanging out with the girls today. Nothing beats going out with a bunch of bff. :)

We ( Kat, AP, Hamtaro and me) had a great, fun day at Sunway Lagoon today. It's my first visit to their water park. I totally love playing in the water park. I simply had high affinity for water activities. We also went on all the rides in the dry park. The guys actually dared to challenge us on 'who can last longer on the Tomahawk'. Wrong dare guys haha! After 2 rounds on the 'tomahawk', Hamtaro nearly fainted while both me and Kat were still standing strong.  Me and Kat could have easily survive another round. :p We covered almost everything in the theme park ; the flume ride, board surfing, tube slides, the gondola, the tomahawk, the wave pool, swimming pool etc.

On the suspension bridge overlooking the whole theme park

Me, Kat and AP pose for the camera before goin down the slide

Flume ride

We ate our dinner at Dragon-i. Their xiao long baos are super nice. Remind me of the ones i had in Shanghai.

Try feedin AP peanuts

After dinner, we went shopping at Sunway Pyramid before the movie, Devil Wears Prada.By the time I got home, I literally just wanna drag myself to bed and do nothing else but all in all, it was a super fun day and I thoroughly enjoyed myself with the cool JBrians. :)

Why do i called this weekend a crazy weekend? Well, yesterday we went to Kat's place for bbq, to celebrate mooncake festival. Right after assessment, we went to Giant to buy the stuff needed for the bbq and then we went to Kat's place to start with the preparation. I can still imagone the smell of chicken on my fingers now when i thought of almost all the 60 chickens that i helped to pull their fats out..yucks! Trust me, i wouldn't wna ever eat chicken again if im a chicken seller. Anyway the whole party was quite cool, we had bbq chicken, stingrays, squids, marshmallows, sausages,and fried meehoon. Not forgetting of course,mooncakes. We even tried carryiny lanterns to walk around our neighbourhood (tried because we are a bunch of cute ppl, we carried lanterns without litting the candles and walked to the playground). Kat must be feeling extra happy last nite.

HF, Alli and Kat

Then we spent the rest of the night playing 'mafia' and 'murderer'. (they are actually card games). What a 'bloody' night it was..haha..And how could i forget playing tai-di and having to do tango with pooh bear. But we had fun playing, trying to keep open our eyes wide and not to blink at the wrong time. Not forgetting, the skill to lie had 'improved' in everyone..=p..I slept at bout 5 or 6am, i can't remember and could had slept till very much later if not for the karaoke session early in the morning by Kat's neighbours. Some people are just so inconsiderate! 

So, we got no choice but to wake up and we went for dim sum. Managed to drag myself through the breakfast session but i slept once i got home till just now bout 4pm. I went to JW hse to watch Ju-on with both JW's. What do u tink of the movie guys?hehehe..u noe i noe can dy. Then went to gym wif HF, and both the JW's. By the time i got home and did my laundry, it's time to go out again because it's Kat's birthday today and we went to her house to have a small celebration with her. We wanted her to dance 'Hips don't lie' for us, but ended up with me dancing tango with her. (again, tango!)

* happy birthday Kat*

Anyway Kuria, what a pity u weren't around.. but it's ok..will be seeing u in a few hours. miss us?haha..i noe u do.:p

Went to the Spastic Children's Association of Selangor in PJ today. After a brief intro by one of the volunteers there, Pn.Mary, we were brought around to visit the whole centre and to understand the children daily activities. Being spastic actually means cerebral palsy, in simpler terms, some part of their brain is damage. Iit can be duer to damage before, during or after birth by which till now, we still can't find the exact reason for damage before and during birth.

We visited their speech therapy, hydrotherapy (the kids were happily playing in the pool with the supervisor and their parents guiding them), occupational therapy, gym, cooking room, workshop etc..I bought a bracelet and bookmark hand-made by the spastic children. It's really very beautiful and delicate. These kids are really talented too.

Well, i would love to upload some pictures now but haven gotten the pics yet. So, shall upload them later. Again as a reminder in life, we should all be thankful and grateful that we can live life normally everyday with a brain to think, eyes to see, nose to smell, mouth to talk, ears to hear and limbs to move. We are all so fortunate to be born normal. So, appreciate life and don't let little things in life make u feel useless and worthless or giving up on life. I also say kudos to these parents who sacrifice unconditionally to look after their child. After all, spastic anot, I believe everyone is special in their very own ways and as a human, be given the equal love, care and protection.

Veno, our dearest responsible and firm class rep is leaving us. She is going to Manipal on Monday, so today is her last day with us. It was such a sudden news. I felt kinda sad that a friend is leaving us but happy for her also because she is still going to pursue her dream.

*ALL THE BEST VENO, MISS U ALWAYS*

Me, Veno and the rest of my coursemates during the glucose level test

On the last day..in our lecture room

Nonetheless, it's the weekend again! Yay. ‘Study-free’ for the next three days..haha. Well, the paper was not too bad, at least it makes not listening to Dr.Z that morning in class worth it *wink*

Then, 13 of us; me, SS, EY, Kat, HF, HW (hey do u all realize that HW is also initials for someone else?such coincidence..ahem..haha ), Louis, Edward, JW, KY, MS, Deep and Vic went to Secret Recipe to celebrate Su Sian’s birthday. We had ‘Vianna Brownies’ as Su Sian’s birthday cake. The cake was pretty rich in chocolate but it is as hard as stone also..haha. Hmmm, not too say it’s not delicious but just not my type of cake. Cheese cakes still rules! :) We sat at Secret Recipe for almost 3 hours practically chatting, laughing and more chatting. We chatted about almost anything that comes into our mind, and we can conclude at the end of the day that guys can be as nosey or even nosier than girls when it comes down to certain matters. And once again,

* HAPPY 20TH BIRTHDAY SU SIAN. WELCOME TO BEING 20..HAHA *

At Secret Recipe.

Su Sian cutting her cake..'pengacau' Deep bringin cancer week promo to the table!

Apple crumble cheese cake me shared with Kat.

Well, was suppose to blog bout this last nite but i was too tired and the connection was bad.

The Calvary Carnival was held at the Bukit Jalil Golf and Country Club. I went with Kat, Helena, Jing Wei and Edmund. Hui Fang couldn’t wake up and she wasn’t feeling too well. I couldn’t believe my alarm rang for 30 minutes before I finally got up (shows how much I was enjoying my sleep..haha). The whole place was packed with people, games and of course, sinfully good food!

At the entrance to all the good food and games!

Helena, me and Kat at the big slide

We had our lunch at the pool side under the sun at 1pm (more tan for everyone..hehe)

Icy cool coconuts on such a hot day

Maryanne and I at our drink stall

Hanging out at Kuria's popiah and spaghetti stall

Penguin on my right and butterfly on my left hand

Poodle joins in the fun too..itz so cute rite? Auntie with daring red hairstyle

The carnival was a blast and it was fun making the extra fats, tan and tiredness that I accumulated today worthwhile. *winkz* Truly enjoyed myself. By God's grace, hopefully the carnival managed to achieve the target set.

I just got our SMS (School of Medicine Society) party photos today. Last Fri, we had our first SMS party in conjunction with Dr. Hadi’s farewell at our senior, May Ching’s house. Dr. Hadi will be going to UK to help the refugees. It was the first official party that we got to mingle and got to know more about our seniors. The party was overall quite fun minus the fact that I got thrown into the pool all thanks to KJW and Greg. I couldn't really reme,bered how I ended up in the fool but those 2 somehow were ones dragging me into the pool. I wouldn't had mind actually had I went prepared to get wet. But the most pitiful one is actually my dearest Kuria. She came all the way back to save me but ended up being thrown into the pool as well and as result, her hp had spoilt! I felt so bad!

On another note, a big shoutout here to one of my bff since high school, Choo Sin Yee aka Piggy Choo! haha

*Happy Birthday Sin Yee*

Happy 20th birthday my dear friend. I hope you’ll stay pretty and cute always. I hope you like the perfume we gave you. It’s been so long since we last hang out together. I miss those good and fun times in school, in tuitions and hanging out together. I'm missing those good old days where we will make fun of ‘da-pao’, rushing off to tuitions, vomit and die together, St.john, and of course city square! Haha..I miss u so much piggy. The‘animal’ + SUMO gang rocks!!Miss you girls much! :)