the new sunrise

BOO! and inception

my dad finally came back from USA on thurs night/fri morning 2am ((:

thurs morning was 2nd day of sleepover! had original paul's yoghurt which was too sour for jy eileen and gab's liking xD but i'm not the one who bought it! xD added apricots, raisins, prunes and almonds to it! so actually i liked it cos the dried fruits were rather sweet, so balanced the sourness of the yoghurt out quite nicely (:

gab left arnd 10 for og lunch then reg and matric at nus... then i went JP with jy and eileen for lunch, but eileen had to meet her mum, so end up just me and jy (again!) haha. good times good times! love to spend more time with friends before i leave x)

lunch was Ding Tai Feng!! had dumpling noodles, soy sauce beancurd, xiao long bao and steamed glutinous rice with red bean paste! yummmmm

but the most fun part was camwhoring!!! :DD haha jy just discovered how cool her iphone camera and cam apps are... had a great time taking motion pictures and playing around with effects like fantasy and fish-eye! super cute and adorable!! and also tried colour adjustments like vignetting and nostalgia which was really cool. took so many pics until her iphone batt going to die soon xP

after that was INCEPTION!! OMG it's such a cool cool cool cool movie! i kinda regret reading spoilers before hand >< even though i thought it would help me more in understanding the plot, many elements no longer came as a surprise, so that kinda diminished the experience =( but still AWESOME movie! love it <3 want to like do an explanation and review on the movie! mayb some other time cos now's 3 in the morning =.=

after movie was tea at bakerzin! first time ever eating cakes there, bought rose tea and chocolate etoile cake <3 choco mouse layered with choco cake! but thought that the cake could have been more special with more unique taste.... hmmm mayb we shld have tried some other cake instead xD rose tea was really fragrant, loved the aroma. after that had some complimentary bread! with vinegar and olive oil, which was so cool cos it's the first time i ate bread dipped in these sauces x)

fri morning wasnt very eventful, just chilled at home with my dad and my computer xD lol. afternoon wanted to go bras basah and sell my old textbooks to second hand bookshops, but in the end my dad went to nap and i lost track of time while sorting out and clearing secondary sch science files and notes.... and i was late for dinner date with sy and hc!! i feel so sorry ><

dinner was at Ichihan Boshi!! the more ex but better version of Ichiban Sushi (: first time at that restaurant! and we were at esplanade no less. great furnishing and ambience, just that tables are very wide, so you feel very distant from the person sitting opp you xD at least i felt that way....

hc and sy both ordered the same set: salmon with rice, unagi scrambled egg with rice, chawamushi, tempura, appetizer, miso soup and orange! i came late and ordered japanese curry wazen set: rice, curry chicken with cheese over flame, tempura, appetizer, miso soup and watermelon (: love the tempura! but thought that the curry chicken was very normal... the curry was good but the chicken was a little dry... loved the cheese though! it melted over the chicken and curry, so it was creamy (: also liked sy and hc's chawamushi and salmon sashimi.

after a very filling dinner, we walked around esplanade and marina sq and talked while we shopped (: then sat down somewhere in city link mall for HTHT! haha i finally managed to use that acronym LOL x) well not exactly htht, but still it feels great to just talk about past present and future with lovely ppl ((:

reached home really late and slept around 3am, but had to wake up at 6am to go to sch =.= sighhh i have no idea why they need us to be there by 7.45 when the award ceremony starts at 9.30 >:\ made me wake up so earlyyy!! was quite fun though, cos i managed to meet many old friends whom i havent talked to for ages! i'm very happy too cos got to go on stage! haha conceited much xD and got $$ from school in cheque! haha so dont have to just use it to buy books or smthg (;

catered lunch was kinda nice, but so-so overall. liked the prawns in greenish sauce which is i dunno what, but taste rather nice (: liked the sweet sour fish and beehoon as well. only one table had durian paste (for the vips i think) so went to kope durian paste from that table! smells really good (:

had a great time catching up with old friends, meeting secondary school classmates and old acquaintances. was very glad to get to talk at lenght with jc civics teacher! he's so funny and animated, and me and my classmates chatted with him about uni and future plans etc. he's flying to finland for further studies, so he'll be going back to school in sept like all of us!! met rgs vice principal as well. always regarded him as a great mentor and figure of inspiration (: felt so glad finally got to talk to him after 2 years! i also managed to go around and take picture with many ppl whom i may not meet again for a long long time. major camwhoring session! xP

surprisingly my dad brought my brother along too, so adam had lots of fun eating good buffet food too. haha. went back with dad and was super sleepy >< had a 4-hr nap before waking up and eating dinner (: managed to sell/give away some of my old secondary school and JC textbooks, notes and practice papers to a downstairs neighbour whose son is in ri, but only sec 2, so he still has a long way to go before his A Levels! xP

tmr going to RWS!!! excited :DD

but i still have to check out the elective courses on mcgill, and further clarify my neurosci courses registrations!! and of course i need to do more planning for my courses for the next 3 years! and decide which minor or second major i should take. lots of things to be done! not to mention packing almost everything i ever had and clearing all my jc and sec sch stuff in my room and the storeroom =\ busy busy! but now its time to sleep =)

 

sleepover is <3

wheeeeee today's wed! haha didnt do much at home.... just replied some email and did some clearing up of old old TIME and Newsweek magazines.... interesting to see all the old article headlines and news xP

having a sleepover now!! haha :DD but 2 out of 4 are already asleep xP yepp so i guess i wld have to go sleep soon too! xD

pigged out like crazy so i'm damn full now right before sleeping >< bad bad bad!!

had pizza hut ocean catch, bigger bites pizza and spicy drumlets... then tiramisu ice cream and potong mini popsicles! after that was nuts and pretzels.... and brown sugar coated banana slices! yumo but blehhh too much tibits at one go xD

FATTENING!

it is wednesday one am

it is wednesday 1am in the morning (: and i facebooked since 7pm on tues = 6 hrs on fb. HMMMMMMM..................

oh wells. (sheesh)

monday and tuesday was spent eventfully at leong's house! had good food and pancakes (: monday's lunch was fried beehoon! and later made our own pancakes YAYS <33 tues's lunch was rice with stew and fried cabbage! havent eaten stew for a long long time cos we just dont cook such things at home xP then had loacker's for snacks... ate a lot of them i think o.O and realised that they are called "low-ay-ker" and not "law-ker" as in locker =.=

sewed 2 soft toys on monday: panda and penguin! the 2 P's :PP panda was really big! and penguin was anorexic... my fault that the grain lines for the body was oriented in the horizontal instead of vertical direction, so we had such difficulty inverting the penguin inside out after sewing on the limbs, and in the process stretched it lengthwise like crazy >< ooops

today was really FRUITFUL! when i went to leong's hse around 1240 (late as usual), sam, zp and xt are already 3/4 way through the yellow lizard, while nancy and leong almost finished the bunny, so nancy started on sprite already :D so we managed to get 4 toys done!! they are: lizard, sprite (still need to secure eyes and nose), bunny (still needs to be clothed) and Tad&Pole! Aranzi aronzo is a genuis! haha cos his instruction for these toys are almost foolproof xD and they usually turn out super cute even if you messed up!! haha ;P really like the concept of Mr Tad and Mr Pole, tadpoles at various stages of development ^.^ Tad already has 4 legs while Pole is just emerging from the egg... check out fb photos! hehe

tmr jy gab and eilen coming over for sleep over!! must make sure i tidy up my room and my house and a level stuff tmr morning!! =( sighhh suppose to clean tonight too, but too tired already ><

au revoir!

i actly forgot i blogged on thurs ><

I was blogging about this monday's grocery shopping... before I realised I actually blogged about it on Thurs!! >< And I totally forgot that on Tues I was reading manhua =.= And I thought I was just youtubing and watching animes.... sigh. My memory is rotting! Or maybe just that this few days felt like they've been passing very slowly..... cos it felt as if all those things done in the past week was done like last last week or something xP

My brother is (was) sick! Sigh. So Friday totally didn't go as planned! Was suppose to go to the zoo with my brother and his classmates as part of a school trip, but then he got a fever of 38 degrees in the morning, so had to bring him to see the doctor. He's been coughing a little with a hoarse voice since wed, but thought it could just go away xP

Yepp so no more zoo but got tons of medicine!! >< Poor Adam! So basically he was feeling miserable the whole day + night, since the fever just kept climbing to like about 39.6 degrees

OOOO____OOOO

Even though didn't go to the zoo, I still went to dance classes as planned on Fri night (: Girl's hop hop was cool as usual :D haha. But I still think I really have to work on the groove and the attitude! As choon hui always says :P

After dance, went to eat Mexican food at Kopitiam! It's like this newly-opened stall, and I think can only find it in that Kopitiam, cos it's nearer to CBD area with lots of ang mohs! haha (: Had quesadilla which was $7.50, so its really expensive o.O but quite worth it cos the portion was very big, so I only ate half at the Kopitiam and taobao-ed the rest! Lol xD

Was thinking of going home straight away, but was drawn by the performance around SMU campus. Initially I thought it was something to do with the freshmen and orientation, but turns out it was for the Singapore Night Festival: New World 2010! Went around to explore, watched some hip hop, cha-cha and mambo... then saw some exhibitions... then went into the Singapore National Museum... hmm not sure if it is actually my FIRST time??!! Cos I honestly don't rmb ever being inside the museum... sigh... call myself a singaporean xP It was a bit lonely but kinda fun, cos it was a spur of the moment thing, and everyone I know is busy with stuff... plus it was really like, like 10pm alr xP By the time I came out of the museum, the entire road was so congested... with people! Turned out that they closed the road for a performance, so I couldn't even take bus at my bus stop... Had to walk to the next one, so in th mean time I was watching the performance called Paraboles 2.0, which featured 6 satellite dish-looking screens on cranes (short ones), accompanied by abstract video and live musical performances. I honestly didn't really get the thing, except it was supposed to be abstract, which actually is what it's supposed to be - a random composition (: But since I couldn't really appreciate it that well, I left halfway, also to avoid the departing crowd when everything finished... So that's how my Fri ended! No zoo, but got Night Festival instead xD Just that nowadays it's so hard to meet up with people... most have camps while other have pre-departure stuff as they're on schsp... then most poeple are not leaving so soon, while my days in Singapore are numbered and dwindling! I really wish to explore this place more before I leave, all the nice eating places and cool hang outs, plus I want to go clubbing with friend before leaving ;)

 Well back home, bro was still having fever ><

Sigh and then even though he keep taking the fever med, his fever was still high by Sat noon.... so its like quite worrying >< Contacted a few 24 hr clinics to ask if I shld bring him to the doctor immediately, or shld I wait till he finished his med.... but in the end the fever started to go down to about 37.8, so the current med (panamol) would do fine. If not I have to go and get ibuprofen for him, which is used to bring down very high fevers xP

Ran out of fever med this morning so had to visit the doctor again to get more med, just in case his fever goes up again later at night =X So it was another mad rush Sunday, with me getting my brother to the doctor, then paying for groceries which the maid got, before sending my brother to and fetching him from piano lesson at beauty world plaza... and had to do more grocery shopping while he was having his class xD once again today spent about 100 bucks on groceries!! I already almost spent a 100 bucks on Monday, which was the last time I went grocery shopping o.O

Anyway my brother's being a very bad boy! Sigh. I keep telling him to prac the piano, but he didn't. And then he got sick since Thurs, so he didn't prac at all till today. So he basically can't play the piece and didn't do his theory homework at all!! =( sigh. then I had to explain to the teacher.... him being sick and all....

After sending him back, I didn't have time to go back up my house, so had the maid to get my brother while I take off to hip hop lessons xP

kevin's lessons are kinda cool, cos his hip hop moves are not very conventional I should say, and he like to use alternative music too! haha. Today's lesson was "weird" according to him cos the music was pretty difficult to catch all the beats, and the choreo was not very hip hop actually. But I still enjoyed the lesson! I think I learn a lot more new things from him, since his lessons and choreos are so different from the rest :D So it was pretty fun seeing what other moves I can actually pull off decently :P hehe

After coming back was more grocery shopping! Sheesh I'm turning into housewife already =\ lol. Cos no more ginger and cooking oil at home! So ended up buying other things as well, like fruits, biscuits and yoghurt! :D yea I like non-fat yoghurt (:

Oh the only entertainment over the weekend was 2 movies from Singtel MioTV, since my brother wanted to watch TV but there was nothing nice at all, esp on a Sat weekend xP So watched Alice in Wonderland on Sat and The Princess and the Frog today (: I kinda watched Alice before, but didn't finish it... but I wathced the whole of Frog before, so nothing came as much of a surprise/funny anymore 8|    Was on my laptop half the time =.=

So that pretty much sums up the weekend, which really isnt much TT__TT

After I came back at night, I had to tidy up parts of the storeroom, cos have to make space to chuck my A Level stuff... which means have to clear like my stuff from primary school till rgs... A CHORE! >< But I kinda like clearing stuff in a way, once I get into the hang of things. It's really hard to get started, but once I do, I really like to finish it nice and neat ((:

ok now's like super late, but I left a mess outside in the living room and store room, so have to clear up or at least stow stuff away before tmr >< sigh... ciao then x|

twitter doesnt like my face

It was been like my 10th attempt at uploading a profile photo onto twitter which always ends in "Twitter is over capacity" =.=

Seriously my photo was like 488 kb? It says the limit is 700kb >< Yea that just shows twitter hates my face =(

But anyways, sunday class outing was fun :D Early in the morning went to Leong's house to bake muffins, which did not turn out to be as successful as those that she always makes. Maybe I didn't beat the batter well x] Or it's just because we tried to cook too many muffins in one batch. Still, even though they didn't rise as well, they smelled FANTASTIC! They had the creamy milky smell with a wift of chocolate (: They taste really nice too (: Just that they were not so firm and didn't look very muffin like x)

I finally managed to finish making farewell presents with Sam, Nancy and Leong's help :D Indeed 团结就是力量!! Haha (: Lucky we had 4 pairs of hands, if not I probably won't be able to finish all those little gifts in time xD But Sun was a rushing like crazy day. My intinerary was like:

type messages => prepare materials to do on the bus => board the bus => prepare gifts from taiwan on the bus => make muffins => finish farewell gifts with help of friends while baking muffins => go home and meet brother => bring him to piano lessons => bring him back home => finish up typing messages and finishing all farewell gifts => taxi to marina barrage => eat, fly kite and give out gifts => pack up and move to marina square for dinner

Dinner was great! Had it at the Pasta de Waraku Japanese pasta restaurant! Really great tasting prawn and octopus pasta in basil sauce! And bake rice that was creamy and fluffy! The chicken and mushroom pasta in tomato cream sauce wasn't that fantastic, but it was still good (: Me, xt and hc bought a double pasta set meal with soup, salad, main pasta and small bake rice, and a separate main pasta, which cost a total of $12 per person (incl GST and svc charge) but we had the most variety of food! And we were really full too ((: Contented!

So I was literally travelling the entire day! Tired much >< And considering the fact that I didn't sleep a wink the previous night, I kinda just collapse on Sun night after I came home xD

Monday was as unproductive as usual, except the fact that I went grocery shopping with my maid to buy the food that she's gonna cook for us for the next week, bcos my dad is in USA for 17 days! Sigh. Why does he have to go for so long! I need help clearing my stuff and packing too ><

Tues = READ "THE ONE" MANHUA DAY! OMG Thanks leong! It's Taiwanese manga/manhua by Nicky Lee, so actually its a shouju manga plot and you can just visualise it as a typical Taiwanese idol drama plot! But still I LIKE :D haha It's my kinda story (: Plenty of romance and comedy and really awkward situations! Now I can't wait for the next chaptered to be translated and scanned (: In the mean time I'm still reading Skip Beat! Just that new chapters take like a month to get released, so don't really have that much to look at (:

Currently watching animes:
Kaichou wa Maid-sama
Ookami-san to Shichinin no Nakama-tachi
Kuroshitsuji II
The Legend of the Lendary Heroes
Shukufuku no Campanella
Yumeiro Patissiere

Currently reading mangas:
Skip Beat
The One
Kaichou wa Maid-sama (intermitently)
07-ghost (sometimes)

And I'm sad that they lisenced Pandora Hearts, so I can no longer read the manga! It's super interesting and full of suspence and fantasy elements. Sigh. I wish they still had it! ><

Youtubing is fun too! Yepp so when I'm at home, I'm either
1) Youtubing
2) watching anime
3) reading manga
4) reading books
5) facebooking
6) twittering
7) blogging
8) blog surfing
9) checking email
10) smsing
11) watching TV
12) reading up mcgill information
13) eating
14) eating
15) eating
16) trying to get myself to pack/clear my room =.=

That pretty much sums up my day when I'm not going out! (Yea eating appears 3 times because I probably do that 3 times more than the other activities... or rather 3 times more than the average person who just stays at home and sits in front of the computer/tv)

yea that explains the weight gain of XXXXX kgs =.= honestly I don't know how I actually managed to lose wt the other time. Purely unintentional =X

Yepp I just looooooveeee food waaaayyy too much :DD Especially desserts. Yea I'm a totally DIET-FAIL person >< Shall TRY to exercise more (: But one good thing is I'm attending dance lessons! Yea (: LOVE girl's hip hop :D And the hip hop lessons are cool too.

On Wed finally went out with wy! Long time no see my friend! Watched Despicable Me (: REALLY CUTE FUNNY TOUCHING AND FAMILY ORIENTED! haha (: Go watch it! I really laughed a great deal, and honestly Gru is so funny ((: And so are the little kids! I think the French accent was really comical but can't imagine Steve Carell was the one doing the accent! (Steve Carell, comedian who acted in Get Smart and Evan Almighty)

After the movie was ice cream at Canelé! It serves French desserts and cakes and crêpes YUMMMM :D Ordered Nougatine, which was "Praline Ice cream with hazelnut nougatine, salty caramel and caramelize filo pastry" Loved the hazelnut pieces inside the ice cream! Praline ice cream can be really sweet, but the nuts balances the sweetness out really well. And the scoop was huge! So wy and I shared one (: But it was expensive too! (DUH) $8++, but still worth it ((:

After that was dance class! Work off some calories! Haha but I just gained everything back during dinner =.= sigh. Hiphop was fun, but it was mainly a re-teaching of the prev week's lesson. Andy said last week he's gonna continue this week but actually he just had about 1.5 eights more to go to finish, so the bulk of the lesson was like a recap for me =\ so very few new steps!

Today is suppose to be the day when I FINALLY start to CLEAR MY ROOM! and PACK! Yepp, so wish me luck at that and HOPEFULLY I will finish clearing my bookshelf today (:

Tmr will be accompanying my brother on his school trip to the Zoo! Haha. Haven't been there for such a long time! Heard there're many changes! Just that I wld be taking care of a bunch of other kids too =.= Sigh. He didn't show me the letter to parents earlier and I got myself into this thingy xD The worst thing is these few days are SUPER HOT! Like crazy. It probably like 34 degrees outside now, which is HOT for singapore xD So maybe it's still a good idea to just stay at home and slack xD Heh.

Next week having sleep over! And will be doing some handicraft. Hope I will settle all the McGill stuff ASAP! Seems like there are many things about course registration and selection to be done >< And I have to either call and email the Neurosci faculty advisor ASAP too xD

Ciao!

 

 

the week before departure

i like this song! omg love the harmonization :D

 

Lady Antebellum - Need You Now

havent blogged for 3 days! haha. this week seems to have flown by! seems like getting my life back to routine means that my days become shorter??!!! gosh. that's how it seems to me xD

tuesday was date with xy! haha honoured that i mentioned you on my vox? ;P hahaha

havent eaten starbucks muffin in a long time! its strange how old friends who havent met/talked for like over a year can just meet so spontaneously and spend the entire aftnn tgt! but i think we all have grown up havent we (:

and i'm still undecided! sheesh.

oh and bought dance pants at river island sale!!! u.p. was 69.9 but bought it for 25 bucks (: super duper comfy! really good quality cotton pants, can even wear to sleep xD haha

wed was appt with the gp. she said nothing can be done about the hypotension, cos got no drugs that alleviate BP, only those that lowers it =.= sigh. well i guess i should just lead a less sedentary life! have been jogging/exercising every morning since thurs (: thurs run about 2 plus km... then fri about 3 plus km...

feels great to have exercised! :D

but i pigged out after that =.= thurs went for lunch with hy and sam at shokudo! the food's great :DD and the bento set had a promotion, which was super cheap! at least very value-for-money, cos mine was $7.80 and it had shoyu rice, sukiyaki (lots of beef with cabbage, onions and mushrooms!), jap-style omelet (yum~) and miso soup! (:

then watched shrek forever after! well its funny and kinda lame, but rather enjoyable (: a bit short though, cos it was only about 1h 15min, which is quite short for an animation... usually they're abt 90min right? :P

talked about uni stuff at foodcourt! and met yrmates (: haha. so qiao3 la...

after that was dinner at j8 foodjunction with tw friends! everyone was pretty tired, but managed to come up with the packing list and allocated tasks for the itinerary, which is not completed! =.= we are like 3 days from flying laaaa. food at j8 was not bad. had a bowl of hand-sliced noodles for 6 bucks, but with a generous portion of pork meet and veggie! i like (:

that sums up how much i ate after a morning job... sighhhh

fri was a little uneventful, but strangely time still flew past. job in the morning, then lunch and nap... at night wen for dine in the dark! super fun experience, cos it was literally pitch black! lucky no mishaps with the food and drinks xD everyone's tables and plates were really clean by the end of the dinner when they switched on the lights, which totally stung my eyes >< my pupils were wayyy too dilated in the total darkness xD

then today didnt get to run cos it rained =( but still got to skip and wave board with my brother at the void deck.... only to realise later that my brother got a fever >< 38.8 degrees! quite high lehhh sighhh

waiting for my dad to come home for dinner now. was supposed to meet jy at jurong pt for yogurt but her plans changed so now she's alr back home, and then she's going USS for dinner! i wanna go too xP but i should rest and recover from my stupid sinus infection/cough.

but tormorrow watching backup plan at filmgarde cineplex in iluma! haha. never heard of the cineplex before, but it is the only cinema showing the backup plan now, so no choice i guess xD well we'll see if the place is nice (:

facebook is kind fun (: i'm so slack now

tonight have to start packing. then need to change $$. then have to decide on my uni stuff. then have to plan itinerary.

lots of things to do! x)

oh and i need a notebook to document our trip! plus i need to write down all the essential numbers, like the rail station, buses and airport xD

SNSD!

fetish over snsd and their dances! (: and their songs la haha (: quite ironic that at first when hc let me hear the song, i thought they were so overtly cute xD lol 

소녀시대(Girls' Generation)_Oh!(오)_MusicVideo(뮤직비디오)

소녀시대(Girls' Generation) _ 소원을말해봐(Genie) _ MusicVideo(뮤직비디오)

Girls' Generation(소녀시대)_RunDevilRun(런데빌런)_Story version_MusicVideo(뮤직비디오)

and then the only member of the group who can truly sing/has a great voice/really talented: taeyeon! haha.

 

SNSD Concert- Taeyeon 'Hush Hush' solo @ Shanghai (100417)

and in comparison, another member tiffany whose solo was less impressive :X lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLSs8N4e3eg (i guess not that worth it to actly put the actual video here xD)

but still surfing YT is funnn! ((;

fun on YT

the making of telephone! haha. love gaga's songs. epic.

 

Lady Gaga - Telephone ft. Beyoncé (Behind the Scenes)

and the newest "susan boyle" on britain's got talent xD

 

Janey Cutler - Britain's Got Talent 2010 - Auditions Week 4

options - boon or bane?

today woke up at 930 then went back to sleep till 1130. the life of the newly unemployed! (: well i guess i deserve a break before university starts

watched anime/shows and facebooked till 3pm before going for my appt at RH skin centre. and i totally bombed a 100 bucks on almost nothing. sheesh shld have gone to see the GP first!!! >< sigh. ok i guess all the hard work at med sch will eventually pay off... when i'm like 40 xD lol. mayb not that bad, but from the time i'm 20 till i turn 30, my life wld prob = no life xP but then again, if i go overseas, it'll be the same, just that i can prob enjoy the first 3-4 years a little bit more x)

met gab at kino to get a card for eileen, then met jy at city hall for subway dinner (: well the subway club is very nice! haha. shows how long i havent eaten subway alr. but now i think i'm in big trouble cos my appetite is getting bigger and bigger! >< last time i used to be full just eating the sandwich, now i feel like there's still a lot of room for perhaps a dessert xD sighhh. after all the working night shifts and the late -night/early-morning suppers/breakfasts, my stomach capacity has greatly expanded, and so has the adipose cells at my tummy, ESPECIALLY at the tummy >< no wonder they said suppers make you fat and unhealthy, cos all those unused calories goes to the abdominal fat cells, which will eventually form an organ on their own and cause hormonal and other system imbalances in the body. JUST GREAT. you can just imagine what i will turn into when i'm 30, when my metabolism rates take a plunge.

(i've gained 3 freaking kg in 4 months!!!! isnt that like a record or something???!!! sheesh)

then sy gave me a call, and told me she's staying local! :O

now i'm even more undeicided whether i'm staying local or overseas! sheesh. let's see...

local: guaranteed med sch, less years of studying, cheaper tuition fees, get to stay with good friends, start practicing earlier (earning earlier) BUT less social life for (probably) first 6 years, will be seeing the same schoolmates, prob end up staying local for a long long time

overseas: more undergrad life, new friends, independent living, new environment, get to speak french, more room for diversity in subjects BUT not guaranteed med school, longer years of studying (for med), requires more tuition fees (for MD)

well i guess academically speaking, if i really wanna do med, s'pore is so as to speak "an easier and faster" way out. less cost, shorter study and confirmed doctor! (: i'm rather excited at the prospect of being called dr huang xD lol. conceited-ness =.=

and now more and more people are staying local! gosh. it's so hard to convince myself anymore. or rather now i'm more swayed to local than ever! >< everyone's saying if it's just for the overseas experience, i can go there for masters or just go for exchange programs. but but but i wld really love a brand new environment and meets new people and make new friends! then again these friends cld be transient as after 4 years of undergrad, everyone may go in his/her own way. and even in university, it mayb hard to find a bunch of close friends since class sizes are big and i could just end up with many acquaintances xP

sigh. well another deciding factor is if i want to stay in sg or canada in the future. i mean in terms of job prospects and social scene, canada will prob be a better choice since its so much bigger, and i can also venture into USA for my studies or my work. then again being a doctor anywhere would probably have good job prospects, just different in terms of perhaps the earnings or the type of lifestyle they lead. singapore is honestly not a bad place to stay. vibrant, fun, ever-changing, so if you come back 3-4 years later, sg wld have changed pretty drastically. so it's a pretty exciting place to be. at last accessibility and security wise sg is really good (: and of course the foooooood :D

haha. so many good points here. i cant even make an comparison since i dont know life in canada very well. but montreal definitely sounds like fun :D with all the french speaking people, and the fact that i would be in a new country! that's really exciting. i guess all along i have been looking forward to going north america to study, so the desire has been very ingrained. it's hard to convince myself to give up the spot in mcgill, but then again nus med is really attractive. still, i heard from many nus med students or doctors that if you get the chance to study overseas, go go go! i guess it's a totally different experience, and it would be great to be able to enjoy the best years of your life! i mean nus med is srsly tough life! well as much as overseas med is gonna be very difficult, the very fact that i get to go overseas and study would be super cool (: and even though to get into med school later i will still need to do very well for my undergrad neuroscience, it would still be rather different from med school i.e. enjoy 3-4 years before the serious mugging start.

but the flip side of the coin is study longer = start work later = less money earned = more money spent on studying. and that would also play a part in terms of financing my studies since i'll still have to loan from the bank to study at graduate med school.

great. so now i'm even more confused than ever >< sigh. how how how how...  

eventually d-day will come

it's late, but i'm looking forward to dance classes this friday! woots (: finally got down to setting the date and going for classes, but i really really really hope i can somehow get the student price! ;P well hopefully i still look like a student x)

i guess i'm really enjoying life now... oh wait i still need to answer astar and iras >< sigh. what to do? its feels sad to be giving everything up. but then again, i'm doubtful if that's what i really want.

i guess it wld have to come to a point of time when i have to make the decisions. just that i dont have enough courage and determination to decide and set the path which i'll eventually walk