A break from pictures of food haha.

After spending almost 4 hours on the research paper, I'm finally done with around half of my part. There was this sudden realisation that the deadline is on the 8th, while I'm in Cambodia. I feel really uneasy leaving it all to my partner =/ so I want to make sure I get to check the paper before I leave..but that would mean completing my part as early as possible, as for when he'll complete his..from what he said, I doubt it'll be before I leave. I'll just hope for the best then..hopefully he'll remember whatever I tell him about the writing.

I watched new moon yesterday with p760s - wei xuan who very happily pang sehd us to babysit his cousin. I will honestly say that it's one of the most horrible movies that I've ever seen. Even after watching horrible budget zombie movies, or even those very old black and white films, new moon is like..a new level of lousiness. It's so..slow paced, no wonder we had to endure 2hours and 10mins of it, and it's so crappy omg, not to mention cliche and extremely predictable. It was the first time that I kept checking my watch to know how close I was to the end. But in it's own horrible way, it was still pretty amusing, it just depends on who you watch it with =)

And then there's..TAP! THE Admin Proposal. Wan jing you must have some obsession with the word tap, first tap tap and now..TAP. Haha I'm really glad I got to join, though the hard work is still to come! But at least, I'll be working with you guys ;)

On a sadder, RIP The Rev, one of the few drummers that I've seen that can drum madly well and still scream/sing at the same time.

Ahhh, my end of year post, it'll only come after my research paper, and that might be after new year D= oh well, more motivation for me to complete the paper asap.

Haha okay, better sleep now, I shall wake up EARLY to continue on the paper.

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darren
Dreams are for weaving
Wonders are waiting to start

This is prawn graveyard, only 12 prawns..but I swear I will eat more the next time around..plus it's so cheap, only 4 sing dollars for like 15, ahhhhh 小肥羊 steamboat.

Merry christmas everyone! I am back from hong kong of course. The trip was..quite okay I would say, I would go again, but I think I'd want to go with friends haha, I still need to go to some cold country with ephraim and to choo's house in malaysia. It was pretty much sight seeing on the first 2 days or so, and shopping from then on, with the occassional disneyland and ocean park in between. There's not much sight seeing to do in hong kong, giant buddha, cable car with glass floor, nice big buildings. Sight seeing is done more often in restaurants and shopping malls.

I love the food in hong kong, it's not THAT cheap, but it's quite reasonable I guess, maybe because I'm not the one paying o.o but even very normal places can serve good food, like the cha can tings, which I expected to see very much of but actually turned out to be quite elusive unless you know where to look.

Shopping was..the best of times..shopping was the worst of times. There's plenty of cheapER stuff there, but cheaper does not necessarily cheap, like, after half price it can still be 100 bucks, all the branded outlet stores with nice stuff that I can see and touch and cannot buy. Then there's 女人街 with all the "copy" items as they call it, yes, the stall owners actually tell you that they are selling "copy bags" and "copy watches". They have nice stuff that I can and can touch and can buy but will never buy, but good thing the actual stores around there are like hong kong queensway.

Disneyland and ocean park were not as exciting as I thought they would be, but still fun nevertheless. The only thing worth riding in disneyland was the space mountain, which was mildly exciting. Ocean park had 2 roller coasters, one of which was not very fast but had longer drops, and the other one which was faster and went upside down(for a split second only) and hardly had any drops o.o abyss was fun though, higher than the one I took in japan, plus I got to look at people in the other tower sitting right opposite me waving at me and then suddenly plunge down. And I didn't get any abyss related sicknesses yay. We stayed for the nightly fireworks in disneyland, and it was quite amusing to see this couple standing in the middle of the street leading to the exit making out and blocking everyone's way when hordes of people were rushing out immediately after the fireworks had ended.

I would say one of the best parts of the trip would be meeting up with(part of) the chats peeps. Alex, ben chin and I met up with hilda and iris at times square to wait over an hour for a table and random running around and taking neoprints haha. The thing was that, it felt really surreal seeing them again. Like, I was pretty much sure that on that early morning when we woke up to send them off, it would be the last time I would ever see them again. When I was standing there waiting for alex before meeting up with hilda and iris, I saw hilda run down the escalator, and I knew it was her, but then again I could not believe it was her, so I stood there and stared. Haha, it was a lot of fun meeting them again, but, walking out of the restaurant, it felt exactly the same, if not worse.

I'm not feeling exceptionally happy on christmas, I'm alright with it not being very special, since we don't really celebrate it, but I'm feeling really empty again all of a sudden for I don't know what reason.

There's this group or page or something on facebook, that goes something like I want to talk to you but I don't know what to say, and I want to talk to you but I'm not starting first or whatever, I know that's not right but I'm too lazy to check. In real life, when you're with someone, it's okay to not talk, and enjoy each other's company. But, us being students, we can't possibly go out everyday, most of the time we're just, talking online or smsing. It is said that true friends can meet, not say a word, and leave feeling that it was the best conversation they had ever had(from Jim), but, if you go online, say hi, the other person says hi, and you stone, not knowing what to say next, then you say stupid things, and you wish that you never started the convo at all. And then there are times when you have your cursor highlighted over someone's display name, and wondering whether you should double click it at all. But then again, sometimes the best friends are those that you can not talk to in who knows how long, but when you see each other, you can talk like you've known each other forever.

I have a lot of stuff to do that I'm not doing, clean my room, research paper, find album art so that my itunes will look nice, READ and EXERCISE. Usually I have to write stuff down so that I'll force myself to do it, but you know you need to clean your room when you can't even find the book you're supposed to write in to remind yourself to clean the room.

But..I shall do some things tomorrow, cut my hair, watch it might get loud and sunshine cleaning, and hopefully clean my room.

darren
You're everything I thought you never were,
And nothing like I thought you could've been

Just a quick one, I have 7mins before the cab arrives..okay 6 now.

Somehow it doesn't feel like I'm flying off today, like, no urgency o.o and I have 2 sore arms now, one with a burning sensation every now and then that is irritating, especially when I'm trying to sleep. They decided to give me one on the right and two on the left instead.

Yong zhi just showed me the article about dr hon becoming principal, I got to know it in advance because troy gave the very wise statement yesterday haha, check it out in the home section.

So weird..we're bringing 4 laptops there, one for each person. And my bag is the most valuable, with laptop, camera, and expensive earphones omg o.o and my passport.

Okay time to go, hopefully I'll get to meet the rest there..bye and take care!

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SUPPER AT 11+PM yay yay yay, I'm so gonna become fat but who cares, the food is goooooooood! And now everyone is sitting in the hotel room using the internet that costs 40 dollars an hour o.o
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darren
To fill this hole,
Connect the space between

How dare they associate me with whatever vampire thing, I boycott twilight/new moon and whatever and I get this!

Happy birthday to troy, yee shing and bradley! In no order of merit but in order of birth.

Okay so..on Monday I went tennising with yongle, and movie/random shopping with him and aaron at cine.



And this is the photo aaron forced me to take..too bad I didn't get the one with ronald mcdonald. We watched the perfect getaway..and..unless you want to spend your time thinking about the plot that seems very smart but is actually very flawed and you will want your money back in the end, don't watch it. But if you have a lot of money, go ahead. After the very long shopping, yongle bought 1 t-shirt.

We had the cambodia briefing today..it seems quite exciting..only thing is the sudden need for 3 jabs. Went to marina square after that and ate at manhattan for the MUDPIE but they had NO MORE MUDPIE damn it. Then it was kbox, during which we troy and I were screaming our lungs out and I have a terrible sore throat now. We can make any song a rock song, yeah. Kbox is too ex gah, stupid 6 dollar per 2 heads tidbits.

2 amazing things shall happen tomorrow. I will fly off with a packed luggage, I haven't started o.o and I shall have hept a, thyphoid and flu jab all at once which means 3 x more chances of side effects and pray that I do not get swelling, muscle pain, joint pant, fever, head pain, nose pain, leg pain, hand pain or any other complications. And guess what! 3 shots have to be at different places, one on left arm, one on right arm..where's the lucky shot number 3 going to be?

Time to pack yay yay yay. Peng, troy and alex need to remind me to give them their stuff!

darren
I thought I lost you somewhere
But you were never really ever there at all

This is 58th pop. Gordon had a electric guitar crash course at yu jie's house before we went to amoy quee camp. The shuttle bus took a super big round, no idea why, it would be faster to walk but at least we didn't have to walk yay. Congrats to yongle, yang cheng and kah how for going through and passing out =) I learnt how to harness the unconscious mind through image visualisation.



And this is onion loaf from tony romas. It's just a lot of onion rings, but it's super filling. I love that restaurant now, even though this is probably the second time in life that I've been there. They actually refilled my iced water with sprite..well..it became diluted sprite, but it was free.

Popular bookfest thingy was..very big with many many books. But the concentration is definitely less than yu jie's library room in his house. But there were a lot of cool things like electric stapler omg o.o 300 bucks, I'll never buy that for christmas.

Okay I better finish up soon or else I'll be zombie to..day. I think that, as much as you don't want to regret your actions, sometimes you have to choose the path that you'll regret less. Haha I think that I'm damn pessimistic or something, in other words, benefit or whatever good thing more. But I guess I prefer using regret as a deterrent. There's something that I want, but because of a lot of factors, and one especially large one that may have made me getting what I want counter productive, I chose to give it up. But somehow, I know that I would have accomodated everything else if I really wanted it bad enough. Oh well, it's already over.

We should always look forward to tomorrow, which is today, because ng peng is getting married.



darren
Over the line,
Can't define
What I'm after

In like, 5 mins on tuesday after food distribution, my entire week became packed from being completely free.

Went to harbourfront mrt to look for mrs khoo haha, it was on the nel anyway so I just popped by before going to kovan. She was supervising her sons while they collected donations for salvation army. I had no idea how long I was there, I was just standing there talking to her and watching her son do all sorts of funny things to get more donations, when suddenly he asked "you know you stand here for 1 hour already or not" and I was like o.o haha but it was a nice chat with mrs khoo..math lessons will never be the same.

The intended plan was to go bowling at kovan, but they were having some competition. So we went for pool, which was scam. The woman was like $9.10 per hour, then we walked away, and she suddenly said, 六块，要不要？and yu jie was reminded of bargaining with people in beijing, but we rejected her offer because we found a place that was much cheaper, free in fact, bertrand's house.

Visited harbourfront again today, for lunch and movie. We caught feng yun since it was the only one which was showing at that time and we wouldn't be late for o.o it was unexpectedly hilarious, okay it wasn't supposed to be, but somehow we always found something to laugh at, I think the people in front were quite irritated lol. There was not a single scene in the movie that was meant to be funny. I love the yawning scene, if you watch it, see if you can spot it! Yun gets so powerful that he yawns halfway through fighting..nevermind I shan't be spoiler and tell you who he fights. The ending was..wth, that's what we said. You will also find out why if you watch =) you don't have to watch the first one to understand, because they pretty much give you a background in the first 10 seconds. The movie would have ended at least an hour earlier if they played everything at normal speed.

I don't really like posting like this..it's really boring for me to post, and really boring to read, but..boredom, gah. Okay that's all for now, I shouldn't chat so much while watching csi o.o I keep losing the plot.

darren
You try to wind your watch,
But we're all running out of time

Cheese omelette HAHA. This is what you do when you are bored..or rather when I am bored. The amazing thing is that I've never even cooked a normal omelette before o.o though this one was cooked in a super small pan, it was just an experiment that came out quite good heh. I shall try again with a less squashed up pan next time. Microwaved cheese is @_@ despite all the oil being very visible after you microwave it, it's just so good. The fats burnt during last night's run are coming back to haunt me.

I'm having trouble remembering what I did last friday o.o oh well. Saturday turned out quite well, we went shopping for ingredients in the morning while peng bought chicken heh. Then we had wrap making in the rain at troy's house before playing pool and then playing in the pool.

I had the most intense match so far on saturday, I can't expect less from a gold medalist after all o.o every sunday I go there and train with people who are many many many many levels higher than I am, but every sunday he reminds me not to be intimidated by the colour.

Yesterday was probably my last session at ntu, it's just writing the research paper now. I still can't stand the travelling time..no matter how much sleep I've had the night before, I'll just end up sleeping on the bus and/or mrt, and end up super tired in the lab again. Made a wasted trip to clementi later in the evening, they didn't tell us that they didn't deliver the food, so we have to pack earlier today.

I've gone back to my habit of taking the stairs instead of the lift and not be a lazy pig. First reason is so that I won't be fat..actually how much fat can you burn climbing the stairs, but nevermind. Second reason is because I get to see the funny cats on the second floor that will sit there and stare at me and run away if I go too close while I stand there and stare at them too. I bet anyone who walks past will think that I'm crazy because they'll see 3 cats staring at a crazy person staring back at the 3 cats. But at least I don't have to take the lift and risk dropping my keys into the lift well.

Have you ever wondered, if one day someone you knew suddenly..disappeared(sounds nicer). When you take your phone out, you're scrolling through the contacts, and you see that person's contact still there, what would you do?

I wonder if you regret ever starting. Looking at the way things are now, I kinda do, but looking back, then again, I don't. But I really wonder what it would be like now, if it never started. Maybe we..or rather I didn't see it back then, but it was a choice of eating the fruit and enjoying back then, or planting the seeds and letting them grow. (I know you can eat the fruit and still plant the seeds but nevermind, let's just say that..okay it's a coconut),

Looks like I won't be going out much these few days unless anyone is free, choo is in china climbing mountains, so probably too little people to go out since troy, peng and yao nian are rarely free on the same day.

I shall finish one more episode before going off for lesson yay.

darren
Tired of livin' like a blind man,
I'm sick inside without a sense of feeling