mumbo jumbo + nydc !

its name says it all. no wonder we're such regular customers..

you know, before the dishes are being served, we're given peanuts to snack on. and people who starve themselves to enjoy every bit of their dinner, like me, munch on tasty peanuts! hey, we pay for it anyway!

but for me, i like to have them dipped in chilli sauce, especially the sourish spicy kind.. YUMMM! hahaha! at first, the girls didn't realise i was doing it, but then when they finally caught me doing it, they tried too. GUESS WHAT? they love it toooo! :D:D:D you should try it too, if you take the spiciness.

the peanuts and the chilli sauce!!

chungie got caught in the act, dipping the peanut into the chilli sauce!!! HAHA!

why are we concentrating on PEANUTS in jumbo!?! man.. into the main dishessssss!!

麦片虾！

i still prefer this dish de-shelled.. hahaha. i dunno.. it's yummier!

soon hock fish in soy sauce... very, very tender and smooth and yummy... mmm..

scallop with yam. YUMMINESSSSSSSSSSSS! we got 50% off this dish too, thanks to the coupon i got from jumbo calendar for the month of june! yay! hahaha.

ordering.

chungie, mel and myself. (: yes, i'm still wearing my glasses...

erm.......


and finally, the main dish we've all (except mel cos' her tongue's sensitive to spiciness) been waiting for.....



CHILLI CRAB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

oooooooooooooohhhhh.... yeahhhhhhh.

we're all so excited!!!!! even mel got influenced!

from the other side of the table - steph and qi!!!

dinner with dad yesterday was at crystal jade palace. man. i must tell all of you that crystal jade has 3 branches on 4th floor of ngee ann city ITSELF. u MUST confirm which branch you called - whether it was 拉面，korean cuisine or palace. 拉面 doesn't take reservations though.

it was SUPER busy. we booked for a table at 730pm and because they got the spelling of my surname wrong (theung, instead of Cheung.. man.... *smacks forehead*), they gave me ideas that i called the wrong branch, and so i was made to walk around the whole of 4th floor looking for the other 2 branches and asking if i accidentally made a reservation there.

of course they found out their mistake about my surname, but we still had to wait for 15 more minutes before we FINALLY got our table. yes, they were EXTREMELY EXTREMELY busy.

i was long awaiting to have some roast duck, but because we finally ordered at 815ish, they were all sold out......... ):

overall, i thought the food wasn't the best.. i was hoping to taste better goods, but... was kinda diasppointed. oh well! shall just stick to 拉面 in future! hehe.

went to have late dessert at nydc with dad and jon after that!

shit, i look like a mum with my glasses. yuck.

with dad. do i look abit like him? everyone says so.

very sleepy jon. it was 11+ then.

HAHAHAHA. flash phobia.

my tiramisu mud pie. it was something like an ice cream cake. not too bad. but by the time i was done with half of it, the ice cream was melting like one kind. but the kahlua biscuit underneath was liquor-ish enough! very yum!

jon had double trouble inside out or SOMETHING LIKE THAT.. hahaha.

cos jon dropped a few teet very recently, he was complaining that the chocolate chips were too HUGE and too hard... == that's a first time for me, really..

see how he picked all of them out!

tsktsk.

3 more days here. and about 2 more days for me to do my research. GOSH..............

silly grandma ^^

at about 4+am this morning:

ah ma: (shaking me up) minah.. minah, yanning no come back..
me: huh...?
ah ma: yanning no come back lah..

(after realising it was my ah ma)
me: (in Hokkien) orh, ah ma, wa si yanning lah!!! (orh, ah ma, i'm yanning lah!)

hahaha. my silly grandma.

because i was expecting a call this morning at 5am, i slept in my mum's room so i wouldn't wake my grandma up from her sleep. but being sucha light sleeper, my ahma was aware that i wasn't on the bed next to hers.. so unknowingly, she came to my mum's room, assuming i was the home helper (whose name is NOT minah. she calls all home helpers minah) without switching the lights on, and was asking for me. by the way, the home helper sleeps in ANOTHER room. so funnnnnny!!!!

^^

no matter how confused my ahma can get, i'm happy cos my ahma cares for me!

7 more days and i won't see her for another few months.. ):

steamboat @ my place!

Wanna thank Lyn for preparing the steamboat for us while we were still SOOO busy playing ticket to ride! haha. we're such fans now, i tell you.

the girls were particularly MAD over Lyn's oven baked chicken-yummy-wings! They even asked her to share the secret recipeeee. (: pictorials!

jon left for school halfway thru the dinner.. awww.. we'll miss ya jon!! cya this fri!

i look like crap lah.

we were soooo full but there was soo much food left, so chungie suggested the 0-25 finger game to clear all the food on the table. trust me, it worked. we had to stuff our faces with more fooood! i was so full i really could hurl then.

And we even webcammed Thazin cos' poor her is in Malaysia studying for her finals! The connection was SOOOOOOO crappy take a look at this:

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LOLLLLLL. what's with that yellow band it's SO WEIRD lah!! and her expression.. and her primary school glasses ooooooh mannn.. so cute lah!!!

i think thazin's gonna kill me when she sees me, but hopefully the next time i see her (which is most prob next year), she'll forget about this picture and stop haunting me.. HAHA!!

Despite my sore left eye, I still met up with my cousins for dinner at Imperial Treasure @ Marina Square (I wonder if it's PART of the Crystal Jade corporation, or just a new restaurant with the same concept. hmms.) for some 拉面 and 小笼包!!

After dinner we needed some exercise, so off we chiong into Mango, Zara, Topshop, Miss Selfridge, Charles and Keith, DMK - oh how we loveeee GSS (Great Singapore Sale!)!!

Jon joined us later for Swensen's and more shopping! Hahaha. STICKY CHEWY CHOCOLATEEEEEEEE~! Our childhood all time favourite!! Yumyumyum!!

Yay!

my sore eye..

i never imagined how awesome my camera was, until i took this photo of my eye. 0.0

woke up with loads of eye crap in both eyes (sogross sogross sogross), something that i've never experienced before in my life!!! so gross so gross, the bits were dry and it was on my lashes, around my eye, everywhere!!! after washing off the disgusting bits, i found out that my left eye lid was swollen, and my eye was red, as you can see from the top picture. see, even my top eye lashes don't curl up anymore.. and my double eyelids are GONE!!

i suspect it's due to my contact lenses. couldn't remember when i was supposed to change to another pair, and so, i concluded it must be due to absent-minded me and my expired contact lenses. hopefully my eye gets better soon, otherwise i'm gonna visit the gp tomorrow!

get well soon!!!

what have i been up to?

Cut/layered my hair! (it only looks great after the hairdresser blew my hair. after that it really isn't awesome). And I shaped my eyebrows! (:(:(:(:


Ticket to ride at Chungie's! I LOVE THIS GAME IT'S SO FUN!!!


Chungie's the STAR BEARER. When is it gonna be my turn?


Preparing for our 'picnic'!


picnic at chungie's due to the drizzle! we still had fun! :D


with alien turtle!! (chungie i still insist on calling guigui that! hehehe)


this is sucha cute lamppp LOL.


had oxtail soup at ayam penyat ria! it's so yummmmmmmy!


tried on my new compact powder from the face shop. i really like it (:

Sweet one.

My baby AJ~~ ^^

Going shopping later cantwaitcantwaitcantwait. :]

BRAND NEW BLOG SKIN..

.. but still the same ol' blogger!

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I'm back in Singapore and as usual, IT'S TOO HOT! We need winter, just a mild one will do! Haha! (I'm hard to please..)

Gonna get my hair cut, brows shaped, nails polished, and of course, immense in the season of the Great Singapore Sale!

Weee!

A comforting word of advice

lyds : from now on.... says:
think abt those married couples who have to live separately cos of work

lyds : from now on.... says:
those american soldiers who go to east timor and to iraq and afganistan

lyds : from now on.... says:
and those war countries....

lyds : from now on.... says:
they are apart for months

lyds : from now on.... says:
when u are with each other.. u develop together and grow together and understand each other

lyds : from now on.... says:
then when u are apart for various reasons.. u grow with urself

lyds : from now on.... says:
u grow in urself and this will strengthen ur personality and benefit the relationship.. its something very general not just u and james


Man, Lyds is totally a teacher, and a counsellor. I felt wayyy better after seeing what she told me.

My lesson of the day - Learn to be a strong girl! Learn, grow and develop for the benefit of the relationship. (:


ONE MORE ORAL EXAMINATION TO GO AND I'M SWEET TO FLY BACK TO SINGAPORE!!

of course i'll miss everyone else back here in dunners and the whole of NZ..

p.s. did i mention that i survived the scary OSLER examination with my home tutor? i passed man. it was really scary though. he told me i could do better, and i know that.. the case was verY veRY vERY VERY complicated and i was restricted by the time limit i couldn't probe for more info from the patient. but oh well, I PASSED! :D

It's so hard..

I tell myself it's just a temporary goodbye, but it's not helping me..


Chagi ya.. )':

I'm up and jumping~!

YAYYYYYYYYY~!

I passed my OSLER this morning.. (: It was with another consultant, and it was a pretty easy case, so it wasn't a surprise that I passed.. Haha. Anyhow, I'm happy already. The other OSLER with my home tutor's on Tuesday. I saw him this afternoon and he told me that he would give me a COMPLICATED case. My partner who took my turn yesterday got a very unexpected case and didn't do well eventually. ): I guess I have to work hard this weekend then! Of course after my date with Lyds tomorrow night for 27 dresses and pizza. Woohoo! :D Can't wait.

Lydsy~!

Ate with Jen this afternoon @ Seoul and my, haven't seen her in AGES! We were chatting non-stop (REALLY non stop I tell you! Even eating with our mouths full HAHA), from Fix cafe to Seoul restaurant (they're next door to each other HAHAHAHA). Jen, I truly enjoyed that 1hr 15 min with you. (: And I'm so happy for ya~! *winks winks* ROFL. Must ask me out soon ah!!

Miss my MICN301 ladiessss~~~ ):

Just came back from on call tonight, and decided not to attempt clerking the 2nd patient for the night, especially after trying that for those few on call nights. Cos' by the time I clerked the 2nd patient, my eyes were == and my tone was ..... I don't think I wanna try that again! Hehe.

James is out tonight - studying for his test tomorrow, and having an end of semester 'party' at his friend's place. Yes. AT THE SAME TIME. Funny, ay? Chagiyaaa~~ 快回来哦！ Come back to town. Pine Hill's not as fun as town. Hahaha.


Byeeee~!

Roll on floor.. In pain.

The time of the month arrived, and the cramp was EXCRUCIATING. Jess, tell the people about the pain!

Site - Umbilical area
Onset - In the morning, during ward round
Character - CRAMPY. Always there. Getting worse
Radiation - Was focal at first, but became very generalised to the whole abdomen
Associated features - panicking cos' I was supposed to have an exam the same afternoon
Time course - Just there for long time.
Exacerbation/Relief: No exacerbations, relief from Naproxen Sodium 125mg.
Severity - 10/10. I'm so sorry I'm just can't tolerate pain. I got zero tolerance.

So my colleague did the exam instead of me, but the one tmr is still on.. Thank God I'm feeling so much better now with the miracle pill NAPROXEN~!~!~! Girls should try it man, for menstrual cramps. Works miracles.

Cooking time. Toodles.

Happy Birthday Janice // Don't like this.

Happy birthday, Janice sistelllllll. You're 20 finally! Seriously, like, FINALLY. When was the last time someone said you look YOUNGER than 20??? Like.. When you were 15? LOL. Anyway! Welcome to the twenties club! It's not like it's a huge change in your life lah, but the age is creeping up on ya and soon you'll be 50. HHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAA. Okay I'm so mean. I'm older than you anyway so just laugh at me. ==

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LAH. HOPE YOU FIND YOUR PRINCE CHARMING SOON. MUST BE SOMEONE WHO CAN TOLERATE YOU AND ME K? lollllll. GOD BLESS YA SISTEL! ^^

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CHANGE OF MOOD. SERIOUSLY DAMN MOOD SWING LAH.


Deafening silence. It's damn freaky.

I guess this might be the first time I'm home alone, with no music on, no drunkards singing as they walk past, no James to nag at me saying I'm a nerd. No drama from Janice's room. Only the lap top's fan making the most irritating sound.

I don't like this.

It's my Summative OSLER tomorrow. It's like having a consultant sitting next to you as you take a history from the patient and do examinations on them. I've had my practice one last week. It went okay, except for the presentation part. But now I'm freaking out all over again. And another surprise OSLER with another consultant the next day. Wasn't really a surprise, just a bit too early to what I would imagine.

I guess it's stress + being alone at home. James' gone to his friend's place to relax cos' he hasn't got any exams... I feel terrible nowww. I can't describe this feeling.

To my dear friend.

Yes girl, you'll get through this.

You're the bravest and sweetest girl I know, and I'm very sure that you've got that faith and it will not bring you down.

I'm here for you, and you know that! Be it breakfast, lunch, dinner, coffee, supper or just plain greediness (hehe), swimming (nono, no gym..), or karaoke-ing, I'll gladly do it with ya.

Will keep you in my prayers, my dear friend. Don't give uppp! You won't lose to it this time. (:

CHEER UP!

Post on-call.

Sunrise ( or post sunrise?) at 8am. Taken by JAMES CHANG.

I had intentions of staying at the hospital a wee bit longer for more drawing of blood from patients (need more practice.. saw my colleague this morning going around the ward with the trolley and saw her draw blood from a patient. SHE WAS DAMN PRO. oh man!! i'm sucha noob.), but I developed this sort of tension headache minutes before my very informal presentation to my consultant, and I was definitely gonna inflict harm on my patients, so I skipped.

Man, waking up at 730am after a 15hour shift he day before is not funny. I even had to miss my baking session with Lyds, Jen and Rach this afternoon....... ZZZ. After lunch at Subway (haven't had that for AGES! Miss it so much..), got a Mocha Latte and went home to... Chill. It was awesome. Just enjoying my coffee and not thinking of anything to do with the hospital is really very relaxing. I haven't been so tired before, and neither have I enjoyed Saturday as much as I am now. Thank God for weekends. Seriously.

James is complaining that I'm not talking about him again. James is very happy because he finished his assignment so he can enjoy his weekend, with me. HAHA. We haven't been spending much time together cos' of out busy schedules, mostly because of my on calls. So this is a good time. (:

Gonna enjoy a movie with him now. Tata.

Dead tired.

Queen's birthday on Monday.

Everyone around me is saying to one another, 'have a great long weekend!'. Everyone have wide smiles on their faces. Some are thinking or has already PLANNED on a weekend trip to somewhere nice and relaxing. Some are going to just lay back and stay home with their beloved ones. Except Jess (and the rest of the Medical team), BECAUSE WE'RE ON CALL THIS LONG WEEKEND!

Got back from the night on call at 2315ish, and I was both hungry and tired. I had to choose whether or not I wanted to eat at all. I was famished, so I opted to eat. Great. I hate sleeping right after eating, so I watched a little bit of TV, still trying to stay awake, think through what I've seen on tonight's duty, watch a little bit more, then showered, and now using the com. I'm extremely tired now but I think this is the best time to express how very tired I can get and how dysfunctional I can be when I don't get enough sleep/have been doing too much in the day.

Had my practice OSLER today. It was a simple cardio case. I did get all the questions and findings (EXCEPT FOR THE MURMUR. I thought it was both mitral regurgitation and aortic stenosis, but it was only aortic stenosis with radiation to the axilla!!! sorry, pardon me.), but I presented pretty badly.. So I really have to brush up my presenting.. Especially the summary, when I don't EVEN summarize at all. This is bad. The real thing's either next week or the week after. It's going to depend on the coin and which face I choose. Yep, gonna flip the coin with my colleague to see who goes first.

It's Janice's birthday this Tuesday and I haven't even gotten anything for her. See I'm even saying what I'm thinking right now, I think I should stop blogging.

My eyes are the size of slits and they're burning.. And dry... Ward round at 8am. It's 1:03am now.

Happy long weekend, guys.

Cutting throats.

I've been having really negative feedback of the people at the hospital, especially my colleagues.. And I don't even know how to deal with it.


It seems like if one wants to excel and get Distinctions in our runs, then we gotta do everything right, get every answer to their question right, be ALWAYS there so they'll see that you're in the wards doing something, always LOOK and SOUND enthusiastic, laugh at every of their jokes even if they're NOT funny at all.. I've seen so many of these in the past 4 months, and I want a break from them.

It's so superficial. I find it so annoying sometimes, but I won't say it, because it's just mean.. And I know it's wrong to even think so badly of them.. My bad.. Even if they know that what they're doing is somewhat despicable, all they want is just a good grade, right?

We had a tutorial today, and my tutor was asserting his belief that every doctor/medical student are good at cutting throats. If you're not gonna perform, the rest of the team will just slowly drag that dagger of theirs across your throat. You're so not gonna survive this very unfair match.

I do agree with him to an extent, but surely not everyone's like that? I'm neither an extreme shut up person, and neither am I a chatterbox that goes on and on the whole day.. I'm just really afraid that cut throat assassins would not spare my throat if I don't perform better than them. At the same time, I don't want to become like one of them.

It's hard being in this. ):

pictures since i've been inactive.

some pics i took from church camp - 经历生命，与主同行!


my 1st ever symphony orchestra concert i've been to. and my friend josh was in it too! very nice.. (:

breakfast with lyds on saturday morning. the forest mushrooms @ nectar is SO good. and the coffee.. mmmm.... latte.... :P

coffee date with my colleagues, especially for queenie since she was going to invercargill for a month!

james and i!
tried on my free pair of 'big eye' contact lenses that sunday.. i look scary, right? ALIEN...


will try to blog more... but for now, im gonna sleep. buhbye.

Updates updates!

Haven't been blogging for ages...!

I've just started on Acute Medicine run today, and all I can say is I'm gonna try my best to learn as much as I can.. Through my partner, through my tutorials, through my really nice consultant.. Gonna have chances on this run to be on call! I haven't been on call before, so I guess this is gonna be a new experience for me.. And also find out how annoying those pagers can get!

I'm so glad I'm doing Med. I know this is what I like doing.. Meeting new people, making them feel better... As long as you see them with that wide smile on their faces, you know all that you've done is worth it.

These 4 months in my 4th year has been so fruitful.. I learnt so much more than I expected to, which is awesome.

I don't even know what I'm blogging about. I guess the updates just get pretty boring aye? And I haven't been using much of my camera either... The latest event with photos taken should be the camp I went to about 3 weeks ago.. The photos taken by a friend of mine were awesome! I'l try to post them up when they reach me.

In the meantime, I hope that everyone reading this is doing well. (: God bless!



James' update: James is watching TV. End of update for James.

爽!

It's 4pm and I'm still in my pyjamas.. ROFL.
I HEART HOLIDAYS!!! (BIMBOTIC..)

It's my 1 week break now and I'm enjoying every minute of it. Some of my classmates from CCH and Wellington (including !MEITING!) came down to Dunedin and I got to meet them the past few days.. It's awesomeee. I haven't met Jen for a looong time too, and we went to The Terrace for dinner yesterday, and I really enjoyed those few hours with Meits, Emu, Jen and Ka Wai.. NADS YOU SHOULVE BEEN HERE~!~! Missing you from Dunners.. (: I haven't had such stress-less non-school related chats for the longest time ever.. I think we need more of such meet ups more often, MICN301 ladies(I DUNNO WHY I STILL CALL OURSELVES 3rd yrs BUT OH WELL!)!!

Thank you, girls. (: I had great fun. Meits, txt me when you're going to the butterfly exhibition! Sounds very nerdy to go to such exhibitions right... But be jealous, cos' we've got holidays and you (maybe) don't! LOL...

Haven't uploaded photos from my cam yet so Jen and Ka Wai won't be seen in any photosss.. But I'll post them up later! (: And yes, Meits and Jen, I wore the same top for 2 consecutive nights... Cos' it's been so cold and that top really keeps me warm!! Hehehe.

Dinner at Thai Kar Tom Cafe

Queenie, Natalie, Shuang, myself and Yung Yung

All of the above + Terence

Myself and Shuang!

Queenie and I acting cute.. Hahahaha.

Coffee at Alibi

Hello Meits and Emu! :D