nus rag day yest. a day full of shoving and elbowing to get the best spot to catch the performances... which were quite amazing for 2 weeks of preperation. especially those hall floats! they can actually MOVE, emit steam, turn, what not.. and oh my, were they elaborate!!

and here are my wonderful friends who danced/built floats:

... well it seems as though blogger doesn't wanna upload photos today... so another time then.

ahh i finallly got to see my dear little lilian! after so many days of her being abducted into hall dance and getting her sleep cycle all screwed up. gosh she didn't even sleep the night before rag day cos of full-dress rehearsal! haven't they ever heard of the advantages of having a well-rested team for the real event?

after rag day there was the formality of the cambridge tea party, where we were supposed to be meeting with fellow freshers and seniors. well, that went well enough, better than expected actually. cos i finally found someone who is confirmed going to be the ONLY other singaporean in my batch at pembroke! whoopiedoop! the seniors were nice, i got recruited into all the sports events, drank lots of something that tasted like bandung without milk, and learnt that there will be tv rooms where i'll get my weekly dose of EPL! :) this seems promising. the only bad thing is that the food at my college is relatively ex for the quality served. welll. thankfully i am bringing my ever-trusty ready-mixed pastes!!! hainanese chicken rice, bak kut teh, soups of all kind, sweet sour pork/chicken! hahha. i'm all set!

happy birthday meimei!!! :) many more to come!

oh yes today our dear dr sandeep had his first taste of rambutans:

sandeep: "what is this uuh?"
me: "rambutan la!"
sandeep: "rarrm-bu-tan? how do i eat it?"
me: "cut it open then eat it. here, use this scissors"

So dr sandeep proceeded to cut the ENTIRE fruit into two, splitting the seed cleanly in half. he then proudly showed the 2 perfectly seperated rambutan halves to me and asked: "so HOW do i eat this thing?"

hahhahahah! i could have died laughing!

fireworks!!

we had dancing today! our very first lesson :) haha no regrets? maybe just a little cos now my legs hurt... our class was quite pro even though we were in the beginners class. hehheh speaks volumes of our own dancing abilities.. which amounts to zilch. well, that's what dance classes are for!

it's also national day eve today. that being so, the highlight of the day has to be the fireworks display at esplanade:

















then it became this...















and finally....
















then there were the 5 of us who all managed to squeeze into one pic thanks to yours truly :)


















we tried to go k-boxing after that but totally baulked at the horrigible price! qiao zha! just because it's nat day eve, they think by putting up a nat day eve special of nearly 10 bucks more than usual, they can con poor little souls into giving up their hard-earned money!! in your dreams!

so we went a-searching for a cheaper alternative and ended up pulling down chairs, sitting and having impromptu singing lessons from caroline. HAHA. the things that we put ourselves to! up and down the scale we went, cromatics even! and confirmed the tone deafness of one amongst us...

ahhh i'll miss these goondus to bits! luckily caroline's going with me so i'll see her more often.

so k-boxing tmr! at the cheap cheap katong place. 30 bucks for 3 hours. and it's per room, not per head! how wonderful... on a public holiday even!

a-lalalala life is wonderful
a-lalalala life goes full circle

it takes a thought to make a word
and it takes some words to make an action
and it takes some work to make it work
it takes some good to make it hurt
it takes some bad for satisfaction

it takes some silence to make sound
and it takes a loss before you find it.

puts relativity in perspective, doesn't it?

helllo august!

time is moving so fast! it's THE month when the US pple fly far far away to be gone for a long long time!

i think i have come to a decision about the scholarship finally. yes, i think i have made the right choice and i hope everything goes well. it has been tiring talking to so many different people and trying to make sense of all their advise and comments as a whole, but i thank them all the same. it seems as though nothing can lead me from the path of becoming a doctor, definitely not talk that junior doctors get bullied and lead a hard life. i've even heard stories about the 48 hour shifts! but still i stick to my choice. :) my parents should be proud of me, although they will still have to fork out the money to fund my education.