i'm just so happy that yest and today is over! these has been my busiest days yet! i'm just so relieved..

for the first time, i finished my essay with only 5 minutes to spare.. what with all the rowing practice making me so tired every night. and for the past two days, i have been going out to the river, even earlier than normal at 6.30!! worse still, it started pouring today halfway through the outing.. i was drenched, every single part of me was wetwetwet! :( ughh. surprisingly this was my first wet outing... weather's been pretty good during our outings, maybe we're just lucky. people had to row in SNOW before! although that would have been sooo pretty.

had PfP yesterday..personally, i think it's a waste of time cos you can just go and shadow a GP for a few days and that's PfP for you! but i have to say that the visit to a patient's house was good! lorna and i did that the last time, so this time we were stationed in the surgery and had our own little consulatation room. so we saw the patients and talked to them a bit before their actualy consultation with the GP. hmm somehow it has made me think that being a GP is a relatively easy life, especially from seeing our GP here in cambridge. he has a grand total of 3 patients a day! and his reasons for being a GP is that he doesn't want to leave home that much and also doesn't want to work in the hospital, presumably cos it's too stressful. seems like a nice laid back chap.

yesterday i cycled more than i every did in cambridge. biked to mill road for PfP, biked back, biked to wolfson for isbm supervision and biked (or more like raced) back with hannah and lorna. plus rowing at the beginning of the day and the next morning as well. wooooo exercise overload! my legs are like jelly now.

oooo. getting-on race is on the FRIDAY........ hope we get into bumps! but then i'll be missing like tons of classes if we do. sooo hmm. well, we have to see how to go in GOR. 10 in 36 chance of getting in..

SNOW, FRIENDS AND CNY!

hello again! it's been a rather interesting few weeks and there were loads squashed into the space of a few days. seriously i think i'm doing much more than i've ever done in my life in one day when i'm in cambridge, also cos i'm surviving on 5 hours of sleep on average every night. me and my secret weapon: coffee! :)

several major happenings since i last came here:

1. MAHJONG! wahh our mahjong set finally arrived in the post. meng and i got duped into thinking it's the normal sized one, and it turned out as a little parcel that fit into his pigeon hole! oh well. we love it all the same. it's with me atm, heh cos somebody went to france to ski, leaving me and my mahjong set here in cambridge.

so do i listen to his plea to wait till he comes back to play? no, of course not. it's been rather well-used already woo :)

2. THE GREAT CAMBRIDGE ESCAPADE! from london.

oooh xiufang, whui, caroline, laura and cheryl descended upon cambridge for a whole weekend last week. i'm still feeling the withdrawl symptoms, which clearly shows how much fun that was. even though we didn't get much time to study for steeplechase after. but it all works out perfectly since i still managed to pass. don't know how though..

we did all sorts of touristy things that weekend, made me realise how lucky i am to be actually studying here. it's just too good for words. hmm it's weekends like this that kinda refreshes your perspective of studying at a top-notch university.

went for the customary formal at pembroke (where else?), punting, just having loads of fun. :)

3. SNOWWWW!!

ahhh pretty pretty snow, and proper snow at that! snowed from morning till the afternoon. and the snow actually remained on the ground till the next day! ahh nic and i went around cambridge early in the morning before lectures just to take pictures of postcard-worthy scenes.

view from outside my window when i woke up and opened my curtains to this vast blanket of snowww.. heavenly.

our secret garden unveiled by some magnificent photography (in my opinion haha) it seems so untouched, yet so mysterious. i love this shot. it's my backgroud atm.

nic and i trying our best to catch some snow. to the amusement of pple standing nearby. background's king's college.

and u can't have a series of snapshots of cambridge without a picture of the river cam. this is the view from the tit hall bridge. the snow just makes everything look so picture-perfect!

4. CNY CELEBRATIONS!

it's chu yi today! and we had our own little reunion dinner at queens' the night before. haha cooked up a storm i tell u! so many dishes yet we managed to finish them all! for the rest of the night: drinking games + karaoke = tons of fun and laughter! haha. it was one of the better cookouts/gatherings i've been to so far woooo. poor ian was hugging everybody at the end of the night and had to be escorted back to his room sans spectacles! which i hope has been found and returned to him.

looks like we didn't leave home at all eh?

look at all the fooooood! took us like 2 hours to cook everything but it was worth every single minute! ahh the claypot rice was like better than original! and my ha cheong gai! yummm. lady's fingers, lamb curry!

and finally, the people that made it all work! :) xxx

i realised i haven't updated much these few weeks. maybe i'm not a blogger person. somehow it's not on my priority list of things to do for the day/week. but reading other people's blogs tells me that it might be a good avenue to just write down what i feel. hmm.

well, the start of term has been ok, test and all were sat for and freaked out over, now i've descended back into the normal routine of rowing in the morning, rushing for 9am lectures (cos i have no bike and am too lazy to trek to churchill to pick it up), wondering how the morning can fly by with all the lectures and then, think of what to do for lunch. most of the time, i eat with the singaporeans or morna. manu has recently realised the value of living so close to lectures so she sometimes comes over for lunch if she has afternoon lectures/practicals. then in the afternoon, it's supervisions and normally napping and wasting time before i realise it's about dinnertime, then i try to cramm some stuff into my head, but it almost always never works. dinner is like the time i look forward to everyday, especially if i have dinner plans: cookouts! ooh how i love cookouts! chance to have home-cooked proper chinese food and chat with friends and not have to bother about having an accent or how they think of me.

last night i just had laksa with ben alex mich. oh prima prima, the best thing that happened for instant singaporean food! ben says it's only slightly more expensive in london/cho mae; i should really go down to cho mae one day to see what they have. i'm sure i'll come back a happier jasmine.

it's also time for balloting who i stay with next year and i'll probably be balloting with morna and the economists. i don't know if it's a good idea, cos initially i was just planning on going with morna since she's been my best friend here ever since last term, but now she's with all her economist pple who are also quite close, so i might get isolated at times.. nicole also asked me to ballot with her but it's only up tp 4 people in one ballot.. aye i hope it sorts itself out soon.

recently, i've also been spending loads of time with the singaporeans/malaysians rather than my angmoh friends. they all seem to have congregated into their own little groups, even the medics. i'm alright with all the groups, but not like part of it (as what yingmei said as well). i dunno, i've been rather like a hermit these few days, only going out for dinners and staying in if i can cos i'm so tired after rowing. i've descended into chinatownland somehow. quite tricky to rectify the situation now though cos i'm always happy with the asians and love hanging out with them, but i also want to get back with the angmohs cos it's just a nice feeling to be included in their chitchat and all that.. aiyah see how it goes la. nothing i can actively do anything about but maybe go to more pembroke events!

don't wanna leave here now

today is thursday and also 4 days before i fly off again. tis too quick! too soon. :(:(

i have a mountain of work to go through, which isn't looking promising. not looking forward to the test when i return. and i just spent an hour doing absolutely nothing. my taste in music has narrowed to only listening to chinese music when i'm back. maybe this is how my knowledge of all that r&b hiphop rubbish will shrink. maybe i'm becoming cheenafied. hahha...

it's going to be 6 months before i come back again. :( i'm going to miss chinese new year. i'm going to miss my own birthday at home. first birthday abroad! how depressing. and i don't really fancy going for a birthday formal, so unoriginal and boring.

sent over some luggage to aunty 2's friend so that he can do me a favour and lug it all the way to london. my booty of bakkwa and pork floss and chinese sausages are in it. i better not get lost in the baggage check! speaking of food, my dear lilian has baked me our world cup lemon cookies! that lovely girl. i have yet to call and thank her... after i get my phone back then! :)

像孩子依賴著肩膀 像眼淚依賴著臉龐
你就像天使一樣 給我依賴 給我力量
像詩人依賴著月亮 像海豚依賴海洋
你是天使 你是天使
你是我最初和最後的天堂

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

hello 2007! goodbye 2006..
but before that merry christmas and happy birthday uncle 2!


i actually counted down to the new year over mahjong and some nice bubbly this year. we have an unhealthy obsession with mahjong that continued into the first day of the new year! which is probably going to last if daniel's grand plan materialises. mahjong every week! :) i am going to bring a mahjong set to cambridge and teach all them all how to play there. heh.


it's been a rather interesting 2006 where i spent most of the time chilling and having the longest holiday of my whole life, really no kidding. in 2006 i:
got accepted into my dream school
toured europe (which was AMAZING)
worked at a hospital for almost 6 months
gave tuition
became a waitress for a month before i decided i'm never going to be one again, ever.
got my driving license (whoohoo!)
had lots of free time
lived away from home for the first time
went to malacca twice
made tons of new friends
rowed!!
and many many more......


here's to a better 2007! new things to experience, and old memories to treasure. i might even get to watch arsenal vs man utd if all things so smoothly! :) other than that, it's been a forgettable start to the new year, with a cancelled bangkok trip cos of the bombings and morna not being able to visit.. owell, at least i have my family! although pers sometimes deserts us to go out with his gang, we still all have fun shopping, watching hilarious taiwanese and korean shows, movies, prison break!, chilling, eating and just enjoying ourselves. i will miss them all soooo much again. 6 months is no joke!