Wakeboarding 26/03/06

The past few days have been a nightmare, I have 3 assignments due next week and I've been spending my week ploughing through them. I've just completed (& I really mean JUST, like 2 mins ago) 2 of them and I think I deserve a good break before I battle through my 3rd one. *BIG SIGH of relieve*

Anyways, I went wakeboarding last Sunday, down at the Murray River with the uni's Water Skiing Club. The experience was awesome! The river has a relaxing feel, you see people picnic-ing by the banks, cool breeze, clean river (you should seriously see the Punggol River... YUCKS)... Just wonderful...

One of the guys who came along was an experienced "ski-er" and he displayed his fancy stunts on a single ski and something called a knee-board (basically you kneel on some weird looking board, hur hur), you just see for yourself!

Guy on knee-board, see how he straps his knee on the board?


Just look at him ski... wow...


Then look at me... hur hur... like how professional... haha


The girl from the ski club, she's like how ZAI!


The biscuit: basically the boat will try to toss & turn the thing and make the ppl fall off


Us gals looking pretty after a long day...


Me, looking professional as ever... haha!

Pub Crawl 24/03/06

I went for my first ever pub crawl here in aussieland! It was quite fun lah... especially after Lampee came to join us. Anyway, it was a good experience, just sitting around and chatting with friends and sipping some alcohol along the way.

The drinks are really cheap here compared to SGP, a pint of beer costs only 3 bucks! Like WHERE in SGP can you find that? (Well.. maybe except at APB where beer is free..) and a bottle of Barcardi Breezer is $5 (actually I don't know if that's cheap anot, but its a price I'm willing to pay)

Oh, I think the best drink I had that night was something called the "Jagger Bomb" (pronounced yay-ger) that Lam bought me. Its a shot of "I dunno what" spirit with half a can of red bull. I dunno about Lampee, but that thing was really potent for me. I sorta staggered home after that and made a fool of myself on the bus.. hur hur.. I was talking loudly, not only to my friends, but to strangers too! Like how unglam.... urghhh

Anyway some pictures taken on that night:



In case you're wondering, the red heart on my cheek means that people can come up to me & "redeem" a kiss from me... Lucky for me, I didnt have to give out a single kiss, maybe asian gals aint their thing, PHEW... oh that's little Esther on the right.



Selina & I looking bored...



I have no idea what I was doing...



Our artistic shot of the Bacardi Breezers...



Erm... me falling asleep? haha... I think I "seh" already...

Another Test!

I love taking these tests... haha... partly coz I'm bored and also coz I can relax my mind for a lil while!

You Are a Plain Ole Cup of Joe

But don't think plain - instead think, uncomplicated You're a low maintenance kind of girl... who can hang with the guys Down to earth, easy going, and fun! Yup, that's you: the friend everyone invites. And your dependable too. Both for a laugh and a sympathetic ear.

What Kind of Coffee Are You?

I'm such a good girl ain't I? =P

I'm swarmed

URgh... its the first time I've been so busy here. All these while studies have been manageable. But now... its getting a lil outta control. All cos' of my decision to join the gals for the National championships in Sydney sometime in April.

I think I'm really asking for trouble, every week gotta do 8 sets of readings, churn out 1 summary & 1 essay, and I still take up the challenge of going Sydney. And for all those that think that the trip is sponsored, well its not. We have to pay for the games fee, team fee, accomodation and transport all by ourselves. I did a calculation, its gonna add up to about $400 bucks. Yikes... then the gals started on this massive fund raising program to help bring the costs down. So this is what I've got to help out with:

Wed: Help to sell sausages for an hour
Fri night: go for the pub crawl that they've organised and sell kisses
Sat morn: Help sell sausages for another I dunno how many hours off campus

This effective means I've only got Saturday afternoon, Sunday & Monday to complete my work. But, like I've mentioned before, I'm a nerd, I study alot, so 3 days is not enough!!! SOBS

Oh, and if you're wondering what's selling kisses, well, its basically what it says it is. Kiss other people for money. Guess how much?



$1 !!! I hope nobody picks me to kiss them... I'm conservative, not too comfortable with kissing random people!!! Yucks... I'm a prick, yes I know...

Now I just hope the pub crawl would be as fun as the time the peeps & I were at MOS!



I miss those days...

Maybe

I hate to sound 'nerdy', but I've been studying every single day eversince uni started 3 weeks ago. And I really mean religiously studying... at least 3 hours on weekdays, and a ridiculous 8 hours on weekends. I'm a FREAK! But I can't help it.. This course is crazy, the work is never ending, forever piling up higher and higher... till I can't see the tip of the mountain of notes.

From time to time, I'll ask myself Why am I going through all this crap when I could have started working last May? Gosh, I dunno... Maybe its the childhood dream of becoming a health professional, maybe its the prospect of commanding higher pay when I finally graduate, maybe its my zest for food, maybe... maybe...

Maybe if I started work, I could have bought a car. Maybe I could have found a prospective husband, maybe I could have been asked to set up a food lab like yvonne, maybe... maybe... Maybe I could have lost myself in the world of endless 9-5 work, maybe I could have turned into one of those cynical workers in a laboratory, maybe I could have lost hope in life...

I do know, if I did not pursue this degree, I'll never realize my childhood dream, I'll never get to enjoy the freedom I have now, I'll never see the world from this new perspective, I'll never learn to play frisbee at a competitve level (I used to think it was just another of those beach-y things ppl do), I'll never get to know the friends I've made here, I'll never get to meet him...

Its a path of no return, I hope I can find the strength to carry on, and last till the very end... and of coz, emerge victorious...

I'm Belle!

Belle


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I hate creepy crawlies!

This is the creepy fella who scared the hell outta me... Yes, its called Mr Spider. Its not an ordinary spider ya see, not only is it HUGE (its like 5 cm wide lah!), its prolly poisonous as well. Check out the top ten venomous spiders in the world, Australia prolly has a few species on that list. So can't blame me for freaking out right?? Anyways, I wasnt brave enough to get rid of it, so I employed the help of my new found friend (cum sista) to give me a hand. I supplied him with insecticide & erm, my new havaianas slipper to kill it. Now I gotta wash my slipper to get rid of any residual venom left on the base.. hur hur... okay, maybe its not poisonous, but it has got hairy legs!!!

Anyway, end of creepy crawlie story. Start of new story! haha... The gals & I went to this ASBC (Australia-Singapore Business Council) Dinner at this chinese restaurant called Ming Palace in chinatown. The dinner is meant for Singaporeans in Adelaide to get to know one another, but we gals aint exactly there for the people, we were there for the food! (oh and the hidden agenda was cute guys of coz...) The night was quite enjoyable, our gang won 2 prizes from the lucky draw. A $50 travel voucher and a $100 computer voucher (yay, got money to buy speakers for my laptop!) so it was quite a fruitful night! Some pictures taken last night...

Us, the Flinders Uni student representatives


Joyce & I, looking pretty at my favourite spot - the Bridge


Er.. Joyce bullying me at the dinner table! (Evil!!) and that's little girl Esther on the side..


The Food... Ahhhhh


Guess who I met at the dinner??? ------------ LAM-peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee


The end of the night for us gals...

My 5 Hours Wait...

It has been a long & hard day... Let me tell my story... My saturday story...

Its a long weekend, Monday's a public holiday, so the gals arranged to go to some animal show/fair on Saturday. I'm not really into animals, plus its so freaking hot (37 deg!!) and since I've got so much work to do, I decided to stay home & be a mugger... (Yes, its just the start of the semester, I know.. but hey, that's me..)

The day began like just any other day, I woke up, had breakfast, sat down and did some work until lunch time, went to cook lunch... I tried to be creative and cooked mushrooms with corn kernal together with prata & had a glass of orange juice... Worst mistake of my life I tell you... After lunch my stomach started to cramp, it was sooooo bad that I was rolling on my bed & just squeezing my tummy with my 2 hands. The pain went on for like hours before I decided that I should make my way to the hospital (yes, I have a high threshold for pain!)

Anyway, my housemates drove me to the hospital emergency department and there began my 5 hours of wait... The wait to see someone called the DOCTOR... After registering with the nurse AND the clerical reception, I sat and waited at the lobby for 3 full hours. The pain was so bad after one hour, so I told the nurse, and they just gave me painkillers... Which took another one hour to be effective... Then when I was finally ushered into the treatment rooms, I was left to wait lying on a bed for 2 hours, before a kind lady doctor attended to me... BUT, because I waited so long before I got to see her, the pain I experienced earlier was gone already. So there wasnt much the doc could do except give me pain killer in case the pain comes again. According to her diagnosis, I ate something wrong/something dirty/something that my body had a reaction to. (which was most prolly my "creative" lunch) They then gave me a blood test & urine test & since everything turned out "normal", I was discharged. Did I mention I arrived at the hospital at 18:00 and left at 00:30??

Yes, I know emergency departments treat patients according to level of urgency, but 5 hours of wait is wayyyyyyyy too long! The treatment they gave me was WAIT which CURED my illness... Now I really appreciate the sophisticated medical services SGP offers mannnnn, they should have an outpatient clinic at the hospital, then people like me, can actually see the doctor when my stomach was still cramping and get treatment for the cramps! Not wait until my cramps all gone then TRY to decipher what went wrong earlier... GRRRR, STUPID hospital system, STUPID DOCTORS!!!

To all who are concerned about me, I'm fine now, so no worries!

My Heritage?

I was religiously reading ah hu's blog just now and saw that she's playing with this face recognition thingy, so I decided to play with too... and the results were really hilarious.

So how does this thing work? Ok, first you upload a picture of yourself and the program scan your facial features and search its data base of celebrities who look like you. These are the results that it generated:




Lucy Liu!!! 73% Okay, at least she's asian... & she's got character...


Zhang Ziyi - 70% She's quite a beauty.. hur hur...


Hilary Duff - 68% Errrr I don't think ANY part of me is vaguely ang moh-ish...


Mary Kate Olsen - 65% Again errrrr, I doubt its accuracy


Utada Hikaru - 63% Ahhhhh this one more likely


Margaret Cho - 60% WTF?!?!?!?!?!?! I DO NOT look like her..

And the last one... 51% resemblance........

Guess... GUESS... GUESS....






JAY CHOU!!!!!!




okay, its either he has got a gal face or I got guy face... I choose to believe the former... And every single picture I upload, there'll be a guy celeb that I resemble... Now exactly which part of my face screams BOY???

PS, I'm a GAL...

Look at me NOW

ACNE - acne occurs when sebaceous glands under the skin begin to secrete superfluous oil during puberty. The sebum oil production glands are stimulated by male hormones that are produced in the adrenal glands, of both boys and girls.

The oil generally lubricates and protects the skin, but this acute secretion, gives millions of us many problems, especially as young adults. Inadvertently, cells that are close to the openings of the sebaceous glands sometimes block the openings. This causes a buildup of oil underneath the skin, and as part of general decay, bacteria go to work on this organic material. Other bacteria, which live in our skin but are generally benign, devour this oil and multiply, and cause the surrounding tissues to become inflamed, as a mild infection.

When the infection is right near the surface, a pustule is formed; if it is deeper, a papule or pimple is formed. Deeper still and it becomes a cyst. If the oil breaks though to the surface, the result is a whitehead. If the oil becomes oxidized, acted on by oxygen in the air, the oil changes from white to black, and the result is a blackhead. This is how the two types of comedones develop.

Like this...



And why am I researching about pimples now? Cos I'm studying about it! YAH RIGHT...

How I wish I was JUST researching on this topic... Fact is... MY FACE IS FULL OF PIMPLES!!!!! I'm sooooo upset... Just take a look at my face...



Its DISGUSTING... BOOO HOOO... Its karma, I know it. I shouldnt have boasted about my pretty complexion in the past. Now its here to haunt me... HELPppppppp... There's so many pimples on my face that there isn't even a clear spot for people to kiss... (Not that I'll be kissed anytime soon.. haha!) I'm depressed... I want my clear complexion back! I think I need to see a dermatologist & get some of those pills Ah Hu is taking to clear pimples... Anyone wanna donate to my "Clear Liyan's pimples fund"? Hur hur... stupid me...



PS: I'm NOT a bimbo... I'm NOT, really.