Sigh I just long for the day again when I can sit back, relax, and watch Showbiz at home everyday...hehehe.

LOL I graduated from a ballpoint pen to an ink pen today!!! :) But I was supposed to get my first pay cheque today and I didn't. :(

There's this funny guy in my office who talks to himself at length all the time... He comes in super early in the mornings, and leaves super late. He likes to say, "I'm such a nice guy - why do you want to argue with me?", "Wah, so much work today ah..." and "I didn't eat my lunch again you know?" He's hilarious!!! Can you tell what he's trying to imply??? And I think he would love to stay overnight at the office if he could. He seems to love his job that much. But I would seriously die if I ever have to work with him. LOL. Yesterday, he was going on and on and on about some issue...and I honestly thought that he was talking to himself again. And I was thinking, wow, he has really outdone himself today man, talk so much. But LOL the thing was, he was talking to this other guy in actual fact!!! I only realised it when this poor guy came to call the editor to join in the "lively conversation". (What??) This guy is TOO nice man!!! I didn't even hear his voice one bit while that funny guy went on and on and on and on with his monologue. It's so bad that the other day when all was quiet, I was wondering what happened to him. Heehee... But essentially, I think he's a pretty ok guy. And he offered to buy breakfast tomorrow! :p No, no, of course my friend and I said no thanks. LOL.

There was this human jam at Clementi Central MRT today!!! People were hardly moving...don't know why! And the poor people who were coming up the escalator, when they reached the top, before they knew it, they just bumped into those people in front of them! Bump bump bump!

Oh yeah, I'll (hopefully) be taking Japanese in school. Haven't sent in the application yet, though. Can't find it, heh. And I'll also be continuing with my Thai... yay! :) I love learning languages soooo much!

American Idol tonight!!

Just came back from the airport! Sniff sniff.

Well, MAJOR NEWS. My boss told me that there are actually NINETY chapters in The Clinical Approach to Medicine. NINETY!!! That means I have SIXTY-NINE chapters more to go. Horrible!!! :(

And the new book? It's about zebrafish. Zebrafish Development, that's the title of the book. I still can't figure out what they are talking about even after two-and-a-half chapters!!! There's no mention of aquatic life or that kind of thing, you know... Just about genes and gastrulation (the word that appears the most often) and dunno what else. Heh. And in the first place, what is zebrafish??? Is it a kind of fish or a kind of zebra or what? AND I can't believe that people actually dedicate a WHOLE BOOK just to zebrafish development. :)

Well ok it's still morning - oh, oops, no, it's past 12 already. I was going to say that since it's still morning, I'm entitled to EAT LIKE A KING FOR BREAKFAST. Nevermind, the King can do whatever he wants. Hehehe...

I've finished! I've finished!! I've finished THE CLINICAL APPROACH TO MEDICINE!!! Ahhh...what a load off my shoulders. I think I can become a doctor now. :p

But...this is only the first reading. I don't think I can make it through the second reading. Hehe...

OH, and then I checked with my editor yesterday and it turned out that she wanted all the "non's" to be hyphenated!!! To think that I had so much fun correcting all those non's with hyphens. Haha...It wasn't so much fun anymore correcting them back...

OK at least I will be a safe distance away from that book for the time being. I'm getting the new book tomorrow. Man! Heard it's more than a thousand pages long.

DID YOU KNOW that Beyonce is only 1.61 m tall??? That makes me a grand total of 1 cm taller than her!!! :-D But wait...that's not all... Sarah Jessica Parker is ONE POINT FOUR. It's. Totally. Unbelievable. I honestly think that 8 Days made a typo error. Heh. Oh, and Jennifer Aniston is 1.5 m...short.

My Thai class is having a gathering soon and THEY CONVENIENTLY MADE ME THE COORDINATOR. Just because I'm the youngest is it??

How did you find American Idol last night?? I thought it was the best night so far... Barry Manilow... Ahh he works wonders for those guys. He's the Copa Cobana guy, the Can't Smile Without You guy, and the I Write the Songs that Make the Whole World Sing guy... And so cool that he specially arranged the music for them. Jasmine was seriously good, as well as Latoya. Thought George was bad. :p But John Stevens was not bad at all! His "Mandy" was pretty good! Why didn't the judges like his performance? Thought he handled the beginning of the song well. Oh, my mum (the judge) says that George should sing Tom Jones or perhaps some Englebert. He really can't do Elton John or Barry Manilow. But I think no one remembers Englebert anymore. I don't even know how to spell his name properly.

Ooh surprise surprise...Just found a song by Engelbert Humperdinck in the laptop I'm using now. Haha. So he sang Quando Quando Quando huh...

This week's 8 Days cover story was Kill Bill Vol. 2. I'm really interested in knowing what Kill Bill Vol. 1 is about. Read so much about it in the papers and stuff... All sorts of words were used to describe it. I didn't understand half of them. I'm really curious.

Read the review of Jamie Cullum's Twentysomething in 8 Days. Sounded really cool! So I decided to join that SMS contest for a FREE CD haha... But I have never done this kind of thing before, except for that time when I sent a postcard in for those CDs that Lifestyle was giving away. Haha that's another story altogether. Was looking through the CDs that were reviewed and finally picked the Love Actually OST because I thought it was more 'wu hua', like, you know, so many songs by different singers in one CD. :p LOL. Anyway, I didn't know how to CHECK if I had won the CD or not!!! Argh. OK set my sights on 8 Days...focus... Haha oh but I didn't know how to type the SMS! LOL this is making me sound really pathetic huh? Well, in the magazine it said to type the (CODE) (NAME) etc...then it said to leave a blank between each field. But I wasn't sure if I had to type the <> or not. I didn't. This is all sounding really bad!!! I'm stopping here...

Hmmm (the thoughtful kind, not the disgruntled one)... It's the first night that I don't have to worry about The Clinical Approach to Medicine. I don't really know what else to do for the rest of the night... LOL. Except, when 10 o'clock comes, then it's time for the American Idol results.

I'm listening to some songs from the Wedding Banquet now. The Perfect Woman is such a cute cute song!!!

[An excerpt]

Guy #1: The perfect woman scholarly / At least a PhD
But just one PhD / She should have two or three
In physics and statistics
Guy #2: Come on be realistic
Guy #1: And classic Russian novels from the 19th century
Guy #2: Now how about her breeding
Guy #1: The finest line of course
Guy #2: For Christ's sakes
Are you looking for / A woman or a horse
Guy #1: Her ancestry is vital
Guy #2: Then find one with a title
And maybe you'll get money / When she sues you for divorce
Guy #1: So what to say / She knows ballet
A girl who's fun / Who packs a gun
Secure like me
Guy #2: She's six foot three
Now Simon please / The girl's Chineseeeee
Guy #1: Ok she's six foot one / She wants to bear my son
Guy #2: Now that'll be something else / Conceiving by herself
Guy #1: A perfect woman / Walks with grace
Guy #2: Is grace a woman too
Guy #1: A perfect woman / Knows her place
Guy #2: And knows it's not with you
Guy #1: The perfect woman's / Not a floozy
Guy #2: But you hope she won't be choosy
Guy #1: She knows traditions must be shown respect /
She knows just what my parents will expect /
She matches every item on my list
The perfect woman / The perfect woman
Guy #2: Does not exist

It's Barry Manilow Week on American Idol this week!!! He's cool... Yup I've heard his songs before, but I can't really remember the titles. I think he was the "Copa Cobana" guy...and can't remember what else already. Hopefully, the contestants will have an easier time with his songs. That Elton John Week was seriously a killer!! Hehe... Hmm, by the look of things, I guess either Fantasia or Latoya will win?? But Diana has a good, strong voice too. And she's quite a mature performer already even though she's only SIXTEEN!

So we had the DCG lunch today. Thanks to my dear mummy, we ate grilled chicken wings, marcaroni soup and konnyaku jelly. Delicious! My DCG leader said that the only time she ate marcaroni soup was when she was sick. ||| Oh but the funny thing was that we had a mass chicken-shreading session. Like everyone just gathered around the table and took a drumstick each to shread with our fingers, all the while complaining about how fat the chicken was. LOL. Ok all in all, it was a pretty good lunch. Talked about how most handsome guys at gym were gay..?!! Weird lunch topic. And talked about school too... guess my friends are all quite tired with JC life already sigh. Hmm and quite sad that Claire is leaving for Perth soon. That's one less buddy in church...

It's finally the weekend!

Oh...but it's sad that JPL got out of American Idol. I mean, even though I support John Stevens...but I like JPL too. Can tell that he's a nice guy. AND can tell that every week, John Stevens is super shocked that he's still in the competition. This guy ah!!! Grr... He should have more fighting spirit in him man. Heh.

Hmm...work this week has been pretty much routine. Started wearing clothes that were other than the normal T-shirt and jeans. But when it came to Friday, which was "dress-down day", I was too dressed up! SIGH. When will I ever get this thing right... Heh. Oh and I worked nonstop (no hyphen for "non" but hypen for "anti" because easier to read - that's what I've learnt...haha) on Friday morning because I told my boss that I would finish that pile of work by lunchtime. What was I thinking??! LOL. Anyway, thank God that I managed to do it, although it was like no-chrysenthemum tea, no-KitKat, no-sweets, no-biscuits, NO-BREAK AT ALL for that morning. Heh. And by the time afternoon came, I guess my less-than-outstanding brain was already burnt out, so I could only do ONE chapter (Diabetes Mellitus, in case you were interested to know) and worse still, I couldn't finish it so I worked overtime or else I would have felt like such a failure. LOL.

Went shopping today for birthday presents at Holland V and Heeren. Bought for myself quite a few things too. Somehow the shopping spree syndrome (could be a chapter in my medical journal, seriously) got to me. But especially happy with my purchase of this colourful top from Flowers in the Attic. But took such a long time in the fitting room that when I came out, I was seriously stunned to see this queue of girls in the cluttered shop. It was like, I came out and then I saw their faces and then I quickly looked down and walked away. So pai seh!!! Sigh. Heh.

Well, we're going to have a farewell lunch for Claire tomorrow...

And I wanna watch Starsky & Hutch! :)

Took half-day leave today coz of the matriculation. But first, went with my dad to Clementi Central to pay my school fees at the bank. Sigh what a disaster. Seems like I've been getting into disasters there huh? Heh. Well we had to go to the designated OCBC bank lah, but then we ended up at POSB. Then he realised that we were at the wrong bank, so we crossed over and found UOB. Then the bank teller said we can't (obviously) pay there and she told me where to find OCBC. And finally, we got to dear old OCBC, just like what my mum had told us to do in the very first place - "Go to the Loy Kee Chicken Rice coffeeshop, have lunch then, then go to OCBC which is just opposite." Sigh...

OK then finally got to NP Convention Centre safe and sound. Did all the necessary registration and then got cornered into buying a $5 funfair tic...Also found out that it's "compulsory" to do Flag Day (I thought I'd escaped that by coming to poly SIGH)...And worse still, signed up for orientation camp! What was I thinking??? And then I went to look for my dad who was happily at the laptop corner. NP offers Toshiba and IBM. Guess both brands are just as good... but Toshiba notebooks look nicer!! Haha. Oh yeah, if any of you wants to buy an Apple iPod...I can get it for you at $488...if I buy Toshiba. Gotta tell me by this Saturday hor... :) I thought that this was not bad a deal for those who really want to buy, so I can help you if you want.

Last stop was Queenstown Library -- whoa, quite funky eh. Haha. First time there since it was renovated. The computers are iMacs!!! I so didn't know how to use them man. Why the mouse so funny one??? But they looked really good lah haha. All-white. Super funky. Anyway, borrowed 6 books. Don't know if they're really good or not. Certainly hope so! PLEASE, if anyone has a good book to recommend, let me know. I've been so devoid of books in my life for the past few months.

Haha listening to K-pop songs again, thanks to my Korean penpal, Michelle. Just realised that I have songs by all the singers who were nominated for MTV Asia Awards!! LOL. Yah lah, I slow... But I just watched the nth repeated telecast of the show. OH MY... The Pussycat Dolls??? But I must say that Vaness Wu looks much better with his new hairstyle! OK, not so new already... haha. BoA is very short! Haha :p And wow, A*Mei must be pretty great to be able to dance in those heels!!! Anyway, I bet that if DAVID TAO performed at the awards show, he'll bring the house down. :)

Found a shop in Clementi Central that sells CDs at a much cheaper price than HMV and other such shops. Haha OK the ah-soh in me is acting up again... Hmm but I just saw on TV that Rock Records has put out an album compilation of songs by all its artistes, like MayDay, Fish Leong... Maybe I'll check that out. Can't wait for DAVID TAO'S next album though!!! I'll definitely just buy it!

LOL the Ch U show is soooo funny!!! You know, the Bryan Wong and Quan Yifeng one - SMAP? SWAP? Aiyah, the Ready! Steady! Go! one lah, haha. I must watch it every Monday for my weekly dose of humour entertainment...I literally laugh throughout the entire show!!! It's just so fantastic.

Last night, we were thinking of where to go for dinner...LOL my dad was so funny!! He said, "You are free to choose but I only want claypot rice". I mean like what choice do we have left, right??? LOL we had a major suan-ing session for about 15 minutes in my parents' bedroom. Oh well, we went along with our Chairman Siew just like the faithful followers of communism that we were. Went to Tanglin Halt but there was no claypot rice. Anyway, we still pigged out man. Discovered some new stalls and ate everything from there - fish & chips, bak kut teh, fried chicken wings, mee pok, rojak, cheng teng, beehoon......that's definitely gonna be our new haunt from now on hehe. We started discussing who was likely to win American Idol but we just couldn't come to a conclusion. Seemed like everyone had almost the same chance of winning! Hopefully it'll be John Stevens though. Hehe... Hope against hope! Later, we went to NTUC, and there, the two men started preparing for war and stocked up on lots of rations............... *resigned to the fact that men being men...enough said*

Oh yeah, RONALD SUSILO WON THE JAPAN OPEN FINALS!!!!!!!!! He's my sports hero man, haha. Can't remember when I started supporting him...maybe during the Singapore Open 2002. I'd even wanted to go to the Indoor Stadium and watch his final match! Haha. Oh but but but I'm sooooo glad that he won this time. I was on such a high last night when I'd found out. :) I mean, the odds were against him, weren't they... He playing against Bao Chunlai from CHINA... ANYWAY, RONALD SUSILO IS JUST SIMPLY FANTASTIC!

Gotta go down to NP tomorrow for matriculation. Still don't know what that means. Why can't they just put it as "registration"?? Heh. Anyway, I'm still quite excited about everything. Going to choose my laptop tomorrow also. Yeah, it's compulsory to own a laptop...though I heard that we won't be using it much for school actually. Anyway, since I can get it at a discounted price from the school (ha-ha), then that's ok, coz I'll use it for like church and my own stuff too.

Bought Marie Claire sports shoes yesterday! LOL. They're like 5 times cheaper than adidas shoes and nicer too, in my opinion. Haha. The cut is definitely more feminine. OHHH...but what happened after that was such a disaster!!! Went to Clementi Central to take passport photos at the Photo-Me booth for my poly stuff. Sigh sigh sigh. Only realised that I needed to adjust the chair after I'd inserted all the coins. Silly me!! It's not like I haven't been to the photo booth before. I bent down to adjust the chair and MUCH TO MY HORROR, I heard the "poof!" sound and saw the bulbs go "flash!" and felt the sizzling heat "zzzzz"... Argh. So 1st photo - only the blue background and a tuft of my hair at the bottom. 2nd photo - recovered from the shock and gave a dazzling smile while in the position where my butt was centimetres above the chair. Needless to say, my face turned out extremely big...yeah, coz I was leaning towards the camera. And 3rd & 4th photo - gave a dazzling smile but --- looked in the wrong direction!!! ARGH!!!!!! Good thing I only needed ONE photo. But still...so devastating. And incredibly silly. :p

Well ok...time to call it a day. Still need to think of what to wear tomorrow. Haha :p

OK I couldn't wait anymore and went to check out the American Idol website. So it really was Camille!!! Poor girl...did she cry? Oh well...she isn't that good, I know. But still!!! Sigh...

Anyway, it's MOVIE WEEK next. That's cool. I'm sure Frank Sinatra was on many of the movie soundtracks. :-D

And by the way, I've discovered the growth of a wisdom tooth in my mouth!! It's been hurting me for a couple of days already but it was only today that it hit me that I had a wisdom tooth. Oh sigh... gotta extract it asap. But that's like super ex!!! Argh.

Hello...
I finally get to write here again after a whirlwind first-week at work.
The working professional has no life, I'm telling you.
Or maybe that's coz I'm just a first-week working professional. But seriously, by the time I come home from work every evening, I'm not in much of a mood for anything else...So this is what working life is like huh. But good thing I'm getting used to it. Maybe now I'll be able to make more time for other things.

Being a proof-reader, I've picked up a few skills and that's good.
But now I'm always like unconsciously checking everything that's in English (newspapers, blogs, letters...). Lol.

Went to the John Little warehouse sale the other night. OOH such a wonderful feeling I get when shopping! Lol. Bought 4 tops and a pair of UCLA jeans that was at 16 bucks. Going back again tomorrow night. HA... coz we didn't have time to look at everything. Anyway, need to start stocking up on clothes for my coming poly life eh? Heh.

Last night was my last Thai class!! So sad. Most of my classmates won't be continuing (to Basic Thai 2). Sigh. I still really want to, though. Need to convince my mum first. Thai lessons are something that I look forward to!!!

Who was kicked out of American Idol last night? If it was John Stevens, please break the news to me as gently as possible ok? Thanks.
But I have a feeling it was Camille. Was it her?
My family taped Wed night's episode for me but I only got to watch it at 1 am last night...er...today. Sigh, none of the contestants are really extremely good actually. All the performances were really not quite good. But maybe it's coz we're watching it on TV. They probably sounded good in that auditorium.
George Huff is too tall. He keeps doing that bend-his-legs thing!! Makes all of us groggy to see him bouncing up and down. Haha! And I always can't help laughing whenever I see his face...He's so hilarious.
My mum predicted so accurately that John Stevens was going to sing Crocodile Rock! Man! She's good at this. She should be one of the judges at the Singapore Idol. Ha...
Anyway, I hope that at least one of the next few themes would be Frank Sinatra or something. Then John Stevens can really show everybody what he's capable of.

Oh! Oh! Oh! Mawar won the 8Days Bachelor contest!!! I'm so happy!!! Haha ok that sounds weird huh. But I was rooting for her lah!! Thought she stood out from the rest right from the beginning when I first saw her pic. Maybe I just get the thrill from knowing that the girl I rooted for really won. Haha ok cheap thrills.
Anyway, one day I really hope to work in 8Days. Heh.

OK gotta catch up on some stuff now. Remember, if it was John Stevens, try not to break my heart ok?

Well, actually, school starts on June 28. I wonder how I heard that it was July 13.

Got a job through my parents' friend at World Scientific and started work yesterday. Wore my pretty pink shoes but got a blister just 15 minutes into the job!!! Wore sandals today.

My job is to proof-read...right now, it's a book called The Clinical Approach to Medicine. Help me. I was already contemplating quitting in the middle of chapter 1 (chest pain)... but thankfully, I found some positive feelings in me for the job during chapter 2 (hypertension)... Today, I started on chapter 3 (heart disease) but it's such an awfully long chapter - 46 pages - sigh... Apparently there are about 20 chapters. Yeah the work is pretty dry. And you all know that I'm not a science person... hehe. But as I said, I'm quite ok with it already. Thank God for that.

OK anyway, it's just a two-month job. I have my own work cubicle but that's it. No phone, no computer...not even a dustbin!!! Haha~ that's coz I'm just a temp. I enjoy my privacy lah. Yeah man, it's so private that I think nobody really knows what everyone else is doing at any point in time. I, for one, don't even know when my colleagues have left for lunch or gone home! The environment is basically... very... un-happening. Yeah, that's the word for it, haha.

There are buses, apparently, that take you to hawker centres for lunch. Mon & Fri: Bukit Batok; Tue & Thu: Jurong East; Wed: Clementi Central. Otherwise, you can order what's on the menu for that day and I guess someone delivers it to the office at 12:30. Like yesterday, it was mixed veg rice with black pepper chicken so I ordered that. But today, it was...dunno what...seafood noodles or something. So my mum bought packet lunch for me after her BSF and then she brought it to me. So nice of her hor... Anyway, tomorrow I'll get to bring food from home (leftovers from tonight's dinner) - yay -

I already feel like I've worked for a hundred years. Lol. Oh, but one good thing is that I don't have to wear office clothes. I just go in jeans and T-shirt, and bring snacks and mail from my penpals to keep me company. I'm just glad that I'm earning some money on my own. That feels really good. I can save it for my education...or shopping....hehehe... Next time even after I've entered poly, I'd still want to work during the school holidays or something. Time to be more independent man!!! But of course, I'll never ever be a waitress. Ask me to be a cashier, can. Cleaner, uh, still can. But waitress...no way man. My pay will be docked until like dunno what coz of all the dishes that I will break.

Got into Mass Comm! Yeah, found out just this morning. Term starts only on July 13. :)

So today my mum and I went shopping. We went to Clementi Central, then to Isetan, Tangs and lastly, Metro. Bought a pair of shoes from Isetan! I would say it's a cross between sport shoes and ballet pumps. And it's pink! It's very, very sweet. The brand is Tracce. I have never heard of it so hopefully this means that everyone else hasn't either and that I'll never meet someone who has the same pair of shoes as me. Yeah!

Actually, I've just found out from the internet that Tracce is "a must for fashion pundits". Ok, I'm feeling very fashionable already.

Hey I didn't know that Charles and Keith is a local brand. And I didn't know that it has a website! There is a section on Promotions. :) It says that from now until 30th April, if we use NETS, we can enjoy 10% off for every 2 pairs of shoes in a single receipt. Very good. Actually, I have never bought a pair of shoes from there before. But that's not the point. Once I see "shoes" + "DISCOUNT", my eyes simply light up. Very good.

Sigh, John Stevens was kinda disappointing last night don't you think. And he was singing one of my favourite songs!! I was so excited at first but then later I felt terrible for him because he just didn't pull it off very well. Oh sigh...

My mum likes Jasmine. Haha can you believe it... She says she has a sweet smile. Actually, my mum's pretty good at judging them. As in their singing and their overall performance. She's quite spot-on. So she claims that all the music genes are from her. Haha okie...