pls juz go away..
i hate it when u stay in my head..
it used to be hours or a day or two.. now it's been almost a wk and i still cant stop thinking abt it..
it's draining my energy bit by bit unconsiously.
i need tt motivation again.
i need to feel interested again..
i need to believe tt i can do it again...
c'mon man!
go away so tt i can put new knowledge in
加油吧!
Sunday, November 8, 2009
emo is the word for today.. the weather, "greys anatomy", conversations.... all tt contributed to it. after watching the latest epi of greys, i felt how fragile life can be and there's only tt much tt docs can do. sometimes it's juz not possible. started my train of thoughts abt "future" again. the same old story and the same old feeling. too lazy to pen it down again. it's really draining to keep having the same thoughts coming back over and over again. but juz have to deal with it i guess. i made the choice. lonely is such a scary feeling, it can trigger so many other feelings and thoughts tt u can nv stop. it's so amazing how a child can miraculously live juz by hugging her in ur arms and it's so heart-stopping how another child can leave the world on his 11th birthday juz like tt. tts how extreme life can be.. it can be so strong and yet so fragile. wat determines which side of it are u on? who gets to determine it? makes me wonder...
ok shall talk abt sthing happy b4 i get deeper and deeper..
23rd oct 09
went clubbing with my classmates at propaganda.. a kinda popular international club in china.. alot of foreigners visit but it's small! free entry for us tt day. not sure why they always have free entry for girls, but maybe they sieve ppl from the crowd. drinks are crazily cheap so we juz downed them like nthing.. bcoz tt night was tequila night, every tequila shot was only 5rmb! unbelievable right.. think we had a total of abt 20 shots.. but mostly only yinyue, tianying and i drinking. the rest dun really drink. lol.. and i had white russian for the first time. feels alright but i still prefer other drinks. still drank almost three quarters of junie's gin tonic bcoz she juz drinks abit.. i think tts the most i've drunk: 5 shots and 2 drinks.. got me a little high and dizzy but i was still sober! stupid yy keep saying i lousy.. lol.. tts quite alot already leh.. rem ur 10 shots next time. think we no need to go home after tt le. the music was quite boring bcoz it was techno music tt night.. wrong genre for us. they can turn any music into techno. quite amazing. and the ppl there they dun reponse to the songs! like some songs need some interactions like shouting back, nobody does.. only we self high. lol.. shld try other nights next time.. i guess alot of ppl seen the photos on fb already.. really can differentiate the drinkers from non-drinkers. lol.. nice experience thou. first clubbing night in beijing!
31st oct 09
participated in an international event organised for international students. 昆明湖长走. thou we already went 昆明湖 before, we still participated. coz it can be treated as a class outing and we were hoping to meet or look at more ppl from other countries. lol! but act there wasnt much ppl-watching to do, luckily the scenery was awesome! totally different from the last time when we were there, because it's autumn now and all the leaves turned colour.. check out fb for the photos.. we were saying wanna go back again during winter, can walk on the lake! so we had to walk around the place and complete 3 checkpts, so tt we can collect our souvenirs at the end of it. in the end we only managed to complete 1 checkpt within the stipulated time! it was quite lame. we were only halfway done when they started keeping all the flags and road signs.. bcoz we spent too much time taking photos! until the pt where we gave up and juz walk and walk back to the end pt. quite sad tt we din get the souvenirs but the photos can be our souvenirs! =) and we met this 2 pakistan guys and took photos with them.. pretty random.
we had ajisen for dinner! delicious but smaller serving as compared to spore.. after tt we wanted to eat dessert, so we decided to check out swensens.. and guess wat. bcoz it's halloween and we are spore students, we each got a free ice-cream cone! juz liddat, without any purchase or spendings there. we were quite stunned. and they knew we were from spore from the way we talk. feel the love from home suddenly. lol...
1st nov 09
the first snow encounter in beijing!! =) huangfang screamed and woke all of us up when she saw tt it was snowing outside.. incredible. it wasnt even winter yet and we got to see snow. we all gt so excited and decided to brave the cold and go down to tk photos! it was so fun playing with the snow, snow-ball fights, snowman-building, snow angel etc.. reminds me of the korea tour with my family.. took alot of photos and we occasionally went inside the building to "defrost" since it's juz at our house garden. memorable experience..
i finally recovered from my 上吐下泻.. have been staying in bed and slping for the past few days.. dint go sch and dint do much.. went to see the doc and it took abt 2hrs for the entire process! nearly fainted there... but the med is quite effective.. finally my flu, cough and every other things i have is gone! happy.. hope i dun fall sick again.. sick of falling sick.. muz be the weather.. getting colder nowadays. heard tt this coming wk is cold again. but at least there's heater in the house now.. it's normal room temp now in our house.. pretty shiok. exams are coming again in dec.. planned my study timetable today. hope to stick to it.. gambatte! to all those having exams in spore, jiayou too! it'll be over in a flash.. i cant wait for cny!! really miss spore and the ppl back there... and of coz mj and bball.. lol! =p
ps: sis enjoy ur US trip!! tk more photos! esp of all the diff hotels u're gonna stay in las vegas!
Thursday, October 22, 2009
finally i am back!! been neglecting this blog ever since exams started.. been quite an accomplishment to stay at home and study without using the comp! i juz dunwanna switch it on, bcoz the moment i do, i will be so distracted from all the internet and games and fb.. so mid-terms are finally over! 针灸 paper was easy but 内科 paper was tough!
i've decided to give up on blogging abt every single day in beijing starting from day 1! it's too tedious and i gt no time for it.. cant really rem wat happened oso.. so juz a few interesting stories here and there!
17th sep 09
we were happily eating dinner at home and watching our fav tv cartoon show "喜洋洋与灰太狼" when suddenly the house blacked out! we were stunned for a few seconds before we started to react to the situation.. the prob was we used up our electricity! the system in china is tt u need to pre-pay for electricity and top it up when u are running low. we forgot all about it and our electricity got cut off! so, late at night (abt 7 plus i think), we had to walk for about 20min to the power supply company and top up our card.. an experience i will nv forget.. i guess u only get to experience it here in china, with the pre-pay system.
house-visiting
we went to some classmate's houses over these few wks.. yinyue and gang, brandon and gang, yueyou and gang.. all not bad! yinyue's cooking skill is good, i like the chicken.. roger's stewed pot is nice too! kt's dessert apple wine is innovative! we din eat dinner at yueyou house coz we had an impromptu visit tt day when our house blacked out (coz their house is near the power company). but their house is the nicest! biggest and very well furnished.. so we picked up a few dishes here and there.. i wanna try making the dessert apple one day.. but i think it will be an expensive dessert to make back in spore but here the wine is so cheap! a can of beer is like 4rmb and the cheapest wine can go down to less then 10rmb? craziness... had lotsa fun hanging out at yy's house! gossiped abt everything tt we could and juz chilled.. stayed till abt 1am.. brandon's house visiting was on mid-autumn festival! we drank tea and ate mooncakes and enjoyed the excellent piano songs by xuhua! really v zai.. going to visit shuling and gang's house this sun night and catch man u vs liverpool match.. lol! i hope man u players make it back in time.. next wk planning to visit more ppl's house!
17th oct 09
huanfang's bdae today!! happy bdae!!! it's the first time her bdae falls during the exams period.. quite sad coz we all needa mug.. i hope my bdae dun fall anywhere near! but we still planned a little surprise for her.. bought a bdae cake and a boster for her secretly.. then on the day itself, eileen and i came up with some excuses to get out of the house and go collect the items, while junie stayed at home and prepare for the moment.. the boster turned out to be so skinny! coz we told the shopkeeper we wanted 95cm by 20cm.. in the end they took the 20cm as the circumference instead of the diameter! diaoz... it was quite cute thou, looked like a sweet.. so we secretly lit up the cake outside the house and once we opened the door, we started singing bdae song! it was a successful surprise bcoz she din suspect anything at all! she thought we are all too engrossed in studying tt we forgot abt it.. haha.. after tt we went to eat dinner at this "spice girls hotpot restaurant".. v shiok! the 麻辣 feel is craziness. stays in ur mouth and lips especially. we can feel our lips twitching while eating. lol.. ordered quite a spread and we were so full from eating tt i said a very funny sentence.. muz note it down bcoz it's too classic.. we saw this uncle tt sells fruit along the street so i said hi to him.. den after tt junie asked me who did i see.. i said "那个卖 uncle 的水果" when i meant to say "那个卖水果的uncle"! muz be all the blood flowed to the stomach at tt pt in time.. anw felt so relaxed tt night thou our paper was on mon.. haha.. totally put aside the books thou we were all still far from finishing.. the bill sum up to be around 200rmb.. still affordable i guess.. we wanna try all the hotpot restaurants along our stretch of road!
ystd we tried to acupuncture each other and they tried 尺泽 and 合谷 on me coz i am sick.. flu and cough.. den we tried to 点刺出血 coz they nv experience it before.. pretty fun but quite scary at times.. but it din help in my cough bcoz i think it's too late already.. shld have tried when i juz got sick instead. tt day during acupuncture class, we tried 耳针 too.. wanted to help yinyue poke her 下关 (which is near the jaw) bcoz her jaw hurts if she opens it too big.. but ran out of time so maybe next time den i try! quite scary thou the teacher says it's safe.
ate spaghetti for dinner juz now! nice and v simple to make! tts the only western dish we can cook here i guess.. limited ingredients. i miss spore's char kway teow and prawn noodles and seafood! the seafood here totally cmi.. totally miss malaysia's char kway teow too! i can drool while thinking abt it.. but food here have their own charm too! i like the 烤窜 and 米线 here! and also the beef noodles juz downstairs of our house..
the weather is starting to turn cold now! and the wind is unimaginely strong sometimes! we saw a fallen tree on our way to school tt day.. the wind can really blow u away. so we started to wear our trench coats and boots to school now. cant imagine wats it's like in winter.. and the dryness here is making my legs so itchy! gotta apply tons of moisturizer everyday and i can feel my skin growing older already. lol..
going shopping over the wkend! thinking of getting more shoes.. sneakers, boots etc.. yays! happiness..
Thursday, October 1, 2009
day 3 to 6 in beijing
nothing much happened for these few days. we simply went shopping for household stuffs and spent the rest of the time cleaning up our house..
we went to 十里河家具城 to shop for wallpaper initially, coz our walls are quite dirty. but we gave up the idea once we saw the price! so in the end we bought our wardrobes and study tables there.. one set cost 1200rmb. not a bad price considering the fact tt we can customize it and it's brand new with alot of compartments!
meals for these few days included yoshinoya (pretty much the same as spore), 上岛咖啡 (their lunch offer is cheap! and tts one of the rare places we will order fish coz it's boneless!), 南成香 (i love their 麻辣鸡翅!), and a noodles and bao zi stall near our place..
we eat fruits almost everyday here! bcoz it's fresh and cheap! junie and huangfang loves the peach here, crazy over it all the time.. but now tt the peach season is over, they are pretty sad, need to search for new fruits...
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
day 2 in beijing
had 包子，粥，油条 for breakfast at the same 成都小吃 shop as the first day. surprisingly their 油条 is nice! then off we went to our apartment. china ppl are really efficient! after juz one night, they got the house ready with all the tables and chairs, beds, and even the partition wall for the extra room in the living room was built. so we are all ready to move in after some cleaning up.
the thing abt the way ppl work here is that they are v efficient and nice before u pay them the rent. after tt, they keep dragging things and will only get it done after much reminders.. quite irritating sometimes. to make things worst, our apartment had alot of problems! the toilet bowls cannot be flushed, the tap was leaking, door knobs not working, cockroaches everywhere, light not working, sink leaking, heater unstable.... such a long list right.. so we spent the next 5 days solving all these problems, equipping the house and cleaning up. but till now, the heater problem is still not solved. the water heat is always unstable when bathing.. requires a great deal of skill to manipulate the water temp, if not u will either freeze or get scald to death.. but the agent keep insisting that this is not his problem so he cannot fix it or change a new one for us. sian! i hope we can survive winter.
so we went to visit the 方庄市场 near our place for the first time! so excited for the first time, but we are all so sick of the place now. we will visit the place at least once every 2 days.. till the point tt everybody there knows we are from spore! which is not a good thing bcoz they will quote us higher prices.. and our bargaining skills are so lousy. feel so cheated. sad.. but it sells everything under the world.. everything can be found there so it's still quite convenient for us.
it was clear blue sky that day and we thought that maybe beijing pollution is not so bad afterall.. but we were so wrong! tts maybe the rare few days where u get to see a clear blue sky.. most of the days are hazy and the amt of ppl smoking on the street are terrible. they smoke everywhere! in the restaurants, toilets, and they can even smoke when they are eating! getting so sick of the cigarette smell.
so we bought alot of stuffs from the market, including our bed sheets, shoe rack etc.. they seldom provide plastic bags here, so we had to bring our own shopping bags and carry all the things home. on the way home, we stopped at this pebble road and started taking pics of how "auntie" we looked. and guess what, the pebble road is now paved with tar! tt makes our photo so memorable...
we went to sign up for broadband and a house line too, but realised that the house line is too redundant, so gonna cancel it soon. do ur know whats broadband called in chinese?? it's 宽带! such a direct translation.. i think we can earn big bucks here if we are to correct all their chinese to english translation. tt day we cant stop laughing when we were buying meds at this pharmacy. the direct translation really cmi.
on our way back, we bought drinking water too. tap water in china are not drinkable. so we had to get those water dispenser that u see in offices. we consume about 1 big tub every 2 days, bcoz we use tt to cook too! feel too unsafe to use tap water.
then huangfang, eileen and yizhong went to carrefour to get more stuffs, while junie and i stayed at home to make the beds and clean up a little. the beds they provided were cui bcoz it's 超薄软垫. the 超薄 part is so true but the 软垫 part is totally deceiving. it's very hard but i think it's good for the spine.. i am used to it bcoz last time when we went back taiwan, we will juz sleep on the floor. i think it's still fine. but the rest cannot take it. lol. they bought an extra 床垫 but it's still as hard. and the tables provided by them are even more cui! it's looks like a pri sch study table. so small tt after placing a laptop, nothing much can be put on it. totally cannot be used for studying. the wardrobe is the cloth-covered kind! can only hang a few clothes and the metal structure keeps swaying. we had to assemble them and we became pros at it. lol. but at least the sofa, tv, washing machine and fridge they provided are alright. the sofa can be converted into a bed, but it's abit squeezy for 4 ppl to sit on.
whoots! they came back with 500rmb plus of things from carrefour! tts like more than S$100. we have been spending money like crazy for the first few wks bcoz of the amount of things we had to buy.. had cup noodles for dinner and guess what we did for post-dinner activity. that's right! cockroach killing.. we spent the next few hrs killing them and then gave up bcoz we were all coughing badly from the pesticide.
tt sums up the tiring day we had from all the shopping, cleaning and roaches-killing! more to come for the following few days...
Sunday, September 13, 2009
day 1 in beijing
after 6hrs of flight onboard air china, we safely arrived in beijing.. the airport was so big that the plane glided for almost 15min after it landed! and we had to take a monorail to the luggage claim area. imagine the amount of land they have..
yizhong (our senior) came to fetch us and we took a cab down to our hotel. the first interesting thing i observed here is that the cab drivers dun like to switch on their air-cons! they will juz wind down their windows bcoz the air outside is cold enough to act as air-con. but at the same time, the air is so dry and the exhaust fumes blowing at u during traffic jams makes it irritating. i wonder if they on the air-con during summer..
so we arrived at our "super-8" hotel. it's quite a small hotel but the room is satisfactory. maybe the only downside is that there is no lift and we had to carry our luggage up to our room on the 3rd floor. din get much rest before we went out for breakfast. our first breakfast in beijing was 包子! it was very cheap and edible! lol.. juz a little salty.
then it was apartment-viewing time! we spent pretty long at the first apartment because the tenant locked the door from inside and we couldnt contact him. the door was so sound proof that he cant even hear us knocking damn hard. finally we managed to get in and he was watching tv in his room. no wonder.. the apartment had a nice layout, all the rooms are of similar sizes, but the kitchen was pretty small and the toilets are quite pathetic.. overall it looked too old for our liking thou the owner said he will help us redo the place..
the second apartment is the condo where quite a number of our classmates stay. the house was cleaner but it is a 3-room double-storey flat. the layout is abit weird, with 2 big rooms upstairs and a small room downstairs. so we decided to give that up too.
the 3rd apartment is where we are living now! it's a 6-storey condo with lift. our house is on the 2nd floor, so it's quite good exercise climbing the stairs everyday. although it's oso a 3-room apartment, the living room is so big that an extra room can be easily partitioned out. so we settled for the apartment because it looks relatively new and the location is pretty good. it's juz a 15-min walk to our hospital and 10-min walk to the market where everything u'll ever need can be found there. the rent is still within our budget. 5.4k every month and we distributed it equally according to the size of our rooms. i got the master bedroom with the toilet, coz my mum will come visiting so i have enough room to accommodate her!
so after juz 3 apartments we got our house settled! after which we had our lunch. noodles at a place nearby, as usual, salty and oily.. and the quantity is alot! then we went to the bank to open accounts. bank of china is nicely furnished! their bank goes by queue numbers, so u no need to physically queue up. i think it's quite nice.. tt concluded our day. went back to the hotel to sleep bcoz we were all so tired. slept for almost 12hrs till the next day!
Thursday, September 3, 2009
it's either my internet connection sux or blogger does! i edited this post 4 times already bcoz everytime i failed to upload the photos.. angry! so i decided to give up and juz type all the words out!
mon was the first day of school.. reported at 830am at the main school campus. total mess coz we decided to take a bus there and the bus routes here are so complicated! we looked at the map book and it was stated that the bus goes there but when we asked the driver, he say it doesnt! so in the end we took cab and was still late for 15min. nothing interesting today. juz settled all the admin stuff and listened to all the talks. we collected our textbook and it's 5 thick txtbks for this sem! i can forsee the toughness. and guess wat, our first exam is in 24 days time, when lessons juz started on tue. i find the 耳鼻咽喉科 teacher pretty interesting! he knows how to crack jokes to liven up the studying mood. but 内科 is so boring! i was trying hard to stay awake for the first lesson already.. this is bad bcoz it's the v major and impt module for clinical use next time. 针灸 is fun! act it's one of the modules i've been looking forward to bcoz i believe it really works. but the teacher cmi.. it's a young guy and his style of teaching is quite boring. i hope other teachers are better! we practise our 针法 on a self-made "pillow" today.. it was quite interesting and the pillow is made up of a whole roll of toilet roll! thanz to eileen's sewing skills! =)
the mood for studying is really not there yet. we still went shopping on sun! bought a trench coat and a knitted sweater and a turtle-neck shirt for juz 200RMB.. really v cheap.. and we only managed to conquer one storey of the place. gotta go there again but it's like 1hr bus ride from our house. mon we went to shop for all our remaining kitchen necessities. bought ALOT of stuffs! finally our kitchen is fully equipped. yay! we cooked prawn noodles for dinner on tue night! put too little seasoning so tasted abit blend but it was alright coz we are all v sick of oily and salty food. ystd we went to yinyue, keeka and huiming's house for dinner. they cooked 5 dishes and it was tasty! their apartment is not bad too but abit further.. then we gossiped until 1am! craziness bcoz today we still had lessons at 8am.. but it was lotsa fun.. lotsa juicy news too.. lol. and lotsa memories... today we cooked a successful dinner! delicious i wld say. had broccoli with carrots, vege and meatball soup, and sthing like sweet and sour chicken.. all tasted good. yay! we will continue to sharpen our skills.
so i shld start blogging abt my small trips ard beijing.. start with the departure at the airport first then... i hope i got time to follow up. =pthe day of departurespent the whole day with my family. had lunch with sisters at 新旺台湾茶餐厅. i think it's quite nice. go try if u haven!
us with the 珍珠奶茶！
the must try: 面线和棺材板！dinner was at 鼎泰丰. taiwan food again! i am so missing taiwan. now that there is direct flight between china and taiwan, maybe i can go back taiwan for holiday!
everybody present! i miss ur...then it was time to go to the airport. thanz to all those who came! it was really nice seeing ur and all thanz to the “祝你一路顺风”started by katty, the tears flowed..
all the adults!
zheyi and xiaojun! so long nv met up le 
lovely sisters!
i gave up trying to upload photos after this one.. so all words from now! go view fb if u wanna see the photos. anw life here is not as bad as i imagined it to be.. the streets are clean except for the ocassional spitting. there are sunny days here too! lol. but mostly it's quite hazy. the only fact abt china is the disgusting public toilets. it's really juz a hole and v dirty. thou i nv used one bcoz i really cant stand it, i can still imagine the dirtiness.. act i cant understand why they dunwan to revamp the toilets! everything else is not bad but why leave such a bad impression on toilets.. weird.oh and the number of cockroaches are getting lesser! it's a gd sign but there are still ocassional appearances. but at least now we dare to use the kitchen and we dun scream as loud when we see cockroaches. the process is so funny. from screaming extremely loud, jumping ard getting goosebumps and using pesticide to frantically kill them for the first night.. to juz screaming and stepping on them (bcoz we were still wearing slippers ard the house then) for the next few days, bcoz we realised stepping is so much more efficient, the roaches are too small to be sprayed at.. then to now when we just comment when we see one and use tissue paper to kill them.. totally immuned!ok shall stop here. tml is another long day with a short break.. and huangfang started this daily routine whereby we have to memorise 5 方歌 everyday. 方歌 means those poems tt are supposed to facilitate us in memorising all the tcm formulary. we memorised 5 ystd but today i haven memorise yet! it's so diff to rem all and i think it's a good system so muz really keep to the routine if not we will juz study 1 day slack 3 days.. blogger sux! dunnoe why all the paragraphs stick together one.. zzzzzz