Working For me has Started...........................

Now working had started for me since thursday when i reported for the Ikea job. Anyway, i am kind of lazy to type my L.O.V.E. life now as now i am working. Ok, On the first day of work, while working actually i saw ms natasha but did not acknowledge her because i was kind of busy serving the food to other customers. Anyway, that's a surprise on my first day of work. I was given one set of uniform only as some admin problems. Anyway, friday was a off day so i got to wash my uniform to prepare for work today. Today was my second day of work, still getting use to it, slowly but surely! My work for the cafe and restaurant for Ikea. My job is to serve food to the customers as they placed their orders with me. Ok, second day of work, another surprise as i saw velda and friend. Also saw Ms Tan kheng hua, mediacorp actress.Today was also a kind of busy day as it is a weekend. A bit tired although it is a 5 hour shift. Ya, my job requires me to stand all the time. The pay are weekdays:$5 , weekends: $5.50. The pay are quite reasonable and the staff i am working with are also friendly and easy to work with. After finish work, went to ask for my second set of uniform but to no avail. Anyway, forgot to sign out in the paper before going home. Never mind will write it tomo as i am working also. Guess will be working in the same set of uniform as i don't have any extra set. Whatever, anyway is not i don't want to change! Ya, that's my day!! Till then........

Birthday full of surprises!!!!!!

Before talking abt the final part of my ITE life which is the L.O.V.E , another great event which just happen is my 20th birthday on 18th of April. It is truly a birthday full of surprises i can say, with surprises from my friends and the army which is totally unexpected. Anyway, this is how the day started: I met ah kiong at woodlands checkpoint at abt 11am where we travelled with our passports to JB. We went to JB's City Square to watch a movie but were rushing for time as we needed to go back school to order the class photos that were taken, we needed to reach school at abt 3pm. So we decided to watch ninja turtles again as there were no other shows that could fit our timing. After the movie, it was already abt 1pm. We were already quite late actually, but anyway we had a quick lunch at 'Secret Recipe' in City Square itself. Then after lunch, we went to a comic shop also in the same place as ah kiong wanted to look at comics. Anyway, before that, he already mgs mdm ruhaida saying we would reach abt 4pm. So we left JB at abt 2pm and headed straight back to school. Along the way, back to school, i mgs Feng xian as she called me while i was watching the movie at that time. Found out she wanted to call me to wish me happy birthday personally. But anyway, thank her for her thoughtful thought. Reached school abt 3.50pm, where some of my classmates with mdm ruhaida and mr rashid were sitting in C1, they all sang birthday song to me. After that, we sat down and starting talking for a while, while ordering the photos. Anyway, Ah kiong and i left with Lyon and Jane in Lyon's car. Lyon then, send us and drop us at Tampines mall where we took a train to Vivocity, the next destination of my birthday celebration. Actually, ah kiong didn't told me abt meeting anyone at Vivocity but along the way,i could sense that there's someone we were meeting as ah kiong was like telling me to rush to Vivocity to buy tickets for the movie: Meet the Robinsons' in 3D. True enough, when we reach by MRT, we saw serene standing and waiting for us. Although this is supposed to be a surprise, but this first one was most not surprise surprise to me. Anyway, after that we went to buy the movie tickets where serene bought the tickets while he asked me to help him buy drinks from the nearby 7-eleven, after helping him buy, i went to the toilet and came out. When i came out, serene just finished buying the tickets. Anyway, she then went to the toilet. After that, the 3 of us went to the comic store at the top floor cause ah kiong wanted to look at comics and games. Then we went up and look around. Look and look, after a while, ah kiong then out of sudden ask me to look at a black pig which was at one of the top shelves. Anyway, i didn't find it weird at first but ah kiong suddenly laugh which make me felt a bit weird then. After that, i again walk around cause ah kiong was still looking around. Looking around, i saw Li jin which make me very, very surprised. I could not believe it and walk away to a corner. Ah kiong then led me to Li jin and told me she was waiting for me to talk to her. Then i went to look for Li jin and acknowledged her presence. Anyway, they then tell me Li jin actually came in the shop earlier than that. It is my poor observation that i did not realise. Actually earlier, the black pig which ah kiong wanted me to see, he was already hinting me. This second surprise make me very surprised and can be said as one of the jokes which is very funny and created together with them. As Lijin told me the previous nite, she was not going for my previous plan for the zoo during my birthday and say only she might be going out with calvin after he work. So i assume she was not coming for my birthday celebration. Anyway, very surprised to see her and happy too. So after we left the comics shop and went back to the movie threater to wait for the movie. While waiting, we were chatting at the seats there. Then when the time is almost up, i queued to buy cheesy hotdogs and nachos for them. While i was buying, the third surprise appear, guess who? It is the couple of Yiqi and Shun quan, never seen them for a while. A bit surprised!! But nevertheless i still think that the second surprise is the most surprising to me. So we went watching the movie( Meet the Robinsons in 3D) together. As it is a 3D movie, we were given free 3D glasses. Although it is a 3D movie, after the movie, most of us feel that the 3D images in the movie are not a lot. But 1 thing good abt the movie is the moral which is looking forward. It teaches us, no matter what happens, we must always look forward in life. I think this is very true as a lot of things will happen in life, good or bad, esp. the bad ones, we must always look forward and forget the regrets or bad things that already happened and continue moving forward. We must never allow ourselves to stay backwards as time passes and will not wait for anyone so we must always look forward and never be left behind.
Ok, back to the day! After the movie, we went to eat our dinner at vivocity's Kopitiam food court. After eating, we were chatting. During that time, my brother called me and brought me another surprise and the last surprise of my birthday which comes in a news of me enlisting into the army of Singapore armoured regiment( 40 SAR). I told all of my friends there and i could not believe it. The feelings were nervous,excited, lost. The feelings were mixed at that moment. Anyway, after that we were all chatting abt NS life and Ah kiong shared his jokes which he had witness and enjoyed in his NS days. We continued chatting a while more before leaving the food court at abt 11pm. Although it is a long day, But it is a birthday that i first thought to be a boring, but with surprises like that, i had a wonderful time. Thanks to the person who organised the whole day celebrations cum surprises which is ah kiong. Extremely grateful and special thanks to him for a well spent and wonderful birthday for me. Also the first person who wish me happy birthday. The next person is serene as she finish classes in poly before coming to vivocity to help celebrate my birthday for me and also for the movie ticket she paid for me and also for the time taken by her as she had school the next day too. Thank you, Big thanks to you too, serene! Besides thanking them, the others which are the surprises Lijin, Yiqi, Shun quan. Calvin also which could not make it to the movie and met us after the movie. Thanks for their company for a wonderful evening spent at vivocity. Also thanks to kelly, although she did not go to vivocity to meet us due to her poly's homework which she needed to rush. Also she's the second person who wish me happy birthday. Thanks to people who wish me using SMSes also. This will include some of the persons which i met at vivocity. Others are like hwei ling, wei ann, hui ping and my secondary school friends. Thank you to all. If i missed out anybody, you guys can leave comments and tell me. Anyway, i thank you guys also. Bye, Bye and Take care!!!!

Reflections for ITE years(part 2)

Continuing with the reflections for ITE years, i guess there's a need to reveal the people's name as it seems very obvious as told by some of my friends during the past 3 days of chalet. Ok, for the first term, the group i was with consists of ah kiong, shun quan, sing hua and me. Second term and third term, Ah kiong and me with the couple which is Li jin and Calvin. Close to the end of second term, it is Jane that join us. That happened till fourth term but Jane was the one that was following us 'on and off'. Ok, the fourth term, it is Ah kiong that left for HK GEP program, this is the most obvious as told by them during the chalet. Ok, the last group of people is my GEP Beijing people: Feng xian,Shao wen, Kelly and me. The last person who join my GEP group is Zhen wei. Ok, my LO throughout the IA period is Ms Angeline Lee.
After all the persons i revealed from part 1 of my reflections of ITE, it is time to continue on. Ok, in this part 2 of it, i will comment abt the whole course i been through in ITE and some of the people i didn't mention in part 1 of the reflections.
To start, some of the people who also play a part in my ITE years like Nikki, Denny, Hui ping, Hwei ling,Yiqi, isabel. For Nikki's part in my ITE life, i don't know how to describe but it is a long story which started with her teasing. As for Denny, he is the first friend i got to know in ITE. After i know abt his bad habits and his craziness over games, i slowly move away from him. In my class, he's a person which people know him for his bad habits and games. As for hui ping and hwei ling, i got to know them at the start with Li jin.They were the formly three sisters. As in the first term, after school, the three of them will always ask me to accompany them to shop in tampines, anyway it was always rejected by me as in the first term, i was busy working and isolated myself a lot due to working and studying. After Li jin got into a relationship with calvin, things were twist-and-turn and in the end, resulting in the split of the three sisters. There were also another group of three sisters consisting of Yiqi, Isabel and Jane. This group of three is also separated due to BGR, bitting, vengenace, revenge and etc. In summary, actually a lot of things happen in between of them. Also in the first term, they always tease me saying i very 'DAO', not answering them when they ask me things. The reason is i think they don't know me at the start so can't blame them. Anyway, if i ask them now, i doubt they will say i am 'DAO' anymore. Yah, about this two groups of sisters who were spilted, i can only say it is a sad thing. Anyway, it seems like they are all doing very good. I guess that's the good thing.
To summarise and end this reflections, the most important thing is to thank the people that make my ITE life colourful, the first group and the only person in this group, that will be ah kiong which makes the most changes in my ITE life and breaking my 'many first times' in a lot of things. Anyway, i can say that for his friends, he does really more for his friends than himself. He really makes a great friend. Ok, for the second group will be Li jin and calvin. Although i actually don't feel good with couples but with them around in my ITE years, my thinking slowly changes and it seems that couples can be good friends with people around them too. But i think till now, no other couples can follow what they are doing and get around with friends that way. And sometimes what Li jin say about herself, just makes me laugh and with her cold jokes. It just makes a good friend too. And for the next group and also only in this group is Jane, although she's on-and-off following us but she is another good friend to have as sometimes her bluriness just makes her very cute and funny. And this just make somes of the jokes around us. Ok, for the last group i would like to thank is my GEP Beijing group. As we spent 2 long months in Beijing for our attachment, i got to know Kelly,Feng Xian, Shao wen and Zhen wei. As this is the first long overseas trip for me, the memories with them will forever be kept in my mind.
Ok, once again, i would like to thank the following 5 groups of friends that i mentioned. These 5 groups of friends really are the highlights of my ITE life and make my ITE life really interesting and colourful. Thanks for all the good time shared between us. Besides them, i would also like to thank my classes in ITE, Class C and R, the students and my class advisor(Mdm Ruhaida).
This part of my life will be definitely treasured and remembered in my mind, really wonderful memories that will stay forever in my mind. Thanks and Thanks to everyone that had made this possible....................................THE END................................................

Lowest point of my life i guess!!!

Before continuing the ITE reflections part 2, Let's talk abt my feelings after the release of the poly posting results which i totally was unsucessful in. These few days i guess i had been trying very hard to cheer myself up. It seems like it is not easy to be happy sometimes. Anyway, since i came back from Beijing, things happened which already affected my mood, for people close to me i guess they should know ,the first matter i dealt with is the L.O.V.E matter which makes me down for some time already. As this matter i am still slowly trying to accept and move on, things are quite good, moving along the time of recovery. Ok, it looks good, right? As i say, moving along the time of recovery meaning not yet recovered, right? Anyway, my mood is still quite ok still and getting better before the release of the poly posting results. Now, after the release of the results, i guess my mood is down again because firstly, the first matter have not been actually solved and the results had become another matter serious enough for me to be actually very sad. I guess 2 matters added together had led me to think that till now in my life, i had come across another of the lowest point of my life. Because after the results, I have to end my education life at ITE itself, and as i say before if i cannot enter poly this year, i won't have anymore plans to study for at least 2 or 3 years. And maybe after NS, i might not even have time to go to poly and need to start working as my father is old already by that time and mother not working due to medical problems. As the elder son in the family, i have no choice but to help my father lesser his burden on his shoulders he carried for the last 20 years. That's why i say, it is now or never. Since it is fated that, i cannot go poly. I will need to try to accept this fact and move on with my life now. I am trying very hard to accept this fact this few days but to no avail.
It is because after a while, the failure of entering poly will come back and still affect my feelings, making me in no mood to do anything. How to stabilise this feelings? I also know, need to be positive and always look forward and not back. So this few days, i watch dramas actually to try and not to think abt it. But when you come to meals' time, you tend to think also. So till now, i guess i have not succeeded in accepting the fact that i am not able to enter poly. Thus, my mood is still down. About the L.O.V.E segment, i guess i can very much affects my mood little this days. In conclusion, i can say all these matters had led me to another lowest point in my life. Seriously, all these had make me really moody this few days. Aiyah, what to do? Just maybe to cope with it till i finally get an objective for these rest of the year which is maybe getting a part-time job. I guess now time is the main factor in recovery from these two major damages done to me. Hope that i will be happy soon and to be the cheerful guy that i am.

Reflections for ITE years(Part 1)

Ok, it is time to do a conclusion and summary on the 2 years in ite. I guess not really 2 years after minus out the holidays as i entered the course officially at 20th june 2005. Anyway, in year 1 of the course, for the first term, i was working and studying at the same time so actually didn't get to know friends in ite, though i have my group of friends in ite but we were not that close, just ordinary friends i guess. I think first term is sort of my 'no' life days in ite as i didn't really get to know my ite friends well and i was like a machine working and studying at the same time with rest time limited. Once second term starts, i decided to quit my job as i really felt it is too much for me to cope already. From then on, i guess my ite life around with friends really started. As that time, a lot of things happen like one of them leave for poly, another one left for a relationship as time goes by, leaving actually a group of four including me, to 2 of us in the end. For the second term, i got to know him as we went out a lot of times and share problems together. For this friend, he really change me and some of my thinking as well. Anyway, he broke a few of my first times, like singing songs, travelling to KL, eating sakae sushi and a lot more. Anyway, i guess i spent the most throughout my life in ite. Actually i have to admit all these spent is worthwhile as these are some of the things that bring us together as good friends. I can say it is the turning point of my ite life i guess and maybe including my whole life till now. So this friendship till now is still there, as i guess we really treasure it as the age gap between us is quite big and not easy for us to forge the bond. So this friend accompany throughout the second and third terms, we can say we went through quite a lot of good and bad times i guess. But in the middle of the second term, a couple joined the two of us and we were like a group since then and following that a girl joined too which were 5 of us as a group then. Anyway, these 5-person group lasted for the second and third terms and sometimes we will go out after school as a group to different places like bugis, suntec city, rivervale mall and etc. But sometimes the girl will not followed us, so sometimes it is only the 4 of us together but in sch eating lunch will be the 5 of us eating together. These are also some of the wonderful memories from the second and third terms. Ok, for the last term with QC and lifeskills only, my good friend went for the GEP program in Hong Kong from 14 oct-16dec for 2 months and my life in ite changes again. Anyway, he started his classes on the same day as us in singapore which is 16 oct 2006. Yah, i went back to school so i went back to the same group of friends except without him. Anyway, sometimes i am alone with the couple as the girl go join other groups for lunch. Anyway, in the last term, seems like passing so fast as there is only 6 weeks of studying before IA starts. During this term, my IA which is the GEP program had been discussed through the last few weeks of QC.For this, actually only 4 persons were in this program which is 3 girls and me. But due to some management problems, the course manager decided to get another person to join the Beijing GEP group. The last person that joined in is another guy because he is the only person that applied for the GEP program which was open up last minute by our course manager. So after the QC term finish, the GEP Beijing students started doing school project first for the first week of IA as we are going to Bejing to do our IA only from the second week of IA(4 Dec 2006). So actually before this, the project we were attached to had also been discuss during the QC term and we were co-leaders as appointed in the various school project. I was attached to the algae group for the first week of my IA. Then after that, from the second week onwards, we were in Beijing doing our 2 months of IA till 8 feb 2007. This 2 months story was told in my previous blogs posted so i needn't explain so much. Anyway, i learnt quite a bit out of the 2 months attachment in Beijing. After that, i return to singapore to continue my IA in the school project actually but we were told to do QC practicals and tests, besides that we still have to do our GEP presentations slides within the few remaining weeks of our IA so we didn't help out much in the school project. So the last month in the school project for our IA, we focus more on our assignments given by our LO. After this, i completed my studies already.
So the above, summarise most of the events that happened in my ITE life in College East(Simei).
For Part 2 of reflections ITE: i will summarise more on my thoughts of this course i been through.
Stay tuned!!!!!!

Last Official Day in School

Today is my last official day in school. Went to school as usual, met ah kiong, calvin and li jin in the morning as calvin wanted to have breakfast in school. I reached the earliest this morning, a surprise to me, anyway i reach at 7.25am, after that is ah kiong reaching at 7.35am, the lastest is Lijin and calvin reaching 4 buses after me which is around 8am which is due to this reason we did not have a proper breakfast and just grab a bite and bought a bread to eat before going up to the LT 5 for the session with ms lee, dr yeo, mr din talking abt the graduation. That talk finish at abt 10.15am. The program after that is the taking of photos of my class. We assembled at abt 11am and my class finished the photo-taking abt 11.40am. The order is S,P,R,Q. After that, our class had a sort of class photo where we throw our lab coats in the air. After that. we went to C1 where i sat down with Lijin and calvin, and waited for ah kiong as he talked to ms lee. I then had lunch before going up to observe our practical 16 results with my GEP group. As we waited for ms lee to finish talking to her class including Zhen wei, we decided to ask ms lee when will she be free to attend to us. Anyway, she ask us to find ms vini to read the results for us. After that, it is abt 2.30pm where we decided to take photos with ms lee and all the GEP students. The last thing i did in school is waiting for ah kiong after his brass presentation which started after the photo-taking with the GEP students. i waited for abt 2 hours until abt 5pm before his presentation finish and he came down to look for me. It is then we went to meet lijin and calvin in orchard. That's the last official day in school.

Views of my Blog...........

Oh, i found out today my blog is actually very popular and will get more popular cause jane and kelly just promoted it today in school. Esp. jane who had promoted it from the moment i reach school. I thank you a lot for your 'wonderful' help ah. Anyway, abt the love life i mentioned in this blog is private and confidential, so i guess only people i mentioned before will know abt it. Jane, the answer to your question and curiosity, it is for you to find out and for me to know. Guess maybe i will tell when the time is right, if the time is right!!! Or maybe you will not know at all.
Ok, back to school life for today. I was so bored thoughout the whole day doing nothing. Anyway, guess this whole week will be the same cause my project had stopped from last week and this week is the final week in school with me graduating very soon.

Graduating Soon in the final week now........

Principal's presentation set on the 15 march 2007, next thursday. Though finish the slides, the problem will be what to say. Anyway, my slides for the group will be mostly pictures and i guess need to think of the things i am going to say. Just be easy i guess, just that maybe will be nervous on that day of presentation. Anyway, that's school. School will be over after this day of presentation as all the things are done. After school is over, i guess i will be a wondering soul again. The next thing will be poly admissions i guess, first objective for me after ite. If sucessfully will be going to Singapore poly in april. If not, will be waiting for NS letter, to go in NS and start working after that. It's up to Fate now. I really hope that i will make it to poly. Sometimes wondering what is love, it been from secondary, failures all the while i guess. This year will be 20 years old already, now ite life is ending, love has never bloom for me, i guess it is a sad thing for me. My class in ite have the most couples of up to 5. So envy of the couples sometimes! Anyway, the recent couple seems to have met problems so early in the beginning. Actually, i am quite concerned over this. People should know the reason if good friends with me.
Should be happy or sad abt this problem between them? Anyway, thoughts of mine flying everywhere.
This is what i feel for this week, i guess all these will last quite some time. Esp. the love part i guess.

Another long time since updated........

Finally, formal presentation is over on monday 5th march. Quite relax a bit i guess. Our presentation sucks actually cause we were like so last minute with no team spirit entering to the place of presentation. Our lack of team spirit and work were so obvious as told by one of my teachers in our presentation. Anyway, modifying our presentation slides for the principal. Today just finish doing the slides BUT i still feel like the presentation we can still do better. Anyway, not thinking too much, at least it is done i guess. I don't pinned any high hopes already. Ok, love in ite is over for me. It is time for me to leave things as usual now. Though disappointed, life's goes on. Don't know when will i get over. Anyway, things should get better as i am graduating soon in another 1 week. Let's see how the future of my love life will be, when will my fate come?
Ok, till then!!!!

Long time since updated.................

Life's in singapore so far? Yah, i think after so long, it is ok already. Not forgetting it is my homeland after all. Ok, the last time stop at 8 feb 2007. 9 feb 2007, so tired but yet still have to return to school for class C class photo to be taken. Anyway, it is good as i saw most of my friends and classmates. I was quite happy and still went out with 3 of my friends to Chinatown and spent the entire evening with them after the photo taking in school that day. Though tired but that was a well spent day with friends talking and laughing.

8 Feb 2007----Flying back from Beijing

What a morning it is! The morning started with us waking up at abt 7am. I mean the guys, we slack abt till 8.30am before going up to the girls' room to discuss today's plan. Anyway, the girls ask the guys to go to Dr zhao's office to collect something from him. So i called Dr zhao before going and he insisted that he wanted 1 person to go over only. But Zhen wei followed me as the girls went to xiang shan to buy thank cards for the rest of us. So we move off separately, when the guys reach Dr zhao's office, i ask Zhen wei to stay downstairs as i went into his office alone. To my surprise, Dr zhao handed a pair of new year deco and say it is for Dr derek yeo and wanted us to pass it to him on his behalf.I felt it is a very cheap thing and using a normal transparent plastic bag to store the new year deco,is not the way to give a present all though it is cheap, at least you packaged it! Anyway, showed Zhen wei the present also. He was also quite surprise that the 2 of us think that Dr zhao is a stingy person. Later along the way, me and Zhen wei were talking abt the present and laughing abt it. Actually more like complaining! Anyway, we then called the girls and went to meet them at xiangshan for breakfast. So we met the girls and later went to supermarket as some of them needed to buy something. After that, we went looking around for places to eat our breakfast, but found out that all our favourite places to eat are closed or food not ready. Anyway, we then decided to go back to behind our hostel to eat our breakfast, on our way, we prayed that it is open for business, our prayers worked, it seems like it just open for business and we are their first customers of the day. That is like already 10am. So we had our dinner with shao wen, kelly and Zhen wei eating their last bowl of chicken sliced noodles and me eating fried rice. Feng xian never eat as she didn't have appetite. It seems like the last time in Beijing we came out so early for breakfast , our favourite shops just didn't want to open for us and suddenly the streets are like so deserted with very little people. Anyway, it is just a sad ending huh! Anyway, we then went back to the hostel to write our thank you cards for our teachers and taking photos of the cards. We saw the time,it is like 11.15am and Zhen wei and i rush to our different labs to give the cards. But my professor offered me to eat lunch with her and one of my teachers in my department. So i couldn't reject her good will, and had my last lunch in Beijing with them. After this lunch, i rushed back to the hostel as we were supposed to be going off at abt 12.30pm. I run all the way back to the hostel to pack and move my lugguage to the vechicle provided by Dr zhao. In the end, we set off without Dr zhao as he said he got a meeting which he needed to attend. In the vehicle, i suddenly remember i forgot to take my toothbrush, towel, face towel. Anyway, let it go. Also cannot go back already what!
Ok, when we reach the airport , it is abt 1.30pm already, we were left alone with nobody to guide us. Eventually, we found the way through . We passed through 2 checkpoints before reaching the waiting area at abt 2.15pm. A lot of forms to be completed, first is health and lastly the form abt why and where you going back. Anyway, we rested at the waiting area till abt 2.55pm and ask whether we can board and the staff told us to wait till 3pm. But just when Zhen wei finished asking abt 1 min, they open the gate and everyone rushed to board the bus ,taking
us to the plane. We were like so pissed. Anyway, we boarded the bus and the bus took us to the plane and we were sitted at abt 3.20pm. So we waited for the plane to move, but till 3.30pm the plane didn't move and 3.30pm, a new batch of passengers just arrive and they started putting their things only so the flight was delayed till 3.45pm before the plane started moving. Again we got delayed and must queue for flying so we started flying only 4.10pm. So we flew back singapore, but on the flight i was so damn bored with nothing to do. We reach singapore at abt 10.20pm but pack until also 10.30pm before leaving the plane and checking out already 11pm. The girls also do some shopping for wines and beer. But kelly also bought perfumes. After they are done, we went out to collect our lugguage and went to meet our families waiting for us, it is already 11.30pm. Anyway,ms lee told us we need to go back school the next day for class photos, we were like sian lol.So i was quite happy when i was at the airport when i reach singapore because wee kiong, hui ping , Zhao ming and ah beng also came to see me. After we saw Dr yeo, we gave the present Dr zhao gave him. I think he didn't felt happy upon receving it. Anyway,Dr yeo didn't talk to us much, so the talk with ms lee, we were dismissed.After that, we set off home. I reach home abt 12midnight. Unpacked a bit, but my parents did a lot for me and i went to bathe at abt 12.20am until abt 1am. After that went to eat supper with my mother and brother outside, ate meepok fishball dry, so shiok lol, so long never eat already. So that's the last activity of the nite, after that, we slept....... That's almost a whole day outside,right? So tired huh!!! Anyway, it is over!!!

7 feb 2007--------Last minute shopping BUT regrets...............

7 Feb 2007, last full day in Beijing. Kelly need to go office as instructed by her teacher to return the card so she woke up early and went to her lab to do the return card procedures. After that, me and zhen wei also went to our indiviual labs to do our own things. Like for me i upload the photos from my lab office's com and also sent e-mails. Zhen wei finished eariler so went back hostel first and wait for the other girls. After i did my things, i called kelly's office and see if she's ready. She said she leaving soon and ask me to meet her at another building where she did the return card procedures. So i went to meet her and waited for 20mins before she appeared with your teacher, then i waited again for her to do her things at the building before we headed back to the hostel. On our way, we saw feng xian and shao wen bringing the heater we lend back to shao wen's lab to return.So me and kelly followed them back to the labs where we separated so i went back to the hostel first to wait for them. After a while, shao wen came to the guys' room to call us to go out. So the 5 of us went for our last minute shopping for this last full day in beijing. We did our last minute shopping in xiu shui street and wangfujing. But feng xian left early as her department had a farewell dinner for her. So the 4 of us continue shopping till abt 7pm and reach our hostel at abt 8.30pm. Then we did our last minute packing till abt 12am before feng xian came knocking on the guys room to do editing of an article we suppose to hand to Dr zhao to be published in their newsletter. The guys actually were busy packing that time, so feng xian was alone thinking abt the editing. At abt 12.30am, i finished packing and join feng xian for the editing while zhen wei was still packing until abt 12.45am and also join us in the editing. We slowly edit till abt 1am before kelly came knocking on our door and also hurry us to do editing and also join us too and we found out kelly sneak out while shao wen is sleeping in the room. So the 4 of us did editing until abt 3am before the girls went back to their room and the guys sleep. While kelly did the rewriting of the whole article in the girls room till abt 4am before the girls sleep. This is what i found out on 8 feb2007 morning. One thing i regret is actually i wanted to send one of my seniors off at the train station but i do not know how to get there and he told me not to go but on the way back, i found the place in the same bus back hostel just that in opposite directions. Aiyah!!!!! So regrets again lol. So sad ah! Anyway, last day is like that passed one lol.

6 feb 2007-----Regrets.................

7 feb was my off day in Beijing. Ok before that,i actually went out alone on 6 feb in the afternoon as the girls went to zoo area to shop for clothes as i went to xi dan another area to look for clothes as well. First time, went out alone in Beijing, felt lonely at the start but try not to think abt it too much. Left the hostel at abt 1pm after eating lunch.Anyway, was cheated RMB 10 by facial company said to be doing free testing for my face. Nothing much to say, just to say i am stupid and simple-minded. Anyway, after wasting RMB 10, i went to buy what my objective states in the first place. Finished shopping abt 4.30pm before travelling by bus to meet the girls near zoo area, meet them abt 6pm. Then took bus back to hostel together and put our things we bought before going back as Zhen wei's professor was treating us to dinner. Actually,this is the main reason why ZW did not go out with us to do last minute shopping. So ZW's professor took us to a 5-star restaurant for Beijing roasted duck and we had our dinner there, we felt great and thank his professor for that wonderful dinner. After dinner, he sent us to visit qinghua university which is second in China. So we actually visited university to them is a place of interest. Anyway, the university itself is bigger than singapore's university lol and it is self-efficient like a neighbourhood with banks, petrol stations, swimming pools, stadium and etc. That's the last place we visited in China. After that, actually i suppose to meet my seniors in the office as they are leaving on 7feb 2007 but when i return from that dinner abt 10.05pm. i found that the office is locked with nobody there. Sad ah!!!! Never got a chance to chat with them for the last time.

Last 2 days of working: Yesterday and today

Abt yesterday, it seems like i slack the whole day, just chatting with my department people here and updating the blog. Nothing much really happen yesterday, but the feeling is different as i will be leaving soon and back to singapore. I kinda of cannot bare with the people here. It seems like a kinda of sad feeling that flies pass me whenever i came back to this lab office to spend this last few days here and leaving this place where i stayed for 2 months. Anyway, the few days always thinking when will i be back again to visit them(teacher and seniors). Actually nobody really knows the answer. Yesterday was treated to a farewell lunch by Dr zhao and some teachers from the admin side and of course student councillors. Anyway, felt weird eating with them as these people are not really the people we get together with. We had only 1 meal before and this is the second one only. Dinner ate together as a group yesterday, but today i guess will not be as zhen wei having dinner with his department people, rest of us maybe going out for last minute shopping again in the afternoon as we have nothing to do.
Ok enough of the updates till now!! Now for weather reports here in Beijing, just found out that tomo the weather is snow with rain, can you imagine snow with rain the feeling, just wondering how it feels tomo when i wake up and walking on the streets as tomo is a off day for us to do final packing and shopping! Thursday is the day, abt my flight will it change due to weather?

Long and last weekend here in Beijing!

This weekend started early with friday as the first day. Friday, we wake up very early at abt 5am. We left hostel at abt 5.40am to take bus to the train station to transfer to a train there to Badaling Great wall of China. But we reach the place abt 8am and saw a lot of people quening up for the train and decided to change to take a bus to great wall instead. So we went back to the bus interchange to look for a suitable bus to take us to Bus 919 which is to Great wall of china. And this took us quite a while to figure out and in the end we check the map and walk out to find bus 618 to transfer to bus 919. And when we reach Great wall which is a long trip for bus 919, we reach the place at abt 11.30am. Can you imagine almost 6hours to reach Great wall, we took a lot of time, mostly due to poor planning! Anyway, we climb the great wall to the highest peak which is 888.8m above sea level, ok the view is great. On our way down, kelly lost one glove and we help to look by going up and down again. In the end not finding the lost glove, my guess it has flown off. Anyway, we were so tired that day. We came down and out of the great wall at abt 3pm. Walk around the souveirs shop there, and i bought a few there. Took the bus back at abt 3.30pm and reach city area abt 5.30pm before heading to look for hotel for us to stay. That's actually the plan for that day. Look around at hotels near 919 bus interchange but couldn't find a hotel nearby so took bus 27 to Xizhimen and look for hotel again. Couldn't find a hotel within our budget, so sadly went back home and had our dinner at xiangshan, where again the girls went to have dian xin for dinner and the guys went to eat a proper meal. The guys reach home later as the girls finish their meal first in another shop different from the guys. When the guys reach home, only kelly was awake as the other girls sleep earlier. So the guys went back to their room to slack lol and Zhen wei say he want to go lab fill our flask so he went back and i was left alone in the room without entertainment as i left my handphone charger in the girls' room and the china plug also so cannot watch tv or listen to music as my handphone is in low batt. So i lay on my bed in the hostel and don't know why i slept so early that day, maybe i am just plain bored ba! Ok, that's friday, great wall day!!
Coming to saturday now, the girls say they want to sleep longer on friday nite before the guys came down so we went up to the girls room at abt 9.40am. And while we prepare to set off, it is decided that we have breakfast first while kelly says she go her lab to check abt the hotels. So the 5 of us set off, and the 4 of us went to have late breakfast and after that went back to find kelly in her lab. So we search for the hotels using the map while we were there and didn't find the ones kelly found in the internet. So we look again on the internet, so wasted quite a lot of time and left kelly's lab at abt 1pm. So in the end, we took 2 buses to Wangfujing to look for the hotels there. We reach the place at abt 2.30pm before searching around the place for a decent hotel. Found a hotel nearby and cheap, guys one room----260, girls one room---------388, stay for a nite. The feeling is great lol, once we went in the rooms, the girls say they are bathing immediately so the guys also bathe and we went out to do last min shopping and to have our dinner and in the end,we had our dinner from street food. We return to the hotel at abt 11pm and we return to our rooms where i watch soccer till abt 1am. Zhen wei slept in the middle of it, anyway i bathe during halftime and continue to watch the match. I slept at abt 1.30am that night.
At lastly it is sunday, the last day of this long and last weekend. I woke up at abt 7am, don't know why, maybe haven adapt yet! Actually we decided to try the hotel's breakfast and kelly told the guys to go check the breakfast there at basement 1 and after we check we call the girls room using phone to tell them the breakfast is not so good and they wouldn't like it so they decided to continue sleeping after that. Anyway after that, i decided to have breakfast in macdonald's. The time is already 9.20am .So the guys left the hotel at abt 9.40am to eat breakfast and after that zhen wei say he wanted to buy cds. So in the end, Zhen wei and i return to the hotel at abt 11am, we bathe again before the girls and us check out the hotel at abt 12.30pm. After checking out of the hotel, we continued doing our last minute shopping going to the area nearby and xi dan before going back and reach our hostel back again at abt 7pm. After that, Zhen wei and i waited for dinner as the girls cook spagetti. After that , we all sat down on watch harry potter while having dinner till abt 10pm. Before we head on to sleeping as this long weekend is very tiring.
Ok, long weekend huh, so tiring but now don't know will my lugguage be overweight with so many souveirs to bring back. Aiyah, anyway let's take a day at a time ba.

OK, long weekend ahead of me!!

Tomo going to Badaling Great wall of china finally, the last place of interest we going to before leaving beijing on 8 feb 2007. Really looking forward to this i guess, after all it is the one of the 7 wonders of the world. Today, had lunch together but it seems that the mood is a bit weird, seems like everyone is a bit sian. I also don't know why! Anyway, tomo have to wake up very early to catch the train to badaling which leaves at abt 8.15am, as we need to take a bus to transfer to the train. Tonite must pack as maybe we will be staying at a hotel near badaling for a night. If staying then, we can bathe there and enjoy the hotel facilities if we find one good hotel i guess.Anyway, this is a long and last weekend for me and the rest of my group so i must enjoy till the fullest. See you guys on monday for my updates on my blog.......Bye!!!!

Normal Day for yesterday But...... And things for now!!

Normal day, yesterday as everyone went for both lunch and dinner together as a group. We sort of enjoy ourselves for the whole day i guess. Anyway, we went to kelly's lab in the afternoon to actually research on the hotels in Great wall, Badaling but i guess we couldn't stay for long as that's a department meeting at the place we are using the computer. Anyway, we then went back to the lab to continue our work. At night we met for dinner after work at abt 6.30pm with feng xian's junior following us to eat again. This time, we order dishes with rice for dinner and each of us ate abt 8.50RMB to 9.50RMB. Met my senior during dinner, saw him eating alone, cause we finishing dinner soon so never invite him over to join us. Anyway, after dinner, the guys went back to hostel to bathe while the girls went to kelly's lab to research on hotels again. The guys then went to met the girls at kelly's lab and look at what they found out. We leave together at abt 9.30pm and Zhen wei return to his lab to do weekly journal again, slept there in the lab office as usual and i did my weekly journal in the girls' room and finish week 8's journal at abt 12.30am before going back to sleep while the girls still carry on watching dvds drama. Wonder what time they sleep?
Anyway, did grinding of samples for my senior again the whole morning, got breaks in between so typing the blog slowly. This morning,Zhen wei bought breakfast for the whole group lol, suddenly become so good, actually i was a bit surprise. Anyway, he bought you tiao and soya bean for all of us. I also rec'd mgs from shao wen in the morning to ask whether the breakfast was bought by me. i think the girls also felt very surprise of what Zhen wei had done today. I actually thought of doing that but he is faster than me lol. Anyway, something i think the girls will appreciate that Zhen wei had done. Let's see how the girls will react during lunch i guess. Yah talking abt lunch, lunch is coming!!!!! Haha actually already feeling hungry.........................Till then everyone....BYE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So How's today?

So how's today? I also don't know till lunch. It is said yesterday that we meet up 11.30am at the lobby for lunch. What will happen??? Don't know yet!!! Hope that kelly is ok!! Guess it is time to find out if there's anything wrong with her today! Today still grinding samples for my senior, i think maybe for the whole day. Now slacking till abt 10am as said by him. Anyway, today is also a day to look forward too as today is bathing day. Oh, in Beijing, Xiang Shan, you must always love the hot water and the bathing days. Water is really precious here as in winter over here, esp. hot water!!! Let's see what will happen for today!!! More updates coming up soon!!!

Yesterday finally had dinner as a group BUT...........

Ok yesterday was an abnormal day as things happen. Should i say misunderstandings during lunch? Yah i think should be i guess. Cause kelly actually had stomach problems cause maybe she is not eating and her stomach sort of cannot take it anymore! And the rest of the group thought she disappear during lunch when we call her office and couldn't find her but actually she went to the toilet during that time. So the guys went back to the room to check, while the girls went to the library to check and couldn't find her still. Then we decided to go to kelly's office to check and found that kelly is eating there, which made shao wen kind of angry. And kelly try to explain but to no avail earlier. But during lunch together, it seems ok as kelly finally get to explain her side of the story. Anyway, kelly went back late yesterday while the rest of us slept early at abt 10pm. That's why kelly didn't have dinner with us yesterday.Anyway, i kinda of feel that something is still wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyway, for dinner we have a guest to eat with us which is actually feng xian's junior. We had dinner just outside of the hostel we staying and i try a dish which is fry liver rice which actually taste good, tried it the first time only. Wonder what did kelly had for dinner yesterday since she is not feeling too good!!!! Yah, another day passed huh, going back soon, still mixed feelings inside of me.

Abt yesterday.................Maybe things i will be doing today!!

Yesterday again slack in the morning, ok maybe not because i doing some translation work from Chinese to English. Ok nothing much happened in the morning, so come lunch, we went out together to eat a nearby village, cheap noodles which are filling to my stomach. Because the noodles is cut straight away from the dough made and the noodles are a lot which makes you feel like eating ban mian but in a large quantity. And you know eating this, is like eating the dough itself, very very filling!! Went back in the afternoon for experiment with my senior doing total lipids extraction and purification, help him grind the peach sample using mortar and pestle, and observe the whole process. Went back home quite late compare to other days, reach home abt 6.20pm. Ask the girls whether they having dinner, they say no. Then i went to eat dinner just outside of the hostel before coming back up to do week 8 reflection on my IA book and help Feng xian do blog and talk to the girls as well. Of course after that is sleep lah. Anyway, Zhen wei went back to lab to do his things and slept there again!!
Ok, this morning continued my translation work again. Afternoon should be helping my senior to do grinding of peach samples again. Hopefully the girls will eat dinner tonite but chances are slim!!! Till then..................BYE!!!!!!!!