journey back to sanity

I went back to MALAYSIA for da weekend!!!
I was so excited to be able to go home(half home at least.. stayed over at Seremban)
Y did i go back u ask?? Cos my uncle went back and i can tumpang and its free and it doesn't take a decade to reach and i miss malaysian food esp seremban's beef noodle and i miss my family and my immediate family and i needed a break and i need to return my sanity plus it was kevin's birthday (so wanted to wish him happy birthday with my genuine voice on da phone that is)and and and...
Its home.. I basically don't need a reason to go home la..

So wat i did there?
I studied..SIAL BETUL!! aaaa... but it was sanity returning type of studying so tat i dun feel guilty that i went back..

I ate and ate and ate.. My amused uncles and aunties and parents entertained my "hunger pang" by feeding me nonstop.. And so i ate ate ate ate until da sight of food stopped putting a grin on my face!!
I had.. fried super soft tauhu(which i have been dreaming about even when i was sleeping and even when i was not sleeping..), hakka mee,tomyam fish(yummy),fried pigs paw/hand/sumthing la(which i normally wouldn't touch even with a one foot long stick),one and a half bowl of LARGE beef noodles, super awesome homemade fried pork cum oyster porridge, sushi, deliciously super homemade udon lou shi fun, maggi goreng, satay, close to two rows of vitagen, yogurt, fried kuey teow with some raw egg in da middle(which is da closest to char kueh teow we could find becos time was LIMITED) and lots of fruits and err.. i cannot remember d..

I went shopping for pillow(yes another one.. newest addition to my family of pillows), shoes(yes another one, newest addition to my family of shoes), food(my missed marmee tomyam maggie) and several other stuff my mum had to buy..And so again i added stuff to my room..

And I was with FAMILY(amazing how being with family lifts one up from the ulu-est of university depression to some more normal level of stress..EUstress simon told me it was called(good stress wor..)

I wished Dr.to.be Kevin Happy birthday and heard how 170 gals voted him as the most good looking guy in his college and was reminded again how much i DUN have a life in NTU compared to a MEDIC student(WTF WTF WTF LIFE IS !@#$%^&!!)

It was basically a day n a half trip but i feel refreshed.. Better than spa i tell u..More expensive summore i think(ahaha.. da amount of food i ate!!! )

Ok I shall go back into my fantasy world since its da ony tutorial left thats sticking out like a sore thumb pricking me in my conscience screaming STOP WASTING TIME U NO LIFE UNDERGRADUATE BUT RICH(LIFE AMBITION!) FUTURE REPACKED PRODUCT OF SINGAPORE!!(mmm a lil random but not too much really..I kinda have that justified)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR DR TO BE KEVIN TAN TECK MENG @ MY BESTIE!! MAY UR STRESSFUL MEDICAL UNDERGRADUATE LIFE START KICKING IN SOON SO TAT I WILL STOP FEELING LIKE A LIFELESS ROBOT! Though i do wish u all da happiness in da world..........

what have i learned so far..

ok.. so i have been in singapore for around 2 and a half months.. i have discovered numerous interesting things that i would say is worth mentioning..



1. NTU students(or is it just malaysian ntu students??mmm..) "baptize" their frens every year on their birthday..sounds random huh.. wat i mean is dat they will dunk the birthday boy/gal into a pool of water..(no not swiming pool..keep on imagining..)and den da frens will follow n jump into da pool of water(may it be da lake or da fountain or wateva tat takungs water)..weeee...everyone gets wet in da middle of da nite screaming and shouting...

2. People in NTU jog. Nothing special u say.. wellll... they can jog at the weirdest hour of da day.. any time, u name it there will be some health conscious human being sweating like a sponge leaking water with earphones plugged in running around ntu. no joke. it can be 3 am or 5 am or 3 pm(when da sun is SOO shiny it blinds ur eyes).. there will be ppl jogging.

3.they call roti canai here as roti prata..and roti prata cheese dat is da size of half a a4 paper costs more than a bowl of mee(in ntu la).hence to me at least, prata is a luxury food here..

4.I learn new slangish words like ex(meaning expensive),on(synonym to enthu(meaning enthusiastic)) and many many more..


5. People rather study at some isolated bench in da academic complex rather than in da comfort of their room.Some even sleep over in da tutorial rooms to study(i wonder who their roomies are..count dracula??godzilla??three pigs and the wolf?? flying duck??)


6. You will get addicted to food that normally appeals to a child in ur 'normal' life in your hometown..(or mebbe this just applies to me la..)..I am currently 'high' on rocky chocolate sticks, hello panda and raisins..muahaha..

7. When u order wan tan mee.. u have to say "no chili or tomato pls" if u dun wan ur wantan mee to be bathed in tomato ketchup or chili sauce.

8. Night cycling is consider an activity of leisure.(until now i oso dunno y) And mind you they normally cycle from one end of singapore to the other end of it(and for the ignorant, singapore is NOT tat small!! )They cycle the WHOLE night ok..

9.The distance between places in Singapore is measured by travelling time. Never really did tat in KL cos ppl mostly drive everywhere while its all public transport here in Singapore.So u may just live a "15 minute bus ride then 1 hour mrt ride and finally 30 minutes bus ride" away from ntu..

10. I cannot wait to earn Sing Dollar cos then shopping will be HEAVENLY in Malaysia!! and even in Singapore.. on the other hand it is impossible to shop here in Singapore unless u dun convert and imagine ur Singaporean.(which i am still incapable of doing.. i need more training i guess?)

11. Its super open minded here in Singapore which i found a lil difficult to get initially cos of my super conventional plus old fashioned plus traditional plus close minded plus ...(dun wanna say nanti go isa i die.. how to earn sing dollar in isa le?) environment in Malaysia.. Example : They dun mind screening Harold and Kumar for block activity in hall in a full top to bottom glass walled tv room by projecting it on da wall..(read : nudity scenes that can be seen from everywhere since it IS a transparent room).. They also dun mind pasting topics that reads TALK COCK on da notice board where everyone can see.. ( I wonder what are the consequences if da above actions were done in local unis in Malaysia?? Expel you? Public humilition by public canning??(ok that wan a lil over la..)) I wonder..

That kinda sums up my social education here in Singapore..Academically, I learn about fantasy worlds and subfantasy worlds for MATHS (NO JOKE!!-refer to discrete mathematics with applications third edition by susanna s.ep page 271)..

a nite out

its over!! midterms that is (unfortunately not the term..blehk)

so as pitiful students trying to make full use of the measly one and a halfday weekend that we have(thank u dear midterms), we went for a night out(straiiiiiiiiight after midterms) to destressssssssssssssssss....(and to celebrate birthdays!!Happy belated birthday mei mei, ivan and happy becoming birthday for guo siu)

so we went to clementi to makan botak jones.. this one i dun have pics..cos i lazy to take out camera..ahaha..

anyways i concluded tat i din enjoy da meal as much as i enjoyed my previous two botak jones meals.. da portion seems smaller and coleslaw lesser.. so i wasn't as piggishly full as i expected to be.. mebbe my stomach expanded since my last meal(HORRORS!!dun wan!! touch wood touch wood.. )

Next.. we went to Clarke Quay to walk walk.. (no not to club cos its super exorbitantly(dunno this word exist not..) freakishly EX (singaporean slang for expensive).. da view was nice..

ahaha..here i took pics..Y?? cos it was super conducive to..CAMWHORE !!

see da thingie behind?? thats where ppl were risking their lives bungee-ing in a ball like thingie(gimme a wardrobe full of designer clothes oso i dun wanna go up there!!) roomie and me(yes da one who saved me from going to class in my pjs)the view

group pic!!

another group pic with some ethereal effect i din know my camera had(sebastian found tat out)

me,jon(grand master genius) , and sebastian
mei mei and me bullying guo siu for jon!!(with ethereal effect again)last group pic before rushing(running down 90 stairs) to catch da last train..

jon with skinny arms.. (victory cos we survived midterm??)

okla i lazy to upload more pics d..

wat happened next u ask?? we managed to catch da last train thank goodness.. but we missed da last bus back to pulau ntu..grr..

(bus 199 passed us by several times and grinned at us evilly thinking- "padan muka.. who ask u go out so late ha..come pulau ntu stay on ntu island n study la.. wanna destress pulak.. nah let u walk a thousand miles.. dun wan take u all..nyeh nyeh.blueeek..!!! over rite da bus?? slaaaaaaaaaap his squarish glass face)

And so we walked. and walked. and walked.. ahhaa..the price we had to pay to walk walk in clarke quay was.. walk walk and walk(in heels!!babi binatang lu 199!!) in ntu to reach hall!!AHAKS!!

so it was fun.. da next day i slept n slept n slept n slept..and now i am back at square one.. mug mug mug.. tutorials tutorials.. cca cca.. bla bla bla.. life's a ball of goo..lalala..