Happy Mum's Day!

Hooray for blogging more often.

Hooray for the great shop-around this afternoon after church. I managed to buy myself a pair of white sneakers (old adidas one is holey at the bottom already...), a NZ music month t-shirt, and a waterproof spray for my shoes. Yea I know my last buy is quite random but hey, better have dry than cold/wet feet, right?

Hooray for COLD weather. I get to wear all my thick + comfy jackets! Now all we have to do now is...

Yes Dunedin people, pray hard hard for SNOW this year. Last year it wasn't even snowing heavily. I don't believe Christchurch can have more snow than Dunedin.

Hooray for mothers!

Most importantly my great mum =)

Though you're thousands of miles away, you're never far away from my heart. ;P (all out cheesy) I wouldn't ask for a better mum- who can cook prawns the way I like it?

So I'm taking this opportunity to thank you again for all these little things you'd place in my life:
~a chance to study whatever I want to, wherever I want to
~for going through all the trouble of slicing red onions and deep frying them (my fav)
~for coming to visit me last Feb and bringing along lots of home-grown goodies
~being my role model in so many ways
~showing me how far determination and perseverance can take someone
~understanding me more than I can ever understand myself
~for believing in the best in me
~and also, for just being my mum =)

Ok better stop here in case I start getting teary. Hehe


A tribute to all mums- for their unseeing effort and ever-sacrificing spirit.

Love you, mum

Teach me how to manage time

"I don't have enough time!!!" seems to be my tag line for this week, and probably for the next few weeks too.

It's Saturday: I should be having a good time at Encounter II at Warrington, but I'm stuck in my cold room (with a fan heater blowing right at my face) writing my 2000-word MANT301 tutorial assignment. No more Starbucks this time, I'm writing about Boeing and how they failed in a $10 million project. Poor Boeing.

Don't know why, but it's times like these when I think about how fast time flies again. One minute I'm having the time of my life at National Service in March-May 2005, and the next I was on my first 11 hour flight to a brand new country with lots of sheep, not knowing what I would expect there. And now, being here for 3 years now (has it been 3 YEARS already?!), I find myself graduating next year, then going out into the boring, corporate life.

I come here not expecting much, but right now I can't help but feel SO BLESSED. Being part of the most AWESOMEst cell group in Dunedin =), having friends I can trust my life to (and most importantly fart in front of them without being paiseh anymore)- you know who you are, being given so many opportunities (owning my own flash KORG keyboard, working at ACC etc), and the list goes on and on.

And though this week has been the busiest and most tiring so far this year, I figured it's never too often to count my blessings, while trying my best NOT TO COMPLAIN. It's difficult, but part of my new year resolution I'm trying to achieve.

Anyway, some random pictures from a month ago when we went to the scout camp to look at a potential site for Lighthouse Fellowship camp 08. Can't wait for August to come around!

Cute little mushroom around the camp site. I wonder if it's poisonous?

Posers in the toilet

Abusing the trampoline

Back to my assignment.

*deep breath*

Is it mid-year already?

I feel a little guilty for not blogging, so here goes.

Lighthouse Fellowship group shot. One of my favs.

...and I get to grope the birthday girl. Lucky me

sniff sniff.

so fancy

The lucky guy, haha!

Jacqueline's 21st was held (not too) long ago. Rich girl; she paid for all our meals, had us all dressed up in white, hired a professional photographer for the night, and even gave us our very own pink roses to take home.

Also, she's single.

*cough*

and might I add, very smart (doing her honours now).

Anyway, these few weeks are driving me mad. Probably the busiest weeks ever for me in the last 3 years at uni. This week, I have 2 labs for both biochem and micro, which means 26 hours of lab work in total, plus around 10 hours of work (had to cut down half of the hours), and lots of ocipala errands to run.

I usually get asked "Did you sleep at all last night?" (pointing to my dark circles/eye bags) about once a week, but now I get asked that question almost every day.

Ah, 1 more month to go before exams end. God, please give me strength.

Christchurch- mid semester break

This must be the longest I'd gone without blogging. Almost one whole month! It's been a really interesting, fun-filled 1 week break- a much needed time away from uni + work.

Anyway, we managed to borrow Davina's car and drove up to Christchurch, where we spent about 4 days eating, sleeping, kidnapping Greg, and more eating. =D

I wish we had more time!

The "kura" gang kidnapping Greg for his surprise birthday bonfire. We told him we were arriving the next day, but "kidnapped" him just before midnight and took him to the beach. "Coca cola" was supposed to be the code for "I'm ready!", yet somehow it evolved to "kura-kura"...

The cake.

Bonfire with (burnt) marshmallows.

The Gn couple ;P
You can probably tell that I like taking photos of fire.

Us (plus cameraman- Canai).

Oh how I miss Chch.

New haircut. Now I look so ah lian-ish. Oh well, the bangs will grow out.

A visit to the salmon shop.

Lookout - nothing much to see from here.

The Chan brothers ;P

Yummy.

Cheese!

Bubble tea. Quite disappointed with it actually.

Just before we left, stopped by at Cookie Time factory.

...and found this really cute statue thingy- "Lean on Love".

It says: "The child is leaning on a fragile flower for love and reassurance, for all the things needed to grow and blossom. There is a mutual, nurturing respect that allows both to flourish in harmony. Life is exactly how it should be, with a shared regard and acknowledgment of their respective strengths and vulnerabilities."

"This philosophy is so simple, yet it seems so difficult for us to achieve."

=)

The week after easter

Chyi: You'll need to add no.8 to the list of people who don't blog often anymore.

I'm slowly feeling disconnected to the blogging world.

Balancing work and studies sure is tough. Now I know what I got myself into. Oopsy. 20 hours doesn't sound a lot but it is when I have to squeeze work in between lectures and labs. For eg on Thursday I had a 10-11 am lecture, rushed to ACC (at Otago House) for work at 11.15am, then go back to Bioc building for bioc253 lab at 2 till 6pm. I had my first 9 hour lab on Friday. Not as bad as it sounds actually, as we get to come and go whenever we're finished with the experiments.

It's funny how things turn out. Like my other lab partner is called Mercedes. And I actually knew her 2 years ago when she used to come over to Studholme Hall every single day. We call her one of the PRs. Everyone's so focused and serious about lab, but she comes over asking us "What's up homies?" For some reason, she found an EYELASH together with her DNA product to be PCRed. Hahah. Very random. Even one of the lab demonstrators call her 3741629 (or some other random number) as she didn't want to tell him her name at first.

Besides the long hours, being a 3rd year student isn't that bad. We actually get access to a special computer resource room I never knew existed on the 1st floor of the biochem building. Only 3rd and 4th year students and staff have access to it! New iMacs, with Vista compatibility some more. So flashy. With free unlimited printing (according to Ron)! Too bad 3rd year students can only use it from morning to 6pm, 4th years and staff get 24/7 access.

Btw, we had a girls only slumber party last Friday at Rebekah's house at Kaikorai Valley. It was great, but I seriously lacked sleep and ended up looking like a zombie the whole day. We watched movies, played games, had manicures/pedicures/foot spa, great food. Thanks to everyone who helped out!

Food! Angeline F. makes the best nasi lemak. Yum.

Jelly! been ages since I last had them.

Guess who's ELMO? HEHEHE

the crazy American/Enrique Iglesias wannabe.
Her rendition of "Hero" cracks me up.

Happy bday Rachel!

Anyway. Was tagged by Chyi. I never liked doing these, but here goes.

Person who tagged you is: Chyi chyi.

Your 5 impressions of him/her: never runs out of saliva/is like a mini version of Rebec Lee/her social life puts mine to shame/the queen of ghost faces/nice specs

Most memorable things he/she has done for you: tagging me

The most memorable words he/she said to you: you're pretty. HAHA

If he/she becomes your lover, you will: I'll be the luckiest person in the world, but so kolian my admirers right.

If he/she becomes your enemy, the reason will be: coz she stole my pancakes.

Pass the quiz to 10 people that you wish to know how they feel about you:

1. Jessica
2. Sarah
3. Carol
4. Stephanie
5. Max
6. May
7. Eric
8. Bei Shan
9. YShien
10. Deb

Who is no.7 having a relationship with?
himself.

Who is no. 9 having a relationship with?
er no idea. not same country.

If no.9 and no.1 are together, will it be a good thing?
hmm. would be interesting

What about no. 1 and no. 5?
haha. not really.

What is no.3 studying?
fashion design at berkerley college

When was the last time you chatted with no.6?
on msn, when I'm too lazy to walk downstairs to her room. face to face: every day

Does no.4 work?
nah dun tink so

Does no.8 have any cousin(s) in his/her school?
Gosh I don't even know whr she's studying now. oops

Will you woo no.8?
too pretty, out of my league

How about no.5?
too young. haha

Does no.2 have any siblings?
i guess so heh

How did you get to know about no.3?
during church when we were still little kids.

No.4?
church too! sfec. miss those late nite outings

Where does no.1 live at?
now at Brisbane

How did you get to know no.2?
sec school. kuching high!

Is no.5 the sexiest person in the world?
can i skip this question?

See, I'm no good at answering these questions.

Better get back to writing my management research essay. 3000 words due in 2 weeks' time. I'm doing research on Starbucks! So come ask me ANYTHING about Starbucks and I can let you know. Not that you would want to know how many stores are there worldwide now. Ok fine, I'll tell you. It's 15,011 and counting.