sigh... injured my knee again on monday at kendo. the worst thing is havent even played injured already. just doing warm-up, stretching exercises. sigh. so couldnt train last night, sat there and observed instead. pretty good to observe too! see how the seniors do it, and spot mistakes from juniors. learn a lot, esp since lisa was there too. she's on med leave, n she grad le, but she still comes back! haha~ she clarified some doubts, ans qn, n told me the rite techniques n all. yeah! so at least it wasnt for nth! haha~ hope i recover soon though :D

exams coming soon... sigh. gotta study study study...... gd luck to those taking o n a's now!!! ganbatte!!!!

so sad w myself. im too nice. sigh. y cant i just say no? y do i always feel so guilty n compelled to agree? y do i always end up giving myself so many probs n more work? why why why? sigh... oh well. we shall see......

sick now. muz be the walking-in-the-rain session ytd. sigh. im hungry. i want food! haha~ xiong xiong's coming down next week! yay!!! penang biscuits here i come!!! i want penang laksa too.... n the char kway teow... n chee cheong fun... n prawn noodle... n hokkien mee.... n popiah nn nnn.... so many food! haha~ yuen mei muz stop eating. haha!




haiz... kena blister from kendo training on ytd... :*( pain pain... haha~ but no pain no gain, and it proves tt im doing sth correctly! hehe~ also kena bruised under the eye, cos the senior whack men so hard, my shinai rather than flying behind, flew downwards, so whacked the bone beneath. now blue-black. ahaha~ gonna have to order bokken n bogu soon too!!!

exams coming in a month! so fast.... it's like, zip! n its exams! heh~ still feels so new in nus... haha~ like it was orientation ytd.... heh~ so glad i went for arts camp n arts oweek, n rag. nvr regret it. wanna come back again next yr as councilor!!! haha~ so happy with the friends i made, somehow, the people we hang around with all were friends made during those camps. indeed, ur social circle widens if you attend these camps. im sure all of us took home something much more valuable after the camp. a friend, for life. :D jingfen, star, mel, faith, robbie, constance, danielle, christopher, jonathan n wenyuan. ravio rocks! hehe~

aye, when we gonna have our ramen outing to ajisen ah????? haha~




mou.... a week plus since i last updated... hehee~ so sorry, juz been kinda busy lately.... yeah i know i know, no excuse. sigh.

ok, so anw, last sat had shinai maintainence, so fun, all of us sitting there to chat n maintain our shinai, me n mich entertaining the surrounding ppl with our bickering haha~ jesse and wai ling were saying they cant wait till we're in our bogu, it'll be so funny watching me n mich slicing each other's throat for the wrongs we have done the other. haha~ then me n mich started doing a commentary on how the fight would be like. hehe~ now my shinai looks so nice! hehe~

then went to ps for lunch, mi mich munwei n wenhao cabbed down, n we reached there earliest, faster than those driving/biking. -_-" haha~ nice lunching n chit chat session, first time so many juniors tog, feels great! shd have more of this next time *hint hint mich* haha~

then went for tommy hilfig launch at paragon, 'twas alright, met the marketing exec n mistook mark richmond as the marketing exec -_-". ya i know, how blur can i get rite? haha~ after tt, fel went to meet her bf, me walked back to ps to meet my kendo peeps agains.

gals chit chat in starbucks, guys played lan. so gals waited for guys, went shopping as well. guys finished, everyone went home except me n wai ling. walked ard some more, shopped a bit, bought zy's pres, went to mos to makan, bought dinner for mum. realised both of us quite anal, share a number of things in common. haha~ wai wants to join inno! hehe~

fast forward to thurs, collected my own shinai n gi n hakama! yay!!! finally!!! hehe~ so happy n exciting... haha~ mi n siew were talking abt how we'll be flying ard the dojo on mon due to long hakama. haha~ dun need to carry tt ugly plastic bag around anymore!!! yay!!! curiously enough, although the stuff's frm korea, it says made in china.... hmmmmm.....

fri, e lang test. sucks. got back ss test paper. good. happy. mum says y a- n not a+. -_-"

today, face shop launch, cfm main sponsor. friendly boss, taught me n mel how to do eyeshadow for single eyelid gals. also, told us what colour tone suits our skin. apparently, i shd go for brown or green, unless im daring, then can go for light blue n all. also taught us to how to blend the colours properly. bought the orange eyeshadow stick to go with my brown eyeshadows at home. cant wait to try my hand on it!!! also bought this cool purplish shimmerish nail polish, looks like goldenish purple. haha~ wierd i know, but colour damn nice. haha~

window shopped w mel after tt. legs hurt. saw the myuk bag n the billabong wallet agains. *tempted* i shall bar myself at home henceforth! haha~




argh! i think im falling sick... been emptying that nose of mine for 2 days! argh argh argh!!!!!!!

kendo training on minday was tough and fun. despite sensei not being there, jesse trained us till my arms still hurt n i've got blisters on the palm n leg. ouch. wonder how on earth im gonna survive tmr's training. oh wells. haha~

stupid nus admin team giving me probs agains. in particular, the coordinator for ss-nation-building. my tutorial for that module frm odd week became even week, n it clashes w my soci one. and now i have to re-arrange my tutorials and look for alternative slots. argh!!! unnessecary trouble and waste of time. cant they ever do anything rite?

met jamie ytd to pass her her bd pres. went to engine canteen to try out the food there. the western not bad lah, but b4 u ate i had diarrhoea. -_-" following tuesday, going over to the science fac to try their food. heard that the chng tng there really good!

meeting schen on fri to watch corpsebride! yay!!!! haha~ i hope tt i dont have to cancel that meeting, for some reason or other.... *pray pray*

ooh!!! new blogskin! nice nice? i know the color scheme is not really consistent, pardon me for that. haha~ but too lazy to do anything abt it nows.... hehe~ havent seen how it looks like on ie either.... :P




well well well. i have no idea why, but it seems i've been having migraine/headache attacks the past few days, either due to too much or too little sleep. haha~ i always seem to be losing sleep on weekdays, say surviving on only 3 hr of slp for what reason i have no idea, only to have long hours of good, undisturbed sleep on weekends. making any sense? dont worry, it doesnt to me either. suffice to say, i have a wierd body clock which makes me tired and drained on days where i have to go to school, and impossibly awake and alert on days when i dont have to. hmms.

doing my research on apathetic youth and ethnicity for my cnm proj. sad to say, there really arent any sites out there addressing this issue. if u ask me, i think it's a huge issue. i mean, we have gotten to a point where we couldnt even be bothered to share about the differences in our culture and religion with each other anymore. it's more of a blind acceptance of another without wondering about the uniqueness of that person. it makes me miss those secondary school days on the phone with dustin, where we talk about everything, from comparing singapore to malaysia and philippines, sharing the differences in culture and religion, and lively debates on christianity vs buddhism. at the end of it all, we both grew richer in terms of knowledge, and came to appreciate the other party's religion and practices more.

in contrast, i had lunch with a friend of mine sometime last week, and since NUS has both muslims and non-muslims, our utensils, when we return them to the tray-return point, have to be separated into halal and non-halal. my friend, a chinese, was having nasi briyani, which is halal. i was having potato salad and pasta, which is not halal. at the end of the meal, being the classic gentleman, my friend placed by bowl on top of his plate, to my great horror. for one, common sense should tell you that halal and non-halal utensils cannot be mixed together. come on, why else would there be 2 sections at each return point in the first place, and not one, if both could be mixed together? and to make things worse, when i asked him to separate them, he said it doesn't matter. we can just return them like this, and the cleaners there will separate them. such ignorance. but honestly, could we find fault with him? he is sadly, one in a few hundred singaporeans who have little or no idea about our fellow racial counterparts. did anyone bother to find out about the differences between the chinese,malays and indians, and what makes each group so special in their own way? did anyone find out why there's halal and non-halal separations? after that incident, i was so glad that i came from assumption english school, although not a good school, but the huge racial and ethnic mix there allowed me to get to know more about others and appreciate these differences even more. in fact, most of my good friends are malays, and i love them to bits. i miss those malay guys in my jc class, in fact, they're so fun to be with that the chinese guys in my class adopted their way of talking and actions. and i miss my sisterhood of nadiah, qam and yati, and my english-speaking gang of friends of jasmin, nisa, zakiah, idayu and pei xuan. sigh... it's funny how after 6 years, i'm back in a predominantly chinese environment hanging out with fellow chinese. it's not bad, but its sad to see that the chinese stick with the chinese, the indians with the indians and the malays with the malays. i think if they were to see a gathering of a3 girls in the canteen or at mac in engine for a catching up session, they may have a heart attack. in nus no less. something should be done to bridge this gap up.

well then, at least i have a gd fran whose aware of this difference btw halal and non-halal. once, when we forgotten that kway chap contained pork and were on our way to al-ameen, and we realised our mistake, we did not feel comfortable eating there until her kway chap made its way into my bag and stayed there. putting it on the chair and on the table(gasp) was a huge no-no, it made her so uncomfortable until i offered my bag as a place to put it in. haha~ i think hanging around with nadiah and qam and yati has rubbed off on us somewhat.

ok, back to researching on youth and ethnicity. *crosses fingers* hope that something good will pop up. maybe my entry will appear instead, wahaha~

edited and added: found this really great blog by a singaporean. cool bananas. anw, i particularly like what he wrote about the "issue of students misusing blogs" from the ST article on 29th sept. read it here: http://www.djourne.net/singaporeink/index.php/archives/2005/09/