Happy New Year!

Today went to get my medicine. So paiseh cause apparently the clinic assistant called me many times but I was too engrossed in my music and reading on the Internet. So next time, when I'm waiting for someone to call me, I cannot be listening to music and reading, I think I can only do either one.

2012 is coming to an end! Time to look back and be grateful.
1) I'm thankful that I'm able to continue studying.
2) I'm thankful I survived the first sem of year 4.
3) I'm thankful for my family and friends.
4) I'm thankful despite busy schedules friends still managed to keep in contact.
5) I'm thankful for the holiday trips I got and the upcoming Taiwan trip.
6) I'm thankful I was healthy and strong this year.
7) I'm thankful we survived 21/12/2012.
8) I'm thankful for everything I have today.

Should I still make resolutions for 2013? Let's make them.
1) Continue with my diet plan. 15kg.
2) Find a job that I love, hopefully pays well enough for me to survive. Also, to work hard in my new job.
3) Successfully graduate
4) Be a nicer & kinder person.
5) Be more social, make more friends yet don't forget and continue to keep in contact with all my old friends.
6) Spend more time with family and friends.
7) Travel and see the world.
8) Continue to progress with my Korean language.
9) Study hard for my last semester.
10) Eat healthily & drink more plain water.
11) Play hard as I age.
12) Find a bf if I can.
I'll update my last year resolution during CNY since I put it up last year during CNY.

So before I end, hope your 2012 has been great and have a greater 2013.

Credit: http://happynewyear2013smswishes.com

HAPPY NEW YEAR & SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!

Food for thought

I'm sure it means emotionally and not literally time as in 24 hours a day.

These quotes are here today not only to display my unhappiness (I'm not unhappy because you don't have time for me, I'm unhappy because you don't even have the decency to inform me that you don't have time), but also to act as a reminder to myself.

I'm thankful to the people who have been able to make time for me because I know time is precious, and I'm grateful they find that I'm worth their time.

Haha I'm posting this on 31st cause I don't want to start the new year on an emo note. I'll do my year end post tonight.
31/12 943.am

All prepared for Taiwan

Woohoo! After many nights of staying up, I'm done with the itinerary. I suck as planning itinerary because I'm super inefficient as I'll end up reading blogs about people's trips, reading forums and running all over the internet.

I'm all prepared to brave the cold in taiwan. Although I'm quite sure I exaggerated the weather, when I was in HK a few years ago in December, I was walking around half the time in short sleeve.

See what I bought specially for this taiwan trip.
1) Winter coat - My birthday present from my cousin, I only paid for shipping.
2) Gloves from Daiso
3) Earmuffs from Daiso
3) Heattech leggings from Uniqlo
4) Heattech crew neck t-shirt from Uniqlo
5) Socks from Daiso
6) Fox jacket - Fox is having sale now till 6 Jan 2013. If you have fox member or uob card you get extra 10/20% discount if you buy 3/5 items. Too bad I don't have either and I was too lazy to wait for my father to go shop with me.

I got quite a few stuff from Daiso because it's cheap and I'm budget. I mean after I come back, what's the probability of needing gloves, fleece socks and ear muffs so no need expensive ones as long as they do the job. Daiso has quite a wide range of winter accessories which can easily cost more than $9.90 in other shops like uniqlo, cold wear or winning. Although I don't know their quality, they feel warm enough.

Haha, but my father told me "you think $2 can keep you warm ah?" Haha, I shall have faith and think yes. Plus, I'm just going to Taiwan. How cold can it be, right? And, the things I bought at daiso are more accessories than the main thing that'll keep me warm.

Haha, I think I'm kind of overly kiasu for this trip. I have no idea why.

Not forgetting, the shoes I bought in BKK. Actually wanted to buy boots, but when I was trying, omfg those short boots till mid-calf made my elephant legs look even fatter.

Actually clothes and accessories for winter should state explicitly what temperature is it for so dumbass like me will be less confuse over what to buy.

Hehe, now just to wait to one week from now and I'll be off on my plane to taiwan. Woohoo!

Promises

MERRY CHRSTIMAS!

Recently, on 14th December, I met Carissa.

During our meeting, we made 2 deals.

1) In Jan 2014, we will go skiing together!
2) By the time we reach 30 (or is it 35? Can't remember), if both of us are not married, we will buy a house and live together. She will have a pet cat while I will have a pet dog.

Even if they do not come through, it is still nice to have dreams like that. :)

Results day is tomorrow. Stress.
It's amazing how time flies (especially during the holidays). Soon, school is going to reopen and it's back to those stressful days. 
23/12 12.30am
So change of plans now.
Carissa and I decided that change our plans.
1) Due to money constraints, we have decided to go to BKK together. Not decided on date yet but should be around the same time. We can always go skiing again when we save enough money!
2)   Deal 2 the same. When we reach 30/35, if both of us are not married, we will buy a house and live together.

Like what I previously said, even if they dont't come true, it's still good to have dreams. Before I reach 30/35 I will work hard to find a husband. How? I don't know.

Met Karen today for Mala but that's another story for another day. Went to get uniqlo to get their heat tech leggings and bought another shirt. Seriously, wtf it's not leggings it's more like stockings. Okay maybe it's like those 80/100 denier leggings which too me are stockings. As long as the flesh is visible to me is stockings. Leggings are like cotton on kind. I wanted something that can be worn alone, seriously I wouldn't wear this alone, it's more like innerwear to me. So I have to slip on another leggings or jeans = mafan. Lol, or maybe it is supposed to be treated as innerwear. Or maybe my legs are just damn fat so it stretch until become sheer. FML. Maybe I should have listen to Karen and bought the knitted one. 不听老人言，吃亏在眼前。Okay but she not lao ren. Okay, but apparently it works well but damn expensive $24.90. Pui. Qoo10 has it, although not uniqlo brand for $15.90+++ for one set (top and bottom) and they sell furry leggings for 3.90+++. Too bad, their delivery take quite long cause it comes from overseas, maybe by the time the clothes reach I already freezed into ice.
~ Enough of ranting~ I realise I love to rant on my blog.   

Taiwan Preparation

I've been eating alot during this festive season. Oh no! I'm suppose to lose weight not only because of my resolution but also because I'll eat like a pig in taiwan.

Sometimes when it get quiet and I'm alone, my brain start running wild and I realized I haven't been doing lots of worthwhile things during this holiday and seems to be wasting it. *_*

I've finally made some progress with the taiwan itinerary since I've started 1 week ago. Planned up to day 4 already, so there's still day 5, 6, 7. Day 6 going to pluck strawberries, day 7 flying back to Singapore. Muihong say she'll do day 5, so I guess we're almost done.

Let me make a checklist of what I'll need to do
- Finish up the ititnerary
- Change money
- Go get some more warmer clothes
- Pack luggage
- Get my asthma medicine from the doctor

I'm super confused and worried over what to wear. Like do I need inner layer? Will just a normal/slightly thicker jacket be enough? Taiwan's temperature doesn't really seems that low, but yet sometimes when you read blogs people will say it's cold and I'm not sure if it's my imagination but sometimes when I look at people's blogs I think they wear quite thick. Ahh, sometimes I think I'm just thinking too much. Don't think it's that cold in Taiwan, plus I have my ultra thick jacket I bought from qoo10 if it really gets cold. However, the temperature range is taiwan quite huge and can go from like 12 to 25 degrees within one week. I went to dig out my long sleeve clothes and I realised most of them are actually quite thin, don't think they can support through Taiwan's weather. -_-" There's too many different types of winter/cold wear for different temperature. It's hard to decide what type of wear suits what type of temperature. I definitely don't want to freeze my ass off in Taiwan.

Looking forward to my Taiwan trip. 6/1 -12 /1.
12/25 - 11.17pm

Rant

Two things to rant about.

1) Results. I shouldn't complain about my results because I should be thankful for them and grateful that my cap didn't drop. But remember previously I blogged about the huge mistake in my report, it's back to haunt me. I keep thinking if I didn't make my mistake will my report up one grade and will my grade of the module up one grade. It's an answer I wouldn't know. This kind of feeling is different from just purely not scoring well. Like I scored the worst for neuroscience of memory, but I don't feel that bad over it cause I can blame the content, blame the prof or even blame me for not studying hard enough but for that I can only blame myself and I'm blaming myself for a specific thing. It's a different feeling.

2) I'm looking at the Scoot sale. Damn jealous, it's damn cheap. It's possible to save more than 100 bucks per pax. If only I'm not graduating the next sememster, then I'll be having 3 months holiday and I can book the sale flights!

Merry Christmas

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Yesterday my laptop got attacked by virus again O.o Spent like 2-3 hours removing it. So I used to use IE and firefox but more of IE cause for some reason I don't like to switch to new things. However, I think I'll (slowly) switch to firefox as yesterday I read IE is more pro to viruses attack.

The arrival of christmas also indicates that the year is coming to an end and symbolises the arrival of year 2013!

Teng deng deng deng. It also means that results is coming out tomorrow. Mixture of feelings. Stress + wanting my closure.
It's amazing how time flies (especially during the holidays). Soon, school will reopen and it will back to those stressful days. Hopefully less stressful next sem? 
24/12 11:32pm

Wreck It Ralph

Caught Wreck It Ralph when I met Samantha at Junction 8 today (22/12). First saw the trailer of the movie when I watched Rise of the Guardians previously.

Seriously, the quality of cartoon movies nowadays is damn good. First Rise of the Guardians, now Wreck It Ralph. Although at the beginning, I felt that it was kind of boring at the beginning but it started to get better as the story goes on. I guess I was expecting more humour at the start but I guess it's okay since, like most movies/dramas, they have to set the storyline first. Expect some humour, heartwarming scenes and unexpected twists in the movie. I think I prefer Rise of the Guardians because I feel that it has more humour and heartwarming scenes. Samantha said Wreck It Ralph is a movie she wouldn't mind watching a second time, so there must be something excellent about it!

The movie kind of reflect reality too. Who wants to be the bad guy in life? Everyone wants to be the good guy who is loved by everyone. However, reality says that not everyone can be the good guy. 
"I'm bad, and that's good.
 I will never be good, and that's not bad.
 There's no one I'd rather be then me."

Hehe, I think if one knows the games in the movie, it will be more close to heart. Sadly, I don't recognise most of the games in it. But I guess it's a good thing though, because it means I'm young!

I should seriously start taking out my Korean stuff to revise. My teacher is on holiday so no lessons for 2 weeks, and I haven't been touching my Korean stuff at all. 저는 진짜 안 부지런해요.
23/12 12:21am

ScootBiz vs Scoot Economy

If you managed to read this, it means we survived  21/12/2012!

Took scoot for the first time to BKK on 8 Dec.
Took Scootbiz for the trip to BKK because it's was on sale at $120 which was $3 more expensive than flybag. Sadly, on my 3rd airticket, no more sale tickets so one of the biz ticket was bought using the full amount. From there, I infer that their number of sale tickets for business seats are capped at 6.

Scooting off to BKK

ScootBiz Leg Space

In-flight entertainment(Ipad) is not provided for ScootBiz on short flights.

Meal Provided

Soya Chicken Rice

Their soya chicken rice is okay. Taking into account that it's plane food it's not bad already. Only thing is that the chicken and rice may be abit hard. Heard that the nasi briyani was nice too.

Biz Seat

Hurriedly took a photo of the seat in front of me before alighting the plane.

On 11 Dec, it's time to scoot back to Singapore.
On the flight back, the flight got delayed by 1/2 hour or so. Why can't airlines provides information of flight delays at an earlier time instead of annoucing at such a late timing since I'm sure they know that the flight will be delayed way before hand.  

Economy Leg Space

Wanted to order hot meals on the trip back, but they do not provide hot meals for short distance trips. So shared a cheesy mushroom sandwich. 8 dollars for the sandwich. No pictures, but nice! Generous amount of cheese, mayo and mushrooms. Ate it cold, not sure if you have the option of warming it.

Will I pay full price for ScootBiz? Nope. I guess the biggest benefit of ScootBiz is the increased leg space but I have short legs. They have priority boarding, which to me is useless unless there is flight delay. Cause for my flight from Sg to BKK everybody seems to board together, while only for the BKK to SIN flight, they separated the passengers. Ipad? I guess everyone have their own Ipod/Iphone/Ipad nowadays. Food you can order separately for $10++, $10 is for only the rice. Food only becomes an important issue if the flight time matches the time for the 3 meals but food is a good way to spend time on flights. Oh yeah, they provide blanket,pillow and eyemask for overnight flights. Okay but I'm a cheapo, my aim is to get to my destination at the cheapest price since when I'm on plane I'll just sit down, plug in my earphones and try to sleep till I reach my destination. So, as long as you don't squash me like sardine, I'm fine. Oh, and don't delay my flights. O.o

Scoot isn't exactly cheap either, only realized Thai airways was having sales which was cheaper but the timing was quite bad reaching BKK after 11. I paid 293.76 for sale ScootBiz + FlyBag (20kg) per pax, 279.76 for sale ScootBiz + Fly per pax and 345.76 for ScootBiz + FlyBag (20kg) per pax. Scoot has a convenience fee of $16 per pax if you pay by credit card. Only realized I can avoid it when I was booking the last airticket for BKK. Avoid the convenience fee by paying through SAM or post office! 
18/12 .50pm

小鬼 夜王 演唱会

Went for xiao gui's concert at Hard Rock Hotel with my cousin on 15th December. Sponsored by my aunt. Supposedly my cousin should go with her mom, but by luck it became me who went with her.

Met my cousin at Bedok mrt at about 3 and we reached there to queue at around 4 cause it's free seating. Seriously, didn't even have to queue, waste of time. Cause I don't think the place where we sit will have been very different.

Seriously, I felt so old there. The people in front and behind me are all younger than me. I was like surronded by mei meis. My cousin is 13, the people behind were discussing about poly and JC so they should be secondary school students or max JC/poly students. Fml, I'm a soon-to-be graduated (in half a sem) uni student.

Can fake as 13 year old?

In the middle of waiting, the security people came and started rambling about having to deposit our cameras at the lockers and there will be a bag search and the focus is "if you don't deposit and you get delayed at the bag check (I think they meant having to go deposit the cameras), you may not get good seats." BULLSHIT! Fml, I was even holding onto my camera when they were saying. I really didn't want to deposit my camera, like wtf. But my cousin become very anxious over the fact of not getting good seats, so in the end no choice, I gave in and decided to deposit my camera. So I went to look for the lockers at the basement and WTF we had to pay $3/hour for the lockers which equate to $12 for the locker. Seriously damn pissed. Even though they say no photography/video recording so I shouldn't bring my camera but still damn pissed. When we went in, what really pissed me off was even though they check the bags, even if they find camera (unless it's DSLR), they still let you bring it in although they will say not to take it out. Saw and heard it with my own eyes and ears. So seriously, what's the bullshit about not getting good seats and what's the bullshit about not being able to bring cameras in. It's like cheating honest people like me   my cousin. Waste money to get the locker. Plus people beside and behind me were holding onto cameras, make me so jealous. I also want my camera. Actually what's the big deal about photography and video recording during concerts?
~Enough of ramblings~

After we went into the concert area, I was surprised, I didn't expect the place to be that small and there's no air-con. I think the people with $88 tickets can easily go to the $108 tickets area because there's no one to check your ticket price, you just walk in on your own. But most of the tickets were $108 tickets, I think only the last few rows (think around 5) were for $88 tickets.

 

My cousin was damn excited. While we were queuing, she was already damn excited, I think before we reached the location she was already excited. Unlike her, I didn't have the super excited feel. I blame that on aging. 

One!

Two!

Bough the light stick from xiao gui's fan club at $5 while queuing. Decided to get another one for Karen since she is a fan of xiao gui too. 

Shitty Iphone camera

After take this photo, totally find iphone camera damn lousy. Lol, or is it the photographer that is lousy.

Saw Zheng Ge Ping and his wife walking in. Some of his co-actors from Joys of Life came for his concert too! So sweet.

All in all, the concert was quite good even though I don't know like 70% of the songs. O.O I can't even remember the lyrics of 不屑. I blame this on aging too. Plus, I think it's because I'm more into slow songs and he sang more fast songs. I think he built the atmosphere relatively well and some of the things he said were really very funny. Plus, we can all see that he has put in alot of effort into his concert, from not being able to play guitar to 自弹自唱 and from not being able to dance to dancing. Not to mention, he and his dimples are so cute and handsome. 

Before the concert, I heard people discussing about who the special guest will be. Then someone said something like later the surprise is no special guest. And surprise surprise, there's really no special guest. Funny irony.

I felt that one really bad thing about the concert was the ending video. The end of the video put "香港站 The end". Seriously, what a way to end the concert. When that came out I can immediately feel the 'unhappiness' among the audience and I personally think that that is really something that should and could have been prevented cause it totally left the audience hanging there.

His fan club really put in alot of effort for his concert

On top of these, I think I learnt more about my cousin that day. For example, I didn't know her favourite colour was pink until I saw her pink sneakers and earpiece. I always had the tom-boyish impression of her so it really surprised me that her favourite colour was also pink. Haha, and I didn't realised in our family, there's another fan girl.
P.S my first scheduled post was supposed to come out today (16/12) but I didn't know you have to click published in order for it to be scheduled. Haha so I had to manually published the post for to the beautiful you.
17/12 12.57am

TOPIK results

Received my TOPIK results on tuesday. I PASSED!

Was in BKK when the results came out, I thought they will email us the results but you have to check it yourself from the website. I didn't have my application number so I had to return to Singapore before I could check.

The results aren't very good, but not bad already! For someone whose basics of korean is damn lousy and only started rushing to study 2 days before TOPIK. I'm so glad I passed! I remember rushing to do past year papers 2 days before TOPIK. I wanted to do at least 2 papers but didn't managed to finish all 2 papers. Ended up I just went to scan through all the grammar points in my KU textbook -> damn useful! The amount of Korean words I swallowed in the 2 and a half days was more than what I swallowed previously added together.

Language is really not something you can study the last minute!

1.04am 15/12

To the Beautiful You

Finished watching To the Beautiful You by Minho from Shinee. I was anticipating to watch this show since long time ago but I had to wait until after exams.

Started watching on 6 Dec and finished on 9 Dec midnight, haha can see I spent my first night in BKK finishing the drama.

I've watched the Taiwan, Japanese and now the Korean version.

The Korean version follows more closely to the Japanese version if I don't remember wrongly. I don't really like the Korean version, but I still finished watching it. I think their acting isn't very good, okay not like I can act. Then I think some of their storyline is quite weird. For example, after Tae Joon knew she was a girl he fixed their toilet to prevent people from barging into the toilet, but somehow Eun Gyul found out she's a girl by barging in her toilet. 

 

I like the brother in this show. I think he's damn handsome. If I like a brother like this, I must be the happiest sister on earth. 

Among all the 3 versions, I think I prefer the Taiwan version. Okay, my memory of the Japanese version isn't very strong because I did rewatch the Taiwan version abit here and there previously. I feel that the Taiwan version is more hilarious, the korean version totally didn't have Julia and no mei tian lao shi. The Korean version seems to focus too much on trying to show the cool side of them. Is like somebody is on the verge of getting rape, and when he stop the bicycle to answer the phone still must stop with style. O.o Okay, maybe I'm just biased since I watched the Taiwan version first.  

Although this drama isn't exactly very nice, if you have time, still worth watching I guess. Although I was complaining to Muihong how stupid this drama is, I still finished the whole drama so I guess there must be something good about it. Haha, I have to admit it, there's still lots of cute scenes here and there. Apart from the main characters, there's still other characters worth watching out for, the 2 second main leads - Handsome and pretty- and Tae Joon's 'opponent' from school. 

15/12 00:55

Rise of the Guardians

Sorry! I know I haven't been blogging once every two days. I guess I have been busy packing for BKK and after I came back busy unpacking and sleeping. So let's change the plan to "I will try to blog once every 2 days".

It has been a long time since I last watched movie, caught Rise of the Guardians today with Muihong.

I LIKE! This is a very good movie. Humour, warmth, cuteness, hope, touching, magic. This movie has everything, It can make you laugh and it can make you cry. All these with a magical touch to it. It's suitable for both the young and old. No matter which generations we come from, I'm sure we all share the same legends. At least some of them, I'm sure everyone knows at least Santa Claus, Tooth Fairy and Easter Bunny. I think I remember Sandman too. Can't blame me if I don't know Jack Frost cause there's no snow in Singapore. Haha, bimbo but Jack Frost is damn handsome.

Santa Claus - Wonders
Tooth Fairy - Memories
Easter Bunny - Hopes
Sandman - Dreams
Jack Frost - Fun

Not sure if I intepretated correctly from the movie. All these that fills a child's life and protect them from darkness, fear and nightmares. As we grow older, our lives seem to be take over by things like fear and greed, and as we get busy, we lose the important things in life. We're no longer pure and innocent.

Sometimes all we have to do is believe!

Kids should play less of things like Iphone, Ipod and computer games and indulge more in fairytales.

P.S Don't be in a rush to leave at the credits. 

S.S

Shit scoot.

My plane back to Singapore got delayed.

I have taken budget airlines like jetstar and tiger, never experienced delay before. First flight with scoot and my plane got delayed.

Such a good experience.

Time to go home!

Waiting for my flight at Bangkok airport to scoot off back home. Super sleepy now. I'm so sad I didn't buy alot of things, my luggage is only 12.9 kg and I bought 20kg luggage. Waste my 2 bucks. Lol.

When I was in Korea, someone thought I'm from china.
When I'm in hongkong, people thought I'm from hongkong.

Although I really don't like being mistaken to be from china, it's acceptable because we're all Chinese.

However, when I'm in bkk people actually mistook me for Thai!

Plane plane when are you gonna come? I want to sleep already.

Holiday plans

Damn I told myself I was not going to wake up until after 12, but I automatically woke up before it was 10. I don't even wake up so early usually.

Yesterday was the last day of exams.
So I was mentioning, the paper gave me a shock.
When I was looking at the coverpage, the first sentence I saw was "This examination paper contains 1 question and comprises of 2 printed pages." This is the first time in my 3 and a half years in NUS, I saw a final paper with only 1 question. So it's like a do or die question. 

Usually I'm always alone when I take papers or my friends and I won't talk about the papers, at least no in detail. So I'll run away fast after the papers, but this sem, my friends/classmates will talk about the paper, and sometimes in detail about the questions and it makes me feel very insecure. Don't like that feeling.

My list of things to do this holiday!
1) Bangkok - Excited. I have been looking forward to the shopping in BKK. Although I have not plan anything yet.
2) Sleep & sleep & sleep
3) Meet up with everyone - I really didn't meet alot of people due the busy year 4 life. I'll have to meet them all and catch up this holiday. Gotta catch em all.
4) Pack my room - My room always starts out at the sem being neat, but at the end of the sem it becomes a pig sty. No idea why.
5) Wild wild wet - Made plans with my cousin to WWW. Tentatively on the 31st.취소 (23/12)
6) Noraebang
7) Lose weight - Haha the new year is coming! I gotta complete my resolution.
8) Sleepover at grandma's house  Tentatively after WWW 취소 (23/12)
9) Blog - I will try to do at least 1 post every 2 days except when I'm not in Singapore
10) Taiwan
Many other things to do~

How do I balance getting lots of sleep and rest and yet at the same thing, do alot of things? 

Going out to change money later.

~Last day of exams~

I realised everytime I looked forward to the end of exams but when the day comes, I don't feel super excited. It's weird.

Wanted to get coffee before my paper, and the vending machine at MPSH cheated my $1. Rah!

My paper gave me a shock today before I even started on it.

Damn I was all excited to do a blogpost and my laptop got attack by a virus.
Vista antivirus 2013, name yourself an antivirus, but ended up you're the virus. Damn asshole.

Here's the youtube video on how to remove the virus. The registration code didn't work for me. There's alot of other videos and websites out there teaching you how to remove this virus.

Spent the last one hour or so trying to remove the stupid virus, scanning my laptop now. Too late for me to blog now, I'll continue tomorrow. 

Worried

I seriously think I'm dumb!

I was seriously thinking what she was asking for psy assessments was psychological tests. Didn't occur to me that interview was also psy assessment in the context of personnel texting and gave a very general view of questionnaires type assessments instead of a type by type assessments way.

I seriously hope she thinks mine is okay. Imagine my shock when I heard people talking about it. Damn sian.

Why can't they hurry return us our results instead of putting me in a situation where I keep worrying about the tests. Damn sian.

One more paper! And it's neuroscience of memory. Fml. My mid term result was quite bad. I haven't started studying for it. Fmlx2