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Happy Chinese New Year To EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Woke up with a pimple outbreak on the forehead and right of the nose... Grrrrrrrrrrrrr... Irritating...

Played till 1++am this morning at the union.... Tired out. Slept till 1230h. Had brekkie, then slept somemore till around 1700h. Then woke up, surf net, msg ppl, talk on phone, then now currently trying to do some work (operative word here is trying)...

Loads of fun yesterday though... and loads of pictures!!!! Pictures to come soon!!!!! :)

Did you know...

Singapore consists only of one main island and 63 other tiny islands. Most of these islands are uninhabited.
Singapore is among the 20 smallest countries in the world, with a total land area of only 682.7 square kilometres. The USA is about 15,000 times bigger.
Apart from Monaco, Singapore is the most densely populated country in the world, with 6,430 people per square kilometre.
Singapore became the 117th member of the United Nations on 21 September 1965.
Symbolism of the National Flag: Red symbolises universal brotherhood and equality of man while white signifies purity and virtue. The crescent moon represents a young nation on the rise and the five stars signify the ideals of democracy, peace, progress, justice and equality.
The national flower of Singapore, Vanda Miss Joaquim, was first discovered in 1893 by Agnes Joaquim, an Armenian. The orchid is a natural hybrid between V. teres and V. hookeriana.
The Merlion, a half-fish, half-lion beast, is a fitting symbol of Singapore. The "Singa" or lion represents the animal that a Sumatran prince saw which resembled a lion, and the fish is a tribute to Singapore's history as "Temasek", the ancient sea town.
Singlish, a Singaporean patois mixing English with the odd phrase of Chinese, Malay and even Tamil, has two entries - lah and sinseh - in the online version of the Oxford English Dictionary.
Although English is the official working language and the most widely used language in Singapore, the national anthem 'Majulah Singapura' is actually sung in Malay.
The flying fox, the world's largest bat with a wingspan of up to 1.5 metres, can be found on Pulau Ubin, one of the islands off mainland Singapore.
Singapore is a stopover point for thousands of migratory birds travelling the East Asian Flyway.
The world's first night zoo, The Night Safari, is located in Singapore.
Despite being largely urbanised, Singapore is the largest exporter of ornamental fish (25% of the world market).
The Bukit Timah Nature Reserve in Singapore contains more species of trees than the entire North American continent.
The highest natural point in Singapore is Bukit Timah Hill, which is only 164 metres high (Singapore has a very flat terrain).
Buildings in Singapore cannot be higher than 280 metres. There are presently three buildings of that height: OUB Centre, UOB Plaza and Republic Plaza.
The world's highest man-made waterfall, standing at 30 metres, is located at the Jurong BirdPark.
The largest fountain in the world is located in Singapore at Suntec City. Made of cast bronze, it cost an estimated US$6 million to build in 1997.
The buildings of Suntec City have been built in the shape of a palm of a hand symbolising good "feng shui".
In 2003, Singapore's Changi Airport won the award for "Best Airport Worldwide" for the 16th consecutive year from the UK/Europe edition of the Business Traveller magazine.
The Guinness book record for the longest human domino chain was set in Singapore on 30th September 2000. Formed by 9,234 students, it measured 4.2km.
The world domino topple record (303,621 men) was set in Singapore on 18th August 2003 by a 24-year-old woman from China.
The record for the biggest ever game of pass-the-parcel was set in Singapore on 28 February 1998. It involved 3,918 students removing 2,200 wrappers from a 1.5 x 1.5 x 0.5 m parcel.
The record for the most number of people participating in line dancing was set in Singapore in May 2002 with 11,967 dancers.
The Great Singapore Duck Race, an annual event that raises funds for charity, set a new world record in 2002 when more than 123,000 toy ducks took to the Singapore River.
Russell Lee, a pseudonym for a team of ghost-writers, is the hottest-selling local author in Singapore. His 11 volumes of True Singapore Ghost Stories have sold more than 600,000 copies to date.
The fastest selling book of all time in Singapore is Hello Chok Tong, Goodbye Kuan Yew: The Untold Story. Written and drawn by political cartoonist George Nonis, it sold 40,000 copies in two months.
The highest grossing movie of all time in Singapore is Titanic, raking in S$6.65 million in 1997.
The highest grossing locally made movie of all time is Money No Enough, raking in S$6.02 million in 1998.
The first Singaporean film to be shown at the Cannes Film Festival was director Eric Khoo's 12 Storeys in 1997.
British pop violinist Vanessa Mae Nicholson was born in Singapore and moved to England when she was four.
More Singaporeans are born in the month of October than any other month of the year.
The first population census taken in 1824 revealed that the total population was 10,683. The 2000 census showed that the population of Singapore is 4.2 million.
Nearly 9 out of 10 Singaporeans live in public housing flats.
The most common Chinese surnames in Singapore are Tan, Lim and Lee.
Singapore has more than 3,000 kilometres of roads. Stretched end to end, they can cover the distance from Singapore to Hong Kong.
8 in 10 people in Singapore own cell phones. In fact, telecom companies issue new numbers at the rate of 30,000 to 40,000 per month.
Singapore's best showing in the Olympic Games ever was a silver medal won by weightlifter Tan Howe Liang in Rome in 1960.
Swimmer Ang Peng Siong was ranked world number one in the 50m Freestyle in 1982.
The Singapore Sling was first served in 1915 at the Long Bar of the Raffles Hotel. The ingredients are gin, Cointreau, cherry brandy, Dom Benedictine, pineapple juice, Grenadine, Angoustura bitters and limes.

Am intrigued by point no. 32 actually. More babies in October than any other month?? If you count back, conception would be around January yeah?? So it must be the Christmas/New Year festive season that is getting people in the mood.

From a student's point of view, October is the worst month. Cuz from the ages of 7 to 18, October represents the month of final exams... No fun celebrating birthdays when everyone else is mugging for exams.

Also amazed by point 21 - 24. Shows you how boliao Singaporeans can be. This kind of world record also wanna set...

What have I been printing ah??? I changed the black ink cartridge about 2 to 3 weeks into the term (middle of September), and it's finished!! I finished a black ink cartridge in just 3 months?!?!?! Either I am really printing a lot, or this printer is an ink guzzler.

Meme of Four (I wasn't tagged, but I just felt like doing it)

4 jobs you’ve had in your life
Waitress
Receptionist
Teacher
Labourer (Doing everything that there is to do)

4 movies you could watch over and over
Moulin Rouge
Pleasantville
Ice Age
Four Weddings and a Funeral

4 TV shows you love(d) to watch
Sex and the City
Scrubs
erm, I can't think of anymore because I am TV-less for 9 months of a year

4 places you’ve lived
Singapore
Guildford
London
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4 places you’ve (last) been on vacation to
Dublin, Ireland
Shanghai, China
Perth, Australia
Berlin, Germany

4 places you would rather be
Somewhere with snow
Singapore for Chinese New Year
New York, just because I have been wanting to go for ages
Thorpe Park, Chetsey, Surrey

4 of your favourite foods
Wah, difficult to choose only 4 out of so many... Let's see...
Mummy's home made chye tau kway, made the way i like it (Dark sauce style, with runny egg)
Yong Tau Foo
Ban Mian
Singapore style Chicken Curry

4 websites you visit daily
Flyertalk
Gmail
Shan and Mars' Blog (Friends' blog count as one)
Airlinemeals.net

Am bored... so NOT in mood to work on my dissertation now... also dunno how come i so tired...

Just in case you haven't heard, MSN Messenger 8 will finally allow users to leave offline messages!!! Yay!!! Better late then never!!! :) :)

Clearly sometimes Cambridge students can just be as stupid

I've received one of the nicest comments from my flatmate just now:

"You know this thing about the smell of your cooking? I smelled your cooking on the day I came back and I just thought: I'm home."

So sweet of her!! :) :) :) Never knew I (or my cooking) have such an effect!!

My friend, at the age of 22, has opened her first store. Her shop is at Bugis Point, ICON, 3rd Floor...

Wow wow wow...

All these while still doing her law degree....

Double wow.

Congrats!!!!!

UK STB sends out SOS
A digital settop box in the UK recently pulled off a feat that is said to have odds of "far more than 14 million-to-one" when it somehow broadcast an SOS distress signal on the very channel that the Royal Airforce uses for emergencies at sea. A Moray-based helicopter spent two hours searching the Portsmouth Harbour area for the supposed "distressed vessel" before ground-based techs at telecom regulator Ofcom were able to trace the signal to a malfunctioning Freeview box located on dry land. Thankfully for the owner of the box, it sent out a mayday as opposed to broadcasting the international signal for "step up, yo," in which case he/she may have ended up suffering the full wrath of the British war machine.

School starts in 9h 24 minutes' time for me.... Where did the four weeks ago?? Have we had so much fun that we did not realise that time was passing us by??

Sigh... The next ten weeks is crunch time... :) Whatever there is, bring it on!! :)

First it started off with a sore throat... not a pain-until-cannot-talk kind, but juz a small little nagging one... so I had lozenges after lozenges. I just treat them as eating sweets anyway. Then, it went on to become a cough... those dry cough that is always very irritating, and make your voice coarse. I always think it sounds like a smoker's cough... which is probably why I hate it. Then yesterday, for some strange reason, my nose decided that it needed a workout, so it went running in the afternoon. And I don't understand why it is not tired. It is still running... And this morning, I woke up with the symptom i hate most, sore joints... this is the devil of them all. The one that is never a good one...

Shit..........................................................

Had a toasted bagel topped with margarine, banana and honey!!! Yum!!!

Thanks to Paper Napkin, the inventor of the National Delurking Day, we now have the National Delurking Week!! I actually have a counter, but I don't really keep track of who's visiting my blog. So, if you have been reading but not commenting or have not commented for a long time, leave a note and say hi!!! Much appreciated!!!

Enjoy the weekend!!

An Open Letter to my Friends

Dear friend,

I'm sure you are aware that Sunday is coming up and you might be wondering what to buy me.So, I thought that I would send you an email telling you what to buy me. I really, really need the new Nokia 6111 phone in pink. I want you to know that it would be totally cool if you choose to buy me the new and wonderful Nokia 6111 phone. If you choose not to, however, than why not send me lots of money instead.

Thank you and I will talk to you later.

Sincerely,

What Singaporeans were wearing on the streets in 2005

Wishing, Praying, Hoping...

I love the sequence of these shots... Taken on 4th January 2006. Janet's 23rd Birthday. I love my new pearl-like pink dangling earrings!!

It's going, going, I can see it going....

There is no 3A1, or A2, A3, B1 etc etc etc... I was looking at the MGS website and it's now the dreaded 3 M,E,T,H,O,D,I,S (I remember even the teachers didn't like it!!)... soon there will be no more graduating classes of 4A1, A2, A3 etc etc...

Not sure why i am kind of affected by it though... I am no more connections with the school (except maybe sentimental, memorial ones)... but I guess it's like the end of an era or something...

You know, I went back to my primary school website as well, and guess what, the current vice-principal of RGPS used to teach me as a trainee teacher in primary 4!! That's like 13 years ago!!! Now I feel really old...

I blame this on the unearthly time and hour that i am awake at.

Mood swings mood swings mood swings

My new post for the New Year!!!!! OMG, I can't imagine how far I've come from my first year, and now to my final 6 months of school.... where did all the time go??? Sigh... This coming year would mark my entering a brand new phase of my life, completely different from the past 22 years??? How will I cope?? I don't know... I guess in situations like this, all you can do is to plunge in, do your best and hope for the best yeah???

I had so much so much fun in 2005... it has to be one of the best years of my life... along with 2004, and 2003... I guess, you can say my entire time in Surrey.... There's still 6 more months, and already I am missing this place....

But what ever it is, this is the final stretch of my undergraduate studies, I cannot afford to let up now... I need to work hard for the final results... whatever questions and whatever thoughts I have in my head, I really need to brush them aside them now and concentrate on my main priority, and that is my studies yeah....

Here's a toast to everyone, Happy New Year and Have a Good 2006!!! Here's to 2006!!!