Re: Hello

I have a problem. And it was recently brought to my attention as I have been writing many emails to people from all walks of life. I'm afraid I am suffering from the I-don't-know-how-to-title-this-email syndrome. Do you feel the same way? I mean, how is it possible to choose one main thing as your title when there were so many things mentioned in the electronic mail? It is embarrassing to say this but I would very often have "Hello" as my title. Haha yeah I know. It's not as if the word alone summarises the whole point of my mail but it is the least information omitting, most downright appropriate one I can think of. I suppose this fault of mine stems from the fact that I have little to no ability of being concise. That's why I always have to cut out some points in my science practical reports to bring the word count down.

If there really is someone watching over me, please let there be no need for me to conjure any documents which require any execution of my inelegant summarising skills. Or else...













I will have to engage professional help.

A "Damn it!" moment of my life

Have you ever experienced a "Shit! Damn it!" moment? It's a time when something really bad happens unexpectedly and there's nothing you can do to change it and so you feel like killing something. That happened to me just a couple of days ago. It was Sunday. I was busy studying for my exam which I had to sit for the following morning. Then all of a sudden, there was a power failure. The whole house shut-ed down. I realised this when I open the door to my fridge to get a glass of water and the light in it that usually comes on did not.. well, come.

I thought my fridge was broken due to the hot weather and/or my constant opening and closing and reopening but when I checked the other lights in the rooms, they didn't come on as well! I was like "Shit!" And for the next 10 minutes, I tried to check for any circuit breaker trips. I even risked the re-colonisation of summer flies and opened the back door to check the main power supply to the whole neighbourhood. But unsurprisingly, I had no idea how to interpret the overwhelming information I got from the big box and quickly walked away when I heard something which faintly resembled the ticking of a bomb.

With hope still in mind, I turned on my computer and used what was left in the laptop's battery to google " what do you do when you experience a power failure". Yes, I know. Don't say it. I was directed to a site which states that one should check with his/her electricity supplier when faced in that situation. Having less than half of my handphone battery, I took the risk of forever losing the contact with the outside world and dialled the number of my electricity company. What I got in return was a sarcastic joyous reply from the answering machine which happily related something along the lines of customer service officers do not work on Sundays.

"Arghhhhh! You must be kidding me!"

So reluctantly, I called a friend, who was also having a paper the next day, and related my misfortune. He was kind enough to offer his living room to me for a night to study in, an offer to which I politely rejected. I hate to bother people, especially when I know they are busy. But I thought I should at least let someone know the reason if I happen to be found dead in my house the next day. And there are a lot of ways the lack of electricity flow could kill you. The thought of having no electricity for one night is enough to consume my life.

It was, however, comforting to know that at least my toilet flush still works. At least not everything is malfunctioning. Yes, I know. Don't say it.

So I resigned to my fate and tried to finish cram-ing as much viral and bacterial information as I can before sun down. (The paper I was preparing for was microbiology) It was one heck of a crazy moment. I tried to finish 3 lectures worth of slides in less than an hour!

And then something innate came over me. I went over to the kitchen stove and tried the gas. And I was delighted to see that fire came out from it. But my happiness soon diminished when I remembered that the fire from the stove is the blue kind. Not the one that gives off light. What a let down. But hang on, I've got candles. HaHa. Worst comes to worst, I can be like those ancient scholars and study with a candle at night. That is probably the closest association I can ever get to with them - the common usage of candles for the gaining of wisdom (erm, for the passing of an exam in my case).

So I went to retrieve the candle from the drawer and just as I was about to light it, I heard something coming from my fridge. Its the sound of an engine working. OMG! I quickly reached out and flick on the light switch in the kitchen. It worked! And then I went crazy and checked all the lights in my house. I even checked the microwave. They all worked! It was as if the whole episode didn't occur. Only, it did.

All that drama for nothing.

Eleven and a good friend of mine

Tomorrow is a special day. It makes me happy thinking about it. Starting tomorrow, I will wake with a smile and while brushing my teeth in front of the bathroom mirror, I will whisper in my heart the number ten. I will keep doing this every morning in the bathroom, taking one number away each time. And if you do it too, you will realise that when you reach the number zero, I will be mere hours away from home. Home, Singapore.

Haha yes, the official countdown starts tomorrow cos no one counts down from eleven. But I can't help it! I am going home soon:D And I am happy. hehehe

But I am sad too:( I am sad because I might not see some of my very VEry VERY good friends next year as we might be doing separate subjects. Yes, I am talking about you lim sze yin. Why must the heavens separate us?? :( I don't even know if you'll be reading this but if you are, I just wanna give you a big cyber hug (cos I know you'll be too paiseh if I hug you in real life) and say a big giganmous THANK YOU! You have added a lot of laughter in my life and have never left me out on your juicy gossips. hahaha but please don't be so blur liao lah. And hor, quit starving yourself. Must be very hard for a food lover like you to live without food for more than a few hours. Especially when everyone around you are eating. Need to take care of your health. Ok, I better stop. Maybe I'll write a separate love letter to you cos the chances are, you will not read this at all and everyone in Singapore is reading it instead.

Alright the peeps from sg, here are some of my recent updates.

1) I have completed 2 of my 4 final papers and confess that I am not very optimistic about anatomy.
2) The housefly count for the past few days is 0.
3) This made me realised that I am less interested in the origin of the cranial bones and more so in the number of potential breeding grounds in my house.
4) It is so hot now I am walking around the house semi-naked. Please don't try to imagine that.
5) I am almost done packing my luggage. Yes I am very excited.
6) They have closed the park where I do my jogging so that the horses can run. Thank god its just a 3 day event.
7) I have ran out of shampoo and am currently low on toothpaste. This is a typical dilemma I will face towards the end of my stay here because if I were to open a new tube of toothpaste to use for these 10 days, what will I do with the unused portion?
8) A burning question, why do we dream and do they mean anything?
9) I have two kettles and one of them is in the fridge because I do not have enough water holders to hold the amount of water I have in a day.
10) I am tempted to turn off my computer now because it is generating too much heat.

And because I am one who cannot resist even the slightest temptation, so I will.

3 weeks and counting... down

You know what I hate more than exams? Summer flies. I call them that because they aren't the typical house flies you would see in other seasons. They are not as pretty as their name suggest though. Instead, they're huge, annoying, and extremely crafty. One of those nasty pest would wait outside your door in the mornings and once you opened it to leave for school, it would signal to its pea-sized counterparts and all at once, they would zoom into your house like there's no tomorrow. Can you imagine that?! You would have probably noticed that the reason I'm able to relate this incident with excruciating detail is because I have had the misfortune of experiencing it. I have since been actively involved in the eradication of flies of all kinds in the vicinity. Three different species of flies have been identified thus far. Two of which were seen at a statistically higher frequency with the other one having a mere incidence rate of 1 in 50.

Sorry I have to stop writing about the flies cos trust me I can go on forever. They bother me so much that I'd spent one afternoon reading up their life cycles and searching for ways to remove them entirely off the surface of the earth.

Right, moving on.

My finals are on the 9th, 10th, 16th and 21st. So the exams are coming.

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I am not feeling the adrenalin yet.


On a happier note, two of my good frens just got together! hahaha I feel like a match maker.


And on a happiest note, I'm leaving on the 24th:D



-better set up that fly trap before I go home.

This is where I stop (for the present) - read this again in 2010

Hello! I thought I had better write something before my semi-dead blog becomes really dead. My exams are just around the corner that means that I have no time for basically anything which involves doing nothing cos even after I'm done with exams, I need to prepare to go home. YES, you read it right. I've got to PREPARE to go home. And I only have 2 days allocated for that. One day to buy everything (the presents) and one day to pack my luggage and clean the house. Busy busy.

Oh I had a weird dream the other day about dead babies. I shall not talk about it now though. I hate to leave you with morbid thoughts while I go away to hide and wait for the up-coming doomsday - 09/11 (my 1st final paper)

It has been really warm since the last time I wrote. My feet is stinking from the hot weather so I am forced into unglam-ness when I swapped my comfy shoes for market-going slippers. I don't like wearing slippers. If not for their lack of formality, they slow me down cos I am constantly worried that I will kick them off if I walk too fast. Sigh. I've got to wake up earlier now to accommodate my slipper-induced slow walking speed.

Attention to Lee Ling of 2010, it starts to get hot around this time of the year. I think I've gotten a tan from the 20 mins journey home from school.

Attention to Lee Ling of 2009, it is currently week 11 and you're less than a month away from your first paper. Shucks!

Thinking about it, this might be the last time I'll be "seen" here! The next time you see me, I'll probably take a more physical form cos I would have already been in Singapore! Haha how fast time flies.

Good bye October. See you next year.

Yeah right

If only I were a boy, then I won't have to worry about matching my shoes with my clothes all the time.

If only I didn't watch too much TV, then I would have already finished the 5000 word assignment.

If only I hadn't tasted that delicious lemon cheese cake, then I wouldn't know what I am missing and won't be missing it now.

If only I could tell if it will rain tomorrow, then I will know if I should do my laundry now.

If only I knew the questions to the test tomorrow, then I won't have to study till so late now.

If only I knew the ANswers to the questions of the test tomorrow...

If only...

Do you know what time it is now

When I was growing up as a child I often stayed up till the early mornings doing teenager stuff. Things like playing games online, watching shows on youtube and ever so often my dad would pop into my room and say, "Do you know the time now? Kids don't stay up pass 10. Go sleep." And I would say bad things back like "I'm not a kid anymore."

Now that I am away from home, there's no one to fuss over such things in my life. No one to fuss over me. But still there's a voice in my head. And I didn't realised it is there until I actually repeated its coaxing words out loud. "Do you know what time it is now?"


Sidetrack: Daylight saving started this morning. School starts this tuesday and the exam timetable is out.



"Do you know what time it is now?"


Yes, I do. Its time to study.