But I have officially died mentally... so please excuse me.

School is getting crazy, half... ok, 90% of the time I have no got no idea what my lecturers are trying to teach.

Ich habe keine Ahnung!!!

(I have no idea)

And quizzes are due soon so... now that I'm mentally dead, I'm gonna be grade-dead in a while.

So I will be neglecting the blog for a period I guess... (and I'm neglecting my Cabal too T^T) 

12:32:00 am

I happened to remember the blog address of my old Sec school friend and so I went to see if it's still being updated (she was a very avid blogger in the old days ^^). And I didn't bother reading everything, cos I know it will only cause bitterness. So I read enough to 'kepo' some stuff out, and I realised she got into NUS...not sure what course but still into a Uni. 

Mixed feelings really... Bitterness, that she backstabbed me so badly in Sec school... Longing, to catch up with her... Hesitance, due to fear of being backstabbed again... Self-pride, why bother with this kind of people... Blah blah blah...

Then I blog-hopped to one after another Sec school friend's blog... and it was impossible to check where they went to. If I wanted to, I would have to read every single blog entry...which is nonsense, and I ain't gonna do that. 

So, why not just leave a tag and catch up with each other? After all, it has been 3 years...

But I told myself, when I graduated from Sec school, that I would put the bitter past behind me and find new things to live for. And suddenly, I was reminiscing about my Poly friends... They made up for every hurt, every pain that I went through in Sec school and I really miss you guys! T^T Thank God for letting me meet such wonderful people... I hope I can maintain my friendship with you guys even though we're going to different places... but knowing myself, I will be lost from all of you soon... I won't forget you, but neither would I bother to catch up. 

So mixed feelings on this matter too...

And then I thought about my Cabal friends and how much has happened in the past 3 years in Poly... Have I matured? I hope so, but I think not. What would my Sec school (back-stabbing) friends say about the current me? Why do I even bother about what they think? 

See, that's the part that keeps telling me that I am still superficial and childish...

-End of emo post-

Lol, I shall write about Prof Law soon. His lecture this week had a few entertaining tips as well! ^^

7:37:00 pm

Like there was this time, I was dozing off in the train whilst going to school at 7 a.m, and there was this sec school boy sitting diagonally across of me. I wasn't laughing at him but what happened to him after that. At Tampines, this old portly lady with a bird nest for hair (gold colour at the tips, white at the top ^^;) and cellulite showing all over from her straggly clothes came in and stationed in front of that schoolboy. She was holding onto the rail and then as the train started, she also started... to swivel her hips. Ha ha ha, it wasn't those violent jiggling but kinda like those loosen-my-stiff-joints-I'm-doing-taichi swiveling. And she was doing it all sensually in front of the schoolboy. You should have seen his facial expression, it was CLASSIC! He had this traumatized look on his face, and I kinda felt that he was going through a melt-down. Lol, I kept giggling whenever I looked up at them, so much so that I actually wished someone would come in and block my view! ^^ So it all ended when the boy's stop came and he hurried away, leaving the lady to occupy his seat. 

And then this morning, this China man (immigrant worker I guess) settled in a seat across me and promptly fell asleep. The funny thing, however, was that his head kept lolling to the sides, more often to the right side... So he would sleep, then his head will droop onto his neighbour's shoulder and then he will wake up and apologise profusely. And the whole thing would repeat again and again! I was laughing quietly at the looks his neighbours gave him (another male China immigrant worker and a middle-aged lady) and the way he never seem to learn but instead keep excusing himself. ^^;

I shall watch out for more of these hilarious events to keep myself awake! Of course, not forgetting looking out for that tall guy, whom I haven't seen since then... Haiz... I shall not give up! ^^

And last Friday I had my first lab practical for Intro Biology. It turned into a picture-snapping session with my camera b'cos they gave us images of different kinds of cells and wanted us to draw and identify them, which would be more productively done at home with the help of the internet. ^^ SO I snapped, snapped, snapped and rushed home to look at the pics and complete my lab report. Heh heh, all thanks to my sweet little camera. 

10:43:00 pm

Well, one of my favourite lectures so far is my Intro Biology lecture, cos it's the easiest to understand so far (doesn't have any complicated formulae or rational behind it to remember... SO FAR) and the professor teaching is pretty amusing. 

So I shall share with you guys the more interesting bits... ^^

1) Ok, so we were talking about dissolving solutes in water as it is the universal solvent, and Prof Law was saying how, if a large amt of solvent was used to dissolve a small amt of solute, that the concentration of the end solution will not be too affected. So he gave an example of dissolving sugar in the coffee we drink. He said that most people use only 1-2 teaspoons of sugar for one cup so a little more or less sugar wouldn't affect the taste too much... Then he asked, "Unless you're a person who uses 5 teaspoons instead, and who in the world would drink coffee with 5 teaspoons of sugar?" That had us all chuckling... but internally, I replied "L would.." ^^;

2)Then we went on to pH and the way it affects our bodies. So there was this slide that listed acidosis causes diarrhoea and vomiting... Prof Law went on to explain tht was due to the change in optimal pH in the cells tht upsets the pH value in the ion channels... so all the channels open and all the water gush out = diarrhoea!!! I was lol-ing so hard at tht part. 

3) Last but not least, the quote he said which I think is the most true: "Doing research is trying, forever, to prove tht you're wrong yesterday." And I was stunned for a moment... cos it made perfect sense. Aren't scientists and researchers forever discovering things to either prove they're right or prove themselves wrong? My gosh... ah ha ha ha! 

7:51:00 pm

Kimchi Making:

Brining the veg...

Squeezing out all the water from the brined veg...

And I know this is kinda sudden, but here's the completed form... without the fermentation yet. Simple, just add Korean chili paste, some sugar and garlic and mix it all up! ^^

Here is the final stage, after 4 days of fermentation! The whole thing was too saltish so I added some more cucumbers, but overall, it still tastes pretty much like the kimchi you buy outside! Success! :D

(See the difference in picture quality? The blur ones are taken with my hp while the clear one was taken with my digicam ^^)

 

Chocolate Cake Making:

You beat up the egg whites...

... Till it resembles white fluffy clouds, how lovely... ^^

Fold the clouds into the chocolate mixture... and you get fluffy chocolate clouds, yumz!

After baking, it becomes this dummy afternoon snack. Sad to say, this cake was for our church people so I could only taste some of the scraps (which was delicious too). Success! :D

And messing around with my digicam, I snapped shots of my animals this morning...

Awww.... my cute but very old dog... He has trouble climbing the flight of steps in my house now. There was once when he climbed almost to the top, then missed a step, and staggered a few steps down clumsily, after which he had to reclimb those few steps that he missed. ^^;

The yakuza cat! The flash scared the poop outta her, that's why her eyes are so big. XD

And the food that I am crazily into right now:

Chocolate-covered raisins are the yumz! ^^

2:30:00 pm

I finally got what I have been lusting for for the past few weeks... (nope, not tht MRT guy, even though I totally won't mind ^^)

I FINALLY bought myself a digital camera. So naturally, it's cam-whoring time! *launches into a picture frenzy*

First 2 pics I took whilst experimenting with the cam! XD

 (this one my hand shaky, lol)

And me shamelessly advertising my beautiful camera!

A picture of my mom and dad.... Awwww.... ^^

Well, Han Yin and Mei Qi shd know this camera, it's the FujiFilm 8.2 megapixel one. $199 bundle package came with a free 1GB SD card, 1 free pouch and 1 free screen protector. Totally worth it and the pics come out so beautifully! :D

I still have pictures of my chocolate cake and kimchi tht i wanna upload and write abt but I shall do tht tml or something. ^^

Tchuss!

6:21:00 pm

Whoooo!!! I finally went for Nation War in Cabal today. Anyways, lemme intro my character to you first! ^^

See the guy in the jumper suit right in the middle? Yep, that's Regis, my Cabal character. He's a Lvl 130 Force Archer belonging to the Force 11 guild and as you can see, he's wearing a very weird armour ne? Lol, that's Mithril which is the highest ranked armour available in Cabal. Unfortunately, I haven't got the money and time to upgrade the suit so... heh heh, cheapo mithril lah. Nevertheless, it costed me 75 mil Alz (Cabal cash) to make... ha ha, and that's why I'm always running around declaring bankrupt.

And you see my beautiful bow? That's Mithril too, costed me 65 mil just to buy it. D:

Aaaand my wonderful guildmates beside me: in front the big guy with the big sword is EXBoy, my lvling partner and best buddy in Cabal. He is a Lvl 134 Warrior, so he's always tanking boss mobs for me. ^^ In the middle is Elle (see the pretty blond lady), who is our guildmistress. She's a Lvl 131 Force Shielder and a very good leader. Normally the 3 of us would play together cos we're around each others lvls. ^^

Ok, so I went for war. Necessary info: Only players who are lvl 95 and above can join cos tht's the lvl tht you can choose a nation to fight for. I'm in Procyon, so I fight against the Capella people.

Well, apparently, there's a dress code for war too. It's dark blue and purple for the Procyons and white and light purple for the Capellas (which is totally gay)... But me and my big bad bow! ^^

Backview of my beautiful cape...

Here's the arena where you wait for the war to start. See the rest of the Procyons gathering? Here's when you form parties to help each other in war. ^^ For me, my job is to heal people and occasionally stun the enemies.

However, lemme say this first... 

War... is damn stressful de. XD 

Everything was so messy and I kept running around like a headless chicken. I heal = no heal cos everyone is attacking everyone and the HP all drops like crazy! Usually, people is when see enemy Capella, they chiong and kill them. For me, I see enemy Capella, I run away like hell. Cos I'm a Force Archer and we have low defense. Our main job is to stay alive and keep healing! Lol

So it was confusing, but fun and exciting. Gives you a friggin' good adrenaline rush. For today's war, we won in 2 servers but lost in 1. Ahh well, nvm ^^

Tomorrow, I shall update on my cake-baking and kimchi-fermenting stint!

10:57:00 pm