I'm back.

Wait...what..?

Ohh my God, I'm back in S'pore!!!

Our plane touched down at 11 pm yesterday night and we immediately launched into a liquor-buying frenzy. I wasn't planning to buy any but just as we were leaving, the bottles of kahlua and tia maria caught my eye and I was sold. If you guys didn't know, these liquor aren't meant for downing but for baking, so no worries about me getting drunk. But I doubt my threshold for alcohol is that low... there was this time i gulped down half a glass of wine in one mouthful. I was fine after that but at that instant, the table of adults were staring at me like i was some alcohol-sucking monster.

But ANYWAYS (going OOT XP) we got all our luggage safely and proceeded to meet our parents. Nothing feels like returning to your homeland and to familiar faces after 5 months in a foreign land, and the sensation was wonderful! I saw everyone's families and Han Yin was there! That guy looks spunkier - hah, I thought he'd be all skin and bones and sagging eye-bags because of his workload. But it felt really good seeing Xiao Di there, healthy and all.

And then strange things started happening. The Singlish accent suddenly started jumping out at me; everyone was like speaking English with a really weird drawl... "laahhhh", "loooorrr" etc. Then I started speaking weird, cos I wasn't doing the Singlish thing...well, not much. For the first time in my life, I spoke proper English. And trust me, it feels wonky in a place of drawling Singaporeans. I found it distraughting but my parents found it amusing.

I was in for another shock when I finally entered my home. Everything looked so small and low to me. The whole flat (like how the ceiling was lower) the tables, the fridges, the kitchen table tops. And God forbid, MY BED!!! The freaking thing was for smurfs, not for me!!! It was miniscule, it was SOOO low and small!!! My back was aching as I slouched over my bed to use my laptop. This is my usual position of using my laptop and it never hurt in the past. But now...ooh, my aching back. The bedclothes were unexpectedly rough, and the mattress was too soft. So it was predictable that I only slept for 2 hours last night before surrendering to continuous internet access and anime's temptation. I fell asleep again at 7 this morning and had a fitful sleep till 12 pm.

There are still some other weird stuff, like me not remembering that my family has a van and the jarring chinese new year songs that raised my goosebumps (never happened before), but I will wait for more to appear. I never would have thought that I would feel like that after the 5 months in Thailand. Eve says she doesn't feel like a Singaporean anymore and I told her we have lost our roots. But I still don't know if it's a good feeling or a bad one.

Hmmm...

I
AM
DONE
WITH
MY
PRESENTATION!!!

I am coming back to S'pore and there's nothing in my path to stop me anymore!!! NGARH HA HA!!!

Actually the presentation wasn't that bad. It was held in a seminar room with only about 25 people. But of course all our supervisors were these to frighten us so... The whole of Eve's Bioassay Lab didn't turn up, only a handful came - bless the poor girl, she was so stressed out.

I was stuttering a bit due my nerves (as usual) but I thought it went pretty well. I managed to crack a few jokes here and there, and people were amused with my gifs...so that distracted them a bit. We had refreshments after the presentations which included steak and fruits so I was pretty happy with that. My supervisor was satisfied with my presentation so I was pretty happy with that too.

To sum things up, I'm a pretty happy girl now, with thoughts of returning to S'pore floating freely in my head.

There are still quite a few things I have to wrap up here in Thailand before leaving so I shall spend the last few days doing so. I will miss BIOTEC, all the people here and Thailand.

....

... I will miss my woon sen. T^T

P.S. I'm having a sore throat now so I may be bringing viruses/bacteria back to S'pore as additional souvenirs. XD

I want to go back to S'pore to see my friends and family again, but I don't want Tuesday to come. Am I contradicting myself? Of course, cause I'm doing a presentation -along with the others- at BIOTEC as our farewell announcement. I'm pretty sure there'll be tons of people going to listen to us stutter; come on, the whole of Eve's Bioassay lab is going to support her. She thinks otherwise of that decision.

Actually, I have mixed feelings about the presentation itself. How bad can it get? These people here hardly understand English. I was thinking of just bamboozling my way through, don't care whether they understand my English or not! Then again, all the researchers and PhD holders that will be turning up will understand all my nonsense... It's a 15-20 minute presentation, it ain't too long...but there'll be at least 40 people there... Get my point? I fell asleep yesterday night preparing my script in my head and ended up dreaming of school and lessons. =___=;

Weird to say, I think I miss my dog the most of all the people back home (yes, I treat my pooch as a person, got a problem with that?). I've been obsessively muttering about how I will sa yang him when I get back and a pang of dog-sickness hit me when I saw the puppies at Chatuchak yesterday.

Hmm... And I think I'm falling sick. I keep feeling feverish and all dizzy. Maybe it's all the stress from the MP report and presentation? I just want to return to S'pore and sleep and eat my mom's home-cooked food. T^T

CONVERSATION BETWEEN EVE AND CHERYL 5 MINS AGO:

Eve: *places arm against Cheryl's arm* "I'm so fair"
* turns arm over to show underarm* "No...here's whiter"

Cheryl: *turns to show underarm too* "Mine's fairer!"

Eve: "My upperarm is darker...but I bet my underarm is fairer than your underarm"

Cheryl: " You should see my breasts. They're the fairest."

Eve: "Ohh yeah, mine too."

The above conversation took place in the Bioassay's Assistant Researchers Room, BIOTEC in all seriousness before being interrupted with insane laughter.

Yo people, I'm back!!!

Apologies to those who were -and still are- traumatized from excessive viewage of my damaged toe *cough* but it's all healed now. Hmm... but I've still got other damaged toes to show so I shall keep the icky stuff for later...when I'm feeling sadistic. XD

Did up the blog a bit, got sick of the previous template. Not like I visited my blog much during the 4 months here in Thailand though. I was too busy growing E.coli cells and sucking all the protein out of the little guys! And watching anime and Jdorama too... Check out the new list. I think I diffused a bit of OCD from Eve ( the girl declares her undying love for me on an hourly basis).

Anyways, not going to write much now. Just rushed out a 40 page MP report yesterday so the big squishy boss up there is feeling a little wrung (kinda like a sponge), and I'm still recovering from the toxication I suffered from this morning by stupidly hanging around the Drug Discovery Lab.

Will update more tomorrow or something... Let me go claim my health insurance first, I think I'm going to die soon...