{ Tuesday, September 15, 2009 } 11:40 AM

Updates from a Week

Ah.

What a relief from CAs! I studied super hard for my Pathology (only to find it manageable) and it drained me so much that I couldn't concentrate on my Pharmacology and I kinda screwed up yesterday's test. I tell myself that I can't hate Pharmaco, and that Pharmaco is something I should score since I am a Pharmacist, but well... Things just don't turn out that way.

Anyway, quite a lot of things happened since the last time I updated my blog, but it has been so much and so tiring that I forgot what I want to blog about. So let me jump a little here and there.

On Wednesday, 9/9/09, my cousin came again! Fu-fu was so cute. Although he kinda cheats me of my money, but I just couldn't resist spending money to make him happy. So dumb of me, right? I bought him a Chicky meal knowing that he wouldn't be full, and that he would grow tired of the toy in a day. And I spent the last of my energy left on walking him across the road to another kopitiam to try and see if they have the Western food he wanted. Nah. Futile effort. But as long as he loves me. Haha.

On Thursday, Cousin Kin flew back to Taiwan. I didn't have much to say to him and felt bad for that. That's why I prefer talking to him on MSN Messenger. Gives me more time to think about what to talk to him.

I spent the whole of Friday trying to come up with a speech for AGM. I even talked to Jennifer on MSN for 2 hours, and got James and Seoh Thin to look through my speech at 1 plus am. Why am I trying so hard for something I knew was impossible to get? Did I really want the position of International Relations Director so much? I don't really know. Anyway, on Saturday, I tried to give my best (it WASN'T my best, really. I could have done better.) and I didn't get it. I was disappointed and upset, perhaps a little indignant, and the more I thought about it, the more negative I felt, but I still thank all my friends who specially came down to support me. Especially when the AGM was on Saturday and Pharmaco was on Monday.

I went to Kenneth's birthday celebration on Saturday, and Serene's on Sunday. Kenneth's dad has a Japanese restaurant and so he got his chef to prepare some ramen and sushi as food. And Kenneth made his own smoked salmon. The food was not bad, but I would have been much happier if I didn't have Pharmaco bogging down on my thoughts. Anyway, I met my JC classmates that I missed, like Jasmine, Jesmine, Chee Hoe, Serene, Kenneth, Alston and Esther. All of them have changed in one way or another, and I am still the same old me. Esther drinks a lot of beer and Alston practically boozes on a daily basis. I hope he doesn't get a fatty, yellow liver when he becomes old. They had fun with bridge (which I can't seem to get the hang of it) and taking pictures (which I can't take off hand just like that, I need to prim myself first).

Serene's cake was called scoop-cake. It's really new and interesting to me, and the Hokkaido cream is just so tempting. I totally have no idea why Jasmine and Wing Sze were screaming over Lester eating the cream. I decided not to eat the cream too for fear of it looking bad on me. So I didn't eat it. But seriously, I don't see why "eating the cream would make you fat by an extra inch"... We all need some triglycerides.

I didn't even have a try of Kenneth's cake. It was so small, each group of us can only have a portion of the cake. But maybe they were trying to make their birthday celebrations look cool. Like, high class. It now puts pressure on me. I am having a celebration, but it's so gonna be primary school standard. I don't mind that, of course. I like it that way, but now I don't know who to invite. My cake is gonna be from some neighbourhood bakery, and it's only come-eat-and-leave kind of celebration. Since my friends all have become high-class-ed, then maybe I will tell them that it will be the low class and kiddish kind, so they won't have to make the trouble to come down. Then maybe all my NUS friends and I can have a happy, little gathering.

Oh yeah, we celebrated Madeline's birthday on Friday. It had a happy atmosphere to it although it was very simple. We didn't even have a formal cake. It's like, 8 slices of cake put together. But we all had fun with taking pictures and eating Megabites and the cake and all. And Madeline seemed to like the tortoise we bought from Mini Toons. That's great. I hope my birthday will turn out this way.

I gave tuition last night, and my Dad sent me to the tuition centre since he knocked off early from work. I missed riding on his motorcycle! I suddenly recalled how we sped on the highway home after my exams last semester. It was cooling then. But maybe because it was the afternoon, the air was warm, and when we turned into Upper Thomson Road, there were trees alongside the road and everything felt cool suddenly. Now I understand why there are trees on both sides of the road. And of course you won't feel it if you were in a car. I told Dad that I want to learn how to ride a motorbike. This time round, he didn't object. But I know that I have to wait till I graduate and earn my own keep and pay those fees on my own. I started daydreaming about how cool it would be if I rode to school instead! Yes, it will be super cool because everyone is driving a car and I will be the different one. Woot!

I just came to face a brutal truth. All along, I had thought that I could end my tuition in mid-October. No! Their exam dates are on 2/11, 9/11 and 11/11. And so, they requested me to stay till then! Haiz. I will never ever give tuition in a class ever again.

Ok, time for lunch. Everyone's hurrying me. I will update more tonight.