Amelina's

Hello from Thomson Medical Centre!! :)

2012-02-01T00:49:00.001+08:00

Overnighting with my mum for another night after her surgery. Alhamdulillah everything went well and she's doing good, except for the post-op pain which is inevitable I guess. She had a myomectomy to remove the bigass fibroids in her uterus. About.Time. Goodjob Mummy ♥

Trying desperately to mug the night away, last day before CA2 and I have such dismal hopes for myself YET I am rather happy hahah. For some reason I don't care much for CA2 I'd rather spend the time.. not mugging and watching tv or something. Maybe it's because my entire family's together in Singapore now! Though only till Friday which is when my sister's flying back.

Okay I should really be studying now. Chillin' in sweats & my med IFG shirt walking around the room tudungless wheeee~ Hehehe okay I should shower soon. Toodles!!

(Wow how's that for first post of 2012 aha)

2011-12-13T03:37:00.001+08:00

If you have 1 hour 7 minutes 23 seconds to spare,

Recap

2011-09-21T01:14:00.003+08:00

Wow how much has happened since I was last here?

For one, I am now a second year student! Alhamdulillah. This year has been good to me so far, and getting better I must say.

Since I was last here, my sister came back, we went to Hongkong(!), Medicamp was brilliant, Ramadan started, White Coat Ceremony was fun, Medicine was stellar at rag, school started, I ran for MedSoc (Medical Society), Nush becomes a medical mystery:(, Ramadan ended, I got into MedSoc (Alhamdullilah), my sister went back Sadface D:, WE WON TOUCH IFG HELL YEA :), Haris dislocates his shoulder for the 5th time holy crap:(, MedSoc AGM, MED WINS THE WHOLE FREAKING IFG HELL TO THE YEAAAAH :) :)

Life has been pretty good as an M2. Everyone knows everyone a little better than before, there's less awkwardness even with people you don't really know, I feel a little closer to my OG and to other random med people which is great. Lots of awesome juniors.

Okay clearly I am rambling and there's no structure whatsoever to this rant. Basically M2 non-academically (heh) has been pretty kickass and it just feels like this is going to be a good year. (On that note, I really need to studyy)

I just got back from NUSSU Retreat and I must say I am pleasantly surprised. Nussu exco is really quite an amazing entity and the people who run it are spectacular individuals. I know saying this makes me a prime slaughter target by my faculty and friends, but really, nussu isn't the enemy. It's the unsung hero to our lives in NUS and it's really unfortunate that many people, including myself previously, don't recognise this. I'm really quite excited to be representing Medicine in NUSSU Exco, to be completely honest. I really hope I can do things to help impact student life in some way or another, especially the medical students. Running for NUSSU Rep via Medsoc was something I never really thought I'd do, but I'm glad I took the leap of faith.

We spoke briefly at retreat about what we wanted to achieve from being in the exco. I thought about it seriously and figured out the 3-4 things I really want to do this year, specific to my faculty. Since no one comes here anymore, I'll write it out here for myself to note.

1) Increase awareness and presence of nussu within medicine (also for smaller facs)

2) Bridge the gap between nussu and medsoc

3) Be the voice of (medical) students and fight for what we need. In other words, Represent!

4) Provide feedback about nussu events that are important to medical students

5) On a more personal note, represent the malay muslim community in the exco and fight for our rights as muslim students

I've never done this before, write such personal aims on a public space, but I just thought it'd be a good reminder for me and why I am doing this. I know it's very skewed to my own faculty though being part of the exco means representing the entire nus student population. Don't get me wrong. It does not mean I have no intentions of fighting for the rights of all other students. I do. But I am still a Medsoc nussu rep. It makes sense that way, no?

In any case, retreat was really better than I expected it to be. I'm really glad to have made so many friends over the past 2 days and I'm excited to start working with them. My jobscope's pretty exciting for me and I'm really glad I'm doing something that affects all students directly.

May this year be awesomeeeee.

May I do decently well for CAs/Pros!

2011-06-16T01:47:00.003+08:00

This is late, but Hell yeah I passed pros and don't have to take supps. Hell freaking yeahhhh.

I mean, Alhamdullilah. The world is gorgeous again :)

I also have conjunctivitis right now, or Sore eyes, congratulations to me. I don't know how or where I got it from. My mum tells me it's the Malaysian air I've been frolicking around in over the weekend. Hmm.

It freakinggg hurts and I keep tearing? No fun at all. Not to mention the Ophthalmic Ointment (that's seriously what it's called) makes me tear up and cry so bad.

I don't know when or how I will ever make this place amazeballs again. Meh.

2011-06-01T01:55:00.002+08:00

Someday soon, this place will be awesome again.

For now, WE SLEEP!~
Ever since Pros ended I have done nothing but stay home (in bed I might add..) and catch up with TV, which I absolutely love doing, except that I am running out of shows to watch. Damn.

Tomorrow I will leave the house for the first time in 3 days.

Also recent Endometrium issues have finally been resolved and corpus luteum is finally gone. Seriously what took you so long. Freaking amenorrhea scare.

Okay too much information bye!

Quickie rant!

2011-05-07T01:47:00.002+08:00

Omg I am possibly the happiest person alive tonight I feel so accomplished I finished everything I set out to do today!!!

Well it's now 1am on 7th may and I really am talking about 6th may.. But whatevz.

Since I'm sure I have a readership of about 10 people, I will rant and not give a shizzzle.

So I've been on this mugfest (not by choice) but the past 3 days I decided to stay home and not study in school. It started with the day my sister left. She was supposed to leave in the morning and I was supposed to get my ass to school. But then her flight got mega 20 hours delayed so we went home and I literally spent the rest of the day lying on her lap and watching youtube with her :'( Sadface no more sharing pillow until she gets back in July!!! But okay July quite soon. So I shutup.

Anyway so since Tuesday was completely unproductive, I told myself I'd not sleep after Subuh on Wednesday = impossible since we only got home from the airport at 1? And I was doing rubbish on Facebook as always, so I slept at 3 maybe. So Wednesday I woke up at.. 12!!! HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH WIN. Studied as much as could bring myself to, which wasn't much. Think I only did Pelvis or something.. I don't know, don't even remember haha.

So Thursday I was all I CAN DO THIS SHIT. So I wrote out what I wanted to do and it was "Abdomen" I thought I'd take the whole day to do abdomen. But low and behold, I took till 3pm? HWOW!! And I didn't sleep after subuh but by 10 am I was dying. Scheduled for a 30 minute nap which turned out to last 3 hours. Once again, WIN!!!! But I covered all 3 Abdomen tutorials so that was awesome.

Then I was all, okay time to try to understand BLOOD for the first time. Seriously. We had like this lecturer for Blood and his notes are !@#$%^&* so you have to do things like READ GUYTON. Guyton is the father of all Physiology textbooks like what the heck it's damn GALAKA-YAWNZZZ I could never read Guyton successfully I don't know how people do it. Seriously.

I'm really a very visual learner so I decided to search for Coagulation videos on youtube. AND I FOUND SO MANY FUN ANIMATIONS!!!! I think I got abit carried away.. Then I found this a-freaking-mazing guy who gave a lecture on blood and omg, I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW THE RAIN IS GONEEEE :) :) This Indian prof from an American medical university I reckon. He's awsm! So I watched his videos and fastworded a little here and there. I actually understand blood now!!!! I mean the whole clotting process is simple but there's way too many terminologies and proteins and whatnots. GEE. But yay I get it now :)

Oh ya, the lecturer we had is apparently going to be Dean at NTU's medical school HAHAHHAH AMBEK KAU. I don't know why anyone would say ntu med>nus med I mean just cus it's Imperial?? No big deal really. Not that Imperial med isn't good or anything.. But ok whatevz, save my angst for another timee.

Okay so TODAY! I didn't sleep after subuh and did Amino Acid Metab! Yum I love Amino Acid cus the lecturer was kinda good and entertaining and I remember things he said = Yay! After AA Metab I decided I was to shag so I scheduled myself for an hour nap. But alas, I woke up at 12. 3 hours gone. Damn. Got up and did GIT Physio, was done by 3 like I planned! HURRAY! Then I had breakfast/lunch/food basically, and prayed and shizzles.

Wanted to do Carbohydrate metab by about 8pm? But ofcourse I took forever. Was only done at like 11pm I think.. Haha fail. But I did it anyway. I had planned to do Heme Metab as well but I was thinking, maybe I shouldn't since it's kinda late?

BUT I DID IT ANYWAY!!! AND NOW I'M HERE FEELING SO ACCOMPLISHED :D :D

4 things in 1 day that's.just.awesome!!!

Tomorrow's supposed to be Nucleotide Metab, Lipid Metab, Detox and maybe Upper limb? But I'm not sure it'll go as well as today, since tomorrow is polling day and I wanna watch the results!!

I CAN DO THIS. I CAN DO PROS. I WILL PASS AND NOT TAKE SUPPS!!~~

Yet to cover embryology of mm everything haha but I plan to do that on Sunday and SUCCEED. And maybe do lower limbs and histology if I have time. Monday and Tuesday shall be practice days and cooling off days and WEDNESDAY.WILL.BE.WAR!!!!!!!!!

I CAN DO THIS SHIZZ.

2011-04-20T02:38:00.002+08:00

Ah, what has my blog been reduced to..

I have serious plans to redeem this place but not for now.

FOR NOW WE MUG.

BACK AFTER 18 MAY.

One of the muslim M5 seniors just sent us a message saying how all the Muslim M5s made it through MBBS. (M5 means year 5 Medical student, we refer to ourselves with 'M's.. for some reason. Nursing goes by 'N's and Dental kids by 'D's. Mindblowing creativity, I know)

That must be one of the best feelings in the world. To have survived 5 years of this. Not to mention how it exponentially gets worst? Holy. Only at M1 and everything already seems so.. tough.

I WILL GET THERE ONE DAY. AND I WILL BE AWSM AT IT.

But mega mega congratulations are in order for these new doctors :) Inspiring.

2011-03-10T23:10:00.003+08:00

It's so annoying that I can't be happy that my sister is coming back tomorrow (AFTER 9 LONG MONTHS!!!) because I HAVE FREAKING CA3 TOMORROW OH MY GOD I'M SO SICK OF STUDYING. I don't remember anything anymore seriouslyyyyyyy ughhhhh. I don't know how I'm going to get through studying for Pros (our end of year papers) and what more getting past M2 or M3 4 5 and the rest of my life ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh~~~

Okay shutup bye.

PLEASE PRAY THAT I PASS DECENTLY PLEASE PLEASE THANKS ♥

2011-02-21T01:22:00.002+08:00

G!!

There is so much so study for CA3.

They are testing us 3 Physio systems?? Anat is everything below the diaphragm minus lower limbs seriously. And Biochem UGH BIOCHEM.

I need to understand as much Neuroanatomy as I possibly can within this week.

I don't know how to study for Pros this is only CA3 and there's already so much. Pros is every damn thing plus Head & Neck Wowz Wish Me Luck.

Bismillah.

2011-02-13T02:33:00.001+08:00

I just spent the last 4 hours checking out OPI swatches & I'm still undecided this is thoroughly annoying and tiring and I am so screwed I was supposed to finish Amino Acid Metab today but obviously I didn't!! :( SIGH MY MARVELOUS TIME MANAGEMENT SKILLZ..

2011-02-11T00:21:00.003+08:00

I need to do some semi-serious reflection so this is going to be a thoroughly boring post so if you read, your pasal ah don't say I never warn you.

So I've been part of a certain event in school and I must firstly say that I absolutely love the cause and the purpose of this event. It's the kind of thing that just makes you think and made me remove myself from this hectic world and think about the bigger picture and purpose of my life and how I want to live it, the decisions I have made and my reasons for those decisions and wow this sentence is way too long with waaaay too many 'and's..

So yea, the gist of it is that, working on this project gave me time to think about life and you know deep stuff like that. It was almost like a refresher course, on life. Strange but yes. I learnt or got reminded of many things in life that are important to me.

On the other hand, I have never felt more awkward or more detached from a group of people I am working with. And for this I blame myself and the unfortunate circumstances that I faced.

While I loved the purpose, I feel so so uneasy and completely unsatisfied with what I did for the event and how I contributed, or the lack of it. Yes this is basically me whining about my lack of presence in the team, but I have honestly never felt more detached.

I always felt like there was a certain barrier. Because of 2 reasons; 1 because I did not attend meetings because of horrible timetable clashes and silly med calendars, thus not knowing any one of them. 2 because I felt they felt I felt superior to them or whatever. Maybe it was the way I carried myself or they way I spoke or the way I honestly tried to contribute to the event. Honestly. I have never had to try so hard to contribute and I don't know why. Or maybe that's the problem, I tried too hard? I don't know. This is bizarre, to say the least. I have never been the kind of person that isn't there. I'm always there I'm always damn onz about anything I do.

But I get the feeling that given that there was a barrier present, I did not even attempt to break it myself. Which is horrible of me. In retrospect I really should have tried to connect with these people I guess. But I get the feeling they already judge me because of where I come from and not because of me. (Speaking of which, this could bring me to a whole new topic but nevermind for now..) So I guess I never really bothered to try. Which is entirely 100% my bad.

I don't know this bothers me to bits. I realised that even as I tried to be present, I was blatantly ignored. Either that or they were so afraid of me they didn't dare address me. Either way that sucks. Come on I am smaller than half the people in the world (the other half being babies) am I really that scary? And I guess given what I think they think of me, my terasa mode UP a million times. Sometimes in emails I find comments indirectly insinuating my lack of presence in the team. I am sure this is probably 80% a figment of my imagination but seriously. Seriously. Bold and Capslock? Seriously that was so uncalled for.

It doesn't help when I actually am trying to contribute, you know? My initial lack of presence was totally unintentional and completely regretted. I am honestly torn with remorse for my acute unsatisfactory involvement, but I swear I tried eventually and I guess this is making me so uneasy now, because effectively I failed.

At this juncture I've probably lost you in my rant but nevermind.

A friend told me that maybe this avenue is just not for me, that I'm better with other groups. But I highly doubt that. It's not the people, or the fact that we are so different, or the fact that they were already friends. I've been part of all of those and still made it work. A part of it feels like I almost didn't care about it from the get-go. Which is very very un-Amelina, because why would I get involved in something I didn't care about. Like I said from the start I am immensely passionate about the issue at hand. Never have I felt this confused about anything I've done. And so this probably snowballed to this unsalvageable predicament I have landed myself into. And as I wallow in all this self doubt and self pity, a part of me really wishes I could do it again, from the top. Just so I can convince myself that I haven't lost it and I can do things.

I suspect this rant makes no sense to the regular reader, but that's alright I guess. The takeaway message is probably, Gee This Girl Has Issues.

Despite everything I said above, honestly I have no regrets deciding to be involved. I just wished it turned out a little prettier for me.

2011-02-01T07:32:00.004+08:00

Wow there are so many people at S16 these days it's totally not cool anymore seriously.

And today when I came there was a tudung girl at THE table! Haha so when creepy guy came, he sat at the table with her. (You may need to read THIS to understand this post.) Here I even took a picture :D

This is how he terrorises people. Freak.

Don't know if you can see it but the one further to the left is him, the terrorist. And the one on the right is the unsuspecting tudung girl. Hahahaha I laugh.

Seriously this guy is a nutjob. Get a life and stop being so freaking immature ugh.

2011-01-31T00:52:00.001+08:00

Wow it's almost February. I've only had 1 real post the entire January. Welldone Amelina.

Despite that, I still wanna do a reflect about 2010 post hahahahahhhahahaha I am so living in the past. Goodnight world, or the minute portion of the world that still hangs around here. Yall should think of leaving because this place isn't going to get any more exciting than this hehe.

First post of 2011

2011-01-07T03:31:00.004+08:00

Yesterday 5th Jan I got back to Singapore. Flight landed at 8.40pm apparently but I think we only got out at 9.30 and left the airport at 10.30 maybe. We put the luggage at home and went out for some Singaporean food. Came back past midnight. We unpacked and did laundry. I slept at 4am.

Today 6th Jan I woke at 4pm. I slept for 12 hours I LOVE IT. I woke up intermittently and was functionally awake at 11am but I slept again and woke up at 4pm. Nice.

Now 7th Jan I am going to sleep at 3.31am.

The purpose of this rant is to say that, On 6th Jan 2011 I was awake for less than 12 hours ahahahahahahhahhahaahahaha suck on that.

In other news my teammates came over today I miss them all so muchhhh I miss RJ I miss school I miss our team I miss Touch with them. Today was fun :) Also I got a cute coin purse from Rach hurrahhhh thanks Rach!!~~

OG outing tomorrow yay I hope it's fun I need more fun things in my life before school starts and I hope they figure that Haliim and I need Halal food before we tell them. It gets kinda awkward when we always have to say 'we can't eat there cus it's not halal' :/ I know none of them read my blog so this is really pointless ranting, but I really hope that after knowing us for 6 months, they at least realise that Haliim and I need Halal food. Please? I mean it's fine if they don't know that some place isn't halal.. That's not the point I guess, but the not realising that we need halal food at all. That kinda sucks.

I just find it odd that I only have this problem now, in Uni. Odd. But please realise please please thanks :/

I think for me, if you don't know that we need halal food, then it makes me feel 237138219 times worse about being there at all and troubling them with our dietary needs. I feel bad enough as it is when my friends cannot eat at certain places when they are with me. It really helps when they take my halalness into consideration I guess. It makes it feel like they don't mind what they eat and that my presence at the occasion is more valuable than Pork on their plates. I don't know but it's really not a nice feeling. Like a burden to the group. I am thinking this sounds extremely WTH but yes this is reality. It also isn't very nice to keep saying that we need halal food. So yes blogging about it like this is absolutely cowardly. Passive agressive. Does anyone share this feeling? :/

Ok sleep bye!

2010-12-27T04:45:00.001+08:00

Hello from Munich!

AWW ADILAH!! :)

Happy holidays everyone!

Turrah

2010-12-14T19:28:00.002+08:00

We come from the land of the ice and snow,
from the midnight sun where the hot springs blow
Hammer of the gods~~

15 dec - 5 Jan;

Goodbye blog, turrah till I get internet connection.

♥

PSYCHOPATH

2010-12-08T07:16:00.007+08:00

Wow TAA is right, I am always ranting on my blog but really, this is a must!!

So every morning when I come to school at about 715 I go to the benches at S16 to sleep/study/whatever, then around 820 I'll make my way to the LT. And when I get to S16, there'll always be this guy dressed in a white tshirt and jeans sleeping on the tables too. Always. Like he doesn't have anything else to wear??? But ok I won't hold that against him. Anyway this guy, he's like old, like he looks late 20s.

So I come and I like to sit at a particular table cus it's in front of a pillar so I can lean on it. (When you're not strong..)

Sometimes when I come later I will find that mysterious man is already at my favourite table. So fine I will just sit somewhere else, because everyday at around 740 he will wake up and leave. So then I'll go to my table and carry on with life. But everyday when he comes he will/must/always sit at my table. Which is totally cool because obviously I don't own the table. Not yet at least..

But every once in a while, I come earlier than him. And I don't realise that I'm earlier, meaning that he will pop up in about 5-10 minutes time. So when I'm earlier I'll just come straight and sit at my table. But when he comes, HE COMES AND SITS AT MY TABLE TOO!!!

HELLO EXCUSE ME?!?!?! DO YOU NOT SEE THAT I'M ALREADY THERE SLEEPING. DO YOU SEE THE 7 OTHER TABLES AROUND?? EMPTY TABLES.

WHAT THE SHIT SERIOUSLY. WHAT THE SHIT.

And it's damn freaky cus like just as I'm about to fall asleep he'll come. Then he'll plonk his stuff on the bench and sleep too. There was once I was actually still awake when he came but my heart was racing I was so afraid and nervous somehow, Sympathetic Stimulation everywhere SA node discharging at like 100times/min or something seriously I could feel my ventricles going into overdrive. OVERDRIVE!!! I even had time to palpate my apex beat sneakily and I swear my left ventricle was out of countrol!!! Ok maybe not, but seriously I could have had an episode right there and then.

But really what the heck is wrong with that man??

And today! TODAY! Like 5 minutes ago today. When I came apparently I was earlier. But obviously I didn't know. And it's holidays already for the rest of NUS so I didn't expect him to come since he didn't come on Monday? But WHAT DO YOU KNOW, HE COMES! And for the first time we actually made eye contact when I was just about to settle down a the table. Shit freaked me out. I quickly scoot along to the neighbouring table and just pretended I was meaning to do that anyway.

UGH FREAKING ANNOYING WHAT IS WRONG WITH HIM.

I mean I have no problem if you wanna sit your ass there, but hello if I'm already there why must you come and sit at the same table with me? I don't want to be within your 10cm radius please. I mean fine if you have some kinda emotional attachment to that table but seriously, you are old. Grow up and act your damn age.

And get some new clothes.

Ugh.

Okay time for Renal. Toodles.

The rain is evil

2010-12-03T17:33:00.009+08:00

And it stops raining just when traffic starts becoming crazy. Now I am stuck in school with my imaginary friend(s) & Linda Constanzo. All hail fake co-op Constanzo~~

(don't like how photobooth is mirrored :/)

I hate how everyone is done with exams. Even juniors and Alevels, and almost everyone from other faculties. SO JEALOUS. Minus NTU since they started late but whatevz that's what you get for hosting YOG HAHA k sorry Nurul I know you have a lot of NTU spirit burning in you :)

Anyway, rant. What the hell why are our exams so damn late?!? We have 1 paper that's 4.5 hours long and it's next freaking Friday. And we just finished learning Renal like 2 days ago hello?!?!?! YLLSoMessed up :(

I really can't wait for next Friday to be over and I can frolic around in the snow with my sista ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

Ugh so sick of studying. Let's watch a movie..

(What a bitchy post hehe)

2010-11-26T19:39:00.004+08:00

Okay wow so considering the precipitous influx of messages on my tagboard it is safe to say that my previous post has triggered some kinda discussion, or maybe even backlash that was not intended for at all. It was honestly just a thought, evidently not very well put together heh. But thanks everyone who voiced your opinion about it, it made me think a lot more about the issue. I'm sorry if it came off preachy & frivolous (haha thanks rafiq) but it really wasn't meant to. It's just one of those things you think about and have to talk about it somewhere somehow.

Anyway I guess I should clarify that I am in no way demeaning the islamness of anyone. Who am I to judge anyway. Neither was I specifically out to get some people. It's just a culmination of things I see. My main issue (though not well brought up in my post) is how people are parading the unislamic things they choose to do (in this case, by what they eat). I just didn't feel this is necessary. For one the impression it gives non-muslims. And not to mention the rapid amount of fitnah and mengumpating this could ignite, which is very unhealthy for everyone in general.

Everyone is free to have your own opinion because we all practice our religion to different extents. And I am not judging people on that because I am in no place to make a judgement. But I just think that if you choose to engage in certain activities that don't roll with your religion, then there's no need to parade it in public domains. Being bold enough to show the world that you dare defy God, I don't know what kick that gives anyone:/ And that's what I was wondering about..

I guess you can't stop people from doing what they wanna do. I'm not trying to start a revolution or anything, it's honestly just a thought! So please people, chillax? Sorry if I hurt anyone's feelings, but I guess if your feelings were hurt then this might have ran on your conscience, which is really mean of me, but hopefully for the better (Y) We could all use a little getting closer to our own faiths and become better muslims christians catholics buddhists hindus etc, myself included. I'm sure every religion has certain things they can and cannot do. And I'm sure every law has a good reason behind it and it could do the world some good if we stopped doing silly things! Like smoking!! Haha oh the horrible things it does to your lungs/heart and all the conditions you are predisposing yourself to!! Sigh sorry exam in 2 weeks and I am still not done studying respi.

Wow what an anticlimatic ending haha sorry.

Ok world peace people!

Oh ya since I'm blogging, HAPPY BIRTHDAY IZZAH! ♥♥

I am curious

2010-11-14T01:57:00.005+08:00

Do muslims who eat at un-halal restaurants/ food outlets know that it is not halal? Or are they oblivious to the pork on the menu? Do they pretend that it's halal or do they not bother to find out if it's halal to begin with, so they can pull a "OH RLY THIS ISN'T HALAL?" to kid themselves.

Do they care about eating halal food? Or are they more concerned about what's cool to eat/ where's cool to be? For one it's bad enough that they go to bars or clubs. Sure, drench yourself in arak-laced air and call yourself a Muslim. I'm not saying that I'm the best muslim around because obviously I'm not. But how are these people so bold? Does it not matter what God says you can and cannot do?

I am so bothered by this and how so many of my friends are consciously eating at un-halal places yet making it seem okay. And it's not even just desert. On the other hand I have non-muslim friends who go the extra mile to find out if a certain food place is Halal Certified by MUIS, before suggesting it to me.

This is more than just eating Fish&Co (no halal cert but they only serve seafood, no meat), although this does not mean that it doesn't run on my conscience whenever I eat at Fish&Co.

This is about people eating at places where they serve pork on the menu. Not even pork, just meat, that isn't halal. Or rather, this is me wondering if Muslims care about what they eat anymore. But I think my issue here is with how they have to announce it on facebook? Why so bold?

How is it that it doesn't run on their conscience at all? Not even the slightest bit?

I am so baffled.

Ignorance, oblivion or indifference?

2010-11-06T17:45:00.001+08:00

Just spent 2 hours organising my email :) SO ACCOMPLISHED.

Now to finally start studying..

Monumental day!

2010-10-31T19:43:00.002+08:00

Wow what an epic day it was yesterday.

I know I'm barely here these days but once in a while I really have more words to say (length wise) than what is socially acceptable on facebook. Hence, this place thrives on my sporadic need to rant.

So it started with our Heart Saver Course CPR thingy thingy at 8am. Seriously, 8am on a Saturday? You can't make me wake up early on Saturdays because hello there is Survivor on Friday nights/Saturday mornings at 1230am?? But anyway yesterday I was watching youtube videos till 2am so it's entirely my fault. But not the point.

Okay actually that is the point. So basically I woke up late. The thing started at 8 but I woke up at 7.50am. 750!!!! O M G.

So I literally jumped out of bed, or rather, off the floor (I slept on my sejadah after praying subuh) and scurried into the toilet and took a vvv quick yet effective shower. Took me less than 5 minutes I bet. Then I just grabbed any shirt I could find and took an appropriate tudung. Thank god my purple tudung was extra obedient this morning so it took me like 1 minute to wear my headscarf.

So I left home by 8am. I KNOW RIGHT!! EPIC!!! My mum, who was on the way to the market anyway, drove me Schumacher style, to school. Then I still had to figure out where the Nursing centre was!! Which I found eventually thanks to Azizah and Haliim THANKS FRIENDS. By the time I reached it was like 8:14am?

And surprisingly enough, I WASN'T LATE AT ALL!!! Everyone was still registering and stuff!!! HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHHA SUCCESS AMELINA!!!!!! :) :) :)

Not that my lack of responsibility for getting my own ass to school on time is condonable at all, I'm just so glad it wasn't an embarrassing entrance or anything. Totally blended in with the crowd hehe yay!

There is something about me and CPR courses that just doesn't click. Back in rg we had a CPR course in sec 2? or sec3. And I was late too!! Like I just couldn't wake up. Horrible and inexcusable, but seriously, CPR courses are like taboo for my body clock.

So after that, my parents and I went to meet my mum's biological family!!!

If you are friends with me you might know how my mum was adopted when she was young, and subsequently brought up by a Malay family, i.e. my late grandma.

So last week she emailed the Chinese Newspaper Zaobao(?) and asked if they could help her. So the reporter and photographer came to my house and interviewed her. The article was published on Friday 29 October, and by 1130am that same Friday, the reporter called my mum to say they found her brother!!!!

EPIC.

So turns out she has 8 siblings, 9 including her! 2 of whom have passed on, the 1st and 5th child, both guys. But that still leaves my mum with 6 siblings!!! 3 girls, 3 guys left.

THEY. ARE. AWESOME!!!!

Like totally and completely 100% Chinese to the core, expectedly. But they are amazing kind people who are so considerate about us being Muslims :) And they instantly started tearing when my mum came in, it was so touching and sweet.

I feel a sense of closure or completeness for my mum. She's been living the past 48 years of her life not knowing where she came from or why she was given away. Everything made sense now. She had this theory that her father didn't like her, but turns out he was fighting to keep her but her grandmother=my great grandmother insisted that she was given away because she would be bad luck for the family. Even though my mum's biological father has passed on for over 40 years now, I think just by hearing that, my mum felt some sense of fatherly love from him. Which is really great. I'm so happy for my mum, her siblings were really glad to have finally found her it was such a happy day :)

We also learnt why her siblings never looked for her all these years. Turns out they never knew she knew who she was. They didn't know she had her birth cert, and they didn't know her name. Not even her Chinese name. So basically they knew nothing about her, except that she was given away. So I don't blame them for not looking because they probably didn't know how to start!

Anyway full coverage of all this epicness on facebook! Plus articles from the newspaper, with translation! Thanks to Nush and Divya for translating them for me!! Ironic how my Indian friends translated a Chinese article for me.

Some pictures:

First article: 29th October 2010

After she found them: 31 October 2010 (Today!)

Click for more pictures :)

Sniffle

2010-10-12T22:40:00.007+08:00

Today was lonely day in school, everybody's sick and sniffling and coughing our asses off.

No anat hall buddy and no bff :(

Anyway I think I love the old Anat hall prof. I've been snooping around the Anatomy Department page but I just cannot find him!! Need to know his name He.Is.AWSM. Time to put my stalking skills to good use..

OH AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY MA SISTA!! YOU BE THE COOLIEST.

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

2010-10-11T08:10:00.002+08:00

Definitely not the best time to fall sick :(

-sniffle-

Good love

2010-10-07T17:11:00.005+08:00

So I'm sitting at S16 and reading blogs, mostly juniors, because they are (momentarily or not) free from the wrath of exams and thus have lots of time they can mercilessly dispose of, while I worry about having to study 9 weeks worth of Biochem(!!!!!!!!!!!!), Histology and Anatomy by the 18th.

I remember missing studying so much while we were in our post-post-post A level pre-pre-pre Uni phase, but gee I was foolish.. Okay maybe not entirely because I am really liking Anatomy, even though the pre-M1 guide that we got at White Coat Ceremony said I wouldn't enjoy Anatomy as much if I were using Snells instead of Gray's Anatomy. But I am, so kudos (Y).

Anyway this rant is entirely random and perhaps pointless, but I think any motivation that propelled me to even start this post stems from the fact that I miss School. School that has annoying rules, ugly unflattering uniforms, white slips, prefects, ties that we had to tuck into our pinafores; School with assemblies, National Anthem and assorted patriotic elements, School with school bells and disciplinary actions. School that doesn't leave me in huge distress every night and every morning, standing in front of my cupboard wondering what to wear.

Not that I'm not absolutely loving medschool or anything like that, but I would love to just go back to all that for just a day. My classmates, teammates, platoonmates, batchmates and my minahz, you are all deeply missed my friends ♥

On a side note, MM Lee & his wife are such an adorable sweet loving couple.

Such love. To commit yourself to one person and love him/her unconditionally for 63 years, warms you up inside out and gives mankind hope.
I love old couples.

Rest in peace Mrs Lee :)

2010-10-05T01:33:00.002+08:00

Dear God, please let me do decently well for CA.

Please?

I cannot afford to go through another obscenely messy teary academic rollercoaster that was J1.

Thank you xx

p/s: yes I will (try to) stop sleeping at 2am

Dessert or disaster

2010-10-03T10:42:00.004+08:00

The autophagy of my blog, and tagboard for that matter, is the inevitable result of my lack of life and commitment to not fail CAs. I apologise thoroughly, to the 70+ of you who still frequent this page. For now, please indulge in some pictures that might hopefully distract you from the crappy state that my blog is perhaps permanently stuck in. For now.

Teehee.

TAKECARE IZZAH WE WILL MISS YOU ♥♥♥

Thank you Mendaki :)

Yay Vivian B favourite minister!

Medicine Team Halal :)

(+ Haliim's cute mum)

♥♥♥

Fabulous Finds

2010-09-19T19:05:00.003+08:00

These make for a very happy weekend :)

Hope I get around to uploading the 31783 million overdue photos soon. Proper blog posts soon I promise!

Merayakan hari yang mulia ini :)

2010-09-11T23:18:00.001+08:00

♥♥♥

2010-09-09T23:58:00.003+08:00

Selamat Hari Raya homies :)
And thanks everyone for your raya wishes! ♥

Hahahaha oh Marianneee~

Rambles

2010-09-08T01:03:00.003+08:00

Why do I always do this to myself - wander around facebook and blogs and cyberspace, even though I know it's super late and I'm gonna be super tired in lecture. And when I get to lecture I realised what a horrid idea it was to not sleep earlier :( And everyday the same thing happens this is horrible :( Not to mention Anat tutorial on Thursday, which I haven't done, which SSWTay wants me to talk about biceps/triceps brachii question. UGH SO SLEEPING LATE AGAIN TOMORROW :(

I can't wait for my Snell's to arrive, co-op ran out of them, but I am so ready to bedazzle my Snells, inside and out. Woohoo!

In any case, I really appreciate being in Med school. There's no more learning random Physics/Chem/Econs crap (Math = ♥ btw) that makes you sit there wondering why you need to learn this and how any of this knowledge will enrich any minute facet of your sad life. I like how everything we are learning is useful, maybe not now, but soon enough. And I really like anat hall, even though the brain-less human head is not the least bit pleasant to sniff. I am getting immuned to the smell of the rest of the cadaver, just not the head.. The chemicals make me tear :'( And who knew just the upper limb is so freaking complex there's a million muscles in such a small space!! More power to you God (Y)

And now every time I move my arm/fingers I can't help about think about the articulation and muscles and whatever's happening beneath. I hope this is normal. Oops.

Ok toodles. Picture post soon!
(Insert lumbrical-powered waving motion. Heh.)

2010-09-06T00:50:00.002+08:00

Can't bring myself to study :(

LOL 2:10-2:16 (Y)

2010-08-30T05:47:00.002+08:00

Let's sneak a post in since I am bored and this place is dying.

Okay whoever said uni is carefree and chill was so kidding themselves IT'S ONLY WEEK 4 AND I'M SO TIRED ALREADY :( I have a whole lot of biochem to catch up on and we are starting upper limb today, so I am semi-freaking out and I neeeeed to stay awake in lecture. Sigh.

Last 2 weeks have been pretty alright with many fun after-school days but of course I haven't found any time to blog about anything, or upload pictures. I don't know where all my time flies off to, I really don't play fb games anymore and I haven't watched TV the whole of Ramadhan so far (Y), and school for that matter.

Yesterday was an academically inefficient way to spend my Sunday. I spent 9 hours, from 10am till buka at 7pm, cleaning my floor. YES, JUST MY FLOOR. And I'm still not completely done!! How is that possible :( I didn't realise I had so much stuff! And I found my sec2/3/4 notes and worksheets lying around, and exam papers OH GOD I WAS SO SMART BACK THEN HAHA. Oh, and I found lots of my sister's Alevel stuff??? Hello?!?! That's so 6 years ago why do we keep these things it's not like I referred to any of her notes..

That said, I still can't bear to part with my Alevel stuff.. Heh. I don't really know what to do with them so for now they are all hidden in boxes and whatnots. Does anyone want my notes and stuff, undone CT/Promo/Prelim papers (mostly physics HAHA)? I am so attached to my Alevel stuff it makes me question my sanity a bit.. But then again, I only threw out my PSLE stuff in sec3? And my Sec3 stuff in JC? So maybe I'll throw out my Alevel stuff when I'm M3.

Ugh rant-y posts.. I realise I still don't really know what to wear later so I am probably going to be very shabby today. Ohwell. Time to bathe toodles!

2010-08-23T01:53:00.003+08:00

Almost 2am and I'm still not asleep :( This is horrible I am sleeping in lecture tomorrow fo shizz. Though I hope I don't :(

I rewatched the Enzymes lecture via webcast and suddenly everything makes so much sense and everything is like so duh, easy?? Amelina is turning out to be an OKAY Bio student afterall! Three cheers! But I really don't get how everything is always so obscure in lecture, but so freaking DUH on webcast :( Inefficient use of my time in school.. This is why people pon school right? SIGH.

Okay time to sleeeep.

Oh but before that, I've recently realised how groundnuts make me breakout :( Hate it ughhhhh. I had consciously avoided groundnuts for quite sometime since the first revelation of my groundnuts theory, but then on Saturday we were at Nadh's beautiful house which had beautiful Satay with Demon groundnut studded Satay sauce. UGHHHHHHH. Ruin.My.Life.

But Saturday was fun though :)

Ok toodlez!

Week 1

2010-08-15T23:03:00.009+08:00

I am so tired from trying to figure out what to wear to school tomorrow. I.HATE.THIS.UGH.

Anyway, because I cannot type coherently right now, picture post from Rag week thru week 1!

White coat,

Woohoo melayus!

MET MY SURGEON CAN YOU BELIEVE IT!!! THIS IS THE MAN WHO SAVED MY KNEE!! THIS MAN..

... IS THIS MAN!!

THREE CHEERS FOR YOU DR.WONG~~

Rag,

Weili!!~~

Haliim's photography skillz (Y)

HEHE MY FRIENDS, THEY ARE..

Semi-fail ORD 2006 inspired platoon sleepover!! :)

Full-ish platoon pic in your emails friends!

School,

First day, btw!

Things Haris does when he is NOT sleeping in lecture, which is 2% of his life maybe.. How is it that he is still such a genius UGHHHHHHH

I am still appalled that both Haliim and Marianne have no idea what song this is! Tsk I thought you watched 6pm Spongebob on Kids central Haliim!! Hurtful.

Okay yay time to sleep! Rag photos will be up on facebook when I am not lazy! Toodles~

2010-08-14T05:18:00.002+08:00

Wow I must have had the most satisfying sleep ever!! I slept at 9 last night and when my mum woke me up for sahur (pre-fasting meal?) today I felt like a new person!!! :D

Not that I can afford many of such long rests in time to come, but wowww! Honestly forgotten what regular hours of sleep can do for you.

Anyway first week of school, I need to blog about this soon. And many other things, but I never find the time to! How is this possiblee I don't even play my facebook games anymore :(

SIGH OKAY BACK TO SLEEP TURRAH!

2010-08-09T23:47:00.002+08:00

OH MY GOD SCHOOL STARTS TOMORROW

WHAT DO I WEAR TO SCHOOL TOMORROW

!!??^#*!&^#@&@(#*!&

(Oh, and Happy National Day! Singapore ftw~~)

Stuffz

2010-08-03T21:26:00.004+08:00

Flag

This makcik donated 10$$ :D :D How generous!

Rag

Friday should be pretty damn exciting :)

I hope my coat gets buttoned on properly tomorrow:/ It's like my biggest fear, Not.Even.Kidding. Okay time to sleep! Feeling super mega sickish today zzz but well for once I'm sleeping before 1am!! :)

2010-08-02T16:40:00.002+08:00

I just found out my mum sneakily threw my rugby boots away!!! Last month!!!! UGHHHH MUMMY WHY DO YOU DO THESE THINGS TO ME :( :(

Now I am so depressed and I don't know what to wear I hope the field is nice and dry on Thursday :( :( :(

SIGH MUMMY.

2010-07-31T14:20:00.003+08:00

Clearly, the hype is over!~~

It was entertaining while it lasted eh. I'm still not over the person who called me a minah?!?! Sucks to you!!

Famous friends

2010-07-29T00:28:00.012+08:00

I can't decide if I am annoyed, or amused.

So today I decided to sneak a peek at my blog statistics. In the afternoon I was just making a mental note on how I used to get 150+ views a day but now I have like about 50-60 daily, not that it bothers me at all. It's not always fun to know that so many people are reading your blog = snooping around your life..

Then about 5 minutes ago I went on the site again and..

WOW Suddenly so popular today??

Checked out my search engine referrers..

So I checked out my referrers and found a lot of visits from a certain forum, http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/showthread.php?t=2852584

Please click to experience the full extent of the stalkerism that is happening wrt Sharon.

Wow, a whole forum dedicated to Sharon? Baik ah. I mean I am extremely proud of her for being the first female SAFOS scholar and everything but discussing my friend on a forum is a little creepy for my liking. But I guess that's what happens when you have famous friends haha.

Okay so I snooped around the site a little, and then I found a post that linked my blog!! LIKE HELLO, EXCUSE ME?! HAHAA

The worse part is that I think these people think I am Sharon? They quoted some of my blogposts and commented on my mm intelligence? As much as I'd like to think I am that awesome, I really am not Sharon!!~~

And then that same someone proceeded to post a picture from one of my blog posts?!? Excuse me!!!!

This is tmth!

Haha so now I am going to hope more people google Tan Xin Hui Sharon, first female SAFOS scholar, and find this post, and realise that they are plain creepy. And to whoever posted my link on hardwarezone.com, uh thanks for the publicity.

I guess it's my fault since everytime I blog about Sharon I type out her full name? I mean it's somehow nicer to type the whole thing, like theres something about it that mm.. flows? I don't know but I guess I cannot stop people from landing here and wanting to find out more about her because she is just too stellarrrr.

But could you not do it on forums please? That is creepy. These people need to learn to stalk without leaving a trace! Effective Stalking 101? I should give a course on that..

Vuvuzela party~

2010-07-28T19:53:00.003+08:00

My dad's artistic talents..

Four!! She sent us 4!! Hahaha 1 would have sufficed but thank you anyway aunty you are too kind :) :)

2010-07-28T03:09:00.002+08:00

I just found my primary school teachers on facebook!!! This is so exciting I am never going to sleep at this rate!!!

Life is no Nintendo game

2010-07-27T02:28:00.007+08:00

This is going to be a really rant-y post I can feel it already, please excuse my babbling it is very unlike my usual posts, I think.. I wouldn't know actually since I haven't blogged in soooo freakin' long, but yes 2am posts = expect incoherence.

So first off I must say, I really don't understand why it has been so hard for me to drag my fat ass to bed these days. I can be extremely tired and dying and falling asleep on my keyboard, literally, but no! I refuse to go to bed. Tak.Faham.

So today! Sold my soul to MOH for 444000$$, hwow! While we were walking there my mum asked me how I felt and if I was ready to sign my life away.. What.A.Question. NEXT.

Haha but it's not that bad I mean you don't really feel anything? It's like asking someone if they feel any older on their birthday.. Like whaaaaaaaat~ Maybe it'll only kick in in 2015 when we graduate and I am overworked and underpaid? Haha too early to say I guess..

So anyhoos! Interesting find of the day: We went to Masjid Kampung Delta to do Zuhur and I came across this!!

It's super blur but I think you can see that its a Tamil Quran!! Fun!! Haha I mean I know these things exist but I've never seen one before isn't it pretty exciting!!! HEHE.

After signing I lingered around town for awhile before reuniting with the parents to go to Sultan for Nisfu Sya'ban~~ That was pretty mm nice I must say:) I like being in such places at such times, it's very mm.. fulfilling and empowering, and you just want to be a better person? Something like that. 2am limited brain function..';.,/`,m.)`8~2&*.?"{

Meanwhile! I went to F21 and found 2 gorgeous tops I ~~need~~ wantttttt ughhh why do I always end up in such predicaments.. And we wonder why Amelina is always so damn freaking broke. UGHHHHH

But I think I will get one of them tomorrow heheh oh speaking of tomorrow! I am busy busy tomorrow I don't know why I give myself such busy days this close to the start of school.. I am meeting hall girl Liting at like 9 or some insanely early time, then getting my HepB jabbbb, paying loanshark Mary and hopefully she'll forgive me enough to date me for lunch! :D Scurry down town to F21 hehe, then Toystory3 with geniuses, we damn slow I know..

I don't know why it took me so long to convince myself to watch Toystory3.. There are/were suddenly so many good movies, like Inception hello?!?! I've already watched it TWICE haha it's so awesomeee and IMDB #3!! And Toystory3 is IMDB #8!! That's a-may-zing-ly-high! So yea, cannot not watch it right? Right.

Anywayz since I was uploading that Tamil Quran picture I stumblr upon other random pictures so here!

The cake is so off-centre!!
Anyway, this was Anzie's 19 :) Love you zeeeeee we need to go out before school please!

This is what Mary sent me before ms camp:

HAHAHA MARY FTW!!

Okay time to sleep proper, toodlez :)

Accidental acquaintances

2010-07-24T16:51:00.004+08:00

This place is getting too stale for it's own good.

I think I have lost my drive to blog, but I shall attempt to since July has been pretty awesome. I must admit I wasn't looking forward to either Medicamp or MScamp but well both turned out pretty kickass. It's really the people, more than anything else, yes? :)

Medicamp was loads of fun but this is probably the law of relativity talking, heh. MScamp wasn't bad or anything, but it was really quite tiring. Fun nonetheless, I mean it's hard to be sulky when my group kept winning every damn thing hehe Sikyon ftw!! Haha okay but it really really was a lot of fun. I mean to be with people I wouldn't be friends with on normal circumstances, that's always interesting. There are some really awesome people in my group so it was all good. Oh plus there was Mary & Fads (& Haris & Haliim, but I see them all the time now zzz haha) = yay friends!

ELITISM HEHEHE LOVE YOU FRIENDS ♥

I am really rather surprised at how well I get along with these people. We are the epitome of The Motley Crew, srzly. But I think I'll be seeing more of them in due time. I mean we already had our first lepak session yesterday, which ended at 2 am!! Score! 8-)

And it is also unbelievable how Malay they are, or perhaps, how un-Malay I am! They sing and hum to Malay tunes I've never heard of before, later proceeding to laugh at me for my lack of knowledge, and they (okay, just Khai haha) have impeccable MinahSpeak vocabulary, like POTONG STIM (though I insist, it should be steam, duh dictionary 101?) But srzly!! We are so different it is so exciting haha.

Like who knew we'd ever be friends? And for that, (Y)

On a vastly different note, if you liked it then you shoulda put a ring on it~

Hehe Haliim is da bombzzz

Okay thus concludes my dismal attempt at blogging! Time to sleep so I will be wide awake when I surrender my soul to MOH tomorrow, for the next 11 years of my life! Woo!

South Africa (Y)

2010-07-12T05:42:00.004+08:00

Since I have a couple of minutes before getting ready to spend the next 4 days in school, let's do a quick post on the worldcup.

Well firstly I must say I am sorely disappointed that Spain won. Seriously, Spain? Spain who lost to Switzerland say what?!?!!

At this juncture I foresee people saying, "Ya but Germany lost to Serbia too.."

And so I will refer all you German haters to the a-ma-zing scorelines the Mannschaft has since produced, 4-1, 4-0, 3-2. Suck on those convincing wins. SUCK.ON.THAT.

Okay so my point:
While I am thoroughly impressed with Iniesta's performance (there is no doubt he was stellarrrr), Spain's victory is annoying, more than anything else.

It is perhaps clear that I really only watch and stay up to watch a German match, I was really praying (kinda) for the Dutch to take the prize. So after a quick facebook chat with ma sista all the way from Munich, I have come to realise why I am so sore that Spain won.

1) Germany.
For purely defeating Germany, haha. Even though I agree that Spain was the better team in that game.

2) The Spanish fans.
I mean no disrespect of any kind to anyone who supports spain, but my gosh are y'all annoying!! I don't mean the Spanish fans who are intrinsically Spanish, but those who are not!! My gosh it's like you have been blessed with immense skill to exude exceeding amounts of annoyance to the rest of the world. I can listen/read anyone talk about any other country, but Spain. I don't know how they do it but they are so damn annoying!!!

And seriously, if you are going to support Spain, you could atleast NOT do it in say.. French or German?! That is the most Luzer any supporter could be.

So there, Amelina's bitter take on the worldcup hahaha. But well, congrats to Spain nonetheless and a bigger hurray for South Africa please everyone!! :) :)

I am 1000000000% for Germany 2014 and I am eager to see Spain get kicked out in the group stages :) TEEHEE.

2010-07-08T23:45:00.013+08:00

Medicamp

Perhentian

2010-06-27T11:11:00.001+08:00

So my family just got back (kinda) from a mega family vacation to Pulau Perhentian. Yes, Perhentian like Perhentian Bas (which means Bus Stop in Malay). Malaysian islands have awfully cool names..

Not going to bother blogging in great detail, you can read my sister's documentation of this fairly sedentary and unhappening vacation here. But okay it was really quite fun nonetheless heh. I really just sat around and chilled for the whole 4 days. Routine was kinda like this: Eat watch worldcup snorkel eat sleep watch worldcup play cardgames eat watch worldcup snorkel.. Productivity at its best (Y)

Okay this post actually has a higher purpose, but for now, snippets of trip!

Budget terminal was really better than I expected!

SANGAT BERSIH LOLZ

I didn't even take time to roll around on the beach :(

Mumz and her bffaeae

Dadz and his policeman of a brotha (and my cousin's uncle on his maternal side)

As you can see, my parents have to wear matching red tshirts even when we're going snorkelling.. Yawn.

We found this turtle on the seabed, it was probably about 3-4 metres down? My cousin with a busted knee dived down and took this marvelous shot good job Akmal (Y)

Somehow they managed to get the turtle out of its hole, and everyone kept harrassing it :( :( :( FELT SO BAD FOR THE POOR TURTLE

Okay so the main purpose of this post is to blog about this cat that we found lingering around the resort.

It's so manja and adorableeeeeeeeee. So one day we decided to get food for it from the lunch buffet and we weren't sure what to kope so we took ikan bilis = anchovies. Heh.

While we were feeding it I realised that whenever I held the ikanbilis at a certain height,

.. it would stand on 2 feet to grab it!

Hello puss-in-boots-esque!!

CUTE OR WHAT!!!~~~

The cat was probably the highlight of the trip!! Haha okay but snorkelling and all was fun tooooo the coral formation there was a-may-zinggg~

Sigh I hope the cat is doing fine! The resort staff don't seem to layan it too much :(

:( :(

2010-06-18T21:53:00.002+08:00

Depressed :(

It's okay my German boys we will kick some Ghanaian butt next!!

AND WHO THE HELL IS THIS ASSHOLE OF A REFEREE, GIVING OUT YELLOW CARDS FOR NO APPARENT REASON UGH. DIE, DIE YOU FOOL!!!

Tsaminamina Zangalewa

2010-06-17T23:21:00.005+08:00

NEW FAVOURITE SONG OR WHAT!!

#1 She is such a good dancer
#2 LOL at 1:40!!
#3 Iconic backflip at 2:03 :)
(Don't forget to watch them tomorrow at 1930 Singapore time!!~~)

Oh &,
#4 Why is there a liondance lion at 3:21!!

2010-06-15T01:34:00.002+08:00

I'm so tired beyond tired. Running back and forth today, I just realised how much I really really hate bus/trainfares they are so freaking expensive. Ugh. My nuh buddy is leaving me by end June I am so sad really I hate it when she's not around :( Sigh & back2back tuitions tomorrow! I can't wait to get paid! I have officially saved up enough for driving and half a laptop or camera. I think.

I hate how I need to spend money on things that aren't CLOTHES.

I am beginning to regret not learning driving earlier. Now when my sister leaves the car is just longing to be driven :(

Oh oh oh did you catch the Germany match? :) I am so pleased 4-0 is the way2go my german boys! And I really don't understand how anyone can NOT appreciate worldcup, it is literally omnipresent and better than.. drugs.

Okay toodles I hope I wake up on time tomorrow!

420am rant

2010-06-12T04:21:00.002+08:00

420am and I'm still up, nope not watching Uruguay/France as I'd like to. In fact I don't even know the status of the match I had to check google. Apparently it's 0-0? Hello whatup with all the boring matches..? And major whatup with the african trumpetting at the stadium!! Oh god is it going to be like that all the way through finals..

Let me just say that World Cup 2010 really officially starts on Sunday, 13 June, because Germany is playingggggggggg~~ I hope they trash the Aussies real bad, like they did the Saudis in '02. Wasn't that fun? :) Heh.

Anyway, yes 420am and I'm still up. Computer has been playing games with me and hanging its ass off most of the time. I am a very patient person with my computer because I am convinced that it has feelings too and shouting or banging on the mouse/keyboard will only make my computer sad :( No one needs a sad computer. So I try to be really positive and happy and wait for my computer to get its act together. It's a good philosophy, really..

So, yes! 420am and I'm still up. Watching Survivor 14:Fiji :) I successfully completed 3 seasons in the past week? Or slightly more than a week.. I started rewatching survivor backwards, starting from 19: Tocantins making my way down.. I LOVE SURVIVOR I REALLY DO.

Okay my ramblings will cease here because it is 428 and I need to get my ass up early tomorrow (fathope) because my mum & I are going to Arab Street to buy tudungs! Fun?!?!

♥

2010-06-10T02:23:00.005+08:00

2010-06-04T23:28:00.003+08:00

Just declined my scholarship :( Sucks. It was really quite painful. Like Liting rejecting UCL, Rach rejecting Durham.

:( sigh. Moving on with life..

Your steps make that much noise

2010-05-31T22:53:00.003+08:00

You got designer shades,
Just to hide your face and
You wear them around like,
You're cooler than me
And you never say hey,
Or remember my name
It's probably cause,
you think you're cooler than me

More Tshirt war!!

2010-05-26T23:19:00.000+08:00

AWSM.

Anyway, when did American Idol get so boring? I am completely unexcited about AI this year, despite Ellen and all. Yawn.

Date with Liting today was fun fun funnn we accidentally went shopping:/ Unplanned trips are the most fruitful though, right? Love you Liting thank you for your free movie tickets + presents haha I can't wait for school to start so I can crash your dorm!! ♥ ♥

My right ear piercing hole-thingy-where-you-poke-your-earring-in IS BLEEDING ITS ASS OFF AGAIN. Why won't you stop bleeding? :( Okay perhaps it doesn't help how I peel off the scab everytime it forms, heh! Just a little bit masochistic~~

I will drag my fat ass to the gym tomorrow.
OH last week I ran for 60 minutes!! Hwow I am so proud of myself and my knee I've never lasted more than 40 minutes before yay chillin' on a treadmill~ Right knee is mastering the art of legpresses(?) once again, hurray pseudo-physio routine! Okay but I must admit my knee was hurting like a teensy bit the next day, and my scar burns a lot.. Like Harry Potter's.

(Actually.. that's cus I really got my scar in 2008 when I went to Hogwarts.)

Things I have to deal with

2010-05-25T22:35:00.003+08:00

"Hello?"
"Hello"
"Uh, I found a lost dog ah, what should I do?"
"You found a what?!"
"A dog"
"Mmm who do you think you are calling?"
"Uh is this AVA?"
"Mm no this is a house"
"OH SORRY SORRY"

Dear room phone, why do you attract such mysterious callers. I have people calling asking me what time their flight lands..

Gee.

2010-05-25T13:57:00.002+08:00

Chilling with Nurul at Starbucks Coronation :) It's really nice and big and has 2 levels = fun! Lots of jc kiddies now but it was really empty earlier in the morning. I am liking this place very very quickly.

Takdir

2010-05-22T01:47:00.008+08:00

Goodjob Juniors!
(That's 2 thumbs up)

Mega mega love for Adri (first time acting as a woman!) and the Bapak, psycho patient and cutest nurse in the world Farah(!), geeky boy Nas and my homegirl Ama ILYVVVVVM. And okay, barista Adib gets a because he said "Thank you for shopping at Starbucks" HAHA Baik ah scriptwriters. And Zaki for being the cutest dancer hahaha ok now I really hope you never find this.

That was quite a show, very entertaining~~

Pictures on fb soon. -ish.
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On a side note, I met my Physics Tutor (sometimes known as Rafflesian Spirit:/) in the canteen at like 10pm, it was freaking dark like I could barely see my feet (ok I exaggerate) and she totally remembers/recognises me (even in the dark) I'm so pleased hehe!!

I was all "MRS LIM DO YOU REMEMBER ME?!?!", and she said "Amelia?? Is that you?"

Amelia!! Haha I totally forgive her for missing out the 'N', she's such a nice nice tutor she said "6C is a very nice class" AHAHA SHE TOTALLY MISSES US she doesn't hate us afterall friends!! :D

Omg I miss being in school.

Life II

2010-05-19T23:44:00.000+08:00

6) I will go to the gym everyday since ~~apparently~~ I'm not strong enough
7) I will train until my right quads is visibly larger & stronger than my left

Life.Damn.Freaking.Tough.

Seriously.

Life

2010-05-18T03:29:00.002+08:00

1) I accidentally went shopping yesterday :/
2) I am emotionally disturbed by how Survivor HvV played out to be. A bitter end to a brilliant season, life is unfair
3) Yesterday was fun luvvvv you ama ♥
4) I'm quite sad to have to turn down 4 years worth of tuition fees + stipend
5) I will to go the gym today

Little joys

2010-05-12T23:33:00.003+08:00

Today was my last day at mgs :(

Kinda sad cus I'll miss the kids and all the nonsense that we do in the LT. It's funny how they gave me a whole big LT to teach conversational Malay to 3 kids. 3. THREE! Not.Freaking.Kidding.You.

It's a long funny story. Okay maybe not that long, or funny.

There were about 26 students who signed up for Conversational Malay, which happens on either Wednesdays or Thursdays. But apparently, the school functions primarily on Wednesdays or something, CCAs and whatnots, so everyone goes to Thursday's class, of which Nurul is the teacher. So I get 3 students. 4 at first, but one decided on Thursday at the very end. Damn. I will forever remember her name. Traitor.

Hah okay I kid. But I really can remember her name.

Yes, so I had 3 kids to teach. IT WAS A COMPLETE JOYYY. It made icebreaking a lot easier and it was wayyy easier for me to get to know them, and I could play like smaller scale games with them, although I couldn't have group activities..

But yes, it was lots of fun I'm really happy I got my 3 students they are the funniest 13 yearolds I know :) And they are all about as tall as me/taller than me, so yeah I totally blended in. Hwow.

Anywayz today we didn't do so much studying, we played lots of nonsense (in Malay) and took lots of pictures, which are not with me. I must say it was fun while it lasted. Though at one point it was getting kinda draining, I think Nurul shares my sentiments. But well, good experience nonetheless :)

I will miss climbing up the hill to get to MGS (It's totally a hill, ugh) and thinking of fun games to play IN MALAY, and the girlsssss.

I don't know why they sat like that when Cikgu Salinah came in. They normally don't even seat on the chairs, they are rolling all over the floor. Not.Even.Exaggerating.
Hah.

LtoR: Yu Kun, Nicole, Charlotte :)

They really really like playing with the mic. Must be a 13yearold thing.. Though I imagine that if I were in their position, I'd be all over the mic too hehehe.

Freakass I'm that short?!

They're so nice, one of them even gave me a present today!!

It was a mug that said,

(!!!)

AWWWWWWWWWWWWWW HOW SWEET~~

I showed it to my mum and she instantly started to tear. Hahaaa.

And Cikgu Salinah is how nice?!? I really like her hehe she tells me about how she doesn't like some of my batchmates when she taught them back in RI hahahaha epic.

I'm meeting my kiddies for lunch next week yay! :) They are still in the teenager phase where Macs is like super exciting super fun, so for them, I will eat fastfood. Anyway KAP is fun! And really near their school hehe yay can't wait :)

Blessed

2010-05-09T21:55:00.005+08:00

Everything paid off in the end, Alhamdulillah. It's still a little bit surreal to me, how things went from me getting kicked out of Oteam because of my obscene grades for promos, to this! It is a-may-zing. Alhamdulillah~~

Now it's time to up my geek. 8-)

On a side (post-it) note,

Happy Mother's Day!! :)

Losing.Sanity.

2010-05-06T02:19:00.003+08:00

Wow I honestly freaking miss studying. And school. And my friendsssssss where is everyone hiding :'(

I really feel like doing a Math prelim paper I miss bursting my brains out for Math.

Clearly I have no life.

Date with mummy!

2010-04-29T22:35:00.004+08:00

Last Sunday I went shopping with my mum! It was funnnn we got fun things I found a really really gorgeous pair of Aldo heels yumyummm and my mum finally satisfied her Yakun Kaya craving. My dad always talks about having breakfast at Yakun @ 313, cus SMRT always has my dad hovering around Somerset station, and apparently my mum's been damn jealous and upset that he never brought her there before haha. Story of their lives.

Walking through borders, the only thing my mum spotted was this card, and she was so !!! when she saw it.

HAHA ♥♥

She was damn happy/excited over toast! It was hilarious!!

Oh ya and she also calls it KayaKun Toast. Wth ttly tak faham.

She's in love with this F21 ring she wants to get it when we go to KL (tomorrow!) in hopes that it will be cheaper.. Srzly its like 7$ or 9$ or smtg, how much cheaper can it beeeeee~

Making friends at Gucci, bonding over which colour Suki looks better. Ttly.

My mum sort of wants to get this bag because Guiliana Rancic has it and my mum is like #1 Fan of Guiliana&Bill on E! SRZLY.

Going in to book her Birkin hehehe! Did you know the average waiting time for a Birkin in Singapore is 4 years?! Thats like Secondary school omgz.

YAY LUV YOU MUMMY ♥♥

Okay the end random picture post heh.

I can't wait for our makan fest in KL over the weekends yay! Say hello Halal Subway Nandos KennyRogers PepperLunch CarlsJunior Chilis TGIF Breadtalk Marche The possibilities are endless!!! And also say hello to 9RM movie tickets hehehe I love SGD.

Update of sorts

2010-04-27T02:58:00.005+08:00

I just successfully completed 15 episodes of Glee in 3 days yay! :)

It's 3 and I'm still up, I'm not sure why. I haven't been having the best sleep patterns lately. I mostly sleep at 2 or 3, then after Subuh (morning prayers) it is likely that I'll collapse on my sejadah (prayer mat thingy) and maybe only wake up in 1 or 2 hours with really numb limbs. Oh and it's like I fall asleep immediately after doa-ing so I'm still in my telekung (mm prayer attire thingy) and all. Happening right my mornings..

So ya, it happens almost everyday, especially if I have to get up at 8 or 9. I prefer to sleep on the floor than crawl back into bed, because bed = never waking up again. Kinda.

Tomorrow's another bumming around day, which I absolutely love as of now :) I used to wanna have things to do, people to meet, places to go. Now all I wanna do is sleep and gym. I'm turning into a boy.

Oh but I really don't like eating, so I'm not completely boy. Yet. Ak ak.

Oh I am also currently obsessed over this new-ish Facebook game by Zynga: Treasure Isle. Seriously freaking addictive like I go back to my island every 5 seconds. So that's what I like doing, sleep gym & dig for treasure. Ah, fulfilment.

OH! Last Thursday was my torn ligament anniversary yay 22 April haha. I ran for 30 minutes that day, good progress pseudo-acl :) This Friday's my surgery anniversary double yay! I know this sounds really silly and lame and like, gee okay Amelina we get it you were crippled MOVE ON. Aye but it's not so simple if you were the one, get my drift? I totally understood Ama's mm injury anniversary posts too, sometime in March? It's the kind of thing that you don't want/cannot forget, even though it seems kinda trivial to harp on it. I don't know I don't feel very coherent now.. But yay I'm proud of my very very slow and steady progress to my soon to be superhuman strong knee. Baik ah.

Okay this has been pointless ranting, for the 80+ of you that check back to my blog everyday hehe. I've realised how my readership has plummeted immensely. Heh.

I actually have a lot of things to blog about but I don't have time since I'm too busy sleeping gymming or digging for treasure, alongside my other facebook games including managing a cafe, harvesting crops, feeding fish and maintaining a Happy Island hehe.

What a fulfilling wholesome life I have! Haha off to fulfill life's objective #1.

2010-04-20T20:39:00.002+08:00

Just found out that my keyboard was never spoilt, it's the freaking USB port.

Technology.Hates.Me.

Full strength

2010-04-19T23:13:00.000+08:00

Back from depression, hello :) :)

Life without a functional keyboard has been hard. Trying times, really. I've been using the On-Screen keyboard, if anyone's been wondering how I sometimes reply comments on fb. It's the most freaking mentally draining thing ever :( Clicking every single letter one by one :/ :/ Thank god for new keyboard tomorrow!

Anyway I uploaded these last week but never got the chance to publish, so let's do a quick post nowwww. (Courtesy of my sister's laptop tqtq)

Two saturdays ago we had a platoon meetup to celebrate Private Tan's release from Tekong and mm, to waste time with each other, isn't that always fun! :) It was also a couple of days before Adeline's birthday on the 14th, so Adilah (& I) made her something! Actually Adilah did most, if not all, of it heh. Thanks Adilah you are so kind hehe.

Happy belated! :)

LONG LIVE TRIPLE A HAHA

Back in our heydays Adilah Adeline & I used to be partc ncos together and our juniors called us triple A, for fairly obvious reasons. Cute or what haha.

Anyways we had like a movie marathon = fun! Proposal, Orphan & Housebunny (Adilah's horny pick)

Everyone was freaking out during The Orphan it was sooooo hilarious haha watching thrillers with platoonmates = :D

Meet Private Sharon Tan :) :) Currently braving the boys at OCS

Partds 07 yay how cool are we~~

LOVE YOU GUYS ♥♥♥

Pictures here.

2010-04-14T14:32:00.000+08:00

Modem crashed last night :(

Going.Into.Depression.Bye.

2010-04-09T22:16:00.004+08:00

My keyboard has decided to stop working, so I can't type things and reply mails, fb comments, tags or anything :(

Sorry if I take a long time to reply anything. The laptop is only free when my parents aren't fighting over it to update their fb status every 5 seconds (DADDY) or manage her cafe/farm (MUMMY). SATU SATU BUAT PASAL TSK.

Keyboard will be back in action next week. We're getting a new one freeee~~ YAY LUV FREE THINGS!

Thank god all the fb games I play only require clicking haha~~
Okayz I'm out takecare ma homies!

2010-04-07T22:31:00.002+08:00

My heart is beating out of my chest, already!! Haha this is mayjarrr~~

BISMILLAH HIRRAHMAN NIRRAHIM
MAY I BE STELLARRRR TOMORROW :)

AWSM

2010-04-04T20:44:00.000+08:00

Takde kerja to the max!!

Happy April, Fools!

2010-04-01T03:05:00.003+08:00

I realised RJ NEVER has school on Aprils' fool. How very smart of the school actually haha. I'm quite sure Aprils' Fools was a declared holiday last year too, for good Alevel results, and this year as well. Apparently kiddos from RI & RG get holidays too? Which brings me to my next point: WHY IS NO ONE THANKING US FOR THE HOLIDAY.

Ak ak.

This week has been quite fun! Went back to both rg & rj :) I'll picture blog about those tomorrow or something. I really really love rg & rj & school in general, like how I really can't wait for Uni to start and life to carry on.. The wait is srzly too long, like get on with it already!!

Speaking of getting on with life, I went for my first interview yesterday! I must say it was quite fun, I really wanted to stay longer and talk somemore. Plus the panel was quite nice and were strangely extremely surprised at how I play Touch? Question Mark.

5 minutes into waiting for my turn, the NJ Touch vicecapt walked in! Coincidence much! We used to liaise with each other to arrange for friendlies and stuff, and mm we used to play against each other and I think she used to burn us because hello, how slow am I?!?! Haha but she is so so nice I'm so surprised she recognised me even in my tudung. Yay Helena! :)

Okayz it's like 316am now and I'm still awake because I revamped my Farm!! :) Actually it's not that nice or anything but yeaaaa. I revamped my cafe recently too!! I spent like more than 1000000 cafe coins, I bought like 10000$ windows and Tiki themed chairs HAHAHAHAHA okay how frivolous is this paragraph..

Okay sleep turrah!

Egos the size of texas

2010-03-27T21:05:00.010+08:00

FREAKING LOVE COURTNEY I HOPE SHE GOES FAR!

Her bikini is so cute it reminds me of neapolitan ice cream!

Dear God, you are genius.

2010-03-26T21:38:00.007+08:00

I must have had one of the most exciting weeks of my life this week, and how apt that it starts with me turning 19. Actually, I'm not all that keen to be at my last ___teen age. 20 must be the most uncool age ever, no offence to any 20yearolds around here, I'll be there in less than a year's time.

20 is like the in-between age - you're no longer a teen but you're not cool enough to say, be part of the R21 category, you're also not deemed mature enough to be given the right to vote, in Singapore atleast. So you see what I mean.. In short, 20 is the kental age. Aha.

But anyway, yes, 19. I'm not eager to grow old, you know? I still remember turning 10 and I thought it was the coolest thing ever, like wow I have a 2 digit age!! Did you have that moment too!! :)

Okay so this week was fun! I spent half the day on Monday at NUH, only got home at 9? Didn't do much to celebrate my becoming an old woman, but I had the best birthday ever spent with strangers~~

I met the nicest old man ever at one of the wards. My friend, (who is my ex-ncc senior's sister, coincidence much!!) and I talked to him for more than an hour! Seriously! He was so so nice and frank and funny, like we would have stayed there to talk to him longer, but his lunch had arrived so we left.

But wow he was so nice I had to take a picture with him hehe!! I told him that it was my birthday and that he totally made my day, and he started singing Happy Birthday!!! Oh god how cute is this old man :) :)

This is gonna sound pretty bad, but I really hope he's still around next week!! Love cute old people :)

Okayz so after lunch, I scrubbed in on 2 bypasses! Coronary Artery Bypass Graft, to be specific, or Cabbage (CABG), ak ak.

IT WAS THE COOLEST, MOST HARDCORE THING EVER!!

The first bypass, I wasn't supposed to be there heh but I stayed anyway and watched them close up the chest. Then the second was my mentor's. We were really lucky the assistant surgeon was so so so nice, he let us stand at the anaesthetists position so we could really have a firsthand view at what they were doing, IT WAS AWESOME. Best experience of my life.

I really don't think I was allowed to take pictures, but I did anyway, very very sneakily as I always do. I mean comeon, I had to document this!! Pics are from Monday's and Wednesday's bypasses though.

I don't think I'm in the position to explain the procedure to anyone. My knowledge is immensely limited, even though I now know the general works of it. But if you're into cardiothoracics, google it yourself k thanks.

I think the part that I was most :0 :0 at was when the MO asked for the drill. I was like, drill?! Wth for.. Until I saw, and heard, him drill open the sternum!! (chest/breastbone, centre part of your ribs) Haha freaking hardcore, love it?!?!

The black thing with the blue wire is the drill.
(Click to enlarge)

After opening the chest and getting past the many layers and the heart sack, when he finally revealed the beating heart, I was so blown away.

The surgery was amazingggg. Prof and the docs were nice enough to answer my questions (while operating btw) and explain what they were doing, so it wasn't like watching a greek film, I understood the point of suturing or grafting this to that, cannulating and stuff. It was cool, I really learnt a lot, not just about the principles of the bypass, but about the dynamics of being surgeons and like the OR and stuff. Really really cool, I'm so thankful for this opportunity.

The left-most guy is my mentor, he's the primary surgeon. He is German, thus very very tall & had to bend over. That's the position that I watched the surgery from.

He only came in for the most hardcore part, which is stopping the heart, grafting and restarting the heart. It only took him 30 minutes to do that? 30 minutes out of the whole 5-6hours. But it's the most hardcore part of all! All the surgeons hands were really just flying everywhere it was breathtaking to watch them in their zone.

It's one thing to look at a real human heart. You can do that at like Body Worlds and exhibitions like that. But it's a whole different thing to look at a real human heart beating, in someone's body. It's amazing. And not only beating, it's later stopped and restarted! How awesome is that, I have the utmost respect for cardiothoracic surgeons, new found respect for Burke, Cristina Yang and Teddy. Ah they are a-ma-zing. (Courtney style, haha)

(If you didn't understand that, you should really watch Survivor HvV!)

I watched another bypass on Wednesday, but this time we weren't as lucky. The docs told us not to come near cus the anaesthetist was a very bitchy man haha. (He totally was) We watched from the screen though.

That's the heart-lung machine, on the left. You can see the heart from the screen there.

Oh yes, scrubs were fun too hehe. But they are so thin, and the OR is so cold! Freezing my ass off for that 6 hours. We had the green nurses one.

Haha this is what I mean by sneaky pictures. We are totally allowed to use our phones in the OR so it was quite easy to sneak a peek(ture)!

We also had to wear OR shoes = CROCS. HAHAHA LOVE THEM!! They are soooooooo comfortable! Albeit ugly.

Purple crocs and green scrubs. How barney-like.

This was, by far, the best experience of my life. Whatever road I get on eventually and whereever I'm headed towards, I'm just so so glad I got to experience a little OR time and 6 hours of staring at the inside of your chest. The human body is amazing.

Dear God, you are genius.

And I now understand why my ligament reconstruction was like $13K. Surgery is expensive for a very valid reason. It's probably more !!! and :0 :0 :0 than a whole bunch of other professions. Respect.

2010-03-23T00:27:00.004+08:00

BEST BIRTHDAY (spent with strangers) EVER.

I'd love to blog about it now but I'm due at 7am :( Supposed to be 5am at first ha ha joke.

There's never been a better bean

2010-03-22T00:00:00.000+08:00

A Russell-Coach moment hehe

My sister got me the longggggg Jellybean Factory jellybeans!! Yayyyyy!!

Get the picture? :)
I CAN'T WAIT TO EAT THIS!!

Thank you for the yummy cake & jellybeans & pretty gift :) I love you all 2 deathhhhhh ♥

2010-03-16T00:08:00.001+08:00

Does anyone know why my previous posts (before Bangkok picture rant) don't appear on my blog or in my archives? Sadface :(

/Edit
Okay I'm having problems with my blogger, I realised tonnes of my posts don't appear in my archives, even from like 2007 :( I tried shifting Bangkok post to an earlier date and when I do, the rest of my posts appear!! There's something about Blogger & long posts.. This is not cool. In any case, I might shift my Bangkok Picture Rant down to like an earlier date so here's the link to the above mentioned post in case you don't see it. Click!

:(

2010-03-14T00:34:00.004+08:00

4310/3800 :(

4310 - 3800 = 510
Where do I find 510 to delete?

I am so tired of this. And nothing has even started yet. SIGH.

On a brighter note, can't wait to meet Burke and be Cristina Yang hehe!

Crossroads

2010-03-09T03:13:00.002+08:00

APPS :(

I'm not ready to grow up I don't wanna do apps!! This is so stressful and why are the deadlines so soon!

Oh ya results day was epic. Lost my phone after just 5 minutes of coming to school :( Spent the rest of the time worrying about my phone and not about results haha. But I'm thankful for results, Alhamdulillah :) Now we stress about Uni.

Freaking vicious cycle Singaporeans are perpetually stressing out so not cool at all.

I hope everyone goes overseas go go go so I can get into NUS please please thanks.

!!!

2010-03-04T23:18:00.002+08:00

MAJOR FREAK OUT ABOUT RESULTS TOMORROW I AM SO PATHETIC.

Everytime I think about results I feel like I might pee in my pants.

): ): ): ): ): ): ): ): ): ): ): ): ): ): ): ): ):

Pratunam & Pratujuh

2010-03-02T23:38:00.005+08:00

It's only been forever since I've last been here, but with good reason! I think.

We've been in Bangkok the past week! Finally back today I'm so happy I miss my bed but I kinda like hotel beds too because they are really nice and the pillow in our room was hugeass big!! Love it?!? It's like you can fit 3 of my head there, so much space to roll around in IKR LOVE IT.

I also had TomYam every single day except Monday hahaha I luvvvv Tom Yam. We had lots of Halal food in our area cus there are lots of migrants and stuff there, Arabs Indians etc. We were in the Pratunam area with lots of glorious food and cheap shopping!!

My dad says "Pratunam and Pratujuh" HAHAHAHA GET IT? I DIED LAUGHING HAHAHA ISN'T IT HILARIOUS!!

Okay nevermind..

Anyway I'm really really tired and have recently come to realise that I have Malay tomorrow omg so tired I hope I wake up in time for that. I think I'm gonna watch survivor now, I really hope Villians won again. Heroes are the Hallmark of boring.

Oh oh are you a big Survivor fan too? Join our Survivor Focus Group hehe type "Sadikin's Survivor Focus Group" on Facebook, you'll find us. Join!! (Sadikin's my friend if you don't know. He's only like one of the most fabulous people and he's really nice JOIN) I know you need approval and all but we really approve like everyone. It's only like the funnest shizz ever hahaha shiok sendiri but really!! Like we get into really intense discussions, mega geek but shiokerz. JOIN US CLICK HERE I hope this link works.

Alright pictures soon or not, I'm off goodbye!

OH BY THE WAY I BOUGHT A GIRAFFE TABLE LAMP!! EXCITE!!

Oh ya can someone fill me in about results on Friday?! Is that really happening and how does everyone know was it on the news or did you get a call from RJ or something?? Actually now those 10 million missed calls I got from that random number might have something to do with this.. Hmm okay nevermind someone tag me or something tell me whats going on this is Amelina in Katak Bawah Tempurung mode help me help me tq tq.

Bangkok in one breath

2010-03-01T20:37:00.000+08:00

(This post is so long, it takes up the entire page!! Previous entries in archives! Sorry!)

I figured it's time I posted something that isn't boring.. And of course pictures (of me) are super entertaining, so here! :)

Anyway, click here, here and here for full commentaries with more embarrassing pictures (of me) courtesy of ma sista.

Okayz, first day, to the airport! I love the airport I wished I stayed nearer the airport, or that the airport wasn't in the EAST, ew Haliim. I love love love flying like I love the taking off & landing feeling and I especially LOVE TURBULENCE HAHAHAHA do you do you? Am I strange for liking turbulence? My mum scolds me everytime I say I hope there's turbulence.. Isn't it fun, like a rollercoaster heh. Ok moving on..

Solatz.

Wow we kinda look like the same person hehehehehe

OH YA OH MY GOD. In this trip, 3 complete strangers (and Thai people at that) thought we were twins? WTH RUIN MY LIFE.

I know right so gorgeous.

Oh yes I also luvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv window seats. It's a silent rule that The Window Seat is always mine, even though I think my sister sorts of likes it too, but like my default the younger one should get it right? Right.

Heh.

Don't the seats look so mesra & happy!!

Okay then we got to the hotel motel holiday inn, checked in & checked out the area & slept. I love sleeping in hotel beds.

Day 2! CHATUCHAK MARKET.

We took a tuktuk!! Fun?!?!
(Try saying that really quickly)

These are very fourskin-esque necklaces, I'm quite convinced they get their stock from here.

It was freaking hot. Freakingggggggg~

!!!!

We had Tom Yam all day every day yummzzz.

Love this mall.

Day 3, we went on a cycling tour!! :) It was something new for us and apparently the only people (mostly) who go for such tours are Europeans? I mean duh Asians only know how to eat and shop heh, ourselves included, before this trip!

When they took this photo, my dad just sat there then my mum said
"Eh you tak tahu nak peluk I eh?"
(Don't you know to hug me?)

HAHA YAWN MUMMY.

These are the Europeans on our tour! They're Dutch & are so nice, they waited for us so patiently cus we were damn slow.

Oh we also had nicknames for them! Actually only 2 of them. The woman in black was Posh Spice, because from the back she looked really vbecks-ish! Idk why. Then the guy in the blue tee was Haris. Not newspaper-famous-genius Haris, but mm my-mum's-friend's-son-who's-also-our-neighbour Haris. I don't think he'll find this he doesn't seem to exist on the virtual world hehe, where are you hiding Haris..

Took a boat to the other side.

Did anyone know Bangkok's called the Venice of the East? I never did, until it became clearly obvious why..

IT WAS FREAKING TIRING BTW.

This is how big the platform was, with no railings or anything like that!! :0 :0 Scary shizz. There would be paddy fields or swamps by the sides, so falling was so not an option.

It's difficult beyond difficult :( Idk how Vickybecks & co did it so calmly. I was literally praying out loud and reading all the selawats and like al-fatihahs the whole way through.

How cute! :)

Our guides.

I took this while cycling hehe am I good am I good!!

(This too!)

Again, falling = not an option.

Give up trying to cycle.

I succumbed to temptations and drank Pepsi :(

:D

This is pointless but I just need to say, what up with the emphasised buttcrack on the statue..

MBK is damn boring please don't waste your time there..

Fun stuff at the night market in front of our hotel.

How cute! We got the strawberry one plus a watermelon one. It's on my sister's blog so feel free to stalk her if you wanna see it in action! (on the floor, I mean)

Day 4, Road trip to Kanchanaburi.
We went to a coconut factory of sorts, they make a gajillion things from every single part of the coconut, like these fabulous giraffe lamps!!

I got the sitting one, but not from the factory it was too expensive here, I'm all about cheap stuff.

Floating market! You can read more about these on my sister's blog, in the link aboveeee.

Very appealing mummy..

Angmoh guy ftw

Prayed at a mosque somewhere along the way. This is the Imam of the mosque!! He speaks fluent Arab how kewlz!

Death Railway

It says War Wall.

Sings, like a bridgeeee over troubleddd watersssss..

This was after I found a cheaper version of the exact same giraffle lamp :) Note the extra happiness/satisfaction.

Death Railway

We took an old school train!!

Last day, quick trip to the mall then back to Singapore.

Just before we landed the air stewardesses gave out these fresh orchids pins thingies, what fun!!

Of course we had to wear them hehe I think we were like the only people who did. Duh, everyone else is boring. (That includes you kak)

Met my aunt, who was flying off to South Africa! Worldcup! So fun! Also, how cute is my nenek!! (with the red bag)

Oh oh do you see how my lips are like extra extra shiny!! Hehe at the duty free store I was sampling some Dior light-capturing lipgloss or something along the lines of capturing light & being intensely sparkly. Well, I guess it works? HEH.

Okayz that be the end of this picture rant it is now time to sleep. I'm really busy these days cus it's the March Holidays for school kiddies and I have Malay TWICE this week, for FIVE HOURS each :0 :0 I so can't wait to get my pay. Ok bye! :)

2010-02-20T23:59:00.005+08:00

I don't know what I've been up to but I feel like there isn't enough time? It's not like I have a lot to do in a day but okay I guess I can blame it on how I wake up at 11/12 everyday and sleep at 4. I haven't been gymming much this week which is bad bad bad. Gymming is probably the 1 productive thing I do in the week, besides Malay, but there wasn't Malay this week so I have been very unproductive :(

Anyway this week was the long CNY break, got to meet up with Aminahz & celebrate Liting's birthday. Happy Birthday again Liting ILYYYYY ♥ Too many friends/teammates born this week actually, Happy birthday Husena & Has & Kok & Yijie too :)

Everyone's been chasing me for photos, I'm sorry I haven't had the time to upload I will soon, like within the next few days! Anyway 2 for teasers,

We're going cycling again tomorrow, let's hope I don't get burned too badly again :( There's only so much Rudolf time I can handle.

Oh! Was watching the Man u/Everton match just now, and I really know nothing about Everton like they don't even sound good but what do you know they trashed man u anyway hwow! Oh yea we got our sports channels back since I'm done with As!! Okay done with As a long long time ago but yea..

(History on this: My mum cancelled our sports channel in 04 because I didn't sleep/study for PSLE in 03 cus we kept staying up to watch soccer and it annoyed her so sports channels have been taboo in my house since then, I know right, Epic.)

I haven't been watching soccer for the longest time so I really don't know anything or anyone, like the last time I watched EPL it was still called EPL not BPL and David Seaman was still the goalie for Arsenal OMG I freaking loveddd Seaman he was damn good one period of time, until he sucked/got old but he had cool hair hehe. ANYWAY the point of this rant is that the cute bald Everton guy who scored the last goal is so cute(!) and has such nice sunken eyes ahahaha anticlimax much alright bye! :)

Sunkissed

2010-02-14T21:39:00.006+08:00

Happy CNY & Happy Singles' Awareness Day! :)

The family went cycling today, it was so hot and now I'm burnt. But only on my nose. There's only so much my tudung can cover. I'm so sad, my nose is so red I'm like Rudolf now :( I normally never get burnt, not on my face atleast. Even playing hours and hours of touch under the Turfcity sun never got me burn before, even without sunblock. Okay, except once on my back, but atleast it left me with a cool tanline!

Upset :(

Anyway East Coast was flooded with tents today. It's crazy, like I've never seen so many tents laid out before, in such a small space at that. Understandably everyone there was either Malay, Indian, Angmoh, or mm Others.

Yup, it was like a Singapore Minority Race Convention. You'd think that Lucky Plaza on a Sunday afternoon is Pinoy Convention enough, ECP on CNY is like 10 times that, stretched across all the many many camping grounds plus Tamil & Malay music blasting sporadically. It's crazyyyyy~~

It was my mum's & my first time cycling the long depressing 7km route to Changi Beach.

Tents at Changi

YAWNNN~

(HAHA My mum is so scolding me for that caption)

Tents at ECP! Click to enlarge to get a closer look at the ongoing Convention.

While we were cycling there were 3 German people cycling next to us(!!) speaking fluent Deustch I could barely pick out the words they said. Oh except when they said "Ich" which means "I", heh. I was honestly about to cycle past them and say "Guten Tag!", but then I almost bumped into one of them. Oops, nevermind then..

Ok I'm going to moisturise my nose now bye :(

/Edit
Omg I just broke my hairband!! What is this!! The world is against me today :( :(

UPSETTTTT.

2010-02-10T01:03:00.002+08:00

Omg Liting just asked me to the Kris Allen concert later today but I had to turn her down cus it's at Zirca :( :( :(

OMG I LUVVV KRIS ALLEN I'M SO SAD!

No living like I'm dying then.. :(

Of History teachers

2010-02-08T22:36:00.005+08:00

(I intended for this to be a short entry but life never goes as planned. Feel free to not read on.)

Last Saturday was Mr Mizar's wedding, Congrats Mr Mizar! He was my Sec 2 History teacher, plus he was always involved with us in some way. In sec 2 Cikgu Rozie made us write some song for Malay, and she made him judge it omg he was totally laughing about it or something during the next History class. Then there was HSSRP, which we did in place of RS. Wasn't that fun Arina/Izzah/Mary/Nurul/Husena? :) Then there was France trip in sec 4 which I'm sure he enjoyed especially after discovering that the juniors got drunk with the tourguide hahaha okay I'm evil hehe moving on..

I have never seen him so happy, ever. Maybe the last time he was so happy was when he found out he was mentoring both our groups for HSSRP HAHAHAHA Ok I kid. Bet he never mentored again after us haha, but we were really not that horrible. I think..

The best part of his wedding, was really... when we met Mr Ganesh haha anticlimax. But really, I didn't even get to talk to Mr Mizar, he was too busy being married/ happy/ going from hall to hall/ taking pictures with the sea of screaming rg girls. It felt like a teachers' day performance in the amphi or something to that extent.

Anyway, right, Mr Ganesh. How do I begin to explain how ecstatic I was when Nurul spotted him in the crowd of History/SS teachers!! (There was Bryden Chew, Azahar and assorted teachers we didn't really know so clearly Mr G wins)

Let me quote Nurul's blog here,

"Saw Mr Mizar, his wife, Mrs Anis, Mrs Mohammed, Bryden Chu and and MR GANESH! Totally made my day. Had a short reminiscing session where he remembered our 108 class. Seriously. Living up to his name man: Ganesh= Elehant God= elephants have very long memories."

MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY!!

Okay but I'm not sure about the elephants and all. Oh btw Nurul, Bryden Chew. There exists a Mr. Chu though, who has a first name which starts with A, which I know makes you cringe everytime I mention him and his memorable experience working at Macdonalds that he shares with everyone everytime we have some kind of leadership course. I know you really enjoyed your time in PB with him Nurul hehe :)

Before the wedding Nurul & I were hoping Mr Ganesh would be around. I don't know what's up with us & Mr G but you know, he's cool like that. Mr G was our Sec 1 form teacher, plus my first & last History teacher, i.e. Sec 1 & Sec 4. He must be like my favouritest History teacher of all time. ALL TIME. He has this sarcastic-ish demeanour which many of his students cannot stand. I guess I could empathise with that, but I totally appreciate his sarcasm because he is funny! Albeit mean sometimes.

I know a lot of people associate him with the thought of the Indus Valley civilisation haha apt I must say, since he thought many of us that in sec 1 and how he is Indian and all.. Just saying..

When we were in sec 3/4, he told us exasperatedly how he went back to teaching sec 1 (after a couple of years teaching upper sec) and he almost died when this sec 1 girl came up to him and said "Mr Ganesh, do we need to leave 2 finger spacing?" HAHAHAHA LOVE THAT GIRL.

Back in sec 1 we used to stay back hang around in our classroom that was right next to the Blk J staffroom and he'd pop by sometimes and have bitching sessions with us about his ex-students from his previous school!! Hahaha seriously, and we were only sec 1! I also remember him telling us that if we wanna break school rules (socks, belt, eating in class), just don't get caught. Haha he is the bombz.

So when Nurul spotted him, I literally stood up (in the midst of a million small rg girls cheering for Mr Mizar) and exclaimed "MR GANESH!!!" -waves hands about-

Picture that!

(Almost) Everyone turned to stare haha omg what have you done Amelina. I noticed Mr Azahar behind him laughing at me heh but whatevz!

Okay but in retrospect, that was actually rather embarrassing. Clearly I was in too much excitement to care.

He came over and we had a short 5 minute catch-up. So Not Enough! He asked us to visit him at rg sometime, I am all up for it haha. I actually really miss rg, but all my friends are all.. nyeh about rg haha so no one wants to go back with me. I know right, tragic. If anyone wants to go back to rg please ajak me!!

I'm really so glad we met Mr Ganesh on Saturday. It's like our lives are complete now hahaha. No but really, it's like something on an agenda. And when it's fulfilled there's some sense of accomplishment? Okay maybe not the best way to explain it but you get my drift.

YAY MR GANESH!

Oh right since it was Mr Mizar's wedding & all, here you go heh click to enlarge and see his wife!

Click for the rest of the photos

Since I'm so !!! about Mr Ganesh now,

This was Teachers day in J1, when we went back. That's my sec 4 class, 406 & Mr G :)

Yay ok I'm finally done, I just really needed to blog about that heh good night world!

Butterfly fly away

2010-02-01T20:38:00.013+08:00

I had one of the funnest weekends everrrrr :)

Saturday was kiteflying/evening picnic with Mary Nurul & Sadikin. Full of brownies, failed hopshots and desperate running-around attempts at flying our kite, but it was much fun nonetheless. Love you friends! We shall reunite to fly more kites after Sadikin gets transformed into a public good.

The clouds/lightning kite flew off hehe oops. First there was a hole, then the string broke and it flew off hahahaha fail.

Check out the snake kite in the background, owning the skies I tell you :( Jelez.

We tried to take hopshots, no not jumpshots, but hopshots. Hahah we are so strange yes we know. Cus the camera was really near and if we did jumpshots we'd block the sunset. So yes, hopshots. They are freaking hard to do by the way, because we had to syncro with the camera timer and all. SIGH.

AFTER 29 SHOTS:

SUCCESS!!

Good evening picnic friends! :) More kiteflying adventures please!

The rest of the photos hereeeeee.

Sunday was class lunch, and meeting an assortment of friends I've missed too much.

6C ♥♥

MARYYY :)

He's getting confined this week? haha poor army boyyy

Nat! :)

ARINAAA ♥

How cute are my friends! :)

Thankyou Sadikin :)

Bummed into my primary school friends on the way home. They had an outing the same day, which I had to ditch heh, but what a coincidence!! Talking to them really made me miss primary school days, and they're a really great bunch.

Pictures hereeeeee.

2010-01-28T23:13:00.001+08:00

Does anyone watch RenovAID?

I didn't watch for the past however long, but I caught last week's and today's. Today's being the finale, they did a recap thingy of all the families, and Michelle Chia revisited the families after 2 months.

I am so disgusted by the Malay family whose house was in a disastrous mess, again, 2 months after renovation! How ungrateful is that, like srzly. And they had guests over that day and the house was practically in the same mess, with better painted walls.

These people don't deserve makeovers. The problem is not their financial capabilities, their big families or their small flat. It's their lack of responsibility and sheer laziness, perhaps, and lack of the basic skill of cleaning up after themselves. It's the same old habits. You'd think they might just try to change the way the live now that they have a new house..

What a waste of Mediacorp's and their sponsors' money..

Thank god most of the families managed to maintain their homes. I'm just so so disgusted at that particular family. How obnoxious, and a slap in the face for Michelle Chia to see the disappointing state the house was in.

SIGH SIGH SOME PEOPLE NEVER CHANGEEEE~~

2010-01-24T01:41:00.006+08:00

CIKGU MELHAN'S KIDS ARE SO CUTE PLEASE LOOK AT HIS PHOTO ALBUM ON FB AND TELL ME YOU AGREE OMG I LOVE NAUFAL HE IS SO ADORABLE PLEASE DON'T GROW UP NAUFAL, NEVERRRRR!

I think I should ask Cikgu for a public link to his album full of cuteness hahaha this is the best I can give you for now I don't know if it works http://www.facebook.com/#/album.php?aid=100284&id=717366510&ref=nf CLICK.

Okay link doesn't work unless you're friends with Cikgu DAMNIT Oh but it's on Mary's page (we were swooning) so go be friends with Sitti Maryam Salleh, go!

It was almost perfect today

2010-01-21T03:06:00.006+08:00

So today, or yesterday, I accompanied my sister to Ahmad's NIE Teacher's Investiture at NTU. Like a commencement of sorts, but waaaaaaaaay more boring cus everyone is so old and no one cheers for anyone on stage!! Hello, hallmark of boring. Of course I had to cheer for Ahmad and I did and apparently it's such an epic event my sister even had to blog about it. Old people..

(Read it here if you must, it's the lower part of the post. The first part of the post is about how she got into her second car accident in 2 weeks!! Poor poor car.)

Anyway I really do understand why adults don't do things like cheer, but really, they should.. Just cus you're old doesn't mean you must be boring, right? It's like how caucasians sometimes cheer when the airplane lands? How cool are they, and they are old!! Seriously Asians never do such things spontaneously cus we age to become boring people. What up with that y'all.

Okay so anyway, while we were there, the NIE prof bigshot guy gave his opening speech.

He closed his speech by quoting Lee Iacocca, former head of Chrysler Corporation, and he said

“In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have.”

He only mentioned the bolded parts by the way, (and of course I'd scour the net to find the actual quote!), which makes it this:

"In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less."

HOW OBNOXIOUS SOUNDING IS THAT HAHAHA

He went on to say, "To the graduating teachers, I congratulate you for making the only decision that matters, and that is, to become a teacher."

Hahahahah icing on the cake.

Okay but I must say it's a nice quote that makes a lot of sense (respek, if you are a teacher), but geeeee he didn't have to make it sound so nasty! Like if you don't decide to be a teacher you are doomed and will live a sad life settling for something less. Not very nice especially when you're addressing a hall half full of teachers and half full of normal people who have apparently lead less fulfilling lives. How mean is that haha!!

But it's okay old man, I forgive you :)

Anywayz, photos from just now!

This is Ahmad!!
Or Mr. Ahmad in TKGS haha I know a lot of tkg girls like fantasize about him/ stalk him at Marine Parade/ swoon about him on their blogs.. Hormones maintain eh. He teaches like Chemistry AND English/Lit. Who does that. WHO DOES THAT!! RESPEK.

For those of you who don't know, he's my future brother-in-law ha ha ha ha ha haaa k but seriously, I think so ah InsyaAllah. He's cool ah so can, and he gives me nice paperbags hehe how nice!! I collect nice paper bags by the way but nevermind about that hehe k moving on..

(Oh ya he also has this fabulous Periodic Table Tie!! How awesome I want one of those, like periodic table tudungs hahahahahah okay I'm totally kidding cus that would be really really ugly)

(Wow Ahmad I wrote so much about you!! Hows about that!)

This is my sister!! I don't see how it's deduce-able that we are sisters we look so different please and isn't it obvious that she's the older one!! She exudes old people vibes. This makcik at our tafsir class thinks I'm the older one? WTH SUXFEST ):

Ok thus conclude my post about Ahmad's investiture. Congrats btw, may you be a coolio teacher and please don't be so fierce and threaten to burn/cut your students hair just cus they were playing with it during assembly!! Kasi chance sikit ah hahaha. Oh btw, my offer about the TWG paper bag is always open hehehhehehe okay kidding. Kinda.

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I honestly intended to sleep after posting that. But I decided to go to the toilet.. Worst decision of the day!

There was some suspicious looking black capsule-like thing on the floor, so I picked it up and was about to toss it out the window. I was afraid it was one of those cockroach eggs that would unleash like a million tiny roaches ew ew ewwww~

This window. My sister & I decided to keep it close so that lizards and other assorted beasts wouldn't enter our toilet. But I smartly decided to toss it out the window, meaning I had to open it.

I had it open for like 2 seconds, and when I closed it, THERE WAS A LIZARD AT THE CORNER!!! OMG ARE YOU KIDDING ME FML.

I was so angry, there's no way I was gonna leave the toilet with a live (baby) lizard in the toilet. No one appreciates to waking up to take wudhuk in a toilet being watched by a lizard. Ew.

I knew it was my destiny to kill it, even though it was 230am. So I killed it the only way I knew how.

1) Lots and lots of water at high speeds, like from the hose thingy

2) Baygon
I love Baygon. It now has a nice-ish scent to it. And there is this marvelous yellow snout thingy. You might have seen it on my sister's blog, if you follow our killing-lizards-chronicles.

Let me show you what this fabulous yellow tube does..

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BEST INVENTION EVER.

3) Perfume/Deo
My sister researched and apparently perfume helps kill lizards, while baygon takes a really long time. It doesn't really work though, I think it just makes the lizard a little more dazed?

I don't know, honestly I don't care. Like spraying stuff at the lizard is satisfying enough >:)

Thank you Darryl for this deo sorry I had to waste it on the lizard but it was the only one within my reach at that time hehe.

4) Spraying/Pouring whatever other chemicals and hope it ignites some form of chemical reaction with the lizard, Idk, Idc, JUST DIE LIZARD. PLEASE.

(I still have this shizz haha RJ gave it to us last year because of the whole H1N1 Saga)

So I left the lizard drowning in layers of all the chemicals above. I hope it doesn't do anything bad to the tiles :/

Can you see how it's smothered with white/yellow stuff hahahahaha suck on that, lizard!!

I'm so angry now, cus I just scrubbed the floor!!! (See previous blogpost haha) Now it's covered in baygon and all those chemicals, so it's kinda all slimey and gross SIGH.

Oh if you're wondering, after we kill lizards, we just leave it there for my dad to clear it haha. None of us even want to get close to it, what more touch it ew ew, even if it's with tissue/plastic/wtv.

I'm leaving my dad this note on my door knob. Hopefully he sees it before he wakes us up for Subuh later, in like, 2 hours time heh.

Okay I'm just going to make sure the lizard is still dead in the toilet. It plays dead sometimes.. STEP.

I just messaged Haris to tell him my lousy fate. I'm sure he is going to laugh at me all the way from Tekong ): He is like the lizard-whisperer or something. Psychopath I so don't understand him.

Okay sleep, till next time, turrah friends! :)

I am so bored

2010-01-19T17:07:00.003+08:00

I went out for lunch just now with 4/10 of my fingernails painted haha. I peeled/scraped off the rest of them, there must have been some kinda chemical reaction between the nail polish and Mr. Muscle while I was cleaning my toilet yesterday. (I love Mr Muscle btw its like so effective really)

Anyway I realised peeling the nail polish off is so much better than using remover, okay although it may be less effective. The acetone plus whatever else in removers give my nails this dehydrated feeling/ texture, vv annoying. So yes, peel it! It's kinda fun and mm gratifying, especially when you get a big piece off hehehe.

I don't know why I do such socially unacceptable things sometimes, and blog about it.

Okay anyway I am really bored like I have nothing to do with my life. Not yet at least. I have decided to dedicate my time now till whenever teaching starts to work on my knee. My knee must feel like my knee by the end of 2010!! Okay that's a very long time to regain strength, but considering how lazy I am and how I'm not playing any sports or anything anymore ):

So yes I will frequent the gym until I'm bffs with the security guard aunty person who calls me Lina, with whom I always have a 2 minute debate regarding whether I am Chinese or Malay and why I am so fair/ not dark. Yes it happens everytime, it's like how we say hello.

Clearly this is as random as a random post can get. And since I haven't been posting any pictures, here's one, I owe Kak Myrah this, I think you read my blog once in a while yes yes? Nah ambik kauuuuu~~

Again thanks Arina for the 'Nerds 2^2 ever' shirt I ♥ ♥ it :)

Mini batch photo at MCS Farewell, there are better quality ones from Arina & Dian on fb though.

Okayz I'm out turrah! :)

2010-01-17T20:28:00.003+08:00

hT[c] noise noise noise says:
anyway right during NS I found myself worrying that I would forget everything I learned
hT[c] noise noise noise says:
so one time while we were marching I was multiplying 2 and 3 digit numbers in my head heh
hT[c] noise noise noise says:
like 616 times 72

OKAY SRZLY, WHO DOES THAT?!?! GEEK HARIS, GEEEEEK!!

I really don't understand why he must be so strange sometimes..

We have a lot of pseudo army boy conversations now, like how to strip rifles haha all my platoonmates would know how I loveeeeee stripping/assembling rifles, totally kicked all the boys asses in my Specs course platoon for Trainfire (that sir still owes me a drink aha) thank you thank you haha yes I take a lot of pride in my M16 skillz once upon a time thanks thanks. Though M16 is ancient now but meh.. whatevzz.

Oh oh oh and loading/unloading rounds in the magazine I was freaking good at that!! Hahahahahaha k enough.

Wow I actually kinda miss all that!! Sharon if you're reading this please kick all the boys asses like you did in our heydays I believe in youu Companybest hahaha :)

2010-01-15T23:07:00.000+08:00

I bought 4 pairs of shoes today I NEED TO STOP SPENDING MONEY I DON'T HAVE ):

Stop shopping Amelina D:

2010-01-14T02:17:00.002+08:00

I must have had the most unproductive day of my life today. (yesterday?)

I slept at around 3 the previous day, so I woke up at 10/11ish. Ate and did mm, life things.. Oh I managed to catch Simon Cowell's E! True Hollywood Story on E!, he is one interesting man. So anyway, by 2pm, I was back in bed. I was awake for a grand total of 3 hours before sleeping again!!!! Woke up again at 7, in time to catch the second half of AI. Victoria Beckham is too fabulous.

I freaking hate cramps they are such a waste of emotions and energy, from all that rolling around in bed/floor/wtv.

And Mary, cikgu is either forgetful or dead because she has not called me even though she messaged me twice saying she'll call me tomorrow. Which was 2 yesterdays ago.

I need to find something meaningful to do with my life.

(Oh by the way, I went bedsheet shopping with my mum just now and we got matching ones with a Tread Count of 475!! My current sheets are only 300+TC and it's already so smooth and soft!! So exciting hehe!)

The kind you hold on to

2010-01-11T02:54:00.004+08:00

Meet my platoonmates:

(Imagine Yikai & Jasmin too)

It's nice to know none of these people have really changed at all.

Adilah & Adeline are still in their telepathic little world, Jinning is still the loud auntie we know, Sharon is still off to change the world and be Gandhi, Mother Theresa, Al Gore and Leftenan Adnan at the same time (she's succeeding btw), Germaine still as smart as ever, Nurul still takes more than 5 seconds to match names to faces. We still make Jinning & Sharon do all the crap, like order food and get sauce for us hehe.

(Yikai & Jasmin couldn't make it but I'm pretty sure they didn't change either.)

Thinking about all the nonsense we went through together, the whole concept of it was stupid & ridiculous crap but that was kinda what our friendship was build upon. Apparently, it's some kinda strong powerful crap.

I love these people.

2010-01-09T03:13:00.003+08:00

I say this at the risk of being stoned to death by people who are actually in school right now, but damn I freaking miss school and studying and everything. The joy of getting new stationery and school stuff. I miss using my GC for cooler things, preferably not calculating the amount of money I've spent buying pretty things but oh my god. I think I kinda miss doing Stats too cus it was so fun and wannabe sophisticated with the GC LOVE ITTT but Math Math is fun too like it gets your blood pumping and makes you wanna pull your hair out but when you get it it's like I'M A FREAKING GENIUS!!

(So true right, you know I'm right.)

I'm so tempted to do some Prelim papers or something ha ha ha ha ha okay, enough psychotic geek talk for 1 night. Turrah.

Celebrate the malleable reality

2010-01-05T00:50:00.002+08:00

I've been reading some of my friends' mandatory new year ~reflective~ post (haha merkz), and I actually haven't found anyone who said they enjoyed 2009 and would relive it. Maybe the only exception would be Caleb, who's fb status read "Best year of my life yet". I salute you Caleb :)

On that note, I thought 2009 was awesome. I loved 2009, I'd relive it in a heartbeat. Perhaps I am far too optimistic for comparison but I honestly thought it was a great year.

I learnt lots of things about myself and what's important to me, even if it was by making horrendous mistakes and falling and picking myself back up, quite literally too.

This year felt extremely short, perhaps the shortest yet. Too many things happened too fast. School, class, lectures, trainings, touch, CTs, TSL, torn ligament, physio, physio, CTs, physio, physio, prelims, mugging ass off, As, prom, new year.

Perhaps what I regret most was how I seem to have drifted away from everyone, circling into my own bubble. I know it sounds pretty bad, like Gee Amelina has no friends Luzerrr, but it's not haha. Or I choose to believe not. Heh.

I admit to how I haven't spent much time this year with some of my bffs, like Aminahz. Especially them. Somehow the year flew by and I really didn't seem to have time. Or maybe I didn't make time, I apologise. I sorely regret that because things like these are unacceptable in bff tales. I still love the 5 of you a lot ♥

But a really wise red freddy once told me how the depth of any friendship is not measured by how much time you spend together. Which I have come to realise, is very true.

Then there are my teammates. Somehow everyone's under the impression that I spend the rest of my time with them, but truth is, I didn't. Especially after my injury, I couldn't meet them in the mornings at the canteen, I didn't train, didn't compete. It was only after awhile that I came to watch them train and watch them play, once I was comfortably off crutches and off physio. I did spend a lot of time with them, before and waaay after injury period cum mugfest with beloved library gang ha ha, but in between, I had a lot of time with myself.

I'd go home immediately after school, like in Primary school I know right how cool am I. Or I'd have physio. Mostly home, for reasons I know not. It was a good couple of months that I think I went into voluntary solitary confinement, like I needed to get myself together again or something. I'm really not sure what happened it's pretty much a blur now in retrospect, but that's what I meant by drifting away from everyone.

Not to forget my classmates. Needless to say the time spent in lectures and tutorials were inadequate, I really wish I had more time with them, this year especially. I'd like to blame my ligament but I take responsiblity for not being there sometimes. I really love my class, and even though sometimes we find ourselves divided in certain ways I shall not mention haha, I'm glad I can clique with every clan, or so I think hehe. But collectively, we're really quite cool people. RJ wouldn't have been half as cool without them.

It's rather unfortunate how I grew apart from friends I love, but it's a trade-off for time with myself. Time that I needed, actually. Which I choose to believe is good for me, in the long run. Allah works in mysterious way, I'd like to say this is one of them.

But still, I apologise. I know, or I think heh, people expect me to be some places with them sometimes. It's like different groups of people at the same time. It's like the typical-after-exams-scenario, all your different groups of friends want to go out, but which do you follow? Which is maybe why I tend to be a little here and a little there, then leading to people saying that I'm always absent. Also why sometimes I choose solitary confinement heh heh. The easy, gutless, simple way out. I'm a kid in many ways, really.

Okay so enough with the sad stuff..

I thought this year was a great continuation in my academic strides to success! It's like I start to see hints of my hardwork paying off. Sometimes it didn't, but I learnt to channel all that negative energy towards
a) strengthening my knee haha
b) working harder and ignoring the everlasting elitism and condescending attitudes of the sad sad rj kids around me. I have no respect for them, as smart as they may be.

I was jaded at the end of J1 because I never knew I could produce such obscene grades. But well, you fall but you get your fat ass back up right. My fat ass had really large inertia and extremely high activation energy, but I did it anyway. I know this is gonna sound cliche but I honestly learnt the value of hardwork and passion.

I learnt to love Physics & Econs, slowly and rather painfully actually, but we have a very promising relationship, even now! Rekindled my love for Chemistry, and not to mention my unwavering love for Math. Yeah it was a typical love story, started out as friends, we met way back when.. I love Katherine McPhee hahaha okay I digress.

As much as I like to say that "Grades are not everything, you are not defined by the grades you get..", I think I only claim that to comfort my disheartened broken soul because deep down I know my grades, as much as I hate the truth, will help me get on to the path of becoming that good person I hope to be. So I took it as just a means to an end, not the end itself. I think I only came to this revelation a few weeks before As, yea I know, wols. So yeah, whatever will be, will be, the future's not ours to see, que sera, sera.

Wow I am so dramatic!

Haha k moving on..

I also felt closer to God in 09. I found myself talking to Him, praying a lot more. Even though sometimes I take wudhuk to pray Isyak at 830 but only end up praying at 11. Heh. This is a bad bad habit I will stop in 2010. I made time to read the Quran more, and I develop a sense of emptiness everytime I neglect reading it for sometime. I hope to be a better muslim in 2010. It's about time and I think I'm ready for the rest of my life. InsyaAllah.

My family has always been there for me, and more so physically this year. As much as I totally enjoyed being injured and having surgery (no I really mean it, I really loved being in the OR and breathing the fresh oxygen they gave me and reliving and reenacting the moments before I was anesthetised), I know it was a tough time for my family. They so didn't share my joy for hospitals tsk. But I really did need their support back then, it was tough on me a lot of the times. It's nice and comforting to know they were there for me. They had to make a lot of selfless sacrifices which I really really appreciate. Thankyou I love you mzp dzp & kakak hehe kak you need to get yourself an acronym lembs.

It's probably pretty obvious by now how so much of my life in 2009 has revolved around my injury. Sad little torn Anterior Cruciate Ligament.

Painful like crap. It was quite a low in my life initially. I remember crying to Rach & Liting on the phone that night. Plus the abrasions under my arm that my crutches gave me did not help the situation at all haha.

Oh yes, picked up a new skill in 2009: Walking on crutches. Aha!

But I honestly thought, in retrospect, that it was one of the highlights of my 2009. And I really did like being in the hospital, so much so I asked my mum to let me stay there an extra day! Which I did by the way. Heh. I took a lot of joy in going for Physio too. It was really quite fun.

Maybe I am far too optimistic for my own good. I really loved 2009 despite how it was unkind to me many times. But that's what life's all about I guess. Getting your sorry ass out of whatever crap you're stuck in, but having fun in the mean time.

I'm young and foolish and sometimes I don't understand life, so I'll take whatever simple joy I can get. Whether it's in frolicking around on the Turfcity/YCK field or mud with my teammates, lepaking in Mary's crib & playing oldschool card games, annoying my sister & parents to death with my stellar annoying skills, indulging in the cough-syrup-like joys of Starbuck's Darkcherrymocha or reliving my surgery haha. The world is often too complex for my simple mind anyway. But it's cool, you make it work. Make it nasssstyyyy. (Love Amanda from Uglybetty!!)

Of course nothing is complete without pictures. Very random and disorganised though heh sorry.

LOVE YOU & YOUR SILLY FACES RACH

Only Sadikin will do stuff like this with me :)

Birthday :)

ILY AMA
What an interesting background btw hehe

:D

Akaash: "Eh my hand is bigger than her foot!"

Mary looking sexy as always.

HEHE HI FAUZAN IF YOU EVER SEE THIS

Miss my Lee Hsien Loong lookalike doctor!! :) He's so cool.

My physiotherapist Jiarong :)

HAHA TTLY

1) Love Mrs Koh
2) Again, only Sadikin does shit like this with me

U B THE COOLIEST KAK ♥

Ah, Jenwei. Probably the only reason why I miss PW is cus of him you rock my PW world Jenwei! Not the highlight of 2009, but I missed him in class in 09. Thought 09 would have kicked more ass with him around.

HP6 Premiere, long live fannip haha good old days really.

ILY LITING #1 Studybuddy

Too injured for our own good haha ♥

I LOVE YOU PARENTS

09S06C!

ILY ZEEEEEE ♥

Best team I've ever been in

Aminahz 4eva ♥ ♥

Here's to a more fabulous, kickass 2010 :)

Live high, live mighty

2010-01-03T01:54:00.006+08:00

Everyone is moving. Is this a sign?
(Blogs that is, not houses, in case Sheila happens to be here too hehe clever little girl you are.)

Anyway just got these from Arina yesterday, our get2gether at Mary's, last day of As for the Bio kids. A little ancient but I'm bored and I'm taking forever to finish my mandatory new year post.

Arina and her sexy ass

Nothing beats a game of Taboo,

and watermelons yumyum

Yay love you friends we shall reunite in due time!

K sleep bye! Apparently my family's going cycling tomorrow haha I sincerely hope I remember how to.

2009-12-30T15:39:00.002+08:00

Hwow KL is so fun!! Been mostly indulging in all the Halal food that isn't halal in Singapore. Subway is so fabulous I'm so upset it isn't Halal in Singapore. Had Pepperlunch today yum yummmm.

I've been very very slobbish these past few days in KL but heh, what's new. Okay we're all fighting to use the computer here at Starbucks, thanks for free WIFI. Mum wants to play farmville now haha turrah! :)