Unpolished Gem

Monday, July 25, 2005

To satisfy your chocolate craving, eat...

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  1. Belgian Chocolate ice-cream from Haagen Dazs
  2. Chocolate Supreme cake by Polar
  3. Lana cake
  4. Chocolate Viennice sandwich from Marks & Spencer
  5. Mud-pie from coffee-club

Hee!

Sunday, July 24, 2005

The maddening crowd.

Citylink was mad mad mad! Think the Wisma crush is bad? Well... the citylink one teaches us to be more appreciative of Wisma crush:( I'm not a fan of Suntec, it's too BEEG for my liking plus it's further and less convenient than Orchard, so there. Went for the pre-dep session at Pan Pac... it was more crowded than i expected! I met Daphne Y there, so happy to see her after so many years! She's still the same dark girl, ever funny and likeable though more feminine, she said that of me too infront of some other guy, so embarrassing okae. He must be thinking... " this girl is feminine???" I wanted to explain that it's a relative thing, compared to last time so he wouldn't be too puzzled, haha. Oh wells... hope to meet up with her when she comes down to London.

Was going through the goodie bag and found the most useful book yet. Cooking recipes... ranging from soups, to pasta, to chickens, fried rice and beehoon (what a horrible picture they put up, that's no way a decent beehoon should look like! the beehoon was all broken up.. gee) to deserts like chocolate cheesecake. Yum. There is hope! Why can't i be more interested in cooking? Why is it so hard?

And of course the topic on the London bombings came up, it's disturbing and unsettling to say the least. As if one attack wasn't bad enough... 2 attacks in 2 weeks. What next? 3rd attack in 3 weeks? When will these people see some sense? Their vision is clouded, minds are washed. I think they derive joy from seeing innocent civilians die... they want you to feel the pain, they want you to live in fear. Very unfortunate timing for us really, my mum was so scared she contemplated calling up NUS to accept me the very next day after the 2nd attacks. She told me to minimise travelling, walk everywhere. But you never know where the next attack will be? On the streets? At the supermarket? At the cinemas?
Can't run away from it. Can only say a prayer and leave the rest to fate. Then again, haven't you heard of the saying that your fate lies in your own hands?

Was talking to one of the LSE seniors and he was telling me that you don't have to write essays for Econs. Like ??? Very mathematical. Which is not a bad thing i guess :) I have some academic aspirations, actually one only. Haha. Obtain a first class honours. Aim HIGH. Aim HIGH! Top of my wishlist now is to strike BIG in Big sweep or lottery( for the day dreamers) And of course, peace in London.

The letter from LSE better come soon, need to apply for entry clearance. Hurry up!

I'm getting quite a lot of lobang for relief teaching and yes, thank you huimin and julie for presenting me with the opportunities. For that which i am immensely grateful. Haha.

School begins at NTU tomorrow and NUS next week, my friends are going off to study, beginning their uni life, hostel life. I can't wait to begin mine as well :) Peace.

Thursday, July 14, 2005

Finally some pocket money!

It's so weird how kids just a few years younger than me are calling me Miss Toh! So nostalgic going back as a teacher, going into the staff room, seeing the same familiar faces, every part of the school still smells the same, the canteen, corridor, classrooms, toilets. I was just like one of them! ... how time fries.

Some of them were so nice to thank me after Bio prac ... yeah, thank me for sitting through 100 mins of their lesson. Spent 300 mins in the Lab today, think i smell of leaves, seeds and chlorophyll. Spent most of the time reading my Digital Fortress though( the ever slack relief, hiaks). How to bear watching 3 classes disecting leaves and fighting each other with scapels?

Anyway, tomorrow will be my last day back for relief for the week hopefully, and i have to TEACH Bio, as in really stand at the white board to teach, honestly, how many will listen? I should just give them free time right, they are happy, so am I! Why not? But i don't have a choice! Dang... Long time since i sat at my table to study, and I was really determined to get my brain juices stimulated with facts on the heart and genetic engineering. Maybe i should go prepare a speech to bring to class, but that would be so loserish, but i'm not prepared to malu myself infront of the kids. So how?

In other recent news, okae not that recent since i last updated half a month ago, finally received confirmed news on my hostel allocation! Sleeping in a twin room in the hostel nearest to school with NO canteen but good cooking facilities. Means i gotta cook cook cook! So dead!!! I HATE cooking! I mean haven't even tried it but you know how creative you have to be to be a good cook, and i'm so lazy to even think about preparing my own meals. I need to hire an in-house chef. Boohoohoo. I actually think i need to be forced to learn how to cook, like hold a gun to my head or something. And in bad news, didn't secure the funds from the financial support office, think i submitted my application too late, but i will never know the real reason why i was rejected. So, tough luck there.

I think Heaven has a way of playing us out. My mother usually buys 4D every week faithfully although in small amounts while my father has never been in favour. Anyway, the point was that, yesterday when we didn't buy. My sister's car plate came out! Like WTH... couldnt believe it! And my mother was still warning not to regret not buying because she was sure that either my father or my sister's car plate will come out and true enough! I still don't believe this! Perhaps, the Gods are telling us to GIVE it up. We're just not fated!