Wow I've really been neglecting this blog haven't I? And err it seems like Google Ads has kind of taken over it...it looks ugly now >.<

Hmm.

P.S.: The ads were removed right after I updated it. Guess they only hijack inactive blogs.

Because I'm home right now after coming down with a particularly nasty case of sleep-deprivation-induced nausea + headache at work, I've decided to update you guys not with my extremely boring life, but rather with Her Adorable Majesty's, my very own Char Siew Pau!

This is what Pau does all day...

"Hmm...I'm so bored...Grace is at work...how ah??? So sleepy la...zzz"

"I know...I'll pretend to be dead...bwahaha..."

"Alamak kena caught!!!...Errr errr hi!!!!!"

"Aiya I'll just go back to being adorable...ahem...bow down to Her Adorable Majesty bwahaha!!!"

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I wish I could have this much free time everyday...lol...

Well exams ended more than a week ago! OK admittedly it involved a rather traumatic Microbiology and Immunology In Action exam, but other than that I think it went OK =)

Summer ball was last Friday, and it was great. No pictures yet because I've been too busy to transfer them to my computer, but it was a great night!

Anyway the reason I've been busy is because I've started summer lab training in my professor's lab. It's way way waaaayyy tiring, but the work is awesome and not something a typical 1st year gets to do. This is officially the coolest lab I've ever worked in!

Plus I get to hear some very interesting quotes...such as the one below:

(on seeing me making a solution)

Prof: There is a saying in Dutch that goes "even a king doesn't piss that accurately".

LOL.

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OK la better go to sleep now. Starting at 9 again tomorrow. I can't believe my routine now includes waking up at 7.45am every morning and only going home at 6pm every evening, with only an hour's break or even less.

T_T The things I would do for work experience.

OHMYGOD exams are in 1 week no seriously they're coming they're coming aaaaahhhh I wanna die anyway sorry la long time never update except for some stupid bimbo post about a dress that apparently makes me look like a MAID T_T I spent a lot of money on that dress OK haih why la people say this sort of thing wan haih bla bla bla ya so just killing time lor 'cause it's 2.30am and I'm chatting with my bf now and it's gonna be our 8-month anniversary on Tuesday YAAAYYY OMG how am I gonna survive without him during the summer die lah and oh yeah speaking of summer I got my internship woohoo and I'm going crazy trying not to use punctuation do you know how hard it is not to use exclamation marks and question marks and "dot dot dot's" like I always do gaahhh so yeah I discovered that I actually practically have 4 months' summer holiday but I will only have 2 weeks to myself WTF WTF I WANNA DIE LAH HOW TO GO SINGAPORE AND CHERATING AND BALI LIKE THAT HARH AND GO PASAR MALAM AND 1 UTAMA AND EAT MAMAK FOOD AND HAWKER FOOD KAU KAU SUICIDE SUICIDE HOW HOW and I notice that I've been swearing a lot lately even though I try not to hmmmm maybe it's the effect of exams haiya EXAM MOOD SWING SYNDROME again wah I didn't know I can type so long so anyway I better stop talking nonsense and go to sleep lah haih exam exam exam goodbye ciao selamat jalan zhai jian!

*deep breath*

WARNING: SUPER BIMBO POST AHEAD!!!

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OK first off I wanna say that the lighting in my room SUUUUCCKKKSSS like crazy. It's so hard to take good pictures of myself in this place. Another reason to hate Charles Morris Hall, aside from the perpetually drunk people, the 3am fire alarms, the gross stuff people put in the freezer that I have to clean out, etc.

Yeah anyway so I bought a new dress! Yes it's another dress from Primark (did I mention I love Primark? =P) but this one cost a whopping 12 pounds (about RM 84!!! T_T) so it's probably like the most expensive single item I've bought since January or something.

I so so so love this dress 'cause I think it's really unique and really really cute. Oana says it's really "English" 0.o. OK I can see where she's coming from, kind of...

Anyway enough talking! Here we go...

Top half of the dress.

Hehe I love this photo! It looks like some of my parents' old pictures that I used to dig out when I was a kid. I love sepia =).

Well OK admittedly I look super-ugly here but haiya you're supposed to look at the general effect not the person >.<

Before editing with black-and-white function.

After editing with black-and-white function.

OK so from the above pictures you will all have gathered that:

1) My camwhoring skills are now totally non-existent *sniff*,
2) My dress really IS cute,
3) The lighting really throws my pimples into focus, and
4) I have finally figured out where the sepia and black-and-white functions on my camera are >.< Talk about technologically challenged.

That's all the pics of my new dress. Why? 'Cos in all the other pics I look super-fugly and it's 3am now and I have some stupid property inspection at 9am tomorrow so I have to get up early T__T.

A couple more camwhore pics before I go then...

I just stepped off the set of some old Dracula movie.

And one more...

This is how I feel about having to wake up early tomorrow when I have no class, and I am still awake at 3am T_T I hope the people coming to inspect trip on the stairs and break a leg or something >.< I'm damn evil I know but people should learn to RESPECT my beauty sleep especially during the exam period!!!!!

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1 more week till the 8-month anniversary! =)

Shall start off with something to get your taste buds going.

That, my friends, is a dinner I cooked for myself during the holidays. Looks good, no?

Best part, everything achieved with just a rice cooker!

That's "instant" Batchelor's Chinese-style rice (although I'm not sure what was so Chinese about it), fried chicken (with a spur-of-the-moment marinade) and some very cacatedly-cut cucumber. Yummy. Best meal I cooked the whole month.

While I'm bragging, I'd like to announce that I got an 82% on my latest essay. Damn good, yo!

OK bragging time is over time to get blogging .

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Oana's birthday was on the 16th! Me, Saad, Vlad and Elaine got up super-duper early to make a surprise breakfast for her (and yes I ended up zombifying my way through class that day). Sadly, no pics, because all our hands were full with cake, breakfast, presents etc!

She threw a party later that week, and hence the pictures start...

Birthday girl, me and Baby!

Vlad and Oni! Who thinks they would make a great couple?  Yes the Great and Gorgeous One (ME, in case you've forgotten) is shamelessly trying to play cupid here haha.

Guy-whose-name-I-don't-remember, Dimitris (Greek), French-guy-who-I-didn't-talk-to yes I'm anti-social I know, Oana, Hiroki (Japan) and Ina (Greek). There is no need for me to go to the International Students' Club's meetings because I know Oana

Birthday girl cutting the cake!  Well OK it wasn't really a cake, more like some dessert we didn't know the name of, but it's her birthday therefore the thing she's cutting must be cake XD.

Clockwise from top left: Oana, Giuliana (Italian), Elaine (Singaporean) and Hannah (British).

Rassul (pronounced Russell), Oana and Saad.

OK guess where Rassul is from! He looks Chinese right?

Guess what...

He is from...

*Cheng cheng cheng*

KAZAKHSTAN!!!

Haha apparently people in Kazakhstan look Chinese =.=' Seriously I didn't know that! Well OK that was the first time I met anyone from Kazakhstan (what do you call their people? Kazakhstanis? ) but yeah I maintain that he looks like a Chinese, and a pretty good-looking one at that XD. Haha Saad is so gonna kill me now for saying that >.<

OK enough about how un-cosmopolitan I am.

Elaine, Celina and Oana.

HAHAHA I love this picture lah!!!! XD Damn funny!!! I look so retarded. OK that was probably an insult to retards but there's no other way to describe it.

Hmmm.

A big hug when I come back to the person who comes up with the best way to describe how I look in that picture! Aaannnd...you can only use one word!  So start thinking!

OK one last picture and then I'm off to bed. I'm so damn sleepy lah. Stupid exams getting me stressed out >.< .

Yay! I love my baby  7 and a half months already OK don't play play!

OK going to bed now. Another day of facing the books tomorrow!!! T__T Goodnight bubye ciao tata sayonara zhai jian selamat jalan.

I think I siao already >.<

OK OK I know I haven't updated in a long long time. Term started again and I'm in major nerding mode right now. As in, visiting-the-library-every-night-and-actually-studying nerding mode.

Having to eat dinner at 6pm everyday and then sitting in the library for 3 hours straight means that by 11pm hunger pangs start to strike. And sometimes they come with really really absurd cravings, like my current insane craving for fried spring rolls.

*salivates*

OK let's not go there.

Anyway to the people at home reading this...if you don't know already, I'm only coming back at the beginning of July now. I got into this summer school called the Gatsby Plants Summer School, go Google it if you're curious (check out the pictures of the venue--awesome!!). And yes, it really is called the GATSBY Plants School, although I don't think they make men's hair gel XD. Only 3 people in my faculty got selected OK proud of me or not? :P

Other than that, exams are in 2 weeks time! And I hate biochemistry now >.< Stupid metabolic pathways...

*yawn*

OK lah I gotta go. Just letting you people know I'm still alive. XD Bubye

PS: Still craving for fried spring rolls....... T_T

OK OK I know Redang was ages and ages ago, but I was going through my old pictures yesterday and I realised I never got around to doing an entry on it!

So here it is...PM8 Redang trip JUNE 2007...

(Thanks in advance to Zhen Ee because I took some pics off his blog last time hahaha)

Starting with the bus ride there...

Jinn Wei advertising Mentos Plus ^_^

Gim Ling: Haha I got royal flush!
Tanuj: !!!!

OK so the next morning we reached there...

Posing while waiting for the ferry. Excuse my pimples OK, we were in the bus the whole night.

Max and I posing a la The Matrix.

Posing again with Tanuj. Haiyo why I like to pose so much wan >.<

OK then we hopped on the ferry to get to Pulau Redang!

Posers XD

We got to Redang in one piece, despite lots of the guys getting seasick (the girls were FINE coughcough), and found a new friend right outside our room...

Haha got monkey! And Chen Wei decided to call it Tanuj. So cute

Went snorkelling somewhere off the island that afternoon. Didn't take any pics of people snorkelling, but obviously there are some poser pics of us on the boat! XD

Shankar and I...

Me and Soon Poh, plus one wannabe poser at the back

And finally the No. 1 poser of all time:

TAI KOR EUGENE!!!!!!! Hahahahaha!

That night we played a drinking game involving Chivas and cards. And when a bunch of already-crazy teenagers get tipsy, things are bound to go haywire.

Sure enough...

So a bunch of tipsy crazy people invaded the beach (haha sorry guys for putting up this really embarassing picture but it's just too funny!!! XD).

Gim Ling, Louie, and me in a past life  OMG I look fat don't tell me I got fatter than that?! >.<

Dunno what they're doing.

Andrew sudah high...hahahaha...

Trying to break out from jail XD...damn I look so blur here >.<

Happy 'cos he found a way to break out from jail.

What I will have to pose like if I ever become a criminal and have dozens of reporters trying to take pictures of me hahaha. OK maybe not with my camera bag lah.

Our own handprints hehe. Since we'll never be movie stars anyway >.<

Managed to get up somehow the next day to go snorkelling again! And obviously sooner or later we were bound to get distracted...

So they decided to make a sand mountain...

With Gim Ling as the foundation LOL!

In fact the sand was so tightly packed that she never even realised THIS happened...

OMG 0.o

Pulau Redang's version of pontianak...SAND PONTIANAK...hahaha...

I think we gave a lot of little kids very evil ideas that day...

So anyway, we decided to give Sand Pontianak a good wash 'cos she was covered in sand...

To the sea! Bwahahaha!

Girls, please take note of these guys' faces and remember not to get together with them, ever, OK? Because they're definitely NOT gentlemen...

Sand pontianak gets a bath...hahaha...

"DANIEL!!!! I KILL YOU AAAARRR!!!!!"

Hehe I like this picture. Don't ask me why, 'cos I don't know either.

Karma came back to haunt Daniel that day...

In the form of his slipper slowly floating away from out boat...

Andrew: "It's OK Daniel, you've still got me!!!" XD

Later that evening we decided to try out the banana boat, which proved to be really really fun!

Their group went first...bye bye...

Then it was our turn!!!

OK when we went on the banana boat, Eugene actually fell off on the first turn! But that's not the funniest part...funniest part is that NO ONE REALISED he fell off until the abang driving the boat started steering it back to where we made the turn...haha!!!! Poor guy...think everybody was too busy screaming lol!

Later on some of them went to play football with another team of guys, who happened to be priests-in-training, according to Louie...

They lost like crazy to a group of celibates...mwahahaha *evil laugh*

Went to merayau-rayau on the beach that night.

Tanuj: "Noooo I'm really suffocating!!!"
Everyone else: *blur* oooohhh...

OMG I wanna meet the guy who wrote this!!!! Pure genius I tell you, GENIUS!!! XD

Finally, we were on our way home! But not before taking many many poser pics...

After getting off the ferry! Haha everyone looks so 'geng' here...I wonder why...

Louie with her super-cute turtle...

Me with super-cute turtle!!! What a cute couple hahaha *stares around innocently*

Pringles...once you start, you just can't stop...then when you finish it you go crazy...

Gim Ling trying to hide Daniel's swollen eye.

Daniel trying to hide his own swollen eye because the Great and Gorgeous One didn't try to help him hide it mwahahaha.

Gim Ling trying to act like a guy, and Tanuj trying to act like a girl. If you think either of them are succeeding, please stand on your head and recite the lyrics to Sean Paul's "Temperature". OK that was random. Sorry.

Me and Andrew.

Happy couple XD

And finally, one more group pic!

Yayyy we survived Redang!!!!!!  

(Thanks Eugene for blocking my fats in that picture!!!!! Lol...)

Phew...done...finally...

If you read my last entry you'd know that I went shopping at Primark.

Well, Shyenz's incredible innate cheap-clothes-sensor struck again!

Thie is what I found:

Nice right nice right? Guess how much?

OK give you a clue lah...original price was 10 pounds.

After discount was...

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3 POUNDS.

Haha damn cheap lah!!! I'm so happy now XD XD XD. And I bought a spaghetti strap for 1 pound and 5 pairs of earrings for another pound. So in total I spent only 5 pounds at Primark. Proud of me or not

OK another random pic:

Agent Shyenz on a mission to save the world...with her camwhoring skills. *Mission Impossible music plays in background* Taken while in the lift trying to escape the evil mad power-hungry villain's minions. Hehehe.

Right since I am free and super-bored I'm going to start posting up old pics now...

Oana, Katja and moi. Taken a few months ago when Katja left. She was an exchange student from Germany. Hehe. Damn international right all my friends >.<

Anyone who shows my parents this picture shall be hung, drawn and quartered.

On a side note though, Malibu Coke rocks. XD

Katja, Oana, Saad and me. Why am I always on that side of the pictures wan. 0.o Next time take pictures must stand on the other side already.

I love this pic XD. Was actually trying to ignore Saad taking a picture of me but it turned out pretty nice, no?

OK am actually really REALLY free now so I'll put up my pics from the MASSOC trip to Stonehenge, Salisbury, Bath & Bristol.

MASSOC at Stonehenge. We became the 'main attraction' for the day with our overwhelming noisyness and cina-ness. Hahaha XD

Stonehenge! It was sooooo windy there lah >.<

"Our" group: Chew Fatt, Su Wei, me and Hannah!

Hmm...this sign reminds me of a certain song...

Salisbury cathedral. Awesomeness :)

Slightly more close-up picture so you can see the pretty carvings.

Emo picture! I like :D.

Emo picture 2 lol.

Still in Salisbury. Nice right this picture. Hehe.

Then I got bored in the bus, so...

I took a funny picture with Hannah...

And then I took a funny picture with Chew Fatt...

And then I took like 6 or 7 other funny/camwhore pictures but I shall not post them up here to refrain from making myself look like a total idiot >.<

OK lah ONE more funny picture and no more, you hear me???? I was so hungry that I tried taking a picture of myself eating the bread but instead it looks like I was trying to stuff the bread up my nose >.<

The next day, in Bath.

OK now I know why I don't stand on that side when I take pictures. 'Cos I don't have my fringe to cover my gigantic forehead la that's why.

Anyway Bath is a really gorgeous place, kinda sad that I didn't have more than a few hours to explore everything including the Roman baths! Definitely going back there again someday.

The Roman baths. You can still see the steam coming out of it.

Eh eh got naked Roman guys hahaha!!! No lah, statues only :(

A busker! Haha if you drop money in his bowl he "wakes up" and starts yelling at you in bird-noises. Damn funny. Chew Fatt didn't know he was a real guy some more hahahaha. Kena scared like crazy when the guy moved XD

Then off we were to Bristol, where I met up with Li-Ying!!! Yaayyy :P

Law building of Bristol University. Stupid thing was so tall I couldn't fit it all in the picture!

Li-Ying and I and the Clifton Suspension Bridge, which you can just make out in the top right corner. Thanks girl for bringing me around, really appreciate it! :D

OK lah run out of pics already stay tuned for my Really Exciting Life haha. Ciaoz!!

Holidays just started!!! Haha somehow this term seems to have just rushed by without me even settling down from the previous holidays. Which is bad considering that all the new stuff I learnt hasn't sunk in yet either haaihh >.<

So the bf has gone to London for the next few days and I'm stuck in Leeds alone. In fact almost everyone has gone to London this week. WHY!?! Why can't people wait till April when I'm going there too?

Anyway I've started cooking again and I'm gonna cook chicken rice tonight haha. Give me a chance to improve my skills. Nicole thinks I'm becoming domesticated because of Saad. HAHAHA!!!! No lah I actually found out that I don't mind cooking as much as I used to .

So since I'm finally free I caught up on my housework. Cleaned up my table, vacuumed my floor and did my laundry today mwahahaha. And my train tickets came! Yaaayyy soo happy XD

Going shopping tomorrow! Wanna buy a new piano book haha. Maybe will buy some new clothes from Primark yaaayyyy. I love Primark XD. It's a haven for cheap clothes ler hahaha.

OK I'm sounding more and more retarded lah so I'll just post up some pics.

From MASSOC CNY celebration in D-fusion. Li Hoong, Chew Fatt, Hannah and someoneidunnowhoisthatmwahaha.

Hehe I damn love this pic lah. So cute

Hyde Park in snow!!! So niiiiice...don't ask me WHY we had snow in February though. Crazy English weather.

The day the water pressure alarm went off in Roger Stevens. Too bad it wasn't a fire alarm otherwise those of us in our lecture could have been evacuated too hahaha

There was a Discover Islam fair at our uni a few weeks ago and they were giving free henna tattoos. So nice right  Even this Pakistani girl sweetie and I met on the bus said it was nice haha. Too bad it's faded off now.

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I WANT THE WEATHER TO GET WARMER!!!! WHY DOESN'T IT GET WARMER!?!?!?!?! WHY!?!?!??!?! DO PEOPLE IN ENGLAND LIVE IN PERPETUAL COLD OR SOMETHING?!?!?!??!?! WAAAAAAAA!!!!!! *sobs hysterically*