joannechewwyewye 21st bday!

fellowship of the mat @ little vietnam!

happy sweet 21st! :)
our fair lady!

carolling! 19 dec 06 ::

feliz navidad! :)



angel-ene!

tangyuan @ sweet bean! 23rd dec 06

moose chow huilin ben pwas me

yumyum
huilin! :)
chow (posing funnily) and chiazzz!

snippets of nchsc!:)

sequel of cat-ch-me-if-you-can

the security guard is up at my house.
to catch the cat!

my dad and mom heard some meow-ing sounds from the storeroom after dinner
poor cat
must be hungry the whole day without food
the guard said we gotta find a net to catch the cat cuz the cat is very big and will scratch us if we don't catch it well.

oh my.
i feel like a primary school kid blogging

imagine telling your teacher or boss that you were late for school or work today
because a big fat brown cat jumped into your house and you were finding it
haha
sounds like something you can find in the book with 101 excuses to why you were late

haiyo

:p

cat tropism

phew
the weather today was so so so beautiful
woke up to morning sun rays
Thank You Father! :)

my whole family had a little story to jumpstart our monday
a cat jumped into my house from the corridor
used the washing machine as its stepping stone

my mom was a little startled to see tiny paw prints over the floor in the morning when she woke up. then suddenly, she saw this cat sauntering from the storeroom and she got a shock.

haha.

she then woke my dad up, my dad then woke me up, and my brother woke up.
all in one unity to attempt to capture the cheeky cat

we didn't manage to find it.. it hid somewhere after it realised that it wasn't really welcome in my household. haha

aiyo.
cats always have tropism towards my mom.
but it's a one-way thing
my mom doesn't really adore cats

:p

it's quite a good good monday to start off my week
i did quite a lot of things
and i ran my fill today!
woohoo
thank You for the sun!

looking forward to the whole week :)

random musings

ahhh.
just got back from my best friend's 21st party.
it was nice
to talk to my rgs lower sec clique
it was fun dressing up in stripes and sqaures too

today's church was really really nice
kelly's p&w
mingkang's sermon
they all really were so apt for me at this point
i want to be a pot!
like jeremiah :)

time at Settler's cafe with 6 other sisters was just crazily funny
we played taboo and charoodles and apple-to-apple
hahahaha
didn't know some of them were so lame and funny and creative
haha
sigh
it's been a good good weekend

pre-marital bliss
i see it in your eyes my dear
i am so happy for you!
got your 05-203
got your acaratoot
:) the best thing -- i'll be having break during august
grin
thanks for the dinner on friday night
i really had a good time da jie

grrrrrr
stoppp raining
i want to go run! :p

my prof worrier

i have a professional worrier.
He allows me to just chuck all that i'm thinking into His mailbox
and He'll do the worrying for me

how cool is that :)

no more yawning (only for today)

wheeee.

i finally slept a hearty 9+ hours. hee. decided to give myself a break from morning run and slept for 2 more hours. and i didn't even yawn a single time today! congrats to myself.

i have been yawning 467234509 times for the past few days. eeleen and sarah ng can attest to that. i guess i have been quite successful with my little campaign of abstaining from any forms of caffeine over the last few days. maybe that's why i had to yawn.
no more lipton tea + only 7 hrs sleep = ivy ang's intermittent yawning throughout the day.

for the first time today.. i made a proper meal for a VIP who visited my place. ok not exactly VIP. sarah just happened to go to uni to print her elective form and i invited her over for a meal. all cooked by my bare hands.

considering the fact that i usually just chuck everything into a pot and cook my dinner, or microwave my eggs (yes i still do eat 1-2 eggs a day), cooking a proper meal is quite a rare find in my kitchen.

today's special dish for my lovely guest ms sarah ee-liver ng yoon ai:
pan-fried oyster chicken breast with eggs
baked beans with melted cheese
freshly sliced organic tomatoes

(will post pictures when i get back home and you'll be begging me to cook hahaha:p)

sigh. it's another good good day.

finally finished compiling all 22 people's answers for the very interesting game on sat afternoon in retreat.. haha. i almost died laughin at some very zadao answers. like how quite a few people answered that Moses brought 2 of each animal into the ark (it was noah!! not moses :p). and funnier still. one person (who is not to be named) wrote Moses brought 10,000 of each animal into the ark. hahahaha. this is so... funny.

2 other very interesting questions in the quiz:
1. who do you think will be the first to get married?
2. who do you think will have the most children in the future?

both questions had very obvious winners. which is not to be revealed for now, lest i spoil the fun on saturday afternoon.

answers to be revealed next week.

and oh my eeeleeenn... what is quadrapop? sounds like a lollipop game to me haha.


games day @ CF went well yesterday. haha. looks like next time must make the tasks more difficult for them. they all finished so fast! thanks gary and eeleen. i had so much fun planning it with you two.

to my dear eeleen sarah-ng and angel-ene, thank you for being ah-saos with me yesterday to shop for retreat's food @ carrefour. thanks for all the help :) i really enjoyed the time with you girls and i can't wait for this weekend.

aiyo. 3 more days and i'll be home.

:)

:)

fellowship of the mat!

i had such a good time yesterday!!

joanne fabian eeleen sarah jaemie gary wilfred timothy

we went to little vietnam for lunch. celebrated joanne's birthday. watched The Guardian.

it's been quite a while since the fellowship of the mat has come together:) i can't help but thank God that yesterday had been such a good good day of friendships, love, laughter and fun.

the movie was so so touching! none of us cried though (maybe some of the guys did but it was too dark to know :p). it kinda made me realised that there are other professions that save lives too. touching part is.. he never let go of all the chances to save lives @ the sea. but yet at the last part he let go so that jake fischer could live. sigh. so so touching. it's a must watch (though i admit the first 10 minutes was a little bit boring).


2 more days to getting results. (i got the email from aad to pay up my sem4 fees.. somebody please tell me does that mean i passed????!!!)

2 more days to the CF com retreat @ genting.

i won't give up i won't give up.

it suddenly just snapped upon me that things happen for good reasons.
just like how i lost my handphone just the day before i left for missiontrip.
people who are sad.
people who are lost.
people who's been crying.
people who seemed to have lost their battles.

and yet will i rejoice!
because i have a Father who watches over me 24/7.
because i know this Father who watches over them every moment too.
because i know everything will turn out beautiful for you. in His time.

and with that in mind, whatever that can crop up within the next few days, i am ready:)

bid discouragement goodbye.
it has no place in a child's heart that has J in it :)


p/s: eeleen wore earrings yesterday!!!!!!!!!!!!!! haha. evolution is taking place man.
pp/s: if all goes well, i'll be back to sg by monday! see ya babes :)

wye wye wye wye

heee. i found my new shopping paradise. @ sri hartamas! :)

managed to visit uncle hh and his family and bought STRUDELS! yumyum. uncle and aunty still as hospitable as ever.. ushering me with so much food and advice and love. little angel carolyn still as adorable as ever too. i love this family man. too bad ruth wasn't around!

attended sarah ng's church on sunday morning and played captain's ball with her friends. it was really a nice feeling that reminded me of good old days at glory presby.

thanks girl.. for taking the trouble to fetch me here and there. :) and for washing my hairbrush. ish. should have left my shoes behind too :p haha. kiddin.

spent yesterday making a bit of stuff for christine mommy! sob. she just left for adelaide yesterday. we'll all miss you mommy. thank you for being so dear to us. met eeleen and gary chia to take photos around the school for CF games on wednesday (haha i'll take this chance to publicise that YES CF IS HAVING GAMES THIS WEDNESDAY 530PM AT SR 5!! bring your friends and your enthusiasm!)

meeting up with eeleen and gary is really funny. all kinds of funny ideas.. and hahahaha. eeeeeleeeeen. i want that picture that your brother took. haha. gary send it to me!

it's joanne's birthday ytd! and jeremy nunis too.

so i want to dedicate half of this post to joanne chew wye wye!!
(btw.. do you realise that wye wye's name look like somebody else's name.. haha.. for scandalous reasons i shall not put it on the blog before joanne chew kicks me haha.)

that girl ar... because she didn't want to trouble us to celebrate her birthday.. refused to tell us that she was actually coming to uni ytd.

sis..

thanks for always sparing a thought for others before yourself.
i am always so touched and encouraged by your love for other people.
thank you for buying those special lozenges when my throat hurt so bad
thank you for buying the sewing kit and so many safety pins when i only needed one
thank you for arranging csu sessions.. for lecturers/seniors/SPs..
thank you for always inviting me to stayover at your place
thank you for opening up your place for CG makan (your place is so cosy n your mom's cooking is fantabulous!)
thank you for being part of the fellowship of the MAT
thank you for your life
thank you
thank you

happy 21st birthday dear!

(if you realised.. the stack of birthday letters all had thank you on them.. because i can't help but thank God for you man!!!)

we'll go for 10k runs sooooon. i promise! :)

i'll stay at your house soooon in sem 4 (we will pass eos!)!

everytime eat ice-cream.. haha. think of me.

yupp.

i just realised something..

haha.. i've been seeing eeeleeeeen every day.. and will be seeing here everyday in the coming week!!
sunday (planning for games). monday (games and doing cc's card and good time of sharing!!!!). tuesday (joanne's birthday lunch at MV!). wednesday (cf). friday - sunday (cf retreat!)

eh. you better be :):) cuz you're not gonna see me after next monday. enjoy my company (haha so perasan). and i just want to thank you sis.. for your care.. and for being thru the ups and downs of the exams with me. and for teaching me PARASITES and ECG. haha. and indeed i must agree with sarah ng, eeleen has a tropism for ... haha.. very interesting stuff. :)

ok gotta go JOANNE CHEW WYE WYE waiting for me!

ugh. i can't wait!! CG hasn't met up for so long for makan and fellowship :):) yayayay. smiling from ear to ear.

random musings

i know it's been ages since i last blogged! and i decided to revive my blog!

exams are finally over! phew.

byebye SAQ OSPE OSCE OSCE

viva results will be out on monday; real results out on friday 5pm.

for now i'm not gonna worry about passing my exams because worrying really doesn't help.


when i look back at the last 5 weeks of study break.. it's actually been quite a rollercoaster ride.
1st week's christmas week was such a blast :):)
2nd week.. started to study, gear 1. only managed a few lecture notes per day.

week by week passed.

there were moments where i felt i was pushed to my limits by things that i had to care about. circumstances that caused my family to be really stressed. moments that i really wanted to cry but i couldn't because it would affect my studying. moments i wanted to tell them not to tell me about it because i didn't know what to do and it was making me crumble.

but it was through these stressful moments that urged me to care. to call and make sure they were ok. and even if i wasn't ok, there was always someone i could turn to and verbalise my emotions. phew.

when i think back, i think i'm so so blessed. dad and mom care for us much more than how much we can achieve in our lives. even if we fail them, they never fail to reassure us that it's really ok, that they love us no matter what.

for those very challenging moments, i thank God for potty, jaemie and christine :)


other than those few days of utter worry and sadness, other days were not too bad. study. run. going to sweet bean for tangyuan (one of the cosiest and best outings i had with my friends!). watching Word on the Street with christine jinwerne n tim.. and finding out that angel gabriel in the play carried the exact same bag as me (haha so zadao). meeting up with family and relatives. christmas dinner. making christmas cards. carolling (my first time! so so fun!). setting my new year resolutions. doing a bit of planning for retreat.

even though some days were agonisingly slow (and on some days, fast) , i survived.


i just watched A NIGHT IN THE MUSEUM. so funnnnnyyyyyyyyy!!! q-u-i-e-t! my dum dum wants to speak. wahahaha. so cute.

sigh. i'm feeling so relieved. and happy.

you know.. yesterday after badminton i went back to take a nap. was awakened by the persistent ring-ing of my doorbell. 3 malay men claimed to be from some dengue outbreak control organisation. and that they wanted to spray some stuff in my kitchen and toilet. i was all alone in my apartment, nobody to consult.. didn't really want to let them in but didn't know how to say "Sorry i can't let you in because my momma asks me not to let strangers into my house." and just at that moment, *poof* ganesh appeared! he happened to go out at that time and he kinda signalled to me not to let them in. and they left.

phew.

phew.

ganesh saves the day!!!

it's so good to have good neighbours that go out at the right time. haha.


learnt my lesson without having to pay the price for possibly ill consequences.

went for a run this morning.. and i was just thinking... we all make mistakes.. some mistakes, we can afford to make; but some mistakes, can change our lives in a nasty way.

the mistakes that we make.. at the "right" time... as long as we learn from it.. it's really ok

for eg.. making mistakes in exams ain't that fatal. it allows us to learn. so that we won't make the same mistake and harm our patients next time.

yet.. some mistakes made.. consequences would be unthinkable.
you can't buy back the time that could have been used better.. like flowering pots of friendships.

sigh. i can't help but give thanks for wisdom in making some important decisions last year.

it would have hindered some really beautiful friendships from blooming.
it would have caused me to regret.

sometimes, waiting isn't such a bad thing. helps you to see a much clearer picture. makes you heave a big sigh of relief:) :)

stop. think. and then go. :)

k i gotta go.. gonna be late for my appointment. :p