Yeah! the last day of term! and here comes the easter break. i had a really enjoyable end to this last week of term. firstly, i'm proud to have the best tutors in imperial. cos my inorg tutor treated us to hot choc yesterday while we had our tutorial at the scr cafe. quite an innovative idea huh. and today, our org tutor treated to paul pastries! think they're super nice really! yeah and i like my tutorial mates too cos i find it enjoyable to talk to them though we dun crap a lot. but i still cant get used to some of their accent when they just horribly drop all their t!! argh~ haha.


yeah my tutorial grp!

and i almost did not want to go for dinner at zizzi today cos i realised i had some problems with the data analysis i did yesterday and i got so frustrated with myself cos this hw is really time consuming. luckily everything turned out fine and was not as bad i thot it to be. and so i've finished this dumb tedious tutorial! haha, ok, back to zizzi dinner! and it's with yl, ant and shermaine at earls! seriously love zizzi! i dun have such a strong craving for the main courses but the desserts are the things that make me keep wanting to go back! i love the banana and ice cream 1! and ant san, who usu doesn't eat sweet stuff actually ate a lot of that too. i think it's super duper nice!


love that banana dessert up there! even the supervisor ask us not to eat the bread pudding in future. haha!

and we had a really fun and nice dinner though shermaine was dead beat. we crapped loads and talked about senseless stuff again, with ant. hahah and yang le was so entertained by us. and we also camwhored~ that's what singaporeans or asians are good at doing. and yeah i can imagine a crazy time with ant, yl and kelvin at greece after our exams! would be really fun!


haha my hair looks toot!

today was ben birthday~ i personally felt that dinner wasn't really fun, and there was a lot of complicated issues behind this 'party'. well, cos A felt that i was asking my clique and it was essentially my party afterall. but seriously, these are the ppl whom ben is closed to and they're just coincidentally my close frens too. and i don't understand then why can u ask ur 2 other frens whom i dont know at all to this dinner but i cant ask ppl whom i think are close to ben? alright, like wat ant said, dinner was cui. cos there weren't much common topics to talk about. and i think A has changed a lot, he's not wat i used to know him as. really, and like after what i heard from close fren B, i start to think about how A thinks about me. like am i such an ass at times? or do i not deserve such nice treatment from my close frens? i'm baffled.

I once thot we had become closer, but u felt like a stranger to me today at the dinner. I guess it's really tiring to try to know why, and I'm actually not interested in wanting to understand what's going on in ur mind cos it'll waste my time. I shall leave things as they are now cos it aint gonna affect me.

well, I'm happy for ben today! these complicated issues aside, i really had fun celebrating for ben. we knew each other in dsta during our OBS cos we were from the same grp, nehru. and we chatted a lot then! woosh~ just wanna say it's fortunate having u as a fren, cos i just feel comfortable with u around! and u know what, despite what has happened today, the last sms that u sent me really made my day! and u made me feel that we should express our gratitude to our frens whenever we feel thankful towards them and yes, we shouldn't take our frens for granted.


the happy four frens =)

sometimes i find it really funny and weird that i'm missing my singapore frens at this time of the year, when the 1st academic year is about to end and i'm returning back to sg soon in 3+ months time! well, and lately i tossed and turned in bed for quite some time be4 finally getting asleep. i'm missing so many of u guys! ming jit, chang fang, that lame poh, ah sai, ah meng, hui zhi, xin mei, alvin, bmt peeps. argh! it's always so convenient to give any1 of them a call when i need some1 to talk to. maybe i should try skyping them next time! haven had much chance to skype cos most dun have a mike or webcam.

well, and been feeling that uni is quite boring for me. maybe cause i haven been actively involved in many things but i have no passion for those uni stuff. hmmm and i'm really thinking of joining volunteer club. commitment is the only thing that's holding me back. hai, uni is so not like jc and sec sch when u have cliques and can always spend them with them during free time. over here, it's more like going to lectures together and then go back to ur own hall. not much interaction at all! and my really really close frens over here are all in different course like EEE, biomed, aero. haha! all away from the chem building! hai~

alright, and i planned to finish my revision for MPC this week before going to spain n portugal next week.

This week ended really well! it started really bad and shag initially when i had to do labs almost all by myself. but luckily for me, those 2 torturous lab periods were over after 2 days since i've prepared and read it over n over for like 6h the week be4. ok, so wednesday was mamamia with jk, kelvin and albert and it was really really good! plot is simple but i love the ending when all of us just stood up and danced with them. it's like mess dance, and i felt really happy after that!

and today it was ah! yum, a musical by imperial sing soc! went to support all of them, and i've been looking forward to it since the start of the week. it was really good and i think the electrifying dance brought up the whole musical standard! i'm proud of racheru and ant san cos they are my best jap kakees and my favourites! i'm proud of guiyi when i saw her dance her solo part, dun noe why too but i sincerely feel proud for her. and after the whole show we camwhored!! haha, should upload some photos now!







and at today's event, i met 2 ppl whom i haven seen for YEARS. when jun kai called my name, i seriously looked at him for more than 2 sec. 1stly i couldn't recognise him cos he's kept long hair and 2ndly i was thinking where have i met him be4. and it took me sometime to realise we went to eti together. gosh! i'm surprised. and he's studying at LSE now. and also when yee jie stood beside me suddenly and i took a look at him, i was shocked again! and i just shouted out yee jie! gosh, i haven seen him for so loooong le! we were from 3f and 4f and we haven seen each other after that. been a while, 5 years~ and now i'm seeing all of them in london! wee~!

Had a really nice and peaceful day out today. this week was horrible albeit slack. i had school for an average of 2-3 hours per day and my day started at 2pm everyday except for wed. BUT, each lecture is really heavy in my opinion. the lecturers just suddenly threw loads of new mechanisms at us and it's kinda depressing when there's a sudden surge of new and difficult stuff! furthermore, the notes are quite cui and i have to depend on the net or textbook for a better understanding. and all these made me felt quite defeated towards the end of the week cos these concepts are not really easy, neither are they easy to remember. and my organic tutor is so into stereochem which's something that i'm not good at. haha i think this comes with practice. given more time, i might feel less stressed. but what can i ask more when i'm like the slackest course.

SO, today, yang le and i decided to walk around hyde park to get some fresh air. been really sick of textbooks these days, so yeah we took loads of flower pics and they're really pretty. not many flowers have bloomed though, only a few species have started blooming but the pictures i took are really fantastic. luscious colours that're so pleasing to the eyes. and they allowed me to find my inner peace. i have nv felt such tranquility for so long. and i was energised by the flower scent. it was really a great walk.


aren't the flowers awesome. am looking forward to spring! i think that's what a 4-season country can offer. u get to see diff scenery at different times of the year. 2 months ago, it was heavy snow!

and after walking, we went to meet albert for lunch at edgware road, at this restaurant called malur which serves malaysian cuisine! and i had this nasi campuh which is really nice though portion isn't really big. the curry tastes good and the chilli egg is indescribable. reminds me of my cookhouse nasi lemak when they always fry the egg and then dip in the oily but delicious chilli. gosh, i'm salivating now while typing. haha! and i love the dessert, it's novel of them to put ice cream with banana fritters. argh and the kueh is so nice. i need these food to relieve stress. well, next week will be a hard one but i think i'm all energised.


after eye therapy, it was mouth and nose therapy~ look at that oily egg, love it!


yeah the ppl i went out with. yl and albert~

haven been blogging for some days cos there's nothing interesting lately. well, but today i just at a very inspiring talk at millenia hotel by minister balakrishnan. honestly, i'm super impressed by the way he gave his speech. he has presence, charisma and the words he used are like wat yl said polished and refined.

I'm blown off by his speech and it's the first time i listen so intently to some1 speaking. persuasively, convincingly, sincerely he spoke. there were 2 main points that left a deep impression in me. firstly, some1 asked a question on stayers and quitters. and he brought the question back to opporunities and choices. that if 1 is able to grasp every precious opportunity, he/she will be successful no matter where his/her opportunity came from. but ultimately, when one's successful, it's up to his choice to do something for his homeland. i.e. it doesn't mean that u're a quitter if u stay overseas and pursue ur dreams cos it all boils down to ur choice if u wanna contribute back to ur country. u need not physically be there but through other means and avenues, u'll still be able to contribute if u choose to.

the second qns that some1 from the floor directed to him was 'impeccably' answered. the question goes, can there be a more liberal approach towards media which tends to criticize our government. and minister answered that firstly we have to know that the media is a business, and the government knows how to play this game very well with them. secondly, the sg government practises the law on defamation created here(UK) whereby we look for accountability, truth and accuracy. these 3 words are simple yet powerful. and i think every1 was really impressed with him. i couldn't have thought of such impactful words in a dialogue session given such a short amount of time. i think what's so impressive about ministers is that they have to think on their feet and be able to answer tactfully yet convincingly. gosh, he's my new idol! i wanna be like him cos i think such a skill is really important for my future work. u need to noe how to speak well when u climb up the corporate or technical level. oh well, and this qns had a deep impression in me as i wrote a little about speech freedom during my a lvl gp exam. should have written his point and i think my grade would have improved.

hopefully 1 day i'll learn to speak better. and the thing is he's not a humanities person, he actually took medicine! and so he shattered the stereotype that sci ppl are unable to argue. on a lighter note, huijin ate 10 rounds worth of food while i just ate 2 and she had the whole pot of coconut milk with a little red bean soup! gosh! hahahaa~ dinner was marvellous though still uncomparable to hawker standard and i kinda like the non-oily hao jian~