eat, eat, eat

omg i simply can't describe how much food i've been eating over the holidays since i came back to sg. i've eaten several buffets (just had one at Holiday Inn last night which was alright, nothing fantastic, but nevertheless the spread was good), a whole lot of meat over the christmas season (had all the different kinds of meat over every single meal during the past weekend), and what scares me the most, my sugar intake. but fortunately, i'm trying to go to the gym every other day. i need to exercise longer during each gym session cause i'm certain that my intake of calories far exceed my output.

i've met up with most of my close friends and they've certainly made my day <3 Thank God for every single one of them :)

there's just so many things that i need/want to do:
1) do as much spring cleaning as possible
2) organise my macbook/external hard disk - i just hate doing all the IT stuff.
3) read up/ revise dental-related stuff - simply can't bring myself to do it but i'll try; and cause we have to collect extracted teeth for our endo pre clinics the coming sem, i've to clean up lots of extracted teeth so that's sufficiently clean for me to handle them without gloves. it was so damn gross. a couple of teeth would have been alright, but i'm talking about a bottle full of close-to-rotten carious teeth. =x
4) think about my resolutions for 2012 - never really thought that i'll be doing this; i've never done it before cause maybe i thought it wouldn't matter that much since it should be pretty much the same every year or maybe i was just pure lazy.
5) exercise MORE and more importantly, eat LESS.


i'll start with items 1 and 2 tomorrow. hopefully i'll be getting down to doing them.

good night!

holidays #6 - say hello to year 3 sem 2

before i forget,
here's the bread and butter pudding that i made. first attempt at making and it was really quite a success. loll doesn't look that appetizing tho.


what it looks like inside:



had a crazy last day of holiday today. long story and i'm simply too lazy to get into the details. but yea, just a lot of rushing from places to places after church with some crazy friends. loll.

jasmine arrived in melb today and i got my stuff (including the loupes that i ordered) from her. big thanks to her for helping me to bring over some stuff from sg).




yes this thing called loupes is freaking expensive (S$1,700) but it is also because i got the 'branded' one and with the Oakley frame. HAI. but my rationale is that i'm going to use it throughout my course+career (hopefully) so i guess its worth it to get the more expensive one.
i'm going to try to start using the loupes on my patients within these few weeks and see how it goes.

i've been trying to read up on rem pros notes since last monday and its really a TORTURE. studying during holidays never work out (at least, for me).
tomorrow i'll just be taking history + oral exam + impression for my rem pros patient so i won't need that much of new technical knowledge. haven't met this patient before but he sounds okay (rather friendly) on the phone. mr xx, pleaseee be nice to me.

timetable this sem is really slack (but the subjects are definitely not easy). loll i actually have my thurs off officially. BUT, i kind of have to assist parmesh in her clinical session though its definitely not a must. sighh, how awesome it is to get a day off but oh wells, i'll just take it as an opportunity to learn from my peers.

haven't got back all our results and i'm getting very scared. but yea, i always believe that God has a plan for us and i'll accept whatever He gives to me :)

holidays #4 - food is love

i made baked eggs this morning for brunch :) really easy to make and its yum!
:) i added tomatoes and cheese below the eggs.


this was the baked oreo cheesecake that we made at maria's place yesterday. i somewhat prefer the non-baked one.


some random dish that i created. stir-fried beef (with prawns and broccoli) in wonton skin


next up will be bread and butter pudding this weekend (hopefully i really get down to doing it).

lazy and slack =(

yep that pretty much summed up my week. sigh. this is probably like the slackest i've ever been since year 1. i did some work, but its not sufficient (i think).

the cold weather is making me lazy. de-motivated to do anything, except maybe cooking and baking. i need to stop eating so much :( i bought so much groceries from vic mart just now and i've been looking at recipes online to see what i can whip up. such a waste of time right.

my patient yesterday made me feel good. she's so nice and sweet (if only all patients were like her) and said things like "your injection was good because i didn't feel dizzy which i felt last time when i had an injection". haha but really, i'm sure its not that the previous student/dentist was lousy or anything (since its more of the patient's anatomy that plays a part in a successful LA) . but it still made me feel good (:

EASTER HOLIDAYS (:

i've been wanting to do a post at the start of easter holidays, but then i just couldn't complete one full post on thurs and yesterday cause there are simply too much stuff going on.
if i want to prepare for my presentations, do some revision (i doubt this'll ever be achieved), prepare for grampians trip, go and eat the food that i've been craving for, cook and bake good stuff for myself and friends, meet up with friends that i haven't met since i came back, do housework regularly, watch my shows regularly, exercise (not very possible too) -- all these during my ONE WEEK of easter break!? haha no way.
there's just too little time to do everything.

how come i feel more busy than last easter when i spent almost the whole of the easter break in sydney. now i'm only going to spend 3 days in grampians and i have more days to accomplish other stuff.

FOOD. yea this is something that i've been indulging myself so much into that i've gained terribly lots of weight (i didn't weigh myself, but i can sense it somehow). :( will be trekking in grampians, so i reckon that's some form of exercise?

i love my cooking! haha i've been spending more time cooking and i think my cooking skills have improved. hehe. spend most of my time looking at recipes when i'm online and i'm just so so tempted to try out so many of them. FOOD IS REALLY LOVE (:


aglio olio (which i cooked for a potluck early this semester).


carrot cake! love it.


aww i've got more photos of food to upload but blogger is being just uncooperative.

making something like belachan chicken for michelle's housewarming tonight and chocolate easter eggs for sophie's birthday tomorrow. so many potlucks this sem and i'm running out of ideas already =S

happy easter everyone!

(shall continue with my ortho and perio presentations. what a mood spoiler =/ )

singapore, here i come

cause of swine flu, all my plans for this winter break have changed..

hmm.

i'm going back to singapore next week. but have not decided on the date that i should book my ticket (though seriously, i should make up my mind latest by tmr in case there's no more seats available). justin's flying back on thurs, tricia most prob also, so i guess thurs would be good (all 3 of us are so going to wear masks) though i thought the earlier the better (like next tues or wed). but i need some time to clean up the house and pack my stuff.

have to shop like crazy the next few days before i go back cause now's the end-of-financial-year sale in aust. lots of good sales which singapore's GSS cannot compare to.

ohhh and i have to forfeit my sydney ticket :( cause i'll most prob stay in singapore till third week of july (must maximise my stay in singapore since flying back is not cheap and to make things worse - the exchange rate). told mitch about it and he also agrees with me, and he's sort of changing his plans to coming to melb. oh man how can he come to melb when i'm not around.

anyways, i have so much things to do when i'm back in singapore. i'm so going to eat all my fave food and go to my fave hangouts with my dearies. =D i need to play my piano, watch my tv, revise driving my dad's car, and lots of other stuff. lol, we singaporeans that r going back are going to have nice bakchormee tgt (we call it the BCM outing) and i'm kind of afraid of the weather back in singapore, though its freaking cold here that sometimes i rather feel warm (but not sticky).

(happy stuff aside..)i feel so moody/grumpy nowadays and its making me v mean. i hate being mean :(

oh finally exams and sem 1 ended. well i'm going to forget everything that happened in sem 1 and start life anew in sem 2. its going to be a better sem. definitely.

been feeling kind of busy during the week that has just ended. i've been running/rushing to many places. [and oh my, i was super late for the second MLE lecture today. heng there's yuan qi to chope a seat for me.]

p.s i shall make this post a light-hearted one [not that i'm done with all the confused feelings, its just that i want to make myself less miserable].

i met up with yuting for a short lunch on weds cause i wanted to pass her her v belated present. really feel bad ok. but its something REALLY special [to me, at least]. i don't do this for anyone so yuting really should feel honoured. ha.

this is the cheesecake baked by me. =D was proud of myself that i did not use an electric beater (cause i couldn't find it), meaning i beat it manually! and everything was done in 2 hours. hurray. oh, but the edges aren't trimmed v nicely cause my slicing skills weren't good. but anyway, v glad that yuting likes it <3.



choon chuan actually said it looked like kaya toast. =S i told chongren proudly that i BAKED a cheesecake cause he thinks that i made the simple cheesecake (those that need not be put into the oven. just refrigerate it can already.) whatever la. but of course it cannot be compared to the one he makes.


here are some photos of oweek. [okay, this is really random]

oh before i forget, i would really want to thank mitch for his help! THANKS. really appreciate it.

Nineteeth birthday

first things first,
a VERY BIG thank you to those who remembered my birthday =D =D =D. and thanks for the sweet messages (whether is it by e-mail/msn/facebook/snail mail/sms/face-to-face). i'll try to be happy, don't worry pple!

had dinner with family at clarke quay. the dinner was something different. and i enjoyed it =D
i really feel loved by my family. and i love them too =D

here's the photos taken on mum's birthday:

sashimi

ebi shinjyo no kawari age (deep fried prawn with shitake mushroom)

sukiyaki

i love japanese food=D kaihui, kahyan, yuting and me went to eat at shodoku japanese food bazaar at raffles city last sun to celebrate the july babies' birthdays. =D kahyan, send me the photos!

i'm finally done with stage 1 of driving. hooray.

happy

today's my mum's birthday! happy birthday mummy! truckloads of love <3 <3 <3

yup, i'm happy today. =D =D =D

basically because lots of funny things happened today. plenty. would really love to share with others but i'll just go bursting out with laughter before i can speak anything intelligibly so i look crazy.

today was the dean's welcome session for nus foe. we sat together as an og and with shuyi's aj friends who were really nice=). shuyi sang this v funny song and i really laughed like crazy. then chongren's silly actions also made me laughed. etc. etc. etc. lots of other funny stuff. oh, and i saw jo! wanted to talk to her about some stuff but didn't have the chance.

went back to nj to collect the cert. met wh and then kc. couldn't play badminton with them today! but don't think i'll go even if i can make it cause its so far. and like what i say, carrying the badminton racket from my house to bukit gombak will make me look so silly. next time, u guys must come toa payoh or hougang to play! had a pretty long chat with them at the canteen. wh told us about his participation in ndp. v funny. he's in some bird float segment. HAHA. ok, that got me and kc laughing like crazy. and i told them about my driving. oh my, now come to think of it, i shouldn't have said so much, cause its v embarrassing. and wh actually said he will avoid the roads at yck. [apparently he was the second person who said that =x] eh hello, i'm such a cautious driver and even a bus driver [beside my car at a traffic light] encouraged me u know! i shall buck up for my driving so i won't be laughed at anymore! =/

met amelia + friend (choo ting) near the field (whatever that place is called, i forgot) and we talked bad about kahyan within that short period of time! haha, just joking la. we'll always love u, kahyan! oh, and i saw my junior, jinxian playing soccer at the field. oh my, he's like so free can. thought prelims' arriving in 3 weeks time. just want to wish my juniors all the best in their revision =D and wh's so kaypoh lor, kept asking about ________ & me. that's like so ... ... haha.

went for dinner with family at miyabi jap restaurant. great food. shall post the pictures another time.

oh, i need an icing bag, those kind for decorating cakes. i'm going to bake a cake for _________. haha, must be honoured! i need it urgently so if anyone has it, pls lend it to me!

i'm loving 萧敬腾 more! think he's v adorable. and of course talented. =D

pamella

sent pamella off on wed. chengyi and i met up at city hall to get pam a present. actually we wanted to get some winter scarf since its now winter in aust. but in the end, we got this pair of pretty esprit slippers.

it was kind of great shopping with cheng cause she's those kind that would give me comments about the things that i want to buy. haha, it seems that i was shopping for my own stuff as well.

next we went for dinner at t3. nice chatting and laughing with cheng. she said i kept contradicting myself which was so true. anyway, i kept asking her about _____ cause i wanted to know how's things going. cheng knows me so well - or maybe i'm quite easy to understand - she knows the kind of guy i like without me having to say out. =D [chengyi, don't tell anyone!]


went to look for pam lee and pam sia. i felt sad that pam lee was leaving cause she's one of my v treasured friends. she's always saying she loves me. i sms-ed her last time telling her that i'm not sure if i should accept the offer to study in mel uni cause its a five years course and i'll start only next year...and then she replied me saying she'll love me no matter how old and haggard i am. and i feel really loved =D. she's one friend that can really give me assurance. i'll really miss her=(
but she made this choice and i'm happy for her.

our wishes for her. haha, mine's so much nicer than cheng's. [chengyi, i promised not to read yours and i didn't ok!]






my great friends =D






pam sia and her funny expression



the big crowd sending pam lee off.



i sent esper off too. its the first time i saw her boyfriend. haha. she kept saying we must go melbourne! ok, will try =) and i thought her mum was really cute. haha.




today evening (just now), i went with yuting to chomp chomp cause our dear yuting wants to eat the beancurd. haha! its my favourite too. i think no egg beancurd can beat that stall at chomp chomp. i was super full cause i ate dimsum buffet with sis for lunch. but still ate the dumpling one cause i'm so tempted by it. i called ben out to join us since he was staying around the area, but he was in bishan. ok, we are not fated to eat dessert together. haha. yuting nv walked around serangoon gardens circus before so i brought her for a walk and she loves the place. i love the place too - my childhood place u know! i brought her to my favourite cold storage speciality. i like the stuff they sell in there. its just... so angmoh. but its so pricey. =x

happy yuting.


friends (=


yuting almost drooled when she saw the pizza i made. haha and she says she wants to go my house the next time i bake stuff. haha, no problem=D