There was a sudden blackout and an iMac 27" miraculously appeared after the electricity was resumed

If it did happen i'd happily wish that blackout happen once every few seconds lolololol.

(For non-Malaysian, the subject is actually a joke inspired from our recent General Election. Rest assured that it's perfectly normal if you did not get it.)


Having an iMac is like a dream-come-true to me.

I could still remember how highly raved-about desktops from Apple were in the era when laptops were still not so common and the monitors were still of those CRT type.

Remember this?

Yes this is the first iMac which Apple first introduced in 1998. The teal-color monitor quickly caught the attention of many people especially when placed next to other computer which operated with ugly, beige colour CRT monitor. Less than a year later, Apple introduced the second generation with five bright colour. Guess that? A week after the those coloured iMac were launched, Apple announced that its most recent quarterly earnings were three times what they had been the year before, according to Time.com.

THREE TIMES!!

Now you know how popular it was, is, and will still be.

It was a dream to own the pretty iMac back then but it was so expensive! Gauge the value of RM5k 15 years back when a bowl of noodle costed only RM2.

Another issue was that iMac used Macintosh as the operating system rather than the dominating Microsoft Windows.  I was not even familiar with Microsoft Windows back then so leave alone Macintosh. The word 'Macintosh' sounded totally alien to me and what i heard most about Macintosh was that it was totally different from how M. Windows works and was difficult to use. Now when i come to think of it, those statements were complete bull shit. Most probably people who said that 1200% had not used that before and had no idea how it actually works.

Even until now, there were still friends telling me THEY HEARD THAT MAC OS IS DIFFICULT TO USE.

Come on, i reckon Mac OS is the best operating system ever and it is so much, much more easier and simple to operate than Microsoft Windows. Not to forget the ingenious multi-touch function.

Ok back to topic.

So it remained as an unfulfilled dream since then... Whenever i passed by an Apple store, i just couldn't help but move my centre of attention to the iMac display. T______________T

Finally, i bought it after. freaking. 15. years!!!!
None other but the 27" iMac .

It was not my first Apple computer though. I got myself a Macbook Pro as i needed it in school so a desktop would not be feasible. The boy and I have been contemplating to get one for our new room because the stylish iMac simply makes a perfect room decor lol. But it came earlier because my MBP died on me unexpectedly... :( The logic board broke down and you wouldn't believe it costs RM1.8k to get it repaired!

RM1.8k.

Are you kidding me???

After some considerations we agreed to bring forward the iMac plan and saved the RM1.8k for now. I am still going to have it repaired if i manage to get it done at lower cost.  It hurts to see the lovely MBP lying at one corner unusable. :(

So I think unboxing my dream computer deserves an entry and here it is lolol.

Have been tracking on the website ever since order was made and a week later finally the DHL delivery guy came and knocked on my door!




The 15kg giant box!
It was actually wedge-shaped with broad bottom rather than the normal rectangular shape.





Tadah!





The back.





The top part was well-protected by the thick sponge.





So was the bottom part.





To open, flip the top flap up.







And pull!









































All the way down.

As usual, ultra thick styrofoam was used for extra protection.

The styrofoam was divided into upper and lower part for easy removal.

Awwww look at the ultra-thin body!

Power cord.

All wrapped up.

It was so gigantic! :O :O :O 

AND VERY HEAVY TOO. The boy was unable to carry it up on his own. =______________=

For once i actually regretted getting 27" coz it was simply too big as compared to the 13" screen of my MBP. D: But i got used to it after a while and am very happy with it now. ^^

The 'hole' for power cord to pass through the stand so it won't be bent.

I still kept the cover to get rid of dust when not in use lolol

DANG DANG DANG DANG!!!

IT. IS. SO. BEAUTIFUL.

Selected the cordless keyboard without number pad and the magic trackpad. The default option was magic mouse but you could opt for trackpad at no extra cost. Trackpad was chosen as i am no longer use to mouse ever since i started using MBP.

I love love love the trackpad! Trust me, once you are used to it you will not want a mouse anymore. Not even the magic mouse! 

#truestory.

This is a photo this mac showing me typing out this entry using this mac #macception.

ok that's the unboxing of my dream iMac!

It's is one month old now and i hope it will stay healthily forever. :)

how do i live without u, 1.49am

hola!

It was truly ridiculous that the last entry was published 9 months ago. I did not expect my trip to Mars and other planets would take such a long time to end before i could publish something again. Perhaps i would need to plan the itinerary more carefully so as to shorten the duration.

lolol if only such trip did exist and i could actually afford it.

But seriously I was rather amazed and could not quite believe it when i realized it has been this looooooooong. Oh dear what a working life! It had changed my life completely and to be honest i don't see myself having any 'life' back then. The daily routine was none other but waking up early and go to work / dealing with all sorts of funny stuffs and people / knock off and go home feeling mentally exhausted / sleep / waking up early and go to work / bla bla bla. The only thing i wanted to do when i reached home was basically taking a hot shower and go to bed. I hardly turned on my lappie so leave alone blogging.

Anyway it has all ended so I am a happy girl again now. :D

As you can see I've changed the blog design again for a new start and i really like it a lot!! Not to forget the Instagram updates at the side bar. Now apart from the foods you have more reason to visit my blog already. You are welcome.

This entry should have been up last Monday but i was just too busy organizing the 1400 photos which i just transferred to my lappie from the SD card. I thought, 'ok I will blog once I have them all sorted out' but to my horror it has taken so many days yet i am still left with 500 over pictures sitting down there. And after the 3D2N Kuching there are another 400 photos awaiting. Kill me please T___________________T.

ok lar enough of rubbish. food posts coming up soon so stay tuned!

how do i live without u, 1.39pm

i am so busy

working -_-

officially turned into a working adult on 1st March and have been busy every day since then O.O  working is indeed tiring and busy but good thing is that i pretty enjoy it so far. with bubbly colleagues, funny bosses and… mini-pantry with all sorts of snacks lol, i couldn't really ask for more. oh well i hopes every thing will remain good for the days ahead.

had many awesome foods lately but i'm too lazy to get them all posted up. will do it when…. errr ok ASAP! do check back soon ;)

ok actually i'm not in the right mood to blog but i really can't stand having zero new update for the past 1.5 month -_- so i thought i should do an update so as to ensure everyone that i'm still alive -_-

promise i will do a decent update soon!

how do i live without u, 2.38pm

it's 29th February!

this days comes only once every four year so must blog! else i will need to wait for another four year to have an entry dated 29th February -_-


this leap year is slightly more meaningful than the previous coz

I'M GONNA START WORKING FROM TOMORROW ONWARDS

for maybe 40 years if i am to retire at the age of 65 -_-


i'm soooo looking forward to whatever coming ahead and hopefully it will be an enjoyable job :)


supposedly i should have started a month ago but it got delayed due to some unforeseen issues hence i'd unexpectedly gotten a month of extended holiday. what i have been doing are none others but loitering in my house/watching tv/reading books/eating all sorts of junk foods/etc. they undeniably sound ultra time- & life-wasting and meaningless but come to think of it, all of them are what i cannot afford to after i start working isn't it? hence i die die also must enjoy the ultra worry-free good life before the arrival of disasters in the upcoming working life T_T

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this is what i will be bring to singapore tomorrow!

not too many stuff coz they are just for two days since i will be back home again on fri night -_- i'm so not gonna think about how many stuff i will need to pack before i'm officially moved back to the little red dot O.o

2/

and yes i changed my blog theme, AGAIN!!!



to be exact i was actually forced to change it T_T i realized the width was too small to fit the photos in all my previous entry but unfortunately it was not adjustable therefore the sacrifice of my cute birdie theme :(

anyway i like this theme tooooooo coz it's just clean and simple ;) thanks to mr.Google i managed to ditch the spoiler Blogger navigation bar away + centre-aligned my blog title! these two simple steps made my blog so much nicer :D:D:D


ok that's it coz nothing much to say actually so shall stop here and go to sleep and wake up to a brand new life :)


WISH ME LUCK!

how do i live without u, 11.09pm

Write to the Future Me™

there are countless blogs in this blogosphere, each of them exists with its own uniqueness which attracts different group of reader. i wonder how many of you actually shared the same thought as me: why could some blogs attract incredibly huge bunch of readers while some don't. so i asked myself why did i follow blogs i followed? and i realized perhaps it's simply because they possess certain characteristics that i don't or lead a life that i wish i had. ok enough on that since i'm not doing an analysis on why popular blogs are popular -_- my point is that i was once envying of bloggers with loads and loads of follower. it feels good when you know somebody cares about what you share and most importantly, they response. 

BUT NOW, not anymore. 

why should i care about if someone is reading whatever crap i wrote? it doesn't really matter to me anymore. come to think of it, it could be ultra inconvenient if your blog became sooooooo popular like xiaxue's. when ur blog became popular, inevitably you'd be famous too. imho the worst thing about being famous is that people get so jealous of you they start badmouthing behind you whenever they can. you do it right they also criticize, if you do it wrong CONGRATULATION they would scold you like you had kill a saint. what's more, you catch attention whenever you go so you have to be really wary on your behavior/appearance or critics are coming you way. you see how disastrous it is? 

wait wait wait, i'm not being a sourgrape please. 

MUST EMPHASIZE: I DO NOT MEAN BEING FAMOUS IS NOT GOOD. 

ofcoz being famous has many benefits which can easily form a long list though. i seriously don't mind being famous if i have the X-factors and are all mentally prepared to bear all the responsibilities that come along lol. it's just that not being a famous person/blog is not that bad afterall and is actually a blessing in disguise too. you save all the aforementioned troubles!

i personally think blogging is meant for any things or incidents that worth to be recorded for keepsake, at least my blog serves this purpose. it's really pathetic to be writing for the sake of writing. as you all know human organs start disfunctioning as we grow old hence you lose your precious memories with your loved ones eventually. that's why photography is such a nobel invention, which helps capturing all the important moments and keeps it forever (provided all the printed/digital photos are kept properly lar). there is this quote from a Taiwanese drama that i really liked:

“攝影是將瞬間變成永恆的魔法” 

however, the voiceless photographs are just not good enough. it's true that a picture tells a thousand stories but still you are gonna forget the details many many years later. with blog we are actually offered a place to keep our memories in the form of pictures together with elaborations of the story behind it. there is no doubt that picture is an useful visual tool for recollection yet video is still the best option as it is the live record of the actual situation but sorry,

YOU CANNOT PHOTOSHOP VIDEO.

and i believe there are more ugly lazy people in this universe hence more photos than video LOL.

have you ever discovered a letter/diary which you had written years ago and you smiled/burst into laughter after reading? i know my blog will stay as long as Google remains hence this blog will be a mean of correspondence between me and the future me since i will read it again and again when i'm really bored to laugh at myself -_-  in other words i'm writing something to be read by the future me in the future! therefore it's ok if nobody gives a shit to this blog of mine since i will always have this imaginary future reader -_-

awwww with that in mind i'm gonna behave myself so as not to do/eat/think/say something silly which eventually end up in a blog entry that will make the future me laugh to dead after reading -_- 

how do i live without u, 1.23pm

flying to the milktealand

two years after my last trip to HK with leewang, we're gonna fly to somewhere famous for milktea/giant chicken cutlet/oyster meesua/hot spring/salesssss and definitely the hot cake You Are The Apple of My Eye!

TAIWAN I AM COMING!!!!!

counting down: 13 days.

leewang booked the flight tix at least half a year back and just in a blink of an eye the departure date is just around the corner! shall admit that time flies with no anticipation along. we opted for free-and-easy trip hence we are supposed to plan our own journey for the all six days. speaking of planning, em for a trip that is just 13 days away, we have yet to come out with a solid plan…

i was tasked to plan for the 6D5N trip since i'm happily goyang kaki at home at the moment while leewang has to work so hard for the trip fund. but but but my days have been occupied by whatever-thing-it-is ever since the end of FYP, which was, erm, 3 months ago. -_- not that i've had a big project going on or other task, time just went by without me knowing it.

i did try to plan it by researching from the internet on famous tourist attractions/foods and shopping malls. but it was so tough!!! i was flooded with all kinds of information from various websites/forum/blogs that planning became so difficult since i'm sooooo not familiar with the entire area. imagine you found out that there are 10 famous places that tourists should visit and all the details you ever needed were provided, how are you gonna plan with zero knowledge on the distance between each location? there could be thousands of roads in taipei ONLY and i find it so hard to remember each road :(

after much struggles, the final solution to the problem is getting a travel guide to north Taiwan -_- we're gonna take reference from the book  on where to go or what to eat! briefly browsed through the book just now but was already confused by the map provided along with each recommendation :x

TAIPEI WHY U SO BIG???????

ok it's not really THAT big as it's only approximately 1/70 of Johor -_- hmmmm i will conquer it by coming out a good plan……………...with leewang :p

thanks for reading guys! i'm gonna stop here and continue mugging the travel guide T_T

how do i live without u, 9.28 pm

蔡健雅 【別找我麻煩】

came across this song of Tanya one day and the rhythm caught my attention almost instantaneously.

didn't expect it to be her song coz it's just so different from previous albums.

anyway, i really like it so i'm sharing it here for your pleasure ;)

enjoy!

how do i live without u, 5.28pm

overdue postsssss

with what i wrote in previous entry, i presume you have fully understand why this blog has been left with no new updates for the past few months. i don't want to write long story for this entry as i knew all these alphabets when combined into words can be too boring to keep you reading. so as to show you how merciful i am i've decided to blog with some random photos and let them tell the story instead.

YOU ARE WELCOME.

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did you get the wrong idea? LOL

2/

a pic taken with leewang after a sad dinner T_T

he was actually flying to errr dontknowwhichcountry after this dinner + sending me home. i remember i used to be really really sad (and cried -_-) whenever he needed to be away for days (yes days only -_-) but he has now become a frequent flyer that i am kinda used to it already. nowadays i'm more worried about his safety ever since i read a news regarding flight crash in newspaper. what freaked me out was the fact that the accident took place just few days after his return from Iran and what's more, that unfortunate flight was FROM THE SAME AIRWAYS AS THE ONE WHICH LEEWANG TOOK. 

he kept assuring me that taking a flight is actually safer than driving a car. but tell me, how not to be worried? 

i might be pessimistic but you must agree with me that being scared of losing the loved one is definitely human nature THAT SHOULD NOT BE BLAMED AT ALL :((

3/

my most expensive ever dinner in sg -_- had it at Amici, an authentic Italian restaurant located within Holland Village, Singapore. 

i love the squid ink paste despite the black stain left on my teeth! unexpectedly, the award-winning cod fillet was not that fantastic imho.

4/

standing next to me was my poly cum uni mates JOLYN! we got on better only after the second semester if i remember correctly. perhaps fate brought us closer LOL

i also want to have a v-shape face like hers T_T

but luckily my big face issue is solvable with this 10000000% safe/risk-free/non-surgical method called PHOTOSHOP lol

p/s: i did not ps this pic except size-reduction!! #proudface.jpg

5/

hmm… i seriously can consider cutting my long hair to this length!

except that part where i may not be getting this big bang due to the limited hair volume T_T

6/

went to this cafe located at Sutera area. got attracted by the retro theme especially the Beetles parked there, which must have caught the attention of most passer-by.

7/

went to this dessert shop located nearby Bugis Junction. they sell really pretty nice dessert with affordable price :) their business was soooooooooooo good that day that it was fullhouse and we were allocated with a 30cm x 30cm table around a tiny corner T_T

8/

my super cool lecturer who used an iPad for lecture! (that was when iPad2 had not yet been introduced!)

9/

i'm blessed to have her in my life :)

10/

bought this huge bouquet (20 gerbera daisies in total!) for yilynn to support her in Star Search 2010 final. it was sooooooooooooooo pretty!!!

11/

not sure how many of you recognize this lil chicky? IT IS NOT PIYO PIYO but the friend of rilakkuma, which means 'relax bear'. it's soooooooooooooo cute that leewang and i love it so much!!!!

leewang bought this for me when he was on his business trip to HK and gotten me an even bigger one during the following work trip -_- so blame him for all the animals on my bed! :p

12/

cheers for our 7 years friendship!

i hope she will stay happily-ever-after with her mr.vege coz she simply deserves it <3

13/

lol why would i have created this funny hairstyle -_-

and i even had the nerve to snap it down #buaypaiseh.jpg

14/

-_-

i'd have bought it if i had had spare cash lol. so curious to find how much nicer it is than normal rock melon to worth the S$89!

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I MADE IT TO 8 DAYS COVER!!!!!!!!!!!

just that it was the cover of an unpublished issue -_- to be exact it was not even a cover but a cover-like picture LOL

thanks to Purple Sage, where i had my attachment, i got the chance to attend the with-invitation-only 8 Days event :) unfortunately i left not too long after the event started as it was a friday T_T anyway it was still an eye-opener afterall :)

16/

bought my favourite ice-cream in durian and coconut flavour!!!!! nom nom nom it was so nice i could not wait any longer after bought it so i just opened and ate in the whole tub -_- carrying it all the way from Bugis to Iluma somemore lol.

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my X'mas gift from leewang last year. time flies and X'mas is around the corner again!

18/

This pic makes me hungry :O 

McDee should really consider making it a regular product!!!!!!!

i love it so much that i can eat it every day yet not feeling sick of it! (ok that's when i become as skinny as a bamboo therefore i can afford to eat french fries every day without having to worry about high choleterol/CHD etc T_T)

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my apology, it's french fries again -_- 

french fries with wasabi mayo it is!

this fries is sooooooooo good that it really beats MOS's! it belongs to the straight cut kind and is crispy outside but fluffy/mashy inside. i also wan Ireland Potato in Jaybee T_T

20/

it'd left jb before i discovered its goodness T_T

ITALIANNIESE Y U NO IN JB???

zomg it's already 11pm and i posted only 20 pics with few sentences each =.=

was annoyed by the ultra low uploading speed of blogger and jumped concluded that the old uploaded was way better. after gotten a few pics up only did i realize the file size of those pic uploaded was so large that it lengthened the uploading time T_______________T

BLOGGER I'M SORRY =______________=

i've got something nicer coming up so dear peeps please check back tomorrow! 

PROMISE!

how do i live without u, 10.57pm

ok ok here i am updating you guys with my current life :)

i've been procrastinating for long enough that even I myself is feeling guilty for abandoning this lil space

MY APOLOGY! #90degreebow.gif

for those who came and left, and came back again, i truly appreciate your support from the bottom of my heart. so yup, welcome back!

i had officially graduated and am having extremely free schedule everyday :D my daily routines are basically exercise/breakfast/reading newspaper/bath/online/lunch/tv/dinner/sleep. i cant help but to agree strongly that i'm having such a good life at the moment - totally stress- and worry-free! but come-on people, i totally deserve this break after suffering from the extremely stressful life after two years ok! back at my poly time when leewang was still a student, i had about 5 or 6 modules per semester and to attend lectures/tutorial/laboratory sessions everyday WHILE leewang did not have lesson every day. even when he did the lecture times occupied only a few hours if i'd remembered correctly. then i thought, why was my diploma program so much tougher than his degree program?! apart from him, a few of my high school friends were also rather eng eng during their degree days. TELL ME WHY T_T

no choice but to persevere throughout and finally! hohoho gotten by diploma after three years. but how could i just stop there? the currently society made me feel so incompetent without a degree. i was thinking there is high possibility that degree may become a prerequisite for work since it has been getting common nowadays while getting a master degree or even PhD will be more advantageous in terms of work prospects. thanks to the collaboration between Singapore Polytechnic and Massey University from New Zealand, i managed to get a place in the degree program without having to fly over! my classmates who went over to NZ for the FYP spent about (at least) S$6k for 3 months so please do your own maths on how much the cost incurred would be if i were to do the 4 years degree course there -_- speaking of the course, it is kinda a taylor-made degree course for SP Food Tech diploma students as the course is designed in such a way that modules that we have taken during diploma days are exempted. hence the four years course was eventually reduced to only 2 years. majority of the modules are carried out in block mode meaning we do only 1 module (sometimes 2) at a time and will finish every thing in about 1 month's time. sounds relax and easy-peasy?

YOU'RE COMPLETELY WRONG THEN. #pointingfingers.jpg

block mode means you will have lessons/lab sessions from 9-5pm every single day and on top of that, reports or assignments come in every week and you are given only 1 week to finish all researching+reporting works. almost all weekends were spent doing report and the things that my classmates and i did most often was complaining about lack of time/sleep T_T i swear if i were given more time i'd do much much better! another important element in any course is none other but EXAM. for this so-called intensive two years program, SORRY NO STUDY WEEK. we had at most 1 week to study for all lecture note/tutorials/past-year papers and after the exam we would move on to another new modules. there were about 4-5 modules per semester and the work load was crazy -_- i thought my life was stressful enough during high school time especially during Senior 3 when we were busy preparing for UEC (well to be exact we had been preparing for UEC ever since junior one -_-). coz we were having after-lesson tuition like every day and there were endless physics and math exercise received every day. what i could remember now were the days i spent lecture time copying rushing for exercises due on the day itself LOL however i actually pretty enjoyed that period despite the busy schedule. i had a big bunch of funny classmates who nonetheless added so much laughters to the tough time :) just as i thought i had encountered a real busy life, my days in SP made me realized high school times was basically nothing -_- i was SO MUCH more busy than before!! then, the degree program, especially the last semester, was a total disaster T________T i had a really really tough time during the second semester that almost all of us felt physically and mentally exhausted at the end of that module due to the reason that we had two modules on-going at the same period. at that point of time i was like SO busy that i thought the course work could not be more busy anymore or all of us were gonna die of stress -_- yet i was proven wrong at the last semester that all of us actually experienced the most hectic ever life - few project went on at the same time but given really tight time budget. but anyway, finally every thing has over now and i just wanna spend quality time with all the loved one to make up for the past two years… :)

UNDERSTOOD NOW? YOU ARE WELCOME.

gosh i took the entire evening for this blog entry yet it has not yet covered everything that i wanted to blog about -_- i seriously need to blog more often otherwise sooner or later i will lose my ability to compose sentence that is longer than 5 words -_- just like normal human who don't consume lactose-containing foods will eventually end up being lactose-intolerant after prolonged period - because the body stop producing lactase knowing you don't need it.

so yeah, next up date coming soon. promise!

stay tune!! ;)

how do i live without u, 10.41pm 

returning

hellooooooo!!

i knew i have been disappearing for ridiculously long. i have been wanting to update this tiny space of mine since ages ago but just couldn't get the right mood to start with.


i promise i will justify my disappearance in my next entry after.................................. i finish the last two episodes of the much-raved about Taiwanese drama The Fierce Wife aka 犀利人妻


for those who are reading this entry, thanks for not forgetting this blog :)

how do i live without u,

11.33pm

it's FYP time!

wow first time blogging with my phone! I'm on the shuttle bus heading towards Jurong East, which may take about 30mins depending on the traffic condition. was thinking of updating my blog just now so I might as well utilize this traveling time to blog rather than looking out of the window aimlessly -_-

okie back to the topic - FYP. omg it's finally here! and it has been almost two weeks since the official commencement. haven't done much stuff I'd say and I even took a day off to grant myself a long weekend :D my progress isn't as smooth as expected but I believe it will get better and better :)

my FYP project is a sponsored project from AVA hence I'm spending most of the time there. poor thing me doing my project all alone :(( today is my forth day at AVA and I'm more or less used to this ulu place already -_- gonna bring my own lunch everyday as like what I said, the place is super ulu hence I can hardly see any shop. the staff usually have their lunch next door (another division of AVA, different building) but I heard that there's only one stall selling economical rice. I'm lazy to walk and in fact I can't really afford the time to go for lunch so generally I bring my own food and have my lunch settled in the lab WHILE CARRYING ON MY TRIALS -.- I have to do so or I will not be able to complete what I want to do :(

feeling kinda happy today as a big problem of my project has been solved!!! if it weren't solved I could foresee I will be having hard time dealing with it! had a really bad day yesterday and leewang told me 否极泰来 so everything will be fine today. true enough, everything ran smoothly today and I managed to finished 8 trials!! he could become fortune teller already lol

time was spent rushing between two labs so time went by crazily fast!! but that also means that I shall really make good use of the time to produce information that I need :)

on the train now heading towards Dhoby Ghaut to meet with the high school pals for dinner. yup I think that's it for this entry and I will try to update as frequent as I can!

the last lap

i'm back!

i guess i shall bear the responsibility to explain to people, who still concern about this place, about where i have been disappearing to for the past two months. being a student, apart from courseworks i doubt i could have anything better to keep myself busy with. i experienced the most busy life that i have ever encountered, did the most things in such short period in the past two months!!!

went back to school from my attachment on 31st Mar and have done with everything that i needed to finish before my FYP commences on 8th June. now when i come to think of it, i just realized i have done a lot of stuff in just only two months! to conclude, i've had a total of three modules but only one was examinable while the rest were project-based. all the works include 7 group reports + 1 individual essay + 8 meetings with lecturers + 3 presentations + 1 exam (which was given only 1 day to stud -.-) + uncountable lab works. managed to developed two products out of nothing :) all these were completed not without spending my precious weekends with reports/assignments; spending more time in sch than at home; insufficient sleep and most importantly, stressssssssss! which explains where the rotten face that i'm carrying with me everyday comes from T.T

finally here i am, all relaxed :) i'm not yet graduating as i'm still left with the super important final year project. without any group member, definitely it needs a proper planning before any work can be carried out. but for now i shall give myself a really good break after so much things in order to get ready for the final task.

i will be all ready by then and i know i must graduate on the 3rd November 2011 :)

bless me!

how do i live without u, 3.04pm

you guys are awesome, undoubtedly

it all started off by a phone call.


an randomly-sent resume;
an interview;
and then, my two months attachment with Purple Sage.

in just a blink of an eye, 28.02.2011 marked the end of my attachment day.
time flies!! (it does only when you're having GOOD TIME -_- lol)

as usual, i prepared some chocolates for each of the colleagues in the office as my token of appreciation. I might not have worked with nor received any assistance from all of them, but i did appreciate them for not being nasty to me during the entire attachment period hence i think they deserved a THANK YOU from me. unexpectedly, i got a pretty rose bouquet back from Kelvin, the florist, in return of my chocolate. If you happen to read this, i'd like to tell you the bouquet did make my day.. it was so sweet of you and i was really touched by this little gesture. thanks for the effort! :)

thanks jiamin and lilin for taking an effort to have a farewell lunch with me 'coz i knew two of you are really busy. what a pity that i didn't get to try out The French Stall with you all this time but i believe there are always chances in days to come :) i really enjoyed my time working with you all.. although i wasn't involved much in foodtech-related tasks as i was supposed to be, i'm glad that i could play a small part in organizing the Purple Prelude event, which was an eye-opener for me! any issues aroused might have made the event a little imperfect, but do remember problems are always inevitable, we shall learn not to take everything too hard or it will only make our life miserable. have faith in yourself - and you're ready for all challenges :)

the random ktv session had put a perfect fullstop to my attachment. colleagues are whom we meet for work; friends are whom we meet for life. they are only a line apart - it takes only a step forward for one to cross the line and turn the identity of colleague into friend. to people who attended, i regret for not knowing you guys earlier or i bet my days with PS could have been filled with even more fun. nonetheless, it's still not too late have all of you added to my friends list. 

i know i'm gonna miss the days when we worked together for the Purple Prelude

i know i'm gonna miss the days when we tried ( and are still trying) to fulfill the target of going out for lunch at least once a week

i know i'm gonna miss the days when boss came in and told us some lame jokes

i know i'm gonna miss the days when i needed to complete 100 faxing per day

i know i'm gonna miss the days when we complained about the staff meal and ordered McD delivery/cooked instant noodles

i know i'm gonna miss the days when i often woke up late, rushed to mrt station, walked down Harvey Road/Playfair Road/Mactaggard Road/Harrison Road, took the lift up to 4th floor and stayed back to compensate for coming in late

i know i'm gonna miss days when we chatted and laughed happily

i know i'm gonna miss days when we went to shop for new year clothes at bugis

i know i'm gonna miss days when Liang & Alan came into our room and said/did some funny stuff (the prank played on Shirley was totally unforgettable lol)

i know i'm gonna miss this day when i went out with colleagues after-work for the first time

i'm fortunate enough to have met a bunch of nice people, whom definitely played a large part in making my attachment with PS a memorable one. everything is just.... wonderful.

new intern is joining soon and with my absence from sight you guys may forget me in a while... but still, a big thank you and all the best to you guys!

you guys are awesome, undoubtedly ;)



pardon me if you have problem understanding the message i was trying to conveyed through these words. i'm physically worn out but i knew i'd better blog this entry before any feeling fades away...



wat a happening night.
bonne nuit!

how do i live without u, 2.43am

just a random post

as suggested by the title, this is gonna be a post not dedicated to anyone or anything. i always came here and left without leaving any traces. it takes great efforts to bring yourself to start doing something. i always wanted to blog about something in my mind from time to time but just couldn't really set my mind and brought it into action.

the clock tells 12.34am. i will be leaving for singapore in 5 hours' time hence i should have turned in rather than updating my bloggie at this hour. grrr my mind is all filled up with some not-so-happy issue which i just had with my mom i can't organize the stuff i wanna blog about properly. don't worry it's nothing of a big deal - just something frustrating that had totally spoilt my mood.

like what i said in my previous post, i failed to update this blog frequently as promised. it's another one month and i'm also at the end of my attachment. this is the first time i ever feel like going back to my attachment company after my graduation. unfortunately they do not need a foodtech-related personnel hence it's kinda unlikely for me to join them then :( i love the people there, the environment, the working style, the friendly attitude of boss and even the company location. up to date there's like nothing i dislike about this company! or maybe i should consider turning myself into a marketing-person despite my foodtechnology background such that i can be part of their family again lol.

celebrated two big-festivals-of-the-year in the past one month! as we grow up, cny seems to have become less happening as compared to what we actually anticipated when we were young. nowadays it's just a festive season accompanied by consecutive holidays and nice (fattening) foods and nothing else apart from these. perhaps i had spent large part of my cny break hanging out with friends rather than going for relative-visits that aids in bonding up with cussies? seriously i'm not really in good relationships with all my relatives besides my auntie whom i have been staying with for the past 4 years! this could be really bad but.... i just can't help it. i couldn't find any intersection points in our life making interaction really difficult. i'm not a very sociable and active speaker you see... probably i will be one day as people do change when they grow older lol

after cny what came next is the big-day of lovers - the valentine's day! 14022011 marked the sixth (and still counting <3) valentine's day that leewang and i had spent together!!! it was a monday hence both of us were in the everything-is-expensive singapore. i hate the idea of most restaurants having special v-day set meals as the foods usually sucks to the max yet overly priced. in the end we fed our tummy with different side dishes instead of course-meal! settled the night at raffles city where we had cakes in canele first. almost all cakes had been sold out! we were left with only 3 choices by the time we placed our order -_- chosen 2 out of three as i  don't really fancy tart pastry. the cakes were awesome! the say 'you pay for what you get' is so true. my vocabulary sucks hence i'm really poor in describing how nice the foods tasted. if i were that capable i'd have become a food blogger who can describes every single fine detail of the foods ages ago! i wouldn't say cakes from other pattisserie are of no match for it but their cakes are really good.

gosh my house experienced blackout before I finished making me lose track of what I intended to write O.o I shall stop it here then. I hope 3 hours of sleep can last me to the end of the day.



how do i live withou u, 2.05am

the sixty-fifth

apparently i didn't keep my promise of updating this blog more frequently. checking the date of my last entry, it has been 41 solid days since i last wrote something here! oh gosh.... time flies! in the speed of light maybe -_-

am actually sitting in the office where i'm having my last attachment. i'm not sure if i've found the right placement as the actual job scope ain't really as expected i'd say. a food student in MARKETING department? sounds kinda funny but i guess it does happen in real life where demand is always higher than supply hence one don't really get to settle down in the position that they have been looking for all the while. anyway i have been in this company for three weeks and i do enjoy my time here. colleagues are ultra young and nice! average age is like 20 over and you know what? I'M THE OLDEST! excuse me why would a 24-year-old girl turn out to be the oldest in the department?! =_= another thing that i love about this company is the office-politic-free culture! promotion doesn't really exist in this company hence there is no fighting over it and therefore no reason for the politics to exist! but i guess the young-age factor more or less contributed to such environment. thanks to this company i got the exposure to many non-food-related stuffs ! marketing can be quite fun but still... food is my love ;)

after undergoing three attachments, i'd drawn the conclusion that i enjoy working life more than student life. ok perhaps you guys would argue that attachment is far different from the actual working life where the latter will be way more hectic and stressful and attachment is basically the simplified form of real life working situation. but frankly speaking i really enjoy the life where 6pm marks the end of the working hour and most importantly you GET PAID for all the hard works! all the work load is kind of like part and parcel of life. it's inevitable and you gotta bear the responsibility that is deemed to come. you can't avoid it so why not treat it from a different point of view and learn to enjoy?

supposedly i would be celebrating the 65th month with leewang after work but he has flown to CHINA last Sun and will only be back on 28th Jan :( poor thing him spending 3/4 of the month out of msia/sg. sigh sigh sigh feel rather upset of him not being here with me on this special day of ours... i knew he's actually even more upset than me knowing that i'm quite unhappy over it.. so i'm not gonna put this matter to heart and shall try to fill my time with all sorts of stuff such that time goes by faster without me realizing! thanks chewting for showing pity on me by going shopping with me later lol! realizing i've got too much tops i need to shop for bottoms so badly!

yooohooo the clock hits 6pm! i shall call it a day after 15 mins :)


last but not least, happy 65th month!
the smile appearing on my face when i think of you tells how much i love you
i have been in love, am in love, and will always be in love


with you. ♥

how do i live without u, 6.01pm

it's december!

hi there! how's life going on? got little bit of motivation for blogging so here i am jumping my fingers on my keyboard for some meaningful update lol
what in hand right now is an ice-cream, a dessert after lunch! am waiting for the video to finish loading so i think i could make good use of the time by doing a short update :) if only life could be this easy and relax every day...

it's december! as usual, end/beginning of a month is usually my exam time. food microbiology paper down today and another one will be coming up next mon. hasn't got much time for that so basically i can't afford to waste every single minute of my time. but i'm simply not in the mood to study : / slept at abt 2am last night and woke up 5am+ today... apparently my brain cells aren't functioning properly now so i shall wait until they have returned to the normal state only begin my mugging. rest is meant for the long journey ahead! pardon my ultra lousy direct translation but it's not too bad after all 'coz you guys actually know what i was trying to say don't you?! lol


everybody thinks of x'mas when it comes to december... i'm not a christian so basically x'mas isn't really a big deal for me. anyway i do like x'mas, for all the nice deco and pretty stuff/promotions that those clever merchant out here have come out with, or, be more exact, for having another good reason to get myself some new stuff :D but unfortunately i'm extremely broke now so most probably i won't be shopping despite all the S-A-L-Es that are happening in town. SO SAD! it's true that i'm broke. but it's up to you whether you wanna take my words. ;)

i bet the most happening issue of this year would undoubtedly go to yilynn's participation in STAR SEARCH 2010 and she made all the way to grand final!!! we could do nothing else but give her the fullest support in her not-so-easy journey. thanks to her we got the admission into mediacorp for catching the semi-final and grand-final live! oh gosh watching live was definitely awesome as you got to see the entire scene rather than the limited view screened in tv at home. both shows took me the entire day due to the travel+waiting time (and i was in my study week -_-) but it was all worthwhile. she was awesome and i'm so proud of her! the judges could have overlooked her awesomeness but it's ok she will always be the champion in our heart :) <3

intended to post some pics but the iPhoto stuck half away AGAIN hence i failed to transfer pics from my phone. anyway all the nice pics have been posted in her fb page. << click to enter!


i think that's all for now. i'm gonna take a nap before starting my battle with PROCESS MODELLING AND KINETICS!

how do i live without u, 3.51pm