*grin* this valentine's was one of the better ones. went out with kane, sarah, daphne, azreena and mabel. first met sarah to fold stars and wrap kane's present, and then we convinced the whole bunch of em that the one thing they really wanted to do was go down to serangoon gardens to sing off key in a little karaoke place. *grin* so we did. incredibly off key in fact for most songs. heh. yelling 'in the end - linkin park' was pretty fun though. and watching kane do the staying alive finger pointing actions. heh. *giggle* and i had next to no voice today, all of us had horrendously sore throats. so after 8pm, when we got chucked out, wandered over to some hawker centre and had a bit to eat.. then decided to head to chijmes.

by this time a few of us *cough* were a bit high, maybe from the iced peach tea? *laugh* but we were wandering around saying ridiculous things in equally ridiculous faux british accents, and staggering around rather... strangely. *grin* anyhow, we eventually made it to chijmes and had a few drinks there, and took photos obviously, since we all figured we looked better by candlelight. *sparkle* wandered around there a while, but it was pretty depressing cos it's pretty romantic, and was full of couples holding ugly teddy bears and ugly bouquets of roses. *smirk* and that's not jealousy speaking! some of the bouquets were really, really ugly. *snicker*

we had it in mind to go to the esplanade to take a few more photos, but figured we wanted to take the last train home since we're all pretty broke. heh. so turned out that everyone except mabel came over to my place. daph and azreena fell asleep pretty fast, daph cuddling my dog to sleep *laugh*, and the other 3 of us sat in my kitchen mixing vodka with various things, including kane's weird thai beer, which was.... ick. enough said. *grin* so we just sat there talking crap, (and burning incense! haha) til about 4am or so, when sarah squished onto my bed with azreena and kane and i tried to manouevre some space for ourselves around daphne on the floor. heh.

was loadsa fun, especially all the completely stupid things we were doing. *laugh* too bad sarah and i had hybridoma practical today. *grumble* can't believe we managed to get up. *yaaaaaawn*

and i'm going to unbend from my stingy, jealous miser mode and hope that all the couples had a happy v day. and they weren't struck by mabels curse that all of em celebrating v day would end up with VDs. heh.

jumped at 5:44 AM

was attempting to cook lunch today and finding it a real chore. as opposed to i guess the only time in my life that i regularly cooked for myself, in edinburgh during my 4 month attachment. it always seemed to be so much fun over there, though granted i never strayed far from the easiest level, but grocery shopping, planning meals and everything all seemed if not always fun, at least tolerable.

so here i was, slaving over a hot stove, so to speak, *g* wondering why there was such a difference. one thing i suppose was the fact that here i had no idea what ingredients we had available in the house. after all, my mum's the one that does all the grocery shopping here, i don't have the faintest idea what our cupboards contain. heh. so that's slightly irritating, not to mention if i found i hadn't got something that i needed while i was there, Sainsbury's was a 3 minute walk away, past some beautiful houses and gardens, in misty rain more often than not. here there are some stuffy provision shops downstairs and just after you step out of the house you're covered in a fine sheen of perspiration. *shudder*

that's another reason. the heat! and the basic atmosphere. my kitchen here is relatively small, and hot hot hot! no proper cutting surfaces or anything really. whereas over there, my landlady used to cater for functions on various occasions so all her utensils, pots, pans were available, as well as a grill, oven, stovetop etc all in good working condition. but, i think the main thing was that on all those occasions i was cooking i didn't really have anything else to do, especially on the long, lazy weekends, with Dal, the resident vegetarian dalmatian sitting at your foot thumping the cupboard with his tail looking up at you with big, soulful eyes, waiting for a scrap of broccoli stem or apple core. and while the oven was heating, or the microwave was going you could always go out into the garden with the stream running through it, and wander around and look at all the gorgeous roses and such she had growing there. or sit in the sunshine filled conservatory reading a book with Dal's head on your lap. it really doesn't get much better honestly. *sigh* wish i was back there, i honestly do. besides all that, edinburgh is one of the most beautiful cities i've ever been to, if not the most beautiful.

ooh look, i've found a moral in that story. *grin* any of my current juniors, apply for the overseas industrial attachment. *grin* it's one of the most wonderful experiences of my life so far, there's nothing like it honestly.

jumped at 10:33 PM

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jumped at 5:57 AM

heh. just got back from a completely unfruitful trip to orchard road with sarah and mabel, where all of us got a grand total of nothing. :p except food of course. heh. lots of food. oh well. *grin* taka's basement is a very bad place to go if you're in a 'prone to cravings' time of the month. *cough*

had our 8 hour practical today for IL-2, which was surprisingly alrite, i mean, considering it was 6 hours worth of incubation. *laugh* and we skipped our last SCV class because we had to do the practical, so that's it! no more useless SCV! *bounces around madly* brilliant. *sparkle* then we had the poster presentation (about our 3rd year project), which was a monumental waste of time, slept an hour on the table while waiting for everyone else to finish presenting. then it was our turn, and they asked us a few questions, and at one of them sarah answered and then rolled her eyes. hahaha. and the examiner was like, "I saw that!" HAHAHA. *cough* but yea, that was hilarious, we laughed hysterically for yonks. and tomorrow's a holiday! Happy Hari Raya to all my muslim friends. *smile* I'm going to laze around at home and watch TOTP at 1.30pm. *beam* and prolly haul my arse out to try and find kane's bday present sometime in the afternoon.

Mabel, Sarah and I were comparing guys to buses on the way to orchard rd, about how sometimes you wait at the busstop for absolute yonks and nothing comes along, and then 3 air con ones come along at once, or you wait and wait, and the right bus doesn't come, so you take another one, with the intention of changing bus later so that you still get to your intended destination. heh. and how the ride isn't so comfortable because you have to get up halfway to change bus. or it's non air con and it's raining. or there's a screaming brat sitting in front of you. *ponder* somehow i think i'm drifting a bit there, but screaming kids always annoy me tremendously. *grrr* I think I have a negative level of maternal instinct. haha.

jumped at 5:08 AM

just got back from seeing lindsay off to brisbane, she's off to further her studies at QUT, hope she's doing alright. *grin* lucky girl, i can't wait til i get outta here. not singapore per se, i'm alright with singapore really, but i don't think i can stand school for much longer. i mean, everytime i reckon i'm finally making my peace with it, after the hell that was second year, something comes and trips me up again. *grumble* and i don't mean academically, that's never really been a problem for me, my main problem has always been the social aspect of poly. to be brutally honest, though not mean (!), i can't really get along with a lot of people there, at least beyond the superficial. the english is just... not there. neither is the academic interest or ambition for the most part. makes me feel quite alien most of the time. *sigh* oh well, 4 more months, i'll survive. hopefully.

doing a lot of song downloading tonight, have gone from supreme being to high on kazaa in a very short time. heh. fun fun fun. listened to the rick dees top 40 today for the first time in years, feel i've finally gotten a bit more updated, since i haven't been listening to the radio in yonks. feel like sending in an email to perfect 10 telling them their late late night shows are perfect, now if they'd only shut the idiots they call DJs up for the rest of the day, i'd prolly go back to listening to em. *smirk* just the short ads they play in the intervals are hair raising enough. carrie, and jamie, shut up and give our longsuffering ears a break. *shudder* bimbotic so-and-so's. and jean! *rolls eyes* no wonder i prefer kazaa.

jumped at 7:32 AM