27 January: Mum's place

Received sms early morning .. read as.." Raining here, got sore throat,hope to comeback to tonight to sleep..."

Oh yes, yes .. jus comeback .. late also comeback pls.. take cab!

And shortly after that, kev called. I have been alone at home most of the time, as he is away for reservist..(but almost everyday i also got go out hehehe..) the house is quiet and obviously got no one to talk to except, scolding the cats... or play "chak" with my cats.. other than that, self talk ..

It has been raining since yesterday afternoon while i was at my mum's. Spend half a day there, and the house noisy and out of control with my 3yr old nephew, Idris playing and screaming .. together with the rest of his sibling and cousins, while my eldest sister was having her computer lesson in another room taught by one of the SAVH (S'pore assoc for the visually handicapped) teacher, who is also blind. They had problems getting into the internet.. not able to dial up successfully, and they had been sitting and figuring why cannot log in... each time a window pops up, a voice will tell them what it is and instructions will be given to help in navigating. Actually it's not that simple. But these people are jus amazing... I realised that i've never nursed a sick and blind patient or came across any blind patient... (except for one who's at IMH.. this one different story)

Blame it on the weather or what.. everyone is falling sick.

I hope today's weather be fine.. no sun nevermind... but don't rain.. cos last night, me and YF decided to either go to the Zoo, cycling or swimming .... and it all require good weather... sunny would be best!

Well, see how it goes later......

28 January: Sentosa with YF





30 January : to the airport, sentosa again ..


Tomorrow : Cycle/Swim @ East Coast Beach

rain ? Not again....

Kevin sms-ed to tell me that the sky looks very dark over at Sentosa and it is windy over at his side of the island. Then, after that, followed by YF's sms saying that it's raining over at Hougang. I got up, looked out my kitchen window... could tell that it had rained earlier as the road was wet. But .. the sky is clear.. but when i went to look out from my living room window.. dark clouds passing over.. aiyah..
So how now? No plan B.. cos we thought the raining season has gone.. Yesterday weather was jus great.. each time we planned for something outdoor, the dark clouds want to be part of it.. what to do? We can only plan... the One decides...

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Anyhow... Plan B: Little India.

YF brought me to one of the beauty salon at Little India for eye brow threading..
told the lady .. that it's my first time.. so hopefully she'll be gentle with me.
YF stood closely to take photos... luckily,did the eyes only, not the whole face. I can't bear with the pain, maybe it was my first time... can't wait to get out of that chair.. But nevermind.. then YF said something like ... "want to look pretty, want to look nice.... tahan the pain lor!" Yeah.. she's right... so now.. as she said.. the face looks freshier, less bushy.... hmmm.. less bushy.. hahaha!!




Back to Plan A : Sento

About 1 pm, me and YF left India for Sentosa.. and met up with the rest, Shiken, Laila, Karen and Cheng Gek. Both K and CG, were there earlier for sight- seeing, visited the Images of Singapore and CG seemed to liked it after listening to how she described the place with full of facial expression and actions. So i guessed the admission price quite worth it.

It drizzzled a bit over at Sentosa.. but that didn't stop us from playing..
It was a perfect day for all as most were happy that there's no Sun! Oh.. except of YF, unfortunately she couldn't get into the water.. for some *reasons...
so we had her to be our camera-woman! She really did a good job.. as it all turned out perfect as well :) Tango Yankee... YF, next time u hold my camera while i poise.. hehe

here are some of the pics taken... the rest had to be censored*

Play water.. again and again

Last Monday, the day we have been waiting for.. Good weather no rain.. Cannot waste this day!
So, off to Jurong West Swim Complex, we went. We didn't check the operating hours, but fortunately it was opened. The complex closes on Tuesdays as stated in front of the lift entrance.

The weather was so hot that when we took photo.. our faces were darken by the bright background.. we were already so dark ourselves.. the picture turnout dark dark also..

We should have just bought the water camera.. There were like less that 10 customers there.. and we were the only 3 with the giant float.. enjoying the lazy river.. all for ourselves.. it was like a private pool.



After playing.. then next best thing to do is Eat!
Pizza Hut has improved greatly, so we took this chance to go Pizza Hut to eat since we can't possibly eat alone. Must have gang to eat one.. 2 not enough.. 3 people better.. can order bigger pan .. not personal pan.. and wow! this I must say.. the sauce called the cool mayo .. was the best.. !!! not so jelak.. got sour-ry taste and it blends so well with supper supreme toppings, as compared to the usual tomato sauce. And, the cool mayo with seafood tastes so mayo-deliciousssss........

Oh.. kevin came back late evening.. again.. like before.. dump dirty stuff into the washer, and left for Japanese movie, Ghost Tunnel at Cathy, causeway point. All japanese ghost looks the same, they crawl and wears long overflowing hair..with big dark eyes, super big white face and super slim body.. like Juon, The Grudge..

eerreee.. eerie... i forgotten that i'll be alone at home.. ceh.. this kevin ah.. make my heart beat so fast liao.. somemore tonight i still cannot sleep.. don't know how come i don;t feel tired.. infact again today (tuesday), i went out to play at Jurong East Swim complex. This time with YF and Laila..

Laila smsed early morning to ask about the swimming stuff..It was my mistake for not calling her to come along yesterday to JW swim complex.

So me and YF, morning morning.. breathed out the word sianz...and we really don't mind the sun and playing with water.. we decided to go out!!! Wah we suddenly became so alive! Eyes open big big... say the word play wah.. no need to think twice. Pack and go!

And so we went. Kev left for camp. Me and YF met up with Laila at KFC, JE swim complex. Good weather too.. with slight rain later part of the day.
After we got changed, we saw the wave pool was already been activated.. Me and YF left Laila behind (she eating her kfc), ran like small children like never been to the pool before.. started to swim into the center to enjoy the waves and the water being prayed from above.. like rain falling into us. . and jus as we start to get excited, it all stopped.. it was over!!! oh we were so embarrassed... no wonder, some swimmers already started to relax by the pool.

Again, like as if, we owned the lazy river, with our giant float, round and round we went.. the wave pool was activated every top of the hour. So we stoodby the pool 10 mins into the hour.. making sure that we won't miss it.

And oh,yes.. we daringly slide down the circular tubes.. if only there's lift to bring us up.. we would have played the slide over and over again...making full use of the rented giant float. Anyhow.. the 3 of us were so damn lazy to climb up the stairs.

We ended the day by going to the IMM for lunch cum dinner at the Banquet. Then walk-walk at Daiso.. and then bye bye.

Tmr, as in Wednesday, i planned to visit my mother in law.
On Thursday, we planned to go to Sentosa
On Friday, we hope to go to Ubin.
Next week, we planned to go swim at Chua Chu Kang complex.
And also to Little India to do eye threading,
and also.. if got time, to go treat and trim my long hair..
then after that...
Get my uniforms ready for work by 1st Feb.
Then, there's where my new journey will begin.

play play play... everyday .. and still not enuf

15 January : Vivocity

The zoo trip was cancelled as most of my frens couldn't make it. Me and Shiken didn't want to laze at home, and since the weather was good, we decided to go to East Coast to cycle. But unfortunately, every time we are together, the weather changed. It started to rain when we were on our way there, along the ECP, U-turn at Fort Road and Shiken drove toward Vivocity instead.

Well, there's nothing much we could do there ... we could only think of eating and then, took some pics, and played some games at the Arcade.

Die-die before we start work.. must go cycling! Must make sure!

On this day too, we got to know the ward we'll be going to work start 1st Feb. I will be returning to the same ward. But my friend, HP and YF won't be. They tried talking to the person in-charge but they did not get a pleasant response. Some got lucky where they got to go to the specialized ward of their choice.

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16 January: SIM and Sentosa

Kevin booked out early this morning, given a day's off and to report back by the next day by noon.

Met up at Clementi, went to SIM to collect his course materials, headed back home asap as Papa coming over to collect some things. And once the washer ended, hanged his army uniform and other stuffs to dry, and then, to Sentosa we went. The weather was suprisingly cloudy, no rain.

Reached home in time to watch BlogTv which featured our friend , Haznita with her child, D , "who says my mum doesn't blog?" , i think that was the title.

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17 January: SGH , Newton Food Centre

Left house with kevin. Bye bye.. he went back to camp.

I brought my mum to SGH for eye check-up. Very long wait at the clinic, about 2 hrs before she gets to see the doctor. We left the hospital at about 5:30pm and the train was so crowded, mum didn't get to sit. She complained her leg pain... must be after too much walking .. she really got no energy.. leg not strong also.. how to help her? Hmmm... i also don't know what to do.

then bye bye to mum at yew tee, i made my way to jurong east, meet up with Shiken for dinner. craved for chilli crab.. so we went to Newton Food Centre. YF joined us too after she had her spa session. So again.. eat eat eat... chit chat... chat abt what to do next.. ? Next activity: to the zoo, cycle at Ubin and swimming at the new swimming complex at Jurong West... Must do it before start work!!!

Shiken ordered gong gong... wah best!

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18 January : Juli's house

we spent the day at juli's beautiful baywater ...
supposed to make use of the facilities there,but we ended up eat, eat and eat... chat and chat ....
This photo taken in Juli's daughter's bedroom... princess's room.. so sweet and pink.




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19 January: TTSH and movie


Early morning went for medical checkup and collect our scrubs at TTSH together with YF.
Laila met up with us later part of the day too.

Purple scrubs looks nicer than the usual blue.. but to me, the scrubs look like pyjamas.. and kevin said we look no diff from the patients. The scrub looks so baggie and it definitely won't look good with the free girl-girl shoe.. i feel like i wanna get that Nike all-black coloured sports shoe... but it's so expensive.. $1o3. Hmm.. think i want to go scout for other brands... so long the shoe look a little rugged and to last for 3 yrs.

After all done and settled, bid farewell to YF who left for weekend cruise and be back by Sunday. And before she left, she already can't wait to be back again to go swimming or the zoo as planned.

In the evening, Kevin came back from camp. Quick wash his uniform and dirty stuff, then left for that Mel Gibson movie ... don't know how to spell the movie title... very good movie.. or was it Pan Labyrinth... can't recall when we watched that spanish (i think) movie.. another good movie.
Watched a few other movies lately.. but can't remember when and what.


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20 January : Sam's Wedding and Niece Khadijah 1 yr old Birthday

Attended Sam's church wedding with HP held at the catholic church opposite Mac at Toa Payoh Central. Simple and it was quite fast ah.. some guest came dressed up in retro as it was the theme for her special day. I came in my usual jeans and white top.

After the wedding, I called Gong Gong for lunch at Fork and Spoon, together with Papa since he wanted to come over to Toa Payoh, to fetch me home . i then, realized that .. Papa is Gong's son-in-law, and me, papa's daughter-in-law... and to grandpa, i'm his granddaughter-in-law... hmmm, it was like an "all-in-law' day ..

Late afternoon, i left home again to my bro's house at Bt Panjang to celebrate his 1yr old daughter birthday.



Reached home late and house so empty... couldn't sleep.. didn't feel tired at all. Been out for the whole week and yet still feeling restless.. i think i miss my sayang.
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21 January : Home whole day ...
Morning went breakfast with Elliot.. so long never see her.. and she is into her 8th mth pregnancy.. so happy for her. Congrats!

YF smsed after returning from the cruise, to confirm on tmr's activity.
To JUrong west swimming ctr.. rain or shine, must get out of the house.. die-die must play.. we got not much time liao!!!


Spend the rest of my Sunday at home.. alone & nothing much to do, jus laundry, bored. No one to talk to.. so silent at home. Waited and waited for kevin to call me.. so my mobile phone always with me 24/7, by my side or in my pocket .. my boredom was relieved when i received his phonecalls.

15 days left to go..

We are schduled to be back at ward by 1st Feb, but a lot of things not settled by ur HR dept. Initially, we were told to return to the hospital ion 2nd week of dec lastest, to collect our uniforms, our bagde, make payment for the nursing licence stuff and medical check up. So far no calls from them for such urgency.. Wonder if they got do their job!

Woke up early today about 0530hrs to see Kev off to Clementi Camp. Observed that, his cat, Alley itching all over.. scratching and licking.. bathed her, finally. After that,placed her collar so that she will not lick her body too much .. don't know why this cat has always got body itch... ( hmmm, wonder if there's piriton for pets?) Must remember to take the collar off, before i leave home.. so else,she will starve..

Going to the zoo with YF and Shiken. Last minute cancellation from Hankee as he's at the A&E- mum admitted for high fever. Hui Ping.. not coming.. So it's going to be the 3 of us again..

Anyways.. the weather is good today and hope that it will stay this way for the rest of the week..

Bring raincoat,jus in case!!! But ah.. do i have a raincoat?!? Hmmmm....

Kevin goes for 3weeks ICT ...

Yesterday, he left for ICT. Since he'll be away, I thought that it would be a good idea to follow adik and along with HP and YF to Malacca. The plan was to accompany Adik, drive to Malacca to send her grandma back to her hometown, and at the same time, to spend 1 nite there, sight-seeing and to play, of cos! And everyone was so excited for it.

Kevin was fine with it but my mum stopped me for going since Kev not around..and not to do extra-ordinary things... while he's gone.. aiyah, that's it.. cannot go lor..It was a bit difficult to break the bad news to her.. After explaining my situation.. that i felt 50-50 about going.. Thankfully Adik was understanding abt it even thought a bit disappointed.. but she has gotten over it when me and YF went to see her yesterday, for lunch at her place, followed by window shopping at Jurong Point and makan .. again ... at West Coast Hawker Centre. It was raining the whole of yesterday .. we didn't have much things to do but to walk indoors and eat.. which we felt that we don't really enjoy window shopping.. Nothing in the mall interest us.. well except for that stereo speakers fitted in a stuff toy found at Kiddy Palace.

So we talked about going to the Zoo anytime next week.. and if the weather gets better, we should go to Ubin as planed..

Time is running short.. with 2 weeks left .. there are still things needed to be done .. and a lot more places to go..activity to do..

Better write down what i really want to do .. in my iNote!!

Activity 090107: soakfeet cum bowling day

Last Tuesday, took my friends to gambas camp where the hot spring is to soak our feet.

It started to rain jus when we wanted to make our way to the camp from North Point Mac D. And that, did not stop us. We liked it anyway.. we didn't want too much sun cos we had enough of it already from the previous Sentosa trip.

It kept us cool and of cos, no sweat.. We had our umbrellas so, it was no problem at all.

No one was at the hot spring. Anyway.. who wants to come just to soak feet on such wet weather?.. only people like us who has got nothing better to do..

And so we had the whole place to ourselves.. we talked whatever we like and as loud as we want to .. relaxing in the open, having our feet soaked in that warm water, under the rain.. We spent about 2 hours there and, since the rain didn't stop, i invited my friends over to my place for lunch. We watched Scary Movies 4 and they were so OK with my cats.. Tabbie loves their attention..

Then, in the evening, unplanned.. our Adik, brought us all, to Marina South for bowling to relieve some stress. Kevin joined us too. My friends don't mind him coming along at all. They are comfortable with kevin around. and our conversations not limited to "girl talk" and there's a variety of other things to talk about not limited to school and work stuff.. And best when Kev and Adik meet face to face.. it will be like in the Arena.

Haven't been bowling for quite some time.. and i felt the strain on the whole part of my right hand, especially my wrist.. the ache felt like after the "pull-up patient" effect.

We had a great time and looking forward to ...what's next !

i-note or do nothing..

Supposed to have an ala- candle light dinner tonight but kev got to work till midnight.

While preparing for the lamp chop and stuff..., he called to tell me that. Not disappointed at all cos, tomorrow he's not required to be at work! So we have the whole day to do a lot of other things...

Need to do check list so that we will not miss out on anything. We can be very forgetful and then we "tai chi" each other for forgeting to remind each other of the things we need to do.

That's why i need an i-note!

I would write down what i plan to do the following day, the night before i go sleep.
Usually, before kev step out for work, he will ask what's on my list for today.. my agenda.. my activity .. quickly and sometimes excitedly, i tell him my itinery for the day..

I list down the things i need to do, places to go or things to get.. so as to get things going and done with.. if not, i would just laze, do nothing, roll on the bed from side to side, tv watch me, ... then the day wasted away. Things like : go somewhere, wash/iron clothes, wash toilet, tidy the kitchen, bathe the cats.. and then, i'll crossed out the things that i have done ...
Wah.. after that i will feel so satisfied.. and at the end of the day.. i update kev.

But so far, bathing cats... still not crossed yet and not even in the list already, .. they hate to bathe.. ah.. wait till they are really smelly...

Another thing on my list which i have to accomplish is to finish my oolong slimming tea... Difficult task!

To the Beach, Movies and Eat eat eat

Was at Siloso beach last Friday with some friends.. and we had lots for fun!
The photos tells it all...

Then, yesterday me and kev went for movie.. "The Last Dance".

Always feeling hungry.. .. so we went to Swensons' for apple crumble..to fill our stomach , before the movie.

Hmmm.. about the movie ..no too bad la.. but a bit messy.. confusing but ok lor..

My final verdict: Left the cinema.. no feeling of the movie .. but craved for chinese noodle.. cos, in one of the scene.. the officer ordered chinese noodle, wah.. the way he eat so shiok.. , and kevin felt the same way too.

So we headed to Far East Plaza for noodle.
Ordered Shredded chicken noodle for myself and Kev eat Fried Ee Mee...

chinese movies, i watched..

I am begining to like watching triad-themed Hong Kong/ chinese movies.
I have seen a few of such movies and other HK movies which kevin took me to but i cannot recall the titles..
Yesterday i watched Election and Election 2, loan them from Play!

Election” is the rather odd, but apparently true, story of how a Triad Society in Hong Kong chooses their new leader, or Chairman. Up for the job are Lok (Simon Yam), a seemingly mild-mannered, intelligent gangster and single parent to a young teen, and the explosive Big D (Tony Leung Ka Fai), who wants the job at all costs. Bribery, bullying, and other means of extorting votes from the elder Triads have commenced in full as the story begins. It isn’t long before Lok is elected Chairman, but to fully assume power and be recognized as the new chieftain, he must first take control of a token baton passed on from one Society chief to the next for over 100 years. To this end, both Lok and Big D send out their underlings and allies in search of the baton, even as the police, led by the stout Superintendent Hui (former kung fu star David Chiang) clamps down...

Lately we watched Confession of Pain.. good movie to catch too. Good acting by Tony Leung and Takeshi, and act-cute Shu Qi, made the movie fun to watch.



and also.. Curse of the Yellow Flower.. hmmm.. Not much artistic martial arts but has got pretty colours and sightingss...
Chow Yun Fatt.. good acting in this movie... i thought he is going to look awkward in this kind of old traditional movie..
GongLi is preeetty.. think she's the main attraction for pple to come watch the movie.. besides pop idol Jay Chou.. this guy got to take more acting lessons.. his facial expressions jus made the audience laugh... young modern looking man.. lost in the old time zone..

Liang cha

i think i better finish my oolong tea..
kev bought it for me late last year.. 25 sachets only and yet i couldn't finished it in a mth.
To encourage me drinking the tea daily, we went around different stores from orchard to chinatown, searching for a good tea pots and thermal drinking flask..

I brought a thermal flask to school and my friends watched me drink. I did offered them some, but they refused cos, the smell already made them go .. eeeee ...yucks. It was like drinking medicine.. bitter ..

In fact, it is a type of medicine..it has it's health benefits..

Oolong tea is good. Oolong (also spelt Wulong, or Wu Long) is literally 'black dragon' tea, but they say the name originally had nothing to do with dragons; rather, it was named after its discoverer Wu Liang.

Like other tea, Oolong is rich in antioxidants called polyphenols. These help prevent cancer, keep the heart healthy and aid general well-being.

Drinking good tea such as this, has other benefit like it helps to reduce the development of oxidized fatty materials in the bloodstream, such as low-density-lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, the bad cholesterol, which linked to the formation of artery-clogging plaque and heart attacks.

It also help people to shed some pounds, which my frens commented that there's nothing left in me to shed.. But actually, have ah !!.. only Kev knows..

Since i got 1 mth break, .. will make sure by end of this mth, this oolong tea no more in the drawer.. I am left about 10 more sachets..

Last day of the year..

31 Dec 2006 - Hari Raya Haji and ultramarathon.

Kev finished the 1st lap earlier than me and waited somewhere along the road, near the finish line to take pictures of me coming in minutes later.. Then, after the short break, we ran the 2nd lap together. This year's run was a bit tough . Maybe because i didn't prepare for it. In fact in all the running competition, i hardly train for any of it. I just whack only. The most important thing is to be able to finish the race. But last Sunday's run was really cialat. Wanted to give up after the 2nd lap, to follow kevin home.

The 3rd lap, I was still going strong until going into 4th lap, when i felt the presence of a girl,with a blue umbrella walking behind me. Looked back, noticed a familiar runner, so i decided to make friend. Her name is Joey, 23 yr old.
We ended up walking and talking throughtout the 10.5km ++ ( they say this distance is longer than what it is supposed to be, cos of the landslide.. the route has changed and i hate it. got to go thought the steps..No wonder, it felt like "cannot make it")
We took about 3hrs to reach the start point.. and by then we were so damn hungry.
We sat awhile, re-fuel and at time it was like about 4pm. We almost wanted to give up.. cos our legs could take it. We didn't even want to try to run a bit. Leg too painful liao.. killer.. cramp.. head also cramp.. felt sleepy.... stress..

After some encouragement from the committee, we set off for our final 5th lap around 415pm. Reached at 7km around 6, and we decided to run slowly starting from the water point along the road. No matter how painful.. die die must reach before 6-45pm.

We quessed that we were the last 2 to complete 5 laps, so we decided to hold hands to finish together in style. We finally did it. What a relieve!


in 2004, my first ultra timing was 11hrs 41 min
2005- 10 hrs 01min
this yr ... 11hrs 30 mins.
Next yr.. may not want to take part already..

Didn't have time to wait for my cert cos i need to rush to my parents' house for hari raya , and then to Juli's open house latest by 10pm.. and lastly for countdown at Sentosa. With muscle aching all over the body,especially the lower limb.. and was up since 5am , I was like so stoned when i finally got to rest! What a way to end 2006!