Bubbles

Today, as i stepped into the shower to take a bath, a random thought popped into my head:

"When was the last time I played with bubbles?"

Sadly, i could not remember when was that. I had to go way back... back to the days when i was young and *ahem* innocent. A time when i would take long showers, played with water till i wrinkle like raisins, make bubbles in the shower with all the soapy suds and giggle myself silly at the sight of rainbows appearing right in front of me.

What happened to that girl i wonder? What happened to having fun at the oddest moments, or laughing at the silliest things, or forgetting that any problem exists when a chocolate is presented. Where did the girl who listened and hung on to every word mummy says went to? Why have things change just because i get older and time seems shorter with the passing of each year? Hmm...

Anyway, for the first time in years, i played with bubbles in the shower today. And it felt good!

So, when was the last time u played with bubbles? =)

Is it a boon or a bane...

to be her?

Louise Ball

Who's she, you may ask.

Louise Ball is a real-life 15 year old sleeping beauty! Not Sleeping Beauty as in a Disney princess character who sleeps after being pricked by a spindle and can only be awoken by a kiss from her Prince Charming - although i think she's pretty enough to be a sleeping princess, as compared to me - but she's a real human being suffering from a rare condition called Klein Levin syndrome, which is more commonly known as the Sleeping Beauty syndrome.

Was pretty excited to learn there's actually a name to the hobby (ok more like the daily routine) i do every day, till i learn that this pretty little thing here can sleep for days *gasps in envy* and cannot be awakened. Her record of being in bed is 13 days!! Can you imagine that?? Imagine escaping this trouble-filled world we live in for days just by dozing off. Hmm.. one of her dreams alone could be an entire season of Grey's Anatomy! Interesting~

While in the story, Sleeping Beauty has Prince Charming to kiss her to break the spell, the poor girl here doesn't live a fairy-tale life with a happily-ever-after ending. For now, there is no cure for her condition.

So, is it a boon or a bane? Due to her special condition, her family members say she has slept through life’s important events, such as family vacations and school tests (err..). Well, those are the important ones... what about skipping life's unimportant events such as mundane house chores, or boring history classes, or tiresome meaningless small talks at wedding dinners. Now, that would be pretty fun kan? (No offence please to anyone suffering from this Sleeping Beauty syndrome.)

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Article from here.

ps: I really do hope doctors find a cure soon.

So this is it?

After 3 and 1+ sem here in the Pearl of the Orient, is my life as a student over and life of a working bee just about to begin? I'm so torn in between! No, i'm so STUCK in between!! I wanna work, I NEED to work.. and yet the thought of furthering my studies overseas (or at the very least overstraits) seem so much more enticing. How do i choose?

Is my life gonna be stuck in this limbo till my thoughts straighten up by themselves? I'm hoping my thoughts will straighten out itself asap. For now here's the score:

Working in SG : 56%

Working in MY : 24%

Studying : 20%

ARGHH!!! Decisions, decisions, decisions.

I hate making decisions!

='(

You heard it here first

I'm going to Shanghai!!!!

for an IAESTE Forum/Workshop
(not going there to play)

from

12 - 16th November!
(anyone planning a trip there perhaps?)

Whee~!!!! =D

I'm glad my opportunity to go somewhere on IO's account finally came.
I've waited 2 long years, babe...

It's a trip back to the motherland!
(although, i can't say i'm a pure Chinese inside. a banana can't change its skin afterall =P)

But, must I go with 2 ppl i barely know / want to go with?
Why can't i go with my peers??!!! Tian ah...

Anyhow, i'm happy happy! ^^


Oh, any tips (food, shopping, travelling etc) from anyone who's being there before??

That's all. Thanks!! =)

It's amazing

how facebook connects.

The incredible, addictive, time-wasting application Facebook is sometimes so irritating, but at times it serves its purpose too. Just a simple post mite trigger a whole lot of revelation.

An example would be like today,
1. I saw Hemavathi Nalathamby (whom i've not spoken since F6?) posting Deepavali wishes.

2. Left a comment asking how was she and how i missed those days when she would sit in front/behind me during exams (ever since we were std 3!).

3. She replied saying she remembered those mornings in primary school, when Winnie, Hema and I would be the earliest to arrive and open our class doors. (Gosh.. those days we had so much fun while waiting for others to arrive one by one.) hahaha..

4. Next i find out she was studying in Indonesia. In Padang, in Universitas Andalas to be exact - the university where the medical faculty building collapsed! And all these while I had NO idea at all that she was a student there, and that I mite have lost a friend in that earthquake without even knowing it!

It suddenly hit me that there's so many ppl whom i've lost contact, and have no idea what they're doing now. Feels terrible.

Note to self: shd Facebook more often now to look for old friends. hahaha... =P

This is a very random post. =)

Oh and another random observation: Cockroaches in Penang are much much slower n dumber than those in JB. They walk around in circles n don't run for their lives even if "scare" it. I wonder why? hmm..

Technology

The wonders and horrors of it.

.

Humans always want something they can never have.
The truth hurts.
But, truth is less painful than a lie.

Heard This Song Before?

Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)

by Baz Luhrmann

Ladies and gentlemen of the class of ’99, wear sunscreen.

If I could offer you only 1 tip for the future, sunscreen would be it.
The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists,
whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience.

I will dispense this advice, now.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
Oh never mind, you will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded.

But trust me, in 20 years you’ll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.
You’re NOT as FAT as you imagine.

Don’t worry about the future, or worry.
But know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum.

The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind. The kind that blindside you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday.
Do 1 thing everyday that scares you.

Sing.

Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts.
Don’t put up with people who are reckless with yours.

Floss.

Don’t waste your time on jealousy.
Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind.
The race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself.

Remember the compliments you receive, forget the insults.
If you succeed in doing this... tell me how.
Keep your old love letters, throw away your old bank statements.

Stretch.

Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life.
The most interesting people I know, didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don’t.

Get plenty of calcium.
Be kind to your knees, you’ll miss them when they’re gone.

Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t.
Maybe you’ll have children, maybe you won’t.
Maybe you’ll divorce at 40, maybe you’ll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary.

Whatever you do, don’t congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either.
Your choices are half chance.
So are everybody else's.

Enjoy your body.
Use it every way you can.
Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it.
It’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.

Dance.

Even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room.
Read the directions, even if you don’t follow them.
Do NOT read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel UGLY.

Get to know your parents.
You never know when they’ll be gone for good.
Be nice to your siblings;
they are the best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Understand that friends come and go,
but for the precious few you should hold on.
Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle,
Because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young.

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard;
Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.

Travel.

Accept certain inalienable truths -
prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old.
And when you do, you’ll fantasize that when you were young -
prices were reasonable, politicians were noble, and children respected their elders.

Respect your elders.

Don’t expect anyone else to support you.
Maybe you have a trust fund, maybe you have a wealthy spouse;
But you never know when either one might run out.

Don’t mess too much with your hair,
Or by the time you're 40, it will look 85.

Be careful whose advice you buy,
But be patient with those who supply it.
Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for MORE than it’s worth.

But trust me on the sunscreen.



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Heard this like a decade ago - i am so old, i use "a decade ago" to tell time. =/ (this song was released in 1999). And today, my lecturer reminded me of its existence by using it for our consecutive interpreting class (thanks Dr. Leelany!). As it is, i'm attending classes with my juniors who are at least 1 yr younger than me, except for nice Uncle Koay... but to know that you're the only one who've heard of this song, even Vince the "music jukebox" doesn't even know it, makes me feel so old! Am i really THAT old?? hahaha.

Therefore, i need to know, IF anyone of my peers (besides my HBT304 classmates) out there has ever heard of this song before? *crossing fingers*

Hope this song has inspired you as it has inspired me today! =)



**Note: Wear Sunscreen or the Sunscreen Speech are the common names of an essay titled "Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young" written by Mary Schmich and published in the Chigago Tribune as a column in June 1, 1997. In her introduction to the column, she described it as the commencement address she would give if she were asked to give one. The column soon became the subject of an urban legend, in which it was alleged to be an MIT commencement speech given by author Kurt Vonnegut in the same year (in truth, the speaker that year was Kofi Annan).

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Sleepy is an Autobot! hahaha... =P

Guess it's not over yet...

9th June came at last. Met up at 9am in the new lab at school and 10 of us started staring into comps, looking at endless tables of data... And through hard work and cooperation, we all finished by 5pm! What a relief.. The job that has tied down the past 40 days had finally came to an end.. or so we thought.

Went home feeling happy, thinking i could finally begin to enjoy my last month of hols.. but then a message arrived. Dr wants me, XY n ZR to continue helping. And so, here i am at 4.30am, just finished unzipping 185 files, distributing them n zipping them back, uploading them onto the email and waiting... n waiting... till it's finally uploaded before hitting "send".

And that's just the beginning of the work. -.-"

But no matter what, i've to finish this task asap, before Ming Eng arrives on Friday!!!! Yeah baby! Can't wait to spend my entire time with her!!! So far, i've got nothing planned.. but scaring ourselves at the movies is already on the list. hahaha... So exciting!! tralalalala... =D