sHiNwEi
tWeNty
yong loo lin school of medicine
hwa chong institution
dunman high
17march1987

+not get retained
+chio flip phone
+lotsa time to sleep
+Sony Playstation Portable
+volkswagon beatle convertible
+a soulmate
+to see the 7 wonders

went to cuixi's house for a post-xmas lunch. haha cuixi kept telling me tt she is a v good cook, and invited me, tammy and ian tatt over to her place to sample her specially cooked lunch. while waiting for ian tatt, tammy and i looked through cuixi's collection of food recipes. she has so many of them!! haha we learnt tt the scgs girls had to collect their own recipes and submit them as homework for home economics. haha~ so cool. i bet all scgs girls must be damn good cooks. the only time i ever tried studying a recipe was for my home economics final exam practical in sec 2. haha i rem i cooked mee siam. the teacher din seem to be v impressed den though.

i was not disappointed at all at the standard of the food. there were quite alot of dishes, such as ham and egg, tomatoes with rosemary, fish with milk and kiwi, and potatoes and carrots with some herb(forgot the name). den we had strawberry yoghurt cheesecake for desserts. yummies!! =))



the strawberry yoghurt cheesecake..with lotsa real strawberry chunks!

after lunch we watched "the holiday".. hehe~
i m rather determined to learn abit of cooking skills myself.. haha. seems to be quite fun. i shall use the last week of this hols to experiment abit with my mama's new convection oven. its pretty cool, can bake, steam, grill lotsa stuff. haha~ yay i m quite excited. going to search for some recipes later. hehe
-Shin- 10:38 PM


maris is back!! haha~ it seems tt dhs bball team will only meet up whenever maris comes back. haha this time, she is back from australia, so we met up the day after xmas!

yy and i were the earliest from our team to arrive.. even though we were already half an hour late. haha for our team, it really doesnt matter wat time the meeting time is, it is purely for reference sake. haha~~ like this time, we were supposed to meet at 7pm, but the latest person to arrive(no prizes for guessing who) came at about 9.45 pm. haha.

anw, the 'early birds', consisting of me, yy, maris, chin ee, and jialing went off to cafe cartel @marina square first. peng yu, pk, yingru, yueshan and jinyuan den joined us. so nice to see everyone again! we were looking through the photos of the team together when we were still in sec 4. haha everyone has aged!! hahaha~ we were commenting on how innocent jy looked den. heh.. den yueshan and jy began to tell some leng xiao hua. haha i love yueshan's joke on the gang dang (potato)! super duper funny!!

dhs bball unite!

den we decided to go to geylang to eat durians!! hahah~~we had always passed by the durian shops in geylang during our dunman days.. many times we had said tt we should go dere for durians but it had never materialized. funny tt years down the road we finally got down to doing it. haha.. so we split into 2 cars, pengyu's and jy's. haha it was quite exciting to be in jy's car. she almost knocked down pengyu when he was trying to direct her while she was reversing into the parking slot. super scary girl. haha
it was my first time eating durians in a durian shop. haha v fun! we had to open the durians ourselves. yueshan almost killed me while she was trying to split open the durian! the durian shell was like flying towards me la!! hehe

after tt me, yy, yingru, yueshan and maris cabbed down to NTU. we were going to stay overnight at yy's room and play mahjong! haha we played till early morning! den maris and yingru left early in the morning cos yingru had school and maris needed to catch her flight. byebye maris!!! hope she comes back next yr leh.. if not the team prob wun meet up until god knows when. haha~

later in the morning, tagged along with yy to her hall's bball match. saw quite a few ex-hwa chong bballers, including cheryl poon. wa she still as zai as ever! hah after tt played friendly matches with yy's teammates and hall pple. v fun! soo long since i last played properly! must say i miss playing competitively alot..

slept like a log on the way back. i got butt cramps from sitting for too long on the mrt. boon lay to pasir ris leh. dun play play.
-Shin- 9:30 PM


finally, a 04s71 sentosa outing after soo long!! so happie!! haha heard abt the plan for a sentosa outing quite early from suan and i have marked out the day--the eve of xmas eve in anticipation! haha wrote a super duper big SENTOSA on my calendar. haha~

the girls were late as usual. haha its already becoming 71 tradition. sometimes i feel so sorry for the guys. i shall try to be punctual for outings next time. when suan and i reached macs, all the guys were already there waiting. cant believe all of them still bother to be punctual after all these time. haha~~ waited for the junjia, den we set off for sentosa!!


with the beary xmas tree just before we set off!

surprisingly it wasnt raining tt day..since it had been raining for the past days..so lucky! so off we went to palawan beach!! we managed to get a court! haha we were surprisingly not as rottish as we expected. looks like our 2 years of volleyball experience is not all wasted! heeh

being the ever nice 04s71, we decided to let another group use our court when they asked.. den it started to drizzle so off we went for lunch at sakae sushi! yayz..after paying, we realised tt they forgot to include junjia's meal into the total price, so we had 12 bucks left over. being the although-nice-but-not-so-honest people tt we are, we decided to use the leftover money to buy ice cream from New Zealand Natural!! haha~~

so we enjoyed ice cream while waiting for the rain to stop.. den huilin joined us! haha we were having a good time sharing gossips and also listening to huilin talk abt life in Uchic.

we finally got a court after the rain stopped!! the guys were playing a match by the time the girls returned from the toilet.. haha the girls were commenting on how we lower the standards of our guys' volleyball skills. they seem to be able to play much better w/o us. haha~~ oops. unfortunately they still lost the court to better opponents and we had to content ourselves with playing in a circle for the rest of the day. haha~~ but it was still rather fun!!
looks abit like a 'quan jia fu' rite heh




met damian at vivo city, den we went off to pastamania for dinner after realising tt all the places in vivo are super duper packed. haha~ looks like 71's tradition of eating at pastamania is not to be broken.

after dinner we went off to vivo city to enjoy the christmas atmosphere.. we took lotsa nice photos!! haha as usual we did lotsa stupid and funny stuff..the funniest was the photos we took at the fountain area. the 'little monsters' there kept on spraying water at us. haha~~ we were laffing our heads off as anthon and yisheng tried to help one another take a photo of water jetting out of their mouths. hahaha super duper funny!! the photo turned out rather unsuccessful though.. den there was this photo where all of us stood in front of the fountain and raised up our arms.. unfortunately the person taking the photo for us cleverly took the photo of us--without the fountain. erps. in the end we just ended up looking like some mad idiots raising our arms at nothing in particular... haha we laughed our heads off at tt.


ahh i love this xmas tree!! so chio!!

den we went up to the roof and enjoyed the night scenery of sentosa island. haha tried to tink back at wat i did in year 2006.. doesnt seem to be much, but i wun say its been a bad year. tink i should count my blessings in 2006 for many many things.. yupps. as for new year resolutions, i din bother to set them cos i never ever got round to realising them. muahaha

hopefully 2007 will be a great year!! looking forward to countdown with 71!!
-Shin- 11:13 PM


thurs, 21st; went to meet yy at bedok to play badminton. haha~ been soo long since i met up with her! we kept wanting to meet for good food etc but due to differing schedules we kept postponing it. been ages since i last exercised. haha really been leading a damn slacko lifestyle.

went for lunch at pizza hut first. haha we shared 3 set lunches! plus we added on drumlets and garlic bread. haha ate till we were super full.. think i m going to swear off pizza hut for one month. gosh. in the end we left more than half of the chicago spaghetti untouched. all yy's fault, bluffed me tt definitely can finish the food. haha. think we overestimated our own appetitites.

so we went to play badminton with ultra full stomachs. haha~ i could still feel the beef lasagne and pizza in my tummy while playing. haha~ i was ultra lousy la. wun say tt i m any good at badminton, but i was at least able to beat yy at badminton during pe lessons years ago. this time round, i was totally thrashed by her. haha. my lungs felts like they were going to explode after just 2 games. haiz.

both of us became tired v quickly and we wasted our court booking by just sitting at the court and chatting. haha~ lao le lao le.

after this, went to my uncle's house to meet my mama. havent seen my little cousins amanda and aloysius for so long! haha~ my 3 year old cousin amanda became totally excited over my badminton racket and kept draggin me to play badminton with her. since she took my racket, poor me, i had to use the racket COVER to play with her. hahah~~ must say playin with amanda was about 3 times more tiring than playing with yy. i had to force her to do puzzles with me instead of playing badminton, so tt i could get a breather. gosh. feel so old!! haha

din help when the 2 year old aloysius woke up and decided to fight with her sister over the "new toy"-- my badminton racket. haha. gosh. tink i will go mad if i have kids next time. haha~~
-Shin- 11:53 PM


ah i love holiday life! the feeling of being able to sleep till late morning, without having to wake up to the irritating noise of the alarm clock totally rawks! haha~~ found a nice website to watch anime and drama~ love the website! its at www.crunchyroll.com .just finished watching the whole series of "it started with a kiss". yayz~~and my room's makeover is almost complete! its now totally super duper condusive for mugging. haha~ i got a new big study table with shelves so that i can display all my medical books out. muahaha. hope i actually get down to reading them though. =))

anyway, today went down to assisi home and hospice, this home for cancer patients just next to Mount Alvernia Hospital. it is an activity organised by the voluntary corps of Sheares Hall. decided to be adventurous and find my way there myself, after consulting streetdirectory.com. haha got lost for awhile near Braddell mrt station trying to find the bus stop to take the bus down to Mount Alvernia.
got to talk to some of the elderly patients dere and also play with the little kids.the patients dere are very different from wat i expected them to be. before i went to the home, i imagined the patients dere to be very sickly and confined to their beds. but to my surprise, many of them look rather well, esp the kids, who are as friendly and rowdy as normal healthy kids. choi mei and i talked to these 3 girls who kept on pestering us to tell them ghost stories. haha~~ tried my best to cook up watever i can still recall from camps and chalets.


C-towners @ Assisi Home!
-Shin- 10:07 PM


feel so oddly free now that the exams are over..like got so much time to do things i wanna do~back from one whole day of shopping at the newly opened IKEA tampines near my place. meatballs!! yay.. i m really happy that the new ikea is so near my house. its only a 15 min walk away! haha tink i m going to grow fat on meatballs. i was shoppping for new furniture for my room's makeover. decided to give my room a makeover to make it less boring.

fri, after our last paper-anatomy, bow wow and i went to marina square for lunch, den went to bugis to watch movie. ah the bugis theatre was really bad! reminded me of princess in bedok. haha~ we watch dejavu. thought it was a ulu movie at first, but it turned out to be quite nice. thought the plot was very clever, though the twists gave me a v bad headache, esp as it was after the terribly difficult anat paper.

sat, met up with hc 130 for lunch! been quite long since the last time we met up. haha suan had to treat mudooze for pangsehing us last min the last time! yay~ we tried the warm bread with pudding there. yummies!!
den we went to take neoprints! haha been so long since i last took neoprints. realised that after 04s71 i seem to have outgrown neoprints. haha~ we all felt so old looking at the neoprints in the shop. haha the pple all look so young! we are lao ren

sun, went back to sheares to pack my stuff and move out. when i reached the front door of sheares and opened my wallet to get my matric card to open the gate, i couldnt believe how stupid i was. i left the matric card in my pencil case cos we had to use it for identification during exams!! gosh i felt so stupid and sorry. cos i made my poor dad drive all the way back to pasir ris and den to sheares again just becos of my stupidity. arggh..
there was surprisingly lots of things to pack and move. din really feel much nostalgia, i guess cos i mia too much and am often not in hall anyway. haha

arggh ,my room is in a mess now cos half the things frm my hall room is unpacked!! ahh how
-Shin- 10:31 PM


arggh monday will be my first CA paper on biochem and i cant rem anything!! went to mug with bowwow yesterday at bugis.. we went to sim lim square to shop for her ipod first :)) so jealous!! i wan money to drop from the sky! went to miss clarity cafe to eat.. we wanted to mug there but realised that it was too noisy and crowded..

so we went to Hans cafe outside national libary to mug instead. stayed there till late evening but i practically din do anything much the whole day!! i realised i spent a total of 8 hours outside and only succeeded in studying one pathetic set of amino acids notes. gosh.
i am going to fail for sure.

pray that all my tikaming will end up correct..haha~~

cant wait for the CAs to end so that i am finally slack without feeling guilty.

oooh i had my first clinical exposure! got posted to SGH.. it was so fin and interesting la!! the doctor with our group thought us quite alot of stuff.. got to see 3 cases: one respi case, one cardio case and one patient with jaundice... realised there is really so much to learn before we step up to really become a practising doctor!!
-Shin- 12:18 AM