randomly, pple you barely know touch your life with things they write.

so i went home to search the bed for any bugs, but to no avail and ended up sleeping on a spare mattress, pillow and blanket.
(shiwei -- new sheets, not NEWS SHEETS hahaha, im sure i'd like to sleep on newspapers like a karanggg guni)

my mom scoured the house for bugs this morning, and found a few crawly things in the couch which were realllyyy tiny, while i was at school. so upon reaching home the house had officially turned into half a war zone, because apparently the computer chair was found to be a carrier of bugs also. now all the 'infested' materials which include the computer chair, the couch AND all the couch cushions AND, worst of all, my favvy animals which reside on the couch with me...are bound for the dustbin.


the tigers have been with me since my age was a single digit, and the hippo was a vday pres from junting in sec3/4.
do i really have to let them go )):
i am such a sucker at letting things go, even if they are none living things.
i wish i could pack them into a plastic bag and stash them away somewhere..or better, send them for dry cleaning as my sis suggested.
but my mom insists they MUST GO cause bugs like to hide in furry things (hundreds of dollars on seeing skin doctor or a few toys less??!!)

sigh, life feels like its falling apart these weeks.
i hope it gets better soon.

that's the last we'd see of lab 2, which has been faithfully serving dental students from 1987 until just last week. i think i'd miss the familiarity of it all..the cluster, the plaster room, the adrenaline you get from running back from the amalgamator just so your amalgam wont set on you..but definitely NOT the smell of monomer (which i suspect causes early brain cell death).
the new place apparently, will be a lot smaller due to space contraints, and rumour has it that the units wont be arranged in clusters, but in straight lines so as to conserve space ): will it be like some factory production line?

anyhow, the packing and moving process took much shorter than i expected.
brian declared "because i'm here whaaaat' ahhaah.
ok but much credit to him for helping me stack the gazillion boxes and carrying it out, fetching me back and finally dumping it in my house, though not failing to drop one box just at the last critical moment of placing the boxes down in my house. hahaha.
zanks very much llk :) i appreciate it muchly.

today my mom (as usual) was going through nippon paint ads and pointing out which wall colours she thinks are nice..and then she suddenly spoke of repainting the house and that apparently she has been "doing her homework" hahaha.

sometime in mid december perhaps. alongside with a change of window grills and a new sofa now that the old one is kinda in bits and shrabs (not to that extent but yea you get the idea).

hahah i think im like more excited than she is about it. after 20 years of living here we are FINALLY doing something about it. looks like all my incessant whinings to her about how we're in dire need of some renovation have finally borne some fruit. heh :D

now, to hope it actually DOES materialise and not float away like most airy talk would..and the downside that i've to stay home those days to help shift the furniture and stuff around. "plastering them to the floor like little islands" hahaha.

on a separate note, 2012 is a good show! go catch it :) the plot is rather cliched, but the effects are wow, breath-taking. felt as if i was sitting on an exhilarating roller coaster ride as the ground collapsed behind the car driving down the highway. although admittedly, some parts are quite ridiculous, for e.g the giraffes and elephants being flown up into the sky HAHA. but on the whole, still worthwhile watching :D

november spells a crazily hectic month and needless to say im starting to feel the heat (and exhaustion) despite being only 2 days into the month..

life has been too happening, with so many meetups and birthday celebrations in oct, alongside with car rally followed by 2am supper at the fattening Swee Choon....
ben brought the remaining level 6 spicy wings from sunset grill for us to try and it was certainly SUPER HOT. the kind that makes your lips swell and makes you gasp for breathe and down lots of water/chinchow/milk.

still, facebook spells more than the excitement i've been through though, and i do get wee bits of jealously as i randomly scroll through albums of pple overseas (the awesome scenery there!!) and outings that i could have been at....rarr.
but like ber says sacrificing things beats seeing a big U on the report card (or F in the case of dental sku)

so..mugging time commences and tonight i officially embark on the arduous journey by attempting to memorise my REMOVABLE PARTiAL DENTURE notes

alongside with, ironically, my aching non-existent abs...
which hurt everytime i wince or move or worse still, sneeze.
(apparently, ytd's run wasnt all that futile.)
 

matt helped me fix my wireless!! hahaha thanks mattttttt =)
now NUSOPEN network finally allows internet access on my comp hooray!
having a laptop which was unable to connect to the internet in school was like a bird without wings.

apart from that, my bday this year seemed very extended :)
thank you everyone who made it very special.
gene, for the wed after-movie surprise,
xinzi for the special delivery,
titus the labbie for the jelly like chocolate cake and for summoning the whole class to partake in the cake-consuming ceremony,
the girlies for the black pepper crabbing and guitar heroes
churchies for the sat surprise and lovely time
and yongkang,qq, ben for the XXXXL brownie...
hahaha to conclude, this year, i realized pple have a strange tendency to associate me with FOOD.
oh dear. why oh why.
(seriously im not THAT piggerish okay hahaha)

and yes of course, meeting shiwei today.
watami dinner and shopping! HAHA.
as a more foolproof plan for bday present shopping for each other, we decided to hint very uh subtly whenever we found something we like.
like "HEY I LIKE THIS BAG!". followed by a very large grin which says hee heeee heeeeee.
still, over and above all the eating and shopping, nothing beats a relaxing night out with a good ol pal (:
 

Christy tagged me in a facebook note today.
This is what it read.

church today came as a good break. daniel asked me and ben to serve CH last minute,
and despite my attempt to not get assigned to The Door, i was once again, assigned to The Door.
hahaha. the two other ladies at The Door with me were having a rather interesting conversation about how in church there are many many single women who are very pretty. so i was just standing there smiling at whatever they said, feeling very amused and figuring that keeping my mouth shut regarding the topic would be the best way to go.
then, ben dumped the offering envelopes he was carrying on me on his way out to be the cashbag escort. and one of the ladies went "eh, your brother?" hahahahahahaha. seriouslyyyyy. double amusement.

alright back to typing out my elearning lect notes now.  
they are such a bore; i've almost exhausted the entire bag of candy empire chocs that i bought for someone but sadly forgot to pass to the person ytd :(

such a fistful of lectures and ongoing projects. 
its only been THREE days and we have already accumulated about 4cm thick of notes. hahaha.

still im glad year 1 is over. no more biochem; no more nonsensical un-dental related science subjects.
now it's down to da real thing and we are all going to learn by experience, to make whatever mistakes here rather than on real patients..and yes eventually, to become good, ethical, skilled dentists:)

apart from that, the social life has been pretty packed too.
meet ups with all the ex classmates, ex councilmates etc
church, cell, planning for back to(in) school bash,
guitar on sats with ben & eli,
sp course on sundays till end aug,
netball/capts ball trainings,
orientation camp, rag&flag, float building, 
tuition..and what not.

it pretty much feels like jc days once more where everyday is shag-day but i must say i'm lovin' it.
exercise for one thing, is a happy-go-getter.
adrenaline rushes~

on a random note, i just had an entire dinner plate full of strawberries, grapes and cherries.
that makes about the healthiest thing i've eaten in about a month:) hhaha