2nd last day of 2006...

this year... i have...

started work/repaying my 6 years bond...

climbed mount ophir+sprained my ankle

took part in 2 10km run...

tried to learn rollerblading...

finally went to kbox in singapore...4 times...

learnt salsa...

went to bintan (and din get a tan....)

went to melbourne (and din get much of a tan...)

emcee-ed for the first time...

last year this time....

i was in paris...

this year this time...
back in sg, with a wine&cheese party tonight, a bbq tmr, visiting my cousin's new baby boy the day after...and then, i think i need some serious rest before facing the chaos on wednesday...

new year resolutions??
hmmm...

1) eat less..
2) exercise more..
3) learn another form of dance...
4) seriously get organised about stuff...
5) stop whining everyday (maybe once a week?)

i'll start with 5 first...
then i'll figure out more along the way...

right, back to doing my CPE+PGR...
TKR and necrotising fasciitis...
ahh...wat a way to end the year...

eve of xmas eve...

supposed to be mahjong night but bro is heading out to dunnowhere...

left with me, daddy and mummy...

haiz...

that day, this patient of mine folded these paper lilies...

[this is a patient who is usually quite not cooperative...

so, when nurses ask him to walk, he say 'mai lah mai lah! (dun want lah dun want lah!)'

but when i go in,

he will ask 'le zou wun dong eh huh? (u do exercise one huh?)'

and then when i say 'si lor (yes lor)', he will happily get up and walk with me.

*gringrin*]

anyway, back to the paper lilies...

he gave me one!

*awwwwww*

my first flower from a guy after i am single

-_-

okie, so he's my pt and he gave me the flower cos i said they are very pretty...

but still, it felt nice..

i was so proud of the flower, i showed it to everyone in the office at that time..

and to my mummy as well...

just saw this powerpoint slide about how blessed i am to have money in my bank, clothes on my back, roof over my head, food in my fridge, able to read, able to give a hug, able to attend religious meetings without getting killed etc etc etc...

and after i saw it..

i told myself that i seriously have to stop whining about being single...

i mean...

having a partner wasn't one of the 'blessed' things mentioned..

so i guess, having a partner may not be that much of a blessing??

i sure miss having someone around to pamper me

(welll.....not that i got alot of pampering...but even once in a while was nice..)

sometimes, the solitude on weekends really get to me..esp during PMS week :P

but i guess...

compared to the many people who are starving, dying, poor and disabled...

being single (even on xmas, vday, bday......-_-) isn't such a big deal...

or at least..

that's what i keep telling myself..

i need a big big poster that say 'stop whining!!' on my wall...

then again..

i need space for my new poster...

my new Initial D poster with Jay Chou on it..

wahahahahahaha

many thanks to YH for the gift :D

hmm...really need to get my room sorted out...

it's been more than a year that i've graduated and come back..

and things are still in boxes...

goodness...

mmm...

if i'm a really good girl..

maybe i'll be blessed with Nobody for bday/xmas next year :D

LDR with a stuffed toy is so hard...

i can't get all the xmas carols out of my head..
as i am walking my ah pehs and ah mahs,
my head is filled with

feliz navidad! feliz navidad!
i wanna wish you a merry christmas...
jingle bell jingle bell jingle bell rock...
and a happy new year!

sigh...
but somehow, that's all the xmas spirit i can muster up for this year..
last year this time..
i am in linkoping, preparing to go to barcelona for xmas...
i wonder when will i ever see a white xmas....
(got white post xmas last yr)
this yr is just wet xmas...

but i like the rain...
it's nice to listen to the rain...
soothing...

but i also dun like rain...
cos it makes me think...

watever...
i only know that this yr..
xmas is gonna be me, myself and I
:(

where's nobody?!!?

*sob*
*whimper*
*whine*
*groan*
*moan*

pain...pain...pain!!

the 5 worst things to endure when not feeling well
1) coughing fits
2) stomachache
3) vomitting
4) headaches
5) sore throat

*cough**ouch**whimper*

can someone please get me nobody?
i need sayang...

*sobsob*

tmr is gonna be the 1st time i MC from work...
and i am so glad i got the MC
because in order to see my patient without infecting them,
i have to wear a mask..
and my voice become muffled..
on top of that, i already sound kinda off cos my throat is sore..
and that my half-deaf ah peks and ah mahs cannot hear me..
so i end up half shouting..
which then trigger off the uncontrolled coughing...
and then the tears come..
and my chest hurts..
so tmr, i get to stay at home...
and hopefully by wednesday, the cough won't get triggered so easily

in the meantime,
i just hope my throat can stop itching and i can stop coughing...

i miss nobody!! :(

was clearing out some stuff from my wardrobe...

and discovered alot of things which i've packed and forgotten their existence...
so...

this post is gonna be a trip down Gretel's memory lane...
not in order of years...but in the order of my discovery today...


a present from someone in primary school - an address book which is magnet on both sides. little bob dog!! i haven't seen little bob dog around for some time...


and i opened it up..and on the 'identification' page..i found this..
my handwriting in primary school is bad...and i laughed when i read 'in emergency notify papa/mama'. *snigger* oh well...i was primary 6 and it din occur to me that in an emergency, ppl wouldn't know who 'papa/mama' is :P


my "rolex" when i got admitted into Alexandra Hospital cos i fainted while working as a therapist assistant. note the address is not mine but the address of the physiotherapist i was following.


my NCC days :D
this pic is taken in sec 4. think we were very near to ord-ing already.

then i found my sticker album!!

and the stickers inside are ancient. Kampung Burger from Mac's...SailorMoon and the captain from the noodle snack(is it called captain's noodle? can't remember)...

next thing i found is a stash of old IC size photos. clockwise from top left - primary 2, primary 6, sec 1-2 and JC1. geez, those godawful giant-plastic-framed glasses...

and with this stash of photos, i confirm germ's theory that people get uglier as they get older :(

next up: my old libraray card, with the old NLB logo.

and my old POSB passbook, with the old POSB logo. my dad even printed my name on the cover so we dun mix up our passbooks :D

after this, i found a stack of photos which are actually a collection of pics of myself from different phases of my life...

awww, an old photo of bro and i having fun on the beach
i look so happy! according to my mum, i always look very happy when i am playing with water

more pics of babie gretel...more evidence that proves germ's theory

and another pic of Hansen and Gretel. the bear that my bro is holding is called 小飞.

sec 1/2 classmates...

sec 3/4 classmates

JC1/2 classmates...

my dancing days...and my fellow HC dancers

the relief teacher relay team, which won gold for the teachers' race :D

ahh...a pic of yours truly with braces on...that's in J2

and right at the bottom of the pile of photos, my diary from my pre-blogging days...

this diary was started in 1997, and 'her' name was supposed to be Angel (so i started the entry with dear Angel). that name lasted for like 1 week and then it became dear 'diary'

during my obession with HZGG in J2, i started to write cheena poems...well..lousy cheena poems...some examples here..one of them goes like this

“信心十足进考场，可我偏偏出状况。

又急又怕泪汪汪，这次经验如何忘？”

i believe i wrote this after my A-levels Chem Prac exam which i had some screw up with my solutions...and till today, i still dunno wat happen with my solutions that made my experiment screw up so bad, i had to ask the examiner to change my solutions and ask for extra time -_-

date of my last entry in the diary...i dun even remember bringing this diary to melbourne to write...but evidently..i did...that's like towards the end of my 1st yr in melb

the bookmark (in my diary) from Miss Wee, who is my English teacher in primary 4...i think...

and at the end of my diary (which obviously is written way before i finished using the pages in my diary cos the handwriting is like in sec sch days), a collection of 'My Quotes'.

the 'quotes' are so funny, i just end up laughing at them as i was reading them...

Hilarious Quotes are more like it :D

and that's the end of my journey...

put anymore things up, i might start unearthing some stuff i dun really wanna remember -_-

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the background of my blog is making me crave for curry puffs *drool*

but my cough is denying me the right to eat something that oily...

and my blog looks like the official advertising site for currypuff.com

i want nobody!! :(

yay..
new template!!
and i did that header pic all by myself using microsoft paint *pat on back*

why the change?
a friend commented that my blog title was too depressing..
hence this new title which is supposed to cheer up this blog a bit bit..
actually also wanted to change the url of my blog..
but after changing it, i had to inform ppl that i changed the url..
so in the end...din change it..haha

as for the meaning of the title..i'll let ppl go and think about it..
now i need to rest and hopefully, the cough that plagued me since yesterday is finally gonna take a rest too
:(
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found out a weird and (in my point of view), sick sick SICK thing today...
sometimes, i really dun understand people..
and as much as i want to give credit to this person..
i just feel so SICK when i found out...
so sick that i nearly barfed...and that i couldn't stop shaking from the shock of it for like a whole hour...

good intentions or not...
curiosity or whatever...
this person is just...weird...
and that really really freaked me out...
goodness..
there really are too many types of weirdos out there...

you should exercise because...

funny ad which really brings the message to the masses...

i came in 2939th in the 10km Women's run...
timing = 1h26min56seconds
according to the ChampionChip timing

Considering there are 4928 runners in this category..
i think i did quite alright...haha

or maybe i just want to console myself :P

anyway, it's kinda cool to be running in a 'marathon' with this thingie that goes 'beep' when u step on the mat so it can record your timing..
and it even tells u when u did the U-turn (mine was at 44min15seconds...which means i ran at almost the same pace there and back :D)

today was 'starbuck's on the house' at work. free drinks from 5-7pm...for charity since it's the festive season..
green tea frappe isn't as good when they are rushing to make your drinks...but hey, it's free, so i'm happy...

happier still is when i get back to office and manage to watch videos of the PT fashion show during our year end party :D will upload once i get hold of the videos...for the time being..just some photos...

"Bond girls"!


Best balance team - Neuro!


Best performance team - CP


and Best dressed team - Ortho :D

can't wait for the videos to post them up *giggle*

I
1)am tired
2)and sleepy
3)and achy
4)and mopey
5)have a very stiff and sore neck
6)can't stop thinking about things
7)am still undecided about rebonding my hair
8)wondering if muscle transplant is ever possible
9)miss my 2 weeks in melbourne
10)wish the time had stopped on 17 Nov 2006

did some minor changes to my blog...
cos..i have nothing better to do and would rather sit here and tinker around with my blog than concuss at 9pm again...
concussing at 9pm is fast becoming a habit...have to break that bad bad habit...

i miss nobody!!

10km in 1hr 30mins 20+seconds

continuous running for 4km...

totally running distance ~7km

i've improved from sheares bridge run!!!

YAYY!!

but i am aching so much more this time round..

also konked out on the sofa for like 3 hours once i showered..

and now, i am yawning every minute...

my knees hurt...and my quads are achy..

i feel like crap :(

din bring camera this time..so only have before and after shots for the run...

before the run...

bright and early at 6am in the morning...i only look this fresh for the camera :P

after the run...

not so fresh anymore...completely drained...but had to take a pic with my medal muahahaha

standard chartered run 2007??

yeah...

maybe...

maybe next yr..i can try to run 5km continuously....

maybe...

just...maybe...