more like a carpet than a rat now :)

courtesy of my father.

in case you forgot what he was like a month ago... cool huh :)

without going into details, i feel i should say something about the (unnecessarily) big hooha that has been going on about the swine flu. it is pissing me, and almost everyone, off that everything that has been decided so far, has not been made in good judgement. there are too many very impractical protocol/guidelines to follow, unreasonable regulations and unfair decrees that are affecting people from doctors to students alike. in times like these, shoudn't brilliant minds shine and singapore's fantastic "world-class" health system stand out with its great organisational skills?

it simply isn't sustainable, this heightened sense of panic that is rushing through the veins of the healthcare institutions. no one benefits. patients are sent into a frenzied wild goose chase to seek treatment for symptoms that probably are nothing, doctors are sent to do their jobs without the proper equipment just because the code was called without ensuring the provision of adequate protection for those who don't work in hospitals, and students are just on the losing end altogether. not allowed to go overseas for electives, not allowed to be in the wards in singapore, and still have to pay the goddamn school fees? please, if you make me go for mask fitting and report my temperature to you from my house, i'm going to be mightily pissed.

and omg? there's a swine flu "insurance scheme" i saw in the newspapers. preying on people's insecurities and definitely just adding fuel to the fire, the organisation should be ashamed of themselves. ethics?

*aiya i'm just one grumpy person who can't go to sleep because i keep thinking of walking down the streets of new york instead of going to sentosa tomorrow. it's like a cruel consolation prize. my views do not (necessarily) reflect that of my school or class or country okay. it's just me. don't sue, don't ban me (anymore than you already have) k thanks bye.

good game.

wow, when people said to have no expectations about travelling so you wouldn't be disappointed, i bet they totally didn't see this coming.

tough luck? sucks balls la. it feels like it's hit already, a thousand times over. and yet it feels like nothing's happened. such an eventful non-event. feels worse than breaking up or being heartbroken or whatever - i'm really not one to speak here - so yeah.

GOOD GAME.

what is a collie without his fluff?

hi, i am sitting at home rotting in front of the computer, battling the curse of the holiday plans, which is i'm sure related to murphy's law (of how the worst things - falling sick, having insufferable odynophagia, breaking a wheel on my samsonite, and worst of all, the goddamn swine flu - happen at the worst possible times), i managed to dig up some old pictures of klassie whom i previously called furry/fluffydog etc.

beforeafter
beforeafter.
my shirt from a nasa exhibition 10 years ago.
i only stopped wearing it yesterday.

and he stands!!! my rat/stick-dog. awww, still super cute right :)

i only have one thing to say tonight

hopefully, we (as in, everyone including me) will be celebrating in less than 365 days' time.

and omg someone please make this ?dysphagia stop!! :(

lastly, random photo of the day: a love-hate relationship
don't know why he looks so big here.

when the tutor's away...

electives are the time to playplayplay. i had nice lunches/dinner with nice friends before the long easter weekend. happy easter friends :)

a pseudo-food-review to resurrect my blog.

we drove a long way from bt timah across the island to the east, just to find this place (Etna Restaurant and Pizzeria, 110 Upper East Coast Rd), and by the time we found it, parked and walked, it was 215pm. the waitress was mightily pissed with us showing up just 45 minutes to closing time, and it showed. she mumbled "last order in 5 minutes" dumped the menus on the table and trudged off to scowl at us from behind the cash register, where she was too busy totalling up and doingdunnowhat to serve us water.

we ordered 2 set lunches (since there were only 2 choices for each course and the 2 of us wanted to try everything) and the first thing to come was some forgettable soup and a forgotten salad. should've just paid money for a main course than think we'd be getting nice starters.

"where are the cherry tomatoes?!" note the lack of any glasses, and water. did i also mention that we were the only 2 freaking people in the entire restaurant.
k this is only a pseudo-food-review cos we were quite satisfied with the mains (steak and carbonara) the food came very quickly cos i suspect they wanted to get rid of us, and we didn't even stop to take photos till after haha :)
the ambience is actually quite nice and homey despite the glaring waitress who was immediately cheered up when we paid our bill and asked for dessert, which was a scoop of boring but not bad chocolate ice cream. overall, not really worth $22++ but if there's a discount, and considering the free parking, i might still go back there to try everything else.

i'm in love with the lamp :)

too bad no photos for Jerry's Bar and Grill, and the Hilltop Restaurant. die la, if this is any reflection of my eating habits, i'm going to get so fatttt in america :)

badly drawn boy rocks :)

heard this song at the end of definitely, maybe (currently playing on HBO)

oh, sweet morning
is your head not right
did you heed my warning
this is the time of times

and your head feels like your body
your mind is close behind
there's a teardrop on your shoulder
yes this is the time of times

it's the time of times, again

picked up my plane tickets from raffles place today :)
whatever happens, at least i'll be going to new york, with a roof over my head.

random photo from my very non-professional iphone camera (it has a mirror-ed screen protector which "allows" me to blindly take photos, giving a very random effect, at best. haha)

all i want to do is love you

the first half of my electives have been fantastic so far, even though academically highly unproductive =p soon everyone will be flying/have flown off to various parts of the world to learn all kinds of new stuff. not looking forward to school starting in june, but i am looking forward to having everyone back together again.

it's been a great few weeks of coming and going to school whenever i want, and having the luxury of time to sleep, eat non-routine meals like brunch, tea and latelatesuppers, and meet whoever i want for as long as i want :) the best part is that my friends are free to hang out too. if you've ever tried to fix a time to meet with me you'd understand. this is like one big miracle since medfac schedules are never in sync with the rest of the world. sigh =p

(free) tea with zhimin @ halia

random meeting @ mos

the other photos are too embarrassing to put up. but the main point of this blog is to show you how cute they are and to say that i really love my friends :))