A Week At a Glance

Once again another long break since I last blogged. Loads have passed within this week: Chinese New Year, Assignment submission, quiz and presentation. Completely relieved that the week is finally over, and alls well if i just don't too 'gek gao'. The Title "A Week At a Glance' serves to mock at the emails I receive from Business about the talks etc etc=p

New Year eve is always the perfect day for a nice steam boat around a small dining table. As usual, dont be alarmed at the volume of food that we had on the table. We are BIG eaters. Prawns, Fish, Chicken, Scallop etc etc and of course, I helped out in the making of the 'Golden ingots' which are really wanton with pumpkin as filling. Im a PRO k? hee. I probably need to attend cooking classes with Lawrence for everything else though.

The days to follow were a series of visits to temples and relative's house and in return, be visited=p My cousin, Desmond, visited with his girl friend. An easygoing girl I would say. Not bad.

Another cousin of mine visited with my nephews! haha.. Jun Ming and Jun Yao. MY~~ they are so so so cute and are naturally the VIP of the day. Jun Ming is 3 and has a fetish for Lion dance. Probably paternal influence as my cousin in law used to be part of a lion dance troop. My brother sat at the labtop you-tubing for 2hrs with Jun Ming, showing him all the lion dance videos there are. Jun Ming: 我要小小的，也要大大的. Effectively meaning that he wants videos that have both the small lions and the big lions. There are some really funny lion dance videos on you-tube. Can try searching for 'funny lion dance'. Jun Ming was laughing so hard. Jun Ming: 我要好笑的. And there my brother was trying his best to adhere to his request. hee.
Conversation:
Me: 你几岁？
Jun Ming: 三岁.
Me: Jun Yao 几岁？
Jun Ming: 他一岁.
Me: 谁比较大？
Jun Ming: Jun Yao比较大. =D

Jun Yao on the other hand is a chubby kid. Active at the age of 1. He offered me his half eaten 蛋卷 and subsequently fed me as well! When he hugged me, my heart just melted! Oh my 天! How come kids are so cute!

JUst a side note, I realised that the special smell found only on kids can induce protective behavior. Maybe someone can find a way of capturing the smell?

On Saturday, went on a round of visits first to Miao's house, Wen's and the last stop is my house. Had very nice bakgua at Miao's house. Its probably partly because I haven't had bakgua in about 8 years already. Miao and Wen's sis had a very intense discussion about the singapore oldies dramas and Im pretty surprised at how much people actually remember from childhood. Those long lasting memories.

Probably one of the more interesting Sundays, we (aka me,pj,glad,jl) met at the mac donalds next to bras basah to do our assignmentsS due the next day. That lasted from about 12-630? With an intermittent ice cream break (special treat from Glad). I must say that Twister fries are superb, and I am positively addicted. At least during the new year period. It was a tiring day of graph plotting. You have no idea how tiring graph plotting can be. IMAGINE doing Trial and Error Graph plotting. Still sounds easy? You must be hallucinating=) Using Computer is probably faster but non of us brought our labbie and printer along. so yup. NOt to mention that the previous night, Pj and I discussed the assignments from 10pm-230am through MSN until we both dont have any more energy to continue.

Had a class gathering that night at Arab's street. Amira's. Food's nice, ambience is good except for the couple of people smoking 水烟outside. They serve turkish food and are famous for their Kebab. Shared a set with glad (she got me lost on the way there). However, if anyone is hungry, including pj, do not attempt to share the meal. The portion is really REALLY... eh. not very big. There is this drink by the name of i-cant-rmb-what that is worth mentioning. An excellent mix of milk with yoghurt.

To Ker Wei and Rahul going to australia soon for Meddy and Denny, do take care and return to fulfil our great plans of visiting TJ together. Recollections~~ heh.

Did something dumb on Valentine's. Haix. Im always doing dumb stuff. Dan bought roses for all his closer girl-friends. Well, when he passed me mine, my first reaction was: WHY LEI? Foong Yi, Flora and Pj started laughing. Dan was positively dumb founded in that what-sort-of-lousy-response-is-that face. To Dan: Thanks loads for the flower and im sorry for being a lousy recipient. But anyway, am I considered lucky because its you? 'cos I really dun think I have any more 型象in front of you to start of with. Hope you werent too busy revising for 2116 and enjoyed your date with Maxine!

Also thanks to Glad for the cookie, Karen and Dabai for the choc!

On the same day, SK spilled the aqueous phase containing Butyl Acetate onto the floor. Extremely hazardous and uncomfortable to breath in. Personal description: Mr Pang's smelly markers X100 times intensity. We were joking about how SK shortened all our lives on that day.

The test is as usual, cant do plus careless mistake, I'll get about 30/100 with a standard deviation of 10 marks. hmm.. shadnt elaborate. Formed a group for my Operations Mangement: Vivien(TKD 1-yr senior), Sam (TKD 2-yr-senior), John, Glad, me. Hope all goes well!

Chem Engineers are sad people who have lecture and presentation on saturdays. Looking forward to mid term break. I need my bed! And Special Thanks to Ken and Wen for lending me clothes for the presentation just now! Wen looks so cute rolling in bed with her blanket. haha.. i mean it. Ken's fashion sense has once again impressed people. He probably should go make a video on 'check out my matching shoes'. haha.. cant believe how cute his shoes are, or at least pj couldn't believe=D

Programmes:
FLV meeting (Debrief)
Dinner with ex-colleagues
Karen's treat
CN2125 Project meeting
DSC2006 Project Meeting


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