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I'm sorry, Tabulas. You and I just can't work things out anymore =( 

See you guys at the new place =) 

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what i've been doing :

• sleeping >10 hours a day
• eating > 5 meals a day
• watching E!, Discovery Travel & Asian Food Channel
• catching up on movies
• playing The Sims 2
• chatting with Michelle (you should be honoured as you can see that i have a tight schedule.)
• staring at the ceiling and still be happy about it

what i've yet to do :

• flatten that tummy
• shrink those thighs
• learn mandarin for medical purposes or at least lie about it in my electives report
  
• go to Hong Kong (yes, AGAIN. but i won't complain)
• look for dress for IMU Ball coz once the semester starts i won't bother and i certainly don't want history to repeat itself (i.e. @ Taylor's prom - everything was done in the very last minute and i wasn't happy.)
• read some books (????)
• pay outstanding Vista bills
• take dogs out for a walk
• revamp blog (????)

man. now this is what i call life. i wonder when i'll get sick of this. i'm thinking....... in a month's time. but that's ok, coz that's when i go back to Uni.

i'm so lovin' this!

Currently feeling: lazy

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because I SERVE A GREAT GOD.

i gave up Chinese New Year and a big part of my LIFE for this! the heart and soul i put into it! the amount of hard work! and all paid off! but still i know i didn't get through by my own strength.

=) 

see all of you in Sem 4! only 2 more semesters you guys, and we're off to clinical school. let's make the best out of our remaining days in IMU.

Currently feeling: ecstatic

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Currently feeling: stressed

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when i logged into Facebook just now, the first thing i saw was this :

(why Britney Spears has Facebook is seriously beyond me)

PEOPLE! i think Kwan needs help. he's forever in his unhealthy little world of Britney Spears. aren't you all worried for him?! Kwan you frrrrrreak!

that aside, due to popular demand *ahhem ahhem* i will blog about last night's scrumptious dinner at this restaurant called Wong Ah Wah along Jalan Alor.

anyway this place is worth blogging about because the food there is goo-ood. we heard that this place is famous for its grilled chicken wings so, obviously, we had to order a few...

HONESTLY... i don't see what the big fuss is about. i think i've tasted better ones at some roadside stall in Ipoh. OK to be fair the chicken wings were QUITE good but there's nothing i would shout to the world about. NEXT!

Pai kuat wong @ sweet and sour spare ribs. couldn't resist ordering a pork dish since we are ever-so-deprived of pork in Vista. how sad. it was ... below par. enough said. NEXT!

fried calamari! yum yum. now this i liked. crispy, tasty, just that it lacked the special sauce that is usually served with it, otherwise it would have been perfect.

Kum Heong Bamboo Lala (zhuk tan). LOVED IT! i never really liked bamboo lala as compared to the normal lala but this dish was different. you can totally smell the aroma of the marinade from afar and you won't be disappointed once you bite into it. very good if eaten with rice.

Grilled sting ray. i think everyone voted this as their favourite dish and i don't see why not. its skin was grilled to a nice crisp, the flesh was soft and slightly sweet. very nice. i apologise for the big HOLE in the middle of the fish. before i could whip out my camera to snap a proper picture of it, it was happily dug into by who else but...

...Mervin Wong.

oops =)

i think the empty dishes speak for the place itself. nice nice. but next time we will savour other dishes.

Ho Wai was telling us about this restaurant nearby which serves cendol for RM1. like seriously? CENDOL FOR RM1? IN A RESTAURANT?! IN KL?! an offer we cannot refuse!

so we settled the bill at Wong Ah Wah (which came up to a good RM19.50 per person - not too cheap for this kind of food but we had 3 seafood dishes, a pork dish, lots of chicken wing and a vege dish which i didn't feature because... hello... it's only vege... so yes i think it was pretty worth it)... and went to over to Restoran Muar @ Tengkat Tong Shin to finish off a delicious dinner with some lovely (AND cheap) dessert.

RM1 RM1 RM1!

THAT'S WHY it's RM1. look at the size of the bowl relative to Ho Wai's hand.

ish.

but it was good, classic cendol nonetheless. so not a rip-off. no regrets. can excuse the super minute portion cos one can't take that much cendol at a go right?

'twas another great dinner outing. more of those to come after EoS!

oh and before i end i'd like to mourn the death of Ho Wai's panda umbrella. sorry. may you rest in peace somewhere in the rubbish dump =(

have a great week ahead ya'll!

whoops couldn't resist =)

Currently feeling: thankful

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on Saturday i was reading the papers when i came across the news of the bus accident along the North-South Highway which killed 2 people. today we were told that the bus driver had 13 outstanding summonses.

i wonder how many people have to die before the authorities decide to get their big fat asses off their chairs to do something about it. and by DOING SOMETHING i don't mean carrying out their Ops Sikap or whatever other fucking Op nonsense for 2 weeks, get featured in the papers every single day to show the nation what a GREAT JOB they're doing and dying the hype off before the next fatal accident occurs again.

a vicious cycle and vicious indeed.

i was surfing Facebook earlier and saw that a friend joined this group : In Loving Memory of Lee Nian Ning (1987-2008). curious about the death of this unknown person who was the same age as i am, i clicked on the link. incidentally, she was one of the victims of the mentioned accident. i later found out that she was a medical student at UNSW on JPA scholarship. SHE USES LITTMANN'S stethoscope (ok so most of us do)! she was active on Facebook and Friendster, and was a blogger as well. she was just like anyone of us.

it suddenly hit me that life is really fragile that the line between life and death is SO fine one could step over the other side in the blink of an eye. and then he/she will be departed forever. gone from the arms of loved ones.

i cannot imagine what Nian Ning's parents are going through right now. her boyfriend. her siblings. her best friends. how are they going to get back on track? how are her parents going to feel when they go to Sydney to pack up her room? even though i don't know her at all i can feel the pain inside me. it could have happened to anyone. it could have happened to me.

thing is, we often take life for granted. i know i do. i complain about the most trivial of matters like how stupid IMU is for setting the exams at such and such a date that i have to miss seeing Switchfoot in concert...

or how i cannot go back for Chinese New Year (oh i haven't mentioned this before but yes i will not be going back for CNY)...

or what a bore my life is having to just STUDY STUDY STUDY STUDY each day.

and i know it's not just me but many other people as well. maybe it's about time we look at life at a different perspective. cherish the moments we have. count our blessings. love the people around us more.

because it could have easily been one of us, or one of the people we care about.

edit : just found out that Shelva was sitting behind Nian Ning on the same bus!!!! OMG. talking about people we knew. she fractured her cervical vertebrae (C6 and C7) and had sutures on her right eyebrow. let's pray for her quick recovery so she can get back on her feet to face EoS.

Currently feeling: uncomfortable

i did a good thing today.

we were on the way out for dinner and it was raining. as we passed by this housing estate, there was a kitten crossing the street (a very small one indeed... probably just a few weeks old). we stopped the car to let it cross, but instead it went under our car to hide.

i got down and managed to lure it out.

... but upon seeing it i felt my heart plummet to the pit of my stomach. 

it was a scared, scrawny little thing. there was no shelter and the rain was getting heavier. cars were speeding by. there was no way it was going to survive if i were to let it go. 

thank goodness across the street there was a guardhouse. i picked the kitten up and ran towards the guardhouse. the few guards there willingly took it from me. i don't know what they did with it, but i can only pray that their hearts are as good as mine.

after all, i believe there is a reason why it was i who crossed paths with the kitten and not anyone else. oh God please just let it be safe.