Falling like the leaves in autumn

Thursday, November 29, 2007
7:15 PM

Fri, 30 Nov 2007

The past 2 days have been eventful. went out with sean on wednesday. my first outing with a friend. and my gosh! we went to alot of places. took a neoprint at lot 1 then ate pizza hut there! woo! he was so thoughtful to fulfil my dream of eating pizza when i came back. after that, we proceeded to watch "December boys" in vivocity starring daniel radcliffe, his favourite movie star. and it's the only theatre showing that movie. and we got blue posh seats too! he even suggested having ice cream after the movie. awww... my favourite!!! we had vanilla and peppermint ice cream topped with hot fudge at ben and jerry's. the shop also gave us a small cup of strawberry cheeseshake to try too. haha.. yum~

we shopped quite a bit to end up with nothing bought. oh wells.. rested for dinner where i had oven cheese baked rice with mussels, prawns and fish. oooo.... and he had chicken with cheese potato. nice!!!

i had a good day.. not only cos' he paid for everything, heex.. but also cos i've never had such a long fun-filled day for a very long time. thanks alot sean=)

the next day, i went to cut my hair at jurong point with my youngest sister. i had wanted to cut at chapter 2 at bugis but found out that their service costs $28. so expensive.. the price is high but at least i tink the haircut would be better! haiz.. that guy totally spoilt my fringe man.. dunno what he's cutting. i want to hide ah! so paiseh to go out. but i've a dinner with my JC friends today and ai suan's birthday celebration on saturday. aiyoyo.. let's hope my haircut to them is not as bad as how i tink it is. shared a oyster mee sua, seafood tempura bought at shih-lin (did i spell it correctly?) and honeydew smoothie with my sis. oh i'm so dead. been eating seafood non-stop for days! hahaha... i feel so guilty. my 2nd sis woke up early today to go to the gym to exercise and i didn't. i was still sleeping. i tink she also went down to train today. lazy pig charmaine!

did a facial at jurong east after my haircut too.. you think facial is all good and relaxing? think again.. when they use a sharp needle to pierce your pimples and squeeze them out, it's so DAMN painful that tears flowed out from my eyes. haa.. and my face has alot of pimples. argh!!! the woman also asked why i had so many. lol.. now my face is covered with red spots. -.-

i can't wait for next week! cos everyone will supposedly be done with their exams and i'll be able to go out more often=) you know what i do every single night nowadays? camp at my parent's room talking crap and watching tv until they sleep. a pity they can't "DO" the thing they do..cos we're around. hahaha.. i'm so bored..

Sunday, November 25, 2007
5:57 AM

Sun, 25 Nov 2007

hooray!! i'm finally home.. it feels great! i've been eating good food non-stop in just 2 days here..

first, there was the tiong bahru hainanese chicken rice in changi village the same night i came back (dun ask me why they call it tiong bahru when it's in changi village) haha.. my family and friends were eating together. how cool is that?! haha.. i thought i would be weird. but it was ok.. i didn't want to eat with my friends and then leave my family aside. my family was so accommodating to want to eat with us. i'm such a lucky person.. haa..

the next day, i went to eat beef noodles at lot 1. woo! i miss it soooo much.. together with bandung! heh heh.. my all-time favourite drink.. after evening church, went to jurong west to have dinner. had chilli kang kong, chilli crab, fried chicken, steamed fish and man tou! yum yum!
i miss s'pore food so much.. piece of advice to my mum and my littlest sis - eat as much as u can before u go over to perth. haha! but being over there has made me appreciate s'pore food even more=) serious..

i'm going for a dental appointment tmr.. at 9am. i want my beauty sleep man. this morn had to wake up at 7.30am to get ready to sao mu. =( didn't sleep well my first night here too. maybe i'm not used to the bed. lol.. dunno what the dentist is going to comment about my newly-formed wisdom tooth.. hope i don't need to extract it!

my face is cracking like shit. can see dark spots of cracked skin on one side of my face. other people see may think i was born with bad skin. aha.. haiz.. australia sucks. the weather so damn dry over there that it made my skin super dry too. now it's flaking.. eeks!

Friday, November 23, 2007
3:58 AM

Fri, 23 Nov 2007
Day 139

ooo yea.. 1 more day till my return=) hehe.. i'm so glad i'm sooo outta this house. today i did packing, reading the love stories chel-min sent me the last and helping my aunt do some computer-related stuff. Seriously, they're complete computer idiots. Simple installation also need me to do. -.- They're making use of the last day i'm here to get the computer working before i go off.

Tomorrow is a big day for me. but, it's also australia's big day. it's election day.. so my relatives have to do down to the polling booth to vote before fetching me to the airport. heard from them that they don't care how many votes you put in. it's not restricted to one vote per person. You can even ask your children to fill it in. How can??!! aiyo..

i have alot of chocolates left. i don't want to have to eat them all up lei.. will make me grow fat. and spoil all my attempts to shed some weight, considering that i put on 2-3kg due to winter. yikes! even my grandma back in s'pore says i become 'bak bak' (meaning fat) when we converse through webcam -.- so sad.. =(

i'm so touched that some people actually miss me so much, and one actually went down to the airport today to pick me up. he thought today was saturday! hahaha.. how blur can he get? will he be picking me up tmr? hehe.. u're asking for too much charmaine. =p

P.S Chel-min, how come the "Around and around" story is incomplete?

Wednesday, November 21, 2007
2:02 AM

Wed, 21 Nov 2007

Day 137

I finally got hold of the guy who took my accounting book by mistake. The power of emails! haha.. we arranged to meet today to exchange our books. but i had to purposely make a trip to curtin, after which i had to go back to meet my friend to go to the city. Whew! thank goodness my revision notes is still in the book.

Bought a few stuff.. ate good food=) i had japanese curry and rice. Japanese curry is sweet de.. haha.. then i had snow ice for dessert! yoghurt ice with passionfruit topping.. wow wee! it's sour but shiok! i wonder when was the last time i had snow ice. heex..

And as usual, what happens when you put 2 blur people together? You can't find your way. haa.. i tink we wasted most of our time walking in one direction to find that we were going the wrong way. wahaha! but we chanced upon these beautiful christmas decorations. how's the christmas decorations in orchard road? i bet it's a whole lot nicer than these. sorry.. i'm a pro-s'porean!

The angel so sweet.. awww..

P.S Caren.. who says there isn't any big x'mas tree in perth? i found one=) unless u dun call this big. haha! which is true. singapore one bigger. aha!

Monday, November 19, 2007
2:42 AM

Mon, 19 Nov 2007
Day 135

woohoo! freedom=) i'm done wif my exams. wahaha.. gd luck to jordain who has been whining non-stop to me about his accounting exam this wed. and of cos, to all my friends who have yet to finish their exams. Kambatte!

Accounting paper was easy. i almost couldn't get one qsn right. i looked through 3 times before i was able to spot the mistake. Got me so worried when i couldn't balance up the accounts. whew! and you know what the mistake was? my brain just totally SKIPPED one line of information. -.- what's wrong with me?! haha..

i was so ready to celebrate after i handed in my paper but something had to crop up. A STUPID BLIND BLUR GUY had to take my accounting book by mistake. he left the examination room minutes before i did. i had no choice but to take his book - with his horrigible handwriting and blank spaces. I MISS MY BOOK! GIVE ME BACK MY BOOK U IDIOT! how am i gonna contact him? the examiner only gave me his name when i reported this to her. what can i do with just his name?! these people have no common sense.. i'm just hoping i 'guessed' his sch email correctly. AND HE BETTER CHECK HIS EMAIL ACCOUNT B4 I LEAVE FOR S'PORE.

Went to carousel today with caren after my paper finished at 10.45am because my relatives were out and i only could come home from 2.30pm onwards. I'm so glad i'm leaving this place in 5 days time. No more of this crap - that i have to wait for them to come home before i can do so.

Shared a pizza with caren. i miss pizza hut. take me to pizza hut back home! haha.. the pizza crust i ate was soooo thin. not nice.. after that, had new zealand ice cream. macademia butterscorch and mint choc! haha i MUST HAVE MY MINT CHOC.. hehe.. =p After which we bought some goody goody to bring back home=) i'm so thankful she was able to accompany me. She actually wanted to go home to slp. lol.. i deprived her of it. eh heh heh.. i'm good eh? ;)

Packed some of my stuff as soon as i got home. see how excited i am about going home?! i still have 5 more days! that's plenty of time to pack my stuff.. threw away some unnecessary stuff. took note of things we have to buy back in s'pore to bring back to australia. whee! so fun..

later in the day, i sent photos to my mum about the houses i viewed yesterday when i had a paper todae -.- i viewed 7 houses in total. lol.. some of the house prices so steep wor.. A$600,00 would be S$800,000! and some of the houses cost A$650,000. yikes! but these houses were beautiful.. 3 living rooms, 4 bedrooms, 1 kitchen, 1 huge garden.. nice oh..

What am i gonna do the next few days lei? so boring. i know! Private moments between me and my laptop. Lol.. how boring can i get? someone take me out!

Friday, November 16, 2007
5:28 AM

Fri, 16 Nov 2007
Day 132

Picture time!

- The back -

Nice plaits eh? my hair has grown alot liao. go home must cut..

- The front -

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Lovely picture, you agree? See what my sister has to do to it.

Below..

Thanks amanda..

The bear bear movie!

Directed by ms charmaine tan

Acted by bear bear

Voice accompaniment by ms amanda tan

Fri, 16 Nov 2007
Day 132

Yoyo! i'm back=) sorry i haven't had much time to update. been studying ALOT.. but dunno whether effective anot.. well, my results will give me the answer. Aha.. as of today, i've finished 3 papers and just have 1 last one on monday! Woohoo!

ok.. let's recall what happened the past few wks.. mmm..

i learnt that daylight savings is DETRIMENTAL TO HEALTH. haha.. not really. i just lyk to exaggerate cos' i hate it. ABSOLUTELY hate it.. the tv program said that it affects children the most. and it gives people flight jetlag. you know how jetlag will go away soon enough? well, they said daylight savings give people PERMANENT jetlag. Geez.. no wonder i couldn't sleep well and feel so tired all the time.

i also had a toothache, gum and tonsil inflammation. really bad one.. my whole mouth was sore. it was hard to chew, hard to even open my mouth. just simply terrible. i had to go to a doctor. see the word doctor? haha.. the dentist appointment here is extremely expensive. one normal teeth cleaning session costs you about A$120. Siao ar! plus i can't claim back money from the government for a dentist appointment. The doctor costs A$50. and mind you, this is just consultation fees. you have to buy your medicine from the chemist next door. weird right? the doctor prints out your prescription letter to be given to the chemist so that you can purchase your medicine from them. no prescription letter - no medicine. hah.. but u can buy mild medicine la.. like aspririn.. the healthcare system sucks here. if the doctor's appointment schedule is full, they don't accommodate any more people, even if you walk into the clinic. sucks right?

The doctor i visited was really inexperienced. he doesn't know what he was talking about. and he didn't say what was wrong with me. i had to ask him. he talked as if he wasn't sure what medicine to give me. -.- And i was told to go back to him for a checkup a few days later. Made me spend another A$50 on consultation. hmph! anyways, i took the medicine and my stomach felt very queezy every time i took it. i was literally drained of energy. i never thought penicillin could do that to you. Or is it just me? lol.. i was so damn glad i didn't need to take the whole course of penicillin - under my mum's instructions =p! there are 50 tablets ok?! Back in s'pore, i only had to take 24 tablets at the most. and the anti-bacterial wash i use to gargle my mouth every 4 hrs had killed my taste buds. i couldn't taste salt. so basically, food didn't taste really appealing to me, especially when it's porridge all the time.

i had to go down personally to a medicare centre to claim back some money. altogether i claimed back A$65.60 from the A$100 i paid. you know what? i find this system very stupid. why can't the government make things easier by paying the clinics instead so that the clinics will charge us lower. then we don't need to claim liao ma? have to purposely go down to claim. sianz.. i know why.. cos' the government wants us to spend on transport getting there and back and on food/stuff after we get our money. cool right?! wahaha.. stupid theory..

oh yea! erm.. this spring is weird. it's unusually cold at the start of spring and super hot now when it's supposed to be damn hot in summer. do you know what's the highest temperature reached? A freaking 39.8 degrees! that's way off s'pore's temperature. i'm thankful my folks switch on the aircon occassionally in a day.

and as chel min enthusiastically wrote, 8 MORE DAYS till i'm back baby =) hehe.. my sister's going back tmr. and i'll be stuck here alone. =( well, i'm comforted to know that the whole queen size bed is MINE! muahaha.. can you imagine her legs all sprawled over you when you sleep? Ergh! lol..

i have no idea what to do after my last paper on monday. i have until saturday! mm.. i know i'm going out one of the days to buy stuff home. but what about the rest? simple answer - rot at home with my computer. haha.. BORING..

Friday, November 2, 2007
12:00 AM

Fri, 2 Nov 2007
Day 118

Hooray! i'm officially done with my school term=) Just one more week of study break and then it's the exams. i'm sooo looking foward to it.. NOT! mmm but if it means days closer to my return, oh yea =D haha..

i must be real stress these few days man.. Can't sleep well. I'm so tired -.- but i can't sleep. Argh! don't torture me like that lei.. i've yet to start studying for my exams. Maybe this is the reason why - nervous. Haiz..

And ms. AMANDA TAN.. CAN U STOP HITTING ME?! pain lea.. you used to complain your friend hit you damn hard. but you don't need to do the same to me right?! try slapping my face one more time.. i swear i'll just slap you back!