Had a bad day..

"Dear all
Some students have informed me that their homework they have submitted were gone missing and have not been received by the graders. Some have told me that there are students who would go through the submitted scripts in the box when they have no business to do so. This problem only happens this year. In order to bring this problem up to the notice of the department and to find suitable solution to end the problem, I have to know how many students are affected. This is a serious problem if it involves unlawful removal of other students academic submission. Would those students who are affected email me with details (which homework?)."

Wed has started with something unlucky.. It was very rare that I don't get a seat in a bus.. in my 3 years of study in NUS, very few times that I cannot get a seat on 74.. even if at first there is no seats, I will still get one after people get down at the MRT.. that day, that day the bus was packed and not many people got down at the MRT stop. as I was moving in to the back of the bus, I was hoping to get a seat so that I can sleep mah.. sleep on the bus is very impt for me to last thru the day de.. and I was so tired.. but the seats are just enough till the person just in front of me.. alamak.. why I so unlucky? and so I stood at the very back of the bus where the ppl sitting there seldom get down the bus soon de.. so I have to stand all the way until the first stop I can change to 151. really cannot tahan to stand thru out the 1 and half hour bus journey and I finally can get a seat on 151.. as my day has started with something so unlucky.. I knew that something more will happen de..

I have been saying how tough my chem eng hw is right.. I always spend so many hours doing.. now no more le.. so happy but.. on wed.. we are supposed to get back one of the previous hw.. but my friends and I cannot find ours.. why? my friend's hw has gone missing before.. it has gone missing even before it reaches the grader.. so is zero for that.. and I really hope that this will not happen to me.. but it did.. it is second time for her and first for me.. I not very happy about this lor... really wasting my effort and time of doing.. and the TA and Prof cannot do anything about it.. one of my hw had gone missing before but that is after it has been marked so still not very bad.. at least got mark mah.. but for this, I got zero.. actually I not very angry as my friends lah.. don't know why leh.. maybe I now take thing more easy liao or got some ppl same boat as me.. so still not so bad bah.. but I still find it a pity that I cannot know how well I do..

we have suspected someone has taken our hw and throw them away after copying bah.. never put them back becos we are always the first few to hand in.. I really don't like to be the first few to hand in.. my hw being alone there at first, higher chance of been taken by people lor but no choice.. we have lesson in sci after that so cannot hand in later..

the method of hw submission is really bad.. just put in a open shelf or the hw is such a easy target for ppl to take lor.. although it is in the department office, the staff don't really care lor.. the submission should be to the graders or the office staff directly mah.. then other people have no access or install a closed or locked box with small opening so people can just submit and cannot take out easily.. actually got one time I return to the office again after submission and I have seen a guy behaving suspicious in front of the shelf before, holding our hw in his hand.. don't know want to do what.. when I see that, I purposely pretend to search in the shelf and when he saw that, he quickly put my hw back to the shelf.. while he continue to search his bag for stuff.. don't know whether is pretending or not.. actually that time I was suspecting that he was going to take our hw to copy or what.. becos the hw is really not easy... but I never say anything.. maybe I am just thinking too much.. now I really regret not questioning him.. ask him why he is holding our hw.. and should take a photo of him mah.. aiyoo.. I never think of that de.. maybe if I have scared hime a bit, he will not dare to take it again next time..

but I think he is not the only one bah.. becos some other people also had their hw gone missing.. some other people also had complaint to the Prof.. the original system was quite good, having a representive in the class to collect and hand in to the TA in person.. why they just like to change without considerations and end up like this.. quite disppointing is the Prof cannot give us an ans as to what he will do about those hw that were missing.. like whether he will still count it in CA.. what I really hope is there will be fairness in their decision.. the reason that the Prof gave for not telling us his decision is he is afraid that when the words spread around some people who never submit will lie that their hw are missing and he cannot also totally believe us too.. as he did not investigate but how will we lie.. aiyoo.. don't know what to say.. it's all their fault lah.. there are already some complaints before that then why didn't they do anything about it.. never stop it.. hai~ now say also no use for us liao.. the email above will only help the next batch of ppl bah.. what will happen to us still an unknown..

anyway.. exams are really near liao.. I really hope my wish will come true.. all the best to the ppl out there having exams.. Jiayou!

A special day..

Thurs was my birthday.. never get to celebrate.. no present.. first time brithday no present leh.. not even from my parents.. just a typical brithday card from my dad.. haha.. lots of love on the card.. a bit er xin leh.. haha.. okay okay.. I should not say that.. it's my dad mah.. and they sang birthday song for me at 0000 sharp.. another typical birthday thing to do.. haha.. they very act cute de.. that day was also qing ming jie but however we don't go and pay respect to ancestors exactly that day as we can go any day during the week.. my parents and uncle and auntie went to Malaysia today to pray to my paternal granny.. I didn't get to go.. feel quite bad.. as I need to stay at home to do homework and study.. I had bought a paper jewellery set for My parents to bring there to be burn to my granny.. this actually the first time I do it.. don't know why I just feel that I should do it.. as I have never done anything for her and meet her in my life..

I am quite happy now actually as I am finishing my chem eng hw.. doing this hw is so frustrating.. but I really feel a sense of fulfilment doing it.. and I always do not bad for it.. hee..

okay back to my birthday.. it was a boring day.. no celebration and need to go to sch for an hour lesson.. hai~ but luckily the next day is Good Friday.. actually in the year I am born, my birthday actually fall on qing ming and good friday.. I always hope that my birthday can fall with good friday again.. don't know whether it can happen or not.. fall on qing ming has been happening most of the years but not good friday.. since good friday is a holiday, my parents and I went to eat a good dinner.. another usual way of celebrating birthday for my family.. this time round.. I don't want to eat at good and aircon restaurant but eat at kopi shop.. eat something that we don't eat usually and so my dad brought us to geylang..

my dad has been telling me that place sell good frog leg porridge and also sell other stuff like fried oyster that I like and the opposite is a famous beef hor fun stall.. I thought that it was a place that I never been to.. when I reach this shop called xin lai at geylang lorong 9.. I know where it is liao.. it is where I played shi ri lu kou with zeus during scamp.. haha.. never know it is the same place that my dad is saying.. haha.. I have ate the beef hor fun before.. not very very special lah..

feels good eating at a place which is much more special.. with natural air and under the good weather.. not very hot.. though the air not very clean lah.. the tables just by the roadside.. haha.. my mum very fussy.. choose seats and change here and there.. becos she is afraid of the dirt from the car exhaust.. aiyoo.. I think she forgot that when she is young, she also ate at these places and leave in kampong and never mind about the cleaniness.. now she old liao.. then become so particular about the cleaniness and hygiene..

My parents and I happily eating there.. haha.. my mum like to act cute.. but my face so fat.. so ugly..

the fried oyster and stingray.. the stingray is really really hot and spicy.. My dad at first bought oyster egg on hotplate.. not fried one.. but I like the fired one more.. so he bought a small fried oyster for me.. hee hee...
the frog legs and porridge.. but I finished them haha.. a pot with few frog legs cost $8 and the porridge costs $2.. a pot of frog leg not enough lor.. need 2 then enough.. this dish is highly recommended.. really really very nice..

After dinner, we walked to my dad's "car".. haha.. should be taxi.. the road just beside the kopi shop is packed so he has to parked further away.. and then the adventure for me begins..

as we walked down lorong 8 or 10.. haha.. forgot which one liao.. but I know is even number.. I saw many many men walking around.. up and down the road.. as we venture inner.. we reached some small and cheap hotels, I started to see women dressed quite skimpily and sexily standing or sitting by the roadside and at the entrance of the hotels.. and some of them are approached by the guys.. now I know who are them.. I never walk on these streets before.. and I don't think I dare to walk there alone.. walking with my parents.. I also will feel weird there.. and I always want to stay close to them.. haha.. me a bit scared.. never see so many people walk on the street before other than at orchard and somemore majority are guys leh.. after passing one street of Chinese gals.. we reached our car and as my father drove out of another lorong, we saw that this street belongs to the malays girls.. many of them stationed themselves at the roadside and in front of the hotel like some display like that while some old men and foreign workers are looking at them like some hungry wolves.. can see that many of the gals are quite young.. don't know whether they are underage but many should be from foreign countries.. just like the chinese who don't seem to be locals.. my mother says they are very pitiful.. I also think so.. but is this a career that these gals must do to earn money.. is there no other way out for them? I think they all have their own stories to end up there..

Surprisingly, not all the guys are old men, there also some young people walking here and there.. some of them drive motorcycle and chaffeur some of the girls.. I think they are not customers but pimps bah.. used women to earn money.. not good guys at all..

I need to study harder!

many ppl have told me to study hard.. Profs whom I talked to for honours.. ivy from CSP.. my friends.. so stressed.. do I look that sort who don't study hard.. I am a nerd leh.. and I looked so nerdy last time.. now also bah.. maybe things have changed.. my attitude has changed.. I can't study without play now.. I am supposed to spend my time well studying today but I spent it writing blog.. what am I thinking leh..

I have to pull up my grades.. Prof hope that I do well in chemistry and get at least 4.0 so that I will be in good chance of getting second upper.. they are trying to give me good advice.. already got one prof made me embarrassed when telling him my grades one by one.. getting worse and worse each sem.. and he hinted to me that I am not good enough to be under him.. I am so sad lor.. why did I end up like this? ppl say I am in dean's list.. but that's long and long ago.. now no more.. I am so embarrassed when they talk about it lor.. I am so far from it now..

and if I don't pull up to 4.0.. I may be out of the CSP.. I cannot be out of it.. I am in the program for 3 years liao.. cannot stop now right..

no matter what.. I have to work hard and do well..

the concert one month ago..

I and my 2 freshies went to Angela Zhang Shao Han's concert which was in kent ridge hall.. really want to thank them for accompanying me.. heehee.. the concert this time round is standing one lor.. no seats.. have to stand thru out.. very diff from the one last year at UCC.. at least that time can sit at VIP seats.. no need to stand.. her voice is always so good.. but she did not sing other songs than the ones from new album.. okay lah.. still not bad..

luckily we get there a bit earlier to queue.. the queue very long lor and some more raining leh.. luckily yuan brought umbrella.. but in the end after 1 plus hour of waiting.. our standing position in front of the stage still quite far away.. cannot take a good shot of her.. maybe my cam also quite lan lah.. only 3.2 megapixels.. there's lucky draw at the end.. but mostly the PRC ppl get lor.. so sad.. no luck in winning lucky draw.. I think the crowd there more than half are PRC lor..

the happy threesome who went to the concert..

the "best shot" I taken in this concert.. you see.. so many people in front..

the good shot taken last year.. so so much better..

my friends and I at last year concert.. good memories..

A trip to Loyang tua pek kong temple

this is the only temple in Singapore next to sea bah.. it is a very old temple.. but actually I not really sure how old is it lah.. but I know it's very old.. it is moving soon.. its new building is already built and ready soon..

the temple by the sea.. not taken by me lah.. it is from the cover of a magazine.. hee..

becos that day that I go is tua pek gong's birthday if I'm not wrong.. so many many people went there to pray and no vehicle is allowed to go in.. and my parents and I have to walk a whole stretch of road in.. okay lah.. it's good going out as a whole family sometimes.. it's really hard to get sometime lor.. especially when I am the one who is most busy de.. sort of lah..

the long stretch of road.. that's my father in white.. he always walk faster than us de.. so don't ever go shopping with him.. will be rushing here and there.. hee..

my $2 joss stick and offerings.. the typical offerings to gods are a packet of tea represent a cup of tea.. a packet of biscuits and sweets as the snacks to go with the tea.. a pair of candles, joss sticks, paper money jin zi for the god.. and the gui ren zi which will be burnt with the paper money.. gui ren means people who will come and help us and protect us..

the view of sea from the temple.. is that indonesia in front of us?

the temple.. it is just the outside.. but the smoke from the joss sticks is everywhere.. imagine in the enclosed area in the temple.. the smoke is even more strong and I was even in tears when I was inside.. when the smoke got into my eyes..

it's a green day..

I actually took these photos long time ago during CNY at Malaysia but only free now to upload.. I am quite interested in plants de.. the greenery makes me happy.. and relax and some plants are so interesting this what I think lah.. I don't think everybody likes plants lah.. so this posting and photos may be boring for you lor.. if you are reading this..

The following 4 plants are the chinese new year "must-haves" for good fortune..

Yin liu

this is the close-up of the flower of yin liu.. hairy hairy hor.. I am quite amused by it..

ju hua

ji zi
the red pineapple..

My grandmother's house is just like a graden or a vegetable farm.. there are some many varieties of plants.. some can be eaten.. some just for their nice looking.. some I can identify but some I really don't know what are they.. haha.. but to me.. they are really interesting.. Welcome to the world of plants.. My grandma's house.. haha..

the papaya tree..

plant with edible red fruits..

The dragon fruit plant.. but the dragon fruit haven't grow yet.. so sad.. but I ate before.. they are really sweet..

Another plant with edible fruit.. I don't know its name leh..

the green lemon.. or lime?

The big aloe vera..

what is this giant plant.. a fern? this is not all...

it actaully has such a tall stalk.. can it climb up to the sky like the giant beanstalk in the bedtime story? haha..

another plant with red fruits.. hee..

green lettuce..

some flowers that we can also see at the road side in singapore..

The spring onion.. sorry about my finger at the top.. oops..

The seaweed by the drain.. just outside my grandma's house..

and lastly.. these are not plants.. but they are also occupants in my grandma's house.. they are around in really large number.. you will see them attacking any food that they see.. so our hands can never stop waving around during our meals..

haha.. these poor flies are stuck to the sticky paper.. breathing their last breath.. actually quite disgusting..

Took photos with peifen.. so happy..

Sat.. went to tq final at ACS barker.. haha.. I still so supportive of sci club events.. for tq.. I went to one of its quarterfinals at ps.. a band jamming show at ben&jerry then its band final at DXO then this tq final.. haha.. but I like to listen to singing competition mah.. this time round the quality not bad lah.. can see some competition.. but quite irritated by the mic prob and the poor video quality.. the stage a bit boring.. not much lighting effects and backdrop.. but this time round.. the mc are better.. from 933 leh.. Ding Zhi Yong and Lin Peifen.. but the star appearance.. not really got star power lah.. the Tye sisters.. Jasmine, Joan and Grace (as Jasmine's dancer).. imagine.. elder sister had to be the dance for her sister.. becos the younger one more famous mah.. never know all the sisters are so talented.. must be the genes and upbringing bah..

During the performance.. I waved my light stick with the music.. haha.. just like a supporter of the contestants.. but actually I'm not lah.. I just want to immersed myself in the atmosphere.. paid 10 bucks then must enjoy mah.. felt uneasy just sitting there and watch the performance.. not much enjoyment leh.. it actually started when I saw some people some rows away waving the green fluorescent light sticks.. not bad idea leh.. among the group of my friends.. I am the only one waving de.. then 1 and 2 others also joined me.. haha.. feel like a fan supporting.. hee.. the 2 guys sitting beside me just so shy to wave lor.. guys are guys.. and I feel it is never a problem with age to do this lor.. doesn't mean more mature cannot do this lor.. then Ryan asked me whether I am paid to do this.. and joked that I must have earned a lot from this yah.. haha.. I wish yah.. can earn money also not bad.. haha.. but don't have leh..

I actually had a lot of difficulties asking ppl to go with me to tq lor.. my friends don't want to go becos of not free.. the ex $10.. nobody to support.. no special star.. hai~ only can depend on old friends in sci club le..

the guest of honour is Mr Teo Ser Luck.. haha.. I think he is the MP who made the most public appearance lor.. this is the second time for sci club event.. first one for Alive 06.. and he is always appearing on tv... so popular hor.. I have been thinking he wants to be a MP or a "star"..

Photo took with Mr Teo (left 2nd) last year..

many ppl says peifen very pretty leh.. haha.. so many ppl went to take photos with her.. haha.. so did I! she really has become more and more pretty and popular le.. with all the tv shows other than her radio program.. I really like her da tou fen's story.. now it has changed from secondary sch to uni liao.. but I like the sec sch stories more.. maybe more innocent and funny bah..

I still look fat on photos with my "big face" and "body with no shape".. so sad.. nvm.. I am in the pocess of slimming down liao.. will take time to look more pretty.. haha..

that night.. I went to newton circle with eat supper with the sci club ppl.. first time ate "gong gong".. not really special lah.. I still like the hao jian more.. the hao so big.. haha.. yummy.. wow.. the guys really know how to order a lot.. a lot until too much liao lor.. must have cost a lot.. with all the seafood.. nvm.. some of the guys really eat a lot.. with them around.. anything can finish.. haha.. I just eat a bit here and there lor.. I don't have the habit of eating supper liao.. haha.. must control..

TMNT

That used to be my favourite cartoon lor.. I even have a toy figurine of one of the turtles.. haha.. forgot which one is it liao.. but i think it is still somewhere in my drawer..

so when I saw the trailer on tv.. I am so excited and looking forward to watch it lor.. but I am quite disappointed after watching the movie.. maybe I am looking forward to something more exciting bah.. it is very suitable for kids to watch but not really for me liao.. is it because I old liao.. haha.. the 3D animation is very well done.. with all the fast motion.. very real but the storyline too simple liao.. about brotherhood.. a bit china.. maybe it is produced by Hong Kong ppl bah.. and the ending too fast and simple.. bad guys die so easily and there is no obvious bad guys lor.. appear for a while then die.. hai~ TMNT is worth watching only when you want to get back the memories.. if you want something for exciting or inspiring then choose others bah.. my friends nearly fall asleep near the ending..