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Amanda 19 exTPS.exAHS. TemasekPoly.BIO T A L K S.
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Sunday, April 29, 2007
time will tell the difference.. and boy is that so true.
misconceptions that u can actually read a person. it's just so difficult to do that. o wells, it's nothing worth much dwelling over i suppose. move on. =) *** been packing my rm and clearing loads of stuff.. lil things that i used to keep for old time's sake.. well, sumthings just gotta go.. of cos, some still remain.. come to think of it, it's been gd =) sure.. ups n downs here n there.. but still, it's better than a lot of other peeps out there.. some may be considered "once had" some, "still having".. whichever, it's better than nothing! hahah.. alritey.. back to cleaning n sorting..
Friday, April 27, 2007
so called really started sch proper on tues!
lectures only for tis wk.. loads of study guides n notes.. money flying away faster than i earn.. hahaha.. wad's new? not too bad a week i suppose.. lectures were mainly on the basics which i have to go pract n pract again.. signed up for wakeboard. we shall see how the introductory course goes.. 19th May.. woots!~ looking forward to it.. hehe.. shld be relatively interesting =) it's pouring like mad here.. n i suppose the whole island as well.. BLEGH. hahaha.. the lightning coming on non-stop! it's like striking the flats ard mine.. so naturally, thunder's SUPER DUPER LOUD! i wish i had a gd n fast camera to capture the lightnings.. shall add that to my to-do list! one of the things to accomplish in my life.. haha.. a lil thing. takes great effort to achieve though.. haha.. it's not that easy to capture sumthing so fast! well, just feel that it's the little things that we do most/all the time that make up most of our lives anyway.. starting small's no big, getting big frm then's way small =)
Monday, April 23, 2007
i forgot wad i really wanted to say.
*** work was super tiring.. but i know wad i'm experiencing cant be compared to azni.. i stand in awe man.. it was eventful nevertheless.. it's never boring there. hahaa.. miss the peeps man.. seemingly my daily dose of medicine =) laughter's the best medicine they say.. and it certainly is =) alritey.. off to bed. since i've forgotten wad i really wanna say.. blegh. STM!
Sunday, April 22, 2007
working tmr! woots! hahaa..
ever seen someone so excited bout work?? haha.. o wells, for me it's sumthing to look forward to =) *** the only thing that is able to capture time, outside of our minds. planning to go on a photo-taking spree again.. not that i've really ever done that.. but still, really wanna take a whole day to just go ard singapore n take loads of pics.. different perspectives.. diff things that we may or may not see every day of our lives.. think it'd be interesting to see things different every once in a while.. yep =) *** does it mean anything at all? i get tis feeling that well, just being ignored. referring to sumthing in particular.. so dun bother trying to figure things out.. o well, not that many ppl read my blog anyway.. back to that, sumtimes it really feels as if the truth is simply being ignore. think ignorance is a bliss. sumtimes it is sumtimes plain not. if it's so darn evident in one's life, how can one ever try to ignore it? sigh.. the effort put. the pains returned. will one ever know the right. or will one choose the common. things are how one sees them. often blinded by wad we choose. knowing the truth. yet choosing the comfort. hiding once again from light. hovering btw black n white. sitting on the fence in grey. see things as they are? or are they the way they are? a shadow frm the light? how can that be realised? do we see wad we see? or is it just wad we want to see? our perspective of life. more so our own. stop looking at others wishing theirs were yours. cos some are doing just the same with yours. take time to see. take time to hear. take time to listen. take time to fear. take time to love. take time to live.
Saturday, April 21, 2007
got tis indescribable feeling.
an overwhelming sense of emotion. a rather relaxed day today.. quite glad for today =) hahaha.. it's just rare. hopefully changing phone soon.. hehe.. *** i guess all of us need a new start in life every now n then.. deciding on wad to hold on to, deciding if we shld even hold on to certain things.. *** tummy hurts. blegh. =(
Friday, April 20, 2007
wad can i say? hmm.. i suppose orientation was quite alrite =)
OGLs were awesome.. classmates were great.. the atmosphere was gd =) today was the last day.. ending real late.. haha.. as usual.. i'm surprised that i've still got my voice though.. lol. many thanks to wei khim n junjie (OGLs).. theme was pirates. no lessons on tis monday.. gd =) hahhaa.. need to go buy lab coat also.. wahhh.. ppl in white! hehe.. hmm.. shld i try out wake boarding? haha.. i wanna of cos.. just not sure if i shld take it as a cca.. or would i be accepted.. or do i want to have cca in poly.. haha.. all the uncertainties.. there are too many "whys" in our lives that we dont have answers to.. wann try wake boarding i and joining wake boarding would be different.. hmm.. think i wanna see wad's the commitment like.. think think think.. feel like sleeping the whole day tmr.. lol. axphysiated?
Thursday, April 19, 2007
changes.. the only thing ever constant in our lives.. =)
well, i know it's still orangy.. but still, a different look! haha.. cant really stand it when things look the same for a long while.. some things may be nice when it is the way it is.. but sumtimes, just cant stick with it! hahah.. a life fulfilled. a life full of excitement. a life filled with the unexpected. i look forward. =) at the moment.. i feel like looking for diff kakis.. haha.. but, more of travel and diving buddies.. it'd be nice to be able to go on trips with ppl u know every now n then..
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
ever thought u knew someone and come to realise that you actually dont really know that person?
ever thought, "where have i seen this person before?" everyday, do u know who are the ppl that you've crossed paths with? would u think that you would ever see the same person ever again? did it cross your mind that you'd ever see that same person ever again in ur life time? i'm sure that many of us have these thoughts before.. maybe once, maybe twice.. or maybe even all the time.. been experiencing a lot of these thoughts recently.. also, been thinking if wad my life now is wad i want it to be.. it seems that way.. but still, it makes me wonder if that's the way it shld be and well, if that's really how i want my life to be.. it's really mind boggling. part of me is wants it to stay the way it is now.. yet another part makes me wonder it that's true.. sigh.. the "wonders" of the human mind.. hahah.. still, i'm loving the way things are now =) of so many ppl that we come across daily in our lives, i'm grateful for some that i know.. not that i'm not thankful for getting to know the ppl i know in my life.. it's just a few that have really made a difference deeply.. i'm sure all of us have a few special ppl that we are especially thankful for.. not gonna start naming of cos.. it wont be nice if i were to leave someone out accidentally.. lol. for those who know me, i treasure relationships a lot.. really appreciate everyone who has been in my life for a significant amount of time.. though quantity of time matters, quality matters even more.. there are ppl whom i've known for only a few months and yet, i can feel closer to them compare to those that i've known for a few yrs.. there's just feeling of familiarity.. sumhow. nevertheless, even though i haven been talking to some and for some i haven seen in a long time.. i do miss them.. especially if i've had many memories with them and well, just having tis period of time that i've known them better than i do now.. i miss them. my pri sch, sec sch, various groups of ppl.. one thing i do know for sure though.. ppl move on in the end.. but that doesnt mean that we all cant still be frens.. bumping into some here n there, can see that well, we all have our own lives to live.. and some are doing all just fine =)
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
i find myself thinking deep again.. haven done that as frequent.
first day of orientation today.. got to know my classmates.. quite and extreme bunch i suppose.. haha.. as in, one min they can be like this and the next, the total oppo.. say a few familiar faces ard actually.. AHS, TPS and even MJC. i was still rocking away in my head.. haven managed to sleep off the motion.. bahh. hahaha.. so din really participate in the telematches. mass dance was cool.. but really really familiar.. have i seen it before? or someone do it before?? hmm.. cant really recall. sumtimes i really feel like i'm living in the future of which i've lived before in the present.. makes sense? not really.. haha.. even i'm confused by the comment i just made.. well, basically.. i just have this feeling that i've lived tis part of my life before.. everything seems to have happened before.. in my mind, in my dreams.. whichever.. it all just seems to have occurred before. that's the main pt.. even the ppl i've seen.. it's almost i'm reliving the past once again.. where these sort of things happen, it can get really really confusing. reality and well, the oppo. looking back may not be a bad thing after all.. of course, to not repeat the mistakes of the past that is. i find that i "runaway" quite often.. choosing to avoid rather face whatever.. and now, i just feel like life's too short to keep running away frm things or ppl.. i mean, wad's so difficult bout anything?? ppl who dont "know" God can achieve things that were difficult.. why not a person who knows? =) well.. awaiting the challenges ahead i am.. i believe it's gonna be a brand new start and well, a whole new phase of my life. =) uncertainties abound every single day of our lives.. it's only how we choose to face them.. there are things that i dont get bout ppl.. seemingly to have the courage to dream but yet, not enough to make it happen.. seeing ppl fall.. it happens all the time, to anyone.. but i get real dishearten and wonder a lot on why ppl choose to let go.. sure, there are times when one just has to learn to let go.. but i'm sure that one has seen it coming.. why not share bout it earlier.. why not talk bout it in the first place? why not ask for help? i know i know.. i'm getting slightly agitated.. i admit. cos, i really wonder why.. things are the way they are now bcos of things that have happened.. and i just get tis feeling that one's running away frm everything.. is it me? or is that wad it is? sigh.. i'm thinking even more now.. better put a fullstop here.
Monday, April 16, 2007
woots! back frm tioman!
basically, we went to genting area to stay.. set off fri evening frm mohamed sultan rd there.. there was some serious jamming at the woodlands checkpt.. as usual, the extremely bumpy ride to mersing.. haha.. still rmb my last trip there.. woah! i think that it was much worse the other time man.. tis time round the ppl on the trip were quite gd =) desmond, kate, sai nyi nyi, sandy, soh hon(my buddy!), eleanor, agnes, johnny, fiona, and azlin.. took the night ferry to tioman! sleep in the boat there.. kept changing positions cos it was so hard to slp on the seats.. haha.. reached genting at ard 4am.. the night sky there is super super nice! no clouds when we got there.. stars really just dotted the skies.. nice =) i think that the others were too tired/sleepy to even bother looking up.. haha.. got to our room and continued sleeping.. haha.. think we got up at ard 8? den breakfast was at 8.30? sumthing like that.. over the 2 days of dive, 1. PPB 2. Navigation 3. Boat 4. Night 5. Deep plus one leisure dive as well.. saw a couple of things.. 2 blue spotted stingrays, 1 rather young hawksbill turtle, loads of cleaner wrasses.. there were 2 shark egg cases as well.. one alr empty, and the other i think there was an embryo still inside.. gd thing kate din poke it! haha.. they all though we were looking at piece of leaf.. haha..well, it looked like one.. lol. we were rushing to leave the island cos wasted a lot of time in the morn waiting for the other group of divers.. 2 grps on the same boat basically.. lunch was packed, ate on the boat leaving genting.. slept most of the boat ride away.. haha.. sleeping on the boat is nice.. but when u get back to land, u'd still get the rocking feeling for sumtime.. that's just the down side of it.. puked twice.. one on each day.. haha.. should have puked underwater.. den all the fish will be rite in front of me.. haha.. seasick? duno lar.. was having a real bad headache.. lol. the ride back to singapore frm mersing was much chattier tis time.. got a new name now.. "9-series" haha.. wadever!~ all thanks to kate.. she and her "9-series" all the way back to singapore.. den sai nyi nyi also lar.. started calling me by my chinese name.. gets kinda weird actually.. haha.. cos ppl normally call me by my eng name. loads of miao zing stories on the way as well.. lol.. i've got tis feeling that i know kate frm sumwhere man.. seen her before of sumthing like that.. maybe it's cos she looks like someone i know? most prolly i guess.. i think there a lot of ppl ard who look alike.. haha! cos even the others, i find them quite familiar.. but, there's just tis very small percentage that i've ever seen any of them.. odd.. it seriously felt extremely deja vu.. o wells, singapore IS small.. maybe on the train that kinda thing.. lol. who knows.. dropped off at mohamed sultan there again.. said all the bye byes.. half hug with kate.. dad came to pick me up.. thank him for that.. otherwise, i'll be like neither here nor there that kinda thing.. yep yep.. overall, find that tis trip aint too bad.. =) waiting for kate to post/send the pics!
Friday, April 13, 2007
taking a breather aft turning practically my whole rm upside down.. on one hand, i'm looking for my AH report bk which seems to have vanished into thin air! BLEGH. at the same time, also packing my room and packing for the dive trip as well.. bahh..
WHERE'S MY REPORT BK?!?! sigh... man do i have a lot of stuff.. actually, i just feel like throwing away everything.. haha.. the dust bunnies are driving me nuts!!
Thursday, April 12, 2007
to christine: elllo! me okok =) haha.. been working at underwater world.. yep yep. going to start poly stuff nxt wk alr.. so fast! hahah.. diving tis wkend also =) how's u? loads of work eh??
one more day till the dive trip! must faster go study my manual alr! haha.. otherwise if fail my advance den it'd be horrible man.. really really cant wait! hope that we'll get to see loads of stuff on tis trip and that the weather will be nice =) hehe.. sch's gonna start soon! wonder wad my course mates will be like.. and also, how things are gonna be like in a poly.. hmmm... loads of things to do! - pack my rm - pack stuff for dive trip - send out the consent form for TP orientation - check passport stuff - prep passport photos - ask bout my crocs!!*** - study my manual!!!****** and many many other miscellaneous.. hahaha.. albeit my STM. hehehe..
Monday, April 09, 2007
while we wish that things could be much simpler in life,
it is also at the same time that we know it aint gonna be that way.. looking thru my passport.. looking at the places i've been.. it may very well be places that someone else wished that they could have been.. looking back may not be a bad thing as well.. take it as you're counting ur blessings.. instead of groaning n wishing of wad could have been or wad could be, be thankful for things at the present.. for they are gifts for now. just take a look at the ppl around you.. if u look deep and far enough, u cant help bout find that you're very much more blessed than they are.. it's often these things that bring us back to reality.. the reality that not everyone are able to have wad they want.. and sadly, not everyone are able to have wad they need.. den again, take a look at ur own life.. you most prolly have everything that u need.. so wad are you moaning n groaning about?? sure enough, very often that we start to ask for more as we have wad we need.. we start to think of wad we want.. not saying that it's wrong.. just that, is that really wad u want?? i'm sure that many a times a lot of us, after getting wad we want, we'll come to realise that we dun really want it anymore.. the temptation of owning sumthing that we dont really need.. just because we want to have it for certain reasons.. it just doesnt cut does it? many of the things one learns at work.. EQ skills.. lol. sure, not everyone that we have to face are the ppl that we wish to.. it applies to everyone in the working society.. i'm quite sure no one's gonna deny that.. even so, we all still have to work together to get things done. of cos, there's the other side of work, the fun side =) believe me, there is this side and there will always be =) it surfaces by choice. while have certain types of colleagues can make work a tad unbearable, there also the another group of colleagues that can change all that =) i'm glad that well, i've got a so called balance at my work place.. i'm mainly ok with ppl at a personal level.. work is work, frens are frens.. while both can occur at the same time, most of the time it doesnt quite work that way.. so, really thank God for the other grp of "happy" colleagues that really changes everything =) (the quotation marks dun mean the oppo. it's just a grp) it really makes a diff and well, i suppose we all need one another to make the day a better one.. choosing to face more of the "happy" ppl and well, trying to "happy" urself as well.. a fair exchange! haha.. 'nugh said =) thank God for each day.. unpredictable though it always is, the lesson of learning to look at the bright side stands and the guidance for each moment as well =)
Sunday, April 08, 2007
went out with san2, clarice and fiona before san's farewell dinner..
the laksa was real gd =) went to pick ah tan aft that at his place.. went up and played with his hamsters for awhile.. they are really cute! esp the young ones.. just so small and cuddly =) oh! also looked at old photos of him.. since pri sch he alr has his current look alr! hahaha.. there were some photos taken at the lagoon as well.. much more greenery then.. looked much better.. aft that went to vivo to get drinks for later.. went to kim gary to eat. san2 was hungry again! unbelieveable man.. looking at her size arh.. just cant really imagine.. hahaha.. cos shortly aft, at clarice's place, she was hungry again! and being san2, she used her marker to write things on my hand.. =.=" it's those kind that can only be seen under ultraviolet light.. so until now, i'm still wondering if it has been alr washed off.. lol. nevertheless, san2 and her funny antics for the whole day again.. hahaha.. went to clarice's place aft that.. her niang jia to be exact.. it's like just 2 house away frm mr goh chok tong's place can.. his house is like super huge lar! the walls so high.. not only that wor.. clarice's place is also super big man.. got a big nice garden also.. really a dog's haven man.. caterers came.. den we waited.. decided that the food may not be enough.. ordered pizza.. san2 pinched some food as she was hungry again! haha.. so we sat at the drive way and waited.. and waited.. and waited.. den jamie's husband soon came.. and we waited again.. looked at the fruit bats flying ard the neighbour's chiku tree.. thinking that we shld scare keith with the bats! LOL. finally after waiting for so long, the others came.. we ate n told stories of the day.. the usual things.. toward the end, watched ah tan's tv appearance again and laughed a lot! haha.. esp bout that lil slipped the lil girl made.. LOL. den watched staff night's vid and laughed even more.. finally, showed san2 the photoslide show and of cos, the others gave her some other gifts as well.. yep =) cant wait to go diving! haha.. though i'd love to go see fireflies as well.. friday come quick! hehehe.. choose to face the happy ppl, makes life easier.. =)
Thursday, April 05, 2007
true colours reveal over time.
been working a few days in a row.. it's super tiring!! lol.. but still, it's fun at the same time =) "off" today.. but going for san san's farewell dinner later.. went for seafood dinner on tues.. din really wanna go actually.. was already so tired! but nevertheless, it was superb time =) sai nyi nyi, john, agnes, wanru, salihin and myself went to pasir panjang food centre there to eat.. we seriously ate A LOT! haha.. esp "chut chut" sai nyi nyi and i gave up after the seafood.. the others still had rom for desserts! both of us were like totally "OH MY GOSH." hahhaa.. sch starting soon.. orientation and everything.. wahh.. looking forward to my crocs and tioman!! woots!~ hahaha.. it' gonna be awesome awesome! =D moving on.
Sunday, April 01, 2007
san san's last day yesterday.. it was emotional.. esp wanru and that miao zing incident straight after show.. haha!
i'm really gonna miss san san.. well, she's the first trainer that i really talked to and also got to learn a lot of things regarding DL frm her.. really awesome times.. even though we've only known each other for a few months, it's been really great =) jayce n i rushed down to DL straight aft UWS and ran in! we were so just in time for everything man.. went to watch songs of the sea aft everything.. clarice, keith, san2, eric, YC, wanru, fiona, azni, agnes, keiko, juward, tristan, keiri, ah tan, razak, jayce and myself.. aft that went for dinner/supper at lau pa sat.. eat eat talk talk.. laugh a lot! haha.. had a lot of fun with them =) tristan is really really very adorable! haha.. so cute! =) and a very sweet darling too.. i reckon that i've never quite laughed and had so much fun till now.. it's a place of show-all everyday.. different ppl, different situations.. but in the end, there's still the jokes, teasing and laughter behind everything.. well, you cant have everything and you wont either.. but, treasure wad u have instead.. that wad i'm learning to do.. it's not easy but it can be done.. life's to short for regrets.. life's too short for a lot of things.. we cant have everything but we can have memories.. things that have happened, friendships that have been forged these things do remain that way.. you cant change the past but the future has yet to be walked.. so, just keep on going.. better or worse, it's all up to individual.. ********* as time past.. things just surface.. thing really start to show.. the parting of the grey area into black n white.. |