My Matriculation Day...

On 28/07/2005...
I finally and officially become an NUS undergrad...
*cheers and shouts and champagne popping*

Since my surname was TAN, my matri timing was quite late, at 2pm...
But judging from the fact that Engineering Faculty is the Largest Faculty,
I decided to be extra early, just to beat the crowds if there was one...
I reached the busstop outside NUS at 1.35pm...
I reached the Multi-Purpose Sports Hall at 1.51pm...
Now where did the 16 minutes go??

From the distance between my busstop and that building, it wouldn't take me more than 5 minute to travel...
So how did this happens??
Lesson#1: Trust the Map, not your Random Friendly NUS Senior (RFNUSS)...
At the sheltered walkway, I got stopped by some seniors doing some survey...
Being the ever so helpful person I am (stop sniggering), I agreed...
After that, I proceed to check out the map nearby...
The senior asked me where I was going, and when I told her, she helpfully supply the information...

RFNUSS: Oh, very easy, it's in that direction (points), you just walk there walk there through the buildings lor...

I looked...
I only saw a football field, a grandstand, and some tennis/basketball courts...
What building??
But anyway, since she is a senior, I took her kind advice and walked instead of taking the internal bus...
Walk walk walk...
Saw the courts...
Saw four pathways...
Dunno which way to turn, so randomly choose one...
Walk walk walk...
Saw two paths...
Anyhow choose...
Walk walk walk...
Saw the Sports and Recreational Centre...
Walk walk walk...
Finally found the place I was looking for... With a 1.5km queue in front of me...
Wah liao!!! So early already got people queuing!!!
By that time, I was sweating like hell from all that stupid walking...
My sweat literally drips, from my braided hair and onto my equally drenched neck...

Then at a queue...
Another Random Friendly NUS Senior came to stand with me...
Have a great time chatting with her...
Found out from her later that she belongs to a group of people who randomly choose a freshman to chat with and guide them along...
She was really good, she told me alot of things, and we chat about non-NUS stuff too...
And she makes crafts!!!
Finally got someone who really makes crafts!!!
Not just anyhow-take-a-waterbottle-and-decorate-to-make-pencil-holder kind...
But she knits, makes bags, does embroidery, etc...
We even exchange some pointers...
And she accompanied me all the way inside until I have to leave and go get matriculate...
Great senior, really make my day...

When I started queuing at 1.51pm, it was already very long...
But according to YB, who came late (as usual heehee), at about 2.10pm, the queue has snaked it's way through the dark corridor, up the stairs, near the swimming pool...
For those who are non-NUS students, here's a map: http://www.nus.edu.sg/campusmap/
From what I've heard, it seems that even those whose surnames are not in the 2pm slot (P to TA) came as well...
There's an NG, and a Zhang somewhere in the crowd...

Something happened while I was queuing...
I was happily talking to S, the craft making senior, when somebody tapped me on my shoulder...
I turned around...
I saw a woman waving and smiling and saying 'hello' to me...
I stared...

My Brain: Loading... Loading... *Beep* Human... Loading... Loading... *Beep* Face Undetected in Databased... Unknown Identity... Analysing threat of unidentified human... Loading... Loading...

In other words, I have no idea who this woman was and yet she was smiling at me like I'm an old friend of hers...
Creepy...

Kidding...

She's a foreigner, thus her English was full of accent...
Took me a long time to figure out that she was from Korea, that she represents some model stuff, and that her company had came to Singapore to conduct classes??
I think, I wasn't too sure, can't really tell what she was talking about...
So I just uh-huh and nodded my head, then she show me a few piece of paper, one of them was a class schedule and courses...
Oh, then it hit me...
She wants me to join her class...
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Saw the courses, hmmm... Quite interesting...
There's some on walking posture, what half-turns??, some on make-up etc...
The best part is, it is Free Of Charge!!!
Ok, I'm in...
And I even added ZW into it as well heehee...
Well, that lady (forgot her name, couldn't quite catch it from the way she is speaking) told me that her classes has requirements...
Students must be at least 1.70m...
Well... ZW 1.69m, round up 1.70m can lar can lar...
Hah, hope that I can understand what she is talking about when the classes starts...

Anyway, back to Matri...
After handing in my Giro forms and collecting my Matri card,
that guy just told me "Blue Counter!!! Blue Counter!!!"
I walk and walk and look and look...
Have to ask others some more...
Blue counter... Bloody hell lar, it was just those bunch of counters in front... None of them was blue...
Then I saw some Blue stickers on the floor pointing at those counters...
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My Matri Card...
Damn ugly...
Face too round...
Hair too flat...
Looks like I'm suffering from Mumps or something...
Why my Face So Fat!!!
My Face Where Got So Fat One!!!
It's The Wrong Card Lar!!!
With my name on it...

Then... Comes the highlight...
Free Shopping Spree...
Just walk pass any person holding a flyer/card/leaflet/pens/box/goodies and you will automatically get your hands full of it...
Wah, YL must be so happy on her matri day on 25th...

Then I have to wait for a little while at the holding area before being led up stairs to the 2nd storey...
Where the CCA fairs are being held...
Crowded sia~
And I got psycho into signing up for TWO charity volunteer CCAs and one Archery Club...
I must be crazy...
Now I cannot answer any phone calls on my handphone liao, just in case they call...
But then, I seldom answer my calls anyway haha... No Biggie...
But I really wanted was to sign up for Comics and Animation Club...
But at their booth, got human jam, so I just take a flyer and squeeze my way out...
Later then I find out there was only one website for me to check it out, no tel/hp numbers or emails even...
Darn...
And if I don't get into that club, maybe I'll consider Astronomy Club!!!
Can See Stars!!!

When I'm done with the entire thing and had reached home (I follow my lousy sense of direction and walked to the busstop in 5 minutes!!! Hah!!!),
I became Santa Clause...
Cos not all of the freebies are what I want or need or desire...
So my brother and mom got free gifts...

Then at night, somebody keep calling my handphone...
More then 10 times...
After which he gave up and send me an Sms instead...
Just realised that it was my Orientation group leader...
Oops...

Hai~~~
Tired tired Matri day!!!

Matters and Stuff... Me Matriculated Tomorrow!!!

Today I went for a Maths Revision lecture...
Meet with the same crowd as usual...
They came late as usual...
With the exception of YB who was only late for 5 minutes, not 30++ mins like the rest...
A New Record!!!

When we went to that lecture hall...
It was flooded...
Literally...
Inside, full house, with some people sitting on the steps even...
Outside, human jam, numbers could equal to the ones inside...

So we attempt to squeeze through and take up the leftover space on the steps...
After a few minutes, the lecturer came, and pleaded with us...
"All those non-poly students, can you please leave the LT? Cos this revision lecture is meant for the poly students only. The rest are all over-qualified blah blah blah."

'__'

Then wtf did you invite us to go for this lecture in the letter/package/big envelope you send to us??

So we and many others dragged our feets outside...
We went all the way to school for what?? Lunch??
Nooo...
So later, during their lunch (I didn't eat as it was too early), we decided to errr... Rebel??
We waited until the first lecture ends, then let the poly students get out before we sneaked inside and plonked our butts on the seats, one hour before the second lecture starts...
Lucky we did that, becos for the second lecture, a few "over-qualified" students came back too...
So it was even more crowded then before!!!
Flooded, filled to the brim, spilling out a little as well...

Thank goodness we decided to came back...
Becos we had forgotten How Maths Really Works...
And there's a topic, ZW later told me that it was in F Maths syllabus (I only took A Maths), which I have never seen nor even learnt before!!!
Limits blah Continunity blah blah...
Wah, very blur...
Tried my darnest to make head and tail of what the lecturer is talking about...

After the lecture, we decided to meet up with AM, who was having her matriculation today...
Before the second lecture and lunch, as we had nothing to do, we tried to went to the matri fair...
But they just wouldn't let us in becos we "must be matriculated first"...
We attempted 3 times, in the front door, side way, back door...
Fail, damn it...
Then after we meet AM, we thought of a way to let at least one of us to enter the matri fair...
Which is to pretend to be AM's brother/sister/cousins...
Only JiH have the guts and skin thick enough to try it...

Scene: JiH and AM make their way to the security guard...
Security Guard: Have you matriculated?? Show me you matriculation card.
AM shows her card...
JiH: Errrm, I'm her brother...
Security Guard: Ok, then show me your I.C.
JiH panics... No choice but to show I.C.
Security Guard: Eh, why the both of you have different surnames??
JiH: Errmmm... Actually I'm not her brother, I'm her cousin, I'm here becos I want to show her around as she dunno some things blah blah...
AM acts blur...
Security Guard: Ok then, next time must tell the truth ok?? Go in...

It works!!!
So JiH sucessfully went in...
According to them later, there was a huge blockage in there...
Too many people so they have to queue here, queue there, and make the rest wait for ??hours...

Tired... Brain Overload...

Tomorrow is my turn...
Hope that it doesn't jams...

What Zodiac Sign Are You Attracted To?

I took a quiz at Quizilla.com...

"What Zodiac Sign Are You Attracted To??"

And here are the Results...
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You should be dating a Taurus.
20 April - 20 May
This gentle creature is dependable, artistic, and
very calm and patient. Though Taurus has the
tendency to be self-indulgent, stubborn or
materialistic, this bull naturally enjoys a
roll in the hay!


What Zodiac Sign Are You Attracted To?
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What??
Taurus??
o_0
I should be dating ZW??

Hmmm...
Maybe I retake the quiz again, cos in one or two of the questions I have two answers but only allowed to choose one option...
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You should be dating a Leo.
23 July - 22 August
This mate is honest and loyal, with a sunny
disposition. Though this lion has the tendency
to be arrogant, sulky or smug, he/she is
unrestrained in bed.


What Zodiac Sign Are You Attracted To?
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Huh??
Leo??
*_*
Me should date JX??

Now let me change all of the answers...
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Computer Blanks Out...
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Uh oh...
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A weird high-pitch sqeaky voice speaks out...
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"Sorry, access denied. Reason, two tries per day. Please try again tomorrow."





Just kidding...

Heeheee...
But you guys should go and check out this website if you have plenty of time to kill...

http://quizilla.com/

Go Index, select Only Quizzes, and select again (E)veryone...
Don't be naughty go select (A)dult, or later your mommy see, spanked you...
Haha...
There are a few quizzes worthy of your attention although the majority are crap...

Have Fun!!!

I'm Very Very Confused, Blur, Totally Don't Get It!!!

I just went to a 'Tea Session' with the Dean...
Actually it's more like a talk for us freshies...

Meet up with YB, WY an JiH beforehand...
I thought only girls have the tendency to be late...
Guess it applies to the other gender as well...
Impunctuality does not Discriminates Gender...

YB had bloody waited 40 bloody minutes for his bloody bus to bloody arrive, so not really his bloody fault...
But if his bus is going to be so frequently this unreliable, I suggest that the MRT will be a far better choice...
WY was still at the MRT near Little India at 9.30am (which is the time when we are supposed to meet)...
And JiH only woke up when I sms him...
-_-; There's something called the alarm clock...

So anyway, me and YB and WY went in at about 10++am...
Then JiH very big shot, he strode in just in time for refreshments...

Anyway, we listened to a talk by the vice-dean...
Quite informative, although it can get a bit confusing and errmm zzzzz at times...
I can see a few heads nodding off...
After that it was lunch...
And we set off in search of edible food...
Along the way, I'm amazed...
At the number of friends that JiH and WY knew...
And a lot of friendships seemed to be very related to YB too...
A few times liao, I see JiH talking to a friend, only to realised that that friend was an ex-Pri/Sec/JC mate of YB!!!
Wah, very inter-linked...
Well... I think it's becos JiH, WY and YB all came from quite prestigious schools...
Namely Chinese High, Hwa Chong JC, Victoria JC etc...
And me?? I only saw 2 people from JJ, and one whom I recognised is ZW's friend from PJ...
The Lower Half of JC Ranking System...
So sad...

Then, it was time for the Talk...
On CORS, aka Confusing Online Race Struggle...
Let me tell you, it was...
*imagine a tsunami crashing down onto you*
*you running through a maze without any opening*
*you attempting to walk in a straight line after a ride in the roller coaster*

I was so swamp with information, and I dunno how and where to process it!!!
And not to mention, it was really complicated!!!
At the end of the TALK...
(x___x;) -----> I became like this...

Oh man...
How will I survive???

Bo Liao Post...

This is a very Bo Liao Post...
Written by a very Bo Liao Person...

You Have Been Warned...

I'm bored...
And when I'm bored, I do very stupid things or write equally idiotic stuff...

I'm an AirHeAD!!! An AIrhEAd!!! LaLAalALaLALAALalal...

This is just an example...


ScHoolS Is gONna StART SOon!!! SAvE mEEEE!!!!! HeLP!!! AAaaarRrGGgGghhhhhHHH!!!!!!
PAnIC AttACK IN fUll fORCe!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is not an example...


Me, in this current crazy mood, has became stupid...
(Thus you may find huge grammatica and spelling errors, along with the freaking high usage of singlish...)
And why am I in this crazy mood??
Cos school going to start liao lor...
Then me panic panic very kan cheong liao lor...
Why leh??
Cos I haven study... 4get everytin lor...
Den I scared scared I no fren there, veri loneli...
I oso very afraid tt i get lost in there...
if lost liao sure die die le...
oh nooooo...
sob.. sob... i want some1 to be my tour guide...
i want a fren...

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Ok
End Of Bo Liao Post...
You can all breathe a sigh of relieve...
I'm back to normal...
At least for now, until the next attack...

Day Out With My Tribe...

Went to a KTV session with my Namji people, name of my group in the CAC camp, at PartyWorld in Clementi...
Cos they have just taken their QET, a sort of English Test taken by people who scored C5 and below for their GP...
I got B3 for GP!!! So heng heng no need to go and take!!!
I have to meet them at Clementi's Mac at 12.30pm...
But I was late, along with ZW, and could only reach there by 1pm instead...

What in the world is wrong with me??
How come everytime I meet the Namji people, I'm always late??
Shit, kena hang out too much with ZW liao, got rub off by her...
This time, the reason for my lateness was that I cannot find my sports shoe...
So I search high and low for it in the shoe cabinet, the area around the shoe cabinet, near the door...
And yet I still cannot find it!!!
Wasted 30mins...
Then my Mom came home and told me that it was in the storeroom...

What the...
Where got people put shoe in storeroom one!!!
It's like you are searching for bread in the kitchen, only to find it in the living room later...
Storeroom is meant to store huge bulky things, or unwanted things, or things that you do not need so often...
My shoe does not applies to any of the above...

So after meeting them at Mac,
I have to endure one of the most tortured moments in life...
Which is watching people eat food...
I could not take my eyes off AM's fries, which she put sooooo near to me...
Despite the fact that I've eaten at home, I still could not resist the urge to chomp down on a couple of fries...
Ok, make that more than just a couple of fries...
AM volunteered it to me, so cannot reject other people's kind offer right??
The guys are damn lucky, as AM offer some of her fries to me, the food on the guys' table are untouched...

After Mac, we proceed to PartyWorld which is on the second storey...
Cold cold room.....
Brrr.....
The songs were ok, but dunno why the guys keep singing very 'old' songs...
It's almost like we are in a different generation although they are only older by 2 years??
My singing ability suxx...
After croaking the first few F.I.R songs, my throat a bit soar liao...
Oh man, no wonder my voice sounds much horrible later...

After some time, the Namji people abit bored liao...
So they started playing the 'Number Game'...
Whereby one person type a number (0-99) in a handphone and leave it there, then the rest will have to say out a number each, then person will tell them the range which the choosen number is in...
So if
Man#1: 35!!!
Person: Between 35 and 99... (if let's say the choosen number is 45)
And the unlucky soul who shouted out the choosen number, will have to do forfeits...

In our case, we spilt into girls group and guys group...
And we have to get a girl and a guy to do a duet if they got hit...

The First couple: YL and YX...
They sang Wu Ding, a very nice song, which unfortunately got sung by YL...
Hahahahahaha, =p but YX can sing very well, so sort of salvage the situation...

The Second Couple: Me and WY...
We sang Beauty and the Beast... OMG...
So old, no wonder I forget the tune lar, so cannot blame if I sang out of it right??
Heheeheeee, but WY voice very soft, so shy huh??
They even want us to stand together while singing, and took a picture of it!!!

Then after that I got struck by the STML (Short Term Memory Loss) virus again...
From the name, it is evident that I have forgotten what happens later...
OoPs...

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The above space indicates what happens after I finish singing the duet...
It is empty, which explains my brain...

(>.<;)

Funny Everyday Stuff...

I overheard this conversation between my parents and the parents of the children whom my mom is babysitting for...

Child's Mom: blah blah blah (about office politics)
My Mom: Hmmmnn...
Child's Mom: That Japanese called Ota-san and another called ??-san blah blah...
Me: Eh, why do the Japanese have -san in their names??
Child's Mom: Errrm... I Dunno leh... All of them have -sans in their names, both male and female...
Me: Oh really??
Child's Mom: Ya... Only -Sans (Sons), no Daughters leh...
Me: -_-;


Some conversations between me and A Certain Dumb NS Guy (ACDNSG)...

Me: blah blah blah Acid very Sour leh...
ACDNSG: No lar, Acid is Salty...
Me: What?? No, acid is sour...
ACDNSG: Salty lar...
Me: Sour!!!
ACDNSG: Salty!!!
Me: OI!!! You go NS so fast the brain got fried by the sun issit?! IT IS SOUR!!!
ACDNSG: Where got!!! IT IS SALTY!!!
(Arguement continues for 5 more minutes)
Me: Stop, and think for a while... This is Secondary school science...
(ACDNSG thinks for some time)
ACDNSG: Oh ya, it is sour...
Me: >_<;

Here's another one...

Me: So... What's the difference between these two shoes??
ACDNSG: Well... The Brooks is more on style, it looks nicer than New Balance... But for New Balance, it is more comfortable becos there's more space in front blah blah...
Me: Hmmmnnn...
ACDNSG: So it would depends on whether you prefer style or comfort lor...
Me: Aiyah, but from your description, both of them looks agar agar the same leh, so I might as well choose the one with comfort...
ACDNSG: So you want Brooks issit??
Me: Huh?? No, I want New Balance...
ACDNSG: But if you want comfort, you should choose Brooks...
Me: But just now you say Brooks looks nicer, but New Balance is more comfortable!!!
ACDNSG: Hah?? No lar, Brooks is more comfortable, New Balance nicer looking...
Me: Hey!!! That's not what you said earlier!!! You said Brooks looks nicer, but New Balance more comfortable!!!
ACDNSG: Huh??
(ACDNSG thinks for a while)
ACDNSG: Oh ya hor... I got mixed up...
Me: *faints*


Here's a Joke my brother told me...

Brother: Eh, when Doremon says hello to Hello Kitty, why didn't Hello Kitty say hello back??
Me: Errmmm... Cos Hello Kitty thought Doremon was calling her name instead?? Afterall, Doremon will have to say "Hello, Hello Kitty!!!" to be considered as saying hello...
Brother: No lar... Becos Hello Kitty has no mouth, cannot reply back lar!!! Hahahahahahaha...

Brother: Ok, assumed that Hello Kitty now has a mouth, so why did Doremon ignored Hello Kitty when she say hello to him??
Me: Becos Doremon pissed off when Hello Kitty didn't say hello to him earlier, so now ignored her lor...
Brother: Wrong!!!
Me: Becos Doremon thought that Hello Kitty was being cheeky by calling him with her surname... Cos "Hello Doremon", sounds like Hello Kitty's relative hor??
Brother: Wrong again lar you... Becos Doremon has no ear, so cannot hear lar!!! Hahahahahahaha...
Me: *bish*


When I think back on these few incidents, I always end up smiling...
With people like them, life is certainly funnier...

Poor Xiaxue...

So it's true...
The famous blogger Xiaxue from http://xiaxue.blogspot.com has gotten all of her blog entries deleted...
Both her blogger account and gmail got hacked into...
Noooooo.....

I'm feeling really sad...
Cos I know how it feels to have all of your sweat and blood hardwork to be lost...
Just like that...
If I were to imagine that all of my drawings, my crafts and artwork to be lost, say... to a fire...
Really heart-wrenching...

Now currently in a bad mood...

To the person who did this to xx...
I hope your conscience kills you...
No... That is too easy...
I hope that your conscience torments you so much that you decided to commit suicide and God refuses you entry into Heaven becos you, by killing yourself, has committed a sin and that you will get eaten up for an eternity by the demons in Hell as shown in the movie Constantine...

Life suxx...

I'm having an Artist's Block...
Meaning I can't draw out my comic for the time being...
Well, I have already planned out the storyline and such...
But somehow my pencil just can't seem to move...
Oh nooooo...

Not only that, I have just realised that I have nearly forgotten everything I learnt in school!!!
My maths, chemistry and physic!!!
And Uni is about to start in 2 weeks time?!?!?
And I'm in Engin Fac, which means that the above three will be very very important!!!
Help!!!

I'm totally broke...
I have only $50 left for two birthday celebrations and maybe even a chalet...
Now how in the world am I going to stretch the dollar...
My boss has quit, so no more jobs for me now...
Sigh...

I'm having a nervous breakdown sooner or later...
Cos I'm about to start school...
Ya, I'm a scarey cat...
I'm scared of getting lost in school, scared of not excelling in studies, scared of not making any friends, scared of doing too many new things at once...
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Here's my plan...
I'm allocating my night time for my comic cos that's the time where my brain juices works really well...
I'm going to spent the last week before school starts to study all my stuff, especially maths and physics...
I'm either eating the cheapest food available or not eating at all when I meet up with my friends for the birthday celebrations...
I'm going to pray to God, and asked for all the courage I'll need, and just let things be...

There, problem solved...

Here's a nice quote,
"Everything will be OK in the end... If it is not OK, then it is not the end..."


I Will Find My Way Out...

My Name--- My Identity...

People knew me by by chinese name...
Chen Wan Shi... (In han yu pin yin)
When my parents gave me this name, they took pains into researching for their meanings...
So let's not waste their efforts...


Special Report: Averii and her Name...

"Wan"
Many girls also have the "Wan" inside their names, like Wanli, Wanling, Wanhui, Wanjun blah blah...
My "Wan" is slightly more special than all of their "Wans"...
Cos my "Wan" has a "Nu", the word 'female' in chinese, as its side...
So my "Wan" literally means "gentle, gracious, tactful" or "beautiful, graceful, elegant"...

Now try using that to describe me...
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You can stop puking now...

Since I'm borned in the year of Tiger, a friend of my parents told thm that girls borned in that year will be very very fierce, very bad-tempered...
So he suggested putting the "Wan" inside my name to counter the effects...

See it's all Maths or Chemistry:
"Wan" = gentle, pH14
Tiger = fierce, pH1
So "Wan" + Tiger = pH7, normal, average...

Sad to say it doesn't works...


"Shi"
Why do people keep mispronoucing and misspelling my name as "sI"...
It's "sHi"!!!
"Si" "sI' "SI"... You all want to "Si" is it??
My "Shi" is very beautiful as well... Don't marred it...

My "Shi" means poetry, verse or poems...
It can also stands for "Shi Qing Hua Yi", which means "as beautiful as the landscape" or "so beautiful as though as it came out from a drawing or a poem"...

Pardon my translation... My chinese ain't good...
And by the way, that is how my dad explains to me, I didn't made it up...

See?! SEE?! My "Shi" is very very magnificent...
Just like its owner...
Heeheehee...


"Wan Shi"
Now add these two together, what will you get??

"A beautiful, gentle and gracious lady who is very well-verse in both art and poetry..."

I wished...
Can't say it is true for the first part of the sentence...
But for the second half... I'm trying my best to fulfill it... =)



Now, that's the Chinese part...
What about my Christain name??
I'm a christain, by birth, although I'm... Well... Not very devoted...

My parents did not give me a christain name because they are afraid that when I grow up, I may not like it...
So they let me choose instead...
Now I have more than 10 christain names which I've taken and rejected in the past...
Those includes Samatha, Sarah, Cythia, Jessica, Jessie, Anastacia, Viva, Vanessa and many others which I can't remember...
The longest ones are Jessie and Viva, but I gave it up when I realised so many storybook characters were named Jessie and many shops have Viva in their signboards...

So back in 2002, I undertook this mission...
To search for my Christain name...

I want a name with meaning too...
But I got sick of those typical girls names' meaning...
Of Noble Birth, Melody, Joy, Happy, Lovely, Beautiful, Flower, Gracious God...

Boring...

Back in those days, I'm really crazy over LOTR, still crazy now...
And I have always being interested in mythology creatures like elves, mermaids, nymphs etc...
So I went to babynamesworld.com and search for names with meanings related to elves, mermaids and the likes of such...
And it gave me a few selections...

Elvina: friend of elves
Sirena: Siren
Fay: fairy or elf
Tanya: fairy princess
Nixie: water sprite
Lorelei: siren

Hmmnn... Pretty tame...
All sounded so girlish... And kinda hard to pronounce...

Then I saw it...

Avery: Ruler of Elves

I Want It!!! I Want It!!!

Thus my name... Averii...

My Medical Check Up At NUS...

Just went to NUS for my Medical check up...
Along with ZW, YL and YT...
Although ZW went for fun as she already had her medical check up at some other place...

The way we plan to meet is very weird indeed...
Cos all of us can take the bus 963 directly there...
Only we board on different bus-stop...
So we plan like this:
ZW and YT meet together first since they live near each other, and me and YL did the same too...
And we coordinate in such a way that all of us will leave our house at exactly 9am and walk towards our respective bus-stop...
Then when ZW and YT board the bus, they will sms us the license plate number...
Then all of us can board the same bus together!!!
Happy Ending!!!

Fat Chance though...
Me and YL miscommunicate, YL thought that we were supposed to meet at 9am, not leave the house at 9...
So she came early...
But that's not the real problem...
The problem is that : ZW Is Late Again...
Hmmmnnn... Why am I not surprise??

Anyway, when we reach there, there were quite a number of people...
But luckily our queue were not that long...


First Station: Measuring of Height and Weight and Degree of Eye

I wonder if it was due to parallax error, or instrument error, or what...
Cos the guy who measured my height, wrote 1.73m on my card!!!
1.73m...
173cm...
1730mm
WOW!!! I Actually Grew 2cm in One Freaking Year?!?!?!?!
Huh?!?!!? My height, which is constant at 1.71m for three years straight, suddenly flew to 1.73m!!!
Gee... It's like, my wish has come true huh??
Cos I've always sort of wanted to grow taller...

Oh man...
1.73m...
Kinda hard to digest...
1.73m...
I grew taller!!! Yes yes yes!!!
Muhahahahahahahaha.....

As for my weight...
Currently under "Confidential Information"...

Heeheehee...


Second Station: Urine Test

For this one, err... it's a little bit dirty...
Cos we girls, unlike the guys, do not have the ability to aim while peeing...
So when we were given that teeny wee bit of cup, we have a little bit of crisis...
And we do not have enough liquid in our body too...
So we drank and drank and drank...
Wait and wait and wait...
Finally the untreated newater comes...
Wah liao...
Damn hard to aim...
Keep missing...
Ewwww.....


Third Station : Full Body Examination

For this, we nearly have to wait for 1 bloody hour...
Cos YL medical card, used for recording our results after those tests, went missing!!!
Right inside that medical centre!!!
What the...
At first when YL's turn was missed, we waited a bit longer before asking for help...
The nurse dismissed us with the excuse that YL's card could have being shuffled to another room and that other people may have shifted in front of her...
Ok... So we wait...
And wait...
Our numbers were 4588, 4589, 4590...
We waited until the numbers jumped to 46++, 87++, 00++...
Finally, after one hour, we could take it no longer and asked for an explaination...
After the nurse search for a while...
She came back, embarrassed, and said that YL's card went missing...
And that YL have to refill the form again...
(-___-;)

Bloody inefficient...


Fourth Station: X-Ray

By that time we have wasted dunno how many hour and minutes...
But thank god we arrived just in time for the X-Ray at the last station before it closes for lunch...
YL was the second last person to get it done...
I had went for it with YT way before YL as the nurses keep pushing us there...
A bit nervous sia~
Cos I have never being X-Rayed before...
But it was easy...

Step 1: Go inside room
Step 2: Close the door properly to make sure the people outside don't get a face full of radiation
Step 3: Stand in front of machine and let the lady push you until your entire body kena glued to the machine
Step 4: Wait while the lady do something to a machine behind you, but you cannot see as you scared to move
Step 5: Wait for the lady to yell "Breathe in deeply and Hold!!!" and proceed to do what she instruct
Step 6: Breath out and get out of the room before further radiation bombard you and change you into a mutant

There!!! Easy anot??
After I'm done with it, I went outside to wait with ZW for YL...
YT by that time had gone off...
Lucky her or she would be very pai seh later...

Cos ZW started singing...
Wah, first she start with F.I.R songs, later it was S.H.E, and then it was Jay Chou...
Oh no, some singer wannabe ghost has possessed her body and turned her into a singing freak!!!
Wah really, cos I seldom see her so bold to sing in public...
Loudly some more leh!!!
Everytime any one walks passed, I realised just how small my bag was...
Cannot even squeeze my entire head in...
Then she actually challenge me to sing a song!!!

ZW : Eh... Sing a song leh, what song you know how to sing??
Me : Twinkle twinkle little star...
ZW: (-__-:)
ZW: No no, sing another song, a chinese song...
Me: Yi shan yi shan liang jing jing... (chinese version of twinkle twinkle little star)
ZW: *bish*
Me: owowwww, why you hit me??

Super Lame...
With friends like her, hard to keep my sanity...
And we keep laughing outside that X-ray room...
A few seconds later, YL sms me...

YL: Eh, can you stop laughing anot?? I can hear you laugh in here leh!!!
Me: Hmmm?? What?? Can you hear ZW and her ugly singing just now??
YL: Wa liao, still laugh, everybody can hear liao lar!!! And no, I cannot hear anyone sing, just your ugly laughter...

-_-

There goes my reputation...

Start: 10am
Finish: 1pm
Wasted: 1 hour

I Just Got Inspired By Tranquility??

Surprise... Surprise...
Never knew that talking to people helps...

Nowadays I'm in a sort of "artistic", or "creative", or "feeling sooo depressed that my brain juice started working overtime" mood...
Yesh, I'm feeling pretty "blue" these few days...
Probably due to lack of work, activity, and play...
And probably because school is about to start soon...
Having too much time on your hands can be both a good or bad thing...
I have like about 3, THREE Freaking weeks of empty schedule in my calender...
That's like, almost a month, huh, of boredom??

Bad thing of having too much time:
1) Keep thinking negative things...
2) Keep worrying about school...
3) Keep walking around in the house and bothering other people because I have absolutely nothing else to do...
4) Keep wasting electricity by surfing the Internet all day long, trying to kill time...
5) Keep wasting my free Sms by sms-ing friends all the nursery ryhmes I can think of, while being curse by them...
6) Keep writing stupid posts like this one...

But luckily...
Due to me being in a "blue" mood, which equates to "artistic" or "creative" mood...
I got the urge...
I have return back to my hobbies!!!
i.e: Drawing, thinking up on storylines for my comic, creating the comic...
or
i.e: Composing poems about my so-call pitiful life, or composing poems for my comic...

Thank god I still haven't got the urge to make Crafts or I will have no time for the above two...

So now I have choosen a comic to developed (I have created many in the past when I'm in another one of my "blue" mood)...
I have even drawn out one of the pictures and scanned it into the computer...
But one thing still hinders me, no, make that two things...
I still haven't grasped the skills of using Photoshop, and that my computer is about to spoil...
-_-;
Obstacles huh...

Not only that, I have even composed a poem for another comic of mine!!!
It was a spur-of-the-moment thingy...
However, I got stuck at one small part...
But the very next day...
A chat with a friend of mine solve it...
The key word is "Tranquility"...

Me: blah blah blah
Friend: ha.. before this blog style, i used white... and the theme is about tranquility...
Me: Blah blah blah??
Friend: and i described something like What's next.... A tranquility world i will seek
Me: oh...

And *tink-a-ling-tink-a-ling*...
That very night when I when back to my poem...
I remembered the word "Tranquility"...
It fits right into my poem!!!

( > w < )
( ^ ___ ^ )
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So happy!!!

So thanks, dear friend, although initially the talk with you was abit errmm... confusing...
But treat it as if you inspired me...
It's a great honoured sia~
Hahahahaha...

:-D
Now working really hard on my comic!!!
But first I will need Materials, Patience (loads of it), Determination and probably Luck...
Let's just hope that this comic can really become a reality...

It's my dream...

Ju an XJ Birthday Party!!!

Went out with my new friends from the CAC camp on 9/7/05...

Me, ZW and YL had met earlier before gathering with the rest...
But unfortunately, I was err... late...
This is an Isolated Incident!!!
Usually, it's ZW or YL or both who are late not me!!!
Well... Cos I was about to leave my house when suddenly, something of great interest caught my attention on TV...
It was a Doremon Cartoon!!!
I haven't seen a Doremon cartoon on that channel for like what??... 6 years??
So captivated I was that I forget the time, and was hence late...
Isolated Incident hor...

Anyway, I don't really worry about it...
Becos I know that the rest will confirm be later then us one...
Sigh... Impunctuality has become the normality...

Sooo... We waited... Along with the rare early birds, YB, JuH and AM...
Ju was one of the last few ones to arrived...
But even she couldn't beat the Late King of the Day...

Presenting....
XJ as the Late King of the Day!!!
Our birthday boy has decided to be Da Pai and woke up at a freaking late hour of 1030...
Not only that, he even lie around in bed some more!!!
And we are supposed to meet at 11am...

So in the end, all of us headed off in search of food without waiting for XJ...
We went to...
Genki Sushi!!!
(^0^)
Yesh Yesh Sushi!!!
Hmmmnnn... Ate a few raw salmons... Heavenly...
Got shocked by AM eating antics...
For a XS size, it's kinda hard to believe she can fit in all those food she ate...
And stay thin as well...
Well... Some people have all the luck...
Sob... Poor YL... Eat a lot, gain weight... Eat little, still gain weight...

*Bish*
*Box*
*Piack*
Sorry for the digression, I just got attack by Iron-Fist YL...

Anyway...
Me, ZW, YL and AM decided to go and buy a cake secretly...
But after walking around, we got lost...
I did not lead them... I repeat, I DID NOT LEAD them...
So I'm not the only one with a bad sense on direction eh??
So AM decided to call her knight in shining armour, JiH...
And together, we managed to find Swensens and bought a Cookies and Cream Ice Cream cake!!!
:-o'''
I'm drooling...

We try to surprise the birthday girl and guy...
But according to JiH, XJ has already guess our intention...
No fun...
But at least our efforts were being appreciated...

After singing birthday songs...
Ju and XJ attemped to cut the cake...
Failed terribly...
The cake was Rock Hard!!!
The knife couldn't slice through, and when it did, it got stuck and the whole cake came along with it...
So AM try to stab it...
Works, but now we have a seriously mutilated cake...
Haha...

The cake was delicious...
I'm in heaven again...
Then a few of the guys got bored...
They took a few of the dry ice (came along with the cake) and then dropped it the the hot cup of green tea...
Voila!!!
Special Effects!!!
No picture here, but imagine white smoke spiraling out from the cup...
Did the same to the teapot...
And you'll have Aladdin's Lamp...
Hahahahaha...
Nice...

Afterwards we went bowling...
In which AM leave us and YT join us...
For my first bowl, I got a strike!!!
And that's the last one too...
Final score: I got 2nd last among the rest...
Owwwww...
I even row the bowling ball backward once...
Well hey, at least it provides entertainment, no??

Then it's Pool time!!!
As in pool table, not swimming pool...
I gave up playing...
Cos in whatever game, as long as it requires handwork, estimation and aiming...
I suxx...
The ball can be like, 15 cm from the white one, and I can still miss it...
(-_-;)
So I became the Cheer... no... Distractleader!!!
Instead of cheering for my girls team,
I distract the opposing team by showing off my ultra sexy, super duper, luna huna....
Cough!!!
Ya, what were you thinking??
I cough whenever the guys starts to hit their balls...
Errmmm... Not their personal ones lar...
Either that or I try sneezing...
Works 65% of the time, until the guys used their ear-shutting skills, which will be useful to them after they got married...
Anyway, the girls wins... Hahaha...
Cos the guys let them... I think...

After that, we head for Ju's party (she left earlier to prepare)...
The girls went in JiH's car...
But we have to organise a search party for it beforehand...
STML is pretty wide-spread in this country...

At Ju's party, we hang around outside the function room to chat...
Chat eat chat...
But too bad our groups spilt up again...
Girls in one, guys in the other...
Sigh... No matter what, it will always be hard to mix guys and girls together...

Then came photo-takings, chatting, more photo-takings, more chatting...
When the highlight came, i.e: the cake,
each of us has poppers and sparklers!!!
Whee!!!
Fun fun!!!
More photo-taking... My smile is getting frozen...

Then came the present...
Guess what we bought for Ju??
A lacy underwear...
Two erotic dice...
Milk bottle...
Baby socks...
Dolls...
Earrings...
And other boring stuff...
Total of 21 things in the box...
Well... Including the box and card heehee...

Poor XJ only has a T-shirt and Calvin's Underwear, and a card...

We even perform the Namji Traditional Cheer!!!
In front of soooo many strangers!!!
After doing that, all of us cover our face...
Hahahahahaha...

When it's time to go home, me and YL have to practically begged S to drive us home since we lived so near...
Oi... S, don't be so stingy can??
Driving two pitiful young ladies home at so late a night isn't very tough right??
We succeeded, although not without complains from a very reluctant S...
So me, YL and YB got a free ride home!!! Yooohooo!!!!!

Tired was the day...
Fun was the play!!!

Have a Great Week Ahead!!!

My Fear... Who I Really Am... My Inner Side...

I have written once...

About my fear of loneliness...

It's coming back again, although not in full force...
But slowly and gradually...

Becos I'm about to start school soon...
This time without any close friends in the same faculty as me...

I have always hated to be alone...
I don't like to be left out, to have no one to talk to, have no company, have no one by my side...

University...

ZW is in business faculty...
YL is in arts and social science...
SDR although in engineering, is still in NS...
The same goes for YZ, who is in science...

Although I have made a few friends in Orientation camps, it couldn't beat the feeling of having someone really close to you, such as your best friends, to start a new phrase with you...

Some more in Engineering Faculty, majority are guys...
Even though I hang around with guys back in JC days, friendship is still hard to forge between the opposite sexes due to differences in interests, experiences, feelings both emotionally and physically...

Try to talk about PMS with guys and see if they sympathise with you...
The same thing goes for guys trying to agrue that NS is worse than PMS...

-_-;

Not to mentioned that I'm slightly different from others...

While girls like to talk about their idols, watch dramas specially targeted at them, listened to the latest chinese pop music, gossiping about the latest mudane issues, agruing over the newest fashion and what-so-ever...

I don't... Well... Not too much anyway...

I don't exactly like to gushed over idols, although I do get crazy once in a while...
And I prefer Westerners e.g: Orlando Bloom, while my friends like Asians e.g: Jay Chou, Edison Chen etc...
They watch and rewatch teenage dramas like Meteor Showers, err... I have no idea what else as I don't give a hoot about such shows...
They go on and on about chinese songs like S.H.E, Fish Leong, Jay Chou, F.I.R and the likes of such, I prefer Britney, Christina, Simple Plan, Linkin Park etc...
They gossip about the latest happenings in school, about what's going on with who and who... Half the time I'm asleep or having question marks written all over my head...
And Fashion?? Forget it, I have my own style...

Thus, me making friends with other girls... That's kinda hard too...

But due to peer pressure, or due to my desire to fit in, I have to learn what's in their world...
But very few of them know what's in mine...

Most of my friends know that I can draw quite well...
But do they know that I can compose poems too??
Do they know that I have an unfinished story left to write??
Do they even realised that I love to take pictures, not of myself, but of what I see around me??
Do they even care what I'm thinking about when I gazed thoughtfully into the sunset, or looking at the rain flowing down onto the steps??
Do they bother to read my blog??

No...

I've told them before, but their reaction was like:
"Oh, ok..."
*roll eyes*
"oh... She's in one of her moods again..."
"Eh.. Haha, you think I know what you are talking about meh?"
"Wah, you so good huh..." *immediately turn her attention elsewhere*
"Orr... Good good... Errmm... Continue to do that hor..."
"Aiyah, I have no idea lar..."
"..."

With reactions like that, do you think I would share what I really am with them??
Or with others??
Thus, I never show them my poems, nor my storyline, nor my most fantastic pictures, nor my thoughts because they just simply do not know, appreciate or care...
Sometimes I ponder, should I give up on what I'm doing?? Because I have neither the time nor the motivation to do what I love to do...
I'm scared of losing what I have, this particular side of me...
And at the same time, I wonder if I'm just wasting my time, doing things which few people would appreciate...
It's been a long long time since I've done anything artistic...

I hope to find someone who is on the same frequency...
Tough...