stolen colours

Your wings are BROKEN and tattered. You are an angelic spirit who has fallen from grace for one reason or another – possibly, you made one tragic mistake that cost you everything. Or maybe you were blamed for a crime you didn’t commit. In any case, you are faithless and joyless. You find no happiness, love, or acceptance in your love or in yourself. Most days are a burden and you wonder when the hurting will end. Sweet, beautiful and sorrowful, you paint a tragic and touching picture. You are the one that few understand. Those that do know you are likely to love you deeply and wish that they could do something to ease your pain. You are constantly living in memories of better times and a better world. You are hard on yourself and self-critical or self-loathing. Feeling rejected and unloved, you are sensitive, caring, deep, and despite your tainted nature, your soul is breathtakingly beautiful.

*~*~*Claim Your Wings – Pics and Long Answers*~*~* at Quizilla

Deary me, what a depressing picture.
Am more like myself again. Chatted with rie earlier and our joint book order from Acmabooks goes into 3 digits ^^;;; It would’ve been more, but some books are out of stock.

I don’t what it was, but I suspect the chawan mushi I ate on Wednesday. On Thursday I spent half the night in the toilet (and the Riddle Master of Hed), but my legs felt okay. So, being the masochistic person that I am, I actually went out for a run. On Friday I was groggy and experiencing “vague visceral pain”. Knowing its pathway doesn’t diminish the pain, regrettably. My prac was at 4pm, so I crashed Shmeen’s prac at 12pm, then went for Prof Gopal’s prelab at 1pm.

Everyone in Shmeen’s tutorial group thought I was crazy ‘cos her tutor is the nefarious Liang Fengyi. And well. He’s quite bad for prossections, really. He just points out structures but doesn’t say a thing about the significance. Even we can do that ourselves if we bring a textbook along for reference. Why did I choose Shmeen’s tutorial group? Because I know so many of the people there already and it was quite comfortable inserting myself there. They were quite nice and let me sit on stools and made sure I was in a position to see stuff. But a lot nosier compared to my tutorial group.

Bad thing about being sick: the pain takes away any inclination to sit down and study. Especially since the topic is the digestive system. I’m dreadfully behind for GIT *gulp* and haven’t started on renal and anat yet *gulp gulp gulp gulp*

I’ve been watching American Idol. I know some people stop watching a while because they feel that Simon’s insults are too much. I think so too, but I like his wit. It’s one thing to say “Absolutely horrible”, but he says it in so many different ways; and that’s the only reason why I watch. Am I inhuman? I feel lots of sympathy for those who come out in tears saying “How could he say that to me?”, but not those who go “It’s their loss”.

I’m glad I waited to colour my hair. The Colour House is having 30% off till Valentine’s Day.

It was BAD today…90% of what I told them about muscle contraction was wrong. I didn’t know my stuff up there at all. They were nice people who didn’t display disgust, if they felt it.
Thanks Deepblue for listening to me rant.

Johnny Depp has finally gotten an Academy Award nomination! (Yes, this is the first time. YYYYYAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!
(alanna i want layout!!)

Went for Prof Voon’s prelab (2 hours long!) and lab (1.5 hours long!) today ‘cos Prof Gopal handed us over to him before flying off to India. Prof Voon is the Enlightener; I’m very envious of those who have him as tutor. With people like Prof Raj and Prof Voon I’m really inspired to become an educator! Major deterrent: one needs to have a PhD. Argh. I think I have some kind of knack for explaining things; or at least the people I’ve tutored understand me better than they do their schoolteachers. (Sometimes I wonder if sister’s weakness in science is because of her lack of logic or good teacher…her worksheets say that oxgyen has a valency of ‘2′ and so does magnesium, without a care for charge at all!) But that’s all at a very basic level so far. Hmm. Maybe when I retire after a illustrious career that would somehow include a PhD (even if I have to go to Iceland or the Sahara to get it) I’ll teach.

Pressing concern right now: imparting my scant knowledge of neuromuscular physiology to a bunch of tired J2 students this Wednesday. Addie and I are supposed to get from “This is a neuron. Look, it has dendrites, an axon, and a cell body” to “And thus, the power stroke is completed.” in TWO HOURS. Argh.

Had nice chat with Alanna over MSN earlier today…cosplay costumes lined up for this year:

1. lynn’s group [very long]
2. Count Cain [okay length]
3. RG Veda [very short]
4. Kagrra [very expensive]

AIYAH!!! GOT ENOUGH MONEY AND TIME OR NOT!!!! And what if they all clash…*gulp*

*still awaiting the release of the ROTK DVD*

If anyone wants to buy Gray’s Anatomy, tell me. I can get it for $19.52 as Acmbooks has 22% discount for premium members till 2 Feb.

Shmeen has got an interesting bit of information about elephants on her blog. What I don’t get is: Why on earth do elephants want to go snorkelling at great depths anyway???

Don’t eat the ice cream from the Holland Village Swensen’s. Father and I had three scoops each on Friday, and we both got sick on Saturday >.

Went to Body Worlds yesterday with my family, with the exception of my mother. They were having some CNY promotion, so there were THRONGS of people there >.

I feel bloated and stuffed. Bleh. My GIT needs a good cleansing… shall fast or go vegetarian after CNY or something. Argh. My GIT can’t decide whether it wants to expel its contents via the top or the bottom.

Spent a long time getting ready to go out this morning because I discovered that while I have really nice tops and equally nice bottoms, they don’t go with one another.

Excuse me while I indulge in online quizzes.

Weapons are not your thing. You would prefer to pummel your opponent to death with your fists and feet. You show a lot of Honor but some power still eludes you. I can give you this power, I can make you stronger, join me.

How would you Murder? at Quizilla

Dark magician. You love the dark because of it’s beauty and just the life that no-one else sees. Mysterious, calm, quiet… But that doesn’t mean you’re not friendly!
What kind of dark person are you? at Quizilla

Which Royalty Are You? Find out! By Nishi.

^^ I want to be a Skalan queen!

I guess every family celebrates CNY in a different way. For me, it’s a highly structured but relaxing affair (at least on my part ^^;).

In the past, when Grandmother was still around:
1. Reunion dinner: extended family gathers at First Aunt’s house for BBQ and other food. First Aunt’s bungalow is in Pasir Ris, so that means that we cousins get to roam about in the park and get all sweaty before coming back for dinner; then play sparklers or card games after dinner.

2. First Day: buffet lunch at a hotel for the extended family. This may include more families, especially those on my uncle-in-law’s side. Who cares about specific blood ties! The more the merrier! It must be a hotel restaurant; somehow restaurants in shopping centres etc. don’t have the same flavour. If we went early, we might catch a lion dance troupe in the lobby. This is a fun day because everyone’s dressed up in New Year finery and in a New Year mood.

3. Second Day: visiting my mother’s side, and the rest of the day is generally spent relaxing. Father rarely gets a day off.

In recent years, Grandmother’s passing results in the extended families overseas not coming to SIngapore, but holidaying in other countries instead. Also, the number of cousins around has dwindled due to overseas study; when they graduate, they join the adults *gulp*/

1. Reunion dinner: nuclear family affair. Steamboat, of course. Father says the point of having steamboat is so that you can sit and talk while waiting for the water to boil and food to cook. Father and I share a sharp appreciation for soups, so we literally drank from the boat. I still feel like a victim of Japanese torture now.

2. First Day: still buffet lunch, but at another hotel. First Aunt discovered it a few years’ back; though the hotel’s not as posh as the previous, the food is better. Do I dare to go for the oysters this year, after the recent oyster scare? Perhaps a cousin outing after that, since my sister (youngest of us all) has grown old enough to want to be going out.

I don’t know about my family’s plans for the other days ^^;; Maybe taking a short trip to Malaysia.

Went back to HCJC with some other mediquizzers from my batch to see this year’s batch. Surprise, surprise! There are TWO ringers!!! I didn’t even know they went to HCJC till I saw them there ^^;; stone has great demonstrative capacity and is proving to be my batch’s equivalent of Jonathan. (colourful personality who trained my batch) I have the best artistic skills of the lot, I think. My whiteboard diagrams actually LOOK like schematic diagrams and not messy stick drawings, though not so to-scale as those in the textbooks.

I borrowed the Forbidden City tape from a classmate. I don’t think much of the plot (what kind of ending is that??) but I love the music. Eewen was right, though. The singing wasn’t that good except for the overseas artistes and Kit Chan. I now adore Kit Chan ^^;;.