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Friday, March 26
On the way home from SGH, i thought about my dear old grandmother or "ma ma", the way i call her in cantonese. What i recall about her, her ever smiling face. Now that i think about it, ma ma never really lost her temper, not at me, not at anyone else. Even when i see her being chided by my aunt for something, she never did raise her voice nor show any temper.
She was the perfect grandmother to me. While we were kids, we would always have meals at her place since we live at the same block. Whenever my sis and i wanted some particular dish for dinner, she would always cook it for us, no matter the trouble. When i was really small, like about 3 yrs old, ma ma and ye ye (that's cantonese for grandfather) would bring me to have milo and half-boiled eggs for breakfast frequently. Maybe that's because i was their only grandson at that time.. and i'm still am. =)
Once, when i was alone with ma ma at her flat, i recall playing around the kitchen while ma ma did some cooking. By accident, i caused ma ma to fall and i was really scared. I could see that she was in alot of pain, but still she did not even lose her temper, not even one word. Last sunday, it was my little cousin's turn. While vanessa was running about playing, she suddenly ran across ma ma and caused her to lose her balance. Unfortunately this time, my ma ma fractured her pelvic bone.
Standing there alone, looking at ma ma sleeping soundly in her hospital bed, i realised how old she really looked. More wrinkles at her eyes, more greyness in her hair than before, she looked so tired.. The voice of the nurse aroused ma ma from her sleep. She saw me and gave a smile. I chatted with her and left soon after that. Most prob, i wouldn't say this to my ma ma in person and she wouldn't get to see this but still, i just wanna do it..
Thanks for the care and love you've shown me, ma ma. I love you.
3/26/2004 10:35:00 pm + + Kese + +
Saturday, March 20
Today before our Hybridoma test, Dr Forday mentioned about getting into universities locally or abroad. He did some estmates of the cost of getting a degree local and abroad..
Locally, 10k per year for 4 years = $40k
Foreign eg. Australia. 50k per year for 2 years (2 years exemption) = $100k
obviously, i wun be getting into a local university.. and getting into an overseas one is gonna cost a shitload of money. Getting a loan might be an option.. but it sure gonna take a few years or more to repay it, assuming a job is available after graduating. If i get pes A/B or something for NS, at least can pia for OCS and get a decent pay, or else it's all fucked during NS.. but then realistically, i'll get like pes E thanks to my brilliant lungs.. oh boy talk about planning your life
I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it.
3/20/2004 12:52:00 am + + Kese + +
Friday, March 12
the reason why this is quite accurate is because humans have alot in common, just that we are all too self centered to notice it =]
3/12/2004 09:56:00 pm + + Kese + +
Monday, March 8
Had a pretty good weekend.. After training on sat, went home with xl to celebrate my dad's birthday. We had dinner together, all of us. It's been a long while since the whole family sat down for dinner together, so i pretty much enjoyed it. And the damn dog has got fleas on his body again.. with his hair getting long, it was kinda hard to see the fleas and pull them off. The dog, boy boy, is pretty pissed and trys to bite us even though we are helping him.. the little puss cant stand abit of pain..
On sunday, ben, guanhong and i went over to a house in serangoon to do this shoot for the hype magazine in NP. On arrival, there's this little fierce terrier barking ferociously at us but ran away when the gate opened.. haha. Gh and i were given clothes to put on; Gh got the chic outfit, nice long sleeved shirt good enough for chionging with pants while i got the vintage jeans with t-shirt. I couldn't button the jeans so i just left it zipped up only. the jeans even come with a little hole right at the groin spot.. now that's vintage.
After the shoot, we went down to NTU to have a soccer match with gh's frien's team. naturally we lost as we are so disorganized and lack playing experience. it felt good though, to be standing on a field playing.. haven't done so for a long while.
Today after school, went down to town with emma to pick up xl's present from the shop. Saw xl's friend in the shop and gave me a shock, thinking xl is there too.. haha I'm gonna need that cheque for coxing soon.. =]
The plan was to watch Honey after picking up the present, but lido doesn't have the show after 7pm, so i manage to get emma to watch The Butterfly Effect. What a great show it turned out to be.. full of twists, suspenseful and great acting from Ashton Kutcher.. with a pretty decent ending too. i thought the ending was going to be real crap. 4/5 for it.
3/08/2004 11:38:00 pm + + Kese + +
Thursday, March 4
Just came back from zouk and i'm still feeling abit stoned from drinking.. but it was good..
Berd and i bought 1 jug of long island during happy hour and basically downed 1 jug each.. i was real high after drinking long island and berd was like stopping me from drinking further.. hahaha
After that, we went to exhange the coupons for korona beer and "ta" it.. and den i dun really remember what happened.. but i knew that i danced alone at phuture.. and berd puked. LOL.. The pos..
Saw alot of peeps down there.. like penguin and sharon.. and of coz the Bio people.. I'm still abit dizzy so i think im going to slp.. out
3/04/2004 04:28:00 am + + Kese + +
Tuesday, March 2
Once upon a time there was a female brain cell, which by mistake
happened to end up in a man's head.
She looked around nervously, but it was all empty and quiet.
"Hello?" she cried, but no answer. "Is there anyone there?" she cried
a little louder, but still no answer.
Now the female brain cell started to feel alone and scared and yelled
at the top of her voice, "HELLO, IS THERE ANYONE THERE?"
Then she heard a faint voice from far, far away...
"We're down here!"
3/02/2004 11:28:00 pm + + Kese + +
Finally the day is over. Day of test and to hand up the freaking long summary.. test didn't go well at all.. was thinking summary was okay until i saw emmanuel's and then it went downhill.. Gotta remember to spruce up any shatty assignments in future.
After the test, went with xl to Mt Alvernia to visit my grandma.. She was admitted last night after feeling dizzy and the visit to the doc showed she had high blood pressure. It's good that she didn't suffer any stroke.. i dun wanna see her suffer at her age. She sounded okay and was even complaining there's no one in the ward last night and that she was afraid of the dark. hehe cute.
It was only about 5 or so after visiting, so i decided to go town to find my friends to watch a movie. Felt bad to ditch xl alone so decided to go to her house or where she is after im finished doing proj on tues. There was alot of faces over there but hung out mainly with berd, astrid, emma, zuoyi and sab. We watched Big Fish. It was a very nice movie. Great acting and good work by the director. I was thinking that the pace would be quite slow but it wasn't. Enjoyable show overall. And a refreshing change from the usual action packed movies or love stories. Rating of 4/5 for Big Fish.
Good luck to those taking tests in the coming days.
3/02/2004 02:04:00 am + + Kese + +
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