update

the maggots were still alive even after one night.

spent the whole morning clearing it with my aunt.

now the maggots are probably still alive, but somewhere in the sewers i guessed.
we flushed them down the toilet bowl.

bleagh

today is not a good day.

the only good thing about today



my salmon+ham+mushrooms+cheese+raisin+olives+lettuce sandwich

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i'm amazed by maggots, really

and totally turned off by them too.


to get everyone up to speed,

i basically have 2 fish tanks outside, out of which only the top one has water and fish inside.
the bottom one was drained by my dad.

and my smart dad forgot that there was this huge suckerfish inside.

and obviously, the suckerfish drowned in air.


oh and by the way my parents left singapore on saturday to china.

noticed the faint smell for a couple of days, but didn't think much of it. kinda thought one of dad's guppies jumped out and died though i looked around and didn't see anything.
until my neighbour told me there was a dead fish in the tank.

which so happened to be teeming with tiny little white squirmy maggots. which immediately got me really squirmish.
:S

had no choice but to use a plastic bag to get it out of the tank and dumped it into the rubbish chute without even taking a second look at it.

so problem #1 solved. now for problem #2.
maggots in the tank.
and i didn't really know what to do with it.

smsed dad who told me to spray insecticide and dump dettol in. and leave it there till he comes back to clear it.

asked my aunt to come up in the evening to help me with it because i have got no idea where the dettol is in the house.

and basically i found out something. insecticide does NOT work on maggots. they just seem to squirm faster around while probably laughing at me choking on the fumes. dettol doesn't really work too. we poured like half a bottle. and the maggots were STILL squirming.
so fine. we poured in water to try and drown the maggots. which kind of made it worse because the BIG ones floated up and crawled on the wood thingy that pple put in fish tanks. which is totally disgusting by the way. so we poured more water in. and chatted for like an hour or so.

AND last we checked, the maggots were still squirming about. esp the big ones.

totally killed my appetite.

waiting till tmr for them to drown. hopefully they do :X

argh i'm so traumatised by maggots

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don't understand why they are so afraid.
maybe it's coz i'm not afraid of speaking my mind.
but i guess i can safely say that when i say something, i never intentionally want to hurt anybody.
i'm just trying to get things right,
after all, i pay the fees. why should i accept substandard material?
ya i guess it's always a matter of grey area, and maybe it will affect someone's rice bowl too.
but someone's rice bowl WILL always be on the line anyway.
it's how the corporate world works. competition = efficiency and productivity.
i guess alot dont understand that.
and maybe i don't understand too.
else why will i be bothered that they close to me are warned by others that they shouldn't be close to me?
and it annoys me that i'm bothered by something i shouldn't be bothered with. >.<

food

i declare that i am very irritated.

this is my off-week. mdm tan gave me a whole week off to get some air. and i was supposed to not do any electronics related things so i will go back refreshed. or something to that effect.

so i got kinda bored lying on my bed and playing my ds the whole day. so i decided to bake.

muffins to be exact.

tried it once yest.

left out baking soda thinking that 2 g of baking soda wouldn't make much of a difference since there's baking powder already.

muffin turned out so dense. would make a good rock to throw without hurting someone TOO badly.

tried it again today. went out SPECIALLY just to get the baking soda.


and here's the results



it turned out okay. pretty normal muffins.


which makes me so irritated coz it was supposed to be mango-y and there was barely a hint of mango even after like adding a blend of 1.5 small mangoes AND mango flavoring.
and something feels missing. even though i followed the recipe exactly somewhat. ( it was supposed to be banana muffins but the bananas at ntuc look waaay too green so ya mango it is). probably i should try using the huge australian mangos instead of the small little malaysian ones. and maybe add a bit of coconut extract.
hmmm.

okay i should stop thinking about this.
2 days of non-stop muffins are kind of over the top already. 3 will get a little crazy.
and not to mention fattening since there's no one to eat my muffins.


went grocery shopping coz my parents left me at home with barely anything that is really food. (and by food i do not mean processed crap like sunshine frozen pizza) realised that grocery shopping is very expensive. spent about 50 bucks in total these 2 days. and i didn't get much. if i ate bread and bread only everyday. i could probably last only for another 2 days.
kinda crazy over sandwiches recently. made a really good ham+cheese+olives+lettuce sandwich today. thinking of making a ham+salmon+mushroom sandwich tmr morning for breakfast. yum.

sick

sick again. :(

went to work on saturday - university of newcastle graduation. and there was reception, which the ushers took.

AND we all got diarhoea. so not fun.
mine turned into fever too so now i'm 1/2 hot 1/2 cold, have a pounding headache, and have crappy crap. zzz. not the best combination

took the day off so now i'm at home. and trying to die.
shall resume my attempt to decompose now. adios

Mr Chan : " Experience can lead to stereotyping"

lots of funny and lame rubbish at dialogue session today.
weird part was Mr Chan treated me like a staff. which is so so so wrong.
attempted to write minutes just now - got past writing the introduction ( which i added quite a bit of long winded crap in) and writing the summarised main points and rearranged the main points so that academia is all togehter, and facilities are all together and etc. then i got bored so now i'm blogging. hahhaha

went home today to find my brother and my dad sleeping at liek 10pm. that's really early for both of them. asked my mom about it and she told me it was because my dad was really mad at my brother coz of his results and i suppose he got scolded really badly. brother really doesn't have the mood to study. he's too distracted and his attention span is crap. anyways he only got a band 2 for english, and the rest were all band 3s. guess being 38/40 students in class made it even worse :S

yay i got to the final chapter of that operation game on my DS! it's really nerve wrecking coz u gotta make sure the damn thing doesn't spread and keep your patient freaking alive while all sorts of rubbish starts appearing on the patient. hope i finish it soon. so annoyed with it ><

taking one week off after weiling and debbie and the rest go off for attachment. need a rest and more sleep.

and speaking of sleep. i should go zzz like now. hahaha byez!

work and wishlist

fulfilled one of my wish list.

will show u guys my nice red nds lite someday.
though i'm like super broke now


kinda cranky now. made it through work + school on 3 hrs of sleep. back sore and cant really breathe properly. still coughing too.
damn my body.

today was syf briefing cum balloting
aka damn that school who got that slot i wanted day.
heated emotions and cranky pple all over the place, esp those who really really really wanted the march slots but were like oen fo the last to be called.
and shhhh let me tell u all a secret. we ushers were conspiring to rob SCH today. wahahahah.

haiz long week ahead.
dialogue session on weds.
so not looking forward. damn tired of all these man.

good day

today's a good day :)

was pleasantly surprised with a call from guy. really didn't expect it. haha. anyway we wanted to have coffee but everywhere was crowded so we went over to the fish farm and bought a box fish for his aquarium

cute right? wanted him to buy a starfish but too bad his tank isn't very suited for it. oh well.

drove around pasir ris park for a while after that before he dropped me off and went home to sleep.

wanted to buy the $23 sweater from Fox in hot pink (not the pastel pink shown below) but they were out of stock. sales girl supposed to check for me if can be transfered over from somewhere else. hope there's still stock

work was pretty uneventful. spent the whole day chatting with pauline and gossiping about musicians and stuff. hahaha

octopus is on my bed now. wheee :)

over the weekend

WARNING: this is gonna be a long post.

first of all, it's been a while since i updated, partly due to project elevate and my sudden (and i mean sudden, like in one afternoon.) bout of sickness over the weekend. still kinda cranky coz my cough AND headache wont go away. which is so annoying.

now, to summarise last week.

birthday was cool, in fact the best since a long long time. many thanks to those who have made it special, and took the time to spend the day (and night) with me. and thanks so much for the birthday presents as well. i must say it's been really pink this year -



perfume from weiling, debbie, kaster, nigel, matthew, quek, ray, bernard, kenneth, joy, ziyou, hanwei (i hope i din miss out anyone)



and mr pink octopus.


got sick on friday with a very very fast acting sore throat. was talking in the morning and i lost my voice by 3pm. mr tham was happily saying that my voice was becoming more and more sexy. -.- seriously, try being in my shoes.

went over to debbie's chalet for a while and looked longingly at the cake i can't eat. then went home to zzz.

woke up on sat with a fever. which was bad coz it was project elevate night and there were things i have yet to do. ended up lying on my bed till like 3 and forced myself up and went for the event anyway. thank goodness paracetemol works, else i would have concussed somewhere around 5 plus.


project elevate went really well, though there were hiccups here and there as expected. it was like, the moment dinner started, everything just fell in place. think the guests really really enjoyed the evening, though it was kinda draggy at some points. funnest part was the guestbook, coz we switched to powerpoint's pen function instead of the usual clicker in the slide show and got the guests to sign on a tablet instead of a usual guest book. and we had people asking whether we wrote the app by ourself :p even chewy was like hmmm.. i dunno. turbo c?

so ya shall upload the pictures of the gifts soon, but here's a photo of my table:



clockwise : yizhe, me, cindy, russell, joseph and chunsiong


spent the whole of sunday asleep or at least, trying to fall asleep when your brother is demonstrating the effects of gravity to you.

yest was spent constructing the 3 555 timer circuit and designing the value of the resistors. happy coz i managed to do it despite being half groggy.

still trying to recover from the sickness though. hope my head will stop being heavy soon. ><

inter cca politics

suhui has no more pie.. :(


things have been going slow lately. is it just me?

life makes you choose all the time. decide what you want, decide what is good for you, and if having these two concurrently is not possible, weigh between the both of them.
i've been thinking lately, what if, you choose to have what you want, but lost the motivation to make the effort into continuing on? what happens then?

kinda sick and tired. woke up this morning and my head and eyes were telling me that i spent the last 30 hours awake and my headache was going to kill me soon. didn't exactly put me into a good mood. didn't help that it was raining cats and dogs in the morning and i got stuck in 3 traffic jams (one on TPE, one on SLE, one on Lentor Ave) spent the whole day in lab facebook-ing instead.
tmr i have an assignment set by mr chua and mdm tan who came in for a moment today, so i'll have something to entertain myself with, provided i get a good sleep.

bought 11 bucks worth of interesting chocolate pocky the other day. sin ar!

jy told me today that wl wasn't too happy with her because of her involvement in seg. I wasn't too happy upon hearing that. i mean, i knew that wl confirm grumble, coz after all jy was one of the active members at co and she was an office holder and wl didn't want what happened to me to happen again. what i didn't expect was that wl would all out bu shuang jy, to the extent that quite a few people know about it. like hello? it's her life. she should be the one deciding what to do with it. just because she's in co now, doesn't mean that its a life long contract that binds her there for the rest of eternity or something. fact that she called me out to talk to me the other day says alot - that she probably thinks i have some part to do in this which is why jy is sort of trying to follow in my footsteps. in any case, i told jy to ignore her, after all, she wont ask jy to quit co and she has no right to ask jy to leave seg as well. ask jy to tell me if anything's happening anyway, so hope everything goes fine.


project elevate is so unsettled.
things really dont seem to be going right. kinda concerned. haiz.

shall go hug my bed now. nites everyone