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Friday, July 24, 2009 - 12:20 AM
Sprained. Ankle.
I sprained my ankle!!! i sprained it on monday when i was running at the garden behind my house. how careless of me not to notice a depression on the ground, so i stepped into it and hurt my foot. :(
well, now my ankle is still bandanged, after 3 days from the day that the incident happened.

haha i actually took photos of my ankle but there is sth seriously wrong with blogger that i cant post an entry properly, thus i cant upload any photos. haha anyway just to tell my frens that i sprained my ankle. LOL.

went to see sinseh at khatib to treat my injury for 3 times already. the first 2 times she just applied chinese med on my swollen ankle and bandanged it for me, cos she said the swell was too severe to be massaged. >.<

today the swell was smaller so the sinseh rub my ankle with medical oil. well, i can only say that its...

好恐怖啊！！！！


IT WAS SUPERRRRRRRRRR painful!!!! most of the time i was biting my teeth super tightly and i guess i screwed up my entire face! that sinseh keep rubbing on the critical spot and i kept telling myself to endure the pain and not to scream or tear, till i broke out in cold sweat and both of my hands turned cold!! its too torturous!! there was nothing for me to hold on to as i was lying on the bed and there is a towel covering my body like a blanket...the only thing that i can grab is my shirt! and i kept grabbing my shirt til it became v crampled! haha. although the sinseh knew that i was in pain, she didnt use lesser strength..think she is already used to watching screaming patients everyday la...omg and when she rubbed, its like her biceps and triceps and all other ceps and all the vains on her arms popped up! her arms are so strong can!! that explains the amount of strength that she exerted on my ankle which gave me a hell of my life..anyway i just bite my teeth all the way and made alot of weird expressions, i guess, and luckily the sinseh didnt laugh at my funny expressions. >.<

Now I can truly understand how xy felt during that time when she sprained her ankle too. It was during sec 2 I think, and the sprain was quite bad. I acc her to see the sinseh just opposite Anderson, and she grabbed my hand so tightly that it turned tomato red after that uncle finished rubbing her foot. haha so suay for me to sit beside her while the uncle rubbed her foot! no la just kidding la, i was alrd prepared that she would probably "attack" me when the pain started, but i was lucky enough that she didnt bite my hand...LOL

shazhu wasnt beside me during the torturous 30 minutes, well not exactly not beside me, he was sitting beside the bed but there was this partition that divided us( my bed and his seat), so basically he didnt know what happened or how my expressions looked like during the entire process. haha, i wish he was beside me like how i was beside xy, so that i can grab his hand instead of grabbing my shirt.hahaha. although i cant grab ur hand, i must a big thank u to u for taking care of me when my ankle is hurt... ^^

well guess my ankle will get better the next few days, cos i dont wish to go back to the sinseh anymore... but i stil did a hell lot of things during the past few days, even though my ankle was swollen. i did the following stuff:

cooked dinner.
did laundry.
hung the clothes.
folded the clothes.
swept the floor.
went to buy lunch.
went down to run errands.
went to teach tuition.
helped mama burn incense.
took care of bro.
.....

no wonder my ankle takes so long to heal... haha but no choice, i have to do the following stuff, cos my parents have to work, and bro gt fever! yes he gt fever for the 1st 2 days, when my ankle was at its worst condition. we were so worried that he might be infected with H1N1, so we told him to stay in his room for most of the time, so ended up that i stil did alot of housework even when my ankle is sprained. his fever last for 3 days i think, and it only subsided this morning. so, to be cautious, he went to the doc 3 times, the first time was to get flu med, the second gotten fever med and the third the doc gave him TAMIFLU...

scary! luckily his fever subsided aft taking tamiflu, or he will have to go str to hospital to check for any H1N1 infection. anyway tamiflu cos $80 for 10 tablets! so ex! hmm i thot the government is controlling the price of these essential medications during this critical period..? i had to wear my mask everytime i get out of my room, and try to keep a distance from him.. i m more worried about papa mama cos they are in the high risk group and papa has some asthmatic problem.. so i keep telling bro to wear his mask whenever he comes out to the living room. i had to buy more masks so as to stock up in case H1N1 epidemic worsen in the upcoming weeks. haha even when i am typing now, i am wearing my mask too.

so yup, for these few days there are 兩只病貓 at home, one is my sick bro and the other is me who has bad ankle. tell me how not to not keep walking ard at home eh..

ok, time for bed.



Saturday, July 18, 2009 - 12:34 PM
traumatized.
i just read the essay that ahma wrote in a book that she edited. hmm and i found a typo error, or rather, a conceptual error? erhh... the thing is, i noticed that the essay that she wrote( which i dug out from my old notes) has a typo error too, she spelled Benedict Anderson wrongly i think. well, that is obviously a typo error, so i think this one is too.

haha the last thing i will do on earth is to tell her that she has typo error in her essay. duh!!

but anyway, i m required to type a report of summaries and comments from the resources that i have read and how I am going to use them for my fyp. and i realised i have to use some of what she wrote, cos she is the one who wrote them and well, inevitably i will have to use them as they are relevant to what i will be researching on. so from this, did i discover that i have to comment on what she wrote?

YES.

shitz. so how am i going to do THAT? zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

i feel like fainting. T_T

omg, i will have to be super cautious about what i comment on, or there will most probably be only two possibilities: i think she will either kill me, or she will flank my fyp, and its most likely that she will choose the latter.
from what i know and i think everyone else does, her "heart machine" is not light eh..(that means heavy la, if u can get what i mean)

all right, i think for her resources, i will just have to say what i can use to develop my essay. that's it. full stop. the Dumbest thing to do is to comment on what she wrote. hah.

anyway i stil got tons of things to read up on and lots of first-hand evidence to find. wish me luck!

haha just went out w p2k for lunch at causeway point ytd. chat alot and took loads of photos. will update when ping pass the photos to me kz. well, ping looks fine nw, i hope she is getting ok, though i stil feel the pain she emitted from her blog. :(

cheer up, kz?

okk time for me to study.



Monday, July 13, 2009 - 11:56 AM
Congratssss!
I wanna say " congratulations!" to 3 ppl today!

Firstly, its my shazhu! Congratulations!! he got the SPH Lim Kim San Memorial Scholarship!!! which means for the rest of his tuition fee, it will be subsidised by SPH! haha am really really proud of you! :)))　your efforts and perseverence for the previous applications are not in vain! although its only 1 year, but its better than nothing right! Congrats!! well he is going to perform with the other scholarship holders during the ceremony on 30th july, and I am going to watch him perform! :))
think he is going to perform a v short skit with the others, and he is going to present a small gift to his parents on stage at the ceremony too! haha well, I am helping him to make the gift at this moment, cos his art work is really CMI ( haha, not tt mine is v good, but at least better than him.lol.)

Secondly, its my brother!! His convocation was just over last saturday! haha...well its not like its a big deal, because he graduated 2 months ago...the thing to be happy about is that he found a job! in nus, as a researcher! at least he found a job during these hard times, at least my parents don't have to worry about him...haha well I haven take any pics with my bro in his academic dress yet (he bought the entire suit home! because the difference between rental and buying is just a teeny bit) , I didnt even attend his convocation! lol...nus only allow 2 tickets per graduating student for the ceremony..the rest of the family have to sit outside the cultural hall to wait for the convocation to end...then the buffet will start! its just like the first day of school during orientation ( i was there on the first day in ntu, but some of my friends skipped the ceremony part) haha wells, i dont wan to spend 2 hours sitting outside cultural hall so i didnt go.. haha m i a bad sister? hope not... ;P

Thirdly, its to my beloved XY! She just received the Eu Yan Sang Scholarship!! its such an honour cos there are only 2 ppl in her faculty who got it! and she is one of them! and her beijing trip for 2 years will be fully subsidised by Eu Yan Sang and when she graduates, her career as a chinese physician will be guaranteed! Congrats!! :)))) we are all really really proud of you, gal!*muacks* although this gal here is coping with her fyp right now, i m sure she can do it and she will do her best in her proj... lets jiayou for fyp tgth kz! :D

haha well, there are so many things that had been going on for me and i find myself slacking more and more in my fyp reseach. opps! i am supposed to meet ahma next tues and i stil haven read half of whatever that i have photocopied. i realised that i have been copying and copying and copying, that made my research v mundane and i just dont feel like reading whatever that i have photocopied. haha! should motivate myself somehow, soon...

anyway had a family dinner last friday, tgth with my youngest aunt and uncle( my 小姑 and 小姑丈）. its actually a farewell dinner for them because they will be out of town for the next 1 to 2 years, which means the wont be coming back for chinese new year too. sha zhu went with us for the dinner too, since he wont be able to meet them for the next chinese new year. haha i wanted him to meet them because they are really one of the nicest ppl around. i like to interact with them, learn about what they have experienced overseas, as they have been to so many countries, like Ghana( in africa), Germany, France, Indonesia, and other countries which singaporeans wont usually go for a holiday. because they went to these places for missionary purposes for their church. so, they are missionaries, to be exact.

so we had dinner at Dian Xiao Er again, cos the adults really like the food over there and wanted to try the it again. well, the restaurant at causeway point is really quite small and we are back to sitting at the same table as that time during father's day celebration. 4 ppl at that time become 7 ppl this time round, imagine the cram that we are having during dinner! so many plates of food, so many utensils and so many ppl sitting around the small, pathetic table, which is probably only the size of my study table! in the end, my uncle knocked over his glass of barley by accident! haha luckily the table was kind of dented in the middle, so the barley didnt flow out at all! what a miracle! >_<

my uncle and aunt told us about their experiences overseas, especially africa. one of which was that they were held at gunpoint in Ghana, by some african hooligans who were eyeing on their valuables and had lots of bullets and machine guns hanging around themselves and had shotguns in their hands! and they were pointing theirs guns at my uncle's head! how freakingly terrifying! =S my uncle told them to just take whatever they wan but spare them their lives. so bags, hps, cameras and wallets were yanked away from them...luckily my uncle and aunt were all in one piece! thank god... and another scary thing abt africa was that malaria spreads like common flu, and many foreigners didnt know that they were infected by malaria and they just died a few days ltr..scary!! although my uncle and aunt kena alot of mosquitoe bites, but luckily they were not infected... was thinking, if God really exists in this world, please please protect them ok..they are realli one of the nicest ppl on earth... fortunately the angels' next destination is Hamburg, Germany. at least the standard of living is higher and crime rate is lower over there... at least there wont be hooligans walking around carrying machine guns and bullets, unless there are terrorists over there... their flight is next wed, and i m gonna wish them bon voyage next wk! :)

anyway just registered my subjects last thurs, and most prob i will be taking 3 mods only, namely hc362 overseas chinese and china, malay level 1 and fundamental of management for bus PE... hmm but i wanna change my malay tut grp first thing when add-drop period starts, cos i realised i registered wrongly eh.. shld have register it on the monday and wednesday slot, so that i can have absolute free days on thurs and fri!! woohoo tt will make my wkend superrrrrr longggggg!! yippie! haha hopefully i can change my slot successfully, cos i don wan to go back to sch 4 days in a wk when i m only taking 3 mods! anyway wanna have time to eat lunch with my gals on monday too, aft my malay lesson... our time table will be quite different, with like only one or two common mods, and there will be less chance for us to meet during the last sem of yr 4.. but anyway, for next sem, i got jx to pei me for 362, and most prob minmin too, cos she is goin to drop her 310 when i told her who-ever is goin to teach that mod, and she almost fainted. lol. haha maybe its my fault cos i told her only after she had registered. anyway will be taking the same mod and grp as ling ling, ay and jx for the bus mod... ling ling and ay will be taking 433 which i have taken before, and a sci pe which i have alrd fulfilled, so the bus mod will be my only common lesson with them.

had a little msn-chat with them after our registeration. initially we were discussing abt what we registered, but it ended up in a debate on who can cook and who can't. haha and lingling is always the one losing out in this debate cos the rest of us can cook somewhat and somehow. lol.

haha talkin abt cooking, was arranging my pics when i was transferring photos from my hp to my laptop, and i realised i have a series of pics taken frm the few cooking sessions with sha zhu during the holidays. here are some pics of them!


this is my okonomiyaki~japanese pizza! this is the grilled type, the type u find at pasat malam, not the tempura type found in sakae and nihon mura.. i prefer grilling cos its nt so oily and thus, healthier... lol. anyway, tt hand is not mine! >.<



our first try for baked teriyaki shitake mushrooms!! i wanted to try something like the ones that we ate at nihon mura, but it turn out not as dry as theirs..but we stil love them anyway! i love mushrooms!! :)))))



and mr ang looks like he is posing for an advertisement for the mushrooms! funny expression, haha!


what Chef Ang did:
1. wash mushrooms thoroughly and cut off the stems
2. marinate them in teriyaki sauce for 15-20min
3. sprinkle some black pepper powder on them.( i got my black pepper from Mac, lol)
4. arrange them face-up and place the plate into the conventional oven. baked for 15min, at 190 degree celsius.
5. there u go! baked teriyaki shitake mushrooms! :)

we love them so much that we cook another plate to eat..^^ haha we tried for 20 min this time round at 200 degree celsius so that it can be drier, but it turns out shrinking in size! lol nevertheless, they are still yummy!


this is another of our cooking session. basically, its my cooking session, cos mr ang used his eye and mouth power only >.<>

haha this is my chicken and mushroom pasta! using penne as my pasta, cos i finished the spaghetti at home le... it looks abit out of place cos its an italian dish placed on a chinese plate... lol. haha tis is the only kind of plate i have at home la!


... and some crazy customer is trying to eat the pasta without using his utensils! >_<
talking about food is making me hungry! BUT i realli have to go on a DIET! i have a tummy alrd la! i have been eating alot during the holidays, but i did make a point to exercise regularly( trying my best). there is this garden behind my house, admiral garden to be exact, and i m forcing myself to run around the garden 2 rounds, at least 1-2 times a week. its a little shorter than 2.4 km i think, but i am alrd breathless after that 2 rounds and i dont think i can surmount that distance. haha...lazy me.. shall try my best and run 3 rounds instead, one of these days. argh and i seriously need to reduce my tummy! i wanna have the figure to wear pretty clothes since my youth is goin to end in 8 years time!

tell me how to get rid of my tummy please, anyone!