Emotions

Indulge in reminiscence

2010-11-22T22:12:00.000+08:00

Hey People! I have run out of space for photos in this blog. Blogging will continue at
www.aprilariez.blogspot.com (if you have trouble remembering the add, here's the trick --> it is just april and ariez (aries)

See you guys at "Indulge in Reminiscence"

International dinner 2010

2010-11-20T22:48:00.000+08:00

2 Oct 2010 - International Dinner
Nagham, international representative of NZAPS, organised an international dinner at Knox Church Hall. It cost 10 bucks but if you brought food, it was free!

Here's the information I copy-paste from facebook:

Unlike any other International Dinner, or any other cultural night..
NZAPS-O presents to you,
Christopher Columbus discovers the world,
Our one and only Tim Walker, sailing the great unknown waters..
On a quest to find men worthy to join his crew; stopping every so often to discover something new!
Mystical dancers, sultans, and merchants he meets on his way,
Don't miss out on this great journey across the Pacific and the Atlantic, it will be nothing less than great!
So come take a part,have a good time, and fill up your tummies .. and plates!
Catered restaurant food from Korea, China, India, Thailand, and Arabia!

Since I was performing with Jeanne, Bea, Joanne and Arthur as kungfu girl to Kungfu panda song on that day, I just went in for free without the need to bring anything. =) =)

Poster

Outside the church and hall

Guess who?

With Tim

Tim and Jason (same height) =p

TangYuan by LyeJinn and Jason

Very serious huh

Have no absolute idea of what this is

Inspecting Columbus's map with Jo

Aaaahhhh....

I wanna kill u for infiltrating my land!

Am I that short ?

People who came with delicious food!

Pressant and Holly

Shaun and Bea

Lye Jinn in the middle of two china girls

Vee, love u!

Aiyo! u look so sexy and hot even when shaking that for bubble tea!

The kappa hakka (sorry for wrong spelling)

2 beautiful Indian dancers

Let's dig in!

With uncle chopstick ;P

Some of the desserts

Egyptian/Arabian dance?

With Lotte, Nat and Yuli

keep smiling Bea!

Different shades of green

Very colourful. I like!

Especially for u Nat? What? A pimple or.. ? xoxo Love uuu

-The End-

William's birthday

2010-11-19T22:29:00.000+08:00

9-9-10 - William's birthday bash at 10bar.
Theme: Dress like William Kim.
William is the most trendy and colourful with a good sense of fashion in pharmacy class. His style is one of a kind.

First thing - Photo!! I went there with Nat, Bea and Lotte.

With Helen.

Arthur: U mean me? me?

Nat: Yeah u! U are the sweetest guy I have ever met. My dear is an exception tho xoxo

Ooooo

Han

The wise steven chang

The bar

With gorgeous Bea

WILLIAM!!!!

William and gf's love confession rings xoxo

Ben the IT man

We have to throw this on William's face

Speech time

Thomas giving speech

Happy Birthday to you

After that ...

Poor William

Next - Camwhoring time ...

-The End-

Esther's birthday surprise at Filadelfio

2010-11-19T12:07:00.001+08:00

Another late entry about Esther's surprise birthday at Filadelfio (http://www.filadelfios.co.nz/)
The theme is "Be yourself"
Again, there were games created by the creative girls. The game involved pairing up a boy and a girl then they needed to perform their job according to what they drew from the box.

You girls can do it! I don't live that high up!!! We went back to my flat to sew Esther's present

The retro environment

Esther was crowned as the Queen of Lameness even at Graduation dinner

Those colourful pens for writing a lame joke for Esther

L to R : Nina, Eddie and Me

Jojo with the peace sign and Sarah

Oooo...Sexy hairy legs! Raaawwwr!!

Sam, we all know you love your mom!

Nat and Han - the ultimate camwhores in Pharmacy school

My papa and mama

Sweer Esther and Sexy Veegum

I want my mama!!

One of her gifts from us

L to R: Jojo, Me, Jess and Sarah

We love dog!

No 13 Anzac

Wan me to shave ur hairy leg huh?

They just love showing their legs

Lotte and Nat

The cute couple

Adi, you are too tall and big for that

Bea! u fit perfectly well in that baby chair

I want my food!!

Kawaii neh!

Really look like a Queen!

Very pretty!

Chat is so sweet looking and loving

We heart you, Est!

-The end-

AGM; Indian Cultural Night 2010

2010-11-19T00:39:00.000+08:00

After another year or so, BSA AGM is here again. In the middle of the AGM at Evison Lounge, I received a very important phone call so missed nominations for two of the positions. All in all, I am very happy for those who got elected as the future goldmines of BSA with Chian Mei as the leader. Congratulations people!
For more information, please visit: http://bsastudents.blogspot.com/2010/08/agm-2010.html

Pizza

Sexynya our waitress ani!

Lina and Rafiah (My future pharmacists! woohoo!!)

Chicken Pao by Amni

It was Indian Cultural Night at Regent Theatre in the evening. I did not plan to go after the show from last year but I made a last minute decision to go because of two things. 1 - Joe is playing the piano. 2 - I wanna keep Zai company =)
Of course, I did not expect much but to my surprise, I actually enjoyed a lot.

I bumped into Adi and Ben

At night, there was Pharm Revue celebration which I did not attend because I was too tired so just went home and rest. =)

-The end-

Dimsum at bluesky

2010-11-19T00:06:00.000+08:00

In the middle of August 2010, Jon and I craved for dimsum very badly. We were thinking of going to either Golden Harvest or Bluesky, but since we always visit the former, we went to the latter to satisfy our cravings and tagged Zai along!

Yumchar

So galliiii!

Fried squid

The setting is quite old fashioned but not as archaic as Asian restaurant

Chicken porridge

Pao

Chicken feet

Eggplant

Prawn dumpling

Treasure prawn dumpling

Another kind of prawn dumpling

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This is just an out-of-place photo for veegum who always sleep in the class

Sleeping beauty

-The End-

Natalie's birthday in advance

2010-11-18T13:43:00.000+08:00

This post is dedicated to Miss Miang Queen aka Natalie! Even though this missy was born in late December, we had an early celebration with her at Angus Steakhouse on 24th September. The reason for this birthday in advance is that she wanna celebrate her special day with her close friends which made me feel very privileged to be one of the guests. The theme is black and white.

Angus's website : http://www.angusdunedin.co.nz/

The arrival of the star escorted by two great beauties

She was crowned on that day - A very beautiful Miang Queen indeed

No girls allowed in this photo

A very rare gemstone

QiuLing, Melia and Shirl

Jeanne and I

Esther acting as the mc of the night announcing the game

Everyone was busy looking at the menu

The Miang family take one

The king and queen - Tongue greeting

Sexy!

Nice background with two stunning diamonds

All of us need to describe nat in one word and write it down on the creative paper provided

The girls

Pork and Bone

BBQ Pork Ribs blanched until tender, drizzled with Angus’s BBQ

sauce

SEAFOOD CHOWDER

Creamy seafood Soup, with our own toasted homemade bread.

Dessert cake =)

Handsome + Pretty = Hot babies!

CHOCOLATE DREAM (GLUTEN FREE)

Delicious chocolate mud cake served with fresh cream Chantilly, sticky chocolate sauce,

fresh fruit and double chocolate ice cream.

THE TIRAMISU

Our own Tiramisu filled with chocolate, cream, mascarpone and brandy s/w freshly whipped cream.

SHELL FISH FRENZY

Steamed green lipped mussels cooked in a coconut cream and green Thai curry sauce accompanied with our grilled homemade bread.

Dessert Special - Lemon Cheesecake

Cocktail exclusively for Natalia

It looks like a wedding banquet more than a birthday dinner

See.. this is one of the little things you need to do in a Chinese Wedding

Jo, Bea and I got her a charm bracelet. It was put on a bear and placed on a plate

So kawaaaii!!

Nat's game. There is a number of categories.

From facebook: created by Esther Yap, Johanna Cheng, Charlotte Chai, Charity Png

Nat was aware of her birthday but was not told about the details.

Dress up in black and white for delectable dessert, drinks, delicious company and daunting secrets to celebrate (in very advance) twentyTWO years of our beloved Natalie!

I know its not december 30th yet but Nat really wanted to have a celebration with all of you special people before she left-

And I quote
"So sien-I never get to celebrate my birthday with you guys." - Natalie

So lets give her a night to remember with lotsa love, laughter and of course, presents!!! ♥

Please bring an item that describes what she means to you, be prepared to share what/why on that night!

Say yes!

Yes, I do <3

Before we head our separate ways, we had a chance to take photo with the camqueen

The girls

The miangs take 2 and 3

With Arthur and wives

Preliminary round for Mr Yuli

Aww..Mr Lai chose Arthur over Nat? Yuli, u GG lor

With the Anzac family

LOVE U Miss Tan! XoXo

-The End-

Going back to Brunei!

2010-11-17T18:30:00.000+08:00

On 10th November, I was very excited because I finally can fly back to Brunei with Jon, Kam and Zai! My domestic flight was in the evening which gave me plenty of time to do things during the day. Therefore, I had lunch with Art at Capers. He kept me company for the whole day before my flight and even helped me pack (just some last minute stuff). Thank you Artoo!

Lunch at Capers

My apricot smoothie

Pancakes with grilled banana and bacon + maple syrup

Err..sth miners ..

On the way to Botanical Garden, we passed by clock tower and St David Lecture Theatre

Up and down -- Clock Tower

St David

Drop by Arto's flat

Unicol

We went to Botanical Garden but to my disappointment, the flowers were not that beautiful yet. After that, I wanted to visit either Otago Settler Museum or Chinese Garden. It was an easy decision because the museum was under construction. :):) p/s: My face is in most of the photos *oppsy*

Adams Building (Pharmacy school) - Where I had some of my workshops as well as most of the labs including dispensing

Chinese Garden

Going back to my flat

All of my 3 flights were very pleasant.

1 - From Dunny to Welly (We just stopped at Welly for 10 mins)

2 - From Welly to Auckland (We stayed in Auckland airport for about 5 hours)

3 - From Auckland to Brunei (Yaaay!!)

During my journey to Auckland, I sat between an Indian and a White guy. It was very entertaining because we had interesting conversation including astrology. While serving the travelers, a flight attendant spoke to the indian guy as if they have known each other for ages as the lady told this guy about her daughter. After their conversation ended, the stewardess told the guy she would talk to him on the land. The indian guy just told me he doesn't even know her. HAHA

When I reached Auckland, I saw Arthur and Vee! They came just to keep me company for a while and had supper at McD. Thank you for coming!

Jon and I ordered this family pack value meal

Interior of Boeing 777

The new RBA plane boeing-777 is big, comfy and stylish in terms of the nice colour of the seats. Unlucky enough, while I was sleeping, my fifth toe knocked into something and I had to try to get it out because it got stuck. It was quite painful and had difficulty walking on the day because I wore ballet flats.

I know it is GROSS!

I knocked this toe 5 times altogether at home >,<

The first thing I told my mom was I wanted to get jandals because I could not walk properly. Yes! I found a cheap one then went to eat at one of the restaurants at Batu Bersurat - Golden Leaf.

So far I have been out of the house ever since I came back and have eaten most of the food I crave for.

-The End-

3 events in one day

2010-11-15T22:57:00.000+08:00

This post is about the day before I left NZ for Brunei this year. I felt that time flies really fast. The good news is I am officially done with Pharmacy School ! Let me clarify one thing. I am still NOT a pharmacist yet but a pharmacy graduate. In order to be a pharmacist officially, you need to do internship for 44 or 48 weeks and pass the big exam! Working is something I am definitely not looking forward to >,<

3 events in one day is the title of this entry.
1 - Lunch with the Miangs
2 - Went over to see Adi's fluffy and sparkly (well, not really an event)
3 - Hotpot and firework with Adeline, Joe and Art =)

Lunch with the Miangs
Venue: Nova
http://www.novacafe.co.nz/

Err...I have no idea why the indivudual photos of the miangs turns out like this. Anyway, I am so grateful to know the six of you here because you all have brought so much fun in my life :):)

Yuli

Weyta

Nic

Bea

Ray

Nat

So happy

FOODs!!!

Chicken Risotto

Grilled Portobello Mushrooms, red pepper pesto, feta and spinach on toasted foccacia

Slow braised lamb on herb & onion bread, with tomato jam & aioli

Eggs any style, double smoked bacon, slow roasted tomatoes & toast

Chicken & leek pie with puff pastry and salad greens

Thank you Shirlene for driving Jo, Bea and I to Anzac!

Shirlene in her baby swift

At the back of Anzac Ave apartment

I bumped into Bobo! I love pulling his hair! :D

Two photos (up and down) - have no idea why they cannot be rotated to their right position

Waiting for Adi and his dogs!

Here he comes!

Vee! I miss you! It is usually the 3 of them taking photo together but this time, Vee has gone back to Akl :(:(

Shir still has to work after this so she just ate instant noodle for lunch

Hotpot at Art's pretty flat. Thank you Art for allowing us to have our dinner at your place and also for the food and card game. To be honest, your flat is very nice and homey.

Art's flat from outside

Appetizer (thanks to Art)

Beef slices

Chopping balls

Fish balls

Tofu

Cabbage

Artooo

Joeee

Playing card game

Firework was supposed to be played at ~~Woodhaugh Garden~~ but due to the amount of trees there we changed it to somewhere in Logon Park (Soccer Field)

It was a really great day hanging out with the people I am close to. Love u all people!

-The End-

Last Potluck dinner at Anzac

2010-11-12T18:57:00.000+08:00

Written a few days ago.
It is already 3.15 am and I just came back from potluck dinner at Anzac with the pharmacy crew not long ago.

As usual, with these cool people, there's always cool games keeping us entertained.

I am really thankful towards Arthur Liu, for the surprise! Oh man, you are so creative, full of ideas and fun!

We also played charade in which we split ourselves into two teams - The cheesecake team where I am in. Sadly, I can't remember the name of the other team.

During the day, I went for lunch at Savoury Japan followed by shopping with the Bruneians - Jon, Zai, Kam and Roz. It was an unproductive day in terms of packing. ;P

At savoury Japan

Potluck Dinner

Mr Chang insisted to have his sexy leg captured!

Very excited about this game!

Couple checkered top

By Edwin Khoo

Aww, Arthur, you are sooo sweeeet!

Sexxxaaaaay Baaabbyyy!

I LOVE ALAN's CHeesecake!!!!

Don;t be shy Eddie!!

The "something" team

The cheesecake team

And, the game begins!

-the end-

Guy Fawkes Night ; Bacchus

2010-11-06T22:30:00.000+08:00

Guy Fawkes Night was here again yesterday. This day arises due to the failure of Gunpowder Plot of 1605 whereby a group of provincial English Catholics failed to assassinate the Protestant King James I of England and VI of Scotland. This day marked the survival of the king on 5 November 1605, after a guy known as Guy Fawkes who was left in charge of the gunpowder was arrested.

The weather was quite windy, chilly and rained at times. Nevertheless, we still played with fireworks at night. I want to thank to two organisers - Art and Weyta as well as Kelvin for risking himself lighting the fireworks as anything can happen to him due to the crappy weather.

Before going to aquatic centre for the firework display, Art brought me to Bacchus for dessert. I ordered Rhubarb Creme Brulee (Yes, I love Creme Brulee). I thought Art would order brownies but in the end, he ordered Chocolate mousse cake because I made him ate brownies that I baked for 2 days in a row. He must have been so sick of it. HAHAHA!

Death by Chocolate Mousse Cake with Rasberry Coulis

Rhubarb Creme Brulee

Mr and Mrs Huang - LIGHT BULB - Mr and Mrs Lai

-The End-

Luna restaurant ; packing ; at weyta's

2010-10-30T22:06:00.000+08:00

My final examination is finally over! On the night itself, it was Pharmacy Graduation Dinner even though we were not officially graduated yet. I would just call it Advance Pharmacy Graduation Dinner. =) (Will post this at a later date)

This entry is dedicated to Art who took me to Luna for dinner yesterday and helped me with my packing from 2pm till 12am today. Seriously, I am sooooo HOPELESS in packing -_-" I am really grateful to him. THANKS!! If it was not because of him, I would have just procrastinated again and again. It is not that packing is done but it is almost there. XIE XIE NI!

Luna's food is just average but the nice view and good customer service compensate for this.

Art couldn't make up his mind!

We arrived at around 7.45pm (still bright outside)

His eyes narrowed when he smiles (looks like a squirrel)

My grilled rib eye of beef

Rib eye meatballs with spaghetti

Art ordered this because he was told that this hand cut chips is a must-to-try. (He should have just tried mine)

I requested for it to be cooked medium

Was told that the puddings is very yummy so we ordered hot soft chocolate pudding with vanilla ice cream and vanilla creme brulee.

After that, we went to Weyta's place to hang out. I have to admit that he (Art) is a super gentleman. He walked me to weyta's place (well he stayed near to weyta) then after that he walked me home which is like at the opposite end just to make sure that I arrived home safe and sound. The funny thing is that he said if I go to club, he will walk me home if no one does. HAHAHA Thank you =) He even stayed up till 5am to make sure the others (who went to club) were alright.

Next, I will show you guys something which I cherish a lot.
I was quite sad and down when my huge teddy needs to be packed.

I really cant BEAR to let him be packed

I actually shed tears ! T.T

I will see you soon!

-The End-

VAIN FLATMATE

2010-10-25T08:01:00.000+08:00

Arghhhhh!!! I am still so sleepy despite going to bed early yesterday. In order to counteract my feeling of sleepiness, I attempted facebook quizzes and had breakfast to keep my energy level up but these are of no use because I am still so sleepy! Every time I tried to read a sentence or just by looking at my lecture note, my eyes and brain shut off inevitably. I guess the best solution is to take a nap and continue with my revision later. If only we don't need to sit for exams but don't mind end of module test.

Straight to the highlight of my entry. MY FLATMATE must be really bored. It must be either that or he desperately wants a girlfriend! The other explanation is the exposure of his true inner vain self. I really feel sympathy towards my bear.

Brought to you by the skilful chef aka Mr. Kok from my flat

For dessert, he made Lamingtons

Okay, this is just something really funny or it might be just me. Look at the broccoli especially its small size. My flatmate was not very alerted when he did his grocery shopping yesterday. When he paid, he just realised that it is NZ4.50 for such a small head but he was very PAISEH to put it back. HAHA. I guess you better savour it to your fullest.

-The End-

Chicken rice + indian style popiah

2010-10-24T06:05:00.000+08:00

Yo people! it was an unproductive day for me yesterday in terms of revision for my next paper - QUM A which is far scarier than QUM B because in QUM A, every single detail will be examined. With regards to my QUM B exam, it was not hard if only I did not only concentrate on therapeutics for my study. Most of the questions were based on patient assessment especially from ~~Dermatology module~~ which I really dislike. I can blame no one but myself for not studying hard enough. The answers that I wrote were so crappy. For goodness sake, the stuff that I have read, only one question came out - about anaemia. All the others I just simply put down an answer and tried to recall what the lecturers taught during workshops. (Now, I also regret for not paying much attention in the workshops). After this, I actually have doubt about graduating this year. Nevertheless, I just need to have 100% faith in God that I will graduate this year! In Jesus most precious name I pray. Amen!

Since I could not concentrate on studying yesterday, needed food and found some chicken drumsticks in the freezer, so I decided to whip up something I have never tried before - Chicken Rice cos' of a sudden urge of mine after thinking about nasi lemak. (I could not find the link these two apart from the fact that they are have rice and chicken ;P) The best Hainan Chicken Rice I have ever tasted was from Limbang =)

I need the chicken broth to cook the rice

I stir-fry the rice with chopped garlic

Rice cooked in rice cooker

Jonathan Kok also tried out something new - his so called "Indian style popiah". This idea struck him when he thought about this Indian snack known as "Famosa" (I have no idea how to spell it) which is a fried triangular shaped pastry with curry powder, vegetable and meat as filling.

Although I can't take too spicy food, I still have to say this is very appetizing!

While having our dinner, we watched 13 going on 30 which I thought I have watched it before.

Moving on to something very random in this entry.

After my QUMB exam, we had a study group in a fun style which is done like a game. I did not stay for long tho.

Anyway, here are the only pictures at dispensing lab

-The End-

Art's superb culinary skill during my exam fever

2010-10-21T18:05:00.000+08:00

Hey my loyal readers! Exam fever is here again! HOPEFULLY this is my last time sitting for university exam. *Fingers crossed* Amazingly, I haven't felt any ~~stress~~ yet (Okay, I rarely get stressed out unless it is a very major situation for me). My first paper was Law (2 days ago) which I spent freaking 17 hrs doing my cheat sheet. Oh well, that is okay because doing that doesn't kill your brain cells that much.

However, during my law paper, I did not use my "cheat sheet" that much. =( *I should have studied QUM*

QUM (Quality Use of Medicine) is my NIGHTMARE! Tomorrow, it is QUMB (Long essay questions) and I am blogging. Great! (I haven't finished studying and I don't think I can finish anyway). I just put everything into the hands of God and pray hard. Of course, I studied but in a very relaxing manner as I can't focus too much. Always on facebook, net and other kind of distraction (I need them). Even after my law exam (2 hours) which I used my whole concentration in it, I got headache and pain in the eyes till night time which I can't study properly although I tried. >.<

I captured some photos for this blog! let them do the talking!

My messy table

Okay readers, I can't stand messy things and I got so fed up and eyesore so instead of continuing studying, I just cleaned and tidied up my room especially my table.

As I have said, I can't focus so in between revision, I will watch anime or do something else.

Jon's Ondeh Ondeh! Thank you!

Close up

LAW!!!

Wishing my flatmate good luck for his test

Art cooked (on the day after my law exam) for me because he knows that during exam times, I am very lazy to cook. Thank you so much! To be honest, his culinary skill is excellent! I really love the food! (I think I have compulsive eating disorder ;P) i feeel so FAAAT!!

In the process of making this baked bread with bacon, cheese and mayonnaise

The iron Chef

Steak with veges

Egg and Ham salad

This afternoon, the weather had "mood swing". At one moment, it hailed so loudly, then after a while, it turned sunny again. After about half an hour, it rained!

From my balcony

Studying QUM! Arghhhhh

p/s: For Qum, I studied with Aerosmith's songs

-The end-

Show some respect

2010-10-15T08:51:00.001+08:00

This post is my study break after reading the same note for so long.

I would like to raise the awareness that some doctors including some to-be-doctor seem to have the perception that pharmacist is nothing. I personally know someone who thinks this way that is why I am so pissed but I just need to keep quiet and write it here. Who do you think you are, great doctor?
Doctors always think they are so great almighty and their profession is the best, the highest. 你少瞧不起人了。

For me, every profession has its own difficulties. For those medical students who think pharmacy is an easy, extra course and not necessary, you should try study this. I bet you won't even want to touch it! Before you say anything or put us down, look yourself at the mirror first. I would like to see you yourself act as both doctor and pharmacist in the future and see how you cope with it.

In the world of healthcare, it is only doctors who get recognised. How about other health professionals - physio, nurse, speech therapist etc. In my opinion, it is fine with me that pharmacists don't get acknowledged for correcting those prescriptions and going through all the troubles to make sure everything is correct before handing out the medicines to patients. At least, doctors/medical students, please respect pharmacist and not thinking that all what they do are reading selecting drugs from the shelves and hand it out to patients based on what are written on the script. If you think pharmacy is an easy job, why not you do it yourself. And why would we spend our times studying this if it is that easy. You guys should broaden your mind and let go of that "I am the greatest" mind. Some doctors ask pharmacist what is the dose and drugs best for the patients, and we never say anything like "OMG, they don't know their stuff" but we respect them because one cannot possibly know every single thing. This is why every different profession is there for a reason.

I respect all profession and even cleaner. What is wrong with that? Without them, this society will be full of garbages and dirty sight all around. Imagine the air you breathe if there is no cleaner. Not only health professionals work hand-in-hand, but also with other professionals.

Walao eh, 越想越气！I will continue this some other time. Time to go back to jail (study)

p/s: This is just my own personal opinion and nothing personal

Group A lunch

2010-10-13T20:42:00.002+08:00

Reading the same sentence for the past one hour means one thing. I have no motivation at all! Today is the last day of Group A class and am really happy about it. At the same time, I start to miss my group who I really appreciate and have enjoyed every moments with them but this is NOT OVER yet! I will still see them at exam hall! I wish I can fast forward the time to holidays so I don't need to ~~study~~ which is such a pain! This is just the life of a student. I feel that student life is the best that one can have compared to working life. You will see me saying this again next time. Instead of fast forward, I should wish for reversing time back to high school or become a child when you just lead a carefree life with nothing to worry about. All you do is sit there and being pampered by your parents - not for me though =)

Back to the intention of this post. As I have mentioned that today is the last day of pharmacy class, Arthur organised a group A lunch at Chopstick. Thank you for organising, Mr.LIU! You know we love you. *winky winky*

After that Jason and I took photos at hunter centre where we always have our workshops. I really like having classes there because of the study environment.

Everyone is enjoying their meals

This is what you call natural pose (well, at least shika din look at the camera when I cheekily took a photo of her while she was talking just to observe if she turned her way at the camera)

I ordered 'Braised beef in five spices + vegetables

Anny and Jeanne (Shika! WAKE UP!)

4 ladies at the round table

Sarah and Eddie

With Jason and BENs

Can you see my red inflammed forehead due to pimples/acne?

Han! U are not group A!

The non group A Koreans

I love to be in group A and am glad that I was placed in this AWESOME group

Yeah! We will sign a peace agreement with u

Otw to Hunter

Take one

Take 2

Take 3

Awww... Go on separate ways *hugssss*

This is the famous HUNTER centre where most people as in pharmacy students hang out

Jason was actually quite sentimental

oo-Laa-Laa. Wait till the dean sees this!

Close up

Jason asking questions!

I am always very lazy to copy so ...
Also, someone states that it is abnormal for me if I don't take camera with me *lols*

NZAPS office

Eve who was on duty

Follow him as his personal photographer to hunter CAL

From upstair

Study pod (Is that what u call it?)

Saw Chris outside

HUNTER CAL. Look at Es who looked so hyper!

With 2 babes from Group D!

Doing some real work, liaison officer!


I LOVE HUNTER!

-The end-

Love bug + post elective

2010-10-11T14:22:00.001+08:00

Three days ago, I told Arthur this, "Hey Arthur, I reckon I have a strong immune system cos' I am still fine and do not get infected by the virus yet. Also, I still remembered back in health sci when there was this cold epidemic, my whole flat got it except me." Then the next day, I started feeling unwell and yesterday, I officially declare that I was infected with that contagious bug or the so called LOVE bug either from Nins, Bea, Arthur or all of them cos' these days I have been hanging out with these 3. If it is really from a combination of 3 of them then probably mine is a mutated strain. -_-" Most of the people in my group aka group A are contracted with this love buggie. Well, that proves the phrase " sharing is caring". Falling sick at this time when exams are drawing near is the last thing anyone would ask for. I just feel so listless that I can't study properly. For goodness sake, I still have a lot to go through and yet, I am bestowed upon this lovely gift. This proves another point that I came across on facebook "God wraps gifts with problems" HAHA. Anyway, that is just a joke. =)

This post is especially written to extend my gratitude towards ART who brought porridge for me with a text "Front door pls". At first, I thought he sent to the wrong person (Well, he has a tendency to text wrongly xD) That's very thoughtful, caring and sweet of him. Kamsahamnida!

Next - different story from the above is about my evil flatmate. He got this colourful centipede just to scare me. What he did was he threw it on my keyboard while I was playing it but then his plan failed! HAHAHA! Your SEVENTY CENTS has gone to waste! I hope you are having a good time in Invercargill and beware you may find a real centipede under your pillow! Boo~

Reminds me of the human centipede

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Yesterday (Sunday), we had a post elective celebration at Manilla Grill or formerly known as JRS Retaurant. Although only 4 of us turned up, we had great conversation including 50carat ring, happiness company and ripping pants in dream.

50 carat ring
I said I will need Arthur to get me a 24 carat ring if I were to marry him and he said "No babe, u deserve more than a 24 carat. I will get u a FIFTY carat!" HAHAHA

Anyway, I really had fun and enjoyed their company! Wooohooo. As I have eaten at home (thanks to my lovely flatmate for his pasta), I just ordered cake of the day which was Oreo cheesecake. It tasted really good and cost only NZ$ 5.50! Not bad aye.

This is what happiness is!

Thanks Art!

-The End-

Two chefs

2010-10-10T13:28:00.000+08:00

It is 10 days to finals and I am still slacking! I literally am holding my note everywhere I go. By this I mean in the house. Believe me or not, I still have about 85% to study (5 modules maaaan). No one to blame but myself for being such a slacker. Grrr.

It has been hailing, raining and even snowing on and off since yesterday and I love to look outside when it has this kind of weather.

Even though I moved my keyboard to downstair, I still can't resist the temptation of playing it. Also, U -TUBE and FACEBOOK are two major distractions. I am such a weirdo because I can't just concentrate like sitting there and study but at the same time, I get distracted very easily. The reason that I can't just sit still and focus is I will get headache and painful eye if I study for too long.

There is a pattern for me every semester during exams. Last year, I watched anime basically after every 1-3 lectures. This year it is a mixture of everything. What I know is I will need to sleep early (train myself to sleep early) as all my papers are in the morning. *Oh-No!*

Anyhow, I want to share my opinion about this restaurant - Two chefs.

I went there after my elective with Art and thank you so much for taking me there to try out the food. I give a rate of 4.5 stars for ambience and 5 stars for service! (out of 5 stars) =)

It took us quite a while to order and I was actually very decisive for once but changed my mind after asking the waitress for recommendation. Here are the photos.

What is that so funny huh? xD

Art ordered Grilled Beef Ribeye. I reckon other restaurants serve better ribeye. :)

Beef cheek. This is quite nice but the thoght of eating cheek is quite erm.... losing appetite

We wanted to order dessert but nothing that was appealing :)

-The End-

PHCY 470 Elective symposium

2010-10-09T06:16:00.000+08:00

Yesterday was the day! PHCY 470 Elective Symposium took place from 9 till 5 yesterday at Red lecture theatre for those who did presentation and room 713 at Adam Building for those making posters.

As for my group, we did the former one with the tile "Safety of medicines beyond their expiration dates".

Our topic is definitely ~~not~~ as interesting as it sounds when you compared it to other groups doing social pharmacy. Nevertheless, people who are into clinical pharmacy usually want to know if it is safe to take expired drugs, enjoyed this presentation I suppose. Ours is a 100% literature review and information is not much out there and had been going all out searching for journals, books, newspapers and all sort of data we could find. Even on the day before the presentation, we had to change our slides and speeches after meeting up with our supervisor for the last time.

During the symposium, I was very impressed with all those amazing and creative presentation in a sense that they really have a way to deliver their messages fantastically. This also goes to all the posters! Totally impressive!

Finally, our whole year elective project (research + report writing + presentation) is over. Well, not for my group because my supervisor wants us to look for more information after our exams. *sigh* hope all our efforts do not go down the ~~drain~~. See, as much as I want to bid goodbye to my elective, it still continues to haunt me.

At least, the School of Pharmacy is nice to provide us with some snacks and pizzas! I believe all of us were very tired and hungry after the presentation. After judging the final poster, it was prize giving ceremony. Kudos to all those who won with glory especially to the Simvastatin Group - Jeanne, Joanne and Vee! I am so proud and happy for you. The only regret that I have is not taking a proper photo for you guys.

All in all, I really enjoyed this memorable day because it was the first and last time I will ever sit in the lecture theatre for so long with all my classmates including those who don't usually turn up for lectures. HAHA.

It was really a long and tiring day which is evident from my sleeping duration. I went to bed really early at 9.30pm and slept for 10.30 hrs! Even though I woke up at 8 plus, I was just lying on my bed while waiting for the heater to do its work because it was too cold this morning to get out of bed. =)

The VAIN boys group

Bak Choy group presenting their project - adequacy of handwashing

The poison group xD

Eddie! I got cha!

Grape Fruit Juice group

Alan, don't u feel privileged to be in my photo ? And yes, I know you were very hungry

Taking photo with the simvastatin group (without Jeanne)

Everyone listened with full interest to Miss Joanne

Hi DOT!!

Bekah and Jessy

PK group - Kelvin, Ran and Ben. Arthur, Bekah and I were just being NICE and FRIENDLY to take photo with them

One word - VAIN

We just couldn't stop eating

Look at all these swarm of people

Khairol and Michael

Erm..Non-Asian except Prez xD

With Louise who was my partner for hospital externship last July and Kiri who acted in 300mg in Pharm Revue as the powerful and dominant Rhiannon.

Peeping Kelvin

Hey Vincent, your expression is so funny when you wanna punch Arthur. Smileee

You know I love you two xD

With my awesome elective group

Jojo and Sarah

Holly and Prez

Women in B&W

Prez and Kelly

Ben and Louise. I warned Ben beforehand not to ask my group any question HAHA

With our supervisor -- Hash Brown! Erm..I mean Hesh! I called him Hesh Brown by accident when asking him to take photo with us *oppsy*

Pizza!

Very Asian pose

With Prof. Pauline

One of the winning groups for presentation


I am extremely happy for the Simvastatin group for doing such a good job! xoxo

Lesson learnt : Not going to consider phD after this painful elective.

-The End-

Complaints

2010-10-06T21:05:00.000+08:00

What am I doing here when I am supposed to be ~~studying~~??!!! . I actually did and feel very sick and tired of it after one lecture and so here I am! BLOGGING!

It has been quite a while that I last visited chopstick. We went there for lunch after workshop this morning, then did elective straight till about 7pm - slides and speeches. OMG!Omg! today was such a long day due to ELECTIVE! We are gonna continue tomorrow.

Elective is so time consuming! I am so glad that this Friday, we are going to do a presentation to the whole p4 students and lecturers. The thought of it is quite nerve-racking though. *ARRRGGGGHHH pulling my hair one by one*

Here's the photos of the day.

What kind of look is that Nins?

Pouty Arthur

Hot pot which costs only 15 bucks for 2 persons

Jo enjoying her food

Bah, look here

Vee is soo sexy larrrr xD

Notice my double chin

George took pic of himself *lol*

Yes! I used chopstick to eat my beef burger!

Fake death while elective-ing

I just want to rest!

Errr...

Our Awesome editor!

Elective drives me crazy!

I don't want to see any more expired drugs! *runs away*

Arthur, release ur ♥ active ingredient slowly so that the girls won't get toxicity but at the same time make sure that therapeutic level is reached. Once u have lose your potency by more than 10% then U are EXPIRED!

Nevertheless, we are very nice to our supervisors.

-The End-

C for Charlotte

2010-10-06T14:39:00.000+08:00

22 years ago on 3rd October marked the born of an angel to the Chai family. She is none other than the sweet and caring Miss Charlotte Chai. I am not paid to do this but she is the only girl who i would say near to perfection (I din say perfect because no one is perfect except God).

We just started singing the usual Happy Birthday song after our 4pm lecture at Red!

Lotte LOVES green

Steven was trying out his new i touch

Lotte: Wait, hold on! I am not ready yet!

Pressie Natalia exclusively for Mr.TaBien only. Jo = snow white

Alan! Smile! Look here!

Everyone getting ready to take a group photo

C for Charlotte Chai (Note the Green theme)

Point to charlotte!

Posing with Cheesecake! Jason, u betta said my cheesecake is yum orelse I won't let u go so easily! *lmao*

Ben PooPoo ..Err.. I mean Pu

Another one playing with iphone4

Advertise for schoolbag

Jason!!

Lotte! Happy Birthday! I LOVE YOU LONG TIME!!! XOXO

-The End-