relax choya and durian chips(thx cp!) are great snacks after the 1st day of of a horrid sem. I think all i rem now is sterilize and shock n prob thyroid. Yea my brain feels sterilized after the hols, n is in a state of shock but my thyroid is normal. arh crap.

Watching fireworks at padang wasn't as nice as watching at marina sq. The smoke from the fireworks were blowing in our direction and it masked n blocked all the fireworks. kinda agree with dear that the aerial performance was prob the best thing that day.

We won Best presentation and OSA Most Creative award! OMG Really couldn't believe it. We prob were hysterical by the time they announced our 2nd award. Really felt damn proud of pharmacy! Really touched. We certainly have shown the school and everyone what we are capable of and can now hold our heads high and shout we love pharmacy! Our float was certainly huge and a head turner n wow-wah generator. Really an amazing feat. Thank you all pharmers for making this come true. Pharmacy Winners! pharmacy champions! pharmacy awesome!

Just can't believe that everything is over in a flash. Really no regrets in helping out with rag this year. Even tho the best overall chancellor shield went to bizad, its alr a remarkable achievement for us by winning 2 out of 6 fac/club awards.

School is starting after this wkend. holy crap.

Went to the NATAS travel fair yest with my parents.. There were so many Hokkaido banners everywhere la. And the 2 groups of ppl beside us were also booking japan tours. HAh but yea i am going to taiwan end of the year. No more hokkaido. haha sigh but ok la=)

Stayed over at rag on fri nite. Haha had a gd time fooling ard n crapping with the pharmers.

Cy:Watch me!!

Cp:Woah..

Some random rag photos..



Caught the last day of sg garden festival with dear. tho some of the flowers were apparently doing the jap bow liao but overall the designs and setup were stil quite pretty.

I'm back.. yea i shld get my ass back to rag but abit nua man. I miss japan!! Come to think of it, it wasn't exactly a impulsive decision. I've been wanting to visit daryl when i heard of his exchange but i din do anything abt it. It jus happens that i decide to grab this opportunity n tt it only took 1 afternoon to decide to go off the nxt morning=P Thanks cheow for dragging me to lucky plaza to check the flights availability n persistent persuasion n of course daryl for bringing us ard n planning the whole hokkaido thing. Its amazing how u can converse with the ppl there so well la.. prob would have been so lost without u. It was really a fantastic trip!!

In summary, I spent 2 nights in tokyo, then on to a 10 hr overnite bus ride up to amori, then 4 hr train ride to our 1st stop in hokkaido, hakodate(my fav place in the entire trip), spent 2 nites there, then took another 6 hr train up to Otaru, stayed for an afternn and took another 30 min train to finally reach Sapporo(capital of Hokkaido). Spent 2 nites in Sapporo and in btw we took a 3 hr bus to Furano(lavender farm) and finally flew back to tokyo on the last day on an amazingly fast 1.5 hr flight (consider the time spent on the buses n trains) But well the scenery thruout the rides were great, esp most parts of the railway were along the coast.

Really enjoyed the food, the ppl, the scenery and of cox the company. From the fast moving, vibrant city life, mad rush for squeezy trains and neon lights in tokyo to the romantic, slow-paced coastal sleepish coastal town of hakodate.

On our 1st day we met 2 Japanese who came to chit chat with us while eating ice cream. As one of the guy worked in sgpore b4, he could identify us with our le-la-lohs english. Most Japanese don not speak English anyway or somehow lack the confidence to speak. And later his other female fren treated us to drinks. Imgaine a stranger tresting 3 of us drinks after we barely knew each other n we jus chit chatted till late at nite. Haha how amazing rite.

Me at Asakusa Temple


Smoke from incense can drive away bad luck and bring blessings lol=p


Harajuku原宿！a gd place to observe fashion trends n shop!




The famous shibuya crossing


Rikkyu Uni, Daryl's Exchange Uni. So harry potterish.


Train ride along the coast


One of the retro restaurant at hakodate tt plays smoke gets in ur eyes when we ate the cabbage n egg n bcon pan fried thing.


The serene star shaped park in hakodate


Guess wad we are alllooking at


3 hrs of fireworks. think was some summer festival at hakodate


Fireworks from mt hakodate. it was actually jus a 300+m hill la. but the view was splendid.


The nice wide streets of hakodate


The fish market where we ate abalone,urchin,scallop sashimi, bbq giant crab leg,scallop and hokkaido icecream. Melon n macha flavour rocks.



The damn cute kids practising their drums for some festival


Otaru, acc to lonely planet its some venice of the east or japan.


Lots of european/russian influence in Otaru


My failed attempt for a fashion ad.


The community pharmacy in Otaru. Looks rather big.. and there were so many in 2 streets. Think i spotted like 10 pharmacies.



TV tower at Sapporo


Nightlights at Saporro


The men's service club. haha gosh



of course u will have the secretaries club. And its called soapland. like wow. lol


Our last indulgence b4 my 300 yen macdonalds dinner on the 2nd last day. lol

btw the mc pork was gd


Lavender farm at furano






Thanks cheow n daryl for such an amazing trip! =))

opps this time rd i m the one who pangsehed.. I m really sorry guys. Didn't mambo in the end after all, preparing to go to the airport instead. Ciao in a wks time=)

haven blogged for a while since preceptorship was over. dunno where to start liao. Have basically been going to sch for rag, partoring(getting ourselves injured in ecp haha oops=P),oh ya mayb more notably getting a new laptop=) Have to thank kenvin for printing out those co-op brochures, acc me down to funan to analyze those specs-prices/choose and even got a discount from his boss. Thanks bro.

Somehow the topic of charting our future, doing things now to boast our resume, finding out wad we want, how to earn the big bucks n not be a normal tom dick n harry singaporean out there on the street 10 yrs down the rd has nv failed to be in a major part of our discussion when the band of bros meetup these days. Admittedly i was feeling pretty sianz n tired of it alr n my face prob showed it when tw asked me twice why i look so sian like 心事重重. haz. I know its the pharmacy inferiority syndrome at work again but u know i cannot control it. I hate it when ppl ask me abt my internship pay when i meetup with other frens, i hate it when ppl give u the huh look when i say i work at guardian, i even went to the extent of lying tt i am not doing intern when i bumped into one of my jc accquant who is a high flyer in smu. Argh crap. I jus 过不了自己那一关. Can't convince myself sometimes tt pharmacy has its decent prospects. And prob my pharm gf n I has talked abt this for coutless time abt this issue n sometimes i thank her for pulling me back and letting me feel tt pharm is not tt sucky after all. well at least i love what i am studying, and i love the frens i have in pharm. i mean its jus the aft grad part rite. its jus my pay n prospect mah. haha shit. dunno la =P I shld jus enjoy my uni life now.

Prob not going anywhere overseas this hols. nvm can save money. going to mambo later. haha 1st time. like finally. yay.

Okie i'm back. Preceptorship is over! Damn fast 6 wks is up in a smoke. Phew~ And i realised tt I dun really like retail. Haha i dowan to start ranting.
In short, (I mean no offence to my peers who actually feel gd abt this attachment) I dowan to feel like a shopkeeper who have to know practically every trivial jiabalang pdt in the store and put up with the nonsense and abuse by unappreciative and unreasonable customers. Yes there are rare times when grateful ppl thank you for ur advice and help, but its like how rare do u get one of them, and to me, it is just not satisfying enough to endure all the other forms of shit encompassing this job. I've always wondered how my preceptor/pharmacists manage to tahan this job for so many years even though she's like complaining everyday. And I really cannot imagine myself in her footsteps nxt time.. Haiz.
Maybe i jus need to grow up and accept that every job is lydat, there's always shit to endure, be it hospital, industrial, blah.
Nonetheless, it was still a gd experience, learnt to apply wad we have learned, appreciated more of all the stuff we were forced to mug n memorise, and I'm certainly thankful for 2 gd preceptors that I had.

Funtime was really fun though we were starved. lol.I had to drag ppl to go newton to eat after that. Decoder's(a borad game cafe, the venue for the funtime) is really a gd place to throw parties and organise events. They will organise games and their forfeits are really one hell of a kind. Kelvin was being tickled by all the guys and raymond was kinda molested when he was the pole for ivan(the G chief preceptor) to do the pole dance. lol. the G batch 2 ppl shld make ivan dance again. damn qiang la. And kailun became some pervert with fetish for armpit hair. K la thats jus some of the events worth mentioning. lol.

Watched the hulk with dear. Watch only if gd effects and action is enough to make u like a movie, otherwise dun watch. haz.