Waking up to the smell of coffee..

Monday, August 11

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.

Friday, August 8

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.

Sunday, August 3

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.

Saturday, July 26

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