For the man who loved selflessly, and made us his world...

Happy Birthday Papa! Hope you're having a good time with the Mama, Kakh and Pork today! Lots of love from your daughter in Adelaide. ^_^

I'm back in Adelaide again. Arrived this morning after transiting in Singapore and a rather turbulent flight in. Winter isn't as cold as I remembered it to be. Maybe it's because it'll still early in the evening. Or maybe the warmth of home is still lingering around me, protecting me.

I can feel that depressing heaviness seeping through. Thank God for the 3 weeks back home. I doubt I'd be able to function if I spent the holidays here, away from everyone I love.

I miss you Mama and Papa.
I miss you Kakh and Pork.
I miss you Darling. You kept me from crumbling apart all this while.
I miss you my Subang peeps! Have a blast in Bangkok!

Acute and Chronic Care 2 starts at TQEH tomorrow morning. 5 months to the Big Bad Finals. Pleaseeeeeee give me the strength to pull through...

English teachers, cry your hearts out.

Had a look at a compilation of research abstracts from the National Research and Innovation Competition (NRIC) 2008 which Seng Kiat and Shing Wei attended last month. They did a great job with their research and presentation, but unfortunately didn't win. When I asked Seng Kiat about the competition, he told me it was just a big joke. Didn't understand why till I read the abstracts. There were a few good ones, but sad to say most of them were half-baked and strung together with fragmented English. The winner of the competition didn't look that impressive to me either. In my opinion there were better ones in the list but God knows what other 'criteria' were taken into account when judging. OK la my English is pretty crap also. But if you're a uni student doing a presentation for your research/invention, there has to be some sort of standard right? I mean, you gotta at least be able to string together a complete sentence right? I knew the standard of English in my country is bad (and getting worse as the years go by), but this one is so bad that it's 'good'.


University: *suffice to say, it's a local uni....should I embarrass them by putting the name?*
Category: Social Transformation and Creative Art
Project Title: HIVEGON

The bee hive is used for breed the bee. Today, the honey used in around the world. The honey is a good business. Because the honey very expensive. The honey has more each for health. The bee also gives more benefit for human, because the bee can do the pollination process. So, human take the benefit from the bee process. For the gardener it the big benefit, because the bee can give the pollination process. So, gardener must breeders the bee for take a big profits. The bee hive has a, the name is a HIVEGON. It's because the bee hive has a subject matter from the hexagon or honey comb. The bee hive also solves many problems from the existing product. With the bee hive, breeders can take the honey be easy, because breeders not will go to the jungle and climb the Tualang tree again. Breeders can use the bee hive in their own garden or farm. With that skill, breeders can take 2 benefits in one time.

The Curve & Si Ham

Since I hardly ever (maybe never?) blog about my dates with Xian-Nian, I guess this is a good time to start. Holidays have been great! It's sooo good to just laze around doing nothing but eat and watch disc after disc of movies and then eat somemore. Thanks Andrew, Seng Kiat, Shing Wei, Meng Lee and Calvin for the beautiful birthday surprise!!! No, seriously I did not expect it! I'm sure the sight of me in my skanky nightgown and dishevelled hair is proof enough. Love you guys lots, as always. Too bad they've been really busy of late with major exams and assignments. Looks like I chose an inconvenient time to come home. And to the Adelaide IMU-ians, thanks so much for the presents! They're beautiful and I'll make sure they're put to good use this winter. =)

Anyway, Xian-Nian and I had a lovely food-filled Sunday. Crossed off quite a few 'food objectives' in the process. We visited The Curve flea market in the afternoon:

Lunch time!! Yes, this was on my list of foods to eat. There're so many new restaurants in The Curve now, but I didn't regret going back to this one. Should try a few of the others in the near future too. :P

Our main dish was (I forgot the name) some Argentinean steak with crepes and passionfruit sauce + peaches + plums. Delicious!

The desert was great too. Some apple fritter + crepe + vanilla ice-cream + fruits thingy. *Swoons*

Painted stone turtles I bought from the flea market. The latest addition to my legion of turtles!

Took a shuttle bus to the Kelana Jaya LRT station. Spotted this fella in the bushes outside the station. Looks so much like the tulan lizard in my garden! Poor tulan lizard was eaten by a cat last year. *Sigh* I miss him...

Threw a berry at him and he displayed some impressive split-second agility.

Xian-Nian's dad bought a bag of boiled peanuts! I am yet to see this in Australia. They really should make these there. These peanuts rock!

To make things better, I found this denim dress in Padini at Ikano Power Center. Quite happy with it 'cos I was looking for a denim dress and got this for a heavily discounted price to boot. =)

But the best part of the day was dinner! I think it had become somewhat a tradition for the both of us now. Si Ham for dinner at the good ol' Chinese hawker stall in SS19. In a way these taste heaps better than oysters and are way cheaper too! Xian-Nian hates si ham, but too bad. His girlfriend is in love with them. Refer to my previous si ham posts.

*Swoons even more* Half the fun is digging them open and plucking out the plump, juicy flesh.

We also had other mouth-watering delicacies such as beef and chicken satay, Hokkien noodles and Cantonese fried (does this sound correct? I suck at Chinese translations).

We finished everything. Every single morsel. Thank you Darling for the wonderful day!!!