Tom Yum 6am

I'm eating tom yum noodle right now. I shall call it TOM YUM 6AM. Yes, it's 6 freaking am now. I went to bed around 11+ and woke up feeling hungry. Went to the kitchen to cook my "dinner" (because I didn't eat any last nite) and then one of my flatmates (Mr.Ray) entered the kitchen and asked me if I was hungry. haha If I'm not hungry then why the hell am I cooking when everybody else was sleeping. Well so I told him I just woke up and wanted to cook a little breakfast for myself. I made a pot of noodle so you be the judge if it's little or not. =P

Talking about my flatmates, two of them don't like to sleep. I guess it's because they are from Thailand? Can anyone from Thailand tell me if you guys worry about eye bags, about not having enough sleep, about being tired and not able to go to work or school the next day? Seriously they don't sleep. I think that's some sort of illness. Well, again, that's just me.

Sometimes at 4-5am, you can still hear them coming out of their room and entering the kitchen. Next, you can smell the aroma of food. Is it because they are hungry all the time? This leaves me in puzzle. Don't get me wrong, they eat their breakfast, lunch and dinner. I can be their witness. Actually, a lot of folks told me they can't sleep here. Living in this vibrant party animal city, I guess night is when all the people come out of their hibernation. I'm not sure why I'm always sleeping though....I'm like the weirdo here.

Oh no, I'm feeling sleepy again....burrrpppp! ahhh satisfaction...=D

I think I will go back to bed in few minutes...haha...oink oink

Messy!!

Let me introduce my messy bedroom to everyone!!

I have things all over the room and this is a barely 200 square footage bedroom. haha

I hope my mom doesn't go on the internet and reading this right now. =P

Year 2006 is coming to an end.

My resolutions before the year ends are:

-Buy lots of toys and foods for SPCA
-Sign up for a volunteer program in SPCA for next year
-Finish my assignments
-Have a cup of starbucks peppermint mocha =P
-Shop for winter clothing
-Sign up for health club starting next year
-Start checking out the job opportunities
- Go to Levi's museum for my dissertation

I think the most that I wanna do is to give back to the society especially SPCA. Odie couldn't make it this year to join mommy and daddy to distribute toys to the needy. =( All of sudden I'm feeling overwhelmed and it breaks my heart thinking of odie during holiday season.

I'm thinking of going back to SF and make blood donation too. I'm sure I can help in some ways, directly or indirectly. Hope everyone is going to end 2006 with lots of happiness and memories to be cherished for the rest of your life.

I'm going to remember 2006 as the year I lost my most beloved pet in the whole wide world.

Odie, REST IN PEACE. Mommy and daddy will always remember you as our son, our companion and our family.

Odie, I know you wanted that ice cream cone, let me buy you tons of them soon.

Christmas is early, santa is busy

Just had some ciabatta bread for dinner. Another simple dinner and this has been going on for many months now! Funny thing is I'm getting used to it. Just some bread and a cup of hot chocolate will do. =) I love to cook especially when no one is around and preparing sumptuous meal for myself is really comforting. Looking back several years ago, I was really a big fan of making pastries. I was the sous chef in the family, the head chef is of course mommy and she's unbeatable. Mommy can make really really delicious braised pork leg and gosh, it makes me salivate just thinking about it. Dad can cook too and he makes good soup. ;)I love to modify my mom's recipes and call them my own! hehe...

When I started living on my own, I made a lot of good dishes every night and I think I put on at least 10 lbs in 2 months time. Fortunately, the community where I was living in had a gym and I had to hit the gym everyday to shed all the extra weight. I did achieve my goal of having a tone body but haha that didn't last too long!

I'm really tired for the past two days. Maybe because of constant partying? =P Newcastle is a very nice city to live and partying is on top of everyone's list. I just saw a memo on the board inviting everyone to party on the 7th of December. Christmas comes early this year baby! Too bad I'm leaving on the 8th and I don't think it's right for me to party while Gary is here. hahaha...

I'm just too lazy to start doing anything now and this week, I'm supposed to work my ass off for the assignments and dissertation. I'm a little behind schedule and that's really bad. You know, each time after typing and typing and just pouring whatever shit I wanna say here, the motivation comes back! =D

I guess I better start working now or else I'm wayyyyyyyy behind and that's not good.

Good luck everyone and to those who are shopping for christmas presents, don't forget mine. =P

Second Hand Smoke Kills, almost

Wow a little over two weeks my hun will be here with me and countdown to my trip to Paris and Berlin. =D Happiness!!

I'm trying to finish reading all the four modules before going off for my holidays so please forgive me if I didn't answer your MSN messages or your email. =)Work comes first and play is for later.

I just had a big pot of noodles. Yes,A BIG POT! Glutton!Since no one was using the kitchen, I was taking my time to create my masterpiece for tonight. Now I'm left with a heavy stomach and sleepy eyes. =P I'm such a pig. Oink Oink!

I spent quite a lot this week for groceries and all the prepared meals. Again, further proving that I'm indeed a big fat pig, maybe a wild one too hehe. I've spent almost 60 pounds just this week for all the food. I think that's quite a lot for one person eh?hahaha You see, shopping for groceries can also be therapeutic. When you shop from aisle to aisle, looking at all the different packaging and different foods, i just can't contain my excitement! My favorite place to shop for food so far is Marks and Spencer. I love the quality of the food and the nice packaging for everything. The prepared meals are easy and delicious, not relatively cheap but definitely worth the money. The cookies/biscuits are damn good and fat! hehe..

Just went into the kitchen and had a meeting with other flatmates. Yes, we were talking about the smoking problem in the kitchen. I told them straight that it does not affect other rooms but it affects mine, so that's really a big problem. I told them to smoke close to the window or somewhere else so that it won't be such big problem to everyone else especially me. Phew just have to keep my fingers crossed now.

Alright gotta sign off now =)

No Smoking

Can somebody please get her to stop smoking?! I'm suffocating here!! =(:::::::

Everyone pays.......for their own action =X

I think I need to get away or at least stay away from the laptop.=S I've been continuously surfing.

I have so many chapters to read on before I can finally retire and go for my holidays. I'm so worried that I might need to bring my books along. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

So far everything is on schedule and I will be working on my dissertation and at the same time my assignments next week. Hopefully those can be done before the end of the month.

Yesterday we had meeting for our presentation on the 1st. I'm so disappointed with one of the members in the group. He didn't come for the meeting last week and this week, he didn't do his work. =( He was given a relatively short part because we knew that he might not be able to do the difficult ones. So much for our sympathy and understanding!

Sometimes it really annoys me but yet, you cannot change somebody overnight. Next week meeting if he's not coming up with his slides for the presentation, then we might need to kick him out of the group. We are adults not some kindergarten small kids waiting to be spoon fed. So act like one please!

Yesterday had great fun with my flatmates and the Thai food that we had was great despite their first time making it, kudos!=) We were bitching so much of that freaking sickening Taiwanese specimen. hehe...whore whore whore! She came into the kitchen couple of times when we were eating our dinner and she didn't even care to say hi. So sick of her! I always stick to this one principle which is "it's impossible to change someone, so to hell with it!

Alright I'm a little motivated to study right now after dumping what I've got to say here...=) a blog isn't such a bad idea afterall.

My empty weekend

I'm slapping myself right now! I can't seem to do anything during the weekend except to sit in front of the laptop and checking out some stupid stuff. The sky is so gloomy outside. Can that be a possibility why I'm feeling so blue right now?

I just had a muffin with a cup of coffee. Hecka delicious! =)

I guess that's basically summarizes how I spent my saturday afternoon. Doing nothing.

I got a strange email from someone today. Hmmmmm......somebody who claims he looks as good as lee hom? Hello???Don't freak me now ya. I did like Lee Hom before but not anymore. Now is more like I like listening to his music rather than going goo goo gaga over him. Well, to me, he's just another ABC =P. Sorry if I offended someone but I think his nose is too big. hahahahaa



Like in this picture, he's holding some red packets, i'd rather have the red packets than him. =P I did see him in vegas last year when i went there but sorry, I ain't interested and even forgotten about this already. So pls, stalker just go away. Lee hom is not my cup of coffee...=P

Oh and he might probably be gay too.

Enough of my harsh comments, I think I shall get back to working. I already did the damage.

Byebye and have a great weekend! =)

Stress

Today I would like to touch on "stress". You know, the moments where you feel the world is right on top of you and crushing you in any minute.

To me, a little bit of stress is actually the driving force to make me get my ass up. I think I tend to slack a lot especially when you look at your calendar and you have months left to hand in the work. I'm not saying I love to work under pressure but I think sometimes we take things for granted and I for one am definitely taking things for a ride.

There's a friend of mine who complains everyday that she's very stressed out. She's not talking about stressing on her homework or research, nothing of that concern. She's stressing of her life here in the UK. From my observation, I think it's because she's been pampered too much at home that now she's feeling lost when she has no one here to take care of her. It's becoming so serious that she losses her sleeps. I feel sorry for her but I cannot help her if she doesn't wish to help herself. I cannot blame her for missing home but she should be more responsible for her own action. Her parents didn't force her to come here nor anybody else. So she must live up to her own words and apparently, she's not able to handle it. Maybe it's time for her to get busy and to forget about being daddy's little girl? Honestly, I don't have time to breathe because of the workload and I think she can get herself occupied and forget about home for a little while. I wish her well.

I'm a little bit affected by her because of her constant whining of being bored and missing her family. Sigh...

It's time for everyone to move their asses and get things done. It's definitely better than sitting on the chair and thinking of how bad the world is treating you.

GOOD LUCK ;) Christmas is coming, a time to plan the activities for you to spend with your family. Just a thought. Don't worry be happy.

Excellent Dissertations!

I'm reading a really useful dissertation book and it opens me to new ideas! I'm quite impressed. If anyone of you who are scrambling on writing your dissertation now, try this:



The author is Peter Levin and ISBN is 0335218229.

This book really helps me in outlining my dissertation and giving me fresh new ideas which I'm going to try when I start the structuring part.

It's fairly cheap for such good work. Around £8 but amazon has some outside marketplace where you can purchase this for £5.

I think a book is one of the ways to motivate you into doing something. I think I wasted quite a lot of time slacking and now it's time to get myself moving.

Thomas and friends

I'm really tired today. First was the health inspection of the common area. Well didnt do really good. Had to clean the cooker, the carpet and defrost the freezer. =S
Supposedly we had to do it together but I did all by myself. Filthy filthy! Still not able to get rid of the chocolate mousse stain on the carpet.

I received a gift today from that someone. =) Thanks. You know who you are. It's really wonderful. Still treat me like I'm a kid!haha





Nice?Thomas and friends ;)

Cleopatra is ALIVE!

Terrible terrible terrible. The most childish thing has unearthed today during class. As usual, we had our marketing research seminar with H*** K (name not disclosed because of privacy shit and because I'm afraid of getting caught writing this =P). Well today she's kinda normal for the first half of the class. haha....Well yeah, she's an oddball. Let me give a brief description of her while my memory of her is still fresh like the vegetables from the garden.

Ahem...Ms.K, well, she's plump first of all. Not quite short, not quite tall, around 5' 5". She is of mid eastern descendant and she's not wearing a ring on her finger =P. "hint hint". She's tan and you know, sometimes when I see her, she reminds me of this popular queen (minus all the jeweleries):



YES, like that in year 2006!WTF! Does anyone still do her make up like that?You tell me.

Ok enough of Ms.K. Let's get to the point. The second half of the class, she started talking about exam and she was giving us the exam questions. OOooooo nice of her and she thought everyone was so in love with her at that moment. She gave us an example on how long we should be writing for our exam and she grabbed some of the papers from a pretty friend who was sitting next to me. She put it up and let everyone visualized what she was trying to tell. In 30 seconds, all of a sudden "KABOOM" she yelled! She said "YOU GUYS NEVER LISTEN TO ME!' and she continued to mumble off. She THREW my poor friend's papers on the floor and headed to the door and "BANG"! No she did not die but that was just the sound of the door ok?=P WHAT A FREAKING CHILDISH IMMATURE RETARDED SICKENING SPECIMEN! and she calls herself a lecturer? She certainly does not live up to that title!! I sincerely hope she will get stung by bees!=D wahahahahaha...evil evil...

Everybody was astonished with her childlike behaviour. How can somebody who teaches in a university acts like she's 3? Environment certainly does not prove to be a factor for a person to act more normally. She's the worst lecturer we have for this semester and her oddball behaviour is definitely disturbing. Plus, she's always late for classes. Not one time she's been punctual. I thought I was the one to be late today but she was even worse than me? Oh come on! Don't talk shit with us when you yourself needs a lot more improvement!

To my classmates who are reading this, we should definitely curse her when we see her. OK? Haha..at least what we do is more adult that what she did to us today. =P

Sorry Marine, you gotta be careful with this evil Cleopatra! Maybe next time it's your cellphone =P Don't ever let her snatch it from you..hehe..

Something to make you fall asleep

Words

I've been bombarded by enormous workload for the past few weeks. It's very tiring but what can I do right. Life goes on and the clock is ticking. Now here I am looking out of my window, with fireworks blazing the sky, studying international marketing chapter 3. Gosh, I wish I'm the type where I can just slack without being tortured by countless guilts.

A week is almost over. Whew...and today is officially the 1-month countdown of my hunnie coming here for a visit and my europe trip is just around the corner. You know, it's not the europe trip that excites me but it's the time where I can just forget about deadline, homework and assignments that really really driving me to work. Just a little bit of motivation to steer me away from slacking I guess.

Believe it or not, I still have three DVDs sitting on the table calling out my name. Now I'm planning to reorganize my time and my schedule a little bit so that I'm able to better prepare myself for any circumstances that come along the way.

I wasn't feeling too well yesterday and today and hopefully my body is able to take the dramatic changes of the weather. Funny to say but I'm quite looking forward to my trip to vegas this year. Really really missed the foods and the glitz of vegas.

I haven't been doing a great job in uploading more pictures and I know words are boring and it's like opening a can of worms where things get more complicated.

I'll try my best to upload more pictures once I get my camera up and running again. I'm still waiting for the charger which Gary forgot to send with the previous package.

I have a presentation coming next week. Wish me luck! ;)

Flash!

 

I received the camera sent by Gary two days ago. As soon as I used it, it ran out of juice. GARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The picture depicts my feeling at the current moment. 

Happily Reunited