My Addictions (Likes =p)

Here are some things I'm addicted to...

1) Wrigley's Chewing Gum

(My latest assortment of chewing gum- om nom nom!)

Besides the usual assortments of candies and tic tacs, chewing gum is considered the "luxury" item in class(cos of the ban in SG) and whenever my friends n I pop by Malaysia, we are sure to get a stick or 2.

2) Android Tablets (HTC Flyer / Samsung Galaxy tab 10.1/Dell streak 7)

As shown above : Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1.
Well, if u were to ask me, Tablets are the second best thing to boyfriends. They are cool, sleek, fondling every surface is a new high. With so many tablets to choose from (different designs, processors etc), one cant help but to practice gadget polygamy and in the techie world, electronic polygamy is a widely acceptable and well-known practice; the more technical gadgets u have, the greater fun it is.

Having said so much, u may ask which tablet would I choose(oh no... not the boring old ipad2 though its gd). I would say Dell streak - it boasts a Nvidia Tegra Processor 2 (Faster processing as compared to the 2 n great for gaming).

3) Camera

Micro 4/3 camera =). Whenever I feel like relaxing, I will get my camera, a couple of buddies and we explore different places in SG n capture shots. The weather had been cooling lately, so it makes me wanna go out n take more shots =)

4) Pressing Palm

I have this habit of pressing these areas on my palm now.

In yr 1, I used to notice one of my classmates pressing the edge of his palm in class, sometimes during conversation or sometimes at rest. At first, I thought he was nervous (pressing/ playing with one's hands isnt a very gd thing while talking to others) but I soon notice that he is always pressing on one or two particular points of his palms.

Out of curiosity, I asked him why is he pressing his palm n he told me its keeps him awake. I did not quite understand until he pressed the points on my palm. OUCH!! It really hurts but I do feel a bit more awake (I dont know whether its a subconscious thing or maybe some unknown pressure point). And from then on, I also develop the habit of pressing the areas on my palm and yes, its some how quite a habit for me now =p

5) Koi - The Fresh Milk Tea with Grass Jelly

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The Grass Jelly milk tea!

Yes... I love this drink! The savory milk tea and sweet jelly concoction is so smooth, its glides down ur throat. Slurps! Perfect remedy for hot afternoons or pep up in lectures.
( I usually drop by Chinatown along NEL to get a cup before taking bus 33 to sch (yeah.. our dear HZ, the hall stayer always ask me to da bao for her. Tsk tsk... Lol!) or meet Tim & Co at harbourfront cos they da bao Gong Cha to sch!). If there's an outlet in NUS, it will be good for us to da bao some to last us through those long lab sessions too!

Journey Up North

Here are some photos which we took on the KTM train

The Polis

The Crowd (Nope... I Did not take the 1855 Train... I took this photo when we first bought the tickets on an earlier date.)

An unknown Passenger - This is the train which we boarded =)

The Flag

The ring token

The Railway Track

Lavendar

What greeted us after a 4hr hike up the steep northern border is a sea of spectacular vivid purple. Its worth the aching muscles =)

Cocktails

The blazing hot days are here... One of the few things I would really like to do is to go for a swim in the sea and enjoy a cool glass of Mojito n S.3.x on the beach cocktail (yeah... Girls have sweet tooth)...

Taiping Lake Gardens

Scenic view of the Lake Garden... The garden is huge, with a few large lakes and really beautiful... Shall visit again if we drop by Taiping =)

Forest Trails

Jun 25, 8 A.M : Was up in the forest trails at Maxwell Hills, Bukit Larut.... Its cooling n really peaceful to be in the nature... The resort is abit run down, but rustic =)

One thing though, our bed sheets n washroom had some mysterious blood stains when we first checked-in...( The other bungalows were fully booked)

Jun 29, 1P.M : On our way home, we took a 3 hr bus ride to KL, waited for the delayed train for another 4 hrs, b4 spending another 10 hours on the KTM night train to Woodlands, which stopped for hours at different stations n we reached SG 8 hrs later than the scheduled time! Reached Jurong East at 0930am!

My First Pay/ Helpdesk

During every vacation, I look forward to my time at the helpdesk even though it can mean very long hours and late nights. Its where I picked up my technical skills ever since I was a non technical related Biomed poly student and its where I decided to take up Com Sci as my major in Uni. I'm glad and fortunate to be given the opportunity to learn in the technical field even though I started off without much technical knowledge and am a female. (In the Techie world, its still pretty much a male dominant industry)

I enjoy the company at the helpdesk. My colleagues and I (we are in the late teens or twenties) would go for coffee or late after work suppers and would talk at length about studies, friendships, relationships, our future, bread and butter issues like housing cost, raising cost. We would often calculate how much we need to pay for our uni fees in return to our parent's CPF (for my case its my CPF) and how much we need to in our CPF to pay for a flat. We also chat abt the high housing cost and joke that we should try our hands at lottery. (Naw, the odds of winning are one in a million but we chat about the possibility of the things we would do with a winning sum - migrate overseas, buy a house, car, travel around the world etc) and what we would invest in.

Till date, my biggest investment is my Uni studies (yeah, I spent the large bulk of my savings on my studies after graduating from poly and working for 2 years ). Eh... I guess I will see its returns when I graduate =)

I remember when I had my first pay in 2007, though mum and grandma did not expect nor told me give them monthly allowances, I set aside monthly $200 for mum and $100 for grandma
( after so many of years upbringing, its the a responsibility I should do as a grownup and yeah.. I would like give more but that's the amount I could set aside then after setting aside a bulk on savings for my Uni studies, bills, expenses and insurance.)

I was seating at the living room sofa and wondering how I would pass the money to mum and grandma since it was my first time and passing the cash in the normal way (like how we pass cash to people) seems too hard-cold and normal. I thought, giving the cash in an envelope would look very much like giving a resignation letter and ang pows are meant for elders giving cash to the younger generation.

In the end, I placed the cash in two small mooncake boxes. After dinner, I told mum and grandma I just received my first pay and would like to give some allowances before giving them each a mooncake box and blushing.

Yeah... That's my first time giving allowances and the feeling from getting my first official job pay then was something special (cant really describe it but its a feeling more to independent and grownup).