poddydelite


my dad bought the above sexy thing for me from the City of Angels and i have to say it is really pretty.

unfortunately, it might be wasted on me for although i'm a music lover, i'm not one to fawn over the latest and coolest electronic gizmos cos i feel (and am) stupid around them. and an mp3 player is not a necessity to me, unlike something like lipbalm for that matter.

i'm not an ingrate, and i thank my dad for this wonderful gift. but after surfing reviews on the nano, and hearing from my sister herself, this baby scratches darn easily. especially the sleek black one which i have, the scratches show especially easily. hence i haven't dared to remove the plastic cover as yet, and eagerly await the new cases to arrive or some free service from Mac to change the impossibly fragile screen.

on a sidenote, it's really amusing how owning an ipod immediately admits one into the elite circle of Mac lovers, as if elevated to a cult status. these ipod owners (mostly Mac die-hards) name their poddies and just about all their other Mac gadgets, and talk about them like parents chatting about their children/dog-owners fawning over their pets.

ah well, it's always good to be cool innit? yay i'm cool. (haha) and my dad is cool too, cos he actually bought Jack Johnson's latest album, saying that "it's very nice!". amazing.

one thing i love about my poddy : the sound quality. it's impeccable.

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my appetite has gone way down since i've got this stupid flu. not because i'm not feeling hungry anymore (God forbid!), but cos everything just tastes like soaked tissue paper.

heck, i can't even taste my favorite peanut butter anymore! and i hold the jar in my hand, lusting after it longingly yet unable to take even a mouthful cos it's just bland goo in my mouth.

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i'm going back to Alexandra for my orthopedics posting. how terribly exciting. hur hur.

in a few hours time my dad will be back, and according to certain (reliable? unreliable?) sources he has gotten a smashing gift for me from the City of Angels.

well, i'll know soon. but even if it's just chocolates i'd be gleeful.

goodnight world. school starts tomorrow. and my next posting is STILL at Alexandra.

mixed feelings about that

nose runnin like a horse

i feel godawful.

so this is what it's like to catch the flu - after months and months and months of being resilient to every single flu bug going around. guess i'm not immortal afterall.

for some reason i'm not even suspecting dengue, or -ahem- avian flu. cos i'm just optimistic like that.

the holidays are ending. but boy did i have fun.

here's to the night :) 

my dad has just left for LA on a business trip.

and i just realised that i could have gone along cos i have a week-long holiday next week. yes the offer was made but i turned it down cos i didn't bother to check my timetable properly. again.

BAHHHHHH.

i should have taught him words like "abercrombie" and "hollister" before he left. too late. hopefully he'll buy lots of other stuff back and not useless things like touristy picture books of america.

god i sound like a bimbo.

men do look especially good when they're in their professional getup and all. my dad somehow appeared to be dashing, even, for the same reason.

the mandatory tribute.

o how Time flies! (lamentation-mode alert)

16 weeks just passed me by like that. and i haven't attained certain goals yet like snagging a cute doc and quitting sch before it's too late e.g. proceeding into Year 4/ losing 15 kg/finding the cure for the common flu etc etc.

but one sure thing is, i found new friends in my group mates. people whom i never knew before and probably would have never gotten to know, if God didn't put His hand into things and plonked us all together.

pam, nesa, rags, weiliang and aikyong : despite some tension and confusion, you guys just prove that there is always so much more to a person than what we can see on the exterior. not that you are physically unattractive of course! au contraire. (pam : u're de hawt-ness)

i'd do a person-by-person tribute here, but you know me. :) to cut it short, i want you to be my friends and colleagues always.

and to my two lovely babes xuan and inky : here's to more great years with you. nothing else compares to the gems of friends i found in you two.

Alexandra Hospital has been one of the best things that have happened to me in a long long time. everything about it just puts a smile on me face. o Father, please let me work there next time!

ain't i a jolly bitch today. the hilarious end-of-posting test and har cheong gai has some connection to this euphoria i reckon.

useless post.. yet again!

there will only be a few selected periods in my life when i wouldn't be religiously watching my diet, exercising most days of the week, or nag people around me to stop eating that old chang kee curry puff.

and since i reckon pregnancy will not come anytime soon, and no major exams are coming up, i relish in cutting myself slack during this time of involuntary hemorrhage. the past 3 days without a good run is making me a tad uneasy and jittery though.

ma you have got to stop buying skippy peanut butter with any form of swirls in them (chocolate, blueberry etc). cos i'd finish the entire bloody jar in 3 days flat. maybe we should just stick to plain ol margarine and sugar free jam.

can't get the movie Goal! out of my mind. it makes me heart go a-flutter as i reminisce late nights staying up to watch euro cup and world cup. no s-league please. le pathetique.

tomorrow's the final day of my surgery posting. the Test. and i shall prevail (fingers crossed).

useless entry. don't bother reading

i am going to cry. my dad has been talking non-stop in his very loud voice on the phone for the past God knows how many hours and it's driving me crazy. i have no idea if it's cos i'm having my menses and hence extra irritable, or i've suddenly developed a hypersensitivity reaction to noise, or i'm a bitch whatever it is IT IS BLOODY IRRITATING!!!

yes i know it's emergency work and it's what bringing in the dough to pay for my studies but still. not blaming anybody but just feeling really helpless in the midst of this.

maybe it's his voice, that authoritative tone, the bossy attitude that brings up all the _____ memories and evoking that instinctive defensive averse reaction in me. ma i know you think this part is bullshit so don't bother chiding me for it.

anyway, no amount of music can block out this terrible frenzy of whipped-up emotions and pent-up frustrations in me. and it ain't helping that i can't study a single word of Browse due to the above external noxious stimuli. plus my aching pelvis that is unresponsive to the miracle drug they call panadol.

soundproof walls for xmas it is.

silent sigh

these days have been filled with nothing but food, shopping and men.

(the last bit sounds weird innit. but sad to say it's only been a relentless conversation topic and no attainable catch is in sight. yet.)

i find myself getting more and more voracious in a very hedonistic sense. no amount of good food, nice clothes, and hot men (ha ha) can satisfy me. these things leave me with a hollow emptiness somehow - after all that's been said and done and i'm here sitting in front of my comp lookin like a real slob.

Introspective is not an adjective that i can use on myself very much lately. more often than not, i'm more concerned about when and where's my next dose of 'fun'. i want this i want that - i'm disgusted with myself.

and tired of the socializing activities. there's only so much of these i can take. since when did i talk so much to people i barely know? draining. and nothing but superficial crap at that.

worst of all, i hardly even talk to God now.

solitude is essential to existence as a human being. hence, holidays please come quick, before i lose myself in the crowd which doesn't really give a damn.

i used to vehemently declare that i'll never date a doctor/medstudent cos they're just so... uncool. yeah well, i'm a medstudent too. so there

but now all i want for xmas is just a doctor in a nice package - tight buns, loose wallet (for my own consumption of course).

doctor = MO and above. i wish eh

would it be possible that in the end, i'll only have teachers and doctors as friends? that's highly likely actually.

2 more weeks before this enjoyable posting ends. darn, and we were just starting to get cosy with each other! hopefully there's more eye candy at the next posting.