YAY. gootbye essays! finally completed the painstaking essays ytd and headed to sch in the aftn to hand them in and then meet nana! :D we were supposed to attend mervyn's i&e, a movie marathon, which ting decided to join in after her lessons. they served us mini swiss rolls and choco eclairs! the same types mi TAS 32nd annite committee last year used for fundraising! i so so so miss the wondrous eclairs yum! :D and their i&e group so cute lur. we had SUPER cup noodles for dinner! thanks to them. i boiled water in an LT for the very 1st time. hahaha.

and i finally caught "the ugly truth" with nana. it's supaaa nice. so hilarious luh! i like how the story teaches that us no matter what, being ourselves is still the most important thing in a relationship. and that the ugly truth abt relationships is that true love does not come by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. managed to catch only 2 movies out of the 4. the 2nd one was "the hangover". it was farnie too. the epitome of guys and their brotherhood. hahaha.


aft the 2nd movie, we left. cos i was supposed to go to mad's house to join the other GLs in the overnight stay (even though i wasnt staying over). while at the SIM bus-stop, i received an unexpected text from pee, saying that juowi's leg got cut by the glass table which fell and shattered while they were eating. so in a traumatised state, i met them at dover to rush over to NUH instead while juowi and rachel were already on their way there on the ambulance. oooommmmgggg. i saw a picca which juowi took -_- and the cut was like.. deep. pee said blood was flowing and squirting everywhere so juowi looked like he had the girls thing. i think i wldve long ago fainted if i was there :/ he was brave luh. 5 stitches man! but oh well, an accident is an accident afterall. luckily everyone's fine now! wonder how he's gonna bathe with the gauze and bandage. and guess wad. i've got like super wobbly jelly legs now. all thanks to tt farnie guy who just posted tt picca of his cut on fb and wonderfully tagged me.

the chicken thing nana had at SIM

mine! but behind this deceiving scrumptious look...

look wad i found! it's aluminium foil! tsk tsk..

yeecheng's-face attempt no. 1:

*notices the camera and poses*

"huh. dont take my picture la. dont take la!"

*continues posing happily*

yeecheng's-face attempt no. 2:

"eh. come come. take picture take picture."

*perverted smile*

so pweeety!

mini swiss rolls and CHOCO ECLAIRS!!

just came back from ahma's birthday celebration! happie birthday ahma! :) i notice that kids nowadays are growing at such a scarily fast rate..

baby cousin marcus! he was blabbering baby language eleven months ago and now, he can say "my favourite number is 4. cannot count to 3, must be 4". ahh so cute!

i got a sashimi keychain for xmas!

i so miss my sistaaa. she's so near yet so far..
omg. i just realised i hafta be at the cathay at 10.40am for movies with sec 4 classmates tmr. and here i am, still happily blogging away..

found this sweet stuff in my folders.. hi brain essay, 14 more hours left to complete u. really need some of these now.. T_T


stomach in, chest out! yes i can do it!

woohoo. finished group dynamics essay. successfully summarized it to 1200 words! but boohoo. brain essay. 1000-1500 words. and guess wad. i have zilch idea of how and where to begin. :X wonder how im gonna survive this module cos i totally have no bio background nor any interest.
and there's counselling practical assessment tmr! *pulls hair!*

BRAIN CELLS, DONT DIE YET!!

and the supposedly posted-before-cambodia bday post. hahaha.

yay. did something goot on my bday this year! haha i was involved in sharity gift box food delivery on my bday with cca mates. and thanks to the compassionate GLs who came down to help out in the food collection the day before! :)

food collection day 28.11.09. at the LT. i think it was juowi. he wrote "kiss me" on my arm cos it was my bday the day after. nooo. sabooo. hahaha

rachel loves juowi! so sweeeet!

and mad loves her chubby bunny, ronny lim! :D

hahaha. with kenn. we have aura.

on our way to bukit panjang for food collection! mad and hwee jian, in the midst of secretly desiging my present at the back of the bus. hahaha aww.

MY GROUP! HAVE A HEART. SHARE A GIFT! under blk 182. hahaha. and the camera man thot i was yeecheng's gf. HAHAHA.

food donations!

WHOA!

yay. at haato! my sweet present. thanks GLs :)

:D ahh im in the middle! feel so loved :D

love love love is in the air!

haha they and their credit card advertisement

Y

YUMMMMM ttm. juowi said wanna eat mao shan wang durian ice-cream at udders! :D

my surprise birthday mudpie! DAMN NICE! they said they ordered this to make me fat.

Y thanks to

1) mad for being the planner,

2) ronny for coming even though u were running a fever,

3) jw and rachel and kenn for making time after sgb,

4) and pee for making your way all the way down to haato after the proj visit to AWWA.

thanksh peepsh!!

kenn and his overdued birthday dare

hahaha. and thanks to cca mates for the birthday surprise at the loft, even though i got badly tortured. HAHAHA. thanks! (yeecheng and peijun for the cakes, 1.1 and the rest for being present..) u guys stayed up for this past midnight, even after the exhausting food sorting in school. really appreciate it.. :D

this guy threatened to kill me with the birthday cake knife cos i was on the phone. HAHA

the SABO!

hahaha. and thanks to junxian, zhenling, shaun, derek, gurvin, matthew chan, justina, evelyn, yvonne lee, jianqin, jiejie, yuting (pri sch), shihui, casandra, minxiang, yeecheng, daren liew, mervyn, ziying and shiwan for texting me happie birthday.

also, thanks to aylwin and adrian for calling to wish me happie birthday. thanks ah so sincere! :)

and singyee, noh, xueting, angela, su maw, rachel tan, kevin lee, nicholas, minjun, peiyi, yuewen, trevor, jiayun, sueyee, yvonne tan, marcus, lyana, yingying, bruno, shuwei, huifang, yeong yuan, yvonne lee, chuanfa, sidiq, jasvin, adrian, hazel, ian soo, disheng, alex, yiwen, junyi, jiemin, guanri, yisiew, daren liew, felicia, minquan, brian, chris, adam, hwee jian, kenn, piriya, tingwei, menghuat , weisheng, petrina, grace tan, cheryl, darcie, junjie, yingting, clarissa and samson, for wishing me happie birthday online.

and mummy daddy for wishing me in person.

and 2B02 for the pre-bday celebration.

and primers guys who sang happie birthday to me in their loft room. HAHA. THANKS! oh gosh. im 1 year older now.. :/

the beautiful famous amos cookie adrian and nana gave.. Y

and thanks nana for the belated celebration with me at astons! so farnie. the guy made a mistake and we had a free alacarte baked potaytay wahaha yum! XD

my bbq chicken! slurps. love the potaytay ttm.

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and mad's turn. HAPPIE BIRTHDAY TWINNIE. went to haato again ytd to celeb her birthday. so happie for u luh! hope the smile on ur face will last as long as u live! :D loves.

the post that was supposedly posted right after the trip.. haha



HELLO. weiling is back from cambodia! this five-day trip made me gain a lot of insights. we visited the one of the villages, the city, as well as the garbage dump where some people pick rubbish for a living. looking at the differences, i cant help but to feel ashamed. u'll find urself questioning as a singaporean, wad is there still for us to complain about? i've always found this line very typical and cliche but maybe we just have to experience it ourselves in order to understand this inexplicable feeling.



it's such a simple lifestyle that the people there lead. they trust people so easily without being skeptical like many of us back here in singapore. seeing a stranger smile and approach us makes us ponder if he has any motive, but the same situation makes them reciprocate and treat the stranger with more warmth and homeliness. seeing a smile on their faces is as easy as ABC..



looking at the differences, i realised there are so many things that we should learn from them. such as how to appreciate things that we have around us but take for granted, like having running clean water, bug-free homes, non-congested roads, sneeze-free air etc. and see the beauty of simplicity. the water at the vilage homestay was disgusting cos it was brown and smells of metal. u'll even find tonnes of dead little bugs corpses lying on ur sink early in the morning hahaha. we also had to constantly fan our hands at the dining table to chase the flies away which made me sulk at the extent of dirtiness of the place. felt so loserish when i was one of those who screamed my lungs out when tiny little bugs flew towards me. though they were less educated, their high level of resilience has already beat us all. i suddenly feel so pampered.



it's such a heartwarming sight to see the children at the village treating animals like the cows (which looked like XXL size dogs) and roosters (which acted like irritating alarm clocks early in the morning) as part of their families, looking at you with the most sincere smile. but it's heart wrenching when they seem as though they have found gold after receiving a bundle of second hand clothes and an old soft toy each from us.



it was also sad to hear stories from the several households we visited with people with disabilities. there was a lady with physical disability who was almost sold to thailand to beg for money when her father arrived just in time and carried her all the way back home. somehow i feel so inspired by their wishes and hopes for the future. when questioned, that lady said she wanted to be able to go to the market one day and a little girl with physical disabilities as well said that she wanted to wear shoes and be able to walk. even people with inadequacies have great dreams and hopes, the more the rest of us should dare to dream and chase our dreams.



on the fourth day, we visited the garbage dump site where some people pick rubbish for a living and stay there. seems like it was gold that the children there see when we presented them with food and old clothes. it was a gruesome sight. and very sad to see the aggressiveness and greed that we had indirectly encouraged the children from the snatching and fighting.



we also visited the popular tourist sites, the musuem and the killing field where prisoners were being tortured during the polpot regime. it's amazing how humans can submit to power and become so beastly under authority. and it was the very first time that i caught the sunset. :D we caught the sunset for 2 consecutive days! once on the ox cart, the second time on a boat! so beautiful.. the sun was like an egg yolk dipped in some char siew soup. kie maybe i was hungry.



haha. did some shopping at the russian market too. you ppl have souvenirs from me! :D haha. oh man the things were so cheap that i swear u wont feel like spending money when u return to singapore. visited two organisations that serve the people with disabilities too. one which manufactures fake limbs and another which helps the disabled with employment. :) very interesting to see the procedure.



on day five, we flew back. omg and i had diarrhoea. =_= hahaha. wonder if it's jet lag but haf been feeling giddy during the entire trip up till now. oh man. hahaha. and i must say that taking the plane is such a fun experience!! hahaha. and noooo i refuse to agree that it's like giving birth even though some of them said i could say that to my grandchildren next time if they asked me how is giving birth like.. haha once we landed and when my dad and i entered the mrt train, i dropped dead.. sooo tired. and glad to breathe in the dust-free air in spore once agn haha.



First day:

At rachel's house before flight! featuring rachel and juowi, our cooks for the day

so cuteee

and tada. the grown up version.

awww so homely :D

on our way to airport! the nice uncle who let the 5 of us board his car

juowi looks farnie XD

liqin! who came to see us off :D

awww

2B02! <3

me, papa, mama. jiejie where are u!

HAHAHA.

BOARDING THE PLANE!!!

our virgin flight

shh.. i took this secretly. not supposed to take photos at that time.

MY 1ST MEAL ON THE PLANE!!

this girl stole my camera and camwhored for a few min

the moon!! we were dont-know-how-many km off the land!

REACHED!!!

*constipation*

after pooing, *relieved*

on the 2-hour bus ride from airport to khmer village

REACHED! GROUP HUG!

Second day:

breakfast! v home-cooked. i like! esp salted egg :D

boon-toe-derk. meaning toilet!

racial harmony

the children with disabilities

and my battery died cos dumbdumb me forgot to change battery after the first night -_-

Third day:

our homestay! nice rite!

handsome boy!! we taught him how to hi-five and there was his hand, stuck in that position for a few sec

dont noe wad disability he had. but damn cute.

the first house in the village that we visited. this is a 13-year old girl. doctors couldnt diagnose wad disability she had :(

this boy has intellectual disability. so touching to see him smile when i put the toys into his hands

this lady wasnt able to walk properly and had to crawl

end of visits. hence, start of camwhoring!

so sweet :)

their see-saw

ox cart ride!! the bumpy ride plus the cow poop the cows released everywhere were traumatizing i swear. and poor thing. they had ropes tied to through their nostrils

we got the most handsome ox rider!

pee and mee

amazing sunset :)

back. and dinner!

petrina: why this longan no flesh one.*spits out longan full of flesh*

our longan peeler. yum

tastiest meal those three days

bonfire! madalene looks like some star

Fourth day:

On our way to the genocide musuem

the 14 corpses found after the disaster were buried here

the torturing weapons and room where the prisoners stayed

the cubicles for the lower class prisoners

skulls of the deceased. most of those in individual cabinets have got gun shot holes :(

LUNCH. the tastiest egg dish i've ever come across. steamed chicken egg plus century egg plus salted egg

the toufu which had detergent smell. hahaha. and that's my sec 2 class no. behind!

TWINNY! she looks so cute here.

at the killing field.

the 'magic tree' where ppl used to hang a loudpeaker which made the sound louder to avoid the moan of victims while they were being executed :(

where some of them were being thrown down and buried alive

R.I.P

on our way to the garbage dump site

house on stilts!

the garbage dump site :( literally garbage mountains

while distributing food and clothes.. they snatched and fought. :( we shdve handed to the teachers to distribute equally to them instead

i wonder wad would happen if one snapped

boat ride!

my dining mates that evening

mr tan! he looks so cute here

fried bugs eeks!

Fifth day:

BANGS

EMO FRINGE

:D

last breakfast in cambodia. yum.

at the organisation which manufactures fake limbs. these feet look like cheese before being baked in the oven

LUNCH!

foreign darlie advocates.

this guy corrected my "asparagoose" in front of the whole table of ppl -_-

last meal in cambodia! the dessert is cute. some jelly thing with tao sa inside

lady gaga refuses to take a picture with farmer fan

the special wheelchair which is hand ridden

the society which creates employment for the handicapped

amazing drawing using marker

the grumpy kid who was mimicking the disabled handling the handicrafts to attract attention haha

one of their handmade items

pweety!

going home!

i think she misses her chubby bunny

"miss.. please move to the rear" HAHAHA

TWINNY!

HAHAHA.

1st stamp in my empty passport!!!

ehh mad. u anyhow snap. why u so liddat.

we met a tourist from US. hahaha. sorry ange! :X

gootbye cambodia!!

so yeah. that sums up the whole of my cambodia trip :)