Inter-School Competition

Hello!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Guess what? I got into these competitions : 4.1 km Cross Country 4 x 100 Relay 4 x 200 Relay 100 m Nationals Hooray! I'm so happy because I got my very first number tag! Here it is.

Singapore Flyer

HOORAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We went onto the Singapore Flyer for the FIRST TIME!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!! One rotation takes up to 30 minutes and we went to Kenko Spa after that!!! I went inside the Kenko Spa because they had the Fish Massage! What the fish do is that they clean your leg and it is good for my skin because my skin is dry!! After the massage..... my skin felt so soft! IT ACTUALLY WORKED! I felt so relaxed and felt like sleeping after that........

EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM

Argh!! The scariest thing just happened!

Nick and I were playing Rock Band and we had the TV on at the same time, but with the sound barely audible so that we could hear the songs. I guess that's probably why I didn't notice a thing until Nick suddenly paused the game and quickly turned up the volume.

Whatever was showing at the time had been replaced by a still screen that read "EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM". As the sound gradually came back up, we heard an announcer trying to talk through some really bad static. I could only make out the words "EARTHQUAKE", "8.9" and a couple of bay area names, including San Francisco.

My first thought was an earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 8.9 was going to hit the bay area, which sent me reeling in panic, trying to remember what to do from the drill in school. (For some reason, "stop, drop and roll" kept coming to mind. -_-) But after listening further, I realised it was Japan that had just been hit by the earthquake, and that this announcement was a tsunami warning.

So apparently, according to the announcer, the tsunami is imminent, and it'll probably hit the bay area at around 8am. Nick seems a lot more relaxed about it than I am... I guess this is because I've never had to worry about such things in Singapore before. D: I'm now frantically backing up all my work in my portable hard drive that I'm planning to keep in a ziploc bag, while Nick is looking on in amusement.

I'll update on what happens later. O_O

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UPDATE: Ok, so now I'm watching the news, and the newscaster says the tsunami warning is not a tsunami warning, but a tsunami watch, which means a tsunami is not necessarily imminent after all. There will be big waves, but they may not do any major damage.

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UPDATE: So it would seem a few dozen boats and docks were damaged/ destroyed along the coast of Northern California, and that's about it. Apparently some homes down in South San Francisco were evacuated, and a couple of schools are closed for the day. No major issues have been reported, and I'm now left to reflect on the fact that I was more concerned about saving my work than myself. =/

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UPDATE: Wow... some Californians actually got swept away by the waves. I'd feel sorry for them, but we were given ample time to evacuate and I don't understand why so many people still insisted on going to the beaches to witness the impact. How reckless. -_- They kinda brought this on themselves.

Being a freeloader

HELLLO

This is going to be short, because i have had so little time to myself since orientation started on the 22nd of Feb. Everything's fine - better than fine - and God is being good to me.

Being the poor international student that i am (darkly ironic, since as an international student 'i' pay a crapload of money to study here) i have devised various lessthanhonourable ways to save money on food, transport and household bills. Using dirty dishwater to flush the toilets is one of my attempted methods of cutting back water bills, and walking everywhere/tram-ing illegally is one of the ways in which i save on transportation.

Saving on food has been tricky, but i have found the solution at long last.

Attending any function that promises free food.

Yes i have shamelessly done this over the past two weeks or so. Exploiting the generosity of event-organisers and the like.

Why just this evening i attended a gathering organised for all Singaporean students in melbourne (and i do mean all), held at the Park Hyatt Hotel. As a brazen little leech i seized the opportunity to score free dinner and a goodie bag when my new friend invited me along to this exclusive soiree. Although intended for members of the Singaporean Students Society in Melbourne Uni (which i declined to participate in, on account of it's resolutely (pseudo-)patriotic guise), the administrative persons were kind enough to excuse an interloper - a charity i later realised was not exceptional to my person, and therefore left me feeling disappointed and slightly hurt.

The attendance appalled me in its diminutiveness. I expected a larger group of people to be present, given the promise of FREEEEEE commodities and food.

In short. The night was lovely, and the company delightful. The goodie bags left us wanting, but the dinner was beautiful. Offerings such as oxtail stew, bee hoon, hainanese chicken rice and other asian gastronomies were laid before the hungry crowd. These dishes did not move me, but my cool demeanor was broken by the presence of a gorgeous gado-gado table, strewn with the freshest and most crisp vegetables, tofu and cubed potatoes, with peanut-curry and coconut milk sauce.

i am blessed by a Divinity, there is no other explanation that will suffice

zicheh. (my new pen name)

VOTE FOR GRISL

Hello everybody!
Cheh(2x) Yumei helped us upload Grisl's picture into the Pet Of The Month at the Pet Lovers Centre website! So now all we have to do is vote for her, but of course try to vote on as many computers as you can! Even on you handphone! One vote per day, you just need to click on her picture and that means you voted already! We must make Grisl win as the month of March is her Birth-day after all! Click on this to go :
http://www.petloverscentre.com/PetMonth/participate.asp