overdued entry

hey peepo...

Just as promised, I have to update this portal of mine..
It’s been like 3 weeks and close to a month since I updated this place and so many have been happening..think if I were to update about everything now, its would end up me writing a storybook..hahaha.
Everyone has been requesting for updates and updates but I’ve been so lazy and busy to update and so only after so long that this entry came..haha!sorry all..but the entry below gonna be long so read it if you are patient enough..hahahaah!

Mainly the past three weeks have been great from going to sentosa and getting burnt, playing all the games that we would seldom get to play on normal days such as beach volleyball, beach soccer and what’s more under the sun with the perfect company..
We have all been addicted to the game of ultimate Frisbee or should I just say Frisbee alone is addictive..probably we can just form a Frisbee team ar?hahahah!

It was then the Olympics season where we would stick and screw our eyes to the tv like 24/7 just to watch the swimmers, gymnastics, synchronized divers,swimmers, table-tennis competitors, badminton, athletics, handball, hockey, taekwondo and many more..this was how the Olympics season was like, spending all our time watching the tv just to watch them compete and of cos envy the medalists..michael phelps the gold swimmer, shawn Johnson the elegant gymnastics.wow!all these ppl are just so talented and woah…now the Olympic season is over, think most of us are just bored cos there’s nothing to keep us company till the wee hours of the night..hmmm..seems as though something is missing..haha!will just find ways to just watch the Olympics regardless of whether thru the china phone, HD5 online or HD 5 , channel 5 or chnnel U but it seems amiss now that it’s over…

Then the national guys were off for perth for their apac and so we went to send them off and decided to stayover at the airport since it will be late when they were off and transport would be either inconvenient or expensive for me and so we slacked at the airport, slacked and rotted at the macs, came up with all sorts of things to play or entertainment to keep ourselves awake in the midst of terminal 3 all the way till 4.30 when the breakfast menu was up, ate and continued slacking and at that time all were zombie-fied alr..we waited till 7 before leaving for training..hahaha! training was like…with so little ppl that was countable with my hands and so we end up playing 2 v 2 with us zombies playing since we are alr there..home-ed after that and off to bed at 3 till like 6+ or 7, just time for dinner..haha!just so irregular..eat eat and eat..hmmm

Other than that, there was nothing much happening in the week other than training, training training and lab, more lab and labwork..seems like it’s going to be my second or third home already..hahaha!
Friday was like a free day but headed off to school for lab then headed home to rest before going out again for some street soccer game with the girls..was great to play street soccer after so long a time of not playing and it was like how cool la..the people that were there were so hilarious that I can just laugh laugh and laugh when playing..people there were sya, oswind, denisse, Clarisse(came later), friends of friends and friends of friends which I don’t really know how to spell the name..but all of you made great company..=D *cheers*

Think that’s about all..it’s a pretty long entry and probably seems like an essay but what to do..hahaha! thanks for reading the long grandma entry..bleaaahss!=PPP

shall update when I am free again..cos busy with FYP for now..hurrrrr=DD

taaas

memories and fun

Singapore's birthday has just past like 2 days ago..
how I wish I were at the NDP cos we can just have some close up view on the parade like the fly past, march past and of course the parachuters...it feels so great to be able to parachute but at the same time it is quite scary cos it's just like some freefall..wheeewww..
great efforts to all the performers to put in the commitment to commemorate and celebrate the Day together..


think the weekends were just alright..
national day was great but bad at the same time too..sighs..
just hope everything will be over soon..do come home soon..miss your presence at home.=(
sunday was the game between the rp girls and sim blacks..was late to watch the match but still I managed to catch like 2 periods of the game despite reaching like super late when their match were supposed to start at 2, I reached like 45mins later?hahaha!think the girls did great in the game..can just feel the hunger for ball and the fire in them to perform..they were playing like wonderfully great yesterday..was so pleased to watch the game but poor philly got injured(hope your knee's fine..)..after that was late lunch early dinner with the rest and then headed back to the sports hall to watch some of the game between the one west and ntu players..left and rushed to dover and over to nuh..was quite solemn but was funny at the same time tooo..hahaha=))

today I'm like in class..lesson seems to be the most hated by the class cos the attendance is like bad bad bad..stepped into class with just like 11 ppl in class?lesson is like quite relaxing and seriously relaxing cos we came to class, presentation in the second meeting and at the final meeting we are going to play game, which means that we have the whole break for us to just relax and not do anything..slack and do nothing..that's how I can just update here..hahaha!hope class ends early so that I can rush off and rush back just in time for training later..

omg..but I'm still very sad cos I can't watch OLYMPICS but instead I end up in school and missing all the exciting games and interesting games..hmmm..how sad..
missing out all the interesting and nice games..how I wish the school has tv so that I need not watch through the lousy china phone,reception so bad=PP..hahahaha!

think that's all I can say for today..
update again soon..

"ampul" Friday

hey tooties...



think today's was somehow quite great a day in school though it may seem boring..guess what we did in class the whole day? just entered the class just on time, sat down and stared into the laptop till 9am and off we are for our first break..like wow, first time ever the whole class went down together and sat at the cafe till 9.30 and back to class again for a tour of 2 labs in our sch and back to class for a short discussion and off we are again for our second break and at the same time just do our work and upload..it's like the first time that all of us went down together for break?it's a day to remember..and that's all for our work for the day.=DD

08/08/08

we had a long break since 10.30 all the way till like 2pm?that was like a longest break I even had cos we were not allowed to go off so we have to be back in class at 2 for the last meeting but we need not present...how great right..haha!

we just sat in class, stared at our own screen, visit and surf the net for all sorts of websites to keep us entertained.. some were online shopping, some were watching shows, some were blog-hopping, others were busy playing games or msn-ing (something that all rp students are best at=PP)..relaxed till the faci came into the class but I never really slack my time away because I was down to the lab again to pick worms again..to prepare for my fyp and that means that these few days, we'll be like going to and fro the lab..goodness!classmates all in class watching some horror show and enjoying while I was romantic-ing with the worms..hahahahaha=DDD

then lunch-ed as usual and returned back to class for lesson but we never had presentation but instead we played games..haha!was quite relaxing and funny cos we played pictionary and the words are like science terms and movie names..so hard to draw please..had a hard time trying to draw the "densitometer"omg..first time hearing that device la..after that, lesson ended like 3.10 and was like free and easy all the way till 4pm and left sch..that was how school is like the whole day..boring yet relaxing but fun at the same time..=))oh ya..not forgetting the chocolate treat from the facilitator..thanks=DD

off I go..dinner with family and it's like a so long time since I reached home before 6.15..well done ar..hahaa!

taaas

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zombie-land

hey tooties...

school was somehow dead today..class seems dead..feels as if I had walked into a land of zombies and feel so zombie the moment I stepped into class la..
problem statement seriously made me want to leave class and go home to sleep like straightaway..if not for the grade and fyp, I might not have stayed though cos I had knew nothing about the problem and was like lost in space lar...hmmm..
finally managed to make a comeback cos I managed to find like 1 or 2 resources related..was just so tired and lazy and moodless to do anything but just had to do cos mine is the all-girls team..someone needs to initiate otherwise nothing will start...

can you all just believe that I am in school early in the morning and in the lab doing my fyp?omg..I just cant imagine that la..getting up as early as 6.15 with no time for me to snooze cos when I snoozed I just remembered that I take 1 hour to reach sch and so jumped out of bed immediately and get ready..left as early as 6.50 which I have never done so before in my rp life so far...did some pour plates and attended class before going to the lab again to seed and then back to the lab again during the lunch break to pack..goodness me..can you just imagine going to and fro the lab 3 times a day and for a short 15 to 20 mins session..

third meeting was somehow better because we all broke off for our lunch break and returned to prepare for the third meeting and guess wad my team came up with/?word search..hahaha!quite lame but quite fun cos its nice to hunt for words in a mixture of all alphabets..haa=DD
miss irene was nice enough to treat the class to ice-cream and moo moo ice cream was left..hahah! friends were just saying: "we are allergy to cows, that's why you have to eat."hahaha!so funny la..
third meeting started like 30mins late cos all were given time to eat the ice-cream and then lesson start and class ended just like 30mins later and all left, did their own stuff and I managed to catch a short nap..was so tired la..gosh!then was off for training once again...hmmmm

guess thats all for my today..
hope tomorrow's class would be better..more treats to come?
shall just see...


taaaas

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tuesdays with physio

hey tooties...

today was mainly another day of late morning whereby I never attended class in the morning but decided to get up early to study for the final ut for this module and of the semester..have missed school for like 3 days straight? hopefully I do not get a warning letter from school!!ahahahaha=PPP

studied for the test in the morning, left home for school to take the final test and I guess the test was alright and do-able but always difficult to me..dunno why..after test was training and it was alright..not too tired cos I left halfway for physio..
the physio was so funny la..told me that I can die alr, need some neck replacement,.hahahaha!so funny! telling everyone how badly injured the neck was when I tot it might just be a pull only..hmmm..appointment on coming thurs again..hmmm..

think nothing much to talk about anymore..this post like quite boring ar?haha..
anyways, the next might be hilarious when I get the pics frm mable..ahaha!were busy laughing and rolling on the floor when the pictures were being editted..it was just so funny that all of us practically just laughed out loud and non-stop hits..hahaha! classic=PP

think that's all for now..shall be off..
will be back when I'm back..=DD

taaaas

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wonderful sunday

yesterday was an entire day out since morning..
from going to church as early as 9.30am to heading out for lunch at the food court just next to the new church building..
I would say that the new church building is awesome!=DD can sit a 1500 pax in the auditorium and there is even an escalator in the building..the funny thing is that there's only one escaloator, which means that once you go up, you can't come down...hahaha!not really la, but just that the escalator is only operating upwards before service but they will reverse it after the service...parents went for the first service at the new church and I thought that it was great!!

after church, waited for my aunt and cousins and went for lunch together at the food court at vista point..lunched, talked, shared and caught up with the cousin that I seldom met..was so great to see her and was good time spent together..then the adults decided to head over to yishun to visit my grands and so we decided to take a cab down due to the blazing sun and the fact that we all were dresses, we end up cabbing over.. reached yishun but grands weren't around..they were still out at church and so we waited over chocs, sweets, desserts and all for them to return home after church..not long after, they came back and so the adults all started talking while things started to get emotional and all..never knew what to do...we decided to entertain ourselves by decorating bandage, eating and listening to music all..haha!was so tired and bored that the few of us ended up sleeping on the sofa but was so warm..gosh!
the weather yest was seriously madness!! the chocos even melted la..haha!

after that, we left and headed for jurong west..was deciding whether to go home or follow and I end up following them to watch some NDP performance.. on the way in the train, we noticed dark smoke at some factory in kranji and it indeed was on fire..the fire was like "BOOOM" and was super big la!!seriously, could still see it burning and all..the fire was so great that even when we were at cck, we could still see the smoke..can you just imagine how serious the fire was?was my first time seeing that though...could just see the civil defence ppl busy at work, trying to put out the gigan-humongous fire..

anyhoos, reached bb and decided to take a cab again cos we were running late...this time we met our neighbour and he was so nice that he didn't want to collect the cab fare but my mum refused and end up leaving the money there and left the cab..was quite funy though..

anyways, im running late alr..got a test to do later...hope I can do well this time round..
taaas all..will be back again..

beautiful sunday

hey tooties..

good morning to all!
now I'm awake so early in the morning, waiting for all to get ready to head out to church together..think today will be the happiest day because it's the first time that my parents are going to the church together with the three of of us..=D we are all going to step into the new church building for today...

yesterday...
went down to tsh to watch the girls game in the evening..they had a game against springfield and congrats for the win..I think that all of you played well though and keep working on it to play better every game..congratulations and good game to all players and the top scorers of the day.. peipei and peiling the twin towers, dinee, hazirah, ainul and sham.=DD

great job to meiwen,reena and jo for helping out in the team for the match yesterday..guess with all of them, it does help...

am off for now..gotta get ready

taaaas

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volcanoes

let me share some interesting facts for now since I have nothing much to do now and am rather free..this post might get rather boring cos it is gonna be a long long post..haha!think it's better that people who cant read long entries to not read cos it's very long...hahaha!might make you sleep too...hurrr=DDDD

just some fun facts..

let's talk about volcanice eruptions then..haha=PP

the documentary influenced me to want to know more about the volcanic eruptions...

VOLCANOES

What is a Volcano?

It is a mountain that opens downward to a pool of molten rock below the surface of the earth. When pressure builds up, eruptions occur. Gases and rock shoot up through the opening and spill over ot fill the air with larva fragments. Eruptions can cause lateral blasts, lava flows, hot ash flows, mudslides, avalanches, falling ash and floods. An erupting volcano can trigger tsunamis, flashfloods, earthquakes, mudflows and rockfalls.

Why do Volcanoes occur?

Deep within the Earth it is so hot that some rocks slowly melt and become a thick flowing substance called magma. Because it is lighter than the solid rock around it, magma rises and collects in magma chambers. Eventually some of the magma pushes through vents and fissures in the Earth's surface- a volcanic eruption. Magma that has erupted is called lava.

How do volcanoes form?

Deep inside Earth, between the molten iron core and the thin crust at the surface, there is a mantle, a large layer of rock that is largely solid, but flows like plastic. When rock from the mantle melts, it sometimes moves to the Earth’s surface through weak spots in the crust, releasing heat, gasses, and rock--a volcanic eruption. But why does this solid(pyrolitic) rocks melt and come to the surface. Due to the temperature, pressure and the presence of the water, which facilitate the rocks' melting.

As one goes deeper and deeper into the earth, there is increasing temperature with increasing depth. This is because radioactive elements deep within the earth are slowly disintegrating and producing heat. The rock in the earth insulates the heat, so that it accumulates and eventually liquefies the rock insulating it. Only slowly does this heat escape, which leads to the drastic differences of temperature with depth. This difference is referred to as the geothermal gradient. The average geothermal gradient is 2° to 3°C per 100 meters of depth, indicating that heat is flowing outward from inside the earth.

Volcanoes are vents for the explosive escape of some of this heat. Magma is a term referring to a mass of completely or partly molten rock containing the volatile that it acquired at its origin in the upper mantle of the earth. These volatile elements are gases either dissolved in the melt or as bubbles of gas that escape when the rock reaches the surface and solidifies. Volcanoes erupt because magma is less dense than the solid rocks surrounding it in the mantle of the earth. As it nears the surface, the volatile gases expand and boil out of the rock, and this force of explosion propels lava from the vent.

Why do volcanoes erupt in different ways?

Most volcanoes occur on plate boundaries. Plate boundaries are areas where Earth's shifting plates meet or split apart, usually with violent results.

Plate margins that are coming together are called convergent margins, while those that are splitting apart are called divergent. A third type, transform-fault margins, are sliding against each other, going in opposite directions (like those of the San Andreas Fault). Volcanoes can occur on convergent or divergent plate margins or over a hotspot, a spot inside the mantle that heats an area of the plate above it.

Colliding Plates

Along convergent margins, when two plates meet, sometimes one descends, usually of oceanic composition, beneath the other, usually of continental composition, in a process called subduction. As the descending plate is forced deeper into the mantle, parts of it begin to melt and form magma that rises to the surface, often in explosive eruptions. Subduction zones tend to create large, classic, cone-shaped volcanoes called stratovolcanoes, such as Mt. St. Helens in Washington State, or Mt. Shasta in California.

Separating Plates

At divergent margins, plates are coming apart and hot rock forces its way to the surface. Many divergent plate margins are under the oceans, creating long undersea rift zones that fill with lava. In some eruptions at divergent margins, the relatively calm, smooth flow of lava creates volcanoes with gently sloping sides, called shield volcanoes.

Hotspots

Hotspots can also cause shield volcanoes to form. As plates move over hotspots, volcanoes spring up and die down in turn, often creating an island chain. The Hawaiian Islands are the result of a hotspot.

Effects of Volcanic Eruptions

It also causes various kinds of hazards like lava flows, pyroclastic fall depositsm volcanic gases, tsunamis and more but lava flows has been known to have killed small number of people due to the prediction of the volcanic eruption that enaled an evacuation of the people. The majority of damage that were brought about by the volcanic eruption were economic, agricultural and runing the settlements.

There are five gases that are produced by volcanic activity. All of these gases are harmful except for water vapor. These five gases are water vapor, carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, fluorine, and chlorine.

Carbon dioxide is one of the main causes of the Greenhouse effect, but there are not significant amounts for the carbon dioxide emitted from volcanic eruptions to contribute to the Greenhouse effect

Sulfur dioxide can have a short-term effect on the weather. A sulfuric acid aerosol can remain in the atmosphere for years after an eruption (Fisher). This aerosol blocks the sun and causes cooler temperatures globally. The sulfur dioxide eventually depletes, but is replenished by each eruption rich in sulfur dioxide.

Fluorine can be a deadly to animals after an eruption. It tends to condense in rain and coat grasses and plants (Fisher). The fluorine is poisonous to animals that eat the fluorine-coated grass and plants.

Chlorine is emitted as hydrochloric acid into the atmosphere. Chlorine destroys the ozone layer that protects the DNA of plants and animals (Fisher).

Water vapor is the only one of these gases that helps society by replenishing the water supply.

The volcano eruptions may seem to cause much damage to the society but there are positive effects too. the negative impacts of the volcanic eruption would seem to have over-powered the positive impacts but there are still positive impacts of the volcanic eruption. It provides with an enriched soil and help in creating earth's early atmospheres and minerals.

Types of Volcanic Eruptions

Plinian Eruptions ( Most powerful eruption)Strombolian-type eruption "Vulcanian"-type eruption

"Vesuvian" eruption

"Hawaiian" eruptions "Phreatic" (or steam-blast) eruptions

think i shall stop this entry already..hahaha!its like so long already..maybe I continue in the next entry or wad ar....

taaaas

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saturday saturdday

heyy tooties...

as usual, I got up as early as yesterday at like 9.55 am again..this time I wasn't woken up but cos my brother came in to do his morning workout and was so noisy cos the weights on the dumbbell
were knocking against one another and making lots of noise and disturbed my sleep..but after that I managed to get back to sleep probably cos I too tired?haha=PPbut guess what..I had a nightmare..for the first time of this year I dreamnt about my results and the screen just showed E grade for all the modules that I took...gosh!!tht just woke me up that early in the morning..just cant imagine that in my real grades...hmmm=/


just went to have lunch with my parents but now they are out to pay respects to my grandad at some temple..now I'm sitting here in front of this screen while waiting for the time to pass..hmm:/
was supposed to head to the new church building in woodlands but in the end I think I wont be heading there already...cos no one is going with me and that's cos my sister will be at rp from morning to evening leaving me at the church alone..haha!

anyways, will be heading to tsh later in the afternoon for the div 2 game against the springfield ewoks..sounds like some eagle though..cool name!haha=DD
hope all of them play well later=)

*play to your fullest*
-enjoy but play hard-

rest day

hey tooties...

for a moment I thought that I could sleep in a bit more when I planned to not go school and give myself a short break since there wont be any test or training on this day..guess what, I was like awoken by my brother when he entered the room and asked me to go breakfast with him..i was like.."huh, breakfast?"was just so lazy to move in the aching muscles from the training yesterday and played some basketball after the training..was quite fun to play basketball after like so long since I last played basketball but it was quite funny instead..haha!just can't stop laughing the whole match la..the people were seriously damn hilarious..

anyways, think he has a good technique to wake me up..just by claiming that someone from his school lost his life, just woke me up instantly, even from a state of zombie to a dunno what state..haha!he then just brought in the laptop and asked me to play with him but being the lazy ass for that moment, just refused and lazed in bed..end up, he played alone but beside me, keeping me awake and only managed to catch like another 10mins of rest and then I woke up alr..

hmmm..dunno what's up for today though..
wonder where I should go later...

taas

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disappointment

hippee-hippo

wednesday was finally a day where I can get up slightly later than usual but still I need to be in school like as early as 11am just for the sake of lab. guess what we did in the lab session was totally a waste of time la..seriously!look at what we did..prepared ngm plates, then decided to try the fluorescence assay to determine the oxidative stress and so we discussed and calculated the protocol and proceeded on to pick like 30 worms each?omg!tell you, the eyes can really go berserk man!after picking, we all decided to take a break, went for lunch break in a team and talked abit before heading back to lab to try out the assay but guess wad, tried and tried, still not results and lab ended at like 4.45 when I was required to go home and get my stuff for training!!omg!walked out of the school to the interchange with the advisor and for the first time, I went home with the advisor cos it happened that she was going westmall.talked to her about almost everything, she asked about floorball, about after-poly life..quite interesting though..den after that, rushed home and pack my stuff before my dad sent me to sch..otherwise i'll b like dunno how late la..

friendly after that..
training first before the friendly and guess the friendly was great!all of us played well as a team and still stayed strong till the very end.. I really like that kind of attitude!=DD the fight we put for every ball and the effort that we all put in..all was just so commendable!=DDfriendly ended with a draw..both teams were just as tough as the rock la..we are all just strong in our own ways.
after that rushed off to shower and all..first time I showered so fast after training cos I will just end up being the last everytime..hmmm..
packed and got ready to leave and nina and friends were down to watch..(sounds so like barney & friends)hahahahaha!!!=PPP
didn't join the normal people for dinner but instead left with the others..talked to reena on the way to the interchange and at least it got me a bit better but still left me quite affected somehow..hmmm..
from there, was hungry and so I decided to want to eat but the rest left and so headed for dinner at macs before going home.. reached home late but just couldn't slp..hmmm..
sch today was alright..with not many people and all, we changed the lesson into a game session because it wont be tested in the test and so to make it more interesting and to make everyone involved and participating...
class ended and left to meet the rest in the lib..
omg!just can't believe I really really fell asleep in the lib just for that 15 mins?
after that was awoken suddenly by dunno what but yeah..got me slightly refreshed up at least before the training..

training was seriously madness..
great I managed to pull through the whole training despite the tiredness..
now I'm like aching like badly..
maybe no sch tmr ?rest day..weeee
hahahaha!long weekends ahead loooo!!!=PPP

(banana,will pass you the choco like soon and thanks for the encouragement..hahaha!=Dwas glad you came)
(miss sya, thanks for the words of encouragement too!!you were like so powerful lah..don't worry, you were great!)

guess that's just all..


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