HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR!!

Yo Yo Yo.... Happy New Year everyone... Here's me wishing you Wan(4) Shi(4) Ru(2) Yi(3), Xin (1) Xiang (3) Shi (4) Cheng (2)..... and not forgetting... since we are in the Shu (2) Nian (2) ("Rat Year"), I wish everyone SHU (3) QIAN (2) SHU (3) DAO (4) SHOU (2) LUAN (3) ("Count $$ count until hand tired")... haha... Yah... Celebrating CNY here is so so so different... not fun at all... so sad... wanna go home but cannot go home... *sob sob*....
Celebrated in school yesterday... here are some pics....

After I came home from school, I had a big surprise. I received a parcel from Singapore.... hee.... It was from Anthony.... He sent me Ba Gua and Ba Hu (illegal to send pork over hor...) and Singaporean can food.... Also... hidden in the box was my V-day prez..... It is not only a bear.... it has a very special meaning attached to it...... "wad meaning ah...?" ...Harlow Harlow... .of course cannot tell u lah... Hee hee...
So cute.... It keeps smiling at me.... :)

The start of the new term

Very lazy to blog these days... school started last week... lots of assignments and reading piling up but I have no mood to work on anything... didn't start the term too well I guess... decided to blog a little tonight... Now, its 8.30 pm london time, just had my dinner... I cooked Fish Soup and Kung Po Chicken for dinner.... All thanks to Liu Ying, a China classmate of mine who gave me a packet of dried chillies brought from China... with that... I dished out my Kung Po chicken... I stayed home to eat the whole of this week, this saved me quite a bit.... started to feel guilty about spending too much on traveling .... Oh yes.. something to share... I got back my Corporate Finance and Valuation results yesterday... got an A!!... very happy about it... the force ranking thingy really freaked me out because there are too many smart pple ard me... waiting for the return of the other 2 papers... keeping my fingers crossed...

Oh yah... before i forget, Zhi Ming a.k.a Mickey came down to London last week... He stayed over in London for 2 days... Wah... for those of you who knows him, you all must be eager to see how he looks like right?? He is very big and tall already.... and he is an SIA air steward, that's why he got a call to fly over to London.... From Singapore, he bought me 9 packets of Si Quan Da Bu Tang.... haha... easiest to cook... boil the soup with chicken and throw in the Mee Suai.... can eat for lunch and dinner... for good health and grow richer (because save $$ mah)...

Here are some pics that we took for the 2 days...

===>> London Eye.... along Thames River...
===>> Tower Bridge

===>> Tower Bridge behind us... trying to make sure our faces get into the screen...
==>> Standing on London Bridge.. Both of us got something hot to drink....It was really chilly that evening...

===>> Our lunch at Ten Ten Tei... we search high and low for the place... the cheapest authentic Jap restuarant located at Brewer Street... Total Bill = 28 pounds...
===>> Most famous duck in London... Four Seasons... The skin is really damn good.... I use to dn;t really fancy duck... but this is definitely a must-try if you come to London...
===>> Pizza for dinner....
On our way to Tower Bridge....
===>>> No no no, I'm not lying on his shoulders...

====>>My desert after the pizza...

====>> Beautiful tower bridge....
===>> Oh... Beckham... Let me be your Victoria....
===>>> Yes... that is London Bridge.. nothing spectacular... no wonder many pple mistook Tower Bridge for London Bridge...

Switzerland Trip 15th Dec - 22nd Dec 2007

Suppose to be a trip for the 6 of us... but so damn unlucky... the officer refused to let Toon in because she has no Visa.. damn it... Daniel accompanied her to stay in London... Argh.. they wasted the money on the trip.... and the plane was delayed because of us.... Hitomi and I did like a 400 m sprint all the way to the boarding gate.... so breathless by the time we reached there... phew...

Day 1 - Fell terribly, sprained my neck, hips and had like a concussion on my head.... Lesson no.1 - Never ski on your own without an instructor on your first ski attempt.

Day 2 - Day 5 - After attending the ski lessons, I felt more confident. I could brake, carve, do short turn, transverse the slopes and parallel turns.
Dunno izzit because the older I get, the less guts i have. I was really fearful of falling, not sure if it is because I fell to many times on the first day or because I am indeed really so afraid of falling these days. By the way, you will never know how torturous it is on my first day. I dun even know how i fall because my speed was too fast (i could not control my speed) and to avoid crashing into a tree or other people, i have to fall to break. My legs spilt with the 10 kg skis on me, my goggles flew to the other corner of the piste, my poles were up on the slopes ..... yes... You can't imagine how bad i looked without having grasp the basic of snow ploughing (stopping/ controlling my speed on the slopes).

But everything was just fun fun fun and more fun when you really know how to control your skis. You get to go up to the mountains, ski on steeper slopes, snap beautiful picturesque views of the mountains etc....

=====>>>>> Swiss Alps taken from the plane

====>> The chair lift that will bring us up to the mountains where we will ski down from there..

========>>>>>> Up at La Chaux - one of the easier blue runs.... ======>>>>> At Les Esserts - Both the place where I fell the most and where I learnt to ski
=====> The other 2 students in my Ski course - Christina and Maria ====>>> My lovely instructor, David.... He is damn good....
=====>>>> Top view of Les Esserts
There were so many kids skiing there... they were barely 3 year old... see that cutie pie in blue...

===>> Flo, your hat really keeps me warm throughout the entire Ski Trip... Thanks..

====>>> Soft, white snow..... looks like Ice Kachang... Argh... I miss Singaporean food....
====>> At Verbier - A Ski Resort in Switzerland....

====>> Checking out the rental of the Ski equpments at Verbier... not cheap ok. My Ski lessons cost me CHF240, my Skis and boots cost me CHF 219, SKi lift pass CHF294.. and the food there is quite expensive... but of course really good authentic Swiss food.... ====>>> My SKis and Poles....

This is where we stay at Verbier... Chalet Itroz.....
====>>> Beautiful View of the mountains early in the morning....

Not for the faint hearted

I had a very bad fall 2 weeks ago... It happened like this.... I was feeling rather thirsty and stressful during that period... so i thought maybe i could take a 15 mins break off my studies to go to the nearby Tesco to get mineral water... yes mineral water... eh.. the water that comes out from my tap is not very clean lah... drinkable but at your own risk kinda thing... so I put on my coat and stepped out of my hostel.... while i was happily walking towards Tesco, i suddenly tripped on something and "pah".. i fell flat on the ground... couldn't stand up after that... maybe because of the shock and the pain.... I was cursing and swearing like mad after that... I picked myself up and to my horror.... my pants was torn... my favorite Gio Yoga pants... argh.... with the needle pricking pain on my legs and hands, i limped to Tesco.... yes... still need water to drink right... if not I'll die of pain and thirst.... poor me... everyone in Tesco looked at me... machiam like consruction worker like that... with the soiled and the torn pants... I took one whole week to heal.... pus kept coming out from the injured spot (see picture).... OUCH!!

=======>>>>>>>>>THE CULPRIT<<<<<<==========

MIF Christmas Party

We had a party last night to celebrate Xmas and the end of of exams... Here are some pics and video... the food was lousy but the DJ and music was great... got dragged by J to the dance floor... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Toon and I
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Haha... K is so funny....

>>>>>>>>>> Hitomi (my project mate) and I

>>>>>>>> Gustavo, Hitomi and I

>>>>>>>>>>>>Josh, Ivan and I

Exams over!!

Hey hey... exams finally over!! Yippie... but I'll never forgett the torture that i had over the past few days... The last paper was really tough... but didn't wanna think of it already... Now, It's fun time and time to really relax myself... I've been treating myself so badly during the examination period... less than 4 hours of sleep per day..... at least 4 cups of coffee per day.... 2 bottles of Red Bull..... initially these worked really well for the first 2 papers... when i reached the 3rd, I was down with fever. The past 3 days were terrible.... Now I know: Little sleep + Lots of coffee + Red Bull + Brands Chicken of Essence does not equate to good results.... but fever by the end of the week.... hee... Anyway.. I'm done... next term will be tougher... but it's for next term.... I'm trying not to think about it now... Will be going off to Switzerland with Peter, his gf, Hitomi, Daniel and Toon tmr... looking forward to it... This will be my first time snowboarding... always play snowboarding games and skiing games on X-box.... Now, it is for real!!