Hi guys i've been gone for so long again HAHAHA. Well that happens often when the holidays are here because i'm too busy having some social life. But since attachment starts at 10am tomorrow and i'm home the whole day today, here's an update on whatever i've missed so far for as much as i can remember.

19th December: Was a day spent with mama and my skin center appointment, that is what i wrote in my calendar HAHAHA. Went over to Nex after our appointment to borrow some books and had sushi express for dinner. My mum has this weird thing with sushi. She's usually a slightly above average eater but whenever she eats sushi for a meal, her stomach shrinks like 3 times HAHAHA wonder why.

20th December: Christmas lunch at MD's house with Peihao, James, Jhinkai, Henry and some other guys. The legend of MD being a masterchef is real HAHAHA the food he prepared for us was so good!!! Not even kidding like it was legitly good. Thankful for the meal and thankful for the nice catchup with the peeps! Jhinkai was so nice to drive me over to the basketball court near Melvin's place. Played a few short matches with the guys (wasn't dressed for sports anyway) before we had a simple dinner and karaoke session at Teoheng. It felt homely to have their company again.

21st December: Caught up with Dr Grace and Mal over lunch at a cafe whose name i forgot. Oops, getting old already. Always a good chat talking about life and work and studies and humans in the world in general! She feels like more of a friend than a lecturer now and i'm thankful that we can maintain this kinda friendship even after graduating for 3+ years already. Went shopping around Suntec City for awhile and met Shana at Soup Spoon for awhile before Peihao and I went over to Christmas Wonderland at Gardens By The Bay!

Lights were pretty, Christmas carols were nice, but food and games are too expensive HAHAHA. Carnival's pretty much the same as previous years so i guess going there once is more than enough. So after exploring the entire compound, we decided to try our luck in one game. Got our tokens (1 token costed $2 and 1 game required 3 tokens) and went over to this basket thing (should have taken a photo of the booth but oh well). With 3 rubber balls, we were supposed to throw them into the basket and let them stay in the basket, which was a little challenging because of how bouncy they were. Peihao took a shot and i took 2 AND GUESS WHO WON THE BEAR HEHE.


And yes i won the bear for Peihao HAHAHA YAY. I managed to keep one ball in the basket so we won this small prize. Pretty good investment i would say, a memory to keep from our Christmas Wonderland adventure. Dont know what we were doing but we took a very long route back to the mrt and we were so drained yet happy at the end of the day. Such a blessing to have his company :)

22nd December: Caroling practice at SMU with the caroling crew went pretty alright in the morning. Cailing was so nice she made tangyuan for all of us to share because it was Winter Solstice! Tangyuan season is love hehe made traditional ones with my mum in the morning too. It's a yearly affair for us and i always enjoyed it. So back to the practice, we ended our singing session with writing the Christmas cards for the patients in Yishun Community Hospital. Peihao and I then went off for lunch at Saizeriya before i went to see the orthopaedist at Camden Medical Centre. Nothing was wrong with my ligaments and other structures according to him so i guess that's a relief!

23rd December: Our first caroling event at YCH was better received than i expected it to be. Though not a Christian, i was still happy to be part of the team and bringing some joy to the patients brought joy to me as well. Was never a fan of singing, especially in public or whenever my voice could be heard but even though it might have been slightly uncomfortable for how i am usually, it was a good learning experience! We went off for lunch together at Song Fa bakkutteh and it was yummy hehe. In the end, Peihao and I became too full so we skipped our initial gym plans that day so we spent the remaining time before his steamboat dinner drinking coffee and travelling to Boon Lay from Yishun. And that was our journey to the west HAHAHA.



24th December: Basketball in the morning with the usual gang at 918 and even had coffee with my mama at Ci Yuan CC before Jianghui and Zijie came over to nua at my place. They love nuaing at my house somehow HAHAHA. Had Menya Musashi ramen for dinner and 记得吃 for dessert at Punggol Waterway and walked around before we went home. We came a long way after getting closer through the Taiwan trip back when we were only 15! Glad we catch up with each other despite being so busy with our lives.

25th December: JB plan with Yuefeng and Zoey changed to a buffet lunch at Haw Par Villa which we booked through the eatigo app for a 50% discount hehe. And yes, i can't remember the name of the restaurant. And typing this, i almost forgot how to spell restaurant LOL. There weren't much variety but the food was pretty good. Slightly phobic of smoked duck now cause we ordered way too many HAHAHA oh well, always happens when the 3 of us are together. It was my first time at Haw Par Villa so we went around the exhibition. Through the different courts and levels of hell and through the legends of various scholars, magistrates and deities. Interesting it was and now i'll be more mindful of my swearing and the other sins they stated in the hell exhibition HAHAHA. Their depiction of the respective punishments did a good job in scaring me. I'll try to be a saint from now HAHAHA. Decided to catch Jumanji since we didn't have anything better to do and we're spontaneous people like this. We were really lucky because the website actually showed a full cinema which means we had to take the first row but when we went over, there were suddenly 4 free seats at row B! So we got super good seats despite being so last minute. We managed to smuggle 3 cups of Koi into the cinema as well despite having tiny bags, guess it all worked out well hehe.


26th December: Badminton day with Peihao at Clementi Sports Hall. Yay for another item struck off our to-do list HAHAHA. Wasn't that great a day because someone stole my shoebag but well looking on the bright side, at least i only lost my rubi slippers, concealer, comb (it was my favourite :(), my sanitary pads and my shoebag itself. Tried maki-san for the first time at Jurong East and it was pretty yummy though i didn't really know what i was eating cause we chose really random stuff for our sushi HAHAHA. So it was still a good day spent with Peihao though! Always a good day spent with Peihao.

27th December: Met up with Bellerie at Holland Village and she tried D'good Cafe for the first time. I think D'good is still my favourite cafe in Singapore so far, especially their matcha latte! Good 3 hours spent sitting there talking about life while trying to finish our food. We succeeded in the end anyway just in case you were wondering HAHAHA we ate the last of our truffle fries which didn't really have that much truffle taste in my opinion so i'm still on my mission to search for the best truffle fries in Singapore.

28th December: 老街 Bakkutteh lunch was yummy with Javier at Nex. I like meeting my friends at nearby areas HAHAHA in fact i love meeting my friends at nearby areas. Dry bakkutteh was unique and i kinda prefer it over the soup based one. Even more so since 老街's soup is the peppery one instead of the herbal one. Was early so i had coffee and comics (i brought a Dilbert book hehe) by myself in the Kopitiam at Plaza Sing while waiting for Peihao and Xinmei to come over for dinner. We decided that we should be hippie so we walked over to check out Flash Bang at Somerset. The neon lights were pretty! There were a few arcade game machines too so we had a go at Bishibashi HAHAHA that was fun!! Missing Yifen because she's all the way in Scotland but we found her there with us anyway. Here's a photo to commemorate our reunion:


29th December: Mal came over to be my personal hairdresser again! Now my hair's back to brown. We had Thai food for lunch with my mama nearby and finished up our presentation slides for our talk back in Ngee Ann. Then we went over to Farrer Park for dinner with Shana. Poor Shana always gets OT when she's going to meet us. My fat buddy Mal and I decided to have chococone for dessert at Mcdonalds while Shana had fresh milk LOL i wished i could be that healthy too but nope fat life chose me. Conversations with these girls never end and i love it that way!!

30th December: Second caroling at YCH with less people this time but it still ran smoothly! Despite some mix-up with the wards, the patients were seemingly happier that day as compared to the previous time and of course we were all happy as well. Takeaway for me would be the language barrier with some patients. I mean, i always know that language barrier is an important thing to overcome especially in the healthcare sector, but it never felt so relatable until that day when a malay uncle was tearing, trying to find the words to express himself in english so i could understand, but i could only use my presence as a comforting tool and at that moment i felt so helpless. Gotta learn more malay and improve my dialect! And another week of gym plans cancelled because Peihao and I got too full at Pizzahut HAHAHA. We tried the Knotty Pizza and it was yummy! Love the cheese stuffed crust even though it was sinful, guilty pleasure hehe.



31st December: New Year's Eve was spent kind of unconventionally. I played badminton with some of the guys at Kovan CC in the afternoon and had some time back at home to rest before going over to Murphy's house for new year countdown. Well, not really countdown because we never really cared about the time anyway we just had fun playing Overcooked, Jenga, Saboteur and King's Cup HAHAHA. Funniest thing is that i walked all the way to Hougang One to meet them just to walk back to Murphy's house and realise that he stays in the same block as i do. What a joke but good because it only took me 3 minutes to get home HAHAHA. Thanks Murphy for having us!!

1st January: First day of the year was spent with Peihao. He came over to look for me because i was a pig and i slept till almost noon oops. It was a stay home day for us where we had lunch at Ci Yuan CC and he introduced me to Game of Thrones on the computer. Interesting storyline but not a show i would watch. But that's because i don't like to watch shows in general other than cartoons, comedy and Running Man HAHAHA. Yes i'm a kid like that because i can't stand watching bad people do bad things and i get too angry for my own good. Oh well, guess i'll always be young at heart hehe.

2nd January: Peihao and I had our friends made friends HAHAHA so we had lunch together with Xinya and Tianhao before playing some board games at Playnation! I conclude that my favourite game is Taboo. Everyone please play Taboo with me HAHAHA (i think i'm overusing 'HAHAHA' in my blog post). Anyway, Peihao and I had banmian for dinner back at Xinmin before he commenced his Journey to the West back home, long distance relationship even in Singapore.

3rd January: Had my first physiotherapy session and found out that the records had my left and right knee mixed up LOL. But moving on, physiotherapy session made me feel so weak. Was given a resistance band to do some exercises which i clearly haven't been doing so i will do a little after blogging. Made my way back to Ngee Ann for kaki fuyong lunch with Mal (it used to be $3.00 now it's $3.30, oh well, inflation) and their ice coffee tasted so food. How did i not realised how good their coffee was when i studied there for 3 years?! Not to mention that their hot coffee only costs $0.45?! Time to visit NP more often HAHAHA. Anyway, we gave a very informal talk to the veterinary bioscience juniors and i'm glad i brought them some hope after they realised that my GPA of 3.4 gave me a scholarship HAHAHA. It was good to see the lecturers again! We hung around the school for a short while before we went over to Serangoon Gardens for some RK prata and 一碗甜品 durian mousse with Shana! Stupid me that night was so confident in taking my 73 back home from Serangoon Garden Circus that i either took the wrong bus or i missed my stop and ended up all the way at Toapayoh LOL so i ended up home so much later than i should have.

4th January: Massage day! So so happy that i finally got my massage in JB with Peihao HAHAHA. We had lunch, played the arcade (i won him in basketball hehe) and walked around City Square before we took a bus to Plaza Sentosa for our 30 minutes foot massage and 1 hour body massage. Yay my first time taking a bus in JB! Sorry i'm a frog in a well HAHAHA. Although it was quite painful at times but it was gooooood. Can't wait for the next massage! Poor Peihao didn't get to eat his curry fish head again because the shop was closed, again. Thankful for the day spent together and thankful that he always sends me home even though he lives so far away!


5th January: Peihao and I went to get some stuff for snowman-making and visited Gordon's mum at Kovan for lunch. Grilled fish was yummy as always! We played badminton at Hougang Sports Hall afterwards with quite a number of people. We had Peihao, Kaiearm, Yijie, Melvin, Tianhao, Rebecca, Jilong, Justin and Joanne. The rest went to sing karaoke post-workout while Peihao and I went back to his place to have dinner with his parents. We started preparing logistics for the Christmas party, mainly packing the rice and strings and stickers for the snowman-making. So funny how it was fun even though it was sort of doing work HAHAHA. Or maybe i'm just weird like this.

6th January: Woke up early that morning to help Eric with his short film. Hope i didn't ruin it HAHAHA but it was an interesting experience semi-acting and voicing over. Had lunch with my mama at Ciyuan as usual and had Christmas/New year celebration with SHS at Academia in the evening! Again, even though it was sort of doing work, i had fun setting up the place with the rest of the crew before the party started. Being a facilitator was pretty good as well! A platform to make myself a functional I again HAHAHA and make new friends with people at my table. We all had fun playing games, making our snowmans, listening to performers sing for us and eating our yummy dinners. Peihao came over to stay the night too!



7th January: Very early new year steamboat at Eunice's house with the usual guys. Eugenia joined us this time as well. Saboteur was especially fun because we had alot of people playing together so it was less obvious who were playing what role and it got more exciting towards the end HAHAHA. So glad that i got to meet the guys more often this holiday. Thankful for the dinner treat and bakes by Eunice too! Love her earl grey lavender lemon cupcakes like i swear they were the best i've ever eaten. Gonna purchase some from her next time for sure!!

8th January was the first day of my observational attachment at IMH. One week has past and it has been a very eye-opening experience indeed. Can't wait to learn more about everything in the coming two weeks, especially in paediatrics!

I'll update again from then another day because i'm too tired now HAHAHA i've been blogging for so many hours, and by so many hours i mean 5 hours. And there's work tomorrow! I know Peihao's name has appeared a lot of times in this post, i am also quite impressed with how he's not sick of me yet HAHAHA. Have a good rest everyone and may the monday blues get chased away by the sun (which finally reappeared after 4 days of continuous rain). Goodnight!