I'm intending to write a LONG entry here... so don't bother to read unless you're very free or very interested in my last year, 2004.

exactly a year ago... on new year's day... I was rushing my project on foreign investments in China... my second job at an advertising company. Asked my mum to ask my aunt to accept me into her company because i was plan lazy to look for a job after As... was feeling bitter... why do I have to bring home work when I'm just an intern there? why am I slogging away on New Year's holiday?! blew up, and told my mum I'm gonna quit. that's it... that's not my work... not what I should be doing.... I'm helpless... I dun know what on earth I was doing because I know nuts about econs.second aunt... not my boss, came and gave me a pat talk... about how people should not give up so easily.. not things will always be hard, how I cannot expect life to be smooth flowing all the time.

still... I quit the job.

then... stayed at home for some time... looked for other jobs, helped my parents in the robinsons sales, stood for 10hrs a day.... went for job interviews... prepare my trip to the uk... went to china for holiday during chinese new year. saw for the first time how the fire cracker looks like... played with fireworks and fire crackers, saw a whole city of fireworks that lasted for 2 hrs in shanghai... I meant WHOLE city...

came back.. went to sn to teach sec 4 chemistry for a week... lost my voice in 4 days and told myself that teaching in a class like that will never be for me... realised that sn girls are actually still very adorable.

went to IBN for an interview... IBN=Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology. went to the UK for 2 weeks on my own... first time aboard alone... great experience... great sceneries... great people... came back and got offers from med in glasgow and manchester... bioeng in imeprial and pharmacology in edinburgh... decided that i wanna do medicine here in singapore...

started my attachment in IBN... skinned rats, killed rats... cut rats... made soups, rat soup.... did all sorts of funny things... got into trouble with a collegue... thought about animal rights very carefully... got A level results back... not what I wanted but good enough I guess... went for medicine and dentistry interview in singapore... got asked a million times why I wanna do med by prof.... still wanted to do medicine. found out that I didn't get in.. got into the lowest period of my life... reconsidered my available choices, gave up on going to the UK... applied for aust med... decided on bioeng in nus for the time being.

started intensive driving lessons... really liked driving... started uni very reluctantly... managed subjects that I never was interested in... programming medthodology nearly killed me... glad that i still have singhui and sandra in the same fac doing the same thing together... survived boring school life... can't wait to go aboard... finsihed my exams... realised that I really have no feelings for my school... went for my first driving test and failed with 28 points... didn't like the tester felt that the tester failed me on purpose... haha

had my exams... in the midst of getting crazy over this website called takuya's town... thought I flopped the exams... exams over... took my 2nd driving test after 2 weeks of intensive driving lessons. got the same tester... nearly flopped when i saw his name... was confident this time round and passed with 14 points... kinda understood why he failed me the last time... but refuse to admit it... got uni results back... not satisfactory... but stil can work hard next sem.

went to uwa's interview... got in dentistry for uwa... still waiting for melb now... decided that I will most prob finish uni in nus first before going for grad med if i want to... meanwhile give myself some time to think about what I wanna do...

had a good christmas to hear about the tsunamis on 26 dec... realised how fortunate I am to be here on this little red dot on the map...

still being called a kid by shuyan but feel that I've done alot of growing up last year.... hope that this year will be a better one compared to the last. for myself and for the world as a whole.