GooDies frOm HoME

School started today... But i've got no lessons on a mondaY! 4 day week for the time being.. hehe. I went to collect my parcels that my mum sent today,cause i was not around when the post man came. Yea, me and daryl sweat like mad carrying the 2 boxes and walking back to my hostel. It was a 0.9km walk, according to the "journey planner".

My smashed like dunno-wad Pineapple Tarts


The goodies in the box


yeah there is chicken stock, kaya, chicken rice type of chilli (they dont sell them here).. my fav. and lots of other stuff.. amos cookies, biscuits...


yeah :)

mY sNowMan!

SHORTI


yeah.. it is still snowing! Daryl and I just built this snowman about an hour ago while it was snowing heavily! Its really fun... initially we didnt know how to start and tried to gather ice and we ended up with a lump of lousy ice. Then he started to make a small snow ball and roll it all over the ground. Gradually the snow ball became bigger and bigger. But it is still very out of shape and dirty because of all the grass and broken branches all over the ball. We had to hit to try and shape the ball to a proper one. The body of the snowman is my work and the head is daryl's. the scarf and the hat are mine..Yea.. wanted to build a very big one (like the one we saw yesterday) but i think its really too difficult. This snowman is really abit hard to make already! Im happy with the size lah. Ha.. We gave it a name "shorti"!


daryl being hit by the snowball i threw


there is a playground just below my apartment

Leppavaara - shopping day

This photo is the main building of Helsinki University of Technology. Nice right? The ground is all filled with sNOW! Cause it snowed today again~~



Today the 3 of us again, went to Lepavaara, where there is a shopping centre with 2 HUGE supermakets. The whole place is rather big, and the shops mostly sell winter wear, boots..yea and of course food. Not bad a place to shop! Oh ya, there is SUbwaY in it too... (my fav fast food in singapore.. the price? same as SG but in euros.. meaning twice as ex). We spent about 3 hours there... And i bought something I really think is quite worth! There was this shop having sales, and i bought a jacket that was on a 70% sale! So it only cost me 15 euros! And i realised that the jacket is 50% down and 50% feather, so i guess its quite a good buy. Then i dont have to look the same in every photo anymore. hahaha..

Inside the shopping centre

Outside


And there was a pet shop too. They sell pets like hamsters... and this:



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Daryl and I made this small snowman in the morning b4 we went out, outside his house. And then when i came back to my house, i saw this BIG snowman that someone else made!! Its really BIG. oh man... bigger than me. I think i want to try make something like that tmr, since i've nothing to do on a sunday here. haha... we shall see!


This was our dinner.. haha. 2 chicken drumstick and a plate of veggie with ham and meatball. i miss guo tiao!!

Suomenlinna

It snowed today! Finally.. I woke up and saw the ground filled with ice... So cooL!!! When I walked out of my hostel to meet daryl and meiqing in helsinki city, i had my very first experience with SNOW!!! It was really really pretty, and the feeling of ice falling on u.. its so fuN! Its so different from rain. It was snowing quite heavily... took a photo of my own scarf while walking.


And this is the place where I stay.. this building.


Oh and i wrote my name on the snow for fun! this is the train station (kannelmaki). My "hometown" in Helsinki!

Today the 3 of us went to Suomenlinen, the sea fortress that is built on islands just off the coast of Helsinki (national monument) and one of Finland's cultural treasures. (copied frm the brouchure). Its very pretty there.. we took alot of photos. It has museums, restaurants etc, but we didnt visit those places. We took photos outside and luckily because of the snow today, the photos we took were nice, i believe. :) The place can be reached by taking a ferry near the helsinki city.

can see me? im at the back...


this is the frozen "lake" that we found.

This is daryl trying to create fake snow from the sky for me.

Oh ya... we witnessed some weird rally. ha.. then got a few police cars surrounding it. Nothing interesting, but something that i dont get to see in singapore. Hmm.. and we also saw some marching. But dunno which country's one. Nvm if u dont understand me.. cause i dont know what i saw too. hahaha...

Btw, i will be wearing the same jacket all the time, so i would seem to be in the same clothes everyday... haha.

More pics?

My attempt to make ice kacang for my daddy.

me and the beautiful botak trees...

Just tried msn video call with my mum! abit laggy but its okie.. quite fun! think skype can do better but my mum never download skype.. can make do with msn. :)

Just went Prisma (a supermarket that is quite big, near my hostel) to shop today and that's all... Didnt do much the whole day... Oh ya..forgot to popst pictures of my room and apartment!

This is my bed.. and i purposely shift the table such that i can use my laptop from my bed.

Another view... daryl is playing his PSP.. On the wall is my audition game poster.

This is my cupboard and shelf beside the door behind my bed... and that poster is my lin jun jie!!

The little kitchen in my apartment.

The living room/ dining area of my apartment.

And this is the common corridor inside the apartment.. the opened door is my room. My room is numbered 1. The nearest to the toilet and the main door. (turn left)

Basically the whole apartment feels very white to me when i first stepped in. Imagine 2 opened doors and empty rooms and the stillness of the whole apartment? its quite eerie to be alone.. but now it feels better!

Orientation day... photos!

Today is the orientation day. The whole orientation is just sitting in the lecture room and hearing different people speak, informing us about the practical things and the life in Finland blah blah... Wanted to sleep halfway through. But it was useful, overall. Still in the midst of mapping modules. Sigh.. quite troublesome. Cos we have to beg for more Credits to map to our modules in SG.

Oh and I finally have room mates after 1 week! =) So happy to see them in the apartment when I came back, but I still don't know how to get closer to them. Cant force myself to talk to them and stuff. Maybe i should just wait for it (talk and become closer) to naturally happen. Anyway one of them is from Australia and the other is from France, and that's about all I know about them for now because I just met them tonight only. And they sleep so early! 9pm only they say goodnight le. Hehe..

Pictures...!!

This is my fav. snack i found in Finland. Doughnuts! Small ones.. quite cute. Hopefully I dun grow fat eating them.


And this is the cheapest brand for all types of things I can get from supermarket. X-tra is the brand! They sell pizzas, spagetti, hot choc powder .... to toilet paper. haha.


Oh and i saw this dog barking inside the car on my way to Tapiola yesterday. Poor dog locked inside the car!!


This is the city of Helsinki. The building on the left is the Central railway Station.


This is the cheapest food in school. 2 euros.


The only place where there are free toilets. Elsewhere in the city, have to pay!!

Tapiola

Yup.. today we went to Tapiola, which is rather near school to shop. We found out that the things there at "S Market" (a supermarket) is a little cheaper than the supermarket (Alepa) that we always go to. There is also Stockmann there, and other departmental stores... and a few supermarkets. We realised that our favouritest activity is still shopping for food... haha. We were the most awake doing that. --Photos will be uploaded later.

Yeah thanks mel for telling me that youtube has project superstar... haha. Im so blur, should have suspected that they should have. Well all my favourites have been kicked out already, only left Nat to support! hehe... But dont really like him as much also... Darren is improving alot! =)

nose bleed again

sigh.. this is the 3rd time le.. and it happened when i was sleeping. I have really been drinking alot of water already. dunno why still like that. Very scared that it will be often.. then there is really something wrong with me.

Its bad on weekends, shops are closed!! Luckily the school's supermarket is still opened. So unlike singapore... on sundays, people are on a shopping spree.. I miss singapore. papa, mama. I miss them so badly. And i miss the local channel 8, 9 pm shows. I miss project superstar. I miss the food in singapore already too.

helsinki...

Been walking around helsinki central and familiarising myself with the place. One shocking thing I found out was, only one departmental store has free toilets, and the rest have to pay to get in... and it cost 1 euro just to pee! oh manzz... yup, and we didnt know that today is a holiday in finland and happily went to helsinki central. Stockmann ( the departmental store) was not opened! But we sort of cheated to get into the toilet... there is no one collecting the money, we have to insert the money into the door then the door can be opened. So we just waited outside the door for the person inside to open the door so that we can enter for free. haha...

The weather is slowly starting to get colder... just now there was ice formed on the ground already... so its abt 0 deg cel now. I suffered a terrible nose bleeding experience 1 or 2 days ago. it was really scary cos i dunno when it will stop and it really did take quite a long time to stop. And when i lift up my nose abit, i started to cough out the blood through my mouth with "tan". very scary. luckily daryl was with me.. =)

Daryl has been cooking for us... cooking is so much cheaper than eating out. But we are always almost cooking the same stuff... meatballs, FROzen veg (not frozen one very ex), ham and spagetti in tomato sauce.. ewwW... missing singapore food already..

some photos...

the four of us, at matti's house on the 1st day

taken near matti's hse

admin stuff to do

jan 03, went to do all the admin stuff. went to sch to register and see the school, then to the registrar office to register as citizens so that i can buy the travel card etc etc. Couldnt have done all of these in 1 day without the help of my tutor. But still, i wanna complain him!! cos he always answer out of point when we ask him questions. Not onli that, i thnk he is weird too. He helped me and fuxiang buy burger for lunch and didnt even ask us which one we wanted. In the end I bite one mouth... oops, beef. sigh. had to change to burger. its like he just went straight to buy n never tell us that he is buying for us too. And he did alot of other weird things. And i cannot really understand his english... argh.

After a whole day, i asked daryl to come over my place. It was a really tedious trip for him. he spent alot of $ calling for help =( and had alot of difficulties finding. And his hands were so cold because he had to use one hand to press the hp buttons and call. Yea, we cant survive without a pair of gloves. exposed to the air for maybe 1 min, we will feel our whole hand numb. It will be worse when its -20 deg cel.

still trying to get use to the life here, and getting to know how to travel to places... =) more upcoming~~

first few days in finland

saying goodbye
thank you everyone who came to send me off. i really appreciate it. thank you mum and dad and bro. muacksz. thank you aunt bel for all the winter clothings. thank you mummy and daddy for ur love always. =)

the plane
i couldnt slp throughout, so after the entire flight, i felt like a zombie. Transitting at london gave me troubles, we were only allowed one hand luggage and i had to squeeze 1 bag into the other.. and wear all the winter clothings so that the things in my 2nd bag and the 2nd bag can fit into my 1st bag. sigh. but in the end, we got a good officer who closed one eye on my cannot close luggage. ha...

matti's hse
yeah we stayed over at meiqing's tutor's house on the first nite cos the offices onli opens on the 2nd of jan. his bed is damn shiok.. very soft and i finally got some good slp! he is very shuai to me btw. haha.. will upload pics another time. too sian and tired now... anyway, he made us tea, cut fruits for us, and cooked lunch for us! (spag with chicken and tomato sauce) yummy. not bad. =)

separated from meiqing and daryl
because my hostel is in helsinki and their hostel is in espoo(which is in school) , so we had to go separate ways to get our keys and stuff. haha.. i cannot really understand my tutor cos he speaks with a weird slang... but i just laugh and nod. haha... now in my room now, very lonely, abit scared. think i will ask fuxiang over to accompany me. its really quite quiet. Non of my room mates have arrived yet... sob..

the elevator
very old fashioned! its like those with doors, then you close the doors then the lift will move. hehe... interesting.

the weather
its not very cold yet. only 2 to 5 deg now... but its gonna get colder..

price of things
very very ex loh. travelling cost 2 to 4 euros (so far for the trains i've taken). which is 4 to 8 sing dollars! haizz... food is ex too, but heard that can get cheaper food in campus.

finland itself is cool. When i first stepped into the airport, it felt homely. (unlike london)

upsetting

stupid hairdresser.. tell her not to cut my hair she still cut. cut until so short. super upsetting. N she rebonded my hair until so messy!! im really upset. sigh. *scream*

singapore turf club

Went out for dinner with my jc friends, then I went back to the spec shop to collect my specs but the uncle closed shop for 3 days. Don't know why. Anyway after that I decided to follow my dad to the Singapore Turf Club to see see... Cos my mum is working there. Wah, the horses are really beautiful!! So shiny and pretty. It was fun to see them race... and all the uncles and gamblers are shouting for their horse numbers. Me and my dad tried to predict and played for 3 races too. But all the tickets got "eaten away". Its really hard to guess which horse is going to win... Though it was interesting to look at the horses and stuff, its a place which I think I would not step in again because the air is really bad. I think 99.999999% of the pple there smoke, and I could hardly breathe. The 0.000001% is me lah. It was really quite terrible cos i was trying to find a single spot that i can breathe good air and there wasnt any. ha...

more pics!! yumyum

my prince!!!!

oh man.... i think im too old to get crazy over an idol.. but Im really crazy!!! im just halfway watching the "gong" vcd. N im going mad over li lu.. the prince in the show! His korean name is kim jeong hoon. He is super super prince! cannot take it, saliva all over the mouth le. hahahah... Here is a pic of him. Guess he is every girl's dream bai ma wang zi.... when he is upset:
isnt he cute? super cute? super duper lovely? hehe

congrats me!!

i wonder if im still dreaming?? I got the SEP award!!! yeahyeah... just when I least expected it, it came!! still don't know how much I am awarded, but being awarded is already enough! =) yeah... didn't put my beautiful photograph to waste. That was my last passport size photo that I liked the most. When i took it i didnt have so many pimples as compared to now. Now i really look terrible.

yeah... im happy!!

A good break, finally

It has been 2 months since I last posted. Such a long time. Been really busy completing projects in school and studying for exams. Alot of Ups and dOwns these few months, quite tiring. I was very affected by my mid term tests and stuff that I sort of went really crazy for a few days. Think I affected the people around me alot that time, especially my parents and daryl. Well everything is over now, finally I can have a good break after exams.

Quite happy, but at the same time, I am also preparing my stuff to bring over to finland for half a yr. Don't know how much clothes I should bring also. And my mum has been spending alot of money on me, buying me the thermal wear, gloves, the BIG jacket... I have already spent near 2000 including insurance and stuff, eXcluding the air ticket. that's why i really hope to get the NUS sep award, but my hope is gone. The supposedly week that they should release the results is over, and i didnt receive any email. Sigh. My poor parents, spending so much on their little girl.

Alot of things to talk about, but dont really wanna put them down le... too tired. haha. But i will update my blog quite often (i hope) when i m in finland. To leave memories for myself and to update my friends and parents whom I will surely MiSS like crazy....

birthdays and more to come

pin xiu's birthday...
cosy little party at her own house.. actually i should have done tt too.. wats the point of spending $ and squeezing in a little chalet at pasir ris? hehe...

Weiling's birthday... she didnt hold any party so me and yanjun celebrated for her at the "village" at hereen... Its the restaurant that replaced marche. super copy marche... the environment is exactly the same. We had the chocolate fondue there.. not too bad, but they way the choc was made was a little disgusting.. its white fresh milk mixed with chocolate chips.. the food was not too bad.

backgroud is fake.. oh i look terrible, didnt sleep for 2 days cos of an assignment.. sigh. in the end our lecturer extended the deadline anyway.. hai

where was i the whole september? busy studying loh. go school... come home.. do tutorials, projects etcetc. Nothing fun and exiciting... only sad stuff..

daryl's uncle passed away just a week ago.. it was realli realli sad. He was healthy and fine, and all of a sudden he is gone. He had a burst blood vessel at his brain. And went into a coma and a few days later gone le... only 54 years old. Its like.. you dunno when you're gonna die. What happens when u die? u cannot see your loved ones any more.. never get to say your last words. And where do you actually go to? Can one actually see the living after he dies? So scary... And his poor wife.. cry until so ke lian. She is very heartbroken.. i can feel it and i feel very super sad for her too. And the children too. =(

oh i wanna complain... i got this super pathetic lecturer who doesn't give lecture notes, doesnt lecture, and doesnt care whether we realli understand or not.. the lessons are conducted by the class. veri sian. hate his stupid and lazy face.

finally, updates

so long since i last blogged. Guess no one would visit my blogsite anymore.. haha... today meiqing just reminded me that i've a blog so here i m, blogging.

This semester im taking 6mod, a total of 4 projects... sobsob. But i think i will s/u one of my mods.. and i really hate this human resource module. the assessment consists of 20% class participation. =( and i havent even spoke up during the first lesson. Its really affecting me alot, lowering my happiness level. I was actually quite happy to start a new sem after such a long hol and until i know i've to take this sucky mod.

Met a small group of my jc frens at shaun's birthday party... Guess they all havent changed much.. still as vj-ish as ever. havent been keeping in touch with them. my jc class... not united... Well, the food was good at his party at his dad's restaurant, but came too slow, by the time the main course came, we were abt to leave.. abt 9 plus already.

just changed sand for my hermit crab yest... guessed my two little crabs have grown quite close to each other. always see them lying next to each other =) oh. there was one day i thought vonvon died cos its shells were broken and lying around. after that i found that it was because it was moulting! haha... scared me!

daryl bought me SE k800i!! hehe... quite a few weeks ago le. so happy, still very happy!!

hermit singh

yeah! i finally got my pets... their names? dadar and vonvon.. hehe. and they have nick names too! The hermit crabs live in shells.. (duh) and i bought extra shells for them because the uncle said that they will outgrow their shells so have to standby bigger shells. The shells have designs on them... i bought one with a football design, sheep design, singapore flag, ghost and shark.. the 2 crabs that i bot live inside the sheep and football shells... the funny think is that.. the moment i look at them when i reached home, the football one has already changed its shell to the singapore flag one which is bigger than the football shell! Too bad i didnt witness the changing of the shell... sigh.. and the football shell is wasted because its too small le. And tat is why dadar is nicknamed hermit sing...h. Ai guo.. haha.

They are still very shy, keep hiding when they see me...

tioman has been an ok trip.. cos it was rather small and therefore boring. But the ppl whom i went it make it better bahz. took alot of photos, which was fun... and swam with fishes too. got baked in the sun for onli one day, because the first day weather wasnt that good.

my 2nd yr anniversary with daryl was simple and nice... went out to sing k lunch and then walked ard and eat dinner. but he took leave specially for me so i am quite touched. Why onli quite? cos as usual.. he did it becos i requested it... better than none i guess.

In the end, I decided not to quit my job.. having a job is better than floating around and having nothing to do. Afterall, I'm sort of enjoying the fact that I dont have to work everyday, only like 2 or 3 times a week. Its quite enough for me... not too tiring.

Im going tioman next week le... heard that there is nothing much to do there except to see see and take photos. But at least this is the first time im going overseas with friends only! This wld also be a good time to catch up with meiqing n steven too. Quite looking forward to it... Havent seen pinxiu for quite a long time too.

July is a month of birthdays... mingwai, xiao xuan... actually not alot of pple but the both of them are enough to kill. haha... my two good friends turning 21 ... joining the club le. Excited to celebrate their birthdays for them!

world cup world cup---- who will win?? i think france will win. haha.. cos they beat the unbeatables BRAZIL.. my beloved england lost le.. now i support france. And i turned into a gambler le.. haha.. been betting on those matches nowadays.. think i bet about 8 matches le.. and i won 3 times only. But overall there is some winnings la... quite fun loh. Lose then lose, if win can win a few bucks mah. =) i always bet the minimum, 5 dollars. haha.. maybe im going for a bigger one for the finals.

jj rocks forever

i love junjie!! hehe... fell in love with him le.. after his concert. What can i say? it was fantastic and entertaining.. just hearing him sing melts my heart. love his voice, his talent, his looks.. so boiboi! =) too bad from my seat i can only see a small figure moving around, gotta look at the screen all the time. But its already the most expensive seat le...

feel like quitting my current part time job le. Very tiring everyday, plus school holiday has come to an end, there will be lesser working hrs for all of us and more ppl available for work too cos the ite ppl are having sch hols soon. And that day.. i lost $101.10 doing cashier... sigh. Im so so so careless, although i already told myself to be very careful le. So stupid lah... Have to pay all by myself. Florence gave me 20 bucks to help me.. i didnt want it but then she insisted. If i quit now, i will feel very dui bu qi her too. Something like, she is trying to help me, so that i feel better and will be happier here too? And also, because of my shortage, zuoping wenhao and hisyam tried to help me in the end they get scolded for helping me cover part of my shortage without letting flo know... sigh. I lian lei them le... they also dun wan me to quit n wanted to pay for me too. So how? dunno whether i can still quit or not.

Just came back from hongkong about 3 hours ago. yea! it was quite a nice trip... and i think that the best part of it was the disneyland! I haven't been to other disneylands before so i cannot compare, but i think that it is really wonderful and pretty! It very magical and really well-built. I loved the fireworks the most... so many colours and disney music was played at the same time. The rides are ok only, as most are for children... but some of the children rides are very amazing as well, especially the winnie the pooh's story. The disney parade was also fantastic... so unforgetful! Luckily it only drizzled abit on that day, if not we would have wasted the trip there. Loved the disneyland. beautiful castle, pretty buildings everywhere.






Well the other 2 days are spent shopping, but i didnt get to buy much, cause the things there are really expensive. Their standard of living is higher than sg... the food.. not really to my liking, but still considered nice. At least the stalls that i went to, the wanton noodle no chilli one.. (so i dont like) and most of the noodles cost at least hk20.. converted wld be about 4 or 5 bucks.. so its like more ex than sg. All in all... i had an enjoyable time there with my parents, my grandma, little cousin n my auntie =)

cashier?

today's my first day doing cashier alone... and i kena shortage already... very sian... but luckily got my supervisor help me. he counted everything for me and helped me top up 14 out of 22 bucks so that i dont have to pay so much. so sweet. Like daddy coming to his daughter's rescue.. he saw i looked stress.. even told me not to cry.. haha...

have to go pack for hongkong liao..last min!! update again when i come back...

work

3 days of work.. 2nd day was boring, tiring and saddening.. cos i made a mistake, and 3 ppl have to come n nag... sigh. stupid me... felt veri demoralised and was so damn tired cause i stood for like 10 hrs. 3rd day of work was fun, why? haha.. cause i had the chance to learn to be cashier! (and sit down!!) Learnt how to use the nets, visa n master machines. But im scared of being cashier alone, cos have to deal with so much money alone. i scared im absent minded n blur. N also, got eye candy. hahhahaa.. eye candy only la..

first day of work after a mth of slacking

i wish i have osim i-squeeze!!!! Ahhhh my legs hurt like mad. First and one day of work @ wild wild wet are already killing my legs, don't know how am I going to last for even tomr??? =( =( so ironic.. yest i was sitting down the whole day playing gun bound at home and was feeling bad abt sitting the whole day. Today im wishing that i have another day like yesterday to sit for all i want!! anyway first day of work was okay, except that I think im still not really used to talking to strangers and was confused abt how some stuff work. But i guess i'll learn gradually. And i think that my supervisor is great!! He was the one who interviewed me actually, he's half indian and chinese... interesting guy :) it wld be fun to get to know him more, but i guess im the sort of quieter gals that he wldnt really enjoy mixing with... time to get some rest i guess... another day of work tmr... *sobs*

sea sports camp

my cousin's wedding is over, sea sports camp is over... now my hols are very free. Looking for job but failed to find any yet...

Sea sports camp was quite fun, except that i was lousy at some stuff... The first day we went for wind surfing, which really took away all of my body's energy, such that when i went back up to shore, I was feeling nausea and weak. But it was a fun experience, pulling up the sail and trying to balance properly. I was unlucky to have taken the bigger sail, towards the end then someone changed for me a smaller one, which i can at last, at least have a chance to move a few inches on the board. haha... Kena alot of bruises from wind surfing, cos of the climbing up, and the stupid sail even hit mhy head accidentally when i fell.. so lousy loh..

The next day we had wakeboarding and sailing, both of which were total failures. Wakeboard was really bad for me because i could only get up twice in 8 times i tried. Many people tried much more than 10 times and i only tried a few times because i was feeling weak n cannot make it... For sailing, there was no wind so we used oars instead, so its not really sailing anymore..

The last activity on the last day was my fav.. kayakin! =) but daryl was sea sick towards the end so we kayak for a little shorter while then the rest. But i still enjoyed it cos its my fav sea sports.

Yup.. I wanna work!! I want to work in a shopping centre environment cos i havent tried before.. wanna be a sales assistance or cashier. haha... think if i start work now i'll be so tired everyday and wish im not working. But having nothing much planned everyday is quite a bad thing... feel like im wasting my time not working for money for my pocket.