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Last night, Hong Zhen, Janice and John came over to my room to have dinner together - our last time together, ever, in Broadgate Park, Nottingham. Everything proceeded as per normal. There was loads of laughter, random-ness, lame-ness and nonsense (especially where there's John around). Oh, and of course, we did talk about smarter topics like democracy, human rights, a possible brain transplant and the capacity of a human brain, genetics, schizophrenia, etc. Usual #1: John jamming a little on the guitar The comments you hear in the background belong to Hong Zhen!:) Usual #2: Eating and talking Last night, we decided to get Thai takeout from Sukho Thai. It was a BIG meal because we each had a box of egg fried rice, each had a box of curry (or Tom Yum in John's case), and then we shared half a roast duck. Usual #3: Tea-drinking And with John around, there definitely was tea to end dinner off... I post this photo because this shows us waiting for the tea. I'm on the right, mak...

Now that exam-panic is starting to set in - big time - I really need to find things that will keep me feeling happy and positive, as opposed to feeling depressed and negative. I logged onto Facebook today and saw that James had uploaded photos of a recent cell bonding. I looked through them and came across really funny photos, especially this one: My goodness for awhile I couldn't stop laughing whenever I looked at the photo. Cynthia was completely unaware of what was going on behind her. And James' expression is just classic. I'm now really looking forward to returning to Singapore - home and church - and yet at the same time I'm not really looking forward to it. Returning to Singapore means that when the new school year comes around... 1) I'm probably not going to be in the same small group as this year, because at the end of every school year the small groups are disbanded and re-formed. I'm going to miss my small group mates very much. 2) Janice is going to ...

Random #1: SUMMER HAS COME EARLY! The weather these few days have been AWESOME. After Monday lectures, Po Yew, Janice and I made a quick trip to the Millenium Gardens just next to Law School to take photos. The sky is so blue, the sun is so bright, the grass is so green, the flowers are in full bloom... Forget about jackets. In Po Yew's words, which he said very happily, "The girls are wearing nothing!" Girls are walking around in mini skirts sans stockings and in spaghetti tops. Many people are now lounging around on grass patches too. I look out of my room window to see a group of people on the grass. And they actually brought out their computer screen from their room! Random #2: DINNER TIME FEELS LIKE LUNCH TIME Days are getting longer now. At 7pm, it feels like it's still 4pm. Get this, I took this photo at 7pm. Random #3: SMALL GROUP OUTING I actually just got back from a small group outing to the bowling alley, which also had a bar and a game arcade. A lot of pe...

Today in church, they showed the most random video clip of this gigantic snowball being rolled along by people in this big field that was completely covered by snow. It was just too cute and funny. And it was also a sign of how wondrous the heavy snowfall was for each and every person living here in Nottingham. We all want more of the "wonderful white stuff", as described by one of the elders in the church. Anyway, on Wednesday (4 Feb), I woke up and looked out the window to see the snow melting away and the green grass starting to show again. I felt sad, but I knew that this snow was never meant to last long anyway. I just thank God I had Monday's experience. On Thursday (5 Feb), I woke up, looked out the window, and was shocked to see everything all white again (See photos below: 4 Feb on the left, 5 Feb on the right)! It did not snow as much on Thursday, just a little bit more. But for the rest of the day, we were all trudging around in the snow. Hong Zhen's and J...

On Tuesday (30 Dec '08), Janice, John, Tzen and her younger sister came to my room to have dinner. Tzen contributed the chye sim, John contributed eggs fried sunny-side-up while I cooked claypot chicken rice. Afterwards, we sat around over grapes and Ben & Jerry's ice-cream, while John and Janice played the guitar. I forgot that I was cooking for 5 people, so didn't borrow Janice's larger rice cooker. Have you noticed how there seems to be a little rice mountain rising up from my little rice cooker?:) John also lent Dylan the Dog his cap: On Thursday (1 Jan '09), John came over to my room to have 'ba chor' mee with Janice and I. Janice was the great chef who made the 'ba chor' mee!:) After dinner, John had another crazy session with the Photo Booth application on my macbook. This time around, we added background effects by way of photos I had saved in my macbook. So, suddenly, John was smelling giant flowers... ...part of One-Third... ...and wen...