Ai Lin, 21 National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty of Science Chemistry major Year 2
SINGAPORE
meteordreams@hotmail.sg
sports, roller blade, love being tan, wants to be a teacher, hate labs and experiments, love chem theories, thriller seeker, roller coasters, getting to kingda ka is her dream(google this if you're a noob haha), love disney stuff, disneyland, kingdom, vintage, photography, magazines, chill, hanging out :)
METEORDREAMS.BLOGSPOT.COM because Meteor Garden is my favourite drama(Korean and Taiwan version) and I dream a lot. I have been blogging since Sept 2006 and stuck with this name throughout :)
I blog whenever I feel like it, when I want to share something with you guys, when I am feeling down, when I am happy. Usually a stay home person, loves the pseudo world compared to the real world, at least I find comfort here.
2nd week - as cracks evolved23 May 2012 @ 11:53 PM
It's the second week here, and 5 girls living together do cause conflicts.
I will not name anyone in case this post spreads out. But I'll just say whatever I have here.
I am the kind who have to keep going out and exploring, but you have people at home that need to Skype every single day - yeah I know you have to but isn't coming to Canada suppose to make you grow up and be independent? So if you still have to talk to your parents every single day and miss out on all the activities, I don't really know what to say.
Perhaps I'm just too independent and I really don't like people who are so dependent and cannot survive on their own. Like come on la, we're all already 20, turning 21. Please be an adult and grow up to be independent can?
I seriously can't stand it.
At least Canada is safe enough for me to venture out alone. So I should thank Canada for being a super safe country.
As they sometimes say, take the risk and venture out yourself. You'll discover amazing sights that the rest wouldn't.
I shall do my own things and enjoy Canada my own way - that will make me even more independent than I have always been.
1st week in Canada21 May 2012 @ 10:27 AM
Finally have the time to blog omg. The first week was insane with school and travelling. Blogger is taking forever to load wtf. So I'll just do 2-3 pics for a day if not i'll not be done here.
The following pictures were on the plane, in USA (New York) and my residence in Canada.
Went to some pancake shop the next day :)
Finally Old Navy! Have been buying their clothes online for a year. Sg don't have Old Navy T.T Sucks that I can't get Old Navy back home. This makes me love Canada more.
Went to Canada's Wonderland. Took 13 roller coasters :D
Whee I'm a super big fan of roller coasters if you don't know.
Koreatown
o.o kimchi so big
Stay tune for fb photos as blogger takes like an hour to load all photos omg. Anw for the first week, I've realised how independent I am. I always thought that I cannot survive without my parents around. But after taking 29 hours of flight and 10 hours of bus to Canada, the 2 full days of travelling from Singapore, and what I've done in the first week - I've actually walked around in Canada myself for 2 days already and I absolutely love the feeling of freedom. Canada now feels like home to me although I am very far away from Singapore. Even my room feels like my own room back home haha.
May the next 2 months be the best time of my life :)
First post from Canada13 May 2012 @ 12:35 PM
Hello everyone :)
Sorry for not updating you all since I left for Canada. We arrived yesterday morning at 8am, after 29 hours of flying + 10 hours of bus from New York to Toronto.
So it's about 2 days that we were travelling, without bathing, without proper sleep. I only slept a total of 4 hours for 2 days. And Toronto is 12 hours behind Singapore, which means it's 12.20am on 13 May now, and Singapore is 12.20pm on 13 May now.
I am supposed to be awake according to Sg time, but everyone in my apartment is sleeping now.
Have been going around to familiarise ourselves with the places around the university. Today is the second day that we're here and we have already explored so many places(all on facebook).
I only have about 3 hours every night for myself, which is not enough for me since I'm an introvert and I need a lot of time to think and reflect what I'm doing, thus the lack of blogging.
Weather is great, 14 deg in the day where I can wear shorts and walk around and enjoy the air, which I definitely can't find in Singapore. Night is about 10-11 deg. I just close the windows and wear leggings + shorts to sleep.
I somehow force myself to watch the youtube videos that I watch in Singapore - Sophia Grace and Rosie on the Ellen show, Jon and Kate plus 8, Keeping up with the Kardashians. And it did help, I feel like I'm at home in Canada because I watch the same shows at night, over and over again so that I feel at home.
School is starting on Monday. Hopefully Jake reply my whatsapp.
Stress08 May 2012 @ 10:32 PM
I'm flying in 23 hours time, and I donno wtf is going on.
NUS seriously screw up my life. I sent the module mappings in 1.5 months ago and you tell me 2 days before I fly that the mappings are rejected?? So now I got no module to take there??
wtf is this?????
I fucking stress now. Please hope that another module that I'm appealing to toronto now got vacancy.
Food review: Jack's Place @ Bukit Panjang Plaza06 May 2012 @ 10:52 AM
Went to celebrate my brother's 19th on May 5th :)
Garlic bread and chicken soap.
My Jack's Club Sandwich. They said tender chicken but my chicken was damn hard o.o Large serving though.. won't order again cuz the chicken was really disappointing.
Dad's spring chicken! Also damn hard lol I can't even chew on the meat =x
Mom's Fish thing... forgot what she ordered.
Brother's combo meal. Also super hugh serving for a big boy!
Ice cream for birthday!!!
Overall, the food don't really match up to the price. I last went to Jack's Place when I was is 14. The meat are all very hard lol. Totally opposite of what they wrote in their menu. Maybe I'll visit them when I'm 28? Or maybe I won't even go back lol.. At least better than my review on Siam Kitchen, I won't even go back to the latter.
So anw my sister went to Japan already so she's not here for brother's bday.
Dad bought a new pink camera for me whoohoo!
Okay everyone knows I have a DSLR. Considering that I'm bring my laptop onto the plane, I cannot handle the DSLR if I were to bring it. Imagine the weight of laptop + DSLR. CAN DIE.
So my Nikon Cool Pix very disappointing leh - Cannot take still images. I shake my hand a little, the whole image gone already. So we went to hunt for another compact camera, Sony Cyber Shot. Comes in Pink :)
ps: I deactivated my twitter account after a week of reactivating it. Realised that twitter really damn bo liao and since I can live without it for the past 2 months, I won't use it anymore.
#awkwardmoment; I know friend A, introduced me to friend B. Now friend B and I are closer, and friend A and I lost contact but I still love friend A
friend B: you eating dinner with us?
me: *in my head: huh what dinner? I didn't get any dinner invites.* and within a split second, it came out of my mouth as *don't think so, got dinner plans with other friends on that day*(when I have none)
friend B: oh friend A didn't call you? I thought you all close?
me: oh donno leh.
So now I know, I've still treated friend A dearly as my friend but from talking to friend B, friend A clearly forgot about me. As they say "treat people the way you want them to treat you." I'm not being a bad person but since A decided to act first, it's her problem lor and I'll just wish her all the best.
Food review: Siam Kitchen @ Lot 104 May 2012 @ 4:14 PM
Yi Siew just came back from London! She asked me out for lunch and ask me to choose where I wanna dine. She said she's just gotten back and not used to Sg life and Sg very unfamiliar to her!
This is what 5 months in London did to her lol. She said London is her home o.o and she don't wanna come back.
Okay so anw, she gave me a photo of Big Ben!!!!!!!!! Omg I wanna go there T.T
So pretty omg :'(
So I said Siam Kitchen at Lot 1 Shoppers Mall. I ordered Tom Yam Seafood Glass Noodle and she ordered Pineapple Fried Rice.
The food not as good as Thai Express. Like so-so only. Thai Express Tom Yam still the best :D
Anw the bad thing is; once we sat down, they brought us a bowl of crackers and we thought it was complimentary so we snack on it. Then when the bill came, it was included and still charge us service tax and GST on the stupid crackers.
Siam Kitchen is not worth visiting. I rather pay the same amount and visit Thai Express as their food has greater flavour and you are being forced to pay for the crackers that you took 4/50 pieces they gave.
So if you wanna go there, I strongly don't recommend it lol. Totally not worth.
Going back to packing :( 3 days already still not done omg. Yi siew said she took 1 week to pack for her London trip.
Bff damn zi dong(automatic) ask me out on Labour Day to celebrate my 21st early! Omg seriously my friends are just awesome. This Sunday, my JC friend zi dong ask me go sing K. Actually I said I'm fine with board games. Then they said I love K so we're meeting up for K instead :)
I was so happy when they said they wanna go K with me hahahahhaa!
I am really a badass friend. I didn't even bother about them during the whole semester as I was so cropped up with my own stupid problems. I really do not deserve such great love from them. I swear that I must go for more class gathering now since I must invest time and effort in the people that love me.
Okay back to day out!!! We went to our favourite shopping place again lol. Have been shopping there together since we were in Sec 2!
My fringe is horrible. Goanna trim it myself later. I don't have to go to hair salon anymore. I can cut, highlight, apply hair mask myself. You guys should learn it yourself too lol so you won't have to pay them to do it for you. Especially all the hair salons in the world anyhow charge prices when you do your hair - based on age, length, condition of your hair etc.
They should have a measurement lor. Like 50cm = $8.00. 80cm = $10.00. Then 79 cm = $9.90.
All salons on earth don't measure hair length right? Just anyhow give a quote -.-
Went to eat fill-a-plate salad! Another favourite dining place for us in Orchard! It's $11.90 for a plate and you just pile whatever you can hahaha. It's located at Cathay Cineleisure basement, beside Koufu.
Opening presents! Pissed off face while trying to figure out how to use the super small bottle of perfume.
Okay goanna get back to packing now and I'll trim my hair later! It's raining now again ppffffttttttttttt I need to go to the bank to get bank statement!!!!!!! Idiot rain!
I can't believe the retarded exams are over. Well I'm prepared for two Cs anw so that's how badly I'm goanna do this semester.
Went to buy hair dye because I need to celebrate the end of YEAR 2!!!!! Can't believe I even survived year 2. Sometimes I doubt how can I even get this far.
A very unglamorous Ai Lin.
I must be crazy to highlight my hair myself - well okay I did the left side only :-) Wanna see if this dye is good so my left side is my blueprint.
I bought L'Oreal shimmering eye shadow too! Not cheap okay, $22.90 leh! But I'll use it la since sometimes I put make up when I go out.
Need to find hotels now omg everything haven't book and I'm leaving in 9 days time.
The WORST Rambling post ever27 April 2012 @ 5:15 PM
The past 2 months, if you have been following me, it was definitely a roller coaster ride.
So low and behold, my top news on my facebook newsfeed was you getting into a relationship with a 15 year old.
Based on my ultimate stalking abilities - yeah I can be crowned the Stalker Expert on fb, you added her on 27th March, the very night you asked me to consider being your gf. Obviously you know me, I said a big N O.
Obviously I won't consider someone who's just 2cm taller than me and is just a slacker - no goals in life, don't wanna study, don't wanna do anything. I'm far to pragmatic - I require someone who have an aim and what he wanna do in life, doesn't matter the profession, I just want someone who have a decent goal.
So this guy decided to piss me off. After exactly one month which is today, 27th April, my fb feed was flooded with crazy couple photos.
Guys do annoy me. They want to get back at you just because you rejected them, by getting into a relationship with another girl. Now, I'm more sympathetic than pissed off.
I sympathise with the young 15 year old. She was made use by a guy who was pissed off after getting rejected by another person. In other words, the new relationship was not due to love, but an underlying unspoken ulterior motive of the guy to piss the girl whom rejected him.
As I'm writing this, my thoughts are about the innocent young teenagers. Don't get into a relationship with someone you met online for a month. Relationships are the outcome of genuine love, not for boasting oneself to the world that one is attractive enough to get a man online and hugging him on the first meeting.
Do not get into a relationship just because you have to, get into one because you love someone from your true heart.
My last paper is on Monday. I've had enough nonsense of these idiots. I'm giving all I have for my last paper.
[edited: I need a man in my life. Someone along the line of....
Show luo!
Wong fu's Philip Wang!
Xiao gui!
Okay see the trend? I need guys with goals, with the height and the shoulders. Ah just kill me now I'm damn bimbotic.
ps: I realised my writing ability improved after taking an arts module this semester. What do you think :-)
My new specs!!! Looks like my old one but this one is metal! the old one is plastic hehe show you all the difference!!!
Okay la not so big diff. But since my new one is metal, it's not as thick as my old one, which is plastic. Thick materials give me headache!!! But now I'm on cloud nine :) Thin one feels more relaxing for me, haha psychological la i think.
I can't wear hairbands too lol hairbands give me headache and they're painful to me.
Lol of is it really my problem? Yeah I think got something wrong with my brain. FML.
Haven't really been studying omg. I'm just goanna die.
11 April 2012 @ 1:35 PM
I am in the school library now, blogging cuz I was so demoralised by SOM test.
I donno how the fuck did I screw up the paper. The rest of the answers are okay, 1 not sure and the other 1 confirm wrong.
How the fuck did it happen? No more 25/25 already, and no more A.
Yes even though I know my friend got 2 wrong last sem and managed to get an A, but her essay and midi could be so much better than mine. Never mind the 2 wrong but she secured it.
I am so demoralised now that an A flew away just in front of me, every mark counts.
