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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

my favourite rabbit sweet!

sigh..can't eat them anymore! all because of the unscrupulous china businessmen. irritating shit... and it's just so coincidental that i bought a packet of it 2 weeks ago. i've been eating them in order to suppress my hunger pangs during the lecture marathon i have every tues and thurs. i'm so sad now! most probably gotta depend on fruit bars now...

funny thing is, i bought many of those stuff that have high possibility of being 'poisoned' by melamine. i bought want want's 黑白配 wafer rolls just last week before the news of banned items came out. now i have another 3 packs of want want's ball cake too (you know those that you eat when you're young and they melt in your mouth.). 3 items sitting on my shelves but i'm afraid of eating them. i feel so deprived! okies whatever, back to mugging!!!!
confirmed banned item in my shelve.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Incredibly intelligent doggie!

i'm utterly impressed by this german shephard. oh my, never thought dogs could be trained to this extent!
Mr Hero: 18 month-old Buddy
"Man's best friend" doesn't go far enough for Buddy _ a German shepherd who remembered his training and saved his owner, Joe Stalnaker by calling 911 when the man had a seizure. On a recording of the 911 call Wednesday, Buddy is heard whimpering and barking after the dispatcher answers and repeatedly asks if the caller needs help.
"Hello, this is 911. Hello ... Can you hear me? Is there somebody there you can give the phone to," says the dispatcher, Chris Trott. Police were sent to Stalnaker's home, and after about three minutes Buddy is heard barking loudly when the officers arrived. Scottsdale police Sgt.
Mark Clark said Stalnaker spent two days in a hospital and recovered from the seizure. "It's pretty incredible," Clark said. "Even the veteran dispatchers _ they haven't heard of anything like this." Clark said police are dispatched whenever 911 is called, but that Stalnaker's address was flagged in Scottsdale's system with a notification that a trained assistance dog could call 911 when the owner was incapacitated.
Clark said Stalnaker adopted Buddy at the age of 8 weeks from Michigan-based Paws with a Cause, which trains assistance dogs, and trained him to get the phone if he began to have seizure symptoms. Buddy, now 18 months old, is able press programmed buttons until a 911 operator is on the line, Clark said. Clark said Buddy has made two other 911 calls when Stalnaker was having seizures.
He said Stalnaker's seizures are the result of a head injury he suffered about 10 years ago during a military training exercise.
Adapted from Yahoo! news.


Monday, September 15, 2008

people

got news that our MM Lee's health is facing some problem, abnormal heart rhythm it was reported. don't know why i felt kinda sad... scared maybe.. that we might soon be losing another good leader of Singapore. i do not really have much confidence with the newbies in the cabinet, nor do i see any leaders who have simlar capabilities as the older batch. i'm not a 100% pro-PAP person but i have my gratitude and respect to the many leaders that have brought us to what we are today. I do not think any of the prosperity and peace we are enjoying today are of any coincidence. Yet, some people are just apethetic. oh well...

anyway, back to the title 'people'. well, being in ntu for a month or so have enabled me to see more kinds of people, and perhaps, how people you used to think you know change. but i think the point i'm trying to say here is what sort of person i am. morale is kinda low now... cuz studies don't look good at all. all the rushing around, having lessons, activites, CCAs.... kind of driving me nuts a little. too early, you say? yeah i admit, but seriously this is how i'm feeling nowadays. occasional thoughts of giving up, of wondering if i did choose the right course, of asking for help... drifts pass too often for my own good. quiz is coming this wednesday and i'm pulling my hair. so much uncertainty... so frustrating. i'm feeling that i'm actually catching up a little, but thoughts that others are understanding much better than i do are stamping on my confidence (if there's much to speak of). at this point in time, i'm just hoping that i can remember and understand as much as i can.

so it goes, 人比人 真的会比死人.

i am just hoping and praying for the best on wednesday. cuz a senior told me that such quizzes should aim for full marks. something that isn't impossible, but now with my level of knowledge now. ahhhhhhhhhhhh :'(

Wednesday, September 03, 2008

只能坚强

人最糟糕的就是脆弱。

所以,真的不能让自己脆弱。

死都不能。

santa game from bunnyhero labs
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Missing by Catherine MacPhail
Just Like That by Marsha Qualey
Tomorrow belongs to me by Mark Roberts
Night Train by Judith Clarke
The boy on the bus by Deborah Schupack
The Other Side of the Story by Marian Keyes
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