blast those eyebags!!!!!!!!!
I'm going to use english for this post simply because I'm lazy to open up a word document, type in hanyu pinyin, choose the right characters to use, copy and paste it here. Oh yes. That's because I've spent too much time taking mugshots of self and using Picasa to beautify them. This luxury shall be mine just for this morning, I promise.
It's freezing cold in the flat here, though the sun is certainly brighter now. They say it's a weird winter this year. Very little snow and lots of gorgeous sunshine. But yet it's really still freezing cold. As much as I dislike the uncomfy humidity sweatiness back home, I hate the cold here. Simply can't stand it.
Ok, I thought I can be back home for good in end March. The original plan was to finish up my experiment (a longitudinal experiment that's started since 6 february 07 and finally ending this friday, I CAN'T WAIT TO POP THE CHAMPAGNE. FRANKLY, I'M REALLY QUITE SICK OF IT NOW), analyse the stats, and come back with all the materials to write up my thesis back home. Turns out my supervisor has the brilliant foresight of me not being able to do so what with the plentiful distractions waiting to tempt me away from handing in a complete thesis. that actually, is a very true foresight. I will be, guaranteed plus chop, very distracted with Huiting and Yonghan and many many more people that I'd so love to catch up on that once I'm back,I would completely forget about the fact that there's a phd to at stake.
And so, it's no longer March 07 that I will be back.
Sigh.
The plan now is, to write up as much as I can here, hand in a solid draft ("To see your thesis, on paper, on the table." are my sup's exact words), then say ciao to Edinburgh.
I foresee that, to be achieved by end May.
I really want to be back for my birthday. That's the deadline i've set for myself.
And there's just soooo much i want to do when i'm back home! Gosh the very thoughts of them often keep me awake at night, the sheer excitement of fulfilling them in a mere two more months is in a word, breathtaking. What I can't wait to do:
1) Lose weight! I need to let my body learn how to sweat again before it forgets to. I really can't remember the last time I'm soaked with perspiration. Believe you me, I so want to feel hot and sticky with sweat! And I don't like that puffy face.
2) Bring Huiting over to stay with me. Take her for swimming lessons at the pool downstairs every saturday morning, bake cakes and cookies with her, sayang her with all the love that has culminated for my little princess over the last 3 years.
3) Discipline Yonghan with love, he really needs that.
4) Spend lots of time with mum and dad.
5) Spend lots of time with sis.
6) Spend lots of time with mum-in-law and compile a cookbook with all her yummilicious recipes.
7) Eat all around Singapore with Steve. we have make it a point to check out different good-eat locations round the island every weekend.
8) Make baby/babies.
9) Find a job!
Ok, regarding items 8 and 9, I'm really torn over which one to prioritise? In economical terms, maybe item 9 should come first. But item 8 is something which can't really come right after item 9 too, I mean, who would want to employ someone, and not long after receive the news that she's pregnant? I dun noe.
And.....exactly what job would I be looking for?
Dr. Nicole Foo.
Sounds really gooood, but what a load of burden that carrys.
In a way, I think I am going to quite miss the time here in Edinburgh.
It's freezing cold in the flat here, though the sun is certainly brighter now. They say it's a weird winter this year. Very little snow and lots of gorgeous sunshine. But yet it's really still freezing cold. As much as I dislike the uncomfy humidity sweatiness back home, I hate the cold here. Simply can't stand it.
Ok, I thought I can be back home for good in end March. The original plan was to finish up my experiment (a longitudinal experiment that's started since 6 february 07 and finally ending this friday, I CAN'T WAIT TO POP THE CHAMPAGNE. FRANKLY, I'M REALLY QUITE SICK OF IT NOW), analyse the stats, and come back with all the materials to write up my thesis back home. Turns out my supervisor has the brilliant foresight of me not being able to do so what with the plentiful distractions waiting to tempt me away from handing in a complete thesis. that actually, is a very true foresight. I will be, guaranteed plus chop, very distracted with Huiting and Yonghan and many many more people that I'd so love to catch up on that once I'm back,I would completely forget about the fact that there's a phd to at stake.
And so, it's no longer March 07 that I will be back.
Sigh.
The plan now is, to write up as much as I can here, hand in a solid draft ("To see your thesis, on paper, on the table." are my sup's exact words), then say ciao to Edinburgh.
I foresee that, to be achieved by end May.
I really want to be back for my birthday. That's the deadline i've set for myself.
And there's just soooo much i want to do when i'm back home! Gosh the very thoughts of them often keep me awake at night, the sheer excitement of fulfilling them in a mere two more months is in a word, breathtaking. What I can't wait to do:
1) Lose weight! I need to let my body learn how to sweat again before it forgets to. I really can't remember the last time I'm soaked with perspiration. Believe you me, I so want to feel hot and sticky with sweat! And I don't like that puffy face.
2) Bring Huiting over to stay with me. Take her for swimming lessons at the pool downstairs every saturday morning, bake cakes and cookies with her, sayang her with all the love that has culminated for my little princess over the last 3 years.
3) Discipline Yonghan with love, he really needs that.
4) Spend lots of time with mum and dad.
5) Spend lots of time with sis.
6) Spend lots of time with mum-in-law and compile a cookbook with all her yummilicious recipes.
7) Eat all around Singapore with Steve. we have make it a point to check out different good-eat locations round the island every weekend.
8) Make baby/babies.
9) Find a job!
Ok, regarding items 8 and 9, I'm really torn over which one to prioritise? In economical terms, maybe item 9 should come first. But item 8 is something which can't really come right after item 9 too, I mean, who would want to employ someone, and not long after receive the news that she's pregnant? I dun noe.
And.....exactly what job would I be looking for?
Dr. Nicole Foo.
Sounds really gooood, but what a load of burden that carrys.
In a way, I think I am going to quite miss the time here in Edinburgh.
But the essence of this post today is surely not about me posing and whining.
Because I want to shout out to my dearest mummy:
Happy Birthday!
I love you very very much.
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妈妈，生日快乐！
我 爱 你。
2 comments:
i really shouldn't be posting a comment here, noting the stuff that i've been telling myself to work on during this 1 wek holiday. however, upon reading your post about how u were supp to be back but yet have to stay on for another two mths b4 bidding edinburgh farewell, just feel that u need a pat on the shoulders and a *cheerios!!!* for pushing through thus far! Soon soon my dear, hope to see u soon. Les and I have been going around places to eat too. Really wished there was something else we could do together. Now there's no way i'm allowing him to eat fast food in front of me and we need to set asiide the saturday morning for gym n swimmming. Aarrgghh..... Anyway, ganbate! Will remember you in my prayers!
thanks for ur encouragement and thoughts dear! i kept saying that i want to try and lsoe weight when i'm back but i have a sneaking suspicion that i will eat so much tat i will gain more weight instead! wat to do. eat first then diet lah!!!
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