There was a meet your mentor session for the Computer Engineering school today, coupled with a free lunch for freshmen. Sadly by the time I got to the free lunch, there was nothing left. The lunch was supposed to start at 12.30pm and I got there at 12.45pm after lesson and meeting my mentor...They must have started earlier..

But no matter, I got this cool clock as a free door gift!


This is what is says on the top.


The clock display changes as you turn the clock, and green and blue lights flash. It looks very pretty! (though not pink lights =p). Here are some pics to show the different displays. They're abit dark cos I had to turn off the flash to capture the coloured lights.

Time display:

turn 90 degrees clockwise for alarm time:

Another 90 degrees clockwise for timer:

Lastly, room temperature!

Got back the results of my blood test today. Seems like everything is as it should be. So the doctor has no idea what's wrong with me. But since it's not that often he says that I shouldn't worry too much about it.

But I forgot to mention ytd that I also did a skin scrap of a weird patch of super itchy thingy on my face to send for lab analysis too. Turns out it's a yeast infection. Apparently the yeast cells are floating about in the air around us and our antibodies are supposed to prevent them from infecting us, but somehow mine couldn't do the job. Anyway got a cream to apply from doctor, hope it heals soon cos it's been there for 2 months liao.

This morning I almost fainted on the MRT trip to school. At first I just kept feeling that my bag was really heavy, even though I have all the same things as last week inside it, and I didn't feel that it was heavy then. Then around 2-3 stations before Jurong East I started feeling nauseous and thus had to grip on tightly to one of the metal poles and bend my head down. At this moment my condition was still bearable, as in still don't feel like fainting yet...

However, a huge crowd of people entered the train at Jurong East, and that's when things got worse. Firstly, the huge crowd meant that there was less fresh air, and secondly, there was this man with terrible body odour standing in front of me. I started feeling breathless and started breathing very deeply and rapidly. At this point the people around me were looking at me weirdly...Because of this, and the fact that the train was packed, I didn't want to squat down even though I was already breaking out in cold sweat. Around Chinese Garden however, I just couldn't take it and had to squat down. Those around me shifted away from me...I guess they were afraid I was gonna throw up on them...This wasn't the first time this happened in the MRT but the previous time someone offered his seat to me so I recovered by the time I reached school.

Anyway at Boon Lay I managed to get off the train but had to rest on the seats for about 5 mins because my hands and legs were feeling numb and shaky and I couldn't walk without feeling faint. Tried calling my friend to see if she could pick me up from Boon Lay interchange but she didn't pick up the call cos somehow it couldn't get through...Anywae she was 1 hr late for lecture haha.

Supposed to have lab today so I thought it was important to go to school...thus made my way to take the bus and actually managed to get to school. But still felt quite unwell in school so went to the school's medical center to get mc. Normally I don't bother seeing doctor since it's expensive but I needed the mc for the lab teacher...

lol..such a long winded story..but there's more! After explaining my situation to the doctor, he suggested doing a couple of tests to determine the cause of these fainting spells. Mainly it was a couple of blood tests checking blood sugar, blood count and such...Gotta send these to an external lab for tests though so I haven't gotten the results. I was kinda apprehensive about drawing out blood for the tests though cos the last time i took out a tube of blood I fainted after about 2 hours? And this time they needed 2 tubes...The nurse made me lie down before drawing blood just in case I fainted. She thought I had "needle phobia" so she told me not to look at the needle lol. But luckily this time nothing happened. Maybe cos I ate a milo bar right after I left the clinic..

So they'll contact me after the test results are out..hopefully there's nothing wrong with me..

Over the past few days, my blog shop, Dreamy Gifts has undergone some major changes. First and foremost being a pinkification! =) A change of blog template has made it magnificently pink, or pinknificent!

haha word play aside, some products sold on Dreamy Gifts before have been removed, and a few new ones introduced. The reasoning behind this is that I'm too lazy to make stuff lol. I've had lots of bogus buyers emailing me to order items and when I ask for payment they go MIA. It's very annoying. Some even email me to ask about pricing and don't even bother to email me back to inform me if they have decided to buy from me or not. I'm perfectly ok if people decide not to buy from me, just try to take the effort to inform me so I don't keep waiting in anticipation...

The types and numbers of items sold there right now has significantly reduced but I hope to add more gifts to the shop in the near future so do check back often ya? ^^ In the meantime, do check out the special Valentine's Day and Chinese New Year items!

No it's not Santa Claus...It's Horlicks!

"Ho Ho Ho, as much Vitamin B6, form 48 bananas.
Ho Ho Ho, as much Calcium from 55 cups of milk.
Ho Ho Ho, as much Iron from 3 kilo of spinach!"

This Horlicks advertisement plays on TV mobile at least 3 times during the trip on the bus to or from school. I even heard this group of boys going "Ho Ho Ho!" during a lecture. Lol. This can mean 2 things. Either they have effective advertising or the advert just repeats too many times.

Actually I wonder all that goodness is in one cup of Horlicks or did they mean the whole jar? Come to think of it, I vaguely remember some other words being said after all that ho ho ho stuff but can't seem to remember them exactly. Oh well, can listen to it again on Monday.

Today was quite a bad day for me. Firstly in the morning, 179A queue was so long I was 2 minutes late for lecture. Well actually long queues are usual la. The real reason why I was late was cos I was so tired I didn't hear my alarm. But anyway the lecturer himself was 13 minutes late lol.

Then after my last lesson at 4pm, it was raining so heavily that there were huge puddles everywhere, or should I say mini ponds? I was walking along the path from south spine to the long staircase leading to nanyang audi and the whole area was totally flooded. Rain was splashing down the sides of the shelter like a waterfall and water was flowing down the steps like a fountain. Tried tiptoe-ing thru' the puddles but gave up and sloshed through cos they were much too deep.

Managed to make it safely to the Can A bus stop and got on 179 thinking that I could have a peaceful nap till the bus interchange. I was wrong! At the stop near the school of biological sciences (i think), the bus has to stop on a slope (uphill). So, students happily filed in, the doors closed and the bus tried to continue the upwards climb. Tried to. 3 times. And failed. It was quite funny actually. Could hear the engine trying its best but when the driver released the accelerator the bus started rolling downhill before he stopped the bus with a huge jerk. 3 times this happened before the driver instructed us to alight and board the bus behind. Too bad most people didn't get a seat in the second bus since it was already fairly crowded.

When I arrived at the interchange, things started to take a turn for the better...because i got these pretty pink donuts for dinner! ^^


they were bought from a new donut shop, Donut Donut, at boon lay mrt. All their donuts there have names and the one on the left above is called "Princess" & the right one "Sweetheart". Cute names huh? Yes I was attracted to the pink colour, but they taste pretty good too! =p


Oh! and not forgetting this colourful brownie from school! Kinda sweet but oh so rich and sinful..

Hi! As you might have noticed, I'm now blogging at this new address and not at http://astarryblanket.blogspot.com anymore! Just felt the need to change the url...at the expense of my google pr of 2 though...no matter, can work towards it again. Hmm I wonder if I should use "Anecdotes of Life" or Anecdotes Of Life" for the blog title..small or capitalised "o" in the of? argh...getting frustrated over a small issue again...anywae, kindly give me your opinion on this matter if you have any =)

I received a sms from my friend today telling me she couldn't visit my blog as it keeps getting redirected to another page. At first I tried accessing my blog with no problems. Then I tried a second time and true enough got redirected. A search on google told me that this was the fault of Advertlets ads so I removed them right away.

I wonder how long it would take for them to fix this problem. Just google "advertlets redirect" and you get lots and lots of info, not to mention angry people blogging about this. Even in forums people are discussing this issue. According to the advertlets blog about 50% of Singaporeans should not be facing this prob anymore...Well i'm not taking the risk..shall not replace the code until it is completely fixed. Anyone else with this problem should do the same too, lest risk losing your blog readers.

Yesterday my mother put some of the clothes we brought overseas to wash, including a woolen sweater. To our horror (or actually just mine cos my mum had already experienced this before) there was a terrible stink coming from the woolen sweater! All the other non-woolen stuff was fine. According to my mum, woolen stuff always stink after washing but the smell disappears after it dries. She has no idea why though so I decided to do a little research.

Couldn't find that much info about this on the web, but apparently wool that is pure and untreated usually retains much of the natural oils (and perhaps odour?) from the sheep. Thus wool smells terrible when it's wet because the wool on the sheep gives off the same smell when it gets wet too. In other words, the bad smell is actually a wet sheep smell and there is really nothing we can do about it except make sure the sweater dries out fully.

Happy New Year to everyone! Hopefully this will be a better year for me and everyone. I emailed the school about my timetable clash thingy but still haven't got a reply. I guess they must be having their New Year holidays too cos calling the office also yielded no results. Actually I don't really mind taking the module again, but the thing I really dread are the labs! I hate labs =(. Wonder if they will be the same ones as last sem though?

Anyway, I just remembered that I brought home a bracelet from Paris to be sold on my shop! I totally forgot about it until now. Can't seem to find my camera though. Shall upload the item on the shop when my father gets home and I get the camera from him. Itz a bracelet made out of pink stones and there's an Eiffel Tower Charm on it too! I think itz quite cute (maybe cos it's pink haha) but you can judge that for yourself when I get the pic uploaded.

*edit: bracelet uploaded in shop! do check it out =)