"You don't need to die, to start living"

Beautiful,
everything is, its just your perspectives of things.

RIP Zach Sobiech

End of Week 3 of 10 weeks

As my chapter is coming to a close,
I reflect upon the last 4 years here.
It isn't easy to let go and move on. What is up next in my life is still a mystery.
And I am all excited for that, at the same time mixed with sadness to leave all the wonderful people behind/infront (happy).
Behind = people in the US
Infront = people back in SG

Trying to push everything to the back of my mind now and to focus at every last remaining steps I have left and I think I really maxed out my time for my last quarter, getting short of breathe, no breather for me and procrastination needs to cease to exist, if not I am falling way way way behind my classes :( and :) at the same time.
This shizzz CRAY

Cheers

Here's to the last chapter in UCSD, the last chapter to college and almost towards the end of my stay in the US as an undergrad.
What am I doing now you ask?
I finally moved my lazy ass and am very involved this quarter
I'm taking 3 classes (1 psych 2 linguistics)
And involved with 1 internship, 1 lab animal research work and I am working as a transfer orientation leader.

It's an exciting quarter, although I already am lack of sleep, I feel that its in preparation for the next chapter of life...

To be continued......

Good Friday

So technically today is Good Friday,
and we remember His Pain.

I probably would only go thru 1/100 of the pain He has suffered,
but I'll literally experience it myself tomorrow.
Going under to get all 4 wisdom tooth out.
I'm having a panic attack right now just thinking about it.
I'm imagining how I'll be snoring while he's at my teeth tugging and pulling,
I'm imagining I'm gonna fart a really smelly one,
I'm imagining my clothes come loose or something,
I'm imagining I knock something over,
I'm imagining the weird things I'm gonna say after.
THE WORST I'm imagining is the NEEDLE the IV needle, the THICK IV NEEDLE that is going through my arms again.

OK PEACE OUT everyone.nuff said.

Ripples

When you have that toe or finger in that water, life is never the same again. I'm thankful I made the right choice. It's hard to forget memories.

Too Quick to Judge

I know changes are inevitable.
One day when I take a step back and look at how life has past us by,
we are all but the same.
Don't be too quick to judge upon others, cause there are always people who have been through far worst or far happier lifes than you already did.

I love to know who is behind the lens or in front of the lens and whats their story?

Bigger Crossroads

At the age of 24,
you've passed by life that you remember for at least 20 years.
That is a huge accomplisment and deserves a pat on the back.

What now?

The Leo in me...

Can't find a place to roar

Never say Never

I read back my blog on 5th Dec
I said I'll never forget this day? (I did)
:(

Be REAL!

This speaks me now and thanks EUGENIELY, cause even you had a verse in this song (:

LET'S GO!

Hide me behind a waterfall!

http://www.johnoverall.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/waterfall-cave1.jpg

Reaching Point

You have no idea how "well-done" I am in school.
Lol I was never the study sort to begin with, still very thankful to be where I am together, just graduate already!! (I hear my dad's pocket screaming the same thing)

Majority of friends are getting married,
starting a new phase of life altoghether.
Happy at the same time, afraid of the time when mine arrives/not arrive.
This future, this reaching point, just what is it?
Starting to lose the steam, starting to side track, starting to wander, starting to get lost, starting to not want it to end...

P.S: btw Toronto is a no goer this Christmas :(

Senior year!!

My last year wooohooo!
Looking forward to 1 wedding and Toronto (hopefully)

LOVE YOU FOLKS

Metamorphosis

This memoriable trip back has to be a realization of the transformations that happened around me.
People come and people go, both literally and metaphorically.
Its all too overwhelming at the same time happy to see the changes, for the best.
I mean life has so much to teach, although I lost my grandma the end of last year, it has been a relieve for my mom who was her primary care taker. The family overcome our sadness by welcoming the birth of my nephew Kienan.
I had a lot of family time this trip back, only to realise the grays on everyone else's heads and the deep furrowed wrinkles setting in. The depleting amount of money I'm absorbing for my education, I have only one wish to do well and its a good motivation for my very last leg of my race.

Talk about an educational journey, teaching about life.
We never cease to learn, even as we age.
I see friends being proposed too, friends getting married, people travelling the globe, people making it big in their start-up companies, its exciting cause I'm entering the next phase of life.
Yes, everyone keeps asking whats my next step?
But if you already know me well enough, I don't know, trust me I love the thrill of finding it out myself. I can make plans, but my plans never follow thru.
I love to be in the field of research, I love kids, I love to work in a clinical setting, can I get all the above? Where will I land my first job?
I don't have any answers to the above, my doors are open. I'm young, wild and free (:

er... don't get me wrong, not in a partying kinda way, but think of a bird... flying and soaring high.
I'll update soon when I graduate (on this topic). 2 weeks more guys before I go back to the land of dreams, the American dream...

Chicken Soup for my SOUL

I don't know how this would turn out and its my first time getting it done,
but I'll share my chap-a-lang (all in) recipe that comes with step by step instructions and pictures
SO this is what you'll need:

A pot half filled with water (Stock pot)
Carrots (optional)
Salt (for taste)
1 Whole chicken (cut into 6 or more pieces)
Ginseng
Seasame oil
Assorted herbs, you can just get a pack of these, which includes:

• Wolfberries
• Ginseng
• Chinese Angelica root
• Astraglus root
• Pilrose Asiabell root
• Chinese Yam
• Red dates

(some of these I bought individually and added them in as well, I'm not going to put measurements cause it depends how much you wanna make, or you could just eyeball it! NOTE: if you don't like the bitter taste in chinese herbs, put less of the bitter tasting herbs like ginseng)

So here goes!

Take a Stock Pot, rinse it, HYGIENE people! Fill it to half full, my pot is pretty big so I'll need more ingredients and bring this water to a boil. While it sits to boil, read on...

While your water is bringing itself to a boil, prepare your herbs.
Open the packages of herbs, take them out, decide how much you wanna use
Rise them in cold water, to get rid of particles or dust on them

Then soak them for bout 10mins (just to get them to be soft)
Once your water is boiling, you throw in all your herbs, ginger, seasame oil and add salt for taste

*oh dear, as you can see, I totally forgot about my carrot, well I wanted a little more sweetness and got myself a carrot, so while preparing the herbs you should have also cut up your carrot, another good ingredient to add is corn and lotus root if you like and dump them in together with the herbs...

AND you sit and wait for about 2-5 hours on low heat, for these soups the longer the better (my opinion)
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Add Chicken pieces to the soup, bones and all for another 1.5 hours on medium heat and let seat for another hour on low heat

Soup is now ready to be served
For better taste, I suggest leaving it there for a couple more hours and heating the soup up again!
I really enjoy the bitter, and herbal smell of Chinese soups,
Serve with rice and you're ready for a meal (:
GO GO try it and tell me if you made it and how it taste!

To be honest, there are some herbs that I've mentioned above that I don't quite like, feel free to not include those!

Verdict: I've got good comments on them but i felt like I could have made more soup with the ingredients I had thrown in (: