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As seen on MSN Messenger....

Thursday, November 16, 2006



This is Eric. He is Swedish. He is friendly, funny, adventurous and quite hot. He'll be in Malaysia AND Singapore AND Thailand sometime in December - January. He wants to experience a bit of Malaysian life, and since Quin won't be around to do her tourist guide thing, he needs friendly Malaysians to take him around and teach him the good places to eat. He eats a lot.
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This is Elin and Markus. They are also Swedish. She is sweet and lovely with a new-found interest in spices other than salt and pepper. Has a tendency to mis-pronounce words in an adorable way. Markus is her boyfriend. He is sporty with surf addiction. They will be stopping by in KL for a few days and want to know what they can do in the main city area and would love a sight-seeing tour. They don't eat as much as Eric.




For more details, please email Quin, leave a comment or hunt her down on MSN messenger.






Exams and Christmas!

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

I have crashed. This is what happens when you work all day, study all night and survive on very little sleep. And the little thing that tipped it over the edge was a mind-killing, brain boggling 3 hour Pharmacology exam.
I have new-found respect for new (ok, and not so new too) mothers (and fathers to be politically correct, but we all know it's really mainly mothers) who study and / or work.

Whew.

I don't normally watch much tv, maybe an hour or two a week, tops. But last night I was stuck in front of the idiot box for The Simpsons, Australian Idol AND Criminal Minds. Oh how the feeling of guilt stung.

Especially when I have an exam tomorrow! And trying to study with dust bunnies from Mark's much unused desk inducing a bad allergic reaction - itchy eyes, nose, mouth, throat, ... toes.. well.. let's just say it was a very good excuse to go to bed early.
Now it's almost 3 pm.. that means just over 24 hours before Paper Number Two.

I need an island holiday.

But I have been productive!! I have created my Christmas wish list.. for those of you who are short on ideas.
1. My own home - screw real estate owners and landlord!





2. A fluffy white puppy. With matching accessories. =D




3. A new sexy Hugo Boss suit for Mark - see! I'm not all selfish!



*note: This is first suit ever and is NOT Hugo Boss, but I don't have a picture of him in his super sexy brown Boss suit. =(




4. The new Ipod Nano... in green or white.





5. An Island Holiday - see above for need reason






6. A Mini Cooper - converible, thanks!







7. Though I could settle for a Toyota Yaris. ....Think I could have a thing for red cars??




8. A whole new summer wardrobe - And a perfect figure to match?






9. The Casio Exilim EX-Z850






10. To never have exams again!










*cough sneeze*

Sunday, November 12, 2006
Am having a bad, bad hayfever episode. I am no longer not allergic to anything. I went through a short phase of shellfish allergy around my pre-teen years, but as far as I know, I’m not allergic to anything. Except milk maybe, and that is not an allergy – it’s just wonderful lactose-intolerance. But bloody Australia!! With the north wind in Adelaide bringing lovely bits of pollen and what not from the dryness up north. I refuse to accept the fact that I have hayfever! OK, itchy mouth, runny nose and red eyes are bringing me back to reality.

We had Mark’s parents over for dinner last night. He should just quit his job and be a chef. The food was so good it was unbelievable. He made a marinara with bbqed marron. The pasta sauce was from scratch (not just tomatoes, Romas!) and we got chilli linguine from the markets. Gorrr-met! I did next to nothing, besides clean the bathroom floors and help make sure the food tasted good. =D And I went to bed before they left, so he cleaned everything up as well! Oh I love him so much. Hehe.. But I felt really bad cause I really did absolutely nothing and my conscience is bleeping at me.

Ahhh I feel good after a nice long sleep. First time in weeks! This week has been madness, with me being superwoman. Worked a full-time week this week… at least somewhere between 30 and 40 hours. So it was basically work in the day, come home, have dinner, watch The Simpsons, study till early hours of the morning. Or maybe with a bit of variety, like falling asleep after 5 minutes of TV. Or maybe sleeping from 9-11 and staying up the rest of the night. After a week of that, I could feel my senses getting out of whack. I hit two side-mirrors this week. Which means my normally OK sense of distance was a little distorted. Luckily there was no damage to my car. So I assume there wasn’t any damage to the other cars either. Hehe. Yes, I didn’t stick around to check. And my reflexes have been very very slow. I feel quite handicapped actually. I console myself: it will all be over soon. The study at least.

Exams start tomorrow. I feel a little more normal after 9 whole hours of sleep. Minus the 5 minutes or so I spent err.. relieving my bladder. Can’t wait for next Monday. Freedom! It’s funny, I didn’t really get the ‘I can’t wait till exams are over’ feeling that bad this time around. Probably because I usually confine myself for a month, not that that means I’m usually more productive. It’s a good thing I don’t have broadband in my house anymore. This time around, swot vac became I-have-lots-of-time-to-work-and–feel-rich vac.

Have lots to look forward to after exams. Like next to no friends in Adelaide. =P I hate it how every semester my exchange student friends pick up and leave my life. *sob*. Whinging aside, there’s Perth to look forward too! Mark was invited to his friend’s wedding there, and my name was on the invite too! I decided that although the flights would be frightfully expensive ($500+ return), I really wanted to go and would just do it because I’ve never been to Perth and I want to go with Mark to see what he was up to the 4 years he spent there. At least we are getting free accommodation. I think. But it will be great to see the places and meet the people he talks about.

Then there’s Melbourne in January for the Pharmacy Congress. Missed out last year, and I have to say the one in first year kinda sucked cause I didn’t know many people and hardly anyone I knew went. (3 people from 1st year!!! – how embarassing). But this time around it will be great!

And then I’m going rural in May and off to Europe in July/August/ Sept! Woohoo! That’s a whole other blog entry. Gotta work my butt off for the $$. Why oh why doesn’t money grow on trees. In between my crazy work-study schedule I am learning German. Yes it’s related to English and all with some words similar, etc. But I tell you what! The grammar is no joke! I’ve heard people talk about it but I’ve never realised what they meant. If the “I am, you are” concept is difficult enough in English, it’s a million times worse in German. Need to pen in catching up with German friends after my exams. Nothing like practice. And I probably should try a little harder to learn Chinese. So many times I get caught cause customers in my pharmacy assume I’m Chinese (so what if they’re right! I could be Japanese!) and start speaking to me in Mandarin like this China woman who had diarrhoea and didn’t know what to do and said that the medicine was too expensive. (only $6.50!) Kinda proves that I can do it if I need to. The fact that I could only understand about 10% of what she was saying (– picking up key words is a skill ok!) and that I had to ask her to keep repeating a little slower…. Well.. that’s besides the point. =D. My pharmacist cracks up every time. He thinks its so funny how I have these ambitions to learn all these other languages but can’t really speak Chinese. =P

So many other random things I wanna blog about but with less than 24 hours till my exam, I should really get back to Pharmacology.

Cheerios!






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