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Monday, April 30, 2007
Courtesy of Pei Ling!


Ignore the grammar (good ol bad Malaysian grammar) and have fun reading.

If you are Msia's 80s baby,read through this, we grew up watching Transformers, Thundercats, Woody Woodpecker, Chipmunks, Mickey Mouse, Jem, Mask, Ninja Turtles, Voltron, Baja Hitam, Ultraman n not forgettin POWER RANGERS n BUGS BUNNY!!!and anderra yippa mice? :), McGyver ?

had to brush our teeths during recess at primary school? had to hold plastic cups, line up with your classmates side by side and start brushing our teeths at some open area... or maybe near some drain??do you still remember that we had 'dentist' rooms where we had to have our teeths check?

not to forget our 'program minum susu' in primary school.. everybody is suppose to buy like cartons of milk that costed 30 cents.. and you would see everyone drinking it everyday...its d UHT milk...

the teachers who would want to punish us must use yellow rulers to hit us on our palms?? 1 metre length..

that a bowl of mihun soup or some soup only costed 50 cents at the school canteen...went to some sundry shop near the school or to the 'roti' man waiting outside our schools so that we can buy junk food like chickedees, mamee, ding dang with some toys in it, 'Ti Kam', ice-cream and we would play games like monopoly, uno, old maid, snap and all other card games like that...

another fun time would be during Pendidikan Jasmani. the boys would play football while the girls would play netball... and it would be like we were playing in the world cup...but of course. the best would be main guli, batu seremban, bottlecaps, ice-cream sticks, 'Pepsi Cola one-two-three', Cops and Robbers, main kejar-kejar duduk,getah... and for the not so active, those kind of 'book games' where we would use buku latihan to draw and ask our friends to play...

do you remember the ice-cream tubes which are actually ice and colouring that are sold for 10 to 20 cents.. the colourful ones.. where you usually bite off the top to glup it down.orange tastes b best..(pop-ice)what about days when we felt like doing naughty things such as folding papers so small to make 'lastik' amd shoot each other... how about throwing chalks??back then, micheal jackson was just turning white.. and still had albums coming out.. compared to CD's, we were listening to tapes that sold for RM9.90 ...

in computer class, we were still using black and white computer moniters.. played 'Atari'... maybe SEGA or NINTENDO or pacman..well, are we all getting older or what?

1) if you understand what you have read and you are smiling...
2) we have friends from school that are already married...
3) we shake our heads everytime we see high school students fussing about their handphones in school..
4) we don't hang on phone with our friends for hours a day talking about nothing...
5) when we meet back with our friends from time to time, we feel excited and happy talking about old times, the funny 'adventures' or stories that we experienced as a kid..

6) last but not least, that when you read this, you would think of all the happy & sad memories that you have experienced when you were still a kid and would think of forwarding this to your old friends that you have known since forever... i'm sure they would have a huge smile on their face after reading this.....

Curtesy of Pei Ling!


Ignore the grammar (good ol bad Malaysian grammar) and have fun reading.

If you are Msia's 80s baby,read through this, we grew up watching Transformers, Thundercats, Woody Woodpecker, Chipmunks, Mickey Mouse, Jem, Mask, Ninja Turtles, Voltron, Baja Hitam, Ultraman n not forgettin POWER RANGERS n BUGS BUNNY!!!and anderra yippa mice? :), McGyver ?

had to brush our teeths during recess at primary school? had to hold plastic cups, line up with your classmates side by side and start brushing our teeths at some open area... or maybe near some drain??do you still remember that we had 'dentist' rooms where we had to have our teeths check?

not to forget our 'program minum susu' in primary school.. everybody is suppose to buy like cartons of milk that costed 30 cents.. and you would see everyone drinking it everyday...its d UHT milk...

the teachers who would want to punish us must use yellow rulers to hit us on our palms?? 1 metre length..

that a bowl of mihun soup or some soup only costed 50 cents at the school canteen...went to some sundry shop near the school or to the 'roti' man waiting outside our schools so that we can buy junk food like chickedees, mamee, ding dang with some toys in it, 'Ti Kam', ice-cream and we would play games like monopoly, uno, old maid, snap and all other card games like that...

another fun time would be during Pendidikan Jasmani. the boys would play football while the girls would play netball... and it would be like we were playing in the world cup...but of course. the best would be main guli, batu seremban, bottlecaps, ice-cream sticks, 'Pepsi Cola one-two-three', Cops and Robbers, main kejar-kejar duduk,getah... and for the not so active, those kind of 'book games' where we would use buku latihan to draw and ask our friends to play...

do you remember the ice-cream tubes which are actually ice and colouring that are sold for 10 to 20 cents.. the colourful ones.. where you usually bite off the top to glup it down.orange tastes b best..(pop-ice)what about days when we felt like doing naughty things such as folding papers so small to make 'lastik' amd shoot each other... how about throwing chalks??back then, micheal jackson was just turning white.. and still had albums coming out.. compared to CD's, we were listening to tapes that sold for RM9.90 ...

in computer class, we were still using black and white computer moniters.. played 'Atari'... maybe SEGA or NINTENDO or pacman..well, are we all getting older or what?

1) if you understand what you have read and you are smiling...
2) we have friends from school that are already married...
3) we shake our heads everytime we see high school students fussing about their handphones in school..
4) we don't hang on phone with our friends for hours a day talking about nothing...
5) when we meet back with our friends from time to time, we feel excited and happy talking about old times, the funny 'adventures' or stories that we experienced as a kid..

6) last but not least, that when you read this, you would think of all the happy & sad memories that you have experienced when you were still a kid and would think of forwarding this to your old friends that you have known since forever... i'm sure they would have a huge smile on their face after reading this.....

Being Sandy.

Friday, April 20, 2007
My little Sandy turned 22 on the 6th of April. With only 2 weeks' notice, she decides to have a costume party.

I decided to come as Bad-Jap-Dressing-Sandy.

Enjoy the photos!

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My 'costume' I artfully and skillfully put together after raiding her house when she was out.

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You can't even tell the real Sandy from the fake! Hehe..


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Cake time! Sandy looks so cute. She should get a mop hairstyle.


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Watching her cut the cake...


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Such a colourful picture! Sandy and Michelle



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The professionally made cake.


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Ian, the injured Goth.


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Sandy getting a bit confused with her costume. Handicapped fairy Space Girl?



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Sandy No 2 and Mark on the swing.


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Carlos aka Charlie Chaplin


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Yumi attempting to look Chinese.


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Paul aka Steve Irwin.


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Beata the Vampy Female Goth.


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Ryota suddenly feeling very man.


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"Bikini wax? what's that?"


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Such a colourful picture. Those glasses made me feel like I was on LSD.


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This is a cool pic. Michelle, Ian and Sandy No 2


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The Polish chicks, Beata and Michelle


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Mark the Blue-haired reindeer.



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It was a fun night! But I was glad to change out of my very Sandy outfit. =)

Teratomas and fetus-in-fetu

Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Teratomas (also called teratocarcinomas when cancerous) are the ugliest things to ever come out of the human body. The name basically means "monster cancer" and it fits. They're tumors of the ovaries or testicles. Bicyclist Lance Armstrong had this type of cancer, but the masses they removed from him were fairly small. They're harder to detect when they occur in a woman's ovary and can grow to astounding size. Many doctors refuse to show them to the women from whom they are removed. The reason they're so gross is very simple; they are a cancer of the stem cell and can become any type of cell in the human body. It is not unusual for them to have teeth, hair, blood vessels, or even nerve cells; some have even been known to react to touch. (Borrowed from weirdpictures.com)


(Disclaimer: If you have a weak stomach or just don't like looking at gross things, don't scroll down)



Haha.. I knew you couldn't resist!















These are the freakiest things ever! Imagine a bundle of teeth and hair coming out of your body.

Imagine it crying 'mommy! mommy!'

Haha.. Ok.. maybe that will never happen. But scary nonetheless.


May humans never be cloned. Amen.




And next: something I find most amazing! Fetus-in-fetu.


Aug. 23, 2006 — Sanju Bhagat's stomach was once so swollen he looked nine months pregnant and could barely breathe.

Living in the city of Nagpur, India, Bhagat said he'd felt self-conscious his whole life about his big belly. But one night in June 1999, his problem erupted into something much larger than cosmetic worry.
An ambulance rushed the 36-year-old farmer to the hospital. Doctors thought he might have a giant tumor, so they decided to operate and remove the source of the bulge in his belly.
"Basically, the tumor was so big that it was pressing on his diaphragm and that's why he was very breathless," said Dr. Ajay Mehta of Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai. "Because of the sheer size of the tumor, it makes it difficult [to operate]. We anticipated a lot of problems."
Mehta said that he can usually spot a tumor just after he begins an operation. But while operating on Bhagat, Mehta saw something he had never encountered. As he cut deeper into Bhagat's stomach, gallons of fluid spilled out — and then something extraordinary happened.
"To my surprise and horror, I could shake hands with somebody inside," he said. "It was a bit shocking for me."

Removing the Mutated Body
One doctor recalled that day in the operating room.
"He just put his hand inside and he said there are a lot of bones inside," she said. "First, one limb came out, then another limb came out. Then some part of genitalia, then some part of hair, some limbs, jaws, limbs, hair."
Inside Bhagat's stomach was a strange, half-formed creature that had feet and hands that were very developed. Its fingernails were quite long.
"We were horrified. We were confused and amazed," Mehta said.

A Mutated Body Within a Body
At first glance, it may look as if Bhagat had given birth. Actually, Mehta had removed the mutated body of Bhagat's twin brother from his stomach. Bhagat, they discovered, had one of the world's most bizarre medical conditions — fetus in fetu. It is an extremely rare abnormality that occurs when a fetus gets trapped inside its twin. The trapped fetus can survive as a parasite even past birth by forming an umbilical cordlike structure that leaches its twin's blood supply until it grows so large that it starts to harm the host, at which point doctors usually intervene.
According to Mehta, there are fewer than 90 cases of fetus in fetu recorded in medical literature.

Fetus in fetu happens very early in a twin pregnancy, when one fetus wraps around and envelops the other. The dominant fetus grows, while the fetus that would have been its twin lives on throughout the pregnancy, feeding off its host twin like a kind of parasite. Usually, both twins die before birth from the strain of sharing a placenta.
Sometimes, however, as in Bhagat's case, the host twin survives and is delivered. What makes his case so unusual is that no one suspected Bhagat had a twin inside him for 36 years.




Fig. 5. The postoperative specimen shows a fairly well-developed fetus lying on its back. The head is on the right side (thick black arrow), the buttocks on the left side (2 small arrows). The left arm, left leg, and feet are clearly seen (small separated arrows). The intestines are visible on the anterior abdominal wall, which is open (white curved arrow).




Have I freaked everyone out enough?

A little update

Thursday, April 05, 2007
It feels like the year started ages ago, but it's only April. Had bazillions of assessments so far, and well, only one is worth mentioning in this blog. Highly disappointing! Was doing pretty well in 3rd year too, which makes this year all the more difficult to take. I realise that I'm not the only one in this situation, but the last thing I want is to fail any courses!! Horror of horrors! I told Matthew that if I failed, I would be working for him for one more year and Jessica overheard and was overjoyed. Matthew suggested she come to my house every evening to watch tv with me to distract me so I won't have to leave. She's a funny girl, very sweet... in a Jessica kind of way. She either loves you or hates you. Glad I'm not on her bad side!

But seriously. Things would be so screwed up if I failed. It's inspiration to work hard and sacrifice sleep! Not that I sleep much anyways. But the inspiration bit has worked though. It's 3 am now and I've gone through about 5 lecture audios. At least I'm getting somewhere.

I feel I've been pretty moody lately, and that's probably cause I'm so tired. Apologies to anyone in my line of fire!!!!! Just recovering now from working 30+ hours, doing uni, and learning German. And juggling social life, Mark and housemates. Who have been great by the way. Siri and Elise. The German and the French. Party Animal and Clean Freak (i mean this in a good way!). I think that all in all, we are a good mix and we get along really well. Amazing! I have no gripes!

What's been up lately? There was the Pharmacy Pubcrawl - PharmaSutra 'Pharmacists do it better over the counter'. Hohoho. I have a feeling that that was my last pub crawl... I don't think I'll be around for the next one. I didn't really feel 'satisfied' from that pub crawl - maybe because so few 4th years turned up. We were pretty tired and stressed and everyone was saying how a pub crawl just didn't seem to 'fit' unlike previous times. Some pre-reggies turned up - the common culprits, Minh and Aaron. I thought it was pretty cool how much those two, amongst others, are so into the pharmacy social scene. Or maybe working life was just too boring for them and they wanted to relive their uni days. Hehe.

Elise's parents are here as well. Such interesting personalities! Her dad is so wacky. Sometimes he just speaks in French, as if he were speaking some language I understand, so I have to just nod and smile and hope he realises that I just can't understand. And her mom is so elegant and graceful and such a lovely personality. She calls me the 'lady of the house'. Got to love her for that! Came back one day and she was doing my ironing. I felt so bad, because I had a growing pile and just couldn't find time to get it done. And she apologized if her ironing was not good enough. I was speechless! They made a Moroccan dinner last night with couscous and lamb and figs and all that lovely stuff. Yumm!! And French dessert of poached pears with almond flakes and chocolate sauce too. Mark had about 4 helpings. Most of us passed out after dinner. It was so satisfying!

Hmmm it's April now. I said that I would plan my Euro trip in more detail come April. And.. now I have to plan to plan. After my exams would be a good time! It's really exciting, and the thought of my big holiday gives me strength and energy when rushing from one workplace to uni to another workplace.

Oh ... and HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY DARLING SVENJAY! Sorry I forgot to wish you on the 29th of March, though I remembered ages ago.

Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag!

Thanks for all your help with German. Still will need plenty ... boy I have a long way to go!

I love you lots!!!!


And now. .... I present to you ..... *drumroll*

Random Pictures



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Ruey Chyi came to Adelaide! Thanks Auntie Marina for a lovely lunch! And congrats, Reich, on getting a job =)

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'Auntie' May came to Adelaide too! (She's my auntie but only a few years older) With her boyfriend Larry.

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Took Mark out for a birthday dinner before he left for his round-the-world trip. Love you lots babe!!

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Our kitchen. I don't know why I am posting this. It's clean and with lots of yummy food laid out. That's the way it should always be =D

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Housemate Siri (in black) and her friend Christine during their poker night.

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Housemate Elise (right) and her friend Oriane. They wore the same colours unintentionally!

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The only mark sheet I shall post up. It is inspiration!

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Cousin David had a baby boy, Andrew! So I dutifully sent him cute little baby things that make me want one too!

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Aussie stuff of course

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And a koala jumper! He is going to look so cuddly and adorable! Look at the little ears =) I searched Adelaide high and low for this over two days because I knew it existed, but didn't know where to find it. And at last, I did!

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My pharmacy colleagues at Hannah's engagement party - (from left) Sandra, Hannah, Jessica, Lisa, Lara.

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Matthew aka Matt aka The Boss in white and his wife, Naomi. Dwayne, Lara's fiance looking slightly bored? Lara in the background in a weak attempt to avoid the camera

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Laurence and Jessica. The most lovey married couple around.

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And the bride and groom to be : Tim and Hannah! Now, what are you looking at, Tim??

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