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Monday, December 29, 2003
I'd been there 5 times before, but this year was by far the best i'd ever had. The weather was fantastic, out of the 16 skiing days, only 2 days had that kind of freezing-winds-and-snow-in-your-face weather...There was loads of snow, we could actually ride down to the bottom of the slope the first day up, previous years we had to wait till practically the christmas week before that could happen. Never took the gondola down this season. Not once. Perhaps it was also because we'd already acquired the necessary skills, everything was so much more fun, we could explore the entire mountain and not worry about getting stuck on a black run, like in previous years. The best day i had was spent with sis, exploring all the gladed runs on blackcomb. Admittedly we could hardly turn on those runs cos of all the trees and rocks, but we made it down (albeit mostly by penduluming), and it was fantastic, the entrances and exits of these runs are usually damn cool. arthur's choice, bark sandwich, in the spirit (squirrel + stream), log jam, where's joe. Another highlight was the terrain park, I DID THE RAINBOW!!! wow. finally. my instructor didn't allow us to do it, the day he brought us to the terrain park, so on the last day i went with sis and bert, and i don't know...was in a crazy mood that day, trying to get myself killed i think, did all the crazy rails, and when i got to the rainbow i just went on it and i didn't fall off, and it was a strange feeling, being on my board on the top of the rainbow, i felt like time had stopped momentarily, then i started to slide down the other side, and landed and oh i was so happy...cos i managed to do something i never thought i could do..yeah i think that was my greatest achievement this trip....haha probably my greatest achievement this entire year...this year i only took lessons on two days, the first weekend, on sunday i got my favourite snowboard instructor r-no, he's such a bag of laughs, but he refused to teach me anything...prob figured that he'd already taught me everything he could teach last year...heh. couldn't stand lessons tho, so didn't take beyond that. cos the thing about lessons is that there's too much waiting around. for people to gather in the morning and get sorted into classes, then waiting for people to finish eating during lunch, then waiting for people to gather on the slopes itself. end up doing like max 5 runs per day. compared to the first day we were up, i was with dad and bro, we did like 9 runs in the morning alone. it was crazy. nearly died. but the first two days really whipped me back into shape.
only went onto whistler 2 days, then got rapidly sick of it, cos most of the runs were groomed, nice for the skiiers but damn boring and painful for snowboarders (cos when you're on toe-edge i.e. plantarflexed you can get "foot-burn" from trying to edge into the mountain) so I insisted that we go blackcomb the rest of the time. After all we'd done practically all the whistler runs already, except for the bowls, cos they're double black, plus whistler is chock-full of beginner skiiers, very nasty. blackcomb is a more intermediate mountain, the only green runs there are easy out (next to catskinner) and the cattracks, so it's highly unlikely that you bang into some twit slowly snowploughing down the slope.
anyways this trip was exactly what i needed...lots of exercise, sleep, and good wine (errr it helped with the sleeping part) now i'm ready to face med school again.
10:28 PM
i'm so tired of being here
suppressed by all of my childish fears
and if you have to leave
i wish that you would just leave
because your presence still lingers here
and it won't leave me alone
these wounds won't seem to heal
this pain is just too real
there's just too much that time cannot erase
when you cried i'd wipe away all of your tears
when you'd scream i'd fight away all of your fears
and i've held your hand through all of these years
but you still have all of me
you used to captivate me
by your resonating light
but now i'm bound by the life you left behind
your face it haunts my once pleasant dreams
your voice it chased away all the sanity in me
i've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone
and though you're still with me
i've been alone all along
10:03 PM
Sunday, December 07, 2003
Have you ever screwed somebody's day up and felt really shitty about it? i think i did, today. And then i wished that i could just disappear off the face of this earth.
And then he kissed me, and told me that he loved me, and everything was alright again.
And the stars were really beautiful tonight.
12:19 AM
Friday, December 05, 2003
typing with one hand now, waiting for medicine to dry. ugh. it's running all over the place =P
it forms this nice transparent layer that looks supiciously like skin. good stuff. went to mug in the med library today. i know your chao mugger alert is at red now, but i didn't have much of a choice, i assure you. unfortunately didn't get much done, was very tired...now dead tired. don't think i'll have any problems sleeping tonight...? but then again, chris was very sleepy yesterday at 11pm, slept, and woke up at 2am. maybe if i can get past this pre-midnight period, i can stay up till 4am again... but what's the point? =)
F_ wants me to accompany him to ssdc tmr. to register for driving lessons. sigh guess i can't sleep too late then. *yawnz*
11:19 PM
Heh. Just got back an hour ago. Went botanic gardens to roller blade, but F_ was hungry and had foot cramp so we left for newton hawker centre and proceeded to pig out big time...yum~ wonderful stingray!! the thought of it is making my mouth water....oh no i think i'm hungry again! ate too early =P then went to orchard to watch love actually, it's hilarious and feel-good...i'd recommend it definitely =) F_ got the soundtrack, i borrowed and burnt already...listening to it now...both sides now by joni mitchell...sweet sad song. haha W_ just smsed me. Apparently she also got home at the same time as i did, after *also* pigging out at her bf's place...lucky girl! she gets cooked italian food by her sweetheart! he's a chef in ny. mmm mmm...red wine and italian food...darn ok i'm definitely hungry...going to raid the fridge after this =)
this morning i had pdp, nothing much, only thing was had to palpate this indian guy's big stomach, he had gall stones...then after that had to wash hands, cos he had some sort of bacteria infection, which is opportunistic...i.e. only infects people with compromised immune systems. got baby moore too. got scolded by F_ who said "Fool! if you haf big moore you buy baby snell and vice-versa! you should always consult me before buying any books!" after that i felt like a total idiot, it does make sense, tho prof raj says u can get at least 70% if you know baby moore like the back of your hand. and i trust this kind of advice, cos some other tutor said you can get at least 70% using lippincott's alone, and so far i've been getting 70% for cb. on the dot. haha.
i'm such a stereotypical, average med student it's almost amusing.
Truth is, i've been enjoying myself big time this week (except monday, which was miserable cos of The Confrontation) Caught up with my friends past 3 days, rediscovered the joys of sitting around with a bunch of girls and talking cock. i don't mean gossip (i don't enjoy gossiping), just being nonsensical. Yup. And talking to W_. Didn't realise how little time i've been spending with them till this week, and how much i love being around girls (oh no, i don't mean this in a lesbianic way, don't panic F_) I mean, even school seemed fun this week, prob cos everybody was in a holiday mood already and being slack (at least as slack as i usually am..haha) and happy, instead of walking around with frowns on their faces like med students usually do. heh. And not to mention all the cool, fun new stuff F_ and I have been doing =) Thanks F_.
Only thing is parents keep bugging me about my studies, cos i've missed two weeks' worth of lessons. Not to mention didn't study ca6 stuff. Their concern is justified, i assure you. i'm very very behind. hope i dun have to take res or anything =P must work hard then.
But right now, I'm just so happy, I'm on cloud nine.
12:18 AM
Wednesday, December 03, 2003
Just woke up...yawnz..slept for 3 hrs...still got baaad baaad jetlag...at least not as bad as sibs'. i heard lazy pok slept at 7am and woke up at 4.30pm...so i guess it's thanks to school that i'm adjusting back, though in a few days' time i'd have to adjust to 16hrs-behind-singapore-time. Sheesh man. Really screwing up the system =P
F_ brought me ice-skating yesterday. At first was having paranoid visions of slipping and slidding and not getting my footing, then falling down spectacularly and having a crowd of ice skaters (it was frigging crowded at jec) trample on me and slice off all my limbs with their razor-sharp blades. Then I stepped onto the ice and realized that it was exactly the same as roller-blading, except slightly faster, and then it was cool. F_ hadn't bladed before, so he wasn't familiar with how to stop and stuff, but in the end he got the hang of it and admittedly, i was impressed. Poor feller kept having leg cramps tho and even had to change his boots to a bigger size. But other than that it was very fun. Evidently F_ thought so too cos he went to ask if they had membership, but it's frigging expensive so no go, only worth it if you skate like 2hrs every 5 days. Then we went to watch the latest russell crowe film, but left halfway cos it was getting late and the show wasn't all too interesting.
Today i went to school and had tutorial, and haha guess what, my anat tutor is leaving for london tmr to visit his daughter. i think he's really very nice. cos i was missing a set of notes and he said "come to my office, i'll look for a set for you." and so i tagged along wif him and my burly classmates carrying his projector and laptop. He searched all over his office and couldn't find one, so he said "i won't be back till next year, so i'll pass you a copy next year. hngh?" haha. i shall miss his lessons and his jokes. geopolitical influence and lowly worms and all that.
After tut was prac, was talking cock with M_ the whole time. Really miss talking cock with her. So amusing. She said she missed me too cos nobody to xian and slack ard with during prac, cos the two girls on the other side are very...uh...concentrated (??) as she put it. Like orange juice i guess. hardeeharhar. but anyways everybody was in a holiday mood, everybody just zhaoed after the guy was done with explanations. M_ went for a job interview today, for waitressing. Wonder what was the outcome. She hasn't replied yet. =)
Then F_ and I went for lunch at nuh, where he bought an icc for me so i can call him from whistler. Then we went to taka to return his library book and to times where we chanced upon a where's wally section, and played that for awhile. haha. so fun =) then cos i was feeling so jetlagged and he was tired too (i accidentally woke him up last night cos i was still awake at 4am, so i smsed him thinking his phone would be on silent mode if he was sleeping...oops =P)
Man i think sleeping at 4am and waking at 7am for school the past two days has really screwed up my head. Can't even remember simple things like where i had lunch today. Had to think for 5 mins. =P
Tmr there's pdp, and M_ wants me to go, and i feel kindda bad if i dun go, cos i told her if she went i'd go. But anyways it's in the morning, so it certainly won't interfere with F_ and my plans to go roller blade in the park tmr evening, weather permitting... =)
I'm finally happy today, after three weeks of utter, intense misery. I hope it's the same for him too now.
8:09 PM
Monday, December 01, 2003
quizillaaaaaa. yup i'm boliao. just fell down on the road...got scratches on my arms and legs. very painful =(
hmmm i'm actually managing to survive on two hours of sleep since sunday morning 7am. amazing huh.
6:36 PM
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