A Random Tag

I got tagged by Ai Ling. A tag could make quite a good filler post while I have nothing to write in my blog.

So here goes:

5 things in my bag:

• lots of paper
  
• a couple of pens
  
• a highlighter
  
• a folder
  
• can't remember because my bag got locked in the hospital!
  

5 things in my head:

• a surprise
  
• a friend who's insulted by brainless people
  
• how I could improve my cooking (am eating now)
  
• what time to sleep tonight
  
• a special patient I've met today (will blog about it later)
  

5 words i frequently use:

• basically
• complacent
• intriguing
  
• amazing
  
• ironic
  

(From the words above, it seems like I am always finding fault in people eh?)

5 recent smses received

• An anaesthetist who helped me in my research
  
• Reminder from Google Calendar
  
• Ditto
• Ditto
  
• Ditto
  

5 recent things i just did:

• Cook dinner for myself and Yong Chin
  
• Met Xuan Ni in her house
  
• "Set up" my patient for my research project
  
• Working on revamping Fotoholics website (I am one of the IT officers)
  
• ReComming
  

5 things in my wardrobe:

• clothes
• bed linens
  
• socks
• underwear
  
• nothing much
  

5 things i just ate:

• "spicy fish" which tasted a bit fishy
  
• raisin bread
  
• plain bread with water
  
• chips
• cookie with macademia nut and chocolate
  

5 people i'm tagging:

• Wee Loon
  
• Alvin
• Shou Farn
  
• Chong Chyn
  
• Li Enn
  

Tag - About Me

It's been a long time since I wrote a serious post. While I have quite a lot of things to talk about, I will leave them to next time while I fill my blog space with this tag thing. This time it's from See Hua, the helpful guy who's studying in Germany.

Tag #1
Q1: Who is the most wanted blogger that I want to meet?
Eer, I don't really get this question. You mean the blogger I want to meet? Hah that should be day-dreamer. I have known her online for two or three years but never got to meet her in person, and the other I was in her town but she was not free to meet me. So yeah, one day gotta claim a char kuey teow treat from her. :P

Q2: Who is the group of blogger that I most wanted to meet?
St. John friends... It's been a long time since I last saw some of them (eer, three months to be exact).

Q3: Who is the "I can meet, want to meet but somehow never get to meet blogger'?
Not really anyone.


Nah I won't tag anyone.


Tag 2
GETTING TO KNOW HIM...=)

LAYER 1: ON THE OUTSIDE.
Name: Yew Chang Yang
Birth Date: 30 December 1985
Current Status: In a relationship
Eye Colour: Dark Brown
Hair Colour: Black
Righty or Lefty: Righty

LAYER 2: ON THE INSIDE.
My Heritage : 100% Hokkien, also 100% Nan An district if you know what it is.
My Fears : hmm... being disapproved.
My Perfect Pizza : No preference. Normally I go for the classics.

LAYER 3: YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW.
My Thoughts First Waking Up : I overslept.
My Bedtime : ranging from 1am to 4am.
My Most Missed Memory: Having great fun with ol' good friends.

LAYER 4: MY PICK.
Pepsi or Coke: No preference
McDonald's or Burger King: McD
Single or Group Dates: Single
Adidas or Nike: Nike.
Tea or Nestea: Neslo
Chocolate or Vanilla: Chocolate
Cappuccino or Coffee: Coffee.

LAYER 5: DO YOU...
Smoke: Never...
Curse: Seldom.
Take a Shower: Yes, everyday.
Have a Crush: Not now, of course.
Think You've Been In Love: Have always been.
Go To School: Yes.
Want To Get Married: In the future.
Believe In Yourself: Yup
Think You're A Health Freak: Not really, but starting to take interest in running since my recent long-distance jogging exercises. :)

LAYER 6: IN THE PAST.
Drank Alcohol: Beer, Wine, Spirit. But I can't take more than 2 drinks, I am allergic.
Gone To The Mall : Am I supposed to list them all or?
Been On Stage: At a lecturer's stand, yes. Dancing floor, no.
Eaten Sushi: Yepp, but not more than 3 times. I don't really enjoy Japanese food.
Dyed Your Hair: Never.

LAYER 7: HAVE YOU EVER...
Played A Stripping Game: Nope
Changed Who You Were To Fit In: hmm... not really

LAYER 8: AGE YOU'RE HOPING...
To Be Married: Before 30 i think

LAYER 9: IN A GIRL...
Best Eye Colour: No preference
Best Hair Colour: No preference
Short Hair or Long Hair: Long... hehe...

LAYER 10: WHAT WERE YOU DOING...
A Minute Ago: Typing out this thing.
An Hour Ago: Having lunch and going to an education fair in the Student Union in Melbourne Uni.
4.5 Hours Ago: In one of the four lectures I am having today.
1 Month Ago: Who remembers? I am in Melbourne, that's all I know. :P
1 Year Ago: Getting quite stressed by the semester about heart and lungs.

LAYER 11: FINISH THE SENTENCES...
I love: Living beings
I hate: Nothing.
I hide: My passwords from everyone.
I miss: My family and buddies.
I need: to finish this faster so that I could go back to studies. :P

Book-tagged

I don't like stupid blog-taggings where you are so-called "tagged" and are expected to write "interesting" things about yourself or your friends. It was fun for once or twice, but when you get tagged for more than that, things get a bit stale.

But I admit it. This one looks quite interesting. Shou Farn tagged me this time, and it's a book-tag. It's a tag to write about a book. So here we go:

1) Grab the closest book to you.
Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything"

- When I read the "tag" this afternoon, I was doing the weekly PBL research. Incidentally, the closest book to me was a medical textbook - Robbin's Pathologic Basis of Disease. It is as heavy as your regular bricks and the texts are tinier than the newspaper print. And I don't want to put it here because it's too boring for anyone to appreciate. Hence, the subject is changed to this book which is on my desk at the moment.


2)Open to page 123, go down to the 4th sentence.

3) Post the text of the following 3 sentences on your blog.

Brand became convinced that gold could somehow be distilled from human urine. (The similarity of colour seems to have been a factor in his conclusion.) He assembled fifty buckets of human urine, which he kept for months in his cellar.

By the way I strongly recommend this book to everyone.. It's meant to be the history of the universe, but you can easily read this book as the history of science as well. The author was a layman to science before he set out to write this book, and he lamented that all the scientific books and texts out there are too dry to be digested, and it hindered people from appreciating its beauty. So in a moment of epiphany, he decided that science needs not be as dull as he grew up to believe in. And he set out to "re-learn" science by his own effort, and produced this history of science / universe in a series of stories. In his own words: ...

It was as if he [the textbook author] wanted to keep the good stuff secret by making all of it soberly unfathomable. As the years passed, I began to suspect that this was not altogether a private impulse. There seemed to be a mystifying universal conspiracy among textbook authors to make certain the material they dealt with never strayed too near the realm of the mildly interesting and was always at least a long-distance phone call from the frankly interesting.

... I now know that there is a happy abundance of science writers who pen the most lucid and thrilling prose ... but, sadly, none of them wrote any textbook I ever used. All mine were written by men (it was always men) who held the interesting notion that everything became clear when expressed as a formula and the amusingly deluded belief that the children of America would appreciate having chapters end with a section of questions they could mull over in their own time. So I grew up convinced that science was supremely dull, but suspecting that it needn't be, and not really thinking about it at all if I could help it...

... [After a moment of epiphany] I decided that I would devote a portion of my life - three years, as it now turns out - to reading books and journals and finding saintly, patient experts prepared to answer a lot of outstandingly dumb questions. The idea was to see if it isn't possible to understand and appreciate - marvel at, enjoy even - the wonder and accomplishments of science at level that isn't too technical or demanding, but isn't entirely superficial either.

That was my idea and my hope, and that is what the book that follows is intended to do.

I am only one third through the book, but I find it so well-written and provides a really good introduction to science for science lovers, science haters and science indifferent-ers alike. So if you have some free time, grab a copy from your local library. It's worth your time.

Now for the tagging part... I would just tag a few people whom I think read interesting books (this sentence is plagiarised from Shou Farn's post since I am lazy to think of something clever to write). I hereby tag:

1. Wee Loon
2. Yee Pin
3. Winson
4. Jasmine
5. Eric
6. Ka Lip

Tell me when you are done. :)

Tag (not so) Fun...

I know this blog is getting boring, even the red dot is a bit of stale joke after 2 minutes. =P Then I remembered, I haven't replied to Jiun Wuu's tag, and therefore here it is, the tag fun version 3!



4 jobs I would stink at:
1. Promoter (I can't imagine people come asking me what textile this or that shirt is made of)
2. Waiter (You have to see how clumsy I am)
3. Home Delivery (Haha, I would be sacked in no time, for my good procrastination skill)
4. Highway Toll Cashier (Arrgh, I can't stand being enclosed in a 3-square-foot cubicle for the whole day, with an additional stake of some molestor's hand... :P)

4 nicknames I'm making up for myself:
1. Mek Mek (Primary school I think... n. Chinese "goat")
2. You Char Goi (Primary school... n. Hokkien "Paired dumpling", homophone of "you")
3. Can't think of any more... (haha, got but is private and confidential...)

4 movies I can watch over&over:
1. The Matrix (Very philosophical and visually appealing)
2. The Green Mile (Actually just watched it 9 hours ago, but it's so touching I think I will come back to it in the future)
3. A Beautiful Mind (I like to watch this kind of profound movie... Depressing yet uplifting at the same time)
4. The Sound of Music (It's so nice!!)

4 things I love to do on weekends:
1. Sleep
2. Pak Tor.. :P
3. Surf online, participate in forum.
4. Listen to songs!

4 alcoholic baverages I enjoy from time to time:
1. No, I seldom drink. I get rashes all over my body.. :(

4 fantastic destination I would like to go before I pass out:
1. Chile
2. Hawaii
3. Paris
4. New York City

4 celebrities I would go on a Big Date with:
1. Eer, due to the sensitive nature of this question, can I skip it? :P

4 objects I could not live without:
1. Computer
2. Digital camera (not as much as computer, but recently rekindled interest)
3. My PDA
4. Mozilla Firefox!!

4 gadgets I do not have which I would quite like to have:
1. Car
2. Digital SLR Camera
3. A surround speaker system in a sound-proof room!
4. iPod would be good, but not necessary.

4 wannable friends tagged:
Not now... Scared already!

Conclusion: Aiks, I realized that I am such a geek, almost everything I mentioned in each category has got something to do with computer and technology... :P

Tag Fun (Again?!)

Thanks to See Hua, I have to do this tagging thing again, and this task is even more difficult than the last one, owing to its abstract nature.. :P

Okay, before I continue, I shall proclaim that I will not tag others this time, since I don't want another boomerang. This tagging thing gets quite sick and un-entertaining after some time.

Here goes: 10 things that make happy everyday...

1. Being able to live with people whom I treasure and who treasure me.
2. Waking up to realize that I am still living and doing something meaningful.
3. Realizing that there are people who think of me at this very moment.
4. Knowing there are so many exciting things out there, for me to discover.
5. Talk to friends, really good friends.
6. Learning new things, both online and from books!
7. Knowing that there will always be justice one day.
8. Listening to music and singing along.
9. Being free yet occupied.
10. Eat.


I am pretty happy huh? :D

Tag Fun (?)

Thanks Joanne the bimbo!

Instruction: Name 20 people you can think of at the top of your head. Don't read the questions before you write, and tag 5 people to do the survey.

1. Xuan Ni
2. Yong Chin
3. Yee Pin
4. Winson
5. Alvin
6. Eric
7. Ren Jie
8. Ka Lip
9. iQing
10. Dr. Heather Rowe
11. Chong Chyn
12. See Hua
13. Boon Phiaw
14. Wee Loon
15. Li Enn
16. Heng Liang
17. Jiun Wuu
18. Michelle
19. Hui Bing
20. Freda

Tag 5 other people:
Boon Phiaw, Yee Pin, Winson, Eric, Chong Chyn

Note: This list is by no means an order of "importance", "relevance" or "closeness", and I purposely left out my family members as they would have taken up half the list... =P (I am the youngest of 7 siblings) It's just the order of names that popped out as I was writing.

1. How did you meet #14?
Eerm, he changed from Sam Tet to Keat Hwa in Form 5. I can still remember how he came into our form 5 classroom on one of the days, looking rather dazed and shy.. (which he is not.. :P)

2. What would you do if you had never met #1?
Haha, I saw this question coming. I would have been entirely different, and may have lost a lot of impetus in my life..

3. What would you do if #20 and #9 dated?
Oh Ooohh... I am gonna tell her boyfriend, who's living under the same roof with me now.. :D

4. Would #6 and #17 make a good couple?
Lol, I am not sure whether they will accept same-sex relationship.

5. Describe #3.
My soulmate who has been forced to become a bookworm since he started doing Law in Cambridge. =D Has been growing more handsome day by day.

6. Do you think #8 is attractive?
Ka Lip, YES of course!

7. Tell me something about #7.
He is sentimental, can cry in the library... :P A very very nice guy, even if you are a bully you will feel guilty of bullying him.

8. Do you know anything about #12's family?
Eerm, according to his own description, his mum was kinda strict in his studies last time... Kena rotan for the errors he made. I don't know much about other aspects.

9. What is #8's favourite?
Eerm, have fun with friends?

10. What would you do if #11 confesses that he/she likes you?
AHHHHH!!!!! Run!!!! :P Just kidding.. haha

11. What language does #15 speak?
English, Malay, Chinese, Hokkien, Cantonese...

12. Who is #9 going out with?
Eermm... Don't know. His girlfriend?

13. How old is #16 now?
Just turned 21!

14. When was athe last time you talked to #13?
Eerm, two days ago? Not so sure.

15. Who's #2's favourite singer?
"Don't know lehh... 周杰伦啦周杰伦啦！" Said #2.

16. Would you date #4?
That would be wrong. Wrong chromosome.

17. Would you date #7?
Oh yes, he's so kind!! hahahaha....

18. Is #15 single?
Eerm, not sure lehh...

19. What's #10's last name?
Rowe.

20. Would you ever consider being in a relationship with #19?
HELL NO!! Xuan Ni lives with her lehh... haha...

21. What school did #3 go to?
Superkid Kindergarten, SRJK (C) Keat Hwa (H), SMJK Keat Hwa, Sunway College, University of Cambridge, UK.

22. Where does #6 live?
Currently in Michigan, US, but back in Malaysia lived in Taman Aman, Anak Bukit, Alor Star.

23. What's your favourite thing about #5?
Bak kua advertisement, Jolin Tsai newest MV, Lord of the Ring remake!!

24. What do you think of #13?
Narcissistic smart guy. :D

25. What do #4 and #19 have in common?
They are both into English songs.

26. What special qualities does #17 hold in your life?
He taught me how to behave nicely.

Is Tagging that... errr... fun?

Once upon a time I was tagged, and I tagged someone to keep the game going. I wasn't particularly keen about this game actually.. Just playing along for the sake of fun, haha... But then, as the saying goes, what goes around comes around. So today here I am, hit by the boomerang that flies back on my face. Well, here it goes for those who love me so much... *shameless grins*

How To Tag :
- State who tagged you.
- List who you want your Santa Claus to be (the bearer of the gift).
- State the gift you wish to get
- Then invite a few friends to join the tag, and inform them by dropping a comment in their blog

Tagged by: Day-dreamer

My Santa: Who else except her? :D

Gift for me: An everlasting bliss and love with my loved ones, through thick and thin, in all trials and tribulations.

Who's next: (hate to do this!)
1. Ren Jie (the exams are over now, I guess? :D)
2. Seok Kheng (since you are free for the holidays... )
3. Zhe Jin (to add something non-sentimental to all your sentimental posts!)
4. Wee Loon (haha, someone's in KL too busy horr? :P)

Here we go!! An early Christmas greeting to everyone!

I Was Tagged!

On 16 September 2005, Michelle passed the burning baton to me and I thought, well, let's wait for a while, it doesn't take all that long to write this thing. Arrhh... Time really flies, it has been a month since I first got the saman, and now I think maybe I should actually reply to the tag. So here we go, and beware, your turn is coming soon!

Seven Things I Plan to Do Before I Die

1. Master a musical instrument.
2. Save 1000 people from dying.
3. Establish a harmonius family which I will yearn to return after work everyday.
4. Master a computer programming language and write a popular freeware.
5. Understand the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.
6. Do a reseach on medical field and give a significant contribution.
7. Become fit.

Seven Things I Can Do

1. Walk outside Melbourne General Cemetary at midnight. Pretty often. :D (Can't believe I am so proud with it!)
2. Finish a pack of Smith's Chip in one go.
3. Stay in front of computer screen for 10 hours.
4. Pretend that I am confident while I am not.
5. Be confused about who should get the 20 cents refund when Yong Chin and I return from Queen Victoria Market.
6. Spread Firefox to my friends like an evangelist.
7. Produce 3 litres of saliva everyday.

Seven Celebrity Crushes
Not really. I listen to good songs by any artist, I admire their talents, but I don't have a crush on them.

Seven Current/Recent Books
Wait... Does it mean books outside the course and books outside my daily reading? If not, I will have to list down the books on the booksheleves in Brownless Library. :(

1. How to Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie(My all time favourite).
2. Kane and Abel, by Jeffry Archer (the first story book I managed to finish reading in my whole life, courtesy of "anonymous".).
3. Children's Illustrated Bible
4. Medical Physiology, by Guyton and Hall (oh no... I seriously don't have a life)
5. Human Anatomy Atlas, by Frank Netter
6. I better don't write anymore... am blushing already...

Seven Favourite Food

1. My mum's Indonesian BBQ Chicken!!
2. Jawa Mee by either my mum or by a particular stall in Simpang Kuala
3. Capitan curry chicken
4. CHAR KOEY TEOW!
5. Sultana sweet chicken
6. Nasi lemak
7. Everything at home...

Seven Random Facts About Me

1. 7 is always my lucky number. Hint: siblings, address, birthday etc.
2. Some people think that I look like a Japanese.
3. I have never celebrated my birthday in school
4. I wet my bed until around 10 year old.
5. I experience sleep paralysis pretty often.
6. I dance to the music tune at home
7. I am an agnostic Buddhist.

Seven People I Want to Tag

1. Winson
2. Yee Pin
3. Boon Phiaw
4. Li Enn
5. Heng Liang
6. Eric Fu
7. Joanne

Huhh... that's it! That's all for today, and there are 9 days left to the exam... :P