Moon River cafe, Kinta Riverfront

As I've mentioned in my previous post, this place is directly behind St Michael Institution of Ipoh...guess alot people still have no idea about this place's existence...but everyone should try it out la...althought the service's not too good...so the best thing is ==> try it out on a day where there won't be alot people going there too....lolz

Back in Ipoh....

Hehe...I'm back in Ipoh again!!! Just for one week...coz the seniors are having their 2nd Professional Exam...so we juniors unofficially have a study week lor...where most of us just run back to our hometown =D

Well...had a frustrating yet kind of interesting dinner today....had it at the Riverfront...the new hawker centre found beside the Kinta River...where later it'll develop into a place where there's condominiums and also a hotel...cool, nice place...BUT the service's really terrible...we've waited for more than one hour just waiting for four different kind of noodles and rice...and its not even Western food!!! At last...we only got 2 of them...other two no idea where they've gone to since they said they've prepared and sent it already o.O Wanted to just leave without paying...but our conscience don't let us do so...so while paying the boss got scolded by us instead...hahaha...That's for the frustrating part~~
The interesting part is that I met someone that I haven't meet since the last time I went back to AMC in form6....Ms Leong Lok Ping - my form5 class teacher!!! She was sitting at the table right beside mine with a guy...thought I might have got the wrong person at first...but somehow she turned her head towards my direction...and she had that I-know-who-you-are expression on her face...lolz...so I walked over to her table and talked to her awhile la...basically she only asked where and what I'm studying now and gave me support ^^ She's the same as usual....but more feminine already...and guess that's her boyfriend...they looked intimate....hahahaha...which I'm happy for her also la...she should get married la at this age...hehehe

So....eating only two bowls of noodles is just not enough...so we continue on to Kopitiam...lolz...my favourite place in Ipoh...and had some toasts and coffee =)


Ahh...Ipoh's the best...and KL's nothing compared to it.......

STRANDED!!!

1st thing and the funniest thing happened ever today...hahaha...me and my roommate didn't cook for lunch today coz we're both lazy plus not enough vegetables left in our supply...so had lunch in our cafeteria downstairs...then immediately after lunch we both decided to go straight to Giant to stock up our supply instead of walking up the stairs to our 4th floor...and pandai-nya...we both didn't think of bringing along our umbrellas coz it was really sunny...no sign of weather changing...and guess what..?? In the middle of our happy shopping...THUNDER!!! So in the end we got stranded in Giant =( Kept waiting for the rain to stop or at least recede...but it just got heavier...impossible to even run across the road...and luckily I suddenly thought of calling up Ze Shun and Dexter...Dexter didn't on his hp...but luckily Ze Shun called back...and he's sooooo nice~~ He drove to Giant and fetch me and my roommate!!! Soooo darn nice of him le...and even drove all the way up the slope to the Block D hostel and dropped us there ^^ Ok...great lesson learnt ==> MUST bring umbrella whenever we go out any further away from the uni!!!

Finally touching the piano...

Had the mood to accompany my roommate to the music practice rooms tonight...brought along my exam piano pieces and also the Yellow River double piano piece...at first it was quite difficult to play the pieces...its been too long since I've touched the piano...especially to play my LLCM exam pieces...but I got the hang of it after a few times playing them...Oh...and I finally realised that I really can't stand electric guitars...in conclusion I still prefer acoustic guitars to electric guitars...there's a whole bunch of guys jamming in their jamming practice room just now...urgh!! Just cant stand....Oh...the other thing...the pianos in the practice rooms seriously really need piano tuning...and although I prefer Kawai pianos to Yamaha's...these pianos either are out of tunes...which give me the goosebumps...that's the cons of being perfect pitch...or the loudness is so different from note to note...especially the piano I played on just now...the higher range from the middle C is obviously louder than the lower range...so its noisy when I played Mendelssohn's...horrible~~ But on the whole I really miss music...classical music.....

Clinical skills session on respiratory system

Had clinical skills session on checking the respiratory system these two weeks...had so much fun where we had Vallabhai last week and Reddy this week....they're both great in giving us so much information....learnt alot! And I finally realised that I'm really getting thinner...my whole throat can actually be easily seen...especially the larynx part...from the hyoid bone to the thyroid cartilage to the cricothyroid membrane to the cricoid cartilage down to the trachea...and the most abnormal thing is I've Adam's apple same as the guys...but not as prominent la...guess not much people noticed that...lolz....so like Yu Leong he was shocked...hahaha...

Time is passing on slowly and its getting nearer to the finals....haiz~~ S-T-R-E-S-S!!!

Coffee night...

Drinking coffee again to study through the night...had a 3-hours afternoon nap already coz hasn't been sleeping well for the past few days...had nightmares...especially that night after finish reading the very-gross-storyline chinese novel...urgh~~ One more month...few more weeks to go and there goes my 2nd sem and also my 1st year of medic...but ALOT more to study for my finals le...haiz...well...at least I've one whole week of study week next week...so gonna carry the hell lots of books back to Ipoh...already started on them but keep having the stress that I don't have enough time....just pray pray pray hard that I'll pass my finals to get to my 2nd year...I certainly don't want to repeat nor would I want to get kicked out after dumping the hell lot of money in studying here...haiz......stress stress stress~~

很有意思的十句话...

第一句

如果我们之间有1000步的距离

你只要跨出第1步

我就会朝你的方向走其余的999步

第二句

通常愿意留下来跟你争吵的人

才是真正爱你的人

第三句

付出真心　才会得到真心

却也可能伤得彻底

保持距离　就能保护自己

却也注定永远寂寞

第四句

有时候　不是对方不在乎你

而是你把对方看得太重

第五句

朋友就是把你看透了　还能喜欢你的人

第六句

就算是believe　中间也藏了一个lie

第七句

真正的好朋友

并不是在一起就有聊不完的话题

而是在一起　就算不说话

也不会感到尴尬

第八句

没有一百分的另一半

只有五十分的两个人

第九句

为你的难过而快乐的　是敌人

为你的快乐而快乐的　是朋友

为你的难过而难过的

就是那些　该放进心里的人

第十句

冷漠　有时候并不是无情

只是一种避免被伤害的工具

New nickname...

"Jo Jo.." Ganesh called me from my back during the break berween classes today....Oh my goodness~~ Walao eh...he really gave me the goosebumps....lolz...shocked me tim...luckily its only me who heard him...else others will probably start calling me that...and I don't want to imagine that...eeyer~~ Its the first time someone called me that...especially for a guy...hahaha...the most people will only pronounce my name wrongly...Joanne supposed to pronounce as Jo-Anne but ALOT of them pronounced it as Johnny instead..no idea why...and those people includes my lecturers -.-''

Balik kampung!!!

Esok akan balik kampung balik kampung balik kampung!!!!!!!! Seronoknya~~ Dah terlalu lama aku tak balik ke rumahku yang ku dah lama inginkan...sejak Tahun Baru Cina...kalau aku tak balik sekarang...dah tak ada peluang lagi kerana ujian akhir tahun dah semakin mendekatiku...Esok ada ujian kecil lagi...dan untuk setiap minggu...ahh....semakin sesak nafasku untuk melalui semua ini...tension-nya...terlalu banyak benda untuk belajar...terlalu banyak benda untuk aku terus pelajari....pepatah Ilmu tanpa batas memang sesuai untuk seorang pelajar universiti sepertiku.....

25 Facts About Myself...

Here are 25 Facts About Myself:

1. I got tagged by Z00 V...so I've been cracking my head for a few days for the below 24 facts...
2. My looks do not match my actual age...people always guessed my age few years younger...
3. I'm EXTREMELY terrified of lizards...I had too much bad experience over these creatures...
4. I'm allergic towards Ajinomoto (known as Chinese Restaurant Syndrome), crabs (a lil), popcorn (just started recently) and metal (when I started using Johnson and Johnson few months ago)
5. I seldom cry unless it is concerning my family and my close friends.
6. I love studying medicine.
7. I love kids so that's why I also enjoyed teaching.
8. I love cotton candy and crabs!!! (that's why I always bring along my medicine when I'm going to eat crabs =p)
9. I have passion towards music although I'm a lazy person that hates to practise except for exams and performances.
10. I have the habit of summing up the alphabets and numbers on car license plates.
11. I have a Diploma in piano and Grade 8 in erhu (chinese instrument).
12. I can't stand control freaks no matter girls or guys!!
13. I'm not an easily forgiving person.
14. I've a hot temper..but I won't let strangers to get the feel of my temper...including my coursemates...
15. I tend to have phobias when I'm stuck in a crowd...
16. I hate wearing specs although I need to wear them or else my eyesight will get worse..
17. I have two stitching scars...one on my left eyebrow and one on my right ankle.
18. I love animals..especially dogs...that's why I've 3 dogs at home.
19. I have perfect pitch...but my singing sucks! (don't know why)
20. I learnt ballet, mental arithmatic, drawing and swimming.
21. I had pneuomonia when I was about 3 years old and spent one week in the hospital.
22. I have 2 older siblings, a sister and a brother.
23. I want to join the national organisation of medical teams to help the people in various countries.
24. I have a best friend with the name Grace Foo Sze-En who's currently in USA now and we've known each other since we're in Standard One.
25. I seriously no idea what else to write....lolz

Meeting up with an old friend...

Wasnt planning to go to pasar malam tonight coz heard from the radio station that the My FM crews will be coming here...with the TV crews too...so might as well not appear in such a big crowd...but then a sms from Ah Ong at around 6 something saying that she's coming to our pasar malam here made me changed my clothes and walked down to meet up with her...Its been such a loonnngggg time since we've last met...almost one year from what she said...which I think its quite true...

Oh well...she didn't change much...at least didn't get anymore thinner than she is already...and she seriously looked better with her short hair compared to her curly hairstyle before this...We chatted quite a while...walked till the end of the pasar malam....too bad I've to leave already before it gets too dark since I'll be walking back to my hostel alone...and also because me and Ying Hui needs to cook for our dinner...but we managed to take some pics with Ah Ong's camera phone...yupzz...in the middle of the road!! LOL =p And I managed to buy back the bubble milk tea that both me and Ying Hui loves....wakekeke...we ONLY love chocolate flavour....

Euwww....those residents on my floor are really disgusting and they don't have brains I guess...me and Y.H were in the pantry preparing for our dinner just now...and a Chinese girl I think just walked in....and put in a porcelain plate with a chicken drumstick AND a plastic container with the plastic bag still wrapping around it into the M-I-C-R-O-W-A-V-E!!!! OMG~~!!! I don't understand how can these people stand eating these stuffs...1st the microwave is already quite dangerous with all those radioactive stuffs already....and now putting plastics into the microwave makes it even worse...!!! And now the pantry's fill with chemical smell....euwwwww~~~


p.s cotton candy....CoTtOn cAnDy....I WANT COTTON CANDY!!!!!!!! Its one of my favourite!!! Too bad the pasar malam here is not selling it....saw it in Giant today but the colour's too gross for me to dare to buy them....I soooooo miss Ipoh's pasar malam's cotton candy...more safe-looking =(

Bad Day...

Cause you had a bad day

You're taking one down

You sing a sad song just to turn it around

You say you don't know

You tell me don't lie

You work at a smile and you go for a ride

You had a bad day

The camera don't lie

You'reing back down and you really don't mind

You had a bad day

You had a bad day

*chorus part of Bad Day by Daniel Powter (one of my favourite singer)*



This song really fits my mood today...
Started with a bad morning with Moral Studies midterm exam...studied alot on it..but ended me wondering why I'd studied so much on it....the notes are practically useless...lucky I understood those stupid moral theories..and with my English...somehow survived through it la...just hoping now I won't fail this stupid paper *fingers crossed*

Afternoon is kind of O.K....with clinical skills session went on fine without the lecturer pin-pointing at me...probably coz he's scared of me already...lolz...not my fault though...It was due to an incident happened during PBL yesterday...he was asking me a question when at the same time I was actually feeling sleepy so water (I supposed they can be also known as tears) start to accumulate in my eyes...so he thought I was going to cry just because he was asking me a question...and started to console me...making me sooo blur at 1st at his change of attitude -.-'' Guess I've given him a wrong impression that I'm those kind that will cry if the lecturer pinpoints me...duh~~

Evening went to a second hand piano store in PJ with sis to check out some great grand pianos...especially those 9-footers ones...which are REALLY cool~~ ^^ Then went on with movies...watched Love Matters...which we considered it as a stupid movie...although the famous My FM's DJ is also starring in it...but their mandarin and cantonese and english is just so so so Malaysian...ish!! Anyone who's practising their English better not go in....they'll only teach you the bad things ==> Manglish!!! (Manglish = Malaysian English)

After the movies..we went for dinner...and that's when it happens again...my sis got the phone call and we kind of expected what's coming for us...got soooo moody after that that both of us just ate through without another word...haiz......why is this happening when we thought everything's fine already...?? I'm getting soooo sick of it already!!!

FREAKY!!!!!!

Oh my goodness...!! I didn't know that there's actually more girls who are control freaks over their boyfriends...!! Including the most unexpected person...a girl who I've known since I'm in standard 1...everyone's 1st impression on her is that she's a sweet, small sized girl who'll do no one harm...UNBELIEVABLE!!! Oh well...maybe because before she and her boyfriend become an item....I've always chatted with her boyfriend...went out with him alot of times too with other friends...only as normal friends....so now...she has a grudge on me for whatever reason (ouch!!)...not even her boyfriend knows what the reason is...and she totally CONTROLS over her boyfriend....pathetic~~ She won't let him talk to any of his girl pals...even forced him to delete the girl pals he has added on Friendster and Facebook....oh...and she'll sometimes on his msn to check on him....walao ehhh~~~ So now her bf has warned me about it...and luckily he still treats me as a friend instead of some friend of mine who'll rather ask me to lay off him just because he got a girlfriend...BIG DEAL~~ I really detest control freaks...no matter the person's a girl or a guy....it just doesn't make sense....Feeling insecured over your partner doesn't give you a good reason to do so...everyone has their own life....their own friends...its not like your bf only has YOU!!! GET A GRIP GIRL~~ If you're feeling soooo insecured about your boyfriend...I think its time that you get on on your own and let your boyfriend go...go find someone else that you really trust and get married for all I care...just don't create a suffocating world for him...I can understand how he feels coz I've experienced that once....and that once...has taught me a big lesson.....

How Asian I am...

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[x] Both of your parents are from Asia

[x] You were born in Asia

[ ] You use the term "Azn"

[ ] You think DDR is cool

[x] You've watched lots of anime

[x] You like Korean drama (i think J-drama should be included, so yes)

[ ] You have stuff hanging on your phone

[x]Your parents want you to marry within your own race

[x] You eat rice almost everyday

[x] You drink lemon tea

X's so far: 7

[ ] You style your hair

[x] You have a bebo/myspace/friendster

[x] You speak languages other than English

[x] Your parents are strict compared to other REALLY asian parents

[x] Your parents have high expectations of you

[x] You always get A's/B's on your report

[x] You do Chemistry/Biology/Physics/
Accounting

[x] You know your multiplication table

[x] You play badminton or table tennis

[ ] You've seen the asian version The ring/The grudgeX's

so far: 15

[x] You go/want to go to a university and would NEVER consider an apprenticeship

[ ] You own an asian car (Honda, Toyota, etc)

[x] You're not the only child

[x] You've gotten little red envelopes around February

[x] You know the difference between kung fu, karate and tae kwon do

[ ] (If you're a girl)You prefer white guys over asian guys (If you're a guy)You prefer asian girls

[x] Your mother tries to bargain even though the product is already discounted

[ ] You can do the rubiks cube

[x] You have a box of noodles somewhere in your house [for hibernation purpose..LOL]

[ ] You play video gamesX's

so far: 21

[x] Everytime you're going out your parents ask you where you're going and what time you'll be home

[x] You have karaoke at home

[x] You know BOA/Gazette/Ayumi Hamasaki/Gackt

[ ] You've been to a LAN more than 3 times

[x] You have incense sticks/moth balls in your house

[ ] You own a gaming console

[x] You play a musical instrument

[x] You don't wear shoes in your house

[x] You can use chopsticks

[ ] You get nothing if you do well in schoolX's

so far: 28

[ ] Your parents won't let you go out if you have school the next day

[x] You have asian songs on your computer/iPod

[ ] You don't like football

[x] You have a curfew

[ ] You know what ulzzang/tb means

[x] You know what purikura is

[x] You like bubble tea

[ ] Your parents bought you shoes many sizes too big so you can "grow into it" and wear it for years to come

[ ] You've played final fantasy

[ ] You believe in fortune cookiesX's

so far: 32

[x] You know what bok choy is

[ ] You've heard the song "Got rice?"

[ ] You have a tutor

[ ] You've had pockys/yan yan before

[x] When you seek for your mother's permission she replies "Ask your dad"X's

so far: 34

Total X's: 34

Your total x 2

Result: 68%

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WHOAAaaaaa..........I'm 68% Asian!!! Not bad eh...lolz.....

3rd Clinical Skills Session

The previous clinical we had practice on measuring heart beats...and today we had a new topic instead ==> learning how to measure blood pressure Luckily dad taught me a few stuffs about how to do so before...so I'm quite a fast learner....hehehehe...I had a normal blood pressure btw...Anyway...just realised besides GM...KRS also kinda terrifying..especially his actions towards the girls....eeyerrrrr~~~ If I've the chance....I'll surely report that....hmm...maybe once before my graduation....lol...so that they wont be able to affect me much ;p

Friendsssssss

my ever-sms-ing friend Uncle Zoo V

Ernie and Fishy

Fishy and Shan



Xuan and Shan

Xuan...my kindergarten mate

my OWN stethescope

My initials ==> J. HO ^^

stethescope in the box

Littmann's Classic II S.E. (original price $380)

Crazeee~~

Aww....what am I thinking..?? To be thinking that he'll think like that of me..?? He had already said clearly...so why am I still holding on to it...?? I've got to get a grip on myself le...seriously.......

I found out that me and mum had so much similarities in our thinking...guess because we had the same horoscope...and her bday's only 5days earlier from mine....oh well...just cant figure that out...anyway....I'm just sooooo hoping that I'll meet my prince charming who'll really love me till end of our lives...will all his heart...but guess what I'm saying now is a bit too early la...lolz......

Yay!! Parents coming to see me tomorrow!! ^^ And they're bringing along lots of home-cooked food...hehehehe..have a fridge in our pantry here plus my rice cooker so no problem =p Just hope that they won't notice me getting thinner and thinner (oops..!!)

Cancelled 1st Aid Workshop

Cancelled...??? ISH!! If not...I would have chosen to go to INTI tomorrow instead...so short time there today....hmm...maybe can go to the movies with Zoo V instead...IF he's willing to go to Midvalley =p Curse the seniors....who proposed for this 1st Aid workshop in the 1st place and who's the one asking us to plan this during this period...and ended up they didn't want to go....and not to blame the A levels students who suddenly came up with exams so not able to attend....so left with us 30 something miserable medicine 1st year students...where the committee promised the St John at first that there'll be about 100 people...so...the St John's decided not to come....so have to wait till the next time...but we'll still be having a small,short workshop of our own...conducted by one of my coursemate and its free...so my money will be refunded....haiz.......bad planning...anyway...guess no one would wanna spend their V Day with 1st Aid....

one of the craziest thing I've done...

I just got back into my room...and I've just done one of the craziest thing I've done in my whole life...........After assessment today, just hop onto the shuttle bus and went all the way for one whole hour to Nilai, Negeri Sembilan just to INTI college to look for uncle Zoo V =p Nilai's such a new place to me....and its REALLY horrifyingly out-of-town....I've to keep wondering where the heck am I....Well...after getting down from the train....gotta take a bus that'll take me straight to INTI...but as the bus has lots of stops....I started to wonder when I'm gonna reach and would I ever know if I've reached...and I'm seriously not exaggerating >< if NOT for the INTI buses i saw parking in the compound...I wouldn't have known....

OKie...met up with uncle Zoo V....and he took me for a detour around INTI...oh man....INTI's a hundred times bigger than UCSI....and stupid UCSI's a university now compared to INTI still being a university college -.-' Even their hostel has 16 blocks...counting from A till P (Aristotle, Beethoven, Confucious, Darwin, Einstein, Fleming, etc....and these are cool names~~) And Zoo V's staying in block H (which stands for Heisenburg)...which I'm not allowed in....anyway....their library is obviously bigger than ours and nicer design compared to ours....ours..?? There's only one word for it ==> LOUSY!! Books lousy, design so so so normal, computer lab's sucks with extremely slow internet...even my hostel's alot faster than the com lab's....and poor service......not to mention always having electricity breakdown -.-' And as what Zoo told me....they have 60 clubs there (including a DOTA club...wth...)...they've have a olympic size swimming pool, two squash courts, a tennis court, a basketball court, a gym which's a hell lot better than ours, a cybercafe, a pool room, a hall where you can play table tennis...and a Multi-Purporse Hall same as us...duno about the size though....OH!! Almost forgotten...they even have a bakery where there's a pool table with a ever-going-on TV showing MTV's and couches...NICEEEE~~~ So after detouring..we just sat in the bakery while chatting...but just for a short while coz I need to take the bus and catch the KTM again so that I wont be too late to come back to my hostel...sad-nya =(

Tomorrow's Valentine's Day...which again its not something related to me....no reasons for me to celebrate it or treat it as any important day...and the special thing is I'm going to have 1st Aid Workshop tomorrow and Sunday, 8am till 6pm...which's kind of cool la although I've taken such course before....but since I've nothing to do...my as well join it and learn some stuffs.....need to pay 60 bucks though..ish!! The course I've taken before was free...and it was conducted by Ipoh General Hospital staffs while this one's conducted by St John members....


p.s Zoo V...really thanks alot for the tour around your uni ya ^^ And do thank me for praising your uni...hahahaha....seriously it's not as sucks as mine.....DO come by someday, okay?