tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1607081687578110222012-01-24T11:11:03.245+08:00This blog revolves around the life of a simple girl who hopes to see changes in the future of the world. Read what she thinks of certain issues and understand her disappointment with the reality of life.Ai Ling Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16029201881678267926noreply@blogger.comBlogger6061100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-160708168757811022.post-11152444092569432832011-12-25T12:56:00.000+08:002011-12-25T12:56:46.259+08:00

Attended Chin Fei's company Xmas dinner in Frasers, Kings Park; where one of the CHOGM gatherings was held. The theme was Hollywood and there were "paparazzis" standing at the red carpet at the entrance to the venue, all carrying cameras and one even had a microphone, on a pretext of swarming all the attendees. It was indeed hilarious. LOL. There was a professional photographer hired

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As mentioned in the previous post, I will be busy shifting this Christmas. It was a crazy and havoc week. We had to managed two places - the previous rental property and the current place that we purchased. We had to pack our 3 years of belongings into boxes and prepare for inspection for the prospective tenants, clean the rented property upon vacating, as well unpacking some things in this new

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Last week, Suang Suang came to visit me!! :) She flew from Melbourne for a 4-day conference but we only met up for two mornings and one night because she was busy at the conference and I was busy at work. Unfortunately, she couldn't stay longer over the weekends because she had some experiments to do or else I would have brought her to Fremantle and Cottlesloe. If she reads this, she will again

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So from last night until the wee hours of the morning today, Australians and some parts of Asia stayed awake to watch the lunar eclipse. The last eclipse was on my birthday (oh, I feel so special! :P) and the next round will be in 4 years time. At about 8 pm, we went on a mission to hunt for the moon. Staying in the CBD means that there will be many tall towering buildings that would be

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Went to watch the Channel 7 Christmas parade again. Last year, I went alone. This year, I had Chin Fei, Justine and her boyfriend, Jonathan tagging along. Gee. But it was quite disappointing seeing that the parade was so similar to last year's that I told Chin Fei I wouldn't want to go next year anymore. Apparently, the parade was held at night with colourful lights years ago. Don't

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Sealed the deal! Yay. After looking around for months, comparing different suburbs, waiting for the right time to buy, negotiating the price, we have finally sealed the deal to buy a place in Perth!  Extremely happy! :) Now the stress begins. With Christmas round the corner, we want to quicken the process so that we can shift in before Christmas and take Christmas the time to unpack and do the

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With the many latest posts about travelling, you may think that I love travelling. Well, I quite like going on a holiday but I don't like the journey though. How I wish that there is a teleport available somewhere so I can just teleport myself to the destination immediately. And after each holiday, I just feel so tired and drained that I think I need another holiday to recover. LOL. I think

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Just got back from a 2-week break in Malaysia. It was short and quick but I'm glad that I spent each quality day wisely with my parents, relatives and my new dog, Dino! :)The lazy dog, DinoDino, on his way to the vet for a jabThe main reason of returning to Malaysia was to attend Chin Fei's brother's wedding on the 11/11/11 in Kedah.Bride's wedding dinner on 10/11/11Bridegroom's wedding dinner on

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After Salzburg, we took a train to Hallstatt for a day trip. The train ride takes about 3 hours and the journey was pretty as along the way, we saw an empty vast of lush green land with some mountains in the backdrop and a group of small cottages here and there. But if you look out the window for 1 hour, it became quite boring. An emo pic of brother Alwin. Haha. Soon after, as

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From Austria, we took a train ride to Salzburg. If you haven't realised, Salzburg is the town where part of the movie, The Sound Of Music, was filmed.     Although we liked the movie, we didn't join any of the tours that bring tourists around the places where the movie was filmed. Having joined the Lord of the Rings tour in Christchurch before, we knew that the tour was just about

Ai Ling Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16029201881678267926noreply@blogger.com0Salzburg, Austria47.80949 13.05501000000003847.75799 12.98456000000004 47.860989999999994 13.125460000000038tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-160708168757811022.post-61940273254817155952011-11-02T18:12:00.001+08:002011-11-02T18:17:22.785+08:00

This post is a continuation from Part 1 here. Well, obviously when we went to the funfair, we would be spending some money on games and showbags, just like everyone else. Hehe. We bought a Mickey Mouse showbag for Chin Fei's niece and Hui Min was hunting for an Elmo (from Sesame Street) showbag but it was all sold out because it was the last day of the event. The Elmo was really cute actually!!

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Early of last month, Hui Min, Chin Fei and I went to the Perth Royal Show in held in Showgrounds. This event is held annually during the school holidays where parents are expected to bring their kids there to have fun and waste money on showbags so that the kids can brag to their peers when school reopens after the holiday. Hehe. The last time Chin Fei and I had fun in the Royal Show was in 2009

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Last weekend was the long waited break that every Western Australian was looking forward to. It was the Queen's birthday public holiday on Friday where Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth and and His Royal Highness, the Duke of Edinburg, Prince Phillip, flew to Perth from Melbourne to officiate CHOGM. The Queen's "real" birthday is on 21st April but the public holiday that Western Australians

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Guess what I'm doing for Halloween tonight? Nope. Nothing fancy. No make-ups, no dress-ups. Just putting on a facial mask which itself makes me look like one of those killers in those thriller shows like "I know what you did last summer". LOL. Am just trying on this mask I recently redeemed from BeautiCorp International from a scoopon I purchased. Gotta be my best for Chin Fei's brother's

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Got a forwarded email regarding some comics on Steve Jobs.  

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My brother sent me the link to a parody created by Mr. Brown on Siri in Apple iPhone 4S. I think Malaysians and Singaporeans would only understand the joke.  And dad says that SIMI sounds more intelligent than Siri. LOL. Enjoy!

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It's been a very long time since I last sat for exams or had assignments from Uni. You know those days when you studied for a quiz or exam or had to do assignments and the marks will be contributed towards your final score? I remember that in some subjects, the lecturers told us that they would choose the best 3 quiz or assignment marks that will make up, say, 50% of the final score. Well, if I

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If you were following me on Facebook, you'd know that I was one of the crazy ones who queued up for the release of Apple iPhone 4S last Friday in the Perth store. Dad currently has an iPhone 3GS which used to belong to me. When I upgraded my phone to iPhone 4, I gave him my 1 year old iPhone 3GS. Dad having the smartphone was indeed a good choice as brother Alex in the UK has a HTC and youngest

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Continuing on from the previous post on Austria, I guess the main attraction in Vienna is the Schoenbrunn Palace. This summer palace occupied by the Habsburg monarchy has 1400 rooms!!!!!                   There's so much history just about this palace but the audio guide that we joined mainly focused on Maria Theresa, who is the Habsburg empire successor after her father, Charles VI, and

Ai Ling Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16029201881678267926noreply@blogger.com0Schönbrunn Palace, Schloss Schönbrunn, Schönbrunner Schloßstraße 47, 1130 Vienna, Austria48.1855932 16.3121409000000348.1838657 16.30466490000003 48.1873207 16.31961690000003tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-160708168757811022.post-89542875390590317852011-10-07T22:27:00.000+08:002011-10-07T22:30:36.355+08:00

Early last month, my work colleagues and their partners, together with Chin Fei and I went for whale watching somewhere off Rottness Island. We joined the Oceanic Cruises that departed from Fremantle boat shed in the early morning. From left to right: Chin Fei, Me, Justine and her partner, Jonathan, Sam and her partner Danny. Missing in person: Hui Min, the photography Having been to The

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I have been very busy lately, hence the lack of posts. The past month I was overwhelmed with helping my supervisor writing a grant for my PhD project as well as preparing a grant for myself, which was due one week after the first big grant for my supervisor. And the grant that I was submitting was due on the same day that I was supposed to give a talk on my PhD findings for the School of Medicine

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There are many homeless people in Perth CBD. So many of them; some of them come to you and beg for money but some don't. Those who don't, somehow have money to buy alcohol and drink themselves drunk on the streets.  But there is one man that fascinates me. I always wonder how long he has been living on the streets. His hair is unkempt, which is of no surprise. His beard is so long, grey and

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Let's listen to some music from the Royal Orchestra Wien Mozart and Strauss, recorded during the night we attended the orchestra in Vienna. Enjoy!

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If I tell you how we get from Prague to Austria, you wouldn't believe your ears (or perhaps your eyes since you're reading it). It's common for travellers to take the train to Austria from Prague since it's cheap and flexible - you board on any train time you want to; unlike taking a flight where you have to board the flight time you purchase.Since my brother (who is studying in London and whom

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I dislike people setting meetings during lunch hour, especially when lunch is not provided. Like, there's 24 hours a day, 8-12 hours are spent at work, can't they just choose some other time? Their reasoning is that these people are so busy at other times and lunch hour is the only hour they have the time to have meetings. But isn't meeting also part of work? So you said you're busy? Busy what? I

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So on day 2 in Prague, we visited the other side of Vltava River; where the famous Prague Castle and St Vitus Cathedral are. The Prague Castle was apparently built in the 800s by Prince Bořivoj of the Premyslid Dynasty and it is the largest castle complex in the world. It's a complex, much like a shopping complex, because the surrounding area of the castle has cathedrals, gardens, monasteries,

Ai Ling Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16029201881678267926noreply@blogger.com0Prague Castle - castle grounds Zámecké schody, 119 00 Prague 5, Czech Republic50.0897362 14.39995499999997721.641889199999998 -45.36567000000002 78.5375832 74.16557999999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-160708168757811022.post-4916143870272542412011-08-18T16:55:00.000+08:002011-08-18T16:55:39.426+08:00

So the other night, I was teasing this hubby of mine about how unromantic he is ... sometimes. Tee hee hee. We always end our conversations on the phone (except when we're working because pai seh mar) with "I Love You. Each time before we sleep, we also exchange "I Love You"s too. And each time we go to work or when we come back, we'll say the 3 words. Occasionally, we'll say that when we're

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It's been 3 years already that I'm now in Perth, Western Australia. Thinking back, I have no regrets putting away everything I have in Melbourne, to start a whole new life here with Chin Fei. Yes, a lot of times, I do complain to him about how boring this place is and how I miss my friends in Melbourne; but for our future, I am certain that this is the place for us. It's because of the mining

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This is a random video of a puppet merry-go-round we saw in Prague. I guess puppets are quite popular in Prague because I saw a lot of gift shops selling them.

Ai Ling Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16029201881678267926noreply@blogger.com0Prague, Czech Republic50.0878114 14.42045980000000349.9702814 14.179827300000003 50.2053414 14.661092300000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-160708168757811022.post-84029988828630465752011-08-16T20:56:00.000+08:002011-08-16T20:56:00.039+08:00

Here's the video of the astronomical clock in Prague I stupidly recorded in the landscape format and had to rotate it using Windows Live Movie Maker to a portrait format. -.- Enjoy!

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From Amsterdam (read here, here and here), Chin Fei and I flew to Prague and stayed over a night before my family came to join us from London. Our flight to Prague was delayed for an hour. We were all sitting inside the plane, waiting for the engineers to fix, what I think was, the luggage compartment door, that couldn't be opened. By the time we arrived Prague airport, we had to wait for another

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Chin Fei sent me this video last year and I forwarded it to my family to watch. Now that I'm organising my emails, I came across this video again and thought I should post it up for anyone who is interested in changing the bulb...on a high transmission tower. :)

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While he was sleeping soundly at 3 am, I was at my computer. Then he suddenly woke up (I think he felt the bedside next to him and realised I wasn't there) and called out my name in a very worry but groggy tone. I rushed into the bedroom to check on him and there I found him, sitting up like a lost baby in the dark who couldn't find his soft toy. I'm blessed to have a husband who cares,

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Here's the video of the clog-making process. Enjoy.

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It was good that we joined a social excursion organised by the conference to visit the outskirts of The Netherlands, Zaanse Schans and Edam. If you're wondering why I'm dressed up so formally for the social excursion, my presentation was actually in the morning of that day For if not, we wouldn't be able to see the traditional windmills and clogs manufacturing process. Our tour guide was

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We didn't drive around in Amsterdam because we weren't familiar driving on the other side of the road. I saw this cute little car and wanted Chin Fei to open up his hands as a measure of how small the car is.....and he did this:LOL. I didn't think it would be that small that he just needed to stretch out one hand!Besides, most of the places were easily accessible by trams. We stayed in a hotel in

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The reason I visited Amsterdam was to attend the 14th World Conference on Lung Cancer. I don't actually understand what I amsterdam means. Is it supposed to be like i phone? Anyone? The opening ceremony of the conference   ... to present my PhD findings. Speaking to Dr Michael Grusch. First time meeting him. Looking at other people's work I also visited a

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We had almost a week in London after our trip to Prague and Austria (which I'll blog about later). So besides visiting Oxford, we also took a train out to Greenwich so that we could stand at the longitude of 0° on Earth. Syok sendiri ma. Haha. :P University of Greenwich Flamsteed House, Old Royal Observatory, part of the National Maritime Museum, where the Meridian Line is, is situated on top

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Dad read my blog on Trafalgar Square yesterday where I mentioned that there used to be so many pigeons when I was there last time. He said I should have uploaded some photos to show, but I didn't have any and funnily today, he sent me some old photos of me and us during that time. LOL. See! I didn't lie!! So many pigeons!! :P Another pictures of my family and I, 2 years later. I was so

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Another small little town that we visited while we were in London was Oxford. Who would miss the opportunity to visit one of the top universities in the world?? Our train ride from London to Oxford took us approximately an hour or so. It was nice getting out from the bustling city of London to the small town of Oxfordshire where the people there were friendlier and maybe wiser?

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When we were in London, we also visited the London bridge because that's one of the popular icons along the Thames River. We sang the London Bridge is Falling Down nursery rhyme ... before we went up the bridge to take photos ... just in case our song or ahem, our singing really made the bridge collapse. LOL. But really, why are kids brought up singing a song cursing the bridge to collapse? And

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If you have some spare time in London, I recommend visiting the Imperial War Museum. There's so much to see there that I reckon you need at least a week to read everything! I'm not a fan of History. I like reading about war and the sufferings and experiences people had but I don't like studying it. So when my brother Alex wanted to bring us to the War Museum, I was skeptical. Very

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Trafalgar Square. What used to be densely populated by pigeons have now become terrorized by people. I remember (and have photos) of my younger days when I was growing up in London. I remember being scared of the many pigeons on the ground, all flocking to steal the grains that I wanted to feed to selected pigeons only. It was a scene like in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York; only much worse. I

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If you are in London, spare a couple of hours to watch the Changing The Guards at Buckingham Palace! It's a performance never to be missed! We went to Buckingham Palace twice when we were there. The first time, it was on the first day we arrived, when my parents and Alwin hadn't come yet. At that time, we had visited the entire London on foot and Buckingham Palace was one of our

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You can't claim that you have visited London if you have not seen the Big Ben, St Paul's Cathedral and the London Eye while you were there. The Big Ben, London's Clock Tower St Paul's Cathedral London Eye The last time I was in London, I was about 4. I grew up there for a while and my brother was born there too. But I can only remember a few bits here and there. This time when we

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One of the places we visited in London was the M & M's World, located near Chinatown. Seriously, you don't have to direct the tourist where the place is. Anyone can sniff their way to the M & M's World. From outside the shop, you can already smell chocolate that you can't even smell when you enter a chocolate cafe like Max Brenner and San Churros in Australia! That's how strong the chocolate

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Everyone's been talking about Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2. I was a fan (not the greatest of all) of Harry Potter until I came to the 4th book and began to lose interest because it became quite long. Since then, I have been watching the movie but did not bother to watch Part 1 of this last book since I did not want to be left half-hanging for a year until Part 2 comes out (

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Left London 3 nights ago. Slept throughout the journey and arrived PJ a night later. Less than 12 hours later, left to Alor Setar to visit my in-laws. Am here in Kedah now, trying to cope with jet-lag. Leaving tomorrow morning back to PJ and our flight back to Perth is in the evening. Arriving Perth on Monday early morning.  And now I read a news article saying that flights are cancelled

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What's the time now?   The Greenwich Meridian Time The Big Ben It's 10.30 pm here in London right now. I wonder how I am going to change my body clock when I fly back to Malaysia and then to Perth end of this week to start work the next week. :/

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Attended brother Alex's graduation from the London School of Economics with a Bachelor of Science, majoring in Economics. Congratulations to him. We are all proud of him. Time to celebrate with a toast of wine! Cheers!

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Was in Prague to see the castles and cathedrals. Off to Vienna by train to visit Johann Strauss... and the other palaces around... Then another train to Salzburg.... and a day trip to Hallstatt.... ... before flying back to London from Salzburg. Hi from London! Will be here for the next few days for my brother's graduation. :)

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Dropped by Malaysia for 2 days to visit my family and also to settle all the errands and shop!! Flew to London to visit my brother, Alex, and visited London for another 2 days. Am in Amsterdam now to present my poster for the 14th World Conference on Lung Cancer. Social excursion to Zaanse Schans to watch clogs being manufactured Social excusion to see windmills in Zaanse

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The drama is finally over! For over 2 weeks, Chin Fei and I have been constantly living in fear and insecurity that we will not have a house to stay after we come back from my conference + holiday trip in Europe next week. It all started when our apartment lease ended in March this year. By February, we were already contacting our property agent, NTY Property Group, and negotiating on the terms

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I usually celebrate my birthday for an entire week (go to my June archives in the previous years and you can read all about it). Even Jin Ye said in her SMS that she knows that my celebration will be quite elaborate. But this year is different. You know how people say that they are too busy until they forgot that their birthday was coming and you thought it was a joke? I mean, how can someone

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On this Father's Day, I am thinking of the old man whom I helped after he fell down alighting from the bus this afternoon. He was with his old wife and they just came from the airport. They alighted at the bus stop where I was waiting to go to work. I didn't see it all happening but it happen right in front of me. The bus driver did not lower down the bus because he didn't know that the old

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The other day, Chin Fei and I were trying to change our passwords for all our accounts. We try to make it a habit to change our passwords quite frequently to avoid hackers from hacking into our accounts. Gee... What was supposed to be an easy task to do, turned out to be such a pain for us. Some sites had fussy ridiculous requirements for passwords. Take for example, a website that requires

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So happy! I bagged the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research (TICHR) award for the best oral presentation given during the Australian Society for Medical Research WA Symposium!  My PhD supervisor didn't really encouraged me to present in this symposium because it was just a one-day student's symposium and it was quite a waste of time. But I insisted, and submitted my abstract without him

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Thanks to Heng Liang, for posting up the link to NAB Student Collective on Facebook, I have now finally received my free pair of Volleys black shoes from NAB! Yipee! :) The National Australia Bank (NAB) has a a Facebook page called the NAB Student Collective for university students to get special offers and sometimes free things by just liking the page and follow the prompts whenever an offer

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It's already June! And I love the month of June! Because there is a holiday in June (Monday is Foundation Day), but I still gotta go to work. Because there is a stocktake sale in June. Because I'm flying home and also going to Europe end of June. Because I get a lot of discounts and vouchers in June. Because I get pampered for a week in June. Because I get presents in June.

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Inhaled in some fungi spores. Will I die? It has been a day and I have some phlegm that I can't get rid of (I am never successful of getting rid of phlegm at all. I always swallow them, if you want to know). I hope that I won't be coughing out balls of fungi 2 days later. Had a splitting headache this morning but after a dose of self-prescribe paracetamol, I'm much better. Don't know if it

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I was looking at watches in a store when I realised that a Gucci watch costs so much more than a Tissot watch. It's ironic that a Gucci brand that is popular for everything under the sun, from bags to sunglasses and clothes, worths more than a Tissot brand that specialises in just watches.  What has happened to fashion and brands? It really does not make any sense if a LV computer (if next time

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Just got back from yoga class from Day 2 of Fitness Program. It has been raining heavily outside since the morning when I woke up at 4.45 am. It got even worse when I left work at 8.06 am to go home. It was pouring pretty badly and the bus was pretty packed. When the bus stopped abruptly, a lot of passengers fell down like domino because the floor was wet and slippery too. Those working women in

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After months, or perhaps even years in denial, I've finally come to realise something ... ... that I'm getting FATTER and FATTER each day! Old clothes were donated and new clothes of a bigger size were purchased almost every few months. I invested in a bicycle to cycle to work and everywhere else, tried a 15 Day detox program, rarely eat lunch, sometimes ate only salad for dinner, sometimes

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After many months of being trapped in a long and dark tunnel, I can finally see the light at the end. It is still far and the road ahead is not smooth. But I know I will surpass it. I will get out there soon. Just wait for me. Pictures were taken from Lake and Mammoth Caves. Read here for my travel post.

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Note: This post is a very long post with tonnes of pictures. I thought of dividing it into 2 posts but I think the place is so interesting that it's worth putting it all on one post. So please bear with me. I'm sure you'll find reading this interesting and worthwhile (I hope so)! :) The very most interesting place that we visited while we were in Albany was the Whale World, located on the Old

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Chin Fei is supposed to come back on Friday from site but thanks to Qantas who is planning to have an hour strike, most of the planes will be delayed and he's now on the waiting list for tomorrow's flight. If he gets it, I get to see him a day earlier! But if not, then I don't know what bad the consequences of the strike will be. He may even arrive 3-4 hours later! It kinda annoys me because

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From the rocks in Albany, to the wind and water in Albany and now the skies in Albany. Looks like I'm covering every single object in Albany. :P At every visit we make, we usually drop by the Information Centre. Although we have done our research before making a trip, we like to hear what the locals have to say. A short visit to the Information Centre to hear what the staff has to recommend us

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 Here's the video recording of the stingray we saw at Emu Point. Oh, our lucky day! :) 

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Based from the previous post on Albany Bibbulmun track, this is the video recording of the Great Southern Ocean. Enjoy! :)

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Since it was quite dark already when we visited Albany Wind Farm the evening before, we woke up early the next day to drive all the way there again to see the wind turbines because Chin Fei has never gotten close to a wind turbine before. Haha. Unfortunately, the night before was cold and rainy, that it became very cold and misty the morning after. The misty morning The sun was hiding

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I would love to say how I flew from Perth to Denmark and then from Denmark, we flew to Albany in US but unfortunately, we are so poor so all we could afford is a 3 days 2 nights trip to Denmark and Albany in Western Australia. LOL. Albany is situated 5 hours drive south east of Perth. Because we drove from Denmark, it took only an hour for us to get there. We left Perth close in the late

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A friend shared this with me. It's not Friday yet but listening to this Hokkien translation makes me laugh and makes me look forward to Friday! :) :)

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On Sunday, we drove down to Denmark from Perth; a 4 hour drive, seeing nothing but farms, sheeps, cows and horses. We left early in the morning to arrive about lunch time and the first place we stopped by was the famous award-winning Denmark Bakery. Outside the bakery store The bakeries they sell The awards they win We bought the Thai Green Chicken pie, Lamb and Fresh Rosemary pie,

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My brother shared this time-lapsed video with me. A very nice capture of God's beautiful creations.

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A 18 month old boy manages to kick 3 balls into his toy chest. At 18 months old, I don't think I even know how to kick yet! LOL. It's no surprise that he now has a contract with the Dutch top flight club VVV-Venlo. A 10-year contract!! OMG. I love to see him playing for the World Cup next time! :) And oh, by the way, I love his signature on the contract. :)

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Tomorrow is THE day that everyone has been looking forward to!! I am so excited to see Kate's wedding dress!I think the all cities around the world, except for London, will be pretty quiet and everyone will be glued to the black box to see the lovely lady walking down the aisle to meet his prince charming. I hope to take half day off tomorrow to come back early and have dinner already prepared to

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A friend asked me to participate the HBF Run for a Reason presented by the West Australian on the 22nd May 2011 because "everyone has a reason to run, walk or stroll, be it for your own personal health or to raise funds for charities".Don't get me wrong. I am not against any of these campaigns creating awareness for something. I myself have volunteered in numerous campaigns such as the Pink

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Australians had a very long 5-day weekend break last week beginning on Good Friday until Easter Tuesday. We actually do not celebrate Easter Tuesday, but because ANZAC Day fell on Easter Monday, Tuesday was declared a public holiday too. Nice! :) So Chin Fei and I borrowed a car on Saturday for our 3 days 2 nights stay in Denmark and Albany, which I will blog later. Since we do not own a

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If you haven't heard, the news about a body of a "dead alien" found in Siberia, is all over town. Question is, is it really an alien or is it a deformed human? Or a deformed animal? Or maybe a plasticin model that someone made to make it look like a hoax?Do you believe in aliens? Or the mysterious Big Foot? What about the Loch Ness monster (which just recently has been shown that it may be just

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Woke up at 5 am to board the 6 am bus. Was the first to arrive work at 6.30 am today, if you don't count in the cleaners who come in at 4 am. Haha.Finished work at 11 am, attended a seminar at 12 until 1 pm.Could have gone home at 2 pm but I've to wait until 5.30 pm for a meeting that was last minute scheduled. Aih.So tired already and I didn't sleep well last night because there was a mosquito

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There's a circus now showing in Langley Park, Perth. It's the Circus Joseph Ashton. I have been to a circus when I was a little kid so I can't remember anything at all. But Chin Fei has never. And I thought that since there is one here, why not go for it?But the problem is that I don't know if it is ethically right to go to the circus that uses animals to perform tricks to entertain us kids and

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Got in to the lab this morning to find one of the freezers had big chunks of ice! There wasn't any possible way of getting out your items! Someone must have left the freezer door ajar. I can't believe how one night can cause such a disaster!!Thanks to our lab technician, Emma, who defrosted the freezer and by 4 pm, it was all okay and ready to be used again.

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I just printed out a confirmation email from the hotel I booked for this upcoming Easter break. Chin Fei and I plan to visit a place 4 hours down south of Perth, called Albany.I booked the hotel a month ago, knowing that by now, most of the places would have been fully booked or very expensive.So the confirmation email has been sitting in my inbox for a month or so before today I decided to print

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As I'm writing this, the office and the lab is pretty quiet. Most of my colleagues have gone to the city to protest against the government for slashing AUD 400 million from research funds. Placards made by my colleagues Protests were held in the other cities in Australia last Tuesday. I could have followed my colleagues too, dressing up in lab coats and probably biohazard bags and gloves and

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Cant. Wait. For. Chin. Fei. To. Come. Back. For. Good. From. Site.  Missing him already...

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I recently attended a conference in the Perth Exhibition and Convention Centre, held by The Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand (TSANZ) from 2nd to 6th April. I was selected to present for the Ann Woolcock Young Investigator Award with another 5 finalists. To get selected from the hundreds of abstracts, was a delight to me. But then, came all the unnecessary stress and pressure to meet

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Yeah, I may sound like an old housewife doing this review but never have I bought something that I feel it's so good that needs telling so that others will consider buying it too! Hehe.To be honest, I have never heard of Dyson until I came to Perth. When I was in Melbourne, all I cared about was clothes and groceries. And those basic cleaning products necessities like bleach and dish washing

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I am so delighted to have been awarded a PhD Top-Up Award worth $10, 000 per annum, worth 3 years, tax-free, by the Lung Institute of Western Australia! This award means so much to me because as students, we have very limited amount of scholarship money. So many PhD students take up a second job to sustain their life of 4 years with low pay. I am grateful to have Chin Fei who is feeding me all

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This month seems to be a presentation month for me. One after another, I have to give. I think by the end of it, everyone will remember my name and the work I do.'I have to present my PhD work to the School of Population Health where epidemiologists and statisticians will make up the majority of my audience, LIWA breakfast research meeting to the research scientists in LIWA, Tumour Immunology

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First it was Christchurch. Now it's Japan. And worse, on a bigger scale. What has happened to Mother Nature? Is this a revenge on all of us for taking things for granted? For not caring Earth for our next generation? This 9 magnitude earthquake in Japan shadows the 6.3 magnitude in Christchurch.  Worse, reminisce of tsunami floods in Aceh back in 2004, comes to haunt everyone of us. With so many

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Heng Liang and Cheok Quen had two free admission tickets to the Perth Bell Tower after visiting it themselves when they were here for the Christmas + New Year holiday. So they gave the tickets to us, which was the right timing because we have never visited up the tower, even though we were here in Perth for 2 years already. :P   The public can ring the bells on certain days but

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Check out the video recording of the strong wind blowing the sand off the sand dunes near the Pinnacles Desert, Cervantes.

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When Amy was here, we went to Pinnacles Desert, about 3 hours drive of north of Perth. It was my 2nd time visiting there after my first visit with my family last August. Amy, the driver I, the co-driver. Tee hee hee... :) We departed early in the morning and on the way there, we came across some wind turbines. :) So we stopped by the road side and took some pictures. We

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During Amy's 1 week visit to Perth, I only managed to bring her around Perth for 3 days because the rest of the trip, she drove down south alone to places like Margaret River and Albany. Despite that, we still manage to catch up and update each other with the happenings around as we have not seen each other for 2 years!While she was here, we brought her to popular restaurants in Perth and also to

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Reading through the news about the 6.3 magnitude earthquake in Christchurch, it really shocked and sadden me at the same time. The beautiful place has now turn into rumbles in a matter of seconds. Even the famous Cathedral Square has collapsed. It will certainly take a long time for the city to rebuild itself. Please help by donating to the Red Cross. Every bit counts. Thank you.

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Amy, a college friend of mine whom I've not seen for 2 years or so, arrived Perth last Friday. The midnight she arrived, she wanted to visit one of the pubs for some drinks so I brought her to one in the city as the underbelly Northbridge is very dangerous, especially on a Friday night. Ironically, it was my very first time entering a pub and I didn't like the atmosphere at all. We chatted and

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So I'm back in Perth, just in time for Valentine's Day after my 2-weeks holiday in Malaysia to celebrate CNY! :) Our first Valentine's as "husband and wife" after our ROM. :))Chin Fei picked me up from the airport and surprised me with a stalk of fresh rose, 2 boxes of chocolates to make me fat and a beautiful watch that hasn't been on display yet, at home. He was really busy working on site,

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My uncle owns a lion dance group whereby he trains his students for lion dance performance. So each year, we always invite our uncle and his troupe to perform at our house. This year, since we've shifted to a new home, the lion dance performance is a must to begin a new lunar year with good health, good wealth, happiness and success in life. It is believed that the lions not only scare the

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Warning: Long post ahead with tonnes of pictures! :) It's the Chinese New Year again!! I have been looking forward to going back since the last time I went back in August for my marriage registration. Although it's only about 6 months ago, I feel that it has been a very long time since I last seen my parents. I think because during the ROM, it was quite a hectic week and I didn't really get to

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Another year has gone and it's the Australian Day public holiday again! This year, Chin Fei and I decided to celebrate it in a different way - BBQ at East Park with my work colleague, Justine and her boyfriend, Jonathan. :) After the BBQ, we picked Hui Min up from work (yes, she went to work on a public holiday!!) to go to Justine's and Jonathan's new home to sit and chat around. We

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