many goodbyes

oh man, this is it. flight to london leaves at 5pm. i've packed everything n i think i'm ready, physically..

mentally, i'm not so sure.. i dont know how well i'll cope there, the food, the culture, the people, the language. and also the people and things i'm leaving behind. i know its just 5 weeks, but still, it's a freaking long time if u wanna think about it..

my 42 inch tv, my wii, my bed, my fluffy pillows, my high speed broadband connection, my volleyball, my pots and pans, my everything.... this is goodbye ok? dont miss me too much..

my friends - grace, fiona, yy, bernice, jolynn... gonna miss u girls to bits.

my new found friends in netherlands whom i feel like i've know for years - floris, janneke, klaziena, karin (and the whole committee), sam, balqis, akshay (i'm spelling his name right here), victor, andres, young, amr, and the list goes on and on.. you people are huge part of my life!

my volleyball mates - saidhbhe, christin, lydia, denise, deb, kat, marion, katrina, arianna, clair and yes of course alot more... miss playing vball with u all for almost the whole part of summer

of course my family, thanks for letting me go..

man, this sounds like an Oscar... or some kinda sad farewell.

whatever it is.. thanks guys for helping me out one way or another.. it sucks to leave n i'm afraid to bits but i guess i'll just move forward for now.. i'll try to update as often as i can!

see you again! jumpa lagi! zai jian! adios! ciao! tot ziens! au revoir! sayonara! slan! and of course, namaste!

More curry puffs - Fundraising Stage 3

Today, I made curry puffs again. I swear I have a backache from standing too long now.. So here I am lying down on the bed, probably gonna fall asleep soon cos I'm always sleepy like that. I still have more dough to roll out another 12 curry puffs, or if my business instincts kick, I might make 16? I have more than enough chicken curry anyway..

So pictures will come up soon. And after procrastinating for so long for this, I'm finally gonna bring the curry puffs over to charlie's or langkawi or (hilan) LOL to see if they can help me sell them. Long story short, I just need a resource to sell them!

Anyway I sold 10 curry puffs to a boy last week so my fundraising total is now ...

345 + 25 = 370 euro

Great, about 1130 euro to go..

Cant give up... and cant procrastinate no more...

Fundraising aside, I'm afraid I'm gonna have to skip the pre-departure workshop on the 4th of July. shite la right.. thats like the ultimate opportunity to go meet the other volunteers and yet I'm not in Dublin right at that date.. hmm...

Vaccinations

ZzZzZZzz

i'm so sleepy right now, cant sleep last night cos i dozed off at 7pm - 11pm, woke up and bathed, and stayed wide awake till 6am. had to get up at 10am for an appointment with TMB (Tropical Medical Bureau)..

so i got my Typhoid + Hep A (Hepatyrix), Diptheria + Tetanus + Polio (Revaxis) jabs today. The doctor was an old lady who made the 50 Euro consultation fees quite worthwhile in my opinion.. i dont know if she was explaining so much to get me to have more jabs or shes just plainly concerned. oh well. benefit of doubt anyway.. i have to go back there again for the Meningitis ACYW, and she recommended the Malaria tablets that I have to take for 10 weeks (!!!!!!!!!!) ZZzzZZ and probably bring some anitibiotics as well since we all know how weak my stomach and lungs are when it comes to infections..

all for prevention, yes i know, thank you Dr Chan. Hospital-acquired infections, Mosquito-borne infections .. all prevention for the greater good. (wait is there such a word as greater good?? haha) dont trust anything i write, my brain's not working and the vaccinations are working its magic on me.. n according to Dr Lucile just now, i'll get short term memory loss n confusion as one of the side effects. after she injected me on both sides, she kept talking and talking and asking me questions so i would answer her. and she asked me if i know why she asked. coincidentally, she was asking me what time is good for her to ring me up for the Men. jab.. so i answered "because ppl usually dont come back??"

duh, how would i know.. but she told me, "i asked becos most ppl by now would have fainted already, or would feel like fainting. so i'm getting u to talk more" i was like, whaaa? and no, i did not have any feeling of such, except now maybe.. i wanna sleep!!

good afternoon (night), people!

Puff - ered

Alrighty, next fundraising effort - curry puffs !

Everyone likes curry puffs, less ingredients needed and more value for money.. why not eh? so i called Jean up and asked her to teach me how to make one of those lil magic..

Here're the pictures -

Jean deep frying them

My turn... my hair looks weird argh.. =\

the resulting curry puffs. wonderful stuff i tell u. ALL hand made, no curry puff moulds all whatever.. loads of effort, fairly tiring.. made 24 and no prizes for guessing who bought 13 of them..

I'm selling them at 2 for 5Euro. Anyone interested, just drop me a message..