Oh Lord You've searched me
You know my way
Even when I fail You
I know You love me
Your holy presence
Surrounding me
In every season
I know You love me
I know You love me


At the cross I bow my knee
Where Your blood was shed for me
There's no greater love than this
You have overcome the grave
Your glory fills the highest place
What can separate me now


You go before me
You shield my way
Your hand upholds me
I know You love me
And when the earth fades
Falls from my eyes
And You stand before me
I know You love me
I know You love me


You tore the veil, You made a way
When You said that it is done

* annalisa *
* 26th june *
* nus med *

-4:38 PM

Happy CNY people!! don't think i will have time to post anything tmr...haha...too busy gorging on goodies and visiting my relatives.............hehe.....


-8:13 PM

currently very brain drained...haha...after all, there's only so many hours of reading n listening to renal physio that one can take....so here i am relaxing by typing something that doesn't really require much brain power....haha....

the day started with some biochem cum physio lect with a prof that seriously looked like Liang Fengyi's brother....hehe....and i was so amused that Fish fell for the same trick 2x in a row!! haha....i tapped her other shoulder twice and she thought it was Marc both times!! hahahahaha......before that deborah tried doing that to me n failed miserably...haha...i think i have mastered the art of doing it without detection...hehe.....

later, while waiting for physio tutorial to start(4 hr wait), went to Spinelli's at University Hall along with deborah n mich to study....ended up having to answer a plethora of questions from mich...but it helped me to understand the concepts better after i explained to her.....in the end i only managed to read 1 miserable chapter for renal....haha...and midway, all three of us succumbed to eating cheesecake, muffin and a brownie.....although i must say it was quite gd...and in a bid to save money for our prospective trip, all three of us ended up drinking free water from spinelli's.....haha....so sad right??? so after drinking at least 6 cups of water, we had to dash to the toilet after physio tutorial!! haha....extremely hilarious...imagine 4 people rushing into the anat museum just to use the toilet.......laughed so much while running and that didn't help the urge to go one bit......=)

all in all, a day filled with much laughter........


-9:40 PM



just read yun's blog...Madison sounds like a whole lot of fun!! especially snow sledding...i want to do that too!! why can't it snow in spore instead of pouring EVERYDAY?? rain just gets me down....my theory on the current wet spell that we are experiencing is that this is the year of the dog, hence it is raining cats n DOGS...haha...my warped little theory....sometimes i wish spore would snow for a day....then we kids living near the equator would finally be able to make a snowman, have snow fights and go sledding!! (and the snow city at jurong does NOT count) =)

wish i was in US too......


-10:51 PM

1. go out for lunch with anat group every fri
2. spend an average of $7 for lunch for each anat outing
3. go out with michelle for lunch during the week
4. eat at holland v
5. eat at munchie monkey
6. eat fried rice($4) and mango milk ice($2.20) at NUH kopitiam in one sitting
7. convince your friends to go for a buffet lunch at noble house restaurant
8. have your friends convince you to go for a buffet lunch at PARISS restaurant
9. pay for the parking fee in NUS
10. driving to & fro NUS (petrol depletes FAST)

really happy that i've been able to drive the car to sch on my own this whole week!! YAY! and my dad commented that my driving has improved! haha...thanks to my parents for entrusting me with the family car!

and dr wong isn't that bad after all....=)


-10:01 PM

had my first anat tutorial with dr wong today....for the uninformed, he is a very, very old man who is quite nice...but it's really tiring and hard to follow what he's saying...and sometimes he contradicts what the txtbk says....so u get confused n don't know who to believe....basically....i didn't learn much from the tutorial today....hence i'm upset cause head n neck is really impt.....and i'm really stumped that my anat grp finds him "clear n concise", "not as bad as i expected" & "quite ok".....ARGH...maybe it's just me but i need my tutor to speak faster and not pause so much so that i can follow his train of thought....

in other words.....Lord, I need your help to study & understand!!!!

P.S: Having tutorials in the anat hall is not as bad as i imagined....


-10:04 PM

i was trying to download my notes using a 56k dial up modem when EVIL Michelle Leanne Lim threatened to call my house phone!!! ARGH..... can u imagine what would happen if she did?????*wails madly* well, one thing's for sure....i would have killed her....muahahaha........hmm....ok...maybe kill is too strong a word to use.....HA! i know...i shall sever her CN10!!! hehe....followed by her CN7.....lol...then it's bye bye to michelle the (late) great.....hehe....


-4:58 PM


sometimes life can trap us
with our backs against the wall
when we face our problems
they seem too big
and we're too small
we think we face our demons
defenceless on our own
but that's not true
cause no one is alone......


-10:39 PM

here's pics taken in phnom penh....ignore the dates on the photos..forgot to change the date on my camera...haha



market stalls...
a roadside fruits haven... this is the king's palace......

the mekong river......

-11:08 AM


watched Grey's Anatomy yest....nice play on the name by the producers (Grey instead of the Gray anatomy txtbk)...i think it's a show one can either grow to like, or grow to hate...honestly, i'm a bit disturbed by all the promiscuous behaviour going around in the hospital, where the interns are sleeping with the attendings....gosh pple....self control!! anyway, yesterday's episode thankfully didn't have much of that, and the storyline was really quite moving at parts...found myself tearing a bit...like how the 'man with the nails in his head+ a tumour' made the decision to allow docs to operate to remove his tumour which would prob result in him losing all his memories, emotions, things that shaped his life for 5 more years to live....i felt that he should have chosen the alternative---to have 3-5 yrs of a life with memories rather than 10 yrs of not knowing who you are.....

well, on a lighter note....sch started yest....ARGH....boring renal lectures!! found myself zoning out so many times during the physio lect...surprisingly though, i found prof kaur interesting....haha....what is wrong with me??? luckily there aren't many biochem topics left for this sem...or else i think i would suffer even more boredom during the lects....biochem is such a dry subject....all memory work...(then again, isn't that true for anat also???) the only thing that made my day yest was when i found out my pract slot is from 11-1pm....FINALLY we get the earliest slot....hehe....

can't wait for the next hols to start........


-10:52 PM





more photos of my trip to Siem Reap in Cambodia....will upload more when my 56k modem permits...haha


-10:13 PM

how strange time is. it crawls when you are desperate for a boring biochem lecture to end, yet flies when you are enjoying yourself...I'm currently in a state of disbelief that one month of holidays has ended so abruptly..it has been said that time passes all too quickly when you are having fun. how true.
I've experienced it myself all too many times, perhaps more so for this holiday. After all, i managed to take a break, go on a 5 day holiday (my first in many years) and catch up on novels that have been sitting on my already burgeoning bookshelf since the last MPH warehouse sale. Yet i feel that i still have so many things left undone, things that time did not permit this holiday.
Don't get me wrong, i am very thankful for this wonderful, much-needed break but i just wish that there were more hours in a day, more days in a holiday season.

wishful thinking on my part? Maybe.


-10:29 PM

just realised that my posts are unlike some of the others that i have seen....some blogs are very reflective, poignant or induce some soul-searching in u once u read them.....English is a very powerful language don't u think?? it can evoke so many emotions just by changing the phrasing, punctuation and length of a sentence.... i must give credit to yun, for she always does it so well....haha....perhaps my mastery of the language isn't quite there yet.....goes to show that being in uni without having to endure GP lessons has perhaps made me less eloquent, less able to effectively express myself in words....or maybe that eloqence wasn't even there in the first place..... these days, i am sometimes appalled by my inability to construct a proper n full sentence in a short time.....goes to show that one has to always balance the humanities n science in life, never neglecting one for the other for prolonged periods of time......

perhaps a semester in britain would do me good.......haha


-5:35 PM

went shopping today...at tangs....and guess who my mum n i saw shopping at the shoe section???? former indonesia president megawati sukarnoputri.....haha....my mum actually went up to her to shake her hand.....i didn't dare to.....hehe...oh well.....as usual when we go to tangs, there's nothing to buy!! all the womens clothíng don't really look good and they cost quite a lot.......so we ended up at the food section in tangs(in the basement)....and i bought a cookies n cream milkshake.....yum yum.....although i felt real guilty after that.....haha....it's fr venezia........though i enjoyed my milkshake, i must say that the cookies n cream milkshake at billy bombers is much better.....creamier n thicker....although i don't think it can boast of using skim milk n ice cream that is supposedly 94.5% fat free.....hahah.....since when is ice cream 94.5% fat free???? don't believe it one bit but i shall try to 'psycho' myself into thinking that it is true to justify my sinful milkshake......heheh.....

yesterday i went over to my aunt's house n played with my cousin's dog.....it's sooooooooo cute!!!!!! gosh!! absolutely lovable......doesn't bite pple, loves to be tickled, very tame........haha...i think the correct word would be DOCILE...........she lacks all animal instinct.....haha....which for a dog, is a bad thing....haha......but very very lovable....


-10:30 PM

countdown to the start of uni begins......7 more days left of my holiday.....just realised that one day after sch starts, it's a holiday.....hari raya haji...haha....i might as well not go to sch on the 9th.....strange thing abt uni is that the start of the yr doesn't mean the start of a new uni yr.....so it doesn't really feel like a new yr has started for me.....haha.....hope the 9th of jan never comes...........


-1:26 AM

happy new year to everyone!!! it's 2006 already....wow........hope everyone's having a great start to the new yr.....i know i am......went to church today....had leaders' meeting......ended quite late...hehe...thanks to my dad who at the last moment b4 my pastor dismissed us decided to throw in a question!!! argh!!!! very tired n hungry already..........and the best part was the question...it was simply hilarious.......shall not say what it was for everyone to see.....and the question sparked off another 30+ mins of my pastor talking again!!! after that my mum n i were seriously 'shooting daggers' at my dad with our eyes..... hahaha...poor dad......imagine the tirade he got when we got home.....(haha...just jk....we had a laugh abt it....)

anyway, i liked 2005.......was very blessed in 2005.....firstly in my results for my A's which were exeedingly above all i could ask or imagine, secondly for getting into NUS med, and the rest are simply too many to write down......Thanks, praise & glory to my heavenly Father who has been faithful to me throughout the yr......and i know He wont fail me this yr as well......He NEVER does and NEVER will....=) hehe.....

once again here's wishing everyone a blessed 2006,
may God's favour, grace n mercy be with u all the days of your life!!


And I'll sing to u Lord, a hymn of love,
for Your faithfulness to me
and I'm carried in everlasting arms,
You'll never let me go
Through it all

~fish~
~grace~
~val~
~yun(yaya sis)~
~junliang~
~james~
~angie(yaya sis)~
~OCS~
~jia~
~joey~
~weiming~
~shaun~
~blanche~
~shimei~
~so much food, so little time~
~wenphei~



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