Once In A Blue Moon

Warning: This is being written in a not-so-ok state of mind  so pardon

me.

SOMEONE OUT THERE,
If you do NOT understand my blog, please do NOT distory it by saying I say some other profession is BAD. Read again and tell me which line did I even imply that???
(I wasn’t ffended when you took me aback with that statement but then I am truly hurt by 2nd person out there who said something that scratched my heart. So that provoked my ‘pissed-offness’)

The following is an excerpt from my 2nd post and I see NOTHING like ‘doctor is bad’. Since I do not like to curse, I have gone through this length to clarify myself. Because this is just NOT about a person not liking what the other person has to say (I know we can’t please everyone so I am usually not so serious in those stuff), this is about the MENTALITY of (future) doctors (I am not saying this SOMEONE only, many people out there are like that too)

‘This is not to say they are superior than doctors; doctors are experts in diagnosing illness, but pharmacist are experts in drugs- they are more well-versed with the adverse effects of drugs’

However I am a forgiving and forgetful person so if you bump into me one day, chances are, I would have found the rays of sunshine by that time.=) so peace out and chill ya.

 

2nd PERSON OUT THERE,
Didn’t I say that this my blog so I can blog whatever I want? IF YOU think I am blabbering so why do you give a damn about it? By the way, your friends doesn’t mean that they are NOT my friend. So if I meet them and they said hi to me, it is ABSOLUTELY NORMAL for me to ask if the person is going to be this profession (which I assumed but it is not what he is doing).

WHAT THE HELL WAS WRONG WITH THAT??????

You hurt me DEEPLY, really deeply.

If you think I should keep quiet, sometimes I think that you are NOT BEING TACTFUL also; so please judge yourself before you judge others.

SOME PEOPLE OUT THERE,
I do NOT look down on people who do not speak proficient english, or people who are not from well-off family.

We had been through tough time and I know what it was like being looked down.

Trust me, I know.I will be the LAST person to sink to that despicable level.

I did work hard for what level I am today-it may not be anything to you all; but compared to the gian wan many many years ago, I think I really did myself proud.

EVERYONE OUT THERE,
quit reading this if I am not at your wavelength; SORRY but I do NOT blog to PLEASE people. Go start your own bimbo blog or i-think-i-am-so-right blog.

If you wish, you may DELETE me from your friendster if you find it so disturbing to read my totally harmless blog yet you can’t control your hands in clicking into here. ^_^ thanks.

My heart is so…..dead now..

WWW: It seems that I have not changed much ^_^  A friend whom I last met in STANDARD 6!!! could recognised me when we met in uni. It is a small world after all.

Having ‘been there, done that’ for 2 full semesters and currently in the 3rd semester, there are little things that I have noticed and would like to share with uni-goers out there, especially those in IMU or going to IMU.

1. Girls, when you walk up the ‘escalators’ (read: stairs since they only function on open days) with your high heels, kindly walk ELEGANTLY and GENTLY. Please do not clink and clank, especially when you are running down to get food.

When you walk up the stairs, gently bend your knees slightly (to 30 degrees….kidding la ok) and place the tip of your foot forward FIRST. then followed by the sole. That way, the noise is minimised.

When you walk down the stairs, gently bend your knees slightly again and place the SOLE of your foot (i.e. the back part) FIRST on the stairs, followed by the tip.

Do NOT look at your own feet when you are walking so that you are walking elegantly. Heels are meant to make us look elegant, NOT clumsy!!

If you can’t do as mentioned, please  STOP WEARING HEELS!! =P

2. If you know that there is only ONE pathetic cafeteria in your uni and lunch time is 12.45 p.m. for most of the intakes, go get your food BEFORE that, or you risk queuing up for LONG or eating leftover=( If you have not acquired the skills of eating in 10minutes like ME (ahem ^_^haha it is an improvement for I have been well-known to savour my food, in other words, I take damn long to finish my food), go ta pau BEFORE the rush hour!!

3. Please DO NOT be like me. In semester one, I was in the library wanting to borrow a book for the class test tomorrow. I WAS DUMB not to realise that all the books would have been snapped up by then; some people started to study as early as 2 weeks before!!

So you either pakat with your friend, as in when she returns, you go with her so that you can borrow the book; or you reserve the book online so that the nerd cannot renew the book which he/she has been hogging. =)

4. Always chill in the com lab like me=) or the library (read: looking for books for problem-based learning or portfolio AND using the com when I was supposed to be studying). That’s when and where I meet my fair share of decent, polite, potential guy friends who are a far cry from……..(shall not say out since it is sensitive.)^_^

5. Smile. A smile is a curve that makes everything straight. I do that to people who sit next to me in the com lab-that is how I know the other un-barred (at least at that time;sadly it is barred now) webmessenger *wink* from the guy sitting next to me. Meebo and iloveim were barred at that time and I had NO LIFE during my free time.

Of couse I am NOT always the taker. I was at the printer and this girl (new student) didn’t know that she had to bring her own papers butshe was in luck since she met a nice person like me. haha. After all, we help others, others help us; a good deed goes a long way-that is what I always believe in.

6. Pretend to be preoccupied by checking your handphone, ‘talking on the handphone’ or talking to your friend when you are passing by the flirtatious guard at the uni exit who can’t stop teasing girls.

‘bye bye..hati-hati ya.’

‘esok kamu mesti pakai semua pink tau!!’

‘morning…hello selamat pagi’

it is like you already smiled at first to acknowledged him yet he keeps harping on it so much so that today my gf was like shouting ’selamat pagi la!!’ haha and the guard was like ‘rilek (relax) la!!’

WWW: Life is about studying with your heart for the exams.

Alright, before you guys accuse me of being biased towards the healthcare profession, I shall pen my thoughts on what I think of engineering. Please be warned that this is entirely my perception, as I do not have in-depth knowledge about what they actually do (unlike the fact that I know pharmacy A-Z), so if I get things wrong, future engineers out there, please forgive me ok!!

haha I must make that statement if case some potential engineer is reading this and then decide to dislike me =P *kidding ok*

So why do I like engineers???
The first and foremost is NOTHING BUT…….

They do injection moulding!! ^_^
‘Injection moulding is a manufacturing technique for making parts from thermoplastic material. Molten plastic is injected at high pressure into a mold, which is the inverse of the desired shape.’ ~ Wikipedia

The most important part is, CONTACT LENS are manufactured through injection moulding!! I watched it on Discovery Channel I think, the raw material they use for it is boric acid. (I think) I dislike wearing specs coz it is so not convenient when it is slipping down. In addition, the rim already gave me a rounded mark (love bites as teased by friends) on the side of my face. SUCKS lo….. =_= So yeah I love contact lens!!

Where pharmacists are concerned, those shallow unaware people will say ‘counting tablet’. Engineers have their fare share of that too.
Take mechanical engineers for instance, my gf told me that an aunty used to say it is ‘the guy who repairs cars’.

Sorry aunty, but that is MECHANICS. We are talking about mechanical engineers here, those dudes who are involved in Formula 1, modifying cars so that you can drift safely like Jay Chow in Initial D.

Most of my guy friends are doing mechanical engineering, and I salute them for having the passion. One would love to expand his dad’s workshop and aspire to offer car-modifying services like those in ‘Too Fast Too Furious’, another would love to land a job with F1 or a company in Germany, and another would want to do ‘big things’ in the automobile field.

They do interesting things in their courses, like building a replica of a bridge. Before you wonder what ‘art class’ they are having, let me tell you-it is NOT easy ok!! My friend was stressed up calculating the forces and all for his bridge. He had to also choose the right material (this is when material science comes in) so that the bridge can withstand a certain force, and he had to take into account the aesthtic value too.
Now that is what they do in MOnash UNi.

In Imperials, they were asked to design something that can lift a minimum amount of loads. If you pass that, you get incentive for being able to lift to most loads. Again, you have to count those forces, materials and bla bla bla. They were taught to draw MANUALLY too because the professors believe that it is in knowing the conventional that you can utilise the technology (read: COmputer-Aided Drawing) to draw parts of machineries, building and the like.

In Nottingham, they were required to design a car jack-the device that you use to lift up your car when you have a punctured tyre. So again, my friends had to go through the string of calculations. Then they have to assemble a spring cart and ensure it can travel as far as possible.

My friends seem to be enjoying their course a lot because they get to do such things. Great for them! I for one cannot imagine myself doing 2nd to 3rd degree integration, reading thermodynamics, rhelogy, fluid mechanics, solid dynamics, integrated design manufacturing and the like. Remember how I complaint about some physics and mechanical engineering stuff being incorporated in pharmacy course too?

NOw here is why I think engineers can make it BIG:

My mum’s friend’s husband was a CIVIL ENGINEER. He is now a developer.
So a degree in engineering is a springboard to various business.

CHEMICAL ENGINEER-If they end up being some chief engineer or so with Petronas,or some international company like Estee Lauder, Elizabeth Arden, they are going to make it big. ^_^
I have a confession here-this used to be one of my choices when I was straying a bit from my ambition. It is because I was quite into Chemistry.haha. Actually chemical engineering is more to physics.
(which engineering isn’t?)

Electrics and Electronics Engineer- My neighbour graduated with this degree from Univerisity of Malaya. Now he has his own company-among the projects that he was involved was the lighting of KLCC (read:$$$$ rolling in), and renovation of IMU now.
When I learnt about E & E in FOrm 3, I actually thought of being and E & E engineer one day, because I found it so fascinating, and another part of me is I wish to fulfil my dad’s unfulfilled ambition. You see, my Ah gong is a conventional man who thought that education wouldn’t get you far,so……… (getting a bit personal here so I shall stop)

I guess that is all from my point of view on what engineering is all about. I would love to hear more from future engineers out there, or whoever who would like to share their view on this. ^_^ A guy friend I met online from UM said to me,’ wow I am impressed. I think you are the first girl I know who knows so much about mechanical engineering’.

Now, if you all care to comment on this,^_^

1. I’ll respond with something random about you.
2. I’ll challenge you to try something.
3. I’ll pick a color that I associate with you.
4. I’ll tell you something I like about you.
5. I’ll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.
6. I’ll tell you what animal you remind me of.
7. I’ll ask you something I’ve always wanted to ask you.

…by the charismatic guy in uni who gives me a good impression the first time we met and clicked with me right on the spot.

If you are still guessing which guy that is, WAKE UP!!! Apparently you don’t know me well enough that I do NOT like to publisize my personal matter on the blogs. What do you think you can find out-that I like this guy?that we are in a relationship? or that  we break up?

If so, you are stopping by the WRONG place. Kindly hit any key on your keyboard to EJECT YOURSELF out of here. =P haha.

Sonnet 18 (My version)

(p/s: Sorry Mr. Shakespeare for ‘borrowing’ your masterpiece-I need this satirical piece of mine to convey my thoughts on those sensor-attached people who can’t stop speculating!!!)

Shall I compare thee to a paparazzi?

Thou art less sensor-attached and more temperate:

Paparazzi do blow my darling heart away,

and my sunshine hath all too short a date:

Sometimes too violent your tongue wag,

And often are your words distorted;

And every time to time I move on,

By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d;

But thy transient statement ‘He is a nice guy but at times people misread his intentions’ shall NOT REMAIN,

Nor shall the THOUGHTS thou own;

For I am one who believes in elegant female practice,

When in eternal line to time TRUTH growest:

So long as men can THINK and hearts can FEEL,

So long lives this and this gives SOLACE to me.

p/s to the person who said that (I have nothing against you ya^_^) and other people who think the same way: I am NOT that DUMB to misread signs for TWO freaking, dragging years. Let’s not talk about it since I have moved on. Do not try to THICKEN the Berlin Wall between him and I that he has built

To read the original beautiful poem(Sonnet 18), kindly click HERE.

OK, back to the point. So what made my heart skip a beat?

It is nothing but the horrible monster-DISPENSING CLASS TEST!!

And I thought it wouldn’t be that tough since there are only 2 notes, a list of hard latin terms and some calculations that we need to know.

I was WRONG.

If you want us to answer so many ‘SHORT answer questions’ in 6o minutes, whereby all the questions carry a total of 100 marks, don’t you think it is so hard to accomplish??

I was doing the so-thought last question-how to weigh saccharin sodium (say 15 mg) since the least weighable amount of substance that the balance can weigh is MORE than that (say 100mg).

I know it is something like you make MORE of the required medication, i.e. you weigh 100 mg of saccharin sodium, and then you have to scale up other ingredients in the formula. The thing is, I was trying to organise my trains of thoughts and I don’t know what made me FLIP the page (Thank God) and I found another 2 freaking questions (which many people OVERLOOKED) with 20 freaking marks!!!

When i saw one question askign for the labelling of the medication, I turned back and BANG, I realised that in the previous question I GOT MY FORMULA WRONG because I was making a 30 ml emulsion and NOT 200 ml!!!

Mitte 200 ml Soft Paraffin Emulsion BP

Signa 30 ml

COME on, i knew what those means! mitte= send, signa=direction

Those words are Latin terms, by the way. I was just done with my  correction when the lecturer, fondly called by us as MARIO (because he looks like the short stumpy cute video game character that collect points by eating mushroom), said, ‘PENS DOWN’

I can tell you, I have never had that kind of heartbeat before, as far as I can remember. I haven’t even written the label and the frustrating thing is I KNOW WHAT TO WRITE!!!

So I ignored and continue writing-the last question on the labelling. The ADVANTAGE of being the LAST person in the class list is, I am sitting at the LAST seat in the row. ^_^

So when I was done, there wasn’s enough time to organise my thoughts on that saccharin sodium aka dilution question. So for a freaking 10-mark question, I wrote a mere few words- USE a CLASS A BALANCE.

This is because we have 3 classes of balance, each with its minimum weighable amount. But I know this answer is wrong for that question coz those sadistic lecturers do not just give you 10 marks for writing 5 words for a 10-mark question.

What to do? NOT  enough time ok!!

Thank God for letting me realise that I did my scaling-down wrongly at the last minute!! ^_^ If not I think I would be kicking or slapping myself for letting my WHOLE EFFORT gone done the drain; and that question cost 10 marks also!!

The irony thing is, we have to gain 100 marks to get a mere 10% that is calculated in our finals. So I only beat you by 1 pathetic percent if I get 10 marks more than you. Now everyone feels better because we have the finals 70% practical to work for-and we had better NOT screw it up like a number of our seniors!!

Looks like I really have to study for drug metabolism tests on monday =_=

Have fun with enzymes, cofactors, phase I and II metabolism, my friends!

www: CHECK the number of pages in the exams papers BEFORE you begin, even if your lecturer like MARIO forgets to tell u!!!

htWWW: Life is about believing in yourself and evolving to a better person after each and every experience.

Fine, I am not suppose to be blogging here since michi chased me off to study for the dispensing class test tomorrow. =_= But then this is my sorta daily dose of de-saturating okies!

Dispensing-one of the major role of pharmacists. I LOVE preparing ointments, creams, suppositories, emulsions, solutions, syrups and etc. during dispensing lab.

solution-consists of a solvent dissolved in a soluent

suspension-a disperse system consists of 2 immiscible liquids (oil and water), in which one is suspended in the other as minute globules.

powder- a chemical mixture which is solid in physical state and is intended for internal or external use. 

Alright, before my avid readers are scared off by this potential nerd post, let me move on. ^_^ That is just the super^infinity tip of the ice-berg, among the list that we have to know to be a qualified pharmacists.

I am really falling in love with my course, NOT love as in loving every single report, portfolio, lab manuals, class test, logbook and lecture notes. =_= I also wish I could bring time to a standstill till I update all my work!!

LOVE as in-I really cannot imagine a more ideal course for me; it is like, I find most of the stuff that I am learning now interesting. I can’t say the same FOR SURe foe engineering course. NOT even dentistry though it is one of the heathcare field- I can’t stand looking into people’s mouth, digging cavities, mending them and all. haha.

I am now in semester 3 and it is now that we are REALLY doing things that are so related to our courses. Semester 2 was more like a preparation for sem 3, though we had heavy modules like cardiovascular system and haematology (blood) system. Sem 1 is BORING coz it is the basic biochemistry-I find it boring though I cannot remember most of the things I learnt before, bcoz it is all about DNA, molecules, genetics, carbohydrates and so on and so forth.

THank you, God. Everything happens for a reason.
(Only close friends who always have this important place in my heart will know the true significance behind this simple sentence ^_^)

One fine day, I will be wearing the mortar and the graduation suit for my convocation……

I will make my parents so proud and myself too-for having tried my best =)

3.5 3.5 3.5, if mOre, i shall smile at you God, and treat it as a bonus.

p/s: Bananas out there, serve you all right for not appreciating mandarin! haha. *kidding ya* There is no WWW since this is a chinese post.

看过一部戏, 戏里的女主角说. 传说中, 人与人是一对的. 但上帝把他们分开了,分布在这世界上.
就这样, 我们每人都在寻找生命中的令一半.

我并不相信一见钟情.那么美丽的故事,只能在童话世界里觅得.
而二见钟情, 我的确经历过.
那一夜,流星与我插身而过. 往后的日子里, 它时时刻刻,燃烧自己, 带给我非笔墨所能形容的幸福.
谁知, 那幸福是短暂的.

如今, 我看见身在草莓园的草莓, 与在咫尺果园里的橙, 酝酿起感情来.
是的, 在岁月的熏陶下, 那纯纯的友情, 竟成了培育爱情的温床.

感情由暧昧致成熟的美酒的时段, 是那么的脆弱,
那么的经不起外人的指指点点.
此刻, 我献上我最真挚的祝福-
草莓与鲜橙, 慢下步伐吧 !
好好的享受, 寻觅到令一半的喜悦.
视外来的言言语语, 为祝福你俩的幸福交响曲.
这是一首动听的歌, 草莓鲜橙, 好好的弹奏你俩的爱情经典曲吧!

WWW: Life is about accepting what is unacceptable. Life is about trying to make your dad understand why you trust your guy friends of 8 years.

"Cuddy said you should do it. You have got a gift. People thank you for telling them they’re going to die.’ -House vs.God

"Saying there appears to be embolism is like saying there’s a traffic jam ahead. Is it a ten-car pile-up, or just a really slow bus in the centre lane? And it is it is a bus, is that thrombotic or embolic? I think I pushed the metaphor too far." -Euphoria, Part 1

Yes, FANS of the series HOUSE M.D. unite!! ^_^

Here I am, in the com lab, surfing for info on Transurethral Resection of the Prostate so that I get my ‘embolic or thrombotic’ right in this case for my upcoming problem-based learning (PBL) session. While browsing through my friends’ blogs, it appears that michibun has been very much inspired by me to write a pharmacist-related post.

Here is an extract from her post, "The onli reason y I watch grey’s is for the story and the lurf story in between and…. So that I can be constantly reminded that I’m SOOOOOOOOO LUCKY, i’m NOT a doctor (*aHem* the barrel of brains)…and be HAPPY, GRATEFUL, JOYOUS coz I’m a pharmacist… coz if I were to b a doctor I’ll b like those ppl in grey’s…and in HOUSE…. No life…and then wad if sum1 die when I’m operating ..not fun…"

(dear michie, notice i CITE REFERENCE oh!! =P We hate citing reference as far as doing portfoli is concerned, it is WORSE than doing the portfolio itself! My dear readers, if you wish, you may enlighten yourself by finding out about Vancouver Convention, Harvard System and so on and so forth)

My dear doctors out there *wink* (this includes potential guys for ME who are going to be future doctors), please do not think that I am starting an anti-doctors-pharmacists-rock campaign here. I just wish to highlight the natures of our jobs for the benefit of some shallow unaware people out there.

I, for one, do look up on doctors and future doctors as well. I am talking about those guys/girls (ok for my case, more on GUYS since this is my experience) that can exude this sense of assertiveness by the words he speak to you (even though it is the first time I talk to him) and deliver this aura of caring, intelligent yet humble demeanour.

I shall tell you-yes, we should not judge people, but I always have impressions on people the first time I talk to them; most of the time, my impression, or rather, my instinct is RIGHT. ^_^ I do NOT care how many As you got in the previous exams, or how high your cgpa was.

 

The thing is, by justing talking to you, I can tell you intelligence, whether it is those thinking type, economist mind, einstein’s followers, eloquent type, or just mere I-am-so-good-in-memorising-so-i-get-good-grades-and-i-LOVE-to-use-foul-language type.

Sorry but the last type really turns me OFF and makes me really want to have this shield on my eyes and ears so that I ‘See no evil, hear no evil’.

Ok back to the topic. I look up to those future doctors (do allow me to use ‘HE’ here because so far, the ones that really sweep me by with their demeanour  are a few ‘HE’s) because they really know what they are into.

They can bear the responsibility of doing wardrounds in future, of breaking the grief news to patients (I DO NOT think I can ever do this-me heart melts everytime I see pictures of suffering kids in papers), of TOUCHING patients from all walks of life (yes-they have to clean the wounds for patients at times too; if you are those who shudder at the mere sight of pus, blood or discharge, do NOT even think of becoming a doctor.)

Doctors and pharmacists are both healthcare profesionals who are expert in their respective fields. Do not dispute over who gets the lion share out of the healthcare field, let separate dispensing takes place for the benefit of everyone!

After all, dear doctors/future doctors, you do not have 3 arms and 3 eyes (heck, you won’t look leng chai anymore =P) to do ALL the things in the word. Let us pharmacists complement your goal in providing quality healthcare service to the people.

WWW: Falling in ‘like’ or love is like bathing in the sunshine of spring. Couples out there, rock on!

Good guy friends a.k.a. buddy are important to us girls, or at least ME. WHY???

1. When my good or best girlfriends have boyfriends, my buddies are there to keep me accompanied. *wink*

2. They are potential ‘the ones’ ^_^
As much as I didn’t believe that buddy can become couple, a few shining examples have altered my view on this.

As long as the guy is seeking a soulmate, and not a mere hearthrob, I think it may happen. This is because I used to think that once the mysterious veil in uncovered, the special feel ain’t there anymore. And when you two are so close, you risk taking each other for granted.

However, like I said, I have seen a few friends working it out-and they are holding on strongly to LDR. My WWW today is dedicated to them!

On a more serious note,

1. Good guy friends are great listeners; they are not as sensitive as girls.

2. Good guy friends are able to give objective opinion from a guy’s point of view. They are more matured (depends on who actually).
And of course, girls are ‘kapped’ by guys, so who knows better to appreciate what flatters us and what does not?? *wink*

3. Good guy friends are great movie partners; being courteous at times, they pay for our movie tickets. (I pay for theirs also ok!! It is mutual.)

4. Good guy friends are not calculative; they want to drive us home safely and they always wait till we get inside the house. If we are waiting for our transport, they will wait with us.

p/s: Sorry for not able to upload the pictures of my lengchai buddies (ahem you guys owe me on this ok!!) *wink*
However, being so potential and charismatic themselves, they do not need me to advertise for them. haha.

A dedication to my good guy friends….
 Thanks for cheering me on, making me laugh with your sarcasm and being a chun chat partner, not to mention postman (haha). Thanks ming hong!!

Thanks for walking into my life even though it was my darkest time, thanks for liking me as your friend and not judge me otherwise. Thanks yee ket!!

Thanks for seeing me through, calling me when I didn’t ask you to, being a great chat partner and coming all the way to watch movie with me. Thanks chee wei!

Thanks for seeing me through, being there when I cried after world war with mum, saying wise words to me that I hold dear to heart. Thanks brandon!

Thanks for showing me the rays of sunshine amidst rainy days. Despite the roller coaster ride,thanks for making me smile from within.
Thanks edwin!!

Thanks for amusing me online, buying me a souvenir from Italy(but forgot to bring back), enlightening me with finance and economics stuff, and fetching me home without dota. Thanks patrick!!

Thanks for seeing me through, encouraging me to take a step forward when I was uncertain myself, telling me ‘it is ok to aim far because even if you don’t reach it, you are still here you see’. Thanks edward!!

WWW: Love is about waiting for the right timing.

The above Wan’s Word of Wisdom (WWW) is the message I got from The Lake House.

p/s: So GERAM with friendster coz I didn’t plan and I have uploaded 50 pictures this month. So I can’t upload the oh-so-romantic pictures of Lake House here to enhance my writing. 

Spoiler Alert:
This is a love movie that transcends TIME; as in, the two main characters are from diffent years, as such, they are in different DIMENSIONS.

Alex, an architect, moved in to The Lake House to find a letter from the previous tenant, Kate, in the mailbox. She welcomed the new tenant to the scenic Lake House that is nicely furnished. She requested also requested him to forward any mails to her house in Chicago and apologised for the dog’s paw prints on the bridge.

Alex was perplexed as the house was in a dilapidated state, unlike the  scenic picture that Kate painted in the letter. His got more curious and resorted to writing a letter to her when one fine day, a dog ran across the bridge linking to his lake house and made paw prints all over upon stepping on the wet paint.

Thus began their communication via letters; the bridge that links them?
The mailbox in front of the lake house.

As they got to know each other better and their bittersweet past, both started to fall in love with each other. Kate is a doctor who has just finished her housemanship and is now working in Chicago. 

It did take me a while to digest some facts in order to get the plot right, for Kate is living in 2006 while Alex is living in 2004.

So Kate is ahead of Alex by TWO years. When they decided to meet up and date each other, Alex said, ‘Let’s meet up.’

‘If we are meeting up tomorrow, it means TWO YEARS in your time,’ said Kate.

‘I will wait,’ replied Alex.

However, Alex didn’t turn up that day. (as in did not turn up in 2006 for Kate on that day). When they corresponded, Alex apologised and added that something must have happened. though he didn’t know why himself (because he is still IN 2004 of HIS time, you see).

Events that occured suddenly hit Kate, that the man whom she failed to save in front of Daly Plaza on the afternoon of Valentines’ Day 2006 was ALEX.

Ok here is where complications arise. You see, Alex in 2004 is still ALIVE, and the man whom Kate saw dead was the Alex in 2006.
So she dashed to the Lake House and wrote to Alex, ‘You will see me across the street. Please DO NOT find me. That man I was telling you about in front of Daly Plaza. Please WAIT for 2 years. I am waiting for you at the Lake House.’

So Kate is waiting FOR ALEX in 2006 at the lake house NOW. The Alex in 2004 got the letter, WAITED for 2 years by NOT crossing the road when the 2004 HIM saw the 2006 Kate across the street.

The scene then showed us a wheeping Kate, praying so hard that Alex would heed her advice.

Then, Alex appeared in front of the Lake House and they were esctatic.
(So hard for me to use the right word here, coz imagine the person whom you have such a strong link with and whom you love whole-heartedly with, but you never met up with him in the SAME DIMENSION and you now have no clue about him being alive or not. Now how would you have felt if he suddenly appear right in front of you??)

‘You waited,’ cried Kate. And they kissed passionately. (No need to go into details =P)

Now that you all have gotten the gist of the story, I would like to share some thoughts with you.

1. Alex was given a second chance in love in the sense that, the ‘future’ Kate warned him about the accident in which he was supposed to die, and the ‘future’ Kate told the ‘2004 Alex’ to meet up with her as the ‘2006 Alex’.

Thoughts to ponder:
Should love be given a second chance? Say a person disappointed you before, and when he comes back again, should you give him the second chance when the second time, he really made you like him again for himself(as in the real him)? or……
Should we learn from the 1st time and do not let history repeat itself? After all, one heartbreak is MORE than enough for our fragile heart.

Should a guy gives himself a second chance? As in, he let a girl go due to circumstances; or that both of them agreed to break up. As times goes by, the situation may have changed. He realises that he still cares for her and still likes her.

Question is, should he pluck up his courage and ask her once again? Should he at least, give himself a second chance by making the FIRST STEP- asking the girl for a second chance?

2. Love is about waiting for the right timing. Alex waited for two years, and it all ended happily.

Thoughts to Ponder:

Like a scene in the movie, Kate answered a girl, ‘If she is not careful enough, she (referring to an actress in the show) may end up waiting for the rest of her life.’

The girl question was, ‘My mum told me that there is always someone out there  who is better. So we should wait?’

To me, life is too short to cry over spilled milk. Most of the time, we never know till we try.

It took my gf’s buddy friend to fail to get into the uni she is going to, that my gf realised she liked him as the special one, not just as a good buddy friend. The truth is, the guy has been liking her in a special way too; but he was afraid that he may be going to another country and things might not work out.

What’s the ending? They both ARE in different countries, continents, to be exact. But they are holding on strong in this LDR (Long Distance Relationship).

So you see, sometimes, we need certain events to HIT us-that we realise how much we miss a person, and how much we have been taking him/her for granted.

Another example: A gf of mine let go of her caring boyfriend. They had been together for quite some time, and the sparks had died down. Then there was this period the guy sort of leave her out due to circumstances. The another guy happened to come into her life; so her heart swayed. In the end, she let her boyfriend go.

What is the ending? My gf got together with guy number 2, but broke off few months later due to distance. Now she referred to him as ‘idiot’ because one-month after their break-up, he found a new girlfriend. They are NOT friends now.

As with my gf and guy number 1, they are both good friends who can confide in each other now. She told me ‘I let go of him for an idiot!!’

So you see, life is like that. Do not ALWAYS think that the grass is greener on the other side. You have to ask yourself, does that grass suits YOU?

Ask yourself what you are looking for in a relationship. Is it just the physical intimacy? Is it just another person to ‘get rid of your boredom’?

Is it another person who pays for your meals and movies and fetches you around?(for girls)

Is it another person who helps you tidy your room, shifts hostels, cook nice food and accompany you when your hengdais are NOT around? (for guys)

Or is it someone whom you enjoy spending time with and enjoy talking just about everything under the sun with. Someone who can make you smile from the bottom of your heart, someone whom you can just be yourself in front of him/her.

If it is the latter, then, look no further for sparks and passion. Look for communication and compatibility. Make the sparks happen. God maps our fates, but it is just a guide. Fate is in our OWN HANDS! That’s why the lines are in own palms.

Do not think that there is better scenery in front.

Choose your love, love your choice.