Hard Core Revision

Time for the "highlight" of the year - examination time. So jenn needs to do some serious revision! ^^ But before she starts. Here's some "interesting" things she's done last week.

My cake of the week - Banana cake (healthy healthy, this fruit is so healthy for you! I'll post the reasons in my next entry if I'm free)


My letter stuffing work in college. Apparently, we broke the record this year. 3000+ envelops finished in a day! It was a mentally torturing job though. SO BORING.



I think this is really impressive! Don't you?


Currently applying for The Outstanding Youth Award ^^ Prize -- a free trip to CHINA this summer, with all expenses paid for. Lots of competition I've heard. Limited places for the UK oversea chinese children. So I must thank everyone who has written references for me! Fingers crossed.

BUSY

My dearest friends. Due to my business, with...eRm, work, I've not updated for a while. But today, feeling rather annoyed about lots of things. I want to update! Because of cause, there's still some things to be glad about.
Like the lovely afternoon and night with Rich with my family. Mum invited him for dumplings! Haha. Was a great day.
Baked a chocolate cake one day, just felt like it. I used to bake a cake every week last year. LOL... crazy. Now I have a pile of cake baking books in my room.

Mmm....
lovely shop!

We made these ourselves- Rich, sis and me!..haha, mum makes the best fillings.

I've been doing lots of work these days. LOTSSSSS of work. Slowly...slowly...getting there. Ok. That's all I want to say in this entry.
GOD BLESSSSSSSSSSS!

Happy Easter

An early greeting to everyone for the coming Easter Sunday. Rich and I would be going to Church together with my family. ^^ It'll be another great day of cause.

Last night we had a little gathering in ASK.

1. My lovely-cutest Ruby JJ with the funniest and nicest guy in the world- Yuk GG.
2. The very scared-of-me Tom and pretty Mengya.
3. James Pearson! Haha. My all time favourite friend!!!
4. Michelle, a very slim and tall JJ. First-time meeting her.
5. Rich and I of cause.

We chatted (too loud), laughed (too hard), ate (too little), paid (too much). But in the end, everyone had an fantastic time! Not forgetting that James bought my lovely presents from Tokyo! I LOVE "THEM". HAHA, my Rich must be crying now.

Angela blowing her first bubble! Haha... so cute.

Oh no, rated photo! Children at home please do not imitate. This is domestic violence in PUBLIC! lol

Silly boys. I said do a pose! And that's all they could think of. Haha.

Looks like Mengya wasn't too impressed with what Tom just said.

Aww... Sweeeeeeeeeet couple!

Ah!!! I have the largest chocolate cake! You all should be very jealous! Rich is, but I'm not cause....

I have my delicious piece of Banoffee Pie! And Rich had...

Tarte Tinte

MADE IN TOKYO, bought in Tokyo - Thank you JAMES!!! I'm going to Japan with Rich!!! Definitely!

After seeing the CUTEST MANTOU! I'm going to Japan NOW! lol
I don't want any other soft toy. *pinch cheeks*

"Family" date

Another joyful day. Sunny and warm. Rich and I took my sister along with us to Newcastle. What can I say? I was too happy to think properly. Haha. Whenever Rich is around, it's always a great day!

Shopping - looked around... nothing that nice
Movie - Norbit. Funny yet a bit disgusting.
Lunch - We went to St-Sushi bar.
Dinner - 3 of us went back home for dinner, mummy had already prepared a lot for us.
Evening - Rich and I went for a romantic walk outside.
Night - Like a family, we all sat to watch Chinese soap on TV and chatted


Playing around in a shop

Love love

Huge sandwiches


St Sushi Bar

Yummy sushi
Our romantic walk after dinner :)

Tomorrow's going to be a happy day too. I can't wait! ^^

Keep in touch

This phrase has followed me all my life. I’ve said this to so many people - uncountable. But only a few have I really kept that promise to. It’s fate, it’s destiny. And these people have become my best friends in life. Some are far far away but yet so close to heart. And the one person that I so much want to thank the most is Shanel.

We’ve exchanged millions of letters, cards, presents throughout these four years. Everytime I receive something from her, I always feel that I’ve just left Singapore. It’s such a happy feeling. I still remember those secondary school days, and the week that I was about to leave the country for UK, I think I’ve spent every single day with Shanel! Also not forgetting the night before I departed Jane, Alina, Shanel and I went to take lots of Neo-print photos! Haha. Of cause, not forgetting other lovely friends like Christine, Victoria, Janice, Cammy, Viknes, Jane, Emily… I could go on and on. They’ve all helped me through those tough times.

Just recently, Shanel sent me some photos of her Malaysia trip. She deserves a good rest from her Nurse training courses. Staying in the hospital for too long is no good for the skin! Hehe. And she’s so slim and tall as ever. OMG. I’m very jealous!

I’m posting these photos because they are just too awesome! I want to go diving one day! The underwater world is amazing.

Don’t forget our promise, to meet in Beijing for the 2008 Olympics! Anyone want to join us?

The Knowledge Cycle (distribution sense)

WARNING: I am not crazy.

Everyone knows about the water cycle, eclipse cycle, solar cycle, carbon cycle, sleep cycle, business cycle, etc etc etc! Notice all these links are from Wikipedia? But when you type Knowledge Cycle, nothing actually comes out. So now, I'm going to tell you what is The Knowledge Cycle.

I have always went back to my hometown - Wuhan, China for my summer vacations. When I'm there I would be staying with my Grandparents in Huazhong University of Science and Technology (华中科大). It's a well-known university located next to the lovely 东湖 (The Northern Lake).

One day, I went to have lunch in one of the Uni Canteens. The food there are so much nicer than those in the UK colleges. Ok, let me get to the point. Since food is so cheap and plentiful in these canteens. Students and teachers cannot actually finish what they have bought. So these left-overs would be scrapped away into big containers. I asked my Grandfather do people waste so much food a today? He said, "it looks like it, but if we don't what would the pigs eat?" So that means these left-overs would be used to feed the pigs in the nearby farms. According to nearby Farmers, these left overs are considered as 高级食量 (High quality feeds). Thus, the pork sold would be a bit more expensive than normal pork.

So this would be related to my Economics knowledge of Supply and Demand. You might be thinking, "who would buy dearer pork?" Well, if there's a demand, there's going to be the supply for them. These dearer pork are usually sold in the University fresh meat markets. Because it is these people who demand for better, healthier food, so they are willing to pay the premium price. This is through personal experience as I always go food shopping with my grandmother in the early mornings.

Can everyone now see my point?

The knowledge cycle:
Canteen leftovers -> high quality feeds for farm animals -> then sold in uni markets at a higher price -> people buy them -> adding points to their personal IQ

Sounds unbelievable? But if you really think about it, when someone says this pork is going to make you smarter, psychologically you would be feeling smarter after eating it, thus in the end, you would be smarter! Same example with milk. Omega milk states that it helps to "stimulate your brain development". So there's a high demand for it and evidence shows that people really have increased IQ levels!

This is only one example of the knowledge cycle. I'm sure as society progresses, more people would come up with new findings. Karl Marx came up with the bourgeoisie and proletariat theory, and everyone thought he was crazy at that time. But look at his contribution to economics and sociology today.

This is going to be the beginning of my journey...

NOTE: the animal does not have to be a PIG, it can be cows (moOo moOo), sheeps etc etc etc!