Busy

Been really busy with many things recently.

Singing. School (both teaching and studying). Performances. Competitions. Friends.

Suddenly feel very overwhelmed by all of these events, and find that I need to have a really good time management plan.

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School's been fun. The module's interesting, and so is the teacher. The only sickening part is that lessons are on Friday nights, from 7pm to 10pm! That is like the worst time slot for a lesson. Even the lecturer's wondering why did the school set it like this, and salute us for going to his lesson, instead of skipping it and going out.

Well, Mr Lecturer, it's because this is only the beginning :)

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Competitions were good. Just want to test how far I can go, instead of aiming to win and dream of being a singer. I do think that with competitions and the comments that are given to you, you can improve. By pushing yourself, you can perform better too.

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Beware, everyone. There is some kind of a flu + cough + sore throat virus going out there. Many people I know are falling sick, and all have the same symptoms. And I just became a victim of it 3 days ago! It was mild initially, but now my voice is terrible. My throat hurts even as I speak or swallow my saliva, and I've got my 2nd round auditions for "Be A Star" on Wednesday! *Prays that I can recover by then*

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Just received an email talking about sugar cane drinks. Here it is.

A friend whose father works for the government health inspection passed on his info. Their job is to inspect all hawkers, their cooked food, their store hygiene, etc. They found sugar cane juice has the highest content of bacteria among all food.
In fact, it has exceeded the set limit.

Hence, these guys had to find out why. They went round all sugar cane stores and watched the way the hawkers handled their sugar cane, wash their glasses, their entire procedure. But they couldn't find the problem.

One day, they stayed till closing time and discovered some shocking facts! Whenever, the hawkers closed their stores, they would wash the floor with detergent. As we know, the remaining sugar canes will be placed at the back of the store, vertically standing and as sugar canes are very porous, they tend to absorb whatever liquid around them. Besides the soapy water, the dirt on hawkers' boots, cats' urine, etc, will all be absorbed?? Now, whenever I eat at a hawker centre, I would warn all my friends about this and of course I stopped drinking my favourite sugar cane juice.

A friend, who loved sugar cane juice, was pregnant. She was always drinking sugar cane juice. Anyway, one day she miscarried and the foetus was already like 6 or 7 months old, I think. When the doctors did an autopsy to find out why all of a sudden the foetus had died inside her, they found traces of some chemical substance, which was found in cat urine. Large traces of it.

While it would not be able to harm adults, it was extremely toxic to babies, what more a foetus? So they tried to determine how this cat urine thing could have ended up in the foetus. This meant that it had to be digested by the mother, right? And the only logical conclusion they could come up with was that since these sugar cane juice stall holders just leave the canes lying around on the wet and dirty floor, it would not be impossible to think that stray cats could have peed on those sugar canes or near those sugar canes. So think carefully the next time you order that favourite sugar cane juice!

Please pass this on to everyone you know in S'pore & M'sia. Let's take action to make this world a better & safer place for all of us & the generations to come.

So please be careful!