its been so long my dear old and dusty bloggie. *take a look at my previous post haha val's 21st. oh and the picnic happened. like 2 months ago. and spring came and went away. how fast.
okay recent events first had my first paper - finance today, on the first official day of examinations how good and bad is that. gosh it feels like yesterday when i was just sitting here typing about marketing last sem. how i sacrificed my left hand battling with time. haha. and compared to that today's paper was like a breeze, totally no need to write so much so fast and so vigorously.
and the weather just makes me feel like GOING HOME RIGHT AWAY. seriously the aussie sun is life-threatening. even though singapore's bad, summer here is worst! just a few hours out there and im like a roasted pig now. red arms red face black feet. not to exaggerate, but i thought i smelt human flesh just now under the sun outside the exam hall. its not sweaty smell, body odour smell or perfume or whatever, its the smell of human flesh under extreme heat. at least that's what i thought it was. haha. and today's the first time i sweated so profusely during an exam (no aircon!). horrible I WANA GO HOME NOW. haha.
NEXT taking jap made me realise the difficulty of learning a whole new language from scratch. i think in a lot of ways we took our ability to speak and write in two languages too lightly, its been like so taken for granted that we underestimate the difficulty of learning another language (hence the arrogant and put-down attitude towards people struggling with english or chinese). im suddenly so thankful that we're being exposed to both languages from young!
and funny thing is i only really understood what a verb, adjective, noun, adverb and other grammatical forms is until i took jap. hmmmm, i wonder how i passed my english in primary school without knowing all of that. haha. anyways as much as my sensei (teacher, which i always accidentally call sinseh when i first took jap haha) says jap is the easiest language to learn, still, not that easy given the intensity and time pressure to master all of that. sadly to say i will have to stop taking japanese from next sem onwards because its taking up much more time than my 'real' commerce subjects. all in all despite the occasional complains and grumblings about jap, it has still been an enjoyable experience learning another language and im glad i took it because.. next time i can tell people proudly 'hey i know 2 and a half languages!'
examination dates are 9, 11, 13 and 16th and im coming home on the 21st. kinda happy with my exam timetable this semester since it ends so early. heee. and just a quick update to fill in the large gap between my previous and current post. been busy that period with school work, hell lot of assignments and understanding of new topics. i think year 2 of uni is really, possibly the most hectic year out of the 3 years. shall see if its true at the end of my uni life. and other than school work, managed to visit tasmania during my spring break for 3 days and it was a good getaway! ate lotsa good stuff and stayed in this really interesting themed-cottage on the first night. photos no photos since my camera died on me on the first day. and last week of spring break was filled by my family visiting.
NEXT VERY IMPORTANT PIECE OF NEWS
I AM SHIFTING! had a really really really hard time looking for apartment for the past what one and a half months? really is it so much to ask for to just want a 2 bedroom apartment with 2 decent bedrooms with proper wardrobe, proper door, proper windows and proper walls? because here's what, first we found an apartment with one bedroom without windows, hence only four walls and a door. next we found another one with a bedroom without windows and wardrobe. next one without door. yes without door can you call it a bedroom? next one with only 3 walls. really on the verge of exasperation when we finally got our current apartment last friday during our study break. and its really good stuff that apartment. love it so much. ;)
so we're gonna slowly shift our stuff in and shop for a few pieces of furniture next week after our last paper on the 16th. oh we meaning my future housemate and i heee.
okayy! there! all that i have to say. very concise already okay dun complain im too wordy again haha. good luck for the remaining papers to me! and im really LOOKING FORWARD TO RETURNING HOME! MY EVER ATTRACTIVE SUNNY ISLAND :D
ps. just a sudden thought, we should really treasure this prime time of our lives! do whatever we want to now and now and dun waste it. we are 20! young independent energised, not old enough to lose our passion, not young enough to feel restricted. so make the most out of it now because i can forsee we are gonna say 50 years later that we want to come back to this point of our life. at least for me i might say that heee. sooo LET'S LIVE IT!
Monday, November 9, 2009
Saturday, August 29, 2009
21st
i am so tired now i think i'll fall asleep once i hit the bed.
went for val's 21st birthday dinner and party tonight and it was so awesome!! haha had lotsa fun tonight :)) and hope val enjoyed her day too. HAPPY 21ST! oh and this is the first 21st birthday celebration i've been to so far. and the thought that im gonna miss so many awesome parties, celebrations and birthday dinners next year make me feel damnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn sian! how many 21st can we have in our life? :((((
was looking at the photo board thing they did for val just now and was so shocked to realise how much one year can do to everyone. haha. brought me back to like one year ago (which felt like soooo long) at this exact same month same day. oh my gosh, things are definitely so much better now. we all looked so horrible then! like so cui and neng and inexperienced and everything. hahaha. i wonder what i'll say one year later at this exact same month same day. ;)
oh my gosh next thing i wana say is, I LOVE GOOD FOOD! :)))) having good food can so lift one's spirits and recharge our exhausted body and mind after a week of work. so i really feel good and excited about the continuous good food hunt we're having now!! heeeheee but the thing is we only have so many free weekends and so much more good restaurants out there waiting for us to try. omg i cant wait to try the korean on little bourke! but before that, lets try vietnamnese(?) this sunday first. :)))))
the best thing about semester 2 is you'll wake up everyday feeling better about today, because everyday brings you closer to longer and warmer sun-lit days, and to my favourite season of the year - spring! colourful flowers blossoming, healthy green leaves growing back onto balding trees and basically brings life back into the gloomy city. best of all spring clothes are the nicest too! very colourful with lotsa floral prints (geok is gonna call me ah huay again haha), and all the spring clothes seem to be in pastel colours too (i lovvvve pastel colour clothes). omg i really do love spring!
i am waiting... for the best season of the year, and then it'll be picnic time at the pretty botanic garden. :)
went for val's 21st birthday dinner and party tonight and it was so awesome!! haha had lotsa fun tonight :)) and hope val enjoyed her day too. HAPPY 21ST! oh and this is the first 21st birthday celebration i've been to so far. and the thought that im gonna miss so many awesome parties, celebrations and birthday dinners next year make me feel damnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn sian! how many 21st can we have in our life? :((((
was looking at the photo board thing they did for val just now and was so shocked to realise how much one year can do to everyone. haha. brought me back to like one year ago (which felt like soooo long) at this exact same month same day. oh my gosh, things are definitely so much better now. we all looked so horrible then! like so cui and neng and inexperienced and everything. hahaha. i wonder what i'll say one year later at this exact same month same day. ;)
oh my gosh next thing i wana say is, I LOVE GOOD FOOD! :)))) having good food can so lift one's spirits and recharge our exhausted body and mind after a week of work. so i really feel good and excited about the continuous good food hunt we're having now!! heeeheee but the thing is we only have so many free weekends and so much more good restaurants out there waiting for us to try. omg i cant wait to try the korean on little bourke! but before that, lets try vietnamnese(?) this sunday first. :)))))
the best thing about semester 2 is you'll wake up everyday feeling better about today, because everyday brings you closer to longer and warmer sun-lit days, and to my favourite season of the year - spring! colourful flowers blossoming, healthy green leaves growing back onto balding trees and basically brings life back into the gloomy city. best of all spring clothes are the nicest too! very colourful with lotsa floral prints (geok is gonna call me ah huay again haha), and all the spring clothes seem to be in pastel colours too (i lovvvve pastel colour clothes). omg i really do love spring!
i am waiting... for the best season of the year, and then it'll be picnic time at the pretty botanic garden. :)
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
eat gorge indulge
im feeling so happy now i duno where that came from :)))
and i realise i've desserted my dear old bloggie for too long, other than the random sociology essay, i realise i haven been blogging anything close to my life. :)
life's good but dear old school's no good. why is it always so difficult to strike a balance between work and play. i've been so so so so so so slack this semester. feeling slacky towards everything. i haven been studying hard enough (and i think im lagging in finance, jap and ob, which is 3 out of 4 subjects im doing!), i haven been cooking for 2 weeks now, i haven been doing laundry and im procrastinating everything. such a horrible girl.
outside of school, life's been pretty good! (ding!:D) see i told you im feeling happy now hees. just survived the first wave of assignments in week 3 and 4 and have been going out alot these few weeks. was just back from michelle's place and she practically whipped up a feast tonight! like from dinner to dessert to cupcakes. :)
main point is that i've been eating so much every consecutive night (till my stomach's like a big round full pumped beach ball) that suddenly yesterday after dinner i asked myself, why am i doing this to myself? why am i gorging myself with so much food every night till i feel so damn full? what was that for? i am too greedy to eat till so full. so i've decided, that from now on i should stop being greedy and stop overindulging. that could lead to disgestive and constipation problems yea. haha.
and because of this korean show i've watched, 'the world they lived' or something like that, im totally hundred percent into korean now!!! the food, the language, the people, absolutely everything! maybe i haven stressed enough, to illustrate the impact, hmm i have been to have korean for 3 nights in a week. :) and im so sensitive to koreans now i can detect them as soon as they open their mouth to speak and i'll be so excited haha. and whenever i answer my phone i'll go like 'yopseyo!', or if i get the chance i'll use the limited korean that i know of. crazy ass i know. hahaha.
aigooo~ stop playing yumin.
(:D :P)
and i realise i've desserted my dear old bloggie for too long, other than the random sociology essay, i realise i haven been blogging anything close to my life. :)
life's good but dear old school's no good. why is it always so difficult to strike a balance between work and play. i've been so so so so so so slack this semester. feeling slacky towards everything. i haven been studying hard enough (and i think im lagging in finance, jap and ob, which is 3 out of 4 subjects im doing!), i haven been cooking for 2 weeks now, i haven been doing laundry and im procrastinating everything. such a horrible girl.
outside of school, life's been pretty good! (ding!:D) see i told you im feeling happy now hees. just survived the first wave of assignments in week 3 and 4 and have been going out alot these few weeks. was just back from michelle's place and she practically whipped up a feast tonight! like from dinner to dessert to cupcakes. :)
main point is that i've been eating so much every consecutive night (till my stomach's like a big round full pumped beach ball) that suddenly yesterday after dinner i asked myself, why am i doing this to myself? why am i gorging myself with so much food every night till i feel so damn full? what was that for? i am too greedy to eat till so full. so i've decided, that from now on i should stop being greedy and stop overindulging. that could lead to disgestive and constipation problems yea. haha.
and because of this korean show i've watched, 'the world they lived' or something like that, im totally hundred percent into korean now!!! the food, the language, the people, absolutely everything! maybe i haven stressed enough, to illustrate the impact, hmm i have been to have korean for 3 nights in a week. :) and im so sensitive to koreans now i can detect them as soon as they open their mouth to speak and i'll be so excited haha. and whenever i answer my phone i'll go like 'yopseyo!', or if i get the chance i'll use the limited korean that i know of. crazy ass i know. hahaha.
aigooo~ stop playing yumin.
(:D :P)
Saturday, August 22, 2009
connection
i was just thinking why is it getting harder to connect with people these days as we grow older. i dun mean im having a problem connecting with people now, just that i see it as harder than before. why? dim gai?
mm, i would assert a big portion of the reason to because we are growing older. yea like angeline said as we grow older, the time we are able to spend with our friends also shortens, say like your primary school friends, from the time you met and knew them to now - about 10 years and counting, secondary school friends, about 6 years and counting, jc friends, about 3 years and counting, uni friends, about 1 year and counting. going by this theory you are suppose to be closest to primary school friends? but this isnt the case for most people. why? dim gai?
perhaps this might be because the secondary school period is the purest and most significant part of forming who we are now i think. the people we meet, the way we interact with one another, the norms and culture formed then teaches us how to deal with social situations we've never set ourselves in before secondary school (since who can we meet other than our families before secondary school). and we sort of formed our first line of frequency with our secondary school friends, sort of influenced each other to believe in a set of values and form attitudes towards different issues and people. this i would call the growing up phase. like we were all growing up in a similar environment with our secondary school friends.
then we go on to junior college, these values and attitudes might change a little as we meet new people, we learn how to deal with different social situations as we set ourselves in different ones, and we form a different but similar line of frequency with new people we meet in there. and maybe through groups like CCA or class, because of a common identity and meeting each other almost everyday, the friendship forged might still be rather strong. this i would call the stabilising phase.
and then off to uni we start to meet people from all over we never knew existed. like all kinds of people (personality wise). from here onwards, we've already had a set of values and attitude towards issues and different social situations. we've sort of been polluted, become more complicated. we stereotype people base on our own values and beliefs. we judge people on their actions and things they talk about. we choose people to befriend with, people whom you think share common values and frequencies as you. because of values, attitudes and actions you disagree with or dislike, you might just dismiss this person who could possibly be a genuine and potential friend. as this process takes place, in a way we are finding it hard to connect with people.
because essentially we've lost our pureness in befriending people. we select people to befriend with instead of simply befriending people, we have our reservations about people and compare them wtih friends we are comfortable with like secondary school and jc friends. which i wana say is unfair because sec sch friends have gone through so much with you, like the entire growing up phase, of course you will have many common values, frequency and attitudes with them.
im not trying to judge if this is a bad or good thing, i think its kinda inevitable. just like one will grow old and die. okay this is a lousy analogy but it just will happen when we meet new people from now on. so maybe thats why we always say sec sch friends are the best i guess. best as in people whom you are most comfortable to be with and people who knows you best.
from now on friends might increase in quantity but quality wise, it might just as well be stagnant (there may always be exceptions i dun want to tie a dead knot here).
i duno if i've put the idea across clearly i've just blabbered in the most organised way i could. if you duno what this is about just forget it. and im definitely not directing this entry towards anyone or any incident, just a mindmap that extended from the question about connecting with people i had in mind.
what the heck what's with this blog entry. like some sociology essay. its all OB's fault (this subject im doing this sem), and some things that i saw is happening which left me pondering over this issue.
and thats the thing about ageing and growing up. things always become more complicated. i dun wana grow up.
mm, i would assert a big portion of the reason to because we are growing older. yea like angeline said as we grow older, the time we are able to spend with our friends also shortens, say like your primary school friends, from the time you met and knew them to now - about 10 years and counting, secondary school friends, about 6 years and counting, jc friends, about 3 years and counting, uni friends, about 1 year and counting. going by this theory you are suppose to be closest to primary school friends? but this isnt the case for most people. why? dim gai?
perhaps this might be because the secondary school period is the purest and most significant part of forming who we are now i think. the people we meet, the way we interact with one another, the norms and culture formed then teaches us how to deal with social situations we've never set ourselves in before secondary school (since who can we meet other than our families before secondary school). and we sort of formed our first line of frequency with our secondary school friends, sort of influenced each other to believe in a set of values and form attitudes towards different issues and people. this i would call the growing up phase. like we were all growing up in a similar environment with our secondary school friends.
then we go on to junior college, these values and attitudes might change a little as we meet new people, we learn how to deal with different social situations as we set ourselves in different ones, and we form a different but similar line of frequency with new people we meet in there. and maybe through groups like CCA or class, because of a common identity and meeting each other almost everyday, the friendship forged might still be rather strong. this i would call the stabilising phase.
and then off to uni we start to meet people from all over we never knew existed. like all kinds of people (personality wise). from here onwards, we've already had a set of values and attitude towards issues and different social situations. we've sort of been polluted, become more complicated. we stereotype people base on our own values and beliefs. we judge people on their actions and things they talk about. we choose people to befriend with, people whom you think share common values and frequencies as you. because of values, attitudes and actions you disagree with or dislike, you might just dismiss this person who could possibly be a genuine and potential friend. as this process takes place, in a way we are finding it hard to connect with people.
because essentially we've lost our pureness in befriending people. we select people to befriend with instead of simply befriending people, we have our reservations about people and compare them wtih friends we are comfortable with like secondary school and jc friends. which i wana say is unfair because sec sch friends have gone through so much with you, like the entire growing up phase, of course you will have many common values, frequency and attitudes with them.
im not trying to judge if this is a bad or good thing, i think its kinda inevitable. just like one will grow old and die. okay this is a lousy analogy but it just will happen when we meet new people from now on. so maybe thats why we always say sec sch friends are the best i guess. best as in people whom you are most comfortable to be with and people who knows you best.
from now on friends might increase in quantity but quality wise, it might just as well be stagnant (there may always be exceptions i dun want to tie a dead knot here).
i duno if i've put the idea across clearly i've just blabbered in the most organised way i could. if you duno what this is about just forget it. and im definitely not directing this entry towards anyone or any incident, just a mindmap that extended from the question about connecting with people i had in mind.
what the heck what's with this blog entry. like some sociology essay. its all OB's fault (this subject im doing this sem), and some things that i saw is happening which left me pondering over this issue.
and thats the thing about ageing and growing up. things always become more complicated. i dun wana grow up.
Monday, August 3, 2009
let's go again
its either global warming or im dealing better with the cold now, i hardly need the heater these days.
the usuals, start of semester admin stuff; confirmation of subjects, timetabling issues and textbooks. to my surprise all's smooth sailing, unlike last semester where at this time i was still trying to squeeze into certain desired slots and spending hours finding and waiting for textbook sellers. i remembered first two weeks of school last sem was a hell lot more hectic and messy. now my timetable's settled and i've gotten my texts, at least most of them. sold my text at the exact same price i bought for last sem, so economically i lost nothing thanks to textbookexchange. :)
didnt felt like school had started at all, at least till yesterday. been slacking alot and enjoying the non-busy school days. heee hope the work dont come piling in so soon i still wana read my unfinished twilight (its taking forever) watch shows go shopping and be an ultimate slacker.
tutes are starting this week and there goes the introduce yourself thing again. goodness it feels like i have to go through orientation every semester. and it didnt felt real at all as i said "im in year 2 doing commerce". year 2? since when?
and i think i wrote about the sun steaming my pores ever bigger in my last post, now its the opposite my skin's so dry it feels like orange skin. when can i ever get a perfect moisturised piece of skin? haha.
and i hate winter its affecting my mood.
REPLIES
lee si: nope not changing im 18. forever. haha.
val: seriously? when? haha.
the usuals, start of semester admin stuff; confirmation of subjects, timetabling issues and textbooks. to my surprise all's smooth sailing, unlike last semester where at this time i was still trying to squeeze into certain desired slots and spending hours finding and waiting for textbook sellers. i remembered first two weeks of school last sem was a hell lot more hectic and messy. now my timetable's settled and i've gotten my texts, at least most of them. sold my text at the exact same price i bought for last sem, so economically i lost nothing thanks to textbookexchange. :)
didnt felt like school had started at all, at least till yesterday. been slacking alot and enjoying the non-busy school days. heee hope the work dont come piling in so soon i still wana read my unfinished twilight (its taking forever) watch shows go shopping and be an ultimate slacker.
tutes are starting this week and there goes the introduce yourself thing again. goodness it feels like i have to go through orientation every semester. and it didnt felt real at all as i said "im in year 2 doing commerce". year 2? since when?
and i think i wrote about the sun steaming my pores ever bigger in my last post, now its the opposite my skin's so dry it feels like orange skin. when can i ever get a perfect moisturised piece of skin? haha.
and i hate winter its affecting my mood.
REPLIES
lee si: nope not changing im 18. forever. haha.
val: seriously? when? haha.
Saturday, July 25, 2009
winter hols
finally it dawned upon me that i still have a blog somewhere in here. yea as val realised, i always stop blogging when im in singapore (haha). i was thinking why and finally realise probably because i have lesser time to be alone and to be thinking and reflecting about stuff when im here. everyday's so fast paced and there seem to always have stuff to fill my mind and time with. and one month is almost over, just like that. i need to start preparing myself mentally for both school and melbourne now that the departure date is drawing so close.
hols have been great so far, other than the weather thats giving me random headaches, excessive perspiration and steaming my facial pores ever bigger. aside from that all's well. and i am still not joggingggg alamaks i am so gonna turn into an obsolete runner. haven been jogging for 1 and a half year and the record's still building. :S
i actually wana blog about some issues, but well decide its too heavy and dull. i'll just keep it to myself for now. gonna read twilight now :)
hols have been great so far, other than the weather thats giving me random headaches, excessive perspiration and steaming my facial pores ever bigger. aside from that all's well. and i am still not joggingggg alamaks i am so gonna turn into an obsolete runner. haven been jogging for 1 and a half year and the record's still building. :S
i actually wana blog about some issues, but well decide its too heavy and dull. i'll just keep it to myself for now. gonna read twilight now :)
Sunday, June 28, 2009
home is...
morning comes around and i cant wait to see my sunny island
in its glorious greenery whether rain or shine its still beautiful
bright lights shine on the streets at night guiding me closer to home
to a place where i know i'll be safe and warm where i belong
friends and family by my side seeing me through as i grow and learn
everyday's experience bitter sweet or sour its still wonderful
home is not feeling second class, home is not feeling intrusion
home is listening to familar accents, home is being around familiar people
home is friends and family
home is chicken rice, bah chor mee, roti prata, wonton mee
home is melting under the sun
home is Yishun Ave * Blk 6** #1*-***
home is SINGAPORE!
i love you singapore! see you in 12 hours time :)
in its glorious greenery whether rain or shine its still beautiful
bright lights shine on the streets at night guiding me closer to home
to a place where i know i'll be safe and warm where i belong
friends and family by my side seeing me through as i grow and learn
everyday's experience bitter sweet or sour its still wonderful
home is not feeling second class, home is not feeling intrusion
home is listening to familar accents, home is being around familiar people
home is friends and family
home is chicken rice, bah chor mee, roti prata, wonton mee
home is melting under the sun
home is Yishun Ave * Blk 6** #1*-***
home is SINGAPORE!
i love you singapore! see you in 12 hours time :)
H1N1
allow me to say housework is really the most physically demanding job around the house goodness my entire body is like aching all over.
just spent the entire night cleaning up the kitchen, toilet and a pile of laundry before heading home tmr. seriously, its a job i will only want to do once per semester. im willing to live with the dirtiness as long as i dun have to do cleaning again haha.
and i also just did my packing tonight, everything so last minute lah. wonder why but i still dun really have the i-am-going-home-tmr feel now. and wasnt really as excited as last semester about going home, probably because of swine flu i guess. sigh was really quite annoyed with the fact that the people are so laid back and un-alert here while singapore is being so overly alert and a tad-bit paranoid. they should seriously switch roles lah.
now everybody is so scared of people returning from melbourne like we are all infectious walking viruses. thanks to the constant media publicity yea. "must quarantine for 7 days hor" yea i know where this is coming from and understand the reason behind this, but it makes me feel like im not really welcomed home in a way. so should we all just stay back in melbourne then.
swine flu is not like sars, where when you come to close contact with a sars patient you'll get infected. its like a flu where you'll get it only when your immune system happen to be not that strong during the period of time. like how you'll get a flu from time to time. it may only lead to death if the patient has other illnesses and complications. for a normal person, you can recover from swine even without medication.
im not saying swine is not a big deal because it actually can be if nobody does anything about it (like melbourne! pissed off) and it continues to spread on eventually reaching people who have other illnesses leading to complications. but i feel it shouldnt be treated like SARS where its seen as a deadly and super contagious virus where everybody will die from getting infected.
maybe the media should inform people more about the virus and stop scaring everyone off leading them to think of H1N1 as being another SARS virus. of course im impressed with the singapore authorities for being once again so efficient, probably without those measures the figures could have escalated by so much more. but the attention we are getting is too much. i dont like it at all.
whatever it is i am still happy to be able to go home, i'll wear a mask, okay 2 masks on the way back yea. and will self quarantine for 2 days to be safe. 7 days is really abit too over.
just spent the entire night cleaning up the kitchen, toilet and a pile of laundry before heading home tmr. seriously, its a job i will only want to do once per semester. im willing to live with the dirtiness as long as i dun have to do cleaning again haha.
and i also just did my packing tonight, everything so last minute lah. wonder why but i still dun really have the i-am-going-home-tmr feel now. and wasnt really as excited as last semester about going home, probably because of swine flu i guess. sigh was really quite annoyed with the fact that the people are so laid back and un-alert here while singapore is being so overly alert and a tad-bit paranoid. they should seriously switch roles lah.
now everybody is so scared of people returning from melbourne like we are all infectious walking viruses. thanks to the constant media publicity yea. "must quarantine for 7 days hor" yea i know where this is coming from and understand the reason behind this, but it makes me feel like im not really welcomed home in a way. so should we all just stay back in melbourne then.
swine flu is not like sars, where when you come to close contact with a sars patient you'll get infected. its like a flu where you'll get it only when your immune system happen to be not that strong during the period of time. like how you'll get a flu from time to time. it may only lead to death if the patient has other illnesses and complications. for a normal person, you can recover from swine even without medication.
im not saying swine is not a big deal because it actually can be if nobody does anything about it (like melbourne! pissed off) and it continues to spread on eventually reaching people who have other illnesses leading to complications. but i feel it shouldnt be treated like SARS where its seen as a deadly and super contagious virus where everybody will die from getting infected.
maybe the media should inform people more about the virus and stop scaring everyone off leading them to think of H1N1 as being another SARS virus. of course im impressed with the singapore authorities for being once again so efficient, probably without those measures the figures could have escalated by so much more. but the attention we are getting is too much. i dont like it at all.
whatever it is i am still happy to be able to go home, i'll wear a mask, okay 2 masks on the way back yea. and will self quarantine for 2 days to be safe. 7 days is really abit too over.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
when the hibernation ends
woooo la la la~~~ woooo la la la~~~ (no dont stop me from dancing with the music) woooo la la la~~~ woooo la la la~~~
omg omg omg can you believe that its over!!!! wooo la la la~~~ wooo la la la~~~ teleport me to hawaii now and let me dance with the coconut trees!
phew the last four weeks really really really felt like four thousand years not exaggerating at all. im like ticking the days off everyday this month, wondering how time could pass this slow, and yet this fast.
and as always i did not finish the paper today it was crazy lah how could anyone finish that paper in 2 hours not possible. haven met someone who finished the entire paper yet. din do like 6+8 marks? out of all my four papers i only finished jap, and only feel confident for jap, which ironically i dedicated the least time to preparing for it. overall the papers are relatively okay, like i wasnt stunned by any questions in any of the papers, just tedious, and super time-and-hand-muscles-consuming. i think my left arm and hand muscles grew by almost one time, further strengthening my image of a muscle woman yea. :)
oh wells but nothing could dampen my spirits today! i was sooooo happy that everything is finally over and behind me, that i wouldnt need to gobble textbooks every day and night day and night day and night day and night. i am a freeeeeeeeee little chirpy bird nowwww!
blabbered like i haven talked in one thousand years tonight i think its true yea, that women need to talk alot (cant remember the figures from the email) haha or is it just me. okay fine nvm i dun care i just want to talk and talk, blabber and blabber and be a freeeeeeeee little chirpy bird! heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees.
im loving every second of the after exams period! no pain no gain yea. without hibernating you wouldn't know how to appreciate the goodness of being back under the sun or back to the world where everyone lives. im lovin it! (nope not providing free advertising for the big M)
and i really love melbourne! love the fact that its home to sucha wide variety of cuisines. :) i've been craving korean for a really long time, to the extent the first thing i feel like doing when i reach singapore is to have korean food. and then tonight we had korean for dinner! but the main point is that it was good! omg duno if it was authentic korean but i should think so? had barbeque meat, kind of like seoul garden? where you have to barbeque pieces of meat on a stove-like thing. it was so awesome lah! ten thumbs up (wait do i have ten thumbs? no only two okay two thumbs up) or maybe because i was craving for korean?! haha. and those free flow of side dishes like kimchi, baked potato, beansprouts and this seaweed thing that tasted like coleslaw but crunchier, omg heavenly. it didnt help to satisfy my cravings though, kind of increased my craves for more korean! :D
as if dinner wasnt good enough, dessert at Greco's was out of the world! we had a fruit tart and banana cake and didnt know simple pastries like a fruit tart and banana cake could taste so good. it's like the best fruit tart and banana cake we've ever eaten (no exaggeration here, quality assured by all of us)! the fruits were really fresh and crunchy, there're like grape, strawberry, peach and kiwi on it. everything from the tart crust to the cream (do you call it cream im not sure) to the fruits are absolutely delicious. you could just dig into the cream and eat it on its own and dont feel disgusted by it. as for banana cake, well the cake was really thick with flavour and there were chunky bite-sized bananas in between the cake layers, and the cream was flavoured with a light tinge of hazelnut i think, perfect combi for a banana cake! at least the whole thing won't taste too banana-ish.
gosh i realise i can be a food critic already lah haha. anyone wants me to try out their dishes? ;)
so what is the best therapy for overworking? i would say food and retail therapy worked best for me. haha! excuses to over indulge excessively and buy things only lah.
continuing tonight's good food journey we'll be having HK dim sum tomorrow! haha! now you know why i say i love melbourne being the home to so many different kinds of cuisine. :) i think im having more dim sum here than i've had in singapore lah. but really really want to have it, especially after watching masterchef australia on sunday night, they went hong kong to learn how to make dim sum! haha! how cool is that.
lucky me i saved quite abit this month by cooking in most of the time, saving quite a bit to allow for the food and retail therapy which is going to start soon yea. haha!
to harry potter, well i would be glad to do anything other than staying around with my texts! i think i need to start cleaning up my apartment? which is in a much worse state than you've seen last sem haha! oppps. and hmmm, maybe go jogging and feel healthy? read a book? watch some shows? i duno! so much on the list i duno which to start. anything other than studying! heees.
ohhhhhh another thing before i end off, so you think you can, dance dance dance dance US is backkkkkkkkkk! gosh i totally loved last season's one lah, and looking forward to seeing more routines this season. and finally, i can watch with a peace of mind, without feeling guilty, unproductive and bad about spending time watching tv. well im gonna spend all my free nights watching random tv shows all i want i dont care and make it all up for the guilty-ness of watching tv last few weeks!
i like this idea of having lotsa free time to rot away and feeling good about it. ;)
omg omg omg can you believe that its over!!!! wooo la la la~~~ wooo la la la~~~ teleport me to hawaii now and let me dance with the coconut trees!
phew the last four weeks really really really felt like four thousand years not exaggerating at all. im like ticking the days off everyday this month, wondering how time could pass this slow, and yet this fast.
and as always i did not finish the paper today it was crazy lah how could anyone finish that paper in 2 hours not possible. haven met someone who finished the entire paper yet. din do like 6+8 marks? out of all my four papers i only finished jap, and only feel confident for jap, which ironically i dedicated the least time to preparing for it. overall the papers are relatively okay, like i wasnt stunned by any questions in any of the papers, just tedious, and super time-and-hand-muscles-consuming. i think my left arm and hand muscles grew by almost one time, further strengthening my image of a muscle woman yea. :)
oh wells but nothing could dampen my spirits today! i was sooooo happy that everything is finally over and behind me, that i wouldnt need to gobble textbooks every day and night day and night day and night day and night. i am a freeeeeeeeee little chirpy bird nowwww!
blabbered like i haven talked in one thousand years tonight i think its true yea, that women need to talk alot (cant remember the figures from the email) haha or is it just me. okay fine nvm i dun care i just want to talk and talk, blabber and blabber and be a freeeeeeeee little chirpy bird! heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees.
im loving every second of the after exams period! no pain no gain yea. without hibernating you wouldn't know how to appreciate the goodness of being back under the sun or back to the world where everyone lives. im lovin it! (nope not providing free advertising for the big M)
and i really love melbourne! love the fact that its home to sucha wide variety of cuisines. :) i've been craving korean for a really long time, to the extent the first thing i feel like doing when i reach singapore is to have korean food. and then tonight we had korean for dinner! but the main point is that it was good! omg duno if it was authentic korean but i should think so? had barbeque meat, kind of like seoul garden? where you have to barbeque pieces of meat on a stove-like thing. it was so awesome lah! ten thumbs up (wait do i have ten thumbs? no only two okay two thumbs up) or maybe because i was craving for korean?! haha. and those free flow of side dishes like kimchi, baked potato, beansprouts and this seaweed thing that tasted like coleslaw but crunchier, omg heavenly. it didnt help to satisfy my cravings though, kind of increased my craves for more korean! :D
as if dinner wasnt good enough, dessert at Greco's was out of the world! we had a fruit tart and banana cake and didnt know simple pastries like a fruit tart and banana cake could taste so good. it's like the best fruit tart and banana cake we've ever eaten (no exaggeration here, quality assured by all of us)! the fruits were really fresh and crunchy, there're like grape, strawberry, peach and kiwi on it. everything from the tart crust to the cream (do you call it cream im not sure) to the fruits are absolutely delicious. you could just dig into the cream and eat it on its own and dont feel disgusted by it. as for banana cake, well the cake was really thick with flavour and there were chunky bite-sized bananas in between the cake layers, and the cream was flavoured with a light tinge of hazelnut i think, perfect combi for a banana cake! at least the whole thing won't taste too banana-ish.
gosh i realise i can be a food critic already lah haha. anyone wants me to try out their dishes? ;)
so what is the best therapy for overworking? i would say food and retail therapy worked best for me. haha! excuses to over indulge excessively and buy things only lah.
continuing tonight's good food journey we'll be having HK dim sum tomorrow! haha! now you know why i say i love melbourne being the home to so many different kinds of cuisine. :) i think im having more dim sum here than i've had in singapore lah. but really really want to have it, especially after watching masterchef australia on sunday night, they went hong kong to learn how to make dim sum! haha! how cool is that.
lucky me i saved quite abit this month by cooking in most of the time, saving quite a bit to allow for the food and retail therapy which is going to start soon yea. haha!
to harry potter, well i would be glad to do anything other than staying around with my texts! i think i need to start cleaning up my apartment? which is in a much worse state than you've seen last sem haha! oppps. and hmmm, maybe go jogging and feel healthy? read a book? watch some shows? i duno! so much on the list i duno which to start. anything other than studying! heees.
ohhhhhh another thing before i end off, so you think you can, dance dance dance dance US is backkkkkkkkkk! gosh i totally loved last season's one lah, and looking forward to seeing more routines this season. and finally, i can watch with a peace of mind, without feeling guilty, unproductive and bad about spending time watching tv. well im gonna spend all my free nights watching random tv shows all i want i dont care and make it all up for the guilty-ness of watching tv last few weeks!
i like this idea of having lotsa free time to rot away and feeling good about it. ;)
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
almost there
I AM ALMOST THERE!!! HAHA! :)))))))))))))
this moment, been looking forward to for so long, its here!!! haha! woohoo~ i finished three papers yea, almost there, almost! :)
so much's going on in the brain, so much's going on in heart, so much's going on in the body, so much so i just felt like stoning till the world turn stone!
goodness how can anyone survive marketing and management majors there's so much to read so much to disintegrate so much to memorise so much write!
i thought marketing was bad enough yesterday, until today's management paper, poof! its terrible! like media channel has maximum capacity, my hand has a maximum writing capacity too yea! i can only write this much within a minute! haven written as much since A's economics paper and the sourness in the hand! my goodness cant get that degree of sourness even by pouring lemon juice on it! my handwriting was barely legible, especially marketing. i din even had time to phrase my sentences and points properly. all i remembered was start writing since they said start and only stopped when they said stop. i had so many points in my head bursting to jump onto the paper but my hands cant cope with the speed of thought! if only we could type our answers! 2H totally felt like 2 minutes (okay maybe im being a little exaggerating but the idea is there) arhhh sucks. both the marketing and management papers werent hard for me, pretty sure if i managed to write everything i had in mind i would do quite well. :SSSSS there goes my H1 :(
and yea preparation for marketing is daunting because its everywhere! like i cant even watch a program in peace without linking the advertisements to advertising theories they're based on. and operations management, its a constant refresh of memory for points even when im not studying. all in all both subjects are so physically and emotionally draining! and now im so so so so so so so (cant stress enough) glad that its over!
japanese was okay :) had sucha a long day today i was turning stony at the end of jap paper. oh yea i had marketing paper yesterday afternoon, management this morning and jap in the afternoon. that explains why im so stressed out before and so happy and relieved now yea. hooo what kind of exam time table is this. can die man. of course now im feeling damn shiok but before that~~~~~
had to stock up large amount of coffee and set 3 alarms haha oh and i have a friend who has exam clash as well, so we had to stay in the exam venue for the entire day, since 9am till 4.15pm when our second paper end. and i was telling her how i had to drink coffee and set 3 alarms to survive these 2 days and to our amuse she did the same thing too! haha! lotsa caffeine, 1 handphone alarm, 1 bedside alarm clock, 1 alarm clock at the dining table (so we had to get up walk over to switch off) set at different intervals. she had one more human alarm though, she asked her mum to call her haha damn bad that would only be 5am in sing! i was so scared i couldnt wake up i even scrolled up the curtain before i slept yesterday night for sunlight to shine in so i wouldnt continue sleeping like a dead log when the alarms go off.
:))
last econs paper next monday to being a free little chirpy bird! heeees.
this moment, been looking forward to for so long, its here!!! haha! woohoo~ i finished three papers yea, almost there, almost! :)
so much's going on in the brain, so much's going on in heart, so much's going on in the body, so much so i just felt like stoning till the world turn stone!
goodness how can anyone survive marketing and management majors there's so much to read so much to disintegrate so much to memorise so much write!
i thought marketing was bad enough yesterday, until today's management paper, poof! its terrible! like media channel has maximum capacity, my hand has a maximum writing capacity too yea! i can only write this much within a minute! haven written as much since A's economics paper and the sourness in the hand! my goodness cant get that degree of sourness even by pouring lemon juice on it! my handwriting was barely legible, especially marketing. i din even had time to phrase my sentences and points properly. all i remembered was start writing since they said start and only stopped when they said stop. i had so many points in my head bursting to jump onto the paper but my hands cant cope with the speed of thought! if only we could type our answers! 2H totally felt like 2 minutes (okay maybe im being a little exaggerating but the idea is there) arhhh sucks. both the marketing and management papers werent hard for me, pretty sure if i managed to write everything i had in mind i would do quite well. :SSSSS there goes my H1 :(
and yea preparation for marketing is daunting because its everywhere! like i cant even watch a program in peace without linking the advertisements to advertising theories they're based on. and operations management, its a constant refresh of memory for points even when im not studying. all in all both subjects are so physically and emotionally draining! and now im so so so so so so so (cant stress enough) glad that its over!
japanese was okay :) had sucha a long day today i was turning stony at the end of jap paper. oh yea i had marketing paper yesterday afternoon, management this morning and jap in the afternoon. that explains why im so stressed out before and so happy and relieved now yea. hooo what kind of exam time table is this. can die man. of course now im feeling damn shiok but before that~~~~~
had to stock up large amount of coffee and set 3 alarms haha oh and i have a friend who has exam clash as well, so we had to stay in the exam venue for the entire day, since 9am till 4.15pm when our second paper end. and i was telling her how i had to drink coffee and set 3 alarms to survive these 2 days and to our amuse she did the same thing too! haha! lotsa caffeine, 1 handphone alarm, 1 bedside alarm clock, 1 alarm clock at the dining table (so we had to get up walk over to switch off) set at different intervals. she had one more human alarm though, she asked her mum to call her haha damn bad that would only be 5am in sing! i was so scared i couldnt wake up i even scrolled up the curtain before i slept yesterday night for sunlight to shine in so i wouldnt continue sleeping like a dead log when the alarms go off.
:))
last econs paper next monday to being a free little chirpy bird! heeees.
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