november post

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!