This is gonna be a really really really long one. Lots to talk about. By rights, I should be studying, given that I slacked the entire weekend. But still.
My love-hate relationship with Mondays
I both love and hate Mondays. Weird right? Let me explain. Firstly, I love Mondays because I can finally get out of the house, there’s English tutorial, Maths lecture and Choir! Yay! Then, I hate Mondays because I can’t stay at home and slack, there’s Maths tutorial and Choir. Heeheeehee. Well, I guess getting out of the house is something everyone feels about. That’s why they call it Monday blues I guess. Reason why choir is in both categories is cos, well, first, I love choir. Really I do. I look forward to it. I can sing and listen to that beautiful music. Can get high on it. Laugh and have fun with my choir mates at the same time. Then, I hate it because it ends so late. Monday is already such a long day for me already. They always drag it way over time. If I didn’t stay so far and have to worry about catching the bus, I’d love to stay back too. But as it is, I really have to catch the bus.
The previous practice, I had lots of useless exercise. Firstly, someone told me that the shuttle out of PGP was leaving soon. So quickly run to the terminal, where Paulus told me that that person had mixed up the timing. The bus wasn’t leaving for a while yet. Sigh. Then, as the bus approached the central library, I saw the 151 in the distance. (I take 151 to and fro. It’s more convenient than the MRT.) So quickly rush off the bus, dashed across the road in the futile attempt to catch the bus. Well, I didn’t catch it. And I was in a rush to get back. Supposed to meet Jean and group at 11 on msn to discuss our cultural studies stuff. Anyway, I sat at the bus stop and waited. The next few shuttle buses came and went. Some of the seniors who left later than me arrived at the bus stop. If I knew, I wouldn’t have run for the shuttle. Anyway, it was almost 10.20 before the 151 finally arrived. Sigh. Tiring.
Choir practice
Choir practice is fun. I love it, as I mentioned above. Anyway, now preparing for the Shah Alam trip. That’s so expensive btw. MJ people, count your blessings that Miss Lai is nice enough to subsidise so much for you. I gotta pay $200 down payment by this Thursday. No money liao. Anyway, back to the choir practice. Wei Wei did the “Sweet Honey Sucking Bees”. I had no idea about the real meaning behind that song. Heehee. My dirty mind, cultivated by 2 years doing Shakespeare and Donne, was working overtime after finding out the meaning. Haha! Go figure it yourself. The other student conductor (don’t know her name yet) did the wayang kulit medley. And that one sounds quite nice when we combine. Can’t wait to hear what it sounds like when we really start to sing it for competition. :D Started the Jap song too. Don’t know the title of that one. It’s in Jap. That one’s tough. The thing is so fast so we slow it down so much. And it has a weird tune and rhythm too. But can tell, this one is another one that will sound great after combine.
Haven’t seen Kwei yet. Guess he’s busy with other stuff. Or maybe he thinks NUS choir is advanced enough to do self study. Now, we start with sectionals. As usual, quite unfairly sometimes, the sops get to stay in the room whilst the rest of us have to troop all over PGP to get to the rooms. I say it’s unfair sometimes cos when we use function room 5, the room really stinks. Horrible smell. Quite glad to get out of it into some fresh air. Duan Hui still not decided about whether or not to join. She’s definitely not going to Shah Alam. Too late for that. But hope she still can join the choir. Whether or not she’s going for competition. There’re still other performances for sure. (we need to raise subsidies for ourselves financially) And there’s the Varsity Voices concert next year we’ve already started preparing for. The competition songs are some of those we’ll be singing. Looking forward to that. So fun.
EL project
I guess some people have kinda figured out my English project by now. Ok, for those who don’t know, I have to find out how native Singaporeans use the words makan and sotong. And then have to write an essay on it. :p It’s group work btw. First project of my uni life and it’s already so weird. Gosh! Still, it’s history in the making. And it is kinda fun to do. Wonder what other weird stuff she’ll make us do in future. Thinking of doing major in English language. Worst come to the worst, still can be a teacher. Don’t anybody ask me anything about my major. I still haven’t decided. But English Lang, for all it’s flaws, is not that bad after all.
Clossip (see the creativeness of language. Clay + gossip=clossip. Ok, lame)
Lameness aside, I saw this on the clayboard. Figured it would be interesting to speculate a bit. (Speculaaaation, such a faaaaacination) There was a thread where someone was asking, did Clay recently get his heart broken? Cos the sample new songs he’s been singing at JBT were apparently quite heart-wrenching and emotional. And they say that the tone, how he sounds, sounds like he just fell out of love. Specific songs, “Back for More” and “I Can’t Make You Love Me”. Other songs too but I don’t remember. So, they were wondering about Clay’s love life. Does he or doesn’t he have a girlfriend? Did he recently break up? They were suggesting that because of his visits to Aceh, Uganda, his UNICEF trips, Clay, being a sensitive person, was heartbroken after seeing all that misery and stuff. They say that he’s selling his house in LA too. Something about moving back to Raleigh. They were suggesting that personal stuff too, his brother serving in Iraq, his grandfather having Alzheimer’s. But they all agreed that they wouldn’t do anything more than speculate. If he’s really been heartbroken, it’ll be insensitive on our part to pester him about it.
There were 5 pages worth of speculation. Especially about the girlfriend part. Most people agreed that we probably won’t know about that until after the marriage. Something I found really sweet, they said that Clay being Clay would probably try to shield someone he loves from the relentless media barrage. Ok, I’m being a hopeless romantic here. Last time I saw the thread, the last few messages were really amusing. Someone said that if a girl dares break Clay’s heart, she better watch out cos “I’ll break her legs”. Then the next post was “I’ll help!”, followed by “You take the left, I’ll take the right”, followed by “and I’ll hold her down”. Lolz! Such kaypoh-ism.
Ok. All for now. Reluctantly, I return to my work. Sigh.
Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Sunday, August 28, 2005
Thursday, August 25, 2005
hello again
hi again! and it's near the end of another week of school. yay! friday is coming!!!! well, well, what happened this week? tutorials started. boy that's a story. well, 2 stories of my tutorials that i wanna relate.
enter the cheena tutor.
to those wondering when the heck this'll happen, well, it's happened. guess which module? english literature. his name's fan (something something) don't remember his name. but his accent's unbelievable. there were times when he had to stop and spell out the word he was trying to say. for the first half of the class, i was trying so hard not to laugh at him. i think the rest of the class was stunned also cos no one talked at all for most of the class and the tutorial became another lecture session. which wasn't that great cos, although tutor knows what he's doing, his accent... it was like, cheena plus british, which is miles better than the cheena plus american but still sometimes impossible to decipher. gosh. how to survive lit like this??
my first maths tutorial was just short of a complete fiasco. know why? cos i went to the wrong class. malu malu. ok, here's the story. in the morning, i had english in the arts fac. then, i somehow managed to convince sumi, jas n duan hui to go with me to the sc fac for lunch. after lunch, duan hui so kindly accompanied me to find my class. so there we were, looking for S14. and we found it. yay. but then, i'm thinking, this looks like the matlab thing, i'm supposed to have tutorial. thought maybe it's ok so went in. later on, someone i met told me that she's having lab session. so i on the verge of panic. class is supposed to start in less than 5 minutes. so quickly called home and ask mother to check my timetable for me. horror of horrors! i'm supposed to be in S9. and according to the clock, class has already started. and i have absolutely no idea where's S9. so quickly run lor. lucky i found the building. then another problem. seminar room 4. i saw the maths department offices. SR1, SR2, SR3...where's SR4??!!!??!?!?! really panicking now. class started 15 minutes ago. running around S9 again. finally asked the people sitting at the study benches. so malu. entering the tutorial hot and sweaty and late. luckily there were 3 other people who started to hang around me after hearing me asking where's SR4. they were also late and lost. so go to tutorial. they were already divided into groups and discussing the questions. mr toh says to just join one of the groups. fine. but they're discussing the very question that i don't know how to do. :p so i just play along and steal looks at my neighbour's paper. haha! geez. what a fiasco.
ok, till next time. (preview: choir practice, EL project, Lolita)
p.s. i heard from mother that john little parkway closed down. WHY???! so sad. i miss all the colleagues there. never got the chance to meet up and now never will. sigh.
enter the cheena tutor.
to those wondering when the heck this'll happen, well, it's happened. guess which module? english literature. his name's fan (something something) don't remember his name. but his accent's unbelievable. there were times when he had to stop and spell out the word he was trying to say. for the first half of the class, i was trying so hard not to laugh at him. i think the rest of the class was stunned also cos no one talked at all for most of the class and the tutorial became another lecture session. which wasn't that great cos, although tutor knows what he's doing, his accent... it was like, cheena plus british, which is miles better than the cheena plus american but still sometimes impossible to decipher. gosh. how to survive lit like this??
my first maths tutorial was just short of a complete fiasco. know why? cos i went to the wrong class. malu malu. ok, here's the story. in the morning, i had english in the arts fac. then, i somehow managed to convince sumi, jas n duan hui to go with me to the sc fac for lunch. after lunch, duan hui so kindly accompanied me to find my class. so there we were, looking for S14. and we found it. yay. but then, i'm thinking, this looks like the matlab thing, i'm supposed to have tutorial. thought maybe it's ok so went in. later on, someone i met told me that she's having lab session. so i on the verge of panic. class is supposed to start in less than 5 minutes. so quickly called home and ask mother to check my timetable for me. horror of horrors! i'm supposed to be in S9. and according to the clock, class has already started. and i have absolutely no idea where's S9. so quickly run lor. lucky i found the building. then another problem. seminar room 4. i saw the maths department offices. SR1, SR2, SR3...where's SR4??!!!??!?!?! really panicking now. class started 15 minutes ago. running around S9 again. finally asked the people sitting at the study benches. so malu. entering the tutorial hot and sweaty and late. luckily there were 3 other people who started to hang around me after hearing me asking where's SR4. they were also late and lost. so go to tutorial. they were already divided into groups and discussing the questions. mr toh says to just join one of the groups. fine. but they're discussing the very question that i don't know how to do. :p so i just play along and steal looks at my neighbour's paper. haha! geez. what a fiasco.
ok, till next time. (preview: choir practice, EL project, Lolita)
p.s. i heard from mother that john little parkway closed down. WHY???! so sad. i miss all the colleagues there. never got the chance to meet up and now never will. sigh.
Saturday, August 20, 2005
probably going to be a long one again.
1. doctor's appointment again
had to go back to see dr for another blood test again. sigh. this time it's for the liver function thing. and again, he couldn't get any blood out of my right arm. sigh. is it just me or is it the fault of the needle thing? anyway, so no blood in the right arm, so go to the left arm. and he uses a syringe for the left arm. ouch. this blood test better be clear cos i don't think i can stand getting poked so much anymore.
2. lectures
so now all my lectures have started. tutorials start next week. have to go and prepare once i finish up here. anyway, i've ranked my lectures so far. my fav lecture is maths, coming next is cultural studies, then comes language/linguistics, biotech moves up from the last spot, and lit is my least fav lecture.
explaination. maths is my fav cos for now, and i can't believe i'm saying that. i can actually understand what mr toh is saying. did i mention he kinda resembles some channel 8 actor? anyway, he's not so formal, sometimes he (lame) jokes around with us. he was emphatising with us when the cors system broke down during tutorial balloting. and he can actually control the class. haha!
next favourite is cultural studies. no surprises there. prof philips is very interesting and knows how to make his lectures not boring. last lecture, he let us watch clips of spiderman and see clips of superman comics. of course with educational purposes in mind. made friends in this lecture cos we need to do group work. yup, one of my most enjoyable lectures. reason why it's not in first place, cos it's a 3 hr lecture. it's fun but it's kinda long.
then, language/linguistics. i still haven't decided if this course is about language or linguistics. but they are similar right? anyway, this course, dr maddelena is ok. bit boring sometimes. we were all stoning at yesterday's lecture. 8am is too early in the morning lah. dr maddelena tries to be interesting but it's not really working. she uses transparency, which is ok since most of it is in her textbook. did i mention she wrote the textbook? anyway, this is a can-do lecture. not that great but not that bad.
biotech, biotech...(aka genes and society). the first lecture was so disappointing but the second lecture saved it from tying with lit as the worst lecture. it's a bad lecture cos of the lecturer. i mean, the material she's trying to teach is fine and interesting but she... dr ge. she's got this cheena plus american accent that's so strange. and she's got a really nasal voice. sounds like she's pinching her nose and talking. and she cannot control the class. people strolled in half hour late, and now and then, the class will erupt in loud whispers. like i said, the second lecture saved it. yesterday's lecture was all right. not as bad as the first.
last of all, the worst lecture. literature. this is very very disappointing. but i kind of expected it, seeing what happened in the first lecture. dr roy is doing "lolita" now. and her voice is the most hypnotically boring i've ever heard. it's just made for sleeping. and she kinda telescopes every sentence together so that one point seems miles long and i have no idea what to take down and what not to. lit has no handouts (expected) so we have to take down from what the lecturer says. i think, i'll have to bring my recorder and record and then come back and take notes at my leisure. can hardly stay awake in her class. sigh.
3. choir
now i'm in the nus choir. alto. not too sure alto what. i guess 2. hopefully. but alto 1 is ok too. went for the first meeting thursday. it wasn't a practice. more of a ice breaker session. it was ok. made new friends. discovered someone (claudia) who used to live at balam rd. cool! but she's moved away now, too bad. paulus is the only other meridian in the choir, other than me. there was this speed-dating game we were doing and when it was me and paulus, instead of discussing what we were supposed to discuss, we were talking about why my friends didn't join choir. that paulus, we were playing whacko, where someone else was supposed to protect you. and paulus kept calling my name. my poor partner had to keep thinking of other people to call. i didn't get the chance to get back at paulus cos no one called my partner's name. lots of exchange students. found out that american girl's name, tiffany. another american exchange student lata. there's this laos guy vi (visayon). lots of malaysians, prcs, filipinos. of course , indonesian paulus. i think there's another indonesian but i don't remember who. there's 2 people with the same name. wei wei the sc and wei wei the prc girl. :D different intonations though. interesting, especially when playing whacko. couldn't tell which wei wei people were calling cos people didn't bother too much with the sound.
the choir's going shah alam end of the year (9-13 dec). not too sure if i'm going. it's between $400 and $500. the 'voyage of song' competition, like the one in genting. should be fun, if i can persuade parents to let me go.they were kinda planning for a holiday during that time. choir's doing 2 categories. should be less stress than when at mj. that was so stressful. but fun. wei wei (i think) mentioned carolling too. wow.
right. enough for now. back to work.
1. doctor's appointment again
had to go back to see dr for another blood test again. sigh. this time it's for the liver function thing. and again, he couldn't get any blood out of my right arm. sigh. is it just me or is it the fault of the needle thing? anyway, so no blood in the right arm, so go to the left arm. and he uses a syringe for the left arm. ouch. this blood test better be clear cos i don't think i can stand getting poked so much anymore.
2. lectures
so now all my lectures have started. tutorials start next week. have to go and prepare once i finish up here. anyway, i've ranked my lectures so far. my fav lecture is maths, coming next is cultural studies, then comes language/linguistics, biotech moves up from the last spot, and lit is my least fav lecture.
explaination. maths is my fav cos for now, and i can't believe i'm saying that. i can actually understand what mr toh is saying. did i mention he kinda resembles some channel 8 actor? anyway, he's not so formal, sometimes he (lame) jokes around with us. he was emphatising with us when the cors system broke down during tutorial balloting. and he can actually control the class. haha!
next favourite is cultural studies. no surprises there. prof philips is very interesting and knows how to make his lectures not boring. last lecture, he let us watch clips of spiderman and see clips of superman comics. of course with educational purposes in mind. made friends in this lecture cos we need to do group work. yup, one of my most enjoyable lectures. reason why it's not in first place, cos it's a 3 hr lecture. it's fun but it's kinda long.
then, language/linguistics. i still haven't decided if this course is about language or linguistics. but they are similar right? anyway, this course, dr maddelena is ok. bit boring sometimes. we were all stoning at yesterday's lecture. 8am is too early in the morning lah. dr maddelena tries to be interesting but it's not really working. she uses transparency, which is ok since most of it is in her textbook. did i mention she wrote the textbook? anyway, this is a can-do lecture. not that great but not that bad.
biotech, biotech...(aka genes and society). the first lecture was so disappointing but the second lecture saved it from tying with lit as the worst lecture. it's a bad lecture cos of the lecturer. i mean, the material she's trying to teach is fine and interesting but she... dr ge. she's got this cheena plus american accent that's so strange. and she's got a really nasal voice. sounds like she's pinching her nose and talking. and she cannot control the class. people strolled in half hour late, and now and then, the class will erupt in loud whispers. like i said, the second lecture saved it. yesterday's lecture was all right. not as bad as the first.
last of all, the worst lecture. literature. this is very very disappointing. but i kind of expected it, seeing what happened in the first lecture. dr roy is doing "lolita" now. and her voice is the most hypnotically boring i've ever heard. it's just made for sleeping. and she kinda telescopes every sentence together so that one point seems miles long and i have no idea what to take down and what not to. lit has no handouts (expected) so we have to take down from what the lecturer says. i think, i'll have to bring my recorder and record and then come back and take notes at my leisure. can hardly stay awake in her class. sigh.
3. choir
now i'm in the nus choir. alto. not too sure alto what. i guess 2. hopefully. but alto 1 is ok too. went for the first meeting thursday. it wasn't a practice. more of a ice breaker session. it was ok. made new friends. discovered someone (claudia) who used to live at balam rd. cool! but she's moved away now, too bad. paulus is the only other meridian in the choir, other than me. there was this speed-dating game we were doing and when it was me and paulus, instead of discussing what we were supposed to discuss, we were talking about why my friends didn't join choir. that paulus, we were playing whacko, where someone else was supposed to protect you. and paulus kept calling my name. my poor partner had to keep thinking of other people to call. i didn't get the chance to get back at paulus cos no one called my partner's name. lots of exchange students. found out that american girl's name, tiffany. another american exchange student lata. there's this laos guy vi (visayon). lots of malaysians, prcs, filipinos. of course , indonesian paulus. i think there's another indonesian but i don't remember who. there's 2 people with the same name. wei wei the sc and wei wei the prc girl. :D different intonations though. interesting, especially when playing whacko. couldn't tell which wei wei people were calling cos people didn't bother too much with the sound.
the choir's going shah alam end of the year (9-13 dec). not too sure if i'm going. it's between $400 and $500. the 'voyage of song' competition, like the one in genting. should be fun, if i can persuade parents to let me go.they were kinda planning for a holiday during that time. choir's doing 2 categories. should be less stress than when at mj. that was so stressful. but fun. wei wei (i think) mentioned carolling too. wow.
right. enough for now. back to work.
Thursday, August 18, 2005
while waiting
i'm waiting for 12pm so i can check my tutorial balloting. yesterday was quite a bad day. firstly, i went really early to school so that can start balloting at 9am when it opened. so me and duan hui were there, laptops all set up and ready. 9am. sign into cors. go to tutorial balloting. and the thing tells me: "system overloaded or down for maintainence." :o what da heck?! we purposely came early to ballot cos we got lectures the whole day and got no time to ballot. anyway, that was the situation for the whole day. don't know what happened to the system. saw people trying to access the system during lectures but of course it didn't work. the sch had to extend the deadline, 3 times.
then, after my lectures, i went to the tution center with andrew. not for tution lah. i just need to know that there's a teacher nearby in case i need help for maths. anyway, we decided to eat macdonalds for dinner. since it was so crowded (dinner crowd) we decided go eat after his tution. so after tution, we happily went. around 8.55pm. (btw, i'm boycotting that certain macdonalds. read on to see why) i was queueing up. the supervisor (i assume she's the supervisor cos she was wearing a different uniform) opened another counter so i went there. me and andrew were going to eat mcspicy meal. anyway, i asked if still have mcspicy. she said have. i was kinda doubtful cos i didn't see any mcspicy around but she being the supervisor, i trusted her. so i ordered 2 sets. then, she said something (she was talking really soft) i thought she was confirming my order. actually she was asking if i want upsize or normal size. she had this very annoying expression, can't really describe, like "i'm only here cos i have to be so hurry up and order". anyway, then, she asked me what sauce i wanted. i said chili and ketchup. for some reason, she gave me curry sauce instead of ketchup. i didn't want to talk to her any more than i had to so i didn't say anything. then, she told me, go have a seat and wait for my burgers. i was kinda annoyed at this. i specifically asked her, she should have told me that have mcspicy but will have to wait. anyway, like i said, i didn't wanna talk to her so i just went.
later on, i saw her walk out of the mac. anyway, i was complaining to andew about her. eating our fries. 9.15 already. wondering what happened. so i went to check. there were 2 mcspicy there, so i thought that was ours. so i asked the counter girl, can i collect my food? and she gave me this confused look, like she didn't know i was waiting. obviously they had forgotten my order. so i told her, i ordered from this girl at this counter, indicating it. they found out that the person/supervisor had left. so they presumably couldn't verify that i had ordered. those 2 mcspicy were obviously intended for someone other than us. anyway, the counter girl asked if i could wait another 5 minutes. i told her, i've already been waiting since 9. she looked very very unsure. heard her asking the kitchen if got anymore meat. i'm thinking, what do you mean by that? do you mean that if got no more meat, i'm not going to get my food??! anyway, in the end, she gave me the food. but my dinner was ruined. what kind of service is that? supervisor some more. give customer that kind of attitude, then forgets the customer's order. i am not going back to that macdonalds. what horrible service.
then, after my lectures, i went to the tution center with andrew. not for tution lah. i just need to know that there's a teacher nearby in case i need help for maths. anyway, we decided to eat macdonalds for dinner. since it was so crowded (dinner crowd) we decided go eat after his tution. so after tution, we happily went. around 8.55pm. (btw, i'm boycotting that certain macdonalds. read on to see why) i was queueing up. the supervisor (i assume she's the supervisor cos she was wearing a different uniform) opened another counter so i went there. me and andrew were going to eat mcspicy meal. anyway, i asked if still have mcspicy. she said have. i was kinda doubtful cos i didn't see any mcspicy around but she being the supervisor, i trusted her. so i ordered 2 sets. then, she said something (she was talking really soft) i thought she was confirming my order. actually she was asking if i want upsize or normal size. she had this very annoying expression, can't really describe, like "i'm only here cos i have to be so hurry up and order". anyway, then, she asked me what sauce i wanted. i said chili and ketchup. for some reason, she gave me curry sauce instead of ketchup. i didn't want to talk to her any more than i had to so i didn't say anything. then, she told me, go have a seat and wait for my burgers. i was kinda annoyed at this. i specifically asked her, she should have told me that have mcspicy but will have to wait. anyway, like i said, i didn't wanna talk to her so i just went.
later on, i saw her walk out of the mac. anyway, i was complaining to andew about her. eating our fries. 9.15 already. wondering what happened. so i went to check. there were 2 mcspicy there, so i thought that was ours. so i asked the counter girl, can i collect my food? and she gave me this confused look, like she didn't know i was waiting. obviously they had forgotten my order. so i told her, i ordered from this girl at this counter, indicating it. they found out that the person/supervisor had left. so they presumably couldn't verify that i had ordered. those 2 mcspicy were obviously intended for someone other than us. anyway, the counter girl asked if i could wait another 5 minutes. i told her, i've already been waiting since 9. she looked very very unsure. heard her asking the kitchen if got anymore meat. i'm thinking, what do you mean by that? do you mean that if got no more meat, i'm not going to get my food??! anyway, in the end, she gave me the food. but my dinner was ruined. what kind of service is that? supervisor some more. give customer that kind of attitude, then forgets the customer's order. i am not going back to that macdonalds. what horrible service.
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
horror!
horror of horrors!!
there's a guy in my maths lect that so strongly reminds me of my old crush. seriously. and that's a bad thing. how am i going to concentrate fully on the lecture?! darn.
p.s. not that my guy was a horrible fellow, despite what he did or did not do.
p.s.s. i've finally finished my first reading of "Lolita". it was horrible.
there's a guy in my maths lect that so strongly reminds me of my old crush. seriously. and that's a bad thing. how am i going to concentrate fully on the lecture?! darn.
p.s. not that my guy was a horrible fellow, despite what he did or did not do.
p.s.s. i've finally finished my first reading of "Lolita". it was horrible.
Sunday, August 14, 2005
hi again!
glad to announce, i'm getting the hang of my maths. and not because of the tutioning too. i got it on my own. muahahahaha!!!! hercules! hercules! anyway, it's just the beginning. now's the beginning of resurrection. hope this maths student can survive the rest of the semester. actually, once i got the hang of it, it was kinda fun.
my new computer's ok too. finally got the microsoft office from ah-ku. sorry i can't pass it around duan hui. i tried to ask but cannot lah. anyway, there's still no internet connection so there's not much i can do on that computer.
in case anyone's wondering, i still haven't heard from the nus choir. i should get the results by this coming week. if not then, (horror of horrors) i got cut at the auditions. i know i screwed up but i don't think i screwed up that bad. haha! i had a dream the other day that they put me in S2. *shock* hope it's not a premonition. i think i'd die in sops. i'll be having sore throat every day.
moving on. after much deliberation and consideration etc etc, i've decided that i have to get a grip on myself about clay. or at least, not push him onto my blog's readers. i've reflected that the subject may be boring to some people. therefore, i've decided to refrain from gushing and talking about him and whatever he's doing here. however, if there are any people that would like to hear about clay now and then, and don't find it boring, let me know and i'll gladly post clay updates now and then.
right. bye for now.
glad to announce, i'm getting the hang of my maths. and not because of the tutioning too. i got it on my own. muahahahaha!!!! hercules! hercules! anyway, it's just the beginning. now's the beginning of resurrection. hope this maths student can survive the rest of the semester. actually, once i got the hang of it, it was kinda fun.
my new computer's ok too. finally got the microsoft office from ah-ku. sorry i can't pass it around duan hui. i tried to ask but cannot lah. anyway, there's still no internet connection so there's not much i can do on that computer.
in case anyone's wondering, i still haven't heard from the nus choir. i should get the results by this coming week. if not then, (horror of horrors) i got cut at the auditions. i know i screwed up but i don't think i screwed up that bad. haha! i had a dream the other day that they put me in S2. *shock* hope it's not a premonition. i think i'd die in sops. i'll be having sore throat every day.
moving on. after much deliberation and consideration etc etc, i've decided that i have to get a grip on myself about clay. or at least, not push him onto my blog's readers. i've reflected that the subject may be boring to some people. therefore, i've decided to refrain from gushing and talking about him and whatever he's doing here. however, if there are any people that would like to hear about clay now and then, and don't find it boring, let me know and i'll gladly post clay updates now and then.
right. bye for now.
Thursday, August 11, 2005
no time, no time
suddenly i feel like there's no time at all. where's all the time gone?? into my travelling from east of singapore to west of singapore? lectures have started. i've got lectures every freaking day. sigh. hopefully next sem will be less hectic. buying books and all. my lit texts n supplementary reader alone cost $127. and the stupid lady didn't tell me there was a co-op membership i could join that would entitle me to a 5% discount until after i paid for the books. sigh. got the anton maths book too. that was $44 but i got the membership. it became $41. big deal. haha! still have to get the books for language, genes n society and cultural studies. hopefully it's all in the co-op tomorrow. i so don't want to drag it till next week. just get the money part over and done with. i think, all my books will be an easy $200. sigh.
lectures are starting. all the introductory lects this week. except maths. lesson proper has started today. i think i'm going to die. i didn't understand a thing that mr toh was saying. i think i really need to review the webcast but the bad thing is, toh doesn't webcast his lectures. only dr tan does. oh well, it's better than nothing. sigh. sigh. lit lecture was weird. the lecturer was really really really weird. dr gwee. he acted like a cross between a student giving a presentation and irving goh. he got more and more boring as time passed. dr roy wasn't that bad. she started introducing "lolita" to us. but by then, i was already half tuned out so i couldn't copy much notes. which was scary. i mean, what would you do, wen hui on my left was frantically taking down so much notes, yasmin on my right was drawing faces on her foolscap. btw, "lolita" is so... ... ... let's say it's like donne's love poems. humbert humbert is so erotic sometimes, just can't stand it. the front page picture is so suggestive, sometimes i'm embarrassed to take it out and read in public. need to hide the cover. it's a pic of young girl's legs in a short skirt. think jap schoolgirl. and it's just the legs. gosh. and HH's paedophile-ic fantasies in the book are just gross to me. if it were up to me, i wouldn't finish reading the book. but i'm rushing it out for next wed's lect.
cultural studies was fun. not the least bit like GP. like, the study of popular media and it's impact on culture/society thing. the lecturer was cool. dr philips. british guy. i didn't sleep in his lecture. which is a good thing cos cultural studies is a 3 hr lect/seminar. he did superman and comics on wednesday. actually, i've got to confess that i really had no idea if he had actually taught us anything. but it was an interesting lecture. made 2 new friends (out of necessity). jean and kevin. it's out of necessity cos dr philips says that we'll be working in groups and he'll be putting up name lists for us to sign up our groups. so the 3 of us will be working together. met jean first. then she pulled kevin in. wen hui was at the lecture too. she was waving frantically at me but sad to say, i didn't recognise her. it's the new red specs plus the fact that i wasn't that close to her. later on then i realised it was her.
went for the choir audition. jasmine accompanied me. and i didn't prepare my song until an hour before. sang "shout to the lord". and in my opinion i screwed it. i started too high and the high notes screeched. sigh. the audition was scary too. the vp was there and the sc. went into the room, they held an interview. like job interview. i think it was alright. thank god that in the past 6 months i've had interview experience, however disasterous it was. i think they may not put me in A2. cos the sc tested me on scales, he went low as low C which i couldn't reach. and he went as high as high G, which i screeched out. but i definately reached until high F without screeching. i'm hoping that jasmine would change her mind about the choir. she was showing signs of relenting when she accompanied me.
collected my new laptop! yay!! but now, it's pretty dead. there's nothing on it at all. need to install microsoft office. and there's no internet connection at home, as yet. cos i haven't figured out the connection thingy. and i'm wondering what will happen if i use my own user name instead of the nus one. hmm...but i'll play around with it more when i get it connected to the net. just now, i was typing on wordpad, testing out the keyboard. well, it's ok. but cos the T43's got this red button in the middle of the keyboard, it's a bit hard to hit the keys around the area, especially letter B. keep hitting the red button instead. but i'll get the hang of it. soon. i hope.
yup all for now. see lah. i have to resist blogging so much nowadays. i was supposed to use the net to check my ivle stuff esp my maths and see what i ended up doing. :p
lectures are starting. all the introductory lects this week. except maths. lesson proper has started today. i think i'm going to die. i didn't understand a thing that mr toh was saying. i think i really need to review the webcast but the bad thing is, toh doesn't webcast his lectures. only dr tan does. oh well, it's better than nothing. sigh. sigh. lit lecture was weird. the lecturer was really really really weird. dr gwee. he acted like a cross between a student giving a presentation and irving goh. he got more and more boring as time passed. dr roy wasn't that bad. she started introducing "lolita" to us. but by then, i was already half tuned out so i couldn't copy much notes. which was scary. i mean, what would you do, wen hui on my left was frantically taking down so much notes, yasmin on my right was drawing faces on her foolscap. btw, "lolita" is so... ... ... let's say it's like donne's love poems. humbert humbert is so erotic sometimes, just can't stand it. the front page picture is so suggestive, sometimes i'm embarrassed to take it out and read in public. need to hide the cover. it's a pic of young girl's legs in a short skirt. think jap schoolgirl. and it's just the legs. gosh. and HH's paedophile-ic fantasies in the book are just gross to me. if it were up to me, i wouldn't finish reading the book. but i'm rushing it out for next wed's lect.
cultural studies was fun. not the least bit like GP. like, the study of popular media and it's impact on culture/society thing. the lecturer was cool. dr philips. british guy. i didn't sleep in his lecture. which is a good thing cos cultural studies is a 3 hr lect/seminar. he did superman and comics on wednesday. actually, i've got to confess that i really had no idea if he had actually taught us anything. but it was an interesting lecture. made 2 new friends (out of necessity). jean and kevin. it's out of necessity cos dr philips says that we'll be working in groups and he'll be putting up name lists for us to sign up our groups. so the 3 of us will be working together. met jean first. then she pulled kevin in. wen hui was at the lecture too. she was waving frantically at me but sad to say, i didn't recognise her. it's the new red specs plus the fact that i wasn't that close to her. later on then i realised it was her.
went for the choir audition. jasmine accompanied me. and i didn't prepare my song until an hour before. sang "shout to the lord". and in my opinion i screwed it. i started too high and the high notes screeched. sigh. the audition was scary too. the vp was there and the sc. went into the room, they held an interview. like job interview. i think it was alright. thank god that in the past 6 months i've had interview experience, however disasterous it was. i think they may not put me in A2. cos the sc tested me on scales, he went low as low C which i couldn't reach. and he went as high as high G, which i screeched out. but i definately reached until high F without screeching. i'm hoping that jasmine would change her mind about the choir. she was showing signs of relenting when she accompanied me.
collected my new laptop! yay!! but now, it's pretty dead. there's nothing on it at all. need to install microsoft office. and there's no internet connection at home, as yet. cos i haven't figured out the connection thingy. and i'm wondering what will happen if i use my own user name instead of the nus one. hmm...but i'll play around with it more when i get it connected to the net. just now, i was typing on wordpad, testing out the keyboard. well, it's ok. but cos the T43's got this red button in the middle of the keyboard, it's a bit hard to hit the keys around the area, especially letter B. keep hitting the red button instead. but i'll get the hang of it. soon. i hope.
yup all for now. see lah. i have to resist blogging so much nowadays. i was supposed to use the net to check my ivle stuff esp my maths and see what i ended up doing. :p
Sunday, August 07, 2005
no title
discovered that when i got lots to talk about, it's much easier to write about it in point form. that way, i remember what i want to write about. heehee!
1. charlie and the chocolate factory
went to watch 'charlie n the chocolate factory' today. it was all right. i thought i'd cringe everytime i see johnny depp looking like a girl, but he was ok really. the story is similar to the book but some differences. it's like, tim burton can't decide whether he wants the movie to be dark n emotional or light n frothy. he putting in flashbacks into willy wonka's past is different from the book but...can do lah. the oompa-loompas were a bit disappointing. amusing yes, they were obviously one person multiplied with computer technology. their singing and 'dancing' had a, sorta bollywood meets saturday night fever thing. weird. the whole movie was kinda bizarre to put it mildly. bit lame at first but it picked up. i think it's so ironic that tim burton decided that willy wonka's father should be a dentist. :o haha! on the whole, the movie is worth catching. not a must-see but it's worth it.
2. nus choir welcome tea
attended the nus choir welcome tea the other day. not that bad. the president gave a short talk, showed us some slideshow photos of the choir, then one of the SLs led a warm-up session. interesting. they sang do-re-mi, then a canon (viva la musica). it was interesting. then went outside for a mini performance. one of the songs they sing is 'bai fang chun tian'. i think i'm fated that every choir i join sings that song. *shrugs* it's not a bad song lah. nelson kwei's the conductor here. it's going to be darn busy when i join. their practices are monday n thursday, 6.30pm to 9.30pm. so late! bit jittery about the auditions. you'd think that someone who solos regularly at church would find auditioning in front of the sc chicken feed, but i seriously got the jitters. firstly, we gotta prepare our own song to sing and i don't know what to sing. if i feel brave, i'll sing 'this is the night'. if not, then i'll sing 'if we hold on together'. or see that day itself how i feel. i still remember the last time i had to sing my own song. i sang 'he' to jennifer tham and screwed up the whole song. anyway, the choir itself seems to be full of arts people. haha! sc people can't appreciate music/arts. sumi says she may not be joining. hope jasmine still is. i don't wanna join by myself. i like choir. i really want to join. but if they don't... ... and btw, i haven't felt this nervous about solo singing since the acapella good friday psalm. sigh.
3. expo book fair n john little sale
went to expo last saturday. saw zaidah n jasmine there. anyway, jonathan went along cos andrew wasn't around. went to the book fair first. woah. so many things there. first i was dragged to the children's section by jonathan who was looking for a book on ventroliquy (can't spell it). saw this book on adult origami. it's seriously adult. they teach you how to origami a sperm, n other sorts of sex stuff. gosh. met up with zai n jas. they had 3 baskets full of stuff. me ended up with only a few books. ('divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood', 'white fang n call of the wild', 'introduction to origami', 'gangs of new york', '3rd helping of chicken soup for the soul' , 'pooh's little instruction book')
then went to the john little sale. bought a new jacket for school. it's real pretty, gray with a red collar. and i got a new black bag. it looks a bit like a travel bag but the lady claimed that there are students who bought it for school. that was after i walked over the whole hall dragging along 3 other bags that i couldn't make my mind up about. gosh. mummy says she saw nisha doing cashiering. miss her. i saw jenny at the food court but she didn't see me. i guess she won't remember me anymore. i seriously miss working at john little. duan hui says maybe cos i was really happy there that's why i miss it. maybe.
4. festival of praise
didn't go for the fop. my mother didn't allow me out of the house alone at night. something about evil mosquitoes n being on mc. ended up at home watching dvds. sigh. i was looking forward to it since last year. i hear that it was real good this year. sigh. i missed it. never mind. i'll wait for next year.
5. picnic at hanging rock
found the dvd at esplanade the other day. but the movie itself was really really boring. not say boring lah. it was really really really slow. the whole story is about what happened after three girls n a school teacher went missing at hanging rock. i think i'd prefer to read the book version. the movie is so old. it was difficult to hear what the actors were saying cos the aussie accent was too strong at times. bit of a disappointment. i was so looking forward to finding out what happened after the extract dr s let us see. you don't really find out what happened at hanging rock. but it seems a mysterious place. i wouldn't mind going to have a look see at the place. and i'll do my best not to go missing. dr s says that even in real life, that place is like the bermuda triangle, people go missing. she says that hanging rock has this supernatural air about it. like some aboriginal holy ground or something. anyway, the movie, can give a miss lah. it's so boring unless you got the extreme will power to stay awake or know the story before hand.
6. health
well, i'm much better now. thanks for everyone's concern. went for the follow up blood test the other day. that wasn't so hot. first the doc poked around my right arm again. and again, no blood came out. he says maybe that vein's used up liao, clotting inside. so he transferred to the other arm. poor me. losing so much blood liao. just now at church, there was this lyric "oh perfect redemption the purchase of blood", marion expressly pointed out to me. aiya. anyway, did the liver function test, don't know what for. doc says that my liver enzyme count is 3 times normal. but he says that's normal for someone who's just been taking medicine regularly. but i still have to go back for another blood test in 2 weeks to make sure everything's ok. sigh. i'm getting a phobia of needles. and he says my platelet count is too high now. sigh. problems, problems.
btw, nick was 'scolding' me about not telling that i was in hospital. well, when you're sick, you don't really think about things like that. and anyway, i didn't even tell my best girlfriends, they had to find out themselves when they tried to call me. anyway, it's over and done with.
1. charlie and the chocolate factory
went to watch 'charlie n the chocolate factory' today. it was all right. i thought i'd cringe everytime i see johnny depp looking like a girl, but he was ok really. the story is similar to the book but some differences. it's like, tim burton can't decide whether he wants the movie to be dark n emotional or light n frothy. he putting in flashbacks into willy wonka's past is different from the book but...can do lah. the oompa-loompas were a bit disappointing. amusing yes, they were obviously one person multiplied with computer technology. their singing and 'dancing' had a, sorta bollywood meets saturday night fever thing. weird. the whole movie was kinda bizarre to put it mildly. bit lame at first but it picked up. i think it's so ironic that tim burton decided that willy wonka's father should be a dentist. :o haha! on the whole, the movie is worth catching. not a must-see but it's worth it.
2. nus choir welcome tea
attended the nus choir welcome tea the other day. not that bad. the president gave a short talk, showed us some slideshow photos of the choir, then one of the SLs led a warm-up session. interesting. they sang do-re-mi, then a canon (viva la musica). it was interesting. then went outside for a mini performance. one of the songs they sing is 'bai fang chun tian'. i think i'm fated that every choir i join sings that song. *shrugs* it's not a bad song lah. nelson kwei's the conductor here. it's going to be darn busy when i join. their practices are monday n thursday, 6.30pm to 9.30pm. so late! bit jittery about the auditions. you'd think that someone who solos regularly at church would find auditioning in front of the sc chicken feed, but i seriously got the jitters. firstly, we gotta prepare our own song to sing and i don't know what to sing. if i feel brave, i'll sing 'this is the night'. if not, then i'll sing 'if we hold on together'. or see that day itself how i feel. i still remember the last time i had to sing my own song. i sang 'he' to jennifer tham and screwed up the whole song. anyway, the choir itself seems to be full of arts people. haha! sc people can't appreciate music/arts. sumi says she may not be joining. hope jasmine still is. i don't wanna join by myself. i like choir. i really want to join. but if they don't... ... and btw, i haven't felt this nervous about solo singing since the acapella good friday psalm. sigh.
3. expo book fair n john little sale
went to expo last saturday. saw zaidah n jasmine there. anyway, jonathan went along cos andrew wasn't around. went to the book fair first. woah. so many things there. first i was dragged to the children's section by jonathan who was looking for a book on ventroliquy (can't spell it). saw this book on adult origami. it's seriously adult. they teach you how to origami a sperm, n other sorts of sex stuff. gosh. met up with zai n jas. they had 3 baskets full of stuff. me ended up with only a few books. ('divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood', 'white fang n call of the wild', 'introduction to origami'
then went to the john little sale. bought a new jacket for school. it's real pretty, gray with a red collar. and i got a new black bag. it looks a bit like a travel bag but the lady claimed that there are students who bought it for school. that was after i walked over the whole hall dragging along 3 other bags that i couldn't make my mind up about. gosh. mummy says she saw nisha doing cashiering. miss her. i saw jenny at the food court but she didn't see me. i guess she won't remember me anymore. i seriously miss working at john little. duan hui says maybe cos i was really happy there that's why i miss it. maybe.
4. festival of praise
didn't go for the fop. my mother didn't allow me out of the house alone at night. something about evil mosquitoes n being on mc. ended up at home watching dvds. sigh. i was looking forward to it since last year. i hear that it was real good this year. sigh. i missed it. never mind. i'll wait for next year.
5. picnic at hanging rock
found the dvd at esplanade the other day. but the movie itself was really really boring. not say boring lah. it was really really really slow. the whole story is about what happened after three girls n a school teacher went missing at hanging rock. i think i'd prefer to read the book version. the movie is so old. it was difficult to hear what the actors were saying cos the aussie accent was too strong at times. bit of a disappointment. i was so looking forward to finding out what happened after the extract dr s let us see. you don't really find out what happened at hanging rock. but it seems a mysterious place. i wouldn't mind going to have a look see at the place. and i'll do my best not to go missing. dr s says that even in real life, that place is like the bermuda triangle, people go missing. she says that hanging rock has this supernatural air about it. like some aboriginal holy ground or something. anyway, the movie, can give a miss lah. it's so boring unless you got the extreme will power to stay awake or know the story before hand.
6. health
well, i'm much better now. thanks for everyone's concern. went for the follow up blood test the other day. that wasn't so hot. first the doc poked around my right arm again. and again, no blood came out. he says maybe that vein's used up liao, clotting inside. so he transferred to the other arm. poor me. losing so much blood liao. just now at church, there was this lyric "oh perfect redemption the purchase of blood", marion expressly pointed out to me. aiya. anyway, did the liver function test, don't know what for. doc says that my liver enzyme count is 3 times normal. but he says that's normal for someone who's just been taking medicine regularly. but i still have to go back for another blood test in 2 weeks to make sure everything's ok. sigh. i'm getting a phobia of needles. and he says my platelet count is too high now. sigh. problems, problems.
btw, nick was 'scolding' me about not telling that i was in hospital. well, when you're sick, you don't really think about things like that. and anyway, i didn't even tell my best girlfriends, they had to find out themselves when they tried to call me. anyway, it's over and done with.
Friday, August 05, 2005
sorrow of sorrows
Sorrow of Sorrows
Posted by Leslie Friesen on July 12, 2005 05:27 PM (See all posts by Leslie Friesen)Filed under: Culture, Culture/Tech: Family, Culture/Tech: Religion, Culture/Tech: Society, Culture/Tech: Travel - Scroll down to read comments on this story and/or add one of your own.
Best Places Destinations: Oregon Coast (Best Places Oregon Coast)Stephanie IrvingBook from Sasquatch BooksRelease date: 01 April, 1999
A child died today. Or perhaps it was yesterday. The days blur into one tragic, slow motion, day-long weekend.
Thousands of children die everyday, but I knew this boy.
J.R., 13, finished 7th grade only a few weeks ago. Yesterday's sun rose with the promise of a fun-filled day at the rugged Oregon coast with his family and closest friends. By 11:15 a.m., however, J.R. was in trouble. Only God knows how many moments later he actually drowned, caught in an ominous riptide lurking beneath the calm surface of the Pacific.
No one did anything wrong. The adults checked out the surf first. The Oregon coast, known for its treacherous sneaker waves and annual deaths from logs rolling in the water, appeared friendly and safe on this bright morning. Saturday was just a happy day with two families and miscellaneous extra kids tagging along to play in the water and sunshine.
J.R. and his dad, James, were playing in the water, jumping waves. The water was only waist deep. They couldn't know that they were standing on a temporary sand shelf. They couldn't know that when they stepped off that shelf, the water was over their heads and a riptide was swirling beneath the surface. In a moment, James and J.R. were sucked further and further out to sea. James told J.R. to float on his back and swim for the shore, before going under himself. Their families and the young friends watched in what grew from disbelief to terror.
In the last moments, James saw his son swimming twenty feet away and calling, "Dad, help me!" In the end, rescuers reached James, but J.R. has yet to be found. The Coast Guard suspended the search late last night.
*****************************************************************************It It is rare, indeed, that I can find no words to express my heart. This is one of those times.
The questions have all been asked before.
How? Why? The prayers have all been uttered before by countless souls losing innocent loved ones for no reason at all. I can think of nothing new to add that wounded generations before me haven't already cried out, longing for answers that would act as a healing balm for their sorrow.
The sorrow of sorrows.
No parent should have to bury a child. What could be worse? No parent should have to wonder why he or she lived and their child perished. No father should go to sleep with the cry of "Dad, help me!" ringing in his ears.
Why, this boy on this day? Why this family? I don't know.
But I do know this. No one did anything wrong. And yet, J.R. died.
Horrible events happen in this world.
That's the way the ebb and flow of life works. Is it any more unfair that J.R. died at 13 rather than at 83? Will he be any more missed?
I don't think so. In the aftermath of 9/11, President Bush declared that each death extinguished an entire world for somebody.
J.R.'s short life was an entire world to those that knew and loved him. He will be sorely missed on this earth.
Someday, we will have the answers to all of the hows and whys. Someday, we will understand why God allowed this boy to die this weekend, and allowed this family to suffer so.
Until then, we must draw comfort in knowing that J.R. was not alone in those last few moments of his life. J.R. knew the Lord Jesus, and his Lord would not leave him to die alone and frightened in the swirling Oregon surf.
James need not be haunted by his son's last terrified words crying out for help. Those cries were answered even though James was not able to provide it.
Jesus Himself, along with a multitude of angels, were there in those last few moments to take J.R.'s hand and guide him through the swirling surf and into the gates of heaven itself.
J.R. was not alone in death, and neither are we, in life.
In life, or in death, there is really nothing else worth saying.
Or believing.
Edited: LH
taken from: http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/07/12/172700.php
Wednesday, August 03, 2005
updates
while agonising over the stupid cors system, i'll blog a bit.
1. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (caution, spoilers ahead)
i've read the book. and frankly, i didn't like it much. it even got boring at times. i don't get why rowling named the book like that. there's practically nothing about any half blood prince except that text book thing. and that part of the book is totally irrevelent to the rest of the plot. i mean, the story works even if you remove the part about harry and the book. there's not that much humour in it even. the only parts i laughed about were so isolated. eg, the part about fred and george's spelling quill. prof flitwick getting the guy to write lines. (i am a wizard, not a babboon waving a stick). the romance part of the book is so cheesy and frankly, as unromantic as unromantic gets. the flashbacks into voldemort's past are pretty much useless, boring and taking up space. i got the feeling that rowling just hasn't got anything else to write about. killing off dumbledore in the end was a bold move. but what's the point? she's killing off an important character. he's not sirius black where his presence/absence doesn't matter much. this is dumbledore we're talking about. of course, there's the speculation that he'll rise again in the next book. but i think what's really unsatisfactory about his death is that he died because of his trust. i mean, he died just as his trust in snape proved useless, he died because he trusted too much. then, there's snape. i think snape is the most interesting character in the book. his double agent role and all. which side is he really on? after he killed dumbledore, there seems to be no doubt that he's gone bad, but there's his past to consider. something had made dumbledore trust him before. and snape had to consider the unbreakable vow he made, presumably to help malfoy to kill dumbledore. so did he really have a choice when he killed dumbledore? anyway, on the whole, the book was a bit/a lot of a let down. weak plot, crazy storyline, too many sub plots inside. it's just different from the other harry potter books. but disappointed in it.
2. NUS
i'm officially an undergraduate. now doing bidding for the modules i have to take. it's so inconvenient. why don't they just let us sign up for whatever major we're going to do and be done with it? now i need 5 modules for this semester and i only managed to secure 3 cos people have outbid me in the other 2. fyi, i'm doing linear algebra 1 (mathematics), the nature of language (english language), literary appreciation and criticism (english literature). these 3 are confirmed. so now have to bid for general education modules (GEMs). hope i get them so i can just concentrate on the modules now and stop worrying about whether or not i can fulfil the requirements. fyi, the gems i signed up for, genes and society (i can finally fulfil my dream of doing genetics), introduction to cultural studies. the GEM results only come out tonight, so fingers crossed till then. what i don't like about the cors bidding is that it's kinda confusing. i still haven't gotten the hang of it. i know it's supposed to ensure that we get maximum exposure and a good all rounded education and all. but is it really necessary? i mean, it's fine and good that we can get exposure, i can do my genetics. sigh. i just don't like to have to bid to get the modules. it's not even confirmed that we'll get what we bidded for. and if we don't get it, then what? poh lin doesn't know how lucky she is that she is already majoring in econs and doesn't have to bid for it. and did i mention, for most of my modules, i'm all alone. the rest of them are not taking the same modules as me. sigh.
i've been going down to nus everyday now. taking a look around the place, putting orders for notebook. it's an ok place. quite run down actually. it looks old. i don't know what the tutorial rooms look like tho. but the outside of the buildings... i'm comparing with ntu and smu. nus is definately the most run down. ideal place to lose weight though. yesterday i was jalaning around the science fac cos i wanted to see where my maths n genes lectures would be. and i got lost. i ended up walking all the way from LT 32 to LT 25. in other words, practically one end of the science fac to the other. sc fac is actually quite an interesting place. passed by the research labs and all. cool. arts fac, well, nothing to say lah. so much construction/renovation work going on there. and it's at the other end of the nus campus. thank god i don't have any lecture as yet that i have to rush from the sc fac to the arts fac within the hour. even with the shuttle bus, i'd probably die.
and now i'm getting scolding from mother just because i can't access the cors system. fuck lah. it's not my fault. it's 3pm. the bidding's closed already. it's not MY fault what. blame the system. and even if i manage to get in, there's nothing i can do cos i can't see the bids anymore. to me, my bids are perfectly fine. there's nothing there to monitor. can't get then too bad lah. what's there to over react about?! scold me for nothing. it's not my freaking problem that the system is crashing. and it's not as if i haven't even started bidding. i was already one of the first to start my gem bids. wish she'd get off my back. leave me alone. quit blaming me for something that i can't control. fuck. so angry.
latest 9pm update: i got the 2 gems. yay? at least i got all 5 mods now.
3. Jukebox tour
reading the clay board. there's the new tour on. sounds really interesting. wish i could attend. but i have to content myself with watching videos. interesting videos i saw, clay trying to do 'livin la vida loca'. *rolls eyes* it was hilarious. ricky martin songs require dancing. he was just standing there, posing with the mic. it was weirder than william hung. the vocals were great tho but the performance... rofl. it was bizarre. clay did elvis songs too. he did 'love me tender' with the piano. oh god! got so excited when i saw him playing the piano and singing love me tender. gosh. and to think that he actually dropped piano lessons after a couple of months as a kid. no i am not suddenly inspired to take up piano lessons again. (sadly). heard also about this thing called cellcerts. from what i gather, someone at the concert will call someone not at the concert, and so they listen through the phone. cool! i also heard that the JBT, they have this technology thing where the audience can send sms and beam it up on to a screen on stage. woah. don't i wish i was in america now. there's some new songs he's singing also. apparently he's testing them for the new cd. can't wait for it to come out.
4. Festival of praise
i wanna go for the upcoming FOP. but i don't know if i can. mother may not let me out of the house. reason1: it's a christian thing. reason2: it's at night where all the evil mosquitoes are roaming. *rolls eyes* sigh. how? i've been looking forward to this since i went last year. i'm supposed to go with that theo. but she hasn't gotten back to me yet. cla's encouraging me to bring sumi and poh lin. sorta evangelising them thing. whatever. if i bring them, it's to let them enjoy the music and the atmospheare, not to evangelise. jac's not going apparently. why??!! miss her. don't know about feng cai. theo's supposed to arrange. i think in the end, i'll go with LC. or maybe with sumi, duan hui. hopefully can grab poh lin but i doubt she wants to come down all the way from ntu. but then, i don't even know if i'll be allowed out of the house on saturday night to go. sigh. hope lah and see how lor.
5. President's star charity
watched it the other day. not bad can get 3 million. it means a lot that singaporeans are still willing to donate despite the nkf scandal. me donated $5. cos i wanna support scas. i know i don't have much experience with the place. but i think it's worth it. used to see those kids going to and from school and using the mj track. they're normal kids, just bogged down with cerebral palsy or whatever. the performances on that night were interesting. the 'dancing queen' number was hilarious. seriously. they reminded me of miss congeniality. those 3 were singing horribly. they should just pose and let abba or ateens sing it. and what the heck were they wearing?! looked like mardi gras. the performance by marion raven and quidam were good. wish i could go and watch quidam live. fei xiang was ok. i didn't like him until he started singing in english. gosh. he's the type that cannot sing chinese lah. it sounded so fake. but the english song...:D the 'men in black' thing at the end had me lol again. it started out ok. but later on, the dance steps got weirder and weirder. to me. so start admiring their nice black suits. hmm...the andrea de cruz and zoe tay thing was all right. zoe's singing was so cheena but it was brave of her to do that. bit cheesy tho.
6. in memory
mr quah died one year ago, 2 august. saw his obit in the paper. feels weird thinking that it's been one year. so fast. hope he's at peace, playing tennis with the angels.
right. all for now. going to go and cross my fingers over the stupid bidding.
1. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (caution, spoilers ahead)
i've read the book. and frankly, i didn't like it much. it even got boring at times. i don't get why rowling named the book like that. there's practically nothing about any half blood prince except that text book thing. and that part of the book is totally irrevelent to the rest of the plot. i mean, the story works even if you remove the part about harry and the book. there's not that much humour in it even. the only parts i laughed about were so isolated. eg, the part about fred and george's spelling quill. prof flitwick getting the guy to write lines. (i am a wizard, not a babboon waving a stick). the romance part of the book is so cheesy and frankly, as unromantic as unromantic gets. the flashbacks into voldemort's past are pretty much useless, boring and taking up space. i got the feeling that rowling just hasn't got anything else to write about. killing off dumbledore in the end was a bold move. but what's the point? she's killing off an important character. he's not sirius black where his presence/absence doesn't matter much. this is dumbledore we're talking about. of course, there's the speculation that he'll rise again in the next book. but i think what's really unsatisfactory about his death is that he died because of his trust. i mean, he died just as his trust in snape proved useless, he died because he trusted too much. then, there's snape. i think snape is the most interesting character in the book. his double agent role and all. which side is he really on? after he killed dumbledore, there seems to be no doubt that he's gone bad, but there's his past to consider. something had made dumbledore trust him before. and snape had to consider the unbreakable vow he made, presumably to help malfoy to kill dumbledore. so did he really have a choice when he killed dumbledore? anyway, on the whole, the book was a bit/a lot of a let down. weak plot, crazy storyline, too many sub plots inside. it's just different from the other harry potter books. but disappointed in it.
2. NUS
i'm officially an undergraduate. now doing bidding for the modules i have to take. it's so inconvenient. why don't they just let us sign up for whatever major we're going to do and be done with it? now i need 5 modules for this semester and i only managed to secure 3 cos people have outbid me in the other 2. fyi, i'm doing linear algebra 1 (mathematics), the nature of language (english language), literary appreciation and criticism (english literature). these 3 are confirmed. so now have to bid for general education modules (GEMs). hope i get them so i can just concentrate on the modules now and stop worrying about whether or not i can fulfil the requirements. fyi, the gems i signed up for, genes and society (i can finally fulfil my dream of doing genetics), introduction to cultural studies. the GEM results only come out tonight, so fingers crossed till then. what i don't like about the cors bidding is that it's kinda confusing. i still haven't gotten the hang of it. i know it's supposed to ensure that we get maximum exposure and a good all rounded education and all. but is it really necessary? i mean, it's fine and good that we can get exposure, i can do my genetics. sigh. i just don't like to have to bid to get the modules. it's not even confirmed that we'll get what we bidded for. and if we don't get it, then what? poh lin doesn't know how lucky she is that she is already majoring in econs and doesn't have to bid for it. and did i mention, for most of my modules, i'm all alone. the rest of them are not taking the same modules as me. sigh.
i've been going down to nus everyday now. taking a look around the place, putting orders for notebook. it's an ok place. quite run down actually. it looks old. i don't know what the tutorial rooms look like tho. but the outside of the buildings... i'm comparing with ntu and smu. nus is definately the most run down. ideal place to lose weight though. yesterday i was jalaning around the science fac cos i wanted to see where my maths n genes lectures would be. and i got lost. i ended up walking all the way from LT 32 to LT 25. in other words, practically one end of the science fac to the other. sc fac is actually quite an interesting place. passed by the research labs and all. cool. arts fac, well, nothing to say lah. so much construction/renovation work going on there. and it's at the other end of the nus campus. thank god i don't have any lecture as yet that i have to rush from the sc fac to the arts fac within the hour. even with the shuttle bus, i'd probably die.
and now i'm getting scolding from mother just because i can't access the cors system. fuck lah. it's not my fault. it's 3pm. the bidding's closed already. it's not MY fault what. blame the system. and even if i manage to get in, there's nothing i can do cos i can't see the bids anymore. to me, my bids are perfectly fine. there's nothing there to monitor. can't get then too bad lah. what's there to over react about?! scold me for nothing. it's not my freaking problem that the system is crashing. and it's not as if i haven't even started bidding. i was already one of the first to start my gem bids. wish she'd get off my back. leave me alone. quit blaming me for something that i can't control. fuck. so angry.
latest 9pm update: i got the 2 gems. yay? at least i got all 5 mods now.
3. Jukebox tour
reading the clay board. there's the new tour on. sounds really interesting. wish i could attend. but i have to content myself with watching videos. interesting videos i saw, clay trying to do 'livin la vida loca'. *rolls eyes* it was hilarious. ricky martin songs require dancing. he was just standing there, posing with the mic. it was weirder than william hung. the vocals were great tho but the performance... rofl. it was bizarre. clay did elvis songs too. he did 'love me tender' with the piano. oh god! got so excited when i saw him playing the piano and singing love me tender. gosh. and to think that he actually dropped piano lessons after a couple of months as a kid. no i am not suddenly inspired to take up piano lessons again. (sadly). heard also about this thing called cellcerts. from what i gather, someone at the concert will call someone not at the concert, and so they listen through the phone. cool! i also heard that the JBT, they have this technology thing where the audience can send sms and beam it up on to a screen on stage. woah. don't i wish i was in america now. there's some new songs he's singing also. apparently he's testing them for the new cd. can't wait for it to come out.
4. Festival of praise
i wanna go for the upcoming FOP. but i don't know if i can. mother may not let me out of the house. reason1: it's a christian thing. reason2: it's at night where all the evil mosquitoes are roaming. *rolls eyes* sigh. how? i've been looking forward to this since i went last year. i'm supposed to go with that theo. but she hasn't gotten back to me yet. cla's encouraging me to bring sumi and poh lin. sorta evangelising them thing. whatever. if i bring them, it's to let them enjoy the music and the atmospheare, not to evangelise. jac's not going apparently. why??!! miss her. don't know about feng cai. theo's supposed to arrange. i think in the end, i'll go with LC. or maybe with sumi, duan hui. hopefully can grab poh lin but i doubt she wants to come down all the way from ntu. but then, i don't even know if i'll be allowed out of the house on saturday night to go. sigh. hope lah and see how lor.
5. President's star charity
watched it the other day. not bad can get 3 million. it means a lot that singaporeans are still willing to donate despite the nkf scandal. me donated $5. cos i wanna support scas. i know i don't have much experience with the place. but i think it's worth it. used to see those kids going to and from school and using the mj track. they're normal kids, just bogged down with cerebral palsy or whatever. the performances on that night were interesting. the 'dancing queen' number was hilarious. seriously. they reminded me of miss congeniality. those 3 were singing horribly. they should just pose and let abba or ateens sing it. and what the heck were they wearing?! looked like mardi gras. the performance by marion raven and quidam were good. wish i could go and watch quidam live. fei xiang was ok. i didn't like him until he started singing in english. gosh. he's the type that cannot sing chinese lah. it sounded so fake. but the english song...:D the 'men in black' thing at the end had me lol again. it started out ok. but later on, the dance steps got weirder and weirder. to me. so start admiring their nice black suits. hmm...the andrea de cruz and zoe tay thing was all right. zoe's singing was so cheena but it was brave of her to do that. bit cheesy tho.
6. in memory
mr quah died one year ago, 2 august. saw his obit in the paper. feels weird thinking that it's been one year. so fast. hope he's at peace, playing tennis with the angels.
right. all for now. going to go and cross my fingers over the stupid bidding.
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