finals are finally over!

yay for the end of finals! can sing 解脱 now hahaha...

my math final was horrible T.T i hope i did ok enough to still get an A in the class...i got back my astro final though, i did super well so i'm like stunned. i didn't do that great on midterm 1, like the average was super high but my score was only around average T.T, then i did better on midterm 2, almost fullmarks (because of bonus question, it adds a lot like 4 marks if you get it right), then this time i got more than full marks! (because of bonus question again lol, it added 6 marks).

i'm super surprised, considering the exams only got harder, like midterm 2 was harder than midterm 1, then final was the hardest, but oddly i got higher and higher scores. oh well. i'm glad though. i liked that class, it would be a pity to mar any happy memories of it with an ugly grade T.T

as for physics...either A- or A hopefully. as for com lit and lgbt, i wonder...i'm hoping for lenient marking of my papers...i am really bad at writing papers. but at least i'm done with papers for the rest of my college life! woohoo!

all right, time to pack my notes and everything, and i'll be flying off to east coast for vacation in two days! hee.

music

anyway, it's my finals in like two days but i'm still stuck on youtube watching random music videos lol. i finally found out why people loved listening to english songs and all that. their voices are really good. however, their styles...too sexy, too trashy or too rocker/punk, but their voices are still really good. i can't imagine why they have to show off cleavage and dress skimpily in their mvs or even in their everyday lives...what a ploy to attract male buy-in. tsk tsk.

hmm so i guess that's the difference between asian singers and western singers. i guess i still prefer asian music, 比较单纯. i'll still add in some of the nicer english songs into my playlist though haha.

over a month ago i found out hebe has a new album, but i don't quite like most of the songs, not really my type of music. however, her one song 还是要幸福 made up for all of that! i was so amazed by the song, the lyrics are so touching and the music so 催泪...i guess it's the perfect song to sing when people break up >.>

田馥甄 - 还是要幸福

不确定就别亲吻
感情很容易毁了一个人
一个人若不够狠
爱淡了不离不弃多残忍

你留下来的垃圾
我一天一天总会丢完的
我甚至真心真意的祝福
永恒在你的身上先发生

你还是要幸福
你千万不要在招惹别人哭
所有错误从我这里落幕
别跟着我 铭心 刻骨

你还是要幸福
我才能确定我还得很清楚
确定自己再也不会占据你的篇幅
明天 开始 这一切都结束

还我钥匙的备份
我觉得再见可以很单纯
我甚至真心真意的祝福
永恒在你的身上先发生

你还是要幸福
你千万不要在招惹别人哭
所有错误从我这里落幕
别跟着我 铭心 刻骨

你还是要幸福
我才能确定我还得很清楚
确定自己再也不会占据你的篇幅
明天 开始 这一切都结束

你还是要幸福
你千万不要在招惹别人哭
所有错误从我这里落幕
别跟着我 铭心 刻骨

你如果很幸福
半夜的简讯我就不需回复
因为你的悲喜已经有了 容身之处
我也 能有
最纯粹的孤独 最孤独 的 孤独

good mood!

yay i finaled in a case competition (first final!) and i placed 3rd! isn't that amazing? and i didn't even put in half as much time/effort as i did last time...it was mostly the other two's hard work and ideas. i think ideas make a whole lot of difference between placing and not placing. also, i gained myself 250/3 = $83.33! not bad not bad haha.
Also, i got full marks for my 2nd keyword paper! that's amazingly crazy, because i suck at writing papers, but today is a good day after all. It started out horrible, but now it's great and i'm happy.
almost time for finals. almost time for iabc deliverable. last push/chionging and i'll be done! ^^

eventful week

This was a really eventful week.
I had 3 midterms in a 4-day week, and on the first day of my midterm, my laptop died. like right when i was going to study on my laptop for the midterm, i couldn't access all the materials in my com. T.T
then for the next two days i wasted quite a lot of time figuring out how to access all my online studying materials, troubleshoot the com, sending it for repair and all. in the end i just bought a new macbook pro yesterday, so here i am blogging.
Then we rented a zip car to drive to daly city on veteran's day, which is about 40 min away by car. we had a great buffet dinner, and i drove on the us highway proper for the first time! (the previous time was by accident so not counted lol)
then we went to target for grocery shopping and stuff, but when we're leaving, the zip car died. like engine couldn't start, cannot turn steering wheel, and the car just kept reversing out of the lot. in the end i parked the car, but it was stuck half-inside half-outside the lot, and imagine how scary that is, bcos cars can drive by and crash into our car! it was rainy and darkening some more!
luckily, our car was bright red so it was fine, and we're in the parking lot so cars drive slowly anyway. sigh. in the end we had to wait over 2 hours for the zip car roadside crew to come. they promised 30min to 60min wait, but the original crew truck broke down, so they had to call another repair company to come, so we ended up waiting miserably in the car. even though we're at emeryville, the shopping area, it was raining heavily and we couldn't lock the car, so we just decided to wait in the car T.T
in the end we spent quite an interesting time on the car lol.
yeah so here concludes my miserable week. i think my hands are accursed this week - whatever i touch seems to breakdown. first the laptop, then the car. T.T what was supposed to be a celebration/fun-filled weekend turned out to be a lot of time wasted :/

daylight savings and brownies

yay i'll be gaining one hour of time tomorrow! i'm not going to use it for sleep, but for studying for my midterms! ^^

November 6 is officially the greatest day of the year because as Daylight Saving Time ends, we actually gain an hour -- and who doesn't need more time?

luckily my roommate told me about it, if not i would have gone for everything an hour earlier than i needed to T.T

recently i find that i like baking and cooking quite a lot; mainly bcos i love eating xD it's great to make stuff i like to eat. also, baking/cooking doesn't require as much brainpower, and is a form of relaxation/recreation/enjoyment/fun for me. maybe even exercise, when i'm trying to mix a lot of stuff together, i exert more energy than i'll ever do sitting in front of a computer xD

most of all, i love the end-products! i baked some cookies last week, and then this week i wasn't planning to bake, but bcos my friend's birthday was coming up, i decided to bake for her birthday...

ghiradelli double chocolate brownies + random nuts i added + some secret ingredients i added xD

they taste great! hopefully she'll like it ^^

when someone gives up his seat for you

you know you're old when someone volunteers to give up his seat for you on the bus. haha nah the guy was giving it up to me only because i was carrying a lot of stuff, but no i didn't take it. he was way older than me and i didn't really need the seat, and now i remember NEVER to take 176 during peak hours. it's so hard to get on and i waited like 15 min for it T.T should have just taken the mrt and another bus bleh.

back in singapore for the summer. i have 3 main goals: learn swimming, practise driving and cooking. also, i have to look for sponsorships as the treasurer for smsa, and look for clients as director of consulting for iabc. furthermore, i have a lot of books i want to read, including the new jodi picoult book, the ender game series, case in point and the mckinsey book on team strategy. and i plan to watch a whole lot of drama including chuck, big bang theory, gossip girl, rainie's new show, some japanese dramas and anime.

and of course i have to catch up with all my friends and also incoming berkeley freshmen! haha seems like my summer is pretty packed already.
lastly, i want to spend more time with my family! so glad to take a break finally from all that studying xD

p.s. did you know hannah montana used video clips of berkeley campus as "stanford university"? how could they cheat young teenage kids like that! they'll be so disappointed to find out that stanford doesn't actually look like that!

the day (night) it kinda snowed in berkeley

It was the Friday night right before spring break in Berkeley . Most students have gone home for spring break, and they didn't know what they were missing out on.

It was pouring cats and dogs, and sometime during the night, it turned into a thunderstorm coupled with hail. Now while this was rare in Berkeley, it had happened before. A few hours later, we found out there was white stuff lining the grass and paths, ie. it was kinda snowing sometime during all that rain!!

Interestingly, this is supposed to be spring, but it's raining and is really cold, and it's more like winter weather than spring. why is it the seasons are always late in berkeley???

Snow lining the grass at my dorm.

Actually, the "snow" was more like "chunks of ice that came from hail", but still, it kinda looks like snow.

p.s. If you want to see more "snow" photos, go to my facebook page and look for the photo album with the same title as this blog post ^^

interesting videos

after going for the bcssa 春晚　cny celebrations concert, i discovered that berkeley has many talented ppl. first, there was a pretty good/sexy dance by the girls (i especially liked the girl-guy solo dance): right click, open new window here to watch

then there was the guys' very interesting dance (quite funny the way they're all dressed up in suit, tie and even sunshades, and they do stupid things! xD) right click, open new window here to watch

finally, my friend showed me last year's performance by the previous batch of guys, which i must admit, is really superb. they must have practised a wholeee lot! must watch this!! again, right click, open new window here to watch!

happy valentine's day/chinese new year!