Haha. Thank goodness for such silly little things in life. I'm all cheered up.

Recently, life has been a blur of project meetings, deadlines, assignments and lessons.

Today, however, was just a little bit different. My friends and I attended a radio forum conducted by 938 Live (formerly known as Newsradio 93.8). They were hosting this show called Campus on Radio and they go to a different school every month to hold discussions about topics like "How do youths deal with failure?" (which was today's topic).

It was a rather fruitful discussion which opened my mind up to the many different views my schoolmates had. Throughout the whole forum, I kept thinking of possible things I could say because I thought that should be the whole point of coming to a forum: to express my views. However, as most of you might know by now, I am not an opiniated person and I don't usually air my views.

But all was not lost as I realised halfway throughout the show that I shouldn't be so preoccupied with not speaking up because as long as I learn something from the forum, isn't it enough?

I am such a deep person. =p

After an hour of intellectual discussion, it was back to mediocrity.

JY and I went up to the computer labs to face the data set for our MMR project. All we got was pek cek-ness as we discovered that printing out all the frequency tables would mean killing enough trees to make 66 pages. Remind me to donate to Green Peace when I have the money after I commit this grave sin. I think I should also punish myself by hugging 100 trees before I do so. Oops. Time to find an alternative to printing out the tables.

Being "green" people (and also people with insufficient money in their accounts to print so many pages. I still resent the fact that we have to pay for petty miscellaneous things like printing and photocopying when our school fees are so high. Until the next dialogue session.), we kept trying to reduce the number of pages but to no avail.

And so we decided to give up and go for Law lecture, where we encountered a microphone shortage. The lecturer standing in for Miss Peter was not given a mic (either that or the mic spoilt or something). SIGH. I shan't say more about how pleasant the lecture was as a result.

Soon, it was time for Astro-Navigation. We had been told last week that we would be getting a different lecturer this week. I'd expected an old and fat guy cos his name was Captain Ali and aren't all captains supposed to fit into that category?

Life is full of surprises, like I always say. Ta daa! The guy turned out to be relatively young-looking and slim. I was mesmerised by his whiter-than-thou teeth. Shut up, Grace. Stop sniggering at your iBook. His funny indian-and-something-else accent was quite funny, too. It was quite hard to understand what he was trying to say. Moreover, the lectures today seemed to involve a lot of geometry and calculations and whatnot (yuck.). So I stared at his teeth instead and tried to decipher what he was trying to teach. And he used to teach Understanding Weather! (winks at classmates who are taking that module) Heeheehee.

Ah. Then it was ConB lecture. The lecturer took 1 hr plus to cover a 3-page lecture. Need I say more? I mean, it's nice that he tries to explain the best he can la. But at some point he has to stop elaborating, no? Ok la it's so easy to criticise. I shall stop.

Then it was back to frowning at the data again, and trying to print it. We took more than an hour just to try and print the darn frequency tables. First, we tried to export the data into a Word document. We got a lot of pages full of empty tables. Then, we tried to export into Excel format. It came up to 1000+ pages. We gave up and tried to print from SPSS (the software that helps process data). Paper jam. Bah. In the end we just printed out a third of the 66 pages of frequency tables.

Not a very good day, all in all. But at least I woke up in a super good mood, which lasted for the greater part of the day. It must be a sleep-deprivation thing.

Which reminds me. I'd better go sleep soon. My eyes have become slits.

Once again, I'm shocked at how things can change in an instant. Just 45 mins ago, i was thinking about blogging about the 10-minute walk downstairs with my mum to look at the moon for my astro-navigation project. Bonding.

I was thinking about going to sleep at 11 pm sharp. Then I extended it to 11.15 pm.

And now. I'm thinking about totally different things. And my bedtime? Forget about it. I don't think I'll be sleeping anytime soon. Dammit.

Gah. I hope he'll be okay. I hope my parents can restrain themselves for long enough to let him explain. I hope...I hope. Will this be his wake-up call?

Whatever it is. He's still my brother. And I still love him. And as his sister I must bring him through this. Make sure he learns his lesson. Right. Yes. That's that, then. Good night, world. I hope you all have a better time than me. I shall go out to the living room now and have an intellectual conversation with my parents and try to help with my 2 cents' worth.

Yay. OM presentation went quite smoothly today, in my opinion. Despite our chronic lack of rehearsals. And Mrs Kee even said "Very good" a few times after our presentation (she did the same for the other grps, but still! Let's look on the bright side shall we.). =) I really feel thankful to my lucky stars for helping us pull it off.

Special thanks to Flora, who managed to drag the severely underrun presentation from ard 13 minutes (max) to approx. 16 minutes with her filled-with-angst comments. =D And also to Timo, who, as usual, never ceases to amaze by managing to find the Prime Time Morning (or something similar to it, anyway) music and starting and ending sequences. And to Sabby and Sonia, too, of course. Sabby makes a wonderful interviewee. She speaks well and with the right kind of...ah...charisma. And Sonia! Best encourager there ever was (I admit defeat =p)!

And of course, not forgetting the rest of the class, who laughed at our silly footage of me running after Timo for a scoop (I was acting as a reporter). If not for their laughing-at-the-right-times and enthusiastic clapping, I don't think I would have pulled off the entire Primetime Morning skit without dying of embarrassment (I was the host). =D

Ok I've become so boring that all I talk about is the day's happenings. I must try to blog about more interesting things soon. Stay tuned, my loyal readers.

Hmm. Yes, people, I am still very much alive. Sorry, I've been so caught up with projects and everything that I really have no time to update even when I am in my "blogging mood".

I'm wondering what I should update about, though.

Oh well. One can never go wrong with the ol' my-day approach. So here goes.

Sarah, JY and I helped out at an event today. It was a Meet the Media forum organised by the Media Development Authority. There was a talk by 4 panelists, including the ex-chairman of Mediaworks and a director from Mega Media called Jonathan Foo. We only managed to catch the speeches of the abovementioned 2 people 'cos we had to go get ready for our helping-out part after that. Their speeches were quite interesting. I do believe I've learnt quite a few things by listening to these two successful men.

So we went to the DMS, where we met Mr. Loh who briefed us on what we had to do. It was quit e simple. Just give the guests (which included secondary school students, members of the public, media students from the other polys and ITEs, and lecturers from other polys and ITEs) a tour of the DMS. A very short one, just 5 minutes. So we said "WELCOME TO THE DIGITAL MEDIA STUDIO!"enthusiastically, showed them in and brought them to the shooting floor to tell them more about our course, our specialist diploma and show off our equipment a bit, especially our new Sony High-Definition camera with tracks.

The moderator for the event was quite disorganised, and the groups arrived either one after the other or in between very long breaks. The talk stretched well over the time it was supposed to end, so the three of us plus Loh Loh had to stay back until 6 plus to finish being tour guides when we were originally supposed to end at 5 pm.

But all in all, it was a pretty interesting and fun experience, and we had nice chats with Loh Loh while waiting for the groups to arrive. =) And we had fun watching all those new videos that the specialist dip people and the yr 3s made for the Livewire competition too. Well done pals! Very intriguing.

I was starving after the whole event was over, having missed my lunch. JY and I wanted to go eat at Pepper Lunch, but I was too hard up (4 bucks!!! I hate it when payday is delayed.) and we ended up eating at a hawker centre in Clementi.

I guess I had an okay day.

Haha. Sorry for disappointing with such a boring update. Soon, I promise. Soon.

On Saturday, BK passed me my very belated birthday present-



a 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle featuring Winnie the Pooh and friends. She specially chose one in which Eeyore didn't look depressed =) .

Thanks so much Bee! Really touched that you took the time to piece the puzzle together and even write such a nice poem on the top right corner of the puzzle!



(By the way, it's a chinese poem which reads:

“一直很喜欢“缘”这个字。

它使这世上所有的事物

在*dunno how to read*之中有了安排。

从插肩而过的路人到

相知相惜的知己，

都散发着一份缘。

我珍惜缘， 也珍惜你~

我永远的知己！”

It's really meaningful. It means: "I've always liked the word 'Fate'. It makes everything in this world seem predestined. People who pass each other by on the streets, friends who grow to love and cherish one another...Fate seems to have a hand in all of it. I cherish Fate and I cherish you-my forever friend.)

I walk towards the bus stop.

I sit down, fully prepared for the usual long wait.

The bus arrives.

My seat is barely even hot.

I board.

I know that the bus will take me home faster tonight.

Faster than usual.

Because tonight I do not want to be home early.

An empty house awaits.

I know I am Fate's favourite toy.

I am all too familiar with the rules of the game.

I am right.

The bus drops me off at my doorstep.

10 minutes faster than usual.

I alight.

I sigh.

I walk.

I lift my head.

The sky is covered with clouds.

It will rain soon.

Even the moon and stars refuse my company tonight.

Dejectedly, I look up at my block of flats.

My house windows are lighted!

I race upstairs.

Everett is home with a friend.

I thank my lucky [and also invisible] stars.

I could hug him for chasing away my loneliness.

Saving me from facing an empty house.

Playtime's over for Fate, it seems.

For now.

Thank goodness for Life's little surprises.