ting:

exhausted. all these work never seems to end.

adel wants me to practise my marketing skills and promote this blog for her... in summary, a couple of her friends decided to expose the sex predators prowling around for easy prey on mirc. i didn't know people still use mirc. went there for a peek and it raised my eyebrows. very... educational? heh. not for the overly-naive though.

http://www.yourguysxxxposed.blogspot.com

singaporean males are a sad bunch. *shakes head*

in other news, we are planning a trip to the grampians, from the 26 sept to the 30th. if you can make it and are interested, just give a holler ya? i can't possibly go around asking everyone whom i think might be interested. in case you're wondering, yours truly here is the head organiser. gave myself that honour mainly because i don't trust the guys one bit. sorry folks, but that's the way it is. :)

Hui:

edited my resume and cover letter yesterday. sent out to a few companies. e sad thing is, e reception is bad in my office area. received a voicemail from some company due to no reception. called to listen to my voicemail but i dun have e pin. LOL.. sian half half, think i gonna eat grass in another 2.5 weeks' time le. my hp's so lonely today. no one sms or called. hmm, ok la, got forward sms. sent to me by Huijie wishing goodnight at 1.19pm. proster.

comex exhibition gonna be back again. reminds me of e exhibition last yr, tt was how i managed to see zizhe gfor e first time. i will be going down, though its gonna be damn packed like all the other IT exhibitions held in suntec any other time. e main purpose of wanting to go down is to see if they have e sony ericsson phone tt i wan? anyway if not can take a look at D-cams also.. and other gadgets. but who should i go with? maybe alex di? can help me to open up e pathway. haha =X but hor, he's such a road idiot. he'll not noe where he'll be heading. -_-

toking abt alex di, he told me that Qi Li Xiang by Jay.. e title name actually means chicken backside, 7 in a row. i was like freaking shock! i doubt his words, until i confirmed tt with gladys. OMG.. its true!! i think i'm e sua ku one here lor, nv watch variety shows or this kinda one. haha.. sian diao, spoilt e song leh. i mean.. i wouldn't link tt song with chicken backside lor! ahh... now i'll be thinking of tt whenever i listen to tt song. ahhh.. nooooo~~

guess wad am i doing from 9+ will now? chatting. with who? one of which is kelen. haha.. seldom can chat with him for so long wor. somemore is he msg me e moment he online. asked him abt his nick, from there e conversation syarts. he says he's getting "retro". but i noe wad he means.. he's jus getting nostalgic.

din have a good sleep last night. went to bed at abt 1145pm, woke up at 8am. sounds ok? wait till i finish wad i wanna say. i woke up abt 4 to 5 times. so abt every interval of 1.5hours i will wake up. sianz. hope i can sleep well tonight.

ting:

it's funny how bad days aren't the result of something majorly bad, but more of numerous trivial issues which cause your mood to drop a couple of notches. combine that with the stress of an assignment still pending and hey pesto! you get a very explosive me. half of me wants to switch off my phone so no poor unsuspecting caller will get his or her ears blasted off but at the same time, i don't want my parents to freak out if they can't contact me.

it's a good thing i'm living alone. i can stomp around, throw things and sulk without needing to explain precisely why i'm so down in the dumps. i think there was one point during macro tutorial where my tone was particularly harsh. but seriously. i'm the only person at my table who does my tute work.. so what? i don't do it to impress my tutor, i doubt i'm doing it because i'm hardworking, i do it because i genuinely love macroeconomics. so get off my case already! every week i see you people, you have to make a huge fuss about the fact that i did my work and you didn't. i mean, the people at my table are great, they're nice people and i love talking to them. but to have this every week?

and it gets on my nerves when firstly, you expect me to provide you with all the answers to whatever you don't know and secondly, you insist that i drop everything to explain something you don't understand to you there and then. i'm not trying to be selfish here, i don't mind explaining and clarifying your doubts but hello? please bear in mind that i'm a student too and i need time to at least straighten my thoughts. let me just finish what i'm doing to see if i can get to the end without getting stuck before i turn my attention to you and help you! you keep insisting i help you along when i'm in the middle of doing something and if i get stuck eventually, everyone gets stuck. what's the point? and when you don't understand something, you keep bugging me about it till i turn my attention to you. can't you see i'm trying to concentrate here? and it's not my bloody fault you decided to skip last week's tute or ignore the lecturer during class or disregard what the tutor was saying. and DON'T demand i explain something to you WHEN the tutor is saying something! you make me lose my train of thought and miss what she is saying and seriously, that is what irritates the hell out of me more than anything.

arggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! being anti-social is good sometimes. sit in class, concentrate and ignore everyone else. i miss that.

while doing grocery shopping in safeway, i stumbled upon sara lee pound cake. the sight of it made me incredibly homesick and i wanted to just break down and cry. i was reminded of how adel would use it to cure whatever hitch there was in my life, listen to me whine and generally, make me feel tons better. adel!! i miss you sooo much! seeing i can't go back now, come over! :(

feeling so tired. was analysing why this sem seemed so much heavier than the last and suba and i realised that it was because we have a lot more assignments with lesser weightage. which is good in some sense, it keeps you on your toes and if you screw up one, it's not the end of the world. but at the same time, it's just too much. i sense myself hovering above burned out point and it's scary, because i still have so much to do. so i'm trying to keep going, to keep pushing on. but it's so tiring.

think i'll go have a good cry or a good screaming competition, let out some steam before starting to tackle the major headache which is due tomorrow at 9am.

ting:

feeling increasingly frustrated as time goes by. i have absolutely no idea how the hell i should approach my global assignment. and desperate times call for desperate measures.. came online in hopes of finding someone who could help. changed my nick to something along the lines of "if you can help me with my assignment, please message me!". but all those who messaged couldn't help. :( arghhh is my assignment that tough?? then again, i guess that is why i'm still awake at this hour, trying feverishly to make my brain work isn't it?

arthur messaged me and said he was capable of helping. i was pretty sceptical.. turned out i was right. that guy thought free trade agreements were made due to poor countries not having money to purchase imports and hence, had to make such agreements so they could get their hands on items they needed! -_- that is an engineering student for you. but he did assure me we were in the same boat and that melb uni isn't the only university to have gone bonkers and heap so much work on us.

australia is laid back? think twice.

ting:

for dear darling adel.......

happy birthday to yoooooooooooooooou
happy birthday to yoooooooooooooooou
happy birthday dear ADELLLLLLLLLLLLL
happy birthday toooooooo...... *drum rolls* YOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUU!!!!

adel babe! was so glad i managed to stay awake to wish you last night. how's your day been? hope it's good, with tons of celebration and wellwishes. i may not be there but fret not... i guess pei and the rest are giving you a royal celebration? *stares at pei* heh.. we'll make up for it all during our pre-christmas chalet yeah? have a gigantic cake to make up for all the birthdays we missed!

here's wishing you eternal health, beauty and charm.. may our good Lord keep you close by His side. stay safe and cheerful always! i never knew it was humanely possible to miss someone the way i miss you. to those who says love can't survive the distance, i'm telling you now you are dead wrong. i still love all those back home like crazy! love you babe and once again, HAVE A DELIGHTFUL 20TH BIRTHDAY!!!

arggghhh! we're all growing old! :(

ting:

just came back from church service and whoa! daniel brought me to this new church in richmond. it's pretty far from where i stay (takes 3 trams to get there and i have to wake up at 7.30am just to make the 10am service!) but it's all worth it. to put it mildly, the service was beyond brilliant! i loved every single part of it! the worship was so incredibly awesome, they had a band, lead singers and even a choir! the atmosphere was so uplifting you felt as though you could take off and fly. and the sermon is delivered in a funny, engaging way as well so you don't feel your eyelids growing heavy and slowly nod off to sleep. i love our pastor.. he has a wicked sense of humour and you can literally feel the energy radiating from him. gosh, i can't even begin to tell you how great the experience was. can't wait for next sunday so i can go back again!

today's sermon was on relationships, or more specifically, friendships. our pastor couldn't emphasise enough the importance of friendships.. friends are there to pick you up when you fall and the saddest thing in life is having no friends (thinking of someone here. sigh). he was telling us that, in order to build up a friendship, you have to learn to be friendly and take the initiative. people often refuse to venture out of their comfort zone because of the fear of the unknown. but if you really make an effort, people can surprise you. for all you know, under that cold exterior is a very warm heart.

it's funny how in our daily lives, we get caught up in the tide and start hankering after things which are of no significant importance. thank God for church, which gently leads us back to where God wants us to be and helps us remember what really matters in life.

perhaps it's partly because of his sermon today, perhaps partly because the church has really warm friendly people, perhaps also because everyone was so generous (like A introduces me to B, B introduces me to this huge group of people, and while talking to one of them called C, another person happens along and i get introduced to him/her), i made a whole lot of friends today (though i forgotten half their names already. whoops!)! never quite knew meeting new people would be this exhilarating, especially since these people don't all come from melb uni, don't all do commerce, aren't all studying. it makes life all the more interesting.

i think the number of malaysian friends i have outnumber my singaporean friends already. guess it's because they all group together, and when i get introduced to them, i somehow get drawn into their group as well. ahhhh free accommodation if i ever go to malaysia for a holiday! haha.. but they're really good people so i'm more than overjoyed.

going for cell group on wednesday night. the best part? the venue is just opposite college square! how good can life get right? :D

God answers prayers in His own time. in week 2 of this sem, for some weird reason, i started missing my church back in singapore and all the times i had with the youth group. i don't want to just go to church and go back immediately after the 2 hour service. i want to hang out, to mingle, to have that sense of purpose. i want that sense of belonging, that affilation. so i prayed about it. and a month later, i found the place to be in.

absolutely brilliant! sundays are gonna be a blast from now on.

pretty warm today.. guess it's the first sign that spring is approaching rapidly. i promise photos... once the trees stop looking dead at least.

yay! feeling overjoyed! :)

Hui:

its weekend today. i'm at home. y am i at home?! nowhere to go, no one to go out with, din ask ppl to go out, no desired dates from desired ppl. that explains e reason.

woke up at abt half past noon, had lunch, slacked around in e house, played amd tk crap with my sister. dun ask me play what.. jus some "wrestling" on e bed, tickling each other. then came online, chat, played games until now. in jus another few hours, sat gonna end. how time flies huh?

thinking if i should ask ppl for supper later. i'm really not used to staying at home doing nothing on a weekend. but then, who to ask for supper? where to go? such a pain in e head. haiz..

maybe i should sleep AGAIN. clear my dark eye rings!

ting:

was doing my macro readings when i came across something pretty interesting. doing a topic on money, interest rates and monetary policy, and there's this bit in my textbook which talks about "private money". when the law allows for it, private money sometimes emerge. one high-tech example would be LETS, a form of private money associated with computerised trading systems, popular in australia, new zealand and the united kingdom. when transactions are made, "credits" are added or subtracted from the seller/buyer's account. how cool is that? makes me wonder if that would be the future form of money, though i think it's a little sad working for something intangible.

i FINALLY got a reply from the melb uni course advisors! ok, i suspect it is my fault here, because i didn't realise that, unlike my yahoo email account, the latest emails for my melb uni account would appear at the bottom of the page. it seems like there aren't any "majors" in melb uni, there are however "specialisations". and you are considered to have specialised in an area if you complete three or four core subjects in that area. wheee! this is brilliant, i can do all those i want to specialise in! (which is marketing, management and economics. greedy? not quite.. it's just that i love everything and can't make a choice between any of them!) oh... i got quite freaked out when i also realised none of my specialisations would appear on my degree, only the list of subjects in my academic transcript. how sad is that? all these money.. and they don't give me a proper degree? hmph!

realise my entries of late sound very "geeky". it's all about work, work and more work. well, i can't help it, seeing i don't have much of a life to blog about this sem. i swear my professors thought we had it too easy last sem and are all determined to kill us! either that or they are just evil clones of the profs from last sem. sigh. originally planned to go to some animal shelter thing today to check out their voluntary work service. was lying in bed this morning thinking about the opportunity cost of that and decided very reluctantly that global would take precedence over anything else right now, especially seeing i didn't do fantastically well for assignment one, so i gotta make up for it in assignment 2, due on wed. sigh. suba, mag and elaine had better fill me in on ALL the details when they get back later!

guess i ought to scoot off, have 27 pages of macro readings to do plus 158 pages of global readings to plough through before the day is over. why the hell do i ALWAYS choose subjects with the most ridiculous amount of readings? i love global, it rocks... but 158 pages? you gotta be kidding me!

Hui:

its nearing 130am. heavy eyelids.. but i dun feel like sleeping. dunno y. sometimes i jus feel like tt. could be cos i need not wake up early later. haiz, this explains my dark eye rings..

went taka after work with Mei jus now.. in hope of finding "a iRiver stand somewhere near e escalator at B1" --> as quoted by e person who told her when she called to ask abt e cable. -_- lousy description. there wasn't and stand!

tried to do some shopping at taka but to no avail. like dun have nice clothes leh.. remembered to go FarEast (as advised by gladys) to get my button-like earrings. finally found it in one of e shops near e back alley. cheemelogy.. it has been ages since i last went/shop there. tt shop pro lor, got a lot of different kinds, dunno which one to buy. in e end i bought 2 pairs, one black + white one and e other's like copper metal tt kind.

went around fareast to see if there are any nice accessories or clothes.. but dun have leh.. saw a belt tt i quite fancy on but e belth was too big for my jeans.. went to look at shoes but all CMI. tried on 2 tops.. one of which is too big for me, and e other one looks fine on me, but i think i cant take tt shade of green. e green is like.. hmm.. leafy green? and besides i've tried another one b4 and its nicer. so din get any clothes in e end. whereas for mei, she bought a top and a skirt! not bad not bad. i think she she look nice in wad she bought. =D either way, finally get to eat something at 10pm and then took a ride home from mei's sis' car. wahaha.. saved transport $ and time!

dunno wad to do when i wake up later. sooo sian. bad + sad news for me, i have 2 pimples on my left cheek. very sux ah. so painful. and ugly. sadded.

raa, gotta edit my resume and cover letter soon. gotta start look for jobs already. contract ending in less than 3 weeks' time. wish me luck!!

ting:

the one day i decide to lug my laptop all the way to uni to make use of the wireless network, the network had to be down. am i just cursed or what? in the end, had to use my school's computer to download all my audio streams and assignment research, save it onto a pen drive, then transfer all the files to my laptop. talk about tideous. and my laptop is way heavier than i remembered! ouch! well, good news is, i saved a whole lot of bytes for my internet account. you'll never believe the amount of research there is for global! i doubt i can get through half of it. sigh...

stupid DBS! can someone please tell me again why it is the largest (and supposedly, the best) bank in singapore? everytime i use the credit card, it finds various ways to screw up on me. tried paying my tuition fees via visa and the payment kept getting declined! ^&$(*)*&&$%$%^&(*)()_+)_) this isn't the first time! and i know for a fact there is no way i'm over the limit, because i got my dad to clear his credit card balance the day before. sigh. in the end, i paid half of it and gotta return to school on tuesday to make the balance of the payment. stupid DBS. don't tell me they impose a lower limit on sub cards so as to ensure kids don't waste their parents' money!

went to safeway to get groceries and they were having sale for a whole lot of stuff! the day when i'm carrying a freaking heavy laptop in a backpack. brilliant. baked beans was one of the items on sale and seeing it has become part of my staple diet, i simply HAD to stock up! so with the combined weight of a laptop and several cans of baked beans plus a whole lot of other stuff, i was moving like an old grandmother. jo ann refused to help me carry everything back to my apartment, the lousy girl! and suba was too weighed down with groceries herself. sigh... i feel stiff already. i need anything which has wheels on it. the next time i weigh myself, i better find out that my weight has plummeted all the way down to 50kg!

stupid DBS.

Hui:

omg, am in such musical mode. keep listening to songs. but winamp playing all sad songs. o_O

maybe 2 of e saddest phrases are "almost" and "it could have been"

listening to clay aiken's songs now. i jus love his voice! far far better than weilian and junyang! haha.. anyway, watched e gals' "version" jus now. they are indeed much better than e guys. wahaha..

off to sleep now.

Hui:

a long by Delta Goodrem and Brian McFadden.. "Almost Here"
nice song, sent to me by jana quite some time ago. jus felt like blogging e lyrics. or i should say pasting e lyrics here. haha
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Brian:
Did I hear you right?
Cause I thought you said
Let's think it over
You have been my life
And I never planned
Growing old without you

Shadows bleeding through the light
Where the love once shined so bright
Came without a reason
Don't let go on us tonight
Love's not always black and white
Haven't I always loved you?

Delta:
But when I need you
You're almost here
And I know that's not enough
And when I'm with you
I'm close to tears
'cause your only almost here

Brian:
I would change the world
If I had a chance
Oh won't you let me
Treat me like a child
Throw your arms around me
Oh please protect me

Brian & Delta:
Bruise and battered by your words
Days are shattered, how it hurts
Brian:
Oh, haven't I always loved you?

Delta:
But when I need you
You're almost here
And I know that's not enough
And when I'm with you
I'm close to tears
'cause your only almost here

Brian & Delta:
Bruise and battered by your words
Days are shattered, now it hurts
Brian:
Haven't I always loved you?

Delta:
But when I need you
You're almost here
Brian:
Well I never knew how far behind I'd left you
Delta:
And when I hold you
You're almost here
Brian:
Well I'm sorry that I took our love for granted

Brian & Delta:
And now I'm with you
I'm close to tears
Brian:
Cause I know I'm almost here

Brian & Delta:
Only almost here

ting:

how much does life suck?

this is how much...

what's due next week?

global (short for business in the global economy) assignment 2. AGAIN! i was just done with assignment one LAST week! :( AND. law test.

the week after next?

macro assignment one AND global test.

two weeks after that?

macro assignment two (sigh, yeah i know, tell me about it) AND finance assignment two due.

to whatever which vaguely resembles a life? goodbye.

just some random thoughts...

isn't it funny how something so trivial can smoother like a wet blanket?

i love living alone (and the freedom that comes with it) but there are some nights when you just want to know there's someone else besides you in this wide world.

Hui:

suddenly tot of a poem (or whatever u call it) i learnt in primary sch..
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Star light, star bright
First star I see tonight
I wish I may
I wish I might
Have the wish I wish tonight
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This in turn reminds me of a song by Backstreet Boys - If you knew what i knew
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I wish I may
I wish I might
Be that certain someone u wish for everynight
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haha niceeee

Hui:

came back from kboxing at amk with Mei and precious DiDi Alex. had my FIRST duet with a guy! thanks to di. haha.. e first trial was real bad. towards e end, we sang e same duet again. much better this time. well, i was e one who suggested going to ktv.. cos i feel so stressed, wanna shout. i went there, let out a scream. haha.. maybe cos of e reports i have to edit bah. i dunno wad's wrong with me, its jus a simple task and yet i cant do it properly. haiz..

anyway, changed e house phone yesterday. still cannot ring! called singtel jus now. made quite a lot of requests. hmm.. ok la, maybe not a lot. used my hp to call, and was online at e same time. system performed line check and i got dc! that whould not happen lor, cos i have micro filter. and it shouldn't affect. got to speak to e operator, told her abt e problem with my phone. and she said there is a possible fault with my line. (i was thinking MUS be lor, if not it mus be The Maid already). she said she'll log e case (sounds NCS-ish right?), file e report and inform one of their guys to come to my house to check e line. i then told her abt my frequent DC and requested for a chinese-speaking guy to come to check e line.. cos onli my grandparents will be at home and they dunno english! wad if they send a malay or inidian guy? oh no.. tt'll be disastrous. gave her my contact number also.. but dun think they can reach me.. reception so sux.

shit, getting late.. feeling sleepy.. mus go work later.. finish my report.. dateline later.. this time no one can help me le oh. ><

ting:

exhausted. am so glad this week is coming to a close. two assignments and one test in just four days is too much to bear. and the power of procrastination. need i say anything more? even in sleep, i wasn't spared. dreamt of what i ought to write, dreamt of additional data i should analyse. realise i'm sounding like a major geek right now but i can't help it. i have no life this sem, i wonder why. maybe it's because all of us are so busy, so much so no one can squeeze out time to do what we used to do last sem. maybe it's because jennifer is no longer here and seeing she was probably one of those responsible for planning gatherings and exciting events, our social life is going down the drain now there's no one to do the job.

gave up on tuesday night and begged mag to think of some activity for this weekend. if i don't have anything to look forward to, i'll go nuts. i wouldn't have survived the week.

so we decided we would go out on saturday.

the sad part? we didn't even make it to crown, our usual hangout. we went for a movie at nova, which is on the street we're living on. big mistake! i swear i am NEVER gonna watch a movie in nova again. what the hell is wrong with those filmmakers? is arty farty stuff supposed to be THIS sick? we watched mysterious skin, because according to the synopsis, it was about a guy who believed himself to be abducted by aliens, as 5 hours of his life was erased when he was 8. he had nightmares and was plagued by what he did not remember. so ok, a movie about aliens abducting people. kinda cool right? we settled for that.

alien abduction my foot. literally the whole show was about some sick gay stuff. about guys fucking each other. about a sports coach fucking the players under him. and those players were kids! that was why the guy had 5 hours missing from his memory.. it was so traumatising he blocked it out. ughhhhhhhhhh! i was halfway through my choctop (it's an ice cream) when i stared at it, certain another bite would make me throw up. i still feel sick. gosh, i can sue those people for misrepresentation man! alien abduction? no one said it would be this sick!

imagining a guy and a girl making out and engaging in stuff like that is bad enough. but watching two GUYS do it? ok, so they didn't show certain body parts. i didn't need them to. i was feeling sick enough. think i watched enough "porn" to last me a lifetime.

i'm never gonna view guys in the same light again.

on second thoughts, maybe watching skeleton key might have been better. mag wanted to watch skeleton key but the rest of us protested and stood our ground, seeing we were living alone and didn't want our imaginations to run wild. yeah i know. what happened to brave fearless me who could sit through a horror movie and not bat an eyelid? i don't know. maybe i left that part of me back in singapore. but here, i cringe and hide at the slightest bit of scary music. and i didn't want to sit through two hours of horror, come back to an empty apartment and imagine mysterious bumps and shadows floating by. so yeah. sigh. but now, i'm feeling grossed out in a different sort of way.

oh. and something happened to mag last night, which made me resolve never to open the door to whoever who knocks, unless it's someone i know. i don't live with a carol (in other words, a flatmate. not that it would be much use) so there won't be anyone to help me out. plus i don't know judo, so i'm basically incapable of defending myself. in case you're wondering... a girl knocked at mag's door and asked her if she could kiss her. when mag said no, the girl still had the cheek to advance. another sick person in this seemingly disturbed world. but it's mag's story, not mine. so go view her blog for more details.

ugh. feeling sickier by the minute. excuse me while i go puke.

Hui:

buay song buay song buay song buay song buay song buay song buay song buay song buay song buay song buay song buay song buay song buay song buay song buay song buay song!! raaa...!! i need to let out my frustrations. sooo pissed!!

dun tell me wad do to when u dun even noe wad i wan.

but then again, wad do i really want?

raa, need to keep my head cool. i cant think now. too mad liao.

help!

Hui:

my nokia phone is hinting to me to get a new phone. e battery is getting weaker and weaker. damn it. i have to charge it at 9+pm everynight, and it gets low batt at 6+pm e next day. well u see, i'm in e office, e phone is in discreet mode. level one ringtone, no ketpad tones, no vibration. i hardly sms or tok on e phone, cos e reception sux. so tell me how on earth can e battery die on me so easily?! OMGGG, hinting me liao lor. i'm still eyeing on e sony ericsson k750i phone. love at first sight! but its darn ex to buy w/o contract. and i have to buy it w/o contract.. cos no line for me to sign. dun ask me.. super long story. but i did mention in one of my old posts.. i'll declare myself a cow after buying e phone. live on grass. freaking ex~

anywayz, watched e channel U superstar e last 2 nights. first time watching it. why? cos i have nothing to do and since its like e final stage liao, so watch lor. wonder how come my colleagues all like it. and well, after watching, i noe y. firstly, their singing is good (eh, not applicable for e guys. JunYang maybe, but his voice a bit like Lin Jun Jie.. girly de). and e judges' comments are hilarious. hahaha.. i jus find e comments amusing. it seems like they keep saying e same thing over and over again. tt explains my nick. LOL.. and ya, e 2 female contestants were damn good.
both are equally good. i think kelly looks like rachel stevens from S Club. at least a tiny weeny part ya? they both sang a song by Zhang Shao Han - Yi Shi De Mei Hao. after hearing them sing e song, i think Zhang Shao Han singing is CMI. when e single release, i'm going to d.l their version and delete Zhang Shao Han's version from my PC. i'm evil right. but really lor, so CMI. =X enuff of my evilness. =X

dunno y these days kinda keep mentioning "The Maid". some things are jus WEIRD. like e programs we're working on, one moment its fine, and at e other moment its not. -_- mus be e existence of the maid la. had plans to meet jess after her work today.. but lazy lo.. and dunno meet her can do wad also.. drink teh and kopi? she even suggested watching The Maid over msn jus now. i jus felt like laffing. hmm, i did laff actually. lol..

have to wake up earlier tml for badminton session with Shan they all. ehz my earlier is like.. i have to wake up at 10.30am on a weekend!

exactly 4 weeks left b4 my ncs contract ends. started to feel lost liao. dunno what will happen next. a lot of things lar.. grrr.. status will be unemployed. guess i have to start to send out resumes already?

listening to LOTR soundtrack now. sad ah. cos its playing e sad part now.. when frodo leaves. winamp shuffled and played tt track. not my fault.. this reminds me of something.. ah fat haven return me my precious VCDs!! i BET he haven watch. his Jay Chou concert vcd is still here with me. and a book. "Ai, Cuo Zai Na Li?" lol.. surprised? dun ask me, i dunno y he bought tt book. i also dunno how come he lent it to me, but i nv read lor. now, dun think jus cos of my current situation, i borrow e book from him. its not.. e book has been in my house for dunno how many thousands months already.

e list of ppl on my blog seldom update their blog man. whats up? or izzit cos i'm too free?

downs.

see ya!

ting:

i ought to be doing my finance assignment. it's due tomorrow. but instead...

Your Hidden Talent
Here is the analysis:

The Mass Communicator
You have a cheerful personality and you are a naturally kind person. Your hidden talent isn't really that hidden at all: you shine among a crowd. You would make an ideal news announcer, flight attendant or model - any position that would give you an opportunity to deal with plenty of people. A tip for you is to avoid getting too deeply involved in others' personal lives - otherwise you might find yourself constantly being asked for help.

Who is your dream guy?
Here is the analysis:

He is wild and adventurous. His path is often against the world. He does what he wants when he feels like. His type of girl is quite like him, independent and wise. If you love freedom and willing to risk, go for this guy.

How well do you react?
Here is the analysis:

You recover quickly from disappointment. But when you feel that things are going wrong, you will react immediately.

Pick One
Here is the analysis:

Your future friend: You have a big sister confidence and leadership. So you friends are mostly vulnerable and always need your help. You can't resist helping these people and eventually you all will become good friends.
Your travel plan: In the future, you will often take overseas trips especially to modernized countries. You will get to explore Europe and North Asia like you always wanted.
Your future financial status: You are very good at saving and sometimes you are even stingy. The reason you want your teeth to grow longer is because when you can't eat, you can save even more on food. Once your money is deposited in the bank, there's no way that you will withdraw it out just to spend on luxuries.
The last period of your life: You can't stand being a lonely old lady so you will spend the last days of you life being a kind loving grandparent so that the kids will love to have you around.

Whats your favorite mode of travel?
Here is the analysis:

Your inner energy brings you through life. You will achieve your goal in life as long as you take it easy.

What do your friends think of you?
Here is the analysis:

You are popular. Your friends feel at ease when they are around you. You are cheerful and lovely. It's not surprising that you have many good friends. You always feel happy for others, not a glimpse of envy. This is your unique character. Keep up!


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thank God for leona! help with finance, at long last! though i don't really understand her but still. HELP is coming! i knew coming online would be a blessing. :)

ting:

three guys streaked across the south lawn yesterday, right in front of anyone who cared to watch.

i have only three things to say.

firstly, it is winter for heaven's sake. doesn't matter that yesterday was not as cold as last week. but why would anyone want to go running around in nothing but their own skin?

secondly. they should think about getting their asses tanned. they were so white it was blinding.

thirdly. it is UNI. go to a nudist beach instead!

australians. *roll eyes*

Hui:

"A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remain the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why i think a photograph can be kind."

Hui:

When we meet the right person to love when we're at the right place at the right time, that's chance. When you meet someone you're attracted to, that's not a choice. That's chance. Being caught up in a moment (and there's a lot of couples who get together because of this) is not a choice. That's also a chance. The difference is what happens afterwards.

When will you take that infatuation, that crush, that mind-blowing attraction to the next level? That's when all sanity goes back, you sit down and contemplate whether you want to make this into a concrete relationship or just a fling.

If you decide to love a person, even with his/her faults, that's not a chance. That's choice. When you choose to be with a person, no matter what, that's choice.
Even if you know there are many people out there who are more attractive, smarter, and richer than your mate, and yet, you decide to love your mate just the same, that's choice. Infatuation, crushes, attraction comes to us by chance. But true love that lasts is truly a choice. A choice that we make.

Regarding soul mates, there's a beautiful movie quote that I believe is so true about this: "Fate brings you together, but it's still up to you to make it happen."
I do believe that soul mates do exist. That there is truly someone made or you. But it's still up to you to make the choice if you're going to do something about it or not. We may meet our soul mates by chance, but loving and staying with our soul mate is still a choice we have to make. We came to the world not by finding someone perfect to love... But to learn how to love an imperfect person perfectly!

No particular reason for this post. Jus like wad one of my nicks says.. "When there is a chance, there is a choice". Guess this is how i derive it from. =)

Hui:

oh man.. wad a sian day for me. jus feel sian. oh man.. --> i think this is going to be my "kou tou chan" (common phrase tt i'll keep saying). dunno when did it start.. but i really find myself keep saying tt. oh man.. siowshan said it's something Barney will say. ya. Barney. that purple colour creature that kids like. -_-

din speak for more than 10 sentences during lunch today. no particular reasons. i've always been e most quiet one among my colleagues. and plus e fact that we had our lunch in hub. soo sian. eat e same old thing. -_- come, lets count e no. of sentence i spoke during lunch.. hmm.. as far as i can remember.. i onli said "uncle, dry prawn mee". and when my colleague asked me "dun wan it anymore?" i jus smiled and shook my head. haha.. ok la, maybe i'm exaggerating. i'm sure i spoke more words than jus wad i have mentioned. =P either way, am feeling so blessed to have gladys sitting beside me. if w/o her, i think if i wun be jus speaking less than 10 sentences during lunch. i think i'll be speaking less than 10 sentences for e whole day. -.-

asked Mei if she wans a jog after my work. yes u heard it right. ME.. me me me.. I asked MEI. yes u heard it right again. MEI xinmei rein. MEI. I asked MEI out for a jog. no surprising ok.. she was bugging me to have a healthy lifestyle some months ago. and today, i jus have a sudden urge to run. but too bad, she has appointment liao. with Go Hell. opps, here she comes online. =X either way, changed arrow, point to Shan. she's giving tution. can't enetertain me either. guess wad did i do? bought e $10 Phoenix international calling card and called my dearest Ting. (dun worry abt me, i have not turned les.)

da ge says he wanna call me later. oh man.. i dun wan to answer. lazy to repeat things over and over again. i'm not Ah Li Gu Gu.. dun wan to be also.. oh man, sian.

this is onli e starting of e week. already so sian. oh man.. bless me. hope i'll survive this week. 绝对 Super Sian man!!

ting:

groan. this is way too early to be up for a non-schooling day. so exactly why am i sitting here typing this? well, about an hour ago, i awoken to someone standing at the doorway of my bedroom and yelling at me. you could imagine my confusion, especially seeing i was living alone! why is there another person in my apartment? the sleep cleared out of my head in under two seconds, less than half of what it normally takes. it was amazing i didn't panick and leap out of bed screaming bloody murder. so apparently i neglected to check my mailbox and see the lousy notice informing me they'd be up to change the benchtop today. sigh. why today of all days? why not tomorrow, when i'm safely in school?

anyway, the guy was awfully nice. he explained what he was gonna do (none of which really made much sense to me), then apologised for waking me up. he said he didn't want me to awake to noises coming from the kitchen and wonder what the hell was going on. true. i much rather he wake me up this way. was a little horrified at some point in time during our conversation. i was convinced i slept through my alarm and it was 2pm in the afternoon. at the first opportunity, i grabbed my clock to check the time AND! it was only 8.30am. groans. why must they choose such an early hour to come bug me? well, at least 8.30am is still a reasonable hour to be caught in bed.

actually managed to drift off while he was doing whatever he was doing in the kitchen. then he woke me up AGAIN to tell me the other guys will come along later to finish up. great. didn't want what happened to happen again so i managed to drag my lazy ass out of bed. sitting here waiting, and staring at data for my assignment and they are still not here! will they hurry up and come already? i want to get back to bed! (for those tsking away, i slept at 4am last night all right? so go away.)

have a feeling it doesn't really matter whether or not i go back to bed before they arrive. have a very strong feeling i'll fall asleep at my study table anyway.

Hui:

to a special someone..

for e first time, u said a lot, and i'm e one listening. i understood every word u said. i kept quiet not cos i had nothing to say to u. its bcos i noe nothing will come out of my mouth.

u have been treating me very good. i really appreciate it. and i'm sorry for all e times tt i have hurt ur feelings.

i will miss e times we had. both e good and e bad. i believe in u. u will be strong and succeed in life. remember wad i said tonight. i will try my best to make it true.

Hui:

i did e test again. ya i'm bo liao. i'm insane. whatever. i dun give a shit. e results is fuking true. esp those underlined ones.
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Everyone feels despondent at times and you are no exception. You are feeling so depressed because it seems that everything that could go wrong has gone wrong and you don't quite know which way to turn. So like the proverbial ostrich you are trying to bury your head in the sand. But that won't work - you have to face reality.

You are finding the present situation extremely demanding and you're having difficulty coping with it. A great deal of strain is involved and you would really like everyone and everything to leave you alone for a while, just so that you can put everything into perspective.

You have a high opinion of yourself. It is perhaps because of this self-centeredness that you become exasperated when you feel that your needs are misinterpreted by those around you. When this happens - and it does quite often - you feel that there is no-one that can understand the way you feel and it is because of this egocentric self that you are quick to take offense.

Your stress and anxiety are a result of an emotional disappointment. It could well be that the emotional relationship is no longer running smoothly and you have come to the end of your tether. On the one hand you would like to free yourself from this relationship altogether, yet on the other hand, you don't want to lose anything nor risk the uncertainty of throwing away something - something that's precious, something that could be the 'Real Thing'. Perhaps for the first time in your life you really don't know which way to go and it is these contradictory emotions that are causing you the untold stress. You are pretending to the world that you don't care but even this air of pretence is causing you much heartache.

At this time you don't particularly like yourself. Everything that you have tried to do seems to have gone wrong. This makes you feel that there is no point in trying to start again. Apart from being stressed and tense, you are angry with yourself and have un-admitted self-contempt. Your refusal to admit that you and you alone is the basic cause of your problems leads to you adopting a headstrong and defiant attitude. If you take stock of yourself, smile a little and let go, everything will turn out OK. Have you not heard of the cliché 'smile and the world smiles with you - cry and you cry alone!'?

ting:

law test is over, thank God. studying for it was worse than a nightmare. like come on.. why do we have to know australian law history anyway? who cares where australian law originated from? let the historians worry about that! as far as i'm concerned, it could have originated from mars. and as if it isn't boring or bad enough, we have to compare it with the uk law. ughhhhhh! what the hell... that is the job of the lawyers! i'm only concerned about contract law, tort law and negligence!

but i did find out some incredibly shocking things while mugging for it. when the british came over to develop australia into a settlement, the aboriginal law and custom was in place. and you know the aboriginal people are the real natives of this land. anyhow, the british decided that when australia was colonised, the english law should be introduced, thereby displacing the native law. what the hell? you came over and took over someone's land, then you imposed all your rules and ideas on them? and you have the cheek to talk about justice? *shakes head in resignation* i was so indignant when i found out.

and take a look at this. this was actually the law back in the 1940s. "indigenous australians (in other words, native australians) had no right to vote at elections and no land rights because australia had been regarded as belonging to no one when australia was settled which gave the british settlers the 'right' to assume possession of the land." right. i wonder how the british would like it if a bunch of people strolled into the uk, decided their system was all wrong and overtook their law, their buildings, their houses, their jobs, their lives and reduce them to living along the streets.

feeling rather disgusted.

celebrated ira's birthday yesterday. we were so hardpress for time that we had to do it during a one hour break between classes! went to one of the incredibly yummy cake shops on lygon street, ordered ira in to choose a cake, then brought the cake outside the shop to celebrate. it was all done in a very rush manner... so sorry ira! feel bad that it was so unorganised and pathetic. :( outside, we kept battling the winds, and lighting the candles were a real headache, because the second we got them lighted, the wind would extinguish them. so the one time we managed to get both candles lighted, we started yelling at her to blow them out. heh. and immediately after the last morsel of cake disappeared, we dashed off for finance lecture. yeah tell me about it. from celebrating to finance. that is how anti-climax life can get.

one thing i love about melbourne uni is that the funniest screwups happen all the time. it's nothing major, but it does help in lightening the atmosphere and making lectures more bearable. this is lacking in nus, where all our lecturers there lack a sense of humour.

oh and i discovered my business in the global economy prof is italian! should have realised that before, from his name. and he is pretty adorable as well. so huili, are you gonna be on the next flight here? :)

ting:

complaint of the day.

it is FREEZING! i am wearing FOUR layers right now, coupled with gloves(which makes typing a tad difficult), socks and a scarf. the only skin exposed is that on my face. and it is still not enough.

according to the weather forecast on yahoo!, the temperature right about now is 2 degrees celcius. according to weatherzone.com.au, it's 4.8 degrees. i think i'm more inclined to believe yahoo!, judging by the way i feel right now.

Bitterly cold with snow in the southeast
Tom Saunders, Wed 17:06 EST

The most widespread snow event since 1986 is currently evolving over southeastern Australia. A mass of bitterly cold Antarctic air is moving across the region behind a strong cold front. Snow began falling in Alpine areas on Tuesday ahead of the front but slowly began dropping to lower levels as colder air moved in overnight. By Wednesday morning the temperature dropped to near freezing across southern VIC and TAS with reports of snowflakes along some coastal beaches. Hobart fell to just 4 degrees at 1pm with snow settling in the higher suburbs. Suburbs of Melbourne dropped to just 5 degrees during showers with a few snow flurries observed in the nearby hills. In NSW widespread snow has fallen on the Southern and Central Tablelands, including Katoomba, Orange and Oberon. Falls of over 30cm have fallen across the Alps. Snow will persist to near sea level until Thursday morning but a high pressure system approaching from the west will contract snow to the higher ranges by Friday.

Freezing nights for NSW, VIC and SA
Tom Saunders, Wed 15:40 EST

Overnight temperatures will plummet well below freezing across inland parts of the southeast over the next few days, leading to widespread frost. A high pressure system in the Bight will drift east over the region, causing light winds and clear skies. This will create an atmospheric window for outgoing radiation, leading to a rapid drop in temperatures during the night. Minimum temperatures on Friday will drop 6 degrees below average in SA, VIC and NSW but the coldest morning should be Saturday when they fall 7 below average. Canberra is forecast to wake up to -5 on Saturday morning. Sydney is heading for lows of 6 degrees while Melbourne should fall to just 4.

http://www.weatherzone.com.au

(good luck neela. -5 degrees. wow.)

(and JUST 4? what do you mean JUST 4? why is 6 degrees considered "a low" and 4 is "JUST 4"? that's bad enough!)

all of us are excited about the prospect of it snowing. according to pei fei, there is a 40% chance it'd snow in the city tonight. imagine the thrill of waking up to a white world. he's begging whoever who'd listen to make it snow. and it seems like half an hour away from where ira is staying, it IS snowing. cool!

according to jo ann's friend, it hailed in melbourne uni today. but it happened when we were smack right in the middle of law lecture. damnit. i can't believe i missed it. can you imagine ice falling from the sky? gosh, so exciting!

please snow.

yeah, that's people like us, who are unlucky enough to grow up in an equatorial climate. haven't seen snow, haven't experienced cold and the likes. that's why i said getting out of singapore is interesting!

second complaint of the day.

law sucks! my test is in 35 hours time and i'm still so clueless. shucks.

break over. back to getting muddled over law and law terms.

Hui:

You have always been on the move seeking affectionate, satisfying and harmonious relationships. Your ultimate goal has been the realization of an intimate union in which there could be love, self-sacrifice and mutual trust. It has often been said that 'True love is just around the corner' and - if you haven't found it as yet - you possibly soon will.

In the past there have been - and maybe there still are - many things that you have had to do without. You have now decided to set your sights on a position or situation that could give you greater prestige and which will afford you considerable self esteem.

You wear your heart on your sleeve and since you are an emotional person you are apt to give your all - heart and soul - to all those that show you a little affection; but take care - it would appear that you have been extremely hurt in the past and you keep leaving yourself wide open for punishment.

Whatever you strive to do, something always seems to be holding you back. There is no subterfuge in you. You are a clear thinker and all you demand from life, in a relationship, is a partner whom you can trust and with whom you can, together, develop a foundation of trust based on understanding. You are your own person and you demand freedom of thought to follow your own convictions. You have no interest in 'two-timing' and all you seek is sincerity and 'straight-dealing'.

You wish to be left in peace... no more conflict and no more differences of opinion. In fact you just don't want to be involved in arguments of any shape or form. All you want is for 'them' to get on with it - and to leave you alone.

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lolz.. funny results i have.

Hui:

went to cycle at ECP with tim, lili, mei, da ge and jol. ckc joined us at around 8+pm. woah, that was most prob one of e scariest cycling session i ever had. so "exciting" man. i rode on a bicycle which has a high seat, one tt my feet could hardly touch e ground. thanks to lili. had intention to teach lili how to cycle. but she din wan to learn in e end. so da ge and tim took turns to "long bang" her on e double bicycle thing (dunno wad's e name for it). and i took Tim's bike. -.- i was sooo afraid tt i would bang into someone or i would fall from e bike if i have to brake suddenly. and hell, there were lots of ppl at e bedok jetty area.. cos they were watching e fireworks. had a hard time "siaming" all e ppl there. i dun wan to hurt myself or anyone. luckily everything was fine. none of us was injured or anything. good.

its wed today! it feels like monday. wahaha.. weekend is near again! tml is thursday and i am happy. cos it means tt friday is jus around e corner. see e logic? i'm always happy on fridays (when it comes to work). cos i get to wear casual, off work 30mins earlier and i no need to get up early e next day! i can be nocturnal. and it gives me more time to think abt my program. or at least, chances of me thinking abt a solution to write my program or to correct my error is higher. npe, i'm not a workaholic, jus tt i happen to think of e solution sometimes when my brain is in a daze. =P

e weather is freaking hot. i think i gonna get sore throat soon. gonna drink lots of water. see ya!

ting:

it's funny how home is always home. i'm not feeling homesick or depressed or anything along those lines... just some thoughts i was having last night. i'm sure adel, having spent three months in the united states, would agree. sure, we can be in the most beautiful place imaginable. paris. haiwaii. south africa. or in a food and shopper's paradise like hong kong. or soaking up the sun in bali (i sure would like to do that right now. it's been raining half the day and the sun is nowhere to be seen). splendid as those places are, they don't have what makes them home.

before coming over to melbourne, i used to wonder why it is that people, who obtained permanent residency in another country, return home after a couple of years abroad. it can be in a country with clean air, green rolling hills, a waterfall in the background, a huge mansion, their dream car. but they give it all up after a couple of years and head back to where they came from. i attributed it to them not knowing how lucky they are. how silly, to give up a better life, a better standard of living. but who knows? ten years down the road, i may do the same thing.

see... going on holiday and staying in a place for a long period of time makes all the difference in the world. holidays are just that. you go there with no expectations, except to have a good time, enjoy yourself, add to your photo collection. when you go somewhere with the purpose of living there, things change. you expect a better life, expect to meet better people, expect citizens of the country to treat you as equals. you expect and anticipate so much that when things don't go your way, you become disappointed. when people are less than friendly, you think they are out to get you and that the world is cold. why is that so? because it is simply not home.

home is somewhere you can fit right in without even trying to. it's a place full of familiar faces and warmth. it's a place full of the ones you love, the things that matter.

it doesn't matter how crappish the weather back in singapore is. how hot, hazy and humid it is. doesn't matter the education system is more rigid than a wooden pole, how fast the pace of life is, or how stressful and competitive it can get. it doesn't matter that it is so pathetically small you can cover the entire island in less than a day, it doesn't matter that we're just a mere dot on the map. i guess it doesn't matter that our government seems to exploit the rest of us, preaching democracy when God knows whether they really do practise it. it doesn't matter that the government is stingy when it comes to handing out pensions and unemployment benefits as compared to countries like australia for instance. it doesn't matter that we always end up in orchard road during the weekends, because there is nowhere else to go and how we have to spend half an hour squeezing through crowds just to get from one end of the street to another.

i still love my home. and yes, i admit it. i miss my country.

take the place i stay in for instance back in singapore. it's cockroaches, rats and termites infested. water seeps through the roof when it rains. cats have their mating sessions outside the window and keep us awake throughout the night. they then proceed to jump on our false ceiling, sometimes having their kittens up there. you can imagine my family having dinner and those creatures are up there jumping and yowling away. don't believe me? visit me one day when i'm back.

despite all that. it is still home. it is still a sanctuary to retreat to at the end of the day. i love my room, i miss it like crazy. i miss my beloved leather couch, my nice huge wooden study table. my piano in the corner of the room, though i hardly play it. my bed. and sometimes, the occasional lizard that decides to make my room its home for a couple of days.

that said, it doesn't mean i am shelving all plans to migrate or live in another country or travel around the globe. i still do want to immerse myself in various other cultures, see what else the world has to offer. and i do encourage people to get out of singapore, to see the world, to broaden their thinking and increase their exposure.

you could own the most advanced electronic gadgets, the most exquisite furniture, polished handles, everything. it could be a dream residence, but what's the point of it all if it's nobody's home?

happy birthday singapore.

ting:

i'm still dazed... wondering how it is possible the work has piled up so much. aussie profs are out to work us all to death. it's only week THREE and already, i have a law test at the end of this week, two assignments due and a macro test sometime in the near future. ughhhh!

had a cool weekend (both literally and figuratively), took a bus and a tram to one of the suburbs for a bit of exploring! mag thought we ought to make this a weekly adventure, seeing we've been in melbourne so long but we only know lygon street, crown casino and melbourne city. i think it's a pretty good idea... so each week, one of us will pick a destination. this week, we chose footscray, which is in west melbourne. mag needed to check out the location of the hospital she's going for field visits. didn't take much pictures, but will post up some of the few i did.

next week, we're heading south. suba wants to go to st kilda's beach. and i have yet to decide where we'll be going two weeks from now. i want to go somewhere incredibly awesome, like the grampians or do the great ocean road tour again. but that will have to wait till mid sem break, because given the amount of work i have on my hands at the moment, i doubt i can get away for so long a time!

and also, photos of my new apartment! the place is finally in order so taking photos won't be too great an embarrassment! :)

sad looking bald trees. i can't wait for spring.

one of the streets in footscray. i liked it because it seemed like a scene out of a movie.

footscray is where the vietnamese congregate, so being there feels as though you've left australia. there are asians everywhere! the causasian australians look like tourists who stumble upon the place by accident.

looks very chinese, don't you think?

the place where we had our lunch...

the MOUNTAIN of fish and chips! i still don't know how, between the three of us, we managed to finish everything.

the interior of the shop... i was bored while waiting for our food to be done.

the shop from another angle.

the view from my window... my apartment is overlooking the main entrance to college square.

hui gave me this little guy (whom i have yet to name)....

....to keep this little angel company.

my "family" in melbourne.. those responsible for keeping me company!

my study area

the other study table which i'm using as extra kitchenware storage.

the hallway

where i cook my food! tiny area though...

the bathroom area

the shower made mag incredibly jealous, because hers is an older version. heh..

the living area... the white metal thing with loads of wires is an extra bed my mum bought when she was here last sem, so what are you guys waiting for? come visit me... there's even an extra bed for you all!

my gigantic bedroom. rest assured that there is MORE than enough space for an additional bed!

Hui:

woo~ one more minute to 12mn, saturday. kinda jus came back from PGP. have been to ping chung's hostel.

reached NUS central library bus stop at around 740pm.. and she brought me to yusof ishak dunno wad building there for pasta. her treat =) but b4 we reach e dining place, she was figuring which way to go.. cos she's new to e place also. haha.. climbed a lot of stairs lor. and panted. stamina sux. after dinner, took e shuttle bus A1 to PGP.

e place looked so familiar. was thinking of ting :) Ping Chung lives in blk 8. left e place at 11pm.. took a cab.. feeling lazy and sleepy. while waiting for cab along e street infront of King Edward hostel (did i get e name correct?), looked up to e unit where ting used to stayed for one sem. haha.. fireman access =P

anyway, e driver was poilte. and nice. he switched on e light for me when i had difficulty fastening e seat belt. lol.. then he asked me if its ok to go by AYE -> CTE. sure no prob. tt's probably e shortest way i can think of too. when e cab was in e tunnel, i started to realise tt he's travelling a little too fast. cos it was sooner than i expected i would reach CTE. i looked at e speedomter and OMG!! he was travelling at 110km/hr!! fast ahhh.. then he slowed down.. to 105km/hr lol.. throughout e tunnel, he was travelling between 100-110km/hr. steady.

Ping Chung's still e same, except tt she has grown prettier. i like her hairstyle. e one i had always wanted to have but can't. cos e quality of my hair. sucks. =P she really has fair and good complexion! and she has NO dark eye rings. really. NO dark eye rings. i cant see any "shadows" on her fair skin. and she din put on any concealler. =O mentioned to her tt Guo An is in NUS too, and she was like "Guo An?? huh?" i said "aiya, too many men crossed ur path, u forget who is he already izzit?" then she tried to recall, finally she remember. and she got so excited, she asked me for his number. i dun have lor. she searched her address book and found his home number. and she called him!! haha.. they chated for abt 5-10mins, and from wad i have gathered from e conversation, he's still with e JC galfriend. woo~

i'm sorry if e sequence of this post is all messed up. tired. nitezz

ting:

this is a special entry for pei.

heya girl!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!! 20 already huh... we're fast growing old. how sad. :( oh and take care of yourself... it doesn't feel nice to be sick on your birthday! drink more honey! then maybe you can recover enough by night to go out and party or something. sorry i can't be there to celebrate for you.. but we'll make up for it at the end of the year yeah? when i get back again, let's have this HUGE birthday bash to celebrate all our birthdays! :D haven't gone to the city yet but i'll keep a lookout for your sesame street t shirt. meanwhile, smile and may you have a happy and incredibly blessed year ahead! :D love ya loads and loads!

Hui:

well (refering to ting's last post and mei's nick), i guess sometimes its really hard to choose! haha

did i mention tt e whole dept have moved from Blk C to Blk B? if i din, u noe it now. we jus moved not long ago, on monday. i have my "own" table one. cos tt is a spare seat. so i'm sharing it with my friend, an IA Student, Gladys. we were rather excited abt our new place. she brought a pig head plushie to office on monday. LOL and i brought e mirror which jol gave me on my bday last year. finally there's a use for it. we bought some tibits also. kept e food in e drawer. so we'll always have something to eat. haha.. she contributed pocky, sweets and chips. while i contributed chocolate and yan yan. wahaha!!

good and bad for my new place. good is tt i have my own table. quite spacious lor. cos onli got monitor on e table. lol.. bad is tt quite "left out" as in e sense my colleagues are like one or 2 cubicles away from me. and most of all, e reception there is shit can. i guess ncs, being a member of singtel has condemmed starhub signal. haha kidding. starhub signal is jus weak. both my OM and gladys are using starhub too. u noe, i have to like put my handphone high up on e shelf jus to get 1 or 2 bars of reception. and if my phone is on e table, it hardly gets any reception. M1 still got 2-3 bars lor. and as expected, singtel has AT LEAST 5 bars! crap! bias!! haha either way, i heard my OM call starhub and asked them to look into this matter cos he has checked with e building management tt its not cos of e building structure tt e reception has been blocked. wahaha.. go man! check it out. hope it'll be better.

hmm, i tot e ncs radio will onli be taken back to where it was today. but it wasnt here today, taken back liao. sad ah. but nvm. received e reception today. not bad! u ppl mus be thinking i'm toking nuts. nvm~~

btw, i think my computer has been possessed ever since it moved to Blk B. or is it cos its e 7th month now? haha.. on monday, i opened a program and i din lock e computer when i go toilet. when i came back, i realise e program was no longer opened. someone closed it. i asked gladys did someone touch my computer or did she exit e program. she said no. weird. then on tuesday, i signed in windows messenger. after a few hours of inactivity, i decided to check who's online. and i realised e windows messnger was no longer there. i mean e program exited! i was not signed out. e icon is jus not there. OMG. so i opened it and signed in again. told gladys abt it and she said i was not online for a few hours liao. hmm.. then yesterday i had my outlook express opened and i din switch off my cpu. i merely locked e computer and off e monitor. when i came to work this morning, switched on my monitor and unlock e computer, e outlook express wasnt there. OMG~~ y does my programs keep exiting by themseleves?! its not scary. its irritating (& interesting). i wonder wad program will be exited tml. i swear to check it out man.

i wan reception~~ both. from radio and hp. whahaha =X

ting:

today was my first day of tutorials. i never quite realised how much i enjoy business in the global economy till yesterday. it is an amazing subject really, seeing you're dealing with a lot of issues the world is facing at this point in time. there is a good mix of management, microeconomics, macroeconomics and a teeny weeny bit of accounting, the theory part at least. it makes more sense than a subject like say, finance. i HATE finance! it's not only a boring subject, it is also incredibly redundant. like why must i learn what compounding interest rates are when firstly, i already done so in QM last sem and secondly, the bank would do it for us anyway! there is a reason why those people get paid.. we might as well let them do the job! besides, personal finance ain't that difficult.. it's all common sense as well as knowing how to invest/manage your wealth. sigh. the only reason why i'm taking that damn thing is because i know it would do me good. and what if my future employers want to see finance as a list of subjects i've taken? boy, i hate things which would "do me good". *sulks*

back to business in the global economy. maybe it's because i've a marvellous professor for that subject, maybe it's because my tute today was fantastic... i dunno. but i foresee myself allocating more than necessary time to this subject (possibly because i don't want to spend more than necessary time doing something like finance). let me talk a bit more about my tute group. my tutor is incredibly nice and sweet. i'm just so glad she doesn't come across as intimidating. i don't want to be scared half to death every week. also, my tute class is a really diverse one. there are people from korea, indonesia, singapore (me and another girl), thailand, the united states, europe (some country that starts with an s. i can't remember which), latin america and of course, australia. wow. it should make life exceedingly interesting, especially seeing globalisation would be one of the more major topics in this subject.

does it strike you as a surprise if i say singapore is topping the list of the most globalised countries in the world? my prof was singing singapore's praises during lecture yesterday... he was saying we have a fabulous location, advanced technology, a stable political environment blah blah blah. i think he was just too polite to say that we're so pathetically small that we are incapable of producing anything we need ourselves and hence, we have to turn to trade as an alternative. which is cool in some sense, but if you think about the implications that might have on our economy during times of war, you really wish we had more land and resources to ourselves.

anyway, i've decided european guys are cuter than australian guys. (thinking of mno guy here) there's this guy in my tute.. he's european (the one from the country which starts with an s. where is it!?) and he is gorgeous! he was orginally sitting at another table but as luck would have it, my tutor split his table into 3 so each of them had to join another table and he joined mine! woohoo! but he's pretty serious though.. he didn't smile once. the girls at my table obviously had the same thinking as i did because the minute he sat down, everyone started clambering to talk to him. *shakes head* i gave up after about half a second, i would never have gotten a word in anyway.

also had my first macro tute today and i'm in a dilemma. jo ann called me last night and i spent the entire time screaming at her over the phone. reason being, she got my micro econs tutor from last sem. first, my micro tutor (her name is clare sibly) is superb. her explanations are marvellous, she's one of the nicest human beings i've ever come across and i just want her back so badly! jo ann was telling me she only tutored on tuesdays and thursdays and my tute, which falls on a wednesday, means zero chance of me getting her. i was shattered, i wanted to sit down and start bawling my eyes out. i can't ever begin to tell you how good she is... in truth, she was probably the one responsible for me getting what i got for micro last sem. sigh.

decided to give my tute today a go. i mean, who knows right? if i don't give the guy a chance, how do i know for sure he won't measure up? so i went for my sucky timeslot class (it was at 4pm! i had a three hour break inbetween!) and my tutor just zapped through everything at breakneck speed. before i even managed to finish writing down what he said for a question, he was on to the next. but there's one thing... he told us he was gonna grade us 5 marks on attendance and 5 marks on our tutorial homework. which means if i attend all tutorials and do all my homework, the ten marks is guaranteed. after last sem, i know that a mere 1 mark could mean the difference between a H2A and a high distinction. the thought of just receiving ten marks like that is so tempting. so what should i do?

i could go see some admin people tomorrow to get my tutorial changed. (whether they would let me do so is another matter altogether.) but should i? a superb tutor vs a guaranteed ten marks. superb explanations vs a guaranteed ten marks. the fact that i might get a high distinction again under her vs a guaranteed ten marks. a tutor who would motivate me into giving my best vs a guaranteed ten marks. ughhhhhhhhhhhh! if you were me, which would you choose?

ting:

unbelievable. it's august already. wasn't it just the end of last year? what happened to the seven months inbetween today and the 31st of december 2004?

went to watch crash today. it was a pretty nice movie, though i think a couple of my friends got bored halfway through. pei fei was convinced i dragged them all to an opera, because other than us, the rest of the cinema was filled with elderly people. i realise arty farty movies don't have it's meaning screaming at you. instead, it is all very subtle and left to the audience to interpret. so i suppose it really depends on how the individuals dissect and digest the movie.

it's about racism and there were a few incredibly touching moments in the movie. one was when this black guy who works as a lock-changer arrived home to find his daughter hiding under her bed, convinced that the bang she heard was a gunshot. to soothe her fears, he told her how a fairy visited him when he was a kid and gave him this invisible cloak which would protect him from all harm. and now, he was giving it to his daughter, so as to keep her safe.

there was this iraqi guy who owned a store with a faulty door which refused to close. he was convinced it was the lock which was responsible for all the problems they were having. when the black guy arrived to get it changed, he tried telling the iraqi that it was not the lock, it was the door. perhaps it was communication breakdown, but the iraqi refused to accept the fact and get the door changed. the next day, his store was broken into and wrecked. convinced it was the black guy's doing, the iraqi took a gun he purchased recently and went to the black guy's place to confront him.

outside the black guy's place, the iraqi walked up to him and started demanding for his money. the black guy refused to budge, maintaining his innocence which led to the iraqi aiming his gun at him and threatening to pull the trigger. it was a horrible moment, because the black guy's daughter was watching everything behind the screen door. she yelled for her mum, saying her father was in danger because he gave her his cloak, then hit the pavement running, jumping in front of her father just as the iraqi pulled the trigger.

you could see the anguish on both her parents' faces, and the horror on the iraqi's. for a heartbreaking moment, the audience was led to believe that she was dead. then she whispered, "i'll protect you daddy. everything is fine. there is nothing to worry about." her father pulled away and started checking her body for bullet wounds but there was none. he was stunned and she said, "that was a very good cloak you gave me." the family then retreated to their house, leaving the iraqi stunned on the sidewalk.

back in his store, his daughter found him sitting, holding on to the gun and smiling to himself. he told her what happened, saying the little girl was his angel and she jumped in front of a bullet to save him from the consequences of killing a man. that gave him fresh hope, to carry on with what he had left.

the daughter went to put away the gun and the camera zoomed in on the box of ammunition. the bullets were blanks. so you see? different people interpret things differently. the black guy probably started believing in magic after that incident, wondering how the invisible cloak he imagined became so real. the iraqi guy thinks the little girl is his angel, there to give him a second chance. when in fact, the real reason was something as simple as the bullets were blanks.

people do things they feel is logical, but may seem undesirable to others. bad encounters with people happen all the time. but to condemn the rest of the population (like people of similar race or culture) to having the same traits.. is that being fair? how justified is stereotyping and assuming you know, without bothering to find out for yourself?

charlie (a character in LOST) has this tattoo on his arm which says, "living is easy with eyes closed". how true.