Snapshots of Revelation

Sunday, April 30, 2006

ting:

stress levels are sky-rocketing. which is not good, especially when they come from your group members.

was a bit of a touch-and-go situation just now. thank God i was also in the conversation window.. managed to appease them by sympathising and not rubbing in the fact i had two assignments due this week myself.

but still. i think you should at least try to understand. i know you want to get this out by tomorrow so you can concentrate on your 5000 word report. but think of those who also have assignments due this week (unlike you). i have been dying over my marketing assignment. the part i got was not covered in lectures AND not in the textbook. so is it my fault if i over-depend on something else to get the information i don't know? why didn't you offer to take the part then, especially since you did services marketing in poly?

sae young has an assignment due tomorrow. but she still tried to go ahead with your wishes and did her part today. the poor girl is stressing out like crazy now.

i asked for the meeting to be shorter tomorrow so i can at least do my IE, due on thursday, and which i have NOT TOUCHED, tomorrow night. can't you understand that my life doesn't only revolve around consumer behaviour and marketing?

and i'm trying to help you. i offered to help you retype your part for consumer behaviour didn't i? i took on the added responsibility of integrating and rewriting the entire consumer behaviour essay didn't i? what more do you want?

it's hard when the only person you trust in the end is yourself.

and it's even harder when you find yourself buried under a debris of work, when you were just trying to help.

would two cups of coffee a day be enough to last till the exams?

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Hui:

had nothing to do and was blog-surfing.. got this link from gladys (Who's Your Type) and did a quick test. "Who's Your Type". here's my results..
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You fancy a mental challenge! You go for the brainy type!

Let's put it this way; you would never date the Scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz. A bloke without a brain is not the man for you! Your Mr. Right is well-read, extremely knowledgeable, and can beat anyone at Trivial Pursuit. He can hold his own in any intellectual conversation, and he has an insatiable desire to learn. You prefer a strong mind rather than strong muscles and have no patience for someone who considers telly mentally stimulating. Whether it's because he can take apart a computer and rebuild it at the speed of light or the way he can recite the price of any stock on the market, his brainpower impresses you. You love to learn, and there's no better knowledge than the sort you get from someone you love!
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will be meeting ckc at 12 for lunch later.. then go ting's house to take a look at the computer. i think it went dead.. something wrong with e power supply. no fear! we have ckc the "imperial physician" for comp. he has all e right equipments and e spare parts to test wad other problem is there.. so should be ok lar.. hmm.. i am still amazed by how he miraculously revived my comp. hehe =)

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Saturday, April 29, 2006

ting:

my internet has been blotching up as of late (which is a really bad time, because i need the damn thing to send out assignments and all) so in league of it finally working once again, here's a post!

the most fantastic thing happened yesterday. :) we had a guest speaker for our marketing make-up lecture. not just any guest speaker, but the marketing director of KRISPY KREME DOUGHNUTS! we already knew we were in for a "surprise", so all of us figured each of us might be getting a packet of doughnuts. you know, just one packet, containing maybe two or three. then, our marketing tutors plus some other people i don't know (possibly the staff of krispy kreme?) came carrying in BOXES AND BOXES of doughnuts!!! all our jaws hit the ground. then we thought, ok we might be expected to pass those boxes around and take one each. THEN! our marketing professor gleefully announced that we were entitled to ONE BOX EACH!!! the euphoria of it all.

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the surprise!

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absolute ecstasy

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for those who don't know what krispy kreme is (seeing it's not available in singapore), it's what took the united states by storm. everyone loves krispy kreme. they only have one outlet in australia at the moment... located in sydney. we watched the clip.. people from all over australia (queensland, melbourne, adelaide) actually went all the way there just to get doughnuts. so i guess all our sweet treats yesterday were shipped all the way from sydney huh? :)

i gotta say, this is fantastic marketing strategy on their part. who doesn't love free sampling? perceived risk is also reduced. plus we are helping them advertise for free, walking around the place carrying krispy kreme boxes (got a lot of dirty/envious looks along the way from the public. heh). also, seeing there are 12 doughnuts in a box (who could possibly finish them all?), we are bound to share them with friends. throw in the favourable impressions all of us have towards the brand and company and there you go! increased brand awareness, exposure, knowledge and (possibly) loyalty with regards to the product!

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digging into the sweetness of it

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hmmmmm... need i say more?

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of course i couldn't be selfish. so i went around, sharing the love.

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suba on a sugar high

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jeysern enjoying it so much he couldn't be bothered to do a nice pose for me

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tim on cloud nine

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so i've effectively exhausted my supply of doughnuts. to my friends in melbourne who didn't get a taste of it.. my sincere apologises. i didn't have enough of it to go round. plus it also was on first-come-first-serve basis. :) please understand.

more random shots taken in jo's place, while we were still on a sugar rush after all the sweetness.

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our new phones!

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aren't they absolutely gorgeous?? and to think we got them FREE!

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me under all jo's printed pictures, hugging jo's immensely huggable star pillow and patrick dog.

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at night, we went all the way to zone two for a youth alive concert. these were taken while we were mucking around at the station after it all, waiting for the train to arrive.

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introducing us: jon, enoch, me, jo, nick. cameraman: daniel.

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i was sure they would just fall onto the tracks, especially seeing it was raining and the ground was slippery. in case you can't recognise them from the back: enoch, jo, daniel, jon.

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Hui:

another long weekend! whee~ though i dun have much plans ahead. i mean, its not like my schedule is fully packed and full of activities. i feel like having ktv. a ktv retro night, where we'll all be singing old songs. old cantonese songs especially. haha

i think next week will whiz pass quickly as well.. considering we onli have 4 working days. ahh.. augus will be going to HK over the vesak day holidays for HK Site Setup. lucky him! see, this is one of e many advantages of being an analyst. u get to travel.

our social event "pub of the week" has been changed to "pub of the month". committee memebers are more of less e same.. which means that "he" is part of it. e "pub of the month" is held at every last thurs of e month.. so i had it on thurs. hmm.. went to Rob after work to look for my troops as they are all there.. glanced around and din see him till i saw him coming out from e washroom. ok.. dunno y suddenly no mood liao. its weird la.. its like i wan to see him, but when i see him i feel sad. hmm.. anyway, had trouble getting a cab from Rob to Robertson Quay after dinner. we had to walk all e way to somewhere near chinatown and lucky us happen to get a cab where e passenger alighted. thanks to ben actually. cos jac saw one passenger alighting, and ben actually ran all e way to stop e cab. hahaha.. and when we're all in e cab, he said in chinese "wo hen lei" (i'm very tired). LOL so cute! earlier on n e office, jac and i said to him "ni hen ke ai". and who noes, he turned and said to e driver "ni ke ai". e driver had no reaction, and augus, jac and me pengz. and he asked us wad's wrong. we said.. nothing wrong.. but u dun usually go around saying ppl cute. hahaa then he said "dui bu qi". LOL funny sia

i hate it when ppl tries to hide e fact that he/she is actually attached, and then making advances to be closer to a member of e opposite sex. its jus so morally wrong. yes i admit i did like other guys when i was attached b4, but at least i dun hide e truth that i had a bf then. neither did i take e initiative to get close to them. -_- guys.. sneaky.

felt like shopping e other day, and i saw a nice adidas cap which i think it looks quite good on me. thus i bought it. have to think of some occasions to wear it ah. haha like no use for a cap leh. hmm.. jialat.. waste money liao. but im sure i'll use it someday. =P

go eat liao.. see ya

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Tuesday, April 25, 2006

ting:

the total irony is that i'm the only girl and i remained perfectly, 100% sober. jeysern thinks it's sad, because i don't get to experience the high alcohol provides. i prefer to think it's because i've an amazingly high level of alcohol tolerance.

one bottle of white wine and the guys became high/tipsy. jeysern started laughing at everything, and he got all of us worried when he polished off both my small bottles of red wine and wanted more. he was so high he couldn't even walk straight and wanted to crash on my couch for the night. jon and tim had to drag him off.

it was very amusing for me, as a girl, to observe 3 guys being affected by that teeny weeny bit of alcohol. but the plus side is, i won a whole lot of games for bridge. :D

i'm still so sober i could do my inter micro assignment now, despite the fact it's 3.30am. but i know wei kee will kill me when he comes over to my place at 11.30am tomorrow and i'm still not awake. he thinks i'm a pig (but hey, what can i say? sleeping is my speciality), especially when i commented 11.30am is an unearthly hour (but it's the last day of my easter holidays! one final chance to sleep in!) so i'm determined to go all out to prove him wrong.

here are photos for your entertainment.

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having a little trouble getting the cork out of the bottle...

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tim being the only amateur when it comes to drinking.

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all of us pretending to get drunk (before the guys really became drunk).

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bottoms up!

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tim feeling a tad dizzy.

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bridge!

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jon wanting more out of an empty wine bottle.

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Hui:

went KL with jac and justin during the weekend and skipped D&D. din regret doing so. have enjoyed myself totally though i din get to buy anything for myself. bought some stuffs for sister and dry food for grandparents. =)

quite a lot to blog and say.. but too lazy la.. and am getting sleepy.. slept at 3am last night =| take a look at some of e pics then. i love my shots! =D

night view from justin's balcony. he let us stayed at his apartment! whee~ accomodation fee saved. he drove us around too. wah.. free tour guide!

at the carpark.. b4 setting off

taken from the same spot in the morning

nice scenery! KLCC and KL Tower. woohoo~

the view while waiting for lift.. along e corridor

awesome!

trees~~ buildings~~

love this pic!

the patronas twin tower! i jus love all the shots of the building! damn nice man.. too bad din get the chance to meet up another colleague from KL.. else he can take us up to our KL office located at level 66. ahh.. nvm! next time!

another shot from e same spot. love it so much!

another angle

i love this shot too!

the buildings on opposite

justin and me at The Curve

on the way home. in e coach..

dusk =) reminds me of a chinese saying.. "xi yang wu xian hao, ke ke jin huang hun" 夕阳无限好，可惜近黄昏

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Saturday, April 22, 2006

ting:

this is specially for someone who's going through an absolutely shitty time now.

i know you're depressed, dejected, pessimistic and probably feeling all the negative feelings this world has to offer. you lost your direction in life, you don't know where you're heading, you've never felt so lost. it feels like you're feeling your way around in total darkness, not knowing when you're gonna fall and fall hard.

i can't say i can understand what you're going through, having never been through all these confusion myself. i know i can't say much, because words wouldn't ease the hurt and sorrow your life is snaking through. i know for every bright side to the situation i try to find, you can come up with another ten pessimistic situations to counter my argument. i know you probably don't even want to find a bright side, because you're so miserable even the thought of trying to cheer up seems obscene.

but i just want you to know that i'll always be here for you, no matter what. i may run out of words to say, but my ears would always do their job, whenever you need them to.

like i said, every obstacle in life only serves to make us stronger. that is how we grow, mature, become tougher. this song is one of my favourites (having been influenced by pei) and i hope you find your strength in it.

The Eagles
Hell Freezes Over (1994)
Learn to be still

It's just another day in paradise
As you stumble to your bed
You'd give anything to silence
Those voices ringing in your head
You thought you could find happiness
Just over that green hill
You thought you would be satisfied
But you never will-
Learn to be still

We are like sheep without a shepherd
We don't know how to be alone
So we wander 'round this desert
And wind up following the wrong gods home
But the flock cries out for another
And they keep answering that bell
And one more starry-eyed messiah
Meets a violent farewell-
Learn to be still
Learn to be still

Now the flowers in your garden
They don't smell so sweet
Maybe you've forgotten
The heaven lying at your feet

-Solo-

There are so many contridictions
In all these messages we send
(We keep asking)
How do I get out of here
Where do I fit in?
Though the world is torn and shaken
Even if your heart is breakin'
It's waiting for you to awaken
And someday you will-
Learn to be still
Learn to be still

You just keep on runnin'
Keep on runnin'

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ting:

happiness is:

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