Monday, November 30, 2009

Life?

Life is like travelling to different countries.

Each time you go to a particular country, you bring what you have with you, and gain what culture that country offers. With the travel comes the baggage that you carry with you. With each new country comes new things that you pick up.

And sometimes your luggage gets lost in transit as you travel from one country to the next. What was once familiar and dear to you gets lost in the mysterious vortex that is the airport's luggage handling system. And new things replace those that were lost.

At times, you'd see things that remind you of things that you lost. Yet remember that what you see is not what you had, and remember too, that this feeling of nostalgia is God's way of telling you to be thankful of what we once had and what you have now.

So, even as you gather more baggage and lose some without noticing, remember to enjoy the trip and the country!

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Okay, so I just slept, ate loads of my comfort food (McDonald's) and read Claire's book for about an hour. TIME FOR MANAGEMENT SCIENCE!

Can't wait for Monday to be over! And I hope I don't get back my results until very much later =S

MKT1003...

was quite bad.

All I want to do now is sleepppp.

Friday, November 27, 2009

Don't really like the way I'm feeling =/

WAKEUPWAKEUPWAKEUPWAKEUPWAKEUPWAKEUPWAKEUPWAKEUPWAKEUPWAKEUPWAKEUPWAKEUPWAKEUPWAKEUP!
You know, I can see the half-moon right here in the Bizad Clubroom from the small windows at the top of the whiteboard. Times like this, I wish I had my camera with me. Unfortunately it's sitting comfortably at home =S

Studying for Marketing is getting boring because of the sheer amount of content I have to cram into this tiny little head of mine. Despite it being interesting, I am really starting to think it's a total bitch. Which is bad, because I was thinking of specialising in it. Tough luck!

It's an odd hour in the morning and I am getting a lot of random thoughts in my head. I've been getting these random thought attacks a lot lately. I guess it's a sign that I am starting to get old. Too much things up in this ole head of mine and looking for places to come out from.

Okay, I think I started this post with something to say, but now I really can't remember what. Grr. Really starting to feel a little tired. Maybe I should sleep.. BUT STILL GOT 5 CHAPTERS!

Thursday, November 26, 2009

I stared at this screen for a long time because I didn't really know what I could write and what I cannot.

Just felt like blogging because this has always been my way of letting off random thoughts in my head. Yet as has happened many times before, I find myself unable to write out what I want to write...

Bleh. Forget it.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

examsss

It was the start of the examinations for me today. I had an Economics Paper in the morning and Nation Building in the evening.

Was it difficult you ask? I honestly can't tell.. Economics was discriminating. I wouldn't say it was tough, but it wasn't easy either. I have no idea how I would do..

I breezed through Nation Building though. But such modules are subjective in a way and I won't know until I get my results. =/

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

11:28 hrs
Plunk! Just landed at WCP's Starbucks. Memory flashes. Crap.

11:33 hrs
Grande Mocha Frap!

12:32 hrs
OMG. Tan Long just reminded me that I was supposed to be aiming for Dean's List. =S

14:12 hrs
HUNGER.

14:26 hrs
Lunch. NAO.

15:26 hrs
Back! Feel like napping.. MUG.

15:44 hrs
Itchy.

16:45 hrs
Nice song by David Cook!


17:36 hrs
Readings reading is taking too much time. BRING ON THE NOTES!

Monday, November 23, 2009

Swam 30 laps!

Was going to go to MPSH to wish people good luck, but the bus was swamped. So I went swimming instead =)) This time it was really having the whole pool to myself. Had to ask the lifeguard whether the pool was open because it was raining previously.

Feel thinner now =DD Oh.. Coincidentally I was talking about this with Ma and Sis on Saturday. About how my Sis no longer has an alert system of feeling fat. So I guess all this feeling fat thing is good for me! =P Hopefully my Sis can find it within her to feel fat again.

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Compilation of thoughts from a day alone in school.


17:20 hrs
I feel weird.

17:47 hrs
Came to NUS intending to do my Nation Building revision, only to realise that most of my notes for the subject is back in PGP =( Looks like I'd be doing Marketing instead.

18:19 hrs
Marketing Intelligence. If only it could diffuse into my brain!

19:06 hrs
Distracted distracted!

19:09 hrs
蒲公英的约定 is playing. I'm reminded of Taiwan =/ Miss climbing mountains and trekking in tangerine farms. Miss the wide sky and the fresh air. Miss the cracked paths after an earthquake. Sia lah. I should have been a cheong sua peng.

19:28 hrs
McDonald's!

20:20 hrs
90 minutes and 29 seconds to finish one chapter on Marketing Intelligence? Nonsense!

20:26 hrs
Now for Consumer Behaviourrrr!

21:11 hrs
MERRRRRRR!

22:02 hrs
"The need can be triggered by internal stimuli when one of the person's normal needs - hunger, thirst, SEX....." Wah. My Marketing textbook is so kinky!

22:14 hrs
Okay. I think I will go back to PGP... hopefully I'm more productive there with the foreign student auras!!!! >.<

Saturday, November 21, 2009

A plan.

If everything goes according to plan, this is what I am going to do tomorrow:

Go church.
Go to NUS.
MUG.
Go swimming.
Come back and mug some more in the Clubroom.
Sleep.

Oh, did I mention I got the USP interview? It's going to be next Monday. -fingers crossed- =S

Friday, November 20, 2009

Reminded.



I just came back from my duty for Coffee@Biz. We had the good fortune of Prof Hum stopping by to talk to us for a bit and here are some of my takeaways. Inspiration for mugging =D

"Steal time away from the time wasted"

He was basically talking about how grades are not everything, even though it is important to get you to where you want to be. Grades get us to the door, but it is us and our experiences that get us through it. And how do we balance study with our extra activities? By using the time we could have wasted. Like all the time I have been spending on Facebook or time that has been spent sleeping.

Sounds like a wake-up call to me. I got reminded of what David Lehman talked about during the Zoe Film Fest. Idealistic as it may seem, these are really the most important things in life. Altruism? Perhaps. But should we really waste our life being focused on such temporal things as grades?

Prof Hum also recommended a book which I googled to be "Good Value: Reflections on Money, Morality and an Uncertain World" by Mr Stephen Green, the Chairman of HSBC. It is supposed to be a book on how Capitalism in itself can be used as a tool for good and how morality still has a place in our society that's increasingly materialistic. A good read if I ever find the time, no doubt.

Altogether fruitful!! Now back to Marketing Environment. =DD

Thursday, November 19, 2009

New hair!

It's the little things that matter in life after all.

Zoe.

I crashed the MNO1001 Zoe Project Film Festival tonight with Kai Li, Cam, Sharon and Zhitong.

I wouldn't say I was particularly impacted by any video per se, but somehow the whole event made me think to myself: what am I doing with my life? Do I really want to look back when I get older and panic because I realise I haven't done much?

It's time to wake up and figure out before its too late.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

I am getting that feeling of wanting to blog in music again.

If I could choose my exact gifts, I wish I were a music maestro and that I would be able to blog music XD There are just some things that cannot be expressed with words. Sadly I know I am not talented in this area. After so many years of learning, I am clumsy at best and I cannot even imagine composing..

We went watching (alliteration!) the Leonid meteor shower at the Mochtar Riady Building just now. I didn't get to see anything! =(( It was exciting to get up to the roof though =D

Monday, November 16, 2009

I went to NUH for the first time today since RQ passed away...

It was to visit Boon Loong who had water retention in his legs. I guess I never really dealt with the fact but closed it together with my Army chapter. Walking back to the same places and corridors I walked months ago somehow dragged up a lot of things I'd rather not think about.

I guess I am really getting old. Haix. I need a rest.

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Keep Walking.

I reached the bus stop only to find that the last 853 had left. On a whim, I decided to walk home from Serangoon. Two and a half hours later, here I am, hardly feeling my legs, blogging. I never thought that lousy pair of Everbest would survive, but apparently it's still in fine condition. Wow.

By the time it hit about 2 am, my feet were so tired that I resorted to smsing people to divert my attention away from walking. Unfortunately I think no one was awake to reply me except for Diane...

Did you know that there was path going down a canal near Khatib? But it was really more of in the middle of nowhere because it was too far to walk to and there would be no place to park by the roadside since it was so near to the CTE exit.

I got to see a train carriage maintaining the track too. Cool stuff!

Remind me not to do this again eh?

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

How about!


I am in need of a good romance comedy. =/

Monday, November 09, 2009

Swam today again! It was with Ben Cai this time because he wanted to move around abit and I wanted to lose weight. LOL!

20 laps!

LOSE WEIGHT FTW TTPOD!

Sunday, November 08, 2009

Today is one of those horrible days where I feel increasingly merrr and finally decide to screw the world and sleep.

Argh.

Saturday, November 07, 2009

God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference.

Friday, November 06, 2009

SWAM! I feel thinner already =) Did 40 laps with 5 sprints. Don't think can run marathon yet leh. Still got a lot of blubber. MERRRR!

Thursday, November 05, 2009

Oh happy day!

I took the time to relax quite a lot today because I felt so stressed last night from the Nation Building test! Went only for the Econs lecture on Game Theory =) me lubs it! Satisfaction comes from being able to understand something being taught. Hahas..

We had some photobooth fun at the clubroom!

Mum and Maltesers!

Group shot!

Today was great. =))

Wednesday, November 04, 2009

The cow returns to graze.



EMOOO.
I have decided. Cards have been bought, and my heart has to be hardened for a time. I still can't imagine what it would be like, but it would be something I have to do.

Tuesday, November 03, 2009

The Saltwater Room.

Another song that's I've been hooked on =)

There's something about the guitar intro that gets me. Hmm.. Feels almost Corrinne May-like. I AM SO BUYING THE CD!



I opened my eyes last night and saw you in the low light
Walking down by the bay, on the shore, staring up at the planes that aren’t there anymore
I was feeling the night grow old and you were looking so cold
Like an introvert, I drew my over shirt
Around my arms and began to shiver violently before
You happened to look and see the tunnels all around me
Running into the dark underground
All the subways around create a great sound
To my motion fatigue: farewell
With your ear to a seashell
You can hear the waves in underwater caves
As if you actually were inside a saltwater room

Time together isn't ever quite enough
When you and I are alone, I’ve never felt so at home
What will it take to make or break this hint of love?
We need time, only time
When we're apart, whatever are you thinking of?
If this is what I call home, why does it feel so alone?
So tell me darling, do you wish we'd fall in love?
All the time, all the time

Can you believe that the crew has gone and wouldn’t let me sign on
All my islands have sunk in the deep, so I can hardly relax or even oversleep
I feel as if I were home some nights, when we count all the ship lights
I guess I'll never know why sparrows love the snow
We’ll turn out all of the lights and set this ballroom aglow

So tell me darling, do you wish we’d fall in love?
All the time.

Time together isn't ever quite enough
When you and I are alone, I’ve never felt so at home
What will it take to make or break this hint of love?
We need time, only time
When we’re apart whatever are you thinking of?
If this is what I call home, why does it feel so alone?
So tell me darling, do you wish we’d fall in love?
All the time, all the time

Time together isn't ever quite enough
When we’re apart whatever are you thinking of?
What will it take to make or break this hint of love?
So tell me darling, do you wish we’d fall in love?
All the time

我只在乎你

I had this song stuck in my head when I woke up today. Must be too much hokkien songs yesterday. Hahas.. Anyways, I found this clip in YouTube and found it quite cute. Chinese FFX-2? Must share!

Nation Building.

SS test is on Wednesday!!

I think I spent most of today rather distracted because I partly didn't want to get down to actually studying. Merrr.

I have a gigantic stack to clear before the test and I am totally not looking forward to it. Someone help me!

Anyways, today was totally not well-spent, and I should have just holed up in the library myself to mug. Blehness! I think I shall do that tomorrow.. MUG MUG MUG!

Sunday, November 01, 2009

BINGE!

It's been a binge-out weekend! We went to Hanabi Japanese Buffet at King's Arcade on Saturday to have FOP cohesion cos Ben Cai has a large discount from his pseudo girlfriend there =)

The road there was really scary because the sky was literally emptying out and visibility was zero. I couldn't see a thing even with my headlights on and I had to go really really slowly because my brakes were not working so well with so much surface runoff. =S Add the random thunder and lightning to that, and I felt as if we were in some Hollywood show like The Perfect Storm or War of the Worlds or something..

We finally did get there in one piece though! The food was not bad, but really, after the first half an hour, you can't really savour what's going down your throat. We had lots of fun playing cai quan and zhong ji mi ma to stuff food down each other's throats and crapping about nipples and xi hum zhap. LOL!

Team FAB! + Ben Cai later decided to go to Serangoon Gardens for Ice3 because we were bored and wanted to HTHT. Team FAB! To think we would be reunited at FOP eh! Time passed so fast after election that I hardly had time to breathe and keep up with my work. It's good that we can take some time off for ice-cream =)

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I went to another dimsum buffet for lunch today at Excelsior Hotel to celebrate Chai Kee's 21st. Ended up feeling pregnant and like shit because I ate too much. We were trying to stuff ourselves because there was a charge for food wastage. =( I ended up going to the toilet to try to pee and shit to clear some stuff out of my system. BLEHH! And that is why I OFFICIALLY HATE BUFFETS NOW!

It was nice hanging out with KRT again though. Even though I felt totally out because I didn't know any of the people coming out of Jori, Gracia and Conrad's mouths. Felt like I missed out some part of me by not joining kayaking again. =/ Then again, I think I gained great friends in Bizad Club too.. So I guess it reinforces the fact that something's gotta give eh!

It was really malu when I was on my way home because I got stuck at the carpark gantry cos my cashcard didn't have sufficient value. 6 bucks for parking there for 3 hours?! OMG. I think I will never park in the CBD ever again in my life! An old uncle had to rescue me by opening the gantry for me and topping up my cashcard. Thank you uncle!

Alrights. Now for my nice shower and going back to PGP. Tsk.. TEST NEXT WEEK!

High Definition Drama.

So it seems that chaos ensued at home while I was in school this week, and I was back home to witness the aftermath of the fallout.

It all happened when my dad decided that he has too much money and time on his hands, and bought a 52-inch Sony Bravia television. Well, I guess that's alright, since I myself like to buy things.

The problem comes when he decided that he would use his two sons for cheap labour to dispose of the old television, which by the way, weighs a ton. That again, would be alright, if one of his sons weren't not talking to him for more than half a year now, and the other not having exams in three weeks time.

It was horrible to come back and listen to him try to arm-twist me into sending that tube to my uncle's place because he always thinks that his junk will be everyone else's treasure. Personally I wasn't that affected since it was not entirely out of character. I was just puzzled at why he had to have his way so quickly. Can't the thing stay there for a few more weeks? Or couldn't he have asked nicely and listened to what our limitations were?

It seems like the best solution to the problem is still just steering clear and living our own lives in separate compartments of the same space. Can't wait to get back to school!
 
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