Saturday, September 30, 2006 10:40 a.m.
I don't want to go back to school!!!Thursday, September 28, 2006 11:21 a.m.
This sudden wave of sian-ness just swept all over me. I think I'm going back to lying on my bed and listening to my ipod. Dinner last night at some hotel with E's family to pre-celebrate his 22nd birthday. Had project meeting yesterday morning at Ang Mo Kio library before going down to island creamery for ice cream and a good time of chit chat and fellowship with Jac and Zanet! I don't want school to start! I quite like waking up at 11am, having the day to myself, meeting friends and not having to rush to finish the readings and complete the tutorials!Tuesday, September 26, 2006 06:25 p.m.
H: I'm thinking of bak kuh teh!E: So you're not thinking of me?
H: Er, of course I'm thinking of you! I'm thinking of you and bak kuh teh at the same time since you brought me to eat bak kuh teh!
E: You can't think of bak kuh teh and me at the same time.
H: Why not?
E: Can I think of you and another girl at the same time?! Hahaha. I've been scratching my head trying to think of a rebuttal for that ever since our conversation last night but I can't seem to think of any! Surely I'm entitled to think of bak kuh teh and him at the same time right? Girls, help!
Sunday, September 24, 2006 10:31 p.m.
If you're running out of ways to exploit your girlfriend or you're testing a girl to see if she's wife-worthy, here's another brillant idea!
No sunday school classes today as the youths had to organize and run the Children's day games for the primary school kids. The games were really fun and basically every kid gets a prize if he plays but oh my mama, kids are kids and I don't want them for the next 10 years! They are adorable but they also give me a splitting headache!
Saturday, September 23, 2006 12:53 a.m.
Been spending time with E ever since class ended yesterday and it's been really good except that I wished he was on holiday too! He picked me up yesterday, we had korean food for dinner at Canteen 13, ice cream at island creamery and then he went for bible study while I headed off for tuition before we met up again. This morning, he promised me breakfast but instead abandoned me at Starbucks while he went for an hour of project meeting in school and then we had lunch at Curry Favour (Sophie, I wished you were there then I could catch up with you!) before cell at night and a drink at MacDonalds after that for some good, honest talking about cell and everything else. I'm really glad that we both can truthfully talk and share about anything and everything, that we can rebuke one another in love, engage each other mentally, challenge each others views and that he has this wonderful ability to slap me into shape and make me wake up my silly ideas.Thursday, September 21, 2006 11:42 p.m.
Mid semester break is here!!! Woot woot! 10 days of holiday!Wednesday, September 20, 2006 07:55 p.m.
Sometimes I wonder if we people living in Singapore take our economic and political stability for granted. I wonder if we are living in a cave and we're too sheltered from everything that's going on outside our small little island. I mean, you open the papers and there you read about the instability and turmoil in the Middle East, about the huge global inbalances, the fall in housing prices and the US economy slowly sliding into recession, the military coup in Thailand and the recent bomb blasts, about North Korea's ambitious plans, the Swedish elections and so much more. The whole world seems to be in some sort of chaos but Singapore seems so peaceful and calm and safe that it's actually a little unbelievable and surreal. I guess reading the newspapers can get a little worrying and disturbing and we've been really fortunate thus far but somehow, reading the news also makes me feel very distant. I know what's happening but I don't feel anything because it feels like whatever's happening in the world will never play itself out on this tiny red dot.Wednesday, September 20, 2006 06:34 p.m.
I feel 5kg lighter now that the accounting project and presentation is over! Woot woot! In reality, I'm 5kg heavier because I've been eating way too much. I'm not too sure how we did for the presentation but it's over and I think we've done our best so I'm satisfied! Now, I just have a tax quiz tomorrow and 6 more hours of lessons before mid semester break arrives! Can't wait can't wait though I'm still clueless about tax and I'm not too sure how I'm going to do the paper when I still know nothing about deductions or capital allowances!Monday, September 18, 2006 05:43 p.m.
You look all around you and suddenly, you don't know who to trust or who to turn to for help. Maybe that's why I like being around him. He's one of the few people I can truly pour myself out to, let my guard down and talk about anything and everything and know that I won't be judged or called inferior. I know I can count on him to criticize with love and correct my mistakes and I know he'll go the extra mile to help me or make sure I get help. It's with him that I feel like I don't have to put up a fight and I know that everything will be taken care of.Monday, September 18, 2006 04:59 p.m.
The story of the Enron-Quality accountants! In Vancouver, the six of us were having sushi buffet and H was going to order salmon sashimi and she asked another accountant, Yaozhang, if 3 per person was enough. He said "yes" and she went on to say "So 36 pieces of salmon?!". The aduitor nodded his head and said "yes". Haha. So we all ended up stuffing ourselves silly with 36 pieces of raw salmon when we were just supposed to have 18 pieces in total. Including the 36 pieces we ordered earlier, we had a grand total of 72 pieces of raw salmon! Back in Singapore, yesterday afternoon, at Samy's curry, the accountants met up again with a bunch of friends for a nice time of chit chat and lunch! This time, YZ was counting the number of people on the table so that we could split the bill equally. He counted 10 and when we counted the money, we realized we were short of someone's share. Then we realized E didn't pay for it because he didn't eat! So YZ had miscounted once again! I don't know how we're going to manage big corporations' funds when we can't even count the simplest things. Haha. Now, I think we're just waiting for Yado to foul up so that the three of us can group together and rebuild Enron and be its directors and manipulate its accounts since we're such naturals already. Haha.Sunday, September 17, 2006 01:26 a.m.
On my study table, there's a picture of E and myself. So anyway, before I went for cell last night, Dad came into my room and he went like "Can you please clear your table for me? I want to use it later to do my BSF. Oh and can you also please keep that picture? It doesn't inspire me when I'm trying to read my bible." I ignored him anyway and when I came home from cell, I realized that Dad had taken the 2 glitter bottles by the side of the photo and used it to cover both our faces! Haha, I really couldn't stop laughing when I saw it and it made me wonder why the two of them cannot get along and be civil and good friends with each other when their character and mannerisms are so similar!Friday, September 15, 2006 10:20 a.m.
I told the boyfriend yesterday that behind every successful man is a woman. And his reply was "then how come I'm not successful?" Haha, a truly classic answer. I also remember telling him a long time back and I think I wrote it on his Palm Treo too that behind every successful man is an even more successful woman. That, his male ego couldn't take. Hahaha. Going out for project meeting now! I reckon I won't have anytime to study for Tax quiz because my whole weekend and first half of next week will be burnt doing the accounting project. Ugh.Thursday, September 14, 2006 11:46 p.m.
I wonder if my Dad misses my Mum. She's been away on business for the past week or so. I wonder if they call each other everynight or sms whenever possible? I wonder if my Dad misses having her by his side to accompany him to Botanical Gardens for their sunday afternoon walks or he misses having someone ask him how his day was or pour a glass of water for him when he gets home from work. I wonder too, if he feels a little down that my mum didn't spend his birthday with him. Or has he spent so many birthdays and time with her in their 32 years (10 years of dating, 22 years of marriage) of love that all her week long business trips and absence from home is no big deal for him? I take my hat off to those girls with boyfriends in the army. I really don't know how you girls can endure the long weekdays and only see the boyfriends during the weekend or not see him in 2 weeks because he has guard duties during the weekend or has to go for an overseas mission. I haven't seen the boyfriend in a week and I'm already itching to meet him and just let my guard down in his presense, rest and have a good chat with him. I also salute those that are in long distance relationships. I don't know how you survive the time difference and the distance and not see each other for months! I don't doubt that love can overcome all distances and time zones, it's just that I don't know how you get through it! I don't think I could take being physically apart for a long time and I don't think the boyfriend can take it too. It's the reason why he flew up to LA after 3 weeks (to the semi-horror of my parents) while I was on my summer internship and spent the remaining 3 weeks with me.Wednesday, September 13, 2006 08:04 p.m.
I have the most talk cock IT professor. I'm sure he is knowledgable and he has vast experiences in the working world and all but he really's too long winded and he keeps on talking about so many other random stuff! He spends a good two and a half hour doing the tutorials and then realizes that there isn't much time left already so he rushes through the lecture, which in my opinion is more important! As a result, I don't really know what's going on in IT class as well! And because he takes ages to comment on the tutorials, he never finishes the lecture and we always have to bring it to the next lesson and by the time he actually starts on the lecture 3 hours after the start of class, my mind has already automatically switched off. Augh. I have 5 more school days, an accounting report and presentation and a tax test before my mid semester break arrives! Can't wait though I know I'm absolutely screwed for my tax and I'm probably going to get almost nothing for the test since I know nothing!Tuesday, September 12, 2006 11:09 p.m.
Happy Birthday Dad!
Sarah and myself made a card for him (the green paper in the picture but Dad was too shy to hold it up) and we brought him out to Din Tai Fung for dinner just now!
Tuesday, September 12, 2006 10:54 p.m.
I had breakfast with Daddy this morning and he told me a few things that touched my heart. He was telling me that when he was 30, he calculated and wondered if he'll live till 50 and see me reach 20 and go to university. Then he told me that his 50th birthday wish is to see me grow up and hopefully be around when he's 70 to see me at 40years old with family and career in tow. I don't know why but I felt really sad and ashamed after that. It made me stop and think and ask myself if I've treasured my Dad the past 20 years and whether I've spent enough time with him. If my dad was taken away tomorrow, would I be filled with regrets or with wonderful memories of our time together and thankfulness that we had a full father-daughter relationship? After he told me that, I felt so bad that I wasted a good part of my teenage days trying to be all cool and cold and not including him in everything and also not really spending enough time with him and showering him with all my love. I suddenly realized too that my Dad is getting older and that I don't have much time with him already. After breakfast and on the drive to school, all the memories of what my Dad did for me just came rushing back. The time when I was in Kindergarten and he'll come home early from work and we'll go for a walk to this neighbourhood primary school near our house and I'll watch the kids sing the national anthem at the end of the day. The period when SCGS was still at Emerald Hill and I was in the morning session in primary 2 and that was when he started sending me to school (and hasn't stop since then) and he used to park his car at the public carpark and walk me all the way to the gate. The time he surprised me with my canon ixus after I passed my promotional exams in J1 and then the watch in J2 after A levels, the ipod for my 20th birthday, the mobile phone (which I lost after 6 months) on my 17th birthday and all the other gifts. The times we'll go running together on Sunday afternoon at Botanical Gardens and the chinese new year holidays in Kuantan when we'll all defy my mum and bake in the sun all day long and catch hermit crabs in the morning. There were of course the bad times too when I yelled at him for being nosey and naggy or I'll go on week long silent wars or when we argued over my late nights or bad studying habits. Well, anyway, since I cannot turn back time, I decided this morning that I'll really learn how to treasure and appreciate my Dad more, spend more time with him and be more patient and loving toward him. I'm honestly really thankful that I have such a wonderful, God fearing and loving father (even though at times he lives in the 1960s) and it's my sincere prayer that God will continue to bless him and grant him good health and wisdom!
Monday, September 11, 2006 10:41 p.m.
I love condensed milk!Monday, September 11, 2006 08:06 p.m.
I couldn't balance my balance sheet at the accounting test today and there were some parts I couldn't do! I hope I scrape through though. I don't understand whatever that is happening at tax class and it's a little worrying because it reminds me of finance class back in Year 1. I just hope I don't get the same grade as I got for finance! Dad picked me up from school today and throughout the whole journey back home, he kept on telling me that Singapore is a kiasu state and that I should learn how to hitchhike a ride home. I was laughing when he told me that because he made it feel as if school was so far from civilisation and that there were no buses and the only way out of school was to hitchhike a ride from the lorry driver with 10 pigs, 3 cows, 8 chickens and 2 dogs at the back of his truck. Haha.Sunday, September 10, 2006 04:31 p.m.
I had the most wonderful, memorable, romantic, enjoyable, restful and adventurous weekend!! I'm starting to panic a little now because I did less than 2 hours of studying since Friday and I have a accounting test that constitutes 20% of my final grade tomorrow but honestly, I wouldn't trade the memories and the wonderful rest I had to just stay at home and attempt to mug mug mug and finish all the questions. If I fail tomorrow, I'll feel a slight pang of guilt and regret but it's not going to eat me. I just hope I'll be able to understand the question tomorrow and do it as best as I can and hopefully, score! Back to school and reality tomorrow and it's going to be 4 long and tiring days till the weekend comes again but I'm thankful for the rest. 2 more weeks to the mid semester break!Wednesday, September 6, 2006 06:54 p.m.
Why do people in school compare and compete so much? Why are people so selfish? Why do people always try to make you look and feel as if you're of lesser worth than they are?Tuesday, September 5, 2006 11:39 p.m.
I was going to go for a quick run when I came home from school but the boyfriend called so we had an impromptu midweek meetup! We went running at the tracks near his place, had dinner and hung out at his place before he sent me home. I ran 1.6KM today and I'm extremely proud of myself even though I probably added back the calories from eating fried oyster omelette and fried prawn noodles for dinner. More gains than losses. Haha. The boyfriend was obviously whining that I'm too slow for him, that I'm not bouncing while running and that I'm fussing over my hair when I'm supposed to be running but it was fun nonetheless because it's our first time running together! Had Korean food for lunch with Shermaine, Lifen and Juan Juan at Canteen 13 before 2 killer accounting seminars and my gosh, I don't know how to present financial statements or balance them for that matter and some people in management accounting class really just sprout tons of nonsense. Sometimes, I really think class participation is a whole lot of crap because many students just pluck air from north south east west and try to shoot others down or gain marks and really, I know the school says that one objective of class participation is to faciliate learning and all but how am I supposed to learn from people who don't present solid arguments or from tutors who don't give the suggested solutions after 10 people in class has given 10 different versions of the answer? I much prefer the lecture-tutorial style with less emphasis on class participation. I think I learn best that way.Monday, September 4, 2006 10:34 p.m.
I don't have my laptop because I lent it to E's dad for a few days and I thought I would be able to live without it because I've printed this week's notes(I think) but now it's getting a little inconveninent because I have to wait till the parents are done with their work on their laptops before I borrow it and I'm so not used to using Windows. It's slow, inefficient and definitely not as superior as the Mac. I am all of a sudden filled with such extreme gladness that Dad uses the Mac in his office and he introduced it to me. I think we also need a desktop at home.Monday, September 4, 2006 09:18 p.m.
This morning, I woke up and it was so peaceful all round. The house lights weren't turned on, I couldn't hear the school buses reversing downstairs, Mum wasn't screaming at us all to wake up and Dad wasn't in the shower yet. The expressway wasn't that congested too and I managed to have a good breakfast with my dad at Bukit Timah! School ended early today because there weren't any accounting lectures so I went to meet Mum for lunch and did a hair removal treatment. I think I felt much better today too because I decided over the weekend not to allow school work to get to me. I'll still do my best, try my darn hardest to finish my readings and tutorials but I won't compare and I will try to stop worrying about whether I've completed my tutorials or whether I fully understand what the bullet train tutor is talking about or whether I'll get first class honours or a good job when I graduate because that kind of worrying tires me out, is so unproductive and makes me older. Over the weekend, we pre-celebrated Dad's birthday and had Japanese at Hanabi because Mum's going to be away on business during his birthday. It was a really fantastic time of feasting and just talking and joking with the family because honestly, we haven't done this in a long long time. Met E after that to walk around the Esplanade area before coming home and spent yesterday with him as well. The sec3 sunday school class was ushering and you guys were absolutely co-ordinated, co-operative and excellently great! After service, E and myself went down to Breeko's for a quick lunch, dropped by the Apple store at Orchard to try to change our recalled batteries for our laptop (bad service) before we went back to his place to help his dad order a computer and then went out for dinner. Recently, I've been thinking about the way our church spends its money and also reconsidering my ministry for next year. I don't think I've reached a conclusion yet but the boyfriend recently told me that whichever ministry I enter into, I must commit myself wholeheartedly for that year and not say something like "oh, let me just teach and reach out to the youths but let me forget about going for teachers dinner or prayer meetings or supporting my class at camps." His reason was that if I'm going to do something half-heartedly, I might as well not do it. Dad's also been talking to me and telling me that even if I'm displeased with several things and people don't seem to listen, the only right thing I should do is pray and make sure I'm clean and I can account to God when the time comes because those people have to deal with God on their own too. Oh well, definitely food for thought because sometimes when people are stuck on their (very obviously wrong) ways, I can get so worked up and I feel like I need to prove that they are wrong but at least this reminds me that I just need to do what is right in God's eyes and if they want to continue that way, let them be since I've already raised it up and they're accountable to God as well. 3 more weeks to mid semester break! -----------------------------------------------------------------------------