Friday, September 30, 2005 01:06 a.m.
I'm down with flu/sorethroat/cough whatever. My nose is running, my throat hurts, my voice's semi gone and I'm feeling hot and cold at the same time. I want to go and sleep now but I slept from 830 till 10 just now because I was feeling so tired and was actually intending to sleep till morning but I was sweating so I got woken up instead. Argh. Too awake but yet too tired to start studying for accounting. Long long day tomorrow. The only good thing is that I'm meeting my OB project group again.Thursday, September 29, 2005 10:31 a.m.
I am feeling absolutely horrible. Yesterday and the day before, I had such a bad throat and my voice was almost gone last night. This morning, it's slightly better (after how many million cups of water!) but my nose is completely blocked and I sound so nasal. Ugh. I have a Finance presentation in 2 hours and I'm still stuck at home and confused. I honestly hope I get through it because the more I look at dividend prices, valuation of stock, horizon investment and all, the more my head spins and my throat itches. Once I'm done witht this presentation, I better get my butt down to studying for the Accounting test this Monday that constitutes 15% of my overall grade. I haven't even opened my textbook and I don't even know how to do a draw up a proper balance sheet and whatever. I honestly think I'm dead meat for this test Ok. And if I don't move my butt to the shower right now, I'm going to be late for school.Wednesday, September 28, 2005 03:42 p.m.
I'm here at United Square waiting for Jac and Gilly to come meet me so that we three can have our girly time and tea together! I didn't realize that United Square is wired up and you can just use the internet! That's way so cool! Realized I have been having tea/meals here and at Novena Square quite often. I was here last Sunday and the Sunday ago for tea with Edmund, some other weekday night for Subway and fish&co on Saturday with him too and now it's with the girls. Ah well, it's a nice near-to-home place to chill and they have quite a few good food joints. And there's Ben&Jerry's here too! Didn't have OB today because Jimmy Wong is on reservist but I met my OB case presentation group to discuss our case. Pretty good. I like my case group. I think we are quite efficient. Then Evelyn, QG and myself just sat in the canteen, chit chatted and rot. Haha. Eve might be renting my hostel room from me. I really do like my OB class. The people (or at least my 2 project groups) in there are probably the funnest and nicest, the tutor is engaging and the topics we cover are so interesting! Yesterday, my OB project group met up too and we ended up skipping lecture and rotting once again at the Free Acccess Lab talking about QG and Paris Hilton (haha), future tea sessions together and everything under the sun except about our project. I like my project group! They make going to school much more fun.Sunday, September 25, 2005 11:20 p.m.
I thought this upcoming week would be a relatively free and easy week and I wouldn't have much work to do but in the last 24 hours alone, I've been banged up down right left center with a whole long list of work to complete, project meetings to attend, a thousand and one errands to run and some other important extra curricular activities and duties. Oh gosh. 24 hours can surely change your week drastically! Now I'm hoping my parents will let me use the car more often this week. It'll definitely speed things up just that I still can't park for nuts.Friday, September 23, 2005 05:56 p.m.
Ah! Just as I decided to start skipping Stats tutorials because I really don't get anything from it, the tutor commented today that he'll start taking attendance because he needs to award class participation marks. Argh! And since it's stats class, he randomly selected 6 different groups to present the next few case studies and our group was selected! Argh. So much for randomness! I don't know whether this case presentation would count but we better work to maintain our A! Anyway, went to cut my hair after class and gosh, the hairdresser cut my fringe a tad too short. Oh well, it'll grow back just that I'll look weird in the meantime. I'm having this horrible cold now and my nose is dripping. I don't even know how I got it but I've been sneezing the whole entire day. Might be sinus but I slept the afternoon away and it hasn't gone away yet. Argh, my eyes feel so heavy too because of the cold and I'm having cramps. Argh. Can't even do anything productive because of the cold. Dinner with the folks then it's church! I want something hot for dinner.Thursday, September 22, 2005 11:48 p.m.
I know it has only been 4 days since the mid semester break ended and it might be a little fast to say this, but I'm enjoying school and I love going for classes! I hope I don't jinx myself but there's so much less dread now and I actually look forward to classes, meeting my tutorial mates and hanging out with them, getting to know them better, planning the Sentosa outing over lunch with my OB project mates, jacking my first Ah Beng friend, talking to Shu Hui at lectures, listening to certain interesting tutors and learning so much from them. Gosh, I even did my accounting tutorial for the first time this semester! I don't even mind traveling for 3 hours everyday just to attend a 2 hour lecture! Even Shu Hui told me today I looked visibly happier this week! It makes me wonder if it's because I've decided not to stay in the halls for most part of this semester already or it's because school hasn't swung into full mode yet and the projects are less demanding now. I don't know. But I really think it's because I'm going home everyday now so I take on school one day at a time instead of one week at a go. It's also probably because I know I won't have to cart my toiletries to the shower, I get my cold dry clean toilet, aircon, I know I don't have to look around for canteen food and I get toast with jam and a glass of ice milo every morning and yes, I don't have to put together 5 sets of clothes every sunday night. I like waking up in the morning and staring at my clothes in the cupboard and then finding something to wear that suits my mood. Anyway, 830AM stats class tomorrow and I'll be done for the week!Monday, September 19, 2005 10:47 a.m.
My group at YMLC: Wonderful, entertaining, honest bunch of like minded Christians serving in various ministries back in their own methodist church.
Sunday, September 18, 2005 08:31 p.m.
I'm back and I'm starting school tomorrow. Ugh.Thursday, September 15, 2005 09:51 a.m.
Before I leave home in a few minutes to catch my noon flight up to Bangkok and spend the next 4 days there shopping and eating to my heart's content, let me leave you with something Dr Roland Chia wrote in the Methodist Message a couple of months back. " The believer is different for he knows that his every breath and everything that he is able to accomplish and enjoy are special graces from God. And even when confronted with suffering, tragedy and pain that are wrapped up with this fallen reality, the believer is able to put his trust in God and in the firm knowledge that He has everything within His sovereign control. In good times as well as in bad, the believer celebrates life as a gift from God. In joy or in sorrow, the believer will live his life with humility and in gratitude, always in fear of the Lord and in obedience to His Word. And in every circumstance, the believer can find meaning because he knows that God has not abandoned him."Wednesday, September 14, 2005 10:12 a.m.
10 minutes stretches to 20 minutes. An hour drags on to two. And it has been like this from the start. Always difficult to leave, never wanting to leave, always planning in the car when our next meeting will be, always counting down the number of days till we meet again because we don't have the liberty to meet up at our fancy, because I'm 30minutes away by car, because we both have so many other commitments and responsibilities that demand our attention, because we have a list of 101 tasks to complete, because, because, because. But it's those special times with you that I feel I don't have to fight and struggle with whatever I come face to face with everyday, that I can shut my eyes and know that someone's watching over me, that I can breathe in slowly and smell you nearby and know that I've just made it through another week, that everything is going to be alright and I'm back in your arms again.Tuesday, September 13, 2005 02:23 p.m.
I'm at the cafe outside the National Library now doing my Financial management project and it's a really nice place to be doing your project! It's amazing that we all managed to connect up to some wireless connection as well so we can MSN! Haha. My group's really nice and everyone did so much work while I was away that I feel so bad. The only bad thing is that when girls come together, we end up getting distracted and end up talking about shopping and food. Haha. My throat hurts like crap and I spent the entire day yesterday sleeping and drinking honey water. I'm feeling slightly better today but it's still painful swallowing saliva and I feel so bloated from drinking so much water. Ah. I want to be totally well before I go to Bangkok. Anyway, I'm going to get back to my project. We've been sitting here for about 2 hours and I'm getting tired already. We hope to get the majority of it done by 5PM so that we can at least breathe much more easily then I'm going to Edmund's to watch Initial D.Sunday, September 11, 2005 10:33 p.m.
Came back from YMLC yesterday evening. It was a good break and the talks by the TRAC president Rev Wee Boon Hup and Pastor Malcolm was so so good! Rev Wee was really frank and honest and I thought he brought a new perspective to issues that we are already familar with and it was a very good timely reminder. Pastor Malcolm's talk totally sucked up all my brain jucies as I tried to process the information but it was equally good and I'm quite glad I had a bit of basic knowledge of his topic so it was easy to follow along and digest. Other than the talks, everything was pretty good as well except for the lack of sleep. We had quite a bit of free time so we managed to squeeze in time to play Daytona, eat, have coffee and play bluff till 4AM in the night. Haha. Had Yado in my group and the group was really nice as well so it was lovely having dinner with them and just talking to them. After coming home last night, my mum wanted to pre celebrate my dad's birthday so we went with to the seafood place in Ang Mo Kio for crabs and seafood. E came along and daddy was just talking to him throughout dinner. There were certain parts of the conversation where daddy was hinting so strongly at some matters but E thinks that he has a hidden meaning in everything he said and he was busy dissecting and analyzing the entire dinner conversation, it was hilarious! Haha. It's really quite funny when you look back. Haha. Anyway, church today then there was camp comm meeting. Was supposed to go help paint the handicap association's place with Aveline but didn't in the end. Decided to take a quick trip down to Orchard for a short while before going to my grandma's house for dinner since Edmund needed to get his shoes and managed to pick up a skirt while there so i'm happy! Off to Bangkok this coming Thursday too for the weekend. And mid semester recess is here so I am honestly so glad. I'm looking forward to getting some good sleep and doing the things I like to do even though I have to meet up with my project group to discuss our financial management project.Wednesday, September 7, 2005 07:48 p.m.
Mid semester break is here! And I've concluded 7 weeks of school. I don't know how best to write about my experience, the challenges I faced, the pain and joy I felt but it has been one heck of a ride. Dinner with my parents, then I'm going to do some packing before meeting the church folks for supper!Monday, September 5, 2005 10:08 p.m.
Remember how I wrote about a week and a half back that I have 9 school days and 7 nights of sleeping over in the Hall till mid semester break? Well, good news! I have only 2 more school days! Tomorrow and Wednesday before I leave on Thursday for the Young Methodist Leaders conference in JB then it'll be my one week mid sem break. Haha! I also have zero days of sleeping over in the hall because I didn't want to stay tonight and tomorrow, I'll be going down to go see the vatican treasures with Jac and whoever else that comes along so it make sense to go home! Now, all I need to do is get over and done with the accounting test tomorrow and Wednesday should be a breeze! I'm so worried I won't know which account to debit or credit or how I should calculate this and that. I hope I manage tomorrow and I'm hoping I get a C grade at least. Still not comfortable with debit and credit, putting the values in the various accounts and doing adjusting entries.Friday, September 2, 2005 10:39 a.m.
I'm so happy! We got an A+ for our Statistics project! I'm so glad! At least all the late nights reading our notes and sitting in front of the computer churning out the report paid off! Now I don't feel so bad that I'm way behind in my stats class. Haha. I feel it's a bit unfair though that a particular member in our group gets the grades too because she really didn't contribute at all and she only turned up on the last night before we were supposed to hand it in. But who cares, we got an A+ and I'm so thankful for that! Super happy as well because class ended half an hour earlier so I'm already back at my halls just packing up and waiting for daddy to bring me home! I'm going home and I can't wait! Meeting Faith tonight for dinner and there's Bryan Hoo's wedding tomorrow! Honestly, I can't wait to get back (clean toilet and aircon!) even though I have truckloads of accounting work to do! The weekend's off to a good start!Friday, September 2, 2005 09:06 a.m.
What's the purpose of staying on campus if it takes me 35 minutes to get to class? I was at the bus stop at 8:10AM and I only got to class at 8:50AM. 3 shuttle buses came by but it was all full! Even the 199 SBS buses were full! Irritating. The school should just increase the frequency of the shuttle buses during peak hours! Because I couldn't get on the bus and it was raining, I'm once again late for my 830AM Statistics class. I've never been on time for this class anyway. I don't even know why I bother coming when I don't understand what's going on (the tutor's brillant but his accent is so strong and he cannot explain properly!) and all I ever do when I come here is log on MSN and read my other notes.Thursday, September 1, 2005 05:17 p.m.
I completely forgot that all the primary, secondary and JC buggers got a school holiday today because it's teachers' day! It's so unfair! Why don't universities celebrate teachers' day! I want a school holiday! I would assume that my poor lecturers and tutors would like a holiday too! Anyway, I cleaned my room yesterday night! Big accomplishment because the room hasn't been swept or mopped for the past 6 weeks and it's my first time cleaning my own room! Haha. Everyone I met while I was returning the broom to Aveline and Qian and everyone who walked by my room and saw me cleaning up just couldn't believe it! Haha. I borrowed the broom and dustpan from Aveline and Qian and just took a random mop and pail outside my hall. The room was so dusty and all I couldn't take it anymore so I decided to clean it up! Was sweating while cleaning up but I'm feeling supremely satisfied! My mum's going to be so proud of me when she hears this! It struck me today that I'm really far back in my work and readings. I don't do any tutorials or read my textbook! All I do is read my lecture notes. I think I better start pulling up my socks or else I'll have to repeat my modules next semester and that would just be damn depressing and I can't imagine my parents barking at me. I honestly freaked out when I realized how far behind I was. So now I'm in a panic mode. Accounting test next Tuesday and because I haven't been doing my tutorials or reading my text, I have a total of 389 pages of boring, single line, size font 8 accounting text to read this weekend. Yes, I'm dead meat. Going to take a quick nap first before I wake up and attempt to start reading the accounting stuff. Have inter block games and a sub comm meeting later too. I'm really worried for my studies now. Crap. My fault really, since the last 2 weeks, I just concentrated on doing my projects that I totally neglected my work. Augh. Shucks. I promised myself that when I start school again after the mid semester recess, I'll better manage my time so that I can keep up and balance my projects, tutorials, tests and all and I won't be lazy in reading my texts. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------