update after one sem

Ok so yet another sem has passed. 4 modules and 1 elective this sem are definitely not easy to cope with. I didn't even any committments this semester. Stepped down from uoc and although I am in WSC, it's obvious that I'm not really committed to it other than going for the weekly sign language lessons (which I ponned one time because of projects). Nevertheless, I'm still glad that I passed my sign language test (make that a REtest, because i FAILED the first time). I am really hoping for the best on 18th Jan, just praying hard that my GPA doesn't drop, or even better, just let me rise a bit to 4.5? (fingers crossed). Frankly speaking, it doesn't matter if you get 4.01 or 4.49, because ultimately, it's still a second upper, BUT the effort you need to put in for a 4.01 and 4.49 is so different! PRAYS HARDS that I can get my 4.5.

Been going out for the past few days, and I'm seriously broke. Went shopping for gift exchange stuff with Angeline and Sm on Thurs, and before that, I went to eat dinner alone after work. It was nice to sit and chill with a book on hand. Friday's Christmas eve was spent with M group. Went shopping with Clem and Jh at Giant to buy all the Christmas food! Clem was sad that there was no turkey and so we had to settle for 4 chickens instead. Wanted to buy beer, but 0ver budget sighhh (though someone bought vodka in the end hahah). Bought a totally cui to the max present for the gift exchange, cos we were in a rush for time. Chocolates, what else. Clem was totally against the chocolates, but Jh and I persuaded him to buy (hello, NO TIME). In the end, all 3 of us bought chocs. Guess what, in the end, Clem got MY chocs as his present in the gift exchange. Talk about irony hahaha! Couldn't stop laughing at him! Photos will be up on fb soon I guess, and there's tons of unglam photos with me laughing my head off and Clem's 0.0 face having received the chocs. Tonight will be spending Christmas with 07! It's been a long time since I saw them. One sem? I think I always disappear when school starts. :X Don't worry, it's not chocs for 07 gift exchange.

Ok and... I need to start exercising. Was very motivated after my exams ended, determined to lose all the flab. Went swimming on Monday, running on Tuesday, and swimming again on Wednesday. But Thursday, Friday and now, Saturday spent on going out and eating non-stop. Shit ttm. Should get some workout before work starts on Monday. Yes, working for Popular again for a one week bookfair. Pay is still as sucky as ever, but I think anything's better than slacking at home since I can't find a job anyway given my erratic schedule (because of wsc song sign and my water rafting trip to msia-I'm damn excited by that :D)

On a side note, I don't understand why some people like to sweet talk that much. Hello, I'm not easily swayed by such nonsense, and it irritates the hell out of me. I'm now quite pissed by people randomly talking cock.

Picnic at Botanics+Wii at Eliza's

Went out for a picnic with my nbs og and seniors:) Thanks to Jessica for planning! After that, we went to Eliza's house for an impromptu dinner and Wii session, and had our first ever Bowl Clan Tennis Wimbledon hahaha! Left E's house at 1115pm at with the rest, and went back home with Chongyi cos we were the only two easties there. But, we waited for the stupid bus for 30 mins, and by the time we were at the MRT, the last train has already got off long ago. =.= And wanting to save money and not take a cab home, cos of the ridiculous cab fees and midnight charge, we decided to take the night rider home. Took 3 HOURS to reach home cos we had to change night rider buses halfway. Bleah, and did many cui stuff like running after buses (wrong buses somemore) and walk around like idiots finding the bus stops (even had to ask one construction worker where the bus stop was) =.= So in the end, I got home at 3AM in the midst of a thunderstorm. Sorry dad for making you worried :(

DIVING

I'm so tempted to learn diving! Asked Sun Leng who got her Open Water license with NTU Divers, and she said it only took her about 1 week to get her license. Basically, it costs about $500 and includes Theory lessons, pool lessons and 4 actual dives to Pulau Dayang or Tioman. The cost is a huge deterrent though. I need to SAVE SAVE SAVE, since I don't see my parents sponsoring this. In fact, they did not even approve of me going to Krabi this holidays because of all the water sports that I would be doing. They are scared that I will drown or what not. But, I had already made all the necessary payment myself and confirmed the Krabi trip, before telling my parents a few weeks prior to the trip. I was lucky that they didn't go ballistic on me.

Anyhow, back to diving. Year 2 seems impossible to learn diving as I have to go on a 10 week internship during my 11 weeks vacation (Yes, that means NO holidays for year 2 wth! All cos of YOG, our summer break in Yr 2 is shorten) :( I was thinking that maybe I can do this for my grad trip in Yr 3! I need a dive buddy! Who wants to learn diving :D

I've been staying home the past week (except for M group dinner on Friday), and I must say, I love the feeling of lying in bed and not feeling any pressure to get up! I could tell that my parents are happy that they got to see me more often during dinner, and even when I got home at 2am on Friday after M group dinner (yes, horrible timing at 2AM), they did not even nagged at me! Of course, there's money saved from all those lunches/dinners outside.

These 3 weeks

Finally back home! Been away for 3 weeks from home because of a really hectic schedule. Sometimes I wonder why do I like jetting around so much (2 days at home in a total of 3 weeks)

19th -23rd July: NBS Camp
24th: Rest at home
25th-30th: UOC Camp (M GROUP :D)
31st: Rest at home
1st-6th Aug: Krabi and Phuket

I was a fake freshie for NBS camp, and revealed myself on the third day to the freshies. Some of them were kind of stunned, especially those freshies whom I was closer to. It was quite sian playing games like Nanyang Lake all over again, although it was kind of an major ego boost when I heard people shouting my name when sliding down Nanyang Lake hahahahah. I went to NBS camp with an open mindset because I don't really know the people there very well. Afterall, I was pulled into Kosac to join as a Senior Attached, whereas the rest of the seniors had already known each other for about a year. It is hard to break into the senior clique, which resulted in me becoming much closer to the freshies than the seniors (especially since I was a fake freshie for a few days, playing all the mud and dirty games with the rest of the freshies- I felt kind of sad that they weren't from my batch) But overall, it was quite an experience joining NBS camp, and I must say I really got to know more people from my own faculty.

After NBS camp, it was time for UOC! This is the camp that I was involved in for a year, and this is the camp that I really look forward too! I'm glad that even after a year, Magnus and M group is so close. I feel really happy whenever I'm out for outings with them :D They are the people who really make my NTU days a much more enjoyable and liveable one! Jia Hua and I cried when they announced the best GL award because my GL, Clement, is THE BEST GL! It's been a long and hard journey for him throughout the past 1 year, but I'm really glad that I voted for him to be our GL one year ago.

Then, it was off for Krabi. Signed up for the trip not really knowing anyone (unless you count Aiman whom I didn't really keep in contact with for the past few years. Although she was one of my closer friends in Sec School :X) I really enjoyed the Krabi trip...because I got to experience a lot of new things and water sports! Activities like snorkelling, cliff jumping (really scary experience), mudfight in the middle of the river, kayaking, climbing up 1270 stairs to visit a shrine at the top of the mountain, elephant trekking in the middle of the jungle (where the elephants will just wade across the river bed and pass through the dense forest), going into the natural hot springs, Thai massage almost everyday etc etc.

Krabi was a very laidback place. Dinner could take 45 mins to 1 hour to be served, but no one complains. We just sat down on the mats/chairs, listening to the live band and watched performances like fire twirling and magic tricks. After this, I'm motivated to learn diving next sem! I am thinking of joining with NTU Divers. At the cost of about $500, I will be able to get my dive license and go on 2 dive trips to Tioman. :D

i'm back!

Back from a 3days and 2 nights holiday from Genting! Really had fun! It's not so much of the attractions in Genting per se, but it's more of the company. My group is seriously a fun bunch of people, and I haven't laughed so much since...goodness knows when. But somebody got outcasted, and he became the target of everyone's "outcasting"...

updates

This is going to be a bimbo post. I went to Watsons just now on a shopping spree, and spent quite a bomb :( Need to curb my spendthrift habits...Replenished my cleanser, conditioner and shampoo. Really don't understand why I have to pay for all these when it's used by the household?! Sorry I know I sound damn niao (dialect for stingy), BUT my heart really ache when I see my money going out from my bank like nobody's business.

Turning into a makeup junkie because boss says must put on makeup when meeting clients and all that. According to them, it's a form of RESPECT cos you don't want to look like you just got out of bed when meeting them. Makeup burns a huge hole in my pocket. Another reason why it's great to be a guy. Anyway, I went to Keppel Fels last Friday to attend some briefing for an oil rig naming ceremony. Boss told me to go there myself, and to cab there from Tampines. The taxi fare was a whopping $45. SIAO. I could see that the taxi driver was really happy when I heard I was going to Joo Koon. The briefing was boring, but got to network with other people from other events company.

I'm getting addicted to Gossip Girl. I know it's kind of late that I'm only starting on the episodes now, but it's damm addictive with all the backstabbing and bitching :D Jasmine and I LOVE CHUCK! Next week is going to be a busy week! And I'm going to GENTING! Not feeling very excited now, but oh well, perhaps the excited feeling will come as the day draws near.

I don't want to think about this

You know that you're stressed, when you just ate a whole bar of chocolate by yourself. And yes, I just did that. And no, it's not work related. I have been thinking about this for the past few days, and I have not come to an answer as to what I should do.

spinning woman

Just came back from swimming at Safra. It's been so long since I gave my muscles a good stretch, since I'm practically coped behind the desk 9 hours a day, 5 days a week. And when I get home, I'm usually too tired to do anything else other than nua on my bed. As I went to swim at night, the lights in the swimming pool reflected on the bottom of the pool,forming many flickering swirls of white images. It was really a pretty sight :) Oh, and I forgot to bring my towel. So I was a soaking mess after I bathe, and water was dripping down my hair onto my shirt like crazy, as I cycled back to my house. I think those passer-bys who saw me probably thought I was some deranged woman, because my whole body was dripping wet. -.-

By the way, I saw this optical illusion thing on my friend's blog just now. I guess many of you have already seen this before.

Watch the optical illusion here: (Don't know why Blogger cui and cannot upload the GIF image)

The amazing thing is that this woman used to spin anti-clockwise to me at first glance. But now, when I took a look at it, it actually spins CLOCKWISE! I googled "spinning woman" and this was what I found: If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa. And here are some of the right brain functions:

• uses feeling
• "big picture" oriented
• imagination rules
• symbols and images
• present and future
• philosophy & religion
• can "get it" (i.e. meaning)
• believes
• appreciates
• spatial perception
• knows object function
• fantasy based
• presents possibilities
• impetuous
• risk taking

I was always a left brain person ie. someone who uses logic, detailed orientation, practical etc (you know what I mean). So I was quite surprised when the woman spinned clockwise for me haha...maybe it's the miracles after entering nbs. :D

So what do you see?

:(

I was so bloody pissed off at someone yesterday. Long story, and I'm lazy to explain. My bloody really boiled to the max, and I ALMOST wanted to said the f word to him (you can see how mad I was as I am not even a person who swears). I realised that when you absolutely dislike someone, you find everything about him irritating, and everything about him really starts to get on my nerves. Amazingly, everyone found him to be damm shuai looking. Even the GUYS who saw his fb were like "wow, good looking sia". His cocky attitude and the way he thinks that he's always right spoils everything. Luckily I saw the funny offline message that my friend left me on msn, and that's why I didn't explode right there and then.

Luckily, my colleagues at work keep me sane. Speaking of my colleagues, I'm really thankful for such a funny and bunch of people who I work with everyday. :D

PIssed

Friday was a horrible day. Forgot to bring uoc shirt for phototaking, and had to trouble Clement to pop by to my house to collect the shirt. Then after one whole day at work meeting sponsors, I had to rush to NTU for uoc meeting without having dinner. Then, the meeting ended at 11pm =.= After kx told me all the deadline that I have to rush this coming two weeks, I was like wth. Feel damn apologetic to darren and kb cos they waited so long for me to have dinner as their gl meeting ended earlier, and in the end, they still had to leave without dinner because by 10pm, kx still had a lot of stuff to discuss for pnp. So, I went home hungry and tired, and what I reached home, I was even more pissed because my dad immediately started to rant at me for coming home so late. I cannot control what time the meeting ends right? I know my dad is concerned about me because apparently, there are some stabbing incidents around my area. Clement told me about the series of robberies around my area, and he said that his friend kena stabbed. Maybe that's why they installed CCTV at my lift. =.= When did Tampines become so unsafe?!?! I've always thought Tampines is this friendly and nice neighbourhood hahah...

The Wii came on Saturday morning, and as I am typing now, Sandy is playing bowling on Wii Sports. I got the Wii because I replied to this email on my NTU webmail. Some people in WKW Sch of Comms wanted to conduct a study on the effect of games on parent-child relationship, and coincidentally, my family fits the bill because my family has a "grandparent living at home" and "a child below the age of 16". So, the Wii will be stuck in my house for 3 weeks. So after the Wii guy came in the morning to set up the Wii and explained the study to me (I have to keep a diary log), then I went to Starbucks for the rest of the day to do the designs for UOC. Yes, entire day from 2 to 10pm. Amazing how starbucks ppl never kick me out.

I had to crap out forewords for Alan and Kx, and by the time I got to Kx's foreword, I had nothing to say liao. lol. I would seem like a stalker to those people in Starbucks, because I had to put kx, darwis, alan and sh's photos in the booklet. And what better way to pick photos than our favourite Facebook. Therefore, I kept clicking pics in Fb, and when I saw one that I like, I saved it, and edited them in Photoshop. And of course when using Photoshop, I had to ZOOM in to edit the picture. It's not surprising why I heard one little girl commenting "Eh, why the person so weird keep looking and zooming people's pictures." But booklet is finally done, although it's not very nice, but I'm just glad to complete one thing. Also redid the banner because the resolution was too bad to be printed.

And speaking of UOC really makes my blood boil...I'm sorry for ranting on and on to you about uoc stuff on msn. Not many people know about the matter which I told you about, and I cannot afford to say because we have so many common friends which will just lead to potential awkwardness when the others know about it. Thanks for standing up for me and seeing her face change when you talked about that issue (I think that was definitely epic), as well as offering to help me. :D

Ok, I just told mum about the genting/kl trip with m group. And kena scolded, because she feels that it is a waste of money because I have been to genting and kl a million times already, and she says that I'm like flying all over the place because I'm going Krabi too. But, with different company it's different leh. =.=

Thank you SM GOH for the "advice" just now,

The title pretty much says it all :D

Rise and rise again until lambs become lions

I am awake at this unholy hour because I had just come home after watching Robin Hood. The movie bored me to death because it was so long! I fell asleep halfway throughout the movie, and when I woke up, I told Clement "Eh I don't know what is happening leh." Nevertheless, the fight scenes at the end were great, lot's of arrows shooting around and lot's of people getting killed with arrows stuck in their head, throat or body. The title above is one of my favourite lines from the movie, which basically means NEVER TO GIVE UP :D Isn't it ironic that I've watched Robin Hood, but not Iron Man or Ip Man?

And now, I'm uploading the photos to the UOC page. Feel quite shi bai as pnp, especially when Mun Fong asked me yesterday why there's nothing on the website (not even the date of the camp) when the camp is so near. And I still haven't send out the email about the t shirts to the GLs. OMG.Another sleepless night tonight.

Something Zi Shuo said made me feel that I'm being exploited by Lines. And Clement basically just told me to quit my job.

Work life so far

Today is my second day of work at Lines Advertising, and I'm really tired. I didn't expect they would pass so much work for an intern (namely, ME) to do, and to actually entrust me with so much responsibilities. Currently, Lines Advertising is running a DJ Competition for Singapore Discovery Center, consisting of many roadshows and finally cumulating in a final showdown competition somewhere in June. They actually asked me to go and be in charge of all the sponsorships and publicity aspects of the event. Hence for the past few days, I was busy doing contacting sponsors. Definitely more xiong than UOC because it's biz mag and pnp rolled into one! Work starts at 9am and ends at 6.30pm, but I'm aways the first one to leave because everybody is still doing their work. That said, my colleagues and boss are really nice people. Perhaps because the company is small, that's why everyone is so close knitted.:D It's great to feel empowered, because I sense that they really trust me with my work by giving me actial responsibilities (and not menial jobs like photocopying stuff or data entry stuff). But, it doesn't feel like an internship. It feels like an actual JOB. Actually, I'm quite scared that I'll burn out or screw up (whichever comes first), because I feel quite overwhelmed by everything. I'm serious, although it's only the second day, I already feel rather overwhelmed. Wait till you see the long list of stuff I have to handle and you'll understand why). There's this short meeting at the end of the day where you have to update others what you have done so far on your part.

Luckily, I had a breather tonight by having dinner with my friend.We went to this Thai place near City Hall mrt, and the food was definitely great (not to mention CHEAP. Somemore, there's no GST and service charge, so it's really worth it! Another great company tomorrow night as there's dinner with M group! And, my Wii will be coming on Thusday (I'm not so rich to buy a Wii lah, shall update about this Wii thing another time). Finally, UOC meeting on Friday, and I'm also volunteering for Singapore Art Fest, so there's training this Sat too. Busy busy week ahead!

No longer a freshie

I'm free! Year 1 of uni is OVER! :D

Got back my facebook account from SM today. I realised that habits can really die, somehow, I don't feel the "excitement" logging into Facebook liao! Perhaps I've kicked that addiction?

Going for internship interview tomorrow. Pay is shitty and lousy, but job scope sounds okay. But my parents are quite against it because they said that "a dishwasher at some food court can easily earn more than that".

Tomorrow will be the start of my HEALTHY LIFESTYLE CAMPAIGN! First up, I'm going swimming at Safra! Wl was nice enough to lend me his safra card so it means I get to enjoy hot showers when I bathe after swimming! :D

On a side note, GOH SIEW MIN- I'm going to miss you so much when you go off to NUS next Sem! (Not to sound les of course) :( I realised I really xiang yi wei ming with you in nbs, and we sort of got much closer after spending one year together? And did you realised we have never taken a photo together throughout our entire year 1 in nbs!?!

Ikea is the new place to mug

Seems like I'm blogging more and more during this exam period. BLEAH. Am online now trying to read up stuff for marketing, but seriously, I don't know what to read up on! It's like a hit and miss subject for me. Really hope I'll leave the exam hall :D :D :D on Wednesday, instead of that shitty feeling I had for OB. Please give me stuff to crap on! Damm scared that everyone will be scribing like mad and I'll be staring at the paper and flipping my textbook. =.=

I went to mug at IKEA today, and I feel that it's quite a nice place to study! Personally, I cannot study in too quiet environments (like the library) because I'll be even more distracted. (Weird huh). Ikea is a fab place because it's big and sunny and airy (I sat next to the windows so the sun was shinning brightly on my paper- LOVE IT!). Moreover, there was food. Plenty of food in fact. I reached Ikea at 9.30am, and grabbed this breakfast set consisting of a croissant, german sausages, hashbrowns and scrambled eggs! $3 ONLY! Definitely better value for money as compared to MacDonald's breakfast. Then at noon, I was hungry again, so went to buy my favourite Ikea Meatballs :D Spent quite a lot, but it was worth it!

I think Ikea is the new place for people to mug...because I saw several groups of people studying there too. No one ever chases you away. And when I was bored, I went to shop around in Ikea and took a look at all those furniture hahah (typical aunty behavior right).

Even my parents think my mugging places are really weird, because I went to the FOOD COURT to mug last Saturday with Jasmine for Stats paper. There's this halal food court in Century Square which is rather nice to study too! And the desserts there are really nice! Speaking of Jasmine, I really think it's quite cool how the both of us managed to meet each other and became friends. I met her through a scholarship tea session last year because I wanted to apply for the Firefly scholarship. Then we realised that both of us were going to nbs, and even stayed in Tampines. And that's how we managed to keep in contact all these months, gossiping about eye candies in nbs, chatting on msn and even mugging together. Fate I guess?

Ok, off to mug for mrkting again! Really happy that Chelsea won the match against Liverpool on Sunday. POSITIVE SIGN! Hopefully they will win the league again! :D

WORLD CUP!

The 2010 WORLD CUP IS HERE! Just heard the song for the 2010 World Cup, and sorry, it left me very bewildered. The song is "Waka Waka" by Shakira. Wait, isn't Waka the game I used to be addicted to on Facebook?

And what's with the "African" Language in the song? But nevertheless, looking forward to the World Cup! And time sure passes very fast. I still remember 4 years ago when I fervently supported Germany. They lost to Italy in the Semi Finals, but went on to beat Portugal 3-1 to get the third place finishing. And of course, 2006 marks the year Michael Ballack transferred to CHELSEA hahah! Aiman could never understand my fixation with Michael Ballack, but it soon became a running joke during my Sec 4 years....:D

The video that just cheered my day:

In the midst of exams. 2 down, and 2 more to go. Acc and Ob didn't go well for me, and when I say it didn't go well, it means it is really disastrous. Careless mistakes, no time to complete...BLEAH. Left with Stats and Marketing. Feeling confident for Stats? (I hope so, hope that I don't screw up for linear programming and Hypothesis testing). Haven't touch marketing at all (and marketing is another OB because marketing lectures are like story telling sessions, when we listen to Prof Hooi's stories but never really absorb what he's saying. But luckily, there's 7 days after Stats to mug for marketing.

Really looking forward to the end of exams! I think one of the best feelings one could ever have is the end-of-exams feeling! But lot's of things to do after exams though. For one, I really need to get back into shape. Exam season is always damaging to my body because of the lack of sleep (resulting in bad skin and pimples) and binge eating (weight gain!) My friend told me yesterday that ever since he entered nbs, he's been losing weight like crazy cause of the stress. But for me, it's the completely opposite. I use food as a source of comfort (which is really bad), and that's why I always BALLOON up during this period. So definitely need to get back into shape. lol!

Another thing I'm considering is whether to take up a job during this 4 months. I know I will be busy with UOC stuff, but I need to earn some money because my bank account balance is dwindling like crazy, and parents still don't want to give me allowance leh (since they say my bank account still got money). BUT BUT BUT my own money is for buying my own stuff leh, not for my daily living expenses :( I have got an internship offer at some place I would not disclose yet, but the pay is a measly $500/month. Still don't know whether I should take it.

SOMETHING RANDOM! I'm really looking forward to my Krabi Trip!

the usual exam rants

Good things never lasts.

This sem might have been tough, but at least it was going fine for me.

And just when I hought everything was going yi fan feng shun, my acc project got a B. Yes, a disastrous B. Quite sad, ok make that very sad, because I really enjoyed working with my acc group, and I thought we would get an A- at the least. What makes it worse is that it's bloody 20%. TWENTY PERCENT. It kinds of screw things up, because I keep having this feeling that no matter how hard I work for my finals, it will still remain at a B grade, hence pulling my whole GPA down. B is only 3.5, and even if I do well for the rest of the modules, my GPA will be cui too. Sigh. I knew my good luck wouldn't last long.

Exams in a few days time, and I'm so unprepared for it. I keep telling myself to work at my own pace and not to be affected by others. But sadly, my progress is really slow, cause I haven't been doing my OB readings consistently since the start of the sem, and I am having difficulty trying to catch up on my readings and mug at the same time. It really sucks when I see people doing exam papers, and here am I, struggling to complete my readings.

Ok, off to rest for a while and continue with my OB readings. NLB tomorrow with Sm Goh (hope I don't oversleep). Sm and I were saying today that we are really the same "kuan" during exams. Carol, you can do it :D :D

updates

Hectic sem once again in nbs. What's new? But things are looking great for me. Just hope that this can continue till this sem ends. :)

Had accounting mid terms this Wed, sad to say, I am not confident of getting the grade that I want. Too many careless mistakes once again. And I didn't read some stuff which came out. -.-

Squatted in hall from Tue to Fri due to accounting test and marketing presentation. Sometimes, I think to myself: Was it a mistake / a rash decision to leave my hall for my house? The 2 hour journey sometimes takes a toll on me, and more often than not, I arrive home tired and sian. And when projects come, I really wish I had a room in hall to go to, and not chiong the train back home to Tampines. And I feel bad for imposing on Sm and Angeline. Sm and Angeline, sorry for the times I had to stay in your room :( And sm, thanks especially for lending me your mattress and pillow and table. You're really one great roomie! But, I told myself not to regret cause at one time last year, the decision was what I wanted. I love my home to much, and I think I was a bit sian of going back to my four walls in hall every day. So given a choice now, I think I would still make the decision to travel to and fro to school :)

On a side note, my first ever marketing assessed presentation is OVER! I ♥ ♥ ♥ my marketing group! I think we really worked well together, and had fun in the process! One of the best project teams I have worked in so far :) Thanks Cl, Linghui, Jiawei and Angeline for making Summer Frost a success! I really hope we can get the A (which I think we deserve after putting in so much hard work for it). And I think Cl really wasted a lot of petrol on this project, because he keeps driving us to and fro from his hall, to NBS, to Can 2 and to whatever place we go. So after Summer Frost, next up for marketing will be Viagogo!

On a side note, I really really need to step up on reading my marketing textbook and OB text. My readings are accumulating like mad, and exams are only in a few weeks time?!? (I think).

Somethings to keep me excited and going:

1) KRABI Trip! (Yes, I'm going to Thailand!) Krabi is this resort in Thailand which resembles Phuket, but it's less crowded than Phuket. The trip is organised by NTU ODAC, and I will be going with Aiman, my secondary school friend. Since the trip is from 1aug to 6 aug right after uoc, I guess I will be really tired on the plane! But I'm damm excited by the activities on the itinerary! There's snorkelling, cliff diving, elephant trekking, kayaking and SHOPPING!

2) Msia Trip with my Magnus!

Need to look for a job! Money in bank account depleting like siao.

Can't wait for this semester to be over.

2 OB assignments

Acc project

What's left: 2 marketing projects (! foresee many sleepless nights); Acc mid terms, 2 Stats quiz

Hope lady luck will be on my side this sem :D

Finished my OB report and submitted on Monday. I think Jos Lang really hates my group cause my group is really damm noisy. Although there's no class participation for OB, but there's an implicit effect of a teacher hating your group. It means that she will most probably mark you down for your assignments, which is worth 40%. Oh well. :( But for 4 hours of OB, if my group weren't so fun to talk to, I think I will die horribly. BUT, it still sucks having a teacher hating your group.

And finally finished my Stats project and going to submit tomorrow. There's 5 people in my group, but one exchange student really free-ride like siao. Totally MIA. And according to what we learn in OB, there's a difference between free-riding and social loafting. I think people tend to social loaf during project work, especially if you have a ZAI group (which is why I'm grateful to my acc group although we haven't have much progress in our 20% project). But back to the slacker free-riding like siao exchange student...totally just pissess me off when I think of how he didn't contribute a single thing for Stats. And because of that, I left out his name in the group report. He didn't even realized. Seriously, I don't give a care about him anymore. I know it's quite bad for me to omit his name, and I know it doesn't make much of a difference (cos afterall, he's an exchange student and he can just s/u the subject). But it gives me a weird sense of satisfaction of not seeing his NICE NAME there.

And I'm getting more and more influenced by certain people. They have influenced me to not like people, even though I don't really know them very well. Shit. Ok, I know it doesn't make sense.

Random musings

...Why would you ever waste a day worrying about anything? - or think you should have done this or could have done that? Wake up to the WTF of it all and enjoy the ride. Look up and be in awe of the grand view. Be grateful and remind others of this miraculous now. It's your home after all.

happy and sad

Felt so stressed out suddenly. It's a hectic sem for me, much much more than last sem. Let's see:

Marketing: 4 projects, 1 individual report

Stats: 2 case study projects

Accounting: 1 challenging project

OB: 2 individual reports

Sigh, really squeezed out :( The thing is, they don't provide a framework or guidelines on how you're supposed to proceed for your project, esp Marketing and Accounting. It's all do-what-you-like, hit-or-miss. And now I'm chionging my marketing project on Popular Bookstore. :(

Happy things for this week:

1. On a happy note, I went for a focus group discussion for FreshKon Contacts Lens a few days ago. They asked us to try on 7 contact lens (some of their competitor's contact lenses and some of their own lenses which will soon be in the market) and provide feedback. And after 1.5 hours of providing my valuable feedback (!), I went home with $50 transportation fee and 2 months worth of FreshKon contact lenses. Quite worth it I think, and it was my first time experiencing a focus group discussion.

2. I won a dress from Clubcouture! Clubcouture is not your regular blogshop, but it is a sort of more atas online clothes shop based in UK. So I was randomly blog hopping on one of the Clubcouture ambassador's (Holly's) blog, and there was a contest to win a Clubcouture dress worth $30++....feeling very boliao, I just entered the contest. Basically, what I had to do was to select a dress and an accessory which exemplifies Holly's style. Since I did not really know what her style was, I just selected a dress I think it would look nice on her (: And since she's really tanned and has a boomz! figure, I chose a sexy white babydoll dress for her, and some bangles to accompany the outfit (since necklaces are getting rather boring). And yesterday, I went to check her blog, and it said that I WON! HAHAHA! Such simple boliao stuff makes me very happy (:

The outfit I picked!

Hope this is the start of better things to come (:

Start of a new sem

First week of Sem 2 has passed. I need to gear up my engine again. I don't know what is wrong with me, but I simply cannot find the motivation to start in my work. I have tutorials and A LOT of readings to do, but I keep procrastinating, and delaying. When did I become a procrastinator?! Goodness, Facebook and the Internet will seriously be my downfall. Hopefully, things will be much better next week, and I can find my motivation and determination again. Need to buck up in order to improve my GPA from last semester. (:

Actually, I'm in fact rather excited about the modules that I will be taking this sem. Marketing, Organisational Behavior, Statistics and Accounting. (I will TRY HARD to love accounting, after all, it is my rice bowl in the future lol) Once again, it's a project intensive semester, especially with Marketing with 4 projects. I'm looking forward to meeting new people and making new friends in my Marketing class, since there's no one there I know except for Angeline!

Next week will be a very hectic week. There's NTU Open House recruitment on Tuesday, and UOC meeting on Thurs. And, I haven't made the necessary changes to the designs 0.o Have a hunch that we will be bombarded and shot at this Thursday during the meeting :) But oh well, at least this sem won't be as boring as last sem? On a side note, my body clock is damn screwed up, I'm typing this at 3am in the morning, and my waking time will be around 10pm in the morning. Guess what, I was late for my Stats lecture last week as I overslept. Panicked like siao when I woke up, and managed to get out of the house within 5 minutes. Impressive yah? One of the disadvantages of not staying in hall. :( But if you ask me, I'm still loving life away from hall...FOR NOW. Somehow, I feel that I sleep better, and when I'm bored, I can always go and kachiao Sandy. I just need to be more motivated and have more focus, and I believe everything will turn out fine.

On a side note, I'm not going for exchange anymore. It's too expensive, and now, I feel guilty for being so childish and immature in my thinking. (Previous post was really a meaningless rant...reading the post now really makes me feel so dumb) Afterall, my parents have 4 kids to raise, and finances are tight now. I realised there's a high chance that my mother is going to be retrenched this year. All the more to save save and save. More opportunities will come my way (:

Pissed Off

Had a huge fight with my parents today regarding my decision to go for an exchange programme next semester. Initially, they agreed, and even asked me to come up with a budget regarding the accommodation, air ticket and living expenses. However, after I have shown them the rough estimate (approx $13,000 after converting to Singapore dollars), they proclaimed it was TOO EXPENSIVE, and proceeded to chide me for my decision to go abroad for the sake of 'experience'. So, apparently, my dream of going on an exchange programme is gone. I do understand that $13,000 is A LOT OF MONEY, but what I'm pissed off is that they gave me false hope.

If you don't want me to go on exchange in the first place, then don't tell me that I have a chance of going. Waste my time to do all the bloody course matching, budgeting and researching on the Universities. SIGH. I even offered to take up an interest free loan, and to repay it slowly with interest when I start working, but the parents say that I'll die from the interest. I ask them to sponsor me first, and I will pay them back when I start working, but they argue that the purpose of exchange is POINTLESS because I'm just going 'for the sake of going'.

And now, they are outside muttering about how I have changed so much since entering NTU (as if I am deaf and can't hear them bitching about me). I'm so tired of everything.