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Monday, October 27, 2008

hello all. for those who haven't heard...i'm going home soon! my supervisor is too nice :) but yea, its suddenly the end of the year again..somehow the second half of the year always seems to fly by so much faster than the first half. i'm happy to be going home of course, but somehow i wish the circumstances under which i'm going home earlier were better..things are gonna be weird this time around. not really sure what to expect also :(

really getting quite sian of my project already..but on the bright side, its nearing the end! yay. i just feel like i have so many other better things to do with my time right now. but in a way, its quite a blessing in disguise that this had to happen during my research year..better now than any other time. i just feel...why is all this happening at the same time :( but if there's one thing i've learnt over the years..no use wallowing either. just have to make the best out of the situation..sometimes, i'm very glad i got the chance to come here and study cos i'm away from it all..its quite miserable having to deal with it all in person. its so much easier to deal with it when i'm away from it all. but that doesn't really solve the problem does it.
~me~ at 10:44 PM

Friday, September 19, 2008

killing time now before I have to go for practice with my sister..haha we decided to join this talent night showcase thing (something like RGS night) at her hall..quite SCARED cos i've never done anything like this before..well I do recall performing a percussion act with my section during RGS night back in sec 3 but that was in a big group..tmr night its just me and my sister! i'm on drums and singing while my sis is on piano and singing..i just hope hope we at least sound OK. hehe but its been fun doing this with her :)

haha my elder sister had a piano concert of her own back in singapore just recently tooo..hehe she was telling me how she was so relieved after her performance, she let out a scream once she got backstage, not realising that the door had not yet shut properly so the audience heard her loud and clear..hahah but i'm glad things went well for her :) really wish i could have been there to hear her play. heheh lucas didn't go for the concert cos it was way past his bedtime..but then when asked, he said his mummy "played a sad song by Chopin".

so where has my last month gone to....erm..the usual stuff i suppose..ILP, work, music...gah music is seriously starting to drive me crazy..what with the many many assignments and assessments..i'm already looking forward to summer break and HOME. hehe my ILP supervisor is really so nice..she says i can go back home earlier this year as long as i get the data collection part settled by then..i can write up the actual report back home..so if things go as planned..i can go home a few weeks earlier than expected:)

haiii. don't know why..but recently i've just been feeling rather caged in..like i want to do more with my life but don't know what. its probably the effects of ILP...one year of doing this rubbish has just made my mind wander...i want to travel! i want to bungee jump! i want to go skiing again! i want to go see the northern lights! been looking into possible elective destinations for final year also..its pretty exciting just thinking about the places we might be going to..yay can't wait. for both electives and final year. the end is near!
~me~ at 5:33 PM

Friday, August 15, 2008

haha wow has it been 2 weeks since my last post already? doesn't quite feel like 2 weeks..feels like just yesterday i set off that alarm..hahaha.

so its friday again (yay!)..things to do by next monday..my music review and the focus group draft for my supervisor..plus the weekly quiz i have for aural music class..haha i was so nervous yesterday during the aural test..the teacher made each of us sing individually in front of half the class..i was so nervous my voice was literally shaking. hahah my classmate was sweet and tried to calm me down..but i think i'm just not able to sing when i know everyone can hear me..haha the only place i can sing is in church i think..when everyone else is singing too and i feel like just belting out the lyrics :)

ooh yes and i managed to get away with buying just one textbook..haha olivera (isn't that a pretty name?) suggested sharing books and we'd each photocopy the pages we needed each week for one another..abit ma fan but i guess its worth saving over $100..especially since i just received the red light fine i've been dreading for the last 2 weeks..i guess some part of me was still hoping i'd gotten away with it..sigh lesson learnt. a very very EXPENSIVE lesson :( thats more than 15hours worth of pay gone down the drain...booooo...

celebrated quite a few birthdays (four in total?) last weekend..haha so many august babies..all conceived during christmas cheer i suppose..hahaha. oh well if you count national day back home thats five birthdays! happy birthday singapore :) yes really i do love singapore. for being efficient, for being familiar, for the feeling of security. and although there are things i do complain about and wish people would change, i really am happy to be a singaporean :)

ooh and i like this photo..we look happy!:) perhaps the effect of hot chocolate on a cold winter's night at lindt cafe... :)


~me~ at 6:52 PM

Friday, August 01, 2008

tired..just got back from work..i'm glad its the weekend!

had a good week..considering it was the first week of the uni semester..music classes this sem seem hard :( lots of aural and sight reading and i'm taking the classes with all these people who seem to know exactly what's going on all the time..but i think these arts people are pretty funky..they're really not afraid to dress the way they want to and they don't care what others think of them..

oh and i had to spend $120 on this one music theory book that we apparantly HAVE to buy..actually there are THREE books that we have to buy..but i figure i'll see how things go and see if i can survive with photocopying off tida's books..she was really sweet..offering to lend me her books whenever i needed them. but i guess that could get tricky sometime. i just don't understand why books are so expensive here. hahah my classmate was saying that its not so bad..they can still use the music theory books after this course..so its like buying the book for 3 years for him. but then i said i was just taking music for the next 6 months and he had nothing positive to say. aay i just hope i made the right choice by choosing this module again..

feel like taking a nap now..i think the lack of sleep has been affecting my brain..i've done a few silly things in the last few days..like the time i went to visit fen and mythili at IH..hahah i said bye to them at their rooms and assured them i'd have no problems finding my way to the main door..well i didn't..but when i got to the main door i somehow couldn't open the door..instead i very stupidly pushed open the door next to the main door with the huge painted sign saying "ONLY OPEN IN CASE OF EMERGENCY" and then suddenly there were alarms ringing in the whole building..haai. and then the next day i told mythili what had happened and she showed me how to open the door - just by pressing down on the door handle? hahah i think i tried doing that that night but it just refused to open? i don't know..i honestly can't remember..hahah mythili laughed herself silly at me..

and then today i was gonna take out the trash..i tied up the 2 garbage bags in the kitchen and went out..walked to the garbage chute..and then when i tossed them into the bin i realised i only had ONE bag with me! the other had mysteriously disappeared along the way..haha i retraced my steps but couldn't see it along the way..didn't want to be late for work so i cut my investigation short..haha only when i got home i saw the one bag under the dining table..but i honestly have no memory of me leaving it there..what is happening to me man.

hai anyway...yay the weekend is here! :)
~me~ at 6:05 PM

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

sleeepy now..but its only 10am! cannot cannot..must stay awake..supposed to be working on analyzing the focus group information for my project now..rarrrr.

the week's just flying by!today's the end of wednesday already..the weekend's coming soon again! yay:) this week i've been mostly busy with work..oh and having to deal with matters of my car..the day before, i parked my car in the underground carpark at royal randwick..went up to coles for a short while..and when i returned to the car my car license plates were gone! :( at first i was like...why the plates?? i thought maybe they'd dropped off but its quite impossible for both the front and back plates to have disappeared simultaneously. then i got scared that someone would use my plates to go rob a bank or something..the police told me its apparently quite common here..for people to steal plates then use them for when they go to top up petrol..then they can just drive off without paying. sigh. the things people think up of.

so my plate-less car had to be stowed away for awhile..until i went to get new plates..haha on the bright side, at least they only took the plates and not my whole car..and my registration was due soon anyway so i did have to make a trip down to the motor registry anyway..hahah and as my sister told me..the thief will face his penance!! whoever the desperate person is.

hahah oh and at the motor registry this very desperate chinese-speaking lady enlisted my help in helping her translate to the person behind the counter..haha so i trust that God wanted me there at that time for that reason. even with my lousy chinese..i at least managed to tell her that she needed to purchase her car insurance first before she could register her vehicle. haha although it did take me awhile to recall what "insurance" is in chinese..

back to focus group analysis...focus focus...
~me~ at 10:25 PM

Sunday, July 20, 2008

an eventful weekend! dim sum, italian, seafood, dessert, batman and WYD!



haha although most of my non-catholic friends only had complaints about the road closures and traffic jams due to WYD..i admit parking really was a pain..but i also thought it cool just seeing pilgrims flood the streets in their colourful outfits and high spirits..

so yes that was wyd. and such a tiny part of it..my sister must have alot more to tell..haha she even took part in the 8am bridge walk to randwick racecourse..thats about 10+km? good for u:) i only wish i had been able to get a better look at the stations of the cross..i only got close enough to see it all on the big screen at darling harbour..and what i did see on screen looked fantastic. they had actors to play jesus and the various characters from each of the 12 stations..



~me~ at 9:18 PM

Thursday, July 17, 2008

feeling very full now..from our dinner of shao rou fan!haha i recently discovered this place in maroubra selling duck and char siew and shao rou..never been too big a fan but i think this place is really GOOD. hahah and now my tummy's feeling all warm and i'm feeling rather sleepy.

been working quite abit this week..woke up this morning to the sound of my phone and my boss's voice..asking if i could come in today..haha i think he felt quite bad for waking me up cos he apologised several times throughout the day...but oh well. i'm happy to earn the extra money..especially since i think i got caught the other night running a red light :( boooo. i know i know its not anyone else's fault but mine. but to be fair, i was following my friend's car back home so i didn't want to lose track of him..and the stupid light just happened to change as he crossed the junction. and so i just pressed the accelerator on instinct and suddenly there was a collective "oh no!" from everyone else in my car as the flash of the camera went off. haha honestly, i didn't notice the flash but i think since 3 other people saw it i can safely assume i did get caught. haaai. and i know red light fines here are crazy - my friend told me she got fined at least $100+? haha so the next day at work, i was just thinking that my pay for that day would be going to that stupid fine.

i am enjoying work at least :) everyone's very nice and i at least feel like i'm doing my bit to contribute to society. the last few months have just been about ILP..and somehow its just felt pretty aimless and unmotivating. i love music..but thats just been a side thing i guess..i just don't see the point of dedicating one whole year to research work..not that research isn't important, its just i know i don't want to do this, so why does the faculty have to make us do this? plus i wasn't given much choice in my topic of interest..

anyway, have been seeing many many groups of pilgrims for WYD walking through the city..haha with their colourful flags and banners and clothes..today i walked past this group from spain; they were wearing their national flag as capes and yelling out some song (i assume in spanish)..hahah and curiously i've been approached quite a few times for directions..haha do i look like a local?
~me~ at 12:27 AM