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Sunday, August 29, 2004

It's been an enjoyable night!Lionel came over after church for dinner(in fact he's still here,watching tv outside)..it was a peaceful night of piano playing and brainless tv...sometimes the simplest things are still the best.Sigh but my building workload was hanging at the back of my mind the whole night..
To recap my week,it was...er...fast-paced but I didn't exactly feel stressed either..I had a 3-hour chemistry practical on thursday,in which I had to complete 15 titrations!:P yeah all I can say is,I'm so glad it was pair-work.Heh my partner did a lot of the boring stuff for me,like weighing powder and refilling the burette..haha I told him he was a better person for the job since he was taller..
yep and it gets worse.after every lab we're supposed to hand in detailed typed lab reports from scratch,normally 10+ pages long...I spent 3 hours on wed night trying to figure out to draw a stupid graph using microsoft excel :( I'm really starting to hate computers..I'm just glad we don't have chemistry practical every week!:) hmm but I've got practical for practically every module I'm taking...I really wonder what the heck I'll be doing during math and geography lab...drawing maps?
On a sad note,next week will be a tearful one.Jing,Nadine & Nicole--I'll really miss you!can't believe you guys are really leaving already :P sorry I haven't seen you guys in awhile...
Nadine:hmm both places are fine with me!its up to you:)cos it'll really be your special night.yep I'm free on monday night!
Ruth:Sorry my timetable always seems to clash with the times you crash...yeah just tell me a couple of days before you come!then we can set something up maybe..
Lynn:heh yeah a movie sounds good:)I can't even recall the last time I watched one...
Chengyee:haha I think buster looks best in his original colour now!can't picture him black :P
Ciao pple:)

~me~ at 12:02 AM

Monday, August 23, 2004

I'm so so sorry everyone...its been a week since my last update..its felt so fast and slow at the same time..the workload's suddenly piled on so suddenly...and it sucks.sigh.I realise that the modules I'm currently taking are basically the exact same subjects I took in jc--english,physics,chemistry and math.plus an extra geography module that required me to watch the national day rally as homework.(which I entirely forgot abt)

yeah I realise its only the third week of school and that the medicine and law pple are probably a lot worse off than me...but the work at uni's really awful.I had no idea what was going on during tutorials today..the tutor was basically not teaching at all,but just talking abt irrevelant impt stuff that didn't help much :P luckily the pple in my class are helpful and smart and were helping the slow pple(including me)after the tutorial....sigh.I feel lousy.

At least my class pple are still keeping upbeat.We're having a birthday celebration tmr..heh its the big 21 for one of my male classmates and according to tradition(which I didn't know existed),he's treating the entire class to dinner!yeah so we're getting him an expensive present and huge cake.

Really tired now..It wasn't exactly a busy day at sch compared to other days of the week,but somehow I feel exhuasted today...after dinner I tried to sit down at the piano to relax but nothing came to my mind..think I haven't played piano for too long..

ok gotta chiong physics now...the lecturer's already at chapter 6 and I'm still at tutorial 1.sob.my seniors say there're basically rushing the whole A levels syllabus in 3 months.oh well at least the stuff that I'm studying now looks vaguely familiar:)just a lot more detailed and pointless :P

oh yeah...
nadine:hey dear!just inform when you're having a farewell...I'll make time for you:)
lynn:*hug!*haha thanks.hey I just remembered...were we supposed to have lunch the other day?cos it completely slipped my mind :P sorry sorry....
chengyee:haha yes yes I finally updated...:)*hug*miss you!:)

take care pple:)

~me~ at 9:36 PM

Tuesday, August 17, 2004

yawn.It was a long but good day:)I came back a while ago from dinner with my dear percussion section!It was a crazy but fun session of catching up,gossiping and photo-taking:)think pple must have really thought we were crazy..we were snapping photos non-stop for about 45 minutes..qt funny cos I was the one who suggested taking A photo and EVERYONE pulled out their cameras at the same time..sigh.Qt sad cos I can't imagine the next time we'll all be together again...jing and yehui are flying off and the juniors will be doing who-knows-what next year..they sounded pretty stressed..hard to believe we were the ones mugging like siao exactly one year ago...

Anyway,my weekend was pretty good too...met up with ruth on sat for a nice long chat:),and I went ice-skating on sunday afternoon with lionel!:)heh kinda surprised that neither of us wiped out since the last time either of skated was eons ago...it was a pleasant 2 hours of skating and talking,even though my feet were hurting a bit from my skates...thanks lionel for the great afternoon:)

Oh and I went to see fireworks on sunday night!Beautiful.Thats the only word that can describe what I saw in the night sky.I was especially enthralled by the finale,in which there looked like there were millions of shooting stars coming down from the sky as far as the eye could see..It somehow painted me a picture of angels flying down from heaven:)We sat there for a long while even after the fireworks had ended,savouring the moment...haha we finally managed to pull ourselves from our nice viewing spots and went for the food fest/funfair!!There was snow ice and cheese sausages....yummy:)It was a night of good company with cindy,xinli,weiling and melissa...and a night where the picture of the light-filled sky was permanantly engraved onto my mind:)

Yawn.8am lecture tmr.Good night everyone!take care guys:)

~me~ at 2:02 AM

Sunday, August 15, 2004

Hello!For those pple who don't already know...I failed my driving test :( I was upset at first but got over it when I realised that it was stupid to be sad over a failed test when there are so many other pple with real problems in the world.

Guess I'm just sad cos I disappointed my instructor...think he really expected me to pass..he's always been so super nice to me and I hate the fact that I let him down :( worst thing is I don't even really understand why I failed...I didn't mount or strike kerb or do any of the stuff that I was afraid would make me fail...it was a lot of small things which added up to an irritatingly high score of 32 points.And I don't even remember doing a lot of the stuff.Oh well,I'll learn from this first try and try my best for the second test!:)

I actually had a pretty good day after my test...met up with chengyee..she kept me company to taka where I had an appointment with a lady from a talent firm...they basically find talent for advertising companies...she approached me on wed to ask uf I was interested and told me to go up to their office...I listened while she told me a lot of stuff abt how they frequently sponser pple with 'new faces' to go for a 6-day grooming course,then compile a portfolio for them...I told her I'd call back after I talked to my parents...haha but I never did...don't think modelling's for me...its something I never imagined myself doing...but it was qt interesting cos I thought stuff like this only ever happened on tv:)

I had a nice chatting session with chengyee at coffee club then had to make it back to nus..all in all it was a nice day esp cos all my classmates were so sweet to me when they knew abt my driving test results...haha I quote an sms from the guy who volunteered to photocopy all our notes:"Sorry abt your test.But life still goes on,so do you want your chemistry notes?"

Thanks everyone for making failing my test seem so insignificant!:)



~me~ at 3:01 AM

Thursday, August 12, 2004

yawn.Haha I finally got to sleep in later today!My first lecture only starts at 4pm:)Too bad I've got my final driving lesson at 12..pretty nervous for my test tmr..I had possibly the worst driving session of my life yesterday night...My instructor was qt angry but afterward said something that cheered me right up..he said that he treats me like a daughter in that he scolds me but also believes that I can do it:)then he gave me direct orders to go home,eat dinner,bathe and go right to bed...

Think I was just tired after the long day at school...I had back-to-back lectures in the afternoon..they were esp stressful cos the lecturers were going at the speeds of bullet trains :p for eg,in my math lec,the lecturer sped through a 25-page lecture in a single hour!I was talking to my seniors and they said its normal...but it seems kinda pointless to me cos I don't see how I'll ever make use of what I'm studying now in the real world..my senior was telling me that they're training us more to be fast learners,rather than to apply what we've learnt in the working world..cos chem engineers basically have to pick up on things fast;they're tossed an instruction manual and are supposed to know how to operate machinery by themselves..I just feel that its a waste to cram an incredible amount of rubbish into our brains in a 3-month period,only to throw it all out again after exams :P sigh.

gotta go now!ciao pple:)take care ya:)

~me~ at 10:58 AM

Tuesday, August 10, 2004

hello hello hello!!it was another grueling day of school plus tuition...ok today wasn't too bad cos we haven't started tutorials yet...only had lectures which were incredibly BORING.I'm taking this module called 'Critical Thinking and Analysis' which is exactly like gp except it involves a lot more work...sigh.

My class spent the free time between lectures bumming around and chatting...which was fun but tiring..ever feel like time spent doing nothing is more tiring than time spent doing something??anyway its kinda weird cos half our class is missing in action..we haven't started tutorials yet so we don't even know who the rest of our class pple are..so basically the pple who didn't go for orientation are lost sheep for the next couple of weeks...tutorials only start in week 3!Its also really annoying having to print up all our lecture and tutorial notes by ourselves...luckily a couple of guys in my class volunteered to print and photocopy the semester's notes for the class..if I had to print everything myself I'd have to spend a fortune on ink :p haha another thing I'd like to complain abt uni is having to get up and decide what to wear to school everyday!so troublesome...I miss the days of just slipping on a school uniform without a second thought every morning...gosh you guys must think I'm like complaining about everything..haha here's something I'm happy abt--I love my class!!I'll be really sad to leave if I do get into uwa :P

yawn.anyway,Lionel's coming over for dinner soon!:)He's got a 3-day holiday from ns cos of national day...gotta go!!take care everyone!:)miss you guys:)

~me~ at 8:34 PM

Monday, August 09, 2004

hello pple!!sorry its been a while since my last update..been really busy with school and work..whew after this week I know its not possible to juggle six tuition jobs and school :p As of friday,I am officially handing over 2 of my tuition jobs to chengyee!!thanks chengyee:)

yawn.super tired now...sorry for the ridiculously short entry...I'll blog more soon!good night pple!

~me~ at 10:32 PM

Thursday, August 05, 2004

woo I'm feeling so hyper I feel like I could jump out of my skin!!sigh.It must have been the "dinosaur" drink I had after school today..the guys in my class brought us girls to this prata place near nus to try the dino drink--very very saturated milo with milo powder sprinkled on top.Haha guess milo really does energise you:)

I love my class/og!!Monday was ok cos we were just getting to know one another,but yest was great fun..think my class is the most on class in the whole of chem engin..orientation week is actually pretty tame so far,as in there isn't any of the dirty,muddy,stupid,fun stuff..but I like it this way too in that it gives us more time to talk crap:)I'd really be pretty sad if I were to leave for australia..haven't told any of them that I might be leaving..its just too weird to think about..sigh but the studying part of chem engineering looks qt dry so far..all the seniors say its super tough and it somehow doesn't appeal to me that much..hmm but who knows I might grow to like it when classes actually start..

haha my classmates were giving me tips for passing driving..most of the guys have already taken their test..I'm really getting qt scared for my test next fri..really hope I pass cos I'll have a lot less time for lessons after classes start next week..really nervous esp after the disastrous lesson I had the other night..I was cruising pretty fast and and to stop quickly as a traffic light turned red...

germ:The accelerator's not working!!
my instructor:Of course not.The engine's stalled.
germ:It is?!!
Apparantly I had jammed on the brakes too hard..but I didn't even realize that the car engine had stalled!Think I'm a dangerous driver at night..

oh and of course...
meiling!!!--yup it was nice bumping into you that day:)I haven't decided if I'm joining band yet..are you going for the welcome tea for the band on 12 august?tell me if you wanna go k!!
nicole--nope haha luckily it was a guy's name:)but I still felt pretty bad..

~me~ at 4:25 AM

Tuesday, August 03, 2004

haha I ponned flag day today!:)My whole class decided on a mass pon..yesterday wasn't too bad for a first day of school..my class people are pretty nice--girls are easy to talk to and guys are mostly gentlemen..haha though only 5 girls in mt class turned up for orientation,it was qt fun!I even went for the freshmen inauguration ceremony,which was a lil boring but not too bad I suppose..there are 3 people from band in my class so far!hmm I'm actually seriously considering joing band again..esp after the ntu concert on sat and talking to my classmates..ah well I'll just see how things go..
Only thing is,I really fear that my blurness will be the reason for my downfall one day..my classmates were asking me what general or SS module I'd bidded for,and I was like:"What general and SS module?"sigh.By the way non-nus pple,each nus student has to take a either a GEM(general module) or SS(Singapore Studies) for this semester..I had no idea until school yesterday..luckily the bidding for this round only closes tmr!And I also think I'm horrible cos I simply can't remember peoples' names!!It doesn't help that most of my classmates' names are chinese..I actually whacked this guy over tha head(pretty hard)by mistake during a game of whacko.sorry guy-whose-name-I-still-can't remember!:P
Anyway,things only got scary when our ogls started telling us about the studying part of chem engineering..its pretty tough!one look at a sample of a typical lab report made me feel like running away :p sigh guess I'll just enjoy orientation week to the fullest then get down to serious work:)
Oh by the way..
ruth!!--sorry I haven't been able to meet up with u dear..pretty busy now that school's started and driving test next week!!:Phow's this sat sound?I'll get back to you..tell me if you're free!
mandy--haha thanks!:)
nicole--yup I'm glad things at nus aren't as bad as I expected..sigh but its really weird cos I'm still not sure if I'm going off to australia..

~me~ at 12:41 PM

Sunday, August 01, 2004

I went to NTU concert at esplanade yest night!:)Lionel's brother is in the band and he had two tickets..it was so great seeing lao shi up there and all the familiar faces:)I had my eye on lao shi half the time..I've always liked his conducting style and I really can't believe how long its been since we were under his baton:)the band sounded incredible..the theme for the night was musicals so they played mostly familiar tunes such as miss saigon,les miserables,fiddler,chess..even lionel,who'd only had 10 hours of sleep the whole week thanks to field camp,was awake for most of the concert:)Lots of memeries were running through my mind during the concert..in a way,it was nice cos it felt like I was finally closing the doors to my rgs and rj days..throughout this whole year,I don't think I've actually really accepted the fact that those days are over..I've spent the year relieving those days and its never really felt like they're truly over..I think yesterday gave me the closure I needed to move on cos uni's starting tmr!! Thanks Lionel for a great night:)

~me~ at 6:57 PM