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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

hheeelp. my toes are honestly freezing..i guess thats what i get for wearing slippers out today..it feels like winter's here already! :( hahah ling even insisted on lending me an extra sweater and scarf (which i'm very very very grateful for) to brave the winds on my way home from dinner :)

lionel was telling me how nicely my sister sang at church that day. and that made me realise i really miss listening to her sing during mass..the choir at OLSH isn't exactly bad..but i find that choirs here in general differ from those in singapore in that they don't try to involve the congregation as much in the singing..which should be the point of the mass shouldn't it? of course its nice listening to the beautiful choir and all..but i think its more important to make the congregation want to sing the hymns as well and praise God together..oh well. thats just me. but i always like how my sister tries to involve everyone and leads the church in the singing, rather than sing for everyone in the church.

cold :( i'm wishing for some nice hot chocolate right now :) and my bolster to hug :)
~me~ at 1:22 AM

Thursday, April 24, 2008

aahh. feeling very satisfied now with our dinner at pancakes at the rocks :) hehh. although i'm feeling very sleepy now with my full stomach..wanted to work on my music assignment but think i'll just do that tmr.

sigh. was quite annoyed with my music tutor today cos she only announced today how she wanted a particular part of the assignment done..when i've already done about 80% of the assignment in the way she originally outlined it in the guidelines! haha and don't blame me for being muggerish and doing it ahead of time..its due in a few days and most of the class expressed similar sentiments for being in the same situation. we were all quite peeved..but oh well. shouldn't complain. should just do it.

today's class was rather interesting..we were listening to and analyzing several popular classical works..i've always just listened to a piece and thought to myself "good/bad, nice/boring, happy/sad"..haha its cool to discern reasons why a certain composer chooses to write a piece in a particular way..nothing is done randomly! its all planned from the start. i like the idea that every song has a story :) even without any lyrics..we may listen to something without knowing the little hidden meanings and thoughts the composer put into the piece..but if we do it all just ties in so nicely and the song suddenly has new meaning to you. and i think its cool how i have trouble understanding my tutor when she simply first explains something in words, but then when she illustrates her explanations by playing it or allowing us to listen to the piece it suddenly all becomes clear. its like it all just comes to you in a sudden rush and i think "oh wow i get that." :)

on an entirely unrelated issue, clinton won the Pennsylvania primaries..hmm i admit i'm sort of rooting for obama..although i think this time's election really is interesting..it'll be a first time for the US presidential position either way..a woman or a black? haha not that i have anything against a woman being a president..i just can't understand how clinton could have pushed for the Iraq war. hmmmm.

k hair's dry now :) good night all!



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~me~ at 2:07 AM

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

was reading the news about the pope visiting ground zero and blessing the ground where the twin towers used to stand..gosh has it really been 7 yrs?i still remember watching the news with my family the night of the sept 11 attacks..

hahah maybe some of you knew this already but i didn't..here's the pope in his popemobile :) (thats what its really called!) hehe specially designed for him to be more visible..hrm personally i think i'd feel abit claustrophobic in there..despite being surrounded by clear glass..


and the pope's gonna be in sydney in july!for world youth day..quite exciting to think that.

"Bring peace to our violent world... turn to your way of love those whose hearts and minds are consumed with hatred." - Pope Benedict XVI.




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~me~ at 1:51 AM

Monday, April 21, 2008

its been a lazy/rainy week!and a nice weekend:) its only the second week of ILP and my supervisor's been pushing at me to get out my literature review draft..but oh well. she pushes nicely. and she's been very helpful:)

i'm impressed with how passionate some people can be..regarding matters that people of the general population (like me) hardly give a second thought to..like my supervisor. she's really dedicated such a large part of her life to the topic in question..to the extent that she lectures, holds conferences, organizes workshops and publishes papers about it..when most people would just go "huh?" when i tell them what i'm working on for the whole of the year..hahah. maybe thats why God put so many people on earth..so everyone can find their own interests and contribute/share their own individual passions with the rest of the world..

hehe so i finally got around to downloading photos onto my computer..so here are random shots from the year..




hehe today was nice too:) went for church..then i accompanied my sister in her quest for some much-needed retail therapy..hai i'm sorry to say this..haha but retail therapy really does work. its hard not to be materialistic in our world.

haha oh and i followed deb's link on her blog to earn rice for the poor! i thought it was a scam at first too but now i think its legit. heh. anyway its just a simple word game..help feed the hungry!:)



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~me~ at 12:09 AM

Monday, April 14, 2008

lazy lazy day..haha actually the whole weekend's been rather indolent. oh well, i keep telling myself i deserve a break after the horrible exam period..haha but i need to get my music assignment done sooon. and my literature review's due soon too. haai. but it's a nice switch from mugging med i suppose..haha its much more fun drawing little tao kay musical notes than it is to type up medical case reports:)

oh by the way..haha i screwed up rock and roll :p my stick just flew out of my right hand right in the middle of the solo. after the performance, my conductor actually said it looked quite funny..my stick really just flew into the air at the anti-climax. maybe i was nervous, maybe my hands were sweaty..oh well. the other songs went alright at least. i am a little peeved at myself of course, but i think i'd be alot more bothered if it had happened to me back in RGS or RJ..haha maybe i'm under the influence of the general laid-back attitude here? or maybe i felt comforted after..haha my sectionmates were very nice about it after the concert. my conductor says "it happens to everybody!" (haha which i doubt so). and i had a little cheering squad during the performance :) thank you dear :)




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~me~ at 12:23 AM

Wednesday, April 09, 2008

hehe. in the last week since i've ended exams..its felt good to just sit back and relax for abit..to have nice lunches and dinners out..to just walk around bondi and the city leisurely..to catch up on recent movies..haha by the way, i think horton and the whos is worth catching. quite a bizzare but cute storyline:) i like katie! - "In my world everyone is a pony, and they all eat rainbows, and poop butterflies!"

sighs but i guess i can't loll around forever..ILP also started this week (we only had 4 pathetic days of holidays after our awful exam)..haha and my music homework and assignments are starting to pile up already..but i'm really not complaining! i'd rather do anything than turn to my medical books and notes for awhile..although i'm honestly a little stressed over my performance tmr :/ haha maybe cos i'm just used to being a little more prepared than how I feel right now..we used to have intensive practices before any kind of concert in RGS and RJC..and now i'm performing an hour's worth of pieces that I only sightread for the first time last week! we had a grand total of two 2-hour practices for this performance..argh. please please just don't let me freak out tmr. haha and guess what? we're performing rock and roll hall of fame once again! (RGS girls should know this piece well:) ) bleah. hands please don't shake too much tmr!

oh and I met my ILP supervisor today (for those who don't know, ILP's basically my research year) who's really very nice:) my topic's abit dry right now but I'm hoping that it'll get more interesting as I know more about the subject..haha but for now..she handed me a tall stack of readings to get through for my literature review..aiyo.

haha so stressful concert aside..life's good now:) really!

debs: i'm sorry to have been mia for awhile! haha but i'll be here more often now again:)
olivia: you're missed too ollie:) haha life feels weird now..so different to not be mugging or going to hospital..how's life back home?



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~me~ at 10:52 PM

Friday, April 04, 2008

exams are over!! --> :) :) heheh. i'm sorry for the lack of blogging..haha is anyone still reading this?? so the exam went alright...the examiners were really very nice...although on hindsight i wonder if they were just being nice to make up for the poor scores they gave me..if i think more about it i'll probably just get more scared and depressed by the many little things i missed out in my answers..but i was just so happy to get it OVER and done with. please please..i just pray i PASS. i was literally shaking that morning of the exam..i had to report at sutherland hospital at 9am which was typically a 40min drive away..but i wasn't sure how to get there so i told myself i would leave the house by 7am..hahaha thanks to olivia's excellent directions i managed to get there in 25min..so it was a long nervous wait before the start of the exam...

anyway. its OVER!! haha i really still can't quite grasp that concept yet. heheh it felt so good yesterday..to just put away all my notes and clear my carpet of miscellaneous scribbled bits of paper and lecture notes and textbooks..haha i can actually walk to my bed now without having to step over any piles of paper on my floor..

ktv yesterday!!haha we originally booked the room for 2 hours..and ended up staying there for FIVE. hahah..but yep it was fun :) it just feels so good to be doing ANYTHING other than mugging right now..haha but i guess under the circumstances, the last few weeks really haven't been all that bad..it could have been alot worse. heheh thank you housemates for the mugging sessions :) i think studying together really helps..and panicking together tooo.

gonna meet olivia and louisa for lunch soon...kind of sad to think that they're leaving..haha i think before exams..i wasn't really thinking of anything beyond that point of my timeline..it was just the exam. and anything else happening after that didn't really register yet..i'll miss them. but oh well. i'll see them again soon enough :)

lalala. :)
~me~ at 1:57 PM