workload!!!

Oh my gosh.

I slacked (ok, half slacked) for 2 days and work is piling up.

Part 2 of my modules sound easy during lecture but the tutorial problem sets are mind boggling. I shouldnt even be sighing now as this has been part of my NUS life (average student) so far.

I want to take a break from schoolwork and just spend half a saturday relaxing in the cinema and having a nice meal with my friends, but even that I really have to think twice or even thrice about it.

Planned to go back this weekend (again!). A bunch of friends whom I havent seen in a long time are having a gathering this Saturday. I really wish to go home. Sien. A bit regret going home for the past 2 weeks, now I know guilt will surely come to me if I go back this weekend. I have to make a decision.

Stupid Arts GEM. Damn sien...have to prepare for tutorials (additional workload). Tutor is an African who looks like Akon when he is 50 years old and he makes sure that we do our work because all of us will need to play active roles in his tutorial. Super unconventional style of tutoring.

On the other hand, I could have left the tutorials aside, spend just 10 minutes preparing for my GEM tutorial and still get away with everything, instead of slogging and cracking my brains doing them.

Which path shall I take? I guess only I myself will know the answer.

Hey There Delilah

Hey there Delilah
What's it like in New York City?
I'm a thousand miles away
But girl tonight you look so pretty
Yes you do
Times Square can't shine as bright as you
I swear it's true

Hey there Delilah
Don't you worry about the distance
I'm right there if you get lonely
Give this song another listen
Close your eyes
Listen to my voice it's my disguise
I'm by your side

Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
What you do to me

Hey there Delilah
I know times are getting hard
But just believe me girl
Someday I'll pay the bills with this guitar
We'll have it good
We'll have the life we knew we would
My word is good

Hey there Delilah
I've got so much left to say
If every simple song I wrote to you
Would take your breath away
I'd write it all
Even more in love with me you'd fall
We'd have it all

Oh it's what you do to me
[Hey There Delilah lyrics on http://www.metrolyrics.com]

Oh its what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me

A thousand miles seems pretty far
But they've got planes and trains and cars
I'd walk to you if I had no other way
Our friends would all make fun of us
and we'll just laugh along because we know
That none of them have felt this way
Delilah I can promise you
That by the time we get through
The world will never ever be the same
And you're to blame

Hey there Delilah
You be good and don't you miss me
Two more years and you'll be done with school
And I'll be making history like I do
You know it's all because of you
We can do whatever we want to
Hey there Delilah here's to you
This ones for you

Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
What you do to me.

Oh oh
OOOoohhhh
Oh oh
Ooooooohhhhh
Oh Oh
OOOoohhhh
OOOOooohhhhh
Oh Oh

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the song damn nice...its just someone singing with guitar without any drums or other special effects..kinda plain but it really sounds great...has been quite some time since I heard this type of "plain" songs on the radio. Music these days are so polluted and untidy compared to this one.

By changing a few words in the lyrics, it becomes (sorta) like the situation I am in now....

random update as requested.... haha...

The current state of security in my homeland sucks. The news when I go home, almost everytime: some people kena killed, chopped up to pieces, blah blah blah, it makes me sick to the core, and yet I am already used to it. I am puzzled and disgusted by the way these people were tortured and mistreated up to their very last breath; how could you do that to a small girl? How could they even bear to chop up someone else's bodies?

The chaos in Burma is not a small thing. That is why I believe a country must not have a government with ideologies straight out of the extremes. This world is really problematic, with lives lost just about anywhere. With differences in ideologies come conflicts of interest which unfortunately will result in bloodshed in this modern age where weapons are becoming available too easily. Again, this could be traced to the unscrupulous weapons trader who first allowed weapons to be traded in the black market which is so easily accessed by everyone; as they say, money makes the devil push the rice mill.

on a lighter note,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAI LIN!

hope ur kkj heals soon enough! XD

sien. The bazaar's booths are not filled up yet. Sometimes I dont get these vendors, the difference is only a few dollars for 3 days. yes, THREE days. It is pretty long ya know, which kinda averages out to about a few dollars more / day. Dun wan then never mind lah, I find another vendor to ganti your place lo. The kiamsiap mindset is not one of a successful businessman, especially when you are on the up and have to get every business oppurtunity that comes your way. Come on, its just a few dollars, dont tell me you cant afford it? Well, I would think that it is precisely because of this small-town mentality that they are STILL small time businessmen...and I dun see them doing great guns in the near future... =.=

I am getting a bit sick. Throat feels constantly dry. I need to make an effort to force voice out of my voicebox. Maybe its because I ate too much biscuits plus not enough fluids plus late night sleeps plus extremely hot and humid weather =.=....sigh..

Just when you thought lecturers are boring people

There was an umbrella, and Jim, Jane and Jack stood under it. Who got wet?



















answer: csannot determine. I didnt say got rain onot leh.. =P

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man (gasping for breathe): Dear, I just did something monumental today!!

wife: *smiles* what did you do today, dear?

man: I chased after my friend's car to hitch a ride. And it saved me a dollar!

wife: you should have chase a taxi instead lah! can save sgd2.50 at least!

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....

some fella took my clothes out of the dryer......sien

lectures are starting to get boring....

feeling damn tired...

the stress is coming in...

zzz..

to do list (1 day)

-laundry. the laundry basket is full to the brim liao. sigh.

-study and do tutorials. everything was all right in the first week. second week and i seem to have lost some fervour for my studies cos the maths is coming in. must pick up my momentum again.

-decide whether to go for the TIP. Can clear 2 MCs and at the same time try out something wich sounds interesting. Decisions decisions~~~

-lap report. so sien. damn a lot of formulas. damn a lot of readings. suang yong said he do until 3 in the morning.

p/s: I have had it with interviews. I think I kinda screwed up the last one but not big time lah.

p/p/s: after typing so much I realise that 24 hours is not enough. Albeitly increasingly not. =.=

philo

When we don't know what we don't know, we will never know what is to know and can be known. Unfortunately most of us dont even realise what we dunno and perceive our own views as correct and get unsatisfied/disgruntled/impatient with others' behaviour and method of doing things, even minor ones. They irritate us so.. why? All these stem from judgemental mindset of ours, and I must admit that I am judgmental. We tend to perceive our own ways of doing things and talking as far better and superior than others, that is when pride (to some extent =.=) comes in. Maybe that is why God told us not to judge people and be in humility even at all times.

To judge is to evaluate something subjectively, but it isnt something that everyone can master. In fact, most (i said most) of us are prone to judging others before putting oneself into purely subjective evaluation.

Speaking of evaluation. In an imperfect market, the value of something sometimes doesnt match the price of something. In fact, it is almost impossible to do so as even chartered and certified professional evaluators themselves are prone to judging something subjectively with little or no influence from their subjective mindsets that are supposed to be ingrained in them throughout years of vigorous tertiary education in preparation for their job today.

In a perfect market though, both buyers and sellers are unaffected by personal sentiments, aesthetics that appeal to a myriad of tastes, rumours. That is why in the real estate market, a piece of property is rarely traded for exatly what it is worth. This is especially true in places that are surrently experiencing a property boom like Singapore. I hope that one day the evaluation process will be done perfectly as it would save my wallet from dieting too much involuntarily if ever i decide to stay back in Singapore for good. There is just too little land and too much people here.

Saturday is MSL Day, and logistics have been settled. Water containers, balls, garbage bags, trophies, booking of badminton and basketball courts, souveneirs (man how exactly do they spell that???), chairs and tables for captain's ball are more or less prepared. I hope everything goes really well and that I will be blessed with a clear mind to handle problems that may arise on that day itself.

These few weeks I have learned quite a few things. Some small, many might seem insignificant and a lot of things that cant be read from a book. First time in my life I was a part of a group interview, 4 on 2 interview, 2 on 2 interviews.

Tomorrow got lab...and it will be rather tedious. Therefore, I shall go to sleep now. Adios amigos, hope you all have a great weekend ahead before the dreaded tutorials start to creep in with their hairy, spidly furry legs. =)

phew..

...finally got my laptop back. The comp centre dude told me it could be a case of one or two weeks. thank God that I got my lappy back so soon. Just a few days only~ XD

just came back from Techno Edge. For my non-NUS friends, thats what they name the Engineering Faculty's canteen. Got new stalls, saw one that sells soup-in-a-pot.

actually this blog is just to test whether this laptop still can post blogs onot. Hopefully it can.....

...tadah! here it is on blogger! XD

p/s: Lame Joke of the day, courtesy of Mister James: the portion st Megabites (a cafe at Science Faculty) damn small. Those at Gigabyte are bigger.

damn swt la. looks like he will be the Lame King of MSL sooner or later. LOLz

sien..

..dad's Proton broke down today on my way to Singapore. wth..zzzzzz

precisely, it broke down at KM 49.6 of the North South Expressway.

I was the one behind the wheel. As I was driving along, i smelled something foul, thought it was just something wrong with the old air filter, a minor problem; so i kept on going. Realised the air-con didnt really work; thought it was just a minor problem; so i kept on going..

UNTIL I SAW BLOODY SMOKE CAME OUT OF THE BONNET!! ZZ..

stopped by the highway; damn dangerous, no cones or the red triangles (what is the real name for that actually? =.=) to mark the spot. Called PLUS. Waited for 15 minutes before the tow pickup finally arrived. They towed us to the nearest toll station and dropped us there. We had to pay for the toll without the engines on. Kereta dah rosak la bang, kasilah mercy sikit, masih nak caj aku duit toll ke? zzz....

what i realised was foremen and mechanics were everywhere along this stretch of highway near the toll gates, to find business, of course! My dad had called my hometown mechanic (Lets cal him M) to come and inspect the car for us. We waited at the toll gate for him to come.

the thing is...M didnt knew how to read ABCs! he overshot the toll gate, called my dad for directions. so we waited like about an hour plus just for him to come. when he came, he brought no spare parts with him; my dad had to go to the nearest kampung to search for a small rubber pipe that had burst under high temperature. Apparently the mechanics didnt add enough distilled water into the radiators during the last service just a few weeks ago. High temperature = burst water pipes. The engine became so hot that the oil gasket was broken, that explains the foul smell, it was the smell of sweet, fragrant hot engine oil..

after the new rubber pipe was fixed, the car was ready to go...........for a few miles before we had to stop to refill water into its radiator. we had to stop every few kilometres (maybe about 5) so that the engine doesnt become too hot. a broken oil gasket involves major repairs that had to be done in the workshop, we had no choice but to do so. from the toll gate to Kluang (my hometown) was a full 50km..so we stopped like 10 times at the side of the road before I finally reach home. so sien..only had lunch at about 3:30pm. That wa just as well as we needed a break so that the engine could have a chance to cool down. At that moment I reckon that the engine needed a break more than us.

Luckily we didnt travel back using the highway; how are we supposed to find sources of water if not because of the small kampungs along the old roads that we chose to travel? Luckily we did so. The radiator drank like a fish. We used up pails and bottles of water for the journey back....

..ahh lazy to blog liao.

bought tickets for 8am bus to JB tomorrow. I estimate I will need about 3.5 hours before I can reach my room in PGP. See you guys then.

Going back..

..to PGP tomorrow.

This will be an all new semester. Dilemma over whether to take 6 modules onot. I will be clearing up to 21MCs in the process. With 5 modules I already have 4 freaking labs but only clearing 17MCs..sien. I might not take any extra modules at all. Other than that, I have to go for CCAs this semester. I feel ambitious and rather pumped up this semester, with a few CCAs in my mind.

I believe this is the time for me not to laze,but to step out of my comfort zone (as dear Edward repeatedly told us to do so) and really involve myself in the real world. I pray that I can cope with my studies (at least 3.5, somehwere near 4 would be delightful) and at the same time do all the CCAs that I want to be a part of, with commitment and strong sense of responsibility. It is my oppurtunity, and its up to me to grasp it.

Also looking forward to fostering new friendships with freshies...white they are still fresh ...lol.

Hmm..I have so much things to do this semester...lol.

p/s: I used the phrase "looking forward" umpteen times in my posts lately. Which is contradictory to my situation; I am short-sighted.. =)

I used that phrase so many times, I "look forward" until my neck gonna be long like giraffe and wanna snap liao.