It's New Year's Eve tomorrow!! Felt the festive mood getting to me only when I went back to Nanyang yesterday to give them extra trainings in armsdrill, almost forgot how 'red' the whole place can be, with decorations in every classroom and Uncle Jack going around hanging red lanterns. Still remember that we used to have competition for decorating our classrooms and always extra holiday for Chinese New Year on the 3rd day, and of course not forgetting the 'cai qing', which is the most important part of Chinese New Year for me during secondary school days. Those were the days..sigh.. Last night, my mum and sister went shopping at NTUC around 12.30am and I didn't even know it's open till 2am for these two days. They came back with loads of goodies..yumm.. and my house is also nicely decorated. This morning my older sis came back from Frankfurt for new year too. I have not complete my task at spring cleaning my room and also haven't complete my term paper which is due next tuesday! I stayed up rather late last night, and tonight I have to burn midnight oil again, as I need to finish it before I leave for M'sia for reunion dinner after lessons tomorrow. Argghh..I have a bad feeling ... I already cut and paste all the necessary information into word documents, so I can print them out and bring them along with me for the new year holidays. This is real sad...

Hmm..欠扁问答题:



今年的财神爷被人打, 你知道为什么吗?




因为他讲错了一句话:

"裁员" 滚滚来!

永 远 的 朋 友

阿拉伯传说中有两个朋友在沙漠中旅行，在旅途中的某点他们吵架了，一个还给了另外一个一记耳光。被打的觉得受辱，一言不语，在沙子上写下："今天我的好朋友打了我一巴掌。"
他们继续往前走。直到到了沃野，他们就决定停下。被打巴掌的那位差点淹死，幸好被朋友救起来了。被救起後，他拿了一把小剑在石头上刻了："今天我的好朋友救了我一命。"
一旁好奇的朋友问说：
为什麽我打了你以後，你要写在沙子上，
而现在要刻在石头上呢？

另个笑笑的回答说：
当被一个朋友伤害时，
要写在易忘的地方，
风会负责抹去它；
相反的如果被帮助，
我们要把它刻在心里的深处，那里任何风都不能抹灭它。

朋友的相处伤害往往是无心的，帮助却是真心的，
忘记那些无心的伤害；铭记那些对你真心帮助，
你会发现这世上你有很多真心的朋友...
俗语说:
你只需要花一分钟注意到一个人；
一小时内变成朋友：
一天让你爱上他；
一但真心爱上 . . .
你却需要花上一生的时间将他遗忘，
直至喝下那孟婆汤...

Hahaha.. took a character quiz which is sent by Shijian and it's quite dumb actually. The quiz is to determine which character you are most likely to be in the drama Meteor Garden. It's dumb because you can only be either of the F4 or the female cast Shancai, and the qns weresomehow like the famous quotes out of the show, so you'll probably guess who you'll end up by answering the quiz. Yah.. and the result is that I'm quite likely to be Shancai, I think it's quite unlikely to become any of the F4 as you need to be a extreme rich bully like Dao Ming Si, extreme introvert to be like Lei or extreme playboy to be the other two.. which is highly impossible for normal beings?

It's Monday!! But luckily for me, I didn't have monday blues as I spent the whole day at home slacking, sleeping, watching TV (usually I don't get to watch any TV during weekdays) etc.. I helped Mum in a bit of spring cleaning, and also started to clear my room. I'm supposed to pack the cupboard of clothes, my desk and the chest of drawers next to the bed. But in actual fact I only cleared the desktop from pieces of paper like bills, letters, and notes from the last semester and some NP stuff, and also packed my drawer full of postcards (I was sorting them out so that those repeated ones I can exchange with some friends who are also postcards fans). Halfway through the sorting, I was suffering from a sore back and went to take a nap.. =P Then didn't feel like spring cleaning anymore, so it stopped there. I spend the rest of the afternoon watching Jielun's VCDs instead.

Didn't feel like writing a blog initially, but went to Danping's blog and saw a long update about her weekend, so i'm feeling quite inclined to write something too. Yesterday, went kayaking.. quite unwillingly initially but the day ended quite well. We let the group off for washing up at 3.30pm as they were very fast learners in the skills and everything went on so smoothly. There was still a couple of hours left before the rest will be ready for the meeting. So Tiancai (he's a nice guy who owns a BMW) drove San, Lance and me to Whitesands and we slacked at Macdonald's eating sundaes and fries (treated by tiancai also) =) This is the first time I finished the course so early and have the luxury to slack around. We even went exploring around the Whitesands library, then bought pizzas back for the rest. I was quite tired when I came home, but at least I managed to unpack my stuff and washed the wet clothes on my own. (sometimes mum did it for me, heee hee.. )

现在你心里想什么 能不能就写在眼眸告诉我
在这沈默的片刻 认我们用心灵交流
如果爱情烦�勒娴奶�多 或许心事都交给我
为你担忧 对我来说 也是快乐
不管有多少真心多少爱被错过
有了你我已经�e无所求
用半生紧紧相守 换取沈默
什么话都不必再说 喔
总以为曾经付出曾被爱伤害过
这世上只有我对爱执著
直到我慢慢感受你的温柔
才了解 今生注定 与你相守

Hey.. Think the horoscope also not very 'zhun', supposed to be my lucky day on Friday, but the day went through without much luck! Or maybe I was lucky in the sense that the day could be worse than that.. you get what I mean? But when I woke up in the morning, around 9am to get ready for the interview, there were 3 msgs for me when I checked my handphone. It was my 3 pretty friends, Giam, Danping and Aileen wishing me good luck for the interview..=) See how nice it is to be so popular, you have friends to be concern about you.. Another of my best buddy is coming back tomorrow!! Haven't see her for at least 3 months... so really hope to meet up with her. Anyway, this is Danping's funky friend.. it's her favourite toy named 'pak tor'. Hee hee, she just started blogging so I think she can take a leaf out of her good-looking 'cover girl' friend here to put up the pictures. Come come.. come and ask the expert..=)

Sigh..the interview was rather dejecting. I arrived at the place early, and waited for almost 45 minutes before it was my turn. Saw one guy I knew there, and another girl whom I didn't know but nonetheless, we were chatting away before the interview to keep the butterflies away and since we were kind of like 'in the same boat'. I was thinking that the qns must be quite tough, as they came out looking rather sullen and went off without saying anything about the interview qns. Then I knew how it was liked when I stepped inside. There was a panel of four, they looked quite old and 'experienced'. The first guy who spoke was rather friendly so it wasn't too bad, and the first few qns was what I had prepared, things like why I'm so enthusiastic about becoming a teacher (they knew that I applied a few times), and of course why I did not do-so-well for my Higher Chinese during A levels. Oh well! They really dig out all my history in the past 21 years and the mistakes which I had ever made in my life. Some of which I really think I didn't know how to answer, like why I'm not majoring in teaching subjects now. Of course lah.. if they fail me there and I'm not becoming a teacher, I would be dead if I'm really majoring in teaching subjects. So it's sort of like a safer option, but I didn't really tell them that. There was this 'auntie' that looked like the perfect person to act in the Chinese 封建时代 drama as the horrible mother-in-law, she's actually wearing a cheongsum during the interview and didn't smile at all (just like the 'bulldog'!), and I was imagining myself as a old hag like her thirty-years down the road. I guess the worse qns was the one which they asked me to name some 当代文学作家和作品。And I really stunned. I was rambling around my brain trying to dig out a few names, but I really can't think of any, and almost said 周杰伦 and 陶吉吉。That was really the only names I could really think of but luckily I stopped myself in time, if not they would really flipped. I did mention that I read some books now and now, like 金庸，亦舒 which were currently the only chinese books that I'm reading. But other than those, can't think of anymore names decent enough to mention. I'm also reading other chinese novels but think they will probably classified them as trashy books. So.. really unlucky. But personally, I think it's not that impt as a primary school chinese teacher to know so much about literary works as the kids will probably be stunned if you mention all these to them. Well, of course the tradition Chinese teachers that I know of from my primary and secondary school days are really more of the fans of the chinese literature. I had been trying hard to remember some of the stuff that I was supposed to learn, but realised I've returned most of it to my teachers. I can't even remember if 曹雪芹 was a male or female writer now..hahaa.. So, I think I'm rather unsuccessful at it this time, and this will really be the last time I'll apply to teach.

It's Friday again!! And I'm skipping HRM tomorrow, as I'm having interview at the MOE. Heard that the interview is quite crucial, other than looking at you to decide if you look pretty enough, they'll scrutinize almost everything else to make sure you are better then the other 15000 applicants. Well, I'm trying to get a thesis about education done to impress them... =P Actually I didn't prepare much, I'll bet they will probably ask me why I want to become a teacher, and so I'm trying to think of a diplomatic yet creative answer that sounds just right. Guess they'll probably ask me about each of the Cs in my result slips too..then I'll have lots of stories to tell. Had my clothes chosen last night, with the help of Mum and sis. Recently I took out two books which I've gotten during my relief teaching days, "Teaching- A journey of Love" and "If not for my teacher..." a book which I practically choup from the staff lounge.(hahaa, just conveniently forgot to return it) Think reading them did inspire me a bit and gave me some of the answers I need. Good luck to me man..

arghh... I typed a rather long post just now, but the blog server was down and everything could not be posted or published. Sigh.. This is really not my day, feel like going home and sleep till the next morning. I'm actually in school now, and had been wandering around the forum, library and comp clusters. Guess this is one of the days when I can wander around the whole place without speaking a word to anyone, or meeting any friend I know well enough to talk to. Well, this is quite normal for my daily routine at school. Recently, Serene said that I'm anti-social, I find that there's some truth in it as I'll feel out of place with people I don't know, so I rather stay away from them. hmm.. I didn't realise it as I thought I always have friends and things to do, my weekends are always packed to the brim with meetings, activities, gatherings and lots of tuition too. So, on the weekdays I really don't feel like socialising much. Esp now in the final semester, I don't really take the effort to know people in the lectures and tutorials. (not that I really do that in the past)

Last HRM lesson, the topic was on 'Self-concept' I pretty much think that I'm more of an introvert (that's why I can keep up with blogging) as I'm usually passive, quiet and not so sociable. But sometimes when I like whatever I'm doing, can be a mixture of both too. =) My tutor taught us to write down our goals, values, weaknesses and strengths to do some self reflection... seems to quite useful so that we know what career and life suits us in the future.

There's always some analogy going around for the NUS girls:
The first year girls are like RBR books-everyone checks them out
The second year girls are like Books on the main shelves- they get some attention now and then
The third and final year girls are like Periodicals- uninteresting.. and you get the idea!!

Just checked out my horoscope for this week:-
PISCES
FEBRUARY 20-MARCH 20
THE FISH
Element: Water
Ruling planet: Neptune
Mode: Feeling
Friends: Aquarius, Scorpio, Cancer
Colors: Purple, Aqua
Plant: Fern

JANUARY 20 - JANUARY 26 Your dreamy mind has been cloud hopping alot lately. Sounds like something or someone has you distracted! Your lucky day is Friday.
-

sounds like I should look forward to Friday!!

These few days the sky is always greyish.. and it had been raining all this while. It makes me feel quite lazy and restless, hope to get more sun when the Chinese New Year is nearer, then I will be in a better mood too. Actually I'm not feeling sad or unhappy about anything, just too lazy and not motivated to do anything. Arrggghh..with the term paper due next week and me being too lazy to start doing anything, it's quite a horrible feeling.

Yeah, finally finished all the lessons for this week! And I've spent the whole of yesterday in school doing up an photo album online with geocities. It's done (at last and with much hardwork!!), and now I'm ready to launch the website, will be adding the link to this page later. =) Yah, and even though it's launched, I must be careful about inviting people there, as I'm quite sure that I will 'kena suan' by some friends who do not have a good taste and standard for beauty...hahhaa. Saw this on someone's blog page and decided to take the care bear quiz, I'm cheer bear!! Didn't even know there is so many different types of care bears in the first place..

	Cheer Bear You're the Care Bear cheerleader! Your spunky personality and optimisim lifts everyone's spirit. Though you want everyone to be happy, you stand your ground on issues you feel strongly about and this can bring disunity among your friends. Despite this, you are a true believer in working together.
Take the Which Care Bear Are You? Quiz!

Hey, realised that people can actually view chinese characters without changing the encoding, yeah!! Hee hee..still have to thanks Xi En for enlightening me, as I was puzzled over it. Today I was planning to slack in school and surf the net after lessons, UNFORTUNATELY I just received an email from my lecturer for the module PL3212Y-'Health Psychology' --

Hi everyone,

Here are the topic assignments for your group. The person listed is the group leader for the topic opposite his/her name and will be the one to lead the discussion and write the position paper on the topic given. Please note that discussions begin next Monday morning with each discussion lasting for one week. Please let me know if you have questions.

CHIANG YU RONG Week 03: Placebos
CHIN EE HENG,JEFFERY Week 04: Healthy Living
GOH VALERIE GRACE Week 05: Stress
S0200696 Week 06: Illness Cognition
LEE HUI FEN,EUNICE Week 07: Hospitalisation
LIN MING HUEY Week 08: Treatment Compliance
MOK JOTHAN Week 09: Death
KWA HWEE LAY Week 10: AIDS
SIM WEE CHENG Week 11: Cancer

Best regards,

George Bishop

--
I was still feeling very lucky for taking up this module as there's no tutorials, only online discussion groups to participate in. But as I'm so suay, I have to start doing research now as I'm supposed to be the leader for the very first discussion topic next week! And there's still a paper to hand by the end of Week 4, just before I can enjoy my new year peacefully.. boo hooo.... 我真命苦啊!! Sigh..why must my name be at the top of the list and start the thing going when everyone is still blur about what we are supposed to do...actually I'm also very blur about what's going on as I skipped the lecture yesterday morning, this is call retribution-- 报应竟然这么快就降临了! That teaches me not to skip any more lecture for the rest of the semester.

Here's an annoucement from my lecturer-

Dear Students,



I am sorry for what happened yesterday. Apparently, NUS chat system only accepts 10 people at a time, which is completely different what I heard from the Center for Instructional Technology.



Here is my plan. We will have an in-class lecture next week, and I will cover both Week 2 and 3 topics (~{!0~}Theoretical foundations of E-learning~{!1~} and ~{!0~}Technologies~{!1~}). Due to the tight schedule of this module, we may have one more lecture on 13th week (April 14th, 2003). In the meantime, I will try to find out more reliable and powerful tool for web-based lecture.

--

What??? I really can't believe the NUS chat system, super 'lao ya', and now we may have to make up for it with a lecture closer to exams.. sigh...

Today one of my close friend is quite upset over some personal matters, feel quite sad for her too.. Don't really know how to make people feel better, but can only provide a listening ear, but I've realised that nowadays the worst things that can affect people is usually the same thing. Even the strongest of us also have an emotional side, and I wonder how many people had actually fallen into the same trap? (found a way to write chinese characters, but when reading the page have to switch the encoding on the "view" to simplified chinese, if not will be staring at weird characters instead)

我的至理名言:
--在一个人身上受过伤, 那同样的伤必定还会再来伤害你一次。最好的方法，就是杜绝。
感情要来， 你当不了。感情要走， 你也留不下。 --

Recently I'm reading a chinese novel, and I realised that many stories in real life or in the fictional world is still the same, with the same morals behind it. Well, maybe it's only those written by 琼瑶 or JRR Tolkein may be impossible. And that reminds me of my favourite song by Jay, which was still the best among those he sang the other night.

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I do not know why, but can't get my personal photos up here even though I can get Jay and Legolas faces on the page. Anyway, I went to take my resume photo today and ended getting a makeover package, I've gotten a CD-rom with all the photos so will be creating a website when I'm free enough to let the whole world see my 'over-made' face. Will be linking the website to this blog page when it's done, so this blogspot will not be overloaded with too many photographs and take a long time to load up. Remember:Tune in to this channel soon.. and the website should be ready and linked!! Anyway, I've spent the last one hour dialing up to the NUS server tonight!! This is really baddddddddd... arggggghhhhhh!! NUS dialup really sucks..

Yeah!! Lecture for this morning (the E-learning module) is cancelled as the server clashed when too many of us are trying to get into the chatroom at IVLE, actually I was expecting it as there's more than a hundred people in the lecture group. Last year when I had discussion group of twenty people using the chatroom, it clashed constantly. And this morning most of us couldn't even log on the the chat window..whahahhaha.. so I can go back to sleep again with no lessons for today (luckily I went online from home!) =) Sigh..obviously the IVLE of a supposedly high class uni is not like the IRC, with lots of technical faults, maybe the lecturer can considered using the IRC instead.

I'm adding Xien's blogging page as one of the links on this page, as she's the only friend I know who keeps a blog page. Think maybe one day I'll invite some friends to take a peek at my page also, since I had edited all the posts and made it looked more organised. =P

Yeah..I'm just back from Jay's concert 'The One'. It's really the most spectacular 'thing' I had seen since the Esplanade opening!! It's exciting beyond words to see him playing basketball, piano and guitar live on stage. And he could be so coooool just in T shirt and jeans, there was also a footage of little Jielun playing piano at only 6 six years old! *drooling* Will be awaiting for his next concert..

Yah..and now I'm off from the comp lab to read my favourite Harry Potter series (The Prisoner of Azkaban) and a new book I just bought this Monday, Lord of the Rings Part I-The Fellowership of The Ring. The Lord of the Rings is much harder to read as compared to Harry Potter which can be finished in a day. I took a long time to read 'The Hobbits' previously but the story is really captivating. Recently "The Two Towers" was screened and it's really one of the better movies I've seen in years. This is my favourite guy of course!

hey! finally found out a way to insert the picture, and I edited my previous post to put up one of Jay's coolest pic. Will be putting up the CI night one soon.. Anyway, finally get to see Jielun after one long year, I'm quite excited that the concert is coming up this sunday!!

Just finished my last lesson for this week-- HRM, the first business module I've taken in NUS. Life this week had been peaceful, as it's the first week of school, but it's pretty boring as everyday I just came here for a lecture and that's it! Been spending a lot of time in the comp lab surfing the web and doing the unnessary.. hee hee.. This morning was quite amazed that I can wake up at 7.20am as the lesson is at 9am, the earliest in my timetable. Actually I was thinking that I would be quite tired as I slept at 3.30am this morning, but I woke up when the alarm sounded and was really awaken when I realised that I've made an embarassing mistake. =P On New Year's Day, I had received a sms from my AJC schoolmate Lishi, and it was after a long time since she contacted me and sent me a new year greeting. I didn't know why but I keyed in her name as Li Sze, another friend who have the same name and went with us for the thailand trip. These two days I had been trying to contact Li Sze, as today we are meeting up for Aileen's birthday celebration, and I had sent the sms twice to Lishi instead!! She must be quite puzzled and wondering why I kept asking her to go despite didn't know Aileen very well. Oh well!! At least she msged me to clarify and now I know why.. Recently, just heard from Sihua that Lishi is getting engaged soon..and Agnes 2nd child is actually on the way!! I was really surprised as I didn't even know that Agnes got married just one year after our A's..