It's term break!! It's term break!! And this week is pay week as well..so I'm going to be financially privileged again.. =) Just in time for the dive trip as well... Think my holidays going to get burned pretty fast, as the diving is going to take up 4 days already. Only told my mum that I'm going for a trip with my friends as it's holiday and my birthday is coming up.. shhhhhhhhh.... Been thinking that even when I'm back shouldn't tell her the truth, as diving is really one dangerous activity and she's going to give me a piece of her mind. Even having birthday after that is not going to help...

And I'm getting older again!!! Sigh..actually I'm getting older every minute and every second. Realised that each year really flew by after I hit 20 years old.. by the time I'm back from the dive trip, it'll be the end of the term break and only two more months for me to study and II'm going to work for the rest of my life.. How sad.. Everything seems so uncertain? Been to the career fair at MPSH the other day, and saw a lot of final year students there, practically signing up with every company they can find at the place and speaking to everyone representative they can see. I guess I was also doing the same, giving it a shot regardless it's banking, insurance, financial or public sector. The greatest irony was the big MOE booth and people flooding there was still as many as ever, and I just got rejected from them again..

Hie..it's one of the late night again, actually for the past few nights had been sleeping quite late as well, and my mum was commenting about my dark eye rings just now. Went to pay spotty Danping a visit just now, but the evening was better than what we had bargained for. Aichin was back from her sailing, and all of us sat around Danping's round dining table, drinking tea and updating each other about our lives. I guess that was really the highlight of the week, and almost feel quite unwilling to go home.=P It's always so nice to have a good long chat with the girls...

On the whole a very good paper. You describe a number of important aspects of placebos and discuss several key issues. It would have been good if you could have gone into more depth on some of the issues but on the whole a very credible job.
Grade: A-

Remember the term paper I was complaining a whole lot about? The lecturer had graded it and emailed back to me tonight, I was really proud of myself..heh heh.. and quite impressed with the lecturer too. I didn't realise that there's a function in MS Word to add comments and view comments in the document. My lecturer actually made use of that to grade and comment on my term paper which was submitted throught IVLE. He's a really clever guy, as everything about the module was actually done online except for the lecture, so that people will not find him too boring..

这是个古老的传说. 午夜12点时对着镜子削着苹果.记住皮不可以断.削完之后镜子就会出现...





没有皮的苹果..

Yah, corny right? Esp when it's sent in SMS and you're expecting this to be sometime romantic when it was sent to me the eve of Valentine's Day. I still remember that when I was younger, the series of 'True Singapore Ghost stories' was really popular, and in one of stories, it was said that your future husband will appear in the mirror if you peel the skin of an apple off with a knife at midnight. To add on to that, I think that a candle must be lit or something. And in the story, the girl was so scared when an image appeared in the mirror that she threw the knife she into the mirror, and years later she met a guy she fell in love with, but he had a scar on his face. And when asked why there's a scar on his face, he said that he was walking along the road one day at midnight, and something sharp flew out from nowhere and hit his face.

In a way, this year's Friendship Day was quite eventful for me. Well, most of the 'happening' events actually took place after the previous blog, which I sounded quite bored as I was really feeling really bored just before my tuition.
I think sometimes when you expect things to be really bad, it may never meet your expectations and you will actually end up very relieved and very happy with how it turned out. Yesterday I had my marathon tuition from 9am - 6pm, it was the first time I actually done it..incredible.. But I should say that the kids were actually behaving quite well, and even the most dreaded session passed relatively fast, I was really lucky. Came home feeling drained after the whole day of traveling around for my tuition, did not have any programme planned in the evening, it was really peaceful as only Dad and me was around for the whole night so I slept very early to prepare for the sailing course. And after one whole week of praying, today's wind condition turned out to be the extreme of what happened last week, there wasn't much wind at all. Although at times I was really feeling quite bored turning and turning around, but I was really thankful that the long and tiring day I had imagined turned out to be manageable beyond my imaginations. Well, maybe if there was more wind things could be more challenging.. at least it's the first time I've sailed without capsizing. Hope things will still be the same next week..=) Well, just a little more wind will be better, think I had over-prayed last week.

Hmm.. Today is quite a boring day, feeling quite sian. Even though it's Friday, I'm looking forward to a stressful weekend, one day full of tuition and another full of sailing out at sea. Hopefully I'll get more rest these few nights, but didn't get to exercise much due to the heavy workload these few days. Woke up at 6am this morning to study for my test, almost forgot about it after the Hari Raya holiday. =P But alas! I dozed off in the middle of the readings and was ten minutes late for the test.. @!$^* Sigh.. Feeling quite tired right now just after I've finished all my lessons for the week, not really in the mood to go anywhere later. Feel like going home for a good rest straightaway, but I'm waiting for time to pass now before my tuition.

Hey hey.. Didn't know I can be so productive today, as I had actually finished off my Lit assignment and also the research assignment all in one go. So for academic work this week, I've left the CA to study and also the forums, which I had already went to post one or two comments. Really happy now, can enjoy all the visiting tomorrow as I think I've cleared most of the work, provided they don't come piling up again. =) Well..better not be too yaya.. Did not go to school to attend lecture today so that I can work on the assignments, so still got to zap my HRM readings on Thurs for the test.. but luckily it's open book..

Although I didn't suffer from Monday blues.. felt a very intense need to start working real hard today, I think the virus that is spreading around is attacking me.. and that is STRESS!! So many deadlines to meet, I'm really looking forward to the term break coming up after next week..
The main stressors of my week will roughly goes like this:

Today: Went for project meeting for HRM, as we are going to have a presentation on Friday. Realised that I got a CA coming up this Friday for the same module too.. so have to sort out my notes and zap those missing ones.
Tuesday: Short day for me, but have to clear up my place for visiting on Wed, zap missing notes. Lots of miscellaneous things to do to clear up the week's work, e.g research for projects and assignments.
Wed: Friends coming for visiting and I'm going out for the whole day. Have to prepare for the project meeting on thurs, as our project is due next week. (this is for IF3202 module) Research and type out 4 page essays before the meeting.
Thursday: Project meeting; Another 4 page essay due on Friday for my Intro to Literature studies module. Already started on it last friday, hopefully can get a good grade. Busy busy busy day...
Friday: CA1 and presentation for HRM module. Assignment due for EN1101 module. And it's V-day.. should I go out??? sigh...

What a stressful week!! And in the midst of all these.. I need to check out the IVLE everyday as there's tutorials for two modules that's being held online and we need to post on the discussion forums. Basically I only need to attend one other tutorial this week only as Wed is a holiday, so tutorial on that day is canceled. To add to all these, I'm trying to dig out some time to go and exercise too, as Sunday I'll probably die in a horrible state.

Yah..I've included the archives although it looked quite uncool after I added to the whole layout. But I realised that this blog page is actually getting as long as a football field, and some of my earlier blogs are disappearing..
The long awaited sailing course is finally here, it didn't fail my expectations as a very tough experience, even though I had an advantage over the rest as I've sailed before. But the advantage didn't take me very far out to sea. The only experience after the sail boat capsized was even worse than the previous times, even though the first few moments on a laser was not as lost and horrifying than my first time on the topper. I just realised that I can covert to sail a laser just by taking a day course, and the cost is also much much cheaper. I think the worse buy of the whole course is not even experienced yet.. next week will be hell day. Nevertheless, I still enjoyed myself mainly because of the companions.. =)
Luckily that we didn't suffer from a great energy loss today, as we only sailed for less than half an hour each. I guess going through just a lecture will not be much of a problem for me tomorrow. It will be Grandpa's birthday and we're going Allson's Hotel as he's invited many relatives this year, since he's turing 80 years old. So I'm supposed to be home by 5pm to go there with my family, didn't meet up most of my relatives from my father's side for many years. I think many people will be shocked that me and sisters are so 'old' already.

It's 3am in the morning of 6th Feb 2003, and I'm blogging here. What am I'm doing up at this hour? Well.. kind of busy with some stuff, but I'm also not very sure what I'm busy with.. .hee heee.. I'm trying to read up for tomorrow's lesson, check out funkygrad and other online things at the same time. And decided to do some blogging. Actually the word 'blog' came from the word 'web log' (didn't realise that) and I guess eventually it evolved into blog, so that it sound more hip and cool and suited for this age. I wondered what happened to the 'we', guess 'we blog' doesn't sound so cool althought it makes more sense, that's why..

Realised that I've been complaining to almost everyone I know about the term paper, as it disrupted a really enjoyable CNY holiday, not only that, it also caused me pre-CNY and post-CNY stress as I kept worrying about it way before the holiday.. Damn.. But anyway, it's finally done and handed up. Think I must be slacking and delaying the whole process of producing it, actually I was lucky in a way to host the first forum as everyone replied enthusiastically and provided a lot of material for my writing. But lazy lazy me.. tsk tsk..

This week seemed to pass really fast, mainly because Monday was a public holiday, so no Monday blues for everyone. I didn't attend lecture on Tuesday, self declared an extra day for my holiday.. But today when I went for tutorial, almost everyone I asked didn't go for the lecture too..phew! I wonder who turned up other than the lecturer himself.. Was mentally drained after today's tuition, as it was a 3 hour session, and the kids went away for holiday in Australia for the past five days. They came back with sunburnt faces and loads of homework. Felt quite drained myself at the end of it, even though it was a relatively easy session since I didn't need to issue any work. The best part was at the end of it, the kids' Mum gave me a big bag of chocolate from Australia and $20 ang pao! The youngest daughter (a toddler) in the family was howling after that and I thought she couldn't bear to part with the goodies, but I realised she was angry with her older sister as she wanted to be the one to give me the choco.. hahahhaha.. I was really happy on my way home.

Yoyo.. Just now my friend Qiming gave me a riddle to solve, and I managed to do it within 5 minutes!!! Felt so proud of myself..

RaY (2:00 AM) :
hey u free? help me solve 8 chiense words
^Akane^=) (2:01 AM) :
what words?
RaY (2:01 AM) :
wait.I send u sms
^Akane^=) (2:02 AM) :
haha..what makes you think i will know the answer?
RaY (2:03 AM) :
I duno.
just ask ard who know the answer.
RaY (2:04 AM) :
my frenz ask em to solve it.. but can't figure out
^Akane^=) (2:04 AM) :
hmm..so far only the first word...
RaY (2:04 AM) :
wat the first word?
^Akane^=) (2:05 AM) :
wait.. see can make sense or not first
RaY (2:05 AM) :
ermm k
^Akane^=) (2:07 AM) :
think i solved it liao...
hahhha
RaY (2:07 AM) :
what's the eight words?
^Akane^=) (2:08 AM) :
is this supposed to be difficult?
RaY (2:10 AM) :
wa.. dunoo.
I'm lousy I think

I received the sms around 2.02am and solved it at 2.07am.. think he was quite impressed also.. Hahahaa. See if you can beat my record!


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