Boggled! I

What the…!

Young people nowadays are just ridiculous!! How do they expect to get high grades if what they’re doing is ’spotting’ questions and ignoring the rest???? 89% certain, kononnya… O.M.G.

Meals with the grandparents, and my first cooking lesson ^^

Mom finally passed on some of her recipes today, lol. Hmmm it’s weird how everything seems incredibly easy to do but will probably be tough delicious-ing (lol). Soooo… curry chicken again =D let’s see whether I can manage to whip up something actually spicy when I get back… I still owe Alex and Vivi a meal, after all!!!

On another note, che, Popo and Gonggong came over for lunch today!! Rare nowadays to have more than the 4 of us at home… *can almost weep with the joy* …but if I’m already feeling the emptiness of the house… what do those who still stay here, feel? With the parents out at work or on business trips, what would kitty feel, all alone in the house? With dad home late and 3 of her 4 kids away from home, what does mom feel, two eating at a table for six?

…Ah well. Back to the diary entry. They came, mom passed the grandparents the items that Aunty Sue sent over via me for them and YuanKai (who incidently in back in KL but can’t meet up with us!! DAMN!!!! I wanted to see him too… it’s been ages…) and then after some chatting and snacking we went out for a seafood dinner. Nothing much else to say… only that… well, Gonggong is 79 this year and getting frailer and frailer in health, not really able to scale our stairs without taxing himself. His hands were shaking so much when I greeted him and… perhaps helpless at his body’s lethargy and inactivity… did his eyes water, or did he cry? ….

It’s a shock to realise that your family has been aging while you weren’t looking… I guess this is pretty much the summation of what I felt when I watched the others interact. As time goes by… well, once you stop looking… it’s just such a surprise. Worse of all is, I can guess at thoughts and feelings, based on what I myself would feel if I were in particular situations.

What I love most about being alive is being able to move, to talk, to see, to feel, to hear, to murmur, to stretch my limbs out and roll onto my back. If I were to ever lose a sense, or have it impaired in such a way that I would no longer be able to do certain things… like smell the scent of cooking chicken, like hear the birds trill as they fly overhead outside, like feel the touch of someone stroking my hair, like step on the ground and move forward… I would rather die.

Just imagine if such a day came, and I could *not* die, for physical reasons, social reasons, obligations, etc. Would I actually be able to face up to it, or rather, endure it without going mad?

…I seriously don’t think so. Depressing? …Very.

Going to Newman’s 4th Anniversary

Volunteered at che’s event today, at her advertising-cum-4th anniversary bash for Newman Magazine, near Damansara’s Cineleisure. Got there around 10:30am and then jaga’d around the Wheel and the goodie tent until 5-ish, when the folks came to pick me up for dinner.

The day has been an interesting experience; it’s amazing to see a real event-coordinating team at work, and being in the thick of things just reminded me of how much more I need to learn and what I can expect to see during open day next sem XD …pushing sales, anyone?

It was only afterwards that I understood the reason behind Eccentric’s do-or-die attitude the whole of today… hey, these girls were up from 7am and dashing around until past midnight!! Combine that with them having had to overnight at Grand Royale last night because they were working on the venue and the goods deliveries most of yesterday… I am impressed ^^ Very educational, too!

But what mom repeated to me about che’s words is true… in this industry, all’s good until you flub up: when you fall once, you’re history then on… nobody likes being barricaded by phone calls, but even worse than frantic phonecalls about what-went-wrong, is no phone calls at all, for that means you’re off the list, permanently…. And when the fault is not even yours to begin with… WHOA.

Hmmmmm well. Too much that can’t be said XD only perhaps… T.T half my earnings for the day went towards treating mom, dad, and kitty to dinner!!! Was the day worth it though? Considering that I was sweating more than I have in 4 months, and pitching more sales than I have for 3 years, and got tanned more than I would like because of that frickin’ hot sun?

…Conclusion: Yes. Gains: Experience, Insight, aaaand… omigod the heart-beating sight of all those cute guys and girls on stage as well as JUST AN ARMS LENGTH AWAY!!!!!! (and che has this intern who is sooooo to die for, who helped out lots at the area I was in!!)*swoon* Kyaaaaaaaaa!!!

Ladies; Please Read! II

Another chain mail, this time from Ruth. I have no idea how true this is, but hey. Stay safe.

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Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 7:58 PM
Subject: News from Ampang Gleneagles Hospital

Dear all,

Important news to pass it on…. Please spare 1 minute and read on…

News from Gleneagles Hospital (Ampang) URGENT!!

Seven women have died after inhaling a free perfume sample that was mailed to them. The product was poisonous. If you receive free samples in the mail such as lotions, perfumes, diapers etc. THROW THEM AWAY. The government is afraid that this might be another terrorist act. They will not announce it on the news because they do not want to create panic or give the terrorists new ideas.

Send this to all your friends and family members.

Warmest Regards,
Meiling
Gleneagles Hospital Limited
Human Resource Department
Tel: 6470 3474

Quiet Musings, V

Do you know? It’s really quite relieving to just let the tears loose and bawl your eyes out. I realised this truth once more when I took up one of my unread novels and started reading through. Ended up with red eyes, a mountain of tissues, and a light-heavy head after 3 hours of slow reading.

Thank goodness I didn’t start reading that on the plane, or anywhere else with loads of people. It would have been… for short of a better word… embarrassing. Imagine a distraught person fumbling for a tissue why trying not to stop reading, and swearing when tears obscured their vision. Not very sane or rational at all!!

But, emotional and physical draining aside, reading was very cartharthic for me. Very, very soothing, and very destressing. Mayhap compounded by the fact that I haven’t been able to read in peace for any stretch of time for months??

Anyway, after that, in my post-reading daze, I started pondering (again).

Is it a mark of expertise when an author manages to integrate her readers into the story to the extent that they breathe with her characters and laugh with her characters and cry with them groan with them worry for them etc?

Or rather, is it not?

…

What is it in books and stories that make us want to cry, or laugh, or shake our heads, or have to stifle urges to tear it into pieces? What is it about certain scenes that make us anticipate certain other happenings?

Conditioning? Past experience? Perceptual sets? …or, a mixture of all?

Hmmm… any input?

(Still too dazed to think coherently. Forgive this crazy post, please.)

Ladies; Please Read! I

Just passing the below around since it’s a bit… obligatory. Thanks to JeanJing for mailing it to me!!

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FYI! Anyone can confirm this?
Women’s Rights (PLS READ!!!)
Something for us to know…..

I was talking with a lawyer friend of mine. We were discussing the law and women’s rights. She told me about this incident  - a young girl was raped by a man posing as a plain clothes officer ; he asked her to follow him to the police station when she and her male friend didn’t have a driver’s license to show when stopped. He sent the boy off to get his license and asked the girl to accompany him to the police station. but instead of going to the station, he took her instead to an isolated area where the horrendous crime was then committed.

Did you know?

In fact, Malaysian law clearly states that between 6 pm and 6am , a woman has the right to REFUSE to go to the Police Station, even if an arrest warrant has been issued against her. It is a procedural issue that a woman can be arrested between 6pm and 6 am, ONLY if she is arrested by a woman officer and taken to an ALL WOMEN police station. And if she is arrested by a male officer, it has to be proven that a woman officer was on duty at the time of arrest.

It is good for us to know our rights. To what extent it comes to be of use remains to be seen in any situation. But as they say, knowledge is power.

Just thought I`d share this with you.

I did not know this and am sure that a lot of us will not know this either – please be informed…. And pass on this info to all whom you know. You never know when you’ll help some other poor soul from heartache and worse.

Blogging it, V

Went down to Muar for the day with Dad and Mom and met up with a pile of relatives. Found out that I have a really professional promoting agent for an aunt. A pity it doesn’t seem to run in the genes… she is GOOD o.o Almost had me convinced that I need more health drinks @.@

Didn’t feel well after the outing (travelled a total of 5 hours by car. Oh.My.God.). I doubt that I’ll be going anywhere tomorrow; just not up to it T.T

And, choosing to stay home today instead of following Mom to MV and shopping, I ended up giving the ‘usual’ been-there done-that talk to Kitty. Talked about Kuen Cheng and its changes and what being in Senior 1 is all about, talked about how we can’t decide what we want from our lives and what the best philosophy to take on it is, talked about friends and what they mean to us and what we want from friendships, talked about the role of education… etc etc etc. Gah. Now I feel old….

Pickled Thoughts for Tea, V

Just more words to think about (from a chain email from Ruth):

• If you woke up this morning with more health than illness,
  you are more blessed than the million who won’t survive the week.
• If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture or the pangs of starvation,
  you are ahead of 20 million people around the world.
• If you attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death,
  you are more blessed than almost three billion people in the world.
• If you have food in your refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof over your head and a place to sleep,
  you are richer than 75% of this world.
• If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace,
  you are among the top 8% of the world’s wealthy.
• If your parents are still married and alive,
  you are very rare, especially in the United States.
• If you hold up your head with a smile on your face and are truly thankful,
  you are blessed because the majority can, but most do not.
• If you can hold someone’s hand, hug them or even touch them on the shoulder,
  you are blessed because you can offer God’s healing touch.
• If you can read this message,
  you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world that cannot read anything at all.
• You are so blessed in ways you may never even know. If you are feeling blessed, repay the blessings bestowed unto you and do something for others. A blessing cannot be kept.  If it stops with you, then the blessing will disappear. The blessing will only keep working if it is continuously passed around. If you are a recipient of a blessing, keep the blessing working by being the source of blessing to other people.

Any comments?

I don’t know about you guys, but this gave me plenty to think about. Unfortunately, I don’t think anybody wants to read about it XD so I’ll leave it at that. After all… you have your own things to think about after reading those lines.

WTH am I doing?? III

What the…

My first visit in 4 months to a REAL shopping centre, and all I do is get a fruit juice, have some ice-cream, buy two slices of Secret Recipe cake, and return a defective product for a family member?

Something is seriously wrong o.o

On the bright side, had a really good dish of chicken rice at some random PJ stall with dad, and the ice-cream was on Derek as a thank-you for delivering the envelope.

Ah well. At least I got out of the house.

Blogging it, IV

Today’s the 19th… time to go home!!

Woke up at 8:30am, did up my room (doing laundry, clearing random stuff) etc until 11+am, and barely just managed to catch the airport bus in time (zomg!). Hmmm but the prospect of two weeks home is suddenly amazingly inviting. Said ‘bye to Amanda last night so it was okay that she was at exams when I left.

Forgot to get Han’s KL number during our ride to Tullamarine (gah). Checked in baggage together along with Sue, a final year returnee. Couldn’t get seats together (oh well). Had McDonald’s for lunch. Discussed how the burgers seem to be *gasp* reducing in size and going down in taste as time goes by.

Boarded the plane. Watched several movies and continued with the Welcoming BBQ Proposal instead of sleeping the entire way. Super stuck at 2 pages long. Hmmm. Then I ran out of battery. What a winner.

Arrived around 9:10pm as on schedule, waited a long time for Han’s luggage to come out (LOL you won’t believe how many orange luggages there were on the conveynor belt just now… usually all we see are blacks and other dark colours, but today there was an invasion of orange-gray bags. It was RIDICULOUS. After splitting up with Han to join our respective parents I went for supper with the folks at Taman Megah. Found out that I didn’t have Han’s number!! So we just ate and went home. Didn’t bother to unpack since it was almost midnight. Hooked up online with the home computer (complaining at having to use an actual MOUSE) and found some replies online on the Trivia Night Proposal. Read through then forwarded them to Jasmine since I couldn’t do anything about some dotpoints.

Was tired and turned in for the night. Have to pass Amanda’s envelope to Derek tomorrow so I can’t sleep in too late. Yikes….

At long last, done with ETC!! On with MCAC?

Had the exam this afternoon and am exhilarated.

Picked up che’s groceries, boarded the 900, got back from Caulfield at 6pm-ish (was chatting with Stan most of the journey back) and then got home (ditching the rest of the post-exam-high’d crowd) to get some dinner and start on the Trivia Night proposal.

Dinner was random foodstuffs, and the proposal was… almost 6 hours of pure writing, thinking, restructing, and brainpower. Ended up with something that spanned 8 pages and 2610 words, which would have been around… 1+am? Was intermittently talking with the MCAC-ers; sent my drafts to Chris and Bernie around 11-ish, midnight to check the first four pages while I slaved on with the budgets and itinerary.

Stressed over all these stuff, but… it’s positive stress, right?

Problem is… now I still have to pack. Sheezes.

This is going to be a loooong night ^^”

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Mumbled Irritations, III

Stop calling stop talking stop asking stop showing concern

don’t want to hear don’t want to know don’t want to see just want to flee

Somebody… help me…!!!

In my previous blogpost I mentioned that I’d gone online between getting home and doing laundry.

Well, I finally received a reply from Rebecca in the form of an email containing the application form for the Business Conference Interpreting training course at Caulfield that I’ve been interested in. The form is easy enough to fill out, but… the catch is… I’ll have to attend classes every Monday, Wednesday and Friday night, from 6-9pm, at Caulfield. IF I overload… and IF I maintain the C&S’s that I have been involved in… how wise would that be?

….

I really want to do this course this year, because it’s relatively new, started up only last year, and has no guarantees as to whether next year will see a repeat session (it’s based on response towards it I think). Also, for the past year I have been considering translating as a path that I can take in the future, assuming that I keep my language skills polished and maintain a degree of interest in the nuances of this job.

That said, will it kill me, though, to do so?

If I take it, it’d be: 5 subjects (which don’t seem like such a beautiful combination with hindsight; Macro-E, Management, Marketing, Intro to Finance, EIL?) of perhaps 3 contact hours each with their accompanying tute tests/assignments/midsems (which require self-studies of at least 4 hours each), plus our packed planned timetable for MCAC which includes fortnightly big events (that I’ll be overseeing) if the Go2 team gets its way, plus 9 contact hours per week at Caulfield (which means around one hour of travelling to and fro between campuses, multiplied by three, and getting back very late at night), and one-hour MUISS meetings in the evening once every week….

In total, that means that days-wise…

-On Monday I have a 10am class, which means that my uni day will be 10am-9pm.

-On Tuesday, I have a total of 5 lecture sessions from 9am-4pm. (Holy shit! That’s like my Thursdays this sem!)

-On Wednesday I’ll probably have my first tute at 10:30am since the other slot will be allocated to MCAC lunch and screenings; an Economics tute directly after, and then I have a 4-5pm lecture and Caulfield until 9pm.

-On Thursday it will be another 10am tute with EIL as its topic, with MCAC extended lunch if the timetable follows this semester’s, and probably more tutes peppering the day until I get to the MUISS GenComm meeting which might end around 7pm.

-Friday is a ‘free day’ that I’ve fought tooth and nail for, but 6-9pm would still be ‘uni time’ under the proposed course.

And let’s not forget the recommended self-studies and preparation for tuteworks and tutetests that come part-and-parcel of uni life. All that, on top of longer-than-even-working-day-hours sessions at uni.

…Would I even have the time to go home or sleep?

And I can’t help wondering; would I even have energy to do anything by Saturday or Sunday?

…

Yet I really want to do this course. How much regret would there be if the course were discontinued and I were unable to experience its confines? I want to determine my course in life soon and before deciding wastes too much time; would I be losing out on my dream job if I just can’t find the time to trial it through?

Somebody… tell me what to do? Or at least, drop a line and give an opinion?

Please… release me from this cage of uncertainty and unrest…

3 down, 1 to go! Semester 1/2007 ending soon!

Actually mananged to wake up -and STAY up- at 5:30am today with the trilling of my alarm clock, to my great surprise. The apprehension or looking-forwardness to the AFC paper? I wonder.

Was done with the shower and changing by 6:10am-ish, then started flipping through my textbook for definitions and such. Amanda was in the shower soon after that; guess the two of us were both hyped up enough, huh? Adilah was last to get up and she went, “omg you two damned semangat lah…” lol.

Study continued. Very harmonious atmosphere as we were all doing our own thing, as opposed to what’s been happening at uni lately. I found that immensely calming.

After a light breakfast, we unanimously agreed that being there way too early was better than worrying that we’d be late, so the whole flat left together for Caulfield on the 7:30am shuttle, arriving at our destination 10 minutes before the library opened. Crashed at the kitchen doing more revision until 9am, and then dropped by Building K to get Amanda some coffee before leaving for the racecourse.

AFC was one damned crazy paper XD What’s depressing is that at least two people around me actually finished early and left before the ‘curfew’. OMG-ness. Made me feel like I should have studied more for it. Which, I technically, should have. Ah well, water under the bridge now.

Following that, a group of us went down to Hawthorne for lunch at Grill’d. Burgers, anyone? Saw some really nice flowers in a stall along the street as we walked… ages… to the outlet. Didn’t buy any, though—where would I put them, for one? And I’m going home anyway. Keeping flowers for at least five days is what I prefer to do. Felt a bit down throughout the outing, though. No idea why >.<

Couldn’t meet up with Pei, Jasmine and the others as I originally planned because they had just finished their exams and were either up at the city, or at home by now. Aiiikes. So after some discussion and tossing around of options with Serene and Stan, and some pushing from a lethargic and headache-imminent brain, I decided to head home and take a breather.

Took a random bus back to uni with Eddie, ending up… I have no bejeezes idea where! XD Ummm near the CSIRO place, I think? Anyway, it was this totally new part of uni that I had never been to. No compass or map, so I couldn’t even find my way out if my life depended on it. Thankfully Eddie who knew approximately where we were (wow!) walked me back before heading off to campus centre. Thankies!!

The others were doing some laundry as I got back. For my part, I couldn’t feel the inclination to wash clothes or -sleep- after all that brisk air, so I opted to go to the lounge for some revision, and then came back again at 8+pm after hanging out with Ronald, Kawa, Noriko, Ronny, Stan, and Alex. Barely got any work done, but it was worth it to destress.

Was surprised at Amanda’s perceptiveness when I got back and she asked me straight out whether I’d had biscuits for dinner. Whoa!!! What does she have; sixth sense or something? Meekly argued that I’d had mushroom soup as well, and she gave me that ‘Are You An Idiot?’ look that makes me feel guilty. Very caring ^^ I feel lucky =P

Went online after that… read the next blogpost for info on some stuff I found there… MSN’ed, forum’d, emailed people, updated maybe 4 days’ worth of blogs (lolzes), did some random YouTube searches… ended up sleeping at midnight, when I’d professed to be tired around 3pm in the afternoon. Ah well.

Need to study tomorrow… 3 down, 1 to go… but that is a very important ‘ONE’ as well!!! Can’t start slacking off… yikes… T.T

Pickled Thoughts for Tea, IV

Hi guys~

Remember my previous post, Pickled Thoughts for Tea III? Well, here’s part two of the demotivation pix and my thoughts on it ^^

Again… be prepared to be bored out of your mind!Poster “Two” on the list: Tagline, Mistakes

“It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others.”

Hmmm… again, this seems to be a very demotivating sentence indeed. But then I look at the picture, and something about that sinking ship tickles the memory.

After all, what more-remembered sinking icon is there but the Titanic, which has become immortal because of the 1997 history-into-film love story about that doomed ship?

Titanic the ship is indeed a very good example of the words on this poster.

Have any of you read the most recent findings on it?

Please too refer to the following link for more info:

http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/discus/messages/5919/90876.html?1095986315

So. Makes you wince, doesn’t it?

But anyway. If that IS the case, then the purpose of the Titanic’s existance was indeed to serve as a warning to others. After all, its sister the Brittanic did not have the same flaws, as was discussed in The Age. Obviously, SOME learning was brought about by the results of that… event.

My deepest sympathies lie with the victims and survivors of that tragedy. After all, none of them were meant to suffer through all that!

But… to tell the truth, the Titanic was a mistake. If you scroll down this page by Ken Walters, you’d see the comment: “What really sank the Titanic? Bad engineering? Poor seamanship? Overconfidence? A number of factors actually. There are a number of great pages on the web that illustrate the building of the ship, it’s passengers, the disaster, and the aftermath, but none that really explain the reason that she sank.” Which means that it probably is a combination of all factors… right?

If the Titanic was doomed right from the beginning… if there was no other bright spot to be seen from its creation, other than a show of the good side of some people… then… as in the words of the ‘demotivation’ poster, “It could be that the purpose of [its] life [was] only to serve as a warning to others.”

With the prior example of the flawed design, planning and construction of this ‘unsinkable’ ship, a better version of it was engineered—its sister ships. And the floating vehicles after that were all improved upon and based on ‘what works’, fixing faults from ‘failed products’, and aiming overall to actually succeed in their operations.

Sucessful journey = no accidents = no lives lost = good. Right?

So… if you think that you are a mistake and that your only purpose is to be the flashing warning sign to others, sure, feel free to do so. And don’t take it too hard. Remember that by existing and if your existance would serve as an example to others, you at least will contribute to the welfare of so many more people; remember that there were many more before you with the same fate that we can thank and appreciate because they took the plunge and instructed us through their examples of what should not be done, so that those after them would not make the same mistakes.

I know that this seems kind of callous or cold hearted to say, but there is no success without failures. You can’t just do something without the example of previous people to base your actions upon. And it’s hard to know that you did something right without looking at what others did wrong.

So… what is this poster but another statement of the facts as can be concluded by some of the actions of others?

Feel free to comment ^^ I know I’m not making much sense… but hey. At least I sparked some thought in you, hey?

If it was a mistake to write all this junk, then at least let it serve as a warning to you… don’t write about something that you’re not passionate about, or don’t know anything about, or when you’re not thinking or focusing properly.

It turns readers off.

^^ There ^^ At least the existance of this blogpost has some redeeming virtue to it…

Shout-Out of Thanks, V

Acks!! Again, before I forget…

Another big thank you to all MCAC-ers who attended this (probably) last session of Lunch for Semester One, 2007, despite the rather late announcement of location and the over-crowded seating arrangements!! (10 people around two tables at the Den’s walkway. WOW. And yes, TEN!!! Woohoo!!! Who says that no one comes to uni during exam period? hehe)

But, truthfully and from the bottom of my heart, it’s been a great few weeks with all of you. I’ve never been more relieved that I actually initiated a program; this lunch-thingy has been immensely successful for an initial plan to just get some people to socialise and eat together some days!!! I’ve received very positive feedback, I think that you guys like the lunches too (otherwise why else are you still coming?) and I just want to say… AWWWWW… you guys ROCK!!!!

Also, I just love that enthusiasm that I keep seeing whenever we start discussing possible events. I know I wouldn’t ever manage to get that excited about things by myself if energy weren’t spilling all over, like from Jasmine on the Trivia set-ups, Chris and Drue on games, Celine on the website… it’s so inspiring, and such a great change from the usual doldrums of life, that I just can’t help being reinvirogated by you guys ^^

Thank you to all who attended today:

The Go-2 Subcommittee: Chris and Jasmine

The Librarian and her probable Understudy: Bernie and Terence

The Website Specialist-to-be: Celine

Our Loyal Luncheon Supporters: Aaron and Drue

The Guy who is Not on the Forums but Amazingly Finds his Way to Us: G (three cheers!!! Amazing lol <3)

The Guy who Dropped By instead of Studying for Exams: Carlin (whoa)

In other reports (will post things up on the forum as I get the time to do so), as mentioned earlier (as in during lunch), the first two lunches of next sem will be as this semester’s. Meaning, Thursday of Week One, from 11am-2pm, and the Wednesday after that, 12noon-1pm before screenings. Wednesday Week One is Clubs Day and we’ll be doing table duty, so we can scrap that day’s lunch =P (forthcoming replacements… chill!!)

I expect timetables to be handed in by the Friday of Week One… when we hopefully will have this great little get-together that hopefully gets approved by the committee =P

Will update you guys on that sometime during the holidays… meanwhile… happy studying, ace them all, and just do your best in the coming exams!! Also… keep on a watch for the latest MCAC happenings!! Watch out guys… the team is getting cracking!!!

Finally, a late night out of many early ones… AFC tomorrow!

As winter approaches, the days grow steadily colder and colder. It disincentives (if there is such a word) people from doing things that they should, like: wake up.

Despite that, and my own inherent predilection for procrastination, I managed to get up reasonably early, and was ready to go to uni by 8:20am. Probably the memory of agreeing to walk to uni with Ronny today morning motivated me a bit. Imagine the others, unable to get into the lounge, because Ronny was waiting for me to wake up. Yikes.

So. Got to the lounge at 8:35am. Had congee and custard buns from Grain Express as my breakfast (Ronny had a red bean bun with one custard one, Noriko had a croissant with Ham and Cheese) then lounged around waiting for people to turn up. Namely, KS, since we’d agreed to do Accounting today morning. Hmmm. Well at least it’s him =P and he’s been cramming Management all before this, so I don’t mind doing this session.

Had a bit more leisure than usual (for this week) since I ‘closed’ the ‘helpdesk’ from 12noon to 5pm… was at MCAC lunch or doing MCAC business most of that time, so my brain wasn’t really closed up and resting. But anyhow. Better than Accounting, yeah?

After MUISS closed for the day, I dropped by the Annexe with Han for some final cramming. Whoa. Didn’t know I still have so much to read up on >.< Damn.

Daryl came over to chat for a while between 9pm and 9:30pm. Talked about his homework schedule a bit (wow, 5000 word essays to write? I have to reconsider doing Honours year o.o) and then went on to more general things.

Somehow we got on the topic of the MUISS/SAM/ASEAN Ski Trip. I think he was asking me whether I was going. I said, ‘no,’ and he went “*gasp* =O …Didn’t Noriko ask you to come along?” Well, of course she did, but… mannn… it’s COLD up there, right?

He tried to persuade me to go for Ski Camp in Week 3, so I went like, “oh no… too cold” “might have to organise a Trivia Night for Week 4″ “MUISS has no more tickets”, etc. (Thank god I had memories of MCAC stuff to do to back me up.) Maintaining that SAM still had two tickets available, he ‘pah-pah’ed away my objections and did the obligatory steamrolling over my protests. Not sure how much of that was said in earnest >.>” Not sure where that is going to lead to either, but anyways I had fun with the chat since it’s been ages since we last talked and… well, he’s a nice guy to have as a conversation partner. Plenty to roll on to ^^

Wasn’t about to brave the cold home =.=” so I took the security bus back to the Flats around 10pm (surprisingly enough, I had a long chat with the driver along the way, LOL) and then had a shower. Found out to my dismay that the maintenance crew haven’t come around. DARN. The water is molten!!! Getting scalded every time, and it’s not going to be fun showering with this pure-hot water tomorrow T.T

Going to continue doing some revisions later, and then… sleep.

The AFC paper is tomorrow… good luck to all! (I know I need it T.T)

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Kicking out: Intro to Financial Accounting o.o”

W~e~l~l, seems like my previous timetable plans are upset.

For some reason, today while clearing Allocate+ with Serene and Stan I reconsidered my selections and thought of another previous-unconsidered unit as a candidate for my schedule next sem. After downloading potential time slots from MUTTS, mixing, and matching, I found myself at an impasse where there were too many combos to choose from with the 6 subjects I now had at hand.

Thought my subjects, my needs and requirements, and the possibilities extending from what I can do with those units already cleared with over, and suddenly remembered that… well, the course I’m doing just can’t handle that many units. Hence anyway I had to narrow my selection down, and in the end… I decided that Macro-E is going to be so much more practical as a prereq unit than AFC1030. In my case, at least, most of my required subjects for the major I’m aiming for ARE units starting with ECC. The original plan had been to take ECC2810 straight off the bat, but… well, it’s only offered in first sem. (Sad!! That could have saved SO many headaches if it were also provided in Sem 2…)

So anyway, since I have a unit limit to adhere to, I won’t be taking AFC1030 anymore but will instead take up ECC1100. Why ditch AFC1030 and not Finance (which would relegate ECC to being my overload unit)? Well, because… the parents agree that Finance is going to be much more useful than Accounting (if they had to choose between the two). That’s cool, because I was going to take Finance anyway and just wanted their stamp of approval =P (hey, AFC1030 is only the prereq for one other unit. 2100 is a prereq for another important prereq unit that will open two additional units to me. So… yeah. Logical, rational decision. Not to mention those additional units look VERY interesting and are very central to what I may specialise in within my major.)

Thus I had to visit the BUSECO desk again and update my application. I can only hope that they won’t look unkindly towards my application for the crossed-out sections!! Would it perhaps be indicative of a flighty nature that won’t be able to do prioritising well?

Fingers crossed!!

With that out of the way, I could do all my class allocations properly (again) and match mine with as many of the others’ as possible. Hopefully tutes will be more entertaining with friends at my side ^^

…But seriously… MKC, MGC, ECC, AFC, and EIL?

WHOA. That is going to be crazy, XD. With ECC tute tests and a totally new subject as well as EIL… EIL-ness….

…suddenly, I wonder at my own sanity.

This is going to be a fun semester, whether or not I get to overload!!

But then… what is life without stress, and what is stress if not imaginery limits that you put on your own capabilities to make you feel like you can’t handle life?

Lol ^^

That didn’t make sense, did it? =P

Ah wellz. Tataz all… sleeping early tonight ^^ Get some rest too, ya?