Update

Let's start with what happened yesterday.

so i had this debate where i was assigned to speak just because i posted a comment on the IVLE. screw those people who dictate what you gotta do. 2 mins? say what? so i was prepared to give something rather brief. then during the presentation, the girl before my turn talked for ultra long lor... and she would break for 3-4 sec in between her examples for what? give me the false impression that it's my turn? she had the gall to cover my topic (which was ASSIGNED to me in an email which she must have read) and then didn't even bother to say something like "i shall pass on to the next speaker". How can anyone like that be in 3rd/ 4th yr university? sheesh!

on a happier note, ate lunch w spinky n gzai today at Munchie. the calamari is very nice! i think it's better than fish n co's (whose standards, sadly, have fallen). Also completed 2 assignments! so i'm left with:

• finishing a letter explaining revisions to my essay
• writing a concluding paragraph to explain why animals should/should not be kept in zoos
• write a 1500 word essay on how p53 acts independent of transcriptional activity, i.e. directly on proteins.
• 1 page report on failure to obtain results in last last week's practical.

seems ok lar... should be able to finish all this by thurs midnight i hope. (since it's the deadline anyway. =P)

aiyah... didn't managed to get to use the emoticons that i kapoked from the ULTIMATE LIU SONG REN FAN. =P

oh yar... did i mention that i suspect that that irritating speech-stealing person may be the one who can live with squiggly lines all over her essay? (refer to previous post on perfume and COLON)

tomorrow got discussion again. then lunch... probably going to eat with the Lab people. then lecture... was thinking to go shop for shoes after class but i have tuition on wednesdays nowadays (instead of mondays). Eats into my AI4 time. OOH... 2hours of Amazing Race in <22hrs. What will the Survivors do next?

9,900!!!

Today my aunt gave me a skirt from Japan, size 11. the price tag says 9,900 yen. do u know how much that is in Sing $? *drop jaw*

Ah ma's birthday!!! played London Bridge with my cousins and nieces. So funny to reminescence how we were like when we (cousins nearer to my age) were that age. Laurie is simply adorable as usual! apparently she learnt to wear her sandals in a week in school! WOW!

Family gatherings are always good for business. Aunt asked if i would be free in May to watch Tristan. Then later, I think i signed myself up for more tuition in Serangoon area. And i kind of cursed myself that i won't be able to find a job *choi* quick. The latter may be a good or bad thing... would be nice to have that bit of free time to pick up some hobby or something before i start work... and i'm still committed to giving tuition to my current students... Oh well, see how.

MFA II

apparently i did ok enough to be considered... so now to stage 2. realised that i have 3 CAs coming up next week. n all of them are group work requiring presentations. all on different days. thus ended up changed the selection test date TWICE. hope it doesn't reflect badly on me. So paiseh. i arranging for stuff but forget that i actually have something on on these dates. -_-

generally suay day. a cockroach ran over my feet when i was washing my face at 630am. that woke me up. ended up waiting a lot for nothing today too... sheesh. then tuition ended early so i thought i'ld drop by melly welly's house on my way home. hung around outside hoping that someone would hear me and come open the door but no one did. oh well. try again next time.

my sis has dozed off on the sofa with her mask still on. suppose to leave on for half hour. didn't time for her. will it dry and crack if she doesn't wake up in time? i wonder...

MFA

the test was quite tricky. i knew i wouldn't finish section 3. wonder if i can move on?

painted at KK today! so fun! i should probably juz paint for leisure... maybe i should kapok some cute pics from KK... haha...

mrt home was crowded as usual. people were so impatient to board the train at lavendar that they couldn't be bothered to step back to let others get off first. -__- and guess what happened? this kid (prob in sec sch) fell and had his leg (note: not just his foot) stuck in the gap between the platform and the train. Let this be a lesson to those who can't understand the benefits of courtesy and the importance of patience.

Perfume test

Following the perfume and colon fiasco, came across spinky's email about the perfume personality test.

so anyway, the test said that i belong to the floral family too!

You're sensitive, warm and cheerful. You like tenderness in life: flower bouquets and weekends for two. Your elegance comes naturally and your close relations appreciate your femininity and artistic talent. You're sincere and generous, and cultivate the pursuit of happiness and radiate joie de vivre. Your perfume expresses the femininity that makes you so unique. Your wear it elegantly and naturally. Floral perfumes are the ones for you, whether fruity, woody or musky or even green. Their auras follow you and embellish your beauty and personality.

no wonder i like ananya... LOL... but out of production liao.

Blog blog blog....

For some reason, people can't view my blog properly. i can't access my blog from my friend's IE. weird. it doesn't get updated despited refreshing (maybe this is my friend's Mac's fault?) =P

update:
finished reviewing the behavioural essays!
halfway through my other behavioural assignment.
attempted to read tumour bio article.

still playing sims 2: university. although i think will get bored of it soon. =P

Perfume and COLON???

Spent 3 hours last night editing a classmate's essay out of duty. It was quite horrible. Grammatical errors littered the paper and she left out some stuff which should not have been left out.

Quote: In modern society, there is the widespread use of perfumes and colon which companies have designed for better mate attraction.

must have been written in a hurry. discounting this, i wonder how she could write her essay with all the green squiggly lines in her MS Word when she wrote stuff like "a female... and their..."

skipped sch today. 2 hour lecture which i anticipated to be boring. ended up napping during this slot but i take consolation in the fact that if i had gone, would have wasted 4 hours napping. so there. ha.

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it's so obvious when your sister has some sort of relationship problem. of course it doesn't help if she's pretty... lol...
tell-tale signs:

• gets long calls from more than 1 male voice
• uses the phone in a isolated corner
  
• talks more softly than usual to the new male voice (aka different voice from the boyfriend)
  
• uses the phone AND the handphone
• uses the phone AND the handphone AND MSN messenger
  

sigh

when u lose something, don't u ever wish u were a psychic? or at least have some sort of telepathy w what u've lost.

Oh where, oh where could my lost item be???

*cry*

Ups and Downs

Today i went for an aqua aerobics class w spinky! it was so fun! absolutely hilarious! try grabbing on to a styrofoam dumbell and "running" across a pool. :P

Finally decided on a type of package tour! pretty much settled on which one exactly actually... juz waiting for promotions. :P

still worried about something important that i've lost. dunno how i'm going to replace it if i really can't find it... pray that it pops up... although chances seems rather slim. please not have been thrown out accidentally.... sigh...

5 yellow cards and still no goals in Man U vs Crystal P.

still 1 page down 9 pages to go.

sunburnt areas are itching. y?

reflections

a jack of all (ok... mebbe not all... some) trades, but master at none.

a copier or a creator?

a follower or a leader?

of all the skills i have, i think i count myself pretty good at:
- computer stuff: searching the internet efficiently, using MS office...
- editing: i enjoy correcting my sister's n cousin's essays. ok... not all the time, but when i'm free, yeah...
- sketching: recently started sketching again out of boredom/stress. yesterday sketched Fuji-kun from Prince of Tennis episode 64. pretty happy abt my sketching skills - looks relatively proportionate. n sketched pooh today. でも, it's just copying exactly what i see... ...
- making kids happy: i adore kids. when they aren't driving me mad lar. kids do say the darnest things and when they do say what they say, they often say it in the most what?-nothing-wrong-with-what-i'm-saying look. =)

Problems...
i tend to become "juai" after a while but mostly jokingly... unless it is a matter i really have confidence in. but i still manage to piss at least 1 person off whenver i work in an office environment.

indecisiveness. that's probably my 致命穴。 coupled with passiveness, they make a deadly combination. passiveness got me into science... which is what i seem to have been doing all this time. It seems to be the natural choice to go into teaching but i don't really want that. Most people tell me that i'll be great at teaching, and I guess i might like teaching. but a rare bit of wisdom spouted from my sister that day: "i don't want to be in school all my life."

i guess i know that if i teach, i'll stick with it for a while, maybe even for life. which is why i don't want to teach right now. life is short - cliche but true - and i've already wasted time not trying out things which i would have liked to do. yet, i have no idea what i really want to do, and am just taking things as they come. perhaps it's this sense of being lost that is de-motivating me this semester.

if we could all just do whatever we liked to do, i'll just sit down somewhere n play with kids. =P or just draw... creativity is about experimentation... but i am not skilled enough to do so. in the meantime, i just continue to use my pencil, and sketch what i see, exactly the way i see it - provided i have the time.

so how do i make a living out of all this?

hmm...