Tuesday, August 30, 2005

what's completed and what's not...

The intercultural forum been completed
So is the IT forum - but there's 2 more on the way.
IT presentation - started but incomplete =P
History Assignment completed

Psychology group presentation up next
Psychology paper due too
MAths paper due too
MAths presentation next week -.-!!!
Portfolio due too...

Okie let me talk about other things..

Last weekend, a poor car in my bf's neighbourhood got banged till its front bumper dropped off. The poor owner dint even know of it and the guilty party ran away.
I will insert photo later.. when i remember to.



I think im pretty overworked? Im feeling like I have never had enough rest ever since I started studying.

Oh yes, I spent 170$ buying a toumaline ring yesterday yeah.. not real gold only plated gold, that's why so cheap. I've exchanged the ring for a amber bracelet that costs the same amount >.< today.

I dont even know why i spend such money when I needed the money for other more important things, i can only say that i needed to pamper myself for all the hardwork I have done.

Poor me!
(pun intended)

Sunday, August 28, 2005

Its either that or he's been hacked!
Go visit his site at one of my links and you'll know why - provided you are an avid reader of his. ;P I am! He's hilarious.

Anyway, he's not been hacked, he is just putting forth a point about bad blogskins. We all have such experiences before, heck, you might just be one of them.

Anyhow, these days because i started to take iron supplements ( im a long sufferer of iron deficiencies ), I suffer from the very dreaded and uncomfortable constipation. Cannot Ngg ngg.. not even a healthy dose of bananas can help me go about doing my business.

I was quite at my wits end and have self imposed myself on a vegan detox diet for the past 2 days.

Breakfast was:
Honey tomatoes, carrots, cucumber

Lunch was:
Green Apples, cucumbers, celery

Dinner was:
Yong tau fooo with soup and all things green and no fish meat.

Today I finally nggg ngggg... I feeeel so light.. feel so good... in fact I think i might start to detox the body more often~!

P/S : as with all vegan diets, side effects really alot of gas!

Friday, August 26, 2005

Sure I have been busy with school, I have also been busy with the following:

1. I brought a clinic to task for dispensing expired medication to me.

Yeah.. I did just that. I received their email informing me of the results this morning. Just how reliable is the clinic if it can dispense expired medication to the patients?

What if I wasnt conscious enough to read the dates and I ate them and subsequently there are complications? what would have happened? Who would be responsible?

I have to bring them to task, that is for sure. So I wrote to the health promotion board and with the photographs and original receipts of the consultations, they have successfully "charged" the clinic. I am still trying to find out what they did to them.

2. I am going to court to charge a man for sexual harassment.

The Hearing is in September. Received the letter yesterday. This incident happened sometime when I was still in my previous job. I made a police report and with the police report, I made a complaint with the telco im with. Subsequently when the bastard called again, I lodged an official complaint with the courts. And yes, I am charging him with secual harassment and since the court has admitted this case, it goes to show that there is enough evidence to kick his balls.

Im so happy. =)

Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Its the start of the any crazy weeks to come.
this week kickstarts the many busy busy weeks.

What have begun:

Intercultural forum with students from the united states 20%markswe have to contribute intelligently for professors and Dr.s from either side would be clsely monitoring our progress and discussions.

Information communication technology discussion forum 20%
Again intelligible response and is monitored by Prof.

Tomorrow:
Problem based Deciphering - Psychology 30%Project work presention

on the sidelines and due within 2 weeks time:
Mathematical individual assignment due next week 30%
Mathematical individual presentation due next week also 30%
History individual paper 20%
Psychology individual essay 70%
Information communication technology toolkit portfolio on Photoshop skills 60%

tat's why I cannot blog much. Much apologies.
Will post as and when I have the urge to.
;P don't miss me too much!

Tuesday, August 23, 2005

Found the following tests from Aerdna's blogsite, thus Itchihanded me, went to try it out. And the result are as follows:

Your Hidden Talent

Your natural talent is interpersonal relations and dealing with people. You communicate well and are able to bring disparate groups together. Your calming presence helps everything go more smoothly. People crave your praise and complements.

Your Linguistic Profile:

45% General American English

40% Yankee

10% Dixie

5% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern

Your Mood Ring is Purple

Sensual Clear mind Purpose is known

How You Life Your Life

You seem to be straight forward, but you keep a lot inside. You're laid back and chill, but sometimes you care too much about what others think. You prefer a variety of friends and tend to change friends quickly. You tend to dream big, but you worry that your dreams aren't attainable.

Thursday, August 18, 2005

This week:
1. Internet Discussion board on the controversies of the Internet (5%)

last week of august:
1. Forum debate with students from USA 20% (one week)

first week of september:
1. MAthematics individual presentation 30%
2. Psychology group presentation 30%
3. Information Communication Technology project due 70%

second week of september:
1. Psychology paper due (70%)
2. History paper due(20%)

4th week september:
1. Portfolio presentation 70%
2. Maths group assignment due 30%

1st week of october:
1. Communications studies individual presentation due 80%

And I havent yet exhausted the list. I can only remember these offhand.
ARGH! So busy!! And I havent done up my research for them yet!

*pulls hair*

Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Yea, he called last night and we bitched about work! Nah, he is not gay, just a good worthy friend to be with, engaged to be married next year =) Nice person.

As we were just catching up, he mentioned that there's alot of things happening back there. How he looked forward to the end of the year, then he can forget about his project. (after end of year, not in his care anymore)

Then he told me the reason why i am blogging today. A female ex-colleague got advanced stage cancer. Dunno what type of cancer. Another ex-colleague whom I go la kopi with, her father died on National Day.

It just gives me lots of thoughts you know.
how the cancer stricken ex colleague was a mean person, seemingly. I dint' really get to talk to her much, so i cant really say that she's really mean. The few instances I have seen her converse, quite nasty you know. But she could be nasty just so to get her job done. Poor her.. why did she discover the problem at such a late stage?! My goodness I hope it is not those female cancers which is detectable at an early stage provided you go for your tests faithfully once a year.

the other colleague, I used to lament at her for dumping work on me. Then later I realised, she had no choice cos if she dont delegate her work, she probably not get things done and the company would not be run as efficiently. That's why we started to become kopi-partners. I was just thinking about her the National Day past, wondering how is her dad doing. Last I heard, he was warded to ICU, 2 weeks before National Day. Then suddenly, I heard from that Colleague, her dad passed away. She must have had it hard. Death is never particularly a nice thing to deal with.

That bring me to the topic why I wanna blog. Many a times, we often neglect the ones beside us. Eg, how my relationship with my Dad seemingly deteriorated, but of course we still talk but never much in depth. Not like we used to. Probably that is part of growing up. I think my Dad is particularly full of wisdom, what he told me before are being echoed by some of my lecturers I meet these days. Mom, is streetsmart, very wise too for she had seen the world. But then again, I wasnt particularly close to her before, only now that Im grown we can talk a little.

After my friend put down the phone, It just left me thinking. How, we often take our loved ones for granted. And how suddenly, they might not be with us. And we never know when. For instance, people who suddenly died of a heart attack and they had never had heart attack before. The first attack was the fatal one and only.

Not that my parents are not healthy. They are. I hope they still are. BUt what I am trying to get at is that, you never know when the day would come. So treasure what you have, spend sometime with them, give in to them once in a while.

I hope my new found belief will enable me to get along with somebody else's parent whom I seemingly am at loggerheads with. After all, she too is somebody else's parent isn't she?

I hope I will grit my teeth when she says something sarcastic, if she pokes fun at me, I will laugh it off.

I hope... I hope I can do it.

Sunday, August 14, 2005

Some time ago, a friend of mine had a little argument with me.

He said, the house in area B very valuable ley. For what you dont want the house, then very stupid ma, straight away give the house to the other brother. Blah blah blah.

To which I would like him to see the photos and gauge for himself if he could live in a place that looked like that.

Even to the untrained eyes of a primary one boy, he could ask his yeeyee (aunty), why the house so old one?!

You wanna live there? Pay her rent lar.. sure allow you one =)

The many faces of the mischevious dog.. act cute only!!! He bit me again when I wash my clothes. Stupid dog!

Recently, the dog expert decided to fed this adult dog on puppy food. As a result, the dog is hyper, barks at nothing (pu feng zhuo ying), and bites anybody who goes to the toilet or cventure into the kitchen. And she wonders why.

why should she ask me, she's the dog expert wad. *shrugs*

Friday, August 12, 2005

I was reading my own blog just now and i realised my vocabulary and syntax is definitely appalling. I did some editing just now and I hope it is more readable, comprehensible and coherent.

This probably happens because after all those reading, I was suffering from some kind of writer's block. You just get stuck at what point you are trying to get at, you finally lose the point and go duhz.

School definitely been busy, hectic and overwhelming.

It also has been fun, insightful and enriching.
such is the dilemas of life isn't it. When you have it, you worry. When you dont have it, you want it!

I have got millions of readings, so much that I am starting to get readers block (if there is such a thing!)

Grinz.

That's life baby ;P

Wednesday, August 10, 2005

"Picture of an organised mess" That's what my tutorial mate in my communication studies told me when i showed her the photo I had taken of my table during my 3 hour break. haha. Organised mess my foot! Its horrible having a 3 hours break in between your next lesson and you have lots of things to read up and make notes but you are only getting by on such snaily pace you wonder when you would get to the end of it all. I did not get to bring my laptop to school today, so that means I have to make notes using pen and paper. something I havent done in ages and I really dont like it. I missed my laptop but its just to darn heavy to lug it to school today with my psychology text books with hardcovers. Just sickening lar.. but then I love psychology.. so what to do? Frankly speaking I am losing the point in posting this but then a blog is about blabbering away.. so I am doing just that...

Hmm.. What were you up to on National Day?

On National Day, I went shopping =X and I bought more stuff >.< And anyhow I digress. I checked my bank account today... result very very bad. I swore no more shopping this coming month until my bank account perks up and I can start spendin it again. tee hee hee..

And I was saying.. It was my first ever NAtional Day I spent away from home. That is, I wasnt home, glued to the TV watching the parade. And no I did not watch the NDP parade live either.

What I did was go shopping with my gal pals and then in the evening met up with bf and together with gal pals, we went to catch a movie!

Yes! I watched "Seven Swords" yesterday and i loved it! Woah! So nice the swordfighting scenes, very violent and brutal.. but I loved the storylines and the special effects.

The different swords with different characters made for different persons who happened to chance upon Heaven Mountain.

Wonderful wonderful.. love the sword play, love the moral and ethics love it love it!! So very different from his last masterpiece (flop) Tsui HArk's latest production worth the money!!

I dont know if it is rated PG, but heck (there's still lots of censorship), I am above 21 so I can jolly well enjoy the show. I havent felt that way about a chinese movie for a very very long time already.

Go watch it!

Monday, August 08, 2005

During my Psychology Class today, my tutor asked us to bring a magazine and find pictures that represented 4 main factors in shaping our lives.
These group of people falls mainly into the category of Family/Parents, Teachers, Friends and Others.

So, there I was armed with the Lifestyle Magazine from May start flipping through the pages armed with my scissors and began cutting away.

For the first category of Family/Parents, I chose a picture of food. It is actually a plate of very spicy seafood. Reason being, my family's love for food and spicy food at that.

When young, we were taught to eat Spice, in fact, I can hardly live without spices. Also, like the dish of seafood, we are family, but each with a character of its own.

Of course, the main characteristics of the dish, is the spiciness, we are people with very set principles and strong characteristics. Thus, our tempers are also on the hotter side.

Also because of the fact that we are particular about the preparation of food, in order for it to taste well, you have to use your heart to cook it and use the best ingredients, never do it the short cut way. With this, I would like to think that we have been taught well by parents and they have given us the best they could, therefore we turned out well.

And because I love seafood, you can also say that I love my family!




For the Category of Friends, I used pictures of different plates of condiments.
Friends come in all kinds. There are condiments that are spicy, there are those that are salty, there are also those that are sour.

So if I am the dish, I would need the condiments to make me taste better. For most parts, my friends had helped to keep me in check, being there for me and they compliment me in ways I have never thought possible before. so there you go. Thus, without friends, I am probably tasteless too.



Under Others, I choose a picture of a ruins of Cambodia. I think travelling has opened up my eyes to many things that we have not experienced in Singapore. Therefore, it has helped me be a better and wiser person hopefully. Of course, it also serves to remind me that my experiences are not whole and that somebody else might have seen more and know more. That keeps me humble and sane.


For the category of Teachers, I have got a picture of a man having a headache. Reason being very simple. Most of the teachers I remembered are the notorious ones - those that gives you a headache! Like Miss. Solastry who had a relationship with one of the student called Lionel. (world wide news ah! even my sister knew about it!) asked me to do 10 times push ups because I happened to bump into her when I went to the toilet in the middle of the lesson at the corridor in secondary school. That stupid Miss Goh, now called Mrs. Yeo (and i hope you have rolled back to Malaysia where you belong!!) who would come into class with her PMS-al mood swings and tried to make things difficult for me to which I rebutted her loudly in front of the whole class one fine day because I think she is being ANAL! + she caused one of my classmates to drop out of school in Secondary 3! I hate her manz!



Of course, there are good ones but at the time of cutting the pictures, I only remembered the bad ones =P tee hee hee

So there you have it, my life story!
what pictures would you use to depict the influence these 4 major groups of people had in your life?

Friday, August 05, 2005

This morning, I woke at 8am today.

Armed with a misson to head to town to do two things. First, to buy my seem to be extinct textbook on Psychology, and second to go lingerie shopping. Both are equally pressing matters.

How can you study if your lecturer constantly refer to that textbook that cannot be found in 3 popular bookstores and the school bookstore add to the fact that when you seem short of breath everytime you wear a bra?

So with these two very holy missions I went to town and reached Wheelock place at 945am. Checked out the Borders first, nope, no luck again -.-

Checked out the opening hours of Marks and Spencers, opened at 10.30am. -.- Opening hours be damned. Why you all open all late ah! *wags finger*

Since I left the house early and without breakfast and I had loads of time to spare, I went to Burger King for my Crossiant-wich ham meal - something I havent had in ages.

It was yummy, armed with my satisfied tummy, I head downstairs to Marks and Spencer which, by that time I finished, should be opened.

I was glad it was. I thought to myself, please let me find something that I can fit into and buy so that I can go back home and head for school later.

there were limited designs -.- probably because of the just over sales, and there was limited sizes. I tried like 10, cant fit. I was so desperate for a breathable bra, I tried the sports range too. Shit, sports range probably have your lungs capsized in 3 seconds flat from the moment you fastened it on.

In the end, I left Marks and Spencer a very frustrated woman, grouchy and sulky.

Next stop, I head over to Tangs, my favourite shopping center. Went straight to their revamped dressing room and went to Wacoal counter. Told the lady my very urgent problem and she went on to hold our 5 designs in the size I wanted *YAY!*

I trooped to the fitting room and spent over an hour there, fitting, scrutinising, jumping hopping and adjusting.

Finally I am satisfied. Value for money and great service!!! Much more worth to buy Wacoal products than some Cheena taiwanese brand that costs you 70$ too!

I got 2 bras, costs me 150$ again but I can breathe now!

so there you have it my day today. I think im heading off to bed now. So tired.

p/s: I am thinking of selling some of my bras, some are brand new some are worn once or twice.. should I auction them off? Auctioning sounds pretty sleazy huh.. so any takers ?!

Wednesday, August 03, 2005

School has been fun, but its a dread when you have to purchase original textbooks especially when they have been specially flown in from the states and costs you $100 over for one! you stupid lecturer, you had better refer to it else i'd kill you for wasting my money!

so many textooks to buy, so little money. Kinda regretting splurging on jewellery but then again jewellery makes me happy, textbooks do not! =P

Such is the dilema of a student, love to study hate to spend money on books.

Oh and Im in the campus now, having fun with wireless even though its not stable and keeps kicking me out every now and then because there is a duplicate address - how can that be, when we are logged in using our IC number?!

I'd go harass that IT fella afterwards for such lousy service. heh

Tuesday, August 02, 2005

I guess it must have been the stress from classes. I am making an effort to clean up my room... make it more condusive for studying? =P

Never mind the fact that it would soon be messy, but heck its about time i did some spring cleaning.

throw away some old stuff so as to make way for more good stuff to come hahA!

Dad would be happy to see me spring cleaning my room, something I havent done since chinese new year earlier this year. BUt would he freak out again to see me buying more things ?!

or is the fact that Ikea is having sale motivating me to spruce things up?

Aiyah.. i dont know but im having fun cleaning up for once!

As I am typing away this post, I am also nibbling on SaraLee Cake and drinking my coffee with milk no sugar but honey, cursing and swearing also at the printer. (yes I can multi-task, that also mean im spitting bits of saralee over my keyboard - oh, bother!)

A long held secret I have not divulged to many is that I have been secretly upgrading myself. *grin* That's why I have been so busy and if I havent been responding as quickly as i should when I am msn-ing you its also because I am busy printing out lecture notes.

I have embarked on another chapter of my life - I have taken up post graduate degree studies since june =P

I am still working part-time to pay my bills - tee hee.

Now you know why I'm always so busy. Yes it doesnt help that I keep spending money.. taking up psychology classes is a pain in the ass, retail therapy does help take off some stress you know ;P