The worse is finally over & I made it down to mwh yest.
The guys stood me up today, but i still went. Not one who needs bodyguards. But yest there was this guy fr recently released fr imh who kept harrassing me. It was quite scary cos the other resident said he's a pervert and so every time the guy came near they shouted at the guy to go away. I think i won't go there alone again.
Interacting with the ladies was much better. Being the only 1 there, I shook so many hands and smiled so much... like an MP. Lol. Spoke to every one of them & got to know them better. But what really made my day today was I settled an argument b/w 2 residents. I cldn't ask them to "kiss & make up" so it was a "shake hands & make up". Sweet. Oh but someone told me I'd promised to bring her chocolates but I didn't. I can't remember promising her but she was quite sure it was me who promised her....so I guess I'll bring her some the nx time :)
Mum cooked ginko nut soup today. Hai, why didn't it come earlier during the exams? So much brain cells died and i think my short-term memory has relapsed.
Sunday, April 29, 2007
Monday, April 23, 2007
Day 27
1 down 3 more to go!!! Opened this innocent looking email in my inbox not too long ago telling me that i got some low grade for nm mod. Talk abt bad news coming thru your mailbox. If i didn't open it i won't know and i won't feel sad over it. But I did. Nevertheless, I shan't be defeated by that stupid email. Come what may! I know I'll persevere. Hope it all ends quickly.
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Day 26
"In cyberspace, a player can become a Walter Mitty- a fictional literary character who lived a mundane life until he entered the world of daydreams- who has more social opportunities online than in real life. If fantasy is better than reality, a person may increasingly choose to escape into a fantasy world, just as Walter Mitty did."
Been reading for NM2209, just wanted to share this para that caught my attention. I thought 'Walter Mitty' has a very nice ring to it... reminds me of alice in wonderland. Sth creative and fun. Walter Mitty is from the short story 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty' by James Thurber. I haven't read it yet, if i have a chance after the exams i'll try to find the book. But yes....from all the readings, I've garnered that the Internet offers users of the chance of exploring new identities online, the asynchronity enables impression mgt, you experience flow while online, it's fun, it's liberating, but at the end of the day, it is essential to get back down to earth. Our offline social responsibilities call out to us...significant others need our attention, we need to stop at times and ask ourselves "are we getting too immersed?" I don't see myself in any risk of being too engrossed. But I feel that most people expect to see the chemistry between people online to be played out in real life as well. When they're not, they're disappointed. Sometimes, I share this disappointment too. Hence the qn I put forth today: "How much of our online niceties should we expect to be transcended into our offline world-sphere?"
This video is not related but u can view it just for fun, they're trying to demonstrate ppl in a chatroom.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Day 25
It's all abt food today. Recently we've been having an overkill of watermelons at home. There's really nothing inherently wrong with watermelons.....well, maybe not. I can't explain why but recently when I see the watermelon, a voice inside my head chants "GM....GM....GM...." and I feel a bit uneasy swallowing the watermelon piece. Never used to have any qualms eating watermelon when I was young but recently the watermelons hv become redder, much jucier, their flesh looking more like red meat than anything else i've seen and their seeds getting bigger, I can't help feeling suspicious. I hv difficulty convincing myself that even if it's gm there's nothing wrong, the benefits of gm is to give us tasier food is it not? Why is this happening to me??? I don't want to develop an aversion to fruits!!
To see me through the revision week, I've got a tidy sum of tidbits snuck away... chocolates are conventional, but recently I'm hooked to sth else...wasabi peas!! The best thing is nobody at home shares my taste for them and so nobody fights with me over it. Wahaha. You get a kick as your eyes start to tear from the choking sensation. 正点!
To see me through the revision week, I've got a tidy sum of tidbits snuck away... chocolates are conventional, but recently I'm hooked to sth else...wasabi peas!! The best thing is nobody at home shares my taste for them and so nobody fights with me over it. Wahaha. You get a kick as your eyes start to tear from the choking sensation. 正点!
This is what I mean....
Friday, April 13, 2007
Day 24
Last day of sch today and i'm at home...feeling not like myself. Slept late last night trying to rush that stupid t project. I'm glad I'm finally rid of it. Don't know why so many deadlines (4 out of 5 mod) fall on the last week of school such that I don't hv time to start my revision.
On Mon, Pearl and I went for consultation with HH. Looks like we reinforced the image in his mind of us being stupid. For the last 2 assignments we had to use eviews and this is sth so arcane that we took days to puzzle over each qn.... trying different permutations & combinations hoping that one of them wld give us the right answers. lol. We cldn't figure out how to do wald test on eviews and there was this irritating popup which popped-up everytime we tried. HH just smiled at us an told he nv encountered such a prob maybe we shld ask our friends. Utterly embarrassed, we nodded and say yeah...maybe we shld try another computer (Read: It's the technology's problem, not us). Then as we left the office, enlightenment struck me and i think i realised where we went wrong. So off we trotted off to as7 to finish the assignment and yea, we got it in the end.
HH is a very funny lect who gave me a scare 1.5wks ago when he seriously told me "Can you stay back aft class, I want to ask u a qn regarding the presentation". Pearl & I were so worried cos we're like doddering lost child-s (I know I am) during his class and we were expecting that probably my presentation was wrong and he's gg to interogate me on it!! It turned out in the end that he was facinated with the animations in the slide and wanted me to teach him how to create them!! omg, staying bk to teach him how to use 'custom animation'... How senseless for us to be so scared. I hope all these means that my presentation score was good?
"I'm not a klutz, I'm just accident-prone."
On Mon, Pearl and I went for consultation with HH. Looks like we reinforced the image in his mind of us being stupid. For the last 2 assignments we had to use eviews and this is sth so arcane that we took days to puzzle over each qn.... trying different permutations & combinations hoping that one of them wld give us the right answers. lol. We cldn't figure out how to do wald test on eviews and there was this irritating popup which popped-up everytime we tried. HH just smiled at us an told he nv encountered such a prob maybe we shld ask our friends. Utterly embarrassed, we nodded and say yeah...maybe we shld try another computer (Read: It's the technology's problem, not us). Then as we left the office, enlightenment struck me and i think i realised where we went wrong. So off we trotted off to as7 to finish the assignment and yea, we got it in the end.
HH is a very funny lect who gave me a scare 1.5wks ago when he seriously told me "Can you stay back aft class, I want to ask u a qn regarding the presentation". Pearl & I were so worried cos we're like doddering lost child-s (I know I am) during his class and we were expecting that probably my presentation was wrong and he's gg to interogate me on it!! It turned out in the end that he was facinated with the animations in the slide and wanted me to teach him how to create them!! omg, staying bk to teach him how to use 'custom animation'... How senseless for us to be so scared. I hope all these means that my presentation score was good?
"I'm not a klutz, I'm just accident-prone."
Sunday, April 01, 2007
Day 23
Wow, it has been abt 1/2 a mth since i last blogged. Been so steeped in hw for the last 2 weeks....so much so that I think i suffered fr minor depression the wk before. But this week's fine, I pulled myself together thanks to the encouragement of some friends :D and also some a few gd test results did help too. Oh but my headache is far from over yet, the transport project especially is still unfinished.
However, i feel that it's only right that i blog today and take count of a few minor success this wk. ("Downplay unhappiness, focus on positiveness!")
1) I survived the 'stone age' for 1 week. My phone had been sent for repair for 1 ENTIRE week. Gosh, you'd nv understd all the inconvenience this means unless u experience it yourself, sitting in lectures alone, unable to tell ur friends where u are, having to plan mtgs the day b4 and cross ur fingers hoping that ur friend doesn't play u out.....and....wondering if someone was gg to call u abt that scholarship u were applying for and couldn't get u!!
2) Today I ran!!! For 4 years since i left jc i don't think i ever ran....sigh^ of course my timing wasn't as good as before (I'm positive but don't expect miracles) and there was a lot of walking in between the 2km that I tried to cover. But I cycled 4km before the run so it was pardonable? I reached home looking like a purple tomato, but it was good sweating it out.
3) I finished my Einstein's paper. I decided that it was not my style to depend on other people. So I wrote the paper by myself and my teammates profited. It was the same for the biz law assignment too. This is one my strengths and weakness...I don't trust my teammates to do a good job. Things shldn't be this way, I shld learn how to work together with ppl... but....aiyah, it's just a hurdle which I can't cross yet. Anyone wants me as a teammate?
Opps digressed... the point i was going to make abt the paper is that through the 1day process of writing it, I realised that I had some potential to be a successful novelist. Muhahhah
4) On fri I spent a few hours in the sch studying with wping and pearl. I only made it home at 11.30pm. On wed, our project mtg ended at 10 and i reached home at 11.15. Assuming time put in is proportional to the final score, I think I did well this week. But that is of course....if the assumption holds.
5) Someone wrote a testimonial for me on Friendster. That's something because....no one ever writes testimonials for me.
6) I attended the 2-day ycm workshop last week. Es & i previously held the view that this bastion of exclusivity was out of bounds to us....who wld hv thought i was accepted?! Got to know quite a no. of ppl there but not too well yet. In fact, i think i got blacklisted for being too quiet. you know how these things go....u join a panel, the ppl r youthful, outgoing, sociable and if you are just a little more quiet there, your silence is DEAFENING! Well i think this happened to me bcos i got singled out twice but 2 different speakers to answer their qns. It was well-intentional, no problem with that, i think they just wanted to give everyone a chance to speak up, but it did made me feel quite conscious that ppl were aware that i was too quiet. Opps. So on Day2 i decided to be more open and speak up. Alas, my nose did not agree with me and I spent the whole day sneezing away. Once again i don't think that went down well with the rest. How??? hopefully 1st impressions don't count much and I'd be able to redeem myself over the nx year on the panel. It's already worth celebrating that I got in didn't I?
~ Happy April Fools Day ~
However, i feel that it's only right that i blog today and take count of a few minor success this wk. ("Downplay unhappiness, focus on positiveness!")
1) I survived the 'stone age' for 1 week. My phone had been sent for repair for 1 ENTIRE week. Gosh, you'd nv understd all the inconvenience this means unless u experience it yourself, sitting in lectures alone, unable to tell ur friends where u are, having to plan mtgs the day b4 and cross ur fingers hoping that ur friend doesn't play u out.....and....wondering if someone was gg to call u abt that scholarship u were applying for and couldn't get u!!
2) Today I ran!!! For 4 years since i left jc i don't think i ever ran....sigh^ of course my timing wasn't as good as before (I'm positive but don't expect miracles) and there was a lot of walking in between the 2km that I tried to cover. But I cycled 4km before the run so it was pardonable? I reached home looking like a purple tomato, but it was good sweating it out.
3) I finished my Einstein's paper. I decided that it was not my style to depend on other people. So I wrote the paper by myself and my teammates profited. It was the same for the biz law assignment too. This is one my strengths and weakness...I don't trust my teammates to do a good job. Things shldn't be this way, I shld learn how to work together with ppl... but....aiyah, it's just a hurdle which I can't cross yet. Anyone wants me as a teammate?
Opps digressed... the point i was going to make abt the paper is that through the 1day process of writing it, I realised that I had some potential to be a successful novelist. Muhahhah
4) On fri I spent a few hours in the sch studying with wping and pearl. I only made it home at 11.30pm. On wed, our project mtg ended at 10 and i reached home at 11.15. Assuming time put in is proportional to the final score, I think I did well this week. But that is of course....if the assumption holds.
5) Someone wrote a testimonial for me on Friendster. That's something because....no one ever writes testimonials for me.
6) I attended the 2-day ycm workshop last week. Es & i previously held the view that this bastion of exclusivity was out of bounds to us....who wld hv thought i was accepted?! Got to know quite a no. of ppl there but not too well yet. In fact, i think i got blacklisted for being too quiet. you know how these things go....u join a panel, the ppl r youthful, outgoing, sociable and if you are just a little more quiet there, your silence is DEAFENING! Well i think this happened to me bcos i got singled out twice but 2 different speakers to answer their qns. It was well-intentional, no problem with that, i think they just wanted to give everyone a chance to speak up, but it did made me feel quite conscious that ppl were aware that i was too quiet. Opps. So on Day2 i decided to be more open and speak up. Alas, my nose did not agree with me and I spent the whole day sneezing away. Once again i don't think that went down well with the rest. How??? hopefully 1st impressions don't count much and I'd be able to redeem myself over the nx year on the panel. It's already worth celebrating that I got in didn't I?
~ Happy April Fools Day ~
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