Saturday, September 29, 2007

moody

feeling rather moody now, so decided to write an entry to 发泄 a bit. dunno why i suddenly feel so moody, so blue. it shouldn't be, it doesn't make sense that i am affected by only some words. it is not logical. maybe it's due to other factors, maybe it's due to the stress over the coming midterms and projects. maybe her words are just a trigger that causes my moodiness now.

is it alright that 2 of us have some differences in some ideas? i dunno, cuz i am not experienced. i really dunno. logically, everyone is different from each other, so there can be no one who have the same values or even the same kind of thinking. well, maybe i am worrying too much...maybe this worry is just due to my moodiness now. well, maybe...

is 感性 never a part of a man? a man cannot be 感性? sounds so illogical. a man cannot be totally a man, cuz there are always some female hormones inside a man, conversely, there are always testosterone in a female. does 感性 just belong to a girl, a woman? i dun think so. cuz i think i am 感性 right now. instead of studying, i am thinking about all these. my 感性 now prevails over my 理性, which seldom happens. cuz i am a rational person. but then, a rational person can also have his moments of being 感性.

it's a small issue actually, but then somehow, i dun feel good about it. somehow... maybe she's unknowingly become very important to me le. guess so. i really dunno what am i thinking now. just feel low, blue, and moody. well, some things cannot be explained easily, esp those concerning emotions. well, guess a sleep will do well for me...

before i sleep, i still have to study. this is the rational thing to do, and i will do it. if i procrastinate, i know i will regret tomorrow. i will ask myself why am i so irrational? ok, forget everything and focus on my studies!

Thursday, September 27, 2007

assured

felt rather assured after a sort of serious talk with her. didn't really feel that way before that due to several uncertainties which i didn't really ask...

i admit that i am a person who thinks quite a lot, to such an extent that pple may say i am indecisive? i dunno. i feel that thinking stuff alone is very important, everyone needs time to rearrange and consolidate his or her thoughts. things can't just be done based on instinct or feel. it is not rational to do this. this is esp applicable to serious decisions.

i have learnt to make decisions only by myself since rather young. i chose my own secondary school, i chose my own jc, i chose my own undergrad course. i have the freedom to choose what i want, but that also gave me pressure in the sense that i am afraid i am making the wrong choices. i took a very long time to decide my undergrad course, Computer Eng. it was a rather big step away from what i had been studying. it was also a very big decision, which my parents had left me to decide on my own. that's why it took so long. luckily, there was a buffer period of 2 years in the army for me to decide slowly.

before school started this semester, i have nv really thought about my future regarding love and family. i sort of procrastinated, thinking that it's still young to think about all these. due to some critisms, some "encouragement", some "motivation", i started to think whether 22 years old was the time. again, i took quite a long time, up to 1 month. of course, there's some catalyst, otherwise, i believe i would take longer. i have come to realise that we cannot think so much for some things, cuz opportunities will just knock and go off. things have to be tried out before u can be certain that they can work out or not. so, i am trying now le. :)

still, i feel rather 不可思议 that a short 1 to 2 months can change so much of my life and perspectives. well, at least this change is good, and i definitely like it a lot. i definitely hope to continue this kind of lifestyle. although i may become busier than before, sometimes things cannot be totally 两全其美. u have to give up some to gain some. this time round, i think i would gain much more than what i have to give up. a drop of CAP may be imminent, but i will try to prevent it from happening. even if it really drops, i believe it would be minimal. i have confidence in my time management skills.

during the past 2 wks, i have come to have new kinds of emotions. feeling of missing someone, feeling of bliss... it's great to continually have new experiences. i hope that i would continue to have new experiences thoughout my whole life. i dun want to feel stagnant or obsolete... it's really bad to stay at the same spot for a long time. 不进则退, one has to really progress in whatever sense...

recess wk is coming to an end. i still have 2 modules to revise. finished revising EE2009, EE2005. now i am doing EE2006, which would be tested on wk 8. i think i will have ample time to revise + practise for this module, which is great. CS2102, i would do it during the weekends, cuz i want some continuity of thoughts before the test on the coming tuesday. actually, i am rather uncertain about this module. the lecturer teaches litte but seems to expect a lot. i think i need to buy his textbook to get a feel of what he expects from us.

from next wk onwards, the CS2102 project and the EE2006 D1 mini-project would start to roll in. it would be a busier schedule. i would have to make better use of my time, so that i can have time for her. even if i dun, i think she would understand, yeah? my best friend said he respected me for my "superman" skills of time management, and i told him sometimes superman is not perfect. but i suppose, i should not let my superman within me fall at this time. it's just not the right time. i will do whatever adjustments to make my superman continue to fly!

all in all, jiayou to everyone and myself for the coming mid-terms. jiayou to everyone in everything u do. 頑張って!加油!

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

SE's service centre really cmi

yesterday i had a real bad experience at the service centre. i was told to collect my hp which i had sent for repairs after 3pm yesteraday. i reached there like 3.50 pm, and saw a super long queue. nvm for that, cuz at least there were places for me to sit and study.

waited like for 40 minutes, and i thought was my turn, cuz queue no 4080's customer was done with. but they skipped my turn and called other numbers. i was a bit stunned, and i walked over to the counter and the Malay counter lady said my phone wasn't ready yet, needed 5 minutes to close the job. so i went back to wait, already frustrated.

if they weren't sure the time the job would close then dun promise such a tight time!

after about 10 minutes, i asked the lady again, seeing her doing nothing about my case, while serving other customers. she seemed to forget about my case, and took my IC again to check for me. and she told me to wait again, while she go and check...

super pek cek already... how come these people are so inefficient? at least my Malay friends are not like that... no wonder some country is so cui...

waited until like 5pm, she called me to her counter. i gave a her a super pek cek look, and she told me that my phone needed a replacement and they didn't have one then and asked me to go back and wait for a phone call... i replied her coldly, "How long?" she said "1 or 2 days". immediately, i was damn freaking furious and left the bloody service centre.

the rest of the car journey to gombak, i was scolding chains and chains of vulgarities and nearly had a car accident due to some reckless driving... luckily, she managed to calm me down a little, if not my day would be ruined just becuz of some stupid services by some stupid pple!

Saturday, September 22, 2007

recess wk

haven't blogged like for more than 1 wk le. a bit unlike me, but i have been super busy. busy with what? hmm... studies, hall activities...

time is just not enough. already sleeping like only 6-7 hrs a day during the week, yet i find myself still bogged down by my tutorials and readings.

due to lack of sleep, i have been dozing off during lectures, even though to a minimal extent. sometimes i even dozed off during tutorials, which i think was very disrespectful to the tutors. must really get rid of this dozing off habit before my body really becomes accustomed to dozing off during classes. so i have to sleep at least 7 hours a day. i must really keep to this, otherwise i dun think i can stop dozing off. but now during recess wk, i will sleep at least 8 hrs a day, to sort off pay off some of the sleep debts i have incurred during the past few wks.

this recess wk, i would be preparing formally for 2 tests, CS2102 on wk 7, and EE2006 on wk 8. as for EE2009's e-test, i would also prepare for it. although EE2005 doesn't have a mid-term test, i would still revise it, so that i can prepare myself better for the 2nd half of the course.

during this recess wk, there would be times that i have to put down my books. firstly, jiacheng's special event; as a friend, i have to help out in his special day. 2ndly, geok's bdae. would be celebrating her birthday with the rest of the OG before her birthday comes, cuz it would be quite tiring if we celebrate her birthday on friday, and also i think that day should be left to her special one :) 3rdly, yl's tp test. very important to her, just as impt to me when i first took the test which i failed :( got to go give moral support. even if she fails, at least i would be there to console her. but of course, i would hope that she passes, and the day wouldn't be a gloomy one :)

seems like time management would be a very crucial factor to my results. and i do admit that. have to manage my time well, and luckily i only have 2 closed book upcoming mid term tests, which is considered few compared to my past 2 sems, when i had to study for 4 tests during the mid-term break. consider myself lucky or what, god is somehow helping me. but then, i know i cannot slack, if not my results for this sem would be greatly affected. i still want my SAP 5, i still want to go back closer to CAP 5.

all i can say is that i have to manage my time really well this sem, much better than before, because of additional commitments.

now i am using a loan phone Ericsson T68, cuz i have sent my phone for repair due to a sudden failure of some buttons. although T68 was my second phone, but it is rather irritating to use such a low-end phone. technology sometimes really disrupts my life...

talking about phones, i am thinking about changing my mobile plan, instead of sticking to the current classic plan which i pay only 14 bucks a month. a surge in calling times and messaging counts... my last month's bill almost hit 50 bucks, which i think was quite a lot, even though i tried to restrict my phone usage le. i think this month (13 sept to 12 oct) would be worse. jialat, man. dunno why my mum still hasn't questioned me about my phone bill yet, maybe she hasn't really read it, or she is just insensitive to this kind of "small money", which i dun think so. have to really restrict myself from messaging so much le. if not, my parents would really notice the sudden surge in my phone bill... then i would have a lot to explain le, which i really dread, cuz i dun want to tell lies...

hmm, still have a project to do, though i think cannot do much abt it now during this wk, cuz my other group members shouldn't be too free. so maybe wk 7 would be a fine time to start working on it.

ok i really need to go back to my books, complete all tutorials due on wk 7 by sunday nite, and get started on my revision on monday morning.

加油,大家 and myself!

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Now is 6.08 am

Now is 6.09 am... i am awake, cuz somehow i woke up, feeling stressed and worried... i have slept for 4 hours only, and it wasn't really a good one. the day ahead is still long and tiring, with 5 hours straight of lessons... a tutorial, a lecture and a lab...

why am i stressed? i also dun really know... NOC? RH activities? my future? or some internal struggles? it should be a mixture of all... i think this is the 1st time i am so stressed that i wake up in the middle of the "night" and stare into space... that's why i am here writing this blog entry... trying to get some things out of my mind...

still thinking about what to add on to my personal statement for my NOC CV. i decided to have a short personal statement, which consists of around 3 short paragraphs... now i am left with the last one, and which i think is the most difficult one. cuz i think it must end with some impact and impression on the interviewers' minds. thinking hard, while worrying...

feeling a little hungry, and my stomach isn't feeling well since yesterday night... probably is due to the mac i ate yesterday for lunch... dunno why mac food, except mc nugget meals, is always "rejected" by my picky stomach...

still streaming a short video of a violin playing jazz piece Autumn Leaves... to get some inspirations for my part during next fri's convo dinner performance by CME... very long nv touch 二胡 liao, a bit rusty in terms of smoothness as well as pitching...

tired... try to go back to sleep...

Sunday, September 9, 2007

what a busy wk + wkend

a hectic week has just passed, and more stressful weeks to come...

felt lucky that i have passed the 1st round of NOC interview...cuz i thot i really screwed up as i didn't really prepare well. the interview asked me about the companies' characteristics of each separate country, and i directly told her that i didn't manage to see them... that's the truth... then she started bombarding me questions that contradicted my idea and the real situation... sianz... i answered the questions promptly, but i think she's not really satisfied... so it's really heng that i managed to qualify for the more stringent 2nd round of interview ba, which will be on this thurs lunch time... must try to prepare more this time, though i think i can't really do much... i should have done the researching during the vacation, but i was just too lazy... Laziness really can kill...

still doing the CS2102 Lab 3... think i still have to go for the lab tomorrow and ask the lab TA for help liao...

this wk i managed to complete 4 modules' work and readings before friday ends. that's quite good. left with only EE2005, which i managed to finish yesterday. so now i am left with the lab, which i am stuck at, and 2 lab preparations... hope the 2 labs would be quite easy... 2 labs in a wk really quite siong, imagine i have to do this for 4 wks... why in the hell i have 13 labs in a semester? this is so disgusting...

i still need to create a CV for the 2nd NOC interview... should be done quite fast... maybe within 1 hr... the personal statement may be a bit of a problem... actually rather pessimistic about this coming interview, cuz i know i can nv be really prepared. i could have done it before school started, but i didn't. just hope that they believe my credentials and recognise my ability ba, and also hope that the other candidates' qualities are not as good as mine, which i think is quite unlikely though. all i can do is to prepare as much as i can, and just be confident at least on the outside during the interview.

later at nite, still have to conduct interviews for the Cultural Comm... MM not easy to be... hope i can get a few good members who can really do stuff... last yr's comm, only the singaporeans like me do quite a lot...the PRC's really slack, keep MIAing... not despising them as a whole but many of them i have seen are really quite selfish and irresponsible. they need to study, we dun need to study meh? somemore this yr would be Rhazz again, which is considered quite siong... i still haven't got my stage manager... must get someone to do the job lah... if not really jialat...

ok lah, i need to do other stuff liao... enough of the complaining and rambling liao... signing off...

Saturday, September 1, 2007

1st Day of Sept

having a slight dry cough now...throat felt rather dry when i just woke up...hope this is just temporary...better go get some Redoxon...

yep, this is the 1st day of Sept, and i think i didn't manage to last through yesterday's nite to welcome the 1st second of Sept...cuz i was really tired...i was so tired that i couldn't even last through a spyware scan and i really concussed before the scan ended... slept for 9 hours + a bit...seems enough for now...

this weekend would be a rather busy one...with studies... one lab report to complete, one assignment to complete, one tutorial to complete... and 2 readings to complete... sianz... this weekend workload is really too much for a 3rd wk...

this wk's driving was really quite sianz...i mounted kerb once, i horlanded once... so sad... i think i really need to go read up the street directory which i haven't touched for so long becuz of complacency with my memory... the signboards on the roads are really not enough, esp for roads and streets that are not very common... the kerb that i mounted was really sick...cuz i mounted it more than once already... it is at a bend which i dun think is rather well-shaped...if not how come i always mount that stupid kerb... vulgarities almost were blurted out when i mounted that kerb again yesterday nite...

i actually tried to keep to my study schedule this week, but the super heavy afternoon rain on tuesday spoilt it. that made me pon my lecture...plus the many talk crap sessions...plus i was stuck in the lab report for the whole wednesday nite... as a result, such a big workload during this weekend...better be more disciplined next wk...if not really jialat...

this week ran 2 times again...1st run was by myself and i managed to improve by 15s. not that bad, with no pacer...except for my watch... the 2nd run was with jiacheng...he set the initial pace and it was proven too fast...i felt a little bit of pain at my heart area in the last 2 km of the run...fearing that i would just 暴毙, i slowed down my pace to a cooling down pace... but i sprinted 2 upslopes... so at least there's some form of training...

yesterday was a really tired day for dunno what reason...cuz i kept dozing off at the lecture...and i actually dozed off during a tutorial right in front of the tutor...really a first time for me...felt quite bad to doze off right in front of the tutor...next time must drink coffee if i feel tired, at least the coffee can help me dong3 for a while...

felt a bit bad to go home straight after dinner yesterday, cuz i was supposed to meet up with Shu Ann to talk about the Cultural MM position. but she didn't message me until 11 plus before which i was already asleep...she said she would contact me after dinner...but in the end she waited until so late... luckily i made the choice to go back home, upon some girls' pleading...if not i would really 傻傻 wait in school for her... i think i would probably take up this position, cuz it would allow me to stay back in Raffles Hall for 1 more year... really can't bear to give up the convenience of staying in hall, even though i have a car. should be meeting up with her to talk about the job requirements before i submit my application this sunday nite.

yep, i received the notification of an interview for my NOC application. must prepare for the interview this time round. cuz i really 重视 this programme, and really hope i would get the chance to expand my horizon. although the interview clashes with my tutorial on fri 9am, i think this interview is still much more important. must dress well, must prepare well. cannot screw this up like what i did for my medicine interview 3 yrs ago. 加油!