Wednesday, May 31, 2006
ting:
i have never been so impressed by my inability to understand or remember things. how is it i can stare at a paragraph for 10 minutes and still not understand what the author is saying? and it's not as though the entire textbook is written in chinese!
to top things off, i actually managed to explain a finance concept (yes. me. FINANCE!) to someone when i couldn't even understand what i understand best - marketing and/or economics.
and i think my brain leaks. i spend 15 minutes trying to understand something, finally understand it, then flip the page and several pages later, i promptly forget what it is i understood. do my brain cells die that fast?
i am so so so sick of micro. and marketing. it's 1.45am, and i'm still in uni. we're supposed to go off at 2am (tim wants to finish his maths) so seeing i had time to kill and my brain wasn't capable of understanding anything else, i decided to have a go at listening to audio streams. now, even that has to go against me. the freaking thing screws up every 5 seconds and i have to keep clicking on the play button so it will work. which means i'm concentrating more on trying to get the thing to not stop playing instead of listening to what my prof is talking about.
maybe this is karma's way of repaying me for all the times i've been mean.
i don't even know what i'm aiming for now. a high distinction (or even a distinction) seems pretty out of reach. sometimes, i think it's best not to have any expectations. this way, you beat them all.
we made a memory at 11:41 PM
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Hui:
am typing this in e office. but hey, look at e time.. it's past 6. haha.. heng office now no ppl.. onli got 3 other ppl, augus and me. waiting for him to finish up his minutues. jialat.. nowadays nothing much to do.. and my manager noes it. im going to take over mandy's stuffs when she quits.
one of my colleagues (actually she's an intern in Rob Ctr) emailed me and told me abt this site: http://amalgam-co.blogspot.com/
there are pretty nice shoes there. tempted to buy.. then i can match them with skirts! hehe..
had a mass email chatting session with ss and mei. wahaha.. jus finished with some printing and cutting and covers. waiting for him now. hungry liao.. need to pack liao. byeeee!
we made a memory at 7:27 PM
Saturday, May 27, 2006
Hui:
will be meeting ckc and gang with mei later.. ckc's celebrating his bday. hmm.. jialat.. nv buy anything for him. gonna ask the guys wad are they buying. seriously dunno wad to buy for him. he seems to have everything he needs. and those that he wants are probably not too affordable. haiz.. later see how bah.
poor augus carried his reading materials + his laptop and walked with me for hours yesterday. think his bag weighed abt 6 or 7kg. he din wan to leave his bag at RCT as we din noe where we'll be going.. esp since we are so impromptu. in e end he carried his bag around marina square, suntec, esplanade, merlion and back to city hall (RCT DBS taxi stand). hahaha.. poor guy should have left his bag there! actually wanted to take a cab along e stretch of road outside fullerton hotel. told him that "according to statistics, there are approximately 115 empty cabs passing by in 15mins. that's abt 7 cabs per min." haha.. ting and i counted mah.. the other time when we were waiting for her dad to pick us =) but sadly, all e cabs are either on call or hired. that's y we walked back to RCT. wahaha
nowadays, we dun call "Rob Ctr" as Rob Ctr. we term "Rob Ctr" as china. cos ever since jac noes abt us, she draw line liao (i dun think its at me la.. it's onli at augus). at first i tot it was onli a thin fine line. but slowly it grew to a 10pt solid black line. and on wed, augus told me it's no longer a line. it's a wall. great wall of china. LOL.. ok la, i noe it's not supposed to be funny.. but e way he says it is. so sometimes i would ask him "are u going to china?" or he would say "i'm going to china later".
haiz.. mandy is leaving.. she submitted her resignation leter 2 weeks ago. her last day will be on 16th june. augus will be rolling off e day b4 her. and paul has plans to go study phd in uni of chicago. so he'll be tendering his latter in around july. jialat.. all gone.. leaving me with 2 new analysts/consultants that my manager will be hiring. gonna be tortured by them liao. sad.. but i will endure! until my contract ends! woo~
i wish keong all the best in winning the gal he likes. hopefully she'll say yes! =D
we made a memory at 12:24 PM
Monday, May 22, 2006
ting:
after today, i solemnly promise that i will not come online till after my exams are over. (the only reason i'm online today is because of my damn IE assignment, which is killing me. am i screwed for this subject or what?)
do me a favour. if you see me on msn anytime before the 19th of june, please nudge me to my senses and remind me of my priorities.
(assuming i survive the exams), i'll see you on the 19th.
**edited**
it's funny. i was telling jo i wouldn't msn ben. i'd wait for him to msn me first. she was just replying, telling me i could wait till the end of time when HE msned ME! that was a little heart-stopping. am totally unprepared. damn.. and here i was intending to go on a msn-hiatus.
if only you could see our conversation. we're being so polite with each other it's ridiculous. and my brain isn't exactly functioning very well... especially not since i'm still stuck with my IE assignment and trying to cram in IM readings inbetween. not the best time to "impress" someone. sigh.
my headache just tripled.
we made a memory at 9:07 PM
Saturday, May 20, 2006
Hui:
haha ting, dun worry, i'll try my best keep an eye on all who tries to get close to ur lover. bo bian leh, that eny auto go tok to him. haha.. hmm, attaching a "reserved" tag wun help much.. a "taken" tag might do the trick instead..
vomitted water in e afternoon yesterday. stomach too much air. wasn't feeling well then. i also dunno wad happened. went to e toilet at 11+am then vomit liao. after that i was feeling so bad i had to stay in e office during lunch time. din feel like eating. augus went to da bao porridge and bought me medicine. mandy suspected us liao. cos we wore the same colour somemore. haha.. after work augus and i left e office together to meet his friend to get something, went dinner and to OUB to fetch eny (cab lar..) and to great world city for our company screening of Da Vinci Code. jac was somehow angry with augus and me.. cos she din noe that we are not meeting the gang for dinner. o_O nvm la.. dun really care.. cos i'm not e one who is going to die. haha =P hmm.. the movie was pretty good. maybe cos i din read e book bah..
went sentosa to see see look look with augus today. i like e musical fountain. din manage to take any nice pics though.. and we had trouble taking pics of ourselves. haha..
sooo tired.. perhaps walk too much and cycle too much liao..
we made a memory at 10:52 PM
ting:
ENY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HANDS OFF BEN!!!!! HE IS MINE!!!!
it sucks being stuck here when my love rivals are increasing steadily by the minute back home. grrrrrrrrrrr.
hui, do me a favour and keep an eye on eny for me. don't let her do anything to him! if possible, you could tag a huge un-removable "reserved" tag on him as well. haha. oh you know what?? to make life simpler, you could stick him in a box and speed post him over. 21st birthday present in advance. :D *hint hint* hahahahahha...
we made a memory at 1:25 AM
Friday, May 19, 2006
ting:
dearest zuhairah,
HAPPY 21ST BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
knowing you has been such a blast, though i haven't seen you in close to a year (why did you have to fly back to mars again?? sigh.)! my strongest memories of us are from jc, especially seeing you flew straight off to mars the second a-levels ended.
remember jc1? bingo and hangman sessions in class (oops), rolling our eyes at mr yeo's lame jokes, ending up in the same project group together, trying to get through ms sharma's classes...... and having tuition at wendy's place together! remember wendy's freakish animals? the distorted tortoise which scared the hell out of pei, those huge hamsters she'd let loose on the table... and was there a lizard as well somewhere? or maybe i got my memories mixed up. but i seem to remember something about a lizard.
remember seng tat and his gold watch? hahahah.. thank you SO MUCH for kick-starting the whole "wenting-likes-seng-tat" gossip. -_- adel and the rest hooked on quickly and before we knew it, we were terrorising the poor guy. or rather, YOU people were terrorising him. all i did was laugh. hahahahha. i'll never forget the day he saw pei and me walking towards him in that crowded corridor, shot us that panicked look (which was absolutely priceless) and took off in the opposite direction. i believe i've never laughed so hard.
and then each of us ended up with "a crush" (before the whole monkey craze/fan club started, of course). our choice of crush for you was pretty bad wasn't it? even you ended up calling him "zuhairah's crush". it was so amusing, how you'd go "hey! i see zuhairah's crush!".
after neela opened our eyes to monkey's existence, we all promptly forgot our various "crushes" (except adel, who was loyal) and formed our monkey fan club. i think our entire class got to know of monkey's existence and our obsession. hahaha.. the poor guy. i don't know if he felt flattered or traumatised, having 6 girls stalk him. and how we had to resort to all means, "giving him" to neela for her birthday.
and then came pei's birthday, when neela decided to be reckless and grant pei her deepest desire. i won't mention what we did here, but i'm sure you'll remember, seeing you were the one with enough guts to actually do it. *applauds zu* we were all waiting with anticipation for pei to realise it was missing, but when she did, she got so upset we all panicked. and that the great revelation on pei's birthday (pei! you better still have it! after all zu went through for you!).
there are so many memories of us i can't even get through them all. but i just want you to know that, despite all this distance (and water) between us, you still have a huge place in my heart.
here's wishing you all the happiness you could possibly have in life. have the happiest birthday ever and a blessed year ahead (till your next birthday anyway... and then i'll wish you the same thing and the whole cycle will repeat. so you'll be blessed eternally! heh...)!!!
ps: hope this entry doesn't make anyone cry this time. and zu! stop sobbing through those smses! hahahaha... you're ruining my phone!
ps: like what adel and neela would say when they're giddy with joy....
HAPPY ZUHAIRAH DAY!!!
we made a memory at 12:20 AM
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
ting:
what sort of reason is this to go for someone???:
vin: but wenting... *censored* is good!!
jeysern: yeah he is good!
vin: he is tall
me: hahahahhaha
vin: he is not short
me: the next reason would be he is not vertically challenged.
the amount of rubbish we came up with in 3 hours.
we made a memory at 9:14 PM
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Hui:
i like my new deuter bag + screen protector (for camera) + a 5th april bear hp strap! augus got it all for me in hk. he mus have spent a bomb man. haiz.. owe him so much money.. need to treat him for dinner or something liao.
woohoo hehe i'm siao liao.
i'm saying goodbye to the times i keep pinning for jb.
here's a new me!
=D
we made a memory at 11:13 PM
Sunday, May 14, 2006
ting:
(dear dad, please let mum read this. knowing her, she'd never visit this site. thanks. :) )
before this day ends...
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!!!
to my dearest, beloved mother at home, i love you.
though you'd rather watch your korean drama serial than talk to me (*sniffles*), then when you talk to me during the 5 minutes advertisement break, you talk more about the show than listen to what i've been up to (*grumbles*), you are still the best mum out there.
ps: the next time i wish you happy mother's day, don't reply saying "huh? oh it's mother's day?" ok? hahaha. :) LOVE YOOOOOOU!!!
we made a memory at 10:57 PM
Hui:
watched Mission Impossible 3 with augus, jac and zi jian on monday. if u rate it against action movie, it's a pretty nice one. was being "arrowed" to take over jac's duties on wed afternoon. actually mandy suppoed to do it.. but she had some invoicing issues to settle.. so manager asked me to go instead, and as well as on wed. so went over and helped out a bit..
hmm.. augus went The Center in hk to configure the file server there over the long weekend. as he worked on vesak day, he can claim "free" hours. wah lao, so song lor.. he's flying back tonight and taking tml off. i wan to gooooo~~~ haha.. anyway was very surprised that he called and ask me wad deuter bag i wan. i was looking at the caller ID, and it was from overseas. so i was thinking either ting or ping chung wuld call. and when i answered e phone and heard a man's voice, i tot its arthur. haha.. almost died of heart attack man.
nothing much to update on myself.. hmm. think i gotta treat augus to dinner le. owe him dinner $ e other time and for helping me to get e bag. suggestions? wahahaa
sian, haven eat dinner. going to eat now le. byeee
we made a memory at 7:43 PM
Friday, May 12, 2006
ting:
FINALLY. IT'S OVER.
total hours slept in the span of three days: 5 hours.
amount of coffee consumed: 7 cups.
number of times the damn assignments were edited: 8+.
total word count: 10,000.
total words ditched: 5,000+.
the best reward is falling into bed and not having to think about anything marketing or consumer behaviour related. then i realised that i was so accustomed to not sleeping i couldn't sleep. and when i did, i dreamt about consumer behaviour. UGH.
need to readjust my immensely screwed up biological clock. imagine forgetting to eat your meals because you're so busy, then remembering and having them after the sun goes down (meaning, at 1 or 2am).
huge thanks to all who gave me encouragement and helped me in one way or another. especially to ira, who called me on a constant basis (she must be worrying i'll die of exhaustion and no one would know. heh.), listened to my stress outbursts and empathised. to hui who, though far away, gave me support just by being there for me. to daniel who encouraged me not to give up when i was down, out and dying. to all my other friends who refrained from bugging me during this stressful period. i love you all.
ps: vin, i'm so so so sorry about what happened. take care and be brave yeah? *hugs*
we made a memory at 9:18 PM
Monday, May 08, 2006
ting:
it's always the same case. i think, "i'm tired, i'll sleep first/watch a couple of episodes of (whatever show it is i'm watching) first, then i'll do my assignment". yeah right. it's either i don't wake up, or i go straight to bed after enjoying the show i was watching. how is it i'm so horribly unmotivated this year?
sae young and i did something absolutely stupid today. stayed up till 6am this morning, as i was busy editing my assignment. met up with saw young in the afternoon and edited it somemore. THEN. we printed out the original, unedited document (purely by mistake), didn't realise it and went for our consultation with it. -_- i was wondering why the tutor was pointing out mistakes i thought i already corrected!
so it'll be marketing and consumer behaviour marathon for the rest of this week. 30% is no joke. plus the rest of our group members have effectively ditched us. 3 out of 5 of our marketing group members (the remaining 2 are sae young and myself) claim to be too busy with their OB assignment/whatever assignment, so they plain REFUSE to have any more meetings or do anymore work. 2 out of 4 (the remaining 2 are, once again, sae young and myself) of our CB group members say they have something or other to rush out and refuse meetings. i seriously have never met anyone who came straight out and said "i am NOT gonna do anymore work with regards to this assignment". i'm pretty appalled. sae young is incredibly furious at them (i don't blame her. i would feel the exact same way if i wasn't so tired.), which is kinda freaky, cos i have never seen her mad before.
so guess sae young would be over at my place the rest of this week. and i suppose more classes will be skipped.
i'll definitely miss sae young next sem, when she goes off to europe. she makes an awesome group member.
we made a memory at 11:32 PM
Sunday, May 07, 2006
ting:
the result of me logging off msn at 5am last night was........
i overslept. so much for doing my duties as an alarm clock. only got shocked into wakefulness when jon called me at 9.30am. end result was... jon, jo, daniel and myself slept in and skipped church. ugh. guilty guilty.
but hey, i made up for it. went for the evening church service, which was pretty cool in its own way.
so the next time anyone wants me to act as the primary alarm clock, i suggest you get a back up alarm as well. especially now that winter is setting in, i am extremely resistant to getting out of a warm bed.
**edited**
stupid hui is scaring me. she said she felt my nightmare yesterday morning wasn't a dream, but something which happened when i was sub-conscious. ugh! i don't ever want to sleep again! and having two consecutive nightmares this morning... sigh. HUI! fly over and accompany me!!!
we made a memory at 11:42 PM
ting:
i never thought i'll be as crazy as to discuss singapore politics (it's the election season) with alex lim in the middle of the night. at 4.22am! i still have to wake up for church tomorrow! plus i'm responsible for waking up jon, who is responsible for waking jo ann, daniel, tim and enoch (i think). so if i oversleep, all of us are goners.
BUT. alex is not seeing things from my point of view! and i refuse to go to bed if he doesn't at least listen and consider my opinion. who says voting for the opposition is necessarily a bad thing???? despite the fact that they didn't win?
we made a memory at 2:18 AM
Friday, May 05, 2006
Hui:
Am actually blogging this in the office while waiting for di to come fetch me. Haha so nice right?! Was super late for work today. Overslept until jialat jialat. Reached office at 952am. Power right? Lucky thing is that only mandy is around. Wahaha.. went lunch with di as he happened to be near my area. Went at 1245, came back at 2. today is a slacking day man. But seeing that I am still in the office now, I guess I have paid it all back liao. =P plan for the night would be going SSDC to wait for mei and to go for a spin somewhere ulu.. like changi. Hehe
Di, kelen and I tried to be funny and kpo yesterday. We met up for dinner and went to the Workers’ Party Rally at amk. Were at amk central mah. Piang, it was my first time to a rally and damn.. there were hell lots of ppl. Cannot even see a thing! And we were not even near e stage or something. I think the radius 400m round the stage were ppl lor. There were even ppl sitting on e grass patch and void deck. I wanted to see really how many ppl went.. so we went to the HDB flat opposite. Wanted to take lift up to the 9th storey but then e lift was too packed.. cannot squeeze in lor. So I decided to be garang. Suggested that we should climb the stairs to storey 9. kelen said it’s fine with him. I forgot wad was di’s reaction. LOL.. I think he said something like “u can or not?? Wearing heels leh”. Haha anyway we climbed la. Woo~ by the time we were all perspiring like mad liao. Imagine.. all e walking + crowd + climbing of stairs.. I din bring my power d-cam, so I had to use my phone. Really is A LOT of ppl lor.. OMG.. anyway can't really hear wad the ppl are saying la.. too much echo. and some parts were in hokkien.. dun understand. speak cantonese la.. and i nv really go listen to wad they say also. i go shuang onli.
PS: by right i should have e progress package one leh. cos i'm already 21! but sadded.. onli for ppl born in 1984. haiz.. somemore i work for one year le.. y no have.. haha ok la.. time for pics! click on e thumbnails for clearer view =)
Panorama View 1 [too bad my d-cam dun have this function :( ]
Panorama View 2 - i like this shot!
people people people
supportters of the Workers' Party! perhaps minority are like me.. go for fun. haha
we made a memory at 7:17 PM
Thursday, May 04, 2006
ting:
2 more hours before i can get some sleep, my first in 36 hours (unless you happen to define sleep as dozing off for 30mins).
one more day to get through before the much anticipated arrival of the weekend.
then two more assignments to edit, type and re-organise, each worth 30%.
after which, one more irritating 5% assignment to finish.
then the final hurdle before all hell breaks loose - exams.
am getting hate tags from adel and pei in my tagboard, and also in adel's blog.
hate adel's latest post, about how she's gonna celebrate now that exams are over. and rubbing in the fact she can watch the world cup matches when i can't! freaking exams just HAVE TO coincide with the season AGAIN! do i really have to wait another 4 years?
huili's blog entry is supremely depressing. girl.. are you alright?
got into an accident with a bicycle today. this guy just whammed right into me from behind. i was so disorientated.. thank God for wei kee, who saved me from probably flying across the concrete lawn and breaking my neck.
the entertainment is getting increasingly better. what with someone's "fictional" boyfriend and some other person's "penguin girl". :) don't sue me, i didn't use real names.
sometimes, you get so tired you go way past caring. which is really not what i'm aiming for.
we made a memory at 7:41 PM
Monday, May 01, 2006
Hui:
decided to skip sequence and to blog incidents a few days back. =P
planned to go Mei's parents' chicken rice stall for dinner with di, mei and justine on friday.. cos justin said he wants to try. but then her dad was sick.. so we din go. met up with siowshan and hang out in suntec. received a call from kelen asking me abt the "8 years misunderstanding" between jol and him.. he jus called me and asked "eh hui ah, i ask u... wenting was present during at e time when the 8yrs misunderstand was cleared right?!" out of the blue. i said yeah, she was there. then he said to di "see!! i told u!!" di then took over e phone, "wah lao!! y u say yes.. say dun have mah!" well, it was e truth that she was there wad!! how to lie.. haha.. apparently they were having a bet and alex di insisted that ting went back to aussie liao. hahaa.. aiya di~~ dun argue la.. u hardly win de.. hahaha =P anyway.. kelen won la.. obviously. and e penalty for losing was..... di had to send kelen home e next day when kelen goes to his house. LOL bet so little! next time should put in "high stake" mah!
planned to sleep till 2-3pm on sat.. seeing tt im always so tired and having jus a few hours on weekdays. and something scary happened.. i woke up at 8.30am though there was no work. i looked at e time and was thinking "oh shit, late for work liao!" and e next moment i realise it is weekend. went to sleep again.. till 12+.. received call from ss that she wants to meet me instead of meeting her poly friend. (ss is free cos her darling has gone brunei. wahaha can kidnap her =P) then ok lor, went orchard and i did manage to my wallet. shopped quite a lot.. spent like $99.75 in a single receipt. bought a top and a bag. e bag that di gave me for birthday present last year is breaking soon and i would need a bag to go work ah.. (anyway all e 4 bags i got for my birthday this year are not suitable to bring to work.. sigh) and for e stop, i like it lor.. and seeing that my office wear is so limited, i bought it. i still din manage to go punch a hole in e belt that ting give me! all e shops dun wan to do for me. WTF?! e shops i went to.. ss and i asked if they can help us punch a hole in e belt.. the salesperson will always say yes.. then we said "but we din buy the belt from this shop" then e #$%&$* person reply "oh, then i can't do that for u" !!!!!! wtf?! we said "but we'll pay u for service." they all said no. -_- wah lao! knssssss those shops in heeren and fareast -_- raaaa.. met up with da ge, ckc and weixiang after that.. managed to drag ss along. nothing much la, jus for supper. went home at around 12+..
as for list of yesterday's event, visit di's blog. he has much details there. haha.. jus a super summarised version of mine, we (mei, di and justin) went chicken rice stall followed by ktv which was freaking ex. and for roti prata for supper. i dunno y suddenly got ppl jus flip e table and shouted. siao one! he was behind me somemore! wah lao, scary man. according to di i was super stun. he even said "oie da jie, dun be so stun leh". but really leh, this is e first time i see such thing. i wonder how come mei, justin and di were not stunned at all. sooo scary. e first thing that came to my mind was "is that guy crazy?!" i scared he is those siao one who escaped from mental health hospital.. he walked past me somemore! i scared he take e chair and whack me. hahahaha.. but lucky it din happen la.. lol
going to have my lunch liao.. hungry le.. damn.. i think i'll be having sore throat soon. =|
we made a memory at 2:56 PM
