s i o n g y i n . h u i w e n: November 2005

Sunday, November 27, 2005

missing you badd

hey dear. im in skool now trying to study. but im missing u so much... i dun mean to be so whiny n weak n needy. but truth is i am.. its like, ure in singapore! but i cant get to u nor see u or even contact u for a whole day. so near yet sooo far. nothing pretty much soothes my mood now.. i wish i could be there working with u.. darn the exams. our exams always have such a different schedule. next yr i will end in april while u only end in june. this sucks n i dunno how long we can keep it up.. being so far apart..

enough of this.. i hope u get to eat ur lunch on time today.. i shall try to get back to my books..

Monday, November 21, 2005

SMU Rocks!

Went on a tour ard baby's Uni, and SMU is way too cool. First of all, it's in the city, which makes everything so much convenient. And it's actually to go to uni, or stay in uni to study. and the size of the campus..man..it's big. And the structure of the building looks futuristic. Second, they have rooms called Group Study Rooms (GSR), it's awesome. U booked the room, and u can study inside, it's so quiet, and the air-con is powerful (essential in a hot country). And it's wireless everywhere. Basically, u can do almost anything u want if ure studyin in SMU. And then there's a lounge room. 2 pool tables. and it's free to play! wat else can u ask for? There's also TCC in the school compound which plays nice music according to baby. To sum it up, if i were given a second chance, i'll study in SMU.

Finding work's a bitch. Applied to so many, and they even stated that u'll be informed if ure shortlisted. but none replied. Been wanting to work outside so that i can beautify my resume. All along, i've been working for my mum. Thing is, it's always on and off. and i am not given proper training. The 1st training that i need is to learn Malay. I dun mind learning the language, it's just that, if i learn it now. and i dun use it often, then i'll just forget it, and it becomes a cycle.

Ronny is finally back in Singapore. And hopefully, the site will be set up quickly. Ive checked the sticker labels for our website. Ok, confusing. let me explain. I want people to help us advertise our website, i.e., put a tag of our site on their blog, e-mail friends about the site, ask people to visit the site thru msn nick, etc. and they will receive a sticker from us by post. I tink it's a good idea.

and baby. . . study hard for now. it'll be over soon, then u wont be so stressed. i gotta work in the weekdays, so it's abit hard to go find u k? But i will try my best to go over when i have the chance to, a'right?

Thursday, November 17, 2005

back

yay im finally back. finally more time to breathe, to slack n jus stone in front of my com.
i have been sooooo busy! with projs. wat else... no its not my bf. if only im busy with him. haha... but i'll be seeing my darl tmr, so no complains. =) ima happy lass!

n oh yeah! i got my laptop! yay!! tho its abit heavy, abit tooo black, abit ex, abit........haha i know, shut up already! i shud be happy i got it. tho the loan is stressing my pockets a hell lot... =( but i guess it forces me to go out there n get a job, a part time one like tuition. which i so hate. its tiring to have to trudge down to the kiddo's place after a long day in skool.... n have to put up with his nonsense.... n its so boring! chinese?!!? how to teach! i cant even read some words if not for the hanyu pinyin they have under every word. thank goodness.

anyway i have no more, i repeat NO MORE presentations to do! but still got reports la. -_- which isnt that bad cos i dun have to physically be there to do the report. n stay in skool till unearthly hours like 3am. yes 3 am. there r pple who 'camp' in skool... actually that was a phenomenon which started ever since the bukit timah days.. but i think bukit timah was fun to stay over in, its more...... homely? hmmm. niwaes there r indeed no more presentations, but there r still project reports, exams, n also the next semester. which also means more presentations. vicious cycle? ahhhh thats life.

i still havent decided which campus i prefer... i cant really be bothered right now also. bahhhz... with the exams coming up in less than 2 weeks, n me not started at all, i guess i have more serious issues than which campus has the nicer toilets huh. (*whispers* bukit timah!!)

after tmr, i will officially have no more lessons for yr 05/06 term 1. it'll be a one week recess next week, for us to mug. den it'll be the exams... y call it 'recess' when it means 'pause for rest during working period' when we r pausing for more work during working period?????? enlighten me pls.

im so awake now but my brain is dead n i cant think. awake cos i think i slept like what, 11 hours?? but brain dead due to the hectic past weeks. how am i gonna get my engine started for mugging express? i need a catalyst to kick start me. food? fun? maybe jus u over there. to nag at me again hahaha.. im really glad ure back.

Monday, November 14, 2005

Back In Malaysia

Arrived at the airport. Knew that parents wont be happy, cos they saw my luggage (CPU and LCD monitor). I know..it's crazy. I even brought back the LCD. Whatever it is, it was good to touch down. Didnt have a nice flight (British Airways), fat person sittin beside me, and there were a couple of kids behind. It was terrible. Baby didnt looked shocked when she saw me. It was an overwhelmin day for her as well. She got her laptop, even though it was under loan, it's still gd that she finally have her own laptop. Easier for her in Uni also. After i came out of the airport, as usual, it was hot. Went to Newton Circus to have supper. They were renovatin the place. Didnt have the 'Newton Circus' feelin. Ate hokkien mee, bbq sting ray, sambal sotong..all local food. felt damn good, cos once i touched down got local food to eat.

The next day, i had to fetch my baby to the custom. poor thing. got meetin on a sat! and somemore it was in the mornin. Bought char siew pao for her breakfast. Ate it in the car. After i came home, it was a busy day. Went for breakfast wit my parents at New Hong Kong. Ate dim sum. after that, we went to visit my relatives. And i tink we were talkin abt food..and i suggested that my steak was good. So..my mum suggested to them to have dinner at our place. and im responsible for cookin steak. So went to the wet market to buy steak from a malay stall. looks fresh. They even said they rear the cows themselves. Once i reached home, prepared food all the way. I was planning to make a potato salad, steak with mushroom and black pepper sauce and some broccoli and carrot at the side. Cooked abt 10 pieces of steak. Some were just nice, some were overcooked/undercooked. But overall, it was ok. Side dish - potato salad was the hot favourite. Everyone wanted more potato salad, and it was meant to be a side. Too bad my baby had to go to sch, or else she would have the chance to try my steak. I'll cook it again when u come, so dun worry..wit nice potato salad as well.

Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Ollie!

Woke up today and head straight off to the Asian groceries store to grab some empty boxes for my things. There's really alot alot of things. Kheng's (friend stayin downstairs) place might not even be able to accomodate all my things. Guy at the Asian groceries store was really friendly..he say he will keep for me, and he ask me to come back later. Then i went to MSY computer shop. I wanna bring back my CPU and maybe my LCD monitor. I need a good box for my CPU, so i was thinking a computer shop should have at least 1 empty CPU box. BUT...the guy working there so so fckin stupid. I said, 'do u have any empty boxes?' (1st time). he did not understand a single word i said. (2nd time) 'do u have any boxes(pointin to some cardboard boxes) that are empty?' he still dun really understand or he was tryin to figure out wat i was sayin. then the last time, 'do u have any empty cardboard boxes? i need some cardboard boxes that are empty' And he finally said, 'no, we dun have' I tink he didnt even understand a single word i said. Was it really that hard to understand? Im pretty sure they have loads of empty boxes. They have so many customers everyday, dun tell me they dun even have one to spare. And i expect those people who work in a computer store to think really fast and act really fast. but they're fckin slow workers! there's always a long queue. everything's computerized and i still dun get why they're so slow.

Came back home, Eric asked me online whether wanna have lunch. Owe him a treat last time. He fetch me and my baby from the airport at like 5am in the mornin, hardcore! Then he goin to fetch me to the airport this Friday also. So i tot i better give him a treat. Went to Glen Waverley. Order the special set for 2, quite nice. Got century egg porridge and fried noodles. Then we ordered half a duck as well. Ate until damn full. i cant wait to go back and eat my fav char siew from Dedap. It's still the best..

Reached home, pack some of my clothes. Went to the groceries store to get my boxes. there were 5 of them. Taped them up when i got home. One of the boxes was just nice for my CPU. and it's quite tough. So now just need styrofoam or bubble pack. baby asked me to use popcorn. i was thinking..im too lazy to cook popcorn to use as insulation la.. pop ur head! Then went down to basement carpark to play my skateboard. Played almost an hr until Raymond, Tricia and Tricia's sister appeared at the basement. Tricia's sister came to Melboure to join them for the Gold Coast trip. Heard that she even got upgraded to the Raffles class on the way here. damn lucky. They were going to 7&7 for dinner. So i joined them. Shared everything so it ended up pretty cheap and can try different dishes. Came back, and they were all at my place, for wat? i dunno. but doesnt matter. . i finished my exams, they can chill out at my place if they want. then I setup the steerin wheel for them to play NFS, and watched some tv.. after they left, i went downstairs to play my skateboard again. This time not basement. I went outside on the streets to play. It was so much harder.

By this time, u must be thinking wat the post title means. Well, an ollie is a skateboarding trick (quite begginer, i would say) whereby u can jump over things. i was tryin that the whole day and my knee joint is aching right now. I was tryin to jump over a curb. . .until i miss and my skateboard went all the way across the road. Lucky there were no cars. or else my skateboard would have been crushed. So i stopped immediately. Still too noob to play on the streets. And it was so much harder to play on the streets. the ground is very uneven and there were alot of bumps. And it could make u lose ur balance. Bottomline is actually, im still too noob...but trainin..would be good someday.

Monday, November 07, 2005

Finished Exams, Skateboard!

Finished my bz data modellin. tink i did ok. i did all the revision i could do. it's all now dependent on the level of careless mistakes i made. Hopefully, dun have any. I finished the paper just in time. There were people leaving earlier. I dunno how they can do so fast. To give a complete answer, u really need 2 hours (based on my speed of hand-writing) and i tink i already wrote quite fast. Maybe in the beginning, i was abit slack, i was doing the paper slowly thinking i'll finished much earlier. Lucky i increase the speed of doing later on.

Straight after, i felt my excitement level bottled up in my stomach. So much so that i dun even have to eat lunch. I went to the city alone, in search for a skateboard. which is below my budget. Went to this shop, with loads of board, i mean loads. so i just ask the person what's like the most basic board and the cheapest one. she showed me a relatively small board, and it was AUD100..i straight away sian diao. If im gon spend AUD100, it better be a real gd board. but its not. even though it was really light, and it was ball-bearing wheels. But it was definitely tempting for a moment. so I just walked out. Walked to another shop. compared 3 board. . wit different types of bearings and different weight. got $30, $50 and $100. the $50 and $100 differs in the ball bearing wheels. The $30 was really heavy and it wasnt even ball-bearing wheels. So the decision was clear, and i bought the $50 one:

It was a pretty good bargain. The design doesnt suck. the wheels were ball-bearing, the truck was alloy-ed. And it wasnt really heavy, So i reckon its the best choice (rationalised decision-making - Buyer Behavior). I liked it. Feels weird carrying it all the way back home. Cos it's my 1st time owning a skateboard and having that 'skateboard' image on me is abit 'not-used-to-it'. . guess when i get better, i will feel more comfortable.

Went downstairs at the basement carpark and played for almost an hr and a half. amazing feeling. I played before so i picked it up again pretty fast. Fell down once, must have looked damn stupid. got a small blue-black on my left knee, but it's alright..i expected more injuries in the course of becoming better. . going home this Friday. Did alot of cleaning today. mostly clearin of rubbish. You have no idea how much junk u have until u start clearing.

Tried to learn how to LAN 2 computers, so when i go back, can link up the computers at home and start gaming. but. . . got problems, as usual. felt stupid. Also, did some research for the project me and ronny gon launched once he finishes his exams. In the meantime, i shall learn more stuffs to be at his level. He gained alot of EXP when i asked him alot of questions setting up this blog. most of the interface will be designed by him. Im mostly in charge of the content. Hopefully, we'll get it up real soon, and get lots of visitors, then we can buy a domain and start selling some stuffs in order to make some money. Ideally, it shud work that way. But it's not gon be easy.

Saturday, November 05, 2005

hmm i have yet to encounter such profs... even the really lazy ones arent that bad i guess??

anyway i've been so busy. i feel v weird that i din get to talk much to u at all, but i cant help it. in the morn i rushed my parts for mkt report. went to skool. been in skool since 3.50 for mkt research study. it ended earlier than i expected.. then i went to meet my mpw mates for meeting at 5pm. but we ended up not discussing anything.. -_- they were doing their own stuff, n i was sitting there stoning cos i din have a laptop to do my work on. shud have jus went to the lib huh. i got so much undone work..

den i had mpw meeting at 7.. ate dinner b4 dat, econ rice with tofu n deep fried chicken n curry sauce. not too bad. getting sick of skool food, din even feel like eating yong tau foo, one of my fav foods.ok den we had meeting all the way till 10 plus.. late, u might say. but no, it wasnt the end of it all... i went to join my whole mkt group for meeting... they were in an SR (seminar room) with their frens as well... so.. we were all doing our own things again, with me having nothing to do cos i din bring work to do n i din have a laptop. then after quite some time, we discussed n wrapped up. it was 2 am by then. GASP. so late.

n i got a finance meeting on sat morn.
n a CAT meeting on sunday morn.
n two presentations next week. mpw n cat.
n a mkt quiz next week.

the only good thing is that my baby is coming back this coming fri.........!!
but. i have a finance quiz the following mon. mkt presentation. CRYSSS!
smu ah smu..... y lidat one...... im going crazy with no time to rest at all..................

i wan a hugg.

Friday, November 04, 2005

Blood Boil

Day started off wit a good attitude to start revision for Business Data Modelling. Exam's on monday, and after reviewing some notes, ive got a pretty good feeling about the exam. So i decided to go on to my sch's website to get some past yr papers to practise, cos it's statistics (math), always good to practise more. The WebCT, is where students download their lecture notes, tutorial qns and shit. The unit co-ordinator for this module only uploaded two ba data mod papers for us to practise. To top it off, she did not include the answers to the questions. So my day was ruined when i sent off a friendly e-mail to the unhelpful, unfriendly, rude, motherfckin, ccb, kns, knn, female-thai Duangkamon Chotikapanich:

Now, I may not be someone who can read body language very well. But that last one definitely pisses me off. On top of it, It was the second e-mail i sent, and then she replied. She took a very short period of time to reply the previous few. And notice her change in tone of voice when she senses that I might ask her to upload it onto the WebCT? I mean how fcukin hard is it to just do a few clicks man?! Why can't they just fcukin put it onto WebCT and let everyone practise and check their answers. Thats what we're payin them to do right?

So in the end, i had no choice, i went to find that bitch. Saw down there at her office table and copied down all the answers by hand. wtf man. . . i couldnt even photocopied it even though i went specially to sch to see her. This thing pisses me off real bad. I really hope i dun get anymore of this crap in future man.

Thursday, November 03, 2005

1 week and decreasing levels of stress

Sorry for the title. I know ure just abt to embark on a stress roller-coaster ride while im about to reach the tip of the ride. Just finished my HRM exam today. Was the worst paper since the start of my uni. I nv had a paper which i felt so lost before. First of all, it was in Clayton. Had to leave early in order to catch the shuttle bus to get there early. It's so stupid, I have all my exams in Caufield so far. And Clayton students come to Caufield to have their exams. and now we're doing the reverse. I dun understand why man. . . Clayton is so much bigger than Caufield itself and it doesnt have the capacity to hold enough students to hold an examination? well, bear in mind that Caufield students go to the Caufield racecourse to sit for their examination? hah . . . but actually, i do realised its alot of students. I dun even see so many students in uni before. And the worst part of it all was, during the time when i was reading the exam questions (we were given 10 mins reading time), I can feel all the things ive memorised flowing out of my mind non-stop. I was totally crappin bullshit when i was at the 3rd question. It was total bullshit. Once again, my palms were sweaty, i know it sounds disgusting but u have no idea how irritatin that can be when ure doing ur exams. Right now, my palms and feet are dry. Most of the time, they're moist, guess it's probably me who's nervous.

Anyway, earlier in the day like 4am, i was awaken by a very loud thunder. Me and the guys (the people who i went to Clayton with) were all talkin about it. I was sayin i slept even better after the thunderstorm cos the temperature was lower and it was so cooling. it was really damn loud. Like just one clap. and i bet it woke everyone up. I was half asleep while walkin to the toilet to pee. and i climbed back into bed and went into really deep sleep.

7 days, 1 week. gon head back home real soon. Cant wait. even though i dunno how this summer hols will turn out (considering its the holidays and i have to work in order to go out to play, i will spend more time working than playin, so that dun sound too good), I still cant wait to go back. i was wonderin . . if my baby were to come on my birthday and to celebrate mine and hers. . it would be perfect. cos we'll drive to phillip island to go surfin and then just go on a road trip, wat say u? hm . .that will depend on whether u can save up enough right? we'll see how it goes ok? It'll be really special cos it's our 21st. .

one more paper to go . . . . . . . . .

Wednesday, November 02, 2005

8 days more + escalating stress levels

am so so tired. i need an average of 7 to 8 hours of slp a day to stay awake. more if i want to function properly. so this means, i haven been functioning properly. okok they are jus stupid excuses.. BUT i do need to catch up on my slp. HOW??? i dun have time to slp in la.. got last min undone assigns, report parts to polish up, exams. projects. more projects. =no time!

i seriously need to review on my time management. even as typin this, im so slpy already. i dun think im stupid anymore, maybe jus plain lazy n also a tad bit slow at graspin concepts. but thats because most of the time im too tired to pay attention.. im smart. im smart! (practises positive self talk which is, according to my textbook, v beneficial) i wanna be the BRAIN! but i think im more like pinky. =( oh well, i prefer pinky anyways. ure the big fat Brain. muahahha

btw......... ALL THE BEST FOR UR hrm TMR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

dun fret so much.. just do it baby. =)

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