This post is to show that I Can be awake at 3.42am too.

Lala... self explanatory :D

About today

Okie, today was pretty tiring. You'd be tired too if you had a 9-6 school day. It is really really horrendous. But of course I'm exaggerating. As usual.

Morning class was M&O. Formed groups. I realised I am with my clique again. Again again again. Haha. I mean, I love them, but I want to hang out with other people too like that cute guy from Arts, nerd from Com Science, intellectual bunch of ppl from Engineering. Maybe. Oh well.

Then I had breakfast with WeiHerng at the canteen. And Wilfred came to sit with us. ?! I thought it a little strange, and so did Weih. And I was thinking like, maybe he knows WeiH v well or sth. I do know that I'm don't really speak to him. Then WeiH was having this expression on his face which is damn funny. Ai... maybe ppl's just being friendly, which is more that what I can say for erm. a lot of other people. Heh. Cher said I shd be quite glad. Hoho. Yeah. Maybe. I don't know. I'm tired. I'm speaking in. Short sentences.

Then there's Stats class. And I must say that I find the lecturer very good. At least he respects that some ppl (ie Me :D) has never taken CMath before and will be quite lousy at it. I think he attempts to teach it in a way that we will understand. And for that, I think he's great. I think he's the greatest lecturer and tutor in the world. Three cheers. I am getting high.

Oh... and I really can't remember the rest of the important stuff I wanna say anymore but what the hey.

Breaking the waves today and it grosses me out. Well just a little.

I had to watch Breaking the Waves today by the guy that did Dancer in the Dark as part of my Film Art module. And I didn't know it contained nudity. So there I was, 5 minutes into the film, where Jan and Bess had sex in the washroom in their wedding clothes. I was okay with that. What I wasn't ready for was the full frontal nudity of the both of them, on the bed, shagging. Like really in the act of love making.

I mean, it's not porn or anything, but I just wasn't ready for that. Because. Breaking the Waves didn't sound as though it contained nudity. In fact, I would have thought it was a political movie. But that's just me. And it didn't help a lot that I was sitting at where everybody, coming into the media resource department, would see me, watching the shagging part, in full view.

Oh well, I have yet to finish the movie. But I've just finished the reviews. And it seems like there is more. This time, I know what to expect.

An Experience on Monday

Was when Me, Val, WeiS and Larry tried to take 96 to have dinner at Clementi. We couldn't get up the bus (even though it's freaking 830 in school. God knows why there are so many people in school. Studying in the Central Library most likely. Ugh) Anyhow. We couldn't get up, so we were thinking to walk towards NUS entrance B and we can prob get a cab or something. And then, no cabs. So we walked out somemore. Then we got to outside school. Then, still no cabs. I swear, if we continue walking, we would have reached Clementi. But still.

We ended up, 30 minutes later, standing at the bus stop opposite SDE and trying to flag a cab. NUS students know how freaking far it is. And me and Val were sitting at the er, seats. And WeiS just loittering about. And Larry trying to flag down a cab. And then. HE LET A CAB GO PAST JUST BECAUSE HE DIDN'T KNOW IT'S A CAB. (Although it had a flashing 'TAXI' sign on top!) Hahaha... if it didn't happen to us, it'll be damn funny.

Had dinner at Clementi, and saw Benjamin.

ODay in the life of a sad and depressed girl.

I have not written anything for Sun-Tue though I have stuff to say, but what the hey.

This is just a quick post to say that I am sad and depressed and it's because of the stupid meeting today.

Sad Sad Sad Sad Sad.

Talk more later. Got to do more research to show him that I'm not stupid and dumb.

***The recap***

This is about yesterday and the stupid mortification that shall haunt the rest of my life and I will become slightly obsessive and will always strive to severely impress every 40 year old balding lawyer just because one of their kind said something mean to me yesterday.

Anyway.

Yesterday was a meeting with Mr. S. Loke from the Centre for CSR. I have no idea why I'm contacting him. I only did so cause I'm a do-as-I-say robot and contacted him cause King KengLeong asked me to do so, I have nothing better to do than to look up balding 40 year old lawyers, I always had a penchant for talking to people who are asses (oops). Kidding. What I meant was I went to him for a discussion if he can guide us for the exhibition.

And he was obviously not very happy that three year ones were meeting him. It was like as if Year ones are not good enough. (Augustine - 'Has he never been in year one before?') Then we went on to attack us on not having representatives from the forum. Then on our definition on SE. (Which I think is a pretty damn good definition, but wth) Then on the fact that we were contradictory (We were NOT, but he's putting words into our mouths).

Anyhow, he was asking us abt info about the exhibition. And I was like... I didn't prepare anything. (This is my fault I know, but the last couple of times I went to participate in a meeting, I had a FULL proposal prepared, and they didn't even ask about anything remotely associated with a proposal, so I thought what the heck) I know. So he was berating me about that. Okay, maybe berating is a little severe. He was saying 'If I'm a CEO, and you're my employee, why I'd not be impressed. You'd be on the do not hire list. I'm sorry I'm very blunt, but since you guys are still students so you can learn.' Blah blah blah blah. And I was like screw you... Nah, maybe not, cause I know what he says makes sense. But I am defensive so. And this is a freaking discussion session! I'm not selling you anything!!! Ugh.

But still. I'm wrong. He's right. I'll learn from this.

So. Yeah. That's what got me in such a rage yesterday. And made me very very sad. I mean, I was not very very angry, just sad and determined (a weird combination perhaps?)

Anyhow, the other guy was a little better. Kinder. Perhaps.

Oh yeah, and when we were about leaving, there was suddenly another partner coming, and I was actually like 'Shucks. If this guy comes to give me more crap, I'm really going to lose it'. Of course, I'll still have the nicest smile on my face, but I'm going to be real pissed. What do you know. He turned out to be quite young, and quite nice looking too. Sigh. But I was too tired from the meeting to say anything, so I prob turned out very sullen when I shoke his hand. Bleag.

Oh well, I think I got to firm up my stuff first before I can even think of going back there. It was a horrid experience.

Later had dinner with Yantyng and Larry at Lau Pa Sat. Was very wet and rainy and stuff and somehow it served to drive home the point.

The Last Samurai.

I am quite tired now and will not write an entry sufficiently good enough for this wonderful movie. So I'll do it tmr. Heh.

One thing's for sure. DVD and the book. I'll get it.

And achers are cool. Arrows and bows are way cooler than big guns.

*** This is the recap***

Okie, On sat I went out with Larry and WeiHerng to PS... had ice cream at Gelare (with the tick on the e :D) The guy at the counter was very strange. Haha. I asked him if I could get toppings for the icecream then he was like 'There are no toppings for ice cream.' Then he told me 'But I can give you hot fudge sauce'. Then I was like huh? I thought you said there isn't any? Aiya... very vague.

Photo Op!
Then WeiSheng joined us and we wanted to watch The Last Samurai, but there wasn't any at PS, so we went over to Shaw Towers (ugh) to watch. Heh. (Offhand, it wasn't that bad). We walked from PS to the Shaw... which isn't so far actually. Oh yeah... Walked past Chijmes and WeiH asked us to take a photo and Weis, Larry and I posed stupidly in front of the Chijmes logo thingy. Haha.

The MOVIE was really really good! I went in not expected much, but I came out gushing about the movie and absolutely loving everything to do with Samurais and their code of honour and the way they think, the way they behave, the way they move, the way they are so focused etc. It really left a deep impact on me. Okay. Shin Koyamada left a deep impact on me. Haha. He's the son of Katsumoto (played by Ken Watanabe). And he's really cute. Ai, he just have the look and the intensity and I love it. Hm. He looks a lot better in the role.

And if we were talking about intensity, how can I not say something about Ken Watanabe? He's the epitome of intensity. He's a very very charismatic actor, I feel. And he's a very good looking man for his age. :D

And Tom Cruise has never made much impact on me as an actor, but he did a very good job here.

And there were a lot of parallels to LOTR. Therefore, I conclude that Archers rock. (Ie Legolas and Nobutada are archers :D:D:D)

Later we met Cheryl at Suntec for dinner at Kenny Rogers... had crap conversation and a generally stupid time. Haha... I like to move away from the conventional 'Had a great time and good conversation'. Haha.

3rd Day

Went out with Sam. Good to see her cause had never hung out with her for such a long time. Had lunch at NYDC and told her abt Mr. Weird Handshake. I was going crazy... cause I needed to tell someone besides Cheryl.

Anyhow, went shopping later. There are so many sales! Argh... but missed the best part of it already... what's left are awkward sizes. Grrh. Bought this cute top from Zara. And had wanted to buy this top from Espirit, but apparently S is too big for me?! What the heck. So I didn't buy it in the end. Sad... cause it was 50% off somemore... :(

Later Sam came over to visit... as per Mum's instructions hoho. We hung out looking at photos and stuff. Haha.

Oh yeah. Uncle Ban and his mum came over to visit today. He was the uncle/kor kor who used to babysit me when I was a.. er baby. Haha... Apparently, him and his mum used to love me to bits when they babysat me. Heh. But I wasn't at home. Aunt from Dad's side came too... And she loves me and bro to bits too. Haha. And I wasn't at home too... I really should have called them or sth.

Round 2! Second day of New Year. Lions' Dance and some stuff abt Sharks fin.

And I can't remember what I did.

Slowly now...

Er... I really can't remember.

Oh ya! In the morning, the Lion Dance company came to our place. They've been coming since as long as I can remember. Haha. Dad 'hires' them every year. But every year I look forward to it. It's really fun. This year's lion is yellow orange. Heh. And the main dancer wore.... New Balance shoes... haha. Such an anticlimax. Hoho. But I love the way this art form is performed. It's beautiful, the way they dance and the little nuances in their dance that makes it so interesting and real. And the atmosphere too :) The drums, the cymbals.... I love it. This year's mandarin orange art is the word Prosperity... In chinese, of course.

Went to Godma's place at Sengkang for her Abalone and Sharks fin dinner. Hahahah. It was a little joke of ours. Hm. I've never really said what I felt abt sharks fin. (Keep in mind this is by no means meant to be offensive)

Ok. I've always been quite partial to sharks fin soup. I think it's delish. In some restauarants anyway. (Am quite partial to the one from Wen Yan Lou) Anyhow. I'm going to have to just say that if I have a wedding dinner, and I had a choice, I would not serve sharks fin soup. The influence comes partially from this post card that I got, which depicts a typical wedding dinner shot. However, on the tables and floors, there are shark carcases lying all around the tables and floors. And the people were just nonchalantly sitting there eating, laughing. Like they don't even see it. And it bothers me a lot. And I read it somewhere that, by itself, sharks fin isn't even delicious. It's the other seasoning, the soup base, the other ingredients of the sharks' fin soup that taste good. Not the sharks' fin itself. But it's served up because it is considered to be a delicacy.

Isn't it ironic? It isn't even tasty, yet people are clamouring to eat it because the ingredients are tasty. And it is endangering the sharks. People should really see how brutally the sharks were killed for their fins.

So I've come to this conclusion that when I'm having a dinner, and I had a choice, I would omit that.

Anyhow... I've digressed :) Dinner at Godma's was good. The parentals and godparentals sang karaoke. I hung out in the study with Alex, Jackie and David. Study is actually a misleading word. Haha. It's actually their multimedia entertainment place. Hahah... Listened to mp3s and watched vids and surfed the net.

Happy Chinese New Year!

Happy Chinese New Year guys!

CNY Eve was spent in school as I had film art tutorial and then went over to the bazaar to collect some stuff. :) Erm, had sth mundane yet interesting that happened. Hm. Oh yeah. I LOVED film art tutorial. The tutor's so cool and I really missed classes like this ever since I left JC. Classes where you just sat around and discussed and analysed the text. THIS IS SO COOL. (Okay. Before I sound like a no-life nerd)

Anyway, had reunion dinner with the extended family. It was a rush, cause Mum forgot it was 6, until Aunt called us at 545 to ask about bringing abalone to the restaurant when Mum remembered. Hahaha. It was a rush. It was at this restaurant at Beach Road... not very exciting. Food not very nice either. Should have gone to BoonLay Raja, but still. Dinner was nice... it was with the 1st aunt's family and god mum's family. So overachiever cousin was there too. I still can't forget how I thought he was cute. Hahah. Anyhow. He was as usual, the overachiever. Seems like he got some sword for OCS or something like that. Whatever. Dinner was nice. David's hair was funky. Everyone was happy. Lalala.

Chinese New Year was the usual flurry of activity. On the first day we went to 2nd Uncle's house, which is where we've been every CNY since I was about 2 years old. And that's where the extended family always is at on the first day. Like every year (well not exactly every year), we prayed to Granddad, and then proceeded to talk to relatives I see like, 3 times in a year. Some more than others. Talked to Godpa (not the Glenn Ong one! :D Heh heh), as he was in hospital the day before due to some health problem. Also some other people (Chris gets vague here... as all good Pisceans should be). Later couple of us went to have lunch at this Malay restaurant which is quite good. It's at this old shophouse place at Beach Road.

Later went back... Dad had work to do, and Mum and bro were still at Aunt's place, so I had dinner alone :\ But later Mum and bro came back and yup. :D

And I love the Chinese New Year movies that they have on tv :)

Bazaar!

Helped out a little at the bazaar at Science this week. Was very very fun cause I like hanging out and selling stuff. Haha. I did all kinds of stuff actually. Do sales, take care of *consignment* stalls and walked around all stalls to help out. I didn't get to be the icecream scooper! Haha, but hung out with Grace and Coreen at the ice cream place. Hoho. It was fun. I thought I did sales pretty good... haha. That'll show Zhengwei.

Bought this really pretty bracelet and hair clip from the bazaar at really really cheap prices. Haha. Was actually Jacqualine who convinced me about the hair clip.

I realised that I've been hanging out with the Zylon girls quite a bit, maybe cause I share quite a lot of classes with them... but they're nice. Of ya, Coreen helped me buy the Ralph Lauren perfume this morning when she was going overseas. *happy. Am happy. :D:D Been hanging out with her a little from FOC and some classes.

Anyway, I foresee that I;m going to be damn busy these couple of months doing the social entrepreneurship thing. Not that I mind actually as is v fun and stuff. But I think I'm lacking something that er... is important. And I'm so afraid that if I spend all my time working it'll just whizz past me and I'll never get it back. Sigh.

I keep thinking about that handshake thing and show stupid I was.

Citizen Kane

Oh yeah. I finally got to watch the brillian film Citizen Kane. I like it very very much. I thought it was some show about war and political stuff *heh* but it turned out to be something that engages me yet holds a lot of meaning. Cool.

Humiliated twice in 30 minutes. I should be so lucky.

Okay. Today I saw, on the bus to school, one of the nicest looking guy I've seen for a while. Okay maybe I'm exaggerating. As usual. So it often leads readers to believe I have extreme emotions when I do not. Maybe. But I do have extreme emotions. I'm always ecstatic rather than happy and depressed rather than sad.

I digress. So I was saying. There is this nice looking guy and then. I was looking at him. *laugh. I got off the same stop as him. And I was walking in front of him. And then. My strappy sandals. Flew off. My feet.

*head in hands

It's damn funny I tell you. I wanted to start laughing like mad cause the situation was so weird. My shoes like, took a life of it's own and flew off. Smooth, Christine. I supposed the people behind me (including nice looking guy) wanted to laugh, but are too polite to. Heh heh.

Sad. I guess I'm really really not the cool types. Hahah.

Dinner at my aunt's a.k.a My cousin and his gorgeous hot red sports car

Anyhow, we went over to my aunt's place for a sort of reunion dinner sort of thing yesterday. I was dreading it, but in the end it turned out to be great. Saw my niece and newphews (god I feel so old when I say that!) and I discovered that my cousin owns a hot red sports car.

Funny thing is, mum was driving around looking for a parking spot when we came to level 4 (damn season parkings!) and the entire level was empty save this one gorgeous Nissan sports car which is really really hot. Bro and I were like... Wow. And then, it turns out to be my cousin's.

I got to try and borrow it sometimes. Har har. Right.

Done.

My post regarding Acad Week 3rd day is done, just in case any compulsive reader wants to know. Basically. Ricky Sim is a really nice guy and he talked abt linking me up with this person he knows who's in the wedding planning business. :D Of course, he's a busy man and all, but it's the thought that counts.

I've just...

tried to swap some of my tutorial timetables. When I first saw my tutorial timetable, I wanted to cry in exasperation. On 2 days, I end at 6. On Thursday, I start at 9 and end at 6. Which freaking yucks. So I'm hoping that some joker out there enjoys evening classes and would want to swap with me. Hoh.

Okay. I got to stop checking the CORS website to see anyone is insane enough to wake up at this time to swap timetables so that they get the sucky 5-6 slot. Stop it.

Sometimes...

I just don't feel like replying to smses. Not that I hate the person or anything. But I refuse to sms. In fact, that was what happened to the last 8 people who smsed me. I'm sorry. I'm just so tired. And smsing is tiring.

Meeting with Mr. Lo from HK

Today was nice.

In the morning we had a meeting with a Mr. Lo from HongKong who is very kind to donate to our school a plaque of the Business School Logo with gemstones. It's pretty. :) Had a presentation from Prof Tang, our dean. And elderly Mr. Lo from HK shared some of his experience with us. He has a chain of gemstone boutiques in Singapore, HK and other parts of Asia.

You know Mr. Lo? I was introduced to him. And because I was too far away to shake his hands or anything, when I was introduced to him, he did this 'gongxifachai' kind of hand gesture to me. Hahaha. He's damn nice I tell you.

I'm pretty amazed by Mr. Lo actually. He's about 81 years old and pretty frail looking. But he speaks good english, better than some of the students I know around school. And he's only started speaking english only 3 years ago! It's amazing I tell you. His mind is still so clear and so alert. I wonder if an businessman's/entrepreneur's mind is necessarily more alert. He's a very nice man too. Gives us advice and asked us to speak to him if we have any queries. I was later to know that he's the owner of Suntec Investments or something like that. And he has no airs about him at all. So humble.

So we had lunch beside Conference Room B. Not bad. Prof Tang sat with us and talked to some of us. He's damn funny too. I would really miss him when he's going off in June. Hm. But there is no news of a new incoming dean yet.. Hmm.. that in itself is quite messed up, I think. Maybe Prof Mak will take his place?

Anyhow. I had a quite lousy (maybe it reflects my stupidity) handshake incident. Which I will not say.

Ricky Sim and Samuel Chia for Acad Week // Wedding planner in training

Anyway, later for Acad Week, we had --

Mr. Ricky Sim -- MD for Chesterton International
Mr. Samuel Chia -- MD NYDC

And it was a wonderful event. In many ways.

1) Mr. Sim has kindly sponsored food for our event. Of course, I wasn't expecting something so... grand. I mean, in terms of reception the past couple of days, and even lunch with Mr. Lo the VIP this morning, we had something simple. Plastic plates and all. But for this reception that Mr. Sim sponsored, we had gorgeous table placement ornaments, flowers. Glass plates. Champagne glasses. And get this. 5 waiters. I sure wasn't expecting that. I sure wasn't expecting a 1k reception sponsorship.

2) I was talking to Mr. Sim and it turns out that he's a really really nice guy. I mean seriously. He was asking me what I wanted to be when I came out to work, and I told him I was planning a career in wedding planning. And he was like, Oh I know somebody in the field! I could link you up with the person!. So nice eh? :)

Unplugged! CEOs in the flesh.

This is an entry about CEO Unplugged on the 13th which we co-organised with Startup@Singapore. It was quite messed up at first, cause the gift packs and everything were not ready, but we got it done in the end.

The crowd was amazing, I tell you. HSS Auditorium can only hold 200 people. We have about 280 plus and counting. People were sitting on the aisle, gathered at the back of the auditorium. We had to turn several people down. I know CEO Unplugged was popular but this popular? Wow. I think most people were very interested in the fact that Olivia Lum, CEO of Hyflux was there. She's a very busy woman; they had some trouble inviting her, and CEO Unplugged's date was changed cause she couldn't make the 14th.

Anyhow, we had for guests -

Olivia Lum -- CEO of Hyflux
Douglas Foo -- CEO of Apex Pal (He owns the chain of Sakae Sushi)
Victor Pok -- CEO of Litespeed

(I just realised writing CEO is redundunt. THis is after all, CEO Unplugged.)

Anyway, I didn't really get a chance to listen in to the talk, because I had to give up my place for the audience. I am the co-organiser after all. So I went to whine to some people. Lol. Eventually Ken said since he was holding the keys for the backdoor, why don't he just open it and we can sit backstage? Lol. I love the way he thinks. Hoho. Anyhow, he opened the backstage doors, and me and Yantyng went and sat backstage with Larry, who's the MC. Still can't hear a thing. Heh. But it was fun sitting back there. Olivia Lum is really pretty. Douglas Foo is quite funny. I didn't catch Mr. Pok's. Oh yeah, I left my phone with Wendy and Shuyi. And I was backstage when Larry got a message. Apparently from me. Lol. Some dumb message. So it's pretty apparent I didn't send it la. Heh. So we connived to send something stupid back. Hoho. In the end I found out it was Robin. Lol. Stupid guy.

In the end, we went down first to get food. Lol. Jolia told us to eat first... or later it'll be too late. So we had a leisurely dinner without the crowds.

I love my job.

What a rush! -- A post on Academic Week

Listening - As by George Michael and Mary J Blige

Before you read this, click here. This was what we've been working on.

Exciting.

Yesteday was day 1 of the event I spent my hols planning with Ken, Tyng, Jessica and Larry. Academic Week and we invited, for guest speakers --

Mr. Wong Ah Long -- CEO Suntec City Developments
Mr. James Chia -- Director of Sales Op South Asia Cisco Systems (Formally MD of Cisco Systems Singapore)
Mr. Douglas Abrahms -- MD Pallarax Capital Management

In a thoroughly geeky kind of way, I was starstruck. These are people whom I really look up to and there they are like 2 feet away and I get to talk to them. Wow. It's not unlike seeing TCS actors or actresses on the street, but this is different, because they are what I'm working to be like. Okay, maybe entrepreneurs like them.

The event (as usual) was a little slow to start. There was a little miscommunication about the timing, so by the time the speakers were here, there are only a handful of audience. It didn't look good. But as the program progressed, more and more people came in, and we got a pretty respectable amount of audience. And the good thing about this is that the people in the audience are genuinely interested to learn and ask questions at the Q and A. In fact, our Q and A was so by far one of the better ones I've seen in all the seminars I've attended. Not that I've attended a lot. :D

I was thinking, if I weren't the one planning this event, I might not have voluntarily come to this evening's speech. And what a lot of information I'd have missed out on. It's amazing, it's like a lifetime of experience placed in front of you for you to learn. And it was frankly, very very enriching. I particularly liked Mr. Douglas' talk on 'Why Entrepreneurship?'. In a sense, it was a more popular topic because it's relavant to what we are facing now. Not that the other speakers are not relavant. I thought Mr. Wong's talk about making the right decisions very very true and useful. And Mr. Chia's talk on A Corporate Career very relavant for us students.

I got to talk to Mr. Douglas after the event, and I found what he has to say very inspiring and very true. You miss 100% of the chances you give up on. Why not take the risk? Anyhow, he gave me his name card and told me to email him.

Anyhow, I've decided not to say explicitly what Mr. Yeo Keng Joon (ie Mr. BizSchool Alumni President) had er... 'said'. I don't know... said? asked? Anyhow, what he had communicated about what Mr. Wong Ah Long had probably revealed to him. I don't want to be hualed up and sued for deframation or anything. Haha. It has to do with a certain 600 bucks sponsorship and food.

Dang. I told Tyng to get better food.

What's up? And something abt my Sunday.

A lot of people are adding me on ICQ tonight in a time span of 30 minutes. And I don't know them all.

Anyway, had a pretty unusual Sunday. (the first Sunday I wasn't shopping/collecting old newspapers/slacking) Went to catch a movie with Mike and WeiHerng at CineLeisure in the afternoon (ie. 1230) and according to WeiHerng, it was damn weird. Lol. No wonder he was so strangely quiet. Hoho. Anyway. The movie was Love Me If You Dare. And I absolutely love it. I love the surreal-ness of it. The dream like sequences. The metaphors, innuendos, suggested meanings. I love every 90 minutes of it. It's wonderful. I love it, how at the end, where they have this 'inteprete it yourself' ending.

Two lovers, buried in cement. Kissing. The le motif tin carousel floating up above them, not buried, but exposed. Flash forward 50 years later. An old man and woman. Having the same banter as the young lovers. Holding the tin carousel. Laughing. Flashes of the young couple kissing. Scenes not shown before. Back to when they were kids.

How do you inteprete? Personally, I want to believe that the lovers cemented is just a visual imagery of the term 'cementing their love for each other'. That they do grow old together. But given the kind of destructive love they have for each other, one can't really say.

Anyhow, after that, WeiHerng and I met up with Larry who was having music lesson nearby. We hung out. Lol. Went to Borders. Had fun. Talked.

Fun. :D

We are very important people

Tonight the family went to Boon Lay Raja restaurant to have dinner. It's a nice little chinese restaurant tucked in this lousy building, but the food they serve is MmmMm. Delish. Food there is better than all those big name restaurants that the family and the extended family like to go for CNY Eve dinners, bday dinners, whatnot gathering dinners etc.

So we were there on a whim, with no booking. When we got there, there are actually not 1 but 2 wedding dinners going on there! So I was like, just detour to somewhere else to eat, but Dad, being the ever resourceful Dad, knows the manager. So in about 15 mins, we got a table. Not bad, dadster.

And guess where we were seated. Right smack in the middle of the wedding tables. Seriously. YOu know chinese restaurant weddings? Parentals take the first table, then relatives second etc? We were the fifth table. How weird is that.

And midway through the meal, the manager came meekly forward, spoke to Dad. Apparently, the wedding party suddenly wanted an extra table, and can we give up our table? Dad was quite amused, so he was like 'ok'. I think it was quite funny too. Until I realise that some other customers would not think so. So I guess, the family's actually pretty easy going eh?

Anyhow

Listening - Samba Cantina by Paul Desmond and Jim Hall.
Some Brazilian jazz that Kaian sent me.

I've been quite tired and sad lately. I don't know.. just got off the phone with Cheryl and we talked loads... about schoolwork, and people in general. It's nice to know that I have someone on my side. More than 1, of course, but well.

I really, really hope my event goes well on Monday - Wednesday. Had a minor disagreement with Tyng about the budget issue. I feel it's all about ethics, but maybe I'm too uptight? I let it go, cause I didn't want this project to spoil a friendship. But I'm going to let her settle the budget thing. I'm out of it. Had a discussion about that with Cher, felt that's pretty much what I should do.

Oh yeah... should I go clubbing with them this wed? *shrug. I feel I'm getting older.. haha. I get tired easily... but I need a night out. Seriously.

Argh, after Acad Week, I still have social entrepreneurship! Exhibition. Siggghh., This is the sem of no life.

Welcome to the world of the weird. aka Friendster.

This person who msged me on friendster looks eerily like some guy from my sec school right down to the way he talks, just that he's cuter. And gosh. He really does look like the person. But he's not.

And this guy who has messaged me once abt my friendster photo 'looking like a supermodel's' has just messaged again. With the same message. 2 months later. And he must have never seen a supermodel before, if he said my photo was akin to a supermodel's.

And this person, who, 2 months ago, said he was leaving friendster and asked for my number (which I ignored, naturally), has 'came back', and resumed our conversation as if 2 months hasn't passed.

And this one who said he feels very happy and estatic everytime he sees me online.

And another that went 'Hello sweet face! Blah blah blah....'. Who on earth uses the term sweet face?!

And about a few million guys wanting to teach me how to play the drums. Heh.

There are some really cute ones though. Lol.

Of course, there are weirder ones out there.. I believe the world is full of freaks. Share your stories with me.

Wanted. 5 extra hours per day. Willing to pay outrageously exorbitant prices.

Listening - Bigger than my body by John Mayer

As you can see from the title, I'm so severely stressed, and it's only what... 5 days into the academic year? Fantastic.

For those who smsed me/mailed me after reading my last entry about my life being a big screw up, I thank you. Love ya guys. :D

These couple of days have be really bad for me, cause my event the Academic Week is in 2 days time, and suddenly there are a thousand things to do. While it was really extremely fun (i.e. I love the adrenaline rush), it's a little too much to take with all my other intro to math modules, new friends, and this sudden bout of depression I was having.

GEK 2020 Intro to Film Art -- I think Monday was the best... It was Intro to Film Art module and it's a blast! :D I love the way the A/P conducted the lesson. The very arts way, which I've missed since my JC term last year. It's quite cool actually. We'll watch a short excerpt of a movie (We watched 'Snake Eyes' and "Xiu Xiu') and then discuss the film techniques and what it's trying to achieve. It's all very analytical. I love it. Then on Wed, we watched this silent movie Greed by Erich von Stroheim. I've never watched a silent film before, so this is a new experience. But a good one. It was hard to get used to at first, but you'll learn to love it. I don't know... the movie, being such, gave a very strong sense of menace. Very Pinter-ish in terms of movie/play, but the storyline is very Mayor-of-Casterbridge.

I also met some of Cheryl's SEP friends from the US and Canada, from this SEP buddy program that she's in. I wanted to join too, but given the schedule I'm running on, taking on another activity will be quite foolish. Had lunch with a couple of them. Lol, Cher wanted me to go to Sentosa with them today too, but I'm so up to my neck with work, I had to pass.

On this thought, I met this girl doing her PhD in English Literature while waiting for the shuttle bus. She's from New Zealand. She was talking about how she was doing something quite impractical in terms of getting a job. I am doing something practical. But I ask you... am I really happy? Would I be happier at Arts doing lit? I don't know.

GrahAH -- As an example on how boggled my life is by work right now, my project director just smsed me to buy a copy of the newspaper. Apparently it might help the exhibition at Suntec we're preparing. *Laugh. I salute his dedication to work. I really do.

And oh oh... read this -- Amir's really funny post of something I always do, although he doesn't know it. Lol.

Correct! Forgot to say this... The CEO of Suntec Development called Larry yesterday. *gasp. Yes you read that right. Okie, he didn't call, his secretary called and transferred the call to him. It was damn funny, cause he like, got the call, then was furiously mouthing 'Wong Ah Long!' and gesturing to the phone. And I was like 'What on earth?! THAT Wong Ah Long?! That CEO?! Of that Suntec CIty?!'. Cool. He's to come down next Monday for a talk which we are organising.

Still got a hundred thousand things to say. But am crazy busy now. People smsing and calling me (at 8 in the morn!) to do work. Pfft. On a saturday morning no less.

Oh my freaking god a.k.a My life SUCKS.

Listening - I could sing of your love forever by Jars Of Clay.

My life sucks. My life totally flops. Gosh I do hate everything right now. I don't know what is it that makes me sadder. My blistering academic schedule, or my infected computer or my exhibition project, or my non existent love/social life. Or the fact that all the horrid things seem to come up and bite me all AT ONCE.

Last night I was surfing the my modules website IVLE, when there, in the small print under Managerial Science, was this

Prerequisites - Introduction to Statistics

What the freak are they talking about?!!!! When I signed up for this course, I was told there were NO PREREQUISITES. None. Zero. Nada. Zilch. And now I'm enrolled, and you tell me there is this prerequisite module I have to take. And then the other shoe drops. I am, in fact, taking the prerequisite module NOW. Which means I am taking Intro to Stats with Managerial Science. The prerequisite with the prerequisited. Great. Just great. The system is a stupid incompetent imbecile. Don't they know this is something important? Huh? Huh? Argh.

Arghahgaji hneslinvlaesiuhvrfb;ERHY;ASIUEYHFN RIUEVFLEKAUIYVRFLA. Take that, stupid system.

So last night, I emailed my professor. A Prof Sun Jie. Whatever. I asked him/her about the prerequisite thing, and told him/her, in surprisingly polite tones about my situation. And asked him/her to please advise. This morning, him/her told me "Oh, it's not supposed to be a prerequisite. I'm sorry. I will take that out." Whatever. How am I supposed to believe that? Now, everytime I go to class, there will be this nagging voice at the back of my head saying "There is supposed to be this prerequisite you know... and maybe, just maybe. You can't cope with it! Cause you don't have the freaking prerequisite! Surprise! Now your life REALLY starts! Good luck!" And I have not even taken Math C! Arhghhghg.

Another thing. My modules this semester is really...screwed. 3 math based, and 2 language based. By language based, I mean modules I can cope. Similarly. by math based, I mean modules that I have to work like a madwoman to barely understand. And the 2 language modules are really heavy workloads. On top of that, I have 2 MC projects and 1 FOP preject to work on. Great. Just great. Goodbye social life as I know it. Hello Ms. No-life-and-spent-all-her-days-sadly-in-front-of-some-papers-related-to-work. Thank god for my Film ARt module. It something I actually enjoy.

Sigh. The second thing is the state of my laptop. As I'm typing right now, I am aware that I cannot enter any blogger website. So I actually can't see my website. At all. So what the hell. And also. My startup page is virused by this stupid semi-porn chinese site that plants itself as my startup page. Eek. That is so so sad. And makes me look like a deprived young promiscuous girl. Which I'm not. I downloaded ad-aware to get rid of it, but seems like this bastard chinese website has firmly planted it's ugly fat butt on my startup page. I want to put someone's face on a porcupine.

And then mum has just called and asked me to find some secondary school number in the residential yellow pages. As I try to calmly tell her that the residential yellow pages doesn't have information like this, she gets all huffy and put down the phone. Sigh.

And my non existent love/social life. Enough said. Even my infauation with not-bad-guy is almost gone. Which is good.

My life does suck.

Today. Mona Lisa and Mad People

Listening - Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters by Elton John

I think the title for today is really apt.

Had meeting in school in the morning for the SE Project. It was... I guess, one of the better meetings. I guess it's because we've got some work done and we well, actually know some of the other people, thanks to the potluck at Augustine's place. Or maybe it's because I have my allies (aka Larry and Yantyng) with me. There are still certain dynamics, I guess. Seen so clearly in the seating, the year 3s and above sitting at the front tier, and the year 1s (us and Cheryl) were sitting at the second tier. But now that we are going to work closer with the rest, I hope everyone... integrates.

Mona Lisa(s)mile

Anyhow, after the meeting was movie with Cheryl and Kaian. Mona Lisa's smile at Lido. It matches what the critics say... it is so alike with Dead Poets Society. I mean, I don't think it's groundbreaking or anything. Don't get me wrong, it's nice. But it's not different. Nonetheless, I liked it a lot. It wasn't sentimental or weepy or anything, in fact, I think the ending is quite nice. Not too weepy or anything. Nostalgic, but mature.

On another note, I'm getting a little pissed with K. I shall not say so much here but I'll just say I think I will keep some distance until he stops pissing me off.

Cheryl dear is so nice, got me a pair of shorts when she went to M'sia :D She was saying I should hang out with her and her SEP buddies tonight at Zouk. Heh... Sounds interesting; I'm regretting not joining the SEP buddy thing, but I'm already so busy...

Mad People

So, we've come to the mad people part of this post. I'm kidding actually. Not so much as mad people, but people I cannot understand. After the movie, went to meet Mum at ChinaTown cause she wanted to see the fire cracker thing. She's so cute in the way she was so enthusiastic about it. *Hugs my mum. But much as I loved my mum, I don't see what's the big deal about it you know. I mean, there were about 5 million people there trying to get a piece of the action as well. We can hardly move, let alone see anything. It irritates the heck out of me, crowds, I mean. Not being able to move and stuff. Now clubbing is another thing altogether. Because if you get sick of walking around in the crowd, you can just stop and dance. Well. Maybe not, but you get my gist.

And I don't get the point about going all the way to ChinaTown to camp out with 5 million (Ok I'm exaggerating, but it felt like 5 million) other people to just hear the sounds of fire crackers and smell other people's b.o. What's up with it? THat's what the television is invented for, folks. So that you can actually see the fire crackers, and not have to camp out for what seems to be loud cracking noises.

Nevertheless, when I heard the first sounds of the crackers exploding, I can't help but feel really excited. I know I've been cynical about it and stuff, but there was this atmosphere and this surge of energy. And this happiness that makes everyone sort of, enchanted. And quiet. So it's just the crackers exploding, people looking in awe, and overall just this amazing happy-vibe thing. It's beautiful. After that, they had fireworks. I have something about fireworks. And especially those 'comic stars' ones. I call them the comic stars because they really look like comic stars with blazing tails.

Well, later Mum and I went to the Tiong Bahru market to eat. I really missed hangin out with Mum.

Later. Have OCC tmr.

New Layout! :D

Do you like it?

Oh forget that question, cause I don't care if you don't like it. What matters is that I like it.

Heh heh.

Happy New Year!

Happy NY my loyal readers (who probably number to about 5?) Hoho. I had a nice New Year... Had actually been at home slacking, deciding not to meet them after all. Then WeiHerng called, and said he felt out of place or sth... and that since I was the one to invite him I should come. Right. It was a ploy, cause when I was there, I realised he knew everyone! *lol. But still. It was fun.

What is the big deal about NY actually?

It got me thinking what actually is so important about the NY eve that you HAVE to be outside, you HAVE to be counting down, you HAVE to be with a huge group people, and you HAVE to be having estactic-level fun.

Goodness, it's just another day. At least, our outing did feel like a normal outing.

How did you know?!

We had dinner at Magic Wok, some dingy restaurant at Far East Plaza. Then we went to Lucky Plaza to play pool. Which leads me to the above exclamation. How the heck do my friends know places like these exist? And if it's because it's popular, why didn't I ever know about it? (And if your answer is 'that's because you are a loser', you're so wrong) Ah well. Maybe, just maybe, I'm what they classify a shopping girl. If you ever need to know anything about clothes and boutiques etc, please direct them to me. If you want to know about pastimes like pool and dingy restaurants, please direct them to someone else okay? Anyway I digress. This guy MArk was sitting beside me, and all of a sudden I realise he's the one who has been around in meetings and stuff. Weird, cause he looks very different all the time.

We then went to Dubliner Irish Bar. It's a very nice place. Love it a lot actually... I love the building. I can't describe it in architectural terms, but it's just beautiful in an world world sort of way. The furnishings' comfy, and you feel like you can slink in their sofas forever. Yup, it's a v. nice place, can't wait to go back there again.

Anyhow, some stupid idiotic guys pissed me off while I was waiting for Mum to pick me up. I hate those stupid bastards who decided that spraying silly string into people's faces (literally) is fun and legal. It is NOT. It's like harrassment. In fact, I was so pissed by one that I actually screamed 'F*** YOU!' at one of them. Haahah. Yes I know that was crass, but I was pissed. Don't ever piss me off when I'm tired and hungry.