First field trip

今天心情还算不错。

一大清早就起床，因为我和El还有HY要去Fieldtrip!在NUS第一次去fieldtrip~ *小紧张+开心。。好久没和好友结伴出游了！哇哈。

到了传说中的莱佛士‘大鸟’雕塑前集合。。很快就开始了今天的见习+观光の课~ (^^)

有两个讲师。我比较喜欢我平常就很喜欢的那个讲师。他的课什么时候都很有趣！就在Raffles Fullerton Hotel附近上part one..（那个无趣的讲师的。。）然后，就是Minds cafe附近上part two..第一次上去pitstop cafe看看。。原来他们是大学毕业生合伙开创的游戏主题餐厅。虽然有点小，但是感觉还不错。NUSの学生有10%折哩~！

解散了，El，HY和我在那附近拍起照来。。(^^)^2

肚子超饿地，决定去central吃午餐。来到kopitiam。。生平第一次吃到举世无绝的超级无敌难吃的yong tau foo!! What the hell, can you believe that? 拿开水来配那些配料都因该会比他的够味吧。我已经超饿了还这样虐待我。。结果吃不饱。。惹出坏脾气。。XD

下一站到Chinatown去找传统服装专卖店来采访。。related to the jeans proj we're doing~~第一次借着NUS身份访问店主。好才Uncle人不错，还和我们合照一张~基本上，proj的概念已经出来了。。大家开始动笔~！

おなかが空きて、喉も渇きなった。。所以就和el到附近的摊位买了虾饼和豆奶边走边吃。顺便逛了一下下。。我又买了一件Tee~

回到家。。是累的有没有。。。。趴死在床。

晚上匆匆忙忙吃了晚餐，就有chi proj discussion @ msn..大家把各自的词汇表总结，花了一些些时间。。终于还是作完了！也许就是它让我有好心情~ 但是，10日要交analysis。。几多时间，哪里够哦。。咳。。人难做，做人难，难做人。。。。

最近，心里空空的。好象少了什么。有些事情好象要结束了。。有点悲伤，但也不能做什么。回忆好多好多。能阐述的对象。。因该没有。。这点空虚因该会随着时间而淡忘吧。都这么忙了。。还想？！

Monday有jap midterm!頑張って！！！

it's already friday!

Another bleak morning. Woke up with so many thoughts about school in my head. I am giving myself too much stress! Have to learn to relax. But still, cannot 看开....

First, if you have time, please help me do an online survey for my project. Thanks!!
http://www.zoomerang.com/recipient/survey-intro.zgi?p=WEB226XBWTSDGT

Anyway, what have I cleared? School is starting so soon! So many deadlines to meet!

Deadlines:
1)Translation PPT submission on 1st Oct (mon)
2)Chi lexi loan words research chart on 30 sept (sun)
3)Geo Interview and survey qns to be ready on 1st Oct (mon)
4)Geo Essay First part of the first draft on 2nd Oct (tues)
5)Jap Mid term test on 1st Oct (mon)
6)Jap Project Pamphlet on 2nd Oct (tues)
7)Jap Homework, including: KP sheet, VQ32, PP2(R), PP3(W), HM32 by 2nd Oct (tues)
8)Chi lit mid term test on 4th oct (thurs)
9)Translation 7th lect assignment on 2nd oct (tues)
10)chi lit individual term paper on 5th Nov

Siao bo??

After chionging these days.. what have i completed?
1)Translation PPT submission on 1st Oct (mon) ==> my part:100% group:40%(i suppose)
2)Chi lexi loan words research chart on 30 sept (sun) ==>my part: 100% group: 35% (i suppose)
3)Geo Interview and survey qns to be ready on 1st Oct (mon) ==>N.A collecting data..
4)Geo Essay First part of the first draft on 2nd Oct (tues) ==> my part: 2%
5)Jap Mid term test on 1st Oct (mon) ==> 80% revised
6)Jap Project Pamphlet on 2nd Oct (tues) ==> 100% completed
7)Jap Homework, including: KP sheet, VQ32, PP2(R), PP3(W), HM32 by 2nd Oct (tues) ==>10%?
8)Chi lit mid term test on 4th oct (thurs) ==>15% completed
9)Translation 7th lect assignment on 2nd oct (tues) ==> 100% completed
10)chi lit individual term paper on 5th Nov ==> 0% (haven even decide wat to write)


Why this sem so hectic.........

*pissed.

Tml going on a geo field trip with el and hy. going to somewhere around boat quay.. for an outdoor classroom.. after that, going to somewhere to collect field work, doing survey and interviews. all the best to me..

waste of time??

It's 1.36am in the morning, when i am typing this sentence.

Been a busy day for me. I miss play time, freedom and those real holidays. Well, WAT.. postponed to next year. various reasons. but i still don't want to give up on the idea of traveling overseas. I really want to see the world outside.

Things i ponder over these days.

How do you tell what you're doing is a waste of time? i found that it's a good question to ask yourself constantly. when you do something, and you're so sick of it, ask yourself this and you may most probably feel that since life is so short, you don't have to force yourself to do things you don't like. and if you ask yourself this question when you're sleeping in a rainy morning. another hour is another precious hour spent for a worthy cause. interesting huh?

But in life, you ask yourself other kinds of questions la.. like.. this assignment, i spent so much time on it, is it worth it? am i wasting time? this grade.. i prepared so much for the test, and still i only get this grade, is this waste of time? that bf, i spent so much time with him, and now we're blown, was those days waste of time? the guy u like now, u spent hours thinking of him, and is this, also, a waste of time? sadly speaking, i am not an optimistic person. i will say, in life, most of the things you do, are so negligible as compared to this big big world, and everything just happens and mean so much to you, and only you. It's how ppl magnifies things when it just so concerns about themselves. who cares about how you spend that 30mins?

another thought, let's say u spent so much effort, and it's a waste of time. you decide not to do anything instead. but.. aren't those more wasted hours? it's always good to have something than not. so, those efforts, unless you are practically lazy.. aren't much of a waste huh. still an issue of perception. and wasting my time here to type this entry at such a late hour when everyone who had a tired day are still pitying themselves for those mere hours they have for sleep.

嬉しくないな...

毎日復習しだり、プロジェットをやったりする、忙しいな！今は遊びに行かないの..残念だ！

Monday ♪♫

Studied jap early in the morning. No time~ no time~ no time for anything~~~♪♫ music accompanies me.. it makes my day..

So busy.. n i think pam oso very busy ba.. she din have the time to blog for like.. 2 months? missed her bloggings. ha..

Took a break and surf on imeem. noticed that my chemical romance had released an album this year, and it's called Piano tribute to my chemical romance! woo.. i wanna dl that album.. searching~~♪♫ got one song out of imeem, welcome to the black parade. listen to it. it's terrific. on my imeem list =)

Went to piano lesson jus now, hmm.. next week sch holiday, coz 5th week of the month will have no lessons.. teacher gave me 4 songs.. and i think they're hard! why my eyes cannot understand bass notes?? i will always stun there n wonder how to form that chord.. ah.. need more prac..

funny thing i notice. i am a student and a teacher on mondays. during tuition, my tutee's mom will said, "teacher come already...".. den when it's almost time for piano, my mom will said, "it's time u go see ur piano teacher..." T.T

Also, wanna apologise to bento bro.. u always come find me online.. but i am always busy. cant hav casual chats with ya.. gomen! sigh.. really am rushing for time. i miss freedom...~~~♪♫

i need a rest on sunday too~!

Busy mid term. It's only the second day, sunday.. n i already feel that i have no time!

Got so many things to rush.

Got jap3 project.. we're goin to make a pamphlet. meetin in sch on tue for it.. chi loan words research.. hmm.. got like a lot to do.. been doing the chart for like the whole of sat. this sun need to submit the chart liao. basic trans.. everyone so last min then decide to work on the translation.. to be submitted tml morn. n ah.. got so many things to go thru. n our group need to criticise another group's work and work it into a ppt by the mon when sch reopens next next week. n geo project.. the survey qns we had think up alr.. but waiting for hy to edit then we can start asking ppl to do survey.. this sat oso got field trip.. may hav to go somewhere to interview ppl after the field trip.. i hate projects la.. n got an individual assignment for chi lit.. haven decide which topic to write on..

so.. in a glance..
jap3 pamphlet: 0%
chi lexi chart: 50%
geo proj: 40%
translation: 90% for the translating, 0% for the ppt
chi lit: 0%

when sch reopens.. oso got two midterm test.. jap3 n chi lit. i realli need to buck up on this two. been studyin lecture 1 for chi lit ytdy. today aim to study jap3's lect 1 to 3.

so many many things to do.. n i notice, i hate working with girls in my trns grp. said to meet on msn at 10am. i was late for 5 mins, sorry la. went up.. no one's there. 15 mins later, ang(the only guy) in our grp came n we waited for 15 mins more for the others to turn up. bt no one came, so on 10.30 we two start discussing, and only at 10.45, one of the girl pops up n said she's late becoz of her alarm spoilt. den 11, another girl pops up and said she's late n sorry.. bla bla.. den at 12, the last girl came n said she's late becoz it's too good to slp. WT... n during the discussion, mostly like me n ang discussing. den the 10.45 girl said she got music class, gotta leave at 12. den at 11.30, the 11 girl said she gotta be away, and no one there except me, ang n the 12 girl left. more like me n ang discussing, coz 12 girl only do commentations like: ok. sounds great. i think so too. WTH. den ang gotta leave at 12.30.. so left me n the 12 girl. she wasn't chipping in ideas too.. making me totally sian, so i left at 1, claiming i gotta leave the house. so i sms the 10.45 and 11 girl that we stil left one last part of translation n let them discuss. guess wat, she wan me to meet them up at 10pm at nite to discuss the remaining part. WTF. i have to lied i wun be at home. for goodness sake, it's clear that i'm lying, where got ppl go out with family until 10pm one oo.. shops stil open mei.. ah.. watever.. this is their attitude. damn pissed with them. but can only laugh it off. i am fake.

Friday break

First thing i did when i reached home: SLEEP.

I need sleep! That's the thing i need!! The midterm break came just in time. I need so much time to catch up. But along with midterm break, comes midterm test. arghhhhh...

Went to the sim's WAT usa's tok. ok.. the tok has made me so so so wanna go overseas. it really can make me grow. but so many things to consider.. like money.. who are going.. school.. time.. piano.. pillow.. family.. bla bla bla... i can say easily i want to go. but there's so much to consider if i do want to go. n i need a good tok with mom n dad.. if money's not the issue.. will they let me go? can imagine the thousands of excuses they can say. they dun even let me learn swimming when i was young, wat else can i expect??

After the tok with pam, al and his frens, by and sly, pam went off for her lesson, so i joined the rest of the three to sim's canteen for lunch.. guess wat i ate? ban mee again la.. saw jky.. pam's fren. called out to him, but he cant seemed to recognise me, coz it's like i only saw him once, den later on heard from pam that he said i tried to avoid him.. lol.. did i???? so by n sly are from sim, chat abit with them.. n they also live in adm u noe.. lol.. sg so small! actually everyone knows everyone, you bet.

Finished, went back to nus sc lib with al to study. one thing i shall learn from him. i asked, 'why u always come study alone?' he said, ' i came to study wat, nt to chat with frens'.. i envy his independence.. borrowing smth out of the rbr section n find a spot to read w/o company.. i think i haven tot of doing that yet. anw, studied until 5 plus.. den went to busstop, saw al's fren lp.. she meeting al for dinner..

Went to je and met pam.. she oso jus finish sch.. n i gotta buy my translation eng-chi dictionary, so we went to cwp pop.. and guess who i saw! Ann from pop! she came to cwp branch to be manager oo! eeeyooorrr.. she changed her appearance abit.. at least she din wear her foxy glasses now.. left the shop.. n that's when the shopping urge kicks in.. waha.. i bought a jeans and 2 shirts.. i spent so much! pam oso wanted to shop for her wardrobe.. saw one very cute staff from ipzone.. haha.. i think she looks like KH's sora! so very cute.. i like to look at her.. =)

Reached home, it's already so late.. n i forced myself to memorise dialogue before slp, and guess wat! in the end the teacher dun test us the dialouge.. where's my effort! rmbred rushing to lab with al coz he got stuff to print.. den he was saying i can go first coz i having class soon, but he forgot to bring cashcard.. ha.. stil wan me go first? lucky him. anw, he can enjoy his weekend with his diving trip.. so nice! i oso wan to go overseas na~! but got so many shitty projects need to do.. zzzzz...

To anyone who's stressed and troubled with life.. let's jia you na!

Another tired week

Another wednesday. Can you believe it? this weekend is the start of my midterm break. and the break is only one week.

Quite a terribly tiring week. Monday jap lecture, haven get the old stuff in my head, already teaching the new stuff. sigh.. so stress nar.... had lunch w al n hj at the deck. rmbred hj's eng project frens came to join us for lunch, though we din tok. but can see everyone's so busy with sch n project. al oso busy mugging for his universe test the next day. see their universe module, really different from wat i had taken. this time round, seemed so difficult! went to coffee club xpress' table there to study for my jap while he mug his universe den went off for my tuition.

ahh.. tuition. my tutee jus told me can we revise on graphs next week coz she having prelims in two weeks time. is it abit too late?? anw, that's next week's problem. i am now so busy. went for piano.. learnt 3 new songs. as usual... songs are hard.

Tuesday.. morning class, had our ta class n i can see the most handsome sensei in the world. waha. after the class, went to sim as usual.. but.. hmm somethings happened along the way.

i really wonder why he cant tok like usual or be friendly and ask. always i ask, then he then show like he quite unreluctantly to go, coz i invite him, so he got no choice kind of face. jus blame the 151 bus for being so late. even if he go with me to sim, he din mingle with pam's frens.. n can see the whole atmosphere quite weird.. but anw, he finally asked me, so softly n reluctantly that can he join us. i was wondering why he wanna join us. becoz he hav no other place to go? since he knw where i'm going, den jus say u wan to come along la! why act like u look so pathetic no one ask u along like that. i have my own circle of frens wat. i am going to meet my best fren for lunch, if u wanna tag along, den ask! dun act like i dump u alone. if u realli need someone to accompany u for lunch, u can say earlier. WTF make me say as always? do i look like someone who must ALWAYS initiate to you?

and anw, i said, 'yes u can come along, but will u be weird?' i not asking u not to come. i jus hope u can see for urself, whether u realli wanna come along or nt, coz u dun socialise to other ppl, n u duno them, and u always keep quiet there, make everyone feel someone's at fault for sending u here. i go there to mingle with pam n her frens. not bring u there to introduce everyone to u n help u get engaged with pam n her frens. so for god's sake, can u tok? and ur answer? 'yes i feel weird.' walao wat more can i say? of coz i got no other choice but say, 'weird den why come.' sorry for me being so blunt here la. but i really got no better way of answering u. n thru out the time i'm waiting for bus, we spoke of nth. nth we can tok. u n me cant tok, still go find me n my fren n her frens for lunch? so weird rite! y dun u rather be alone. so u in the end so abruptly said u not joinin us anymore. but thanks to u. dun u think that really strain our friendship and make things all the most ugliest. i have nth more to say.

ahh.. enough of complaining here. i jus feel hurt why friends can turn out to be like this. it's not like i am ur gf, i have to bring you around. i am jus going to meet my best fren n if u wan come, come, dun wan, dun come. that's it. just that easy. do u noe this logic?

Anw, i am so late back to sch, i miss that 151 again. saw it leaving without me. late as usual, BH saved a seat for me. so we had a long continuous 4 hr lecture. but at least have smth to look forward to after sch. al n me going to a concert performed by nus music sch students, primarily piano.. n it's my first time there, to experience the conservatory hall and the student's talents. woo.. so i happily leave for my last lecture.. n went to the deck's cafe at level 2 to meet al n his frens. they oso joining us. got lp and wf. they're all msians, n first time meeting al's frens. ha.. nice to meet them.. a while later, a guy think he called rdy, came to join us for dinner, but he did nt went to the concert. he looked like yw from pjc btw..

we ordered lerk thai.. very nice as usual.. and sat n ate n tok. wf told me he's violin grade 8.. wa.. all msians so talented.. those that i noe of.. hmm.. pro lei.. so the 4 of us walked our way to take shutter bus to the conservatory hall. nice concert. 12 students performed and they really very pro. i think those songs are very hard pieces, n dun think grade 8 piano can play them lor. wa.. first time see how ppl can play chopin's songs so quickly.. very pro.. n the last performer, the best student performer i'd ever seen. though he's quite fat, but he's good. very very nice. got chance will like to see such performances again.

Finished, we went to sc aye's busstop to take bus home.. was so dead beat when i reached home, and al stil have the strength to find me in msn, though he next day got morning 8am class.. zz..

Anw, i crawled out of bed today, n i was half sleeping through out the way to sch n for the first half of my chi lit tut. 2nd half no choice, gotta do discussion, so gotta wake myself up. den went for another tut, chi lexi.. i forgot that i cant have lunch again.. so i brought three bread to eat at different break intervals.. pathetic.. but at least, it stopped my stomach from growling.. ahh.. den went straight on to jap tut. great, i failed my last week's quiz. 4.5/10. sad narr.. look ard.. 4/10 alot.. but al got 6/10. pro jiu shi pro.. ha. gotta really work hard now le.. stressful jap lesson.. got back our writing essay oso.. luckily not much mistakes like last sem's jap2.. so hmm.. quite ok la.. finish lesson, al n me stayed back to discuss the essay and we finished it in half n hrs time! ha fast na.. den we went home..

Met miss alc seah.. from pj.. on the train.. waved to her but she was confused n cant recognised me.. bt since we both alight from adm, we tok.. haha.. nice toking with teachers.. =) at least my eng improved a bit.. stil managed to tok to her quite fluently.. ~~~

Tml going to skip chi lecture, going to sim to listen to the work n travel usa tok with pam, al n al's fren..

Minds. . .

Projects~~ Projects~~~ Projects~~~~

Currently on hand:
1) Human geo proj doing w el and hy.. 30% completed
2) Chi Lexi Loan Words Research doing w BH and HuM.. 10% completed
3) Chi Lit History doing w another partner whom i duno who yet.. 0% completed
4) Basic Translation (2nd assignment) doing w R, J, V, A... 40%.. my part(90%)
5) Jap3 doing w al, kel, jy, ad... 0%

the worst thing about uni is rushing for project date lines.
it's not like you have so many time! need to rush other readings oso. and readings are so heavy, but if you do not read them, you cant work on the project. *wail..

Anw, met up with pam, HM, MY, YL and SH for sec sch gathering. went to minds cafe, at boat quay.. but before that, went to a very attitude bak kut teh to have early dinner. dun realli like the stuff, cos she's from central asia u see.. and the boss oso kinda dao.. anw.. cost us like 5 bucks per person n i think it wasn't cheap.

Went to minds, played a lot of games. i think we very noisy. keep laughing and laughing and changing games. let me see.. did we play around 10 games?? lol. conclusion: when HM and me team up, we will win. wahaha.. played for 3 hrs under the sixers package, cost $13 for each of us. =)

Decided to walk around the area to take photos.. so we slowly walked our way to clarke quay.. n took photos.. there got some mid autumn festival celebration. a lot of ppl.. a lot of foreigners too. talking and laughing along the way, saw pam's fren zy somewhere along the bridge. they talking about their project too.. ~~~

End up we decided to have supper, at lau pa sat.. so we walked there.. think we spent more than half hr walking? haha.. nice.. walking and talking again.. walked pass several very ulu district areas.. finally reached.. parts of LPS under renovation.. but we order quite a few stuff to eat.. satay.. stingray..hor ziam..n my first try on 'anything'.. got some pepsi/rootbeer like drink.. talk until almost 1.30 and we took cab home.. that taxi uncle.. almost sent us to heaven twice.. can he stop cutting lanes and speeding at 110km/h? i hate this kind of taxi driver..

reached home.. around 2 plus.. did loan words project until 3am.. later got discussion.. hmm....

Un-Blue Saturday

Very long day in school yesterday.

Reached school around 8.35am for my TC lesson. Duno why i reach so early, but get to know one girl from my class, WR, and we chatted abit there. ha.. nice to meet her.. she oso majorin in history, and when she heard i majorin in CL, she gave me a face that i will give when i hear ppl majoring history: cannot-believe-you-can-cope-with-that-look.

Finished, rushed to my next lecture, geo lect. ok another fun lesson. i love prof chang's lectures. haha i will never fall asleep. after lecture, rushed our way to the deck to have lunch. was so hungry! ordered western food with el, but the servings, according to el, has shrinked. hmm.. ate half way, the rain pour in like mad, why the deck so exposed?

Since the deck is so fully packed when we're finished, went to the as7 lab to start on our proj discussion instead. n received an email that we can oso s/u our grades after release results liao! den the used s/u option can see what grade we actually get and retract if we wan to. wee~~ that's good~! discussed geo project until el and me vomit blood. think we discussed until 5pm.

Went back to the deck, it's more empty now, so we went up and found a nice comfy seat. sat there to do our own assignment. el doin her chem tut while i did my translation proj thingy. soon, pam came and we went down to have jap food for dinner. haa.. nice. den went back to do our own revision stuff after 8pm. den head home, lol, pam's sandle's strap broke! luckily she got bring her plasters to paste/secure her leg to the shoe. LOL. sorry, i very bad, i laughed very loud. i will have 报应。

Reached home, rushed my basic translation proj again.. den chatted with HuM on msn. she was a cl major too whom i met in lv3 chi class. doin proj with her too, plus bh. n she tot bh and me are a couple. O.O anw, got to 澄清with her.. lol. hmm.. i almost forgot this theory, when one guy and one girl is seen together, they are seen as couple. 我在学校，可以一起上课的女性朋友好像很少。。。。

Anw, gotta jia you for today le~! no tuition today~!!! *grin*

Going to meet sec sch frens for a gathering at night.. =)

MIO down

很累很累。。很忙很忙。。。。

Ty finally go to TW le.. she left on wed, din get the chance to send her off, coz got TB lesson.. T.T anw, real glad to receive an sms from her that all is well so far, she settled down there, but currently no connection available, so she can only be entertained with her offline laptop.. dun seemed easy.. but i can only say: 加油加油！！！

Mio is down yesterday. so i cant come online, cant go msn, cant do proj research, cant use housephone.... ~!@#$%^& anw.. called the technician.. they only came down today morning.. make me almost late for my 12pm class.. ah.. anw, they said the modem is spoilt.. so they installed a new one.. ok~ so we're within 7 days.. can get this service for free.. that malay uncle who came to install.. very naggy.. told him the modem like gt problem, then he nagged a lot.. den after explaining, said, "you understand? you say right or not???" zz.. i almost late for class liao he stil nag so much.

Got earthquake yesterday. i din really noe it's earthquake when i first feel it. thought i got giddy, coz i jus woke up, and i was swaying left to right. LOL. den i was thinking, maybe it's earthquake in indonesia again.. but din care much.. came to living room's desk to continue daydream to wake up myself. LOL. den receive an sms from al that he said there's earthquake, n should check out the news tonight. den he said he was having dinner at a restaurant in the city, suddenly earthquake, everyone rushed out so he din pay for the food oso. LOL. can like that one oo.. today discussed the matter with hj n kel, when we met for lunch. hj said she din notice it. but kel said he felt it, it's swaying front to back. LOL. we burst out laughin coz we're facing the different direction, so we felt a different swaying.

The translation tut is boring. Got another translation assignment coming up. walao eh~! like that where got time la~! tml going to stay back in sch to do geo proj, sat got sec sch mates gathering, den sunday gotta discuss chi lexi proj, and upload our individual translation work. den tue or wed gotta conference to discuss the translation thing again. Wa.. so busy~!!!

Busy week

Busy busy week.

I now den noticed that it's going to be such a hectic week for me! (den why do i stil have the time here?)

Jap 3 is getting harder and harder.
我也要开始听不懂了！other than that, got many homework and assignments from jap oso. I really wonder how life will be without taking jap language in school. But.. that so-free timetable wun make me any happier coz i won't be seeing most of my good friends.

Went to sim to meet pam for lunch just now. I think her friends already know who I am la.. ha.. see them at least 5 times liao.. 我动不动就跑去SIM。。they having test at 2pm.. so got pam, my, zy, cl, one girl i jus met today called 'my tutor', and one guy whom i wasn't introduced. ha. but nice.. to see a huge group of friends studying together. will this ever happen in nus for me?

There having bazaar sales.. and didn't find anything I like. But, stil ok la. Nice to see so many people walking around and getting excited about school life. Makes me wonder do i have school life?? NUS so 寂寞。。

Just now during tuition, i suddenly got so deeply insighted when i was teaching my tutee. When she was doing a question, and i think she was solving something like this: 3(3x+6)=9x+6... n my first reaction was to blurt out, "Why?" very soon, i realised that it's not nice for a teacher to tell off her student, "why?", when the student did something wrong. What am i expecting anyway? "Because I don't know." , or.. "Because I stupid.".....

I was trying to soothe things out and mentally slapped myself for saying something so rude. and doing a quick mental scan of all the phrases that can never, or shall not be said to a student. Phrases like.. "no, you're wrong.", "Why like that?", "Do you understand me ***OR NOT***?".. den i was thinking how can i tell her nicely.. maybe i can say, "no, it wasn't really right like this.", or.. "It's not right to do it like this", or.. "let me explain again, so you can understand more clearly", "it's ok u dun know, but the answer is....".... And spice up everything with a trillion encouraging phrases like, "great!", "very good", in a chirpy tone and a light up of my face, and just to see that the tutee wasn't really appreciating my goo-ga-ing efforts, but deep down inside i believe they love it. Wa.. the art of teaching.. wasn't easy.

好多事情要做的礼拜天

连续两晚两点半才睡觉。感觉是不错，但是第二天醒来会有点痛苦。

昨天补完习、回到家，就忙着在学校的Forum上留言。不留不行，因为有particpation points。看到许多为了留言而留言的人，说了一堆废话，把Forum搞得很乱。在Forum上，谈论到一点关于‘便当’一词的由来。很多人以为便当是由日语的'弁当'（读bentou)，所借过来的，其实，在许多日本网站里，却证实了这个词是源至于中国！所以，有人也说便当是‘回归词’，因为，它去了日本，被改换了一下下，再回来华人的世界里被使用。大开眼界吧~

做了一点geo的research，也了解到许多关于牛仔裤，Jeans，的历史。对，我们在geo project 里准备做关于jeans。看上去很不适当，但是，就是要以‘地理环境影响’的角度来观看人人都穿的牛仔裤的演变。详情还没彻底讨论过。就先research咯。

还有词汇学的project要起步去做。万事起头难。不是过程痛苦，而是总要为要做什么而烦。听al说他们的universe module的project也还在为做什么而烦。我宁愿老师的限制不要那么放宽，跟我们讲要做什么就好啦。我是懒惰想的人。

今天，整天都在赶功课。咳。无奈。。

Finished tuition

I finally, finally finish my tuition! It's been.. let me see.. nearly 5 months? I missed my freedom on Saturday. I realised how important a free day is, for a 5-week person like me. It's over. I got my last pay from the sisters' mother. Supposed to be $125, but she gave me $130, think because she was so 不好意思 that the tuition dragged for 40 minutes more. Her daughters suddenly got so many questions from the school they wanna ask. Zz. OK, i need to be passionate, to become a teacher. Training my patience..

Had a nice little farewell party for Ty yesterday nite. Met px at cwp first, coz ty was late, to buy ch's present. CH's birthday falls on saturday. so as well celebrate together. We bought a converse shirt for ch, and a lovely lil card, den we went to my house. Mom cooking steamboat, and so we sat around to talk a bit and wrote the card. Ty suggest we play a prank on ch, by sayin that many ppl's birthday these days, but act like we didn't realise it was his. Aha.. Anw, i oso din realise it's his bday until i saw it on friendster. We started eating first, pam got test until 8 plus, so she coming later with ch, as ch will have his own dinner, since he's vegetarian.

We chat and ate.. ok practise a bit of my recent jap here.. おしゃべりしながら、食事しました。T,T den almost 10pm, pam and ch den arrive. poor pam, i think she was very very hungry. we waited for pam to finish her food, then we went to my room to play that legendary sg monopoly again. LOL. We not very concentrating, coz many of us got many things to do when playing the game. LOL. Ppl like me, XD. Then when reached midnight, we suggest cutting the cake that we shared to buy for TY. Den we gave ch and ty their presents, and took a lot of silly photos. Ahah.. it was fun. Loved taking photos with friends, or shall i say, love taking silly photos. I can laugh non-stop.

Then we ate the cake, and went back to the game, to play monopoly for awhile more, UNO stacko, and Bingo.. LOL. Played until sian.. then went to play "Deal or no deal". If you want to play the game, it's on the bottom right of this page. Try it! Haha.. By the time we got so quietened down because of tiredness, it's already 2am. Den, pam, px and ch made their way home. Ty stayed over for the night, and we chatted abit and went on to sleep.

When we woke up, it's already 11am. So late! We ate another round of the steamboat, and went on to chat and surfed the net together.. hmm.. time really flies again. Before i noticed it, it's time i have to go for tuition, so TY oso going to make her way home. Bid goodbye to her, it's the last time i saw ty, until don't know when le. Most probably at least another half of the year. So sad!!

It somehow makes me recall the time when i said gdbye to him before he left for brunei. But that's old grannies history, i don't care about that now~

Still, bon voyage to TY! All the best to you, jia you in your studies, and do take good care! Keep in touch ne~!!

Friday again~

Friday. Later at nite going to have a little farewell party for ty, as she is going to tw this coming wed. Time really flies. I stil remember on tuesday, pam and ty came to nus for dinner. Now it's friday! and another week..

Going on to week 5. My mid-term break is coming. it's so fast!! haven't i just started school??

Woke up early in the morning for the jap tc class. met al at the interchange, tok our way to school. hmm..went for the geo lecture after that, hy is late, so only left me n el. the lecture's concept is getting slightly harder. Left early from lecture to go the deck for lunch. el hooked to the deck's jap food. haha.. very soon, sdr came to join us too. talked a bit.. el and sdr have project discussion, so they went back to sc, but i went to as7 lab to slowly, leisurely print my stuff.. sometimes, being alone is not that bad too.

Spent $9 bucks plus on my notes. walao. so ex. the geo readings all like at least 30 pages per reading.. want to squeeze but later the wordings too small.. hmm.. anyway, print until near 2pm, took bus to clementi.. and guess who i saw? pam!! LOL. she poked me so quick and hard at my back, i thought who. LOL. Den so surprised to see her.. with zy and my oso. LOL. they went back to sch to study, coz they havin test later on in the evening. wish them all the best!

K la.. gotta go do geo project le..

MIO~ed

Ok, the happiest thing about today, is .. I am finally MIO-ed!!

Woot~! The connection rocks big time! 10Mbps Unlimited! i can save myself from the trouble of tackling wireless from unknown, unreliable wireless providers.. and i am so connected now. u wun see me dc again! woot~~! i dun have to run around the house looking for the best feng shui for the wireless. i can just savvy myself by sitting on where i wanna see and get hooked up. =D

Anyway, several things regarding the week.

On monday, after jap lecture, stayed in sch for lunch with HJ and Al. we went to the deck.. and hj ordered jap food, and al n me tried the noodle from the new noodle store.. cost only $1.80 for a very big serving, but my conclusion is, it smells like cockroach. no choice, but force the food down. den hj got lesson at 1pm so al and me went to the lab. he need to do his lab report. and we're discussing abt some upcoming movies and watched a few clips from youtube den i gotta go for tuition le. ok, my tutee said she left the book in her grandma's house, which i assumed she did it on purpose, coz she din complete my homework. i dun understand, if u dun wan to do tuition homework, den dun have tuition in the first place la! why waste money. but din care, it's my pay day.

Ironically, my pay day, half gone to my piano fees. It's fees day oso. LOL. plus, i advanced to book two of that legendary older beginner's piano book. and it cost me $84 in total. ouch. but for the love of it, it's stil worth it. learnt two new songs.. getting harder..

Tuesday, had that cute sensei's lesson for jap tut.. u noe who he is.. aha.. after the lesson, ty coming to nus for lunch! haha.. so we meet her at the busstop.. al went for his lesson at sc, so kel joined us to wait for pam to come.. at first wanted to give ty surprise, coz we intend to buy her a laptop case, but she buy alr.. LOL. so we have to forget about the script we intended to act out for the surprise.. ah.. haha.. so we had the nice indonesian chicken set meal.. and it's nice.. ty and pam going to psa after the lunch, so i went to my translation lecture.. and kel went to lab to wait for his next lesson.. and i rmbr i forgot to bring my work to lecture!! i spent one day doing it but i forgot it!!! anw, borrowed from bh, and from my stil quite fresh memory, i did my translation again on the spot, coz bh din complete it all. woot.. teacher gave us his ideal answer sheet and bh said mine resembled teachers'! woot~!

Went to the chi lexi lecture after that, and it's another tiring session.. only looking forward to meeting pam n ty after the lect.. den very soon, the lesson ended! we went to the deck and ate at lerk thai's. woo i love the ambiance there.. very cosy and nice.. not much ppl oso.. coz it's alr 6 something. we ordered quite a lot and it's nice.. aha.. den we sat down and tok.. a lot to laugh about.. and only then did i notice, i haven laugh until like that in NUS before.. it's like a dream to hav pam n ty in NUS with me.. i wonder how will it be like if we're in the same sch.. but we aren't and it's sad.. the whole campus seemed more livelier and cozy with them.. i miss those times.. it's been so lonely in sch alone.. i haven found the childish me for a long time.. we ordered coffee from olio cafe's.. chat until 8 something.. den went to as7's printing lab.. ha.. one userid can serve 3 pcs the same time.. lol.. so i print my notes and ty and pam surf online watching movies and handsome guys.. lol.. realli not like wat i can see in the usual sch.. stayed until 9 something.. the ppl gotta close the lab.. so we took bus and train home..

Wed.. i am late for my tutorial.. bh reserved a seat for me.. and i came in so at the last min that the tutor asked me to intro myself.. ah.. kinda ps.. coz she asked me wat's my name.. i told her.. den she asked me to describe my name.. wat can i describe???? 廖。。。婉。。。妍.. for god's sake, create something fancy out of this for me.. i think she did this to me becoz i'm late.. anw, the girl beside me helped me a bit, telling me wat i should say for the tutor.. she looked like Bethia.. n i think she's msian from her tone.. jus looking forward for the lesson to end..

Move on to the jap lesson.. busy with the discussion on the phone with pam.. on wat to get for ty.. LOL.. pam very anxious.. coz i having lessons n she cant get to contact me.. so she duno whether to buy or not.. anw.. lesson.. not bad.. ended very soon, den went to busstop alone, coz kel wanna take bus 10 from krt, and al got project.. met bh at the busstop and tok until i reached raffles place.. goin to orchard to meet pam., for the present.. was so hungry, we went to taka's kfc to eat.. den bought some stuff for ty.. and went home.. so tired.. but still.. read our notes along the way home..

Thursday, went for the chi lit lecture.. ok i reached there jus in time and today we got to buy our textbook for $14.. the book we ordered is here.. seemed not bad.. n i stil love the idea, that wat i had read in the readings are covered in the lecture and it's interesting.. lesson finished, went to lab to print tml geo's lecture notes.. den saw bh.. den gotta go.. mio ppl coming.. on the way home, hj msg me n she's sick! oo i hope she's ok.. din get to see her most of the time this sem.. that's sad.. kel nt accompanyin her, coz he said he got lesson..

Reached home.. lazed around.. i tried reading two long geo readings today.. progress stil not bad.. den the mio person came.. n he quickly finish his stuff and i was so delighted i can get to use wireless now at such a fast speed!!! woot~! went msn.. saw al.. shared wif him my joy.. ha.. den we played sudoku n reversi.. i felt bad for winning him in both games.. anw, it happened that the game i seemed to be losing, but i suddenly get to beat him in the game.. den he said i very bad.. did it on purpose.. n watever.. n he seemed delighted he can piss me off.. sayin wat, "jus dun take my words seriously den u will have a smoother day".. den i replied, "i had nv taken u seriously at all".. n i successfully pissed him back! lol.. ok we're childish..

Also, pam n me are signing up for the work and travel trip to USA.. yep.. information from speedwing.org.. al introduced to me.. students from universities and uni institutes can only apply.. and ya, it's 2008's summer trip to overseas where u work and get paid and for ur own accommodation and so on.. and for a period of two months.. seemed so interesting! but dun think it'd be easy coz got interviews.. and u nv know whether next year will u have clash in exam dates, or financial problems, or parents objections and so on.. ahh.. jus apply first la.. applied for resort jobs at Grand Canyon's lodgings and Yellowstone's..~~~ shall see~~

dried prunes like me

Jap lecture is very very heavy today. 1.5 lessons at one go. so tiring.

ran out of ideas on wat i can write.

Dried.

Tutorials finally started

Been a busy week, since most of the tutorials have started.

Everyone's complaining about jap 3, and saying they're not intending to take jap4. Personally, i think it's still fun, but the workload is kinda terrible. 4 days of jap and for each lesson, be it lecture, you oso gotta do some work or be prepared for it. For the past vacation, i was thinking how days can breeze off in front of me. now, the days zoom pass when i was looking at pieces of paper in front of me and when i haven even realise, it's another week.

Shall share a little bit about sch this week.

On monday, was the jap lecture. taught by 堀江先生。she is good, as everyone taught by her will comment. but her lectures are getting heavier. instead of one chapter per week, she's starting to have 1.5 chapters per week from next week. and for each lecture, we'll have lecture quiz. so though it has webcast, we must still be there. but it's good la, can get to see all frens. HJ, Al, Kel, Jas, PH, BH.

After the lecture, i am free, but having tuition at 3.30, i can only stay for lunch and rush back home to rest a bit then have piano at 7.30. at least, monday is something i do look forward to.

On tuesday, had our first jap TA tut. it was 岡田先生. ha i think he's cute. i duno how to describe how cute he is, but when you get him to teach u, u will think he's cute. haha, and i think girls enjoy his lessons but not guys. XD In this TA, recognise a few frens, got Al, Kel, Rb, JY, Abln.... den we have quiz on TA. and project group forming. our project group will be spending a particular monday on month of october and bring local jap pri6 students to some war memorial museum and have interviews and lunch with them. so our group formed, is Al, Kel, JY, Adl(JY's fren) and me. JY told me he's doin shared major between jap studies and cl, so we can take modules together next time. wo cool..

Too bad, babe HJ had class for this TA slot, so she had the one after, and she got 浜崎先生 for class, but in her class and project group, she got Jas, PH, and Dn(the very loud and funny HK boy)..

For that break after the TA, went to sim with kel to look for pam and gang to have lunch together. gotta rush back to sch before 2pm, so we hurried here and there, den pam n kel went home, but i went back to sch. and i recalled it's raining so very heavily then and there's a terrible car accident somewhere in front of sim. i like sim's ban mee.

Rush back to sch to have the basic translation lecture, ok it's still not bad at least, but it's scary coz the lecturers like to randomly call out names. and we have to shout out our translated verse to him so the whole lecture can criticise. haiyo. den this lecture got set up a forum for ppl to participate and it's counted in our CA, but i din post anything yet. i duno what i can post. maybe say "i agree, or not agree" to each and every post. LOL. is that participating?

After the lecture, got another chi lexi lecture. ok this lecture the class size is pathetically small (no more than 30), and sure u bet all the ppl in this class are cl majors coz it's lv 3 module. so far what the lecturer covered is what has been taught in the lv1 introductory cl module.. hmmm.. like that one oh.. den the exam is oso open book. i wonder how scary will the exam be. by the time i reached home, it's alr 6pm and i recalled doing nth but drop dead on bed.

On wed, got geo tut at 12, so meet kel and we went to the earth lab for the first time. nice comfy lil place, and i bet most of the ppl there are year ones, coz it's introductory module. i like the prof, prof chang.. he's a very humorous person, always having a sweater wrapped around his neck though he nv wear it. his sense of humor is strong n i nv fall asleep in his class. but he is teaching us human geo.. currently touching on issues of geographical imaginations and globalisation.. i wonder how nice it'd be to have such a tutor for GP. sure everyone can score well, coz he jus have the ability to bring out all these dry stuff so interestingly.

After the class, went to jap TB tutorial. our teacher this time is 浅原先生. wa.. she is a very strict and stern teacher, who can rap jap, and though our performance is not bad alr, she demands us more, to speak like local japanese and her english is very pro. heard from HJ she was an eng lit or jap lit major. no wonder.. den she came in to class, ask us randomly to ask her a question each. dat kel go and ask her how old she is.. zzz.. not a gd start.. she a bit fuming.. answered, i was once 23. den ppl ask her where she live, she said somewhere near orchard. ppl ask her got child or not, she said got a twin. very "impressive". take this word literally for its meaning. so dis class, got Al, Kel, Jas, PH, BH, Abln, and a few familiar faces whom i duno their name.

On thur, went to the chi lit lecture at 12 again and i like this lecturer coz he knew what we wun know so he taught us from there. a lot of 文言文, but he taught us well enough that everyone said this module is interesting. so what we're learning? brief introduction of 诗经、论语、战国策、庄子& etc, currently on 楚辞。readings are a lot, but understandable and useful.

After the lect, met up wif hj and kel to have lunch at mac's and studied a bit. then they went for their TC class and i went home. My jap TC tut is on friday morn, not thur evening. For kel n hj's TC, they got 堀江先生, and they think she's fun and great.

On fri, for the TC tut, meet up with Al and our class is very squeezy and small. got a few ppl i know too, got Al, Rb, Rk, Adm, Sdy, and familiar faces. Sdy surprisingly very quiet. i duno why. but our teacher, is 浜崎先生.. so we hit all 4 different teachers.. but al complained he wanted 堀江先生 so much, but din get her. HJ wanted 岡田先生, but she oso din get it. so this is life. the more you wan it, the more u wun get it.

After the tut, went to geo lecture, so meet up with El and HY. den it's another fun lecture, and after the lecture, went to have lunch with El at the deck, and start our project discussion. HY got tut, so she came to join us later. and our discussion was fruitful. now we knew wat we can do now. that's great. we aim to finish the proj before midterm break. 加油加油！

As for the basic translation, we gotta form a project group too, got MT(call her Rain), Vr & Jsl(2 year ones), and one secretive guy called Ang. no one initiate the task, so i contacted them, set up a community and we said we upload our translated text there before we discuss on sunday. still, no one replied. lol. maybe not till the very last min, no one will be worried. ah.. whatever the case, i shall jus be passive and do what i feel like doing in the group wk. it's not like i nv tried. and it's not like everyone wun be getting that same piece of group result. so.. jus set course and let the river flow.. i dun care abt the steering yet.

Hope everything turns out well.

Later got tuition... T.T and meeting TY at nite for dinner at bugis. no time to study le! jia you jia you!!!