Term break's gonna be over in a day's time.
And i barely had any break! As if anyone would have with those mid terms and term papers all due in the coming week. Defeats the purpose of having a break, i say.
If there's anything i did, i only mugged my guts out and cracked my brains thinking of a stupid badly designed product/process to bitch on for my cog psych term paper due this coming Fri.
I've barely even started a word on it, geez. I dunno what to write. I guess im stressed.
And as if that wasnt enough, mum threw a constrictor boa arnd my neck again...Telling me that my idea of taking 2 yrs off after graduation to gain experience working elsewhere sucks. But that isnt the worst thing.
Know what's the worst?
It's having damn educated relatives poisoning my mum's mind with vile, irresponsible and thoughtless things. Things like,
"Aiyo...why are u spending so much effort doing this for them (referring to my mum's kids. and that includes me)? Eventually, when u lie flat in ur coffin they'll just be shedding a few tears, that's all."
To that, i say bloody fuck off, wash ur filthy mouth clean and pray very, very hard karma doesnt kick in for the evil things u say. Coz i cant guarantee i'll be praying for ur soul then.
Then i wonder, when will it be the handphones' turn to disappear? Or will it?
We are so addicted to the handphones, that just forgetting to bring it to school for a couple of hours will leave us fidgeting in our seats throughout the entire lecture. And at this rate we're going, it's quite hard to foresee the end of handphones...which seem to be gradually morphing into mini versions of computers. And since life without computers in our high-tech digital world is realistically impossible, then handphones are likely to stay until the sun decides to disintegrate itself into oblivion.
So in the meantime, while we are learning to embrace the influx of smaller and more multi-functioned 3G phones and PDAs, it's eternal goodbye to pagers. Hopefully, when the day comes, there wont be any sentimental idiots who will frantically page their last msgs at 1158 and disrupt the entire communications systems in Singapore.
Some of the interesting things i did in the first half of Sem 1 07/08: and of course...
I loved Friday!!!
My Logic lecturer taught us how to draw circles all over our lecture notes, and I managed to breeze through my nm tutorial coz I did my hmk!
But of course, the main reason has to be the concert, which went pretty well by my standards. I had lotsa fun during and after the show! Received what I thought was an amusing feedback from a friend of mine (read: Shaun), who commented that I look TOO happy in comparison to my group mates. Hahaha…like how am I supposed to react to that?!
Anwz. Managed to persuade the most of us to go for supper at Munchies, which turned out to be a lot of fun – much to the chagrin of the Munchies staff heh. We had Egyptians and spring chickens running all over the place, with serenading and erotic dances to boot and everyone was laughing-mad happy. What more cld I ask for on a friday night huh:D
Note: Been unable to go online for the past week coz my com’s down. Am tapping the Wireless.SG WiFi now, which sucks as well as my Electrolux vacuum cleaner does. So pardon me, those of u who threw sheep, cows and the likes/sent drinks/delivered flowers/ardugen-ed/bought drinks/wrote on my wall/added me on Facebook. I will reciprocate. REALLY SOON. *evil laughter*
PS: I realise how freaking uber boliao that recommendations corner is, so im not doing that anymore. Must be fatigue that made me put it up the other time:p
Due to extremely horrific English for the previous blogpost, i decided to take that off before i gross myself to death reading it again. It's shocking how far worse my language can get when fatigue hits. ( for the uninitiated, i was raving about how i didnt go flat singing at the Sonic Festival, and then whining abt how my Dad nagged abt my overly-dedicated involvement in Reso)
Anyways. Im now in the Central Library, blogging away in the Quiet Area with the immensely-satisfying Ramly Burger Ayam in my hand. Damn shiok...i hope i dont get caught by the librarians tho. Call it indulgence after a traumatic experience (PTSI). Had a class presentation on PTSD for my Abnormal Psych class earlier on, and i tired myself out shivering throughout my part of the presentation. I wasnt even feeling nervous, just extremely cold. Hope it isnt some absurd addiction to shivering during major events syndrome, coz it's so annoying!
But im feeling liberated now that im done with one of my assignments for the semester, and almost done with the major events in Reso. Not that im tired of it - i really love Reso - just that i've been so caught up with the singing lately i've neglected many of the other aspects of my life... to the point that i actually miss doing readings, crazy as it seems. So, i think its high time that i take a step back for awhile, and catch up with everything else arnd me...before people who are impt to me start forgetting that i still exist.
heh...out of sheer boliao-ness, i have decided to add in this bimbotic little section to my posts in future. Proudly introducing...
My Recommendations Corner! And today it's:
1) Attitude - man's fragrance from Giorgio Armani (Karen, my proj mate gave me a sample just this morning). It smells very manly, smthg i'd get for my bf if i have one. Good for all the insecure men in the world, haha!
2) Ramly Burgers - A gift to Mankind. 'Nuff said:D
Yay...I DIDN'T GO FLAT FOR TONIGHT'S PERFORMANCE TOO!!!!!!
Crowd response was pretty much polite...but what mattered most was that we made the show worth it for our audience who actually did come. Glad they liked Dahil! Am really, really drop-dead tired after all the singing so far, but its worth it i guess:)
Only spoiler for the day?
- Dad called up on my train ride home to complain abt me spending too much time on Reso. Things like: "I realise you've been coming home late everyday! I thought u finished ur competition already? How come u're still performing??!" Sians.
Its funny how i can foresee what will happen to me, because all i need to do is to observe what happens to Charm when i see her too often in Reso.
Welcome Tea today, so we performed for the freshies. Really happy to see quite a few familiar new faces amongst our new members, coz it only makes it all the easier to bond with them...and prevent ugly history from happening again. What to do... u learn life's lessons only when u're through, so i guess i gotta be glad that at least we learnt smthg from our past mistakes.
Anyways, like for all our past performances, we have had to buang at least one or two songs out of our repertoire, and so we did:D It's definitely not something to be proud of, least of all smthg to laugh abt, but i dunno. Seeing the confused look on some of the freshies' faces as we indulged in butchering the song just gave me the laughing urges. At least im not crying this time. haha!
Tomorrow's the big day though. Hope my groupies have had their fill of song-buanging so they wont do that tmr. Well, i sure do not want to singlehandedly buang Cheng Li in front of Simon, nor any of Cal's songs in front of her, so hope the efforts i put into revising on the nwc will lead to a better showing for the next two days. Mental note to self:
Jia Yan, don't waste all your hard work! Dont go flat anymore please!!!
Burnt my Sat doing anything but work...which im seriously lagging in. Argh...the filthy readings! The NUSSU Executive Committee raised this issue to the Board of Undergraduate Studies on the 23rd of August. A few reasons cited by the Board for the implementation of this policy for the AY2007/08 cohort include:
Had a sound check for acafest in the afternoon, which turned out quite badly. Somehow i just couldnt focus, got very nervous and restless no matter how much i tried to hide it. But then again, it had me realise how lovely Cal's Dahil Sa Iyo arrangement truly is, with only the beautiful chords and harmonies to perform the magic. Not that i dont like VP tho; it's just nice to do some songs without it sometimes. Heh... and it took an audience who've heard it only once or twice to figure this out. It's a pleasant discovery:)
But i've also a separate, not so happy issue to raise:
(Some background info: students admitted from AY2007/08 onwards can exercise their S/U option only after the results are announced. This is as opposed to what it is for students admitted prior to AY2007/08 where they exercise their S/U option between Week 6 and the end of the Recess Week.)
According to the email from NUSSU,
If NUS indeed practises democracy, and what the NUS student population has got to say has any impact at all, I say that this bloody policy change is too little, too late. In fact, it's shocking to me that the Board hadnt considered it when they first put the S/U policy in place, as such leading to the cries of unfairness that i read in the NUSSU forum now.
Why should we be bearing the consequences of the Board's poor judgment and lack of foresight? It doesnt help that there's already much controversy about the S/U option - the least being not allowing Arts students to S/U language modules like students from any other faculties - and they're now indirectly telling us it's our fault for enrolling into NUS a few yrs too early, and we should break into cheers for the good welfare of the noobs while the rest of us old birds continue to seek fortune-tellers to predict our grades for our remaining semesters.
But don't get me wrong, im sincerely happy that my good friends in the current batch of freshies get to benefit from the policy change. It's just that I feel the Board should, and could have done a better job in looking after the welfare of the population at large instead of offering benefits to some and ignoring the rest. One of the better suggestions i read from the forum included allowing all of us pick 3 modules with the lowest grades to be S/U-ed, which wld benefit all of us regardless of the cohort we belong to. Or better still, it can consider implementing both policies, allowing us to choose whichever is more applicable to us. Afterall, im sure they want us to get good grades, dont they?
Since education has been teaching us to think out of the box forever, i think its high time for those who had called for it to start doing so themselves.