Saturday, August 29, 2009
this week was my first full week of school, with lectures and tutorials.and cos most of my tutorials are on odd weeks, so this week is the 'busiest' i'll be in school for just mundane lectures and tutorials.it's been quite okay i guess, considering i know like nobody in my tutorial groups.so just go and smile and say hi.most pple are quite friendly.i'm now like an expert in looking out for 'loners' just like myself to make friends with.haha, but i realised quite alot of pple do go to lectures and tutorials alone.at least i always have someone to go lecture with!
out of the 4 days i go to school, on 3 of the days i have to be in sch at either 8am or 9am.which is really quite bad, not only cos i have to wake up when it's still dark, but also cos i need to fight with every other driver out there for my right of space on the road.i think i've become agressive for a p-plate holder.i'm not even a month-old driver!haha.but i think it's part nurture too, the whole past two years in ac my dad drove a race car.haha even the old manual tiny red car seemed like it flew.anyway my point is that driving at peak hour is not cool.i take an hour or sometimes more to get to school at that time, while in the afternoon it takes me like 20mins to reach home.ridiculous.
i want to thank God for all the provision He has given to me.friendly friends in class and lectures, tutorial slots which fit into my timetable, keeping me (and the car) safe on the roads in the mornings, and for just allowing me to move on from dwelling on what i dont have, to being content and satisfied with what i DO have.(:
i'm giving tuition at 10am tmr!haha if yurong didn't remind me i would have probably slept til noon :p
out of the 4 days i go to school, on 3 of the days i have to be in sch at either 8am or 9am.which is really quite bad, not only cos i have to wake up when it's still dark, but also cos i need to fight with every other driver out there for my right of space on the road.i think i've become agressive for a p-plate holder.i'm not even a month-old driver!haha.but i think it's part nurture too, the whole past two years in ac my dad drove a race car.haha even the old manual tiny red car seemed like it flew.anyway my point is that driving at peak hour is not cool.i take an hour or sometimes more to get to school at that time, while in the afternoon it takes me like 20mins to reach home.ridiculous.
i want to thank God for all the provision He has given to me.friendly friends in class and lectures, tutorial slots which fit into my timetable, keeping me (and the car) safe on the roads in the mornings, and for just allowing me to move on from dwelling on what i dont have, to being content and satisfied with what i DO have.(:
i'm giving tuition at 10am tmr!haha if yurong didn't remind me i would have probably slept til noon :p
smiles @ 00:44.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
i drove to school this morning at 7am.and if you ask any driver, that's like one of the worse times to drive.PEAK HOUR.but i thought like, hey i drove at this time last friday, shouldn't be any problem today.however for some strange reason, irritating drivers were on the road this morning.a thousand and one pple tried/succeeded in cutting me, and i got so mad!plus there was this once the guy didn't even bother to signal, and then after cutting, he drove like a tortoise!which is really bad since tortoises cannot drive.maybe it's cos i left slightly later at 7.10.see what 10mins does.throughout the whole drive i was trying really really really hard not to get pissed.and i think i drove like my dad.which may/may not be a good thing haha.anyway i got to school late, but my newly-made friend at lecture saved me a seat.see, it's impt to make friends and be nice to pple.
lecture-only week has been, mmm.boring in some sense.like on tues and weds i go to school for just one 2hour lecture and then i'm done with school.and then after that i'm like, lalala what should i do now?but then again, i'm not sure if i want tutorials to start either, cos that'll mean projects to do and readings to read and assignments to do.
speaking of readings, i just finished the first readings of my uni life!it's on south-east asia and maps and stuff.and its really irritating cos the words are like smaller than font size 8, and its goes on for like endless amount of pages.eeeeee.
anyway, i just confirmed my timetable for the rest of this sem. in nus you have to bid and ballot for like everything.if you're an arts student that is.i'm still trying to decide if its a good or bad thing.true, you get to plan your own timetable and stuff, but when you dont get what you want it gets stressful looking for an alternative, and your ideal timetable is gone.but it's good i get a 4-day week, and tuesday's just one 2hour lecture at 8am and then i'm done.so i guess that's like 3 and a half days haha.
blogger is looking very funny now.seems like lots of things don't want to work and have become funny.my hotmail account refuses to delete messages.and yesterday facebook looked wrong.
lecture-only week has been, mmm.boring in some sense.like on tues and weds i go to school for just one 2hour lecture and then i'm done with school.and then after that i'm like, lalala what should i do now?but then again, i'm not sure if i want tutorials to start either, cos that'll mean projects to do and readings to read and assignments to do.
speaking of readings, i just finished the first readings of my uni life!it's on south-east asia and maps and stuff.and its really irritating cos the words are like smaller than font size 8, and its goes on for like endless amount of pages.eeeeee.
anyway, i just confirmed my timetable for the rest of this sem. in nus you have to bid and ballot for like everything.if you're an arts student that is.i'm still trying to decide if its a good or bad thing.true, you get to plan your own timetable and stuff, but when you dont get what you want it gets stressful looking for an alternative, and your ideal timetable is gone.but it's good i get a 4-day week, and tuesday's just one 2hour lecture at 8am and then i'm done.so i guess that's like 3 and a half days haha.
blogger is looking very funny now.seems like lots of things don't want to work and have become funny.my hotmail account refuses to delete messages.and yesterday facebook looked wrong.
smiles @ 22:36.
Friday, August 14, 2009
i'm at yixuan and tessa's room!haha.having a 2hour break between lectures, so came and crashed and hang out.yixuan is still sleeping, the pig!
You give and take away
You give and take away
My heart will choose to say
Lord, blessed be Your name
You give and take away
You give and take away
My heart will choose to say
Lord, blessed be Your name
smiles @ 10:51.
Saturday, August 08, 2009
i went swimming on tuesday with bindy and serene.haha i was intending to nuah the whole day at home, but at like 2plus serene called and went like, eh we're going swimming, come come!yup so i went.cos like the swimming complex was just beside my estate.and i had to pay for my 1.50 ticket with a 10-dollar note cos i had no small change, so the machine gave me back 8.50 back in COINS.
on wednesday i went back to haven to visit.haha, spent time nuah-ing in the girls section watching tv and talking to lizhen, then catching up with aunty soohong after that.had honwah's company to dohby ghaut after that.
i made peach tarts on thursday!haha and i intended to meet victor for dinner before band but HE DIDN'T REPLY ME.met timothy instead, and i was late haha oops.cos the peach tarts took longer than i expected.i still don't know how it tastes yet though.then at j8 we met victor!HMPH.
spent today with mel!met her in corps after her sch ended, and we spent nearly an hour deciding where to go and what to do.we didn't really want to go to town cos like the whole world will probably be there since it was a half day for schools.in the end we went to get bubble tea, then to thompson to get oven-toasted food.haha cos i wanted to make oven-toasted stuff, its so fun!yup, then went to her place for movie-watching chick flicks to make ourselves happy.watched take the lead halfway, cos the disc refused to play properly, then continued with step up.left for practice after that.ohh oven-toasted onion rings are quite nice.and i found a new way to eat pasta, with campbell soup!
had a good time with my cell today.mmm, i'm glad for it la.you see things happening that you never expected and God working in His own special way somehow.basically stuff which i could have never done have done to yield such results.
it's in times when i feel helpless and lost that i have a deeper insight to His grace and eternal love.(:
on wednesday i went back to haven to visit.haha, spent time nuah-ing in the girls section watching tv and talking to lizhen, then catching up with aunty soohong after that.had honwah's company to dohby ghaut after that.
i made peach tarts on thursday!haha and i intended to meet victor for dinner before band but HE DIDN'T REPLY ME.met timothy instead, and i was late haha oops.cos the peach tarts took longer than i expected.i still don't know how it tastes yet though.then at j8 we met victor!HMPH.
spent today with mel!met her in corps after her sch ended, and we spent nearly an hour deciding where to go and what to do.we didn't really want to go to town cos like the whole world will probably be there since it was a half day for schools.in the end we went to get bubble tea, then to thompson to get oven-toasted food.haha cos i wanted to make oven-toasted stuff, its so fun!yup, then went to her place for movie-watching chick flicks to make ourselves happy.watched take the lead halfway, cos the disc refused to play properly, then continued with step up.left for practice after that.ohh oven-toasted onion rings are quite nice.and i found a new way to eat pasta, with campbell soup!
had a good time with my cell today.mmm, i'm glad for it la.you see things happening that you never expected and God working in His own special way somehow.basically stuff which i could have never done have done to yield such results.
it's in times when i feel helpless and lost that i have a deeper insight to His grace and eternal love.(:
smiles @ 00:45.
Friday, August 07, 2009
yay my blog post options and buttons are back to normal! (:
shermin! counting down! :D
thanks, friends.(:
smiles @ 00:11.
Monday, August 03, 2009
happy 400th post!haha it's quite little, considering i've had this blog since...2004.haha i dont blog very regularly la.
last week was my last week of work!haha.it was fun working at haven la.although there were times in the morning when i woke up and went like, i don't want to go and work.haha.and then on wednesdays kiyomi and i will be like, yay mid-week!haha.it's not that i don't like to work la, it's just that weekends are more fun haha.yup anyway, i'm probably going to miss all the kids there.3 weeks away on holiday in june and i already missed them.mmm.but my last week at work was quite anti-climax la.didn't really do much also, cos there were hardly any kids ard.so had like 2hour lunch breaks, go ard and talk to the girls and stuff.
oh oh oh and i passed my driving test!hahahaha.i have power now.i took my test on thurs.so scary can!and i think my tester didn't like me.he told me we'll be taking test route 8, but then when we got on the road, he directed me through test route 10.he bluffed me!!!i think he probably keyed in wrongly in his tablet pc, and then cannot change back or something.oh, and then my first course in the circuit was crank course, and i was like, oh no.haha.and then i went in the course and on the first turn, hit the kerb.i was like oh no oh no oh no.haha and then my tester opened the door and went like, you hit the kerb.hello, i know?did correction and got out of there.i was quite nervous after that already la.cos hitting kerb is like 10 pts.and i need 18 and below to pass.anyway long story short, i passed with 18pts!haha one mistake away from failure la, but i don't care.looking at my results i realised i actually went on the road with 16pts already clocked up.very very scary actually.haha, so it shows i'm good on the road!
when i told my dad i hit the kerb but i passed, he went, oh no kerb-hitter!
on thurs i also did bidding for uni modules.it is so confusing!i spent the night reading their useful info section and trying to understand what they were saying lor.and in the end i gave up and asked yurong.she spent 5mins explaining and i got it.useful info not so useful.yup but i'm happy i got the modules i bidded for.haha i want to be idealistic and have a 3-day week.but its kinda far-fetched cos tutorial slots are by balloting.and i still have one more module to bid for.
anyway, i have a free week this week cos i didnt know ORIENTATION MUST SIGN UP.i thought it was one of those compulsoy things.and apparently david, guanyou and everyone in the world knew that must sign up!except me!so rubbish.so oh well.go into uni like a loner haha.will probably crash kahhwee's og when i don't feel lazy this week.will probably meet up with lots of pple this week before sch starts la.and go back to haven cos pple there want to bring me out to eat ice cream.(:
last week was my last week of work!haha.it was fun working at haven la.although there were times in the morning when i woke up and went like, i don't want to go and work.haha.and then on wednesdays kiyomi and i will be like, yay mid-week!haha.it's not that i don't like to work la, it's just that weekends are more fun haha.yup anyway, i'm probably going to miss all the kids there.3 weeks away on holiday in june and i already missed them.mmm.but my last week at work was quite anti-climax la.didn't really do much also, cos there were hardly any kids ard.so had like 2hour lunch breaks, go ard and talk to the girls and stuff.
oh oh oh and i passed my driving test!hahahaha.i have power now.i took my test on thurs.so scary can!and i think my tester didn't like me.he told me we'll be taking test route 8, but then when we got on the road, he directed me through test route 10.he bluffed me!!!i think he probably keyed in wrongly in his tablet pc, and then cannot change back or something.oh, and then my first course in the circuit was crank course, and i was like, oh no.haha.and then i went in the course and on the first turn, hit the kerb.i was like oh no oh no oh no.haha and then my tester opened the door and went like, you hit the kerb.hello, i know?did correction and got out of there.i was quite nervous after that already la.cos hitting kerb is like 10 pts.and i need 18 and below to pass.anyway long story short, i passed with 18pts!haha one mistake away from failure la, but i don't care.looking at my results i realised i actually went on the road with 16pts already clocked up.very very scary actually.haha, so it shows i'm good on the road!
when i told my dad i hit the kerb but i passed, he went, oh no kerb-hitter!
on thurs i also did bidding for uni modules.it is so confusing!i spent the night reading their useful info section and trying to understand what they were saying lor.and in the end i gave up and asked yurong.she spent 5mins explaining and i got it.useful info not so useful.yup but i'm happy i got the modules i bidded for.haha i want to be idealistic and have a 3-day week.but its kinda far-fetched cos tutorial slots are by balloting.and i still have one more module to bid for.
anyway, i have a free week this week cos i didnt know ORIENTATION MUST SIGN UP.i thought it was one of those compulsoy things.and apparently david, guanyou and everyone in the world knew that must sign up!except me!so rubbish.so oh well.go into uni like a loner haha.will probably crash kahhwee's og when i don't feel lazy this week.will probably meet up with lots of pple this week before sch starts la.and go back to haven cos pple there want to bring me out to eat ice cream.(:
smiles @ 13:28.